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12 PAGES J I»1 > T I" 1 If • f"Uk VyliilN IS run month rltlClii" O\) KjHiFl 1.75 I'KH MONTH VOI. XXXVII. M MDER 178. ATTACK GRAFT FROM PULPITS OF PITTSBURG Pastors Urge People to Attend Indignation Gathering AFTER "HIGHER UPS" Grand Jurors Will Probe Methods of Banks to Get City's Coin [AMOclated Pre«»] ', T) ITTSBURG, March 27.—The Lenten 1) season, wlilcli ended today, hob, which <ti«i<-'I today, 1m been too ehort a season Of peni tence for, Plttsburg, and it will be continued with promlsp of even more startling confessions of Kraft this week. In several hundred churches today an unusual feature of the Baxter services was the reading of a, circular letter Issued by a civic committee yes terday urging the members of every congregation to attend a huge Indigna tion meeting to bo held some day this , work. Sermons, too, were designed to arouse public condemnation of such practice! us have been revealed, Lea nons In civic cleanliness wero drawn by many pastors. It having been pretty thoroughly! established, according to District At torney W. a. Blakoly. that at least *102,500 km used in Influencing legis lation, tin source of iiu money and the dispensers of it are to be the focus of the grand Jury's attention tomorrow morning. After Bribe Givers A considerable portion or the big bribe fund is charged to < . rtaln hanks that sought to get city deposits. They succeeded, hut n is the charge of the jury, an pronounced in Its report of Friday list, that the bank deposit or dinanos be rescinded and the hanks, ii foun I guilty, be deprived f the >iso of city money, it in known that some represent Ltlves of the banks are to bo culled tomorrow to testify. tii.' sis iiiuiku named by the grand jury ;is Involved In the scandal are ■ oltunbl i National, the Oerman National <-r PtttSburg, the Fnrmers 1 National Deposit hank, the Second Na tional, Hi" German National of Alle gheny and the Workiiißinen's Savings anri Trust company. The directorate of the Farmers 1 Na tional has announced that it will roiu njfy with the district attorney's call for Information and tlie Seomd National has prepared a eeriltied statement which is to he presented tn "he grand jury tomorrow. The other bunks h.ive i lit, n ii" to lion. It was still unlearned tonight win 111 rr Charles Stew.it yesterday in his talk with the district attorney told all he lleved to know about the men higher up. Stewart is a bRMI M lect rouneilnian, who was ileelaretl by the grand pury In Its presentment satur diiv to have been the man to whom $45,000 of bribe money was clveu at the Hotel Imperial Hi New York. Ccuncllmen Will Resign The city Councils meet tomorrow. Twenty of the present members of the councils .ire under mdii tmeiii. It M that some will protest their ln nocence, hut the majority Jire expected t.. band in their resignations as meekly as they confessed last week. While the hie chow continues them is a lively side feature in a crusade n,t all varl< tie.-; of Kraft and wrong doinß. Disorderly houses are being dosed up and every niKht lately has seen a roundup of women in the tenderloin district. a meeting of cltlsens i» the Fort rut ii,,tei. ;,t which a committee was formed to further the mass meeting plan, it was openly charged thai the •41.1 it collected in the red ilKht district amounted t,. $1,000,000 a year. John il'- Klein, whose confessions and exposure of others has netted such :, scandal, has been ••muzzled" and la now kept in a room at. the Fort Pitt hotel pending disposition of his i ;ise. lie is under sentence of three and a half years. Yesterday ho Issued :iu emotional appeal for clemency and aid for his family. The authorities have forbidden him to plvo out further pub lic statements. MISS BEULAH STUBBS IS DEAD AT BERKELEY Daughter of Traffic Manager of Har riman System, Recently Dl. vorced from John Sunder. land, Summoned BERKELEY. March 27. Miss Hen Uih Btubbl died Saturday night at (lie homo of her lifelong friend. Mrs. B. F. Brooks. Sllil Piedmont avenue, where she had been slaying since her arrival on the coast last Wednesday from ciii.ago. Acute diabetes caused her death. Miss Stubbs was the former wife of John Bunderland, Democratic national commltteeman for Nevada. Sim wits