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CASTRO
FAILING RAPIDLY
SPECIAL DISPATCH no THE cAL1

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
PORT OF SPAIN. Nov. 2s.-Reliable
news was received here today that
President Castro of Venezuela is fail
ing rapidly and that he is suffering
from ganglionar tuberculosis. which
demands frequent operations on the
lymphatic glands
1t is generally understood that the
brin ging of President Castro from An
timano to Caracas recently was a po-
litical move to give grounds for the
official statements that he had COM
pletely recovered his health. The true
state Of affairs is that he is just as se-
questrated now in Caracas as he had
been for months in Antimano and in
vacuto, and it is said that to move him
1T is necessary oadminister powerful
stimulants, which leave him in worse
condition than ever The Government
electric light plant. which is situated
near President Castro's house in Cara
cas-. has been shut down. as the noise
could be heard by him.
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SAYS BURNHAM WAS
BLACKMA|LED

NEW YORK. Nov. 29.-Charges that
Louis F. Payne, when State Superin-
tendent of Insurance, demanded $780,.
900 from the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance Company, under threat of
showing that the company was insol-
vent. and that President Frederick A.
Burnham had said that he paid Payne
$4,000, were made by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Mott Wednesday in the
trial of George H. Burnham Jr. Burn
ham is indicted, together with Fred
erick A. Burnham Jr., former counsel
for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Company. and George d. Eldredse, vice
nresident of the company, for misap-
,ronriation of the funds of the COM
pany.
Mott said that President Frederick
A. Burnham asked J. Douglas Wells,
who was then vice president OF the
mutual Reserve. to put the sum of
s5o75 in his expense account, because
President BuTIlndHt was III AAAoiASAe1t
straits. AS a reason for his need of
noonev Mott said that President Burn
ham declared to Wells that Superin-
tendent Payne had demanded the $780,
900. but had been induced to accept
$4,000.
The matter of this alleged payment
of 100000 to Louis F. Payne was
brought up during the insurance in
vestfgation last year. when Payne was
a witness before the investigating
committee. Charles E. Hughes asked
him: There has been a report pub
lished in the papers that in connection
with the Mutual Reserve matter there
was a payment made to you of $4,000
what have you to say to that7"
Payne replied: "I say to you that 1t
is absolutely false in every particular,
and / say to you that Mr.. Wells and
Mr.. Burnham under oath said the same
thing. Now, that grew out. Mr.
Hughes, of a fight between Burnham
and wells. That is all there is to it"
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-30
Young Daughter of Special
Policeman Fires Five
Shots at an Intruder
VALIANTLY PROTECTS
AN ABUSED FAMILY
Ethel Smith of Thornton,
R. l., Taken to Chiefs
House Instead Of Jail

THORNTON, r.. l., Nov. 29.-Ethel
Smith, the 15-year-oId daughter of
Special Policeman Leander Smith,
Chief of Police HowIand Kimball,
charged with killing Elmer Briggs, n
resident of Thornton. The circum-
stances of the killing were such that,
after being. Obliged to arrest the child,
Chief KimbaII took her to his house,
gave her Thanksgiving dinner and
declared that she should not go to jail
as long as she was under his jurisdic-
ton.
The tragedy today was the culmina-
tion of an estrangement between
Briggs and his wife. About two weeks
ago Briggs is alleged to have deserted
his wife. leaving her without means of
support for herself and her three small
children. Special Policeman Smith took
pity on the destitute woman and he
and his wife received Mrs. Briggs and
her children into their home and were
arranging TO send them to the home
of Mrs. Briggs brother!
This afternoon. during the absence
of Smith. Briggs arrived at the Smith
house and demanded admission. Charles
Halliday. a negro cook. started to call
Chief of Police Kimball to the scene,
leaving in the house Mrs. Briggs and
her children. Mrs. Smith and Ethel. The
women and children. fearing that
Briggs would force an entrance, locked
all the doors and windows Ethel
armed herself with her fathers re-
volver.
AS soon as Halliday was out of sight
Briggs again demanded admission, and
on being refused he drew a large cary
ing knife from beneath his coat and
cut away the screen on the front door.
He then smashed a pane of glass in the
door, reached through and threw back
the bolt. AS he entered Ethel fired two
shots at him, both bullets lodging In
his body. Briggs hesitated for a mo-
ment and then kept on. The child fred
three more shots, every bullet taking
effect. and Briggs staggered back and
fell dead.
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TWO CENTURY OLD
WAR IS ENDED

