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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

cisco. There was time, indeed,
when the stuff piled up to such an
extent as to paralyze the operation
of the roads. Five thousand cars of
freight were congested at San Fran.
cisco and Oakland. BY heroic eff
forts the lingering freight was dis
posed of and serious situation re-
lieved. Now that the railroads are
able to look after their own business,
they are expanding great sums in
permanent improvement, which will
facilitate the reconstruction of the
city.
Insurance Situation Hurts.
The insurance situation at San
Francisco Is exasperating to those
who happened to have policies in
shaky or dishonest companies, but
on the whole the lapses Of these com.
panies have not affected the city
as seriously as early reports indi-
Gated. Nearly one-haf OF all losses
has been paid Considering the fact
that insurance records, as we'll as
everything else, went up in smoke,
this Is fairly good showing for Ave
months. Payments are being made
through the banks at the rate of near
ly $1,000,000 a day. The money goes
into circulation for the most part,
and the resulting activity overshad-
ows the fact that hundreds of other
policy holders are waiting for set
Element
The people OF San Francisco per-
sonally and through their commercial
organizations, are watching the insur-
ance companies with a jealous eye.
Companies that come to the front
with money are reaping harvest of
new business, while those which
fought for time or actually repudiated
their obligations in whole or in part
will be made to smart for it.
The chamber of commerce is MAX
ing up list Of honest and dishonest
companies. The California delegation
in congress will have something to
say on the subject next winter. The
names of defaulting companies are
to be sent broadcast through the
world, and the opinion is universal in
San Francisco that in the long run
the defaulting companies will dis.
cover that they played losing game
when they defrauded policy holders Of
their rights.
Insurance litigation promises to
become great Policy holders who
have money enough to fight are not
slow in invoking the aid of the courts.
One or two important cases already
have been decided, but the critical
question is yet to be passed upon.
This question is as to the part played
by the earthquake in causing fire
losses. Policies are variously word
ed, but in the main they provide that
payment shall not be made if the
loss is caused directly or indirect
ly'' by earthquake or other act Of
God. OF course, if there had been
no earthquake there would have been
no fire, but the man whose house was
consumed three days after the
quake does not think the indirect
cause is quite close enough to the
effect to justify the insurance COM
panies in repudiating all liability.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

Jacob Stadfeldt, for more than sc
years in the employ of the San Fran
cisco mint, has resigned. He received
the highest salary of any mint EN-
ploy In the government service.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
All Looked Alike,

Uncle Eph had long boosted that he
had never needed the services of a
doctor, but now he was i'll, and his
neighbor felt that the time had come
when a physician should be called.
Come now, Uncle Eph," said she,
I'VE will call whomever you wish
you know there's good allopath and
good homeopath, and there's new
doctor, an osteopath. Now, who'll you
have?'
"Wal," drawled Uncle Eph, Il dun
no ez it matters-they do say that all
paths lead to the gravel"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

Hitch your wagon to a
star,
Or just as near 1t as you
can;
Be gentle, II the world
will let you,
For the morrow always
plan.
Don't be timid, don't be
boastful,
Don't borrow coin or
cooking pan;
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
ENGLISH Motor Trucks.

Motor lurries" is the name given
in Manchester, England, to power
trucks. These trucks pay well, pro-
vided they always have full loads tc
carry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

written years by relation of that fellow Omar
Khayyam who the historians tenmaker who wrote poetry
that the clown fellows read to the criminal when
they having beeea parties along about the time that they
teaching Cleopatra to a nursing bottle
The thing about that strikes most forcby that you can't
put any twist the truth that will make stronger than
those chaps writing philosophy without the aid of typewriter
and nterviewers to give them a boost
higher you aim any game the certain you to hit
something all trying make of kind in life
If doesn't set his aims high else will
To for nlac bookke
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
Show True American Grit.

