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THE CITY Strangers are invited to visit the exhibit" of California StOduoM ai tnl Ohwnbet of Commrri'O ln.il<llhK, on JMoarlway, bt.twe.en First an. l Beeond ftreatl, where freo Infor mation will be jt'm'ii on all subjects porlaln- Ing to this section. • The. Herald will imy JlO In cash to any one tarnishing evldenoe that will lead to the arront ami convlotfon of any person raught stfalliiK copies of The Herald from the promised of our patrons. Membership In the I.ns AnKeles Realty board la a virtual guaranteo of reliability. Provision Is made for arbitration of any differences between members and their cli ents. Accurate Information on realty mat ters Is obtainable from them. Valuations by a copipctent committee. Directory of mambers free nt the office of Herbert ifur di-tt, secretary, 62t> Security building, rheme Oroadnay IS9K. Th« T.ccnl Aid noc-lety at :S3 Korth Main (tract In a charltaliln orssnlMtlon maln talntd for thn piirpo.»n of nldlim In Ifeal mnttern thonn unable, to employ counsel. TjJ« ■oolety iiiriN ilnnnt'lnl asKl.itance and xei'ks Information retarding worthy cases. Phone Homo J''s2O3; Mnln Minii. The Herald, like every Other newspaper, Ii misrepresented nt time", particularly In oases Involving hotels, theaters, etc. Tin public will please .take notlco that every representative of this pap< r is equipped with th« proper credential", and more particu larly pnnir.no.l with inonoy with which to pay hid WIIY TUB TIF.UM-ti. AROUND TOWN Farmer Painter to Lecture A. Montgomery, tho farmer painter, will lecture at the Hollywood hote.l Sunday evening on the subject "Indlge lious American Art." To Sing Kingsley Cantata "Love Triumphant," a oantnta by Florence Kingsley, win !"■ presented on Easter evening at the Ktrst United Brethren church, Pico mid Hop« streets. Mrs. Wells to Sprak Mis. Alice BtebWm Weils or the rris (in Reform league will apeak Sunday evening at the Olivet Congregational church "!i "The. Church'i Bupreme Op portunity." Ordinance Violator Fined police Judge Chambers finod n. ii. Fischer, proprietor of ■ lunch stand at 861 Easl Fifth street, $•"> yesterday for having milk of an Inferior grade In bi.s possession* Mexican Held for Trial M. Gaiindo, a Mexican, charged with petty larceny with prior conviction of felony, had his preliminary examina tion before Police Judge Chambers yes terday, who iix«'<i hi* ball at $mnn ami ■el tin. further hearing tor March 21. Oallndo «;>s shot at by O. W. Cham berlain of Boyle Heights Bunday ntghl while the latter was attempting to cap tup- two chicken thiefs. CHILDREN FIGHT MORTGAGE; SAY DEAD MOTHER INSANE Woman Said to Have Signed Note for $6000 When Mind Was Deranged Averring that their mother was ln- Hiine and" unable to comprehend what she was doing s 1 horl time before her death, seven children of Mrs, Hannah 1 :. -. g are resisting the attempt of 1 > 1 r 11. Klefer t.> foreclose on a Jfiooo note given by tli'ir father. Lewis Reel, and signed by their mother, in Judge Her -1 ourt The ti la] li ■ spected to be prolonged for several days. Lewis Bees is sued by Klefer both as one "f the makers of the note and as executor of his wife's estate, but is not . ng the foreclosure, having de faulted In favor of Klefer, the plain tiff. The money derived from the note, the children claim, was used by their father exclusively in furthering his business and their mother received none of it- TEN YEARS GIVEN MAN WHO WOULD WRONG YOUNG GIRL Advertising Man Gets Long Sentence at San Quentin Following De. nial of Probation Probation was denied and a sentence cif ten years in San Quentin was given (i |\ BabCOCk, the advertising agent, Who was found guilty In Judge AVillis' court several days ago of atti mpting to mistreat Mecca Byler, a siri 15 years old. Mniinn for a new trial and a motion for an arrest of judgment by the pris oner's attorneys were denied by Judge Willis just previous to the sentence. 