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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

Then came another apartment
house imbroglio to tax the patience
and gray matter of his Honor Mogan.
Joseph Inderbitzen was accused of
violently assaulting George Guertr in
a Swiss hotel at 1922 Mission street.
"where? ?" sharply inquired the
court, when his clerk read off the To-
cation of the scene of strife.
AT 1922 Mission street." was re-
peated.
What on earth has broken loose
among the Mission boarders?" in
quired the court.
There was no reply, but the evil
dence in the case clearly showed
what had broken loose in that Swiss
hotel. The inmates of the hostelry,
it appeared, were participating in a
birthday party and to inject some nov
city into the entertainment Mr.. Inder-
bitten offered to wrestle any man IN
the house for drinks for the assem-
blage. As the challenger was noted
for athletic prowess his invitation was
not accepted with any promptitude,
and then, to prove his superiority in
the art of catch-as-catch-can Mr.. In
rymaker, nimbly tripped him up, vio-
lently cast him down and then pro-
ceeded to demonstrate the utility Of a
half Nelson lock. At this juncture
Mr.. Guertr interfered and Mr.. Inder-
bitzen resented the intrusion by
springing to his feet, drawing knife
and shifting Mr.. Guertr's nose, break
ing small bone of that organ.
Mr.. Guertr had his nose in court
with him and evidently carried the
sympathy Of a large majority Of the
witnesses, for most of them testified
in his behalf and solemnly declared
that the nose-breaking ended the fra
cas-that nobody attempted to mo-
lest the assailant. AS this preponder-
ance of testimony failed to explain
how Mr.. Inderbitzen received a badly
bruised eye and a deep cut in his
head, the case was taken under ad-
visement until December 5.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

There are numerous holders of
chances in a drawing for a house
and lot near Golden Gate Park who
will be grieved TO learn that the chief
promoter of the scheme, one Edwin
Solomon, formerly a tailor was yes
terday adjudged guilty of aiding and
abetting lottery, and that their in
vestment is illegal and will be utterly
worthless unless Mr.. Solomon refunds
the money they paid him.
1t was a clever scheme Of the get
rich-quick species that Mr. Solomon
conceived and had in active operation
when the law interfered The house
and lot cost him, he says, $4,000, and
he had printed and distributed 10000
tickets. each of which represented five
chances in the rattle. and were offered
Tor sale at 81 apiece. In other words,
if the entire issue of tickets had been
sold and paid for Mr.. Solomon would
have pocketed profit of $4,000. or 25
per cent interest on his investment. AS
1t was about $4,000 was taken in before
the planeW:e nipped by the police.
IN the S1bniiinft of Judge Cabaniss ves-
terday Nw Solomon pleaded his respon-
slpillty ts' the people who had mr.
chased his tickets and deplored the pos
sloility lof their losing their investment
me JuGSe considerably suggested to
MIN a way out of his perplexity.
Just advertise in the newspapers
lnat you Will redeem at face value MI
the tickets you have disposed Of" said
ms Honor, and I'll stake my reputa-
non for wisdom on the prediction that
heIcre week expires you will have
heard fIom every one of your chance
holders
N'r. SGlomon's sentence will be pro
hcunced to-day. The penalty for his
oHense Is fire whose minimum * 81
and maximum $500.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

There was no human kindness in
the milk case that occupied the great
er part of Judge Conlan's morning
session. Acerbity of manner and
speech marked the attitude of the
contestants and their respective coun-
sci.
A. F. Green had complained that
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

the Hall of Justice the policeman con-
siderately escorted him to the City
Hospital and had his battered head
dressed and bandaged.
The case went over until Friday.
Amelia Duncan, colored virago,
will be given full opportunity to state
to Judge Mogan her reasons for forci-
bly, ejecting all the inmates of a saloon
on Folsom street. between Fremont
and Beale, last Tuesday night. She
tried to state her case when she was
arraigned yesterday morning, and had
got as far as "Dey crossed me, Jedge, -
when her summary removal was or
dered AS she was escorted from the
courtroom she vehemently hurled de-
fance at all her enemies, there present
and elsewhere.
Policeman Joseph Field, charged with
having shot and killed his father-in-
law. Fritz Dirking, was before Judge
Fritz. and after some unimporsant tes-
timony had been taken the case went
over until next Monday, when the PROS
ecution, it is said, will Introduce 81
woman who heard Field threaten, on
the night of the killing, that he would
exterminate the entire DirlSiHs family.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

