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VOL. XXXIII, NO. 244.
RUNAWAY
CAUSES A
FATALITY
Mrs J. E. Wiseman
Dies of Concussion
of the Brain
Disaster Marks the Path
of a Maddened
Animal
Unidentified Man Knocked Down, Wo.
man Seriously Injured, and Au.
tomobile and Express Wagon
Wrecked
As the result of nn exciting runaway
on Broadway yesterday afternoon one
woman, Mrs. Josephe E. Wiseman, is
dead, an unidentified man was knocked
down, an express wagon was wrecked
and an automobile badly scratched.
Mrs. Wiseman died at her home, 3236
Key West street, at 12:35 this morning.
Although her injuries were at first
thought to be slight, when tho attend
ing physicians, Drs. Bylngton and
Le Due, arrived at the Wiseman resi
dence they found the woman was suf
fering from concussion of the brain.
It was to this malady she succumbed.
From the time she left the receiving
hospital until within an hour of her
death it was thought Mrs. Wiseman
would recover.
The horse, belonging to the Pacific
Screen company, 824 West Jefferson
street, ran from New High street down
Uroadway and struck Mrs. Wiseman
near First and Broadway. The woman
was crossing the street at the time and
was unable to escape.
She seemed to stand Immovable from
terror and In another instant was under
the feet of the horse.
She was picked up in a semi-con
scious condition and carried to the re
ceiving hospital, but a few hundred feet
from the scene of the accident.
It was feared that her skull was
fractured, but an examination by the
police surgeons showed that she was
suffering from concussion of the brain
and sustained several bruises and lacer
ations.
Auto Frightened Horse
"Jack" Moulton of the Pacific Screen
company left his horse tied in front of
211 New High street while ho went to
telephone. Frightened by a passing
automobile which grazed the horse's
flank, It pulled back on Its halter and
started down New High street at a
gallop.
Turning into Franklin street, the
vehicle struck an automobile but In
flicted slight damage.
Near First and Broadway air uniden
tified man was knocked down, but was
only slightly injured. He picked him
self up and hurried away, refusing to
give his name.
The frightened* horse struck an ex
press wagon, tipping it over on one
side, and the next instant ran over
Mrs. Wiseman, who was attempting to
cross the street.
Gives Shriek and Falls
Eyewitnesses said she was too ter
rified to move, and giving a shriek of
pain fell directly under the feet of the
crazed animal.
■\ Rushing down' Broadway, the run
away created a panic at the intersec
tions of Second nnd Third streets and
several women narrowly escaped In
jury.
Near the Rroadway department store
Patrolman D. L. Adams rushed into
the street and with the aid of a motor
man who leaped from his car succeeded
in- grasping the dangling lines and
finally brought the horse to a standstill.
The runabout wr only slightly in
jured and the horse was unharmed ex
cept for a few cuts on its legs.
"1 Solicitous About Victim
Moulton, who had hurried in pursuit
of , his runaway rig, drove back to the
police station to Inquire Into the ex
tentjiof Mrs. Wiseman's Injuries. He.
sald\that the horse, although a spirited
one. Was never known to run away
beforto.
:He Was told that an automobile
struekYthe horse In its flank and that
caused uhe animal to rear, break the
halter and run away.
. Mrs. Wiseman, wife of Joseph E.
Wiseman, real estate dealer with an
office at 105 South Broadway, was re
moved to her home, 3236 Key West
street, in Pierce Bros.' ambulance and
the family physician summoned. ■
A. VALENTINE WILL RESIGN
.'President of Armour Grain Company
Announces Intention of Leav
ing Chicago Firm
By Associated Pi-ess.
CHICAGO, May 31.— A. Valentine,
; president of the Armour company since
I its organization in 1890, announced yes
terday that he had written out his res-
I ignatlon, to tako effect early In July
on the retrn from Kurope of J. Ogden
Armour, head 'of tho Armour Interests.
1 ( Mr. Valentine declined to discuss his
\ plans for the future, except in a gen-
Icral way, btating that he has under
consideration a number of business
propositions.
