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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10
CIGARMAN'S WIFE
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Mrs. Fisher, Who Accused Hus.
band of Throwing Her Off
Car, Turns on Gas

81 am going to he'll, where my
husband told me to go. 1 will be there
in 20 minutes. will meet my husband
there
Uttering these uncanny words over a
telephone to Oscar Silliman, a clerk in
her husbands cigar store at 1041 Mar
ket street, Mrs. Samuel G. Fisher, who
was seriously injured Sunday night
under mysterious circumstances, hung
UP the receiver last Friday night and
retired to her apartments in the ST.
Raphael hotel in Seventh street near
Mission There she turned on two
gas jets and prepared to take her life,
but was frustrated by the appearance
of William Nellist. another cigar clerk.
at the door of her room. When found
the woman was nearly dead and was
carried to a fire escape by Nellist.
Silliman related his story yesterday,
after learning that Fisher who faced
serious accusations made by his wife,
had been discharged from custody. Mrs
Fisher declared at the harbor hospital
Sunday night that her husband had
thrown her from Valencia street car.
Fisher made every effort to suppress
the news concerning his wife's at
tempted Suicide. III the nope OF SAeQ-
ding more light upon the mysterious
manner in which Mrs. Fisher sustained
the serious injuries. the story was re-
lated to detectives.
After receiving the somewhat star
Ting announcement from Mrs. Fisher,
William Nellist, clerk employed In
the cigar store, was sent to the
woman's apartments In the st. Raphael
hotel in Seventh street near Mission,
according to Silliman. in the hope that
she might be persuaded not to take her
life Arriving at the apartments the
clerk attempted to rouse the woman.
but was unsuccessful. The odor of
escaping gas was strong. and after
repeated calls to open the door with
no response, the woman finally pressed
an inner latch, which released the door.
Mrs. Fisher swooned, overcome by the
deadly fumes. Nellist, followed by Mrs.
Morehouse, the landlady. rushed into
the room. He carried the limp form
of the woman to the fire escape. where
after several hours of desperate effort.
the woman was resuscitated Mrs
Fisher, according to Nellist and SILT
man, gave as a reason for her rash
attempt at suicide that her husband
did not provide her with sufficient
means and that money she had given
him to invest had not been accounted
for.
Mrs. Fisher has been bride but
three months. Her late husband. II. q
Munroe, was a prominent Oakland con-
tractor, who died in April of this year.
He left an estate valued at 5000 to his
wife, who shortly afterward married
Fisher.
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BIG CAR
KILLS LITTLE GIRL
Baby Daughter of S. O. john
son, the Lumberman, Escapes
Nurse and Is Crushed

BERKELEY, Nov. 9.-Toddling from
which leads to the garage. Emma. the
ii months old daughter of S. o. John
son, head of the S. S. Johnson lumber
company of San Francisco, was killed
this afternoon at 2:SO o'clock by her
fathers big so horsepower Packard car
driven backward down the path by
]. w. Dana, the family chauffeur OF
2s22 Kelsey street.
Dana felt the big car culver and then
heard the cries OF the Chinese cook,
who was cutting the front lawn. but he
did not know what had happened until
he brought the car to a stop and saw
the dead child with her head fright
fully crushed underneath the body of
the automobile.
The family are grief stricken as a re-
suit of the accident and Dana, the
chauffeur, is inconsolable. He imme-
diately gave himself up to Marshal
Vollmer and the latter communicated
with District Attorney Donahue, but
the chauffeur was absolved of all blame
in connection with the unfortunate ac-
cident.
Dana said that he had been making
some repairs inside the closed garage
at the Johnson home, 2704 Benvenue
avenue, and had opened the door and
looked down the pathway TO see if the
way was cleared.
He then began to slowly back the
machine down the slope. but brought
the car to an abrupt stop at the startled
cries of the Chinese cook.
DR.. Herbert Rowell was summoned
and the baby carried to the Roosevelt
hospital, but life was already extinct
as the skull had been crushed
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RETURNS HOME TO FIND
HIS YOUNG BRIDE DEAD
Mrs. w. o. Fillinger Commits
Suicide While Husband
Is at Work

