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Pages 9 to 16 Talking Machines «£l MjSW ' rm^^ f^w >4CPk FCB j^n Jf^y /feverSo Low Hero are the facts about this great sale: The /Sf'SPw^ Cash 01" machines are all well known, reliable makes; yj^vSwgrMl Timo prices are just about half regular; you can iMgMMfffl; _ 1III!I -buy on time payments if you desire and nil tho J(wJ<*^^V Payments money you pay can be applied on a Victor If M^-— *fMH|fej^ you want to exchange inside six months. Don't flßJfeg^mi|{£|Pißmte)^ • be without a talking machine you certainly wgigfj|^9iffs«g'r»'**El can afford one in this sale. nHt mm .nt-dS* Liberal Supply of Records W Free with Every Machine *^^^&i jQrjW j^Bf^yKSmi tsk wMmf^^ rsenutlful machine, with jHEL mB mm r JBF VVSk nak caile ' l&rga horn; a IM Bi I Mm SB Mm ifi splendid Hu v»lu«; our m JfnH M BJSJ MmVa MM JKV SBE lM mjU M Ha M Hf mW price, with 12 new Zono- Cflnj^r Mm j^ffSHi JK wA\^r phnne 60c records, 200 W BlWgß^m nr-eillesnnd botllo (T IQ mm W Another Complete Outfit fiH&f £';mm Handsome machine, large horn; til "7C KiJmM /H Hf regularly $25. Our price, with Blx<J"l.iJ 8&3&b! £$ Bf new 60c Zonophone records, 200 needles and mt Iff bottle of oil, $11.75. MSp P^ A Wonderful Value at Magnificent parlor Zonoptione, ta- tf OK f\(\ perlng arm, flower horn; never sold>P^«>"" |1,, A.,1. "M/vmrnr f"r 'ess than $50; our special price, with 200 IVcCOruS IIOW needles, bottle .of oil and six new 60c Zono- Greatly Reduced phone records, $25. Jfl '■• Greatly Reduced B ei«t from. ft** .took of Some second-Hand Snaps new 10-ln. Zonopbona rec- wo still have a few good second-hand ma ord«. regularly 600 each, chines, exchanged on Victors, priced as low at, f4 • dozen! Umlt of one as $3. Easy terms. donen Co • customer. ——■———————————^ ———~-——^^— The House of Musical Quality Southern California Music Co. 332-334 South Broadway Los Angeles A "To Any Thoroughly Satisfied Man / \ I will Rive 10,000," advertised an eccentric mlllion /^Maw\ alre. Letter* poured In from hundreds of claimant*. /i^^amV "But, If you were thoroughly Katlnllod you wouldn't Api-^>y^yy want the monry," retorted the old' Joker, and kept the / j^y"T~\ruH \ want the money," retorted the old joker, and kept the \ No one apparently In entirely nll'tled with hb lot. but / Hf ■'A WE \ '" Have a competency contributes a whole lot to one's / Kl'§/^/tES \ enjoyment of life. It given freedom from care anil / PKk. ' Ji^H* \ worry. Stnrl n bank amount today, A little dflf tarrl —^—— _ * ace now obviate* the necessity of It later. Merchants Bank & Trust Co. "BSiiS WOMAN DECLARES SHE IS H. WILEY'S WIFE Would.Be Suicide Is Attended by Per. •on Who Telephoned Hotel of Man's Intention to Die "I am married to Mr. WHoy, and that is all you can get out of me," shouted the woman who telephoned to the Lankershlm hotel Wednesday evening, warning the clerk there that H. K. Wiley, a guest of the house, was about to commit suicide in his room, when seen yesterday at her homo, 847 West. Tenth street. The woman was behind a locked door and refused to see anyone. She admitted that Wiley w.i , in tho house with her and that his condition was rapidly Improving, but Hist and foremost of all she want ed It distinctly understood that she Was married to him. Dr. (.). M. Justice attended Wiley from the time he was discovered un conscious on tho floor of Ins room until lute yesterday morning. Heroic efforts on the physician's part saved the life of the would-be suicide, as he had ■wallowed a great quantity of the poison. Hi 1 recovered sufficiently to be moved ty noon yesterday and was taken to ilio Hat on West Tenth street, where he and his wife locked themselves in and refused to see anyone. Mrs. Wiley refused yesterday to toll how long she had been in Los Angeles or anything elso in regard to her past history. She would not say when she and Wiley were married or where, but repeatedly affirmed that a marriage ceremony had taken place. She also stated that her husband would explain all as soon as he was able to do so, and that until then nothing would be made public. Mrs. Wiley also denied that she had j»ny knowledge of another woman who called Wiley husband in the east. The mere mention of any of the unpleasant facts in connection with the affair was enough to cause her to weep. STUDENT ADMITS THEFT B. C. Grebe, a Polytechnic student, charged with the theft of chemicals and apparatus from the school lab oratory, pleaded guilty yesterday be fore Police Judge Frederickson to a charge of petty larceny, and will be sentenced Saturday. It is probable that the lunacy commission will be asked to examine Into his sanity. Verdugo Canyon Land Co. Has Just Issued the Most Beautiful and Ar tistic Illustrated Booklet ever published Id Los Angeles. Call or send for one. JNO. A. PIRTLE Tel. F0643. 