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The San Francisco call., 1909-11-07
By Edward f. Cahill

under discussion for adoption Sam
Rainey predicted that it would be
a curse to the city because it gives
SO much power to the mayor.
"The people of San Francisco"
he said, will yet come to execrate
the name of Jimmy PheIan."
At that time Phelan stood high
er than any other man in the esti-
nation of the people of this city
and he was the chief supporter
and proponent of the charter. We
shall see the tremendous power
of the office used next year to
mold state politics, even as Ruef
used it to control the Santa Cruz
convention.
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Asswel say that the publishers of the Mercury
should be arrested for barring the maladministra-
ton ofthe sheriffs Office OF the city government
or of any other public institution deserving of
AS we'll carry a Clergyman off to Jail for
exposing the criminal apathy of the police in per-
mttng vice to rampant in this city in spite of
existing law.
What Griest said in depreciation of the police
department might have been said much
verey by those familiar with the facts His
an outrage and disgrace to this city.
Let us hope it will have the effect of stirring pub
lie feeling to such extent that semblance
of the principle of free speech may be left to us
1t is new form of lese majeste to speak dsre-
spectfully of the police An eminent Presbyterian
clergyman called a policeman an encyclopedia"
last week in an Alabama town and he was promptly
arrested and locked up DR.. ]. w. Stagg,-a college
president and clergyman, was standing at street
corner waiting for car. Patrolman Sheppard
passed by and Doctor Stagg asked him when the
car was due Sheppard answered that he did not
know and the minister jocularly remarked: Il
thought all policemen were walking encyclopedias
OF information" Sheppard thought the preacher
had insulted him and placed him under arrest on
charge of drunk and disorderly."
THEATRICAL CRITICISM
man fell asleep in Fresno theater and was
arrested for snoring They called it disturbing the
peace. To the plain man snoring in a theater
might seem to be nothing nee than form of
criticism, perhaps unconscious, but undoubtedly
sincere.
Further we are confronted with the grave psycho-
logical question whether be held respon-
sible for crime committed while he is asleep.
CONCERNING LOCAL STATUES
Mrs. Philip Verr Mighels writes me pleasant
letter concerning the memorial statue to "the Pioneer
Mother which it is proposed to erect in this city
and she says:
May give you the most eloquent saying of
Stephen NJ White? 1t was at the Chicago expo
son l6 years ago Admission day, and he was
the orator of the occasion After he had adver-
tsed the products of the state (prunes all the
GO that year-I remember that that was all
Michel de Young did discourse upon that day,
and we We're so tired of ..prunes') Stephen White
paused mention the pioneers and their work "in
making state" And while the pioneer men were
suffering privations and breaking the wilderness
what was the pioneer doing? He waited
until we could hear hearts beating in suspense,
and then he said briefly, but eloquently .The
only church we knew around our mothers
knees That brief utterancc brought back with
to California from memory, 10 years later, and
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An Independent Review of Men and Things T

HAT will P. H. Mccarthy do
to us?
It is question that many San
Franciscans have asked them
selves since Tuesday night and
yet it is not the question that
chiefly concerns us. I have
known Mccarthy for years and
/ know him to be-a proud man,
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methods drawn by Charles Klein
in his play, "The Third Degree,
is somewhat overdrawn, but it Is
fact that the tyrannical exercise
of police power in nearly every
citv of America has become pub
lie scandal. A minor instance OF
this abuse arouses even the sober
sided San Jose Mercury to pro-
test in this strain: i.
San Jose is becoming ter
ror to socialists We are ad
vancing so rapidly along re-
pressive lines that it will soon
be a high crime for man to
stand on street corner and
discuss anything to the advan-
tage of any one. For example,
A. l.. Griest was Friday night
tapped on the shoulder by
policeman and told to come
along to the city prison,
where a charge was placed
against him of disturbing the
peace From a report publish
ed in the newspapers it would
appear that the mans only of
fense was a criticism of the
oyeroficiousness of the police
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-07
EDWARD F. CAHILL

agreeable speakers with sort of merchantable
eloquence They large producers OF the stump
speech of commerce, but neither of them has
a spark of the divine fire Continuing my critic
instances Delmas, whom he characterizes very
justly as polished finished and scholarly" bit
Delmas is nothing more He rouses no passion and
brings no thrill. Heney has rude rough and
tumble eloquence, very convincing of its kind and
effective He and Hiram Johnson and Andrew
Furuseth approach true oratory more closely than
any others in California. Yet of them meas
ures up to Eugene Debs, who is natural born
orator.
I can always listen to Sam Shortridge with
pleasure. He is humorous, face, elegant. AS an
eminent Pennsylvania statesman and protectionst
once remarked, Il love to the tall chimneys
smoke but / know the difference between smoke
and fire.
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AS TO ORATORS

