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IIHHIU jtiiinminiiiiiiniiiniiiiiimmiimiiiininunmim Official Gateway to Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, greatwt of 'all playgrounds SECTION PAGES 7-10 riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiii; til i I THE ONLY DAILY MORNING 5 A IN TULARE COUNTY IIUHUlHMIUUUIUIIIIHIHUUIIIlHIIIIimUlNIIII VOL. LXVL VISALIA MORNING DELTA SUNDAY. JULY 10. 1927 HARTLEY NOT TO The Lake of the Woods Covers Thousands of Miles HELD AS SUSPECT TxtttTttTTtTTtTtTtttTTtTTTtTt Snake Killer King Seeks New Records Fred so-called "rattlesnake king oL the San Joaquin Valley, bar reported that his total of snakes killed so far this season haa reached 16. 1-ast year he killed 27 and In 1925 24.

who resides In the deep creek district, says the snakes come Into the yard occasionally, and keeps him busy killing them. He and his sons have discovered there la quite a market for snake and consequently they skin each snake, and dry the pelt. FLItUTJ HE Bride Objects to Trip Being Made by Skipper of Leviathan Refuses to Explain Where He Was at Time of Brutal Crime NEW BOND ISSUE Warden Court Smith Tells of Fire Plot After Prisoner Found FOLSOM STATE PRISON, July 9. P) A plan to fire the prison and escape in tbe confusion ensuing was nipped here last night by prison guurds and Ed Simmons, sent up eighteen months ago from Alamedu county on had check charge, is a dungeon "thinking it over." The attempt, which was announced today by Warden Court Smith, was discovered shortly after Simmons was found missing at the evening check-in. Simmons had been working near the trades building on a road inside the inner wall.

He was found by guards hiding in the top of the lumber shed about forty minutes after his absence was discovered. When found Simmons had in his possession a bottle of kerosene and two boxes of matches. Called in to Warden Smith's office he confessed that hts plan was to fire some of the wooden buildings and the confusion that would follow he hoped to escape through the two gates. Smith said the plan was highlv impracticable and even had the fire been started the chances are virtually nil that Simmons could have dashed out as the gates are especially watched in such an emergency. Simmons is serving a seven-year sentence.

CENTRAL COUNTIES GAS COMP-ANY TO GO INTO 80UTHERN GROUP NEW YORK, July fel low air mall pilot will occupy the navigator's seat In the giant Fok her monoplane Old Glory when It wings its way toward Rome with I.loyd W. Bertaud at the controls. Commodore Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan, who was offered the post by William Randolph Hearst, sponsor of the projected flight, left the decision to bis wife and she said' Mrs. Hartley, -a bride of little more thon two years, had tears In her voice, btft determination as well, as she explained at her Forest Hills, Long Island home that never under any circumstances, would she give her approval. Up To Wife Commodore Hartley received the offer by wireless aboard the Leviathan In mid-ocean.

lie cabled from Cherbourg, France, 'saying the de-- cislon rested with his wife. The. Lbvlatban commander, who has crossed the ocean 800 times and Is an authority of Atlantic weather, will help lay out courses for Ber taud to fly. The identity of the air mail navigator to accompany Bertaud has not been revealed. His selection.

It was announced, wag decided after application of more than 200 bird-men had been thoroughly gone over. Fokker Plane The plane Is now under construction at the Fokker factory In Has-brouck Heights, N. and Is to be delivered to Bertaud July 25. Tentative plans call for a take-off the second week in August. The plane will have one 495 horsepower aircooled Jupiter engine and will have a wing spread of sixty-four feet with a wing aurface of 620 square feet.

It will carry 1.170 gallons of and weigh about 12,000 pounds loaded. Together with the application of the Southern California Gas Company for authority to buy the Midway Gas Company, Valley Natural Gas Company, Central Counties Gas Hanford Gas and Power Company and the Rlverbend Gas and Winter Company, filed with the state railroad commission, permission is ajso asked to issue and sell $35,000,000 in 5 per cent thirty-year bonds. The bonds are to be secured by first mortgage on the combined properties, according to F. M. Banks, general manager of tbe Central Counties Gas Company here.

