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The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
Census Takers Must
 Not Talk Politics
Press special

Beverly, Aug. l6-President Taft has issued statement to census takers forbidding them to make any inqui- ries regarding politics. Anyone who disobeys this order will be immedl- ately dismissed.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
Revenue Cutter Rnsh
 Stationed at Juneau
Press special

Washington, Aug. 16-The treasury department has assigned the revenue cutter Rush for the Boring sea patrol. The boat will have it's headquarters at Juneau.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
United Press special

Annapolis Aug. 1.-The court of inquiry is in secret session today investi gating the suicide or murder of Lieutenant Sutton.
 Seattle, Aug. 1.-The Arctic Club has raised sixteen thousand dollars and cleared the organization of all indebtedness. They are now in a splendid financial conditions.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
Thirty.one Lives Lost
 In Japan Earthquake
-United Press special

Tokio, Aug. 16-Thirty -one Japanese lost their lives in an earthquake which shook the north part of the country Saturday. Considerable property was destroyed.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
Labor Unions Erect
 Monument to Dead
United Press Special

Seattle, Aug. 16-Organized labor yesterday dedicated monument to of the Valencia ship wreck.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-21
Press special

United Press special
 Seattle Aug. l4-Specia agents of the forestry department are now at Cordova, Valdez and Seward queitly investigating the coal land frauds. It appears that a man named Cunning ham with many others have prom ised to turn their property over to q company as soon as title is secured
 Attorney General Wickersham has decided that such promise nullifies all title to the land as such an agree ment is contrary to law and every such claim will be thrown out and prosecu- tions will follow all who have entered into such agreements.
 United Press special
 Seattle, Aug. 14-Senator Piles and Congressman H lmphreys have been interviewed on the Ballinger- Penchot controversy and both have expressed themselves as believing the charges against the secretary as unfounded. They admit that expediency required that few combinations be permitted in order to properly handle some Of the water power which no individual could or would take care to but there was no fraud or underhanded methods used and Mir. Ballinger was perfectly justified in his connection with the matter.
 United Press special
 Seattle. Aug. 1.-The women of Wrangell have ordered their exhibit at the exposition sold at the close of the fair and ths receipts given to the Bromely family. The Bromley family were left in hard circumstances and after the attention of the public was called to their poverty and the heroism of Miss Florcene Bromley who nearly worked herself to death to keep the family together, subscrip- tions were raised for their aid and benIits given by different organza- tions to furnish a fund to maintain them bout three thousand dollars have been raised and home purchased ] for them. --
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Letters From the People
TREAsuRER,s VIEWS DEFENDED


Editor of The Call: Noting the ar
ticle in todays issue criticisine the
treasurer, auditor and tax collector for
closing their offices Tuesday, the dav
the bond election was held, 1t would
seem to me that those officers took a
much broader view of the situation
than the mayor.
The purpose in making election DAYS
legal holidays clearly is to AFFORD the
citizen an unrestricted opportunity to
exercise his franchise. Is this right to
be abridged because some one con-
siders bond election "specialv cleo
ton? What right has a municipality
Cor any of It's officials) to depriva a
citizen of his right to vote at an cleo
ton called for the purpose OF imposing
a debt which he must help to pay. In
stead of criticising these officials who
closed their offices. the mayor or the
board of supervisors Cor both) should
be censured for not declaring that day
a legal holiday. thus compelling all
business houses to- close, in order that
the wishes OF the people might be ex-
pressed at the polls.
The very light vote clearly shows
that this election was defeated by the
failure to declare the day legal holt
day. and I have very grave doubts of
the validity Of any bond issue based on
an alleged election, held on a day
which had not been declared a legal
holiday. Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT LIVINGSTONE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Why the Graft
Prosecutions
Will Continue

