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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14

Lodge last week was joint installa-
ton of the officers of the lodge and
those of the Junior lodge of the same
name. The lodge has appropriated a
sum of money for the purchase of a
piano.
Valley Lodge at its last held meeting
had work in the initiatory degree and
at the meeting Of May 10 r. w. Small,
recently elected chief templar, and the
other officers viii be installed.
Evening Star Lodge recently received
a fraternal visit from Oakland Lodge
There were many Of the members Of
the lodge across the bay and a very
pleasant evening was spent F. Heff-
ner elected chief templar of Evening
Star was, together with the other Off
GERS, installed last week for, the cur
rent term.
Spring Valley Lodge after having
closed very prosperous term re-
elected W. j. Engel as its chief
templar.
international Lodge, which holds ses-
sions at Is Essex street, starts out for
the current term with B. Adams as
chief tempIar.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
The Americans.

California Assembly Of the Ameri-
cans gave whist party and ball in the
Red Mems building last week. The
progress game of cards was carried on
in the meeting hall on the upper floor
and dancing in the assembly hall be-
low The affairN-was admirably con-
Quoted upder the supervision OF Mrs.
shetterley, Mrs. Jackson. Mrs. Evans.
Mrs. Lewis and Mr.. Shetterley, with
Mr.. Evans as floor director.
Judge George SamueIs, speaker of the
senate Of the order, paid an official
vieit to Washington Assembly last
week and presented 70 It its charter.
accompanying the presentation with an
address that was so impressive and pa
thetic that many Of the lady members
were moved to tears. Chaplain Little.
who presided, accepted the charter on
behalf Of the assembly.
The speaker also paid an official visit
70 San Jose Assembly and presented 1t
with the charter. The ceremonies of
the evening were followed by music.
singing and dancing. President Foss
was chairman Of the evening.
Special Organizer O'ReiIly, who has
been working for the assembly in Sac
ramento. reports meeting with very
good success. The assembly had a well
attended meeting last week. and a
number Of applications were pre-
scented.
San Joaquin reports good progress in
the work and so does Los Angeles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
The Eastern Star.

During the past ten days Grand
Matron Mrs. Dohrman has paid official
visits to the chapters of the Eastern
Star in Benicia, Sacramento, Yuba
City and Marysville. and on May 1s
she will visit the one at Oakdale.
Ivy Chapter had pleasant party in
lower Golden Gate Hall last week.
There was a good attendance and there
was a well arranged programme of
dances.
One Of the local chapters is making
arrangements for an anniversary party
in the near future.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Shaw, wife of the
grand secretary of the Grand Lodge Of
Odd Fellows, who passed away last
week. was a past matron of Beulah
Chapter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
TREATS BIBLE
As A HISTORY
Rector of New York Church
Asserts That the Book of
Genesis Is Full of Myths
SERVE A GOOD PURPOSE
Says That Much of What Is
Recorded of the Patri-
archs Is Purely Romantic
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call.

r NEW YORK. May 13-Rev. DR.. John
Peters of ST. Michaeps Church has con-
siderably stirred some of the members
of the Episcopal Church Congress, now
in session in Association Hall, Brook
Ign, by his contention that the Bible
when treated as history must be sub
jeeted to the same canons Of criticism
as any narrative compilation.
His analysis of personalities which
have come down to us under the names
OF Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph
startled the more conservative mem
bers of the congress and elated the
more progressive.
Comment on DR.. Peters attitude was
running very freely at the Congress
to-day. His statement that the book
of Genesis is full of myths; that Abra-
ham, Jacob and Isaac were not real
people in the commonly accepted sense,
but are merely composite photographs,
so to speak, of Israel. and that much
OF what is recorded of the patriarchs
is purely romantic, led to no end of ar
gument, approval and criticism.
DR.. Peters to-day elaborated his con-
tentions that the Bible as historical
narrative must be subjected to ana
lytical and synthetical criticism, Just
as any other record of events. The
were superior to other folklore in that
they served to point to a higher moral
and spiritual life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
The Maccabees.

The contest that had been going on
In San Francisco Tent of the Macca-
bees for some time past closed last
week, and when it shall be announced
which side made the best showing in
the matter of adding TO the member
ship of the tent the prizes offered by
the tent and by Sir Knight w. d.
Clark, the tent physician, will be
awarded with due ceremonies. This
tent will resume its whist parties and
will have one every two weeks, COM
mencing on the second Friday in May.
At the last-held drill Of the Maccabee
Uniform Rank the matter of a first
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
FRATERNAL News.
Ancient Order Foresters.

