Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

NEW YORK-Because thirty-siX
hurdy-gurdies were observed in action,
all at the same time, in a single block,
residents have asked the police to can
eel the licenses of all organ grinders
in this city.
NEW YORK-New York city's COM
missioner of docks and ferries is the
latest 20 join the crusade for economy
in public office. He announced yester-
day the laying off of sixty-one ferry
employees, saving in salaries about $780,
900 year.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-Bank Com
missioner Swanger has taken charge of
the affairs of the Bank of Mercer in
Mercer county, on recommendation of
the state bank examiner, who exam
ined the bank and reported insufficient
cash resources to meet Immediate de-
mands.
STOCKTON-The arrest of James
Davis, a resident of French Camp, on
the charge of contributing to the al
legged delinquency of his daughter, has
brought to light an attempt said to
have been made b. Davis several
months ago to sell the girl to sheep
herder for 49,
SEATTLE-Advices have been re-
ceived here from the navy department
that the monitor Cheyenne, formerly
the wyoming, now in reserve at the
Mare Island navy yard, California, will
be brought to Puget Sound in few
days for the use of the Washington
naval militia, recently organized here.
OROVILLE, Cal.-His return to the
place where he had set three charges
of powder to break down an embank-
ment to see why the third dld not ex-
plode resulted in the death of Jerry
Tracy, an employe of the Truckee
Lumber company. The third charge
exploded when he was leaning over the
place.
SACRAMENTO-Rev Frank X.
Baker. pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, and formerly pas
tor in San Francisco. is in a serious
condition because of injuries he re-
ceived last Monday in train wreck
at Elk Grove. His jaw is shattered
and 1t is thought the muscles OF his
throat are paralyzed.
BADDECK, C. B.-During J. A. Nc
Curdy's flights Wednesday it was an
nounced the presence of William Nc
Donald, a spectator, was urgently
needed at his place of business two
miles down the bay. McCurdy of
fered to take him as a passenger. Nc
Donald stepped into the machine ana
was safely landed at his destination.
and no booze" is the motto of Big
Springs and Howard county. All ne
groes have been run out of the county
and whisky was voted out Wednesday.
The prohibitionists doubled the vote
of the "antis" and had twenty-three
to spare, so the prohibitionists are
shouting "twenty-three for the sa-
LOOM"
NEW YORK-Mayor Gaynor has laid
brOaH rI1lpc for the nOltCe
magistrates in Greater New York;
first, a woman of the street arrested
for soliciting should not be discharged
merely because the policeman did not
hear what she said; second. it does not
| necessarily require whisky experts
testimony to convict a liquor dedler oi
Sunday selling.
found in the hold of the destroyer,
Paul Jones, when that vessel was
taken from the dry dock Wednesday.
1t was necessary to redock the boat
until repairs could be made. The open
ing, which was caused, it Is said, by
defective work, is near the shaft tubes,
and If the vessel had been at sea
would have enlarged and proved Sc
| rious menace.
SAN FRANCISCO-Resen an ar
| ticle in a Slavonian weekly deprecat-
| ing wife-beating, Frank f. Akacici
sought out Antoine Gergel, editor of the
paper and after orally chastising the
writer proceeded to expostulate furth-
| er against the wife-b beating screed with
his fists. Akacici expressed his regret
| over the affair in police court Wednes-
! day and the charge of battery against
| him was dismissed.
SAN JOSE-Declaring that the pledg-
ing of students by the sororities and
fraternites of the high school is a
pure evasion of the state anti-fratern-
| ity law, the board of education adopted
| a resolution Wednesday night which
| will mean the death of the chapters
in the local school. The resolution to
this effect was introduced by Superin-
| tendent of City Schools Sheriffs and
was adopted unanimously.