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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
RESCUERS FIND
WORK DIFFICULT
THIRTY BODIES TAKEN DOWN
WELLINGTON TRAIL
MEN ENCOUNTER DANGERS IN
TASK
Liqht Snow Fall Late, But There Are
No Indications That the
Storm Will Be
Serious
ASSOCIATED Pressl

WELLINGTON, Wash, March o
No bodies were recovered from the
avalanche wreckage today, the work
mon devoting most of their efforts to
the task of taking those already re-
moved from the snow down the noun
tain to Scenic.
The work of taking the bodies down
the mountain trail is dangerous ana
difficult, and the men worked all morn
ing and most of the afternoon at the
task. Thirty bodies were taken down
the mountain and placed in baggage
cars to be taken to Everett and Seattle.
The weather today was much pleas
anter than yesterday. The storm OF
the last ten days cleared away, and
for the greater part of the day the
sun was shining brightly. Late in
the afternoon a light snow began to
fall, but it is not believed that there
will be a serious storm.
Good progress was made with the
work of clearing the track, and 1t is
now predicted that the line will be
opened to wellington by the end of
the week. AS soon as the track Is
cleared and the wrecking apparatus is
on the scene. the removal of the dead
will be greatly facilitated
Many curious people went to Scenic
from Seattle, Everett and Bellingham
today. and many of them attempted
the difficult trail to wellington. They
were not given a cordial welcome the
railroad men and county officials pres
ent making it plain to them that idle
SPECTATORS are not wanted.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
MARRIAGE is CLIMAX
OF MINING ROMANCE
Stoddard and His Bride Whose Mar
riage Surprised Their Friends
Spend Honeymoon in Los
Angeles

Solora Stoddard, son of the Hon. i.
7. Stoddard, wealthy mining man Of
Phoenix, A. T., and former secretary
of the territory, is spending his
honeymoon with his bride, who was
Rose Van Zant, daughter of a mil
lionaire tea and coffee merchant of
Philadelphia, at the Van Nuys hotel.
They were quietly married two weeks
ago in Phoenix and unknown to
friends slipped off to Los Angeles.
The wedding was the elimination
of a pretty romance that had its be-
ginning in the mines around Phoenix
Miss Van Zant for several years had
passed the winter with her parents
in the territory and she was thrown
much in the company of the young
mining engineer on the golf links at
Phoenix. The announcement of their
enga agement came as a great surprise
to their friends and they We're mar
ried shortly afterward. The young
couple will spend several weeks in
Los Angeles before returning to
Phoenix. where the bridegroom is en-
gagged in the mining business with his
father.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
OPEN SALE FOR
PASSION PLAY
DEMAND FOR SEATS MAY BE
HEAVY
MANY ARE INTERESTED IN BIG
PRODUCTION
Because of Limited Engagement Pro-
moters of Religious Drama Ex-
pect Long Line in Front of
Auditorium Today

The sale of seats for the Passion
play. under the auspices of the Fran
ciscan Fathers, will open at the Aud
itorium box office this morning. AS
there will be but two performances,
each lasting three nights, it is expected
the line in front of the theater will be
q long one.
During the first three days of the
week season seats only will be sold.
The disposal of SINGLE tickets, good for
one night each, will not begin until
Thursday, March 10. Whether that
class of patronage will be able to Sc
cure tickets is a question, as the mail
demands and telephone orders waiting
on the books for the opening indicate
that large sale will follow.
The Passion play and it's royal splen-
dor have been given publicity from the
Tehachapi as far south as the state
line. So massive is the religious
presentation and so enormous the ex-
penditures of preparation that the
directors have gone far atield in order
to give the entire people of Southern
California the opportunity to witness,
in its highest development, the greatest
drama of the centuries made famous
with but natural settings at Oberam-
mergau.
The railroads have assisted in the
task of publicity and the audiences
which will gather to seek the inspira-
tion of the ferVid and sacred presenta-
tion will be augmented from nearly
every city and hamlet and suburban
district of the south.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
WAR AGAINST CLUB
BARS is PLANNED
WELFARE COMMITTEE TO DIS
CUSS TAX METHOD
Social Club License a Feature of the
New Liquor Ordinance
to Be Threshed
Out

