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•vfr Boston Dry Goods Store
We close tomorrow at 12:30 — and the same time on every
Saturday - until September' Ist.
Khaki Clothing for
Misses and Small Women
If your vacation trip is to include any
mountain climbing or horseback riding,
here are the garments you'll need:
Misses' Khaki shirts $2.50.
Misses' divided skirts of Khaki. $4.50.
Misses' Khaki shirtwaists with Peter Pan collars, $1.50.
Misses' Norfolk jackets of Khaki, $3.50.
Misses' bloomers of black sateen, 75c.
(Main Floor, Rear)
$1 f? For Misses' $25
||1H to $30 Suits
Twenty correctly cut suits of stylish
green, gray, tan, old rose and other col
ored woolens —all splendidly tailored and
tastefully trimmed— on sale this morn
ing at $15. Heretofore priced $25, $2.7.50,
jj $30.00. £3
And about the same number of $20 suits in the same sizes
—14, 16 and 18 years—free to go now at $12.50.
All are late spring styles—no left-overs from past seasons.
Many of them ideal for adult women who are not above
average size. #
(Main Floor, Rear)
J. W. ROBINSON CO.
235-239 S. Broadway 234-244 S. Hill St.
T. R. WILL VISIT
WEST AND SOUTH
Cheyenne to Hear the First Set
Speech of Returned Hunter
August 27
[Associated Press]
OYSTER BAT, N. V., July Theo
dore Roosevelt gave out today the itin
eraries of the two speaking tours he is
coon to make —one into the west late
in the summer and the other through
the south in the early fall.
The two tours will resemble a cam
paign trip by a presidential candidate,
for Col. Roosevelt will not only made
as many set speeches as his traveling
card permits, but probably ho ■will de
liver talks from the rear end of his pri
vate car. For the first trip a car has
already been chartered.
The western trip is to begin August
25 and will end September 11. The
southern trip will extend from Octo
ber 6 to October 18. The itineraries
follow:
Western trip—August 25, leave New
York; August .7, arrive Cheyenne;
August 29, Denver; August 31, Osa
watomle, Km.; September 2, Omaha;
September 3, Sioux Falls, B. D. Sep
tember 5, Fargo, N. D.; September 6,
St. Paul; September 7. Milwaukee;
September 8, Freeport, II!., and Chica
go; September 10, Pitts burg; Septem
ber 11, arrive New York.
Southern trip—October 6, leave New
York; October 8, Atlanta, (la; Octo
ber 10, Hot Springs, Ark.; October 12,
Peoria, 111.; October 13, speech in Indi
ana for Senator Beveridge, place not
yet chosen.
The itineraries were completed today.
Col, Roosevelt's secretary has been
studying time tables for the last two
weeks, squeezing In as many speeches
as train connections permit. Urgent
quests havo come by hundreds from
clubs, political organisations and per
sonal friends for "a few words." The
most of these Col. Roosevelt has been
obliged to decline, and In announcing.
his program today he said he wished to
make it understood clearly that he
could consider no further Invitations.
Already he has been compelled to re
fuse many that he v lahed to accept.
At Chicago Col, Roosevelt will speak
before tin; Hamilton club, a political
organizntiun with which his relations
for years have been cordial, and which
Is sure to give him an enthusiastic re
ception.
A Milwaukee he Fpraks before the
Press club.
The first addre^ of tli^ southern trip
■will be on "Uncle Htmus Day," named
in memory -if Joi-i chandler Harris,
who in hi life time \ as a warm friend
of Col. Roosevelt. The Peoria speech
will be before the Kni^hta of Columbus,
a Catholic organization.
The place for the Indiana speech In
support of Senator Beverldfce will de
pend upon political exigencies.
Thus far Coi. Rooßevelt his only con
sidered his subject matter In a general
way. He knows ho will deal with cur
rent questions which form the basis of
political discussion, but lie knows that
his speech for Senator Beveridgu will he
politics pure and simple, an open plea
for the senator's success in his cam
paign. There were no political confer
ences today at Sagamore Hill. The
colonel was busy with his editorial
work and his correspondence.
