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The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
TRAPS THUG WHO
HELD HIM Up.

OAKLAND. Oct. 6.-Charles W Cook.
an insurance man. residing at 1926
Linden street. swore TO a complaint
today charging Thomas ". Clark with
having attempted TO rob him at Six
teenth and Market streets several
nights ago. Cook recognized Clark
in a saloon on Twelfth street yester-
day and cleverly contrived to get a po-
liceman without arousing the suspects
suspicion. AS soon as Clark was
trapped. he exclaimed:
Well, 1 guess I ana caught at last.
Ny time seems to be up
Cook positively Identifies the pris-
oner. The complainant declares he has
good reason TO remember him, for they
we're in rough-and-tUmb bic fight when
he resisted the footpads attempt to
rob him.
The police are investigating Clark S
past. He refuses TO talk TO the de-
tectives, who hope 10 connect the pris-
oner with some other recent holdups
ia this city.
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''shacks." This is not expected to ac-
complish the desired end, however, as
Needham is said to have so constructed
his portable dwellings as to keep them
within the provisions of the building
ordinance.
The proposal to ask for the resigna-
tion of Mr.. and Mrs Needham from the
Hillside Club is likely to precipitate a
row of splendid proportions, the first
in the history of the Hillside organi-
zation, and If the word of prominent
members is authoritative, the call for
the resignation of the Needhams may
be expected at any moment.
Mr.. Needham smiles at the prospect.
He has given freely of money and land
and time to philanthropic and church
work, and does not fear comparison, he
says, between his own record as pub
lic-spirited citizen and the record of
those who judge him now
The Hillside Club recently completed
a beautiful clubhouse in the district.
Charles Keelers the poet, and other ce-
lebrities have taken much interest in
its adornment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
POLICE KILL MAN
WHO RESISTS.
Guadalupe Lara Slain in
Riverside and His Con-
federate Taken to Jail
WOUNDED

RIVERSIDE, Oct. s.--After a fierce
battle with policemen in which more
than hundred shots from revolvers
and rifles were fired, Guadalupe Lara,
a Mexican, wanted on a charge of as
sault, was shot and killed early today
in a house in which he had barricadcd
himself Policeman Polcene of the at
tacking party was shot in the right
breast and arm, but not dangerously
wounded.
When the police who were sent to
arrest Lara found him he was in COM
pany with Sofrano Garcia, another
Mexican, and the two hastily barri-
caded themselves in a small house.
When the officers approached, Lara and
Garcia opened fire and Polcene fell
with the first shots. The other police
charged the place and broke in the
door
Returning the fusillade of shots
from the inside, the police shot and in
stantly killed Lara and then over
whelmed Garcia. The latter was hand
cuffed and taken to the police station,
where he is held on the charge of at
tempted murder.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
AUTO PARTY IN uPRoAR.

ALAMEDA. Ocr0 s.-Shrieks emitted
by woman In an automobile with two
men and another woman disturbed the
neighborhood in the vicinity OF Broad
way and Central avenue at 1 o'clock
this morning and caused several per-
sons to believe that murder was being.
done. Four reports that sounded lfEcl
pistol shots. but which the police be-
lieve We're made by the engine of the
automobile. added TO the excitement
T. Vonah. livery stable man. endeav-
ored TO ascertain what the trouble IN
the automobile was about, but the ma
chine raced away from him and crossed
the Park street bridge into Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
DELEGATES FROM COLLEGE
WILL MEET AT STANFORD
Members Of Young WOmen's ChrIstian
Association From Institutions of


Association From Institutions of
Learning Plan JOIpt Conference.
STAMFORD UNIVERSITY. Oct. s.
Members Of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association in all of the large in
stitutions of learning of the State will
meet here Friday and Saturday of this
week in joint conference. Prepara-
tfons are being made by the local
branch 70 make a decided success or
the big gathering. Speakers from the
various branches will be heard and
plans for the future will be discussed
Delegates from the Cniversity. of Cal
ifornia, Mills CilIege OF Oakland. Unf-
versity Of the Pacific. san Jose Normal
and California College Of East Oakland
will meet in session with the memb ers
Of the Stanford branch.
Miss E. Mcdonald. city secretary OF
the Young Woman,s Christian AssOcia-
tfon of Toxic, Japan, viii be the prin-
eipaI speaker OF the conference. She
viii speak upon the work OF the japan
ese and foreign associations. Miss
Helen Salisbury. 05. Of stanford State
secretary OF the Student associations
Of California. and Miss Gertrude Smith.
O4. will also speak
The programme for the meeting has
been arranged. and includes a gather
ing Of the representatives in the uni
versity chapel
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
TRIES TO END HER LIFE BY
EATING PULVHRIZED GLASS
Mrs. Francis Merrill of Oakland Is
Again Overcome by Suicidal Mania
and Attempts SeIf-Destruetfon.

