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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
JOSEPH W0LLAER, WOOL
J BROKER, KILLS HIMSELF
Fires Bullet Through Heart
While in Room at
Harnrnarn Baths

Joseph Wollner. a wool broker living
at 1910 Sacramento street. was found
dead In a room at Burns hammam
baths, =315 Eddy street, at 11:30 o'clock
yesterday morning with a bullet wound
above his right ear and a bullet
committed suicide an hour or two be-
fore. His first attempt to blow his
brains out failing 1t is presumed that
he placed hts revolver to- his left
breast and ended his existence by a
second shot.
Wollner went to the baths on Thurs
day, engaged a room and remained
over night, all day Friday and Friday
night. e. f. Burns, owner of the baths,
was mystified by the length of Woll-
ner's stay and questioned him on Fri
day, but learned nothing. as Wollner
showed retfcence In speaking of him
self. =.
Burns says that Wollner sat about,
smoking his pipe in the cooling room,
talking about ordinary matters with
other patrons OF the baths and seemed
in. good health and spirits. He went
to bed Friday night and the next heard
of mini was yesterday morning when a
Japanese attendant went into the office
and reported that he had. found Woll-
ner dead on the bed. The coroner re-
moved the body. >.
WolIner was 60 years old. He was
formerly commander Of the Garfield
Post. G. A. R.,. and was also a Mason
and an Odd Fellow. In the drawer at
the baths. in which he left his valuables
were found 5000 shares of Goldf1eld-
Rix mining stocks. q pass book on the
First National bank Of San Francisco
and a-eheck book on the Nevada State
bank.e:~He leaves a widow and four
children, three daughters and one son,
the latter .-.g cashier in the Northern
Pacific offices In the Flood building.
HIS daughters said yesterday that their
father had been in Ill health for years.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
CONTRACTOR MAY DlE.
As RESULT OF QUARREL
]. Boehrn Is Held Pending
Outcome of Victims
Injuries

Stanford Seaton. a contractor living
at 1908 Grove street, lies in the Central
emergency hospital suffering from a
fractured skull and other serious In
juries. His alleged assailant. J. Boehm,
occupies a cell In the Park police sta
tion pending the result of the con-
tractors injuries Seaton claims that
Boehm struck him yes sterday afternoon
during a dispute over a contract.
According to information in possess
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
NEWSPAPERS TO WAGE
CAMPAIGN ON ATTORNEYS
Notice Is Served on Those Who En-
courage the Bringing of
Libel Suits

CARSON, New. June 1.-The Nevada
editorial association. which includes
almost every newspaperman In the
state, has organized for an offensive
and defensive campaign against attor-
neys and public men who foment libel
suits against newspapers. The asso-
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
PoPE,s HEALTH IMPROVES

LONDON, June 1.-According to .
news agency's dispatch from Rome the
pope adopted vegetarianism In January
hoping to ward OF the gout, from
which he suffered constantly he mas
not suffered since and he attributes
lis condition entirely to his diet.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

citation has served police on the public
at large that 1t will consider as COM
mon enemy any attorney who conducts
a libel suit which is based on personal
spite, and that none of the newspapers
ings.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
suIrAN,s roRCEs DEFEATED

ORAN, Algeria, June 1.---Advices re-
ceived here from Morocco say that the
troops supporting the pretender to the
throne surrounded and .annthiiated the
forces of the sultans uncle Two kaids
were killed and $50 women were cap
fssrad
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
AssAILANT LYNcHED

ALEXANDRIA. La. June Henry
Johnson was iynched at Echo. La. last
night by about Is men who took him
from jail. He had been arrested on a
charge of attempting to commit a
criminal assault upon the wife OF his
EMPLOYER
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
.MILLaON PAID ron MINES

DENVER, June by a deal closed
in this city today the Japan group OF
mines near Telluride Colo. was trans
ferred to- the Consolidated Mines seIec-
tion company of London. England, the
consideration being $1,0e0,000
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

Why buy your lumber. millwork,
doors, sash and mouldings from tom,
Dick and Harry" when you save your
self trouble and expense buying all
from r. B. Moore Mill and Lumber Co,
Folsom and Fifth streets. :
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
Orders to Army and
Naval Officers

MA ASHlNGTON, june L.
" Army orderss First Lieu-
tenant Kyle Rucker, Four
teenth cavsIry, WIN proceed TO
San Francisco and report to- the
commanding general, Pacific di-
vision, for duty at the military
prison at AIcatras island.
First Lieutenant Arthur H.
Bryant, coast artillery corps, now
ON leave, IL .transferred from tho
Hundred and Twelfth company,
coast artillery, to the Tenth
company, coast artillery, and VIII
Join the latter ut the Presidio Of
San Francisco.
Navy orderss Paymaster n.
Spear Will proceed to the Mare
island navy yard for duty A. as
sistant to the general store keeper.
Passed Assistant Paymaster $.
e. Barber IL detached from the
naval station at Cavfte to return
home and await orders.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
In Japan and China.

