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that when they are permitted to lift the
tariff on transportation they might not be
given as much of a raise as they attempt
ed to grab just before they stubbed their
toes over Understands injunction. They
admit that the railroads are yet several
removes from bankruptcy and that even
If forced to worry along without an ad-
vance in rates for ten months or lndef-
initely they would keep right on dragging
freight and passengers over the country
1t is also noticed that the railroads have
reconsidered their intention to shut down
on improvements, extensions and plans Tor
new equipment. Also, that negotiations
for the sale of new bond issues have been
resumed at home and abroad.
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Public Is Getting Wise.

The educated portion Of the public is
wise to this stereotyped method of
procedure and strings its BETS with the
leaders, to employ a phrase familiar to
sporting men. This kind of company"
is most unweNome, but 1t can neither
be shaken of. frightened off nor coaxed
to let go until it gets good and ready.
The number of educated" spectators
increases year by year, but there are
enough, Of the other kind to enable the
manipulative managers to run big deals
old lines with reasonable certainty Of
success.
Strange to say, there are lot of blind
men among the professionals and room
traders who play into the hands Of the
big manipulators with ceaseless and UNI
tagging energy of the rankest innocents
They are bearish all the time, and to
their notion prices never go so low that
they cannot go lower. According to their
philosophy. stocks are always too high.
1t was Cammack who, when asked to
look at particularly brilliant full moon,
said: ''Oh, yes, it is very beautiful, but
It's too high, too high These blind
men are invariably found plunging on the
bear side when a market is dragging on
the bottom. All this week they have
been offered many chances to turn neat
scalping profits and have grown quite
joyous in the belief that stocks at the
end Of nine months of depression are
only just beginning to decline. And all
the time accumulation OF stocks Ia pro-
ceeding steadily and the bears are "sell-
ing themselves into q hole.
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when you with the children, asking them about
me Oh you won't arrest me and take me away from
the darlings will you? Please don't take me to Jail
III tell you everything, truly l will, sir!'
THAT might help some" says l; but if you're gon
to tess up suppose you begin at Chapter l. Was it the
family Jewels you after?
"No, no' says she. Il never took pennys worth
in my life Truckes could tell you that if he could only
be here.
My 'usband, sir says she and i'm Mrs.
Truckles
"Oh-ho! says I. Then this Roulare name you've
been faggin' under was sort of a nom de b1fmle?"
1T was for Katy did it, she sobs.
"Oh, yes says l. well, what about Katy?'
And say, that was the way it out; first, bit
gether and patcin' this soggy everyday yarn out of
what we'd all thought was such Deep dark mystery.
she was English Mrs Trucklcs was and so was the
late Tr1ckes. They'd worked together, him ben'
first class butler whose only fault he couldn't keep
his fingers off the decanters. 1t after he'd struck
the bottom of the toboggan slide and that thirst of his
had finished him for good and all that Mrs. Truckes
collects her little Katy from where they'd boarded her
out and comes across to try her luck this side.
She'd worked up as far as housekeeper and had made
enough to educate Katy real we'll and marry her off
bright young gent by the name of MCGOWAN that
owned half interest in saloon up in the Bronx
and stood we'll with the district leader.
She happy and contented in them days, Mrs.
Truckles was, with MCGOWAN dom ruslin' business,
gettin' his name on the Tammany ticket and Katy
patronzin swell dressrnaker and havin maid of her
Then, all of sudden, Mrs. Truckes tumbes to
the fact that Katy gettn ashamed of havin mother
that's out to service and eatin with the chauffeur and
the cook Not that she wants her Twin with them,
MCGOWAN wouldn't stand for that,-but Katy
did think Mother might do something for living
that wouldn't blur up the family escutcheon quite
much.
1t just when Mrs. Trucles was eelin' this most
keen that the French governess where she got
ed and went West to live leavin behind her, besides
collection of old hats out Shoes and faded pic
ure postals, this swell reference from Lady gwater.
And havn put in year in France with diff rent
families that had taken her across and havn' had to
pick up less of the language, Mrs. Truckes
ceives the great scheme of promotin herself from the
back to the front of the house. So she chucks up as
workin housekeeper, spurges the wig, and strikes
a swell intelligence office with this phony reference:
Course, with anybody else but easy mark like Mrs.
Pnckney, maybe she wouldn't have got away with it;
but all Geraldine does is glance at the paper ask her
she likes children and put her on the payroll.
WELL" says / And it got you some worried
II was near crazy over it" says she. II thought
could do it first; but it cruel ard. Oh sir the
lies I've ad to tell, keepn up. And with the rest of
the elp all ating me! Marie used me worst of all,
III -
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over my cad. Next that Aunt Martha came and
thought up SO many bad things about me-you know.
Sure, says /; but how about this Sir Podmore?"
Il was cad laundress at Podmore Ouse," says she
land l thought it all up when he here
never should have tredto doit. m good ousekeeper
if do say it; but I'm getting be an old woman now
and this will end me- 1t was for Katy did it, though
Every week she used to and throw it in my face
that she couldn't call at the front door and-and-
Well, 'ope5 you'll believe me, sir but that was just
the way of it, and if I'm taken to Jail it will kill Katy
and"
A HAL breaks in voice behind u.s. Here Pinckney!
Come, Geraldine! This way everybody!' and as
turns around there's Aunt Martha with the accusin'
finger and her face fairly bean. Before can get
in word she's assembled the family.
What did tell your" she cackles. "She's broken
down and confessed! l heard her!"
is it true, Shortly" demands Mrs. Pinckney.
docs she admit that she plotting to-
"Yep!" says I. Its something awful too, almost
enough to curdle your blood" ans,
Its case of standin broad jump" says l, from
housekeeper to governess with age handicap and
crooked entry.
Course, has to work out the details for EN-, and
when I've stated the whole hidous plot, from the pass
ing of Truckles the Thirsty to the high pride of Katy
the Barkeeps Bride ncludn the tale of the stolen char
any of EN- know what to say They Just stands around
gawpin curious this sobbin wabbly kneed old party
slumped down there on the hall seat.
the first to recover WELL there's KNOWN how far
she might have gone, says she. And she ought be
punished some way Pinckney, what are you going to
do with herr
For minute he looks from Aunt Martha to the object
in the middle of the circle and then he drops them black
eyeashes lazy. like he half asleep and knew
thin coming worth lstenin' to.
considering all the circumstances" says Pinckney,
II think shall discharge Marie, increase Mrs.
Truckes' salary give her assistant and ask her to
stay with permanently Eth, Geraldine?"
And Geraldine mods hearty.
"Pinckney, let's shake on that" says l. Even if
your head is full of bubbles you got eighteen
carat heart in you. Hear the news, Mrs. Truckles?"
"Then-then I'm not to go to jai?' says she, takin
her hands off her face and ookn up straight and steady
for the first time in months.
I" Jail nothin" says l. There's goin' to be
deal and you start in fresh with clean slate
"Humph!" snorts Aunt Martha. do you expect
to stay here and countenance any such folly?"
I'm far too considerate of my relatives for that,
says Pinckney. There's train at five-thirty-six
And, say, to see Mrs. Truckes now, with her gray
hair shown natural, and her chin up, and twin
hangn either hand and the sleuhy look gone out OF
them old eyes. you'd hardly know her for the same
party!
These antelope leaps is all right sometimes; but when
YOU take em YOU want to be Wearin' your shoes.
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WELL?" says l. "And it got you some worried
W. irwin to make good eh?"

