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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
STRAPPED FATHER
TO PROTECT MOTHER
Sons Testify to Brutal Conduct
of Parent When in
His Cups
Divorce Plaintiff Says He Saw
Ledger Hugging and Kiss
ing His Wife

Robert Robertson. a Scotchman,
treated his wife Annie with such
brutal cruelty that their sons were oc-
casionaIly forced to resort to the ex-
pedient of strapping him down in order
TO protect Mrs. Robertson, it was testi-
fed in Judge Sturtevant's court yes
terday
The Robertsons were married in
Glasgow Sc years ago, and Mrs Rob
ertson has raised a family of seven
adult children. She said that her hus-
band many times beat her black and
blue when drunk. James. her son, told
Of strapping down his father, and
added that his brother had to stay home
from work to protect his mother from
the defendants violence.
Robertson many times promised re-
form. but was as bad as ever as soon
as he started drinking. said the son.
A decree of divorce was granted the
wife.
SAW LOGGER KISS WIFE
William N. Wright. in an amended
complaint for divorce filed yesterday,
charges that while hiding in his home at
As Linden avenue, he saw his wife.
May, kissing and hugging Charles Han
selman, q lodger in the house. Before
ne came out OF hiding ne heard Han
selman invite his wife TO have q drink
OF whisky. Wright says he kicked
Hanselman out of the house. A friend
of Wright's saw Hanselman and Mrs.
Wright together in Stockton. but they
turned away their faces as if trying
TO conceal themselves.
BY calling on his employers and tell
ing them he was visiting women and
gambling and neglecting his work,
Agnes B. Tomkins obtained the dis
charge of her husband, Arthur he COM
plains in suit for divorce begun yes
terday. These statements were false
and malicious and ruined his reputa-
ton, Tomkins says.
Luther A. Wann was granted a di-
vorce by Judge Sturtevant from George
A. Wann on the ground of desertion.
Irma May Mckinney sued for di-
vorce from D. c. Mckinney on the
ground OF cruelty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
CROWDS GATHERING
FOR BIG AUTO RACE
Thousands Line Santa Monica
Course the Night Before
Great Contest
Fifteen Heavy Cars Will Start
in z0z Mile Speed Test
This Morning

LOS ANGELES. July s.-Fifteen rep
resentative. American, motor cars will
start in 2O2 mile road race over the
Santa Monica s.4 mile course at s
o'clock tomorrow morning. At 80 min
utes after the conclusion OF the heavy
car event, nine smaller machines with
piston displacements under $50 cubic
inches and weighing under 1900 pounds
will be started on another race OF the
same length over the same course.
The entries for both races follow:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
LAD DIVES IN RIVER
AND LOSES HIS LIFE
George Mcneil of San Franz
cisco browns in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO. July s.-George Nc
Neill, II years old and a resident of
San Francisco. was drowned in the
Sacramento river here today while
swimming. He missed a rope used in
getting back to a barge from which
he dove. and, being a poor swimmer
sank. He had arrived from the bay
with two other companions only today
His family lives at Cherry and Jersey
streets. San Francisco. The father is
a blacksmith.
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.
and. decorate with nut meats.
Delicious Icecream (Mrs. H. r. Max
well. Chico)-One pint milk scalded and
strained through napkin, one pint
cream, one cupful graduated sugar,
yolks of six eggs, one tablespoonful
to cream and beat in slowly the
scalded milk; let cool before adding the
cream freeze.
Culinary Notes
Eject of Heat and Cold on Yeast
PIants-In working with yeast. mix
lures we must keep in mind that we
the mixtures accordingly. If you pour
boiling water over a sprouting seed or
a young plant you would not expect
are of the same nature, and If you
pour boiling water or scalding hot milk
over a yeast cake to soften it, you
and multiply and thus tighten the
mixture into which you stir them.
When the properly treated plants have
done their f work tbe and tg en t have no
of the oven is needed to drive off the
alcohol and carbon dioxide and to set
the glutinous cell walls, to keep the
Yeast plants bear cold much better
than heat; life is kept in a dormant
state at about 80 ne degTbe Zee Eathirenheit
condition some days in refrigerator.
In a refrigerator bread and rolls about
ready for the oven may be kept in
that condition some hours or over
night. and be ready for baking at any
moment
In practice. when set into the refrig-
orator, bread should not be quite as
light as rolls or bread in individual
portions. for some time must elapse
before the cold penetrates entirely
through the loaf, and during this time
the loaf will be growing lighter or
more porous.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10

