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BUSINESS MEN USED AS
DUMMIES TO TAKE LAND
Alaskan Land Claims Under In-
vestigation in Seattle Similar
to Cunningham Group
SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—The Alaska
claims which are said to be under In
vestigation by the federal grand jury
at Spokane are similar to those of the
famous Clarence Cunningham group,
which caused the Ballinger charges.
Cunningham went to the Katella
district as a mining expert to Investi
gate the reported oil discoveries. He
was disappointed about the oil, but
found enormous fields of coal. Obtain
ing powers of attorney from capital
ists in Idaho, Seattle and elsewhere,
he located 160 acres of land for each
ot these persona,, as the law permits.
The Cunningham group of clajma
has received great prominence bo
cause of the attempt to hurry It to
patent, and has overshadowed the
other groups located by promoters.
A list of the claimants In these other
groups contains names as prominent
in politics and business as those of
the Cunningham group. It was not
alleged in the Cunningham hearing
that there had been dummy locators,
or any irregularity in the filings, but
the claims were held up because some
of the claimants had entered an agree
ment to sell the land to the Guggen
heims. In the other groups, which
are supposed to be now under investi
gation, some of the men whose names
appear as claimants say they did not
authorize the use of their names.
Portland, Ore., furnishes a long list
of claimants, largely politicians and
bankers, and many Callfornlans of
high rank are Alaska coal claimants.
SERVING LIFE SENTENCE,
HE INVENTS AEROPLANE
Convict Sends Two Flying Ma
chine Models to Patent Office
NEW YORK, Sept. 2!.—Henry Brit
ton, a New York civil engineer, aged
60, who is in the Queens county jail
under a life sentence as an habitual
criminal, has turned his attention to
the aeroplane. He already has sent
two models to the patent office and Js
now working on a monoplane.
Brltton is an expert machinist and
claims to have discovered a principle
of flying which has not heretofore been
known to aeroplane builders. He ex
plains this as consisting of the "ap
plication of a dead weight center to tlto
plane, thereby securing equilibrium."
Britton's life sentence was brought
about by the exposure of a swindling
game in which he advertised extensive
ly for a governess to go to California.
His scheme was to accompany the vic
tim to the train and on a pretext of
buying her ticket, secure her money
and decamp.
FEAR BALLOON WAS LOST
IN ONE OF GREAT LAKES
DUNKIRK, N. T. ( Sept. 23.—Dennis
Ready, engineer at the Dunkirk water
works, reported to the police that lata
last night he saw a large cigar-shaped
balloon hovering over the lake about
two miles from shore. The balloon ap
peared to be unmanageable. It gradu
ally disappeared and he believes It
dropped into the lake.
A fishing tvg 1 has boon sent out to
rescue the aeronauts who are thought
to have come from Canada.
SAN JOSE AVIATOR MAKES
SUCCESSFUL TRIAL FLIGHT
SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 23.— J. E.
Clark and J. T. -Havens of this city
have Just completed a biplane, in which
yesterday afternoon Clark made a suc
cessful trial flight in a field nearby,
being in. the air fifteen minutes, and
covering a distance of seven miles, at
an average height of fifty feet.
The biplane has a spread of thirty
three feet, is forty feet in length, and
Is driven by a 60-horsepower engine.
PATTEN TELLS STUDENTS
OF TEMPTATIONS IN LIFE
Retired Operator Declares 'No'
Greatest of Words
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—James A. Pat
ten, retired board of trade operator,
yesterday told the students of North-"
western university how to resfst temp
tation. He said It was by learning how
to say "No."
The occasion was the first chapel
service of the year.
"Teach the boys to Bay 'no' w/ille
they are young," said Mr. Patten.
"Many a man has been lost just be
cause he had never learned in his youth
to say 'no.' My young friends, when
you stow older and embark on the
rough seas of life, you will know of
what value It Is to you to be able to
say that word.
"Just learn how to say tho word.
Spell It over and over, so that when
ever you feel the need it will come to
you naturally to say 'no' to all the
evil temptations and vices which beset
young manhood in a large city.
"I would also caution the boys to
stay out of Chicago, especially at night,
when the city Is aglow with brilliant
lights and attractions to ensnare the
weak and unsuspecting."
BALLINGER DECLINES TO,
DISCUSS REVENGE TALK
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Richard A.
Balllnger, secretary of the Interior de
partment, on his way to Washington to
attend cabinet meetings beginning next
Monday, vehemently denied today that
one of these meetings would be devot
ed to consideration of a request for
his resignation.