CONGRESSMAN PROBES
INDIAN LAND FRAUDS
PIERRE, tf- I' . J
man Burks, chali
■tonal committi
tin- i tiargai of Indian
it..' Indian Territoi ■
Minn., toda.\. when
Oklahoma i> appearing on
tuiKjuu circuit, for with
the ' (klahoma mi Htor «ho
chargea ivhlch brought ab i
v.-stigatlon.
Senator Qor
tv meet with the committee
linrna, bUI ",ants 11 wait until Cl
convene* In D< for nil app« v
ance before the committee).
ANGEL ELKS WIN
PRIZE IN PARADE
Twenty Thousand Members of
Order March Through the
Streets of Detroit
[Associated Press]
DETROIT, July 14.— feature of
today's program of the grand lodge
meeting and reunion of Elks was a
parade of 20,000 members of the order.
It Is estimated that 300,000 spectators
were massed along the downtown
streets and in the reviewing stands.
Of this number the police say, fully
three hundred were temporarily over
come by heat. None Is thought to have
been affected seriously.
, The marching organization presented
a series of gorgeous pageants stretch-
Ing Eve mill in length and requiring
two hours to pass a given point.
The two events about which interest
centered in the entertainment program
were the big parade and the flights of
two aeroplanes.
A further business session of the
grand lodge, a reunion of Michigan
Klks and a moonlight excursion and
ball ere also in evidence.
The women of Cincinnati won the
automobile to be awarded for the best
appearing and largest representation
of women in the Elks parade.
For the best appearance, with three
prizes, the judges decided that the
amounts should be divided as follows:
First prise 1800, Cleveland; second
prize, $150. Grand Rapids; third prize,
$1('O, Los Angeles.
For the most novel uniform; First,
$200, Boston; second, $150, Santa Bar
bara; third, $100, Pueblo, Colo.
For the best floats; First, $300, Cin
cinnati; second $200, P.ochester; third,
yi"°, Akron.
Denver received rp<»clal mention.
«-»«
CRIPPLED ENGINES DELAY
GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT
Sherman. Bound for Manila, Re
mains at Honolulu
H' i\< iLII.I', July 14.- The Tnitod
rl Sherman, bound from
s in i to Manila, \< the latest
addition i ■ crippled govern
ment v sels in this harbor. The Sher
iii,in arrived here "ii July 12, and it
developed tod ij that the delay In her
■ruie was i i the fact that the
■ . rt engines had broken
down on the trip from San Francisco.
it Is not known when the Sherman
v :!! be al le to proi eed to Manila.
Best there are now
crippled i I he cruisers
Chattai "i and Cleveland and thi
collier Prometheus, recently built
ni Mare Island navj yard. The collier
nt hi i in tow the Chattanooga
to .Mine isi.u.d. but arrived in Hono
lulu with Its own ■ ken down.
The Cleveland also is laid up here be
cause of engine trouble.
DETECTED THIEF KILLS
CLINTON POLICE CHIEF
CLINTON, HI., July 14.—Chief of Po
ohn Btruble was ihot about mid
bj an unidentified man and died
i] i time. Struble and i
man Musser were watching at the
lome of Albert Sandt, manager of the
electric company, where for three
nights the refrigerator on an enclosed
until had been broken Into and ar
ticles taken.
The thief returned last night and
tho officers seized him. In the SCUffle
In- shot M übla and escaped.
Musser shot at him several times,
but did not hit him.
Decatur bloodhounds were on the
scent In tin hour, but the murderer has
not boon found. it fs believed he lives
In Clinton, Strublo had been chief
of police fifteen months.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1010.
