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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
RATE DECISION TO
HAVE DIRE RESULTS
Counsel in Forwarding Agency Case
Differs, but in Either View
They Are Pessim.
istic

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Whatever
way the supreme court decides the
case up for argument before it today,
involving the right of forwarding
agencies" to carload rates on inter
state shipments of freight owned by
individual shippers, dire results will
follow, if all that the counsel in the
hree-cornered fight say is true.
I'VE submit that the all-important
provisions of the act to regulate COM
merce will be seriously impaired If
forwarding agencies are permitted to
intervene and control the less-than-
carload portion of the railroad trans
portation."
at is economically expedient from
the public standpoint to develop a
class of intercepting carriers in this
country"
The two statements quoted were
those that counsel for the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railroad, the
Wabash railroad, the New York, Chi
cago g. ST. Louis railroad and the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad went into court
TO substantiate.
ITO say that they Interstate rail-
roads,, as public servants, may create
conditions which make the business of
assembling goods in carload lots very
profitable and then restrict to them
selves and those they see fit to favor
the right to participate in profits thus
obtained is equivalent to saying they
may take advantage of their own
wrong"
That is the way Wade H. Ellis,
assistant to the attorney general, views
the attempt of the railroads north of
the Ohio river and east of the Mis-
sissippi TO deny carload rates to for
warding agencies. Mr.. Ellis is par
ticipating in the case in defense of the
order issued by the interstate COM
merce commission in favor of the
forwarding agencies.
THE result of prohibiting the opera
ton of the forwarding companies will
be to eliminate the trade between the
Pacific coast consumer and the middle
western manufacturer"
Such is one prediction which counsel
for the American Forwarding company,
Transcontinental Freight company
and Rockford Manufacturers and Ship
pers' association are making.
The decision of the court is not eX-
pected for some time.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
BRIDEMAIDS

Bridesmaids are due to brides recog-
nized need to have about them some
thing old, something new, something
borrowed, something blue. For where
bridesmaids are at all old it makes
them blue to see another girl married,
and thus they can be made to serve
double purpose.
Three times a bridesmaid, never a
bride, is an old saying, but there's not
much to it, Like thrice armed is he
who hath his quarrel just" it is true
in theory but not in business. If a gir!
means business, in other words, it
makes very little difference how many
times she has been a bridemaid. Bride
maids are not a distinct species. Ex-
cept that they wear bigger hats, they
are much like other girls.-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
WANTS EARTHQUAKE TITLE
LAW PASSED UPON FINALLY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-An effort
is to be made this spring to have the
supreme court pass upon the validity
of the California statute of 1906 pro-
viding for the establishment and quiet
ing of title to real property in case of
the loss or destruction of public rec
ords.
The circuit court of appeals of the
Ninth circuit some time ago asked the
supreme court to answer the question
as to whether this law violates the
fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
tion.
Attorneys for the American Land
company, a party to the suit in the
lower court, have notified the supreme
court that on March 21 they will ask
the court to advance the case involving
this question for an early hearing. In
event this request is refused the at
torneys will ask that the case be dis
missed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25

EIy's Cream Balm has been tried and
not found wanting I'm thousands OF homes
It has won place in the family medicine
closet. where it is kept at hand for use In
treating cold in the head Just as soon as
some member Of the household begins sneez-
ing or snuffling. 1t gives immediate relief
and a day or twos treatment stops cold
which might become chronic and run into a
bad case of catarrh. Price SOC.
If you prefer to use an atomizer. ask for
Liquid Cream Balm. 1t has all the good
qualities of the solid form of this remedy
and will rid you Of catarrh or hay fever.
No cocaine to breed dreadful habit. No
mercury to dry out the secretion. Price
75c, with spraying tube. All druggists, OF
mailed by Ely Bros. sc Warren street. New
York
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25

minister hotel last evening were: ]. e.
Newton, claim agent of the Southern
Pacific railroad, of San Francisco;
Charles NJ Meeker, wealthy stock
broker of New York city, and H.
Rubin, a merchant of san Diego.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ings of CAL
gary, Alberta, Canada, are registered
at the Hayward for months vacation
in Southern California; also Mr.. and
Mrs. George Watson Cole of Riverside,
Conn. who will be here until spring.
Among those registered at the Hol-
lenbeck hotel yesterday We're: c. q.
Barker, real estate man of Banning !;
]. j. Solon, connected with boot ana
shoe manufacturing house of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-; and S. B. Clark, a fruit
and produce broker of Salt Lake city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
HOTEL NOTES


