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The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
MERCHANTS FIGHT
NEW ORDINANCE.
Proposed Raise in Cost
of Licenses Arouses
the Ire of Napaites
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

DlSHA1CH The il.
NAPA, July 9.-Considerable excite
ment reigns among the merchants and
business men of this city, for the City
Council at an Informal meeting held
Saturday afternoon instructed the City
Attorney to prepare an ordinance
which, if it goes into effect, will near
ly double the licenses now being col
lected and put a tax on many who have
heretofore escaped taxation. Every
person who Will be affected by the
new law declares that he will be pres
ent at the meeting of the board Tues
day night and do his utmost to keep
it from passing the ordinance.
The proposed law contemplates a big
raise in existing licenses and provides
for a tax on about every merchant
business and professional man in Napa.
Lawyers, doctors, dentists and archi-
tects, who have never before paid a
tax. will be forced to contribute 81 a
month to the city's funds If the new
ordinance becomes a law.
Insurance agents will be the heav-
cided TO put a tax of 81 a month on
lest sufferers, for the Council has de-
every company doing business here
This means that some agents Will have
to pay as high as $40 a month, for
there are three or four who have that
number of companies to solicit for
The merchants. formerly divided
into seven classes, are placed in three
classes by the new ordinance They
viii be taxed according to the amount
of business they do during the month
Those having sales amounting to $4,000
viii pay the city $40 a month; under
$4,000 and more than S25O0, S6 a month
will be charged; where less than $500,
81 a month.
The licenses will be ordered paid
monthly instead of quarterly, with few
exceptions. The raise in the tax list
will increase the city's revenues $500
a month.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
APPOINTED SOLICITOR
OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
Charles Earle Receives Promotion
at the Hands of President
Roosevelt.

OYSTER BAY, July 9.-President
Roosevelt today. appointed Charles
Earle as solicitor for the Department
of Commerce and Labor, to succeed
Edwin w. Simms. recently appointed
United States District Attorney in Chi
cago. Charles Earle was at one time
an employe OF the Bureau OF Cor
porations and is now an assistant at
torney in the Department of Justice.
1t was also announced that Richard
K. Campbell, formerly solicitor of the
Bureau of immigration of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, has
been made chief of the new Bureau of
Naturalization in that department.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE RUNS
THROUGH MEMPHIS STREETS
Dashes for Distance of Eleven Blocks
Resulting In Injuries to
Eight Persons.

MEMPHIS, July 9-After coliiding
with a passenger train at Orleans
street today Southern Railway switch
engine with two cars attached dashed
wildly without crew three-Quarters
of mile to the Union depot on CAL
houn street, where 1T crashed into two
mail cars. Eight men were slightly
injured, one seriously.
When the switch engine collided
with the passenger train the engineer
and fireman jumped. The switch en-
gine, with no guiding hand, dashed
forward at increased speed. The loco
motive crossed eleven streets before
arriving at the depot and the presence
of mind of a yardman prevented the
engine dashing into the depot proper.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITS
NEEDED AT STATE CAPITAL
Rush and FiIcher Touring Stnte in
Quest of Fat Cattle and Prize
Products of Soil.

State Senator Rush OF the State Ag-
ricultural Society and J. A F'ilcher.
secretary Of the society. are making a
tour OF the State to arrange for good
showing of exhibits at Sacramento
during the fall They are confident,
so both said in this city yesterday.
that they will be able to get plenty Of
exhibits.
There viii be the usual variety OF
fat cattle. fast horses, agricultural
produce and so on that is supposed to
annually I'LL the people Of the State
with pride
1T viii be a great fair" said Fitch
er who has had more experience as a
Snowman at expositions than any other
man in California
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
DEATH of STATION AGENT
TIES UP RAILWAY SYSTEM
No One ELSE I'm the Town Able to Re-
ceive and Send Dis
patches.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 81. Sloan
station agent of the Rock Island al
leighton, fell dead on the depot plat
form. There was not another man in
the town who understood telegraphy
and the train dispatcher had to know
about a sidetrack at Leighton before
he could send the trains on their way
Finally after vain efforts to get a re-
Spouse from Leighton an engine was
sent on, carefully watching that nc
other train should run 1t down. Al
leighton Station Agent Sloan was
found dead. He was 65 years of age
and an old employe of the Rock Island
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
HOSPITAL NURSE MAY
HAVE BEEN MURDERED
Coroner Investigates the Supposed
Suicide of Helen Holmes I'm New
York.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Helen Holmes,
the Young woman who was found dead
from gas asphyxiation last Wednesday
in her room at the Physical and Surgi-
cal Institute. where she was employed
as a nurse, may have been the victim
of a murder, in the opinion of Coroner
Aeritilla, who is investigating the
case The Coroner today directed the
police to have the funeral delayed
until some additional light is thrown
on the woman's death.
The authorities investigated the case
last Saturday and gave out that the
nurse had committed suicide. but the
Coroner had received later informa-
ton indicating possible foul play.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
cloudburst Floods a Town.

