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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Want Share in Oil Leases.

Two actions to recover money on
oil leases, aggregating $4,000. were
filed in the Superior Court yesterday.
w. P. Kerr sued Oren G. Meyers and
julius Fried for $3.50 S3 and 3333.33
shares Of stock in the Westmoreland-
Coalinga Company, or its value,
s666s &C. The plaintiff came into
possession Of the land from c. o.
Garfield, and the defendants got the
lease from r. w. Heath. Kerr agreed
to let them suitcase provided he re-
ceived one-third of the proceeds.
They sublet for one-sixth of the oil
and $1,000 in cash, but Kerr says they
received 10000 shares of the COM
pany's stock besides. The other suit
was by Louis Nathan and w. P.
Kerr against Meyers and Fried for
$4,000, which they claim as their
share in $4,000 paid for sub
lenses by the Pittsburg Coalinga
Company.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
PERSONAL.

Banker T. ]. Field of Monterey is
at the Palace.
f. ". Hatch. a fruitman of Sacra-
mento. is at the Lick.
". G. Filler. a capitalist of Salt Lake
City, is at the st. Francis.
Al Luning, a brewer of Milwaukee,
is staying at the st. Francis.
Commander Mahon. L. s. n, ar
rived at the Palace yesterday.
W. B. Clapp of the United States
Geodetic Survey is at the Occidental.
II. P. Anderson, a well known oil
nan Of Los Angeles, is at the Palace.
l.. 7. Stimson. prominent lumber
nan of Los Angeles, and wife are a.
TIE Palace.
Fred A Rindge. a prominent busi-
ness man Of Los Angeles, is registered
at the st. Francis.
Judson Brusie. secretary of the Rail
road Commission, and wife are regis
tered at the Occidental.
Thomas r. Jones, the newly ap-
pointed superintendent of the Sacra-
mento division of the Southern Pa
clfic, is in the city on business.
J. w. Kendrick, third vice president;
A. @. Wells, general manager. and
James J. Byrne. general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe road. who ac-
companied President E. P. Ripley up
the coast as far as Monterey, arrived
here yesterday and are registered at
the Palace. President Ripley will ar
rive to-day and expects to remain in
San Francisco until Saturday or Sun
day.
A party of Diamond Match Com
panv officials, who have been inspect
irg the company's interests at Chico
and Stirling, arrived here yesterday
and are registered at the Palace. In
the partv are President o. c. Barber,
General Manager w. NJ. Graves and
General superintendent c. NJ. Palmer
of New York and F. NJ. Clough, Pa
cific Coast manager; ]. B. Robinson,
chief engineer at Chico, and A. f.
Jones, attorney for the company on
this coast.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Mrs. Crocker,s RemaIns Hero.

The remains Of the late Mrs.
George Crocker arrived from the East
yesterday. They were met at the Oak
land mole by Louis Hanchette. broth
er of the deceased, who will arrange
for their interment. George Crocker
and his stepson, Alexander Ruther-
ford, will arrive here to-day. The
funeral will take place tomorrow at
1O:3O a. m. from Trinity Church. In
terment will be in Mountain View
Cemetery in Oakland. For the con-
venience of friends of the late Mrs.
Crocker who desire to attend the
burial ceremony special boat will
leave the ferry landing on this side
of the bay for Broadway, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
DENIES CLAIMS
ARE IRREGULAR
Superintendent of Whittier
Reform School Explains
Procedure in Shaw Cases
AUDITOR Is MISTAKEN
Method in Vogue at the
Institution Is Said to Be
the Only Practicable One

