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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-02
SCOUTS DRILL
WINS APPLAUSE
Crowds Cheer the Maneuvers
of the Filipinos During
Parade at the, Preside
LOGAN OFF FOR MANILA
Transport Carries Casuals
and Recruits and a Large
Amount of Army Supplies

The Filipino scouts We're the CEN
ter of attraction at the Pfesidio yes
terday. Their drill started at o'clock,
and long before that time the towns
folk commenced to assemble. They
perched themselves on the terminus
platform of the railroad company and
on every available point of vantage
and by the time the scouts came down
from their camp on the hillside about
1000 people were in attendance.
In the drill proper the scouts were
in khaki uniforms. They went through
the different evolutions and maneuvers
evidently to the great satisfaction of
the crowd, which repeatedly cheered
and applauded them. Following the
drill the splendid band gave concert.
At o'clock came the full dress pa
rade. For this important ceremony the
F'ilipinos donned their brand new blue
uniforms and marched and strutted
about as proud as peacocks.
The parade was reviewed by Lieuten-
ant Wait c. Johnson, who took COM
mand in the absence of Major Caring
ton, who had gone to the city TO pay
his respects to General Shafter.
The parade passed off in first class
shape. and in the drill of the manual
of arms the scouts made a tremendous
hit and earned the hearty applause that
was given them by the spectators.
There will not be any drills to-day
nor tomorrow, but the scouts viii be
on the field again every day next week
at 5 O'clock for drill and o'clock for
parade.
The last orders Major Darlington re-
ceived, commanding him to take his
scouts to ST. Louis and then retrace his
steps to the Philippines. are causing
expressions of regret from all the Off
GERS in his command. Lieutenant john
son. in speaking of the order yesterday,
said: 1--WE are greatly disappointed
that Major Darlington has been ordered
TO leave us on arrival at st. Louis. We
are all, both officers and scouts, great
~ attached to him. He has worked
hard and long to bring the scouts to
their present degree of efficiency, as
you see by the work they are doing
here. Major Darlington is a soldier
and a thorough disciplinarian and
takes a tremendous pride in his pres
ent command. We are all sorry to lose
him. We still hope the order may be
revoked, and that he will be able to re-
main in command during the time of
the exposition"
The transport Logan sailed for Ma
Mia at u noon yesterday. She car
ried a big load of freight and 275 re-
cruits, who were in command of Major
H H. Benham, First Lieutenants A.
Mcintyre and j. G.. Langdon and Sec
ond Lieutenants C. E. Hathaway and
]. V. kuZnik.
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TRIES TO STAY
SHIPS CAPTAIN
Fred Romer, Second Officer
of Brig Lurline, Goes In
sane and Runs Amuck
IRONED AFTER BATTLE
Vessel Puts Into This Port
and Delivers Maniac Into
Hands of Local Police

The little brig Lurline, bound from
Altata, Mexico, for Grays Harbor, put
into port late yesterday afternoon with
the second mate, Fred Romer. in irons.
Romer became violently insane three
days ago, when the ship was about
seventy miles west of San Francisco.
Selling large iron Delaying pin Romer
attempted to kill the captain. The two
struggled on the deck. but Captain
Forest was no match in strength for
Romer, who is six feet tall and i'm
mensely powerful
Had it not been for the timely assist
ance of the first mate and some of the
crew murder might have been done.
Romer was overpowered with difficulty
and placed in irons and the brig head
ed for this port.
Romer was brought ashore last night
in a launch and removed by the local
police from Powell street wharf to the
insane ward at the Receiving Hospital.
The demented sailors wrists were ter
ribIy swollen through his constant eff
fort TO throw off the irons. He has but
one eve.
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Attorney W. d. Grady, who repre-
sents Alexander B. Garnett, charged
with the murder of Major ]. w. Nc
Chung in Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchcock
Colts rooms in the Palace Hotel, filed
an affidavit in Judge Lawlor's court
Yesterday that the widow, Mrs. Nc
Chung, was sick and destitute in San
Diego and would be unable to attend
the trial of the case. He therefore
asked that an order be made that she
be examined conditionally before the
County Clerk at San Diego or other
fit and proper person. The matter was
continued till this morning.
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him in getting them passed. He told
me that he had an understanding with
Benson and Hyde. This conversation
took place on street, Washington
near the General Land Office, in the
fall of 1900 or 1901. That's as near
as 1 can place it. Dimond began it
by presenting card or note from
Benson to me, showing that he was
sent to Washington in the interest of
Benson. Hyde, c. w. Clarke, Elizabeth
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AN IMPORTANT NOTE.

