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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
PROFESSORS son SLAIN
IN COMPANY OF WOMAN
w. B. Witter of Washington
Shot to Death by Supposed
Jealous Rival

RAwHIDE. New. Nov. CIV. B.
witter. who is said to be the son OF
university professor living in Belling-
ham, Wash. was shot and almost In
stantly killed about 1 o'clock this
morning
A. r. Friday. formerly Of Cripple
Creek and Denver, is being searched
for by the sheriff in connection with
the shooting.
Witter at the time of the shooting
was in the company OF woman 10
whom Friday Is said to have been at-
tentiye.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Emperor Desires Peace

LONDON, Nov. 30.-A dispatch to the
Times from Vienna says the emperor's
determination to maintain peace is con-
sidered as. hopeful sign. There are
rumors that Marquis Pallavicini is not
likely to leave Constantinople and
there is much speculation concerning
the long audience which the emperor
granted today to Count julius An
Grassy, the Hungarian minister of the
interior. in view of the fact that Count
Andrassy was the only Hungarian min
lister with the courage to oppose the
policy of the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and to prophesy its un-
toward consequences.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
CUBAN RAILROAD KING
SHOT DOWN ON ESTATE
MuItimilIionaire Financier VIC
tim of Bullet Following
Business Row

HAVANA, Nov. 2s.-Tirso Mesa, a
multimi1lionaire and member of the
London board of directors of the United
railways of Havana, was shot and
killed today on his estate near Aguido
de Pasajos. Matanzas province, by
Damon Victory, a local merchant If is
supposed that the trouble arose through
a business quarrel.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
TAFT AND JOHN D. MAY
MEET IN GOLF MATCH
President Elect and Oil King Ex-
pected to Contest on Links
in August
/ Special Dispatch to The Call

AUGUSTA, Ca, Nov. 2s.-Golf fans
are speculating on the prospects of a
golf match between William II. Taft
and John d. Rockefeller when they
come here to spend the winter Both
are skilled players and match be-
tween them Is expected.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
AMERICAN 4 SCULPTOR
ILL AND MAY DIE
Aged John Quincy Adams Ward
Is Nearing the End of
His DayS

NEW YORK. Nov. 2s.--John Quincy
Adams Ward. the oldest living Ameri-
can sculptor. is seriously i'll here from
a complication Of diseases. which. in
view of his advanced age. IS years.
causes his friends to fear a fatal ter
mination.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
PrOcIaims His Authority and Or
ders Women to Vacate Their
Place in Ellis Street
SPOIiceman Is Placed on Guard in
Front of Building, but Block
ade Is Finally Raised
One Inmate of House Suffers
Nervous PrOstratiOn as Re-
suit of Intrusion

WN the ambitious role Of a tempera-
mental reformer. a short. pudgy
n man, announcing himself huskily,
and without contradiction, to be
Chief OF Police Biggy created a great
furore on the outskirts Of the tenderloin
district between and o'clock yester-
day morning. First the man kicked
hard at the door Of Elfen & Harden's
saloon. eS4 Larkin street, corner Of
Ellis, then he broke a glass door in
the Ellis street side Of the saloon, and
as hitting climax to the escapade he
~raided" the notorious resort kept by
Tessie wan in the rooms over the
saloon
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
House Mothers as chaperones

The sorority girls have contended that
the last rule in particular should not
apply to them, as they are under the
matronly wing of house mothers y
women who are recognized by the col
lege authorities as thoroughly respon-
sible chaperones.
Organizations of leading women of
the university, including the Pan Hell
lenics, the Cap and Gown, the Women's
league and other bodies of UNDER
graduates. have seriously considered
Mrs. Allan's recommendations and have
strongly disapproved of them Among
the prominent women Of the college
community who have taken an active
part in the semiprivate discussion of
the edicts are Miss Maud Howell. Miss
Ruby Roberts and Miss winifred Hig-
gins.
Mrs. Allan and the university an
thorities have forestalled public dis
cussion of the rules by not having pub-
licly announced them. but the dean has
assiduousiy circulated them among the
coed organizations and at every meet
ing she has attended she had laid down
the same precepts.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Breaks Into Resort

