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The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
REASON COMES
TO HAUNT HIM
Maniac, Suddenly Regaining
Mental SOundness, Finds
Six Deaths Charged to Him
MUST NOW STAND TRIAL
AWakens as If From a StupOr
and Has No Remembrance
of His Series of Crimes
Special Dispatch to The call.


DES MONIES. Iowa, Aug. 7-Awak-
ening from a Rip Van Winkle dream
of six and half years, during which
he killed three men and fatally wound
ed three others, John W. Stone will be
brought from the insane ward Of the
Iowa penitentiary to Des Moines to be
tried on a charge Of murder.
Stone undoubtedly lost his reason
while in search of an invention that
would make him famous and wealthy.
He worked for years increasingly upon
all sorts of peculiar devices and finally
obtained in Canada a patent ON a corn
elevator for carrying corn from the
wagon to the crib. His studious appli-
cation made him nervous and excit-
able and, finally positively violent
Several times he ran amuck and used
his revolver with deadly effect Now
he must face the court here in trial
for murder.
Judge Conrad. who sentenced Stone
to the insane hospital, has died and
Stones father has removed from Sioux
City to Ohio. but will return to be with
him at his trial
Stone has apparently awakened from
the Stupor that has hung over him.
Mystifed by his surroundings, he has
asked his whereabouts. He was as
tonished to find himself in an institu-
ton for the insane and asked why he
was there. He was told the story Of
his crimes. He could not believe the
record of his own deeds.
Though a mental and physical wreck
when he entered the institution. Stone
has gradually improved in body and
mind until he is apparently in posses
sion of all his faculties.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Report of AdjUtant General
of Grand Army VIII Show
a Membership of 100000
ORDER is PROSPEROUS
Pension Commissioner Esti-
mates That 100000 Vet
Grams Still Enjoy Life
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICAGO. Aug. THE report OF
the adjutant general OF the Grand
Army of the Republic to be made
at the national encampment at Boston
will show an active membership OF
a quarter Of a million. The total num-
Der Of Civil War veterans still living IS
estimated by the Pension Commis-
sioner at 100000.
During the year ending June 80.
1904, 1929 members Of the order died.
The Pension Commissioner reports
that but few more than 10000 vet
Grams passed away during the same
period. 1t is a plain inference there
fore that the Grand Army of the Re-
public is composed Of the younger and
more active survivors of the great war.
During the last year the gains in the
Grand Army aggregated %. 900, while
the actual losses were slightly IN ex-
cess Of the gains.
The order is organized into forty
five departments, embracing about
$500 Grand Army posts During the
last year thirty-three new posts we're
organized. sixty-hve surrendered their
charters and about 100 failed TO make
REPORTS.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Two Prisoners Seize Deputy
Sheriff and After Tying
Him Make Their Escape
POSSE ON THEIR TRAIL
Men Confined in Prison
for Horse Stealing Said
to Be Desperate Persons
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ONTARIO. Ore, Aug. bob Hess
and Ed Chester, the two prisoners con-
fined in the Malheur County Jail at
Vale for horse stealing, made a daring
escape at 6 o'clock this morning. Dep
uty Sheriff Thomas was giving the
men their breakfast when he was
seized. bound and gagged by the two
men and locked in a cell. Then the
men secured arms and horses and
started for the hills.
Vale is a small town of about three
hundred inhabitants and but few peo-
pie were astir at the time of the es-
cape. 1t was two hours before the
citizens became aware of what had
happened. A party was then organ
lied and started in pursuit.
Hess and Chester were recently ar
rested on the charge of horse stealing.
They had seventeen stolen korses in
their possession when arrested Pre-
vious to that they had attempted to
ship two cars of stolen horses from
Parma, Idaho. Both are desperate
characters and will resist arrest if
overtaken.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
GREAT DEMONSTRATION
PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY
Members of Forty-Three Local Unions
VIII Participate in Cele-
bratiOn.