VICTORIA. B. c.. Nov 2s.-The
steamer Antilochus brought news from
Singapore of the dramatic ending OF
Hollands two century old war in the
South Celebes. After a siege of many
months the Hollanders captured the
mountain fortress of Barupa, where the
rebels made their last stand. This was
almost like an eagles nest. impregna-
BILE. almost inaccessible and impossible
of being taken by storm The Holland
ers fixed a Gordon. seeking to prevent
supplies reaching the rebels. and finally
the rebel leaders. seeing further resist
ance meant annihilation. surrendered
with 900 men. The insurrection in the
South Celebes will end with this sur
render.
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EDITORIAL

Schmitz' statement that he atoned for graft
By heroic conduct during the fire the plea of
moral idiot. Page
Chicago art connoisseurs go into ecstacies for
twenty years spurious antiques.
Trinity Church corporations evasion of tax
payments and failure to account for surplus In
come. Page
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Gang Follows Methods of
the St. Louis BOOdlers
Grafters Pledge
Honor to Hide
Dishonor

That a definite secret pact,
consecrated by Solemn oath,
was formed among members
of the Board of Supervisors
when they conspired to sell
out the city has been learned
by Special Agent Burns In
this pact the city officials
bound themselves by pledge
of word to stand or fall to-
gether. This agreement,
they believed, made detec-
ton impossible The pact
has been broken, however,
and a member of the board
will 60 on the stand before
the Grand Jury and reveal its
full extent and the wholesale
thievery which it was de-
signed to hide.
Such a pact as was formed
among the San Francisco Of
hcials had its precedent in ST.
Louis, where the boodlers
bound themselves under pen
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POINT TO GRAF TING
IN RELIEF FUND
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

IL.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Indignant be-
cause they have received. only $40 each
out of fund of s10.12S. raised for the
benefit of the chorus and orchestra of
the Metropolitan Opera Company,
which suffered in the holocaust in San
Francisco, members of the Chorus
Union and their friends today de-
nounced what they said was unfair
treatment.
Harry de veaux, president of the
Actors National Protective Union, and
Eugene Marchand, president of Chorus
Union No. 1, charged that $4,000 had
been given to the orchestra in excess
of the amount given to De chorus and
the ballet as a reward for the or
chestra's promise to stand behind the
directors of the Metropolitan Opera
house against the Chorus Singers.
Union. This fund was raised last
spring by a concert given in Carnegie
Hall by Nine. Sembrich. De veaux
said today that he had heard that
number of stage hands who were not
in or near San Francisco at the time
of the catastrophe had shared in this
fund.
If within the next two weeks the
striking choristers find no tangible
Indication of securing the money they
claim is due them, they will order out
on strike all the union chorus singers,
actors. engineers, firemen, operators OF
calcium lights and bill posters en-
ployed in the other theaters in this
city as move to bring the Metropoli-
tan management to terms.
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Supervisors Are Bound BY a Secret Pact
Corrupt Ring Is Betrayed By One Of It's Otm Members

learned that the Supervisors involved in the boodg
deals have taken solemn oath stand fall together They
have been betrayed by one of their number.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-30

LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. 2s.--Samuel
Spencer, president of the Southern
Railway Company, and recognized as
one of the foremost railroad men of
America, and six other persons were
killed and eleven injured this morning
in a rear-end collision between two
fast passenger trains ten miles south
of Lynchburz and a mile north of Law
yers Depot. Philip Schuyler, retired
capitalist of New York, was among the
killed, together with other guests of
Spencer. of those ON spencer's car,
only his private secretary, z. A. Merrill
of New York, and one of the three por-
ters survived the accident.
The dead
PRESIDENT SAMUEL SPENCER.
New York.
CHARLES d. FISHER, Baltimore.
PHILIP SCHUYLER. New York
FRANCIS T. REDWOOD. Baltimore.
d. W. DAVIS, Alexandra. Va; pri-
vate dispatcher to President Spencer.
WILLIAM POLLARD. negro porter
on President Spencer's car.
AN UNKNOWN PERSON, whose head
and limbs are burned of short, who is
believed TO have been the third porter
on the private car, who is missing.
The injured:
Lucretia Allen, coloreo- Danville. Va.
leg cut of and arm broken; Willis ].
winston, New York. leg broken; ]. w.
shaw, coIored, Spencer. n. c., fireman,
crushed and both legs broken: Garland
Thomas. coIored. Greensboro. n. c., leg
broken; P. E. vauls. colored, waynes-
boro, Va, crushed; Cora Logan. colored.
shelby, n c., both legs broken; Sam
Cox. colored, porter on the private car.
leg broken; - Cruett, address un-
known. supreme organizer of the Hep
tssophs. back badly wrenched; Son"
HogIand, colored. Charlotte, n c..
bruised: E. A. Merrill private secretary
to President spencer; head and arms
burned, will recover
The collision. was between the Jack
sonvilie express and the Washington
anc Southwestern vestibuled limited.
both south bound President Spencer
and his entire party. as far as is known,
we're sleeping when the collision oc-
Cured. and the probabilities are that
All Of them. excepting Dispatcher Davis.
were killed instantly 1t is certain that
life was extinct before the flames
touched them. President spencer's body
wa burned almost beyond recovery.
as was that Of Fisher The body of
schuyler was recovered before 1t was
burned very much. President Spencer's
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atty of death to hold forever

