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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
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annex OF her Telegraph hill settlement.
Those who remained in the city made
short trips into the country" after the
manner OF people who can plan their
comings and goings. Every week dur
ing the seven weeks OF vacation they
had an outing. When the circus came
to town the home children enjoyed II
to their hearts content. Recently they
had an outing" at Hale's.
Many OF the managers have. as indi-
viduaIs, added material comforts to the
home, and the Young Women's auxiliary
is always busy with something to make
the children happy as well as to make
them more capable. Miss Lydia Hop
kins is one OF the most active members
took her class to her home and made
the occasion one long to be remem-
bered.
The Ladies' Protection and Relief So
cIety conducts an absolutely nonsec-
tartan home The children attend
neighboring churches. just as they do
the neighboring schools. There are
no bolts and bars for the children:
they have the greatest freedom and
seldom abuse it, Everything is done
to make them happy while they must
be there. but the greatest effort. which
after all. is the best. is to get them
returned to- their parents or out IN
homes. which will take the place OF
those they should have had. The pres
ent managers are:
President, Mrs. S W. Dennis; vice
president. Miss Kate F. Hutchinson:
recording secretary. Mrs. II. ID. Ken;
corresponding secretary. Mrs p. b.
Cornwall; treasurer. Mrs Charles w.
Willard: managers, Mrs. Paul Austin.
Miss A. W. Beaver. Miss Chonita Borel.
Miss Alice Brown, Mrs. l. Curran
Clark. Mrs. Charles Clayton. Mrs. p. B.
Cornwall, Miss Eleanor Davenport. Mrs.
]. H. Deering, Mrs. s w Dennis. Miss
Margaret Foster. Mrs Timothy Hon.
kins. Miss Kate T. Hutchinson. Mrs.
Hugo ketl, Mrs. William Kohl, Mrs
Horatio P. Livermore. Mrs z. w New
hall. Mrs ]. lie Roy Nickel, Mrs. z. h.
Pond, Mrs. Milan SOule. Mrs. J. r. Sims.
Mrs. A. P. Talbot. Mrs George p
Thurston. Mrs. Charles w. Willard.
honorary managers, Mrs. L. S. Adams
Mrs. N p. Cole. Mrs. N G. KfttIa
Mrs J. n Robinson. Mrs. c. S. Wright.
trustees. Charles R. Bishop. Horace
Davis. j. S. Hutchinson. Hugo ID. KEN
George a Newhall
The next article In this series Win
tell of the orphanage presided over h1
the Salvation Army.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
One Girls Distress

The organization OF this society came
out Of a present need" and because
there was a good woman at hand to
act 1t appears that one day Mrs
Eaton, wife OF Colonel Eaton OF the
United States army. was sitting at her
window, when she saw a young girl
running up the street in a frightened
manner as IL she were being pursued
Mrs. Eaton Immediately went to her
rescue. The girl said that she had
come to California expecting to meet
her brother wien she landed from the
steamer. He was not at hand. inquiry
failed 70 locate him, and some one. un-
illness took her to a house which the
girl soon discovered was one of III
repute. When she ran up the street
In which Mrs. Eaton lived she had
Just escaped from this place In Mrs.
Eaton the girl found a friend indeed.
But, better still, many another girl
reaped the benefit of the effort imme-
diately put forth by Mrs. Eaton. Look
ing into conditions obtaining for women
landing alone in this city, Mrs. Eaton
discovered that there was work for
some one to do. She headed the move
ment. The society was organized in
1853 and incorporated in 1854. Many
Of the persons who found shelter under
the protection of this organization were
women with their children who had
reached this city a little ahead OF or
behind their schedule time and who
were not met by their husbands, per-
hsps away in the mines, or by women
and children who were on their way to
join relatives or friends in other coun-
ties
For almost FIVE years the work of
this society was conducted on the
boarding out plan" the one approved
now by many students of philanthropic
work Then the managers seemed to
think that the concentration of the
work in one home would be more ad-
vanta geous Accordingly a house was
rented al the corner Of Second and Te-
hama streets. The first family 1t
housed was composed of 80 women and
children. Mrs. H. o. Strong was made
inatron. AS late as 1889, the solicitude
for women who came "by sea" was
still phase of the work of the society.
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reared in the institution because they
have not been available for adoption
and because parents who did not really
desert them proved peculiarly unfit to
be trusted with them. But determined
and persistent endeavor on the part Of
the managers has brought many par
ents to a realizing sense Of their du-
ties and has forced them to contribute
something toward the support of their
offspring.
The days go on very comfortably and
happily for the children of the home.
There is always a busy morning OF
chores and breakfast before the chill
dren start for school, in charge of an
attendant. AS they have to cross car
tracks and walk some distance. they
can not go alone. The babies remain at
home and have the most inviting kin
dergarten quarters large. sunny
room Every window frames a little OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17

