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The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
JAPAN'S SCHOOLS
. BAR FOREIGNERS
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The Herald
has received from Japan letter. the
writer of which says he is an Amer
ican citizen, Republican in politics,
and that he has been in business in
Japan for more than twenty years. In
that time, he says. he has made num-
erous trips to the United States and has
kept in touch with affairs here He
asserts there would be more letters
of similar nature sent from Japan to
the United States If it were not-for
the constant espionage which foreign
ers resident in the island empire have
to endure.
Foreigners, he says, are well aware
that their servants keep constant watch
on their movements and report to the
authorities. The letter says:
I'VE are not allowed to own real
property or to have any mining rights
We can only buy certain securities We
cannot hold Japanese on certain mort
cages When, in order to do business.
we place certain properties or secur-
uities in the name of a Japanese, and
the said Japanese absconds, the courts
will not even consider his act as a
criminal one.
I'VE are not allowed to attend jap
anese schools, old or young. We are
permitted to reside only in certain sec
tions. At the theaters the Japanese
rate is so sen. No foreigner is admitted
under 200 sen. The hotels are on q
similar basis.
TT is a known fact that justice can
not be had except in the higher courts,
and every case against a foreigner is
carried to the Supreme Court before
justice is given. The legation at Toxic
knows this point only too well.
I'm taxes foreigners pay double the
rates paid by the Japanese
.'On the last steamer for San Fran
cisco, the Nippon Maru, about eighty
soldiers embarked. Dining at a tea
house I happened to occupy a room ad-
joining the banquet room, where about
one hundred Japanese had assembled
During the dinner a major of the regi-
ment the soldiers belonged to made a
speech in which the Japanese were
told not to forget that Hawaii was
but a stepping stone to the mainland
and that when they reached the main
land they must not forget that the
Pacific belonged to Japan; that while
the United States pretended to be
friendly with Japan at present it was
only because they were afraid of
Japan"
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
MURDERERs FIGHT
WITH PURSUERS

