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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
FAILs NO kEEp pRoMIsE

Miss Johanna Stillson, 1868 Turk
street, obtained g. warrant from Police
Judge Conlan yesterday for the arrest
OF Mrs. Agnes Meerer ON a charge of
obtaining money by false pretenses.
Miss Stillson alleges that she was in
duced to lend Mrs. Meerer s125 Novem-
ber Fl on her false Representations that
she was to establish a cafe and grill in
the Lick building, Montgomery and SUIT
ter streets. and was to employ her as
cashier at a salary of $40 a week.
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viii not be inserted. They must be handed in at
either Of the publication Offices and be indorsed
with the and residence Of persons author
lied have the same published. Notices
siricted simply 10 the announcement of the event
ere published once IN this column free of charge.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
FORMER JOCKEY SUDDENLY ILL

Glenn Jenkins, former well known
jockey, while crossing the ferry yester-
day from Oakland, was taken with
sudden attack of appendicitis. He was
hurried to the harbor emergency hos
pital, where he was examined by DR..
Tillman and DR.. Hill. These surgeons
advised an Immediate operation and
Jenkins was removed to the st. Fran
els hospital, where the operation will
take place.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
Many Games Carded in the
Bay Cities League
AT SAN FRANCISCO.


Thanksgiving day: l2 noon-United
Railroads VS.. Transportations; o'Connell,
umpire. p. m.-Imperials VS.. Gantner
& Matterns; Nealon, umpire.
Saturday: p. m.-United Railroads
VS.. Transportations; o'Connell, umpire.
Sunday 10 noon-Imperials VS.. Trans
portations; Nealon, umpire. p. m.-
United Railroads VS.. Gaatner & Mat
terms; Nealon umpire.
AT BERKELEY.
Thanksgiving day: p. m.-Golden
sheafs VS.. Wiley B. Aliens; BrockotF,
umpire.
Saturday: p. m.-Calkins VS.. Trib-
unes; Nissen, umpire.
Sunday: Q p. m.-.Golden sheafs VS..
Tribunes; BrOckoff, umpire.
AT FRUITvALE.
Thanksgiving day: 2 p. m.-Calkins
VS.. Fruitvales; Nissen, umpire.
Saturday: p. m.-Imperials vs..
Wiley B. Aliens; Nealon, umpire.
Sunday: 10 noon--Calkins VS.. Fruit
wales; Nissen, umpire. p. m.-wiley
B. Aliens VS.. Fruitvales; Nissen, umpire.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
MOTORING is MEDICINE

In the earlier days Of the motor car
scarcely a month passed that did not
see some new disease ascribed TO the
use Of the automobile" said ". T. Gull
berson, head of the Mobile carriage
company But in the last few years
the belief that the extensive use Of the
automobile could be directly response
bic for any malady has been so thor
oughly refuted by eminent physicians
in both America and Europe that con-
siderable surprise has been expressed
by both doctors and laymen at the con-
tents Of a telegram received from
France a few days ago.
This cablegram said that a promi-
nent American motorist, who is also
Identified in an official capacity with
the Aero club Of America. has been re-
moved TO a sanitarium in France, a
victim of spinal meningitis. This was
brought on. his French physicians were
reputed to have said. by excessive mo-
toring. AS this was the first time such
a theory had ever been advanced, con
siderable interest was taken in the
matter by the George n. Pierce com
pany, in Buffalo.
In order to test the truth of the
matter as far as possible, two Of the
Pierce Arrow testers were taken before
= prominent physician Of Buffalo and
animation. Both men have been test
ing Pierce Arrows since 1901 Both
have been, In addition TO their work
OF this kind, on long tours many times,
one this year driving the Pierce that
tvOn the Hover trophy. Factory rec
ords show that both men have averaged
slightly over 125 miles a day since Jan
uary 4, 1901, which would place their
total mileage at approximately $50. SIS,
which is regarded as much greater than
would be attained by any man who
toured merely for pleasure, and then
only a part OF the year.
AT the conclusion Of the examina-
tion the doctor declared that both men
were in perfect physical condition.
Neither, he said, was in a condition
that would make him any more sus-
cepuble 10 spinal meningitis than the
ordinary healthy mortal who had never
Travelled in a motor car"
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
SHOOTING MOTORISTS

