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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16
TWO THIEVES RETURN
$4,000 TO OWNER
Letter Says $4,000 Was All Rob-
berS Needed

ST. PAUL, June IA dispatch from
Seattle says Mrs. George Shea of Du-
luth, who notified the police that $40, 900
which she concealed under the mat
tress of her bed was stolen May so,
while she was watching a parade, had
received $4,000 in a letter signed Two
Thieves" The writer's of the letter
say that they used $4,000 to furnish
their home, and having no further use
for the money, returned it to the owner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

AIDS PUEBLO oRPHANAGE-Pueblo. June
15.-Mrs. Lizzie III. Welsh of Riverside, CAL, a
in Pueblo county. has given land valued at
$4,000 to the Mcclellan orphanage Of this city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

not. let us not destroy that which will
afford us protection from a foreign
enemy.
Lastly is the question of beauty. In
its present condition it is horror to
the sight Every incoming ship, with
its passengers on board using their
cameras, taking a view of the city as
a whole, is confronted with this ugly
blotch on the landscape. 1t is the most
prominent feature of San Francisco to
the first glance of a stranger. Why not
beautify il? Why not eliminate this
unfavorable impression of the city
which the visitor obtains? 1 have de-
Tended this hill in the past, and 1 will
defend it as long as it stands or 1 live
/ sincerely believe that it ought to
stand forth, not as it is, but as a hill
of beauty, and [ feel confident that
next Tuesday not only will Telegraph
Hill gain two-thirds of the necessary
vote, but that it viii get nine-tenths
of IT,"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16
RECEPTION PLANNED
FOR GENERAL SMITH
Santa Clara College Students
and Faculty Offer Welcome
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

SANTA CLARA, June 15.-Prepara-
lions are under way for the reception
which will be given James F. Smith,
governor general of the Philippine
islands, by the faculty and students
of Santa Clara college, Sunday after
noon, in the Jesuit theater.
P. Arthur McHenry, 10, will well
come Smith to the halls of his alma
mater in behalf of the faculty and
students. An original poem. written
for the occasion by Charles d. South.
will be read by Edmond S. Lowe, 10,
and Michael Griffith will welcome
Smith in behalf of the alumni. The
college orchestra will furnish music
Hardy, Boles and Morgan, the college
instrumentists, are billed to perform,
and George Mayerle, the student barry
tone, will entertain with vocal selec-
tons. Smith was graduated at Santa
Clara college with the class of 1877,
and his son, Cyril, is member of the
senior class.
AIDS PUEBLO oRPHANAGE-Pueblo, June
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

intoxicants, in his opinion, on these
occasions.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16
THE CIVIC CENTER

James ID. Phelan, in speaking of the
civic center. devoted much of his speech
to the value and necessity of voting
the bond issue in general, saying that
what can be accomplished in this line
now would be impossible five years
hence.
Alfred c. Skate spoke in favor of
voting the bond for the San Francisco
technical high school. and John Chef
wood made plea for the Fairgrounds
and park bonds. Questions regarding
the bond issue were freely asked and
answered during the meeting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16
.$2,O17,OO0.O0

IF the board would only let us
raise or lower the bills to the near
est multiple of five, the collection of
sary," said Wallace Il told them
about it, but they did nothing. and
the new rule had to be put in force"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

In the four story and. basement build-
ing being erected by Myself Rollins co.
in Clay St near East. F. l. Hill q Co.
Ea1t st, Agents. ,--
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
HOW BIRDS KILLED a SNAKE.
Contest in Which Reptile Had Small
Chance For His Life.

Ed Neal and his sister, Miss Jessie
Neal, of Alma, tell strange story
and vouch for the truth Of it. They
had been spending the last month
with their father, Younger Neal, at
their. old home in tie country near
Alma, and one Gay last week they
were out driving when they saw in
the road in front of them large
snake OF the kind known as coach
whip.
Stopping the horse in order to kill
the snake they discovered that pair
of mockingbirds were flying at and
striking the reptile with their beaks,
first from one side Of the road and
then from the other. They watched
the battle, as they call it, for some
thing like half an hour. when the
snake entirely ceased to attempt to
avoid the angry onslaughts of the
enraged songsters.
Ed Neal got out Of the buggy and
going TO the scene of conflict found
that the snakes head was almost sew
cred from It's body. The neck just
back of its head was cut down to the
skin On its throat, and when he picked
it up the head fell down limp. The
snake was dead. It measured five
and one-half feet and seemingly had
just swallowed a half grown rabbit,
which was in the stomach undigested.
Alma Correspondence Forest and
Stream.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Road Of Sand and sawdnst..

