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I IS IV Ij . OK) lulliiy In FEB MONTH ■
VOI,. XXXVII.
M MHI.K Ml
PETITION AGAINST
CHEAPER LIGHTS
SIGNED BY 5000
Electric Corporations Show Their
Power in Move to Suspend
New Ordinance
GET BEHIND REFERENDUM
Plan Forcing Election on the Peo
ple Before Lower Rates
Can Go Into Effect
FIVE thousand persona yesterday
.«mli) they did nut want cheaper
electric lights and were en sure of
ti that they signed a referendum peti
tion circulated by the public service
corporations, if all tho signatures ob
tained to the petition yesterday are
those of Qualified votem the number is
nearly twice enough to suspend the
operation of the ordinance reducing
tin- electric lipht rates passed by th<_
council last Saturday.
The ordinance, under ordinary cir
cumstances, would be effective July l.
hut the certification of the referendum
will suspend Its operation until it is
decided by a voto of the people.
The council liiu? said that If such a
referendum was Bled it would order a
epeolal election as soon ns possible, be
cause tho council believes that the
great majority of tho people do want
cheaper light and will vote to sustain
the ordinam c,
The electric corporations do not want
a special election and do not ask for It
in their referendum petition, But the
charter provides the council has the
option of calling a special election or
laying the matter over until the next
general election. If It is laid over until
the next general election the, people
Will not have a chance to vote on It
until December, 1911. This would prac
tically Invalidate the ordinance alto
gether, as the rates are fixed from
year to year and before it could bo
voted on at the next general election
another rate fixing time would have
come, .'round and another ordinance
be passed.
Until the next rate ordinance was
passed the old one that operated last
year and Is now effective, making the
price of electricity a rents a kilowatt,
■would he operative. This Is Just what
the electric light companies want.
CORPORATIONS GKT HDSY
The referendum petition was drawn
tip almost as soon as the ordinance
was published by the city council. In
foot the very type with which the or
dinance was printed is used in the ref
erendum petition and Champ S. Vance,
manager of operation of the Los Ange
les Has and Electric corporation,
pointed out that If there was anything
legally wrong with tho petition the
same would lie against the ordinance
itself.
The petition was not put Into circu
lation until yesterday morning and by
5 o'clock last night Mr. Vance had re
ports that assured him that more than
6000 signatures had been secured. Such
•i number of signatures to a petition of
this kind in one day Is unprecedented
in the history of the many referendum,
initiative and recall petitions the city
has had to deal With and shows, to
some extent, the organization of the
public service corporations. It is tills
dame organization, it is stated, that is
let loose at election time.
Sections of the petition were on file
■with a number of banks and large
business houses in the city and patrons
were asked to sign it. Many did with
out realizing that they were Insisting ;
on keeping up the price of their own
household bills.
Since the passage of the ordinance
the Edison Klectrlc, the Pacific Light
and Power and the Los Angeles' Gas
and Electric corporations have stopped
nil extensions and last night the Los
Angeles Gas and Electric corporation
discharged 100 employes, nearly all of
them linemen.
"Wo had to do it to reduce the cost
of operation," said Mr. Vance, man
ager of operation. The reduction In
rates from 9 to 7 cents a kilowatt hour
means a reduction in our income of
20 per cent. The men discharged re
reived an average wage of $3. a day
and by discharging inn of them we
save $350 a day in labor alone. It Is
probable more will be let out.
"It is certain we will make no more
extensions under the 7 cent rate, and
no other electric company will extend
for such a rate. We can't afford to do
it. I have gathered data from twenty
eight of the largest cities in the United
States at Denver, Tacomn. Rochester
nnd Grand Rapids, where they have an
8 cent rate. The other cities run as
high as 15 cents, in Detroit and Port
land."
The other light companies have not
discharged any employes, but they
have stopped their extensions and no
tified tract owners that any new
houses they build off the cables al
ready established would not bo con
nected with electricity.
A referendum is In the process of
publication for the telephone ordinance
and the telephone companies expect
to have It in circulation in a few days.
The reforondums do not have to bra
filed until thirty days after the ap
proval of the ordinance, and the elec
tric companies expect to obtain 15,0000
signatures or more before they file
theirs.
