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PRICE
VOL. XXXVI
SLATE MAKERS
AT SACRAMENTO
SEEM TO AGREE
STANTON OF LOS ANGELES TO
GET SPEAKERSHIP
LEGISLATURE WILL CONVENE
TOMORROW AT
Tranve and
SACRAMENTO
Arrest Alleged Murderer
NEW YORK
Pioneer Dies in North
OAKLAND
Value of Foreign Coins
WASHINGTON
Home Commander Elected
SAN FRANCISCO
Seattle's Annual Commerce
SEATTLE
LOS ANGELES HERALD
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
TENNESSEE AMBUSHED,
BUT ESCAPES BULLETS
UNIOX CITY
BURTON NOMINATED
FOR U.S. SENATOR
REPUBLICAN JOINT CAUCUS
HONORS OHIOAN
Will
ther opposition
dont
COLUMBUS
there has been no
Mr. burton
Park Prospects Encouraging
SAN JOSE
Discuss Mission Work
PACIFIC GROVE
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST
SUNDAY MORNING
COUNCILLOR
SUMMARILY
DISMISSED
ROYAL EDICT OUSTS NOTED
PEKING
Progress and Poverty
jgj^BBHE New Tear being fairly launched, The Herald wishes, in its modest way, to har«
'kMSs! a voice ' Rentle but firm, in the chorus of claims now being made by Los Angeles news
•fi tffl l'aPers. Our friends, the Express, are to be congratulated on their advertising gains
jjjjj^J-; I! m.a<Je in December, 1908, over December, 1907, but the Express should adhere to the
[aTtriiM) time-honored use of a steel rule when measuring advertising space—the rubber rule
produces disastrous results, and it is both unprofitable and unsatisfactory to deceive
oneself. To quote from the Express of Friday evening, January 1, under the caption "Stands
Alone," we find that "Of all the newspapers published in Los Angeles, the Express is the only
one to show a gain in advertising for December, 1908. over December, 1907. The Express
sained 3247 inches in advertising, while the Times, the biggest and hardest loser of any news
paper in the country, lost 2562 inches in advertising during December, 1908, compared with De
cember, 1907."
Now, let us see to whm! pitfalls of error the rubber rule leads. Actual measurements show
the figures to have been as follows:
The Times, December, 1908, compared with December, 1907; loss 3672 inches.
The Examiner, December, 1908, compared with December, 1907; loss 1975 inches.
The Record, December, 1908, compared with December, 1907; loss 1895 inches.
The Express, granting the correctness of their own figures, gained 3247 inches in December,
1908, over December, 1907
The Herald Gained 5918 Inches in
December, 1908, Over December, 1907
Thus it will be seen that the statement of the Express that "o£ all the newspapers pub
lished in Los Angeles the Express is the only one to show a gain in advertising for December,
1908. over December, 1907," is inaccurate, and thut The Herald's gain for the same period was
2671 inches greater than that of the Express, o r almost double the total gains of the Express,
thus placing The Herald in first place in progress among the newspapers of Los Angeles.
The Examiner shows a loss of 1975 inches, while The Herald shows the greatest gain of any
newspaper in Los Angeles. And, by the way, this is the only worthy thing The Herald has done
in the past three months that the Examiner has not imitated.
Between the inaccuracies of the rubber rule and the imitations of the mimics a really
modest newspaper has some difficulty in taking its rightful place, but the public is discerning,
and having given The Herald the patronage which gives it first place, will doubtless see to it
that it remains there.
To deviate just a trifle, The Herald's enterprise which led to the feeding of the city's poor
children on Christmas day was highly successful from the view point of the charitable men and
women who assisted. Another dinner and entertainment will be given on Christmas day, 1909.
This notice is given early, so that the Examiner may begin immediately to arrange another
vaudeville show in a drinking resort for Ihe children of Los Angeles. Since The Herald's Christ
mas Dinner and Entertainment is to be a regular annual undertaking, it will be entirely natural
und fitting for the Examiner to arrange for a regular annual imitation.
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REGRETS CRIME
BREAKS DOWN AND ADMITS
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Conscience.Stricken Witness in Trial
of Night Riders Asks to Be Re.
called and Corrects Mis.
statements
UNION CITY, Term., Jan. 2.—Assert
ing that she had deliberately perjured
herself for the defense, and, conscience
stricken, desired to tell the truth, Mrs.
Wad Morris, wife of one of the self
confessed nightriders, asked to be re
called today.
Wad Morris swore he was present
when Capt. Rankin was killed and
recognized some of the defendants.
Mrs. Morris, iiis wife, went on the
stand yesterday and impeached her
husband's testimony by swearing that
he was at home the night Capt. R&nkin
was murdered.
