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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
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TRANSPORT SKIPPER
Tells Mariner How to Steady
Ships in Gale and Reports Him
When Advice Is Ignored
.Abercromble.

Lieutenant Colonel William r. Aber-
crombie of the Twenty fifth infantry
is known in the army as something
of a sailor. The marine world, how
ever, accepts him as soldier and has
only an indulgent smile for the colo
ners nautical accomplishments. One
master mariner. however, was com
PEELED the other day to face the music
of a Bellinger roast as the price of
smiling at one of the military mans
nautical suggestions. Thereby hangs
the tale of the. latest mixup in the
army transport service.
1t happened on the last voyage home
of the Buford. Captain Hall is master
of the transport and Colonel Aber-
crombie was the ranking officer among
the passengers. In his youth Colonel
Abercrombie served a brief apprentice
ship as a cadet in the Pacific Mail serv-
ice. He laid down the tarbrush and
marlinspike after a few months for
the tools of Mars. In nautical phrase
he swallowed the anchor" and was
entered at West Point as a military
cadet. That brief experience on the
bounding main. however, made a per-
manent impression on Abercrombie and
to this day his brother officers listen
almost with reverence when Aber-
crombie holds forth on such subjects
as cardboard strokes. stu'nsI booms,
goose winged topsails, sea anchors,
skysail yards and Mother Carey's
chickens.
The Buford ran into some heavy
weather and was pitching and rolling
uncomfortably for those on board when
the colonels brother officers appealed
to him as q nautical expert to do
something to ameliorate conditions
Captain Hall, the unseasick brute, was
standing on the bridge apparently en-
joying the transports gambols and an
appeal 10 him seemed like wasted ef-
fort.
The colonel rose to the occasion and
ordered Captain Hall to set sail and
thus steady the ship. Now all the sail
the Buford could carry as an aid to
steadiness would be about as effective
as an attempt to flag Mars with a
handkerchief, as the Buford's masts
are little more than derrick posts
Captain Hall received the coloneps
suggestion with the tolerant smile that
seafarers reserve for landlubberIy fool
ishness and the Buford rode out the
storm with naked spars.
Shortly after Captain Hall had turned
down the colonels scheme for steadv-
ing the ship the Buford gave an extra
heavy roll, which unshipped a stack or
two of army crockery and sent If
smash to the deck.
IF my advice had been taken" the
colonel said, that accident would have
been averted." When the Buford ar
rived Colonel Abercrombie made off,
cial complaint of Captain. Halls con-
duct to Colonel Bellinger. superintend-
ent of the transport service. Being
only civilian master mariner Captain
Hall could not be court martialed, but
he was ordered before the superintend-
ent and is said to have spent a bad
quarter of an hour explaining to a
colonel who didn't understand why the
suggestion Of a lieutenant colonel who
didn't know was of no practical use
on the bridge of a steamer during
mid Pacific storm.
Hall was found not guilty, but was
reprimanded, it is said, and warned not.
to do it again
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
PRIMA DONNA WILL
sing HERE SUNDAY
Nine. Lillian Nordica to Render
Wagnerian Opera and Great
Composers Songs

Nine. Lillian Nordica's first concert
next Sunday afternoon promises to be
brilliant event socially and artisti-
cally. The sale of seats will open this
morning at Sherman, Clay & Co.'S
stores, and Manager Will Greenbaum
says that there has peen a heavy ad-
vance demand for reservations from out
of town music<lovers as we'll as local.
The great American prima donna will
sing at only two public concerts in this
city and one in Oakland. Her local
appearances will be at the Van Ness
theater next Sunday afternoon and on
the following Sunday, December 13.
The Oakland concert will be given at
Ye Liberty theater next Tuesday night.
A program ranging from the dramatic
music of Wagnerian opera to the songs
of the great composers will be given
next Sunday afternoon. Instrumental
numbers by Nine. Nordica's associates
will lend variety to the offerings.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
CHARGED WITH
STABBING HER HUSBAND
Accused of Allowing Wounded
Man to Lie Uncared For
Two DAYS