A writer in the Chico Enter
prise questions my judgment that
"the age of oratory is past in Cal
ifornia and offers examples of liv-
ing spellbinders. Among these
are Sam Shortridge and George
Knight. ! yield to no man in adj
miration for these statesmen, but
neither is an orator. Both are
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RECALLS. EMPEROR NORTON

I find this quotation from the Sacramento Bee
of fifty years ago:
Somebody in San Francisco has set up kind
OF Mrs. Partington, Wilkins Micawber, who is
called Norton l. Emperor of the United States of
America and is made get off good
things. The last is very pointed and is follows:
Citizens of California: Whereas, complaints
made that the supreme courts of this state have,
in several instances, reversed their decisions,
thereby making the power of the court itself of
avail; if you acknowledge the empire appeal to
the emperor in all such Inconsistencies
When [ first knew San Francisco Emperor
Norton the only man in uniform to be seen on
the streets. The police wore no insignia but their
stars and when | saw Norton I with his brass
buttoned coat, his clanking saber by his side and
a sweeping feather in his plug hat concluded
that he must be member of the San Francisco
police force. The outfit appeared little fantastic,
but put that down to the eccentricity of western
manners. Indeed, the militia colonels of that
period nearly grotesque as Norton T.
SOME POLICE METHODS
One may presume that the picture of police
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extremely sensitive to criticism. Some people
might call II vanity, but prefer to give him credit
for the finer sentiment. His is not only personal
pride, but reinforcing that there strong class
pride. There is a considerable body of men for
whom public opinion constitutes competent sub
stitute for conscience. Mccarthy keeps his ear to
the ground
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FOUR OF A KIND

The Placer Herald remarks with pardonable
patriotic pride
vergilia Bogue the queen of San Francisco's
Portola born in Auburn She is said to be
one of the most beautiful in beautiful Cali
fornia 1t is but another evidence of Auburn's
versatility, and might add that Auburns stock
of Portola queens is nowhere near exhausted.
Queens make good hand to draw to if you
have enough of them
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going put up statue to her, based upon
that inspiring utterance. 1t is to be placed down
at the ferry in Market street for all to that
do honor that early mother who wanted first of all
that her children should be good That is the atti-
tude of the universal mother-and it is for the lack
of this elemental OF responsibility that the
Young are now Incoming the unfit 10 survive
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KEEPING THEM HONEST

Ruef was vain man merely, but even that would
have kept him moderately honest, legally honest,
had not his museum of paint eaters forced his
hand, forced him to come through, in their own
graphic speech. Mccarthy, l am sure, would like
to mend the black eye that Ruef and Schmitz gave
to labor politics if they will let him.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
Rowdies Mist,rat Aged Man

While attempting to alight from
the train at the Greeley station last
Saturday morning, b. S. Pier was
knocked down by crowd of rowdies
and relieved OF his purse. He re-
ported the matter.
Mr.. Pier is one of the pioneers here
and was returning from several
months trip to Salt Lake and the
northwest. He is not as steady and
sure on his feet as he once was and
when leaving the train, was rudely
jostled and thrown down by crowd
of young men from Greeley, who
have no consideration or respect for
old age The boys were boarding
the train for Cheyenne. When Mr..
Pier escaped from the mob he dis
covered his purse, containing Sill,
was missing and was not able to find
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
HOW VALUES
GO UP NEAR AuL1
SEVEN ACRES GO FOR $3.50
Increase in Ten Years Has Been
Almost Phenomenal

Aut August 24-Ten years ago
there was a man who homesteaded
quarter section in the neighbor-
hood of Ault and after he had proved
up on the place, decided to sell. lie
fixed the price at $1,000. which
seemed reasonable, but for all that
he had hard time finding pur-
chaser Yesterday seven acres OF
that land sold for the sum of Sl,s5o'
The sale was made by John Newman
to G. H. Eager of Kingston, III.
Two of the seven acres sold for s5oo
each and the other five for S25o
each The land is located Just east
of Ault.
Eager intends to put up a good
house on the place and will probably
sell half the land to friend III
Kingston. Both men will move
their famiiies here and become Ault-
ties. There are no Improvements
on the lots now.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
MANY SEEK LAND
LAND AT GROVER
THIRTY INQUIRE IN ONE DAY
Fifty Russian Families Have Arrived
During Week

