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The San Francisco call., 1908-07-20
USE CALL WANT ADS
PROPOSALS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. United
states Reclamation Service. Washington ID. c.
May %, 1905. Sealed proposals will be received
Service at Orland. California. until 2 O'clock
D. m, August 2I, 1905. for the Construction or
East Park Dam, Spillway and Dfkes, located
about IL miles northwest from Sites, CoIusa
County, California, and involving the placing
OF about 49, 500 cubic yards Of concrete ana the
excavation OF about $500 cubic yards Of mate
rial. For further particulars address the United
States Reclamation Service. Washington ID. O.
SO7 Tilfovd Building. Portland. Oregon, or or.
land. California. JAMES RUDOLPH GAR
FIELD. Secretary.
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OFFICE Purchasing commissary. q. 5. Army.
fO06 North Point ST.. San Francisco, CAL July
90. i9OS.-Sealed proposals. in duplicate FOR
Furnishing and delivering on OF about August 20.
1905 subsistence stores in accordance with speei-
hcations and conditions set forth in Circular No.
T. War Department. Office Commlssary General.
washington. ID. c.. March 81 1908, will be re-
so 1905 and then opened. Information fur
ntshed on application. c. r. KRAUTHOFF.
Major. Commissary.
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MACHINES TO PICK HOPS

REDDING. July 19.-Machines will
take the place of hop pickers in the E.
Clemens Horst companys yards at Bo-
hemia, Tehama county. Last year be-
tween $50 and 800 pickers were en-
ployed. This year an equally large
crop will be harvested by five hop
picking machines and a few men.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-20

PROPOSALS for Dredging-U. S. Engineer
Office, 726 Chronicle Bldg, San Francisco, Cal,
July Il, 1905. Sealed proposals for dredging 10
Oakland Harbor. Cal, win be received here
until r. noon, August IA, 1908. Information on
application. JOHN BIDDLE. Lieut. Col. Engs.
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DEATH CALLS e. J. CRANE

Erwin ]. Crane died yesterday at the
advanced age of So. He was the father
cf Mrs Brace Hayden, a well known
society woman OF Oakland and the
wife OF the prominent hardware dealer.
Crane was a, native of New Jersey and
his remains will be taken east for
burial
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-20
UNITED STATES BRANCH
UNITED STATES BRANCH
STATEMENT
OF THE CONDITIONS AND AFFAIRS OF THE
North British and Mercantile
INSURANCE COMPANY

1F LONDON, ENGLAND, on the 31st day OF
December. A. D. 1907, and for the year end
ing on that day. Published pursuant 70 the
provisions OF Section 6I1 OF the Political
Code and compiled from the annual state
ment hled with the Insurance Commissioner
OF the State OF California.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
The Railroad Commission Grants
Application for Funds for
Additional Equipment
BONDS To Be REGISTERED
The Order Comes After Several Con
ferences in Which the Company
Contested the Report of
Property Valuation.

Austin, Texas, April 29-The
railroad commission yesterday morn.
ing granted the application of the
Trinity and Brazos Valley railway
company for authority to issue and
register bonds to the amount of ST.
3 3 . goo on additional construction
and equipment for the entire road OF
3O4.13 miles from league to Gle
burne and from Waxahachie to Hous-
ton. This application was granted
based on an additional $4,000 per
mile of completed road, and covers
the new equipment and improve
ments made on the road. The COM
pany did not get all it wanted in the
nature of bonds, as it applied for S =
665, 900. The bonds We're ordered
registered in the secretary of state S
department. which was done. This is
suance of this order is the result of
several informal hearings held by
the companys officials before the
commission, in which the company
contested the report of the valuation
of the property made by the commits
sion's engineer, R. A. Thompson.
This order of the commission is made
without prejudice to the rights of the
company to hereafter contest the
items of valuation in detail and in
the aggregate as found and reported
by the commission engineer, and
under the commissions order grant
ing the application, twenty days is
allowed the company in which it may
file any objection thereto itamay see
fit to do before it becomes final.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
CHOPS OFF HEAD WITH AN AXE
Chastly Murder Of Negro in Saline
County, Arkansas.