PUEBLO Colo, Dec 29.-Word was
received from Sheridan Lake early this
morning that the two alleged murder
ers Of City Marshal Frisbie of Lamar
were surrounded in a cornfeld short
distance east of Sheridan Lake After
running fight with posse about
midnight the men separated, but later
met again. One of them was wounded
and it was supposed that the other
was trying to aid him and did not wish
to desert him.
1t is confidently expected that the
posse which started from Sheridan
Lake at daylight will overtake the
fugitives and that another running
fight will take place A posse also
started from Towner. ten miles east, to
co operate with the one from Sheridan
Lake.
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to go ahead and tell the board all they
knew. Cushing suggested that Scott
should do the talking, and thereupon
the officer presented the arguments on
behalf of the corporation. He was
under fair headway when the Mayor
arrived. In order to make the situa-
ton comprehensive all around, Scott
was requested to begin over again. He
said in brief that the Relief Corpora
ton had 1856 cottages, of which 1S4S
were vacant. There We're 14,156 per-
sons in cottages and 1924 in tents. In
the tents were GIT single men. The
on-supporting refugees were at Ingle-
side.
COTTAGES ARE REFUSED
Scott insisted that the tent dwellers
had been offered cottages. The cor
poration, in order to clear up Duboce
Park, had offered the refugees in that
square many inducements to move
had agreed to pay express hire and
contribute $25 to each family moving
in order to assist in furnishing the
cottages where such aid was needed.
The cost to the corporation of main
tanning the various camps was $4,000
a month, or SO a month for every cot
tage. Scott. continuing, said
'.We-install gas stoves, which we
purchase in the East by the carload,
and pay the San francisco Gas ana
Electric Company for the gas. We pay
the company % cents jet per month.
s150 a month for a small stove, and
$3.50 for a large one A stove which
would cost the refugee SIG if pur-
chased in the market here is supplied
at from 81 to $3.50. The gas company
will not take the responsibility of col
lecting for gas consumed"
Mayor Schmitz asserted that $72 a
year was an extortionate figure for a
cottage that cost only $3.50. He also
remarked that il the cottages were
built by contract there was big rake
off for somebody! The money, he in
sisted, was sent to San Francisco to
relieve the destitute who were not able
to pay rent, and he would stand by
his declaration that no one should be
evicted for inability to pay rent.
RENT PLAN EXPLAINED
Cushing contended that no person
had been evicted for refusal or in
ability to pay for the rent of a cottage.
The aim was to give the refugees every
dollar that was contributed, but in
giving it the corporation took measures
TO prevent the pauperizing of the
camps Evictions had been made un-
der the resolution of the Park Com
mission authorizing the Relief Cor
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T. Aune, unassigned list to Emerson Primary;
Miss \. q. yensano. unassigned list TO Han,
list to Spring Valley Grammar; Mrs: NJ whigam-
Ehat unassigned list to Sheridan Primary; Miss
BTst M ,1s st To list rT t.
Spring Valley Grammar; Miss A E. OConnell,
F. raes st as s 2 aeas
Miss NJ. NJ Curran, unassigned list to Spring
sssSed vssy s1 po Burneft Mss Hon
gan unassigned list to Hancock Grammar; Miss
E. Z. Horgan. unassigned list to Winfield Scott
vicitacion Valley; Miss =. Lynch unassigned list
to Hancock Grammar; Miss B. 9. S. Grozelier.
ss s Greg fTon Spring Valley
to vice principal Spring Valley; Mrs. L Carroll
Huskey vice principal James Lick to vice prin-
cipal Fsirmount; Miss F. Lewis. vice principal
Clement TO vice principal James Lick; Mrs M
Stuart Pacific Heights to vice principal Hancock
Grammar; Miss NJ. Miklau, unassigned list to
sheridan Primary; Miss Il. Murphy. unassigned
INST &c st to Monroe Grammar; Miss O.
wheeler, unassigned list to Mckinley Primary
10 Bryant Cosmopolitan; Miss NJ e. Quinn. un-
assigned list TO BRYANT Cosmopolitan; Miss y.
G. Boyle, unassigned list TO Whittier Primary
Kinley Primary; Miss B. F. Leeds. unassigned
list TO Sunnyside Grammar; Miss Louise Doug
lass unassigned list to Irving NJ Scott Gram
The following were ordered to re-
port at the rooms Of the Board of Edu-
cation as substitutes:
Alice Dwyer Dorothy Spaford. Eta Thomas,
E. c. Agnew. Thyrma Walters. Margaret
O'Brien Victoria Downey. Ethel Bryan, Lille
FaIck Anita Corbert Hazel Brown, Edna Ken
nedy. Emma Loufbourrow, Alice Carson. Cath
crime Symmes May Toland. Myrtle Lathrop,
Martha Cilker, Louise Brampton, W. A. Kirk
wood Mabel Ruff. Lillian Grigsby, Evelyn Max
well Pearl Pitcher Anna Chapman. Eva Hussey.
Margaret Sullivan. Frank b. Howard. Vesta
Parker Caroline Reed, w. ]. Dougherty. Eliza
beth Errett Jewel F. Dover Minnie Cozad,
Nadge Nagle, Rose Cohen, Agnes Clary Eva
N. Bearce Alice Lynn. Effe Hare. Lydia
Messerschmidt. Alice Wythe. Helen Templeton-
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OAKLAND BOARD SILENT
Expresses No Attitude on Segregation
of M0ngOlian Children

OAKLAND, Dec. 29.-The Oakland
Board of Education has done nothing
as yet toward taking up the question
of segregation of Chinese and Japanese
pupils in the public schools. Unofi-
cially there has been some discussion
among the members of the board, but
this has led to no action
Dr. A H Pratt, president of the
board, said that he would not attempt
to forecast the school directors atti-
tude in event of the raising of the
question officially. He declared there
had been no move made so far as he
was aware that would indicate what
would be done with any petition that
might be presented urging the board
to set aside a separate school for
Japanese and Chinese pupils.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30

