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The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
Society in Cities
Across the Bay

OAKLAND Dec. 24.-Among the
many hostesses who always do the
kindly thing for their friends at the
Christmas season is Mrs. W. S. Palmer.
Mrs. Palmer makes the holiday an oc-
casion not soon to be forgotten by
young and old alike, entertaining at a
children's party in the afternoon before
Christmas and inviting the older
friends to an elaboraet dinner and even
ing on Christmas eve. Mrs. Palmer
gathered fifty young peorle about her
at the handsome Palmer residence to-
day. There were games and music,
with beautiful Christmas tree and a
gift for each guest. A dainty supper
rounded out the happy afternoon. The
dinner this evening was smaller af-
fair, but equally delightful, the many
pretty customs of the day being OBJ
served.
Roselawn will oe the scene of a mer-
ry gathering on Christmas day. when
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Buffers entertain
at delightful holiday gathering A
tree brilliantly lighted and laden with
remembrances will be the feature of
the evening after the discussion of the
Christmas menu
At the Hush home in Fruitvale to-
morrow there will be happy reunion
when Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine G. Hush
gather about them their large family
to enjoy the celebration of the holiday
together. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Magee,
who have been spending the last sew
eral weeks in New York, have returned
in time to spend Christmastide at the
home place.
DR.. and Mrs. Frederick Morse will
entertain at family dinner at their
new residence on Madison street to-
morrow. They have just taken pos
session of the attractive home, having
moved in the past week, so the affair
will be in the nature Of a house
warming. Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Craig,
with the Craig boys and their brides
will be among the guests.
Another home where the day will be
celebrated in the good old fashioned
way is that of the II. C. Tafts. Early
in the morning the large Christmas
tree will be lighted with its many small
incandescents, and the family, includ-
ing Mr. and Mrs. II. c. Taft. Miss
Chrissie Taft, Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell
Taft, Miss Dorothy Taft and tiny Miss
Bessie Taft, will receive from its heavy
boughs> the many loving remembrances
of the season.
Mrs. Findley r. Gray and Miss Alice
Gray have come down from their home
in Sacramento to spend the holiday
week with Mrs. George H. Perry. Mrs
Gray will be the guest of honor al
the family dinner which her daughter
Mrs. Perry, is planning for Christmas
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
CHRISTMAS TRIBUNE TREATS
OF OAE<LAND'S ADVANCEMENT
Noteworthy Edition OF Newspnper
C0mprehensiveiy Describes Develop
ment of City Across the Bay

The Christmas edition of the Oak
land Tribune is noteworthy by reason
OF the fact that it represents the high
est type of the printing trades art and
was printed entirely at the Tribune
Publishing Company's plant. the color
work being done with unusual skill.
The edition is Of ninety eight pages.
a great volume devoted in the main to
the development of Oakland The won-
derful progress OF the city across the
bay has occasioned much comment and
there is no feature OF this progress that
is not touched on in the Tribunes
Christmas edition
Throughout the edition Is a hne
example of the enterprise of it's pub
fishers, placing the paper well ahead
in the line of advancement it's columns
so comprehensively describe.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
DEAD BODY FOUND BACK
OF AFFILIATED COLLEGES
Is Supposed to Be That of III. =. Palmer,
and Lay Undiscovered for
Two Months

The body of a man, supposed to be
that of H. S. Palmer. was found yes
terday in the hills back OF the Affiliated
Colleges by j. A. Descalso. The
morgue officials are of the opinion that
the man has been dead for at least two
months.
A man who refused to give his name
said that he saw Palmer wandering UP
the hill about two and half months
ago at o'clock in the afternoon. and
that the latter acted as If he were
crazed at the time.
The body was well dressed and was
apparently that of man about sixty
years of age. In one of the pockets
was found a note, which was hard to
decipher. but in which the word trou-
BILE appeared. 1t was signed H 8
Palmer" which gave rise first to the
belief that that was the dead mans
name.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
LARGE AUTOMOBILE BLOWS UP
AND THE CHAUFFEUR is BURNED
Touring Car Completely Destroyed by
Flames Resulting from Explosion
of Gasoline Reservoir

