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ttta CEra USE CLASSIFIED ADS ESTABLISHED 1884. SANTA CKUZ. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1910. VOL. 5G-NO.

182. 11 11 HE BLACK HAND TERRORIZES POOR FAMILY ORGANIZATION OF THE FEDERAL BISCUIT COMPANY WILL MAKE A QUICK DISPOSAL OF DR. CRIPPEN QUEBEC, Aug. 1. Dr, Hawley H.

10 PURCHASE GOLD MINE NEW YORK, Aug. 1. A pathetic appeal to friends to raise $5000, the amount demanded by agents of the Black Hand Society for the ransom of his two-year-old son, Michael, and for the life of himself and his wife, has been made by Dr. Mariano Scimeca. The child was kidnaped from his home June 21 and the last hope, apparently, for his return to his parents was dissipated lately when Dr.

Scimeca and his wife received a de mand from the terrorists for an im mediate settlement. They wrote that they would not accept any sum less than $5000. In his desperate plight Dr. Scimeca has pawned his wife's jewels for $700, but he says that the Black Hand agent refused to take that amount, although they knew that it was the largest sum that he personally can tender them. The savings of his relatives, he adds, would not much more than dotfble the $700 and everything else he had has been spent to trace the kidnapped boy.

The frantic father has been warned to give up the search for little Michael and has been threatened with Immediate death unless the demands of the Black Hand are met He has given the police letters in which the blackmailers threaten to dismember his son. Lately a bomb wag found near the, Sclmecas' departments, Will Investigate the Third Degree IS ON TRE RAD LIST WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Millers must stop bleaching flour, pending adjudication by the higher courts, or stand criminal prosecution for each shipment made In interstate commerce, according to a decision reached here today at a conference between officials of the Departments of Agriculture and Justice. Special to the FRESNO, Aug.

1. Arthur Mlsen- helmer, was killed on the main busi ness Btreet here today when he collided on his motor bike with a car. He struck the car with such force when attempting to cross the street that he was thrown several feet. -His head and face were badly crushed and he died in a ehort time. MONTHLY SERVICE OF SONG CROWDS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

It'was a great evening last Sunday at the Congregational service. Seventeen trained singers presented a program rich and varied, The choir entered the auditorium singing "Jerusalem the A quartet consisting of Misses Llnscott and Hawes; Messrs. Mellor and Push rendered: "Out of the Deep," by Lansing, with bass and tenor solos, The great congregation sat In rapture while Mr. Llnscott sang: "My Redeemer and My Lord," (by Buck. Our city has many young people of whom It may justly be proud and he is one of them.

Ills voice Is a deep round, seet baritone; and he sings without effort so that every syllable is distinct. It seems as easy for his lips to emit music as the petals of a rose to shed fragrance. The full choir rendered: "Jubllante In by Tours. Here Mr. Llnscott's training Is apparent for the voices are well balanced and the singing beau tlfully shaded and modulated.

Mrs, J. R. Williamson in rich, full voice sang with splendid ta3te Gounod's Divine "The Lord is my Light" by Duck, sung by Miss Mabel Wilson and Mr. Llnscott revealed voices In perfect concord. The audience was carried away to the Isle of Patmos ana through the eyes of St.

John (beheld the coming Christian society when all mankind Is holy. Mr. Llnscott sang the boIo and a hidden quartet sang as from a celestial region "Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord of These four concealed sing ers were tho Misses Monahan and Messrs. Mellor and Bush. The pastor spoke for five nilnutes on "Character, Influence and Happiness." Then came the climax.

Four cultured male voices united In: "Prayer from the Messrs. Mellor, Llnscott, Hush and Bond have voices of the same quality and no one voice at any time dominated. After the benediction the largo audience quietly passed out of the sacred edifice purified and peaceful. urged to Join who have anything to exhibit. There are at the present time 68 members of the association and about 200 members of the Grange, showing that these organizations are becoming a power in the county.

FATAL RIDE Oil A MOTOR BIKE WAS A GRAND 1 Cf. Special to the SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. The Federal Biscuit which gave notice of intention last week, was organized In Wilmington, today with a capital of $3,000,000. It will sustain the closest relations with the National Biscuit Co.