ID. NJ. Hawley, manager OF the new
Independent Telephone company S
system at Grover, was IN Greeiey
Thursday and brought news OF won
derful development of land in the
section Immediately surrounding
Grover. He states that on Wednes-
day there were thirty different IN
auiries for land made in the town
and that during the past week over
fifty Russian farmers had arrived 10
take up their residence in the dls-
trict.
Elbert English, in conversation
with Mr.. Hawley stated that many
of the Russians had inquired at the
Office of the district clerk in Greeley
and that the majority of them haa
been sent to Grover. 1t is reported
that the crops in the dry land dls-
trict were never better and tha'
prospects are good for a bumper
crop
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
|1ISE ACTION IS DEFERREDRATE VAR * CTARTFn RY n D
aOO ACRES or DRY LAND
YIELD 10000 BUSHELS
AMOUNTING TO 4l3, 400

:. Dry land eight miles west OF 1:
!. Greeley Is doing itself proud !
:. this season. Incidentally some I:
:. of the farmers In that section OF !
:. the county have made enough !
:. this year to Offset the reverses i
:. of some previous seasons. On 4
:. the Hubb Bros. farm. a tract +
). containing 800 acres, 5000 :.
:. bushels of wheat has already i
:. been threshed. This wheat was !
:. marketed directly from the field +
;. and brought 313.4OO. In the +
:. same section John Deboo had !
:. wheat which yielded forty-five <
:. bushels to the acre over sixty +
:. acres. Other farmers are re- i
:. porting the same ratio in yield <
:. and threshing Is going forward +
= rapidly. i
!. !. I. + 1. + i. !. !. !. !. + + !. + + j.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
Issues Order to Cancel
Traffic Agreement
with c. & S.
EFfECTS,EXCURSIONS
New Attitude Of Roads
May Lead to More
General Fight

!. That there is a railroad war 1.
4 on between the Union Pacific i
= and the Colorado & Southern !.
4 railroads in this district which +
+ will result directly to the bene- i.
i fit of Greeley is indicated by 1.
4 recent orders issued by the i.
+ Union Pacific for that portion I.
I: of its lines running through i.
j. the same territory in Northern +
1. Colorado as the Colorado & i.
= Southern. 1t is stated that the i.
j. Union Pacific has issued orders +
= that no further agreements will !.
!. be made with the Colorado & i.
!. Southern in the running of ex- +
:. cursions. This will stop a num- +
:. ber already booked. i.
!: !. !. + 1. /. j. I. I. i. /. I. + I. I. I. +
There Is almost certainty that
the spirit of antagonism developed
between the Union Pacific and the
Colorado & Southern will ultimately
result in cutting of rates along all
lines of transportation, although at
the present time the only phase of
the situation affected is the excur-
sion business. Some of the excur-
sions that have been arranged to
resorts on both of the lines, 1t is un-
derstood, will be cancelled
1t has been the habit of the two
roads to book excursions to their
/ respective resorts from towns located
on the other road. Each road then
shared in the receipts of the haul.
according to the distance. Excur-
sions were being arranged for the
late summer from Greeley, Eaton,
Ault and other towns on the Union
Pacific over the loop. 1t will be i'm
possible to run these excursions if
the Union Pacific's order refusing to
make any more traffic agreements
with the Colorado & Southern sticks.
1t can easily be seen where such
a warfare will lead to, yet it is i'm
possible to predict the end. If fol
lowed out it will undoubtedly lead
to the cutting of rates on passenger
travel as well as freight rates.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
SLAUGHTER OF DOVES
is BEING FOUGHT BY
WELD COUNTY FARMERS

q" Many Weld county farmers !
\ have united to prevent the i
=" slaughter of doves which is now i
= taking place In this and other !
= counties. Notices have been !.
= posted warning all hunters. i.
= The sport, II sport it may be !
:: called, looks more like murder I:
< than the hunting OF any other !
= bird and 1t is to be regretted :.
= that there is an open season, i
< owing to the fact that the doves !:
X are the farmers best friends and !:
= devour more grasshoppers than ::
= any other bird Of the fields. 1t ::
= is estimated that several thous- !:
:: and doves have already been {
\ killed. Humane persons gener- i
< ally sympathize with the farm ::
:: ers' ideas. i
= I: !. !. = !. !. !. I. I. !. !. !. !. !. !. i
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
DRINK =CRAzED FATHER TRIES
TO MURDER HIS LOVED BABE
DAMAGE SUITS AGAINST THE
UNION PACIFIC UP SATURDAY
Weld County Fair is Great
Opportunity for Farmer

