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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
GALLAGHfR'S RUINS
MADE BY DYNAMITE

OAKLAND, May 30.-Collecting every
possible scrap of evidence bearing on
the Gallagher dynamiting case, Cap
tain of Detectives Petersen called in
East Miller. The ruins of former Su-
and Belmont streets were viewed and
mitted to microscopic tests.
The expert said that unquestionably
dynamite was employed in the explo-
sion. but that the quantity was smaller
in the later outrage than in the previ
Gus attempt on the Schenck home IN
Nineteenth avenue, where 10 pounds o
high explosive were fired in the vesti-
bule of house which sheltered
women and children, one of the boys a
cripple.
The arrest of the interlopers into the
investigation in San Francisco has had
salutary effect, for none Of the mys-
terious detectives who hampered the
police on the previous occasion has
been found lately One man, who said
he was detective and sought to gain
information, without telling who he
served, has been reported to Captain
Petersen, but he has departed from the
scene of his operations.
I'VE have none of them over here
now" said Petersen. And If we do
find them here trying to prevent JUS
tice being done, trying to hinder our
men in their work, we will surely ar
rest them and find place for them in
the Jail. Then let them get out to
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
EMMONS TO COMPLETE
SENTENCE AT Fol SOM
Boodler Begins Term at San
Quentin, but Leaves to
Avoid Victims

SAN RAFAEL, May 30.-Former
State Senator Z. J. Emmons of the
boodling quartet of legislators, was
taken to San Quentin yesterday and
spent last night, shaven and numbered,
a convicted felon. behind the doorsS of
the prison This morning early he will
be brought forth from the barred
gates, but not to liberty
Emmons was at one time In his up
and down career the district attorney
of Kern county. AS such he was In
strumental In sending number of
hardened wretches to San Quentin, and
his plea to the prison directors that his
life would be in jeopardy from their
vengeance if he were incarcerated with
the men he helped to doom has been
needed.
Emmons' one day at San Quentin will
he his only imprisonment there, and
this morning, in the charge of State
Deputy Jacobs, he will be taken to
Folsom to spend the remainder of his
sentence at hard labor, but in safety.
The San Quentin board Of directors
will meet next Saturday
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
HARVARD WINS TENNIs

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 30-Har-
ward won the tennis tournament with
Yale today, seven matches to four.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
IST.MARY'SOLDBOYS
MEET NEXT SUNDAY
Alumni Association of College
VIII Have Largest Assem-
blage in Its History

OAKLAND. May 30.-The yearly
gathering of the 'old boys" or ST
Mary's college, Oakland. will be held
next Sunday. On this day the mem
bers of the college alumni association
will gather from all parts OF the state
10 talk over college happenings and to
meet old schoolmates. ST. Mary's coli
lege alumni association is one OF thu
very largest In California. being COM
posed of the many students who havs
left the college every year since 1SI2
The gatherings of the 'old boys heic
in recent years have been attended by
hundreds of students, and the fndfca-
tions are that this years assemblagt
will be the largest IN the history Of the
association.
Preparations for entertaining the
alumni are being made by r. j.
Murasky. president and f. J. Kierce.
secretary of the alumni association
baseball game between the present
Phoenix team and nine composed OF
the "old boys will be a feature Of tha
day.
for alumni day:
11s30 a. m.-Mass in the collegs
chapel music by choir composed OF
"old boys and led by George Poultry,
12:15-Reception rendered by presen.
students of the college; three minute
talks. 12:45-Lunch. 1:30-Inspection
of drawing exhibits; a roam through
the old halls. 2:00-Meeting Of the
alumni associations 2:30-BasebalI
game; the alumni against the Phoenix.
5:00-Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. j,
E. Cottle II; benediction; music by
the alumni. 5:3O-Dinner. 7:30-A
presentation OF The Bells by the A.
p. G.. U. dramatic club, with Charles
Morel in the leading role.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
ALAMEDA FINANCES ARE
IN EXCELLENT SHAPE
Paper Story That City
Is Threatened With Bank
ruptcy Is Denied
To the Editor Of The Call:

To the Editor of The Call:
The story in a San Francisco paper
this morning that Alameda is threat
ened with bankruptcy is absolutely
without foundation. The council. en-
deavoring to get repaid $1,000 tenn
porarily loaned from the general fund
to the electric light commission caused
heated discussion. which was i'm
properly reported. The finances of the
city are in an excellent shape. There
is plenty of money available till next
tax levy.
j. S. MCDOWELL. Editor Argus.
Alameda, May 80.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
SOUSA'S OPERA
PL[AS[S CRITICS
"The Bride Elect" Will Be Con=
tinned Another Week by
IdOra Park Players