Mr. Valentine for years has been "one
of the biggest" operators on the board
of trade. He has engineered several of
the most important deals In the history
of the exchange and he has had a tre
mendous following among operators
both here and in other cities. -
Murderer Hangs at Honolulu
i:y Associated Preis.
HOUOLULU, Muy 31.— Frank John
mn was hanged today for murdering
the 7-year-old boh of Henry Wharton,
January Z." .
-He confessed his crime and said his
reii) ' name was John O'Connell, ami
that he had relatives In Ireland.
• Johnson cut the boy's body into bits
undi burled the pieces. Afterward he
asxlsted the mother In the search for
the bny. The plea of Inxanlt v wus In
effectually raised at the trial
Los Angeles Herald.
nnincr. lUallf n» Currier I cc ncUTO
PRICES I Per Month | DO CENTS
WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS TWO
Wyoming Convicts Drink Fiery Liquid
and Die In Terrible
Agony
By Amoo!a.I«<1 I>re«s.
HAWLINS, Wyn., May 81.— William
Wardlow and Jesse Keating, convicts,
died at the ntate penitentiary here yes*
terday from the effects of . drinking
wood alcohol.
They were workers In the broom fac
tory where shellac varnldh Is usei] In
finishing the handled.
They necurnd the vnrnlsh bottle by
allowing the plirllnc.tn nettle and drank
the wood alcohol, which In used to cut
the shellac.
Both dle'd In horrible convulsion*,
having llrst become totally blind from
the effect of tho drug.
At. death the entire Burfnco of the
body waa jib black as shoe leather.
Two other convicts drank the alcohol
also, but as they had Indulged less
freely, were saved.
POLICY HOLDERS
RECEIVE OFFER
Defunct Traders' Insurance Company
of Chicago Seeks Settlement
at a Fraction of Real
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.— Three
hundred nnd fifty policy holders In the
defunct Traders insurance company
held a meeting today at which State
Insurance Commissioner pre
sided.
In the course of the meeting the pol
icy holders received an Invitation to
accept, sixty cents on the dollar in full
settlement of their claims. The pro
posal came from Thomas Bates, a
lawyer from Chicago, who was intro
duced to the meetilng by Commis
sioner Wolfey as attorney for the re
ceived of the Traders Insurance com
pany.
Bates stated that while he did tell
the state insurance commissioner that
he was attorney for the receiver of the
insurance compauy he really represent
ed eight or ten stockholders who felt
so humiliated at the position in which
they found themselves that they want
ed to see if a way could not be found to
take the company out of the hands of
the receiver by letting the assets and
surplus go to the policy holders.
Risks Total $5,107,000
He explained that the Traders had
$5,107,000 at risk in the burned district
of San Francisco and the assets of the
company were only a capital of $500,000
and a surplus of $1,300,000. It has be
sides a reinsurance reserve of $1,300,000,
but that under the law this could not
be applied to the payment of losses. .
He . stated "•; that, the' company had
$160,000,000 -in -policies, - outstanding all
over the -world and the reinsurance re
serve applied • to the return of the
premiums. j ■
"The small coterie of stockholders
whom I represent," • said ■ Attorney
Bates, "want to pay their debts and
take the company out of the hands of
the receiver. If they can get a settle
ment from your creditors here pf fo
or 60 cents on the dollar those eight or
ten men will put up the money and
make good."
Promises Quick Settlement
He went on to say that, if the San
Francisco policy holders, of which there
are about 2000, would accept this offer,
the money would be paid in from thirty
to sixty days, and he then dwelt on the
long drawn out and expansive legal
proceedings if they took the matter
Into the court.
A committee was appointed, of which
Marshall Hale was selected chairman,
to Investigate the condition of the
Traders Insurance company. Attor
ney Bates declined to remain until to
morrow to confer further with this
committee and said he would have to
leave for Chicago today.
JAPAN PREPARES
FOB, ANOTHER WAR
By Associated Press.
VICTORIA, B. C, May 31.— According
to advices received by the steamer
Kanagwa today the Eastern World, a
German paper of Yokohama, published
a sensational leading article stating
that Japan is getting the army and
navy Into readiness for war with a view
to forcing war with China two or three
years hence.
