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Part ll—Pages 9 to 16 POLICE WEED OUT SO-CALLED CLUBS Cjty Denies 37 Applications by Social Organizations for Liquor Permits INVESTIGATE ALL APPLICANTS Chief Convinced Many Places Have No Purpose Except Selling Intoxicants Fourteen social clubs received liquor selling permits from the police com mission last night, but thirty-seven applications for the same privilege were denied. These permits are In ac cordance with the new liquor ordinance that places social clubs under the con trol of the police commission and com pels them to pay a license fee of $25 a month for the privilege of selling liquor to members only. A number of applications for these permits were made and the chief of police was busy all last week In In vestigating the applicants. His inves tigation convinced him that a number of the so-called clubs existed for no other purpose than to sell liquor. But as soon as the police commission had acted on the liquor permits It is sued an order that all social clubs must follow the same rule laid down for saloons and not sell liquor during the hours that the polls are open. Those organization!* that were grant ed liquor selling privileges are: Los Angeles Athletic club, Union League, Eagles' Hall association, Southern Cal ifornia Waiters' association, University club, California club, Sierra Madre club. South Coast Yacht club, Jona than club. Southern California Cooks' association, Los Angeles Waiters' as sociation, San Pedro Elks, Los An geles Elks and the Los Angeles Coun try club. Those that were refused were the El Dorado, Greek-American Political club, Italian-American club, Espee club. Mutual league, Avenue club, Montenegro-American, Pacific, Arch ona, Lotus, Southern California Com mercial Travelers' association, Siesta, Broadway, Italian, Madrid, Marathon, Austro-Krovatish, Futurity, Eureka. Elysian, Kastslde Athletic, Silver King, Pacific Turkish Bath, Herzego vina, Greek-Republican, Blue and Gold, Slavonian Political, Slavonian- American, Roosevelt, Powhattan, Co lumbus, Gambrinus, Balkan-American, Calaverta, Sixth Ward Good Govern ment, Coyote. MARTHA CHATT ADVISES RELATIVES OF ARRIVAL Wife of Realty Dealer Explains Delay on Lancaster Trip Martha B. Chatt, wife of B. Chatt, a real estate dealer, who was reported to the police as having disappeared August 7 while on the way^to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Pullman, near Lancaster, i.rrlved at the latter place yesterday with John Inderbe tcen, according to word received by Mr. Chatt. Mrs. Chatt stated that the horse they were driving became sick and that as they were not near a telephone or telegraph connection at the time they were forced to wait at a road house until the horse was able to pro ceed. The parents of Mrs. Chatt, who live one mile west of Lancaster, became greatly worried at her non-appearance and appealed to the sheriff and the police to aid in a search. Descriptions of Mrs. Chatt were sent to officers of surrounding counties before news came of the couple's arrival In Lan caster. INQUIRY DISCLOSES STEAL IN ILLINOIS CENTRAL RY. Detectives Discover Grafting in Construction Contracts CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—The new grant of the investigation of the Illinois Central In connection with the grading and construction contracts may de velop stealings which will rival the car-repair scandal, according to men In touch with the latest Inquiry. Local officers of the railroad yester day were inclined to discount the re ports that as much as $1,000,000 had been stolen from the road in construc tion work on the southern lines. They, however, said that the Inquiry had not gone far enough to determine the amount. From other sources it was learned that detectives have discovered that the alleged graft operations occurred In connection with the letting of con tracts for the grading and construc tion of many miles of new roadway. The total of these contracts Is said to run up into the millions of dollars. In some cases, it is asserted, the road paid for as much as 30 per cent more work than was actually performed. HASSAYAMPA CLUB IS TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS TODAY Members of the Chamber of Mines and Oil will give their annual reception to the Arizona Hassayampa club in the chamber's quarters in the Germain building between 3 and 5 o'clock this afternoon. All mining and oil men visiting Los Angeles are invited to attend. A special invitation Is extended to the women. The chamber's growth since the last reception to the Arizonans will be duly Impressed upon the visitors when they Inspect the mineral exhibit, of which there is a substantial nucleus already Installed, practically an entire floor In the center of the building being used for this exhibit. The reception this afternoon, accord- Ing to the invitations issued, will be a "gettin' acquainted" affair. "Say, ma, did you hear they were going to take the census all over again?" "Mercy sakes! What for?" "To find Kelly."