Los ANGELES, Nov. 16.-A special
to the Express from Whittier, Cal,
says;
Reports from Merced that County
Auditor Cook alleges that irregular
claims have been presented to Merced
County by Superintendent Smith of
the Whittier Reform School in connec-
ton with the release of the boys Rob-
ert and Dick Shaw. August Is. seem to
have been based on misunderstood
ing of the methods pursued by the
board of trustees, which methods have
the approval of Governor Pardee.
According to the allegations of Aud
itor Cook of Merced the State school
officials were guilty of misrepresenta-
tion in filing the claims for the support
of the Shaw boys for August, Septem
Der and October, affldavits obtained
from the boys. stating that they left
the school August 15
Since the State school of correction
was established at Whittier, the
amount advanced by the county TO the
State, $11 a month for each pupil, has
been claimed until the pupil was dis
charged or paroled. superintendent
Smith said to-day that this plan had
been in vogue during his adminstra-
tion and heretofore no question had
been raised by county officials in re-
gard to it.
About three months ago. he con-
tinued, Il sent these boys to their
home in Fresno on furlough, and at a
meeting of the trustees a month ago 1
recommended their discharge from the
school They We're discharged, but for
the interval between the furlough and
their dismissal from the school charges
for their keeping was rendered. This
is the practice Of the school and it is
followed every month in similar cases.
Immediately upon the discharge or
parole Of a cadet the charge against
the county from which he comes for his
maintenance is stopped. Our plan has
been approved by the Governor, the
State Board Of Examiners and the
board OF trustees, and in fact, is the
only one practicable"
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
FIND INDIANS
Are STARVING
Investigators Report That
Red Men on Reservation
Near Campo Are Destitute
TELL PITIFUL STORIES
Wards of the Nation Will
Be Dead Before the New
Year Unless Given Relief

SAN DIEGO, Nov. ia pitiful
story OF hunger and destitution and
pathetic tale Of patience and faith in
the ultimate consideration Of a kind
Government are brought from the
eastern mountains Of this county by
men who have been investigating the
condition OF the Indians on the Gov
ernment reserv~tions near Campo. In
dian Agent Charles z. Schell OF Pala
and Charles T. Lummis, the well
known author and editor OF "Out
West" have spent six days among the
red men The gist Of what they found
Is narrowing enough TO send a shud-
der through the country.
In the I'VE reservations near Campo,
On the edge Of the desert, there are at
present nearly zoo Indians-not the
dirty, vicious, untutored, begging
creatures who infest the transcon-
tinental railroad sations, but hard
working, Intelligent farming people.
who cultivate every possible square
inch OF the practically worthless. land
reserved for them by the nation. No
rain has fallen to start the seed plant
ed, no water IS at hand for irrigating,
no large reserve food supply is ever
possible and the unfortunates are now
subsisting chiefly upon acorns.
''Unless relief comes" said Lummis,
"sll the Indians will be dead before
New Years day. Such emaciation,
such patient suffering among old and
young alike, have never seen before
and never want to see again. Those
Indians loathe putrid flesh, yet such
is their extremity that when they see
vultures devouring any animal that
has been killed they scare the birds
away and exc out their larder with
the flesh. They also go out and catch
rats and mice and eat them"
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
AM INTERESTS JOINED.

Most OF the great problems Of organization
and methods have now been solved, and prcg
ress in construction and settlement is being
made with increasing rapidity. The passage
of the reclamation law a great step
ward realizing the best IS produce water
for irriga tion. But, always and in every
place, the best use OF public lands is their use
by the man who has come TO stay. There are
unfortunately in every part OF our country
few men whose interests are purely temporary,
who are eager 10 skim the cream and CO. 10 tie
detriment OF the natural reservoir upon which
national irrigation depends the permanent
loss OF every agency which makes for the true
development and lasting greatness of the ir-
rigable States. Such interests cannot be al
lowed 70 control.
Now that your first great object has been
law you should make yourselves the guardians
Of the future and the unrelenting and watch
full enemies OF every attempt to waste any Of
the great resources in the forestry gra zing and
mineral wealth, the foundation stones of the
newer and greater West for irrigation and
every other interest which you represent. The
period of exclusiveness is past The stock in
terests are longer independent OF the mining
interests, nor either of them independent Of the
irrigator A closer Interviewing than ever be-
fore is at hand among all the great interests of
the whole country. One cannot prosper with
out the other So the future growth and
greatness Of the other Western interests de-
END in the first degree, upon the development
of irrigation and the development of irriga-
ton will depend upon the protection and wise
of the existing forests and the creation of
ing. Your work for the good Of one interest is
for the good Of all
Senator Newlands of Nevada and
Governor Pardee of California are the
most talked of men for the next presi-
dent of the congress.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
IEDCHER AGAIN ARRESTED
on \ CHARGE OF ARSON
plant Of Attorney NagIe and
Bonds Are Fixed.

