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The sun., 1906-02-11

would be guided by a majority vote Of the
nine. II there are fve votes In favor Of foot
would play Il, whatever might be the sen!!-
ment Of certain colleges as expressed BY indi-
vidual action, ..-
The table at which tho commit tteemen
worked yesterday was Uttered with dla grams
when they. got through, There were all sorts
OF pen and ink draw wlngs. looking like geom.
look Ike a straight line. Several of the lesls-
lators reported that there was no discpssion
troduced into the American game, I'VE are
fully engaged In the American game and
liking II up without going into rugby. SAID
Prof. Dennis The American game is the
one we are irving 70 make all right"
The sun., 1906-02-11
lRskcIhall N0toS.

The basketball team of Morris High School easily
defeated the Manual Training nve by a score OF q
TO o yesterday at the New Manual gymnasium.
Hras nus Hall High School girls basketball team
Of BrooIlyu met and defested the Eastern District
Htgh School Of Brooklyn In the league match ysA.
terday moaning By . 20 &
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OUAKERS AGAIN WIN.
visiting Basketball Players Beat Man.
haitian College 10 to 10.

Before a large and appreciative crowd
the Pennsylvania basketball team defeated
the Manhattan College five on the Longacre
A. c. court l5s West Twenty-nnth street.
last night. by a score of 20 to 20.
The game was very fast, and interesting
throughout and rather rough,
The local boys started out with a rush and
soon had lead of IA TO 0. but PENNSYLVANIA
rallied towards the close OF the first half and
succeeded in tying the score making It Is to
ls, and when the first bell rang the play was
going at a great pace. Manhattan's game
surprised even her most hor .ful supporters
In the second half Keinath scored first for
PENNSYLVANIA on field goal but Hanrahan
evened matters for Manhattan by a phenom-
enal shot from the Pennsylvania end OF the
court. Kiefaber then got loose from the
whole Manhattan team and scored clean
field goal. making the score TO = Mahoney.
however. again evened matters with another
field goal. making jump of feet in his
''Tht Then u followed the prctticst play Of the
evened The score, Manha,l an then took the
lead on Capt. Hanrahan's baske!. from foul,
the score for the third time in the half and
a minute later he again shot foul giving
anr az the hs sai P II In aS
10 Manhatlan's 3, making the hnal score -
10 20 in, PennsyIIvania favor Capt. Flint
games and Hanrahan. Mahoney and Amezaga
did excellent offensive work for Manhattan.
The lineup:
ManAdtun (20l. Positions. C.O;P. (col
Right forward .......,....f Flint
ahoncy......... Left forward,,.,.,,.,..,K Keinath
g. oSnsi Rishi guard keissef
Miller .....,......L Left guard ....... .MCCruddcn
Goals from fouls Hanrahhn, 4. Flint. ). Goals
from held Amezaga. 3: Mahoney. !: IianIahan. 4;
ODonncl, Miller. Flint, Z: kclnath. 8; Ehlers, ]:
kic'aber. 2: AcCrudden. lime OF hlves-20
minutes.
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Cadet Fencers Defeat Yale.

WFsT POINT Fob. io.-ln the annual fenc-
Ing tourney here to-day the cadet fencers
defeated Yale by bouts to 1. The Yale
being closely contested.
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Turfmen are wondering why the Brooklyn
Jockey Club agreed to give up such financial
plum as Decoration Day to Belmont Park.
As the schedule stands now. Gravesen1 10
without a holiday attraction. As =. }, Dwyer
now owns the Aqueduct track. It is believed
that inside of tn" next two or three years
all of the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs big stakes
will be run at the Queens County Jockey Clubs
course instead of at Gravesend. On Decora-
ton Day one of the greatest crowds of the
year usually turns out, but at Belmont Park
there will be twice as much room for the as
stnbly as at Gravesend.
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James Butler. owner Of the Empire track
Of Yonkers. who IL in Washington. expressed
surprise Yesterday when he learned that the
Jockey Club had not acted favoraby upon
his application for dates for a meeting in
August, but he declined to say what would be
his plan OF action in future. man who
knows what he Is talking about said yester-
day that twnuid cost nearly 500, 900 to put the
Empire track in shape to meet the reQuire-
ments Of the State Racing Commission.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
WILD GEESE AS DECOYS.
Kansan's scheme 10 Attract the Flccts
That Pass Over HIs Place.