HERE never has been a year
since 1853 when the managers Of
the San Francisco ladies' pro-
lection and relief society have
felt II incumbent upon them to have a
notwithstanding. albeit the name gives
only the remotest idea Of the scope of
the society's work. The name is an old
and honored one. and it would be a
brave person who would ask to change
It, a proceeding which. of course. would
Involve reincorporation. On the cover
OF the semiannual reports of the So
ciety, below the corporate name, ap-
pears this explanation:
For orphans. half orphans and other
children in need OF z home"
This does not mean that there are no
ladies" In the home. Just at present
there are three old ladies living COM
fertably IN an annex. That side of this
pioneer benefaction has had to be mini
mized, because Of the greater demand
for the care and protection OF children.
The articles OF Incorporation leave
this way clear for this. One OF the
bylaws says:
The object OF this society shall be
to render protection and assistance to
strangers, and to dependent and desti-
tute women and children. For this
purpose 1t shall establish and have
under its supervision a home where
information, protection and aid will be
Afforded to such women and children.
resident or strangers"
The term institution" must have
been regarded by the organizers of the
society Sc years ago as 1t is today as
a most unsympathetio designation. The
word Home" is and always has been
emphasized IN the bylaws by a capital
and quotation. marks. Every reference
10 the abiding place of the society in
and out Of reports is always as a
home" Because It handles children IN
large numbers and under the same roof
IL has to receive the classification I'm
stitution," but an investigation OF it
shows that It is well entitled to the
name Home"
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the fact being indicated b. lie fol-
lowing extract from a report:
Through the courtesy OF Williams.
Dimond & Co.. contribution boxes have
been placed on the various steamers of
that company leaving this port. A
letter to each captain was sent accom-
panied by a package OF reports. Small
contributions have been regularly re-
ceived through this means, and we
irving by sea and needing the benefits
of the home may be thus apprised Of
its existence"
But the years brought distinct
changes and there was so much more
need for temporary as well as prac-
ticaIly permanent care for neglected
and deserted children. that fewer
women and more children were taken
In the early days there were no de-
serted children, but with the complex
ties of the growing city that most
tragic of all problems-the dependent
child-had to be handled.
The Gift of Horace Halves
The responsibilities of the society in
creased SO rapidly that efforts were
made to secure q permanent home. TO-
ward this end the late Horace dawes
offered the society what Is now tne
block bounded by Geary, Post, Franklin
and Van Ness In the light Of the citys
growth, 1t is almost impossible to be-
iieve that the members hesitated about
accepting the land because 1t was so
far out" Mr.. Halves, who was able TO
foresee the future, assured the ladles
that they could make no mistake In
accepting it. And so 1t was that the
society came into possession of this
valuable property.
without the two wings, the present
home was constructed in 1858, but X
was so far out" that the members
used to go early and stay late on the
day of the managers meeting. once
month. Some of the ladies used to go
on horseback The all day session with
lunch is still the way in which the
business of the home is dispatched.
Entertainments and various other
means to supplement the income
marked many of the early years of the
existence of the society. Residences
built on the-Van Ness avenue frontage
OF the property, and some on the Post
street side, insured a good annual re-
turn on the investment. This with
the judicious investment of legacies,
combined with the money given by the
state toward the care Of It's depend
ents, has placed this home beyond the
need of calling upon the public, as
MANY charities are obliged to do. Very
material additions were made to the
rent income after the calamity, but
when the cost of repairs to the home
was balanced against that, the gain
was not material The home, and also
the residences on Van Ness avenue,
were very badly injured by dynamiting
done in the immediate neighborhood to
prevent the spread Of the fire. Briefs
of the financial reports for the years
1907 and 1908 tell their own story:
TREAsURER's ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1907
Presented January 9. 1908
Recefuts-
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The San Francisco Sunday Gail
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
STORM CONDITIONS IN THE
NORTHWEST MORE FAVORABLE.
PREDICTING WEATHER
Government Report Says that the
Tempe rature Will Rise and that
Snow Will Fall in the Northwest
Trains in Billings Still Late.