strong editorial the Psburg GazeeTimes encourages the
Good Government league San and appauds
solve proceed finish with the prosecution graft high
places should appear that such may
hurt business Any other would final
mostly artificial and manufactured for effect effort
bring wealthy Indicators Gazette Times
the cleaner the conduct of community the cleaner
conscience the better the chance for business in that community
surrender of the ideals of justice objects happen
be wealthy would be fatal the business reputation city
San Francisco would be held the world place where
dishonesty and crime condoned if the criminal happens
be wealthy
No city can afford to earn such reputation in business
way discourages investment and drives away capital for
the final resort the foundation of all business and
that not exist where whole community vinks grave
infractions of the law.
There Francisco as the Gazette
Times suspect naturally enough perhaps
Calhoun This cutlery vocferous enough of its kind thoroughly
we'll understood its inspiration and in San Francisco
although easily deceive outsiders into the belief that
sentiment exists in favor of dropping prosecutions cry
lis purely artificial and its volume is wholly dependent ON
the checks drawn by the United Railroads promote
pgn How large these expenditures have been the
public hint from the testimony the of Calhoun
Not word has been printed anywhere in California advocating
the abandonment OF the prosecutions that paid
the treasury of the United Railroads.
Public opinion San Francisco quite sound on this subject
The board of supervisors fully represented sentiment
large and adequate appropriations made from municipal
to finance the prosecutions The people of this city body
fully prepared to ndorse the conclusion of the when
lit says:
No. San Francisco continue her fight against
will go
will
1t is agreeable duty but there will be Ainchng
its fufment On that the people of San Francisco resolved
what the and they backed neservedy
honest of the state There plenty of
in California and they of mind this subject declaring
that the prosecutions must be pursued the end public
duty that San Francisco herself the and
nation and will be performed If there any opposition
policy significant of numbers
to the limited circle of those subject the financial influence
the and the corporations under fire. By force of
to ybodv
in this neighborhood knows what It all bought
and paid for and should deceive anybody.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
The Joys Of Boosting
Incidents trip made by hundred Cafornans to
the Yukon-Pacifc exposition at Seattle ana re-
cipe for evolving the Booster Perfecfo

occupation bthesome than boosting one takes the
train plain everyday citizen Fifty miles out ne IS ong
amid cushions smoking imported that without cost
wireless messages
to the end of the happy knowledge OF vest pocket full
of without limit After complete adaptation
unmber his lungs and thus evolved
the booster perfecto
gallant Jennings led forth on the 1000 mile
much to expect that they should all
they Billy OKane developed touch OF the exposition
there's Frank Brown grated his voice
the didn't come back at al
had consolation
medal column one has disputed pre-
Associated oil and Fred Shoup
seated the drawing room arguing
the Rockefeller and Hartman
Rockefeller bigger OF the two numbered Nick
him everything he knew shouted Fred
that had been dropped on the
The plush cushion burned with green smoke
Whiteheads suit modd The
The burst fame clouds OF smoke
Still they argued Others the the blaze
rolling confused ad
which the of Rockefeller and Hartman
arguing the fire. Whitehead gathered his
like Of goggles had been burned IN his tuxedo
fellows sooner? he demanded eoo,
facing his Now. d it, you've ruined best coat
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Gossip of RailWaynen

they don't know anything about ball
at all"
"Oh. yes. they do" replied a young
lady from this city eager to come to
the rescue of the gallant railroadmen.
II am constrained to repeat my re-
mark that they don't know anything
about ball playing" said the college
girl.
That might be about a punk old
game of baseball" answered the CITY
girl, but when it comes to mixing
highballs I'll bet there isn't a bunch
OF men in the universe who can do
better"
Edward Payson Weston. the veteran
walker is following the tracks OF the
Southern Pacific across the Nevada
desert. and the railroad officers. under
instructions from f. E. Calvin, are sup
plying the pedestrian with food and
drink Weston did intend to follow
the line OF the San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake, but found that the de-
pots were too far apart.
j. w. McClymonds of the Pacific fruit
express says the green fruit shipments
THIS season are about 400 cars behind
the number forwarded by this time
last year. owing to the lateness of the
season put cars are going forward
br1skiy now and he is positive that
the movement east will be as large
as last year. There will be a heavy
Shipment or peaches, owing to the
iallure OF the eastern crop.
F. w. Gomph has been made chair
man OF the committee which has been
appointed to publish joint tariff for
the south Pacific coast. 1t will take
completed.
The Union Pacific has put on a
through sleeper between the Yellow
stone park and Portland, thus giving a
sleeping car service via Ogden and
Pocatello.
wv. D. Stubs, who has been renre-
senting the Wabash In Los Angeles. is
to be transferred to Portland IT Is
the intention of the company to open
an agency at Seattle.
j. S. Leeds of the Santa Fe refrieera-
tor dispatch is in the city, accompanied
by MS assistant, Williamson Dunn.
Virgil G. Bogue. chief engineer of the
Western Pacific, has left for an inspec-
ton of the line.
J. G. Cantrell, general western agent
OF the Seaboard Air line with head
quarters IN 81. Louis, is in the city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Answers to Queries