William ashton and r. X. Brown,
prominently connected with the oregon
Short Line railroad in Salt Lake CITY
are in Los Angeles for a few days,
guests at the Haywt.d. They came 10
Somthern California to get away from
the cold weather in Utah.
M. Caillaut, a racing man of Paris,
France, is in Los Angeles, guest at
the Angelus. He made the trip from
Europe just to see for himself the
beauties of Southern California ana
saws that without a doubt it is worth
the trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis T. Underhill
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Remington
Fithian, wealthy residents of santa
Barbara, are in Los Angeles Tor a
short stay, having driven down from
Santa Barbara in Mr.. Underhilfs Dig
touring car. They are registered at
the Van Nuys.
Among those registered at the West
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
FATAL SHOOTING
DURING QUARREL
DUE TO ACCIDENT
NO ONE BLAMED FOR DEATH
OF DAVID TODD
MOTHER AND SON scUFFLlNG
WHEN SHOT is FIRED
coroner's Jury Listens to Testimony
in Regard to the Family
Trouble at De Turk
Ranch

'oThat Daniel Todd was killed by a
gunshot wound of the heart, accidental
" inflicted by gun in the hands OF
Edward Keys during an alteration
and scuffie between Mrs. ]. G. De Turk,
Edward Keys and the deceased" Such
was the verdict of the six men sum-
moned by Coroner Hartwen to deter
mine the responsibility for the death
of Daniel Todd at the De Turk ranch
Tuesday evening. The inquest was held
at the Orr & Edwards morgue, Tenth
and Flower streets, yesterday after
noon.
In answer to questions by Coroner
Hartwell and Percy Hill, the officer
who arrested her son after the tragedy,
Mrs. De Turk, shaken by sobs, told
how Eddie" as she called him, had
come home about o'clock, after being
away from home all day, and asked for
money to go UP town, and his threats
to leave home for good on her refusal
to give it to him; how she had pleaded
with him to stay at home with her, ana
had said, Eddie, If you are going away
I'll kill you and kill myself You are
all l have left, and 1 can't have you
go away and leave me-" Then, in an
ger, as he persisted, she slapped him
and struck him on the head with a
pitchfork handle, and called to Todd to
GrappIes with Boy
Joshua G.. De Turk, the boys step
father said that he was talking to
Todd when the boy and his mother
commenced quarreling about some
money matters. They were SQUIRTING
and she hit him over the head with
stick They had come to within ten or
fifteen feet of where he and Todd were
standing, and as Todd rushed over and
errappled with the boy there was a
shot fred. He could not say as TO VINO
held the gun, nor whether Mrs. lie
Turk had hand on either of the two
men. De Turk said that Eddie was
sober at the time, and so far as ne
could see had not been drinking, ana
that he had seen him intoxicated only
once or twice. Although he knew noth-
ing about the boys companions, De
Turk said that in the frequent quarrels
between the two the mother upbraided
the son for wasting his time ana
money on the society of lewd women.
The boy had expressed his grief at the
death of Todd, but made no statement
regarding the shooting.
Todd, who was between 40 ana 9o
years old. had been a friend of the fam
ily for five or six years, and had been
employed as night watchman by Mrs.
De Turk for the last month or two.
No effort was made to throw light on
the threatening letters received by Mrs.
De Turk, although Hill, the arresting
officer, asked the witnesses many ques-
+ions regarding the possession of the
gun at the time the shot was fired and
the cause of the quarrels between Keys
and his mother
Several months ago an older brother
of Eddie Keys was arrested in san
Francisco and brought back here,
charged with taking 500 Of his mother
money. After his return and the re-
coverv of the money from the women
with whom he went away, his mother
refused to prosecute him, and the case
was dropped.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
. TRUE ENTERPRISE