I was near crazy over it, says She. II thought
the 'elp all 'atng me! Marie used me worst of all,
though. She made tell er everything and ED it
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
WIFE KILLS SELF OVER
CORPSE OF HUSBAND
Childhood Pact to Live and Die
Together Unknown

PITTSBURG, Pa. May 3.-Standing beside
the coffin of her husband who had died this
morning Mrs. Isabella Rogers of 1874 Prince
ton place this afternoon sent bullet through
her own head, falling dead the coffin,
and compact entered into by two school
children years ago had been fulfilled
James NJ. Rogers a plumber, who mar
ried Isabella Hunter year since, and soon
after his marriage he developed a cancer of
the stomach which today resulted fatally. 1t
was known to all friends of the family that
Jimmy and Isabella when children at Du-
Bos, Pa were chums and lovers. One day
they each publicly promised each other in
the presence of friends that they would get
married when they grew up and "lve and
die together
1t Is thirteen years since the pair began
keeping company as young man and young
woman, but it was not until year since
taking a wife When 1t became apparent
months ago that the husband could not live,
Mrs Rogers referred on several occasions to
their childhood pact, and 1t is now believed
that she told her husband his deathbed
that she would fulfill her part of the agree
ment In any event the man before dying
asked friends to prevent his wife from making
good a childish boast that they together had
made Despite every effort made today to
keep the stricken wife from the room where
her husbands body lay she slipped in, and
before friends could stop her she had ended
her life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
EMERYVILLE RESULTS

