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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
PUBLIC BENEFAcTIoNs OF 1909

The donations for charity, philanthropy, and education for the year just closed reached the stupendous total of $l41, ,250,000. This is an ex- cess over 1908 of $40,000,G00, and goes to show that human sympathy is still great. Of the total, about one-third is for educational work.
 John $. Kennedy, the New. York banker who died several months ago, leads the list with $26, 550,000, John D. Rockefeller comes next with $12,852000, and Andrew Carnegie is third with $6,$56,0O0. Fully dozen others gave a million or more The fight on tuberculosis was responsi- ble for some large donations, while the colleges fared about as well as in the previous year.
 The total amount given for public benefit in the last seventeen years is more than billion dollars. This is a sum almost beyond the power of the mind to grasp It means that not all our millionaires are selfish in their pursuit of the nimble dollar
 Concentration of wealth may not be for the best interests of the masses, but when there is distribution for the public good, it often proves a boon to mankind. If the world is not growing better, we can at least conclude that it is not growing worse.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

the express company recently issued an extra dividend of 300 per cent.
 York to Chicago is SIS. A 200 pound passenger is thus carried 1000 miles at rate of cents a pound, while the railroads are charging the government cents a pound for hauling news papers 291 miles, and mailbags do not have seats, aisles, and other conveniences- of air, light and space.
 A postal fact not generally known as yet is that foreigners can use our mails at a lower rate than Americans On March 9 last President Taft confirmed postal conventions with Italy, Germany and Austria, under which the people of those countries are enabled to send merchan- disc to the United States at these rates:
 From Italy, II pounds for 79 cents.
 From Germany, II pounds for S1 cents.
 From Austria, II pounds for S6 cents.
 The arrangement thus permits an Italian to send a pound of merchandise from Rome to San Francisco at far lower rate than 1t would cost an American to send pound to a resident of his nearest ueighboring city. The merchan- lise rate from Berlin to any point in the United States is F cents pound, and the rate from New York to Brooklyn, or between any other wo points in the United States is 16 cents a bound parcels weighing more than four pounds not being acceptable unless addressed to foreign countries.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
Hts Idea

Whats your notion for running a newspa- per!'
 ''I'd go the New York papers one better l wouldn't have anything whatever on the front page but the headlines y
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
i Close LmjtatioR

"These mechanical toys are very Iifelike'' ''How now?'
 ''Johnny's $ automobile has run down the eat and knocked the sawdust out of two dolls. :"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
Other Interests

Just a word, my dear" "Yes?''
 Cant l interest you in votes for women?' Not until after I get my winter furs."
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

Curiously enough, many drug store shelves lately decorated with Christmas articles now present most interesting arrays of castor oil, paragoric, painkilers and nervine
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
Doiag Ills Best

"Have you forgotten that $10 you owe mea' "Not at all. Didn't you see me try to dodge into that doorway?"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
Tue Careful Ldryer
a little legal information. :"

''I want little legal information "Go ahead'
 'lf an automobile runs over man, whose fault is it, the pedestrians or the driver's!" 'One moment. Were you in the automobile or in the street?'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

With all his willingness to be accommodating, the president probably will not now undertake to explain what is democrat
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
MORNING SMILES
The Coutrdrg Chad

"How unreasonable baby is!'
 "How?''
 According to the thermometer, the water is just right, and yet he persists in turning blue. "
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

Well, the north pole row has served to teach you many interesting things, anyway. For in stance, we now know that ''iglooish,' is Eskimo for 'Bostonesque
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
Ample Returns

That's right. I always get dollars worth of satisfaction out of every nickel give''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
OUR AGRICULTURAL WEALTH

