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A Splendid Victor C T^||lC On Terms One Dollar a Week 1$ h4 O Tin: HOI HE OF MUSICAL QUALITY Southern California Music Co. 332S.S5:^:' y CRITICISES ARGUMENT OF HARPER'S FRIENDS CRY OF HARM TO BUSINESS BY RECALL RIDICULED Official Organ of Municipal League Denounces Reasons Imparted in Attempt to Bhow Mayor Should Be Retained The imported argument, which Is the chief stock in trade of the "busi ness men's organization," is handled without gloves by tho editor or Municipal Affairs In the March issue of that Journal In the following ex- "Of all the miserable by-products of the late panic and bad times, the doc trine that any effort for the betterment of political or social conditions must be cried down lest it hurt business is by far the most contemptible. It was raised against the president in his campaign for the control of law breaking trusts. It was used frequent ly without effect in behalf of corpora tion senators seeking re-election. The National Association of Manufac turers, meeting in St. Louis about a year ago, passed resolutions condemn ing the agitation, against child labor, which it said would interfere with vested rights and hurt business. Many merchants of San Francisco have op posed the work of Heney and Lang don, 'because It might Injure the fair name' of that -Ity. And now the cry n. raised that the attempt to redeem the honor of this city by recalling the mayor may hurt business in Los An geles. This has led to the formulating of a new doctrine of political ethics at which posterity may gasp with amazement. Briefly stated. It is: "That he who seeks to remedy an evil is more blameworthy than the evil-doer hlmaeU. "That is tho true meaning of the attacks on the president, the bitt-jr abuse of Mr. Heney whioh culminated in an attempt on his life, and the say- MXi- onslaughts made by a newspaper of Los Angeles against the Municipal League and other citizens who are ad- VOCBtlni the recall of Mayor Harper. " 'Yos, Mr. Harper has made a bad maytor.' says the Times. 'He has per mitted Rumbling and has not enforced the laws against saloons and the red- Ilnht dlstiiit. We cannot defend him. Bui those who are seeking to remove him are worse, because their agitation o' I hi' matter will hurt business.' "This doctrine has no kind of stand ing among the people at large, who, If they had been given a chance, would have re-elected agitator-in-chlef Roose velt by an enormous majority, who are backing Heney and Langdon in the campaign for the reformation of San Francisco and whose votes in Los Angeles on March 26 will show whether civic decency or a few dirty dollars are of most concern to them. Argument Is Ridiculed "Neither has the doctrine of 'it hurts business' any standing whatever among intelligent, thoughtful men of affairs, because in the long run efforts to make things cleaner and better do NOT hurt business—they help busi ness. To be sure, the business of the particular individual or corporation who happens to got a profit from the existing evil may be hurt. No doubt Standard Oil and the Tobacco trust think Mr. Roosevelt's activity against them hurts business; and the corpora tions that were sewing San Francisco up in a bag found their business in terfered with by Mr. Heney; and the gambling dens, tough saloons and as signatiqn houses that have been 'let alone' by this administration will be out and injured by the recall. But that the general business interests of a city are injured by removing a bad official and substituting a good one— who says that? Anybody with an ounce, of sense? "What hurts a city hurts business. What, helps a city helps business. "What is the chief stock in trade of Los Angeles as a city? Is it the tough saloons? Or gambling dens? Or houses of prostitution? Do these things give value to real estate and attract people of character and means to settle here? No! the real business of Los Angeles and the chief stock in trade of any modern city is its homes. Anything that makes Los Angeles less desirable as a location of a home, where a man— rich or poor—may bring up his boys Weak Eyes Made Strong $5.00 Classes ■ „ MY SPECIALTY-HARD CASES What others attempt to do and fail, I guarantee to do. Come in and get ac quainted; It costs nothing. Come! My special methods will be employed at this sale. Remember, I am- licensed under the state laws. No guess work or practice applied by apprentices, as I take charge of each case and give it my personal at tention. Come early as my time Is limited. All work guaranteed. Bolen kuptock and fused lenses a specialty. f\S CUADD EYE SPECIALIST 1/Ix., On/J*JVr 305 1-2 Bouth Spring Street. suite 21 and 22. !