PITCH-A. 0. s. What is the meaning of
pltcn as applied to roof such as one-haif or
1t means inclined from a direct line,
whether horizontal or perpendicular.
The terms are as to the slant from the
direct line.
HOTEL FIRE-subscriber. city When was
stroyed by fire?
March II. 1899.
SOME oNE.Irene N, City. What is the
some one else's!
The first
SAVINGS BANK-C.. city When was the
last dividend paid by the Peoples Home saw
In February. 1904.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Jennings Failed TO
Convince the Cop

Jennings Failed to use va " me oHV UoOSVer a peeH
0Oee ING 0OP reputation had preceded him.
the Rose Thorn had this something like
Jennings in he that
the beautiful he had If
made speech Los Angeles when he said
beautiful had
officially
Mr. Portland
he'll say"
Jennings foxy the editor speak
told
the beautiful city he had
place that Jennings with
he bumped the law and
night the fair and Jennings had volunteered
a n barred the
automobiles allowed Pay Streak
a of authority
"Bu this a taxicab," replied Jennings
"a little cheaper but dangerous the reply
m Jennings" declared
THAT Francisco cop. buy
anything in Seattle"
Jennings andh walked.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
AIdrich Bill
viii
Settle Nothing

the maximum tariff will be the general United States
His reasoning is thus summarized:
The rates prescribed in
rates Inc rates prescribed section all conditional
gen ana nouo only become operative chargeabe
imports
Should the hold that of
EXTENDS 10 the preceding being dependent
constitute the States and recourse might he well
Claimed to the act of 1897 the only existing of the
United States. - - ny
The proviso makes the presidents judgment to what
constitutes undue discrimination and reciprocal and
equivalent actually practice the executive
Senator Shvey thinks requiring knowledge that
could acquire in four The points out
that the that the proso for
establishment of minimum unconstitutional ATTEMPT
to delegate legislative TO the executive under the law
only the maximum rates could be collected
According to this reasoning there alternatives Either
the law be passed under orders of will be constitutional
and the maximum tariff will rule being declared un
constitutional shall Dingy tariff The former
contingency would be disastrous materially to the
already excessive of living and the burdens of consumer
and people of fixed incomes In the other return TO
the Dngey law the people would probably regard
relief the of Adch and the
greedy who the whole people
their profit has become evident that Adrcs
domination congress will make tariff which, the New York
Tribune remarks condemned by virtually the whole republican
of the nation go back the Dngey law
the country will ask What all this disturbance about? and
viii insist that the question Of tariff revision shall be reopened
under other than that of Adrich The Aldch
will settle nothing
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Dohrmann Capfivafes
Fair MedfOrd Maid

ran HeuA"iu 1iaiu A c. Dohrmann
Stewart With Dohrmann different
Dohrmann Of
Ashland gained
the hand
his life An unexpected the
I'm going to look when had said
But I'm married. Dohrmann
be pity longer deceive the girl
Then I'll call wife replied
"And have children"
Then I'll surely CALL
Matt Lindsay made of his
wishes he had third
Seattle When he finally caught the
a little
peculiar Lindsay
to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Portland Booster
Uses the Wireless

ses IN. tu,- than the attitude people of
- s Tom Richardson the prize OF
CITY, joined the tram on its north He good
mechanism and asked
lew miles out while the
phone
with Portland. $3.50 - 800 - w. - N@
REQUIRED some degree of tact avoid the pitfalls Of local jea1ouse
Seattle
call the great peak in the
ana wnen and
enthused over the beauties of Mount
and
Pnoe way tacoma made famous last the phy slogan Watk
Tacoma altogether
d Inns year asons has boomed forth with catch phrase
size ana onDoard bazoned
was silent o several days
huge signs which read You'll like
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
HuIse Entitled to
Carnegie Hero M edal

