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CARMICHAEL WAS INSANE

DETROIT. Mich. Jan 1.-THE brain
of Rev. J. II. Carmichael. who killed
.fsideon Browning in the Methodist
church at Rattle Run, Mich. and COM
rnitted suicide at Carthage. Ill, was
examined by physicians tonight They
stated that they had found unmistaka-
ne evidence Of acute mania
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EXPLOSION IN COLLIERY
ENTOMBS z4O WORKERS
Forty-five Bodies Recovered
From Mine in Austria

VEssEPERIM, Austria, Jan. 1.-two
hundred and forty men were entombed
in an explosion of firedamp in the
Aucka coal mine here today, which was
followed later by dust explosion and
fire.
Sixteen living miners and the bodies
Of As dead persons thus far have been
brought from the pit
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RaiIroad Traffc Stopped

The heaviest damage Is to railroads.
10 steam trains are leaving Sacra-
mento for the east or for the north.
The break IN the bridge at Elvas stops
traffic over the mountains and also
prevents sending trains north by way
OF RoseviIle. The track between Lin
coin and Wheatland is under water
from the Bear river. The approach to
the Yuba river bridge at Marysvilie is
impossible. water covering it nearly
two feet
Two breaks are reported in the
Costumes river district IS miles east
from here. and q vast tract of land is
under water.
word has just been received that
the north end OF the new Western Pa
cihc bridge north OF this city has gone
out
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FRIDAY, JANUARY Is, 1909
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY-ClOudy; southwest wind; 27 Of
inch OF rain; maximum temperature, 60; min
imum. 90
FORECAST. FOR ToDAY-Unsettled weather;
occasional showers: fresh south wind. Page IL
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SPORTS

Fight fans eagerly await the arrival Of JEFF
fries who is due this evening Page 8
Atten knocked Weeks out in tenth round at
Goldheld Page g
Battling Nelson visited president, but refuses
to tell what Roosevelt wrote autograph photo
graph. Page IL
Baseball fans eagerly await the return Of
President Cal Ewing of Coast league Page II
Crescent City jockey club to reorganze and
hold on to fair grounds track lease, hoping that
racing win be revived. Page 8
Five first choices win at EmeryviIIe Sewell
being the only fsvorite defeated. PAGE g
Frank Chance, captain Of Chicago Cubs, buys
orange grove near Los Angeles and may remain
IN south. Page II
Steps taken TO enforce the anti-tip ordinance
in Los Angeles Page III
Jockey Walter Miller stands by determination
to retire from saddle in preference to paying big
fine. Page 8
SOCIAL
Miss Linda Priber announces engagement to
Charles A. Houston Of New York. Page 4
LABOR
Statesmen of bakery goods union instaIls Off
GERS. Page 4
MARINE
Attempt to sink schooner Watson A. West by
boring auger holes IN side below water line is
discovered when vessel is drydOcked. Page Ii
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FOREIGN

Vice Admiral Rojestvensky dies. Page
Italys King tells Admiral Sperry that
appreciates aid Of Americans for earthquaI
sufferers. Page
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Loss of Span Over the American
River at EIyas Stops Traf-
f1c Over MOuntains
Rivers Tributary to Sacramento
Are on Rampage and Cause
Much Damage
Break in Levee Near Wheat.
land mandates Vast Area
of LOwlands
Approach TO Northern Electric
Bridge at 0rOvilIe and Track
at MarysyiIIe Destroyed
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

