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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-14
"sHoRTYn eRAY's CLOSE CALL.

r. L. Gray. commonly known among his friends -
shorty Is living farm. six miles mort,
OF AIangum. He was IN town Monday and to I
Sua-Monitor reporter told OF an experience ne aaa
his family had with lightning last Friday night
He had some dynamite N the house. and says 20
had warning to get the stun out or the house.
He had Just taken IL out and thrown Il n tss
yard and was returning TO the house when co..
struck the due 10 the Kitchen stove, ran down ~
stovepipe through the stove, filing the room ~
a cloud OF ashes, then going down the 'front.' es.
OF the stove and through the floor. No one Nat
hurt and the stove was not injured. shorty
says he felt sure that somebody's tins mad eol1s
right then--Mangum Sun-Nonitor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-14
HN GETTING ON TO THE FARM T7S5SA
Splendid Work Being Done Along This Line in New
York by Highly Practical Phlanthropists

Portable house. roomy enough TO accommodate
his family and summer boardeTs besides. He
could secure fresh vegetables. and there was an
income of at least $500 5000 year. Was the
exhibition a painting OF promised land unat-
tainable to those whom IL would most benefit?
The visitor turned to one of the directors of the
exhibition:
How do these men, with their beggarly in
comes buy he
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
"ADAN" To START AN EDEN
IN WILD AND WOOLLY WEST
Creature Who Claims to Be Founder
of Race on Way to Coast
With Followers.

OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Aug. 21-
James F. Sharp. who says he is Adam.
and a band OF followers numbering
about fifty marched through the streets
today from their abandoned camp out
side the city They are on their way TO
the Pacific Coast Sharp led parade
OF half nude persons through the
streets here about a year ago, which
resulted in one of the band being sent
70 an asylum
Sharp returned here a few weeks ago
and established a camp east Of town
where many Of his followers went
without clothing under the belief that
they were in the garden of Eden. They
were arrested time and time again and
fined Sharp says that ii was a case
Of persecution and decided to go to the
coast In the parade through the streets
there We're many little children who
had marched for eight miles without
stopping and were hardly able to walk
Covered wagons containing a dozen or
more babies brought up the rear of the
parade.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
ROSE CITY TUTORS
DOING POLITICS.
Teachers Line Up Be-
hind Miss Coulter in
denomination Fight
USING PETITIONS
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SANTA ROSA. Aug. 21.-The cam
paign for the nomination of Superin-
tendent OF Schools in this county be-
fore the Democratic county convention
is lively one Miss Minnie Coulter
is a candidate, to succeed herself for
the third term. and former Principal A.
c. McMeans Of the Fremont School in
this city is her opponent =
The teachers of the county favor the
retention of Miss Coulter and are
.busily engaged circulating petitions
which all teachers and trustees of
schools are asked to sign, requesting
the delegates to the Democratic con-
vention to renominate Miss Coulter.
They recite her qualifications and
claim that they are the best fitted to
judge of the work done by the super
intendent
The petitions were circulated in the
CHURCHES Sunday night, the friends
of Miss Coulter taking advantage of
the opportunity to reach a large num-
ber of teachers with little work.
Professor McMeans' candidacy is the
direct result of his unceremonious re-
moval as principal of the Fremont
School in July by the Santa Rosa Board
of Education. The sentiment on both
sides of the fight makes it one of the
deepest concern to the friends of each
candidate.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
-"-ycE1


the Linden Hotel, South San Francisco
began in Judge Bucks court here to-
day. The morning was spent In select
ing a jury and only two witnesses were
examined during the afternoon.
DR.. d. B. Plymire. the first witness
gave some expert testimony as to the
condition of the body of Mrs Brandrur
when he examined it shortly after the
murder had been committed. He de-
clared that the woman came to her
death by strangulation and that the
large scratches upon her neck were
without doubt made by the finger nails
The most Important part of tile doc.
tors testimony however. was a posi-
tive statement that mortar and plaste,
were found by him in the woman
hair and on her body Some plaster
he asserts. was also ground into thf
wounds upon her neck.
The second witness. Miss BIise Van.
derbos. chambermaid of the Linder
Hotel, testified that it was her belle,
that the woman was murdered in Jones
room and her body dragged from ther,
to the adjoining room.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
SAUNDERS HAS coon RECORD.
Enjoys Reputation as n Careful and
Able Navfenfor.

