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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
PATT[N SAYS HE
IS NOT IN CONTROL
Big Chicago Operator Declares
That Wheat Famine Has Been
Coming Several Years
Denies He Has Manipulated the
Market and Asserts Price
Might Have Been Higher

CHICAGO, April 1.-THE appeal Of
Pittsburg bakers to Secretary of State
Knox to take steps to end manipulation
of wheat and other markets excited
comment today by James A. Patten.
popularity alleged to control the pres
ent market for the high priced cereal.
DENIES CONTROL OF MARKET
I'm the first place said Patten. 81
don't control the market My line at
no time has run over 10000. Oo0 bushels.
have preached the gospel of higher
wheat because 1 saw what was COM
ing
I'm a grain trader. and I don't in
tend to quit. 1 bought when the mar
ket looked cheap, as did others who
accepted my view. and I'm going to
sell it at profit>if I can. 1 have
already sold a great deal have
more to sell and when anybody offers
me a proper price l will sell more. 1
sold some this morning. cash stuff at
s1.42. There is no corner. no manipula-
ton. Others who bought early sell as
demand develops
THREE OR FOUR YEARS COMING
For three or four years this has
been coming. At the end of each crop
bins were empty everywhere. With
increasing population here and abroad
IL was obvious that sooner or later
the crop OF one year would be ex-
hausted before a new crop was at
hand. Last fall, if not earlier. 1 saw it
coming. bought wheat and my friends
did likewise. The great unthinking
public here and in Europe would not.
or could not, see what was coming.
Liverpool would not buy months ago.
thinking the prices of that day too
high Now Europe wants $4,000. 900
bushels. The harvest was early last
year. 1t has been trying to cover 1S
months instead of the usual 12 and it
can't do it. We need wheat for the
mills right here in Chicago now"
NIGHT HAVE BEEN HIGHER
Here's another point If we hadn't
bought wheat mean myself and
others-the price would be higher here
than ii Is. Europe would have taken
it. for the foreigners finally recognized
the weakness OF their position Where
would the domestic supply have come
from? We would have been compelled
to buy from the very Europeans we
sold to-"
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
MATRON UNFAIR
IS CHARGE OF
REBEL. NURSES
Incompatibility of Temperament
Cause of Strike at Mendo-
cino Hospital
Investigation to Follow and New
Head of WOmen's Wards
May Be Named
WHAT THE REBELS SAY
ABOUT MATRON HONN

MISS BERTA LOONEY: 1--WE were
treated like dogs by her
worse than dogs"
MISS MARY WHITE: "We do not
mean that she did serious
things, but little things. You
must remember that sane per-
son can be just as disturbed as
an insane one by little things,
MISS MARGARET CLARK. "Miss
HOnn was distant with pa
tienfs."
MISS EDITH JOHNSON: at was
the cold and distant way she
had about her that we objected
to and found unbearable. She
was unsympatbetic.r
MISS LILLIAN BURKE: "She had
a temper and would just fly all
To pieces"
MISS IDA HAWN: Every time
she would make her rounds I
could not sec any cause for IT,"
MISS &. ALLEY: "she WAS unjust
and unfair"
MRS. GEORGE MARTIN; 81 have
heard her make fun of patients"
MRS. VI. HARDIN; "She is disIiked
by the patients. 1 have known
them to run and hide when she
would come into the ward.-
What Matron HOnn says: II tried
TO enforce discipline. that was
all. Il was never unfair nor un-
Just TO any of the attendants
What DIR. Il. w. King says: "I
guess you arc about right when
you say that Miss Honn is not "a
woman to be in authority over
other Hxnman.,
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
SULTAN'S NEW
CABINET GIVES
SATISFACTION
Troops Return TO Their Bar
racks and COnstantinOpIe
Is Quieting Down
Imperial Proclamation EniOins
Preservation of Constitution
and Observance of Laws