WELLSVILLE. Ohio, July 9. a
cloudburst in the country back of this
city yesterday sent torrent of water
down Trotters Run, causing loss of
thousands of dollars. More than zoo
homes and business houses were flood
ed and foundations weakened so that
residents would not remain in their
houses last night.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
WOMEN BADLY HURT
IN STAGE WRECK,
Vehicle Dashes Down
Steep Grade and Top
Piles Into a Deep Greek
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

N7H H@O1-A11 111N1I 1S111 4 y
SAN LUIS OB1SPO, July 9.-After a
wild dash down steep grade the
Cambria-San Luis Obispo stage this
afternoon struck the guard of Cambria
bridge and toppled into the deep creek
No one was killed, but several of the
passengers, among them two women,
were severely injured. Mrs Hattie
Smith of Arroyo Grande sustained a
dislocated hip and Miss Pearl Terry,
also of Arroyo Grande, was badly
bruised. Mrs. Smiths sons leg was
broken.
The accident was the result of a
defective brake.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
Cotton Mill. Advance Wages.

BOSTON, July 9.-An advance of 5
per cent in wages in cotton mills in
thirty or more cities. towns and viii
lages of Southern Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island went into effect today.
About $4,000 operatives are benefited
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
Big Demand for Small Notes.

WASHINGTON, July s.-Secretary
Shaw has issued an appeal to national
banks to assist the Government in sup
plying a pressing demand for notes
of small denomination. He has sent
to all banks a letter requesting them
to issue as much of the aggregate of
their circulation notes in five-dollar
bills as is possible, indicating to them
that there is more profit in the issu-
ance of such notes than in putting out
notes of larger denomination.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
SUE FOR MONEY SPENT
IN CHASING BAIL JUMPER
Sureties of Fugitive Want Him Z.
stand the Expense Connected
With HIS RecaDfure.

REDDING, July 9.-Steve H Frisbie
and Harvey o. Wickes, who were sure
ties on the bail bond of A H. Norred.
the man who jumped his bonds a,ti
whom Frisbie captured at Weed Fri
day night, have filed an action
against Norred to recover the money
they spent in trying to locate and cap
ture him. They ask for s127.50.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10

Henry A. Bothin has had plans pre-
pared by Frank S. Van Trees, archi-
tect for a two-story and basement
structure at the southeast corner of
Leldesdorff and Sacramento streets
The architecture will be Italian renais-
sance and the front of the building
will be of brick and cement.
The cost of the structure will be
$4,000. The contracts have all been
signed and work will commence at
once.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
The sun-Bath Cure.

Taken in the great glass soarium in connection
with the mineral water and mud treatment at
Paso Robles, will make you feel like hunting for
new worlds to conquer. Low rates at the hotel
for long stays. Three trains daily over the
SaUthern Pacific.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10

HORTA Azore Islands, July e.-The United
States cruisers Minneapolis (fagship). Des
Moines Cleveland and Colorado, belonging to
the third squadron of the North Atlantic fleet,
Rear Admiral Bradford commanding, have ar
rived here, from Funchal, Madeira, July 6, and
report all well on board.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
Protest increase of Fees.

The Market Street and Eureka Valley
Improvement Club has filed a copy Of
resolutions recently adopted, protesting
against the increase IN the fees for
building permits.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
Shnw-WaIker and TwlnIocl

Systems Of filing cabinets and loose leaf ledgers
are the best Office help known. Let show you
their advantages over all others. Save you time
and money. Sanborn, Vail & Co., Mission street.
hatUeen Fourth and Fifth.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10

Buy Fly Dope Sure catch. Sold
everywhere, &c., 25c. soc cans. u. 8.
, 1906-02-02
SENT HER ILLUSTRATED
TO CALIFORNIA FRIEND