401-2 Union Trust Bldg. Don't Build S£s Hipolito Self-Regulating Roller Screen and Reversible Window II i< MiiiK'iiiinii him that will surely revolutionize window loiiHtruitloii. Call and see It. HIPOLITO SCREEN & SASH CO. FSIOO 654-6 SB MAPLE AVENHK. Main 1806. MAN AND WIFE FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER George A. and Clara Stone Arraigned on Charge of Killing Morgan Shiveley at San Gabriel George. A. Stone and his wife, Clara Stono, were arraigned in the criminal court before Judge Davis yesterday afternoon on the charge of murdering Morgan Shiveiy, a Pacific Electric conductor, at their home in San Gabriel last New Year's eve. Both pleaded not guilty, and their trial, which Is ex pected u> require two weeks, will com mence Monday, May 9, at 10 o'clock. Attorney Jud Rush for the defense presented a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that the latter did not state facts sufficient to show that tho <li fi-ndants had committed the offense. Judge Davis, however, decided dif feri*ntly and overruled the demurrer. The attorney then demanded Sepa rata trials upon the application of Clara Stone for a. severance. This was granted, as Deputy District Attorney Keyes made no objection. The delay In trying the case resulted from a re quest by Attorney Hush for six or seven weeks' time in which to secure a number of depositions for the de fense. DATE IS SET FOR TRIAL OF HENDRICKS AND WIFE Woman Released on Bail—Couple Charged with Importing Girls for Immoral Purposes Charles Hendrlcks and his wife, charged with importing women into this country for immoral purposes, were arraigned before United States Commissioner William H. Van Dyke yesterday, and their hearing set for April 11. Hendricks was remanded to the county jail in default of $10,000 ball and his wife released on depositing $2000 bail. The commissioner first fixed the woman's bail at $4000, but it was reduced at the request of her attor neys because of her illness. W. P. TRAINS RUN SOON The Western Pacific company an nounced yesterday that the work of equipping the new line is progressing rapidly, and that by June 1 trains will be in operation from Denver on sched ule time. The Western Pacific Is prac tically an extension of the Denver & Rio Grande from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. It has been operating freight trains for two months. LOS ANGELES HERALD PRETTY WOMAN DECLARED THIEF DETECTIVES ACCUSE 'WIDOW OF SHOPLIFTING CHARGE STORES VICTIMIZED BY NOVEL METHOD Indignant, Prisoner Denies Swindle When Questioned —Man Is Held, Charged with Receiving Stolen Goods MrR Anna Nicholson Scott, pretty and demure, believed by the. police to have committed many thefti from the large department stores In thli city, was arraigned in Police Judge Frederlck son's court yesterday on a Chafgl Of shoplifting preferred by Private Detect ive Nick Harria. Her preliminary hear ing was Mt for today. A man giving the name of H. Linden, with whom Airs. .Scott woi living at the Lovejoy apartments in Hill ■treet, was arrested yeaterdaj afternoon and Charged With receiving stolen goods. Linden, the police say, is not the man's real name. II': comes Of B good family and has a daughter vrho is a student at one of tlie fashionable seminaries in the st:ite. Harris arrested Mrs. Scott Tuesday In a downtown store. At the time Of her arrest she had in her possession several valuable hand bags, one of them valued at $100. An hour previous to her arrest she had an argument with the manage ment of Bullock's department store over the return of a black purse from the "claims" department, it was through this dispute that evidence leading to her arrest wfis obtained, Her method of operation Is said by the police to bo one of the boldest and clev erest In police annals. The woman, the police say, would appear at a store with a purse that had been stolen the same