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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
FRAMING A PLATFORM.
Committee Meets and Prepares Docu-
ment Covering Supposed
Needs of Country.

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 1.-THE COM
mittee on platform and resolutions met
in the Golden Eagle Hotel this evening
and partly framed what it's members
believe will prove panacea for all
governmental ills. A majority of the
members appeared at the meeting
armed with individual platforms, and
although the work of beating them
into one coherent mass will not be
completed until the convention is about
to go into session tomorrow, many
definite principles were decided upon
They are as follows:
Advocating a direct primary and en-
titling any person to go upon the ball
lot upon the filing of petition bearing
the names of fifty voters, or per cent
of the voters of the last held election
whichever number may be the smaller;
providing for a direct vote for United
States Senator; providing for the pub
lie ownership of all highways of COM
merce, including railways and naviga-
BILE streams; providing for the initiative
and referendum; for the loaning Of
public moneys at interest; for the ma
cadamizing of all State and county
roads from the interior to tidewater
enabling traction engines to compete
with railways and privately owned
steamship lines until such time as pub
lie ownership of all highways of com
merce can be accomplished; for the en-
actment of State law penalizing
trusts and all monopolies of trade; for
the equalization of taxes without fear
or favor-this plank being aimed espe-
cially at the railways; for the restora-
ton of the Australian ballot in its pur-
ity, eliminating the voting machine,
which. it is claimed, enables the bosses
to better accomplish control of the peo-
pie; favoring the granting of franchises
only for limited terms and in accord
ance with absolute public need. and fa-
voring the encouragement OF all trans
continental railroads entering Califor-
MIA and denouncing railway monopoly.
These principles the committee def
nitely decided upon and it is considering
the adoption of plank urging. the
withdrawal Of unappropriated waters
of streams, that they may be held for
public use instead of for the benefit
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
HEARST ASSEMBLIES
HIS DELEGATES.
Father of the independence
League Prepa ed to Put
Himself Up for Go ernor
DETAILS OF DEAL
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.
NEW YORK, Sept 11.-Hearst's In
dependence Leaguers met in convention
today and effected an organization
amid cut and dried demonstrations.
Hearst will nominate himself tomorrow
at the head of dummy" Independence
League State ticket If he succeeds in
getting the nomination for Governor
from the regular Democratic State con-
vention in Buffalo. he will run as the
regular Democratic candidate and no
Independence League column will ap-
pear on the official ballot
This programme was agreed upon by
Hearst today after his followers had
refused to be tricked into permitting
Hearst to nominate himself at the head
of an otherwise blank ticket They in
sisted that complete Independence
League ticket should be placed in the
field, knowing that Hearst would have
no further use for them or for the
league which he has created if he sue
cratic nomination.
Hearst's attempt to dupe his follow
ers into allowing him to head blank
ticket Will SO on record as one OF the
boldest political schemes ever devised.
That 1t failed was due to the fact that
most of the independence League lead
ers from the rural districts came to
tHis CITY Auliy prepared LOT tFtdcicTy
on the part of their leader and there
fore they were on their guard
w. j. Connors of Buffalo, who poses
as Democrat and who has been work
ing for Hearst since last winter. was
the instrument selected to carry out
the trick which Hearst attempted to
perpetrate upon his adherents, Conners
on Monday night did his part by pre-
senting to the Hearst manag gers fake
netiti0H. nllrnartfnC have hPon
signed by delegates TO the Democratic
State Convention, county chairmen,
State committeeman and other repre-
sentatives" of the Democratic party.
This petition asked the Hearst con-
ysntien to defer nominating State
ticket until the regular Democratic
convention should meet in Buffalo,
when possibly .deaI' might be made
which would give to Hearst the regu-
lar nomination for Governor and make
the nomination of league ticket un-
necessary.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
DRAMATIC EPISODE
IN CONVENTION.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.


