COUNCIL TO CUT TELEPHONE RATE Home Telephone Company's Charge in Annexed Districts Reduced for Residences LISSNER PREDICTS DISASTER Portable Phone Charge of Sunset Company of 50 Cents Is Done Away With (Cnntlimed from rase One) show thai, the telephone rates charged in other cities the sizo of J-os Angeles wen' greatly In excess of those recom mended l>y the board and that the board's rate! would only net the tele phono companies a fair return on their Invested capital. CAM 1 rnKOICAMKNT "If you want to ruin the business owned absolutely by the people of Los Angeles you are going about It in the proper way," said A. B. Caas, president of the Home company. "It will be the ruination of those persons who own tin or fifteen shares of Home Tele* phone stock and depend on it as their only source of Income." A. 11. Holston, representing the So cialist central committee! objected to any Increase In the rates. His main contention wan that it would ba bel ter for I.os Angeles to have only one telephone systom Instead of two. "The people should not be expected tn pay two dividends on two invest menls of eaiptal when only one is nec essary," he said. The minds of the councllmon seemed to he made up and five of them voted to instruct the city attorney to prepare the ordinance leaving the old rates in effect. WATER RATES Before adjourning at noon yesterday the council parsed tiie ordinance reg ulating rates for water, electric light nnd gas service and it was .signed yesterday afternoon by Mayor Alex ander. The company supplying gas In San Pedro Is permitted to increase its rato to $1.35 a thousand feet. Elsewhere in the city the rate will be 80 cents, as heretofore. The rate for electric light Is to be 7 cents per kilowatt hour, instead of 9 cents, as heretofore, to small consum ers. The minimum rate is to be $1. Those rates become effective July 1. San Pedro water consumers get new rntos Instead of the old flat rate of $1.50. The new rates range from 85 cents for a three-room house to $1.85 for the largest residences. Consumers In Hollywood will pay $1.2F» for the first 800 gallons, instead of $1.60. For each thousand jmllons in excess of that quantity they will pay 13Vi cents in- Btead of the old rate of I(>V4 cents. The ordinance fixing the telephone rates Will ho presented to the coun cil Tuesday. WOMAN THROWN INTO RIVER FROM AUTOMOBILE DROWNS Machine Plunges Off Bank and Hurls Occupants Over PANTA ROSA, Cal., May 28.—Caught under a heavy automobile that had left the road and plunged over a fif teen-foot embankment into the Rus sian river, Mrs. Frank Bond of San Francisco, who, with her husband and IH-year-old daughter Hazel, and R. R. Stranpf, also of San Francisco, were on B fishing trip through Sonoma county, was drowned this afternoon near Booneville. I'.ond was severely injured, When, with the others, be was thrown from the machine before it went hurling into the water. The girl wai unhurt and Strung escaped with a few minor injuries. BEECROFT TO SEARCH FOR COOK'S RECORDS NEAR ETAH NIOW YORK, May 28.—Chester Bee croft of Pelham Manor, N. V., an nounced today he will sail for Etah June 15 with the Bernier expedition to the Arctic In the hope of finding the records Dr. Cook says he left in tlie north. It Is said he m supplied with funds by Dr. Amos Oook. It was through Bcecroft's efforts that the Es kimo boy Mene, sole survivor of the Peary expedition of 1898, was sent back nortji. Store Closed All Day Monday EIGHTH ANNUAL Clearance Sale BEGINS Next Tuesday Every Piece of Furniture, Carpets and Draperies Reduced. Don't Miss This Sale _^__^ PHONES! F-2P72:MAIN-2072 —I ——I 648-652 BROADWAY EAT SEVENTH ALLEGED PROMOTERS OF SPURIOUS MONEY INDICTED Two Men Under Arrest in Phila delphia Charged with Fraud fiircAOO, May 28— The federal grand Jury here lias returned Indict ments again t K. H. Btarktoff and Qeorge W. Post, who are under arrest In Philadelphia on a charge of con spiracy and using the mail to promote a Iraud. It is alleged Ktarktoe mailed nearly iooo letters from this,city with a propo sition to furnish nu-h person with enough undetectable "spurious" gov ernment notes In $1, %'l, $5 and $10 de nominations to muke a fortune for the purchaser. The "spurious" notes. It was repre sented, were not counterfeits, but made with plates stolen, it was alleged, from the United States treasury. Each prospective customer ..as directed to wire "A. B. Cline, Attica, Mich., for full details if Interested." ENGLISH EXPERT FAVORS LARGER NAVY FOR U.S. Sir William White Declares Over- Sea Commerce Calls for Big Increase NISW YORK, May 23.—Sir William White, K. C. 8., the retired director of naval construction of. the British ad miralty, who built most of England'! biggest warships, is In New York for a brief American trip. In an interview given out shortly af ter hia arrival, Sir William talked of nival construction here and abroad. "I see no reason why the United State*, should not have a large navy," said Sir William. "With your oversea commerce, which is steadily growing, nnd your foreign possessions this coun try needs a big navy. "The United States navy has had a great advantage over the navies of many other nations. There was prac tically no navy here to speak of at the time of the Civil War. Naval con struction began later in this country and thus the United States navy has benefited by other nations' experience and at the same time it has applied its own skill and ideas. "The navy belongs to the nation and not to a political party. It was wrong to bring politics into the navy. We had a recent Illustration of this, first during what is known as the war scare, and secondly at the recent elec tions. "The future of shipbuilding must de pend very much on what the united ingenuity of all the ship designers in the world may bring about. It Is not the work of one man, it is a matter of evolution and competition." SALOON MAN IDENTIFIES SUSPECTS AS BANDITS SACRAMENTO, May 28.