MAIL CARRIER BRINGS
SELF NEWS OF FORTUNE
WASHINGTON, Pa., June 2.—George
White, fi farmer and rural mail car
rier at Rea, has delivered to himself
B letter from a lawyer in a western
.state. Informing Mm that one Patrick
Sullivan lias left to him In his will
$10,000.
White, who at first took it as a joke,
has remembered that fifteen years ago
he befriended a peddler whose name
was Patrick Sullivan. He had Often
treated him to meals or to lodging-.
AVhite is now negotiating for tho
money.
$200,000 MILL BURNED
BBATTLH. June 2. -The saw mill
and 3,000,000 feet of lumber <>f the
South Fork Lumber company at North
Bend, seventy mllas cast of Seattle,
were burned yesterday. Loss, $200,000.
The 200 mill employes fought the flames
without effect.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
fORBCAAT
T/OB An;;ilrH anil vicinity—Cloudy Friday;
Unlit hoiilli wind. Maximum temperature
jritteriliij- 70 dogrami minimum 57 decrees.
LOS ANGELES
Improvement association favors Plaza as
union depot site, and has plans Involving
expenditure of 110,000,000, PAGE I
XI. of C. medical oollego graduates honor
retiring professors. PA OK 3
Healy, Stewart, lloughton and Whlffen
chosen nt councilmanla primaries. PAOE 1
Electric light corporations get GOOO people
to petition against cheaper lights, PACK 1
Metal workers nnd employes settle down .
to prolonged struggle. PAGK S
County records show that many certifi
cates to wed are taken out and never
■ sod. PAOB 8
Three, hundred attend graduating exercises
at College of Osteopathy. PAGE I
Federation of Improvement clubs bapks
administration In cloctric light and tele
phone matters. PAGE 5
Convicted real estate dealer the terror of
the county Jail. PAGE 9
Interesting Chinese wedding on South Jrill
street PAOE 5
Big engineering foat performed In Hotel
Alexandria annex construction. PAGK 9
Former postal clerk, convicted, makes a
scene In court. PAGE 9
"Mysterious" Oranville assaults Deputy
Marshal Keppel with billiard cue. TACK 13
Fights to get back money given daugh
ter. PAGE 13
Wife, of Rev. W. T. Nichols (ranted a
divorce for cruelty. PAGE 16
Emllp C Ilutehlnson, In divorce, suit, tes
tifies wife bit his hands. PAGE IB
Los Angeles realty board holds annual
meeting and elects officers. PAGE IB
Editorial, Letter Box. PAGE 12
Marriage licenses, births, deaths. PAGE 14
lety, clubs, music. f PAGE 5
Theaters. PAGE 6
News of the courts. PAGE 13
Municipal affairs. PAGE 13
Mines and oil fluids. PAGE 6
Markets and financial. ■ PAGE 7
Sports. PAGES 10-11
City brevities. PAGE 13
Classified advertising. PAGES 14-15
Citrus fruit report. PAGE <l
Building permits. PAGE 16
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Man bows to woman and is set upon by
husband. PAGE 14
Pasadena Y. W. C. A. campaign for huild-
Ing fund nets $12,000. PAGE 14
Contractors stop work on Bear valley dam
near Ban Bernardino. PAGE 2
COAST
Thousands Join In stampede to new sold
fields. PAGE 4
Seattle salesman shot to death on train
by wife. PAGE »
Student of leprosy to take Harvard seml
professorship. PAGE 4
Prisoner at San Quentln confesses to
being a murderer. PAOH 2
EASTERN
Chemist says bleached flour bread Is hard
to digest. PAG 3
Congressman Moon favors commission to
consider liability law. PAGE 3
President Taft addresses graduates at
Bryn M.uvr. PAGE 1
August Belmont, New York banker, in
jured when polo pony falls. PAGE 1
Folk outlines 1912 presidential platform.
PAGE 1
More "teeth" put into the railroad bill.
