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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
PLEADS DUAL NATURE
IN THE HOPE OF MERCY
San Rafael Burglar Will, How
ever, Go to Folsom

SAN RAFAEL. June 16.-Dressed in
light summer suit, and snining his
shoes with pocket handkerchief
while he talked. Dudley ID. Miller,
alias William Miller, argued his own
case before Judge Lennon in the SUI
perior court today, introducing fire.
quent quotations from the bible and
exhibiting an eloquence whic sur
prised his listeners.
Miller stole quantity of wearin g
apparel and silver ware from the resi-
dence of Mrs. Adolph Koenig and u.
B. Waterman of this place, and con-
fessed his guilt to Sheriff Taylor yes
terdy. He entered a plea of guilty. be-
fore Judge Lennon this morning. who
sentenced him to five years in Folsom
prison, despite the earnest plea for a
pardon
Il am second DIR. Jekyl and Mr..
Hyde when under the influence of
liquor,1a said Miller to the judge. and
it is my dual personality which gets
me into so much trouble.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
HALF HOURS OF MUSIC
ARE TO BE CONTINUED
Robert ii. Thomas Will Give
First Concert Sunday

BERKELEY. June 1.-THE musical
and dramatic committee of the univer-
sity announces that with the opening
of the summer session the Sunday
half hour of music in the Greek thea
ter Will be resumed. For next Sunday
the committee has been fortunate in
securing Robert II. Thomas, formerly
soloist in Bangor cathedral Wales. He
possesses a rich barytone voice that has
been carefully cultivated under the
best masters, and for his work on the
operate stage he was trained by the
great French actor Coquelin.
Since Thomas came to California last
fall he has sung acceptably in con-
certs in this vicinity and in the south
ern part of the state. One well known
critic writes of him: "Mr. Thomas has
big robust resonant but withal,
pleasing voice: and sings many things
remarkably well. He can do classics,
such as Honor and Arms, in excellent
taste and brilliantly"
Thomas accompanist will be the pop
ular local pianist, Vincent de Arril-
ga, who will also play a piano SOLO
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
MAN MAY RECOVER FROM
HIS SERIOUS INJURY
Surgeons Believe Prisoner
Back Not Broken

OAKLAND. June 16.-John +. Keefer,
the former shop keeper. who was taken
to the receiving hospital from the pC-
lice station last Monday after suffer-
ing in his cell for nearly So hours. is
expected to recover.
DR.. s. II Buteau. who is attending
the aged patient at the Merritt hos
pitaI announced today that late dag
noses of the case revealed that keefer'
injuries were far less serious than at
first believed.
Buteau stated that the paralysis with
which Keefer is stricken is due to a
confusion of the spine, at the worst, a
fracture of an arm Of a dOTsal verte-
brae, but not TO a broken back.
So serious was the injury. however.
that for two days it had the appear
anee of being a mortal fracture Of the
spinal column.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
REALTY AGENT SAVES EYE
BY PULLING HIS KNIFE
Police Interfere in Real Estate
Dealers Combat

OAKLAND. June 16.-Vicious blows
were struck and pocket knife drawn
this afternoon when Charles E. Hughes
and Claude Mosby. real estate agents
clashed in an office at 1856 Broadway.
The battle promised to be CORY. and a
crowd of spectators stood aghast when
Policeman Dolan rushed in and dragged
both men to the pelice station.
Nobody seems to know who started
the row. The agents fell to blows and
clinched. In the embrace Hughes
stuck his thumb in Mosby's eye. which
SO annoyed Mosby that he drew OUT
his pocket knife. opened a blade. and
Then the patrolman interfered.
The broil ended peaceably through
the intervention of Captain Lynch. who
reconciled the angered men and DIS
Mosby has a black eve.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
Oakland Marriage Licenses

OAKLAND, June 16.-The following marriage
licenses issued today:
Wallace Z. Haskell. %, and May L. .Lundine,
IS. both OF Oakland.
Maurice Cottrau. %. and Margaret Weldon.
q. both Of Alameda.
Gilbert W. HOUgIanJ. "a. and Anna Rozt-
man, 80. both OF Oakland
Adelbert Z. Kellogg so. san Francisco. and
Kate q. Batchelder. AZ, Berkeley
Revy Boyd. %. and Elsa Eibach, 20, both OF
Oakland
John e. Stats. SO. and Emma A. Fuller As.
both Of Fruitvale.
Rene J. Iarkin. "a Oakland, and Emma De-
terra. 10 Centerville
Roland S. Southwick. 81, Salem, Ore, and
Carrie ]. Wells, %, Oakland.
Roy A. Grimes. .. San francisco, and Claudia
NJ Strong, -, Berkeley.
Louis A. Rudolph. 81, and Clara +. Atwater
%. both Of Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
WHIPPED HUSBAND,
THEN DIVORCED HIM
Numerous Unhappy Couples Set
Free From Each Other

