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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
MANY CORPORATIONS
ARE LIABLE TO A FINE
Neglect to File Reports with Internal
Revenue Collector Means the
Loss of Many Thousands
of Dollars

Several hundred corporations in
Southern California, some of them
among the most influential in the state,
will be unable to file their reports with
the internal revenue collector because
Of the scarcity of time between now
and March l and the hundreds of ap-
plications that are now flooding the
government office. These corporations
will be subject to fines from Uncle
Sam of not less than $1,000 and not
more than $4,000, according to their
financial standing.
Hundreds of excited men and women
besieged the offices of Collector Claude
L. Parker yesterday and kept his corps
of assistants working overtime.
Corporation heads seem entirely
ignorant of this law" said Mr.. Parker.
80 many of them have put off the
filing of their reports, or have neg
lected to learn the requirements of the
new law, that hundreds will neces-
sarily be subject to heavy penalties
that in many cases will work hard
ships on them. 1t makes no difference
whether a corporation has gone out
of business in July, 1909, or is doing
business at the present time. A report
of it's condition is due just the same,
big or SMALL
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
FINAL REPORT ON ESTATE
OF LATE CRIB KING FILED
Special Administrator Testifies $34
Was Expended in Digging for AL
legged Buried Treasure

1t cost $34 to dig for the supposed
hidden wealth of Bartolo Ballerino in
Niger alley, according to the final re-
port of Frank Bryson, special adminis-
traitor of the old crib kings estate,
handed to Judge Rives of the probate
court yesterday.
Following Ballerinos death, the heirs
expressed astonishment because of the
poor showing in his bank accounts, and
induced the public administrator to
place men at work digging for the
hoard they believed had been buried in
the little court behind his resorts. The
search was without result, except to
further puzzle the heirs as to the
whereabouts of Ballerino's reputed for
tune.
Mr.. Bryson's report shows receipts of
s325256, and he will turn over $3.50 to
his successor. Besides this money the
estate consists of a large amount of
real property and a note for $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
LOSE CHILDREN
AFTER q YEARS
FOSTER PARENTS GIVE UP
CUSTODY OF TOTS
BOTH HAVE FIGURED IN KlDNAP-
ING EPISODE
Love So Great That 1t Can Renounce
object of Affection Displayed
by Mr.. and Mrs.
Mead

A touching example of love so great
that it can renounce was witnessed in
the court room of Judge Rives yester-
day, when Mr.. and Mrs. George Mead,
152 West Thirty-sixth street, relin-
quished the custody of two children,
after four years of association, and
placed them again in the care of their
mother, Mrs. Nellie Townsend. The
children are Earl Mead. 8 years old,
and his sister, Faye Mead, three years
his Junior.
1t was one of the multiple experiences
of the children as principals in legal
proceedings. Five years ago they were
kidnapped from their mother by agents
of their father, following family dis
sensions that led to a separation of the
parents, and the power of the courts
was invoked to compel their return. A
year later they were the objects around
which centered a stormy divorce pro-
ceeding in Arizona, and when the trial
was concluded and they were placed in
their mothers keeping another proceed
ing having for it's purpose the adop-
tion of the little ones by Mr.. and Mrs.
Mead was carried to successful con-
clusion in the courts.
formerly in Williams, Ariz. Divorce
proceedings were instituted by the wife
early in 1905, and the separation prior
to the filing of the action was attended
by the sensational kidnapping of the
boy and girl, their concealment by the
father and a search by the mothers
representatives armed with court Or
ders. The father successfully withheld
the children until the trial was ended,
and he was compelled to follow the
dictate of the judge and return them
to their mother.
A period of hardship followed, and
the mother placed the children in the
home of her brother-in-law, Mr.. Mead,
and later consented to his importunate
plea to be allowed to adopt them.
The mother has remarked and is now
Mrs Chauncey Townsend. She came to
Los Angeles several days ago from her
home in Tehachapi, and her pleading
for the restoration of her children was
granted.
| Adoption proceedings for this pur-
pose were heard by Judge Rives yes
| terday, and in the evening the chill
dren departed for their new home with
their stranger-mother.
"They have been with US four years
and we love them as if they were our
very own" said Mrs. Mead. smiling
bravely as she waved a farewell to the
| departing trio.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
FORMER INMATES OF lone
REF0RMAT0RY ACCUSED
Youths Charged with Committing a
Series of BurgIaries After
Their Release

