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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12
UNCLE SANS MEN WILL
INDULGE IN ATHLETICS
An Interesting Programme of Field
Competitions 10 Be Held During
Three Days at PTcsidio.

Three Days at PrcsidiO.
The military competitions Of the De
partment OF California. which are TO
be held at the Preside on the 18th.
18th and 18th insts., promise to be
one Of the most important athletic
events ever held in this State. A quar-
ter OF a mile track forty feet in width
has been provided for the races and
other athletic exercises. A band Will
discourse music.
In the first days contests. which are
strictly athletic, there are 262 entries.
II viii lead off with a 100-yard dash.
hich viii take place at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The programme con-
tains races at various distances and
other athletic exercises. In the after
noon at . o'clock there will be a base
ball game between the Fifteenth In
fantry and the Fourth Cavalry.
The light battery exhibition. owing
10 the great amount of room needed
for the performance, viii take place
or the parade grounds in front of the
general hospital.
On the last day q football game be-
tween the Preside and the Fort Baker
elevens will be played. This viii be
followed by a wall scaling contest.
The method employed in throwing the
men TO the TOD Of the wall is interest
ing. This will be followed by another
military exercise-the drivers contest
-Four horses attached 10 a light battery
gun are 10 be driven at full speed be-
tween a series Of uprights placed at
little greater distance than the width
OF the axles. Each post knocked down
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speedy formation that gives Stanford
some slight advantage over other
teams. On this rapid playing rest the
hopes of victory. Then, too, there are
nine veterans on the cardinal team,
and these men should prove tower
of strength. The only positions filed
by new men are center and right end.
Hyde, a last years second team man,
filling the former, and West, sub end
on the 1907 freshman team, playing in
the latter position. The presence Of so
many old players In the game lessons
the chance of the cardinal teams be-
ing fooled by trick plays and of be-
ing scored on during the confusion.
With the exception Of center. Stan
fords lire is the equal Of that of Cali
fornia. Stroud at center win be su-
perior to Hyde. but the latter will be
greatly helped by Thompson and
Roosevelt, both of whom are strong
and aggressive guards.
TACKLES WORKING WE'LL
Sprott and Shields, tackles, should
outplay their California opponents, as
both are nearly perfect on defense and
are good ground gamers when carry
ing the ball. Captain George Clark is
probably the best end on the coast. He
has had four years experience, but
best OF all he has a wonderful faculty
for locating the ball at all times. On
right end, the most ticklish place on the
Stanford team this year, because it is
the mighty Snedigar's point of attack.
is a new man. West, a sophomore in
college, by his clever playing during
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the last two weeks, made the position
over Smith, last years varsity end,
and over Stanford and Preston, second
team players, after one of the hardest
fights ever seen on the field. Though
a new player, he is strong and ought
to stop California's fast dashes.
The men in Stanford's back field
should prove more consistent ground
gamers than the California backs
Bansbach, at quarter, is heady, be-
sides being unusually fast and encour-
aging to the team. Weller. Dole and
Chalmers are all fast when running
with the ball and are great line buck
ers. There is probably no stronger
man on the coast in backing up a line
than Jim Weller, the big fullbaclI hav-
ing both quick intuition and tremen-
dous strength. These men are the real
backbone of the Stanford team, and on
their ability to gain tomorrow depends
the victory.
LANAGAN'S TIRELESS EFFORTS.
The greatest help of all is Jim" Lam
agan. Stanford's tireless coach. Work
ing with ceaseless energy, flanagan has
made a strong team out of fair mate
rial. Without him Stanford would have
no hope but his successful efforts have
brought forth a we'll rounded, aggres-
sive team, one that has an even chance
to win. All praise to Jimmy flanagan
Stanford has played eight preliminary
games this year, winning five, losing
two and tying one.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. II.
The 1904 Stanford football team, which
is pronounced the finest lighting ma
chine that has represented Stanford for
many years. viii struggle tomorrow
afternoon with CalifOrnia's heavy var
sity during seventy minutes of actual
play for the fourteenth annual inter-
collegiate football championship Of the
coast. There has never been game
between the two universities harder
fought than this promises to be. The
fact that it viii be played on a rival
campus viii add TO its intensity.
The cardinal men, trained TO the
hour, expect 10 pull out a victory, but
they all feel the score viii be so close
that the result of the game VIII be in
doubt until the referees whistle sounds
the close Of the second half.
Never before has Stanford sent a
team on the field in such fighting
trim. There is not a bruised muscle
nor a strained ligament, nor q weak
ened ankle among the varsity players.
II condition is TO play an important
part in the outcome Of the game, the
Stanford men should be able TO sue
cessfully stand the strain.
WILL PLAY FAST GAME.
Stanford viii rely on straight, fast
football TO win a victory. expecting the
heavy back formations to make the
most gains. The cardinal team has
developed speed remarkably in the last
two weeks and has a much faster Of
fense than the eleven that tied Califor-
mia last year. It is this method Of
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REPORT OF
THE FOOTBALL GAME