OAKLAND, Oct. s.-Mrs. Francis
Merrill, who was discharged last week
as sane by Judge Ogden after exam
inatioTis at the instance of her husband,
W. F. Merrill, has given way again to
the suicidal mania, which was the
basis of the former charge. She was
prevented from ending her life by eat
ing pulverized glass this morning only
by the close watch which her husband
kept on her.
For some months Mrs. Merrill has
been failing in mind, and the reaIiza-
tion Of this has caused her to wish
TO die, and she has continually urged
her husband to end his existence with
her in order that they may not be
separated.
This afternoon a new complaint was
sworn out against her and tomorrow
she will be examined again.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

BERKELEY, Oct. S.-The fashionable
Hillside Club is threatened with disrup-
tion as the result of fight between a
number of its most prominent mem
bers over the matter of portable houses
which Paul A. Needham has put up in
the Hillside section of Berkeley. Two
women members of the Hillside Club,
Mrs. Oscar Maurer and Mrs. Paul A.
Needham, indulged in a bit of verbal
warfare over the question at the last
meeting of the club on Saturday night,
and the argument brought to a head
quarrel which has been smoldering
for a month.
One result of the controversy, con-
servative members of the club predict.
is that Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A. Needham,
who are sponsors for the portable
house idea, will be asked at the next
meeting of the Hillside Club to resign
from that organization. Should this
proposal be broached the partisans of
the Needhams and the Maurers may be
expected to take sides, and a battle
royal ensue.
The clubs opposition to Needham' s
portable houses is based on the love of
the beautiful and the purpose to make
and keep the Hillside district an artis-
tic residence section--a place of pretty
homes, where art is exhibited in archi-
lecture and landscape gardening. They
regard Mr.. Needham's invasion of the
district with portable houses as treason
to the clubs aims. and Needham is
looked upon apparently as a vandal be-
cause he is to profit by the installing
of the cheap houses in the high-priced
Hillside district.
DEN0UNCEs THE INVASION.
Mrs. Oscar Maurer wife of the artist,
brought up the matter at the clubs
meeting last week, after 1t had been
Informally discussed by members for
fortnight or more. She denounced the
portable houses as a blot on the Hill
side region, and scored those RESPONSE
BILE for the intrusion of the "shacks"
She is declared to have recommended
social octracism for the perpetrators
of the offense, If legal measures should
fail to wipe out the portable dwellings.
The latter idea, however, Mrs. Maurer
today partially repudiates, saying that
social ostracism need not be talked of
until petitions to the Town Trustees
for relief have utterly failed.
When Mrs. Maurer had finished her
denunciation of the owners of portable
houses last Saturday night at the club
meeting, Mrs Paul A. Needham took
the floor. She was not afraid of social
ostracism, apparently, and did not need
the clubs known opposition to her hus-
bands business enterprise. She >coun-
seled the critics to withhold judgment
until the portable houses should be
painted and finished inside. and then.
she thought, the houses might be
found to be as worthy as those of the
folk who disliked them.
WITHIN FIRE ORDINANCE.
No formal action was taken in the
matter by the Hillside Club, but a petit
tion to the Town Trustees is to be pre-
pared, asking for relief and protection
<rom the invasion of the so-calIed
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
DRASTIC FOOTBALL
RULE ENFORCED.
Palo Alto Trustees Expel
Ten Students That Play
the intercollegiate Game
THREE FILE PROTEST
SPECIAL DIsPATcH TO THE CALL


