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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
SAYS PRESIDENTS WORDS
ARE DISRESPECTFUL TO
HOUSE AND NOT A REPLY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Perkins
special committee will report a reso-
luton to the house tomorrow advising
that body what action to take with re-
gard to the references to the secret
service and congress in his annual mes
sage made by the president.
Mr.. Perkins of New York, as chair
man of the committee, will make 4
few remarks in presenting the resolu-
ton, and q, general debate will follow.
Representatives Tawney of Minnesota,
Fitzgerald of New York, Smith of Iowa
and Shirley of Kentucky are to reply to
the presidents criticism of them which
he made in the special message sent to
the house Monday.
The special committees report was
drawn up at a meeting held today, and
it is understood to deal with the spe-
cial message as well as the objection
able portion of the annual message.
In it's report to the house tomorrow
the Perkins committee will recommend
the adoption of resolutions laying on
the table the portion of the annual
message of the president relating to the
secret service and all Of the message of
last Monday. If the resolutions are
adopted the presidents language in
both messages will be declared as not
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS
TO REGULATE WATER GAS

WASHINGTON, Jan. Prompt leg
islation to regulate the composition of
Illuminating gas in Washington as a
result of recommendations of Attorney
General Bonaparte that the use Of
water gas be forbidden or restricted is
urged in a brief message sent to con-
gress today by the president.
The message follows: 81 transmit
herewith for the consideration of the
congress a letter from the attorney
general and accompanying papers and
call particular attention to the copy
of the United States attorney, Mr.. Ba-
ker, under date of January 5.
1.-The situation in reference to the
composition of Illuminating gas, as fur
nished in the District of Columbia, is
one that would seem to require imme-
date action.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The investigation on which the mes
sage is based followed several fatalities
in washington recently caused by in
haling carbon-monoxide from gas water
heaters
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
JACOB BARUCH
PASSES AWAY
SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS OF
TWO WEEKS DURATION
Was of Original Firm of HelIman,
Haas G. Co., and One of the
Oldest Business Men
on the Coast

Jacob Baruch of the firm of Haas,
Baruch & Co., and one of the most
widely known wholesale merchants Of
Southern California, died late yester-
Gay afternoon at his home, DIS South
Give street.
Mr., Baruch was 81 years of age at
the time of his death, ami for the past
thlrty-seven years had been a resident
of Los Angeles. Coming hc"o in the
early days, when Los Angeles WAS lit
tie more than a village. Nj Baruch
had been from the first a prominent
figure in the business history of the
city. Although always interested in
public matters, he took very little ac-
tive part in political affairs, his large,
active share in the mana gement of one
OF the largest wholesale grocery houses
on the Pacific coast largely engrossing
his energies.
Decedent was a member of the firm
when it was known as Hellman, Haas
& Co, and when Mr.. Haas moved to
San Francisco and Mr.. Hellman went
into the banking business Mr.. Baruch
assumed control of the firm
Mr. Baruch had been in good health
Until about two weeks ago, and I'D to
about twenty-four hours ago his death
was not expected. In his home Mr..
Baruch was devoted husband and
father.
Surviving Mr.. Baruch are his wife
and four sons, Edgar, who is a chem
zeal engineer: Clarence, who is con-
nected with the firm: Milton, who is a
student at the University of Califor-
MIA, and Herbert. who also is connected
with the firm. All the members of the
family were present at the deathbed
Mr.. Baruch also leaves three brothers.
Herman, Ludwig and Berthold, all of
Los Angeles
Arrangements for the funeral will
not be made until today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
from Los Angeles EXPIRES
LEWIS ADMITS AGENCY
FOR MANHATTAN HOTEL

