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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
Fast Time Is Made in
Events Closing
the Meet.

DEL MONTE. Aug. 2S.-The second
annual meet " the Automobile Club Of
Califorlia came 10 an end today. In
the mornile four hiu-climbiug contests
we're held on Carmel Hill and in the
afternoon several autOmObilists went
round the Seventeen Mile drive in their
motor cars. Some Of the fashionable
members Of the automobile club left
Del Monte early in the morning on
their cars Tor their homeward trip.
Among them were Mr.. and Mrs. George
a. NewhaU. Mrs. Laurance l. Scott.
Mrs. Augustus Taylor. and John d.
and Miss Grace Spr=ckels- The meet
throughout has been most successful.
= large number OF new members hay-
ing been gained for the Automobile
cub II California he officials whose
-uthusiastic work crowned the meet
with success Ever-- L p Lowe. referee.
r. =. SchW erin. John D Spreckels and
=. ~. Buckbee, judges. Byron jackson,
A. p. Watson and J. II. Spring. timers;
r. T.. Lennie. clerk Of the course; c. C..
Moore. starter, and r. -. Brown and
=. g.. 1--we. UmpiTes-
Prizes were presented by T. 4. JAG
obs, r. ". NcNear. The Pioneer Auto
mobile Company. The Tomoye Press,
The West Coast Motor Car Company,
Cuyler Lee. J. II. Spring. i. p Lowe,
=. -. Buckbee. The White Sewing Ma
chime Company. g. a Pope. The Hotel
Del Monte. The Mobile Carriage Com
psny. d.. r.. 40 -. Thomas Magee Jr.,
y. =. Schwerin. The Pope Toledo Tour
ing Car Company and Hammersmith
g. Field. The interclub challenge tro-
ply prese nted BY L. ?. Lowe. remains
IN the custody Of the Automobile Club
Of California. subject 10 challenge by
any regularly organized automobile
club in the State.
The results Of tO-day's hill-climbing
contests were IS follows
First eYeut-For runabOuts and light
touring read cars priced at $1,000 or less.
The contestants were A. {. Hull in a
cadillac. Diehl I'M a Ford car and Lew
Nidy in a Ford car. Hull Won in
40 Is. Lew Nidy being second in
f:52 A. and Diehi third in 5:34 80
Second eTent-For touring cars cost
ing t1o0l % $500. both inclusive. There
were six entries. The contestants being
Walter GrOthe in White car. ". X.
COwsn IN a Rambler and ". L. Saun-
ders in q Rambler. The White car
Cowsn was second in 3:32 Is.
Third event-For road cars costing
from $1,000 10 $4,000. There were eight
entries. four Of them taking part. Bert
Dingley in a horsepower Pope
Toledo touring car won. his time being
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
GIRL
SERIOUSLY HURT
Is Thrown From Rapidly
Moving Buggy While OH
Way to Attend Funeral
HER DEATH MAY ENSUE
Companion of Young Woman
Receives Severe but Not
Necessarily Fatal Injuries
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

STOCKTON. Aug. 2S.-While on the
way to attend the funeral of her
brother. who was killed Saturday
morning in the southern mines. Miss
Edith Mobley and Professor Z. H.
Ridenour of Stockton were thrown
from a rapidly moving buggy and the
young woman is not expected to live.
The professor sustained severe but
not necessarily fatal injuries. The ac-
Cident occurred two miles east of
Stockton. on the Cherokee lane, about
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t is
feared the young woman is injured
internally.
The interment of the body of Miss
Mobleys brother was to have taken
place yesterday Afternoon at Wood
bridge Cemetery, twelve miles from
Stockton. Professor Ridenour, who is
a member of the Stockton High School
faculty, volunteered TO drive Miss
Mobley TO the cemetery. The couple
left the home of the young woman's
father. the REV. d. a. Mobley, a little
after 3 o'clock.
When outside the city the horse be-
came frightened by an approaching
automobile and ran away. Later the
animal was stopped and the uncon-
scious victims were brought to Stock
ton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
HeaIdsburg Mystery Solved.

