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The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
MACCABEFS PLAN
FOR CELEBRATION
Silver Anniversary of Founding
of Order TO Be Observed
in Santa Cruz

The knights Of the Maccabees are
to celebrate the silver anniversary of
the founding Of the order, which falls
on Saturday, August y. The matter
was discussed at a recent meeting OF
representatives of Oakland. San Fran
cisco. Golden West, Pacific Phoenix,
Mission, Argonaut. Bayo Vista, Berke-
ley Point Richmond and Alameda
tents, when the following sir knights
were elected officers Of the general
committee of arrangements: J. L. Fine
OF Oakland tent, chairman; s. Silver
berg Of Golden West tent, secretary,
and D. =. Richards Of San Francisco
tent. treasurer.
II was decided that the celebration
should be in the nature Of an excursion
70 Santa Cruz. The tents located In the
City Of the Holy Cross, in Watsonville
and in Salinas, were communicated
with and each responded that 1t would
take part, so that now there are II
subOrdinates that are to join in the
festivities Of the day.
There is to be a barbecue for 1,400
persons and the Initiation of nearly
] 900 candidates for the several tents.
It is expected that this will be the
greatest Maccabee event that has been
arranged for IN this state.
The class initiation viii be ia the
casino. At a meeting to be held this
week the subcommittee will be ap-
pointed to arrange the minor details
and the knights Of Santa Cruz will look
after the barbecue end Of the festivi-
ties.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
FATALLY
SHOT IN QUARREL
III. Vamamato Tries to Entice
Fiancee of COuntryman From
Hotel and Receives Bullet
Police Arrest S. SakatO, ASsail.
ant, and Five Witnesses
to the Affair

SAN JOSE, July 25.-While trying to
entice the betrothed Of one OF his coun-
trymen from a hotel in the local Japa-
nese quarter this afternoon Fl. YAM
amato was fatally shot. but was able to
FIRE three shots at his assaiIant. S.
Sakato. Police Ohicer Starbird was
within hearing OF the fray and rushed
into the room where the firing took
place and arrested both the combatants
and five other Japanese who Witnessed
the shooting. Vamamato was taken at
once to the receiving hospital and his
wounds were treated, but there is no
possibility of his recovery He was
shot FIVE times through the neck and
upper chest. He cannot live through
the night.
According to the story OF the wit
nesses. Vamamato and SakatO and the
latter's promised bride, Mrs. Ishizaka,
together with her father and thres
other Japanese. were talking in a room
of the hotel when NamamatO disturbed
the conversation by threatening to take
Mrs. IshizakO TO his home. SakatO said
he would DO no such thing and, after
the exchange OF words, VamamatO
drew his revolver and fired al SakatO.
He missed. and SakatO promptly re-
turned the fire with five shots, all Of
which took effect. VamamatO's last
two shots went Wild like the first, and
Sakato was unfnjured.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
MANS TEARS FAIL
TO SOFTEN JUDGE
Prisoner Weeps in Dock and
Pleads Innocence, but Gets
Four Year Term
Probation Denied Criminal Who
Gave Friend Drugged Whisky
and Robbed Him

Clarence A Stillwell, SO years old,
stood in the dock in Judge Lawlor's
court yesterday crying bitterly and
protesting his innocence. He was SEN
fenced to four years Imprisonment. A
jury found him guilty of grand larceny,
the evidence having been that he in
weighed Edward Cavanaugh to his
home, there made him unconscious with
drugged whisky and robbed him of $1OO.
''All / want to state to the people or
San Francisco is that 1 am innocent or
the charge upon which 1 was convicted,
sobbed Stilrwell, who is a man of some
what superior appearance.
A request that he be admitted to
probation was made by Stillwells at
torney, who pointed out that the rec
ords of the New York courts showed
much better results from probation in
the case of adults than in the case of
minors. Judge Lawlor answered, how
ever, that age should not be the test,
but rather the circumstances of the
crime.
"It is a fact, though a strange one,
that frequently more pronounced de-
pravity is found In young offenders
than IN those who are matured," OBJ
served the judge. Most of the seri-
Gus crimes of robbery in this city
are perpetrated by young men, many
of whom are in honorable employment
at the time. In this case the fact
that the defendant administered a stu
pefying drug to his victims makes the
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
POSSE SEARCHING
FOR HIGHWAYMEN
Chinese Potato Grower Held Up
on Roberts Island by
Two Bandits
Seven Peace Officers and Dozen
RancherS Join in ExCit-
ing Man Hunt
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