Lewis, police commissioner, appointed
by the mayor in office, collects the
rents from the Manhattan "hotel."
Such a business!
And isn't it humorous-doesnt it
simply send the thrills of laughter up
and down your spinal column and make
your funny bone crack a new joke or
two-that H. w. Lewis, who was ap-
pointed a police commissioner by Mayor
Arthur G. Harper, is able to hold that
position and still collect rents from the
lessee of the Manhattan hotel
Mr.. Lewis not only collects the rents
from "Chowder House Jim" Dunno for
haitian hotel but he was the one who
negotiated the lease between Messrs.
Dunno and Higgins.
Gentle reader, do you ask if Mayor
Arthur G. Harper knew that H. w.
Lewis, police commissioner, was COL
lecting rents and had been for four
years from the lessee of the Manhat-
tan 'hoteF' when he appointed him
police commissioner?
Now, you're joking. What was it
Shakespeare said, Thou lowest a jest,
but jest not now" or was it mot jest
now?"
Well, this is a serious affair and it
is unfair Of you to try to make a joke
out of Mayor Arthur G. Harper of the
Angel City, and H. w. Lewis, police
commissioner.
What, you didn't try to joke?
Yes, you did, too-and with Mayor
Arthur c. Harper. who appointed H.
w. Lewis, who collects the rents from
"Chowder House JIM Dunno for his
lease of the Manhattan hotel for
Thomas Higgins, owner, to the office
of police commissioner
And H w. Lewis, police commits
sioner, has filed a libel suit against
The Express for 100000 alleging that
The Express had said vice was pro-
tected in Los Angeles.
Such a businessi
Is vice protected in Los Angeles?
Tomorrow may develop another tale.
Such business!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Is Vice Protected in Los Angeles?

Such a business!
H. w. Lewis, appointed police COM
missioner by Arthur c. Harper, mayor
of the Angel city, admitted under oath
today that he is the agent for Thomas
Higgins, owner of the Manhattan
'hotel"
Such a business!"
And he also admitted under the
same oath that he had been collecting
the rents from that building for six
years, four of which came to pass be-
fore, to use the japanese adjectival
phraseology, the honorable mayor ap-
of honorable police commissioner.
Such a business!
And he also admitted that for two
years he has been a police commits
sioner, and that in those two afore-
said years he has been acting as agent
for the aforesaid Thomas Higgins,
who once invested one or two hundred
thousand dollars in the aforesaid Man
haitian hotel
Be it known that the Manhattan
"hoteT'-but surely such information
is unnecessary to any acclimated An
geleno-is located at lis East Third
street, and that J. E. Dunno, Familiarity
known as "Chowder House Jim
Dunno" because of an Establishment
he conducts" in Second street, is the
president of the Manhattan Hotel
company.
And it is from this same Powder
House Jim'-beg pardon, "Chowder
House Jim Dunno that the honor
able Mr.. Lewis, police commissioner,
appointed by Arthur c. Harper, mayor
of Los Angeles, has been collecting
rents.
1t was the same Manhattan ''hotel'
formerly known as the Bisbee Inn, be-
cause Thomas Higgins, owner is an
Arizona man, that suffered a revoca-
ton of its liquor license in the rule of
Mayor Owen McAleer.
Yet in the reign of Arthur G. Harper,
mayor of the City of Seraphims, H. w.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
SAYS PRESIDENT
AGAIN COMMITS
"LAWLESS ACT"
SCORES FAILURE TO PROSE
CUTE STEEL TRUST
cULBERsoN SEEKS TO LEARN
RoosEVELT's AUTHORITY
Asks Judiciary Committee to Report
Right of Chief Magistrate to Per-
NIT Absorption Of Coal
Company

F" ASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Charac-
wv teriZing the action of the presi-
dent in directing the attorney
general not to prosecute the United
States Steel corporation for its absorp-
ton of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company as another arbitrary and
lawless act of the chief magistrate"
Senator Culberson of Texas introduced
a resolution instructing the committee
on judiciary to report whether the
president was authorized to permit
such absorption.
Senator Foraker gave notice he would
speak on the Brownsville affair next
Monday, when, he said, he would ask
to make his bill for the relief of the
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment
the unfinished business of the senate.
An amendment was reported today to
the senate from the committee on
finance providing for an increase of
the salary of the president to 100000
and of the salary of the vice president
and the speaker of the house to 10000.
The senate adjourned at 1:22 o'clock
d. m,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Answers ia Fire Alarms

CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-After answering
ninety-two alarms in the bitter cold
last night the fire department found
no rest today. They were called TO
half a dozen fires, due to overheated
furnaces and stoves and responded to
sixteen alarms turned in by some al
legged joker.
In the twenty-four hours up to 8
o'clock a. m. today the department had
answered q total of ia calls. The Their
mometer stood at zero today
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
cheiro Nav Escape Penalty

