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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
LINES AGREE ON
REDUCTION IN
WESTERN RATES
Readiust Freight Tariff From
Chicago to intermediate
Pacific Coast Points
Plan to Be Presented to Inter-
state Commission by Rail-
road Officials Today
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 he Call
CHICAGO, May 12.-Radical reduc-
tions in western freight rates will be
outlined before the interstate COM
merce commission tomorrow at Wash
ington by traffic officials of the Hill
and Hartman railroads, who have
finally perfected a plan for the read
justment of rate schedules applying
from Chicago and points east of the
Missouri river to intermediate Pa
cifc points like Spokane. Salt Lake
City and Reno, New, in accordance
with the commissioners instructions
in the Spokane rates case.
Reductions Are Large
The plan will be presented by ]. c.
Stubbs of Chicago. traffic director of
the Hartman system. and J. G. Wood
worth general traffic manager of the
Northern Pacific railway. 1t will show
reductions amounting in many cases to
from % to so per cent, affecting prac-
tically every commodity except those
on which water competition at the
coast terminals is especially keen. This
will be accomplished by applying the
coast rates to the intermediate cities
in place of the present practice of add
ing to the coast rate, supposed to be
fixed by water competition, the local
rate back, a practice which has long
been the occasion of vigorous COM
plants from the commercial interests
of>the intermediate cities.
Action Is Ordered
When the commission recently re-
duced the rate to Spokane as unrea-
sonably high. it also directed the
roads to reduce the other rates ac-
cordingly, saying that if this Were
not done voluntarily they would be re-
duced by another order. In order to
permit the roads to work out an ad
justment which would meet the con-
hicting requirement of competing
commercial centers, the order in the
Spokane case was postponed.
The railroad officials say that some
OF the new reductions are even more
radical than those ordered by the COM
mission.
The new rates. if they are approved
by the commission. are expected to re-
suit in a great impetus to the traffic
in the upbuilding of important job
hing centers at cities located inland
from the Pacific coast, which have
long groaned under system of rates
which has been declared an over
whelming handicap in favor of the
coast cities.
Blow to Coast Towns
The new system will undoubtedly
be considered a severe blow to the
commerce of cities like San Francisco
and Seattle, which have hitherto been
able to ship from the east and reship
back to Spokane or Reno at rates as
low or lower than were applied on di-
rect shipments. For instance wool
shippers at Manti. Utah, near Salt
Lake City. have complained that they
can ship wool to Boston by sending
il first to Los Angeles and then re-
shipping back through Manti at a rate
23 cents a hundred pounds less than
if it had been shipped direct in the
first place. 1t was to correct such
justified on the theory of water COM
petition at the coast cities that the
commission issued its order
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
Heney Invites Defense TO QueS-
ton PheIan on Everything
He Can Explain
Rogers EndeavOrs in Vain to
Impugn Motives for Prose-
cution of Grafters
Also Objects TO Examination
Which Would 'GO to the
Bottom of Things"
BY w. RUSSELL COLE

-RANCIS J. HENEY. in fuifllment
IL Of mis- promise, let down the bars
n in the Calhoun trial yesterday and
invited the entire corps Of the
defendants attorneys 10 get in the
scrimmagc. without objecting 10 any
questions put to James d. Phelan on
cross examination, Heney allowed coun-
sci for the president OF the United
Railroads TO inquire into anything and
everything that the witness had to tell
Tor three years charges and insin-
uations concerning the motives which
led Rudolph Sprcckels and James d.
PheIau TO give money and influence for
the furthoring of the graft prosecution
have cmansted from the Calhoun pub
Iicity bureau and have been kept be-
tore the public by the purchased news
papers and weeklies. Yesterday the
public was allowed to see behind the
bulwarks OF the defense and TO learn
definitely that there is not and never
has been any foundation for slurs and
charges.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
Rogers Impugns Motives