11, di Glared it was not a case fur clem ency and said the court could not look with favor upon the acts of which the defendant had been found guilty. " \ sentence' must be imposed that vlll be :i lesson t'> you and ft warning to others." he told llnbcock. Notice of an ap. pal for a new trial will be Hied. NEW INCORPORATIONS Articles of Incorporation Hied in the (■unity clerk's office yesterday are as follows: H, <; Ekstrom company, capital $10, --■ <;. ECkstrom, t. C. Skatrom, S. M. Warmabth, directors. Meiatas Mining company, capital $200,000- T. B\ Brown, 11. I>. McCabe, Edwin K. Irwln, F. C, Oohri, M. 1). Carter, T. W. Potter, Fred c l'.iaek, David Gookley, s. MoCray, John A. Crlaler, directors. Pacific Purchasing company, capital DO— V. M. Qarrlgues, F. L. Locke, ]•;. m. Mitchell, directors, Miami Social club—H. M. Da Spain, A. B. Watldnt, W. W. Brooks, di rectors. (iI.KNOAI.K AMI VKKI>r<:O PARK Train* on Bait Lake Route leave Los lea v a. in., l p. m., 5 i>. m, wick day* and on Sundaya at >:80 a. m., l n, in. and B i>. m. Return lenve Ver dugo 7:45 a. m., 1:45 and 6:45 p. m. (.lendale five minutes later. Temple Baptist Church Robert J. Burdette, D. D., . Pastor Emeritus. , 1 IBM AUDITORIUM,':' Corner of Fifth and Olive streets. •D R. BROUGHER The Popular, Witty Pastor preaches Sunday, It A. M. ' "WHAT'S IN YOUR HANI)?" "" i ' 7:30 T. M., ''•■TOMSK ritllT— IS IT THE : SWKET -•■■ '/ KMT?" (fluent music- In the city at both services by Umpiring soloists. Excellent quartet and big dhorus. ■ j - W Great Orsnn and Chime* at 7:15. SEATS FREK. • News of the Courts 1910 JURY LISTS ARE CHALLENGED ACCUSED ATTORNEY LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR APPEAL W. J. Danford Contends That Law Violated Which Provides for Drawing Jurors from Dif. 1 ferent Townships \v. .T. Danford, the attorney who has an appeal pending before the supreme court to prevent his 'disbarment, and who is charged with sending a forged telegram to c. J. CKeeffe of i^os An geles stating that a 15000 bond would be "redeemed at par," In an attempt to deceive the latter, Interposed a chal lenge to the entire. Jury lists of 1910 in .imii'i Davis' court yesterday upon the opening of his trial. following the examination of wit nesses and the bearing of arguments, Judge Davis denied the Interposition on the ground tiiat the courts had no Intention of violating the law In draw- Ing jury panels, llr gave this decis ion late in the afternoon, following ai most a whole day passed by the de fendant and his counsel, <;t"\'' Wal ter, to prove the alleged violation of the law. Danford had Issued subpoenas to all the superior i rt Judges, including Judge Davis himself, as witnesses, and had all been called to testily the supe rior courts of the county would bays been ;it ■ standstill. The law provides that jurors shall bo selected by apportionment frpm tho dlffl rent townships in proportion to the number of electors in <-.nh town ship Qualified for Jury service, and Danford charged thnt the courts did not live up to the law In this respect, because no jurors arc secured .it Cata llns for 1910. Thr entire move Is alleged to be an attempt to Ket down on the records a point on which to appeal the case If Danford is convicted. The trial will commence this morning. SIXTEEN TESTIFY IN DEFENSE OF WOMAN Mrs. Julia Fink Presents Strong Alibi to Prove She Was Not in San Francisco After Trunk An effort to prove an alibi in the ease "' Julia Fink, December 30, at which tine it. is alleged by the prosecution «he viis in Kirn Francisco for the pur pOM of gaining poseaalon of a trunk containing $in,si)o worth of jewelry and diamond! on which she. and her hus band, Albert Pink, later made a de mand against the Hartford Insurance company for $6000 Insurance, was made rday at the preliminary hearing in Justice Suinmciiicld'H court after a motion for a dismissal Of the charge was denied. The preliminary hearing haa been In progress for two days. Two Wltm ■ for the prosecution testified! they saw Mr.. Fink In San Francisco December 90, while sixteen witnesses tor the defense yesterdaj testified they either saw- or talked with Mrs. Fink !n 1-os Angeles tli.it day. Mrs. Edith Mount/, testified that on the evening of December 2ii she at tended lodge anil that her daughter. Lueiia Hounta, stayed ail night at the Fink residence. Miss Hountl was called