C0NSTANTINOPLE. April 14-After
the stirring events Of yesterday and
1lo carly part OF today in Constantine
r.o the successful formation Of the
cabinet and the issue OF an imperial
proclamation ordaining the Observance
of the Sheri laws and the preservation
of The constitution. served TO bring
about comparatively peaceful situa-
non here tonight The new cabinet.
of which Tewfk Pasha is the grand
Fizier- has been installed.
Tonight tile city is quiet The troops
have returned 10 their barracks and
1ne crowds I'm the STEAMBOAT quarter
-aVe retired 10 their homes.
onflence is gradually returning. al
lsA the military situation viii re-
e-ire All the energies of tile new gov
eminent for its successful handling
and The pronunciation Of wise measures
So thar the army may be placed on q
more satisfactory basis.
HE cabinet. as definitely constituted.
- follows:
Grand vizicr. Tewhk Pashs; minister
q war Edhem Pasha. minister Of ma
eFlne. Vice Admiral Adjiemin Pasha;
Hinister of tile interior. Edil Bey; min
lsler Of justice. Hassan Fehmi Pasha;
minister Of finance. Nury Bey-
ie other posts are hIled by the pre-
.lle-S iucum henrs-
Inquiry at official quarters elected
she statement that news had been re-
feirea that the second army corps had
fiec-arcd in favor of the new movement
ia t1at the committee OF union and
progress at Adrianople had dissolved.
r4m saloniki everything is reported
quiet II is rumored that Mshmoud
AlkLtar Pasha has fed.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
HARPER AND KERN NOT
WILLING TO BE QUIZZED
Refusal to Appear Indicates
Probable Indictment
[Speeiol Dispatch 10 The CaNl

LOS ANGELES. April 14.-Former
Mayor Arthur c. Harper, former Chief
of Police Kern and Captain Thomas
Broadhead today declined TO appear be-
fore the grand jury and refute the
charges made by Nick Oswald, boss of
the tenderloin, that the three officials
had received large sums for protecting
redlight resorts. The refusal of the
accused men to induce the grand jury
to believe they are innocent is taken
to mean that one or more will be in
dicted
BY advice of their attorney. H II.
Appel, all three of the former officials
refused to discuss the charges made
against them by Oswald and corrobo-
rated. ii is believed, by Lawrence Fet-
ter Oswald's lieutenant.
Activity of the grand jury today in
summoning new witnesses makes it ap-
parent that an investigation is being
made of an insurance company. of
which the chief of police and other
officials were stock holders, and which.
it has been alleged frequently. patrol
men and fremen were compelled to
patronize.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
HEARING DELAYED ON
FIGHT OF PEDAGOGUES
San Mateo School Trustees Will
Consider Complaints

SAN MATEO. April IA contfnu-
ance of the charges preferred by Prof.
H G. Harwood against F. c.. Sander
son. principal of the San Mateo high
school. has been ordered by the
trustees until April 23.
AS a result of a fight which took
place between two pedagogues, Har-
wood was dismissed. and he i'm
mediately filed counter charges against
Sanderson, alleging Incompetence and
personal persecution.
final hearing was set for yester-
day. but on Harweod's plea 1t was
postponed again.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMER
WEDS DAUGHTER IN LAW
Ceremony Performed in Super
visors' Room at Santa Ana
TSpecid. Dispatch 10 The CALI

AUBURN, n. H., April 14.-Word was
received here today that Edward Otis
Prescott. well known farmer of this
town, had been married in Santa Ana.
CAL yesterday to his daughter in law
Prescott is a paralytic. 73 years of
age and his bride AZ.
Prescott had to be braced against the
wall in the supervisors room at Santa
Ana by the woman he was marrying so
that he might be on his feet during the
ceremony.
Mrs Prescotts maiden name was
Hazeltine. She married Shirley Pres
cott her new husbands son. but they
separated six years ago. 1t could not
be ascertained tonight which one got
the divorce.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
BUY GYPSUM HOLDINGS
IN THE DEATH VALLEY
Eastern Capitalists Will Put In
Million Dollar Plant

SAN BERNARDINO. April l4.-Fred
X King of san Francisco. as trustee
for eastern capitalists represented by
John Fillious OF Oakland. yesterday
took over the gypsum holdings Of the
Death Valley chemical company for
consideration Of S20e. 600.
l-aE stanton and c. 3. Mier of San
f'ragle SEQ each receive $4,000 in con-
nectlOn with the deal.
The purchasing syndicate VIII install
= 81 100000 plant. including a railroad
connecting the properties with the,
Tonaph and Tidewater railroad Two
thousand six hundred acres are in
YOiNe ed.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
WILL CURTAIL WORK IN
OIL FIELDS OF STATE
Producers VIII Lessen Output
TO Maintain Present Prices