The Republican has received the fol
lowing ncte from Mrs. Nellie NJ. Jones
of Rockton. Ill, for some time a resi-
dent of this city:
Many thanks for the fine illustrated
edition. l enjoyed 1t very much and
have sent 1t to California to an old
Laramie friend, who wishes to know
about your city. / enclose a clipping
from a paper l found in the garnet. The
news may not be of the latest, but per-
haps it will be of interest to you"
The clipping referred to is a letter
to some eastern paper from Cheyenne,
Dakota territory, April 8. 1865" under
the caption, Cheyenne, the Magic
City" and will be reproduced in these
columns
Mrs Jones also sends the following,
from a paper whose name she did not
know:
"A large lake, recently discovered
about forty miles from Laramie, W. r,
has a thick deposit of sulphate of mag
nesia in almost a pure state, says an
exchange. We are glad there's one al.
most pure state in the union"
, 1906-02-02
rhackeray,s Sense of Justice,

Thackeray once wrote in a note to
a friend, abiding to an incident oc-
casioned by one of his articles in
Punch: 81 thought over the %confound,
ed matter in the railroad and wrote
instantly on arriving here a letter of
contrition and apology to Harry Tay-
lor for having made what l see now
was a flippant and offensive allusion
to Mrs. TAYLOR. l am glad l have done
it. l am glad that so many people
whom have been thinking bigoted
and unfair and unjust toward me have
been right and that 1 have been
wrong, and my mind is an immense
deal easier"
, 1906-02-02
MENTIONED.

February Magazines in. Bookstore.
The banana belt is still in sunshine.
shoshoni has a citizen named c. Lar.
ME.
The bank barometer this morning
noted 1882.
An oldsmobile touring car for sale,
1916. at Lovejoy's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gonden left for the
west this afternoon.
The state supreme court has adjourn
ed until February s..
Ground hog day, and he had no trou-
BILE seeing his shadow.
! Newcastle Knights Of Pythias will
dance on the night Of the 23d.
A baby daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. John Astle at Cheyenne yes
terday. ~
A heavy frost this morning, but the
sky was nearly cloudless during the
forenoon.
1t is now conceded that Newcastle
will be made a passenger division point
on the Burlington.
The marriage of Mr.. Atwell, well
known in this city, inc Miss Bristol oc-
Cured at Cheyenne yesterday.
The secretary of the Albany Mutual
Building association has just started
a new monthly register of sharehold-
ers.
Ora Haley has been made a member
of the executive committee of the con-
solidated National Live Stock associa-
ton.
Newcastle will elect its next mayor
for two years instead of one, the pop
ulation of that city having passed the
thousand mark.
Prof. Lee says the fire drills at the
East Side school are quite a feature,
the children showing lack of confusion
quite gratifying.
The W. R. Dildine house at Cheyenne
has been quarantined, his little daugh-
ter having been discovered with an at
tack of smallpox.
Wash Nixon, who has fallen heir to
a large estate in the east, has been 10
Gated at Shoshoni, after a long search,
and will go east soon to claim the
estate.
The first death in the new town of
Shoshoni was the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. Tracy, and all the business
houses of the place were closed during
the funeral.
w. N. Homan of Knoxville, Tenn, is
in the city n will accept a position
at the Western Union telegraph office,
on one of the night tricks, adding to
Manager Smiths force in that office.
Miss Edna Simpson, who has been
quite i'll for some time, was able to
accompany her father, T. H. Simpson,
down town last evening, yesterday be-
ing the first time she was able to get
out of the house since her illness.
The Cheyenne chief of police started
today to enforce the ordinance Of that
city against splitting on the side walks.
He that all persons caught
expectorating on the sidewalks or on
the floors of public buildings will be
prosecuted.
The Stock Growers National bank of
Cheyenne has total assets of $1,511,-
099.11. The assets of the First Nation
al bank of that city are 81, ZOO, 663.12
The individual deposits Of the two
banks are s699,513 for the Stock Grow
ers' and $685., 57O.35 for the First Ma
tional.
, 1906-02-02
MUSICAL PROGRAM AT
THE BASKETBALL GAME

THE BASkE BALL GAME.
The new machine for the military
and physical departments of the Uni
versity of Wyoming has arrived and
will be heard for a short time this
evening at the basketball game given
by the young ladies'. Among the selec-
lions rendered will be the following:
Overture, William Tell" in four parts;
Waltz A~moureuse," by the national
band Of France; THE Lost Chord" by
]. F. Harrison.
The young ladies have procured an
excellent orchestra for the dancing
program, n those who delight in a
dance will be sure to attend the func-
ton at the gym this evening.
, 1906-02-02
TWILL BUILD ADDITION

TO ROCK RIVER HOTEL.
The W. H. Holiday company has
been awarded a contract for an addi-
ton to the Rock River hotel owned by
Mrs. McDermott, and will send car
penters to that place to do the work.
, 1906-02-02
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT?

