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Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
PLANS FOR UNION
STATION ARE UNDER
WAY, SAYS LOvETT
Head of Hartman System Ad-
mitS City's Great Need
Is to Be Met Soon
TWENTY TRACKS NECESSARY
Executive DWeIIS on Obstacles in
Talk to Chamber of Com
merCe Members \

LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 6.-The an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
Southern Pacific company was held to-
day in Beechmont, suburb of Louisville.
The stockholders authorized the $50. .OOO,-
900 increase of the bonded Indebtedness
of the company on property in San Fran
cisco and San MateO counties Robert
S. LOvett was elected a director to sue
ceed the late f. II. Hartman, and the
board is composed Of tho following: w.
Bayard Cutting, Henry W. De Forest,
Robert GOelet, Marvin Hughitt, III. f.
Huntington, r. s. Lovett, Clarence II.
Macl1ay, Ogden Mills, Charles A. Pea
body, VIM. Rockefeller, NJ. L. schiT, w.
" S. Thorne, Frank A. Vanderlip, Otto
III. Kahn.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
MAN, 50, TRAMPS FROM
LOUISIANA TO BAY CITY
Traveller Limps Into San Fran
cisco in Quest of Daughters.
Appeals for Aid

SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.-Worn
and haggard, his meager funds gone
and unable to continue his journey
farther, Frank Schaum, SO years old,
limped into Mayos McCarthy's office
today and appealed for aid. He had
tramped from New Orleans in quest
of his daughter and he sought the as
slstance of the local officials in finding
her.
The old man, hardly able to walk
was taken into the private office of
Elmore Lefflngwell, secretary to the
mayor, where he displayed letters
from Catholic priests in the Louisiana
city commencing him to the charity
and kindness of those to whom the
credentials might be presented. Lef-
fingwell Immediately made prepara-
tions for the old mans comfort and
then requested the police to take charge
of the case.
my oldest daughter is Mrs. Jo-
sephine Fleischkamp, wife of a boil
ermaker" said Schaum. when she
last wrote me six months ago she lived
on Bosworth street in this city. I have
searched for two days and l cannot
find her. My other daughter. Fran
ces. is also here. but l cannot locate
her, either"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
YOUTH CONFESSES
MURDER AND THEFT
Bay State Boy Says He Killed
Girl for Vanity's Sake
and Excitement
Associated Press1

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April e.
Laying his crime to love of exicte-
ment and a mania for stealing, caused
by an injury to his head in Doyhood,
Bertram c. Spencer today broke down
under twenty-four hours of question
ing and confessed he was the masked
burglar who had terrorized SPRING
field for two years and had reached
the climax of his wild career by muir
derlng Miss Martha Blackstone last
Thursday.
In his amazing confession Spences
makes it clear that associated with
his overpowering desire to steal were
an intense love of excitement and
high degree of personal vanity. This
latter trait Spencer gratified by baf-
fling the police and readigs the news
paper accounts of his exploits.
An element that entered into Spen-
GERS crimes was a desire to secure
money to purchase elaborate furnish
ings for his home in West SPRING
field, where he lived with his young
and pretty wife.
While admitting the killing of Miss
Blackstone, Spencer said he did not
inntend to shoot her, but had lost
control of himself when she shrieked
repeatedly. Even then, he asserted,
he fired only to frighten her and the
three OlllbI NOiliCh NiiO
him in the Dow house.
Spencer was arraigned in police
court and was held without bail for
further hearing on April Is.
In his confession Spencer revealed
n careeer of almost lifelong crime.
Following blow on the head while
he was small boy in Lebanon, Conn,
he said he began to steal At the age
of 9 he rified the pockets of his school
mates and robbed his parents of small
sums.
Later, still a youth, he held up
young women on the highways and
entered houses. He spent some time
on naval training ship and then
travelled about the country, his thefts
covering a wide range of territory.
He engaged in legitimate occupations
by day. He says he was in San Fran
cisco during the earthquake.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
NEBRASKA RETURNS SHOW
THE VETS OUTV0TED DRYS

