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CoNvICTs FOR ROAD BUILDING
The United States department of agri-
culture has issued a bulletin on the
subject of using convicts for road
building. In North Carolina, the bull
letin says, the employment of convicts
for this purpose has proved exceeding
ly satisfactory. The State of New
York has tried it, and so far as it has
gone, is pleased with the experiment.
We have been urging for years the
employment of convicts on the roads !;
and if the proposition had not every
thing to recommend it, and if it were
not plainly practical, it is probable
that the legislatures of the different
States would have acted favorably
upon it long ago. But the average
legislature appears to hate to do any
thing that is recommended by common
sense. In every State there is an
army of convicts, and their employ
ment is usually bone of contention.
But every State has thousands of miles
of road that need improving. The
labor agitators will not do this work !;
mechanics will not do it, and even the
common laborers of our towns and
cities will not do it, without bank
rupting themselves. Here is class of
work that nobody wants to touch.
Why not turn the convicts on it
Why not furnish the stone and ma
chinery and permit the criminals to do
something that will amount to some
thing and yet not come into competi-
ton with the outside world.
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CIGARETTE SMoKING.-Dr. c. A.
Clinton, of the San Francisco board of
education, has made a study of the
effect of cigarette smoking among the
public school children Of that city,
and expresses himself in the following
unmistakable language:
"a good deal has been said about
the evils ofcigarette smoking; but one
half the truth has never been told. I
have watched this thing for long
time, and I can say calmly and delib-
erately, that 1 believe cigarette smok-
ing as bad habit as opium smoking.
I am talking now of boys, remember.
The effect upon grown men is, of
course, not so marked.
"a cigarette fiend will lie and steal
just as a morphine or opium iend will
lie and steal. Cigarette smoking
blunts the whole moral nature. 1t
has an appalling effect upon the sys-
tenn. 1t first stimulates and then
stupefes the nerves. 1t sends boys
into consumption. 1t gives them en-
largement of the heart, and it sends
them to the insane asylum. I am
physician to several boys schools, and
1 am often called in to prescribe for
palpitation of the heart. In nine
cases out of ten it is caused by the Gig
arctic habit. Every physician knows
the cigarette habit. l have seen
bright boys turned into ounces, and
straightforward honest boys made into
miserable towards, by cigarette smok-
ing. I am not exaggerating. l am
speaking the truth, that every physi-
clan and nearly every teacher Knows
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ous, Miss Ellery. There is not O soul

GUS, Miss Ellery. There is not soul
stirring besides ourselves. J."
"It is fortunate there are no dogs,
she observed. evidently uneasy in her
mind, as they walked down the hill.
'It is rather a singular circumstance
that there are not. How does it hap
pen?" He hoped to divert her from her
fears, which, he saw, were growing
upon her. ION most ranches there are
dogs galore. Thieves would have reg
ular walkover here"
"Oh, Mrs. Ellery dislikes dogs. She
has horror Of hydrophobia. Butch,
what was that?" laying her hand in
terror upon his arm. 1T sounded like
footstep."
"Why, are you 30 frightened as
that?" quickly covering the small, cold
fingers in a reassuring pressure. 1T
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grating to the walls of a castle. They
had cut out the hole in the stone, and,
after placing the iron in the hole,
poured some in to hold the iron in
place, just as they do today. Some of
the lead escaped and ran over the edge
of the wall into the moat below. Soon
afterward the attention of the soldiers
was attracted to the lead in the clear
water, and dipping it out, they found
that the metal, in falling from the
height, had become globules. After
that those soldiers made their bullets
by sprinkling melted lead over the
castle wall into the waters of the moat.
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MAKING SHOT IN WATER.-The
shot-making trade has a legend which
recites that back in the days when
guns were shot off by lighted matches,
and were swivelled to supports because
they were too big and clumsy to be
lifted to the shoulder, and when all
shot was nodded as bullets are today,
some workmen were fastening an iron
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sH- Miss Observation-Disclosures, I
was awfully afraid papa would forbid
me to marry Sam when he found out
that he played poker.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-03
DETECTIVES ON GUARD.
Information Leading to the Be-
lief That There Were Three
II Bandits at Reeds.
MYSTERIOUS MEN IN THE BRUSH
The Brave Sheriff Who Was Killed in
the Fight on the Train Buried
at Red Bluff.