The social club license feature of
the proposed new liquor ordinance will
probably be made the chief point of
attack when the public welfare COM
mite meets Wednesday night to re-
new the discussion of the ordinance.
The large bona fide social clubs such
as the California and Jonathan, are
not making any special protest against
the proposition to levy a license tax
of $l00 a month on them for the priv
ilege of selling liquor to their MEM
bers, but such organizations as the
Elks, the Eagles and other fraternal
organizations that maintain social
clubs as side issue believe the license
fee unjust. Sideboards maintained by
these organizations, they say, are not
sources of profit, as drinks are sold
for the cost of the liquor and the dis
pensation. Sometimes, it is said it is
necessary to apportlon part of the reg
ular funds of these clubs to pay the
expenses of the liquor department.
The object of the license tax is not
to produce revenue but to discourage
clubs that are not bona fide social
clubs. 1t has been estimated that
there are 100 organizations In Los An
geles which have secured charters from
the state as social clubs. imposing
merely nominal monthly dues, such as
8 or 10 cents a month, that exist sole
ly for the purpose of selling liquor
without paying a license fee. These
are practically blind pigs, and there
is no way of controlling them.
G. Puma, a wholesale liquor dealer,
has suggested to the welfare commit
tee that a proper way of arriving at
the amount of the license fee to be
assessed against wholesale houses is
to base the amount of the license on
the value of the stock carried.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
PHOENIX PLANS TO
RECEIVE EXCURSION
CITY LOOKS ON LOS ANGELES
AS BIG BROTHER
Prominent Arizonan Predicts Terri
tory Will Be in the Fold of
States Within Next
Sixty Days

Phoenix is waiting impatiently for
the Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce to send down her excursion of
boosters and is prepared to give
them royal welcome and reception, /"
said II. l. Latham, a prominent busi-
ness man of Phoenix, at the Hotel
Van Nuys last night.
Mr.. Latham Is resting in Los An
geies and enjoying a change of
climate after a strenuous business
year.
THE coming excursion" said Mr..
Latham, has been a topic of CONVEX
sation with us for some time, and
we are anxious to show our apprecia-
ton and admiration of the builders of
a magnificent city.
Down in Arizona we have hazarded
for some time as to the possibilities
of a division of California, with Los
Angeles as the capital and business
center of the south half of it. Our
territory will have it's statehood
within sixty days. We are building
and booming, too, but we look upon
Los Angeles as a big brother. l am
surprised to see so many Phoenix
residents on your streets, spending
the winter here.
1.-The Phoenix & Eastern railroad is
completed as far as Winkelman and
will be operating into Globe in three
months. The mineral possibilities
about Phoenix ire becoming i'm
portant and have been the means of
bringing big capital into our midst.
Real estate in two years has grown
in value equal to the prior twelve
years put together. From this you
can see that Phoenix as part of the
great southwest is growing along
with Los Angeles"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
DRAMATlST PROUD
If WAS FIREMAN
William Stoermer to Be "Christus"
In Passion Play Says Coal
Heaving Is Good
Training

- note that a writer in referring tC
the Passion Play to be produced here,
states that the man who will appear
as Christus once was a locomotive en-
gineer," said William Stoermer, under
whose direction that religious drama
is to be given. "As that man is my
self, 1 should like to say something
more on the subject.
"I not only was an engineer when
younger, but previous to that time was
a locomotive fireman. Yet l hardly
can see why that should affect the
present situation. l was employed on
the Southern Pacific, and, after labor
ing in this humble capacity, was ad-
vanced on merit. When l was fire.
man fuel oil was not used. Therefore
1 shoveled coal. Any fireman will tell
you that shoveling coarse coal into the
fireboX of a busy engine requires mus
clN and tenacity of purpose. The man
who performs this labor certainly
earns his wages.
But l shoveled coal and when I
was IS years of age the foreman gave
me an engine to run. In my modest
way l thought that was doing pretty
well for a mere youth. ran the en-
to earn the money paid me. And I
was not above swinging the coal shovel
now and then if the occasion demand
ed Ii.
II do not regret that I was a fire.
man and fed fire. l do not think
1t interfered with my development
along any line. l do not consider that
1t has had any bad effects upon more
pretentious occupations which have
come later. Shoveling not only
strengthens a mans physique, but
gives him a pretty good backbone.
Long hours of labor over the hot fire
of an engine also develops a mans
grit and gives him more pluck to at
tack the greater problems of life after
he graduates from the labor world.
"I do not believe will ever feel any
differently regarding that coal heav-
ing. At least l hope not. If my in
depreciation of this great character as
signed me in the Passion Play meets
with what l considered my youthful
success on an engine, shall be more
than satisfied"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
% BODIES TAKEN
FROM WRECKAGE
Relief Crews Disentomb Workmen
Caught in Slides Death Trap at
Rogers Pass-Forty Vic-
tins Still Buried

