The Hanford Sentinel from Hanford, California • 1

NUMBER 38. Vice President Shermairis III THE FRATERNAL AID LODGES OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HOLD ANNUAL CONVENTION HERE KILLS WIFES IH WILSON AGAIN PASS LICENSI ORDINANCE FIRS! TIME R. Carr of LeGrand Elected President; 55 Accredited Delegates and Prominent Officers In Attendance This evening supper will be served at the hall, under the direction of Mrs. Tuttle, and tonight the regular council meeting in Dewey hall will be attended by the visiting delegates. The officers elected were as follows: Robert Eaton.

Tulare, past president; R. A. Carr, Le Grand, president; Edna Crayton, Tulare, vice president; R. W. Rice, Fresno, secretary; A.

Gustafson, Hanford, treasurer; Mrs. Farrell, Fresno, Champlain; M. G. Long, Hanford, observer; Mrs. Blair, Tulare, guide; Mr.

Tucker, Fresno, sentinel; Mrs. Rose Hill, Fresno, B. A. Cleveland, Tulare, T. R.

Ayers, Hanford, J. M. Marshall, Tulare, and M. F. Baker, Hanford, executive committee.

DEMOCRACY SAYS PROSPERITY CONTINUES DESPITE CERTAINTY OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY TAFT SAYS CALIFORNIA VOTERS DISFRANCHISED; COLONELS WOUND STILL OPEN IBy Associated Wess WEST CHESTER, Oct. 28. In the face of certain Democratic victory, prosperity throughout the country is going on uninterrupted, said Governor Wilson here today In Iiis Unit speech since resuming ids cainaigii after Roosevelt's shooting. PRINCETON, N. Oct.

28-Governor Wilson left here today for Philadelphia, speaking en route. He will deliver two addresses In that city tonight, the first he has made since Roosevelt was shot, and the Democratic nominee announced that he would retire from the platform until his opponent could again take up his speaking engagements. Wilson has planned a strenuous closing week of the campaign, most of his time to he spent In New York and New Jersey. TAFT PREDICTS DEPRESSION. By Associated PreBs WASHINGTON, Oct.

28 President Taft today made public a statement declaring that the four years of depression which followed the sec-oml election of Cleveland were due to the promise of tariff reform and the changes in the tariff made by the Democrats after Cleveland was elected. In conclusion the president said: Except in the where men of color are not allowed to vote, and in California and Kansas, where white, as well as colored, Republicans are for the present disfranchised, the ballot is free this year throughout the United States, ami that means that a large majority of the citizens qualified to vote will express their own free will at the polls November 5. WOUXD STILL OPEN. By Associated Press OYSTER BAY, Oct. 28 Theo-doore Roosevelt Is stronger today, but his bullet wound Is still open and he is not gaining strength as rapidly as his physicians had hoped he would.

He will go to New York Wednesday to deliver a speech In Madison Square garden and will return to Oyster Bay immediately after the speech. JOHNSON IN MAINE. By Associated Press PORTLAND, Oct. 28 Governor Johnson of California began today the tenth week of his campaign with a speech at Blddeford. He will later speak here and In other cities of Maine.

IBy Associated Press BUTTE, Oct. 28. Governor Marshall of Indiana, Democratic vice presidential candidate. Is devoting the day to campaigning in Montana. Ills last speech In the stale will be made at Roundup tonight.

ALLEGED HORSE TIIIEF IS CAUGHT AT COALIXGA. COALINGA. Oct. 2 8 Armed with a description of a horse and rig stolen from Fresno last Tuesday night, Eddie Burns, city marshal of Coalinga, apprehended and placed under arrest in Coalinga, a man who gave his name as Joe Wilson, and who later confessed to the theft, not only of the Fresno horse and buggy, but to the theft of a horse and buggy from Turlock last Sunday night. J.

C. Long of Lompoc is visiting with his brother, M. G. Long, of the Lakeside district. Weather Forecast CITY TRUSTEES MAKE NUMBER OF REDUCTIONS AND A FEW INCREASES.

lLACE HIGH TARIFF OX WINER-AXT BUSINESS AXI) SOLICITING AGENTS After thoroughly discussing the provisions of the new mercantile license ordinance at the special meeting Saturday evening, the city trustees affected considerable reductions in some of the rates, placed licenses on several new lines of business not covered In the original draft so that it now affects all lines of Industry or merchandising, and passed the or-dtSfeice at the first reading. At a mebting Thursday evening the ordinance will be passed at second reading if the amendments meet the approval of the board. Among the changes made Saturday night these might be mention-edjJJeduced general mercantile lice.1 for businesses where average monthly sales are under $300 from $8 to $5 per quarter; monthly sales $300 but under $600, $12 to $600 to $1200, $16 to $10; $1200 to $2000, $20 to $2000 to $5000, $30 to $19; $5000 to $40 to $25, $10,000 to $20,000, $5 to $31; $20,000 to $30,000, $60 to $30,000 and over, $80 to $50 per quarter. The licenses on horses used for propogation purposes for hire were reduced just half the amount originally designated. The rate on express wagons or dray business was cut from $6 a quarter $3 for each vehicle, all rigs to be equipped with numbers corresponding with the number on the license issued to it.