—De» Moines News. LOS ANGELES HERALD District Attorney Fredericks' False "Explanation" His Attempt to Juggle with the Figures Puts Him in JVorse Light Than Ever IN THE answer to The Herald charges which District Attorney Fredericks had pub lished in the two other meaning papers of the city on Sunday morning, he furnishes probably more conclusive evidence of his utter lack of sincerity and honesty of state ment in dealing with the affairs of his office than is shown by anything that The Herald has already published, as damaging as the facts have been. t In endeavoring to break the force of comparison by which The Herald showed thai the other two departments in the administration of justice, to wit, the superior court and the sheriff's office, have each increased their expenses during the three years from the first half of 1906 to the first half of 1909 less than 50 per cent, while his office has in creased it over 85 pef cent, the district attorney says: "You say the total cost of running the superior court for the same period (for the first six months of 1906) was $22,670. Wrong. The county always only pays one-half the judges' salaries—the state pays the other half. You have only shown the county s expense. Figures lie in some cases, you see." In point of fact the county paid one-half of the superior judges' salaries in 1906, just as it did in 1909, and the $22,670 total cost of running the superior courts for the first six months of 1906 included all of the county salaries paid the superior judges just as did the total cost of $33,191.68 for running the superior courts for the first six months of VJW in clude all of the county salaries paid the superior judges. The conditions between the two periods of comparison were not in any way changed except that for the last three months of the first six months of 1909 the county's share of the judges' salaries was at the rate of $3000 each per annum, whereas for the first six months of 1906 <t was at the rate of $2500 per annum each. Outside of this conditions were precisely the same in 1909 as they were in 1906. With reference to the cost of running the sheriff's office the district attorney says: "You say the total cost for running the sheriff's office for the same period (first six months of 1906) was $13,234.61. Wrong again. You must add to that for the paying of nine deputy sheriffs which appear under another heading, the amount being $4869. Also add $8480 for other deputy sheriffs classed as jailers, etc." What the district attorney refers to in the first item of $4869 is undoubtedly the sal ary of the bailiffs of the superior court. This item, however, was carried, both in 1906 and 1909, as a part of the expense of the superior court, and rightfully so. What he means by the last item of $8480 he has not been kind enough to tell us. It is a fact, however, that for the first half of 1906 the total expense of running the county jail including salary of jailer and assistants, matron, janitors, engineer, fireman, tele phones, drugs, and, in fact, every expense, was $8480. This item of county expense has always been carried separate from the sheriff's office, but since the district attorney has called attention to it, it is worth while seeing just how much this item has increased in the three years during which time the increase in expense of his office was over 85 per cent. The total expense of running the county jail for the first half of 1906 was, as we have seen, $8480. The expense of running.that institution for the first half of 1909 was $11,439. Thus we see that the increase in the expense of running the county jail for the three years in question was only 46 per cent, which is almost exactly the percentage of increase in the expense of the sheriff's office and of the superior courts for the same period. The district attorney seems to get some comfort out of the fact that one other de partment, to wit, the assessor's, shows an increase in expense of more than 100 per cent in three years, fust what the conditions were concerning that office has not been investi gated The reason The Herald took for comparison the district attorney s office, the sheriff's office and the superior court is that these are the departments of the county con cerned in the administration of the law, and therefore the increase in expenditures in all of them should presumably and reasonably have been somewhat similar. And this rule applies right through until we reach the district attorney's office. In the superior court, the sheriff's office and the county jail the percentage of in crease for the three years in question is shown to have been in each instance from 46 to 49 per cent, but in the district attorney's office, being the other department concerned in ad ministration of the laws, we find more than 35 per cent, greater increase in expenditure. Another explanation of the district attorney is equally unfortunate. He says: "Further, in former years the sheriff served all processes for the district attorney. A recent change in the state law imposed this duty on the district attorney, and- provided him a bureau for that purpose, naturally adding to expense and relieving the sheriff. Some years ago the district attorney's office was given a separate deputy to serve his processes and that has been in force now for a considerable period, so that it should not have been a factor in increasing the comparative cost of operating his department. Probably