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Singe ie THURSDAY MORNING. DTJNE 26, 1913. IP ART TZ Times Camp Opens. WANTS OPTCM MONEY. 8 This atera will eloaa all dav Julv 4th.

and all tiiiKt SATURDAY WILL BE A BIG DAY AT CATALINA. ScoMd's Semi-Annual Sale of -t 4 JTf 317.32ft ,31 322, Trimmed Hats at SQ BROADWAY 'SQMUSTlggT ST A.FUSENOTCOJ most, we have provided plenty of competent help to look out for them. The sanitary conditions of the camp, are excellent and the food of the very best. While visiting Avalon come up and inspect the camp. Tou are always welcome.

The Catallna band opened the summer season last Saturday in the amphitheater. The concert every evening Is one of the delights of the island resort After a day of hard play, a good wash and an equally good din Last Week of Semi-Annual Clearance ner, the music In the evening Just quiets a fellow's nerves for a good night's sleep. The Times Camp boys go in a body to hear the band. This morning it was cloudy and dis THE EOTS are getting anzloua aa the day draws near for the opening of The Times Camp. They re constantly packing and unpacking their clothes.

All they talk about Is Jwhat they will do on the boat, how they will light Into that dinner, how they intend to catch the first goat tod win the prize offered for the feat, and how they will lead their team in the race for the Dyas-Cllne trophy. In the next minute they have decided to be fishermen and work to catch the largest fish so as to carry home the Tufts-Lyons silver cup. Then as Boon as they remember the handsome kodak offered by the Howland Dewey Company they all turn into camera fiends. Beautiful views, Unique pictures and athletic scenes completely fill their minds. However, from past experience we believe every fcoy will enter into every contest with Ul his might and every game will be strenuous and full of fun.

All prizes will be on exhibition at the camp. We wish to assure the mothers and lathers that the boys will receive the (very best of care. We fully appreciate your anxiety in letting your boy go away from home; we have boys of cur own. With this thought upper This sale, which has become an established custom of Scofield'e, Is bigger and broader this year than ever before buying for two stores 'enabled Scofield's to purchase these hats at exceedingly low prices-many of them actually worth $15 all being offered at $5, regardless of former values. agreeable in town.

At Catalina it was bright and warm, the air just One of the many interesting features offered during, the last week of this important clearance is the Sale of Novelty Dresses, right for playing ball and the water perfect for swimming. Bathing suits will be passed out to the boys as soon as thev arrive end thev will hit the briny with a yell that will be heard across the channel. Get in tnis, hove th camn is onen all summer. Turn Jn elx new subscriptions and for Summer Wear 1 win a four-day trio. The more you turn in the longer you can stay.

Even rteaucea prices range if you are froinsr somewhere else we first part of the summer, don't miss this trip. Come In or write for Illustrated circular and subscription blanks. Fix the Blame. WOMEN SEEK DEATH. Two of Them Try Unusual Means OSTRICH-PLUME-TRIMMED HATS Black Neapolitan shapes, trimmed with beautiful Ostrich Plumes, black or white, values tip to $12.50, are being offered during this sale at the remarkably low price of $5.

All of these hats are in the latest season's modes some of them made with white messaline crowns styles especially pleasing, and values unequaled anywhere in Los Angeles at this price. NQUIRY INTO I BEACH HORROR. $22.50 $25.00, $35.00 Handsome lingerie dresses made of plain and fancy crepes. In all white and combinations of white and color. These are exquisite creations and are artistically designed and elaborately embroidered or trimmed with lace.

The savings are 1 3 a Chinese Bring Salt Against Govern ment Officers to Recover Cash Appropriated After Arrests. The United States District Court has been called on to determine whether money used in the purchase of a contraband article can be appropriated by the government Suit was brought yesterday by Chew Toon, a Chinese, against Charles W. Salter, a clerk in the Customs Department; Frank E. Johnson, a special agent of the Treasury Department and Collector of Customs, Pendleton to collect $1100. alleged to be the personal property of Chew Toon, but now In the hands of the Collector of Customs.

In April of last year, Jose Arcaverde and a Mexican boy. Joe Fuentes, brought a consignment of opium across the border and delivered It to Chew Toon and Horn Tee here. Fuentes became an Informer. After delivery of the stuff to the Chinese, the money was paid to the defendants, and by direction of the United States District Attorney, was held as evidence. Arcaverde and Chew Toon pleaded guilty and served a term in the County Jail.

Horn Tee, tried before a Jury In Judge Rudkin's court was acquitted. The evidence showed that $1100 was paid by Horn Tee, but Chew Toon now claims it. RENEW LIQUOR LICENSES. Police Commission Give Wholesale and Retail Houses and Restaurants and Breweries Continuances. The Police Commission yesterday afternoon renewed the permits of all liquor establishments In the city where permits are not continuous until revoked.

