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"tHE HERALD" IN SAN . ■-'■ VNCISCO
AND OAKLAND— Lou Angeles and
Southern California visitor* to San
Francisco and Oakland will fln* The
Herald on sale at the news stands In the
Ban Francisco ferry *>""?'"£,,„ on itne
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Amos News Co.
Population of Los Angeles. 251.364
Tho dog now has his day; also hU
■how.
If only Rupf would disappear for
good. It couldn't help being for good,
either.
To good roads and good streets must
now be added the slogan: "Good
bridges."
Still, a divorce bureau established
by Mayor Harper would do a bigger
business.
Both telephone companies are to get
the same rate hereafter. That's more
like Justice.
The Icemen have given Chief Kern
a g-old star. Isn't that a cold deal on
the consumers?
The entire south end of the state
■wants separation. So would the north
If it were similarly treated.
The assembly has fixed a date for
adjournment. Be patient; the Inflic
tion can't last much longer.
A sheriff who can and won't find
a. prisoner should be made to find him
or get out, even if he is Ruef s friend.
The adjournment of congress was a
blessed thing In one respect; it ter
minated the official career of Willie
Hoist.
Chief Kern, with his gold and his be
dlamonded badges, will now give a fine
and correct Imitation of the Star Span
gled Banner.
Abe Ruef has no desire to see him
self behind the bars, but a lot of others
have. And that's where fche courts are
likely to put him.
If the combination of yellow gowns
and paper clothes is ever brought about,
how cheap it will be to make them out
of a Hoist Journal.
It la to be hoped that the telephone
company that has its rates raised will
better its service to the same extent;
there is room for It.
Yellow gowns are the rule this sea
son, says Paris. To correspond with
the flood of yellow literature over the
Thaw trial, perhaps.
Glendale reports an epidemic of
horse thieves. Such an epidemic is
usually fatal — to the thieves— in Borne
parts of the country.
Governor Gillett has signed the cap
ital romoval bill and the railroads need
only the indorsement of the people to
make their revenge complete.
Schmitz snook in by San Francisco's
back way. However, there were no dis-
appointed bands or reception commit
tees, and no unburned fireworks left
over.
Pity Abe Ituef couldn't come out of
hiding long enough to greet his pup
pet, the fiddler mayor, on tho latter's
return from his great defeat in Wash
ington.
Anyhow, the tourists tied up In Los
Angeles can thank t h> Ir stars that they
are detained in the finest spot on earth
and rejoice over an excuse that per
mits them to remain here.
What Los Angeles needs Is a law re
quiring the public listing of the names
of everyone hurt in a trolley or rail-
road accident. Then the trolley com
panies wouid not be so arrogant.
Every spring the railroads in Southern
California are tied up by the name old
landslides in the same old places. Is
it cheaper to clear away slides and de
lay truffle than to make them impos
sible?
l Abe Ituef, as a fugitive from Justice,
doesn't make very much of a heroic
figure, ; such as ho proclaimed himself
in the last San Francisco municipal
.campaign and during the gubernatorial
canvass last fall.
. ■ Every once In a while even a cor
.' ■ billon attorney overreaches himself
\ and suffers, while the people get Jus
j tlce. ' This Is called to mind by the
■ falldown of Attorney W. K. Dunn in the
!■*■> telephone hearing yesterday.
( . | Many . Inconveniences surround the
k engagement of the San Carlo opera
T ebmpany here, but none of them should
'*■'. be 'permitted 'to keep any sincere lover
of good music from the rink this week
or next. That company's season would
bo well worth while If sung in a tent;
no euch"' opera ha* ever been heard in
witfelca hitherto.