SWEPT BY FIRES;
LOSSES MILLIONS
Scores of Blazes Beyond Control
of Rangers and Volun
teer Fighters
DROUTH AIDS DEVASTATION
One Path of Flame a Mile and a
Quarter Wide Destroys
Much Timber
[Associated Press]
HELENA. Mont.. July 14.—Scores of
forest fires, big and little, are among
the consequences of the long drouth
in Montana. From. every section of
the state In which there is timber and
from adjoining states comes news of
the destruction of timber by flames,
i stories of gallant warfare by forest
j rangers and settlers and of peril to
logging camps, ranches ' and villages. •
The losses are difficult to estimate,
for they are ■ growing hourly mid will
continue to grow until changes in the
winds or the much-"prayed-for rain
come to the assistance of the fire
> fighters. It is safe to say that the
• damage already sustained will amount
i to millions of dollars, of which four
| new fires in western Montana are
paid tonight make the total number
in that section seventeen. At St.
Regis flames are clearing a path a
mile and a quarter wide.
Throe hundred men are battling to
save timber in the Kootenai national
reserve and more help has been re
quested. The agent in charge of the
Flathead reservation reports that a
number of fires have broken • out on
the reservation within the . last few
days and they are not under control.
In the Cover d'Alene country of Idaho
and in the Black Hills of South Da
kota the forests are ablaze.
DROUGHT THREATENS RUIN
TO NORTHWEST SHEEPMEN
WASHIXOTOX. July 14.—Drought
in the northwest is seriously affecting
the cattlemen, threatening them with
great loss and possibly with financial
ruin. The lack of rain and a scourge
of grasshoppers have goaded a number
of sheep growers of Montana to make
an urgent telegraphic appeal to the
forest service that the Bear Tooth and
Absaroka national forest reserves be
thrown open to the flocks.
Associate Forester Potter today tele
graphed the district forester at MiS
snula, Instructing him to offer all re
lief possible without injury to the
forests.
The Pear Tooth reserves already ac
commodate 24,000 head of sheep, and
110.iino are being grazed in the Absa
roka. The cattlemen living adjacent to
the reserves claim that 100,000 addi
tional head can be installed on the
range.
Secretary Wilson appealed to the
railroad companies to give the sheep
men In Montana special rates in order
to permit of the movement of starving
sheep to better ranges. He has au
thorized an increase of 14,700 head of
sheep in the Colville forest in Wash
ington.
FOREST FIRES DEVASTATE
NORTHWESTERN MONTANA
T'.rTTE. Mont., July 14.—The worst
forest fires in the recent history of
Montana are sweeping the western and
northern parts of the state. There is
little likelihood that they will be
cheeked without a heavy rainfall.
At least twenty different fires have
been reported to the forestry head
quarters since last night. Every man
available, has been pressed into service
by the forestry officials, but the tim
ber is so dry It is feared that their
efforts will amount to little toward
saving the immense tracts of timber
In the path of the flames.
White Fish, in northern Montana, is
surrounded by blazing forests, in
which a number of j^reat northern tie
camps and Inorginp outfits are said to
have been destroyed,
SHEEP AND CATTLE NOT
SUFFERING FROM DROUGHT
DENVBR, July 14.—There is no wide
spr< td suffering among sheep on the
Colorado ranges as the result of
drought and the grasshopper scourge,
according to the Colorado state board
of livestock inspection. Nor have
members of the board heard of any
such condition In other western states,
SJ is Indicated by eastern .reports.
At the Denver branch of the national
forestry servn-e, however, it was said
this afternoon that District Forester
Smith Riley had gone to Wyoming in
response to an a] peal from stockmen
of that state to open the Black Hills
reserves to livestock. Al the offices
it was said no general complaint from
the drought hud been made by stock
men.
Leading cattlemen of Denver assert
that cattle throughout the west are
not suffering from either drought or
grasshoppers, and they doubt If Bheep
are seriously affected. The grasshop
pers, they say. attack grains and do
little damage to the ranees. As for
drought, the late winter rains were so
plentiful that grazing lan
start sufficient to tide them over the
long period of summer aridity,
A result of the drought, In the case
of both sheep and cattle, has been to
hurry the stock to market earlier than
usual, stockmen say,
CHARBON KILLS LIVESTOCK
IN TWO SOUTHERN STATES
HOUSTON, IVxus, July 14.—Charbon
In southeast Texas and southwest
Louisiana li denuding that section of
livestock. Livestock Insurance •
i aiiics today announced the cancella
tion of all pollclei in that aectlon.