day and would take. It to the claims department, requesting that her money be refunded as she had bought the purse several months ago and her husband had Jied in the meantime leaving her almost penniless. Making a pretty picture, dressed In black and with tears streaming down her cheeky the management invariably weakened; and in exchange for the purse gave her its retail value. Tuesday she entered ! Bullock's with a purse that had been reported stolen. Thuy refused to ex change it for her, and openly accused her of its theft. The woman Indig nantly denied having- taken it, and de clared she would go at once to police headquarters and force the store to re turn the article to her. The declara tion stunned the claim agent, und while he was pondering over her case she swept haughtily from the room. The police and private detectives were at once nofcfled, and within an hour she was arrested while operating, the po lice say, in other fields. Mrs Scott confessed last night to having stolen two pictures from the bedroom wall of the Westminster ho tel. Outside of this she maintains a discreet silence. JEWISH WOMEN REVIEW PHILANTHROPIC EFFORT Los Angeles Section Receives Report on Work Done Along Pacific Coast Los Angeles section of the National Council of Jewish Women met yester day afternoon in tho assembly room of TUnplt B'nai B'rlth with an at tendance of nearly 100. Mrs Bertha Hirsch Baruch. presi dent of the local section, gave an ex haustive and interesting report of the recent Pacific coast conference of the national organization which she at tended in San Francisco, and told also of the work being done on the Pacific coast, and that accomplished in Los Angeles during the last eight months. The usual routine business was transacted. Among the lines of work in view for the coming year was in cluded co-operation with the Juvenile court for the betterment of abandoned children, tho promotion at agricultural pursuits among the Jewish people, the establishment of night schools and settlement houses. There were several women present from Clevolund, Chicago and Denver who are active in the philanthropic ef forts of the Jewish women in those cities. THIEVES CRACK S. P. SAFE AT NORWALK; FIND NOTHING Yeggmen Enter Station by Breaking in Door —Funds of Company Not Kept at Depot The safe in the Southern Pacific sta tion at Norwalk was blown open Wednesday night by thieves, but owing to the fact nothing of value is ever kept In the little station over night no loot was secured. The burglars gained entrance to the building by beating in the door. After they discovered that the safe contained no booty they scattered the papers and other articles they found over the floor and mutiltited things generally. Owing to the isolated position of tho station at Norwalk the agent dors not leave his funds in the safe but takea them to hi 3 home with him. Miles Bowler, chief of detectives for the railroad, sent one of his men to make an investigation of the affair yesterday. The officials of the road have no clew as to who committed the crime. STATES CHARGES INCREASE The monthly report of the state board of charities and corrections shows an Increase last month In tha number of inmates in every state insti tution except one. The increase in the state hospitals amounts to fifty-five. The total num ber in the five state hospitals now is 6707. The Stockton hospital has the largest number of inmates, 1974, while Napa is second with 1850. There are 1330 at Patton, 862 at Mendocino and 61 at Agnew. The men in these Institutions far out number the women, there being 4164 men and 2543 women. There are 745 in mates at the two reform schools at Whittier and Preston, an increase of sixteen for the month. Four hundred and sixteen are out on parole* FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1010. STORY OF HOLDUP DECLARED FALSE SHERIFF GOES IN SEARCH OF MYTHICAL FOOTPADS RANCHER ADMITS BEATING HEIS. TER FOR INSULTING WOMEN Injured Man, Who Claimed to Have Been Robbed of $61, Will Have to Explain Report Sheriff Hammel returned from Rox- COO yesterday, when; he went with several deputies Wednesday night in search of three alleged highwaymen j who were supposed to have held up Peter Heister, only to declare that the story was a fake. According to a telephone communi cation received at the sheriff's office I yesterday, i