stiu proclaiming himself TO be the
chief Of police the temperamental re-
former. who looked so like Biggy that
no one thought for a moment he was
any one else. clustered into the Wall
woman's resort. ordered ali the inmates
into the street. then rescinded his order
and set the time for the exodus at
O'Clock. then had a second attack of
kindness and postponed the fateful
hour until December Is. All the time
the uproarous visitor shouted in alco-
holic tones, that he was Chief of Police
Biggy and no one doubted his word
TO give verisimilitude to the raid
ers" self-advertisement of authority,
Policeman James Murphy appeared be-
fore Tessie Wallis door at o'clock
in the morning and established a
blockade that lasted until o'clock in
the afternoon. Whether or not the man
was in fact Biggy Murphy evidently be-
neved in his identity. A half hour be-,
fore the blockade was called off two of
Chief Of Police Biggys confidential men
went to Tessie Walls resort and had a
long conference with the mistres
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE KEARNY Sc
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1905
WEATHER CONDITIONS

NESTERDAY-Partly cloudy; northwest wind;
maximum temperature, 5s; minimum. A.
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Fair; light west
wind. Page 10
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Ousted the Inmates

A long hallway, studded with many
closed doors. greeted his confused sight.
A chief Of police should show no awe
In the presence of a closed door and the
intruder. giving an extra twirl to his
nustache. and again announcing him
self as Biggy. started down the hall
way. rapping with a splendid curiosity
on each closed door and demanding
that it be opened and the place cleared
out One Of the women. Clarissa
Howard. was so shocked by the sound
OF the words. I am Chief Biggy," that
she suffered from nervous prostration
All day
Biggy has been threatening to close
Up the Wall woman's place almost since
the time he was first made chief of
police. He objected. he said. to the ex-
istence Of such a place at the impor-
fant transfer point Of Larkin and Ellis
streets. But for some unexplained rea-
~. the day Of closing was postponed.
y was naturally a shock when a man
announcing himself as chief appeared
10 carry out the threat The raid"
was explained by the condition of un-
natural excitement under which the i'm
uersonater OF the chief was laboring.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Frou-Frou Skirt Barred

In the first place the womens dean
prefers that goods move with a Sc
date men and noiseIess skirts. The
silky frou-frou of the hidden petticoat
and the crinkling whisper of the
starched lingerie is not polite to the
ears of Miss Allan. Fluffy Ruffles would
last about a minute under Mrs Allan's
austere scepter. For the first rule to
be instilled into the women students
was this:
Women students must not appear on
the quad or about university buildings
wearing frou-frou skirts
The next recommendation of Mrs. Al
Ian was equally harsh and sternly like
a stump speech by Anthony Comstock.
1t was
Light dresses. and particularly
peekaboo waists. should not be worn
at university exercises"
How does she expect girl to look
charming" ask the women students.
Rule caused a cardinal blush to
overspread the college of the cardinal.
Women must not wear hosiery of light
or pastel shades. the edict came from
Mrs. Allan to sorority girls and the
maidens at Roble hall. Why there
Should be such a cruelty personal rule
none of the maidens could fathom Pale
blue and she'll pink stock. But the
subject was too delicate for discussion
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Apparently intoxicated

The pudgy person who appeared to
be under the influence Of liquor ap-
preached Elfen & Harden's saloon at
1.5o o'clock Dean Ellen. one of the
proprietors. was inside checking up the
cash and had locked the front doors
Suddenly he heard a swift kick strik-
ing against the woodwork and a
heated voice shouting. I am Chief
Biggy. Ckick); open up that door
lzick-hick).
7 don't care who you are" shouted
Elfen. and went on with his accounts.
Soon the racket was renewed at the
side door in Ellis street. and the glass
panel broke before the fist, the breath
and the voice Of the man who called
proudly and without contradiction, I
am Chief Biggy."
Bat he didn't get into the saloon.
He had better luck with the door
leading to Tessie Walls quarters. He
went upstairs.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Evening StroIIs Limited

According to rule ", Men and
women students must not stroll to-
gether in the evening in single
couples" That was harsh "virginibus
puerisque," as they say with Horace
at Stanford.
There was no provision made to pre-
vent groups of maidens and youths
from walking together to the candy
shops of Palo Alto or home from the
library after studious evening among
the odes and epodes, but groups are
not popular at times.
Mrs. Allan's recommendation (rule
V) that the plaintive notes of taps"
echo from the quad at 10 o'clock is un-
popular alike with digs and queen
ers' at Stanford. The "queeners" take
violent exception to rule ". which
suggests that students must satisfy
themselves with fewer social activities"
"Queeners'' also are desperately on
posed to rule VII. which provides that
"All men students calling on women
students must take their departure be-
fore 10 o'clock in the evening"
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
AUSTRIA REQUIRES
TURKEY TO SUBMIT
Ambassador Tells Grand Vizier
That Boycott Must Stop
at Once