Can you produce that card or
note?" knight asked.
NO. OF course it. would not do for
me to have such a communication on
my person and L destroyed it at once.
if 1 remember correctly. 1 know 1 did
not keep it more than ten minutes at
the most No. Benson's name was not
signed to the thing. He wouldn't do
that 1t was just signed B. L think.
I know 1 recognized it's source by the
writing as well as the letter signed
to IT."
In answer to further questions Walk
said the note from Benson did not ask
him to use any improper influence, nor
had Dimond ever made such request
Dimond had simply said that he was
there in the interest Of. certain lieu
land selections and wanted me TO aid
in expediting them. No, l never had
any correspondence with him and
never received any money or offer of
money from him.
On REORGANIZATION Walk said that
the communication from Benson was
Dimond represents me and he is all
right"
AT that time you had some rela-
tons with Benson, had you not?"
asked Heney.
I'VE object" interrupted McEner-
ney. The Commissioner gave the at
torney until Monday to present a brief
sustaining his objection and the wit
ness was excused until them. The
hearing will be resumed at 1890
O'Clock Monday morning.
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TOSAN RAFAEL,
ROSS VALLEY,
MILL VALLEY,
CAZADER0, Etc.

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-02
4 New Boo,I.

sights and Scenes From the Car Windows.
Have YOU read it, Why not? 1t tells all about
what you can see from the windows of the
Southern and Union Pacific overland limited
when YOU are on the way to Chicago ST.
Louis You had better get it and have talk
with S. F. Booth. General Agent L. p. r. r.,
! Montgomery street
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Something New.
Mrs. McClung Sick and Destitute.