later and she corroborated the testi mony of her mother. Ethel Simons, stepdaughter of Rabbi Alter, tislilied that she talked with Mrs. Kink over the telephone on the evening of December 30. hk Daschek, a jeweler In the Same building with Albert Fink, tes lilied that December 30 Mrs. Fink brought a ring into his shop to be re set. James draco, an apprentice in Das chek's shop, testified that after the ring had been reset he took It to (Pink's Office and saw Mrs. Fink there. Wal ter H. ltennett, a bookkeeper for Fink, al 0 testified as to seeing Mrs. Fink on December 30. At the close of the defendants ease, the hearing was continued until Mon day afternoon, at which time the prose cution stated it would produce rebut tal testimony. Arguments in the ease will probably begin late Monday after noon. LAND OFFICE CLOSES TO YUMA APPLICANTS Mass of Matter to Be Classified, After Which Informations Concern. ing Drawings Will Be Mailed At 4:rn o'clock this afternoon the land office will bo closed to applicants de siring land in th<j Yuma district. When tin' office closed last. night about 1700 applications had been recorded. When the muss of applications has been classified every applicant will bo mailed a notification of the time and place of the drawings, which will bo in the order of the most popular units. Register Buren lias again given no tice that applications will not bo re ceived from persons holding cou pons which were distributed by the po lice March 1. Naturalized citizens must In all instances bring copies of their naturalization certificates. DRAWS PRISON INSTEAD OF PROBATION SENTENCE Eight years in Folsom tnataad of probation was the sentence Imposed on Henry P. Lutes by Judge Willis in tho criminal DOUrt yesterday morning. He pleaded guilty to tho pharga <>f mistreating BtelU Smith, a Canadian girl, "IB years old, on the assurance of his attorney that ho would surely set probation. Judge Willis refused to allow the prisoner to change his plea to that of not eullty and have a trial, in View of the fact that Lutes had a record of burglary In Kansas City. The judge scored the prisoner for swearing he had never been arrested before, and declared he did not think he was the kind of man who should bo allowed his freedom. On finding that he could not dodpre a prison sentence, Lutes en deavored t" be sent to San Quentln, where he would be inside, but Judge Willis said that what Lutes needed was work outs.ide In the pure air and Folsom was the place for him. LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1910. HOLD MAN AND WIFE FOR SELLING PIANO Mining Company Manager Also Ar. raigned on Separate Charges of Embezzling Money Left in His Care Thomas H. Baylls, general manager of the Fern Realty company and the chantcll roak Mining company, who was arrested in phoenix Thursday by Deputy United Btates Marshal Frank Hi, on three charged of embezlemeni and one of obtaining money under false pretenses, was brought to i.o S Angeles yesterday and arraigned before Justice Ling and his preliminary hearing sot for to o'clock March 81. His bail was Bxed at $2000 in each of the embesale ,,i,hi charges and at $1600 In the false pretenses case, which he was unable to furnish. The complaining witness In the em bezzlement charges II P. B. Daniels, former clergyman of Fresno and presi dent of the Chantell Teak Mmmc company, from which it is alii get) Baylls embezzled at different times $786, $10»i0 and $700. It Is said that Baylta appropriated those amounts While he was acting as attorney for the company, In which capacity he came Into possession of large amounts of money, stocks and bonds. <; b lie Otarmo, the complaining witness In the Joint charge against Baylls and his wife, Mrs. A. V. Bay lis of obtaining money under false pretenses, alleges they borrowed $500 from him on the representation that they owned a piano which ho claims belonged to the Frank B. Long com pany. The preliminary hearing of Airs. Baylis was set for yesterday mornlnu, but it was continued to be heard at the same time as that of her husband. She is at liberty on $500 bond. KEATING HEIRS FILE SUIT AGAINST SMITH Injunction Sought to