the daughter of .r. c, stubbs. a vice president and traffic manager of the ll.ii liiiian system, and was born in San Francisco in 1881. She was married in Chicago in 1908, but resided in Reno, Nov., f'"' many years. She had been •in invalid for several years past. Several day- ago Miss Stubbs came i,, Berkeley to visit sehoolday friends and relatives, and at that time se lined well and In good spirits, despite the recent trying ordeal in the dlvoroe courts, where she obtained a. degree on March i>; last. Friend* scout tho idea that her do in, . |je i roubles had the effect of has tening ""' end. p ro f .1 Stubbs, president of the Uni versity of Nevada, is an uncle of Miss 'SlMWs"stunbs' body will bo taken east by her father, who will arrive tomor row from imperial. ALLEGED ANARCHIST HELD CHERBOURG. March Marcel Dubbin, alleged to be a dangerous an archist, was arrested ■ hero today when embarking on the steamship George Washington for New York. LOS ANGELES HERALD INDEX OF HERALD'S NEWS TODAY FORECAST Los Angeles and vicinity—Showers Monday morning, breaking during the day. Moderate southerly wind. Max- Imum temperature yesterday, 51 de grees: minimum temperature, 41. LOS ANGELES Schools of city resume Again this morn ing after a week's vacation. PAGE ■• Mrs. Josephine Taylor falls In two ef forts to end her life. PAGE 3 Chief Galloway appoints John V. gte< . executive secretary of police depart ment, *;;•./;.."'■'-■. PAGE 1 Dr. .1 W. BrOUgher preaches Easter sermon on "Tho Monuments of the rtemirrec.fion." PAOB II Spirit of Easter prevail! In T<os Ango lc» churches; floral decorations beau tify services. PAOB I Hlfhop Conaty . celebrate! pontifical - mmi for large congregation at Ca thedral of si. Vlblana, • PAGE 8 Dr. fCbarlee n. Tjoake ipreaehos on "■ld.' Thome of Kastor Morn" st First Metho<li»t church. PAGE t Many prisoners moved by Easter music at W. C. T. U. services at Jail. t PAGE 8 Pastof says Eastor festival vindicated faith in eternal life. PAGE 8 Immanuel church Is floral paragon at Eauter festival. PAOB 8 Knight* Templar observe Baiter: ad dressed by th» Hoy. William H. Day. x PAGES Generous rainfall adds- millions to South ern California farmers" banks accounts: storm general throughout district. PAGE 1 Interstate commerce commlsalon views fruit pre-coollnK plants. PAGE 3 Two men arrested after police batter in door; charged with stealing suit •■axe. PAGE 3 Editorial, letter Box, Ilaskln's letter. PAGE I Mines and oil fields. PAOB I City brevities. . PAGE 5 Theaters and dramatic criticism. PAGE 5 Churches. /' PAOB I News of the. waterfront PAGE I Classified advertising. ' PAOES 10-11 Markets. ' PAGE 9 Sports.. .:'V paqi>- 6-7 SOUTH CALIFORNIA Play In Annandale club's Rolf tourney -will start today. PAGE 10 Committee Is appointed to boost rapid transit project for Pasadena. PAGE 10 Mother and child overcome by gas In Long Deauli bathroom; recovery Is expected. PAGE 10 San nernardlno Elks honor oldest member with celebration OB hundredth birthday. PAGE 10 COAST Italian laborer saved from being lynched by Seattle mob. ,, * PAGE 1 Mlas Beulah Htubb*. former wife, of John ■ Kunderlund, the Nevada politician, and daughter of ■! C. Stubbs. traffic manager nf the lliirrlman system, dies suddenly at H< ley. PAGE 1 William Cooper, grand chancellor of the. Utah domain. Knights of Pythias, dies in . Salt lake City. TAGS 3 EASTERN (p ■ ' Governor Ptubbn of Kansas says In speech . TERN mr Htuhbrt of Kanwiw nays In upcerh in Chicago that Sunflower etui'- has larger families, more savings banks ami finer cities since prohibition became <•'■ . factive. . PAGE 1 Representative Mann to assume charge of admmUtratlon railroad bill. PAGE 2 New York pollco hold youth as slayer of ituth Wheelor. . PAOB l (llrl and young man killed In automobile accident In Kansas. PAGE 3 Curtl.is blplanea will bs sent after records at Memphis meet. PAGE 1 Mnro startling disclosures are promised by W. 11. Ilotchkins, New Tort superin tendent ol Insurance, when the inquiry • into legislation scandals U rosumed to day. PAGE}. i FOREIGN French club prepares rules and regulations for aerial navigation. PAGE 1 Frank A.