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The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
Deserted Woman Breaks Her
Silence to Deny Charge
of Runaway Spouse

Living in a refugee shack at X street
and Eleventh avenue and supporting
herself and her two children by work
ing as janitress, Mrs. George f. Au-
bertine told the story yesterday of how
her husband, we'll known in local po-
litical circles as one of the organizers
of the Union Labor party and one of
the earliest supporters OF Schmitz for
the mayoralty, ill-treated her in every
possible way and finally married an
other woman.
Mrs Aubertine is patient, hard
working little woman. She has only
words of pity for the young girl who
is Aubertine,s second victim and for
whom she sees in store fate no better
than her own She speaks without Bit
terness of the man who she says
squandered her money on other women,
abused her even to blows, and at last
left her and married another woman.
It was the published announcement
of his second marriage and his sneer-
ing denial when charged with bigamy,
recently published in The Call. which
finally stung his deserted wife to tell
her side of the story. She had sup
ported him, suffered his cruelty and un-
faithfulness as long as she possibly
could. she declares, and when that be-
came unbearable, she parted from him
and assumed quietly and patiently the
burden of supporting their children.
When he added the final insult to
his long series of injuries and denied
her position as his wife, together with
the claim of her children to his name,
she found that the time for patient
submission had gone by. Her only hap
piness since she parted from her hus-
band had been her two children. the
boy, Don, a manly little fellow now II
years old, and the pretty little eight
year-old Wfnifred. She had worked
hard and had never asked her husband
to help her.
She did not mind that so long as she
was working for the children.
After the fire had swept away Mrs.
Aubertine's possessions and her humble
means of making a living, she bravely
took up the task of again providing a
home for herself and her little ones.
When she heard that her husband,
whom after a silence of three years she
supposed dead. had married another
woman under the pretense of being a
free man, and thatfhe had denied her.
she felt that she had to speak for the
children's sake.
He was very nice to me right after
we were married" said Mrs. Aubertine,
but soon he began to abuse me.
had a little money and he got that to
start him in business, but he failed.
When he was in politics he had money,
but he never gave me and the children
any. He spent it on some women that
he went with great deal.
AT last 1 could not stand 1t any
longer and I told him that I would
support the children, but / would not
support any man. We separated, but
we never had any divorce. / went to
work as janitress in the Columbia Park
Boys Club and worked there four
years Since the fire / have been jani-
tress in the Cooper School. I felt that
had to speak for the children's sake"
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
UBEHEBE DRAWS PROMOTERS
Options Are Taken by Mining Men or
Copper Claims

TONOPAH. Feb. S.-Robert G. Pad
dock, a mining engineer, just returned
from the Ubehebe copper region in the
southern part of this State and Cali
fornia, says several Nevada promoters
are interested in that section, Namong
them George Wingfield who has an op-
tion on a group of copper claims. Pad
dock is impressed with the conditions
governing the ore occurrences and says
that the fact that copper splphide ap-
pears there is to his mind evidence that
the lodges, which are found over a
wide extent of country extend to
depth. He says that this has been
found to be true OF the Montana and
Colorado copper camps. The Ubehebe
district is the only one of the copper re-
gions hereabouts in which sulphide is
found. The occurrence at Greenwater
Yerington and other camps is as car
Donate or an oxide as rule and little
or no base ore is found.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09

