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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
JUSTICE IS SWIFT
IN REACHING THUG
Robber George Young Is Tried,
Convicted and Sentenced in
2 Hours s Minutes
Given Thirty Years in Prison
for Breaking Into Room
and Taking Coin


RECORD In the case Of George Young,
charged with robbery.
10 a. m. Case called for trial before
Judge Cabaniss.
Ie:25. Jury impaneieS.
III 80. Testimony sii In.
II:4J. Attorneys' adsircsses to the jury
finished.
1,54. Jury retires after searinx
judges charge.
1854. Jury readers verdict OF guilty.
I::os. Sentence OF 50 years. imprs~en-
ment pronounced.
Two hours and eight minutes sufliced
for the trial, conviction and sentence
to. 80 years imprisonment OF George
Young, a robber, in Judge Cabaniss'
court yesterday morning The case
was tried on It's merits without the
Injection of any outside matters, either
in the impeachment OF the jury or the
hearing OF testimony. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Robert Duke. presented
only pertinent evidence, and Judge
cabaniss shut out al1..irrelevant. de-
tails. Tire lawyers wasted no time in
long. arguments, and the jury required
ten minutes to make up it's mind that
Young was guilty. Young could, had
he desired, have obtained ae:centinu-
'ance for sentence, but he. waived time.
The crime. of which Young was con-
victed was q. particularly atrocsous
one HIS Victim, John Sheehan, lived
in the St.5George hotel, at Howard and
Eighth streets. On January. 5 Young
and another man forced. their company
upon Sheehan and compelled him TO
drink with them. He had great edif-
fculty In getting away from the pair,
but at 10 o'clock p: N. he escaped and
went TO his room. He locked the door,
placed about $40 in a tobacco sack in
his pocket and lay down on the bed.
Young and mis- companion broke
through the door, grabbed Sheehan by
the throat and took his money. Shee-
han cried out and the hotel clerk, run
ming along the corridor. caught Young
as he left the room. Young was later
turned over TO a policeman. Young
took the witness stand yesterday and
denied the robbery. He said he went
upstairs merely to get drink.
In sentencing Young to 80 years
imprisonment, Judge Cabaniss said the
crime was one that deserved severe
punishment, and that he intended to
do all he could to discourage offenses
of such a character.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
PIONEER WAR VETERAN
ANSWERS DEATH CALL
Father. Killed and Mother
Wounded at Gettysburg
Especial Di,eateh TO TIE Call

Iopeeial Disfaleh 70 ] Re tdlI1
NAPAy April Soc Heesler, long. a:
resident of Napa, died yesterday at his
home in this city after an: illness of
several: months; - -
Heegier served in the civil war, be-.
ing wounded in the battle of Chancsl-
louisville: His father: was killed at
Gettysburg and his mother. was wound
ed while searching for her husbands
body on: the battlefield.
In 1898 he came TO San 8. Francisco
and was married there. to Miss Bertha
Windmuller, a member of IA well
couple moved: to- Napa and have resided
here fora29 years
Hee gier took prominent part in
public affairs in Napa. He leaves
ing q resident of San Franciseo..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01

Figs are allowed to fall. and are not
picked
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
POLICE LOOK FOR
HIS ACCOMP[ICES
Detectives Do Not Believe Ken
meth Williams Sole Robber of
Lundy Jewelry Store
Suspect Now in Jail Disclaims
Any Part in Sensational
Burglary Year Ago


