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The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
LOBBYIST M'RAF'S
FRANK UITERANC[S
Declares Senator Dick Welch's
IsIais Creek Proposition Is
Certain of Defeat
FIouts Public Statement That
Commercial Bodies Have
Agreed on Scheme
[Special Dispatch 10 The Call

CALI. HEADQUARTERS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE. BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTo Ian. 17.-"Dick Welch is a
dgurehead: he doesn't amount to any
thing. He comes from the Islais creek
district and he has to stand for a whole
lot of things. / wouldn't be in Dick 8
place for all the senatorships this side
of Hades.'
On the eve of the presentation to the
legislature of the report Oh tne JOINT
committee on harbors, Senator Leroy
A. Wright of San Diego, chairman, the
lobbying activities of George McRae,
representing the Ship Owners associa-
ton. have shown marked increase and
his utterances have grown remarkably
frank. The quoted reference to Senator
WEIGH of San Francisco, the champion
of the India basin project, may serve
as one instance of his line of talk.
McRae is busy all the time; his big
form is conspicuous wherever law
makers congregate- he was at the
governors reception; he appeared at
the Hatton celebration following SEN
ator Perkins election; he is around the
assembly and senate chambers, the ho-
tel lobbies and bars and cigar stands
all the time.
McRae processes little worry about
the Islais creek bills; he fouts, in the
first place. the public statement that
the leading commercial bodies of San
Francisco have reached an agreement
in the matter, and he declares if the
Islais creek project goes before the
voters again it will be beaten more
easily than last time
I'VE are opposed to the So block
scheme and we are opposed TO the A
block scheme; we want to see the pres
ent harbor facilities improved before
any new additions to the water front
are made.
.Welch's Islais creek bills don't
amount to anything; but even suppos-
ing that they should pass. they wouldn't
have a chance with the people. 1t will
be much easier to beat them than be-
fore. We have Harbor Commissioner
Stafford on record this time. He has
made the statement that 1t will take
$1,000, 900 to put the present water
front of San Francisco in proper shape"
Senator Welch is not discussing Nc
Rae and his activities-not yet But
Dick" is confident that his Islais creek
bills are going to pass and equally con-
fident that McRae is not going to cut
much figure in opposition to them. 1t
is pretty safe to say, however, that
the representative of the people will
have some things to say before long
about the representative of the ship
owners that will discount the frankness
OF McRae's structures on WeIch.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
BUREAU WITHOUT NEWS
OF INDIAN FRAUD CASES
Declared That Redmen Had No
Power to Convey Title

WASHINGTON. January 1.-THE
bureau OF, Indian affairs has received no
information in regard to the indict-
ments yesterday in the Indian fraud
cases in Texas, but the grand iury's ac-
ton is the result of an Investigation
made by the bureau some time ago,
pressed by Secretary Garfield and At
torney General Bonaparte
The original allotment to the Kick
apoos provided that the United States
should hold the title in trust for the
Indians % years Indian Commissioner
Leupp declared that the department of
justice was prosecuting these cases on
the theory that the act of June 81, 1906.
did not confer upon the Kickapoo al
lottees any greater title to these lands
than before its passage.
In fact. it is declared the Indians had
no power to convey title.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
TAFT LAUDS WORK
DONE BY Y. M. CA.
President Elect Believes Race
Question Must Be Settled by
Individual Effort
Tolerance Created by Associa-
ton Helped Government Pol
icy in the Philippines