See the page for the Modern
House Keeper" which appears
regularly in the magazine of "The
Sunday Call" Cash prizes are
given each week for best house.
hold ideas and kitchen recipes.
Send in your choicest ones to
Modern House Keeper Page"
The San Francisco Sunday Call.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
FIGHT FIELD FIRE
BY USE OF PLOWS
Heavy Damage Done by Flames
in Suisun Valley
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

VALLEJO. July s.-Nearly 200 men
and many teams were employed in
lighting the big field fire in the Suisun
valley yesterday. The fire was finally
got under control after 1t had burned
a cid space of over two miles and had
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of feed.
Big gangs OF farmhands and many
troll by blowing long burrows in the
face of the flames.
The fire started on the Hartley ranch
near the Southern Pacific right of way
and II is believed that 1t was started
by a hobo camp.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
The Dinner Menu
Modern House Keepers Exchange

Some Reliable Rules (Mrs. J. Frazer.
1916 Ninth street. Sacramento)-On
cupful of sugar will sweeten one quart
of any mixture to be served chilled
or frozen. One teaspoonful of extract
will flavor one quart of custard pud-
ding. One level teaspoonful of salt
will season one quart of soup, sauce
or vegetables. One tablespoonful of
extract will flavor one quart of any
mixture to be frozen. One tablespoon
full of milk or water should be allowed
for each egg in an omelet. Four eggs
should be allowed TO each quart of milk
in making a custard to be turned from
mold. Rice will absorb three times
its measure of water, or a larger guam
THY of liquid of milk or stock is used.
Banana TrifIe (Ars- Z. r. Richardson.
925 Hayes street. San Francisco)-Dis-
solve half tablespoonful of powdered
gelatin in half cup OF milk, put half
cup of claret into saucepan; add one
Ia tablespoonful brandy, half a cup of cold
water and six tablespoonfuls of sugar;
boil FIVE minutes; add II sliced bananas
and cook till syrup thickens: cool and
turn into a glass dish. then lay in
quarter pound lady fingers. Now put
two eggs into saucepan, add one table,
spoonful sugar. mix we'll; add three
quarters pint of milk, stir over fire un-
til they thicken slightly; add dissolved
gelatine, then strain over lady fingers;
set IN cool place, when ready to serve
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
A FEW WORDS WITH tie
LADY OF helHOUSE

Even the physicians are awakening
to the meaning and value of dietetics.
According to a writer in a leading
medical journal:
There are few subjects connected
with the practice of medicine so little
understood by the profession as the
food factor in health and in disease.
And yet when we consider that the
number of diseases attributed to a dis
ordered nutrition is constantly increas-
ing. it is to be commented upon that
our medical institutions should devote
so little attention to the science of
dietetics, and that the vast majority
of them should furnish no facilities
for acquiring practical instruction In
this branch of therapeutics. To pre-
scribe the right food at the right time
is an art in itself.
@ @ @ @
The Dinner Menu
Chicken with Rice Soup
Fillet of Sole, White Sauce
Potato Balls
Fried Veal Outlets. Drowned Gravy
String Beans, Summer Squash
Roast Duckling
Wine Jelly
Vanilla Ice Cream
a as as Is
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10

NEW PosTMAsTERs- Washington July a.
California postmasters have been appointed as
follows. Irwindaie. Los Angeles county-Phebe
L. Brown, vice Fri Coffman. resigned; Laws,
Inyo county-Carrie WEIGH. vice A. Gerkens, de-
ceased: Thermalito. Butte county-George W.
Burgess vice r. W. Proser. resigned.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
Take Tint scenic Trim

On the ocean Shore Railway-see a
country that is destined to become ia
nous for its scenic beauty and re-
sourcefulness. Go Sunday. Time table
page 1e.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
LIGHT CAR RACE FOR
SHELTER CUP