Governor Campbell has l n -isked
to submit the matter to the Bpeclal
in of the ifprislature. which will
convene on Tuesday, with a view to
creating an infected zone and pi
n charge.
The livestock sanitary commli
already (|uarantlncd against the
d district.
MORE FOREST FIRES START
I.II'.HV, Mont., July 14.—More forest
firns have started In various places In
the Kootenal national forest, and the
Situation in some localities is becoming
serious All available men have been
hired to light the fires and the rail
way company Is bringing in men to
holp. in addition to putting all their
section men to work fighting the Urea.
CONSERVATION CONGRESS
TO ASK TAFT TO SPEAK
St. Paul Delegation Insists Invi
tation Be Sent to President
CHICAGO, July 14.—President Taft
probably will bo invited to address the
Conservation congress at St. Paul tin
September. • *
This announcement was made by a
member of the executive committee of
the national conservation committee
here today following a conference with
a delegation from St. Paul. <>'„ ■
The St. Paul delegation, declaring- it
represented the sentiment of the north- ,
west in conservation matters, was. In
sistent upon the Tuft Invitation.-' and
certain other points regarding the pro
gram that Qlfford Tim-hot had not
previously considered.
As a result of today's meeting the
executive committee will,be called to- ;
gether next week formally to author- !
izo certain program modifications for
the congress, which Mr. rim-hot and,
his wing in the conservation movement;
appear willing to grant. (
PLAN PARK FOR
AVIATION RAGES
Structure Designed After Coli
seum at Rome to Be Built
at Garden City
[Ass-TlatKl Press]
XKW YORK, July 14.—The largWt
grand stand In this country will soon
be erected near Garden City. L. 1., for
the grand aviation tournament to be
held there next October. The. struc
ture will be fashioned somewhat after
the old coliseum of Rome, being cir
cular in form, with each seat and box
commanding: a clear view of every part
of the flying field. It will be substan
tlaly built and designed to remain a
permanent fixture in a great national
aviation park.
If present negotiations are carried
through a large tract of level ground
will Vie leased for a period of years
and Garden City will become the cen
trul point for all great flying exhibi
tions in America. All the Important
national and international events will
take place there. Present plans also
include the building of a large dub-
house for the Aero Club of America.
This will be located within the main
enclosure, adjacent to the grand stand
and will lie used by all the members
of the Aero Club of America and the
members of all affiliated clubs in the
recently formed national council of
aero clubs.
TO RAISE rJSO.OOO
The subscribers' committee named
by the Aero Club of America to finance
the 1910 meeting is raising S.TiO.OOO,
which will be used to put up the build
ings and for cash prizes. Wealthy men
o[ New York who have been leaders
in other popular sports are the most
liberal subscribers.
Col. John Jacob Astor, Otto H. Kahn,
! Oeorge W. Perkins, August Belmont
and Cornelius Vanderbilt have put
their names down for large sums and
are the most enthusiastic supporters
of the big tournament.
LARGE PROFITS
All sums subscribed are to be re
turned to the subscribers after the
expenses of -the tournament are paid
and the profits are then to be equally
divided. Most of the large aviation
shows held this year in Europe have
met with unexpected success as com
pared with those of last year. The ten
days' aviation meeting at Los Angeles
last January brought large dividends
l') all subscribers.
Prizes amounting to $50,000 or more
will be offered for the principal com
petitions, such as speed, altitude and
distance, with many trophies and prizes
for special events.
On October 22 will take place the in
ternational contest for the world's
championship and that event alone will
doubtless draw an immense crowd
from all sections of the country. This
year the distance of the lllght will be
100 ktloirteters or about sixty miles,
over a five kilometer (3.1 miles) course.
