CHURCH QUARREL APPEAL TO BOARD FOR ENDS IN A …

Rev. W. D. Landis

MINISTER SEPARATES TWOx\ COMBATANTS

PASTOR SEPARATES FIGHTING MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1905.

Los Angeles Herald.BLIND MAN PITEOUSLY PLEADS

FOR CHANCE TO EARN A LIVING

City News

APPEAL TO BOARDOF SUPERVISORS

Second Section

ditions have arisen at the schools be-

cause the streets are not cared* for.Associated with Chairman Hampton onthe committee in charge are Messrs.E. W. Hovey, Graham Smith, AY. T>.Fuller and Paul. G. B. Murphy lastnight was appointed to serve on thecommittee.

CHURCH QUARRELENDS IN A FIGHT

FALLS THIRTY FEET TO DEATH

PROSPECT PARK RESIDENTSIN MASS MEETING

Rev. W. D, Landis Acts as Peace.

maker In Corridor of Court House

When Members Come

to Blows

Special Committee Reports That Gra-

ham Was Willing to Meet Only

the Chairman— Condition

of Schools Discussed

The provisions of the ordinance weregone into and It was found that noreference was made to the blind orthose that tried to earn their living,however small their business might be.With the assurance of the council thathe and the blind people he representedwould not be molested in plying theirvocations "Blind Johnny" left thecouncil chamber in a much happierframe of mind than he had entered it.1

His words were simple and hisphraseology unpolished, but they strucka deeper note Inthe hearts of the coun-cllmen than the sonorous rhetoric andpolished periods of the most eloquentaltorneys who have appeared beforethat body in large numbers lately. .';\u25a0

"Don't take our little living awayfrom we poor, blind people,'.' said"Blind Johnny." "We have a hardenough fight as it is to get enough toeat and keep some kind of a roof overour heads. There are not more thansix blind people in the town that maketheir livingon the streets, and the onlyway we can do it Is to sell fruit andlead pencils or maybe play the hand-organ. Ithas been said of us that wemake as high as $12 a day, but that isa false report. Itis nip and tuck withus all the time and it generally lookslike 'tuck' was going to win." ,

md he made his appeal direct to him,although the chief executive was in hisoffice at the other end of the hall. .

The entire community probnhly willreceive the board and personally con-duct the members over the highways.Speakers last night said unhealthy con-

The special committee reportedthrough Chairman Hampton that Su-pervisor Graham had declined to meetthe, full committee, although; he hadconsented to look the ground over withthe chairman. Accordingly the residentsdetermined to appeal directly to theboard and a resolution invitingthe su-pervisors to inspect the conditions Inthe district was adopted unanimously.

A mass jmeeting •of ]Prospect parkresidents was held last night at thechurch and ina calm nnd orderly man-ner those in attendance went aboutbringing affairs officially to the noticeof the supervisors.

The entire board of supervisors willbe asked ito visit the, Prospect parkdistrict and inspect the conditions aathey exist under the supervision of oneof their number

—AlGraham.

The address of welcome willbe deliv-ered by Past Grand Master Jnmes A.Foshay, the response to which willbeglv^n hy rjrand Master Flint.

Following the formal program re-freshments will be served and the?evening willbe spent In dancing.

The Masons of the city and county ofLOs Angeles will joinIn giving a recep-

tion tomorrow night at the Armory

hall to M. H. Flint, who was recently

elected to the office of grand master ofthe Masons of California.

Masons of the City and County WillI

Join In the Recep-tion

HONOR GRAND MASTER FLINT

While transferring bales of hay froma stack in the yards of the Los An-geles Hay and Storage compsiny at 1620East Seventh street yesterday after-noon, William Floiiter fell from the tor>of the stack to the ground, a distanceof, 30 feet. He was killed instantly, thstkull being crushed.

Little Is known of the man, as hehad. been in the employment of theStorage company but a short time. He

is said to be single, but neither his cityaddress n»r that of his relatives, Ifhehas any, is known. An inquest will be

held over the body this morning at 9o'clock.

William Floater Steps Off a Hay.

stack and Is Killed In.. ; stantly <

Mrs. W. P. Fleming, the famous wo-man astronomer at the Harvard obser-vatory, has discovered a new star aithe tronslent variety known to astrono-mers as Novae. Since 1572. when thefirsIstar was discovered, only fourteensuch stars have been found, eight ofwhich are credited to' Mrs. Fleming.

