davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Stable Room for Rent.

] am prepared TO take care OF
the horses of the out-of-town
patrons of the Berryville High
School Ten stalls.
p II DR. J. T.. HARRIS.
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Kings Daughters 70 Hold Bazar.

The Kings Daughters announce
that they will hold 4 Bazaar on
Thursday, December ,. The place
will be announced later.
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Steers! Steers!

Good well doing ones. Car 900
b., Car 500 h., iteers, for sale
this week az Charles Town.
c. +. WALL.
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YOUR IDLE MONEY SILL EARN
THREE PER CENT INTEREST,

compounded twice a year. if de-
posted in the BANK OF CLARKE
COUNTY. Capital and Surplus.
SO. 10000.
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Honey 10 Loan.

$4,000 TO loan. Apply to f. NJ.
NANDEVANTER or MARSHLL Nc
CoRNuCK, Berryville. Va. 81 IF
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Bryan managers, the Nebraska leader
now has 564 votes solid of delegates
actually instructed for him. Besides
that they claim instructions from Ill
delegates in Massachusetts, North Caro-
lima. Ohio and Pennsylvania There are
112 uninstructed delegates with Bryan
preferences. This gives Bryan, accord
ing to his managers, 797 actually in
structed votes.
s15 VOTES CERTAIN
Then there should be added Is more
delegates from Montana and South
Carolina who were still to be elected
when the figures were made up this
morning, but who are confidently
claimed for Bryan. This makes a total
of 815 votes for the peerless leader
which are said to be absolutely certain.
But there are 40 scattered votes from
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio,
Virginia, Florida, Alabama and Mary
land, which are believed to be for
Bryan as matter of personal prefer
ence, although they are uninstructed.
This makes the Bryan total S55 votes,
or nearly 800 more than enough to
nominate him. That, of course, is an
outside estimate, but the margin above
the amount necessary to nominate him
is so great as to indicate the selection
of Bryan beyond the possibility OF a
doubt
The question of the vice presidential
candidate is still in the air., and may
remain so for some days. Bryan, as |
have said before, unquestionably favors
Judge George Gray of Delaware, but
he would be satisfied with any other
eastern man, including Lieutenant Gov
ernor Chanler of New. York. former
Governor Douglas of Massachusetts or
Charles p. Towne of New York; and
falling them, Tom l.. Johnson of Ohio
. or John w. Kern of Indiana.
Bryan does not seem to want Gov
ernor Johnson of Minnesota on the
ticket with him, and, in fact, the an
tagonism between the two men has
reached point where it would be ex-
trenely- diff1cult for them to run on
the same ticket, although such a thing
is yet possible. AS to the platform,
conditions still favor conservatism.
Several alleged verbatim reports of the
platform to be adopted have been tele-
graphed out to Denver, but they are
tentative program already printed in
Bryan's own paper, the Commoner.
FIGHT OVER INJUNCTION
Probably the only real fight on the
platform will be over the anti -injunc-
tion plank. The Nebraska state con-
vention adopted an anti-injunction
plank which was extremely radical.
This does not meet the views of the
democratic leaders already on the
ground. and 1t will have to be soft
ened down considerably.
Bryan's nomination on the first bal
lot, like that of Taft at Chicago, mere
ly confirms the impression that the
Cnpffrued an T,are \ r,c1r
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Mrs. Shorb White Buck
Loses Wedding Gown
Valuable Satin and Caskef of
Jewels Stolen From Former
Leader of Smart Set

