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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
BETTING FAvoRs HUGHES.
Odds of 10 1 Laid That Hearst VIII
BE Defeated.

NEW YORK Sept 26.-Campafgn
betting opened in earnest on the Broad
street curb today and Hughes was made
2 to ] favorite. Hearst did not gain
in strength as the reports from Buffalo
persisted In stating that he would be
nominated by the Democratic party.
One bet was recorded by Stock Exchange
members at u to in favor of Hughes.
Most Of the betting was on a to ]
basis, favoring the Republican candi-
date Goldfnger e. Co.'S curb broker
made the first bet Of 400 to $1,000 on
@earst. z. A. Sichel & Co. took the
Hughes end Of o.4ls wager. Some Of
the large wagers laid today were by
". ". Bagley. who said he had S. 1000
10 lay on Hearst at odds of 1 to g.
These odds he could not obtain and he
subsequently, laid $1,000 to $4,000 on
Hearst with l. NJ Anderson. Bagley
also laid $1,000 to $1,000 on Hearst with
G. S Morgan
H Contents. curb broker. had large
sum Of Republican money 10 lay. When
advfces were received from Saratoga
that Hughes had been nominated he
placed several important bets at TO 1
on Hughes. Contents bet $4,000 TO $1,000
with II b. sargent on Hughes. Bullock
g. Frank bet $500 to $3.50 with Gold
fnEer e. Co. on Hughes.
Fred Brooks who.in years past at
tempted TO make election odds. again
was in evidence today He sent the fol-
lowing announcement over the ticker
9Fred II. Brooks of Wall street is
commissioned to bet $4,000 at odds of 2
to I that Hearst. II nominated, will be
elected Governor Of New York state.
Mr. Brooks could not be found in his
old quarters and his friends in Selfgs-
berg & Cos caused tho following an
nouncement- Of. disavowal TO be sent
over the ticker: = rSrs rt
...Seiigsberg & co. or Wall street
announce that Fred II. Brooks IS not
in any way connected with their firm
nor has he any Office witt them
Brooks friends in sew street said
that Fred had handed out a lemon
10 the bettine5 fraternity and q s con-
sequence was published.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
DEsPONDENT CALIFORNIAN
BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS
Henry Foster, Supposed TO BE From
San Francisco, Commits Suicide
at kenosha, Wis.

KENOSHA. Wis, Sept. 26.=Henry r.
Foster. a well-dressed man, supposed
to be from San Francisco. committed
Suicide on the road TO Burlington north
Of this city this morning by shooting
himself in the head with revolver
The man was 80 years old. He left two
letters. One was addressed to the
Coroner and asked that an inquest be
held and a verdict of suicide on account
of despondency rendered The otner
was to a friend in San Francisco.
Foster had evidently come to Keno
sha from Milwaukee. as a letter ad-
dressed to friend was dated at Mil
'waukee on Sunday. The remains We're
removed TO Kenosha and are being held
pending an effort TO locate his rela
tives.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
CHILD HURLs STONE AND
KILLS HIS ELDER BROTHER
Fit of Anger Concludes Fatally and
the Little Fratrfcide Is In
cOusOIable

CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-Angered be-
cause his brother, Henry. two years hts
senior, refused TO share a penny's
worth of candy with him, Fred FAINTER,
aged 4. hurled a stone at Henry, strik-
ing him in the right temple and inf1ict-
ing injuries from which the child died
last night
Fred crawled under the bed in which
his dead brother lay as soon as he saw
the result of his act. and up to late
hour last night neither the child's
parents nor his sisters and brothers
had succeeded in inducing him to come
out from his hiding place
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
Pardee Says He Will
Support Gillett.

ACRAMENTO, Sept 2o-Governor Pardee
set at rest today the question regarding the
- probability of his becoming independent
candidate to succeed himself when he declared un-
equivocally that he would support Congressman
James n. Gillett
When asked about the probability of his max
ing an independent race the Governor refused to
discuss the matter, waving it aside with smile and
gesture of rdicue. Asked as to his attitude with
respect to the Republican nominee, he said:
Don't it look as if I would support Gillett?
Certainly will support Gillett."
The Governor refused to discuss the matter
further saying that this bare statement was enough
for the public to know and he declined to give any
information with regard to the nature of the sup
port which he will render Mr.. Giett
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
LABOR CONVENTION.
delegates Convene mt Dolores Hall
Adnnt Resolutions and Adjourn.