Shooting at motorists viii no longer
be one Of the playful pastimes Of Frank
H. Moor, the special policeman Of Glen
coe, Ill, who recently fred a bullet at
the car OF T. II. Henderson and struck
of button on the dress OF a Young
woman passenger in the car Moor has
Seen declared guilty of assault with in
teEt TO do bodily harm and is now
awaiting the outcome of his attorneys
efforts TO get a new trial before receiv-
ing the prOnouncement Of his punish
ment from the judge.
The trial took place last week. and
II Is said that some OF the jurors want
ed 10 bring in verdict that would
have been more serious in conseouence
for Moor
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NOTES OF THE AUTO

Dr- l. r. johnson Of Angels camp Cslave-,s
county. spent the weekend seeing the sigj,fs
IN and about this city He made tbe round
UP IN his Buick White Streak
There are no hills ia San Francisco aceorsf,
= Jack Costello. who has just taken del,vers
OF a 19U9 Thomas six cylinder tos1rino co-
auto building has leveled all the hills sac
Costello yesterday. ''An / DO is 20 put on fbe
high speed lever and 20. There do nor -,
70 be any hills for ms car We fake fhs-n
al just fast Il Is safe to travel
do not know how fast the car viii o. f,ees,s-
] am afraid TO let her out / have baS ~
spesdOmeter 10 6s miles, and then c,,-iS
not see the road. The machine can updoDl,1sii.
20 faster but not when 1 am at the wheel
Al evidence Of the increasing prospertt,, ~
the west and northwest may be seen from fbs
fact that the latter districts have already placed
orders for l.eOO cars with a Minneapolis sal
Ing house. Reports from the northwest sav
that not only do the residents OF that seeffoS,
want tie cars. bur they willing to nav
spot cash for them.
The city Of Akron has proated IN m.nr
Vays By the growth Of rubber manufacturing
but the oldest benefit yet TO develoD Is an
agreement made by the Diamond rubber COM
pany by which the latter is 10 pave nea~Iv
an entire street at fits own expense The Dia
nlond tires concern desired 10 secure q small
bart Of the street as 70 connect reoen.
arge additions 10 its older buildings. An offer
10 pave the rems inder OF the street IN return
Tor this was accepted. The work involves a
500 600 expenditure.
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TURKEYS FOR EMPLOYEES

James Rolph Jr.. president of the
Merchants exchange. presented every
employe of the exchange with a
Thanksgiving turkey yesterday. The
usual time that the employees of the
exchange are remembered by their en-
ployers is at Christmas, and they re-
ceived quite surprise when they Were
presented with the royal bird yesterday.
Do You Want $5.OOs
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page IL.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
RIRTHS

this city November "a 1905 to
the wife OF Maril A. Slyter gnee Therien), a
daughter.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26

TELEPHONES FOR RAILROAD - Norfolk.
Va. Nov 25.-The New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk railroad, owned by the Pennsylvania
railway, will at once install the telephone sys-
TEN of dispatching trains, thus eliminating the
old telegraph method.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
BOARD HAS LAUGH
. ON HEALTH OFFICER
DR.. Br0derick Recommends the
Dredging of Channel When
Work Is Hall Done
Contract Is Signed With Gray
Brothers for Building Sec
ton of the SeawaII

An odor disag greeable and probably
unhealthful arises from that part of
the harbor known as the channel This
has long been suspected. The suspicion
received official confirmation yesterday,
when Health officer r. G. Broderick.
in communication to the board of
harbor commissioners. said that the
odor had been the subject of com
plant to the board of health.
He, as health officer, suggested to
the harbor commissioners that dredg-
ing the channel from Third street to
Seventh would improve conditions and
he hoped that the board would give
the matter its early attention.
The health officers ultimatum was
received with degree of hilarity out
of keeping with its solemn earnestness.
The reason for the smiles was evident
few minutes later when Secretary
Thorpe read a communication from
Engineer Ralph Barker which contained
the information that j. S. McAnany, to
whom some time ago was awarded the
contract for dredging the channel from
Third street to Seventh had now COM
pleted 43 per cent of the work He
read another communication from the
board of supervisors to the effect that
the city was ready to pay So 900, it's
share of the work of dredging, 43 per
cent of which was completed at the
time Health Officer Broderick discov-
cred the smell and suggested the
remedy.
CONTRACT AWARDED
The contract for building the new
chief wharfinger's Office was awarded
to Frank Gallagher. His bid was
s3.4S9. The California traffic associa-
ton applied for the use of the board
room in the ferry depot from until 3
O'Clock on the afternOOn of Dacahnhor.'
but the request was not granted on the
ground that it would create a prece-
dent which would lead to numerous
similar requests from other private
associations.
The board passed a resolution for
bidding the use of kerosene lamps in
offlees located on state wharves and
instructed the chief wharinger to see
that 1T was strictly enforced.
A contract was signed with GRAY
Brothers for the construction of section
IL of the seawaIl.
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Freirht fo GoIdneId

day freight service (refrigerator) to
5oldneid and Toaopah via Southern Pa
dic and Tonopah & Golddeld r. r
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26