George Letcher capitalist. was
brought TO the City Prison yesterday
b.. Deputy Sheriff Z. Stewart of Santa
Clara county He was arrested in San
jose some days ago on complaint Of
Attorney C.. O. Nagle Of this city who
alleged that Letcher was a fugitive
tren justice. II was charged that
L-tcher WAS wanted in Williams
County Ohio for arson committed
about twenty years ago. Letcher was
released from custody by order Of the
Judge ln san Jose.
Nagle secured a warrant from Judge
COOK on Tuesday afternoon for the ar
rest II Letcher. claiming that he is a
Fugitive from justice. The warrant
was sent TO San Jose and Letcher was
arrested and brought here yesterday.
Letcher's bonds were fixed at $4,000 by
Judge Cook and he was remanded into
the custody Of the police till he ould
furnish the bonds. The case will be
heard tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock Attorney George ". ScheIl
is looking after Letchers interests.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Banquet to George Webster.

George Webster, stage director at
the Central Theater, was the guest of
honor at banquet given last evening
in honor of his twenty-five years of
theatrical life. Mr.. Webster began
his career under the tutelage of the
noted actor. w. Z. Sheridan, at the
Baldwin Theater in the production Of
King Louis XII" At that time Web
ster was playing a small part in the
production, and one of the actors who
was scheduled to interpret the role
of the drunken Scotchman was taken
suddenly i'll. Sheridan called Web
ster to one side and gave him the
part. After the performance Sheri-
dan praised Webster in the following
manner: Fine performance young
man; but he was too drunk" In the
same cast were Laura Dom, Joe Girls
mer, Theodore Roberts and Annie
Adams the mother of Maud Adams.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
CaIlfornians in sew york.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-The follow
ing Californians arrived in New York
to-day:
From San Francisco-Mrs. NJ.
Frank, at the Breslin; Mrs. L. H.
Griffith and Mrs. J. p. Mavers, at the
Imperial; Mrs. z. H. Merrill, at the
ST. Denis; E. c. Brau, at the Grand;
NJ. H. Hale and wife, at the Astor; A.
w. King, at the Murray Hill; L. w.
knight, at the Darlington; ]. Madison
and wife, at the Broadway Central; H.
McDermott, at the Rossmore; c. H.
Morton, at the Astor; Mrs. A. NJ. Sey-
mour, at the Cadillac.
From Santa Rosa--Mrs. B. Thomp-
son, at the Astor.
From Los Angeles-H. F. Norcross.
at the Victoria; f. A. Walker. at the
Astor; Mrs. d. NJ. Welch, at the Muir
raw Hill.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
GRAPE-NUTs.
TILL NOON.
The Simple Dish That Keeps One
Vigorous and Well Fed.

vigorous and Well FED.
When the doctor takes his own medi-
cine and the grocer eats the food he
recommends some confidence comes to
the observer.
A grocer Of Ossian, Ind, had a prac-
tical experience with food worth any
ones attention.
He says: six years ago I became so
weak from stomach and bowel trouble
that I was finally compelled to give I'D
all work in my store, and in fact all
sorts Of work, for about four years.
The last year ] was confined to the bed
nearly all OF the time and much OF
the time unable 10 retain food Of any
sort on nay stomach. My bowels were
badly constipated continually and lost
Ia weight from 1s5 pounds down TO
eighty-eight pounds
When at the bottom Of the ladder I
changed treatment entirely and started
In on Grape Nuts and cream for nour-
ishment. used absolutely nothing but
this for about three months. I slowly
improved until I got out Of bed and
began 70 move about.
I have been improving regularly
and now in the past two years have
been working about fifteen hours day
IN the store and never felt better in
my life.
During these two years have never
missed a breakfast Of Grape Nuts and
cream, and often have 1t two meals a
day, but the entire breakfast is always
made Of Grape-Nuts and cream alone.
Since commencing the nse OF Grape
&uts I have never used anything to
stimulate the action OF the bowels. a
thing / had 10 do for years. but this
food keeps me regular and in fine shape
and I am growing stronger and heavier
every day
Ny customers, naturally, have been
Interested and am compelled TO an
swer a great many questions about
Grape-Nuts.
Some people would think that a sim
pie dish Of Grape-Nuts and cream
would not carry one through to the
monday meal. but 1t VIII and in the
most vigorous fashion"
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek. Mich.
Look IN each pkg. for the famous lit
Ge book, The Road TO Weuyiue."
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Accnsed of stahbinc Chinesc.