PALo ALTO. Oct. S.-For playing n
game OF American football last Satur-
day ten high school students were ex-
PEELED as they presented themselves at
the schoolhouse this morning. With
seven Of the students. who reside out
side the district. the expulsion is hnal
and they will not be permitted 70 re-
enter on any condition The other
three however. are residents or the
district and il is said. have q right TO
bring action against the board me
latter. for this reason. have consented
TO give the three boys further consid-
Grafton at a meeting to be held -
evening.
The action was based on the inter-
probation which the board has placed
upon its rule excluding the American
game from the athletics OF the school
The boys claimed they had a right to
play after school hours and arranged
the game with the Lowell High School
under the name OF the PaIo Alto Ath-
Iettc Association. AS soon as the fact
that the game was to be played be-
came known the board Of trustees
called the boys together and informed
them that should the game be played
il would be held a breach OF rules, and.
while no threat was made. the BOYS
were given TO understand what they
might expect.
After leaving the board the boys
sought the opinion Of a local attorney.
who advised them that they could do
as they pleased after they had once
reached home. and upon this advice
the game was played Students who
live outside the district and come here
for school are charged tuition OF $50.
and when once expelled. IL seems. have
no redress. while those living within
the district are given lOOphole where
by they can get back to school and
thus prevent any test case that might
be brought against the board.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
AROUND THE DAY

BURGLARS ENTER GRocERY.-oakland
Oct. S.-M. Clearys grocery at 800 Iwelftn
street was entered BY burglars tonight and s7a
stolen.
cLEMENcY FOR YOUNG sAILoR,-Oakland.
Oct s.-J. S Carey, sailor. was placed on pro
baton this morning for one year 6y Judge
q bicycle
YOUNG WOMAN INsANE.-oakland. Oct s.
Miss Alice Herbert, who was removed from the
police station to the Receiving Hospital. has be-
come insane and viii be examined tomorrow
hy the lu1scv board. She lives al the Glenwood,
Fourteenth and Washington streets
FATHER KcswEENEY ABLE TO BE OUT.
Oakland Oct. s.-rhe Rev. Thomas MeSweeney,
pastor Of the ST. Francis de Sales Church, has
% far recovered from bis recent Illness as to
SAYS ROBBERY WAS ATTEMPTED.-Oak
land, Oct. S.-Gus Anderson is under tnFestiga
tion on complaint Of May Folger, a woman at
4T4 Sixth street who says Anderson pointed q
pistol at her and demanded her money.
ALL DAY FETE.-Berkeley. Oct. s.-The
Prytanesn Society OF the University; composed
OF women students, is 10 hold an ali day fete
at Idora Park IN Oakland November fOT
the benefit Of the university hospital fund
WOMAN CHARGED WITH THEFT.-Oak-
land Oct 6.-Ella Hansen. p years OF age. who
has been roomlng Al the Pleasanton Hotel was
arrested this afternoon for the Inert OF two
shirt waists from small store al Fifteenth
street and San Pablo avenue.
TO BUILD FIREKEN's .RETREAT.-Berke-
leg Oct Sire Chief Kenney announces 6
plan for building q retreat for members OF the
Monte RIO. he intends TO get funds and buy q
ten-acre tract at Monte Rio and erect suit
able clubhouse Money VIII be raised by the
Board OF Fire Captains, Of which Kenney is
chief
MONTANA MANS WILL FILED.-Oakland.
Oct. s-The will 81 Theodore NJ. Tracy OF Red
Lodge. Montana. who left property in California
valued az S25. coo. has been fled FOR probate.
The estate consists Of a house and lot IN
Berkeley and 200 acres Of land ct Pleasant
Grove Sutter County The widow, Mrs. Esther
Tracy and q son. Albert G Tracy. are named
ae executrix and executor of the win and trus-
tees Of the estate.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

day evening at 8 o'clock at the home
of her mother on Bay Farm Island.
The Rev. ]. ]. Conway, formerly as
sistant rector of st. Joseph's Church.
is to perform the ceremony. The bride
is to be attended by her sister. Miss
Meta Mccartney, and the groom's best
man is to be Russell B. Field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hintze of I'LL
Broadway have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter. Miss Hazel
Hintze. to Ralph Voder. The wedding
is to take place next month.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tuare Morris
celebrated the fourteenth anniversary
of their wedding Friday by giving
a dinner to party of friends at a
local cafe.
Alameda Lodge of Elks is rehearsing z
a minstrel performance that is to be
put on at the Park Theater for three
nights, beginning November Z.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
CAUSES SUICIDE scare.

OAKLAND, Oct. S.--A woman givin 8
her name as Mrs. NJ. C. Eddy, who said
that she lived on Sixty-hfth street,
near San Pablo avenue. created a SEN
sation on a San Pablo-avenue car at 3
o'clock this morning by inhaling chlor-
oform to alleviate neuralgia She was
overcome by the drug and passen gers
feared that she contemplated suicide.
Mrs Eddy was taken to the police sta
tion and when she recovered from the
effects of the chloroform was sent to
her home.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
WANTS DAMAGES FOR HURTS
SUSTAINED IN EXPLOSION
f. C. Hoffman Brings Action Against
Berkeley Rock Company to Offset
Injuries Received In Service.