The new company will have monopoly of the cracker Industry of the country, and Is In such close relations with the National that nothing but the Sherman anti-trust law prevents the combination of the two concerns. The new conipany twill embrace more than a hundred of the largest plants In the East and the West The Standard, American, Eagle, Eclipse and Mutual Biscuit Companies of San Francisco are a part of the new concern, as Is also the Bishop Company of Los Angeles, and the Sacramento Biscuit of Sacramento. It is planned to close many of the smaller concerns and make of the plants store houses. Near New York It Is planned to erect two of the largest factories In the world for the manufacture or crackers, and a great plan of advertising Is to be Inaugurated to make buscult eating popular In America. MARTINEZ, Aug.

l. Hoping that grief at the sight of her four babies lying in the county morgue will restore her to sanity, the coroner today planned to permit Mrs. Joseph M. Mello, who drowned the children at her Brentwood home Saturday, to view the "bodies. Should that fail, the woman later will 'be examined by a commisison ot physicians to determine whether she shall be committed to a hospital for the Insane.

Chester Mello, the only child who escaped death at the hands of his mother, was instructed to be present at the examination. Since the woman was arrested after she had drowned four of her children in a washtub, she displayed no re 's morse. On all other subjects Mrs. Mello appeared perfectly rational, but In the death of her babies she is tearless and unmoved. The one thing, that she bemoans Is i the life that she led on the Isolated ranch near Brentwood, where the murders were committed.

This life on a ranch, says Mrs. si Mello, would have driven her Insane. There was nothing to take her mind off her colorless existence, nothing a to look forward to but work. It was to prevent her children from suffering a fate like hers that Mrs. ir Mello ended their lives, she says.

The coolness of the woman astound- ed the medical men at the County Hospital today. I 4 Verry F. Humphrey, well known in it his city for tho last forty years, died kMonday at the family home on a anch on the Soquel road beyond Vrana Gulch, where he has always eslded since coming here. Ho had ved to a ripe old age and was al ways highly esteemed. He had suf- ered since the first of the year four trok'es of paralysis.

The deceased was a native of New pork, 81 years of age. He is surviv ed by his wife, three daughters (Mary, itiella and Fannie), and a son, James. NO REMORSE SHOWN FOR CRIME LIVED FOUR PEEK COMES SI Special to the NEW YORK, Aug. l. JProf.

Henry Thurston Peck, of Columbia University, who is suspended from active service, but who continues to draw his salary, today made a vigorous reply to the criticisms of President David Starr Jordan of Stanford, which were aimed at him. Peck said Jordan was a great example of how a professor, when he becomes president, loses all sympathies for the class he was once In. He said that professors naturally cling together and support one another. He made some very uncompllmetary thrusts at Jordan. Report of W.

HI. Volck, Horticultural Commissioner was filed. In this report It was urged that an Inspector be appointed and in compliance the Board approved the appointment of A. w. Tate Jr.

The George C. Pratchner Company was awarded the contract to build the concrete culvert and fill a Morrlssey Gulch, the hid being $1444. The bid of W. H. Booth was $1185, but by unanimous vote it was ordered not considered.

Other Iblds were; Mc-Fadden Byrne, $1489; R. O. Cogges-hall, $2000; G. E. Lease (culvert onlyi $800.

The bid of M. W. Jones for a flat span steel and concrete culvert at Willoughby's, for $788 was accepted and the contract awarded. Residents of Soquel again appealed for the establishment of a branch library at Soquel and a committee, consisting of Supervisors Mattison, Miller and Esty was appointed to confer with the District Attorney and the Santa Cruz Public Library Trustees, and to roport later. L.

W. Coffey appeared and offered to donate one-fourth of the cost of a bridge over the San Lorenzo at Glen Arbor, and also to deed a lot 200 feet square for the purpose of erecting a school house. Plans and specifications for a concrete culvert and fill on the Soquel-San Jose road near Cahoon's was accepted, and iblds ordered advertised for. J. V.

Gregory petitioned for a new road in Seaside District and Joseph Winterhalder, E. D- Terry and T. D. Sargent were appointed viewers. Chairman Miller was ordered to secure transportation for Jack Ambrose to his home In Iowa.

This Is tho unfortunate young actor who had his jaws broken by a plunge out of a window In the Santa Cruz Hotel, while he was anleep and dreaming. TWO DROWNED. DETROIT, Aug. 1. The wife and small son of Captain Ross Heath were drowned early today when the barge Grace Whltness was run down by the steamer Odgensburg, three miles below liar point in Lake Erie.

