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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
WAR OVER SITE OF
PACIFIC UNION CLUB
Many Members Protest Against
Assuming Debt to Acquire
Flood Property

There is a wide divergence of opinion
among the members of the Pacific
Union club as to increasing the in
debtedness of the organization, and a
meeting is to be held March 16 to vote
upon the proposition to amend the
constitution in order to incur a debt
consequent upon taking the Flood place
In California street
1t was thought that the proposition
to take the Flood site had been decided
unanimously. but at the eleventh hour
opposition to the scheme has sprung
up and Secretary George Boyd has been
appointed attorney for the protestants.
w. 3. Bourn, president of the club,
has issued a circular pleading with the
opposition to withdraw from it's po-
sition. urging that the indebtedness
will be only temporary and that it will
be wiped out when the clubs property
at Post and Stockton streets is sold.
He says that the club can not at the
present time get the value of the lot,
which is 100000, but a few months
from now it can be sold for even q
larger sum. He adds that the new club
will be one of the handsomest in the
world and asks for cooperation.
Nothing is said by the protestants as
to what the club should do for new
quarters. but it is understood that the
members who object to incurring the
debt want the club downtown.
AS opposition comes from men promi-
nent in the club, grave fears are en-
tertained that the club may not after
all, take the Flood site. The protes-
tanfS
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
COUNTERFEITERS ENJOY
TRIPS ACROSS THE BAY
Man and Woman HuddIe To-
gether and Talk of Plans

Robert Blackburn and Edna Keifer.
indicted by the federal grand jury as
makers of counterfeit so cent pieces
and for having the molds in their pos
session were called upon to plead yes
terday.
Blackburn admitted having the molds
in his possession, denying that he man.
ufactured the coins, but Keifer pleaded
guilty to the whole Indictment Their
trial has been set in the district court
before Judge de Haven for March 49,
When not under restraint the pafr
are inseparable. Even when in the
barred room of the marshals Quarters
at the federal court the woman stays
close to Blackburns side and oblfyious
of their fellow prisoners, showers upon
him hundred feminine attentions. He
appears very grateful, and, budding
together in corner. they talk by the
hour of their plans.
OF course they are separated at the
Jail, but they seem to welcome the
Journeys across the bay, which give
them a few hours together.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03

LOGAN WILL CARRY
|. CAVALRY TO MANILA
Brigadier Generals Carter and
Brush to Be Transport
Passengers
Three Colonels Among Soldiers
Who Sail for Islands
Saturday

A great number of dignitaries in
army circles will sail to the Philip
pines In the transport Logan, which
leaves for tae islands on Saturday.
In the number there will be two
brigadier generals, two majors, Is cap
tains, 33 lieutenants and one chaplain.
Besides these officers there will be SS7
enlisted men of the Thirteenth cav
airy, 55 of the hospital corps and eight
cabin passengers:
Brigadier General W. II. Carter and wife,
Brigader General W. H. Brush and wife, Colonel
Charles A. z. Hatfield and wife. Colonel Louis
Bddle; Major Thomas j. Lewis, wife and daugh-
ter, Major ID. w. Ketcham, Captain William
-dren; Chaplain H. Percy Silver, Captain Guy H.
Preston. Captain Walter J. Glasgow; Captain
Walter G. Babcock, wife and son; Captain Ben
jamin B. Hyer, Captain Thomas W. Lyons, Cap
tain William S. yalentine Captain j. A. Rug
giles, wife and two children; Captain John Nc
Clintock and mother; Captain c. E. n. Howard.
Williams; Captain Thomas F. Ryan, wife and
son. Captain Marion C. Raysor and wife; Captain
Aubrey Lippincott, wife and child; Lieutenant
Wilson G.. Heaton, Lieutenant James Goethe,
Lieutenant John W. Wien; Lieutenant e. w.
Robinson, wife. daughter and son; Lieutenant
tenant William FL. Clopton Jr., Lieutenant Leon
ard L. Deitrick, Lieutenant Jerome G. Pillow
and wife; Lieutenant Earl Mcfarland, Lieuten-
ant William l.. Carpenter. Lieutenant Scheidt;
Lieutenant Arthur G. Fisher wife and son
Lieutenant 0lney Place; Lieutenant Edmund W.
Bayley, wife and four children; Lieutenant
James G. Ballard; Lieutenant Fred Damman,
wife and daughter; Lieutenant Walter H. Neil
Lieutenant Henry 7. Bull, wife and daughter:
Lieutenant w. v. Carter and wife, Lieutenant
". G. Fulton, Lieutenant Henry J. Reilly Lieu
tenant Eugene v. Armstrong; Lieutenant P. j.
r. Kiehl. wife and daughter; Lieutenant Walter
N Hensley and wife, Lieutenant Beekeley T.
Merchant and wife, Lieutenant William W,
West. Lieutenant Alexander 81. Jones. Lieutenant
George +. Patten and wife, Lieutenant Richard
D. Newman, Lieutenant Claude de B. Hunt,
Veterinarian Walter Fraser and wife. veterina-
rian Alfred L. Mason; Lieutenant Charles E.
Dority. wife and child; Lieutenant John W
Strohm, Lieutenant John Mcneil and wife, Lieu
tenant Max Sebald, Alma Hanson. Hannah Kal.
lem, Harrison w. Smith, Rey Surplus. George
w. Harrison. George c. Bender. NJ. T. Legg, Ell
mer L. Gay. U. g. Grummond and wife, Mrs
Fronie j. Hinton, Paul Wullf. Mrs. II. o. vii.
lizard and son, Mrs F. s. Young and infant
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
MOTHER HEARS SHOT
THAT KILLS HER BOY
He Sends Her From Room by a
Ruse, Then Shoots Himself

