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The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
MYSTERIOUS POWER
CLAIMED BY WOMAN
Asserts 1t Has Enabled Her
to Find Riches in
Nevada.

RENO. Aug. ga woman giving her
name as Mrs. Mabel Jackman and claim
ing Chicago as her home arrived at the
little town of Mill City yesterday, an
nouncing that she had found number of
rich gold and silver ledges in Humboldt
County. She declared that their location
had been revealed to her through an oc-
cult power possessed only by her self and
those who are converted to her religion
a strange sect, the code of which she does
not reveal.
several times during the last six weeks
for the purpose of securing supplies and
resting. She is unaccompanied and neither
seeks nor gives counsel Mrs. Jackman
states that she has informed her follow
ers in the East Of her discovery, and that
many Of them are coming TO Nevada to
help her develop her properties
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
OIL KING MAY TESTIFY
IN A sso.ooo.oOo SUIT
Woman Sues Standard OIL for That
sum- Which She Claims Was Due
TO Her Late Husband.

BOSTON. Aug. "a motion was
made in the Supreme Court to-day for
the appointment OF a commission to
take the testimony OF John d. Rookie
feller and other officers of the Standard
Oil Company in the $4,000, 900 suit
brought by Mrs. Elizabeth F. Green
ough of this city, who alleges that the
amount is due her as royalty on the
oil refined by the company since 1874.
The suit is based on an alleged con-
tract made with the late BENJAMIN f.
Greenough, the inventor OF a refining
process bv the terms of which Green
ough was to receive one-quarter of a
cent on every gallon Of oil sold by the
Standard OIL Company. II. H Rogers,
who is made chief defendant, in his re-
ply TO the suit, says an agreement was
made, but that Greenough himself va
Gated il on January /. 1875.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
THREE MORE DIsAPpEARANCEs.
Young Grocer Believed to Have Taken
His Own Life.

G. H. Roster has been missing since
August 19. He hado grocery at Tay-
lor and Greenwich streets and his
friends fear that he has committed sui
eide as he was despondent over money
matters. He is "a years of age, feet
inches tall, slim build and light COM
plexion.
Mrs. A Nestor, 466 Paris street, re-
ported Clara Johnston missing since
August II. The girl is IA years of age
and had a tendency to run away from
home.
Miss NJ. B. Grove came from Plumas
County to ask the assistance of the po-
lice to find her brother. John. She said
she had not seen nor heard of him for
thirty years. The last time she heard
from him he was living at 6 Stark
street. He would now be SO years of
age.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
THREE PERSONS KILLED
IN A WRECK IN KANSAS

TOPEKA. Kans. Aug. 23-Three
persons were killed shortly after 1
o'clock this morning in head-on col
lision between two Union Pacific
freight trains one and half miles west
of Topeka
The dead: William H. Gibson. en-
gineer. Kansas City. Kans.: j. OIeson.
fireman: Clarence Reese. conductor
The three men killed were members
OF the crew of an extra eastbound
wheat train, which crashed into the
second section OF a regular westbound
train at a shar- curve
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
FRANCE DEMANDS INDEMNITY
OF THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO
Ready to Enforce Satisfaction for the
Recent Arrest of an Al
Eerfau.

TANGIER.. Morocco. Aug. 22.-The
French Minister has presented to the
Sultan an energetic demand for an in
demnity of $1,000 for the recent arrest
of Franco algerian citizen The Min
lister also demands the punishment Of
the official responsible for the arrest
and an additional indemnity of 800
daily until the prisoner is released.
1t is believed that the Sultan will
promptly grant the demands OF the
Minister. as 1t IS definitely known that
the French Government is determined
to adopt forcible means to bring the
Sultan to terms should satisfaction not
be given.
Four Frenchmen while on prone
made about the town to-day were as
saulted and robbed by band of Moors
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
FARMER AND HIS son
VICTIMS OF ASSASSIN
Shot Down While at Work on
Their Property in
Kentucky.
Special Dispatch to The Can.

