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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
CALF FORNIANS IN
RAILROAD WRECK

OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 14.-Mail Clerk
ID. Alexander of San Francisco, who
was injured I'm the wreck near Mon
teIIO, New, today, died at Lucin this
evening. C. A. Schuyler, assistant
chief mail clerk of Ogden, died just
before reaching Ogden tonight.
OGDEN. Utah. Jan. 14-Passenger
train No. 10 was wrecked fifteen miles
west of Montello, about eighty five
miles west of ogden. at a. m. today.
Engineer Frank Neesley was killed.
Fireman Ware was scalded. OF eight
cars in the train seven were derailed,
only one sleeper remaining on the
track.
The engine turned over and is a
complete wreck. The body of Engineer
Neesley has not been recovered; it is
supposed to be under the engine.
Railroad officials are of the opinion
that broken rail caused the wreck
At Southern Pacific headquarters in
Ogden II was said there were only eight
passengers and six mail clerks on the
train, which was made UP principally
of mail cars. A number OF passengers
and mail clerks were slightly injured.
The list of dead and injured follows:
Dead: Frank Neesley. engineer.
Injured: Fireman Ware. scalded
John L. Littlepage. Ogden. scalded; A.
s. Grant, San Francisco, mail clerk,
hack injured. A q Black San Fran
cisco, badly burned; c. A. Schuyler
chief mail clerk, badly scalded; John
]. Burge, San Mateo. Cal. severely
burned and bruised; Lewis Campbell,
Colburn. Va. dining-car cook, severely
burned; B. c. Alexander, San Fran
cisco. mail clerk, severely burned; w.
S. Watts, Ogden, face cut and slightly
burned; c. H. Chalmers, Minneapolis,
ankle and back sprained; Eugene D.
wygant, Emmett, Idaho. ankle sprained;
Mrs. Rosa L. Gray, Denver, slightly
burned on limbs and back.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Masked trio ROBs.
MEN IN SALOON

OAKLAND, Jan. 14.-Three masked
robbers. heavily armed. held up six
men tonight at 1915 o'clock in Charles
Harrison's saloon. High street and the.
San'Leandro road, rified the cash regis
ter and bar drawers and went through
each of the quintet of victims. securing
5000 to $780, two gold watches and a
revolver.
The daring gang escaped, leaving no
trace by which they might be trailed.
AS soon as the trio had disappeared
an alarm was given. oa1cers respond
ed and took up the hunt of, the robbers,
but with little hope OF, success.
The victims of the hold raid were
Charles Harrison. proprietor of the sa-
loon; James Thomas. his bartender:
John S. Marshall, contractor: William
Garlick, butcher; Marks Lorenzo, an
expressman, and ]. NJ. Howard, an en-
ploye of e. L. Blackmans lumber yard
at Fruitva1e.
Harrison and one or two others were
at table in the main barroom playing
cards and the rest were looking on.
The three masked men appeared in the
doorway with revo1vers aimed at the
group of startled players. Tho COM
mand was given by the leader of the
three: Throw up your hands, and be
livelyr'
The order was quickly obeyed.
1t was the work of another minute
for one OF the masked men to start
down the line of victims. who, with
arms upraised. stood statue-like against
the wall. With his pistol jammed at
the head of each man as he came to
him, this desperate coolly but quickly
made his search for plunder. He deft-
ly removed $40 in gold from Harri-
sons hip pocket. Seach of Thomas
garments yielded $50. From Marshall
gold watch was taken. Garlick's
pockets gave up SIS and gold watch;
Howard escaped by parting with 81,
but Lorenzo had not a cent.
A second member of the gang took
$50 that was in the cash register, a.
roll of nickels and a pistol which was
in one of the bar drawers Their. work
done. the two backed toward; the. door
and joined the third. who acted as SEN
tinel. They told their victims not to
stir and ran.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
HURLs bROADsIDE.
OF INDICTMENTS