leister, who says he la a machinist in Los Ang"les, went to the home of Albert .Maeder, a rancher liv ing near Roscoe, four miles beyond Burbank, in an intoxicated condition and made a disturbance by Insulting! tho women of tho house. Maeder, who is a six-footer, states that after tell ing Heister to get out of tho house, which be refused to do, lie beat him up and gave htm 75 cents With which to come to Lot Angeles. When Heister arrived in I>oh Anseles he went to the county jail and told George Gallagher, deputy sheriff, that he had been held up, boaten and robbed of $61. His nose was broken and his head was badly beaten and lacerated. He was sent to the receiv ing hospital for treatment and later removed to his home at 1431 South Flower street. Following the beating and robbing of Mrs. W. H. Thompson in her home on the San Fernando road Monday night and the shooting of Mrs. Henry c. Stephens in her home in the same vicinity Tuesday night, when the news of the holdup was told by Heister, the sheriff's office became aroused and a determined effort was made to rid the county of (ill suspicious charac ters. Sheriff Hammel, who was com municated with and told the facts which had been stated by Heistor, im mediately left for the place of the sup posed holdup. owing to the serious condition of Heister as a result of his encounter with Maeder, it was Impossible for him to be brought to the sheriff's office to explain his reasons for telling the fake story. It Is thought that hp will be able to be taken to the sheriff's office today. Mrs. Stephens, who was shot Tues day night by two robbers after they had bound and gagged T. F. Garvcy, and who was brought to the Sisters' hos pital yesterday. Is reported as resting Msily, although her condition Is still serious. No new plews have been discovered as to the identity of the highwaymen who have placed thn rnsident« of S:in Fernando and the surrounding coun try in constant fear. FLAGMAN SAYS LIGHTS WILL PREVENT WRECKS Railroad Employe Declares Accidents at Crossings Are Due to Darkness Instead of erecting traffic gates at tho dangerous crossings at Aliso street, where the Oak Knoll Pacific Electric car was wrecked by a Salt Lake freight train Tuesday night, the city council should compel the rail roads to put in a series of electric lights In order that flagmen might see moving trains appoachlng, according to W. It. Craig, day flagman at the crossings*. If this were done, in Grains opinion, the men who guard the cross- Ings would have no trouble in know ing Just when and where all trains were coming and going and such acci dents as the one of Tuesday night would be avoided. "Electric lights should be pieced be side the Salt Lake freight house." said Graig last evening. "It is terribly dark io this one spot and even on clear nights I have hud hard work making out whether a train was approaching the crossing or not. On foggy nights it Is impossible to tell. If the lights were Installed we would have no further trouble." SHIPMENTS OF CITRUS FRUITS SHOW SHORTAGE Experts Estimate Season's Crop Will Not Equal Last Year's by 10,000 Carloads The citrus fruit shipments from South California to date are estimated as 17U0 carloads less than at tho same date last season, and officials of tho Pacific Fruit Express company say there are about 17,000 carloads yet to be shipped. This would indicate a shortage of about 10,000 carloads, as compared with tho previous season. The total for the season, according to experts, will be about 27,000 cars, or a little leM than the crop of 190607. Rail road men, however, are not agreed on these figures. The Santa Fe so far has not revised its estimate of 30,000 curs, made early in the season, and officials of that road believe the total will be close to these figures. BONEHEAD DOG WAGS TAIL AT THIEF, THEN IS STOLEN Though Trained to Live on Burglar Diet, Mayo's Beast Quits. Valuables Gone After taking the precaution to pur chase and train a bulldog to guard valuables during his absence, F. Mayo, 647 Crocker street, returned to his home yesterday to find that a burglar had stolen both his dog and photographic materials valued at $75. Entrance and escape had been made through a rear screen door. A. E. Belkington was arrested last night and charged with the theft The Great #2.00 Shoe Sale _§T]V^^T!W}~* Hundreds of Pairs New Shoes Continues Today 4ljSJ=^yisJ^S Added to the -°° Sale o.» " ■■ ■■■ mi.. .. 