Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-03
MORE BUNCO
AT Los ANGELES
North Dakota Man Has Narrow
Escape From Being Separated
From a Roll

Mike Maher Of Barao 200 writes from
Los Angeles as follows:
New palaces of film art are going ur
IN Los Angeles. Two one hundred
thousand dollar theatres are planned
by the Granmans, similar to the one
they own at Third and Broadway
They have purchased two Wurlitzer
organs, each to cost $4,000, for the
new theaters. Pantages are also build.
ing another millionldollar theater, and
the new $5,000,000 hotel will be start
ed soon. The people here don't figure
on taking all their coin with them
when they die, as they certainly spend
a great deal for pleasure and at the
same time take care of the inner man
with plenty to eat. Since January l
the chamber Of commerce has brought
to the city 104 new Industrial plants
an average of one day. There is a
very bright prospect for this city in
the future. Thirty-five years. ago Los
Angeles had 1900 population; now it
has $4,000, and is growing at the rate
of 10000 a year. The Edison com
pany will spend $3.50, 100000 in south
ern California for construction work.
Plans are made to eXpend $3.50, 900
for sewers, several million dollars
worth of buildings for the University
Of Southern California, and the gov
errmenc is figuring on building a
quarter of million dollar warehouse
in Los Angeles. Several large manu-
featuring pants a. e figuring to locate
here. Bids will be opened next week
for $1,000,000 worth of work in San
Diego, and Los Angeles firms expect
to get q large share Of this work.
Los Angeles labor unions broke the
records when thousands Of them
marched through the streets in a
gigantic demonstration of their con-
viction that the McAdoo plan shall be
carried out and railroads be continued
under government ownership for five
years longer. Los Angeles citizens
assembled in the Knights of Columbia
auditorium last night to demand
home rule for Ireland. And freedom
from British control.
The entertainment was in the shape
of patriotic meeting and also the
celebration of the 140th birthday of
Robert Emmitt Singing Of the Star
Spangled Banner by a Gaelic chorus
of Is voices opened the program. }.
w. Vincent Honnon was speaker OF
the evening. Typical Irish melodies
and lyrical old folk songs played on
a real Irish harp Joseph Conlin, re-
Gently discharged from the service,
sang three songs and one was sung
in Irish, so / guess he was born IN
ireland. Mrs. Kittie Colgon danced
the old fashioned reels and jiggs to
piano and violin music. She is a
woman that weighs about 40 pounds
and believe me she could get over
the floor as light footed as any one
we ever saw. The entertainment
closed with the Star Spangled Banner.
Spring was here, February 22, II
you don't belive it go to Venice-Santa
Monica, or Long Beach and cast an
eve on the seashore. They are all
there, the girl in the snappy bathing
suit and the athletic young man in
the abbreviated toys. Even the boys
from France and the tourists were
there by the thousand last Sunday-so
many the beaches were crowded. Most
of them are in anguish, counting the
days when they will have to leave
the delights Of the seashore. You can
see them any day lolling in the sand
and dreaming nightmares OF the
homes in the blizzard east.
AS I said before the Bunco men are
still plying their trade. Jephtah
Jones of Grand Forks, N. D., was
saved $4,000 by a raid made by Cap
tain of Detectives Geo. K. Holmes.
Jones, who is a wheat farmer with
20. 900 acres of wheat at $2.25 bushel,
is a tourist here, and almost fell for
their game.
The horse racing was one way that
the Bunco men said there was
fortune in and Montana copper stocks
another sure way OF making a fortune,
but Mr. Jones woke up soon enough
to save his dough and had them ar
rested. The raided rooms contained
all the paraphernalia of book maker
on-blackboards, telegraph instru-
ments and fake telephones which ran
from one room to another.
California is being advertised all
over the United States as it never
was before and the people are turning
their eyes to this section as a place
of residence; that is as near heaven
as it is possible to secure on earth.
With regards to all, we remain as
ever, yours respectfully,
MIKE and HANNAH MAHER.