Wong Dick Sing. a highbinder be-
longing 10 the Suey Sing Tong. was ar
rested yesterday afternoon by Detec-
tive Mcmahon and Special officer
Cleary on Washington street. He is
accused OF stabbing Chin Tai in a
box in the Washington-stree theater
on Tuesday night over a dispute as TO
ownership Of the boy. Chin TaTs
wound is serious and Wong DfAk Sing
viii be held pending developments.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Want Bond Taxes Refunded.

Claims were filed yesterday with
the Board of Supervisors for the re-
turn of taxes alleged to have been il
legally collected for the redemption
and interest of the new bond issue by
John Rosenfeld's Sons and Mandel,
Wiener & Co. The protestants aver
that the board had no power to levy
the tax because the bonds are not yet
issued or sold.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
californians in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The fol-
lowing Californians arrived in Wash
ington to-day;
At the Ralelgh-Paul Dotz of San
Francisco. At the New Willard. L.
Elliott Of Los Angeles; Miss A. A.
Collett. Miss Riley and Robert NJ. E.
Dobbs % San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
MILTON jacob PROVES
A BRILLIANT SOLOIST
Interprets the Masters and Wins the
Plaudits and Admiration of
His Audience.

Milton jacob. pupil of Hugo Mans
feldt, gave public piano recital Tues
day night at Steinway Hall and sur
prised even his most ardent admirers.
who have heard the youthful genius in
private.
In masterful manner, with conception
Of the great composers truly remark
able ard with the ease of a veteran
he interpreted Schubert as Schubert's S
loyal subjects would have him inter-
preted, and ratified of picturesque
dainties Of that great man Dvorak
until the audience demanded more and
more of it.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
Lnundress' Hand Caught in Mangles

Annie Ryan, laundress employed
in the st. Nicholas laundry, had four
fingers of her right hand fearfully
crushed while passing linen through
a hot mangles yesterday. The wo-
man was smoothing wrinkles out of
a piece Of cloth that was going
through the machine. The injuries
were treated at the Emergency Hos
pital by DIR. Pawlicki.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17
improvements Along North Shore.

The North Shore tunnel through Whites
Hill is completed. All that remains TO be
done is the grading OF the approaches Trains
will be running through the tunnel by Deem
Der 3 or thereabouts. This Will mean saving
in time OF about thirty minutes between San
Francisco and Laguntas, where ;ho Maillard
estate is being subdvided sand placed on the
market IN villa lots. 1t will mean extensive
improvements IN the country along the
scenic North Shore.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17

INJURED by CARELESS DRIvERS-os-
good Howard Of ia Howard street was
kr 5clSed down by wagon at the corner Of
Taylor and Market streets yesterday afternoon
James O'Rilcy OF C2l Sansome street met with
a similar mishap at Market and o Farrell
streets Both were treated at the Central
rrrreruartcv FJnsnifal
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17

Cleanse and renovate the vital fluid Cor
blood and healthfully stimulate every
bodily function with Lash's Bitters.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-17

POSTERS and BANNERS.-GabrleI Printing
Co print anything. 40 Sacramento st.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20

The fact that this is a leap year
carries with it an effect apt to be
overlooked, which is that the an.
nual expense of governing the ma
tons will be considerably in
creased by the inclusion of the ex-
ira day. This comes home with
the greatest force to those govern.
ments which have the largest
armies to feed and provide for.
The French budget commission, at
present sitting, is met by the fact
that the one day will add to the ex-
penses Of the war Office for 1904 a
sum Of NEARLY 500, 900 francs, which
will be expended in ratiOns for the
men and forage for the horses.
When all the various state depart
ments are separately considered
the total sum runs into several
million francs.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20
Horses and Cattle.

