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The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
HOW CASH MAY Be
HAD ON BONDS
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI

SPEClAB DISPATCH TO THE CALL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s-Frank J..
Symmes, president OF the Merchants
Association of San Francisco, has asked
Senator Perkins to secure from l.. NJ
Shaw. Secretary OF the Treasury, an
official statement Of the amount of
Government money the Secretary would
deposit in the national banks of San
Francisco against city bonds, in accord
ance with his recent promise to the
citizens committee
Symmes said the bonds would be un-
salable unless Secretary Shaw an
nounced that he would accept them for
United States deposits. Secretary Shaw,
before whom the matter was at once
laid, today wrote Senator Perkins, quot
ing q letter he sent to the American
National Bank June 26. 1906. The Sec
retary said in that letter: Il told the
committee | would accept the San
Francisco bonds as security for Govern
ment deposit at 80 per cent of their
market value. ] explained to them that
| could not accept them at go per cent
of their par value, simply because local
banks consented TO buy them at par.
You will readily understand that the
security must be ample. and ample Sc
-curity is something that can be sold
in the worlds markets for sufficient to
pay the debt.
'Loaning 80 per cent of the market
value of a chattel is going to the ex-
treme. The price at which local banks
would take the bonds does not raise a
presumption IS to their market value.
If you can get good faith offers for the
bonds outside the same not to be ac-
cepted as security. it will go far toward
forming their market value. but such
an offer must be good faith offer
wholly disconnected from the thought
Of receiving deposits based thereon
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
ICE STILL HOLDS
THE COLUMBIA

