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The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11
SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENTS
OF INSURANCE COMPANIES
Bankers and Property Holders Are
Watching Carefully the
Figures Reported.

The figures In the semi annual state
ments required in Georgia and a few
other States show the standing OF com
panies on June so, 1906, after deductine
San Francisco losses. Many insurance
companies, even should they be able
TO meet their San Francisco losses, may
not be in the strong financial condition
that will attract patronage. The ALI
important question inSuranoewise at
present is: Can a company meet an
other large FIRE? Amongst figures re-
ceived are those of the following com
panies. still oonhagration- proof in every
sense of the word
Statement after dedueting San Fran
cisco claims:
Surplus to Pol
German American Assets. icy-lo ders
Of New York. Over $12 600 900 Over So. 600 900
German Alliance
Ins. Assn. OF
New York::... ls,25oooo " 5000 900
Phoenix of Hart
New Hampshire
Of Manchester. 3.750 900 =" 1000 oo0
The above companies are represented
by General Agent George II. Tyson and
have paid in cash to San Francisco
claimants (although delayed by the en-
tire destruction of their records) over
$1,000, 600. Their entire San Francisco
losses will not exhaust 20 per cent Of
their assets.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11
DISAPPEARS AFTER WRITING
LETTER THREATENING SUICIDE

BAKERSFIELD. July TO-. - James
Leonard teamster- disappeared after
writing letter announcing his inten-
tion of standing on the Kern River
bridge blowing off his head and per-
mitting his body to drop into the river
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11
AMUSEMENTS.
0SAUNzn

STARS OF DISTINCTION
Matinee Every Day Except Monday
TONIGHTss TINE TABLE,
Ss15-Ziska and King.
Ss30-JUlia and Karl Heinrich.
SsS9-Wfliy Zimmerman.
9:G2-Lfnden Beekwffh.
0:15-ClaEde Gfllingwatrr a Co.
10f1O-Maeart's Dogs and Monkeys.
10:20-NOra Bayes.
IOs43-The Majestic Trio.
1Oi53-Orpheum Motion Pictures.
Prices-10c, Csc and soc
Downtown box Office at DonIon'S
Drug Store, Fillmore and Sutter streets.
Phone West 5000.
CHUTES AND zoo.
Open daily from 10 a. m TO midnignt-
Varied attractions all over the grounds
SEE DAY IN THE ALPS.
Chutes Grill furnishes meals at city
prices. Admission, 1Oc; children. 5e.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11
PROPOSALS.


PROPOSAL. for transport supplies-DepOt Quar-
terInaster's Office. Presidio OF San Francisco.
CAL July 10 106-Sealed proposals. In triplt-
cate subject to the usual conditions, Will be
received here until IL o'clock a. m, Friday.
Iulv 2n 1906, and then opened for furnishing
end delivering supplies required fOr United
States army transports during fiscal year end
ing June 30. 1907. Tie United States reserves
ire fight to accept reject any or all bids or
anv part thereof. Blanks for proposals and
fVil Information csn be obtained at this office.
Envelopes containing proposals should be In
dorsed Proposal for transport supplies No
4s35. to be opened July 20. 1906" c.. A. DE-
VOL. Depot Quarternaster. q. $. Army.
PROPOSALS FOR subsistence supplies-Ofnce
Purchasing Comm issary. San Francisco. CAL.
July o. 19cG.-Sealed proposals for furnishing
and delivering Of such quantities. OF subsistence
supplies delivered az such wharf or wharves
or such warehouses IN San Francisco. Cal. as
per circular 10 be seen at this oeice. will be
received here until IL O'Clock a. m. Thursday
July 10. 1900. and opened immediately there
after In the presence Of bidders. Specihca-
tions. general Instructions to bidders and blank
forms OF proposals. win be furnished to estab-
lished dealers application to G. Il. KRAUT-
HOFf. Major. Ccmmissary.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11

Shoe Clerks Union No. 4l0 installed
officers at its last meeting at head
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11

Cooks Union No. "A has extended an
invitation to the locked out members
OF the Marine Cooks and Stewards AS
sociation TO work ashore in houses op-
Grating under it's Jurisdiction This is
expected 10 be but a temporary ar
rangement and no dues or fees will be
charged.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11

The local committee that had charge
Of the international Printing Press
mems convention Of last year will meet
a week from next Sunday for the pur-
pose Of distributing the remainder of
the funds on hand to the three unions
Printing Pressmen's Union No. %. Web
Pressmen's Union No. 4 and Press Feed
arc T-nf0n No 2e
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11