Some excitement was caused along
Golden Gate avenue at an early hour
yesterday morning by the blowing up
of the gasoline tank on an automobile
at the corner of Webster street and the
avenue.
The machine was driven by George
Sheppard, who was severely burned
about the face and arms in his efforts
to put out the blaze in which the auto
was Immediately enveloped.
A still alarm was turned in, but before
the fire engine arrived the auto, which
was a large touring car of the latest
pattern, was completely destroyed
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
SAYS THUGS BEAT HIM

OAKLAND, Dec. 24.-Manuel An
tonic. who lives at Fifteenth and
cypress streets, went TO the Receiv-
ing Hospital this morning suffering
from a severe scalp wound, which, he
said, he received at the hands of
two thugs who held him up and
robbed him near the ferry building
In San Francisco. Antonio said that
he was walking to take the ferry,
when the two men sprang upon him
from a dark corner. One felled him
with a heavy club and both rified
his pockets and fed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
QUIET CHRISTMAS In PARIS

PARIS. Dec. 25.-The advent Of
Christmas was attended in Paris last
night with the usual festivities. Christi
mas here brought out an enormous
crowd of people to the streets, and the
gayeties were kept up untl an early
hour this morning in spite of tile sup
preston of the midnight masses and a
drenching downpour OF rain.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE

Los ANGELES, Dec. 24.-John King.
10 years of age, committed suicide this
afternoon by taking strychnine because
he feared that he would lose his posi-
tion as Janitor in the Pacific Electric
building His expectation was based
on the fact that he did not wake up
early enough to get to work on time
this morning.
King came to Los Angeles several
weeks ago from Indianapolis
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
RESTRICTION on OPIUM TRADE

PEKIN, Dec 24.--Among the chief
proposals made by China to Great Brit
ain with respect to the Indian opium
traffic are the restriction of the impor-
tation of Indian opium until the dis
appearance of the traffic within a
decade, the doubling of the import
duty and the enforcement of the NOR
phia clause of the Mackay treaty with
out waiting for the assent of other
powers.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
.ccrsED BOYS GIVEN A CHANCE

OAKLAND, Dec. 24.-The cases of
Lee Gersch, aged 16. and Edwin New,
* years old, who pleaded guilty to
the burglary OF the residence OF Mrs
ria ID. Belden in West Oakland, was
-oSav continued until January z. in
order to give the probation officer time
"a look up their record. The boys
recently came here from Brooklyn, N
y, where their parents reside. Garsh,
because OF his age. can be sent only
70 q reform school, but New may be
committed TO the penitentiary.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
REPORTS HUSBAND MISSING

OAKLAND, Dec. 24.-Mrs. c. L.
Graves. who lives at 293 Herman
street, reported to the police this morn
ing that her husband, Clifford l.
Graves, 20 years of age. had disap-
peared on December 81. Mrs. Graves
fears that the missing man has met
with foul play, as he has never re-
mained away from home before The
missing man is smooth -shaven and OF
light complexion.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
ASKS FOR EXTRA EuPLoYEs

Recorder Nelson petitioned the Board
of Supervisors yesterday to provide for
the appointment lof one extra deputy
at a salary of $125 per month and two
extra iadex clerks at 500 per month
each. yhe men are needed owing to
the Increased clerical work resulting
from the McEnerney act.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
AGED CIRCUS MAN DIES

CINCINNATI. Dec. 24.-William Dut-
ton. aged 90, the famous equestrian and
circus man, died today in this city.
His death was directly due to blow
upon the head which he received about
two months ago at the hands Of thugs.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
INJURIES PROVE FaTAL

OAKLAND, Dec. 24.-Baptiste Sea-
meidi who was fatally injured late Sat
urday night by being run over by a
wagon at Telegraph avenue and Jones
street, died early this morning at
the Providence Hospital.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
CHARGES Man WITH FoRGERY