Mrs. Ada Mccormick was booked at
the city prison yesterday by Policeman
Bolton on charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. 1t is alleged that dur
ing a quarrel with her husband. Jo-
seph, at 16 Vulcan street. Saturday
night she stabbed him in the left thigh
and left him without care or food until
Monday night when the landlord dis
covered his plight and notified the po-
lice, who sent him TO the central emer-
gency hospital. The woman says the
wound was caused by an accident.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR
BURGLARY AFTER PAROLE
Judge Cook Sends Charles Hogan
to Prison for Ten Years
After Confession

AS a warning tos the many first Of
tenders who are now at liberty on pro-
baton Judge Cook yesterday imposed a
10 year sentence on Charles Hogan, who
broke his parole. A year ago Hogan
and three others held up and robbed the
Orpheum electrician.
Two of the defendants were sent to
the reform school, while Hogan and one
other were allowed their freedom upon
promising to report to the probation Of
flcer.
Hogan reported regularly for two
months and then neglected the formal
ity. He has since admitted completely
in IL burglaries in Oakland and San
Francisco. The 10 year sentence i'm
posed is the limit for grand larceny.
Buy your Sachet Powders for perfuming your
Christmas presents at Edwin Val Schmidt, drug
store, cor. California and Fillmore sts
TO IMPROVE SOLDIERS HoME-Los Ange-
les Dec. S.-Improvements costing 100000 are
TO be made on the national soldiers home near
Santa Monica during the ensuing year.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
Lathan's Case Continued

At the request of the district attor-
ney the case of A. S. Latham, Abe
Ruers chauffeur, charged with accept
ing bribe of 81 900 not to appear as
a witness at the trial of Tirey L. Ford
last January. was yesterday continued
by Police Judge Cabaniss until Decem-
Der 81, owing to the absence of a ma
terial witness The Judge in view of
the fact that Latham had been indicted
by the grand jury on bonds of $4,000,
which he had been unable to secure,
released him on his own recognizance,
with the consent of the district attor-
ney.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
AN IMPORTANT ISSUE.

In the speeches Of Mr.. Bryan and in
the utterances of the democratic press
it is easily discernible that the lower
ing of the tariff to practically free
trade basis, or a tariff that will in
no sense be protective. but for rev
enue only" will be the policy of Mr..
BRYAN if he souhld be elected presi-
dent of the Uuited States. For more
than hundred years the pro-
tective tariff has been an issue in pol
itical campaigns, hut during the past
three or four presidential elections
following the disastrous results of the
Wilson low tariff bill, enacted dur
ing the last Cleveland administration,
the democracy has not dared to ap-
peal to the voters upon policy
proposing to abolish protective tariff
system.
There never has been spot on earth
where ideal conditions have been Sc
cured. But the best conditions on earth
for men, women and children have
been secured here in the United States,
and the best conditions here have
been through the years when we had
a wisely adjusted protective tariff
policy, enacted by the republican par
ty. The tariff is practical business
policy and not mere formula. After
observing it and criticising it for more
than a hundred years the leading
statesmen of every country on the
globe approve Of its beneficial results
in providing work for the laDorer at
good wages and the best market on
earth for the products of the farm.
Conditions change and the schedules
of the present tariff require re-adjust-
ment to meet the new conditions and
this the REPUBLICAN party through its
national platform utterances and the
personal promise of it's candidate for
president stand pledged to make, but
the changes should be made along pro-
tective lines and not free trade lines
if we were to continue the unexampled
prosperity which we have been enjoy
ing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
OBLIGATIONS Of Civil war.

Money Indebtedness is not the only
obligation we incurred and assumed
in the great civil war. There was q
still greater debt. an everlasting obi
CATION that could never be paid in full.
But in the years that have followed,
the Republican party has inaugurated
and developed pension laws under
which over three and one-half billion
dollars have been paid to disabled
veterans or to the survivors of those
who gave their lives for their country
and their flag. This pension system,
product of the policy of the Republican
party, has no precedent in history and
no equal in justice and generosity
among the nations of the earth.-Hon.
James S. Sherman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16

The movement in the right direc-
tion so far as business conditions are
concerned, especially noticeable during
the past thirty days, has not lessened
in the least. Preparations for fall trade
show degrees of energy and activity
not equaled before since the trade
trouble began Business affairs ara
moving back to the better conditions
of a recent year in a conservative.
careful way. but they are moving back
and the movement is steady and sure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
MADISON WON BOTH
GAMES FROM LOCALS
CContinu ed from First Page.)


