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Washington telegraph., 1909-03-12
1H[ NEWS
IN Brief
A GENERAL SUMMARY OF iMPoR'
TANT NEWS OF THE WEEK
GATHERED FROM ALL OVER.

The Colima Volcano, in Mexico,
Is in violent eruption.
The Guatemalan Government has
ordered the teaching of English ID
the schools of that country.
Two men were killed and twelve
injured in gas explosion in a col
liery at Port Blanchard, Pa.
President Roosevelt issued an or
der closing the Naval Stations at
New Orleans and Pensacola, Fla.
The steamer Mauretania estab-
lished a new record for the east
bound passage across the Atlantic
Ocean.
Myron 7. Herrick, of Ohio, for
business reasons, declined an ambas-
sadorship at the hands of President
elect Taft.
The Venezuelan government has
served notice that ex-President Cas-
tro will not be permitted to return
to that country
Thomas E. Stone, new Chief
Usher at the White House, will sue
ceed Major Charles D. A. Loeffler
as Doorkeeper to the president.
Miss Helen Gould is preparing to
extend a personal welcome to the
1900 jackies who have returned on
board the four battle ships assigned
to the Brooklyn navy yard.
The village Of Masran, Asiatic
Turkey, has been destroyed by an
earthquake. One hundred and fifty
people we're buried in the ruins.
Five suspects at Little Rock,
Ark, In connection with fake con-
tests were indicted for larceny and
obtaining money on false pre-
lenses.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has appointed j. M. Logan, one
of the national bank examiners in
Texas, as a bank examiner at large.
The comptroller has decided to ap-
point four such examiners.
The Louisiana and Florida dele
cation in Congress visited Presi-
dent Taft and asked MIN to rescind
the order closing the New Orleans
and Pensacola naval stations. The
president promised to give the sub
ject consideration.
Secretary of State Knox, Secre-
tary of the Navy Meyer, Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson, Secretary of
the Interior BalIinger, Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Nagel and
Postmaster General Hitchcock have
taken the oath of Office.
Forty-seven sail and steam vessels
of 6,334 gross tons were built in
the United States and officially
numbered during the month Of Feb
ruary according to report by the
bureau Of navigation of the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
The National Waterways Com,
mission held its last meeting Sat-
urday. Senator Burton of Ohio
was elected chairman and Senator
Gallinger of New Hampshire vice
chairman. A committee was ap-
pointed to secure the necessary cler-
ical assistance for the commission.
Permanent headquarters for the
National League of Republican
Clubs, of which John Hays Ham
mond is president, will be estab-
lished in the near future in order
TO keep the $500 clubs asd 1,200,-
600 members throughout the year.
President Taft issued a call for
3 special session of te Sixty-first
Congress to convene March Is. The
call does not mention the object for
which the special session is to be
held.
Lloyd C. Griscom, American Am
bassador at Rome, has sent in his
ycsigpotion to the State Department.
lie intends to devote himself to
business after reaching the United
Siatcs.
Washington telegraph., 1909-03-12
ARTFUL BEGGAR.

Miss Charity-If were to give you
quarter, what would you say?
Wandering JIM should tell every
gent that you were the prettiest lady
In all this town.
Washington telegraph., 1909-03-12