Those men of letters who earn their
easy livings by tapping the wells of
pure English for the newspapers have
had their most serviceable synonym
ruthlessly taken from them by the
Board of Police Commissioners. Never
more can they refer to a large portion
of the police force of San Francisco
as "bluecoats," for the commissioners
have ordered the details of the Central,
Harbor and Southern districts out of
the time-honored and somewhat dust
covered blue uniforms and put the men
into a queer garb that may be green
and may be butternut brown, is prob
ably khaki and undoubtedly conceals
corsets.
The new whatever-you-cal uni
form made it's initial appearance yes
terday. There is millinery to match,
and the policemen resemble a cross be-
tween a freshly painted West Pointer
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
cHALLENGEs VALLEJO TEAM

VALLEJO, Dec. 2s.-Smarting under
their defeat of two weeks ago and en-
couraged by their victory over the Cen
turv team of San Francisco, the foot
ball eleven of the Reliance Club Of
oakland has offered to play the Winged
VS. of this city for the championship of
the State in game of cld-style football
for a side bet of $780, The Vallejo
team has played sixteen games and won
every one of them.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
ARREST ALLEGED BLACKMArLER

BILLINGS, Mont, Dec 29-E. p.
Smith was arrested by the police today
on a charge of attempting to blackmail
the Billings Sugar Company out of
s25.O0O 1t was Smith who warned the
police of the alleged plot He asserts
his innocence. declaring that he simply
overheard a conversation relative to
proposed dynamite outrage.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
FoRGER IS ARRESTED

SPOKANE, Dec. 29.-Isaac Raines, a
forger of international infamy who has
operated as a representative Of the As
sociated Press in Germany. France and
throughout the United States, has been
arrested here.
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poration to evtct the undesirable.

poration to evict the undesirable
Commissioner Lloyd maintained that
the authority given by the Park Board
simply gave the corporation power to
exclude immoral and rtotous refugees.
POLICEMEN ARE BLAMED
Schmitz found fault with the fact
that single men were permitted to re-
tain cottages, and this met with an ex-
planation on the part of Lloyd that
these men had been ordered out. but
the policemen stationed in the camps
by the order of the Mayor prevented
this order being enforced.
Before the Park Commission met yes
terday evening committee from the
latter met the members of the exc
cutive committee of the Relief Cor
poration, and the latter furnished such
statistics and other information that
was demanded by the committee. The
committee consisted of Commissioners
Lloyd and Metson.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30

1t has been noticed that the average
man would dispose of q lot of his ex-
perience for 80 cents on the dollar.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30

Quill pens came -1to use in 553; the
first steel ones in 1920, when the first
gross of them sold for s36.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
LIEUTENANT SCOTT HEARD

Park Commissioners A. B. Spreckels.
r. H. Lloyd, w. H. Metson and Earl
Cummings were at the meeting and lis
tened to various statements made by
o. K. Cushing and Lieutenant Scott
of the Relief Corporation, and to Mayor
Schmitz.
Metson told the relief representatives
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
THE CALIFORNIA PROMOTION COMMITTEE
(0rxanfzed 1sOz.)

(OrBanfxed 1802.)
PROMOTIONS: The act OF promoting. adj
vancement: ENCOURAGEMENT.-Ce Die
uonary-
The California Promotion Committee has FOR
its object the PROMOTING OF California as .
whole
1t has nothing TO SELL
Its energies are devoted TO fostering all
things that have the ADVANCEMENT Of Cali
fornia their object.
1t gives reliable information on every subject
connected with the industries OF Calffornfa
II gives ENCOURAGEMENT TO the establish
ment OF new Industries and invites desirable
immigration.
1t is not an employment agency. although it
gives information regarding labor conditions.
1t presents the opportunities and needs IN al
fields Of business and professional activity.
The Committee is supported by popular sub
scriptfon and makes no charge for any service
rendered.
Affiliated with the COMMITTEES are one hun
dred and sixty commercial organizations Of the
State. with membership OF over thirty thou
sand
Meetings are held semi annually In different
parts Of California, where matters OF State In
terest discussed
Headquarters OF the COMMITTEES are maintained
In san Francisco IN California Building. Union
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
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nOsl Telsincaecs, Snocns, HeceIpts.
of every description replaced by a Bond
of The Metropoiitnn surety Company
OF New York. Contract. Judicial and
Fidelity Bonds JUDSON BRUSIE,
Manager. room 20, Ferry building D.
W. CARMICHAEL CO., Inc, General
Agents. zoos Fillmore street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10