A road made from sand and saw.
dust is the latest style of roadmaking
designed by George w. Cooley, State
Highway Engineer. Last spring he
made. section of road with clover
and rye on sand foundation. This
has been very successful. The road,
made from sand and sawdust is at
Cambridge, in Isanti County.
Four inches of sawdust was raked
on the sand road after being graded
This was worked into the sand by
passing teams, and as fast as srnts
were formed the sawdust was sraked
into the ruts, to- be further mixed:
with sand. This-is new roadmak-
ing material, and il successful viii
make an exceedingly profitable means
of using the immense quaint ties 8
sawdust from the mills of the State
s In those counties where there is
nothing but sand in the roads good.
roads. are impossible without the adj
dition Of other material. Mr.. Cooley
is now experimenting with various
means Of turning the sand into veg.
etable loan which can be worked to-
advantage. The idea is that the saw,
dust will rot and mixing with the
sand will form a loan suitable for
roads. IS a3
Such small amount OF money is
appropriated by the State for the con-
struction of roads. that. the experi-
ments have been on a limited scale
and the construction of roads pro-
ceeds slowly. This State spends only
one-tenth as much on State roads as;
does New York in relation to the
value of the property.-St. Paul Pio.
ueer Press. II
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
The End Of the Primrose Path.

Stanford White lies in his grave, 10
which he came under circumstances:
that make even his own family re-.
luctant to have his name mentioned.
Harry Kendall Thaw is in an insane
asylum. To get himself sent tlsre'
was his only alternative to going to
the electric chair as murderer. Ev-
elyn Nesbit Thaw is In a 'sanatorium,
physical and moral wreck, living on;
the charity Of friends.
The moral of the tale is the old, old.
one-as old as humanity itself-and
vet one that never grows old, since
In every generation there are those
who will not learn it-until too late.s
The lesson of It all is plain and clear
before us every day. But It needs
ever to be reiterated and enforced
upon the minds of the young, and to
be taken to heart by young and old
alike. 1t is better to be decent, no
matter how pleasant it may seem to
tamper with indecency. the prim.;
rose path leads down to hades, and
the wages of sin is death. Chicago
lnter-Ocean.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20

Washington, d. G. - The Senate
Committee on Appropriations which
| Is carrying out the Senate's instruc,
tions to investigate the operations OF
the Secret Service and other detective
bodies employed under the Admins,
tration, already has obtained suffi-
cient Information to show that in the
last year sums of money aggregating
about s20,000,000 have been expend-
ed in secret investigation under the
direction of the President. This
knowledge will be used by the Senate
committees subcommittee Of inquiry
as the basis for a rigid examination
| into the uses to which such a vast
amount of money has been put. Much
of the money expended was not ap-
propriated specifically for making in
vestlgations of secret character, but
was taken from lump sums placed at
the disposal of the. Executive to meet
contingent expenses.
The criticism9of the lavish way In
which Government funds have been
used for purposes of investigation is
becoming very pronounced among
Senator's and Representatives, and
they think it is about time to call a
halt. Where all the S20,000,000 was
spent is a source of wonder at the
Capitol.
In spite Of reports to the contrary
| 1t is denied that there is any real
basis for the belief that III undertak-
Ing to investigate the workings of the
Governments secret agencies the Sen
ofn u f1rSt StPn
In the direction of causing trouble for
the President. The purpose of these
inquiries, it is asserted, is to ascer-
tain and prevent further abuses by
the Executive and not to place obsta-
cles in the way. Of the President in
performing his legitimate constitli-
ticnal and legal functions.
There is good reason to believe. that
the Senate investigation will result
| in an effort to define in unmistakable
terms the relations between the EX-
Lscutive and the legislative branches of
the Government and to make clear
that moneys appropriated by Con-
gress shall be used only for the pur-
poses for which they were specifically
appropriated.
...The enormous ramifications Of the
system of Federal espionage which
has grown up largely under the Ad-
ministration. extending even to the
domestic affairs of citizens" are
shown by figures quoted by, Represen-
ltative Tawney, of Minnesota, chair
man Of the House Committee on Ap-
preparations. '''s'' :
During the last session OF Congress
the Administration, which is now
complaining because $4,000 was
taken off the usual appropriation for
the Secret Service division Of the
Treasury Department, called for very
large appropriations for other secret
Investigations, and these appropria-
tions were actually made by Congress
The several amounts reached the
enormous total of sS,126,000.
While it is only fair to say that q
part of this large sum was not ex-
pended for Investigations essentially
secret in character an enormous
amount was intended to further the
secret police and investigation work
of the Government; the rest was fol
various inspection work.
Representative Tawney and other
members of the House Committee on
Appropriations declared that large
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Nl6lol!DH { !. %
49, a- SIS.
1 B,AsAgFIH3sss;sN
gH5GV
State Roads

