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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1909-10-29

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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1909-10-29
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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
IN THEIR ROOMS
WAKE ACTRESSES EARLY
Members of Girls" Company
Routed by Morning Fire

A majority of the girls of the Girls"
company, which showed at the Van
Ness theater last week, left their
apartments at the st. James hotel in
Van Ness avenue very hastily and un-
tremendously early yesterday morn
ing while the day was yet so young
that few We're abroad-said few not in
cluding F. P. Stanley, the hotels man
ager. No. the girls didn't even stop to
bid Mr.. Stanley goodby. With girlsh
shyness they evaded the formal cere-
monies of leave taking.
1t happened this way:
About o'clock yesterday morning
two electric light wires lolling on the
roof of the hotel, directly above the
rooms occupied by the actresses, took
a fancy to each other. snuggled up
close and got to sparkling. And some
flame poked its way through the three
respective ceilings of the three rooms
in which the girls were slumbering and
bade them. good morning. Whereupon
the girls arose and carried the stairway
by storm.
No alarm was turned in. putla chem
ical engine was summoned from the
nearby frehouse and the promising
blaze extinguished. And the girls
didn't care after all, because they had
to leave for the next stop the same
morning any way. and being thrown
out of their rooms that way forced
them to get packed up in plenty of
time to catch the train.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
|ANTI-OPIUM fDICT
|. FOUGHT BY BRITISH
English Colony in HOngkOng
Seeks to Continue Lucrative
Traffic in Drug
Officials DeplOre III Effects OF
Narcotic, but Declare They
Need the Money

The effort to wipe out the opium traf-
fic in China has met with unexpected
opposition and the British colony OF
Hongkong is making a strong nght
against the London governments de-
cree ordering the suppression OF the
traffic In the British colony. Accordins
to passengers who arrived yesterday Oh
the Siberia. Hongkong has the better
of the argument so far and the opium
dens there are still in full blast.
The privilege OF dealing in opium in
HOngkong is a monopoly. from which
the British colonial government gains
the most important part Of its revenue.
To lose this source OF income would
cripple the colony financially. and the
roar of protest that went back to Lon
don when the order OF suppression was
received was of such power that the
operation Of the decree has been sus-
pended pending further investigation
The revenue from the opium traffic is
regarded by the British officials In
Hongkong as being desirable not only
because 1t is large. but on account OF
the ease with which 1t is collected. The
privilege Of dealing in opium is farmed
out by the government TO one man,
through whose hands all opium coming
into Hongkong must pass. This man
attends to all the details of the busi-
ness and pays the colonial government
its share Immediately upon receipt OF
the drug The British officials admit
and deplore the i'll effects of the drug
and would like to join in the world
wide crusade against it's use. but they
need the money and win not sacrifice II
unless compelled by the home govern
ment.
BY way of compromise. perhaps. the
new governor of HonGkonE Is cleaning
up the cOlony's red light district and
has issued an order of banishment
against the women Of HOngkOng's half
world
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
CHINESE GIRL SAVED
FROM LIFE OF SLAVERY
Choy Leen Placed Under Guard
ianship of Miss Cameron

peculiar story was related In Judge
Graham's court by ChOy Leen. a Chi
nese girl of IA. over whom Miss DON
aldina Cameron was granted letters of
guardianship in order TO save the
child being sold into slavery and in
fanny. A man named Wong Gay. who
contested Miss CamerOn's petition and
who claimed to be the girls father. was
no relation. ChOy Leen testified
through an interpreter. She said that
she never saw Wong Gay until handed
over to him at HOngkOng by her god
mother. who brought her from an in
terror village In China. On the trip
across the Atlantic Wong Cav treated
her kindly, but enjOined on her to tell
every one he was her father.
The girl landed here last December
and was retained by the immi grafton
authorities. who afterWard gave her
into the care of Miss Cameron of the
Presbyterian Chinese girls mission
Miss Cameron testified that Choy
Leen's so called father came to the
mission to try and get the girl. accom-
panied by the agent of a Chinese tong
This agent she recognized as the man
to whom $3.50 was paid recently for
the ransom Of a girl named Ho ChOy
The ransom money was paid by the
girls lover, who married her after Sc
curing freedom for her,
Wong Gay took the witness stand
and swOre that he was the father Of
ChOy Leen. but Judge Graham said he
did not believe his story and appointed
Miss Cameron guardian.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16