PARIS, Jan. IA warrant charging
embezzlement was issued in this city
today for the arrest of Count Louis
Hamon, formerly known in America
and Europe as "Cheiro the palmist,' =
who went to London yesterday follow
ing the allegation that he defrauded
two American women out Of valuable
stocks 1t is pointed out, however, that
if Hamon is q British subject he cannot
be brought here from Great Britain
as England does not permit the extra
dition of her citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
REINSTATEMENT
OF DISMISSED WEST POINTER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Senator
Warren today reported from the COM
mittee on military affairs a bill pro-
viding for the reinstatement in West
Point Military academy of William
Rossel, jr., and Harry G. Weaver, the
two first class men dismissed last Au-
gust on being convicted of the charge
of hazing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Asks for More War Vessels

WASHINGTON. Jan. THE authori-
cation of an entire squadron of four
monster battleships was urged in the
house committee on naval affairs when
Secretary Newberry appeared before
that committee yesterday.
Besides the battleships, he said the
navy should be provided with four new
scout cruisers, ten destroyers, four sub
marines, three Golfers, one repair ship,
one ammunition ship and two mine
laying ships.
About $75OO0,000 would be required to
carry out the secretary's program for
increasing the navy as he outlined it
to the house committee on naval affairs
today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
HARPER WANT VENICE
A WIDE OPEN TOWN
Continued from Page One)

was waiting for us and went to
the ship, where every argument
that was possible was brought to
bear on me by Harper. I told
him, and [ told Morley, that I
liked both McFadden and Morley
very much as friends, but that |
thought that | had the backing of
the people of Ocean Park in this
matter and that | could not re-
consider my position.
Instead of changing my de-
termination in the least, it is
strengthened. I shall do all in
my power to pass that ordinance
when it comes up on Monday
evening for second reading.
There is one point that I am will
ing to concede, however, and that
is to make the hour of closing |
o'clock instead of II, and | told
both OF the gentlemen that.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Train Is DeraiIed

GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. PAS
senger train No. on the Great North
ern was derailed early this morning
near Vandalia, according to a special
to the Tribune. The train was thrown
from the track over on it's side and a
number of passengers were injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Defendant in Bio Suit

SAN JOSE, Jan. 7.-Charles w. Fay
of San Francisco, former secretary for
ex-Mayor James D. Phelan and asso-
ciaae of Gavin McNab, IS the defendant
in a suit for $4,000 filed today by John
w Hicks for Mrs. Charles A. Wehner.
widow of the late Charles Wehner, a
wealthy local contractor. Hicks is ad-
ministfator of the Wehner estate,
which is valued at 100000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Wilson Divorce Suit Dismissed

BALTIMORE, jan THE divorce
suit brought by DR.. Pierce B. Wilson,
Jr, against his wife, naming former
United States Senator George L. We'll
lington as correspondent, was dismissed
today in the Baltimore circuit court.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

You can now buy the same shoes that
the Sample Shoe Shop sold for $500
and $3.50 a pair at The Mammoth Shoe
House for $1.00 pair. The stock was
very slightly damaged by water dur
ing the lale fire at the Wiley B. Allen
store at 4141a South Broadway, and
was purchased by The Mammoth, who
will place it on sale today for $1.0O
pair for all women's and $3.50 a pair
for all mems shoes. This will be, with
out question. the banner bargain sale
of the year, so you can start yourself
off with q pair of good shoes for less
than half their value. There are all
sizes for men and women Extra sales
men will be on hand and everybody
will get the benefit of this lucky pur-
chase at The Mammoth Shoe House.
519 South Broadway
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
AIabama LIQUOR Law upheId

MOBILE. Ala, Jan. THE state
prohibition law was upheld here today
when liquor license was refused in
the local probate court.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

All Women's Shoes VIII Go on Sale for
S1.OO a Pair; All Mems for ST so a Pair
They Formerly Sold for $500 and $3.50
n Pair.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

the committee he did not object to the
course pursued.
The six third class men who were
suspended until June 1909, are to be
reinstated next March under the pro-
visions of the bill.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Smoke and Water
Slightly Damage the
Sample Shoe Shop

After Insurance Was Adjusted the Stock
Was Sold to the Mammoth Shoe House,
519 South Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

Sale Starts Today In the Entire Basement
Of the Mammoth Shoe House, $40 South
Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

You might just as well NOT BELIEVE in
advertising unless you are USING il to fur
ther your plans!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

respectful to the house and not re-
sponsive to the houses inquiry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