VANCOUVER, B. c., March e.
Thirty bodies have been found in the
wreckage of Rogers Pass, forty miles
east of Revelstoke, where an ava
lanche buried siXty-two Workmen en-
gagged in clearing the Canadian Pa
cific tracks of wreckage brought down
by an earlier slide.
Twenty-Five of the bodies recovered
are those of white men, the others
Japanese section men. The local Of
ficers of the Canadian Pacific adhere
to their estimate of siXty-two dead.
They say they have carefully checked
the lists of employees and that the
number given is correct.
Five hundred men are at work clear
ing away the wreckage, and the rail-
road officials expect to have the line
open by tomorrow night.
The danger of other slides is immi-
nent. Rain and sleet have been fall
ing, and tonight a fearful snowstorm
is raging The wind blows through
the pass with terrific force, and the
rescuers are greatly hampered in their
work.
The passengers on west bound eX-
press No. 81. which is held at Field,
have been caught between two slides,
narrowly escaped the same fate as
that which overlook the passengers
caught in the Great Northern disaster
at Wellington, Wash, last Tuesday.
The train, carrying more than 100 per-
sons, had barely passed a point a
short distance east of Field station
when an avalanche swept down the
mountain, burying 1000 feet of track
under twenty-five feet of snow and
debris,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
VENDOR FATALLY
INJURED BY AUTO
DRIVER OF MACHINE SEEKS
VAINLY FOR REPORT
Hospital Authorities Refuse to Allow
Victims Condition to Be
Known, Despite Insistent
Inquiry

Albert Mcdonald, for years vendor
of flowers at Seventh and Hill streets
was struck and fatally injured yes
terday afternoon by an automobile
driven by w. C. Schacktrupp of the
Woolwine Motor Car company. NC
Donald is at the Crocker street hos
pital suffering from two broken ribs,
injuries about the head and hips and
from internal injuries.
Mcdonald was at his flower stand
when Schacktrupp turned in Seventh
street from Hill, driving large COM
mercial auto truck. The steering gear
on the machine failed to work, ac-
cording to the story of the driver, and
Mcdonald was struck and tossed to
one side, the truck striking against
the curbing.
Realizing that Mcdonald was Sc
riously injured, Schacktrupp rushed to
a drug store and summoned an ambu-
lance. On his return from the drug
store he was told a doctor who was
passing in an automobile had taken
the injured man away.
Last night Mcdonald was located
at the Crocker street hospital, where
it was acknowledged the patient was
gain further information was futile,
the attendant who answered the tele-
phone stating it was a private hos
pital and no persons business as to
what patients were confined or the
extent of their injuries.
The attendant was informed that the
driver of the auto responsible for the
accident was anxious to find the
whereabouts of the injured man, who
had been spirited away, but the same
reply was given, It's nobody's bush
ness"
Schacktrupp who was plotting the
auto, reported the accident to police
headquarters Immediately after the
occurrence, but not until last night
was he able to ascertain where the in
jured man had been taken. At the
Crocker street hospital it was ac-
knowledged the man had but slight
chance of recovery owing to his age,
Mcdonald being 60 years old. Nc
Donald lives at 324 West Ninth street,
Glendale, but has managed the flower
stand at Seventh and Hill streets for
many years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
UNMUZZLED CANNES
IN DANGER OF DEATH
All Loose Dogs Without ENGAGED
Heads May Be Shot or Inn
pounded Under New
Ordinance

Beginning today all dogs in the
city of Los Angeles must be either
muzzled or kept on private property.
Ii a policeman or humane officer
finds a dog running around the
streets from now on he will either
take the animal to the city pound or
else shoot him where he is found.
According to the ordinance passed
by the city council and signed by
Mayor Alexander Friday, it makes
no difference whether the owner of
the dog has paid a license for his
canine or not. If the owner allows
it to run the streets, a menace to the
public safety, he forfeits all rights to
the animal.
Dogs confined on private property
will, of course, not be molested if
they are not muzzled. The muzzling
ordinance stipulates that if dog own
ers can keep their animals at home
where they can do no damage to
people or to other dogs, they do not
have to keep them muzzled. 1t is
only when in public that the muzzle
must be put on.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
GOLDBERG OUT
OF CALIFORNIA
SPOKANE MAN BEYOND JURIS-
DICTION OF STATE COURTS
EFFORT AGAINST HIS ExTRADl-
TloN FRUSTRATED
Prisoner Was involved in Number
of Interesting Incidents in
Los Angeles Growing
Out of Arrest