ROBERT A. SMYTH, THE
CALLS well-known sporting
editor, and a staff of trained as
sistants, every one an expert,
have been detailed to give THE
CALL a most thorough and
authentic report of the great
game at Berkeley to-day.
MR.. SMYTH has the repu-
tatjon throughout the West of
being a thorough and most re-
liable authority on every phase
of the great game and CALL
readers may be assured of the
best report of the contest OBJ
tainable. Be sure to read THE
CALL if you want the best
sporting news. -
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they are conceded a good chance to
win final honors.
In the second round Thomas Mil
lar and J. c. Moffatt will play the
winner of the match between Gray
anc McNaught and Webster and Nc
Lachlan.
Ihe four players from Ayrshire
County, who beat four of the hest
players on the green~easily. are a for
midabie quartet. 1t is doubtful if the
club has four experts who can lower
their colors.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12
SCOTTISH BOWLERS TO MEET
IN TOURNAMENT MATCHES
Intere sting Contests Are Scheduled to
BE Played To-Day in Golden
Gate Park

Although the rainy season is not
far off the Scottish bowlers have a
doubles tournament that will take
several Saturdays to complete. There
is but one match left to be played in
the preliminary round. In it Robert
Park and w. Cook will meet z. G.
Medeau and w r. Eaton. 1t is ex-
pected this match will be played to-
day.
In the first round NJ. L. Grove and
H. L. Tickner will play the winner of
the preliminary round match. Y. c.
Lawson and James O'Brien will play
James Wilkie and James Gray. The
last named beat McLaren and Stott
on election day and for this reason
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HiIdebrand 10 Ride Cor whitney.

NEW YORK, Nov. Hockey Hill
debrand has signed a contract with
Harry Payne Whitney to ride for the
latter next year. Hildebrand viii re-
ceive $4,000 for his work. He VIII
make his last appearance of the sea-
son in the East tomorrow. He will
leave for San Francisco on Sunday.
where he will ride during the winter.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12
Condon BUYS Hoo springs TracIk.

NEW YORK. Nov. lid. A. Stu.
art, who became the sole owner re-
Gently of the Oaklawn Jockey Club
race track. now under construction at
Hot Springs, Ark. through his pur-
chase of a half interest held by C. b.
Dugan, has sold a controlling interest
in the property TO John Condor, own
er of Harlem race track. Chicago The
plans of the Oaklawn track. which IS
more than half built, call for an ex-
penditure of S35O.00O-
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12

SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.-O E. Fair
street got two warrants from Police Judge
Mogan yesterday for the arrest OF Charles
Kslleen. driver for the company on charges
OF misdemeanor embezzlement. The amounts
in the complaints $5 and $21, but II Is
said that the total will reach several hundred
dollars
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12

THISTLE CLUB DOMINATES OFFICERS.
The following have been nominated az officers
lof the san Francisco ScyFI-sa Thistle Club !:
Royal chief George " Paterson: chleltain
George Dow; recorder. A. r. Carlisle: treas
urer. George W MILLER. financial secretary.
y. @. Campbell; corresponding secretary n S.
morrison; sergesnt-ot-arEE, David Girdwood:
property man William Murray; trustees-John
los John Donaldson, J. H. Davidson and
John D. Hannay.
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Titanic Football SfruggIe I'D
1lEAu1 IO1O
PROUD OF SUPERB ELEVEN
Hea1zs Of tic Ca,aua< Supporters 3eat jgh 2uh 17a0e
COACH LANAeAN or STANFORD SAYS:

