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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23
Town That Outlived the Boom

Town That Outlived the Boom.
A new bank has just been organized In
the town of Buena Vista, which indicates
growing prosperity in that community.
Buena Vista was started as boom town,
and was one Of the few Of such towns
early nineties. But Buena Vista had this
| advantage. 1t was tho first Of the purely
boom towns TO start and It had succeed
ed in building up a number of industries
when the crash came. Other boom towns
would also have met better fate If 1t
had not been for n squeeze in money
when the boom was at It's height The
boom was not all bubble. Capital was
and Virginia was an inviting field. Many
new industrial enterprises were contem-
plated. and the money in part had been
raised. when the entire situation was
changed by panic. 1t was impossible
to procure the money to carry on the
work already begun. In consequence a
number OF industries were left high and
dry, half completed, and other indus
tries in contemplation had to be aban-
| doned, One disaster led to another. and
the boom towns went down like house
of cards for lack of financial support.
But Buena Vista, as we have said, had
already established several industries
and had formed the nucleus OF town.
Most of these were continued and are
operated to this day.. Other industries
have since sprung up around them. and
Buena Vista is ono of the most flourish
Ing towns In the Valley.
The story goes to show that there is
some good in all things, even in a wild
cat land boom.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

The insurance companies are putting
on their winter suits, and warm times
may be expected to follow.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

The news that congressional grass seed
arc adulterated comes as about the last
straw. Heaven forbid that anybody
should now prove that our congressman
also are adulterated.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

considering the report of Messrs. 7. Fl.
Cromloy, r. l.. Calvet and r. o. Hins-
dale. the committee on farmers insti-
tutes. Speakers and dates were selected
for the meetings to be held all over the
state next winter
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

1t may be said OF the McCurdy family
that they do not appear to be the sort
of people to allow themselves to be killed
by unkind criticism,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

The Senate is now being freely exposed
at ten cents copy on all news stands.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

Every race track follower can testify
to the accuracy of King solomon's per-
tinent comment on the making of books.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

If wishes We're canals, of course there
would be nu need for commissioners to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23

Italy has vesuvius, it is true, but she
is almost stranger to the volcanic ef-
fects of a lively investigating committee
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23
Death Warrant Revoked.

Death Warrant KeVOReu.
TALLAHASSEE FLA. February g..
After an all-day session of the board OF
pardons. considering the Cooper case,
Governor Broward revoked the death
warrant.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23
Presents to Jurors.

That was remarkable story which we
printed yesterday from Onancock. case
was tried in the Circuit Court, involving
the ownership of n lot of land on ASA
teagne Island. the title to which embraces
valuable oyster planting grounds. After
n trial of two days the Jury gave YER
dict In favor of the defendant. Captain
John w. Bunting, and he was so graft
fed at his success that he offered II S.
note to each member Of the jury, ten Of
whom accepted the gift. AS soon as
Judge Blackburn heard of what had been
n rule for Captain Bunting and she Jurors
to appear before him the first day of the
next term to answer for the offcnsc.
The money seems to have been offered
and taken in the open, and no secret
was made of the transaction. 1t would
appear. therefore, that neither the man
who gave the money nor the jurors who
received 1t felt that they We're doing
anything wrong. There is no such thing
as bribery after the fact and unless 1t
could be shown tina, this money was given
and received in pursuance of an agree
ment in advance between the party to the
suit and the jurors, there was no viola
ton of the laws against bribery. But it
was an outrageous breach OF proprlety,
and should be rebuked in no uncertain
way by the court. Indeed the cour:
would be justifiable in entering an order
that no member OF the jury who took
the money should ever serve again as It
juror. That would be reprimand that
would impress the public and never be
forgotten by the citizens of the county.
Moreover. the General Assembly should
enact a law making it criminal offense
for any litigant to offer present to ta
juror in consideration of verdict rem
dered or for any member of jury to
receive. such a. gift. u si!a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-23
Merely Joking

The DIfflcuIty.-Nell: Miss oldgirl says
Jack Is too fast for her" Belle: Cant
catch him. Philadelphia Record.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

FRS. PHEBE A. HEARST,
MI who is making her home in
AfA Paris, having taken an apart
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
FOLLOW UP TIMBER FRAUDS.