Trouble in the Balkans. Bill" the
rural editor shouted to his trusty fore
man. Fix her up and slap her in!"
IAN right, Hank!' responded the
ink-grimed printer. Then he hobbled
over to the shelf where the two-column
narrative had lain with the Bernhardt-
farewell-tour story, the destruction-of-
observation-disclosures yarn and the
various mother-in-law jokes since the
founding of the Clarion, and slid the
type upon brass galley. After that
he unwound the string from around the
story, splashed water on it with an
ancient sponge, and placed 1t in the
form under the line: From Our Paris
Correspondent. Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
INVESTIGATE BUTTE SITUATION

BUTTE, Mont. Feb. 24.-Matt Com
erford of Brooklyn, general president
of the International Engineers union,
the local members of which went on
strike last week, is here today inquir-
ing into the local situation. Other
mines which closed because of the
walkout. notably the High Ore, re-
sumed operations today. The Amalga-
mated concerns are sending $500 tons
of ore to the smelters at Anaconda
and Great Falls and the majority of
independent companies also are oper-
ating.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
BROKER BROWN is TAKEN
TO SAN QUENTIN PRISON
"Hurry Up" Harry Goes to Begin His
Sentence for Embezzle-
ment

Appearing happier than any time
since his arrest and conviction of en-
bezzlement, Hurry Up Harry" Brown
the 300 per cent broker, left for San
Quentin prison last night in the
charge of Deputy Sheriff w. 7. Woods
to serve a term of three and half
years.
John C. Quentin, who has been
placed on probation three times and
each time violated the terms within the
last two years, was taken to Folsom
last night by Deputy Sheriff Nc
Laughlin, to serve a term of five
years. Quentin violated his third
parole a few weeks ago when he was
found guilty of passing worthless
checks in San Diego. He was i'm
mediately brought to Los Angeles and
sentenced to Folsom.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
EGAN MADE PRESIDENT
OF STREET CAR COMPANY
Directors of Metropolitan Line of Kan
sas City Choose Noted Railroad
Man to Succeed corrigan

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 24.-John M.
Egan, one of the widely known rail-
road men of the United States, was
today elected president of the Metro
politan Street Car company of this city
to succeed Bernard Corrigan, resigned.
r. j. Durham, chairman of the
board of directors, represented the
Armour interests of Chicago when the
board met to elect a president
Mr. Egan was formerly president of
the Kansas City Terminal Railway
company of this city. His most recent
railroad work was in Brazil
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
WATERS TAKE ACTION

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-By a
unanimous vote last night the walters
union adopted a resolution prohibiting
it's members wearing the working but
ton in houses where Orientals are en-
ployed. This action was taken in COM
pliance with the recent order of the
labor council. Secretary Beck of the
walters union said today that if the
council would finance a general boy
colt against restaurants and cafes en-
ploying Orientals the union would call
out its 500 men now working with
these people.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
DEMAND WAGE INCREASE

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Demands for
increased pay have been presented by
the engineers, firemen and telegraphers
of the Delaware and Hudson company.
Th demands, it was learned today.
range from 5 to 70 per cent but the
average increase approximates 20 per
cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
kETcHEL AND cAPoNI SIGN

CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-ArticleS were
signed yesterday by Stanley Ketchel
and Tony Caponi of Chicago for their
fight at Kalamazoo, Mich, March 16.
Both men are to weigh in at 160
pounds at 3 o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
NORWEGIAN EDITOR DIES

CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-John Anderson
IA years old, editor of the Skandinaven
a local newspaper, died today He
was born in Norway in 1886, came to
this country in 1S45 and started pub
fishing the Skandinaven in 1856.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
NOT ALWAYS

Mrs styles-Of course you like to see all
the money you squander go up in smoke,
don't you?
Mr. Styes-Oh, no: you never setting
fire to any Of those crazy looking hats of
yours!-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
NEGOTIATIONS OPENED

PEORIA, ILL.,, Feb. 24.-The Illinois
Mine Workers and the operators open
ed negotiations here today in the in
terest of settling difficulties affecting
Illinois mines.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25