AUGUSTA, Ga. Jan. 17.-Introduced
to big audience of men,. comprising
the negro Y. NJ. C. A. of this city,
President elect Taft discussed the
Christian uplift of Y. NJ C.. A. work
today.
DR.. Walker. known as the Black
Spurgeon,' who was introduced by
Taft, said the negroes of Georgia
owned million acres of land and paid
taxes on $40 100000 worth of property.
Taft said he regarded this report as
most encouraging. 1t gave him an
illustration for the oft expressed be-
lief that the race question must be
settled by the negroes themselves be-
coming Indispensable to the community
in which they live by industry, thrift
and constant individual effort. He
dwelt at length on the advantage of
Y. NJ @. A work and illustrated his
point by picturing the temptations of
Americans in the Philippines and the
help which the association rendered
them there.
TOLERANCE HELPS STATESMEN
Taft expressed the belief that the
7. M. c. A. had brought about more
tolerance between the various religious
denominations, and, as an example,
|
which the government found itself
with respect to the friar lands in the
Philippines.
Concurrence, he said, had been OBJ
tanned from a body of clergymen repre-
senting the various denominations that
no protest would be made by them
when the government should take up
the negotiations necessary to acquire
title to these lands. Their purchase
for s7,000,000. he said. had saved what
would have been a bloody revolution
in the Philippines. He continued:
Forty years ago it would have been
impossible to have obtained this con-
currence. There would have arisen
among the denominations an objection
to 1t on the ground that 1t was a rec
ognition of the Roman Catholic church
contrary to our traditions.
EXPENDITURE DEFENDED
After he had described the Y. NJ. c.
A work on the isthmus of Panama
where four clubs are running, each
under the direction Of an experienced
Y. M. G. A. secretary, paid by the gov
ernment; where ten or dozen minis
ters are also employed by the govern
ment with a plan indorsed to establish
two or three more clubs, Taft re-
marked:
+ 1t is possible we will be charged with
having filched that money from the
public treasury. But If we have we
have accomplished a good work with
it. l think also the expenditure could
be defended on strictly legal grounds
We have entered the isthmus of Pan
anna and introduced there some $4,000
souls. Unless we take especial pains
to have their morality looked after.
unless we furnish ministers, churches
and Christian clubs, we are. going to
generalization that we will never build
the canal. Hence, if we are to be i'm
peached for spending that money it
would be in good cause.
Taft arrived here from Atlanta at 9
o'clock today.
Fred w. Carpenter. who will accom-
pany Taft to the White House as secre-
tary to the president, got here today
from vacation in California.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
DEFINES MINISTER'S
RIGHTS IN FREE RIDES
Commission Says Leaving Pull
pit Does Not Forfeit Standing

WASHINGTON, Jan 17.-In a state
ment today the interstate commerce
commission elucidates the provision Of
law which authorizes the issue of free
transportation or reduced rates to min
listers Of religion. The commission
says:
A clergyman does not lose his min
isterial standing by reason of the fact
that he leaves the pastorate for some
other field of religious activity.
A minister who becomes editor of a
church paper, instructor in a theolog-
ical seminary, financial agent for a
church or other religious institution,
or who engages in other work which
may fairly be regarded as religious in
his ministerial work, may legally be ac-
corded special transportation privi-
legeS
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
TRAINS IN HEAD ON CoLIIsIoN

COFFEYVILLE Kan Jan. IA
southbound passenger train on the
Missouri Pacific railroad from Kansas
freight train, two miles west of this
city this morning. Twenty-four pas
sengers were hurt but only two. Mr.
and Mrs. F. s. Powell of Mowata. Okla.
are in a serious condition The mem
bers of the engine crews jumped and
saved themselves. The engines were
demolished.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
VIOLET cHARLESWORTH
FOUND IN SCOTLAND
Noted SpecuIator Not Killed
While Autoing, as Reported

LONDON, Jan. 17.-Niss Violet Cor
don Charlesworth, whose mysterious
disappearance a short time ago caused
a great deal of excitement because of
her remarkable career and her intimate
association with extensive stock deals,
has been found and identified at Oban,
Scotland.
It was reported that Miss Charles
worth, who lived with her parents in
Bogera, st. Aspath, Wales was killed
while automobiling in the neighbor-
hood OF Penmaen mawr with her sister
and chauffeur about two. weeks ago.
The young woman was said to have
been hurled over the seaWalL
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
SOTHERN WILL PURCHASE
PROPERTY IN THIS CITY
Actor Greatly Impressed by Re-
construction of Metropolis

T. II. Sothern. who is TO appear here
this week at the Van Ness theater in
repertoire, has planned to purchase a
valuable piece Of property in this city.
During his present engagement
Sothern has evinced deep interest in
the growth Of San Francisco and in
structed his business manager to select
z suitable piece Of real estate In the
business section Of this city. Sothern
viii look over the property today
Sothern has been greatly impressed
~ the rapid reconstruction since the
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
STATE REGULATION UPHELD
BIights Pomona's Hopes
TSpeciaI Dispotch TO The Call

