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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
WANT EVIDENCE As To
HEbBARD'S |NC0MPETENCY
Committee of Three Asks
That Complaints Be
Filed in Writing

The committee Of three appointed by
the Bar Association to digest the evil
dence of Judge Hebbard's recent noto-
rious conduct on and off the bench met
yesterday afternoon and decided to call
for written statements from attorneys
and litigants and from any others who
might have evidence showing that Heb
bard was incompetent to act as a SUI
perior Judge.
All three members of the committee,
Attorneys Matt Sullivan, Robert T.
Devlin and Samuel Knight, were pres
ent at the meeting, which was held
in Sullivans Office at 8 o'clock. After
the meeting Attorney Sullivan made
the following statement:
We have decided to call for written statements
from attorneys and litigants setting forth what
they may know OF the alleged improper conduct
Of Judge Hebbard the bench, and also OF any
of his habits OF the bench that would show that
he unfit TO retain his place Any evidence
that would bear on his qualification as a Judge
VIII be received, but we do not want hearssy
nything but written statements We shall
also ask for statements from attorneys and
litigants as TO any abuse which they have suf-
fered in Judge Hebbards department.
We shall call upon Attorney Heney to make
statement before / have no doubt that he
will be willing to do The assertions that
he has already made have been very strong
be sufficiently strong. we viii present ii to the
grievance committee of the Bar Association.
The time of the next meeting of the
committee Of three will be. announced
later.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
FROM HERMANN
CAVE NECESSARY DATA
Sorenson Says He Used 1t
to Induce Purchase OF
Forest Land

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE trial
of Binger Hermann was resumed today,
beginning its fifth week George Soren-
son of Portland took the stand.
He was asked concerning letter
said to have been written by Binger
Hermann to Attorney Mays of Port
land, and said that he had used the
letter to induce persons to buy lands
in forest reserves. His recollection OF
the letter was that it gave the loca-
ton, township and range of the lands
temporarily withdrawn, and which were
later included In the Blue Mountain
forest reserve. He said that he had an
indistfnct recollection that the letter
gave assurances that the lands de-
scribed would be included in the re-
serve.
Sorenson was questioned regarding
his retention of the late Senator Mitch
ell of Oregon as his attorney. He had
promised to pay Senator Mitchell $500
to assist in getting the Blue Mountain
forest reserve created, he said. He said
he never did pay Mitchell anything.
Some time after he retained Mitchell as
his attorney Mitchell told him that he
had a letter from Binger Hermann, and
advised Sorenson to get up petition.
signed by prominent citizens in oregon.
asking for the creation of the reserve.
The witness got this petition up. He
did not know the contents of the letter
from Hermann to Mitchell. but said it
was very short.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
GAS RATE IS FIXED
At EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS
Water and Electric Light
Measures Also Passed
by Supervisors

When the gas rate measure came be-
fore the Supervisors yesterday for final
passage there was no evidence of de-
sire on the part of any Supervisor to
discuss IT. The roll was called and
the ordinance fixing the rate al 50
cents became a law by II votes TO 4.
The noes were voted by Coffey, Lon
ergan, McGushin and Harrigan. who
wanted 75-cent gas. Phillips and Box
ton We're absent
The water rate bill was passed with
out comment II fixes the rates to be
charged by Spring Valley at the same
figure fixed in 1906, but which has not
been enforced by the water company
owing to the litigation pending since
9o2 The Spring Valleys refusal to
collect the fixed rates is the basis OF
the present movement to declare the
companys property forfeited to the
city.
The electric light rate Of cents
per thousand kilowatt hours. and con-
tanning discounts from to 40 per cent
was finally passed.
In a list OF appropriations passed. to
print by the Supervisors were the in
teresting items of 100000 to meet the
demands of the Board of Works for
labor and materials. $50, goo for clean
ing the streets and S35. 900 for the con-
struction OF quarters for the Superior
Courts at Bush and Stockton streets
The sum of $4,000 was also appro-
priated in an ordinance passed to print
to pay the cost Of moving back the
curbs three feet on each side of Fourth
street, between Howard and Freelon.
An appropriation Of $4,000 was finally
ordered for the purchase OF the new
Green-street engine house.
Mrs. Lowell White, president OF the
Outdoor Art League section of the Cali
fornia Club, sent a communication to
the Supervisors urging -lleIp to secure
means for the extension of Montgom-
cry avenue to Market street
An ordinance regulating the con-
struction and use of planning mills and
establishing fire limits was passed TO
print 1t provides that no building
except of class "a, 3 or Z construction
shall be used as a planning MILL saw
mill. sash and door factory or furni-
ture factory, unless the same be of
mill construction" with exterior walls
and roofs Of corrugated iron
The ordinance authorizing certain
changes in the Southern Pacific's Bay
Shore cutoff was finally passed. 1t
provides for a branch leaving the
Southern Pacific near Fifteenth avenue.
connecting with the Santa Fe at Q
street
The board finally passed the ordi-
nance fixing April as the date upon
which bids would be received for the
remaining school bonds, amounting to
81, 400.
A protest from A. Sbarboro, presi-
dent Of the Italian n-American Bank,
against the proposed reduction of the
width OF the Montgomery-street side
walks was referred to the street COM
mittee.
A protest from property owners
against the action of the United
Railroads in covering up manholes at
Corbett avenue and Ashbury street
was referred to the same committee
A large number of stable permits
was granted and the board passed nm
ally the ordinances giving the Board of
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
DELAYS PUTTING MEN
ON HIGHT-HOUR DAY

