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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20

less than the rent he had paid for a
wretched howell on the hill.
He might have been content with
the place as il was. It sheltered his
family, and that is what a house is
primarily for. During all the years
they lived in the matched hut they
had never had the money or the heart
to make an Improvement There was
no incentive. In the new environment
however, IT was different. Within two
years the man had built a porch, with
a window, at the front door. This
alone added so per cent to the attrac-
tiveness Of the place. Lace curtains
appeared at the windows. The frowsy
front yard was plowed up and beds OF
flowers planted. A neat hedge was
planted along the road, and climbing
roses made patches of color against
the walls. When I saw this place Ii
was as trim and attractive as many a
prosperous Pennsylvania farmhouse.
Said the Congested Districts Board
man:
Il am prouder OF things like that,
with which we have had nothing df-
rectly to do, than of any of the projects
which we undertake for the people
themselves. 1t is a great thing TO
build roads and fences and drains and
houses; 1T is a greater thing to stir
the ambition of helpless people, and
TO see how their spirit expands under
the sunshine of opportunity.
We gave that man a chance, that's
all The house was a mere shelter
when he got it-weatherproof and
comfortable, but wholly lacking in
beauty. You see what he has made of
it-a pretty home. He has done all
that himself. without even a sugges-
ton from us. The effect upon his own
family, upon his children, must be OBJ
vious. But 1t has its effect upon the
whole neighborhood. In time every
house within sight will be improved.
The example is Irresistible.
After all, what we do, valuable as
the work is, is merely preparatory We
help a little, but the big thing is that
we teach the people to help them
selves. And 1t is encouraging to see
how quickly and vigorously they grasp
the lesson and put it into practice
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Story of Hunter:
Big Lion Clicked
With Bare Hands

MARYSVILLE. Aug. 19.-Bat-
Ting for his life with huge
California mountain lion that
mOmentariIy threatened to cut
short his career, Glenn Obanion.
treasurer of Suffer county, mar
rOvvIy escaped death while on a
hunting expedition I'm the wiIds
of Glenn county this week.
In company with District At
tOrney SchiIIig, Assessor McQuaid
and Lee Best, ObaniOn returned
here today. bringing an account
of his thrilling encounter. 0ban-
ion, unarmed, was walking
short distance from camp when
the lion. that had been crOuching
in the branches of small tree,
made a Iunge for him. There was
no time TO retreat, and Obanion,
realizing his danger, broke sew
eraI branches over the head of
the enraged beast, but 10 no avail.
Finally. in desperation he WIS
forced TO meet the animal In
terrific encounter with no weapon
but his two hands.
Obanion finally succeeded In
getting his hands ON the animals
neck and by dint of superhuman
effort strangIed the beast. He
reached camp well nigh ex-
hausted. but exhibited the carcass
in proof of his story. The beast
measured eight and a half feet
from tip to tip.
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REVOLUTION IN
MEXICO FEARED
BY DIAz PARTY
Government Organ Says Upris-
ing Is Unlikely, but Points to
Troops and Guns
General Reyes and His Political
Friends Retire TO Noun
tains for Counsel

