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The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
HANDBALL CHAMPION EGAN
HAS TO EXTEND HIMSELF
Famous Player Is Nearly Beaten in
Exhibition Game With Hamp-
ton and White

Michael Egan, the worlds champion hand
ball player, had his hands full yesterday aft
ernoon at the Olympic Club. He played AL
Hampton. the coast champion. and Jimmy
White three out OF fve games and won after
a hard struggle. Hampton, much TO the sur
prise of everybody present, able to take
Egan's fast toss. but could only return the
ball to the wall lightly White played bril-
liantly and even the champion praised him.
Previous to the big game Hampton tried to
beat Louis Levy and George James but they
proved too much for him. Hampton won the
first game. but the next two went to James
and Levy The games were fast and full OF
clever playing both sides In the final
Hampton had twenty points to his opponents'
eighteen. BY a series of kills James and Levy
out. The scores of yesterdays games
follow:
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
MODEL YACHTS COMPETE
UNDER GOOD CONDITIONS
Owing to Lack of Time the Winning
Boats in the Various Glasses Do
Not Meet

A fair wind blowing across Spreckels
Lake in Golden Gate Park yesterday and the
members of the San Francisco Model Yacht
Club held interesting races. Owing to a
lack of time the four winning boats were un-
able to meet to settle the question Of suprem-
acy. The boats that finished within the time
limit, their order. owner and time limit, fol-
Ioxx,-
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
FLOODS IN COLVILLE
VALLEY STILL RAGE

SPOKANE. Wash. April 17--No signs Of
abatement are noted in the Colvilie Valley to-
night. The water is the highest Il has been in
ten years Traffic on the Spokane Falls and
Northern line is practically suspended owing
TO washouts at many points. The town OF Orin
is under water and citizens have taken 70 the
hillsiGes An electric light plant at Meyers
Falls which Supplies several small towns with
light is flooded and the towns are in dark
pee
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
ADVERTISEMENTS
Headache

Nervousness, Dizziness. Indigestion. Neu-
ralgia are caused by sick nerves.
Ry soothing the nerves and stimulat-
ing their action. DIR. Miles Anti-Pain
pills relieve almost Immediately
Unlike any other pain remedy. they
contain nothing injurious. and you will
never know you have taken them, except
by the relief they afford.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
LETTER CARRIE

LETTER CARRIER MIssING.-Joseph A.
Hutchinson, letter carrier residing at 432
seventh street. was reported missing to the
Coroner last night by his brother E. c. Hutch
inson. Hutchinson left his home Saturday
night and has not been seen since. He Is q
years Of age and feet 50 inches tall.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
REAL ESTATE
DEALERS BUSY
Market Is Active and the
Demand for Property in
Oakland Steadily Increases
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
111O A-~;I


The demand for Oakland and su-
burban real estate is increasing and
homeseekers are coming here from all
parts of the country
The most important transaction late
ly was the purchase by the Contra
Costa Water Company of the building
now occupied by tn Union National
Bank, on the southeast corner of
Ninth street and Broadway.
Among those putting up homes in
Oakland are:
Judge w. R. Geary, two-story resi-
dence on Fifth avenue. near Ninth
street
H. ]. Derby, six-room cottage on
Fifth avenue. near East Ninth street.
H. Frantes, one-story frame store on
Twenty-third avenue, near East F'if
teenth street.
j. r. Westlake, two-story dwelling
on Market street, near Thirty fifth.
Plans have been prepared by Archi-
tect William Knowles for a modern
three-story apartment house to be
erected on the Magill estate on the
corner of Thirteenth and Castro
streets. 1t will contain about thirty
MEETING OF BOOSTERS.
Next wednesday evening the Oak
land Boosters will hold an opening
rally in the Common School Assembly
Hall at the Chabot Observatory and
the proposed bond issue will be dis
cussed by speakers appointed by the
Board Of Education, and the bond is
sue will receive the formal Endorsement
of the Oakland Boosters.
Reports from real estate dealers in
dicate that the market of 1904 will be
10 nf
Frank J. Woodward, president of the
Oakland Real Estate Association, says:
The market is more active than usual at
this season and the outlook is promising Dur
ing the week we have sold half a dozen resi-
aggregating about $4,000. and we have had a
large number of inquiries for property of all
descriptions.
Within the last few days a corporation has
been organized under the name of the Realty
Bonds and Finance Company Its capitaliza-
tion is 81, 600, COO. with subscribed capital OF
100000 1t is its purpose to acquire and own
business properties, and in order that small in
vestors shall have opportunity to share in
the profits Of these investments per cent
bonds will be issued and sold in denominations
of $500 and upward.
These bonds will be secured by a first mort
gage lien upon tie properties OF the company
and some large San Francisco trust company
will be asked to act as trustee for the in
vestors.
1t is also the intention of the company 10
transact general real estate and Insurance.
business caring for the properties of absent
owners and estates in probate. The board of
directors consists of the following well known
citizens. whose standing in the commercial
world assures success from the start: John
william Moller, W. r. Davis Frank M vii
son, Anson S. Blake B. c. Soule and r 7
Woodward The company will occupy the Of
fees of Woodward, Watson & Co. at Broadway
and Fourteenth street.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
EIGHT T-YEAR-OLD BOY
KILLED BY LANDSLIDE