OAKLAND, May 3o.-The popularity
of THE Bride Elect" John Philip Sou
sa's catchy opera, at the end of It's
first week on the Idora park stage in
sures a large attendance for the week
to come. The opera has all the charm
of novelty. for until it was presented
at Idora it had never been brought
into the west.
The martial strains, so charactelis-
tie of Sousa's work, run through the
score. The solos are we'll sung and
the ensembles. marches and dances
give both principals and chorus the
opportunity for good work.
Edith Mason and Ann Tasker have
taken first honors in the singing. Miss
Mason plays the role of La Pas.terella,
an outlaw queen. Miss Tasker is the
bride elect. She has scored sue
cess in the part. Thomas II. Persse
and Charles Airing do we'll. Berniee
Holmes also sings pleasingly.
The main part of the fun making
falls to Ferris Hartman. The comedian
keeps the house laughing all the time
by Joseph Fogarty and Walter de
Leon.
The Singing Girl" one of the tune
full operas in which Alice Nielsen ap-
peared, will be presented next week.
Miss Mason will have the role that
helped Miss Nielsen to fame.
Tomorrow afternoon balloon as
cension, with two aeronauts, will be
held. All the afternoon and evening
the band will plaN
TO PRESENT "MARE ANTOINETTEr
Commencing Monday night the
fourth week of lier present engage
ment at Ye Liberty playhouse, Nance
O'Neil will present. Marie Antoinette."
During the years. that she mas been
before the public Nance O'Neil has won
a foremost pla &c among American
players. Sardou regards her as the
ideal exponent of mis- great female
characters. and IT is in such roles as
Marie Antoine tie that she has
achieved her greatest successes. Next
fall Miss O'Neu will be presented In a
new production by an American au-
thor
Assisting Miss O'Neil in Marie An
toinette," Landers Stevens will take the
part Of King Louis XVI; Henry c..
Mortimer will play Lafayette and Hen
ry Simmer, E. L. Bennison, George
Friend, George Webster, George
Cooper, Blanche Douglas, Lillian El-
liott and EsteaIe Warfield are all fitted
with congeniel roles.
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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

tude of country life-a message that
hints of rest and quietude
Broadmoor, as she stands open armed
in her splendid welcome of today, seems
to be almost an inspiration. She is the
masterpiece of master minds True,
Broadmoor is but a beautifully laid out
piece OF land, generously boulevarded
and wonderfully complete; and still there
is more to Broadmoor than all that
there's something that inspires you about
her, something that breathes of the fu-
ture that the writer can't describe.
It's the call of Boadmoor and we want
you to answer that call today-it's duty
you owe to yourself
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

Then, why don't you give us the bene-
fit of any doubt in your mind and IN
VESTIGATE today? That's no more
than fair to us.
And it's due us, too, for we've spent
fortune upon this property fortune in
developing residential park of half acre
villa sites, for the homes of the families
of the men who have felt the cramp of
the city, who have felt the winds and
the fogs.
Now, today is opening day-it is the
day on which the cream of the lots will
be sold, and we want you with us early
Well serve lunch on the tract; we'll
have autos to take you around; we'll
give YOU all the information you want,
and we won't insist that you buy.
Broadmoor will speak for herself to-
day. Sun kissed as she is, magnificent in
allSof her splendid beauty, she speaks
more eloquently for herself than could
the pen of any poet.
Broadmoor calls you today-not for
mercenary reasons-not necessarily to
sell her lots to you, but to deliver mes
sage.
A message from nature-a message
that calls you into the freer, larger lati-
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

Miss Estelle Warheld (Bush-
nen photo), playing at Ye Lib
eTty, and Thomas II. Persse
fAlisky photo), appearing at
Idora park.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

hamper the officers If they can, for
there are laws to meet such lawless-
ness"
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
We want you at Broadmoor today!

