davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16
SOMETHING LEFT.
NOT WHAT HE WANTED

When the newspaper man from the
East had got seated in the assistant ed
itoriaI chair Of daily paper in a small
Western town the boss editor handed him
the following printed instructions for his
future guidance. and left him TO digest
them:
DO not abuse the Democratic party
DO not abuse the Republican party.
do not abuse any other political party.
We are neutral on religion
We are neutral on temperance.
Don't write against trusts
Don't write against railroads.
Dent be Tor tn President or against
hir1-
Don't criticise any OF our business
mcn.
Don't criticise our old Jail or court
house
Don't abuse our street car lines.
Sand neutral On the IaroT question.
alone, whether hot
or cod
Don't have 4 word to say about our
esteemed contemporary.
Don't praise or pitch into anybody"
When the assistant had read the above
over three times, he went to the rooms
Of the boss, and asked:
IS there anything that / can write
about:
For sure" was the reply. Returns
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16
NO CREAM FOR HIM.

One night, as / was sleeping under
hayStack on 4 farm in Connecticut, said
the tramp, II awokc to discover that the
farmhouse was on fire. The roof had
caught around the kitchen chimney aud
the family had not been aroused made
for the house at once, gave the alarm,
found and put up ladder, and after the
hardest kind of work, extinEuished the
flames. ] had my hair sinSed and my
hands b!istCTed, and after all was over
the old farmer wanted TO know how
happened 10 be On hand. ! told him, and
after little thought he said:
Well, you must be thirsty. and III
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16

have the wife get you drink OF nk.'
lie called to her to I'll Z p!tcv, and
rs | was washing my hands at ttsitch-
On door heard him say:
Hammer. be sure TO skim the NJ he
fore YOU give il 10 him. Hes ann,
and not used to cream
Il politely declined the milk WI IL
was brought out. telling the farmehat
| didn't with TO deprive the pigs Ofs,-
breakfast. md as started of TO fDew
lodgings he said:
You had lodgings in my haysE,
and that's worth Il quarter, but 6einSu
put the fire out I'm willing 20 Gait
square JOE bR
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16

mas will come again ! shall want lions.
tigers. kangaroOS, camclS and elephants
for little Willie, and ! shall come here
and look around and price things and
he here for whole hour, and when !
am asked what I'll have | shall wave this
tail at you, run out my tongue aud tell
you 20 go to grass" JOE KERR.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16

county. We meet VOC. ana he tunps
down to black your eyes and break your
nose, and you Just-woof-bIr-ba
and William lays down to take a nap.
Lordy. Iordy, but when he wakes up
and ten him he's licked man he'll
settle down and hoe more corn than i've
hired menu IOE KERR
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-16

