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I fk PAGES I ±2i r VOL, XXXVII. M MBER !)ii 1Jl»I/i|.-'. |/\ I "'l < lVr|'%l nY CARRIER lllL,lill 4U l^lliiN 1 S i'EK MONTH Ten Persons Killed by Ptomaine Poisoning INDEX OF HERALD'S NEWS TODAY FORECAST For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair Wednesday; killing frost in the morn, ing; light north wind. Maximum tern. perature yesterday, 54 degrees; mini, mum, 35 degrees. LOCAL I Will have moving day at city hall; city attorney to have quarters with deputies. PAGE 9 NSephcw of late Lord Curzon Is given county Jail sentence, and downfall oC - scion of nobility Is said to be due to high Urine — PAGE 3 Betting on ponies given as cause for divorce In suit brought by Mrs. Henrietta Stein man. PAGE 16 Elk Consolidated Oil deal results In fraud charge being, made. PAGE 16 "Watch Them Flying!" Is slogan on 60,000 posters Bent out by Pacific Electric boost ing avalation week. PAGE 14 Saloons cannot be run within four miles of aqueduct, according to supremo court de cision. PAGE 9 Mayor Alexander sends message to city council in which he urges importance of new charter. PAGE » New council adopts systematic rules for conduct of its debates, and business Is transacted expedltloualy and carefully. PAGE 9 Honor of city and aviation week at stake; citizens appealed to for funds; pro rata of surplus will be returned., PAGE 1 Editorial, Letter Box and Haskln's letter. PAGE 4 Stone and wife still in jail: husband again denies guilt In connection with Shiveley murder. . PAGE 12 Attempt to unite nvlation clubs of state made by Aero club of California; com mittee appointed. PAGE 5 Death lurks In food, and entire family and others at Sawtelle are carried off by ptomaine poisoning; ten already dead, and three others In critical condition early this morning. PAGE 1 Two mllllon-doHar buildings will change the city's sky line. PAGE 6 Report of death In flood comes from desert station where it Is said the dead have been washed away. PAGE 6 Society and clubs. PAGE 10 Marriage licenses, birt*« and deaths. PAGE 14 City brevities. PAGE 6 Xews of the courts. PAGE 16 Municipal affairs. PAGE 9 Mines and oil fields. PAGE 13 Markets and financial. PAGE 7 Automobiles. PAGE 11 Theaters and criticisms. PAGE 3 Classified advertising. PAGES 14-15 >tuslc.' PACK 10 SOUTH CALIFORNIA \ Desert shooting ends In release of K. J. • FHzpatrtck from San Bernardino county Jail. -^. PAGE 14 Push cart man at Long Beach 13 struck by train as he fails to hear bell; may dic E v Pa«.nena backed by civic pride In its tour- Dam' nt venture. pave 14 COAST ._ JtuimreUH mourn u^atli of O. Ogaen Mills at San Francisco, and Mrs. Whltelaw JU-lii. bis daughter. sits alone with body. FAUI-'j - | EASTERN * — ■ Hole on call money Is easier, and as strin gency relaxes prices In stacks rally, and speculation Is aided by liquidation. PAGE 2 Depth Is sentence meted out to two negroes In Kansas City who are found guilty of assault on white woman; Jury is out but five and one-half minutes. PAGE 2 j P. Morgan of 'New York plans vast con solidations, and firm which bears Ills name will control hundreds of millions. PAGE 3 Prof. "Willis Moore wearies of his burden and refuses "re-election as president of National Geographic society. PAGE 8 National forest cut Is enormous, as shown by annual report of secretary of agri culture. PAGE 8 Many sections of United States through cast and middle west in hold of storm . king. *■ 1 AGI3 8 " President will combine messages and submit two documents on interstate commerce and anti-trust laws simul taneously to congress. PAGE 2 Ship subsidy bill dropped and plan sub mitted by Representative Humphrey a favored by President Taft. PAGE 2 Puulhun, according to statement mails by noted aviator In New York, will try for world's record at Los Angeles. 1' ALi 13 5 President Taft is severely criticized by Representative Adair of Indiana just . after chief executive's son and daugh ter had left the house gallery. PAGE 2 Congressman Mann would reform rail road laws and offers substitute bill which vitally affects interstate com -~ merce. PAGE - President Taft to wage merciless war . on Insurgents and all opponents to administration's legislative will be cut off from patronage. PAGE 1 Tammany Tiger bows In submission to Mayor Gaynor .of New York, and Charles F. Murphy la obliged to wait his turn with others before being ad mitted to chief executive's presence. ... , v PAGE 2 FOREIGN I De la Grange, noted French aviator, killed . while making fast trial flight at 80. --deaux. Franco. T'AGH " MINING AND OIL \ Pyramid Kig works