Mrs. MoIiie IngersolI has arrived
and will be at Laramie Dry Goods COM
pany store for the balance of the week
and will take orders for the celebrated
Palmer garments, suits and jackets.
, 1906-02-02

Modern Woodmen of America.
No assessment for February. Sur
plus above all liabilities, $1,1SS, 542.53.
1t does not scale your policy. 143t5
, 1906-02-02
WATER NOTICE

The water will all be shut off west of
the railroad track from s a. m. to IL
noon on Saturday for repairs.
JOHN SIGMAN, Marshal.
, 1906-02-02
Card Party Saturday Evening.

Hermion temple, Rathbone Sisters,
will give a card party at the hall Sat
urday evening, when refreshments
will be served and prizes awarded.
Admission, Is cents. 145t3
, 1906-02-02

FOR RENT-Five rooms above the
White House. Apply to C. E. Blair. ct
, 1906-02-02

Special sale by Mathodist Ladies.
Home cookery, consisting of baked
beans and brown bread, Saturday at 1
p. m. Lynch's grocery.
, 1906-02-02

Half the energy wasted in the wrlng
ing of hands would repair many a mis-
fortune If properly applied.
, 1906-02-02

Don't forget Miss Marsh's dancing
class Saturday at st. Matthew's hall at
II o'clock. Admission 1Oc.
, 1906-02-02

FOR SAlE-Six Angora bucks. R.
J. Cowper. 146t3
, 1906-02-02

Five Hundred Dancing Party.
The Five Hundred Dancing club will
give a dance at North Star hall Sat
urda evening. 145t3
, 1906-02-02

FOR SALE, Bargain-Five-room
house; hath. sewer, etc. Best resi-
dence portion. Apply Republican.
, 1906-02-02

daisy OR WARSATCH EARLY
JUNE PEAS, 10c CAN, AT HOLIl
DAYS.
, 1906-02-02
WANTS FULFILLED.

If you have lost anything; have any,
thing to buy or sell; rooms OF a house
to rent; in short a want Of any kind
to fill try a liner in THE REPUBLI-
CAN. The cost Is small n the re-
turns are large.
, 1906-02-02

GREAT AMERICAN, THE BEST
ALL ROUND HAND SOAP, AT HoL-
LiOAY'S.
, 1906-02-02

FOR UP-To-DATE SUIT CASES
AND TRUNKS GO TO HOLIDAYS.
146t2
, 1906-02-02

CROWN PIANOS, FIRST CLASS
INSTRUMENTS AT PRICES NO
HIGHER THAN YOU WOULD PAY
for A CHEAP ONE. THE w. H.
HOLIDAY CO., AGENTS.. 146t2
, 1906-02-02

Silence is golden, but the gold st1ni
ard has not yet been adopted by the
sewing societies.
, 1906-02-02

WANTED-Three young men to pre-.
pare for desirable positions in govern.
ment service. Good salary. Fine op'
portunity for promotion. Address l.
Republican Office. 140t12
, 1906-02-02

Houses for sale and furnished house
for rent. Inquire 209 Grand If
, 1906-02-02

FRESH SUPPLY OF ORANGES AT
THE GEM CITY GROCERY CO. 146t2
, 1906-02-02

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for
light housekeeping. Apply Sayer Han
sen. 144tf
, 1906-02-02

Columns of logic are o~utweighed I
an ounce added to the toiler's loaf.
, 1906-02-02
CASH MARKET co. SPECIALS.
For Saturday Only.

All magazines at Mills, A Druggist
, 1906-02-02

Every ambition is wholesome t
rises an inch above the head.
, 1906-02-02

Men sometimes miss a niche in t.
temple of fame by putting off thei
dying overlong.
, 1906-02-02
Tota

STATE OF NJ =
CoUNT OF ALBANY. ss'
1. A. G. Jones. cashier of the aboyn-
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best OF nv
knowledge and belief:
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
I'd day of February. 1896
IL. r. BUTLER, Notary Public.
Correct attest: lsEALl
ii. b. BEEMER. directors
, 1906-02-02

Crime is sometimes only the lake
of genius misapplied.
, 1906-02-02
BANK

Report of the condition of the First
National Bank. at Laramie. in the of State
Wyoming, at the close of business, January
10Th, 1906.
, 1906-02-02
MILDLY CYNICAL.