We want you at Broadmoor today
We want you to come and see how
beautiful Broadmoor is. We want to
show you that, in spite of all of our word
pictured, in spite of everything that we
have advertised, the story isn't half told.
We want you to see those magnificent
boulevards they're talking so much about
We want you to see the work we've done
and are doing. We want to be given the
opportunity to PROVE everything
: we've said.
And is that asking too much?
Is it too much to ask the attendance
of the public to the opening of tract
upon which 100000 has been expended
upon less than $50 acres?
Is it unfair to request you to investi-
gate the statements we've made about
this magnificent residential tract3
You'll agree, friendsy that if all we
have said IS SO, it is worth investi-
eating. You'll agree to that, won't you?
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
SUSPECTED of INSANITY

OAKLAND, May 30.-Mrs. Louise
Melching, living at the corner of For
ty-second street and Telegraph ave-
nue.. has been arrested and detained at
the receiving hospital, pending an ex-
animation for insanity She was said
to refuse food and to talk incoherentfy
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
LABOR LEADER DIES

NASHVILLE, Tenn. May so--John J..
Straud, one of the best known labor
leaders in the south and prominent in
newspaper and democratic political cir
cles in this city, died here this after
noon.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
cLuRHousE Is RuRNED

SPOKANE, Wash, May 30.-Spo-
kane's 400" lost its SWEETEST resort at
4 O'clock this morning when the Spo-
kane country club house was destroyed
by fire.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
BRICK BURIED TODAY
Business in South Bend Sus-
pended as Congressman
Was Laid to Last Rest.
VACANCY TO BE FILLED.

South Bend, Ind. April 9.-Arrange-
ments for the funeral of Congressman
A. L. Brick were completed yesterday
afternoon. The remains laid in state
in the court house, with a guard OF
honor from the Indiana National
Guard, today from 10 TO l O'Clock. The
services were conducted by Rev.
Francis Banfil, of the Episcopal
church and Or. Henry Webb Johnson,
of the Presbyterian church. The hour
was postponed on account of the
change in the travelling schedule of
the congressional train, which did not
arrive until 2:20 o'clock
The remains were escorted TO the
tomb by 500 Culver Military Academy
cadets, SO of whom made up the fam
Gus Black Horse Troop. In accord
ance with the proclamation issued
yesterday by Mayor Fogarty, business
was suspended all day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED
Electric Flyer Crashed Into
Funeral Cortege in
haywood.
OCCURRED AT CROSSING

Chicago. April 9.-Four women
mourners, returning from a funeral in
Oak Ridge cemetery, in haywood
were ground to instant death when the
carriage in which they sat, was struck
by the Aurora and Elgin electric flyer
car, speeding 60 miles an hour. A
fifth fatality was added when the dri-
yer of the carriage, who was injured in
the collision, died last night.
The disaster occurred on a grade
crossing in haywood, near the scene of
former tragedies of a like nature. The
carriage was the fifth of a string OF
six making up the cortege.
Mrs. F. Rohloff, % years old, 80
Hastings street.
Mrs Paul Rohloff, % years old. 631
Loomis street, daughter-inlaw Of Mrs
F. Rohloff.
Mrs. Charles Dressed. % years old
700 North Lawndale avenue.
Mrs. Minnie PotthOff, So years old
lived on Willard avenue.
Frank Newman. So years old
400 West Madison street. driver.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
MARRIED AFTER ALL
Plea of MaIoneys That Helen
Was Not Joined to 0s-
borne Knocked Out.
LETTER DOES WORK.

New York. April 9.-The publication
of a letter from Arthur Herbert Os-
borne to William A Boyd, of Mama
roneck, n. Y, the Justice of the Peace
who performed the marriage ceremony
between Osborne and Miss Helen Ma
loney. has resulted in the reopening of
the suit for annulment of the marriage
before Referee Coahalan.
In the suit the hope of annulment of
the marriage, or a declaration by the
court that there had been no marriage,
by the Maloneys. rested chiefly on the
allegation that the marriage had never
been Consumated and that Miss Ma
loney and Osborne had never lived to-
gether as man and wife.
The letter to Justice Boyd from Os-
borne clearly disputes this theory. 1t
was written from Pittsburg some five
weeks after the marriage of Osborne
and Miss Maloney in Mamaroneck, and
in it Osborne declares that he and his
wife had been travelling about the
country together, and were then to-
gether in Pittsburg.
The publication Of the letter, which
If its statements are true, places a
great obstacle in the way of an annul.
ment of the marriage, caused great ag
| itation among the lawyers who have
| been representing Osborne and the Ma,
| lOneys in the presentation of the case
| to the referee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09

The Japanese have a picturesque I'M
provement on finger bowls. At the
conclusion Of the repast tiny basket
woven of exquisite straw and in orna-
mental design, is placed before each
guest. This basket contains tilmy,
satiny, paper napkin, printed with ap-
pie blossoms, chrysanthemums, irises
or some other attractive design, and
twisted lightly into flower-like shape.
Before being placed in the basket the
napkin has been slightly dampened
with perfumed water, the scent cor
responding with the design. and this
napkin the guest uses instead Of dip
ping the hands in water.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
LODGES OFFER
ROOMS TO ELKS
Three FraternaI Organiza-
tons Come to Relief of
Organization.
X. OF P. LODGES ACTIVE.
WILL TAKE TICKETS FOR THE
ELkS' DING sATTUS," THE Po-
10 CARNIVAL, AND SELL THEM
TO ASSIST ANTLERED HERD.