NbFN NV
Dick and William Frakes. living at Rush
willie, have ~thirty-hve tame wild geese which
they use as decoys in hunting. Twenty OF
these geese they bought up North when the
birds were young. paying 81 a pair. They
crippled thirteen of the others and raised
two: one old wild goose set" and hatched Gus
FIVE goslinRs, but three OF them died. All the
geese are ~clipped-that IL, their wings are cut
OF at the first joint.
Wild geese frequently hear the Frakes
geese and light in the Frakes's yard. One
night Dick FraIes heard wild geese flying
around his house. in answer to the calls Of
his trained decoys. He went to the door In
his night clothes and killed Ave. On smother
occasion a lot Of wild geese lit in the yard
with his decoys. He hastily rugged up q nsh
net. drove them all into IL and captured
three wild ones.
The Frakes boys makes speciality OF hunting
wild geese aud like the sport. They take ten
OF their deooys TO the river, tie them on Q
sandbar. and then wait in a blind until the wild
geese appear. As soon as wild geese appear
the decOys set up a great cry. and the Wild
geese always sail around.
In April, three years ago. Dick and Mace
Frakes killed seventeen geese In one day.
eighteen the next and thirteen the next.
That was the best record they ever made.
In addition to the thirty-hve decoys owned
by Dick and william Frakes. Mrs. Mace
Frakes owns twenty eight. and one OF her old
ones set and Matched out six goslings, all OF
which lived.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
THE BOER'S REFRIGERATOR.
How Provisions Are Preserved In the High
Plains OF the TransVaaI.
From London Ice and Gold St0r0Qc.

FROM London Ice and Cold storage.
The Beers who live on the high veldt Of the
Transvaal have a simple way Of preserving
perishable provisions in the summer. On
the Ugh veldt the weather during the day
is extremely warm, but once the sun sets a
breeze springs up, and in about two hours
time the cold is intense. This is due to the
rarefed air.
when the sun has disappeared for two
hours or so the vrouw brings out her pro-
visions and wraps each article in a piece Of
thin sacking and hangs IL from the roof OF
the caves which run around the outside OF tho
building. In the morning when the cattle
in the cattle kraals proclaim by their low
ing hat 1t IL time to rise she comes out and
takes the bags in. The butter, II butter
Ia one Of the articles. n so hard that YOU
could not spread il; the meat. IL II Ia bucks
head, has much the same texture and ap-
pearance as bucks meat that has been trans
formed into biltong by being dried in tho
sun, though 1t differs from this in that IL
can, OF course. be cooked. which biitOnG
cannot, ard still retains the greater part OF
its Juice: the beef or mutton H. r ell.
Ihe bags are taken inside and placed on
that side of the house which is against the
sun" When the sun veers around TO this side
OF the house they will be transferred to the
other side. Travellers who call at one OF
these f. ms on some summer day.. when
the sun ~ blazing down. and there is not a
breath Of air, marvel how the people keep
their provisions, shut on as they are from
all helpful adjuncts. II they express their
surprise TO the vrouw she takes them to
the front Of the house and graveIy points
out the large hooks. which stR will later on
In the day call into use again.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
MARRIED BETWEEN BOATs.
Sweetheart ARRIVES From Europe and
Bride sails FOR Albany.

When the American Line steamship
Philadelphia reached her pier yesterday
afternoon a rosy chesked Scotch girl ran
down the second cabin gangway into the
arms Of a very much excited young man
who was waiting at the pier. After that
a lot of the young woman's fellow vcyagers
gathered about and congratulated the
couple.
She was to he a bride as soon IA the young
man could find some one to marry them.
The bride TO be was Miss Annie Currie,
and her betrothed was Percy Hall, who il
connected with the General Electric Com
pany at Schenectady.
do you know where we can get married
in a hurry" asked the young a You
zee, | want to catch the Albany night boat. "
Some one suggested that the City Hall
was the nearest place and he said that he
would 90 there. They found the City Hall,
hut the Mayor was not there and all the
Aldermen had gone away. They tried
st. Paul's chapel, where they found the
Rev. A. Allen Russell, and were married.
AT the conclusion of the ceremony the bride
groom looked at his watch.
we nave twenty minutes, dearest, to
catch the boat he said. and they made a
dash for a car.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
EMTGRANTs' BURIED GOLD.
How the Treasure was Turned Up by .
Nebraska Farmer.