atty of death to hold forever
secret their corrupt transac-
tons. 1t is the solenr~-
pledge of secrecy which still
stirs hope in the breasts of
the guilty. In the loRl pact
no penalty was fixed for its
violation, but a solemn oath
was registered that each
would remain true to the
other until the end The
strange situation by which
men swore upon their honor
to keep forever secfet their
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 80. 1905
WEATHER CONDITIONS

YESTERDAY-Clear; northwest wind; maxi
mum temperature, Sc degrees; minimum tenn
perature 80 degrees.
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Fair; fresh north
wind Page IL
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LEGISLATORS WANT MORE PAY

HONOLULU. Nov. 2s.-The members
elect of the Hawaiian Legislature will
ask the United States Congress to raise
their pay to $1,000 session.
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have since built cities upon the very
sides of the mountain. All this shows
how easy it is to forget danger when
the signs Of it have vanished. 1t re-
quires but a few years for one genera
ton to leave the stage and for another
to take its place. The troubles OF one
generation bear lightly upon it's sue
cessor. One thing is certain: That is,
that the calamity which has ovcrtaken
the inhabitants in the vicinity Of
Vesuvius promises to be one OF the
greatest that has ever afflicted man.
kind. Ii only those who stand in the
sunshine without the pale OF danger
could be made to realize the awful les
son that is now being brought home to
a portion Of mankind it would be Well
We so on from day to day never realiz-
ing the dangers that surround us. We
read Of the afiliction that is visited
upon others without the thought ever
occurring that we should do something
to aid those afflicted. We who are in
the sunshine of today may be in the
shadow tomorrow. The eruption of
Nesuvius is bound to make II heavy de-
nand upon the charity Of the world and
it is Il demand which should be needed
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dence. If the state We're represented
i'll these cases it would become Very
much more difficult matter to obtain
divorce. and fewer applications would
be made. The state is very much in
terested in these actions. The subject
of divorce is close to the home and
effects the hearts and happiness of all
mankind. The increase of divorce in
this country is perhaps the very great
est evil that afflicts our people. The
ease with which marriage bonds are
cast aside is destroying the very home
life Of the country. Conferences of
ministers in which resolutions are
passed condemning the prevalence Of
divorce will help nothing. The di-
vorce evi! is Il cancerous sore that is
eating at the very vitals of the country,
1t is an evil that calls for severe REM
cdies Any steps calculated to prevent
ease in securing q divorce should be
approved. 1t would be interesting TO
know how many divorces could be pre-
vented in Hennepin county if it were
the duty of the county attorney to APP
pear and contest all applications. We
think that very much less of the time
of our courts would be taken up We're
that the case.
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A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

The active eruption of Vesuvius
threatens to rival in extent and in de-
structiveness of property, If not of
lives. the eruption OF almost two
thousand years ago Of which Pliny, the
historian. has left such a vivid ac-
count. The difference between the loss
Of life then and now is probably large
ly attributable to tho progress of
science. The observatory on the top
OF the volcano gave warning and as
surance to the people living upon the
side of the mountain. The information
that it furnished allowed the people
to evacuate whole cities in an orderly
and peaceable way. People who lived
in proximity to the mountain are cry
ing out today as others did two thous-
and years ago: This is the end of the
world" Pliny described in as vivid
a way the happenings of two thousand
years ago as does Marion Crawford the
happenings of today. The disaster
which overwhelmed Pompeii and Her.
culaneum no doubt created even
greater CONSERVATION than that which
exists in and about Naples today. Yet,
the fact that two
whole cities We're buried and the whole
region round about devastated, people
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broken with the leaders of his party,
and the situation is drifting into the
same condition as that which faced
Grant in 1872, and Cleveland during
his second administration. The prcsi-
dent is now counting Democratic aid,
and is more than willing to win with
Democratic votes. Evidences OF Bit
terness over the protracted struggle
are growing more and more numerous.
Conservative Republican senators. and
a strong Democratic element. led by
Mr.. Bailey, are displeased at the pres-
dents open interference. There is no
longer any thought of preserving party
lines in the contest. The situation has
become so strained that the opinion is
growing in some quarters that q dis
will be no legislation. In opposition to
this, it is pointed out that if no bill
is passed the president will promptly
call an extra session. He seems deter
mined to destroy his senatorial oppo-
nents, and they hold equally inimical
designs towards him. 1t is even init
mated that he may revise his decision
of not being Il candidate for re-elec-
ton and appeal to the people to sup
port him. The whole row makes fine
capital for future Democratic success
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TO FIGHT DIVORCE.