The new ritual recently adopted for
the courts OF the Ancient Order OF
Foresters VIII be used By the subordi-
mates Of the order on and after the first
Gay Of July II is said to be impress
sive and highly dramatic and devoid Of
what is commonly termed in fraternal
societies horse play
During the past ten days High Chief
Ranger Sanford visited officially all of
the local courts and on May 5 visited
Court Berkeley in the university town
on the occasion Of its first anniversary
OF institution. He delivered an encour-
aging address, and during the evening
there was a good programme of enter
tainment and music by the Foresters'
Juvenile Band.
The offices Of the permanent secre-
tary, John Faiconer, are being en-
larged and renovated.
The next session Of the Supreme
Grand Circle Of the Companions of the
Forest will be held May Is in the
social hall Of the A. o. f. building.
Lincoln Circle has arranged for an
entertainment for its members and in
YIted guests On May q.
Those who attended the balloon
party" gwen on the first Saturday in
May by Sherwood Circle in the social
hall Of the Alcazar building had a
pleasant evening of dancing. Each one
who attended was given a small
balloon as a souvenir. Those who had
charge Of the affair were: Mesdames
Dambacher, Cooley, Morgan, Worrell,
Souther and Severance. L. Severance
was The floor manager
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14

class rifle team among the members
was discussed and then passed until
a future meeting.
There was a good attendance at the
entertainment and dance given on the
last Wednesday in April by San Fran
cisco Hive of the Ladies of the Mac
cabees in the Pioneer building While
this order has a fundamental rule not
to admit men to membership nor per-
nit them to do any business on behalf
of the order, the hive found 1t very
convenient to call on Sir Knight
George V. Leroi of San Francisco Tent
to act as master of ceremonies during
the entertainment. The programme
was made up of the following num-
bers:l Selections, Maccabee Mandolin
Club; tenor solo, William Ogilvie; So
prano solo, Miss Gertrude Hemingway;
piano solo, Miss Annabel Bailey; con-
tralto solo, Mrs. Foss; monologue,
Lew Kalthoff; recitation, Mrs. Mccall
vey, and coon specialties, Cornelius
jeremiah Deasey. During the dancing
Lady c. Devote was the floor manag-
er, assisted by Ladies Foss, Elder, Nc
Tamney, Webb, Cazneau, Leroi, Drost
and Butcher.
On the night of the last Monday in
April Mission Hive, l.. o. T. NJ, had
paper carnival in its meeting place
in the Mission Opera-house building.
There was a good attendance and
many of the ladies were attired in pa
per dresses, some of them quite orig
inal and others very pretty. Lieuten-
ant Commander Lady Hogue carried
off the prize for the most original
dress, and Lady Heath received the
one for the prettiest one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-14
Good Tenplars.

Captain Dutton of Texas, who recent
" organized several lodges Of Good
Tempiars in the southern part of this
State, is now at work in the interest of
the order in Contra Costa County.
The next session Of District No. s will
commence at Byron May q. The dele
gates win be entertained in grand
style by the membership of Excelsior
Lodge. A character evening" enter
tainment and social for the benefit Of
the mission fund Of the fifth district
will be given on the evening of May 1e
in Stemke's Hall.
Z fess2re Of the meeting of Forward
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18
Beans Are Profitable.

A representative OF a seed house
has been In Kendrick several days
and II is said has contracted for the
seeding of beans 10 the extent Of
about 500 acres. Many varieties will
be planted. On this basis it is esti-
mated that the bean acreage in the
Potlatch will reach fully 1000 acres
next season. The fact that beans ma
ture and yield well in this section has
made them almost a staple product
of the farms and shipment from here
annually will total up to a good num-
ber of tons. While n portion of this
years crop was damaged by the rains
yet the farmers have good quantity
to dispose OF and at prices that are
unerative.-Kendrick Gazette.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18