OAKLAND, Aug. THE pro-
gramme for the celebration of Labor
day in this city is practically complete,
and the committee of arrangements is
now at work perfecting the details of
the demonstration.
The celebration will open with a pa
rade on the morning of September s,
which viii be followed in the after
noon by literary exercises and a social
reunion at Idora Park.
Nearly all the local unions of Oak
land will take part in the parade and
IL is expected that a number Of the
labor organizations of San Francisco
Will also be represented. The commit
Zee Of arrangements is composed of
two representatives from each Of for
ty-three of the local unions Of Oak
land, all Of which will take part in the
celebration This committee has
elected o. K. Smith Of the BARRIERS
Union as grand marshal of the parade.
c. W. Petrey has been elected presi-
dent. and p. c. Weber. secretary of the
day.
The secretary has extended an invi-
tatiOn 10 the directors of the Board of
Trade and the Merchants Exchange,
10 take part in the celebration.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Many Oyster Men Named Smith.

Eyes, sir" said the old Fulton Mar
ket fisherman, as he solemnly chewed
a wisp of straw and audibly wished for
the return Of the oyster-shucking sea-
son, yes, my names Smith I'm one
OF the unfortunates Of that name that's
in the oyster business. Do you ever
stop to think what lot of us there are
in this business? Well, there are and
as a rule, every Smith that goes into
oystering gets rich at IL. l knew twen-
ty-three of that name in the business
in Connecticut alone, at one time, and
every one of them did we'll, by gosh!
Must be was misnamed. All the 9TH
ers got along famous in the business.
and there's a bunch Of them down on
the Chesapeake Bay who have hit it I'D
well. There were three of the Smith
brothers who owned the whole busi-
ness at Oyster Point in New Haven
and who were big shippers to Europe.
All Of 'em left fortunes when thev
died. Frank Smith owns about ALI the
oyster grounds there are at Stony
Creek and Clinton in the name of the
Stony Creek Oyster Company, and his
brother Charlie owns the grounds that
Frank does not. Every Smith that's
gone into the business done we'll, 'cept
one-that's me.'-New York Com
mercial.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
DIFFERENT METHODS USED
TO CURE DRUNKENNESS
Mailing Their Ears to the Sidewalk
Is Persia's Persuasive
Way.

There is only one custom in our
country which 1 would like to see es-
tablished in America, and that is the
custom OF dealing with drunkards,"
said Isaac Yohannen, a Persian mis-
sionary who lectured to a large audi
ence at the Norwegian Lutheran
Church last evening In our country
when a man gets drunk we take him
and nail him to the sidewalk, driving
the spikes through his ears. Then when
other people come along they spit in
his face and kick him until he is So
Der. I think this method would do
great deal of good in America, because
you have more drunkards than we do.
There are no saloons in Persia. the
chief beverage being homemade wine.
They don't even know what beer is"
"Our officials have several ways Of
making prisoners confess to crimes"
said Mr.. Yohannen. The favorite
method is to take them on a stand,
around which all the people Of the
town gather, and then put out one eye.
If the crime is not very great an arm
is cut off or a leg severed. II it is
only a trivial offense probably an ear
is sacrificed. Very often innocent peo-
pie are subjected 10 JneSe LOrmenISt
but it cannot be helped.
THE Persians very seldom hang a
man for crime. If he kills another he
is fined SIS and allowed to go. II he
kills ten or a dozen and the people
finally decide that he ought to be put
out of the way he is hanged. But
he is not hanged as they hang men in
this country. He is hanged by the feet
and a heavy weight is tied to his head.
Then he is allowed to die. If the ac-
cused prisoner is a woman her hair
is shorn from her head, providing the
offense is a trivial one. If it is a Sc
rious one she may be turned into a
room filled with mad cats and be
scratched to death.
Persian jails are dark cellars and
contain no furniture whatever. The
Government doesn't feed prisoners,
this being left to friends Of the ac-
cused. If he happens to have no
friends he will starve to death. Often
times when food is brought by friends
the keepers Of the prison and other Of
ficials appropriate it, so that the pris-
oners have to go hungry"
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
MINISTER RETURNS HOME
TO FACE HIS ACCUSERS
The Rev. Charles w. Hoag, Charged
With Eloping With Mrs. Bene-
dict. Is in Oakland.