A penny saved is a penny earned is
an adaee which the United Railroads
accepts but in applying the precept st
is not overcareful whose penny it
saves.
The construction workers employed
in laying the new tracks for the road
have been victimized by the rapacity
Of Calhoun's corporation to the extent
Of several thousand dollars by the
latest scheme of the expert statisti-
clans Of the company. BY the terms
OF the award of the board OF arbitra-
ton these men were given an eight
hour day. bnt ten days expired before
the change was made yesterday. Dur
ing these ten days the men were COM
PEELED TO work nine hours daily, as
heretofore. The men threatened a
strike. but the powers Of the corpora
tion took their time. and when the ten
days had passed Il was easy mathe-
matics TO reckon that 1000 had been
forced TO donate an hours work daily
for ten days to the penny-wise fran
chise manipulstors, who had pocketed
the neat little sum Of $4,000 by the
operation. But. then a penny saved Is
p penny earned. and Patrick Calhoun is
no respecter Of persons.
The track workers have another
grievance. While they were willing to
work one month at $2.25 per day be-
fore their pay was raised to $3.50, yet
they feel they are justified In object
ing 10 being discharged on the 2sth
OF 29th day. TO be hired again with
the privilege Of working another
month at probation wages. As these
men are known to CslhOun's statisti-
clans only by number, the company
claims that it's records do not show
that No. 2,7s5,862 had ever swung a
nick in the cause previously. penny
saved is q penny earned-but not by
the track workers.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
BOARD SHELVES DAVIS
FIRETRAP ORDINANCE
Attempt of Supervisor to
Legalize the Dangerous
Showhouse Defeated

Supervisor Gallagher turned a cold
shoulder TO his confrere, Sam Davis.
at yesterday afternoons meeting of
the board and consigned to oblivion
the ordinance intended to legaIize fire.
trap theaters. Davis owns a firetrap
theater. In addition to that, by an in
decent play he aroused the unfriendIi-
ness of the Irish people of the city.
lrishmen know how to fight dozen
of them, led by Attorney John H. Allen.
and consulting a committee appointed
for the purpose by the United Irish
Societies, appeared at the Supervisors
chambers to voice their protests
against fretraps in general and the
Davis iretrap in particular.
They arrived at o'clock and were
in evidence in the corridor and the
clerks Office until 3. when the board
was called to order Dy Mayor Schmitz
Then the Irish committeeman lined up
in the lobby to await developments,
though before that it had been Whis-
pered that the matter would not be
heard.
When the title of the ordinance was
read for final passage, Gallagher arose
and suggested that it be referred back
to the fire committee, whence it came.
There was no protest and back 1t went
The committee is headed by Super
visor McGushin. There is a. belief that
he has snug little pigeon hole in
his official desk After the meeting he
declared that the measure would not be
heard from again and he said that "the
board would not have stood for any
thing like that anyhow"
The ordinance in question provided
for the installation of certain mex
pensive fire equipment and other things
calculated to reduce the hazard in the
Davis and like temporary amusement
places Of ''one story" that have sprung
up since the fire.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
Innovation Aids in Search for
CalifOrnia'S FaireSt Women