RENO. New, Nov. 9.-Mrs. w. o. Fill
linger. the young. bride of W. o. Fill
linger. pressman for the Journal. was
found dead this morning on the hus-
bands return to their rooms at a. m
Fillinger left his bride OF a few
weeks, at 2:30 a. m, to go to the Jour-
NAL to start the press. His wife was
we'll and kissed him an affectionate
goodby.
Fillinger was horror struck when
this morning he opened the door and
found his wife stretched across the bee
dead.
A laudanum bottle was DISCOVERIES
later in the day in one Of the bureau
drawers, and 1t was further Learned
that the young woman purchased
laudanum yesterday and later in the
evening tried to buy morphine
Mrs. Vernie Fillinger was 19 wears
old and was born at Linton, Ind, where
she leaves a brother and three aunts.
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coULsEN DISMISSED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-The case of
Adolphus Coulsen, who is under sem
tence of death in the Panama canal
zone, the penalty being inflicted in q
trial without a jury, was dismissed for
want of jurisdiction by the supreme
court of the United States today Coun :
sci raised the point that he is In Amer
lean territory and that trial in cap
ital case without Jury was unconsti-
tutfonal
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10

Men of San Fran
cisco, if you are fired
of paying three prices
for half enough poor
water and three prices
for half enough fire in
surance, vote for your
own poekefbook and
for San Francisco by
voting for the Hefch
Hefchy bonds onThurs-
day.
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MICH WHISKY BURNED

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 9.-Whisky valued
at 100000 and buildings worth $4,000
were destroyed by fire at Deatsville
last night. The government loses
$4,000 in taxes on the whisky Two
warehouses, the stock barns and sew
eral buildings belonging to the E. w.
Samuels distillery company were
burned.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10
STEAMSHIP AGRoUND

NEWPORT, r. L, Nov 9.-The Mer-
chants and Miners steamer Rochester.
bound from Baltimore for Providence.
ran aground on Southeast beach. Pru-
dence island, while proceeding up Mar
ra agansett bay in thick fog today.
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NAY sroP RAPID DIyoRcEs

SIOUX FALLS, s. d.. Nov. 9-Untfl
the official count is made the result OF
the vote on the proposed law to stop
rapid divorces in South Dakota will be
in doubt Partial returns, however, in
dicate that the measure has been ap-
proved by large majority
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10
PROBABLY INCENpTARY

WALLACE, Idaho. Nov. 9.--In fire
which occurred in the Western hotel
here early today young man named
Curtis recent arrival from British
Columbia, was burned to death The
fire is believed to have been the work
of incendiaries. The loss is s6.000
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PROMINENT SURGEON DIES

FAIRMONT, w. Va. Nov. s.-Dr.
John r. Cook. one of the most promi-
nent physicians in West Virginia.
died today as the result of blood pois-
oning contracted while performing an
operation.
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TELEPHONE kEARNY Sc
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1sC
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY-cloudy; west wind; maximum
temperature. sc; minimum, so.
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Cloudy, possibly
light rain by night; fresh south wind. Page 13
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10

Remember Spring Valley and vote for the
Heteh Hetehy bonds on Thursday. Page 6
Postmaster Fisk's accusation. Page g
Missionaries on wheels in California. Page 9
Roosevelt on religious intolerance. Page 6
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GRAFT

Ruefs lawyer fights to bar testimony Of
Frank J. Keane in Ruef case. Page I6
Martin Stevens. go-between for Ruef and
Murphy, in danger of indictment for connection
with the Blake affair. Page I0
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SUBURBAN