SPOKANE. Wash. April 17.-Whiie play
ing al the bottom OF a ravine near NOrthport.
Wash Lisle Humphrey. years old. was
caught by a landslide and buried He was
dead when taken out.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18

Strong support is being given to a
movement to close all the saloons in
Ireland on st. Patrick's day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18

LIVERMORE, April 1.-THE new
Sweeney Opera House was thrown open
to the public last night and big
crowd of merrymake, attended the
housewarming and entertainment pro-
vided by John and E. j. Sweeney, the
owners.
The Sweeney Opera House is the
largest of its kind in Alameda County;
barring Oakland. and was designed to
be used as a theater and dancing hall.
The building is 1856 feet long and 90
feet wide. 1t is located at the corner
of First and Mcleod streets. The stage
is 28 by 81 feet and the building is pro-
vided with exits in case of fire.
The building is provided with both
mems and women's dressing-rooms at
the rear of the auditorium, and is
handsomely decorated and fitted with
modern appliances. The house will be
formally opened early in May.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-18
BRANCH OFFICES
OF THE CALL IN
ALAMEDA COUNTY

OAKLAND.
fffS Broadway.
Telephone Main 1888
BERKELEY.
2f4S Center Street
Telephone North "a
ALAMEDA
1885 Park Street 80.
Telephone Alameda 40'S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

So far as the question of time is
concerned, it deserves notice that not
merely geology but almost every form
of inquiry into the past throws further
back the limits usually assigned.
Egypt, for instance, is continually fur
nishing fresh proofs of the antiquity
OF civilization. Prof. Flinders Petrie
expounded at Owens College, Man
chester, England, few days ago the
result Of recent explorations at Aby-
dos, in upper Egypt, from which it
appears that the ruins at that one
spot tell a continuous story that car
ries us back to 5000 B. G. Abytlos was
the first capital of Egypt and remain
ed for forty-five centuries the religi-
GUS center of the land, and there the
Egyptian exploration fund has. un-
Searthed the remains of ten success
sfve temples, one over the other.ss'
From the age of the first temple a
group of about 200 objects has been
found, which throw surprising light
on the civilization of the first dynasty.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Beautiful Volume in the Congressional Library
Be DUPLICATED

The most beautiful volume among
the half million in the congressional
library at Washington is Bible which
was transcribed by monk in the six
teenth century. 1t could not be match
ed to-day in the best printing Offices
in the world. The parchment is in
perfect preservation. Every one of it's
thousand pages is study. The gen
eral lettering is in German text, each
letter perfect, without a scratch or
blot from lid to lid. At the beginning
or each chapter the first letter is very
large, usually two or three inches long
and is brightly illuminated in red and
blue ink. Within each of these capi-
tails is drawn the figure of some saint,
some incident of which the chapter
tells. There are two columns on a
page, and nowhere is traceable the
slightest irregularity of line space or
formation of the letters. Even under
magnifying glass they seem flawless.
This precious volume is kept under
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
JOKES OF OLD GREEKS.
Many Ancient Jests That Can Still
Pass Muster.

