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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-05
FARMERS OFFERED
CHANCES TO STUDY
Short Courses in Agriculture
and Kindred Subjects Are An
nOunced at University

BERKELEY, Aug. "A short course
in agriculture and kindred subjects is
announced for October to November
"a by Prof. Leroy Anderson, superin-
tendent of the university farm at Da-
Wis. The course, which proved boon
to the farmers of the state last year,
will be practically the same this year
except that long periods of instruction
will be held during the day.
This change was made to enable the
farmer to study at the short courses
and then return to his work as soon as
possible. Night lectures also will be
given TO shorten the course by two
weeks.
"A feature of the curriculum will be
week of discussion, called farmers
week, during which all the problems
or the farm will be considered briefly
and Complementary. This period will
attract large number of farmers
from all over the state who can only
attend the sessions for seven days.
Among the prominent men of the
state who have signified their inten-
ton of being present are:
Governor J. n. Gillett; Prof. E. j..
Wickson, dean of the college of agri-
culture; Prof. l. P. Roberts of Stanford
university, Judge Peter H. Shields of
Sacramento: III. A. Jastro, president of
the state agricultural society; j. w.
Jeffrey. state commissioner of horticul-
ture.
Several associations will hold their
conventions at the university farm
during the week, among them being
the University farm students associa-
ton, Farmers institute workers, Sac
ramento Valley development associa-
ton and the California livestock asso-
citation.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09
AMERICAN HEIRESs Il
IN HINDO0 HAREM
Spends Three Weeks There
Comes Away Extolling Its
Manifold Virtues.

Now York. Dec, LS-Amy Crocke
Gourard, the muiti-Intllioflairess and one
OF the most interesting n New
York, who recently returned from Europe.
Is Installing the last elaborate and costly
decorations and furnishings. most Of
which were gathered In oriental countries
at q cost OF $1,0o0.0O0 In her new home, -
West Ftfty-sixth vt.
India. China. Japan and other countries
have given up their valuables 10 this re-
markable woman.
When Mrs. Gourard stepped through
the heavy draperies. wearing = purple
Inuia costume. covered with Apaugle1
bangles and Jewels, into the languid and
highly incensed atmosphere, 1t waA a. II
an Indian impress had taken the house
n West Fifty-sixth street back to India.
This takes me to India" said Mrs.
Gourard. as she recitned Q n Z yelvety
divan II spent three weeks In harems
near Bombay. I did II as q dare and for
the purpose OF seeing what actually goes
on behind the walls.
"Earem simply means a mans house,
hold. In q harem are the mother, sisters,
perhaps a grandmother of the mafiarajah.
There were 300 women in the harem, but
I was the first English speaking woman
who had ever been there. was very
much surprised with what I saw. I had
supposed that all were young and beauti-I
sui, but It is not so. There were Ave 81
six pretty women in the hareM. There
was but one. q French girl. l6 years old.
whom the m~aharajah seemed to care for.
Most OF the others Just took life easy.
They spent the day sitting eating sweets
and playing with their pearls. They were
we'll fed and were permitted out in tho
garden but two hours In the ~, n then
only between : and 4 in the early morning.
The most interesting part OF the day
Twas the toilet. 1t required two hours for
the slaves, and there were hundreds OF
them, to rub the bodies Of the 800 women.
They placed a peculiarly pleasing perfume
on their DO les and painted their veins,
and made them look as pretty as possible.i
I was delighted in the way the slaves
worked on me.
Witness Cobra Dance. $
Eight pretty and graceful women did
the cobra dance, The women, as they,
circled, hit hither n thither. madly in-.
fatuated with the serpents and the cobrasi
seemed as mad as the women. I wanted,
to join in the dance. but they Wouldn't
permit 1t. They said they were afraid
the snakes might hurt me-"
But how did you leave the harem?"
IT just left. There was no trouble about
that. / was tired of the place In three
days, but I had told my friends that Z
would remain there three weeks and i
did. Several OF the husbands OF the
women thought / was being held In the
harem and tried to rescue me, but that
was unnecessary.
1T like the eastern idea as far as wom-
en- are concerned. / am not in favor OF
woman suffrage. as when they are given
liberties they go to far. In India they
treat the women as pets and keep them
apart from the world. They are shielded
from much that makes the lives OF other
women harsh and u~nbearable.'
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09
DARING VENUS SHAPES
CORSETLESS COURSE
Declares the Only Bones About
Her Are the Ones Nature
Gave Her.