CITY OF MEXICO. Aug. ls--Much
unrest is reported in the states of
toahuila and Nuevo Leon. in northern
Mexico. General Bernardo Reyes. gov
esnor OF Nuevo Leon, prominently men
tioned as the successor to President
Diaz. has retired to mountain retreat.
El Imparcial. the government organ
saws $4,000 was sent to him yesterday
secretly.
A special train carrying 600 cavalry
mon viii leave here this afternoon
hinder sealed orders. Its supposed oes-
tination is Sabinas. in the state OF Goa
hula, where Observation-Disclosures riots
are reported.
The recently removed mayor of Mon
ferey. Pedro Martinez. is preparing TO
leave for New York on a secret mission
A number of political friends Of Reyes
have gone to his mountain resort 10
confer with him.
The ReYista party has petiIioheo
President Diaz asking him that fun po-
1i+ical liberty he granted in state cleo
lions and the president has announced
that the petitioners should take their
grievances TO the proper state oinciais,
Ell Imparcial. published an edltorial
on it's first page today entitled a heNo-
LUTON in Mexico is Absolutely I'M
DOSSlb AlLer Nildtst CAei Ems ~
position as a band of unprincipled Sc
sitfon mongers, il points out that the
Intelligent body of Mexican citizens do
not want the long peace of 80 years
disturbed because Of economic rea-
sons. but adds significantly that the
thousands of miles Of railways and
telegraph lines built during the Diaz
administration viii enable the quick
transferrence Of the standing army Of
q 600 men and that modern artillery
and rapid FIRE guns viii do the rest
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we crossed the narrow strip OF land
which separates it from Tough Conn,
amid scenery as wildly beautiful as
can be found in all Ireland, and thence
ran easily down to Castelar,.
A Prosperous Colony
Next morning, before starting east
ward again, we made a 10 mile detour
to the southwest of Castelar,, to visit
colony of mi Migrants" who have been
settled in their new places for eight
or nine years. Here / saw the mar
Vicious work of the board in full
fruition. The land is poor--it was inn
possible to find better land in the
neighborhood for those who needed it
but the people have made brave fight
for themselves. and they have won.
The little farms were bright with
growing crops. the houses cleaning
with paint and whitewash. Few that
saw lacked beds of flowers in the
dooryards, and many had climbing
roses that reached the caves. The cat
tie looked sleek and well fed School
houses that we passed were filed with
rosy checked, bare footed children. The
problem had been settled and settled
right. The people got their chance,
and they are living up to il. Not one
has failed to make his purchase pay
ments. Where there was poverty and
Indebtedness under the system of land
lordism, there is peace and contentment
under the system of ownership.
One photograph took in this neigh
oorhood will illustrate the story of
what the land reformation means
when it Is completed. The board built
for a man for whom it provided a
farm one of the serviceable but hope
lessly plain houses. He moved into it,
with his family, and cheerfully under
took to pay, in purchase installments,
six times as much annually as he had
paid in rent for a stony strip of hill
side.
Once he was settled there, under
contract to the government, supervision
and advice were withdrawn. That is
the invariable rule. The board is
paternalism personified in its opera
tions, but the paternalism is of a Spar
tan character. There Is no coddling, no
fussy interference or officious offers of
aid. The board has deliberate pol
icy to let each family, once placed on
the road to self-support. work out its
own economic salvation, and 1t is
gratifying to know that In every single
case 1 investigated the men and women
concerned were perfectly satisfied with
the arrangement.
Farmer Improves Home
This man, then. with his family,
found himself possessed of % acres OF
fairly decent land, with a section of
bog from which he could cut turf for
fuel; a comfortable but rather ugly
house, and the necessary outbuildings
for small farm. These were to be
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REFERS TO PINCHOT
Patterson Attacks Pinchot

DENVER. Aug. 19.-Despite the ef-
forts of leaders in the trans Mississippi
commercial congress to prevent the In
PRODUCTION of the Pinchot-B allinger
controversy, former United States Sen
ator Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado
prepared an attack on Clifford Pinchot
this morning, which was curtailed In
part by the action of the congress in
declining to give additional time to
Patterson. who wished to present a
resolution in fulier form than allowed
by the rules of the congress.
Senator Patterson's resolution cited
that a board of inquiry composed of
Pinchot and four other scientists some
time ago reported that the boundaries
of the forest reserves are not definite,
and many places include grazing and
agricultural lands.
He declared therefore that additional
laws are not necessary, but that the
president now has the authority to de-
clare these boundaries in more defin-
lite way, thereby dividing the forests
from the arabic lands and saving to the
people many thousand acres of land
now held in reserve as forest lands.
Patterson declared that inasmuch as
Pinchot himself concurred in report
which says that the boundaries are I'M
true 1t Will be no illegal act for the
president to give back to the people the
lands to which they are entitled. This,
he said, is the contention of the people
of Colorado. who believe that they have
being deprived of lands to which they
are entitled under the homestead act.
After much discussion the friends of
beet sugar had adopted a resolution
favoring the development of the beet
sugar industry and opposing further
concessions to sugar coming from pres
ent and future possessions of the
United States.
Arthur r. Briggs of San Francisco
presented a paper on the merchant
marine, which had been prepared
jointly by himself and Edward w.
Dickie, also of San Francisco. John d.
Milliken of Denver spoke of the needs
of the northwest.
San Antonio, Tex, was selected for
next years place of meeting, and Colo
mel Ike T. Pryor of San Antonio was
chosen by the executive committee as
the only candidate for president.
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Wrights Sue for Damages