Many Ancient Jests That Can Still
Pass Muster.
Prof Charles Zueblin, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, lectured recently
in Philadelphia on *'Ruskin and the
Ethics of Wealth. After his lecture
Prof. Zueb1in talked about education.
Greek" he said, "can be made very
interesting to boys and girls. l know
an instructor in Greek who puts his
pupils to translating the Asteia OF
Hierocles as soon as they can con.
strue.
"Hieroc1es. you know, was a Greek
joker, and his jokes still ring true
Most of them are about schoolmas.
ters. One of them is about a school.
master who boards ferry on horse.
back, and when the people ask him
why he does this, he replies that he
is in 2 hurry, and wants to get across
the river faster. 49, ss
eaSS" Another of the sshooIinasters 81
Hierocles is on ship when a great
storm arises. The people, in fear of
shipwreck, proceed to lash themselves
to spars, to oars, and to other heavy
and buoyant objects. But the school
master lashes himself to an anchor.
"A third schoolmaster wants to see
what he looks like when he is asleep.
Accordingly he stands before mirror
and shuts his eyes,"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
MAKE WORK FOR UNCLE SAM
Careless People Overburden the Dead
Letter Department..

Careless People Overburden the Dead
Letter Department.
The paterna1 assiduity of your I'm
Gle Samuel is shown in the state
.ment that the dead letter department
is the most Overburdened with work
of any in the postal service.
The recapitulation shows that there
were, in round figures, 10,000,O00 care
less people in this country last year.
Specifying, it tells of an increase Of
850,000 over the year before.
The book list makes special
heading necessary, as it amounts to
1000 lots. each containing many
items, books in English and all for
eign languages, hundreds of the best
selling novels in the last four or five
years, many copies of Shakespeare
and an inconceivable array of reli-
gious subjects. Miscellaneous paper
backed novels in stacks are found.
The jewelry list alone would stock
a large store. There are hundreds of
wedding rings, all kinds of time
pieces, table and other silverware,
secret society emblems and pins.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
City Alligator has Typhoid.

The carnivorous reptile of the
municipality known as A. MISSISSIPPI
piensis, but more commonly called
Allie. alias Pat, is afflicted with
typhoid fever. For over three years
this alligator has lived without known
pain OR ache in the city laboratory,
but now it is feared by the city's
physicians that he may not recover.
Pat has been i'll several days, but
an official diagnosis of his case was
not made until late yesterday after
noon after conference between DR..
Behm, director of the laboratory; DR..
Drake, and H. Lantry, the head ami
NAL keeper. After getting all the
facts regarding the alligator's illness,
examining his body and observing for
half an hour his symptoms, they an
nounced as certainty that the alli-
gator is suffering from typhoid fever.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

Cope Whitehouse, the authority on
Egyptology and other. branches of
science, discussing the recent explo-
sion at Woolwich in the Newport Her
aid, relates the following story, which,
he says, was told. by Sir Benjamin
Baker at a dinner OF the Smeatonian
club (an association of British civil
engineers), which was attended by
Mr.. Whitehouse: . =.
There were two mixing houses at
Walfham Abbey, separated by a con-
siderable space and fully. protected by
banks of earth. Two men were pass
ing between these houses, when both
exploded. They said that the one on
the right went off first, but it was
supposed that this was an inference
affecting the memory. They could not
understand the simultaneous explo-
sions and therefore supposed that one
must have preceded the other by a
sensible period of time. But the SCI
entif1c advisers of the government
were OF the opinion that the stability
OF the compound was disturbed
through some sympathetic action.
These men also said that thew
threw themselves on the ground to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
Is Yotsr Hair Red?

Red hair is the fashion. We have it
on the authority of counsel in a re-
cent action for libel through the char
acter of novel, and certainly a more
or less fragrant style of chevelure
has been conspicuous of late. Why or
how it became the fashion is, per-
haps, one of those esoteric mysteries
better left to the imagination. 1t is,
nevertheless, remarkable fact, not
withstarding very ancient prejudice
against it, red hair is the fashion.
"Ginger'' and carrots are not exactly
fattering metaphors, and there is
even a vulgar superstition that rufus
hair. like radium, has the property of
emitting heat. Don't come too near"
cried young collier to Scotch lady
who canvassed p mining village in
the interest Of her husband and Of
fered the electors kiss for a vote.
Don't come too near. You might set
fire to us Mot you, my lad,' was
the singeing retort; 4'you are too
green london (Eng.) Globe
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
PERlLs OF LAKE BA1kAL