OAKLAND, May 3.-Balronia led all the
way in the fourth event, feature of the card
at Emeryvile today. Chester Krum was
favorite, but Buxton was of little assistance
The third resulted in close finish, Thomas
outriding Taylor and Coburn and landing Re-
deem winner in the last jump from Beauman
and Tremargo. Results
First race, six furlongs, selling-Amethyst
1O9 CThomas) won; Waner 1O9 (Cohurn), Sec
ond; Charles Green, Ill (Mentry), third. Time
1:14 80. Herives Trocha, Saracinesca, c. ].
Cox, Phiiistina, Ell Paso, Royal N. and Louis
Streuber also ran.
Second race, four furlongs, selling-Othale,
105 (Coburn), won; Wiltrude s., 103 CThomas),
second; Rita, 103 (Callaghan), third. Time,
O:4S Zlata Brana, Robert Hurst, Abella, Abe
Slupsky, Dollie V B., Emory X, Mamie
Woods and Ravia also ran.
Third race, mile and twenty yards, selling
Redeem 81 CThomas) won; Beauman 1o3
CTayor), second; Tremargo, 1o6 (Coburn),
third Time. 1:41 3-5 Miss offcious, Buck
thorne and Argonaut also
Fourth race, six and one-half furlongs,
purse-Balronia. 100 KenD. won; Chester
Krum III (Buxton) second; Banorella, 95
(Thomas), third. Time, 1:l9 AS. Lacy Eliza
beth and Lewiston also ran.
Fifth race one mile and three eesixteenths,
selIing-Steel, 1O1 (Callaghan). won Merlingo,
1o3 (Rooney), second; Colbert, 81 (selden),
third Time, 200 is. ]. r. Laughrey Cop
perfeld, Aks-ar-Ben and Miss Naomi also ran.
Sixth race, futurity course, selling-silver
Stocking, 1O9 (selden), won; Lord of the For
est, 110 (Kederls), second; La Petite, 98 (Cal-
Jaghan), third. Time, 110 2-5. Hex, st.
Francis, Father Stafford and Darlington also
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
HUNT FOR PENNY BRINGS
DEATH TO LITTLE GIRL
Scratches Match and Sets Fire
to NightgoWn
aHF@

PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-Returning from
brief visit to nearby store yesterday
morning Mrs Emma Linn of 2236 carp street
found her home filled with smoke, and upon
rushing upstairs to the second-story front
bedroom was confronted with the appalling
spectacle of her 6-year-old daughter Margaret
enveloped in flames and screaming in agony.
The sight proved too much for the HORNED
mother who fell in a swoon across the purn-
ing clothing of her child. If 1t had not been
for the fact that Police Sergeant Black OF the
Seventeenth district happened to be passing
at the moment she must have perished with
the unfortunate child, who suceumbed to ter
rible burns few hours later at The Poly"
technc hospital
The sergeant, attracted by the cries OF little
Margaret rushed upstairs in time to beat out
the fire. which had communicated from the
mother and daughter to bed in the room.
When Mrs. Linn was informed that her girl
was dead she said she regretted the oppor-
tune arrival of the officer which had saved
her. and late last night she was In serious
condition from shock and burns.
The tragedy was brought about by new
penny which had been given to Margaret for
retiring early When the little girl had been
nut to bed by her mother the bright penny
rolled on the floor and out of sight After
futile search she went to sleep, but on
awakening yesterday, shortly after O'CLOCK
lust as her mother had gone out to purchase
A few necessities for breakfast, the first thing
she thought of was the missing penny. An
other hunt failed to unearth the coin, and the
child ran downstairs and returned with
handful of matches. Striking them, she cast
them beneath the bed when suddenly tiny
wisp of flame ignited her nightgown.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
RUNNERS START
ANNUAL CLIMB
Yearly Race Up Mt. Wilson for
Prizes Begins at $50
O'Clock This Morning
AMATEURS ONLY ALLOWED
Previous Time Marks Expected to
Be Lowered by Winner
of Race Today
AMATEURS ONLY ALLOWED

