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The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
GOULD ROAD TO RESUME

RENO. March 13-Construction work
on the Western Pacific, which has lain
dormant for some time, is being re-
sumed in this section with a fun swing.
According TO c. d. virgilio, an employ
ment agent in this city. orders have
been received by him from the Western
Pacific for 1000 men to be used in
construction work in the vicinity Of
Beckwith pass. The advent of spring
weather and the improved financial
situation are reasons given here for
the unemployment OF such a large
force
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
FLEET HERE MAY s
Perkins Wires Mayor As Vessels
Will be in This Port

Mayor Taylor received yesterday the
following telegram from Senator Per-
kins relative to the arrival of the fleet:
Atlantic fleet will arrive at San
Francisco May 5. Pacific May 6. Both
fleets, As vessels in all, will be received
In harbor of San Francisco May s. On
the evening of Sth all vessels will be
brilliantly Illuminated. George CS>Per-
kins." a
Mayor Taylor at once forwarded the
following Acknowledgements:
Thanks for your telegram as to
fleets. We will give them a rousing
welcome. Edward Robson Taylor,
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
WILL MOVE TO 0UASH
RICKEY INDICTMENTS
Attorneys AIIege That Grand
Jurors Had Money Deposited
in State Bank
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

RENO, March 1s.-Thirty-nin sub
penas were issued in the district court
at Carson today for T. B. Rickey's wit
nesses, although members OF the
prosecution say the indicted million
sire banker through Attorneys Peck
and Chartz Of San Francisco viii at
tempt to have the charges. Quashed
when he appears to plead tomorrow.
1t is said that one OF the grounds on
which the attorneys for Hickey will
ask that the indictments be dismissed
Is that members of the grand jury had
money on deposit in the state bank
Members of the bank commission, the
entire grand jury. Examiner Miller and
state officials have been subpenaed at
Rickey's request.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
PLAN sArErY STATION

BURLINGAME. March 13.-Due TO the
efforts of the Burlingame Woman's
club safety station Will shortly be
installed at the intersection of Bur
lingame avenue and the United Rail-
roads tracks. For years prospective
passengers have been forced to stand
without shelter of any kind. but the
clubwomen have interested the United
Railroads In their project and that cor
poration has promised to aid them to
buy the land for the station.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
AaUNpsEN LECTURES

Captain Roald Amundsen's repetition
of his famous lecture on the arctic
brought fully as many applications for
seats as had the announcement OF the
first appearance week ago The log
book records of the voyage were un-
folded last night before an interested
audience and the talk interspersed with
many amusing incidents of life in the
frozen regions
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
REV. WILLIAM sPuaGEoN

Rev. William Spurgeon, a well known
London preacher. will occupy the pull
pit of the First Baptist church tomor-
row evening and on Monday evening
the minister will lecture in the same
edifice on The Welsh Movement" Rev.
Mr.. Spurgeon-~ is accompanied by his
wife. He is the cousin of Charles II.
Spurgeon. the famous pulpit orator
The London pastor has been delivering
a series of lecturesDin Philadelphia,
Chicago and Salt Lake
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
GRAND JURY AFTER
REDWOOD DESTROYERS
Santa Cruz Deeply Stirred by
Vandalism Sanctioned by
Forester LuH
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SANTA CRUZ. March 13.-Citizens of
this county are angered at men who
have been cutting down large trees in
the California redwood park with the
consent of State Forester Lull.
The grand jury today began a thor
ough investigation, and will, accord
ing to the statement of District Attor-,
ney B. K knight, search out the guilty
ones and take such action as lies
within the power of this body
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
FIRE DESTROYS TOWN

BUTTE. Mont. March ls.-One of the
most disastrous fires in the history of
eastern Montana today wiped out three
fourths Of the town of Big Timber.
about $50 miles east of this city on
the Northern Pacific railroad, during a
raging gale Three hundred families
are rendered homeless and the loss is
estimated at more than 100000.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
ALBANY BREAKS NEW RECORD

SAN DIEGO. March 13.-Following
the report that the cruiser Albany had
won the worlds record for target prac-
tice with the five inch guns OF it's main
battery, the announcement is made
that the ship has broken all records
with three FOUNDER guns OF the second
ary battery
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
BURGLAR RoBs SAFE

REDWOOD CITY. March IA dar-
ing burglary was committed at the ST.
Charles hotel some time after IL O'Clock
last night With auger and bit a
burglar entered the bar and robbed the
safe of $3.50 worth of valuables The
theft was discovered this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14