OAKLAND. June 16.-Hilda Shapiro
first horsewhipped her husband, Harry,
and then divorced him. She was
granted an interlocutory decree of di-
vorce today on the ground of extreme
cruelty. She testified that her hus-
band was abusive to her for years,
calling her names and accusing her I'M
justly of undue familiarity with other
men. Once she had him arrested by
the Oakland police, but Shapiro was
not frightened by that, so the next
time she wanted to protect herself
against him she beat him with a black
snake. Shapiro left her soon after that.
After &c years of married life Clara
B. Creque deserted her husband, Fred.
The latter was granted an interlocu-
tory decree of divorce today
The following divorces were granted
today: Cora Moore against Frank G.
Moore interlocutory, cruelty; Lillian
l. Stanley against George w. Stanley,
final, cruelty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
MORE CREDITORS
SEEK MACDONOUGH
Chauffeurs Who Plotted Gay
Party Will Sue for
Their Money

OAKLAND, June Proprietor Ma
loney of Hunters inn is not the only
man who is after w. OBJ. Macdonough,
the millionaire turfman and clubman,
to make him pay for the little time
he had near San Leandro last Febru-
airy when, in company with six COM
pahions, male and female. he babe
adieu to dull care for more than a
week.
There are others who say that Mac
donough has not yet settled the bills
he incurred on that notable escapade,
and they are going to sue, as is Ma
1oney
CHAUFFEUR WANTS $500
Maloney has already announced his
intention of suing Macdonough for
$1,000 for champagne consumed, food
eaten. suites of rooms occupied and
money borrowed Now comes Dick
Lloyd, chauffeur. with a stand IN
Broadway, Oakland, with claim OF
$500 against the millionaire. Then
there is another chauffeur who has
stand in San Francisco, who is dis
satisfied with the treatment he got a.
Macdonough's hands and is mumbling
that he wants his money.
KEPT MACHINE BUSY
Lloyd's particular duty seems to have
been to pilot some of the fair members
of the Macdonough party from Oak
land to Hunters inn and back. Be
sides that he was in attendance at
Hunters inn with his machine for
three days, waiting on Marlborough
and his party and joining with the San
Francisco chauffeur in whirling the
merry coterie up and down the roads,
stopping wherever merriment at
night was to be had. Lloyd has made
a demand on Marlborough for the $500
which he says is due him, but has not
been able TO get satisfaction as yet.
He is going to sue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
NO TUXEDOS WANTED AT
THIS BOOSTER BANQUET
Two Thousand Guests Expected
at the Big Dinner

OAKLAND, June 16.-"Come right
from work in your everyday gar
ments" was the word sent out today
by the committee of the chamber of
commerce. which has charge of the
big industrial banquet to be given
Thursday evening, July ].
The dinner viii be given at Scottish
Rite cathedral. and seats will be pro-
Vided for 1000 guests.
Former Secretary Of the Navy Victor
II. Metcalf viii be invited to speak
on the subuject. What the Completed
Panama Canal VIII Mean to Oakland -
Invitations will be extended to pub
lie officials of Alameda, Berkeley. San
Leandro Hayward and other localities
in the county.
The banquet will be opened at $50
o'clock sharp. so that businessmen can
go directly from their stores, Offices
and shops.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
ANNUAL CAMP MEETING
OF SALVATION ARMY
Large Crowd Attends Services
in BeuIah Park Auditorium

OAKLAND. June 16.-The annual
camp meeting of the Pacific province
of the Salvation Army was opened last
night at Beulah park with rousing
meeting. attended by at least 500 mem
bers of the organization and a large
crowd of visitors.
The meeting was conducted by
Colonel Miles and music was fur
nished by the Salvation Army band
and the singing brigade of the Oak
land barracks.
Among the speakers were Captain
Bradley of Honolulu. Major Waite of
Ell Paso. Texas. Major Smith of Los
Angeles. Brigadier Marcussen of Chi
cago. Major Reid of San Francisco and
Adjutant Braun of Seattle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
MAURICE DOODY DENIES
BEING A BIGAMIST
Similarity of Names Leads to
Confusion for Married Man