The Eastern World says another war
with China would offer promising prizes
and a pretext could be soon found. The
paper goes on to state that Japan's
hopeleßS Indebtedness to England and
America is driving the country to plan
an attack" on China.
By this, the Eastern World says,
Japan could exact a heavy indemnity
and also make permanent the precari
ous tenure of Port Arthur and the
Ltao Tung peninsula. China is marked
to pay the piper for the recent war,
the Yokohama paper says, and thero
will be no question of the rights or
wrongs of the case, Japan must have
money, many hundreds of millions of
money, and a war with China which
would not only pay for It soli' but would
also pay off the present debt and prac
tically make China the treasury of
Japan would be popular.
DAVITT LEAVES UNIQUE WILL
Forgives Enemies and Prays That
Ireland May Eventually Secure
Absolute Freedom .
By AHMK'IMtCJ I'l'l'SS.
DUBLIN, Ma/ 31.— The funeral of
Michael Davltt, who died at midnight,
has been fixed for June 2, and will be
as private as possible in respect to tl.e
expressed wishes of the dead patriot.
His body will be Interred at Itralde,
County Mayo, Davltt's birthplace.
Messages of sympathy are arriving
from all parts of the world.
Mr. Davltt's body will be removed
to the Carmelite church, where it will
remain until. Sunday. His will leaves
his property to his wife absolutely and
concludes: : : ■
"To all my friends I leave kind
thoughts; to my enemies the fullest
possible forgiveness, and to Ireland my
undyina prayer for her absolute free
dom uud independence, which It has
been my life's umbltlon to try to ob
tain for her."
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1906,
DIES IN
CALDRON
Boy's Body Remains
in Vat of Lard
Editor Tells of incidents
at Packing House
Exposure of Unsanitary Conditions
and Unclean Practices Lessen De.
. mand for Meat at Kansas
City
Bpfdnl to The Herald.
CHICAGO, May 31.— Algie M. Sim
ons, editor of the International So
cialist Review and formerly an agent
of the Chicago bureau of charity at
Its stock yards station, contributed a
chapter today to the story which Is
being, told dally about conditions at
the stock yards.
Mr. Simons declares that he has per
sonal knowledge that a 10-year-old boy
fell into a rendering caldron at the
stock yards and was never taken out
of the boiling mass except as a part
of Its contents In the form of lard.
The father of the boy, whose name
Mr. Simons says he cannot remember,
fell into the same vat some days later,
according to Mr. Simons, and was
"converted into lard" without any ef
fort being made to rescue the body.
Mr. Simons says he does not remem
ber the name of the plant in which the
deaths of the father and son took
place, but claims that he will be able
to find the names In the records of the
bureau of charities,
DEMAND FOR MEAT DECLINEB
Exposures Affect Trade at Kansas City
and Elsewhere
Special to The Herald.
KANSAS CITY, May 31.— Alleged ex
posures of unsanitary conditions and
unclean practices In the Chicago pack
ing houses have resulted in a marked
decline in the demand for meat and a
consequent drop of from 15 to 25 cents
n hundred pounds In the price of cattle
within a week.
A joint committee of the live stock
exchange and the commercial club says
a great injury is being done the pack
ers and the meat Industry everywhere,
and they will urge an immediate and
thorough investigation of the Kansas
City packing houses to prove that no
diseased cattle, are slaughtered or em
ployed for meat in any way. , ■ ,
, .The result; of , the ~- agitation Mn the
eastern papers Is now. beginning -to, be
"felt on, the. western live stock ranges.
REDLANDS MAN
LANDS IN JAIL
CUPID LEADS THE WAY TO AN
EASTERN CELL
Cyrus Ward Follows Mabel Lum to
Brooklyn, but Comes to Grief
While Paying His
Addresses
Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, May 31.— Cyrus Ward
of Redlands, (,'al., was held in $300 bail
in the Brooklyn police court today on
a technical charge of vagrancy.
He will have an examination June 4.
Ward's real offense is chasing Mabel
liUm, an art student, across the con
tinent from Redlands to Brooklyn and
annoying her here by writing letters
and following her about. It Is under
stood he has been arrested before in
California for a similar offense.