CALL HEADQUARTERS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. Ito make 1T more
difficult than at present for the people
of Pomona to make their town the
capital of new county carved from
Los Angeles and San Bernardino, Sem
ator Willis will introduce bill this
week changing certain provisions Of
the Broughton act.
The present law provides that so per
cent of the voters of the proposed new
county and of the county or counties
affected by the change must signify
their Willingness before the division
can be made.
willis proposes to change the law
so that 65 per cent of the voters of
the district to be included in the new
county and so per cent of the voters
of the county or counties affected, in
cluding the proposed new county, must
go on record in favor of the carving
process.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
VENEZUELA ENVOY PLEASED

PARIS, Jan. 17.-Jose de Paul spe-
cial envoy of the Venezuelan govern
ment, is well satisfied with the result
of his recent interview with NJ Pichon
French minister of foreign affairs. and
says a complete understanding with
France is in sight. NJ. Paul will go to
Holland this week to confer with the
Dutch foreign minister
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
SHOOTS FRIENDLY sERENADER

CRlPPLE CREEK, Colo, Jan. IT,
Clinton Wilson, aged II. son of a
wealthy ranchman near this city was
shot and probably. fatally wounded by
John H. Vivian, a neighbor, last night
Wilson. with a party of merry makers
had called at the home of Vivian, who
was recently married, to charivari him.
Vivian fired into the crowd before he
was aware Of their mission, believing
them thieves
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
RIcH COPPER NINE som

RENO. New, Jan. 1.-THE rich cop
per property of Assemblyman E. J.
Ross of Yerington and w. c. Gruber of
Reno was sold Saturday last to Judge
Bradley. Walker brothers. Mont Ferry
and w, Judge, bankers and capitalists
Of salt Lake. The consideration was
$l25.0
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
WAR YErERAN nIEs

PITTSBURG. Jan. 17.-Major William
Graham McCandless. who fought with
the army or the Potomac in every one
Of its battles during the civil war, died
here today, aged II years.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
Would Remit Poll Tax

CALL HEADQUARTERS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SAcRA-
MENTO, Jan. 17.-AssembIyman Mel
rose has been urged by one of his con-
stituents to present q bill providing
that he has voted at every election dur
ing the year the amount of his poll fax
will be remitted. Melrose has written
him that he does not consider the prom
osition feasible.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18

GENERAL Won setback DIEs-Nev YORK
Jan. J7-tfeneral George Won Setback u s. A.,
retired, died suddenly at his home here toda y
he was 81 years old
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE?

$4,000 wINTERRoTH PIANO GIVEN
AWAY TO the Lodge. Church. school. Organiza-
tion or Person receiving the most votes BY L
Results of the voting each week are published
exclusively in THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
.'RHE SILVER BOW Confectionery. ie4f
Haight street where all votes must be deposited.
Tue piano is on exhibition at DOYLE Nc
GOWNS Store. Haight at Cole where il NAV
be seen and tried by all
One vote free with every 2Je purchase from
the enterprising Haight Street Merchants listed
below
The Art Shop. 1865 Haixht st.
A. e.. Moench- .... Haight and Masonic
dug0 Scheunert- sos Haight st.
q. +. Bowling. ...........-.14 1439 Haight St.
Inc Pail Mall -...1 1868 Haight st.
1he SILVER Bow .1641 43 Haight st.
Srystal Creamery 1851 Haight st.
BOD BOD BIaine ----'---------.. 1851 Haight st.
Inc Del Monte 1885 Hsight St
Pure Food Liquor Co. .HaIsht and Ashbury SITS.
4. White. Cor Page and Clayton SITS.
Doyle & Mc6own. Inc. Haight and Cole Sts
Won lssendorf Bros Page and Lyon SITS.
Graves-Taylor Co.. Inc 1895 Haight st.
alen 1900 ..--.-.- .-.-..-- lS93 Elalght ST.
Il. Cassel- 1876 Haight st.
E. H. Gottschalk .141O Haieht St
HELD 4 Besthorn. 1889 Haight st.
Ashbury Heights Printery ......1672 Haight ST.
Clarke & Dickson. ...-........ .1+41 Haight st.
The Eetter studio. 1855 Hafght ST.
SecoInbe e- Co. 1890 FIaight st.
The Gold Bar. .-....... .150O Haight 81.
Golden Gate Tea and Coffee Co. .1541 Haight st.
" Goodman. $40 Shrader ST. near Haizht
1, 1ssli1l@n l.an., i9li @ Hagnr 81
Inc feOpie 5 store III us HaiZhr st.
EILERS MUSIC co. handles the WINTER
ROTH PIANO used in this contest.
VOTES CAST P. NJ. FRIDAY. JAN. 15 1909
CrOcker school. .................. rs
Dudley Stone school ... ........... 50
Christian Science church ch......-........... 10
Young Mems Hebrew association. ........... 90
ConeOrdia lodge No. %. T. o. o. F......... AZ
st. Francis convent .. ......... 40
s. F. E. D. engine No. so. O.........-....... %
HHght and Ashbury improvement club. ..... %
Hamilton ". e. church. ch..................... %
Americans, Caiifornia association No. 1..... 20
Protestant orphan asylum. ......-............ 20
Ladies Guild. All Saints church. ......... A
n. d. Golden West .................. 4
Elks. No. 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2
Sunset Theatoriun. 2
+. o.. E.-..-.......... .... 2
Harmonic Gesung verein rein................... 2
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
plan Change of Game Laws