The pool nail license was cut from $6 to $3 per quarter for each table, and bowling alleys from $15 to $3 per quarter. The license for the water company was fixed at $25 per quarter. Pawn shop license was reduced from $30 to $25 per quarter; photograph galleries from $9 to $6 per quarter. Shooting gallery license was raised from $20 per quarter to $100 per year; bill posting from $6 to $10 per quarter. On ticket offices of railroads, the llcenitwas cut from $30 to $25 per quarter, payable in advance; flour or feed mill, $30 to $20 per quarter.

The license fee for conducting a daily newspaper was established at $20 per quarter, and for conducting a job printing establishment, $5 per quarter, swimming tank or Hamman paths, $10 per quarter; cleaning and feeing works, $5 per quarter; blackleg shoes, $3 per quarter for one man, $5 per quarter where more than one man is employed, temporarily or otherwise; bottling works, $25; barber shop, $3 per quarter for one chair and $1.50 per quarter for each additional chair. Itinerant traveling insurance men or solicitors not having regular fixed place of business in Hanford, will pay $20 instead of $30 per quarter or fraction thereof. For selling or selling from wagons any kind of meats, the license was reduced from $30 to $20 per quarter. Soothsayers, fortune tellers, will be required to pay $20 per month or fraction thereof. All through the ordinance the trustees have endeavored to place the license on itinerant businesses sufficiently high to discourage this class of competition with established business firms.

REVIVAL MEETINGS AT FREE METHODIST CHURCH. A RAGE VOUNG FARMER SHOOTS WHOLE FAMILY WHEN PERMISSION TO SEE HER IS REFUSED THEN HANGS HIMSELF TO TREE NEARBY; COUPLE HAD BEEN ESTRANGED IBy Associated Press SHEUOVGEN, Oct. 28. Alvin Roelir, a young fanner of Plymouth, today shot and killed his father-in-law, riiiUp J. Ott, and his mother-in-luw, hlrs.

Ott, and her father, Fred Hunt, when he was refused permission to see his wife, who was staying with her parents here and with whom the murderer had not been living of lute. Roehr's dead hotly later was found flanging to a tree near the scene of the tragedy. DECISIONS WITHHELD ON MANY IMPORTANT CASES By Associated Pressj WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The United States supreme court today advanced to December 2 the arguments in cases involving the constitutionality of the newspaper section of the postal appropriation law passed by the recent congress.

The court adjourned today without announcing expected decisions in the Union Pacific merger and other very important cases. BECKEWT EXPE6TIH6 GUI OF HEW TRIAL REGRETS HE DID NOT TAKE STAND IN OWN BEHALF By Associated Press NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Former Police Lieutenant Becker, convicted of the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, said today he did not expect a new trial and regretted that he himself failed to take the stand, Intimating that he believed his own testimony might have changed the jurys verdict. HANFOIU) WOMAN NEAR CENTER OF BALKAN WAR.

From Mrs. India C. Brown of this city, who is now touring Europe, The Journal has just received a copy of a Greek paper filled with scare heads evidently setting forth the latest developments in the war situation. Notwithstanding none but a Greek could make heads or tails of the printing, the paper is an interesting object. An idea of how acceptable foreign language in an Ameilran newspaper is to the native who speaks that foreign tongue may be had, however, from reading in the Greek papers a small advertisement of a London banking corporation, which Is published in Greek and then translated into English in a parallel column.

Judging by the receipt of this paper, Mrs. Brown must be close to the scene of the Balkan trouble, and in a position to obtain first hand information on the situation, as well as see many novel and absorbingly interesting patriotic scenes enacted. FUND INVESTIGATORS ADJOURN TILL AFTER ELECTION. WASHINGTON. Oet.

28 After hearing former Senator Albert J. Beveridge tell of returning $37,500 sent to him for campaign use in 1904, the senate campaign contributions committee adjourned Saturday Indefinitely. Chariman Clapp believes the committee will hold no! more hearings until after election. CUT OFF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FORTRESS AND THE TURKISH CAPITAL SERVIAN'S CAPTURE NUMEROUS TOWNS NEAR USKl'P AND MANY WAR SUPPLIES By Associated Press LONDON, Oct. 28.