11. fin n .. l _j_, « (^ i^Jt Specially Designed Hat Trunks —After a long journey and you've had time to freshen up a bit, you commence to think of an other hat— — Certainly you have brought others with you— :•'-_,_ .... —Will they be in the best condition when you take them out of your trunk? They will be it they are in one of these hat trunks especially designed for the protection of fine millinery in transit. . . —Made to hold six large hats— placed upon bulbs which may be removed, making room for dresses if need be. . „ M —26 inches square, 3-ply frame, straps all around—full riveted—Holland linen lined. i.i"LdJ&i "I. —It has a 7-inch shirt waist tray. J^t-'^ —See these trunks today—Third Floor Trunk Department. 'l^gfP-^^g^ Only Six Box $12.50 ? a. nama $1.95 r^JK^rr^T^T'i^ Trunks, aCn «01**.VV -Those woven panama suit « S(Eyßffij*^.' €—3". . '••.•'.'.'■ 'i_j I —Six wonderful values. r . ls( . -s ._<4 o handy for beach £ . HcrV^Hl' I'-'---:''lf-''' ■■■'•'• ■■■■.'■■•■ ■■ —Six trunks with sturdy wood trips or week-end journeys to I hIBt! Kg! \'v<w- j ■'>:•■•■:■•■:V>'.:.viV:;:.i;''i/.:: }:-;': boxes, each heavy duck covered, the country. '- Slfc^Eii ■■' •'• '• ■ [■' '■■'• ■ •'■''' ';':'-'- \ each leather and fiber bound, each _g 0 light and so neat and ? I7H Mi •■; :-'-'.: H■■ '..■•.'.'■^ ■ '■■'■'■'■'■■:.-:':- I unusually strong; doubly strength- strong—especially suitable for |W^ -'-^fll - fJiL , 3, ,' ened with hardwood slats. ladies. ' si^^^»^:-:%3^'-::-"-'i^vA:-V:U^T«vKJ —Six trunk* with not only one tray, but two —Klthor steel or wood frame, ' TV V'iiiiT"Ti*- '■"*•'''' '""' "" — ■■"■'' trays each, and every trunk linen lined. ... , inpn n nc A strone handles ' '\\h>-\ —■—V^. -Capita! cold rolled steel hardware and double strap, of rull ''nen n, ned ' Strong Handles *1VV —' II heavy leather complete the trimmings. Six of the best and fastenings. 1 [V] M trunks to be had anywhere, Better than the money will —Would be usually priced at J usually buy. ono-half more. —An Inauguration offering. Just six trunks $12.50 each. — Unusual Inauguration value II.»B. PLANS COMPLETE FOR MECHANICS' DISPLAY SCENIC AND LIGHT EFFECTS FEATURES OF FAIR Business Section of Los Angeles in Miniature Will Be Shown Under Canvas at Fiesta Park The great display of scenic effect and abundance of light that created such a picture under the two-acre canvas over Fiesta park stadium is to be utilized with additions in the scheme of mak ing a mechanics' fair for Los Angeles. Not only the abundanec of light, the scenery on side walls and unique dec orations, but the floor plans Include aisles representing the streets of the commercial and shopping districts of Los Angeles, in miniature. Los An geles, Main, Spring, Broadway and Hill streets will be laid out in their natural order and spaces reserved on either side of each for the merchants whose business establishments are in those streets. It is a scheme to comprise, at an expense of approximately $10,000, a manufacturers' and commercial dis play in a huge bazaar on a scale n»t before attempted west of Chicago, ex cepting by the famous Mechanics' pa vilion of San Francisco in the days bo fore the fire. The gigantic exhibition will be held by the Mechanics Fair association of Los Angrles at Fiesta park, beginning March 26 and running two weeks. There will bo 350 exhibitors, occupying a floor space of approximately 73,000 square feet, over which 90,000 square feet of canvas suspended from poles and reinforced by steel cables will be spFead. This canvas was taken down after the auto show, reconstructed and re stored to its position. The 10,000 lights ere overhauled and rearranged, and th>. entire place made fresh and fit for the coming exposition. The poles will be concealed by vernal decorations of various kinds, and in the center of the pavilion -a band of thirty pieces will render programs daily, and in addition there will be a continuous performance of refined vau deville. Not only will there be exhibits from Los Angeles, but from other cities of Southern California, and the display will prove an education to all visitors in the numerous things that are being offered by human genius for the com fort and luxury of the people in Los Angeles and vicinity. SCARED PUP NIPS MEN WHO SHRIEK 'MAD DOG!' Two