Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

FORT SCOTT, Kas.-Fire practically
destroyed the business portion OF
Bronson, twenty miles west of here,
Sunday night, twenty buildings being
destroyed. The loss is estimated at
100000.
FRESNO-Fresno will hold an cleo
ton next Saturday on the question OF
issuing bonds in the sum of $60,OO0 Tor
the purpose of establishing public play
grounds for children in various por-
tions of the city.
SAN DIEGO-His Britannia maJes-
tvs sloop of war Shearwater arrived IN
San Diego harbor yesterday. Inc navy
collier Justin also arrived yesterday.
The Justin brings coal for the torpedo
flotilla.
PACIFIC GROVE-Fire of mysteri-
Gus origin destroyed the MaytioWer
CONGREGATIONAL church here yesterday.
Included in the 200 loss was $4,000
pine organ given to the church by An
drew Carnegie.
SAN NCISCO-Convicted on two
counts of misbranding food products,
the Long syrup Refining company OF
this CITY was yesterday sentenced to
nav a fine of SIPS by Judge De Haven
of the United states district court.
SAN DIEGO-Frends of Charles f.
Curry, secretary of state and candidate
for nomination for governor of cali
fornia, have secured 750 signers to Mr..
Currys petition, which they are clrcu-
lating here, and expect to secure 2oOO
signatures in all.
SAN FRANCISCO-On motion of at
torneys of the rehabilitation committee
of the California Safe Deposit and
Trust company, Judge Seawell has
granted an extension until next Satur-
day for the declaration of a dividend
by the receiver of the wrecked bank.
STOCKTON-The scarcity OF horses
for use on the farms in this county Is
already causing the farmers much un-
easiness and trouble. 1t is feared the
shortage will delay the harvesting of
what promises to be a large crop, and
may cause the agriculturists heavy
losses.
DENVER-Katrina Murat the first
woman settler in Colorado, and re-
puted a countess, died here sunday
She was Sc years old. With her hus-
band, Count" Murat, she came to
Denver in 1858, necessitating by her
presence a complete change in the
mode of life of the little mining camp
SAN DIEGO-The funeral of Justin
Deane- Freeman, a well known polo
player, who was fatally injured in a
game at the Coronado Country club
Saturday afternoon and died Sunday
morning, was held at noon yesterday
from Christ Episcopal church, Coro-
nado. Interment was in Greenwood
cemetery, san Diego.
WASHINGTON-Most food products
in Plauen, an industrial center of Sax
ony, Germany, cost as much as in the
United States, according to a report
from Carl Bailey Hurst, American
consul at that place. He says that in
the past few years prices have graGu-
ally risen, including house rents, trans
portation and luxuries.
NEW YORK-The committee of Phil
adelphia strikers which came here last
week armed with barrel organs to raise
money for their cause has reported
that new plan for securing funds
has been put into effect which VIII
net as much as the organ grinding.
This is the selling of buttons bearing
the likenesses of the strike leaders.
Ell PASO-Charles A. Rebstock, an
American railroad man, was sentenced
yesterday to nine years in prison at
San Ygnacio, state of Sinaloa, Mexico,
for manslaughter. BebstoCk was ac-
cused of firing his revolver into a
crowd, killing one native and wounding
another. He was held in jail for more
than year before his case came TO
trial.
Observation-Disclosures is the lat
est means employed by the blind for
earning a living. Horace Lee Wash
ington American consul at Liverpool,
reports that at the School for the In
digent Blind in that city qualified eX-
perts have been engaged to teach blind
inmates to become massage nurses.
Reports of their work, he adds, are
most encouraging.
CHICAGO-Two hundred and fifty
Yale men now resident in Chicago will
sing at the conservation meeting in
the Auditorium theater to be addressed
by President Taft Thursday afternoon.
The members Of the Yale club requested
to be allowed to take some part in the
meeting, and they were chosen by the
chairman in charge of the meeting to
lead the audience in the singing of
America" which will precede Mr..
Tafts talk on conservation.