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The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
TRUST BR|BES
RIVAL s MEN
Pays Salaries to En-
ployes of Independent
Plants.
Railroad Clerks Are Also
on the Standards
Payroll.

CLEVELAND, o., May 26.-W. E. Mac
evan, a former chief clerk of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad,
was the first witness today in the Inter
state Commerce Commissions investiga-
ton of the Standard Oil Company. Mae
evan had charge of the books recording
the freight charges of the Union Tank
Line, belonging to the Standard Oil Com
pany He testified that the railroad dis
eriminated in favor of the Union Line.
Several years ago he left the Lake Shore
and took a position with the Peerless
Tank Line. an independent concern. He
finally forced the Lake Shore, after much
labor, to give the Peerless the same rates
granted to the trust line, but he said the
railroad company found other ways of
discriminating against the Peerless.
The witness said the Standard bribed
all employees by paying them salaries, in
return for which the employees favored the
Union Tank Line.
w. J. Brickell, for twenty-nine years
editor of the Columbus (O.) Evening Dis
patch. denied knowledge of report that
the Standard had, subsidized newspapers
throughout Ohio 10 misrepresent matters
detrimental to the oil company. If his
own paper had any contract with the
Standard for publishing matter he knew
nothing of ii. The business manager, he
said was the man TO question.
Malcolm Jennings, Lancaster, o., con-
Quoting an advertising agency, admitted
having made contracts with newspapers
for the Standard.
z. ID. Ellis, an independent oil dealer of
Cincinnati, testified that the Standard
had obtained names of his customers by
bribing his employees.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
READY To SELL
THE GAR Lines
Chicago Traction Com
panies Adjust Diff
ferences.
Clear Title to- Railway
Systems Awaits
the City.

NEW YORK, May 26.-Representa-
tives of the North and West Side Rail-
way companies of Chicago and the
Chicago Union Traction Company of
that city, after a series of conferences
here, came to an agreement yesterday
which will permit the early compile
ton of negotiations for the sale of the
properties of all the companies to the
city.
The agreement does not settle the
differences between the companies
taking part in it, but places all the
property of all the companies in such
shape that it can be sold to the city
with a clear title. 1t was brought
about by concessions on the part of
the Union Traction Company to its
underlying companies, the North and
West Side concerns. The detailed
terms will be announced in Chicago
to-day.
The properties and franchises of the
three companies are to be trusted
with new company, which will be
incorporated at once. The new COM
pany will have full power to dispose OF
all the properties and will not be ham,
pered by the lawsuits between the
three companies.
In case the new company comes to
terms with the city it will hold the
money secured for the properties and
franchises until the respective rights
of the stock and bond holders of the
Union Traction, North Side and West
Side companies are determined by the
courts or are amicably adjusted out OF
court Then, and not until then, will
it distribute the proceeds of the sale
to the city.
New York financiers interested in
the properties and the Chicagoans tax
ing part in the conference seemed
pleased with the outcome.
1.-The agreement is also good thing
for the city," said one of the confer
ees. THE city can now get the prop
critics at an early date, and the work
of building them up can be begun a
once. The city will have more valu-
able property than if the wrangline
had continued and the public viii
more speedily get better service"
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
WANT. A REFEREE TO TAKE
EVIDENCE AGAINST deuel.
"Fads and Fancies" Revived by Appli-
cation Before Supreme Court of
New York.

NEW YORK, May 26.-Howard S..
Cans made motion before the APP
pellate Division of the Supreme Court
Yesterday for the appointment of a
referee to take testimony in the petit
ton of William Travers Jerome.
James w. Osborne and Edward M.
Shepard for the removal of Joseph
Deuel. from the Branch Court of
Special Sessions
The application for Judge DeuePs
removal is based on revelations made
about his business relations with the
Town Topics, which allowed him a
regular salary, and his connection
with the publication of "Fads and
Fancies." The fact that he was asso-
ciated with Town Topics was made
public last July and a petition for his
removal was served on March 2.
In opposing the motion Edward
Lauterbach cited decisions to show
that in similar cases references have
not been ordered as a matter Of
course where there are conflicting affi-
davits and that where charges are
not definite and conclusive and where
they are answered, courts have held
that references would be of nc
benefit.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
ENGINE BLOWN
TO FRAGMENTS
Wrecked by Dynamite
Placed Upon the
Rails.
Property Owners Object
to the Presence Of
Railway.