TTENTION drawn the valuable and important work
~ Of the National Forest Service by the action in hand
t the number of puatve mining claim locations IN
Pumas other of the Sierra Nevada These
purpor for placer mining but their great
subject them II they
ground should easy of proof and should
further all work done them be in the nature
Of mining development condition precedent counting it
The making of roads, for instance or the
surveying Justly be counted IN the
mining development.
Doubtless this investigation will be treated quarters
as II were an attack Pacific owing Mr. H. H.
Yards affiliations corporation. Mr. Yard has made
majority questioned If they made good
faith should have difficulty demonstrating much His
relations with this that corporation should figure in the
inquiry insisted that the work shall be
fined Mr. Yards locations is notorious that the vast majority
Of all the timber and mining locations made in Northern California
for past tainted with fraud If the work of the
department confined the operations OF single there will
be ground for suspecting malice.
the Forest Service made
February receipts grown under its
from Sz276 for the fiscal year ending June 80, TO
S67 The system has great elasticity
purpose off the people altogether from the
OF land and timber but allow such wise of the
opportunities shall with of the forest growth
It safety the of future generations which
will need lumber and for irrigation
The receipts will probably increase enormously under this
policy and by provision OF law of them shall be dis
rbuted among the States which the
California will SSIo2 this year
be expended Legislature shall for the benefit of the
public roads of the counties which the
situated This distribution made in recognition of the fact that
the from which the carved considerable
losers thereby in
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
TOM WILLIAMS GENEROSITY.

T1HE action of Thomas H Williams in giving the of the
Ingleside and buildings to shelter the refugees
great scale example OF fine and enlightened public
spirit that be too highly commended 1t pull
the relief committee of bad hole. There
regard Mr. Williams the institutions which
the OF youth and destroyer OF the home There
others who look him only and inevitable evil
the expo OF those pleasant that sometimes make whips
sourge We shall this thorny field of
vey, but it just that Mr. Williams always ready
his hand his pocket in splendid and help
good causes.
The location of the permanent shelter for refugees Inge
side has admirable features For will weed
oaeS who have taken advantage of the
py take their quarters reach of the saloons
and other OF the business sections We do believe
that there SUCH but whatever the number the
they got rid of the better.
The Ingesde buildings will provide comfortable
daon for large numbers aboring who
the high demanded since the fire 1t has been
whether it is the intention of the relief committee
OF from refugees who seupporng but
after meeting this charge and paying carare substantial
be afforded OF kind that badly needed i'll hurry
when there little of deiveance
graciously forward
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
Rector Sells Burial
PIafS in His Garden

r ONDON, July 24.-Englands
/ quaintest and perhaps oldest
church came into the limelight
of news last week through an eccle-
siastical suit brought against the rec
tor, who is charged with selling burial
plats in his garden and pocketing the
money.
Perivale Church is near Ealing. 1t
is tiny structure, built soon after
William the Conqueror landed in Brit
ain. It's records run from the twelfth
century. There are only FIVE houses
in the. entire parish and the popula
ton, including the rector and his fam
lily and servants, numbers only FORTY
SIX The rector's garden adjoins the
little cemetery, which has room for
362 graves, all of which have been
filled and 3o2 Of which are distinctly
visible.
There is a little story connected
with one of the graves. A Countess
of Castle Bar who lived some hun
dred years ago, was a decidedly
lively woman. In fact, she was called
wicked and all the people said she
would never reach heaven. On her
.deathbed she ordered a tomb of a
huge block of stone to be constructed
oversher grave and told her friends to
watch it. If messages could be sent
from the hereafter she would signal
them by means of the tomb. If She
went to heaven it would remain intact.
but if she got to hades the tomb
would split asunder. The tomb is still
to be seen in the churchyard, but if is
ruin. The gigantic stones are split
asunder and trees and shrubs are
growing in the cracks. According to
the tale, these cracks first appeared
soon after the wicked Countess was
buried
The case of the rector and the
graves came before a consistorv
court held in St. Pauls Cathedral by
DR.. Tristram, chancellor of the do
cese of London The charge was
made in most roundabout way. for
it was brought out in an application
to confirm the grant of a burial space
in Perivale churchyard to Madame
Emily de Romano, non-parishioner.
The rector proved that the custom of
allowing parishioners to be
buried in Perivale dated back several
hundred years.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
= The Smart Set