Murphy, Elizabeth S. I
0'Keefe. Anna -. 73
Power. Stena A.
Schultz, Frederick E. ,
Smith, Edward fInfant)
Stratton, Cornelia A. II
Viereekt. Conrad -. so
Wall. Harry 1900. l5
Young Mems Catholic
Union ...... (Massl
Zelaya. Victor -. 4S
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WHAT wINToN SIZES HAVE DONE

.H /. Owesney. manager Of the local
branch Of the Winton motor carriage
company. in speaking of the New Win
ton Six, said:
"A year ago, If you believed what
they said, the six was a freak and ex-
pertinent: today many of them are
making skies, others are claiming six
cylinder advantages, and still others
are quietly, but actively. getting ready
TO place skies on the market. And IL
any doubters Of six cylinder superiority
remain in the four camp. we wish they
would make themselves heard This
unanimity OF six cylinder enthusiasm
IS actually monotonOus."
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
LATEsT IN ATTO FITTINGs

The latest fittings for the motor car
OF the touring and limousine type are
noWer holders. This latest addition is
10 please the women who are so fond
OF flowers that they like to have tben
even when in their automobiles The
holders are graceful little cornuconias
with circle Of silver at the ton and
bottom, from which the two attaching
brackets project Their form is such
that they may be partly filed viii
water without danger Of stopping over
on rough roads, and their taper at tba
bottom makes it possible to force tbe
flowers in so that they viii not fan out
with the motion Of the car.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-26
AUTOISTS TABOO
FLASHY COLORS
In Accordance With Popular De-
mand, New Models Are
Subdued in Tone
Sporty and Freak Machines Are
Rapidly Losing Favor With
the Public
By r. K. PHommedieu

The models Of the 1909 motor cars
that have arrived in the city bear an
object lesson. The ears have been
brought out in refined finish. The
gaudv painted vehicle of the first years
Of the automobile have faded from
view. The red devils. white ghosts.
green dragons and like names for the
modern vehicle, which were popular
few years ago. do not meet with favor
now.
There is a reason for all this, and
II is to be found in the fact that the
automobile has passed the sporting
stage and has now taken its position
with the conveyances of the times. 1t
is 10 1909 what the OK and man drawn
vehicle was to the ancient city Of MINI
rod. the chariot TO the Pharaohs and
caesar, Lord Brougham's vehicle and
The stage coach of the early days Of
ihis century. The automobile has be-
come the private vehicle of those who
are financially able TO enjoy its pleas
ures The quiet coloring is in keep
ing with the carriages Of those who
keep up stables.
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Apprentice allowance.
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SECOND HAND CARS
AUTO CLEARING HOUSE .Is R.,Is 5.:sIe IN

WHITE THE WHITE co.. 137 HAYES st.
VIII l. JSS 18th ST., Oak. Tel. Market 17on.
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Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

<>T OOK here. Foulds." said an
operating official of the South
I ern Pacific. IT know you have
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By Frank 6. Carpenter