Emma johnson, aged Il months. daugi
S. D. johnson, the lumbernan, is crusl
death under his automobile. L
Australian Wild Girl elopes and tax,
tiles Of the Gem theater with h'
honeymoon +
judgeships in Alameda county. +
Suspended Stanford juniors must leav
versity today. F
Oakland .coroner's Jury lays blame 70
chiId's death on bad tenders Of streetca
pany.
Man who aided woman TO drug and 70
band is charged with forgery. T
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more for men who toll, than to know
that their vote is cast and properly
for the Republican nominees.
But Mr.. Roosevelt Intentionally left
out of the list the head of the labor
unions. He would not invite Samuel
Gompers, because he denied Gompers
the right to vote the Democratic ticket,
and was not to be fit to meet him in a
labor discussion. He further arranged
his meeting, it is said, with the pur-
pose of doing all he could thereby to
defeat Mr.. Gompers for President of
the Federation of Labor at its present
convention at Denver. To leave Sam
uel Gompers out of meeting intended
to deal notionally with the labor prob
lem, was like leaving fire out OF a fur
mace which was intended to supply
heat. The insult to Mr.. Gompers was
keenly felt by the leaders invited and
they sent regrets. They plainly but
firmly told the president that he in no
sense owned or controlled them, and if
they dealt on the subject it would be
with his successor. A slight was there
fore inflicted ON Mr.. Roosevelt he has
not met with from any other source,
and one he must feel, since it is GER
tain he thought that all he had to do
was to command" the leaders to as
semble.
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NO LOVE FOR THE NEGRO
INSPIRED MR.. FORAKER.
SEIZED UPON BROWNSVILLE INCIDENT

sIEzED UPON BROWNSVILLE INCIDENT
AS MEANS OF STRIKING ROOSEVELT.
Foraker fights at the drop of the hat,
and all his fights are conducted on
personal basis. He is not a man who
battles for an ideal, for cause, or even
for party. His tongue and his brain
are for Foraker, from the first dash out
of the box to the Garrison finish There
is no practical sentimentality about Fo-
raker's moves in the game, says Sloane
Gordon in highly entertaining char
acter sketch of the Ohio senator in the
December Hampton's Broadway Maya
zine. Foraker fought Hanna. He
fought Mckinley. In 1903 he there
fore supported Roosevelt and sang the
praises of the president from every
stump. He was the recognized dis
burser of Federal patronage in the
Buckeye State. Then there wasa quick,
intense falling out.
The real truth has never been told
about that split. 1t may be denied
even now, but here it is: Foraker re-
pudiated Roosevelt and in private con-
versatiOn denounced him as hypocrite
on the day following the presidents
dramatic demand that the republican
national treasurer, Cornelius Bliss, re-
turn certain corporation moneys which
had been contributed to the Roosevelt
campaign of 1904. Foraker has always
insisted that Roosevelt not only knew
all about the contributions and their
source, but that the president was a
party to their solicitation. Therefore,
Foraker considered the presidential
show of Mortified surprise and of "right-
eous indignation" as hypocritlcal, and
did not hesitate to say so.
That was the real beginning of the
final split between the senator and the
president. With characteristic vigor,
Foraker made remarks about Roosevelt.
Shortly afterward, at the Washington
Grldlron Club banquet, Roosevelt re-
turned the attack, and Foraker came
back with few sledge-hammer blows
that nearly created riot.
No foolish notions of justice and fair
play made Foraker advocate the cause
of the negro soldiers at Brownsville,
Texas. ~
When Foraker took up the Browns
vile affair he did so primarily because
of enmity to Roosevelt. The president
had been tramping upon his senatorial
toes-criticising his vote on the railway
rate bill, and withholding Ohio pat
ronage from him us punishment,
Foraker saw in Brownsville his chance
to strike hard. And he brought blood
as the results showed.
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Middlebrook Items.

Mr.. Bernard BARLEY, an old 5th Va.
veteran, died at his home near here
last week. Mr.. BARLEY was brave
soldier and participated in all the bat
ties which his regiment was famous
for having fought. He was good
friend, kind father, an honest man,
the noblest work of God. He leaves a
grown and married family, also his
second wife That we will miss him
from our midst goes without saying.
He was buried at Mt. Carmel, of which
church he was member One by one
the old veterans pass away, and in a
few years there will be none left to
to greet us. They are answering to the
roll call over the river, where the hosts
are mastering, thousands strong, not
for war, but to sound praises forever to
the living God. Mr.. BARLEY was aged
about 66 years.
Winter set it early and rough, and
it left lots of corn to shuck yet.
The Middlebrook string band receiv-
ed an assignment of fine instruments
last week from Chicago. The band
will be instructed by Prof. David S.
Price.
Miss Lottie Smith spent Saturday
and Sunday with her parents here, re-
turning to her school on Monday.
A gentleman of this place last week
received a letter from Governor Hughes
of New York, thanking him for his
congratulate ons on his election.
The daughters of Mr.. Ben Humphrey
are here from Ohio on visit TO their
sister. They expect to return home
next week.
Mr.. HI. G. McGary and bride will
visit Florida and many other Southern
points of interest on their bridal tour.
Birds and rabbits are very scarce
around here, and hunters should not
hunt them off too close.
1t is surprising how some men go to
Staunton, stay three or four days on a
stare" and come back and think Their
wives and the public generally do not
know where they have been. Do not
be deceived boys. Your sin is sure to
find you out.
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THE PRESIDENT AND LABOR.

