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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
is UNUSUALLY GOOD
Superintendent AT REDOND0
BEACH MAKES REPORT
Statements Show Percentage of Pupils
Who Are at Sessions Is Far
in Excess of Eighty
Six

REDONDO BEACH, May 25.-The
report of Superintendent Of Schools w.
A. Mullins, which has just been filed,
shows an unusually large percentage
for attendance of the total number en-
rolled, and speaks we'll for the eff
cheney of the teachers and Of the 10y
atty of the pupils.
The best percentage in all the grades
is that of the eighth grade at the Cen
trail school, where, out of an enroll
ment of twenty scholars, the average
daily attendance for the year is TWEEN
ty. The next highest Is the third
grade at the North school, where, out
of a class of seventeen, there is a
daily attendance of sixteen, making A
percentage of ninety-nine.
The lowest percentage is at the first
and second grades of the North school,
where the enrolment is thirty-four
and the average daily attendance twen-
ty-nine, which, when taken into con-
sideration that the children are of the
age when illness and weather are likely
to interfere with school, is an eXcep-
tionally excellent record.
The percentage for both schools is
ninety-siX out of total enrolment OF
three hundred and forty-seven. Out OF
this total the reports show there are
one hundred and forty-eight boys and
girls who have been neither tardy nor
absent during the whole month.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
ACTORS OF ORPHEUM
WILL PLAY BASEBALL
Footlght Artists Issue Challenge to
= Supernumaries and Stage Hands
to Contest on Diamond
Any Morning

The actors and comedians of the
Orpheum think they can shine as well
on the diamond as they do before the
footlights and for that purpose have
requested the sporting editor of The
Herald to issue a challenge to the
supernumeraries and stage hands of
that theater for game of baseball to
be played on any diamond during the
morning. The Thespians say if the
challenge is not forthcoming from the
Orpheum employees before next Satur-
day they will challenge FLAP" Hogan's
colts any time the genial Happy
sees fit to give them a practice game.
Following is the lineup of the actors
Bill Knight shortstop; Herb Knight,
third base; Jim Herman, second BASE
MacFreely right field; Wilson, third
base; Fields mot the great actor,
center field; Al Hamilton. catcher;
Frank Bert, pitcher; Benton, first base;
Fat" AL, who has been timekeeper at
various boxing carnivals in Southern
California for the past thirty years.
has been selected to act as umpire for
the footlight artists
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
SULLIVAN GETS DRAW
WITH KYLE WHITNEY
Twenty-Round Battle Between Twin
and Colored Fighter Is Even.
Mike Knocked Down in
Nineteenth

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-Mike
(Twin Sullivan of Boston and Kyle
Whitney of San Francisco fought TWEEN
ty rounds to draw tonight before the
Mission Athletic club. Sullivan out
boxed Whitney and was very aggress-
i've, but was knocked down in the nine
teenth round, which probably prevented
him getting the decision. Except for
that round Sullivan had the better OF
his opponent.
travention of the constitution, said Mr..
Shively, then the maximum rates
would be the only rates to be levied
and collected under the law
Should the courts hold the provisions
constitutional, Mr. Shively declared
that the maximum rates would feman
in effect until the president should have
become satisfied as to a longer series
of things existing under foreign gov
ernments and by proclamation from
time to time make exceptions to the
maximum rates and set in operation
the minimum rates.
HE could not be enjoined to become
satisfied nor mandamused to make
proclamation If he were satisfied"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
VENICE OPPOSED TO
PROPOSED COMBINE
Merchants Organization Adopts Reso-
Iutions objectlng to consoIlda-
ton of Santa Monica and
Ocean Park