PAGE 2
Bribery In connection with Illinois fish
bill under probe. PAGE 2
More railroads rush to file schedules of
higher freight rates. PAGE 2
Jockey Langan 1b killed by his mount
falling during a 2-year-old race at
Qravesend. PAGK 10
FOREIGN
Insurgents rout army of government forces
in Nicaragua. PAGE 3
Roosevelt and Lord Cromer guests of the
Spectator's proprietor at dinner. fa»;e 2
MINING AND OIL
Union Oil caps Sage well No. 6 until
production can be cared for. PAGE 6
Doheny company now supplies City of
Mexico with gas. PAGE (
Discovery of oil shale excites people of
Swansea, Ariz. PAGE 6
Rice Ranch Oil company produces 10.000
barrels a month. PAGE 6
PLATFORM FOR 1912
OUTLINED BY FOLK
[Associated Press]
ST. IX)UIS, June 2.—Missouri Demo
crats of all factions at a dinner here
tonight heard former Governor J. W.
Folk announce the principles on which,
it is said, he will seek the presidential
nomination in 191-.
The dinner was in charge of men
who have been promoting the boom of
the former governor.
"The doctrine of equal rights should
be made a living, vital and controlling
force in the government," said Mr.
Folk, after he had listened to Demo
crats from all parts of the state tell
the guests that the former governor is
the man they should indorse for the
presidency.
"The Democratic party should insist
Upon the stamping out of graft and
corruption from every department of
government; the eradication of all spe
cial favors, including bounties, sub
sidies and a tariff for any purpose
Other than revr-nue.
"We need the honest, sincere en
forcement of laws we already have and
the regulation of rates of public utility
corporations upon a reasonable basis
that Justice may be done the people,
and a fair return for the amount ac
tually invested be afforded."
other principles named by the
speaker were the preservation, fif the
rights of states to self government;
the restriction of American territory
to the western hemisphere as a neces
sary corollary of the Monroo doctrine;
the extension of American trade by re
moving the restriction on commerce; a
just income tax; the election of United
States senators by direct vote and un
relenting opposition to the domination
in public affairs of special interests.
FIFTY INDICTMENTS FOUND
IN COUNTY GRAFT CASES
KCHENECTADY, N. V., June 2.—
The special grand jury which was con
vened here on May 16 on Governor
Hughes' orders to Investigate alleged
county grafting cues, reported to
c Van Kirk today and handed in
tifty indictments against twenty-seven
persons. Including, It Is said, the ma
jority of members of the board of su
pers Isors, a former sheriff and contrac
tors and merchants.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1910.
NEW YORK BANKER
THROWN FROM PONY
IN GAME OF POLO
AUGUST BELMONT
PONY FALLS AND
INJURES BELMONT
Reported to Have Broken Wrist
and Sustained Gash in Scalp
During Polo Game
NEW YORK, June 2.—August Bel
mont wnn thrown from his horse this
afternoon while playing polo at the
Meadowbrook Hunt club. There were
rumors that he had been seriously in
jured, but at his house it was said
tonight he had only been severely
shaken up and would be about as
usual in a day or so.
At the Meadowbrook club It was said
he had broken a wrist.
While Hclmont was following the
ball lie made- a forward stroke with
his mallet which entangled itself with
his horse's fore foot. The animal was
In full gallop and in tripping turned
a complete somersault. Fortunately
Belmont was thrown olrar of the horse,
as It rolled over several times.
Mrs. Belmont, who was Eleanor
Rubson, and la a bride of a few
months, was notified immediately by
telephone and hurried out to the club.
She brought her husband back with
her to the town house.
At Hempstead, L. 1., where Belmont
has liis country place, it was said that
his injuries were more seriout. than
the family were willing to admit in
New York. The village reports were
that. Belmont suffered a broken rib,
that his scalp was torn and that his
face was bruised and lacerated. More
over, it was denied that he was
thrown clear of his pony.
(in the contrary it was said the pony
fell on him so heavily that he lay
breathless on the ground and that it
was necessary to resort to artificial
respiration to bring him. back to con
sciousness.
As his automobile went through
Hcmpstead it ran slowly as if It were
carrying a man who needed careful
driving.
YOUNG GUGGENHEIM IS
FINED $1000; IMPRISONED
Court Gives Him Wedding Pres
ent for Overspeeding
NEW YORK, June 2.—For a wedding
present to young Edmund A. Guggen
heim, a nephew of Senator Simon Gug
genheim of Colorado, the court of gen
eral sessions gave a fine of $1000 and
a sentence of one day in jail.
Tli rough his counsel, young Guggen
heim had pleaded guilty to a third vio
lation of the automobile speed limit.