Prevent Disposal of Property Until Contest Over Estate Is Settled Suit was Hied in the superior court yesterday by the heirs of the Andrew '1 \v Keating estate to recover 1100,000 in money and property given to Isaiah Smith In the belief that he was the husband of Mrs. babel Keating at the time of her death, February 124, 190 S. An Injunction is asked preventing Smith and his present wife, Mrs, Min nie Bllen Smith, from using or dis posing of the property or money until the contest Is settled. It lias, been com menced on the ground that Smith was never legally married to Mrs. Keat ing because he had a wife living at toe time. The woman who rlaims to be the lir^t wife of Smith is Mrs. Minnie Vbbott Smith, who filed t=uit for divorce from her alleged Jiusbnnd several weeks ago, Following her claim on him, the heirs have decided to contest Smith's light to receive any benefits from the Keating '•state, in the meantime. Smith, who says his marriage with the first Mrs. Smith was a "Joke." lihr taken a third Wife, who Is named with him as defendent in the proceedings begun by the heirs to secure it return of the portion of the Keating (state he claims title to. The tiling Of the suit is the latest In a long series of proceedings which have milked the disposal of the prop erty of the late nitrate king. The latest phase promises to develop into the most Interesting contest seen In the courts In some time. The divorce suit of Mrs. Minnie Ab bott Smith against her alleged tlUS band, Isaiah Smith, will come up in Judge Houser's court next Monday. JURY DECIDES IN FAVOR OF LANDIS Thirty Hours' Deliberation Results in Clearing Alleged Scion of Noted Family of False Pretense Charges After being out for over thirty hours and following a genera] prediction that the jury WOUld disagree, a verdict was rendered by that body at 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon exonerating I. K. Landfs from the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. LandlS was accused by George W. Wasem With representing himself as being the son of Congressman Landls uf Indiana and a nephew of Judge Ken csaw M. Landis of Chicago, In order to Sell him some shares in the Nevada Mining and Milling company, for which he alleged he paid $15,000, but never received the stock, amounting to some 60,000 shares. On the stand during a trial lasting over three days before Judge Davis, Landls declared he never represented himself as beloging to the well known Landls family. Wasem charged him With obtaining money by false pie lenses In thai lie attempted to sell him stork he never possessed. The defense took the stand that 100,000 shares oi the slock had been found In the Pos session of the d< Cendant, and alleged that no fraud had been practiced, and the jury found for the defendant. WANTS RECOUNT OF BALLOTS A. J.'Drury of Vernon has filed suit in the superior court for a recount of the ballots in an election held there March 5, to determine the exclusion of a tract ' from outside the boundaries of the town. He also asks that the order of the board of trustees making the election results exclude the terri tory in question be set aside. Drury complains that the election results showed fifteen votes against exclusion to fourteen for exclusion. . He charges the trustees with throwing out four of the former ballots and making the majority in favor of exclusion against the will of the greatest number of voters. As a resident in the tract ex cluded he is fighting to have the bal lota recounted. SL'JKs ADJUDGE LAWYER INSANE James W. Creade, the attorney against whom proceeding;) were com menced in Justice Summerfleld'a court two week* ago on the charge of selling a desk which wan mortgaged, and who injured himself jumping from a side window of the court room to the ground in an effort to escape, was examined as to his sanity by a commission in Judge Wilbur's court yesterday after noon and was pronounced Insane after a close examination. He was taken to the asylum at Patton. The proceedings against Creede in Summerneld's court were stricken from the calendar. Lose a good-pay tenant, or boarder? I>l a want ail help you to talc* It Ilk* a pklloto ofetr.. ". ." , Municipal Affairs HAUPT RESIGNS UNDER PROTEST BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES LOSES VALUED MEMBER Contractor Leaves City's Service Be. cause of Large Private Interests Demanding a Greater Share of His Time with sincerest regrets Mayor Aiex ander yesterday accepted the resigna tion of Paul Ffaupl as a member of the board of public utilities. The mayor pleaded with Mr. Haupt to reconsider his resignation, but without success. The work of the board Of public util ities is growing more arduous every ii.