FINDLAY, Ohio, Jan. 1.-THE Janu-
ary panel of the Hancock County Grand
Jury returned sss separate indictments
tonight against the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey. the Standard Oil
Company OF Ohio, the Ohio Oil Com
pany. the Buckeye Pipeline Company,
the Solar Refinery Company. the Man
haitian Oil Company, John D. Rocke-
feller, H. H. Rogers. Wesley Tilford,
John D. Archbold.- Frank @. Barstow,
william Rockefeller and F. T. Cuthbert
The defendants are formally charged
with being members of a trust for con-
spiracy against trade.
sheriff Groves and his deputies will
begin at once to serve copies of the
indictments on the defendants. 4
Prosecutor Davids said tonight that
he held off action purposely. until the
salary law as to county officials be-
came effective. as he did mot wish sto'
run UP "a big. cost bill. which would
have resulted under the old fee system
If Hancock County wins in each case,
fines aggregating s5s,ooo.oo can be
assessed. ..s
when the report OF the Grand Jur.
was filed Prosecutor Davfds, on his
motion. nolle prosecuted the indict-
ments returned last September against
John D. Rockefeller. NJ. G. Villas. j. NJ
Robertson and H. P. Mcintosh. the last
three named being officers of sthe Stan.
dard OH Company OF Ohio
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
LAVA FLOWS FROM
MAUNA LOA

HONOLULU. Jan. IA Lava from
Mauna Loa volcano is flowing down
the western side at the rate of seven
miles an hour in three streams. One
stream has crossed the Government
road and reached the sea, thirty miles
from its source Some slight damage
has been done to grazing lands. but
neither life nor property has been en-
dangered.
The eruption has attracted many
sightseers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
flushed Crowds Throng Streets as Funeral
ofArchbishop Montgomery Leaves Cathedral
Thousands Weep
at the Bier of
Coadjutor
Fivefold Rite of
AbsolutiOn
Is Given

flushed beneath the cloud of
a great grief, the life of the city
paused yesterday in its course
while the funeral cortege of Arch
bishop George Montgomery
passed through the streets at
noon. The pageant of sorrow,
the swell of emotion, smote an
answering chord in every heart.
From the deep-toned diapason of
the cathedral organ, that quivered
on the air like a naked heart
throb, to the mute appeal of the
golden crucifix, borne aloft by a
white-robed priest before the bier,
&
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Oysters Are Frozen
at Low Tide


T>AcoMA. Jan. an, r.
year occurred last
night. This exposed the
oyster beds of Puget Sound
: to the cold-14 degrees
above zero-which was suf-
ficient to freeze the oysters
so that all are dead. New
beds will have to be planted
and it will be FIVE years be-
fore the so-called Olympia
oyster" will again be on the
market. The loss amounts
to- several hundred thousand
dollars.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
EDITORIAL

Great excitement in Hawaii because Of pres
ence Of two full regiments of japanese. Page 8
n. IT. de Young il 10 San Francisco TO
make public reparstion for publishing story Of
theft of relief funds Page
Juvenile probation work should be kept out OF
politics. Page
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Continued on Page 2, oolum. q
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HELD OFFERS
To SUBMIT
NEW BILL
Measure Similar to
That Advocated
by The Call
No Confusing Clauses
TO NuIIify Effects
Shuts Off Possibility
ofDodging Behind
} Subterfuge
Stanford Explains His
Proposed Legislation