AIDS TO MEMORY.
'YoiI don't get much chance 10 use
your auto this weather..
No
Il guess YOU almost forget you have
an auto now
oh. no. I'm st;u paying the install
.ncnts."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
THRONG IS HURLED
INTO TORRENT
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.
SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 9.-Twenty
men, women and children, residents of
Lompoc, standing on the Robinson
bridge that crosses the Santa Ynez
River mile and half east of Lompoc
were precipitated into the raging tor
rent without moments warning by
the collapse of one of the spans of the
bridge this morning.
The river, swollen beyond it's banks
by the heavy rains of the last few days,
was higher than it had been since the
food of 1884 The victims of the dis
aster had been attracted to the bridge
by curiosity and were watching the
flood waters as they rushed under it.
The bridge had been heightened during
the summer by the construction of a
120-foot span and an approach about
twenty-five feet long, under which the
irrigation ditch of the Salinas Valley
Company had it's course.
1t is understood that It was the new
span that gave away.
OF the twenty who were thrown into
the river two were drowned and sew
eral injured though none fatally. The
dead are Mrs. Sherman Huyck and the
Swear old son of John Lind. OF the in
jured, Mrs. c. E. Carter. sister of Mayor
Poland of Lompoc. is the most serious
ly hurt. She suffered a broken leg.
Mrs. George Gregory sustained frac-
ture of leg and George Elliston was
internally injured.
A few miles below Lompoc the
stream left the banks altogether and
spread over the level country that
stretches away to the sea, inundating
about fifty farms and causing the
hasty removal of the families on them.
FLOODS IN Los ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9.--Not since
1884 has Southern California been Wis
tied with such torrential rains as
have fallen since Sunday. Day and
night almost without intermission rain
has been falling. Raging torrents Of
water are plunging down the water
ways, carrying everything before
them.
In Los Angeles early this morning
Jay Cummings, a well-known club
man and formerly connected with the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Deming of Auburn Is
Secretary Of Examiners
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 9.-B b. Dem
ing Of Auburn is secretary OF the
State Board of Examiners. Deacon
Pillsbury was retired TO private life a
few minutes after o'clock tonight.
That the Deacon might not be bur-
dened with the cares of oficialdom
overnight the Office Of the Secretary
OF State was kept open after the usual
closing hour TO enable the Governor to
sign the commission.
The first and only official acts of
Governor Giliett today were the ap-
pointment OF his immediate official
family, z. F. Mitchell Of Fresno. an
assistant clerk in the United States
Senate during the incumbency of
Bard and later superintendent of the
clerks document room in the National
House Of Representatives. was present
TO receive his commission as execu-
tive secretary, vice Elston. Z. c.
Cooper of Eureka. Senator Rolley's
law partner, received the private sec
retarYs berth, the promise of which
was announced shortly after election.
With the three men who will be
closest to him officially in harness the
new Governor can take up his work
tomorrow morning. Assistant Seavey
OF the State Board Of Examiners. it is
said will be retained. as he has a
valuable working knowledge of the
duties of the Office. IT was first
planned to give him a reappointment
this afternoon, but an examination of
the law gave rise TO the opinion that
his is not a gubernatorial appointment
and he viii probably be named today
by Deming.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
legislative Committee to Apply
Probe to Water F 'front.' Affairs

that transcontinental railroads in pro-
cess of construction should be given
every announcement and that no un-
reasonable obstacles should be placed
in their way has caused no alarm
among the organization politicians who
report on" to william f. Herrin- They
say that the Southern Pacific and the
Western Pacific are to compromise
their differences and that the predicted
clash in the Legislature will not ma
terialize.
When Pardees attention Mas called
to that portion of Gillett's message
calling for an investigation of the Har-
Dor Commission his significant wink in
dicated full appreciation of what ap-
peared to him to be another effort to
get his appointees out of office.
Regardless of its political signifi-
cance," said Pardee, IF there is any
thing wrong in the harbor service it
should be ferreted out at once. Ii in
competence be found it should cause
no surprise, but it should emphasize
the necessity of amending a fool law.
Under the existing law we cannot
appoint man who knows anything
about wharves, shipping. docks, boats
or even salt water. That fool law
provides that no one interested directly
or Indirectly in shipping may be named.
Why it is so 1ar-redcHiIiS lhdt uray-
man engaged in hauling freight from
the docks is ineligible. The result is
that the best we can do is to hunt up
some good, honest man who knows
nothing about the duties he is expected
to perform and put him at them. BY
the time he gets something like a
working knowledge there is a change
Of administration and he is turned
out. The people reap the benefits of
breaking in another as ignorant as was
his predecessor when he started"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Merchants Lobby Will Invade the Capital
Calls Attention Of Legislature to
Proposed Direct Primary
GOucrnOr Points Out Some of Its Features