It was urged that he is to be married
next Monday and that a prison sen
tence would bo an unnecessary humil
iation to his bride-to-be and to his
family. The court turned a deaf oar.
The young millionaire's imprison
ment, however, proved nothing unbear
able. Sentence was pronounced at
3:15 o'clock p. m. Ten minutes later
the prisoner had crossed the Bridge of
Sighs to the Tombs; at 4 o'clock p. m.
the legal day ends. His total period of
incarceration therefore was just thirty
five minutes.
By courtesy of the warden he was al
lowed to spend the time in the coun
sel's room.
LION PROWLS THROUGH
AUDIENCE; HURTS NO ONE
PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 2.—A large
African Don escaped from its cage dur
ing tonight's performance of an ani
mal show at St. John, a suburb of this
city, but through the presence of mind
of John Isler, the trainer, there were
no serious results.
Isler, In entering the cage, failed to
close the door tightly and the beast
sprang- past the trainer and through
the door. The trainer induced the 1000
or more spectators to.keep their seats
while he followed the lion. The ani
mal after making a circuit of the tent
ran out into tho street, with the trainer
in pursuit. Ho was cornered in the
upstairs hall of a lodging house and re
caged.
Tin- lion is known as an "outlaw,"
and while in winter quarters at the old
Lewis and Clark exposition grounds a
few months ago attacked and seriously
injured his keeper.
POSTAL CLERK ARRESTED
FOR THEFT OF $2000
SPOKANE, June 2.—Glon BoutOt), a
clerk In the Spokane postofflce, was
arrested as he was about to bonrd a
Northern Pacific train with his bride
today. He la charged with the theft
of a registered letter containing: $2000.
nouton broke down and confessed that
he had Slipped the envelope to one
side. He turned over $1000 to the in
spector, who made the arrest. Bmiton
was married less than a week after
he tuok the money.
MANBIRD TWICE
CHOSSES CHANNEL
WITHOUT A STOP
English Army Officer, Riding in an
American Machine, Dou
bles Former Feats
MADE 42 MILES IN 90 MINUTES
Captain Rolls, Hero of 160 Bal
loon Ascensions, Adds
to His Laurels
[Assonlatod Preps]
DOVER, Eng., June 2.—The Hon.
Charles Stewart Rolls, captain in
the London section of the army
motor reserve, driving a Wright bi
plane, vindicated Anglo-Saxon aero
nautics by crossing the English chan
nel twice this evening without alight
ing. He made the round trip between
Dover and Calais in 90 minutes.
Whilo two Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot
and Count de Lesseps, have crossed
the. channel In aeroplanes it remained
for an Englishman in an American
machine *to perform the double feat.
The distance across between the two
points is twenty-one miles, bo that his
over-water flight of forty-two miles
without a stop establishes a new'rec
ord.
CONMTIOXS KXCEIXENT
Captain Rolls left Dover at 6:30
O'clock. Atmospheric conditions were
cm * li> nt. He lost no time in maneu
vers, but after describing a circle,
headed toward the coast of France.
In anticipation of the flight torpedo
boats steamed at full speed across the
straits, but the pace of the aeroplane
was swifter.
Captain Rolls sent his machine to a
height of SOO feet, and at that altitude
he skimmed through the air like a
great bird. The motor worked per
fectly. The crowd that watched the
start confidently awaited the return,
and it was not long before the speck,
which those who had telescopes saw
disappear on the French coast, re
appeared, growing larger with every
minute.
When finally the aviator became
visible to the naked eye cheer 3 arose
from the spectators and as he soared
toward the landing place made famous
by Bleriot he was given a demonstra
tion. He alighted at S o'clock at al
most the same spot as Bleriot, show
ing little signs of the strain of his
magnificent flight.
MA>T-6II>ED SPORTSMAN
Captain Charles S. Kolls nf the Lon
don second army motor reserve has
successively followed the spurts of bi
cycling, automobiling, ballooning and
aeroplaning.
He has made moro than 160 balloon
ascensions. Taking up the sport of
heavier-than-air machines he made a
flight with Wilbur Wright at Lemans
in October, 1908. On May 27 last he
started to make the cross-channel
'light, but he had gone but a few
yards when his engine tailed and the
attempt was abandoned.
Louis Bleriot and Count De Lessepa
have successfully crossed the channel.
starling from the French sldo, but up
to today no one had made the flight
with the start from the English coast.