AS opportunity for farmers in Weld county, there has
been nothing recently equal the Weld county fair AL
though there has been slight misunderstanding in certain
quarters concerning the fees be collected from exhibitors
and mis-staeents have been made unwittingly
in this connection it is hereby stated after investigation
of the entry conditions at other fairs that the purchase of
dollar ticket required of each exhibitor at the Weld
county fair is much lower rate than has been offered
recently by any other in Colorado One may enter
as many exhibits he peases the exhibitors ticket,
and the fee required for each intending
exhibitors led to understand through other
In most of fairs of the state the exhibitors ticket
costs from up 1t is stated by persons who sent samples
of their crops the Commercial club that not their
intention to enter them the fair and had they known they
were to be they would have them direct through
the fair association Is
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26

There is but little change IN the
fruit markets since last week 'o'
rapsberries are gone, blacKperrleS
,oing. the cherry season is wah'hs
and peaches and pears are ho' !e' CIV
their best. ,,o,-
The harvest apple crop is unusual
,y large in this section as wen us
along the foothills, so Greeley ro' :
Collins and Loveland are supply 'ne
the demand for this fruit AT IT,
for n 5O-pound box, or eight po"nus
for csc. p,rtlott
california and Colorado Bart'e''
pears are in the Market, VI. at
at $3.50 box, and the i'''e' "
1925.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
COME LONG WAY
TO GET A
TRIBUNE

Mr.. and Mrs. s. s. Potter OF Cedar
Falls, Ia, visited the Tribune once
Monday searching for paper win
the account of their wedding whlch
took place in Greeley three years ago.
The couple went to Cedar Falls I'M
mediately after the marriage ana
have since taken the Tribune, but
failed to get copy telling OF the
wedding. The desired paper was
found without trouble. While here
Mr.. and Mrs. Potter are guests OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Sherman.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
MILL UP IN AULT
GROWS TO
CROPS

Ault, August 25.-By the installa-
ton of new machinery in the plant
owned by the Ault Milling company,
the capacity has been increased from
less than 5000 bushels in ten-hour
run to 1000 bushels The elevator
has been idle during the past two
weeks while the machinery was put
in place. A new chop-roll for grind
ing feed and new Independent ele-
vator are among the improvements
made. Superintendent w. d. Young
found the repairs necessary in order
to properly care for the big grain
crop this year. The work of grind
ing commenced the first of the week.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
WINGS
RUSTLING IN
GREELEY

The stork has been hoVering over
creelev for several days. Mr. ana
Irs n s. Strohl Of Tenth street and
Sr,na+nortb avenue are the proud par
ents of a little daughter. Mr. ana
Mrs Bert l.. Kittle are rejoicing
over the arrival of an 11-pound girl
,,ho came Tuesday night. Mr.. and
Mrs William Hulegaard of 1o22
Tourteenth street also have new
aanghter who arrived Monday, and
.,. nrd Mrs. Joe Miller have brand
new boy. who is the fifth son In the
family.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
MAN WHO WAS OVERCOME
ON STREET DIES MONDA 4

Glen Lou, who fell fainting on the
street Monday morning and was rush
ed to the county hospital, died at D
o'clock Monday afternoon. The man
nod heen an inmate of the hospital
for two months and was intending
to leave Greeley Monday for Colo
RADIO Springs. He was 80 years oid
and his death was caused by tubercu-
,osis. ell was buried from Macy
undertaking parlors this afternoon
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
cHFRR1ES CONE APPLES HERE
1t Few Things Concerning the Markets That Are Men
'u'' toned for the Greeley Housewife

The peach season is really Just pc
aiming. The housewives have done
none # the preserving in this me
as the majority are waiting lor tne
Alberta peach, which is the iaVorl'e
for cunning and will be in the mar
l,et in ten days or two weeks.
The fancy Crawford peaches oi
roIifornia can be bought at Sl.5o
hoy. nut are not very big seliers'
rbe Grand Junction and Pallsaue
peaches are $l.15 a box ana "'e
snIendid for table use.
Iceland cherries are S2.I5 case
for "a quarts.
The fine Lansdale cantaio"p.s
crown near Evans are no" III 'n'
market as well as other Varle'les'
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
What is Best for indigestion

Mr.. A. Robinson of Drumquin.
Ontario, has been troubled for years
with indigestion, and recommends
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets as "the best medicine / ever
used If troubled with indigestion
or constipation give them trial.
They are certain to prove beneficial.
They are easy to take and pleasant
in effect. Price 25 cents. Samples
free at all drug stores.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
Blow Of an Axe Is Wild
and Child Escapes
Unharmed
DEED IS FORGOTTEN
Man Is Totally Deaf and
the Case Is a Sadly
Pathetic One