TULSA, I. T., May 26.-The locomotive
belonging to the Continental Coal Com
pany was blown into fragments yesterday
afternoon by dynamite, presumably placed
on the track by property owners adjoin-
ing the railway tracks who are opposed
to its operation. The lines of the company
are located about two miles from Tulsa
and are connected with the town by a
single track railway. Owners of prop
erty which is crossed by the track op-
posed its building. and there has been
much dissatisfaction over it ever since.
Yesterday, as the locomotive belonging
to the coal company was going out to the
mines. it was blown to pieces by ter
rife explosion of dynamite which had been
touched off by the wheels of the engine.
Although the engine was blown to frag-
ments. the crew was not injured.
F. w. Kassner, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Tulsa, has been placed
under arrest on the charge of having par
ticipated in the affair. He is one of the
owners of property which is crossed by the
line of track.
Other arrests are expected to follow.
There is great excitement here and more
trouble is expected. The people are all
arming themselves.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
BURNHAM TALKS
ABOUT PLANS
San Francisco Will Be
Most Beautiful City
on Continent.
Praises Spirit of Citizens
of the Western
Metropolis.

CHICAGO. May 2e.-"Within six
months the new San Francisco, with
its wide driveways and handsome
buildings, will be well advanced said
Architect Burnham last night. In
wears time il will not be easy to find
a trace of the devastation left by the
earthquake
Burnham has just returned from
San Francisco. He had been called
there by the committee of citizens
that had been instrumental in induc-
ing him two years before to prepare
plans for a model system of drive
ways. parks and public places. For
mer Mayor Phelan was chairman of
the committee.
THE plans" said Burnham, 1--WE
adopted in their entirety at a meet
ing on Monday. The principal talk
in San Francisco at present is rebuild
ing. The pride of the citizens appears
10 have been touched by the disaster,
and even the poorer people who lost
their homes are preparing TO build
again on a more substantial and artis-
tic scale.
NV views were chiefly desired
along the line of notifications or ex-
tensions in the plans that l suggested
for the streets and parks. L was
asked for suggestions also as to pub
dc buildings, and recommended that
they all be made strictly fireproof.
The new city will radiate from
the City Hall and in that locality. One
Of the beneficial effects of the earth
quake was the destruction of the old
City Hall, an incongruous structure
that could not be made to conform
TO any possible system of plans for
the identification of the city.
"San Francisco of the future will
be the most beautiful city on the
continent with the possible exception
of Washington"
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

Mr.. d. A. Gebhardt. 573 Sixth avenue.
Brooklyn. N. Y. writes:
lowing to the strain and worry Of busi-
ness my nerves were in bad shape.
tried many so-ealled nerve tonics without
result.
Hearing so much said in praise of Pc
runa / decided to give it trial could
feel benefit from the first dose
six bottles made a marked improve
ment in my condition. 1 have remained
we'll ever since"
Revised Formula.
For a number of years requests have
come to me from multitude of grateful
friends, urging that Peruna be given
slight laxative quality. L have been ex-
perimenting with a. laxative addition for
quite length of time, and now feel graf
flied to announce to the. friends of Peruna
that | have Incorporated such a quality
in the medicine which. in my opinion, can
only enhance its wellknown beneficial
character. 5. b. HARTMAN, M. D."
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
GIVES INTERPRETATION OF
MOOT INSURANCE QUESTION
Merchants Association Advises Members
Not to Compromise Because Build
LII. nI.a

