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8 PREACHER FLAYS PLAY FROM STAGE Auditorium Rings with Denuncia tion of Show That Is to Be Presented There DR. BROUGHER BANS 'QUEEN' Temple Baptist Church Minister Wants Tab Kept on 'Moulin Rouge' Audience Scene, Temple Baptist church; time, Sunday night. The Rev. Dr. J. Whtl comb Brougher in his regular sermon attacked the play, "The Queen of the Moulin Rouge," and called on the polka to suppress it. Scene, Temple Auditorium; time, Monday night. "The Queen of the Moulin Rouse" is scheduled to open Its much advertised Los Angeles engage ment. Thus, from the very spot where tin play is to be presented—a pulpit Sun days, a stage weekdays—the theatried 1 production was denounced to a congre gation that crowded the seats that twenty-four hours later will be orcu pled by the theatergoers, and twenty four hour? alter the minister's ser mon the silken clad queen and her court of pleasure lovers will kick their legs in the exact spot where the preacher waved his arms In deuncia tion of them. Dr. Hrougher put forth a new method of elevating the stage. He ad vocated the appointment of a commit tee of prominent citizens by the city atorney's office to be stationed in the lobby of the theater and jot down the names of those who attend the play that has drawn the (ire of most of the ministers, the city officials, the wom en's clubs, the WC. T. V. and the purity leagues. The minister would have these names published In the newspapers, he said, in the belief that mnny will go to taste the forbidden i'ruit who would not go if they were to be found out. FX.IOIN IT BY LAW. UK SATO Tlie minister incorporated some other ideas in his sermon, as follows: "A play has been advertised to be presented in the Auditorium theater this coming week that is a disgrace to Christian "civilization. I make this statement calmly and soberly. Either the play is absolutely out of harmony With ordinary decency, or else the ad vertising is an absolute lie. The com pany that would distribute and post upon the streets advertising matter s.i suggestive of Immorality should be en joined by law front enacting a nuisance against public rlececy and morals. I have been wondering if the authorities could not proceed against this com pany under the same law that mikes it possible to prohibit the exhibition and the sale of immoral postcards. "If the advertising is so obnoxious to people of decent feeling and refined taste, then the play must be even more so. If it is not what It is advertised to be, then the company ought to be arrested Cor obtaining money under false pretenses. "It is not merely the church people v,-ho are protesting against the presen tation of life in the underworld of Paris to an audience of our citizens, but there is not a decent man or woman in this city who does not pro test against it. If the play had a great moral lesson to teach there might be found some people who would claim that it was worth while to wit ness a mass of obscenity in order to teach ;t lesson. Personally, I <lo nit believe it Is necessary to crawl through the sewers of Paris in order to learn Iliat It would be i jjood thing to avoid them. SCOKJSS TIIO!»E WHO GO TO I'l-AY "I have two things to say: First, A play of BUCh immoral tendencies revi .tls the immoral character of the men who produced it. What sort of a mind and imagination must men have in order to write such an indecent thing? "In the second place, 1 want to say ■with nil the positiveness of my being, in view of the advertising presented, and m view of what the dramatic crit ics have said about this play, that men or women who would go to see it by that very act advertise their own in rlecen 5 and love of that which is degrading. I understand that City At torney Eddie has appointed a commit tee to ko Monday night and ••'<-' the play and decide whether it is lndei ent enough to be stopped by law. I want to suggest t,. him that he appoint an other committee, composed of men well acquainted with the people of this city, to stand in the Aui Iti rium lobby tomorrow night and take the names of those who go In, tl in publish the list in the newspapers the next morning, nnd let us Bee the names of the repu table, 1 eflned, !::■•;, n ndei 1 ultured people who were Be* ng Into the Auditorium t.i witnns 1 the play. I will be greatly surprised In the people of Los ' ngeles if any cultured, n purity-loving, educated man nr n is seen going to that piny, outside of the comml by Mr rcddie. I would suggest that they wear badges, so that their purpose In going will not .be misconstrued." DEFENUS I HI H< II IN THEATER At the morning service, speaking on "The chinch in the Cheater," Dr. Brougher said: "This church is in this th building to do a special worft in the heart of this ftrp.it clfy. r | worship here In this V'iit'.r' m even if it Is a theater. Those who 6 . no! go to plays presented on thl never think about Its nol being church. People will come to tl vices in thi.