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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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