Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
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STEAMER FLOATED The British
steamer Suruga. Of the Barber line, which
went ashore on the breakwater at Manila
Sunday, while 1t was inbound from Hong
Kong to take a cargo for New York, has
been rehoated. Permission has been sought
from the naval authorities for the use of the
naval dry dock at Subig for the repair of the
steamer.
STRICKEN SUDDENLY-David Carlyle
who arrived at Kalama, Wash, Saturday on
his way to Astoria, was stricken with paraly-
sis just as he was preparing to take the boat
to Portland and now Is in critical condi-
ton. He is so years old and says his home
is in San Jose, CAL. and that he is member
of the odd Fellows lodge In that place. He
has sister in Massachusetts.
WEAKNESS FOOLISH-"Belng tired is
foolish" This is the latest enuncation of
Dr. Shadon Leavitt, in charge Of the Imman-
uel Baptist psychoUerapy class at Chicago.
when I'm tired tell myself I'm rested"
the instructor sa.s,, land then 1 am. This
universal energy reservoir we live in is al
ways full. We have a feed pipe where We
pay 1t out, but there is bigger supply pipe
where it will enter faster IL we only think it,
DENOUNCES JUDGE-Next Friday Judge
Brentano of Chicago will hear testimony in
writ of habeas corpus obtained by Charles
S Beattie, an attorney who had been fined
Municipal Judge Blake. After a controversy
with the latter concerning the trial of case,
Beattie is said to have applied this remark
to the court: 'You are no more fit to try
case on that bench than pig" The fine
and Incarceration followed.
SEND BIG FLAG-A Yale flag 3ox60 feet
and said to be the largest college flag In the
world has been sent from New Haven, Conn,
to Washington. where it will be used during
the inauguration ceremonies At the same
time the official university flag was sent to
the Yale club at Washington. The big PEN
nant was made recently to hang in the Yale
dining hall on state occasions, but Its greatest
honor will be to swing in the breeze at the
national capital for ''Bnl Taft, '7s.'
TO FIJI FOR PRIZE-Glenn H. Curtis,
the aeroplane expert of Hammondsport, N. Y,
has arrived in New York city and announces
that American aeroplane will be sent to
England in May to try for one Of the two
prizes offered for successful fight across
the English channel. The craft will be in
charge of ]. A. d. McCurdy and F. w. Bald
win, members of the Aerial Experiment asso-
citation, who have recently been working with
DIR. Alexander Graham Bell at Baddeck,
N S.
MERCHANTS IRATE-The ire of the Re-
tail Merchants association Of Illinois has been
aroused by a report that the grocers of Chi
cago are combining to advance the price Of
certain staples of food such coffee. tea and
sugar. 1.-The retail grocers of Chicago have
not met to raise prices" says President Yves
terfield "On the contrary, prices on canned
goods, eggs and other staples have been re-
duced The association states officially that
there is no rise in prices needed at this time
DISCUSSES ALIENs--Dean Howells. in
an address before the Society for Italian I'm
simulate these immigrants, but the immigrants
who assimilate But immigration has the
effect of making more irnmutable as ma
ton Some immigrants come to our shores
better Americans than some who here.
So although New York is a larger Italian
city than Florence or Rome even, we need
have no fear. At any rate, since it is the
Italians who must assimilate us, theirs is the
responsibility
WOMEN ARRESTED-Two we'll dressed
young women who dined at the Hotel Knick-
erbocker of New York and when bill for
5000 was presented calmly announced they
were unable to pay 1t, were arrested and taken
to the Tenderloin police station, when one OF
the women telephoned for aid and received
$40 with which the bill adjusted The
other however, had small revolver her
person. and because of this she was held in
$500 bail for carrying concealed weapons. They
gave their names as Margaret Jones and
Margaret Ledu
MAN DROPS DEAD-John de Rivera
husband of Mrs. Belle de Rivera the recently
elected president of the New York City Fed
GRAFTON OF Women's clubs, dropped dead in
Second avenue early yesterday morning of
heart disease Before complete Identification
was established the body was taken to the
morgue, where it was identified by brother.
William ]. de Rivera. Mr.. de Rivera was a
native of Porto Rico and cigar importer.
His wife is one of the most prominent club
women in the city and identified with the
suffrage movement.