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PIANOS
._. . . Every used piano in the store
ifeffiffffirffi'TTi rnHiinnfWTr Bisy m ust go. Our enormous business
fflf j®. / \»ftlin 'n Pianola Pianos, Chickering
iH if* I J^ml Grands, etc., has brought us a
|a| >* r J^ MC 3ciL. great assortment of exchanges.
MLl'' mm HJHBESI Your choice now at prices* far be
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This List Offers a OR MORE A MONTH
Range of Prices and <;I)tsoN _ Good plonot WM
a Choice of Makes SSl^Si*^'Ji^3Ss
That Cannot Fail to X"..*"*! 00. $150
Satisfy Every Pock- n : 'now l <: nM. ndl:...si3o
etbook and Every jl^^ vr t. M.". 1. w*' $190
Taste. . j™ .* I#. s4flo: $210
_, _. _ . _ II \/I.lin\-Wil» »50O;»r»r Coin
Every Piano Is in Ex- v a i,.« »t $210
..«1|,,,,i- f*-.- k Ai+lnn ARMSTRONG— finish; mahogany
cellent Condition. „„„„; wo* »3soi $212 50
now •616.3U
, These Values Are Gen- cmcKEMNG-WM »ssoi $250
vine. Such Low Prices clakkndon—Mission oak coos
on These Fine Instru- S TE<;K-wa»» o oo i «p«ciai n o W conn
ments Make This a -g??
•Really Remarkable «•«•«; »«• »«ooi now q>juu
Piano Opportunity. S2^t^7^.!!!!ir..^:.s36B
Southern California Music Co.
332-334 South Broadway Los Angeles, Cal.
Merchants Bank and Trust Co. £2 ST SI
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Branch: 209.11 <! RroflHwflV Transacts a General Bank
*426 South Hoover street. W7-11 a. OIUdUWdJf ing and T^.t Business.
STANDS ON HIS COCOA
UNTIL CHAINED DOWN
County Jail Prisoner Does Acro
batic Turn and Worries
Guardians
Don Patterson, for many years an
airobatio performer in Rlngllng Broth
ers' circus, serving a sentence in the
county Jail, has developed a new mania
which is causing the think tanks of
the Jail attaches much concern. Pat
terson was recently discovered stand
ing on his head in a rigid position
on the floor of his cell. At every op
portunity he assumes this position. His
only excuse is that he is keeping in
good form for the next show.
Jailor Gallagher called in a physician
who handed down an opinion to the
effect that Patterson through some
strange freak of nature has suddenly
lost his sense of gravity and would
rather stand on his head than his feet.
Patterson, on the other hand, emphat
ically denies that his noodle ia out of
commission.
Patterson is a guest of the county
because he originally developed a
mania for the purloining of silver
spoons. The police found his trunks
filled with them. He appeared sane
in every way and was sent up for a
turn on the roads. Shortly after his
confinement a trusty found him stand
ing downright in. his cell. He called
Chief Clerk Brown, who watched the
performance for some time and then
called Chief Deputy Nolan. Nolan
called Jailer Gallagher, and Patterson
soon was unknowingly entertaining an
audience. Then an investigation was
instituted. He scoffed at the idea that
his tank leaked and offered to answer
any questions they put to him. But
the next day they found his feet in
the air in the same old way. His Jail
ers scratched their heads and held a
council of war. They pleaded with
him to abandon the practice, but he
only laughed at their concern. 'I m
not off me nut," he told them. "But
I'd rather stand on me noodle than
eat. Besides It kills time and puts
mo in good form fer de next show,
see." ,
But they have devised a way to keep
Patterson off his brain pan. Chained
to two iron balls he is gently reminded
of the natural force of gravity and is
bewailing an unkind fate that forces
him to do as other men do. But stand
ing on your head in the county Jail
gets on the jailers' nerves. They
would rather see things right side up.
$2,000,000 STEAM POWER
PLANT TO BE ERECTED
Contracts for Construction Are
Signed by Three Com
panies
Contracts were signed yesterday be
tween the Southern California Edison
company, the Los Angeles Dock and
Terminal company and the San Pedro,
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad
company whereby the former company
secures approximately ten acres of
land west of the Long Beach harbor.