Little Rock, Ark, April 29.-What
was probably the most ghastly and
uncanny murder in the history of
Saline county occurred two miles
west of Hensley late Monday after
noon when Alex Brunson, negro,
killed Fred Afford, another negro,
by chopping off his head with an ak.
After seveTing Affords head from
the body, Brunson placed the head
on a block and hacked it into four
pieces. According to one report of
the killing Brunson then took the
brains out of the head and placed
them on a table, intending to feed
| them to his dog.
| After killing Afford, Brunson sat
lup all night over the body and was
still watching the body yesterday
morning when he was arrested and
| brought here. 1t is thought by many
that Brunson is insane. 1t is alleged
| that Brunson after killing Afford
| dragged the latter body around to
the front porch of the Brunson home
and, standing on the body, crowed
with joy.
| The two negroes, It is said, have
| been enemies for several years, and
upon several occasions each has tried
! to kill the other.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
COMMITTEES AT WORK.
Completing Details for Entertain
ment of Cone johnson.

The various committees appointed
to look after the entertainment of
Hon. Cone Johnson tomorrow are
busy at work completing all details
for the speaking which will take
place at the park auditorium at 2
clock. The ladies who are in charge
of the decorations are at work at the
auditorium this afternoon. Notwith-
standing the unfavorable looking
weather it is intended to carry out
the program as announced day or
two ago. Col. Tom Yates and j. B.
Wilson will be marshals of the day,
and will have immediate charge of
the parade.
Mr.. Johnson will reach here on a
special train over the Central to-
morrow morning about II O'Clock.
The entire reception committee is eX-
pected to be on hand to meet him.
The following have been selected out
of the reception committee to take
charge of Mr.. Johnson and conduct
him to the Rogers hotel: S. P. Skin
ner, O. A. Finley. ]. M. Patterson, j.
T. Gill, T. F. Thompson, G. R. Glib
son, c. M. Supple, G. w. Mcknight
B. F. James, H. d. Timmons, c. w.
Gibson, j. H. Miller, G. c. GrCce, w.
S. Kemble.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29

lots With two story building sold
this week for S105 600. This is only
a part of what these people have
built up in the last nineteen years.
and they started without q dollar.
This is the day to celebrate here,
and it would have done you good to
have seen the people. called the
S9rs" on their horses and with cook
ing outfit, and going through the
operation of stalking off the lots OF
course this is a dream, but it brings
back to memory many things of the
Fast.-as above referred to. Dud
Turner and | have been talking over
the past and our advent in the coun-
try west of the Mississippi river
which was in the days when you and
| came, and we have in our days
seen nearly all the country grow and
prosper, and millions of people oc-
cupy the lands. which we would not
have. But when | think of all that
has passed, and the great growth of
the country, | feel very thankful
that it is only life, and we have play
er our part as we saw it, and have
little to regret that we have passed
through the period, and believe we
can now testify that life is worth liv-
ing. Truly it has been a great show,
and the onward march of humanity
will achieve much yet, and then re-
main ignorant of the great future.
T. r. ANDERSON.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
OkLAHOMA'S ANNIVERSARY.
Col. L. r. Anderson Writes Of the
New States Early Days.

Col. T. R. Anderson sof Oklahoma
City writes Mr.. J. P. Kennedy, Sr.,
of Waxahachie, as follows under date
of April 22:
jhe circumstances and exhibitions
OF the day here cause me to involun-
tarily take little while to write you
a line. True we have not been in reg
ular correspondence for some time,
but that bothers not for the beauties
OF our lives are memories of the past.
This day nineteen years ago (only
19) Grover Cleveland caused to be
set for the opening of this country
to settlement by the white race, the
last, practically, lands of the former
owners of all North America,
the Indian" That was the day the
great run was made and the order
of the day was to take possession of
a piece of land, and this city was
made in one day town of 5000 peo-
pie, and through the various trials
had by the people, since marks the
many changes and experiences of life
We have a city of over two thousand
miles of side walk, twelve modern
free school buildings, high school,
three business colleges, and one uni
versity, three other colleges, one of
which has 400 rooms, about fifty
miles of the finest street railway,
about twenty-five churches, a demo-
|cratic-popcratie-prohibiton set Of
state officers, two hundred boot leg
gers and fifty other places where the
wine Of life may be had A 25-foot
lot Is worth $4,000 and two corner
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
SENATOR KNOX
QUAkERS CHOICE
Pennsylvania Delegation VIII Go
Instructed for the Fors1er
n
Attorney General
He MAY Be THE NOMINEE
His Friends Declare that He Has an
Equal Opportunity with Other
Candidates to Head the
National Ticket.

