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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
STRANGER SKIPS WITH
PAIR OF NEW TROUSERS
Garment Rips as He Darts Out
Past Proprietor

Il want said a stranger entering
the tailoring store Of Aaron Foss 1893
Tvventy-fourth street Saturday night
"a nice, new pair Of black trousers.
Rather fancy and something that will
make noise when / walk down the
street"
Foss produced the garment. The
stranger Invested himself of his di-
lapidated pair and pursed his mouth
in critical survey.
The tailor stepped back a few steps
10 better gaze al the garment and the
stranger stepped forward few steps
through the door and into the cheerless
black night. Foss let out a yell Of
dismay The stranger leaped forth
like \ kangaroo. He slipped. There
was an awful sound OF ripping cloth
as his legs mutinied under him. but
despite the disadvantage he sped away
and was lost
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
MAYOR OF SAN JOSE
TO DELIVER ADDRESS
c. w. Dawson Will Speak on
Spanish War Veterans"

Mayor c. ". Dawson Of San Jose,
past department commander of the
/ nfted Spanish War Veterans, will give
A free public lecture tonight at 1874
McAllister street on The Spanish War
Veterans in Public Life" The meeting
will be under the auspices of Nelson A.
Miles camp. A musical program viii
be given during the evening.
At the last regular meeting Of Nelson
A. Miles camp the following we're elect
ed delegates to the sixth annual depart
ment convention. to be held at Pasa-
dena August 80 TO September 3: Clar-
ence Son. Joseph W. Weaver, Frank
Field and Fl. J. Harris.
Delegates to the sixth annual ma
tional encampment TO be held at Ia
coma. September to 6. were elected as
follows: Colonel ". J. Fife. Adjutant
F. A Robbins. James c. Smith and B.
r. Johnson.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
SOLDIER DEMONSTRATES
HOW TIME TAKES WINGS
Walking Proof of Scientific
Theory, Thinks Restaurateur

The really remarkable manner in
which time flies was exemplified In a
report made to the police yesterday by
w j. Alexander, a restaurant keeper of
204S Baker street, who said a soldier
had entered his place and wandered off
with a handsome clock, valued at $50,
late Saturday night. The man of arms
1T seems, after eating hearty meal at
the restaurant, negligently meandered
into the kitchen and through the back
door, picking up the clock as a souve-
mir of his visit as he departed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09

SUSPECTED OF RoBBERY-AntonIo Munoz
and Jack Gomez, $50 Pacific street, were ar
rested Migrants yesterday by Policemen E. F.
Ruggles and George III. Williams. this charge
being placed against them pending investi-
cation of robbery which occurred in the lodg-
ing house where they reside. Isaac Perlas and
Juan Cortez. two other roomers complained that
clothing valued at SIG had been stolen from
them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09

TO BUILD NEW HALL OF RECORDS
Yreka. Aug. 8.-The Roberts Brothers company
will begin work tomorrow morning on the new
hall of records for Siskiyou county. The building
will be made OF reinforced concrete at a cost Of
SOS. 500 and must be completed within six
months 1t will be absolutely freproof.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
PROPOSALS

REPAIRING bridge-U. $. engineer ONCE, 7z8
Chronicle bldg. san Francisco. Cal, July 81.
190e-Sealed proposals for repairing bridge
over tidal canal at High st.. Alameda, Cal.
will be received here until Il m. August 80.
1879: Information application. JoHN
BIDDLE. lieut.. col. engrs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09

full of sores from his head
to his feet. Even the
bottom OF his feet were
full Of cracks with the
blood coming out. / be-
lieve that his case was as
bad as it generally gets.
for he was bleeding all
over and could not rest.
He was too small to tell
anything about it, only TO
fret and cry. We cnl1ld
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09

ALOHA CLUB DANCE-san Rafael Aug s.
Over 300 guests were present at the dance given
Arnory hall last night by the Aloha club.
and the Hawaiian music rendered by the or
chesfra the feature OF the evening A. +.
Pachcco and Frank Costello received the guests,
who came from Ross. kentfeld. Mill Valley
san Rafael AID San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
Defective Hearing
Means Retirement
School Principals Are Asked to Report All
Teachers Who Have This Defect

T in schools be
present deafness
The OF
defective To add
of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
sac Francisco Business college.