After a tedious delay the delegates
70 the local Union Labor convention
met for the second time at Dolores
Hall at o'clock last night, but as the
slate is only partially made up. the con-
vention adjourned without delay Reso-
lutions were adopted calling upon the
convention to pledge its nominees to
secure free trade on all imports Of
building materials into San francisco
for the next five years
George j. Berger obtained permission
from Chairman Charles. A Williams to
read the resolutions. which were adopt
ed by unanimous vote. They read:
Resolved. That our nominees for
Congress be and they are hereby
pledged to support and vote for an act
FOR Deriod of five years absolute
free trade on all building materials
With all the peoples of the earth as
matter of relief Further,
Resolved, That our nominees for the
senate and Assembly be and they are
. ioint resolution of the Senate and
Assembly urging upon Congress to
nass such an act for the relief OF San
Francisco.
After the adoption of the resolutions
Delegate Thomas Egan introduced an
other. declaring that as the committee
which was to confer with the Demo-
cratic and Republican conventions for
the nurpose of agreeing on judicial
nominees had not made its report, the
meeting adjourn to give the committees
onnortunity to hold conferences An
adiournment was then taken until
Thursday evening next
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
TIMBER LAND TITLES ATrAcxED

LEWISTON, Idaho. Sept. 26.-Suit
was filed in the District Court here to-
day which may involve the validity OF
the Northern Pacific claim TO thou
sands of acres of valuable timber lands
in the Clearwater Valley. A test case
Is being made BY Richard Miller. who
contends he filed on his timber before
the filings of the Northern Pacific had
been accepted by the Interior Depart
ment. The legality of the Rainier re-
serve lieu land selections also Is at
tackled
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27

term-C. W. Hodgson of Hoquiam and
E. c. Million of Seattle; short term.
Warren TGman of Spokane and B. o.
Sweeny of Seattle.
The convention was the smallest held
here in years and whole counties went
unrepresented-
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS.
William Jennings Bryan Indorsed for
the Presidential Nomination.

SEATTLE. Sept. 26.-The Democrats
of Washington met in State conventions
today. indorsed w. ]. Bryan fer the
Presidency in 1908, cheered the name
of W. r. Hearst to the echo and placed
full Congressional ticket in the field
as follows:
For Congressman at large-Dr. P. S.
Brynes of Spokane. Dudley Eshelman
of Tacoma and William Blackman of
Seattle.
Justices of the Supreme Court. long
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
RICH IDAHO Man MISSING.

SPOKANE. Sept. 20. G McBurney
OF Boise. Idaho Right Eminent Cem-
msnder OF the x ghts TeEnplar of Ida :
no, has disappeared- He was lasts een
IN Spokane on Monday fnorning-ue
was TO have instituted a commandery
At Occur d'AIene. Idaho. that night but
never reached that town, nor can any
race OF him be found
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
BIG INSURANCE SUIT FILED.

D. n and e Walter & Co. fled a. suit
yesterday for s22.5oo against the Globe
and Rutgers Fire Insurance Company
of New York on fire policies of insur
ance companies covering stocks of car
pets and wallpaper in buildings in diff
ferent parts of the city which were de-
stroyed by the fire.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
.nNy OFFICER TAKES HIS LIFE.

NEW YORK. Sept 26.-Solonel ].
Lusk OF the Engineer Coz y; of the
United States army committed suicide
last night at the home of his daughter
Al sandy Hook. n. j., by cutting his
throat with razor. The act is at
tributed to Ill healt5.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27

Peoples Party nominee for Governor
of California, opened his campaign to-
night at the Napa County Courthouse.
A large audience was present.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
S. F. VETERINARY
COLLEGE OPENS OCT.

The San Francisco Veterinary Col
lege will reopen on the 1st OF October
For catalogues apply to DIR. E. j.
Greedy, president. AS Golden Gate ave-
nue., near Larkin.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27

CARL BROWNE AT NAPA.
NAPA, Sept. 26.-Carl Browne, the
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27

The district Classification made TO
include the work UP to last Saturday
night shows large gains in the Thirty
fourth. Thirty seventh and Thirty
ninth Assembly districts. This COM
y. rienr se N DE-.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
Little Johnny Jones.