PENHE direct primary law is being discussed somewhat
and will no doubt taken up and considered by you
- during this session There is much be said
Of direct primary law, and there many good
arguments against it Of upon these you
pass weeks ago there appeared in the San Fran
cisco Call very clear and concise statement of what was IN
tended by this law. 1t is as follows:
The direct primary law contemplates the nomination
of partisan candidates for political Office by direct vote of
of the political parties voting under the
full protection of the law that thrown around general
elections by the employment of the Australian ballot
The makes his nomination by ballot in the same
that he for the candidates of his choice
after nomination"
It is urged in favor of direct primary law that all
political questions should be submitted directly the peo
pie their decision and that is just important that
should say the candidate should be de-
eide which should be elected.
The candidate for Office receiving the majority of votes
primary election has been before the people and they
opportunity Judge of his character his worth
and his qualifications fill the Office he is seeking If he
is unfit and unworthy that, too will be known.
If should decide in favor of direct primary law,
then constitution will have be amended because
ton Ia of article provides for primary election for the
purpose choosing delegates convention for the
purpose of nominating candidates. and the section will have
amended provide for the holding of primary
election for the purpose of eecng party candidates be
voted for general election.
Should you deem it advisable adopt the direct primary
law then advise that present primary laws be amended
apply the entire State and also amended in other
particulars which necessary, but which need be
The primary law exists today
and should be smpihed-CopcrnOr James ~ Cdctt
in his inaugural address,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Desire Legal Standing
for Evening Schools

Teachers in the San Francisco even
ing schools are preparing bill to be
presented to the Legislature providing
for a regular fund to support their
classes. Under the present method
the evening schools are subject only
to the will of the Board OF Education
which can put an end to them at any
time it so desires, especially by de-
ciaring there is not sufficient money to
support them
The teachers plan to have the even
ing schools put on an equal basis with
the day classes and to make them q
legal part of the educational system
Of the city. The instructors will then
be more sure in their positions, and
will probably receive more pay. Ac-
cording to the provisions of the bill
that is to be prepared a separate tax
will be made to support the evening
schools.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
CALIFORNIA PATENTS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Patents is
sued to Californians: Ulysses G. Au-
CUISINE. Los Angeles, machine for
molding cores; Amos H. Carpenter,
Stockton. rotary engine; John A. Elan
agan. Corning, draft equalizer; Philip
Lesuer, Calabasas. hub attachment de-
vice; Nicholas Matcovitch, San Fran
cisco. electric heater: John w. Pinder
San Francisco. ore concent-ator: Albert
Schalbert. J. II. Wallace. San Francisco
heat interchanger: Bert E. Sweet, Lodi
pneumatic cleaner and separator
George w. Todd. Boulder Creek, screen,
Jonathan B. futile. Claremont. fishing
tackle; Warner E. Questal, San Bernar-
dino. irrigation gate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
MAY ABOLISH CARLISLE
Senator's Say Indian school Is TeO Far
From Reservations

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Carlisle In
stitute. which was established at Car
Isle, Pa. in 1879, for the higher edu-
cation of the Indians, is in Danger of
being abolished. The Senate commit
tee on Indian affairs, which has the
Indian appropriation bill under consid-
Grafton. has agreed to report an
amendment striking out the schools
appropriation
The reason advanced by tile mem
bers is that the school is so far away
from Indian reservations that ii is be-
lieved that il Is not so effective as the
Western educational institutions for
the Indians.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
United States Land once, was drowned

United States Land Office, was drowned
by falling into a deep pool In the mid
die of a street near his home. His
body was found at daylight. Near San
Fernando George Avery, a rancher.
was swept away while attempting to
ford a swollen stream and his body
has not been recovered.
Los Angeles is entirely cut of from
rail communication from outside points.
Both the coast line and the valley line
of the Southern Pacific are blocked.
the coast line by numerous washouts
and landslides between Santa Barbara,
Ventura and along the portions OF the
roads which skirt the ocean. On the
valley line two tunnels have caved. One
known as No. II, north of Mojave, is
practically ruined and the blockade
there has stalled both the Southern Pa
cific and the Santa Fe trains. One end
of the Newhall tunnel has also caved
in and near Fernando several hundred
yards of track have been washed out.
On the main line of the Santa Fe be-
yond San Bernardino there has been
a serious landslide in the Cajon Pass
which will render traffic impossible
perhaps for days and which stops serv-
Ice on the Santa Fe and the Salt Lake
lines. Trains are running on the San
Diego line, but the track is so soft that
schedule time cannot. be maintained.
The precipitation amounts to more
than eleven inches.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Senators Demand All
the State Will Stand
srEcIAL 1880 Ed 90 80.

