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The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
. HERE are six bright youngsters

+" HERE are six bright youngsters
in the state of California who
have not had to ask the time of
day for two days. Instead they
are now telling others the exact min
ute of the hour, and they are mighty
glad to be asked. One of these young
sters lives in Sacramento, one in San
Mateo. one in Angels Camp, one in
Alameda and two in San Francisco.
They won the first lot Of six watches
awarded by The Junior Call ,ast Sat
urday for vacation stories, and now
the watches have been delivered and
they are proudly wearing them Are
boys and girls of the grammar school
happy when they receive their first
watches? Well! Ask anybody who
ever was a boy or girl and get the
answer.
And this is only the beginning. To-
morrow morning boys and girls every
where will bel up bright and early to
rush for The Junior Call, and on the
second page they will read the names
of six more youngsters to whom
watches have been awarded. And on
the fourth page they will find the
names of 20 others who, by correctly
solving clever riddle, have won
DUNES Ol WdlSI COlOI paints
and brushes exactly like grown up
artists use. Yes. The Junior Call VIII
spread lot of happiness around the
state tomorrow. But the prizes are not
all. They are only a small part The
clever stories, jokes, poems, puzzles and
pictures are the biggest kind of prizes
all by themselves
Perhaps you have heard about the
automobile? Well, it will be there,
too. A very clever mechanic has re-
duced automobile building to it's very
simplest terms and the result is that
In The Junior Call tomorrow will be
published the detailed drawings and a
description of each step which will en-
able any boy who can handle tools a
little bit and who can rustic up the
an automobile all by himself. But he
won't have to ride in it all by himself,
for this auto Will carry five juvenile
passengers at once, And any boy can
make it! Can you beat that? BY to-
morrow evening the new autos will
begin to appear on the streets, and
then you will have to beat 1t" or else
you'll get run over.
The Junior Call, published with the
daily Call every Saturday morning fer
the boys and girls Of San Francisco
and California, is proving huge sue
cess. That information is contained in
a hundred or more letters which are
being received every day from the
boys and girls themselves, and surely
they are the best judges of all.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
The Paragraph Pulpit
UNITARIAN
The Courage of Conviction

The chief difference there is be-
tween the average thinking man of
today and the Unitarian is that the
Unitarian has the courage of the other
mans convictions. Neither believes
in the supernatural basis of religion,
but the Unitarian honestly acknowl-
edges it. Neither believes in me
chanical and blood wrought salvation,
but the Unitarian has the courage
to openly declare himself. Neither
believes in a birthstone hell or gold
paved heaven; but the Unitarian
definitely disavows his belief. With
both the old faith is dead; with the
Unitarian it is given decent burial
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
CLfVfR[Y CAPTURE
ROBbFR OF HOMES
Man Now in Custody Believed
to Have Terrorized the.
Western Addition
Policeman Earl Sees Charles
Parson Breaking Into
Residence

After watching day and night for
several weeks the police succeeded in
capturing yesterday the man who is
suspected of having stolen several
thousand dollars worth of jewelry in
addition to large sums of money from
homes in the Western addition during
the last six months. Charles Parson,
a colored man. was arrested after a
struggle by Policeman Slade Earl in
the rear of the house. 2017 Broadway.
Policeman Earl was one of several who
had been detailed to that section of
the city by Chief Biggy and yesterday
afternoon he saw Parson scale a fence
and disappear. The policeman ap-
preached the fence and saw the man
trying several keys in the lock of a
basement door.
Earl quickly scaled the fence and
pounced upon the colored man. Par
son attempted to strike the officer with
a blackjack and fought desperately for
several minutes to escape, but was
overcome and taken to the city prison,
where he was put through a rigid ex-
animation. The police learned his
residence and. when they visited his
room in the Hotel Dixie, jewelry of all
descriptions was found in piles in a
closet. In answer to the knocks on
the door of the policemen a colored
woman who gave her name as Minnie
Gardner, admitted them and was placed
under arrest.
Among the houses Parson ise sus-
pected of having entered or attempted
to enter are those of:
Mrs. Melvin E. Cohn, 1546 Steiner
street, on June s.
Lafayette apartments, 2135 Sacra-
mento street. June s.
Charles M. Elliott, 344s Clay street,
September l.
Eugene H Breese, s4s4 Clay street,
September 1.
Adolph Town, s44o Clay street, Sep
tember 1.
Mrs. G. Ruter. 1923 Pine street, Sep
tember I.
A E. Lobree. 1928 Buchanan street,
June 49,.
Joseph j. Firth. s47s Washington
street, June 3.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
is NOT A LIE IF TOLD
TO A CORPORATION
William Bradbury Granted a
New Trial in Damage
Suit for Perjury