two shifts, despite storm at Santa Paula. PAGE 13 Easterners "Join new Canfleld company, •which controls SCKiO acres in Midway and Bakerstield districts. . PAGE 13 V'tu-ral output of Arizona for year amounts to $43,000,000. PA.ii; 13 Bay City Oil company strikes oil-sand In well on Midway property. PAGE 13 Spinks brings in two wells at Coalinßa. I A( ■Uj IS Scnta Fe test well Interests oil men. PAGE 13 y- SPORTS st vinc«nt'» canutaaies for baseball team begin practice competition. _ , PACE 12 Orbicular come* to life suddenly at Juarei and wins handicap event. PAGE 12 Japanese wrestler easily wins match with American In straight, falls. PAQH 12 Sam Langfoni practically matched to box ten round* with Flynn here. I'AGE 12 ■tat* league magnates meet again and ad journ after turning over everything to '•• ■ coromlti i - '' ■'■''■ '- Jack Park.-.- ■.autors away with handicap " feature of onvlllu tan.-, \ FA.QIS 13 Sawyer has slight lead In h. A. A. C. • handicap pool tournament. AUK 12 LOS ANGELES HERALD TAFT TO WAGE MERCILESS WAR ON INSURGENTS Opponents to Be Cut off From Fatronage and "Starved Out" BITTER BATTLE IS ON Cummins and His Allies Arouse Executive's Ire by Stubbornness WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—War with out quarter will be waged be tween the Taft administration and such Republican "insurgents" in congress as are opposing and who shall oppose in the tuture the Taft legis lative program. The baitle is not with those tariff insurgents who quietly sheathed their blades alter defeat, but with those who are whetting their knives publicly In anticipation of continued conflict. The battle broke suddenly today. At first it was a single shot; then a scat tered firing, spreading swiftly, until tonight it has taken on the aspect of a general engagement. The substance of it ifi that senators and congressmen who have taken a stand against the present administra tion and who continue to align them selves with the opposition to the pres ident's policies are to receive no con sideration in matters of patronage. Utterances such as that made by Senator Cummins at a recent dinner in Dcs Moines, by Senator Bristow in previous speeches, anti-Taft articles in Senator La Follette s Magazine and a recent interview by Senator Clapp on the price of foodstuffs are said to have started the president into action. Sought Appointments It has been reported further that some Republican insurgents m the house have tried to obtain the ap pointment of men out of harmony with the Taft regime. . Mr Taft's closest friends advised him that It would be impolitic for him to give sinews of war to those who might even co-operate with the Demo crats in congress against the Taft leg islative program and In the country at urge by creating anti-Taft sent.ment in advance of the 1912 convention. It is said without reserve tonight that the president has listened to such advice and has decided to follow it. In support of the position taken by certain leaders of the administration, the battle is not with the tariff ln "flfwaß pointed out tonight that Sen ators Nelson, Brown, Burkett and Borah, all of whom voted against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, appear to be persona grata at the White House postoffice department, land office and internal revenue bureau, where federal "pie" is served. No politician who would discuss the situation at all tonight dared haz ard an opinion as to the political out ccme of the contest. Various Conjectures Some insisted that it would arouse bitter opposition to President Taft, while others declared the 1 effect would be to make all Republicans line up for or against the president, and •smoke out" the neutrals. Representative Miller of the h-ighth Minnesota district was the man chiefly instruments in "blowing the lid oft or the (situation today. _ Ho did it by a statement to the ef fect that Postmaster General Hitch cock had informed him yesterday that his recommendations for presidential postmasterships were being held up because of his insurgent activities in the house. He quoted the postmaster general as saying in substance: "A great deal of pressure is being brought to bear on me to withhold from the insurgent Republican cow gressmen the patronage in their dis tricts. I am loath to do this, and the matter is still under consideration. Mr. Miller said he told the postmaster general he intended to carry the thing to the floor of the house, but that Mr. Hitchcock urged him to wait until the subject could be further considered. Whereupon Mr. Miller agreed to wait full developments before precipitating an