PORTLAND. Jan. ls.-The steam
ship Columbia OF the San Francisco
and Portland Steamship Company's line
is still fast in the ice three miles above
St Helena in the Columbia EiVer.
The liner Aragonia is endeaVoring
to extricate the Columbia. The Ara
gOaia is bucking into the ice pack
from the lower side and it is hoped that
tie combined efforts OF the boats will
prove effective.
The steamer Roanoke Of the North
Pacific steamship Company. which has
been tied Up AT St Helena for the
last two days. made two Intellectual
efforts 10 break The ice TO-DAY. The
temperature is rising on the upper river
and a change in the situation is looked
for soon.
A rapid thaw may cause the volume
OF heavy ice IN the river at all points
above 10 do considerable DANA ge The
jams win give way and the ice will
come down in a bunch.
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Save eWoman andChldren
FromDeath Current
Captain NevinS and
DR.. Dunbar Do
Brave Deed
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VALLEJO. Jan. Is.-Wfthout waiting
10 remove an article of his clothing DIR.
Arthur w. Dunbar. 4. :. NJ IeHped
from the deck of the ferrybOat Vallejo
this afternoon into the swift current
that races down tho channel between
Mare Island and Vallejo. RraSPed the
hair of Mrs. W. }. ireland. wife OF Chief
Boatswain ireland Of the L. :. :. MIL
svaukec. in one hand ard her seven
vear-oId son I'm the other and SWAN
for the font af the end Of Georgia
street wharf. using his feet aud legs
10 prOpel and keep him MP.
Captain J. Gorhan Nevins OF the fer
ryboat was standing alongside Dunbar
when Mrs. ireland ienped from the
wharf I'm an effort 60 get ON the Val
IejO. and after ne had siEnaIcd Pilot
Madee 10 stop the boat. he IcaDed into
the winter and saved the life Of Mrs.
IreIand's other son. who was just dis
appearing under She waters Of the bay.
Several hundred passengers and by
ISLANDERS saw the thrilling rescue and
cheered the plucky men TO the echo
Mrs ireland. in company with her
mot her who resides i'm San F-a ncisco.
and Miss Alice Hubbard of Vallejo had
been standing on the wharf when Mrs.
ireland suddenly determined 10 cross
the straits to visit her husband on the
Milwaukee. The ferryboat was just
leaving the slip when she rushed for
the gangplank Had she not hesitated
she would have stepped safely onto the
fast-moving boat, but she made several
false efforts TO reach the boat, her
courage falling her each time.
BY the time Mrs ireland was ready
. r8 get aboard the distance was farther
: ran she could step, but under the eN-
citemcnt she made the effort With a
loud shrek from her. she and the two
children. whom she had by the hands.
fell into the churning waters Of the
BAY
The water is ten feet higher than
usual. owing 10 the floods. and runs
like mill race. with strong unders
tow. Local bOatmen say that in is al
most sure death to fall into the bay
~ this time. Two decl1hands who were
nearby, stood as though frozen TO the
spot while the other spectators
thought that a terrible tragedy was
about TO be enacted before their eyes.
Dunbar End Nevins never hesitated.
although when they reached the rail
of the ferry craft the boat was far
her children were floating about fifty
feet away. kept above the water by
their dresses and Mrs. Irelands pres
cnce or mind
The water is bitter cold from the
snow water OF the foothills which has
flowed down the Napa Greek and Mrs
ireland was all but unconscious when
She was rescued. DR.. Dunbar never
thought or changing his clothes, but
after ordering the boat TO proceed TO
Mare Island AT once. so that the pa
iients could be taken 10 the Naval
Hospital, took of his coat and pro-
ceeded 10 use every means 10 revive
Mrs. Ireland who had tainted away
She was hurried 10 the hospital where
At the last reports this evening her
condition IS very serious.
The children are in bed, but appear
but little the worse for their chilly
bath.
Mrs. Ireland's parents reside at 2G22
Cough street, San Francisco.
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SENATE HELPS THE
QUAKE REFUGEES
Votes Relief to People of
Jamaica and Agrees to
Lumber Trust Resolution
ARTILLERY ENLARGED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1S.-The Senate
today deferred further action on the
Brownsville matter until Monday. 1t
passed a bill authorizing relief for
earthquake -smitten Jamaica, agreed to
a resolution directing an investigation
Of the lumber trust and passed bill
increasing the artillery corps of the
army.
The Warren bill passed increasing
the artillery corps makes the total
gain, which is to reach its maximum
in five years, 6197 officers and men.
which, with the increase in certain
salaries of men in separate grades, such
as electricians, machinists, etc. will
cost $243,324 annually.
The lumber trust resolution directs
that an investigation shall be con-
Quoted TO ascertain whether there ex-
lists any combination. conspiracy. trust,
agreement or contract intended to oper-
ate in restraint of lawful trade in
lumber or TO increase the market price
of lumber in any part OF the United
States.
Senator Beveridge notified the Re-
publican leaders i'm the Senate that un-
der no circumstances would he be
bound TO vote against Senator Black
burns amendment to Foraker's
Brownsville resolution disclsiming any
intention to deny the Presidents right
to discharge the troops.
In the absence Of Senator Aldrich.
Senator Crane took charge of the case
in the Senate in opposition to the
Blackburn amendment and succeeded in
inspiring more confidence in that ef-
fort He announced his opinion that
vote would be reached on Monday. and
the Blackburn provision was tabled by
practically unanimous vote.
Senator Blackburn said meanwhile
he was standing pat" He decided to
withdraw his amendment because he
believed the President was entitled to
this declaration of faith and right He
declared that the amendment was an
abstract declaration entirely discon-
nected with the Brownsville affair.
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STANDARD REFUSES
To PURCHASE OIL
spEcIAL pIspArcH no ZEE 49,.

BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 1s.-Timothy
Spellacy arrived from San Francisco
today, where he has been seeking to
effect an agreement between the Mid
way Oil Company and the Standard.
the trust to take 5000. 900 barrels OF oil
at so cents and to construct pipe line
into the district. Spellacy announced
that the deal was off. the Standard re-
fusing to go higher thanD25 cents and
the producers declining to consent TO
any rate under 80 cents.
1t is significant. however, that the
Standard is still continuing its survey
for a pipe line This work will be
completed within day or two. 1t was
stated by Spellacy that the Associated
Oil Company's managers have ex-
pressed a Willingness to negotiate with
the West Side producers. Now that the
Standard. deal has fallen through, the
Associated is prepared to make the
producers an offer and agree to have
a pipe line into the district within four
months.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
Jordan Vigorously Assailed by
Board of Education