HEALDSBURG, Aug. %. = great
deal of interest was aroused through
out this county two weeks ago by the
discovery of human bones buried in the
Ransome Powell ranch. The bones
were supposed to have been those of a
white woman. The position and loca-
ton of the remains suggested foul
play. as they were found in the brush
at the side of a creek. A letter clear
ing up the mystery was to-day re-
'celved from a former resident of this
city. The writer said that when a
child he remembered having seen the
Indians bury a squaw where the bones
were found.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
SURVEY OF SANTA CRUZ
REGION FINISHED AT LAST
Stanford Students of Geology Com
plete Important Work Begun
Ten Years Ago.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug.
2S.-A complete geological survey of
the Santa Cruz region has just been
completed by geology students Of
Stanford University. under the direc-
ton Of DR.. ]. P. Newsom and Profess
sor Ralph Arnold. The work was be-
gun ten years ago and each class in
the geology department has spent the
months of one summer in the field.
The investigation covers every foot OF
ground between Santa Cruz and Half
moon Bay, territory of 500 square
miles. All the varied features of this
great region are given in the minutest
detail.
The data gathered will be put to-
gether in book form by DR.. Newsom
and Professor Arnold. IT is to be pub
lished by the United States Geological
Survey and win be the recognized au-
thority on the formation of this re-
gion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
SAN FRANCISCAN KILLED
ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS
Robert Item Struck by n Gravity Car
While Returning From the
Summit

SAN RAFAEL. Aug. 2S.-Robert
Item of 700 California street. San
Francisco. was struck by a gravity car
of the Mount Tamalpais Scenic Rail-
road to-day and instantly killed.
Item was out for a tramp with c.
Rockwell of 1909 stockton street,
San Francisco, and Robert Heidenfeld
The men had climbed TamalDais and
We're returning to Mill Valley. Item
became separated from his friends and
made the descent along the railroad
track. When near West Point the
gravity car, which leaves the summit
once a day. rounded a corner and be-
fore Item could get TO place Of
safety he was struck. Coroner Sawyer
took charge of the body and brought
it to San Rafael. An inquest will be
held Tomorrow
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
Lectures on the Temple.

The Temple" was the subject of an
interesting lecture given by H. H.
Wikoff of Oakland at the First Con-
gregatiOnal Church last night. Dur
ing the discourse attractive lantern
slides were displayed upon a screen.
Some of the views were Solomon's
Temple, Mohammedan mosques, Eu-
ropean cathedral, historic churches,
Plymouth Rock, missionary pioneers
and Pacific Coast houses of worship.
The lecture delighted a large assem-
blage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29

The experiments made in the German
army with carrier pigeons having been
satisfactory. every warship leaving
Kiel or Wilhelmshaven will hereafter
carry a consignment of pigeons, to be
released at various distances from the
land stations. 1t is estimated that the
birds have sufficient endurance to home
over a distance of about 1s6 miles from
land.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
More Warrants for Shaw.

Shaw, late secretary of the California
Consolidated Oil Fields Company, was
arrested here tonight for the second
time on two warrants charging him
with embeZZlement. The first arrest
was made some ten days since. He is
now charged with drawing two checks
for the Lucky Baldwin Company, an
affiliated corporation. and failing to
account for the funds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
PASSES DAY QUIETLY.
President Roosevelt Spends Sabbath
With His Family at Sycamore Hill.

OYSTER BAY. y. Y. Aug. Is
President Roosevelt passed to-day
quietly at Sycamore Hill with his fam
lily and one or two other guests. He
accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt and all of
the children except Quentin TO the
morning service at Christ Episcopal
Church. Several relatives and friends
called informally during the day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
Points to Remember.

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-29
DRAPERIES.