open tight. Taken to Task A< scon as the congressman's state ment became known, the postmaster general called him up on the tele phone and took him to task for not re garding the conversation as confiden tial, to which Mr. Miller said that he felt he had violated no confidence. Mr. Miller said tonight that a month ago ho complied with a request of the postofflce department to forward his recommendations on several postmas* tershlps in Minnesota. ; After waiting several weeks he called at the department, he says, but was for a long time unable to see the postmns ter general. He succeeded in gaining an audience yesterday afternoon, and it was in that conversation, according to Mr Miller, that Mr. Hitchcock in formed him of the existence of a situ ation that had made it impossible for him to act as yet on his recommenda tions. Interview "Private" , Mr. Miller states that he had no idea that the Interview was to be considered private, as there were three other call ers at the time who might have heard the conversation. , Representative Humphrey of Wash-' ington was one of the three present, and one or both of the others were con gressmen. / , Before making the matter public he' had conferred with Senator Clapp, from his own state, also an insurgent. Ho did not desire, he said, -to precipitate any final break, but he had merely re peated words which he considered were authoritative. __ Postmaster General Hitchcock I was silent on the subject tonight, and no other official representing the adminis tration would say a wold about It. . ■ Another feature of the attitude of the nnrtv leaders i toward Insurgent I m«m- Cuotluued un lay© 'liru. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 5. l!) 10. The Liquor Question Some Suggestions as to Much Needed Changes In and Additions to the Laws and Regulations Gov erning the Sale of Liquor in City of Los Angeles THE HERALD believes that one of the first matters ' that should be taken up by the present city govern ment for careful and thorough treatment is the regu lation of the liquor traffic in the city of Los Angeles. No attempt has ever been made by any government in this city to systematically go about the adoption of a complete and carefully thought out set of laws for the regulation of this traffic. What attempt at regulation has been made has been spasmodic and by piecemeal. The result is that in many ways the legislation of the city controlling the liquor traffic has not kept pace with the growth and de velopment of the city and the best sentiment of its citizens. As the result of a somewhat careful study of the liquor traffic as conducted in this city and elsewhere, and of reg ulations which have been adopted by states and munici palities to control this traffic, The Herald desires to submit some suggestions to the new city government. As the retail, or dram shop, department of the liquor business is always the most important, it is to that depart ment that we first call attention. The retail liquor business in this city was, by regula tions established in 1898 and now in force, made pecu liarly favorable to those engaged in it. In that year and when the city had a population of probably 80,000, the po lice commission adopted a rule limiting the number of retailor dram shop licenses in the city t0.200. This rule of the police commission was afterwards given the force of a law by the city council, and this number of reta. or dram shop licenses has never been exceeded until, w» h the annexation of San Pedro and Wilmington, fourteen additional saloons were brought into the city in the ter ritory so annexed, and the total number of retail licenses was thereby increased to 214. When this rule limiting the number of retail licenses to 200 was first adopted by the police commission in 1898 the license fee charged retail liquor dealers was $50 per month, and there was 400 pop ulation to each retail license. At the present time the population of the city of Los Angeles, exclusive of the harbor territory containing the fourteen additional retail liquor licenses, is certainly 320,000, which would give an average of 1600 of population to each retail license. There is also no question that the value of a retail liquor license in the city of Los Angeles is considerably increased by the fact that the city is surrounded by important suburban towns in which prohibition is in force, thus compelling a population much larger than that within the actual mu nicipal boundaries of the city to look to the liquor sellers of the city for its supplies of the goods in which they deal. Notwithstanding the fact that the