Weather conditions throughout the
northwest are improving. The report
sent out from Washington and the
light snow which fell last night and
early this morning in Eastern Mon
tana would indicate that the cold wave
was breaking. The report from Wash.
ington is as follows:
Forecast of weather for Montana
Probably snow Friday and Saturday
slowly rising temperature. Conditions:
A cold wave has oyerspread the north.
west, bringing with it clearing wealth.
er to those sections. There are two
storm centers within the limit of the
observers. The temperature in the
northwest will moderate and snow
will probably fall"
Trains continue late, due to the
blockading snow in the Dakotas and
in the mountains in the northwest
No this morning was reported six
hours late and Nos. 16 and 2 are re
ported four hours late, frem the west
The Burlington train Is reported on
time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
DOCTOR KEPT NEAR ROOM Ac
COUNT OF SICK JUROR.
WAITING FOR VERDICT
Captain Hains Held Under Arrest,
Awaiting The Result of the DeIber-
ations of the Twelve Men Who Will
Decide Whether He is Guilty.

FLUSHING, Jan. 14.-The jury in
the case of Thornton ]. Hams retired
at 4:55 o'clock this afternoon to de-
termine whether the indictment
charging him with being a principal
with his brother, Captain Peter C.
Hams, Jr., in the killing of VIM e.
Annis, was proved or not. The jurors
had deliberated about fifty minutes
when they went out for dinner, re-
turning to the jury room I'M less than
half an hour. The case was given
the jury after Prosecutor Darrin had
made his closing speech and Justice
Crane had charged the law and re-
viewed the evidence. Justice Crane
sent word to the jurors that he would
remain up all night to receive a YER
dict.
By arrangement with counsel a
physician remained near the jury
room to minister to Juror Walsh,
should his injuries demand It,
At midnight tonight the jury in the
trial of Thornton Jenkins Hams,
4charged with the killing of VIM. E.
Annis, was still celebrating upon the
case. 1t has been out several hours
but no word has come to Justice
Crane on what progress has been
made.
Because of the condition of Juror
Walsh, injured in street car acci-
dent and slight indisposition of Pat
rick Ahern, the eleventh juror Jus
tice Crane was loath to lock the jury
up for the might in the jury room,
there being no hotel accommodation
for them in Flushing. Justice Crane
said he would probably lock the jury
up at / o'clock if no verdict by that
time. Thornton Hams remained I'M
der guard in the sheriff's office.
The jury was still out at 2:25 this
January 15, and no word had
been received from them. Justice
Crane said he would remain within
easy distance OF the court all night in
order to receive a verdict whenever
the jury was ready to report.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
NEW REGISTER TO BE INDICTED
INTO LAND OFFICE DUTIES.
JACKSON WILL RETIRE
Acting Receiver Going to Great Falls
to Accept Position as Court stenoe-
rapher in the District court-Spe-
cial Agent Cummns Here.

Charles l.. Harris, who has been ap
pointed register of the Billings land
district, will take charge of the loca
office today.
Mr.. Harris has been in the western
part of the state, but a telegram was
received from Washington yesterday
at his office and another at the local
land office by Acting Register Jack
son, the one instructing Mr. Harris to
take charge and the other requesting
Mr.. Jackson to turn over the office.
Mr.. Jackson, who has been acting
receiver since the resignation of E.
E, Esselstyn was accepted, expects
to move to Great Falls, Saturday, hav-
ing been appointed stenographer in
Judge Leslie's division of the district
court. Mr.. Jackson came to Billings
to fill the position of acting register.
H. C. Cullum, Jr., of Helena, spe'
cial agent in the service of the ma
tional government with headquarters
in Helena, was in Billings yesterday
inspecting the local Office. He will
return to Helena today.
Mr.. Harris will be able to take Al
ings, as Acting Register jackson has
been doing. but will not be able to col.
lect for them until w. M. Bnright, the
newly appointed receiver, is inducted
in office. Mr.. Jackson has taken
about 75 filings since the resignation
of Receiver C. C. Bever was ac'
cepted.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
THOUGHT SHE WAS DYING AND
EXPOSED A CRIME.
SWORN TO SECRECY
Killing Occurred Near Seven Valley,
in Pennsylvania, Last Summer
Body of Victim Dismembered and
Buried.