the most unfortunate part of his whole explanation was that in which he says: "Your criticism of the expenditure of $7039.43 for six months' detective service is not a fair estimate. During this period we had the heavy expense of the search for N. D. Oswald and the detective work for the special grand jury." We believe every member of the special grand jury to which the district attorney refers will be willing to say that all the evidence submitted to it of any value came from the investigations which The Herald, the Express and its proprietor, E. T. Earl, had un dertaken of the Harper administration which the special grand jury was called upon to investigate. t Certainly, so far as we are advised, not one vital fact which was laid before this grand jury was collected by the district attorney. On the contrary, The Herald has had assur ance from many quarters that in the course of the investigation before the grand jury the district attorney did not show any overwhelming anxiety to bring out any facts which would incriminate Mayor Harper and his boodling chief of police, Kern. And the fact that these two men who were at the bottom of the whole scandalous story of boodling which was laid before the grand jury escaped indictment, and Broadhead, the understrap per, was indicted, would seem to indicate the conectness of this information. The district attorney says further: "Your statement that the names of the detectives for the chief of police appear on his payroll is misleading. These are his regular detectives. All my regular detectives appear on the payroll also. He has a secret service fund, however, used as I use the amount you have been discussing." t . . l't is true that the chief of police of Los Angeles has a secret service fund which he uses. It is also true that the district attorney has a secret service fund which he uses, and the reports of the district attorney for the year 1909 show that in that year he used $550 of this secret service fund. The chief of police, however, does not, in addition to using his secret service fund, have allowances made to his detectives under false and mis leading names, as the district attorney's oftice is shown to have done. In this connection it may not be out of the way to call attention to the fact that many of the vouchers from the district attorney's office show that his detectives are paid at the rate of $3.50 per day, while the vouchers made in favor of his brother, under a name which was misleading and not his full name, for the "patriotic services" which he ren dered the county, provided detective fees for him at the rate of $5 per day. It is a some what anomalous condition that when the detective services are rendered for the district attorney's office, not as a "patriotic duty" but upon a financial basis, they are paid for at the rate of $3.50 per day; but when rendered as a "patriotic duty" by the brother of the district attorney they are paid for at the rate of $5 per day. Wriggle as he will the district attorney cannot in any way break the force of three facts: , . First That while every other department of the county government concerned in the administration of justice and the enforcement of the laws shows almost an exactly uniform increase in expenditure of a little less than 50 per cent for three years, his own office, being also concerned with the enforcement of the law and the administration of justice, shows an increase in expenditure of more than 85 per cent for the same period. Second That a part of this money was paid to his brother under a name not his full name, which was intended to prevent the identification of the party receiving the money, and at a rate in excess of what other persons rendering the same service received. Third That the various members of the Southern Pacific political machine have been given berths in his office at the expense of the county. These, among other things, are the reasons why The Herald feels that he is not worthy of an official position in the county of Los Angeles and that he should be defeated at today's primaries. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1910. SEEK TO PREVENT FURNITURE DEAL Injunction Suit Filed to Halt Con tract for Outfitting the Hall of Records CLAIM THE BIDS ARE ILLEGAL League of Justice Backs Effort to Have Award of Super visors Annulled To prevent the supervisors from let ting the formal contract for the fur nishing of the stationary and mova ble metallic furniture for the new hall of records to the California Fur- i niture company, an injunction suit: was filed yesterday In the superior j court in thn name of the people of the state of California by Leonard Mer rill, a taxpayer. The League of Jus tice Is back of Merrill and the suit is fl. test C9.SG The suit immediately was called to the attention of Judge Bordwell, pre siding Judge of the superior court ot i Los Angeles county, but he announced j that he will take no action in tho mat- j ter before tomorrow. The complaint recites the fact that about May 15 the board of supervis ors, composed of C. J. Nellls, R. W. Prldham, C. D. Manning, H. p. Mc- Cabe and S. T. Eldridge, advertised for bids for the furniture of the new county structure which adjoins the courthouse on the south. In