A sturdy begsar should have sturdy
denier
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03
WIVES DEFEND THEIR HUSBANDS
WHEN LAWYERS ASK QUESTIONS
Apartment House Melee Is Ventilated in Police
Court and ConnubiaI Loyalty Is One Striking
Feature of Somewhat BeWiIdering Testimony

Sam Lunt and A. F. Francis, dealers
in the lacteal fluid, had stolen from
the Standard Milk Company eleven
cans and twenty-one bottles, and John
Cox was accused by the same COM
plainant Of having pilfered from the
same corporation one bottle box and
three tanks, of the total value of $15.
The case had been dragging through
the court several weeks, but the YER
bal contention was waged as fiercely
yesterday morning as if the cause
were fresh and the parties inspired by
newborn passion.
After wearily listening to a repeti-
ton of the arguments the Judge sent
the defendants to the Superior Court,
with the bail of each fixed at $1,000.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

Greater San Francisco's Greatest Paper.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-03

The Art Supplements
Are the Hit of the Year
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-10-03
MOnuR11ent0
naCiQF1aE
SuScripci0n en- Puerto Rico

Proxima a terminar la sus-
cripcion nacional para erigir un
monumento en- Madrid a los
soldados y marineros muertos
en- las 1ltimas guerras, la Conf
sion Eiecutiva invita- a todas
aquellas personas que simpati-
cen con la idea, a contribuir al
aumento de la suscrjpcion.
Parasauxiliar los trabajos de
las sub-cOmisiones recaudadOras
Y prestar mayores facilidades a
todas aquellas personas que juz-
guen ell proyecto merecedor de
estimulos, sc admitira en- las Re-
dacciones del "Heraldo Espa-
11ol' y BoLET1N MERcANT1L, cual-
quier suma para la suscripcion
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1903-10-03
EMGLATERRA
sEmpieza ell descenso?

En- los circulos politicos de
Londres es general la opinion
de que la situacion en- ell Extre-
mo Oriente Sc agrava por mo-
mentos, disminuyendo cada vez
mas las probabilidades de que
Sc resuelvan pacffcamente las
diferencias entire los imperios
ruso y japones; las medidas
adoptadas recientemente por Ru-
sia, y muy en- especial la que
prohibe la exportacion de cerea-
les desde la Manchuria al ia
pom, hacen Greer que Sc dispone
a provocar una ruptura defni-
tiva.
Ante semejante situacion, con-
sidera oportuno lord Lansdowne
que 1nglaterra Sc prepare, y con
tai objeto ha sonetido a la apro-
baCion del Parlamento un pro-
yecto de ley, para que las guar
niciones del Africa Meridional
sean aumentadas hasta $4,000
hOmbres. $1,000 de los cuales es-
taran siempre a las ordenes del
comandante en- jefe del ejercito
de las Indias. De este 11ltimo
forman parte 10000 soldados eu-
iropeos.
En- ell War Office sc ha estu-
diado el medic de que ell ejerci-
to de las Indias pudiera ser re-
Tornado en- el case de que las
tropas rusas efectuasen una Sc
ria tentativa en- la frontera No
roeste de la India; pero, des-
pues de algunas investigaciones,
Sc ha llegado a la conclusion de
que no podrian llegar a tempo
los refuerzos de la Gran Breta-
ia. Ell Canal de Suez pudiera
ser facilmente bloqueado por el
enemigo, no quedandole otro
recurso a los transportes ingle-
ses que el de pasar por el Cabo
de Buena Esper ANA, y esta es
raz6n sufciente para que ell Co
bierno de la Gran Bretafia quie-
ra mantener en- ell Africa del
Sur fuerzas de reserva que, en-
menos de una semana, podrian
ser trasladadas a Bombay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
PLAGUE OF SEA WATER.
What Happened to City That Washed
Itself With Brine.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Several years ago the city council of
Hastings. England tried the experiment OF
employing sea water for watering the
streets and flushing the sewers. and its ex-
ample was soon followed by the local au-
thorities of number of other towns on the
coast. The wastefulness, not to say folly, of
using for such purposes water that had at
considerable labor and expense been filtered
to the highest attanable degree of purity
seemed obvious. and. though, Of course. It
involved the installation of a separate sys-
tenn of pumping stations. mains and hy
drants. the fact that the supply mex
haustibIe and itself cost absolutely nothing
was so evident that it was strange that this
source had been neglected so long.
The sanitary and economic results seemed
more than to justify the innovation. for. to
say nothing of its slightly antiseptic action,
the microscopic property of the salt caused
the effects of each watering to last for
much longer time, and the surface of the
roadway was believed by some to be more
compact and cohesive than when fresh wa
ter was employed Besides the retrench-
ments of the new system presented direct
source of revenue in the demand by many
private householders for a salt water SER
vice to their bath rooms. so that they might
enjoy the luxury of sea bathing at home.
But a few years experience has unfor-
tunately brought about no small d;stllus'on-
ment: the owners of carriages complain OF
the destructive action of the salt mud on
the varnish and paint and the tradesmen
complain of the injury inflicted on goods of
all kinds by the salt dust and its subse-
Quent deliquescence.
Lastly. the users themselves. the local au-
thoritieS and their customers have d!scov-
cred that the salt water exerts such
corrosive and generally destructive action
on metal pipes and fittings that the number
of persons contracting for a domestic sup
ply has fallen from 200 to two. and the
leakage from the joints of the street mains
has caused the death of the trees planted
in the best streets and promenades. so that
the engineer to the corporation that had
been the pioneer in the movement finds
himself compelled, in an exhaustive report
of it's experience. to admit that the system
has nroYed q cOmplete failure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
When a Man Sneezes.