THREE AEROPLANES ALOFT AT
ONCE OVER LONG ISLAND
Aeronautic Federation Meets and
Elects New Officers
NEW YORK, June 2.—Spectators of
aeroplane flights off Hempstead Heath
on Long island today saw three aero
planes aloft at once, circling, passingl
and ropassing one another at various
altitudes.
Charles K. Hamilton, who has an
nounced that ho will compote in the
New York to Chicago flight, went up
1000 feet in a Curtiss biplane and re
mained aloft for half an hour.
Capt. Baldwin made a cautious trial
in a machine of his own invention.
Clifford B. Harmon, who proposes to
cross Long island sound and the Island
itself to Greenwich, Conn., made a trial
of twelve miles in a Farman biplane
at a height of 200 feet and came to grief
in landing. He smashed his propeller
ami snapped several stays, but escaped
personal injury.
Kepresentatives of the various clubs
and societies identified with the re
cently organized Aeronautic Federa
tion of America met tonight and se
lected the following officers: Presi
dent, Prof. David Todd (if the Amherst
Aero club; secretary-treasurer, Thomas
A. Hill, director of the Aeronautic so
ciety.
BIG CHICAGO-NEW YORK
PURSE IS OPEN TO ALL
CHICAGO, June 2.—John C. Shafer,
who has guaranteed the $25,000 purse
for the Chlcago-Now York aeroplane
flight, announced today it would he
open to aviators of the world and that
European entrants were expected.
Mr. Shafer also announced the $25,000
was as good as subscribed. The money
will bo put up by wealthy men, and
there will be no popular subscription.
ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN:
506 BABIES BORN IN MAY
Five hundred and eight
babies had the good fortune to
arrive in this world via Los
Angeles during the month of
May, and this record-breaking
total may be increased when
other certificates are filed with
the board of health. The larg
est total for any month in the
history of the city prior to the
one for May was 434.
Two Good Government Candidates,
Victors in Yesterday's Primaries
In
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FRED J. WHIFFEN
WOULD-BE CHILD
BANDITS SEIZED
Two Boys Under 10 Steal Team
and Drive For Mountain
Passes to Rob
Admitting: they had been reading lit
erature of highwaymen and bold des
peradoes, two youths, Fred Gill, S years
old, a2iy. West Fifth street, aud Hiram
UlobL-ntelt, 9 years old, lUIS West
Fourth street, were sent to police head
quarters last night by Patrolman
Banks.
Against their names was filed a
chargo of horse stealing. According to
the police authorities it is the first
time that youths>less than ten years of
age have been charged with such a
crime.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Emily J.
Valentine, 136 East Jefferson street,
widow of Louis T. Vaknitine, who for
many years was president Qf the Los
Angeles conservatory of music, drove
to Seventh street and Grand avenue.
The boys, without attracting atten
tion, drove her team away and, imbued
with the idea of finding gold or rob
bing men in the mountain passes, stole
several dozen of oranges and a sack
of grain.
After obtaining what they thought
was sufficient food to keep them for
several days, they started in the di
rection of the mountain where the gold
and the men with money were to be
found
Their plans were nipped in the bud
when Traffic Officer Banks, stationed
at Fourth and Spring streets, saw the
youths whipping the horse and driving
at a rapid rate. His calls to the boys
to stop were unheeded, young Gill
whipping the horse to get away from
the man In a police uniform. Banks
suspected something wrong and after
a chaae of a block stopped the horse
and took the lioys to police headquar
ters.
Shortly after his arrival ,-v telephone
mefsage was received at the station
from Mrs. Valentine, reporting that
her horse and two seated surrey had
been stolen. The description she gave
of her outfit tallied With that driven
by the boys,
After investigation the youths ad
mitted they had stolen the rig and Bald
they intended to go to the mountains
and become bnndHs and obtain wealth.
They were cent to the detention home,
and this morning will appear In the
juvenile court to answer charges of
horse stealing.
ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN
Arrests in Nevada Reveal Plot to
Derail Fast Mail
RENO, June 2.—The arrest here of a
man who gave his name as C. B. Pryor,
and the reported arrest of several oth
ers at Truckee, has brought to light de
tails of an attempt by train wreckers
to derail the Southern Pacific China-
Japan fast mail Tuesday afternoon on
the banks of the American river, near
a stretch of snowsheds.
