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The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
POLICEMAN wRATrEN RESIGNS

Policeman Frank Wratten, who has
performed faithful service for the last
ten years under Captain Martin at the
Central Station, handed in his resigna-
tion yesterday as a member of the po-
lice force of San Francisco in order to
accept position as hotel detective at
the Fairmont. Wratten was chosen
out of 100 applicants for this commits
sion, and leaves a long and enviable
local police record behind him.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
BOARD WOULD PUT IN SEWER

At meeting of the Board Of Works
yesterday it was determined to send
a communication to Attorney Devote
asking If the board has the right to
take over the contract OF the Burrell
Construction Company for putting in
a sewer on lower Market street 1t
is stated that only 10 per cent of the
work has been done, although the time
for its completion is up. The con-
tractors are accused of bad faith.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
NEW NATIONAL BANK

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-The Comp
troller OF Currency issued certificates
today authorizing the First National
Bank Of Alhambra, CAL to begin BUSH
ness. Its capital is $4,000. H. d. Nc
Donald is president, Gail Borden vice
president and w. +. Lawson cashier.
This is a conversion of the AIhambra
Bank
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
CANNOT CONDUCT CONSULATE
ON SMALL SALARY ALLOWED
Frederick McMasters. Stationed at Zan-
zfbar, Forwards Resignation to
the state DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. frederick
McMasters, American Consul at Zan
zibar, has rendered his resignation and
purposes to embark in private business
He assigns as his reason for re-
signing the impossibility of properly
conducting the consulate at Zanzibar
on the s2500 salary allowed by law. Tt
is stated at the State Department that
there are no charges pending against
McMasters.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
BELIEvE THEY HAVE MURpERER

LAMAR. Colo. Jan. 2.-The authori-
ties here believe the man captured at
Astor, Kan, who gives his name as
Thompson, is not only one of the men
that murdered Marshal Frisbie here.
but is Andrew Hanson, one of the men
who held up the Denver and Rio
Grande train at Malta Junction re-
Gently.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
JAPANESE EDITOR TO BE
UNMOLEsTED BY OFFICERS
Washington Authorities state They
Do Not Have Sufficient Evidence
10 Warrant Arrest


TO Warrant Arrest
Editor TakenchI of the Japanese pa
per, known as the Revolution, pub
lished in Berkeley, viii not be deported
on account of his advocacy of the
overthrow of the President. This in
formation was received yesterday in
a press dispatch from Washington
and by a private telegram to Immi-
grafton Commissioner North Of San
Francisco from the Department of
Commerce and Labor.
North had applied to Washington
for a warrant for the arrest of the
japanese on the allegation that he is
an anarchist and a dangerous person
The department officials decided after
due consideration that the evidence
before them did not justify an arrest,
and they have so stated to North.
More evidence against Takenchi will
probably be sent to Washington later
by Javid J. Grifiths, who is working
on the case.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03

the trust, has passed from the lime
light
The Sunset Club offers a strong at
traction tomorrow night at Dream
land Pavilion. Dick Sullivan, the
crack middle-weight, clashes with
George Murray. The other bouts on
the card are between Johnny Murphy
and Willie Conroy; frankie Edwards
and Iron Man Dunn: Joe Kane and
Johnny Regan: Eddie Buckley and
Charles Weber, and Red Phillips and
Dave Lynch.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
IMPORTS OF FRANCE

Department show that during the first
seven months OF the year the value. OF
the imports into France was $59E04S.-
395, as compared with $40, 6Se, 1876 in
the corresponding period of 1905, and
of the exports S551 .311,0 ,062. as compared
with s516,597,117.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03
EAGER TO MEET BRITT
Cans Signs for a Fight With the Cali
fOrnian