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30

perfect quarantine. 1t naturally de-
ponds on the scientists whether we
shall waste an unconscionable num-
Der of lives in doing a comparatively
small amount of work, or lower the
death-rate of the natives and secure
the safety of our own people who go
there to carry on our work.
An illustration Of the influence
which disease may have on the course
of war is found at the present time
in German West Africa, where Off
GERS and men are said to be falling
victims of typhoid fever in great
numbers. Obviously, the waste of
men and resources in a case like that
may be appalling. In other days ty-
phoid and malarial fever, smallpox,
and other diseases were
considered as the work of Providence
when they attacked an army. No
body thought of applying any wide
reaching measures of relief. 1t is diff
ferent in these days. We are think
ing about it, and thinking hard, and
by and by it will be done.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
The Cornell Appropriation.
Curious State of Things in Apportion-
ing Education Funds

A queer and not very edifying spec
tacle is presented in New York just
now, in connection with a proposed
appropriation for Cornell University.
All the other colleges and universities
in the State seem to think Cornell
does not need it, or, if it does, that
they ought TO have q chance at the
pie-counter, too.
1t sometimes looks as if the pie
counter idea were dominating Amer
lean life nowadays. We continually
hear of this, that and the other mat
ter that somebody wants a share"
in whatever good is given out Col
leges, in this case, protest against the
Legislature of a State overlooking
any applicant for cash We hear
Congressman and Senators insisting
that every section" must have it's
due amount Of appropriations. We
find municipal governments obliged
to give places SO that each ward shall
have its share We even hear a great
deal OF talk about there not being
enough work to go around, so that
the necessities, not the ability, of
each applicant must be considered to
make it hold out.
Of course, there is sense in all this.
Favoritism is mischievous, and legis-
lators must look out for the interests
of their constituents. But it does
seem as if we could manage to put
the thing so that it would not look
quite so much like a crowd of rude
little boys at a school treat, grabbing
each as much as he can get, or like
those company tea tables, where the
children count noses and watch the
distribution of the good things with
painful anxiety for fear they will not
get their share. 1t is certainly not
dignifed when college and university
presidents assume that attitude.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
Twentieth Century Sob.

Job didn't have a corner on trouble.
The order of Secretary Shaw that all
macerated currency should be bleached
before 1t is made into little President
Roosevelts and White Houses has
brought into the limelight the life his
tory of Henry Martin. OF 40 Third Street
southeast. a Hollander. who has not
found the United States land of milk
and honey.
While the civil war was raging Mar
tins attention was attracted by a pic
tlire of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
He was an experienced sailor, and con-
Guided the United States navy was the
place for bright young seaman. When
he reached New York he found tn. navy
was not needing any recruits, and en-
battle Of Five Forks, one of his legs was
shot off. and his dream OF an army and
navy career came to an end.
Martin then drifted to Chicago. where
he lost part of one of his hands in a
smelling works, and suffered loss In the
Chicago fire. He then went TO Nebraska
and took a homestead. Grasshoppers
and drought visited his homestead and
ruined the crops, and billiards howled
about his sod house and invited pneu-
monia, which Dame near ending Mar
tins life.
Finally he came 10 Washington, and
was appointed messenger In the Treas
ury Department He was a Republican.
and when Grover Cleveland came along
Mr. Martin had TO make way for a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
Influence Of The Tei6lg2Df.
A Great Opportunity for the Disseinina-
ton of knowledge.

- A great field of labor, leiS an-
touched by the telegraphers of this
country, is suggested by the comment
of one Of them on the spread of
American slang He said that when
ever he went West, expecting to as
tOnish the natives with new and pic
turesque punches of slang, he found
them already talking the same dialect
he did, and this rapid dissemination
of new varieties IN language he ayers
to be the work of the telegrapher
AS everybody knows, the telegra-
pliers in different parts of the coun-
try talk to each other more or less
unofficially, and often become fairly
well acquainted without ever having
met. Slang is to them a joy, and
whenever one Of them comes across
a new phrase he Immediately spreads
it over the country. The Western
operator spreads it among his nom
professional acquaintance, and there
you are
But what a great opportunity for
good these thoughtless young men
have missed How much greater in
fiuence might have been theirs if. in
stead of busying themselves with the
sowing of meaningless and unliterary
forms Of speech, they had devoted
their energies to something really
worth while! We should never lose
an opportunity to tell all we know,
according to some people, and if all
we know is the last new slang phrase.
it shows a lamentable waste of our
opportunities as thinking beings; that
is all If somebody could only con-
vince a convention of telegraph oper-
atOrs of the solemn duty they owe
the public, what a regenerated AID
rejoicing public we might hal :!
And then, again, how the public
might rip and teari
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
Inertia in Church Going.
Some of the Reasons Why People Do
Not Go to Church as Often as
They Did.

