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Ivalutty Pewitt
Horace Peters
Charlie Ellis
failed, however, and the family then moved to an isolated water station on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Tehachapi and Bakersfield, Calif. There his father pumped water into locomotives as they passed through.
Later the family moved to Mojave, where Leonard took his first job in the gold mines. Until then he could neither speak nor read English. The family conversed only in French.
After a year Leonard drifted off for himself. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1902 and went into ranching. His employer was a Basque, who took an interest in him and taught him the rudiments of English. Leonard later took a job in a book store in Los Angeles and studied English at night. Two years later he became the yachting editor of the Los Angeles Times. This job lasted until the McNamara brothers bombed the Times Building.
He then went back to ranching and wandered from California to the lumber camps of Washington and Oregon. Later he went into the fishpacking business in Alaska. From there he drifted back to California and then worked successively as a cowboy, wheat thresher and hayer in Southern California, New Mexico and Arizona.
Studies Telegraphy as Office Boy
In 1910 he became an office boy for the Commercial Pacific Cable Company in Honolulu and studied telegraphy, when he was not sweeping the office or running errands. He subsequently qualified as an operator and took charge of little stations on the Southern Pacific.
He next returned to San Francisco and got a job operating a crane in a ship-building plant. Then for a while he waited on the table in a Los Angeles restaurant and later became night clerk in a hotel there. About this time he became acquainted with Ralph Newcomb, a west coast aviator, and decided to become a flyer. The two barnstormed in an old Curtiss plane from Los (Continued on page 48)
Sadie Westphal
Spot Haywang
Dave Kraus
Fleck Murphy
Wilbur Higgins
Sary Higgins
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Luke Higgins
Emily Snodgrass
The Cast of "Main Street Sketches
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