Public sentiment fayors the ses 81
tension of State aid for good roads,
fact, demands much larger approprii
tions for the purpose. E59
In this connection 1t is we'll +
recognize that method of construction
is quite as important as amount d
total expenditure. The lesson taugh
by New York emphasizes this fact
In that State more than SIS. .000 ,00
Of the public funds has been expended
during recent years in building mao
adamized roads, under supervision Of
the State Engineer. Some of those
roads, costing $4,000 mile and Sup-i
ward, have been completely broken
down within four years. They need
to be resurfaced, in fact, virtuallySre-l
constructed, at another cost OF 1000
to $4,000 a mile. s .56
1t must be apparent that even
wealthy States, like New; York and
PENNSYLVANIA, cannot afford the con-
struction and upkeep of an extensive
system Of roads on such scale. They
must have greater permanence, even
at the penalty OF much larger initial
cost. On this principle the Peilnsyl-il
gania Department of Highways has:
decided to pave Greene County roads
with brick. They will probably be
cheaper in the end thar plain mac
adam. In other sections it has been
found necessary to use oil or tar,
binders to prevent rapid disiniegra-
tion of macadam roads.
Some of the Western States have:
found properly oiled earth roads
much cheaper than macadam and,
more durable than macadam without
binder, when kept in shape by Fos-i
ter's split-log drag. In Pennsylvania
stone is more abundant and costs less.
for transportation than in the prairie.
country. But IN urging the appro-t
priation of State money for road
building 1t is well to recognize the
fact that plain macadam is NOT ef-:
fcient or economical unless regula-l
tions can be applied to prevent the
speeding of automobiles thereon
Pittsburg Dispatch. ,s
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Forty-two kentucky Counties
to Stamp Out Bad Men

Lexington, ky.-A call has been is
sued from Jackson for great mass
meeting to be participated in by dele
gates from forty-two counties IL
Eastern Kentucky to be held in jack
son early in May, at which the gen.
eral situation will be discussed and
plans put forth for the stamping out
of lawless cases, including feudism.
Illicit distilling of whisky and operat-
ing ur "blind tiger" saloons. Mass
meetings will be held in each county
to choose delegates.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Modern Oiled Roads.

1t somewhat appears thai our
whole country is soon to be made
available through roads constructed
by what some one mas dubbed the
petrolythic process, says the Los An-
geles (Cal.) Times. In riding over ::
country road few days ago a,chauf-
feur was heard to remark: Il have
driven over all kinds OF roads, but
that sausage machine roller beats
down the best surface ever Travelled
over.n Judging by the mileage now
under construction by this process
1t would appear that the general pub
lie heartily indorses the opinion Of,
the driver quoted. q
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
down the5river. 1t was lalarge salmon
z ~ : j, 9. Is, - - y y 3 %-t1sss .

down thesriver. 1t was la!large salmon
that had taken the bait. e. /" g
So exhausted was the lad that It is
very doubtful IL he could have taken
the. great schinook" from the river
but for some neighbors, who arrived
in. their boat before the struggle was
over. The salmon weighed slightly
over thirty pounds.
AS Johnnie clambered into the
skiff, he still held the red box for his
sister, thinking:
..I mustn't forget that"
One of the men in the boat opened
the box, and in it was some sweet-pea
seed.-Youth's Companion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
The Wrong Charge.

sof1cer," said the police magis-
trate, awhat is the charge against this
MANI"
"Disorderly conduct, your Honor.
He approached two chorus ladies to
whom he had never been introduced
and invited them to have Thanks
giving dinner at his expense"
4That wasn't disorderly conduct
1t was reckless daring. Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Halls of Congress.