GO to the door, mother; I think the
milkman knocked"
Using this ruse to get his mother out
of the room for a moment, Otto
Krautz, the 16 year old son of
Matthew Krautz. a carpenter living at
1873 Lundy lane, put bullet through
his brain late yesterday afternoon,
causing instantaneous death.
The mother had no sooner reached
the door than she heard the report
of the shot. and. rushing back into
the room. found her son dead in a pool
of blood
The boy, who has always been in
dustrious,. became slightly demented
shortly after the fire OF 1906, and in
an endeavor to cure him his parents
sent him to the asylum at Napa. He
was released from that institution
last May. and pronounced absolutely
sane.
He secured employment in an cleo
trio establishment and worked steadily
till about two weeks ago, when he
began to again show signs of being
deranged.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
COUNTRY SOLIDLY
ON GOLD BASIS

After all my Intellectual efforts to
hnd out about exports and imports in
other countries, what a pleasure it was
TO be referred to a bureau which filled
your pockets and arms with statistical
information pleasure second only TO
knowing that the money in your purse
was worth the same rate of exchange
IN the morning as when you went to
bed.
Costa Rica is solidly on the gold ba-
Sis Her taxes are chiefly on imports
and by weight, but under a more rea-
sonahle scale than elsewhere The
Spanish american custom of no land
tax still prevails. 1t is a country of
land owners, and if land owner
wants TO borrow money instead of Law
ing a mortgage he can issue debentures
on his property. Titles are clear and
the books carefully kept open to all to
see whatever loan stands against any
holding-all of which is wonderful in
Central America.
And another thing: Though the
Costa Ricans build libraries and opera
houses out of their budget of $1,000. 900
year-whieh is larger per capita than
our own-they are conscious of an in
consistency which never occurs to any
other Central American nation They
nave actually become ashamed of de-
faultlng on the interest on their ma
tional debt. 1t is their first apolorv
as surely as the opera house and the
blue eyed girls are their first boast.
At the last session OF their congress A
tax of cent a bunch was laid on ba-
nanas, the proceeds of which is to go
toward the debt
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
SHOE STORE BOOK KEEPER
ADMITS EMBEZZLEMENT
Former EmpIoye of Rosenthars
to Be Sentenced SATURDAY.

Frederick Tetsall, book keeper for
merly employed by Rosenthals, Incor-
porated. the shoe store, pleaded guilty
of embezzlement in Judge Dunne's
court yesterday. He will be sentenced
Saturday. TetsalPs defalcations totaled
$4,000
The fact that he was stealing money
from the firm was discovered after the
mysterious attempt to burn down Ro-
senthals, and suspicion was cast upon
Tetsall. who was believed to have
planned the fire In order to destroy
evidences of his theft He has. how
and 1t has not been possible to prove it.
The two informations to which Tet-
sail pleaded guilty yesterday charged
him with .embezzzling $500 and 500.
that he used the bulk of the money to
purchase a piece of property.
be imposed on Tetsall is 10 years on
each charge.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
PIANOS AS SAMPLES
IN ST. FRANCIS HOTEL
Chicago Salesman Steals March
Upon Competitors