This puts such permits in good standing for another fiscal year, unless they are revoked for cause. Under the direct control of the Police Commission there are 408 of these permits, and these, with the winery and brewery permits, bring the city a yearly revenue of $479,940. The list Includes 199 retail licenses, with six at San Pedro and two at Wilmington, at a monthly license fee each of $100, making per month, or $238,800 per year; nine hotel bars, at $250 per month, totaling $2250 per month, or $27,000 per year; twenty-eight No. 1 class restaurant liquor permits, at $100 per month, bringing $2800 per month, or $36,600 per year; sixty No, 2 class restaurant liquor permits, at $50 per month, bringing $3000 per month, or $36,000 per year; twenty social clubs, each paying $25 per month, or a total of $500 per month, and $6000 per year; three breweries, at $100 per month paying to the city $300 per month and $3600 per year; thirty-two wineries, at $10 per month each, or $320 a month and $3840 per 151 free lunches in drinking places, paying $25 each per month, or a total of $3775 per month and $45,300 per year, and ninety-two wholesalers, paying $75 each per month, totaling $6900 per month, and $82,800 per year. DRUG FIENDS USE HEROIN.

Is a More Deadly Poison Than Either Morphine or Cocaine and Is a Body Wrecker at All limes. Philadelphia North American: The abuse of heroin began about three years ago. It soon became the most dangerous recourse of the slaves of cocaine, morphine and opium. The use of heroin was not confined to the underworld. The drug spread its tentacles until they were fastened upon all walks of life.

Users of the drug "sniff It," and the effect is as rapid as cocaine. The natural form of the drug is pure white crystals, but it is frequently sold in tablet and powder form. It is known as heroin hydrochloride. It Is the hydrochlo- BRAND JURY INVESTIGATES THE i EMPIRE DAY DISASTER. to he End Without.

Avail bands Blamed. Two women made futile attempts to die yesterday. Chloroform saved the life of Mrs Josefa Condelarlos of No. 1508 San Pedro street. With suicidal intent she prepared to take the chloroform and top this with a dose of laudanum.

The chloroform rendered her unconscious before she could take the laudanum. Although but 22 years old, she is the mother of four children and the wife of a man whose cruelty she says drove her to distraction. Mary Weiss, another disheartened wife, of No. 122 West Fourteenth street, planned a death method that was a direct slap at the high cost of dying. She used a nickel's worth of sulphur matches In a glass of water, drinking the concoction.

Both women were rushed to 'the Receiving Hospital. Councilman, Chairman of Celebra-! tion Committee and Resort Mayor Among Witnesses Inquisitors Would Fix Responsibility for 1 Crowded Condition of Pier. 1 large ana range irom to SM mm Scofield's Store at 735 Broadway is on the second floor entrance' through Zuber Robinson's. The $5 Trimmed Hat Sale Is at both Scofleld Stores. 1111 IP I per dress, according to the original price.

A few dresses in the collection show even greater reductions. Clearance Prices on Chamois Gloves Natural color chamois gloves with either 1 button or I clasp. Reduced to 75c pair. This large reduction is made because the assortment of sizes is broken. am SBsar m.

mm mmmmw- TneMillinery 352 BROADWAY TWO STORES 735 BROADWAY 4t -I An Investigation which will be as Sweeping as possible In order to determine, the responsibility for the tremendous loss of life when the municipal pier collapsed at Long each on Empire Day was started by the Grand Jury yesterday. Practically all of the witnesses who testified at the Coroner's inquest will called. The witnesses yesterday were Councilman John Topham, G. IW. L.

Young, chairman of the Empire Day Celebration Committee, Mayor Thomas Hatch of Long Beach and Samuel II. Fisher. The Grand Jury adjourned until tomorrow, when James Knight, (Thomas White and Thomas Adney, nembers of the Empire Day Celebration Committee, will testify. All of yesterday was devoted to inquiring into the construction of the pier and other details which tend to develop responsibility for the prowdlng of hundreds at the doors of the Auditorium and the possible failure to Inspect the structure previous to the assemblage. In its outward effect upon th vt.

tlm heroin has much the Ham; euuci as its mother, morphine. The face of the 'user becomes drawn and sallow and the pupils of the eyes are re CAN'T STAY FREE. mmmmmmmmm Man Three Times in Tolls Arrested Again on Worthless Check Passing Charge. H. M.

Holmes, alias H. M. Hodge, alias Charles Jones, can't stay out of prison. He was arrested yesterday by Patrolman O'Connor for having attempted to pass a worthless check for $12 at a drug store at Sixteenth and Hoover streets. The check was drawn in favor of H.