inhabitants of the city have increased by at least 300 per cent since the rule limiting the number of retail licenses was first adopted, the price of these licenses has only been increased 100 per cent, or to $100 per month. So that at the present time the average of inhabitants in this city for each retail license is something like 1600, while the licenses are $100 per month, as against an average of 400 inhabitants per license for which the holders were paying $50 per month when the 200 limitation was first adopted. These figures suggest that the city should at least double the present price ot licenses. That is, that each retail liquor license at the present time is as certainly worth $200 per month with an average population of 1600 per license as the .same license was worth $50 per mouth with an average population of 400 per license when the limitation of 200 v/as first adopted. In considering the above figures there can, it appears to us, be no question that the city council should at once increase the retail liquor license fee of the city to $200 per month. The mere fact that these licenses are limited to 200 has given them a very large value. Several times within the past few years licenses have sold in the city of Los Angeles for many thousands of dollars each. Another reason why these licenses should be increased is that the city is very much in need of a large increase in its police force. The chief of police and police commission have requested an increase of 100 men in the city of Los " Angeles, and even with .such increase granted the city would still have fewer policemen compared to area to be covered than any other municipality in the country. It is an indisputable fact that the largest need for police regulation in a city is produced by the existence of the liquor business, with the evils which are inseparable from the conduct of that business in certain forms, and it is o»Jy just that this business should be taxed a substantial amount to pay for the municipal expense which it imposes. Considering the great increase in population of the^ :ity since the present license rate was fixed, the conseqt uit large increase in the business which the city's limital on upon the number of retail licenses issued guarantees\ to each holder of such a license, and the further obligation which this class of business is under to contribute to the maintenance of the police force of /the city, we do not be lieve that there would be the least injustice in raising the present license fee of the city of IJos Angeles to $200 per month. On the contrary,*\ve think such a raise would be eminently fair. On tomorrow The Heiald will make some further sug gestions for changes in the liquor laws, a portion of which will work a distinct but just advantage to the licensed re tail liquor dealer, if adopted. They will, however, work much greater advantage to society and the cause of de cency in the city in protecting it from the evil influences of a class of unregulated liauor dealers which has grown up in this city under the form and name of social clubs. Whatever advantage the licensed liquor dealer may reap from the suggested changes in the laws will simply be doing justice to the man authorized by the city to engage in that business, and whose business the city is morally bound to protect against unlicensed ami illegal competition. HONOR OF CITY AND 'AVIATION WEEK'AT STAKE General Public Appealed to for Funds to Carry Out Great Meeting TO BE STOCKHOLDERS World is Looking to Los Angeles to 'Make Good'; Benefits are Apparent Glenn H. Curtiss, holder of the world's record for distance and speed in an aeroplane, ar rived this morning at 1 o'clock over the Santa Fe direct from New York to take part in the Aviation week contests. THAT it is the duty of every merchant, business man, real estate dealer and pub lic spirited citizen of Los Angeles to come through at once with a subscription for the success of "Aviation week" and the honor and lasting benefit of the South land —and do it NOW —is appar ent, say members of the commit tee, comprised of some of the best known business men of the city. This meet opens next Monday. Aviators from Europe and from all parts of the United States either are already in Los An geles or are on their way. News papers in all parts of this coun try and in all the large cities of Europe have published columns about the big meet, and many of the big journals are sending cor respondents. More than that, the money subscribed is not a gift, but a loan, and there is little doubt that, if the sum needed is sub scribed, the holders of the sub scription stock will receive at least their money back, and prob ably will be gainers from a pro rata division of the profits made. Money Needed Now "We have obtained only 40 per cent of the amount we require as a guaran > fund, and we propose that every m*_ In Los Angeles county send us a check according to his means," said D. A. Hamburger, chairman of the Avia tion week committee last night. it you want to be put on the roll of hon or, come through, with your check by return mail. We need the money. "We propose that the public shall know those who come through, those who onV IsVd and did not, and those who refused. Mr IlunthVon .