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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

more, was from Horace Ford. a police
court attorney of this city.
Mcfarland was arrested here Friday,
July 80. by Detectives Proll and Kelly
for passing a fictitious check for $23
on the Haberfelde furniture company.
s45 Golden Gate avenue. He had pur-
chased a table for that amount and
given a check in payment. Then he
went to the tailor shop of Louis Skoll
in the next block and ordered a suit
OF clothes, giving fictitious check for
t2e. intending to make deposit Of
$40 on the suit and get 50 change.
Mcfarland was released on the fol-
lowing day on $1,000 bonds, Ford and
Attorney Walter Gallagher becoming
his sureties. He told Ford that his
uncle. John McNamara, was a rich
rancher near Brentwood, Contra Costa
county, and suggested that Ford ac-
company him there and he would get
$500 cash so as to relieve Ford and
Gallagher from his bonds. They went
to Brentwood and put UP at the hotel
there. Ford becoming responsible for
the hotel bills and spending coin in
entertaining MacFarland.
Ford was told that MacFarland was
not on the square and he tried to see
Sheriff Veale, but could not find him.
Then he tried to find a deputy sheriff,
but failed. It was arranged that he
and MacFarland would drive to the
supposed uncle's ranch on the Sunday,
but when Ford awoke Sunday morning
he learned that Mcfarland had dis.
appeared, driving away in a rig be-
longing to DR.. Frank Cook. Ford got
Doctor Cook to swear out warrant
for MacFarland's arrest on charge
of grand larceny for stealing the horse
and buggy, and gave Sheriff Veale
description of Mcfarland. The rig
was later found near Garcia's ranch.
Ford believes that it was MacFarlands
intention to murder and rob him.
The charge of passing a fictitious
check against MaeFarland will be
called in Police Judge ~Deasy's court
tomorrow morning.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
CANADA TAKES OVER
ESQUIMALT NAVY BASE
Policy Will Be to Build Up
Separate Armament

VICTORIA, B. c.. Aug. THE Es-
quimalt naval yard will be formally
taken over from the imperial govern
ment by the Canadian government at
the end of this month and arrange
ments are now being made by Captain
Parriek, r. N, and Commander Craw-
ford. r. N. for the transfer.
Esquimalt ranks with Gibraltar and
Halifax in its equipment as a naval
station. The policy of the Canadian
government is TO build up a Canadian
navy.
Negotiations have been in progress
for some time past for the transfer
of Esquimalt and L. P. Brodeur and
Admiral Kingsmill, who are now In
England, have reached an understand
ing with the admiralty completing the
arrangements and cabled advices have
been received authorizing the transfer,
the date being set for the end of this
month. The admiralty will not leave
the naval yard entirely, corner be-
ing set aside for the use of the vessels
stationed here. The fleet of the ma
rine and fisheries department will have
its base at Esquinnalt.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

Gardener" of Los Angeles and former
curator of the botanical museum of the
University of Southern California, was
the man commissioned by the associa-
tion to investigate Burbank's methods
and who made his report last night.
Barnhart said he visited Burbank
at Santa Rosa July IA and was handed
a card which stated Burbanks time
was worth SO an hour.
He said Burbank had just three
acres of ground on which he performed
all of his wonders"
Barnhart detailed at length the plants
and flowers which Burbank showed
him growing about his place, but de-
clared he only saw two or three rare
importations from other countries. and
none of the creations" which have
astonished the country.
He said Burbank informed him that
he was a buster man than President
Taft and was doing more than all the
government bureaus and private sta
tfons in the world to produce new
fruits and flowers.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
WEDDING PRESENTS
SEIZED FOR DUTY
Counsel Argues Honeymooners
Should Be Forgiven for
Undertaking. Goods