-- temple thai n ver • the door of the ordlnnry church ins. I believe that God sent tl right here i" do a work thai II oul I never have done In any othoi ' am not afraid of any that people may pass on our holding vices in a theater I am only of what Jesus Christ will saj on th judgment day If w- fall i" take advan tage of the great opportunities we i , to preach the gospel to the multi tudes." FIRST CONGREGATIONAL PASTOR JOINS IN PROTEST Dr. Day Says: Suoorcss 'Queen of Moulin Rou^e* Dr. William Horace Day attacked t < "indecent state" at the First Congi ■- gationa] hurch In a crn ■ ■ quo tlon, "Am 1 My Brother's Keeper?" He said: "The church member who atti.nds to morrow night's performance at the Au ditorium la like Cain. He gives the name answer to the question: 'Am I my broth' r i keeper?' "The church member who will liot GOLDEN RULE POLICE ARREST LIVELY 'GHOST CLEVELAND. 0., Dec. IS.—lt was at the peaceful hour of 3 o'clock yesterday morning and Lieut. Doertng was sitting in the seventh precinct station writing out his reports. Except for the distant hum of the owl cars not a sound could be heard. Suddenly the stillness was broken by a shout. A man was heard run ning toward the station. The lieutenant half ruse from his chair as the front door flew open and a hat Less, excited citizen burst in. His eyes stuck out and he was gasping. "Ghosts!" he panted. "Biankety blank ghosts runnln' around your ol* precinct. Scarin' everybody. L'n'erstan'? Bcarin 1 rvi rybody. Scared me. Why don't yuh run Mm In? He oughter gel pinched. I'll buy drinks fer crowd If blooming ghosts ain't out night hnwkin'." Lieut. Doerlns ran to the door and looked up the street He made out a white form standing in the pale glow of a Btreet Mght. The patrol wagon, with Patrolman Cunneen, was sent after the "ghost." Cunneen came back with o flesh and blood man, clad in a night shirt. Evidently the man was delirious. He said be lived at Broa-iway southeast and Union avenue. "Who is your doctor?" asked Doering. The man told him. The doctor was telephoned and he said Hint the man was Wesley Green, 40, 4069 East Eighty-tecond street, who is suffering from typhoid fever. Green was taken home in the patrol, after being bundled up in blankets by the police. A search party had already started out for him, as it had been discovered that he had escaped from his bedroom. The excited person who turned in the alarm still stood around. "That wasn't a ghost," said Doeiing. "You'd better go home." "Suppose I don't know ghosts when I see 'im? Twas ghost You're iraid to pinch 'im. It's that golden rule and you don't pinch ghosts. I'm going home." protest and back the officers of the ■ it\ in spite of the money back of this kind of thing Is as bad as Judas who be trayed an innocent man for a few plei is of silver. "When public sentiment of our city permits the stage of the most beautiful playhouse we have, one supposed to be dedicated to muHic and art and nothing but the most wholesome recreation, to be filled with a noisome, tawdry re production of the part of Paris which generations of unprincipled 'spenders' have produced we are certainly In the way of her "whose steps take hold on hell.' "The same high-minded spirit which has brought us to a fame among the cities of the earth as an ideal place for a man to build a home, rear Ills fam ily and live his life to the full will rise in rebuke that will be heard in every box office of that part of the theatrical world where lust for gold has stifled every ennobling ambition. We can pro test in no uncertain sound and make tt possible for the mayor and city of liei-rs to prevent such Insults to th«» moral Ideals of the people who live here from the insult of such presenta tions in the name of the drama. "The magnet which lures thousands here is the high tone the city has. If ten years hence we are to lead the cities of the land in increase of pop ulation we must maintain the stand ards which lead the best kind of fam ilies to come here to live." RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED AGAINST 'MOULIN ROUGE. Congregationalists Favor Sup pression of Performance Following a sermon by the pnstor,, tli.