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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-28

CdIHpdlSH L was given cnarge Dy MT.
Hitchcock of nine of the far western
states. 1 travelled about extensively
and talked with businessmen in every
section. l have lived in the west most
of my life. and for a year made my
home in Seattle Yet no where out
there did | ever hear a word of this
awful menace, the water power trust.
Not until the sensational statements
emanated from Washington did the
western people know that their birth
right was. being stolen and gathered
into. the girth of hideous octopus.
The whole thing is absurd. Who
would want to be taking up water
rights for which there could possibly
be no use for at least so years? There
can be no use of electrical development
until, there are cities and plants that
need the light and power
The idea that there could be so gil
gantic and all embracing a trust con-
trolling all the water powers OF the
west is fulyy as foolish. Think what
that would mean. 1t would mean the
consolidation of every streetcar line.
mining establishment, every concern in
which light and power were used.
Again have the dreamers gone far
awryr
FOREST SERVICE, TOO
McHarg fatty contradicted the asser-
ton of the forest service that the
lumber supply of the country will be
virtually exhausted in another genera
tion if the. present rate of cutting is
not curtailed
There is. enough timber standing
in the state of Washington alone to
supply the country for so years" he
said
Furthermore" said McHarg. "the
forest service has been put in pos
session of the facts and figures prov
ing the truth of what I say. and it has
failed to make them public"
Then YOU regard the conservation
policy as carried too far?" was asked.
There should be vigorous policy
of planting and replanting, was the
reply. The attempt TO conserve the
timber by limiting the cutting will
never work out.
FOREST REGULATIONS SEVERE
Methods too dreamlike are being
pursued in oyr forest administrations
To serve the regulations laid down
BY the forestry bureau would make
logging .prohibitive in the dense woods.
Men who are doing. the practical de-
veloping work -.of the west are him
dered, and syou shear nothing but. ours
ing from them for@the present method. p
McHarg said there was much COM
plant in tae-west against the reclama-
tion service, as it has been conducted.
He himself described it as ~extrava-
CANT, slipshod and bureaucratic" ad-
ministration.
Extravagance and incompetency are
the charges that have been made he
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CIGARETTE CAUSES
The DEATH OF TEN
Five Others Fatally Wounded
When Coffin NaiI' Ex-
plodes Dynamite

KEY WEST, Fla, Aug, 27.-As a re-
suit Of the explosion OF 700 pounds of
dynamite at noon today at Becachica,
IL miles from Key West, on the Florida
East Coast railway, 10 men are dead
and five Others probably fatally
wounded, and dozen others suffering
less serious injuries. The explosion
was caused by member OF the rail-
road construction force carelessIy
throwing lighted cigarette into a
box of fuses
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UNFAIR BURDEN
OF TAXATION IS
BORNEBYNORTH
Santa Barbara and Ventura
Counties Show Gross Under
valuation by Assessors
. State Board of Equalization
COnfrOnts Officials With Un-
answerabIe Facts
Valuable Agricultural Lands
Assessed at Far Below the
90 Per Cent Standard
Nominal Assessments
IN Southern Counties

This board can. not have any
controversy with the appraisers
appointed for Ventura county.
The values they have returned
are SO much above the assessors
figures that the proper procedure
is TO ask the assessor 20 explain
why he made such a low ap-
praisement. His assessment ap-
pears 10 be on ar basis of 2s per
cent.
+. B. %YE, Stare Controilsy
The probate records show that
the assessments in parts Of santa
Barbara county are only Sc per
cent of the sale price. There are
rs cases at hand from which
have reached this conclusion.
J. HARRY SCOTT Of State Boud
OF Eqaaif1atfoE
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RAILROAD KING
MAY SUBMIT TO
SURG[ON'SKN|F[
Harriman's Relatives Deny, but
Appearances Indicate Plans
for an Operation -.
Strict Silence as to Exact Con-
dition Maintained by Corr
don of Guards
Stocks Shrink at Ne1Us
Of Hartman S Decline

Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
NEW YORK. Aug. 27.--The
manner I'm which the recent
stock market has hung upon the
physical condition of one man In
almost without parallel In me
annals of speculation.
The market is so kccnly SEN
sitipe 10 mems Of Harriman's
condition that in nine days seven
stocks have shrunk almost
$152,000.000 in market value.
Union Pacific has lost $751;
100000; Southern Pacific
common. $2O.oO0,0oO; Mem
York Central. $20.5OO.OOO;
Reading. nearly 100000:
St. Paul, nearly $8.0OO,OOO;
Steel common. SIS. 100000,
and Steel preferred. nearly
$21, 100000.
II has been said that Harrii-
man began selling just before he
sailed from Cherbomg and did
NOT stop until he landed in Mem
York. Whether orsnot this IS
true. the above record pould
seem 10 give some basis for The
ruror.
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Especial Dispatch 10 The CALI

lOPecidt DDpdfch 10 ne al
n EATTLE, Wash, Aug. 27.-That
all but five persons aboard the
- steamship Ohio. which sank 250
miles south of Ketchikan. Alaskan, last
night were borne to safety has been
conclusively established by A T. Wash
burn. chief operator of the United
Wireless telegraph company.
While l have no specific inf0rma-
ton bearing upon individuals other
than those who were drowned" said
he tonight. there can be no question
but that the passengers were trans
ferred to the halibut steamer King
fisher, the Humboldt or the Rupert
City. The latter will reach Vancouver
late tonight, and we expect to pick up
wireless message by midnight Civ
ing the personnel of the list of pos
sengers rescued from the Ohio"
The Kingfisher landed it's passen-
gers at a nearby port on the extreme
southeast coast of Alaska this after
noon, but it is the understanding here
that they were mostly steerage pas
sengers. consisting of laborers en- route
TO Alaska.
Hero BinnS Outdone
George E. Eeeles the wireless tsle-
graph operator who went down with
the i'll fated vessel. performed deeds of
hsroism beside which those OF Jack
Binns, who achieved fame in the wreck
of the liner Republic of Nantucket
six months ago. pale into insignin-
canoe.
After summoning help. until he was
assured that the Rupert City and Hum
boldt were en- route to assist the
Ohio. Eccles directed his attention TO
the rescue OF. the passengers Learning
that one OF the soldiers had not been
transferred to the lifeboats and that he
was probably lost in the lower part of
the vessel. Eccles and Purser F. J..
stephens went below in an effort to
find him.
The rapidly filing vessel was all but
submerged when they abandoned the
search. stephens was caught below
decks and it is expected his body still
lies in the sunken wreck.
EccIes was cheered by the occupants
OF the lifeboats as he appeared on the
deck and he was urged to leap over
board. As he did so his head struck
a timber. his skull was crushed and he
sank to rise no more.
Had Resigned Post
Eccles resigned from his position
with the Ohio. last week. but was per-
suaded by Chief Operator Washburn
as personal favor to make one more
trip. and his Willingness to accommo-
date his friend cost his life.
in view OF the fact that he was dis
in vie wof the fact that he was dis
charged by the Canadian Pacific rail
road for carelessness and ineh1ciency
while train dispatcher on that road
four years ago He had worked SIS
hours without sleep and was respon-
sible for confused orders that resulted
in a headon collision.
Leaving his wife and child behind
he disappeared from winnipeg and
came to Vancouver Later. he. located
in Seattle and from here went to
Alaska, where he was employed on
the Copper River and Northwestern
railroad. He then accepted the POSI-
tion with the wireless telegraph COM
pany and was stationed on the Ohio.
He was offered position with the
Alaska commercial company last week
at a better salary and resigned After
consenting to make this trip he In
tended departing immediately for his
new position. He was SO years old. ak
cesdinEIy DORnIar, with his associatnn
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY DEFENDS
GRABBERS OF WATER AND TIMBER
Says Conservation Policies Are Dreams and
Roosevelt Schemes Visionary
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

WASHINGTON secretary
projects reservation policies
today
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WIFE MuRDERER. HANeED-wsls Wan,
WASH Aug. z7---Joseph Gauyitfe OF Spokane
convicted Of numbering his wife was banged AZ
the state penifentiary this morning Gauritfe
made no public statement, his last words being
farewell 10 the Catholic priest who accom-
panied him TO the scanold.
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INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
TELEPHONE kEARNY SO
SATURDAY. AUGUST rs, 1so
WEATHER, CONDITIONS
NEWS TODAY

hES1ERDAS-West wind; clear; maximum
temperature. 60:, minimum So
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Fair; moderate
west wind. Page 10
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REPORT THAT GUGGENHEIMS HAD
LEAK IN DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
All Expenses Of Cunningham's Men Paid BY
Smelter Trust Is Charge Made
Special Dispatch 10 The Call