For A. Carlson. cottage. with two lots, each
25x6s, PeraIta avenue: s2s5o.
5000
.,s For D. ]. Davey, cottage, with lot 25xll4;
For estate of Gabriel Karsky. lot on east line
seventh. with lot a5x95; $3.50.
For NJ. ]. Silver, two lots, each 25x125. east
line of Homestead street GO feet north Of
For A. siegi. lot 25x1o5. east line of Whitney
street, 225 feet south of Thirtieth; $1,000;
For l. Gunts. cottage and lot on Whitney
For Mary FItner. three fats, Sixteenth street
and S Sharon |, a avenue n lot t. 2oxlos; $500;
street Castro, lot 25x114; $3750.
For Hayes , cottage s.ssn Jersey street. near
For r. X. Cooley. two cottages and lot 56:6x
1926, Shotwell street, near Twenty second
For Meyer Bros, lot sox1oo, on east line of
Guerrero street, 80 feet north of Elizabeth;
For Augusta Liebscher three nats and a cor
ner lot 25x100. corner Of Kansas and Twenty
For Nellie Collins, cottage and lot 2sx125,
Cha ttanooga street, Twenty second; $4500
For Joseph Bauer, seven flats and lot, corner
Twenty fourth and Guerrero streets; SIG, 800.
SOL GETz & SONS
Sol Getz & Sons report the following
sales during the week:
5ox12o on east line of Thirty fifth avenue, $50
feet south of street, TO Arthur W. Best; o0xl2o
on east line of Thirty-ninth avenue, 10 feet
south of street, to Anna F. Brown; 25x12O
on west line of Forty fifth avenue. 200 feet
south of X street, to Julia e. Gould; 2ox12o on
east line of Forty-eighth avenue. 125 feet south
of street, TO Elmer Z. Miller; 25x131 on west
line of Forty-eighth avenue, 111h feet north
northwest line Of Madrid street 100 feet south
west of China avenue. with improvements. to
Clara y. Bowen: 50x240 west line OF Twenty
fourth avenue. $50 feet south of d street, to A.
". Best; 75x10o on north line of street. s2:6
feet west of Fortieth avenue, to Joseph III.
Brown; 25x120 west line of Fortieth avenue
geloh; 25x100 on north line of + street, 1916 feet
west of Seventh avenue. to G. j. Allen; 50x100
on west line of Orizaba street 800 feet south OF
Ramsdell, to Matilda Hughes; 25x120 on east
line of Twelfth avenue, $50 feet north of L
street. TO Sarah A. Hibbons.
SALE WILL BEGIN TOMORROW
The Golden State Realty Company of
formerly known as the Union Coursing
Park for 100000, which 1t has i'm
proved so as to make 1t desirable for
residences, and will commence selling
lots tomorrow.
It's new name will be South Gate.
This property has a large frontage on
Mission street, is easily accessible and
is most favorably situated. In fact, it
is an ideal spot for homes.
Lloyd H Patterson, who has been
identified with several of the leading
real estate concerns of the city and who
was a member of the firm of South
worth & Patterson, has become a mem
Der of the firm of Chatf1eld & Vincent
at 53 Post street.
McEwen Bros formerly of 118 Mont
gomery street and 96 Webster street,
have moved to 775 Pine street.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
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The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
PAPER FAMINE IN
CITY SCHOOLS

There Is a paper famine on in the
School Department, and the pinch of
famine has caused teachers to call
upon the youngsters to bring a sup
ply every morning or else go through
the terrible experience of sitting in
class without any work to do Times
are like the bitter days of the coal
famine, only ignorance, and not pneu-
monia. is now threatened.
1t is said that there is a ship bound
TO this port from Manila with a load
o. manila paper, but that raises the
question whether or not manila paper
really comes from the Philippines But
the fact remains that there is no paper
in the schools, and so the youngsters
have to get supply from mamma
fashion. Resources in the hands of the
treasurer are ample to guarantee q
creditable celebration of the three
events.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
SUNSET DISTRICT NEEDS
EXTENSION OF CAR SERVICE

The Sunset Hills Club and the Sun
set District Improvement Club are
making an effort to have the college
and Masonic-avenue line extended to
the Sunset district, or line run from
Ninth avenue and H street up to Ninth
avenue and Q street
Petitions have been addressed to the
United Railroads Company and to the
Board of Supervisors urging the ne
cessity of such extensions of the car
system and the petitions have been
signed by almost all of the property
owners in the Sunset district.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
ORE SHIPPED FROM GoLDFIELD
Returns Show Twelve Hundred Tons
Sent Away I'm Week