Washington, April 29.-What
| part Philander Chase Knox viii play
| in the latest comedy drama, TIE
Race for the White House" is today
the subject of much comment among
the solons of the national capital
That Senator Knox will receive the
Endorsement of the PENNSYLVANIA
state republican convention in Har-
risburg today and will go to Chicago
with the entire strength of the Quak-
Ter State delegation behind him is a
certainty. AS to whether this will
make him strong factor is a matter
regarding which there is much diff
erence of opinion. Fellow senators
/ there who firmly believe that Knox
has at least an equal opportunity of
securing the nomination for which
so many would-be candidates are
now striving vigorously. Others
look upon Knox's candidacy some
what in the light of a joke, declar-
ing that he has less chance of receiv-
ing the nomination than any other
man prominently mentioned and that
he could not possibly be elected if
nominated.
Senator Philander Chase Knox is
still comparatively young man. He
will celebrate his 55th birthday a
week from today, having been born
in Brownsville, Pa, on May 6, 1853.
He has been well described as a
small bullet-headed, round-faced
man with long upper lip, straight
jaw and heavy. square chin; dark
blue eyes, by turn twinkling or cold
and penetrating; a figure so short
20 nd at 70,
lessly clothed, so dapper. as to seem
boyish; passionless mind absorbed
in the practical business of life, with
slippered domesticity. golf and trot-
ting horses as his recreation
"A sawed-off cherub,' is a still
briefer description supplied by Pres
ident Roosevelt. Others have refer
red to him as Napoleon of state
craft" All agree that he is an able
man.
A month after Mr. Mckinley was
inaugurated as President Mr. Knox
entered upon the duties of Attorney
General of the United States. After
the assassination of the president
toward the end of the year 1901, Mr.
Knox, as we'll as the other Cabinet
Ministers, remained in the office al
/ Roosevelt's request, and until nearly
: the date of his appointment to the
| United States Senate it was the Penn
1 sylvanian's legal judgment which
steered the Roosevelt administration
/ through some of its most intricate
difficulties.
At his Washington home there is g
stately library on the first floor, but
the senator's particular den is in the
top story and is of about half the
| size of the other room Its walls are
lined with books, which, the majority
of which relate to legal
economic and political sub
ieots. In winter a fine wood fire is
kept burning in the wide chimney
| PLACE. In this room Senator Kno,
holds consultation with some of the
most important men in the fa aietetcG
republic, and there, too, he likes tC
chat in lighter vein with intimate
| friends.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
FEED HUNGRY
CLOTHE NAKED
Charitable People Are Quick to
Come to Relief Of the
Cyclone Sufferers.
SUBSCRIBE MUCH MONEY
Bulk Of This, 1t Is Intended, Shall Be
Devoted to Rebuilding Of the
Ruined Towns.-Food
In Plenty.

New Orleans, April 29.-Food in
plenty yesterday reached the torna
do sufferers in every part of Louisi-
ana and Mississippi, clothing and
cook stoves were supplied communi-
ties where the distress was the great
est and the relief committees here
aud in other cities were able to turn
their attention to the rebuilding of
some ruined towns. Instructions were
given to hold most of the money con-
tributed, of which there is now in
sight between S25,000 and $4,000,
until investigation showed how best
to aid in the rebuilding. Purvis,
Miss, the most needy of all the
stricken communities, furnished a
striking example of business pluck
yesterday when the Bank of Purvis
reopened. There was no roof over the
banking rooms, the safety deposit
vault was accessible by a path
through a hedge of debris, militia
guarded the building, and of the q
500 residents of Purvis, scarcely 700
remained in town, but nevertheless,
the bank announced that it was pre-
pared to pay out money and to re-
ceive deposits.
Preparations for accepting relief
offered by the federal government
went forward rapidly under the di-
rection of the governors of the de-
vastated states.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
A VALUABLE HEN.
Diamond Found in
the Fowls Gizzard.