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Adolph
Fleischmann. "a wealthy fruit grower of
Los Angeles, Cal, had to pay the
United States customs service s2,5s5
today because goods he and his wife
brought with them on their return
from their wedding trip abroad had
been declared as worth only $340.
The customs officials appraised them
at 1857 and seized them for under
valuation.
When Fleischmann and his bride ap-
peared for q hearing before Customs
Solicitor Harrison Osborne today
Fleischmann's attorney argued that a
bride and groom of only six months
should not be severely dealt with for
failure to remember such prosaic
things as customs duties.
Many of the articles had been worn
abroad and the declaration was signed
on the assumption that such articles
were not dutiable. The penalty imx
posed was the value of the goods with
duty at SO per cent.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
HOSPITAL INNATE SUES
TO SECURE HIS RELEASE
Napa Man Committed as Insane
Seeks Habeas Corpus Writ
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

NAPA. Aug. 7.-One of the most in
teresting habeas corpus proceedings
which has occurred in this county for
some time was begun in the superior
court late Friday afternoon, when R..
r Robinson, also known as John
r. Robinson, a patient at the Napa state
hospital, brought suit to secure his re-
lease from that institution. Robinson
formerly conducted a barber shop at
Elmira and was committed to the hos
pital on February %. Robinson, after
locking himself in his shop for two
days. during which time he refused to
eat, attempted to brain the officers with
a baseball bat when they broke in the
door to arrest him upon a charge of in
sanity. The clinical history of the pa
tents case was read in the court and
Judge Gesford will render a decision in
a day or two.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
TIDELANDS BRING
BIG PRICE AT AUCTION
Lots Sold at Large Increase
Over Appraised Value

SEATTLE, Aug Lake Union
shore lands. two-thirds of which are
submerged or semisubmerged, and with
an appraised, valuation of not more
than $40, ,000 sold on the courthouse
steps at public auction this morning
for 100000.
-Four hundred men and women anx-
ious to buy the property which be-
longed to the state bid many times the
appraised valuation.
Few lots were sold at much less
than four times their assessed value.
Some few lots went for more than ten
times In excess of what they are
credited with being worth.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
CITY OFFICERS FORM
SECRET GRAFT SOCIETY
Spokane Grand Jury Will In
vestigate "Panta-PanIois"

SPOKANE, Nash. Aug. 1T is an
nounced today that the Spokane county
grand jury, which investigated the
charges against Judge M. J. Gordon and
State Insurance Commissioner Schiyely,
will be called upon to delve into the
actions of new secret society known
as "Panta -Panlois.v
This society, which includes in its
membership three superior judges, the
police judge. city commissioner re-
publican and democratic councilmen,
policemen sand prominent saloonmen,
kept existence secret until revealed
this week by Police Commissioner c. w.
Turk. who had been expelled from
membership.
He declares he was expelled at the
instance of Superior Judge Webster for
refusing to promote two other mem
bers to be police captains. He charges
the society with endeayoring to control
both the courthouse and the city hall.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
IRRIGATION PROJECT rs
INDORSED AT MEETING
Residents of San Joaquin Active
in the Movement
rcA:I n..,I >, I'll en-

STOCKTON, Aug. AT we'll at
tended mass meeting at Oakdale, Stan
islaus county, last night, the new irri-
cation project recently launched there
was given rousing sendoff. Several
Stockton and San Joaquin county resi-
dents were present. The Oakdale resi-
dents were of one accord-in favor of
irrigation.
w. A. Patterson was chairman. Ad-
dresses were delivered by L.. bennett.
attorney of the Modesto irrigation dis
trict; e. A. Duryea Jr.. engineer of the
South San Joaquin irrigation district,
and J. F. Thompson and Fred Kincaid
of the South San Joaquin district.
The committee signed more than
10000 acres the first day out, and ex-
poets to have the petition ready to pre-
sent before the Stanislaus county SUI
pervisors in few days.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
QUARREL OVER A FENCE
ENDS IN FATAL SHOOTING
Lamanda Park Rancher Shoots
NeighborAfter Attack

PASADENA, Aug. Irving Hobart,
a well known resident of Lamanda
Park, was shot and instantly killed by
c. Burris, also a resident of that
suburb. tonight.
Burris has been arrested and claims
that he shot in self-defense.
For several days the men, who were
neighbors, have been quarreling over
a fence. Burris says that Hobart to-
night attacked him with hammer and
that he was compelled to shoot to save
his life. Burris is consumptive.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
SUSTAINS BROKEN RIBS
IN RUNAWAY MISHAP
Mrs. M. McNie Thrown From
Rig; Baby Escapes Injury
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