BY Geo. 4. Van Srr1itK
Section ~. The
Legislature shall have
the power to enact laws
relative TO the election
of delegates to conven-
tions of political par
ties, and also laws pro-
vidiIlg for the direct
nomination of candi-
dates for public Office by
electors, political parties
or organizations of cleo
tors without conven-
tons, at elections to be
known and designated
as primary elections;
also TO determine the
tests and conditions
upon which electors and
political parties or or
CARNATIONS of electors
may participate in any
such primary election.
1t shall also be lawful
for the Legislature to
prescribe that any such
primary election shall be
mandatory and obliga-
tory. The Legislature
shall also have the
power to establish the
rates of compensation
for primary election Off
GERS serving at such pri-
mary elections IN any
city or city and county
or county or other sub
division of a desig-
mated population with
out making such COM
pensation uniform, and
for such purpose such
law may declare the pop
ulation of any city, city
and county or county a
political subdivision.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. Il
he question of the subn1is
ion OF a proper constitu
ional amendment enablin,
be enactment of a. compre
ensive and adequate direc
rimary election law, in con
to the platform
of both Democrat
nd Republican parties, i
quarely before the Legisla
IRE of California. Assem-
lyman w. d. L. Held o
Jkiah today introduced
Ill for an amendment to b
ubmitted at the next gen
raj election, that if submit
I'd will afford the Legisla
are all the authority it need
, enact a satisfactory direc
Continued on Page 2, Column
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the obsequies of the prelate, loved
and dead, told the loss that had
come to the living.
1t was the articulate presenta-
ton of the church's sorrow and
her confidence in immortality, but
its very magnihcence awoke
many a memory of human sor-
row. In. the streets through
which the procession passed men
paused from their work and stood
with uncovered heads, while the
cortege went by. There were
tears for the beloved Archbishop,
and there were other tears that
told of memories awakened and
the strife of hope and death that
every heart hides.
Priests from many parishes
filled the chancel and took their
seats in the nave. There were
Franciscans, wearing the brown
habit of their order and march
ing with solemn tread, even as
they had come to the city over
two centuries ago. Dominicans,
Tesuits, Paulists, Sulpicians' and
salesians were there. with the sisters
of twelve different orders. Five
Bishops Joined in the service and gave
to the body Of the dead the hvefoId
absoIution that is said only for those
OF high rank in the church militant
Notable in the ceremony. the mag
.nifcence of which had never been sur
passed in this city. was the chanting OF
the senior students of St. Patrick's
Seminary as they intoned the GregorIan
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Beloved Prelate at Rest in City OF the Dead
POOer Enact Direct Primary Lav Squmey Before Legislature

services for ate bishop Montgomery YESTERDAY were by pkd of clergy
and yndm Nonfsc cdnpnma~ iemounnA The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
TELEPHONE TEMPORARY se
TUESDAY. JANUARY IS, 1907.
MEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TODAY

TESTERDAY-Rsin; precipitation, is; maxi
mum tnpers ture. So; minimum temper
sture. as.
FORECAST FOR ToDAE-Cloudy. unsettled
weather. with frost in the morning and prob
ably showers during the day; fresh southwest
winds Page IL
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:BASLE,. Switzerland. Jan. ia
slight earthquake shock here this
evening interfered seriously with the
electric lighting system and plunged
athe city into darkness.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-20
Drugs

Paris Green. per pound. sic
Porous Plasters. &c
Ayers Hair Vigor. 49,. .68c
Kinds Honey Almond
Cream .59c
Peruna .6lc
Mennen's Talcum ..... 10c
Cremo Cigars, 7 for. Csc
Lanes Family Tea. 49,. 19c
Moth Balls, per pound. &C
Whitehelabore. per ID. 21c
25c Cake of Cashmer Bou-
quet Soap .....1 6c
jockey Perfume, per OF. Zoe
$50 Bottle of Oriental
Cream LIS
Csc box of fellows face
Powder .15c
Woodbury's Facial Cream, 16c
Sanitol Tooth Powder. :. loo
Aliens Foot Ease. 500. loo
Pinkham's Compound. Tic
Il ID. Hydrogen Peroxide, 12c
25c-50c box of chocolate
candy per box. f6c-2oc
Saturday Only.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28

Late delivery has made possible for to sell entire line of Ladies' and Misses Low Cuts and Oords including Pumps and White Canvas at wholesale prices. These lines to be shipped February l5 and were discovered month later at Prescott Arz We allowed nice discount account of the delay and giving you the benefit of it.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28

TN THE last two months there has ! been a surprisingly large increase in the number of convictions of Ital- ians in New York It used to be said that it was almost impossible to get a verdict against them. and often the courts, low and high, had turned loose men of whose guilt there was not the slightest doubt, simply because wit nesses would not dare to testify against the accused.
 Some were deterred by the threats of men supposed to be connected with the Mafia, or the Black Hand; others comforted themselves with the thought that the friends of the injured or dead victims would attend to the crim- inals after they were set at liberty.
 The wedge has been entered into the world of Italian crime, and the police have learned that it is easier to punish Italian criminals than hith- erto. The Mafia is walking around just to save funeral expenses. It no longer has any terrors for the Latin people. And as for the Black Hand, they laugh at mention of it. To the average Italian. indeed, Black Hand. or simply means loafer who has ~4@ ~s.,~. e~~s
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
nON'T chew meat.