OUR DEMOCRATIC, PRFSinfNT
From the Democratic point of view
ltI It Is, amusing to note th» Republican
talk shout "compelling" President
Roosfivplt to be a candidate for another
term. It is amusing because the chief
future* of the president's poilejr, which
♦licit so much ndmlratlon, were feat
ure* of the last two national Democrat
ic platforms. '
lt In because Theodore noosevelt
Via* dropped certain lines of Republican
pollry, ■»iih*tlMitlnß conspicuous Dem
ocratic lines, that his popularity tins at
tained Its present growth. Just In pro
portion as he cast off the lines of his
own party and accepted Instead certain
policies embodied In the Democratic
platforms of 1900 and 1904 popular ad
miration for him has Increased.
Having reached the point where his
energies are concentrated chiefly on Is
sues that were leading planks In Dem
ocratic platforms the acme of that nd
miration has been reached. Because he
has espoused Democratic principles and
become In fact a Democrat In salient
features of public policy, the -word Is
passed along the line of the Republican
press that he must hp "compelled" to
accept another nomination.
Two main features of the preslrtpnt's
policy nc«ount largely for thp admira
tion with which hp Is popularly rojyird
od. Ono Is his stuppndous fight against
thp trusts and the other Is his dpalrp for
a more equitable tariff. Hp Is regarded
ns a champion of the people In the
trust arena and thpr« Is assurance that
hp will favor a modification of the tariff
on lines morp helpful to consumers nnd
less beneficial to the manufacturing
trusts.
In view of thpse facts the question
arises why it should be so important
that Theodore Roosevelt continue to
occupy the presidential chair for an
other term. What ground la there for
the inference that a Democrat would
bp less successful than a nominal Re
publican In carrying out Democratic
policies? That Is the question to
which all tho discussion on this point
simmers down.
If the Republicans are so desirous of
peing the chief policies of President
Roosevelt worked out successfully
they can safely entrust the work to the
party which stands pledged by its
platforms to carry out those policies.
However acceptably the president may
be doing: the work which he has under
taken it must be remembered that the
work was cut out by Democratic con
ventions. At best the president Is an
adopter, not an originator, of the poli
cies on which his popularity chiefly is
based.
The plain fact Is that the president
has reached his present perch of popu
larity by taking up some of the same
lines of policy that William J. Bryan
formulated years ago. And it needs only
a reference to the political history of
the last decade to see that those poli
cies were repudiated by the Republican
party throughout the McKinley admin
istration. It was only when President
Roosevelt fully recognized the force and
the righteousness of Bryan's ideas that
he steered out of the Republican course
nd into the Democratic line wherein
he now Is sailing.
Why worry over the chance of induc
ing a nominal Republican to remain In
the presidency simply in order to con
tinue t ne carrying out of Democratic
policies?
GOOD FOR GILLETT
Following Its rule to accord "honor
to whom honor is due" in official
affairs. The Herald takes pleasure in
cor. alimenting Governor Gillett on one
of his first executive acts of special
public interest. That act is the veto
of the bill passed by the legislature
fixing $3 per day as the minimum wage
for labor on all public works in Cali
fornia.
Readers of The Herald are acquainted
with the character of the measure in
question, as its unreasonable features
were pointed out in these columns
when it was under consideration in the
legislature. Its effect as a law would
have been practical discrimination
against the better class of labor and
its enforced payment of high wages to
incompetents and loafers would have
been prohibitive In many public im
provements.
It is the crucial test of Governor Gll
iett's backbone, however, that calls for
particular notice now. The $3 labor bill
was one of the favorite measures
formulated by the political leaders of
the San Francisco trade unions. It
was pushed through the legislature
with all the backing at command of
tho San Francisco delegation, overcom
ing opposition appealß from Los An
geles and other cities interested largely
In public improvements.
In showing the requisite "sand" for
writing his veto of that bill, thereby
Incurring the wrath of San Franclsco'a
political managers, Governor Gillett has
performed an act worthy of commen
dation. It Indicates that he has suf
ficient self-will to stand for the right
in face of the prospect of Incurring
potent enmity.