OMAHA, Neb.. April 6.-The Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
of Omaha, in a statement issued to-
day. says returns have been received
from 1876 cities and villages of Nebras-
I[a which voted on the license question
Yesterday. OF these rs favored the
wet policy, to which may be ADDED
10 wet towns voting on the question
last wear. making a total of SO wet
towns having a population of 171,1S5.
The returns show that eleven towns.
having a population of 17,200, changed
from the wet to the dry policy, while
fifteen towns with population of A.
B25, changed from the dry to the wet
oolicy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
PASTOR DIES AT POLLS
AS VOTE is CHALLENGED

GREELEY. Col, April 6.-As the re-
suit of having his vote challenged yes
terday at the municipal election, the
Rev. William Johns, pastor of the
Methodist church at Evans, died to-
day from valvular heart trouble in
duced by the excitement. Mr. Johns
had voted for forty years, having
come to the United States from Eng
land when he was 10 years old, but he
could not prove that his father had
taken out naturalization papers. AL
though he insisted such was the fact,
his ballot was rejected.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
EMPRESS ALEXANDRA
SHOWS HEALTH IS GOOD

ST. PETERSBURG, April 6-Em-
press Alexandra furnished the best
possible refutation of the recent re-
ports that she was in serious i'll health
when today she received Ambassador
w. W. Rockhill. If anyone may judge
from appearances, her majesty has
fully recovered.
The audience marked the resumption
of the social life of the court in full
vigor, which has been suspended prac-
tically since the war with Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
LITTLE HOPE ENTERTAINED
FOR SEN. BARD'S RECOVERY

OXNARD, Cal, April 6.-SThe condi-
tion of former Senator Thomas r.
Bard remains practically unchanged, a
fact which is puzzling the attending
physician, as it is usually the case
that a radical change takes place after
the ninth day.
The patient is displaying remarkable
vitality. The bulletin issued tonight
by DR.. Livingston holds out little hope
for his recovery, however.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
CARNEGIE'S FRIENDS FEEL
ALARM OVER HIS CONDITION
Two Men Help Him Out of Car.
only Fainted,' He Says

NEW YORK, April 6.-The friends
of Andrew Carnegie, who returned here
last night from the west, were quite
perturbed today over his physical con
dition. At his home it was declared
he was merely fatigued. The fact that
he required the assistance of two men
in alighting from his car and that his
appearance indicated physical unrest
or ailment has created uneasiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
COLORADO DRYs GAIN

DENVER, April 6.-Complete returns
from the twenty-five towns throughout
Colorado in which the saloon question
was an issue, directly or indirectly, at
yesterdays municipal elections, show
that the drys gained five towns and
the vets three. The vets have a total
of thirtaen and the drys nine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
BANDITS FIGHT POLICE;
z SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Running Battle at Sacramento
Followed by Capture of
Wounded Man

OAKLAND, April 6.-Henry Smith
and Archie Riordan, believed by the po-
lice to be the two highwaymen with
whom the police of Sacramento had
running pistol duel before daylight this
morning, were arrested tonight. Smith
had two wounds, evidently sustained in
the exchange of shots with the police in
sacramento, but neither is serious.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
MRS. j. p. MORGAN IN PASADENA

PASADENA, April 6.-Shielded from
the glare Of publicity by friends await
ing her coming at the Santa Fe depot,
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, wife of the
noted fnancier, arrived in Pasadena
today for q few weeks visit. Mrs.
Morgan has been sojourning with
friends in Riverside, and came from
there to this city in the regular parlor
car, accompanied by friend and her
maid
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
HEIREss GETS FINAL DECREE

SAN FRANCISCO, April GA final
decree of divorce was granted today to
Mrs. Helen b. Graydon, wife of Thos.
B. Graydon, a former Harvard football
player. Mrs. Graydon, who was Miss
Helen whitney, daughter of j. Parker
Whitney, a millionaire of this city,
eloped in 1908 with Graydon from a
fashionable New York boarding school,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST

FUKECABT
For Los Angeles and viciDity-Cloudy on
Thursday morning, clearing during day; F.;
light west wind. Maximum temperature
yesterday 64 degrees; minimum 53 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
EASTERN