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. % The
Austro- Hungarian ambassador to Tur
key. Marquis Pa1lavicini, in an inter-
view with the grand vizier on Saturday
renewed his protest against the Aus
trian boycott instituted by Turkey and
declared that his government could not
wait many more days for solution of
the difficulty.
The ambassador stated that, falling
this, it would be necessary for him to
proceed to Vienna, and he limited that
his absence might be prolonged unless
the porte remedied the situation
The grand vizier replied that he was
doing his utmost and was hopeful of
settling the matter.
Rupture Seems Imminent
LONDON, Nov. sO.-A dispatch to the
Times from Constantinople says that
key is becoming more serious. The
departure of the Austrian ambassador,
Marquis Pallavicini, will mean the
complete rupture of negotiations. 1t is
by Turkey while Austria maintains her
demand for suppression of the boycott
by active interference of the porte.
The heads of the guilds concerned
have told the grand vizier that the
boycott will be persisted in so long as
Austria perseveres in her present atti-
tude.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
COAST
EASTERN

Five thousand residents in Guthri
Oklahoma, are driven from their
food.
Railroads control most federal
clares ]. L. Bristow, senator elec
sas.
President Roosevelt orders his
and manufacturer agent taxes spe
ments-
Timothy Woodrun retires from Sc
In favor Of Elihu Root.
Tariff revision committee faces m
lens among multitude of suggestion
Notices of mothers death and sui
Of San Jose woman cross on wire.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
FOREIGN

Austrian ambassador notifies Turkey that b
colt must be stopped. Pag
Insurgents march on Port au Prince and Pr,
dent Nord Alexis prepares to defend Halt
capital. Pag
Web Of guilt draws tighter around Nine ste
he'll in Paris. Pag
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30

Aerogrsm gives position OF Tenyo Maru and
indicates liners arrival here by daybreak this
morning. Page 10
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
SUBURBAN

Louis Jurgens, manager Of the st
in Oakland, is fatally beaten an
gsspipe thugs.
University experts file report on
Of disease which Injuries citrus treel
Elks Of Alameda county WELDON
alted ruler Of order on visit.
South San Francisco residents I
clean streets and lots.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
international Company's New
Plan Will Benefit About
10000 Men.
PENSION SYSTEM DEVISED.
GOES INTO EFFECT NEXT TUES
DAY-PRoVIDEs AGAINST SICK
NESS, ACCIDENT OR DEATH OF
MEMBERS.

Chicago, Aug. 29.-The Information
al Harvester company, through its
general manager, c. S. Funk, has an
nounced the organization of a benefit
association and pension fund for its
80, 900 employees in all parts of the
world
In many respects the plan is said to
be the most liberal adopted by any
large business concern within recent
years The company announces that
it will contribute $4,000 toward the
benefit fund, providing rs per cent of
it's employees join the new association.
Should so per cent of the employees
| join the company will contribute $25,-
O00
The pension movement plans for
the retirement of all employees at the
age Of 65 years who have worked con-
tinuously for twenty years. AS the
harvester company has been estab'
| lished but six years the plan if liter
ally interpreted would mean that the
| majority of employees would have to
work fourteen years before becoming
eligible for pensions.
To Consider Previous Service.
The company, however, through a
| pension board to be appointed later
and to be composed of an equal mum
Der of officials and employees, will dis
tribute benefits according to the
| length of service of employees in the
various branches prior to the amalga
nation. From advance calculations
Mr.. Funk estimates that hundreds OF
employees are already eligible for re
tirement under it's company's rule.
The new plans become effective
next Tuesday, Sept. 1. Advance no
tees in the shape of large posters
have already been sent to all of the
plants of the company in all parts O
the world, announcing in detail the
benefits to be derived from joining.
More than five thousand employe
have already signified their intention
of joining and applications are being
received at the rate of 1000 a day.
Another point which Mr.. Funk be
lieves is unique in the matter of bene
fit associations is that membership
in the association is voluntary on tn,
part of the employees. In joining the,
are not asked to waive any lega
rights against the company in case o
personal injury. The company receives
no financial benefit from the new
plan, according to Mr.. Funk, the asso
citation being solely for the benefit O
h@
choose one-half of the board of trus
tees from members representing tn
various branches and departing hts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
FOOD PERSONALITIES.
A Comparison Between salicylfo
Acid and Sugar or Salt.