The winner will receive the trophy, the
title of world's champion aviator and
a cash prize of $5000.
UNFORTUNATE BALLONISTS
ARE BURIED BY EMPLOYERS
Observatory Officials Say Cal
amity Was Avoidable
LEK'HLINCJEN, Rhenish Prussia,
July 14.—The bodtel of Oscar Krbs
loeh, the balloonist, and hit. four com
panions, who wire killed when their
dirigible craft was wrecked by an ex
plosion yest.rday, were buried today
and the place of interment marked by
a monument erected by the airship
company which owned the 111-fated
balloon.
Official! of the observatory at Aix
La Chapelle state that had the aero
naut! inquired concerning tin- weather
prospects for yesterday the ob
tory could have indicated the presence
of a thick fog in the vicinity where
the ascent, was made, making the pro
! trip a risky one.
The rhter of th>- bureau further af
firms that the recent disaster i" fount
Zeppelin's Deutschland might have
been avoided had '.lie aTonauts sought
information concerning atmospheric
conditions from the observatory.
HARVARD OFFERS PRIZES
OF $50,000 FOR AVIATORS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. July 14.—An
ai ronautlcal meet is to be held at
Soldiers' field from September 3 to 13,
which will be the greatest contest <<r
| its kind ever attempted In America,
nlinpr to the- plans of the Harvard
Aeronautical society, which ar>- now
nearing completion.
Prizes aggregating about 180,000 have
attracted well known aviators, Includ
ing Glenn H. Curtlss, Charles H, Wll
lard, Charles K. Hamilton, Count de
L<-sseps, William Milliard and Messr*.
Johnson and Urooklns.
ILLINOIS AVIATOR SUCCESSFUL
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., July 14.— J.
W. Curzoii of Hawthorne, Ilia., in a
Par man biplane, won two prizes at
the first national aviation meet for
novices, which opened here today. He
made three flights, and in the second
and third won the Debut prize of 1100
with a distance of 113 yards t and the
Dally prize of $100 with a distance of
322 yards. The first flight was ninety
two yards.
U. S. AND CANADA
PLAN COMMISSION
Joint Tribunal Will Have Jurisdic
tion Over Railroads of
Both Countries
TRAFFIC NECESSITATES MOVE
The Government Appoints Judge
Knapp to Confer with Can
adian Representative
f Associated Press]
WASHINGTON, July 14.—An Intor
national railroad commission with
supervisory authority ovor the rail
ways of the United States and Canada
probably will be the result of an action
taken today by this government In the
appointment of chairman Martin 'A.
Knapp of the Interstate commerce
commission, as the representative Of
the United States to confer with Hon.
J. B. Matze, chief of the railway com-
mission of Canada. Announcement of
Judge Knapp's appointment was made
by the department today. The ap
pointments of Judge Knapp and of
Mr. Matze are the results of corre
spondence between the United States
and Canada.
More than a year ago the subject
was broached in n letter from Mr.
Matze to Judge Knapp. It was point
ed out that the increasing traffic be
tween the United States and Canada
would render full control over rates
in the future more difficult until Joint
action were taken. It was realized
that the acquisition of Canadian
terminals by American railroads and
of American roads and terminals by
Canadian railways presented ever
Increasing difficulties. It is not pos
sible to compel railway or express
companies to establish Joint rates to
and from points In the two countries.
The reasonableness of rates between
points in this country "nd points in
Canada also Is n. question of great
importance to shippers. To determine
any question as to rates that may
arise it Is necessary for the shipper
to institute a proceeding before the
interstate commerce commission and
before the Canadian railway commis
sion, and even then the result is un
certain.
-The difficulty practically precludes
any inquiry by existing tribunals Into
the reasonableness of through rates as
applied to international traffic. While
no arrangements have been perfected
for the conferences, it is likely Chair
man Knapp and Mr. Matze will meet
Jn Ottawa in August. It is not im
probable a subsequent conference may
be held in Washington.