During the disaster the good humor
and self-possession of San Francis
cans astonished the world. Now, in
the long tug of disposing Of the
ashes and rebuilding the city, this
good humor never deserts them, and
they are as confident as though they
were beginning city for the first
time. There is inspiration in num-
bers, comfort in common trouble, and
a spirit of brotherhood that has not
deserted them, although it is not as
marked as it was during times of
danger. The love of good cheer in
the way Of eating, drinking and lis
tening to music is as strong as ever.
The climax is a continual tonic, and
invites to hard work. The very size
of their disaster seems to nerve the
San Franciscans to hasten the recon
struction of the new city. They come
very near to Boosting when they show
their ruins, and some of them display
remarkably fresh memory of his
tory by comparing their disaster with
the fate of other cities that have per-
ished by earthquake and fire, and
risen again. According to these men,
who cite history while making it,
the only bonfire that excelled San
Francisco's was that which con-
sumed Rome in Nero's time. The
great fires of London, Boston, Chi.
cago and Baltimore were mere hints
of what a real confagration can do
So say these dusty, smiling, tireless
San Franciscans, who revel in the
advertising that their city has OBJ
tanned. Their belief in the speedy
reconstruction of the city is absolute,
and they are backing their belief with
money and energy that balks at
nothing.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
SHOES FOR EVERYBODY Ar ALL PRICES

Misses & Children's Shoes, So. IS TO $1.oo.
Try w. L. Douglas WOnen's, Misses and
Children's shoes; for style, ut and wear
they excel other makes.
Ii could take you into my largo
factories at Brockton, Mass. land show
you how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are OF greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, You can obtain w. L.
Douglas shoes. His name and price Is stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against high
prices and inferior shoes. Take no Sabstis
tute. Ask your dealer for w. l.. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color Eyeiets used; they WH not Wear byassy.
Write for illustrated Cataiog of Fall Styles.
w. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. II. Brockton, Mass.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
"city Beautiful Must Wait.

There has been much talk of "city
beautiful" with winding avenues
about the hills, broad boulevards, park
extensions, and so on. 1t was thought
that with the buildings leveled to
the ground the opportunity was open
for the construction of a model mod
ern city, uniting utility and beauty to
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
BUILT UP Her HEAL TH
SPEEDY CURE OF MISS GCODE
r6he Is Made Well by Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and
4 Writes Gratefully to Mrs. Pinkham.

For the wonderful help that she has
found Miss Cora Goode, 255 K. Chicago
Avenue, Chicago, ILL.,, believes it her
duty to write the following letter for
blication, in order that other women
AFFLICTED In the same way may be
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

city needs 10000 skilled men and
could employ 10000 unskilled labor
ers. Some OF the shrewder unskilled
men have dubbed together and form
ed little companies of their own. They
take contract to remove debris for
a price, and perform tie work during
the noon hour and In the night. AS
unskilled labor Is getting 81 day,
these willing workers who put in
extra time are getting more money
than they ever saw before. In much
of the burnt district work is carried
on by electric light.
VIII San Francisco ever be, rebuilt =?
is the question asked by people In
the east. The answer Is that San
Francisco Is now being rebuilt 1t Is
not question of the distant future.
The process Is visible to the naked
eye. Every steel building that was
under construction at the time of the
disaster Is being rushed to compile
ton. Other buildings have been con-
tracteG for, and with the removal Of
debris and the arrival of materials
the work will proceed. Nothing could
be more absurd than to doubt the re-
covery of San Francisco from its
great misfortune, in the face of the
work that Is actually in progress.
The contract for the reconstruction Of
the Palace hotel on it's old site, on
grander scale than ever, has been
let. The st. Francis is now complet-
ing it's great steel annex. Business
houses are arranging to build newer
and stronger structures than those
which succumbed to the conflagration
of April IS to 81. The city will not
be rebuilt in day, or a year, but it
will go up with a remarkable quick
ness.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

man came to me for place as a bookkeeper
in big place where friend of mine had some in
fuence, and / said: "You can't be bookkeeper
You are only porter" and he replied:
s'Well, let's start for the bookkeeping job and
maybe we'll land on some job between that and a
cold throw-down."
He had the ur-wagon-to-a-star" idea,
all right
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
DEAD WITH HER NECK BROKEN.
Woman, Apparently wealthy, Fell Down
Stairs I'm Her Home.