the oath of office in the chamber OF
the Senate in 76 years, William
Howard Taft Thursday became
President of the United States.
The peonage cases involving Off
GERS and employees of the Jackson
Lumber Company, Lockhart, Ala,
will be appealed to the United
States Supreme Court, providing
rehearing is not granted by the Uni
ted States Court of Appeal.
With the Jury complete the case
Of the United States Government
against the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana, on the charge Of accept
ing rebates from the Chicago and
Alton Railroad, got under way in
the Federal Court at Chicago We'd
nesday.
Secretary Wright approved the
findings of the Retiring Board in
the case of Colonel William f.
Tucker, of the Pay Department of
the Army, and son-in-law of Mrs.
John A. Logan This places Colon
el Tucker on the retired list for
life on three-quarters pay.
O. P. Bennett, well-to-do farmer
Of Freestone county, said to be the
only living cousin of Robert 3. Lee.
has just died from effects Of fall
from a buggy. He was 70 years old
and came to Texas nearly sixty years
ago. He served four years in the
Confederate service in Hoods bri-
gade
Charles Nagel of st. Louis, the
new secretary of commerce and Ia
Dor, is better known among lawyers
and educators tnan to the public at
large, although he served as a men,
Der of the Missouri House of Rep
resentatives and is a member of the
Republican National Committee.
He is a native Westerner, having
been born in Colorado county, Tex
as, in 1S49.
Ii Secretary Wilson continues to
hold the agricultural portfolio I'M
til next November, he will have
broken the record for continuous
cabinet service, which is now held
by Albert Gallatin, once secretary
of the treasury, who served twelve
years, eight months and twenty-five
days. Secretary Wilson was ap-
pointed at the outset of the McKin-
ley administration.
The Government of Nicaragua,
according to information received in
Washington, is negotiating, through
agents at London, for at interna-
tional loan, approximating $6,5oo.-
600, which is to be expended on the
construction of a railroad from San
Miguelito On the southeast coast of
Lake Nicaragua, to Monkey Point
on the Caribbean Sea.
Behind closed doors the Senate
Thursday paid to Vice President
Fairbanks one of the most re-
markable tributes ever given to
presiding officer. He was presented
with a magnificent silver service
costing $1,1S5, as the gift of the
entire body of senators and with a
loving cup as the present of the
Democratic members.
One of the highest figures of 81
fciency ever made in target prac-
tice has been reached by the Eight
ieth-fifth Company, coast artillery
corps, at Fort Casey, Wash, accord
ing to a statement given out by the
war department The company
made 100 per cent of hits at a 30
by go foot target moving at the
rate Of 6.8 miles an hour at mean
range of 6,42O yards. The prac-
tice was held at a battery of 10
inch rifles, mounted on disappear
ing carriages. The series of four
record shots was fired from two
guns in the total elapsed time of
Washington telegraph., 1909-03-12
A NURSES EXPERIENCE.
Backache, Pains in the Kidneys, BIoat.
ing, ETC., Overcome.

A nurse is expected to know what
to do for common ailments, and wom-
Washington telegraph., 1909-03-12

The first chief executive to take
the oath of office in the chamber Of
the Senate in 76 years, William
Howard Taft Thursday became
President of the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
TORN FROM BERTH
BY MONSTER WAVE
Woman Passenger on Transport
Logan Has Thrilling ExpeA
rience During Storm

Thrown from her berth by tre-
mendous sea and carried by the rush
of water through her stateroom door
and so feet over the deck of the pitch
ing vessel. Mrs. t. Pratt, passenger
on the transport Logan, which arrived
yesterday from Manila, had a hair
breadth escape from being swept over
board and drowned at midnight
Thursday.
Nfrs. Pratt occupied a stateroom on
tho upper deck of the Logan with her
two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Doris
Symington, daughters of Lieutenant
John Symington of the First cavalry.
She is about 55 years old. and was
occupying the lower berth in the state
room while her two granddaughters.
Hged 6 and 4. were in the upper berth.
The sea was shipped at midnight.
and giant wave broke down the inner
door of Mrs. Pratt's stateroom, rolling
struggled, half drowned, from the
swirling water in the room and rushed
to the heavy outer door of the stateroom
with the intention of closing it. As
she reached for it, however, the ship
righted with lurch. the receding g
water drew her feet from under her
and she was carried in the swift flood
to the very scuppers.
Mrs Pratts screams brought Cap
tain Campbell E. Babcock, quarter
master of the Logan, and several other
officers to her. aid. They rescued her
from the perilous position and carried
her, half fainting. back to her room.
Mrs. Pratt was scarcely able yesterday
to walk or stand. Her left knee and
her right hip were slightly sprained
and she was bruised and cut from
head to feet.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
MYSTERY Wells
DUAL TRAGEDY
OF ARMY POST
Soldier Dashed to Death on Al,
catraz Rocks, and Sergeant
Kills Himself q,
Thomas MuIlaIy May Have Been
Hurled From Window by
Bunkie, Now Suicide

Dead lips lock in mystery a dual
tragedy at Alcatraz island at 1890
o'clock Thursday pight when Thomas
Mullaly, clerk of the Third company,
dropped 81 feet to his death against
the Jagged rocks of the island, and
Quartermaster Sergeant Roy Ford blew
out his brains in storeroom of the
barracks. The story and reason of the
sensational end of the two soldier
"bunkies' is founded on surmise and
guesses. Nothing is known of the af-
fair except that Ford was heard cry
ing that MullaIy had dropped from a
window and, few minutes later, the
sound of the shot within the storeroom
reunited Ford with his dead bunkie
Whether Mulla1y fell out accidentally,
committed suicide, or was thrown out
of window to the rocks is not known
The military records of both We're
good. Their commanding officers de-
clared that neither was under an in
vestigation, and that officially they had
done nothing for which to answer
Some lay the tragedy to a woman and
others to liquor; but nothing definite
iS lxuoWp
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13