STOCKTON, July 25.-A posse. con-
sisting of seven officers and a dozen
or more Roberts island ranchers, IS Wig
orously searching for two highwaymen
who held UP on a lonely road rich Chi
nese potato grower this afternoon and
robbed him of a sack containing 5000.
The Chinese was so frightened that he
failed to notify the officers within n
reasonable time, and this coupled with
the fact that a very meager descrip ion
OF the men was furnished makes cap
ture almost an impossibility.
The Chinese came to Stockton early
today to draw enough money to pay
off the men employed by him on his
potato ranch on Roberts island. While
driving along the road leading to his
home he was accosted by two men
wearing no coats and armed with re-
Volvers, who took his money
Late tonight the deputies and sherln
believed that they had line upon the
highwaymen. and fearing that fight
might result, more ammunition and
arms were ordered from Stockton. The
members of the posse will search for
the highwaymen throughout the night,
and If necessary will continue the
search tomorrow Roberts island is
very large and is crossed by num-
Der of roads.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
LANKERSHIM TO BUILD
ON FIFTH ST. PROPERTY
Secures Loan to Erect Edifice
on Old Site of Metro
poIitan Temple

Colonel J. B. Lankershim of Los An
geles has secured from the Hibernia
savings and loan society $1S6.70O on the
property at Jessie and Fifth streets
on this site was the famous Metro
poiitan hall, which was one OF the his
torical landmarks of the city and was
bought by the father of the present
owner several years ago.
Before the fire 1t was the intention OF
Colonel Lankershim, who lives in Los
Angeles, to tear down the old temple
building and erect there either big
Office building or first class CONNER
cial hotel.
All the papers were drawn up and
work was to have been commenced on
the first day of May, when the fire came.
Colonel Lankershim was always favor
ably inclined to hotel and believed
that any hotel If run on the proper
lines. would be a success close to Mar
ket street.
At that time there also was under
consideration the building OF u hotel
at the southwest corner of Fifth and
Market streets by A c. BilIicke of the
Hollenbeck hotel in Los Angeles. It is
understood that Colonel Lankershim
will carry out his original plan OF
erecting a big building on his Fifth
street property.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
PETER SHOWED BANK BOOK
Nevada Man Declares He Saw
Fugitive'S $1,000 Certificate
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TIE CALL

RENO, New, July 25.-That Peter
CIaudianes was not poor when he left
California shortly after the dynamiting
of Gallagher's home was proved today
when Benjamin Maison who is connect
ed with the John Breuner company
here stated that he had seen a ceruh-
cate of deposit for 1000 that the sus-
pect had in a San Francisco bank.
Maison says that Claudianes showed
him the bank book q few days before
he dropped out of sight The Greek
laughingly said then that although he
had been gone from Nevada for several
months he was not broke.
Maison's story was communicated TO
the police, and the report that the
Greek had gambIed at roulette was con-
firmed Claudianes' flight has started
the police on the out of town clews.
Captain CoXs efforts to capture him
have been unsuccessful
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
CHURCH CADET CORPS TO
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Sixth Year of Organization
Shows 1t One of Strongest
in State

OAKLAND, July 25.-The cadet
corps of the First Congregational
church will celebrate its sixth
birthday August 1. Since its organiza-
tion in 1902 the corps has grown to be
one of the strongest organizations In
the state Two armories have been
built for its use, the one now occupied
being located at Eleventh and Market
streets. A well equipped gymnasium
is maintained in connection with the
armory. An annual summer encamp-
ment is a feature OF the life or the
corps. This year the camp was at
Guerneville.
DIR. Alvin Powell of the university
hospital of San Francisco has been
captain of the corps since it was or
ganized and will continue in command.
The other officers are William X.
Keyes, first lieutenant; A S. Robinson,
second lieutenant: Wendell B. Porter,
first sergeant, and Rev. Mr.. Mowbray.
chaplain.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
NATIVE SONS PLAN
FOR CELEBRATION
Observance of Admission Day at
Monterey Will Draw
Large Crowds