were steady as clock and many hit
was spoiled by their stellar fielding.
All of the players hit we'll an no
pitcher worked against them without
learning before the close of the game
that our batters were all there with
the goods. 1t is very doubtful wheth-
er any town could boast of a cleaner
team on or off the diamond.
In departing from Lancaster, every
one of the boys leaves many friends
behind him Most of the
players will probably spend the win
ter at their homes ;Hauser and Katz in
Chicago, Madden and Palmer in Du
buque where the latter is a student in
st. Joseph's College, Ames in Shelby,
Mich Friend in Elkader, Iowa and
Piddington in Georgetown this coun
ty. Aheln and Gleghorn will take up
their work in Armour Institute and
Beloit Colleges respectively. Pen
mock the local boy will probably be
at home. When the season opens again
next year some of the players may be
seen in faster company. Hauser and
Ames have already signed conracts,
the former with Cedar Rapids. in the
Three l League. and the latter in
the Pacific Coast League. Any one
or all of the others may possibly play
with Lancaster. Hats off to the
champions and here's hoping that
wherever they may be located they
will make good. They certainly have
in Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16

People who have fears that Taft
as president might repudiate the
Roosevelt policies or permit them to
lapse should read his article in Col.
lier's. In it he says it remained for
Roosevelt "to prove how the people
will respond to strong and true lead
ership when the hour has come for
great reform and that "the policies
which he inaugurated must be con-
tinued aud developed Later, re-
ferring to this. Taft adds: They are
right, and they are the policies of the
people. For that reaon his successor
may we'll disregard any charge of
lack of originality if he does not make
an entirely new program of his
own.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
TAFT COMES FROM GOOD STOCK.
Family Ranked Among the Plain
People for Many Years.

EO0p19 Tor many Tears.
The Tafts-those who at present arc
the Tafts-hail ancestrally from Tx
bridge Mass. They say that Tafts are
SO thick in Uxbridge that even a wom-
an can't throw a stone without hitting
one.
Some years ago-in 1874, to be exact
there was a Taft reunion in Tx
bridge, to which descendants Of the
original Robert Taft came focking
from all parts of the country. One of
the conspicuous features of the affair
was a historical address by AlphonsO
Taft, father of the present Republican
candidate. He traced the history Of
various branches Of the family, and
when he came to the one to which he
and his children belonged he said
"Our family have not embarked much
upon national politics, except that they
have shared in the battles of the cOun-
try when national independence was
to be won, and also when the Union
was at stake. But brilliant political
careers have not been characteristic of
the Tafts in the past. 1t is not safe to
say what may be in store for them.
There is a tide in the affairs Of men
and also Of families"
This is taken from the account Of
the reunion published at the time. Al
phonso Taft would perhaps have been
somewhat daZzied if he could have fore
seen how quickly and brilliantly the
family would proceed to embark upon
national politics." He himself started
the turn. of the tide which he predict
ed. It seems to be reaching its flood
in the career Of the son who that year
was entering Yale.
AS AlphonsO Taft described his i'm
mediate ancestors one sees where his
son got certain characteristics. Peter
Taft (1715) was "a large, cookbook
ing man of magnanimous disposition"
He had four SONS.
Aaron, the candidates ancestor, was
also so maSnanimous that ne lost
money by indorsing a friends notes;
he was a man "of great intelligence
and integrity And then, going some
what further back, there was Captain
William Taft, who took Barney Cas-
tie in the sixteenth century "by blair
ney quite as much as by military
prowess." Good stock was Captain
William from which to make a TWEEN
tieth century Secretary of War Will
liam.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
REPUBLICAN, HcKET.