YORK, Penn, Jan. 14-Harry Keen
er, York county farmer, confessed
today that the story told by a girl of
this city that he had killed man on
his farm last July is true. The identity
of the victim is still unknown. The
girl accused Keener while she was ly-
ing on what was believed to be her
death bed.
The girl is Miss Lorenza Tawser.
aged Is. Last summer she was em-
ployed on Keener's farm near Seven
Valley. Last week she attended the
murder trial in this city of one arm
ed negro. After going home she was
seized with cramps and fearing she
would die, gave a detailed account Of
Keener's alleged crime to her mother.
Her reason for not telling of the kill
ing sooner she said was that she had
been sworn to secrecy by Keener.
The girl said that after Keener had
killed the man he buried the body in
the orchard. Today, after much ques-
tioning by the police. Keener admitted
the crime.
Keener said his victim was strang-
er who came to his house in the night
and without apparent provocation
threatened to kill him. He said he
killed him. He then buried the body,
he said, in the orchard, but the oder
of the body caused him to dig 1t up.
He then tried to dispose of it by burn
ing, but in this he was not successful
Keener says the Tawser girl then help
ed to cut up the body and assisted in
its burial. He said the arms and legs
were separated from the trunk and
were buried at different points. A por-
ton of the body was buried in the
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
GREAT |RR|GAT ATION PROJECT ADJOINING Billings

office, presumably for that purpose.
The plans of the government call for
Tie irrigation of two vast benches ly-
ing to the east and west of the Clarkes
Fork river, land which is now used
mostly for winter pasturage. 1t is
said to be some of the richest soil in
the vicinity Of Billings and one of the
richest sections in the entire state.
The section which it is contemplated
to place under irrigation is nearly all
public domain, the only settlers being
along minor streams which cross it.
The construction OF the projects un-
der consideration on this land will
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
TILLMAN HURLS DEFIANCE
DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
Makes Speech in Which lie Insists on Go.
ing to the Bottom Of the Oregon Case.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.--Address-
ing the senate for the second time in
regard to the allegations against him
in connection with the Oregon lands,
Senator Tillman today made reply to
the utterances of Attorney General
Bonaparte and Postmaster General
Meyer. He quoted the portion of Mr..
Bonaparte's statement of last Monday
in which the latter said that Tillman
had not told him of his desire to OBJ
tain some of the lands in question and
fatty contradicted the head of the
department of justice. He declare l
that he had been entirely frank with
Mr. Bonaparte and had fully explained
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
SHOT BY COMPANION, WHO ROB.
BED AND LEFT HIM TO DIE.
WAS ATROCrOUS CRIME
Man Found Dying of Wounds, and
Nearly Frozen-Officers are Now
Searching for Tony Holly, Who is
Alleged to Have Committed Crime.
Especial to The Gazette