Senator Lodge discussed the
Brownsville affair, defending the Ad-
ministration position.
The President signed the act by
which Congress appropriated $780,
600 for relief work in Italy.
Leaders in Congress proposed leg
islation to provide for monument
and memorial to Lincoln, to cost $5,-
100000.
The Perkins resolution, recon-
mcpding that the Presidents remarks
on the Secret Service be laid On the
t.ble. was adopted BY vote Of eli
to 3G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Cost Of Good Roads.

The commissioners of Chesser
County, Pennsylvania, recently re-i
ceived bills from the Pennsylvania
State Highway Department for im-;:
provements made on certain public
roads in various townships of the
county, as follows: Westtown, s15.-.
Oos.31; Schuylkill, s2S,S6S; Valley.
s11.996.33; Avondale borough.
s75ss.s4. These amounts cover the.
contract price, the extras, the inspec-:
tion, the engineering and surveying.
etc. The State pays two-thirds of the
exuense, the county pays one-sixth
and the township pays one-sixth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Feminine Notes.

Barnard undergraduates decided to
give a Latin play.
Mrs. Susan r. Mills, president of
Mills College and the pioneer woman
educator of California, has passed
her eighty-third birthday.
A summons was issued for the pro-
moters of the Vimedia Company on
the complain. OLA woman in New
York City, who had invested $500.
Miss Ruby Abrams, who was re-
Gently graduated at the head OF Inc
art class in Cooper Institute, is deaf,
and until few years ago was also
dumb.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
hains Acquitted

Flushing, Special.-The Thornton
Hains jury, after celebrating since
Thursday evening, nearly "a hours,
Friday afternoon returned a verdict
Of not guilty and Thornton Jenkins
Hams is now free man. Hains was
charged with the murder of William
E. Annis, August 18th, at Bayside
Yacht Club; A great crowd around
the court house cheered as the jury.
tired out, filed in.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
Costs Santa Fe $2,ocO,Ooo 10 Re-
place Telegraph With Phones

Chicago.-The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad announced
that it would operate the entire matn
line from Chicago to the Pacific Coast
by telephone instead of by telegraph
as now.
Contracts have been let for the in
stallation Of the telephone system be-
tween Kansas City and Emporia, Kan.
AS soon as this section is finished
work will be begun between Kansas
City and Chicago. The cost will be
S2,0O0,000.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20
why Not?
Among the oldest pc

Among the oldest personals ever
inserted in the society column was
one that appeared in paper pub
lished in an Eastern town. 1t reads
as follows: Mrs. Coulter, being con-
fined to her bed by illness, will not he
at home next Thursday, as usual. -
Harper's Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20

a rev method of protecting safes,
says Popular Mechanics, is to arm
them with a grenade which explodes
when the safe is blown open and fills
the air with deadly fumes, so that
burglars cannot proceed with their
work. j., ss...
Glass in made iridescent by being
exposed, in a red hot condition, to
the fumes of salts Of tin, bariun and
strontiuln. Red is produced by the
strontia, blue by the Daryta and blu
ish white by the tin. In ancient
glass, which is more Opaque, rides
cence is due to partial decay.
Prof. Case, of'the geological depart
ment of the Ann Arbor University.
has returned from an expedition to
the desert regions of Texas with one
of the most valuable collections Of
reptiles and amphibious fossil re-
mains in existence. He brought back
with him over 800 pounds of the
bones of antediluvian reptiles.
An unexplained phenomenon OF
sea life has caused great loss to the
sardine fishers and packers on the
west coast of France. The French
sardines have long been known every
where for their superior quality, but
the last season they seem to have de-
serted their favorite haunts, and most
of the few caught have been too large
for packing.
Prof. Frederick Starr, Of the Uni
versity Of Chicago, told class in
archaeology several days ago that base
ball was not modern game. He
said that the mound builders were
the original ball players. and that he
had discovered their diamonds and
found ball used by them. He said
he had been able to trace their ball
fields in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana
and Ohio.
The production Of oxygen and ny
drogen on an Industrial scale by the
decomposition of water with electroly-
tic apparatus in Germany has led to
the suggestion that hydrogen thus
produced may find a wide field of en-
ployment as lighting agent. 1t is
now used for initiating military bal
looms. For lighting purposes it is
compressed in steel cylinders. With
a proper burner it is said to be a
cheaper illuminant than actylene, the
relative cost for equal Illuminating
power being rs for hydrogen to so.
for acetylene.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20

