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The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
DROUGHTON'S BILL WILL
BECOME CRAZY QUILT
Measure Aimed to Wake Up
Pomona Promises to
Be Mangled
FEAR NEW COUNTIES
Senators Do Not Take
Kindly to Plan of
the Southron
CALL HEADQUARTERS.
1907 EIGHTH STREET.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17-Senator
Broughton's bill, providing for the Gre
alton of a new county by stalking out
chunk of Los Angeles, promises to
develop into the legislative crazy quilt
of the session. Broughtons bill is aimed
primarily at the waking up of the
lethargic town of Pomona. There are
opulent ranch lands and other desir-
able investments in and around Po-
mona, but the natives do not appear to
have an adequate realization of their
advantages.
The ozone of something about Po-
mona breeds an almost Castilian indif-
the town recently started a propaganda
to quicken local pride. Part of their
plan consists in having it made the
seat of a new county, to be known as
San Antonio. That, they reason, will
invest Pomona with new interest and
Importance, and the most somnolent
of it's Rip Van Wrinkles will have to
sit up and take notice. since the in
stigation of this plan Pomona is being
boosted by the natives with progressing
lvigor. ard Broughton has had little diff
ficulty in rigging up interest in his
bill.
The measure provides that any COM
munity desiring to go in for new coun-
ty government can have an election
to decide the matter after presenting
petition bearing so per cent of the
names of resident voters. Sixty-five
per cent of the voters must favor the
plan to carry the election. At least
5000 persons must be in the community
desiring their own county. They can
not withdraw from the county they
have been members of if its population
will be reduced to less than 25,000
] The bill also provides that no holdings
of the county from which they with
draw will be at their disposal, which
means that all separationists must pro-
vide their own courthouse and other
public buildings.
When the bill was introduced by
Broughton, Senators who are querulous
about keeping their own county boun-
| daries intact instantly began to get
busy. They argued that if the bill
passed it would be applicable through
out the State and favor county seces-
Sion to a dangerous degree. Belshaw
of Contra Costa did not want the bill
to lead to the partition of the county
and came through with an amendment
providing that 1t could not be made
applicable to counties having an area
| of $50 square miles or less. Nearly
| every member of the Senate has a simi.
| lar or more eccentric amendment fol
the bill up his sleeve If the bill ever
passes it will have so many plasters
stuck to it that Broughton will have
difficulty in recognizing his own crea.
ton. Leavitt, the floor leader of the
Senate, regards the bill with trepida-
| tion. 1t Is quite certain that he will
| oppose it If it is going to interfere IL
any way with the iefs of Alameda.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
DE ARMOND URGED FOR
LEADER Of MINORITY
House Members Who Would
Supplant John Sharp
Williams
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.-Represen-
tative David De Almond OF Missouri
today told committee of House mem
bers who called upon him to discuss
the Democratic situation in Congress,
that his name may be used as a can
didate for the leadership of the Demo-
Gratis of the Sixtieth Congress.
The work of organization in his be-
half has begun, and his friends claim
that already sixty-eight members are
pledged to support him against John
Sharp Williams, the recent minority
leader of the House. More are IN
sight, and the De Almond movemen.
is both tangible and determined. It's
support lies along the distinctly Bryan
men in the present Congress. among
that coterie of Democrats which has
broken with Williams on personal
grounds and among the new members
who will take their seats for the first
time next December.
The backbone of the De Almond
boom lies in the Missouri, Illinois, vir-
ginia and Ohio Democratic delegations
TO the Sixtieth Congress, with scat
tering votes from practically every
State having Democratic representa-
ton.
More than any other prominent Demo-
crat, De Almond is friendly toward
William Randolph Hearst and will
have the backing of Hearst's adher-
ents. However, his candidacy is not
advanced in the name of Hearst. 1t
is put forward in the name of Bryan.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
WOMAN THROWS AWAY
GOLD WHEN ATTACKED
Covered With Pistol and
Blindfolded, She Saves a
Part of Valuables
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