> a. m. to 5 p. in. Cut out ad and bring to office. and girls decently, hurts business. And anything that makes It more desirable as a home center helps business. "As to the 'fair name of the city' plea, is It better for the reputation of Los Angeles that It should continue in office a mayor who has proved him self totally unfit, who has, according to the report of a grand jury, indulged in an 'orgy' at houses of prostitution, and whose appointments endanger tha city's material Interests, or that the right of recall should be exercised and another more trustworthy put in his place? "As well might It be argued that one should never take a bath lest by that act he confess to his lack of cleanliness. "But even If It did hurt business — are there not matters Involved in this contest more sacred than business? We have had two years of a so-called 'liberal policy'—which is a pleasant way of saying non-enforcement of the law —and who knows what it may have cost the city, measured not In dollars but In human life and human honor? When a young man steals his employ er's money with which to gamble, or when a young woman is tempted from her home into an evil life—how is that to be reckoned Into dollars and cents? "The world has made some progress toward decency and justice and en lightenment, but where would it be now if at every step forward the race had stopped to figure out whether busi ness might not be Injured? "The kind of business that will be hurt by putting the affairs of a city in good order, by enforcing the lav/s and by keeping politics out of public work may Just as well get out of busi ness one time as another, for it must be a menace to human progress." CITY EMPLOYES INSTITUTE CAMPAIGN ON STREET CARS Take Advantage of Free Rides to Plead for Harper with Motor. men and Conductors (Contlnnrd from Pare One) pointed by the mayor, has been ob served by several persons at times which would indicate he is devoting all his time to free rides on street cars for the sole purpose of pleading for the election of the mayor. He was seen to make a harangue recently on a Wes.t Seventh street car, and, at the close of his arguments, to drop off and to take the first car in the opposite direc tion, presumably to continue his cam- palgn. E. J. Harper, the mayor's brother, who has the privilege of street car rides, because he is city forester, Is said to be a conspicuous worker in tho street-car roundups. BALKAN CRISIS CHECKED PENDING SERVIA'S REPLY Austria's Latest Note Said to Be Con ciliatory—Russia in Diffl. cult Position BERLIN, March 7.—Since the Austro- Hungarian government has set March 31 as the limit within which it expects Servia's reply, following the interview that Count Fergach, Austrian minister at Belgrade, had with the Servian ad ministration, it is believed no striking development is likely before that time. Count Fergach, in addition to notify ing Servla his government was in a po sition to submit a renewal of the com mercial treaty between the two coun tries for parliamentary sanction, also informed the Servian government that Austria hoped Servia would notify his givernment of a change of position with regards Serbia's attitude toward Bosnia and Herzegovina. Austria's note with regard to this matter Is described as conciliatory and not In the nature of an ultimatum. \t appears to be the conviction that Russia is not in a position to hazard a war in behalf of Servla as her in ternal political situation is buch that no guard regiments could be sent from the capital, nor could the other garri sons be reduced much below their pres ent strength. It is thought, too, that should Russia become involved in war, Russian Po land would be likely to rise. This would mean vast expenditures, the result of which would be national bankruptcy. France also would be unwilling to consent to Russia's risking war, as so many millions of French capital are In vested In Russia. LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, MARCH S, 1900. SPREE ENDS IN BRAWL; VICTIM LIKELY TO DIE MEXICAN STABBED TWICE; TWO OTHERS INJURED NOTORIOUS DIVE IS SCENE OF TRAGIC AFFRAY Police Capture Alleged Knife Wielder, Fleeing for Life, and Arrest Twenty Inmates of Boarding 'House One man was stabbed fatally, as it is believed, and two men were wounded painfully as the result of a drunken brawl in the notorious dive known as tho International restaurant, 620 San Fernando street, yesterday afternoon. Jacinto Guzmal, 55 years old, a la borer, living at 727 San Fernando street, was stabbed twice in the back; his Hon-in-law, M. Miller, was struck or. the head with a blunt Instrument, a deep cut being Inflicted, and Jacinto Rodriguez, 45 years old, a slaughter house laborer for the Maier Packing company, was struck on the forehead with a brick, which tore open the flesh and bared the skull. He is thought to be the man who stabbed Guzmal, and is