OAKLAND, June 16.-Deputy City
Assessor Maurice Doody is busy ex-
planning to his friends and neighbors
that he is not a bigamist Incidentally
he had some trouble making, the same
explanation to his wife, who wanted
to know the meaning of an announce
ment in the newspapers that a mar
riae license was granted Monday to
Maurice Doody and Pearl Kenyon
1t seems that another Maurice Doody
secured the marriage license. He gave
his address as San Rafael. while his
bride hailed from San Francisco
The Oakland Doody has been married
Is years and has three children. He
is the son of Miles Doody, a well known
Oakland politician, who was formerly
IRE chief
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
SAYS BIDS WERE NOT
ACCORDING TO THE LAW
Alameda City Attorneys Opin-
ion on Webster St. Tenders

ALAMEDA. June 16.-All bids for
paving the east half of Webster street
have been declared illegal by City At
torney M. w. Simpson. The city coun-
ell gave contractors the privilege of
bidding on their own specifica lions.
This was not according to law, said
the city attorney, who declared that
the council should have framed the
specifications.
The work on the Improvement,
which will complete the main thor
oughfare between west Alameda and
Oakland. will be delayed until the
council shall have conformed to the
provisions of the law as announced by
the city attorney.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
CECILIA CHORAL CLUB
WILL GIVE A CONCERT
First Unitarian Church to Be
Scene of Musicale

OAKLAND, June 16.-The Cecilia
choral club Will give the sixth concert
of the season tomorrow night in the
First Unitarian church, Fourteenth
and Castro streets. under the auspices
of the Unity club.
The choral music, which viii in
clude old madrigal songs and ora
torios, viii be rendered by l25 mixed
voices
The program viii include Beeth-
ovens rHallelujah. Mendelssohn's
Forty second Psalm Leslie's -Hark
Apollo Strikes the Lyre." The Cara
van" by Pinsuti; Charm Me Asleep"
by Leslie: The Dragon Flies" by
Bargiel; In the Time of Roses. by
Reichardt: Flow of the Brook" by
Macdowell: Good Advice" by r.
Rheinberger. Several solos will be
rsndered by Mrs. Grace Davis NorthruD
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
UNKNOWN MAN PERISHES
FROM HUNGER AND THIRST
Victim of Heat and Drought of
the Desert

Ell CENTRIC. June 1e-The first vic
tim of the deadly heat and drought of
the desert for~ the present year was
discovered yesterday by r. NJ. Morgan
while returning to his ranch. north
west of Ell Centre; from Superstition
mountains, when he found the body
of an unknown white man, who had
evidently persisted from hunger and
thirst.
The victim had been dead for days.
The man had apparently undertaken
to walk across the desert from San
Filipe creek pass to settlements on
this side without sufficient food or
water.
The coroner has gone out to bring
in the body
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

NO FUNDS FOR sITE-Berkeley, June is-
On account Of the lack OF money in the city
treasury the trustees have been blocked in their
attempt to make the final purchase on the much
disputed incinerator site at the foot OF Harrison
street. the legality OF payment on which il
stin pending in court They were to have taken
the final vote last night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

June 16--At the regular election of officers Of
Halcyon parior, n. S. G. W.. last night the
following were elected: Fl. Won Tagen. president:
Herbert ID. Clark. first vice president: L. r.
Wcinmann secretary, and J. Glen Bates. treas
urer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

BIDS RECEIVED BY CITY-oakland June
16.-The board of public works this morning re-
ceived and opened 165 bids for city supplies for
the next fiscal year. The offers were referred to
City Attorney Stetson, and contracts will be
granted In about week after the bids have been
examined and checked
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

DISCUSS COUNTY BONDS-Oakland. June is.
A plan TO bond Alameda county for the construc-
tion of road through Niles canyon and other
roads through the county, well for the
erection of new buildings at the county infrm-
airy. was discussed today by Supervisors Horner.
Bridge Mullins and Foss and County Surveyor
Haviand. who made trip of inspection over
the proposed Niles Canyon road this morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
FICTITIOUS INspEcTnR-I

FICTITIOUS Observation-Disclosures. June 49,
The operations Of fictitious water meter in
spector was reported to the police today by Mrs.
o. Mounicot of 3144 College avenue. who said,
that who acted in suspicious manner
endeavored to obtain an entrance into her home
but was refused
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