* Petrel says obstructions' have lessened the flow of lava from 111 Etna, and predicts earthquake If molten mass (alls to break tlurough crater. PAGE S Colonel Roosevelt requests opportunity to meet Kgypt's native editors and gives " nel Roosevelt requests opportuntty to ■ t Bgypt'a native ed|tor» ami Biv' tlwin advice regarding the conduct of their papeni; ho has lively discussion with Arab sheik. PAGE 1 MINING AND OIL f/J Syllabus In court case became! valua ble to oil land locators. PAGE 3 Deal will help Kith River field. PAGE I Operators bond Cassldy claims at Grasa Valley and will develop property at once.* PAGE I High graders take picture ore from claims at Klmbcrly, Nev. PAQB 9 Nevada oil industry begins -to look real. • PAGE S SPORTING New Yort Jockey club plans racing for six days of>eok. club plann nu-in^ PAGE 6 .:, oT% PAOK 6 Southerti California amateur boxing and wrestling tournament opens tomorrow night. PAGE 7 Chancellor of Kansas unlverelty is op- t cellar football, even under new is "i" fd to football, even under now rules. PAOB 6 Collegiate conference makes Important changes In football rules. PAOE 6 Trolley magnates urn signing players in the new league. PAGE 1 English team wins another trophy st the Coronado polo meet. PAGE I ITALIAN LABORER IS SAVED FROM LYNCHING IN SEATTLE Two Hundred Angry Residents At. tempi, to Seize Man Who Shot Youth SEATTLE), March 27.—Tho timely j arlval of the police saved Hasnunlia | Marlella, an Italian laborer, from being' lynched by a mob of 200 angry residents , of tho Beacon Hill district this after noon after the Italian had shot and dangerously wounded Karly xkmng, a year-old boy, who had been 'playing J ball In the alley back of his home. The trouble started when the Italian, who it Is said had been drinking, iit taoked the boys, attempting to take the ball from Young. A fight ensued, during which the Italian drew a revol ver, and shot Young In the side. Marl ella was saved from lynching by the arrival of the police automobile. -*_•« AGED MORMON LEADER DIES; LEAVES SIXTEEN CHILDREN SALT LAKH CITY, March 27.—John R. Winder, who.se position in tho mon church WH second only to that of President Joseph F. Smith, died to day from pneumonia. Mr. winder was first councilor of the presidency, anil was 8S years old. Ho Is survive,} by sixteen children, eighty-seven grandchildren and a nuni iii r of great-grand-children. MONDAY MOBNING. MARCH 28, 1910. HOLD YOUTH AS SLAYER OF RUTH WHEELER; DENIES Grilled by Police of N. Y. Wolter hays Never Knew Girl FIND FEET IN ROOM Suspect's Sweetheart, De tained as Witness, Knows Little (Associated Press] VTEW YORK, March 27.—Albert V Wolter, the youth in the fireplace -*-" of whose rooms yesterday were found portions of the burned body of Ruth Wheeler, the young stenographer who had been missing since last Thursday morning, was committed to the Tombs without ball today, charged with the girl's murder. 'At a continuation of the police quiz to which he was subjected lust night he persisted In his denials thai he had ever seen the girl, ever had written to her or knew how her body came on the fire escape outside his window or why fragments of human feet, bands and arms were found in the ashes of his fireplace. Katie Miller, or {Catherine MaWer, the girl with whom ho lived, was ar rested today as she approached the bouse whin the murder was commit ted. She was reading the details in a German newspaper as she walked, smiling as she read. Clings to Story During a long cross examination she held sturdily t.> a consistent story that she knew nothing of the crime until she read of it in the newspapers. On Thursday night when she re turned from work at the laundry, where she earned $6 a week—and cave it all to Wolters—she said she noticed the stove In front of the fireplace had been moved, the tlreboard newly paint ed and a colored lithograph pasted over the hole where the stovepipe lor merly entered. When .she asked Wolter why he had done this he answered that summer was coming and they would not need the stove. She had not even known that wolter had received a visitor, she says, until Pearl Wheeler, the dead Klrl's elder sister, had called on Friday morning to ask if Ruth had been there. Wol ter had denied it, but the Miller girl says she was uneasy after tho inter view and that she became Jealous and accused him of harboring another wo man in the flat. Again ho denied it. '/.