Periodically we hear complaints
that attendance at church is falling
off, especially among men, who too
frequently prefer to stay at home
with a pipe and a newspaper, or
stroll off in the woods rather than do
themselves up in starched clothing
and sit in a pew on Sunday There
is sneaking feeling in a good many
families that this course is not alto
gether as immoral as it Is repre-
scented to be. Some observers frank
ly say that the strenuous life led by
the average business man makes q
day Of rest necessity TO him, and
that he really cannot go to church
every Sunday, and to prayer meeting
every week, as his father and grand
father did.
The church question is rather a
serious one at this stage of our ma
tional life, and ought to be consid-
cred without leyity on one hand, or
severity on the other The fact is
that church-going, as it is done in
many households, is really more
wearisome than a day in the Office to
the head of the family. 1t is a serious
undertaking, occupying half the day,
and the half, moreover, which he
really needs for rest. 1t is all very
we'll to say that he might go to bed at
6 o'clock on Saturday night and get
his sleep that way, or that he need
not work so hard on week days, but
we all know that the former course
is impracticable, and that most Of
the business men of today are so sit
uated that they have to work hard or
drop out of the procession.
In rural communities, and in less
hurried times, church-going was a
rest and relaxation. The farmer, oc-
cupied all the week on his farm, may
really enjoy meeting his neighbors in
as we'll as mentally and morally. But
10 the modern business man, to hurry
through breakfast, dress and go to
downtown church means an exertion
uncomfortably like doing business.
There are many good wives and
mothers who really show their re-
ligious spirit IN letting the men Of
their families follow their own bent
on Sunday. They need feel no qualms
of conscience because they do not
nag. There is nothing said about
nagging as a duty. in the Bible. But
it does seem sometimes as If church
going might be made simple and in
formal enough to be adapted to the
needs Of the modern American man,
and it can be. II the habits of think
ing in the household admit. If the
purpose of going to church is not
necessarily to meet certain people or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
Science and Crime.
Paradoxical Situation Described by
Splitting Moralists.

Hair-Splitting Moralists.
Somebody with a turn for specula-
ton has pointed out the fact that the
recent achievements in science tend
not only TO Illustrate crime, but to
prevent the punishment of the crimi-
nal. An example of this is found in
the case of a woman who stabbed a
man recently, with obvious intent to
kill him, and would have killed him
but for the skill of the surgeon who
sewed up his rents and made him
whole. Undoubtedly, before surgery
reached its present state of effective
ness, the man would have died, and
the woman would have suffered the
punishment of murder The deduc-
ton drawn from this is, does not SCI
ence encourage crime by removing
the danger of the consequences?
This moral problem is little too
deep for us. 1t may be that the ends
of abstract justice would be better
served by letting people die when
they have been shot, or stabbed, or
poisoned, and then killing off their
murderers, but there are the interests
of the victim TO be considered. If it
ever comes TO, pass that a person suf-
fering from an attack OF this kind
prefers to be allowed to die, so that
the murderer may be punished, it
Will be time to consider the problem
seriously. 1t will also be interesting
to consider the state of mind Of the
victim who passes into eternity with
such a thirst for revenge as that.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-30
Hero of tie Hour.

A well-known Washington clergyman
was in an argument yesterday with q
good-natured old Irishman, who object
ed seriously to being called Pat" re-
iterating time and again that his name
was Patrick. and he was particular
about having il so called.
why" said the clergyman, you
should be glad to be called Pat. Re-
member what a potent factor that name
is in the history OF Ireland"
That may be So said the old fell
low. but my name is Patrick and
Patrick 1t will be to the end. sir.
can't see where Pat ever had much to
do with the history of any country.
anyhow"
We'll, now" said the clergyman. I'll
prove where you're wrong. I'll tell you
the origin of one OF the greatest names
of the hour.
"Once in a little village there was a
young doctor. His name was Pat, but
he wasn't an Irishman. A little girl
was very Ill in the village, and her HE
was despaired of. until somebody said:
Send for Pat, for II anyone can cure
her Pat kin.