"I think you will recognize that I
cannot accept San Francisco quota
tions. The Government desires TO aid
San Francisco to the limit OF safety
but this department must of course adj
minister it's affairs, if not in this case.
with an eye single to the interest os
the Government. with at least very
clear eye to adequate security"
Shaw then concluded his letter as
follows: Let the banks make appli-
cation for deposits based on these
bonds and furnish information from
which 1 can ascertain the actual mar
ket value of the bonds. The price at
which they We're in fact purchased viii
not be accepted as proof of value. Lo-
cal banks will do much for the credit
of a city. but the Secretary must make
deposit only on actual security.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
MELVILLE DOLLAR
STRIKES A REEF
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

BELLINGHAM. Wash. Jan. 1s.-The
steamship Meh-ille Dollar. Captain
Crossman. ran over reef near Point
Roberts last night and narrowly es-
capped destruction. The vessel was en-
route 10 Seattle and San Francisco
from Blaine with a cargo Of poles, but
before proceeding south Captain Cross
man directed her TO Comox to coal.
Several hours Of desperate work were
required TO free the steamship. How
serious the damage is cannot be learned
here, but it is not thought that any OF
her plates were sprung badly. Reports
from Point Roberts say the vessel ap-
parently continued to Comox after the
accident.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
ROOSEVELT UPHELD
BY COTTON MEN

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. lS.-The
Southern Cotton Association adopted
resolution this afternoon unanimously
indorsing President Roosevelt's action
in dismissing the negro troops at
Brownsville
Foke Smith, Governor-eIect Of Geor-
gia was the principal speaker OF the
session. He said:
Every man throughout the land should be
made 10 know that the prices published by the
New York Cotton Exchange do not represent the
arket price Of middling cotton but only repre-
sent the market price Of inferior cotton gathered
together 70 project the seller. and until that
Cotton Exchange requires its sellers 10 deliver
genuine mddling cotton fit for by manufac-
frrers the injustice Of its conduct should be
told and told until II is a bvword throughout the
nation and throughout the world.
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: ! 785
Mems $50 Shoes s2.s5

Just now when every shoe dealer is compelled to raise
the price of the standard Shoes this sale certainly
extraordinary The shoes place sale today
small lots from very prominent makers which secured
way below the actual value We share our good fortune
with you and ask you choose among twenty pretty
styles of shiny and plain feathers button lace and
instead Of $3.50 pay US S2.65.
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as the nation to be gentleman. I have
always entertained a high regard for
DR.. Jordan, but when he wantonly at
tacks the Board of Education for hav-
ing performed its sworn duty to en-
force the laws of the State of Cali
fornia in response to public demand. he
goes beyond his own rules for the dis
cussion of public questions"
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nished his good name in this matter:
has betrayed the fact that he is i'm
petuous and savage in his personal
views when he finds that he cannot
force them upon all mankind.
president Jordan's libelous and un-
true references to this department of
education, as published. amount to
wanton insult to TIL. very excellent
gentlemen who were his hosts at that
banquet, and to the intelligence of
those Californians who have intrusted
him with the higher education of their
children"
OPINION OF ALTMAN
Director Altman turned the words of
the university president upon their au-
thor He said:
only in one regard do / agree with
President Jordan in his quoted remarks.
and that is when he aptly observes
that 1T pays to be a gentleman It
would appear that President Jordan
does not practice what he breaches,
however. for to say the least it must
be conceded that his statements made
before the Unitarian Club and as pub
lished in the daily press are not such
statements as a gentleman would use.
A gentleman. to begin with. usually
tells the truth in making public decla-
rations."
WALSH RAPS JORDAN
President Walsh of the School Board
had the following to say:
From the remarks of Professor Jor-
dan l am led to believe that his utter
ances were made at very late hour
in the evening, and al a time when he
was suffering from a sudden rush of
wine to the head
knowing the sycophantic nature of
President Jordan, and his desire to
curry favor with the chief executive
at Washington, / am not surprised at
his attitude
THE Board of Education has assumed
the position from which there will be
no retreat, Notwithstanding the at
tempted coercion of an executive. or
the bibulous utterances of a college
professor whose chief claim to fame
rests upon his familiarity with fish
RONCOVIERTS STATEMENT
superintendent of Schools Roncovieri
took very much the same view as Alt
mann. He said:
DIR. Jordan. If correctly quoted
should take unto himself his lecture
on the gentleman and should know
that it becomes the individual as we'll
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
NorIFIEp oF APPoINTMENTs