^ Held at Witness Friday morning she went'to work again and that afternoon Wolter was nrrettted.. The girl was cmiiHitUeJ to the bouse of detention as a material witness. • An autopsy today showed that Ruth Wheeler had been killed in the man ner Indicated by the first superficial examination. First, she had been strangled with a rope and then the bones of the arms and legs wero broken to admit the body more readily to the narrow throat of the chimney. Why the cuts were made on the body does not appear. When she was shown tho night shirt in which part of the charred body had been wrapped the girl positively Iden tified the garment us Wulter's. "That letter W worked on the shirt was embroidered by Albert's mother," she said. She also identified tho Runny sack in which the hend and trunk of the victim had he<Mi placed as having been \if«ed by her and Wulter to hold kind ling wood. DROWNS SELF IN RESERVOIR SAN FRANCISCO, fctarch 27.—De spondent because of* continued Illness, John Dempsey, aged 66, committed sui elde today by drowning himself in a reservoir in Golden Gate p:irk. He had been discharged from a local hospital this morning. Peter Dempsey, %> brother, is said to he a wealthy iner eiiant of i.ondon, England. Another brother, Patrick Dempsey, lives in San Francisco, CALLS PROHIBITION FOE OF RACE SUICIDE Governor Stubbs Says Kansas Now Has Larger Families, More Sav ings Bank Accounts and Finer Cities .CHICAGO, March -Cow Walter R. Stubbs of Kansas, In a speech hero today, "put \>\>. fool on th<> nocks'* of thoso who maintain that absolute''pro hibition would bring commercial ruin to a community. He cited the expert- once of Wichita as .showing how state wide prohibition precluded 'race sui cide" and encouraged savings bantu accounts. I "Prohibition in Kansas is not a re sult of atmospheric conditions," said , Governor Stubbs. "Tho climate had .nothing to do with it. Reason was at the bottom "I" it. all. Am a result the Kansas people today are better fed, 1 better clothed,. have liner homes, lar ger families and bigger bank accounts, "The cry of antt-prohtbitlpnists that, wiping out the saloons would bring business stagnation has been utterly refuted, I have proof by which, fig uratively speaking, I think I have my foot on- the necks of those who cir culate anti-prohibition ' talk. ••it was said three years ago that the. 'wiping out of 1 Wichita's saloons would ruin the town. Today, with no saloons, that town ban doubled its pop ulation, more than doubled its bank accounts, has better people, less crime, more schools and more Intelligence, i I Jsavc just received letters and tele grams from the mayors of twenty cit ies and towns, from twenty district judges and from chiefs of puller, and they all, agree . that * the day state wide prohibition went . into effect in Kansas was the brightest day In that state's history." Governor Btubbs offered to escort a delegation of Chicago" business men over Kansas to prove his contentions. . . . ..!.„. (I1 iti I" mil i li ■Mill. Wllll«lliHII^I<»Tl Where There's Smoke, There's Fire, Says New York Superintendent of Insurance '"■■.- '■■;*.„- '\':'::-i'i-^::'pM'"^:': W7-%i; 'T*'..'':'■:'■'.fj-,3■'?■'::o:M'''' f'ihS^:''M:h.V. ■' ;?• * ■HmBHSBImHI "' Fire Scene In New York. Snapshot at Inquiry Into Insurance Scandal, and Three of the Men Whose Names Figure In the Investigation. W. H. Hotchkiss Is State Superintendent of Insurance, Is Shown at the Left. At rtis Right ls"A. M. Wray and t. R. Kennedy . FRANCE WILL MAP AERIAL HIGHWAYS CLUB SUGGESTS RULES TO MINIMIZE DANGER Mid.Air Ports for Large Cities Pro. posed; Red Lights on Lofty Buildings and Flagpoles Urged - [Associated Fressl PARIS, March 27.