FRANKFORT. KY. Aug. 22.-George
and James Smith, father and son and
well-to-do farmers of Elmvilie, a little
village OF this county, were murdered
while al work in the field on their farm
to-day by an unknown person. The elder
Smith was killed instantly, a charge of
shot penetrating his brain. The son re-
ceived three wounds, one in the face and
two in the back
Suspicion turned TO Cal Newton, a
neighboring farmer of good standing, and
he was arrested. He denies his guilt
There was bad blood between the elder
Smith and Newton, growing out of a
question as TO a line fence between their
farms.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
Big Fire I'm Portland.

PORTLAND, Aug. 22.-Fire which
started in restaurant on the north
side of East Stark street, about 100 feet
east of Union avenue. completely de-
stroyed four blocks in what was the
business center of Old East Portland
early to-day. The loss is approxf-
mately s150,000. The insurance will
probably cover a third of the loss
With but few exceptions the twenty
buildings destroyed were shacks, most
1y occupied by Chinese laundries and
secondhand stores.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
KANSAS JUDGE TAKES
POISON FOR MEDICINrS
A. l.. Redden. Leading Member Of Tol
peka Bar, Makes Mistake which
Costs His Life.

TOPEKA, Kans.. Aug. 22.-Jurge
A. L. Redden, one of the leading mem
bers of the Topeka bar, dropped dead
at his home here to-day. On the shelf
near where he kept some medicine and
in a similar bottle was silver polish
containing cyanide of potassium. OF
this he took a generous swallow,
thinking II the medicine. Death fol-
lowed instantly.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
whitehead Torpedo Adrift.

SEATTLE, Aug 22-The destroyer
Perry lost Whitehead torpedo while
at practice to-day In the bay. After
leaving the tube the torpedo Travelled
about 500 yards. 1t then sank A piece
OF floating driftwood is supposed to
have been responsible for it's sinking.
The war head had been removed, thus
rendering 1t harmless.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
RACES
TAKING PLACE
OF AMERICANS
Startling Birth Statis-
tics for City Of
New York.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-OfficiaI statis-
les as to the births in New York in
the past year supply some startling fig
ures. Out of total of 59,196 births
only IL, ,903 were of American parentage.
The total, by nationalities, is shown
in the following table:
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
Pnrentage.

or these 29,843 were boys and 29,353
birls.
A melancholy fact obtrudes itself into
the vital statistics. OF the 56,196 in
fants born within the year In Man
haitian $4,000 are doomed to return
within twelve months to the unknown
whence they came and 14,500 will never
live to reach their fifth birthday
No better illustration of the cosmo-
politan character of New York's popu-
lation can be afforded than by the tale
of the statistics.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
DISAPPEARANCE CASES
ENGAGE THE POLICE

at sending
contemplated sui
threatening let
ter rvasp part tofa a plan to
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
THE rHEATERs.

THE IHEAIEHS-
ALcAZAR-'aThe Great Interroga-
tion."
CENTRAI-"On the Wabash"
CHUTES-vaudevIIle Matinee
COLUMBIA-''Mrs. Wigs OF the Cab
bage Patch
GRAND-"Arrah va Pogue.''
MAJESTIC-"Hearts Courageous"
ORPHEUM-vaudev Matinee
TIvOLI-"Rob Roy"
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

j v. is in husband,
and not
cts herhu sband has e
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
THE WEATHER.

THE WEATHER..
Forecast made at San Francisco
for thirty hours ending midnight,
Aug. %:
San Francisco and vieinity-Fair
Wednesday. with fog in the morning:
fresh west wind A. G. McADIE.
District Forecaster.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

who will hand him over the next collec-,
tion Of taxes, and we hear nothing of
brandings, pillories and public whip
pings. On the contrary, this fellow is
a senator and makes our laws. The
American people must wake out Of their
self-comp lacency and seriously take hold
of the money problem in elections or
acknowledge defeat in the effort to run
a democracy. The recent elections have
shown that fear of the debauching
power Of money was uppermost in the
minds Of the people on Tuesday. Cam
paign funds and bossism are indissolu-
bly, linked and in taking kick at
bosses the people meant to protest
against the only thing that makes
bosses formidable, that is the corrupt
use of money in politics.
The bosses are down, cowed, but they
will remain neither the one nor the
other. They will come up again as soon
as the skies clear. They are like the
heart of man, deceitful and desperately
wicked. Now is the time to take hold
Of the problem and weave into the IA
brio Of law provisions which will effect
ually stop the corroding of the heart
Of democracy by the spirit Of buying
and selling at the polls. ST..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
Consular Promotions.