MARYSVILLE, CAL, April 2.-The
reports that came in yesterday and last
night to the effect that one and sometimes
two strangers, one of whom looked
like the missing trainrobber and murderer
of Sheriff Bogard, had been seen on the
Feather River in boat and had come out
to a rancher's place to get something to eat;
coupled with the great reward, have been an
incentive to many local officials and others
to bestir themselves.
Detective Thacker and the railroad Off
Gals have been securing the country, and
tonight each and every little stream and
slough are watched by armed men.
AT o'clock this evening man came to
town and reported that he had seen a
mysterious parsonage in the brush, below
town, on the east side of Feather River.
He acted SO suspiciously that the observer
deemed it his duty to inform the officers.
Several men are now in ambush awaiting
the coming of the stranger.
Further information received to-day
leaves little doubt but there were two more
robbers and that they made for the river
on wheels Immediately after the crime.
Che or two farmhands saw them and
Mrs. Larrabee gave them several cups OF
coffee and noticed their excitement.
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eminent, and professors point to the little
city few miles away as a model town.
That is quite an honor to any place, for
professors OF political economy are. sup
posed to know what a model town is.
The interesting feature of Redwood City
which makes pattern of it is its way with
its water and light supply, and it presents
a lesson to every town and city in America.
Years. ago, when it was decided to estab-
hsha water system, the town issued bonds
and put in the works itself. There is a
ready supply of pure artesian water under
the town, and $4,000 was spent in erecting
two huge tanks on a lofty framework, put
ting in pumping plant and laying pipes
through which the water was distributed
by pressure from the tanks. Low rates
were established, but the profits steadily
paid off the bonds. Some time ago SO, 900
was spent in putting up third and loftier
tank and otherwise improving the system.
The town soon owned its water works free
from debt, and the town treasury received
a steadily increasing surplus, which went
into the general fund and was enough to
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wine from the surrounding country, cut
ting rates nearly in two. Manager Fred
Macondray says that the railroad has been
offering half rates lately on large wine
shipments, all of which confirms a suspi-
cion that water is destructive to railroad
rates,
The largest tannery on the coast, that OF
the Frank Tanning Company, is located
here, and its output is steadily growing.
1t employs constantly about i25 men, and
distributes $4,000 in wages annually.
Henry Beeger's tannery employs about
twenty men.
The towns only debt is $4,000, which
paid for the fine new sewer system put in
two years ago. 1t is model one, and is
provided with automatic flush tanks.
Another feature of the town, and an
other evidence of its enterprise, is the mag
nifcent new school building, Just COM
pleted at a cost of 100000. 1t is handsome
in design, replete with modern equipment,
and excels any school building to be found
in any town of the size in the State.
+ On top of this enterprise and progress
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SEATTLE SPORTS
Vengeance Of a British. Sea
Captains Whom Gam blers a.
Tried to Fleece: -.
The Mariner Entices Them to His
Vessel; Seizes. Them and Takes
Them on a Voyage. !.

SEATTLE, WASH, April .2.-Two we'll
known local gamblers who went to- Port
Townsend Saturday to. fleece Captain
Rathery of the British ship Dimsdale, were
shanghaied, and are taking a sea voyage
before the mast to Callao, Peru. The. cap
tain learned their true object, and enticed
them on board, where they were over
powered. -
The men are Joseph Galloway and John
Perry, both well known here. As the
vessel pulled out of the harbor, Galloway
sprang overheard and attempted toescape,
but was lassoed and hauled back, kicking
and swearing, to the deck.
The local gamblers are much exercised
over the matter, and have written Gov
ernor McGraw and Secretary Gresham,
urging them to communicate with the
American Consul at Callao.. and see that
the men: are released from bondage upon
their arrival at that port. The friends of
the men here are fearful lest the captain
should put the men in irons at Callao, and
transfer. them to another vessel, and thus
keep them going indefinitely.
Perry has brother; Robert Perry, alias
White; in San Francisco, who is
said to. be- worth some $4,000. The
latter has been advised by wire of his
brothers predicament, and. he promises
his friends here that he will do something
desperate. -.
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VANCOUVER CHAIN FRAUD,
The Swindling Operations of
a PenniIess Young
Scamp.
Secures Money ON. the Plea That 1t
Is to Be Used I'M Building
Church..