He also refused to discuss the state
dent credited to him In the west that
he would ceek revenge on his "ene
mies" after he had left public office.
When asked at what time he expected
to leave public office, his reply was a
smile and a shrug.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM
Bacon—And you say ho Is a leader of
men?
Egbert—Yes, he certainly la.
"And how about women?"
"Oh, when It comes to women he
takes a back seat I"—Yonkers States
man.
Colleagues of Senate Who Will Hear
the Charges Against Senator Lorimer
W4&M in. v iilii nlw
COMMITTEE TO HASTEN
LORIMER INVESTIGATION
Senators Refuse Request That
Hearing of Election Fraud
Charges Be Postponed
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—The senatoriai
sub-committee on privileges and elec
tions, which convened here to Investi
gate the alleged fraud in the election
of United States Senator William Lori
mer, decided today to proceed at this
time with the taking of testimony and
not to postpone action until after the
November elections, as urged by the
senator's attorneys.
At the opening of today's session
Chairman Burrows announced that the
committee would permit Attorneys Al
fred Austrian, representing the Chicago
Tribune, and Elbridge Hanecy, repre
senting Senator *Lorimer, to appear in
the hearing.
Attorney Hanecy presented his for
mal motion for a continuance of the
hearing until after the November elec
tions. The Tribune's list of witnesses
was submitted and the committee be-
gan consideration of methods of pro
cedure. The committee's decision over
ruling Senator Lorimer's plea for delay
was announced by Senator Pajnter of
Kentucky, who said:
"The committee has given due con
sideration to the petition made for a
continuance of this hearnlg until after
the November elections and has not
found the reasons of sufficient weight
to warrant the delay."
A short conference resulted In the an
nouncement that the session would ad
jonrn until Monday morning, to permit
Senators Bulkley of Connecticut and
Frszier of Tennessee to be present.
PRISON GUARD AND NEGRO
CONVICT ARE CAPTURED
SAN PEANCISCO, Sept. 23.—William
Spillman, tho supposedly insane negro
slayer who disappeared last "Wednesday
from the detention ward of the Pre
sidio hospital, and Forrest W. Brooks,
the guard who is accused of having
aided the negro to escape, were cap
tured yesterday in a sugar #efinery at
Salinas, where both had obtained em
ployment.
The arresting officers at the point of
revolvers took the fugitives Into custo
dy and placed them in jail.
Splllman Is said to have talked freely
to his captors. According to the offi
cers, he said he had told Brooks of
buried treasure in the Philippines, the
location of which was known only to
himself, and that upon promising to
divide the treasure -with Brooks he had
Induced the guard to assist him in gain
ing his liberty from the hospital.
They had secured work at Salinas,
It was Bald, in order to raise funds for
a trip to the Philippines.
Spillman is under life sentence for
killing a fellow soldier.
DENVER BANDIT DRUGS
AND DISROBES VICTIMS
DENVER, Sept. 23.—A highwayman
with a mania for disrobing his victims,
operated In Denver last night to the
discomfiture of three different men,
who were found by the police dazed
from the effect of a drug, and minus
their valuables and a part of their
clothing. William Sanford, a Kansas
City traveling salesman, was robbed
of his gold watch, diamond stud, money
and his coat, vest and trousers.
Emanuel Sanchez was the next vlo
tim. The robber had her© again car
ried out his Ideas. Sanchez retained
only an overcoat and a pair of socks.
Edward England was the third vic
tim. He was found In an alley with
a string, tie about his neck, and that
was all.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910.
STATE PROPERTY JUMPS
$8,000,000 IN TWO YEARS
San Jose and Agnews Buildings
Swell Total Valuation
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 23.—State prop
erty this year will show an Increase of
$8,000,000 over two years ago, accord
ing to an opinion expressed by State
Controller Nye today.
The Increase is due not only to higher
real estate values, he says, but be
cause new buildings have been erected
for the normal school at San Jose,
while about $1,000,000 has been expend
ed for buildings at Agnews state hos
pital. Figures so far compiled show
also a great increase on the San Fran
cisco water front property.
The total valuation of state property
two years ago was $52,000,000.
WASHINGTON'S GOVERNOR
RAPS CONSERVATION PLAN
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 23.—"1 am
not one who believes that our system
of government is a failure and that
there Is no hope except through a new
nationalism," declared Governor M. E.
Hay in an address before the State
Press association at Wenatchee today.
"God knows that as a nation we are
suffering from many serious economic
and social ills, but what we need Is
the scientific application of practical
and suffloient remedies, not the wild
incantations of a savage medicine
man.