SACRAMENTO, Aug. IA horse
driven by Mrs. M. MeNie became fright
ened at dog near puncans place at
Brighton last night and upset the rig,
throwing out Mrs. McNie and her
daughter. Mrs. NJ A. Casey and baby.
Mrs. McNie sustained three broken ribs
and a broken collar bone, and was re-
moved to a local hospital, where she
is now confined. Mrs. Casey and the
baby were more fortunate. the former
escaping with few bruises. The baby
was uninjured.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
STEVEDORE is GROUND TO
PIECES BENEATH TRAIN
Frank Franey Meets Death as
He Walks Through Tunnel
TSpccial Dispotch TO The Cali

VALLEJO, Aug 7.-while walking
through the big Southern Pacific tunnel
at Vallejo junction this morning Frank
Franey, a member of the stevedores'
union, was run down by train No. Is
and instantly killed. The body was
horribly mangled. The man has reIa-
tives in Seattle, who have been wired
of the death by ]. ]. Hauser, deputy
coroner, who took charge of the re-
mains and took them to Martinez
where an inquest will be held next
week.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
FATALLY. SHOOTS COUSIN
FOR REFUSAL TO WED
Oregon Rancher Then Turns
Weapon Upon Himself

ROSEBURG. Ore, Aug. At oak
Creek, 10 miles east of Roseburg. to-
day, Charles Hendrickson, aged about
25, shot and instantly killed his
cousin, Ida Erickson, aged 20, because
she refused to marry him. Going zoo
yards from her home, Hendrickson
turned the revolver on himself with
fatal effect.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
WRIGHT'S RECORD IN
AIR is SURPASSED
French Aviator Remains Above
Earth for Period of z Hours
II Minutes Is Seconds

MoURMELoN LIE GRAND, France,
Aug. Roger Sommer. the French
aviator, today beat the worlds record
for prolonged flight in an aeroplane.
His machine remained in the air for
two hours twenty-seven minutes and
fifteen seconds.
NJ. Sommer is one Of the new school
OF French aviators. He is using BIZ
plane of the Voisin type.
The duration of the fight made by
Wilbur Wright was two hours twenty
minutes and ffty-seven seconds. 1t
was made at LIE Mans, France, last
December.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
STOCKTON COUNCIL WILL
Go BY SPECIAL TRAIN
Large Delegation to Attend the
Y. M. |. Convention
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
STOCKTON. Aug. THE members
of Stockton Council, Y. NJ l., will go
to San Jose August Is 100 strong. A
special train will leave this city early
Sunday morning, the excursion having
been arranged in honor of the opening
Of the grand council in the Garden
City. The local committee in charge
of arrangements consists of James III.
Ford. chairman: John Flynn and Nj.
D. Murphy.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
Makes Four Flights

MINEOLA. n. Y, Aug. Is. Foster
willard made four low flights of about
one mile each in the Curtiss aeroplane
belonging TO the new aeronautic society
early today. This is the machine which
was wrecked in flight made by Alex
ander Williams about two weeks ago.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
Burbank Classed as Nature
Faker BY Southern Florists
Delegate Sent to Santa Rosa Reports That
Wizards Creations Are Fraud

BE resolved Pasadena gardeners association hereby strongly
condemns the taking methods and the expeons of alleged but
false creations by Luther Burbank depores the fact that false
has been public breeding by Burbank
1t the of this this should be corrected
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
ZeppeIin in HOspitaI

STUTTGART, Aug. Count zeppe-
lin, the German aviator, has been taken
to a hospital at Constance for treatment
for an abscess on his neck.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
PRIsoNER ArrEMprs su1n1nr

PRISONER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE - Suisun
Aug. Martin Hogan. a ranch cook made
day By gashing his throat with broken glass
and then tearing the wound apart with his
fingers He was restrained by the jalers until
the arrival OF 4 physicisg yho sewed the
wounds,
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

