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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
REAL ESTATE AGENT
ADMITS EMBEZZLEMENT
EmpIoye of New York Firm
Gives Himself Up to the
Police in Oakland

OAKLAND. Nov. 21-Howard c.
Weaver, a real estate agent of New
York city, who gave himself up to the
police, confessing to embezzIing about
$500 from the firm of Wetmore & Van
Wrinkle Of New York, by whom he was
employed. was ordered detained through
a dispatch received this afternoon from
the New York city chief of police.
When Weaver appeared at the police
station he said that he had been on a
spree in the east and spent money
which belonged to the firm. Being un-
able to make good his defalcation, he
fled. Since then he said his conscience
had been pricking him until he could
stand it no longer.
Weaver, who is 81 years of age, de-
clared that this was his first crime,
which, he said, was due to heavy drink
ing.
The New York dispatch stated that
requisition papers were being prepared.
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progress for some time and give prom
Use of an excellent production with a
laugh in every line. The cast is ex-
cellent, the parts being taken by well
known amateurs.
Louis A. Steger will be the "boy" i;
Mrs. d. e. r. Easton, the jealous wife;
DIR. c. T.. Hansen, the old professor; DR..
A. d. Mclean, the lovesick Frenchman,
De Brizac; Mrs. Darrell A. Hare, the
pretty teacher; Miss Maud McWilliams,
the captivating maid. The balance of
the characters will be portrayed by
competent people.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
GOMPERS WINS
BACK HIS POST
AMID CHEERING
Reelection of Federation Presi-
dent Is Unanimous With
Exception of One Vote,
Executive Council Retains Seats
Without Daniel 0'Keefe,
Who WithdrawS
Toronto, Can, Wins Contest for
Next Convention and
Session Closes

DENVER, Nov. 21.-The American
federation OF labor concluded its iabors
today with the election of officers. sam
uei II. Gompers was reelected presi-
dent The executive council, which is
made ap OF the officers. shows nc
change. with the exception Of the sub
stitution OF John r. Alpine for Daniel
J. Keefe, who Withdrew.
Gompers was reelected to the Office
he has held since the organization OF
the federation in 1881, with the excep-
tion of one year. amid scenes Of the
greatest enthusiasm. only one repre-
sentative OF the socialist party voting
against him.
There were not contests for any Of
the Offices except that of eighth vice
president. For this John R. Alpine and
William D. Mahon We're nominated. AL
pine was elected by a vote Of $685. to
6,67s
John p. Frey was elected by ac-
clamation for fraternal delegate TO
Great Britain. but the selection Of B. A.
Larger was contested by Robert A Nc
Nee OF the International union Of steam
atters, the ballot resulting: Larger,
S.437: Mckee. 6.477.
The third roll call of the day was
taken to decide where the next meet
ing should be held. It resulted: To-
ronto. s,Ss7; St Louis. s.07s; Rochester.
\. Y L4sS; Washington. $50: Milwau-
kne
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
Women Of Eastern Star
Plan Thanksgiving Play
THE NEW BOY IS
PIECE SELECTED
Clever Hit, Well Staged, Will Be
Presented in the Colonial
Theater

Following an annual custom, califor-
MIA chapter No. 1sS, Order of the East
ern Star, will celebrate Thanksgiving
eve at the Colonial theater Wednesday
night. The vehicle chosen for the dis
play of the talents of, the dramatic
section of the chapter is farce en-
titled "The New Boy which has never
been presented in San Francisco.
The story deals with a boys schools;
the introduction of a grown man into
the school as a boy a pretty teacher,
who makes love to him; the jealous
wife, etc., ETC., and is full OF, comical
situations. Rehearsals have been in
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
OFFICERS ELECTED BY
FEDERATION OF LABOR