Followers of the amateur athletic game and
especially the sports of marathons and noun
tain climbing, will pass today at the foot of
old Mount Wilson, where at $3.50 o'clock this
morning Chester Lawrence will pull the trig-
ger for the start of the first running in the
annual Mount Wilson climb, originated by
Charles j. Fox two years ago, and now held
under the sanction of the Southern Pacific
association, the local branch of the a. A. u,
and the Sierra Nadre board of trade. Fifteen
athletes will start from Sierra Madre at in
teryals of five minutes, and each will endeavor
to show his heels to the remaining fourteen
on the way to the summit.
From vantage points all along the trail will
those interested in the game be able to watch
the race. The course is pronounced the only
one of its kind in America, and athletes from
all the world are awakening TO the fact
that some of the phases of the marathon
game are more interesting than that lung
tester itself.
Until the Inauguration of the Mount Wilson
climb the hill scalers were few and far be-
tween, but under the inspiration Of yearly
watching a dozen or so trained men engage
in the sport, and there is developing a feel
ing among the athletes of the southland that
there is more in the game than many believe.
soldier King, winner of the first con-
test set mark of ]:25.20 for the ascent, and
this mark has remained the high tide for the
course. In last years event Dietrich of the
L. A a. c. over the last hill first with
a record of 1880 Gregg and Farley, who
finished second and third last year, are in the
fray again, and expect to make use Of the
fires of experience. Farley lost quite little
last year by unfamiarity with the course,
which he Will not be handicapped with today.
Otto Carque, Charles Roclair, j. A. Shepp,
John w Zorraqunos, Henry H. Wheeler and
John j. Huesmesch in last years race,
and will try their luck again for the hand
some prizes offered.
Most of the entries this year are unattached
and entering through pure love of the sport
The test will be one of endurance, speed and
headwork, and the winner must possess all
three. 1t Is the opinion Of the Judges that
this years record viii surpass Kings time
of two years ago and the race, in all prob
ability will be close enough to send few
thrills down the backs of the spectators.
a special car leaves this morning at
O'Clock, bearing the officials and entrants to
the trysting place. The entries are fol-
lows: Landa c. Farley, Otto Carque, Harry
Leech, Guido Calgan Charles Rocair,
George Hin, ]. a. Shepp, John w. Zorra-
quinos, Adolphus Gregg, Neldon j. Cooper,
Walter Hensling and Abraham Gncksberg, all
unattached, and John j. Huesmesich of l.. A.
a. G., William Thomas of Brooklyn Heights
Athletic club and Henry Il. Wheeler of the
Pomona Century Road club of America
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
SEALS COME To
TAKE ON ANGELS
Make Long Jump from Portland
to Play First Home Sc
rieS with SeraphS
VILLAGERS ARE AT PORTLAND
Games Scheduled in the Pennant
Chase This Week Are of
Unusual Interest
VILLAGERS ARE AT PORTLAND
by LAY DAVIDSON

San Francisco will be the baseball
attraction at Chutes park this after
noon and until next Monday afternoon,
inclusive, coming south to play the first
home series with the Angels. Owing to
the long jump made necessary by the
team having to come from Portland to
Los Angeles, the schedule makers left
Tuesday an open date Tor this week,
and contrary to published reports the
beginning of the series was not post
poned, the first game of this series be-
ing scheduled for this afternoon. The
same arrangement applies next week,
when the series here with Portland Will
begin Tuesday and wind up with
game the following Monday afternoon.
The league series this week promise
to be more than ordinarily interesting,
as the two home teams, Los Angeles
and Vernon, will be fighting 1t out with
San Francisco and Portland, the two
teams that are between them and the
top of the ladder. Vernon will try to
climb over Portland and San Francisco
this week while playing the Beavers in
their home town. Los Angeles will try
to drag Frisco down the line at the
Chutes. Hhere is a possibility that by
next Sunday afternoon the Vernon and
Los Angeles clubs will be perched on
the rungs at the top of the ladder,
playing desperate ball for the leader
ship of the league.
While these four clubs are playing,
Oakland and Sacramento, punched at
the bottom of the heap, will be fighting
with each other to keep out of the
cellar. Oakland will entertain the Sen
ators at Frisco, and their series promise
to be about as exciting to the fans is
q funeral. although to the two clubs it
probably will be quite as interesting as
Kilkenny argument.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
Baseball, Racing, Boxing
RialtO Gossip