1T will tlks the combined efs Of the Stanford team
Jul out victory the Berkeley fld Our
al think the vii be Our defense
the most et gains Yet with this Improvement
(inaS team also stronger than yo not
dy uy but collectively mi h Improvement advance One thing
vii fight mmuts the
lOiar, and a sharp. fat sausge may ted
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12
c4PTAW CLARK OF STANFORD SAYS:

The big game su7 totwsea anrd and Csfons the teams being
matched that either ont ah3sd sx2ocs but
predict struggle snail This talk defeat California
all though it CIrnis has nOta ve
equals wght it will be By straight fast foobn
bLcvs vii ahead By les. touchdown Stan ord
magnificent coaching year NJ Lrngn and The honor
Wills b cueh lin
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Jennings accepted it on behalf of the
yachtsmen and stated that the cup will
be used as challenge trophy for the
annual handicap race.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-12

adds five seconds to the time. A foot
ball game VIII be played in the after
noon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

| servative business concerns are making their plans on the basis of steadily | increasing population.
 ''why were the Kansas City packing | houses able to increase their output above normal even in the early weeks of the striker" was asked of one of the 1 largest packers of the city who Is an important factor in all public affairs The reasons he gave were both funda- mental and specific, Kansas City has no large foreign element but is more ex- clusiyely American than any other large city in the country. In spite of the fact that 1t was until comparatively re- gently A border town, or perhaps fer this very reason, Kansas City holds 1t to be the chief function of good govern ment to protect the individual in his right to engage in any peaceable occu- patton. The people believe in having a government which will do this Fur. thermore, there is a general belief that money Is to be made by work and hus, tie rather than legislation on one side or labor rules on the other.
 Specifically, there is the Employer Association, kind of organization which has, perhaps. reached Its highest development in Kansas City. The asso- citation was formed in February. 1903, and now has about 5000 members. rep-
 
 and business concerns In the city It's purpose is not antagonistic to the best interest of labor. and it has never brought a reduction of wages Its chief function is to crytallize the sen timent of the community, to make cer- tain that law and order are maintained and that the police-who, by the way are under state control here-shall be free to do their duty without politncaI prejudice or intimidation.
 Several unreasonable strikes have been started since the Employers Asso- citation was organized and have fallen of their own weight. During a strike of hackmen and teamsters an indepen dent driver was attacked and killed His three assailants were promptly arr rested and convicted, one being hanged and the others secured long sem tences in the penitentiary. The asso- citation was strong enough to prevent political interference in the course of justice and it is large enough to ade- quately represent the best interests of the city. It is able to give financial assistance in case of an unjust boy colt and to keep the public informed as to the merits of any disputed questions.
 In Is not denied of course, that there may be further strikes in Kan sas City. but the men who are best informed on labor conditions say that a large proportion of the membership of the unions are convinced that their best interests lie in the maintenance of individual rights and general pros perity. and to this extent the so-called labor problem is solved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02
Dealing With Tramps.
How Switzerland Handles the Profess siOnaI Hobo and the Honest Seeker
 After Employment.

fAAACE A1AApAOSAAhGn
 The typical American method of deal ing with the tramp is to send him to the next town or into an adjoining State. It is this practice that has giv- en us the endless chain of hoboism. In Switzerland they order these things differently, as a writer in the London Spectator explains.
 Essentially, the Swiss practice though there is a good deal of varia- tion in the laws of different cantons- cinsists in discrimination. so far as wanderers are concerned, between the work-seekers and (ro use the expressive term officially employed) the work shy
 If an able bodied man is without means, Is genuinely on the lookout for honest employment, and his papers are in order, he will. on application, be supplied with food and lodging, either by the police or by agents of an orig inally and still largely voluntary asso- citation known as the International Union for the Relief of Poor Travellers, and will if possible hve work indicated to him.
 Then Intercantonal Union has spread from small beginnings over more than half the area and population of Switz erland. now covering fourteen out of twenty-two cantons. It supplies eV-
 