- Rev. William Day. on the subject,! "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" at the; First Congregational church last nieht, | resolutions were passed by the congre- | pa I ion, voicing its support in any at-I I tempt by the mayor or any officials to ; I prevent the performance of the "Mou lin Rouge" at the Auditorium this week. Following is a copy of the resolu tions: "Resolved. That we, the people of the First Congregational church, do; promise to support the mayor anil the > city officials in any attempt to pup press the "Queen of the Moulin Rouge" j and any other such theater perform- | ancea from being given in the city of I,os Angeles. This is In the interest of the true art as well as the good mor als of the city. 1' TRIUMPH OF PROHIBITION ASSURED, SAYS LECTURER Charles Hall Reviews Numerous Victories for Temperance in Many Countries "A Clean Sweep" was the to] Charles J. Hall, national prohibition lecturer, last nitjht at the City Rescuo mission, 606 East Fifth street. He returned to Los Angeles for the holidays and will go east in a short time to continue his lectures. Ho said In part: "The whole horizon la brighter with promise and the cause la surely m irch- Ing on, A lew years ago the Prohibi tion movement was the butt of ridl 'ui-a and sne< rs, and ii re< elved but 1 the hands of the pi It v. is regarded as a movement of day dreamers, visionaries, ranks and fools. [ts advocates were 1 •>•• 1 and laughed it, but today those nre all changed and the prohibition of the legalized liquor traffic Ii rega 1 as a question 01 sound, social science practical political economy and pro found ''In I tlan ■ itriotlcm From be ing a movement of n fe •■• f inatii - I' has :,.,,. the gre < ut nuestli n of the hour, lei ognlzed by all lets ami Is worldwldi in its tremeu linport. CA.UI'AION THBOIiOHOI'T WORLD 'In Jius ;ia half a million p tend weekly temperance lecture [te land and I ipan, Bulgaria md Mcxli • ioin hands in victories for sobriety. A • 1 thousand Good Templnra are at w ii v In Germany, where la tors, professors and tv ■I luring ag ilnst the 1 Uquoi y\ il ■ i den 12.000 Btudents are i I tlon In Denmark more th m half the adult population hai i tarte I , petition I"!' prohibition legl : ition. i nnomlsts and scientis s In Fri n ■• Switzerland, Austria and Hun , it. r loud warnings ag ilnst the irse. In Amerl a the i ire beginning to understand and to th it progress, prosperity and In our industrial, political and I affairs ire In prohibition of the II ivor traffic meni of prohll Ition law s Uy partj n fa >or of sm h enai tment i om< nt." FIRE CAUSES $3000 LOSS Fire n unknown origin lasi nicht partly destroyed the one-story frame building ut £JS4 Bast Ninth street oc cupied :is ;i grocery by Louis Oarano, entail i a loss of $1000 on the struc ture and Inmaging the contents to the extent of $2000. ■ — « «. You can buy It, perhaps at ninny places, but there's une BEST plae* to buy 11—un4 that DISCS U'if'jrtlfcl'b. LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1910. DISCING BENEFICIAL DECLARES MINISTER Rev. E. Stanton Hodgin Asserts Puritanism Makes Life Nar row and Starved In his sermon on "The Enlargement of Life" at the First Unitarian church, Rev, E. Ptanton Hodgin said: "Our Puritan and Quaker ancestors tried to purify life by eliminating all institu tions from which evil flowed. Dancing, card playing, the theater and all forms of amusement were thus placed under the ban. Life under this regime be came thin and narrow and starved. We now know that purification must come through the enlargement of life rather than through the narrowing of It. Our young people must have plenty of wholesome amusement and entertain ment if life is to become virile and rich. Nothing is more essential than that young people should become well ac quainted with each other and under as normal conditions as possible, before they settle down into permanent life relations together. The influence of co education is good as far as it goes, but it needs to bo supplemented by some thing much more voluntary and elastic. The church may well take upon itself the work of affording this further op portunity. It should not only bring young people together while warmed by the religious and devotional senti ment, but should afford them oppor tunities to do some serious work and BtUdy together in the quest of the Ideal; it should furnish them oppor tunities to -work together