Market and Eddy. The best equipped
nd best lighted business college on
the coast Write for information.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-09
BOYS SEVERE
BLEEDING ECZEMA
Covered with Bleeding Humor when
a Baby = Poor Little Sufferer
Found No Rest and Could Only
Fret and Cry Until Very First Use
Of Cuticura Brought Sleep.
JUSTICE OF PEACE TELLS
OF CURE BY CUTICURA

My baby boy was afflicted with &C.
zema. Ii ran on him until be Kaa
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
CITIES WILL FIGHT
CAMERON COMPANY
CITY ATTORNEY AWKWARD is
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE
TO PREPARE ARTICLES.

Cities of Wisconsin, Illinois and In
diana will form an association for the
purpose of defending suits that may
be or have been begun by the Gamer
on Septic Tank company for alleged
infringement of its patent rights. A
suit against the city of Madison is
pending in the United States court
here, the company seeking to collect
a royalty for the tanks in use at the
sewage disposal works. City Attorney
Awkward represented the city at con-
ference of cities at Chicago Saturday
A committee was appointed to- draw
up articles of association and report
at meeting to be held in about ten
days. Mr.. Awkward was made chair
man of the committee. Twelve cities
were represented at the conference
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05

Notre Dame Ind, and later in the
Catholic university at Washington,
d. C. He had been i'll for over three
months. Death was due to- heart dis
ease. In the early days of San Fran
cisco, Stoddard was member of the
Bohemian crowd of writer's who used
to gather in Coffee Johns place.
Mark Twain and Bret Harte were both
members of this group. He was the
author of many notable works, OF
which Footprints of the Padres was
one of the best known. For seven
years he travelled all over the globe
for San Francisco newspaper and
then from 1885 to 1889 was professor
of English literature at the University
of Notre Dame. He spent several
years in the South Sea Islands, where
he wrote a large number of we'll
known poems. The best known are
"Marsheliah," "A Flight Into Egypt,
and The Wonder Workers of Padua. =
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
DOM ESTIC.

In an accident near Geneseo. n. y,
on the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern. one of the train crew, G. d. Blu
chanan of Elmira. was killed and sew
eral passengers injured
Senator Benjamin F. Tillman met
members of the South Carolina society
of New York. at their annual dinner
and dance in the Hotel Knickerbocker.
and was the principal speaker of the
evening.
Paul S. Lesser of Winnipeg was ar
rested at quarantine on board the
steamship Adriatic. in New York
harvor. charged with the larceny of
$4,000 Adriance from former employ
ers in Winnipeg.)
Governor Warner has sent TO the
Michigan legislature a special mes
sage urging its members to pass some
measure in the interest of the protec-
ton. development and preservation of
Michigan forests.
The capitol guards at Denver are
investigating the effort to get into
Gov. Shafroth's Office by woman
giving the name of Mrs John Jochim.
who made several attempts to shoot
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The Depere Canning and Preserving
company viii use 100000 cans the com
ing season.
The Menomonie Press Brick com
pany has started its yard for an all
seasons run.
n. Thomas of Browns Lake has
been granted patent on hand-pro-
PEELED wagon.
A smelter for the reduction of low
grade ores may be built in Mellen
Wis, this year
A sufficient acreage has been Sc
cured at Mcmillan to insure the estab-
lishment of a pickle factory.
Five shoe factories in Chippewa,
at present have all the orders they
can fill Each is planning additions to
its plant
The water power at Gresham will
be enlarged, it is said, provided Sha-
wano agrees to use electricity gener-
ated at that pace.
Meat dealers at La Crosse want an
organization similar TO the Retail
Grocers' association with the view of
enforcing cleanliness.
The great generators Of the General
Electric company are being lowered
into place in the great power dam just
being competed at Kilbourn.
The Crory Canning factory at Stur-
geon Bay is being remodeled and when
the work is completed the plant will
be one of the most modern in the
country
E. G. Perkins of La Crosse, has
been appointed superintendent of the
southern Minnesota division of the
Milwaukee, road Supt Irwin re-
signed and expects to locate in Texas
In move to double the number of
stores throughout the country, the
purchase of additional property and an
enormous expansion of business in
general, the corporation of the United
Cigar sores was formed at Albany
with capital OF sl0.000.00o.
The new summer resort town of
Hatfield on the Green Bay Western
railroad is TO have a new depot OF
pressed s.one The Hollow Concrete
Wall company of Grand Rapids has
the contract for furnishing the ma
terial and fer the construction.
The Menomonie Gas company has
begun the work of enlarging its plant
and will increase the capacity OF the
works to five times the present out
put New machinery will be installed
and outside tanks constructed. Coke
gas will be manufactured hereafter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
FOOD FACTS.
what an NJ. d. Learned.