Merchants Association Advises Members
Not to Compromise Because Build
inss Were Injured by Quake.
At meeting of the board of directors
of the Merchants Association. held yes
terday, it was decided to address the fol-
lowing communication to the members:
TO the members of the Merchants AS
sociation of San Francisco The stand
ard form of fire insurance policy among
other conditions contains the following
clause: IF building or any part
thereof fall, except as the result of fire,
all insurance by this policy on such build
ing or its contents shall Immediately
cease"
We are informed that some insurance
companies, by reason of this provision in
the policy, are seeking to force policy
holders into compromising their claims for
less than their policies call for The in
surance company in such cases takes the
position that If a cornice fell from a build
ing or If the chimney fell as result OF
the recent earthquake the company is
hereby released from all liability upon its
policy and that under such circumstances
u compromise Is advisable.
We are advised by our attorneys that
such claims on the part OF the insurance
company are not well founded in law and
ment which George A. Clement, edi- or of
the New York Fire Insurance Digest,
makes in his recent work on fire insur-
ance, published in 1905 tVol. /. page lis,
rule 13). Mr.. Clement. referring to
clause in the policy above quoted says
that it docs not apply to any minute or
fragmentary portion. The phrase should
be construed most favorably to the insured
as not meaning any fragment or portion,
but an integral, material or substantial
part of the entire building; it means some
functional portion of the structure, the
falling of which would destroy its dis
tinctive character as SUCH And In sup
port of his text Mr.. Clement CITES, among
other cases. the California authority of
Brenner vs. the Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company-51 Cal 101.
This is the only clause in the usual
standard policy that enables the company
to claim any freedom from liability by
reason of the earthquake Some few for
eign companies distinctly mention earth
quakes In their policies. but this distinct
reference to earthquakes would only re-
lieye them from liability in the event that
the fire which destroyed the insured prop
erty was actually started on the premises
oy the earthquake itself.
The members of this association there
fore in treating with insurance companies
are advised not TO be influenced by any
such claims as are above outlined in favor
of compromises
San Francisco. Cal. May 26. 1906.
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
FRANK J. SYMMES, President.
l.. NJ. kING, Secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
GUARDSMEN RETURN HOME
TO FIND POSITIONS FILLED
Twenfy-One Out of Forty Militiamen
Lose Jobs Because They An
sU-ered Duty'S Call

: FRESNO. May 26.-At a meeting
of Company c, y. G. C, last night,
the fact came out that when the
guardsmen returned after their
months duty in San Francisco more
than half of them found their places
in civilian life filled by others and
they were told by their former en-
plONers that there was no place for
them. In Company c twenty-One out
Of forty men found themselves with
out 5obs. The percentage in Company
F is said 10 be as large. The guards
men feel very indignant over the
manner in which they have been
treated.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
REPORT BRINGS
UP COLOR LINE
Negro Problem Before
the Presbyterian
Assembly.
Put Over for One Year
After a Spirited.
Debate.

DES MONIES, Iowa, May 0.-The
color line was sharply drawn ana tne
negro question came squarely TO tne
surface in the Presbyterian Generai AS
sembly here, for the first time, today.
The committee on church polity submit
ted a report recommending the eFection
of synod in Alabama, to include the
presbyteries of Birmingham, Leyere ana
Rogersville, to be known as the Synod OF
Chattanooga The presbyteries are now
included in the Synod of Tennessee. Inc
other presbyteries in the synod are
French Broad, Holston, Kingston ana
Union.
we're and Rogersville are composed OF
negro churches. The others are white
churches The purpose of the committee
was to divide the races.
No sooner I'D the report been submit
ted than Russell Tay,<1 a negro clergy
man of Levere and one of the commits
sioners to the assembly from that pres
bytery took the floor. He violently op-
posed the proposed synod, on the ground
that the three presbyteries specified were
not numerically strong enough or well
enough versed in church law to assume
the functions and duty of a synod.
After spirited debate, in which the col
ored commissioner received the majority
of the applause, it was unanimously
voted to refer the whole subject to the as
sembly of 1907.
A proposition to amend the Westmin-
ster confession of faith by striking out
the words least into eternal torment
was rejected by the assembly.
A new synod was created composed OF
the South and East synods of Florida
and will be known in the future as the
synod of Florida. The presbytery OF
Havana was detached from the synod
of New Jersey and attached to the new
Florida Synod
! RICHMOND (Mo.), May 26.-Action
was taken at the General Assembly OF
the United Presbyterian Church today on
| the report of the committee on reform,
approving the declaration in reference to
| a uniform divorce law; that purity of the
home calls for the expulsion OF Reed
Smoot from the United States Senate;
that the assembly will cooperate in a
movement for a worlds conference on
civic government, to be held in 1909; that
ten delegates be appointed to the ma
tional convention of the anti-saloon
league in ST. Louis in November, 1906,
and that representative on the board OF
the National Anti Saloon League be
named.
CEDARvILLE (Ohio), May 26.-The
first steps looking toward union with the
United Presbyterian Church have been
taken by the General Synod of the Re-
formed Presbyterian Church in session
here One minister and one elder from
each presbytery We're appointed to con-
fer on basis of union with Rev. w. H
Mcmillan of Allegheny City. Pa. repre-
senting the United Presbyterians.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
ANOTHER PETITION TO LIMIT
LIABILITY IN OLD CASE
Owners Of Sunken Steamer San Rafael
Ask That Her Remains Be APP
praised at S425