= Either momentarily crazed :
:: into feeling of murderous ::
!. hatred against his crippled babe :
\ of 10 months or else suffering ::
!. under the delusion of drink :
:: benumbed mind that he was :
!. about to commit merciful :
!. deed by ending the life of the :
!. suffering little one, Thomas :
!. Beal, a laborer living at 212 :
!: Fourteenth street, placed the -
!. baby in the center of the porch ::
!. and swung an axe with deadly :
!. intent, only failing OF becoming :.
:. murderer because 80 nearly ::
:. overcome by liquor that he was ::
:: unable to control the axe. The :
:. weapon missed the mead OF the :.
:: babe by only narrow margin :
:: and weeping over the deed ne :.
:. had failed to accomplish. the ::
:. father ran into the street. Sew ::
:: eral persons witnessed the near :
+ tragedy and the police were :.
!. notified. When Marshal Gene ::
:. Williams arrived on the scene :
X the father and babe were lying ::
:. in the middle of the street, the ::
:. man too stupefied to walk and ::
: the baby unharmed. The at :.
:. tempt Mt crime was made at :
:: about $50 O'Clock Tuesday ::
= evening
. ). j. :. ;. :. j. :. :. :. :. :: :. :. X :. ::
What become of my baby.
don't remember anything about wha
happened after 1 carried my baby
across to Lakes moaned Thomas
Beal when brought before Magis
trate Davis Wednesday morning ant
confronted in writing with the stor.
of his actions tuesday evening.
Beal is totally deaf. The famil!
came to Greeley from Nebraska abou
one month ago. Since that time
Beal has been employed with
threshing outfit and the wife ant
mother has lived in Greeley helpin'
out by picking up such work as sh'
could do. She says that Beal ma
been devoted husband and wa
particularly fond of the baby, lsabei
Lately Beal has been i'll and has SUI
fered greatly with his head Bah!
Isabel is cripple, having disease
that is thought to be incurable. I'M
father has worried greatly about nj
child's affliction. When Mrs. Bea
sent him word few days ago tina
the baby was i'll. he came to tax
care of her and an older child.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
CITY WILL SELL SAND
RY A TICKET SYSTEM

BY order of the city council team
sters and others desiring loads OF
sand rom the city will be able 10
secure them at the rate of II ioaas
for So. City Clerk Hotchkiss has
been authorized to issue a 2l-loau
ticket, which will be punched u
times at the sand dump east OF
Tenth street.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
a RenI Hair Grower

If YOU are troubled with dandruh
scaIp irritation or falling hair, we
want YOU to try ReNall "9S HAN
Tonic at our risk. We won I charst
Won a cent for the treatment II you
are not entirely satisfied. III almost
invariably effects complete eure
Two sizes. soc and $1.OO. carson '"
Gilbert, The ReXall Store
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
First Spuds From Eaton

Special to the Daily Tribune.
Eaton, August 25.-The first car
of early spuds to go from the Eaton
district was shipped this morning
w. B. Woolley, Crews buyer, is the
shipper and the lot will be put on
the Denver market.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
AFTER ALL
(AFTER kIPLING-A LONG WAYAF7ER>

JUST TEDDY.
when arh last franchise granted back its ease
When lawyers have all ceased lying Roosevelt gets down On
his knees N VI"
We shall rest and faith from manv ,b;nas w
don't believe,
And no one shall lag together everything in the receive.
FOR tbs only then will know when
ana no one Will doubt that EN- of description size
Ana those who have doubted will greet long
so' grim '"-Sou
AS we wander about the ponder have
We shall ride cushions coplan
Unless still left wondering
And only the wise shall and tell
And all this brethren shall happen, days when mud is
made clear. " '"N ;"
The Greeley tribune., 1909-08-26
FAX IS
|EING
|ED

/ wheel tax sys-
ecial street i'm
hslderable dis
fuay nights ses-
| 'he matter of
| amsters and the
lcIes is now be-
Eeral Of the al
F. themselves as
|, general wheel
~ Houston has
tnS' imposing an
ome license fee
VINO sometimes
tTEO n horlsl.,
/, license fee for
|,Iss probable that
lns, l'amed covering
luch a way that
\ sc of the streets
|, in Proportion,
|au. |ou to draw upon
Lsn's' L,'' The mat
Fhed out in com.