At a dance in Oakland last week a
the prettiest girls on the floor, and the
photographs of the three favorites
were sent to The Sunday Call to be
entered in the State beauty contest.
At the same time in Pasadena some
one had a similar thought at an even
ing party. but only one photograph
was sent from there.
This new possibility Of an excuse
for dance undoubtedly will be taken
up generally by the young people of
the State, since two geniuses have
thought Of IT already. The details of
the Pasadena affair are lacking, but
that in Oakland must have been very
pleasant. The idea was sprung as a
surprise. The young man who had
this brilliant plan also sent the pho
tographs to The Sunday Call and told
Of the occasion.
HOW THE VOTE WAS TAKEN
Il saw The Calls announcement of
its beauty contest, but could not de-
eide which girl TO send picture of
TO The Call. So when 1 went TO the
dance given by our club the other
night I looked around at the girls and
could not make up my mind Some
were prettier than others, some were
dark. some blonde, and QlQn know
which was the prettiest- I was the
chairman Of the committee, so I went
out on the floor and announced at
the end Of the sixteenth dance that
there was going to be a vote by all
the men to decide who was the pret-
tiest girl in the room. The girls
blushed when the fellows began to
look around to see which was the
prettiest. After the votes We're all
handed in I appointed a committee TO
count them and the three whose pho
tographs are inclosed were so nearly
even on the Vote that we decided to
get photographs of all Of them and
send them in with our Endorsement.
The girls did not know at first what
il was. all about, but when told them
in a little speech they all liked it, and
I was the most popular man there. The
girls were all so pretty that I would
have liked to send them all in. but I
thought that would be too much of
a good thing"
At a dance II is usually a question
of who can dance the best, rather than
who is the prettiest, but this Oakland
club seems to have followed the beauty
qualification rather than the dancing
or, perhaps. they both go together.
That viii have to be left to be de-
cided by the young men in other places
in the State who see a suggestion for
q good time in this beauty contest
dance.
PASADENA'S OFFERING
With the photograph received from
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

Pasadena there was merely a note say
ing that the lady of whom the photo
graph was taken was voted the most
beautiful in select gathering here the
other evening"
Evidence of the interest taken in The
Sunday Calls beauty contest is shown
by the activities of newspapers
throughout the State, each anxious to
win for it's community the honor OF
having California's most beautiful wo-
man. Something Of this enthusiasm
is shown in the following:
The visalia Times says: THE San
Francisco Call has begun a contest to
find the most beautiful woman in Cali
fornia. Both the Merced and Hanford
papers have come to the front with the
assertion that The Calls beauty editor
could save himself much trouble and
worry by coming directly to their
cities. Only a becoming and proper
modesty refrains US from saying that
Visalia has long been and still is famed
for it's pretty girls and beautiful wo-
men and should by all right be the
first and last city to be considered by
the aforesaid beauty man."
MONTERREY IN THE RACE
Monterey does not intend to let the
beauty contest pass by without a good
fight. The Monterey Cypress says of
favorable attention gained for Mon
terey County by Miss Rose Breschini of
Blanco winning the first prize in The
San Francisco Calls gold contest makes
II most desirable that Monterey County
should be worthily represented in The
Calls current beauty contest Femi-
nine loveliness is fortunately so abun-
dant In this favored region that the
only difficulty will be In the selection
of the best local specimens. AS every
eye is said to form its own beauty, the
only way will be to let The Calls beau
ty expert decide which is the fairest."
The Modesto Herald askes the fol-
lowing pertinent question: WHO are
the most beautiful women in Stanislaus
County," and continues:
The San Francisco Call has accepted
the gage thrown down by an Eastern
paper, which declared that the Eastern
States have the most beautiful women
in the world. and will run beauty
contest TO show that California has
beautiful women as we'll as climate
alfalfa and other things.
The Call wants the best pictures of
Stanislaus women it can obtain, and If
you regard your wife or sweetheart or
sister as the most beautiful woman in
the world her picture should grace the
picture gallery of The Call Photog-
raphers are invited to take especial at
tention, as artistic posing and fine fin
ishing work have as much to do with a
woman's pictured beauty as the SUBJ
ject herself"
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
THIRTEEN PERSONS HURT
IN Street CAR WRECK
Electric Vehicles Crash To-
gether on the San
Mateo Line
THREE LIKELY TO DIE
Motorman and Two PaSsen-
gers Are Perhaps In
jured Fatally
THREE LIKELY TO DIE

