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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
STOLEN JEWELS
USED FOR BAIL
NEGRO JAILED FOR VAGRANCY
HYPOTHECATES RING
PRISONER is FOUND TO HAVE
OTHER DIAMONDS
Officers Learn Stones Had Been
Taken from Pin Said to Have
Been Taken from
PaWnbroker

More than usual complications have
been disclosed as the result of 1nVestl-
cations, following the arrest OF Hahhl-
bal "Cannonball" Spencer, negro,
who. with his wife, was taken into
custody two weeks ago on charge
of vagrancy So far two burglary
charges have resulted, and diamond
horseshoe pin stolen by a paWnbrok-
er's clerk may be recovered.
Several days after the Spencers We're
arrested their home was entered ana
their wearing apparel and personal
property in three trunks removed;
Coleman Moore, Ernest Cuen and
Charles Poe were arrested for commit
ting the theft and were taken before
Police Justice Frederickson's court yes
terday AS Poe is under the legal
age he will be taken before Judge VIII
bur of the juvenile court. Moore and
Cuen were held to answer in the SUI
perior court on charges of burglary
Spencer was arraigned in police court
last week. When the amount of bail
was fixed in his case he gave dia-
mond ring to Wallace Deidemann, who
represents him, with the request the
jewel be hypothetical and the money
used to furnish the bail. Later Spencer
was searched in the jail and other dia-
mond rings were found in the lining of
his shoes.
The officers who were detailed to
make Investigations learned that the
stones had been taken from a horse
shoe pin and set in the rings.
Spencer told the detectives he bought
the pin from Sam Solomon, a clerk for
Alfred Lubbock, a pawnbroker who dis
appeared with several hundred dollars
worth of jeWelry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
VETERANS DAUGHTERS
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
Anniversary of Founding OF Lodge
commemorated by Presentation
of Banners, Followed by
Social Gathering

One wear ago last night through the
efforts of Mrs. Grace A. Thayer Mar
shall the Jessie Benton Fremont tent
No. 4 Daughters of Veterans was or
ganized. Last night the new tent cele-
brated the anniversary of its hrst
birthday at Mammoth hall and the roll
call showed that the little circle mad
crown to a membership of seventy
That the event should not go I'M
noticed the members of the q. A. H.
of Los Angeles decided that some ~
ting remembrance of the occasloli
should he shown. At the close OF the
regular meeting in Mammoth nan Ut.
Charles e. Case, accompanied ny q
delegation of Grand Army men, ehteleu
the hall and surprised the dausl L D
by presenting the tent peaulllu III oesli.
~. BEFORE this surprise had subsidized
hr Case presented a silk American
aao TO Mrs. Marshall for her success
FIJI efforts in organizing the jessie Ben
ton Fremont tent. r..
This surprise was the greatest, Tor
Mrs Marshall alone had been let mt
the secret of what was to happen at
the close of the meeting ana had asreeu
to make the presentation speech LOT
DIR. Case in presenting the banner TO
the tent
President Responds
President Marie Scott responded TO
the Gift of the banner and Mrs. Mar
shall. after recovering from ner sur
nrise. was able to acknowledge ner
thanks for the beautiful flag, Whlch
was a personal gift to her.
Mrs Lizzie Belle Cross, president OF
the Daughters of Veterans of the de-
nartment of California, was present
and gave a large, appropriately decor
ated birthday cake to the members.
The top of the mammoth cake was
inscribed with the initials of the tent
and with the date of the organization
The banner bore on red background
the name of the tent and the words
''Tent No. 4" were inscribed on white
BACKGROUND, with Daughters OF
America Inscribed on blue black
ground, forming a perfect blend OF tina
national colors. The edge of the BAN
ner was trimmed with gold braid and
tassel.
for the birthday party miniature hags
being arranged on all sides and ferns,
ported plants and carnations were ei-
fectively used to enhance the scenic
effect.
The members of Jessie Benton FIRE.
mont tent were unanimous in their
thanks to the veterans, who so kindly
remembered them, and it was limited
that a return compliment would be as
sured.
Major John O. A. Walker was an
enthusiastic participant in the pro-
ceedings, as was Royal Stott, COM
mander of w. e. Rosecrans camp No.
2 Sons of Veterans.
The business meeting preceded the
surprise party and the report of Sec
rotary Frances Davenport showed the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
DISHMAN'S LIQUOR SQUAD
OBTAINS EFFECTIVE ENDS
Proprietors of Resorts Who Break
Sunday Ordinance Are Placed
Under Arrest