Somewhere between Manila and San
Francisco as mysteriously as though
accomplished by trick Of diabolical
conjuring, has disappeared tho hand
some satin gown in which Mrs. Ynez
Shorb White Buck, former leader of
San Francisco society, was married.
With the gown has also disappeared a
magnificent set of corals and a casket
of jewelry, valued at several hundred
dollars, the property of Mrs. Whites
sister, Mrs. John A. Murtagh.
The gown and the Jewels were stolen
from one of Mrs. Murtagh's trunks be-
tween the time she packed them six
weeks ago in Manila and yesterday.
when the trunks were delivered to her
at her mothers home in Van Ness ave-
nue.. The thief left no clew, and so
cunning was his method of operation
that not until the trunk which had
contained the valuables was opened
yesterday and everything removed was
the robbery discovered. Even the pad
lock which had been placed on the
trunk as double precaution was ap-
parently undisturbed, and Mrs. Muir
tagh has not the slightest suspicion of
when, where or how the theft was
committed.
Mrs. Murtagh is the wife of Captain
John a. Murtagh of the medical corps,
U. S. A, who is stationed at Manila,
and is prominent in San Francisco So
ciety where she was long a favorite
before leaving with her husband for
the Philippines. 1t was at her home in
Manila that Mrs. Ynez Shorb White be-
came the bride of Captain Carroll D.
Buck several weeks ago, and when Mrs.
Murtagh left Manila May Is to return
to San Francisco on the transport
Sherman she brought with her Mrs.
Bucks beautiful wedding gown.
The padlocked trunk containing the
precious gown and Mrs. Murtagh's
jewels was placed aboard the Sherman
in Manila and remained in the strong
room of the vessel until it docked at
this port Friday. Mrs. Murtagh's
trunks were not delivered to her until
yesterday, however. and even then they
showed no signs of having been tam
pered with. 1t was only when she
lifted the upper trays from the par
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the corporation is specifically denied.
But the city does not stop at denlai.
1t makes charges against the corpora
ton in substantiation of which it Will
file affidavits during the week.
The city's answer was but one fea-
ture of a busy day in the water rate
litigation OF equal interest was the
refusal of the attorneys of the COM
pany to stipulate that it would not
alter the existing rates pending the
present litigation. Not only did the
company's representatives refuse to en-
ter into any such agreement, but they
declared in open court that the matter
was purely one for the Spring Valley
directors to decide and that when the
time arrived those gentlemen would de-
termine what rate should be enforced.
MEANING UNMIsTAKABLE
This announcement was made by At
torney A. E. Shaw at the conclusion of
yesterdays hearing and his words car
ried the unmistakable meaning that the
Spring Valley magnates would meet to-
morrow, July /, the first day of the
new fiscal year, and In their secret
council decide how heavy a tax they
should levy on the public in the shape
of water rates. Whisperings from the
Office of Spring Valley bring word that
the directors will endeavor to impose
per cent in excess of the schedule
adopted by the supervisors.
1t appeared yesterday from the rul-
ings made by Judge harrington that
he would base his decision entirely on
the actual value of the plant. He
brushed aside Herman Schusslers sys-
tenn of figuring on the basis of compari-
son with the value of Hetch Hetchy.
He stated that he would hear oral tes-
timony with cross examination as to
the value of the Spring Valley plant.
He added Significantly:
Il will render my decision after
reading these affidavits, which 1 intend
to study carefully. unless 1t becomes
necessary to render an immediate de-
cision." The Judges remarks followed
Shaw's declaration that the company
would decide as to what rates it would
charge.
DENIALS ARE COMPLETE
The city's answer to the complaint
was not filed until late in the day.
copies being served on the company's
attorneys in court. The denials are
elaborate and complete, leaving no
snares by which the municipality may
be entangled in future actions.
The. denials cover every statement of
the company as to its available supply
and cost of the system, and go to the
extent of declaring that the company
has no franchise. Many of the COM
pany's boasted wafer sheds are de-
clared to be unimportant lands pur-
chased to block other companies, so
that Spring Valley could retain mo-
nopoly.
While City Attorney Long and
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Experts Charge Graft
in PalO Alto
City Officials Recommended for
Dismissal After Examina-
fi0n of Books