fOrniRn
TONOPAH. New. Jan. Ben Selig,
acting for Joe Cans, and NJ NJ Riley,
on behalf Of the Casino Athletic Club.
today signed articles for a finish fight
between Cans and Jimmy Britt. AS
soon as James Edward signs the match
Is a go. The purse is $4,000, to be
cut sixty and forty; weight, 1913 pounds
two hours before fight. Coffroth, man
ager Of Britt, was wired and asked If
Jimmy would sign. II is UP to Coff-
roth.
Riley says IL Britt does not want a
match he viii take on another man.
Herman and Cans will leave on the
morning train for Chicago. Cans goes
to fulfill a theatrical engagement, and
Herman back home to get married.
The local club says it is well satisfied
with the Gans-Herman fight 1t is in
the game to stay, and viii make money
in the future.
''KID" WOULD FIGHT AGAIN
kid" Herman was about today and
showed very little effect from the battle
yesterday. Outside Of small cut on
the lip and a slight redness about the
nose Kid looked just the same as
ever. In discussing the fight kid"
said:
mere were several things IN con-
nection with the fight that came far
from helping my case. Take, for in
stance, that punch that Cans slipped
me after the close Of the second round.
My guard was down, and he hit me
squarely on the jaw. The punch dazed
me, as those at the ringside know.
The moving pictures of the fight will
show this. The pictures Will also show
that the crowd jumped up and hissed
Joe, and that he tried TO square mat
ters by talking to them from the ring.
1 do not think for a minute that Joe
struck me after the gong Intentionally.
He is too square to do anything like
that but at the same time il hurt my
chances. Another thing that was un-
favorable to me was the time of start
ing the fight The articles called for
a fight TO start at o'clock. two hours
after weighing in. Instead of that we
started lighting ten minutes after
o'clock. Any one who knows about the
training of fighters knows that an
hour under these conditions makes a
big difference in weight 1 would like
to have another chance at Cans. One
thirty-three ringside would make big
difference, and I think / could whip
him al that weight"
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03

Eddie Graney refuses to say what
his intentions are for the coming year
relative to boxing. He is so busy with
several other business ventures that
he is not interested In the fighting
game
Willis Britt, the other member Of
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03

strength. IT there was any nOur-
ishment in drugs they might bring
about a healthy change, but you
know there is not Drugs are
drugs, stimulants, narcotics anti
dotes, poisons, not food. Food is
needed to build up new strength.
Electricity is nerve food, nerve life
1t soaks into your nerves, muscles
and yitals just like water soaks into
sponge 1t warns and strengthens
the parts which drugs cannot reach.
Electro-Vigor is a relief from the
old system of drugging 1t does
by natural means what you expect
drugs to do by unnatural means. 1t
is Natures way of curing disease.
for 1t gives back to the nerves and
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03

CALLIF YOU CAN. 1 give a free
test to all who call ConsuItafion
and advice free. Office hours from
a. m TO p m. Sunday. 10 to f2-
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-03

There are more automobiles to be
seen at the polo games at Burlingame
than horse drawn vehicles This is the
first time that this state of affairs has
existed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

ncy, ana you hadn't even brown to
toss with. Oblige me by taking this
yellow boy. No. curse il! | beg your
PARDON might have seen. At least,
sir, you viii join me ut the tavern to
show there's no i'll feeling? y cut off
the joint | think, ana a tankard of
stout. What say you: | feel peekish
myself. Come, come, or you'll offend
me"
But the eyes which his luiseries had
left dry were dim again at the kindness
of the world, and Tom Erickson had
not spoken because he could not May
live to repay this" he mUttcred Eow.
1T Will be my first bite since yester-
day"
And in anothe. hour it was il new
man who was pushing forward with
such brisk steps upon the high road TO
Avenue Lodge ana his appointed fate.
Moreover, the currents of other lives
than his had been DETECTED for good
or evil by the spin of that borrowed
coin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