All but four of the &c local parlors
of the Native Sons of the Golden West
We're represented last night at the
meeting Of the joint ninth of September
committee that is arranging for the
celebration Of Admission day at Mon
terey.
Chairman W. D. Hobro Jr named the
following as the committees that are
to have charge Of the details Of the
celebration:
Transportation. J. Van Nostrand,
Grant L. Munson, A L. Gerhardt.
Publicity-M. V. Walsh, R. r. Main,
J. Keegan.
Printing!. E. Fisher, C. J. Stock
witz r. G. Dodds.
Music-Joseph Rose, W. P. Garfield,
H. II, Keene.
Parade NJ Hanley, Frederick
Cummings, H. Silverthorn, Grand Mar
shall L. F. Erb.
Finance H Nelson, w. B. Nye,
Frank Mordecai.
Chairman Van Nostrand reported that
his committee had waited on the rail-
road company and obtained rates for
three and four days, the first being
such as TO permit the committee to sell
round trip tickets to the celebration
city for SO and $3.50. The rates Were
accepted.
The committee decided to invite a
representative of the parlor in Monte
rey to attend the committee at it's
meeting next Saturday to furnish in
formation as TO what the parlor in that
city is doing and what accommodations
will be furnished. The grand marshal
was instructed to visit Monterey and
to make arrangements with the parloT
there in regard to the parade
great deal of enthusiasm was
manifested and, as the chairman said
from what there is in evidence here
tonight it is certain that the celebra-
ton this year will not fall below any
previously had"
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
BOY ARRESTED AND
CHARGED WITH MURDER
sPEcIAL pIspAroH no TnE cALl

SAN BERNARDINO, July 26.-Juan
Lopez. a 20 year old Mexican youth,
was arrested near this city today on
the charge of assisting his father, Al
bertes Lopez. to murder T. Rodriguez
in the bottom of the Los Angeles river
The crime took place Thursday, when
Rodriguez was enticed into the brush,
pieces with their knives The elder
Lopez was Jealous of Rodriguez's at
tentions to a young Mexican woman
The father was arrested on a Santa Fe
train at Williams, Ariz., while on his
way to Old Mexico. The son was found
with section crew west of this city
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
CIVIC LEAGUE CASES
TO BE TRIED THURSDAY
Defective Complaints to BE
Dismissed, but Charges
WIFI Re Pushed

ALAMEDA, July 25.-City Justice Il.
B. Tappan gave notice today to the at
torneys in the Civic league cases now
pending in his court that he would on
Thursday morning next dismiss all
complaints that he considered defective.
In many of the Civic league cases there
are SIX or more charges of a similar
tee Lappan stated today that II he had
the time to Investigate the ctrcum-
stances surrounding some of the cases
he would not have issued more than
one complaint against a defendant un-
til the court had disposed of the first
charge.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
ENTERTAINs MoTHERs, CLuR

The Mothers club of st. Ignatius
training school was entertained last
night by stereopticon views at 51S Po-
trero avenue given by A. j. LIE Breton,
president of the Camera club. The
school Is being reorganized under the
direction of the Society Of ST. Vincent
de Paul and the knights Of Columbus,
who have taken much interest in the
work Of the boys. The president OF
the Mothers club is Mrs. a. Richard
son and the secretary is Mrs. 9. Field.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

treachery of those waters declare tnat
the Greenwood is in almost as grave
peril as the Anubis should slorni
arise.
The Anubis lies solid with big roch
forced seven feet through her Dot.oni, ~ /
Captain PiIIsburv last night ordered the
heaving of cargo overheard stopped.
Tons Of flour and other staples have
been saved and a great quantity
shipped here
Although the ship has been on the
rocks for six days no lighter has ar
rived to take off her cargo. Shlpping
men here are caustic in commenting
upon the delay
Captain Won Salzen seems alone IN
hope for saving his ship.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
TALK ON HETCH HETCHY

ALAMEDA, July 25.-Marsden Man
son, city engineer of San Francisco, has
accepted an invitation to address the
chamber OF commerce next Thursday
night on the Hetch Hetchy valley
water supply project. The address will
be delivered in the city hall, and the
general public will be welcome.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
JUDGE REBUkEs LAWYER

OAKLAND, July 25.-Insinuations
that the city authorities had made out
a charge and commitment against
Grace Jennings and had back dated it
brought a rebuke to Attorney r. NJ.
Royce from Superior Judge Waste to-
day. The incident occurred during
habeas corpus proceedings instituted
to secure the woman's release from the
city jail. The petition alleged that
there had been no formal charge
against the woman, but the documents
were shown in court
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
SOCIALISTS WILL READ
IBSEN'S "ROSMERSHOLM"
Entire Play to Be Presented
After Lecture at Equality
Hall This Evening

A presentation Of Ibsen's "Rosmers-
holm" by members OF the San Francisco
sociological society win be the feature
OF the Sunday evening meeting of the
socialist party at Equality hall. 139 AL
bion avenue, near Sixteenth and Nalen-
cia streets. tonight The entire play
will be presented in the form of q read
ing IA character and the p0blic is in
vifed Mrs. George Bird of Alameda
will give a preliminary talk on Ibsen-
ism.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