Il
The police are working industriously
in an effort to locate the accomplices
of Kenneth Williams, who is believed
to be one of the gang of .cracksmen
who broke into the safe of T. Lundy,
iewelera IA Market street, April 10
last year and stole nearly $4,000
worth of stock. williams has been
sweater several times since his ar
rest Monday night, but he persists in
declaring that he gothic iewelry from
Ralph Johnston. a travelling salesman
for. Traitor & Co. wholesale jewellers,
Los Angeles =
NO SUCH SALESMAN ::
Williams story is that he met John
ston at the st. Ives billiard parlors in
a casual way and Johnston, after: meet
ing him two or. three times, made the
proposal to him that he should sell
the jewelry and they would divide the
coin received. A message was sent to
Los Angeles and. a representative of
Trafton:& Co came here and after
examining the .jewelry found in VIII
lianls': Possession declared that it did
not belong TO them and that they had
no&tra yelling salesman named Johnston.
:. Lundy and his manager, Eugene
Becker * were asked to- look at the
jewelry; consisting of mems and won
ems gold chains, and they at :once
identified if as part. Of the stock stolen
from their safe April 10 last year
Becker had a look a. Williams and ex
pressed the belief thatehe had seen him
pacing In. front: of the store for two
I, -
Although confronted with these facts,
Williams maintained that his original
explanation was the only one that he
could. give He admitted having lived
in the city for the last two years, but
would not say where he came from.
He is "a smart looking young man.
probably about 90 years OF age, of
light complexion and clean shsven. He
dresses we'll.
SELLS TO PAWN BROKER
He made the first sale of chains
known TO a pawn broker March last,
the second March i3 and the third and
last March 81. He had shown the
pawn broker about IS diamond rings
and had asked him to exchange them
for diamonds of a larger size, but the
pawn broker declined. After the. last
sale Detectives O'Dea. Graham and
Armstrong became aware of the trans
actions and Detective Louis F. Balletto
was detailed to watch the pawnshop
and arrest Williams on his again max
ing his appearance. Balletto remained
on the lookout till last Saturday. when
he was taken off the detail In the be-
lief that Williams had scented trouble
and would not return.
Last Monday evening O'Dea re
ceived. a telephone message from the
pawn broker that Williams was there
with another supply of chains. and
O'Dea. Graham and Armstrong hurried
to the store and placed Williams un-
der arrest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
FACTORY GIRLS TAUGHT
SIMPLE HEALTH RULES
Red Cross Nurses Make Social
Service Addresses

The nurses auxiliary branch belong
Ing to the California branch Of the
American National Red Cross. COM
pose dof the graduated nurses of the
County nurses association. began yes
terdsv what they call series Of social
service lectures.
These lectures are TO be given TO the
girls employed in the dinernt facto-is
IN this city during the noon hour. The
FIRST lecture was at the Heynemann
overall and shirt factory. Miss Kath-
illustrated by demonstration by Miss
kiIlian. The subject was Hygiene Of
the Sick Room
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
MOTION FOR. NoNSUIT in
MINING STOCK ACTION
Attorneys Contend That Stock
Broker Was Not Defrauded

A motion for a. norsuit was argued:
before Judge Murasky yesterday in. the.
case of Martin b Leaver9s. who is.
charged with having obtafned% s1,442.
from II: II. Norwood. a. stock broker
by false pretenses. His. attorneys con
tended that Norwood. jim buying the
fake stock of the. Sandstorm mining
company. from .LeGvens, was not de-
fra Gded or damaged because he was
acting in behalf of smother. man, to.
whom he had sold the stock in adj.
vance on the exchan ge. :. =
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
COPIED THE LETTERS


\. H Castle has seen Alaska from
the inside and his story of that re-
rnarkable: country. in Sunset Magazine
for May with it's illustra tions, will re-
pay reading, for. any one who desires
first hand information regarding the
wonderful north.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
RUSHING WORK ON
PENINSULA HOSPITAL
Building to Have Artistic Site
of Two Acres

PALo ALTO. April 2S.-Construction
work on the Peninsula hospital has
been commenced and the contractors
promise to rush to completion the
structure, which will be OF three stories
and basement. The building will have
an artistic site OF two acres and, with
the grounds. will cost $50. 900. An
elaborate equipment has been planned
for the institution
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01