OAKLAND, Feb. 17.-Miss j. Wight,
living at 1902 Thirty-fourth street,
was attacked by a footpad at Mag
nolia and Twenty-seventh streets to-
night and robbed of a handbag con-
tanning a few dollars.
In a struggle with the highwayman
Miss Wight managed to throw away
a purse containing $3.50 in gold which
she subsequently recovered with the
help of the police.
The victim was walking home In
Magnolia street when a masked man
pointed pistol at her head. Before
the startled woman could make move
the robber seized her and quickly fas-
tened a handkerchief about her face,
covering her eyes.
After a short struggle the footpad
grabbed the handbag and disappeared.
Miss Wight called the police as quickly
as possible. With that escort she re-
turned to the scene of the attack and
found the purse.
Thomas Hankard from Riverside
County, 1aborer. was attacked by
two men at Fifth and Franklin streets
tonight. They grabbed his watch and
escaped.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
PLAN TO OVERCOME THE
OBJECTION TO RIDERS
Leavitt's Simple Solution Of
Standard Form for
Fire Policies
AIMED AT WELCHERS
Earthquake and Falling Wall
Clauses Will Be Pro-
hibted
AIMED AT WELCHERs
CALL HEADQUARTERS.
1a0- EIGHTH STREET.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17-Leavitt Of
Alameda chairman of the Senate com
mittee on insurance, has evolved a
plan to overcome the objection raised
by the insurance companies against
legislation forbidding riders to be at
tached to the standard form of policy
now being drafted. The insurance com
panies say that the business Of under
writing could not be carried on IL
riders were not permitted. How the
earthquake, falling building and other
clauses that have been eliminated from
the standard form by the committee for
the protection of policy-holders were to
be avoided If riders were allowed was
a question that for time seemed un-
answerable.
Senator Wolfe of San Francisco
argued that a standard form under
these conditions would be valueless,
pointing out that the companies would
virtually enter into any form of con-
tract they chose If riders were per-
mitted Leavitt's solution of the diff
ficulty is so simple that it is almost a
yeXation-
1--WE will let the companies affix all
the riders to the policies they desire"
he said, 'but we shall by legislative
act prohibit riders bearing on the fall
ing building, earthquake and all other
clauses which we have stricken from
the standard form to lessen the chances
of welching. Riders will be allowed
as they are in all other States, with
the very binding qualities that we are
striving to invest the standard form
with Without such legislation the
time we have spent on this form would
be thrown away. We don't propose to
have this the case"
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
POLITICIANS OF SAN JOSE
SPEND A PEACEFUL DAY
Hayes Forces Elated Over
What They Regard as
Victory

SAN JOSE, Feb. 16.-The election
fraud fight in this county seems to have
taken a temporary, or, perhaps, per-
manent vacation. A state of the ut
most peace pervades the city which for
the past week had been in the utmost
turmoil. as a result of the activities of
Jim Rea and Louis O'Neal in their
avowed attempt to wrest political SUI
premacy from the Hayes brothers.
The Hayes forces are elated over
statements made by Rea, which they
take as an indication that he and his
associates place little value on what
has been accomplished by them to date.
They say that the only tangible evil
dence of fraud which has been produced
as yet is a confession from a weak
minded man that he received SO from a
police officer on election day and that
the purpose for which this was given
been denied by the man who made it.
j. o. Hayes said today that his atti-
tude was that of a man who desired
to see the truth brought out. He be-
ieved that the courts were the proper
mediums for arriving at the truth. He
said emphatically that neither Rea nor
himself was entitled to act as an in
quisitor.
Charley Shortridge and Jim Rea were
in close conference today and the claim
was made by the anti-Hayes people
that their leaders had not by any
means reached the end of their re-
sources. They threatened dire things
that would be revealed when the cit
liens committee" completed its work.
The intimation leaked out from police
headquarters that the District Attor-
ney, Jim Rea and Louis O'Neal were tc
be arrested on a charge of suborna-
nf 1nr41 fr, L
confession wrung from Charles Alva
1t is believed. however. that the war
rants will not be served unless the Rea
CLIQUE makes some decisiye move
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18