The drowning of several hundred
Russian soldiers in Lake Baikal, in
Siberia, was 'chronicled in the dis
patches, but the report is declared
erroneous. The lake is from twenty
to sixty miles wide and 500 to 600
miles long. It lies between 100 and
Ito degrees east longitude and so to
Sc degrees north latitude. It's area
equals that of Lake Erie and Lake
Ontaria combined. Its depth is a
mile IN places. Lake Superior, the
deepest Of American lakes, is 1880
feet deep.
There is a convict route around the
lower portion of the lake, but the
grades are so stupendous that the
cost of a road over this route has been
estimated to be $250,000 a mile. Roads
in the United States average about
$4,000 mile under difficulties. The
route is $50 miles long. 1t is evident
why the Russian depends upon his
boats in summer, which make three
round trips weekly, and builds his
railroad upon the ice in winter, when
it freezes to depth of twelve feet.
In summer the storms strike Lake
Baikal out of clear sky. The wind
rushes down from the north like a
hurricane, without warning. When it
strikes the surrounding hills, which
nose out into the lake in rugged, pre-
cipitous promontories,: the hurricane
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

probable future life and the death of
the falls thus:
. With progressive loss in water vol.
ume the Canadian falls will reach the
south end of Goat island in from one
thousand to fifteen hundred years
the death of the American falls.
The flow of the waters will now
have become intermittent, and, at first
only at periods of mean and high
water in Lake Erie, eventually at
high water alone, will there be any
discharge over the escarpment. This
will continue for period of from fif-
teen hundred to two thousand years.
The entire flow to the north will
cease, and the river will run back into
Lake Erie, leaving the escarpment
dry at a point not very far south of
Goat Island, and with a height of
about one hundred feet. This will be
thirty-6ve hundred years hence-the
death of Niagara falls.-John M.
Clarke, Phi. D., LII. D., in Harper's
Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
GRAND MAR1As. MINNESOTA SATURDAY. MAY I, 1901
HUNTING THE WILD TURKEY.
Most Popular Method is the "Callinq''
Trick.

Trick. -
Several different methods for taking
the wild turkey are pursued, the most
popular being the calling" method.
The wild gobbler, like his tame
brother, is an inveterate and ardent
lover, which quality since even be.
fore the white man first came to
hunt him in Virginia and the Caro-
linas has led him blindly into vastly
more serious trouble than the matter
of squabbles with his jealous brothers.
Long, long ago some observing abor.
iginal learned to call him to his doom
by initiating the seductive yelp of the
hen turkey. The ambushed savage,
well practiced in producing his men
dacious call, readily decoyed the love
mad gobb1er within easy range of his
deadly arrow. The white man learned
of the Indian. Shrewd as he is, the
turkey has not fully learned that fire
quently death turks behind the dulcet
call of his lady-love. His desire is
tempered by distrust, however, and
despite his buster and hurry to reach
the side of the lovelorn hen, he is
wary, and cautiously dallies in his
coming, to assure himself that all is
well. He will detect the faintest er-
ror in the most carefully modulated
call, or will see the slightest move.
ment Then swift and still as a fleet.
ing shadow he will steal away to the
deepest cover, there to remain in hid
ing till his fears subside before his
rising ardOrs-Field and Stream.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
TRAGEDY OF THE DAYS OF FoRrY-NlNE:.
Pathetic
Deser-A Wifes Devotion

A little procession of hooded wag-
ons rocked and groaned across the
desert en- route to California IN the
time of the gold discoveries. Limit
less plains of sage brush and alkali
burned beneath the sun. The emf
grants suffered from intolerable heat,
sank with exhaustion, rose and pur-
sued their journey, while days and
weeks passed unnoted A whistling
torment of desert winds swept up the
alkali dust in wraith-like clouds and
sent them whirling through the air:
they seemed Plutonian phantems.
~ tourh the fiasn;
ficting blindness and maddening
thirst.
AT sunrise the caravan halted for a
simple burial. There was neither bier
nor coffin, but stark, shrouded form
OF man, which was borne in stalwart
arms from the wagon and lowered to
a grave in the mobile sands. OF the
silent company who witnessed the
1nterment, foremost was the youthful
widow of the. dead man. She looked
mutely on, with face which was de-
void of expression and seemed both
young and old.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

oee"' "rn9 IN Haper- Weekly Declares
Cease ndred Years..