locked up in a cell at the city jail, where he will be held pending further investigation. The place where the cutting occurred has given the police much trouble. Moat of the persons arrested In Los Angeles for being drunk are taken thence. Saturday nights and Sundays the patrolmen in that district are kept busy arresting intoxicated and quar reling laborers who throng the placo soon after getting their wages Satur day and remain there In a state of drunkenness until they are robbed of their money and kicked out or become engaged in brawls and are taken In by the police. Yesterday afternoon Patrolmen Wyckoff and McFadden were kept busy there trying to keep peace and arresting drunken men. As a result of their labors eleven drunks were sent to the central police station within several hours. Signs of Trouble Visible Wyekoff had just loaded several men into the patrol wagon and, in company with Patrolman McFadden. was start ing dowit the street, when he saw sev eral men in the International restau rant rush to the rear of the place. The building in which the restaurant is lo cated runs through to Main street, the number on the latter street being 619 H. There Is a basement near the Main street entrance in which is the lavatory of -ihe restaurant. "You run in and see what is the trouble," said Wyckoff to McFadden. "I think there is some kind of mix up. You stop the men from this end and I'll run around to the Main street entrance and enter." McFadden rushed back to the base ment and met several men carrying Guzmal, who was in a semi-conscious condition and bleeding profusely from two wounds in his back. Wyckoff reached the Main street en trance just in time to see Jacinto Rod riguez emerge from the place, look hurriedly up and down the street and start to run. He saw "Wyckoff, in creased his speed and reached Macy street, but after a short run wag over taken by the officer, who placed him under arrest. "Where are- you going?" asked the patrolman. "I'm going to my home," replied the fugitive. Wyckoff then noticed that Rodriguez had a handkerchief bound around his head and that the blood was begin ning to trickle down his face. "You come with me. There has been some trouble and you have had a hand in it," said Wyckoff, who at that time was unaware that Guzmal had been stabbed. "I did not stab the man, some other Mexican did It," replied Rodriguez. Taken Away in Amubutance Meantime the police ambulance had been summoned and both Guzmal and Rodriguez were placed in It and taken to the receiving hospital. Rodriguez denied that he had cut the man and showed the officers that he did not have any kind of weapon on his person. He was taken before Guzmal for identification, but the lat ter was unable to give a coherent reply. The police think two men attacked Guzmal, and believe Rodriguez is one of them. They say they are confident he had a knife, but threw it away Im mediately after the trouble. After the two men were taken to the police station the officers began an investigation and found M. Miller, a son-in-law of Guzmal. Miller says Rodriguez was one of the men who did the stabbing. According to Miller's story, he was in the restaurant and heard sounds of a quarrel in the basement. He ran back and was about to descend the steps, when he was struck on the head with a rock or piece of brick and knocked down. He says Rodriguez was in the basement at the time. All Inmates Seized Later Detective Thomas Rico was detailed to assist in making investiga tions and finding witnesses to the af fray. He went to a boarding house patronized by Mexican laborers at 643 San Fernando street and questioned several of the occupants. The men acted sullenly and gave him curt re plies, so he decided to arrest every man at the place and take them to the police station on charges of suspicion. Detectives Hosick and Zeigler, togeth er with several patrolmen who were working on the case, appeared and twenty men were arrested, loaded into the patrol wagon and taken to the cen tral police station, where they will bw held and questioned. The men arrested gave their names as William Masterson, Jose Chacon, D. Sllva, Jose Flores, Juan Garcia, Jose Rivas, S. Oga, L. Vera, G. Ortego, B. Rodriguez, M. Canton, J. Parra, A. Estrada, Jose Cabrillo, P. Ortego, Jose Castellano, F. Esteloni, William Ward, Jesus Marin and A. Serna, The offi cers then ordered the proprietors of the International restaurant to close. The order was complied with, and the place probably will be closed perma nently. The matter, it is thought, will be placed before the board of police commissioners and the liquor license of the place revoked. Condition Is Critical Late last night Guzmal was tn a crttlcal condition and he has only a alight chance for recovery. The wound which probably will