In one of the greatest strokes of their campaign against Adrianople, the Bulgarians today succeeded in cutting off railroad communication between Adrianople, thus isolating the latter city and gaining a decidedly Important strategic advantage in their attack on the big fortress. A dispatch from Sofia says that the Bulgarians captured a military train in the vicinity of Euki-Baba, carrying troops and supplies for Adrianople from Constantinople. It is estimated that the allies have captured so far during the campaign 10,000 prisoners and 250 field guns. Civil governments are being established In the captured towns. Indicating the Intention of the allies to retain them.

SERVIANS ROUT TURKS. By Associated Press BELGRADE, Oct. 28. Servian troops have taken the towns of Mit-rovltza, to the north of Uskup, and Verlzovitz, capturing 15 cannon, 4000 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition. Other towns in that vicinity are reported as Burrending.

In their flight from Uskup the Turks abandoned their rifles and supplies. The flight was made In great disorder, and many Turks killed comrades in fighting for places on wagons and railroad cars leaving the town. lly Associated Tress VIENNA, Oct. 28 A bridge across the Tchorlu river was blown up by the Bulgarians yesterday, severing communication between Constantinople and Lulu Burgas. ALL GIVEN JAIL 8ENTENCE9, WITH COMMITMENTS WITHHELD; AGREE TO LEAVE Sheriff Farmer, District Attorney Irwin, Constable Gard and Marshal Humphreys swooped down on the house of 111 fame conducted by Hazel Williams of Lemoore Saturday night and arrested her, together with four Inmates of the house.

Miss Williams immediately went before Justice Light and furnished a bond, and the girls were brought to Hanford, where they pleaded gull ty to tho charge placed against them and were given 30-day sentences, with withheld commitments and all immediately left for greener pastilles. Miss Williams came up to Hanford this morning and pleaded guilty and was given a 90-day sentence, which also was withheld, and -she promised to get her personal effects and leave Lemoore at once. WIFE OF SELMA FARMER EXPIRES SUDDENLY. SELMA, Oct. 28.

While dressing for church yesterday morning Mrs. 1 E. A. wife of a wealthy rancher residing a mile from this city, dropped dead. Her demise was due to a blood clot formed on the brain so as to produce paralysis of the nerves governing the heart.

INSURANCE PAID. Clerk M. B. Washburn of the local camp of tne Woodmen of the World, today received from the head camp a check for $2000 in payment of the life insurance policy held in that lodge by the late Patrick Sweeney, who died about two weeks ago. The insurance was made payable to Mrs.

Sweeney. The annual convention of the San Joaquin valley district of the Fraternal Aid association is in session today at I. O. O. F.

hall, with about 55 delegates present and about 200 members in the hall enjoying the proceedings. The accrediated delegates were as follows; Tulare, 21; Hanford, 13; Fresno, 11; Le Grand, 1. The morning session consisted of tne appointment of committees and preliminaries, while this afternoon, following a luncheon in the lodge banquet hall, routine work was taken up In connection with the election of officers and their installation, which will take place late this afternoon. TESTIFIES TO M'MAXIGAL AND MNAMARA PLANNED DYNAMITLXGS AFTER TIMES JOB. By Associated Tress IND1ANUPOL1S, Oct.

28 Conferences between Ortie McManlgal, states witness, and Frank M. Ryan, president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were described by 11. F. Cook, a stenographer, at the dynamite conspiracy trial here today. The defense had maintained thut Ryan never had talked with McManlgal.

Other witnesses testified concerning dynamiting trips planned by McManlgal and J. J. McNamara after the Los Angeles Times explosion. PRIVATE CAPITAL WILL IMPROVE INDIAN HARBOR. By Associated Tress LONDON, Oct.

28 The project of improving the harbor of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies by a state-subsidized company has been abandoned and the work will be done by private capital, a large share of which is likely to be furnished by America. It was found that the government restrictions hampered the company and the Danish capitalists, headed by Prince Valdemar, have concluded to act as a private corporation. Under this new plan American capitalists are taking an active interest in the formation of the company, and it is quite likely that the directorate will be largely In their hands. HIGHWAY FROM lRENSO TO STANISLAUS DONE NEXT YEAR.

The awarding of contracts next month by Hie slate highway commission for 1 1 miles of roail In Merced county, will put all of the state highway between the city of Fresno and the southern boundary of Stanislaus county under contract. As each contract provides for the completion of the work In 300 working days, which makes a year, with holidays and Sundays, this means that by the first of December, 1913, the state highway between Fresno and the southern boundary of Stanislaus county will be completed. This Is a distance of approximately 70 miles. KICKED TO DEATH BY MULE HE WAS HARNESSING. FRESNO, Oct.