New York. Dec. 1.-THE only bones
about me, girls, are the ones that nature
gave me- said slim. svelte Annette KEEL
herman, as she addressed a big audience
Of women in the Colonial theater
The young swimming Venus looked
In a tight-ftting black velvet gown-as II
the most expert of corsetieres had mold
ed her into the creation. But she proved.
in startling fashion, that this wasn't so.
I'll just take this thing (the gown
off, said she, suiting the action to the
word, and revealing herself in her black
swimming suit. ''Then I'll lust rip this
thing (the suit) down the side and show
you there's nothing underneath but--but
MEL" And she did that, too.
OF course, there wasn't a man within
seeing or even hearing distance. This
was purely an affair between Annette
and the women, who were young and
middle-aged and old and Of widely vary
ing degrees of pulchritude. but who, to,
They were there because they wanted to
know how to be beautiful, and thought
Annette could tell them.
Its going to be a perfectly awfully
Informal lecture" said Annette at the
beginning. And it was. When one
woman piped up a question as to whether
size should breathe from her thorax, Miss
Keilerman naiyely replied: Dear me, I
don't know what that ISL But she knew
that swimming and dancing and sys-
tematic exercise and Ash, eggs and veg
etables bad kept her lines slim and grace
full, and they ought to keep other wom-
ems that way, too.
And said Annette, philosoph!cally,
'if more girls would swim and dance and
care for athletics instead of rushing into
| matrimony as the only JOY in the world,
there'd be fewer divorces"
The perfectly awfully informal lecture
| wound up with one of Miss Kellerman's
| swimming exhibitions in her big tank.
| and many a woman went away vowing to
learn to swim if she had to break ice to
do IL. II
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09

One difference between a pugilist and
a champion football team is that the
latter makes most OF its noise at the
close of the contest.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09
WOMAN DISFIGURED
BY VITROL THROWN
IN EYES AND FACE

B~eliefoutaine. Ohio Dec. MRS.
George Man answered a ring at her
door last night and met a woman.
masked, who threw vitriol into her
face eXclaiming:
I'll burn your yes outi"
The woman then fled.
Mrs. Mans yes were saved by ply
%sicians, but she viii be disfigured by
deep burns. Her husband told the
police that he had received letters
threatening that one day he should go
home and find his wife dead.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09

n there was really room enough at
he top there wouldn't be SO many
people falling of.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09

Washington, Dec. In an effort to
get Great Britain to rescind it's order
forbidding the entry of mail bearing
Red Cross stamps. the state DEPART
ment has cabled to Ambassador Reid
at London asking him to use his Of
that as many packages and letters
bearing the stamps already nave been
sent. it would cause considerable in
convenience II they were not delivered.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09

LAKE CITY. IA.-Harry Remer was
badly burned while lighting a fire In
his Office. He threw Kerosene into q
stove In which he thought there was no
fire.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-09

congress.
Postoffice Department.
The deficit every year in Tie post office
department is largely caused by the low
on second class mail matter, which in
cludes not only newspapers but maya
zines and miscellaneous periodicals. The
actual loss growing out of the transmits
sion Of this second class mail matter at l
cent a pound amounts to about $63, coo, 900
a year. The average cost of the trans
portation of this matter is more thar 9
cents a pound.
1t appears that the average distance
over which newspapers are delivered to
their customers is 291 miles, while the
average haul of magazines is 1.049. and
of miscellaneous periodicals 1.12S miles.
Thus, the average haul of the magazine
is three and one-half times and that of
the miscellaneous periodical nearly four
yet all of them pay the same postage
rate OF l cent a pound. The statistics of
1907 show that second class mail matter
constituted 63.9l per cent of the weight
Of all the mail, and yielded only 5.19 per
cent of the revenue
The figures given are Startling, and
show the ayne by the government of
an enormous subsidy to the newspapers
may we'll consider whether radical steps
should not be taken to rcduce the deficit
in the post office department caused by
this discrepancy between the actual cost
cxacted therefor.
A great saving might be made. amount.
ing to much more than half of the loss.
by imposing upon magazines and period
much heavier than newspapers and con-
tain a much higher proportion OF adver-
Using to reading matter, and the average
distance Of their transportation Is three
and a half times as great.
' l the whole subject to con.
: gress. not unmindful of he spread Of In.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
It'll
[(ATION
k,NENcE>'ESr
Ek
Iday Afternoon"
|. sermon in
Ho,lse-ro
Exercises
sd'y