The Rev. Charles Wayland Hoag,
formerly pastor Of the Plymouth
Avenue Congregational Church, who
disappeared on June 20 from his home,
4S6 Thirty-fourth street, and who was
accused by w. n. Benedict Of $50
Thirty-sixth street of having eloped
with the latter's wife, has returned to
this city and is now staying at the
home of a friend. Mr.. Hoag is broken
down, both mentally and physically,
and he is now under the care of ply
sician. His wife, who placed no cred
ence in the stories regarding the sup
posed elopement, is attending her hus-
band.
Mr.. Hoag's attorney, A. S. Ormsby,
says Mr.. Hoag went directly from
Oakland to his former home in Ell Paso,
Texas, where he remained until he
heard of the accusations against him.
He then at once returned to Oakland.
AS soon as he has recovered his health
he will retire from the ministry.
1t is said that Mrs. Benedict, with
whom the minister was accused of
clipping, is staying with friends in Den
yer, Colo.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
CHURCHES PAY ATTENTION
TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE
Services Are Held for the Special
Benefit of the Children-Pastors
Return From Vacations.

Benefit of the Children-Pastors
Return From Vacations.
OAKLAND, Aug. Especial services
for children were held to-day In several
of the Oakland churches. The Sunday
school of the First Congregational
Church was reopened after months
vacation. Music was supplied by the
boys choir Exercises were conducted
by the superintendent, the Rev. Henry
Is. Mowbray.
At the Union-street Presbyterian
Church this morning the pastor, the
Rev. Dwight E. Potter, gave an illus
trated talk to the children.
The Rev. T. s. Young, a delegate to
the worlds Sunday-school convention
at Jerusalem, will deliver an address on
Wednesday evening at the First Pres
byterian Church on the work Of that
assembly.
The official board of the Eighth ave
nue. Methodist Church will hold an in
formal reception Wednesday evening at
the church.
The Sunday school Of the First Uni
tartan Church will reopen August IA.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Hold Final Meeting.

The final meeting before the pri-
mary of the various committees and
delegates of the United Independent
Republican Club of the Thirty-ninth
Assembly District was held last night
in Golden West Athletic Hall, at Point
I.obos and Ninth avenues. Almost
every member was present. Judge
John r. Aitken presided and John j.
Cassidy was secretary. Reports were
received from all the precincts of the
district showing that a thorough can
vas had been made of the voters. At
tention was directed to the fact that
the names of Herbert williams and r.
A. Sarle upon the Ruef ticket had
been placed there without their knowl-
edge or consent. Both, it was said,
are active working members for the
election of the United Independent
delegates.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Association Wants Hospital.

OAKLAND, Aug. THE Young
Women's Christian Association has
prepared a petition to the Board Of
Health which will be presented at the
next meeting of that body, requesting
the board to provide a suitable hospi-
tai for contagious diseases, where pa
tients taken from hotels and lodging
houses may be safely isolated without
undue discomfort. The petition states
that contagious disease cases have
been recently discovered in hotels and
private boarding houses, and that the
hospitals in this city refused to receive
the patients
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Church TO. BIame for the war.

ALAMEDA, Aug. 7-Bishop NJ. c..
Harris of the Methodist Episcopal
board of foreign missions, who has been
stationed in Japan and Korea for many
years, gave an address this evening at
the First Methodist Church on the war
between Russia and Japan. He de-
clared that the Russian people were not
responsible for the conflict, which was
brought on through the Vaccinations
of men high in religious and political
circles. The leaders in the church of
Russia, he said, exercise a power as
great as that exerted by the political
leaders. These men, imbued with the
ambition to make Russia a worldwide
power, We're responsible for the war.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
KEENE'S TROTTING HORSES
HELD UP BY RAILROAD
Station Agent Finds Too Many "Dead-
heads in Charge of the
Animals.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. 7.-Seven
carloads of James r. Keene's stable
of trotting horses were held up at the
New York Central station here to-
night and not allowed to proceed to
Yonkers until the stationmaster, Syl-
vester Burns, had collected 1912 80 in
railroad fares from men deadheading
their way from San Francisco. The
men protested vigorously and not un-
til Burns threatened to sidetrack the
horses in the yards did they settle.
The horseman's contract with the
railroad company provided for six
men to care for the horses in each
car, but when the train reached here
there were as many as fourteen men
in some cars.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
BERKELEY RESIDENTS ARE
OPPOSED TO VACCINATION
Citizens Attend a Meeting and Lay
Plans TO Fight the State Medical
law

BERKELEY. Aug. THE residents
Of Berkeley are preparing to wage a
war against the practice of vaccinating
school children. Last night a mass
meeting was held at the home of Mrs.
John A. Wilson, 2219 Ashby avenue, and
preliminary steps taken to fight the
State law. The matter will come up
before the Board Of Education in a few
days and bitter controversy is ex-
pected.
DIR. Woodson w. Allen, a member of
the Board Of Education, is one of the
prompters Of the crusade. He says he
will resign if the practice of vaccinating
school children is maintained and his
sentiments are sounded by a large
number OF prominent citizens.
When the Board of Education meets.
all children who have not been vacci-
mated will not be allowed to enter any
school in the city.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Funeral Of Thomas NJ. Fry.