Acto ana sugar or SAT-.
All OF the most common food pre-
servatives are constituents of the food
we eat. Nature herself has put them
into our food. We have been consum-
ing them since time began. Our saw
age ancestors consumed them for mil
lenniums before us.
Two grains OF salicylic acid will pre-
serve pound OF food for reasonable
length or time. A grain is the amount
most commonly used In order TO
preserve the same amount OF food with
equal safety one pound of sugar would
be required. In fifteen pounds OF well
preserved food there would be thirty
grains OF salicylic acid Ii Is a very
common thing for physicians to admin
lister to their patients thirty grains at
a dose and keep up the administration
for many days with benefit TO the pa
tient. Fifteen pounds OF food preserv-
ed TO an equal extent by sugar would
require fifteen pounds OF sugar. How
long does the reader suppose that any
person could retain good health IL they
undertook TO eat fifteen pounds OF
sugar at a single sitting and keep TAX
ing such doses for weeks at timer
AS grain of salicylic acid will pre-
serve more food with equal certainty
than an ounce of salt and as fifteen
grains of salicyiic acid would equal in
preserving power over a pound of salt.
who would hesitate in choosing the
alternative doses OF thirty grains Of
salicyclic acid or OF two pounds Of
table salt? One pound of salt is IA
tai dose.-Dr. Il. G. Eccles In Public
Opinipn
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
POWERS, VICTIM
OF INTRIGUE, TELLS
HIS LIFE STORY
CONTINUED From Page One.)

me while on the train. l said then
that 1t was a shame and an outrage
and would mean the defeat of the re-
publican ticket in the election contest
"On the night following the assassin
alton the democrats held a monster
mass meeting in Frankfort in which
they declared that Goebel was killed
by huge republican conspiracy.
Soon after the legislature appropri-
ated 100000 to find the criminal. At
torney Tom Campbell, lawyer with a
black record, was placed in charge by
the democrats.
"A little later I was arrested. In
ten days after my arrest the party
lines in Kentucky were tightly drawn.
To be good democrat was to say |
was guilty; to be good republican
was to say l was innocent. My first
trial came in July 1900. A gubernato-
rial race was on. The Goebelites
knew that my conviction was neces-
sary to their success. They determin-
ed to convict me at any cost. The issue
was really the governorship and 1t was
found out in a court of justice where
the life Of human being was at stake.
Judge Partial.
Judge Cantrell. a man 1 had long
known was the first trial Judge He
refused to draw the jury from the jury
wheel, because the regular panel had
been made out before Goebers assas.
sination and could not have been pack.
ed The jury was drawn from the
Goebel counties Of the hundred men
ninety-five were democrats. On the
morning when my trial opened, the
judge out of hearing Of my lawyers
and myself. questioned these men and
dismissed those who were not out and
out Goebelites. When that jury as
sembled none of the men would look
me in the eye Their whole bearing
was that of men determined to get
through with the trial as quickly as
possible and convict me. My fate was
not unanticipated. 1 was condemned
to imprisonment at hard labor for life
/ had been confined in the Georgetown
jail and the iailer was kind My en-
emies moved that be taken to Louis
vile. where the jailer was a Goebelite
l was crushed and did not care so
did not fight the change. On the road
to Louisville l had time for sober re
Election. The past rose up like hid
eous night dream. From an early age
I had taken upon my shoulders more
burdens than fall to the lot of mos
lads / had fought for every inch al
my rise. Now my prospects were
blighted. | saw myself taken from
prison to prison branded as criminal
a slayer of man.
I'm Louisville I was we'll treated
The Goebel jailer proved a friend
had long time to wait for the Cour
of Appeals to pass on my case. Wher
1t did hand down a decision it said
Powers has been wrongfully and lille
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
Nnrrow Escapes.

An Edinburgh minister rolled thou
sand feet down the sleeps of Ben
Nevis and lived to tell the tale. Adj
miral Sir Novel; Salmon was clean
shot through at Lucknow and returned
as dead, but came up smiling soon
afterward. Similar was Lord Wolse-
ley's experience In the Crimea; but.
though pretty well riddled with shot
and shell and deprived OF the sight Of
an eye, he was able soon after to en-
Joy a laugh over his own obituary.
Not long ago there was a girl up on
trial in London police court who had
twice attempted to commit suicide.
but two trains had passed over hss
and left her unscathed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
COMMITTEES FOR
FALL FESTIVAL
WERE CHOSEN
CONTINUED From Page One.)