Spokane, Wash, April 29.-This
is something about four ordinary
hens, representing an Investment OF
S3.4S, which yielded Mrs. j. f. Han
ifen, living at % Augusta avenue. a
clear profit of $50, besides supply
ing her family with roast chicken
and other delicacies for week.
While dressing one of the, hens Mrs.
Hanifen discovered a cut diamond OF
three-quarters carat in the birds giz-
zard, a jeweler placing a value of
$3.50 to 5000 on the stone. The hens
were raised in Spokane, Mrs. Hani-
fen buying them from neighbor
three months ago. Where the stone
came from is unknown. Mrs. Hani-
fen is of the opinion it came from a
bag of wheat, probably having been
dropped by one of the threshermen
working the Palouse district last fall
but there are others who believe it
was picked up in the street where
the hens were allowed to scratch.
Mrs. Henifen is making efforts to
find the owner of the gem, which is
clear and brilliant.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
MAJOR GENERAL HALL RETIRES
Goes on Retired List One Month AL
ter Attaining Rank.

Washington, April 80 Major
General Charles B. Hall, who attain
ed his present rank on March 27
when Major General Adolphus w.
Greedy left the service, was today
placed on the retired list of the Unit
ed States army, by operation of the
age limit.
General Hall is a native of Port
land, Me-, and entered the regular
army as asecond lieutenant of the
twenty-eighth infantry in 1867. He
was previously seen along service
during the civil war as secoud lea
tenant in volunteer infantry reei-
ment. For some time he has been
commandant of the Infantry and Ca
valry Training School at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
TOWN GOES DRY, MAYOR QUITS
Says Loss Of Revenue viii Cripple
the Citys Finances.

Mattoon, H., April 29.-Because
Mattoon was voted dry in the re-
cent local option election, Mayor
Lewis Lehman today resigned from
office. The retiring mayor is a bank
president. He is a believer in tenn
perance, but declares that he cannot
consistently continue to head the
city government, because of the al
legged fact that the loss of the S19,-
600 yearly revenue from the nine
teen ouste1 saloons will so cripple
the municipal finances as to render
the city bankrupt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
ROBBERS SECURE A BIC SUM
Rob Guards Of Money to Pay Miners
at West Virginia Plant.

Bluefelds, W. Va, April %
Four armed men yesterday held up
the guards who were conveying $1S,-
600 from Welch to Gary, w. Va, to
pay off the employees of the United
States Coal and Coke company, a
subsidiary company of the United
States Steel corporation.
The money had been shipped by
the Mcdowell County National Bank
at Welch.
There is no clew to the robbers,
but sheriff's posse is securing the
surrounding country.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
TO MEET CONE JOHNSON,
Tyler Speaker VIII BE Greeted by a
Large Reception Committee.

Hon. Cone Johnson, who is to
speak in this city tomorrow after
noon at 2 O'Clock, is due to arrive
here from Dallas about / o'clock in
the forenoon. He will come by the
way of Ennis and will travel from
that place TO Waxahachie on a spe-
cial train. Mr.. Johnson will be join
ed at Ennis by friends from Trum-
bull, Ferris and Palmer and by For
mer District Judge billiard of Kauf-
man. Quite number of Ennis people
will accompany the speaker here.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
Working County Roads.

Commercial club of this city has
made arrangements to get plows and
drags for use in the working of the
roads that lead to town. The Com
mercial club is in earnest and some
practical results are being secured.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
Phil Delta Phil Fraternity.

Iowa, City, Ia. April 29.-College
men from many states, including
some of the legal lights of the coun-
try. are the guests of the students
and faculty of the State University
of Iowa today at the national con-
vention of the Phil Delta Phil frater-
nifty. This fraternity has chapters in
law schools throughout the country.
The Delta Sigma Rho. a new frater-
nifty, will hold general meeting here
N Friday
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
Big Musical Event.

Prof. Fl. e. GoodseIl. director Of
the department of music, of Trinity
University, is planning for big mu-
sical event during commencement.
On the afternoon and evening of
June Mendelssohn oratorio, Eli
jah," will be rendered. Prof. Good
sell went to Dallas Wednesday morn
ing to engage a number of musicians
to take part in the orchestra.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
Convention in Vermont.