ALLEGED THIEF SEEKS LIBERTY-oak-
land, July 25-Henry Mckay has filed petit
tion for release on habeas corpus from the
county Jail He was charged with the theft Of
a brass injector for locomotives from the South
Pacific yards. He claims that the evidence
is not sufficient to justify holding him for trial
in the superior court Judge Waste set July u
TO hear the petition.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

crime one to which the probation law
should not apply. The sentence OF the
court is four years Imprisonment"
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

PORTLAND,
THE UNITED MERCHANTS, Francisco, Cal
Gentlemen: We have shipped today by steamer
entire stock of fine Clothing Hats Furnishings
amounting to $4,000. Owing to the sudden
of our lease have decided to retire from business
and ask that this stock be sold d
affairs of this be settled
THE PauI Strain,
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
W0MEN'S WEAR

The Holland Bros Wholesale stock, and La
dies Furnishing Goods from The HUB Port
lands high class store. The entire south Sec
ton OF these retail warerOOms is devoted to
the Wholesale and retail of Ladies' Wearing
Apparel. Holland Bros. manufacturers stock
of new Fall Suits. Coats, Skirts and PetticOats
Will be sold at prices low that every lady
In San Francisco will be found at this sale
within the next fifteen days.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
MEMS SHIRTS

new Fall Shirts in pure wool, in
black. blue, tan and gray, in all
sizes; values to $500.
SUSPEN DERS, HOSIERY. ETC
a hnIf
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27
Shapes Of Fern Dishes and Dar@imieres

- ERN dishes for the table no longer
| stand fiat on the cloth or slightly
elevated on tiny legs. but they now
reach quite a decided height from their
very substantial pedestals. arranged in
a series at the base. One of the newest
imported designs shows an oblong dish
of metal standing on a set of six cyl
indrical bases or legs. so THAI the body
OF the dish is at least three or four
inches above the table.
The pedestals are rather plain and
are made of the same material used In
shaping the dish itself. Even the porce-
lain dishes for holding ferns and flow
ers for the table show these oddly fash
ioned pedestals. suggestive of Grecian
columns. supporting one large capital
instead of a small one for each shaft.
Though the pedestals are higher than
formerly the fern dish itself should
not be any higher. else it becomes an
obstacle that prevents conversation and
obstructs vision at dinner party.
Decorations of this kind continue to be
sensibly low and unobtrusive..
One unique and attractive centerpiece
for holding flowers is a narrow oval and
at the blunted ends the dish proper
rests or columns which are attached
TO a flat oval base of solid metal whose
bevel edge extends trihe beyond the
rim of the fern dish itself. The two
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

and horses, and often, when rain
threatens, takes refuge under any
nearby shelter. Thus flies enter houses.
This stable fly bites you. At night
you will find these and other species
of flies resting with heads pointing
downward The greater number on the
walls will be the common house fly that
invariably rests with head upward.
Just take a look tonight. Get the two
kinds alongside and compare their
mouths. Now, will you believe what
I'm telling you?
l would like to write pleasant fly
story, but the essential facts about the
insects are unpleasant. Study the pho
tograph of fly. Notice the hairy legs,
the padded feet, the hairy feelers and
the proboscis, with its baSketlike, cor
rugated and hairy surfaces. Can a fly
thus clothed keep clean. Whatever he
steps on sticks. And he steps by prefer
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

lacking this favorite breeding ma
tefal any barn yard litter is accept
abe to flies. Refuse such as garbage.
uniisturbed for while, becomes alive
wih the larvae and sends forth swarms
Of Hies. Even damp. dusty boxes, prac-
tcslly empty, have bred them.
u is the adult fly that menaces hu-
MAJ life. 1t does not bite 1t has no
pieicing organ like the mosquito Press
a fys head between the thumb an.
hnser and the proboscis is thrust out.
1t s jointed organ that spreads at
the end into two ridged, hairy, >basket-
like halves that part in the middle
Watch a fly as it eats The rasping
surface Of the proboscis tips laceratc
the tissues Of juicy fruits and soft
foods, and suction draws in the juice.
Saliva moistens solid foods. and the
liquid is sucked up. This is the only
way fly can eat them Naturally.
STICKY or semihuid substances attract
these insects. Rank filth. If it is not
dry, is always swarming with them.
Meats call flies by. their odor. Sweets,
A4u4u VI OAS5 are easily eaten, ana are
always covered with flies, unless pro-
tected.
The horror OF the matter is that flies
range from foul sewage laden with
germs of deadly intestinal diseases, like
typhoid fever, to the fruit stands, the
market booths and everywhere things
we eat are exposed to dust and insects
They infest hotels, restaurants. hos
pitals even, settling on food on the
tables, falling into the milk on pantry
shelves and drowning in the syrup jug.
These occurrences are not confined TO
tenements. Screens do not fully pro-
tect the most careful housewife from
the fly nuisance. No human being es
capes exposure TO contagious diseases.
cringe every time 1 see a fruit stand
In town. What loathsome places have
those flies visited before they came to
taste these peaches and juicy berries.
With what criminal Indifference do men
and women eat these tainted things.
and give them to little chill
dren. Mortality among infants and
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27
By James Beckwith