OAKLAND. Aug. THE funeral of
Thomas NJ. Fry was held to-day at 1
D. m. from the late residence of the
deceased at S14 Eleventh street. The
funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. M. c. Wilcox editor of the Signs
Of the Times, and the Rev. w. n.
Glenn. Numerous floral offerings were
sent by friends Of the deceased.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Great Rangoon Ben Restored.

After conquering Burmah the British
undertook TO carry the great RangoOn
bell, the third largest in the world. to
Calcutta as a trophy, but dropped it
overheard in the RangOon River. where
1T defied all the efforts OF the engineers
to raise 1t. Some years later the Bur-
mese, who had not ceased to mourn rs
loss, begged to be allowed to recover it.
Their petition was granted and. by at
taching an incredible number Of bam-
was finally lifted from its muddy bed
and triumphantly restored to its place.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Passing of Meerschaum Pipes.

"a meerschaum pipe that would have
brought S25 ten years ago wouldn't
bring more than SO now" said to-
bacconist. "Meerschaum pipes used to
be fashionable and popular in America,
but they are not much sought for to-
day.
''It isn't strange that the liking for
them should have waned. The meer-
schaum is an unsatisfactory pipe at the
best. Drop II. and 1t is irretrievably
broken. Try to color and for a month
IL tastes like soap.
'It isn't the meerschaum in one OF
these pipes that cOlOrs, anyway. II is
a mixture of beeswaX and oil that the
carvers rub into the block before they
carve it. You could smoke a pipe OF
pure meerschaum all your life and
at your death il would be as white as
it had been at your birth. 1t is the
oil and the beeswaX-Only that-which
colOrs.
while meerschaum pipes have fallen
in cost and favor. briar pipes have
risen. A pipe OF really fine briarroot
costs to-day from SO to S25 or $50. In
the past IL would not have cost more
than s. at the outside. WashingtOn
Post
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
VIII Try to Incorporate.

POINT RICHMOND, Aug. THE
citizens of Point Richmond have de-
termined to renew the attempt to in
corporate the town and to this end C.
r. Blake, president or the Greater
Richmond Incorporation Club, has ap-
pointed committee Of three members
of the club to circulate a petition to
the Beard of Supervisors asking that
Richmond be incorporated. The MEM
bers of the committee are H. B. Kin
ney, w. A. Lucas and Toney Tufve-
son. They will begin the work at once.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Omcers VIII Get Their Salaries.

OAKLAND, Aug. district Attor-
ney J. J. Allen has reversed his former
opinion regarding the payment of Jus
rces of the Peace and Constabies by
fees instead Of salaries and has ad-
vised County Auditor G. w. Bacon TO
draw the warrants for the salaries OF
these township officers for the month
OF July. This has been d. and the
oinceTs viii get their salaries.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
DredgIng COmpany win BuiId PIant

ALAMEDA, Aug. THE Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific Company, --hich is
one Of the largest dredging companies
in the United States, will soon begin
the construction Of a shipyard and dry
dock at the foot OF Walnut street in
equipment which is now in use in san
Francisco viii be removed to this side
OF the bay, where it will be installed
m the new plant on the estuary
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08

Fire was discovered about 8 o'clock
yesterday morning on the roof of En-
gine-house No. IL at Commercial and
Drumm streets. Word was sent to
Chemical Engine No. 3 at 112 Jack
son street and it's members hurried to
the scene with their engine and quick
ly extinguished the blaze. The fire
had been caused by a spark from the
chimney.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08

at the West End. He considers that the
market is exceptionally brisk for the
summer season.
Hammond & Hammond have several
deals in process of negotiation that
they expect to complete next week.
This firm reports that the demand for
modern cottages is far in excess of the
supply.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08