Osgood Putnam, representing the e.
]. Bowers estate, appeared before Po-
lice Judge Shortall yesterday and swore
out warrant charging Fred l.. Cleaves
with forging a check calling for SIS
on the Sunnyside Bank of Sunnyside
Wash. The police say that CIeaves
passed a number of worthless checks.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25

were running about six miles an nour
when they came together.
Engineer Gazzola of the eastbound
train, although cut apout the head and
scalded by steam, exhibited wonderful
nerve. AS soon as he could extricate
himself from the wreck of his cab he
closed the throttle, whistle and sew
eral steam valves, and climbing down
from the wreck, said, We'll. it is time
to go to the hospital now" He then
fell.
TRAFFIC Is SUSPENDED
Fireman Hopkins, jumping from the
wrecked locomotive, struck telegraph
pole. dislocated his shoulder and sus-
tanned internal injuries. Engineer Cur
ran received a cash on the back Of the
head. Fireman Smith escaped with a
few slight bruises. Traffic was sus-
pended by the way of Fruitvale until
this afternoon when the track was
cleared of the wreckage.
Peter Christensen. who was a pas
sen ger on the eastbohnd train. in re-
lating his experience said:
4 knew that our train was in the
vicinity of the oil works at the east
end of the Fruitvale-avenue bridge, and
when the shock came I thought that
an oil tank had exploded ] was shot
over the back of the seat in front of
me and fell sprawling in the aisle.
There was no confusion in the car
because there were but few passengers.
I climbed from the car as quickly as
possible. as did the passengers in the
other cars on our train, all of which
were on the drawbridge. When l
walked forward to where the engines
We're rammed together the engineers
and fremen were climbing out of the
wreckage and did not appear to be
much excited"
Conductor Cummings says that he
had a premonition that something
would happen today and that it was
only his Christmas luck that saved him
from being killed or injured.
Il generally go into the forward
part of the combination baggage and
smoking car when running between
Alameda and Fruitvale to check up my
reports. This morning something told
me that I should not go there, so 1
seated myself in the rear of the COM
bination car. When the collision came
the tender of our locomotive was driven
back into the part of the car where
I would have been standing at my desk.
Had / been there 1 could not have es-
capped being killed
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
FALLS FROM sTkEET CAR
AND SKULL IS FRACTURED

Unidentified Man May Die Result of
an Accident the Third
Street Line
An unidentified Spaniard was thrown
from hird-street car at Townsend
street yesterday afternoon and injured
so badly that he will die.
No one seems to have witnessed the
accident and just what caused the fall
cannot be ascertained.
At the Central Emergency Hospital
it was found that his skull was frac-
tured- Nothing was found on his per-
son to lead to his Identification
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25
NO REPLY FROM AIKEN

LONDON, Dec 24.-Rev. Charles
AIKEN who has under consideration the
pastorate of the Fifth-avenue Baptist
Church of New York, has received a
definite invitation to become the COL
league of the Rev. John Clifford, rector
of the Praed-street and Westbourne
Park Church, one of the greatest non
conformist churches in England. DR..
AIKEN has not replied to this offer.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25

SUPERVISORS MEET AND ADJoURE The
~ II - Supervisors met yesterday with CAL
I, -,-.- rofer Walsh and Wilson present. 0w-
80 ~ fbe holidays adjournment was taken
,,15sr M next M0n6sy al 2s30 p m.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25

FIRM MAKES D0NAT1oN-The Widows and
Orphans Fund Of the Fire Department was
given check for 800 by the Pacific Hardwaxa
and Steel Company yesterday
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25

ASSESSOR WANTS a VAULT = Assessor
Dodge petitioned the Board of Supervisors yes-
terday to provide his office with steel vanlt
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-25

Mrs. Findley r. Gray and Miss Alice
Gray have come down from their home
in Sacramento to spend the holiday
week with Mrs. George H. Perry Mrs.
Gray will be the guest of honor at
the family dinner which her daughter.
Mrs. Perry, is planning for Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16

we arrived we tried to get to the tank, but were unable to stand the fumes.
 Failing in this we ran out several lines of hose and pumped half a dozen streams of water over the ammonia plant, and under cover of this arch of water we crawled on hands and knees and thus managed to turn off the stop-cock. But it was fully an hour after the flow of am monia had ceased before it was possible to enter the building. When we came 10 reckon the damage we found that only the live stock had suffered Five thousand chickens had succumbed to the fumes, seventeen turtles, 800 pigeons and about 300 crabs
 A difficult fire to fight Is that which oo- lcurs in q perfume factory. I remember "a couple of years ago fighting such fire. No fewer than seventeen of us were overcome by the fumes and had 10 be carried out The bottles of perfume ex- noded like drums of gasoline, and the Altar of Roses" the Parma Violets" and "Ess Bouquet" tke White Rose." and hundred other essences became more powerful and nauseating than the worst possible odors ybu can think of They acted on us like opiates and we simply tumbled aver snd went to sleep , It was good thing the flames were kept well in hand or the loss of life might have been considerable but as it was no one was injured. Since then. however none of us has cared for the smell of perfume.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16
REMARKABLE CASE.
Of Engishman Who Is Turning Into a
 Chnaman.