The acreago is the site for the $2,000,000
steam power plant the Southern Cali
fornia Edison company will erect on
the ocean front.
Within a few weeks the work on the
improvement will begin. The first
building will be 80x300 feet in dimen
sions and ninety feet high, and will
contain two turbo generating units with
a total output capacity of 40,000 horse
power of electric energy. Contracts
have already been let for part of the
machinery required, for the boilers.
SANTA MONICA IS GOOD
NAME, BUT OVERWORKED
Street Bobs Up After Two Ave
nues, and the Sign Posts
May Be Changed
Whenever there was any doubt about
the proper name for a street in the
early days the pioneers called it Santa
Monica. This passion for hitching the
name of Santa Monica to so many
streets is causing trouble, now that Los
Angeles is spreading out and taking in
any old street that happens to be in a
district it wants to annex.
Santa Monica street has bobbed up,
as the two Santa Monica avenues did a
few weeks ago, and wants its name
changed. People who live on the street
filed a petition yesterday in which they
asked that the name by changed to
Clinton street or that Santa Monica and
Clinton streets be called Bellevue ave
nue. They describe Santa Monica
street as extending from Powers to
Hartford and from Gower to Vine, one
block south of Melrose avenue. This
street, they say, is practically a con
tinuation of Clinton street.
As matters now stand, there Is a
Santa Monica street. Santa Monica
boulevard and Santa Monica avenue, all
in different portions of the city. The
streets and boulevards committee is
shuddering for fear some one will dis
cover a Santa Monica court, Santa
Monica place and Santa Monica way
before the committee can beat them
to it.
HURRAH! MISSOURIANS
ARE GETTING TOGETHER
Two Hundred 'Show Me' Enthu
siasts Start Distinctive
Organization
The "show me" movement In Los
Angeles Is now to advance by leaps
and bounds and still longer bounds.
About 200 of the sons of Missouri gath
ered in the committee room of the
chamber of commerce yesterday after
noon and determined, themselves, that
they would organize themselves.
The following organization committee
was chosen by the Missourians: A. J.
Harshburger, chairman; Gen. C. C. Al
len, secretary; W. Q. Kuhfus, A. B.
Jamison, J. G. Berry, J. J. Gilmore,
B. D. Woolam.
P. J. Chase suggested that O. M.
Potts, "being the best Missourian pres
ent," be appointed temporary presi
dent of the new society. There was
no opposition, and It Is probable that
his appointment will be made perma
nent. Mrs. Rose M. Benedict was
chosen secretary.
The second meeting of the society
will be held next Friday afternoon at
3 o'clock at Tait's cafeteria, 316 South
Broadway.
WILL READ 'SAUL'
Mrs. Merrill More Grigg, principal
of Cumr.ock School of Expression, will
read Browning's "Saul," with musical
accompaniment by Miss Fannie Dillon,
at the regular vesper hour at the
Young Women's Christian association,
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
OH, THAT MAPLE SUGAR!
All you people from Vermont ar»
scheduled to go to Sycamore park on
Pasadena avenue today, for the big
annual picnic and "sugaring off." Ad
vice to Vermonters Is that they take
luncheon, a cup, saucer and a spoon.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
CITY WILL HAVE
NEW CONGRESSMAN
Nation Now Districted with 170,
--000 Population to One
Representative
MANY CHANGES FROM CENSUS
Shifting of Lines Expected to Re
sult from the Recent
Enumeration
The city of Los Angeles is to havo
its own exclusive representative in
congress.
Such was the confident prediction
made yesterday by a number of prom
inent attorneys, politlcans and others
who have investigated the congres
sional and legislativo status of the
city and county under the new census
calculations.
On the basis of over 300,000 popula
tion, accredited to Los Angeles by the
census Just completed, the city would,
under the present apportionment, con
tain one complete congressional dis
trict In itself, and if the population of
the county has increased in the same
proportion as the city, there is a pos
sibility that it will not be necessary
to change the present outer boundaries
of the Seventh district.
Los Angeles will become, like San
Francisco, a district in itself, and with
its excess over the necessary apportion
ment may, like San Francisco, include
a part of at least one other district
—the present Seventh.