 CTS relief book in which his name. age and occupation are entered. Armed with this. with valid papers of legiti nation and with duly certified ev- idence that he has worked for an em- ployer within the three preceding months, and that at least five days have elapsed since such employment ceased, he will be furnished at any office con nected with the Intercantonal Union with breakfast, dinner. supper and lodging.
 NO task whatever is exacted from the person thus relieved. He has his whole day in which to look for employ ment and we gather that the agents of the union. and the police at whose sta lions the relief offices of the union are commonly situated, are ready to give any information in their possession as to work that is going on in the neigh . borhood. So far as the union is con
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

Two hundred miles due south from the rendezvous is Rawlins. the nearest point on the Union Pacific. Rimmed about with mountains infested with cutthroats and far beyond the edge of civilization. the Hole-in-the Wall was long a safe haven for the scum and flotsam of the Western drift
 The headquarters of the rangers are at Cheyenne. where the specially equip ped car is kept when not on the road. This is nothing more than 8 freight car fitted up for the accommodation of the patrol guard. One end of 1t serves to accommodate the horses, while the other is fitted up for the men. In it are a number of portable cots which fold up into a package that can almost be put in your pocket. These. of course, are never taken on the trail. but are used to sleep on while the special Is carrying them to the point of action. score of blankets, some cowmen's saddles a pack saddle, and a panniard, a rack for arms, dozen canteens. a tin stove. and a small larder complete the equipment of the car. In this min- iature pantry are always kept coffee, bacon. flour, salt and the inevitable canned goods. While on the trail the rangers sometimes kill a COW to fill out their larder.
 4 gang plank for loading the horses is always carried along The horses have become so accustomed to this that they run up 1t as naturally IS those in the fire department fall into harness.
 The chief knows where each of his men is and within thirty minutes of the time of receiving a wire the rang CTS special is hurrying through the night at fifty miles an hour with I clear right-of-way over every train on the track. In case the news of an at tack reaches Cheyenne at midnight. the rangers reach the scene before day break. ready to take up the trail as soon as it is light enough.
 The patrolled district lies between Medicine Bow, 100 miles west of Chey- enne. and Green River, Wyo. It covers about 100 miles of broken and rugged country very spersely settled and lit- tie known. The line passes through the Bad Country about Red Desert, Fort Steele, Point of Rocks and Wam- suter On a clear day the mountains surrounding the Hole-inthe Wall are to be seen In the distance.
 All but the absolutely necessary equipment is discarded when the men take up the trail. The plan is to travel as light as possible. The heaviest part of their outfit Is the weapons they carry. Every man bristles like an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

grandmother's time bears the individu- alIty of the artificer. Settings in those days were not perceot with the fideli- ty of machine processes--hence the ar tistic crudeness that is fascinating. This is something like the story or stained glass, which during its early stages was full of bubbles and flaws, but none the less rich in effect. Manu- lecturers of stained glass at the pres ent time have done their best to imi- tate the defects of the ancient product but with partial success only. The jewellers have accomplished more, but there Is this difference that an imt. tation antique in jewelry is almost sure to be composed of some parts of the original
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

cerned, it's relief Is only given once dur ing six months to the same traveller at the same station, so that there my be- no temptation to the work shy to loiter about, posing as the uncessful work-seeker. But in the canton of Zurich there are fifty-one relief offices belonging to the union.
 Nearly every canton has one or more forced labor institutions to which per sons are committed by the councils of their respective districts for habitual drunkenness or failure to support them selves or their families, or by the po- lice courts for vagrancy Cor wandering from place to place without means and without the object of obtaining honest employment) MT. Preston Thomas speaks of one at witzwyl belonging to the canton of Berne as appearing to be in various respects admirably successful It occupies an area of some two thousand acres of what used to be mainly waterlogged land at the northeast end of the Lake of Neuchatel. A large part of this land has been re- claimed and is producing abundant crops The sales of farm produce are steadily rising, and 1t is not unreason able to suppose that the worth of the estate has been raised in a correspond ing degree and if interest on the first capital outlay is disregarded the 'estab- lishment is really self supporting
 ''Thehe are workshops where tail. bring, shoemaking and other trades are carried on by men. but by men only brought up to them.
 The principle of the detention fo: long periods of trapms works we'll in Switzerland in respect of clearing the country of those pests; they certainly get a chance. by being steadily en: :. ployed in healthy and interesting oc . equations, of losing their 'workshyness,' while. as has been pointed out. true work seekers are aided and encour- aged"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