The Mayor formally notified the
Board of Supervisors yesterday that
he had appointed ]. ]. O'Neil a Super
visor, vice A. w. Wilson, resigned, and
o. A. Tveitmoe, Supervisor. vice George
+ Duffev
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19
SIS Overcoats

These tremendous values the talk of the town.
Customers tell their friends, and in the friends
delighted and surprised at the phenomenal values
this sale affords In addition to the pretty, fancy
Scotches and Tweeds we have added several hun
dred black Friezes, and when you come today for
an overcoat you will find larger selection than
heretofore and the values fully great as the day the
sale began
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INSURANCE SUIT FILED-A suit for insur-
nnee on policy covering property destroyed in
the April fire WAS filed Yesterday 10y Muhs Loch-
baum q Co against the Eagle Fire Insurance
COMPANY Of New York for $1,000
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Take lei Dorado

Train No. IS FOR Sacramento. viii SUIT YOU
Need not rush. Leaves At 8 20 D. m daily and
you take dinner train. Has composite car
buffet library. Longing and makes hut
few stops. Time three hours. The train thai
saves you time Write agents Southern Pacific
Company.
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Potatoes in France are nearly double
the price of last year.
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19

cARNEg MAY TRY HARoIs- -Frankfort. Ky.
Jan. Is.-ln the Court OF Appeals today the peti-
fion for = writ of prohibition 20 prevent Judge
Carnce from trying rho case Of Judge James
Harcis charged with the murder Of Or. b. -.
Cox, was denied. This decision sustains Special
Judge Carncs,
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AZ RS. W. J. IRELAND. wife a plunged
children into the icy at Mare Island yesterday
while jumping the ferryOat Vallejo Dr. Arthur W. Dun
bar Captain GOrham Nens into the water after hem
The former rescued Mrs ireland and child and NeTins saved the
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oxford Hotel. modern and up 10 date. now
open. Northeast corner Post and Franklin
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Continued From Page 1. Column 1
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When the ten big arrived yesterday from
New York workrooms the last suit for $7.85 had been
sold These new arrivals are even better than the
first lots and never meant to sell at such price,
but the clamor for these values is great that
must either make sacrifice or disappoint
toners So to please, instead of disappoint you,
place sale these splendid suits in soft hard fin
ish winter materials, and again invite you to choose
among them at seven eighty-hve.
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History of Ivory.


The earliest recorded history-we
might say prehistoric, the hieroglyph-
ical-that has come down to us has
been in carvings on ivory and bone.
Long before metallurgy WAS known
among the prehistoric races carvings
on reindeer horn and mammoth tuSk
evidence the antiquity of the art.
Fragments of horn and ivory engraved
with excellent pictures of animals have
been found in caves and beds of riv-
erS and lakes. There are specimens
in the British museum, also in the
Louvre, of the Egyptian skill In ivory
carving attributed to the age of Moses.
In the latter collection are chairs OF
seats of the sixteenth century B. c..
inlaid with ivory and other pieces of
the eleventh century B. G. Carving of
the precious substance was extern
sively carried on at Constantinople dur
ing the middle ages. Combs, caskets,
horns, boxes, ETC., of carved ivory and
bone, often set in precious stones, of
the old Roman and Anglo-SaXon peri
DDS are frequently found in tombs.
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happily ever after. Instead he had
never been so dull, and perhaps he had
lost his chance.
The gas had gone out as he closed
the door and limped into the kitchen.
He knew very we'll that it was useless
TO search for a quarter. He had found
the one he had just given up only after
a search. He would have to fall back
on candles. There were half dozen in
the dining room, and by lighting four
he managed to read after fashion.
But he had scarcely settled himself to
his reading when the doorbell rang
again. He wondered who it might be
now as he made his way down the
dark hall The girl across the hall stood
there again.
''You fibbed," she said reproachfully.
''You said you had another quarter for
yourself. You let me drop yours in our
meter, and we can see across the shaft
that you're using candles
a 81 rather like them," he assured, but
she would have none Of it.
''You were Just going to drop the
coin in your meter" she cried. THAT
is why you had it in your hand"
- In the face of deduction he was
dumb. The girl went on:
81 know you can't go downstairs to
get change because you hurt your an
kle. 1t wouldn't be any use anyway.
It's Sunday, and only the drug store is
open, and they are all out of quarters.
l was down there just before / asked
you for one. Mother says you must
come in to our fiat and read. You may
smoke all you like. We don't mind it
in the least"
81 am very comfortable" he protest
ed.
The opportunity he had longed for
had come, and he was too bashful to
avail himself of it. In the end the girl
in her masterful little way carried her
point. Presently he was installed in the
pleasant parlor and was telling mother
Nv Mrs. Fallows all about his trials
without his mother.
1T must be so lonesome for YOU"
she cried. why didn't you come to
us long ago."
'I've wanted to- he admitted frank
y. Sometimes I've seen the light
and I've been so homesick We only
moved here just before my grandmoth-
er's iIlness took mother west, aud
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Address County Clerk, Washburn, Wis.
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An Eskimo LEGEND.