A prominent Georgia physician went
through food experience which he
makes public:
1T was my own experience that first
led me to advocate Grape Nuts food
and | also know from having pre-
scribed it to convaiescents and other
weak patients that the food is won
derful rebuilder and restorer of nerve
and brain tissue. as well as muscle. 1t
improves the digestion and sick pa
tients always gain just as | did in
strength and weight very rapidly.
Il was in such low state that l
had to give up my work entirely, and
went to the mountains of this state,
but two months there did not improve
me: in fact. was not quite as well as
when left home.
"My food did not sustain me and
II became plain that | must change.
Then | began to use Grape-Nufs food,
and in two weeks | could walk mile
without fatigue. and in five weeks
returned to my home and practice,
taking up hard work again. Since that
time / have felt as well and strong as
/ ever did in my life
"is physician who seeks to help
all sufferers. | consider it a duty to
make these facts public
Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when
the regular food does not seem to sus-
tain the body. will work miracles.
There's Reason"
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, 1.-THE Road to Wellvile"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
EOREIGN.

F. P. Earle of New York, whose
matrimonial affairs have gained him
much notoriety, has left Paris for
America.
Papal gendarmes surprised three
burglars in the Vatican gardens, from
where they were trying to break into
the italian royal mint adjoining.
dispatch received in Berlin from
Bozen, Tyrol, says that Heinrich Con
ried, former director of the Metropoli-
tan,opera house in New York, suffered
an apoplectic stroke.
George Nox Mccain, former news
paper man arrested in Constantinople
on suspicion that he was taking pho
tographs for use of the sultan'S enc
mics, has been released.
A strike of members of the United
Mine Workers of America. employed
in GOLFERS of the Dominion Coal COM
pany, is regarded as probable. The
companys refusal to recognize the
American organization is held to be
the cause.
E. E. Scobar, an instructor in the
Laporfiro Diaz college at Oaxaca, Mex
leo. was killed while sleeping in his
room, by bullet which passed
through the body of Ismeal G. Pineda
when he committed suicide as re-
suit of being spurned by girl student
at the college Pineda was So years
old and was director of the college.
The ranks of the striking miners
received considerable accession at
Lethbridge, Albert, n. w. T., when
district IS, u. NJ. w. A., called men
out of every mine in Taber and Ash
croft's mine. The domestic supply is
badly affected, nearly all industries
closed, and hundreds of steam p!ows
are halted for want of fuel
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
PURELY PERSONAL.

Archbishop Ireland, accompanied by
Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
called on President Taft
Harvey W. Scott of Portland, Ore,
who was rendered the ambassadorship
to Mexico, declined that office
Prof John NJ Coulter of the Uni
versity of Chicago has been elected a
member of the National Academy of
Sciences.
David Starr Jordan, president of Lee
land Stanford university, will give the
commencement address at Indiana uni
versity June %.
John G. Capers, commissioner of in
ternal revenue and republican national
committeeman from South Carolina, is
critically i'll at Washington.
Cole Younger, ex-bandit and for
merly a member of the Jesse James
gang of bank and train robbers, made
his debut at Tulsa, Okla, on the lee
ture platform.
D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago philan-
thropist who has been i'll in the PaSa-
dena hospital for number of weeks,
is almost well. A few days ago he
celebrated his S7th birthday.
George Lincoln GoOdale, Fisher
professor of natural history at Har-
ward university and director of the
botanical garden, has resigned. Prof.
Goodale has been connected with the
Harvard faculty since 1872.
Prof. Charles Gayley of the English
department of the University of Cali
fornia will deliver the commencement
address at Michigan university on
June % He formerly was an Ann
Arbor professor.
Prof. c. H. Huberich, head of the
Stanford university law school, has
been granted leave of absence for
next year to accept a professorship in
the college of law at the University of
Wisconsin.
The Youngest locomotive engineer
han ner, 10 years old, will soon re-
sumo his work on the road. Last fall
he ran an engine on the Rock Island
& Pacific road between Chicago and
Rock Island. He was badly hurt in a
wreck and has been under treatment
here since.
John Powers, a brother of Caleb
Powers, who, with former Gov. w. 5.
Taylor and former Secretary of State
Charles Finley has been pardoned be-
fore trial by Gov Wilson of Ken
lucky of all charges growing out OF
the murder in January, 1900, OF Will
lam Goebel, made himself known Sat
urday to friends in Kittanning, Pa.
Powers. who has been a fugitive from
justice for nine years and was thought
to be in Honduras, has been living at
Kittanning, Pa, for sixteen months
under the name of Prof. j. w. Christie.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Livestock.

