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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-18
Fatal Runaway Accident

Meridian, October H.-(Special-)-Mrs Ollie Smith and little son were thrown from a buggy this afternoon and both were dangerously and probably fatally injured. Mrs. Smith sustained a broken hip and internal injuries and her son, unconscious several hours, was thought to have received bad internal injuries. A shaft of the buggy became detached, causing the vehicle to turn over whils going ct q fact pecA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-18
STORM REACHES TAMPA
 AND CAUSES GREAT LOSS
Key west Is Cut or From All Com- muncation and It Is Feared That the Losses There Will Be
 Very Heavy
STORM HITS TAMPA

Tampa, Fla, October IS. 2:2o a. m.-The West Indian storm is now tearing through Tampa streets at the rate of 50 miles an hour. The wind seems to be swirling from the northwest, indi- eating that the storm proper Is passing to the southward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-18
Edna Loftus Arrested

San Francisco. October 17.-On a charge of having defrauded chauffeur Edna Loftus, the actress who married Harry Rhinestrom, son of a millionaire Cincin- nati brewer, was arrested here today. She gave the name of Molly Wilson when placed under arrest and not until she had been In custody several hours was Asu Identity eotebsishs4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-18
Farmer,. Union Man Dead

Beebe, Ark, October H.-R. H. McCul- loRh, former national secretary of the Farmers union. died at his home here late today, aged 61 years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-18

ing but 1t can only communicate with the ships within the harbor One of these is the Alamo of the Mallory line, She is anchored just inside the first key and repopta wind of 70 miles an hour with torrinn anna.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
Passing of Faithful Scotch

cabins of Longs Peak inn. where go
the climbers to begin the ascent.
OF this little rustic inn Scotch was
no less the host than his master. He
welcomed the coming and sped the
parting guest. He escorted the CHIMP
ers to the trail up the peak. He re-
ceived the returning fishermen. he
kent the burros on the other side OF
the brook, He stood between the coy
ote and the inhabitants OF the chicken
yard. He played football with the
guests after dinner.
In short, Scotch was the busiest per-
son about the inn from morning till
night. He understood everything you
said to him-if you talked sense-and
If YOU id not understand what he said
to YOU 1t was because you were not
so accomplished a lingulst as his mas
ter.
No matter how dogmatically the "in-
stinct'' school of scientists may assert
I, Mt animals do not reason. Scotch had
a mind of lis own and used it-as any
one ould see who had eyes cata-
logue of his exploits would fill book.
For example, when Scotch was but
yea. old a pack of coyotes made his
life miserable. He went fifteen miles
and brought back another collie. Tnat
afternoon the two dogs played as neat
a game on the coyotes as ever was
seen and Taught them lesson for all
time. That night the visiting collie
returned home.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
King Georges Love Story

This. according to writer in the
Boston Transcript. is the early ro-
nance of King Georges life:
When, as a petty officer in the navy,
Prince George was stationed in Malta
he and Admiral Seymour's daughter
fell in love with each other. His older
brother was living, so that he was not
the heir to the throne who is forbidden
by law to marry woman below a GER
tain rank. The young people did noth-
ing clandestine. The affair went on
under the eye of her father, and my
informant, an English woman, WIDOW
of a physician whose lifelong friend
was one of the royal physicians, VINO
told her and her husband the story,
said the admiral was present at the
ceremony of marriage. Time passed
and no trouble was made for the PAIR.
Two children were born; then the
storm broke The duke of Clarence
died. The girl Prince George had mar
ried could not be the wife in any de-
gree of the heir to the throne, whlch
Prince George had become. Ihe tale
relates how desperately he held OUT IN
the family council, how his mother
sympathized and stood by him. his
uncle. the duke of Cambridge, had
married in the same way and peen
happy, but he had never become prince
of Wales. 4,,o
"The argument used of course by tine
he,r,s grandmother and father was that
the Young princes life was not only
his own. like that of other men; 1t be
ionged to the nation. The end OF the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