— Rules and regula tions controlling the navigation of the air have been formulated by the Aero Club of Franco and submitted to the French government, as the basis tor ■ national law. . ,:'J,'> ' The code, elaborated. after much study, alms to meet the rights and in • .teresta of all—aeroplanlst arid balloon ist— flying through space, and of man and man« property on the earth below. Following are some of the club sug gestions: •""•• Aerial craft, whether aeroplane or dirigible balloon, must not circulate lower than 150 feet above private prop erty. ' Flying above cities requires a permit from the municipalities. Flying In fog is not allowed, and the transportation -of- explosives, except hunting ammunition, Is prohibited. The fixation of general aerial routes is recommended a« a way of avoiding collisions, and aeroplanes and dirigibles should keep off a certain distance from spherical balloons, so It accidents hap pen to. the dirigible machines tin spherical may not bo endangered. "" For the protection of the aeronaut it is recommended that the proprietors of high buildings and other structures be required to illuminate their prop erty at night nt each level of 250 feet, while electric lights strung above 160 feet from the ground should bo marked each 600 feet with a white flag by day and a white light by night. Other suggestions relate to the estab lishment of aerial "ports of access" to large cities..... The project is now being studied by M. Milleraud, minister of public works. CUftTISS MACHINES WILL. FLY AT MEMPHIS MEET Four Days to Be Devoted to Aviation and Record.Breaking Attempts Will Be Made MEMPHIS, T«-nn.. Mi.ivh 87. An aviation mccl lias been arranged for April ii. 7, 8, and !l here at which Glenn M. Curtisß, his MBtstant, C. K. Hamil ton, and c. F. Willard will ho the prta oipal operators of the machines. The aviators have promised to to to establish new records for heignt and dtntanco. Only h«avier-than-alr ma chines will ho eligible, in addition to the aeroplane rac< s there will be races between * 11• * flying mai nines and automobiles and motor cyoles, GOVERNOR APPOINTS DENNIS SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. Gov ernor Cillrii today announced the re appolntment <>f w. li. Dennis as har bor commissioner. INSURANCE PROBE WILL GO DEEPER "SURFACE ONLY SCRATCHED." SAYS HOTCHKISS W. H. Buckley May Be Recalled To. day to Tell More About Letters in Regard to Legislation Suppressed [Associated l*re»»] NEW YORK, March -The tire in surance investigation Into legislative scandals Involving the expenditure of far greater sums than any named In the AJldn-Conger bribery case, will bo continued I:, re tomorrow. "I have only scratched the surface so fur." aid ■ Superintendent of In surance Hotchkiss when the hearing was adjourned last Thursday. "There are other letters to be read, and they are more Interesting than any produced yet." Thus fur the gold mine of evidence has been the letter files and books of the late George P. Sheldon, president of the Phenlx Fire Insurance company of Brooklyn. Sheldon for wears was In charge of the legislative Interests of the New York companies, and his cor respondence with his Albany agent, W. H. Buckley, was both voluminous and precise. Buckley's own opinion of his ability to smother legislation and to gain ad vance * Information of court decisions has been very modest in his testimony, but in letters to Sheldon ho put a bet ter estimate of the value of his ser vices. It is expected his memory will he still further refreshed if he is called tomorrow. 8 KILLED ON CRUISER WHEN GUN EXPLODES MANILA, March 28. A report reached here today thai a gun on the (Tnlted States cruiser Charleston cx i during the target practice, kiil inc: or wounding elghi men. The Charleston is returning to Ma nila from Olongapo. No details of the reported accident h»ve been received here. The U. ;; w- Charleston is the flag ; hip of Rear A.dmlraJ John Hubbard, commander In chief of the Aaiatic dcet. Her commander is Commander John H. Gibbons. The Charleston is a protected cruiser oC 9700 tons. and carries fourteen guns In her main battery. NAVY DEPARTMENT TRYING TO LEARN EXTENT OF ACCIDENT WASHINGTON, March 27.—Officials or the navy department, up to mid night, had received no word of the ac cident on board the cruiser Charleston, In which eight men were reported either to have been killed or injured by the bursting of a gun. Rear Admiral Mason, chief of ord nance, believes If the report is con firmed it will be found the damage was done in one of the six-inch turrets. Kteps have been taken by the depart ment to learn the extent of the accl derc/ L«IV/"<I TJ 1 f^fYO TITO ■ DAILY. 2fif SUNDAY, 6« SLM-it-Lht tUIILS: on trains, .