NEW NATIVE SONS PARLoR-Grsnd Ca
retary Turner of the Native Sons of the Gol5en
vest mest mas been advised OF the institution bv
pran1 organizer Andrew Mocker OF new mar
LOT OF the order at Crows Landing, Stanisians
county II has been named orestimba No. "a
l. McAulay was elected president sndN n
Munson recording secretary. u =. Z.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
SITUATION SOLVES
HEALTH PROBLEM

On the canal zone we have an ex-
ample of the effects of sanitation in
the tropics. Though thes regime has
tasted only hve years, it is no longer
a hardship for most Of the emnloSIes
to live in what was originally ono 81 =
the, unhealthiest parts Of. Central
America. The canal commission has
mad TO issue an order that emploves
shall take their vacation away fron,
the isthmus; because some of them pre-
fer to remain there II we went hair
ciothed at home and lived gin the prim-
tive manner of the Iroquois we should
nave parallel to the way that the
Central American natives live tn
adaptation of the science OF moder.,,
living to warm climates is all that ~
necessary to make a paradise of the
central American highlands.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
RESOURCES OF
CENTRAL ZONE
ARE NJ ANY
Bankrupt Honduras Possesses
Wealth in Forest and
Mine
Unexpected Province Coveted
by Mexican and Amer
ican Capitalists
By Frederick Palmer

Copyright 1863, by Tribune company, Chicago.)
A complete economic world on the
North American continent, bounded on
the north by the great lakes, is not
bounded on the south by the Rio
Grande, but by the isthmus of Panama.
Within that territory, including the
Caribbean islands, practically every
product, tropical and temperate. which
man consumes may be produced. Cen
tral America is our hothouse and con-
servatory, with the door locked and the
gardeners using their pruning knives
on one another instead of on the plants.
This region ought to support pop
ulation of SoOOoOO and have trade
with the United States of at least $780,
100000 annually instead of the $56,-
100000 at present Its size, as well as
its extent, viii be a surprise to the
average man. The area of Central
America proper-of Guatemala, Saliva
dor, Honduras. Nicaragua. Costa Rica
and Panama-is 2O1 600 square miles;
three and a half times that of nI-
nois. twice that of Kansas with Ten
nessee included, equal TO that Of IlH-
nois. Pennsylvania and New York COM
bined, nearly twice that of Italy and
exceeding, that of Japan by 80 per
cent
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
MONROE DOCTRINE
UPHOLDS TYRANNY

All figures and facts tell the same
story. Central America is worse gov
er9ed than the Philippines or Cuba ever
We're in the days of the worst Span
ish captains general. thanks to the
blessed name of republic, which is the
cloak to the worst form of tyranny in
the world, which. however. could not
exist except for the Monroe doctrine
Only the bounty of nature and for
eign management produce such trade
as there is in the face Of .unscientific
taxation and every human handicap.
Through her two great staples of ba-
nanas and coffee. Central America man
ages to live. I have already written
at length of the banana business. and
how the prodigious development of the
American market has saved Central
America from even direr poverty than
she now suffers. While she now sends
25,00O,O00 bunches to the United States
annually, these five states are capable
Of producing 10 times that amount.
which eventually the United States and
Europe will consume.
Central America is shaped like a
hshs back, plus the loWlands on either
side, which form the hot, tropical
banana growing country. In many
places man could travel by an hours
train ride down to his banana planta-
ton and back every day to the cool
uplands, where he would sleep under
a blanket; and he might also have a
coffee plantation The best coffee on
the American continent is grown on
this Central American backbone II
thrives as low as 1000 feet above sea
level and as high as 5000 feet. but best
at from 1000 to 1000 feet. Nature Is
responsible for conditions of soil and
climate which even misgovernment can
not destroy. Heavy export taxes have
not been able to stay production. for
coffee is the main source of revenue to
the state
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
REGION sPARSEET
POPULATED