Whether this act of the governor
means a complete break with the
powers at San Francisco is a matter
that will be determined later. It was
the Ban Francisco influence, It will be
i. Un inhered, that defeated the nomina
tion of Pardee in the Santa Cruz con
vention and gave the plum to Gillett.
Abu Uuef is the recognized boas in San
Francisco politics and the unions are
the chief features of his political stock
Tho Herald's commendation of the
governor, therefore, la confined to the
specific act of the )3 labor bill, which
might properly have been tar
act for the encouragement of touting.
If the governor continues to give evi
dence of the grit manifeHtod In th.it
veto The Herald will gladly give, him
the fullest meed of praise.
Now, maybe, the theater managers
are sorry they didn't secure terms
with undoubtedly the beat opera com
pany that ever sung In Los Angeles.
LOS ANGET/ES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1907.
SOMP POPULATION FIGURES
ln the guise of a showing. of a "re
markable condition as regards popu
lation," the^en Francisco boomers at
tempt, to boost their own city and
dwarf Los Angeles.
The statement Is made that "within
a radius of fifty mile, from Sun Fran
clsco Is a population of 875,687 «nd
within the same radius of Los An
gelus Is a population of 841,377."
This exhibit Is made with the
ostensible object of showing that more
than half of th» state's population Is
located In or near the two greater
cities. The estimated population of
the state, us given at San Francisco,
ls -,217,897 and the aggregate for the
two cities and their environs Is 1,217,-
Trip showing thus made nf population
In San Frnnclsr-n nnd Its neighborhood
Is ahoiil ;is much too high ns thp
Showing for Los Angeles Is too low.
The insi fvderal i-otmun, 1900, made the
population of Pnn Francisco 342,782. At
the tlmp of thp catastrophe, last April,
thp most rpllabio estimate placed thl
population at 40(1,000. Thousnnds of
San Francisco resldonts nt that time
are now citizens of Los Angrles. There
is no present means nf knowing ac
curately to what extent the calamity
dprrpnsod the population permanently,
but It surely would he — a moderate
gUeSS to call the loss 50,000.
The present population of Los An
geles, based upon the most reliable
data, is not less thnn 275,000 nnd prob
ably It is nearer the 300,000 mark. Six
months ago the quarter million ni.uk
was passed, and the ratio of growth
for the year preceding would bring the
present figure to at least 275.000. As
the total population of Los Angeles
and all its neighborhood within fifty
miles is 341,377, according to the San
Francisco claim, there can be only 66.37."
Inhabitants In the whole section out
side the city limits, but within a radius
of fifty miles thereof. There are more
than double tl.nt number In that sec
tion within twenty-five miles of the
city.
It undoubtedly Is true that fully half
the population of California is located
in or quite near the two great cities.
In order to make the Snn Francisco
estimate fairly acurnte, however, about
100,000 should be taken from the figure
for the northern district and added to
the district of*the southland metropolis.
Philadelphia wants Hill and Morgan
Investigated. Hasn't Philadelphia
wakened to the fact that Investigations
are out of date? Or why doesn't It
investigate itself, for a change? That
would be muck-raking worth while.
Sulphur yellow is the fashionable
shade for women's gowns this season.
Always thought the devil had some
thing to do with women's fashionable
gowns, but the hint of sulphur was
never quite so strong before.
If San Francisco wants to throw rot
tn eggs at anyone it now has a fine
mark in Its fiddler mayor, who certain
ly played as poor a part on the stage
of Washington politics as ever did the
worst hamfat.
LUMBER INTERESTS
FAVOR FOREST RESERVES
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. March 6.— President
Roosevelt was today assured that the
lumber interests of the west were in
perfect accord with his policy respect-
Ing forest reserves and the handling of
the public domain.
This assurance was given by Victor
Beckman, secretary to the Pacific Coast
Lumber Manufacturers' association; J.