Do Hopscotch for Hospital After Canine with Can on Tail Bites Them With a tin can jingling from his tall an unmuzzled dog bit two men yesterday and escaped. Five minutes later the men limped terror stricken into the receiving hospital and said a mad dog had bitten them. They were William Singeman, 422 North Beaudry avenue, and Henry Osborne, 955 Court circle. Their wounds are not serious. MUST HIRE CONDUCTORS The board of public utilities reported yesterday that it had Investigated the complaint that the Los Angeles Pa cific company operated the Elysian park street car line on Echo avenue for several hours during midday with only a motorman, which necessitated the motorman neglecting his duties to collect fares. The board states the street car company has agreed to put on conductors immediately, and here after operate these cars with a full crew. ORDERS 1000 NEW CARS The Santa Fe Railroad company has ordered 1000 new furniture cars, half of which will be BO 'feet long and the other half 40 feet long. While these cars are known as "furniture cars," they are used principally for the trans portation of automobiles. The growth of the Los Angeles automobile busi ness, it is said, will keep a number of the new cars engaged constantly haul ing new autos to and from Los An geles I c.j'.1.:":-;.■; •; , BUSINESS FIRMS JOIN IN ARIZONA EXCURSION Leading Concerns Will Have Repre sentatives on Chamber of Commerce Train A complete representation of the city's business interests will go with the chamber of commerce Arizona ex cursion, which leaves Los Angeles next Tuesday at 2 o'clock over the Southern Pacific. Members of the leading firms realize that the excursion offers an opportunity to bind more firmly the business ties which unite the cities and towns of Arizona to Los Angeles. Among those who will be represented in the ipeclal train are: The Bruns wig IJrutf company, Parrot & Co., An derson-Chanslor company, California Hardwood and Manufacturing compa ny, Newmark Bros., iiraun Chemical company, Hughes Manufacturing com pany, National Bank of California, Llewellyn Iron works. Baker & Ham ilton company, Crane company, Qolden •State Realty company, Western Laun dry Machinery company, Zobelein Brewing company, First .National bank, Hollenbeck hotel, Farmera and Merchants' bank, F/ank Simpson Fruit company, Loeb-Fleißhman company, California Furniture company, Cohn- Goldwater & Co., L. A. Notion com pany, Marion R. Gray company, Haas, Baruch & Co., Grimes-Stassforth com pany. FALL FROM STREET CAR MAY RESULT FATALLY B. H. Edwards Suffers Basal Fracture of Skull and Other Injuries Suffering from a basal fracture of the skull and other injuries, B. H. Edwards, 667 San Pedro street, a clerk at the Whiting Wrecking company's plant, was found last night at San Pedro and Pico streets by F. C. Som mers, a youth, 754 East Fourtli street. Summers notified the police depart ment and the injured man was taken to the receiving hospital, where it was found he had suffered injuries which may result fatally. Sommers says he saw Edwards en the rear platform of a San Pedro street car, and as the car turned the corner, Edward! was thrown to the street. G. F. Prince, no;< Bait Twenty-seventh Street, was driving his auto along the street at the time and carried the in jured man to the receiving hospital. Bommera was the only witness of the accident and no report was made at police headquarters by the car crew. The only Information given was that Edwards was standing on the rear plat form and lost his balance as the car turned the corner. APPOINTS MOTHER GUARDIAN MM. C. Wesley Roberta was ap pointed guardian of her own son, Oar .liner T. Qlasietl, aged 11, in Judge Rives' court yesterday after she had presented her application. The boy is a son by a former marriage, and his father died, leaving- an estate of $180, --000 and a w.il providing that the boy's mother must relinquish him and all claim to one-third of the estate if she married again, She remained single for several years and then remarried. Mother love proved too strong, how ever, and she applied for guardianship of the boy. MISLABELED FOOD SOLD H. S. O. McCartney, deputy district attorney, issued eight complaints yes terday charging violations of the pure food law, at the request of Prank Oak ley, pure food inspector. Five of the complaints were against merchants