"Those governors who favor control
of our national resources direct by a
federal bureau come from states that
have little or no public domain, and
practically nothing in the way of un
appropriated natural resources to con
serve. This state has proved its ca
pacity to deal with the larger problems
of government that every state must
face."
NAME OF WOMAN CROWDS
DECREE IN DIVORCE SUIT
OUOVILLE, Sept. 23.—Lilian Five
Dead Aunts Butts Gilstrap was di
vorced In the superior court of Butte
county from her husband, D. D. Gil
strap of Grldley.
In the long history of Butte county
actions no such name as that given by
Mrs. Gilstrap has been recorded by the
county clerk's office. The name had to
be abbreviated to Lillian 5 D. A. B.
Gilstrap,, so as to be written into the
space allowed in the decree.
NAVY DESERTER ARRESTED
BY SAN DIEGO OFFICERS
BAKERSFTELD, Sept. 23.— H. 3.
Stroud, gunner's mate on the United
States steamship Hull, who deserted
the service about a week ago while
the vessel was in port at San Diego,
was arrested here today by local au
thorities and will be delivered to the
government officials when they ar
rive. The commanding officer at Mare
Island has been notified of his arrest.
CAPTURES ACCUSED FORGER
OAKLAND, Sept. 23.—After a sharp
struggle In the fashionable St. Mark
hotel here, 1L Hartsock, a well known
photographer, overpowered Robert H.
Kenney, another photographer, who la
accused of forging Hartsoek's name to
a bad chock, and dragged him to jail.
Kennedy was bound over on $-0,000 ball
thla morning.
PRINCIPAL WITNESS IN
BURKE CASE RETURNS
Lou Etta Smith Comes Back
from Orient When Re
mittances Cease
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23.—Declar
ing that she had returned voluntarily
to testify for the prosecution in the
trial of Dr. Willard P. Burke, charg
ing him with having dynamited the
tent in which she and her baby were
asleep at the Burke sanitarium, Lou
Etta Smith arrived here today from
Japan on board the Chiyo Maru. She
was met after the vessel was released
from quarantine by District Attorney
Lea and Sheriff Smith of Sonoma coun
ty, who escorted her ashore. Miss Smith
was not placed under arrest and will
return in company of the Sonoma
officials to Santa Rosa, where the Burke
trial will be held.
In a statement made before she
landed, Miss Smith declared that she
had been sent to Japan by persons
who did not want her to testify against
the accused phyelcian. She said that
she was impelled to return by the
failure of these persons to continue to
extend financial aid to her after her
arrival in Japan. In her wanderings
she was accompanied only by her
baby.
In answer to a question propounded
to her by District Attorney Lea, she
declared that she did not write the
letter exonerating Burke, which was
made public shortly after her depar
ture for the Orient. She said that
the signature attached to the letter
had been made by her to verify a
checking account with a bank, to be
used while she was traveling.
Lea admitted that he had been told
the names of the persons responsible
for Miss Smith's trip to the Orient, but
he declined to make them public for
fear that the accused might leave the
Jurisdiction of the court which will
try Dr. Burke.
ORIGINAL LITTLE DORRIT
OF DICKENS PASSES AWAY
LONDON, Sept. 23.—A link with
Charles Dickens has been severed with
the death of Mrs. G. M. Hayman, one
of the novelist's closest personal
friends.
She was asserted by her family to
have been the original Little Dorrit.
She would have reached her elghty
flrst birthday next month.
Mrs. Hayman's father was a solicitor
living in London, and was for years an
intimate friend of Dlqkens. The novel
ist was a visitor at his house and took
keen interest in all the members of the
family.
TORPEDO BOAT FLOTILLA
WILL SAIL FOR TARGETS
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23.—Under orders
to sail for San Pedro and Beecher's
bay, Santa Rosa island, late next week,
the officers and crews of the Pacific
torpedo flotilla are busily engaged in
getting the little ships ready for sea.
The men will be paid oft two daya
before the fleet sails instead of on the
fifth of the month, as has been the
custom In the past. Standardization
speed practice and target practice calls
the fleet north and it is expected the
cruise will end at San Francisco.
BOY BHOOTS PLAYMATE
MARTINEZ, Cal., Sept. 23.—HarvlUe
Tltcomb, aged 13, "didn't know It was
loaded," when, playing "cowboy" on
Wednesday evening he took hlB fa
ther's rifle and pointed It at his play
mate, Paul Treat, aged 11. He pulled
the trigger and Paul fell with a bullet
In his chest. Ho is In a critical con
dition.