result fatally was inflicted with a long blade. The steel entered Just under the tenth rib at thfl back, passed downward, penetrated -the diaphragm, passed through the spleen, missed the stomach and intes tines and passed into the cavity. A semicircle had been cut In the spleen and Indications are that the man who did the stabbing turned the knife in the wound. A description*©* the second man im plicated in the stabbing was given to the patrolmen when they went on duty last night and it is believed he will be in custody within a short time. ALLEGED BOODLER WHO HAS RETURNED ELI WRIGHT CHARGE DISMISSED, WANDERER RETURNS FORMER STATE SENATOR ELI WRIGHT IS HOME Was Indicted as a Member of Gang of Which Two Served Time for Soliciting Bribes SAN JOSE, March 7.—Former Sen ator Eli Wright, who was expelled from the senate in 1905, together with Sen ators Bunker, Emmons and French, and was with them indicted by the grand Jury of Sacramento county for bribery and who Jumped his bail here October 19, 1905, returned to this city yesterday a free man after four years of wandering about Central and South America. Wright was a member of the house for six years and was elected to the senate in 1904. The crime for which Emmons and Bunker have served time in San Quentin was holding up the Continental Building and Loan asso ciation by threatening them with ad verse legislation and accepting bribes from their agents. During his absence Wright has vis ited nearly every Central and South American country and was engaged as general agent for the International Harvester company at Buenos Ayres when he received word that he might return. The Indictment against him was dis missed on November 25, 1908, through the efforts of friends here, the motion being backed by District Attorney Wachhorst of Sacramento. Wright Intends to return to South America with his family. POLICE CAPTURE 2 DESPERADOES BOYS ADMIT ROBBING PEDES TRIANS ON EAST SIDE Youths Unable to Give Satisfactory Explanation, When Questioned Break Down and Confess to Holdups Joseph Cota, 19 years old, and Bert Carter, 20 years old, both fresh faced and athletic in appearance, are prison ers at the east side workhouse with a charge of highway robbery booked against them. According to the police they have admitted their guilt and are willing to plead guilty and take what ever sentence the court may impose. The first robbery of which the two youths are accused occurred at 7:15 o'clock last night when J. F. Watkins of 432 West Avenue 52 was held up on Monte Vista avenue between Avenues 50 and 51 and robbed of $1. Watkins was on his way to his home when he was\confronted suddenly by two young men dressed In dark cloth ing, both masked, and one of them held a blue-barreled revolver in his hand. Watkins was ordered to throw up his hands and while the youth with the pistol still kept the weapon leveled at him the other young man searched his pockets and took therefrom the small change which he had. They then or dered him to go down the street and not to give an alarm on penalty of be ing shot. Fifty minutes later Mrs. Thomas Preston, who lives at 3710 Pasadena avenue, telephoned to the east side police station that two men were hold ing up two men in front of her house. Sergeant Adams and Sergeant Sparks, who were in the station at the time, were at once detailed. In the meantime Mrs. Preston had alarmed the neighborhood where the robbery took place and her husband, accompa nied by Deputy Sheriff H. D. Watts and A. G. Dixon, who ltve in adjoining houses, ran to the scene of the robbery. They saw the footpads in the distance hurrying away, and Deputy Sheriff Watts fired three shots at the men, commanding them to halt, but the bul lets seemed to cause them to run faster and they soon disappeared in the dark ness. The two men who had been held up stopped only long enough to say that they had been robbed of $2.50, and they, too, disappeared. Sergeants Adams and Sparks on the way to the scene of the robbery en countered two men walking hastily on the railroad track near Avenue 22, and who answered the descriptions of the robbers. They were stopped and asked to give an account of themselves. Their explanation not being satisfactory they were taken to the east side station, where after a few minutes' questioning they broke down and confessed they had committed both robberies. The prisoners refused, however, to say where they live or who they are, except to give the names under which they were booked. The police have no knowledge of their records. It is be lieved, however, they are new to the business of holding up people and that they live somewhere in the neighbor hood of the scene of their crimes. The Angelus grill has excellent ser vice and better food. Fourth and Spring; ' Anybody who ' would •>• able to . Und an addreai In the dictionary would b« able tt and your CLASSIFIED ad., : ; ; URGE OFFICIALS TO SWEEP AWAY VICE RESORTS EMPHATIC PROTEST ENTERED BY RESIDENTS GROGGERIES NEAR PLAZA MERE DENS OF ROBBERY More Than Eighty Promptly Sign Pe. tition to Police Commission Call. ing for Decisive and Imme. diate Action Stern, emphatic protest will be filed with tne bourcl o£ police commissioners touuy by eighty or more Mexicans anil Italians against the existence of, as they claim, iully a score of the most disreputable, vicious and dangerous slum grog shops which may be found in any city of me United States, Which arc conducted as "blind pigs" under the very eyes of the police department. These grog shops, or -'blind pigs," ar* located within a radius of about four blocks in the immediate vicinity of San Fernando street neur the Plaza and all are located within the downtown pa trol district of the police department. They are the same kind of resorts that were protested against about a month ago by some thirty Slavonians, and which then were closed by the po lice. But they have been reopened by other owners equally as depraved, as evil and as debauched, who draw no line even at murder itself, and who thrive and grow rich under a system of boldly robbing their drunken vic tims when they become so helpless that they have no consciousness of what is going on around them. For the past two or three weeks these "blind pigs" have grown .bolder and bolder, until they have awakened the decent, law-abiding residents of the district, who have seen their friends, and not infrequently their fa thers and brothers, victimized, de bauched, robbed, arrested and impris oned in a brazen manner, which seemed never to reckon with the fear of the law, and suspiciously suggested the existence of so perfect an under standing between the "blind pig" own ers and the defenders of the law them selves as to resemble closely immunity itself. Sunday Their Harvest Sunday has been the real harvest day for these resorts, and what one might see at any hour of the day or night In any of them would require the de scriptive genius of a Zola or a Dick ens to portray. Men reeling and stag gering in all stages of ribald drunken ness, swearing, cursing, fighting or stretched at length prone across the drinking tables or along the wast* places of the crowded floors; harpies and "come-on"men plying easily duped victims with more of the vilest of liquor until they had reduced them also to a stage of utter helplessness, while still other harpies plied their work of pilfering the pockets of those already rendered helpless for such stray coin as had not actually been taken away from them through the triflingly more honorable' means of "short-changing" and other such doubtful methods. And the residents of the district in question Sunday after Sunday have seen their friends and relatives led through this Inferno until their last penny was gone, and have seen them then kicked mercilessly out into the street to be piloted to their homes by some Samaritan into whose hands they fell or to be arrested, Imprisoned and sentenced to the chain gang if they first fell into the hands of a patrolman whose duty compels him to prevent these victims wandering farther south to more crowded thoroughfares. Appeal to The Herald Finally, in desperation, having little faith in a turn for the better, the better class of residents of this district Satur day last appealed to The Herald to take steps to close these resorts, ana this paper began the preparation of a protest directed to the board of police commissioners, calling attention to these "blind pigs" and praying that they be put out of existence. Yesterday this protest was given cir culation, and it is an eloquent testi monial to the justness and truthfulness of the statements contained in it when it is understood that the desperate stabbing affray of last evening, which doubtless will result fatally for the vic tim, was actually in ptfcgress in one of the very resorts protested against at the identical moment that the protest itself was being circulated and signed within a block of the place. The protest received more than eighty signatures yesterday and last evening, and three times that number could be secured for it today if the protestants did not feel that things had gone to such a point that further delay would be likely to result in further murder. The signers of the protest incluue many of the most influential residents of the Second, Third and Eighth wards, a large percentage of the signers being members of the Spanish Presbyterian church. The protest follows: Enter Vigorous Protest "LOS ANGELES, March 8, 1909.