GOLDFIELD, Feb. Sowing to the
cessation of work on the Mohawk
leases upon their expiration, the
amount of shipments of ore from Cold
field shows q material falling off dur
ing the past week, though the amount
of values still aggregate fair sum.
The total tonnage for a week is 1898,
the lead being taken by the Curtis
suitcase of the Frances Mohawk with
480 tons of sorted ore and the Frances
Mohawk following with 255 tons. These
shipments will nearly clean up the
richer ore on the dumps of the leases,
though 1t is probable that number of
leases on other properties will be send
ing out quantities of rich rock within
a short time. With the exception of
fifty tons from the Hayes -Monnette
lease, the Nevada Goldffeld Reduction
Works handled the entire weeks out
put
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
ADABERro AS MARGUERITE

1t was announced yesterday that
Faust" with Adaberto as Marguerite,
would be sung instead of La Forza del
Destino'' this evening at the Central
Theater The change was made at Ada
berto's request, as she desired to sing
Marguerite at least once before leaving
San Francisco. Olinto Lambardi will
repeat his great impersonation of Me-
phistopheles, and D'Ottavi and Pacini
also are to be in the cast
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
LARGE PLANTS FOR BLAIR
!. ithin Ninety Days 40 stamps VIII Be
I'm Operation

GOLDFIELD, Feb. S.-Within an
other ninety days the camp Of Blair
will be dropping no less than 140
stamps The Lynch and O'Meara prop
erty has plans for the immediate erec-
ton of a 40-stamp mill and custom
sampler will soon be in operation. The
news seems authentic that the Coal
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
PRINTER BOY LOOKS WELL
Goldfield Newspaper Men Have Mine In
Cactus Springs District

GOLDFIELD, Feb. s.-The Goldfield
Printer Boy Mining Company. composed
mostly of newspaper men of Goldfield,
owning a valuable group of claims in
the Cactus Springs district, has let a
contract for the driving of a 150-foot
tunnel on the property. Several good
ledges have been exposed, all of which
carry values sufficient to encourage the
directors to expend q considerable
amount OF money in development.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
FUNERAL of HARVEY G. soMERs

The funeral of Harvey c. Somers un-
der Masonic rites at the Mission Ma
sonic Temple yesterday was large
one, several hundred persons besides
the Masons attending and completely
filling the seating accommodations The
attendance from the downtown finanr
cial. grain and hay interests was large.
1nterment was private.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
Real Estate Market Shows Revival
OF Activity in All Parts of City

(lNE OF the best dces the prosperity enjoyed by local realty
afforded By the that property values higher than
previous period the cy history This condition the important
ndsnuch the increased pauc land the rule every the
municipality.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-09
rTR,I,s SALES REPORTED

oscar Heyman & Bro report the fol-
lowing sales:
E.nes Draper lot corner of University
= e5s79s.o- streets 4oxsO feet.
LANES W. Finn, lot on east line OF Thirty,
ni',fi- avenue, 275 feet south OF street 3oxl2O
e.sroi,ne +. Peery, lot east line of Forty
.,a,.d avenue. $50 feet south OF Point Lobos
ovonlle 25xI2O feet
Rose. lot on east line OF Forty-secoud
s--e 200 feet south Of Point Lobos avenue,
z'4a-S 4a-e,, Retts and Anna Belts. lot on west
s,,s ~ -T,yenfy-sixth avenue, 200 feet SOUTH
- element street % by an irregular oeplh OF
'og cordcll. lot on corner Of Short street
and lSsoss alley. 32xlcas feet 3D. % ,tosco,r
r,,sl,.rd F5ckoldt lot on cast line OF MOSCOW
s .1.5z faef south Of China avenue
Toneiia Arlington lot on north line OF rom. ION.
H,obos avenue. 66ss feet west Oh A"en's SaAs-
s~enue 25xiOO feet. irregular.
! 6. y. ChamPiin. lot on south hne OF 10" q,
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
BEFORE 1T is TOO LATE.