Missionary work is often like a
heavy freight train. 1t starts hard
and for a time moves slowly, but when
once under Roadway is hard to stop.
Both China and Japan are now begin,
ming to show the results of the Chris
tian work which has been done there.
says Youths Companion. 1t is 100
years since Robert Morrison, a young
ScOtchman, landed in Canton. He was
the first Protestant missionary to
China, and his work has so grown
that it is proposed to mark the cen
tenary year by the erection of a $780,
900 Young Mems Christian association
building in Picking. The public lee
lures given by the Christian churches
are attended by the families of the
highest officials, and the sisters of
princes, the wives and daughters of
dukes" have established ten schools
for girls in Picking. From Japan
comes word that the Japanese Mis-.
sionary society now feels itself strong
enough to take upon itself the support
of 80 native churches which have
hitherto been aided by the American
board
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
SliVers of Thouqht,

This is the time Of year when the
real sharp trader can swap his new
snow shovel for a last years make
Of automobile
Some statistician says that lawyers
average but s17O a day. Why, the
plumber makes almost that muchl
l never could figure out how a man
or woman could want to die badly
enough to take carbolic acid.
1t is said that one cannot serve God
and Mammon-and yet, when the
preacher has pronounced the man
and woman one, he frequently leaves
all the better part of the service to his
wife while he gives Mammon the
hardest run he ever had for his
money.
| am afraid automobiles will be out
of style before l learn the names of
their Intervals.
A Cheyenne newspaper man had
two ribs broken by the embrace of an
old friend. | will furnish the name
of the friend to any nice old maid
who feels lonely.
When girl and the family Bible
differ on her age, you may know that
she is of maria geable age, anyhow.
What beautiful world this would
be if men had lived as their epitaphs
allege.
What is the difference between a
politician and a member of the vii
lage band? It's easy 10 matter
which way the election goes. the mu-
stefan gets a job.
One Of the best things to use in
cleaning carpets is a newly married
man.
When you see a man building
chicken house, always so over and
ask him what he is doing. Maybe be
IS going to keep crocodiles in it.
Over at indianapolis the guests Of a
prominent hotel were dumfounded
when they read on the breakfast bill
of fare crushed cats" when it should
have been crushed oats"
In mentioning the fact that "a ten
pound boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones' an Illinois editor had to hide
out for a week because the printer got
one letter wrong and it read "a ten
pound box was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones"
When man cannot tell butter from
oleomargarine, what's the use Of
wasting the butter"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
Leprosy.


That leprOsy is a contagious disease
Is unanimously admitted by the best
authorities, but the exact manner of
its cOntagion' is certainly difficult to
understand. There are many exam
pies of persons living for years in the
most intimate family relations with
lepers and remaining unaffected. And
often but one member of the family
will acquire the disease On the other
hand, the history of the disease in diff
ferent parts Of the world shows that
it never originates spontaneously, but
that its origin can always be traced to
human importation, There are also a
very large number of recorded cases
where leprosy has resulted from Il sin
gle contact Of an abraded surface with
some lesion or secretion Of an infected
individual These apparently contra.
dictory facts must be explained on the
theory that some peculiar inherent pre-
disposition, which exists only in linn
tied number of individuals, Is necessa-
ry for the development Of this strange
disease There Is no reason to believe
that leprosy is a hereditary disease
Exchange.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28

neither church, chapel nor Sunday
school,
The feet is manned by $50 hard
working evangelists, some of them ex-
cellent instrumentalists men of tact
in dealing with all sorts and conditions
of people, says The World To-day
Each wagon carries a collecting box
in the form of tiny facsimile of itself
A generous supply of religious and
healthy secular literature is taken on
board, and last year the rolling
churches sold more than $4,000 worth
of it.
Each of these remarkable gospel
wagons costs s1O5, and the first of
them appeared nearly ten years ago
among the fruit and hop pickers of
southern England In summer time
they are not backward in appearing
on crowded seaside beaches, and even
on race courses, where they attract
much attention among a class of peo-
pie who certainly never enter an or
binary church or chapel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28