street from bridge to Fifth street and
the first square north and south on
First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth
streets-A. S. Street, Elmer Eggemeyer
Chas Kreimeier, Albert Morel, Her
man F. Pilgrim.
Main street from Fifth to Sixth and
the first square north and south on
Sixth street-Philip Brick, o. E. Dick
inson, Geo. Brehm, Bernard J. Mag,
Jos. Hassenbusch.
Main street from Sixth to Seventh
and the first square north and south
on Seventh-A. w. Gregg, John c.
Bayer, Dr. Adams, F. M. Taylor,
Frank l. Reed, Geo. L. Klein.
Main street from Seventh to Eighth
-Chas. H. Feltman, VIM. D. Loehr, F.
C. Lahrman, Frank Youngflesh, Frank
Meyer, Ray Shiveley, o. G. Murray.
Eighth street from North A to South
street-H. H. Engelbert, Harry c.
Downing, Cash Beall, J. A. Weighman
Main street from Eighth to Ninth
and the first square north and south
on Ninth street-Paul Ross. VIM. H
Rooney, Jno. Hasemeier, Wallace B
Simmons, Jacob Rosenbloom, Walter
A Johnson, c. e. Thomason, Frank
Haner.
Main street from Ninth to Tenth
street, and first square north and
south on Tenth street.-The. Zwissler
VIM. H. Bartel, Jr., Jno. S. Brown
R. w. Hall, C. c. Allen, Ed Roser.
Main street from Tenth to Twelfth
street and the first square north ant
South on Eleventh and Twelfth streets
C. A. Harrison, F. C. Kibbey, Chas
Johanning.
Main street east of Twelfth ant
north to railroad-H. H. Toler. Geo. r
Markle, Edgar Hawekotte, Chas
Hodge.
FIT Wayne avenue from A to F
streets-F. o. Chambers, Jacob Lich
| tenfels
North Eighth street from D to E.
Glen Thistlethwaite, B. d. Game.
North E street from Eighth tt
Tenth streets and see wholesalers
Lewis Tiff, Geo. Miller, Jno McCar
thy.
Riverdale-Geo. w. Carter, Edga
Norris. Sherman White.
South Side, south of South A street
Matt Won Pein, A. w. Blickwedel. Jno
H. Hanseman, Chas. Bentlage. w. H
Rosa, Geo. Cutter, Louis A. Knopf.
Seventh Ward-Edw. G. McMahan
Geo. Matthews, Geo. Cotton.
Eighth Ward-John T. Burdsall
| Jno. P. Evans.
| Special committee to see manufac
turers-J. NJ. Lontz, Geo. Seidel, NJ. j
O'Brien. S. E. Swayne, Walter McCon
aha, J. c. Hunt, c. A. Mcclure.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
TAINTED ATMOSPHERES.
How Fumes of Alcohol and Pofsons
May Endanger Health.

May EnuanRcr healtns
Burton on-Trent, the center of the
English brewing industries, has the pc
culiar faculty of mildly intoxicating
the stranger within its gates. The res
ident has become accustomed to the
mildly alcoholic fumes which arise
from the innumerable brewing watts,
but the susceptible stranger finds ex-
hilaration and finally a mild form of
intoxication in the atmosphere-an eff
feet which does not wear off for sew
eral hours after his arrival. On every
hand the big brewing houses are
throwing off fumes from the watts OF
matted liquors, and, while these are i'm.
perceptible to the resident, more than
a thousand authentic instances are
said to have been recorded of persons
to whom the air has proved to possess
properties that both cheer and inebri
ate.
Just as In certain parts Of the ives,
the arsenious fumes from the smelter:
destroy vegetation and imperil health
the vapors of the English brewing cap
ital destroy the sobriety of the abstain
err and fill his head with vagrant fan
cies. AS many visitors to the place arr
actuated by desire to see for them
selves the great industry which they
are doing their modest best to suppress!
and as they are the most sensitive t,
the atmosphere of the town, those wh'
gain their living from the brew houses
take great delight in observing thes
involuntary laDSeS from princiDles-
New York Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
Her Iden of Necessities.

The young man was interviewing the
stern parent of the only girl in the
world. 'Of course, SIR" he said. my
salary is not colossal, but l can give
her all the necessities of life and some
of its luxuries."
my dear Mr.. Softly" replied the
stern parent, ''you have scarcely I'M
proved your time in her society if you
do not know that she considers all the
luxuries of life far morS necessary
than the necessities"