FRS. PHEBE A. HEARST,
MI who is making her home in
AfA Paris, having taken an apart
ment there for two years, recently
has been travelling in Holland.
Mrs. Breeze and Miss Louisa
Breeze, who are spending the summer
at Menlo, expect to return to the city
about September l.
Letters have been received from
Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones an
nouncing the safe arrival in France
OF herself, her mother and her uncle,
Lieutenant Jere Burnett.
4
Mrs. L. J. Ives and Miss Florence
Ives, who have been at the Henry
Crocker country place at Cloverdale
for several weeks past, are now at
Del Monte, where Miss Ives will COM
pete in the golf tournament
News comes from London tnat MI.
and Mrs. D. T. Murphy of this city
left there last month for Ostend to
witness the polo matches. They
will return later to rondon-
Mr.. and Mrs Richie Dunn are
spending the summer at Blithedale.
They will return to the city in about
a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Armsby and
Mrs. ]. K Armsbv are at Del Monte.
Mrs. James M. Goewey left the city
a few days ago for Monterey and
Paso Robles. Mrs. Goewey had made
her home for a number of years at
the Occidental Hotel, but the destruc-
ton of the well-known old building
has compelled her to seek another
dwelling place. She will go to the
Knickerbocker for the winter.
Every one at Del Monte is look
ing forward to the automobile meet
which will take place there on Sunday
and in which more than hundred
machines are expected to take part.
On Friday the autoists will leave here
and on Saturday there will be pro-
gramme of races and speeding. All
will go over the Seventcen-mile drive
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

plagiarism His poetic scatter-gun the whole
front of science Lawson Branner, Knopf and all the
other high lights of geologic science had better look
passer.
One forms a higher opinion of Mr. Wheeler "scien-
tihc gent than poet possibly because one knows
less about science. Mr. Wheelers verses do not scan.
They rough in quality and there faults unpar
donable in blank poety. Take for instance this
line:
And notes the unequal balances while the young sun
been hit by some one of the poets wild and whrng
catacysms.
If l may be permitted theory of my own-not
scentc-t is that Mr. Wheeler seduced by the
ntoxcaon of his opening lne which might have been
stolen from Swinburne Unhappily he was unable to
live up to his blue china fulfill the promise of that
line He sumps.
Mr. Wheeler is greedy of calamity. He invites the
hurry the day when the staggering earth shall
go reeng through space like drunken sailor upsetng
the economy of worlds If the earth is preparing
dulge in any further l am ready to go and
live in Berkeley and let my hair grow long among the
poets. There is objection Mr. Wheeler assert
ing right of private ownership in the earthquake and
Omori squatter let him be driven from the claim
with contumey but when the poet proposes rehabi-
the glacial epoch, the mastodon and pesiosaurus
the earthquake freely if he will spare us But perhaps
alarm is unnecessary. 1t may be that Mr. Wheelers
knowledge of science is no better than his poetry
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

on Sunday. A number of automobile
parties have been at Monterey this
week and a number of these will re-
turn for the meet George A. New
hall went down from Burlingame; c.
.. @. Miller made the trip in his car,
accompanied by Miss Albertinc De
trick, Miss Marian Miller and Paul
Miller; Walter Hobart took down
Major Rathbone, Harry Simpkins and
J. rockingham of Boston; and sew
eral others
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence King, the
latter of whom was SO well known
here as Mrs Gertrude Haight, and
who have made their home in Boston
for the past two years, are rejoicing
at the arrival of little son, on
July 81.
Miss Helen Scharlach and Milton
Moser will be at home to their friends
on Sunday afternoon, August II, at
Goeppert's Villa, Escalle, Marin
County.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
phIeQndtiC BritiShGrS Think
Americans Sentimental.
BY HAYDEN CHURCH.