The barse sank almost Immediately. Another child, a girl, clung to some wreckage and was picked up and with the other survived. JORDAN SUPERVISORS IN REGULAR SESSION Crlppen was arraigned today and held for further hearing on August 8. Miss Leneve was too ill to appear In court. It seemed today as if half the city's population had deserted their usuai pursuits and climbed the heights to the Palais de Justice in anticipation of the arraignment of Crlppen and Ethel Claire Leneve.

Everywhere bitterness toward Crlppen was exhibited, but the atti tude toward the woman In the case was strangely different. Everywhere one heard words of sympathy for tho girlish creature who had pinned her faith to the man now charged with a crime so shocking as to seem almost unbelievable. 'Reports from the provincial Jay. where Crlppen and Miss Leneve have been confined since their arrival here added to the popular feeling. Miss Leneve Is described as having sobbed and moaned as she tossed on her cot during the early hours today.

When she arose this morning she was handed a cablegram which read: "Tell all you know." Those who saw this message say It was signed It is known that Miss Leneve's father, in London, has stoutly maintained that his daughter was Innocent of any knowledge of the crime and that she believed herself to be the lawful wife of Crlppen, supposing that his first wife had met a naturiii death, after deserting the doctor. Special to the SEATTLE, Aug. 1. Walter Lighter, the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Florence Lighter, will proba'bly save his father from prison by the confession which he made today.

His mother had gone to the home of her divorced husband to bring about a reconciliation. While there she -was shot. The boy said that he was reaching for something under the table in the room and accidentally pulled the table cloth off. On it was a revolver which was discharged, killing his mother. He said his father did not do tne shooting.

CONTINUOUS POULTRY HOUSE PREFERRED. A very Interesting meeting of the Poultry Association was held in tho Library on Saturday afternoon. Several persons joined tho association. One stranger was quite interested In the style of houses. lie was well acquainted with the colony houses, as used In the San Joaquin.

Tho consensus of opinion among the Santa Cruz poultrymen was strongly in favor of the continuous house, not being as cheap in construction but as a saving of room and giving bettor protection to the poultry and greater comfort to those caring for-them. The question of the approaching Farmers' Institute was then discussed. Mr. Hynes proposed each member taking a specimen of tho feed whlrh was used by individual members, a ration which would feed about 25 fowls, their name being on the box, as it would bo of interest to compare methods and results. Each member was also urged to be a committee of one to boom and help the Institute, as It will make the whole affair a success.

Others are CONFESSION MAY SI FATHER POULTRY Special to the NEVADA CITY, Aug. 1. The Murchle Mine has been bonded by H. F. Englebrlght of this city and a New York syndicate, under a Jour-year term, the purchase price being fixed at $250,000.

This Is said to 'be a very rich mine, but there are claims against it which has caused its suspension from operations. If the property proves satisfactory after being thoroughly tried out it will be taken over by the syndicate. Special to the NEW YORK, Aug. 1 Porter Charlton, the confessed wife murderer, will not leave the prison in New Jersey a free man when released about the 20th of September. He will be taken from prison and placed In an insane asylum, as the four alienists who examined him pronounce him a hopeless lunatic not responsible for his deed.

The Italian government will make formal charges against him when his case comes up for hearing but as he will be charged with Insanity there will be no hope of extradition of the prisoner. IT SEABRIGHT All records were broken at Sea-bright station on Monday night when 127 pieces of baggage were put off It took nearly a whole car to carry it. For nearly half an hour the train was held up while this baggage was being unloaded and the depot grounds presented a very conjested and lively appearance. One can imagine the large number of people who also loft the train at this point. Word was received during the afternoon from Nlles to be prepared for 127 pieces of baggage.

This indicates that the people all came from Sacramento and San Joaquin valley points. Councilman Pilldngton who looked on with Interest, said that he had never before seen half this amount put off at one time. Seabrlght certainly broke the record In good shape. Word Is passed out to look for an equal amount tonight. KILLED AT THE M.