MO vests in this lot. Women's
In part wool garments of excel
lent quality, formerly priced at $1.25,
now 55c a garment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

ONE lot women's fine wool vests
~ AMI pants. A splendid selling
line at $1.25. On sale now at COO a
garment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

WOMEN'S pure wool pants, reguIa
w $3.50 values. There being n,
vests to match the price to close i
only 75c.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04
SUSPECT YOUNG CROOK
OF OTHER CRIMES

Fred Ross is the name of the
young crook who, under name of
George Evans, pleaded guilty in the
superior court yesterday to "a
charge of highway robbery. His ar.
rest by Detective McPhee was &C
complished through information
gathered by Harry Draper of the
Draper Detective service, connect.
ing him with the robbery of ohm
Keevy last November.
Not only is Ross, alias Evans,
guilty of this crime but he is sus-
pected of having been implicated in
the robbery of a young man in a
hack here in the winter. The vic
tim of this robbery was brutally
beaten by men who crowded into
the hack with him as it was pass.
ing down the Spokane streets at
night He is also belieced to have
been connected with crimes in Sc
attic.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04

Special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, D. c., March A.
Plans for the restoration of Jeffer-
son Davis name to the plate on
Cabin John bridge, as ordered by
President Roosevelt, has already
been made.
Jeff Davis name originally APP
peared on the stone, having been
placed there just previous to the
civil war, before the bridge was
completed. At the outbreak of
the war, when feeling ran high, the
name disappeared between two
days. By some it is said that the
cutting was done without official
knowledge or sanction. Another
circumstantial story has it that the
order was given by Caleb r. Smith,
then secetary of the interior.
For Al years the blank space
upon the stone, showing clearly
where the name once was, has
spoken eloquently of Davis deser-
ton of the union to become the
president of the confederacy. For
many years the south has tried to
have the name restored. Congress
was led to the point of action at
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04
YOU MAY LEAVE JA|L" JUDGES. TO MORSE;
YOU MAY '--SAYS JA|lER THAT GOES!
UNITED STATES MARSHAL
HENkEL TAKES THE BIT AND
SEES TO 1T THAT BIG BANK
WRECkER is KEPT CLOSE TO
HIS CELL.
BY w. G. Shepherd.
Special Correspondence to The Press

NEW YORK, March 4.-This is
a story of how a plain United States
marshal bucked the courts in New
York and won-bucked the courts
that believed it proper for a rich
man, in Jail, to leave the prison
when business outside called him.
Back a couple of weeks ago G. w.
Morse, the "ice king" sentenced to
prison and in the Tombs awaiting
the hearing of his appeal, stepped
from his cell, walked out of the
prison, got into an automobile and
went down into Wall-st to conduct
his reasonable business" as the
court phrased it.
In the Tombs were burglars, pick
pockets, murderers. Suppose the
burglars, pickpockets and MURDER
ers were allowed to go about their
reasonable business!" The joke
smiths and cartoonists seized upon
this latter question.
And they began to make the nit
ed States marshal think His name
is VIM. Henkel. He read the court
order. He also looked at the car.
toons and read the jokes. They
made an impression on him. Y
Then one morning the Jail deputy
handed Marshal Henkel the follow
ing note:
Dear Marshal: l would like to
go to my residence today. accom-
panied by a deputy, according to
the recent court order.
c. w. MORSE"
That was too much for Henkel.
''By the eternal" he declared
I'm going to see about this. Is
that man going to have any greater
freedom than poor man."
He asked this question, under his
breath, of himself, but his clerks
say his face was read when he left
his office to run across to the
judge rooms.
He hunted up Justice C. c. Colts,
E. Henry La Combe and Wallace c.
Noyes, who had signed the Muse
order
He told them that, as Ur<ed
States marshal, he wanted to know
where he stood in the Morse case.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04
SOME SICK BUT
FEW DIE HERE,