,In the high falsetto voice which is

familiar to every resident of Los An-geles and which seems as much a part

of the business life of Spring, andBroadway as the whirrand whiz ofthe electric cars "Blind Johnny" madehis plea, turning In every direction inorder to be certain that at least partof hiß words would be heard. Onp ofthe most pathetic features was that hebelieved the mayor was In the room,

Every winter the streets of Los An-geles are lined with beggars who sta-

tion themselves on the sidewalk, anddisplaying their deformities plteouslybeg for aims. In order to keep thestreets free from this unpleasant fea-ture the council last Monday orderedthe city attorney to draw up an or-dinance making It a misdemeanor forcripples to beg on the streets.

Some one had told "Blind Johnny" ofthis action and he believed that thescant livinghe was able to pick up from

selling fruit and playing the hand-organ on the streets was being legis-

lated away from him by a body of menIn possession of all their faculties andwho were not compelled to take thought

for how on the morrow they should eatnor wherewithal they should be clothed.

The sympathies of the members ofthe city council were stirred to the coreyesterday morning by the appeal of"Blind Johnny" Taylor, who appearedbefore that body and pleaded with themembers to not pass the ordinancemaking it a misdeameanor for thelame, the halt and the blind to procuretheir living from pedestrians.

FATHEE AWAEDED CUSTODY OPLITTLE MAKGUERITE THOMAS

Three- Year-Old Plays About Court Room SingingNursery Rhymes- Until Court Decides

Grandparents Must Give Her Up

As the parties to the case filed outInto the hall two of them, said to havebeen M. B. Golden, clerk of the church,and W. M.Williams, a former member,began an argument of their own. Thena blow was given And- the two menfought. Dr. Landis,

'who was near,

Jumped between the combatants andseparated them Just as officers came up.No arrests were made, but the incidentseemed to create a more bitter feelingamong the warring church members.

ATTORNEY IS FINED $200

The proposed change of name cameup before Judge Wilbur yesterday.There was only time to take some otthe evidence and the case was thencontinued but not until there had beenhard words passed between the mem-bers present.

'When papers for this change were

filed in the superior court the congre-gation divided. The question. was takento the church court and as soon an thedecision of the superior court is ob-tained the congregation will have toanswer to their own judges. ;.' \u25a0 ;

While the church was in this stattthe minister and the board of directorsdecided to change the name to that ofthe Westlake Presbyterian church.

Name Is Changed

The Cumberland church was scratch*«d from the Los Angeles presbytery'sbooks and the organization did not wishto continue under the same name, as it."would cause confusion.

The church was Incorporated about,ten years ago as a factor of the Los An-geles preßbytery. Some months ago it\u25a0was decided to transfer allegiance tothe presbytery of the United States and\u25a0when this transfer was made, thetrouble bagn.

The congregation of the CumberlandPresbyterian church, however, 'is., di-vided as to the change of name andmore trouble is feared.

It was first rumored that the parsonhimself had been taking a hand in thefighting game, but this the minister in-dignantly denied and deputies, who wereon hand at the time of the fight ana•who alleged that the minister had beenfighting, later asserted that it was theminister who stopped the light.

As the result of a quarrel originatingover the proposed change of the nameof the Cumberland Presbyterian., churchtwo members of the Congregation en-gaged in a fistic combat in the corridorof the third \floor of 'the court house

yesterday morning and were Separatedonly by the valiant efforts of their jjjis-tor, Rev. WilliamD.Landis.

Wallace W. Wldeman Declared byJudge Smith to Be In Con.

tempt of Court

IIAttorney Wallace W. Wideman was

tried on a charge of contempt of court;before Judge Smith in department 1ofthe superior court yesterday and was

•fined $200 with the alternative of goingto Jail for 100 days. ,. :,..\u25a0..:.\ The charge against Wideman wasbrought by David C. Wilson of SaniPedro, who appeared as plaintiffin the..prosecution of Hannibal Spencer, amulatto boy, several weeks ago. Wide-inan defended the negro, and Wilsonalleges that the young attorney ap-proached him and gave him $20 to dropthe case.IHe admitted yesterday that he hadnllowed Wideman to buy him drinksand a supper without the slightestqualmß of conscience and that he hadrefused $40 which he. alleged the at-torney offered him. He failed, how-ever, to give any definite explanationas to why he had followed Attorney.Wallace Wideman around during oneentire day and whyhe finallyaccepted$20 and signed a receipt for thatamount.