outside of the city. The Los Angeles merchants are Leo Mayer, Charged with selling mislabeled canned meats, and M. Derpich and Levretovitch, charged with selling rnlslabeled cat sup. The cases will be tried in Police Judge Frederickson's court. GOSTIMOSKI IS ACQUITTED John Jocob Gostimoski was acquitted by a jury in Judge Davis' court yes terday afternoon on a charge of steal ing five hides from the Los Angelas Packing company. They were valued at $55 and tho defendant was charged with taking the hides after he bad been paid [or them. The case took up the entire day, and on the avid produced the jury found a verdict for the defendant in a few minutes. Classified Ad. Section DIVORCEE BRINGS SUIT FOR PROPERTY Mrs. Mary Hay Claims Community In terest in Estate Estimated to Be Worth $100,000 Following a long and sensational trial, In which the wife secured a di vorce from her husband on the ground of extreme cruelty, Mrs. Mary Hay commenced suit before Judge Hervey of the superior court yesterday morn ing against her former husband to se cure a half of his wealth as com munity property. He Is a prominent Los Angeles real estate man, and the plaintiff estimates that he is worth $100,000. The whole of yesterday was occupied In examining witnesses of different business transactions, mostly from hearsay, the plaintiff and defendant both being called to the stand. During her examination by Attorney Simon Seward for the defendant, Mrs. Hay rebuked the lawyer for addressing her abruptly in demandtng a reply to his questions. The witness, who, during the trial was termed an aspirant for social hon ors, Indicated that the proceedings in court be in a friendly and business like manner. In asking her about the storage of furniture and business deals during her early married life, Mrs. Hay delayed In ansvering, and the attorney repeated his questions sharply. She refused to answer, and looking straight at the attorney said: "Mr. Seward, I must request that you address me as you would address a lady." Nothing daunted, the attorney re sumed liis examination and the tedious trial proceeded. It Is expected that the case will bo drawn out for several days. MEXICO DISCRIMINATES AGAINST U.S. IMPORTS Banker Declares Duty on American Wines Is Practically Prohibitive. France Controls Trade The Mexican tariff is hindering the trade between the west coast of Mex ico and the United States materially, according to J. SI. Elliott, president of the First National bank of Los Ange les, who has just returned from a tea days' trip along tho coast of the south ern republic. The trade relations be tween California and tho Mexicans are good where certain commodities are rned, says the bnaker, and local merchants have a fairly large business down there, but discriminations ara made by the tariff against some Amer ican goods which is keeping business from growing very rapidly. "Take the tariff on wines as an In stance," said Mr. Elliott yesterday. "The price an American merchant has to pay to get wines Into Mexico Is double that which a French merchant is compelled to pay to Import his wares. For tills reason the French, control thi! wine trade of Mexico, and the American merchants have no trade there whatever." Mr. Elliott was accompanied on hla trip to Mexico by his son, J. M. Elliott, jr., who has extensive property inter ests there. FILES CROSS COMPLAINT The divorce suit of Lucia Kavan augh against her husband, Lester Kav anaugh of Ocean Park, was begun yes terday morning before Judge llouser. The plaintft alleges that the defendant called her vile names, treated her with extreme cruelty and threatened to kill her. On one occasion, she declares, he applied a lighted cigar to her arm and held it there, burning lit r severely. The husband has filed a cross-com plaint charging Infidelity after he had forgiven her and attempted to maka her lead a better life. EXECUTRIX SUES SURETY June L. Henne, executrix of the es tate of the late C. Henne. is suing Emma A. Summers, known as the "oil queen," in Judge Conrey's court to collect' $1800 from the defendant as surety upon a bond for Edward Booth and John W. Neighbors, who rented a space in the Henne building at $900 a month for five years, a total of $54,000. The $1800 bond was held by Mrs. Sum mers for a faithful payment of rent, and the plaintiff, is endeavoring to se» euro it.