-iy. The three members of the boai I, Meyer Ussner, president; v. J. Hart. utiii rmii Haupt, serve Hi" city without pay, but during the pasi ten days or more they have been doinff something every day th:)t required nearly all their afternoons. They have been going over the lines of the street railways with a view to determining questions of speed and safety devices. There is t~ ti 11 much Of this work to bo done, and Mr. Haupt, who is one of tho. largest contractors in the city, feels hi cannot sacrifice his time so much. Ho was criticised in one of the morn inp papers yesterday for not having registered as s voter in several years, although lie has been a bona fide resi dent of the city seventeen years. It was reported that this fact was to be m:wlo tho basis for quo warranto proceedings to oust him from office, but tho city attorney i« of the opinion that such proceedings could not be brought, as the board of public utilities Is created by ordinance and not by charter, which requires a member of a oommmlssion to be a qualified elector. Whether or not tho quo warranto proceedings would have any standing In court, Mr. Haupt told the mayor yesterday he did not Intend to be ha rassed by any lepal action to defend his right to the position. President Llssnsr of the hoard and thr mayor both unite in declaring that Mr. Haupt's services have boon of Kro.it valtio In tho work tho utilities commission has had to do, and both regret very much that he will not reconsider his resignation. PROTEST AGAINST CHANGE OF NAME OF THOROUGHFARE Colegrove Residents Claim That Street Should Continue to Be Called Santa Monica Avenue A vigorous protest against changing the name of Santa Monica avenue in Colegrove to C'olegrove avenue or to any other name was filed yesterday by a large number of residents who would be affected by the change in the name. It haa been proposed to change the niime of this street as this district is now a part of the city of Los Angeles and there la another Santa Monica avenue In the southern part of the city. The protestants stale that If it Is necessary to change the name of either street that it bo the one in the city proper. They fay, with some truth, that Santa Monica avenue in \jot Angeles Is Thirtieth street at one end and a railroad right of way at the other, that it begins nowhere and ends nowhere, while Santa Monica avenue in Colegrove runs straight through to Santa Monica. ATTORNEY ENTERS RACE FOR COUNCIL VACANCY Former Secretary of Highway Com. mi«sion Seeks Office Formerly Held by Richmond Plant Ray I;. Chesebro, a well known young attorney and formerly secretary of the highway commission, yesterday took out "a petition as a candidate for the city council 10 fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richmond Plant. So far only three have secured petitions and It does not appear that many candidates are seeking the office. It is asserted that Mr. Plant will also take out a petition end run again to succeed himself, as by the time the (lection is held in June he will be a qualified elector of two years' resi dence, as required by the charter for member! of the city council. He re signed his office because he learned of the charter provision after his election and lie had been a resident of the city only a little over a year when elected. COUNCILMAN'S BUILDING IS USED AS BILLBOARD Originator of Ordinance to Beautify City Object of Spite Work on Part of Enemies In an effort to "get even" with him for framing the billboard ordinance, persons interested in the business have plastered the side of -Martin Betkou slu's building at 