lSpeciol DEpoioh 10 The Gall
CACRAMENTO, Jan. IA
y 100 fOOf span of the South.
ern Pacific railroad bridge
over the American river at EIvaS
station, three miles northeast of
this city, was washed out late
. tonight. Traffic over the n1Oun-
rains will be tied up for an in
definite period.
=. The bridge was used for all northern
:travel by way Of Roseville and without
: Its use the service between this city
and northern points viii be cut of. The
2 bridge is not a total loss. but the rail-
:-foad officials have adjudged it too un-
safe for service al the present time.
:. Two OF the six spans Of the North
western Pacific railway company's
bridge at Nineteenth street were
washed away late tonight and one man
was drowned.
As a result OF heavy rains today
throughout the entire Sacramento val
ley and the foothills. accompanied by
warm weather. which is melting the
snow IN the mountains. rivers tributary
10 the Sacramento are tonight on the
rampage and much damage is being
done AZ points above this city.
Warned to Watch Levees
. AS yet the Sacramento river has not
reached the flood stage Of two years
ago. but warning notices have been
sent out by the local weather bureau to
All points below here to keep a close
watch on the levees.
The American river. which empties
into the Sacramento just above sacra-
rnento. is tonight causing most worry.
At Folsom the river has gone up II
feet In "a hours and low lands on both
sides Of the river above this city are
. flooded.
Al Brighton several houses are un-
der water and at Perkins some damage
has been done.
J. At Orangeville Bluffs gold dredger
worth sl5oOOO. the property of the Ar
rnour-Gerber interests, was wrecked by
high water and viii be an almost total
loss.
Near Stage of Floods
The Feather and Yuba rivers far
ther up the valley are dangerously
near the flood stage. In many places
lowiands are already covered.
A break in the levee along the Bear
river near wheatland has flooded a
vast area. Men left wheatland in
small boats this afternoon in an at
tempt to rescue a family that was
n1arooned on raft in the middle Of
the overflow.
The approach to the Northern cleo
trio bridge over the Feather river at
Oroville went out this afternoon. An
other section Of the Northern cleo
tric track has been washed out south
OF Msrysville and traffic is blocked.
Sacramento is safe and it appears
that there is no immediate danger of
levees giving away either above or
below the city.
Railroad Traffic Stopped
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SUBURBAN

San Mateo grand jury to hirl
cutor for Investigations OF
cials.
Signor tried to secure funds
I Ia Seattle.
Value OF eucalyptus trees prov
faculty and more experiments
state aid.
Students of Stanford and state
pare for Carnot medal debate.
John G. Howell. veteran nev
pioneer, declared insane.
Attorney asked to decide dlspU
material of tuxedo suit.
Berkeley's new charter conside
strument.
Old winery will be remodeled
I Stanford.
Senior election at Stanford uni
/ ronfocfcT
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COAST

Floods carry away span Of Southern Pacific
bridge at Elvas station. PaEe !
Porterville, visslis and orosi are menaced By
floods PAGE 3
Interstate Commerce Commissioner lane scores
railroads in switching charge cases. Page 4
Mrs. William Armour dies at San Jose from
wounds inflicted by Fred Smith. Page 2
Building trades council asks inquiry into con-
struction OF Agnew state hospital. Page 3
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EASTERN

Tillman brands cabinet officers as worthy
members OF Ananias club. Page q
Miss Beatrice Mills welded 70 the earl Of
Granard in New York. PAGE 3
Congressman want cash for harbors and bill
may be reported at this session. Page 4
Hams writhes under bitter arraignment by
prosecutor. Page 4
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-03
Ballad of Vegetables