be erected. PRESIDED at Roosevelt has
suggested that this be called "A Tenn
pie of Patriotic Righteousness" 9th
ers have proposed that it be named "A
Temple of Peace" Whatever the des-
ignation finally adopted. some sort OF
an edifice is certain to be constructed.
Good Story TeIlers and Ever Popular.
1t has been 100 years since Thomas
Lincoln obtained title to the Kentucky
farm on which the future president
was born. He laid claim to the prop
erty in March and went to live on 1t
June 10. 1906. Prior to that time the
family had lived I'm a small shanty in
EliZabethtown, where Tom Lincoln
had worked at his trade of Il carpen-
ter. Later Investigations are showing
that there has been much injustice
done TO the father of the war president.
He was not entirely the shiftlesS char
acter he has been painted, but man
well up to the average of those about
him. He was a good story teller, was
always popular, had strong religious
leaningS, couId write his name, held
the not unimportant station of county
supervisor of roads and was as well
off in this worlds goods as the average
Of his neighbors. Moreover, though a
very peaceable man, he could take his
own part, having whipped the bully of
county when that overbearing in
dividual went too far even for Tom
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10

LincoIn's amiable disposition. There
is one other record of his having been
in fight, and it is worth noting that
he again came out ahead
The truth is that Abraham Lincoln's
early poverty was due to his environ
ment rather than to any especial dere-
liction on the part of his father, as so
many historians have claimed. 1t
should be noted that there are many
points In common between the father
and son. Both were inveterate story
tellers, both We're popular, both were
inclined to rove and did not like phys
ical labor too well, both were poor all
their lives, both had a deep religious
subStratum, both were men of peace,
but could defend themselves if occa-
sion required, both were democratic III
their attitudes toward other people, and
both were sturdy types of American
manhood.
Abe's mother was bright. high mind
ed girl. something of 2 dreamer per-
haps, but one of those sweet natured
women with an indefinabie spiritual
quality that inspired respect even
among the rough fronaersmen. Little
Abe's sister. Nancy. was several years
his senior and had been born In the
howell SIT Eiizabethtown.
The Lincoln farm. TO which the Lin
coins. with their baby girl, moved a
century ago. is situated about two
miles from Hodgensville, then In Har-
din, but now in Larue county. Rock
spring was famous throughout tire re-
gion, and near its clear waters Thomas
Lincoln built his one room log cabin.
1t had but one window and one door.
The window was covered with glazed
paper. and the door was hung on leatll-
er hinges. y great chimney was built
at one end Of the cabin, and the open
wood fire which glowed In the mouth
of this was utilized for heat cooking
and light. The natural clay served for
a floor. 4 frame set into the walls and
held up by q fork answered for n bed,
with dried leaves as mattress and
skins for covering Punclleon stools
and table completed the furniture.
When young Abraham was about
four years of age the Lincolns left the
Rock spring farm AMI moved fifteen
miles distant 10 i piece en- Knob creek,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10
COFFEE ORUNkARDS.
London Doctors Find Grave Peril In
the Brown Berry.