Mrs. Elizabeth G.. Madden, Al years old.
who has lived alone for eight years in a
house which she owns at 1893 East 1Ssth
street. was found dead yesterday at the
foot Of the stairs leading to the second
floor. Her neck was broken and, accord
ing to Coroner's Physician Riegelman, she
had been dead for several days.
Coroner Mcdonald and the police are
convinced that the woman fell down stairs.
There was no evidence Of foul play. The
body was discovered by Henry j. nevoe,
a painter, who had been engaged a week
ago to work inside Mrs. Madden's house.
In the woman's bedroom Coroner Nc
Donald found three boxes Of papers, mostly
deeds. Tho papers showed that Mrs.
| Madden owned seven houses in the neigh
borhood and had q large sum of money in
bank. To-day the Coroner will look
through the papers in the hope OF finding
q will or some clue to Mrs. Mndden's rela-
tives. In the meantime the body has been
placed in the Harlem morgue.
Gustave REIN and his family, who rented
the basement Of Mrs. Madden's house
told the police that she had not been seer
since last Saturday. From REIN and the
neiehbors the police learned that Mrs
Madden came from Boston eight year
ago.. She received no callers except a few
women, supposed to be actresses, for whom
she made dresses.
She told the neighbors that she made
dresses for May Irwin and Viola Allen
and had once made a gown for Sarah Bern
hardt. She told them that six months
ago she had made a $500 dress for Nell!
Berwick Of the Simple Simon" company
Besides the papers in the woman's room
there was a suit case half packed, as though
Mrs. Madden had been about to start on
journey when she fell. Nothing was dis
turbed in the rooms.
Coroner Mcdonald said last night tina
while he had not had time to look owe
all the papers he had seen enough to con
vince him that Mrs. Madden was wort
over 800, 600.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
THE DEBTS OF MADAME
For Antiques, New shoes, Bread and Butter
summer school, Furs. Ice and So On.

For Antiques, New shoes, Bread and Butter.
summer school, Furs. Ice and So On.
Florence j. Rose, residing at 214 West
Forthwith street, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy with liabilities s., 100 and no
assets. The debts were contracted between
1901 and 1905 in this city, White Plains,
Plainheld, N. j., Flushing, Baltimore,
Washington and London. They are for
borrowed money, antiques, board, doctors,
dresses, dry goods, clothing, furniture, furs.
flowers, groceries, hairdressing, ice, jewelry,
livery, millinery, photos, piano hire, shoes,
stationery, summer school, tailoring, tele-
phone. trunks, DC. Among the creditors
are Edward j. La Place, 81 1000 for antiques;
T. Kirkpatrick, 81, 800 for jewelry; Emelio
Clark, $500, borrowed money; Woodward
A Iathrop, Washington, $500, dry goods;
McGibbon Il Co, $3.50, merchandise; Jessie
Kirkland, $3.50, dresses, and Marine Struz-
zieri, $3.50, tailoring. There are fifty credi-
tors named in the schedules.
Mrs. Rose no longer lives at the address
given. Miss Louise Moss. who keeps the
boarding house there, said last night that
Mrs. Rose WAS a student in a theatrical
school at the Berkeley Lyceum and wac
the widow of a Washington physician
She was the author OF a book called "Froth
and Philosophy always paid her bills
at the boarding house promptly and paid
heavy telephone bills for talking to her
brother-in-law, who is in the Post Office
Department in Washington, - and to heI
boy at school in Pennsylvania.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
MRS. BOoTH SELLS HOPE HALL.
Had Two Reasons-Was Not Turned Out OF
Town or Bought Out.

Hope Hall, the temporary home for dis
charged ~conviots, which has been mann
tanned for seven or eight years at Flushing
by Mrs. Ballington Booth OF the Volunteers
of America, has been sold. The purchaser
is George X. Carpenter, a Manhattan real
estate operator, who 1t Is understood IN
Flushing ia acting for some one else.
The property was sold through James A.
GRAY OF Jamaica. The price is said to have
been Ss5, 900. Mrs. Booth paid, 1t is said,
in the n~eighborhood Of $4,000 when she
purchased it,
The abandonment Of Hope Hall will be
very pleasing to Flushing, which ever since
the institution was started has been OBJ
jecting to 1t.
Mrs. Booth in a letter to Leon Case, SEC
rotary Of the Board Of Trade OF Flushing,
Yesterday said she wished to be placed IN
a right light before the people of Flushing,
and wanted IL understood that she had
been neither bought out nor turned out OF
town. The sale OF Hope Hall was not q
victory for her enemies. No member OF
the committee of twenty-five which has
been e~ndeavoring to rid Flushing OF the
institution or any of their associates had
ANYTHING to do with the sale. Mrs. Booth
said she had W reasons to sell. One was
that with the greater amount of money
realized she could provide a better home
on the same plan and the other reason was
that she knew that the agitation against
the hall would result in keeping some men
from accepting its shelter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
FIRST COLLIERY RIOT CALL.
Men Working Near Wilkesbarre Attacked
by q Mob OF n Thousand.