LOMBARD, Mont, Jan. IA Pol.
ish-German, AZ years old, giving his
name as Jacob Brentic, was found
just west of here this morning covered
with blood and his hands, feet and
face badly frozen. He was brought
to Lombard where the frozen parts
were thawed as he told his story.
He ana Tony Holly have worked
for the Clemens Ditch company and
were walking east from Toston, at
Brewer. Holly, he said, suddenly
opened fire on him and battered him
with his revolver, and took $3.50, his
entire savings.
One bullet hit Brentic in the head
just above the right ear and came out
at the top of the head. He had also
bullet wound in each arm near the
shoulder. The back of his head was
badly shattered by the butt of the re-
volver.
Brentic says the attack happened
about 6 o'clock this morning and he
walked nearly four miles after he had
been shot Sheriff Tedman and Coun-
ty Physician Belsher arrived from
Townsend at noon
Later Sheriff Tedman and deputy
took up the trail on foot to Toston
with hopes Of locating Holly.
Brentic is in a critical condition,
and slight hopes are entertained Of
his recovery.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA ARE OUT
OF THEIR BANKS.
NEVADA STREAMS RISE
Truckee River Is out of Its Banks,
and Rising at the Rate of a Foot
an Hour - California Streams
Threaten Damage.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.-Floods
in the river valley and landslides in
the mountains are threatened as a re
suit of the rains now prevailing
throughout the state.
The Sacramento, American, Feather,
Yuba, San Joaquin, King and Salinas
rivers are rising and it is said that
the Sacramento and American will
reach the flood stage late tonight.
At Folsom the American is now up
the danger point. A gold dredger val
ued at $150,000, which had been work.
wrecked today by the high water.
Twenty launches OF the Sacramento
Boat club were torn from their moor,
ings and swept down stream during
the night. The weather bureau has
warned the people of Stockton that
there is grave danger to that city from
the San Joaquin river and Mormon
Slough. The latter, which carries a
great quantity of water, broke through
the levees above the town OF Linden
to-day and has spread over vast ex-
tent of country.
At Kennett in the northern part Of
the state, over six inches of rain has
fallen in the last "a hours. Workmen
on the Western Pacific in the feather
river valley report that entire section
to be a sea of water.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
GROWERS ARE FOR
PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY
Policy Of Forestry Service Attacked by
President GOodins in Opening Speech.

POCATELLO, Ida, Jan 14.-One
thousand sheepmen attending the
opening session of THE National Wool
Growers convention in this city today
listened attentively to bitter ar
raignment of the federal forestry bu-
reau by President Fred w. Gooding of
Shoshone. Declaring that the govern
ment in its administration of the ma
tional forests and of the reclamation
service has failed woefully, President
Gooding urged that the congress be
asked to name a committee of west
ern men to investigate and report any
needed changes in the rules and regu-
lations governing the two bureaus.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15

Plans for an enormous irrigation
project, which will place in cultiva-
ton 128,000 acres of grazing land in
Montana south and west of Billings
and in Yellowstone and Carbon coun-
ties, are in course of preparation by
the irrigation experts of the national
government.
Announcement of the withdrawal Of
the land which will be under the new
project, has already been made by the
authorities at Washington and the in
structions to withdraw it from entry
were received yesterday by Acting
Register Jackson of the Billings land
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
WYOMING MEN DECLINE TO Ac.
cEPT PUBLIC HONOR.
REASONS THEY ADVANCE
One Says That He Has Too Much
Business to Attend to and the Other
Says County Cannot Make Assess.
ment on Amount Allowed.
Especial to The Gazette.)

BASIN, Wyo., Jan. 14.-W. H.
Fouse, of lCark's Fork, elected county
assessor at the election in November,
and Vincent Cockins, elected justice
of the peace for the Basin precinct,
have both refused to qualify for office,
this being the first instance of this
kind in the history of this section of
Wyoming.
Both are Republicans.
Fouse claims that the $4,000 al
lowed by the county is insufficient to
defray the expenses of making an ade.
quate assessment. Cockins says he
has business reasons for not wanting
to qualify, and o. ]. Robertson has
been appointed to the position.
No assessor has been named yet.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
FIRE DESTROYS TWO
CARS AT FROMBERG
BAaCoCk MILL HAS NARROW ES-
CAPE FROM FLAMES.
Especial to The Gazette.)

FROMBERG, Mont, Jan. 14.-Fire
OF unknown origin today destroyed
two bunk cars on the branch of the
Northern Pacific railroad here.
The cars had been switched on a
;sidestrack near the Babcock mill and
we're used by some laborers as sleep
ing quarters. When the flames were
discovered they had gained such head
) way that it was impossible to control
them. For time it looked as If the
Babcock elevator would catch fire, but
by heroic efforts the men were able
to save it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-01-15
ROJESTVENiK DEAD
Admiral Who Commanded That
Russian Fleet in the Battle of the
Sea of Japan Passes Away at His
Home in ST. Petersburg.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14.-The
death of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
is announced. He was in command of
the Russian fleet in May, 1905, when
1t was practically annihilated by the
Japanese in the battle of the Sea of
Japan.
The death of Vice Admiral Roj-
estvensky was due to neuralgia of the
heart.