long struggle was that Prince George
insisted that this double duty of his,
toward the obligations he had already
assumed as a man on the one hand,
and that to which fate had assigned
him as the father of Englands future
kings on the other, should hoth be ac-
knowledged, distinct and equally rec
ognized Unless the woman he nad
made his wife by every law In MS
power was allowed to come TO Eng
land and live, where he could see her,
he would not agree to the state mar
riare which was urged as a necessity
for the country. This was finally
agreed to- but the broken-hearted GIRL
over whom the fight had been made,
was taken i'll and quick consumption
seized upon her as soon as she arrived
in england. on the occasion of Queen
Victoria's funeral her grandson, the
heir to the throne, was not present.
IT was given out that he was Ill with
mild form of contagious dlsease'
which prevented him from seeing any
one but his doctor and nurse. inc
truth was that the woman ne loVeu
was dying and he would not leave ner:
This is King Georges tragedy ot
how many kings in all history can SO
pure a love story be told?'
It is but proper to say that this story
Is denied by British periodicals and mas
even been semi officially denied by q
high church ecclesiastic. At the same
time Ii persists and inasmuch as the
ladv Is clearly identified 1t would seem
to be easy to establish the truth or
falsity of the tale.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

The tho, .nds who will visit Estes
mark In the Colorado Rockies this sum
mer will not see Faithful Scotch" For
this famous collie of a famous master
has gone where the good dogs go, says
an editorial in the Chicago inter
Ocean. .sonaI
loss to those who had the prlNheSe -
his intimate acquaintance. IL win pe
known with regret by the tnousahos
who have met him, for to see MIN M was
to admire and to remember MN. Inc
hundreds of thousands who nave
heard of him and read of him Will De
sorrv--if only for his masters sake.
Scotch's master-or rather the Irieho
and companion whom he worshlpeu-ls
Enos A. Mills, known in this country
and abroad as the guide to Long $
peak, nature student and enthusiast
government lecturer on forest presef-
yation and author of wild Lie on
the Rockies"-of which one or the
chapters not least interesting is oe-
voted to the doings of "Faithfui
Scotch" e. o1
Mountain climbers come from all
over the world to ascend Longs peak,
a picturesque mountain of over 14'VoV
feet. lust this side of the Contlnehtai
divide Mr.. Mills has been the guide
of this mountain for more thah twenty
vaars and out of the situation nave
grown the little rustic hotel ana ios
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
FITCH'o ESSAY WINS PRIZE
ON THE FOURTH DIMENSION

Editor Herald: I would like to sub
NIT the following extracts from Lieu
tenant Colonel Graham DENLY Fitch's
prize essay on the fourth dimension,
which can be found in the Scientific
American, July 3, 1909:
1T is impossible to form a mental
picture of the fourth dimension. Never
theless it is not an absurdity, but a
useful mathematical concept with a
we'll developed geometry involving no
contradictions.
Has hyperspace a real physical eX-
istence? If so, our universe must have
a small thickness in the fourth dimen-
sion, otherwise like the geometrical
plane assumed to be without thick
ness, our world, too, would be a mere
abstraction (as indeed some idealistic
philosophers have maintained), that is,
nothing but "a shadow cast by a more
rea! four -dimensional world The real
existence of a slight extension in the
fourth dimension would moreover,
simplify certain scientific theories.
"Hyperspace has been brought some
what in disrepute because spiritualists
have assumed its existence in order to
give "a local habitation' to their Vagar-
les. Nevertheless, the possibility of it's
existence has not yet been shown to
be inconsistent with any scientific
fact and the limitation of space to the
three dimensions, though possibly cor
rect, is therefore purely empirical"
j. ID. ID.
Los Angeles, June 90
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

The town of Pasadena is engaged
in civil war with the Edison light ana
power company and rates are cut to
the bone The city has munieipal
lighting plant and Its installation was
met by progressive cuts In rates as
the war grew more and more intiamed.
The city, of course, met the successive
cuts made by the corporation and in
some cases took the initiative. The re-
suit has been that the light and power
consumers of Pasadena are getting
electric current for one-third of the old
price, and even further reductions VIII
be made by a schedule to go into effect
on September /.
Before the municipal plant was in
stalled the Edison company charged
10 cents per klowatt hour. After bonds
were voted to build the municipal plant
the corporation reduced rates to 1919
cents per hour and endeavored to Sc
cure as many long time contracts as
possible at the reduced rate. The mu-
niclpal plant began operations with an
8 cent rate. The company met this
with a lower rate and finally came
down to cents an hour as against the
municipal rate of cents an hour. Now
the city has made a schedule to go into
effect on September by which the first
100 kilowatt hours will pay at the rate
of cents an hour and consumers of
large quantities will get lower rates
dow to cents an hour for 1000 hours.
The citizens ar evidently determined
to fight 1t out to the last ditch. If they
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
Cost of Electric Light in Pasadena
tsan Francisco eall9.