Abused Nature has a lcng memoir
Sentiment cherishes as truth ma
a pretty fable.
Joy masks as grief and attend
many a funeral.
Crime is sometimes only the lake
| of genius m~isapplied.
Every ambition is wholesome t
rises an inch above the head.
Columns of logic are o~utweighed b.
an ounce added to the toiler's loaf.
Men sometimes miss a niche in t.
temple of fame by putting Off theiI
dying overlong.
Silence is COLDER, but the gold stlnl
ard has not yet been adopted by the
sewing societies.
Half the energy wasted in the wrlng.
ing of hands would repair many a mis-
fortune if properly applied.
Don't forget Miss Marsh's dancing
class Saturday at st. Matthew'S hall a
2 o'clock. Admission 1Oc.
Five Hundred Dancing Party.
The Five Hundred Dancing club will
, 1906-02-02

Joy masks as grief and attend
many a funeral.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-06-01

market in the east does not warrant
it. In fact, the buyers are not in the
market very actively for wool at from
% to "a cents, where last year they
were paying q cents. And as the
growers do not wish to sell out at this
price, preferring to hold for an adj
vance, which they think will come be-
cause of their experience last year,
there is deadlock between grower and
buyer
''The eastern wool market is in poor
condition, and the present low prices
are justified by this condition. Money
is tight in the east and millmen have
not been able to borrow as much money
for operations as they have been able
to do heretofore. For this reason, they
are not taking any chances, but are
operating conservatively, and only buy
ing enough wool to supply their i'm
mediate demands, getting along in
hand-to-mouth manner, so to speak.
Reports from all the important wool
markets show that the demand for
wool is very weak and the market in
active Many of the purchasers in the
east carried over quite large amount
of wool which they still have in hand.
Under these conditions, it is hard
for us to see how wool will go any
higher. We look rather for a lower
ing of the present price during the
summer. Growers are now holding
back, but we believe they will be seek
ing the market before many months.
We have had few inquiries and sales
already at present prices, but we are
not sending out a buyer to solicit the
trade.
"The present price is about % cents
for valley wool, free from timber stain.
Last year the buyers purchased every
kind of wool. This year dealers are
making a firm distinction between
timber-stained wool and that grown in
clean pasture. There is big call TOT
white fiannels, and for this reason the
clean wool is largely in demand anu
will bring by far the best prices.
Zone feature that will affect the mar
ket this year will be the renewed pro
duction of wool in Australia. For the
past few years Australian sheep-groW..
ers have had bad luck, millions or
sheep being lost and whole herds de-
pleted. The growers are getting their
flocks back in shape, however, and an
eastern authority predicts tnaC Hole
will be heard from the Australian wool
this year. The production from this
source will probably be larger than Tor
a number of years past.
"There are two kinds of woods which
the buyers in the northwest take into
consideration, the coarse-to-medlum
woods and the Merino wool from east
of the mountains. The former WOODS
are produced on the west slope, ana
bring the best prices because the WOODS
grown east of the mountains contain
so much grease and sand that the val
ues per pound are much lower. Inc
wool from east of the mountains brings
from to cents a pound less IMAM
that grown in the Puget Sound coun-
try and the Oregon Valleys
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-06-01
STOCK
The Wool Market.

From present prospects it does not
look as though the sheep-growers
would make as large profits as were
made last year, according to w. f.
Babcock, of the H. F. Norton Co., or
Seattle. This concern is one of the
largest wool buyers on the coast and
handles large amounts of Puget Sound
and Merino wool every year, having
occasion to keep very closely in touch
with the eastern market.
1.-THE wool market at the present
time is in a peculiar condition." said
Mr.. Babcock to a representative of
The Ranch. prices are low, and do
not show any immediate prospect of
advancing. We are not sending out
buyer because we do not believe that
the growers will sell at present prices,
and all we can do is to wait until they
make inquiries from us. The wool
buyers, the middlemen, are not taking
chances this year, and do not intend
to buy wool that they cannot dispose
of in the east at some sort of profit.
Last year the wool buyers became ex-
cited, and paid high prices Three
years ago Puget Sound wool could be
bought in large quantities for IA cents.
hG L1tll IAOO Aco hOPC 1hpAOfAhS oAho
the growers have been getting during
the past year or two fair price. Buy
ers last year, however, became fren-
zied, and by bidding against each other
they worked the price up to 27 cents
and bought at that price. Later on, as
a result, they were compelled to sell
their wool in the east at loss. They
actually paid more for the wool than
it was worth; more than the manufac-
turers would pay for it in the east,
and most of them lost from one to
three cents pound on what they pur-
chased. The high prices made every
thing lovely for the growers and they
made money, but it was pretty hard
on the middlemen.
"This year the buyers are confront
ing a peculiar condition. The wool
grower, who last year received such
big prices, is looking for repetition
of the good times this year. The buy
ers cannot pay these prices, for the