PALO ALTO. June 2s-Town on
cials are scored for negligence and in
competency and dismissal for dis
honesty is recommended in the audi
tors report on the city books. The re-
port was submitted by May, Laird &
Co. of San Francisco at special meet
ing OF the town trustees tonight.
The audit covers a period OF two
years previous to June 1. 1t hints at
many other possible gratis before this
period.
1t is recommended that City Marshal
E. F. Weishaar be removed from Office
blythe trustees in the interests of the
tax payers. II is alleged that he has
failed to turn money collected into the
city treasury and has appropriated 1t
for his private use. 1t is. also asserted
that on June 1 he still owed the city
s542
City Clerk j. d. Boyd is charged With
a deficit of s577 in his collections, and
it is also alleged that he has turned
in bills that were much too large
The report recommends the dismissal
of City Attorney Normane Malcolm for
collusion against the city to secure
payment of padded bills. In one in
stance he promised to secure payment
by the board. of a false bill for 81 200
If he were given $500. it is claimed.
Malcolm has since been removed for
drunkenness in court.
The books and accounts required by
statute have not been kept and more
than $4,000 is owed the town in water
and light bills due to negligence of
collectors.
The officials are charged with failure
to turn in money collected. The total
deficit of the city officials is $1,119.76.
The city assessor is accused of neg
ligence in failing to assess the First
national bank of Palo Alto for personal
property last year because the bank
refused to be taxed.
Many of the bonds already paid have
not been cancelled and some cannot be
located.
Crane & Co. of San Francisco are
scored for unfair dealing with the town
In submitting a bill for s241 when the
accounts showed the company owed the
town more than $500.
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BURST SPRING
VALLEY BUBBLE
OF VALUATION
City's Lawyers Puncture Inflats
ed Estimate of Company
by Bullseye Shot
Fictitious Worth of S52,500,0O0
Reduced TO $lS,OOO,OOO by
Municipal Defenders
Bulky Affidavit Is Filed Which
Contradicts and Accuses
Water Corporation

The city fired its opening shot at
Spring Valley yesterday and punctured
its bubble valuation of $52, 500, 900, re-
ducing it to $1s,oo0,0oo.
Not only that, but the city charged
that the company had resorted to
trickery and deceit in its dealings with
the municipality, that its plant was
fimsily constructed, that it had never
been adequate and that its claims in
the present litigation were entirely
without merit.
The allegations were contained in
the formal answer of the city filed
yesterday In the United States circuit
court. The document Is composed of
Sc pages of typewritten matter. in
which nearly every assertion made by
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FIGURES SHOW
firm MAJORITY
IN BRYAN FOLD
Nomination Safely Bottled by
Peerless One Is Preconven-
ton Indication
Elimination of Philippine Votes
Gives Nebraskan Great
Lead in Estimates
Total of 855 Votes Predicted by
Nominees Managers and
Election on First Ballot
By Raymond

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
DENVER, Colo, June 2o.-William
Jennings Bryan is certain to be nomi-
mated for the presidency by the demo-
cratic national convention in Denver.
He now has in sight an abundant lead
over the necessary two-thirds of all
delegates. The national committee
has already decided the Philippine
islands cannot be considered the terri
tory of the United States, and the
membership committee will therefore
number 1o2. Applying the two-thirds
rule the successful candidate will have
to have 66s votes.
According to the figures of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-06-30
Have You Registered This Year!

nm order to take part In the
August primary and the NO
vember election you must have
registered since the beginning
of this year. Last years registra-
tion NO longer counts.
To vote at the August primaries
you must register by July %. Go
10 the registrars ofhce now, be-
fore the rush begins. II you post
pone this duty you may lose. your
vote In the primaries. Remem-
ber that 1T is just as important
10 vote at a primary as at gen.
eraI election.
When you register for the pri-
mary be sure you state your party
anlliatiOn. II you don't do this
you viii not be entitled TO vote at
the primary.
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YESTERDAY-Psrtly cloudy; west wind;
maximum temperature. 90; minimum. 90.
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Cloudy; fog in the
morning; light south winds. changing to fresh
west. Page 15
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Upper picture Mrs. Dissmeyer holding her tiny
baby with her husband the right All killed Below
of the wrecked houses the dotted lines showing where
stood the house which completely destroyed
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Taft is the issue.
Following the American example.
Mr.. Bryan's passion for the chase.
Convention cities and climates.
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POLITICS

Nathan Cole Jr. OF Los Angeles probably viii
succeed NJ. F. Tarpey Of Fresno democratic
national committeeman. Page 3
Figures show Bryan has Denver nomination
safely bottled. Leaders oppose peerless one, but
yield to viii Of rank snd file Of party. Page I
Prohibitionists plan desperate fight in Denver
convention for plank In democratic plat
form Page 2
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GRAFT

Ruef secures writ Of habeas corpus from dis
trict court Of appeal in his fight for release on
bonds. Page 16
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
TELEPHONE KEARNY Sc
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