Down in Christian county, Kentucky,
u man named Duffy happens to be
county attorney. Mr.. Duffy would
have remained unknown outside of his
own state If he had not undertaken to
do something somewhat out of the Or
binary. The matter that has attracted
attention to Mr.. Duffy is his PROPOSE
ton in the future to resist all suits
for divorce in his district in behalf Of
the state. They have 4 law in Ken
lucky which provides that it shall be
the duty of the attorney for the coun-
ty to resist every application for di-
vorce and if successful III defeating it
ceeding twenty dollars, to be paid by
the husband. This is the law under
which Mr.. Duffy proposes to step in
and defend in behalf Of the state in
every action for divorce. Would not
such a law be Il wise provision in every
state? Almost all divorce cases are
uncontested. Either the parties have
agreed upon a divorce or the plaintiff
has so brought the case that no notice
Of the tendency of the action is
brought home to the defendant. In all
these cases it is an easy matter to Sc
cure divorce either upon caanufac-
tured evidence or upon very slight evil
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Trouble has broken out between
James Bryce, chief secretary for Ire
land, and the nationalist party. The
latter wanted him to dismiss ~ tenn
porary assistant land commissioners
appointed in 1903 for three years AL
most all were obnoxious to the Nation
alists. because they belonged to the
land-owning class, and the National
lists hoped Chief Secretary Bryce would
replace them with commissioners more
to the Irish wishes in the administra-
ton Of the land act. Chief Secretary
Bryce, however, only accepted the
designations of eight Of these men and
reappointed the others. John Red
mond presided at Il meeting Of 60 menu
bers OF his party which adopted reso-
buttons condemning Chief Secretary
Bryce's action and calling for the re-
moval of the objectionable commits
sioners.
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ireland is in Rome. Hi:

Archbishop Ireland is in Rome. His
enemies have circulated the report
that in his present visit he is acting
as the representative of the American
government in the settlement OF the
Philippine church affairs with the
Vatican, which report he has denied,
says the Memphis Catholic Journal.
Archbishop ireland has for years been
considered by many in this country
as deserving of receiving the appoint
ment of Cardinal in the event the
United States was to receive a new
Cardinal. He is in every way worthy.
by education and results achieved as
an Archbishop, for such an exalted
position. If he should be so fortunate
to be made Cardinal, the appoint-
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Socialism will hardly commend itself
to law-abiding people by such acts as
that recently committed in San Fran
cisco where II crowd calling themselves
Socialists and sympathizing with
Meyer and Haywood. who are charged
with the murder of a former governor
Of Idaho planted their red flag with
revolutionary words on it in the streets.
and resisted the officers whose duty
il is to preserve order. If socialism is
such a mild, peaceful ard unoffending
doctrine as those who profess 1t claim
it to be, why is it that we so often find
Socialists defending and sympathizing
with those who are accused of most
violent crimes? Socialism is in open
revolution to every government under
the sun. 1t opposes every institution
that civilization and Christianity hold
dear. 1t breaches Decentralization and
hatred toward those in authority; it
regards the officers of the law whose
duty 1t is to preserve social peace and
order as tyrannical enemies. 1t
breaches the doctrine of the sword and
when it's opponents fall victims to the
sword it raises the cry of martyrdom.
There Is more danger in this country
today from socialistic teaching than
from all other movements combined.
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The Homeless Home.

Have you ever visited in a pain
fully neat home-a home where COM
fort and happiness is sacrificed to the
exactions of nicely in every branch
of the presiding housewives skill?
Even the door mat or the foot scrapers
seem 10 say: who enters here leaves
dirt behind" And YOU find yourself
f1ecking road dust from
your sleeves and "shooing" out an
audacious fly that threatens to enter
with you. AS you cross the threshold
there is an oppressiveness about the
immaculate neatness that takes away
all ease and comfort. and-you find
the inmates to seek
pleasure elsewhere.
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