w TASHNGTON d.
w cations President
Alaska.
These dummies New York
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ARDEN, n. Y. Aug. Whatever
may be E. Fl. Harriman's aflment.
whatever his true condition, the public
is not to know until he and his family
decide that such an announcement is
opportune.
All avenues of information were
carefully guarded today and tonight,
but rumors were spread broadcast that
Hartman was about to be operated
upon.
This supposition was strengthened
by the arrival here. of two oxygen
tanks and "a coilapsible cot, such as is
used in hospitals to move patients be-
tween wards
Coincident with the arrival of these
requisites to an operation came two
men from New York, one of them car
rying what appeared to be the black
bag of surgeon.
Surgeons Arrive on Scene
One of the men, it was said. is DR..
George w. Grille of Cleveland, Ohio, an
eminent specialist in abdominal sur
gerry. According to report he was
summoned to assist Dr. w. C. Lyle of
New York; who. has been Harriman,s
physician throughout his illness.
No confirmation of the report that
there was to be an operation on Tower
hill could be had. On the other hand
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ILL FAT[D
/. SHIP SINKS
upon. REEF
George E. Eccles Stays TO Gail
Aid While Passengers and
Grew Escape
Remains by instrument Until
Assured of Aid From
Passing Vessels
Meets Death While Hurrying 10
Rescue of a Soldier Lost
in the Hold
ECCLES' LAST MESSAGE

Ohio sinking fast-cdn not
hold out. Passengers being
taken of in small boats. Captain
and crep mill stick TO the last
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RIVAL PLANS MADE
FOR. VISIT OF TAFT
Mayor Taylor and Local Com
mittee Have Sole Authority
to Formulate Program

If President William Howard Taft
were not gentleman of such solid
substance, and if he were not to be pro-
teected while in San Francisco by four
efficient troops of cavalry and any num-
Der of secret operatives, he might meet
the dire fate of the sawdust man in
the old time farce, who fell among rival
hotel runners and was literally torn
into two sections, to the edification of
the bowling audience.
Nothing like that will happen in San
Francisco to the president as he passes
through here October 5. But it is hap
pening in spirit in this city daily While
President Taft is a big man, it is plain
that he is not big enough for distribu-
tion among the many patriotic bodies
and citizens who would if they had the
opportunity, show him favor while he
darts through this city.
Three Luncheons Offered
The Union league club would enter
tain the president at luncheon to be
served, possibly in the ferry building.
The club has this to recommend tit
is republican organization.
Mrs. Eleanor Martin would entertain
Mr.. Taft. Mrs. Martin entertained Taft
when he came here in the more sub
dued dignity of secretary of war and
official chaperon- for Miss Alice Roose-
Welt, now Mrs. Longworth. One good
feast deserves another.
But then President Taft has placed
himself in the hands of the local COM
mittee appointed by Mayor Taylor to
receive him, and at present the commit
tee can but dinaly see the aspirations of
the Union league club and Mrs. Martin.
The committee has few plans OF
its own. 1t would not have President
Taft waste his valuable time lunching
with the f1amboyant orators of the
Union league club. The comuittee
fears that If the president sat. down
with. that eloquent body the entire
afternoon might be consumed in the
flames. of speHbinding. So the. men,
bers of thee committee would have the
president take his luncheon with them
as he crosses the bay from Oakland on
the revenue cutter Golden Gate.
Two Plans for Dinner
Then there is the question of din
ner. That is where Mrs. Martin would
rouxSuued nm uare a hrtfo,,. .ns,,...- n
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DARK HORSE IN
AIRSHIP RACE
PROVES VICTOR
Farman, English Aviator, Stays
in Air for More Than
Three Hours
Sails ILLS Miles, Breaks All
Endurance Records and
Wins Big Prize