Its going to be great night for
Little Johnny Jones" at the Metro
rolitan tomorrow night. This is evil
denced in the particularly heavy ad-
vance sale which has been in progress
today. George NJ. Cohan who wrote
Little Johnny Jones'" and rode to
fame and wealth upon its melodies
and funny situations, will have no rea-
son to complain of the reception of
his company at this point.
Local theatregoers are prepared to
like Little Johnny Jones" prior to its
presentation here by the No. COM
pany, direct from New York City and
it is looked forward to with much
pleasurable anticipation and the
chances are that the theatre will be
taxed to the capacity of its four walls
tomorrow evening. .....
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manent homes the fruitful farms. the
smiling villages. the busy factories,
the great cities, It is he who has made
the businesssfor theSrailroads. sg
1t is only as nomadism is eliminated
from our population that the highest
civilization zig. attained. The nomad
has learned to grab larger and larger
areas for speculation. The big land
holdings Of the west, which block i'm
provement, are his. He has become iii
innumerable cases, too, the proxy of
rich spectators in the older states,
whose holdings mark unimproved
areas scattered all along civilizations
line of march across the continent. It
is mainly to the land-speculating set
tier that we owe whatever is crude and
rough, ill-compacted and garish in
our national development.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
Paint of the Health.Seekcr.

Eve been" he said. Gin many lands, ex-
plorin' for spot
Where people needn't die because it's
too internal hot,
And where they never have to freeze
a., wi while earnin' of their bread,
that's gone ahead
And while l amt intendin' to upset no
places claim,
they're all got 'em, just the same.
Il have heard of certain places where
That you'd think no u nndertaker err could
exc out Twin there,
Where it seems as if kind Nature kept
So that man might, if he wished to,
live forever and a day
Mind, Lain, amt go got no Intention to give
But I've noticed that these places all
have graveyards just the same.
you will hear about the water that
,,,, comes gushin' from the hills
Where the folks who go to drink it give
up payin doctors bills,
Where the climates SO blamed healthy
Any man, who goes to live there ever
has the face to die;
Where their baths, the natives tell YOU
cure the sick and weak and lame
But you'll find out if you camp there
that they've graveyards. just the
understand I'm not insistin that pure
dry, airs q fraud.
Or that certain kinds of water won't
I don't doubt there are places where d.
Like se AS i I you i, might fha say: .,
tents and sneak away,
am merely In gentle manner putin
rn, ! up ~, the Eel claim nfaoo ,. 800,
its graveyard just the same"
Anon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
STORIES OF THE HOUR
Avoiding the Pencil Pushers.

Since his return to Washington,
Senator Depew has manifested a keen
desire to- avoid newspaper men, and
has been so successful that none of
them has got within speaking dis
lance of him. He has instructed the
doorkeepers not to bring him news
paper mems cards, and it is impossible
to get to see him at his house.
Recently the senate elevator, going
up, reached the senate floor. In it
were two newspaper men. Mr.. Depew
was hurrying toward it and it stopped
to receive him. Just then the senator
saw who the two passengers were, and
he turned abruptly and shot down q
corridor out of sight. The astonished
elevator man released the lever and
the car went up.
Changed, isn't he?" said one of the
newspaper men.
YES" returned the other. eff any,
one wants to see Depew take hurdle
all he has to do is to hide in a bush
as he goes by and make noise like
a newspaper man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