A potato went out on a mash
And sought an onion bed;
That's pie for me-" observed tn,
squash,
And all the beets turned red.
Go awayi'' the onion, weeping, cried
Your love l can not be.
The pumpkin be your lawful bride;
You cantaleupe with me-
But onward still the tuber came
And lay down at her feet
You eaulifiower by any name
And it will smell as wheat
And ], too, am an early rose.
And you I've come to see.
SO don't turnip your lovely nose,
But spin chat with me.
Il do not carrot all to wed,
So go, sir, if you please
The modest onion meekly said.
And let us, pray. have peas.
Go; think that you have never seen
Myself. or smelled my sigh:
Too long a maiden I have been
For fayors in your rye"
"Asparagus," the tuber prayed:
My cherry shed bride you'll be.
You are the only weeping maid
That's currant now with me-"
And as the willy tuber spoke,
He caught her by surprise,
And. giving her an artichoke.
Devoured her with his eyes
"a G. Jochmus.
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great deal OF ceremony. The. boy could
hardly wait TO get back to the palace
to open it. and. when he did finally
set the wrappings off. to his disgust
and amazement he found only a great
japanese doll. I guess that was
Jap JOKE he wrote in his diary about
this. ...s
In ST. Petersburg Charlie set down in
his journal that he saw a real ~eff-
cus-something like our BPffalo. BIZ
show. only it was an attack on the
French forces by the AIoors.@. Every
where he went the boy took an active
part in all that was going on. While
on board the Rainbow, bound for Nlad
ivostok, he drilled daily with the ma
rines; in another city he very nearly
got himself arrested by running out
from the lines while a parade was
passing, so anxious was he TO see the
particular member OF royalty WHO was
being honored in this way. and he had
some thrilling adyenture&at least
thrilling from a boys point of vieSzA.-.
in nearly every place he visited. Dur
ing his stay in the Philippines he writes.
that his principal occupations were
"the two R's-ridiRg and reading. He
was a familiar figure mounted on his
stocky little pony riding all over the.
island. and made many friends among
the natives.
when we were IN the Philippines
he writes IN this same diary already
quoted, mother wanted ms TO go TO.
school. but I didn't want 10. not be-.
cause I didn't want TO keep up my
studies, but because there 7 would
have had to get up at in the mofr-
ing. have breakfast at :. go TO school
at 8, and that makes a long day.
Now that Charlie is at home again,
however, he goes TO school whether he
wants to or not, being an attendant at
a private academy on the outskirts of
Washington. he has shown no sign as
yet Of being a great mar-but IS .stiH
Just a small boy with a small boys
interests and enthusiasrns. and natu-'
rally he is the spoiled darling of the
Taft household.
Charlie is very proud OF his fathers
success in politics and, although he has
been told never to mention that he Is
a presidents son to strangers, he al
ways manages to let people know it
in one way or another without actually
disobeyins the letter Of the law.
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double prize winner last year, dividing
one of the Barge prizes for mathema-
tics and taking first grade Berkeley
premium Of a book fund for excellence
in Latin composition. But Robert Taft
is not a grind" the college term for
a bookworm, for he manages to com
bine lot of work with a lot OF fun
and get a pretty good time out of both
He is a tall. muscular young fell
low of 19. with straight brown hair,
rather large mouth and wide apart
gray eyes, and gives promise of being
a we'll set up man in the future.
He takes an interested part in all
the college sports, but has never spe-
cialized on any particular form of ath-
letics. He is a tennis enthusiast and
rides we'll
The third child of the Tafts. Charles
Taft. aged 10, is the most democratic
member of the family who entered
the White House on March 4, and he
will acknowledge but one superior, his
big brother Robert Even his father
takes second place to Rob" Quentin
Roosevelt has a worthy successor in
Charlie Taft, and he can rely on him
to preserve all the traditions for fun
and mischief for which the former is
famous. The two boys were school
mates at the Force public school in
Washington. and members of the same
Charlie Taft has had a very romantic
life for a boy so young. What other
lads have learned from books of travel
he has studied with his own eyes He
has lived in the Sheba palace of the
mikado and been one of the few hon
ored guests who have been allowed to
fish in that rulers private lake. About
this he wrote in his diary: You see I
didn't care to hear papa speak. as I
had heard him lot of times before,
while those fish were there, and / might
never get the chance to catch some real
Jap ones again
Suffice TO say that the little Amerf-
can boy was allowed sto stay and FISH
to his hearts content all one blissfuI
summer afternoon in garden as beau
tiful as a fairy's dream. The editor of
a great Japanese magazine constituted
himself personal guide for the aug
ust Ill .Meriean" and showed him all
the quaint shops and sights In the
capital city of the island kingdom In
one shop Charlie was presented with
a package by a shop keeper with a
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here Let's get into the light and take
look at it.
What was it? Well. it was pretty in
genious altogether, but taken apart 1t
was lust a coil of rope, a soaked coat
and pair of trousers, and a crayon por-
trait in a frame of Bianci. In the back