Wellesley Park. Redwood City, has
the finest soil and elevation in Red
wood City.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
REGRETS HE WROTE
THREATENING NOTE
Wouidbe BIacunaiIer of Ru-
dOIph Spreckels Booked at
the City Prison

benjamin Wellington Soule was a
pitiable object yesterday AFTERNOON
when he was. being. booked at the .eits
prison BY Detective W; II. Prob. on a
charge OF. violating SECTION 52$t Of: the
penal code IN sending a. threatening
letter to Rudolph. SpreekeIs April 60
with the object OF extortfng SO 900
from him. *s,e.. -. -
The complaint was sworn. TO by
Profl before Police Judge Deasy, who
fixed So1le's. bail bond al $40: eco or
$4,000 cash. 1t has not yet heen de
ciied whether to charge him with send
ing threatening letters TO Mrs Spreel1-.
els and James OBJ: Cum, cashier of
the Mechanics" bank, but it Is thought
there will be no: trouble in convicting
him on the Rudolph spEeckels charge
READ DIME NOVELS
Soule says he was born in. oswego,
\. Y, 80 years ago and was raised in
Jacksonville, Fla. He came here In
December last with his wife. but was
unable to get steady employment as
in the bakery at Polk and California
streeta He had been reading the
Nick" Carter novels and they inflamed
his mind 70 SUCH an extent that he
thought of the scheme to send the
threatening letters in the hope that
he would obtain sufficient funds to en-
able him and his wife to return to
Wallace. Idaho. where they came from
to this city.
COPIED THE LETTERS
The letters were an exact copy, al :
most, of one in one OF the novels. He
had no intention of injuring any one.
He is completely broken up over the
failure of his scheme. and his arrest.
He denied that he had an accomplice.
His wife is heartbroken over the
exposure, as she. had not the faintest
idea that he was doing anything of
the kind. She would not go to- her
work at the bakery yesterday morning.
she was so ashamed, and asked De-
tective ProlI as a favor to collect the
avs ges due her
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
PREPARATORY SCHOOL TO
ERECT STRUCTURE
Building to Replace the One
DESTROYED by Fire

BELMONT, April. CIV. T. Reid.
head master OF the famous preparatory
school at this place, has awarded a
contract Cor the construction of a
building TO take the place of the. one
destroyed by fire last year to Robert
Brown OF Redwood City for $4,000.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03
LOOKING NEAT.

Some young girls and some women naturally
look neat. and some naturally look sloveny-are
slovenly, in fact. And the same thing MAY be said
of young boys and men. 1t is good deal of habit
with them. whichever it may be- And yet to look
neat requires but little attention from the neat per
SON and assurances could no doubt be received from
the other kind that requires no attention all to
appear slovenly.
We would like to go record as being of the
opinion that the young girl or boy who has mother
to look after the clothes and things" in every de-
tail is about as unfortunate as the one who has no
mother to look after them at all. That may seem
cruel but nevertheless the habit of permitting
else to look after all the details of ones dress
grows into habit of negecting ones clothes which.
when the time arrives that one must look after his
clothes or they will not be looked after the UNI
fortunate dependent finds he cannot break The
care of Clothes like the care of the body is almost
entirely habit; slovenliness and carelessness or
neatness and care. well dressed woman must of
necessity have clothes of rather modern style but
the dear and do get along with last winters
overcoat and many man is to appear in his
last spring suit all neatly pressed up and cleaned,
and he will be quite well dressed indeed But all
those who have last springs suit to fall back on
have learned the art of caring for the clothes they
have be they so few. They brush their clothes
every day, little thing. that costs nothing, and
they have them pressed into shape when they show
signs of getting out of condition. Better cultivate
the habit of taking of what you have and after
while the habit will be we'll formed that it will
require great effort to break that habit; as great
effort it would require of the fellow who has
cultivated the other habit of neglect.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03