COLONEL JACK CHINN, chairman
of the Kentucky state racing
~ commission, and his associates on
the board have won great victory in
their fight for the elimination of the
pesttferous bookmaker from the sport
in that state, and although the Lex
ington spring meeting is not week
old yet the attendance is up to that OF
other seasons and the pari- mutuel
system of wagering upon the results
is meeting with unqualified success,
both in popular favor and in the way
of providing the necessary revenue for
paying the uniformly good purses
hung up. Another big advantage that
will be very much i'll evidence
throughout all the Kentucky race
meetings will be the practical absence
of scandal that has wrought so much
damage to the turf and put it in such
disfavor that the reorganization of the
sport along new lines was made abso-
lutely necessary to save it from the
wrath of its opponents. Col. Chinn and
his associates have had to fight for
two years to eliminate the bookmaker
and drive them out of the sport in
that state, but they have won the
fight and the mutuel system will be
used at all the tracks to the exclusion
of boolmaking as long as the COM
mission is in power. Although pro-
moters Of the sport iii other states are
risking the future of the sport in their
efforts to keep the bookmaker on the
job it is inevitable that before another
year has passed the mutuel system
will have to be installed at all of the
race tracks or the sport will be wiped
out. s
T-bone Riley has organized a base
ball club that looks like a classy bid
der for amateur honors on local dia-
monds during the summer and he has
all his future Chases out on the dia-
mond every day at hard practice. He
figures on getting into the game right
away and issues hereby a challenge to
all clubs in the southland, including
the Angels and Villagers, for a dia-
mond mixup for any old thing. Among
the celebrities on his payroll are Billy
Church, catcher; Mack Mcconnell,
pitcher; Smooth Top Wales. first base;
Farmer Page, second base: Kid Sny-
der, third base; Applehead Scanlon,
shortstop; Martin Leahy, left field;
Jimmy Austin, center field; Frank
Pittman, right field. The boys are
working out at Prayer park and are
showing such phenomenal form that
they bar no team In the southland in
their hopes for future honors.
Joe Conley, manager for frankie
Conley, the bantam champion, was one
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04
JEFF MAY MEET
JOHNSON TO-DAY
Black Marvel to Entertain Pro-
moterS at Business Session
at His Training Camp
REFEREE Is TO BE SELECTED
-z--
Smith, WeICh and Graney Seem
to Hold the Job Between
Them So Far
REFEREE IS TO BE SELECTED

SAN FRANCISCO. May SACK Johnson
will be host tomorrow at an afternoon affair
in his training camp the ocean beach at
which promoters and principals in the JEFF
fries Johnson championship match will be
present Jeffres may be Unable to at
tend.
The meeting will be a business one and
an effort Will be made to select the referee
for the big fight Action In this matter
hefarrad tndav mntl1 tomorrow ON ae-
count of the formality of depositing $4,000
more of the guarantee in local bank
Under the original articles of agreement
May is the last day upon which the man
who is to offciate in the ring July can be
chosen, and 1t is said tonight that both
Sam Berger, representing Jemries, and
George Little, acting for Johnson, are ready
to submit their selections. Eddie Smith OF
Oakland, Jack Weleh and Eddie Graney of
San Francisco stil considered the like
lest possibilities candidates for the
place.
johnson, after the meeting at the bank.
spent the rest OF the day in his automobile
spinning around town. He took walk
through Golden Gate park early in the day,
and Iolled about training quarters for
time He will do no boxing until Friday
and then will begin the first of his light
preliminary training.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04

Manager Covert of Covina wants
game at home Sunday with some Los
Angeles team. Call him on Home
phone at Covina HI.
The Union Well Supply company
team wishes to arrange dates with out
side teams. Call e. E. Greed, Broad
way S446.
The University Merchants would like
to secure a game with Anaheim for
next Sunday. Call manager, West 524.
Garcia, former fielder for the Bishop
team, is anxious to get a chance on
some local team. Call F64S4.
Hayato Japanese baseball team is
after a next Sundays opponent of
class. Cali Main 2764.
The work of Ely, the one-armed Sec
ond-saclIer of the Dyas-Cline squad, is
making headline place for him among
the local ball tossers. The big leaguers
will be after him soon.
Hilliard, Glendale's little slab artist,
is showing great possibilities of devel-
oping into the topnotch class of heav-
ers among local amateur clubs. Val
entine has discovered star of first
magnitude.
The Slauson playground team Is
rounding into Al shape. Leach. pitcher
for the nine, earned lasting fame for
himself and his team Sunday, when in
the game, with the Los Angeles Cubs
he famed nineteen men. The team is
anxious to get a game for next Sun
day Call South 5952 and ask for Nc
Donald.
The Mavericks will try Alhambra
next Saturday afternoon on the Alham-
bra grounds. The contest promises
some sensational thrills, as the two
teams are headliners in the local anna
teur baseball world.
The next opponent for the soldiers
is the crack leaders of the Trolley
league, Redondo. They will line up at