London Cor New York World
 An extraordinary case of a man of pro- nounced Anglo-Saxon type turning Mon golian Is described by Dr. Work Dodd, an eminent oculst, ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Free hospital
 This patient went to the Westminster Ophthalmis hospital in 1898 to be treated for an eye trouble and was cured
 A year later the same man was admit ted into the Royal Free hospital. com plaining of general weakness and peculiar sensations. As nothing seriously amiss could be detected by careful examination. he was discharged but has been kept un- der medical observation
 The most singular and baffling aspect of the case Is that since 1899 the mans an pearance has undergone a wonderful change. Eight years ago he was a spler- did specimen of Anglo-Saxon manhood finely developed, erect. feet 1034 inehes tall, weighing 22S pounds virile and ath- letic, with plenty of hair of a light brown color and a long blonde mustache Now he Is only feet 8 inches in height. thin stoops, weighs 165 pounds is weak his manly appearance has disappeared, his hair has changed to mouse color, his mus tache cannot grow hair longer than quarter of an inch, his chin never needs
 w.
 Dr. Dodd says his whole aspect is dis tinctly Tartar or Mongolian but he is saved from being wholly Mongolian in face by the slant of his eyes. which is not upward. and by their color, which is a dullish blue.
 Not less startling than these physical changes have been the alterations in his mental characteristics. Formerly his mind was as alert and vigorous as his body. He was hustling, cheerful. intelligent Now his mind seems to have become as eastern in It's workings he Is In looks He Is apathetic. as sleeply, nerveless- looking as the majority of the Mongollan race.
 Physiciaris have not been able to dis cover a cause for this, although the man has been examined repeatedly and thor oughly by numerous doctors. He had a disease some eighteen years ago which undoubtedly does exert a baleful influ- ence on the system. and which possibly might account for his present state, but Or Dodd is inclined to think the cause must be looked for elsewhere, as the al terations physical and mental, began only with the illness in 1899. It may be that some changes have taken place in an im- portant celebrating structure. such as the thyroid gland, to which cause is attrib- uted many of the puzzling diseases of the present day. Of this class is the disease known as myxedema.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16
SIMPLE LIFE GAN
 BE LED IN JAPAN Professor and Wife Can Live
 on $230 a Year KEEPS WIFE IN TOBACCO Learned Mans Home in Koto-one Servant Possible on the Income Named-some Jap Domes-
 tic Economies.
KEEPS WIFE IN TOBACCO

A land where a college professorredu- cated in America-can support wife and save money on a salary of $4OO year may be said to have achieved the simple life.
 The house in which the professor lived in Kioto is described by a writer in the Craftsman as a wooden structure 2i feet by 25 on a plot of land 20 feet front and 50 feet deep. It was shut in by an artis- tically made bamboo fence five feet high. The fence was solid, so no prying eyes might see in.
 Stepping down from the rickshaws we passed through the gate to the vestibule. There, leaving my shoes. and my friend and the maid their sandals we entered the house In stocking feet
 The first room, a six-mat one, was 9 by 12 feet. It was divided by sliding screens from the one next the garden, a corner room 12 feet wide and at that time 24 feet long. Through the centre of this large room were the Iron grooves in the floor and overhead for the sliding screens that at night would divide it Into two sleeping rooms, but as the day was warm and fair, the screens had been lift ed out and stacked away leaving an un- broken space.
 Sinking 10 our knees on the soft cush- ions laid on the floor, we awaited the ar rival of our hostess. A batter of light feet, the sliding of a screen and she ap- peared. Resting our outspread hands be- fore us on the straw mats, We made deep reverences in response to her bows of cordial greeting.
 Having brought wwith us as a gift a box of sweets. tied with the red and white gift string and the slip of paper folded like an arrows sheaf we slid it gently toward the little lady She re- ceived 1t graciously, but, according to ct iquette, neither touched nor opened the box.
 When formalities were over and we --'"H a'oasantv chatting in walked the husband and professor, Just back from ...N .utege.
 The little wife drew out her tiny pipe and took her three puffs from 1t. while the professor smoked his native cigarette as we talked.
 Rent $1o Month.
 T pay twenty yen ($l0) a month rent" said pr. Magai. That is high rent for a professor, but we are so near the col lege that l can walk back and forth, say Ing the cost of a rickshaw and of getting my luncheon away. To build such a house as this would cost about $eOO. and the land Is valued at BOO
 Our one servant does all the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16
HTGDON A CLEAN MAN
 HE HAS NO HIRELINGS
His Campaign has been a Clean Fight Against the Ring and of its Members He
 Should Win