SACRAMENTO. Jan. s.-Chaplain
Darling. whose prayers in the Senate
have been called by a poetic solOn from
the south canoes Of supplication,
added to the gayety Of the members at
the calling Of the session this morning
by imploring special dispensation for
the Democratic minority
Profane laughter greeted the request,
which was evidently regarded as Joke
on the Democrats. Chaplain Darling
saw no occasion for mirth and brought
the prayer to a close with his custom
airy precision.
II the prayers OF the chaplain are
brief. however, there does not ap-
pear 10 be any likelihood of brevity in
the bulk Of patronage to be dOled out
by the Senators. During the recess
taken until HAS a. m. today, when the
Senators marched to the Clunie Opera
house TO attend the inaugural ceremo-
MES OF Governor GiIlett the newly
made attaches were sworn in, taking
oath that they would always be on hand
70 collect their salaries and fulfill their
other duties. The present session prom
Uses to establish new precedent in
patronage
Governor Gillett realizes this, and
after his inauguration today he sent
for a number OF Senators and made an
other effort to have them apply the
not inclined to entertain his sugges-
lions about economy. They believe in
putting State money into circulation
and regard a pageant OF statutory at
taches as the most desirable feature Of
their house OF wealth.
The men and women who swarm
around the Senators every day make
the chamber take on the aspect Of an
intelligence Office.
The men represent all kinds and
conditions, and most OF the women are
inclined 70 mOdish clothes. From am
bilious postmistresses 10 stenogra-
pliers. the CaIiforniennes seeking SEN
atorial favors appear to understand the
art Of dress and attractiveness. Knowl-
edge gained from the milliner, the
modiste and the cOrsetiere is the chief
element Of their politics, and they are
adopts at using IL.
Appointments viii constitute one
main subject of interest in the Senate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Commercial Interests Ready
for Waterfront Fight
Draft Bills to Unseat Incompetency
Now in Full Control Of Port

Sacramento will be invaded within
the next few days by a committee Of
representatives of the great COM
mercssl interests OF San Francisco, de-
termined to unseat incompetency in the
management of the water front and
to inaugurate a business administra-
ton under an altered system. The
water front Improvement committee
of the city's civic organizations met
yesterday in the Merchants Exchange
building and approved the drafts OF
bills intended to accomplish the pur-
pose of the shipping and business men.
The drafts were the result of the
united labors of Committeeman Fried
lander, Rosenfeld and Tilden. The first
to be read by T. Carey Friedlander,
chairman of the subcommittee on legis-
lation, was the bill designed to dis
place the present harbor board with a
non-partisan commission of five mem
bers, all to be residents of San Fran
cisco and to serve without compensa-
ton other than $40 for attendance at
each regular meeting OF the board
1t is provided that the new COM
mission shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor. one member TO serve for one
year after appointment, one for two
years. one for three years and two for
four years. 1t is further provided that
this commission shall appoint q COM
petent business man to serve as harbor
master at an annual salary OF $4,000; a
secretary and treasurer at $500 a
month; an assistant secretary and
treasurer at 5000 a month"; an attorney
at 5000 a month; and a chief engineer
at $500 a month. The compensation of
all other employees shall be fixed by
the commission.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
SOCIETY NoTABLEs MARRIED

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Miss Beatrice
Kobbe, niece OF Major General Kobbe,
L. S. A, and Raymond ID. Little, the
well-known tennis player, were mar
ried in All Angels Protestant Episcopal
Church yesterday. The ceremony was
q brilliant one. The bride was gowned
in empire style, and her attendants also
wore costumes OF that period.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10

sive charges, discrimination against
shippers and irregularities sufficiently
scandalous to warrant open accusations
of graft If suspicious are verified Gill
lett can bring about wholesale removals
without arousing criticism that his acts
are inspired wholly by revenge. In any
event the Pardee men are to go, but
Gillett will, If possible, boot them out in
a way that will serve the double pur-
pose of gaining popularity for himself
and heaping discredit on the admins
tration of his predecessor.
The declaration of the new Governor
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10