-; CENTS ROOSEVELT AND SHEIK HAVE TILT COLONEL GIVES ADVICE TO NATIVE EDITORS Brass Tablet to Mark Spot Where Former President Received Americans —Interest in To day's Speech Keen <'Ali;ii. Egypt, Ma.'.'li V. ill-view of the tat thai several of the newspapers of the Toung Bgypl party attacked Colonel Roosevelt on account of his lies at Khartoum in which he emphasised the 1» tits of British rule in the Soudan, Colonel Roosevelt ex presaed the wish to have a hdart-to heart talk with the native editors. This was arranged tat this afternoon and was a picturesque affair. Smii" of the Egyptians were In native* costume. One dignified Arab sheik! In robes and turban, proved extremely voluble in his native tongue. Dr. Nlmr, editor of the Mokattan, acted as i lator and spokesman, colonel Roosevelt, after listening at tentively to ti»' remarks of the natives, addressed the editors on the power and the responsibility of the press, ami iho necessity for using it to pood "lids. Colonel RooseveH has Invited prince and Princess Eltel Frederick of Qer many to take tea with him Tuesday, Colonel Roosevelt and hit party today attended the morning Banter Berviee ut the Ens'ish church, which waa crowded with worshipers. Later they gave a small private luncheon in Shepherd's restaurant and afterward Col. Roosevelt received informally a deputation of Copta and Mohammedans ami leading Egyptian journalists. ' 01. Roosevelt discussed religious In tolerance and other non-political sub jects with his guests while they were served witii coffee and cigarettes, Everyone Is awaiting anxiously the speech of Col. RooseveK at. the uni versity tomorrow. His discourse, it is thought, win prove an Important one. Thr assassination last month of Bou trous Pasha Ghali, premier and niinis iii of foreign affairs, by a student is expected to be alluded to fn the ad dress. Tonight ''01. Roosevelt attended a banquet given in his honor by the sir dar, sir Reginald Wlngate. After tin 1 dinner and reception at tho American agency Saturday ni^ht Col, Roosevelt returned to Shepherd's hotel, where a largely attended Venetian fete and dance were In progress. Col. Roose velt, however, went immediately to his suite in order to obtain a much needed rest after a. strenuous day. During a conversation betwoen an educated Egyptian and the correspon dent of thi Associated Presii today the Bgypttan declared Col. Roosevelt learned more about tho Assout Ameri can mission in two days than Lord Crortier had learned in twenty-live years. This is typical of tho impression the Kgyptians have formed of Col. Koose velt'i wonderful power in absorbing the details of all subjects. The director of Shepherd's hotel In tends to place a brass tablet to mark the spot where Col. Roosevelt stood In the garden of the hotel yesterday and shook hands with some hundreds of Americans. 12b CENTS GENEROUS RAIN MEANS MILLIONS FOR SOUTHLAND Fears of Drought Allayed by Precipitation in Several Counties FARMERS ARE HAPPY Heavy Snowfall Blankets Mountains — Hail in Valleys MORE than 1.01 Inched of rain foil In Los Angeles yesterday and latit night. Southern California and Log Angeles wore treated to a generous precipita tion which in a number "i the higher altitudes was transformed into hall and sleet. Incalculable benefits were derived from the stortn and millions will be added to the agricultural re turns for the season. The rainfall began in Los Angeles and.vicinity at 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning, and there wan but little cessa tion until late In the afternoon, when the sky cleared slightly and there wan an Indication of better weather, but the storm was again renewed at 7:40 o'clock and indications this morning early were for a continued rainfall, •which, however, weather forecasters say will be Intermittent during tho next week or ten days, and may, In fact, last for the next two weeks. The precipitation has done a great deal of good and practically assures bountiful crops for the season.