answer to the advertisement the California Furniture company sent in a bid for the work for $247,990: the M G. West company of San Fran cisco, $249,700; A. F. Anderson, $170, --000. with the provision that he would ask $85,000 more if marble bases were required; and the Van Dorn Iron works, $150,000. The plaintiff in the suit for the re straining order declares his belief that the goods described in the various bids were of practically the same qual ity and were as near tho specifications as it was possible for them to be, con sidering that the supervisors did not know exactly what was required, but sent inquirers to the heads of the var ious county offices for information re garding the requisite furniture. ATTACKS PROCEEDINGS Merrill alleges that it was illegal for the supervisors not to furnish written statements of what the concerns were to bid upon and therefore declares that any contract they might make would be null and void. Another thing to which Merrill ob jects is that a clause in the specifica tions, such as were provided by the ■supervisors, was to the effect that the bidders must protect the supervisors from any damages by the infringe ment of patents in the furnishings. This, it is averred, Increased the cost of the goods. It is also asserted that the super visors should have let the contract to the lowest bidder and not to the high est and most extravagant. Despite these alleged illegalities of the contract, to which the plaintiff de clares the supervisors' attention was called with the request that the bids be readvertised, the board refused such action. Instead, it is stated, on July 18 all lids were rejected except that of the California Furniture com pany, to which the contract, subject to change, was awarded by resolution. As yet no formal contract has been Ble-nerl by the supervisors and it is to prevent such an action that Merrill has applied for the writ of injunction. LAWYER HUMMEL OF DODGE DIVORCE FAME IS HERE New Yorker Visiting Los Angeles in Search of Health Abraham H. Hummel, the New York attorney who gained notoriety as a New York divorce lawyer and In con nection with the Thaw case, arrived in Los Angeles last evening from San Francisco, and will remain here for some time, provided the Los Angeles climate agrees with him. Accompan ied by his daughter. Miss Hummel, Mrs S. H. Haffenburg of New York, and A. N. Haffenburg of London, Mr. Hummel has been touring Western i_ lerca, and for the past eight weeks has been Hying In San Francisco, a guest at the St. Francis. "While here Mr Hummel and party will make the . exandria hotel their headquarters. When seen last evening the attorney stated that he was in California in soarch of health. "For the past three years I have been traveling for my health and am really improving all along. I have not decided how long I shall remain here all depends on how your climate and city agree with me. We went to San Francisco to remain four days, and stayed there for eight weeks—it may be the same here—if we like It ■we stay, if not, a few days will see our departure." HEAD OF COUNTY SCHOOLS ESTIMATES TAXES NEEDED According to: a communication for warded to the board of supervisors yes terday by Mark Keppel, county super intendent of schools, the total tax levy for county school purposes this year will be $791,711, this amount having been estimated, on the number of teach ers employed and scholars enrolled. The communication follows: ■ v . V,i "You are hereby notified that the minimum k amount of money to be raised by a county tax for the support of the public schools as required by section 1817 of the political code is $617, --211, being $7 per census child for each of 'the 88,173 census children of Los Angelea county as shown by tne school ™v areiFs^notiaed^hat 1745 teach ers were regularly employed in the elementary schools for the year end ing June '30, 1910, and that the amount to be levied at $100 per teacher is there °"Th 17totai amount to bo : levied la $791,711." _J "In Paris the telephone girls say 'I listen, 1 instead of 'hello.' Wonder why they don't say *I listen" here? "Maybe they don't listen. —Dcs Moines News. yLlearancelp fcClearance^ 4000 Yds. Scotch Madras 4 £ c Most Astonishing Value ±.%J —It's the same madras that sells in a regular way at 35c and 50c yard. Every yard from a big western jobber at a mere fraction of its worth— To Sell 'Way Under Regular Wholesale Cost. Imported Madras —Ideal stuff for the prettiest of bungalow curtains and drapihgs — '"'.'-■ npV'' —Scores of pretty patterns — 30 inches wide. The best value in drapery stuffs we have been able to print in months and months —15c yard. 25c Drapery 1C- 25c Colored 1 Cr» Cloth— Today ... .I-/ L- Swisses— Today . .1 J V/ —Another remarkable —40 Inches wide. How clearance value. 4C pieces many yards do you need of this splendid drapery for those dainty home cur stuff; beautiful colors and tains? Very special at 15c. combinations. Less than —And white figured swlsa regular cost; 15c yard. at 12% c. 30 Heavy Tapestry (f*'Q C\^L Rugs— Size 9x12 tPO.VO Supplementary to the great values that made last ; Monday such a great Rug clay. Second installment of this great clearance purchase —30 Big Rugs, $8.95 These Brass Beds Are $fY 9* Regular $1450 Values at V —Just a few of them. Fine, substantial brass bedsteads with 7 heavy fillers. While they last, an opportunity of op portunities, $9.95. 