BAlERSFIELD. April 14--In order
to prevent an overproduction OF oil
that viii endanger the price OF their
product. the Bakersfield Independent
OH sales agency today unanimously
adopted q resolution pledging the mem
hers 70 cUrtail as much as possible the
new development work in the proved
nelds for the next six months.
An appeal TO the same effect viii be
issued 10 the producers throughout the
state The resolution is the same s
adopted by the Coalinga agency last
week
a surplus production. which the
agency officials estimate at 10000 bar
rels daily. is Al present endangering
the tability of the industry. but the
officers hope by curtailing new devel-
opment work 10 have the situation well
in hand inside Of six months.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
A LitfIe PIN Money

can be made by disposing of that old
baby buggy that the youngster has
outgrown. that fur cape that you need
no longer. now that you have a new
one. or. perhaps. you have a stamp
collection you are not interested in any
more. An ad under Miscellaneous for
sale" inserted in The Call for a few
days will be read by many people
hunting for bargains. Some one can
use what you can not. Phone Kearny
Sc and your ad Will be called for.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
PROPOSALS

PROPOSALS.. S. DEPARTMENT or
Agriculture. Office OF the Secretary Washing
ton. ID. c., April l. 1909. Sealed proposals viii
be received at the Office of the Disbursing Clerk
until 2 p. m. Friday, May "A. 1909. for furnish
ing supplies for the Of the Forest Service
during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1910 as
follows: Stationery and office supplies. furni-
ture. instruments. telephone wire and fixtures
Delivery to be made at the Forest Service supply
Depot at Ogden, Utah. Full information fur
nhsied on application TO the DisbursinSs Clerk
Bids must be sealed and addressed TO the Seere-
tary OF Agriculture. in accordance with instruc-
tions given on schedules
JAMES WILSON. Secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
BISHOP RECEIVES CASH
FOR NEW PARISH HOUSE
SIS. 600 Building TO Be Memorial
10 0iNer'S Sons
- 80 . 7he -


SACRAMENTO. april l4.-Right Rev.
IL Noreland- Protestant EpiscopaI
bishop OF Sacramento. has received a
Gitr of $4,000 70 be applied toward
r..e erection OF q parish house on the
property owned 10y the diocese at
# tyenrE-slErl and II streets this city
llc glYer is veal itlfy woman Of an
eastern state and Bishop MOreland re-
fused 10 give out her name. The only
DQncltions attached TO the gift are that
--e parish house shall be a memorial
fo the woman s Two sons that il Sha n
be- used exclusively for religious,
social and entertainment purposes. and
3. III L shall be accepted by d cathedral
parish house association. the ultimate
-iea being 10 make this whole block
le site Of cathedral buildings owned
the diocese Of Sacramento.
Tie bishops house already stands on
..e property II is proposed TO erect
a mammoth cathedral as soon as the
necessary funds can be raised.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15

PROPOSALS FOR ANINIALs-Depot Quarter
masters Offce. 10SG North Point street. san
Francisco CAL April u. 19o9--Sealei proposals.
in triplicate subject to the usual conditions. viii
he received here until 10 n'c0ck M. Pacific
time. May > 1909. for furnishing 100 Cavalry
Horses for shipment 20 the Philippine Islands.
delivery to be ar Seattle. Wash. OF other prom
inent railroad points. The United states reserves
the right to accept any al proposals or any
part thereof Blanks for proposal and fun infer
nation viii be furnished ON application % this
office Envelopes containing proposals should be
marked Proposal for animals. No. 66S7. 70 be
opened May ). 1903" j. b. BELLINGER. Depot
Qeartermsster, L. 5. Army
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
AUTOMOBILE STRUCK BY
TRAIN NEAR SAN DIEGO
Two Persons Seriously Injured,
One Fatally Perhaps

SAN DIEGO, April 1.-two persons
were seriously injured. one fatally IT
is thought. this morning when a tour
ing car containing W J. WOrden. q
local businessman. his wife. three
tnffdrrn. and Amasa InschO. a horti-
c.llturisf. was run down by the Ma
ffouaI city and Otay "dinkey" train
or the National city dixie
The engine struck the tOnneau. drag
e.ng the car several rods and dumping
n into a 10 foot sink hole beside the
track.
about the body and Inscho sustained
Injuries to his back and legs and may
die Worden and the three little chill
dren escaped unhurt-
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
TAFT TO SUMMER AT
MASSACHUSETTS BEACH
President Leases Cottage at
Beverly on Salem Bay