The range of cattle is practical
~ cOextensive with that of the
horse. Cattle, however, are found
more extensively in very hot,
damp climates than the horse, and
are entirely absent from dry deS-
ert regions where the horse is
found in considerable numbers.
Cattle, for example, are wholly
lacking in the desert Of Sahara,
but they Craze in the southern
part of India where no horses are
found. They are grown wherever
grass thrives, except in some hot
regions of excessive HUMILITY,
while the horse is important only
in regions where grain supple.
ments grass as a part of his food,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20
AT HOME.
This Clever Woman Made a Speciality
Of the DOughnut.

VI the OUuBunuls
With a family of small children,
it was the desire of my heart to
make a little spending-money, as
we call it, writes one bright wOm-
an in the Woman's Home COmpan.
ion. Everyone said that l was a
splendid hand to make dOughnuts,
so / thought my friends might take
pleasure in buying them from my
children.
One bright Tuesday morning ]
started my little girl and boy out
with new baskets on their arms,
each carrying six dozen rich brown
dOughnuts to sell at ten cents a
dozen. Having instructed them
where to 60, they soon returned
with glowing faces and their
hands full Of dimes and pennies,
carrying empty baskets, and tell
ing me that SO many said: "COme
again"
In a short time my regular bak'
ing.days we're Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, and my pin
money increased. Imade room in
a side room Of my home, where !
kept doughnuts and cakes every
day.
With a little help two days in
the week my business became a
pleasure to me and my dear chill
dren, and we all have our pin-mon-
ey made at home, and my children
are learning the value of saving,
to the delight of their father.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20
AWFUL swEAr-BArHs.
Eskimo Children Rush from Hot Room
TO Roll in the Snow.


Boys who make a fuss because
their parents Oblige them to take
frequent baths should be glad
that they are not Eskimo children
living on the shores of Norton
Sound. In that cold region of
Alaska, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, all the boys are obliged to
take a sweat bath every week, and
this bath is no joke.
A fire of driftwoOd is built in
the center of the floor of the ka.
shim-the one-roOmed house
where the men and boys of a vii
lage pass most of their time
and when the smoke has passed
off and the wood is reduced to red,
glowing Goals, a cover is put over
the smoking hole in the roof and
the place becomes intensely hOr.
The boys then must take off
their clothes and sit about the fur
nace-like apartment until their
skin becomes as red as the shell of
a boiled lobster and seems on the
point of blistering.
Owing to the intense heat the
bathers are obliged to wear res
p%irators to protect their lungs.
These r%espiratOrs are pads of
shavings bound together, cOncave
on the inside and convex on the
outside, and large enough to COW
er the mouth, nose and part of the
cheeks of the wearer.
Across the inside runs a little
wooden bar, which is held in the
teeth to keep the %respirators in
place.
The boys sit there until they are
dripping with perspiratiOn. Then
they rush outside into the intense
cold and roll in the snow.
E. w. Nelson, who spent be-
tween four and FIVE years in inves'
tigating for the government the
Eskimos living about Behring
strait, says: "On several occa.
siOns | saw them go from the
/ sweat bath to holes in the ice on q
neighboring stream, and, squat
ting there, pour ice water over
their backs and shoulders with
wooden dipper, apparentlyexperi
encing the greatest pleasure from
the operation"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20
Honor in the Lamp-Post.

Much fun has been poked at the
button Or the peacock's feather
which denotes rank in China, but
what about lamp-posts, as a mark
of high degree? In some cities OF
Scotland it is the custom to erect
specially designed lamp-posts
outside the residences of the chief
municipal dignitaries. Thus, in
Edinburgh the lord provost has
two lamp-posts, bearing the city
arms, outside his door, while the
bailies, the dean of guild, and GER
tain other civic luminaries have
one lamp-pOst each. Smethwick
is the only English town in which
a similar custom prevails.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-02-20
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