VENICE, May 25.-At largely at
tended meeting of the Merchants of
Venice this evening a resolution ex-
pressing the sentiments Of the associa-
ton as being absolutely opposed to the
proposed consolidation of Ocean Park
and Santa Monica was adopted unani-
mously
e. b. Brown was appointed chairman
of a committee to take poll OF the
voters of Ocean Park for the purpose
of forstalling any possible attempts at
illegal voting at the consolidation elec-
ton.
A request was made to the board OIL
trustees asking the board to regulate
the licenses of itinerant peddlers VINO
visit the city, the statement being MADE
they are competing to the disadvantage
of the merchants of the city.
The committee in charge of the petit
lions for the calling of an election to
vote on bonds for the erection OF a
union high school for the districts of
Del Rey and Ocean Park reported that
the document is in the hands of the
county superintendent of schools, and
that the election would be called with
in twenty days.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
WANTS TO
FIGHT IN AMERICA
Champion of Them All Expresses
Preference for Native Country as
the, Scene of Worlds Fight
with johnson

CHICAGO, May 25.-James j. Jeffriea
has received a letter from Hugh Mc1n-
tosh, the Australian fight promoter,
who is in England, asking him to re-
frain from closing a match with Jack
johnson for the worlds championship
heavyweight title without first giving
him an opportunity to bid for the
fight.
Jeffries expressed the opinion that
Mcintosh wanted them to fight in Aus
tralia or in England. When Jeffries
signs articles to fight the negro he
figures he can make just as much
money battling in America as he can
in a foreign cline, and asserts the
battle must take place in this country.
Jeffries continues his strenuous train
ing every morning. Today he will or
ganize a team composed of Comiskey' S
utility men and play against a nine Or
ganized by James j. Corbett. Jeffries
will play first base and Corbett will
pitch and play the outfield.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
WATER POLO CONTROVERSY
WILL BE TAKEN HIGHER

REDONDO BEACH, May 25.-That
the water polo controversy is not set
tied and will be carried to the national
association is very evident from the
following which appears editorially in
Redondo newspaper:
1.-The reason why the water polo
teams of Venice and Redondo Beach
are getting a raw deal from the A. A,
U. board of Los Angeles is accounted
for by reason of the fact that the
board is under absolute control and
dictation of the managers of the Los
Angeles teams. To send either of the
city teams to Seattle will be a case of
sending a boy to mill, as they are the
weakest teams in the league, and have
repeatedly gone down to defeat before
the local team. But as the A. A. U.
has supreme jurisdiction here the mat
ter will be carried out of their juris-
diction to the New York board, who
will promptly put a quietus to the as
pirations Of these Los Angeles profess
! SIGNALS who are masquerading in A. A.
| u. garments"
The fact that CULVER, manager of
the Redohdo water polo team, is also
the writer of the editorial adds weight
to the threat to take the matter higher.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
WILDCAT STILL TO.
BE SEEN AT SEATTLE
METHOD OF DISTILLING OIL OF
JOY EXPLAINED
Illicit Outfit to Be Placed Near Pay
Streak at A. Y. p. Exposition
and Guarded by Moon
sinners

In a romantic gulch near the Pay
Streak of the Alaska ukon-P aclfc
exposition, in a place shaded by lofty
frs and hidden by a dense growth OF
vine NAPLES and yellow broom, VIII
be found a typical wildcat still. rms
pest of the mountain revenue oIncer
will be reconstructed from still de-
stroyed in the Tennessee mountains
years ago, and the battered copper ket-
ties and rusted worm again will be
mounted for duty.
No corn, however, will be boiled into
the "oil of joy in the exposition wild
cat"; only the operation showing how
it used to be will be demonstrated. All
the settings of the Illicit distiller have
been gtahered from the high hills OF
Kentucky and Tennessee, and the corn
will be shelled, the fires kept up and
the trail watched by bunch of long
bearded men, grown gray in practicing
their unsanctioned profession.
The arsenal of weapons of offense
is made up largely of Winchester AIS,
but scattered within easy reach will
be seen the longbarreled squirrel gun
with which "grandpap" got meat for
the family and incidentally made new
jobs for governmental employment as
pirantS.
The "wildcatter" represents class
unable to withstand the encroachment
of certain brands of modern progress,
and his once highly respected calling
has fallen into ill repute and the OPP
orator of the mountain still is no longer
looked on as a prominent citizen.
But the mountain still at the eXposi-
ton will make a picturesque feature;
its location is all that could be de-
sired, and the homely fittings placed in
the heart of gulch and forest and with
in a few yards of magnificent exhibit
ton palaces offer a study Of contrast
hard to surpaSS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
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Be Strong and Vigorous