in the cause of social and civic betterment; it should give them their hours of spon taneous social life together. The dance is the most spontaneous and natural of ail forms of social activity and as a menus of social relaxation for n short time after a period of serious work to gether it may be most beneficial. The same is true of games and amuse ments. Tt is in coming together in these various activities that they may come to know each other as they real iv are. By carefully avoiding ail excess life becomes enlarged tnd enriched and a maximum opportunity for good is given with a minimum chance for evil." ■> « » WOMEN ALL OVER WORLD REVOLT, PREACHER SAYS No More Slavery to Man. De clares Fellowship Minister in Sermon "Woman is in revolt the world over," red Reynold 10. Blißht, minister of Hi'- Los Angeles Fellowship. In an address at Blanchard hall yesterday morning, speaking on the subject, "Is the Modern Woman a Slave or a Queen?" "She la in rebellion against the slavery of Ignorance, of eeonomli dence upon man, of special dis crimination and political disability. "Women demand not that man shall worship th^m, but that they shall be treed from the degrading tyrannies thni have hitherto prevented their fullest Intellectual and moral develop ment '' ove the ibsurd limitations that artificial conventionality have ! 1 iced around her and give her free dom tor the fullest Belf-expresaion. ■The race has reached that st'ge of evolution where no step can be taken without the co-operation of the sexes'. Th( item masculine virtues of aggres ■ iess and strength must be tem pered by t! c fem'nlne virtues of purity, nee Iri ! ideality. "The < oming woman, emancipated and self-reliant, shall have lost n re of the -i' "did cirirtn of tr>'e femin inity, but free, sell-poised, brave and lender shall work heart to heart w th in in in combating the evils that af fect society and shall help him n mold the world nearer to the heart's desire." FRIENDS HONOfT MINISTER ON EIGHTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY Rev. S. E. Wishard Preaches at Highland Park Church i elebrating his eighty-fifth birthday! anniversary, the Rev 8. H. Wisharil , , ted .-i special old folks iorvloe ' ■ lay morning at the Highland Pai Presbyterian < hurch an I prtac.i d . o vent Bermon. Or. \\ Inhard, who has completed yenra In the ai Uve minis . the hur h, is well known in L, is Rg, in preparation for the ser» i :■:•■ •■ Be t OUt to convey tlio i the church, it was tilled by fiii ni\* of the clergyman from of the city. Dr. Wish nd served ai a missionary ami ng the Mormons in Utah and lines ivi ring has devoted much of his time to literary work, publishing two books on religious themes. Three years ago, vi the ■-■>■ of 82, he went to China alone to \isit his daughter, who is v missionary there with her husband. CLERGY PENSION FUND PROGRESSES First Triennial Report of Episco pal Church Commission Reaches L. A. ENDEAVOR TO RAISE 5 MILLION Result of Investigation Shows Average Minister's .Salary Is $700 a Year The first triennial report of the flvc- Wiillion-dollar general clergy pension fund commission of the Episcopal church has reached Los Angeles and is proving of special interest to the many friends of the Rev. J. J. Wllkins, former dean and rector of St. Paul's; pro-cathedral, who has served as sec retary and general field agent toward . raising the fund. The movement toward raising such a! pension fund was inaugurated In the diocesan convention of the diocese of: Los Angeles in 1907 and presented as a memorial from this diocese to the gen- I eral convention of the church which met that year and which unanimously indorsed the movement. Dr. Wilkins. then stationed in Los Angeles, was appointed secretary of the movement, and in 1908 assumed the work of raising the fund, toward which a goodly sum has already heen attained and the work has been firmly estab lished. The report says: . "The salary paid our average clergy man is cruelly meager. This has been ' disputed. It has recently been contend- | ed that, generally speaking, his income. I is quite sufficient for his needs, and j that, in the few instances It is not, the '. discounts he sometimes receives on his, purchases and his opportunities for, truck gardening or farm tilling makd his earthly lot something to lie envied rather than deplored. But the lust re port of the United States census bu reau on this subject effectualy shat ters that absurd fiction. It shows, by figures indisputable, that the average annual salary paid to the