WILKEsBARRE Pa. April 12.-The first
riot call Upon a Sheriff since the suspension
of mining was made this evening, when
officials of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany demanded protection for forty work.
men who were attacked by a mob at the
Franklin Colliery.
These men were not trying to mine coal.
but had been taking coal from a culm bank
to keep up the fires for the pumps, az per-
mitted by the orders Of President Mitchell
Of the Mine Workers Union.
At quitting time 200 men had gathered
about the o~olliery. As the men started for
home they we're rushed by the mob, stoned
andclubbed and driven back intothe colliery
gates. Chief Deputy Sheriff Jones and
Deputy Rhodda, together with Sergeant
wilhelm and ten troopers OF the State
mounted police, responded to the call for
aid. BY this time the crowd numbered
nearly q thousand and was IN an ugly
mood.
The State police found it necessary to
draw their clubs and spur their horses to
| force a way through, but the mob was so
threatening that upon the advice Of the
deputy sherihs no effort was made to escort
the men home. 1t was 30 dark that the
colliery foreman was able to identify only
two men, Cesar Monticello and Andrew
Deperts, among those who stoned the
workmen. The troopers dashed into the
crowd and captured these and they we're
later sent to Jail by Alderman Pollock. A
number of Others are to be arrested
Tomorrow. After the arrests the troopers
forced the crowd to dispense. The work
men are now behind the barbados at the
colliery and the deputy sheriffs and the
company's guards are protecting them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
provided in the Hepburn bill as "a cheat,

provided in the Hepburn bill as "a cheat,
humbug and fraud"
Il don't wan to appear to be severe
he added, amid great laughter, "but
believe the court review provided In the
Hepburn bill is a cheat, humbug and fraud,
and In saying it | shall not do 30 in essay
form" 1t was, he said, a craftily drawn
bill, drawn by lawyers who knew what
they were doing and was intended to de-
prive the courts of a review.
Mr.. Foraker cited the Michigan tax law
decision by the United States Supreme
Court recently as conclusive to his mind
that II the Hepburn bill was passed in its
present form it would be declared unconsti-
tutional in the first court in which it came
up. The Supreme Court had sustained
the con stitutionality of the Michigan Tax
law, because the legislation conferred no
legislative power on the local tax boards,
but prescribed that they should ascertain
the rate of taxation by a mathematical
computation according to a formula or
rules laid down by the Michigan Legis-
lature. This proved that rate making was
a legislative function and 1t could not be
delegated except to an administrative
board, which would conform in rate making
10 QeEnlue Tuleh ldlu GOWN ny SouBrebS'
Mr.. Morgan inquired why it would not
be advisable to bring interstate carriers
by water within the provisions of the bill
along with carriers by land.
Il oontended for that in the Committee
on Interstate Commerce. ;" said Mr.. Foraker.
Il approve Of it most heartily"
Mr.. Lodge addressed the Senate briefly
In favor of two pha ses of the pending rate
legislation that should not be omitted.
One was to secure advantage In rates for
goods intended for export and to prevent,
If possible, the practice of bringing into
this country from foreign ports goods at
a lower rate for the entire route from the
foreign port to an interior point in the
! United States than is charged for carrying
the same class of domestic products from
the port Of entry to the interior point
| Mr.. Lodge oontended that such discrimi'
nation in favor Of foreign goods PRACTICAL lily
nullifed the protection given to domestic
products under our tariff laws.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
RUSSIA YIELDS TO US.
Is willing to Hold the Peace Conference at
Later Date Than July.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Russian
Government has yielded to the contention
of the United States that the latter half OF
July Is not the best time for the converting
Of the second peacs conference at The
Hague, and to-day Baron Rosen, the Rus
sian Ambassador, informed Secretary Root
that Russia, after consultation with the
Government Of the Netherlands, which
will be the host, is entirely willing to enter
into an agreement to hold the conference
at some later date than July. 1t is believed
that an agreement will be reached to hold
the conference next fall.
Baron Rosen informed Mr.. Root that as
soon as this Government made objection
to the July date the Foreign Ofice at st.
Petersburg communicated with the Foreign
Office at The Hague. The Netherlands
Government informed Russia that it could
make arrangements to entertain the peace
conference at some later date than July,
even next fall, although the Dutch Parlia-
ment will then be using the Parlia ment
House, where it has been planned to hold
the conference, ahd accordingly Russia,
having suggested July only because it was
most convenient to the Netherlands, is glad
to acquiesce to the view taken by the United
States,
1t was learned to-day that besides this
Government a number OF others protested
against July as not being a convenient
time for the conference. Some of the
Powers took this view merely to support
the United States, while others thought
that a meeting OF the peace conference so
soon after the Red Cross convention at
Rerne in June would be inadvisable.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
TAKES 1T TO COUNTY COMMITTEE
Parsons Not Obliged to Let Odell District
Leaders Ride Him Down.