of the picture was attached box that
held a candle.
We took the things into the house
and Ned lighted the candle. then stood
the picture in dark corner. Gee. Try
it some time on a life size head OF some
dear departed While we sat there
staring at Bianci in his ghostly halo
Ned told his experience on the bridge.
You see they heard the horse galloping
up the hill and never thought of any
one being left behind. So Ned stood
there and watched the whole perform
ance. He said the ghost hoated there
long enough for him TO Size 1t up. then
it began. to slide toward the tree. By
this time he could see the rope they
used to draw it in by. See how it
worked? Marcelli in one tree pulling
in, his boy across the stream in an
other paying out. They would have
the thing all fixed and lighted and
hung on the rope. then drop 1t into the
tules ready to pull up at what writer's
nowadays call the psychological mo-
ment. When the play was over the
string was pulled In See?
1t was easy for US to catch on to
the scheme when we talked 1t over
Marcelli wanted Faye.Ie ranch and was
working to get it at his own price.
He was pretty cute, but 1t didn't work.
He bought the ranch. all right, but he
paid what father first asked. with q
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pencil in the way he has when he's
thrashing a thing out in his mind.
all the time staring absentmindedly
at US boys.
do your" he inquiries, apropos of moth
ing that / could see.
No. sir, says l: TITS institute week. "
Father tapped his knee with his pen
ell stih rubbering at us.
See here sons.'' he said suddenly,
its up TO you to lay this spook.
haven't time to go up and poke those
tules over hunting a disembodied dago.
You two go out home with Davis to-
night and put in few days clearing
up this bugaboo business If you sue
ceed viii give You each $40"
Gee whitaker Succeed?" Ned and
I shook hands on the spot and said
we'd succeed, or bust.
Well, we went with Davis. Didn't
get started till toward o'clock.
Davis had a good horse and drove it
to a lather, but it's a bad road, so it
was rather dark before we reached the
willows. Maybe you remember those
willows begin nearly a mile before you
reach the long bridge. They make the
way pretty gloomy even in the day
time and they were full of wisps of
straw, scraps of cloth and Lord knows
what lodged there. during the freshet.
OF course neither Ned nor I took
any stock in the spook business, but
Davis kept looking to the right and
left and jumping at everything he saw,
He amt here" he'd say, he's In the
tules. Lord, get us safe pass the tules.'
We boys laughed and whistled and
talked to keep up the poor chaps
spirits All the same I guess I had
gotten a bit nervous by the time we
reached the long bridge. Upstream,
you know, it's just tules, tules as far
as you can see with Just a narrow
streak of black water crawling snake
like through; downstream it's about
the same. only one or two big willows
come close in on the tules on both
sides, making almost an arch across
He'll be on the left side under those
willows Davis muttered, Just as we
struck the bridge. He had the horse
going lickety-split Ned and I, though
we wasn't expecting much, kent our
eyes peeled for the spot mentioned.
Then all of a sudden Davis let's out
a yell and stands right up lashing the
horse like mad.
Jumping Moses. but say now, you
wouldn't have blamed the fellow much
If you'd been there. The thing came
right up. all dripping out of the water.
1t kept rising slowly till it hoated in
I didn't have much time to examine it
as we shot past but as ] live, the
face of it was the face of Bianci
Fayelle ranch is just top of the hill
beyond the bridge and / don't rernem-
ber word being said till that poor
horse stopped all iathered and pant
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ing at the gate; then all of sudden
l missed something.
Hi. Ned" l shouted. Ned. Say
where is Ned?" For as 1 live and
breathe Ned was not in the buggy.
Well now, don't you think 1 wasn't
scared stiff. 1 just grabbed Davis and
shook him like a puppy shaking an
old slipper and kept yelling in his ears,
Ned. Ned, where's Ned?" till got
him more ratified than Bianci's ghost
did BY the ime we were both pretty
well used up. he managed to gasp that
he believed Ned climbed out the back
of the buggy, while we were crossing
the bridge. Then 1 knew the boy
wasn't wasting a minute in our speok-
laying enterprise.
l felt pretty cheap, let me tell you,
to think that a IA year old boy had
shown more grit and brain than I had,
but I got busy at once covering the
ground that lay between there and the
bridge. I stopped just long enough to
tell Davis to light lantern and fol-
low. Didn't have much hopes that ne
would, though.
went back down the hill lightfeot-
ed. my ghost scare all over, but pretty
nervous for fear Ned had doubled him
self UP going out of the flying buggy.
Still / had sense enough to know that
if he was spying out the land a racket
wasn't wanted
1t was pretty dark by this time and
l kept a close lookout as I went so that
no one would pass me unawares
Just as 1 struck the bridge ] heard
Ned's voice in the lowest whisper
"Sh Billy" and he reached out from
some willow sprouts and pulled me
down beside him.
1 crouched there, still as death. ex-
pecting something pretty dramatic. In
and Ned whispered, They are getting
it out of the tree. / think they will
have to climb the hank at that opening
yonder. Be ready to grab when / say
the word
/ could hear the tules swish. and
after a little dark figure showed at