Millmen's Union No. 423 met at the
hall Twenty second and Folsom streets
Monday night The hall was filled. and
much enthusiasm was manifested at
the lourishing condition Of trade. Off
GERS were installed for the ensuing
term. Thomas O'Brien was chosen del
egate 70 the Niagara Falls convention
of the United Brotherhood Of Carpen-
ters and Joiners of America, which con-
venes September II
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-11


when the Bridge and Structural
Steel Workers Union of st. Louis voted
to accept a compromise the last Of the
differences which have kept building
operations in that city in a turmoil dur
ing. the last three months came tp an
end Under the compromise the men
get an advance of 40 cents a day. They
asked for an increase OF 60 cents.
The number of local unions chartered
by the Industrial Workers of the World.
from July /, 1905, to May 20, 1906, was
41e. exclusive Of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners.
President Henry Christensen was In
the chair at the last meeting of Mill
mems Union No. 422. Owing TO a seri-
Gus accident to the recording secretary,
II Neidlinger was appointed tempor-
ariiy 10 the place. Five candidates were
obligated and four members admitted
on clearance cards. 2. NJ. Rinehard Of
fieiated at the installation of officers.
The recent strike of the coal miners
in Alabama makes the total number out
in that State 5000 Some have been out
over two years at mines of the four
largest furnace corporations In the
state, which established the open shop.
General President James Wilson of
the Pattern Makers International
Union. together with the other eXecu-
tive officers OF the organization. held a
conference recently in Buffalo The
special purposes of the meeting were
the filling of vacancies on the board Of
directors and providing for sending
organizers into the Pittsburg district.
Two organizers will be sent into that
field as soon as the 25 cent assessment
is available.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
A Strange Shower

ELlZABETH, April L. (I0o2)-Out OF the clouds to-day
- came the StrangeSt OF storms: dOwnpOur that ruined
the gowns OF hundreds OF women downpour merely
OF ram but OF red sand that had the consistency paste
At eleven big bank of clouds rolled up toward the
city from the northwest. Everybody said Big shower
coming but nobody dreamed of what that shower would
consist The streets thronged with women bent on
their Saturday shopping; and front many stores
there We're arrays OF goods displayed
The storm quickly that few persons got indoors
before burst and when the finally fled into hors
and looked at themselves chorus of shrekS
arose Spotted hats, spotted gowns, spotted faces
confronted the women.
Some months before the breaking out Of The
Spanish War startling figure appeared in the
heavens directly over New York city. IL was a
sword OF brightest silver and hung suspended over
the southern end OF the island of Manhattan
thousands lifted their heads and were lost in Won
ger 'is tney contemplated its strange appearance
Wich-stS shattered IN alarm and many people
drew dlreiul deductions from the omen. That II
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
SOME SIGNS AND WONDERS

q OMEBODN has eplgranlnatlcally characterized a
~ certain class of popular reading as Newspaper
science-too wonderful to be true" But
although the often hastily written articles i'll the
SAID to their credit; for they have done much TO
spread general scientific information.
Any who have arrived at the age OF forty SO
remember at least one, perhaps two, green
yellow days, when the hid its face and some
thing seemed to have gone Vitally wrong with the
religious wrought TO frantic pitch, and sinners
stricken with fear OF material damnation.
sun spots comets, and atmospheric disturbances
were beyond the ken OF ordinary people then;
hey are the common knowledge of newspaper read
ing children.
earnest of Gods promise to the patriarch, the
heavens have been watched for signs and wonders
and the ignorant and savage still tremble at the
near approach OF the comet, at the sight of the
eclipse. The mirage, first noted and COM
-nented upon, was once considered threatening
mariners who saw it. The traveller in the parched
desert is tantalized by visions of brooks and
abundant lakes i'll the clouds But there is at least
well established where a mirage instead
Ot pOrtendng death, was an instrument of salvation.
he strange story OF this mirage comes from
Mount Mansfield, the highset point OF the Green
Mountain range, some twenty miles from Burling-
ION, Vermont and at the time OF its occurrence was
related by Boston paper follows
pleasure party OF four consisting OF two men and
their wives caught electrical storms that met
n the summit Of the eminence. There a great clash
ghtnng bolt and the burned prostrated When
the storms passed only the remaining man had strength
20 move at all and there, upon the bare
mountain he could only halt sitting posture and
wave his hand, yet hOpeessly, a signal distress
he gesture reflected upon a cloud and the peope a
-2te nan NILE away were astounded 70 huge
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07