-üb-cribed $10,000 because be said It was » good Investment. He ex u-cts hit. money back, and also expects it to aid the city. Why, 810.000 would not 'over the cost of advertising Los Angeles will receive from the Aviation week if we had to pay for it outright.' "Every one Interested in the growth and prosperity of Los Angeles should subscribe liberally toward the aviation meet, and not wait for the committee to call The time is so short calls cannot be made, but because we can not get around to see you is no reason that you will be overlooked. Ihe indi vidual persons and corporations that do not contribute will put themselves on record. .. Will Publish Honor Roll "Every subscriber's name will be pub lished and Los Angeles will know those of Its citizens who contribute toward its greatness and those who do not claim that they do. We expect, with fair weather, to return to the subscrib ers every dollar they have advanced. The expenses will be around $100,000, the receipts from $120,000 upward. "If we bring 100,000 persons to I,os An geles to witness tb«e (light., that will mean from 11,000,000 to $2,000,000 to lie divided among doctors, lawyers, engineers, architect" merchants, capitalists and every one that has something to sell, l>om 6000 to 10,000 persons will remain— they will want homes. The real estate man. the plumber, the mason, the carpenter, the man that lias labor or material or the earth to ■ell will all reap the benefit. "The wholesale grocers, butchers, provision and produce dealers, as well as the retailers, will have to feed the people we bring here. At least $500,000 worth will be consumed, and they would gladly pay anyone 2Mi per cent to sell this amount for them. We will sell it for them without any trouble on their part— they are blind to their interests, for they have not encour aged us with a subscription to do it for them. Means Business for All "The hotel men, the restaurants, sa loons and theaters will have to furnish amusement, and they should respond liberally, for every event that attracts attention to Los Angeles means busi ness for them. Martin Neuner, Fred Baker, William Garland and Perry Weidener of the executive committee have given their time and money and all their energy and enthusiasm to make this a success, meeting sometimes twice daily and being in session prac tically the entire day. I have given It my exclusive attention ever since I was appointed chairman, neglecting my business., during the Christmas rush, much to my cost So I say it is not fair for the entire community to permit this committee to do all the work without at least trying to encourage them finan cially. * "We don't want you to hide behind our Inability to call for a subscription. Be public-spirited enough to mall It to us. ' Wo i intend to , pullffMforClxzflfltl (Continued on tfmM* Viva) |V/i| IT 1 fVIUiLI^. DAILY, Set SIJNP • 81 OliNi»I-.lil tUrlfifl. ON TRAINB. 6 CEMN DEATH LURKING IN FRUIT CARRIES OFF AN ENTIRE FAMILY Pioneer Residents of Sawtelle Eat Tainted Food at New Year's Feast and Die, in Frightful Agony FRIENDS POWERLESS TO SAVE THEM Scenes of Horror Are Witnessed in Stricl en Homes—Dead and Dying Lie Side by Side The Dead Mrs. Dionisia Garcia D'Valdez, 66 years old; grandmother of dead children, Santa Monica. Mrs. Guadaloupe Fernandez, 31 years old, daughter of Mrs. D'Valdez; residence Sawtelle. Ysabel Fernandez, 2 years old, granddaughter. Mrs. Dolores Garcia, 38 years old, daughter, Santa Monica. Frank Garcia, 9 years old, grandson. Alfonso Garcia, 3 years old, grandson. Antonia Preciado, 4 years old, granddaughter, Sawtelle. G. Reyes, 58 years old, brother-in-law of Mrs. D'Valdez, Sawtelle. Virginia Preciado, 3 years old, granddaughter, Sawtelle. Ramona Garcia, 13 years old, granddaughter, Santa Monica. The Dying B. Preciado, 36 years old, son-in-law. Mrs. B. Preciado, 36 years old, daughter. TEN members of the old Marquez family, builders of the first house in Santa Monica and former owners