-
Cattle Receipts estimated at 80
600; market 10@15 lower: beeyes.
4.65@6.S0; Texas steers, 4.4065. 50:
western steers, 1906. so: stockers
and feeders, 3.4O@5.45; COWS and
heifers, 2.OO@5.S0; calves, 4.50@
600
Hogs-Receipts estimated at $1,000:
market mostly 15c lower; light, 6.S5
OPS; mixed, 6.9O@7.35; heavy. $50
@74o; rough, 6.9O@71O; good to
choice heavy, 71O@z4O; pigs. $3.50
$40; bulk of sales, 7.2O@7.3o.
Sheep-Receipts estimated at 20
900; market steady; native, 5000
500; western. 3.6O@60o; yearlings.
6.0O@7.00 lambs, native, 5.5OmS15:
western, 5.5O@S.3O.
Dairy.
Butter Steady: creameries. 22@
26c; diaries, 1s1@23hc.
Eggs Easy; at mark, cases includ-
ed, firsts. 20c; prime firsts, 21c.
Cheese-Steady; daisies, $50
151ac; twins, 14h@14Ac; Young
Americas. lax @15c; long horns, Is
@15Hc.
Produce.
Potatoes-Steady; choice to fancy,
1.0S@1-O5; fair to good, 1.oo@1.e2.
Poultry-Steady; turkeys, tic;
chickens. 131sc; springs, 15c.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
OBITUARY..

John j. Young, a resident of Grand
Rapids for the last seventeen years,
died at his home from a stroke of apo
p.exy. He was 73 years old.
Frederick Wilson. manager of Min
ers' Empire theater at Newark n. j.,
and prominent in theatrical circles
throughout the country, is dead.
w. H. Karnes, advertising man of
Chicago. died in Colorado Springs,
Colo, from heart failure. Mr.. Karnes
was member of the Chicago Adver-
Using association, the Agate club and
the Atlas club. He was "a years Old
Henry D. MACEDONIA, who was at one
time assistant district attorney OF
New York, is dead. In 1879 he went
to the north polar regions as mem
Der of the jeanette relief expedition.
He was a we'll known Washington
correspondent.
Mrs. Lydia Coon Brown aged 69,
Seantor Brown of Utah, is dead at
Columbus, O., from paralysis She
was a pioneer in Ohio in kindergarten
teaching. A daughter, Alice Brown,
is dramatic critic of the Ohio State
Journal.
John Byron Avery, first peace officer
of New Richmond, Wis, is dead in
that city, following a stroke of paraly'
sis. He was born in Fulton county
New York, May Is, 1854, came west
with his parents when a child and
spent the remainder of his life in
New Richmond.
Col. Franklin Bartlett, one of the
best known lawyers of New York City,
for years secretary of the Union club,
secretary of the Sun Printing and Pub
fishing association and an authority
on national guard affairs, is dead. He
had been i'll of carcinoma of the liver
since last November.
Prof. Thomas B. Boughton, libra
rian of Huron college, Huron, S. D.,
died suddenly of pneumonia, aged fifty
years. His former home was in Troy,
n. Y. to which place the remains
will be sent. Prof Boughton was a
member of the faculty of Huron col
lege for two years.
Joseph H. Des Rosters. Tor more
than thirty years chief of the detective
force of the Michigan Central rail-
road died at his home in Detroit,
Mich. of heart disease. He was sew
enty-two years old. Mr.. Des Rosters
was in charge of the special detective
force engaged to work on the Charile
Ross kidnapping case.
Nathan Pratt Towne, ex-cnlef ehsi
ueer of the Cramp Shipbuilding com
panv and formerly an engineer IN the
United States navy. died at his nome
in Phi, adelphia. He resigned from
the navy to accept a position at
Cramps, and since 1898 he designed
and superintended the construction OF
the engines of nearly all the battle
ships. cruisers, and large vessels
built at Cramps:
Charles Warren Stoddard, the au-
thor. died at Monterey, Cal, sixty-flve
years old. He was born in Rochester,
\. Y. formerly was professor OF Eng
lish literature in the University OF
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05

citizens gathered. Toasts were drunk
to both the emperor of Japan and the
president
Inc mldshlpmen and many sailors
OF the squadron were taken for long
trolley ride yesterday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05