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manhood. failing memory and lame back.
brought on by excuses, unnatural drains
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
ANGLERS HAVE GOOD LUCK
OFF WHARF NO. 8, REDoNDc

REDONDO BEACH, May ga. j.
Bell had an exciting time with large
sea bass which he hooked on wharf No.
8. After playing his catch until both
he and the fish were thoroughly tired
it was brought to gaff and landed.
When dressed the fish weighed thirty
two pounds. The tackle used by the
lucky fisherman was Of the ordinary
light rod and reel variety, 15-ounce
cuddybunk line, etc.
c. A. Ahrens of Los Angeles hooked
a 225-pound Jewish from the same
wharf, having only a light line and
pole. He played the fish along the pier
and managed to beach him before the
tip of his pole broke, when he was as
sisted in bringing his catch tosshore.
Charles Johnson of the fish market
on wharf No. brought in large tuna
this morning and reports that they are
beginning to run in numbers off the
banks.
The yellowtail are running every
morning at wharf No. 8, and while
many anglers have gone after them
none have been landed as yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
AIR LINE FLYER SERVICE
PUT ON TO SANTA MONICA
Trains VIII Run to Los Angeles Over
Old Southern Pacific
Tracks

SANTA MONICA, May 25-The fol-
lowing letter has been received by
President Goetz of the Santa Monica
board of trade:
III. X. Goetz, Santa Monica, Cal:
Dear Sir-Please be advised that
Air Line flyer for the present will leave
Ocean and Montana avenues, Santa
Monica, at sos a. m, running to Los
Angeles direct over the Air Line, MAX
ing only the stop at Palms station out
side the city limits of Santa Monica.
The flyer will return in the afternoon,
leaving Hill street station at 5:25 p. m.
after we have tried this short time
we can tell better as to whether the
leaving time will be satisfactory. These
hours seem to be the most popular ones
from the different requests we have re-
ceived If we find that these cars are
well enough patronized we will en-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
BALL TOSSER WILL BE
Welded IN BOSTON
Pitcher Ray Wilmer of First National
Team Plans Trip East to Become
Benedict-No Games
Saturday

Another baseball player is a victim
of Cupid.
Pitcher Ray Wilmer of the First
National bank team in the Bankers
league will leave next Monday for Bos-
ton, where he is to be married to a
Boston belle. 1t is said that Wilmer
first met his bride-to-be while attend
ing a Boston college. Wilmer was not
inclined to give out the name of his
bride when asked by Herald repre-
sentative, but did not deny he was
going to become a benedict. Wilmer
will be gone from Southern California
three months on his wedding tour.
There will be no games in the Bank
ers' league next Saturday afternoon,
as 1t is the last of the month and the
players who are connected with the
various baseball teams in this organi-
cation have to do considerable check
ing up, which will prevent them from
participating in the national game.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Uniform Rank Drill

VENICE, May 25.-Friday evening IS
the date set for the competitive drill
between the uniform rank companies
of the knights of Pythias, knights OF
the Maccabees and the Fraternal
Brotherhood. The organizations will
drill at the Venice auditorium for the
cup which has been the trophy for
number of years.
This is the sixth annual event of this
nature presented by the companies,
and much interest is being manifested
by the members of the various lodges
represented by companies of the uni
form rank.
General George S. Adolph will be in
command Of the evening, and the cup
will be competed for by companies I'M
der the command of Captains w. L.
Green, G. T. Kellogg, G. A. Whitney
and C. c. Walton.
There will be a ball for all who at
tend after the drill
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
| NEGRO WHO KILLED WHITE
GIRL WILL PLEAD GUILTY
Judge Says He viii lnflict Death
Penalty on Confessed
Slayer

DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 25.-John
Junlxen confessed slayer of Clara
Rosen, the Ottumwa choir singer, said
tonight that he would plead guilty to-
morrow and throw himself on the
mercy of the court.
Prosecutor Cornell declared this
meant that Junken would be sentenced
to be hanged.
Judge Roberts said he would inflict
the death penalty if the negro was
copUictad
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Mrs. InaersolI May Win