T ONDON, July 2I.-Are Ameri-
can playgoers unsophisticated?
- Do they delight, in other words,
in what English audiences would re-
gard as ultra-sentimentality," and
thrill over Situations" that would
arouse only amusement on this side
of the water?
This is question which has been
raised here good many times in
the last year, and it occurs to one
again in reading the London critics
opinions on "The Prince Chap" which
has just been produced at the Cri-
terion Theater. Really the situation
was one of some delicacy, for this is
the first Transatlantic play to be pro-
cussion over the attitude of British
critics toward American pieces, and
as a result practically every reviewer
seems to have been on his best be-
havior and prepared to recognize any
and all good qualities that the Peple
comeav might possess.
So it is rather striking to notice
with what unanimity this play, which,
by all accounts, was an eighteen-carat
success in America, is described by
the London newspapers as entirely
too naive, old-fashioned and artificial
to please British audiences 'sIn
America" says one writer, where
ingenious sentimentality appears TO be
in some demand, it has had consider
able success" Another, after OBJ
serving that perhaps it is our fault.
perhaps we are blase, with the we'll
springs of our humanity dried up
adds, if that be so, it is our misfor-
tune, too, for a nation among whom
The Prince Chap was a great success
is to be envied. 1t is very, verv
voung.p. And for a closing instance
w. l.. Courtney writes in the Tele-
graph: IF it is true that the piece has
achieved success in America it speaks
volumes for the ingenuousness Of
theatergoers on the other side of the
Atlantic"
All, you see, harp on exactly the
same string. and so the question na-
turally arises, Are we ingenious" as
these critics allege? Was it, in sooth.
because we are less critical than the
English that The School For Hus-
bands" The Gilded Fool" Shore
Acres" and other pieces which had
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
Answers TO Queries.


CLEANLINESS-O. T. r., City. The
phrase Cleanliness is next to godli-
ness" is not of Biblical origin. Cham
bers' Book of Days." volume II, says
as to the origin of the phrase in an
article on Rowland Hill That noted
preacher said that good Mr.. White
field used to say, cleanliness is next
to godliness"
MINTS-R. NJ, Grayson, Cal. The
first United States mint was estab-
lished at Philadelphia April 2, 1892.
In 1885 branch mints were estab-
lished at New Orleans, at Charlotte,
N. c., and at Dahlonega, Ca; in 1852.
at San Francisco; in 1864. at Dalles
City, Ore, and in 1870, at Carson City.
Assay offices were established at New
York in 1854, at Denver, Colo, in 1864,
and at Boise City, Idaho. in 1873. These
were considered as branches of the
parent mint until 1873, when the COIN
age act of that year made separate
branch mints and assay offices. The
mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega
were suspended in 1861, the one at
New Orleans from 1860 to 1879, that
at Dallas in 1875 and the one a. Carson
City In 1885. The mints at Carson City
and at Denver are now equipped as as
say Offices
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