FROM tHe OuOetNu HCTutO.
We nave heard Of buried treasures. but
did you ever know Of a case in which one was
foundP Well. Joe Prentice OF Hebron. Neb,,
formerly Of Sabetha, some time ago found a
buried treasure.
Prentice formerly operated a hardware
store in Sabetha. Prentice traded the store
to John NJ. Evans. now a resident OF Ohio.
and got among other things a farm near Heb
ron. Neb. People laughed at Prentice a good
deal because of the farm. That country vas
not considered much OF a farming country
then.
When Prentice got hold OF the farm Evans
told him the following story: A party Of
immigrants we're travelling over the country
in the early days 10 seek their fortunes in the
Far West. One night near the present site
of Hebron the party was attacked by Indians.
A man named Wilcox or Wilson was wounded.
The Indians were routed. The wounded man
was taken to Fort Kearny. and his brother
was sent for. When the brother arrived the
wounded man told him ~ nearly as possible
where he had buried morethan 81, OO0during the
night Of the Indian attack. The wounded
man died. but the brother could not unearth
the gold. Later the land where the money
was supposed to be buried passed into the
hands of Evans.
Evans tried but could not locate the gold.
Prentice paid no attention TO the story. Some
time ago while he was grading down the
road near his house he uncovered on a steep
incline a rusty can such "a tomatoes and
tice counted out %. i38. so In gold and silver.
joked Prentice 70 much about Is now a very
valuable property.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
70 BRElK AUTO STRTKE.
New York TranuDortaGSn Company Train
ing q New Force OF Men.

lng q New Force OF wen.
The New York Transportation Com
pany made preparations yesterday TO
break the strike OF lie drivers as soon as
possible and has a considerable force Of
strikebreakers engaged. Six electric cabs
were sent out from it's garage at Sixty
sixth street and Second avenue, but this
was merely TO train the newcomers and
they were trailed by bicycle policemen in
districts where disturbances were likely
to occur. Their only passengers were
special detectives employed by the com
pany.
One Of the cabs came to grief at the cor
ner Of Twenty-Hfth street and Sixth ave-
nue. by hitting a trolley car. The driver
was attended by an ambulance surgeon
from the New York Hospital and went
home. The cab, which was more or less
damaged, was taken to the garage later.
As soon as the strike breakers start In
regularly 70 work police will be stationed
at all points where there might be trouble.
The strikebreakers viii get t3.s1 q day with
board and lodging, while The demands Of
the strikers are for %. and $3.50 q day.
Philip O'Brien, q strike picket. was arrested
near the West Forty-ninth street garage
on the charge OF disorderly conduct but
was released on giving bail. He says all
he did was to place his hand on the arm
Of one Of the new men and try to argue
with him.. Six Of the twelve strikebreakers
who were chased away by the mob on
Friday, according to the strike leaders.
Joined the ranks Of thes strikers yesterday.
Both garages are guarded by a large force
of special Detectives hired by h company
as we'll as bV the Eolice. One Of the de-
tectives said they had been instructed to
AXE snapshot pictures OF ri~ngleaders In
case OF disturbances when they were in
the electric cabs.
President Shea Of the International
Brotherhood Of Teamsters told the strikers
yesterday at a Meeting In their head
Quarters that the American Federation Of
Labor will aid the strikers financially. He
sa!d they would receive IS a week while
the strike lasted.
Nicholas Ryan, a retired policeman who
has been in the employ Of the New York
Transportation Company since the automo-
lille drivers went on strike, was walking
TO his home at $50 West Fiftieth street
early last evening hen he was set upon
bv a dozen men near the Company's barns
in Fiftieth street betw een Eighth and Ninth
venue Most OF his assailants mauled
him with their fists. One Of them swung
a blackjack 30 effectively that Ryan got
two severe scalp wounds.
Ryan fed up Eighth avenue with the blood
streaming down his face. lie ran up the
elevated railroad stairs at Fifty-third street
stumbled into the ticket Office and slammed
the door. Policeman Nee Of the West
Forty seventh street station, who had seen
Ryan running, followed him and when he
found his plight called a ambulance from
Roosevelt Hospital, where his wounds were
dressed. He was then escorted to his
home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
Paid 10 wear DIamond..

