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The San Francisco call., 1908-07-08
Total Hab11ueS -..-------..
INCOME

Net cash actually received for IRE
premiums -------------- :
Received for interest on bond and
mOrrgH geS ..----....-.--- --..-.-
Received from interest and diVi-
dends on bonds. stocks, loans
and from ali other sources. .---.
Received for rents -------.--.---
Received from reinsUring companies
Received from all other sources.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-08

Losses adjusted and uApaid ....-.
Losses in process OF adjustment or
II suspense -
Losses resisted. including expenses
Gross premiums on tire risks run
ming one year or less. Sl0.6Ib.-
4q3 50. reinsurance. 80 per cent.
Gross premiums on nre RISKS run
ming more than one year. Sl2.-
las, 1868. IA: reinsurance pro rata
Commissions and brokerage due OF
to become due ----------------
Return premiums ---------------
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-08
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14
GRAAlLXr~ ~GAID MZZAZE T0LzP

quested report upon the exact time
at which the advertisement was ac-
cepted. The clerk who received the
notice was finally located, and he re-
membered distinctly that he had
stopped work on that afternoon at
five o'clock; the ad which he had re-
ceived was the fifth or sixth above
the last one, and, according to his
own calculation, it must have been
handed in at half-past four o'clock.
This pointed to discrepancy in Cra-
hans statement of one hour and ten
minutes.
1t was important. 1t was the thin
entering wedge which might produce
great results.
One of the significant discoveries
among Crahan's effects was a number
of programmes of races at Gravesend
and two or three of the eastern tracks,
not to speak of one particular pro-
gramme which contained the entries
of the races where the first book
maker had received the $100 bill which
he deposited with his roll in the
Broadway Trust company. Graham
calmly admitted that he had attended
all of these races; that he was lover
of horse flesh and that he occasionally
made small wagers on the results; but
he denied positively having passed
any of the other S100 bills, and said
that he had never had them in his
possession until no found the white
envelope at the Union station in St.
Louis.
Wilkie did some very severe think
ing at this stage OF the game, and out
of 1t all came the theory that If
Graham was guilty, he might have used
similar subterfuges in passing coun-
terfeit money at the eastern tracks,
The chief thereupon telegraphed New
York and ordered that a careful
search be made of the files of all the
New York newspapers for the two
months covering the racing season.
1t was like searching for the needle
In the proverbial haystack, but it bore
fruit, for in the New York Herald of
May "a the searchers discovered this
advertisement:
Found: At the Grand Central station
late. yesterday afternoon sum OF
money In bank notes which owner may
have, after proving property, by ap-
plying to B-344, Herald Office"
1t is hardly necessary to say that by
this time Mr.. Wilkie had several spe-
cimens OF Crahan's handwriting. After
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

the officerb to any bank in the city OF
fishing his moral and financial stand
ing. Nothing, apparently, could be
more straightforward. He was placed
under arrest, however, and then the
secret service men made an eXamina-
tion of his room at the Southern hotel.
There they found a suitcase con-
tanning $4,000 in genuine money. He
was asked then to explain how he
came to be possessed of the counter
felt money. He said that on the pre-
vious afternoon he had gone to the
Union station for the purpose of hav-
ing the return half of his railroad
ticket validated. AS he came out of
the ticket agents office, the electric
lights were suddenly turned on in
the waiting room, and he saw in the
corner on the floor a long white en-
velope. He picked it up and found
that it contained $4,000 in $100 bills.
He Immediately went to the office of
one of the local newspapers and in
serted an advertisement telling of his
discovery, and offering to restore the
money to its lawful owner. This part
of his story was verified by the little
Identification check which is given to
classified "ad' patrons by the big daily
newspapers. In addition to this there
was a clipping from the paper contain
ing copy of the advertisement
which read as follows:
Found: In the Union station late
yesterday afternoon sum of money
in bank notes which owner may have
after proving property, by applying to
X-13, this Office"
Then John E. Wilkie, who had been
directing the movements of his sub
ordinates by wire, determined to take
hold of the case in person.
He immediately took a train for st.
Louis, and after a number of inter-
views with his associates in that city,
began to consider how to reach the
weakest link in the strong chain of
probability with which Mr.. Graham
was surrounded. One of the earliest
movements made in the investiga-
tion was to discover the exact hour
at which the electric lights were
turned on in the Union station. The
engineer of the electric plant was con
suited and his records showed that
on this particular date the switch
which put the lights into operation had
been turned on at $40. Wilkie next
sent to the newspaper office which
had printed the found "ad." and 70
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