VANCOUVER, B. C., April pa
"chain" swindle has Just been unearthed
here. A young man named A. r. Jack.
son, living in South Vancouver,a suburb
of this city, sent a number Of circulars to
persons in Eastern Canada, asking them
to send him 10 cents to assist in building
church and to continue the. chain by
writing two similar letters to other per-
sons. Jackson described himself as secre-
tary of Lawndale- Relief Association, and
set forth that the people in that settle
ment were very poor, their property hav-
ing been. damaged by the recent Fraser
River food.
One of the circulars was sent to Rev. Mr..
Thompson, a Methodist minister in the
neighborhood, and he handed the. matter
to the police. They visited Lawndale and
found it to be. "boom townsite" in the
bush, the town consisting of Just two
shacks, one occupied by Jackson, and the
other by Chinamap.
Jackson confessed to having been the
author of the letters and having obtained
money for himself, stating that the story
of the noted STAMP" chain had suggested
the scheme. The Postmaster says he has
received heavy mail for some time past,
and large number of persons are be-
lieyed to have been victimized
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and the itching and burning was some
thing awful. Added to this was a severe
pain, seemingly in the bone. AT last it
became SO that i had.to give up work and
was unable to walk. I had to have my
leg bsndaged all the time, and frequent
changes of heeIoths. For nine months
I sat with my leg resting in q chair.
: OH. IL was Dreadfull +.
Friends said could not live long. In all
i had seven different pb ysicians, All to no
purposewhatever. y knew the. merit of
Hood IS .Sarsaparilla, AS had some. years
before taken it with benefit, and decided
to try it for my apparently hopeless case.
In two or three days after I began, my
appetite WAS better, and my. courage re-.
vived.. 70 make a. long story short, the
eruption entirely disap peared, and the
flesh on my leg resumed perfectly healthy
appearance. i wac soon able to. walk
about. 7 cannot. tell: how amazed. my
neigh bors.and friends were. i can now
walk without any Iameness, as we'll as.
ever. Have not the sig htest eruption, OF
itching OF. burning,or any sort Of trout Bile.
Whatever with my leg. The gratitude !.
owe. Hoods Sarsaparilla is simply un-
speakabIe',.: THos. BENNETT; .165 Syca-
more Street, Roslfndale, Boston, :: T. s
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keep up the streets, and all this time the
town had remarkably cheap water and no
muss with water company.
The water surplus and other funds were
about two years ago large enough to en-
able the town to put in an electric-lighting
plant, which was done. The town is
lighted with about forty arc lights, and a
few private consumers are cheaply supplied
with lamps.
. The engines that pump the water run
the dynamos, and both the power
machinery and the operations of both the
light and water systems are wholly cared
for by one man and a chunk of boy, and
Redwood City is an enterprising county
seat with $500 inhabitants.
The water rates are 81 a month for each
family of whatever size, with % cents a
month for bathtub and other small extra
charges for lawns, etc. Large consumers
are supplied at from 20 to 30 cents per 1000
gallons. At these remarkably low rates,
with no interest to pay and with economy
of operation, the receipts average about
$3.50 month, and the net profit from both
water and light systems approximates $500
a month. No wonder political economists
point to Redwood City.
This pretty town, the county seat of San
Mateo County, which spreads about among
the live oaks one and half miles from the
bay shore and twenty nine miles south OF
San Francisco, has other features of interest
and is doing, some things worth reading
about.
It's natural situation is very fortunate.
The country about it is rich and beautiful,
being part of that magnificent park with
which nature has fianked the sheltered
western side of the bay. The valley plain
stretches away to the north aud south and
mile and a half westward to, the foothills.
Spreading oaks and pretty homes dot the
plain that rests under smiling skies. The
foothills roll upward to the view clad in
beauty, and above and beyond them the
darker mountains tower to where their
lofty redwoods stand. out against, the sky
Like the rest of this bay region it is all an
ideal place of.idea1 homes about here, too,
homes are to soon rapidly multiply. The
town itself presents many long streets
ined with cottages and more pretentious
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residences, about which flowers and shrub
berry add beauty to neatness. The business
and industries of Redwood City give it q
larger quota of workingmen than the other
towns along that side of the bay, and one
of the distinctive features of the place is
the exceptionally large proportion of the
working class who own their own little
homes This is the result of the work of
an old and successful local building and
loan association.