However this may be, local authori
ties are agreed that Los Angeles now
is entitled to become a congressional
district in itslf.
San Francisco will have gained one
half of a congressman, and Instead of
having literally one and one-half will
have two congressmen.
ONK FOR CITY
Southern California, it is believed,
will gain one and one-half congress
men. Los Angeles county will gain
one congressman, and Los Angeles city
will procure one new congressman, in
and for itself.
The constitution provides an appor
tionment of not more than one con
gressman for every 30,000 population,
but congress at present makes ap
portionments ia California on the basis
of one congressman for every 170,000
population. On account of the similar
increase in the population of Los An
geles county, which It is generally be
llevi.d will prove to have averaged
well with the increase in the city, it
is not believed there will be any im
portant change in the redistricting of
the county; but some believe that un
less the increase in the county aver
ages at least 60 per cent of that of the
city, the result may be that the Kighth
district will be considerably changed,
and its gerrymandered boundaries,
which exten* almost entirely around
Los Angeles county, may be radically
disturbed.
This might mean that Orange coun
ty or Ventura county would be em
braced in the district outside of the
city, now known as the Seventh dis
trict; or, it is believed, it might mean
that the Seventh district will be
changed to contain a slice of San Ber
nardino county, or portions of Kern
and Riverside counties. The state
census also may cause other unlooked
for changes, but no one could be found
yesterday to venture predictions, al
trouKh several stated that they would
not bo surprised if Tulare and Inyo
counties, the only two counties now in
the Eighth district, which are not in
Southern California, are placed in the
Sixth, or in a new district, which it
Is predicted may result from the in
crease of population in Fresno, Kings
and Monterey counties.
MANY CHANGES
The city and county of Los Angeles,
however, are vitally interested in the
changes which are almost certain to
result here from the new census. The
formation of a new district, contained
exclusively in the city of Los Angeles,
will be urged and warmly welcomed
by many citizens, and especially by
certain political organizations which
believe they see a chance under the
redistrictlng to materially revise the
city's political affairs. It means, also,
that Los Angeles county, which now
has five state senators, would have
ten senators, and under the redistrict
ing of the state senatorial and assem
bly areas would have twenty assem
blymen instead of nine.
The city of Los Angeles now has
three state senators, and under the
new census would have seven.
The city now has six assemblymen
and by the redistrlcting under the new
census would have at least thirteen as
semblymen, and possibly fourteen.
The apportionment of congressional
districts appears from the constitu
tion to He arbitraily with congress,
but on the basis of the present appor
tionment Los Angeles city will be
come a congressional district in it-
self —"and then some."
The state legislature establishes the
district lines following the congres
sional apportionment, and also appor
tions for state senate and assembly
districts, and establishes the boun
daries.
The new census will not affect the
pending election, or change the pre
sent districts, which latter can only
be done by congress and the legisla
ture. Meanwhile, a good many per
sons are now busy figuring out what
the results may be.
CHINESE TELLS FORTUNE
AND MEETS MISFORTUNE
While doing a rushing business in
telling the fortunes of a crowd of
solicitous follow men in Ferguson
alley y£^sterday afternoon, Lee Yew
Tee was arrested by Patrolman Pautz
for practicing without a city license.
Yee was taken before Police Judge
Frederickson, fined $3 and told to get
a license before doing any more busi
ness. His paraphernalia used in tell
ing fortunes, which consisted of a
bundle of sticks, a lot of slips with
Chinese writing on them and a fortune
telling book, were confiscated.
BUCKEYES, ATTENTION!
The Ohio society will meet next Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock In Fraternal
Brotherhood hall, 845 South Figueroa
.struct. As this Is the last meeting be
fore the summer vacation, a large at
tendance Is anticipated,
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1910.
ADMIRAL M'CALLA
EXPIRES SUDDENLY
Former Navy Chief Succumbs to
Apoplexy at His Home in
Santa Barbara
END FOLLOWS FAMILY TEA
Lies Down to Rest Relapse Not
ed, but Physicians Do
No Good
SANTA BARBARA, May 6.—Flags dis
played at halfmaAt were the outward
signs of the city's mourning for Its
most distinguished citizen, Admiral
Bowman 11. Mr( uliu, who died early to
day from a stroke of apoplexy.