The president in the amended rules
promulgated yesterday, follows up pet
idea of the late Secretary Hay, that
the consular service would be made
more effective by making it more per-
manent. Permanence was, of course,
out Of the question so long as the party
of the president used these places to
build up party machinery. American
consuls came and went with admins
1trations, to the amusement and amaze
ment Of foreign countries accustomed
to the English system Of permanent
service. ~.
The rules are a modification Of an
iron-clad civil service system. They
provide that applicants for positions in
the consular service in certain classes
of offices shall take an examination,
but the discretion of the president to
certify proper persons for examination
is not removed. This means that the
president may agree to appoint certain
persons to consulates provided they are
able to pass the examination. Promo
tions are provided for by transfers
from the lower to the higher branches
of the service. This is perhaps the
most encouraging section of the re-
yised rules. Hereafter consuls in the
lower grades may hope for promotion
to better-paying positions in more de.
sirable countries when places become
vacant from any cause. The qualif
{ .s -. ~
cation of political influence is set aside
4 The qualification Of efficiency is
brought in. This is true practical civil
service.
The state department IS also to be
braced by the adoption oil some rules
for the appointment Of secretaries Of
embassies. Candidates for these posi-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

The Lake Levels.

The city council accomplished con-
siderable at last night s meeting. The
work, generally speaking, was good.
Progress was made toward a fair COM
promise with the Great Northern Rail
road company on the building Of the
Superior avenue bridge, the gas ques-
ton was sent back for new ADVERTISE
ments and the lake7levels problem was
referred to the park commission.
The latter action was somewhat of
surprise and shows the value of stick
Ing to a proposition. Alderman Walker
has striven consistently for the passage
Of his repeal ordinance and has at
length succeeded The question of lake
levels is now in the hands of the park
commission where, under any fair con-
struction of the duties and RESPONSE
bilities Of the board, it belonged. The
park commission was not able to do
anything for the recovery Of It's roads
until the question was settled. There
is no danger that the board will do any.
thing rash or ill-considered. It is as
well aware as anyone of the value of
the lakes to the city, and it may be
depended upon to use the power which
has been given to it for the best inter.
ests Of the parks and the people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

They have new kind Of union down
in Olmsted county, Minnesota. 1t Is
a home trade organization which takes
in the farmers as we'll as the business
men, and it's nucleus is the Rochester
Merchants association. The business
men of that city, instead Of keeping IN
side of shell and working for narrow,
selfish ends, have reached out and gone
into cooperation with the small villages
and the farmers all over the county, and
they have found that it pays. They are
all working for Olmsted county.
Good roads were needed, and that was
about the first problem tackled. The
merchants contributed money, the farm
ers to be benefited put in money and
work, the county helped, and the city of
Rochester voted money also. Good ma
cadam roads are being built, a mile at a
time, and they are paying for them
selves right along. Farmers are haul
ing larger loads, travelling in any sort
Of weather, and the city is feeling the
influence in better trade. The farm
ers are grateful for the merchants CO.
operation, and are learning to buy more
things at home. The motto Of the or
ganization is that the interests Of one
are the interests of ALL Their COM
bined influence is strong enough to be
felt in any way it is exerted, and if
the farmers or the merchants want
something better in the way of freight
rates they are hard to resist. They can
also do something toward developing a
market or encouraging new industry.
The merchants with the farmers behind
them are more powerful than the mer-
chants alone, and there is something to
be gained by all Of them. Once year
they have banquet at which mer-
chants, farmers and professional men
meet around the board and get better
acquainted. .-t
Those Olmsted county men are work
ing out their destiny in sensible way.
King Menelik Of Abyssinia is going to
start a. bank The man whose account
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
ADJUSTMENTS
Unloue-Amateur Might.