persist they must eventually win. They
have enacted ordinances forbidding
In rates and prohibiting
the restoration of q rnte once reduced
for purposes of competition.
The war is instructive for the spec
tators and will give US some useful
light on the actual cost of furnishing
electric current In considerable guam
titles. There Is no doubt In the world
that San Francisco consumers are
monstrously overcharged on this ac-
count. The history of Pasadena elec-
tric light war should be obtained for
municipal use In this city The Edison
company declares that cents an hour
is below cost of production. The city
replies with the following figures:
The gross income. of the city's
lighting plant for the six months
preceding May /. 1910, was S4S,4S9.22.
The operating expense was $22,-
479.54. The principal and interest
due on the city lighting bonds for
the same period was $9271.S6.
There was a balance of S11,737.-
so to apply on depreciation or new
construction.
Total cost of the city plant to
date is in the neighborhood of $406,-
600. The power plant represents
$151 900 of this.
II this bookkeeping states all the
facts 1t is evident that the municipality
is not losing money while the con-
sumers are profung to the extent OF
two-thirds of their light bills.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
THROWING UP DUST

A LOCAL evening paper that Is sup
II porting Doc Houghton for cleo
"a tiOn to the city council and for
some strange and inconsistent reason
is against his partner. Barney Healy,
has raised the cry that George H
Stewart has been closely affiliated
with corporations" and is therefore not
to be trusted as servant of the whole
people.
Don't believe any such stuff 1t is
dust thrown up by the opposition in
an endeayor to cover their Interior
purpose in trying to get wedge in
for the old push Mayor Alexander
has personally vouched for George H.
Stewart and Frederick j. Whiffen, and
has asked that these men be sent to the
council TO aid him in making the cor
porations obey the law and pay their
share of the public burdens
When he was Honest George" the
county supervisor, and was making
these corporations do the right thing,
he had no warmer and more effective
supporters than the same stewart and
Whiffen. He has recently borne public
testimony to that fact. What better
disproof of corporation influence over
either of them could be had?
And what better evidence that the
Houghton defended by his newspaper
supporter as having done wrong but
grown wiser and honester is & corpo-
ration man than the fact Of public
record that he with Barney Healy,
voted when a councilman to give away
absolutely without compensation ito
the city)-the river bed that is worth
at the least estimate a million dollars?
If there was any difference in the
betrayal of trust on the part of these
two men, Houghton's -offense was the
worse; for after voting right at first
he deliberately changed his vote and
tried to put through what only an
aroused people prevented from being a
gigantic steal.
The newspaper that defends Hough-
ton must defend Healy They are both
tarred with the same stick, and no citi-
zen who wants honest and square deal
government will shut his eyes to the
marks on one and regard the marks on
the other
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
MUST HANG TOGETHER
OR HANG SEPARATELY

Editor Herald; I'VE must either hang
together or hang separately is the
slogan of the utility companies. The
city of Philadelphia, where the great
est grating has prevailed, has the
highest rate of any city in the United
States. The most prominent advocate
of the present rate is indirectly the
greatest beneficiary. 1t is admitted
that where plant can sell its pro-
duct in large quantities the cost of
production is reduced Where a day
load is secured, as in Los Angeles, the
price may be reduced with profit.
Azusa, a little city furnished cleo
tricity for IL cents per kilowatt hour
and was making too much money, so
at the request of the citizens the coun-
ell reduced the rate to cents, and
now second reduction, l am told, is
contemplated as there is still too large
a surplus to look after the bonds and
interest of the city municipal plant.
Whittier is charged 1871 cents by a
rich corporation, growing fabulously
rich, for what Azusa, smaller city,
gets for 8 cents, and Pasadena, a
larger city, gets for cents.
Barring graft, Los Angeles, when
the electric companies pay their pro-
portionate share for electrical energy,
will be able to furnish her citizens
with light for cents and make a large
profit. NJ. G. McCASLIN.
Whittier, June %.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
HERRIN MAPPING