Probably no other decade can compare with that ending with 1909 in the extraordinary rate at which agricultural wealth has increased The next census will show an enormous advance in land values. Meanwhile estimated vaIues of farm products year by year may be compared to show the increase in that item of rural wealth The facts for 1899 and 1909 indicate that in ten intervening years the value Of farm products increased by $4,043,000000, or 8 per cent
 'Yalue of farm products 1909$7, 760000,000 Value of farm products 1899 -.-- 3,7fa000,000 increase in ten years, s per cent S4, ,043000,000
 This remarkable advance may be compared with the growth of wealth in the United State. IS a whole. The nearest period of comparison is for nine years between 1900 and 1909. On somewhat les detailed estimates, which are not so reliable as these of the department of agri- culture, the country wealth i'll these nine years reached $120,000,0 ,000000, an increase of $31,- 4S30O0,O0 or , percent.
 Nothing nl 9 fattering to producers of rural wealth could be desired. Not all this was, how ever, the results of labor on the land In fact very considerable proportion of increase in value of farm products has come from growth If population other than rural, by creating all ever-enlarging demand for products of the farm With the building of railroads, the enlargement of cities, and the demand for products of farm and forest has come a steady enhancement of rural wealth in all directions.
 In fifteen years, between the depression of 1924 in farm prices and the maximum prices of 1909, the value of farm lands may easily have doubled. What economists call the sunearned increment" is the product quite as truly of the progress of industry outside the farm as the re suit of labor and capital spent upon it. These colossal figures are the fruit, not so much of isolated effort as of co-operatice and collective industry.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

"A New York man has had twenty five maio, operations performed on his body within the past five years, says g news item We should think he would have fonnd one general opera ton more economical to say the least of it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

Congress is to investigate the high cost of Iiv- ing. By the time congress gets through inves- tigating, it probably will be so much higher that it will have to be investigated all over again.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
The Real Users

"Well, his uncles and his father must be amused"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06
4 Familiar Rind

"What sort of man is heg''
 "Well, he hunts for trouble, and then says it's an outrage when trouble grabs him. y
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

Is gold curseH inquiries the Macon Tele- graph. How is the patient accustomed only to homeopathic treatment to know?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

"A rich Georgian is said to be on his way to New York with a bunch of money to show the natives few wrinkles in the art of spending, '' says the Savannah~News. He will find plenty of people ''from Missouri in that bnrg- willing and anxious to be shown even though there may be nothing particularly new that they may be shown in this Georgian $ philosophy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

The sleet and snow have killed millions of poll weevis in Texas" says the Chattanooga Times. That may be true, but boil weevils grow oy the billions in Texas, of course and not mere ly by the measly millions, as in other unimport- mt states. At least that we apprehend, is the view the Houston Post will take.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-06

The Silver Belt has larger paid cir culation than any daily newspaper in the world published in city with l2,OOO or less population.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
JUVENILES WE'D WHEN
BOY ACCUMULATES S14
Youthful Bridegroom Wires His
Father I'm Yuma, Mar
ried and Starving

LONG BEACH, Oct. 17.-After hear
ing that her daughter, Pauline, aged IA
years, had eloped with Harry Bour-
land, aged II, to Yuma, Ariz.. where
they were married, Mrs. George b.
Mills a widow two weeks, said today
she would not send her daughter money
but would ask the authorities to take
charge Of her. Mrs. Mills this morning
went to Los Angeles to confer with
Bourland's father, to whom the youth
wired yesterday that he and the young
girl were 'in Yuma. married, and
starving"
Bourland, who was implicated in the
Burnett postoffice robbery three years
ago and was put on probation until he
was q years old. had been working
at a wilmington lumberyard for two
weeks, prior to the elopement, and had
saved up $14. This proved an insuffi-
cient amount to cover the expenses of
the honeymoon.
my sister had been keeping company
with Bourland for about year." said
another daughter of Mrs. Mills, today.
"For the last month or two they had
been pretty thick. We do not want
them to be left together and we think
he should be sent to the penitentiary.
Our father, George B. Mills, died Oc-
tober 1. My mother has not the means
to send money to these infant elopers''
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
DANNY T0BEY PREPARES
FOR WINTER BASEBALL

Danny Tobey, manager of the Ne
braska Indian ball team which tours
the middle west every year, arrived in
the city yesterday with Jack Smiley, a
local boy who was a member of the
team this year. Tobey reports most
successful season.
With Tobey's coming, plans for a
winter baseball team are expected to
mature rapidly, as Danny will lead the
Crown City club again this winter.
Whether or not Pasadena has a team
this winter depends entirely upon the
support accorded by the fans. If the
proper support is given, Tobey will
give the neighboring city "a team of
which it may well be proud.
Among his plans are the complete
renovation of the ball park, new uni
forms and the fastest team in Southern
California. "BilT' Fisher of Vernon
will captain the team and play first
base, while mickey" LaLonge and
"Bulger" Walsh, the old favorite of
the Crown City fans, will be members
of the club. The balance of the aggre-
CATION has not been selected, but Tobey
promises it will be composed of real
class. With the ball players who will
winter here this year it will not be
hard matter to pick some classy
artists.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
PASADENA RREVITIEs