Chief Dishman's squad, detailed for
special duty to inspect the various cafes
and restaurants and to see the liquor
ordinance is enforced, are obtaining
results, and because of their efforts
Sunday four restaurant proprietors
were arrested for selling liquor llle-
gally.
Orrell Kiefers of the Occidental cafe,
651 Central avenue, and VIII c. Hague
proprietor of the Ruth cafe, 725 East
Fifth street, pleaded guilty in Police
Justice Roses court yesterday to
charges of conducting wholesale
LIQUOR business without having licenses,
and were fined SIS each, which they
paid.
The officers who made the arrests tes-
titled the men sold bottled beer to be
drunk away from the premises.
Pleas of not guilty were entered by
Tony and N. T. Skarich, proprietors
of the Grand Pacific restaurant at ia
North Main street, who were arrested
Sunday afternoon for selling beer to
be taken away from their place. Both
asked for trials by jury, and their hear
ings were set for June l and May a.
respectively. Both are at liberty un-
der bail.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
GARVANZA BRIDGE REPAIR
BILL TO BE FINALLY PAID
County Is in Fair Way of Being Re-
imbursed for Expense Con-
tracted in 1907

After a year and half claim Of
$532 As against the city is to be PAID
The board of public works will recon-
mend to the council today that the
amount be appropriated from the gem
eral expense fund and credited TO the
street department fund, from where 1t
will be transferred to the county
treasury.
The claim is held by the county, and
is for half the cost of repairs to the
Garvanza bridge This bridge is partly
in the city and partly in the county,
and the law prescribes that bridges so
situated must be built and maintained
at the joint cost of city and county
The county had the work done in
October, 1907, but through some over
sight it was a number of months be-
fore the city was asked toy pay its
share. When it did reach the city the
usual red tape took so much time that
the bill has been circulating for months
from one department to another
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
NEW POLICE JUSTICE
ASSUMES HIS DUTIES
SUCCESSOR TO AUSTIN TRIES
SEVEN CASES
Jurist Is Youngest of Men on Bench
in the Tribunal of Department
of Public Safety in
Los Angeles

Police Justice Warren Williams, re-
Gently appointed to the police court
bench to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Police Justice H. c. Austin,
began his official duties yesterday aft
ernoon by disposing of seven cases.
The first case to be tried before JUS
tice Williams was that of Paul Sal
moan, a vegetable peddler, charged
with violating the. license ordinance.
AS Samoan had obtained a license
after his arrest and before being taken
into court Justice Williams was lenient
and released the accused under a sus-
pended sentence of So or five days.
The second case was that of H. Bel
mont, who had been given suspended
sentence of fifty days in the workhouse
for intoxication. Belmont violated the
provisions of his probation and was
committed to serve the time.
Justice Williams imposed a fine of
$25 in the case of c. w. Shafer for
cruelty to animals, and discharged G.
L. Carroll, a co-defendant of Shafer,
when it was shown Carroll had nothing
to do with the mistreatment of the ami
mails
Charles Jacobs, charged with violat-
ing the hitching ordinance, admitted he
was guilty of the offense of failing to
properly secure his team, and Justice
Williams imposed sentence of SO or
three days.
H. A. Jackson, charged with stealing
SO from the cash drawer in Main
street shooting gallery, was taken be-
fore Justice Williams. The officers who
made the arrest testified Jackson had a
bad reputation and had been seen
hanging around the entrance of an East
First street rooming house, stopping
passersby and acting in a suspicious
manner.
When Justice Williams asked Jack
son how he wished to plead and
if he wanted a trial by the court
or by a jury the prisoner declared he
was not guilty and asked for trial by
jury He later changed his mind and
asked for a trial by the court. The case
was set for Wednesday and Jackson
was allowed bail in the sum of $3.50.
This he was unable to furnish and was
remanded to Jail.
The next case was that of Elmer s.
Flower, a nice appearing youth, who,
without license, distributed advertns-
ing matter fine of SO or three days
was imposed in this case, and as the
boy did not have the money he was
allowed to sit in the courtroom while
the arresting officer communicated with
the boys employers.
Justice williams is the youngest of
the police court justices. For several
months he served as an assistant city
prosecuting attorney
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
JONATHAN CLUB ELECTS
HUNTINGTON PRESIDENT
Swell Organization Holds Annual
Meeting and Chooses Officers
for Ensuing Year