She left the stand pale and trembling,
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RAILROAD WILL
BUILD TO WEST
C, M. & ST. P. TO CAPITALIZE
FOR EXTENSION
Stock of Company Is Increased from
Three to One Hundred Million
Dollars as Preliminary
Step
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. —Preliminary
steps have been taken toward the cap
italization of the Pacific coast exten
sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway company, which will pro
vide for a total bonded debt of $200,
--000,000, covering the extension, should
that amount be necessary.
The first step was taken, it was an
nounced today, at a meeting of stock
holders of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad company of Wash
ington in Seattle last Thursday, when
the capital stock of the company was
increased from $3,000,000 to $100,000,000
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SINGLE COPIES
MAXINE ELLIOTT
GOTHAM'S NEW
THEATER COSTLY
MAXINE ELLIOTT'S VENTURE
DECLARED UNIQUE
Playhouse Bfcilt by Noted Actress and
the Shuberts Said to Be Pri.
marily a Woman's
Resort
[Special to The Herald. 1
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—What is con
sidered the most costly and handsome
theater of its size ever erected in the
United States—namely Maxine Elli
ott's new theater on West Thirty-ninth
street, between Broadway and Sixth
avenue—which was opened with fash
ionable formalities last Wednesday
night, December 30, also may be called
a most unique theater, for it is the only
one of its kind ever constructed so far
as is known.
The plans for the playhouse, its con
struction, decorative scheme, general
comfort for audience and actor alike,
are due to the ingenious thought of
Miss Maxine Elliott, who, in partner
ship with the Shuberts, has expended a
fortune in constructing this house.
It is primarily, if not essentially, a
woman's theater. Its construction was
undertaken with a view to making it
not only the home theater of Miss El
liott, but also of other women stars, in
cluding Julia Marlowe, Mine. Nazimova
and Mary Mannering.
The inaugural attraction, of course,
is Miss Elliott in her latest comedy,
"The Chaperon," by Marion Fairfax.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
JIDGE YOAKIM—DEAD—Judge C. H.
Toakum. general attorney of the 'Frisco
lines In Texas and brother of B. F. Yoakum,
chairman of the Frisco, Rock Island board!
is dead at his home in Fort Worth, Texas,
as a result of an attack of'apoplexy.
HIT BY MOTORMAN-John Larson of
Chicago is suffering there from bruises in
flicted by the controller handle of a street
car. According to the police he attempted
so talk with the mntorman, who requested
him to keep quiet and then struck him on
the head.
SOLON MlSSlNG—Friends of State Rep
resentative Christopher Beck of Chicago are
puzzled concerning his whereabouts and
some are of the opinion that he has met
done. The survey in its report declared
from his residence Thursday to procure
transportation to Springfield and has not
since been seen. It is said he had consid
erable money with him.
FORCED TO ASK ALMS —Wearing a Vic
torian cross which he says was presented to
him by the late Queen Victoria of England
and laying claim to royal birth and fabulous
wealth, a man giving the name of Colonel
Richard Miisgrove, a poorly clad, but withal
possessing an air of extreme gentility, faces
a charge of soliciting alms in the police
court of Jacksonville. Fla.
ORDERED TO Cl'BA—Lieutenant J. J.
Meade, United States marine corps. in
charge of tho Chicago recruiting station,
has been ordered to Guantanamo. Cuba. He
will be succeeded there by Lieutenant Ben
A. Lewis of the battleship Maine. Three
companies of marines, which will take
charge of the defense in the Hawaiian is
lands, are now speeding west on the way to
the coast from Washington.
Will GO TO FRANCE—Orville Wright
has announced his intention of leaving Day
ton, Ohio, for Pau, France, Tuesday. While
recuperating from the effects of the acci
dent at Fort Slyer he has employed his time
in devising several improvements' in the
aeroplane which, will be tried out when he
reaches Europe. One of these is an enclosed
cabin in which the aviator may manipulate
the machine at hiKh altitudes without ex
posure to the intense cold.
COPPKB PRODUCTION—The oountry
produced 5K8,»6«,451 pounds of copper, meas
ured by the smelter ouiput in 1907, accord
ing to the geological survey. Despite any
manipulation in the price of copper it is
maintained the producers of copper would
do well to conduct their industry more
nearly in accordance with the need of the
merchant or manufacturer than is now
done. Thes urvey in its report declares
that the copper industry of the country
would be lPis subject to depressions and the
profit wM <1 bo greater if such an attitude
was followed.