Central Americas total population is
little more than that of the island of
Luzon in the Philippines, which is only
a fifth the size. There are only II
people to the square mile, while in
the United states there are 25. Ex-
clude salvador, where the population
is dense, and the number falls under
lS TO the square mile. In Honduras
and Nicaragua it is barely TO-
Honduras, which is of the same area
as Luzon. has only 5000 souls. The
total area of the Philippines is $4,000
square miles, or about so per cent Of
that of Central America, while the pop
ulation is about double. Our share of
Central American imports is so per
cent, and of Philippine imports 80 per
cent, including the heavy consumption
of American goods by our garrisons.
The Philippines are % days distant
and Central America from two to five.
one is a geographical neighbor and the
other a geographical stranger. When
we need tropical products we should
naturally go next door for them instead
Of across the Pacific. Had the money
we spent in putting the Philippine
house in order been spent with the
same object in Central America, we
should already have the principal back,
with interest accumula ting on the in
vestment
The value of location and of stable
government for a piece Of tropical land
is illustrated by Cuba. with a popula-
tion of 1855. 900, which has a trade of
s21s, 900, ,00O-and $144. .00O,O00 OF this is
with the United States-or nearly twice
that of the Philippines and Central
America combined with their IL, 600 900
people. Everything which the Philip
pines produces except hemp could be
produced equally well in Central
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
KNIGHTS OF HONOR OF
GRAND LODGE MEET HERE
Biennial Convention of Order
Begins Today

The grand lodge of the knights of
Honor OF California will meet in sew
enth biennial session in Hamilton hall
this morning with the following grand
offleers at their respective stations:
William Grover. Los Angeles, past
grand dictator; Prescott l.. Archibald,
San Francisco, grand dictator; Charles
Lampe, San Francisco, grand vice die
tator; Lee Griggsby, Napa. grand as
sistant dictator; r. A. A. Summers, San
Francisco, grand treasurer; Mrs. A. b.
VauX, Santa Cruz, grand chaplain; F.
A. Jennings, San Francisco, grand
guide.
The grand body will be in session
two days to legislate for the next two
years. The election of officers will be
the principal matter to engage the at
.tentfon ofthe delegates. The only con-
tests expected will be for grand die
tator Sand for representatives to the
supreme lodge of the order.
This evening the delegates will be
the. guests of the Past Dictators' asso-
ciatiDB at banquet. There will be
present at that event w. A Mair and
wife of st. Louis. The first named is
superintendent of propagation of the
order.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
NABOBS ON
FIFTY ACRES

In Costa Rica, the only Central
American country where the Germans
are not pretty well in control of the
plantations, the old Spanish families
will sell their jewelry and every other
valuable before they will endanger the
loss OF their land. On 80 acres one can
be nabob. With scientific taxation
and good government Central America
would probably double her output of
conee IN five years. When the canal is
built the planters Of the west coast
viii not have to pay transcontinental
railroad charges in order to ship to
Europe.
The mineral wealth as well as the
pine forests of Honduras and the hard
wood forests of the great province of
Peten in Guatemala walt on railroad
development The mines which are
worked suffer from government exac-
ton and are handicapped by inferior
labor and high cost of Transportation.
Buy either mine or plantation
and you will find that the officials must
be satisfied with something more sub
stantial than red~tape They watch
every foreign enterprise and when
profits begin to come in they will either
nave their share or put every STUN
bling block in your way. Sugar. cacao
rubber-there is no limit to the nro5,
ucts which might be grown il the in
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16

vestor were certain of stable conditions
in finance and government.
LABOR A
GREAT DRAWBACK

The problem of labor is also great
drawback. Men who will work con-
tinuously are hard to procure for the
same economic reason that keeps down
the amount of consumption per capita.
Trade, which depends in cold country
on how much more a population cares
to earn besides the cost OF the sim
plest clothing, shelter and food, depends
in a tropical country on how much
more a population cares to earn after
picking their food out of the window
and buying rough cotton cloth to cover
their nakedness. When they become
ambitious for a tile roof and imported
food business improves.
Instead of wondering why the Cen
trail American will not work you
ask yourself why he should. His cloth
ing bill is only $3.50 a year. There is
little incentive to have an extra suit
at home when it may be taken by the
campaign fund The attitude of
mind toward life of the Central Ameri-
can population as a whole is that of
the Indifference and listless incompe-
tency of the hobo. They have no
reason for anything else. Their whole
existence is one on which there is a
penalty on progress.
The assumption that people who live
in a tropical country can never be
large consumers is proved false by the
example of Cuba and of Costa Rica. A
Costa Rican consumes five times as
much as a Nicaraguan for the reason
that the luxuries which he earns will
not be taken away from him. If he
likes good houses and good clothes, he
has them.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16