The Pacific Mail Company made ar
rangements with the Togo Kisen Kai-
sha Company yesterday for the liner
Hongkong Maru. which will leave here
on Friday. to carry a number of the ILL
fated Manchuria's passengers from
Honolulu to their destinations in the
Orient. The Hongkong will be able to
take about 100 cabin passengers, 20
steerage and about 800 Asiaties. Those
unable TO find accommodations on the
Hongkong will be taken to the Far
East on the Korea, which will leave
here September 4.
Much sympathy was expressed yes
terday for Captain Saunders. who has
assumed the blame for the Manchuria
disaster. For many years Captain
Saunders safely navigated various
liners between here and Panama. In
and cut of dangerous dogholes of
ports, in daylight and dark, in fair
weather and foul, he directed the
movements of his ship without mishap
He commanded the liner Newport when
she was chartered by the Government
as an army transport during the Span
ish-American war. The Newport was
selected by General Otis as a flagship,
and in her he visited a number of the
Philippine Islands. Over little trav-
eled and poorly surveyed routes,
through intricate channels, Captain
oaulQETS lidNl6 dlSQ TIE NSSStl III safety
and brought her home without a
scratch on her paint.
AS far as the Pacific Mail service is
concerned, Saunders career is un-
doubtedIy at an end, but he has many
friends and when clear of his present
trouble Will have little difficulty in get
ting another command.
A well-known shipping man in a po-
sitioE to do as he Wills said yesterday:
Saunders is an able navigator and
has my deepest sympathy in his pres
ent trouble. He has taken the blame,
and probably was responsible, but that
does not change my opinion of his abil-
ity, and when he gets out of this and
wants another ship will have no hes
itation in giving him one"
The Manchuria, it is generally un-
derstood. IS the personal property OF
L. H Hartman, who also owns the
Magnolia Both vessels were chartered
to the Pacific Mail Company. 1t would
take three years to build vessel sim
liar to the Manchuria-
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
.LO0TERs DESTROY
PHONE CABLE.

An attempt to steal the cable Of the
Pacific States Telephone Company on
Jessie street on Monday night resulted
in several hundred phones south OF
Market street being put out of COM
mission temporarily and also in the ar
rest of Albert Mcintyre and Richard
Mamlock. two 17-year-oId boys. who
were arraigned yesterday miornng be-
fore Police Judge Mogan.
The arrested youths deny all re-
sponsibilty of trying to steal the cable.
but admit that they were taking nrass
fixtures from the cellar of building at
the corner Of Sixth and Jessie streecs.
The temporary cable strung by the
telephone company for the accommoda-
tion of it's south of Market street
patrons passes through the basement
of the house in which the lads were
operating The hundreds of tiny cop
per wires wound in the cable proved
attractive, apparently, to the young
looters, and they tugged and hauled at
it until the electric connection was
broken.
ming down the trouble with the system
Jessie-street house and summoned Po-
liceman j. Powers. who placed Nc
Intyre and Mamlock under arrest. The
accused boys strenuously assert that
they did not intend to steal the copper
cable and say that two men whom they
had seen around the house in the after
noon must have done the damage
After being ararigned on a charge OF
grand larceny before Judge Mogan the
defendants were released on $500 cash
bail each
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
GIRLS BODY FOUND
.hFLOAT IN DAY.
pEc1AL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
SAN RAFAEL, Aug. zI.-Guard Frank
3. Moulton discovered the body of d
iO-year-old girl, clad only in home
made union suit OF underclothing. float
ing near San Quentin Prison today He
notified the officers. who had the body
brought here. The Deputy Coroner be-
lieves that the body had been in the
water for two weeks. A plain, small
gold ring adorned the middle finger of
the right hand.
Although the body had the appear
snce Of having been in the water two
weeks. some are inclined TO believe it is
that of Ethel Wilson. the 1O-year-old
6aughter of Captain Wilson of the
schooner Agnes. She disappeared from
the schooner on July and was sup
posed to have been kidnapped by Chi
nese fishermen living at Point San Pc
dro.
CAPTAIN wilson's family were living
IA san Francisco, but were driven from
their homes since the earthquake by
Increased rents AS his schooner was
doing very little, he moved his family
aboard il They were happy on their
floating home until the disappearance
Of the little girl.
wilson's home was at III Moultrie
street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22