the 1OTerunIer OF war seemed 20 he he IN e-Ss1
belief, and not few scientists were ulIr TO II %
explain the phenomenon before the actual cause
was learned. The newspapers finally explained the
mystery:
IN attendant in charge of box oi sodium IN the signal
office ~ Fort Hancock. Sandy Hook underook % ctr-
gulSh flame OF chemicals used ss an iruunant Tor
powerful signal light, by OF water He thereby
increased the combustion and caused flare that exceeded
NtnllS Yet used as signal hight the and
OF tins country Peculiar atmosphere conditions height
ened and myStlhed the phenomenon. producing an E,S
IdhHS that puzzled thousands OF people as much
We're many hSht and hazy clouds hundred feet above
the tower upon which the experiment waS beng ce
and these tended to dfuse the flame ho-.zlu4v along
the SKY forming NIT tor the FURNISHED nre blade. The
atmosphere fifty feet above this clearer -i VIII
o-the-wiSp resulted that New Workers appearet -
come from the north.
Oddly enough, has been iorerold by the
appearance of similar figures The heavens. bur
most OF these heavenly SirlItarS Mere comets N
I7o5 HaleyS comet appeared and. as strife
DeIng stirred up AT that time between the american
COLONIES and the mother country. this was
Sldered 10 be the celestial signal for the revolution
Haley comet, by the way, : due Jo appear again
about 1910 or 1911; unless the Peace Congress
WORKS overtime Its reappeaTanCe the sky may ce
the 1orerunner OF some great struggle OF nations
IN 1871 the most magnificent comet ever seen
appeared IN the heavens IN The form of nery
sword. As Napoleon was Just then beginning his
campaigns against Russia the comet WAS believed
70 promise great disaster FOR The Freuch people
II Is SAID that Napoleon himself was au 81 by Z
and heSltated 70 carry out his plans -S4iuSt me
Russians.
In IS4S comet appeared vhiy1 said 70
1oret0Id the Crimean War; .nd in 1904 q smaller
one was believed by SuperSttiov> 1,ouie 20 set The
mark OF the gods apu-o,~l .rCc the then
opening civil War.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
By w. Bert Foster

mountain tops. Many Frustrated with terror
sight OF the menacng hand seemed threaten
their lives. But finally the level headed
bered the party absent upon the guessed that they
Were IN peril and rellet expedition sent out and
exploded al supernatural theories with the
mirage.
Several years ago Elizabeth, New Jersey, and its
immediate vicinity stirred by a phenomenon
that was never entirely explained and never could
be satisfactorily explained to many who suffered
from 1t One cannot bring civil suit against Nature
and IN this case undOubted natural causes PLAYED
Elizabeth scurvy trick. The red mud of Iersev IS
notorious, but when served in the following COM
bnatlon II was certainly the limit. y New York
paper told of il:
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER a. 1900

said she. His name Is qsite household word
with us She then reminded the General OF the
incident OF his attacking her King Charles Spaniel
The PrincesSes gathered around Us and one Of them
exclaimed. Oh, look al her dear little feet
The Duchess of Argyle took Minnie on her Ia-
laughingly persisting that so tiny Mite was not to-
old to sit in her lap, and All present gathered
around us size breaking down all barriers gT
court etiquette. After her Majesty had closed rr,
interview. were shown about the palace priri-1
lege we appreciated as usually when the family j.
occupying it strangers are excluded
We visited most OF the critics and towns of Eng
land Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, TWO hundred
and eight IN number
y conical episode in Glasgow source of
merriment 10 our whole party for many DAYS after
As we were driving to the hall one afternoon we
met funeral The coffin placed IN the bottom
of peculiar vehicle, and the mOurners presumably
sat on either side facing each other, and If not
resting their feet the coffin have had some
difficulty in avoiding it Looking at them with all
the sympathy such occasion Is likely 20 command
we observed the 1ugubriOus expression on their
faces change suddenly they caught sight of or
equipage From simple surprise, IT grew 20 aston
ished wOnderment, and surprise no less
when deserting the coffin, they Sprang 20 the road
wav and eagerly followed carriage until 1he--
had seen us leave IT and enter the hall
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07