This ia to involve tbe redemption of the outstanding bond issues, which are: Southern California Gas Company First mortgage, sixes of 1950, callable at 105. First and refunding sevens of 1951. $2,747,000. callable nt 107. First and refunding five and a halfs of 1952, $6,200,000, callable at 105.

First and refuding sixes of 1958, $4,000,000, callable at 105. Midway Gas Company First and refunding sixes of 1929. $883,000, callble at 100. OAKLAND, July 9. (P) Police here believed that a hot trail in tbe Mabel Mayer murder mystery had been uncovered early today with tbe arrest 'of Paul Smith, 54, a car-, penter, after he had been annoying small girls at El Cerrito near here.

Smith refused to tell where he was last Saturday night when Mabel Mayer, 15-year-old school girl waa beaten to death in the yard behind a vacant house here. You might take me out and hhoot me, police quoted him as saying, Maybe you wont have to' do that, you may bang me Instead. Smith expressed a desire to write to his Sidney, in Los Angeles to tell him that this probably will be my last joy ride. A wave of near-terror was developing in East Oakland as police failed to solve the mysterious murder. -Watch Their Girls Parents, fearing that slayer would begin taking a perverted pride, In outwitting tbe police and attempt another outrage, were keeping close watch of children.

Many families complained that the eastern portion of the city had been neglected in matters of policing and lighting. The police have centered all their energies on the hunt for a dark, slender unkempt leering man seen sitting on a garbage can near the scene of the murder early Saturday night, some four hours before the crime was committed. Two girls, hums of the murder victim, reported having been frightened by such a man a week before the murder. Mashers Turned In Meanwhile Oakland women were growing quirk to report annoyance by strange men. William Caldwell, who said he is a representative, of the at Geneva, was arrested on complaint of Misses Lillian and Vivian Jones and Mrs.

Wanda Nagarian ot San Francisco. The trio said be had followed them Shd caught Vivian Jones by the arm. Pblicb -did not expect to connect Caldwell with any serious crime, but to bis arrest as evidence (hat Oakland women were nervously doing all they could to turn in" all men who acted suspicously. -various, prisoners who have been afrested in the man-hunt have all practically established, alibis. Charles Schlenker, -boilermaker from was still 'technically a prisoner- in a hospital, but police said they had virtually dropped him from the case, since every one who had seen the prowler near the murder scene declared Schlenker did not resemble him.

Neither does Schlenk-er's huge fingerprint correspond with the delicate print found on Mabel Mayers handbag. THEFT REPORTED M. E. Phillips, ranch resident nine miles Northeast of Visalia, yesterday reported the theft of nine fryers to the Sheriff's office. Phillips reported that the chickens were stolen from his ranch Friday night.

MAYTAG MOVES i Was At 114 S. Church Street HOW AT 419 E. MAIN ST. The Lake of the Woods is a section of the Dominion of Canada not heard of like others, nor 1b the fact generally known that this lake covers an area of nearly 2,000 square miles, most of which is accessible by steamer and launch and all by canoe. Tbe many lakes' railed Lake of the Woods, lie in well wooded districts In Northern Ontario, and are fed by the Rainy' River, a XL drained by the Winnipeg River West, to Lake Winnipeg.

a few hours run from capital of Manitoba, is the- principal town of this lake district, and Is a resort where many Winnipeg residents have lovely summer homes. This is a fishing regioh where pickerel, pike, muscalunge, salmon-trout as well as the small mouth black bass are landed. By engaging a guide, ideal canoe trips can dians, like the Egyptians, bury many useful and treasured articles with their dead. The nearest of these graves are about two miles from the Devil's Gap Bungalow Camp. Some of these mounds are covered with a low, tent-like structure of hark, which has an opening in the front for the spirit's exit.