Entitled but ana ooup were not the ony
| " man he
carnegie nero medai OF
in
had
The ladies of Roseburg had undertaken surprise the delegation
double files blossom
The Hu
dressing He chorus of feminine
with graceful
the platform
they and beauty Of
upon
heaped Huse With piled high
speech of
None fellow they inclined believe
for pulled distant
chant of "Iuse, Hulse good IIuse"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Dressing Scene Is
Sensation of Trip

TRIP in
for the big banquet The bring clothes Be
unpacked to find that he long
Trade anybody tuxedo hoed through
His offer
which
Keep feet off the table cautioned
II m
that of fellows will fall put the seae
Grove wise - - 00
at one OF the functions exposition that Mr.
fornians. = W ~
Il tried give them they were too Nd
offered to
Caifornians said Nope, the is = -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

should prove well founded as to some of hi.
contentious. Mr.. Shively holds that unde
the provisions of the Aldrich bill the real rate.
to go into effect after March 81 next yea,
will be Is per cent higher than the duties
nominallY fixed hv the bill and tnat l., fac4
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

talking Mr. Baor, premier of Britain pro-
noting the prevailing yseca country public
OF coming Armageddon North
Rosebery was making speeches in very similar strain
is favorite theme with Lord Morley-this psychology
national which have always for
acute in England than other country In his life of
Golden Lord Morley describes the of panic
afflicted the non than fifty ago. might be regarded
las duplicate of the present fright
French and the Germans of that period inspired
fears 1t thus:
When the the humo indulge luxury
the mood declines lack of
Every half officer had
pamphlets, like snowhake
Brief Suggestions for Reserve Force Short Notes
Portsmouth Every morning fresh terrible
thrill breakfast table
station the West Indies General Changarner divuge
the Clyde had govern
men French OF had actually Dover
The by of weather
General Chngarnier that his
builders soemny
Clyde All this
As Golden nothing
with which improbable were
the d sees with which all offers
rejected
The of the present panic curousy like what hap
pened then The absurd and childish given credit
German airships the sky dynamite and
the Thames destroy kaiser is the evil
what possible gain could Germany from the ruin Of IFS
best customer 1t assumed that the motive all these
wake preparations is cussedness and love of mischief
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

that the newspapers were answerable for THE
rebarbarism of Europe" and "the rafting back
into arms and the preparation to use arms.
These are sounding phrases and may contain
some elements of truth but not by any means
the whole truth. Even while Lord Morley
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

ORD MORLEY the eminent English publicist and cabinet
minister complains of the press 1t is statesman habit
other day told the British imperial press conference
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

CENATOR SHIVELY of Indiana propounds theory Of the
meaning effect of the Adrich tariff bill reassur
and likely be in wav If
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

"Ahl" said the young lady from
Berkeley acridly as she watched the
vain efforts of the members of the
Transportation club to swat the pitch
ing of young Alick Mackie last Sunday
at Alameda. DO these railroadmen
think they are playing baseball? Why.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25