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Wilbur and
Orville Wright. the aviators, today sued
the Aeronautic society of this city, al
leging that the Herring Curtiss aero
plane, which the society recently pur-
chased. is an infringement on their
patents. The Wrights demand that the
machine be turned over to them for de-
struction, and in addition ask that the
court assess damages for threefold the
amount of whatever losses they are
found to have suffered by reason of the
infringement and the public exhibition
or rental of the machine.
Aeronaptic experts generally view
the suit as IN the nature of a test case
brought to determine legally whether
the Wright patents cover -effectually all
aeroplanes constructed along similar
lines. Regarded in this light, ii was
pointed out the suit probably will have
a most important bearing on the devel-
opment of aerial navigation
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CRETANS OF GAMBIA
REHOIST GREEK FLAG
Conflict Averted by Interven-
ton of METROPOLITAN

CANEA. island of Crete, Aug. 49,
The armed inhabitants of Gambia. the
largest city of Crete. rehoisted the
Greek flag today in the presence of a
squad of militia, who were powerless
to prevent the proceedings.
A conflict was averted through the
Intervention of the metropolitan, who
begged the officers to confine their SOL
diers to their barracks.
The consuls of the powers have de-
handed that the government of Crete
give a written guarantee that the
Greek flag will not be hoisted after
the departure Of the international
squadron.
The government replied that it would
do so when order has been restored
at Gambia.
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SCOTTISH CLANS OPEN
AMERICAN CONCLAVE
NJ. L. Grove of San Francisco
Named as Royal Chaplain
Special Dispatch to The Call

MANCHESTER, y H. Aug. ia
With nearly 200 delegates. officials and
past delegates in attendance repre-
senting the United States and the Cana
dian provinces. the biennial cOnven-
ton of the Royal elan. Order OF Scot
fish Clans, opened in Odd Fellows hall
yesterday and viii continue four days.
The appointive officers were named
by Royal Chief Hill as follows;
Maxwell L. Grove Of San Francisco.
royal chaplain; William Gardner Of
Coal City. H.. royal henchman. Peter
Cardell of Lowell, royal warden; Alex
ander MacIlreath OF Amsterdam. n. Y.
royal sentinel: Gideon Mansfield royal
auditor. and A. D. MacEinnon, assist
ant royal secretary.
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STETSON SERIOUSLY ILL
WITH KIDNEY TROUBLE
Aged Capitalist Rallies After a
Severe Attack

]. B. stetson. the aged capitalist. is
III at his home at Clay street and
Van Ness avenue. He is suffering from
an attack of kidney trouble and be-
cause of his advanced years deep anx-
iety is felt by the members of his
family.
His condition showed Improvement
last night and the physicians In at
tendance held out every hope Cor his
recovery.
Stetson was forced to take to his
bed Sunday and his condition at that
time occasioned grave apprehension.
called in and the patient has responded
TO treatment.
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TRAIN KILLS MAN-Missoula. Mont, Aug.
1e.-W. s. Moore, a linotype operator Of ST.
Joseph. Mo-, who came here recently from Spo-
kane. Wash, was found dead beside the North
ern Pacific tracks two miles west Of McQueerry
today. Apparently the young man had at
tempted to ride train out of Missoula late last
night and fell upon the rails
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Balloons in Long Race

PEORIA, ILL.,, Aug. 19.-Three bal
looms started tonight on long race
for the Brown. Page and Hillman tro-
ply. The Illinois, Sylvester Won Phul
pilot, only went seven miles, The
others, the Missouri and the Peoria, in
charge. respectively. of A. p. Lambert
and H. E. HONEYWELL, were sighted Is
miles from Peoria, rapidly going south.
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Kaiser to Watch Flight