~
yard as the most honorable thing he
could have done under the circum-
stances.
The letter, which he has forwarded
to the commanding officer of the ship,
Captain Gilee B. Harber, is as follows:
Sir-In view of the articles that have
recently appeared in the press regard
ing my brother officers of this ship, and
particularly against Paymaster Nichol-
son and Paymaster's Clerk Poore, in
Justice to them / feel it my duty to
refute the false statements made pub
lie.
was not introduced to Marion
Churchill by Paymaster Nicholson and
at no time has there been any jealousy
between US, nor to my knowledge has
she ever been entertained aboard ship
by any of my brother officers
The officers of the wardroom are in
no sense responsible for my present
trouble. and in fact throughout the
whole affair they have done all that
was in their power to assist me, so
feel that as they have been brought
out in so damaging a light the least
that l can possibly do is to contradict
the false accusations that have been
made.
The charges that they have made
me the scapegoat in order to clear
themselves from any suspicion or pun
ishment for misconduct is absolutely
without ground. Very respectfully
E. II. DUNN, Lieutenant, u. S. NJ
The Commanding Officer, U. s. r. s.
Independence.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
SCHOOL TEACHERS
FEARS ALLAYED.

Many a school teacher will be, re-
lieved today when She reads that a mis-
take was made by the Board of Educa-
tion in the. construction OF the reso1u-
ton passed blythe members on Mon
day, and that vacation pay will be
withheld only until June 80. 1907 thus
making the no-pay period only eight
weeks in all.
When the resolution was decided
upon by the board it was understood
that it should only affect the present
fiscal year. The mistake in the word
ing of the document, which said that
no pay should be given between the
close of the spring term and the open
ing of the fall term of next year. was
not. noticed at the time the vote was
taken. but complaints from teachersfin in
various parts Of the city today kept
the members busy making explanations
Whether the pay will be given for
vacation time after June 80. 1907, is a
matter yet unsettled. but it is probable
that if the finances of the department
will admit the method Of payment will
be the same after that date as it has
been in the past
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
LIQUOR MEN ARE
GIVEN PERMITS.

At the meeting of the Police Com
missioners last night licenses to sell
liquor were granted to sixty-five ap
plicants. Owing to the absence of
Commissioners sUmbsen and Creswell
the board devoted all of it's time to the
consideration of the liquor license ap-
plications. Following is a list of the
applications granted:
George Coleman. 1897 Golden Gate
avenue; George H. Long, 308 Third
street; Mrs. j. Murphy. Point Lo-
bos and Thirteenth avenues; B. H.
BIC Polk street. Weisman & Stuart
Seventh and Mission streets; Albert
Mccormack. Buchanan and McAllister
streets; C. J.. Bergfeldt, los EaSf street;
W. Levy, 1856 Post street; James Con-
lons abs Steiner street; G. Bresser 129
East street: F. H. Meegard. 10S Ellis
street. p. MacDonough. 1902 Mission
street; Frank Conway, 139 Montgomery
Healy, Steiner and Sutter streets: Will
liam c.. Crayton, 71S Golden Gate ave-
nue.. Alfred Lewis, 1859 Ellis street; G..
Krampert & Eisenmenger. 212o sutter
street; T. Vicchio, S0515 Greenwich
street; Abe Morris. 50 Elm avenue
John Manning. S27 Tehama street;
George Sarantideo, 407 Haight street;
John Dorr, 1923 Geary street; Baker &
Stuart, Cough and Turk streets. J. w.
Becker, 904. McAlifster street; j. Olsen,
mira ana harrison Streets J.aW. Hlley.
I'll Willow avenue. Ivancovich & de la
Montanga. 1927 Fillmore street; C.
Carl. 422 Broadway: P. F. Kehnke. 80
Market street; John vetmisich. 52S Va
lencia street; r.. Beasley. Fourth and
Bryant streets; C. A. Peacock, 235 Olive
street; w. F. Reeder. 945 O'Farrell
street; John Galley. 333 Montgomery
street: NJ. j. Norton. 12S East street. w.
Stanty. T2I Folsom street; ]. Mckee,
3210 Sixteenth street; Anderson &
Meyer. Thirteenth and Howard streets;
Leon D. Stone. 1922 Sutter street: No
dena & Pierre, 70S Front street: Levy
Wine Company, 1431 Eddy street; F.
Byrne, los East street; Ward & La
moore. IL Polk street; Smith and Ber-
itch, 231 Larkin street; H. j. Sullivan,
312 Olive avenue: NJ E. & ". T. Dinni-
gan. Pierce and Ellis streets: L. Pien-
ming. 327s Sixteenth street; John Gill.
337 Third street; r. T. Gift. II u Stock
ton street: H. F. ,Sahlander. PSI Ma
toma street; j: o. Winters. Davis and
Clay streets; F. Hemicke. Hyde and
Filbert streets; r. Lynch. 80 Julian
avenue; w. Stillell. Hyde and Ellis
streets. and Albert Goldstein. AS Hayes
street.
The board will meet again at police
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
SUING TO DISRUPT
WATER COMBINE.