Los. Angeles, Cal, Feb. 10, 1910
LssA Herald, City
onsidered gesd
boo.ting town. It been he ruiz o
thing rly and late boosting The
Herald has the medi 1ch good
ment has o % actua1ity for which the
people eofL Los should be grateful Good gov
arnment simply for good business pol
and in lion we
found it to be good bus1n policy The
oura advers brought most
Gallant returns. We more satisfied with
through Herald ADVERTISING We
truly
rzzza~ K &
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

perplexity to the botanist owing to
their tendency to produce many vary
ing forms. They have the same gem
eral habit as the adder's tongue but
are more complex in outline. The
sterile leaf or frond Is often deeply
cut and divided, and the spore bearing
portion is branching. The moonwort
is more OF British subject than q
Yankee, since it Is found in but few
places south of the Canadian provinces.
In the days of superstition it was sup
posed by some to be possessed of mirac-
ulous powers, and an old time botanist
wrote regarding it: "Moonwort is an
herb which they say will open locks
and unshoe such horses as tread upon
it," which shows how deeply those
simple folk were impressed by the lit
tie mysteries OF common things, The
adders tongue, grape ferns and moon
wort are not true ferns, but are so
closely allied as to be commonly re-
garded as such. They grow in pastures
and woodlands, some species being
quite common and widely distributed.
If the various tongues" so called.
could speak, they would no doubt pro-
test against the titles conferred upon
them by the botanists. The rarest of
these unoffending tongues" is the
harts tongue, found in shaded raYines
in the states of New York and Ten
nessee The fronds are from six inches
TO two feet in length, somewhat heart
shaped at the base, and undivided.
While there is little in their general
appearance to suggest a fern, the spore
bearing organs on the backs Of the
frOnds show at once their true rela-
tionship-St. Nicholas.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
Montenegro's Share in History
ny JAsPER D. sINCLAIR

Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, for
mer prime minister of Great Britain,
once said: I'm my deliberate opinion
the traditions of Montenegro exceed in
glory those of Marathon and Their
mopolae and all the war traditions OF
the world" Think of III Think of
this tiny principally in the heart OF
the Balkans, with a population scarce
exceeding 100000 souls, maintaining its
independence by force of arms for hun
dreds of years against every European
nation that has dared assail it,
This small country with an area OF
only $500 square miles, wo-thirds the
size of the state OF Connecticut, has
had the audacious daring to defy the
power of Russia, of Turkey, of Greece,
Of Servia and of Roumania, and has
survived every conflict. 1t is almost
impossible to believe that this small
Balkan state has a history more glori-
Gus than the traditions of Marathon
and Thermopolae The traditions of
Montenegro are not written in the
pages of history but are treasured up
in the hearts and souls of the Monte
negrins in their mountain Businesses.
tory of a brave country in continued
conflict against hostile nations-bat-
tling for it's independence against the
tide Of suppression tyranny and ag
gression.
What is the secret of Montenegro's
unprecedented victories over the pow
ers of eastern Europe? The true secret
of this success is the Montenegrin him
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
Two Troublesome Faults
ALBERT BRYANT,
Oakland. Age IA Years

The United States government, 1 be-
lieve, is the best in the world although
all things that are good are not fault
less. There is one fault with the gov
ernment, and that is in regard to it's
laws. There are altogether too many
laws Although some are important,
too many cooks spoil the soup" The
laws are so many that it is just as
hard to learn them all as it is to spell
correctly. A man can hardly live
without disobeying some one of them,
probably one that he never heard of
before. The United States should have
fewer laws and enforce them.
Another fault is the language. AS
every one knows, there are too many
words. man can not learn every
English word during the time he is on
this earth Why? Because there are
altogether too many unimportant ones
and more than one name for a thing.
OF course, / believe in the motto,
Don't stop and cry over spilled milk"
But we can mend the leak and wipe
some Of it up
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
WORDS OF THANKS

Editor Junior Call-Dear Sir: l have
the honor to acknowledge, with many
thanks, the receipt of your splendid
fountain pen.
/ sincerely hope that my use of it
will be worthy of the good cause in
which The Junior Call has enlisted. Very
truly yours, LIONEL SORACCO
ia Fillmore Street, San Francisco.
Editor Junior Call-Dear Sir: / have
received that beautiful fountain pen
you sent me, and 1 thank you very
much for it. Yours sincerely,
MAX STRELOW.
1921 Sanchez Street.
Dear Editor: / am sorry not to have
thanked you for the lovely paint box
/ received Sunday before last. / thank
you over and over.
Give my best regards to Alonzo and
tell him that agree with him on what
he said about cruelty to dumb animals.
Stockton. ARTHUR Il. MELEP.
Editor Junior Call-Dear Sir: l re-
ceived the fountain pen and thank
you very much. 1t is very useful to
me at school Yours truly,
Benicia. GRACE SERPAS.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
THE OPEN LETTER SECTION

