2,500 school kids receive faulty smallpox shots

Vaccine turned bad on trip from the East

Prohibitionists nominate a Negro for Police Court judge

Boys arrested for insulting women in nightgowns

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VACCINE VIRUS WOULDN’T TAKE

School Children Must Bare Arms Again

After breaking all records for the [smallpox] vaccination of school children the past two weeks, the City Health Department has made the discovery that nearly all of the work must be done over again.

The vaccine didn’t “take.”

. . . more than 3,000 children have received treatment since the beginning of the present school year.

At times the City Hall Park, its paths and all other available spaces have been filled with children awaiting their turn for vaccination; but their efforts were in vain.

A very small percentage of the vaccinations have proved successful, and some of the children have submitted to the treatment three times without securing the desired big red scab.

Fully 2,500 must be revaccinated.

Dr. L.M. Powers, city health officer, stated yesterday that it is probable nearly all of the children will have to reappear for vaccination, as it has been determined that it is useless to undertake any further treatment until a fresh supply of vaccine points is secured from Washington.

The hot weather is responsible, says Dr. Powers. The supply of vaccine points comes from a Washington laboratory, but the journey across the desert, where the points were subjected to severe heat, caused them to become sterile.

The health officer has telegraphed for a new supply, and the procession of bare-armed children will soon pass in review again before the force of white-aproned surgeons at the City Hall.

A point is a pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter.

PROHIBS AFTER COLORED VOTE

Give Them a Place on the City Ticket

The Prohibition Party, in its city convention yesterday, began a systematic campaign . . . [for] the colored voters of the city.

Its nominee for Police Justice is Charles S. Darden, a colored lawyer who recently came here from the East.

After his nomination he was presented to the convention but was not given an opportunity to make a speech.

A plank in the platform condemns the assaults of mobs upon the colored race and declares that in nearly every case liquor has been [at] the bottom of the trouble.

“If they will join with us in destroying the liquor traffic in our nation,” continues the platform, “we shall thereby be enabled to successfully prevent such assaults in the future.”

The next meeting of the Prohibitionists in the city will be held on next Saturday

The full city ticket nominated is as follows:

Mayor, Wiley J. Phillips; Clerk, C.H. Noll; Attorney, F.M. Porter; Treasurer, M.W. Atwood; Auditor, M.M. Dietts; Tax Collector, L.C. Dale; Assessor, T.W. Tolchard; Police Justice, C.S. Darden. . . .

Besides its ordinary declarations upon the liquor traffic, the platform:

• Declares that no man not known to be actively opposed the liquor traffic will be accepted by the Committee of One Hundred as a nominee on the nonpartisan ticket.

• Condemns the mayor and the City Council for amending the ordinances so that a circus might open on Sunday.

• Declares that the best of the candidates on other tickets shout from the housetops their

• [Opposes] the repeal of the present 21-year franchise law.

• [Favors] the Owens River water plans.

• [Favors] the annexation of San Pedro and such other territory as may prove wise.

• [Favors] municipal ownership but [is] against further efforts in that direction at this time.

• [Opposes] any action on the part of the city looking to depriving the farmers of the San Fernando Valley of their “water rights until all other resources have been exhausted.”

The convention was composed of 20 delegates, and the only enthusiasm shown was when money was called for.

They practically all chipped in either $5 or $10.

Los Angeles Daily Times, October 5, 1906

NOW CANNING ‘HOT STUFF’

New Industries Started in Los Angeles

Chile Peppers Promise All Kinds of Fortunes; Tourists Spread Renown of City’s Dainties

piles of chile peppers and the pretty Spanish [sic] girls and

other employees at work.

Note the child workers.

A new industry was started in the city yesterday, that of preparing for the wholesale market Mexican canned foods and dainties in which the chile pepper forms an important item.

Such foodstuffs have never before put up in this way for the market.

“Hot stuff” is getting popular in all sections of the United States, and as about the “hottest stuff” is a chile pepper, there is a greater demand for the red pod than ever before and greater than can be supplied.

. . . tourists coming to Los Angeles acquire the taste for Spanish dishes and, securing recipes, reproduce the tasty dishes at home and pass along the recipes to their neighbors.

. . . there are carload orders from many parts of the country which cannot be filled.

Naturally the price of chiles has boomed. Last spring the rate wholesale for red peppers was 10 cents a pound; now it is from 12 to 13 cents and not enough at this price.

. . . the home of the chile at present is about Anaheim, Fullerton and Santa Ana.

Near Santa Monica is a rancher who raises what is

Vice-president J.B. Jacobs of the Simon Levi Company, produce dealers, stated yesterday that his firm had orders from the North and East for about three carloads of chiles which could not be filled.

Ranchers raised about a ton of chiles to the acre and received over $200 a ton for them evaporated. . . .

This week there was opened at the corner of Colton and Vincent streets a model, up-to-date packing house under government supervision, which is branching out into practically unknown fields.

This is the Morris Provision Co. This house is as clean as whitewash and soap suds can make it.

It has had installed one of the two vacuum packing machines on the Pacific Coast, and it is making a specialty of Mexican canned goods. . . .

This vacuum machine is a wonderful one. It sucks all the air out of a can and then solders and seals it.

It is in charge of David H. Shogran, who has for 15 years helped develop packing-house

Valdivia Fernando, a Chilean from Valpariso, . . . is the “chef” is the house. He it is who gets up the toothsome Spanish dishes which will be canned and sent broadcast. . . .

Besides putting up chile sauce, there will be frijoles and chile; “chorizo,” which is a preparation of beef, pork and chile sauce; shredded beef as a substitute for hamburger steak; “albondigas,” which is a Chilean preparation, and “menuda” [sic], a Mexican dainty composed of tripe, corn, chile and the hoofs of cattle.

This is considered a great dainty. . . .

Albert J. Morris, head of the company, says he is a phoenix. He was proprietor of a $450,000 packing plant in Kansas City, but was totally ruined by the flood there three years ago.

Now he has come to Los Angeles after a two years’ experience in Mexico and will introduce for the first time Mexican national food products in cans for the American people. . . .

As Mr. Morris stated yesterday, “This coast presents a wonderful field for commercial enterprise.”

JEERED ‘NIGHTIES’

Youths in Toils for Insulting Women Who Dashed Thinly Clad to Supposed Fire

How Roy Lipsey and Max Humphrey could have so far forgotten themselves as to offer to “knock the block off” a lady who was running to a fire in her nighty is a matter of painful solicitude to Justice Young.

They are alleged to be members of a gang of boys who disturb the serenity of the country about Evergreen Cemetery.

They are accused by Deputy Sheriff Henry Gottleber of standing in front of his house early yesterday morning and making a noise like fire.

It was then only a few minutes past midnight. Herr Gottleber was snoring. His wife and two young lady daughters awoke, however, and rushed out, half dressed, fearing the house was on fire.

When they got outside, they were jeered, they say, by the boys. When they remonstrated and told them this was no way to treat ladies, one of the boys is alleged to have threatened to “knock the block off” one of the damsels.

At this monstrous insult, the head of the house awakened and ran out in his nighty, capturing one of the husky boys.

Yelling for his coat and his trousers, he tucked in his night shirt and took the early-morning car for the jail, holding down his struggling prisoner with the help of the streetcar conductor.

He then went back home and caught the other. The two young men were arraigned before Justice Young yesterday afternoon and will plead today.

Los Angeles Sunday Times, October 7, 1906