bual commence
b state Normal
uring the week
Inc 6, on which
te sermon W as
| Greedy Opera
HE Rev. w. A.
lre cordially in
3 o'clock Was
the senior class.
e day was held
pn the campus.
rnoon at $3.50
al chapel was
mess meeting OF
tool Alumni as
Eening or same
Normal campus
pramenade and
6nual class play,
was given in
House Tuesday
les will be held
a House Thurs
hich all are cor
eommencement
IN by DR.. A. h.
e New England
J. DR.. and Mrs.
thursday eyenins Z
ss will conclude
Iercises.
akeS ! $50 per-
Eaduated from
aMl, the most
Esehc profes-
common de-
khools of totla,
have had the
school building
Hl OF 100000,
Eulpment to pre-
new educational
P school garden
agriculture. in
|lns course in
I agriculture is
Biological labora-
Fns with birds
natural habitat.
Fs outdoor play
splendid track
hnis courts. etc. .
lheir educational.
eachers who I'M
touch with the
le public school
make vigorous,
. are both ply
" prepared To
child of today
uzen and power
Normal school
laboratories and
ing Art, Music,
: omestic Science.
Literature, Ply
Is lor these rea-
Of inquiries are
'rhlng the Colo
'hool.
opens June 90,
I Is believed will
'hdred, A three
'angd for all the
attend the N. n.
'a' many eastern
vantage of the
~ as to get credit
,'so I, have an op-
De N T. A. with
" returned from,
as been investi-
: best training
plans for cree
Ing ing school build
'e'hods of con-
, Practice school.
'oihlng school.
e e best possible
IN teachers who
10 teach hut to
manage n
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
Rental Suit Settled

The case of Hoffman VS.. Beskas.
which has been on trial for the past
two days in the county court, was
decided by a jury at 10 O'Clock last
Wednesday. The parties are from
Platteville and it was case of land
lady and tenant in dispute over the
rental of farm.
Mrs. Alice Hoffman rented two
farms to Nick Beskas, foreigner.
the rental to be 81 900. Nick paid
5000 down and was given time on
the latter. A short time after the
woman sold one of the farms and
insisted that Nick pay 500 rent for
the other one. Nick says $500 was
too much for it, and that he was
also damaged because the other hai
been taken away from him.
The woman claimed $500, but the
jury gave her 1915, which will leave
the Russian sufficient to pay court
costs. He must pay up in forty-eighr
hours or get off the place.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
Coney.RyOn
(Ault Specially

While the Nelson-Taylor nuptials
we're taking place Tuesday In Gree
ley with the ceremonies attendant
upon large and fashionable we'd
ding, the brides friend and fellow
teacher in the Ault schools, Miss
Adah Coney, in company with Lynne
Ryon, drove to Fort Collins and an
other wedding OF great interest to
Ault people took place there. Miss
Coney successfully resisted the ap-
peals of relatives and friends to have
a big" wedding and the ceremony
was quietly performed by a Metho-
dist minister. only the necessary wit
nesses being present.
Mrs. Adah Coney Ryon has been
teacher in the Ault schools for the
past three years and has been very
popular with her pupils and with
The young people of Ault. She came
here from Michigan and is neice
of w. Tyler. The groom is in charge
of the dry goods department of
Campbells store and is also very
popular. He has sister living here,
Mrs. II. w. Kirby. The young cou-
pie will begin housekeeping at once
in their new home here.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
POwers-KlingcnburS.
(WindSOr SpecjaD

Miss Hettie Powers. one of Wind
sor's popular young women and Ferd
Klingenburg, superintendent of the
Windsor sugar factory, went to Gree
ley Wednesday morning and were
married there at Trinity Episcopal
church by Rev. Bonell Only the
parents of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs
w. II. Powers. and sister, MISS
Leota, We're present at the ceremony
The wedding party returned to Wind
sor immediately after the ceremony
and the newly married couple VIII
make their home here.
The groom has been here for a
couple of years and has one OF the
most influential positions in town.
The bride has lived here nearly all
her life, is graduate of Greeley high
school. and has hosts of friends
Both young people are very popular
at Windsor.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
Burglars Work Extensively
(Ault Specially