of the vast, Santa Monica rancho, are dead and two are dying as the result of what is supposed to be ptomaine poisoning contracted while the family party partook of a New Year's dinner at the home of Mrs. D. G. Valdez in Sawtelle Sunday afternoon. No hope is held out'for the\ecovery of two who have been bat tling against death since Monday night, when overcome by the illness, and the only ones who escaped out of the merry party of fourteen who sat down to the holiday feast who are not either dying or dead are two infant children who were too young to par take of the meal. The poison to which the wiping out of the family is laid is sup posed to have been contained in a jar of pears which constituted the dessert at the dinner, and of which all partook except th% infant chiM-;r;. - ; v ■ MERRY PARTY SUNDAY It was a merry party Sunday, and there was no premonition of the swift visitation of death until Monday, shortly before noon, when Frank Garcia, 8 years old, one of the guests at the feast, was taken suddenly ill. He died Monday afternoon. Since that time the hand of death has struck the little party that gathered around the family board at Sawtelle ten times with shock ing rapidity, despite the efforts of all who came to relieve the suf fering ones. Drs. G. W. Peck and G. A. Fielding were called m to attend the suffering family yesterday morning, but despite their efforts ten had died before midnight. Dr. George W. Campbell, coroner's physician, investigated the case yesterday afternoon and has taken possession of the earned fruit with the object of analyzing it. He stated that the deaths were the result of ptomaine poison. Last night he held an autopsy on the bodies of Mrs. A. Fernandez and her infant child at the Saw telle undertaking parolrs. At its conclusion he stated that he was confident that death had been caused from ptomaine, although there •were symptoms that he could not account for. The poison, he said, had acted principally on the respiratory organs, while the heart was not affected, and the peculiarity of the cases was that the poison seemed slow of absocption. SEVERAL ESCAPE BY ABSENCE The tragedy had its birth in a family reunion of a mother, her three daughters and their families Sunday afternoon. Three other daughters of Mrs. Valdez, Mrs. Lucia Guzman, Mrs. Elisa Valencia, and Mrs. Theresa Valenzuela, intended to dine with the family, bui at the last moment changed their minds and ate their dinner at Mrs. Guzman's residence in Sawtelle. Alfonso- Fernandez' and Frank Garcia, husbands of two of the daughters of Mrs. VaUez, were working that day and were unable to attend the family dinner. When the New Year's dinner was arranged Mrs. Lola Garcia took her family of five young children to the Valdez home at Illinois and Tenth streets, Sawtelle, in a carriage Sunday. They returns! home the same day, which accounts for their taking sick in Santa Monica. Little Ramona Garcia remained at the Preciado home, where she died last night. This trip was a fatal one for the Garcias. Out of a total of-six who made the trip in the buggy, five are dead tonight, whilelittle Virginia Garcia, only 1 year old, is left motherless. The ! father, Frank Garcia, who was working at Redondo Beach, arrived home today in response to a message to find his family almost annihilated. His state of mind was pitiable tonight. YOUNG BOY DIES FIRST ' Frank Garcia, aged 8 years, was the first to succumb after the dinner. He died at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. Isabel, the 2 year-old daughter of Mrs. Fernandez, died at 9 o'clock Monday night, and Mrs. Fernandez passed away a few hours later. . Early; yesterday morning Mrs. Valdez died. Hour after hour yesterday, saw some of the party sicken and die. ./,. Up till the last minute before the hand of death was upon.l hem the stricken people were apparently well. A tightening of the throat. muscles was the first intimation of death. Each one suc cumbed within an hour after the throat sensation. ■". Guadaloupe Reyes, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Valdez, who ; Uvc? next door, died yesterday afternoon. , . . ... # : ■ • Ramona Garcia, 13 years old, and Mane Antone Preciac 3 years old, passed away a short time later, and last night, in ■ quick succession, Virginia Preciado and Alphonse Garcia, 2 and 4 years old respectively, died in the same room. ' The house of death was crowded to suffocation with relatives of the stricken persons, and it was with difficulty. that the doctors and nurses could work. The narrow little bedrooms in which three (ConUaueri on !»»•• Cl»htl CENT^