The San FRANCISCO News Letter for this
week is on sale at all news dealers on Friday.
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TO have been with John A Benson.
Here was a loophole for Hyde and Di-
mond.
DO you know Frederick A. Hyde or
Henry P. Dimond?"
NO. sir
Ever exchange word of conversa-
ton or correspondence with them, or
either of them, on any subject?"
NO, sir"
That is ALL"
DEFENSE WINS a POINT.
Are you acquainted with John A.
Benson?" asked Heney in cross-exam-
nation
I'VE object" shouted McEnerney.
This witness was not asked anything
about Benson"
Objection sustained" the Commits
sioner ruled.
Then came Woodford d. Harlan.
former chief of the special service Ill
vision of the and office, and. as such.
charged with the protection of public
domain from fraudulent entry and
timber trespass. In that responsible
post, the indictment declares, he re-
ceived divers sums of money for fur
NAAti MS NAN SCntIiicS VI tie dI6S6u lana
sharks. But his acquaintance and
dealings had been with Benson. at
Washington. and he, too, was a
stranger to both Hyde and Dimond
DO you know John A Benson ?"
Heney repeated. with the result of
dra wing out the same objection from
McEnerney and the same ruling from
Heacock. So Harlan gave place to
William Z. Walk.
Walk is the principal examiner in the
General Land Office. where he has been
employed since he was a boy. The sum
Of $1,000. the indictment says, found its
way into his pockets from Benson's, as
consideration for valuable information
furnished and other illegal services
rendered to the combine. Walk was a
more fertile witness than his prede-
cessors. He did not know Hyde. but he
had had doings with Dimond, and
therefore had TO be handled carefully.
McEnerney soon got through with him
and then turned him over to Samuel
Knight, one OF Dimond's attorneys.
Walk AND DIMOND.
Mr.. Walk, do you know the defend
ant, Henry p. Dimond?" knight asked.
Yes, / met him at Washington,
where We were introduced by mutual
friends in the General Land Office"
McEnerney stopped the proceedings
long enough to get final objection on
the record, excepting his client Hyde.
from the effect of any testimony by
Walk. Heney argued that, as both
Hyde and Dimond were indicted for
the same conspiracy, the objection was
not well taken.
When there is proof of a con-
spiracy." Commissioner Heacock said,
then the act OF any codefendant is
material evidence against all the de-
PENDANTS. shall overrule the objection.
The weight 1 shall give the testimony
will be considered later"
Under knights careful questioning,
Walk told the Commissioner that within
a day or two after his introduction to
Dirnond he met the latter outside the
land office, where Dimond had given
him a card. or note, from Benson.
Walks story was in substance as fol-
lows:
"Dimond said he was in Washington
to expedite certain land cases and that
he would prepare list and try to get
favorable action taken on them by the
Land Office. He wanted me to take
an interest in these cases and assist
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kind of work reported until next Christ
mas. One of the principal reasons that this
class of thieves do not work now is that
the downtown streets are not crowded
enough here for a thief to escape and
consequently he has to lay in wait for his
prey, and this he cannot do when it is day.
light"
SHE HAS NO POCKETS.
a man employed by department store,
In speaking of the wrist bag, said:
Before the wrist bag became popular
women carried pocketbooks and purses, and
they left them all over the store. Clerks
and cash boys were chasing women all day
long who had laid pocketbooks down and
then calmly walked away aud left them.
Sometimes. though, shoplifter saw the
pocketbook before the clerk did. and that
was the last Of it so far as the owner was
concerned.
1T is toss up, think, which is the less
SAFE a pocket5ook or a wrist bag, but 1
think the new bags that now coming in
will be an advantage to the women for
they can grasp them in their hands. 1
should think a woman might take lessons
as to how TO carry money by the way a
man carries his
This last statement was repeated to a
woman who does considerable shopping
ana she replied rather Wrathfuily:
WELL no wonder a man does not lose
money He has a layer of pockets. and he
generally carries his money somewhere I'm
the innermost layer, where it is hard work
for him TO get at it himself
why, L have seen a man unbutton two
coats to get out nickel to pay his car
fare, and almost knock his neighbors ribs
out while doing it.
There was a time, years ago, when
fashion gave woman a pocket in her dress
skirt but that turned out to be the most
unsafe place of all I'm which to put a purse
know that my pocket was picked three
times
For that matter outside pockets are
unsafe, and the modern cut of a woman's
jacket won't permit an inner pocket roomy
enough to carry purse. So what are we
to do?
II sure most of us would be thankful
TO any one who would invent compare
lively safe way for a woman to carry her
money when shopping.
Il have a number Of friends who have
everything they buy charged. They keep
accounts at half dozen stores and when
they go about shopping they are almost
robbed they are afraid of losing their
purses.
This financial puzzle that the woman
has to solve is quite a nice problem, and
each one of us has to solve II i'm her own
way. Many find 1t quite convenient to carry
a channels bag inside their waist; but
after all Is said, a woman has really no
place To- carry a purse. and if she carries
il in plain sight of everybody and is there
fore a temptCr to thieves, / don't see how
she can help herself"
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CARRIED OFF BY a LION.
Game Ranger i'm south Africa Has N
Close Call.
London Field.