The failure of state industrial schools
to cure evil tendencies in all persons
confined to their walls was eXempli-
fed in Judge Willis criminal court
yesterday when four young men,
George West, w. ]. Beatty, Robert
Morillo and Daniel T. Bigelow, alias
Harry Williams, appeared to answer
to numerous charges of burglary. The
quartet formerly were inmates of the
Preston school of industry at lone and
came to Los Angeles in December, sew
eral months after their release from
the institution.
After working a short time they
pooled their money and rented a cot
tage at Long Beach. Morillo was the
only one of the four who pleaded not
guilty, and his assertion of innocence
was corroborated by his companions,
who said he merely acted as cook and
knew nothing of their nightly raids.
The young men are said to have en-
gagged in a long series of burglaries.
but the aggregate of their thefts is
said to be small as to value. Judge
Willis continued the case until Tues
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
POLICE. SPIES TO
SEEK NEW JOBS
CHIEF GALLOWAY FR0WNS ON
PURITY SQUAD AIDES
Custom of Arresting Prisoners az
Nioht in Preference to Day
Also Is criti-
cised

Certain police spies, those who have
heen employed by members of the po-
lice deparaments purity squad" VIII
ha seeking other employment soon.
chief of Police Galloway is opposed 10
the methods pursued by the ponce
agents in inducing women to commit
offenses. and he declared yesterday
that this would be corrected.
1T am not disposed to criticlse past
administrations of the police depart
oant ;, said the police chief. Neither
do T care to criticise the acts or the
nolicemen, but the custom of arrestlng
men and women at night tline,
bundling them off to Jail in the patrol
wagon when the arrest might as Wen
be made the next day in day1ght
hours and upon the service of war
rant, is to be the custom no longer.
am not in favor of mlstreatlng prlson-
ers, even when they resist arrest uh-
less it is in self-defense.
'"The social evil is a question that
cannot and dare not be ignored, and
the plain clothes policemen will not be
given other details as long as they
have this work to do. 1 am informed
that certain members of the police de-
nartment who are detailed TO make
arrests of women who are OF the under
world do not find it necessary to use
police spies. So much the better.
am in favor of that kind of work, but
I do not like the methods pursued
by several in in inducing women to
violate the city's laws"
Scott Sense, used as a spy by the
nlain clothes policemen in obtaining
evidence of the illegal sale of liquor
at a Hill street bathhouse, was ar
rested Thursday night on charges of
disturbing the peace and for being
drunk. He forfeited his bail. Sense
was arrested by police detective, and
not by a plain clothes officer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
PARENTS RECONCILED;
CHILDREN RETURN HOME
Marital Difficulties in Burns Family
Adjusted-Denies Woman Free
quented Cafes

o. E. Burns of 227 West Third street,
who narrowly escaped being shot
Thursday afternoon when he attempt
ed to take his two children from two
women, Mrs Ada Bebee and Mrs.
Madeline Lundeen of 1414 West Twen-
ty-third street. whom he alleges had
been keeping them from him, an
nounced last night that he had adj
justed his matrimonial difficulties. His
wife, who was at the house on West
Twenty-third street when Mrs. Bebee
shot at him, has returned to him, and
the husband says they will keep the
children henceforth in their own home.
The children were given originally to
a woman named Ada Jenkins to keep
until Mrs. Burns could leave the Clara
Barton hospital, where she underwent
an operation. Mrs. Jenkins is said
to have given the children over to the
keeping of the two women In West
Twenty-third street. Burns denies his
wife frequents cafes, and refutes the
statement that she was friendly or as
sociated with Mrs. Bebee or Mrs. Lun-
deem. Mrs. Burns, in the newspaper
accounts of the shooting, was confused
with Mrs. Jenkins.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
DEMOCRATS WILL MEET
TO SELECT DELEGATES
New Departure In Choosing Repre-
sentatives at State Conference
Regarded as Important