clergy of this church in cities of the first, second, third and fourth class— in cities, that is, ranging in population from 25,0ui> upward— is only $1242, and if it be only that pitiful sum In those strongholds of wealth and influence, it requires no vivid imagination to conceive how j much more desperately small it must i be in the indigence of the frontier, i where clergy wear out their lives in ! the loneliness of a heart breaking isolation, and in the islands of the sea. We know of an old and large dio cese in which the average salary Is only $665 per year. Of another that pays four of her clergy $1200 per an num, the remainder from $700 to $300. "All this forces us, in the absence ot better, real information, to conclude that the salary paid by this American church, this church of notable wealth and culture, to her average clergyman, i«. as the secretary of the general clergy relief fund has published abroad, not more than $700 per year, upon ■which he and that unsalaried servant of the church, his wife—must live live like gentlefolk. Impossible! Yet they are gentlefolk, and they do, some how, live like gentlefolk— who do not murmur, who make no complaint." tt * t COUNTY HOSPITAL INMATES TO HAVE CHRISTMAS CHEER Christian Endeavor Society Plan ning Work of Charity The Christian Endeavor society if Los Angeles is planning to do a wnrk of charity In providing Chrtetmu i heer to the inmates of the county hos pital. Wednesday of this week a present will he given each patient at the hospital. A Christmas tree will be erected in the chapel and a program will be given from 5 to 6 o'clock. Mrs. E. R. Hudson, superintendent of the hospital benevolent work, will have general charge of the gifts which will include shoulder shawls and bed slip pers tor the women and neckties, socks and handkerchief! for the men. Five hundred patients will be cared for in this way. Mrs. F. P- Rossiter will have charge of the program to be presented by the junior orchestras Of the city and Miss Margaret Jarman will give several soloi . Cir'ts will be received by the En iJeavorers at 215 O, T. Johnson build ing and gratefully acknowledged. ♦-»-♦ . — DETECTIVES ON HUNT FOR GANG OF NEGRO FOOTPADS Dark Men Perpetrate Dark Deeds in Dark Places Holdups by negro footpadl! have be come bo frequent during the past week that the city detectives have received ■ rderß to go to special lengths to round ■ vi the colored robbers. Several robberies on the streets by' negroes have occurred In East Los An geles recently, and according to the det ' tlves, there are Indications that all tl> ■ work is being done by the same. The capture of one negro. It is believed, will be sufficient to .secure evidence that will lead to the arrest of ill the holdup men. in each case the negroes have fol- > lowed their victim until he has i reached n ''ark, shaded snot. Here one I man rushed in front of the victim, or dering him to stop and threatening liim with B revolver while the others ill the gang went throuch his pockets, In most of the robberies two negroes have j taken part, though In one instance there wore as many as four. RAILROAD 'CUTOFF' WILL MAKE MAIN LINE A BRANCH New Route to Connect Portland with San Francisco KuAMATH FALLS, Ore,, Dec. 18.— Ac Hiding to the statement of Julius , Kruttachnltt, director of operation and i lintenance of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, Klumath Falla will be on the main line from '• Portland, Ore., to San •.■rnncisc.o after next July. He lias announced that thu new "cut-off" will be finished about Juii" 30. That portion of the. road between Eu gene, Ore., and Weed, Cal., which Is now the main line, will be in the posi tion of . branch or a connecting link between these two cities. Ashland, Mc<: id. Grunts Pass and other grow ing cities will not bo on the main line. WOMEN AND MEN ROLL NAKED IN SNOWBANK TO REGAIN YOUTH CHICAGO, Doe. IS.—Seven men and three women, devoid of rai ment, wallowed and lolled in the snow In a back yard at Evanston In the belief that thus they would renew their youth. The youngest was 45, the oldest 65. The women were separated from the men by an eight-foot board fence, over which they threw snow balls at one another. The institution where this took place Is the Kosmos Physical Cul ture sanitarium, and the "cure" is known as the "first aid to nature." Dr. Henry E. Lane, who conducts the sanitarium, had h similar place on the north side until he was forced to leave because of the criti cisms of his neighbors. The snow cure is combined with the sun cure, and in both treat ments Or. Lane insists <»n nudity. CERTIFICATES DISAPPEAR; CHINESE WANTS $30,000 Suit in Texas Shows Value Set on Privilege to Enter the United States (Special to The Horald) SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 18.