the "ad." was located in the Herald,
records of the office and it was in the
handwriting of Marcus Graham.
The government was now in posses
sion of sufficient evidence to convict
Graham, both of passing and having in
his possession counterfeit money, but
the authorities did not know where
the plates were, and how the money
had been printed. The big problem
was to locate the plant, to pull it up
by the roots, and effectually stop the
circulation of these spurious notes.
The two men sat down together, and
Graham was given a breakfast that
would have delighted the palate, and
warmed the heart, Of the most con-
firmed epicure. 1t was topped off with
a fine Havana cigar, and then, this
formality having been disposed of, Mr..
WillSie proceeded to give Graham the
third degree" But this third de-
gree" so called, differed as widely
from the popular conception of the OPP
GRAFTON as the day differs from the
night.
Graham" said Wilkie, your con-
viction is as certain as that the sun
is shining this morning"
Wilkie followed this up by plausible
argument along the same line, and
always pausing long enough to permit
his words to sink into the mans
consciousness. The argus-eyed rep
resentative of the United States gov.
ernment knew by experience that
there is nothing in this world more
difficult for a man to do than to ad
NIT to another man that he has
been guilty of wrong. He realized,
therefore, the necessity of giving Cra-
han an opportunity of confessing
gracefully. He did this by sugges.
tion, by innuendo, by appealing to the
mans pride, by pleading with his pa
triotic instinct, and, at last, by laying
siege to his sense of justice. He said
in substances:
Graham, these notes are works Of
art, and 1t is great shame that a
man of your unusual talent should
have, in a moment of weakness, per-
mitted yourself to commit such fla
grant wrong against the public.
am sure, from what have seen of
you, that while you made the coun-
terfeits, you did not originally intend
to do 80. feel that in view of your
recognized ability, and the fact that
you are a student and enthusiast In
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

This sign Is permanently attached
to the front of the main building of
the Lydia e. Pinlzham Medicine
Company, Lynn, Mass.
What Does This Sign Mean?
1t means that public inspection of
the Laboratory and methods OF doing
business is honestly desired. Itmeans
that there is nothing about the bus
mess which is not "open and above
board"
1t means that a permanent invita-
ton is extended to anyone to come
and verify any and all statements
made in the advertisements of Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Is it a purely vegetable compound
made from roots and herbs = with
out drugs?
Come and See.
Do the women of America continu-
ally use as much of it as we are told ?
Come and See.
Was there ever such person as
Lydia e. Pinkham, and is there any
Mrs. Pinkham now to whom sick
woman are asked to writep
Come and See.
Is the vast private correspondence
with sick women conducted by
women only, and are the letters kept
strictly confidential?
Come and See.
Have they really got letters from
over one million, one hundred
thousand women correspondents?
Come and See.
Have they proof that Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
cured thousands of these women?
Come and See.
This advertisement is only for
doubters. The great army of women
who know from their own personal
experience that no medicine in the
world equals Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound for female ills
will still go on using and being BEN
Gifted by it; but the poor doubling,
suffering woman must, for her own
sake, be taught confidence, ,forshe also
might just as well regain her health.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14
He'd Pull Hard,

Senator Folker, who journeyed to
Albany at the risk of his life to cast
the vote that doomed racing in New
York, had collected number of in
stances of race-track trickery," said
an Albany legislator.
Discussing. one day, the way jock
eys so often sold races, he said that
there was a Gloucester jockey once,
the rider OF a favorite, who was over
heard to say in a saloon, the night
before the favorite ran:
"T shant win unless the reins
break"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14
lmnortant to Mothera.
a Timely Ohioction.

81 am afraid we must part, Fred,
dear. My father gave me strict in
functions not to let you call on me-"
But Ethel, am unalterably op
posed to submitting to government by
Injunction"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

(John E. Williie chief of the secret
service division of the United States gov
ernment, has not only upheld the high
traditions of that very responsible post,
but has won special laurels by his per-
sonal success in several big cases. He
was born in Elgin, ILL.,, AZ years ago. and
before accepting the headship of the
secret service had made an enviable rep
uation as a working journalist. While
connected with the Chicago newspapers
he made speciality of criminal investi-
CATION which probably accounts in part
for his unusual success as a detective.
During the Spanish-American war he or
ganized a special emergency force of men
to checkmate Spanish spies in this coun-
try. AS n consequence he succeeded in
sarresting their best spies and driving
most of the others off the soil of the
United StateS)
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14
FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Discharged Because Doctors Could
Not Cure.

Levi P. Brockway, s. Second Ave-,
Anoka, Mimi, says: "After living for
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

Many Thousands of
Dollars Worth of
Spurious Bills Are
"KilLed'' by Clever
Detectfpe Culprt
Had EOery Track
Covered by One Rase
or Another.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-14

Wealthy EngraOer In
Serts "Ad'' in Paper
and Then "Ffnds''
Bogus Notes in Depot
THAT Gezv Proves
His Downfall and
Establishes Case
A ga inst Him
Wealthy Friends to
His Aid.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
AVENGER WON YACHT
RACE HANDS DOWN
Small Boat Upset Calculations
and Defeated New York
Yacht Club Flyers.