rs Boss Herrin of the Southern Pa
cific machine asleep at the switch?
= There were signs at the time Of
his visit to Los Angeles a fortnight
ago of a lack of coordination between
him and Walter Parker. A second evil
denee of a lapse on his part so soon
after may we'll cause a query as to
what has happened. Has Hiram john
son got on his nerves to an extent
that has unsettled his judgment and
skill? How else can we account for
what happened at the meeting of the
Republican state central committee in
San Francisco the other day, when
one of the insurgent members put in
this resolution:
Resolved that this Republican
state central committee hereby re-
pudiates the influence heretofore eX-
ercised by the political bureau of
the Southern Pacific company in the
councils of the party and in the
government of the state, and calls
upon all candidates for Republican
nominations to declare unequivocal-
ly their opposition to this influence
and their purpose, if elected, by
all means In their power 10 re-
move it from further influence in
the politics and government of Cali
fornia.
OF course the chairman, who was
straight Southern Pacific man, did not
let the bomb get any further. He
stepped on the fuse by declaring it
"out of order" But how did it happen
that the thing was introduced in the
meeting? Herrin must have lost his
cunning to permit such a thing to
happen. Time was when all such
things, even down to the smallest de-
tails, were kept well in hand in the
state committee. Some means were al
ways found to make the program go
through smoothly. At this meeting the
Southern Pacific was in control for
there was voted an Endorsement of
Taft and the Aldrch tariff and de-
nunciation of the insurgents. And yet
this awkward thing was permitted to
happen
Has the old man gone to seed? Or,
in the homely phraseology of the street,
has Hiram Johnson got his goat?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
Club News

Memhers of the Los Angeles district
executive board and guests from sew
eral other clubs were entertainer
Tuesday by the san Pedro woman >
club at the South Coast Yacht clup
house. Immediately after luncheoh
Mrs. C. G. Robinson, president OF the
club. introduced Mrs. Richard quinn
as toastmistress. Mrs. Quinn described
.,the house that Jill built in cleverly
,vrit+en verse and then called on Mrs.
p G. Dupuy to describe the duties OF
the architect. Mrs. V. A. Goodrlch
discussed the lighting problems IN
house and Mrs. j. r. Dudley descrlpeu
the artistic effects which may be oD-
tanned in an entrance. Inc MUSIC
room. dining room and Kitchen WGre
treated respectively by Mrs u w
Grigg, Mrs. H. N. stone ana Mfs; ";
n Seward. while Mrs. w. IL. Abel
,ad for her subject the stairs ana
Ms II w. Reynolds that ali impor-
tant subject, the roof. These re-
snnnses were all il metrical form.
After the luncheon the club was called
70 order and a building site presented
nv Mrs. r. Dodson to the clup was
accepted. The location is at the corner
of Thirteenth and Georgia streets ana
was one of three lOCdliOiio piASiNA 49,
the use of the club.
Mrs. w. II. Baurhyte spoke OF the
maternity cottage in Utah street ana
of the district federation work. Mu-
steal numbers by Miss Amy and sew
eral readings by Mrs. w. b. Julian
of Long Beach concluded the enjoy
able program. Two new officers were
installed-Mrs. II. N. stone, who VIII
take the presidents chair, and Mrs.
r. w. Reynolds, the secretary.
The social section of the Crescent
Bay Woman's club will hold an aue-
tion of marine water color sketches
and china paintings next Monday
evening at the Masonic temple. En-
tertainment will be furnished by the
members of the club and their friends
are invited to attend.
Members of the California Congress
of Mothers will hold a special meeting
at Echo park July to listen to reports
from those delegates who attended the
DeHver convention. The Los Angeles
Federation of Parent-Teacher associa-
tions will give a luncheon for the
members of the state federation and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
THE REAL ANARCHIST

nFRHAPS in the rush Tuesday
/ morning you did not happen to
notice this part Of speech made
by City Prosecutor Guy Eddie at a
rally on Moneta avenue Monday night:
An official of one of the leading
corporations of Los Angeles cane
into my office week ago, and after
lengthy argument informed me
that it was the intention of his
corporation to ignore a certain or
dinanco which he considered mimi
cal to the best interests of his COM
pany. What do we care for your
laws if they stand in our way of
success and mean a loss of thou
sands of dollars to us?' this man
actually said to me.
Mr. Eddie would not have made such
a statement if it were not true. In
the light of the conduct of arrogant
corporations in and out of California
during the past few years, is it not
very reasonable without being vouched
for by city official? What does the
citizen who obeys the law because it
is right and necessary think of such an
Some of the corpora ton managers
in recent years have gone so far as to
call those who sought to curb their
on others rights anar-
chlsts. But who are the real anarchists
the people who agitate for fair play
to all or the corporations who obey
only such laws as do not interfere with
their money-making?
If the corporations ever get control
again of the Los Angeles city govern
ment you may have TO obey the laws,
but will they?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
OFFERS WARRlNG FACTIONS
FREE BOOKLET ON RELIGION