APPOINTED TO HEALTH BoARD-Alameda.
June 16.-Announcing that he would accept the
appointment tie board of health, the city
council has approved The appointment of Dr
William Tappsn Lum. This fills the vacancy Of
fbe board did il will organize at its next meet.
Ing for the coming Cd; Year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

INCREASES FIRE DEPARTMENT-Ber
June 16.-On the recommendation of Fire Chief
have been added TO the Berkeley fire department
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10

perhaps as well that their initiation
should have fallen into the hands OF
Mr.. Roosevelt for 1t is easily conceiv-
able that had the task been undertaken
by one Of less force and more radical
the end might have been disastrous.
Our ex-president's policies were never
destructive; they were always progress
sive, and have done more to check ex-
treme radicalis1n and socialism thar
any movement that the country has
ever experienced. AS soon as the dust
of conflict subsidies, a clearer vision of
Mr.. Rooseve1t's character will be OBJ
tanned: and ten years hence it is safe
to say that he will have attained q
much higher position in the regard of
his fellow countrymen than he holds
at the present time. The country is
fortunate in having a. successor who
will continue these policies in a firm
but more tactful and judicious manner
President Taft's ideas and methods are
well understood. He has the faculty of
winning by attraction rather than
compulsion, and now that the current
of reform has been turned in the di
rection in which he distinctly led there
is every reason to expect a healthy pro-
gress in political developments
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10
WALL STREET AND ROOSEVELT.

So much has been said of late Of
Wall street hoping that every lion will
do it's full duty while Mr. Roosevelt is
in Africa that it is more than Hkely
that quite a number of people have
formed the idea that the ex-president
is generally hated in that great finan-
cial center, and that there is not a
man in that locality who is of the
opinion that much of any good was ac-
complished by the Roosevelt admins
tration. Such is not the case. how
ever. Wall street may be a place of
financial fiesh-pots, but there are many
able conservative and honest f1nan-
ciers and business men among them
who are just as much opposed to the
methods pursued by the Wall street
gamblers as was Mr.. Roosevelt. and as
all reputable citizens should be.
That these men were in sympathy
with Mr.. RooseveIt's attacks upon the
unrighteous money power and the
monopolistic corporations and that
they are appreciative of the work
done by the ex-president is made ap-
parent by a paragraph in a recent
financial review from the pen of Henry
Clews, who is representative of the
moneyed interests in Wall street that
are of the desirable sort. 1t follows:
1.-The coming of the new administra-
! ton will have a soothing effect upon
the nerves of the financial community.
Mr.. Roosevelt introduced many reforms
that We're necessary for public welfare
and pushed them with vigor that was
often unsettling to vested interests
Certain tendencies arising from an un-
due concentration of wealth were
| threatening the political horizon and
no matter who undertook the initiative
| in restraining or regulating them the
effect was sure to be disturbing. Yet
| the purposes of Mr.. Roosevelt We're al
ways of a high order, and with few ex-
ceptions were conducive to public good
It is safe to say that Mr.. Roosevelt will
go down into history as one of our
greatest presidents, ranking close tc
Washington and Lincoln; but his
methods of carrying out these pur-
poses were, as already said, often very
irritating and unsettiing. So long as
these restraints had to be applied it is
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Fron1 the Atehison Globe. J