SAMUEL G0MPERS, presi-
dent. of Washington. d. c.
JOHN MITCHELL, second vice
president, of Spring Valley, III.
JAMES O'CoNNELL, third vice
president, of Washington, D. c.
MAX MORRIS, fourth vice
president, Of Denver, Colo.
ID. A. HAYES, fifth vice presi-
dent, of Philadelphia
WILLIAM ID. HUBER, sixth
vice president, of Indianapolis
JOSEPH It. VALENTINE. sew
enth vice president, of Cincinnati.
JOHN r. ALPINE, eighth vice
president, of Boston.
Fraternal delegates:
To the British trades con-
gress-JOHN p. FREY, editor of
the Molders' Journal. and II, A.
LARGER of the United Garment
Workers of America
To Canadian trades congress
JEROME JONES of the Georgia
federation of labor and editor of
the Journal of Labor.
Convention city for 1909. To-
ronto, Canada.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
MONTANA MINE FIRE
CLAIMS 9 VICTIMS
Bodies of Three Are Recovered,
but Rest, Buried in Earth's
Depths, Burn to Crisp
Fifty Miners Carried Out on
Stretchers Are on Road to
Rapid Recovery

HELENA, Mont, Nov. 21.-A special
to the Record from Red Lodge. Mont,
says that nine persons lost their lives
as the result of the fire in the coal
mines of the Northwestern improve
ment company. Three bodies have been
recovered. but the others are believed
to be irretrievabIy buried beneath
thousands of tons of earth and burned
to a crisp. All of the victims, with one
exception, were Firms.
The six men who last night were re-
ported as missing attempted TO escape
through tunnel No. ?, instead of going
by way of the airshaft. They were
overtaken by the flames and suffocated-
The accident was not. as at first re-
ported, due to old walled fires breaking
through and into the mine, but was
started by a miners lamp coming into
contact with timbers overhead
The six men who were entombed ap-
parently became confused in their mad
dash for liberty and got beyond the
range of the rescuers. They failed TO
than loo miners made their escape.
When the flames first broke out there
must have been so or more persons in
stope No ?, whose lives were saved by
reversing the air currents, thus driving
the deadly fumes in the opposite diree-
tion.
The fire is still burning in the mine,
practically the entire timber structure
in No. stope having been destroyed.
No. 2 airway has caved in, and even in
the event that the bodies of the six
entombed men have not been incin-
Grated weeks must elapse before they
can be recovered. 1t will require that
much time to retimber the burned
stope, which is the main entry to the
east side mine.
OF the half hundred miners who were
carried out of the mine on stretchers
yesterday all are recovering.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
RANoHER CONVICTED OF MURDER
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SAN JOSE, Nov. 21.-After deliberat-
ing five hours jury this evening re-
turned verdict convicting Dominguez
Vierra, wealthy Portuguese rancher of
Berryessa of murder in the second de-
gree. A year ago last July Vierra be-
came involved in an alteration with a
neighbor, Francisco Medina. and in the
fight which ensued killed him by cut
ting his throat with a knife. Mrs.
Vierra was the only witness of the ia
tai quarrel. b. A Harrington and
Louis O'Neal, the defendants attorneys,
attempted to show that the deed was
committed in self defense.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22

VALLEJO. Nov. 21.-In accordance
with orders received from the navy de-
partment, work on the gunboat Ben
nington, on which an explosion Oc-
Cured in San Diego harbor four years
ago, wrecking the engine room and
killing 81 men, will be taken up imme-
diately. The work authorized consti-
tutes a large sum for repairs recently
ordered for Mare island.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
POPE Plus REPLIES TO
MISSIONARY CONGRESS
Apostolic Benediction Conveyed
by Message From Rome to
Archbishop Quigley
Special DIsPATCH no THE GALL

CHICAGO, Nov 21-Archbishop
Quigley made public today a COM
munication from Pope Plus x, received
last night, in reply to a message sent
to his holiness after the opening of the
recent Catholic missionary congress.
The reply follows:
Rome, Nov. 20, 190S.-James Edward
Quigley, archbishop of Chicago: Our
most holy father joyfully received the
good wishes of the assembling congress
speaking the happiest results from it's
deliberations. lovingly imparts to all,
and especially yourself, his apostolic
benediction.
Cardinal MERRY DEL VAL"
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
NATIONS WEALTH RECORDED