were rendered With the latter l got on very
we'll for | was accustomed 70 standing by the hour,
but the full dress and many course dinners taxed
nv patience even more than my digestion; and as
il was at that time the fashion to eat with gloves on
found it rather incOnvenient, particularly as no
gloves that fitted could be bought but had to be
ordered and wondered sometimes whether the sky
would fall if the dealer failed to fill my order on time
and | should find myself without any that were
clean enough TO wear.
Again the date was set for departure for
Europe 1t was TO be in October and in the interim
we were persuaded by Mr.. Barnum to give series
of levees at Irving Hall Younger New Workers
will ask where that was, and will be surprised to be
told it was at the of Irving Place and Fiji
teenth-St and that it considered at that time
the most arstoCratc place in the city.
These levees grew irksome to the General, and l
was naturally anxious to go to Europe SO our COM
bined entreaties had the desired effect, and NJ.
Barnum selected his agent Sylvester Blocker to
90 with us, and arrange an entertainment which
was to include General Tom Thumb and myself,
together with Comm odore Mutt and Minnie Warren.
Mr Bleeller himself appeared on the stage to ac-
centuate the contrast between ourselves and people
of normal size. This arrangement was sue
cessful that Mr. Barnum asked that fill IN the
time until October by a trip through New England
and Canada.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07

the General was more
than once arrested for
obstructing travel;
hut his lawyer con-
vinced the magistrate
that as our carriage
was a private equi-
page its owner would
not be held respon-
Sible for the actions
Of street gaZers.
Sunday was May
ors Day, and the
city was thronged
with sightseers to wit
ness the procession,
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
Departed lust in Time

WE left New York for this trip the last train
w that quilted the city before the tracks
torn up the first morning. of the draft riots.
After a brief through Canada and the
United States we sailed October go, 1904,
in the steamship City of Washington for Eng
land. Our voyage occupied fourteen days Our
anticipated arrival had been heraded far and
wide and when we stepped ashore at Liverpool
we were greeted by several thousand people Our
carriage could make no progress through the throng
until a body of police forced way for Indeed,
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07

thankful his weight
was no greater.
We went the length
and breadth Of the Isl
and, repeating pleas
ant experiences a.
every turn. We were
there at Christmas.
but gave no levee thai
day.aS thepeoplrlook
upon II as a holy day.
The 1sI- i',st.--meH- =
iIYS- Ton, Il,ae5 s Re-
elections uil- GrreIr "
ke SaHdlE l[Ig--ies +
t'c-11CT u.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
Touring the Emerald Isle

IN Ireland we were entertained most delghttullr
by members of the nobility, who reside IN Dublin
and our levees in ROtunda Hall were crowded. We
went to Phoenix Park, little dreaming OF the terrible
associations it would later acquire; and took rides
in jaunting
On a later visit to Ireland with Mr. Stratton ONLY
we visited Blarney Castle, and my husband insisted
on being lowered by his feet till he able 70 kiss
the Blarney Stone, though i stOutly maintained the
ceremony quite superfiuous for him l sazeI
the soles OF his boots IN mortal terror and was
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07

which is a gorgeous and stately affair conducted
with all the pomp and decorum becoming the dignity
of the Mavors official position Anxious to see the
parade we placed ourselves on the balcony, when
to our dsmay the waiting crowd, instead OF parting
or window and halted the procession by mere force
of their numbers while they shouted and gazed, not
at the procession, but at
Going from Liverpool directly London,
were there summoned to Marlborough House. To
meet the Prince and Princess of Wales like our
selves a newly married couple. | was married Feb
ruary 10, 1868, and the Prince of Wales on March
10 of the same year. The Prince told us that he
had never forgotten his disappointment learning
that General Tom Thumb had visited his mother,
Queen Victoria, once when he (the f'rince) had
gone TO bed.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-07
Mrs. Thumbs Patriotism

IN December, 1904, we left London tor Paris.
The General spoke French readily but none of
the rest of did Gndeed, I'm such rampant
american, never willing to acquire any other
than my native language) our intercourse with the
people we met was necessarily limited France
not Republic then, and after being summoned be-
fore the Emperor and court success assured.
The beautiful Eugene to be always renem-
bered, and the Prince Imperial was a manly, hand
some boy apparently about nine years old.
On June IS, 1865, we were summoned to appear be-
fore Queen Victoria and the royal family at Windsor
Castle. We gave an entertainment in the Rubens
Room. Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prin-
Beatrice Prince Leopold, and a number of
lords and ladies in waiting present At the
conclusion of our performance, the Queen signaled
for the General and me to approach her. She gently
took my hand, and placing it upon her palm, looked
at it with smile and remarked, 1t is smaller than
a infant 5. Then she questioned me about
my home, my parents, and my family fire.
quently patting my hand she talked. Il
Ai Your husband many, many years ago
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-11
Along Buffalo
Gn.lkll Corr1ttond,nc>