PASADENA, Oct. 1S.-Another freak
burglary was reported to the police
yesterday by c. A. Helstrom, 800 North
Los Robles avenue. who is minus two
door mats bearing the word 'Wel-
come" He declares the burglar must
have taken the inscription literally.
Harry D. Pyle has retired from the
realty firm of AIlen-Pyle company
leaving the business to his partner, An
drew S. Allen.
A meeting of the Central w. c. T..
u will be held this afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock at the home of Mrs. ]. P. Eek
leen, TT East Walnut street. Mrs.
Mary C. Sampson. will give an Illus
trated address on her trip abroad.
In addition to other classes the
Young Women's Christian association
will inaugurate an evening class In
millinery and lecture courses on gym
nastics at the new headquarters, 7S
North Marengo avenue. The free serV-
ices Of a graduate nurse for consulta-
ton on Monday evenings will be pro-
vided for members.
Miss Richardson of San Diego will
deliver a lecture on 1.-THE Flag this
afternoon at 2:45 o'clock in the high
school auditorium.
The debating club of Pasadena high
school will hold a tryout debate this
evening after school to prepare MEM
bers for the interscholastic season.
Mrs. Ida Bell Smith, wife OF Prin-
cipal r. Ellsworth Smith of Grover
Cleveland school, died suddenly Sunday
night while her husband was reading
in an adjoining room. 1t has not been
determined whether death was due to
heart failure or suffocation during an
epileptic attack to which Mrs. Smith
was subject. Funeral arrangements
have not been announced
George A. Green of Pasadena and
South Pasadena died yesterday at the
age of 81 years. He had resided in this
vicinity for twenty-five years. He was
a charter member of the First Congre-
gational church and held numerous Of
fetal positions in the church. He was
a member of the board of school trus-
tees of South Pasadena at the time of
his death Funeral services will be
held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
from his late residence, Brent and OK
ley streets, South Pasadena.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
DAUGHTER OF POSTMASTER
TO WED STEAMER CAPTAIN

LONG BEACH, Oct. 17.-An inter
esting announcement was made today,
that of the engagement of Miss Ruby
Evangeline Hirsch, daughter of POST
master G. F. Hirsch and wife, and
Captain Thomas D. Mcfarland, son of
Captain Robert Mcfarland of Everett,
Wash, and captain of the steamship
Hanalei.
The groom-to-be recently went to
New York City, having been commits
stoned to bring around the Horn the
floating palaces, the Harvard and the
Yale, which are to be operated on this
coast.
1t is said that the wedding would
have taken place earlier and the young
couple would have enjoyed the 1900
mile trip around the Horn together
as their honeymoon, but for the in
exorable rule that no passengers would
be allowed on the big steamships.
The wedding will take place soon.
Miss Hirsch is native daughter, a
beautiful young woman and an ac-
complished musician. She Is popular
among a wide circle here, and a num-
ber of pre-nuptial affairs will be given
in her honor The announcement was
made at a dinner party given by MT
and Mrs. Hirsch at their home.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION
CHAMPIONSHIP IN MIDDLE

CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-The death of
Stanley Ketchel, the pugilist, at Spring.
field Mo-. Saturday, has precipitated
the middleweight division champion
ship into more or less of a muddle.
Four claimants stand out prominent
ly, and of these three have faced the
champion in the ring, while the fourth
would have the opportunity before long
had not KetehePs life been ended.
This last is Ed McGoorty, Of Oshkosh
The others are former Champion Billy
Papke. now in Australia; Frank Klaus,
of Pittsburg, and Hugo Kelly, of Chi
cago.
Papke claims the distinction from
the fact that he was one of the very
few that ever beat Ketchel. Papke
knocked him out in the twelfth round
of a bout at Los Angeles, two years
ago. This is the one decisive beating
the past champion suffered in his ca
reer, although he was down for the
count in his battle with Jack Johnson
at Colma, Cal. a year ago.
One of these claimants for the
championship will probably be elm
mated when Klaus and McGoorty meet
in their bout at Milwaukee, which was
scheduled for Friday night last, but
postponed on account of McGoorty's s
condition.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
THREE ANGELS WATCH
HOGAN GRAHAM FINAL
Frank Murphy, Bull ThorSen and
Kid Klein Are SpeCta-
tors at ChuteS