- The heaviest fall of rain for the storm In Los Angeles occurred between 10:05 o'clock and 10:07 yesterday morning, .12 of an inch falling In two minutes. The next heaviest fall occurred be tween 9:30 o'clock, and 11 o'clock In the morning. ' i ' * , The only damage so far ascertained was to the fine, new Easter bonnets which many women wore to church'in defiance of the showers. The rain originated in a storm at sea off the central coast of California which developed Saturday night. Southeast warnings were displayed at all ports on the California coast yes terday. The storm was similar In many respects to that which occurred at the same time last year. Records show comparatively littlo rain fell in 1909 until March Hi up to which time a precipitation of 1.11 inches was recorded. Twelve Inches of snow fell at Mount Lowe yesterday and the mountain and surrounding country is blanketed In white. in Rubio canyon, at the foot of the mountain, and around the Alpine tavern, there is two inches of snow. Guests of the tavern yesterday morn ing engaged In a battle of snowball-. that waged for an hour. Last year at this time 2600 persons visited the moun tain from Loa'Angcles- to Bets the snow; and a small riot ensued from small hoys pelting the crowds, in which car windows on the Pacific Electric cara were broken. Beach Traffic Halted Yesterday's rain seriously affected the Sunday traffic to the beach towns around Los Angeles. Strong winds blow along the coast and the sea ran high. The. government's weather gauge it Venlco showed a precipitation of .78 of an Inch, while at Redondo Beach the precipitation is given as more than an inch. Santa Monica experienced one of the heaviest showers of the season. After the first shower the sun came out for a short time and raised the hopes of women who wanted to wear their Easter bonnets. Dark clouds gathered while they attended the services in the various churches and a heavy rain that lasted for an hour met them as they emerged. At 5 o'clock yesterday after noon a total of .91 of an Inch had. fallen making 12.34 inches Cor the season. The storm, while benefiting tho farmers, worked a hardship and expense on Santa Monica merchants, who had made big preparations Cor tho reception of crowds from Los Angeles on Easter day. The two beach hands, under the leadership of Prof. chiaf rarelll and Prof. Gregory, hud planned to give sacred concerts, but these were postponed because of the unfavorable weather.. Few persons visited any of the beach towns from Los Angeles yes terday and the open air amusement places were closed and deserted early In the afternoon. ■ Hundreds of auto parties that had been planned for tho beaches Were broken up. Farmers generally are. radiant he cause of the storm. Pomona counts no loss from the rains. From 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. 1.19 inches of rain fell there, giving a total for the season of 18.80 inches. Up to an early hour this morn ing it was still showering, with much snow In the mountains. The rain fell steadily at Badlands, recording a precipitation of .71 inch, with every indication of more. Farmers are relieved of all worry occasioned from fear of a possible drought. Long Beach Visited A heavy downpour ol ruin, accom panied by high wind, visited Long i yesterday. Rain bcgim falling ;ii aso o'clock in tho morning. Thi gauge recorded -Vr> of an Inch »t 5 o'clock In the afternoon, bringing the season's total to 10.10 Incl Rain, snow and hail featured yester day throughout the, San Bernardino valley. An even .60 of an Inch was added to the season's total rainfall In San Bernardino and outlying district*. Snow is falling In the mountains, and along the Foothills blizzard.-: prevail now lino coming below the Arrow. head. Fruit interests are threatened should the weather clear suddenly, be cause of the immense amount ol banked In the mountains. Rain began falling early at San Pedro, and all forenoon there WM most a steady downpour. The gaug< at the I'i.ini Kirmin lighthouse regie tered the amount at .96 of, an in. li. Th< rain was accompanied by considerable wind, and there was a heavy swell at sea. The revenue cutter , Pony was anchored off ijong Beach and was com pelled to eek shelter in the turning basin. The torpedo boats Paul Jones and Qoldsborough also soughi protec tion behind the breakwater. Thi rainfall for the season at San Pedm amounts to vi inches, compared witii 17.68 inches at this date last J MRS. ALTON B. PARKER ILL ST. PETERSBURG, March 17 Al 'li.ii B. Parker of Now York and Mr-. Vtirk«r arrived hero today. Mrs. I'ui kor Is ill.