T. Baugh, editor of the American Lum
berman of Chicago, and F. 18. Hub
bard, a prominent lumber manufac
turer of Centralia, Wash.
They called on the president with
Senators Ankeny and Piles and Com
missioner Ballinger of the general land
office.
President Roosevelt assured tho dele
gation that his sole interest was that
the people of the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific coast states should be looked
after in the handling of the public
domain.
THE SCOLDING PASTOR
Ella Eldridge
I heard a preacher who prattled
Of Isms and cults and things,
A man puffed up with a mission
To check evil wherever it springs.
So this preacher Issued programs
With flaming lines to proclaim,
That all through the Lenten season
He'd damn isms In Christ's name.
He also announced that music
And song a feature would be.
ln truth, a guarantee It was
For pleasant variety.
The preacher mounted his pulpit,
The devil's tricks to expose;
The Ism of Mary G. Eddy
Was Satan's favorite pose.
Then came the wicked socialist.
Here "divvy" got a whack.
Then spooklsm, that poor old sinner,
Wan ordered to sit way back.
U'lum to the thunder of his call,
Baba, the Hindoo, was led.
lf that picturesque sage had heard,
Back to his land he'd have fled.
And all through these condemnations. .
ln vain I waited to hear
The lessons these subjects Inspired
To make Christ's teachings more
clear.
ln hunger of spirit I listened
For some thought this preacher might
give
To awaken the Christ within man,.
Or make the dead words to live.
And the words of the Master came o'er
mc.
His gentle "Judge not" unto men,
Lest the measure you mete to others
Shall be measured to you again.
And I thought, O preacher that prattles.
Whatever may be your reason,
Why mar with your petty scoldings
Our blessed Lenten season?
Sympathetic Courteny
Man of the House (suddenly awakened 1
by an unannounced visit)— I fee! morti
fied, Mr. Burglar, that you found nothing
lii my pockets to recompen.e you fur your
t ruble. . i
Burglar (politely) — Don't mention It.
l'm a married man myself.
DEAREST DOGGIE HAS
TASTE FOR FANCY FOWL
Boston Terrier Accused of Foully Murdering and
Devouring POBC Finest Poultry Kvcr Pro
duced in Fair Land of Sunshine.
Swelldom Goes to Court
WOMBN'I hobWes oome high hut
they mutt havp thptn, the dpar
things, ovon If lmliby has to
pay tho piper,
That's what some people 0-1 In the
wpst end are thinking at Hip expense of
two of the beautiful, popular and
charming matroni of that section.
An Impudent little Boston terrier—
quite the dearesi little Boston
terrier In the world, Ikih stirred up the
trouble and Is accused In Its longing
for high living, of sending the souls of
some of the most pampered and lilklHv
bred ohlokem in Southern California.
to iii" great beyond ol chtckendotn.
Also resultant Is a laWflttlt In which
the hUSband of a ilo« fancier nnd the
husband of a chicken fancier will play
the star parts.
It all began as long ago ns six
months.
Mrs. J. T. Fitzgerald, society and
dub woman and wife of one of Los
Angeles' prominent business men, was
Just longing for a dear little Boston
terrier with bowed logs and nice sharp
little ears. Mr. Fitzgerald scoured the
City to find one thai lie thought would
Just fit his wife's desire, and at lnat
his efforts were rewnnled. and One day
he go) Into hll lni^y and started to
drive home with the coveted prize tied
supposedly sei ureiy in the baok of the
buggy.
Mr, Fitzgerald was happy In the
thought of the surprise he was going
to pop, and on the way home he
thought of many things pertaining to
the pup, but forgot to glance, behind
frequently enough to keep touch with
the movements of the canine.
Temptation Overwhelming
It was a very aristocratic pup and
apparently had a penchant for high
bred fowl, tn the course of his drive
Mr. Fltsgerald passed the residence of
O. H. Burbrldge on West Adams street,
where Mrs. Burbrldge keeps some of the
finest fancy poultry In the country.