When the conservation movement
was started specific information about
the actual state of our resources was
partly wanting, partly inaccessible.
Certain facts were broadly known. 1t
was at least unquestionable that our
resources had been wastefully used
and that some of them, notably the
mines, were sure in time to be COM
<pletely exhausted, while others, for ex-
ample, the forests, could still be kept
perpetually useful by right management.
The first work was to get the facts, to
show exactly what the situation was
and how it could be improved by meas
ures that would work Practically
this has been done.
The facts are there in dollars and
cents, tons of coal, board feet of tim
ber, acre feet and horsepower of water
acres of land. And the possible reform
measures have been weighed The final
report to the president will be the
necessary supplement to the addresses
at the White House conference The
note of these addresses was a note Of
warning. The report is expected to
show that the warning must be needed
if the exhaustion of natural resources
is not, one day, to impoverish the
nation, and 1t will also undoubtedly
bring out how the country's resources
can be developed so as to last the long
est possible time and serve the greatest
good of the people.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22

GIRL BURNS TO DEATH-Los Angeles, Nov.
21.-Mamie Lee Broughton. negro schoolgirl s
years old, so badly burned while playing
with fire in a cook stove at her home at 13a
North Westlake avenue today that she died al
the receiving hospital this afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
NEGRO STEALS SAVINGS RANKs-oah.

NEGRO STEALS SAVINGS BANKS-Oakland
Nov. 21.-Mrs. L. Brown of s11 Willow street
reported to the police this morning the theft Of
two banks from her home by a negro named
Harvey ChinR Chinn gave of the banks to
a man named Charles Brown. who in turn gave
it back to Mrs. Brown. Chinn was arrested at
Ninth street and Broadway with of the
banks I'm his possession. 1t contained $45.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
Holiday Giftr

Townsend's California Glace Fruits
for sale only at our store, 1144 Van
Ness av near Post st. No agencies.
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CAN YOU USE ss.oOs
REPAIR GUNBoAT BENNINGTON

See prize contest on page so today
CALL. It's easy TO get.
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in vain. to and re-
Hef from physi
clans OF various
schools OF medi
cine. when. as last
resource. my life
being In greatest
and imminent dan
ger from a mortal
disease. / applied
10 you. You cured
me with your Chi
nese Herb treat
ment and saved
my life. for which
cure I tender you
u-w n4caf afnnana
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22

DIR. WONG HIM-Dear Sir: For several
years. while suffering agonies Of pain, tried.
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thanks and remain. most gratefully yours
MRS. PAULINE KARL FoRMES.
l468 Grove st., Oakland. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
DR.. WONG HIM
1908 O'Farrell Street
Between Cough and Octavia
SAN FRANCISCO
A DOCTOR IN YOUR
OWN HOME

THE HOME VIBRATOR
Is the greatest medical discovery OF
the Twentieth Century: is a light,
compact instrument, weighs ten
ounces, can be operated by yourself
with one hand by moving the steel
head over the rigid steal rod. and
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
REPORTs on REsOURCEs

With less than six months in which
to make the inventory, the four
branches into which the commission is
divided. aided by the cooperation of
the government departments, have
brought together what is probably the
most useful collection of facts about
the material things on which national
industry and progress are based that
has ever been assembled at one time.
Reports representing these facts and
pointing out their significance have
been prepared. These reports, sum-
married. and indexed, will be submit
ted to the commission at its coming
meeting.
All through the summer general in
terest in the work and object of the
conservation commission has been
growing. The public is now well post
ed on a subject of which only few
specialists had knowledge at the time
of the conference of governors and ex-
perts at the White House in May.
The governors carried the spirit of
the conference home with them to their
own people and have kept things NOV
ing ever since by appointing state COM
missions to study local problems, by
writing and speaking upon the subject
of conservation and by keeping in close
and helpful touch with the national
commission.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
RESORTS