There were many starters in last nights
amateur show at the Unique, not all Of
whom were able to make the finish. This
was because the applause drowned the
efforts of some Of the warblers whose
liquid ditties were unable to float out
over the footlights. .e
1t was a great night, and the amateurs
had the house and the audience The pro-
fessionals were never in it for minute.
The happiest hit was made by three
young varsity men whose initiation into
the mysteries Of the Delta Phi Delta So
ciety took place in part on the Unique
stage. The victims were brought In
blindfolded and compelled to perform with
the rest Of the amateurs.
Those who sang were Brown Sisters,
Freeda Gerberth and Daisy Mall, La
Verne Moore and Miss Edna Others who
appeared were Gilbert Rugg, crayon
artist; Crawford and caves, comedy
sketch, full of burlesque business; Mel
son Brothers, acrobats, and Clarence Bur-
nett monologist.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
Campaign Funds and Bosses.

With all our prating about the sacred
ness of the ballot and constitutional
right of every free. man to cast his
vote and have it counted as cast, just
how much have we done in this country
to secure that sacred righta Practical
ly nothing. The few reforms which
we have adopted we have borrowed
from other lands. We took the re-
formed ballot from Australia, a country
much younger than ours and much less
highly organized, but which was the
first to give us an idea Of how to pro-
tect the citizen at the polls. It seems
incomprehensible that men still under
SO years of age cast their first vote
under the old system Of ballots printed
by political committees and plastered
with stickers and perhaps containing
ringers-names Of candidates Of the
opposing party slyly inserted in the
ticket supposed to be regular. But it
is true. / Twenty years ago elections
were carried on under conditions that
were farcical. Workingmen were rushed
to the polls and handed slips by their
bosses which they were compelled to
vote or lose their jobs. The polls were
surrounded and overrun by dirty, knav-
ish "workers'' and the voter stood in
the street handing his ballot thru a
hole in window and not knowing very
clearly whether it ever got into bal
lot box. The party caucuses were even
worse than the elections. Repeating,
bulldozing and violence were the order
Of the day, and every great politician
kept on his staff a gang Of paid. free
hooters whose duty was to bring in the
"river precincts" by hook or by crook,
usually the latter. ~ +. TX
The Australian ballot and the direct
primary have given some relief from
these intolerable conditions, but the
ideal is far from us yet.
While we were throwing few safe.
guards around the polling booth we
were quite oblivious Of the fact that
our elections were rapidly ceasing to
represent anything but predatory
wealth. The collection of campaign
funds became science and dollars
were made convertible into votes by as
sure process as that by which the
big Pillsbury mills reduce wheat tx
-four. How feebly we have handled
the question of money In elections We
see such band as Tammany raisins
and experding 100000 to secure the
election Of q mayor in New Y rk, anc
nobody is hanged for it. Nobody ever
hangs his head in shame We see sucl
men as Penrose in Pennsy lvania making
away with the whole state treasury il
order to elect a treasurer of his kind
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
Appealing to the President.

The Jews Of America are appealing
to the president to interfere in behalf
of the people Of their race in Russia,
who are suffering terrible persecution.
President Roosevelt has come to occu-
py so large a place in the world, to
WELD such tremendous influence, that
the hope is entertained by the Jews
of America that he may find some way
by which to rescue their people from
the brutality and savagery Of the Rus
sian mob.
The president 3 disposition is I'M
doubted. There is evidence that he is
bordering, the matter seriously and
anxiously; that he is sincerely de-
sirous Of putting stop to the outrages
against the Jews in Russia if he
can find a way to do it. The
first difficulty is the absence of
any responsible government in Russia.
While the czar's government is still
nominally in authority, it is hardly
worth while to appeal to it for protec-
ton to the Jews. It's authority is de-
field in the great cities where the most
terrible prosecutions have taken place.
Even the police have participated in
the outrages, while the bigoted and
savage mobs have wrought destruction
without hindrance. . -. ..
It would seem to be folly to appeal
to q mob, and yet, if the president Of
the United States were to call upon
the heads Of the governments Of Eu-
rope to join him in: loud and vigor-
Gus demand upon the Russian people
as we'll as upon the Russian govern
ment that these outrages be stopped
in the name of humanity, the probalili-
ties are that the effect would be worth
while Z, 1T might take some time to
reach the remote districts and impress
upon the Jew baiters the probable con-
sequences, Of failure to heed the warn
ing, but undoubtedly such action would
produce it's effect. At all events, we
have no doubt that our president will
exhaust every means. possible for the
amelioration of the condition Of these
wretched people. I'd
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