Funeral mtvlci-m will be held tomor
row following the arrival of I,leut. and
Mr«. Knox, a daughter of the dead ad
miral, who arc now on the way here
from Mare island. Immediately after
the funeral cervices the body will be
taken to I.os Angeles, where it will be
cremated, In accordance with a wish
oftfn fiprfns^d by Admiral McCalla.
(Special to The Herald.)
SANTA BARBARA, Mai 6.—Rear
Admiral Bowman H. McCalla, United
States navy, retired, died of apoplexy
at 8:30 o'clock this morning at hiw
home on Upper Garden street. He has
not been strong- for several months,
but he felt especially bright yesterday.
He watched some workmen move a
tree, and in the afternoon he left the
grounds to attend a tea with his wife
and his daughter. Miss Stella McCalla,
and his sister. Miss McCalla. An hour
or two before dinner he went from the
library to the drawing room to lie
down. Mrs. McCalla, noticing that the
admiral was ill, called a physician.
Admiral McCalla leaves a wife, a sis
ter who made her home with them,
and four daughters, Mrs. Arthur Mc-
Arthur, Jr., Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Knox,
all wives of naval officers, and Miss
Stella McCalla. He has lived in Santa
Barbara since his retirement in June,
1906.
He was in charge of the entertain
ment of the Atlantic fleet in 1908, and
he gave a garden fete to the officers
of the Japanese cruiser Idsumo last
fall. He has always been very popular
in Santa Barbara. He was a vestry
man in the Trinity Episcopal church.
He had nearly completed a book of
memoirs, said to be of great historical
value. '
HIGH NAVAL OFFICERS AT
CAPITAL MOURN DEMISE
McCalla's Record Marked by
Heroic Acts
WASHINGTON, May 6.—High nava!
officers in Washington, when they
learned today of the sudden death of
Rear Admiral Bowman Henry McCalla
at Santa Barbara, Cal., were unani
mous In their expressions of sorrow and
praise of the dead officer.
Rear Admiral McCalla was born at
Camden, N. J., In 1844, entering the
navy in 1861. Hia service during the
almost thirty-nine years of active duty
In all parts of the world was noted by
conspicuous heroic acts. His most bril
liant achievements wore in connection
with the war with Spain, and with the
Peking relief column, for which he re
ceived signal recognition in the form
of a congressional medal for distin
guished service In battle, and also in
ternational acknowledgement of his la
bor through the bestowal on him of the
order of the Red Eagle by the German
emperor, and of the Chinese war medal
by the king of England. All of this
was after his excellent record in the
Civil War.
Admiral McCalla was made a mem
ber of the Loyal Legion, decorated in
other orders and advanced in rank in
the navy.
His last active service in the army
was as commander of the naval train
ing station at Mare Island, Cal., and of
the navy yard there, and he retired
June 19, 1906. For some time he had
been living in Southern California with
his family.
GOES TO FATHER'S BIER
VALLEJO, Cal., May 6.—Mrs. Dudley
W. Knox, daughter of the late Rear
Admiral McCalla, who resides in this
city, left for Santa Barbara today, im
mediately after receiving a message in
forming her of her father's sudden
death.
VALUES LEG LOST ON
AQUEDUCT AT $7500
Valuing his right leg at $7500 John
J. Foy has asked the city council to
pay him that sum, in a petition filed
with the council yesterday. He claims
his leg was amputated by reason of
an accident he met while employed on
the aquecduct as helper on a traction
engine.
Foy's attorney, who presented the
claim, says he was kuocked from
the engine and rolled under the wheels
so that his body was badly bruised
and the right leg crushed so badly it
had to be cut off. They say he is a
young man and had a bright future
before him but that by reason of the
fact that he will have to finish up his
life on awooden pin things no longer
look so rosy.
$18,000 IS WANTED FOR
200,000 CEMENT SACKS
Bids for 200,000 cement sacks were
opened by the board of public works
yesterday. The lowest bid was about
$18,000 for the lot. Those cement
sacks are to be used at the municipal
cement plant at Monolith where co
ment it made for the aqueduct. The
big order for sacks Illustrates some
thing of the magnitude of the Job of
building the big ditch.