been successes at home were mildly
guyed and consigned to limbo when
produced IN the metropolis recently?
In SPECIFIC cases, it is true, even Am
erlcans IN London have failed to see
what their countrymen found in GER
tain plays which had apparently
scored at home, The Climbers" for
instance. and The Sword of the
King, both of which had short and
inglorious careers in London.
One would imagine, however. what
a difference British andAmerican act
ing may have made in the two plays
last mentioned, and as to the charge
OF righteousness that is laid at our
doors the answer is to be found no
farther away than the London
comedy. or just around the corner
from Piccadilly Circus itself. For
here IS RatHes, which was originally
acclaimed by the same "in0enuors''
American audiences, drawing the
blase Britishers like a veritable mag
net and breaking all records at the
theater which is its London home.
And even if The Prince Chan
should tall-as we air hope it NAV
not-there is no reason for regarding
1t as absolute proof that the American
critical faculty is less keeniv de
veloped than the British. There have
been too many instances of "theatri.
calism IN which Americans NAV be
SAID to have reveled and which have
also proved highly to the taste of the
English for such a hasty verdict.
mere was Sherlock Holmes" for in
stance. which was no classic. bur
which could hardly be plaved often
enough to satisfy LOndoners. There
IS Monsieur Beaucaire" which. like
Charley'S Aunt" is still running. not
10 recall many other examples of
unanlmlty of opinion on the two sides
of the Atlantic.
NO, just as it was no Indictment of
British humor that Beauty and the
barge, which had tickled audiences
IN the metropolis, failed to amuse
Americans, so there is no call to hide
our diminished heads because one
play or score of plays that have hit
American taste do not go in this
country. For "ingenuousness" and
most other qualities audiences in the
TWO countries seem to be on a par, and
when all is said and done it is just
matter of a given plays appeal on
either side of the water-and about
that, as Bernhard Shaw says, You
Never Can Tell"
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

RER. ALFRED A. WHEELER, poet of some
Nk local fame, complains that Professor Omori of
4vA Japan has stolen his theory of the origin of
earthquakes which one learns due the redis-
position redistribution of sufficiently
venient theory because it least to postpone
transfer the difficulty although it leaves in the
dark to what power agency conducts the disrbu
ton. Mr.. Wheeler is explicit. He blames the
sun and here is his theory in full:
What if the should up all the
And leave the earth all caverns like the moon?
volences natures
this all point,
Lest the well-wrnkled face of this old world
Shall take wrinklings. Not the wisest knew
futures how
folded in the earthly cuticle
1 the world, in countless trembling yet,
Catch its lurching before they spill;
prophetic needle weighs its
And notes the unequal balance; while the young
Which smiles though planets die. a1nakes it his
Whips up speed breathes itlife
LII and lets fall its waters till they grind
Burden the of the busy tides
To build in silence the continents
Oh source of all things bring the day
When (ths done) earth staggers with the weight
Of oceanic building. Let the poles
Change with tropics.
Engulf creation They thy finished plains,
Parting veil of waters, shall arise
bridal thy beams
December g. 1901.
This is the poetic way of saying that the earth will
go bely-up day. not yet perhaps per-
haps in the dim romantic distance Mr. Wheeler deals
thing alongside the array of catastrophes
shals in his prophetic eye. But wonders why he
singles Omori alone obnoxious to the charge of
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
INTERESTING BUT INCOMPLETE.

1.-THE greater Rue troubled his conscience but the diff
Guilty chiefly arithmeica His higher
the fire. but the trouble be assuaged larger
lie complains that the liquor Dealers while paying
$500 for his wanted $4,000 worth of
specifications he that the liquor asked him
his influence with the Mayor to have the saloon license
lower figure than $500 and obtain other
Ruef did think could be done for the money
declare that his liquor clients "lo of
Rues confessions interesting but
file open tariff fee bill for the of his the
municipal departments
The Salvadoans have promoted ancient lumber tramp
the dignity Of manofwar easy transition
with the lumber pirates
Oakland going ahead the of providing
supply exnguhng fires and sprnkng
has been talking OF the thing for but talk won't
out fires,
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10

Townsend's Cal. gIace fruits and can
dies at Emp. and 1908 & 1920 Val at
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
S0uOttCd on The pOCfS Claim
BY Edward f. Cal1ill.

n ER ALFRED A. WHEELER poet of some plas
NJ local fame cornans that Professor Omori of fror
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