If you have a gray-haired mother
In the old home far away,
Sit down and write the letter
You put off day by day.
Don't wait until her tired steps
Reach heavens pearly gate
But show her that you think Of her
Before it is too late.
If you've tender message,
Or a loving word to say,
Don't wait till you forget it,
But whisper it today.
Who knows what bitter memories
May haunt you if you wait;
So make your loved ones happy
Before it is too late.
We live but in the present,
The future is unknown
Tomorrow is a. mystery,
Today is all our own.
The chance that fortune lends to us
May vanish while we wait,
So spend your life's rich treasure
Before it is too late.
The tender words unspoken
The letter never sent,
The long-forgotten messages,
The wealth of love unspent,
For these some hearts are breaking,
For these some loved ones wait
So show them that you care for them
Before it is too late.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
LET NATION HOLD ITS COAL
LANDS.
LANDS.
Continued from page ~


ence with the interstate commerce
and antitrust laws shows that what is
needed is not prohibition of all COM
binations, but such supervision and
control over combinations, and other
corporations entering into them, as will
prevent the evils, while giving to the
public the advantages of combina-
nation.
Government Control of Pasture Land.
LET me also urge that public leg
islation be passed to provide for gov
ernment control of the public pasture
lands Of the west on the same general
principles which now apply in the
government control of the forest re-
serve. The local control of the range
should be in the hands of western men
familiar with stock raising, and there
should be full local participation in
the management of the range. There
is no need at present that the gov
ernment should get net revenue from
grazing on the public range, but only
enough to pay for administration and
improvement, and it may be wise to
provide that any surplus shall go to
the states and territories in which
the fees are collected. Let me urge
that congress provide 100000 in ad-
dition to the present estimate, to be
Immediately appropriated to the clear
ing of arrears of business in the gen.
eral land Offices as regards the detec-
tion and prevention of fraud in dis
posing of applications for patents to
the public lands.
II wish to express my utter and
complete dissent from the statements
that have been made as to there being
a minimum of fraud in the actual
working Of our present land laws. I
am exceedingly anxious to protect the
interests of bona fide settlers, and to
prevent hardships being inflicted on
them. But surely we are working in
their interests when We try to prevent
the land which should be reserved for
them and those like them from being
taken possession of for speculative
purposes, or obtained in any fraudulent
fashion,
The president says the present force
of special agents is utterly insufficient
to conduct the proper field examina-
tions, but adds that in six months
ending December 81, last, they secur-
ed indictments in one hundred and
ninety-seven actions for fraud, 26 Of
which have been tried, resulting in
IA convictions and II acquittals.
''In the forest reserves, where we
have been able to examine a great
number of Claims" he adds, ''in about
one-third the law was not complied
with"
y b q
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

some Instances at least the pay re-
ceived by the railroad is not commen-
surate with the service rendered to
the public. In view of all the facts,
however, it can scarcely be doubted
that all in all the transportation of
mail is a valuable source of income to
the railroads How important an item
it is in their earnings is made clear
by the fact that the earnings from
mail amount to about per cent OF the
gross receipts of the railroads.
The present discussion of the sub
ject adds interest to the development
of the railway mail service, which IS
indicated by the following figures:
Amt
Pd per
R.R. Mail. Amt Pd Mile
Year. Mileage. Mileage. r. RS. Cents.
1879 1891 93,O92, ,992I$9, ,792, $50 1051
1882 1OO,563 113, 1896, ,318l 1927, ,715 11.51
1885 121,O32 Isl, $40, ,485I I16, ,627, 1888 1895
1888 143, ,713 185, ,485, ,783l l19, ,524, ,959 1852
1891 159,518 228, us, 300 I25, 1873, IA I11O1
1894 169, 1853 264, III, ,595 go, 358, 100 1146
1897 173,475 273, 100, 1856 SO, ,S76,521 1910
1900 179 1882 297 ,256, 1903 81, 1893, 1882 1911
1903 192,852 333, ,491 ,684 Al, ,S86, ,84S 1856
1905 2OO,965 1862, ,645, ,731 I45,576.515 1856
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
MAIL TRANSPORTATION.