— The police today took into custody three bandits, believed to bo the desperadoes respon sible for a street car holdup and a sa loon robbery recently perpetrated. The men, George H. Bain, W. H. Howard and Harry Ueilly, were arrest ed on .suspicion shortly after noon to day, and one of them later confessed tiic trio planned to rob a saloon in the suburbs tonight. All of the men had skeleton keys, masks and revolvers. Cornelius O'Brien, a saloon keeper, re cently held up and robbed, identified two of the captives as the men who robbed him. Ten bandits have been captured here since February. T. R. ENDS COUNTRY VISIT LONDON, May 28.—Mr. Roosevelt to night closed his visit to Lieut. Col. Ar thur H. Lee's country place, Chequois court, at Buckinghamshire, where he went from Cambridge yesterday. The former president will spend Sunday with Inn Buxton, who Is an expert on the forestry question. PERU-ECUADOR WAR IMMINENT WASHINGTON, May 28.—Offl< ml dis patches received at the state depart ment from both Lima, Peru, and Quito, Ecuador, Indicate that warlike prepara tions between Peru and Ecuador are being rapidly pushed forward and that a conflict seems Inevitable. BANQUET MAKES 16 ILL FORT COLIiiNS, Colo., May 28.— Sixteen members of the Fort roiiins high school alumni are seriously 111 from the effects of ptomaine poison- Ing, caused, It is believed, by eating Impure ice cream served at a banquet last night. LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1910. SLAYS FOREMAN; TAKES OWN LIFE Unidentified Man Shoots Harry Black at Fresno and Turns Gun on Self MYSTERY VEILS THE TRAGEDY Victim's Wife Prostrated but May Be Able to Furnish Some Clew to Case (Associated Press] FRESNO, May 28.—A double tragedy was enacted In the local Santa Fe yards this morning, shortly after 9 o'clock, when an unidentified man shot and instantly killed Harry Black, the roundhouse: foreman, and then turning his still smoking revolver upon him self, fired two bullets through his own bruin. Two witnesses to the tragedy were held spellbound while the shoot ing was in progress. Black's wife Is prostrated, The shooting occurred near the San ta Fe depot, and the motive for it re mains a mystery. Black was walking in the direction of the roundhouse when the form of a man suddenly appeared before him from between two cars. Before Black could move the stranger leveled an automatic revolver at him and fired three times. All of the bul lets struck their mark. One buried it self in Black's stomach, another shat tered a hand, and the third hit him in the hip. The stranger tthen, after looking at the fallen body of his victim, walked calmly away, glancing up and down the track, and then raised the pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger twice. Death for him was almost instantane ous. It is expected that when Black's wife is in condition to talk she may be able to throw some light on the mystery. BANQUET CLOSES THE ENGINEERS' MEETING Herman Moplay of San Francisco Elected President of the Association What Is pronounced to have been the moat successful state convention and exhibit of the National Association of Stationary Engineers wan closed last night with a banquet In Ham burgers' cafe. In attendance the convention ix ceded any the association ever held In California, and in the extent of the mechan ical exhibit it was far ahead of all of Its predecessors. The engineers anil their wives were busy all week, the local committee hav ing carefully planned a lively program cover ing every minute of the time. A unique menu was one of the banquet fea tures. Each item was accompanied by a clever statement In mechanical terms. William T. W. Curl was chairman of the banquet. Fred J. Fischer was toastmaster. The toast list was as follows: "Drips from the Oil Can," William Mulholland; "The Btate Association," J. N. Pyster; "The Value of Work," A. B. Cass; "The Man," H. D. Sa ville; "The Home," W. P. Butcher; "Whut the N. A. 8 B. Means to This City," John Topham; "Dollars and Sense," B. F. Pearson; Hot Air," Jnhn Traynor; "Up to Date," J. CJ. Warren; "Department Store Engineering/ W. K. Chamberlain. The delegates visited beach towns, including Long Beach and San Pedro, yesterday. At the afternoon session the election of officers was held, resulting as follows: President, Herman Moplay, San Francisco; vice president, David Hrlan, Ix>s Angeles; secretary, W. T. W. Curl, Los Angeles; treasurer. Charles Knight, San Francisco; conductor, I*. E. Porter, Santa Itarbara; doorkeeper, Charles Comes, San Jose; trusties, J. 11. Pyster of Santa Barbara. John Proper of I