Southern Pacific change in time
Sunday, May 8. See display notice in
this namr. I
§Men, Look! and Women Who
Buy Shirts for Men AQ.C
Over 200 Dozen Men's Shirts at. . f" (^Jea.
—for a great Saturday sale in the Bargain Basement.
—All of these shirts are bright, clean stock that has never been out
—All fresh summer patterns, every garment cut full length and
breadth—every one a wonderful value at 48c.
—Shirts of blue, tan, light and dark gray chambray—and shirts of neat striped
and figured percales and madra.«.
—In not only a few patterns, but dozens of them—just the effects that are to
be popular this summer.
The quantity is large—every size is here in numbers—4Bc each.
—Come early today—get the host selection—Come at B:3o—Bargain Basement.
3 Bargains
For Men Sailors to Go AQ f^lean-lip Sale 01
—Men's summer weight balbrig- in a Rush 1/V V-rf T , — .
K™™'STn* rpu?n''«"frg -And ,h W w», ,„,«,,, »- Hat lnmmings
are full cut garments made of good _ Btnlght »„„„ and mushroom chcmCS, COCjlie feathers —
Quality muslin; soft collars; all Blres, of peam]t straw ond lmlta . a jj tf) g Q at g c eac h.
—Metfi 'black and tan seamless cot- «lon Panama —Children's untrimmed shapes;
ton socks; reinforced heels and toes. —A sreat lot and a wonaerrui as- gama leghorns, with fancy edge,
Junt the socks for workday wear. eortment. at fl( , each
Bargains. 8 l-3c pair. -Bargain, for today. 49c each. _ Qne harr] realize t he
—Bargain Baaement. —Early selections are best. great values that are to be of
mn Tinrpn t A fered in this lot for 9c each.
IUU i^u^cii II If Three Dozen d»^ HP —For the woman who trims her
Children's Drawers l^t i," r" " " JSfIS own hat, or hats for her children,
—Children's drawers, made of i rimmea n.<ii& %>hitl \j this is an opportunity of oppor
good quality muslin —with lawn not scantily but generously tunities to buy trimmings at 9c
ruffle, fully tucked and neatly trimmed with flowers braid, rib- each.
hemstitched. „„„,« bons and cherries. —Don't miss them today.
—Don't make these undergarments o""s * —Bargain Basement.
for children when they can be —Large .shapes, hral.l turbans, and _ _„. . „ ,
bought at 10c each. a few toaues. all $2.75. O"* 5 -KIDDOn 4C Yard
—Why, the material will nearly cost _H>re is an opportunity to pick up
you that much. some wonderful bargains In hats. —Good colors; 1 to 1% inch
=B"rg galnVa B ement to°aay a " -Don't miss them. 52.75. widths. Extra value every yard.
ASK ABOUT EXCURSION FARES TO EASTERN CITIES IN MAY AND LATER.
A DELIGHTFUL
WAY TO GO EAST
Is to take the Sunset Express any day at noon from the
Arcade Station in Los Angeles and go through without
change of cars to New Orleans.
Four times a week through sleepers to Washington, D.
C, and on certain days to St. Louis via San Antonio, and
Chicago and Cincinnati via New Orleans.
'Tis a pleasant spring time trip via
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
SUNSET ROUTE
Los Angeles Offices 600 So. Spring St. and Arcade Station. Pasadena Office 148 E. Colorado St.
U.S. ARRESTS SIX-FOOTER
AND HE WEEPS FOR MILES
Albert Duninger, a Down East
Giant, Accused of Selling
Whisky to Indian
A three-day arrival from the east —
one of the way back east kind, with
the sod of New Hampshire still cling
ing to his foot hide—was booked a
federal prisoner at the county jail yes
terday from Needles and faces a sen
tence because Mexicans and reserva
tioin Indians all look alike to him.
Albert Duninger, 20 years old, stand
ing six feet three in his stocking feet,
who prior to his western trip had never
seen an Indian outside of a picture
book, sold booze to a thirsty old brave
and unwitttingly stepped on his Uncle
Sam's toes.