The cabinet is at present as follows:
Secretary of state, Elihu Root; sec
retary of war, William II. Taft; secre-
tary of the navy, Charles ]. Bona
parte; secretary of the interior, Ethan
Allen Hitchcock; secretary of the
treasury, Leslie NJ. Shaw; secretary OF
agriculture, James Wilson; secretary
Of commerce and labor, Victor Met
calfe; postmaster general, George Cor
telyou; attorney general, william H.
Moody.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18

The Los Angeles Examiner is two
years old In celebration of its sec
ond anniversary. it will issue tomor-
row morning a paper containing more
straight display and classified adver-
tlsing than was ever printed In a sin
gle number Of any newspaper in the
world. The advertising, all of which
is paid for at the full card rates, to-
tails over $50 columns. The anniver-
sary number contains 1866 pages. an
other record Already 150,-
900 copies of this edition have been
ordered and paid for, and prepara-
tlons are under way to provide for a
second edition of not less than $4,000
copies to fill orders received too late
for the first edition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18
A Store Full
OF
Piano
One Hundred and Sixty-Two Pianos
Sold From the PendIeton Store I'm a
Little Over -Four Months.

The prices are the great attraction,
together with the easy terms.
We will sell you a plano at whole
sale and in this way you save the
agents profits and great expense,
amounting in many instances to at
least $4,000.
For Christmas. if you have a piano
get a Pianola. or if you have an old
piano or organ. we will take 1t as
part payment for Chickering, Web
err, Kimball. Hobart NJ. Gable. Schu-
mann, Bailey. Haddorff. Decker, or
some other OF over 80 of the worlds
BEST PIANOS.
You have an absolute assurance of
satisfaction in buying Piano rom
US. 1t is money back" if not as rep
resented. Every purchaser pleased
purchaser is our aim.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18

Rough skin and cracked hands are
not only cured by DeWitts Witch
Hazel Salve. hut an occasional appli-
cation will keep the skin soft and
smooth. Best for Eczema, Cuts,
Burns Boils, etc. The genuine De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve affords i'm
mediate relief in all forms Of Blind.
Bleeding. Itching and ProtrudinE
Piles. Sold by Tallman & Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18
PROPOSED NEW ASSESSMENT LAW.

tention of the committee being that
the large estates that have enjoyed
the unearned increment ATTACHING TO
all property from the development of
the entire community shall pay their
just share of taxes to the state whose
protection they have enjoyed.
Railroad Assessments.
s. We have adopted the Iowa law
for the assessment and valuation of
railroad property, by creating the gov
ernor. secretary of state and state
treasurer state executive council
and giving them authority to ascer-
tain and determine the value of all
railroad property in the state, based
on report of earnings and other in
Of the supreme court in the Jackson
county case.
Under this system railroad is
treated as a continuous piece of prop
erty, and the assessed value per mile
is the same for the entire length
thereof. This is the law of California
and nearly all other states. 1t obvi-
ates the apparent injustice of assess
ing railroads at double and treble the
value in one county that the same
property Is valued at in other coun-
ties.
3. The bill also provided means Of
arriving at the assessment and taxa
ton OF sleeping cars, dining cars, re-
frigerator cars, oil and tank cars, not
owned by the railroad company, prop
erty now entirely escaping taxation In
most counties of this state.
What the Bill Produces.
Increase from insurance tax
tax, estimated ..........$ 10000
Increase railroad assessment,
estimated at 3 mills. ...... $1,000
Increase from cars not owned,
at 8 mills. ls................. 10000
Increase from inheritance tax.
estimated ............. 100000
Increase from publicity tax
rolls, 25 per cent. nt...... $4,000
Increase from Sonnemann bill,
estimated ............... $4,000
Total increase under this bill,
estimated ............m,2SO,O 900
Collected at Present.
Corporation tax ...,.......t120,0 900
Insurance tax .............. $4,000
Inheritance ............... 5000
In QAOE mn
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-18

Total from indirect taxation $425, 600
This amount is estimated to be one
half the state revenues required.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
FAMINE IN SPAIN
The People of AndaIusia
Starving.
Men Grow too Weak to Work and Child.
rem are Living on Fir Cones
and Wild Cactus
Fruit.
lBy the Associated Press.l