There are those-scavengers on society who challenge his war record. Yet Hig- don did exactly what Theodore Roosevelt and William J. Bryan did in the same war-he returned the men home to their families after all need of them had been past. The Colonel of the First Volunteer (Rough Riders) defied the ruler of the nation and demanded his fever-stricken men be removed to better surroundings. The Colonel of the First Nebraska had his men returned to their homes for the same reasons. and no sane man ever said these two men were towards
 Colonel Higdon of the First Alabama said to his boys the need for duty here is over Your duty Is at home. And they came home and only those who are ig- norant of the conditions of war can un- derstand the heart and mind of the brave and true men who lead the nations he roes.
 If rumors of brbe are heard, one never hears 1t In connection with Higdon's name. If Ideals" are being made, Hg don has nothing to do with the making. No one hears of ungentlemanly remarks from his mouth against opponents in the field. He goes at them straight and in the open. fighting back intrigue and dark dealing with honest reform tactics. His fighting Is led by his own personal effort, aided by efficient lieutenants. He has no hirelings. All men who work for Hlgdon do so because they love fair play and clean politics and government Ills sup porters are the best of citizens md are with him because of their inherent pa triotism.
 The dominant tendencies of the Ameri- can people is a rule of, by and for the people. and we can not have such rule and government unless there is at times change of the ruling power. The example of a family successively holding office is hardly appropriate in a country like this where we boast of democratic govern ment
 Taking all these things into consldera- ton, the voter will see who is the logical candidate for the office and Higdon shall be the man.-The Spectator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16

Whatever the ultimate outcome of the final vote in the primary of Monday, the i7th. the people at large will have genuine reason to congratulate themselves on the clean, straightforward race made by one of the contestants-Col. E. L. Higdon.
 It Is very pleasing spectacle now adays to see a man take up the cause of the people and to stand with them through every trying moment and bear lequany the hard and harsh treatment dealt out to the reformer. The people at all times have stood for a while the op- pression of political bosses" and unprin- lcipled public servants, but at last they rise above it and strike back at the hand of oppression.
 Higdon represents the new cast of men 50 few in our land who take the duty up- lon themselves to look out for the pub lio good He is no ring man. so the ring ds naturally against him. He is poor man, so the "heeler" is opposed to him hrom a business standpoint He is hardly an eligible man for the wealthy voter, 50 find him in the straight through marrow way with the rank and file of the lplain, every day American and in the franks of an army that builds and main tains the whole structure of civilization. nIigdon can be proud of his position, and no man can be more grateful to those hard working, faithful workers in this 1ace than can this eommoner and clean eitizen-the man Higdon.
 It is said that Higdon is untTied. All men must start. And Colonel Higdon is hot stranger to executive duties. He Is Ia past graduate in the greatest school of lrhe country, the school of the street, the lceaseless journeyings to and fro among lall people in the car in the shop. in the many sided lives of a cosmopolitan people. Thus has Higdon been tried and fwho can say that any other fig better lqualihed than one who knows them by lheart to serve in any capacity demanded rby the sovereign voters of this county. B1Iigdon is capable, sane. up-to-date, force lful and firm He will fill the office of isheriff If elected with a grand credit to 'the people and to his future interests.