SANTA ROSA, Sept. 1.-THE Sonoma
County Republican convention nomin-
ated today an exceptionally strong
county and legislative ticket. The con-
vention was of the spicy sort. After
the first nominating speech, Delegate
Thomas Meek started the pyrotechnics
in sensational charges against Walter
+. Price, who had been placed in nomin-
alton for State Senator.
w. A. Mills of Petaluma nominated
Price in highly eulogistic speech and
had hardly resumed his seat when Meek
came down the aisle gesticulating. He
stood before the convention and said
that IL Walter Price was to be nomin-
ated he demanded an accounting of
moneys given into his possession for
use in the campaigns of 1898 and 1902.
None of the delegates believed Meek's
charges because Price has established
g general reputation for honesty. Price
served two terms as Assemblyman some
years ago and there has never been a
stain upon his name.
After defeating Charles Humbert for
the nomination Price denied the insinu-
ations of Meek and the delegates cheer
ed him repeatedly. The convention was
upset by the charges made by Meek
1t was pointed out that the charge was
made without any evidence to substan-
tiate it.
District Attorney Charles HI. Pond
and Attorney Joseph p Berry were
candidates for the nomination for Dis
trict Attorney. Pond was victorious
by eighty and one-half votes to Berry's s
ffty-five and a half votes.
The full ticket nominated was as fol-
lows; Senator, Eighth district, Walter
F. Price of Santa Rosa Assemblyman
Thirteenth district, DR.. F. H. Phillips of
Petaluma: Assemblyman, Fourteenth
district, II. w. A. Weske of Santa
Rosa; District Attorney, Charles
H. Pond of Healdsburg; Auditor, Walter
G. Lindsay of Windsor; Sheriff. John X
Smith Of Santa Rosa Tax Collector,
Frank NJ Collins of PetaIuma; Clerk,
George B. Baer of Cloverdale; Assessor,
aa. d. Hopkins of Petaluma; Treasurer,
Glenn e. Murdock of Sonoma; Reeor-
der Frederick g. NagIe of Santa Rosa;
Surveyor, George H. Winkler of Green
Valley; superintendent of Schools De-
witt Montgomery of Sonoma; Coroner
and Public administrator Frank L.
Blackburn of Petaluma.
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CALIFORNIA PATENTS.

WASHINGTON, Sept ttl--Cahrornla
patents were issued today as follows:
Frank L. Binford. Los Angeles. run
ming gear for vehicles; Emma e. Boiler,
Pasadena, folding sewing receptacle for
sewing machines; John Bruckman, San
Francisco, and A. E. Maiden, Oakland,
platen press roll feed attachment; John
Campbell, Knowles, bush chisel or ham
mer; Cornelius Collins, San Francisco,
building construction; George ". Dur
brow, Indio, pressure filter; William T..
Fleming, Los Angeles. roller bearing
for ends OF shafts: Otto Goldman, San
Francisco. exhaust muff1er; Jules Ha
brie San Francisco, bread cutter; John
r. Harris, Richmond, trace fastener; /;
Taylor w. Heintzelman and j. G. Camp,
Sacramento, oil burning steam boiler;
william c. Longstreet, Los Angeles
means to cut butter or lard; Frank s.
Prentiss, San Francisco, multiple print
ing. developing. fixing. washing and
drying apparatus; Henry B. RuggIes,
Redlands. automatic weigher and reg
ister; NJ. Spangler Los Angeles, plas-
terer's float Edwin p. Starbird. Victor
willie. apparatus for separating liquids
from solids; John Tartt Los Angeles.
trolley pole controller; Gustav A.
weihe. San Francisco, n-refllable
bottle stopper; Arthur L. Whitney, San
Mateo, can and cover.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12

The announcement of the disinherit-
ing of Mrs. Theresa Fair Oelrichs and
her son. Hermann Oelrichs Jr., by the
late capitalist, Hermann Oelriehs.
brings forth statement from the
widows attorney, George A knight.
that Oelrichs never had an estate to
bequeath. Knight declares that If his
statement is denied by relatives or in
innate friends of Oelrichs they are ig
norant of the facts or are lending
themselves to wiliful misrepresenta-
tion.
The attorney for Mrs. Oelrichs de-
clares that Oelriehs received all his
money from his wife and her sister,
Mrs w. K Vanderbilt He denies the
statement attributed to Reuben H.
Lloyd. attorney for Oelrichs, who said
that Mr.. Oelrichs was fairly rich in
his own right before his death. knight
reiterates that Oelrichs never had any
estate of value to legally will away.
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Reuben H. Lloyd. who a year ago
drew up a will for Hermann Oelrichs
prior to his departure from New York,
and which was invaIidated by the re-
cent filing, refused to discuss the con-
tents of the older will. He said. how
ever, that Knight was not as familiar
with the condition of Oelrichs fortune
as he might be, and that the attorney
for Mrs. Oelrichs was mistaken in his
statement. Lloyd refused to further
explain his answer, saying that he did
not wish to start a controversy.
Mrs. Oelrichs. whose visit to the city
is creating surmise as to whether she
intends contesting the will, was ex-
pected last night at the st. Francis.
Word was received during the evening
that she would not arrive until this
morning. In the meantime a petition
in her name was filed asking that she
be appointed administrative of the
Charles Fair estate to succeed her late
husband.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
HEARsTs PICTURE TO WALL.
One Faction of the independence
League Bolts.


NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Disgusted
with the methods of the managers of
the Independence League the members
of the leagues organization in the
Eighteenth Assembly District tonight
turned the picture of William Ran
delph Hearst to the wall during a
meeting of the club at its headquar-
ters. Later Hearsts picture was hung
top down and his name was hooted
and jeered while the position of the
portrait was being changed, The club
determined to sever all connection with
the league after speeches by Louis
Reinach, president of the club. and
Alderman John j. Cronin, State COM
mitteeman from the Eighteenth Dis
trict.
Earlier In the day the delegation to
the State convention from the district
bolted from the convention and de-
neuneed Hearst and his managers for
unfairness as they withdrew. Cronin
and his friends became involved in a
dispute with the leaders of the league
during the session of the State COM
mittee at the Gilsey house on Monday
night over the seating of the delega-
tion, and after a brief argument the
controversy became heated. Both
Hearst and Max T. Ihmsen, mis- man
ager, were denounced.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
DIR. RUGGLES OF
STOCKTON DEAD

STOCKTON, Sept. 11.-Dr. C. A. Rug
gles one of the best-known medical
experts of the State and resident of
Stockton for thirty-seven years, died
this afternoon from heart trouble He
was a member of the State BOARD of
Health for fifteen years and was
recognized authority on such diseases
as leprosy, consumption and smallpox
He served for four consecutive years
as president of the State Board of
Health, and while vice president of the
National Conferences of State Boards
was selected to make a special report
oil lepresy, to do which he visited Molo-
kai. He was a years of age and had
been Mason fifty years. He leaves
three sons. G. L. Ruggles. proprietor OF
the Stockton independent; j. e. Rug
giles OF Biggs and w. r. Ruggles of
Stockton.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
BRYAN TO SPEAK IN
LABOR s CAUSE.

OMAHA. Sept. 11.-William Jennings
Bryan is the first donator toward the
support of permanent labor temple
for the werkingmen of Omaha In
addition to giving his services as an
orator at a labor carnival being held
this week for the purpose of starting
fund, Mr.. Bryan has announced to the
committee that he will make an annual
cash donation of sic. In handing his
first payment to the committee Bryan
stated that his annual subscription
would have to be conditional on the
permanent exclusion of liquor and cards
from the temple premises. This, he
was assured, was the intention of those
who were working fer the erection Of
the building. Eugene V. Debs and
Samuel Gompers are announced as the
other speakers during the week of car
niyal.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
ALPARAISO FUND
GROWS SLOWLY.

WASHINGTON. Sept. lin view OF
the indifference OF the American people
toward contributing money for the as
sistance OF the sufferers from the VAL
paraiso earthquake and IRE IL Is PROB
able that the President will in short
time issue another proclamation calling
the attention Of the people of this eoun-
try to the distressing state OF anairs
in Valparaiso and asking for contribu-
tioas. The Red Cross headquarters In
this city today announced that they had
up to date received between $4,000 and
$4,000, but as yet the majority OF the
branch societies have not been heard
from.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
EXP EDITIONS WILL
SEEK THE POLES.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 11.-At the session
of the Polar Congress here today, DE-
Jean Charcot announced that he was
organizing an expedition to the South
Pole, and Charles Bernard. president of
the Belgian Oceanographie Society,
stated that the society was organizing
an expedition to the North Pole. The
two expeditions Will operate simultan-
eously and in concert.
Both DIR. Charcot and Bernard have
had experience in polar expeditions
The former, in November. 1903. sailed
from Buenos Ayres on board the ship
F'rancais for Grahamland, supposed to
be part of the great Antarctic continent
in the Western Hemisphere, on the
Atlantic side, near Patagonia. The ex-
pedition explored several unknown
points on Grahamland and determined
the contour of the external coast line
OF the Palmer Archipelago.
Bernard. French naval officer. Is
member of the permanent commission
of the International Association OF the
Navy. The plan of the Arctic Explora-
tion Company, which he is understood
to favor is that of employing two ships
in communication by wireless teieg-
raphy.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12