The water transportation facilities here
are of especial interest now because
water competition is just being established
for the first time on large scale, and be-
cause railroad freight rates are tumbling
down. From the bay a deep slough ex-
tends to within half-mile of the town,
and from there Redwood Greek allows tide
water to reach through and beyond the
town. Little sloops and scow-schooners
have for many years run up to wharves In
the town at high water, resting in the mud
at low tide.
About three months ago Selby Bros.
organized the Redwood City Navigation
Company and began running the little
steamer Tia Juana and barges between the
town and the city, the time schedules
being based on the tide tables and not on
the clock. The railroad has always before
successfully discouraged water transporta-
ton from here that was more formidable
than irregular scow-schooners, but the
Redwood City Navigation Company seems
to have come to stay, and extensive water
traffic is promised. The little steamer has
been carrying and towing large cargoes of
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This is the. truth in nutshell re-
garding the:cures by Hoods Sarsapa,
rilla. 1t tells the story of how this
medicine effects its wonderful cures.
The most tenacious cases, which
Other, remedies utterly fail to reach,
are cured by Hoods .Sarsaparilla, be
cause it is the great blood purifier. ;.
Such. a testimonial as we give
below, few medicines: can produce.
1t. is only one of. many possessed by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and proves the
1nerito this medicine. +.
Reliable, honest, Industrious. :is
what all say of Mr.. Bennett: He is
been engagcd1as. gas-fitter M Boston
for 35 years.: with Tarbel1, III Wash
ington street, and Mckinney, Wash
ington street, opp Boylston. = + f. s.:
&C. I. Hood &. Co., Lowell, Mass. =.
!. Gentlemen:-I aim ding only what
is just when tell voluntarily: what
Hoods SarsapariIla has done for me-. ]
know 1t : s: ~: ::.
Saved MY Life.
"a year ago last winter, after ex-
posture to storms, / caught severe cold,
: after which chr onic eczema appeared on
the calf Of my left leg, and spread all
J. over my lower limb from knee to- ankle,
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BATES B1GAMY TRIAL.

Pecutiur Complications in a Case In a
British Columbian. Court.
VANCOUVER, B. c., April 2.-The
Bates bigamy case came up in court to-day,
and from the evidence given it seems the
second wife of Bates was Josephine Dau-
phin, the wife of General Dauphin of the
extinct Louisiana Lottery Company, as
mentioned in previous dispatches. Maxi
milan Dauphin, son of the general and
Josephine Dauphin, deposed that he
was born in New Orleans, but did not re-
member his father, his parents having
separated. He gave evidence concerning
his mothers marriage to Bates in 1886 in
Victoria
: Mrs. Struthe's testified to her marriage
with Bates in New Westminster, and stated
she never asked the minister's name, and
that since the ceremony Bates had told her
it was mock marriage.
Mrs. Dauphin is here, but it is stated
that she will refuse to testify, as her evil
dence my criminate herself, since she
married Bates while Dauphin was alive. >.
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PRESCOTT NINE ExpL osIoN.
Three Men Injured and Tspo May Have
Been KILLED.

Three Men Injured and Ttco May Have
Been Killed.
PRESCOTT, A. r., April 2.-There was
a terrific explosion of 100 pounds of giant
powder in the Ohio mine of the Mescal
Mining and Milling Company late this
afternoon. ~.
The mine is located nine miles from
Prescott and the particulars are meager,
as the courier left Immediately after the
explosion to secure medical aid for the five
men who were working in the drift.where
the powder was stored.
Three men had been rescued seriously
injured, James Newlin, the foreman of the
mine, being the most seriously injured,
The explosion caused cave of one hun
bred or more tons of rock, and whether the
other two men were killed and buried be-
meath the debris or in the drift behind the
cave-in of rock could not be determined
when the messenger left.
The miners set at work Immediately to
remove the rock from the drift to reach the
imprisoned or buried men. Particulars
will not be obtained before morning.
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their lodges as representatives to draw
mileage and per diem.
Memorial resolutions on the death of
eel were adopted.
The election of officers takes place
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Past Grand Master Barnes made an elo-
quent plea to retain the Pacific States
Waterman as the official journal. The
subject will be disposed of at tomorrow
session.
1t was decided to pay all representatives
full mileage to and from Los Angeles,
which will increase the expenses of the
session at least $4,000.
