New-York tribune., 1909-07-11
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPEITHE "STRADIVARIUS"
Business Mems Tie7cs of the Graft
Prosecution
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune J

lBy Telegraph o The Tribune.l
San Francisco. July 1o.-A meeting Of one hun
dred and fifty prominent buciness men Of san Fran
cisco was held this week to devise means Tor op-
tanning the best candidates for city Offices at the
coming election These men are mainly Repuo-
licans hut their desire is 10 obtain municipal OIL
cials who will carry out the business OF the city
without fear favor
The one oyershadowiuE feature Of the meeting,
however. was the graft prosecution. which vas
heartily the outset by all good citizens
The great ma jority OF business and professional
men Of San Francisco are thoroughly out or
sympathy with the methods adopted by Rudolph
spreckels and Francis ! Heney. These men have
had almost unlimited power in the last two years
but nv alleged unfair methods and intense pSFu-
ssns1ip they have aenated most Of their sup
porters In their desire 10 convict President CAL
toun o. the United Railways they have granted
immunity to all the supervisors. and have nane
s,ch errors in prosecuting ex- Mayor Schmitz and
Boss Ruef that trials will he necessary In
the case ~ each Of these master booders. They
have failed 70 convict Calhoun. despite campaign
I'm their newspaper organs without parallel IN tile
history Of the city.
What this organization % merchants desires IS
To- elect District Attorney who will press me
trials Of all grsfters and carry them through in a
dignifed and orderly way The cty's credit has
been hurt badly by exaggerated stories Of general
dishonesty among its officials and reports Of sensa-
tioral charges made in open court by Mr.. Heney
and his associates. The truth is that since the
downfall OF Ruef and Schmtz San Francisco has
been honestly governed as any CITY III mo
country.
? {, Calvin. vlce-president and general manager
OF the Southern Pacific company IL recovering
from an operation for appendicitis. performed or
SUNDAY At the New Railroad Hospital. Golden
Gate Park The physicians worked for more than
a month TO give Calvin strength 20 bear the opera
ton Calvin has been subject 10 attacks OF ap-
pendicitis for eleven years He was the hTst pa
tient TO be treated in the new hospital.
The death Of ex-Iudge Stafford 81 Eureka under
the wheels Of racing automobile At Emery'l"e
on Monday will probably lead TO strlcter rules FOR
the noticing OF automobile racetracks- The driver
NJ tho car wrecked his machine and endangered
his own life in vain effort TO avoid running down
Stafford Judge Stafford was warned not 10 cross
the track but he disobeyed the police injunction.
When Miss Hazel Hotchkss returned from tho
East the woman tennis champion she was
challenged by Miss May Sutton for the Calfor-
MIA tennis championship. Many thought she could
defeat the older player. but Miss Sutton on Mon
dav decsiveIy showed her superiority. In the hrst
set Miss Hotchkss outpayed Miss Sutton at the
net and II had adhered to this position she
might have won, but when she selected the back
court in the second set she badly beaten. get
ting only one game. The match witnessed by
the largest crowd on the San Rafael
courts
The day after her victory Miss Sutton revealed
20 friends the carefully kept secret OF her en-
gagement to be married TO Harry g. Ham. Yale
| man. who is interested in mines in Mexico and in
oil wells in Southern California. Ham lives in
the City Of Mexico. and is the champion amateur
billiard player Of Mexico Miss Sutton will proba-
| bly, not give up tennis after ner marriage
Tho death Of Mrs Nellie Hobrook Blinn the
| former actress caused much regret. she had
endeared herself large circle by her many
I charities After she retired from the stage she
frequently appeared in plays and recitations for
charity. She had the pleasure only a week before
her death of seeing her only HolbrooR Blinn.
appear in Salvation Nelr' and divide hcnors with
| Mrs. Ffske.
Mrs Thomas p. Bishop, daughter of Dr. Hall.
the noted geoogist, of ALBANY. has given Golden
] Gate Park Museum Of the finest coec-
/ tions of Esqufmau baskets in the world. These
baskets were made twenty years ago for
household use before the collecting mania began.
/ and they are much superior in design and work.
/ manship TO the present baskets. There over
/ 300 pieces The collection also includes many
weapons of and the chase.
Land in the Sacramento Valley that had been
by successive crops Of wheat planted
; three years ago TO sugar beets. Good crops were
raised This year the land
to wheat, with the result that the yield nifty
six bushels to the acre-far more than the land
had produced for many years. This practical
demonstration will induce many farmers
sugar beets for restoring overcropped lands.
Federal troops in the Yosemite Valley not
enthusiastic spiritual mediums. One OF these
mediums in Oakland gave outline of the fate
or r. p Shepherd. OF that city. who recently dis
appeared while on his way climb Sentinel Dome.
THIS medium told how she saw Shepherd fall of
the trail and go TO his death in deep canyon.
Soldiers were sent to verify h or vision. but
returned saying she a fraud. there
no such place as she described.
The Western Pacific Company. Goulds
| trahscontinental line will bud car shop in Sac
ramento which will 100000 1t is expected
/ mat the new line will be running trains from
Salt Lake 10 Oakland by October l.
AT The CARD CLUB.
First Bridge Fien1-Mrs. Thompson hiss frirted
! away,
second Bridge Fiend-Iow provoking Of her She
' might have waited until she was dun ray-Iif.