For President
WILLIAM H. TAFT of Ohio.
For Vice President
JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York.
For Senator
ISAAC STEPHENSON
For Governor
JAMES o. DAVIDSON
For Lieutenant Governor
JOHN STRANGE
For Secretary of State
JAMES A. FREAR
For State Treasurer
ANDREW Fl. DAHL
For Attorney General
FRANK L. GILBERT
For Commissioner of Insurance
JAMES +. ABB SOFT
For Congressman. 3rd Dist
AR HUR w. KOPP
For State Senator. 10th Dist
JOHN ] BLAINE
For Mem DER of the Assembly, End Dist
HENRY E. ROETHE
Fo- County Clerk
CHARLES E. TUFFLEY
For County Treasurer
WILLIAM ID. BURR
For Sheriff
JAMES NJ. HAROLEROAD
For Clerk of Circuit Court
GEORGE w. BARROWS
For District Attorney
GEORGE ID. CLEMENTSON
For Register of Deeds
THOMAS S. METCALF
For County Surveyor
ARTHUR w. APPLEBY
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
HOW TAFT WAS SOUGHT BY
r--z- v7ne'o M'KINLEY.
The Manner in Which the Republi-
can Candidate Was Called to .
Larger Sphere Of Action.

The Manner in Which the Republi-
can Candidate Was Called to .
Larger Sphere Of Action.
One afternoon early in 1900, when
Judge William H. Taft was debating
q decision of the United States Court
in the Federal Building in Cincinnati
a telegram was placed in his hands
He tore off the envelope and was sur
prised to find a telegram from Presi-
dent William Mckinley, reading:
81 shall take it as a great favor if you
will call on me some time next week"
Judge Taft guessed at the meaning
of the summons and guessed wrong.
He went to Washington and was shown
into room at the White House, where
he met the President and Secretary
Long of the Navy. Later, Elihu Root,
the Secretary Of War, came in. Then,
to use Mr.. Taft's own words:
'NIr. Mckinley said that he wanted to
send me to the Philippines to help in the
work Of establishing civil government as
place on the bench and hesitated. Be
sides, l believed and said we could get
along without the Philippines.
"'But we have them and must take
care Of Them the President replied.
You are at the turning of the ways
in your life, Mr.. Root then observed
The bench is the easy road You can
stay there and be comfortable. On the
contrary, the Philippines will demand per-
sonal sacrifices and risks and much hard
work, but you will have an opportunity
of doing your country very great ser
vice [ went home, and argued the mat
ter for two weeks
The telegram to Cincinnati opened
the door of American history to VIII
liam HI. Taft and made him the Repub-
Iican candidate for President of the
United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
From the Baltimore American.

exceptions to cover such cases, and we
have learned that it is equally binding
az to what it omits."
/ If we could imagine such crude
prohibition to be enacted into law, and
to be regarded as valid, what would be
the effect? Mr.. Bryan, with his usual
readiness, suggests that the concern
not needed to produce the amount al
lowed by law. He speaks as though
every manufacturing concern had as
many fully equipped units of produc-
ton as would correspond to any given
percentage Of trade which it might be
required to lOp off. Plants are not so
easily dismembered. Reduction in out
put means reduction in work, reduction
in the number of men employed and
curtailment of the efficiency Of a going
concern. Let us suppose a concern
which controls so per cent of a given
product-that is to say, makes and
sells $S,0CO,GOO in value out of a total
trade in the product amounting to $1O,-
100000. Is it to be compelled to reduce
it's output to 100000 because only
Then, if it could sell n part of it's plant
on Mr.. Bryan's theory, what should it
sell? Should it sell off enough to re-
duce its capacity to $5,000,000, and
allow three-ffths of it's plant to remain
idle until others developed a capacity
Should it assume that the total trade
will increase and is not always to re-
main at $1O,0G0,00O, and hence retain
a larger portion Of it's plant in idle
ness? Or suppose a concern controls
100 per cent of the trade in some arti-
Gle, what plants shall it retain? 1t
can produce nothing until others pro-
duce; but it may produce an amount
equal to the production Of others, and
it hopes the trade will grow. What
vision Of business uncertainty and con-
fusion, of idle and impaired plants, of
the ruin of workingmen whose lives
have clustered around particular indus
tries and who depend upon their con-
tinued effici ncy, is presented by this
fanciful remedy for the destruction of
trusts!
Apart from this, if the dissolution
were effected in the manner desired
and portions of plants could be sold
and were sold as suggested, to whom
would the sale be made? Would it be
necessarily to foes or to those ambi-
tious to be competitors and anxious to
take advantage of It's plight?
This proposal in its utter disregard
Of the facts Of business, in its substi-
tuition Of the phantasies Of the imagin-
alton for the realities of life stamps
the Democratic platform with the fatal
stamp of 1896. The commerce and in
4ustry Of this country, the interests of
it's wage earners and of it's interdepend-
ent masses, who must rely upon the
stability of business, cannot afford to
give license to such vagaries.
In the solemnity with which this
proposal has been declared, and the in
sistence with which it is advocated, we
find an appropriate test of the capacity
of our opponents to deal wisely with
the problems Of the day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16