Rogers lmpugns Motives
During nearly the entire session of
court yesterday, Earl Rogers Of the
defense sought to impugn the motives
Of SpneckeIs and Phelan in opposing
an overhead trolley system before the
FIRE. and in finally forming a company
with the intention OF bidding for a
franchise for an underground conduit
road. Rogers tried hard 10 throw doubt
upon the purity of their motives in
assisting the graft prosecution. Heney
sat back and listened quietly while the
. Los Angeles lawyer pulled and hauled
at Phelan plunged into side issues and
endeavored in hundred ways 10 gain
q single point Of vantage.
y Bringing up new subjects of inquiry
and advancing new contentious time
and again, Rogers fought TO weaken
the effect OF Pheians direct testi-
mony. Promptly each time, as any
new point was made by the defense.
Heney came back TO it on redirect ex-
animation and battered il down with
Z few questions put to the witness.
Heaey Taunts Defense
lie taunted the defense with re-
pested references to its often ex-
pressed desire ito go to the bottom of
the matter and even begged its rep
resentatives to 90 into any and all
subjects. Not once did he object to
any question, but in return he was
hindered and baked at every turn of
his redirect examination by countless
objections interposed by the defense.
So the bars were let down. but only
10y the prosecution. When it signihed
4 desire to 90 as fully into the sub
-Ject under consideration as the defense
had done the barricade was redoubled
At that, the question of the motive
which Influenced SpreckeIs and Phelan
in their relations with Calhoun was
fully answered. and to top off the in
quiry Heney announced that Rudolph
Spreckels would be called to the wit
ness stand and the defense would be
given an opportunity to examine him
as fully as it had done with Phelan.
Attack on Claus SpreckeIs
One feature OF the cross examination
= Phelsn was an attack made by
Rogers on Claus SpreckeIs. with whom
Rudolph Spreckels and Phelan were
associated in the company formed be-
fore the fire to build street railway
to compete with the United Railroads
The point OF the attack was the insin-
uation that Claus Spreckels had pre-
Riously built up other public service
companies and delivered them over to
the very people he had started out to
fight after taking all the profit he
could out Of the transaction. The in
ference was carried almost to the
extent OF an open charge that this was
the ultimate purpose of the proposed
street railway company.
Rogers questioned the witness about
the formation Of the San Joaquin VAL
ley railroad. which was afterward, sold
to the Santa Fe. and about the inde-
pendent Peoples gas company which
was sold to the san Francisco gas COM
panN
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
Conditions Are Normal


At Bordeaux, Lille and Chatres con-
ditions are normal. In some cities,
notably Lyons and Chambery, the
postal employees have openly ex-
pressed their disapproval of the
strike. There is some anxiety at the
Paris hotels. where numerous Amer
leans are expecting letters containing
bank drafts.
A mass meeting of postal employees
tonight was not so we'll attended as
that of last night. The meeting. how
ever adopted resolution to continue
the strike with vigor.
1t was announced that the number
OF strikers was growing rapidly both
in Paris and the provinces. an in
stance being given of the mail clerks
on the Lyons mail, who had quit on
the road
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
MARINE

Fisherman leaves Usga station in dory. is
caught in blizzard and frozen 10
death. Page IL
SOCIAL
wedding of Miss Margaret Newhan and Athol
Mclean in Trinity Episcopal church a pretty
and fashionable event. Page
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13

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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
COAST
EASTERN

Geraldine Fsrrar and Scotti to be married
Paris next month. Pae
Freight rates to intermediate Pacific c.
points TO be reduced. PaR
Hearst's independence league pronounced
By HIsgeD. who seeks senatorship. Pae
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
No Sympathetic Strikes

The strike leaders experienced an
other discouragement in the failure of
the miners congress at Lens to vote
sympathetic strike and thus far none
of the trades unions has made a sign
of joining the movement. At the same
time the government as hurrying the
preparation of its promised bill regu-
lating the status of state employees.
which will be presented to committee
of the chamber of deputies Monday
Official figures place the number of
strikers in Paris at 465 out of 11,o0o.
Owing TO the detection of a majority
of the mail clerks the outgoing mails
are more or less stranded
The hs,tbed II tie psasSoas revos1.
the Central Telegraph bureau. is
quiet the night shift reporting for
duty as usual. Reports from the
provinces show that the movement
has not made much headway except
at Havre, where special service ar
ranged by the chamber of commerce
will be inaugurated.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
PARIS PEACEFUL
IN GRIP OF BIG
POSTAL STRIKE
Wires Carefully Guarded and
$4,000 Troops Ready to
Maintain Order
Mail Service Nearly Normal and
Officials Expect to Crush
Movement