Patten hurries to support Of cotton mar
ket. which RECEIVERS quickly and closes at
the top. PAGE 0
Stock market portrays speculation Of mar
row and thin transactions. PAGE II
Youth confesses murder and theft In
Springfield. Mass. PAGE 1
Pittsburg grand jury recommends indict-
ment OF Frank Hoffstot, president Of the
Pressed Steel Car company for bribery.
Emil Winter. banker, confesses PAGE 1
Two men held for Richmond $4,000 post
office robbery deny they confessed. PAGE 0
President OF Aero club of America accused
OF losing international meet for this coun-
try, and is asked to resign. PAGE l
Newly elected Socialist mayor OF Mlwau-
kee says policy will not be revolutionary.
and first step will be to reassure people
PAGE
Secretary Ballinger grants San Francisco
county hearing in Hetch Hetchy
matter. PAGE 2
Big racing swindle brought to light in
Now York. Page 3
Young Canton man arrested in Chicago
charged with murder Of husband and
wife. PAGE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
COAST

Frank Schaum. SO years old. walks from
New Orleans to San Francisco. PAGE
Man reported killed on cruiser Mary
land as result of bursting steam pipe
PAGE
Two gun highwaymen have thrilling
pistol duel with Sacramento police
PAGE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
MINING AND OIL

Bonanza gold strike stirs Arizona pros
pectors assays 100000 ton. PAGE 3
Midway field wins newcomers atten-
ton PAGE 13
Coalinga gushers maintain steady pace.
PAGE l3
Coalinga prepares entertainment for
San Francisco business men. PAGE 13
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles may buy its own harbor
bonds; publicity committee Will use
pennants and souvenir buttons. PAGE 4
Judge Lovett tells chamber of com
merce members at informal reception
that plans for new union station are
under way. PAGE /
Chief of Police Galloway urges farms
for city prisoners. PAGE 4
City council decides not to interfere
with Hollywood cemetery and an
nouncement of improvements is made.
PAGE 5
Divorced wife fails to win suat to re-
cover property from former husband.
PAGE 3
-Four Yuma farm units auctioned and re
drawings held PAGE 8
will attend Democratic conference in
Los Angeles next week. PAGE
Annex to Hooper avenue school is for
malIy opened PAGE .
Adoption papers filed to add child who
ds half Indian to unique international
family" PAGE is
ZAP Myers. Goldheld miner. arrested
PAGE II
American Express company to fight the
Wells Fargo for coast business. PAGE
Pastors throughout county to facilitate
work of census enumerators. PAGE 3
Editorial. letter box. PAGE
Marriage licenses Dirths, deatnS IAGh -
Clubs, music. PAGE
News Of the courts. PAGE .
Municipal affairs PAGE 5
Mines and oil fields PAGE 10
Markets and financial. PAGE -
Sports PAGE 10
society. PAGE s
City brev1ties PAGE b
Theaterr. PAGD
Automobiles PAGE IL
Classified advertising. PAGES 14-l5
Building permits. PAGE
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
San Pedro citizens urged to vote har-
Dor and power bonds. PAGE 4
Bates & Chesebrough ready TO start
steam service to Panama when gov
-ernment grants terms. PAGE
Every family in Tairydew Heights con-
tahns one more cases Of measles.
PAGE IL
Pasadena may vote on bond issue to
construct bridge across Arroyo
1eco. PAGE IL
COAST
Frank schaum. SO years old. walks from
New Orleans to San Francisco. PAGE l
Man reported killed on cruiser Mary
land as result of bursting steam pipe.
PAGE
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
FOREIGN