London Field.
Game Ranger Wolhuter. of the Trans
vaal government game preserves. had on
Aug. 26 an extraordinary adventure with
a lion, in which he showed great bravery
and presence of mind. He was returning to
the Sabi from a patrol. and tells the story
i'm these words: Il was riding along "A
Kaffir path about an hour after sunset; IL
had been long march. and 1 had pushed
on ahead of the boys My dog barked
at something. and a moment later | saw a
lion crouching close to me on the OF side.
l turned my horse sharply i'm the opposite
direction, and this no doubt caused the
lion to miss the spring. l was unseated,
and simultaneously l saw another lion
coming at me from the opposite direction.
The horse rushed off with the first lion in
pursuit. and the second. no doubt cOnsid-
ering me the easier prey picked me up
almost before l touched ground, and, grip
ping me by the right shoulder in such
position that 1 was face up, with my legs
and body dragging underneath his belly,
proceeded to trOt off down the path, utter
ing all the time a loud, growing, purring
noise, Just like. on a small scale. a cat does
when she walks of with mouse. 1 have
read Livingstone account of his being takeR
by a lion but the state of apathy and
absence OF pain which he speaks OF were
not all present In my case. l suffered ter
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ribly both physically and mentally, espe-
cially the latter; my thoughts were horrible,
as al that time j saw no possible way or
escape. The lion took me nearly two hun
dred yards my spurs all the time catching
i'm the ground until the feathers broke. Sud-
denly i bethought me OF my sheath knife.
which 1 carry on my belt behind my right
hip.
ION reaching a large tree with overhang-
ing roots the lion stopped, and / then
stabbed him twice In the right side with my
left hand. near where / judged the heart
20 be. / found afterward that the first stab
touched the bottom OF the heart, and the
second one slit IL down for some distance.
The lion Immediately dropped me- and i
again struck him In the throat with all my
force. evidently severing some large artery
or vein, as the blood poured over me- He
jumped back, and stood two or three yards
of facing and growing. i scrambled 10
my feet. and having read OF the influence
the human voice is said 70 have. I shouted
al the most OpprObrious epthets I could
think of at him 1 expected him 20 come
al me again. but after a few moments he
ing, soon the grOwls turned 10 means and
Their ceased and 1 felt sure ne was dead.
Before this. however. l had got up the tree
as fast as my injured arm ard shoulder
would allow me. and was hardly securely
seated, some twelve feet from the ground
blood spOor 10 the foot OF the tree. He
rad been pursued throughout by my dog,
q large rough. and very courageous animal
BY this time / was feeling faint. and tied
myself TO the tree for fear OF losing con-
sciousness and falling of"
lie was finally rescued by his boys and
carried 10 Ban bertOn Hospital The lion
ne had 10 plucklly fought was an old male
with his stomach absolutely empty. The
KNIFE used wa Al ordinary sheath knife
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Who Wrote 1t.
Washington Post.