BOSTON, May 25.-Unless a further
appeal is taken, Mrs. Eva Ingersoll,
widow of the late Robert G. Ingersoll,
will secure $13S,OO0 and interest from
the estate of Andrew G. Davis of Butte,
Mont, as bills brought by certain per-
sons seeking another accounting of the
Davis estate were dismissed today by
Judge Putnam in the United States
circuit court.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
RuIkhead Hair CONNECTED

REDONDO BEACH, May 25.-The
piling for the trestle and false work for
the new rock bulkhead on the ocean
side of the pavilion and casino is over
half completed, and the work of putting
in rock will be under way before tho
end of the week. More than 200 car
loads of material will be required to
complete the breakwater, which, when
finished, is expected to hold the sea at
bay from doing injury to the super
structure of the building. The new
bathhouse is protected by a similar
wall.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Newsnaper Bankrupt

SAN LUIS OBISPO, May 25.-The
San Luis Obispo Breeze, an evening
newspaper which has been published
here for fifteen years, went into bank
runtcv today. schedules of Indebtedness
having been filed with the United
States district court in San Francisco.
James Crittenden of Oakland is presi-
dent of the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
STATE LEAGUE

OAKLAND, May 25-Stockton took
a game from San Francisco today,
to i. although the number of hits made
by each team was the same. BY bunch
ing its hits in the fourth inning, Stock
ton drove in three runs, which clinehed
the game, though it got another tally
in the sixth, Score.
Stockton 4, hits z, errors 0.
San Francisco ], hits z, errors 1.
Batteries-Durham and Hackett;
Lane and Bliss.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
ONLY AMERICAN ELIMINATED

EDINBURGH, May 25.-T. G. Stew
enson of Boston, the only American left
in the amateur golf championship con-
test after the defeat yesterday of Je-
rome d. Travers by w. A. Henderson
was eliminated today He drew bye
in the first round, but made his first
appearance in the second round, when
he was defeated by ]. b. Pease, 8 up,
Q to MAY
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
HoRsEMAN COMMITS SUICIDE

CINCINNATI, May 25.-N. S. john
son, known in sporting circles as
"Dick," committed suicide in Newport.
Ky, today. Johnson was connected
with the internal revenue service in
Cincinnati for eighteen years, but left
the governments employ and pur-
chased a string of race horses.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
deavor to increase the service during
tbe daV Yours trIlV

:.
The service in question, which was
inaugurtaed today, puts this city in
communication with Los Angeles by d
fourth route, the Los Angeles-Pacific
over the old Southern Pacific tracks.
The time required by the cars over
this line is thirty-two minutes from
North Beach station to Hill street, Los
Angeles. Many business men awaited
| themselves of the new train this morn
ing, and it is thought that the service
will be increased by more trains be-
fore MANY DAYS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
UNABLE TO FIND BODY
OF MAN TIRED OF LIFE

ONTARIO. May 25,-Painstaking search has
failed TO reveal the body of F. c. Clark Of San
Bernardino, who left note stating he was
about to commit suicide.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26

The three stas that lead from the Court of Honor Of the
Along uninterrupted of the lake clad mountains
Machinery hail.
building Manufactures
building
principal
n exhib O.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21

NHERRY, ILL.,, Nov 2o.-The gamut
from deepest despair to an hys-
~ terra of hope was run here today,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21

NHERRY, ILL.,, Nov. 20.-The gamut
from deepest despair to an hys-
~ terra of hope was run here today,
when twenty miners entombed in tne
st. Paul mine for week. almost to
an hour, were brought to the surface
alive.
The story of their sufferings and
the heroism of their resourceful lead
ers is one of the most thrilling in all
the black history of mining disasters,
Dawn broke with the bearers OF
stretchers moving from the pit mouth
to the tent which has served as q
morgue for the bodies swollen and
charred almost beyond human SEM
blance. Forty Of them had been
brought I'D and most of them idenu-
fed when the marvellous report shot
through the PROSTATE community;
They've found them alive! They've
found them alivel"
In a moment the morgue was de-
serted, scarcely TO be revisited, while
the crowd, fairly in with the great
hope that had sprung like n mirac-
ulous f1ame from the ashes Of despair,
rushed to the pit.
All thought was OF tho mon who
were alive. 1t took six hours TO bring
the survivors to the surface.
Meanwhile a report spread that sew
enty or more men were alive in
far reach of the mine. cut off from
escape by a bank of black damp be-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21
Hoistinn Is Reaun