M A. Myers, who represents a large
piano manufacturing establishment of
Chicago, stole march on his competi-
tors yesterday when instead of placing
his sample pianos in a warehouse he
had them conveyed to the st. Francis
hotel and placed in large room on the
fourth floor.
Manager James Woods gasped when
he saw dray after dray drive to the
hostelry. He had never heard of a
salesman who dared so much. Myers
was so amiable about the matter. how
ever that Woods allowed the five up
rights to be installed in the largest
room In the house
sThis is an Innovation" Woods said,
but the world moves fast and we
must keep pace with new methods and
new ideas"
They will be bringing in pipe or
laconic comment of the porter who
handled the pianos
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
MISS MARGARET TENNANT
DIES AT. PACIFIC GROVE
PhiIanthropist Came to State
Around the Horn in 1852

PACIFIC GROVE. March Miss
Margaret Tenant. formerly of Eden
vale. Santa Clara county, and founder
of the John Tenant Memorial Home
for Old People at this place, died this
morning at her residence after a few
days illness.
She was a native of Wexford. Ire
land and came to California around
the Horn in 1852. She was nearly 80
years of age. She had given large
amounts to. charities. and Is survived
by many nieces and nephews.
The funeral will take place at 9:15
Thursday morning from the Church of
st. Mary by the Sea.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
SUGAR TRUST HEADS DENY
SHORT WEIGHT TRICKERY
Company Makes Eighth to Quar-
ter Cent Profit a Pound

NEW YORK, March 2.-Testimony
given today by officers of the American
sugar refining company of New York
the corporation on trial for alleged
false weighing of sugar imports, and
pany of New Jersey, the parent corpo-
ration, practically concluded the pres
entation of evidence for the defense.
any fraudulent weighing devices in the
company's possession.
Secretary Helix testified that the
average profit to the company on the
sale of a pound of sugar was one
Washington B. Thomas, president Of
the American sugar refining company
of New Jersey, and several of the d.
rectors of the company, including Hor-
ace Havemeyer, son of its late presi-
dent. Henry o. Havemeyer, were other
witnesses.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
WELFARE WORK OUTLINED
AT TO KALON MEETING
Aid for Needy Urged by Speak
er at Gathering

Brief addresses were delivered yes
terday at the regular meeting of To
Kalon, held in the parlors of Calvary
church, by Miss Katharine FELTON, OF
the Associated Charities and DR.. Clar-
ence E. Edwords of the California Pro-
motion committee.
Miss FELTON, spoke on welfare work
explaining this branch of the work OF
the Associated Charities and the need
Francisco. Only those who had engaged
In relief work could realize, she said,
the hardships endured and the losses
suffered by. the people here. Adequate
relief must still be given to many, and
adequate assistance means more than a
dollars worth of groceries now and
then.
DIR. Edwords lectured on the beauties
OF the Tamalpais region, Illustrating
his talk with stereopticon views.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03

Of. palms and flowers, might be mis-
taken for the suburban residence of
some muItimiIlionaire. Rut 7 s6o,,Id
not call it an insane asylum. This IS
against the rules of modern science. as
was reminded by the director. edu-
Gated in Germany, who showed me
through hospital modern in every
respect. Whatever public institution
visited, the impression was the same.
Inc national museum was not
traVesty; the art school had score of
busy pupils; and the high school and
the girls seminary lose little by any
foreign comparison. Costa Rica is
really in the game of modern civiliza-
tion, deserving the more credit because
she is playing lone hand in the back
woods
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
ATTEMPTS TO BURN
BIG LODGING HOUSE
Incendiary's Plot to Destroy
Building Foiled by Failure
of Fuse

While S5 persons were asleep in the
building at an early hour Monday morn
ing. an attempt was made to burn the
owned by ]. w. Murphy Jr. and Charles
F. Maio. The failure of time fuse to
work prevented a fire that probably
would have resulted fatally to a large
number of the roomers.
Mattresses in two back rooms of the
establishment were soaked with coal
oil. The fuse was started near one of
the mattresses. The incendiary ap-
parently then made his escape through
window leading into Tehamai street.
The fuse fared up slightly and then
went out, leaving only a black scar on
the floor. Had it reached the oil soaked
mattresses, 10 inches away, disastrous
fire was inevitable.
PORTER FINDS FIRETRAPk
George Nelson, porter in the estab-
lishment, discovered the f1retrap Mon
day morning.
Though no direct accusation has been
made. both the owners of the lodging
house and Fire Marshal Towe are seek
ing an interview with E. E. HUSKY
HUSKY Is slitigating- with Murphy and
Maio for the possession of a ranch In
the San Joaquin valley near Stockton,
for which Murphy and Maio had ex-
changed their lodging house some time
ago.
They retained a mortgage, however,
on the lodging house, as, the ranch
given in exchange by HUSKY was, ac-
cording to Charles f. Maio, heavily en-
numbered. Maio further asserts that
it was agreed that HUSKY should make
certain payments on the lodging house
in addition TO paying rent for a certain
length of time. HUSKY, according to
Maio, failed to make the. payments
specified or to pay rent, and was ousted
by due process of law. Now HUSKY Is
suing to get back his ranch
1t was this bitterness between the
men that led to the suspicion that
HUSKY might know something about
the incendiary attempt.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
Army and Navy Orders