Ward Is a school teacher, 34 years
old. Miss Lum Is studying art at the
Pratt institute, Brooklyn, and Ward
was arrested while In the library of
that institution.
The girl In said to be attractive and
was sent to Brooklyn by her parents,
well-to-do people of Redlands, largely
to escape Ward's attentions, but Ward
pursued her and for the past two
weeks has been in Brooklyn trying to
pay her his addresses.
ARREST STUART'S ASSASSINS
Instigators of Crime as Well as Men
Who Fired Fatal Shots
Apprehended
By Associated Press.
TIFLIS, Trans Caucasia, May ' 31.—
The viceroy has received news that the
assassins of Win. H. Stuart, the Amer
ican vice consul at Batoum, who was
shot and killed May 20, have been ap
prehended and have confessed that
they were bribed to commit the crime.
They gave the names of the instiga
tors, who also have been arrested.
No further details of the conspiracy
are obtainable.
THINK MAN WAS MURDERED
By Associated Press.
BAKBHBFIELD, May 31.— A sheep
herder who was found dead at Tecuya
Monday night develops the faot that
the man was foully murdered by being
shot to death In his bunk.
Suspicion rests on h fellow sheep
herder named Ysador Kgovene, whose
tracks were found leading up to the
cabin and who has since the murder
mysteriously disappeared. The offlcera
are now In searh of tho fugitive, The
killing occurred sixty miles from
Gakersfleld. . No cause hus been as
signed for the murder.
Tonight It was reported that the fugi
tive had been seen in Kern City, but
he has not yet been arrested.
Aged Farmer Tires of Life
By Associated fresa.
NAPA, May 31.— Thomas K. Greer.
an uged farmer of Napa muniy, com
mitted suicide today by shooting. He
had been In 111 health and was de
pressed by the recent death of his
wife. -^HHbHbUIIM
THESE WIVES WORTH HAVING
Chicago Girls LeaVn Secret of Prepar.
Ing Good Meal* at Small
Co«t
By ABBoctat«d Pr««s.
CHICAGO.. May Sl.— Diplomas certi
fying that the recipients are qualified
"to keep house for husbands" receiving
MO a week, were given yesterday to
several young women at Chicago com
mon n.
The graduates, all of whom are to be
married soon, were members of a
class In economical . housekeeping and
cooking.
The economical graduates offered In
tho wny of exhibits breakfasts, lunch
eons and dinners that were attractive,
had cost little and were palatable.
Kach dispatch bore a card Indicating
Its cost. • ?■' .' ■
A breakfast wa» shown that was pre
pared at an expense of 10 cents and
would suffice for four, persons.
Dinners ranged somewhat more ex
pensive, one consisting of meat, two
vegetables, a salad and a pudding for
four persons being rated at 40 cents.
TEAMSTERS' UNION
THREATENS STRIKE
First Steps Taken When Four Steam
Schooners Tie Up at Oakland. ;
Higher Wage* Are
Demanded
By Associated Press.
OAKLAND, May 31.— The Coast Sea
men's union threaten to strike if de
mands for increased wages are not
granted and to tie up the entire ship
ping on the Pacific coast. The first step
was taken tonight when four steam
schooners tied up and reported that
others would be as soon as discharged.
During the month of February sailors
presented a demand for an increase of
$5 per month, and cooks, waiters and
stewards also demanded an increase.
As wages of sailors on steam
schooners' then ranged from $55 to $90
per month, owing to the amount of
overtime, It was a considerable argu
ment over proposed schedule.
Owners claim competition and state of
trade is such that they could not afford
the increase. The question was still In
process of adjustment when the fire
occurred. %'."■•■' :'rJ- • •
1 Immediately after the calamity
steam schooner men. held a meeting
and decided that rates should be ad
vanced despite the I fact that there
would be an unprecedented demand for
lumber. It was , tacitly agreed - also
that demands of the coast seamen's
union would be held in abeyance. This
was done until within the past few days,
when" demands were repeated by sail
ors, claiming that the work was harder
owing '■ to the , increased; demand j for
; lumber. ■.„:,,->» ',-'-.j< ', <»';'■. ■■■'.j'
"-.The" Steam ' ' Schooners- :• association
formed and unless the demands sire
conceded the coast trade will be tied
up. -Vessels In port and now on the
way will be discharged but not per
mitted to depart until the question is
settled.