All the members of the Democratic
central committee of Los Angeles county
will meet In Symphony hall, Blanchard
building, 232 South Hill street at 10
o'clock this morning for the purpose
of selecting 110 delegates to the state
conference called for April IL and 13
in this city.
Chairman Albert M. Norton called
the meeting under instructions voted
at the conference held in Symphony
hall February IL. 1t is the first meet
ing of the kind ever held in the political
history of California, and it will be
the first time that delegates have been
so chosen.
The movement is regarded as i'm
portant. 1t is expected the state con-
ference will indorse a full list of can
didates, and these candidates, thus
representatively chosen, in all proba-
bility will become the nominees of the
Democratic party
George Whitfield Lane. brother of
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Franklin X. Lane is expected by many
of the party leaders to become the
Democratic nominee for attorney gen.
eral.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
ENGINEERS TO CONVENE
IN PROSPERITY WEEK.
Members of Local Branch of National
Association Plan Big Exhibit
of Machinery

In anticipation of the seventh an
nual state convention of the National
Association of Stationary Engineers,
which will be held in Los Angeles May
29-2S, the local branch of the associa-
tion has rented the fourth floor of the
Hamburger building for a big me-
chanical exhibit, which will be given
In connection with the convention.
Machinery manufacturers and sup
ply houses will assist the engineers to
make this exhibit success and nearly
all the space has already been en-
gagged. To entertain those who will
assemble at the convention and the
many visitors the chamber of COM
merce and the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association will arrange a
prosperity week"
f. j. Fisher, past national president
and chief engineer of the city water
department, is chairman of the conven-
tion committee. and the following are
chairmen of subcommittee: w. T. w.
Curl. w. III. Trasher G. A. Reichard
and John Topham.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
ACCUSES S. p. BRAKEMAN

A complaint was filed yesterday in
Justice Summerfield's court by Walter
LETTER against a Southern Pacific
brakeman, whose name LETTER did not
know, charging him with battery. The
alleged battery is said to have taken
place while LETTER was beating his way
to Pomona on an oil train. When asked
bv the brakeman to pay his fare, Lef-
fler told him that if he had any money
he would be riding on passenger
train. Upon refusing to pay his fare
LETTER says that the brakeman drew
a penknife from his pocket and started
to put him off In the struggle LETTER
was injured, after which, Leffler says,
he was thrown off the train.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
OPIUM SMUGGLING
HEARING POSTPONED
ASSISTANT u. S. ATTORNEY
REQUESTS DELAY
Federal Authorities Want More Time
to Collect Evidence Against
Alleged Chinese and
Opium Ring
~ TrNnsaots = General Bank
y 1ng and Trust BusinssA

The hearing of Thomas Montez,
charged with being one of the leaders
in one of the cleverest Chinese and
opium smuggling "rings" that have
successfully operated within the
shadow of the police and federal au-
thorities for years, was postponed fer
two weeks yesterday before Judge
William H. Van Dyke at the request
of Assistant United States District
Attorney G. Ray Horton, in order to
give the federal authorities more time
in which to gather evidence that will
warrant the MeXican's deportation to
Ell Paso, Tex, where his case will be
tried.
Montez has brother serving a SEN
tence for murder in San Quentin
prison. His alleged confederates r. j.
Murphy and M. L. Harris, are confined
in cells near him at the county jail,
awaiting the action of the federal
grand jury on charges of having opium
in their possession. These men, to-
gether with Chick Wallace and John
oliver, who are in jails at Williams
anu uSsoH, Ailz., are believed Dy tne
authorities to be the ringleaders of a
gang that has operated from the
Orient to the Chinatowns of eastern
cities.
A consultation of federal authorities
from all parts of the southwest was
held in the United States marshaIs
office yesterday. Developments are
under way that within a few days will
lead to other arrests. 1t is said that
the purse strings of the ring were held
by Murphy and Harris and that the
need of ready money prompted the
smuggling Of the fourteen Chinese in
a box car into this country and the
trip to Montez to Los Angeles that
resulted in their apprehension. Neither
of the prisoners will talk.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
CAMPBELL SILL IN JAIL