CadiZ, Aug. 15.-The famine which
commenced last March has now reach
ed the point of actual starvation
throughout The fertile valley of Andal-
usia. The workmen are unable to Sc
cure food. The children are living Oh
fir cones and the fruit of the wild cac-
tus.
London, Aug. (Wednesday.)-
The Daily Mails dispatches with re-
gard to the famine conditions in Ap-
daluSia Spain, state that the Spanish
government has entirely failed To give
relief, and that, as the money grants
are absolutely inadequate to meet the
necessities, the resources are complete
~ exhausted. Hunger riots are oil
daily occurrence and are becoming
more and more serious. Theft and pill
lage are common, and it is impossible
to maintain order. RcinforcemcntS CT
the civil government are needed iii
every town and village. Not drop of
rain has fallen in that district since
March and the summer and autumn
crops will be ruined unless rain falls
soon or the government realizes the
situation and takes steps to remedy
the conditions.
1t is feared that the peasantry Will
take the law in theid own hands, and
even now signs of open revolt are plen-
tiful and evaporation at the gov Cru
ment inactiCr is becoming daily more
pronounced.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
WOE. WOE, WO TO MAN!
He is Dying Out, Says BOdine, Driven
from the Field by the Eternal
Feminine.
(By the Associated Press.)

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 15.-An address
by w. l.. Bodine, superintendent of
education, at Chicago created a wild
sensation among the delegates to the
International Association of factory
inspectors today. The speaker pro-
duced Federal statistics covering the
past twenty years, showing that the
Industrial competition of women, chill
dren and machine labor was driving
the mon out of large cities to fields of
heavy manual labor in mining and
agriculture. He declared that women
was destined to be the ruling sex In
industrialism and continued:
Man, like the Indian, is dying out
and being driven out. In 1890 there
were 3,914,571 women who were en-
ployed in gainful occupations in
America. In 1900 the number had in
creased to 5,329,807. The birth rate
among the female occupations is in
creasing and the death rate de-
creasing. 1t is just the reverse among
the males. We are rapidly drifting to
the age of the eternal feminine,
when man will be a back number and
forced to return to the soil and to
those fields of labor where only his
physical endurance will save him in
the struggle for survival
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
ADVERSE TO CAPT. HARPER.
Decision i'm the Case of the Collision
of the Steamers Sea Gate and Will
mington.

Wilmington, N c., Aug. 15.-Attor-
neys and other parties at interest this
morning received the decision of Su-
pervising Inspector j. w. Oats, of the
United States Steamboat Service, at
Norfolk, in the case of the recent col
lIsion between the excursion steamers
Wilmington and Sea Gate, the finding
being adverse to Capt. }. w. Harper,
of the Wilmington, who suffers suS-
pension of his license as a steamboat
master for u period of six months and
five days The case went up to the
supervising inspectors from the local
inspectors, who were unable to agree
upon fixing the responsibility for the
collision. Counsel for Captain Harper
signify their purpose to appeal the
case still further to the supervising
inspector general of the service at
Washington and finally to Secretary
Metcalf, of the Department of Com
merce and Labor if necessary.
AS a result of the stringent quaran-
tine regulations insisted upon by the
local health board the railroads en-
tering here today decided to cancel the
remainder of their excursions to this
city after tomorrow, the number be-
ing about twenty in all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
A BOMB IN ROWAN
Federal Court Expected
to Fire the Missile.
A Persistent Rumor That Blackburn
is TO Start the Tar Heel in Sails
bury. A New Bank Organ
lied,

Salisbury, n. c., August 15.-It is
positively asserted here that several
Rowan parties will be involved when
the special term of Federal court con-
venes in Greensboro in September for
the purpose of investigating the re-
ported case of collision between dis
tillers and government agents. This
much is certain, THOUGH further in
formation cannot be obtained at pres
ent The announcement has caused
quite a sensation in this district. 1t is
also certain that when the report of
the special agent who has just COM
pleted q series of Investigations here
for the Department of Justice is made
public, a revelation will follow which
will astonish many officials in the
district
There is a persistent rumor tonight
that the Tar Heel, the proposed Re
publican paper for North Carolina,
will be edited and published in Sails
bury and that it will appear at an
early date. 1t is also reported that
Congressman Il. Spencer Blackburn,
who is now spending a vacation in
the mountains of Western North Caro-
lima and who is backing the news
paper project, contemplates making
Salisbury his home. Neither report can
be confirmed or denied tonight
a new banking concern to be known
as the Peoples Bank and Trust Com
pany was organized today with the
following officers: President d. r.
Julian; Vicc-prcsident, p. H. Thomp-
son; temporary secretary and treas
urer, j. S. McCubbne. Directors \.
b. McCanless, a. T. Smoot, Z. M.
Kerns. B. a. Knox, vi. r. Jackson, r.
Lee Wright. e. j. Roseman, j. A.
Pecler, Emile Clarke, j. NJ. Maupin.
p. II. Thompson, G. A. Rice, Leo.
Wallace and G. 3. Jordan. The insti-
tuition has an authorized capital of
$4,000 and will be open for business
in a few days.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17