$3.50 Robins Egg Blue Latest
soft hat. Tom Dillon, opp. Call bldg. :
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
ADMITS KILLING
THE RICH RANCH[R
James Mcfarland Gives Details
of Brutal Murder of
Manuel Garcia
Lures Attorney Ford From the
City and May Have Plotted
to Rob Him

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06

Perhaps it was Adams sacrifice of
his rib to Eve that made mems hearts
so easily accessible to the fair sex
forever after.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06
So They Did the They Could

him up again, and the only thing
they could think of to protect him
against the rain was to varnish him.
So they vanished him. They gave
him one coat of varnish that evening,
and said they would give him another
coat in the morning, and then rub
him well with pumice stone, to give
him high polish, and after that they
would have no more trouble; all they
would have to do would be to rub
him over with furniture polish on a
soft rag every Wednesday. But the
next morning when they went out to
give him the second coat he hadn't
dried. The varnish seemed just as
sticky as ever. So, as they didn't
know what else to do, they sent for
Jiggers Duff, our popular painter and
Whitewater, and as soon as he came
he shook his head and said he didn't
see that he could do anything. He
said there should have been more
dryer in the varnish, but that accord
ing to his idea they hadn't ought to
have dyed Jabez at all-if they had
wanted a real good job they should
have given him two or three coats
of fiat green paint. But he said he
guessed Jabez would dry sometime.
He said maybe it would take month,
and maybe a year, and that Jabez
would always be rather sticky, and
that if he did dry up he would never
be able to smile again, for as sure
as he did he would crack the varnish.
Jabez said that was all right, that he
felt right then as if he would never
smile again anyway.
But it turned out all right. The
sand and dust blew against Jabez and
gave him a finish like a gravel roof.
and letting her dress and upholstery
get dusty too, Aunt Rhinocolura had
a pretty good harmony. And when ia
bez wants to sandpaper anything all
he has to do is to rub it lovingly with
his cheek.
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06

Aunt Rhinocolura Betz has long
been the leader of Betzville society
circles, and justly so, having always
eight more kinds of bottles of face
wash on her toilet table than any 9TH
er lady, but the real reason she
keeps a carriage ard coachman is be-
cause of her wooden leg, and not for
style. But if a lady has to have the
accessories of a wooden leg she might
as well get all the style out of them
that she can. If my head was very
bald 1 would keep it so highly pol
ished that it would be an ornament.
Five weeks ago last Tuesday Aunt
Rhinocolura received a letter from
her cousins wife in Washington that
was full of brag about her new coach,
that was dark tan in the upholster-
ing, and Just matched her dark tan
suit, and she said she had got that
particular shade because it just
matched her dark tan coachman's
complexion, and that the whole thing
was therefore very stylish.
1t doesn't take much of hint to
inform Aunt Rhinocolura what Is
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what, and as soon as she had finished
the letter she called Jabez Wicks.
Jabez is coachman to Aunt Rhinoco-
lura, and has been ever since her leg
got cut of, and he is a faithful fell
low. So he came in and stood re-
spectfully, and Aunt Rhinocolura read
the letter to him, but as she went on
Jabez turned mighty pale. The trou-
BILE was that Aunt Rhinocolura's coach
was upholstered in dark green, and
Aunt Rhinocolura had a dark green
dress of the same shade. At first
Jabez shuf1ed his feet on the floor,
and then he gasped once or twice,
like a fish, but Aunt Rhinocolura
looked at him with stern but kind
eye, and so he just said "Gosh!" like
a man that is so surprised he can't
say any more.
So that afternoon Aunt Rhinocolura
and her hired girl went out into the
back yard and Jabez rolled the coach
out into the light, and they went to
work on him with the package of Alb
solutely Fast Persian Dye. They had
to have the coach so they could match
the color exactly. 1t was pretty
hard color to match.
Aunt Rhinocolura admitted after
ward that 1t was a mistake to try
a dye that was meant for wooden
goods on the human face, and it was
not until they had tried and tried
to get the right color that they thought
of reading over the directions, and no
ticed that they said: Boil the goods
in the dye" When Aunt Rhinocolura
read that a sort of spasm of fright
passed over Jabez Wicks' face. Jabez
was a faithful coachman but he
seemed to have a lingering dislike to
being boiled in green dye, and Aunt
Rhinocolura, after she had considered
the matter seriously decided she
would not boil Jabez; it might get a
better color, but Jabez wouldn't be
much use as a cOachman after he
had been boiled. So they did the best
they could and gave him six coats of
dye. rubbing it in well, and at each
coat he came a little nearer the shade
OF the coach upholstery, and at last
Aunt Rhinocolura was satisfied and
said he matched it well enough. He
was a rich dark green, except his
hair, which was red, and after Aunt
Rhinocolura had stood on and off and
studied him, she decided his hair was
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BETZVHIE TALES
Aunt RhinOcOLura Betz and the Coach
man.
man.
Ellis Darker BuHef:1
ERD Author Of Pigs IS Pigs Etc. VIZ
ILLUSTRATED By PETER NEWELL