Three local fraternal organizations,
the lola Lodge, Knights Of Pythias, the
Whitewater lodge, I. 0. o. F. and the
Eagles aerie. have offered their respec-
tive lodge rooms to the local lodge of
Elks. whose beautiful lodge and club
rooms were Quilted by the fire at the
Colonial building last night. So gen
erous have these offers been that the
members Of the Elks lodge are consid,
erably embarrassed in the matter OF
making a selection.
Tonight the Elks will hold their reg
ular weekly meeting in the lodge room
at the Pythian Temple. At this meet
ing the lodge will take some action re
garding the selection of temporary
quarters pending the occupation OF
their new club house on North Eighth
street next fall. Other matters of
much importance, resulting from the
fire, will be discussed.
Owing to the fact that the Elks now
have a big undertaking on hand, the
series of polo games to be played at
the Coliseum the week of April 20 and
the fact that they are now homeless,
so to speak, the antlered brothers find
themselves somewhat up against it.
Realizing that the fire has given the
local Elks trouble enough, and to make
the polo Ding Battus" a complete sue
cess in every sense of the word it is
quite probable that when the lola
lodge. knights Of Pythias, meets in
special session tonight, it will decide
to offer the Elks assistance in selling
tickets for the event.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
EVANS DISAPPOINTED
Will Not Get to See the Fleet
In Its Grand Re-
view.
RESIGNED TO SITUATION.

Paso Robes, Cal. April 9.-Rear Ad-
miral Evans will not rejoin the battle
ship fleet at San Diego or participate
In any of the functions and celebra-
tions in the ports of Southern Califor-
mia. That was finally determined
when shortly after the departure of
Lieutenant Frank Taylor Evans for
Los Angeles to meet his mother and
sister, who will arrive there today. Sur
geon P E. McDonnold informed the
Admiral that it would be imprudent
for him to rejoin the fleet within few
days
But I do want to go so much, doc
tor said the admiral. with a look of
appeal in his eyes. It's a great dis
appointment to me. The people have
been so kind, and | wanted to show
my appreciation as best I could
Il know how you feel about it, Ad'
! miral and I appreciate your feelings,
replied DR.. McDonnold. IF you insist
upon going. | cannot be answerable for
the results. If you will take my ad-
vice you will remain here, for you are
doing so well. We will board the
Connecticut at Monterey, where you
can resume command and take the
fleet through the Golden Gate"
well, l am in your hands, doctor
said Fighting Bob" with a sigh of
resignation. II will submit to your
Judgment Your orders will be car.
ried out"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
ODD THINGS THAT HAPPEN

OF four calves born on the farm Of
Charles Robertson, near Chanute, Kan.
the only survivor is being cared for in
an incubator.
w. H. Frye, a mail clerk, seventy
four years old, and engaged in his
work since 1869, who has travelled >,
100000 miles, or eighty times around
the world. calculates that he has eat
en- in thirty-nine years, pies equivalent
to a strip eighteen inches wide, ex-
tending twenty-seven miles.
After an attack of typhoida fever, the
black hair of Calvin Lyons, aged TWEEN
ty-ei@ht years, Of Lake City, Iowa, be-
came red.
The chief of police in st. Louis is re-
ceiving requests from certain class of
residents to keep COWS, pigs, chickens
and dogs in the second story of houses.
William Welsh, of Vineland, n. J.,
attacked by a vicious COW. saved him
self by choking the animal until she
weakened sufficiently to enable him to
escape.
Four sons were born in one day to
the three daughters of Mrs. Belle Dur
kee, of Fayson, Mass. - The first ar
rivals were twins.
An eagle intending to alight in a pen
containing six young lambs near Do
yer, Del, miscalculated. and, getting
inside a pen where was lying an old
SOW with litter of pigs, was thrashed
and so severely disabled that the sow's
owner captured the bird.
When the secretary of the Kansas
Board of Health examined a library in
a Topeka drug store he found inside a
volume labeled Just Twenty Years
Ago, Practically Illustrated" a flask
of whiskey sent out by a. Kentucky
distiller.
Unable to furnish $500 as bail, Ed
ward Fulton. charged at Riverside, N
j., with obtaining board under false
pretenses. put up as security all the
Cloaks and overcoats of his daughter
two sons and himself, which were &C,
| cepted.
A young woman wearing hat by
actual measurement, thirty inches wide
was unable to get through a street car
door in st, Louis the aperture of which
when the door became damned, was
! found to be twenty inches.
Refusing to pay small fine. Mich.
ael McCarty, of Alton. Ill, was com.
PEELED to clean the street in front of a
bank wherein he had on deposit SIP.
| P. r. Rutter got drunk at Massillon
fOhio. and was locked up. Il did it.
he said, ito get away from my step,
mother for few days"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
IN THE PERSIAN DESERT.
Curious Way In which Water Is Pro-
cured For YeBd.

