Council
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Submitted by larry on Fri, 2006-12-22 08:11.
Dec. 22, 1907
Los Angeles
As Police Capt. Flammer approached Yuma, Ariz., to take custody of George White, he noticed the smoke of hundreds of campfires made by hobos burning old railroad ties.
The hobos, Flammer learned, were avoiding Yuma because the marshal meted out hard justice to vagrants, as he warned in posters all over town. But Flammer also learned all those homeless men were heading for Los Angeles.
A New Prison for Lost Souls
Submitted by larry on Sun, 2006-07-09 06:39.
July 9, 1907
Los Angeles
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church on Hewitt Street was barren; the pastor had gone away and the congregation had moved on. And so the City Council, in struggling to house inmates at the crowded, filthy prison on West 4th Street, decided to lease the old church for $100 ($2,052.36 USD 2005) a month as a temporary jail until a larger facility could be built