H. A. Buchtel. when he was governor
of Colorado.
Enraged at spanking, Charles AL
exander, 9 years old, of Keokuk,
Iowa, shot and killed George Jones,
a guest in his home, here. Jones, who
lived in Canton, No., was to have
been married tomorrow to Mrs. Lena
Hammond, the boys aunt.
Mrs. Susan Kane was instantly
killed and Robert Bane was fatally
injured at Washington, Pa, when a
carriage in which they were riding
was struck by street car Motorman
Adam Wassell, it is feared, will be-
come insane because of the accident
The jury in the case of William
Skinner, Pat Gleason, Carl Smith, Pete
Poindexter and Clarence Moore,
charged with assault Ain disguise at
Ripley. Tenn, returned a verdict of
not guilty. The jury was out only a
few hours. The case was one of al
legged night riders.
A wireless telegraph station has
been established on the roof of the
Auditorium Annex hotel in Chicago.
1t will be used to communicate with
boats on the Great Lakes and with
st. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo and other
cities.
James Barton pleaded guilty at Hot
Springs, S. D., to the charge of MUIR
dering his father-in-law, Stephen d.
Tucker, near Edmont, on March %,
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. The charge of numbering his
mother-in-law still is pending and
doubtless he escaped hanging by
throwing himself on the mercy of the
court. He is 81 years old
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
Another Hoosier County Dry.

Muncie, Ind, April 2S.-Delaware
county yesterday voted dry in the
county option election. Eighty-two sa-
looms will be closed. Up to the pres
ent As of the 90 counties of the state
have voted dry.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05

Washington, D. c., April 28.-Form-
er Representative Joseph w. Babcock
of Wisconsin, for IA years a member
for many years chairman of the ma
tional republican congressional COM
mittee, died at his home here at 9 AS
a. m. yesterday.
He had been i'll for some weeks
with a complication of liver and kid
ney troubles.
Washington, April 2S.-The funeral
of Mr.. Babcock will be held Friday at
the Babcock residence and the sery-
ices will be conducted by Rev. Henry
Couden, chaplain of the house of rep
resentatives. Honorary pallbearers,
from the ranks of Mr. Babcock' S
friends are: Vice President James S.
Sherman, Representative j. A. T. Hull,
Iowa; former Representative Watson
of Indiana, Stewart of Wisconsin, Haz-
elton of Washington; w. A. Jones,
former commission of Indian affairs;
Henry Casson, sergeant at arms of
the house; H. S. BEDSIDE, banker of
this city. After the funeral, in ac-
cordance with Mr.. Babcock's request,
the body will be cremated.
Joseph Weeks Babcock was born at
Swanton, Vermont, in 1850. In 1855,
he moved with his parents to Iowa.
where he resided until 1881, when he
came to Wisconsin, his new home be-
ing at Necedah. In 1886 he was the
republican nominee for member of the
assembly for Juneau county, but was
defeated at the polls by narrow mar
gin. In 1888, he again secured the
nomination and this time was elected
Two years later he was reelected. In
1892, he secured the republican NOM
ination for the new third congression-
al district, his closest competitor be-
ing the late E. I. Kidd of Prairie du
Chen. He was elected in November
A. H. Krouspop of Richland Center
was his democratic opponent. He was
reelected in 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900,
1902 and in 1904. In 1906 he was de-
feated by ex-Congressman j. w Muir
ply of Platteville.
In 1898, when the republican ma
tional congressional committee was
organized to fight for the control OF
the 54th congress, the Wisconsin del
egates chose him as its member of
the political body and shortly after
wards he was made vice chairman
In the spring of the succeeding year,
Chairman John A. Caldwell resigned
from the lower house to become
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
BANQUET FOR JAPs.
Drink Toasts to Emperor and Pres
ident Taft.

Los Angeles, April 28.-The enter
tainment extended the officers and
men of Admiral Ijichi's japanese
train squadron now at San Pedro
was crowned last night with a BAN
quet by the chamber of commerce,
where 40 officers and 80 prominent