Seriously Wounded by Man WHOSE
saloon He Held Up.
SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 11--Natnan
w. Norton, aged 20 years. whose home
is in New York City. and who Is sara
TO be a strike-breaker from San Fran
cisco. was shot and perhaps fataliy
wounded here early this morning arter
he had held UP a saloon at First soutn
and Sixth West streets. He was shoe
by Max Domm, owner Of the saloon as
he was running away.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
BRITISH COAST IS
POORLY DEFENDED
Thirty-six German WarshiPs Succeed
In Touching Edwards shores
HnrinE ManeuVerA.

LONDON, Sept 1f.-Aeeording 20
the correspondent at Hamburg of the
Daily Mail, during the German naval
maneuvers the night of September 10
thirty-six torpedo destroyers accom-
pIished the sensational feat OF dashing
up and reaching the British coast, re-
turning without having been detected
The normal purpose Of the raid across
the North Sea was TO carry out the
search for the German feet, which.
however. the torpedo boat officers knew
was lying off Heligoland-
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
Bell Is Settled Upon
by Democrats as
Their Leader.
Continued From Page 1, Column :.

eeutive officers will be placed in the
field simply as a matter of form and
without any hope of success at the
polls. The Democratic leaders are
candid in this admission, but they
cherished a hope for the Governor un-
til they were forced to hold that hope
while swallowing the Hearst pill. They
have chosen to accept defeat in three
cornered fight rather than be gown
bearers in the Hearst procession. They
are making out their slate tonight and
will give little attention to any of the
Offices except the judiciary, which they
are striving to win.
sNAPPY GATHERING WITHAL.
When the hour came for the opening
of the convention ~today, the number
of delegates was SO ridiculously small
that an adjournment was taken until
1870 o'clock. 1t was asserted also that
the organization was having an uncom-
Portable half hour with Fitzgerald, who
insisted upon naming his own COM
mittees. The difficulty was adjusted
and the convention met In numbers
it was small, far below what it's mem
bership should have commanded. 1t
was snappy lively, enthusiastic, as all
Democratic assemblages are. A Demo-
crat would give life and movement to
the progress of a rout. There was the
customary row and the whole eonven-
tion threatened at one stage of the
proceedings to constitute itself a col
lective sergeant-at-arms and kick out
the offenders. Peace came in speech.
however, and the offended Democracy
proceeded. 1t almost broke loose again
when with great earnestness r. NJ
Fitzgerald told of his anti-corporation
record. When the delegates proved they
could stand that without an exhibition
of mob violence, they showed that no
surprise in the programme will be
great enough to disturb them. They
will meet again tomorrow to nominate
their ticket.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
DELos d. wILDER DEAD.

SANTA CRUZ. Sept. Il.-Delos
Dwight Wilder, an oetogenarian and
one of the best known dairymen in
California, died yesterday at his home
in his dairy up the coas.. He had one
of the best equipped dairies of the
State, having been the first to intro
duce the separator. He was eighty
years OF age and was born in Connecti-
cut In 1853 he crossed the plains and
first settled in Placer County In
1859 he went to Marin County and In
1871 came to Santa Cruz and engaged
in dairying with L. K. Baldwin. The
deceased leaves a wife and two sons,
Melvin and Delos
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
ANTI-TRUsTERs FOR sILzrR

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Henry Mar
tin. secretary of the American Anti
Trust League, announced today that
the league was in favor of the nomina-
tion of Representative William Sulzer
for Governor at the Democratic con-
vention at Buffalo.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
TWENTY LEAGuERs MEET.