If the happy man had driven past
an ordinary everyday chicken ranch
whore common birds live it Is probablo
that tho trouble would never have oc
curred and a broach which the courts
must widen would never have been
made.
Alas for the fowls! They were aris
tocrats, and how are the mighty fallei 1 .!
The wind was in the wrong direction,
and upon the breezes blowing from the.
chicken pens came the odor of chicken,
high blood aristocratic chicken wafted
straight into the nostrils of the Bos
ton terrier. Bein a connoisseur in fowl
it took the pup not more than a second
to make up its mind to break the rope,
and his accusers say that he stole
stealthily Into the home of the unsus
pecting ones. When Mr. Fitzgerald
finally turned to see the pup It was not
there.
A search was Instituted and many
were called into consultation to aid In
discovering the whereabouts of tho
valued pup.
When at last the .animal was dis
covered in Mrs. Burbiidge's chicken
yard it was a very irate little woman
who turned it over to the new mistress.
She was almost in tears, but she prob
ably recollected that tears were not be
coming to her big brown eyes, held
them back and burned defiance at the
owner of the dog.
Trouble Breaks Loose
Ten of her fancy chickens had been
slaughtered almost beneath her eyes.
Ten of them and every one a treasure,
and she declares the dog did it.
Mr. Fitzgerald was grieved, greatly
ROMANTIC LIFE
COMES TO AN END
CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF
LINCOLN IS DEAD
Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Whose Husband
Was Associated with the Martyr
President, Dies in Illinois.
Children Live Here
With the passing away of Mrs. Eliza
Wilson in Sterling, 111., at the age of
94, another link that bound the present
with the past is severad.
Mrs. Wilson was the mother of Mrs.
Emma W. Edwards and Dr. Anna
Nixon of Los Angeles, and during the
century of her life sho passed through
scenes of romance far beyond the lot
of the avenge woman.
Mrs. WilHon was born in the blue
grans region of old Kentucky, near
Paris, in 1813. The distant booming
of the British canon as they strove to
wreck the Infant's native land lulled
her to sleep, and the discordant note of
tlfe and drum sounded sweet to the
baby ears.
In 1832 tho inevitable happened. From
across the river, from the state of Ohio,
MUXM ■ chivalrous youth, fresh from
Athens college. The stalwart northern
lad fell before the uhy glances of the
blue grass maiden, and she, beholding
the manly form of Col. Robert Li. Wil
son, saw In him the hero of bar
dreams. Tho couple were married, and,
bidding farewell to the grasHy tleldß of
Kentucky, they pushed toward the
growing west.
Associated with Lincoln
ln 1886 the newly married couple
went to Springfield, 111. The young
husband, a lawyer by profession, was
admitted to the bar and became the
associate of Abraham Lincoln and oth*
er national celebrities of his time. He
also joined the state niijltia and took
a prominent part in the warfare the
new state was compelled to wage with
Black Hawk, the Indian chief. When
the power of the chief was finally
broken In 1842 at Btlllnian's Landing,
the young Col. Wilson occupied a con*
splcuous place In the front ranks. .
Four years after their arrival In the
new land, the young barrister was sent
to Whlteslde county to organize a
court. He did so, and for twenty-one
years Served as clerk of the circuit
in that county, resigning at last to ac
cept a position In the Union ranks,
During these yearn Mr. Wilson was
elected to the state legislature and i,,-
c ame an intimate friend of the legisla
tor who was afterward to be Immortal
lced as the first martyred president.
. The young couple built a palatial
home nt Sterling and for sixty-two
years It has been the home of the fam
ily. '.In It, the glittering salons aivd
balls of Illinois society were held. Jts
walls sheltered Lincoln.' (hi eclat of so
grieved. Likewise mi Mrs. Fitzgerald.