nous scout and frontiersman, Kit Carson,
devout Catholic.
Carson, when approaching the evening Of his
adventurous life, settled in Taos valley New Mem
leo, and when schismatic party of Mexicans in
January, 1847 threatened to take possession of the
Catholic church at Taos, Kit Carson Charles Beau
bien aud Ceran St. Vrian the Rocky Mountain
guide and Indian fighter, assembled with their
friends and gave warning to the rebels that the
church was Catholic and would remain Catholic.
y of peace" said Carson to MARTINEZ,
the leader of the schismatics. land my motto is,
Good will to all | do not like i'll feeling among
us but | can fight little yet and know of no
better cause to fight for than my family, my church
and my priest" Carson, Beaubien and St Vrain
we're ready for action, the others knew it. knew
their men and called off the fight.
We do not know what religion Jim" Brdger.
the scout and discoverer of Salt Lake, professed,
but do know that his son Charles was educated
by Jesuit priests and his little daughter, Emily, by
the nuns of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis.
The Intermountain Catholic has been singular
ly privileged in being furnished by the author of
the Catholic Church in Utah." and commissioned
to publish the advance chapters and much of the
material of the history which will be on the mar
ket in the month of May. Of course these articles
have been recas taken out of their newspaper dress
and robed in historical expression.
The examination of early documents and the
correspondence with Spanish and French author-
ties. the securing and transating the Journal of the
Spanish priests. who in 1776 explored Utah, the
trailing of the explorers and the charting of their
devious route, the burrowing tunneling and mining
into old libraries and the research and study in
volved in the building up of this history of our
church in Utah merit and will receive the appreca
ton of serious and thoughtful men. From the au-
thor of the forthcoming history and from data fur
nished US by him trust have satisfactorily
replied to Mr.. Wright's question.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03

ence is question which the idealsts have not yet
solved. The idea of free federation of sovereign
independent states, living together in frater-
nal equality and settling their differences by the
impartial judgment of Independent supreme
court is which if carried out. will bring about
the greatest revolution European and world poll
tics in the worlds history. Even if the idea fails
of accomplishment. the fact that the Americanlza-
ton Of Europe is thought of, and that American
ideas have penetrated into the darkest portions OF
Europe should be gratifying to Americans who
have great faith in their country and greater faith
in their countrymen. That the sovereign statesmen
of Europe are not hostile to the plan is evidenced
by conversation reported in the Contemporary
Review by Charles Lowe, in which Sir Max Waech-
ter declared that in his pilgrimage he found them
prepared to consider the Americanization with an
open mind, and that he thought it recognized
that such Americanization was really inevitable,
sooner or later 1t is the most important develop
ment in world politics for many years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03
AN AFFINITY.

Frederick Pinney Earle, who created a stir in the
world some time ago by deserving his wife and chill
dren and marrying what he said was his affinity"
has been sued for divorce by the aforesaid affinity
the ground that her husband is a lunatic If
lunacy is sufficient ground for divorce the affinity
certainly has good grounds, the irresponsibihty
Of Frederick Pinney is recognized by everybody
now; the only one who seemed not to recognize his
condition in the past being his affinity.
What a terrible farce all this business is to be
And what terrible travesty on marriage is
this that permits a to desert his family for
another whom he conceives to be more desirable
companion. Surely such things will some day be
stopped, and the well known attitude of the Cath
Ole church and of all right-minded men and wo-
men will come to be adopted the only system of
civil marriage The law of God cannot be improved
upon, as the result in this affinity marriage fur
nishes proof, if proof were necessary.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03
WHERE METHODlSTS BLUNDER.