PARIS, May 12.-The first day of the
postal strike passed peacefully. No
disturbances were reported, and the
movement appears to have gained no
ground. The service in Paris and
throughout the provinces tonight, with
the exception of that OF the railway
mail clerks, is normal and as result
there has been no need to take advan-
tage of the preparations made by the
various business organizations and
commercial bodies to carry on a pri-
vate letter service.
The cabinet tonight summarily dis
missed 22S men under the decree issued
March Is, which authorizes the dis
charge of strikers from the state serv-
ice, and made other provisions for deal
ing with recalcitrants. The ministers
are confident that the removal of the
principal fomenters of the agitation
viii crush the movement.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
FOREIGN

Twenty-four mutineers hanged at Constsnti
nople in p1blic; details of massacres and
bravery OF Americans come from scenes oi
butchery Page Z
Paris strikers fail to seriously delay mai
service Page !
Crew OF cruiser Albany has battle with emil
xrs 'os invading salvador Pnge
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
Travelling Alone.

- HIS is the season of the year when
many women are forced to travel
~ alone, especially on vacation trips.
and there are many things that should
be known regarding etiquette on such an
q, occasion II woman is travelling alone
and needs assistance, should a stranger
Of the male gender oYer to aid her, she
should feel under no further obligation
than in recognizing him beyond a polite
bow Of thanks.
The woman travelling alone should be
as unobstrusfve rs can be possible az
the inexperienced traveller can brand her
self In this way. II the window next to
woman alone L. open and the dust 10
bothering the person behind. the least
she can do Is TO close 1t. II she occupies
g certain table In the dining-car and
fnds someone else in her place she
should not protest. but accept the SIT
uation graciously. Ii is not neces-
sary to enter into conversation with the
person across the table ON ocean steam
ers, however, II Is not improper for
strangers, who have not been introduced.
10 talk together, unless the traveller Is a
young girl
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
RINGLINGS SOON HERE
Will Appear Next Monday With Com.
pete New Organization.

The arrival of Ringing Brothers
circus is being awaited with more
than the usual Impotence. and the
few days remaining between now and
next Monday are passing as slowly
as they usually do preceding any
other holiday. News Of the import
ance of this years organization comes
from other cities to whet the circus
appetite to a concert pitch.
Here at a glance is what a visit to
Ringing Brothers circus means in
the way of enjoyment. First are the
Schumann performing horses that
have been denied merely the power
of speech, and closely following them
in importance are the Arthur Saxon
trio Of strong men. the automobile
double somersault act. Roblidello, the
wire wizard. elephants that talk to
each other over telephones. pigs that
make balloon ascensiaps. horses that
skate, men who walk up and down
stairs on their heads, the greatest
menagerie in the world and the long
est and best parade ever presented.
There are $50 other performers who
represent the pick of European and
Asiatic talent. Space forbids a men
ton of all the wonders that make up
a days visit to the greatest circus
that ever toured a continent
The performance here will be the
change having been made in the long
bill. The railroads are preparing to
handle the thousands of strangers who
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
Mr.. Good Fellow on SmOking=Car Persiflage

THE only smoker who can beat him
for Marathonian fiuency is the travelling
salesman. II he isn't talking shop, he's
externally handing out line of chestnuts
Here's one / beard up In Cincinnati the
other day says he: and he gives n sam
pie of every brand OF funny story from
Kalamazoo, Mich. to Tampa. Fla, be-
fore he shuts of the throttle.
''Once in a while you'll see CHIP
aboard who sits quietly in one corner
putting at his weed and saying nothing.
All efforts TO inveigle him into the talk
fest prove futile. He just sits there say
ing nothing and enjoying his smoke.
Then, maybe when the conductor comes
In and deferentially hands him a tele-
gram, you get on to the fact that he's a
pretty big man In this little world OF
ours who is big because he knows how to
let the other fellow do the talking and
size him up by the line of talks he hands
out.
And YOU mustn't overlook the man
vho is travelling with Il wife aboard. II
he's hopping hack and forth between the
smoking compartment Ike flea In
skillet and dropping remarks sort OF
prouiscuous like about having TO look
out for his wife, then you can set II
down that he's a new one at the benedict
game. But II be just gases along ana
gives au Indifferent answer to the porter
when he brings a message from his wife'
it's n hundred-to-one shot he's been mar
lied long enough to wonder why In the
dickens his wife can't look at the scenery
or read her magazine without botherihS
him.
..Huhf What's that? What class was
7 in? President of the company NOT
for mine, Bo! You'll have to come across
stronger than that. Why, | had retired
sron business with my wad and turned
the company over to my sons and sons
in-law!
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
Tell Queer Tales.