Readers OF The Call, when writing
for rates or reservations at the re-
sorts advertised, viii confer a favor
by mentioning the name OF this paper
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
GOVERNORS CALLED
TO CONFER AGAIN
Conservation Commission to
Present Report on inventory
of Nations Resources
Entire Matter to Be Submitted
to President Roosevelt by
January |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-The much
talked of inventory of the nations re-
sources is now practically completed.
To consider the material it has brought
together the national conservative COM
mission has just announced its first
full meeting for Tuesday, December 1,
in Washington. At that meeting the
first steps will be taken toward put
ting into tangible shape the results of
the six months hard work on taking
stock Of the country's waters. forests,
lands and minerals.
One week later, after the commits
sion has gone over the inventory, it
will hold joint meeting in Washing
ton with the governors of the states
and territories, or their representatives.
At this meeting the inventory will be
further discussed and the report which
the president has requested the COM
mission to make to him by January
l win be formulated.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
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lect Family HOTEL Home Cooking; Special Win
ter Rates Phone Main 651. JOHNSON Z
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
COUNTY DEMONSTRATION FARMS.

In Oklahoma the agricultural inter-
ests have been we'll taken care OF by
the legislature of the new state. The
senate passed the Russell bill, which
is intended to encourage good farm
ing and the planting and testing OF
new seeds and crops. 1t authorizes
the secretary of Oklahoma board OF
agriculture to contract with some re-
liable farmer in each county to Guilt
vate 40 acres of land to be known
as the County Demonstration Farm,
and the board shall prepare and fur
nish to such farmers a list of crops
to be grown thereon, and the area to
be devoted to each; and shall also
furnish seed for planting such crop,
and all available information relative
to the best methods of preparation
for the planting, cultivating and har-
vesting of each of such crops. The
work will be done under the direction
of the secretary of the board of agri-
culture. And for any losses sustained
by the farmers in cultivating said
demonstration" crops, they shall be
Unidentified out of an appropriation to
sum not more than $3.50 for each
of said farmers.
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GENERAL AGRICULTURE

and constitute an extensive and varied
home market for farm and garden
products. Farm and ranch of the
North and the South, the East and
the West, contribute their respective
grades to the materials and supplies
required by our vast factory system.
"The man with the hoe" has a
vastly different equipment from the
century. The factory has taken his
tools and appliances in hand and has
transformed them.
Studebaker and Winona wagons are
made by different methods and upon
different principles from those once
supplied by the local blacksmith and
wagonmaker. Oliver and Deere pro-
duce better pillow, with wider range
of adaptability and accomplishment
than did the local foundry man. Nc
Cormick and Deering, Glessner and
others have displaced the scythe,
grain cradle and hand rake with tools
that cut and gather bind and load.
Horses till the growing crop, the
steam engine may pillow for or thresh
it, while the wind has been harnessed
to pump water for the field or the
stok, and to operate variety of farm
appliances.
In the vast region west of the line
of border lines of states west of the
Mississippi and the Missouri antelope,
buffalo and coyote have given way to
bands of sheep, herds of cattle and
droves of hogs and horses. The
trackless prairies, arid plains, table
lands, mountain ranges and fertile val
legs have been organized into popu-
lous states that have yielded stores of
grain, riches of silver and gold, and
stacks of cotton, wool and hay, Of
forest products and fruit that have
made our nation the richest on earth.
Lo, the poor Indian Tor the noble red
man, if you please), has surrendered
his tribal relations and accepted allot-
ments for homesites, together with
citizenship with political duties and
representation in the national Con-
gress in at least one important COM
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.

The recent convention of Governors
and other prominent men at the White
House marks the beginning of a new
era in the conditions and relations or
agriculture. This is the legitimate
outcome of the progress and influence
of a half-century of investigation and
study of the multiform subjects and
interests with which the farm is inti-
mately allied.
A half-century has made wonder
full progress in the matter OF transpor-
tation whereby the products of the
farm are carried to near and distant
markets and their demand and con-
sumption extended, thereby promot-
ing production. The long hauls by
horse power on wagon roads and
canals have been superseded by the
iron horse operating over steel rails.
These have crossed the continents and
have interlaced communities and
states. Iron has replaced wood and
steel has displaced iron, greatly aug
menting the speed and carrying ca
pacity of these important adjuncts of
agriculture.
Steel vessels carry the products OF
the American farmer to, the ends OF
the earth, and bring valuable products
from distant regions to vary his diet,
adorn his home and family and add
to their comfort and pleasure. The
shops and stores of the rural villages
are in wide contrast to those of half a
century ago in the range and adapta-
ton of the stocks displayed for sale.
Extension and improvement of trans
portation by land and sea has greatly
contributed to this result.
American manufactures are mainly
the outgrowth of the half-century we
are considering. The local shop with
it's coterie of hand workers making
simple appliances and tools adapted to
hand processes has been displaced by
the huge factories with titanic machin.
cry and complex processes operated
and manipulated by an army of work.
ers, male and female, that produce
a vast aggregate of material wealth
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15