the opening in the willows just beyond
then another smaller one. Apparently
they were carrying a load between
them. When they were fairly in sight
Ned said, Come on.v and we made a
break.
Lord! how they did yell and run!
We didn't get them, but, as 1t proved.
they left what we wanted behind We
gathered the things UP between us and
were about up the hill when we met
Davis with a lantern, looking for all
the world like a martyr on his way to
the stake.
sMarceln and his boy just rushed by
like mad, said he. They must have
seen Bianci!''
Marceili, was it?1 and Ned snickers.
We'll, Mr.. Davis, we have the ghost
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denee over all the native chiefs. He
is young man. well educated and
speaking English perfectly. He has
large annual revenues and his regalia
Is valued at s15,o0o,000
The nizam of Hyderabad rules over
the largest native state and he is the
principal Mohammedan ruler in India,
being entitled to a salute of 21 guns.
Jeypore, in Rajputana, is the finest
native city and is noted for the width
and regularity of its streets and the
beauty of it's architecture. The streets
are well paved and lighted with gas.
There are number of hospitals,
almshouses and dispensaries. One of
the finest buildings is the school of
art. The public garden contains 70
acres, in which is a museum, very
fine building, visited annually by 150.-
900 people.
The state supports college with 500
students in daily attendance, school
for the education of the sons of the
chiefs, Sanscrit college and an in
dustrial school, also 53 high schools
and S79 village schools, in all of which
there are about 5000 pupils.
Many of the native chiefs are edu-
Gated and intelligent men with ad-
vanced ideas, but the majority are cruel
and ignorant, only kept in check by
fear of the consequences of an out
break 1t is impossible to predict the
future of such a country.
The English are building railroads in
many directions and enforcing civilized
laws in the courts; but the country is
so vast and the people so hard to
reach that progress is very slow, and
at any moment a trifle may precipi-
tate a revolution, against which British
rule would be powerless. few hun
dred thousand foreigners could not pos
sibly stand before half as many mil
lions of fanatical natives. We have
only to hope for the good of mankind,
that the explosion will never take place.
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leading ones being Hindu and Moham-
medan
The adherents of the former number
quite 10000, 900, of the latter, Co.,
100000. The higher class of Hindus-
the Brahmins, 5000, ,ooo-are divided
into 1890 sects, and the rest of the
Hindus are formed into lnnumerable
subdivisions.
Between these two great religions
there is bitter jealousy, which is the
constant safeguard of British rule in
India What one religion proposes the
other opposes, so that no concerted ac-
tion is possible,
Had their been unity among the peo-
pie and leader worthy of any respect
linda would have been lost forever to
the En- glish crown in 1857.
Putting aside the justice of England,s s
conquest of India, its occupancy is for
tunate for the people. Were the Eng
lish government removed there would
be anarchy all over the empire, not only
caused by the two great religious
sects, but by different chiefs striving
for supremacy.
The guikwar of Baroda claims prece-
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crime by tribunal appointed by the
British government But for the pro-
lection of the English many of their
states would not be in existence. The
supremacy Of the British government
over all the native states was pro-
claimed and acknowledged in January.
1871 at Delhi, when the queen was
proclaimed empress.
There has never been in India a
national government because the peo-
pies, languages, customs and religions
are as diversified as those of the differ
ent countries of Europe The diversity
of the people is shown by the number
of their languages, there being 127 Ian
guages and 252 dialects, many of the
former being as distinctive as are the
Russian, English, French and German.
Another element in the division of
the people is that Of religion, the two
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general control over these countries
similar to that of the supreme gov
ernment at Washington over all the
states not in particulars, but for the
generSl good of the whole empire.
There are several hundred native
states, but some of them so insignif1-
cant as not to deserve the title. The
more important states are substantial
ly Independent, except when their ad-
ministraGon becomes so malodorous
as to threaten their own destruction,
when the British government inter
feres.
They can not make treaties without
the consent of the British government,
or keep more troops than are required
for the administration or to support
the dignity of the chief. or to allow
civil war or tolerate rank injustice
toward their people.
any OF the chiefs may be tried for
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Scotland'sThistle

This Is the story OF how the thistle
came to be the badge of Scotland.
When the Danes invaded the country
a night surprise was attempted In
order to more completely hide their
advance the Danish soldiers walked
barefoot For a while all went well,
till one OF the Danes happened TO
tread on a thistle. The pain made him
cry out. and his cry disclosed the fact
OF the intended assault. The Scots
at once took to their arms and routed
the invaders. The thistle thereafter
became the national emblem