—It Is worth $10,000 to a chinaman to be admitted into the United Status, according to the contention in suits filed, in the district court here by two Chincve laborers, Ng ]>co ;md Ng Yoo. Alleging unlaw ful seizure of certificate! permitting then] to remain in this country, the Chinese have brought action against Immigration officers, secret aervioe op erators and ol'lcials of, the customs department. Kaeh plaintiff asks dam ;ip's in the sum of $15,000, Each cer tlflcate is valued at $10,000, nnd in ad dition to this amount each sues for $5000 for exemplary damages. In their petition the Chinese stat» that last September they were in pos session of certificates which permitted them to remain in the United States as Chinese laborers; that they returned to China, taking the certificates with them, and thnt Just before starting back to the United States they mailed the certificates in si registered letter to Juno Lee, a fellow countryman in San Antonio, to insure safe delivery. When they arrived here and demand ed of I^ee their papers he handed them the empty envelopes In which the cer tificates had been mailed from China. The plaintiffs allege that the certifi cates were unlawfully seized by fed eral officers. The attorney for the Chinese states that $10,000 is a modest valuation. It Is a poor Chinese laborer who cannot save $500 a year. The average Chlne.se remains in this country' between twen ty-live and thirty years, and then, with his savings, goes back to the Celestial empire a rich man in the eyes of his countrymen. MRS. FRANCIS PIERCE DIES, AGED NEARLY FOUR SCORE Two Sons Prominent in Educa tional and Church Circles Mrs. Francis Clark Pierce, wife of the late James Washington Pierce, and mother of Professor Edward T. Pierce, many years the president of the State Normal school here, and of the Rev. C. C. Pierce, pastor of Memorial Bap tist church, died yesterday afternoon following years of declining health. She was 79 years old. Since the death of her husband some years ago, she had lived with her only daughter, Mr.*. Catherine Wheat, 1307 West Ninth, where her death occurred. Mrs. Clark was born in Franklin, New York, December 4, 1881. She was married at an enrly age and lived there until the close of the civil war, in which Mr. Pierce fought until the close. Later the family moved west ward, coming to Los Angeles several years ago. Beside Professor Pierce and the Rev. C. C. Pierce, six other sons survive. They are Herbert, Robert W,, William H.. M. A., Fred E. Hnd C. W., all of wlvnn live in Los Angeles. Private funeral services will lie held at the residence Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Friends ate invited to call Tuesday and burial will take place Tuesday afternoon. COMPANY LETS CONTRACT FOR TWENTY-SIX DERRICKS Wealthy Philadelohians Aid North American Petroleum Project SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 18.—A contract lias been let by the North American Petroleum company for the construction of twenty-six standard derricks, together with various camp buildings, ,ii the Kramer-Baratow .dis trict, on the Mojave desert in this county. Work is to stnrt at once. Al ready five ear> of machinery and 25, --000 fct of lumber with ten mules are at Hawfs, m the Santa Fe tracks, live miles south of the field. Wealthy Philadelphia men are behind the North American company and *« pleaded are the directors with the re port of their Held engineers that twen ty-six derricks will be built at once. They will.all be on .section 10 of the Hiawatha district. A local syndicate) owns all "he school land for a radius of a number of miles about the field of the North American company. The first well is. to be put down within a tew miles of the Kramer Consolidated well, from which tools lost since Vriv have luft been recovered. The Kramer people claim that they have struck high prravity oil. R. C. Andre has the contract with the North American company and the agreement is on file in the county re corder's office. JOHN S. WILLETTS. NOTED POPULIST IN KANSAS, DEAD TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 18.