Railroads Receipts from This Source
Roads Protest Against Re-
duced Compensation.
Railroads throughout the country
the proposed reduction in the compen-
sation for the transportation of mall
arguing that they are already receiv-
too little for the service rendered, and
that any further reduction must needs
impair the efficiency of the mail serv-
ice. There is something that strikes
the average observer as more or less
amusing in the apparently conflicting
statements that are being made in be-
half of the railroads in connection
with this question of mail transporta-
tion. One large railroad here in the
east sent out kilograms last week to
influential citizens along it's lines, urg-
ing them to impress upon their repre-
sentativeS in congress the necessity of
maintaining the present compensation
for mail transportation on the ground
that were the railroads income from
necessary to reduce the train service
on the lines. In the same breath it
was added that of course. the railroad
itself cared nothing for the trans
portation of mail, inasmuch as it was
not profitable, but it did not wish to
see it's patrons Inconvenience.
The popular impression is that the
transportation of mails is valuable
source of income for the railroads, and
the railroads themselves, despite their
claim that the compensation is made
quate, have done much by striving for
mail contracts to confirm this impress
sion.
Admittedly, however, there are two
sides to the case, and the government
officials themselves admit that in
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

SC0auIaSCly opposed 10 Cn0 legislative
recommendations you have made to
congress in your recent message favor
ing ship subsidies. We protest most
urgently against any future payment
of the public funds to any private
firm or corporation for any purpose
whatsoever without safeguarding such
payments by a public accounting of
the business Of the firm or corporation
to whom such payment is made"
Gen. Grosvenor Replied.
The president turned this letter over
to Gen. Grosvenor, who replied in a
letter in which he said that the bill
encouraged American farmers, and
that great majority of the members
of the National Grange approved it.
"You would make waste place of
our last shipyard and drive our last
ship owners and seamen and shipyard
mechanics to choose between the poor
house and foreign lands" said he.
This correspondence was published
in a public document compiled by the
general. The former governor replied
tive committee of the Grange, Gen.
Grosvenor declined to print the reply.
AS result the members of the grange
are sending floods of letters to their
respective representatives in the
house, urging them not to vote for the
ship subsidy bill.
Gov. Bachelor, in his reply i'm
presses upon Gen. Grosvenor that in
his opposition to the subsidy bill he is
backed by 100000 farmers, who have
in their conventions decided against
the proposition by overwhelming ma
jorities. Continuing, he says:
"I wish to take exception to your
assumption that the proposal to pay
out of the United States treasury sub
sides to steamship companies, over
and above a fair price for carrying
mails, has anything in common with
the protection of American farmers or
American workingmen against foreign
competition.
Purpose of Protection.
$50 far as know, not even the most
extreme protectionist has ever claim
ed that it would be right, even if it
were possible, to protect the products
of American farmers or labor by Civ
ing a subsidy to the portion Of those
products sold in foreign markets. Pro
lection is intended for the home mar
ket only and it is an application of
the protective policy hitherto un-
dreamed of that our government
should put its hands into the treas
ury to aid our Industries in compet-
ing in neutral markets.
81 must also take exception to your
assumption that ] wish to make a
waste place of our ship yards and
drive our ship owners and seamen into
the poor house. favor nothing of the
kind. So far as our domestic and
coastwise trade is concerned, our ship
owners and sailors have an absolute
monopoly Of the business, and it is
only in connection with International
trade that the advocates of ship SUBJ
sides claim that our shipbuilding in
dustries are languishing.
"You are generous enough to as
sumo that in opposing subsidy legisla-
ton, am doing so through a misap-
prehension of the facts.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
FAILED TO PRINT ANSWER.

FAILED TO PRINT ANSWER.
Former Gov. Bachelor, of New Hamp-
shire, Representing 100000 Farmers,
Declares Against Plan to Subsidize
Merchant Marine-Chairman of
Committee Should Have Had Letter
Printed.
The National Grange, composed of
100000 farmers throughout the United
States, is disappointed because Chair
man Grosvenor, of the house commit
tee on merchant marine and fisheries,
did not print, with other data, its re-
ply to letter from him in opposition
to ship-subsidy legislation. The cores
pondence may be read on the floor of
the house.
Former Governor Bachelor, of New
Hampshire, who Is master Of the Ma
tional Grange, sent a letter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in which he said
'T regret the duty which devolves
upon me to advise you, on behalf Of
the great national organization of far
mers which / have the honor to repre-
sent, that the farmers of the nation