TUESDAY. JUNE so. 1908
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pEnoLIsHEs SALOON

The explosion not only tore down
the Sweeney store. but knocked in the
inner wall of the saloon. overturning
an immense ice chest and completely
demolishing the fixtures and bar The
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SUBURBAN

Palo Alto city officials are accui
after examination Of books by exp'
Woman shoots self while singing
her months old baby to sleep.
Grand jury watches action Of
effort to save county funds.
Supervisor Rowe delays batch
claims from being railroaded throu
Women pin note to door telling
hidden before leaving home, and |
invitation.
Sixteen year old Mary Dadas,
prentice, tells why she stole from
terial for pretty garments and hat
Alameda county supervisors hi;
at offer OF Fruitvale printer 10 sa
on printing bills.
Rev. E. z. Baker declares he
forever. and viii in future eng'
pursuits.
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COAST

OIL barge loses 5000 gallons of cargo and fish
In Mcleod lake are menaced. Page 8
Remains Of Prince David Kawananakoa placed
in royal mausoleum Of Hawaii with semibarbaric
splendor and modern military pomp. Page 16
Calkins organ in Sacramento is denounced by
mass meeting Of citizens. Page 3
California limited train running 30 miles an
hour strikes gap in track and is de-
rallied Page 2
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FOREIGN

President orders that United States troops be
sent TO Del RIO, Ell Paso and other points near
the border to aid civil authorities in preserving
order; Mexican authorities declare insurgents are
common criminals and set a price on the head
of each. Page ]
Eye witness tells of desperate fighting on
Mexican border in which be is wounded by in
surgents. Page
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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-09

Swamp Root Is always kept UP tc
It's high standard Of purity
ana excellence. A sworn GER
titicat, OF purity with
aTary hn'tle.
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FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
Richard Dunphy Selected as Fore
man of the Body.

Tho December Grand Jury for the
Criminal Branch OF the United States
Circuit Court was sworn in to-day by
Judge Chatfeld. The jury Is composed
bf the following;
Richard Dunphy. No. 10 Liberty street.
foreman; William r. Moore. No Gs Bea-
per street; Charles w. Place. No 20
Broad street; Harry P. Piper. No. u6
Broad street: Jacob Nepel. No 205 East
pne Hundred and Twenty-fourth street
Joseph F. Merriam. No, 20 West Sixty
fourth street; Julius 7. Staples, No. I29
West Seventy-sixth street; Anthony
schlesinger. No. 81 Fifth avenue; Fran
It's j. Scully, No. 439 East One Hundred
Ind Twenty-third street; Austen Strong,
No. Ill Fifth avenue; James G, Sturges,
No. 1886 West Seventy-second street
John N. Abbott. No. 100 Broadway;
Warren s. Banks, No. II State street
Arnold Kohn, No. 376 Grand street
Robert n. Bolton, No. As Barclay street;
Emanuel Brunswick. No. SO Prince
street: John n, p. Crainer, No. &C Reade
ttreet; Charles Il. Caswell, No 544 Col
bmbus avenue; John l.. Chadwick, No.
lo7 Fifth avenue; Edward n. Crosby,
No 81 Nassau street; Lee Kohnsm, No
" Warren street. and Edward S. Prin-
Ele. No. 4lo Broadway.
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.COGHLAN BURIED
WITH HEROES IN
Nations PLOT
Full Naval Honors for the
Admiral at His Funeral
in Washington.

WASHINGTON. Dec. e,--with full
military ceremonies the body of the late
Rear-Admiral Joseph y. Coghlan. who
died Saturday at New Rochelle. N. Y,
was Inferred in the Arlington National
Cemetery here to-day. When tho train
bringing tho body arrived It was taken
at once to st. Johns Episcopal Church.
where the Rev. George w. Smith. for
merry q chaplain in the navy, con-
Quoted the funeral services.
Tho military escort included the Ma
rine Band, four companies of marines
from the Washington Barracks and .
company Of bluejackets.
The Admirsl's flag was placed at half
post in front OF the caisson on which
the body rested on the way to the eeme-
terry.
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SHE ENTERED IN TRIUMPH.