j. you stil consider the houseav a
nuisance chiefly because it buzzed
about your nose on Sunday morning
and because It specks up the gilt frame
on the oil painting IN the parlor. you
had better have q talk with your fam
i'y physician on the subject. You need
70 be revised and brought up TO date
on this most vital problem of the pub
l-c health. You are stiu reading in tbe
third reader. which. we all remember
represents this insect as sailing about
absorbing from the air invisible but
noxious particles. thus purifying It for
humans TO breathe.
The truth is that the fly is not only
an annoying insect. but a carrier of
disease compared with which the mos
quito is petty offender here in the
north.
II required the shameful waste OF
human life among our soldiers in the
late Spanish war TO demonstrate the
fact that flies which swarmed unhfn-
dered from stagnant open sewers to
the exposed food supplies Of the camp
ft- -1e- N--0 AS4lADl6 l0LeStlnal diseases.
dysentery and typhoid fever, that kept
..ne-tenths OF the men in the hospi-
'tais and killed a thousand to every
dozen that fell in battle Doctors know
Tie life story and the habits Of the
pestiferous houseiy. and ignorance on
The part OF laymen is, no longer ex-
olsable- knowledge and intelligent
action VIII reduce the death rate in city
ard country. and even within your own
family
Flies come from eggs. But who ever
saw hys egg2 II there is a heap of
horse manure behind your stable
swarm Of flies rests on il, and the sur
face is dotted with the small white
eggs that hatch in "a hours or less into
small maggots. called larvae. They
burrow into the soggy mass, fattening.
casting their skins several times, ana
finally emerging from a brief pupaI or
chrysalis period as adults in less than
two weeks from the egg.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27
81 PRIZE
Mock Duck

Alice Scblesinger, 263 Seventh avenue,
Richmond District, San Francisco.
Season two large flank steaks well
it'll pepper, salt. onion, a little Juice
N7om lemon and garlic, and lay one
on top OF the other and sew UP with
heavy thread. making a large pocket
Nix a stuflng OF soaked bread, two
eggs, a little celery. grated onion. salt,
pepper and q few crushed leaves of
thyme. mint or bay leaves Stuff this
mixture into the pocket and put the
now ready TO cook roast" into a large
baking pan IN the oven with butter
and lard and bake for about 40 or As
minutes. basting often. When done
thicken the gravy with -four and serve
all on platter garnished with parsley.
This when eaten viii be taken for duck.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

slender columns supporting the DoWl
are etched in imitation of bark. the
columns representing stumps of trees
The trunks do not terminate suddenly
and squarely at the bottom. but bend
under and form branch, as it were.
that is half buried in the fiat oval
stand. suggesting a partially submerged
tree trunk on the bank OF a lake or
river. This idea is strengthened by
the smoothly polished surface of the
stand. which for all the world looks
like water.
At the upper end of the trunks the
pillars take unto themselves more un-
usual shapes and become reproductions
of gnarled branches. The narrow oval
dish is at least three inches deep and
the outside is decorated with an en-
bossed pattern in overlapping leaves.
so that no single one is distinguishable.
but the whole dish looks like a bit of
forest carpeting in the fall.
Sometimes there is a silver pedestal
or standard. with a porcelain fern dish.
and again entire porcelain centerpieces
have been made in the fashion.
Another novelty of this kind is oval
in general outline. with the entire sur
face cut in squares. giving lattice ef-
feet. These are open. and inside the
metal dish there fits a porcelain one OF
a contrasting color. green glazed pot
terry or a brownish porcelain The legs
are slender silver columns finished at
the base with a ball and claw design.