OF COMMERCE BUILDING. SACRA-
MENTO. Jan. 17.-Assemblyman Pres
ton will this week introduce bills to
change the game laws of the state.
In one bill he will endeavor to raise
the seasons bag limit on deer from two
to three. He will also offer a bill ex-
tending the open season for all white
fish and trout, except steelhead. one
month, thus having the season omen
April ! instead of May 1. In another
bill he will attempt to prevent seining
altorefher .
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
Railway Bill Amendments
TSpceidl Dispoieh to The Call

CALL HEADQUARTERS, CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan 17.-For the purpose Of
securing to California what they re-
gard as a railroad law second to none
in the country, Senator Miller of vi
saIfa and Senator Campbell of San Luis
Obispo. two members of the democratic
minority, will wait upon Attorney Cen
eral Webb with the request that he
incorporate in his railroad bill pro-
visions which they have submitted to
the legislature. If their mission is un-
successful they will nevertheless offer
the distinctive features of their bills as
amendments and If they are turned
down they Will resubmit them as sep
arate bills.
The bill drawn by Webb with the
assistance of Governor Gillett is known
as the Stetson bill. 1t culls from the
law of other states provisions enlarg-
ing and strictly defining the powers
of the railroad commission.
CampbelYs bill, promising the possi-
bility of the election of bad railroad
commissions, gives to the shipper or
passenger the power to initiate pro-
ceedings against a railroad which has
worked an injury. This is the bill
drawn by Governor Hughes of New
York.
Mii1er"s demurrage bill is based on
the Texas car law and is so framed
that IF put into effect this state would
be favored by the railroads, In the
event of a car shortage, over Oregon.
which has similar law
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-18
r. D. McELROY. Agent

Corner Market Street and Grant Avenue
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
CountermaRdcd.

A very devout clergyman had just
married a couple and. as was his Gus
tom, offered fervent prayer, invoking
the divine blessing upon them AS
they seemed to be worthy folk and not
OverbuTdened with this worlds goods,
he prayed, among other things, for
their material prosperity and besought
the Lord to greatly Increase the mans
business, laying much stress on this
point
In filing out the blanks it became
necessary to ask the man his business,
and. to the minister's horror, he said,
81 keep a saloon"
In telling the story to his wife after
ward the clergyman said that as he
wrote down the occupation she whfs-
pered:
Lord, you needn't answer that
prayer."-Philadelph Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
IincoIn,. Iistorv Of Himself.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected
TO congress Charles Lanman- then
editor OF the Congressional Record. &C
coTding to the regular custom. for
warded to ME. Lincoln as well as to
all other members elect blank to be
filed out with facts and dates which
might be made the basis for bio
graphical sketch in the directory. Mr.
Lincoln's blank was returned prompt
Iy. filled up in his own handwriting
with the following information:
Born Feb. II, 1909. IN Hardin eoun-
y, KY
Education. defective
profession. lawyer.
Military service. captain OF Volun-
teers IN the Black Hawk war
Offices held: Postmaster at very
small Office. four times member OF
the Illinois legislature and elected 70
the lower house Of the next congress"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
Had : Treat For His Wife.