From the Medical Record.
1t is reported that Mr.. Jonathan Hutchin-
son has said that when a man sneezes
heartily he may know himself to be in the
best of health" and that mo person in
poor health was ever known to sneeze.
The Scientific American, referring to this
reported statement falls foul of the English
surgeon for making so dognatic an asser-
ton, when the contrary is so easily proved.
The journal in question then goes on to re-
late many old representations with regard
to the i'll luck attending sneeZing, some of
which. while proving nothing are interest
ing 1t appears that many savage and
semi-civilized races of the orient have some
curious customs regarding the sneeze.
When the Sultan of Monomtopa sneezes.
for instance. the fact is made known from
the palace by certain signal. Instantly
every subject within hearing of the signal
sets up a shout, the cry is taken up by
others, and so extends until il runs through
the confines of his empire. When the Sui
tan of Senaar sneeZes, on the contrary.
every woman in his harem or within hear
ing turns her back on him and makes "A
sign Of contempt by shifting her hips with
her hands-disgusted that so mighty per-
sonage should have to sneeze like ordi-
nary mortal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
THEY GO A-FISHING.
Disciples of Izaak Walton on the Banks
of the Potomac

One of the best fishing holes around the
city of Washington is in the vicinity of
the tide gates opening from the tidal
reservoir into the Washington channel, If
one may judge by the number of fisher
men to the square foot who congregate
there A visit there on bright Sunday
morning reveals scene of happy indo-
lence hardly surpassed elsewhere. Stand
ing, STOPPING or lying upon the sea wall
on either side Of the gates is various
crowd of men and boys intently watch
ing the bob and line. Some are colored
and some are white. AS a class they are
not prosperous looking, but are those who
dc not worry about the morrow and make
the best of today. Besides the fishers
there is also usually a large number of
onlookers, who watch with interest the
fortunes of the anglers. 1t does not seem
to make much difference to the latter
whether they get any bites, or catch
fish; they are seemingly under a spell.
and are satisfied to sit about in blissful
relaxation and regardless of the passing
hours-a sort of advanced branch of the
Don't Worry Society A reporter spent
the best part of an hour on the scene one
Sunday morning, and during that time
one man got a bite, but unfortunately
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21