IN ILL.," said ]. H. Young to w. J..
y Hardy, Il am afraid that you
- are not as keen to new methods
New-York tribune., 1909-01-31

ing something, and supposed that each of them
would give couple of bits C25 cents). The
trunks put in my boat the passengers
seated themselves them, and l Sculled them
out to the steamer. They got board, and
lifted the trunks and put them on the deck
The steamer was about to put on steam again
when 1 called out, You have forgotten to pay
mel Each of them took from his pocket silver
half dollar and threw it on the bottom of my
boat. 1 could scarcely believe my eyes as 1
picked up the money. You may think it
very little thing, and in these days it seems to
me like trif1e, but it most important in
cdent in my life. 1 could scarcely credit that 1,
the poor boy, had earned 81 in less than day;
that by honest work 1 had earned 81 The
world seemed wider and fairer before me. l was
a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that
time"
The stories of Lincoln's love affairs have often
been told that of the premature death of the
lovabe young woman to whom he first en-
gagged, event which threw him into a state OF
dependency; of his efforts to obtain the consent
of another young woman to marry him, because
he thought that a remark he had made to her
sister morally bound him to do so, and of the
strange melancholy induced at the prospect of
marriage to Mary Todd, to whom he en-
gagged. which almost cost him the hand of the
woman who was to become his wife. His un-
usual sensitiyeness seemed destined to bar him
from the married state 1t was an amusing in
New-York tribune., 1909-01-31

jected trip that he earned his first dollar. This
is how he told Mr. Seward his Secretary of
State. about il:
Seward he said, you never heard, did you,
how l earned my first dollar?'
No said NIr Seward
Well" he replied Il was about eighteen
years of age, and belonged as you know, to
what they call down South the scrubs. People
who do land and slaves are nobody
there, but had succeeded in raising, chiefly
by my labor, sufficient produce 1 thought,
TO justify me in taking ii down the river to
sell. After much persuasion l had got the con-
sent of my mother to go and had constructed a
fiatboat large enough to take the few barrels
Of things we had gathered down to New Or
leans.
A steamer going down the river. We
have. you know. no wharves on the Western
streams, and the custom was, if passengers were
al any Of the landings for them to 60 out in a
boat the steamer stopping and taking them on
board. 1 was contemplating my boat and
wondering whether l could make it stronger or
improve it in any part, when two men with
trunks came down 10 the shore in carriages,
and looking at the different boats singled out
mine and asked. Who owns this?'
u do 1 answered, modestly.
"'Wiu you' said of them, take and
our trunks out to the steamer?
Certainly said l.
"I was very glad to have the chance Of earn
New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
r., WIII BE EBRATED WHOLE sOIIED ENTHUsIA

cident which finally precipitated him into that
condition
The engagement with Miss Todd had been
broken off. James Shields. an Irishnan, VINO
was unique among other things in beng some
what lacking in a sense of humor. Was at the
time Auditor of the State of Illinois and living
at Springfield where Miss Todd and Lincoln
were also living. Shields vas afterward
United States Senator from two different states
and a general in the Both sensitive and
irascbe in party warfare. he, together with the
Democratic Governor and the treasurer OF the
state issued circular order forGidd!nE the pay
ment of taxes in the deprecated paper OF the
state banks of Illinois. The Wings were en-
deavOrng to make political capital hy charging
that the order issued to bring enough
silver into the treasury to pay the salaries Oh
these officials of the opposite party. Using TINS
a basis of argument, a couple of clever Spring
field girls of whom Miss Todd was one, wrote
New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
MRS. LINCOLN IN HER WEDDING GOWN.

series of humorous letters In country dialect
purporting to come from the Lost Townships
and signed by Aunt Rebecca," who called her
self farmers widow. These We're published
in THE Sangamon Journal They embellished
their simulated plaint about taxes with an en-
brodery OF fictitious social happenings and per
sonal allusions to the State Auditor that put
the town on a grin and Shields into a rage.
The young women, anxious to have the political
basis correct, consulted with Abraham Lincoln
As a PATTERN he wrote the first
Shields in a fury. demanded ot the editor the
name Of the author. IN a quandary the latter ap-
Dealed to Lincoln Lincoln told him - AiFe MS
name and say nothing about the young "omen
Shields sent a challenge to Lincoln Lincoln ac-
lnovyIedged writing the first OF the letters, ana
exrlatned that he had had no intention of in
turing the character or standing of IL. Shields
and did not think the article could produce OF
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-07-17
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
DIRECTORS.

George B. Greenwood, G. NJ. Whitmore.
N. p. Epson. f. A. Hodges,
c. A. Thompson, John X. Cook.
M. L. Lee.