The Swiss Government has passed
law prohibiting parents affecting their
offspring with fantastic and absurd
Christian names.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08

1t Is human nature to dislike those
who are smarter than we are-also to
despise those who are not.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08
Real Estate Men Return
to a Time-HOnored SyS-
TEN of Opening Tracts
SUBURBS ARE GROWING
Alameda, Fruitvale and
Berkeley Give Evidence
of Growing Prosperity
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1916 Broadway. Aug. Z.

lUlO blOduM dgs Ah6s -
strong indication of the increasing
interest in choice real estate on the
eastern bay shore is the revival of the
auction sale. Only one auction sale
has been attempted upon this side of
the bay in many years, and that was a
success. The Realty Bonds and Finance
Company sold an entire tract in one
afternoon a few months ago, and now
another event of the same kind is an
nounced.
The tract that is now being placed on
the market by this means is on the
Telegraph-a line of the Oakland
Transit Company, and within a few
blocks Of the new Piedmont branch of
the Key route" ferry system. Three
of the most influential real estate firms
in Oakland are behind it, the Realty
Bonds and Finance Company, A. j..
Snyder and Richard J. Montgomery.
Montgomery has opened an office at the
corner of Fortieth street and Tele-
graph avenue in order to care for those
who wish to visit the property. In re-
gard to the opening of this new sec
tion and the plans being made, Mr..
Montgomery said:
Since the Inauguration of the Key Route
Ferry Electric Railroad, giving Central Oak
land the benefit OF a twenty minute train
service with monthly Communication tickets at
50 per month and the shortening OF the time
TO thirty minutes between the foot OF Market
street, San Francisco and. Telegraph avenue,
in this city, there has been unprecedented
demand for houses OF all kinds within walking
distance of Telegra phi avenue station. 1t is,
therefore not surprising that many far
sighted people with idle capital are seeking
investments in this locality and building
houses TO rent. In fact the demand has been
so active that few opportunities given TO
the thrifty and industrious, who have linn
tied capital, to purchase lots easy pay
ments. II is gratifying to note that a large
property owner has authorized the sale Of over
sixty lots in Central Oakland tract No. at
public auction Saturday August 90 at
.. m The sale is 10 take place on the prop
erty to enable purchasers to see what lots
they are actually buying
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-08

When a man argues with his wife
about all he does is listen
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-25
TO TEST PANAMA
CANAL Law

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The case
of Warren b. Wilson of Hinsdale,
Ill, against Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw, which was called for hear
ing today in the supreme court Of
the District of Columbia, has at
tracted keen attention from the fact
that 1t involves the constitutionality
of the Spooner act for the construc-
tion of the Panama canal, and. in
fact, the entire proceedings of the
United States In the purchase of the
canal and the work upon it's con-
struction. The suit is for the pur-
pose of preventing Secretary Shaw
from paying out any money for the
construction OF the canal or of issu-
ing bonds for money to continue the
construction.
II Is asserted in the petition that
the Spooner act is unconstitutional
and invalid, both in Panama and the
United States; that even If II were
a valid and legal enactment, its terms
and sonditions have not been COM
piled with and do not purport to au-
thorize the payments that are now
being made; that the payments being
made are unauthorized and unwar-
ranted, violating the provisions Of the
money shall be drawn from the >ssas-
ury except upon appropriations made
by law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-10-25
DARTMOUTH'S
NEW HALL

HANOVER, N. H., Oct. 25.-Arriv.
ing trains today brought scores OF
alumni and friends of Dartmouth col.
lege from every part Of the country.
They come to attend the ceremonies
incident to the visit of the earl Of
Dartmouth and the laying of the cor
nerstone OF new Dartmouth hafl,
which is to take the place of the his
toric old building, which was de-
stroyed by fire last spring. The pro-
gram will be inaugurated tonight
with the celebration of Dartmouth
Night" at which the earl will be the
guest Of honor. The cornerstone lay-
ing proper takes place tomorrow. In
the evening the exercises will be
brought to close with a banquet
at which the guests will include, be-
sides the eaerl of Dartmouth. his ex.
cellency Sir Mortimer Durand. tho
British ambassador; James Bryce. II.
p, President Eliot of Harvard uni-
versity and other persons Of wide
prominence.