In two thousand five hundred years
hence the discharge of the Niagara
will have become intermittent, ceas-
ing at low stages of the lake, and
finally the Niagara river, on the rising
edge of the basin, will have it's waters
turned back and southwark and no
water will flow over the Niagara es-
carpment of that day Through this
agency alone Niagara falls will cease
to exist long before the escarpment
has been worn away to the river
level at Grand island, but as it is even
now lessening the volume of water
poured over the falls the erosive DOW
er of the stream is diminishing, and
we must therefore increase the period
necessary for the retreat of the Cana
dian falls to the south end of Goat
island, and the stealing of the waters
of the American falls
Assuming the continuity of the
forces named We might outline the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07
!. MAN WHO WAS NOT

avoid the falling fragments; as a
prone position was the worst possible,
their nerves were evidently shaken.
They had observed, before the explo-
sion, workman approaching the door
Of one of these houses. When they
rose to their feet their first thought
was for him and they looked around
to see where he was. But although
they looked and looked, they found no
body or part of it. He was not. For
the air took him. According to the
scientific explanation, his atoms had
received jar which had shaken them
to pieces of about the billionth of an
inch in diameter or less.
"As would be said now, he became
collection of antagonistic electrons.
They found part of an empty stocking
and the heel of a boot That was all.
1t must be remembered that there
would have been no inorganic matter
about him no metal or hard sub
stance. Therefore as the mysterious
processes of life had built him up, so
also they had built the material of
his clothes. The fragments which
escaped annihilation were apparently
due to one of those electrical freaks
common in thunderstorms."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

A part of a large glazed pottery vase
of Mena. the first king of the first
dynasty, about 400 B. c., showed
that even then they we're making
glaze on a considerable scale, and also
inlaying it with second color. The
ivory carving was astonishingly fine,
figure of a king showing sublety
and power of expression as good as
any work of later ages" At about
1000 B. C. an ivory statuette of
Cheops, the builder of the great pyra-
mid, was found, the only portrait
known of him. Making every possible
allowance for the marvellous rapidity
of art development, must not many
thousand of years have rolled over
between the pristine dwellers in the
Nile valley and the men who carved
ivory statuettes and manufactured
glazed work 1n1aid with second COT
ors? It is a long, long march from
flint implements to the solemn tenn
pie, ivory statuettes and human por-
traits.-Lordon Telegraph.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

glass case, which is sometimes lifted
to show that all the pages are as per
feet as the two which lie open.
A legend relates that a young man
who had sinned deeply became
monk and resolved to do penance for
his misdeeds. He determined to copy
the Bible that he might learn every
letter of the divine commands which
he had violated. Every day for many
years he patiently pursued his task.
Each letter was wrought in reverence
and love, and the patient soul found
it's only companionship in the sanity
faces which were portrayed on
these pages. When the last touch
was given to the last letter the old
man reverently kissed the page and
folded the sheets together. The illus
trated initials in perfection of form and
brilliancy of color surpass anything
produced in the present day., With
all our boasted progress nothing in
Europe or America equals it-New
York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-05-07

Has FIown-The Little Boy I Used
Lament Of Rachel.
Slipped
And ns,er would nestle in your palm
If the white feet into the. grave had
I could not blame you for your heart
ache then.
l wonder that some mothers ever fret
At their wee children clinging to their
Or that the footprints when the days are
Are. ever black enough to make them
frOWn. ST.. %..:
If I could find little, muddy boot
Or cap or jacket on my chamber floor
III l could kiss rosy, restless foot,
And hear it patter in my house once
more!
If could mend broken cart to-day.
Tomorrow make kite to reach the
sky, ---r.>2 So. ,. ~
There is no woman in Gods world would
say - 4
She was more blissfully content than I!
BUT ah! the dainty pillow. next my own
Is never rumpled by shining head!
MY singing birding from its nest has
4 / The little boy used to kiss isdead. s..
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