HAMS TRIAL DATE sET-Flushing. n. Y.
March 15.-Captain Peter G. Hams Jr. will be
lput trial April 10 at the courthouse here on
the charge of numbering William f. Annis JUS
tice Garretson OF the supreme court. will pre-
side.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16

Try Murine Eye Remedy
For Red. Weak. Weary, Watery Eyes .
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16

Swell clothes. cash or time: paw down
what you can; press them free 731
Market ST., room 201. NJ. Sternberger. .
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
JUDGE pALLs

JUDGE DALLS RESIGNS - Philadelphia.
March 15.-Judge Dalls OF the United States
court Of the third judicial district has sent his
resignation to President Taft. He was eligible
TO retire, but the announcement was unex-
pected-
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
HARD WORK
NOT IMPOSSIBLE

Equally false is the contention that
hard labor is impossible in hot coun-
tries The people of southern China
work like bees. The climate of the
Central American highlands is better
for producing strong men and women
than that of many parts of the United
States.
Because we see miserable, scrofulous
looking people on our travels, it does
not follow that the climate produces
them. Quite the contrary is true. A
German trained Chilean colonel, by
putting a company of cadets under a
German regime of regular hours,
proper exercise and sufficient food,
developed a body of strong, athletic
men within a year in Honduras. The
average native is undernourished. He
exists by a process of Information, as
it were, the year round, in the midst
of fine corn and cattle growing
country.
The same soil that grows the
jungle with its miasna will, with equal
luxuriance, under tillage, grow food
and fiber. Java, which supports a
population of 3O,O00,00O people, and is
no larger than Honduras, has demon
strated what intensive farming means
when applied to tropical soil. The un-
healthfulness of the tropics can be over
come in the same way that the un-
healthfulness of the temperate zone is
overcome. Under the same insani-
tary conditions that exist in Central
American cities typhoid would rage in
any city of the United States. The
mortality would be enormous; the pop-
ulation would decrease rather. than in
crease. Cultivation made the Cam
pagna in the time of ancient Rome
free from fever. When you consider
that England had a population OF
100000 in the time of Elizabeth. the
part that sanitation has played in the
increase of population is evident.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-16
ConIey to Try Newburgh

Judge Conley OF MADEIRA was named
by Presiding Judge Cabaniss yesterday
10 come to San Francisco and oficiate
AT the retrial OF Adolph s. Newburgh.
the lawyer indicted for attempting to
TX a juror in Abe Ruef's behalf. The
case went over till today.
Judge Cabaniss explained that the
reason ne would not himself try the
case was that he was a witness in
the trial Of Frank J. Murphy. who
was Jointly indicted With Newburgh.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-06
WRIGHT LORtMER IN 1.-THE
SHEPHERD KING" TONIGHT

Tonight at the Auditorium
Wright Lorimer and a large com.
pany will be seen in Mr.. Lorimer's
production of the four act romantic
drama, "The Shepherd King" the
plot of which is based on the bib.
lical narrative of David, the sweet
singer of Israel, as related in the
first book of Kings and the second
book Of Samuel in the Old Tesla.
ment. Mr.. Lorimer is under the
management of William A. Brady.
During the six seasons in which
"The Shepherd King has been pre-
scented Mr.. Lorimer has met with a
very large measure of success In
the large cities of the east. The
various scenes represent the home
of Jesse, the father of David, on
the hills of Judea. near Bethlehem; ;
the camp of Saul and his army in
the vale of Elah; the palace of
Saul at Gibea; the cave of the
witch of Eudor and courtyard adj
joining Saul's palace and overlook
ing the city. Mr.. Lorimer's COM
pany includes Brigham Royce, Irv-
ing White, Daniel Gilfether, Frank
Campbello> Harold La Coste, Ear
nest Roseman, Daniel Lawler. Wal
ter Brown, Helen Singer, Freder-
lea Going, Alison Skipworth, Ruth
Copley and Ioah Terrier. A special
matinee will be given tomorrow at
3 D. m.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-06
CANAOA'S GRAIN
HARVEST BIG
THIS YEAR
Farmers and Grain Growers
to Pocket Surplus of
About 100000, 900.
BIG YIELDS REPORTED