In order to correct minor technical
tiles, the three charges against II. f.
Campbell, former bond clerk of the
Merchants Bank and Trust company
charging him with embezzlement. were
dismissed yesterday by Justice Ling,
and three new complaints filed. The
charges contained in the new COM
plants are the same. Unable to pro-
cure $4,000 ball. he was remanded to
JAIL His preliminary hearing has been
set for March g.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
TAlLoR'S GOOSE CAUSES
EARLY MORNING FIRE
Isaac Cohen Fails to Extineuish the
Flame When He Leaves for
His Breakfast

Isaac Cohen, proprietor of a tailor
shop at 113 East Ninth street, was
taught a lesson yesterday in the use
of a gas heated tailor's goose. Cohen
arose early yesterday morning and
performed half days work before
breakfast He forgot to eXtinguish the
gas flame in the goose when he
went to his morning meal and when
he returned half an hour later the
shop room was filled with smoke and
the odor of burning cloth.
The iron burned a hole in the iron
ing board sufficiently large for it to
fall through to a pile of clothing be-
meath the table. The tubing connect
ing the goose with the gas jet was
burned, allowing a sheet of flaming
gas to set fire to other clothing.
Cohen estimated the damage at $780,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
AWARDED SALVAGE FROM
NORWEGIAN STEAMSHIP CO.
Pacific Coast Firm Allowed $4,000 for
Assistance to the Cecil in
Magdalena Bay

Judge Wellborn in the United States
district court awarded the Pacific
Coast Steamship company $4,000 yes
terday in it's salvage suit in admiralty
for $25 900 against the Norwegian
steamship Cecil.
The Cecil was hauled Off shoal In
Magdalena bay, January, 1909. by the
Pacific Coast Steamship companys
chartered vessel Curacao. The suit was
the result of a contract made at the
time between the captains of the boats.
but which the Norwegian owners re-
fused to acknowledge.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
CAN GROW TOBACCO HERE

George Spiker, an expert tobacconist,
who has travelled all over the world,
says that tobacco equal to any Cuban
leaf can be grown here if properly
cured. He received a medal from the
state about twenty years ago for Cali
fornia grown Havana, which he had
cured, but was called to Central Amer
lea to take charge of large plantation
there. He is now trying to interest
capital In starting a plantation in
Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
JAPANESE KILLS HIMSELF

The body of r. Wamato, Japanese,
was found in a room at I37 Turner
street, yesterday afternoon by the po-
lice. A bullet wound in the neck, and
a revolver clutched in the mans hands,
told the policeman a story of self de-
struction. Iwamato's companions said
ne had been in i'll health and had
threatened to end his life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26

Troy, N. Y.-The will of Mrs. Hannah
M Earl, widow of William S. Earl of
Troy, founder of Earl & Wilson, man
ufacturers, has been filed for probate
here The estate is valued as high as
s., ,OOO, 900. Only $4,000 is left to charity.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-13
FLORIDA ADVANTAGES
FOR THE HOMESEEkER

Besides the advantages to be obtain
ed from owning a home in Florida,
there are numerous advantages to be
secured from the investing in Florida
lands, says the Financial and Industrial
Record.
Thousand of wage. earners in tine
large cities, many of them heads of
families, with their children growing
up in crowded, connected streets, have
been convinced by reason of the panic
conditions two years ago, and the sub
sequent disturbance in industrial lines
that followed in the North and West
that it is to their interest to seek the
country, where the conditions are
more stable, comforts and Injuries
more certain and the pleasure of living
more pronounced.
While Florida lands are the most
productive the year around, they are
cheaper than in other States that have
fewer advantages. In fact, Florida
lands are so much cheaper that the
earning power-the yielding power of
the Investments greater, and thus
the profits are larger on less capital in
vested.
Again, Florida offers more opportun-
tiles for making living than any other
country on earth. No matter what
his favorite pursuit may be-, one can
here have the opportunity of enjoying
it. There is, in fact, wider range of
pursuit here in Florida than in any of
the States north of it, and any man OF
energy and good character may take
his choice and make living.
One thing that puts Florida far ahead
of other States is the social conditions.
Elsewhere a man without money has to
force his way in or live until his hair is
white with age; but here, if he is up
right. honorable and Industrious, the
door stands open to him and he has a
cordial welcome. In other words, a
mans standing in Florida does not de-
pend upon his money, but character;
Reception here is based on merit, and
not lucre.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-13
IMPORTANT FACTS
ABOUT THE SOUTH