Editor Herald: Reading daily in The
Herald the views exchanged among
Christians, unitarians, agnostics and
atheists, l. was inspired to collect q
few OF my original sayings and place
them in booklet form for the better
ment of the religionist and the general
laity.
This little book is not to be criti-
csed, for no mans opinion on a re-
ligious subject amounts to the snap of
the finger unless based on absolute
loVe--God-nature.
Realizing all religious writings
should not be merchandised | offer my
Humanitarian Philosophy" free for
the asking and kindly ask those in
terested to enclose 2 cent postage
stamp for postage. e. e. KUSEL,
500 South Broadway.
Los Angeles, June 21.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
Merely in Jest
THE AUTOMOBILE WARD

F. H. Elliot, secretary of the Ameri-
can Automobile association, was dis
cussing at dinner in New York the
automobilists we'll known enthusiasm:
"A friend of mine,' he said, visited
recently the automobile ward of lun-
attic asylum. They have, you know
automobile wards, now.
"It was large, airy room, and along
the wall were ranged some two dozen
cots; but of the inmates not trace
was to be seen.
But where are inmates?' my friend
asked the physician.
The inmates? was the reply. oh,
they're all here. They're under the
beds tinkering with the springs. -
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
Music Notes

The Musical Salon, the only mixed
chorus in the city. will give a concert
at the Gamut club June 80 under the
direction of Joseph Dupuy.
Los Angeles Conservatory of Music
gave complimentary gold medal
piano recital last night at Symphony
hall for Miss Ethel Vredda Fillmore.
Her numbers included Beethoven
Sonata op. 27, MY Heart Ever Faith
full" Bach symphonic transc, by AL
bert Lavignac; Polka de la Refine, Raft;
Scherzo, Mendelssohn Am Nicer, Schu-
bert-Liszt; Pan, Goddard; Rondo Bril-
liant, Mendelssohn, with the second
piano accompaniment by Miss Street.
Mrs. Inez Pedlar, contralto, and
Miss Margaret Neveda Hays, soprano,
assisted with vocal solos and duets.
The intermediate certificate concert
of this same school will be held Fri
day afternoon at Mckinley hall, Walk
er theater building, with a program
given by pupils from piano, violin,
mandolin, guitar and oratory depart
ments
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
THE NEGLECTFUL COOK

At Sunday dinner the other day
little fellow was picking the drum
sticks of a chicken and swallowed one
of the tendons. After much difficulty
it was removed from his throat, when
ne looked up and said:
"Oh, mamma, it wasn't the chick
abiddy's fault; it was because cook
forgot to take off its garters. The
DelineatOr
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

Since 1887 more than a million di-
vorces have been granted in this coun-
Try. Let that sociological fact sink
down into your consciousness and the
divorce question won't seem so trivial
as it has come TO be through being
commonplace.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

Did you ever hear of the Collegiate
Church of ST. Peter, Westminster?
Probably not, by that name. But you
may have heard it called Westminster
abbey. We get the tip from an Eng
lish journel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

This is the resolution that the church
people should have passed: "Resolved,
that we congratulate ourselves that by
our persistency we compelled our chief
executive to take a stand for decency,"
etc, etc.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
HIS VIEW OF THE MATTER

Joseph" said his mother, reproving-
ly. 81 should think you'd be ashamed
to be in the same class with boys so
much smaller than yourself"
We'll. mother" replied Joe, II look
upon the matter in a different way al
together 1t makes me feel fine to see
how proud the small boys are to be in
the class with a big boy like me. =
The Delineator.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

]. Pierpont Morgan may start
string of hotels. Walters tips are
about the only source of big revenue
that Pierp hasn't brought into sub
lection.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23

One railroad declared an extra divi-
dend of per cent the other day and
another moved up from 21a to 4. Thus
is our reckless legislation, together
with low freight rates, working ruin
for the poor transportation companies.