LABoRER KILLS HIMSELF-Martin Moran.
coal passer, shot himself through the head with
revolver he lay in bed in his room at 2I7
East street, Thursday. and his body was found
yesterday morning By Werner Burk, friend.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14

BODY IDEETIFIED-The body Of the man
who struck by a San Msteo car and killed
Wednesday. whose little dog stood guard over
the corpse and permitted 10 one 10 approach il,
vas Identified yesterday that Of william
&terret. 81 years old, Of Baden.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
CALENDAR OF SPORTS

Monday.
 Opening of automobile show at Cleveland, Ohio.
 Annual meeting of the stewards of the Great Western Circuit at Chicago.
 Tuesday. Johnny Coulon vs. Cooney Kelley, ten rounds, at Perio, III,
 Automobile road race from Jackson vilie to Miami postponed to March g..
 Wednesday. Opening of tennis championships at Coronado Beach, Cal
 Racquet championship tournament Annual bench show of New England Kennel Club opens in Boston.
 Thursday. Annual motor boat and sportsmAn's show opens in Madison Square Garden, webb and Tressider meet on the Wangfianin River. New Zealand, in match for the professional sculling championship of the world. Opening of bench shows in Coium- bus. Ohio, and Bloomington. III.
 Friday. Opening of New Jersey automobile show In Newark. Annual spring meeting of Southern League at Little Rock. Conference in Chicago to form fed.
 Saturday. Mike (Twin) Sullivan vs. Stanley Ketchell. twenty-five rounds, at San Grover Hayes vs. Spike" Robson, six rounds, at Philadelphia. St. Louis Browns start on their spring training trip.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

nile tracks. All of the towns of the Tennessee Circuit win be halY mile tracks Long before 1t is needed the track at Mobile. will be put in the best Kind of condition. and as Mont gomery. Birmingham. Macon, Nashville tracks. everything will be ready for the sidewheelersI It Is an open secret not only among horsemen, but among the public at large. that the so-cailed week Of racing at the Fair here in that ever four-fjushed . patronage. The main reason of this was that the purses hung up were so small that 1t took q telescope to locate them. Naturally owners of classy horses refused to ship Messrs. Ewing. Thomas. Whitehead and others. who had an object in coming to Montgomery, there was a farnenfabie scarcity of high class horses. True. Messrs. MeCnrdy of Lowndesboro. few other Alabama owners had horses here, but hardly any of them raced {.
 Frank Fuller (who will be remembered as the starting jndge of the 1908
 Southern Circuit), secretary of the Weber of Montgomery Saturday ask ing that he and Mir. McCurdy 60 to Nashville on next Thursday. He says that an adjourned meeting of the Southern Circuit win be held in Nash vile on the goth. and that 1t win be ing 1t Is proposed that every town on
 the Southern Circuit give at least si. 000 purses during the meeting with the
 ether .purses ranging from $500 up. difficuit matter to get up those purses' Tor the Fair Association, with the aid or the hotels restaurants and puaItess
 men should De able to raise the neces-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