WASHINGTON. April 14.-Ofcial an
ncuncement was made al the White
House today that the president had
leased as 2 summer home the cottage OF
Robert u. Evans al WOOdberry point.
Beverly. Mass.
The Evans house is situated on Bev-
crIv cove and is one OF the most at
rractive places on Salem bay. Mrs. Taft
visited the estate during her recent trip
iu search OF summer home and con-
GUIDED the lease OF the place last week
as announced from Boston.
The fact that the president has leased
summer home does not mean he will
not do q great deal of travelling after
he leaves Washington Al the end Of the
extra session Of congress.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
ATTENDS FUNERAL AND
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE
Los Angeles Man Overcome by
MeIanchoIia, Commits Suicide

Los ANGELES. April 14.-Ludwig
Fishback. 45 years old, was so affected
by the funeral of his employer, Fred
Maier. president of the Maier brewing
company, which he attended yesterday.
that he ended his life early today by
hanging himself 10 a tree in the rear
of his home at Forty-seventh street
and Santa Fe avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15

Honn was not dismissed. We have to
have discipline in an Institution of this
sort. and l could not act against Miss
Honn on the testimony they presented
1t seemed chiefly that they accused her
of lacking tact
These women have been insubordi-
nate and not loyal to the management "
said Miss Honn. 81 have never been
unkind or unjust to any of them. and
none could say truthfully that 1 had
been. They were expected to obey
the laws of the institution. Some of
them were unwilling to do that and
took a keen delight in doing the oppo-
site. This Mrs. Luzier, who was said
TO have been choked by the negro
woman. showed no marks of such
treatment She did not tell me that
she was attacked by the negress. If
the board of managers calls an investi-
cation l viii be ready TO meet with
them
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15
VISIT VALLEY OF
THE SAN JOAQUIN
Businessmen of This City Leave
Tonight on Excursion
Through Fertile Region

One hundred businessmen viii leave
San Francisco at O'Clock this evening
on the chamber of commerce excur-
sion through the San Joaquin valley.
They viii carry message of good
will and cooperation to the vast sec
tion OF the state that supplies a large
percentage Of it's material wealth. The
special train viii be one of the best
appointed that has ever Travelled over
the tracks in California. 1t will be
equipped with every convenience for
the excursionists.
Running over the Santa Fe tracks
the train Will reach Corcoran at $50
o'clock in the morning, when the Cor
coran board OF trade will greet the
visitors. Bakersfield will be reached
two hours later and the party will be
taken to the oil fields and to StockdaIe.
Luncheon will be served in the oil
fields.
TRIPS IN AUTOMOBILES
The departure from Bakersfield is
set for 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon
and PorterviIle will be reached at 4:1O,
when the excursionists will be taken
in automobiles to Lindsay as guests
Of the Porterville and Lindsay cham
bers of commerce. Visalia will be
reached at o'clock the same evening
The San Franciscans Will be met by
committee from the Visalia board of
trade and escorted to the Kaweah club.
where an informal reception will be
held.
Saturday the delegation will visit
al Tulare and Hanford in the morning
and will reach Fresno at 1870 D. m.
The excursionists will be met at the
depot by the Fresno county chamber
of commerce and conveyed in a special
train to Clovis and the Barton winery
Later in the day Kearny park will be
visited. The night will be spent at
Fresno
BARBECUE AT TURLOCK
Sunday morning the run will be made
to Merced and from there to Turlock,
where the party will visit the irrigation
district and will be rendered barbe-
cue by the citizens of Turlock From
Turlock the train will run direct to
Modesto, where the members of the
party viii be conveyed in automobiles
TO Salida as guests of the Stanislaus
board of trade and citizens of Salida
From there the special will return to
San Francisco, reaching the city at
6:2S o'clock in the evening.
The party will be headed by James
McNab, president of the chamber of
commerce.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-15

THE trouble was strike; that is
all there was to it, declared Dr. King
in reviewing the case today. "As or
iginally written, the petition carried
with it a threat to walk out if Miss
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05

the butcher had not come with the
mornings meat, and so he trotted off to
that dealer. He found him very ready
to wait on him, only he told him that
there wasn't pound of steak on hand
all the hands had quit. each possessing,
as the others. million dollars.
The story need not be prolonged. Suf-
hce IL to state that the possession of
riches by every man, woman and child
IN the land turned out SO great an in
convenience as to be real hardship, for
1t was only the fact that people needed
money that set the average man at
work at all. 1t would be sorry day for
the world if all were so rich as to be in
dependent. The very inequality of
wealth's distribution is one of the
greatest blessings imaginable. 1t is
all very well to talk of the un-
eqal distribution of wealth and all
that sort of thing, but that very in
equality of distribution is what keeps
the mills going. If the rich cannot do
without the poor, NO more can the poor
do without the rich.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
1.-THE WOMAN WITH THE
SERPENT'S TONGUE >