5 CENTS
ITALY'S RULERS
RISK LIVES TO
HELP SUBJECTS
_*-
NOBLE WORK DONE BY KING
AND QUEEN
LATTER INJURED IN CRUSH DUR
ING A PANIC
Reports Indicate Temblors Did Much
Damage in Lipari—Volcano Active,
" - Intense Suffering Continues
Among Refugees
f ——,
ROME, Jan. 2.-The great danger
which the king and queen of Italy
„-„ are facing in their noble efforts
among the stricken people of Sicily
and the south was brought home to
the people today when word was re
ceived here that Queen Helena had
been injured.
Fortunately her injuries were not se
vere but it is realized that any mo
ment another calamity might happen
involving the serious injury or even
the death of their majesties.
Not one among the rescuers has
shown more self-sacrifice than King
Victor Emmanuel, and the queen, too
has taxed her health and 'strength to
the utmost in giving relief and assist
ance to the injured. Anxiety for the
sovereigns is increasing in Rome.
Apart from the great strain which
then* majesties are unquestionably un
dergoing there is danger of earthquake
shocks, which do not seem to have
ceased; from walls that have not vet
been leveled; from great pitfalls in the
broken streets and from disease.
The injuries suffered by the queen
resulted from a panic among the
patients in one of the improvised hos
pitals at Messina, when the trembling
of the earth and the rumbling noise in
dicated another movement of the earth
The queen was caught in the rush
of patients, who, panic stricken, were
seeking safety in the open.
Panic Soon Quelled
The panic was soon quelled, how
ever, and the queen's injuries, which
proved to be little more than • con
tusions, were attended to.
Dispatches received from all the..
Lipari islands state that the effects
of the earthquake were very heavy
there and a panic ensued.
The convicts, of whom a large num
ber are imprisoned there, attempted a
rising, but were suppressed.
The Stromboli volcano showed great
activity. The damage, however, was
not serious and no one was injured,
but the people are camping in the open
air, fearing that further shocks may
come and overthrow their homes.
The duke of Genoa will leave Naples
tomorrow for Messina. He said today
that he wished to contribute all in his
power to the work of rescue going on
in Sicily and "would put himself at the
disposal of the government.
The duke will either command the
Italian fleet now in those waters or
will work as a private individual, not.
having other ambition than to join
with sailors, among whom he has
passed his life in helping his brothers
in the south.
Nunzio Nasi, the former minister of
justice, involved in the late scandal
connected with public funds, has joined
the rescuing parties at Messina.
He was accompanied by six doctors,
several nurses and a number of stu
dents-and citizens of Trapani.
Even the presence of Nasi, who is
the idol of Sicilians, did not serve to
infuse life into the depressed popula
tion.
It is stated Pope Pius X has decided
to send an appeal to the Catholic bish
ops throughout the world, to obtain
subscriptions to the earthquake fund.
He will place particular dependence
on the generosity of Americans, Eng
lish and Irish.
SURVIVORS TELL OF
HORRIBLE TRAGEDIES
ENACTED AT MESSINA
MESSINA, Jan. 2.—The stories re
lated by the survivors in the hospitals
and at the food supply stations whera
rations were issued twice &' day all re
flect the horror of the fateful 28th of
December. There were many miracu
lous escapes, but the cases of bereave
ments are without number. A cobbler
named Francesco Mesianro relates that
immediately after the first shock he and
his wife and children rushed out into
the street.
Fires were breaking out all around
them. Hearing groans from a pile o£
debris nearby, the cobbler made a hur
ried examination.
He found two girls dying.
The head of one was split open, whila
the chest of the other had been crushed
in. The cobbler picked up a baby, but
it expired in his arms. Seized with
mad terror, the man fled toward tha
sea.
Yesterday an old man who had lost
all his family was seen going about th«
ruins vainly asking for food. He sud
denly called out:
"As nobody helps me, I will die!" and
with these words he threw himself into
the sea.
. A sailor dragged him out.
The Marquis de Semolla' was buried
in the cellar his home. He found a
larder and ke^t himself alive until ex
tricated.
Lieutenant Pleads for Aid
An actress named Flora Farina,
while lying half buried in wreckage,
heard the voice of a lieutenant of ar
tillery close at hand. The man had
recognized her but his plight was
worse than her own.
"Signorina, for pity sake save me.
Call for some one to rescue us. Don't
leave me. I was at the theater last
night and I applauded your singing. I
have a mother; don't leave me to die."
The woman was eventually dug out
and led her rescuers to where tho
lieutenant was pinned down. He also
was saved.
An infant clothed in a little night
shirt was rescued well and uninjured,
after having lain for four days on a
square yard of flooring in a house that
otherwise was entirely demolished.
There were three fresh earthquake
shocks, at 3:30 a. m., 1:35 p. m. and 1:15
p. m. The last was the most severe
and caused widespread panic.
The people encamped around the
railroad station started on a mad
flight.
The women prayed and sang hymns
but having no place to go soon
stopped, irresolute. When the tremb-
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