It will be the effort of the representa
tives of the two governments to ad-
Just matters to make It possible to
submit a report before the leconvening 1
of congress in December.
COMERCE COMMISSION
TO HOLD UP INCREASES
Burden of Proof of Justice of the
New Rate to Be on Roads
WASHINGTON, July 14.—1n ah of
ficial statement the interstate com
merce commission announced today Its
Intention to suspend all tariffs naming
general and important rate advances,
pending an investigation as to the
reasonableness of the proposed in
creases.
"No more definite statement in this
regard can now be made," says the
commission, "but the specific orders
will be announced from time to time
as they are entered and served. It is
expected that the suspension in each
case will be for 120 days from the ef
fective date named in the tariff, hut
the commission intends by subsequent
orders to provide for making effective
on the same day such advances as may
be allowed."
It is the purposp of the commission
to exercise its authority to suspend
rate advances only In such instances
of the filing of tariffs as might indi
cate that such action was desirable on
the ground of public policy.
In other words, if the commission
should be convinced that any given
advance would work a hardship to a
considerable territory and to large
shipping interests, through the policy
it lias adopted, it would suspend that
tariff pending an inquiry into the
reasonableness of the rates named.
Under the law it will be necessary
for the .commission to attach to each
tariff suspended its order of suspen
sion and to notify the Interstate car
riers of its action. At as early a dnte
ns possible the commission will take
up in a formal hearing the suspended
tariffs.
it will be incumbent on the. railroads
to show reasonable cause tor the nd
vancea they may make In these tariffs
from time to time, the burden of proof
of the reasonableness qf the tariffs
bearing on the carriers.
SHIPPERS PREPARE TO
FILE CLAIM FOR $500-000
Want Railways to Rejay Differ
ence in Rates Paid
CHICAGO, July 14.— Shippprs In the
Missouri river territory are preparing
to file with the interstate commerce
commission reparation claims aggre
gating $600,000 based on the decision
of the commission and of the supremo
court in the Burnham-Hanna-Munger
rate case. The claims date back to
October 10, 1908, and the shippers will
ivor to collect the differences be
tween the rates churged by the rall
and the rates which were pre
scribed by the commission and the
courts. These differences amount to
from 9 cents a 100 pounds on first-class
commodities to 1 cent on the lowest
class and apply to all shipments that
have been made from all territory oast
of Buffalo and Pittsburg: to Missouri
river cities.
It Is admitted the shippers may meet
defeat In the attempt to secure repar
ation, as when the case was begun be
fore the commission reparation was
not requested,
BALLINGER SEEKS INFORMATION
SEATTLE, Wash., July 14.- Secre
tary of thf Interior Richard A. BaJ
llnger will leave next week for a tour
"f the Mount Italnier national work
■ what Improvements oan be made
with the small appropriation allowed.
AIVHJSEMENTS
HAMBURGER'S MAJESTIC THEATER . nkarAsinth.
BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT—BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN.
VIRGINIA HARNED
'And her specially selected Eastern company. Including WILLIAM COURTENAY, In
AN AMERICAN WIDOW
SPBCIAti SUMMER SEASON BAROAIN PRICES—2Sc, 50c. 75c. $1. MATINEES
WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY—2Sc, 50e, 76c.
lyroßosco's burba"nk~theater "near" ™xth:
-"-*• Farewell Week of TD:-,V iri rH Rennpft
the popular Young Star Kicnard .Dennett
And the Burbank Stock Co. In ft Great Production of Edgar Selwyn'a New Play.