William Bradbury, the eccentric Ma
rim county millionaire, will not serve
time In San Quentin for perjury. The
district court of appeals yesterday
granted Bradbury a new trial, revers-
ing the judgment of the lower court
and quashing the Indictment.
The perjury was alleged to have been
committed by the millionaire in g, dam
age suit brought by ]. S. McCue of
Marin county against Bradbury several
years ago, wherein it was alleged that
the defendant had injured the reputa-
tion Of McCue by telling the Marin
county bank not to lend the plaintiff
money with which to reimburse Brad
bury for q mortgage
In its decision the appellate court
held that Bradbury could not have
told the Marin county bank" not to
furnish McCue with funds, since the
bank was a corporation and not an in
diyidual.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
EMBRYO SENSATION
IN TRIAL STOPPED
Figures in Ruef Venire Show
Missing Names to Be
Technical Error
Panel Is Completed and Attor-
neys Will Begin to Exhaust
Challenges
Jurors COnditiCnalIy Secured
TO Try Abe Ruef

Alexander Bond, real estate, z2o5
Scott street.
Matthias ID. Meyer, grocer, 2211
Geary street.
John BuettIer, butcher, zsz Haighf
street.
Timothy Sullivan, contractor, 1e4z
Folsom street
Dennis Murphy, retired, 34S4 Mis-
sion street.
Jacob Adams. brewer. 1lSo DO
IOres street.
william II. Garran, clerk, 134
South avenue.
William y. Harrison, salesman,
Lower terrace.
T. c. Butler. real estate, 1%SS
O'FarreII street.
c. VI. Elliot. lumber dealer, 344S
Clay street.
Thomas NJ. Holt, retired, 2146
Twenty-second street.
Henry Smith. grocer, $500 Nine
teenth street.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
BRONZE TABLET WILL
BE PRESENTED TO SCHOOL
Lincoln Post, q. A. R., and the
Ladies Relief Corps Will Con-
duct Special Ceremonies

Lincoln post, G. A. R., will present
to the Lincoln school today a bronze
of the war president at Gettysburg.
The presentation speech will be made
by H. c. Dibble. and David oliver, who
school, having attended in 1872, will
accept the gift on behalf Of the school
department. Forty or fifty members
of Lincoln post will attend the exer-
cises and the ladies of the relief corps
will be present in a body.
The table is about two by three feet
and it will be placed on the outside
of the temporary school building on
Fourth and Harrison streets. Later
when a permanent school is erected ii
will be removed.
The children of the school will at
tend in a body and will contribute pa
triotic songs and exercises to the pro-
gram.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
INSURANCE COMPANY MUST PAY

The NJ. r. Dollar steamship Company
was given judgment of $17,53ss SIS
against the Maritime insurance COM
pany of London yesterday by a jury in
the United States circuit court. The
steamer NJ. S. Dollar, owned by the
NJ. S Dollar company of San Fran
cisco, was abandoned by her owners
in 1905, when the vessel was seized by
the Japanese in the Bering sea. In
surance was placed with several COM
panies, all of which paid the amount
of their policies except the London
cOnpanVs
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
WOMAN TRIES. TO DRINK ACID

ing the contents of bottle contain
ing carbolic acid, Nora Barrett, en-
ployed as house keeper in the home of
Henry Arnold, 2S2S San Jose avenue,
struggled with Arnold, who attempted
to tear the bottle from her hands, last
night, and as result both the Bar
rett woman and Arnold were severely
burned about the face and hands Ac-
cording to the story told to the physi-
clans at the central emergency hospital
by Arnold, his house keeper was ad-
monishing him against drinking, and
when he refused to give up the habit
she attempted to commit suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
PLOT TO PACK JURY
Detective Burns Says He Has
Evidence of Conspiracy