The annual election of officers Of
the Jonathan club to serve for the en-
suing year was held yesterday after
noon and evening and resulted in this
choice: President, Henry e. Hunting
ton; first vice president, L. j. @. Spru-
ance; second vice president, r. w. Muir
ply; secretary, c. e. DeCamp; treas
urer. James A. Kenney. These officers,
together with Perry w. Weidner and
Philip A. Stanton, will serve as the
board of directors.
The polls were closed at s o'clock,
and following the announcement Of
the election the annual business meet
ing was held.
Only routine business was transact
ed. and no feature of special impor-
tanee was brought up for discussion
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
PROCEEDINGS IN STREET
IMPROVEMENT STOPPED
Lowest Bidder for Proposed Lake
Shore Avenue Grading Refuses
to Sign Contract

Although the proceedings for the inn
provement of Lake Shore avenue, from
Scott to Glendale, has gone so far as
the award of contract the entire pro-
ceedings will have to be abandoned by
action of the council today.
The work to be done consists of grad
ing and crawling, but the work was
advertised under specifications No. 81.
These specifications also call for oil
ing, but it is not the intention to oil
this street. Because of this technical
ity b. f. Ford, who was the lowest
bidder on the work. refused to sign the
contract when it was awarded to him.
The city attorney holds he is justified
in refusing to sign the contract, and
accordingly the board of public works
released him from his bond.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
WILL KEEP YOUTHS
OUT OF POOLROOMS
Sunday Rest League Gets Amendment
to County Ordinance Preventing
Young Men Entering Cues
tionabe Places

Efforts of the Sunday Rest league.
through it's secretary, DIR. William
Francis Ireland, have resulted in the
adoption of an amendment to the coun-
ty pool room ordinance which in the
future will make it practically impos-
sible for boys under the age of Is to
enter the demoralizing atmosphere of
pool rooms over which the board of
supervisors exercises jurisdiction.
An ordinance providing for the inn
position of a fine or Jail sentence or
both against any child under is enter
ing a pool room or against any person
who admitted him without the consent
of parent or guardian was adopted by
the supervisors several months ago.
Investigation showed that an injury
was worked in some cases, fathers,
careless of results, permitting their
sons to go into these places even over
the protests of the mothers.
By the amendment adopted yester-
day every child under Is is prohibited
from entering a pool room unless ac-
companied by parent or guardian, and
when not so accompanied must have
the written consent of both parents.
Law Is Strict
1.-THE now law is strict, and necessar-
lily so,'' said Secretary Ireland yester-
day The mother is the proper GUS
todian of the child in these matters
and it is her wishes that should be re-
garded The necessity for a change in
the ordinance may be realized when
it is known that one-half the blind pig
element in the county is located in
these resorts.
Another commendable feature Of the
ordinance as amended provides that
county pool rooms must close at mid
night Saturday and remain closed until
G o'clock Monday morning.
The amendment was adopted unani-
mously by the supervisors.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
AUSTRIAN COUNT WEEDS
NOTED AMERICAN GIRL

NEW YORK, May 10.-The marriage
of Miss Nora Iselin, daughter OF Z.
Oliver Iselin of New Rochelle, n. Y,
to Count Ferdinand Collaredo- Manns-
field. an attache of the Austrian en-
bassy to Italy, took place here today
at the home of the brides uncle, c.
O'D. Iselin. Monsignor LaVelle, rector
of st. Patricks cathedral, performed
the peran1onV
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
MOTHERLESS INFANT GIRL
WANTED FOR ADOPTION
for Three=Year-old Baby
Filed with License Clerk
LOWE

An opportunity is given to some lit
tie homeless, motheriess girl to have
good home.
Mrs. Sam Gillian, 2O7 North Olive
street, called up the office of the city
clerk yesterday and declared she want
ed to adopt a little girl about years
old. The city clerks office is not ex-
actly distributing point of helpless
infants, but License Clerk LOWE has
become interested in the matter and
is trying to find a suitable baby.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
To Double Tax on Liquor