They both signified their willingness to
pay. Ten dollars they tendered. Thay
were not aware that those were no or
dinary everyday birds worth at most
I each, but blooded aristocrats valued
ln hard cold coin at $162 for ten.
Pett Are Expensive
Mr. 7<'ltZKnrnlil <)l.| not see liow lie
COUld find It In hie heart to pay $1(W
for ten chickens, and he then began to
realise thai peta come high. Mr. Bur
bridge did not see how he could afford
W lei his wife's fowls go for naught.
riiey t,ukpd it over, then they argue
it over and finally they agreed thai
they could not posßlbly agree on tin;
question.
The Huston terrier was taken homo
and put to bed. It had cost, well per
napi Mr. Fitzgerald would not be oar
ing to say Just how much it hud cost
but It was a fancy price.
Mr. Fitzgerald and his prptty little
wife talked it over and they were
agreed that $162 was entirely too much.
Mr. Burbrldge and his equally pretty
little wife likewise talked It over, and
then Mr. Burbrldge went to court.
That was almost six months ago, and
it was understood among tho friends
of the Interested ones that tho case
WOUld como up in a few days.
The west end wnndored nnd chatted
about It over the tea tables. It Is even
whispered that some of tho male west
enders made bets over their quiet llttlo
games as to who would come out ahead
—dog fancier or chicken fancier. Tho
liettiiiK was about even, and in a quiet,
well bred manner the west end has
been waiting expectantly for the mighty
to sit In Judgment. Around the Jon
athan club it has been a chief topic for
conversation, and both men had their
sympathizers.
Overcome by an Impulse
Tho bull terrier said nothing. It w««
closely guarded, but at night when the
household was asleep It pondored long,
and at times the thought of chlckt-n
would come back and that delicious
odor would once more penetrate tho
animal's nostrils. The animal would
lick its chops as if meditating on the
cruelness of a world In which humans
denies to canines nice fat chickens.
One morning last week Mrs. Bur
bridge awoke to find that a second raid
had been made on her chicken yard
and birds which sho values at some
thing more than $600 had been slaugh
tered. Of course she charged it up ro
the account of the Boston terrier.
This almost on the eve of the suit.
Was ever dog so inconsiderate?
The women in the case are saying
very little, but It i» a sure guess they
are doing a lot of thinking, and when
a woman thinks— well, some say there
may be fireworks.
Mr. Fitzgerald says that he will take
the dog Into court and introduce It a.s
evidence to prove that he— the dog of
course— ls so undershot that he could
not eat a chicken. Mr. Fitzgerald In
tends to show that the Boston terrier's
lower Jaw projects so far that his
teeth lovingly caress his upper lips,
making It impossible for him to in
dulge In food more solid than milk.
Prominent members of the Jonathan
club will probably be called as char
acter witnesses, and they are hourly
awaiting a subpoena.
The dog Is being guarded lest he be
accused of adding a few more hundred
dollars to the original price, and the
feathered aristocrats— their erstwhile
mistress has gone into mourning- for
them. May their souls rest in peace.
clety and the brilliancy of statesman
craft met within its handsome parlors;
and moving among them like a queen
was the young Kentucky belle.
Loaned Lincoln a Horse'
"Honest Abe," when he made his
memorable canvas over the state of
Illinois for the state legislature in 1836,
appealed to the Wilson family for
help, and the bride of scarcely a year
loaned the backwoods statesman her
own saddle horse, the wedding gift of
her father, to bear him from city to
city.
When Lincoln became president he
did not forget his old friends, and in
the front ranks at the first inaugural
stood Robert Wilson, who had come
on to see his old associate take the
oath of office. The newly made presi
dent was anxious to do something for
his former comrade and he offered him
any office Mr. Wilson desired. In a
short time this offer was accepted.
When the first mutterlngs of rebel
lion began to excite the northern cap
ital and the Union troops were still
far away, Col. Wilson was one of the
members of the famous "Clay's guard"
which kept watch around the White
House till the Massachusetts Uoops
arrived.