Steam schooner owners and charter
ers immediately passed the affair up
to the United Transportation associa
tion, which includes not only steam
schooners but Pacific Mull and all
other lines of steam vessels sailing
from this port.
"What action the executive committee
of that association will take is not
known, but it is believed that it will
Bustaln the actions of the steam
schooner men In declining to concede
the demand.
Every effort possible Is being made
to avoid the strike and settle the trou
ble, as it Is fully realized that a strike
will tie up building indefinitely, as at
even the present rate of erecting wooden
structures there is not much over a
two weeks' suply of lumber In the city.
LITTLE CHILD IS
BURN ED AT STAKE
By Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY. Ala., May 31.— The
5-year-lod child of Robert Maroney of
Cedar Grove was tied to a stake and
burned to death by playmates who
were emulating the Characters in a
mock Initiation of "red men" recently
presented by members of a local lodge
in the public hall at that place.
The children, the oldest of whom is
about 10, were arrayed like Indians,
and the little Maroney child, who was
the "paleface," was seized and bound
to a fence post. A quantity of shav
ings was placed about his feet, satu
rated with oil and the flames com
municating with the child's clothing: in
a moment the little boy was wreathed
in flames.
The other children, realizing what
they had done, struggled manfully to
tear away the burning material, and
did rescue the child while still alive,
but It almost immediately succumbed
to Its injuries.
STRIKE GUSHER AT BEACH
Report From Santa Ana Describes
Unexpected Discovery of
Well Diggers
By Associated Press.
SANTA ANA, May 31.— While sink
ing a well for hot sulphur water yes
terday on the Townsend-Dayman
property at Newport Beach, a strong
flow of natural sras was struck at one
hundred and seventy feet.
No water waß encountered, but the
flow of gas was so strong that stones
and sand were thrown to a consider
able height above the surface from the
bottom of the hole.
The find will be utilized for heating
purposes for a number of new houses
to be erected nearby.
TABLE OF TB.MPERATUniSS
City Max. Mln.
!.<•■ Auß'clrs «7 S3
Atlanta *. 84 64
llo.lon <IH XA
rlui'iuuall HO HH
Denver s Til 44
Jucknunvllle so , TO
Little Hock H3 TO
,\r»v OrlmuH 88 TO
New Turk <W bs
Omuliu HI ,1«
St, l.ouU NH 04
HI, l-iiul 711 BO
Suit Lake to* "4O
Spukiine r.rt 4N
Nnu I mn<l«.i. 00 BO
LOS ANGELES PACIFIC
WILL ERECT A GEEAT
TERMINAL STATION
PLANS GIANT SUBWAY TO CITY LIMITS
Hail way Company Only Awaits Approval of City
Council When Work Will Be Begun in
Changing to Broad Gauge and Starting
Work on Hill Street Tunnel—Enter
prise of Far-reaching Importance
Tunnel through Hill street, First to Sunset, and routing
Hollywood and Colegrove cars north in Hill, and thence to Sun
set, saving fifteen minutes — Waiting on action by council. Plans
ready.
Subway through private right-of-way, parallel to Sixteenth
street, for beach and express service — Right-of-way secured and
plans drawn.
Huge terminal station at Fourth and Hill, on two levels, for
subway and surface cars, all lines to use it, running through and
looping there — Land secured and plans ready.
.. Broad gauge on all lines — Rails ordered, ties on hand, work
begun ; delayed awaiting permission from council to lay third rail
in city streets.
» •» ANT great improvements are now
/ V 1 ' n nan(^ and under way on tho
systems of the Los Angeles-
Pacific Railroad company. Work has
progressed on all of them, and In some
cases It is evident to the eyes of out
siders. In moat instances, however,
only the preliminaries have been done,
owing to necessary action by the city
council. Legal holidays have prevented
action by the authorities, but this diffi
culty will end next week. Meanwhile,
however, no loss of time has ensued,
because the preliminary work had to be
done anyhow. That is now so far fin
ished that blueprints have been made
and these facts.are obtained from them.