If any doubt ever existed regarding
the certainty of the defeat of Mayor
Duis. for reelection the fact that the
Herald has at last openly declared for
him should effectually dispel it.
The Evening Times is willing to adj
init that Mr.. Duis' administration has
been fairly honest and indifferently
efficient, but is that sufficient reason
why the Herald, which claims to rep
resent about all that is good and pure
in the Republican politics of the state,
should support him, when the fact is
taken into consideration that he is a
stalwart Democrat while his proba-
BILE opponent, Mr.. John Dinnie, is a
stanch Republican, who has filled the
position of mayor of Grand Forks for
four terms, and always with hon
esty and ability which admits of no
adverse criticism?
However, assuming that the Herald's
position in the premises is honestly
taken. is for the general good and that
it is not actuated by selfish or mercen-
airy motives-as is freely commended
it should have no hesitancy in giving
its reasons for the peculiar position in
which it now finds itself
Tho IS
Forks, whom the Herald would seduce
into supporting a Democratic aspirant
for the position OF the city's chief ex-
ecutive, before it is definitely known
who their own party standard bearer
is to be, are clearly entitled to know
why they should heed its seditious
platitudes.
Will the Herald deny that the sole
reason of the opposition to Mr.. Duis,
which it claims exists among certain
prominent Democrats, arises from the
fact that his political word has been
found to be utterly untrustworthy?
Why should the Herald now be such
an active partisan of Mr.. Duis when
two years ago it opposed him to the
extent of its ability, largely, If not
solely, on account of his politics?
Will the Herald be pleased to en-
tighten the public wherein Mr.. Duis'
administration has been other than a
most feeble imitation of those of Mr.
Dinnie?
Leaving politics out of the question,
will the Herald kindly inform it's
would-be dupes az TO when and how
Mr.. Dinnie was ever other than mod
Ell of honesty and efficiency during his
several terms of Office as mayor of the
city of Grand Forks?
II the Herald is a republican paper.
which 1t claims, why does it not wait
for its party to make nomination?
Can 1t be that the Herald is secret
enemy Of Mr.. Duis, and hopes to per-
petuate its reputation of being poll
tical hoodoo by securing his defeat
through the medium Of It's heretofore
disastrous support?
These be pertinent questions. g,6
viii the Herald have the l,ardihood
to make truthful answers to them?
- ~ T. ? z 4
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
Paying For His Keep.
CLiSbOn Gazette.


Grant Hager enjoyed the hospitality
of Senator Pierce and his friends while
attending Masonic festivities at Shell
don few weeks ago, and upon his re-
turn home retaliated by nicely writ
ten editorial jolly in the ST. Thomas
Times, nominating Mr.. Pierce as Sen
ator Hansbrough's successor. Some Of
their newspaper friends throughout
the state are inclined. to take the mat
ter seriously and their comments and
quotations cannot be otherwise than
embarrassing to both. Everyone who
knows Mr.. Pierce knows that he has
neither time nor inclination to figure
in state or congressional politics, and
that with the great majority of the
people of the state, he is pretty we'll
satisfied with North Dakota's very eff
ficient representation in both houses
of congress.
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citizen in nearby town told dive
keeper to dig up and he dug. There is
still work for the graft reformers.
ADJUSTMENTS
.Pl6 Pan Pouf.r

The opening act of "Piff Paff Pouf'
is laid in the sands of Atlantic City,
N. j.. the most famous OF all summer
resorts. The spectacle of bathing
girls, the famous broad walk. and the
bath houses on the beach, does one
almost as much good as real visit
to this lively resort in the good old
summer time. Then to all this re-
freshins scene OF seaside atmosphere
and color, are added the clever songs
and the witty up-to-date dialogue, and
all OF u character and tone to make
one forget toll and trouble.
Mr.. b, c, Whitney is to present his
xamous "Pif Paf pouf" company at
the Metropolitan tonight.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
NOTE AND COMMENT

The Lakota Herald is reviving an
cient history.
The alimentary canal is not always
a water way.
Most people with big heads have
narrow minds.
One of the greatest delights in the
funny column would be it's absence.
An exchange states that a young
lady is teaching the Swearing school.
Some men are like the earth-bilge
at the equator and flatten at the poles.
Ole Bill Munby threatens to leave
Buford alone if it does not do more
advertising.
Money men in the city are reducing
their liquor bills materially at the
present time.
The city indertakers report business
distressingly dull, but they hope for
improvement.
When man tells you about your
influence in politics he expects it to
react on yourself.
Several young men went from Rug
by to help gather the Minot ice crop
where the beer froze.
A reformer who makes charges
without being able to back them up
stands on lone jack
A. Bottineau woman dreamed she
had new hat. The first time dream
of hat cost nothing.
There are three political parties in
this state-the davidites, the absalom-
ties and the democrats.
A phrenologist who was holding
forth in Fargo, declared certain man
was Minister. He kept a saloon in
Moorehead.
The United Mine Workers are gtriv-
ing to eliminate all their title except
the second, third and fourth letters
of the first word.
An ex-policeman and prominent
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
An Appreciated Measure.

