Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-13
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FORGER INDICTED-Fred B. Signor was
indicted on eight counts for forgery shortly
after 1 o'clock yesterday by the grand jury
in Oakland. 1t is comprised of different
forgeries, amounting in all to about $780, 900.
He was Immediately put in the custody Of
the sheriff.
QUAKE FAR FELT-Reports at Belling-
ham, Wash, from the San Juan islands
state the earthquake shock felt there Mon
day was more severe there At Point Stanley,
Lopez, East Sound, Olga and other places
buildings were damaged to a considerable
extent. No casualties are reported.
U. OF C. OPENS-The University OF Cali
fornia at Berkeley has opened for the spring
term with the highest January registration
in the Berkeley colleges in their history. At
the close of registration Monday 1905
students had signed for work. the 1907 rec
ord being 2O55 and that Of 1908 2147.
BROKER DIES BY DRUG-Thomas A. B.
Talbot, founder of a Wall street brokerage
firm, died of overdose of choral, accord
ing to the coroner of New York. Mr. Tai
bot was 70 years old and had been using the
drug for the last five years for cure for
insomnia. His lifeless body was found in
bed.
FOREIGN BOARD ACTS-The diplomatic
corps at Washington has made strong col
lective representation to the Chinese gov
eminent concerning the action of the board
of communications in usurping the full con-
troll of the Pekin telegraph service, which
be under foreign supervision.
BIRDS SAVE LIVES-Twenty- canary
birds chirruping and trilling in the glare of
a blazing fire in Chicago spread an alarm
that saved fourteen families, although the
little golden songsters lost their own lives.
The fire destroyed a three-story brick fat
building and drove the fourteen families in
to the cold. Two fremen were injured
SLAYER ARRAIGNED-Private Thomas
Tor6o nP he ON EJ1nd on6 or%ry
eighth coast artillery, charged with the
murder of Police Sergeant j. F. Noting,
arraigned and instructed before Police
Judge Deasy yesterday in San Francisco.
The court appointed former Judge Spinnetti
to represent the accused man, and at his
request the preliminary hearing set for
next Friday.
BRUTALLY ASSAULTED-William Hen
derson, proprietor of a lunch counter at
Berkeley, was the victim Of brutal assault
early hour Henderson answered the door
bell and upon opening the door was felled
with blows upon his head. His assailants
then ransacked his residence and from his
clothes secured $35. He was not discovered
until daylight
BANDITS PUNISHED-The doom of the
Modern James boys, newly organized club
of youthful robbers of Chicago, has been
sealed Three of it's four members have been
held to the grand jury and the other turned
over to the juvenile court. According to the
police the boys robbed three stores. All
four were reading cheap novels and smoking
cigarettes in abandoned barn when they
were arrested. They had several revolvers
and part of their plumber.
Bankers SENTENCE REDUCED
Rumors in circulation for the past month at
Denver to the effect that Governor Henry A.
Buchtel would pardon John E. Golden,
president of the defunct State bank of Rocky
Ford who was sentenced to from eight to
ten years in the penitentiary for receiving
deposits when he knew the bank to be in
solvent. received partial confirmation last
night when the governor, as practically the
last act of his administration, signed papers
committing Godden's sentence to two and a
half years
ACTOR DEEDS ESTATE trust deed
signed by Nat c. Goodwin, the actor and
mining promoter, which has been filed with
the county clerk in San Francisco settles
on his wife, who was formerly Miss Edna
Goodrich, the leading lady of many Good
win theatrical productions property to the
value Of $500, 900. Included in the property
named are the home of the actor at Ocean
Park in Southern California and a block of
apartments in San Francisco. The receipt of
T. H Dudley of Santa Monica. who is named
as trustee, is attached to the deed and
throws the delivery of the property seven
days after the Goodwin Goodrich wedding.