"HE deadlock between the city
and the Spring Valley water
= company was broken yesterday
when the corporation submitted an
offer to sell to the municipality. After
negotiations extending over 80 years
the two parties are nearer agreement
today than they have been at any pre-
vious time. At a special meeting to
be held this afternoon the board of
supervisors will consider the pro-
posals of the company.
The offer came unexpectedly IL
was heralded by exciting scenes in
the stock market. when brokers
fought for the lots that were offered.
From out of the grist of the market
came the rumor, The city and Spring
Valley have come TO an agreement"
Repeated and reaffirmed, the rumor
spread over California street During
the early hours of the afternoon the
stock SCARED. The rumor persisted.
1t came from some intangible source
and would not down
Company's Stock Scars
Then at $50 O'Clock, after the mar
ket had closed for the day. Samuel
P. Eastman, assistant to President
Bourn of the Spring Valley, walked
quietly into the offices Of the board Of
supervisors and delivered the com
pany's memorandum. Meanwhile the
company's stock had jumped violent
ly from S36.75 to S40.25. During the
day 955 shares were sold.
There was every evidence OF an
ugly piece of stock jobbery All
minor considerations were swept
away. however, by the desire of the
supervisors to learn the exact terms
of the company's proposals.
The company's letter contained two
definite tenders. The first was to
sell the distributing system and a
portion of the Lake Merced ranch for
s19.42o.750- Under this arrangements
the company proposes to sell the water
at wholesale TO the city. The second
tender from the company embraces an
offer to sell the entire plant at a price
to be fixed by board of arbitration.
Want Entire Plant
1t is unlikely, as far as can be de-
termined by offhand expressions. that
the first proposal will find sympathy
among the members OF the board.
There is a well defined sentiment that
the municipality should acquire the
complete system of the company. II
is, this feature that will. in the inai
analysts. command the attention of
the city authorities
There issons doubt as to ths ahihts4
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
AIMS AT CAT BUT
KILLS HIS HORSE
Delivery Boy Attempts to Exc
cute Masters Feline With
Disastrous Results
Especial Dispatch TO The Call


VALLEJO. Nov 12.-The cat pro-
verbally comes back. and Tom. the
family pet of c. L. wfnchen, hard
ware merchant Of Vallejo. proved no
exception. Toms years are nine and
his value, from a practical standpoint,
has long since ceased, so Instructions
were given yesterday to Milton Donna
dieu. delivery boy employed by Win
chell at his store, to take the decrepit
feline forth to some secluded spot and
there deprive him OF his nine lives
The active principle of destruction Sc
gauge shotgun.
Hitching his horse up Milton drove
far out into the suburbs, where all
was quiet, and in order that his aim
might be as deadly as that of Dead
Eye Dick, presented by contemporaries
Gus literature. he first prepared to tie
his restless steed. While so engag aged
the cat, intuitively feeling that all was
not as it should be, broke from his
bonds and set off down the road with
speed highly credita5le in one so aged.
Not willing. to be thwarted Donnadieu
grasped his gun, drew hasty bead
and fired, but as he did so, the faithful
horse. annoyed by flies. threw up his
head, receiving the entire charge OF
shot between his ears, and dropping
in his tracks.
Tom, somewhat decrepit. is still on
earth, but Wincheil lacks a $3.50 horse
and Donnadieu is hunting for another
job
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
Alma Bell Weeps for First Time
Since Her Trial for MUIR
der Began
Special Prosecutor Hamilton, in
MerciIess Fire of Questions,
Brings About Climax
Aged Mother of Prisoner Greets
Daughter in Court and
Presents PitiabIe Figure
BY ARTHUR L. PRICE
lSpeoiol Dispatch 10 The Call

A UBURS, Nov. 12.-For the first
"A time since the trial OF Alma Bell
for the murder OF her recreant
lover Joe Armes. began the girl de-
PENDANT this morning wept in court
So. after all. this murder trial is to be
like the majority Of other cases in
which a woman is involved. The In
exorable logic of the prosecution will
be met with tears. and since tears can
sometimes overruIe the sternest stat
utes the outcome OF the case is more
problematical now than it has been
heretofore
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
Tears an Aid to Defense