He explained that he had taken thecheck in order to produce itin court asevidence that Spencer, whom he accusedof having robbed him, ,was guilty,butwhere the connection came in the at-torneys were unable to find out. .: ;

fl "You. have held this court in con-tempt, Mr. Wideman," said JudgeSmith, "andIwill fine you $200, to bepaid within the next ten days."

Wideman willtake his case before thedistrict court. of appeals today. Hisattorneys state they have a good chancefor a reversal and they will fight forsuch a verdict from the higher courtIn order to completely clear their client,of any charge against him.

"We were all present 'at her bedsi.Jeat that time. She held her haby closeto her for one last embrace, and thenshe handed it•to her mother. 'Takecare of my baby, mother,' she said. 'Iwant her to live with you always andyou to be her guardian.' She said thatwe should dress her baby In blue orwhite for the next seven years and we

"The child was left to us by Itsmother," said the grandfather of littleMarguerite.

"My daughter, Frances K. Davies,

was married to Thomas InPeoria. Theylived together happily until the babywas born, and nineteen days after littleMarguerite's birth her mother died.

Representatives of the grandparents'side of the case were the first to becalled.

LittleMarguerite was a veritable pic-ture of the fair field flower for whichshe had been named. Her clothing fromhead to foot was of the finest lace andlinen and of Immaculate whiteness.Her pretty little head, covered with atumble of golden curls, fairly repre-

sented the heart of a marguerite, an.lshe waved a doll In the air with onehand while she led an Imaginary or-chestra withthe other.

Left Baby With Her Mother

When the Thomas case was calledyesterday afternoon the courtroom wasthronged withfriends of the contendingparties. Peter Davies and his wife of

Monrovia represented one side of thecontesting family and Orvllle H.Thomas, representative of one of thebig eastern railroads, appeared as thesole supporter of his own claim to his

baby.The little one took no interest in the

court proceedings which were to settlo.the destiny of her life. She had beenshuffled about in the deck of excite-ment too long to pay any attention to alittle thins like a court trial, so sh<»stood up in one of the uncomfortablecourt chairs, kicked .her lively littleheels against the woodwork and gurglelat the Judge and her warring relatives.

The father had seen- his little oneonly once since she was taken from himnearly three years ago, but the babycooed and both were happy.

At the close of one of the bitterestfamily quarrels in the history of the

local legal affairs, Judge Conrey of de-partment 5 of the superior courtgranted the custody of little 3-year-oldMarguerite W. Thomas to her fatherlate yesterday evening, while the dis-,appointed grandparents of the little oneleft the courtroom, the baby ,clutchedat her father's hair and laughed a" con-tented littie laugh •and seerh'ed;satisfiedwith her new friend.

It was the question of baby lingeriethat stumped every man in the court-room, "and the only way out of thedifficulty was to put the baby underheavy bond and send her home withher grandparents until tomorrow, whenwith her trunk packed tight withcloth-ing she will start back across the con-tinent to her new. home.

But a:question arose at the last mo- .'merit -which even the attorneys with \their great books of rules and laws were .unable to settle. There was not a tech- <

nlcallty nor a loophole for the able'

attorneys to escape through and they |finallygave up in distress. (

The court ruled for the father andthe.grandparents and their adherentswept while the baby trudged over to itsnew guardian and expressed a willing-ness to go with him.

Thomas was married. again recently,but he asserted that hi would be ableto provide a much better home for hisbaby than its grandparents could andthat the child belonged to him.

The father took the stand in his ownbehalf late in the afternoon. He ad-mitted having sent but little for thesupport of his baby, but contended thathe wanted Marguerite with him. Heasserted that when he arrived In LosAngeles several weeks ago and askedfor his baby, the relatives of the littleone carried her away and kept her inhiding for several days. \u25a0'*'•.'

It was a'breach of court etiquette forwhich any attorney »in Los Angeles,despite -his popularity with the bench,would have been fined, but no attemptwas made to fine the baby and she madepretty mouths from a pair of tiny rose-bud lips at the big bailiff and sang alittle nursery song. The tune was notexactly in proper key, but the witnessstopped, the attorneys ceased theirassault of technicalities and the courtgave ear until that song was finished.