AF ALL the romantic tales of the
8 sea. bottles in which are inclosed
W messages tell some of the queerest-
This outside OF the latest wireless
method. is the only way OF sending a
message in case a vessel goes to her
last resting place under the waves. and
1t has often been resorted to in days
gone by. In this way valuable messages
have often been Obtained regarding ocean
currents. the bottle being the scientific
messenger that drifts from the fotsam Of
the North Atlantic. sometimes following
n straight line. sometimes zig tagging
across the water. and ut others travelling
in a semicircle.
The bottles when thrown into the
water are sealed with pitch or sealing
wax, making them alright. When bot
tie. east into the water for seieatific
purpose. is cast upon the beach the find
err opens It and sends the p ger TO the
photographic office. Then the experts In
the office attempt to trace the route of
the bottle. often planning e,e correct
map of Its travels in the water. The
map then forms an important part In the
navigators' travels, taking It's part on
the current charts.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21

- I'D you ever stop to think what a
sight OF human nature there Is in
sInokiEg-csr persifager" asked Mr..
liz A. Good Fellow of the man Mt
the desk next him as they walked
out for lunch on a Monday. Just got
back late last night from a little week
end jaunt and the hot str heard hanoec
out In the smoking compartment would
have run the engine II II could nave
been captured and corked up inside the
boiler.
Honest. Bo, every last man that parts
the Pullman curtains and steps inside the
little cuddy-hoie for smokers does Dr.
JekylI and Mr.. Hyde quick-change act IN
stauter. The Sl5-a-week bank clerk be-
comes president of his bnnk-to hear him
tell II. The youth with his first growth
Of fuzz on his chin Gun talk for an hour
straight about the material resources OF
the country the train is passing through
and deTnonstrate-to his own satisfaction.
at least--how completely non est they
are compared 10 the resources OF bis own
neck Of the woods.
And, Of course, there's always the old
Southern Colonel who recalls familiar
spot every mile as the train speeds along
where he canped or fought or bled or
died during the war. He knew every
general on both sides by his first name,
and can hand cut series of personal rem
fuiscences as long as the railroad ticket
that gives you the privilege Of hearing
him spiel After while ne shifts the
other leg over the arm Of the big wicker
chair-which he captured at the outset
and starts in on the present admiDistra-
ton. He tells you just why he refused
the nomination for Congress from his dis
,rict, and jest what he would have done
to the lawmakers at washington II ms
c,nscience would bave permitted his ac-
ceptance Of the honor.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
DElGADO RELEASED,
Sheriff

Chittendon of Fresno, arrived here yes
terday morning strongly in hope that
he could identify the prisoner in the
city Jail by the name of Antonio. Delgo-
do, as one Mejia, wanted in Fresno for
murder. 1t only took him a minute
however to identify the suspect as
not the man wanted. When regret
was expressed that he had been put to
so much trouble and it was mentioned
that picture might have been sent,
the sheriff said it was all right anyhow
Delgado favored the man wanted so
much he would probably have
come even had he seen the picture be-
fore starting. Delgado was so greatly
pleased at having his liberty restored
that he forgot any animosity he might
have held against the police for arrest
ing him.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
TEE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, Gl

will come from far and near For
the benefit of those who wish to
avoid the rush on the show grounds
arrangements have been made to open
a downtown branch ticket office on
show day in BEGINNERS drug store.
where reserved seats and admissions
can be bought at the regular prices.
Five long trains Will he required to
bring the circus to town. There are
over 1900 people on The payroll and
nearly 700 horses arc used This sea-
sons organization is by far the best
the Ringlings have ever presented,
which is the superlative- way of ex-
pressing things. since the Ringing
Brothers have been the leaders and
originators in circus affairs for these
many years.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
Discovered by Accident.