Curious Way In Which Water Is Pro-
cured For Yesd.
Almost in the center of Persia lies
Yezd, a city of perhaps 10000 people,
on the great caravan route. 1t is city
Of the desert, says the author of Five
Years In a Persian Town." but how
complete that desert is and how large
it is hard to realize.
In going from the Caspian sea to
YeZd one sees a strip of green country
thirty miles wide along the sea and
another twenty miles in diameter
round Teheran. Aside from that there
is nothing but waste.
The desert in Persia, however, is of
many kinds. There are places where
the ground is absolutely bare except
for the thick crusts of salt that lie
like snowdrifts, streaking the plain In
every direction. There are also places
equally salt where the proximity Of a
certain amount of useless water pro.
duces a larger quantity Of plant life
than in the ordinary desert. For the
rest there is vast waste of sandy
patches and of gravelly soil, fertile
enough when water can be brought to
it, sometimes fecked with dry, brown
ish shrubs, sometimes quite bare.
Two desert plants never touch one
another In the most favorable places
two very tiny shrubs may be found
within two yards of each other, but
with a single exception one does not
see on the central Persian caravan
route a place away from the hills
with enough natural growth to modify
the color of the distance.
Even in the cases no seed comes VI
that is not purposely sown; no plant
seems to have any association with
the rest One fixes the eye on each OF
them individually as upon a single
unit, not as Oh a part Of field or 8
garden.
The water for these GASES is brought
by the most difficult means imagina
BILE. 1t is found in abundance at tbs
foot of the mountains. perhaps SOC
feet underground. When a well has
been sunk and plenty of water found
a hunt is made for the nearest place
in the desert which is lower than wa
ter level In the we'll. Such a spot i:
Yezd. thirty miles from the source:
which water it, In a line with thai
place other wells are sunk thirty oil
forty yards apart, each shallower thar
the one before, and then from the Sc
lected site tunnel is run in TO the frs
pit, from that to the second. and SO OIL
back to the wells, even though they be
forty miles away. Through this I'M
derground channel flows the life giving
water.
Sometimes II happens that sudder
hard rain falls in this desert country
1t brings many disasters. for the sur
baked mud roofs Of the dwellings arr
caved in. their walls are washed away
and other damage is done them. But
worst of all, too much water washes
out and caves In these "Quanat" chan
nels. and until they are again dug out
no water comes to town.
1t has happened at Yezd that single
rainy day, the water from which ha6
dried away or sunk into the ground be
fore the next sunrise, has, by filling
the. channels, caused a water famine
N the city for; three moRthA y
p 10 :,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
POPULAR Fl. WAYNE
PASTOR WILL SPEAK
Addresses First M. E. Men,
bers Tonight.

At First NJ. E. church tonight the
first prayer-meeting of the new con-
ference year will be addressed by the
Rev. Charles A. ROWand, of FIT. Wayne
who, despite several tempting offers
in this and other states, decided to re-
main with his large and growing con-
gregation in Fl. Wayne. The pastor.
Rev r. J. Wade, will be present. and
special music will be arranged by Prof
j. Leroy Harris.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-09
Charles ". Liked Mechanics.

Charles V. of Spain. like Louis XVI.
of France, was particularly fond of
timepieces and had n decided taste for
mechanics. When in Germany he in
vented a carriage for his own accom-
mediation, and after his abdication he
would amuse himself in making little
puppets-soldiers performing their ex-
ercises, girls dancing with their tam
bourines and little wooden birds that
would fly in and out Of the window.