Then the sea of faces became a blur,
and she was no longer afraid o. them
After her second selection the thun-
der of applause told of the success she
had scored. and, faint and trembling,
but very happy, she sank down into
seat in 81 dark corner.
No one seemed TO notice her and she
missed the little attentions that had
always been paid to her, She knew
that she had nc right 10 expect then
now: she was Il professional enter
taineT. but none the less it hurt.
They We're passing refreshments 10
the Others, and the sigh, Of the food
made her faint. The room seemed sud
denly to blur and then grow dark.
When she opened her eyes again she
was in another roCm-a comfortable
looking roOm-and Nell Bradford. an
Old school friend, was looking down
into her face with plying eyes.
You are all right now she said as
Elda scanned the face with puzzled
glance. You tainted back there on the
stage. and we brought you here, where
we could look after you better. 1t is
one of the small parlors"
1T was the excitement" explained
Elda. You see, it was my professional
debut, and it meant so much 10 me-"
Nell str0lled the thin, trembling hand.
why didn't you come to us?' she de-
handed. I'VE have been back for three
months, and We have been looking
everywhere for you. Dick nearly fell
Of his chair when you came on the
stage"
Il did write" explained Elda, but
there was no answer. and so many
others dropped me that =
I'VE We're in Egypt" explained Nell.
There was some trouble with n Ger.
tain CONTRACT. and Dick went TO look
after it himself and took me with him.
We never dreamed of what was hap
poning."
ITS all right now" said Elda, with
faint smile. Il have made good
~ MIR CarmontelIe would say, and my
future is assured"
Nell smiled at the suggestion. and
the arrival of tray with coffee and
salad brought the conversation TO 4.
halt. AftcrWafd those who had not
recognized Elsa Beverly in Elda Tes-
tra, the entertainer crowded in to con
gr2tulatc her upon her success, and
Nell Bra ford had hard work to keep
her big brother from driving them out
again
But Dick Bradford sat beside Elsa
in the automobile that was carrying
them to the summer cottage they had
taken for the season. and Elsa smiled
at the masterful way in which he plan
ned for her future.
I'm going to town tomorrow" he
said. and | shall have your trunk
brought out You are going to stay
here until you get rested W, and then,
if ,ou'u have me, dear, there will be
an entertainment At the boat club to
celebrate cur wedding"
Are you sure that you really want
me- she asked timidly. It's not Just
because you're sorry for me-"
Pity" he echoed, and Nell. sitting in
the tonucau, heard and laughed
Hes been like bear ever since he
found that YOU were gone" she eX-
planned. Don't talk about pity to his
sister. who has suffered from his
moods the last three months. For my
sake, Elsa, say Yes and put me out
or ny misery"
For Dicks sake" Elsa whispered
contentedly as her hand Slipped into
his for an instant Mr. Carmontcllc
sail that if made good might get
Other engagements but | did not sup
pose that they would be for life
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
4 Temperance State.

Mississippi has 10 counties, all but
nine of which are under prohibition
law. These nine counties lie entirely
on the western Mississippi river Dor
der and on its narrow southern sea
board. A larger proportion of its area
is under prohibition than of any other
state in the union except those that
rejoice in total extinction of the sa-
loon. 1t is expected that two more
counties will come over TO the pro
hibition side, and men are already
predicting that the day is in sight on
which the Mississippi saloon shall be
driven out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28

That peculiar imitation of a news
paper dubbed by its owners and
editors the Rose Hill Times, common.
ly called the Weakly Squirt, emits a
fejst-like bark at the Journal 1t pre-
tends to presume that we knew in ad-
vance what the outcome of the recent
investigation at the Athens Hospital
would be. If the Times editors are
mad as a result Of the report Of the
investigation referred to, they should
hasten to Athens scale the walls Of
the big hospital building and bite it in
the belfry, if it has one.-Hinck'a~
(Miss) Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
What Ii Costs.

What is the cost of sending this S..
S07, 165 to the mission fields? The
cost Of collection and administration
of foreign mission funds last year was
as follows: United Presbyterian, 4 1-3
per cent; M. e. (north), 2-5 per
cent; NJ. E. (south), 7-1O per cent;
Baptist (north), II IL per cent; Bap.
fist (south), 6 ITO per cent; Presby,
terrain (north) 6 2-10 per cent; Pres
byterian (south), ITO per cent; Re
formed church, s 7-10 per cent; Ameri.
can Board, 10 3-5 per cent; Protestant
Episcopal, II ITO per cent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
Bill and Jim.
fright: 1867: by Byron Williams.

Siil ana Jim.
I ric1elict one Autumn day
when them two kids cum, up our wayi
Both mothers knew no SIGH a son
He'd happened since tn world begun
Jim scowled a lot, but Bill wuz gay
And sorter chuckled in his play
They grew I manhood, hale and strong
Bill seen tn good, but Jim, tn wrong!
Bill allus seemed t sort O. sing
His way along through everything;
While Jim he fused and fumed a lot
An swore tn world he'd gone t pot
In doin' bizness, Bill allowed
He'd sorter trust tn common crowd.
TIL thing looked different t jim
He knew they all wuz gougein him!
As time went on folks TUX t Bill,
Fer meetin him wuz sure t fill
tn whole blamed day chuck full o.
cheer
Come veal come woe, Bill didn't keer,
But Jim kept gittin' crosser still
Y meet him give yer heart a chill,
And when his wife dropped off O. cough,
We reckoned she wuz better Off
Today Our Bill is candydate
Fur gunner Of this great OIL state.
They amt no question he will win,
becus he'll laf his way right I'M
Poor Jim-hes crabbeder than sin
| allus dodge him when 1 kin.
TIL moral to this tales in sight:
They's gist one life-let's live it right!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
TRAlLED BY INDIANS.
The Story of One of Bishop Hare's
Silver Crosses.