with Indifferent success with hook and
line.
The virtue of patience possessed neces-
sarily by all fishermen is developed
among these to remarkable degree, and
for that at least they may be admired.
Indeed there is possibly only one other
animate being in which the quality is de
veIoped more highly, and that is in the
fishermans dog. The dog is absolutely
without occupation when his master goes
on fishing trip like this. He may inter
est himself for time in nearby sur
roundinGs, but shortly finds his interest
dulled, his field for objective examina-
ton exhausted. Some fishermen take a
dog along even when they go in a boat.
and then within its narrow confines,
there is really nothing to draw the dogs
interest. 1t may be that he knows his
masters purpose in dangling a string in
the water and displays interest or eX-
citement when q fish is caught. but he
is not involved in the action and cannot
share the citation of the man at having
finally content to lie inert, watching the
fisher until his fishing fever has abated
or it is time to go home.
The style of fishing witnessed at the
Long bridge appeals to one class, but to
another the idea of going fishing, brings
pictures of seldom-trod paths through
the woods and along the hills to a wind
ing stream. from whose grassy banks or
moss-grown rocks one may cast the fly
or worm to tempt the wary fish. Yet an
other class may dream of the sport and
thrill of going with deep, strong boots
into the fish'S own element, treading the
rapids and rillS of a swift coursing stream
while matching their craft against the
quick instinct of its shadowy denizena
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
STORM IN THE ROCKIES.
The Thunder Worse Than the Roar of
Battle.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press
If you have never seen mountain thun-
derstorm at an elevation of 1000 feet or
more, you have missed experience that
will add gray hairs to your head. Here is
the story of a storm among natures mas
sive sentines upon whom it left a lasting
impression:
ITO me, a thunderstorm back east held
no special terrors, and frequently 1 have
been out in such demonstration without
feeling any especial nervousness.
up here on the Rocky mountains things
are different, and l confess now to live in
an awful abject terror of thunderstorm,
especially at night in my tent. 1 suffer
this terror Notwithstanding the fact that
so far the storms have in every instance
except one gone around or beneath us with
out even raining enough to wet the ground.
But it is the going around and beneath
that gets into my nerves. In the first place.
imagine what it is TO be one and half
miles nearer a rip-roaring thunderstorm
than one is back home There you have
occasional flashes of lightning; here it is
one continuous, dazzling aWe-inSpiring
performance. The lightning strikes, too
for it Is no uncommon thing during a storm
to hear the rocks splintering and cracking
where one especially vigorous bolt has land
ed.
Add to this nerveracking. exhibit the
most awful detonatonS of thunder that YOU
can magine and a straight blowing wind
that sometimes makes the flaps of your
tent play ragtime melody, and you have
some idea of a mountain Thunderstorm
The thunder is worse than the sound of a
mighty battle. 1t bangs up against the
mountain side and reverberates and rolls
off into one ear-splitting conclusion after
another until you, lying quaking in your
tent. fully believe that the next boom will
split mountain ana valley in twain and
land you in China or some other seaport
town.
Il lay one night and with chattering
teeth counted five distinct thunderstorms
come up to the edge of the plateau on
which my tent stands and each time go
through with an electrical performance
that would give Tom Edison a dumb ague,
and through it all not cupful of water
fell my tent.
These electrical displays are not SEEM
ingly much dreaded by the people who live
IN high attitudes. They comfortingly de-
clare that a tornado cyclone is unknown
in the mountains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
The Language,
From the Hartford Post.

4
The English language is no stationary af-
fair, fixed and limited in it's scope, but few
appreciate how fast 1t is growing A new
dictionary, just issued shows this; In fact
every new dictionary of Importance that
pretends to give the words in the language
in completeness does the same. The par
ticular dictionary referred to gives no less
than 1900 new terms or new meanings of
old words. large number of new terms
in the language always come from scientific
vocabularies. There is also a considerable
addition through the adoption modifica-
ton of foreign words. AS maps are ex-
panded, changed or filed up through the
labors of geogl aphical explorers. so the ~
vestigatons of the savants in astronomy
chemistry, electricity and other of the ply
steal sciences, as we'll as in psychology,
economics and philosophy index widened
mental horizons in terms that take perma-
nent place in the language. The Spanish
war brought many new words into use in
the English language In this country.
Among the new words that the up-to-date
dictionary must consider are such terms a s
DOGGY, a term in golf; bordereau, briquet.
chauffeur, expansionist THEREON. immune,
laverick, manywhere, open door, osteopa-
thist. ping-pong. popover, radium, rag
time, roof garden, rough rider, two-step,
ZioniSm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
ICE AT THE EQUATOR.
It is to Be Seen if One Will Risk the
Ascent of Mountains.
From Pcarson's Magazine.