than $4,000 acres more than last
year, and placing the condition of
June 1 of winter wheat at Sc per
cent, against TIA per cent a year
ago, and of rye at 91.3 per cent, as
against 93.5 per cent on May 1, is
made in the official June grain report
by the Department of Agriculture.
The report estimates the acreage
of oats at 31,644000, and barley g.
$4,000, and gives the condition fig
ures for crops other than wheat as
follows: Oats, 92.9 per cent; barley,
98.7 per cent.
The report gives the condition OF
spring wheat at June as So per
cent of normal crop, compared with
1877 on June 1. 1907, and ten-year
average of 1872.
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monwealth.
Gone are the days of the OK trail to
the land of new homes; of stage coach
travel between the leading towns; the
carriage of products and merchandise
to and from centers of commerce;
the floating of traffic on canal and fat
boats; the reliance on hand tools and
processes; the barter of home made
butter and haphazard eggs for calico,
tea and tobacco; the droving of cattle,
hogs and sheep to supply the city
demands and procure money for taxes,
improvements to the home and salts
flying varying line OF needs.
In their place have come an i'm
proved condition of farm life and sur
roundings with more diversified and
intensive means of production, and a
closer and wider touch with commerce.
While many of the contributing causes
to this uplift of the farm and the
farmers lie without the domain of ag-
riculture, others are at work within.
Some of these we will consider in flu
ture issues of The Ranch.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE.

The twelfth annual commencement
program of the State College of Wash
ington announces that on Wednesday,
June IL, the cornerstone of the Libra
ry and Auditorium building will be
laid at II o'clock a. m. by the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge, and that at 3
o'clock the dedication of the Domestic
Economy building will take place.
These are among the six large struc-
lures which are being erected on the
college grounds, at cost of approx
imately 1922 900, and which will great
ly increase its capacity for usefulness.
One is the new library and assembly
hall, one a new recitation hall, an
other the domestic science building,
still another veterinary science
building, the fifth is building for the
hydraulic laboratories, and the sixth
of the series is new farm barn.
Professor r. w. Thatcher, director
of the Washington experiment station,
and DR.. w. e. Ralston, pathologist of
the Department of Veterinary Science,
will attend the Graduate School Of
Agriculture to be held at Cornell Uni
versity this year from July to 81.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15

The Hanford Irrigation &c Power Co.
have the most favorable and most val
liable proposal for persons seeking new
homes in the west that has ever been
planned by any irrigation company in
the entire state Write today for their
special proposal. 1t is important. Ad-
dress The Hanford Irrigation & Power
Co., Seattle National Bank Bldg, Seat
tie.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-15

LARGER GRAIN ACREAGE.
A preliminary estimate of 17,170,000
acres of spring wheat sown, or more
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-23
A Decision Against Brewers.

Columbus, o., Jan. 23.--The decision
of the supreme court in the case of
the state vs., George Schmuck. of Guy
ahoga county, which was given Wed.
nesday, is another blow at the brew.
cry business. Brewers had long suf-
fered loss of property by other per-
sons securing possession of their
cases, bottles, etc, not to speak of
loss by the use of these containers
In an improper way. and the legisla-
ture enacted a law making 1t a crime
for any one to have in his possession
bottles or other vessels without the
consent OF the owner, and permitting
search and seizure OF premises to re-
cover such containers. The supreme
court says that this law is invalid.