The Ojibway Indians meet once a year, at the Treaty Ground where they receive their annual payment of money in return for the cession of some of their rights. Canoe trips appenl to those who desire a change from touring over highways for those who wish to get far away from masses of humanity, and can glide into tranquil waters where only the stroke of the paddle is heard, and where at night the only light is that of the moon. he made to numerous lakes tributary to the Lake of the Woods. At the Devils Gap Bungalow Camp, the Cannadian Pacific Railway gives a fine silver cup each year for the largest bass caught. This competition Is open to 'all registered gutsts at the ramp.

The islands, numbering over 10,000 it) Ihe.Lake of the are rugged and rocky and follow the main shores so thickly in places that it is hard to distinguish between, island and mainland. They are beautifully treed with pine and birch, the Indians using the bark of the latter for their canoe. It is interesting to follow the old Indian trails on some of these islands, where one frequently comes upon their graves; high mounds in which many unique objects have been found, for the In DR. O. L.

JAMISON DR EDNA JAMISON CHIROPRACTORS Central Counties Gas Company -Bertaud chedulSd of 1939 484 Convertible debentures, sevens ot 1929, $78,000, callable at 102. Riverben Gat And Water Company First mprtgage sevens of 1962, callable- 104. Ha'nfqrd Gas) and PflMter Fjrst mortgage -Sixes- 6f 1937, $T0r callable at 101., Southern California -Gas Company, lit ''twenty yearA hits grown -to be one Of the largest distributors of gas tbp world. Jn Los. San Bernardino and Riverside coiipties it serves 'domestic and industrial customers in.

over sevehty cities- and communl-tie's, and sells natural, gas to other utilities. The Midway Gas Company was originally organised fifteen years ago to bring natural gas from the Midway fields near Taft to Los Angeles. Since that tie that com pany has expanded activities and at present brings gas from every important field in Southern California, which it sells to the Southern California' Gas Company and other companies retailing gas in Southern California A. Macbeth, executive vice-president of the Southern California Gasi Company, stated that the consideration was expected to- be between $12,006,000 and $15,000,000. the gross truck and stage receipts department.

It was set up in legislative office space and had to move out before the legislature convened' and has remained in the new building ever since. With the latest removal it will be possible to install the gasoline tax, franchise, truck tax and main office in one department, instead of having them all in sep- temporary because its duties are so allied with those of the state controller that a location within the same buidding is desirable. This is expected to he brought about when the offices are entirely rearranged with the completion of the extension buildings. One branch of the equalization office has been in the new building PALMER and SPEARS Painless Systems used. NEUROCALOMETER and X-RAY Phone 907-W Res.

907-R 120 South Court Visalia 3-Year Palmer Graduate MOVING OF OFFICES IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED IN CAPITOL BUILDINGS since the first of the year. That is ara' locations as in the past. I teiniUemeYrNV COMMITTED TO STOCKTON H. D. Washer, of Lindsay, was committed to Stockton late Friday during.

a -hearing in Superior Court. Washer was taken north yesterday morning by Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith. Drive-In Sacramento, July 9. (jp) The first move state department to make way for the governors reorganization program, which will he put into operation late this month, is occurring this week with the exodus of the board of equalization from its quarters in the main capitol and its setting up of headquarters in the extension buildings which now are in the course of completion. The move is being made to provide space for the consolidated auditing departments of the board of control and the controllers office.

In creating the department of finance the governor provided that the board of control should surrender its auditing duties to the controller. This added to 'the force of the latter offi. cial and more room Is needed for his enlarged department. To meet this requirement the hoard of equalization is moving but In so doing has the honor conferred upon it of being the first state department to occupy the new buildings, although its occupancy probably will be only Delightful Furniture for Tasty Homes From Our, Friends Welcome, stranger, drive right in and make youraetf at home. Enjoy the service that we give, the best whereer you' roam.

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