With the defendant sitting in court
stolid. pale, listless. without any
charm OF face or insinustion of man
rer 10 appeal TO the 5ury box. her situa-
tIou seemed desperate. With a tear or
TWO 10 come from her cold eyes to
dampen the proseo oEtion's Obdurate
fsee there can not help but he a de-
terioratien of the peoples strength. No
lawyer has yet quite perfected q
waterproof case against woman held
.n capital charge.
TIE tears came. probably, because
IS mas mother was in court with her.
Whatever the Bell family of the sec
and generation may be there is a poise
shout the aged mother OF the girl that
appealing.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
SAN FRANCISCO IS
MOST SANITARY CITY
Surgeon General Wyman Gives
Clean Bill of .IeaIth

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Nov .12.-sur-
geon General Walter A. wyman. in an
address before the sanitary officers of
New York state-today said that the
United States is still. threatened with
invasion of the plague from India and
other points. He said that San Fran
cisco is now the most sanitary city in
the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
NEW YORK'S MAYOR ELECT
SPENT NOT A CENT
Gaynor Swears He Expended
No Money in Campaign

ALBANY. N. Y, Nov. 12.-William j.
Gaynor. mayor elect of New York
today filed statement with the secre-
tary of state in which he swears that
he did not expend any money to
further his election.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TO-DAY
TELEPHONE KEARNY So
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1909
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

. 9EsTERDAY-Clsar: west wind: maximum
Temperature "a. minimum 81
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Fsir: light north
wind. Page %
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
Spring Valley Water Company
Would Sell Distributing
System for Sl9,4z0,750
Submits Alternate Proposition
of Sale of Whole Property
at Arbitrated Price
Exciting Scenes Occur in Stock
Market Over Rumors of
Tacit Agreement
Voluntary Proposal Puts Whole
Question of Municipal Wa
ter in New Light
What Spring Valley Offers:

What Spring Valley Offers:
L. To sell the city Its Distributing
system within the limits of the
municipality, including reser-
voirs, pumping stations, pipes
and 500 acres of tn Lake Merced
ranch for the sum of s19.42O.-
$50; the company to supply the
city with water. delivering I'm
medIateIy 40,0OO,OOO gallons
day at Is cents n thousand gal
Ions and increasing the supply
to 1OO,OOO,GO gallons daily I'm
1917 at I2 cents per 1.OO0 gal
Ions.
2 To sell Its whole plant to the
city at n price to he fixed by a
board of arbitration consisting
of II members. fOIfOwss The
chief Justice of the state, two TO
be appointed by the president of
the United states, two 20 be ap-
pointed by the governor of the
state of California Tor one each
by Judge Morrow and Judge
peryisOrs end three by the spring
valley company. If this method
of arbitration Is not satisfactory
the Spraing Valley will consider
some other method that the su-
pervisOrs may propose
What City Officials Think:
Mayor Taylor and the members of
the board of supervisors well
come the Oyertures as laying the
foundation fur successful negO-
tiations. They are In doubt as
TO the right of the board to bind
itself to an arbitrated ~rice.
City Engineer Marsden Manson
believes that the move of spring
Valley may be n menace to the
Hetch Hetchy project.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13

Out of the tomb crept vice, with hide
leer:
81 am heredity, whom all men fear;
1 sleep but die not, when fate calls 1
And generations mt my touch sue
cumb."
vERGILIA BoGUE, in The Strength to Yield. "
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
Mother a Pathetic Figure

Cd the, daughter. girl OF a
.aA srcnt zone from the old woman of
ta Aills, could not but be affected By
rte simple dignity of the mother.
v-nose lips are set in austere, stoical
lines. whose eyes are unshifting and
whose hair is white with age and
trouble, where it has not been burned
Yellow gain by the sun that would beat
down on her crown through the tattered
p OF a sun bonnet as she would work
,mong her turkeys at the Rock creek
ranch.
And the mother fears that Alma will
be- convicted Of murder.
! have no plans for Alma after the
trial. she said Il fear that she viii
I,t convicted" This the woman de-
c,ared with the austere pessimism of
age
1T was an Interrogation put to q
venireman by Special Prosecutor
George " Hamilton which started the
tears from the girls eyes. The sin
ceTity Of the weeping can not be ques-
toned. 1t was cynical question.
voiced in a sarcastic tone. and the girl.
sitting by the side Of her mother, who
heard the cutting words as plainly as
did the accused daughter, could not
control her emotions, or probably she
developed emotions which previously
had not existed or had been dormant.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
OuaiIs Before Ouestioning