Evidence Of another plot, similar to
the many already exposed, to pack the
jury which is to try Abe Ruef in Judge
Lawlor's court was laid bare yesterday
by Special Agent Burns, who declared
that he had in his possession proof that
Billy Bell and Gus Siemen, two well
known Ruef henchmen had informed
the fallen boss and his attorneys that
they would place certain men on his
jury for a consideration.
7 have positive Information that Bell
and Siemen went to Ruef about three
weeks ago and told him that they were
Ia a position to get the right kind of
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
OPIUM SMUGGLING BALkED

Thomas Rogers, janitor at the San
Francisco postoff1ce. foiled an attempt
to smuggle a quantity of opium to two
Chinese women, Lum Yeu and Lum Sal
States marshaIs office. The opium was
discovered in a sack of tobacco that
two Chinese endeavored to pass
through the bars.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25

OVERCOME BY GAs-Samuel Howard an
employe of the San Francisco gas company, was
overcome by gas while working in a trench in
Sansome street yesterday afternoon and was
taken TO the harbor emergency hospital. How.
ard lives at 2542 Broadway. Oakland
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men on his jury" said Burns. They
offered to pack the jury. and told Ruef
that they had two deputies from the
county clerks office and two deputy
sheriffs with them. They demanded
money for the deal. but guaranteed to
turn the trick and fix the jury. ] do not
know whether the deal fell through or
whether the negotiations are still on"
The recent developments exposing the
endeavors that have been made to Sc
cure purchased jury to try Ruef re-
call the boast which Ruef made to As
sistant District Attorney Heney fmme-
diately after his farcical confession
then told Heney outright that he had
attempted to stuff the jury box during
his first trial, but that he had not had
time to complete the details of the
scheme.
While Ruef was posing as a good
dog and acting the role of friend of
the prosecution Heney asked him why
he had not carried his crookedness TO
the extent of fixing the jury panel
Ruef laughed and answered that he
had made an attempt to do so, but that
he had not had sufficient time TO com
plete his plans and carry the plot fully
into execution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
AMERICAS DREW A LEMON
Is Now Not So Proud of Being the
Southern Terminal of
Night Train.

When the Central railroad recently
quit running it's night train from
Atlanta to Albany stopping it at
Americas because the hours were
so late people did not patronize it
below that town, preferring to go
to bed than ride on the rails
after midnight, our Americas neigh
bors swelled and patted them
selves and blowed and pulled
loud and long about being the
southern terminal of the Centrafs
night train from Atlanta, Now it is
a different tune they are singing, as
witness the following wall from the
es-Recorder:
HAS Americas been 'gold-bricked
by Albany in the recent change OF
schedule of Central passenger train
eNo. 7. which now stops at Americas
instead of running through to the
big town in Dougherty as hereto
fore? So it seems.
AT all events Albany, while she
loses this train, for which she had no
especiaI need, scoops considerable ad-
ditional trade.
'And Americas merchants are now
aware of the fact that Albany's gain
is at their expense.
''Heretofore many people of Smith
Vile. Sumpter, Adams Station and
probably other points could come to
Americas by the early morning train,
do their trading and return home
at noon. or else remain here until
1O:40 p. m.
But the discontinuance OF trains
and s below Americas takes on
this convenient schedule.
ITO come to Americas now neces-
states spending night here which
it is argued, many will not do when
thew can go from these towns 10
Albany or Dawson, spend a half day
shopping and return home before 10
o'clock.
but the change has been MADE
and the present schedule Will De
maintained for a while at least
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
BIG PIGEON BUSINESS.
Cuthbert Boy Has Gone into 1t ON
Large Scale.