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 2O.-The
Avenger, a sloOp owned by R. W. EN-
mons, I'd, won the Kings Cup, beating
the Aurora SIN. 36s., in corrected time {:
the Istalena 9m. BIS, the Queen I'm.
lis. and the Ellmina Ism. 37s.
The order Of the yachts crossing the
finish line was: The Queen, the Eli
nina. the Istalena, the Aurora and the
AvengeT. The Queen beat the Elimina
in elapsed time Pm. SOS, the Istalena
Pam. 2s., the Aurora 23m. IS. and the
Avenger 32m. ATS.
1t was on the time allowance that
hung the result of the race. Based
upon a phantom ship of IS feet, the
allowances were: The Queen, POM
34s.; the Elimina. 25m. As; the Ista-
lena and the Aurora, each 52m. los,
and the Avenger, III. ION. 32s. Very
fair figures show that the Elimina gave
the Aurora and the Istalena each 26m.
26s. and the Avenger AIM. SIS.
The Avengers rating is 4810. while
those of her opponents are: The Eli
nina, S7.91; the Queen, $40; the
Istalena, 5635, and the Aurora. $3.50.
That is a good many figures, but
it will tell yachtsmen how a small
boat defeated TIE flyers of the New
York Yacht club and the stars of the
racing world
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
THE AUTOS DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS
ON MACADAM HIGHWAYS OF COUNTRY

When the "Inyernia,r Royal Mail
Saip OF Cunard Line, sailed on tne
18th, it carried among other passen.
Logan Waller Page, director of the Of
fee of public roads of the United
States department Of agriculture, who,
being especially commissioned by
President Roosevelt, is on his way to
France 20 tell the highway engineers
of the world just exactly what, in his
opinion, the automobile is doing to
the macadam thorougnfares Of civil
cation, and what should be done TO
counteract its destructive effects.
President Roosevelt summoned Di-
rector Page TO the White House and
conferred with him about this latest
and most startling highway problem.
He learned that an almost incalcular
BILE amount of damage is being done
daily. and then he informed the di-
rector that it was mis- wish that the
United States be strongly represent
ed at the coming international Road
Congress in Paris. aud he asked for
the names of two other experts to con-
tribute information at that great gath.
ering. Mr. Page named Colonel S.
Rr0mwelI. superintendent Of buildings
and grounds Of the Distric1 of Column
bia. and Mr. Clifford Richardson, ma
ticnally famous as An authority on bi-
luminous road material They were
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
THE CLAUDIANES
BOYS ARE HELD
With Another Greek Charged
With Attempting to Blow
Up GalIagher'S House.

OAKLAND. Aug. 20.-The Alameda
county grand jury today returned in
dicrments against john and Peter
Claudianes and Felix PaudeYariS,
charging them with placing explosives
under a building with intent to demol-
ish it. which under a section of the
penal code of the state, is made a fell
ony
The two Claudianes have been I'M
der arrest for some time. suspected of
hGving dynamited a residence in Oak
land. in which James l.. Gallagher and
members of his family were at the
time, and which wrecked the build
ing, but did no injury to any of the
inmates.
The indictments we're brought late
this afternoon after considerable evil
dence had been laid before the grand
jury, and were placed on a secret file.
They were made returnable before
Judge Melvin, of Oakland, who placed
the amount of bail in each case at
S40,0 900. PaudeyEris is not in custody,
his whereabouts being unknown.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
9Th CAVALRY ARRIVES
HERE, FOUR TROOPS


NSDiLluuSQ lEOIu fTSI HdSe.t
will come guard mount, the most in
teresting event OF the days routine,
and one which all should see. officers
for the day are named at this time,
the manuevers of the troops being &C
cOmpanied by music.
After the exercises at Warren have
been concluded, the members of the
band will be taken TO the Copper
Queen Hotel, where they will be the
guest Of Charles NJ. Mexican, for many
years an officer of the United States
army. Immediately following this,
about o'clock. the concert lasting an
hour, will be given by the members of
the band on the plaza of the Copper
Queen general Offices.
No regular program will be follow
ed after the concert. All the soldiers.
excepting of course those. detailed for
duty at the camp, will be given the
liberty of the town. They may either
go to the Orpheum, the Royal, or 10
the AiTdOme, at any ofNwhich places
they will be admitted free. The boxes
of the Orpheum have been rendered
by Manager ". NJ. King to the officers
of the Fifth cavalry, the entertainment
committee of the Board of Trade, and
the members of the press.
Every effort is being made to have
the cavalry troops remain over for Fri
day and Saturday, but whether or not
these efforts will be successful is not
yet known
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21