WASHINGTON. March 2.-The orders
ant Walter III. Dade. medical reserve
corps, to proceed to the Philippines
about March 8 have been amended so
as to direct him to proceed to the
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
weekend Excursion 10 Truckee's Win.
ter Carnival

Leaves San Francisco via Southern Pa
cific Saturday. March s, 6:20 p. M, re-
turning March 8. Enjoy the exhilarat-
ing sleigh ride to beautiful Donner Lake
and along the Truckee River. Fancy
snowshoeing and skeeing by profess
sional experts. Round trip rates: Rail
fare $500. Pullman berth $4-00, drawing
room S14.00, including occupancy at
Truckee For details inquire ticket Of
fees: Se4 Market street, IA Powell
street. Market street ferry depot, and
Thirteenth and Franklin street, Oak
land
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03

Philippines on the transport leaving
San Francisco about April s.
Navy OrderS-Commander w. A.
Gill is detached from the navy yard at
Mare island and ordered to duty at the
navy yard in New York.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03

WILLOWS BONDS SoLD-Willows. March 2
The $4,000 issue OF Willows sewer bonds was
sold last night to the bank OF Willows at
premium OF .23I1-
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
GOVERNMENT
AN OLIGARCHY

The government of Costa Rica is
really an oligarchy. For generations
the rule has been vested in 40 old
Spanish families which are much inter-
married. The well to do people can
usually claim the president as a dis
tant relation. There are conservatives
and liberals, with the liberals mostly
In power of late years Congress has
its old fashioned members who think
that the country is going to the dogs;
its Tillmans; its scholarly orators.
proud Of rheir Castilian pronunciation
its rising young lawyers, looking for
reputation at any cost, and the trust
buster after the corporation, which. in
this instance, is a wicked foreigner.
the United fruit company. 1 quote a
passage that 1 heard at one of the
sessions:
Our moral depression is such that
we can not overcome the invasion of
the american multimillionaires who
trade their fortunes for European
coronets. Their daughters escape from
their unhappy consorts by divorce, but
we Costa Ricanss can not make laws
to free us, in turn, from the abomi-
nab1e concubinage of the Yankee ele-
ment which treats us as If we were
a degenerate race"
That does not represent public opin-
ion generally, hut one suggestive sec
tiono of it, Costa Rica is the only
! country from the Rio Grande to the
Peruvian border. which enjoys free
speech. The president of Costa Rica.
Senior Gongalez-Vigez, a. quiet, un-
demonstratfves sensible man, of much
the same type as a. score of other citi-
zens met. suffers as much criticism
and cartooning as our own president.
The weekly life of Costa Rica-and the
country lacks not even this adjunct
of a complete modern state-always
pictures Gonzales-vigezs with a mos
quito on HIS bald head.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
MARA2K.L LXoSANcLoesE


his liberal his country trade four
of its
to the
are begin to be
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
PROUD OF
THEIR SANITATION

The presidents hobby is sanitation.
He has made it so vital that the canal
zone doctors, after an examination.
have concluded. that zone employees may
spend their vacations in Costa Rica IL
they please. The health conditions of
the country are due entirely to the
initiative of the Costa Rica govern
ment itself. No advice or suggestion
was necessary. After the opera house
and the blue eyed girls, the Costa
Ricans are proud of their clean streets.
Any buffeted traveller of Central
american trails feels grateful to this
little country whose charm even the
season of torrential rains could not
efface. II is the. most peaceful. the
happiest and the best governed of all
the republics in the south Mexico is
many stages behind ii in constitutional
government. The coffee lands and the
banana lands assure prosperity as long
as humanity needs foods and drink.
No fear of what may happen when a
dictator dies threatens its future Sta
biIity is founded on the bedrock of the
peoples character.
Costa Rica is the one exhibit which
justifies the high ideal OF the Monroe
doctrine. To interfere ourselves or
permit any foreign nation to interfere
with her affairs would be a crime on
par with our suffering Zelaya' 8
regime of rapine and ravages to con-
tinue unmolested.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
A Rare Autouraph.