SAN JOSE. Aug. '21-The Bay cities
Water Company, which is the defend
ant in numerous suits brought by fruit
growers in the valley to restrain it
from diverting the waters of the Coyote
Creek, today brought action against the
San Jose Water Company, the. Spring
Valley Water Company and the Sub
urban Company to condemn certain
lands owned by them. forming strip
directly across the reservoir site OF
the plaintiff
The Bay Cities Company during the
past few years has acquired 15, 900
acres Of land for water purposes along
the Coyote, Llagas and Twas creeks. 1t
claims 100000 inches of water from
tlrese three streams, and it is said to
have expended nearly $2.00O000 in its
ps { jcct of acquiring and impounding
the water.
In its complaint. the company alleges
that the defendant companies are mo-
nopolies. and that they have conspired
together to hold this strip of land to
prevent the construction of the reser-
voir, and that they are maintaining an
armed guard there TO prevent the en-
ployes of the plaintiff from working.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
BOYS IN PRISON FOR
STEALING HORSE.
Runaway Lads From San
Francisco Fall Into
Hands of the Police
MAKING FOR HOME
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.


BYRON Aug. 21-Isidore Navarro
and Isidore Goldstein. aged respectively
sixteen and thirteen years. were arrest
ed yesterday by Constable LIE Grand!
charged with stealing a horse near
Tracy. They brought the animal up
the valley. coming directly through
town. Constable Giesekie of Tracy was
sent for and took the boys to Jail this
evening
Both youths ran away from home in
san Francisco several days ago, and
after reaching Tracy became disheart-
ened and sought to get back home
They took a horse from a pasture and
intended, so they say, to ride to Oak
land
The Navarro boy says his parents are
refugees and live in Golden Gate Park.
in tent 36, on First street. The Gold
stein boy says his parents are also refu-
gees and live in a tent at c street.
Golden Gate Park. They both claim to
have run away from home because OF
bad treatment They do not look hard
ened or criminal The younger boy is
a mere child.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
VAST AREA STOLEN,
SAYS HENEY.
Attorney Outlines Case
Against State Senator
Mays and Associates
TRACES BIG DEAL

