Los Angeles.—At just noon, pickpockets relieved L. P. Schuster, a salesman of 811 East Fifth street, of his purse and $25.
One hour later, thieves stole his grip while he was riding on a Hollywood streetcar.
Half an hour after the loss of his grip, he discovered that his room on East Fifth street had been entered by burglars and most of his remaining property stolen.
Five minutes later, he was thrown out of the hotel after accusing the elevator operator of being the burglar.
Central police station, after having been thrown out of his hotel and just after he had drawn a loaded revolver from his pocket to explain to Detective Sergeant Lyons that he was ready to defend the remaining portion of his property, he landed behind the bars on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
SAVING LIFE SERBS PROBLEM
War and Disease Have Placed Nation in Perilous Position—Population Depleted.
Nish.—Sanitation and preventive medicine are the greatest needs of Serbia.
With the approach of cold weather, the country will be called on to combat her old enemy, typhus, American and foreign relief organizations will aid the Serbian authorities in this work.
Human conservation is one of Serbia's great problems. War and disease have sadly depleted the population. Before the war, the birth rate of Serbia was higher than her death rate. In spite of the inroads of epidemics, her population was increasing at the rate of 85,000 a year. Now it is decreasing.
Bereft of her man power and with her women and children, organically wasted, the question of population to till the soil and build up the country is a  Most serious one. 