Many pounds of fishplate had been
piled on the track at the summit of a
Steep grade, and a section of a rail
spiked across. A double-header was
hauling- the heavy train up the grade,
and proceeding at such slow speed that
the engineer of the head engine suc
ceeded In stopping the train within a
few feet of the obstruction,
TORNADO PUTS CITY DARK
AUGUSTA, Oa., June 2. —This city
has been in darkness since 10 o'clock
tonight; the streets arc strewn with
uprooted trees, every telephone Is out
ol commission and the trolley system
Is disabled as the result of a tornado
lasting eighteen minutes. No fatalities
havn linen re.UGrtexl
CIV/ 'I I/ 1 I'(> I> I I/'W • IMIT.Y ■-•<. ON TRAINS sp.
."I I.>t «I „ 1.. V \!l 1I»^ . MMtAtS Be. ON TRAINS 10c
rflS
GEORGE H. STEWART
TAFT LOSES COAT
AT BRYN MAWR
Case with Cap and Gown Found
After His Commencement
Day Address
PHILADELPHIA, June 2.—Presi
dent Taft today delivered the annual
commencement day oration at Bryn
Mawr college, where his daughter
Helen is a student.
Taking for his subject "Higher Ed
ucation for Women," the president said
that "college education certainly does
not detract from the power of a woman
to make a good companion, or to train
or teach children, while at the same
time It makes her independent, -md If
she never meets the man wlio can
make her happy, as a husband, she can
become an independent and useful
member of society."
President Taft reached here shortly
before 11 o'clock. After his arrival his
suitcase containing ;iis cap and gown
was mislaid and he was obliged to de
liver his address wearing his traveling
EUit.
He left at 5 o'clock for Ada, 0., where
tomorrow morning he will address the
graduating clats of the Ohio Northern
university.
The missing fuitcare was discovered
shortly before the president's depar
ture, but after boarding the train he
found that he had forgotten lii.s over
coat. Secret service men made a hur
ried search for the. missing coat but
were unable to recover it before the
departure of the train.
At the commencement exercises Miss
JM. Carey Thomas, president of the
college, announced that the fund of
$318,000 required to be raised by to
day in order to secure $860,000 promised
by the general education board had
been secured—in fact, had been over
subscribed by $6000. while further
pledges of $11,000 had been made by
telegraph and telephone in case they
were needed.
PRESIDENT IN HARRISBURG
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 2.—Presi
dent T.'ift spent thirty-four minutes
in Harrisburg tonight, his train ar
riving at 7:13 and leaving at 7:4r> for
Pittshurg. More than 1000 parsons
gathered about the ear and the presi
dent made a brief speech, thanking the
people for coming to see him. He
shook hands with a number of chil
dren who were pushed through the
crowd by their parents to greet him.
OIL COMPANY DIRECTORS
CHARGED WITH FRAUD
Shareholders in Esperanza Co.
Sue for an Accounting
Fred K. Windsor, Arthur D. Windsor
and other directors of tln> Esperanza
Land and Oil company filed suit for an
accounting in the United States circuit
c.mrt yesterday, naming as defendants
W. L. Brans and other directors of
the corporation, and charging Incom
petency, mismanagement and collusion
to defraud.
Evans is president of the board of
directors. The complaint asserts he
has conspired with the other defend
ants to divert the funds and assets of
the corporation to members of his own
family and to the Alt. Hamilton Oil
company, a subsidiary corporation, of
which, it is said, he has control.
HEN LAYS DOUBLE YOLK
EGGS ALMOST EVERY DAY
PASADENA, June 3.—A Plymouth
Rock hen, which it is claimed has re
cently been laying a doublo-yolked ckk
every day, and two eggs on some days.
is attracting the attention of walnut
street residents. She is the property
of Ralph Eldemlller, r,5 East Walnut
street a 15-year-old boy.