washington Post.
The amount of untruthfulness that goes
about In really good society these days is
enough TO undermine ones faith in every
thing and everybody" said the woman who
writes. Not long ago a short story about
Washington life appeared in one of the
magazines. The name signed to it was OBJ
viously merely pen alias. and several per-
sons in Washington were curious to know
whom the author really was. 1 was at
tea one day, when certain clever woman
was announced
:. L want YOU to meet her. the hostess
SAID. You know, she wrote that story in
the Ultra magazine
How do you know she did, / asked
why, said the hostess, i taxed her
with IL, and she 'fessed up. She told me
VINO the people in the story really were.
II perfectly true story, you know
Wen, met the author. and she allowed
nerselr 10 be persuaded to tell US about
the story, though she made US swear by the
great norm spoon that we'd never tell any,
body. She's as trustworthy a woman as
per out somewhere. One of my best friends
wrote that story, or at least she saws she
dld, ana as 1 went with her TO spend the
eheck she received for il, / can't help be-
heNlnS ~ she told me il was all a made-up
yarn II shes deceivinR me. il has cost her
a lot OF money. If she isnt-well. I'm plan
nlng now 10 invite both authors of that
story 10 luncheon at the same time, and
turn them loose on each other They can't
both be telling the truth. and ia give my
new nat 70 be sure which one of them Is
the no-such-a-thinger."
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this fact to their sorrow, and they are well
aware that most of the blame must be
put upon the popular and accommodating
wrist bag
The women of this city, however. did not
suffer like those of the larger places, for
the only cases of this kind that have been
reported to the police and department stores
were reported during the holiday rush. In
cities like Chicago, New York and ST. Louis
this jerking of wrist bags by pickpockets
and thieves continues during all of the
winter months.
Not In years has any money receptacle
carried by women been popular with
thieves generally as this same bag, and
as a detective expressed it. the women in
vite the thieves to rob them. Neverthe-
less this bag, which has proved so popu-
lar with the thieves is held in equally high
esteem by every woman who goes shop
ping.
Last Christmas, it appears, the most
salable article in The department stores and
jewelry shops was the wrist bag. In every
store in the city the stock on hand was
practically cleared out.
Not to say that it was cleared out for
good for, on the contrary, merchants went
to work and stocked up again with larger
and more varied assortment of wrist bags
than they had before, and since Jan. l some
entirely new designs have been added.
Tht idea prevalent in the construction of
the latest ones that have come out, it
seems, is to make them more secure, as
they are made of leather and in shape are
something like a small valise. When they
carried on the arm 1T would be next to
impossible for any one TO jerk one of them
off, and as handles are made on the order
of those that arc on the ordinary travelling
thief TO cut them without the owner OF the
bag finding it out.
The harvest for the pickpockets was the
bag which fastened to the belt and was
called a chain chatelaine. Then there was
a wrist bag made of leather which was
held in the hand by two long chain strands
which could easily be broken or ierked
away from the owner; then another bag
which very pOpuar with women and
thieves also was wrist baS made of metal
beads.
Women generally. however, have awak-
ened to the fact that these bags are
help to those who want to steal and are
generally discardng them. OF course the
vogue of the wrist bag is not on the wane
because il is great convenience 10 n
woman when shopping, but she is trying to
find that viii be safer for her to
carry.
WHAT DETECTIVES SAY.
a member of the city detective force. in
speaking OF this the other day, said:
For the remainder OF the winter we shall
hear no more OF the woman who has had
her wrist bag picked. for the reason that
the class of thieves who do this work do
not operate in this city except Just be-
fore Christmas, when thu streets are
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The Country of Magazines.

Leslies Monthly for February.
We would like to call the attention Of
home market clubs and infant industry
nurseries TO the condition of the authorship
business in the United States. During 1902
the total production of this hustling world
was 100000 volumes. The output seems
small enough in comparison with the
worlds annual stock of other commodities,
but so long as it is large enough to keep
our evenings and holidays busy we have no
general right to complaint. The trouble
comes when we analyze the figures. During
1902 the United States published but 1888
volumes barely worsting England, which
follows us with total of 100, and losing
to Germany's 1896 10 the tune of one to
three. What becomes of our ladies' literary
leagues and home culture clubs in the face
of hard figures? Where is Kentucky now,
and where Indiana? Shall three Americans
go down before one German? Shall each
million Germans have 354 books each year
while million Americans are content with
eighty-One?
Reverse the shield. Last year Germany
published SO49 newspapers and periodicals.
The United States 2l,0O0. There's the expla-
nation The American is the man of the
minute.
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fore Yesterday" A little girl and her broth
ers ana sisters and cousins and friends
grow up In little town I'm the middle West;
and the different chapters of this book pic
ture their lives and friendships, their pleas
ures and activities. and the color or life
among quiet. genial people who have not
learned 70 hustle through life, but VINO
possess and know their own souls The DOCK
Is said 10 be as restful as Mr.. Phillpottss
My Devon Year" quiet happy, charming,
sincere, and beautiful. There Is absolutely
nothing striking about IL from beginning 10
end. no sensatiOnalism and no effort A
reader says of it: 1T is one of those fra
grant books which bring up memories OF
time and place where people lived more
gracious, leisureIy. contented lives; IL sug-
gests lavender and old roses. 1t is TO be
published by the Macmillan Company.
Mrs Sarah Andrews Shafer is an In
diana woman by birth and lived in this
State several years She was a daughter of
the late Dr. George i. Andrews, who was
a. member OF the L. S. Sanitary Commission
during the civil war. and who practiced
medicine al Laporte for a great many
wears. being recognized as one of the
leading physicians of the State. Mrs
Shafer now resides in Baltimore. She is
we'll known to many Indianapolis people.
and is a cousin of DR.. J. ]. Kyle, of this
cir