youngsters and older division steppers that give promise of getting in the limelight this season.
 Since then a couple of horses have an Allerton mare and 2-year-oldr Fred S. Wilkes colt from Birmingham.
 This, made seventeen horses in that stable over at the track, and with a Reelection pacing mare belonging to pie of Fred s. Wilkes geldings (trot- ters) belonging to McQueen Smith of the same town, the list Of horses in the stable was an even twenty.
 Yesterday Will Ewing. one of the most noted drivers on the Southern circuit, reached Montgomery. Mir. Ew-
 1g has driven some fast ones at Ine @
 and made ,tS Gls tSs rsRISSllon Hn Sre neTe Belle McEwin, who next to the Bob Schwartz pacer, Leslie Waterman, was the fastest pacer that ever worked on the local track since the days of
 For a number of years Mfr. Ewing has been in charge of the Spring Hill farm of J.. Campbell Brown, In Ten nessee, from which Fred s. Fisk, of this city, bought his famous McEwin mare. Anita. MT. Ewing, a few months ago, severed his connection with the Brown stable and started training stable of his own. He has eight horses in his string now and nd has snlppesd psa at Vandiver Park. Arrangements were made yesterday for the ten extra horses which are expected Go reach Montgom. cry sometime today. Mr: Ewing in ali his experience over the Southern circuit, says that he has. never found a place, that impressed htm as Mont kofnery has during the two years in October that he has raced here.
 So just as soon as he had started Tn hfmQa1H he haRan making arrane eements to come to Montgomery, which in his opinion is the most ideai place anywhere in this part of the country for winterins and training both young and aged horses. This runs the number of horses in the Thomas White head stable up to twenty eight and sew eraI more are expected within the next few weeks. Dr. Long of Abbeville has horses to send to Montgomery, and Capt. F. E. Welles of Pensacola writes that he has one or two to send. By the middle of April it Is expected that forty horses in the barns of the Thom- as-Whitehead stable. One of the most promising horses that the stable has yet received is expected by Ben White head within the next two days. It is a l-year -old pacing mare owned by Iassiter and Whitehead of Birming- ham. She is by silent Brook, dam Elm ma. 2:24 1-4. she by Onward, second dam by Dictator. Anaoap tde young ster's name, paced a full mile in 2:24 1-4 as a 2-year- -old. and two years Afterwards stepped a trial mile In 2:1l fiat. So 1t vii be seen that the mare not only has some rare old blood cours- ing through her veins, but she can go a bit at that.
 Now to get down to the End and srd clause of thls treatise--or exhib- 1t B.
 One great handicap that the Mont. gomery Driving Club has been labor ing under in the past Is the fact that owners of horses with racing pros peots on the circuits dangling before their eyes have been pretty cautious about letting those horses go fast when gate money was charged at the matinees. Formerly under the rules of the National Trotting Association, whenever horses race over a track to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
REVIVAL OF THE TURBAN.

With the stimulation of interest in things Oriental due to the Moroccan troubles and the Turkish Persian dis- pute. the French papers say 1t is quite natural that there should be a return to the turban as a fashionable headdress for women. The turban is the coming theatre headwear. according to one authority. because 1t offers a com promise solution of the question of re- moving the hat during the performance which has been convuising the Paris theatre world for the last year or so.
 The turbans that are being worn in Paris are made of the softest mater ials in orchid hues in combinations Of white and rose or in delicate shades of dull gray. They arc worn without aig- rettes or pompons or anything else tending to increase their height.
 Some have a single heavy tassol Of gold lace falling to one side. Others are trimmed with ropes of pearls.
 Sometimes also a very handsome piece of jewelry. crescent. sun burst or a feather or flower clasp Is placed in front over the middle Of the forehead A few are trimmed with gold or silver lace. but this Is not regarded as being in character.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

sary money without any trouble. Higf class racing will draw people to Mont gomery from every section Of thfA country, and would De far and away gomery Fair Association could possibly have. With purses such as outlined above owners of some of the most cell ebrated stables on the Grand Circuit who will be racing at Lexington would gladly bring their horses down here as In Montgomery it would apply to Birmingham, Mobile, Macon. Nashville and Memphis. and the result would be that the people of this section will see
 some of the highest class racing ever Circuit.
 This morning Mir, Fisk viii send couple of his horses over to vandiyer Park to be put in the hands of Mir. Mooney, Anita and Senator B. Anita is campaiened over the Grand Circuit . year or so ago. She won a mark cf 2:0s 1-4. but was not properly handled, She is by McEwin, half sister of Belle McEwin. and was bought from the Campbell Brown farm; Senator B. Fisk buying him as a yearling. from Lexington. At the fair here In Octo- Der he started In the 2-year-oid pace against Vic McIeyin; the 2-year.oid courtland. and being campaigned in the Garth string. Cursondia, John Thomass Lord Curzon-Lydia Wilkes lilly. was also in the race. which was won by Vic McEwin in straight heats. times in 2:es, gao i-2. This was the youngsters first race and from his be- havIor then he should make great pacer in a few years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
NEGREsS HAS LIVED
 CENTURY AND HALF.