Cuthbert Boy Has Gone into 1t ON
Large Scale.
1t is likely that few of our citizens
know that there is an enterprise in
Cuthbert known as the Cuthbert Pig
con Lofts. Lucius Patterson is the
proprietor and he has pigeons galore
of sixteen different varieties. Some
of them are imported from Belgium
A few days ago he bought out the
CAPITAL Pigeon Lofts of Atlanta at a
cost of 1925. Before this he had a
number of birds He has them con-
fined under wire divided into several
compartments, and it is interesting
to inspect his birds. He has the Ho-
mers, the Fantails, the Archangels,
the Pouters, the Tumblers and nu-
merous others. some\of them are
beautiful, some peculiar, each variety
differing from the others.
He sells the pigeons and gets a
fine price for some breeds.-Cuthbert
Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
HERE is SOME HOT STUFF
LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANY is
AFTER EAVES-DROPPERS.
Has Printed Circular letter Warm
ing Anyone Who May BE
Guilty to DeSist.

ing Anyone Who May Be
Guilty to Desist.
Evidently some one has been hear
ing something over the telephone
wire they had no business to hear,
with the result that they have heard
from the telephone company.
The company has printed and mail
ed to subscribers the following circu-
lar, which contains some plain talk,
and will doubtless have the effect of
stopping the practice complained of;
The Circular Letter.
To Subscribers of Rural Club
Lines: Complaints are reaching us
more and more frequently that there
are those on our rural lines who,
from thoughtlessness or morbid Curl
osity, are cultivating the habit OF
listening in and otherwise inter
rupting the use of the line when in
use by others than themselves. These
lines are not private, out public, and
strictly business lines. Listening
in" entertaining your neighbors with
musical instruments and otherwise
holding the lines are out of place
and not allowable. There is rarely
an occasion when the line should be
held for a longer time than three to
five minutes Transact your business
and get off the line. Remember that
there are others who are liable to
want the line at any moment, and
that their affairs are quite as i'm
portant to them as yours are to you.
Never leave your receiver down;
hang it small end upward, otherwise
service is interfered with or impaired.
Every station has its distinct sig
nal. Do not remove your receiver
from the hook until you hear your
signal.
There is one to whom the list
ener in" may be APPLY compared, viz:
''Peeping Tom" whose habit 1t is
to grope stealthily under the cover of
darkness to the window of some bed
chamber and peer through the blinds,
hoping to crafty some vulgar curl
osity.
We dislike to suspect that there
are Listening Toms" on any of the
club lines, and we feel sure that it
will only be necessary to call atten-
ton to the complaints to produce de-
sired results. Remember that you
should have the same regard for your
neighbor that you expect him to have
| for you. He has no right to surrep-
titious knowledge of your affairs, nor
have you to his.
-GA.-ALA. TELEPHONE co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25

lection OF delegates to the Chicago
convention who will oppose the adj
mlnlstration's programme.
To just what extent the negroes
will be able to control these district
conventions and name their dele
gates is an unknown quantity with
the otfice-holding republicans. and
that is what is most puzzling them.
But there is one thing that is
pretty well assured and that is the
entire Georgia delegation will go to
Chicago uninstructed. Of course the
anti-administration element will not
instruct its delegates, because that
would tie their hands when the time
came to put in the good ticks. And
the administration adherents will
likewise, it is stated, leave what dele
gates they name free to act as the
circumstances appear to require.
Negroes Favor Foraker.
The negro element would like to
get back of Foraker, but he has no
chance, so it would not do to send
delegates instructed for him. How
ever, if he should loom up strong in
the convention they would be ready
to act.
The Georgia State Republican
League, of which j. E. Sistrunk, a
former Dawson negro who now lives
in Atlanta, is president, is the main
thorn in the flesh of the office-hold-
ers and lilly whites" 1t has about
as much use for the Roosevelt ad-
ministration as the devil has for a
saint, and that it is going to try to
run the state convention when it is
held there can be little doubt. But
the administration element will be
ready for them. That the latter
holds the whip handle cannot be
doubted. Still there is the possible
ity of a split as the result of this
contention and the naming of two
sets of delegates from the state at
large, one of which will be aligned
with the administration and the other
against it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
MISS PICKETT's MARRIAGE.
Mexican Papers Account of Dawson
Young Lady's Wedding.