BERLIN, Aug. 19.-OrvilIe Wright,
his sister, Katherine, and Hart o. Berg,
the European business manager of the
Wright brothers, arrived here today
from London. Wright is to make a Sc
ries of public flights on the Tempelhof
parade grounds in the suburbs of Berlin.
If he is ready by the end of the month
Emperor William will probably witness
one of his flights. The emperor is COM
ing to Berlin to review the Berlin and
Potsdam garrisons and to receive Count
Zeppelin, who is expected to make his
long voyage from Friedrichshafen to
Berlin August %. The two masters of
the different schools of aviation will
then meet and compare methods.
Wright in his flights here will use an
aeroplane built in Germany. He went
out to the shops at Tegel today and ex-
amined the craft. He has two complete
machines to choose from.
pamphlet written by Captain Won
Hildebrand on the Wright brothers is
being widely sold in Germany. Some
pride is taken in the fact that the
grandfather of the Wrights was a Ger
man.
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EXPENDED Dy D0aFu Tor improvements FtVoJVVV
A little northwest of F'renchpark we
left the main road and ran a short
distance to Callow. Here we saw a
large area of grass land which a few
weeks ago was divided into holdings.
Within sight, 40 or so houses were in
course of erection, and scores of men
and teams were busy cutting roads into
the heart of the tract for the use of
the farmers BY the middle of Noyem-
Der every one of the houses will be
occupied.
Coming back to the main road and
travelling westward, we inspected re-
markable bit of engineering work on
the Lung river, which l shall describe
in detail later. To drain some wet
land the board has diverted the river
into a new channel. After passing
Ballaghaderreen, the course lay south
west and then west nearly to Kflkelly.
Here. in the town lands of Tavraun and
Glentavraun, 1 saw 75 new houses,
erected during the last two years.
Ambition and Industry
This group constitutes another phase
of the boards work, upon which 1
have not yet touched. The houses
were not built by the board, but by
the land holders themselves, under the
board S direction. only small loans
were made, but the trifing assistance
given had stirred the land holders to
help themselves to this extent. The
10 houses offered eloquent testimony
to the ambition and industry of the
farmers when an opportunity for bet
terment by their own labor is offered
to them.
Thence the car ran due north to
Charlestown, from which place we
made a circuit of 10 or 10 miles in the
open country. Two interesting features,
which 1 shall describe at some length
later, presented themselves on this de-
tour. One was the diversion of the
Curry river for drainage purposes, the
other a hamlet of poor houses where
the wretched conditions 1 saw seven
years ago still exist, the board having
been unable as yet to acquire decent
lands for the tenants.
A straight run westward through the
Swineford district brought us to Fox
ford. where a notable feature !. is a
wooden factory conducted as success
full commercial enterprise by sisters of
charity. Climbing through the rugged
mountains that surround Tough Cullen,
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AeropIane Is Damaged

BRESLA, Italy. Aug. 19.-The Wright
aeroplane in which Lieutenant Calder
arm of the Italian army. has been max
ing flights was damaged in storm yes
terdaV
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TRAIN WRECK VICTIM
MAY BE STOCKTON MAN
George Holloway Believed to
Have Been Killed at Saugus

LOS ANGELES. Aug. ia stranger
killed in a freight wreck at Saugus
Wednesday is believed to be George
holloway OF Stockton.
In a pocket was found a check for
$50 payable to George Holloway and
signed G. II. Shebb. It was drawn on
.he San Joaquin Valley bank OF Stock
son
The coroner's inquest was held and
brought in a verdict of accidental death.
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DEFENSE OF THE EMPIRE London. Aug.
i9.--The delegates to the conference on the
naval add military defense of the empire con-
cluded their Iabors at a plenary session held at
the foreign office today and the results of the
conference must now be submitted for ratifica-
tion TO the various colonial governments
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Satisfied With Aeroplane
Curtiss said

Curtiss said:
4 am entirely satisfied with my aero
plane, which the recent accident has not
in any wise hurt. used an eight cyl
inder motor. The only trouble 1 expe-
rienced was with the propellers, which
revolved so fast that the draft from
them strained the rudder. This, how
ever, can be remedied for future flights
by strengthening the rudder."
Curtiss joined the other experts in
statement TO the effect that aviation is
a fine weather sport, but people must
not expect flights in all sorts of wealth
er. Personally, Curtiss said, he did not
intend to take any risks. He has de-
cided not to enter the passenger carry
ing test, as he has no hope of defeating
Bleriot in it. He intends instead to de-
vote himself to speed contests.
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0br I9rh
G,as 1Seilns & On
San 1fraruisrr.