ALAMEDA, Sept 11.-Twenty per-
sons attended an Independence League
meeting tonight at Lindermann Hall.
C. c. Boynton presided. l. Chap
man, Thomas White and Charles p.
Fox made speeches, the tenor of which
was that the league was formed ito
down the bosses"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
To Get More Strength
from Your Food.

vHEN the Bowels are filled
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starved.
Because food that stays too long In
the Bowels decays there. just as II Il
stayed too long in the open air.
Well. when food decays in the Bowels.
through delayed and overdue action. what
happens7
The millions of little Suction Pumps
that IIne the Bowels and Intestines then draw
Poison from the decayed Food, instead Of
the Nourishment they were intended to
draw.
This Poison gets into the blood and. In
time, spreads al over the body. unless thc
Cause of Constipation is promptly removed
That cause of Constipation is Weak. OF
Lazy Bowel Muscles.
When your BowelMuscles grow flabhy
they need Exercise to strengthen them, not
"Physic" to pamper them.
There's only one kind Of Artificial Ex-
ercise for the BcwsI-Musclcs.
Its name is 'cAScARETS." and its
price is Ten Cents box.
So. If you want the same natural action
that six mile walk in the country would
give you, without the weariness) take ems
Casearet at time. with intervals between.
till you reach the exact condition you desire.
One Casearet at time viii properly
cleanse foul Breath. or Coated Tongue.
Don't fail to carry the Vest Pocket
cascaret Box with you constantly.
All Druggists sell them-ovsr ten million
ecxss year.
Be very careful to get the genuine.
nsds only by the Sterling Remedy Com
paay and never sold in bulk. Every tablet
stamped "ccc. Ia
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
FORMER RECTOR OF TRINITY DIES

PACIFIC GROVE, Sept. 11.-Rev Ho-
bart Chetwood, formerly rector OF Trim
ity Church, San Francisco, passed
peacefully away here this evening. Hs
was born in Elizabeth. N. j., In 1880.
coming to California In 1871. He was
actively engaged in the work of the
Episcopal Church for ffty-two years.
One son, Joseph Chetwood, an attorney
OF San francisco. survives him.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
Serious Trouble Is
Threatened in
Goldfeld.
sTRIKE-BREAKER SHOT.
Continued From Page L, Column l.

night. but il Is not known exactly Wnae
matters are to be taken up.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12

TWO CRIMINALS sENTEEcED.-WfIiam II
Bean alias Frank Halstead. who pleaded guilty
70 an Indictment for presenting a false affda vit
for q pension. and william Mead. who pleaded
guilty 10 an indictment for counterfeiting. were
sentenced yesterday by Cnited States District
Judge Whitson 70 two years Imprisonment at
hard labor in the penitenriary at San Quentin
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Imperial Watchman. C,o.t.

Louis Weule Co., agents, I06 Steuart
st.-Watches, clocks, chronometers.
nautical instruments. U. S. Govt charts
and maps
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san Francisco Veterinary College.

Next session begins October 1st For cata.
fogue apply to DR.. Z. j.. Creeiy, President s45
Golden Gate avenue
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Readaehes and Neuralgia from Colds.
Laxative Brou,o QuiniDe. world wide Cold and
Grip remedy. removes cause Call for fun name
Look for signature of z. ". Grove. 25o.
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Relief Employees Clamor For
Their Overdue August Pay.

$4,000 fund at headquarters
d their
Dmann the delay
bonowe personally, o pyh smaller
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-17
CAR DETERMINED
TO AVOID A BREACH

st. Petersburg, May 16-In spite of the
fear that the addresses in reply to the
speech from the throne moved Tuesday
in the lower house of parliament would
precipitate an immediate conflict between
the crown and parliament. the Associated
Press is in a position to state that En-
peTOT Nicholas is determined to avoid a
breach if possible.
Not only will political amnesty be
granted. but the emf error is ready to
replace the GOremykin ministry with a
cabinet chosen from among the cOnSCrV-
atIve members in the lower house in the
hope of effectinC a compromise. He is
not willing, however, to permit the ma
jOTity to select the premier. but once
such a concession is made it is difficult
to understand how the emperor can halt
halfway and refuse a full constitutional
monarchy. which government by parIia-
mentary majority involves. Practically
parliament already has won a great vic
tory.