ENGINEERS III fLAN FHONT
Another measure, or, rather, q sec
ton of the proposed bill changing the
personnel of the harbor board, pro-
vides that a commission of three en-
gineers shall be appointed to inves-
tfgate conditions on the front and de-
wise plans for the permanent improve
ment thereof, the report of the engi-
neers to be prepared in time for SUBJ
mission TO the Legislature of 1909
Another important provision of the
bill aims to prevent the dumping of
garbage In the bay, practice COM
mon in Butchertown.
An evidence of the petty manner in
which the Harbor Commission Is en-
deavoring to discredit the work of the
water front Improvement committee
was contained in q letter from r. S.
Stratton. Collector of the Port who
asked the aid of a committee to have
set aside an order of the board d.
recting the Collector to remove forth
with from the dock the scales and de-
vices for weighing imports.
Chairman Swayne said that the or
der of the board was ridiculous and
was not in keeping with the spirit of
the committees endeavor, as 1t had
never requested that devices necessary
to the conduct of the port should not
be given space. All the committee had
asked was that the board prevent the
use of the docks for storage purposes
by lumber dealers and others.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
MILLIONS IN BONDS

A proposed constitutional amendment
providing for the issuance of bonds by
the State in the sum of $4,000, 900 for
the Improvement of the water front
was also approved. Isidor Jacobs pro-
posed as an amendment to the draft
that the sum be increased to $4,000, 600.
but the committee felt that with the
100000 already provided the work
could be well begun with an addi-
tional s2,O00.Q 600. especially as the con-
stitution limits the Issuance of bonds
to a period OF twenty years. 1t was
the opinion of the committee that a
constitutional amendment should be
proposed extending the limit for the
issuance of bonds to seventy-fYe years,
as this would enable the ultimate rea-
lization of the great plans of the COM
mercial interests of the city to ex-
pend $50. 600. 900 on the water front
An act to authorize the Harbor Com
mission TO institute condemnation pro-
ceedinzs against certain property
south of Islais Creek for the purpose
of utilizing the same for the extern
sion of the water front was presented
by Isidor Jacobs. The draft OF the
measure was referred to the sub-com-
mittee on legislation and Will be re-
ported. back favorably. Jacobs pointed
out that the railroads and others are
making such encroachments on the
lands surrounding the creek that I'M
less hasty action is taken the frontage
will be lost to the State. The govern
ment is willing to declare the stream
navigable any time active dredging
begins said Jacobs, and his view that
dredging should be begun at the ear
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10

PROMOTION: The sct of promoting. adj
vancement; ENCOURAGEMENT.-Ce Die
tionary.
The California Promotion Committee has for
its object the PROMOTING of California q
whole.
1t has nothing to sell.
Its energies are devoted to fostering all
things that have the ADVANCEMENT OF Cali.
fornia as their object.
II gives reliable information every subject
connected with the industries Of California.
it gives ENCOURAGEMENT to the establish
ment OF new industries and invites desirable i'm
migration.
1t Is not an employment agerey, although II
gives information regarding labor conditions
1t presents the opportunities and needs In all
fields of business and professional activity
The Committee Is supported by popular sub
scription and makes charge for any service
rendered
Affiliated with the Committee are hundred
and sixty commercial organizations of the State.
with membership Of over thirty thousand
Meetings are held semi-annually in different
parts of California, where matters of State In
terest are discussed
Headquarters of the Committee are maintained
in San Francisco In California Building. Union
CORRESPONDENTS INVITED.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-10
Fountarraphs

The best 81 fountain pen ever made:
14-karat gold pen, iridium tip. Selling
agents for Waterman Ideal fountain
pens. LIE Count Clark & Ormond, 220
Market st. and 8 California st.