upon your grandmother's lap and toy- ing with that outlandish brooch or mar yelling at the size of her jet earrings. The brooch will now serve you for a belt pin; the pendants of the earrings may form part of necklace. on shoe buckles are also being worn as belt buckles and the more tarnished and ancient they look the better. list of the stones popular half a century or even 100 years ago is interesting. Black crystal was very much sought after. It Is to be distinguished from black onyx by it's freeG6m from flaws or markings. The onyx also popular Is beautifully motteled but opaque.
 Then there was cloudy amethist q blue with frosty markings; cloudy Spanish topaz, yellow brown, and the Scotch topaz of various yellows. Tho Scotch stone. called cairngorm, was the central stone in the brooch that held a plaid to the shoulder. Our grand mothers converted these into breast pins and, strangely enough. those to whom such relisc have been handed down are wearing them either at the belt or at the back of the collar.
 Among the green stones were the mossagate, blackstone or hematite. malachite, emerald matrix and Chinese jade. ranging from very dark to very light tones. Swiss lapis was the popu- lar blue. but its beauty was exceeded by the real lapis sometimes shot through with specs of gold or silver.
 Coral or carbuncles were at one time highly valued. The latter, when out, or, as jewellers say. faceted, was called a garnet otherwise 1t remained a car buncle. necklace of carbuncles, properly mounted is a piece of jewell ry fit for a queen. In light red the orange tint carnelian, translucent was. if anything. more beautiful than the carbuncle.
 There Is a charm about the old-fash- toned Jewelry which the newest de- ern settings cannot approach. The greater partion of the jeweiry manu- factured to-day has the imprint of somo mechanical process, whereas that of our
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02
AII Guards Are Gun NIen.

Every ma min the guard has a record as a good man with a gun. Si Funk was formerly sheriff of Buffalo Countd, New: George Hiatt is an ex- deputy sheriff of Carbon County, Wyo.; Pat Lawson and Tom Meggeson are both celebrated Western scouts and guides. Sheriff Wharton, of Rawlins, and Sheriff Young of Green River, both typical Western frontiersmen, are enlisted to aid the rangers whenever there shall be a call for their services.
 While the headquarters of the rang CTS are at Cheyenne, the men and horses are kept in constant requisition to patrol the line and look out for sus- picious characters. The car is loaded with men and horses. and Is run down the line to Medicine Bow or Point of Rocks Here the rangers and their horses go on a reconnaissance, riding along the line and watching for sus- picious characters of whose movements they may have been informed. Mean while the car follows a parallel course, keeping in touch with the men and picking them up at a point agreed upon. Never do the men get more than a few miles from their wheeled base of supplies, unless on an actual chase. The worst parts of the line are. of course, patrolled most. It is well known by all residents of Wyoming that Red desert, which is Q sheep graz nig country, is not used by herders in the summer. gang of train robbers could ride swiftly through the desert and reach the railroad without being detected were 1t not for the precau- tions of the rangers.
 Three weeks ago the rangers were riding the line at various points, when word reached Cheyenne that an attack had been made at Wilkins pumphouse. Frank Utley, night pumpman, had been wounded by robbers, who had thrown the switch at that place. but he had succeeded in driving them away. This was the report which sent the ranger special whirling through the black night past side-tracked flyers and mall trains.
 By morning Keliher's men were on the ground, and the trailers were ex- amining the trail. The affair turned out to be a fasco The pumpman had broken the switch and wounded him. self in search of notoriety.
 But the promptness with which the rangers reached the scene of action. which is nearly 300 miles from Chey- enne, shows what bandits may expect should any be foolhardy enough to defy Tim Ke1iher's rangers.