The Christian Guardian, Methodist newspaper
published in the east went out of its way last week
to assure its readers that "the Roman Catholic
church. not socialism. the enemy of Orothox
Protestantion in the United States"
The Methodists in the United States and Canada
are. numerically. very strong and influential re-
lgous body. In this country they have not had
to contend with social disapproval such as bears
hard on all "dissenters' in England They are not
in public estimation the shouting unreasoning ig-
norant, emotional people they were fifty years ago.
They have improved their opportunities. They have
gradually sloughed off some of the narrow minded
ness and ignorance which formerly we're considered
to be badges of Methodism. Their preachers are
not now shoemakers and stonemasons who leave
their lasts and hammers once a week. in order to
enlighten the world but men trained and cultivated
in colleges. They among the largest of religious
denominations. They are jealous they have imi
tated the ways of Catholic priests along certain
lines.
They their Sunday schools to ST. Charles
Borromeo and their ''Revivals" to the enthusiastic
missions at which John and Charles Wesley as
sisted in Italy
In early times it was proverbia that Catholic
priests and Methodist ministers preceded the sur
veyor in districts and had eagle-eyes for the
best church sites
From Catholic point of view Methodism shows
two tendencies which will drive it to its death One
tendency to intolerance which makes it see in the
Catholic church an enemy to Christianity, and an
other, tendency which leads it to assume prom
nence in politics and ride on hurricane of SABBATH
fanaticism and cyclones of prohibition.
Besides Methodsts are afflicted with fatal
blindness The best equipped Sunday schools in the
world and the largest Young Mems Christian AS
socations earth viii not counteract the atheistic
tendencies of "colorless" public schools. The most
potent element in the gradual disintigratidn of the
Protestant orothodox sects is our national school
system of education. The Methodists do not seon
to have found that out yet. The Methodists should
beware how they attack the Catholic church for in
so doing, they attack Christianity. They who nro
TESS to believe in the Incarnation of our Lord ought
not to sneer at those who believe in transubstantia
ton Infdels quick to perceive the illopic Of
accepting one miracle resting on scriptural foun-
dation. and of denying another also corroborated
BY the direct word of Scripture :
The Catholic church and the Methodists have
one point of sympathy. They both oppose the de-
NAL of Christianity. The Methodists weaken their
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03
CAPE TO CAIRO RAIL WAY.

When il was announced some ten or twelve years
ago that the longest railroad in the world would be
built from Capetown to Cairo respectively, at the
southern and northern end of the African CONT
nent, there were doubts expressed to the roads
ever being finished and the phrase Cape to Cairo"
was looked upon as a beautiful alteration an ira
descent dream. Work on the great route however,
has progressed steadily since then and F. Won
Gheel Gildemeester, chief engineer of the railroad,
on visit to the United States to inspect the great
transcontinental lines of this country, gave ii out
that the road would be finished within three years.
The road when completed Will be 6400 miles long,
of which 5000 miles have been completed, leaving
stretch of $500 miles yet to be built. The cost of
construction. it is estimated will exceed $1,000 000.-
0OO and the line will be the longest in the world.
The uncompleted portion of the road lies between
Khartoum in the British Egyptian Soudan, to Bro
ken Hill. point in Rhodesia.
In an interview printed in the New York Times
when he in the metropolis Mr.. Gildemeester
pointed out that when the railroad is completed a
traveller can journey from Berlin or Paris TO Cape
town. in ten eleven days. Further than this, the
railroad viii open up country full of natural
sources-tmber, gold, silver, copper and diamonds.
Africa is the one unsettled. unexplored, we might
almost say continent the earth and the build
ing of the Cape to Cairo railroad will bring that
wonderful continent closely to the attention
of the business men and home seekers who are will
ing to brave the terrors of entirely new country
No doubt the subugation of the interior of the dark
continent will be brought much nearer by the com
pletion of this railroad, and no doubt the coming
centuries viii find several nations established there
which will rival in natural wealth the older coun-
tries of the world Truly the Africa of today is not
the same country it was in the days when Stanley
and Livingston penetrated into the unknown in
terror. The genius of man seems able to surmount
difficulties which a few years ago seemed insuper-
able indeed
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03

of young man who wishes success, and then he
must add a lot of good common sense, and great
deal more work and intelligent application toward
the achievement of his goal No ever rose
above his fellows by dawdling over his work, and
no man ever became specialist by first trying one
thing and then another. The world needs special
lists. Specialists are invariably successful. 1t is
poor policy to attempt to be specialist unless you
have the mind to work up to that point Therefore.
if you want to win, deserve to win, and you surely
will meet with all the success you deserve. If you
don't deserve to win, get political pull, and hold
mediocre job the rest of your days. That's about
the last hope for medocrity, and it pays better
than most other Jobs which require only mediocre
ability