Duninger, who came west for dry
air, was sitting on a park bench in
Needles several days ago in a reflective
mood, when a dark-skinned brave of
the Yuma tribe handed him 50 cents
with the request that he buy him
the equivalent in firewater. Duninger
bought. When he gets out of the gov
ernment web he is going to delve
deeply into ethnology. He wants to be
able to detect the difference between
a Yaqui and a Mexican.
Deputy United States Marshal Bert
Franklin, who brought Duninger from
Needles, told his chief yesterday that
the trip to Los Angeles was made in
"Standing above me in height," said
Franklin, Dunlnger, terror-stricken,
bawled throughout the trip and at
tracted the attention of all the passen
gers in the car. Women called me cruel
and men brutal to take a child away
from his home and mother, but I bore
the brunt of their criticism and have
booked my prisoner."
Duninger, although a giant in frame,
has the mind of a child. He has evi
dently been raised on a farm and seen
little of the outside world. The mere
j fact that he is under arrest for an of
fense against the government has
i struck terror to his heart. On the re
] turn of the federal court from Fresno
I In several weeks he will be arraigned
on a charge of selling liquor to an
Indian.
SEEK TO OPEN ROADS
OF MALIBU RANCHO
Adolfo P. Alvarez, familiar with the
Rindge estate properties since 1872, and
Brigido Valdez, who had known the
lands for twenty-five years, were wit
nesses for the government yesterday
before Leo Longley, special examiner
for the United Stated circuit court in
the action brought by the government
to open the roads of the Malibu rancho
to the government lands adjoining it
on the interior side. These witnesses
testified that public roads existed there
years ago, a fact that the government
is trying to establish.
BICYCLE RIDER HIT BY CAR
SUSTAINS SEVERE INJURIES
While riding a bicycle at the inter
section of Spring and Seventh street
shortly before noon yesterday, Peter
Klagovitch, a piano finisher, was
struck by a Hooper avenue street car
of the Los Angeles Railway company
and thrown to the pavement. He sus
tained a severe laceration above his
left eye, and was taken to the receiv
ing hospital. Later he was removed to
his home at 734 East Twelth street.
MRS. BRUNNER ASKS DIVORCE
An application to change her suit
from maintenance to one for absolute
divorce from Herman Brunner was
granted by Judge Oster in department
four yesterday to Mr«. Louise Brunner,
after the trial had been in progress two
days. The case has ben continued to
next week. Several days will be re
quired to hear all the evidence.
WILL GIVE MASQUERADE
The Companions of the Foresters of
America will give a masquerade ball
tonight at the Walker theater build
ing. '
Classified Ad. Section
CHICK! CHICK! CHICK! IS
LITTLE RED HEN NO MORE?
Watts Woman Thinks Fowl Was
Cooked After Exciting
Scene at Fence
A little red hen that strayed awij
from home, got Into the wrong coop
and can't get back; and a broom that
went to its rescue and stuck in the
enemy's barbed wire fence would have.
have formed the basis of a criminal
complaint yesterday if Deputy District
Attorney Blair had not devoted an
entire day of his time to persuading:
Miss Mathilda Cornwall, 50 years old..
pioneer and property owner of Watts,
to get a writ of claim and delivery
against her former friend and neigh
bor, Mrs. Freida Goldstein, instead of
a warrant that would have haled the
good woman into a justice's court,
charged with theft.
Miss Cornwall recognized the hen's
cackling cry for liberty, and arming
herself with a broom, was in the act
of storming the enemy's back fence
when Mrs. Goldstein is said to have
used an ironing board to resist the
charge. Miss Cornwall saved herself
from falling, but lost her broom. In
milder terms she demanded her prop
erty. Mrs. Goldstein, she said, sneered,
,and seizing the disputed fowl, declared
she would devour it that night. Miss
Cornwall told Mr. Blair that sho
gmeiled burning chicken that night;
suffered the humiliation of being hit by
Hying chicken bone the next morning,
and has not seen the little red hen
since.
Verdugo Canyon Land Co.
Hw Junt IMurd th« Moat Beautiful and An
U*Uo Illuatrated Booklet srer pubU*iia4 la
U>» Ancclea. Call or lead for oa*.
JNO. A. PIRTLE