Gazette Coyresp0Hdeaee
TOAD RUN, July 9.-Rev. s. r. Nee
has left for his home at Roncevert. w.
Va. He will enter the Vanderbilt
University this fall to take a course in
theology.
Miss Leila Swink. who has been
visiting relatives in Franklin, w. Va,
has returned home.
Rev. p H. Cowherd held services at
Murat Sunday at 3 o'clock, p. III.
Chldren's day exercises will be held
at Collierstown NJ. 4. church Sunday,
July 10Th.
There has been neat and attractive
wire fence placed around the grave
yard at Oxford church.
One of your patrons on Buffalo
purchased graphophcne. He had his
horse and buggy hitched in front of
his house when he started his machine.
The music was either very coarse or the
horse didnot approve of graphophones, l
don't know which. He broke loose and
ran off with the buggy, about two
miles. No damage done, however.
Farmers are well or with their work
and wheat hauled up. The hay crop
is very short. and will not take very
long to put it up.
Miss Ethel Turpin is vi sitting relatives
in Botetourt county. RENE.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-11
Resolutions in Memoria m

At Meeting of the Ladies' Aid So
ciety OF Timber Ridge Presbyterian
church held on July 3rd, 1906, the fcl-
lowing preamble aud resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, 1t pleased God in the ex-
ercise of His unscrutable wisdom to re-
move from us by the hand OF death on
tue 25th ult., our highly esteemed and
valuable mem Der and mother in Israel
Mrs. Il. O. L. Kinnear, calling her sud.
denly to her seat In the glorious abode
above without any sigl to those about
her of her approaching emf, after "A
long and useful life in Eer Master SER
vice; and
Whereas. We most sOrely lament her
absence from our midst, eSpecla ly
from the meetings of our society which
she was always go ready to attend.
VIII ere her wise COUNSEL YVES SO valua'l lie
as we'll as her pleasant face and manners
such an inspiration; therefore.
Resolved 1st. That we bow in humble
submission to the will OF Him who
doeth all things we'll, and is too wise to
err, asking that He will not only help
US to willingly acqulesce in this
ordering of His providence, but give
unto us all grateful hearts that she was
spared 80 long in usefulness, and a
determination, by the aid Of His grace,
to hence:orth be earnest in our
endeavour to glorify God in putting
forth constant effort to emulate her
example.
Resolved end. That we esteem 1t a
privilege as we'll as duty to thus give
expression to our high appreciation of
her worth, not only in our society, but
in the church and community as well.
Resolved 3rd. That we extend our
heartfelt coincidence to the loved ones
who now so deeply feel their loss, and
commend them to her God that he may
indeed be theirs in this as we'll as in
every time of Deed,
Resolved 4th. That copy Of these
resolutions be spread on the records OF
our Society and that the "Christian
Observer" and LEXINGTON GAZETTE
be requested to publish the same.
Mrs. F. A. OFT,
Mrs. j. w. MACKEY,
Mrs. V. w. DAVIS,
Committee.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-11
CoIIierstown High School

A meeting Of the school board
of Buffalo District, composed Of
Messrs. w. B. +. Lsech, W. D.
Deacon and G. @. Tribbett, was
held at Collierstown yesterday,
and steps were taken for the
erection of new building for the
proposed high and graded school.
The building is to be of frame, 81
by 81 feet, 12-foot ceiling, bellfry,
two front gables and vestibule.
The plans provide for structure
of one story, with a 10-fo1t hall,
and four rooms. Between two of
tie rooms there will be folding
doors, so as to make an assembly
hall when occasion requires.
Bids have been invited for the
ere elton of the building, and the
structure will be completed and
ready for occupancy by the fret
of next January. The location of
the building is next below the
Southern Methodist parsonage On
Golfers Greek.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-11
Garland-SWartz

Buchanan News of July 9TH
A quiet, impressive wedding &C.
Cured at the Methodist parsonage
on Saturday, June 80, at 8 p. m,
the contracting parties being Mr..
William Eugene Garland, oldest son
of Mr.J.Luclan Garland, and Miss
Resaa Ray, daughter of Mr.. d. H.
Swartz. both of Buchanan. Rev.
f. E. Hammond officiatsd. Only
q few members of the immediate
families were present to witness
the ceremony. Both bride and
groom have a host Of friends here,
who wish them long and happy
journey through their welded
life. They will continue to reside
in Buchanan.