Three Angels, Left Fielder Frank
Murphy and Pitchers Thorsen and
Klein, viewed Mondays game from the
grand stand. Murphy is on the hos
pital list and has been in bed ever
since a week ago Sunday, when he was
sent back from San Francisco just be-
fore Los Angeles started on the Port
land invasion. Murphy is on the verge
of a nervous breakdown and has been
i'll all season, consequently has been
unable to play the game of which he
is capable when enjoying good health.
Monday was Franks first time out
since being taken i'll. He will not be
able to take part in this weeks games
and win probably be on the shelf FOR
the balance of the season. He Will
surely be missed by the Seraphs, as
Kennedy, the new man, is far from
being an experienced hand at league
baseball, having been picked up by
Dillon in the bushes around San Fran
cisco when Murphy retired.
Thorsen failed to make the north
ern trip on account of an injury to his
pitching shoulder which incapacltated
him for duty He has had good rest,
however, and expects to take his turn
in the box during the coming Angels
Vernon series.
Ask any baseDall fan what diamond
event, next to the worlds series, he is
taking real interest in, and he Cor she)
will invariably reply: "Why, the An
gels Vernon post-season series, of
course" From the moment the propo-
sition of playing a post-season series
of games between the two local clubs
was first broached the fans took up
the idea with a hurrah and it is safe
to say that some Of the biggest crowds
of the season will be on hand when
Hogan and Dillon lead their men on
the field for their final struggles of
the season. And woe be to the lump"
that thinks so little Of his personal
safety as to be the arbitrator in that
series. The contests will be for blood,
rules or no rules, and bull fighting
or prize fighting will fade away, as
comparison with the coming series of
so-called ball games would place them
in the bridge whist and pink tea class.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
CENSORSHIP DUTIES PRESS
PASADENA POLICE CHIEF
Moving Picture Ordinance I'm
poses Much Extra Work
in Keeping Records

PASADENA, Oct. 1S.-In his new
role of dramatic critic" or censor of
moving picture films, Chief of Police
Wood estimates that he will be re-
quired to spend at least six or seven
hours of each week passing on the
"entire change of program" at the two
local picture houses. In addition to
the work imposed upon the chief of
police by the city council there Will
be an extra amount of clerical work
necessary as a result of the city or
dinance recently passed.
Blanks twelve by twenty inches In
size have been printed to be filled out
and posted at the entrance of each
theater, describing by name and num-
ber each film which meets with the
approval of the censor. A record must
also be kept of films which are pro-
nounced as unfit to be shown in this
city. Record must be made of any
films which may be passed over the
censor's head, and in case there Is an
exchange of films q note must be
made of the fact.
There is an ironclad provision against
the exhibition of prizefight films or
anything that looks like "mill,' but
the chief of police is allowed reason
able scope in passing upon other
tsaofe
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
WANT ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR
CARMELITA PLAYGROUND
GrOWnupS to Play Ball at Night
on P;asadena's New Rec
reation Park

PASADENA, oct. 1S.-The matter Of
lighting Carmelita Fairgrounds at
night with "juice" from the municipal
light plant was brought before the city
commissioners yesterday and referred
to the Fairgrounds committee for in
vestigation Petitions asking for the
improvement were presented by the
Pasadena Athletic club, the Woodmen
of the World and the Maccabees, all of
whom have indoor baseball teams.
The argument was made that there
is no suitable place for business men
to meet for match games at night,
and 1t was pointed out that $3.50 would
cover the cost of installing sufficient
lights for an indoor baseball field. Sew
eral Of the commissioners expressed
themselves as favorable to the plan.
officers of the Y. M. G. A. and sew
eral church organizations are prepar-
ing petitions to be circulated asking
that the basketball field, the tennis
court and the handball court be lighted
at night. 1t is estimated that $3.50 will
cover the cost of installation for all
the fields and courts mentioned. Cur
rent from the city plant would be fur
nished at cost
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
BOY TRIES To BURROW
OUT OF RIVERSIDE JAIL
Arrested for Running Off with a
Motorcycle, Industrious Lad
Digs for His Freedom