There is n poem of William Watson that hs
created commotion in London ss also in thi
country. 1t strikes the high as well as the low.l
She is not old. she is not young,
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue
The haggard cheek, the hungering eye
The poisoned words that wildly fly,
The famished face, the fevered hand,
Who Sights the worthiest in the land
Sneers at the just, contemus the brave
And blackens goodness in its grave.
In truthful numbers be she sung,
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue
Concerning whom Fame hints at things
Told but in shrugs and whisperings;
Ambitious from her natal hour
And scheming all her life for power,
With little left Of seemly pride,
With yenomed fapgs she cannot hide,
Who half makes love to you today,
Tomorrow gives her guest away.
Burnt up within by that strange soul
She cannot slake or yet control,
Malignant lipp'd, unkind, unsweet,
Past all example indisereet
Hectic and always Overstrung-
The Woman with the Serpsnt's Togue.
To think that such as she can mar
Names that among the noblest are.
That hands like hers can touch thesprings
That move who knows what men aRd things,
That on her will their fates have hung
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
BIBLE IN ais TONGUES.

According to the l05th report Of the
British and Foreign Bible Society the
Bible will soon be printed in every Ian
guage and dialect known throughout
the world. Complete Ribles or portions
Of the Bible were issued last year in
41s different languages. During the
year six new trarslations were added to
the list, besides these languages there
are complete Bibles or portions of the
Scriptures made in embossed type for
the hlind in thiFty-one different Ian
guages.
The number Of Bibles issued by the
society last year was nearly 5000, 900.
OF complete Bibles there were Ss4. 1876:
New Testsments, l,116,674, and por-
tions of Scripture. S,sSS, ,S42, making a
total Of 5,934,71l
The colporteurs employed in the work
of distribution have an adventurous
life, last year some of them were ar
rested as spies in Nicaragua, robbed in
Burma. bitterly mocked by Social Dem
ocrats in Germany, driven out of villa
Res in Peru by priests, who burned
their books. stoned in the Philippines
and beaten by Moslems in Baluchistan.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
ENEMY OF THE SOUTH.
HOok.wOrm, Doing lis Deadly Work
Among Our People.

The Medical Record has an article or
The Enemy of the South" which is,
If not alarming, certainly grave state
ment of q serious matter. It states
that the anemia SO commonly known
in our Southern States. and which has
been so generally set down as sheer
laziness. is undoubtedly due in large
part to the -'hook-worm." This anemia
was long since recognized, but its cause
was not known. and when one gave it q
thought it was. usually attributed to
poor food. the males of the family
being shiftless and too lazy to earn
their bread. Stiles discovered, however,
that the anemia was due to the presence
of the hook-worm in the intestine, and
chat the laziness and general good for
nothingness of the poor whites were not
moral defects, but were due to actual
physical inability to do hard labor as
we'll as TO mental disinclination. both
being the direct result of this same
nook-worm-induced anemia. The whites
are not the only sufferers, however, for
the negro as we'll hsrbors the parasite,
out they are the greatest sufferers,
negroes seeming to have acquired q
partial immunity to the poison of the
hook-worm. The latter serve as breeders
Of the worm and sewers of its seeds, to
the lasting injury of their white neigh
bors. 1t is quite likely also that the
South owes the introduction of the
disease to the negro who brought the
parasite from Africa and polluted with
its eggs the soil from the Potomac and
the Ohio to the Gulf.
One of the most pitiable results of
this parasitic disease is that the physical
condition of the southern country school
children is such that they cannot possi-
bly, assimilate much over 20 per cent. of
the education they receive; in other
words, somewhere about 80 per cent.
of the educational efforts are wasted,
and prominent southern educators have
stated that this estimate is very con-
servative."
The Medical Record if of opinion that
much of the infection of the Southern
whites is due to the custom of going
barefoot, the germs of the disease get
ting into the system through the soles
of the naked feet. But the principal
source is probably from the dejecta of
the diseased person thrown out on the
land and being taken intogthe system
with the salads AID other green stuffs
eaten in a raw state. The task of its
eradication is a gigantic one and only
large education can accomplish it.
Medicines are known that will expel the
p srasite. just as tape-worm can be
cured. but OF course only the physician
can be trusted to administer these. or
to make certain diagnosis. Jno. d.
Rockefeller has recently given a million
dollars to fight this disease.