With a terrific crash two cars OF the
San Mateo line. running at full speed,
came together head on yesterday at a
point half way between Baden station
and the Twelve Mile House. Eleven
passengers. many of them women, and
the motormen Of both cars, were in
3ured- Three persons were so badly
hurt that they may die. The injured
were placed on a third car and rushed
TO this city, where two were taken 10
the hospital and others 10 their homes.
The conductors escaped injury.
At 1890 .. IA. car No. 1886, inbound.
in charge Of Motormah L n. Buzzard
and Conductor E. Nichon, was tied up
at Holy Cross by a car ahead Of il
which had been derailed at that point.
In order TO get around IL and continue
on their trip the crew decided to go
back one mile TO switch over" and
pass the derailed car on the outbound
track.
While this car was running backward
at the rate of twenty miles an hour
car No. 1928, Motornpan J. A Gerard and
Conductor Lewis. doomed up suddenly
around the Baden curve but a few rods
away, and although both mOtormen sp-
piled the brakes the cars came to-
gether with sufficient force TO tele-
scope them, strewing the track with
wreckage and blocking the line for
hours
Motorman Buzzard of the car that
was backing UP was probably fatally
injured and was rushed to St Luke's
Hospital in this city. Mrs. Bessie Jap
pOn OF South San Francisco was seri-
ously cut by glass and is thought to
have been internally injured. She was
taken TO a hospital near her home.
where her condition was pronounced
critical Miss Vanderbilt OF San MateO
was thrown the length Of the car and
suffered greatly from the shock. Her
condition is also serious. But for the
fact that the car which was responsible
for the accident and which was the
more badly damaged Of the two carried
but three passengers, all OF whom were
hurt. the list OF injured would have
been much greater.
The United Railroads disclaims all
responsibility for the accident and
states that the car was run backward
the power. which occurred at about the
time of the collision. delayed the
wrecking car for two hours longer
than was necessary and seriously hin
dered the work OF securing medical
treatment for those who were hurt
A list Of those who were less seri-
ously hurt, most Of whom were bruised
and shaken and many Of whom were
cut by flying glass, follows: Mrs NJ
Conaghy. 112 Bush street; Mrs. NJ. p
Davies San Mateo; Mrs. W. A Blake
ly. San Msteo; Mrs. J. Alexander, 312l
California street: A. y. Caster, san
Bruno road; J. Smith. I1I4 York street;
Mrs. n. Harris. 3627 Army street; Z. +.
Murphy Burlingame, and one other
who refused TO leave his name.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
Beauty Contests Now
Feature at Dances

last Sundays Call appeared the first of photographs
received great being carried by
The Sunday Call There will be next Sunday Each week
will bigger collection from which select This col
lection be Send in the photographs of all
beautiful The Sunday Call needs them Six thousand
photographs
which Miss Della adudged the beautiful
Chicago The Chicago Tbune boast that she is the
Sunday Call
That beautiful California be found You
aid. photographs Beauty Editor, The Call
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
HAD WOOED HER WITH
TALES OF MILLIONS
Young Brides Air Castles Fall in
Ruins and She Sues for An
nulment of Marriage

When dreams of wealth and travel
had vanished, Mrs. Mabel Louise Allan.
a bride of 19 years. suddenly discovered
that married life was a failure. The
result Of her discovery is a suit for
annulment of her marriage to John
Craig Allan, which was filed yesterday.
Mrs. Allan was married on Nav 9
of last year after ardent wooing for
nine months by her lover. He informed
her. she declares, that he was the heir
to an estate of over million dollars
left him by an uncle who had lust
died in Melbourne, Australia, but that
to get it he must live for term of
years in Australia. He urged her to
marry him and accompany him to Aus
tralia- She consented and the passage
to Australia was engaged, but the day
before they were to sail her husband
deserted her. She afterward learned
that uncle and millions were alike a
myth.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
FUNERAL OF GEORGE BoYNE
WILL BE HELD TO-DAY

Arrangements have been completed
for the funeral of J. George Boyne late
secretary of the Board of Police Com
missioners. 1T will take place at 2
o'clock this afternoon from the resi-
dence of w. P. Hallana, 1908 Telegraph
avenue. Oakland, and will be conduct
ed by Rev. Father McQuaide. pastor of
the Sacred Heart Church. The follow
ing will be pallbearers: Thomas F..
Boyle of the Board of Education J. F..
Dinan, Chief of Police; Mario Bollo.
president of the Fire Commission; John
j. Boyle. secretary to the Mayor; Al
fred Roncovieri, superintendent of
Schools; w. H. Leahy, Police Commits
sioner; Thomas f. Egan, Commissioner
of Public Works, and A Altman of
the Board of Education.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
COLONEL SHAW, VETERAN
OF CIVIL WAR. DEAD
Soldier and Journalist, Brother-in.
Law of Sam Davis. Humorist.
Passes Away