tions must have a knowledge Of some
language beside English and must be
otherwise examined. Heretofore the
secretaryships have been pretty largely
the patronage of senators and cabinet
ministers, and have been filed very
often by bright young Americans who
wanted to put in some time abroad,
but who were not looking forward to
a diplomatic career. This is the oppo-
site of the English system, which aims
to get its ambassadors and ministers
from among the men who have grown
up in the service. The advantage of
this is quite manifest, when one con-
siders that it takes a lifetime almost
to learn all the peculiarities Of a people
and the peculiarities Of people are
essential to know whenever there Is a
question of peace Of war in the fore
ground. Great Britain has always
aimed to provide herself with ministers
who knew the very works of the gov
eminent to which they were accred-
tied. The United States has nearly
always sent abroad men who have de-
served we'll Of the party which sent
them. The American plan has not
worked worse than it has because Of
the superior adaptability Of the Ameri-
can man, but it was no fault of the sys-
TEN that it did not lead to some ire
mendouse diplomatic catastrophes.
"Shirt -sleeve' diplomacy apparently
has had it's day in America. AS we
emerge as world power. we feel the
need of trained servants abroad as well
as at home. The new orders of the
president are intended to lay the, foun,
dation Of science of American diplo
! macy. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

The Kansas City police captured a.
yardpad this week. It would be difficult
to make out what a yardpad was, had
not the Kansas City Star explained that
it was made up Of three footpads. A
bunch like this ought to be brought un-
der the rod g.. .r"+ .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
The Sunday Journal.

Il you will look over the list Of lead
ang articles and features in The Sun
day Journal printed on this page, we
think you will agree that it is quite
an inviting bill of fare. Indeed, we
would be willing to compare that lay
out with the contents of almost any of
the weeklies and some Of the monthlies.
" The aim is to make The Sunday
Journal better from week to week. 1t
is difficult thing to improve on your
best effort, but the attempt maintains
the standard.
Another point to be kept in mind in
connection with The Sunday Journal is
that it is all new. Not all Sunday pa
pers are made up that way, but nothing
in the way Of reading matter is car
ried over from any previous issue of
The Journal into the Sunday edi-
ton. We invite comparison with our
contemporaries from the first page to
the last.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

Russian imperial Is fell two points yes
terday to s51s. If we were the car we
would put stop-loss on our imperial As
at S5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
Atchison Globe.

...t, 49, Atchison Globe. !:
A pretty girl does not attract any more
attention in q grocery store than an old
girl at a ball. 1t is the stout, elderly
women with an absent minded what
shall-I-get-to-eat look that clerks try to
be nice to. ri 81
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BUSY LITTLE THING

The summer girl Is hack III town
And on her finger ID ring,
Which shows she did not waste her time
The busy little thing.
a Chicago Chronicle.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
UNCLE MATS HARD LUCK

Price Cor. Gainesville (Ga.) News.
Uncle Nathan Pruitt happened to q
very painful accident last week. He broke
his wooden, leg.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
HONESTY Is THE BEST POLITICS
Chicago News.

It is beginning to dawn on certain
bosses that in the long run honesty is
the best politics as well as the best
policy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
ANY OLD PLACE
Chicago News,

~. Chicago News. go q #
Others may wonder where Murphy
sgot it." but according to Mr.. Jerome the
correct answer is that Murphy got 1t
wherever he had the chance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
II is soLDERED NOW.

Detroit Journal.
The way that MINNEAPOLIS lid goes on
and Off it must be some automatic de-
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All papers are continued until an explicit efder
Is received for discontinuance and until AL AZ
rearages paid. j..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11
MONEY SMILES AND TALKS

It is a, wise voting machine that
knows the best candidate. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

Rockefeller is going to hire a band
Probably to silence Tom Lawson.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-11

Now it is county fairs which come In
for condemnation. It Is claimed that they
kill nearly as many people as football.
But it is a much less painful death.