Their authoritativeness, therefore, is
beyond cavil.
: Another thing that has held back the
improvements has been a lack of money.
This, too,, has been remedied; the buy
ing in of Harrlman has assured all th«
funds desired.
The proposition which will likely have
first considerfation will be the Hill
street tunnels.' There will be two of
these, one from S First to Temple, in
which the city will probably participate,
but which - will be cut regardless ■of
this; the other, a private tunnel for. the
railroad, from Tejnple, street to Sunset
boulevard.'* This will .emerge at the top
ofcthe Sunset^boutevard* hill. - and > •will
save- all "the tiresome pull' around
through the city along Spring and Main
streets and up the steep hill, which now
eats up flfteeen to twenty minutes of
each run.
Awaits Council's Action
If the city joins in the south tunnel
it will be for wagon and foot passen
gers' use also; otherwise it, like the
north section, will be for the railroad
exclusively. In the former case, it will
be the largest in the world. Work on
these tunnels will begin as soon as the
council says "go." Four months, it is
estimated, will be required for their
completion.
The subway proposition Is the biggest
In hand. For it rights of way have been
secured for some time along the line of
Sixteenth street, but in private prop
erty. This subway will extend to the
outside of the congested district and
will be for beach and express passenger
service exclusively.
At certain intervals it will rise to the
surface, depending upon the contour of
the land, and stations above ground will
be the only stopping places for theso
trains. They will emerge from the sub
way outside the congested region and
run on the surface to the beaches. A
thirty minute service, and perhaps less,
will be easy.
The terminal station will be at Fourth
TAKES SHOT AT
M. W. SIMPSON
By Associated Press.
OAKLAND, May 31.— Miss Isabella
Davis, the pretty stenographer who
charged State Senator M. W. Simpson
with a felony, went to the city hall at
Alatneda today and fired one shot at
Simpson. Miss Davis has been ar
rested.
Miss Davis made the following state
ment this afternoon:
"The only regret I have Is that I
missed him. If I had not been so close
I surely would have hit him. I intended
■emptying the five shots into him. Some
months ago he threatened to kill him
self and me. I guess I am not to
blame."
Senator, Simpson apparently expected
trouble, for when the young woman, ac
companied by her mother, Mrs. Cyrus
Davis, stepped into his offices she ac
once made a. final demand to know
what he was going to do about his
alleged promise to make her his bride.
Simpson Moved Quickly
It Is stated, however, that Senator
Simpson's ey« proved quicker than Isa
bella Davis' hands, and at the first
move he advanced and grabbed her by
the wrist and the bullet was spent la
the floor of the office.
Miss Davis first attracted attention
early last February when she went
with her . mother to City Attorney
Simpson's office and demanded that he
make good a promise of marriage she
claimed he had made her. Falling to
get any satisfaction at that time she
appealed to District Attorney J. J.
Allen three times In quest of a warrant
for Simpson's arrest, but the matter
was finally passed up to the grand jury
and during the same month Simpson
was Indicted.
Three Postmasters Confirmed
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 31.— California
postmasters confirmed: 'lt. G. Henson,
Oakdale; C. W. McUtvvltt, Randsbuig;
J. 0. Allen, Tracy. . . :
PRICE: SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
and Hill streets and will be on tw(
levels. The lower one will care for th(
subway express service, while the ordi
nary lines will enter on the street level
The station will be a "through way"
terminus; that is, cara will loop in such
a way that they will not have to switch
back, as do those of the Pacific Electric
company at Sixth and Main streets.
This will be a great saving In time and
efficiency. As at present contemplated,
the station will have entrances and
exits on both Hill and Fourth streets,
In L shape, and cars will enter from one
street, pass through and emerge in the
other, thus obviating the use of these
thoroughfares as is now necessary. The
lower floor and basement will be for
terminals; the upper floors — for it will
be a large and Imposing structure —
will be for offices for the company and
for tenants. This great terminal in thn
heart of the retail shopping district will
be one of the greatest Improvements
that Los Angeles could possibly con
ceive. •
The broad gauging of the system has
begun. At Santa Monica, where street
work has been done recently, a third
rail has been laid at standard gauge.