RIVERSIDE, Oct. IA Los An
geles officer came down this evening
to get e. w. Johnson, who is charged
with stealing a motorcycle last Friday
from the Los Angeles Motorcycle COM
pany. johnson was arrested on his ar
rival from Elsinore at 9 o'clock last
night, after an exciting chase in which
Officer Wilson, on the city's motorbike,
overhauled the youth.
At 10 o'clock this morning, when
Chief of Police HARRISON opened up the
jail to give Johnson's mother a chance
to speak with her wayward son, it was
discovered that Johnson had dug out
about four square feet Of masonry
from the east wall of the Jail. A steel
casing which inclosed electric wires
blocked the way to further progress,
and Johnson was enlarging the aper-
ture to get away from the obstruction
and would have succeeded had he had
little more time. An old SCOOP
shovel was the implement used.
Since Friday night Johnson had been
at Elsinore, borrowing a gun and
shooting ducks Saturday. He secured
the wheel on the plea that he wanted
to give 1t a trial.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
LOUISVILLE RACES

LOUISVILLE, Oct. 17.-Beginning to-
day, the purses were increased by the
Jockey club from $4O0 to $500. The
fourth race, handicap at six furlongs,
resulted in a great surprise. Melisande,
winner over Jack AtlSin last Saturday,
finished third, T. M. Green gaining the
verdict by a head from Royal Captive.
The last named was second, nose in
front of Melisande.
First race six furlongs-Ada Meade. won:
Home Run. second; Tommy McGee. third.
Time, 1:14.
Second race. six furIongs-Detect, won;
Beatrice, second; Starry Night, third. Time.
1:14 as.
Third race. mile and twenty yards-Top-
land. won; Col. Ashmeade, second; Fair
Louise third. Time. 1;42.
Fourth race, handicap, six furlongs-T.
NJ Green, won; Royal Captive, second;
Melisande, third. Time, 1:12.
Fifth race, six furlongs-Lahold. won;
Crex, second: Any Port, third. Time. 1:14.
Sixth race. mile and a sixteenth-Pirate
Diana won; Queen Marguerite. second;
Claudia, third. Time. 1:47 2-5
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
use. LAW SCHOOL WINS
FROM POLY RUGBY TEAM
CoIIegians Are Steadily Improv-
ing Their Game and Will Be
Championship Aspirants
as follows:

u. S. c. law school Rugby football
team took the measure of the Polytech-
mic high school fifteen by a score Of s
to in a fast game on the Fiesta park
field yesterday afternoon. Law school
showed a big improvement over their
previous work, and if this improve
ment continues should be able to make
1t interesting for any Rugby aggre-
cation in the south.
Hainey and monk" Pierce bore the
brunt Of the work for the Mechanics,
and 1t was the aggressive work of these
two that kept the lawyers from adding
to their total. Foss, Turner, Price and
Lewis did star work for the law school.
The game was scheduled for 2:30
o'clock, but 1t was nearly A o'clock
before "Monk" Pierce kicked off for
Poly toward the south goal. Within
five minutes of the commencement of
play Kendrick went over the lawyers
line for a try, which was converted by
Pierce, thus giving the Mechanics a
5-point lead at the outset
In spite of the aggressive work of
Pierce and Hainey the lawyers slowly
forced the play into Poly territory,
and after Hainey was penalized for
holding the ball, Manning kicked
neat goal. Play fer the remainder of
the half was in neutral territory and
the half ended with Poly leading by
two points.
NThe Mechanics continued their ag-
gressive work at the start of the sec
ond half and upon several occasions
threatened to score, but kicks by Lewis,
Turner and Foss worked the ball into
Poly territory and by the aid of some
clever dribbling Olson crossed the
Mechanics line for a try. which was
converted by Manning. This gave the
lawyers a lead of three points, which
they held to the finish. H. NJ Bowen
refereed the game.