/ BETHANY AVIATION FIELD,
RHEIMS. Aug. 27.-Henry Farman, the
English aviator/a hitherto unknown
quantity in the aviation contests in a
biplane of his own design broke the
worlds records for duration of fight
chine today and won the Grand Prix
de la Champagne-the endurance test
by a remarkable fight officially re-
corded as $50 kilometers Oils
miles) in 3 hours minutes Sc 2-5 sec
onds.
He actually covered an extra 10 kilom-
eters and remained in the air 10
minutes after 7:S0 this evening, the
hour that the time keepers, under the
rules, ceased to keep record OF the
flight
The other contestants finished in the
order named:
Hubert Latham, in a monoplane, No.
29, 154 kilometers 500 meters, time 2
hours Is minutes s-5 seconds: Louis
Paulhan in voisin biplane. 131 kilom-
eters; count de Lambert. biplane, lis
kilometers; Hubert Latham, in mono
sander, biplane, Ill kilometers; Roger
Sommer, biplane. so kilometers; NJ. de
la Grange. monoplane so kilometers; NJ
Bleriot. monoplane 40 kilometers;
Glenn P. Curtiss, biplane. so kilome-
ters; NJ. Lefebvre. biplane, 20 kilome-
ters.
Although Hubert Latham with a diff
ferent machine took second and fifth
positions, the aviation committee held
that he was ineligible for two prizes
and awarded the fifth to NJ. Tissandier
and the sixth to NJ. Sommer
Prepared in Secret
Farman's victory was complete
surprise. He had been preparing his
machine secretly and had not appeared
upon the field until today except for
a few practice fights, and had been al
most forgotten. Indeed after he
started, keeping close to the ground,
while Latham and the others were
soaring in spectacular fashion high in
the air, Farman attracted no attention
until he had flown so kilometers. Then
suddenly the watchers woke UP only
to discover that he had gone out
carrying petrol enough for five hours
flight and equipped with a self-cooling
revolving motor.
Trouble with his ignition plug
forced Latham to descend after he had
covered Ill kilometers and Tissandier
came down after accomplishing identi-
caily the same distance. The other
aviators had ended their efforts earlier.
majority of them in "aeroplane
graveyard" a hollow at the lower end
of the field
Takes No Chances
Only Farman continued. Round and
round he went al regularly as clock
work, always hugging- the ground, TAX
ing no chances and avoiding any at
tempt at display Record after record
fell before his methodical flight Dusk
came, darkness fell and the 'twinkling
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Takes No Chances

Only Farman continued. Round and
round he went as regularly as clock
work, always hugging- the ground, TAX
ing no chances and avoiding any at
tempt at display Record after record
fell before his methodical. flight. Dusk
came. darkness fell and the twinkling
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Striking Discrepancies

Through both Ventura and Santa
Barbara counties the most striking dis
crepancies were in the assessment OF
fruit and farming land. Prize walnut
tracts with bearing trees. worth $500 TO
$500 an acre. appeared on the books of
Assessor 7. r. Rowe Of Santa Barbara
county at sI75 an acre. Choice lima
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Surgeons Arrive on Scene

communal on page 8. column s
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

ilege to rob the American farmer.
 Take cotton, for instance. Put a tax of $1 a bale for every bale of cotton of- fered for sale on the exchange where the party selling does not intend in good faith to actually deliver the cotton. You would do one of two things: you would stop these cotton gamblers from bringing into ruinous competition with real cotton a fictitious stuff or you would derive more than hundred million dollars a year to help pay the expenses of the gNern- ment.
 Nmes are hard even when the repub- llcan party Is in power, and yet Sl0O would buy moro of the necessities of life before the Dingley tariff law went into effect than $50 will buy now. Does this man. ner of protection help or hurt the great body of American consumers?
 You can't make me prosper when you increase the cost of everything that l have to buy and reduce the price of ev erything that l have to sell. Sir the American people have paid dearly for . republican administration. You are tax ing them today as they have never been taxed by any part< in the history of the country
 You tax the swaddling clothes of the infant and you tax the winding-sheet of the adult dead. But you do not stop there: you tax the coffin in which he is buried~and the tombstone that stands above his lifeless form.
 So under the reign of the republican party, from the cradle to the grave the tariff baron demands tribute money from the American citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