AUTO DRIVER INJURED
TAKING PRACTICE SPIN
George Robertson Thrown from a
Machine Going Seventy
Miles an Hour
MINEOLA, N. T., Sept. 23.— George
Robertson, the automobile driver, was
thrown from his automobile today
while taking a trial spin on the Long
Island motor speedway. He was un
conscious when picked up and was
rushed to a hospital.
Robertson was going at an estimated
rate of 70 miles an hour in the new
Benz car which he was to have driven
in the Vanderbilt cup race next week.
When he struck Massapequa curve, |
considered the most dangerous in the j
course, the car gave a jump, swerved
and was completely overturned. Rob
ertson and Stephen Reynolds, a New
Tork man whom he was carrying as a
passenger, were thrown thirty feet or
more, clear of the wreckage.
Both Robertson and Reynolds were
unconscious when another car came
along and they were picked up.
Reynolds was found to be suffering
from internal injuries.
A hasty examination led the physi
cians to fear that Robertson"s Injuries
were fatal. At the Nassau hospital.
however, it was found that they were
less serious. It Is thought that Rob
ertson attempted to take the dangerous
curve at too high speed.
Robertson's Injuries are not serious.
Reynolds was only slightly hurt.
SEATTLE'S ACTING MAYOR
CHARGES POLICE GRAFT
Asserts Entire Department Per
meated with Corruption
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—Acting Mayor
Max Wardall, who devoted last night
to a slumming expedition, made a
statement today charging the police
department with grafting.
"Almost every part of the depart
ment is permeated with corruption,"
said the acting mayor. "The restricted
district of Seattle is the worst I ever
saw, and I have been in Suez, in the
Orient and in places on the continent
of Europe. Seattle Is the worst."
Petitions for the recall of Mayor Hi
ram C. Gill have been prepared, but
have not been circulated because of
doubt among attorneys as to the val
idity of the recall provision of the elty
charter. The mayor is absent on a
tour of Alaska. Chief of Police Charles
W. Wappenstein is In California.
CHIEF WAPPENSTEIN SAYS
CHARGES ARE RIDICULOUS
Chief of Police Wappenstein of
Seattle, who Is in Los Angeles on a
short vacation, when told of the
charges that Acting Mayor Wardall
had made against the police depart
ment and several officials of the north
ern city, stated that in his opinion the
move was simply a play of a small
clique of politicians to discredit Mayor
H. C. Gill and the present adminis
tration.
"The politicians who are opposed to
the present administration have sim
ply Jumped at this chance, when every
one is away, to make charges against
us that they would not dare to make
when we are at home," said Mr. Wap
penstein last evening at the Lanker
shim. "However, I am not worrying
in the least about Wardall's charges.
I came to Los Angeles to place my
boy in school, and I intend to stay
until Sunday evening, no matter how
many ridiculous charges may be made
in my absence.
"The charges are foolish. Wardall
has lived in Seattle for the past twen
ty years, and claims In his charges
that he did not know of the existence
of a restricted district which was es
tablished twelve years ago.
"Legally the district referred to does
not exist. It was abolished seven
years ago and the inmates of it scat
tered throughout the residence dis
trict. Pour years ago, at the orders
of the mayor, the police department
drove all these women from the resi
dence section of town. They returned
to the old district, which had been
uninhabited during their absence.
"That happened four years ago. yet
Wardall, who has lived there all the
time and has been in politics enough
to be elected councilman, claims that
he has just discovered the existence
of the place. If he has it looks to me
as if he was not wide awake enough
to represent any section of the city
in the council.
"Wardall and a number of older pol
iticians who are opposed to Mayor
Gill anfl his administration simply
took this chance while the mayor was
away on his vacation to spring
trumped up charges and attempt to
ride into power on the sentiment they
might create.
"In my opinion it will do them no
good. Gill Is a popular man and a
good mayor. He could be re-elected
again tomorrow should an election be
called. We had planned to move the
district referred to within a month,
and this program will undoubtedly be
carried out. As soon as Gill returns
from his vacation Wardall will be
deposed and his charges will not
amount to anything."
REPORT 88,716 DEATHS
FROM CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 23.—Th<
figures show that during the presen
cholera epidemic there have been 191,'
076 cases, with 88,716 deaths through
out the country.
In the week that ended Septembei
17 there was a total of 4412 cases, wltl
2071 deaths. In the last six dayß then
have been 301 new cases and 83 death:
in this city. In the week previous
there, were 339 cases and 136 deaths.