Hoist her up" came from the depths.
Hoist her up" repeated the engineer
overhead.
Then the men and women pressed for
ward against the line of soldiers and
ropes, determined to get as near as pos
sible to peer into the faces of the sur
vivors.
Everybody be quiet. please; don't
cheer" whispered the guards.
The machinery of the hosting appa-
ratus rumbled and screeched as the
cage came upward.
Would there be in this load live
one who had been mourned for seven
days as dead?
This question flashed through hun
dred minds. The passageway narrowed
al each anxious locker instinctively
pressed forward.
Here they come now. Look sharp.
A woman here and there who could
not see held up a child and cautioned
when they pass"
The machinery stopped. The cage
was UP and n dozen torches shed n
dingy light on its passengers. There
stood the rescuers. wearing shiny rub
ber coats and white caps. Between
them. wrapped in military blankets,
they held the rescued men. some stand
ing, others carried in arms
Slowly the procession moved. burst
Of applause started from the crowd but
q raised hand from the militiamen
brought silence. It was a critical mo-
ment. Mothers and wives stretched
forth their arms. murmuring. "Billy'
or Frank" or "Oh, Andy. are you
there? Speak to me; am here"
Wrapped in Blankets
The blankets drawn over the heads
Of the men hid their faces and pre-
vented Identification from the crowd
Not receiving a reply, the women tore
toward the sleeping cars. importing and
begging any one 10 give them informa-
tion. Overcome by appeals, a rescuer
called out the name of the man he was
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21
78 LIVING
MINERS IN
COAL PITS
Men Walled in by Rock
Escape Flames
EXCITING SCENES WITNESSED
AT CHERRY, ILL.
ONLY TWENTY OF ToILERs ARE
RESCUED ALIVE
Scores of Dead Bodies Encountered.
Those Not Killed Are Taken
Out Begrimed, Manned
or Exhausted

CHERRY. Ill. Nov. 2O.-At mid
night small fire broke out In the minc,
cutting Off the rescue work. Fire appa-
ratus was lowered and a stream Of water
again turned into the mine. Up to mid
night only twenty men have been
brought to the surface.
The fire appeared TO be spreading
and the heat grew more intense. r.. f.
Maxwell, a mining engineer in the res
cue party, was overcome and had to be
hurriedly brought TO the surface.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21
tween their barricade and the main
Two Helmets Left

shaft.
Two Helmets Left
But two oxygen helmets remained at
the mine, the others having been
started hack to Pittsburg this morning,
and with this scant equipment two
experts began a new exploration. At
D. m. they emerged, their oxygen
tanks being exhausted, and reported
no further success.
"There are other resourceful leaders
among the missing, and they, like
Waite, Clelland and others, may have
led their men to comparative safety
said States Attorney H. l.. Eckert to-
night.
"The search is now for the living"
Less optimistic notes were sounded
by others, but the women. with hope
born afresh, refused to believe any
thing but the best and haunted the
mine far into the night, seizing fran
tically at every straw of encourage
ment offered.
From the top of the hosting shaft
to the sleeping cars drawn up on the
sdings was a distance of about $50
feet. Between the crowd, held back
by militia a passageway was formed.
1t was along this line that the women,
looking for loved ones, gazed into the
faces of the survivors as they passed
through.
As night drew on the whole scene was
revealed only by a pale moonlight and
the hickering torches worn on the caps
Of the rescuers. Each time the signal
sounded from the hoist of the cage to
come up from the mine the noise OF
the crowd subsided into murmuring
exDectancv