Burlington, VT, April 29.-Four
vote for Taft In the republican ma
tional convention, will be elected by
the Vermont state convention which
was called to order here early this
afternoon
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
knights of Security .

Columbus, O., April 29.-An i'm
pOrtant state convention of the
Knights and Ladies of Security in
Ohio was opened here today, with a
large number or members in attend
ance. Delegates will be selected to
the national convention of the order,
which will be held in Philadelphia
in June.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29

Teheran. Persia, April 29.-Dis-
patches were read in parliament yes
terday stating that the Kurds
around Urumiah, town of Persian
Armenia, had pillaged thirty-six viii
lagos and massacred 1000 people.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
To Protect Fish and Gar,e

Wheeling. w. Va, April 29.-To
discuss measures of further extend
ing the usefulness of the organza-
tion the West Virginia Fish and
Game Protective Association met
here today in annual convention.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
ROYAL Neiohbors Meeting.

The Royal Neighbols of America
will have regular meeting Thursday
night, April 30 Let all members be
present.
MRS. NJ. p. DUMAS, Recorder.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29
Kenominate Powers.

Bangor, Me-. April 29.-Hon
Lleweilyn Powers was renominated
by acclamation at the congressional
convention of the fourth Maine dis
trict, held in the city hall here to-
day.
Amador ledger., 1908-01-10
DIDN'T AsK ENOUGH.
The Lawyer Should Have Probed His
Witness a LittIe Deeper.

Witness a Little Deeper.
A small but distinguished company
Of English lawyers sat talking over
Old times. Among them was Mr.. S.,
who told the following story:
81 was retained" he said, by an ex-
soldier to sue for the recovery of f35
which he had lent to a friend. The
late Mr.. ]. was counsel for the de.
PENDANT. J. cross examined the plain
tiff in his usual forcible way.
"'You lent him the money! Mr.. j.
asked.
az did, sir
"Tt was your own money!
ait was, sir
"When did you lend him the mon.
eyY
"Tn July
"Whcre did you get that money,
sirY
"T earned it, sir
"You earned 1t, Ell? When did you
earn IT,
During the Boer war, sir he saif
in very humble tone.
"'You earned 1t during the B0ei
war? Pray what was your occupatlo,
during the warp Mr. j.. inquired.
Fighting, sir the man replied mod
estly.
"'Oh. hghtingv Mr.. j. said, some.
what taken down.
81 smiled triumphantIy. Mr.. j. was
very angry Well we went to the
jury, and |, Of course, had the last to
say. | sailed away to glory. l spoke
of the war, of the lives which it cost
us, of the awful battles which helped
to build up the glory of our nation, of
the self denial and bravery of our
men, who left home and wife and
children and father and mother and
everything that was dear to them and
went forth to the fight. I worked up
the jury and got verdict for the full
amount AS we were quitting the
courtroom Mr.. j. said:
IS, your war speech gained you the
verdict. If you hadn't discovered
through my cross examination that the
man had fought in the Boer war, you
would have been beaten
My friend replied, If you had
only asked the man which side he
fought on you might be going home
with verdict. My client served I'M
der the Boer flag"
Amador ledger., 1908-01-10
Clipped from our EXCHANGES
From Nearby Counties.

home was at Modesto, Stanislaus
county, where she has many friends.
After a wedding, breakfast, the young
couple boarded the train, bound for
their future home at Salinas, Mon.
terey county. One feature of the
wedding was the presence of the two
grandmothers of the groom, Mrs l.
b. Gregory, aged 81, and Mrs s. l..
Tubbs, aged 70, who gave their con
CALCULATIONS and good wishes to the
bride and groom. lone Echo.
Capt. II. A. Messenger, of Campo
Seco, is negotiating the sale of the
dredging land and ditch and water
system near Campo Seco, to r. l..
Harper of the GoldHeId Water and
Power Company. Angels Record.
A company is being formed for the
purpose of dredging the Stanislaus
river in tho neighborhood of Duck
Bar. This Is considered very rich
piece of ground, and would, no
doubt, pay good returns for the
capital invested in IA dredging outfit.
Angels Record.