1nharmonious, and she dyed his hair
accordingly.
1t was a proud moment for her and
Jabez when they took their first drive.
Aunt Rhinocolura had the blessed sat
isfaction of knowing she was right in
style, and Jabez had the satisfaction
of knowing he matched the uphol-
stery as we'll as possible. 1t was af-
fecting to see him lay his hand on
the cushion of his seat and gaze at it
with honest pride, and all would have
been we'll if it hadn't come on to rain.
AS soon as it began to rain Aunt
Rhinocolura told Jabez to drive home
as fast as he could, for she had
doubts about the dye being a fast
color, seeing it had not been boiled
into his complexion, and Jabez
whipped up, but the rain poured down
on a slant, right into his face and on
his hands, and when he reached the
barn he was a bright and beautiful
blue, with streaks of green all
through it. He looked like a mar
belized coachman, or an Easter egg.
They went right to work and dyed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06
BUBBLES.

Shine at the top-bald heads.
You can tell the time, and time
will tell.
The person with ready money sell
dom is without a red.
With the f1rst-class cook, all things
work together for good
You may be light on your feet and
still not travel a path of brilliancy.
The toper's favorite song is not
Drink to Me Only with Your Eyes"
All the ships have steers, but that's
not saying that they are all cattle
ships.
Even in this land of plenty, there
are plenty of people who never have
plenty.
The undertaken with unpaid bill
seems to know something about dead
losses.
The only false teeth some women
wear are those they buy 1T the comb
counter.
How can bachelors expect to ac-
complish much, except as men of a
single idea?
People who are inclined to get into
a stew should stay away from the Can
nibal islands.
Even dull-witted persons are likely
to see the point when they sit down
on bent pin.
The Englishman who says "My
world" is not always the one who is
taken at his word.
The beauty doctor, in order to have
a handsome income, has to make the
best of some ugly customers.
People who have had GOODNESS be-
tween them ought to be glad to make
up and break the ice, this weather.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06
PHILOSOPHY

There's little jam in a family jar.
Punctuality makes walters of us all.
A thorn in the bush is worth two in
the hand.
Malevolence, false in all other par
ticulars, never wears false teeth.
The man who loses his temper sell
dom has trouble in finding it again.
Man is a ball, pitched by chance,
caught by circumstance, and batted
by fate.
The man who quarrels with his
bread and butter is likely to have a
scrappy meal.
The woman who quarrelS with her
complexion is none the less always
ready to make up.
If all mortals are dust, how can a
man help winking when he gets a
pretty girl in his eye?
Trouble is merely point of view.
No donkey ever wept over the sad tale
of Nebuchadnezzar's meal of grass.
Bacon observed that riches are the
baggage of virtue, but it is equally
true that sin often draws the check.
Perhaps it was Adams sacrifice OF
his rib to Eve that made mems hearts
so easily accessible to the fair sex
forever after.
After all, there is a lot of comfort
In the thought that the existence of a
shadow is sure proof that there is
light somewhere
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06
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If you have pain in the back,
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Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use. No need to experiment. 1t
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William Turner, First Ward. Lam
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