—John S. W'illotts, thn first Populist candidate for governor of Kansas, who made a close but unsuccessful «aco aff.iinst Oovernor Lyman U. Humphreys In 1890, when the Farmers' Alliance was ■ruining tremendous headway in Knn ■a«, died suddenly at his homo at Mf- Louth, Kas., this afternoon. Death mi due to heart disease. The Populists always claimed thnt Willetts was "counted out" In 1890 when ho made the race for governor, and these charge! of election fraud helped in 159.» to bring about the elec tion of Lorenzo D. Lewelling. the first Populist governor the state ever had. MINING AND OIL MONTANA BREAKS RECORD IN PRODUCTION OF COAL Report from Geological Survey Shows Total of 2,553,940 Tons in 1909 Statistics compiled by tho United States g«o)ogiC&l survey in co-opera tion with the bureau of tho census show that the total production of coal in Montana in 1909 v as 2,553,940 short tons, having a spot value of $5,029,225. In this production the state sur passed all previous records, exceeding the earlier hlgliest output 2,016,{5&7 short tons, made In lUO7, by 537.053 short tons, or 20.6 per cent. Compared with IMS when the output «us 1,980,190 short tons, the production in 1909 showed an Increase of 683,760 short tons, or 33 per cent, and the value Increased in sliglit ly greater proportion, front $8,771,848 to 86,029,226, a gain of $1,257,977, or 33 1-3 per cent. The average price per ton was $1,117 in 180S, againit JI.UG I" 1808. Tin: Increase In production was general throughout the state, but the mosi im portant factor was the effect of devel opments in the Hull mountain Held, near BUllngS, In Yellowstone county. Prior to 1909 no commercial production had been reported from that county. The development of the Bull mountain field began in 190S, following the ad vent of tho Chicago, Milwaukee .fc Puget Sound railroad, and in 1009 the Held produced nearly 200,000 tons. I.AKGE INCKKASK IN I'KODLCTION The older coal producing districts .show large increases in production. Carbon county, In which the K<*d Lodge field is worked, Increased its output 181,663 short tons. The Cotton- I wood Belt district, in Cascade county, ; gained 14:!,41-' tons, but did not pro duce the amount mined in either 1906 or 1907. Fergus county, where the Ju dith basin Held is worked, showed the largest percentage of gain of the older counties, having increased its produc tion from 90.31.S short tons in 190S to 221,863 tons in 1909—a gain Of 131,345 tons, or nearly 150 per cent. Park county increased its production more j than 30 per cent—from 106,042 tons to 139,464 tons. Montana's notable increase in coal production was duo principally to tho revival of the metal mining indus try and to bountiful crops, which brought generally prosperous condi tions throughout the state. Mining operations were not interfered with by strikes, suspensions or lockouts, the only labor disaffection being one strike of "ten days' duration, and although there was some shortage of cars among the fruit and grain shippers, the coal mines seemed to have a sufficient supply for their needs. THE OK MIXINIi MACHINES In 1909 there were eighty-one mining machines used in the coal mines of Montana, and the machine-mined prod uct amounted to 740,686 short tons, or 29 per cent of the total output of the state These were Increases, as com pared With 1908. of twenty-three in the number of machines, and of 24,4tJ9 short tons In the quantity of coal un dercut with them. In 1907, 984,368 tons, or 50 per cent of the total, were ma chine mined. Of the eighty-one ma chines in use in 1909, seventy-one were pick machines, eight were of the chain breast type, one waa a "continuous cutter," or short-wall machine, and one was a pick shearing machine. Two of the machines were used in develop ment work and did not add materially to the machine-mined tonnage. According to J. R. McDerniott, state mine inspector, there have been firty pix fatal and 200 nominal accidents in the coil rrdnes of Montana during the last four years. Among these there were no fatal accidents due to explo sions, though fifteen were injured in such accidents. Nearly half of both the fatal and the non-fatal accidents were due to falls of roof and coal. FKVVEK ACCIDENT! RKI'ORTKD It is gratifying to rote that, al though the production of coal In Mon tana in 1909 Increased about 30 per cut over that in IMS. the number of fatal accidents decreased from twenty to eleven and the non-fatal accidents from fifty-eight to forty-four. Mr. Mc- Hcrmnß reports the production in 1909 at 2,541,679 short tons, indicating that for each life lost 231,062 tons were mined The death rate per thousand employes was 2.85. In 190S the death