This evening fine public entertainment
was given at Maccabee Hall. Wednesday
morning the delegates will be shown
around the country in carriages.
Following are the delegates to the Grand
Lodge:
California No. w H. Fiske, N. H spier.
Oakland No. rs. II. Mitchell, c. L.. Inger, A.
0. Perry.
Brooklyn No. 3-George Chase.
San Francisco No. Nv. III. Fuller, L. Good
day, J. Blumenthal
Alameda No 5-Philip Seiben.
Occidental No. CIVIL G. Hawkett, J. w
Patterson, G. H. Garthorne, James ingram,
C. r. Johns.
Pacific No. re. w. Marston, j. s. Gilmore,
William Winnie, L. G. Bridgman.
Golden Gate No. Sc. A. Trautner, s. J. Lew
Harmony No. &C. McCoglan, William 1hack-
cray, B. Ticoulett, Frederick Blight, L. John
son, James Reade.
Berkeley No. 1O-F. H. Payne.
Temple No. 11-H. C. Babcock
San Leandro No. 12-H. F. Eber.
Fortuna No. 13-L. T. Hayman, Robert Cor
lett.
Yerba Buena No. III. D. Shaylor, c. H. M.
Curry, Fred Rothganger, NJ. c. Nunan, R. A. A.
Summers.
Eureka No. 15-.J. H. Stoves.
Protection No. 16-J. J. Mcdaniel
Enterprise No. III. B. Wyatt, w H. Hem
messy, ]. w. Trousdell, d. w Ickes, P. " Baker
Haywards No. ISL. E. Crook.
Bernal No. 19--E. Worth, George w Lemont.
Sausalito No. 20-Robert Furlong.
Union No. 21-J. III. Coyle, James Popert,
Joseph Judd, D. H. Macdonald, J. G.. White.
Yolo No. 22-S. M. Griggs A. G. Reed
Stockton No. go. Fl. Christie, H. r. Camp
bell, c. H. Gay, George Lissenden, G. P. WIFI
liams.
San Rafael No. 24-M Herzog, H. A. Ames.
Redwood No 25-George II. Buck.
Gilroy No. 26-V. Bassignano.
Unity No. PA. A. Stoneberger, P. A. Smith,
A. Montgomery, G. W. Daywalt f. ]. Locher, j.
A. Martin, A. Neustadt, E. Lawton.
Santa Rosa No 2S-John Dunbar.
Petaluma No. CIV. F. Farrell.
Valley No. 30-M. J. Blackman. E. A. Brandt.
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a. L. FULTON.

has come the valley road, and the general
thrill of life that has touched the whole
State. Redwood City feels its pulse quicken
and is just realizing that new life is at
hand. The leading men are all awake, and
nowhere in San Mateo County is the pro-
jected boulevard more warmly supported.
Two of the members of the preliminary
boulevard committee of five are Superior
Judge George n. Buck and Attorney
George C. Ross of this place.
The Bank of San Mateo County, OF
which ] L. Ross is president, has paid-up
capital OF $4,000 and over $500 900 of de-
posts. P. P. Chamberlain, who is large
merchant and who has been Treasurer OF
the county for nearly twenty years, is one
of the bank officials.
Some of the finest educational institu-
tons OF the coast are close to Redwood
City. Stanford University is but five
miles away, and closer still, to the south,
the great Catholic Theological Seminary at
Menlo Park, which is to cost $1,000, 900, is
rapidly progressing. The convent of N otre
Dame is in this town, and the widely
known Belmont School is short distance
to the north.
the town supports free reading-room,
four churches, and,a large number of pros
porous fraternal organizations. 1t has two
bright and influential papers, the Democrat
and the Times-Gazette.
The Town Trustees, who are now doing
much for the place, are: Alexander
Gordon, Henry Beeger. George HI. Rice,
John Christ and Robert Brown. A. l..
Fulton of the Fulton and Ross Lumber
Company, ex-Judge Fitzpatrick and Editor
Crow of the Democrat are among the citi-
zens who are now foremost in public
enterprises.
One thing which Redwood City needs in
common with the other bay towns is
cheaper fares and quicker and more con-
.yenient access to the city, for in spite of its
growing business interests, the future oil
the town and the region is that of place
Of suburban residence. So the valley road
is enthusiastically welcomed with the
brighter future that is Just dawning.