only child of his first wife. Claire had
never occupied the place of the young
err ones in her fathers affections. had
been consistently repressed in child
hood, but had since contrived TO please
that critic by her clever management
of an enlarged establishment. Indeed,
the girl had come home from school
very capable and shrewd and self pos
sessed. with an admirable drawing
room manner and even better qualities
of which Mr.. Hauling would have
thought less. SO they We're carefully
hidden from his view. for Claire had
also her faults and was both SeCretive
and polite in the home circle as a re-
suit of that early repression and inius-
tice. Given that cause and this effect
and some clandestine folly may he
counted upon in nine cases out of ten,
and Claire'S was not the tenth
1t came about at Winwood Hall. the
Suffolk shooting box where the family
had spent the last three autumns.
Nicholas Harding had begun there in
characteristic fashion 10y quarreling
with the gentle. white haired parson
(whO would yet be neither domineered
nor overborne by an interloping Lon
doner) aud by forbidding his daughters
the church. glebe. rectory or any com
muniCation with its inmates from that
day forth. y week or two later h2
came full upon Claire and the rector $
idle son comparing notes in the lane.
and a pretty scene ensued. Mr.. Hard
ing shook his stick at the lad. who
snatched it from him and snapped il
across his knee. Claire was imprisoned
under lock and key for four and TWEEN
| ty hours. and young Tom Erickson
Skinned up the, waterspout and sat on
her window sill while the rest were at
| dinner. But this and succeeding Incl
| dents never came to the ears of Nicho
| las Harding. And partly in revenge
| for the indignity to which she had
| been subjected and partly by reason OF
| those adventitious traits already touch.
| ed upon. the motherless and then all
but friendless Claire disobeyed and in
trigued thenceforward without qualm
| The single page known to Nicholas
Harding was thing of the past in his
mind. He never thought of it now and
for the best of reasons. He firmly be
| lieved that Claire intended to marry
an entirely different person. of whom
he himself most cordially approved
and 1t made him for the first time as
! cordially approve of Claire.
/ And Claire on a sudden OWNED il
all and saw (also for the first time) til,
i false position in which she had placed
herself and yet never regretted it, but
rather sloried in having the least little
thing to suffer for Toms sake.
Now, the other man In her mind ant
in Nicholas Harding's, too, was the
stranger within their gates.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

It Elever blinded her to Dainuees
faults. which wore those of n warped,
egotistical. but yet an ardent nature.
She cured him of one or two. But he
was man with Il weight upon his
soul and she could not cure him of
that She was not told enough. After
all. too. her head and her heart were
full of another. And thus she was
slower Ia detect the new lover in the
new friend than would or could have
been the case in normal circum-
stances.
Indeed. it might never have dawned
upon her until he spoke but for the
calling in of Lady Starkie to lend her
distinguished countenance to the first
dinner party given by Nicholas Hard
ing after his late ordeal. Lady Starkie
was Il lieutenant generals widow and
shrewd woman of the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04
CHApTEE Ii.

4" HE household at Avenue Lodge
consisted ut this period of
III Nicholas Harding. NJ. L., J. =.
falso of Fish Street Hill, Il. c.,
and Winwood Hall, SuToik) his five
daughters. his manscrvants and maid
servants and Il certain stranger within
his gates
Nicholas Harding was fifty years of
age and Il widower for the second time
He was big. blond. iOvial loud, over
bearing man. without Il gray hair in
his massive reddish head or Il sign of
sorrow upon his healthy, pink, domi-
neering face. Yet private bereas ement
was not the only misfortune that had
fallen to lot otherwise enviable
enough. Since the last general election
q little charge of fragrant bribery had
found its way even to an assiZe court,
where it had indeed broken down, but
not in a fashion wholly satisfactory to
the accused
An important witness had refused to
| open his mouth. as some said because
he was well paid by Mr.. Harding to
keep 1t shut and endure the penalty.
| In any event the charge was not per-
mitted to be withdrawn, but the &C
| ton merely dismissed to allow of a
| new trial, of which nothing had been
| heard up to the present time. But a
naked sword thus dangled over Nicho-
las Harding's ruddy, hard head, whose
| true temper the situation served to
| prove. SO far from resigning his seat
he returned to the house with a shrug
| and half smile and in the whole mat.
| ter continued to bear himself with
such modest gallantry as to remove
the prejudices of many who had al
first sided with the enemy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