self In Montenegro there is but one
national interest and that is the army.
In times OF peace there are 1000 SOL
diers; there are 100, 900 ready to pre-
serve their nation at the sound of
wars alarm. The Montenegrins are
born soldiers. Every boy is a soldier
before he is IL years of age and bears
arms for the rest of his life. Even the
women know how to shoot. Every
Montenegrin carries weapons, for 1t is
against the law not to carry firearms.
The army is the very soul of Monte
negro. Without it Montenegro would
cease to exist 1t is because of the
army, seconded by the daring, fearless
spirit of the Montenegrin that the
traditions of Montenegro exceed in
glory those of Marathan and Thermo-
polae and all the war traditions of the
worldr
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
Curious Facts Regarding Ferns

One must be Indifferent indeed who
does not admire the ferns. Even the
very name brings to mind vistas of
graceful, waving fronds with delicate.
lacelike foliage.
But while most species may well
claim our admiration, some are so un-
like our usual conception Of a fern as
seemingly to justify one in declaring
that they must belong to some other
race Of plants. The walking fern. as
the name implies, possesses a charac-
teristic individuality of it's own. The
fronds are usually not more than to
~ inches in length. They are severely
plain, as II to show their JisapprovaI
of the frills and fashions of their more
aristocratic relatives. Some of the.
fronds are short and blunt; others are
prolonged into a long, slender tip,
which bends over to the ground, and at
this point, if conditions are favorable,
tiny plant begins to form. After a
time, as the young plant grows larger,
it becomes detached from the parent,
though sometimes the connections re-
main in this sense that the walking
fern walks, though it's steps are short
and not often taken. 1t grows In rocky
woods, chiefly in limestone regions,
forming dense mats.
In the climbing fern we have an
other distinct phase Of fern life. This
fern has long, vinelike stems too weak
to hold themselves erect and, there
fore, has developed twining habit, de-
pending on neighboring objects for sup
port. The frondlets much resemble
small hand with chubby fingers. and
are arranged in pairs. The spore bear
ing part is borne at the tip of the stem
in a sort OF branching cluster This
fern grows throughout the eastern part
of the United States. chiefly near the
coast. 1t is sometimes called the Hart
ford fern. named for the capital OF the
state of Connecticut, and a law was
passed making 1T misdemeanor to
pull or uproot a plant in that state.
In the appellations walking fern"
and climbing fern" there Is a pleasing
appropriateness, but to call a harmless
little plant an adder's tongue hints of
something odious. as IL the plant were
possessed of some poisonous property.
However, after seeing a specimen of
the plant one must admit that so far
as appearance goes the name is in some
degree justified. 1t has a single stem
usually less than one foot in height,
with the spore bearing portion at the
tip, and a single. undivided, elliptical
leaf about midway. Beauty ani gran
deur II has not been endowed with, but
for its charming simplicity of form 1t
has few equals among the higher
plants. In fact, when we examine it's
outlines. we see that ii may. be fairly
represented by drawing two parallel
straight lines to represent the stem
and two curved lines to represent the
leaf. 1t grows in the grass in wet,
DOGGY places, compelling one to search
10 G..I a. g.
a particularly interesting find by fern
collectors.
Closely related to the adder's tongue
are the grape ferns and the rare moon
wort. Most of these plants are too
small and inconspieuous for the aver
age person to deign to notice, but OF
unusual interest and a source of much
Smyrna times., 1910-12-14
Saves An Iowa Mans Lie.

The very grave seemed to yawn
before Robert Madsen, of West Bur-
lington, Iowa. when, after seven
weeks in the hospital, four of the
best physicians gave him up. Then
was shown the marvellous curative
power of Electric Bitters. For,
after eight months of frightful suffer
ing from liver trouble and yellow
jaundice, getting no help from other
remedies or doctors, five bottles of
this matchless medicine completely
cured him. It's positively guaranteed
for Stomach, Liver or Kidney
troubles and never disappoints. Only
so at Benton N. Weldon's drug store,
Smyrna.