Bishop Hare, of the diocese of
years ago as a missionary bishop of
the Episcopal church He founded the
mission at the Rosebud Indian agency,
and it was his custom, says Youths
Companion, to give to each Indian
that he confirmed a silver cross of a
peculiar pattern.
A few years ago a lady from New
York was visiting in South Dakota,
and the bishop gave her one of these
crosses.
Some years after that there was
general convention Of the Episcopal
church held in New York city, and
several Indians We're sent as dele
gates, all wearing Bishop Hare's
crosses.
Arriving in New York, they were
daZed, and at a loss to know how to
find the building where the conven-
ton was to be held But stoically they
started out upon the street Soon
after they met a lady, whom they i'm
mediately began to follow. Whenever
she turned, wherever she went, they
went too. The lady became much
annoyed and finally thoroughly fright
ened to find that wherever she went
line of red men was trailing behind
her.
But investigation explained it. She
wore their cross, and they, seeing it,
H., 1,
who would surely go to the meeting
they wished to attend; so they had
taken her for their guide
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28

Timidly Eliza opened the door and
slipped into The little low ceiIinged
room that she had come to know so
well. Sometimes when the agent was
busy she would have to wait for half
an hour or so. and the photographs OF
entertainers with which the walls
Were covered had come to seem like
old friends Most of all, she liked to
stand in front of a framed check for
$4,000 that had been paid a prima
donna Of note for singing only three
songs at a society function. 1t was
evidence that the business OF enter
tanning others did sometimes pay.
But there was no time for looking ut
the pictures today. No one stood by
the agents desk. and she looked over
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
A NEW ORGANIZATION.
Youths Temperance Alliance of Amer
lea and What 1t Will Do.

A new organization, of which Rev.
DR.. Alexander Alison is the head, is
being organized among the children.
1t will be known as The Youths
Temperance Alliance of America"
Its effort will be chiefly among the
children of the Sabbath schools. 1t
is now being developed under the
charter CT the National Temperance
society, which has been widely known
in the temperance world for 50 years
in its numerous publications and its
aggressive campaigning in the inter-
ests of total abstinence. Membership
in the Sabbath school will constitute
membership in the alliance Pledge
taking will, however. be kept to the
front. Every time the alliance meets,
an appeal will be made for those who
are willing to sign the pledge, to do
so. A book will be kept, and a report
made every month, and a full report
once year, OF the number thus pledg-
ing. The alliance will be organized
with a president and vice presidents,
the latter being the pastors of the
churches and the Sabbath school
superintendent. There will be two
secretaries, corresponding secretary
and a recording secretary, one treas
urer, and til" usual committees, as the
official heads of the work.
DR.. Alison is widely known in the
Presbyterian church for his evangelis-
tic labors Of recent years and for his
former pastoral service in Philadel-
phia and Seattle. He takes up this
new work in the forty-third year of
the existence Of the National Temper
ance society
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28
An Exposition Without Linuor.

In rendering its campus Of 355 acres
for the purpose of the Pan-Pacific ex-
position, to be held in Seattle, Wash,
during 1909, the University of Wash
ington included a condition to the eff
feet that no liquors may be sold with
in two miles of these state university
grounds. The agreement has been
reached, and the grounds are leased
by the board under the condition
stated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-28

Primarily for the convenience Of the
railroad 4 standard cf time wgs es-
tal!ished by mutual agreement in 1883.
~ which trains are run ana local time
regulated. According to this system
lie United States extending from Gj
degrees TO 125 degrees west longitude
is divided into four time sections. each
# = degrees Of longitude, exactly
equivalent to one hour The iirst coast
c.w section Includes all territory be-
t,"@cn the Atlantic coast and an ir-
,,;iar line draUa from Detroit to
charleston, S. c., the latter being it's
most southernpoint The second Cen
raU section Includes all the territory
ifatween the last named line and an
Irregular line from Bismarck, y. d., to
The mouth of the Rio Grande. The
third mountain section includes all
territory between the last named liue
and nearly the western borders of Ida
Ao, Utah and Arizona The fourth pa
riIc, section covers the rest of the
country to the Pacific coast Standard
zine is uniform inside each of these
sections, and the time of each section
offers from that next to it by exactly
one hour. Thus Mt u o'clock noon in
New York city eastern time the time
at Chicago Central time) is II O'Clock
4. III.