Heads 90 aud tr~'S I don't. Sudden
dCuth."
in without 4 kind of struggle. He had
become n gambler and gamblers
compromise occurred to him now.
This was when the yellow London
sun was setting, a little after o'clock.
About twenty minutes past several of
the better favored pedestrians in Fail
Mall were accostcd by Il timid raga-
muffin with CHASTITY face who begged
the loan of a penny and was rightly
treated to deaf ears. but at length Il
dapper young man in long bottle
green coat wheeled round with an oath
and twinkling eye.
Lend you one"' cried he. Il like
that. What dye mean by it. eh?'
What | say. l ask the loan of the
smallest coin you've got-and your par
don for the liberty
pray. when shall see it again?"
"In half a minute"
Half Il what? Well, you're rum
'un, you are. Here's your brown"
THANK you" said Erickson. and bal
anced it on his right thumbnail Now
you stand by and see fair play Heads
l go and tails l don't. Sudden death
Let it fall clear
His beggar's manners (such as these
werep had been forgotten OIL the in
slant. The coin rang upon the paving
stone with his words
Heads it is" cried the owner, on his
launches with his fine, long coat in the
dust
Then I'm unspeakably obliged tc
you," replied the fervent beggar, re-
turning the penny.
mo no! Hang it all! I'm a sports
man, myself. You're man of my. kid
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04
- a@ss . q 2 2 q q q q 3
Ghe
.Rogue's
March.
2: 3 q q 6. ssss g sAsss

1fr. Hornung, who is known
chiefly in America as the author
Of Ratfies," is at present per
hops the most popular writer OF
fiction in England. This story.
The Rogue's March," is a re-
n,arkable piece of work. Ii hing
cs upon an absorbing mystery
which The reader will almost Ger.
tainly fail to fathorl until the Sc
crct is revealed by the author IL
its proper place. 1t is a story OF
adventures many, Of sacritict
and Of faithful love of az, he
role soul wronged, degraded, en-.
bruted, and yet not lost-a story
which holds the interest Of The
reader to the last line, and which
he will never forget.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

James Edwara~w Sir Emiifus
DainiTcc's son ard heir 10 the lJaronet-
cy and cptailed estates. was melan-
choIy. hroodin.- bachelor little worse
than thirty years of age. Unlike Mr.
Harding. however, he looked much
older, with his swarthy. saturnine
cOuntCnanCe and the white threads in
the coal black whiskers that curled
beneath his deep set chin. His lines
had fallen In very different places from
those of Mr.. Harding. He had spent
most of his restless life abroad. His
soul had been burdened with very
different temperament: he had that of
a poet. and his manhood had been poi
soned at the fount by one of those
wretched family. quarrels which re
donnd to floDodys credit and of which
the outside world never get the rights.
1t was only known that Sir Emilius
and his son had not been on sDeakin"
terms for years.
Sucn sympathy as is felt in these
matters was entirely on the side of
the son. The present baronet was not
a popular man. His character was &c
centric and his morals so notorious
| that in many quarters the quarrel was
| from the first considered crelitable to
! young Daintree. When. however. after
an absence of eight years the latter
| came home on leave from New South
/ Wales. where he was magistrate and
| a man of some Importance and more
promise in the young colony and when
| ftnn al, COS 1;- Goa
still refused reconciliation. but pub.
| licly cut his son on every possible oc
casiOn. then-well. the indignation
might have been greater had James
| Daintree been himself more popular
man. But the truth was he had come
home Il morbid sensitive misanthro
| pist. and this treatment made him ter
| times worse. He was seldom seen by
his old friends anywhere. but he hap
pened TO make stanch new one in til,
| person of Nicholas Harding. whose
house. indeed. became the wanderer's
home
Claires attitude will be readily an
pretended. Daintree opened his bruised
| heart to her. and she considered hi.
father the most abominable old mar
alive. 1t was at Avenue Lodge that
parcel of faded flowers arrived fol
| Daintree and drove him almost Graz
with rage and grief. He had place.
them a day or two before upon hi
mothers grave. He burst into a storu
of Oaths and tears before the girl, VIII
thought the worse of him for neither
Lady Daintree had died the year be
fore. In fact. it was her death tina
had brought the Outcast home for til
/ reconciliation for which he pleaded i
vain.
lie had the sympathy of all VIII
knew him. That of Claire was spor
taneous and heartfelt and frank. Blu
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