The burglars who got away with
such good-sized bunch of property
belonging to the Tyler & Sprinkle
Hardware company'at Ault Saturday
night, did not contine their atten-
tions to this one business house, it
has been learned, but also made Il
call at the Wheatland Milling & Ele-
vator company's shop. There they
got away with tarpaulin worth
about $25 which had been used to
cover sacks of grain. At least its
loss is attributed to these burglars
and probably was o. considerable
use when it came to getting away
with the collection of cutlery stolen
from the hardware merchants. The
Wheatland Milling & Elevator COM
pany Office was burglarized a couple
of weeks ago but the loss was slight.
1t is rumored that the night watch
man will hand in his resignation as
he is deeply humiliated by this sue
cession of burglaries which have oc-
Cured while he was on duty.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
SCHOOL TEACHER
AT ERIE ARRESTED
STATUTORY CRIME CHARGED
Arthur Butcher, n Normal Graduate,
Brought to Greeley

Rumors of mistreatment of one
of his pupils. Elizabeth Summervoll,
IA years of age, resulted in the ar
rest of Arthur j. Butcher nigh
school teacher of Erie, Wednesday
afternoon, and he was taken TO Den
yer yesterday for fear of possible
violence at the hands of the citi-
zens there. At the time of the school
teachers arrest the girls father
miner. knew nothing of the rela-
tions which are said to have existed
between his daughter and her in
structor.
Rumors had been circulated about
the little coal mining town for sew
eral days in regard to the matter
The girls mother had been informed
and the humane society was notified.
Butcher was arrested Wednesday af-
ternoon by Humane Agent A. F..
Ransom. who walked Butcher three
miles down the track in order that
the mans exit from the city might
be as inconspicuous as possible.
Denver and lnterurban car was
boarded and Butcher placed in tn"
city Jail at Denver over night He
WIS brought to Greeley next morn
ing and statutory charge made
against him by Ransom.
Butcher teaches the Eighth grade
of the primary school and the first
grade of the high school at Erie.
He graduated from the Normal
school at Greeley with the class of
1906. His parents now live at Erie
and are well-to-do. To Il Tribune
reporter on Thursday Butcher de
MED that he was guilty of statu-
tory charge, but admitted indecent
liberties with the child.
The otfense is supposed to have
happened month ago and was re-
ported to the girls mother by two
boys who happened to be in the
school yard at the time.
Butcher was not locked up, but
was left in the sheriff's office during
the day.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
Had to Pay Board Bin

Mrs. Netzell runs boarding house
at Evans and when Mrs. Netzell can
not collect her board bills she knows
where to go for assistance. w. C.
Bouchner, together with his wife and
little baby, went out to cook for
ditch outfit in Grow Creek last week
and they lacked some four or five
dollars of having enough to pay Mrs.
Netzell for their board when they LEFT
Evans.
The boarding madam swore out
warrant for beating board bill and
in order to serve the warrant for
beating board bill and in order to
to serve the warrant the sheriff was
compelled to hire an automobile to
bring back the man, woman and
child. AS the contractor needed
their services badly he came in and
offered to square matters. The fam
lily was allowed to go by paying the
board bill and the costs and, count
ing the automobile ride, the costs
tOtaled $55.
The boarding woman also stated
that the Bouchners had stolen sew
eral blankets and comforts, but there
was no larceny charge placed against
them. The crime of larceny is small
compared with the collection of a
board bill.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
CONDEMNATION SUITS WE'RE
STARTED TUESDAY
WILL COST THOUSANDS
Road TO Come Into Greeley from the
South, Running Up Seventh
Avenue from Seventeenth
Street-StatiOn at Elk.
change Hotel Corner

Condemnation proceedings We're
started Tuesday evening by the Den
yer, Laramie & Northwestern rail-
way against some thirty-five citizens
and corporations for right-of-way in
to Greeley. w. r. Adams, who is in
the employ of the company, stated
that this move was necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the new road.
as agents for other railroads were
buying up the land over which thu
Laramie would have 10 l'css.
The condemnation proceedings
were brought only against the own
ers of property with whom the agents
for the Laramie could not make
terms or secure options. The road
comes in along the Union Pacific
tracks at the bottom of the hill.
From Seventeenth street it comes
down along the back end of the lots
on the east side OF Seventh avenue.
1t crosses to the west side of Seventh
avenue about Eleventh street and
comes down tn eproperty line through
the Gilcrest lumber yard, the old
Mansion stables and to the Exchange
hotel corner which has been chosen
for the depot site.
1t leaves town through the Smith
planning mill, then across Seventh
street through the Clayton lumber
yard and the old Barnum house
property in the rear, through the
new yard of the Neill Lumber Co.
and across the southern tracks be
tween Seventh and Eighth avenues
l 1t Ii said that nine-tenths of tn
right-of-way has been secured, eithe
by sale or option. and that the com
pany has already spent large
amount of money in acquiring these
rights. 1t is said that the right-of
way from the yard of the Gilcres'
Lumber company to the Clayton
Lumber company has cost them
100000.
Among some of those whose lands
are being condemned are George
Spear. A. NJ McClenahau, f, A. Hill
ton. Rozene Meeker. A. S. Eaton,
! MIR. Dewald. corner Seventh avenue
and Twelfth street, A. Camp, NELL
| Lumber Co. Dave Lofgren, John L.
Mosher, and William Ecker, the lat
ter on Seventh avenue between Fiji
teenth and Sixteenth streets.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
viii Buy Old Home
(LaGrange Speclai)