From the Chicago Tribune.
There are many men in Chicago who are
paid to wear diamonds. The men that are
paid to wear diamonds are paid in the hope
their example will be followed by others and
that In the spread of tn" diamond carrying
habit the original payer w.l get his return.
The business Of selling diamonds outside of
stores IL a large one, and one of the means
that the sellers use to attract the buyers 10
the display of diamonds upon the hands Of
their aRsnts. They equip with Q diamond
ring a man whom they know has q large
circle Of friends and acquaintance. Some
times they make him q present OF the ring.
More often--for II Ia not their policy TO give
much away-they sell the wearer the ring at
a greatly reduced price. He in return q ex-
pected to interest his friends in the stone.
Often the agent Ia given a stone 20 wear
and he IL instructed 60 tell his blends that tho
diamond belongs 10 him but that he 10 will
ing 20. sell IL. The unsuepectinR Acuuaint-
ance. thinking that he will get q better bar gain
than he could secure at a shop, buys the dia-
mond. The agent usually has to get his COM
mission out OF the sale price. One mar OF
whom sew eraI OF the local diamond brokers
have knOwledg &c has sold diamonds to twenty
seven Of his friends,
Many men who do not give all their elme
to the diamond business deal In diamonds
as a side line. There are q few real estate
ofioes In Chicago In which diamonds are cold
and many travelling men carry one or more
diamonds as a sort OF speculative side line.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
JURY OF HIS Il
Not One Of Them Could Read or write q
Word.
From me Kansas Gin Stor.

From me Kdnsds CiiV Stor.
Il have been engaged In the practice Of law
q good many years. said s. s. Urmy. Police
Judge Of Topeka. Kan. and about the most
humorous thing ! ever saw In q court room was
in Topeka.
"One day an old negro man was being tried
In the justice court, that was before the ONCE
Of Police Judge was created. and he demanded
atrial by q Jury Of HE peers. He could neither
read nor write and his lawyer insisted that
the jury, to be his peers, as required by law.
must be unable TO read or write. too. TO
avoid disputes I agreed 20 10. but We had a
time finding twelve men in Topeka who could
neither read nor write. But we did find them.
and the case went 70 trial.
Before the jury retired ! took two pieces
OF paper and wrote guilty on one piece and
not guilty on the other and instructed the
foreman of the jury TO destroy the nne he
did not wish used and to return the other to
me when the jury had reached a verdict. The
Jury was out only n few minutes, when IL came
in. The foreman handed me a piece OF paper
with the word guilty written on IL.
well. gentlemen, you find him guilty.
do you?' I asked.
mo, sab. ledge. no. sab. we done found
him not guilty, spoke up one Of the jurymen.
Then he added with disgust: Il tole that
( ,ol Niger he was tearin' up the wrong piece
Of PAPER"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
CUCkOOS AND COWBTRDS.
A bad Lot Other Birds Are Driven 10
Desperate Measures by Them.

DetpeFAte NhcAsuHcs ny iHe"'
With all its vagabond ways the cowbird
is scarcely as bad az the English cuckoo. 1t
has all the sins of the cowbird, to which is
added the worse one Of turning the legiti-
mate birdlings out Of their nest.
It begins as soon as it is out of its shell,
and never gives up till all have been thrown
over the edge Of the nest. The strange
thing about II all is that the parent birds
care so faithfully for the selfish intruder, be
1t cuckoo or cowbird.
The presence OF a young cowbird in a nest
usually means that the smaller birds are
either smothered or starved to death on ac-
count Of its bulky body in the tiny nest and
it's voracious appetite.
Some little birds, notably the yellow war
blers, are wise enough to recognize the
strange egg, and to build a second story to
their nest. thus shutting IL away from
warmth enough to hatch IL. Sometimes.
SAYS a writer in Good Health, they even
build a third story to cover up an egg that
has been deposited in the second story.
But enough birds are duped and imposed
upon annually 40 that the cowbirds old
their own in numbers with other birds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
". y. LIFE SCORES A FONT.
Referee OdcII Accepts ATdavfts From
-Four Of Its Onicers.