WASHINGTON, May 1O-A bill
doubling the tax imposed on wholesale
liquor dealers was introduced today by
Representative Kendall of Iowa. 1t
also provides that no tax shall be i'm
posed or collected in the localities
where the manufacture or sale of in
toxicating liquors is prohibited by state
law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11
lust Five Minutes
Free Consultation

May save you years of eye trouble
and painful suffering.
The Optical Specialist will see you
today-Fourth Floor.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11

tent to be in a good financial condition
and growing rapidly
A social hour followed the exercises
and the veterans were made TO 1eeA
young again by the capable manner N
which the fair daughters entertained
them with songs and literary exercises
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-11

G. Hill, 43 years old, labOrer, living at
61S1s South Spring street; four ribs frac-
tured, nose broken, severe conclusion and
numerous decorations and abrasions about
face, head and body; will recover.
w. s. Cobb, As years old, refused to give
address; spraned ankle, laceration of upper
lip, cut on head and slight conclusions not
seriously injured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Lacked Confidence in the Weather Man

their farms and ranches by the wealth
er bureau reports. Early in the morn
ing senators and representatives be-
gin studying the weather bureau maps.
If the reports of the weather from the
section in which they live show that
rain is impending in harvest time, a
large force is ordered to work, by
wire, and the manager told to hustle.
II hay is to be cut and the weather
bureau reports say Storm" the hay
is not cut, but by wire the manager Of
The farm or ranch is ordered to hold
the hands for an emergency call in
case the weather indications are
brighter Particularly is the weather
map studied in the winter by western
ranch owners.
United States representatives in
congress have many of them much Of
their wealth in cattle, hogs, sheep or
horses. A blizzard means untold loss
to them. If the weather indications OF
that special locality are for bad wealth
er, the herds are rounded up, where
they may be cared for indefinitely in
case the storm breaks.
Indeed, although not perfect by any
means, the weather bureau prognos-
tications have saved the people of the
country millions of dollars year, and
would save them yet other millions if
the people would but heed the warn
ing 1t is a common thing to say:
What does the morning paper say?
Rain? Well, 1 will put my umbrella
away. No rain to-day" Just the
same, five out of seven times the
rain comes
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
GEERS A QUEE3 CHARACTER
Veteran Reinsman Says to Pick 4
Horse as You Would a
Friend.

"Horseman" takes rank with bank
er" or merchant" in ones mind after
talking with Edwin F. Geers, the
greatest driver of racehorses of all
time. His appearance ignores chan
ticleer ties and strident trousers. His
speech is straight Noah Webster, soft
ened by slight southern accent. And
his manner is the outward expression
Of man wholly absorbed with the
work he chose because he loved it
You never forget Ed Geers, once you
meet him. A man of medium stature
whose gray eyes look out from ra
diant rim of squint burrows.
Geers, who stands out among the
famous horsemen of the country be-
cause of his splendid driving and the
fact that he will not stand for any
fixing" of the days schedule, was
returning from days work. His
best horse. The Harvester, is valued
at $4,000.
THE only way to pick a horse is
just the way you'd pick a. friend" he
said. Beauty doesn't count. You
look him square in the face, and if he
has good head, full face, fine eye
and good natured ear, he's all right
If he looks like a convict let him
alone"
81 was thinking of the horse that
gave me my start" he said. HE was
as hairless as NANCY dog. and his
tail was scraggly affair, but
coached him for race and l sold him
for 1925 more than l bought him for.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Senators May Keep Themselves Clean

foored and wainscoted with the pur-
est of white stone. Into sections of
this room have been fitted the baths,
shower baths, Turkish baths, needle
baths and other facilities for cleanli-
ness which invite and even entice.
Marble rooms, bound round with
gilded steam pipes, beckon while the
senatorial waistcoat and modest neck
tie are hung up on solid metal hooks
fastened in marble walls.
In the rubbing rooms are two great
marble slabs, supported upon hand
somely carved bases. These are wide
enough to accommodate the ample
form of Senator Hepburn of Idaho,
long enough for the tall Shively Of In
diana, and bounded around by a for
bidding ridge, which will keep from
accidental fall the small and rotund
form of Chamberlain of Oregon.
1t is not to be charged because the
elaborate bathing facilities are pro-
vided in the senate Office building
that senators have not bathed before.
Two plain tubs off the room where
senators are shaven and trimmed at
the expense of the government were
available to senators or guests whom
they desired to entertain, but they
were seldom used
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