THE COUNTRY BOY
PRICES— 2SO, 50c. 75c. MATINEES SATURDAY and BUNDAT, 10c, 15a, 80a
NEXT WEEK—"CAUQHT IN THE RAIN
h||£':s;r-| Vaudeville |E3=lr
luAiAa anA phn.ii-An American attractions.
| ladles and children. | „„„„„„„. sp^.i,,! Kngugement _ 1
V-COT>A \7TrTriRT A KnirluniTa Foremost
KSxA VlV^l*-IKI/\ Singing Comedienne
Grigolati's Aerial Ballet H 1 "The Code Book'"
With "Butterflies and Doves." XJT*«i.:-,— with Chaa Hammond ft Allen Atwall
Warren & Blanchard JViatinCC Pau l Spadoni
In Melody and Fun. "PvrrV The Ju »K'Br> B Return.
H. Franklin & Standards oi y Lyons & Yosco
The Living Rubber Balls. JLJ3V " Har>lsJ Bud the Singer.
Orpheum Motion Pictures I Hal Merritt
Late Novelties. , - "College Boy from Ipswich." .:.-.
■ HVERY NIOHT, 10c. 55c. 60c, 75e. MATINEES DAILY, 10c. 25e. 60c. ,
GpAMn nPTTRA HnTT<sT? MATINEE TOMORROW and BCNOAV.
jiANU <JVt!*K.A HUU!m Phones—Main 1907; Home AlS>«7.
A SPECTACULARLY SENSATIONAL SUCCESS
Dangers of Paris
Positively the most stupendous melodramatic production of the season, with the famous
Apache l>nn.-e. POPULAR PRICES, Next Week—"THK MlsSOl'ltlANS." Seats selling.
OS ANGELES THEATRE
d^m^Maa^YAUDE VILLE
W. J. O'iiearn & Co. —Boutin & I DICK rHOI.HS I Jcanette Dupree— Lavalla
Wilson—The Laugh-o-Scopa | IN "SHORTY" | Trocadero i.
POPII.AR PIUCBB, 10c. >0r and No. ■ ' ■'
BTTT A?rn THP4TI7T? Helasco-Blnrkivood Co., rroprs. and Mem.
I^LAbLO TMHiAri^K MATINKKS Tomorrow, Sunday. Thursday.
■• SECOND CROWDED WEEK STARTS MONDAY
Via WIRELESS
Paul Armstrong and Winchell Smith's Famous New York Success
TO FOLLOW— siuitiprts' biggest laughing success, "BILLY." Seats on sale Monday.
T KVY'S CAW PHATMTANT thiiid ani> main sts.
LEVY'S CAFE CHANTANT a 8!80 ami main sts.
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I J The FLORENCE TRIO, grand opera vocalists In costume; the GREAT MAKA
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BASEBALL— Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles vs. Vernon Wednesday, July t.i; Thursday, July 14; Friday. July
15; Saturday. July 16; Sunday. July 17. two games, a. m. and p. m.; Monday.
July 18. Friday" afternoon-and Sunday morning games at Vernon; all other games
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day except Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Kids' day Saturday. Admission 25c;
grand stand "6c. t
RAILROAD MEN FIGHT
BATTLE WITH BANDITS
Holdup Results in One Being
Fatally Shot and Two
Wounded
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 14.—One
man dying, two wounded and a pos
sibility of other casualties is the result
of a revolver battle tonight between
three bandits and forty members of a
construction gang on the Lake Shore
railroad at North olmstead, twenty
miles southwest of here.. Today was
payday at the construction camp. Near
midnight when the railroad men were
asleep the robbers made their appear
ance. They ordered the sleeping men
from the bunks, but four of their in
tended victims had decided to sleep in
the open air on account of the heat.
The men from the bunks were hand
ing over their pay envelopes to the
robbers when their companions on the
outside opened fire. In a moment the
shooting became general. Fur several
minutes tho battle continued, and three
of the railroad men fell, one shot
fatally. The robbers flcii.
A telephone message to Cleveland
apprised tho authorities of the affair,
and Sheriff Hclrstus with a posse
started f»r the scene in automobiles.
Posses also have been organized
throughout the county.