Colonel Henry G. Shaw, a veteran of
the Civil War and prominent MEM
Der of the Grand Army of the Republic
and brother -in-law of Sam Davis. edi-
tor of the Carson Appeal, died Sun
day at his home. 1116 Devisadero street.
For several years past Shaw had been
an inspector of customs at this port.
In the later '70's he was connected with
newspapers in Virginia City and Car
son and was city editor of The Call
years ago.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. A. r.
Harrison and Mrs. A. r. Mehrtens. and
Henry G. Shaw Jr.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

is expected to deliver this week II
was decided to avoid any pretext for
extreme measures by the administra-
tion- The party will refrain from dem
onstrating, will listen to the Premier
in silence, and thereafter will proceed
70 the regular business Of the house.
without any especial resolution to that
effect.
II the Socialists move a vote of lack
of confidence Ia the Government the
Constitutional Democrats will propose
a resolution that the Douma, having
heard the declaration of the Premier
proceed to the regular order of the
day
The social revolutiOnists and the
group of toll have adopted virtually
the same decision.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
DOUMA To GIVE PREMIER
A RESPECTFUL HEARING
Russian Democrats Decide
Not to Antagonize the
Government

ST. PETERSBURG. March IA
caucus of the Constitutional Democratic
delegates was held today to discuss the
important question of the manner of
receiving the declaration of policy from
the Cabinet. which Premier Stolypin
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
WILL ERECT LARGE
BUILDING IN BROADWAY

James Otis, trustee. applied yesterday
for a permit to erect building costing
$4,000 at the southeast corner Of
Broadway and Front street
c. Giovannetti applied for a permit
for a structure at the northeast corner
of Folsom and Fourth streets to cost
s25.7oa
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

Health control Of the stable nuisances
Chairman Gallagher of the finance
committee indorsed the request of a
Bay View district delegation for more
lights and better school facilities for
the section.
The Sanderson streetcar ordinance.
TO which the Grand Jury objected be-
cause it made passengers responsible
for overcrowding cars, was passed to
print
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
CAR Kills PEDESTRIAN
wan steps I'm Hole While Crossing
Tracks and Is Run Over

Norris 0. Kane, an aged hackdriver.
while crossing the tracks Of the United
Railroads at Eighteenth and Valencia
streets last night, stepped in hole left
between the ties by careless wOrkmen
and was struck by a speeding car and
fatally injured. An ambulance call was
sent in, but when the hospital corps
arrived Kane was pronounced dead and
the Coroner notified without waiting
for the arrival of that official, how
ever. employees OF the street car COM
pany placed the body on a car and
carried il TO Fourteenth street and
thence down to Mission, when the Cor
oner's deputy arrived on the scene and
took the dead man in charge. The
motOrman, c. Mesusan, was arrested
on a charge of battery IL is likely
that warrant will be sworn out for
the arrest Of the man who caused the
removal OF the dead man from the
place where he was killed.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
HURLED FROM A sTREETCAR

T. 3. Walentaush, a carpenter living
at 1912 Seventh street, was seriously
injured when car 1873 OF the Mission
and Twenty-ninth streets line collided
with a wagon Of tbs Stockton Milling
Company while going at a rapid rate
yesterday morning at the corner OF
Seventeenth and Valencia streets. Wal
entaush was standing on the steps at
the time Of the accident and was hurled
10 the pavement by the force Of the
collision. He was found to be suffering
from serious laceratiOn OF the scalp.
and the surgeons of the City and Coun-
~ Hospital feared that he might be
suffering from internal injuries.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

LOCOMOTIVE BLOWS UP-Metuchen, N. j..
March lI.-Three men were killed and several
others hurt when boiler OF locomotive OF
the pennsylvania Railroad exploded while driv-
ing a freight train through town.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

KILLED BY FALLING BLocK-Tkiah March
11.-Antone Valado. an emplOye of the Mon
dOcino Redwood Company. was struck on the
head by falling block and killed this morning
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12

STEAMSHIP COMPANY FoRKED-Articies
~ INCORPORATION were filed yesterday by the
MeKev Steamship Company, formed for the pur-
nose II operating steam schooners and other
veesele on San Francisco Bay and the Pacifc
oceen The capital stock Of $50. 900 Is fully
srl,~crffed The directors Earl T. Riley
Psul III Burns and Wtlliam II. Hamilton