—T0 the Honorable the Board of Police Com missioners: We, the undersigned resi dents* of Los Angeles, living in the Sec ond, Third and Eighth wards, hereby respectfully, but emphatically, protest against the existence of certain low, vicious grog shops, or bling pigs, run under the guise of restaurants, located at various points along San Fernando, Buena Vista, Main and othor streets in the district adjacent to the Plaza. "Our reasons for so protesting are that many of our Mexican brothers are constantly being debauched at these places, where they are served with vile liquor and encouraged to spend their scant savings. These unfortunates are frequently robbed of their money and encouraged to drink to such an excess as to cause their arrest and imprison ment. . "A,s a result of the existence of these places of debauchery, scores of worthy families, including many needy chil dren, are deprived of the financial sup port which they should, and woald, re ceive but for the fact that their money is taken from them in all manner of unscrupulous ways, their confidence be ing imposed upon by American and Italian harpies whom, they are told, they can trusl, and their unsophisti cated minds are no match for the own ers of these vicious resorts. "We, therefore, in the name of hu manity and justice, protest against this imposition upon our countrymen, and call upon you to suppress these places, which, we understand, are illegal and which are conducted openly before the patrolmen and other officials of the police department. (Signed) "L Gutierrez de Lara, 420 W. Fourth street. "Crescendo M. Ramirez, 1615 John st. "Bias Zmaro, San Fernando at. "Jesus Gonzales. "Margarito del Villar. "Eugenic Diaz. "L. Limon, 702 San Fernando st. "Eustacio Juarez. • "Jesus H. Gonzalez. "Austeo Cantu, 56S Gallardo st. "Anselmo Garcia, 1453 N. Main st. "A. M. Villarreal, 1517 Navarro st. "Toribfo Yancz, 1451 E. Fifty-fourth. "C. Stanaiio de Acambra, 552 New High st. "Donaalano Bevalloa, 607V4 N. Main st "Juan Paz, 607V4 N. Main st. "Manuel Komero, 702 San Fernando. "Manuel Oarniea, 702 San Fernando. "Jesus F. Romero. "Maximo Ortega. "Julian Sosa. "Manuel Lanagoily. "Miguel Holquin, 702 San Fernando. "Benjamin Onofrio, 602 N. Main st. "Enrique M. Portcllo, 736 San Fer rtando st •Maximo Ortega, 1223 Court st. "Felipe Lara, 208 SotellO. "Miruel M. Bisplnoaa, 23S Gulerolo st. "QregOrio Garcia (14 years old), 1453 Main st. "Jose Martines, 709 Alameda st. "Felipe Peres, 430 Aliso St. "Manuel Palaclo, Hotel la Quera. "Entonio Garcia, Hotel la Guera. "Antonio Martlnes. 730 San Fernando. "Carmen Mata, 7M ciara st. "SrU Higinia Castro, 764 Ciara St. "V. H. OaTCia, 7ti4 Ciara .st. "Albeit Castillo, 7fi4 Clara st. "Alfredo Mata (11 years old), 209 Clara st. "Samuel M'lta (IS years old), 209 Clara it. "Philip Mata (9 years old, 709 Clara. "Francisco Lopez (12 years old), 232 N. Atta st. "Paul Cordova fl2 years old), 270S E. Seventh st. "Juan Rios, 420 N. Los Angeles st. "Fucundo Lifcarraga, 420 N. Los An geles st. "M. Martinet 420V4 N. Los Angelos st. "Carmen Vide Mnta, 709 Clara st. "Ramon Lopez, 232 Alta .st. "Adela Ramero, 531 Macy st. "Donla Ramero, 531 Maty st. "Francisco de Merquez, 1011 Hesne gor gt. "Carmen Saleido, COS N. Main st. "Victor Calabr.-i, -jOS K. Main st. "Francisco Calabra, 608 N. Main st. "Clofas Fonero, 764 Clara st. "Julia Vivers, 421 Amelia st. "Victoria Vivas, 421 Amelia st. "Franca Rodriguez, Ducoma st. "Ignacio Rodrigrez, 532 Ducoma at. "Maria Lopez, 232 N. Alta st. "FrancUca Cordiro, 1415 Laurel at., South Pasadena. "Sara P. Cordova. 49S California st. "L. P. Casdich, 2708 E. Seventh st. "Aniparo Rodriguez, 49S California st. "Tarsis C. de Mata, 709 Clara st. "8. 15. Gomez, 709 Clara St. "D. A. Mata, 709 Clara st. "Frank Pantoja, 608 N. Main st. "E:nlerio Harqucz. 709 Clara st. "Pedro Vasquez, 608 N. Main st. "Ernie rejildo Esporza, 1011 Masergcr. "Elodia Esporza, 1011 Masenger st. "Elinda Pantaja, 1011 Masenger St. "Enctcrio Jiminez, 314 Ramerer st. "Ventura Jiminez, 314 Ramerer St. "Jesus Cantu, Renhart. "Amado Acosta. "Lorenzo Vasquez, 1459 Main Ft. "Komulo Carmona, 1828 E. Main St. "Anastasia Basquez. "Felix Vivas, 421 Amelia St. "Castulo L. Uriarte, 645 San Fernando "Franco Flores, 38 Santa Fe St. "Feodora Mata, 764 Clara st. "M. M. Moya, 320 Leroy st. "Pedro Lopez, 232 Alta St. "L. C. Flores, 764 Clara st. "David Rodriguez, 564 Sierra st, "Bonifacio Esparza, 10 Mesnager st. "Rita Esparza, 10 Mesnager st. "Oascula Esparza, 10 Mesanger st. "J. S. Rodriguez, 1322 S. Olive st. "Srta A. S. Rodriguez, 1322 «. Olive. "Sra Petra S. de Rodriguez, 1322 S. Olive st. "Apolonlus M. Salado. "S. Sanchez. "Sr. Jiminez, 514 Ramirez st. 