Mimic Journal
AS evidence that the'people of this
part of the valley fully appreciate Sen
ator Hansbrough's bill segregating
100000 from the National reclama-
ton fund, to be used to promote irri-
cation in the valley countries, the
county commissioners at their meet
ing this week passed a resolution
heartily urging an united effort to
secure its passage. 1t is certainly a
most important measure and indica-
tons are that it will succeed. After
this, let lis have law so framed that
the matter of drains where needed
cannot be blocked or impeded by any
one or two farmers concerned, Just
because the drain proposed, is not laid
out exactly according to their ideas.
Government aid will be a. fine thing,
but more than this, law SO framed
that the bitches shall run according to
the surveyors compass, and preclud-
ing all attempt on the part of the few
to block the game is required.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY

1413-Thomas Arundel, archbishop
of Canterbury, died.
1437-James l. of Scotland mur-
dered.
694-Francols-Marie De Voltaire
born.
1716-David Garrick, English actor,
born.
1746-Brussels taken by Marshal
SAKE.
17SO-British under General Clinton
invaded South Carolina.
1S11-Recharter of United States
bank passed the house
lS31-Poles defeated Russians at
Grochow.
1S41-James G. Brooks, editor and
poet, died.
1S46-First legislature Of state of
Texas met at Austin.
DISSATISFACTION of Lord Palmer
ston.
1S64-Battle Of Olustee, Florida.
1S73-Fernando Wood moved in the
house for the impeachment of Vice.
Pres. Colfax.
1S75-Jesse Pomeroy, hoy murder
en-" sentenced to death in Boston.
1S7S-Cardnal Pecci, elected pope,
took the name of Leo XIII.
1SS2-Nihilists convicted of assas-
sinating Alexander III. of Russia.
1SS5-Mrs. Henry Milton died in
New York.
1893-General Beauregard died in
New Orleans.
1895-Frederick Douglas died.
1905-Five killed in mine explosion
at Birmingham, Ala.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
TO BEAUT1FY THE CITY.

A city is measured by strangers by
what they see when they visit it.
Many of them form opinions from car
windows as they pass through.
Too often the cities are built like
fine mansions-the front brown stone
and the rear slop barrels. The rear
of city nearly always faces on the
railroad, and the sights of delapidated
buildings. discarded machinery and
scrap heaps give the traveller the Inn
preston he would have in walking
through the back streets of st. Louis.
II when cities are laid out a good
business street were made to face the
railroad it would be a powerful adj
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-20
THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N: b.

vertisement in behalf Of it's progress
iveness.
There are other things away from
the railroads, in the business and res
idence portions, that mar city's ap-
pearance like pimples on the face of
a professional beauty.
These include delapidated sidewalks,
broken pavements, ash barrels, lum-
her, paper and thousand other things
that are irritable eyesores, and that
only require little effort to elimi-
nate.
1t is a remarkable thing that women
take far more pride in the beauty of
their city than do the men.
They appreciate that which is har-
monious and neat, while the greatest
artistic talent of the average man CEN
tiers on the perfect ring of narcotic
smoke.
This city needs an old time religious
revival of pride in cleaning up. The
streets need to be made so clean, the
residence lawns SO neat, and the gen.
eral appearance so perfect that the
attention of the visitor would be di-
rected to them so that the fact would
be indellibly stamped upon his mind.
Then whenever Grand Forks was
mentioned he would recall it as though
it were great painting or beautiful
work of art.
A gentleman who is interested in
this identifying of the city suggested
and the idea is good one-that the
ladies in the several wards organize
themselves into improvement clubs
and invigorate contest among these
clubs to see which can have the most
beautiful part of the city.
This process would probably waken
up some of the men, and they would
probably assist in the work.
The plan is worth an effort and an
effort along this line will add so much
to the beauty of the city that it will
many times repay all the effort it
costs. ,