ENGINEER DOES STUNT
ON SHAKY BRIDGE SPAN
Dares Death to Show Faith in
Structure's Stability
BPOKANB. Wash., July 14.—T0 show
his confidence that the long span of
the bridge over the Spokane river
would not fall when cut at Its top
point, City Engineer Morton McCart
ney stood this afternoon on the struc
ture Watching the workmen sever the
connections that took away the can
tilever pressure anil left the weight
entirely on the false work. |
The span is said to be the longest
in the world—2Bl feet. The bridge,
which was built in 1896. Is.being torn
down to make way for a concrete
structure.
iron workers employed in tearing out
the old bridge quit yesterday, declar
ing that the false work was insuf
ficient and that the big central span
would drop into the Spokane falls, one
hundred feet below.
COMMITS SUICIDE ON
EVE OF WEDDING DAY
FRESNO, July 14.—Leaving a stag
dinner at midnight ' tonight, on the
eve of his wedding, Edward T. Elter,
a young merchant of Reedley, walked
to his store In company with three
friends and going to the back of the
establishment sent a bullet crashing
through his brain. Elter was to have
been married to Miss Mary Erret of
Dinuba, daughter of Dr. T. H. Erret,
and her uncle, the Rev. Davis K. Er
rett, pastor of the Christian church of
Salem, Ore., had arrived to perform
the ceremony. . >
Elter had been morose for a couple
of weeks and to queries of his friends
had replied that ho was not feeling
well. At the dinner tonight, however,
he seemed to be in excellent spirits.
He left no explanation or his suicide.
ASQUITH'S WISH IS TO
CUT NAVY EXPENSES
Germany's Program Prevents
England from Reducing
Cost of Armament
LONDON, July 14.—During the de
bate on naval expenditures in the house
of Common! this afternoon. Premier
Asquith reiterated that it was tho de
sire of the British government to como
to a friendly agreement with Germany
looking to the curtailment of arma
ments.
"I wish," said the prlmo minister,
"that an arrangement could be arrived
at with Cjermany for a reduction of
the vast naval expenditure. This gov
ernment has approached the German
government on the subject, but the
latter can do nothing owing to the
naval law on Its statute books. That
being so, we must mako our program
accordingly."
Mr. Asquith repudiated the sugges
tion that the British expenditure was
In any sense hostllo to Germany. He
declared that the relations between
the two countries were most cordial
and pointed out that by April, IM3,
Great Britain would have only twenty
five Dreadnaughts to Germany's twen
ty-one, which could not be regarded
as an inflated jingo program.
PERU-ECUADOR DISPUTE
MEDIATORS AWAIT ACTION
WASHINGTON, July 14.—The con
ference at the state department over
the Peru-Ecuador boundary dispute, In
which the Unit 7 States, Argentina
and Brazil are endeavoring to bring
the disputants together on a peaceful
basis, pending arbitration by the king
of Spain, were suspended temporarily
after today's meeting.
This was to permit consultation by
cable between Peru and Kcuador and
their representatives here concerning
the representations so far made.
FAMOUS KLONDIKER KILLED
UNDER THREE-TON DREDGE
DAWSON, Alaska, July 14.—Stewart
Menzies, master mechanic of the
Yukon Gold company, with large
dredging works at Ogllvle bridge in
the suburbs of Dawson, was killed
yesterday by a three-ton dredge, which
fell across his body while being swung
into place by a crane. The chain gear
broke. His death wa« Instantaneous.
Menzies was a famous Klondlker. He
previously sailed out of Portland and
San Kranclßco as chief engineer of tho
steamer George W. Elder. Most of his
relatives live in Ban Francisco.
TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER
EXCEEDS REQUIRED SPEED
WASHINGTON, July 14.—With its
contract requirements calling only for
a speed of twenty-eight knots an hour,;
the torpedo boat destroyer Roe made
thirty-one knots in Its standardization
tests off the • Delaware breakwater
course, according to,a report received
today at the navy department from
the board of inspection. The hoe Is
the first destroyer of (he exclusively
oil burning: type. The standardisation
tests will be followed by otaeri of •
different nature. —-■—• ; —.