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Stevens, 2112 S. 7th St., Phila., has wh««iin* Av«nu« reason to thank Professor Munyon for his W. W. Wilson, 720 Wheel ng Avenue. great Kidney Remedy, and be will be glad to Wilklusburg. Pa., and »"k l *'m d ™i he tell anv one the whole truth about his suffer- thinks of Munyon's Kidney Remedy ana nis Ing and his cure. other remedies. , . We could nil this paper with testimonials from reliable people who have been cured by v Munvon's Kidney Remedy; some of these testimonials read almostjlke miracleis. . Do not delay-act at once. Go to your nearest druggist and purchase » vjalor Munyon's Kidney Remedy. Prioe. 35 cenU. If It doe* not'give you satisfaction I wIU - refund your monej) • MUNYON. ' v: -■^MV . 'H-r/:-'.'. ■ Philadelphia, Pa. , SCHEME TO OPEN 'REDLIGHT' FAILS "BOSOM FRIEND" TRIES TO FIX UP "GRAFT" GAME PLANNED TO WORK UNDER NEW CHARTER AMENDMENT Borough Was to Be Established Inside City Which Would Be Ui.u.r Control of Its Own Trustees One of tlio "hosoin friends," who ia grieved much at the necessity of clos ing the "redlight district," believed ho had detected a brilliant method of re opening it through a "Joker" in the n<w city charter amendments adopted at the lv.st election. His plan was seri ously considered by his friends with much chuckling over the dismay of the Municipal league ;it finding its charter revision perverted to make secure what the conceiver of the scheme believed would become the most notorious "wide open" district of any city in the United States. The scheme was based on the idea of utilizing? the provision in the charter amendments, which covers the estab- lishment of a borough, to make a bor ough along Commercial street or some« where near the river bed. This bor ough was to be colonized with faithful voteif. As a borough when established will elect its own board of trustees, who have the appointment and control of the marshal and police officers, and will have all the police powers of a city of the ninth class, it was figured that control would br an easy matter. With the borough's control absolute ly independent of the city government of Los Angeles, except in matter of le gitimate taxes with which the promot ers were not concerned, it was believtd careful judgment in arranging the dis trict and planting the voting crop would make certain a wonderful harvest. The enthusiasm of the few men who were let into the secret was unbounded. They found they could designate tha boundaries of the proposed borough, give it • name—which they did—and compel the city council to call the election to establish the borough with the boundaries and name they select ed on a petition of 50 per cent of the voters living in the section. That it tcok time was evident, but they guessed the game was big enough and enough of a certainty to wait for. To Establish Borough Their faith was pinned to tho fol lowing section, incorporated In tho charter regulating the establishment of a. borough: "A borough may be established In any territory hereafter annexed to tha city of Los Angeles containing a popu lation of not less than 500 inhabitants, whether such territory in whole or in part was or was not Included within the limits of any incorporated city op town at or immediately prior to tha time of such annexation In the manner with the powers and subject to tho conditional limitations hereinafter pro vided." None of the "bosom friends" was able to see anything wrong in any of "tho conditional limitations hereinafter pro vided," which they approved of unani mously. But one, a trifle flner-wltted than the rest, stumbled on a word in the forepart of the section, an whole house of cards tumbled to Utfl ground. A "hereafter" spoiled their scheme and their "graft was gone." Tlxj section plainly provides a borough may be established "in any territory here after annexed to the city of Los An geles," but none of those interested had considered that the term "hereafter cut much of a figure. One lawyer, in on the scheme, is said to have argued at length that because there was no provision expressly ex empting the territory inside the pres ent city limits there was nothing that said "a borough may not be established in the city of Los Angeles." "The thing Is in the city's charter and operative right now," was his opinion. The mat ter was submitted to older lawyers and he was overruled, and an effort was made to give the brilliant Idea an un ostentatious burial. Mayor Harper himself told a reporter for the Los Angeles Hearst paper that lawyers had told him a borough might now be established inside the present city limits of Los Angeles. Employes in Conference WINNTPKG, Man., March 7.—A con ference of the steamship engineers anl dredgemen opened here today. The meeting 1 was addressed by workmen from all over the continent. Engineers from the Panama canal were present. Eighty thousand men are in the or ganization. Questions concerning? working conditions in the west will be discussed. 3