1 never was worthy ana must therefore
sec her no more. 1t would be no good.
Why should | insult You too? | have
done so enough in coming to this Simply
forget ire. for ! am not worth your scorn.
Forget me utterly. / am too ashamed to
sign my name.
This he folded up. addressed with
his pencil and sealed i'm Il fashion,
with the waters which had Been used
already. Her lips had touched them
before his. Then he sat where he was
Nd noted the other moral corpse I;
stretched upon that daily battlefield
and wondered if any OF them had
wrecked their lives as willfulIy as he
his And then he Thought Of bis 9"
TIERS white hairs and thanked God
they had won to the grave without this
to bring them there
Then lie lay down again and wres
tied With hunger and anguish alter
nately and both together. 1t was even
ing when he left the park heavily
laden with Il fact remembered on the
way. He lacked the price of tive
penny stamp. Not Il farthing had ht
left nor n thing to pawn save his lon2
silk purse so ignobly emptiei, and tina
had been his fathers before him. L
should not go even for this, yet the
letter must. Then how?
He sat down again on Il bench. fol
he was weak for want of food, and il
| his weakness came temptation tina
was indeed more like an Inspiration. 81
| luminous was its flash. He might taxi
| his letter ana leave it himself III thu
| keyhOlc of the garden gate. Why not
Then she would get it at oncc-tha
| evening
Why not? He had already given tn
reasons in the letter itself. And SCI
| her he wOuld-he must-if once he 90
as far as that garden gate SO the rea
| sons in the letter held very good in
| deed. And how weak to he himself tn
| first to fly in their face. But, then
/ weakness was his present portion
| whereas the temptation grew stTOngc
| and strOuger-only to see her face one
| more only to hear her voice although
i it dashed him with the reproaches he :
richly deserved. Yet he did not civ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04
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CTo he Continued.D
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-04
CHAPTER |.

Z y the year 1887 and on warm,
moist April morning there knock
ed at q modest lodging house in
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-05-17
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EpeKRToN, WIS, May M, 19O

GO0HhION, w A5ss 1uhy IL, AOOs'
With improved weather conditions the
prospects for the new crop are cores
pondingly advanced. Conflicting reports
reach us regarding the plant beds, how
ever, some growers claiming they have
an abundance of plants and forward
enough for the usual planting season,
while the more general complaint is that
beds are slow and backward. Some
damage, too, is reported from the late
heavy freezes. AS soon as the corn
planting is out of the way growers will
turn their attention to preparing their
tobacco fields, but warm growing wealth
er must prevail if the transplanting sea-
son is not delayed beyond the usual
time.
A few struggling lots of the '06 crop
are being marketed at cheap figures, and
thus the work OF warehouse handling
prolonged, but generally speaking the
packing season is closed.
II. T. Sweeney has disposed of por-
tion of his 1905 packing during the week
which comprises the only movement of
old goods coming to notice. The mar
ket for cured leaf, both at home and the
eastern centers, continues dull. Unless
something develops to improve the pros
poets of the coming crop soon, packers
are confidently looking for an early de-
mand for their holdings.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 700 cases for the week to all points
from this market
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-05-17
- - - -
Tobacco in Colonial DAYS.

The jamestown exposition brings to
mind many incidents showing the impor
tant part which tobacco played in the
early history of the country. 1t was the
famous James Rolfe the husband of
Pocohontas who first adopted from the
Indians the idee of cultivating tobacco,
and he sold his irst crop in England for
$3.50 pound. Good times those for the
tobacco grower! Shortly afterward it
became form of currency in the colony,
and before the century was out the
women went trading, followed by cart
of green tobacco in charge OF their SER
wants On one occasion anyway this to-
bacco currency exercised transcan
IDENTIFY important function. In 1913
there came to jamestown a shipload of
maidens as wives for the settlers, and
the price set upon each damsel was 12O
pounds of tobacco. Obviously those
early settlers would not have endorsed
Rudyard Kipling's sentiment: For
woman is onlya woman, but good cigar
is smoke u. S. Tobacco Journal.