Dr.. George Harvey, a local veter-
mary physician. was called to a stable
not long ago to minister to a horse
that was down with collie. 1t was a
serious case, and the doctor saw that
the only way to save the horse would
be to insert a tube In its side and
allow the gas on it's stomach to escape.
Just because he thought it would star
tie the owner Of his horse Harvey
struck a match and lighted the gas at
the end of the tube. The man didn't
say much at the time, but he was prop
erIy impressed. He had never heard
of using a horse for an Illuminating
plant The next day when DR.. Har-
vey came around to see how the horse
was getting along-it was all over the
collie then-the owner tapped him on
the shoulder.
My wife wss away yesterday" he
said, "but she's home now Just light
up the horse again. will you? ! want
her to see it-"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
Artificial Limbs.

ga manufacturer or dealer in artI-
fetal limbs who wears a cork arm or
leg himself is much better equipped for
business than his competitors who are
sound" said a man who uses a cork
leg. I'm fact, it has become a sort OF
unwrftten law among us to patronize
such men when possible. Sentimental
reasons may have something to do with
the case, but ] guess the chief reason
is that we consider that If a man can
make a limb for himself that fits like
the paper on the wall he can make
1t for others Manufacturers Of arti-
fetal limbs know this. and frequently
you will ind an advertisement like
this: The So-and-so artificial leg is
built by a man who is wearing one
and who knows from experience what
you want fer comfort This is a strong
argument, for it's no easy thing to get
an artificial limb that just fits. Per
sons who have trouble getting shoes
that are just right are in great luck
compared TO us"-New York Sun
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
Chinese Sun and Moon.

In China the sun and moon are
brother and sister The moon is the
elder brother, who looks after his rath-
er silly sister. the sun. This is exactly
the reverse Of our legends, which make
the sun the day king and the gentle
moon lady Of the night One day in
China. so the legend runs, the sun
asked the moon If she couldn't 90 out
at night The moon answered very
sternly; mo. You are a young lady.
and it would be improper for you to
go out after dark" Then the sun said.
But the people keep looking at me
when | go out in the daytime" So the
moon told her TO take the golden
needles that she wore in her hair and
stick them into the eyes of people
when they stared at her. This is the
reason why no one can look at the sun
without pain.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
Lord Kelvin and the Cable.

It is perhaps not generally known
that the success Of the Atlantic cable
was due to the calculations and ex-
periments of the late Lord Kelvin at
that time plain William Thomson He
discovered that the current through a
long cable would arrive gradually at
the receiving end and devised the ap-
paratus which rendered it possible to
utilize such current for making the
Morse signals. It was through diSre-
gard OF his theoretical predictions that
the first Atlantic cable. in 1853. was
ruined by too powerful currents. With
out his mirror galvanometer to trans
late into visible signals the delicate
impulses received through the cable
the enterprise would have been a COM
plete failure.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
An Admiral,s Stories.

One of the English admiraIs has a
choice collection of stories at the ex-
pense of laymen placed in Office at the
admiralty as a consequence of a turn
of the political wheel. OF one lord OF
the admiralty he told delighted house
OF commons how, receiving a report Of
disaster to ship couched in technical
phrase. he wrote reply demonstrating
with the officer for his use of bad Ian
guage Another civilian lord, looking
over a chart and observing that one OF
his majesty's ships, homeward bound.
passed within a space Of two inches
on the chart an island where cast
away sailors were sheltering. wanted
to know why it could not call and re-
Iieve them The admiral explained
that the two inches on the chart meant
a distance at sea of 1000 miles.-Lon-
don Strand Magazine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22

No better investment could be made
of money contributed to the develop
ment of Southern industries than in
the proposed million dollar Office
building in Washington. The pres
ence OF such a structure at the ma
tional capital win be impressive and
attract universal attention. while the
income derived from rentals viii
amply support the permanent exhibit
ton OF Southern resources which il is
intended to establish. Certain grouchy
pessimists on d few Southern news
papers are throwing cold water on the
plan, but it is not likely they will have
the slightest effect on the progressive
men who have il in charge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22

the world is to the tropics. and when
the Panama Canal is opened the
Southern ports will be filed with the
ships of all nations. The eastern
states are dependent upon the west
and the South for their food products
as fully as is Western Europe. The
Middle West can best reach the world
through the highways of rail and wa
ter which go to the South. The South
is drawing to herself gradually, slow
ly but surely the commercial streams
which naturally seek outlets at her
ports and will find herself enriched
by their passage. The South is de-
pendent upon no other section for
food, for raiment, for building mate
rialS or for the comfort and happi-
ness OF her people. She possesses
every resource necessary for agricul-
tural, Industrial, commercial and fl
nancial prosperity. Through her pro-
auctions she has the call upon the
money of the world.