M. Holmes and signed by the Haas-Bar uch Company. the name of Hodge, Holmes was sentenced to Foisom Prison in 1 903 after having passed a forged check in Los Angeles, At the end of his two-year term he dabbled again In fictitious signatures and was sentenced at San Francisco for a term of seven years In San He was released from, that institution on March 13 of this year. Holmes was arrested here a few months ago on a charge of having placed his wife in a disorderly house, but there was not enough evidence to convict and he was released. Clearance Prices on Table Linens 68-inch feleached Linen Damask, Sale price, yd.

duced to the size of pinheads. Cocaine, on the contrary, flushes the face and gives the eyes a glassy effect Heroin sets about the wrecking of 75c 95c ride ester of morphine." An ester is a wholly organic compound produced by the action of various acids. Its crystals resemble those of sugar rather those of chalk. In medicine it is used to produce a sleep. It has frequently been prescribed as sedative suitable for people constitutionally unfitted for morphine.

Like morphine, heroin first excites and in a measure exhilarates. (That stage Is succeeded by one of sleep and then by profound There is always a danger of an overdose. Morphine users can increase the dose as their system craves the drug. Users of cocaine can saturate their systems with cocaine. Not so with heroin.

There is always danger that if the dose is increased day by day death will follow quickly. 72 -inch Bleached Linen Damask, Sale price, yd. 72-inch Bleached Linen Damask, Sale price, yd. 72-inch Bleached Linen Damask, Sale price, yd. KM A T'M 18 no a.

fat, 1 tfi: .1 4 I y4'i fiiit ioe i r. 'i Is fn 1,, vt the mind and body with fiendish persistence and cruelty. The character and will power of the user Is broken; the imagination becomes distorted and the victim is soon ripe for any crime. The bodily tissues waste away and vitality sinks to a low ebb. The craving for the drug soon becomes more powerful and insistent than the craving for morphine, cocaine or opium.

45x45 Linen Breakfast Cloths $1.15 54x54 Linen Breakfast Cloths 63x63 Linen Breakfast Cloths 22x22 Hemmed Linen Napkins, Sale price, doz. $2.25 24x24 Linen Damask Napkins, Sale price, doz. $3.50 LOP OFF OWN SALARIES. Members of Board of Supervisors Reduce from Five to Three Thous and Dollars Because of Question. The members of the Board of Su IREAL pervlsors reduced their salaries from $5000 a year, as provided In the new to $3000 a year as provided by the State law.

"Fair Warning" Close Call Our Big Removal Sale The question is whether the State law or the new charter control in the matter led to the action. Consider able discussion has arisen in various "EEEK CLEWS IN HILLS. Casa Verdugo Killing Baffles the i Searchers Who Scour, the Country I Far and Wide in Vain. Deputys sheriffs returned late last night from the hills back of Casa Verdugo, with not a scrap of evidence tending to establish the identiy of the woman slain there Sunday. The pearch will be continued today under the personal direction of Sheriff S-Iammel.

The body of the unidentified victim (was brought to the city and placed in the Button mortuary yesterday, where fifty persons endeavored to Identify it. Clothed as in life the remains of the unfortunate woman was aubjected to scrutiny by the morbidly curious as well as those who reallv Ihoped to recognize the victim. Mrs. Grace L. Gurtner, proprietress of a rooming house at No.

413 Vt West Seventh street, injected a little Interest in the investigation by her Statement that the description of the twoman tallied with that of a roomer iwho disappeared from her home the iday of the murder. Later In the day, however, this clew was run down and found devoid of tangible results. MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM. Santa Monica Club Boosting for I Place Hold Conventions Dudley Not Seeking Mayoralty. I SANTA 1 MONICA, June 25.

A movement was started today by the foembers of the Greater Santa Monica (Club to ask the City Council to call an election to bond the city for the building of a $35,000 municipal auditorium adjoining the municipal pier. quarters regarding this, and atten tion was called to the fact that the Supervisors of this county were aD- Closes With June parently very ready to take the higher salary. "In view of these things and in order to settle the matter once and for all we decided to reduce the amount due each member of the board and then have It tested in court before returning to the higher emolument," said Chairman Prldham, perhaps the most ardent supporter of the ordinance of reduction. There was only one dissenting vote that of Norton, wno stooa strong for the $5000 salary: not so much for the money, he said, as for the principle Involved. When It comes to a diagnosis of the two salaries, there Is little-real difference, according to Pridham.

The smaller salary under the State law DaysSP provides for the payment of mileage to the extent of $750 a year, the payment of necessary expenses while in attendance at the State Board of tThe great need of this Dullding is golced by M. Montgomery, W. J. tadelman, Mayor Dow and other prominent men. The present Chautauqua, It is felt, Is to be permanent here, at least for a.

few years, and this institution must 'toe provided for. Again, the members the club point out, the Southern Reports recently made by bank appraisers and disinterested experts upon the properties of this Company show total valuations in tracts and lots and con struction work of $520,344.19. This is an increase over the figures in our ledgers ($413,633.13) of $106,701.06, bringing our total assets up to $1,035,672.99. This showing is mostly due to our keeping to the close-in 'districts in Los An geles and San Diego, thus avoiding speculation and making sure of steadily advancing values. The appraisals are ultra-conservative and, as a rule, based upon the mortgage values of the properties.