MI ASHINGTON.-Th is not yet
w that absolute trust in the weather
bureau that should exist, and if this
were not true the loss in the recent
West India hurricane, which came on
schedule time, would have been much
less. Ports in the storm district were
warned of the approaching disturb
ances, and vessels in the extreme
south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
ports received advices to remain in
harbor.
The storm apparently had its incep-
ton near the middle islands of the
Lesser Antilles, and moved thence
westward over the Caribbean sea. In
accordance with the weather bureau
warning much of the shipping was
placed in safe harbor and not injured
at all. The loss of life would have
been much less in all probability had
not the people who were warned dis
dained to heed the warming
There are really a lot of right SEN
sible people who believe that the
weather bureau is something to laugh
at and have fun over. And there are
a lot of other people, notably United
States senators, who while in Wash
ington direct all the operations on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

EE McCLUNG, who played half
IL back on the invincible Yale foot
ball team of 1891, has been selected
by President Taft to succeed Charles
H. Treat as treasurer Of the United
States. Mr. McClung, who is treas
urer of Yale university, took up his
work in Washington November 1.
Through his work at Yale Mr.. Nc
Chung has been obliged to make New
Haven his temporary residence, but
his home is in Knoxville, Tenn. Be-
sides doing important work in connec-
ton with the finances of Yale, Mr..
McClung has had other valuable ex.
periences in financial matters, having
been connected with the Southern
railway for a time and also other en-
terprises in his native state.
Mr.. McClung was probably one of
the greatest half backs in college foot
ball. playing on the Yale team at the
same time as the famous Heffelfnger.
1t was largely due to the work of Nc
Chung and HeffelfiEger that Yale went
through the entiys season 81 1891
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

HE world do move. The liquor deal
i ers of Washington are engaged in
a reform as is reform, say what yoL
will or may. They propose to have
liquor vended in the national capital
in perfectly ladylike way, and il
please you the Retail Liquor Dealers
association is at the head of the re-
form.
Among the important features sug
gested as the future policy of the Re-
form Liquor Dealers association are
the strict observance of the regula.
lions now in force by the excise board
the partial elimination of the "growl-
err" nothing to be sold in this form to
wagon drivers or other passers-by;
the doing away with the free lunch,
except screened bowl of cheese and
crackers, the free lunch being an un.
warranted competition to regularly
licensed restaurants and cafes and at
the same time calculated to be insani-
tary and means of transmitting dis
ease; the discontinuance of "cut
prices" and brazen competition; the
doing away with large signs, and the
removal of all kegs piled up in front
of saloons as an advertisement of the
. volume of business being DONE
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

WHEN congress convenes in Wash
w ington the first Monday in De-
cember begrimed and perspiring SEN
ators emerging from the toll and dust
of the senate chamber will no longer
be forced to hurry home to wash up
for dinner. Instead they will hide
their desheveled appearance in dark
corridors and slip stealthily through
the dusky subway to the 100000
Office building. Here baths, which RI
val those of millionaires' homes, are
ready for the members of the upper
law-making branch.
In order to encourage the senators
in the cleanliness which tends to pur-
ity, the baths were made to exceed
in elegance anything found in sena-
torial home.
A large room was set apart on the
first floor of the building, marble
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
LEFT THEIR SEATS HASTILY
Fair School Teachers BIissfuIly Una.
ware of Contents of Box on
Which They Rested.

while in Paris this summer anoth-
er girl and l went out to Versailles
one afternoon" said school teacher
who had just returned from abroad.
ut was dusk when we reached the
railway station, and as there was no
waiting room we sat down on two
crates that were out on the platform
among a lot of others. We noticed
that the station employees kept staring
at us with a persistence that was an
noying. Presently man in shabby
uniform with bucket on his arm ap-
preached us. He touched his cap
deferentially and said-in French, of
course:
'Mesdames, pray do not let me dis
turb you, but am forced to open the
boxes on which you are seated in or
der to feed the boa constructor and
other serpents that are within.
when we recovered from our
fright we found we had been seated in
the midst of a huge collection OF
snakes that had just arrived from their
native jungles en- route for the zoo
near Versailles