70 Prstensions Here to Make Clothes to Order.
shey can't show much real clothes brain
shops that sell hats, shoes or shirts
conjunction with mems clothes.
lich stores are simply all around traders.
they are not considered practical clothiers. .
he kind Of clothes good dressers like
Re ''our kind that drift entirely away
rom the ordfnary hand-me-dOwns,
,or d we use anybody label.
Ke give you our clothes brain with our label.
JemelerS guiding
pnst Street mar 1ararnp
San Tr at1riHru
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CASTRO IN sPAIN-santauder. Spain, Aug
1e.-Cipriano Castro, former president of vene-
zueia has left here for Soares, a resort seven
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STUNC BY CRITICS
BALLINGER REPLIES
Secretary OF Interior Declares
That Time Will Demonstrate
That He Is Right
Insists That He Had No C0ntr0=
versy With Pinchot at the
Spokane Congress

HELENA, Mont, Aug. 19.-"As long
as any public lands remain to be adj
ministered, there will be complaints"
declared Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger today. speaking
of the recent controversy at Spokane
and the complaints concerning the re-
clamation service.
mo two people are constituted alike,
and there is always ample opportunity
for disagreement. Some of the settlers
on the reclamation projects were ig-
norant of the conditions which would
confront them and they settled on the
land in the expectation of reaping a
standing irrigation methods. They
have been disillusioned and now desire
the government to release them from
their contracts and to reimburse them
for their expenditures.
DIFFICULTIES EXPECTED
Such difficulties are to be expected
when a new work is taken up and they
should not be allowed to assume too
much Importance when the whole work
is taken into consideration.
Since / entered the office of secre-
| tary OF the interior / have admin
istered its affairs, not as any extremists
might dictate but as 1 understand my
duties. That will continue to be my
policy.
'sAt the same time I realize that
there are some things In the law gov
erning the disposition of public lands
which ought to be modified and as
soon as 1 shall have opportunity l
shall suggest such changes as appear
to me to be necessary, in a report to
congress. In the meantime the estab-
! lished policy Of the interior depart
ment will continue.
ALLEGES MISUNDERSTANDING
There have been gross misrepre-
sensations sent out regarding the ac-
ton of the department in certain mat
tiers. Criticisms have been pretty Sc
we're from some quarters, but knowing
that 1 am absolutely right in the po-
sition I have taken 1 have paid no
attention TO them. In time it will be
shown beyond a doubt that my course
! has been absolutely right.
1T will be shown. also. when the
facts are made known, that despite the
claims of the restoration of power
sites during the administration, act
ually more sites have been withdrawn
during this administration than under
the former ones and that none with
drawn under the former administration
has been grabbed
REFERS TO PINCHOT
There was no controversy between
Mr. Pinchot and myself at the meeting
of the irrigation congress in Spokane.
1 was invited there to make an address
on the work of the interior depart
ment as it affected matters in which
the irrgationists are interested. | de-
| livered the address, as requested, on
| the attitude of the administration to-
ward the reclamation of the arid lands
! of the west. I did not enter into de-
Tense of my course compared with
that of an official in another depart
ment. Those who expected a contro-
versy were disappointed, so far rs
was concerned
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$3.50 Robins Egg Blue" Latest
soft hat. Tom Dillon. opp. Call bldg. !
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WRIGHT MAY FLY
BEFORE EMPEROR
American Aviator Reaches Ger
many and Prepares for
Public Tests
Continued from Page 1

minutes during the evening. and Her
bert Latham took a few short spins
around the course
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LITTLE FARMS BRIGHT
WITH GROWING CROPS
Continued from Page L

the magnitude of the work by exam
lining the records in the case of the
three estates just mentioned-Dillon,
Murphy and De F'reyne. Here are the
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Farmer Improves Home

This man, then. with his family,
found himself possessed of % acres OF
fairly decent land. with a section of
bog from which he could cut turf for
fuel; comfortable but rather ugly
house, and the necessary outbuildings
for small farm. These were to be
his own, upon certain yearly payments,