A. J. Goldberg. the Spokane saloon
man whose determined fight to pre-
vent being extradited from Los An
geles to answer the charge of embeZ-
zling a carload of beer attracted good
deal of attention here, passed over the
line into Oregon yesterday afternoon
and is now beyond the jurisdiction or
the California courts.
At last reports Goldberg was on
board a steamer which would not
touch before reaching Vancouver, b..
c., but a telegram was received yes
terday afternoon at o'clock saying
that he was on a Southern Pacific
train which would leave Dunsmuir, the
last station in California, at 4:30.
A strenuous effort was made by A.
j. Guilt and p. Cowan, Los Angeles
friends of Goldberg, to have the pris-
oner taken off the train at Dunsmuir,
but United States Marshal Young
worth could not be found and b. II.
Franklin. his chief deputy, said that
as the papers last issued had not been
served nothing could be done from
this end.
The case attracted considerable at
tention in Los Angeles. A misunder-
standing growing out of a habeas
corpus hearing resulted in the accused
being taken away from G. f.. Long, q
deputy sheriff from Spokane, at Bur
bank and brought back to Los Angeles
Later Goldberg was taken into GUS
tody and the writ of habeas corpus
denied by Superior Court Judge Davis.
The prisoner then was taken in Gus
tody by Long. The attorneys for
Goldberg then took up the matter with
the federal authorities, and Judge
Wellborn of the federal court issued
writ of habeas corpus, returnable
Friday morning. Before the papers
could be served the prisoner in the
charge of Deputy Sheriff Long and De-
tective George Home had left Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
POSTAL COMPANY
MAKES NEW RATE
Follows Example of Western Union
in Changing Night Charges.
Merger Talk is
Denied

Following the announcement yes
terday of the night letter service to
be inaugurated by the Western Union
Telegraph company, V. V. Stevenson,
Los Angeles manager of the Postal
Telegraph Gable company, announces
that commencing tonight the latter
company also will institute a similar
service.
Under the new Postal rate the
charge for fifty words or less will be
the regular day rate for a ten-word
message. No code or cipher messages
will be accepted under this rate, which
will apply to messages transmitted at
night for delivery on the morning of
the next day.
The Postal Telegraph company cou
Piles the announcement with a repeti-
tion of the statement recently made
by President Clarence H. Mackay, to
the effect that the company has al
ways been independent, and has no
intention of entering into any combi
nation with the Western Union and
Bell Telephone companies and that it
intends to maintain active and ag-
gressive competition In the telegraph
field.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
MEXICAN ZINC PRODUCERS
WILL SHIP ORE TO EUROPE
Railroad Rates and Overtures from
German Shippers Responsible
for Neglect of Market

Ell PASO, Tex. March 6.-That the
zinc mills of northern Mexico will ship
their ores to Europe, principally to
Germany in the future is the state
ment of Leonard Worcester of Chi
huahua, who is the leading buyer of
zinc products in the northern part of
the republic.
Representatives of the German gov
ernment recently sent agents to inves-
tigate the zinc ores of Mexico and
later offered inducements to shippers,
while the National Railways of Mexico
reduced the rates on zinc ores to Tam
pico and increased the rates to the
United States border. The increase in
duties under the new rules of classifi-
cation has had much to do with the
falling off in ore shipments to this
country.
The Potosi company of Santa Eulalia
and the Calera company of Minaca
will, Mr.. Worcester says, continue to
ship their ores to the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
F0UNT, BOUGHT WITH
PENITENT'S MONEY IS
RECEIVED BY MAYOR

A modern drinking fountain, pur-
chased with the $50 conscience money
recently received by Mayor Alexander
from an unknown person who said he
had taken the money from a patient at
the county hospital, has come and Is
soon to be installed in the court in front
of the tuberculosis pavilion at the hos
pitaI.
The letter received by Mayor Alexan-
der accompanying the money stated that
the sender had taken S35 from some pa
tient whose name was not given, and
that the extra SIS was added to help
In the cOnscience-easing process. It also
asked that the sum be spent for the
benefit of county hospital patients.
Mayor Alexander turned the money
over to DIR. Barber. superintendent of
the county hospital, and DIR. Barber was
Immediately struck with the Idea of
purchasing drinking fountain. A BOs-
ton firm was told all of the circum-
stances and sent fountain, the cost of
which Is considerably over $50.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
YOUTHFUL M0T0RCYCLERS
ARRESTED; SPEED CHARGED
Police Chase Three Flyers, Then Call
Halt-Boy on Rear of Tam
dem Released