BoA ANY OF the utilitarian inventions
liz now generally In use were discov-
J kered accidentally. Porcelain was
discovered by chance by certain al
chemist In his efforts to procure a mix
ture Of earths that would make durable
crucibles. The wife Of an English paper
manufacturer long time ago accidentally
let blue cloth bag fall into one Of her
husbands watts of pulp When the paper
came out finished it was. blue. Her
astounded husband considered the paper
worthless and placed it in storage. Sew
eral years later he put II on the market
for whatever 1t would bring. 1t sold in
jiffy aud more was ordered But he
didn't know how 1t was made. His wife
finally remembered that she had dropped
the blue cloth bas into the vat by acct
dent-and the man made a fortune with
Il. Hence our blue-tinted paper.
A hen once walked through clay pad
Tile and into sugar house with her vet
feet leaving tracks ON the sugar. \ short
while later ii was found that wherever
she had stepped the sugar had become
white. The matter was investigated and
he result was the discovery of process
OF whitening sugar
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
DESIGNED nY CHAs. $. sEDGwICk

A@ HIS building Is designed to give a
few rooms to the owner, but allow
ing the larger portion to be rented
~ 10 another family, the entire out
ward appearance being that of n
single house. How well this problem was
accomplished will be seen by studying the
plans The size on the ground is 80
feet in width by 50 feet in depth, the
entrance In the cepter with large cen
tral porch. At the left of the hall are
the living apartments of the owner, conf
pr.sing a large sitting room, back Of this
II bedroom. kitchen. bathroom and closets.
The rented portion consists of pa-lor.
sitting-room. dining room and kitchen.
with -FOUR sleeping rooms and bathroom
on the second floor. There is a good base
ment under the entire house.
The first door IS veueered with brick
and all the upper portion 0f the house i
frame construction and Shinsled or the
outside The interior finish Is hardwood
in the first story and hardwood floors.
and the second story finished In pine aud
infad
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
To Cross Ocean.

nROF. HENRY H. CLAYTON. who
- FOR the past 1G years has occupied
the position as meteorological at the
Blue Hil Observatory. says be expects
TO cross the Atlantic very soon In bal
loon He is OF the opinion that there
are upper air currents flowing constantly
eastward. which would make it possible
TO make the trip IN three or four days
He expects to Use a very iurSe balloon
with about 23O.OUJ cubic feet capacity
At the present time he IS in California.
intending to DiaSe Il test flight across the
continent. IL IS the plan OF Professor
Clayton to make use Of the trade winds
which blow eastward during certain por-
lions Of the year.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
A Disappearing Race.

TT is claimed that the Yukon Indians
\ ale rapidly disappearing from Alaska
J and that disease is making great in
roads upon their numbers. Persons who
have visited that country lately claim
that It will be a matter Of only u few
years until the Yukon Indians are people
OF memory only. II Is satd that with
the advent OF the Hudson Bay Company
to the territory about hundred years
ago the white mcn brought disease 10 the
Indians and since that time. when the
yukons were 4 fOnrishng race. the dis
ease has killed them OF in great numbers
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
Billion Matches Per Day.

1AREFUL estimates show that over
IL 1000, 100000 matches are used in the
~ United States per day. Electricity.
gas and cigar lighters seem TO have had
little effect, rs the number consumed
grows each day. II would take two car
loads OF timber to make the matches used
In day. They would weigh over $4,000
pounds. and If placed end to end they
would extend about that number of miles
Many matches are Imported to this coun-
try from Norway, Japan. Sweden and Aus
tria, where the safety matches are
mainly manufactured. The safety
match will strike on pane OF glass just
as easily rs II VIII on the side Of the
box The match Is considered modern
invention, as it has not been In use many
years.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-09-21
SIS. BAD 91T BIoon

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blood
ghch
OF bad blood ulcers flesh often
healthy the place would heal being impurities
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the fb and
blood OF the
made entirely from rcls-
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vahty and steadily entire
the blood making
reny cures Eczema Acne letter, Salt other skin
OF disease BOOK the blood
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