OAKLAND. Oct. ST. c. Hoffman, an
engineer. who was injured by the ex-
plosion of dynamite placed in an engine
he was operating for the Berkeley
Rock Company July Is, today sued the
company for $4,000 damages.
Hoffman says he was permanently in
jured by the explosion that followed
when he started a fire under the en-
gine boilers and that he will never re-
cover from the injury to his back and
spine. 1t was stated at the time the
explosion occurred that the explosives
were placed in the engine by enemies
of the company. The statement was
made by officers of the company.
In his complaint for damages Hoff-
man says the Berkeley Rock Company.
of which Nathan Rosenberg is the head
and James E. Crane, former County
Clerk, is the secretary, "negligently,
careIessly and wantonly'' allowed the
engine to be loaded and charged with
dangerous and powerful explosives
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
coNDoN is REcovERING.

OAKLAND. Oct s.-A. ]. Condor.
the capitalist who was injured in an
auto accident near San Jose, will re-
cover. Mrs. Condor left last night in
an automobile to be with her husband.
She telephoned today that they would
return soon to their apartments at the
Hotel Athens.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
HosTLER FALLS FROM
LOFT TO FATAL INJURY
John Hou1fhan, Also Known as John
McMurry, PIunges Fourteen Feet
and Soon Expires.

OAKLAND, Oct. 8.-John Houlihan,
also known as John McMurry, en-
ployed as a hostler at Goldberg, Bow
en- & Co.'S stable. s52 Fallon street,
fell from a hayloft fourteen feet to a
cement floor this morning, receiving
injuries which caused his death in a
few minutes. The body was removed
to the morgue, where a recommends
tion signed by @. Lindner. made out
for John Houlihan, was found in a
pocket of his coat; also an employment
tag in the same name. Houlihan was
s5 years Of age. a native of Ireland.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
LOSES PEARL NECKLACE.

OAKLAND, Oct. S.-Mrs. E., B. SUIT
ton, residing at 2746 Dwight way,
Berkeley, reported to the Oakland po-
lice this morning that she lost a pearl
necklace yesterday while riding on a
Telegraph avenue car. Mrs. Sutton
believes she was the victim of a clever
sneak thief and that the necklace was
stolen while the car was passing Idora
Park
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
ANpREws, wIFE GETS EsrArE.

OAKLAND, Oct. S.-The estate OF
Milton Franklin Andrews, who mur-
dered his female companion and killed
himself as he was about to be arrested
for attacking William Ellis in Berke-
ley, was awarded today TO Andrews
widow, Jennie ]. Andrews, Of Holyoke,
Mass, by Judge Harris. The estate
consists of personal property valued
at S416
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
CONTRACTOR FTLEs IIrNS.

SAN MATEO. Oct. Sc. W. Mcclellan
has filed liens against a large portion
OF the property in the Bowie eastern
addition TO this city in an effort to
collect money for the paving Of streets
and the laying Of sewers throughout
the entire addition The contract price.
as let by the Town Trustees, was for
$3.50 for a lot OF so feet frontage, and
many OF the property owners assert
that the work was done without their
knowledge or consent
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
KILLED BY LoCoMoTIvE.

OAKLAND, Oct. s.-A man believed
to be S. Ocha, an employe at the Union
Iron Works in San Francisco, was
struck and instantly killed by a
Southern Pacific locomotive shortly
before midnight last night at First and
Bay streets. The only means of identi-
flcation was a card found in one Of the
pockets Of the deceased, on which were
written the foregoing name and place
of employment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

A thorough knowledge OF the "gsog-
raphy" Of London is required OF cab
men. Among 735 applicants for license
In 1904 there were only $50 who passed
the examination; and of these more
were dropped because they did not
know how TO drive.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
PERSONAL

the Southern Pacific Company has reg
istered at the Crellin.
]. Klingensmith and wife have ar
rived at the Athens from New York
City.
D. C. Peet of searchlight, New, is at
the Crellin.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
~CAP AND GowN- NAMES OFFICERS.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Oct. s.
cap and Gown the exclusive honor
society OF the senior students OF Stan
ford University, has elected officers for
the semester. Miss Ellen Stadmuller
Of San Francisco was elected president:
Miss Florette Hodgson OF Sacramento.
vice president; Miss Claire Pedlar OF
San Francisco. secretary-treasurer and
Miss Iva Miller Of Santa Ana. repre-
sentative TO the Presidents Conference
of Young Women
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
wrLLlAm WHITMAN ENDS LIFE.