mexican IdDCE - autumn VI
Young Lady's Wedding.
The friends of Miss Rubie Pickett,
whose marriage in albuquerque,
New Mexico, was noted in the last
issue of The News, will read with in
terest the following account of the
happy event from the albuquerque
Citizen:
"A wedding of particular in
terest in albuquerque social circles
is that of Miss Ruby Hilsman Pickett,
of 423 South Third street and Mr..
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey. The
ceremony will take place tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock, at the Episcopal
church and Rev. E. Mcqueen Gray, or
Carlsbad. assisted by Rev. Fletcher
Cook, will officiate. The wedding Will
be very quiet, attended only by Miss
Helen Rodgers, of Durango, Colorado,
and Mr.. John d. Guthrie, of Wash
ington, D. c. Immediately following
the ceremony the young couple Will
leave for a several weeks trip in Cal
ifornia. and will then be at home to
their friends on West Gold avenue,
where Mr.. Woolsey has purchased the
bungalow formerly owned by Mrs.
Charles Whittlesey.
Miss Pickett is a very attractive
Young lady She came to Albuquer-
que last June from Dawson, Georgia
and has since been an employe OF the
forest service.
"Mr. WooIsey is a native of New
Haven, Connecticut, and has gov
eminent position as forest service in
spector. He was detailed to Albu-
puerque July last with Headquarters
in the Occidental building"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
QUIET OVER IN WEBSTER.
Only Race for Sheriff Affords Inter-
est. Three Have Announced.

est. Three Have Announced.
Our neighbors up in Webster de-
cline to get excited politically, and
thus far the candidates for office can
be counted upon ones fingers. The
Americas Times Recorder says all OF
the old court house officials will offer
for reelection, and thus far no oppo-
sition in any quarter has developed.
The race for sheriff alone affords IN
terest and attention. Sheriff j. w.
Montgomery, one of the best officials
in the state, has not yet offered for
reelection, and it is not known deli
nitely whether he will run again.
Should he do so his friends, as here
tofore, would rally to his standard
In the meantime there are three 9TH
err avowed candidates for sheriff IN
Messrs. R. L. Nicholson, G. A. Drew
and J. C. McEachern, and these are
making an active campaign. All are
well-known citizens. of Webster, and
will poll a good vote.
Even the legislative race in Web
ster, as in Terrell, develops little
interest. AS yet no one over there
has announced for Webster's seat in
the house. Hon. c. c. Tracy, who
represents the county in the present
assembly, may offer for the house
again, although he has not done so
as yet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
At the Dawson CoIored Public School

Rev. M. P. Moore, principal of the
Dawson colored public schools, sends
The News the following note: we
had with us few days ago Dr. Hill,
one of the colored physicians of Daw-
son. who made one of the best talks
| ever heard on how to train boys
and girls. DR.. Hill made us feel
much encouraged over our work. The
doctor smiled when he heard more
than 200 boys and girls shout Come
again, doctor"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
FIRST:

Accuracy and perma-
nency Of result.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25

Be careful about that little cough
Get something right away; some
good reliable remedy that will move
the bowels. Kennedy's Laxative
Cough Syrup acts gently yet prompt
" on the bowels and allays lnnama-
tion at the same time. 1t Is pleas
ant to take and it is especially rec
ommended for children, as 1t tastes
nearly as good as maple sugar. sofa
bv Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25
CONDITIONS MAKE LOW PRICES
StatisticalIy the Cotton Yield Belo"
That of Recent Years.

Although statistically the cotton
WELD is from 100000 to 100000
bales less than it should be the price
is steadily on the decline.
The artificial conditions operate
against an advance in price, FOR
some time the price has gradually
declined. AS the conditions are artl-
fetal, due to business depression
they may improve and then they may
grow worse.
The cotton crop includes that maze
in Egypt and in other parts OF the
world besides the southern states.
Tho cron as a whole is short consid-
erably, although in some sectloilS
there may have been made a Iuii
crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-25

Get DeWitt's Carbolized Witch
Hazel Salve-it is healing, soothing
and cooling. 1t is good for piles.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co.