The last tryouts were held TO-DAY,
the official inspection and weighing in
took place at o'clock. and all indi-
cations point to the full list Of starters.
On account OF the superstition OF the
drivers No. 13 was eliminated in the
entry list The absence of the well
known eastern drivers is explained by
the local rule which requires that all
drivers must have been residents Of
California for one year.
Crowds began gathering in the beach
towns Friday morning and by evening
every available room had been en-
gagged. Hundreds spent the night on
the beach sands and thousands were
gathered along the course by midnight
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every available room had been en-
gagged. Hundreds spent the night on
the beach sands and thousands were
gathered along the course by midnight.
There was a conference Wednesday
between the automobile dealers and
representatives of
p.:sH-s the e thS Of 4 calFo26is
-o-e THE 1,Rss Of FfeP aEs 9@o
bodies came together to discuss the
proposed road race to be given by the
Automobile club this fall 1t seemed
to be the desire of the club officials
financially. They were given TO under
stand by the dealers that as they
would be the whole show and it
would be a costly affair for. them to
test the dealers were waiting to see
what the club had to offer to them
as an inducement to go to the expense
of racing. cars When this was made
clear to the representatives of the club
it was stated that the club proposed
TO offer $4,000 cup to the winner and
The meeting was informal and another
will be held next week, when a definite
understanding will be reached. In the
meantime the dealers will be canvassed
to see how many cars will be entered
in the race.
E. W. Hale has just left Sacramento
on an extensive trip, which will in
Jude Paci a c
Good vVo-k Grove, Monterey
Of ChaImer. Santa Cruz and
.. San. Jose, return
ing to Sacra-
mento by way of Stockton, in his
Chalmers-Detroit 40" Speaking to the
Chalmers-Detroit representative AT
Sacramento, Hale stated that the last
six months. during which time he has
been running his Chalmers-Detroit
40" he has not spent a 5 cent piece
for adjustment or repairs.
Calvin C. Eib. vice president of the
Pioneer auto company, received the
s. following telegram
View Hudson from President E.
Car Coming F. Brinegar yes
runabout going forward to you by
express today. Greatest value ever
offered less than 81 500. Car powerful.
fast and material and workmanship
excellent. Have ordered 500. We
should sell 100 before September 1.
Price. 5000. astounding"
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cover with whipped cream. sweetened,
and. decorate with nut meats.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10

There was a conference Wednesday
between the automobile dealers and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
Discuss the
Fall Road Race

E. W. Hale has just left Sacramento
on an extensive trip. which will in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10

election of Dr. walsh. If Toner would
get out of the race entirely, Mccarthy
would reimburse him for all his ex-
penses, and when he became mayor,
would shower the favor of the admin
istration upon Toner. The story may
not be true, but Toner sent a messen-
ger to the registrars Office yesterday
to inquire IL he might withdraw the
papers he had filed and to announce
that DR.. Toner had decided not to be a
candidate for
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Good Work
of Chalmers

Calvin C. Eib. vice president of the
Pioneer auto company, received the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-25

STORM

GRAND FORKS, N. D., Aug. Is.
A violent wind and rain storm,
assuming cyclone proportions in
some sections, is today visiting
southeastern North Dakota and
MOI thwestern Minnesota. The
storm has been raging since early
last night. Hundreds of houses
and barns already have been
wrecked and the property loss will
run into the thousands.
Peter Sohe was fatally injur-
ed and his wife and three daugh.
ters were seriously wounded when
their home toppled over on them
early today. The family lived
near Caledonia. N. d.
The storm is causing great dam
age in Minnesota. Reports from
Fertile, Beltrami. Barnesville,
Glindon and Mentor say that the
property loss will be heavy, while
crops are practically destroyed.
Reports from the storm dis
tricts are slow in coming in as all
telegraphic communication is cut
of.
Many box cars have been
blown from the tracks, and all
traffic is at standstiH.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-25