kills the sheep. This grass has a sharp
point. with barbs extending down toward
the ground. When it gets into the
Sleeps wool 1t works its way through the
skin, and finally goes through the sheep,
just as a needle is said to travel through
the human body IL 1t is once inside it.
This grass kills the sheep. but it is not
Injurious to cattle.
So far the chief towns in northwestern
Rhodesia are; Broken Hill. Kaloma and
Livingstone. Broken Hill is a mining set
Element Kaioma has been until recently
the seat of government and it consists of
the administrative offices, few tin shan
ties and the seat of q branch of the
Standard Bank of South Africa. Living
stone is a small settlement near Victoria
Falls. 1t contains some offices, half
dozen stores and hotel which is patron
lied by few OF the white settlers of
southern Rhodesia during the hotter
months of the year. Northwestern
Rhodesia has all told less than 1000 white
settlers.
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The African transcontinental telegraph
line has been extended northward as far
as Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, SO that
one can now send a message via the
Cape to the heart of mid-Africa. There
are telegraph lines running from the Med
iterranean southwark almost to Uganda,
and within a short time there will be
iron wires reaching from one end of the
continent to the other.
Northern Rhodesia.
During the past few weeks I have been
travelling through Barotseland in north
ern Rhodesia. I am surprised at the ex-
tent of the country and its possible re,
sources. Our general idea of Central
Africa is that it is a low jungle in
fected with fever. The truth is that a
vast part of the continent is high and
healthy. Algeria and Morocco at tho
north have as good climate as Italy
Abyssinia is as healthful as almost any
part of Europe. A large part of British
East Africa consists OF plains which are
more than a mile above the sea, and
the same is true of parts of German
East Africa. The most of southern Rho
desa is high, and so is a great part of
the region from there down to the Cape
of Good Hope.
The land between the Zambesl and the
Kongo watershed is composed of high
plains with the Kafue valley running
through them. l rode for 800 miles and
more over open grassy plateaus spotted
here and there with low trees and brush
wood. Nearly everywhere the land seems
fitted for cattle, and l am told that there
are parts of 1t where the natives keep
them in large number. One of the dan
gers is the tsetse fly which kills the
stock, but 1t may be that this can be
wiped out by quarantine and other ways.
In southern Rhodesia and in parts of
northern Rhodesia there is spear head
ed plant known as assegai grass which
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How their old workings i'm south
ern Rh0desia are being reopened
Copyright, 1908. by Frank G. Carpenter)
tall

Copyright, 1908, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Bulawayo.
HID the gold of King solomon's
temple come from Rhodesiaf
49, Some noted psychologists claim
that it did. There are mighty ruins here
in Matabeleland which are said to nave
belonged to the ancient miners, and IN
Mashonaland are the ruins of Zimbabwe
which may have been built by the very
men who dug out that gold. All over Mat
abeleland and Mashonaland I find the re-
mains of ancient workings, and the gold
mines which are in operation today con-
sst chiefly of the deepening OF the ex-
cavations of the past Last year more
than 100000 worth of ore was taken
out of this part of Africa and something
like s4o0oO,O0o worth has been mined since
tie country was opened up. This is far
north OF and entirely apart from the great
mines of the Transvaal, which are now
yielding more gold than any other mines
of the world, The workings there are
ON a gigantic scale. Here the mining con-
ssts of many hundreds of small PROPOSE
tions and 1t is chiefly the development OF
the deposits. discovered by the unknown
races of the ancient past.
The miners are now looking for the old
workings, and they find that the ancients
usually abandoned their diggings when
they had gone down only 40 feet or so.
They had crude ways of reducing the
ore and some of the waste on the old
dumps is being worked over. l saw one
shaft near here which had been cleaned
out and extended, and the miners of to-
day are now continuing the work of the
men of thousands of years ago.
am told that nearly all of the old
reefs, as they are called. grow better as
they go downward They are mostly
made up of low grade ore, but such that
1t can be worked with small stamps.
Much of the gold is fine milling, and 1t
takes but little machinery to work it.
have seen mills which have only three
stamps each, and there are many which
are worked by couple of white men and
a dozen or more natives.
Kinq SoIomon's Mines.
There is considerable evidence that
King Solomon got his gold from South
Africa. When Vasco da Cana first made
his way around the Cape of Good Hope
he found that the natives Of Sofala,
port in Portuguese East Africa, below the
mouth of the Zambesi. had gold which
came from the northwest, and probably
Rhodesia We know that gold was be-
ing taken out Of Africa hundreds Of years
before that time. and 1t is said that much
of the treasure of the ancient Romans
was brought in from this region. 1t is
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Ancient Way of Collecting Fees.