From Pearsons Magazine.
1t must be almost inconceivable, even to
many people who have been to the equa-
tor, that within the sweltering barbarism
of the tropics there are places where there
is any quantity of ice and snow. Natural
ice, moreover, and not the dirty apology
for 1t which is manufactured, and regard
ed now as a necessity by the white people,
who are gradually crowding into the Ian
guild warmth perennially filing the equa-
torial portions of the earth.
Right on the equator there are both ice
and snow covering wide districts, where
as in an English January midnight, the
air bites shrewdly and it is very cold"
The law that as We ascend the air gets
cooler and cooler about degree for every
hundred feet holds good in the tropics as
well as in temperate climates, and thus
it is merely a question of the existence
of sufficiently high land anywhere to in
sure the presence of both frost and snow.
AS matter OF fact, If we look
spherical map of the EARTH or globe
the line where snow lies perpetually rises
in a great curve, which begins at the
level within the arctic circles and rises
and rises over the equator to a height of
between 1900 and 14.UOO feet. In the Brit
ish Isles this line passes but a few hun
dred feet above the tops Of the Scotch
mountains, and it strikes the Alps about
1000 feet above the sea.
The Alps and the Caucasus, the Pyre-
nees and the Himalayas and the desOlate
arctic wastes are always covered with
ice and snow above certain heights and
above certain ATTITUDES; but all in these
extra tropical regions the snow and the
ice shrink and expand as the seasons wax
and wane, the snow of the arctic extend
ing the winters over wide areas in the
temperate regions, while from the high
mountains the snow fields invade the deep
forests and the cultivated areas in the val
leyS every time the winter sets in.
The occasional oscillation of the snow
lines on the mountains, and in the winter
have each of them far-reachfng effects
upon the vegetation of temperate climates,
which affect the forests as well as the
flowers that grow under them, for they
are both covered up with snow, or frozen
out for many months in the year.
1t is on account of this circumstance that
we get, in the great ranges north and south
Of the equator, what are termed Alpine
fiorae or plants, the welfare of which de-
ponds upon their being covered up in deep
snow for half the year. structure having
become especially adapted to it.
Al first sight we should perhaps expect
that the snow and ice upon the mountains
in the tropics should oscillate in the same
way but as a matter of fact 1t is perhaps
the most marked characteristic of the
sWeltering tropics that they continue to
swelter without let or hndrance. through
out the year, the seasons being simply
marked by fits of hot drOughts and fits of
equally hot rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
How His Majesty is Bearing
the White Mans Burden.
A COLONIAL EMPIRE
HAS SPREAD OUT MOST AMAZING
INGLY IN TWENTY YEARS.
Big Holdings in Africa, Asia and in
the Pacific-Million Square
Miles.

Copyright, 1908, 10y Frank c. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
BERLIN.
The Germans are exporting more than a
billion dollars worth of goods every year
and their foreign trade has become a vital
part of their industrial existence. They
are frightened at the advances of the
Americans and are now organizing
movements to develop their colonies and
thereby build up trade which they can
control They also need new lands for
their surplus population. Every German
who settles in the United States becomes
IN American and the kaiser says he wants
his people to go to German dependencies
where they will still be Supporters of the
fatherland AS it is now this empire is
chOck full. 1t has more than 60000000 and
there is n large excess of births over
deaths.
The desire for colonial expansion is not
confined to the kaiser. The people of all
classes are with him and nearly all are
aCtuated by self interest. There are many
societies in favor of the movement and
lished in its interest. There are journals
which support it. The Deutsch Sud West
Afrlcamshe Zeitung for instance is regu-
larly published at Swakopmund, Africa
and there is also the Deutsche Ost- A fri
Cdntshe Zeitung in the eastern part of the
continent These papers are weeklies cost
ing from s. to 81 a year. In Tsingtau
there is colonial newspaper devoted to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21

these facts the writer is indebted to Mr..
Williams himself. Under his system the
blue ground IS now carried up from the
deep chambers in cars. 1t is then spread
out in layers about a foot thick, upon
open spaces of ground. called floors"
hundreds of acres in extent. Here for sew
eral months it is exposed to the air, sun
and rain; is steam narrowed and, In dry
weather, watered by sprinklers. Having
been thus softened and broken up it is
passed through automatic washing ma
containing the diamonds are thus sepa-
rated and made ready for picking. After
many years of hand picking an employe
recently discovered that diamonds would
adhere to grease whereas the other min
erals in the incasing Jumps would not.
This simple discovery put hundreds OF
hand pickers out of work, but saved the
DeBeers company hundreds Of thousands
of dollars