1t was evident that so soon as the
election was over some sugar-coated
pills would be fed to Labor. For weeks
before the election the president and all
his understrappers, and Mr.. Taft on
his own hook, were preaching the love
of Mr.. Taft for Labor Nothing was so
near and dear to him as the working
man, and as for the laborer and the la
Dor unions, and the labor leaders, they
were the salt of the earth, and the APP
pie of his eye.
The strenuous Teddy had written let
tiers on the subject, but to make good,
the res ulls of the election were hardly
known before he began to arrange pol
lcies for Mr.. Taft to carry out, and to
this end he invited various labor lead
ers to dine with him and to confer with
him in the White House on the labor
problems, after eating splendid repast
20 be served up to them in china they
had never before gazed upon, and on
mahogany their knees had not graced
previously by their propinquity. The
thing was arranged for last Tuesday. A
goodly company outside these labor
leaders were invited, men who are not
given to rubbing elbows with men who
wear oyeralls and who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brows. Some
judges were to be there, and others in
high estate. Judges there were who
could open barred doors and throw any
of those labor leaders into the gloomy
recesses of the dungeon, on the slight
est provocation, where they might rot
if needs be. Judges who care nothing
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20
THE STATE COMMITTEE.

The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has had
few words to say touching the I'M
MENsITY of the work done by State
Committee during the last presidential
campaign. The vastness of their la
bors was so overwhelming by its alb
sence that the Virginian-Pilot has said:
Not even the usual exhortation to
Loyalty and activity of effort was sound
ed. Ii might be intrusive to inquire
how many members of the State execu-
tive committee, as last announced, gave
their votes to the national ticket, and
whether these chosen lieutenants Ofthe
State chairman were ever called to-
gether after the Denver convention put
forth its nominee and platform. Out
side of the Ninth and fifth district, COM
mittees appear to have exhausted their
functions when they had arranged for
the party primaries, while in one Sec
ond the committee deliberately relaxed
the primary rules to fit the declaration
of one of its members that "Hundreds
of true and loyal democrats would not
vote for Bryan If the city commit
tee of Norfolk took any steps to awaken
the interest Of the voters or bring them
to the polls, their action was taken
with secrecy which escaped public at
tention.
This has stirred the Richmond News
Leader an organ which proclaims itself
overwhelmingly Democratic, but which
also undertakes to define the meaning
of that word, and which so literally
defines it as permits a Democrat to
jump the fence on any or all occasions,
and includes in its definition the right
of any citizen to call himself Demo-
crat and vote the Republican ticket.
The highest evidence of true Democra-
cy that definition possibly contains is
that the said Democrat voted for VIM.
H. Taft in the last presidential election.
Replying to the statement of the Vir-
ginian-Pilot heretofore quoted, and de-
Tending the Democratic State Com
mittee the News-Leader in part says:
Really there was no need for the
State committee to exert itself or to I'M
dertake the expense and eXertion of a
long and warm campaign. 1t would
have been a waste of ammunition.
Outside the Fifth and Ninth districts
the republicans made no serious fight
and the marked detection was confined
to few of the larger cities. 1t was
most evident in Richmond and here
the local forces of the party were able
to handle the situation. No power
could drive to the polls men who did
not want to go, or prevent Democrats
in every county and at almost every
precinct in the State from cutting Mr.
Bryan.
If this he so then there was really no
need for State committee at all. The
party could scarcely have been in worse
fl if it had had none. The Fifth dis
trict was nearly lost and the Ninth
gave an unusual Republican majority.
The balance of the State remained loyal
to the party but the party owes no
thanks to the committee. The party
may need some assistance from the
people in the next gubernatorial cleo
ton. If so the Committee had better
be reorgan1zed.
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Mr.. Taft has one legacy left him by
Mr.. Roosevelt which may give him
qualms and pangs. 1t is an empty
Treasury. He will find himself in the
midst of a bond issue early in his career
and it will not be bonds issued for the
Spanish war, or to pay for the Panama
Canal. They are about all out. The
Taft issue will be for the purpose OF
getting money to pay Uncle Sam's bills.
Oh, if Mr.. Bryan had been in office and
left his successor an empty treasury he
would have been locked up no doubt,
to avoid being lynched.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20
How is your Digestion !