What is the most expensive auto
graph you ever sold" inquired the re-
porter.
THAT of Thomas Lynch. .Ir.." an
swered the dealer. The reporter looked
perfectly blank. Never heard of him."
he confessed.
We'll, he was a signer Of the Decla-
ration of Independence. He signed it
as proxy for his father. who was i'll at
the time. Soon after he went to sea
and was never heard of again. Now,
autographs of Declaration signers are
much sought by collectors. None ap-
proach in rarity those of Thomas
Lynch. Jr. In fact. so far as | know,
there is only one in existence.
This is affixed to an autograph letter
addressed by Lynch to George Wash
ington, which lends it additional value.
1t was owned at one time by Jared
Sparks. president of Harvard college.
Subsequently 1t passed TO Thomas Ad-
dis Emmet. from whom | bought it
for the sum of $4,000. l sold it to Au-
gustin DAILY, who was a keen auto
graph collector, for $4,000. Later En-
met repented Of letting the autograph
so from his possession and secured it
from Daily for $3.50, presenting it
afterward TO the Lenox library. New
York. where it is now."-Philadelph
Ledger
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
Animals Are Poor Sailors.

The polar bear is the only wild ami
NAL that likes a trip on the water, ac-
cording to French scientist who has
studied its behavior at sea. He is
quite jolly when aboard ship. but all
other animals violently resent such
Il voyage and vociferously give vent to
their feelings until seasickness brings
silence.
The tiger suffers most of all. He
whines pitifully, his eyes water con-
tinually, and he rubs his stomach with
his terrible paws. Horses are bad
sailors and often die on Il sea voyage.
Oxen are heroic in their attempts
not to give way to seasickness. Ele
plants do not like the sea, but they
are amenable to medical treatment. A
good remedy is a buckeful of hot Wa
ter containing three and a half pints
of whisky and seven ounces of qui-
nine.-Fur News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
Mendinn . Broken Heart

An Atchison young thing had Il
heart that ached. her honey boy hav-
ing taken his affections elsewhere, and
her father recently shut himself up
with her to reason with her. That
honey boy averaged spending 80 cents
week on you" he said. Here's a
dollar n week TO take his place. Every
time he called he cleaned out the re-
frigerator. Your mother will see to it
that your brothers do this in future.
He kept you up late nights. Your
baby sister is cross. and hereafter you
will let the baby do this for you. He
took possession of the most comforta-
bic rocker on the porch. When you
look at that rocker in future it will
not be empty bringing the pang to
your heart that your silly novels tell
about. 1t will be occupied by the man
who paid for 1t, and that's me. Your
mother and stayed by you through
collie and teething and are going to
get you through this if we have to take
turns spanking you. Now take your
eyes Off the moon and look at the dust
around you."-Atchison Globe.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
The Queen Bee.

The truth is that throughout all the
wonder workings of the beehive the
queen is little more than an instru-
ment, Il kind of an automaton. merely
doing what the workers compel her
to do They are the real queens in
the hive, and the mother bee is
the real subject. The workers have
made her for their own wise purpose.
just as they make the comb and the
honey to store in it. The egg she is
hatched from is in no way different
from any worker egg. If you take
one from queen cell and put it in
the ordinary cell it will hatch out -
common female worker bee. and IL.
egg transferred from worker comb t.,
q queen cell becomes full grown
queen. Thousands and thousands ~
worker eggs are laid in Il hive during
made into a queen If the workers
chose. But the worker egg Is laid in
a small cell, and the larya is bred on
n bare minimum of food at the least
possible cost in time, trouble and
space to the hive, while when a new
queen Is wanted a cell as big as your
finger tip is built. and the larva is
stuffed like prize pig through all its
five days of embryo life until. with
unlimited food and time and room to
mother bee.-Van Norden's Magazine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-10-07
The Demon Rum.

The subject given out for an essay in
one of the public schools was THE
Evil Effects of Alcohol" Here are ex-
tracts from some of the compositions:
"Alcohol has a very marked effect
on the doctors conclusions In cases of
sickness"
Medical men say that fatal diseases
are the worst"
"Some people think the abuse of
drink is sin, others think it is all
right, and others take it as n medi-
cine"
"At the present day many people are
in Jail for committing suicide while
under the influence of strong drink"
Doctors say that the increased death
rate from the effects Of boozing short
ems life"
"Alcohol mocks at you, and at last it
biteth like a servant and stingeth like
"A bee"
THE Bible says look not on the wine
when it is red. but Rhine wine is not
hurtfuI. New York Press.