While there was some contag.
ious disease in the city during the
month of February the mortality
was light. According to the report
of the board of health there were
SO cases of scarlet fever reported
and two deaths; "a cases of diph-
liberia and one death, two cases of
smallpox with no deaths, and ia
cases of measles with two deaths.
tuberculosis was the cause of II
deaths although but one case of tu-
berculosis was reported to the
board by the attending physician as
is required by law. The board re-
ceived but one report of typhoid
fever, another disease which the
law requires should be reported by
physicians.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04

one time, but did not take the final
step.
BY some it was held a sarcasm
that the name of Davis should ap-
pear upon a bridge which is also
officially called Union Arch" and
so labelled by another stone at the
other end of the bridge. Blu the
president held that the Union
Arch is truest to it's name when
it is the means of breaking down
the old lines between the north
and south.
The bridge upon which Jeff
Davis name will be restored is one
of the largest single masonry
arches in the world, being $50 feet
long and 100 feet high. At the top
is roadway, under which is a con-
duit carrying the water supply of
Washington.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04

FURNISHED by Walter ]. Nichols
& Col
Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, March 4.-Snow's re-
port: Estimates of farm stocks
of corn March /, 500 100000 bush
els, or 1898 per cent of last years
crop. This compares with a sim
ilar reserve Of 100000 last year
and 100000 the year before.
Total supply for the year, 100000
bushels. made up of crop of g.
Gle, zoo, 900 and farm reserve
last March of 96O,000,000, against
total supply.
The Snow figures on wheat re-
serves reported at 123,000,000 are
regarded as bearish simply because
there has been so much talk re-
Gently of possibility of reserves
being down to 100,000,000. The
figures are 25.000,O0o below the
estimate at this time last year.
market Is unsettled after an early
advance. The Patten house has
sold considerable wheat since the
early bulge.
Wheat--Close: May, $110A:
July. $l.05%; Sept. 9SA.
Corn Close: May, G8M; July,
S7A; Sept, CT.
Oats--Close: May. 56hc; July,
60Mc; Sent d1stc.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04
BANNER DAY IN MINES

Refining was dealt in to a consid-
cradle extent. Large blocks of
higher priced stocks were handled
repeatedly throughout the days
trading.
The persistent buying of Snow
storm this time is looked upon by
many as an indication that some
thing must have been struck in
the lower workings to warrant a
better price for the shares. The
buying is so strong that it looks
like something more than natural
public buying was behind the
move.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-04
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
No. 26965.

No. 26965.
In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington, in and for the
County of Spokane.
John w. Graham and Ella Maude
Hovey Graham, his wife, plaintiffs.
VS.. James C. Ryan and Mrs. James
G. Ryan, his wife, and 8. r. Had
dock, and Mrs. s. r. Haddock,
his wife, and also all Of the
persons or parties unknown claim
ing any right, title, lien or interest
in real estate described in the
complaint herein, defendants.
The State of Washington, to the
said James G. Ryan and Mrs.
James c. Ryan, and to the. said s.
r. Haddock and Mrs. s. r. Had
dock, his wife. and also to all of
the persons or parties unknown
claiming any right, title, lien or
interest in real estate described in
the complaint herein. defendants:
/ You and each of you are hereby
summoned to appear within sixty
(60) days after the date of the
judging each and all Of your claims
of or to any estate or right or title
or interest whatsoever in or to
said real property or to any part
thereof to be void, and adjudging
the said plaintiffs to be the abso-
lutte owners in fee simple of all
of said real property. and to ex-
clude you and all persons claiming
by, through or under you or either
of you from any interest in said
real property; to enjoin you and
each of you and all persons claim
ing by, through or under you or
either of you from asserting any
claim of right, title, interest or
estate in or to said real property
or any part thereof adverse to said
plaintiffs, and to obtain such other
and further relief as to the court
shall seem equitable and just.
DALBERT E. TWITCHELL,
Attorney for Plaintiffs, Post Office
Address, 618 The Rookery, Spo-
kane, Washington.
Date of first publication Deem
first publication of this summons,
towit within sixty (60) days after
the 18th day of December, A. D.
1908, and defend the above entitled
| action in the above entitled court
| and answer the complaint of the
plaintiffs and serve a copy of your
answer upon the undersigned at
torney for plaintiffs at his office
below stated, and in case of your
failure so to do judgment will be
rendered against You according to
| the demands of the complaint,
which has been filed with the clerk
| of said court.
The object of said action is to
require you and each of you to set
forth the nature of your claim or
| claims of or to any estate or right
or title or interest in or to the
whole or any part of the real
estate known and described as the
south half of the southwest quarter
of the southeast quarter of the
southeast quarter of section TWEEN
ty-nine (29), in township twenty
six (26), N. r. forty-three (43),
e. w. NJ, to obtain a decree ad-