Three scions of we'll known fami-
lies were brought to police headquar-
ters last night by Patrolmen Coe and
Humphrey of the speed squad" when
VIII Eechoff, Pasadena; G. f. Lewis.
Ocean Park, and Carlton Kinney, son
of Abbot Kinney, Venice, were arrest
ed charged with violating the motor
cycle speed ordinance.
The trio was arrested in West Pico
street, after the patrolmen followed
the machines and estimated their
speed.
At police headquarters young Kin
ney, who is but IA years old, was re-
leased, as he was able to prove he
was riding on the rear seat of the
tandem motorcycle operated by Lewis
and did not have an opportunity to
regulate the speed.
AS Eiechoff and Lewis could not
furnish the required bail they we're
sent to the county Jail, both b(6g un-
der 18 years of age.
The youths explained they were try
ing out motorcycles and were in a
friendly race, when the officers of the
motorcycle squad caused their arrests.
Word was sent to Pasadena and Ocean
Park and bail placed, The youths will
appear in police court this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
COLONISTS ARE OUT
LOOKING FOR HOMES
Many Visitors Arrive, But Immediate
ly Continue on to Rural
Districts

Colonists and tourists are continuing
to arrived in Los Angeles, every train
from the east bringing many. 1t is
estimated that nearly 250 arrived yes
terday. The railroads report very lit
tie decrease in the demands for trans
portation to California in the east,
and it is probable that the steady flow
of newcomers will continue for some
time.
The colonists, as soon as they ar
rive, scatter to the rural districts and
do not stop in the city, according to
j. S. Mitchell of the Hollenbeck hotel.
"You will never find the real colo
nists around the hotels of this city,"
he said yesterday. Although there
are many in town today, will venture
to say that you will find few of them
registered at a hotel. The colonist
knows just where he is going before
he comes to Southern California and
when he arrives here he goes to the
place he has picked out beforehand
and wastes no time about it,"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
HARRISON IS SELECTED
FOR Remainder OF TERM
Postmasters' Association Chooses Him
as Its Head to Succeed
M. II. Flint

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.-Post-
master William H. Harrison of Los
Angeles, was chosen president of the
California Postmasters' association at
meeting of the executive committee
of the organization today, vice Motley
H. Flint
The new president will hold office
for the remainder of the term which
expires at the convention to be held
in Santa Cruz on June IA, 10 and 16.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
DEEM OPERATION USELESS

William Seuling of San Francisco,
an employe of the California Herb
company, who sustained fracture of
the base of the skull when thrown
from horse Thursday afternoon, is
not expected to live by the physicians
at the county hospital. Late last
night he was in an unconscious con-
dition and it was deemed useless to
perform an operation. When Seuling
was taken to the receiving hospital it
was reported that his injury was not
serious.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
HOTEL NOTES

Milton Bulkley, member of the firm
of Henshaw g. Bulkley manufacturers
of machinery, San Francisco, is a
guest at the Van Nuys.
Joseph Blethen, managing editor of
the Seattle Daily and Sunday Times,
and wife are guests at the VAN Nuys
hotel
K. McLachlin, prominent lumber
dealer of ottawa, Canada, is stopping
at the Van Nuys hotel
e. M. GLADDEN., prominent merchant
of Boston, and his wife are guests at
the Hayward hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. V. Horne, tourists
from Japan. are stopping at the Alex
andria hotel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
Seven Bodies Removed

SEATTLE, March 6.-The bodies of
seven wellington avalanche victims
were brought to Seattle tonight.
Among them were those of R. M.
Barnhart of Spokane, Mrs. M. A. Gov
ington Of Olympia, e. w, Topping Of
Ashland, Ore, and Miss Nellie SHARP
of Spokane.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
ANOTHER RECORD

Bacon-I see a male giraffe was born at the
circus winter quarters Bridgeport, Conn, the
other day.
Egbert-Yes, and hear it is the first ever
born in captivity.
mo wonder he holds his head hight
Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
TRAIN DISPATCHER KILLED

SPOKANE Wash, March 6.-Henry
Meyers, chief dispatcher for the Nor
thern Pacific railroad here, was killed
early this morning while coupling cars
in the yards in front of the depot. His
body was caught between the bump
ers of two passenger cars
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07
AETER ALIGHT

do you know said the man who had
caught the anchor rope of the cigar-shaped
dirigible balloon, II thought you had a big
cigar up there?
And that's why you wanted to help me to
a-light, l suppose?' answered the aeronaut.-
Yonkers Statesman