EOuA " ~ OAASNAS
The suit of Stephen Farrelly as a policy
holder TO enjoin the New York Life Insur-
ance Company from spending the policy
holders money to help in the election OF
the administration ticket for trustees met
a~temporary setback yesterday when Hamil-
Ton Odell ,as referee. accepted afidavits from
Vice-Presidents Buckner and Kingsley,
Treasurer Randolph and General Agent
McClave and refused to permit Lawye r
Samuel Untermyer, as counsel for the plain
tin. to cross examine them.
In the original suit all the directors ave
Buckner, Kingsley and Randolph were
named az plaintiffs. Mr.. Untermyer OBJ
tanned from Justice Nash an order for
Russell L. Tarbox. a. referee. TO take the
dispositions Of the three. As counsel for
the New York Life officials, William Nell
son Cromwell got Referee TRrbox to agree
to an adjournment 50 that the matter
could be taken into the courts for q ruling.
Mr.. Cromwell contended that Referee Tar
box had no right to examine his clients.
This was on Wednesday evening.
The following day Mr.. Cromwell went
before Justice Vernon NJ. Davis and secured
a stay preventing Referee Tarbox from
examining the three officials. On Friday
Lawyer Cromwell vent before Justice
MacLean, who directed that the matter be
sent before Hamilton Odell as referee.
When the three officials. together with
General Agent McClave, showed up at Mr..
Odell's office at 50 Wall street yesterday
the four men submitted affidavits. Mr.:
Odel decided thai they had acted in good
tafh and he refused to permit Mr.. Inter
mZer TO examine the New York Life men.
The afiid wits submitted are practically
- no Importance and will not be Of any
I'D in the Farrelly suit which comes up
1T 10 O'Clock on Monday morning before
Justice Bisohoff, from whom the original
order was secured.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
MANY POLITICAL SUITS BEGUN
FIGHTING PENNSYLVANIA CAM
PAIGN IN THE COUNTS.

Dr. Swallow Sets q Warrant for Charles
Emory smith n Sues Hls Paper Tor
LbeI-state Treasurer wants the Gov.
ernor N the state Auditor Arrested.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.-Dr. Silas @.
swallow, the Prohibitionist leader, to-day
got q warrant for the arrest Of Charles
Emory Smith on a charge Of criminal libel.
At the same time Swallow began two
suits for libel, N against Mr.. Smith In
dividually and the other against the Press
Publishing Company. In each action
5000 o damages are asked.
Instead Of making actual service OF the
warrant upon Mr.. Smith, Swallows counsel
wrote him a courteous note declaring IL
he would have counsel arrange bail before
Magistrate Macleay he need not personally
appear.
Swallows action Is based upon an elab-
orats article that appeared in the Philadel-
phiA Press several days ago which pur-
ported to be an expose Of Swallows real
life. He further declares that the article
vas written because he had opposed Emery
in his fight for Governor.
State Treasurer William Berry, whose
allegations as TO overcharges on the new
Capitol at Harrisburg, v furnished one
of the biggest sensations OF the campaign,
again startled politicians this morning by
declaring that Gov. Pennypacker and
Audltor-G General Snyder had exceeded their
legal rights in ordering extensions made
to the building. He will therefore demand
OF Attorney-Genera Carson that the two
be prosecuted.
Mr., Berry said to-day that charges that
duplication of work was paid for will
also enter into the statement that Berry
will submit to Attorney General Carson
next Wednesday. The State Treasurer
firmly believ es the evidence fully warrants
\ making arrests.
Mr.. Berry declared that he could not see
how the Attorney-Genera could avoid
bringing the prosecutions he will demand.
Nevertheless. should Mr.. Carson, after re-
viewing the statement, rule that the reasons
set forth are not sufficient Mi. Berry and
his advisers will get together and discuss
what steps to lake independently and
against whom to apply for warrants.
.1Oh, I've got them all right; I've got them
where they cam get away exclaimed
Berry. when l ten all the facts / have
in my possession at the meeting Wednes-
day night l promise you there will be a big
surprise. No, at this time l cannot make
public the evidence / intend furnishing the
Acknowledgement 1t will all come out
Wednesday"
The most important question yet raised
under the personal regist ration law. and
one which will have a vital effect upon the
coming election as well as all future battles
az the polls. was argued before the Board
Of Registration Commissioners in their
hearing Of appeals and petitions to-day.
Upon the decision which will be made by
Judge Sulzberger next week hangs the
votes OF 5000 men.