DON'T chew meat Gulp it in A chunks.
 Mastication has no part in the di- gestion of meat. There is some reason for believing that chewing will make meat indigestible The saliva is an alkali. Acids are needed for the con version of flesh into the elements that nourish the human body.
 Too much chewing may raise the alkalinity of flesh used for food to such an extent as to seriously ham per the work of the stomach, which, alone, has to do with the disposal of animal matter.
 This. in brief, is the gospel of Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture. His views were called forth by a report by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale on the relative value of animal and vege- table foods.
 Aside from knowledge gained by him as a chemist, Dr Wiley has noted
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
FRIDAY. JUNE 2S. 1907.
The Far-Off Call.

If out beyond the city's farthest edge There were no roads that led through
 sleepy towns, No winds to blow through any thorny
 hedge.
 No pathways over hazel-tufted downs l might not, when the day begins, be sad Because l toll among the money-mad If out beyond the distant hill there lay No valley graced by any winding
 stream And if no slim, white steeples far away Might mark the spots where drowsy
 hamlets dream, l could, perhaps, at midday be content Where striving millions at their tasks
 are bent. If far away from noise and strife and
 care
 There were no buds to swell on waiting
 trees,
 No mating birds to spill upon the air The liquid sweetness of their melodies l might, at sunset be serene and proud Because few had seen me in the crowd
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
TIE PARDONiNG OF BUTT

Few people in the state will regret that EX-Senator F. O. Butt was yes terday pardoned by the governor Most everyone was anxious for his conviction, but now he has suffered a much greater punishment than the or dinary man who is sent to the peniten- tiary. Holding the social and political position that he did before he went to prison has made his punishment all the more severe and it may be truly said that the four months which he has served in the penitentiary are more than six years by comparison wit h the humiliation and criticism cast upon the average convict. Certainly the crime of which he was convicted deserves severe punishment. It is source of universal regret that there is not some provision of the law that would make the conviction of many others more probable, to say the least of it. As it is, others have confessed that they are guilty of the same crime for which Butt was convicted, yet they go un- punished.
 Of course therewill be some criticism of the governors s action. It is easy to criticise. Everyone is familiar with the Butt case and the entire state is rooted and grounded in the question of bribery and the more important incl dents connected with the recent history of the crime in this state, and tis easy to talk about it and take up whatever sentiment or opinion that may be ex pressed. But to weigh the whole mat ter and come to the right Sconclusion under the circumstances is "a more diff fcult matter than commenting or ex- pressing casual opinion.
 Now that he is pardoned, let us hope that his example may be a profound lesson to every man and especially every politician in Arkansas and that the shattered hopes of his former days may be restored to him and that the remainder of his life may be prosper ous and happy.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
DON'T CHEW YOUR MEAT, SAYS CHEMIST WILEY

that the carnivorous animals do not chew their food. They tear it from the bones and swallow it in chunks. Therefore the learned chief chemist holds that if man can get chunk of meat down into his stomach, no matter how big it may be, he has done all that nature requires of him.
 "Mastication is good for the devel- opment of the muscles" says Dr. Wiley, but chewing of meat is un- necessary, if not positively harmful With vegetables, however, it is impos. sible to do too much grinding Every body knows or ought to know, that all the digestion of vegetables is ac- compiished in the mouth and small in- ttstines. If there is not enough mas tication the work cannot be done aft erward
 But Fisher is a faddist; all of us are bit afflicted in that way. He is trying to make over man so that he will not eat. He ought to know bet ter than that"
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
WOMAN KEEPS SERVANT GIRL SIXTEEN YEARS