In the new a~pportionment scheme which
is being prepared by the anti-Parsons fac
ton of the Republican county committee
provision is being made to gather a large
colored population into one district. The
basis of the new district will be the present
Eleventh Assembly district, which has in it
2. 200 enrolled colored voters. William Dalton
is the Tammany leader and o P. Windolph
the Republican. BY including slices Of the
present Ninth, Thirteenth and Twenty
fifth districts in the proposed negro dis
trict LOO more colored voters will be
brought into one territory. In the present
Eleventh district Dalton has a margin of
about 1880 over the Republicans, but it is
thought that the new plan, assuming, OF
oourse, that the negroes will be on the
Republican side, will tend to make the
new district Republican.
There seems TO be little possibility OF a
compromise between the APP
pointed by Mr.. Parsons to prepare maps
for presentation to the Legislature on be-
half of the county committee and the
twenty district leaders known as the Odell
faction, who are arranging plans OF their
own. Mr.. Parsons had hoped that when
the executive committee got together there
| might be a peaceful solution OF the dit.
ficulty by combining the best features, OF
| the two plans. 1t vas learned yesterday
/ at the Republican county committee head
quarters that William C, Wilson, the chair,
man OF the Parsons committee, had asked
William Halpin, Odell's representative, for
a chance to inspect the maps so far com
pleted by his faction, but hat the per-
mission had been refused.
The result will be that Mr.. Parsons, in
stead OF abiding by a possible majority
vote against him at a meeting OF the exec,i'
tive committee, will force a test vote at the
meeting next Thursday OF the whole county
committed. In December many of the
members Of that committee broke away
from their district leaders and voted &C
cordino IN their DerSonal Judgment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
RACE SUICIDE IN BRITAIN.
Steady Decline in Marriages and Births
Market for Widows Weakens.

Special CobIe Dispatches TO TIE SUN
LONDON, April l2.-Detailed official mar
rage and birth statistics for Great Britain
in 1904 have just been issued. Besides
emphasizing the steady decline both In
marriages and births, the statistics furnish
some interesting sidelights on matrimonial
tendencies.
The f~ascinations Of widows markedly
decreased in male estimation, for while
in 1872 the mean annual marriage rate for
widows was 21.1 per 1,oOo, 1t was only 12.S
in 1904, a much greater decrease than in
the case Of spinsters, whose figures are
respectively es.l and 500.
There was also a disinclination on the
part Of widowers TO resume their bonds
for their rate of remarriage has fallen in
in the same years from B5.S to So, while the
figures for bachelors are 81 Z n 62.s.
Altogether there has been a fall Of 10 per
cent. In the marriage rate in IS years. AS
Regards the birth rate there has been q
steady increase since 1896. The rate fof
1904 was 27.s per thousand, the lowest on
record.