don't help improve your own property
who will?-Rol up your sleeves and
help-Tidy up your front yard-Sweep
off your sidewalk-Clean your street
Everybody is working-Do your sharer
The appeal above related would look
better in the big and little type and
the circus arrangement of the letter
ing, but It carries it's argument just
the same.
Scott has other letters in ~prepara-
ton. There will be 500 stating the
purpose OF cleaning day and the need
for teams. These will be placed in
the hands of "holdup men," who will
stop the dirt wagons on the street
hand the missive to the driver, and ask
him to deliver it to his employer OF
the owner of the team. This method is
expected to reach those not numbered
among the big team owners who have
already rendered the services of their
horses. men and selves.
Another letter will probably be pre-
pared for the Teachers Association
An appeal to the Board of Education
has already been made to enlist the
patriotism and the services of the
school children in carrying the cam
paign into the homes and in helping
to clean the yards, sidewalks ano
streets surrounding the schoolhouses
The Board of Education is abroad or
the Japanese question, so the teachers
and the children must take the affail
up among themselves.
MANY TENDER THEIR SERVICES
Still another letter-and one vitality
important-will be drafted by Scott
and addressed to the building contrac-
tors now engaged upon new construc'
tion. They will be asked to move as
much as possible of their materials
oh he L pf
streets, and they will be asked to en-
list the services of their employees IL
/ cleaning up around their buildings or
Sunday so that the waste dirt may b,
hauled away by the teams.
The tenders of services are taking
new and gratifying form. More thar
one man has asked that he be allotted
a certain one, two or three blocks upor
+ his street and he promises to reliev,
4 headquarters of any further worry
/ he will get the men, the teams, thu
tools and clean his strip to every onei
entire satisfaction. These offers arr
being listed and will be accepted.
1t is a case of everybody ready t
work And headquarters can be helped
nightly if all, from the mere volunteel
with a shovel, to the man with a hun
dred teams to offer. will only communi
cate at once with Scott. The lines
Q
day or Saturday will be too late.
It is one of Scott's ideas to ask tn,
union men who have rendered theil
services to assemble at their own halls
or some other given point, and repor
for duty in bodies headed by their owr
men. Such action would simplify tn,
formation of the army.
The Telegraph Hill Boys Club ha!
rendered its services for cleaning da,
and has volunteered to clean arounC
the clubhouse and the block in Stock
ton street, between Filbert and Green
wich. The Telegraph Hill Girls Clul
viii assist by serving coffee and sand
wiches to the boys at noon.
The cleaning day project has beel
indorsed by a majority of the clergy
men of San Francisco. Some opposition
was expressed in sermons yesterday
however. to the plan of doing the worl
on Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
RECEPTION To SCHM|Tz
At HOME OF GOMPERs
Mayor Also Dimes With Vice
President Fairbanks in
Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. H. - Mayor
Schmitz and the San Francisco school
board attended a reception this after
noon at the home of Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor. A number of labor leaders
were present. After the meeting it
was said that President Gompers had
been told of the proposed action of the
school board and was well pleased
with 1t.
Mayor Schmitz took dinner tonight
with Vice President Fairbanks. Those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Fairbanks,
Lieutenant Timmons and wife. Senator
William Alden Smith of Michigan, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Elliott of New
York, Representative and Mrs. Graft of
Illinois and Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Boyes of Washington.
The California delegation is not a
unit in approval of the proposed action
of the school board. One of the party
said tonight:
II am not at liberty to divulge the
contents OF the statement that has
been prepared by the board, setting
forth its plan of action. I will say
however, that I regard it as a mere
subterfuge and I think 1t will be recog-
nized as such. The upshot of the whole
business is that the school board will
back down and admit Japanese children
into the schools. 1t is trying to cover
this up, but that will be the outcome
The delegates lay great stress upon the
exclusion of adult Japanese from the
primary schools, which is not the ques-
tion at issue, as l understand it,
The House is expected to take up the
conference report on the immigration
bill tomorrow and pass it with the
japanese exclusion amendment It is
expected that Schmitz then will issue
his manifesto. He is to make a speech
at the labor union meeting.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
STEAMER OR|ANDA sunk
IN MIDNIGHT COLLISION
Fourteen Persons, Including
the Captain, Are
Drowned