Child Given to Father

jjThe father thought differently andsut watching the progress of the case,while. the animated legacy crawledabout over the

'witness , stand to the

edge of the bench platform, where sheseated herself comfortably and pro-ceeded to dance her dolly up and downon the carpet of the courtroom. ,

"We have heard very little of herfather and he has sent only about $16during, the baby's life for- her suppori..Marguerite

-was left to us for us to

take care of, and .we, want to providefor her as long as we can."

'

"When the mother died we camewest. Marguerite was too young tostand so severe a trip as that, so heraunt stayed with her until she was 7months old, and then she was broughtto U3 in California.

have kept that last promise to theletter. • .

DOG LEADS LOST GIRL HOME

CAR AND WAGON COLLIDE POLICE CAPTURE BAD NEGRO

INeighbor's Pet Enables Little Edith

Levy to Find Her Mother'sHouse

: Dazed and confused by the busy humof the city and the new BurroundinpsT^year-old Edith Levy of 726 SouthFlower street wandered about In the

"vicinityof her home for several hourslast evening and in all probabilityIwould nave been unable to find her

\u25a0 way had it not been for a familiar dogVln "the neighborhood.. , EArly in the evening the little girl,

was seat to the market by her mother.When she wished to return home she

fcould 1not find the way. The child/itrayed from'place to- place until at/last spying acanine that belonged to a-

neighbor she followed It and was led:to her home.

NEGRO DIES, AGED 133 YEARS Itappears that he came to this city,married a woman named Mrs. Thomp-son and has since lived here in hiding.ItIs now believed by the police that hemay be connected with several loqalJobs. Not having sufficient evidence tohold the man the local officers turnedhim.over to the San Bernardino author-ities last evening.

Two years ago, while serving a jailsentence for a felony, Johnson wastaken HI and .was sent to. the countyhospital, While there the negro jumpedfrom the window and escaped. Thepolice believe that after escaping John-son-robbed a band and three houses.

William Johnson, a negro long wantedby.the San Bernardino police on variouscharges, was arrested by PatrolmanGlenn yesterday afternoon. Within ashort time after the arrest the policewere in possession of considerable in-formation regarding the prisoner'scareer.

San Bernardino Authorities, Ar-rested In Los Angeles

William Johnson, Long Wanted by

Griffithwas hurled high into the airand struck .on hie back and shoulders.He was found unconscious by a patrol-

man who sent him to the receiving hos-pital. Itwas found that the man wassuffering from a slight cut on the faceand head and from shock. . _

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David Griffith, brother of Griffith J.Griffith, the man who donated Griffithpark to the city and who is now serv-ing a sentence In San Quentin forshooting his wife In the eye ina quar-rel at Santa Monica two years ago, washurled thirty feet from his expresswagon In a collision at Washington

and Union streets about 10 o'clock lastevening and sustained slight injuries..Griffith was driving on WashingtonBtreet and when he neared Union streeta car came up behid'him. The wit-

nesses to the affair say that the mo-torman rang the gong loudly and Grif-fith seemed to hear him. Of a suddenthe man swerved into the tracks andthe collision followed.

When Electric Strikes Rearof Vehicle

David Griffith Hurled Thirty Feet

Busses,Like imps and elves they light,thorn-

selves!Who ever flaw such cusses?. r—Portland Oregonian, ;

The Bellicose JapsMy!those Japs are curious chaps, .\u25a0•.

For since they cannot neht \u25a0 the

Wright

There was a man whose name wasWright,

Who always stayed out late at wnlghtUntil he wed,And now, 'tis sed,

A* wnlirht he never leaves her wslgrht.\u25a0 . . . >—Chicago Chronlola.

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Caroline Rogers, Born In 1772, HasSaid She Was Married V v \u25a0

•:Fifteen Times \u25a0\u0084"\u25a0'"1 Caroline Kogers • aged 133 years,

probably the oldest woman in the-\u25a0\u25a0Wkirid, 'died at her home at 1205 South'Alameda street last night. , She was

S a negress, born In Alabama in1772, andwas a slave for sixty years precedingthe Civil War..

She was active until about a weelcbefore her death, doing all her ownwork about the house where.she lived.Bhe said, she had been married fifteentimes. Her last husband died years ago.-

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