Clinton. Iows, sunday--Abbie Farm. of this city in whose veins courses Southern Creek Indian and Alabama negro blood believes that she Is 15o years old. and declares that when she was a girl of le she saw General Washington's soldiers pass her fathers cabin in the woods of northern Alabama.
 The appearance of the woman proves that she has reached an extraordinary age, and her stories of incidents of the clos ing of the eighteenth century arc start Mngly accurate
 Her father was a Creek Indian and her mother e neGress. Sho believes ahe was born about 17sa. Her husband. she de- eIares. dysd of old age three quarters of q century ago. and their three children iong ago went to their graves as aged men and women.
 She does not know the locality of her birth Though the scenes of her eirlhood remain ~ivtdly in her Tnind. she has no Idea of their locality. beyond the fact that she lived with her parents in a little vfl- Iags in the northern part of Alabama Efforts to substantiate her claim of longe- witty have proved fruitless. but many be- llsve she is the oldest woman In the Uni ted States. if not in the world
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Driving Club will be allowed to charge gate money at any matinees, and the horse racing there will not have their marks go as a record provided the race Is for a prize or premium and not for actual monty.
 This puts an entirely new phase on the situation. In the future at any matinee held at Vandiver park horse can win race in as good time as 2.0g or better--but when that same horse is campaigned on the Southern Tennessee, or ven Grand Circuit, that mark will be absolutely no bar to his getting in a 2.20 or any other old class if he has never won a profes- sional race.
 The Montgomery Driving Club will be reorganlsed at once on a a~substan- tial- business like basis: and the old rule of admitting people free to the gates and charging for the grand stand will never again have to be resorted to. From now on an ad- mission can be charged at the gates and the best horses In Montgomery and this section can make any Kind of time that is needed to win and not be in danger of having that mark stare them in the face when they start in a professional race.
 Now as to the racing to be held by the Southern Circuit at the State Fair at Vandiver Park next October, The Southern Circuit is to be reorganized with Memphis. Nashville, Birminghan, Montgomery, Mobile and Macon as the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

tember. Little Rock plays two games in Montgomery, the Climbers play the two games in Atlanta on the 4fh of July. As last year the season ends in the east. the Climbers having thirteen games at home and Memphis winding it up on the 10th (Saturday) of Sep- tember. The two divisions are Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis and Little Rock in the west and Montgomery. Birming. ham, Atlanta and Nashville in the east. Tne schedule gives Mobile nine Sun the place of Shreveport last year. It Sunday gaines cannot be played down there the games can very easily be put in another date which has been left open.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
CLIMBERS TO OPEN
 AND CLOSE AT HOME.

Under the schedule in The Advertiser this mornins--and which will undoubt- edly be adopted at the meeting in Lit tie Rock--the Climbers for the first time in the history of the game, open ing at Capitol Heights Wednesday.
 Thursday. Friday and Saturday. As is usual. the schedule has 140 games. seventy at home and seventy on the road and the schedule is very similar to the one of last year. Montgomery gets the Decoration Day games, the Pclicans playing at Capitol Heights, either a double header on Saturday. May 30. or Q morning and afternoon game that day. On Labor Day in Sep-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Two things that developed last week makes 1t pretty much of a certainty first that every box in every barn at Vandiver Park will be filled by the Thomas Whitehead stable in one year from today; secondly, that the people of Montgomery will be able to see some classy racing by the Montgomery Driy- ing Club this summer; thirdly, that at the State Fair in Montgomery next October there promises to be some of the highest class racing ever seen out side of Lexington and the Grand Cir cult
 During the past week an. addition of thirteen horses has been made. to the Whitehead stable at van- diver Park, and as the superb advant- ages of Montgomery as a wintering place are becoming known throughout the country a good many stables from the cold countries of the East and West will be shipped down to Montgomery. When Messrs. Thomas and Whitehead came to Montgomery about two months ago they brought with them stable of thirteen horses, which included some
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

this player demands part of the pur- chase money.
 Manager Fisher answered them both, telling Nelson very curtiy that ff-he did not play ball in Mobile this season then 1t was him for the tall grass as far as~playtIig professional ball for la'- Livelihood goes To sentell about the same kind of answer was sent and if this player does not report when told by Fisher, 1t may be the same thing for him. according to the local manager.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
Fast Horses and Changed
 Rules Promise Fine Meets

which gate money has been charged the time made by such horses must go as a record and be entered on the books of the Trotting Association. Giving these sfnatinees has been lit- tle expensive to the Driving Club. and unless. gate money was charged the members Of the Club would have to dig down in their jeans and come up with the sirnoleans to make up the deficit Naturally some of the mem bers would once in a while grow weary of being stung, and at times 1t was a serious proposition as to whether the matinees could be given at all or not Now. however, all ..sis has been reversed and the proposition of giving matinees on a full fiedzed scale made as easy as it is for a con artist to separate a good thing frem his coin. At the annual meeting of the National Trotting Association in
 New York last week rule &F was so amended as to make 1t read that B
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

schedule formerly held by Shreveport, on the supposition that the League will formally receive Mobile into the fold at the coming meeting.
 The schedule provides for the open- ing games to be played at Memphis. New Irlaans. Montgomery and Atlanta. Little Rock will open at Memphis, Mo- bile at New Orleans. Birmingham at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

February 21 and 22. The directors will act upon 1t at that time.
 The Advisory Committee on Schedule of the League was to have met here with President Kavanaugh to make up the schedule but no one from out of town appeared on the day set. so the two here arranged 1t together. They have given Mobile the place in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
Fred 5. Ball Takes Coli
 Handicap for Nicholson Cup.