1 A The Dollar Spent foolishly /(iS!e£vfip\ has said good by to you forever. It has gone to / Tp^^t \ work for someone else. / ,*^7rc?C» \ The dollar placed here becomes your partner. / Bim M \ It keeps adding to itself the pennies of interest, / fisLl*^Jlli ■ \ which soon become other dollars. It works night / M&^-^SIP >! and day to help you to grow Independent. Merchants Bank and Trust Co. 207-9-11 SOUTH BROADWAY HUSBAND SLASHES WIFE; TRIES TO KILL SELF Enraged When Woman Questions Man's Sanity; Wields Razor. Both Will Recover Because she intimated ttikt he was going insane, James T. Mack, a Po mona rancher, attempUra to murder his wife and end his TJwn life in the apartment house at 415 South Flower street early yesterday morning, ahe infuriated man slashed the woman s throat and cut her hands severely aa she tried to ward off his attack. He then turned his weapon, a razor, on himself and attempted suicide by cut ting his throat. Mrs. Black was treat ed at the receiving- hospital, and was later sent to her home in Pomona. Her husband is In the Clara Barton hospital, awaiting some action on the part of his wife's relatives and fnends. Both will recover. Mrs. Black came to L,os Angeles Sunday to visit her husband, who has been living here for some little time. Black was seemingly surprised at hid wife's visit and questioned her about it. She reluctantly admitted that .she believed he was going insane, and said that she had come to see him on that account. Black at the time did not seem to be. angry at her suggestion. When the couple made ready to retire late Sun day evening Mrs. Black found one- of her hatpins had been placed in the bed. About 3 o'clock Monday morning Black got out of bed and, going to a table on the other side of the room, secured a razor ana returned to his wife's side. She attempted to get away from him, but he slashed a twelve-inch gash across her throat. Mrs. Black wrestled with her assail ant, and in doing so was cut severely about the hands and arms. She sank to the floor in a semi conscious condition, and Black, prob ably believing her dead, cut his own throat. Other lodgers in the house, hearing the commotion, rushed to the room occupied by the Blacks and there found both lying on the floor. The police were notified and Jhe couple taken to the receiving hospital, where the po lice surgeons saved the lives of both. As well as she could in her condition, Mrs. Black related the details of the aftair to the offlceis. It is the opinion of the police that Black is crazy, and he probably will be taken before the lunac*y commission aa soon as he re- covers. . Mrs. Black, who Is the mother of three children, left yesterday after noon for her homo In Pomona. Poet—You published a poem of mine last week. You pay according to the kind of verse, don't you? Editor—Yes, George, give the gentle man a blank check.—Des Molnea Newa. Editorial Section THREATENS PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES WITH DEATH Letter Writer Promises Venge ance on Men Who Sent Him to Prison NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—A letter irt which the writer threatens death to several judges in this city and Brook lyn and several assistant district at torneys was received at the district attorney's office today and turned over to the police for investigation. The letter was addressed to District Attor ney Whitman and read as follows: "I am now a free man, after a threo years' sentence in Sing Sing along ■:ith threo others with whom I have made friends. Wo havo decided to deal out a death sentence to Judge O'Sullivan, Judge Malone, Judge Faw cett, Judge Rosalsky, District Attor neys Ely, Hart and to others, for our lives are not worth living. I cannot locate my wife and children. I was charged with grand larceny, and as sure as God is in heaven I was inno cent, and I am also sure that many a man in state's prison is innocent. "The day is not far when some of the above mentioned names will be a thing of the past. This may be taken as a joke, but wait for results. It la a disgrace to the world to see a mar ried man taken from his family just because certain people go to the dis trict attorney and swear they wero swindled." CHAUFFEURS' BLACK HAND THREATENS OFFICIALS ALBANY, N. V., Aug. 15.—A letter threatening him with "What Gaynor got," and signed by the "chauffeurs' black hand gang," was received today by Secretary Samuel S. Koenig. The letter, which was evidently writ ten by a chauffeur who had failed to pass the examination required under the new Callan automobile law, was mailed from New York city on Satur day. Two similar letters were received by Secretary Koenig from New York city about a week ago. In one of them the lives of Governor Hughes, Secretary Koenig and Assemblyman Callan, au thor of the automobile law, were threatened. Ton can buy It, pernspa at many places, but there* one BEST place to buy It—and that plar« a<lvrtl»eii. Verdugo Canyon Land Co. Ha* Jo«« lulled! th« Ho.t Beaatlfnl ul An ,i»llo Uiiutrated Booklet are* pablblM« IB In Angelea. Call wr »«td tot mi. Mtt JNO. A. PIKTLH