No city, state or country has ever been offered a greater opportunity to grow in population, industry and wealth than has been given Southern California and its two principal cities. Our purpose is the making of money out of this opportunity by the buying, improving and selling of well-selected real estate, and' we nave over $400,000 cash already invested in this project. Will you join us? $1.25 paid monthly buys 100 shares. Take more or pay cash, if you wish. SHARES SO CENTS Table tf Monthly PaymerrU for 24 Msnths Cut Out and Mall for the Seventh Edition Equalization, and other essential expenses connected with the office.

Un. der the $5000 salary provided by the charter the Supervisor pays all expenses out of his own pocket The ordinance passed yesterday also provides for the number of clerks to be employed by the Supervisors and the amount of money they shall receive. FORM MORTGAGE COMPANY. A company having for Its purpose the guaranteeing of payments of bonds and mortgage both principal and Interest and dealing In such collateral, is being formed, and will probably be ready for business about September. It will probably be capitalized at $1,500,000.

of which amount some $1,260,000 has been subscribed. James H. Adams, former head of the local bond house, which was succeeded by Torrance Marshall will probably head the new corporation. No name has yet been definitely decided on. In addition to Adams, persons' prominently likely to be Identified with the new corporation Include Harry Lee Martin, H.

W. O'Melveny, Stoddard Jess, Dr. C. B. Jones, J.

A. Graves, L. Doheny, J. K. FUhburn, Ursdner Lee, II, end William Lacy, John R.

lUnf-s Hnd Philip Wilson, Panama Gets Well. The Panama Oil Company, nperat ing on ructions I serflon $0 In the Midway fifld, has brought In wnl No, 4 (th an output estimated at 1000 Nrrclt a day, at a 4tli bout itlSe fH. The company had IM wall drllM Vt)4r tin 'irHi im It fur a ruttuM. rail tiiK val lrk a'r a.ni'U tir mhi ritl In the fiir n( Dun fi(M)ltfl ha MH at Mi il Mcri tlna i a I h( tha wall iat.e Uit ht aa4 ila ri U' Ul buvi 100 cost 30 00 shires, total 15 2.50 NO TIME TO LOSE WE URGE YOU TO COME EVERY NEW PIANO, PLAYERS, GRANDS, UPRIGHTS CUT FROM $20O TO $100 Slightly uaed, Ilka new, Pianos, $133, $167, $187. Real value, new, $275, $300, $350.

Player Planoi, 88-note, mahogany or oak, the $760 kind, from $390 to $550. Slightly used MePhall Grand, $750, for $435, Every new piano cut from $100 to $200. Uaed musical Inatrunenta taken In exchange. Three Square Pianos. $25, $35, $50.

Four Organe, $18, $19, $21, $34. One Craphophone (Edison's). 18 recorde, $12.50. One Qraphophone (Edison's 4-mlnute), 60 recorde, $25. Remember, all our new Pianos out from $100 to $200, Almost your own terms.

MePhall Piano (Boston,) at the top for over 71 years, Is ours. We can make you a pile of money lan dya If you'll come hero, No W. FISH ICR cost 60.00 (California Methodist Conference could toe secured by Santa Monica if there was an auditorium calculated to holl the crowds. The matter will be torought up at the next meeting of the (Trustees. Charles Strong of Jamul, San Diego county, today sent a message to J.

W. Todd, undertaker, stating that the toodv found in the ocean above the Mallbu ranch on April 9 was that of Oeorge R. Strong, age 63, a brother whom he had not seen for over ten years. A photograph sent by Todd convinced the Jamul resident The toody was held for six weeks and then buried. A big realty deal, consummated to-Say, was the sale of the handsome residence property on the corner of Marine and Lake streets by Henry Wieman to Charles Hinckley of Rlversld, who will subdivide It.

The Stated consideration was $81,000. T. H. Dudley, former Mayor of Santa Miwk'H, and now president of the Oreiin Park Hank, will start for Ku rope to be rone three months. Kundsy morning.

His wire and dautjlitera sr already there. He stated today that fn is not a candidate for Mayor, but lh people of Hunt Monica d. ptrrA him to gln heroine the hand tf the city govtrnment he would ff rlrd. dgyi a wb throughout the sunmitr the mnul imlnJiif drt tttent of the Hiln.nl will im um4 the eturimie mm piotmy IM-lr Hfijiort. lh i'Uirroiifitl III l' 'l.

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