CARDIFF. Feb. 17-The British
steamer Heliopolis collided Saturday at
midnight with the British steamer ORR
anda, outward bound from Penarth,
The Orlando sank and fourteen persons,
including her captain, were drowned.
The Heliopolis put into this port with
her bows damaged.
The night was clear, but there was
gale blowing and a heavy sea run
ming The Orlando, which was coal
laden for Spezzia, was struck between
the engine-room and the stokehole and
SO badly damaged that she began i'm
mediately to fill and heeled over, sink
ing within half an hour.
The Heliopolis drifted away without
rendering assistance. The captain mus
tered all the Orianda's nineteen men
on deck Each was given life belt
and jumped into the sea. Six of them
reached a waterlogged lifeboat. the
only boat it was possible to launch,
the others having been smashed at the
time of the collision and all of them,
with the exception of one who died
from exhaustion, were rescued by a
pilot boat, after suffering greatly from
exposure.
The steamer Heliopolis had been
chartered to convey 1000 Spanish emil
grants to Honolulu. In a letter to
Lloyds shipping gazette the ship brok-
ers said they had arranged the charter
in behalf of the American Government,
but it was stated elsewhere that the
Spaniards had been engaged by Ha-
waiians interested in the sugar indus
try to replace the Japanese laborers.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
.T-raCK NATToNALIsT DEPUTIES

! BELGRADE, Servia, Feb. 11--Three
army .oficers who were members of
The conspiracy that resulted in the
murder Of King Alexander in 1903 yes
terday attacked two Nationalist Dep
i,tfes Ciorgievich and Marinkovics, be-
oa4lse of their criticisms of the regi-
cides and the political court The as
sault took place on the street and the
Deputies retaliated. Giorgievich re-
ceived 4 dangerous sword wound.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
Mapping Out the. Work
of Cleansing Army
Circulars Prepared for Business Men
and Forty Thousand Families

Sn ranscos of and children. aligned for battle
with the dirt does be defeated the weather.
Ooze and slime unstable loads dirt
fund Sunday the fight will be potpondnot indefinitely but
Sunday the reduced consistency handling
with boOm scrapes and hovel The opportunity lifetime
for Professor Meade the hall fame If he control the
weather the residents of San Francisco will do the rest
1t has been told before that the big pobemhe handling of the
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
NATIONAL BANK RErrREs

VALLEJO, Feb. 1.-THE First Ma
tional Bank of Calistoga> will soon re-
tire from the financial field. It's bust
ness will be transacted by the Bank of
Calistoga, which will increase its capi-
tai stock from $4,000 to $4,000 Much
of the stock of the First National has
been owned by the directors of the
Bank of Calistoga
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
WILL MAKE STUDY OF NATIVES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-W. w.
Holmes, chief of the chronological bu-
reau of the Smithsonian Institution,
will go to Hawaii soon to organize a
systematic study of the natives. He will
take with him a student OF physical
anthropology and physiology and will
employ ethnologists. If time permits
DR.. Holmes will also go to Tutuila
and begin study of Samoan natives.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
nrMANn a FAIR TRIAL

STOCKTON. Feb. 17.-At a largely
attended mass meeting here tonight
under the auspices Of the local Labor
Council resolutions protesting against
taeA. .Eo-called kidnapping Of Meyer,
Ga Uod and Pettibone, the Colorado
minefs accused Of completely in the
murder Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho, and demanding a fair trial for
thems were nsssed
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
FEHMI PAsHA BANIsHED

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 17.-An i'm
perial trade orders the banishment of
,Fehmi Pasha, chief of the secret po-
lice of the palace, whose punishment
was demanded by Germany as a result
of his seizure of a ships cargo in
tended for Hamburg. and on Saturday
he was sent to Murania, a town of Asia
Minor, on the Sea of Marmora.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
BELL TO ANsWER PARKER