Caretty, who owns a farm on
Anderson island and several co.,
tages in Tacoma, came to the city
yesterday, bringing In a quantity
of vegetables and fruits which he
sold to customers. Just before
O'Clock he went to local bank
and drew $500 that he wanted to
use. He says that he noticed a
man In the bank at the time who
seemed to be watching him close
ly and he furnished the police
with a description of this man
today.
After Caretty had transacted his
business In town he took supper
with some acquaintances and went
to his home, retiring shortly af-
ter dark. He says that he was
tired and slept soundly. When he
awoke the room was filled with
flames and smoke and 1t was with
difficulty that he could breathe.
His first thought was for his
money and he reached to the
pioNO thdl ne udu ltlt IL III MS
vest, but vest, money. watch and
a gold nugget chain had all dis
appeared.
Caretty had difficulty in getting
out of the place. All his clothing
was burned, his hair was nearly
burned off, his face was one
great blister. the left arm was
burned to the shoulder and both
hands were In a deplorable con-
dition. Neighbors came to his aid
and his injuries were dressed, but
he is In dangerous condition
from the terrible scorching he re-
Iceived.
Caretty is positive in his belief
that he was robbed and that the
house was set on fire by the men
who committed the first crime,
with the object of covering their
tracks. The work of the robbers
is not such as would be done by
professionals, according to the po-
lice.
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Refuse $500 Per
Week for Rooms
Mighty Howl Goes Up Against Ex-
orbitant Prices Charged at
Rheims-American Held Up.
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
RHEIMS, Aug. 25.-A howl,
mighty enough to be heard all the
way across the ocean, is ascending
from this aeropolis today. Avia-
tion week has not only brought
thousands of visitors, but has
caused an unwonted raise in prices
for everything from five to a hun
dred times normal.
Americans are being charged ex-
orbitant prices. 1t is because ey-
cry Yankee is looked upon as q
millionaire. Hotels are refusing
$500 and even $500 a week for
rooms with bath, because Amer
leans prefer them and will submit
to paying the price to secure them.
Butchers have doubled their
neat prices and "cabbfes," who
used to charge ten francs for an
afternoon, will not now bulge for
less than 75.
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SCH|vE[ !
| RIAL
ENDS
Closing Arguments
Made Today-May
Reach Verdict
Tomorrow

OLYMPIA, Aug. z5.-The SEN
ate today is listening to argu-
ments in the impeachment pro-
ceedings against John HI. Schive-
ly, insurance commissioner.
1t is expected that both sides
will have completed their argu-
ments by evening and tomorrow
morning the senators will begin
voting upon the guilt or innocence
of the accused official.
Votes will be taken on each of
the Impeachment articles as they
are read. Voting will be rather
slow as each senator will be ask
ed separately whether or not he
thinks Schively guilty.
The senator may then enter IN
to an explanation of his vote
should he see fit to do so.
The argument for the state was
opened this morning by L. P. Edge
and will be closed this afternoon
by Assistant Attorney General
Lee.
The taking of testimony In the
trial closed yesterday with the in
PRODUCTION of evidence that was
looked upon as extremely favor
able to Schively's contentious.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-25
Thief Sleeps In
Spare Bed; Then
Cooks Breakfast

SEATTLE, Aug. 25.-"The
nerviest burglar i ever heard Of"
is the way Mrs. Rose O'Neill, of
Sunnydale, yesterday described
the actions of q man who, she
had just discovered, broke into
her house few nights ago.
After forcing the front door
in the most skilled manner" she
said, ''he ransacked the house.
Tiring of that, he picked out my
best spare bed and enjoyed a
sleep. He arose the
next morning, went to my kitch-
en- and proceeded to get his
breakfast. He took a big slice
OF ham and four eggs and after
some coffee sat down at
my kitchen table. and, I believe,
enjoyed the meal. He did not
even clear the dishes away, and
after his meal he continued his
work of Robbery"
Mrs. ONeill told this story to
Prosecuting Attorney vanderveer
and asked IL there was any way
to have the man arrested.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-25