CHOLERA SITUATION GRAVE
NAPLES, Sept. 23.—The cholera sit
uation here Is grave. There have been
fifty cases and thlry deaths. The lo
cal authorities will not admit as yet
that the epidemic is cholera.
ELEVEN NEW CABEB; 2 DEATHS
ROME, Sept. 28.—During the last 24
hours there have been eleven new
cases of cholera and two deaths.
Be Sure to Hear
THEODORE A. BELL
In Temple Auditorium
Tonight
'After A Hani Pays Work —Play
Call and See Carload Just Arrived.
We Are Sole Agents on the Coast
Ask for Catalogue and Get Demonstration.
"IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH A BIG ORGANIZATION."
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Yam" •••• lands, San Bernardino,
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DrUdUWdj Addre»» Uuntlneton Beach.
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Today!!!
Saturday!!!
This Is the Last Day of the
Free Gas Appliance
AMP
Gas Fixture Exhibit
in CENTRAL" PARK SKATING RINK, No. 416 West Sixth
Street, held in connection with the Eighteenth Annual Con
vention of the PACIFIC COAST GAS ASSOCIATION.
,You should make a special effort to see this exhibit, as it
has many interesting features for all users of Gas.
OPEN EVENINGS ALSO NO ADMISSION CHARGE
Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation
Colonist Fares
from the East
TO CALIFORNIA POINTS
WILL BE EFFECTIVE
October Ist to 15th, 1910
DEPOSIT /%8^ BRING
MONEY \s^r FRIENDS
Money may be deposited with any Salt
Lake Route ticket agent and tickets fur
nished at any point desired to California. ,
Fare from Chicago.. .1.1.1.1.1.1*. .$33.00
From St. Louis. ......> $32.00
, From St. Paul $31.75
From Missouri River Points. .$25.00
From Texas Points and , lliliPP
Denver ................• $25.00
and others all over the country at corre
sponding reductions. Get particulars at
any office, or at 601 So. Spring St., Los
Angeles.
And Be Sure Your Friend* Come via
Salt Lake Route
PIUS X REGRETS SPEECH
MADE BY ROME'S MAYOR
Pontiff Expresses Sorrow Over
Anti-Clerical Address
ROME, Sept. 23.—Pope Pius X today
addressed a letter to Cardinal Ros
pighl, vicar general of Rome, saying
he wished to express to the cardinal
his own deep sorrow because of the
anti-clerical speech delivered by Mayor
Nathan at the celebration last Tuesday
of the fortieth anniversary of the fall
of temporal power of the church.
Tho letter sets forth that Mayor
Nathan, as a public official, was not
satisfied with recalling solemnly the
day on which the sacred rights of pon
tifical sovereignty were trampled on,
but dared to offend the doctrines of
the Catholic church and the vicar of
Christ's church.
The pope adds: "Speaking In the
name of Rome which, according to
authoritative statements, should be
honored as the peaceful home of tho
supreme pontiff, he aimed directly at
our spiritual Jurisdiction denouncing
with impunity, to public contempt
even, the acts of our apostolic minis
try."
RAIN EXTINGUISHES FIRES
WEAVERVILLI3, Cal., Sept. 23.—
Copious rainfall during the- last tow
days has extinguish!*! all (ires In the
Trinity national forest, according to
reports received herf
DENY LIFE OF JAPANESE
EMPEROR IS THREATENED
Arrest Anarchists Accused of
Manufacturing Bombs
TOKIO, Sept. 23.—Official and po»*
tive denial was made today of the re
cent statement of the Hochl Shimbim
that a conspiracy against the life of
the emperor had been discovered
among some of his own subjects an<l
the plotters arrested.
The police state that a number of
anarchists have been arrested on sus
picion of having been engaged in tho
manufacture of bombs.
Tho leader of the alleged anarchists
is ono Kotoku, who was formerly con
nected with a Toklo newspaper and at
one time lived in America, where, it U
believed, he was associated with a
political organization on tho Pacific
coast. He Is awaiting trial with the
others.
FIRST ACCIDENT IN 53 YEARS
SEYMOUR, Ind., Sept. 23.—A record
of flfty-three years' service as aii en
gineer without having been in a wreck
was broken here last night when En
gineer John Gregory of Jeffersonvllle,
Ind., 70 years old, running a Pennsyl
vania passenger train from India >
11s to Louisville, with a No. It engine,
crashed into a Baltimore A Ohio
freight train at this place, derailing
several cars. No one waa injured,
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