(FTOm the AtchtSOn GIobe.)
When a woman coaxes her husband
| to carry his lunch down town instead
| of going to the restaurant at noon,
she gives him an elegant spread the
first day, but it gradually dwindIes
| down until he gets nothing but
| a cracker and pickle. She thinks
he ought to understand that she was
so busy with her household duties that
| she couldn't get anything better. A
woman always thinks that her hus-
band ought to apologize for her fail
ures by thinking of her household
duties.
When a woman gets her rights.
what will she get that she hasn't now =?
A woman's wrongs are private ones;
a harsh father, an unkind husband,
ungrateful sons. 1t is not the election
of the wrong man for mayor that makes
her cry herself to sleep at night, and
no wrinkles come because her candi-
date isn't elected president If her
men folks happen to be tender and in
du1gent, she doesn't want rights, and
if they are not, the Lord help herr
voting will not.
No matter what aiIs a woman. her
husband is an unusual sort of a man
if he can't blame it on gadding. Every
thing from toothache to ague he
gadding too much," is his only COM
ment no matter how sick his wife
feels. or what the origin of her sur
fering. 1t is related Of one Atchison
and asked for his wife "She is dead
said a sorrowing relative. "Gadding
again." was his reply; II knew she
would be gone"
The women's magazines have a
great deal to say about a cassarole. A
brown earthen bake jar is kept on
the back of the stove and in it are
dropped from day to day, as is con-
venient a turnip, onion, bits of meat
spices. crusts of bread, ETC., and, when
the lar is full, the contents are baked.
many women have for winters past
been preparing casseroles for their
chickens. But they didn't know when
they saved and heated scraps, that the
mixture was a casserole, and High
Toned.
When there is a highway robbery,
or a burglary, or even petty stealing,
it is always a loafer who is suspected.
And, usually, it proves a 1oafer who
need to rob, or steal, or break into
houses; he knows a better way of
making money and 1t is only on rare
occasions that such man ever
thinks of robbery as means of gain
But the 1oafer has ample time to
think of such matters, and to plan
their execution. And, likely, the
Ioafer thinks robbery a short road to
wealth. So it is the loafer who is
of course, not all loafers are robbers.
you say. Not in the sense that they
violate the criminal statutes, to be
sure. But they are robbing themselves
if no one else. for the world has a
right to expect "a reasonable amount
of work from all; when it doesn't get
it, someone is being robbed.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10
.AYHAWKER JOTS

| "a newspaper" says the Garnett
/ Journal, 'can be no better than its
editor"
The Enterprise Push is hunting a
mayor and says: Several parties act
| on the theory that, if you want any
thing done. get the busiest man in
town to do it, have suggested the name
of B. A. Flack for mayor
The Concordia Kansan is another pa.
per that is disgruntled because Wall
Mason has taken to copyrighting his
poems. First thing we know it says
Bent Murdock will be copyrighting his
stuff so that we can't reprint it, ano
then we will be up against the rea
thing
In Mcpherson county youthful
hunter gathered up his shotgun and
went forth to shoot at signs and fence
posts. On his way he saw a Chinese
pheasant and he just couldn't help
shooting at the bird. OF course, he
didn't intend to kill it, but his error
cost him SIS and a few fees in the JUS
tice court.-Wichita Eagle.
Mrs. Frank FARRELL must be editing
the Ho1ton Signal while her husband
is doing" the legislature for his pa
per. No one else, says the Kansas City
comment: '"The editor of the Signal,
who is loafing in Topeka, says there
isn't much going on around the Iegis-
lature. If that is SO, he ought to come
AAOI1lC- 4S p4CAAlS SOII4S OlA mere
Walt Mason defends the tart'' de-
partment of the Kansas Magazine.
Complaint is unjustly made,'' he says,
''that the pictures in the Kansas Mag
agine do not justly represent our Kan
saS institutions. This criticism is
cruel and unfair. For as matter of
fact, the pictures are obviously de-
signed at the Kansas institution for
the insane and executed by the Kansas
school for the blind; and it is evident
that they reflect splendidly the spirit
of both institutions"
A Kansas City man was in Atchison
yesterday telling of his experience
with a Kansas girl, who visited him in
Kansas City. He took her out to
Electric park and for ride on the
scenic railway which is ten times
worse than the figure 8 at Forest park.
The young lady surprised her escort
with her calmness. She never even
put her hand to her head to hold her
hat on when the fast time was being
made. After it was over the man in
quired as to her unusual conduct.
''Why, I'm used to riding on the Gen.
trail Branch" she replied.-Atchison
Globe
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

It's easier to pay compliments than
bills.
When a woman means 'yes" her
"no" is not strenuous.
After a girl is engaged her mother
ceases to revise her letters.
Many a self made man expects his
tailor to make the most of him.
An ounce of seeing it yourself is
better than pound of hearing others
tell it.
Many a young man who thinks he
is courting a girl is only counting
throw-down.
Men who say they were driven to
drink would doubtless have arrived
sooner or later anyway.
It's just human nature for the ice
man to think the coal man is FOO
in summer and a genius in winter
An old topper says it's a shame the
way society women waste good alco-
hol by burning it under chafng dish.
And sometimes when opportunity
knocks at a mans door he is so busy
using his little hammer on his neigh
bors that he doesn't hear it.
One of the most useful traits a man
can have is not to think he knows
how to do half dozen things SO Well
that he needn't do any of them