London physicians are endeavoring
TO introduce "Yerbe Mate,' the tea Of
Paraguay, which is universally used
in many countries in South America
as substitute for tea and coffee. The
London doctors contend that women
are the principal sinners when it comes
to tea drinking. while the men are the
greatest offenders against the laws of
health when it comes to the using of
coffee
There is no brand of coffee that one
can drink to any considerable extent
without suffering from the same dis
tressing consequences that affiict in
judicious users of tea," publicly de
clared one leading physician recently.
Thousands of men, particularly in the
city, he continued, sip coffee during
the day at brief intervals, as their
brethren in New York nip spirits. In
time the coffee habit develops palpita-
ton of the heart. irregular pulse, nerv-
BUSINESS, indigestion and insomnia. Cof-
fee drunkards, as l may can them, are
greatly increasing in number, due prob
ably to the wave Of temperance which
Is passing over the country, but have
known cases where Authorizations
scarcely differing from those of alco-
holism have been set up by continued
coffee drinking" St Louis Globe
Democrat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10

~ DhaHAM lSl-NCoLN, tlc IuOSi
"a complete incarnation of the spir-
H 1t of democracy seen in our
times. Is to have one more memo
rial. 1t Is TO be nothing less than the
farm on which he was born converted
into q national park. This has been
made possible by the action of Robert
j. Collier. publisher OF Golfers Week
~. who has purchased the farm and
organized the Lincoln Farm associa-
ton, to which body the property will
be turned over Governor Joseph w.
Folk of Missouri is president of this
society, and on its board of trustees
are such distinguished names as Mark
Twain, William III. Taft, Joseph II.
Choate. Henry Watterson, Cardinal
Gibbons, Ida NJ. Tarbell. Horace For
ter, William Travers Jerome and Au-
gustus st. Gaudens, the sculptor. The
trea surer of the body is Clarence Il
Mackay, "A Broadway, New York To
create a permanent endowment for the
purpose of turning the farm into
park and maintaining 1T as such every
body is requested 10 contribute from %
cents TO SO and become n member of
the association. Such contributions
should be sent TO the treasurer direct.
1t is designed to make this peoples
offering, as Lincoln was a peoples
man Situated as the farm is. in the
heart of Kentucky. the park that is to
grow out of il Will be nearer the cen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10

ter Of population than any other in the
country. 1t will be easily accessible to
all. and the hope is that in time 1t will
become the great Mecca of the sons of
freedom of all lands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-10

ter Of population than any other in the
country. 1t will be easily accessible to
all, and the hope is that in time Ii will
become the great Mecca of the sons OF
freedom Of all lands.
Scenes of Lincoin's Birthplace.
The cabin in which Lincoln was born
Is yet in existence, though it has been
taken north for show purposes and is
now stored in Il Connecticut basement.
1t has been purchased and VIII be re-
turned to the spot on the farm where
it originally stood. The entire place
will be made to look as much as posi-
BILE as it did when the boy Lincoln was
there. The famous Rock spring, from
which the farm obtained its early
name, will lie rescued from the hog
wallow into which neglect has permit
ted it to descend. The land itself Is
sterile enough, but is not without nat
ural beauties. 4 stream called Nolin
creek flows through ii, on the banks
of which little Abe played. The hills
are there as they were when he trudg
ed over them, and all about the region
is eloquent of his early associations.
The centenary of Lincoln's birth oc-
ours on Feb. ~, 1909. less than three
years hence, and before that date it is
hoped to have this little model farm
that raised a man." as Mark Twain so
well puts it, ready for the visit of the
thousands who will go TO that and 9th
er points connected with the life of the
martyr president From the farm to
LiIcoln's tomb at Springfield, ILL.,. is
only a comparatively short journey of
q few hundred miles. Both will be-
come increasingly sacred with the pas
sage of the years as the great soul of
this man is more and more clearly
seen. Both spots are eloquent of his
rise from the most lowly surroundings
to a position among the worlds i'm
mortaIs. Ample provisions have al
ready been made for the public care of
the monument and home at Springfield.
1t remains for the American people to
make like provisions for the care of the
birthplace.
IN addition to replacing the cabin
aud caring for the spring the farm
will be sowed in blue grass. at least
one monument will be erected. and a
building for historical museum Will