of a man who arrived at Crawfords-
vile few days ago from Faro, Miss,
and who has been stricken with symp-
toms similar to those of yellow fever
Local physicians refused to attend the
case, and after B. Nj. Hutchings, secre-
tary of the Charlottesville Board of
Health had diagnosed the case as that
of yellow fever, he asked the State
board to send an expert at once.
La Porte, Ind, Auo. 15.-Though
she is not i'll, the condition of Mrs.
Frank Shrcve, of Waterford, this
county, is being closely watched by
physicians. Mrs. Shreve returned a
few days ago from MorrilltOn, Mo-,
where her two sisters died of dis
ease pronounced by the attending ply
sicians to be swamp fever. Since her
return Mrs. Shreve has received word
that her mother has died at Morrill,
ton of the same disease. Physicians
here fear the disease at Morrillton
may be yellow fever and Mrs. Shreve
may be infected.
The La Porte county board of
health has established a quarantine
around the homo of Mrs. Shreve.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
TORTURED BY ECZEMA
Body Mass Of Sores. Could not Sleep
Spent Hundreds of Dollars on
Doctors, but Grew Worse
CURED BY CUTICURA FOR So

"Cuticura saved the life of my
mother, Mrs. VIM. F. Davis, of Stony
Greek, Conn. Hers was the worst
eczema ever saw. She was hardly
able to eat or sleep. Her head and
body was mass of sores, and she
despaired of recovery. Finally, after
spending hundreds Of dollars on doc
tors, growing worse all the time,
living in misery for years, with hair
whitened from suffering and body
terribly disfgured, she was complete
1y cured by two cakes of Cuticura
Soap, five boxes of Cuticura, and
three bottles of Cuticura Reso1vent.-
Geo. c. Davis, I6I w. goth st. N. ""
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
TRIAL OF w. +. WILLIAMS BEGUN
He is Charged With the Murder of
Two Men, White and Dansby.
(By the Associated Press. }

Pensacola, Fla, August 15.-.After
spending almost two days in securing
jury in the murder trial of William
f. Williams, the jur- vas this after
noon empanelled and the taking of
testimony in the case begun. AL
though Williams stands indicted upon
two charges of murder-that of kill
ing both White and Dansby-he is
at present tried upon only the former
charge.
Four witnesses were examined this
afternoon. They were DR.. w. c.
Dewberry who attended Mr.. White
Immediately after he was shot; Ed
ward White, who was standing near
White, who, in attemr-i'-~' to prevent
Williams from firing another shot at
his father, was shot through the lungs,
and E. III. Elliott, book keeper for the
firm. All of the latter three witnesses
testified that to seeing Williams draw
the revolver from his pocket and with
out q word firing upon Mr.. White,
who was seated in q chair reading a
paper. He then turned and shot Ed
ward G. Dansby and fired at Elliott.
but the bullet went wide of its mark.
James White, who did not know that
his father had been instantly killed
attempted to take the revolver from
Williams, but was himself shot.
There are about Twenty-Five wit
nesses to be examined and it is ex-
pected that the case will continue for
several day..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
Sunday Excursions to Morehead CITY
and Beaufort la Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad.

Commencing Sunday, August 9Th,
1905. the Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad will not honor Sunday ex-
cursion tickets sold at the reduced
rate, on any trains except train NO. l.
leaving Goldsboro on Sunday at a.
M, and on train No. 2. returning
leaving Morehead City at $3.50 p. m,
the same day, w ithout extra charge.
Passengers presenting these tickets
for massage on othr Sunday trains VIII
be charged twenty-five (25) cents ex-
ira by the conductor. This additional
fare will also be charged passengers
who board trains other than trains
Nos. 1 a nd on Sundays at stations
where there are no agents
r. r. l.. BUNCH,
Traffic Manager.