In Hollywood, where much track has
been reconstructed, broad gauge ties
have Invariably, been put in, even with
the necessity of removing perfectly
good ones/ ' • ■-■■ .- • •
. • Broad Gauge Planned ""
I When the city permits' a third rail
will be laid on Hill, Sunset, Sixteenth
and other streets used by the Los An
geles-Paciflc company, and when all is
leady the cars, .which are built with
that end in view, will be fitted with
broad gauge trucks and the work will
be done. Then the narrow gauge rails
will be taken up and the system will be
on a standard track basis.
Theße improvements, as stated, are
now under way, and as fast as permis
sion Is asked and granted by the city
authorities they will be hurried to com
pletion. The blueprints and plans have
been made — this information is taken
from them. In fact— and the recent
$10,000,000 bond issue was' 'made in an
ticipation of them.
There will be no lack of money, en
ergy or push displayed when the neces
sary legislation Is assured. It Is ex
pected to have the tunnels built and
the new Hollywood system in operation
this fall. The subway will take longer,
but It is wanted for next year's summer
beach traffic. The terminal station will
be the complement of the subway and
will come when it does. The consum
mation of these plans will make the Los
Angeles-Pacific railroad the equal of
any trolley system in the world, and
ahead of all others, with one possible
exception.
MEMBERS WANT
SHORT SESSION
By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, May 31.— Governor
Pardee will arrive from Oakland to
night, bringing with him the call for
the extra session of the legislature.
In this call will be specified every sub
ject to be legislated upon at the coming
session, and only such subjects as are
included in this call can be acted upon.
Much interest attaches to. the con
tents of this Instrument. It is known
that Governor Pardee will not be bound
absolutely by all the recommendations
of the committee of forty, and that he
will eliminate some of the subjects pre
sented by it for inclusion in' the call.
What the subjects in the call are In
detail will not be given to the public
until the governor's return to his office
in the capitol tonight.
The call must be attested by Charles
F. Curry, as secretary of state, and It
in presumed that for this reason the
governor has determined to wait until
he reaches this city before making the
exact contents of the proclamation con
vening the legislature public.
The sentiment of the legislators so
far as can be learned is In favor of a
short and economical session, but it is
probable that the sitting may be pro
longed beyond a fortnight.
MAYOR M'ALEER WELCOMED
By Associated Press.
BAN FRANCISCO. May 31.— Mayor
Owen McAleer of Los Angeles Is In this
city on a short sightseeing' trip.
He spent a part of today viewing the
ruins and called on Mayor Schmlti at
Century hall. ,
The meeting of the two mayors was
a cordial one. Mayor Bchmlta extended
to the mayor of the southern city the
thanks and gratitude of the people, of
San Francisco for the generous manner
in which Los Angeles came to .'the
aesistance of this city.
Mayor McAleer expected to leave for
the south tonight.
AIM BOMB
AT ROYAL
CARRIAGE
Sixteen Meet Death
in Streets of
Bride 'and Groom Saved
by Missle Striking •
an Electric Wire
An Anarchist, Supposed to Have Been
the Man Who Threw the
Bomb, Commits
Bulelda
By Associated Press.
1.0N110.V June I.— * rilnpntrti
from Madrid to the Dallr Mall
timed 7-.2T, Thurailny rrrnlnc niiyn
that It Trim tin Italian nnarchlitt
who threw the bomb at the rnr
rlngrn of the klnc and queen of
Spain nnd that after the exploalon
he committed Kiilrtde.