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 21.-With the
completion of the jury in the United
States District Court today. in the case
of sthe United States against State SEN
ator Franklin P. Mays, former State
Representative Willard N. Johnson and
Deputy Sheriff George Sorrenson the
Government forces cleared its decks
for action and in the opening argument
of Francis ]. Heney. special assistant
to the Attorney General echoes were
heard of battles that are past as we'll
as the nlutterings of the battle that is
at hand.
= Heney spoke for an hour and a half
and during that time outlined clearly
and definitely the alleged wholesale
fraud by which the Government
charges the defendants and others
gigantic steal If the Governments
charges are true, all Of the other
fra ads in this State appear puny by
comparison. Heney's outline of what
the Government claims it can prove, in
part, follows:
We expect to prove that the defend
ants in this case were implicated In a
conspiracy whereby they obtained from
10000 to 100000 acres of school lands
from the State by fraud. These sections
were in the proposed boundaries of the
Blue Mountain forest reserve, and these
created. 49, t@4
AS early ase1soo Defendant Johnson
commenced to get school lands in the
region that was afterward turned into
this reserve We. will Also show that a
man named Kelleher. who is living in
Chicago. commenced buying school
lands ql there ,,T for specqlatisxs At purposss
and Sorrensen had an addition put or
the Cascade forest reserve through
United States SenatorE John H Mitchell
created July 1. 1901. and that Mays and
Sorrenson acquired title to- all the iva
cant school lands in this. addition. II
inm ediately they conceived the scheme
of creating a much larger reserve, and
George Sorrenson went around various
north end Portland saloons and. other
resorts and secured signatures to ap-
plications in blank for so cents apiece.
The Government expects to show
further that Senator Mitchell expedited
sioner of the General Land Office and
Secretary of the Interior and kept
continually writing to Mays, telling
him what he had done.
1t will be shown that John l.. Rand
C. A. Johns and other leading citizens
of Eastern Oregon. came down here to
see Senator Mitchell for the purpose OF
protesting against the creation of the
reserve and that as soon as they tele-
phoned Mitchell that they were comins &
the Senator Immediately held a COM
sultation with Mays about it, so that
when the delegation reached here they
were met by the assertion from Mitch
with forming the reserve, but that
President Roosevelt was unalterab bly,
welded to the forestry policy and could
not be swerved in his determination.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
'MAs[ IS 4 LIAR, =
SHOUT TAUzSkY.

Mase is liar and a perjurerl''
shouted Lawyer Edward Tauzsky.
The stucco Cupids on the walls of
the United States Circuit Court shud-
dered Two of the jury awoke, sat up
and took notice. Lawyer Bert Schles-
niger, who represents Mr. Mase.
blushed. and Judge Edward Whitson.
who, without seeming effort, had kept
awake all day; forthwith addressed Mr..
Tsuzsky: Il think, such language is
very improper at this stage of the
case. When the counsel comes to ad-
dress the jury and he desires to call
Mr.. Mase a liar or d perjurer. he may
do SO, but it is not proper at this
time
The occasion for, this startling cpl
scde was. the trial of the case of the
Pine HILL Consolidated Mining Company
VS.. Cert. who three years ago was SUI
perintendent of the mine, which is To-
Gated in Placer County. 1t was shown
that, during the year and nine months
of his incumbency. he received from
the company s43,544, and there the dis
rute begins. Cert swore that he ex-
r.erded it all on behalf of the company,
an6 that he sent the vouchers for every
dollar of 1T to J. Frank Mase. secre-
tary of the compa, y at New York.
Mase deposed that there was a short
age of $1,000 in Cerfs accounts. and
that vouchers for that sum were never
sent to him and that they do not ex-
ist. To add to tho complication. the
books ct the mine kept by Cert cannot
be found. Cert said that he left them
in the office at the mine when he left.
What purports to be the account made
up by Mase from the monthly state
inents and vouchers sent by Cert show
the deficiency stated, and for having g
made as.deposition to that effect Mr..
Mase was branded by Lawyer Tauzsky
as liar and perJurer.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
DUNN EXONE IA TES
OTHER OFFICERS.
spEcIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

VALLEJO, Aug. 21.-Lieutenant Ed
ward H Dunn of the receiving ship
independence, who has ben severely
censured for his alleged attempt to
implicate his brother officers in the
scandal for which he himself has Just
been tried at the, navy yard. has come
forward with a letter, in which he fully
exonorates9 them from all blame in the
matter.
Since the publication of the accusa-
tions made by Marion Churchill the
messmates of Dunn have severely criti-
cized the latter, claiming that he was
responsible for the slurs that had been
cast upon the honor of. the officers of
the ship. The feeling in the matter
was such that they refused to speak
to him and it is only since he has writ
ten to the commanding officer of the
Independence fully generating them
from all the charges and insinuations
that have been made against them that
he has again been taken into favor.
His action is looked upon at the navy