461 Kast Third street With disreputable looking bills and signs. Mr. Betkouski said yesterday that the posting: was done at night when he waa not around thr building, and tint the warnings of "Post No Bills that he had placed on his building had not been heeded. The bTlls have been placed there since the agitation against the billboards was begun, according to Mr. Betkouski, and photographs have been made of the building which the billboard Interests use to their ad vantage. MAY PROTEST STREET WIDENING Women of the Friday Morning club are expected to entor a protest against tho widening of Hoover street from Adams to one block north. By setting hack the curbs on the cast side of the street si number of magnificent old trees in front of the club's property at Adams and Hoover streets will have to be cut down. The curb lines were originally left as they are today when the rest of the street was widened for the sole purpose of saving these trees, and it was done at the urgent request of the Friday Morning club. The agitation begun by the club members at that time resulted In an order being given to the city engineer to save trees on the parkings wherever it was pos sible. Established October, 1878. — MCCAU> JgTTCHMOOW j£ps sy^ A ./^ PATTERNS •Mcm . •»«*«»««• £S 22A.28* SXXiWUi. •• VISIT OUR FOURTH FLOOR CAFE-Open from 11:30 to 5:00 Very Pretty Easter Postal Cards, in Charmingly Wide Diversity-stationery section Rugs! Rugs! Rugs! . At Little Prices All in mom S ize-9x12 fcet-principally Oriental patterns in popular colors; two-tone ami solid ;X"-everv one a produci of the best-known mills in the country. \\ c shall he glad to have you compare prices and qualities with those shown elsewhere: Bigelow Axminster Rugs $18.50 ( Trcvan Wiltons •••••••••••• ■-•• $28.00 & , „,*.,». ! Savalon, Selkirk and Hartford Wil- Smith Seamless Velvet and Body , tons $30.00 Brussels, or Monmouth Wiltons, $20.00 Anglo-Indian and Monmouth Wil- ) Teprac Wiltons $27.50 j tons, $32.50 and $35.00 ,£ Amaxim, Hartford, Saxony and Anglo-Turkish Rugs $40.00 j Extra Size Rugs 13.6x16 Reversible Smyrnas...... .$14.00 » 10.6x14.6 American Orientals $33.00 11.3x12 Tapestries $20.00 10.6x13.6 Body Brussels $33.00 10.6x12 American Orientals $27.50 \\ 11.3x15 Body Brussels $40.00 _ Fine Silk Remnants at Half Customary Saturday remnant sale today, with values even better than usual because so many customers have been select ing silks for Easter, and we are left with short lengths of many of the most popular weaves: Look for all sorts of plain and fancy silks—pongees, foulards, diagonals, etc., in lengths from a yard and a half up to full dress patterns; all priced just tlAl^t —Coulter Dry Goods Co, ' L^x 25c Easter^ Picture Free to Children Each child or group of children who brings this "ad" to our new Nature-Form Shoe Department for Children will receive a beautiful souvenir 1 Easter post card bearing no advertising. i If you buy a pair of Nature-Form Shoes costing $1.50 or more, you will . also be given a beautiful passe partout picture, 6xB inches, printed in beauti ful colors, covered with glass, and worth 25 cents. OnA DIFFERENT EASTER STYLES OF NA £Jrk TURE-FORM SHOES. Prices range from 25 to 50 cents per pair lower than same grades elsewhere, as we consider this department an adver tising medium. SEE OUR SATURDAY BROADWAY WINDOWS _^^k Saturday Is Children's Day at the IR@^. Regal Shoe Store HB£v Regal Shoe Store 9 >§BiisiL. Entrances 302 S. Broadway and 224 W. Third St. (Bradbury Bldg.) Practically fifty per cent of the sav ings business of Los Angeles is transacted at one institution—the SECURITY SAVINGS BANK. Over 56,000 people have entrusted more than $26,000,000.00 to the care of this bank. What greater testimonial of strength and efficiency could a'Los An geles savings institution have than the above fact? Total Resources $28,000,000.00 —Capital and Reserve, $1,700,000.00. —Over 21 years under the same management. —Highest rates of interest paid on the most liberal terms consistent with conservative banking. SECURITY AVTNGS RANK Largest and Oldest in Southwest Security Building Spring and Fifth Sts. Herald Liners Do the Work 5