Another dUpntoh to the same,
paper, timed 1)i23 p. m., nnyn that
the nxNiiKnln In nnmnl tint ten-
Moral, and thnt he hnn eacaped. I
niiioi. K them Manuel llurnn, a
('utnlonlnn, mho la believed to
tor. It In Raid that Immediately
upon the explonlon Dnran nu
aelsed and hurled down ntnln. ■ ■
Ah lie entered the otreet men
Inn "kill the aMMHNIn.** A mounted
Kimril presaed nround and >- took
him away under atrons; eacort. ■■>. . i
An official permitted the correa
pondent to enter the room where
two -of the auapecta are tempor
arily Inatalled. One In n amall man
with a porter'a hat. : When naked
what evidence there wn« mcnlaxt
thene prlaonera the Rrnnnl milil the
men had been aeen running after
the exploalon and therefore ■ they
wonld be held for examination.
Doth are Spaniards, poor and ap
parently workmen. ■ -' t 'w,
The napect of the city faaa en
tirely chanced. The teleßTaph
office la bealeged by n yelling; mob
•as;ea to frlenda at a dlatance. The
frovernment'a aupply of telegraph
Rimnpi which each dlapatch i muat
bear quickly gave oat and - the
aale wn» aunpended.
The city hall had been lined aa
a temporary hoapltal and here waa
a Khaitly spectacle* ■:' One ,'of the
dead offlcera lay In '«. hammock In
one of ' the mayor'* > offlcea. s Hla
hearded fare hnil the pnllor of
death but < othervrlae ; allowed •bo
alarna of the explonlon. .■•■■• -' .' ;
• The lower part of the body waa
covered with a blanket. . Sijim.li
of aruarda entered nt frequent In
tervala bringing llttera bearing
dead or unconacloaa victim* of the
explonlon, while doctors were hard
nt work In other room*. ■ ' ■
By Associated Press.
MADRID, May 31.— The public re
joicings over the marriage of King AK
fonso and Princess Victoria had a ter
ribly dramatic sequel at 2:30 ■ o'clock
this afternoon, as a bomb thrown from
an upper window exploded with deadly,
effect near the coach occupied by the
king and queen.' Providentially, King
Alfonso and Queen Victoria escaped
THE DAI'S NEWS
FORECAST
Southern California: Fair 'Fri
day with west to northwest
winds. Maximum temperature In
Los Angeles yesterday, ■67 de.
grees; minimum, 52 degrees..
I—Aim1 — Aim bomb at royal carriage.'
2 — House saves two salaries.
3 — Their slogan is save the birds.
4- — McClure will escape gallows.
6 — Sports.
6 — Editorial.
7 — City news. .
B—Southern8 — Southern California news.
9.10 — Classified advertisements.
10 — Pacific sailors may quit ships.
11 — Markets.
12 — Gould to build from northwest. I
EASTERN
Daring; aeronaut falls to oarth at NeW
Tork following an exciting trip. ■■•. .-,<•*
Chicago editor declares packing*
houses have been known to allow
human victims of lard vats to remain'
in caldrons.
Cardinal Gibbons delivers address at
conference on International arbitration
and says he believes universal peace is
only a question of time.
FORbIGN
Bombs thrown at. Madrid, following-;
marriaee of King Alfonso and Princess
Kim, kill sixteen people.
Japan prepares for second conflict
with China.
COABT
Policy holders at San Francisco re
fuse offer made by Traders Insurance
company of 60 rents on the dollar set
tling fire losses.
Discovered that M. Theo Kearney left
two wills, but In both the big estate
goes to University of California. ■-, „ ».
Seamen's strike threatens to tie up
Pacific coast shipping;. >. •'„
LOCAL
Death sentence of John MnClure rom
muted to life imprisonment by CSov.
Fardee. ;■
Superior court judges prepare to reset
cases. -. • . • ■■■-..•...' .-i,.,-sn
lowa Sheriff finds fugitive at Lone
Beach.
Charles F. Wltgel seriously Injured: by-
Santa Monica car. >.
Los Angeles county Republicans want
to hold convention in August. , i.,
Four youths confess burglarizing ' store
and . schoolhoiNe.
Mysterious beauty who . ' followed
Thomas A. Blake to California, ■ pleads
in Boston for his release. ■ . -
"Water board delays meeting with . con
solidation commission. ■ - ■
Holidays will end next Saturday. - rlv
' Local realty dealers will make offer ' to
purchase city hall. - • * ■■ ■
Audubon society of California formed.
Kinger prints may - furnish , clew -: to
burglars.