Among the Eskimos, the angakos or
sorcerer who would visit Sedna, the
goddess who lives underground or i'll
the depths of the ocean, presiding over
one of the countries to which souls go
after death, must first pass the arsis-
sut-the dwellings of the happy dead
and then cross an abyss in which a
wheel as slippery as ice is constantly
turning round. Arriving at the house
of Sedna, he finds it guarded by terri
BILE animals, sometimes described as
seals, and sometimes as dogs, and
when within the house passage he has
to cross an abyss by means of d bridge
as narrow as knife edge
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Free. for Catarrb, just to prove
merit, a Trial size Box of DR..
Shops oatarrh Remedy. Let me
send it now. 1t is a white,
creamy, healing, antiseptic balm.
Containing such healing ingredients
as Oil Eucalyptus, Thymol, Men tho,
ETC., it gives instant and lasting re-
lief to Catarrh of the nose and throat
Make the free test and see for your
self what this preparation can and
will accomplish. Address DR..
Shoop, Racine, Wis, Large jars
80 cents. Sold by M. M. Sweet. ca
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TWO MINUTE SKETCHES
Ulysses 5. Grant.
BY J. n. EDGE TON.

TP to the time of the civil war
Ulysses S. Grant was practical
ly unknown. Then fame came
upon him suddenly and over
whelmingly. 1t was as though all Of
the earlier part Of his life had been a
waiting time, preparation. Once i'll
the glare, he was there to stay No
more escape for him. He must play
his part herceforth with the eyes Of
the world upon him. 1t is questionable
if Grant enjoyed this publicity, but,
whatever his personal feelings, he had
the logged determination to go through
with whatever was thrown in his way
The remark of his wife that, ''Nlr.
Grant is an obstinate man." showed a
prominant quality that made for the
generals success. This trait was
shown even in his boyhood. The story
is often told of his feat of loading logs
unaided and alone. Usually several
men did this work, and the duty of the
slender lad was to haul the logs to
the sawmill. One day he found the
men absent. Instead of going home. as
most boys would have done, he deter
mined to do the loading himself, so in
vented a contrivance which by the aid
Of one of the horses enabled him to
perform the task. This act made, him
famous in the neighborhood.
Bulldog tenacIty, sheer hanging on
whatever befell, persistence that never
let go-this seemed to be the FREEDOM
inant characteristic of Grant. He did
not know bow to quit. Once started
on a task, he seemed to have phys
ical inability of stopping until the
thing was accomplished If he could
not smash his antagonist, he would
wear him out. He never planned for
retreat. Perhaps he did not know how
to retreat His plan seemed to be to
hit first and keep hitting, to drive on
and on till he won, to fight and still
fight until either his antagonist or him
self was incapacitated for farther con-
flict II propose to fight it out on this
line if it takes all summer" he wired
to Washington, and the succeeding
>mpe$gn showed that he meant all
G rttle more than he said.