Col. Roosevelt and wife leave Rome
for Spezzia. whore they will retrace
scenes visited during their honeymoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

troduce speakers. Two companies have
been organized, one of the; older and
one of the younger boys. At the
meeting tomorrow, Mr.. i. G. NJ.
Fletcher win give chalk talk. He
will also speak at the two meetings
following.
The series of talks on the Life of
Christ" are proving of interest to the
men. Rev. Osgood's address last Sun
day was strongly applauded, showing
that the men enjoyed his presentation.
1t was one of the best given in the
association in years. With maps and
outlines, he brought to the minds of
his hearers the complete story of the
early years of Christ's life. Tomor-
row MIR. Osgood will give the second
address, on the year of Obscurity."
Iverson's orchestra will furnish the
music. Every man interested i'll a
study of this kind should get every
one of these talks. A break spoils it
in part. There are to be seven lessons
in all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The Mankato Bible club will resume
its work next Sunday evening at the
First Congregational church, under the
leadership of Rev. Z. l.. Heermance,
taking up another of the courses for
advanced Bible study which have
awakened SO much interest and en-
thusiasm i'll previous years. The
course this year will consist of a
study of the later Old Testament his
tory, from the death of Isaiah to the
coming of Christ.
The ground will be covered as thor
oughly as it is possible to do i'll about
twenty-five lessons. As in previous
years, members of all churches who
are not attending evening service, and
those not connected with any church,
are invited to join the club. The OBJ
jec is to study fearlessly and thor
oughly what the Bible is, what it
teaches, who the men were who wrote
it and made its history, the history
of the race.
On Thursday evenings, in connection
with the midweek devotional service,
the Congregational church will study.
under the direction of the pastor, 'The
Social and Ethical Teachings of Jesus"
1hls is course arranged by Professor
Smaller Mathews of Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

part OF. the household goods and all of
the clothing except what the family
had on at the TINS. a,i; + i ce.i.a
The fire was discovered at about ten
o'clock, or earlier, in the cellar, near
the hot water heating plant. Mr..
Stewart had fixed the fire this morn
ing, not making a hotter fire than
usual, and closing the furnace. When
he went down into the basement later.
he found the asbestos covering of the
pipes blazing up, and the flames work
ing into the woodwork. He at once
gave the alarm, and the North Man.
kato fire company turned out in haste,
and the chemical and water buckets
We're brought into use., A telephone
call was sent to the central fire sta
ton in this city, and the hook and
ladder trucks responded, and the chem
ieals We're used.
Firemen Driven Off By Heat.
The firemen succeeded in getting the
fire out in the basement, but it had
worked into the partitions, where it
fighting apparatus at hand Had there
been water mains in the streets it
would have been comparatively easy
matter to have gotten the fire out. AS
| 1T was, the firemen were eventually
driven from the house by the heat, and
had to stand idly by and see the
flames destroy the house.
The fire was hot one, an dit took
an hour or more for the interior ia
burn. The brick walls stood, but the
roof and floors gradually gave way, and
the windows broke. 1t was fortunate
that the wind was northwest, for it
drove the sparks out into the street
crossing, where they fell harmlessly.
Had it been east, the entire half of
the block might have been swept cleas
The. tiremen of North Mankato and
this city joined in protecting nearby
buildings, getting on the roofs with
water buckets. The small frame house
just west was kept we'll wet down.
Neighbors Came to Assistance.
Neighbors assisted in removing the
furniture from the first floor, and the
piano and much other furniture and
articles of value were saved, but the
greater part of the goods We're de-
stroyed. Shells to the number of loo
to l,5OO exploded during the height OF
the fire, making great popping, wAl
now and then heavy explosion, prob.
ably of gas.
Mr., Stewart had just returned from
a trip west. He states that the house
was valued at about $1,000, and that
the loss on household goods will be
about $4,000. He carried $500 of IN
surance on the house and $500 or
the household goods. The walls, it i:
thought, can be used in rebuilding.
The fire was spectacular in the ex.
IRENE, and attracted a large crowd
many from this city going over. Much
sympathy is expressed for Mr.. Stewart
and his family.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04
From Saturdays Daily.