THERE are many remarkable wom- en in New York, but the nose re- markable of them all, probably. is Mrs. Huie Kin, the clever American wife of the superintendent of the Pres byterian Chinese mission at 26 West Ninth street.
 For eighteen years she has been her husbands associate in the mission work. During this time Mrs. Huie not only has had the duties pertaining to an American household of extraor. dinary size to attend to, but she has had to shoulder many additional re- responsibilities imposed by Chinese GUS. tom.
 Despite the fact that she has nine children. the last two of which are twins, and that these nine children. like most children, are enou~h to wear
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
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son county. Va. That he may direct his engeries toward becoming United States senator from Virginia is considered strong possibility. He has long held that ambition.
 The retirement of MT. Ryan from Wall street has been expected Tor some tune.
 MT Ryans rise to power in the financial world was remarkable ne is now D years old. He started ms business career in Baltimore ury goods house in 1868 He soon tired ol that and in 1870 came to New fork, where he got position with wan street brokerage firm. It was not long before he had made a successful ven ture in the stock market. With the money he made he started in business for himself. In 1874 he bought seat on the stock exchange. From that time he has been a power "i'n which Wall street has had to reckon
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
CONVICTIONS OF ITALIANS BECOMING MORE COMMON

grown weary of digging dirt and makes a living by writing threatening letters.
 The reasons are not obscure. A young crop of Italians has grown nm in this city, and they care no more about the customs or ways of their parents than do the descendants of the other foreign-born people care about what their people did. AS a consequence, when a crime is com. mitted in Italian quarters now. the police easily find young Italian Amer. jeans willing to volunteer as wit. nesses. They are not afraid of Italian secret societies of real or mythical type, or Italian criminals, no more than young American is afraid of an American crook or criminal
 Catholic clergymen who speak Ital. ian have had a wholesome influence on Italian people here. They have counseled them to obey the law and to expose criminals. The Italian set. clement workers have done much good in the same direction. The big in. crease in the number of Italian police. men has done much to unmask Ital ian criminals.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
Washington Day by Day News Gathered Here and There
 at the National Capital

ute, and many name their wives, daughters, or other members of their families for this place. The depart ment encourages such appointments, of some one living in the same house with the carrier, because if the regu- lar carrier is sick or unable to serve his route there is some one in the same house to act as substitute and he is not obliged to send out and notify his substitute that he must serve the mails that day.
 When a woman has served six months as a substitute, that is, as a bonded substitute, she will be eligible to appointment as regular carrier, and should there be vacancy the depart ment will give her the preference for appointment as regular carrier in the rural service
 While the regulations of the postal service make no specific provisions against women as letter carriers in cities, there is provision which has the effect of barring them from these positions. A uniform which must be worn by city carriers. consisting of coat and trousers and cap of certain color, is prescribed, and no woman has been brave enough to make applica tion in the face of this.
 The records of the department show that the women carriers in the rural free delivery service have made most excellent officers. They have shown pluck, perseverance, and ability to per form their duties in all sorts of weath- CT, and some of them hold higher rec men in the service
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28

out any ordinary woman, she remaihs young and does not look to be das more than 35 years old.
 She adds to the family income D, renting rooms ip her big house to wv Americans, man and wife. two o' three young Chinamen, and Japa" ese, students at Columbia universi'y. She assists regularly at the fouF '. five services her husband hoids oA Sunday.
 She has 40 or 50 guests to dinn'.i every Sunday. She is the ieauins spirit in womans club. She has Asys her own servant--a German woman for 16 years. Some persons VIII oO. sider this last achievement the srsss =. est of all. The HWa Kins live III .s. M heart of district which once was 'n9 most aristocratic and fashionable VI New York.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-06-28
RYAN QUITS WALL STREET TO ENJOY HIS FORTUNE

NEW YORY.-Thomas F. Ryan has " ended his days of activity in Wall street. His departure for Europe the other day signalized his breaking away from the personal management of the gigantic corporations with which he has been associated for the last 25 years.
 The news of MT Ryan's retirement has been confirmed in Wall street by men who know him intimately and who have closely watched his move ment in the stock market during the last tradition that MT. Ryan's ambi- tion, after he had become an impor- tant factor in the financial world, was to accumulate $1O0,oO0,O00. This he has accomplished. His fortune is es- timated by those in a position to know at considerably over that figure.
 MT. Ryan, according to inside" in- formation. will now enjoy a retired life on his magnificent estate in Nel-