OTTAWA, Oct. 6.--An official
statement of the grain harvest of
Canada has just been issued by the
statistics department of the do
minion government here. 1t gives
the estimates of production, COM
puted from the reports Of large
staff OF correspondents, and al
though the Notals are somewhat
less than those of a month ago for
wheat and barley, they still show
that Canada has reaped an i'm
n1ense harvest. The wheat crop is
put down at 16S,3S6,000 bushels,
giving an average Of % bushels per
acre, and barley at 100000 bush
.els, or 81 bushels per acre. The
yield of oats is given at $4,000
bushels, or 3S bushels per acre.
The grain movement is begin
ming and If present prices hold the
crop will not only be the largest,
but the most profitable in the his
tory of the country. Harvesting OPP
erations were practically concluded
at the end OF August, except in
Quebec and the maritime provinces
and although there was scarcity
of labor in the northwest the fine
weather there made the cutting of
grain practicable in good weather.
The wheat yield for Manitoba
Saskatchewan and Alberta is over
149,00O,00O bushels and oats 1877
100000 bushels.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-06
STEEL CARS FOR COAST
+ EXTENSION OF C.,
b. M. & ST. P.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6.-The Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road has ordered $50 all-steel pas
senger cars, of which 100 are for
the western coast extension and 80
cars to be used on the old lines
in Wisconsin, Illinois and other
states.
The ST. Paul road is the first
western line to place a big order for
the expensive steel passenger cars
Of the non-telescoping type. The
Hartman lines have recently or.
dered 600 such cars and the Penn
sylvania road In the east was a
pioneer in buying 500 cars of the
improved kind.
The assignment of so many of
the cars to the western extension
Is attributed to the necessity for
getting new passenger equipment
for 1000 miles of new road and to
meet the strong competition and
better passenger service to the Pa.
cific coast which Is being inaugur-
ated by the Hill lines from the
Twin Cities westward.
The purchase of the new steel
cars indicates that the st. Paul
road is going to pay more attention
In the future to developing it's pas.
Senger traffic
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-06
WASP WAIST MUST
GO, IS THE DECREE
London Modistes Agree Upon the
Correct Measure.

LONDON, Oct. Ga 26 inch
waist is the decree for the autumn
Most modistes and corsetieres are
combining with eahc other to give
the fashionable figure additional
girth, startling change from the
extreme attenuations of the recent
directoire vogue.
Mrs. Elinor Temple, one Of the
many upper class women who have
taken to trade, is impressing upon
the society women who consult her
in hercapacity as corset scientist
that they must develop a rs inch
waist in readiness for the new au-
tumn fashions.
This is a reasonable and salts
factory waist measurement for a
woman Of average size" explains
Mrs. Temple.
/, To cultivate waist and waist only
Is, she says, as aesthetic as we'll as
a physical mistake. Mrs. Temple 8
strongest lever with her feminine
patrons Is, however, her assurance
that the English man has ceased to
. admire the wasplike waist.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-06
FULL HOUSES ARE
GREETING 1.-THE SPOILERS"

A full house greeted the second
performance of The Spoilers at the
Spokane theater last evening of
Rex Beach's stirring play. The
scenes are laid in the Alaskan gold
fields, where there's. never a law
of God or man north of &c." Allan
]. Holuber as Roy Glenister and w.
Farwin as Joe Dextry, owners of
the Midas mine, ably handle their
difficult parts in their fight with
the eastern swindlers who created
gigantic plot to rob the miners of
their hard earned diggings. Strive,
as the swindlers' lawyers, and an
inveterate drinker is very popular
with the gallery. Herbert Ashton
in the role of Mcnamara plays his
part well, and in the third act en-.
cages in a fierce battle with the
hero, in which every piece of brio
a-brac is broken into pieces. The
Spoilers will runs the rest of the
week, including the regular Satur-
day matinee.