OF the SIS locomotives in Romania,
42T use petroleum for fuel.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-06-25
Commissioners Proceedings.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)

| (CONTINUED ftOM YAdE ONEJ
Mildred Jacobs assist'g supt.
B r Riordan +"
Red Fir Lbr Co plank 90 81
Ed Burk supplies for bridge 90
NJ irie B Acton witness probate
court 225
Dorothea Buob 225
DR. Jno Hunt 225
T l. Quarles : 225
Clement Wilkins supplies 5 %
G e Remington overseer dist 9 Al
Tom Roe I" " l0l so
Castillo & Castillo supplies 81
Agnes A Green tak'g testimony IL
Edward Schmidt, Fred Finch,
A D Culp, H A Morford, wit
nesses, each IS
State Trust & Inv. Co bond $50
Herman Kellner janitor Is
Idaho Nero Co supplies 460
Village OF Rathdrum water rent IS IS
Cd'A Laundry laundry work II 81
ColQuhoun Co road supplies SO go
Geo Allen road work
G Il Remington % IS
Cataldu Lhr Gu balance on acct 10
Shaw & Bord' supplies 40 81
Glindeman & Wilson supplies 3 IS
Cd'A Lbr Co so
Kreig &Smith work s. supplies l45 IS
S M Babbitt constable fees COS
A Tailifer road work 6
j f Whitfield auto for sheriff 10
Geo Anderson road work 80
Frank Steel. g Sheldon, Maggie
Smith, P F McGovern, Carl
KrOmblad, J Christian, wit
nesses probate court. each 2 IS
w PSmith, Geo OFT, j H Min.
er, WIN Floyd, d A Suter. A
Baardson, w F Bigelow, II
Harrington, P r Diedrich. w
W Giberson, L Norberg, jurors
probate court, each 2 25
Cd'A Lbr Go supplies $40
L e Kirkpatrick repair work 10 40
G & r Fuel Gu supplies 2
Blackwell Lbr Co - % 1O|
Flank Goodwill road work 80 SO
Rose Bros road supplies % O8
Ray Thomas road work % SO
W c Quarles work in recorders
office 1875
G E Remington owe seer dist 8 81
COlquh,un Co supplies SIS
J n Goodwill road work 40 96
Margaret Reed work for assessor 80
Blackwell Lbr Co supplies 1877 So
} L Robinson supplies for Jail go 95
Shaw & Borden Co supplies 81
G II Potts expenses SO 95 i
West Pub. Co., law books Is
The bill Of Reall & Co for a road
grader was rejected.
The application OF T. F. Reilly for
admission to the county poor farm
was rejected.
Adjourned to June II.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-06-25

President Taft sent to congress,
June Is, a special message recon-.
nending a 2 per cent tax on the net
income Of corporations. and the
adoption OF an amendment OF the
constitution providing an income tax
without an apportionment among the
several states.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-06-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION,
(Publisher,)

Department OF the interior.
U. S. Land Office at Occur d'Alene. Idaho,
May %, 1909.
Notice Is hereby given that James L. Ken
needy Of Madison. Idaho, who, on June It'll.
1904 made Homestead Application No. 4l2s for
NV Ia, Section 3, Township ~ north,
Range west BOlSe Mer-
tdtan. has filed notice Of intention to make
Final five year Proof, TO establish claim to
the land above described, before the Regis
ter and Receiver at Occur d'Alene, Idah5O on
the 9th day Of July. 1859.
Claimant names as witnesses: George
Williams. Herbert Cadman ana J, 8. Baker,
all OF Madison, Idaho; Murdoch Buchanan
of Ramsey, Idaho.
w. II, BATTING. Register.
may y to jun 35