The North Pacific Coast Railway Com
pany yesterday filed a petition in the
United States District Court to limit its
lie bility for damages arising from a col
lision between the ferry steamers San
Rafael and Sausalito on November &c.
1901, in which the San Rafael went to the
bottom.
1t is alleged that the collision arose from
a fault or error of judgment on the part
of the master of the San Rafael in his err
roneous belief that the fog signal of the
Sausalito indicated that the latter was
approaching from a point off the star
board bow of the San Rafaei, when in fact
she was off the port bow of the San
Rafael. 1t is alleged further that the Sau-
salito was at standstill.
Petitioners ask that the liability of the
San Rafael and her freight pending be
fixed at $425.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

Mrs Maggie Durbin,s 1917 Water ST.,
Little Rock, Ark, writes:
'I was troubled for five years with a
chronic disease. I tried everything i
heard of. but nothing did me any good
"Some doctors said my trouble
was catarrh of the bowels, and some
said consumption of the bowels.
Zone doctor said he could cure me. ]
took his medicine two months, but it did
me no good. A friend of mine advised
me to try Peruna and I did So
"Affer had taken two bottles
found that ii was helping me, so i
continued its use and it has cured
me sound and well.
Il can recommend Peruna to any one,
and if any one wants to know what Pc
runa did for me, if they will write to me
{ | will answer them gladly
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
NEED BETTER TRAINING.
Head of Unitarian Sunday School Society
peplores Ministers, Indifference.

BOSTON, May 26.-In the absence o1
Rev. Edward A. Horton. president of the
Unitarian Sunday School Society, his an
nual report was read at the convention
of the society yesterday. 1t said, in part
"A pressing need exists today for the
better training of ministers in Sunday
school methods and aims. There are
clergymen who are apparently indifferent
to this department of the church, but the
cause lies greatly in a feeling of unfit
ness, which would have been removed by
proper training in the divinity schools.
President Horton was reelected. The
vice presidents chosen include Charles A
Murdoch of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Contests Grant of Franchises.

DENVER, May 26.-Papers insti-
tuting a contest of the franchises
claimed to have been granted the Den
yer City Tramway Company and the
Denver Gas and Electric Company at
the election on May Is were filed in
the County Court this afternoon by at
torneys for the Municipal Ownership
League
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Case Carried to Highest Court.

MANILA, May 26.-The papers in
the case of Homer Grafton. a private
of the Twelfth infantry, L. S. A, con-
victed of murder, were forwarded to
Washington to-day. Grafton was
tried on the charge of killing a native
while on guard duty on Guimaras
Island. He was acquitted by court
martial, but was convicted in the civil
courts and sentenced to twelve years
imprisonment. This verdict was sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court of the
islands. An appeal will now be taken
to the United States Supreme Court.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Hawkins Held for Trial.

Henry r. Hawkins was held for
trial yesterday by United States Com
missioner Heacocks on charge of
having attempted to pass upon
Eleanor St, Claire a one-dollar note
that had been raised to the denom-
sination of ten dollars. His bail was
set at $1,000.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Arranoe Train Schedule.

TOPEKA, Kan, May 26.-The various
livision superintendent and other high
officials of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company. in session
here today, have practically completed
the summer time card, which will go into
effect June H. There viii be practically
no changes in the through overland
rains The California Limited will be
un daily this summer. where last season
was run as a semi weekly train.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
.Conntess Bonf Ileares FRANCE.

Castellane, who recently brought suit
against her husband for a separation
left France yesterday for New York
on the yacht Of her brother, Howard
Could. The Countess will be the
guest OF the Gould family in New
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
Fair Western Girls Win Honors.