From the Chicago News
Old-time barristers in England did not
openly receive fees for their services.
An early method of collecting fees was
the pocket which in medieval times a
barrister used to have pIased in the
back of his gown, into which the solicit
tor would surreptitiously slip the fee.
The pocket has long since disappeared.
but the services OF barrister are still
supposed 10 be honorary. and by the
unwritten yet despodo law of the pro-
fession he must not sue for his fees.
He has however. some compensation in
being permitted to demand cash IN adj
vance, and when once briefed In case
etiquette allows him to pocket the hon.
orarium whether he is able to appear
for his client or not.
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ruins at Mombo are almost as interest
ing as those of Zimbabwe.

ruins at Mombo are almost as interest
ing as those of zimbabwe.
The Temples of zimbabwe.
The remains at Zimbabwe lie about
100 miles from Salisbury and between
200 and 500 miles from Bulawayo. They
consist of a great temple. some large
Notifications and an acropolis which
is supposed to have been in existence
when the mines were In full operation.
South of the temple are steps which
led to gold smelling furnaces and
caves, and in. the museum here at
Bulawayo they show crucibles which
were found there and which belonged
to these ancients. Some of the cruel
bles have the gold still in them, and
there are other relics which show the
old methods of gold working. There
are also sheets Of fine gold which
came from Zimbabwe. links of gold
wire no thicker than thread. and
an ingot of solid gold about an inch
long and a fourth of an inch thick.
The ingot seems to have been piece
of the money of those. days. There
were also copper chains, beautifully
made, and ingots of tin, although so
far no tin deposits have been discov-
cred near by.
The Zimbabwe ruins are on the high
plateau of Mashonaland, about two-thirds
of a mile above the sea. They are con-
nected with other ruins which run the
whole length of the western side OF the
Sabi river and are in almost all cases
within a short distance of quartz reefs
containing gold. At zimbabwe itself
the ruins cover a large area. There Is
great temple $50 feet long, the wall Of
which at one point is rs feet high and Is
feet thick at the base. This wall is made
up of small blocks Of granite, with uni
form facings. laid up dry. The stones
fit so closely that there is comparatively
no vegetation upon the ruins; it was
made without mortar or cement. This
Is SO Notwithstanding the floor is of a CO.
ment of powdered granite. There are
two round towers in the Enclosure, which
seem to have been erected as monuments.
They are solid, and the largest one is
thirty-five feet high. The rest of the cir
cuar building is divided up into smaller
Enclosures, and some scientists say that
the whole bears evidence of having been
used by people like the Phoenicians.
The remains of another temple have
been found not far from this, although
little more than the cement floor existed
when the excavators uncovered them.
The floor was supported by under walls.
In its center was an altar made of small
granite blocks and under the altar were
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known that the Arabians controlled for
years a large part of the east African
coast, and much Of the gold supply which
was poured into Egypt came through
them. Some of the ruins here resemble
those of the Sabaeans, an old Arabian
nation, and It is thought that they may
have been built by Sabaean miners in the
days of King Solomon. The records of
history as far back as 100 years before
Christ cite the wealth of the sabaeans.
and there is an Assyrian inscription,
dated b. c. 1888. which speaks of Arabia
as furnishing a rich tribute of gold. sill
yer and incense. Arabia has practically
no gold itself and its treasure must have
come from other countries.
AS to the enormous amounts which
were sent to Egypt the excavations all
along the Nile valley have produced
many gold ornaments, and the museums
of the world contain relics of the golden
jewelry found in the mummy Baskets
from the tombs of the kings. While I
was In Egypt few months ago visited
the great temple of Dahr-el-Bahari, in
the desert mountains, near the site of
ancient Thebes. On that temple there
are pictures showing how, about 100
years before Christ the land of Punt was
conquered by the Egyptians, and how
they brought back ebony, ostrich feath-
ers and the skins of leopards. lions and
CRATES, as we'll as elephants tusks and
ingots of gold. All these things coma
from Rhodesia and 1t may be that It
Ia nf nj hal y,
tians made an expedition here, 1t is also
said to be the land of Ophir, to which
King Solomon and Hiram of Tyre sent
out parties who brought back gold
The Ruins Of khamI.
Before I describe the remains of the
famous temples at Zimbabwe in Ma
shonaland want to tell YOU about
the ruins of Khami, which lie within
~ miles of this city of Bulawayo, and
which any one may reach by horse.
bicycle or automobile. They are right
on the edge of river, surrounded
by hills in which are troops of balloons.
There are antelopes. lemurs and SPUR
rels among the rocks. and there is
no sign of mans habitation nearby.
The remains of the walls of the anci-
emit buildings can be seen in many
places. They are composed of granite
blocks, some OF which are laid Ito
gether in q checkerboard pattern. The
houses of these ancients were circu-
lar, and they seem to have been
formed by a granite paste which was
hardened by burning. There are the
remains of other circular buildings
between this city and Gwelo; and the