county family sQuabble will probably
not be put in motion until late in the
week.
BELL TO ANSWER PARKER
When Senator Bell rises tomorrow
morning to a question of privilege to
denounce what he will describe as
Walter Parker's attempt to 'besmirch
his character In a spirit of revenge for
the epistolary roast Bell handed the
Southern boss anent the lunch at a
local French restaurant, he will go
further than his tormentor expected
when he sprung or permitted to be
sprung what appears to be very fishy
play. That Parker permitted the story
about Bells alleged agent writing to
Parker and offering to exchange his
patronage for a seat in the Republican
caucus to be printed goes without say
ing. That Parker is satisfied with the
results attained is by no means so
readily admitted. While 1t is not borne
out by his brief legislative record
that Bell may be all of the sew
eral kinds of trucking knave the
Parker contention would make him
appear, he does not show any in
dication of the rank asininity that
must be prerequisite to the kind Of
letter Parker intimates he got. Parker
says he cannot make the letter public
without betraying confidence. With
the portent of threat he intimates an
emergency might arise which would
compel him to throw consideration for
Bells agent to the winds and give out
the letter. Meanwhile the public will
kindly accept Parkers word for 1t and
also please believe that he would not
give Senator Bell a seat in the Re-
publican caucus for patronage or any
other consideration. Bell will himself,
by rising to question of privilege,
give the incident further publicity, and
Parker will have more satisfaction than
he hoped to get.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
Four Persons Injured In Disaster or
Northern Pacific ROad

PORTLAND, Feb. 17.-An Astoria
and Columbia River passenger train
was derailed seven miles south of
Noble. on the line of the Northern
Pacific. at 11:15 today. Four passen-
gers were injured. The smoker, day
coach and parlor car left the track,
the smoker falling on its side. A
broken rail caused the wreck.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
NnTEn THEosoPHIsTs DEATH

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Alexander
Fullerton, secretary of the Municipal
Society, announces the death today at
Adyar, India, of Henry Steel Olcott.
cofounder with Nine. Blavatsky of the
theosophists in this country.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
DEATH OF DIR. HUBERT

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-pr. Fri r. Hull
bert, dean of the divinity school of the
University of Chicago. died here today
of pneumonia
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
ID. A. Curtin (CoIIection Agency

Monadnock building. Accounts collected
everywhere. References = Banks and
merchants.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18

the fight in the Seaare tomorrow and
see it to it's bitter end. Despite the
Senator's zeal the Senate act in this
county family squabble will probably
not be put in motion until late in the
week
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18
PRIMARY BILLS FAH
To Be DECIDED SOON
Senate Holds Whip Hand on
the Held-Wright
Amendment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Other Measures That Also
Depend on Question of
Joint Rules

Continued from Page 1s, coIumn I
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-18

w SCOTT, JR., is busy with the scheme of sys-
"a fenatizing the work of the fhous ands of men
ana teams that are going to do the heavy work
on San Francisoos cleaning day, Sunday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
Sure To Miss Him.

A man runs a truck-farm in Virginia
tells of the sad predicament in which
a colored man named Sam Moore, who
is in his employ, found himself. Sam
had had considerable difficulty in evad-
ing the onslaughts of a dog from a
neighboring farm. Finally the dog got
him, as Sam kicked at him.
Sans wife, hearing tremendous
yell, rushed to the rescue of her hus-
band. When she came up the dog had
fastened his teeth in the calf of Sans
leg and was holding on for dear life
Selling q stone in the road, Sans wife
was about TO hurl it when Sam, with
wonderful presence of mind, shouted /:
MANDY Mandy. Don't frow dat
stone at de dawg. Frow it at me, Man.
dv !"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-18
Curious Eggs.


The stories told by poultry keepers
in regard to the laying of eggs are in
danger of becoming viewed by the pub
lie in the same suspicious light as the
tall yarns of fishermen, says the Mo-
lassine World.
1t Is announced that an egg laid by
q hen belonging TO coast guards off,
Ger at Bridgeport measured 7ss inches
by Ga inches. while another of similar
size picked up In a farmyard at Fenny
Stratford was, on being opened, found
to contain a perfectly formed second
egg. The record monster chickens egg
is believed TO be one of SKI inches, and
weighing 8 ounces.
The most freakish eggs are attri-
buted to ducks. The Weston Park mu-
scum, Sheffield. has a ducks egg which
contains another smaller one inside.
and a still greater curiosity is a twin
egg, the two being Joined together end
to end.
In u museum at Paris a curious
four-footed goose lays an egg which is
invariably misshapen, and the shell
% which is so brittle that it breaks If
touched. All efforts to preserve these
eggs have been futile.
An egg apparently in state of per-
feet preservation is reported to have
been discovered imbedded in the NOR
tar of an ancient church near Paris.
As the wall had been standing for
fully 500 years, the egg must have
been undisturbed for all that long pc
Rod.