_ecomeß Paymaster
The army seemed to offer Mr. Wil
son the chance, he wlslted, and he en
tered the army as paymaster, his
former services permitting him to en
ter with the i-ank and pay of a major.
He served in the capacity of pay
master throughout the war, handling
in all over $7,000,000. During this time
the books of the paymasters were
audited four tlmoH, and of the 250 pay
masters In tho army only four were
absolutely correct In their accounts
Wilson was one of the four, ami each
time the auditors found that to be tho
case they sent him a letter of congrat
ulation, letters which have been kept
in the family as heirlooms ever since
After the war Mr. Wilson was
breveted lieutenant colonel by con
|resj. Me died in March, 1880, at the
age of 72 years.
Mrs. Wilson continued to live at the
old homestead after the death of her
bUSband, and it was in this house that
h died Tuesday. She was one of the
organizers of the First Presbyterian
church In Springfield and survived all
her assoeiati
The funeral was held yesterday In
Sterling.
PERBONALB
A. Maguire, master rnoohanlc of the
Salt Lakw mad, arrived at the Hollen
bock yesterday from Rhyollte, Nev.
A A B. Carpenter, a prominent mining:
man from Mexico City, Is at the An
gcluH, accompanied by Mrs. Carpenter.
Kilwtn J. Curry, a prominent banker
and real estate man of Baltimore, Mil,
In at the Angelua, accompanied by his
wife and child.
C . C. lioomla of the Angelus hotel has
(rone east, accompanied by B. W. Cason
of Caaou _ Arnold, hotel brokers. The
trip la for business and pleasure com
bined, and Chicago Is the chief destina
tion.
Mr. and, Mrs. 'Harry i,. Hughes of
Boise City, Idaho, who have been at the
HoUenbeck , . tor a pleasure < vial left
for their home last night. . Mi Hugh**
la a member of the linn of Hughes &
New Lace Robes
and Boleros
Now we are ready for the many
fastidious women who have been
patiently awaiting tine arrival of
our new robe-patterns and sKel-
eton coats.
Lingerie Dresses with hand embroidery and lace com-
bined, or with eyelet embroidery and lace, $30 to $135.
Batiste Robes elaborately embroidered in white and
dainty colors — walking length — $30 to $40.
Batiste and Dotted Swiss Robes with embroidery edge
and insertion, $12.50 to $47.
Bolero Jackets of linen beautifully trimmed with lace
$6 to $25.
Bolero Jackets of allover lace, $10 to $25.
Pony Jackets with fillet work and Irish crochet, $65
to $75.
Hand embroidered linen robes all weights of linen
$10 to $50. / • '
(Rear of South Aisle)
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"^^_P^^"^^ LS water bag, sold reg-
* ular for $1.15, that
you can purchase today for 75c.
Rubber gloves are just the thing for ladies who do their own
work. Today we have a special of 45c for regular 75c values.
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HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
THE EAVESDROPPER
MOTORCYCLE ELOPES WITH
DIGNIFIED BELL BOY
A very small boy and a very big
motorcycle had a misunderstanding on
Spring street yesterday and Spring
street had almost reached an end be
fore they came to a final agreement.
The young cyclist is Arthur Knox,
errand boy for the Alexandria hotel. He
It is who secures tickets for the guests
whenever they want to take a trip to
one of the local theaters, to the east,
to San Francisco or anywhere else. His
errands seldom carry him more than
three blocks from the hotel and his
time Is chiefly passed in going from
the hotel on Fifth streot to the South
ern Pacific building on Sixth street, one
block away.
Arthur — he Is a very difrnlflpd young
boy and no one would think of shorten
ing It to Art— decided tnat he must
have a motorcycle, and to this end he
deposited his earnings with a local
motor car company In exchange for
"a perfect beaut." With tho "bike"'
he received a lesson In the ways of
bikes, but he evidently did not learn
quite all there was to know.