28 Peter Peterson, living at the corner of Hughes and Whites Bridge avenue, was kicked to death Saturday morning by one of Ids mules while harnessing the team in the barn for the days work. The accident was not witnessed by any one, but all evidences leave no doubt how he came by his death. 1 IMMEDIATE CRISIS IS NOT SOON APPREHENDED. By Associated Press UTICA, N. Y.f Oct.

Vice President James S. Sherman Is ill here, but an immediate crisis Is I not apprehended. b- TRIAL OF SEVERAL CASES POST- TONED; ARGUMENTS ON DEMURRERS HEARD At the law and motion session of the superior court today, Judge 'Co-vert made the following orders: Signed decrees settling the annual account of B. F. Thornton as guardian of the person and estate of Virgil Ray Bunn, a minor.

Struck from the calendar, by stipulation, the demurrer to the complaint in the case of Urias vs. Gosso. Overruled demurrers in the two cases of Green vs. Rock and Dodd vs. McKee, allowing 30 days in which to answer.

Sustained the demurrer to the complaint in the case of Ainsworth vs. Lee, giving 10 days to answer. Taxed costs in Rybitzki vs. Talent case as $11.20, as filed. Overruled, after argument, the demurrer to the complaint in the case of Shackleford vs.

Shackleford, giving 30 days to answer. Postponed the following cases: Morton vs. Hardwick Side Ditch company to November 26; J. Hein-len company vs. Empire Investment company to January 14; Silano vs.

Casella to January 14, all by stipulation and consent of counsel. Tomorrow the court will be occupied with the continuance of the trial of the case of Empire Investment company vs. Mort and Wagy, and it is expected that the case will be finished tomorrow. IV. E.

Hilt is back in Hanford attending to business affairs, after an absence through the summer, during wliieh he visited Nevada and northern California. PROTEST AGAINST THE CHANGING OF YEHBA 6UENAT0 GOAT ISLAND By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oet. 28. The Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, the San Francisco chamber of commerce and the directors of the Panama-Pacific exposition today united In a protest against the action of the United States geographic board in changing the name of Yerba Buena island, in San FranciS'-o bay, to Goat Island. ELKS HOLD INITIATION.

At the meeting of Hanford lodge of 'Elks Saturday night two candidates were initiated and important business of the lodge transacted. The attendance was large. I YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED AT LOS ANGELES AND BODY LEFT NEAR LAKE By Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. 1 The body of a young woman found near Silver lake yesterday, evidently murdered, was today identified as the remains of Miss Tessie McCarthy, who has been missing three weeks.

No clue as to her murderer has yet been obtained by the police. GOVERNOR-GENERAL IS EXILED FROM SIDNEY. LBy Associated Press LONDON, Oct. 28 Lord Den- man, the governor-general of Australia, has been practically expelled from Sydney by the authorities of New South Wales, and the matter haB caused some hard things to he said of tiie Australian state in England. Personally Lord Denman has had nothing to do with the dispute which has caused his eviction from the official residence, and he is the victim of a quarrel between the state and federal ministers.

The commonwealth wanted to start a postal savings bank, but as this would have competed with the existing state bAnk, the state authorities opposed tile idea bitterly. To bring pressure to bear on the federal authorities a means was found in the threat to resume possession of government house, the residence of Ihe governor general, which is state property. The excuse was given that the grounds were needed for a park and the house for a museum. At any rate, tho governor general was compelled to seek now quarters in Melbourne, and on his departure the mayor of Sydney piesenled him wilh an address expressing the regret and Indignation of the citizens the circumstances of his departure. WIFE OF UAPT.

THOMPSON OF TULARE, NlHCUMItS. TULARE, Oct. 28 Mrs. Lucy W. H.

Thompson, wife of Captain Thos. H. Thompson, a real estate dealer of this city, died at her home here at one oclock Saturday morning, following an illness which has lasted for several years. Perhaps no woman in this city was more widoly known. The deceased was a native of Illinois, being horn In Dundee, June 1, 1842.

On January 1, 1863, she married Captnln Thompson. There were three children. One died In Infancy, and the other two, Mrs. Lucy JoneB and Mrs. Sara Rllliet, are well known in this city.

For the last 10 years practically the deceased had been an Invalid. The funeral was held Sunday from the residence at two oclock. The fervid and stirring appeals of Rev. Graves; the Intense feeling and i deep convictlonse of the people; the yftoima well filled, with no empty seats these are evidences that the meetings are growing In Interest. We can enlarge our audience room, so as to make room for 100 more.

Tell your neighbors and come. D. W. HART, Pastor. Special Dispatch to The Journal FRESNO, Oct.

28. Forecast for Hanford and vicinity: Generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday; slightly wanner to night. RONNETT..