ALAMEDA, Oct. S.-Despondent be-
cause of continual pain that he suf-
fered after an operation for appendi-
citis, William f. Whitman ended his
life last night at 1903 Regent street by
firing a revolver buIletsinto hts brain
Whitman was formerly steward at
Tait's in San Francisco. He was 35
years of age and is survived by wife
and two children,
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

Canada paid the following bounties
for the first eleven months OF the 1908
nscal year; On iron, $624191; on steel.
sS3s.5s1; on steel rods. s27s,440; on bin
der twine. s1s,47S; on crude oil. $751;
04S.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
News of the Counties Bordering San Francisco Ba.
Invasion Of Portable I Iouses Threatens
to Disrupt t Hillside Club.

ROW has developed between factions fashionable
Hillside Club of Berkeley of portable
disruption Of imminent
of builder of the houses appeals
and Town Trustees threatened
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

Australia contains more unexplored
territory in proportion to its size than
any other continent
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
MoRPHINIs ~FIENDv DIES IN PRISON

OAKLAND, Oct S.-WilIiam Collins.
a morphine mend" arrested last Fri
day on charges Of drunkenness and
vagrancy by Patrolman Powers. died
suddenly this morning at the City
Prisen-
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09
WITHIN FIRE ORDINANCE.

No formal action was taken in the
matter by the Hillside Club, but petit
tion to the Town Trustees is to be pre-
pared, asking for relief and protection
<rom the invasion of the so-called
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

Miss Anna Poston, who has been
touring the British Isles, expects to
cross over to the Continent about the
Christmas season. She will visit the
most interesting places in Europe be-
fore returning to her home in this
city.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-09

ALAMEDA, Oct Miss Mignon
Mccartney. daughter of the late capi-
talist. Amos Mccartney. is to become
the bride Of James z. Hall next Fri
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-11-10
HOW TO IMPROVE THE
QUALITY OF IMMIGRANTS

(By John Mitchell, President of the
United Mine Workers of America
immigration should be restricted
for the protection of American labor
as it is today. The men who are now
employed in our mines and factories
should be safe-guarded against the
new arrivals who are willing to step
into their places for lower wages.
This seems to me one of the import
ant reasons for reform in this
bra nch of our national policy.
l believe that the educational quail
fic ltion for the admission of the i'm
migrant should be rased. He should
be able to read and write his native
language reasonably well. Such a re-
striction would give us a better class
of immigrants than we get now and a
class less likely to swell the ranks of
too cheap labor.
Beides demanding this educational
qualification, we ought to require of
these immigrants that they bring
money enough to transport them to
whatever section of the country Of.
fers the greatest advantages to them.
| believe that a man landing on our
shores Should be able to follow the
trade that he was engaged in at home
or turn his energies in any other di-
rection that he may naturally desire.
Many immigrants would adopt this
course if they had enough money to
wait for an opening or to pay their
way to a point where they might find
employment in their particular line.
But so many land with just enough
in their pockets to get them through
the barge Office that they are. forced
TO take the first job which they can
find. This is often some other mans
lob, and the immigrant gets it be-
cause he is willing to do the same
work for lower wages.
The requirement that the immi-
grant bring more money with him
will aid, too, in the distribution of
immigrants throughout the country
and prevent Capitalization in the
vicinity of the landing points.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-11-10
Father TIC tx Sons Whippinu.

The boy had misbchaved, as he
often did, and his father called him to
account.
Son" said tho father, 81 hate to
lick you, but some one must get a
whipping for what you've done"
The boy whimpered little.
Suppose" said the father, that |
take the whipping for you!"
The boy laughed at the idea, but the
rather took down dog whip, called a
friend who was visiting at the house.
explained the situation to him and
then requested the visitor to use the
whip on him.
The father wore a long-tailed coat
and the visitor hit the tails of that
coat in great style.
At the first crack of that whip the
boy was wild-eyed. At the second he
was clawing, biting ard kicking the
man with the whip.
Don't whip my papa! Don't whip
him!" he cried. Whip me, Oh.
whip mel"
That was year ago. Since then
that boy has never done anything seri.
ously wrong.