Minnie Hallenbeck, twentyAeight. n
helper in the laundry Of Bellevue Hos
pital, went out to celebrate pay day last
night. About midnight she returned.
but in such condition that the
gateman. Frank Nugent. would not let
her in.
But Minnie was cute. She went TO the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel. paid John Me
Duff, hackman one dollar 10 drive her
In lis hack to Bellevue. In that way
she passed the gateman without trouble
as a prospective patient. When she
alighted in front OF the Reception Room.
Night Superintendent McHale ordered
that she be taken TO the woman's alco-
holio ward.
Never mind. got In anyhow" was
Minnis's pI-tng shot, as she was LED
away.
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."CAS INSPECTOR"
I Thief CAPTURED
| BY SHOW GIRL
Many Women Identify Man
\ Miss Leidy Fought in
I Hallway.
HIS METHOD CLEVER.
Fifty Complaints of Robbery
(, May Be Traced to
Prisoner.

When Harriet Leidy. one OF Anna
deld's show girls, went about catching
. thief yesterday she made a good Job
Of It The man she grabbed In a house
1t No. Is West Forty-fourth street was
Identified to-day by half dozen wo-
men as the gas inspector thief about
whom many complaints have reached
the police.
Tho name OF the prisoner 10 John
Brady, and he gave his address as No,
e12 Classon avenue. Brooklyn. II 10 ax-
pected that there will be at least fifty
oomplainants against him when his
case comes to trial. His method was to
gain entrance to a dwelling or a fat by
ths pretext that he wished to inspect the
meter or sell a sas-saving device. and
then pick UP whatever jewelry he could
lay his hands on unobserved.
Sent Maid for Ladder.
Miss Leidy was entering the hall OF
the building in West Fortyfourth street
With a friend. Estelle Perry, yesterday
afternoon. to see a dressmaker, when
she saw Brady talking to a maid at the
door of one OF the flats. about the merits
Of patent gas burner. He told the
maid he would guarantee that It would
out one-third from the gas bills.
go get me a ladder" he advised,
sand I'll fasten one of the burners on
TIE gas and show you how it works"
The maid went back into the house
for a ladder. Miss Leidy stopped in the
hall. In a minute or so the man ran
out with a pair of silver backed hair
brushes in his hands.
Miss Leidy is athletic and built along
etatuesque show girl lines, and she
tackled the thief without hesitation.
He was the stronger and fought her off,
escaping for the time, but later in the
day he was arrested in a pawnshop on
the good description given by the plucky
actress.
Women Identify Prisoner.
The story OF her adventure was print
I'd in The World this morning, and
many women who have encountered the
"gas inspector" thief to their sorrow
and loss rejoiced that he had been cap
tured. A few OF them hurried down 10
Police Headquarters to see If they could
Identify him.
Brady was lined up in the Detective
Bureau with a score of detectives and
prisoners. Miss Leidy picked him out
of the line without a moments hesita-
ton. She stepped up TO him with her
fists closed and Brady lodged as though
he was afraid she would hit him.
Other women who identified Brady as
the man who robbed them while their
backs were turned after they had ad-
United him to look over the gas meter
Or put on his economical burner were:
Mrs. NJ. s. Bavier, of No 1SS East For
Sy-fourth street; Mrs. Schlomans, of No
20 West SEVENTEEN street; Miss Ida
Merrill. No. rs Lafayette avenue.
Brooklyn; Mrs. Thomas Dooley. No. 2Os
West Sixty ninth street, and Mrs. Kate
Mcintyre. No. 269 West one Hundred
and Thirty-siXth street.
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the missing boat A prtrol OF the shore
where tho wreckaEc II coming In Is
now maintained ana n tug has been Of
dered to the spot. Reports last night
from tugs which were sent out In
search OF her say no trace OF the miss
ing steamer has been found
The steamship company says thore
were twenty-seven men in all In the
crew, nearly all from Duluth. The mas
ter was = r. Chamberlain and the first
mate W. e Mcleod.
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Il LIVES LOST
IN STEAMER ON
LAKE SUPERIOR
Wreckage Washed Ashore
Ends All Hope That the
Clemson Escaped.

DULUTH. Dec. s.-There is little
doubt that the steamer p. NJ. Clemson
went down with all hands near White
Ash Point. Twenty-three hatch covers
have been washed ashore and their de-
scription convinces the Provident
Steamship Company that they belong to