Meta Thompson, Franklin street school, Mobile.
 English in the Primary Grades Miss Ida C.. Bender, Buffalo, N. Y.
 H. Manual Arts. Friday April g, 1909, p. m Room S26, Birmingham High school: Reorganization.
 Paper-"The Hand in Education" R. A. Mickle, Mobile.
 Manual Training As a Basis for All Primary Work" J. J. Doster, University. The Present Tendency in Manual Arts" R. L. Dimmtt Birmingham Open discussion. speakers limited to five minutes. Subject: 'The Needs of Manual Arts
 Friday. April 9.19O9. Room 1O1, Birming- ham High school:
 If thy work and deeds are not attrac- tive to all men, try to attract the few folly to humor a crowd. '-Schil- Ter
 Violin solo: "God sends his singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might teach the heart of men And win them back again."
 -Longfellow. @ Music as an Educational Factor Mss Ethel M. Berry, principal Kentucky Street school, Mobile.
 (0 Vocal Solo-'Music is love in search of word" Sidney Lanier)
 (D Public School Symposium.
 Relation of-(a) the Normal school; the part the normal school should take in public school music-Miss Eva. L. Ben nett, Florence normal.
 There is music in all things if men had ears.''
 (b) The Kindergarten Teacher-What music should the Kinderkartners teach? Miss Ida Geders, Birmingham Free Kin dergarten.
 Songs Kindergarten pupils.
 Education in order to be preparation for life should be a participation in life" Co The Primary Teacher
 Song-The basis of the child's musical development-Miss Mabel Rowlands, Ala bama Normal college
 Songs-Pupils of the Birmingham schools. "There is sweet music here that softer
 falls Than petals from bloom roses on the
 grass" -Longfeow (d) The Grammar Grade Teacher. The relation Of folk songs to American musical department-Mis Alice c. Gra- ham, director of music, Bessemer public schools
 songs-Pupils of the. Birmingham schools. Make life, death. and that vast forever
 one grand sweet song" Gel The High School.
 A course in musical appreciation-rh new education-M -Maude E. Truitt, director of music. Mobile.
 All deep things are song-Poetry is mu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04
SPECIAL NOTICE
 TO FAT PEOPLE

"I am giving you here the only pre- scription known that will safely, surely and quickly reduce your fat to normal" said Dr. Jones to his fat afflicted patient Besides 1t will at the same time greatly build up your muscular strength and health"
 "Go to the drug store, get a package of Rengo You eat it like fruit or candy and easily and safely reduce your fat a pound a day"
 There is nothing just as good as Rengo. For sale by all druggists at s1 per full-sized box. or by mail prepaid. by the Rengo Co.,, 3314 Rengo Bldg, De- troit, Mich. The company will gladly send you a trial package free by mail if you write them direct to Detroit; no free packages at drug stores.
 Rengo is for sale and recommended in Birmingham by Adams Drug Co.,, 1901 Second avenue; Collier Drug Co.,, 10s N. Twentieth street; Dewberry Drug Co.,, 2O31 Second avenue; Duncan Drug Co., PIP South Twentieth street; E. B. Norton, 1920 Second avenue; John l.. Parker, Third avenue and Nineteenth street and Wood ward building; Patton-Pope Drug Co.,, PIE North Twentieth street; Doster-Northing- ton Drug Co.,, wholesale distributors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-04

land of the free-but the plain citizen, the man of small means, those least able to pay taxes, bear the tax burden of the republic.
 I Give us an inheritance tax and an in come tax; these would affect only the swollen fortunes and enormous incomes.
 The tax burden of the people generally would be made lighter and the cost of liv- ing would be greatly reduced and the government would have ample revenues for all purposes
 Not a Cent In Revenue.
 In many instances you place the duty on imports so high that it keeps out of our country certain goods and wares and the government does not receive one cent in revenue; but the difference in the price before and after the import duty was fixed is paid by the American consumer and you are taxing one class to enrich another
 If you have increased the laboring mans wages by protection $50 year you have increased the cost of living $1OO year and his purchasing power is not as great now as 1t was before the necessities of life became so high under protec- tive tariff.
 If the southern farmer should go abroad and sell 100 bales of cotton and purchase machinery to use in the construction of a Illll III lle OHlltu Obdlcot bCioAo he could bring this, his own property, into this country he would be compelled to pay the value of 50 more bales of cot ton.
 Duty on Hides.
 Like the poor fellow in Wisconsin who pleaded for duty on hides. He had few hides to sell and the increased price that he received by reason of the tariff on hides amounted to s5.50. This same man purchased a leather suitcase. a set of double harness and five pairs of shoes; and the increased cost of the leather goods by reason of the tariff was S120O At this rate how long would it take this poor fellow to get rich selling hides? The protection that you give him is the sort that used to be called robbery.
 You can't have national prosperity when a few men are permitted to fix the price of national necessities as Is now done under a republican tariff law.
 |. Take the farmer, for instance. He does and must rely on the export of raw ma tetrial and not line in your tariff law contributes to his comfort and well be- ing; but you hold him up and tax him at every turn in the road.
 If you will not abolish the gambling exchanges of the country, you ought at least to make them pay for their priv