TOT. IS, ss; J. P, Parker, l1s. a.. ss3 Foster. 1i7. 2s, si: J. H. Norton, 102. 10. s2; J: R. sayre. lo1. 8, Ss; Jack Powell. III. '1s, s6;. H. 4. Jones. iss. 34, Kinney. Xii nc = no AS cara; iW1iliiafnV Vo H. Hurter, ter no card; J. M. Brame, no card; c. .Lan-' fer. Jr., no card E. B. Joseph, no card !; IT. F. Connin. no card: H. c. Crenshaw,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
FISHER TELLS PLAYERS
 10 REPORT OR QUIT

Sends Nelson And sentell Curt Am
 svvers To Their Letters.
 Mobile, Feb. &rtEpecial.l l----ManA- ger Fisharsp pf the AfObife baSebnil team has received the unsigned contract of Pitcher Nelson. he claiming that he will not play ball in the South under any conditions. and the new manager is receiving all kinds of trouble as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Montgomery and Nashville at Atlanta. Little Rocks first home games will be with Mobile. Mo bile's first games at home will be with Little Rock. Birmingham with Atlanta and Nashville with Mont gomery.
 Games on the Fourth of July will be played by New Orleans at Mobile. Little
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Rock at Memphis. Nashville at Birm- ingham and Montgomery at Atlanta.
 On Labor Day Memphis will play at Nashville. New Orleans at Birmingham. Little Rock at Montgomery and Mobile at Atlanta.
 As usual Little Rock will have no Sunday games because of the State law,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Fred s. Ball won the seventh handa- try Club handicap, putting him in the lead by one point. Messrs Warren
 Tyson and J. P. Parker tied for second place Saturday, Mir. Nicholson finishing tied for first place. only three points separating the next three on the list. The score of Saturdays hendicap. was:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17

Little Rock, Feb. 1s.--(Special. J. The season playing schedule of the Southern League prepared by President W. M. Kavanaugh and Manager Mike Finn, will undoubtedly be adopt cd when presented to the annual meeting of the League in Little Rock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
Montgomery at Home.

q Montgomery at Home.
 Birminghani. April 15. 1s. IT and
 Nashyille. April ss, 30; May [ Atlanta, May | 5. 6 and '. \ [ New Orleans. May 2s. 30, s1. q Little Rock, June ?. 3, 1. and s. Memphis. June 6. 8. and 10. "a q Mobile, June II, 12 and 13. 2 [ Atlanta, June IS, fs. and i7. q Nashville, June 25, 26. and 27.
 Birmingham. June 20, 30. and July
 New orleans, July 20. sl and s2. z Memphis. July 23. 24 and 2s. z q Little Rock, July 27. 2S and 29. 2 q Mobile, July 30, 31, and August 1. 2 Birmingham, August 13, IA and 15. 2 Nashville. August IT. IS and fs.
 Atlanta, August 20. 21 and g.. { . Mobile, september 9, 10, il and 12. I New Orleans. September i4. 1e and z I Memphis. September IT. IS and 1s. {
 HEont@omery Abroad. q
 At ,s' Nashville April sO' ai' ss and >
 At Atlanta. April s4. sS. a7 and { .~At Birmingham. May 8. g, Il and 2
 At New orleans. May IS. fl. IS { ( At Mobile, May IT, IS, 1s and 20. 2 At Memphis May 2l. 2S, g and q 24 2
 At Little Rock, May 25, 2s, ss and c 2S. ? 6 At Atlanta, June IS, 2s and 20. 2 Q At Atlanta, July 8, I, 4.
 At Little Rock, July 6, and g. 2 q At Memphis. July 10. II and l2. | At New Orleans. July 13 14 and ( IS. l q At Mobile, July r.. IS and is. 2 q At Atlanta, August 3, 1 and 5.
 c At Birmingham, August 6, I and 6. < q At Nashville. August 10, ii and | A,3 l2. e8fsrqeti sv es 2 . At Memphis, August 2s, s4 and 25. [ At Little Rock, August 27, 2S and I
 At Mobile. August si. September |. I. { Q and 2.