rate was 6.39 per thousand and the quantity mined for each life lost was 96.010 tons. The slight difference (about 12,000 tons) between til*- tonnage reported by Mr. MeDermott and that reported to tlv> geological survey and the census bureau Is prnbnbly due to the Inclusion by the latter of the production from small lor> il mines which do not come within the purview of the mine inspec tion laws. NEW PALMFR OIL WELL INCREASES ITS OUTPUT The Palmar oil company*« new well*, | Nob. 8B and 48, continue to Increase | in output as the sand clears. There is a heavy pas pressure In botli of Ilieni, more than HOO pounds to the inrh. nml they are expected to soon How a* much as well No. 2, which i.« j an ROOO-harrel a day (rusher. Tt In var'ably takea some little time to net | a won flowing In the Cat canyon dis-1 trict. All of the Palmer, the BrOOKS and the Dome wells have come in with a small output, and several of them have been on the pump for a couple of months before beginning to How. Interest in the Santa Mario Held la now centered on the Palmer Junior No. 1 well, which la down about 3000 foot and la expected to come in lit any mo ment The UrinßiiiK In of this well will prove a lan?e area of Palmer ter ritory in that vicinity. The drill has already passed through one stratum of pay sand of sufficient thickness and saturation to make? a jjonrl well. It Is believed that the lower pay streak will be thicker and of hirher saturation than it is farther soutlj in the big Palmer wells. KRAMER ON THE PUMP RAKERSPIKLiD. Dec. 18.—Despite contrary reports, the Santa Fe is said to be rapidly pushing ahead the devel opment work on the new oil field at Ilawes, nine miles south of Kramer, on the Mojave desert, and only a day or two ago a carload of drilling machinery was unloaded there by the railroad. A well ' versed oil man who cnme from Hawes Friday said that the old well in which the tools were lost some time ago was now on the pump, the tools having been recovered and that the well Is making a showing. The work In the vicinity of Kramer is also steadily progressing, lie Mid, and a showing of oil is expected within a short tiwo OAKLAND OIL PROMOTER HELD FOR COURT TRIAL Dr. C. Howard Merritt Accused of Making False Represen tations to Sell Stock SAN FRANCISCO, Pec. 18.—Dr. Cj Howard Merritt of Oakland, president of the Halwee Pacific Oil compenjj has been held by Judge Samuels ofJ Oakland for trinl before the. superior cpurt In Alameda county, charged with making false representations concern ing the company. These representa tions were Included in pamphlets which were circulated for the purpose of sell- Ing stOCK. Dr. Merritt's arrest was the result of an Investigation made by State Mineralogist Aubury. who sent agent! to the lana claimed by the Halwee Pacllic Oil company and also personally visited tho wells of the company. Complaints, so Aubury testified at the preliminary hearing, had been re ceived concerning the company an<l theso led him to make the investiga tion. He saw both wells of the com pany, and there was no indication that any commercial quantity of oil. if, in deed, uny, had been produced. The sand showed no discoloration such us would be produced by oil. Paul W. Prutzman, special represen tative of the California state mining bureau, testified that he visited the land claimed by the Hal wee Pacific Oil company, lie could not (Ind any thing to Indicate the existence of oil in the surrounding country adjacent, to the two wells of the Halwee Pacific, company. He saw no signs of any oil production from the wells. Dr. Merritt presented no testimony in his own behalf. His attorneys raised the point that the company's office was In Inyo county and that tho Ala meda courts had no Jurisdiction. Judge Samuels said that it appeared that enough had been done in Alamedn county to give jurisdiction, and ho ac cordingly held Merritt for trial, fixing the bond at $500. The prosecution was brought under the California act for the protection of stockholders. For making misrep resentations concerning a corporation, a penalty of imprisonment for not more than two years or a line not exceeding SJOOO, or both, is provided. ORDERS RIG MATERIAL The Santa Maria Midway Oil com pany has ordered the material and power for development work on Ita 320 acres of the Tepetquet rancho, and will soon spud in its first well. The Princess Oil company, on an ad joining holding, is down about SOO feet in well No. 1, and is making fine prog ress. 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