Cacum, an employ at the cement plant was so terribly Injured on Monday that he died a short time after being brought to a sanltorlum In this city. In some manner his foot caught In some ot the machinery and be was unable to extricate himself. He was drawn In and his leg was crushed early to his hip. The loss of blood and the severity of the Injury was too much for the young man to FROM PRISON TO INSANE ASYLUM RECORD BROE CEMENT DOINGS OF TIE CITY COUNCIL CITY FATHERS TRANSACT BUT LITTLE BUSINESS OF IMPORTANCE. Contract! Awarded Next Year's Work The following permits were passed by the council Monday morning: J.

C. alterations, $125. A. Hlhn company, store house, $500v Ralph C- Amsden, residence, $300. J.

M. Weekly, residence, $1700. G. Kllngler, alterations, $150. A.

Palmer, alterations, $700. Duncan McPherson, stable, $580. Complaint was made that the Seabrlght residents do not put out the Incandescent lights now in use in that district of town. The "juice" Is pur chased from the Coast Counties Light and Tower company by the city, and there Is quite a loss from the care lessness exhibited, 25 lights having been seen burning at 10 o'clock In the morning recently. Councilman Hynes objected to tho wording of the preliminary resolution of intention for the bond issue at this Monday morning's meeting of tae council.

"I should like to have the wording arranged in the order in which it was submitted on my original resolution asking the city attorney to draw up the document," said the Seventh ward representative. "Water pipe line comes first," added Mr. Hynes. "And the electric light plant conies second," said Councilman Howe; "don't forget that." The council agreed to having an entirely new resolution drawn up. Some discussion was carried on by the councilmen In regard to the water question.

Chairman Hynes ot the water committee wanted the city to open a lease for what water they could got from Itegardo creek, branch of Laguna creek, but this suggestion did not meet with general approaval, the answer to the suggestion being that the need for more water, now that summer was nearly over, did not exist. A resolution ordering a fence placed around the Lacuna creek dam site was unanimously passed. The following reports for the month of July were submitted to the council Monday morning: Statement of moneys in the city treasury July 30, 1910, $30,434.53. C(ty treasurer Collections for July, disbursements, Total balance on hand In various funds, $30,434.53. The assistant inspector of plumbint; and construction received $83 in fees in July.

Plumbing Inspector Patterson re-reived $1C8 In fees. The chief of police reported 17 arrests for the month. Superltnendent of water works reported disbursements of $2023.09, and collections of $2112.62. Superintendent of streets and parks reported street disbursements o' $1468.41 sewer $161.85, river and (Continued on 8th page.) Special to the SAW FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.

Sena tor Stone of Missouri, is the first member of the Senatorial Committee to arrive in this city to Investigate the third degree as practiced in pris ons upon men charged with various offenses, and is stopping at the Fairmont The other members who are expected in a few days are Senators Borah, Paynter, Overman ana Brown. The cause of the federal investigation is said to have been the outcome of the case of Dr. Pen-in, and the manner in which he was sweated by Detective (Burns and others, and the committee will look into this matter along with others. Congressman Julius Kahn of this city said that the investigation by the Senate is due to a general feeling throughout the country against the third degree as practiced In the various courts and prisons, and some plan may be adopted to modify this plan among officers and detectives. APPEAL FOR Ed.

The world keeps moving. Many great plants ot industry are enlarging and new ones are being Nature has blessed us with a climate equal, if not superior to any part of the world for a laboring man to live in. Owing to this favorable condition, the cheapness of building sites, homes can be (bought or rented at a minimum cost. The Pacific Ocean, the great highway of nations, Is right at our door; we are favored by a superior railroad system which enables us to do commerce with an parts of our great States, the United States, Mexico and the British possessions and Canada, and yet with all these advantages our progress in manufacturing Is slow. Why? That is the great question which should be considered by our Supervisors, our City Council and agitated by our, public press, and the people should combine to receive the promoters of industry with open arms, instead ot carplngly watching them for fear that they might Injure beautiful Santa Cruz.

We have a public school system, open to all children, equal, 1f not superior to any In the world. There la more money In our banks, per capita, than anywhere else. There Is no need of building smoky or noisy or dust producing factories right In the midst of our residence sections, but there are a number of localities accessible to cars and ships where 'such factories can be operated. It would seem that If It were made known that everything Is favorable to tho establishment ot all kinds of industry, they would soon come to s. YOURs TRULY.

Mrs. D. D. Emery of Wrights Is the guest of Mrs. Speaker on Oak St.

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