A. II. English left TUESDAY ioi t'e,
,oit. Wis. to purchase his poyhooo
home, He had received word una.
the old place was up for sale ana
has gone to redeem it ana keep II
in the family Mr. Ensilsh came
horo over twenty-five years ago d
- follow from the east. come
west TO make living, ana no" IS
wealthy farmer with fine nome 'h
tbe LaGrange district. This is not
his first trip to his old home ne
has wife. three sons ana aausn-
tar all living on the ranch IN thls
neighborhood
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
A CHEYENNE MAN
VOWS VENGEANCE
FINED FOR RACING INTO CITY
Threatened to Give Grcelcy's Auto
Ordinance Wide Publicity

c. o. Burke was fined So and costs
Wednesday for breaking the speed
limit with his motorcycle. AS stated
in Wednesdays Tribune. w. B. Bar
nett paid SIS and costs because he
had no regard for the lives OF Gree
ley citizens. After he struck the top
of Normal hill his gas wagon never
touched the ground again until it
got down town. 1t just fell over the
top of the hill and dropped down.
Was he mad? II he had little sail
he would have demonstrated that
cannibal theory in the whole police
force and judge.
He said it was an outrage to trea.
guests in this manner especially
when they were blue blooded guests,
and he himself was the exalted pres
ident of the Cheyenne Automobila
club.
Greeley will suffer for this, said
the important MIR. Barnett. II will
have you written up in the Denver
papers. the Cheyenne papers and
every place in Colorado"
That's what we want" said the
Judge. "lf YOU will just take it upon
yourself to inform the whole state IN
regard to our laws we won't have -
hire extra policemen to teach them.
The gentleman said he would go
around the town and never pass
through Greeley again.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
uod.ing the Poll Tax

The question of collecting poll tax
was discussed at some length by the
council on Tuesday night. About
three men out of every hVe tr! TO
evade this obligation. The one VINO
kicks longest and loudest is usually
the fellow who has no home, no
family, nor anything OF value upon
which to levy a tax. Greeley gives
him his living, his protection, streets
to ride on, sidewalks to walk on,
parks, library, etc, and yet ne VIII
not give up that 50 until he is com
PEELED to by fear of police court
Others would rather work two days
as the law permits, than pay the 20
The street supervisor stated lues-
day evening that he would rather
have 81 cash than three days work
from the ordinary individual VINO
works out his poll tax WITHIN the
next few days the street cofnlllll'ee
will improyise some method OF Sc
curing at least SO worth OF WORK
from those who desire TO DO So anu
credit for the work will not be gwen
unless A certain amount of WORK is
accomplished
An persons between the ages OF :
and so are subject to poll TAX uh'eSs
tbev have doctors Certlhcate tes-
irving to physical disability Mem
hers of the fire department are eN-
ampt MIR. Seaman says there are
at least 1000 men in the city SUI
iect to poll tax and he intehas TO
40, tbem all. which means S5,ooo
r,,, tha street fund.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
Water Not Contaminated

Prof Beardsley. the bacteriologist
who makes a monthly report upon
the city water, says there is no ne
cessity for alarm because the city
water showed an increase in one day
from SO to 1900 colonies. When he
determines the source of these germs
he is able to tell whether or not they
are dangerous. If they come
through the filter they are dangerous,
but when they are brought down by
a rain storm, which gathers them In
the air, they are not contaminatins
or dangerous. Even these could be
eliminated, however, if thr storage
basin contained roof that would
turn water.
The Greeley tribune., 1909-06-09
oil Company Incorporated

The Longmont Oil & Gas Co. was
grcorporated Thursday. 1t is an east
orp svndicate which is now porhis
Cor oil and gas and will sink wei's
all tbe way from Boulder to Piatte-
.yille. r. A. Duncan of Denver mas
charge of all the work for the com
ANY MIR. Duncan is an uncle OF
county Clerk A. j. Luther.