c. Brainerd Of Loomis was the We
nireman He had read Of the Bell case
in an evening newspaper and said that
he had sympathy for the girl. Ham
nton arose in his place
Did you not read in that paper
he said. that this unsophistieated
" lntry maiden in her simplicity and
t-ustfnness and innocence submitted
herself, in her maidenhood. to the i'm
portunities OF her lover upon his prom
ise To marry her."
The girl was reddening slightly un-
der her paIlor. Her finger made a
deep imprint in her cheek. The stern,
zustere line Of the mothers mouth
tightened, the thin brown fingers of
The elder woman tapped restlessly on
Ihe arm OF the chair. Hamilton ad-
vsnced slightly and stood nonchalant-
" as he continued with his sarcasm.
And when" he continued this in
nocent country girl learned that her
maidenhood was to be succeeded by
motherhood"-the was a clatter from
the side Of the room where Alma Bell
sat with her mother. The girl moved
convulsively. Her glasses fell from
her nose. and clicked against the arm
Of the chair. Her face was pink and
she turned from the courtroom and
bowed her head in her hands.
Hamilton was implacable. He con-
ssnued in his same tone.
And when she learned that she was
about 10 become a mother. I suppose
YOU read, Mr. Brainerd, she went TO
her lover and on her knees begged of
him TO keep his promise TO her. and
when he refused TO do that she shot
him? And subsequently, ] presume
you read. Mr. Brainerd, child was
born 10 her in jail-was born dead?"
Al Statue of Sorrow
There was sob from Alma, the first
sdnd she has uttered in court since
hei. trial began. The wrinkle faced
frontier mother OF the girl sat silent
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13

oostIsued On Pare I2. coIumn ;
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
MARINE

ManchurIa encounters heavy DortheF and comes
into port with decks and smokestacks crlsted
with salt Page ~
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
All Statue of Sorrow

lrbere was sob from Alma, the first
sdnd she has uttered in court since
hef trial began. The wrinkle faced
frontier mother OF the girl sat silent
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
SCBURBAf,

Oakland real estate
bond elections result
improvements.
Baptist conference a'
operation in fight for 5
Survivor Of the PER-
at the Yountville hons
Court disnisses the
tion TO prevent o;
ton.
Oakland council anti
ordering several ne
opened.
Buffers will contest
media county court.
Henry V. Herbert. !
cleims adjuster, dies i
State president OF
!
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-13
EDITORIAL

Reclamation Of the Sacramento valley. PA
Stevenson and Henley Page Ia
What did the soldiers wear Page Ia
How white must he ber Page Ii
REAL ESTATE
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
HIS CHANCE.
PAINT FAULTS.

1t is common occurrence nova.
days to hear a man remark with dis
gust: ut is impossible to have good
painting done these days; either the
paint is not good or there are no good
painters" This, however, is not true.
There is good paint, and there are
good painters. But the question is,
bringing them together.
One cannot expect satisfactory
painting job without pure white lead.
There is way to make sure you are
getting pure white lead without test
ing it. See that the keg bears Ma
tional Lead Company's famous Dutch
Boy Painter trademark, which is a
positive guarantee of purity. However,
anyone can test white lead. National
Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Bldg,
New York City, will send you a lead
tester and painters outfit, consisting
of book of color schemes, specifica-
tons, etc., upon request.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Thew Didn't Have to Chance

During the years in which our pure
food laws have been put into effect
there has been a great hurrying and
scurrying on the part of the food man
ufacturers to change their methods tC
make them conform to the law.
The Quaker Oats Company is a con
spicuous exception. 1t was admitted
that Quaker Oats was as pure and
clean as possible and that it was an
ideal food.
1t is so cheap that any one can af
ford it and so nourishing that every.
one needs it. The result of last years
experiments at Yale and other points
where food values were tested is that
Quaker Oats has been adopted by
many persons as their food on which
they rely for adding vigor and endur-
ance of muscle and brain.
The Quaker Oats Company meets
all demands in the way it packs
Quaker Oats; regular size packages
and the large size family package;
the latter, both with and without
china