Reports from local fruit markets
show that there will probably be
liberal supply of fruit of all kinds for
Mankato people this year. The ship
ments of southern apples is about
over. These have been coming largely
from Kansas and Missouri. The first
of the western box apples are now ar
irving. The last car of Concord grapes
arrived today and the Catawba grapes
have just started to arrive. Almeria
grapes from Spain are also on the
market the quality is the best in years
The supply Of cranberrles will prob
ably be sufficient, the supply from now
on will probably be from eastern mar
kets.
Naval oranges will soon be offered
to the trade the local fruit men eX-
pect to have them in time for Thanks
giving.
The outlook for lemons is not so
good, the supply is short and even now
the price is the highest ever known.
Lemons are now eleven dollars a crate
in New York and the Chicago quota
ton is ten dollars. This is due to the
long hot summer which has made an
unusual demand on the acid fruit.
Lemons will no doubt be five cents
apiece during the winter.
Vegetables are coming in plenty and
potatoes are being offered freely for
fifty cents Il bushel.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

tilation are needed, the latter secured
fby gasoline engine The room was
seated uncomfortably. You can't get
the children back from school in as
good condition as you send them, I'M
der such conditions. | learned that
you are teaching domestic science, and
believe that the schools must be
very good, as q whole If you could
arrange for proper medical inspection
at the beginning of the terms, you
would not have much disease.
tuberculosis. L can refer but briefly
to this owing to lack of time. Your
next step should be to secure visit
ing nurse and tuberculosis hospital.
You also need contagious diseases
hospital. You have good surgical IA
cilities, but none for contagious dis
eases, which are apt to occur any time.
especially among the transients in the
hotels, and in the schools, and might
be menace to the city.
Refers to, Health Department.
The amount of money that this
rich city is paying to health officer,
$500 year, cannot get man to
give his whole time to the work. 1t
was great mistake in. making the
new charter not to have created an
independent health department, to be
coordinate with the other depart
ments. There should be trained
man at the head of the health depart
ment. A man may be a splendid bust
ness man, but may not know as much
about health matters as a doctor
You should put the very best medical
man in the city at the head of this
department and coordinate it, and paw
him more. Eveleth is cleaning up. and
has the only professional health Off
GER III the state, and pays him 5000
month, and he gives his whole time
to taking care of the health interests
of the city, which is any city's chief
asset. He inspects the schools con-
tinually and is. getting rid of diseases,
and the schools are prospecting. They
have installed shower baths.
l think that Mankato shows "a fine
public spirit, 1t is the. first city in
the state Ito adopt the commission
form of government | believe in the
Sintegrity and efficiency ,of its pubic
officials. They have a. chance to blaze
the way to a great reform in the
state, and 1 trust that they will do it
Mrs. Crane left this morning for
Faribault, where she will study and
speak upon the local conditions. She
Will then in turn visit st. Cloud, Min
neapolis and st. Paul. Mankato was
the twelfth city that she has visited.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

Dixon, and in her complaint she alleges
that prior to May rs, 1906, she resided
in York, Pa, with her parents and
had pleasant and happy home and
profitable employment. Prior to this
date, Daniel Dixon of Danville Blue
Earth county, correspondcd with hei
with view to matrimony and ex-
pressed Il desire to meet and see her
that they mi ght determine whether
they wished to be married. He had
urged her to come to Mankato and
she had consented, and he had sent
her money to come and return and fol-
incidental expenses.
49, Was Short Courtship.
The plaintiff had left her home May
25, 1906, and three days later arrived
III Mankato and met Daniel Dixon
They became engaged and were mar
ried the same day. They then went
to live with DiXon's father, who was
widower and had the one son and a
daughter, who was a minor, and Mrs
Daniel Dixon was installed as house
keeper They lived very happily for a
time, and two children were born to
them, and she was happy and content
ed to live there the rest of her lite
Sets Up Dark Picture.
The complaint then takes up the
dark side of the picture, and says that
her husbands father set about to sep
arate them, and by his words and acts
caused and persuaded his son to put
her away from him and desert her
On August Is, 1909, she was obliged
to leave with her. children and return
to her home at York, Pa, and she says
that her husband has since refused to
support her and has forbidden her to
return to him.
Wherefore the plaintiff demands
Judgment for $4,000 damages from hei
father-in-law. The case goes on the
district court calendar