Colonel Bryan laments the "discrimi-
nation that has been going on against
the farmer" in electing so few tillers
Of the soil to Congress and the Senate.
What troubles him chiefly, however, is
the discrimination which the whole
American nation exercises against a
certain farmer of Lincoln, Neb.. in de
dining to elect him to the White
House.-New York Tribune,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
a Grand RECORD.

The Republican party is not only
rich In men, but rich in practical and
beneficial principles is rich too in
its record, in promises performed and
pledges fulfilled, and so we are for
party and party principles first and
will acquiesce in the choice Of the ma
iority, ralIying around the standard
bearer who will carry US again to vic
tory.-Hon. James S. Sherman.
Mr.. Bryan might make hit in the
Rocky Mountain States by proposing
federal guaranty of mining stock de
posts Omaha Bee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16
A Wolf at the sheepfoId.

Notable among the evils of street
life for children is the growth of gam
bling among boys. Do parents realize
that these boys are one and all on the
road to a criminal life? The removal
Of this evil may well enter into the
program of the Federation of Catho-
lie Societies The Pilot
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-16

paid to catch deposits and great risks
taken in loans in order TO secure 10 or
10 per cent returns
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-21
IS EXONERATED
BY THE PYTHIANS

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Exoneration
has come to John A. Hinsey of Chi
cago, who for seven years had been
fighting the supreme lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, which charged
him with mismanaging the funds of
the endowment rank. In 1901 it was
claimed that Hinsey, who is a special
agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul rairoad, had, as president OF
the board of control. badly invested
money belonging to the insurance
branch of the order until there was
deficiency of 100000.
AT the session OF the supreme
lodge in Boston last week. special
committee reported him not guilty
and he was restored to full member
ship.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-21
REFORM
WORK IN
TURKEY
SLASH MADE IN THE SULTAN'S
MILITARY HOUSE,
HOLD.
(By Associated Press.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 20.-
The work of reforming is making
considerable progress. The standing
of the sultan's military household has
been considerably cut down and the
number of his aides de camp is re-
duced from 200 to 1870. An trade
has been issued ordering imperial
princes to restore to the government
all crown properties they obtained
gratuitously through the sultan's
favor The arrears of the salaries of
military and civil administrations is
being steadily taken over by the gov
ernment, which received further ad-
vances amounting to $1,750,000 for
this purpose from the Tobacco reg
ime and Ottoman bank. The regime
already gives indications of favoring
in measure the emancipation of wo7
men, who will obtain greater freedom
in the matter of dress, appearances in
public and travel at home and
abroad.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-21
WOMAN SAYS She
WAS INTIMIDATED

RANDSBURG, CAL, Aug. 20
Fred F. Yockey, vice president of the
Randsburg local of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, who was arrested
in Los Angeles Sunday on a charge
of conspiring to blow up the pipeline
of the Yellow Aster mine last June,
was arraigned before Justice Cole
man of Mojave, and was held under
bonds of 800. to appear for exami-
nation on August 25.
Joe Coplan, also known as Nelson,
one of the private detectives who
brought the accusations against
Yockey, named as witnesses outside
of Randsburg Mrs. G. H. Clark, who
now declares that she signed the
charges at the point of revolver
held by Coplan; Mrs. Clark's mother,
! Mrs. Lindley, and the latter's son
and daughter, Arthur Lindley, and
Mrs. James Gray, all of Los Angeles,
Yockey was released on bond fur
nished by local citizens.
COPELAND was later made defendant
upon charge of selling liquor with
out a license.
The complaint was sent from
Bakersfield and was sworn to by 8
constable here.
No action was taken in the matter
Justice Coleman declining to take &C
tion until COPELAND is produced II
court.