Mrs. Anna Besant, one of the
most talked about women in the
world, opened up what looked
like a rattan suit case in her room
In the Tacoma hotel this morning.
and as 1t unfolded the cutest little
cooking outfit you ever saw was
exposed to view. With it she can
brew a pot of tea or prepare a
sumptuous Theosophical feast.
Beef steak, ham and eggs,
roast veal, fried chicken-oh, no.
Mrs. Besant would as soon think
of carving up her best friend and
eating him as to- use. as food to
noufish her body. the carcass of
some other living thing had been
slaughtered that she might eat.
mot since 1889 have l eaten
meat. l gave it up then" said
Mrs. Besant to Times represen-
tative today.
She Is a Theosophist.
Mrs. Besant is Theosophist,
head of the sect, which has it's
great center in India, with ramiff-
cations into every nation on earth
where psychic philosophy has it's
devotees.
And She Is a Vegetarian.
She is eminently able to buy the
most sumptuous feast that the
Tacoma commissary could yield,
but Mrs. Besant eats to live, she
does not live to eat, and her food
is simple and not calculated to
develop the animal propensities by
the heating or stimulating quail
ties of a flesh diet. She is a vege-
tartan, for the reason not only
that she regards life as sacred.
but that she would not hamper the
flights of her soul in its highest
aspirations by sordid thoughts
that spring from a meat diet.
Avoid meat, eschew tobacco.
drink no intoxicants-are cardinal
tenets in the philosophy of The
osophy, and until one is ready to
do this no great spiritual growth
can take place.
"Theosophy / regard as the
highest thought In the world be-
cause. 1t presents synthesis
which gathers together all the
other religions and phases of phil
osophy. and phenomena and har-
monizes and systematizes them
into one," said Mrs. Besant.
She has been all her life stu
dent of religion and philosophy.
She was prominent in England as
the wife of Walter Besant. she
has girdled the globe repeatedly
i'm conquests for truth. and has
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-25
Bellevue, Refuge of White
Wives and Yellow Husbands
SQUALID SETTLEMENT ON
SHORES OF LAKE WASHING
. TON A DREARY, PURPOSE
LESS EXPERIMENT IN MIX
ING BLOOD OF OCCIDENT
AND ORIENT.
BY g. s. Costello.


BELLEVUE. Aug. 24.-And
what of the children, and the chill
dren's children?
Looking down from lofty banks
upon the waters of Lake Washing
ton. hidden away by clustering
firs from the eyes of a world that
looks with disfavor and suspicion
on the mingling of yellow blood
and white, is Bellevue, little set
tlement, half yellow, half white; a
community of white wives and
yellow husbands, of children nei-
ther yellow nor white.
Assimilation can never be"
has been the verdict of the theo-
rists who have undertaken to
solve the race problem in white
and yellow rising out of the peace
full invasion of this, country of
the white man, by the Oriental.
At Bellevue the theories of the
learned men are being tested, not
purposely, perhaps. but none the
less surely.
A few squalid little shacks
struggling along clearing back
from the shore of the lake, few
little vegetable gardens from
which dirty, Acknowledged, yellow
skinned men eke out a miserable
existence for themselves, few
weary-eyed, over-burdened white
women and a few dirty, ragged.
frowsy children in whose veins
pulses at once the blood of Occi-
dent and Orient-that is Belle
vue.
I spent two hours in Bellevue,
talking with the women. / did
not talk with the men, because the
men would not talk. 1t was clear
that to them a visit of newspa-
per reporter was suspicious
circumstance. Knowing full
well, perhaps, the bitter feeling i'm
the Northwest against them and
their race, they were, with one ex-
ception, surIy. feigning, when
pressed to talk, an ignorance of
English. To the women, the visit
was clearly a pleasant diversion.
They talked freely, and during the
two hours, there was not one of
those women who could be led to
say that she was not satisfied with
her life and surroundings. Yet
in. only two or three instances was
there a face illumined by a smile.
In all that they said, these white
helpmeets of the yellow men. most
of them care-worn and clearly in
poor health. gave an impression
of forced cheerfulness, vague
hint that they were not quite up
to the task of living the life they
had chosen.
Mrs. G. Matsura, wife of the
settlements tailor and laundry
man, was one of the most cheer
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Mrs. BeSdnt Wouldn't Kill a Snake
If It Bit her;; She's a 1heOSophiSt

witnessed marvellous phenomena
in the domain of psychology from
the spiritualist seance to the ex-
alted experiences of the adopts of
India.
She Won't Discuss Charges.
She refused to answer a pamph-
let by an opposing branch of The
,sophists who yesterday flooded
he city with documents seeking
to discredit her organization.
81 saw the pamphlet and OBJ
served it started with misrepre-
sentation, but l pay no attention
to such things and never enter in
to controversy, said Mrs. Besant.
Wouldn't Kill a Snake.
She is a non-resistant. mo, l
would not think 1t right for me
to kill a snake that might bite
me. If l were a householder, had
someone depending on me. or If it
were someone else who had, 1t
would be different. But ! have
given up my life already to other
things and would not kill. Often
in India I have had cobras in my
home, but I did not hurt them. We
would rattle stick on the floor
and they would go out. Once l
did give permission that snake
might be killed when 1t was in the
garden at the school where many
were playing, but 1t
was to protect Others"