After mastering as he thought every
detail he mounted the noisy machine
and prepared to cut a striking figure
covering the block between the hotel
and the ticket office. By the time he
had reached Mercantile place the thing
was properly started and then It was
time to try to stop it. The start went
beautifully, but the stop failed to ma
terialize. Young Knox lost control of
tho machine and he went whizzing
down the street for what seemed to be
milea until something happened and
the machine stopped of its own ac
cord somewhere outside the city limits.
Arthur trudged back to town and
now he Is trying to learn to start and
stop in the s- 1 " 10 block.
YOUTH OF FIFTEEN WRITEB
ON PROFOUND BUBJECTB
A A 15-year-old boy who writes verses
on the "Viewpoint of Eternity" and
other such profound subject. usually
foreign to the mind of the healthy
young American animal endowed with
that number of years, Is the prodigy
who is Just now claiming the attention
of the guests at the Angelus hotel
William John Short Is the prosaic
name under which the boy lives and
he Is the son of John W. Short, for
many yearn professor of literature In an
eastern college. In appearance he Is
much like other boys, except that his
face wears a I mature expression and
many lines not usually in the face of
a boy of 1!) are visible. ■
Ho in not prono to ,ik about his
work an_. In tact, has very few words
on any subject.- He reads most of the
tlme and the sports that Interest most
boys have no charm for him.
He cannot remember when he. first
began to read upon deep subjects and
scientific works of many kinds have
been his joy almost since he was able
to read at all.
Following are a few verses charged
against him:
THE VIEWPOINT OF ETERNITY
The ashes of dead worlds swirl In the
vast of eternity;
Now worlds and new suns find place.
But always the light dies and the husks
are driven as dead leaves on the
breath
That stirs the dust to life and scatters
it again. .
But the clay that Is quickened, moved
for an Instant, of all the aeons
ln which the world-soul breathes
through its infinitude of worlds
Roaches up to the golden unbared gates
of eternity
And tastes of all eternity in life and
love and death.
.">. "> ' \ A MOOD
Once at the day's dim ending,
Down by a deep lone stream,
A Illy was swaying and bending ■
And dreamed a stately dream. .'.
The murmuring spirits of flowers
That slumbered In fur away worlds ■
Came eddying down through the star
dust ■ . s , s
And drifting In shadowy swirls.
Dim souls of the stars that were imaged
lnI In the depths of the silent stream
Came silvering- up with the spirits
lnI In the sweet low light of the dream.
But the Illy In queenly raiment
Held sway to ii slow gray dawn
When the winds were wearied with
sighing: ' ■
And the stars and the flowers were
gone. ( . m .
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COMES SOUTH WITH BRIDE
Slg Sonnenburg, European represen
tative of a large glove manufactory
and brother of the genial Henry Son
nenburg, treasurer of the Orpheum, has
arrived at the Alexandria with his
bride. . .
l.' has a host of friends in Los An
geles and the San Francisco girl who
has become Mrs. Sonnenburg | might
have envious eyes cast upon her if she
were not bo charming as to Immediately
capture his friends to count them as'
her own.
• ■ •
. PERSONALS
Nelson Post, a mining man of To
nopah, Nev., is at the Westminster.
George Busser, superintendent of the
Santa Fe reading rooms, Is at the An
gelus.
David Keith, capitalist and mine
owner of Halt Lake City, has joined
his wife and family at the Angelus
hotel.
8. C. Howe, one of the leading factors
in the American Beet Sugar company,
ls at the Van Nuys. Mr. Howe registers
from Denver. , .
General 10. B. Williams of Chicago
arrived on one of the belated trains
from the east last night and is regis
tered at the Angelus.
. Colonel H. L. Plckett. a prominent at
torney .of Tombstone, Iris., and W.
Holmes and H. I- Fitch, mining men
from the same place, are at the Hoi
lenbeck., ■