appointed, and Mr.. Page was named
as chairman Of the delegtion.
Although this congress will not as
semble at Paris until October IL, Dr.
rector Page decided TO sail three days
since, it being understood that iie
would personally inspect some OF the
roads Of England, Germany anu
France before the distinguished as
semblage is called to order He
wished to view at close range the ret
repression Of those famous highways,
and to see if the speeding automobiles
worked the same damage there AZ
they do here and study the remedial
Tork that is being done. Here he has
learned thai by the tractive force of
the rubber tires of the speeding mo
tor car the surface binding dust of
rock roads is drawn from its resting
place and is sent swirling to the ad-
Jacent fields. lnasmuch as the integ-
rity of the macadam road rests abso-
lutely in this rock dust, which acts
as a binding and surfacing crust, a
dissipating OF the surface leaves the
road nothing but a mass of loose
round stones The tests held here,
especially those on the Conduit rozu
near Washington. D. C.. prove this
contention absolutely, and he carries
with him a wonderful collection "
photographs taken during the progress
Of those tests, by lightning-like cam
eras. These pictures will be submit
ted to the congress assembled, being
but che contribution of one savant,
for IL is not assumed that AmeTics,
alone has solved this problem. The
greater question that will arise VII.
be how to overcome the effect of au-
tomObile traffic on hard roads without
in any way restricting the automo-
bile or preventing its development
Two solutions there are TO that uues-
| ton: one, to find a material Of which
roads may be made which creates no
dust or, secondly, to so treat the roads
already constructed that the dust will
be retained upon them. That, of
course, is now being done in many
parts Of the country by spraying with
| calcium chloride and through the use
OF various bituminous preparations.
Director Page and his associates win
have much interesting information to
contribute along those lines. for many
miles Of Americas roads nave. within
! the past few months. been treated ry
these various preparations. many of
! the tests under the direction of some
expert from the federal Office of pub
| lie roads.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
IN THE PANHANDLE
ABOUT CARLSBAD
Peyton J, Edwards Says Crops
Are in Fine Shape in
That Country,

Ell PASO, Texac. Aug. 20.-Peytou
J. Edwards is back from trip from E
Paso to the Panhandle country
through Carlsbad, along the route OF
the proposed short line railroad his
company is TO build, and is most en-
thusiastic over the Panhandle country
He says the farmers in that region ere
making as fine crops as he ever saw,
on eight inches OF rain. as that is the
average rainfall for the western part
of the Panhandle country through
which 1t is proposed to operate the
railroad
On this the farmers make from thir-
ty bushels of corn TO the acre on up
and raise from half a bale OF cotton
to the acre up to bale and a quarter.
He says he never saw such fine milIet,
milo maize and corn as was growing in
that part OF the country wheS he
passed through.
"A railroad from FL Paso to st
Louis through the Panhandle of Texas
and the Pecos valley of New Mexico, "
he declared, would be the biggest
paying proposition anybody could in.
vest money in and II wetld be the
shortest line to St. Louis by long odos
and would get the business. Our peo-
pie mean to build and we have fran
chises and promises of bonuses from
most of the important places to be
touched I'll venture the ASSERTION
that there will be a shortline railroad
between FL Paso and ST. Louis through
Carlsbad within five years, whether
our company builds 1t or not, for the
proposition is too good not to be TAX
en- up" IsgaMlZmEs
People who know say that II sucn
a line is built, and A. Courchesne and
others interested with him in the pro
ject represented by Mr.. Edwards, are
as confident as he that they viii be
able to put 1t through, 1t viii mean q
new transcontinental route before
long. They say II Is a foregone con
cIusion that SPEECHES or the South.
western railroad, once the link Is built
between Fl Paso and st. Louis or
Kansas City. will close the gap be
tween. the Southwestern's terminus at
Benson and the Spreckels' terminus
at Yuma, and make a through line.
They argue that San Diego Is the fin
est port on the Pacific coast and that
II Is bound to attract through line
and that FL Paso is situated so that
this city will beo n It.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-21
HITCH OVER ARMIES
STRENGTHENED OUT
Sailors at Sydney Permitted to
March With Arms But No
Ammunition,

SYDNEY. Aug. 20.-There rose to-
day circumstances in connection with
the parade of the American blue jack
cts and the marines at Sydney tomor-
row which at one time promised to
make impossible the carrying out of
the program as originally planned, but
the matter has been adjusted, the men
will march in accordance with expec-
tation. Imperial regulations forbid
the landing of armed men in Australia.
The fact was communicated o Admiral
Sperry, who, in reply informed the
government that he would not allow
the men to participate in the process
sions and reviews, unless they came
ashore armed. This was followed by
a conference between Admiral Sperry
and the commonwealth government
after which il was announced the gov
eminent had granted permission to the
American sailors and marines to land
armed, but without ammunition.
This proviso was accepted and the pro
gram therefore will be carried out I'M
altered.