Mrs. Mary Bowling of No. 22S Sth
Ave, San Francisco, recommends a
remedy for stomach trouble. She says:
'tGratitude for the wonderful effect of
gestion, prompts this testimonial. |
am fully convinced that for stomach
and liver troubles Electric Bitters is
the best remedy on the market today. u
This great tonic and Alternative medi-
cine invigorates the system, purifies the
blood and is especially helpful in all
forms of female weakness. SOC at B.
F. Hughes drug store.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20
REJOICING IN THEIR STRENGTH

The results of the presidential eiec-
ton must be most gratifying to the
trusts and combines which largely
brought it about. The % million dol
lar fine against the Standard Oil Co.
if not already shriveled into nothing
ness, will soon shrivel. The tariff which
is so potent in making millionaires of
one set and paupers of another, will be
entirely Gin the hands of its friends. J"
The railways which have been prepar-
ing their books in such way as to show
impending bankruptcy from "vicious"
railroad legislation in various States,
will find the Federal courts refuge to
which they may fly in perfect safety.
The National Banks will enjoy the
surplus, if there ever be such again,
in the treasury, for banking purposes,
without let Or hindrance, and they will
be compelled to guarantee no man the
return of his money. The Senate of
the United States will smile because
four years at least will separate them
from the command of the people, and
from any fear that the people will have
voice in their election. Capital will
become more and more tyranical and
insolent as the labor leaders are petted
and cajoled, and as more and more of
those labor leaders are found with
their knees under the presidents ma
hogany in the White House. So en-
trenched will the party in power be by
virtue of it's success, that it will pay no
heed to the voice of Ithe people, or
warning against extravaganza, in short
predatory wealth has so gotten control
of every branch of the government that
it may have Belshazzar feasts night
after night, and not only will
no Interpreter be needed to read
the handwriting, but any one
present who dares notice any hand
writing on the wall, will be booted
from the assembly. But as the farmer
and laborer refuse to see their enslave-
ment, and refuse to believe they are the
victims upon which trusts and crimi-
nal combinations feast and grow fat,
what is the use of trying to teach them
that which they refuse to learn, and
that which they will not believe? How
happy are the protected rich; what a
glorious vision looms up before them.
They are licking their chops for the
pie, not containing twenty-four black
birds, but eighty million people.
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fourth of March and that after Presi-
dent Taft has called special session f
the Sixty-frst Congress for the revision
of the tariff Congress will find much
of its work blocked out and will prob
ably have completed the much talked
of revision of the tariff by the fourth of
July.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20

A Democratic fire was raging through
out many forests of the country de-
stroying valuable timber. But as soon
as possible after Mr.. Taft was elected a
nice pure clean Republican snow was
arranged for, and sent down on last
Saturday. Destruction has now ceased
and everything is lovely.
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Watched Fifteen Years.

''For fifteen years l have watched
the working of Bucklen's Arnica Salve;
and it has never failed to cure any sore,
boil, ulcer or burn to which it was ap-
piled. 1t has saved us many doctor
BILL" says A. f. Hardy, of East Will
ton, Maine. Pc at B. F. Hughes drug
store.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20

fund of 500, 900 to erect a monument
to the late Grover Cleveland at Prince
ton, n. j. His admirers in this Sec
ton can demonstrate their affection by
sending in liberal contributions.