BOSTON, May 26.-Among the
young ladies who graduate next week
from Emerson College of Oratopy, the
most notable school of the kind in
the East, are two charming San Fran
cisco girls, Miss Lena B. Powers and
Margaret Ella Bender. Miss Powers
gets post graduate teachers diploma
and Miss Bender a post graduate and
graduate diploma.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
stepheus in Charge of Mail Dock.

Collector Stratton reported yester-
lay that he had placed Boarding Of
lcer Charles A. Stephens in charge
II the Mail dock and that Mr.. Ste
,hens had taken hold of things with
are executive ability. The dock was
ormerly in charge of the Customs
Surveyor.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

a
penter and member OF knights and Ladies Security writes
year, unable
and ffupn
o a go TO
wife md a
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27

Newbros Herpicide the original remedy that kills the
dandru 1t eradcaes dandrf stops falling hair and
m natural hair development by destroying the tiny vegetable
growth "a mcrobe) that hair destruction
Nature constantly struggles supply life and vgor
hair but the dandru this vitality and strangles the life
of the hair
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
"MyWife and | Consider Pe-ru-n;
a Household Remedy
---Victor Patneaude.

In different seasons of the year catarrh
assumes different phases Systemic ca
tarrh is very common during warm
weather and is sometimes the after-effect
of some acute ailment experienced during
the preceding winter.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
START RIGHT BY DESTROYING THE CAUSE

of Hair Loss with NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE
EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS SOMETIMES FOLLOW ITS CONTINUED USE
1t Benefits a Lady Scalp Specialist.
2S07 Chicago.
Herpicide me-
Since first tried Herpicde hair have
nc
not think of trying without
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
1t Benefits a Lady Scalp Specialist.
indispensable Following Severe Illness.

indispensable Following Severe Illness.
mont Denver, Colo.
crit ical ofpn and
hair left in deplorabe out and
The lacke
seemed dead used nswth
most beneficial results and attribute
entirely Herpfcide
doing all claim,
it (Sgned) MRS. NJ MEGRUE.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-15
MAHOGANY.
The Way This BenutifuI Wood Wan,
Brouxht Into Fashion.

The Way This Beautiful Wood War
BrOBEht Into Fashion.
Every one knows how effective and
handsome mahogany IS when used for
good furniture, but few OF US know
how its value was first discovered.
In the latter part OF the seventeenth
century a London physician had a
brother engaged IN trade with the
West Indies who on one occasion
brought home several logs OF n1hoSa-
NY as ballast. The doctor was Building
n house, and his brother suggested that
the logs would serve for ceiling beams.
Acting on the proposal. the doctor gave
orders to the worBmen to make use of
the mahogany, but their tools were not
equal to the tnsk ee cutting the hard
wood, and the logs were put out az the
way in corner in the garden.
Some time afterward the head car
penter tried to make a box from the
wood, but was unsuccessful With ordi-
nary tools. He told the Doctor who.
was Interested in the battling climber
and ordered heavier tools to he. made
to work 1t with. says Home Sotes.
When this was done and Il box at last
made and polished, ir was so handsome
that 4 bureau was made from another
of the despised logs, and tiis was de-
cIared by experts tc. be so superior to.
other furniture making woods thnt the
craze for mahogany set in, and furni-
ture made from it became highly popu-
lar, the then Duchess of Buckingham
fostering the craze. N the fashionable
world
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-15

Some forty years ago. when out with
n boating party for seagull shooting. L
espied monster fish baSkInS on the
surface Of the-watcr, with its head we'll
up in the mir. Che creature allowed US
to get within thirty yards. when 1 sent
two charges OF shot into IT'S head. with
the result that il rolled over on its
bacis, aud our boat soon came gp to IL
IT proved 70 be Il IHrsr angel shark I
thought l would make quite sure 1t
was dead su:d sent cwo, more rhnrisrs
into its upturucd belly. I must have.
unfortunately burst its air bladdcr- for
1t began slowly to sink. Lad not
killed it at first. and had it reared its
head and Tapped its wings, we should
probably have added one more story
TO the long list OF sea serpent raerica-
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