CENTS
GANG WORKS HARD
BUT STEWART AND
WHIFFEN WIN OUT
Good Government Forces Place
Their Men on the Council
manic Ticket
HEALY GETS FIRST POSITION
Only One-Eighth of the Registered
Vote in City Cast at the
Primary Election
HOW THIRTEEN FINISHED
IN PRIMARY ELECTION
Bernard Healey 5444
George H. Stewart 5065
Arthur Houghton 4717
Frederick J. Whiffen 4679
George Coulson .1414
R. G. Doyle 1211
Rice Adams 952
S. L, Dodge 723
Frank P. W. Hill 667
Frank E. Appel 431
Louis C. Haller 322
Ed. J. Van Keuren 123
Samuel D. Weil 298
AT A LATE hour last night the re
turns from the primary election
showed that the Good Govern
ment tones of Los Angeles had nom
inal id the two men whom they most
desired to go on the ticket for the spe
cial election June 30 to fill the two
vacancies in the city council.
Returns also Bhowed that as a re
sult of a general apathy in tha primary
election yesterday, which resulted in
an unusually small number of votes,
one machine candidate, Harney Healy,
secured the highest number of votes
and will have first place on the ticket
at the special election.
George H. Stewart, Good Government
candidate, came second, and another
machine candidate, Arthur D. Hough
ton, third, while Frederick J. Whiffen,
the second Good Government candi
date, came fourth.
SLANT STAY-AT-HOMES
Good Government leaders evinced
considerable disappointment last even
ing when the returns began to come in
and it was learned that a great ma
jority of the Good Government sup
porters tiad (ailed to cast their ballots,
as generally they did not seem to real
ize thai tlie primary nomination is. as
important aa the election.
The Good Government organization,
however, was pleased that this apathy
did not prevent the nomination of the
two men whom the leaders of the mu
nicipal reform movement, most hoped
to see on the ticket.
( m the other hand, there was every
possible effort made by the "push"
leaders to recruit all their available
votes, and all kinds of "push" methods
were adopted to get out as many votes
for Healy and Houghton, the machine
candidates, as possible, hoping to take
advantage of the indisposition of the.
rank and file of the Good Government
adherents to show their true strength.
As indicating the lack of Interest
shown in the primary nomination yes
terday, it is only necessary to review
the totals In Highland Park, Garvanza
and dozens of other out-and-out Good
Government sections of the city, where.
three-fourths of the voters are—as a
matter of public record —known to be
long to the Good Government organi
zation and precinct clubs.
GANG OUT IN FORCE
Less than one-fourth of the number
ol' voters in these precincts cast their
ballots yesterday. In a measure this
may be explained by the absence from
the City of many who are now «-n -
joying their vacations at the beaches
or in the mountains, or ore visiting
elsewhere. The fact remains, neverthe
less, that thousands of the Good Gov
ernment voters did not seem to real
ize that the fight was to be between
the old S. P. machine push and the
Good Government forces, hence they
failed to cast their ballots.
The fact remains also that Healy and
Houghton, the push candidates, have
be< ii nominated. The "gang" was out
in full lone and there was nothing
left undone to Insure the election of
its candidates. The result is that the
battle for the two vacant seats in the
City council is to be waged at the spe
cial election June 30, with the issues
squarely [.resented and defined, and
with no room for quibbling. It is to bo
.1 fight, as before, directly between the
dei cut citizenship of Los Angeles, a.s
re).resented by the Good Government
organization, and the old guard, com
posed of S. P. politicians and ward
hi elers.
.4 CLEAX-CCT FIGHT
Frederick J. Whiffen and George 11.
Stewart, the two men nominated by
the Good Government forces yesterday,
will go before the voters of Los Ange
les Juno SO as the candidates of this
better element of citizenship and as the
representatives, in the councllroanio
struggle, of the Good Government or
ganization which SO recently waged
and won Its memorable fight against
municipal corruption and pernicious
polities and graft.
This oity has never enjoyed a ol
or more satisfactory administration
than that which it now has and which
is made up, for the larger part, of
the men elected by the Good Govern
ment organization to take the places of
the "old guard." officials who were
forced by exposure and public demand
to abdicate and retire from mun
activity. Messrs. Whiffen and Stew
art, in entering this final race for the
city council, will have as their oppon
ents the two recognized candidate* of
the machine —men indisputably b.
by the old push—and so well Known
that no defense of their position can
be offered.
The machine has but nno hope. This
lw>p.. is that the Good Government vot
ers of Los Angeles will show thi same
apathy at the special election Juno so
as was manifested yesterday.
"This is the thins." said one. of the
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