The South has 1000 square miles of
coal land. Great Britain, Germany.
France and Austria combined have II,
600 square miles.
+ The United States geological survey
credits the south with 10, 600, 900, 600
tons of iron ore. The highest amount
reported as claimed by foreign experts
for all Europe is little overs, 600, OOO,-
900 tons. :.
Three fourths of the cotton raised in
the world is produced in the South.
The total value of the South's farm
products last year was $3.50, 600, QUO
or $50, 900, 900 more than the total value
of the farm products of the United
States mot including live stock on
farms and animals sold for slaughter)
in 1890.
The rivers and streams of the South
if fully utilized, would furnish more
power than is now required to run
every manufacturing enterprise in the
United States.
With its coal, and iron, and cotton,
and water power, and timber, its oil
and gas, and salt, and phosphate, land
marbles and GRANTEES, and copper, its
almost limitless agricultural capabill-
ties, its climatic advantages and geo.
graphical location, earth furnishes no
parallel to the potentialities OF the
South. ATLANTA Georgian.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-13
M|SBRANDING FRUIT
PACKAGES IS ILLEGAL

Under the pure food and drug law the
question of printing geographical names
on packages of food had to be decided.
There are Oregon apples, ""New York
Baldwins," Indian River Oranges,
"Rocky Ford melons" etc., the name
being used as a mark of superior quail
tv. The following decisions has now
been made:
The board holds that the terms
"Rocky Ford" and Indian River
have not become sufficiently generic to
Indicate styles, types or brands OF mel.
ons and oranges, respectively, put Chat
these geographical names are only
properly applied to the product of the
restricted area for the melons whlcn
are crown in or near Rocky Ford, and
for the product grawn in or near indian
River. Inasmuch as the term Rocky
Ford" has thus become associated
with a melon of peculiar excellence OF
a certain geographical locality, the
boards holds that it is unlawful TO sell
in interstate commerce melons not
crown in the Rocky Ford district as
"Rockv Ford Seed melons. The terms
arr nearly alike, the intent is to deceive,
and the law provides that a label should
not he false or deceptive in any partic-
ularS, L ,,.oi
growers buy up discarded packages and
An them with grapes, apples, peaches
or melons and sell them on the reputa-
tion of the brand which belongs TO
others. This will be an unhealthy
practice if the GOVERNMENT authorizes
apatch them at it. Out of more than
. ooo cases of violation of the food laws
the Government has lost only three. -
Rural New Yorker. y
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-13
THE HONOR ROLL OF
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

st Lucie County High School Honor
Roll Second Term.
The following pupils have made an
average of 80 or over in the subjects
named.
High School Department
Jessie Moore, english. latin, book
keeping.
Immaroe Stanford, english, latin,
bookkeeping.
Howard Horton, geometry physics,
bookkeeping
Malcolm Moore, english, bookkeep-
ing.
Jewel Swain, latin, algebra, history,
bookkeeping.
Pearl Swain, algebra, history, book
keeping.
George Kimball. algebra, history,
bookkeeping.
Phillips Platts, latin, algebra, history
bookkeeping.
Grace Andrews, agriculture.
Annie Brown, latin, algebra, agricul-
ture.
Blanche Dittmar, algebra, history,
agriculture.
Myrtle Edwards, latin, algebra, agri-
culture.
Laura Lyons, history, agriculture.
Florence Stetson, algebra, agrlcul-
ture.
June Summerlin, history, algebra.
John Andrews, algebra, agriculture.
Festus Cox. latin, algebra, history,
agriculture. english.
Pritchard Hart, history, agriculture.
Harold Lord, algebra, history, agri-
culture.
Frank Poppell, algebra, history, agri-
culture.
RAYMOND Saunders, agriculture.
Leslie Tyre, history, agriculture.
Eight Grade
Genie Andrews, arithmetic, geography
composition, spelling.
Gladys Brown, composition, spelling.
Ruby Swain, arithmetic, geography,
grammer, composition, spelling.
Gay Writ, geography, grammar,
composition, spelling =. s'e;>f
Stephen Gladwin, composition.
Fred Jones, composition.
Margaret Tyler, arithmetic, geo.
graphy.
Seventh Grade
Ralph Richards, grammar.