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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
JAPANESE CITY IS
REDUCED TO ASHES
Thousands of Buildings, IncIud=
ing Famous Temples, Are
Destroyed

OSAKA, Japan, August AT G O'Clock
this morning the terrible eonfasration
which has reduced to ashes large
portion of this city was under control.
Up to that hour $4,000 buildings had
been DESTROYED. An area four miles
square was swept by the flames.
OSAKA, Japan, July 31-A fire which
threatens to destroy this city started
at o'clock this morning. and in spite
of the most energetic efforts to check
it, is still burning. The firemen. who
have been fighting all day. are com
pleteIy exhausted and troops have been
called out TO assist in the fire fighting
and to preserve order in the city
Everything is dry on account of the
drought that has been prevailing for
the last two weeks and the water sup
ply is failing. The fire is being famed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
GAP TO EUREKA
TO Be CLOSED
IN QUICK TIME
Railroad Officials Give Practical
Assurance That Line Will
Be Built
Definite Answer TO Be Handed
humboldt County Commit
fee This Month

Conferences held IN this city during
The iast two days between citizens OF
Bamboldt county and officials Of the
1saria. Fe and southern Pacific rail
reads have resulted in the practical as
sursnce that the Northwestern Pacific
VIII be extended without delay from
Willis 10 Eureka. A new and vast re-
gion, as rich as any in the state. viii
thsis. be opened UP and brought into
close communication with san Fran
cisco, The proposed line VIII be 10
I'l.ies- IN length. and viii cost approx
I1-ately ss.0o0.O0o.
The North western Pacific Is owned in
equal shares BY the Santa Fe and the
Southern Pacific. and II lies, therefore,
with the officials Of these two lines 20
pass upon the extension. Promise has
been given TO a special committee of
citizens from Eureka that definite
decision VIII be reached by August 81.
The matter has reached the point, how
ever. whore this is interpreted as
definite determination 10 build.
Tile committee from Eureka IS COM
posed q II. L. Kicks. a former. mayor.
who IS chairman; L. T. Puter. T. w.
Georgeson, the well known banker. and
z. H. Brooks. A meeting was held Fri
day with President 4. H. Payson and
General Manager W. : Palmer of the
Northwestern Pacific and E. E. Calvin.
general manager Of the Southern Pa
cilc. Another and more important
meeting was held yesterday morning at
which Julius Kruttschnitt, director of
maintenance and operation of the
Southern Pacific and one of E. H Har-
riman.s most trusted lieutenantS, was
present
The matter was thoroughly discussed
with Kruttschnftt. after which the Har-
riman official said that he would have
a close study made of the situation in
humboldt during the next 10 days
From this inspection a report will be
prepared for him which he will look
over upon his return in 10 days from
Mexico. kruttschnitte and President
Psyson via then go 10 Chicago TO con-
suit with President z. P. Ripley of the
santa Fe- These preliminaries viii be
completed August 81, when definite
announcement viii be made.
The delegation from Eureka had
prepared a summary Of possible earn
ings for the new line. It showed an
estimate Of S2200,000 a. year, Of which
$50. 200 was sscribed to the passenger
traffic Kruttschnitt thought this esti-
mate too large and the committee sug-
gested that even if cut down $4,000
1T would still warrant the construction
OF the line.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
MISTLETOE GROVE HOLDS
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
After Ceremony Druids Make
Merry at Banquet

Mistletoe grove no: 172. United An
cient Order of Druids. held an installa-
ton of officers at Hamlin hall Friday
night. After the installation those
present adjourned TO the banquet hall,
where a dinner was served. Toasts in
terspersed with music by a local or
chestra occupied the rest Of the even
ing.
George A. Burton acted as master of
ceremonies, Charles Gay and Thomas
c. Gray sang. r. C. Timer gave a reci-
tation and Messrs. Albrecht. Koss and
Keller gave limitations of Turkish
guards.
The new officers are:
Noble arch, John A. Halpin; vice
arch. George A. Burton; secretary. Z.
NJ. Levy; recorder, @. C. Spare; treas
urer. Charles Gay; conductor. Fred
Stitch: trustees, r. c. Timer, I. c. Gray
and A. Bloom
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

by a strong breeze, and thousands of
buildings. including the world famous
Buddhist temples, have already been
destroyed by the confia grafton.
The exact amount of damage done
by the flames cannot be estimated at
the present time, but the total loss will
be large. A number have been killed
and seriously injured by the fire.
Osaka is one of the three imperial
cities" of Japan, and as one of the most
important manufacturing and CONNER
cial cities of the empire it shelters
almost 100000 people. The largest of
the Buddhist temples, for which the
city is famous among travellers, scovers
an enormous area. The chief public
building Of Osaka is the palace built
af Sfopo IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
CUPID SHES AT
new STATE.lAW
Spokane Couples Cross Border
to Avoid Medicals Ger.
tifcates II

SPOKANE, July s1-OnIy IS mar
riage licenses were issued in Spokane
county this month. In July. 1908. there
were 1856 licenses. and 172 in July. 1901
The new state law requiring appH-
cants to furnish medical certificates is
held to be the sole cause of the de-
crease.
Dozens of Spokane brides and grooms
crossed the state-boundary this month
and were married In Occur d'AIene.
Idaho.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
MAYOR RECEIVES WORD
PRESIDENT CAN'T COME
Senator Perkins Wires News to
City's Executive

the following official confirmation of
the report that President Taft could
not attend the Portola festival:
WASHINGTON July 31.-Aiayor Ed
ward r. Taylor, San Francisco: Sen
ator Flint and L personally presented
your invitation to the president to be.
the guest of San Francisco at the COM
ing Portola festival during the week
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Flood browns Throngs

TOKYO, July .31.-News has been re-
ceived here of terrible flood in the
province of Changchnn, Manchuria- In
the city of Kirin, situated at the head
of steam navigation on the river Sun
gari, 225 miles from Mukden, 1000 peo-
pie have been drowned and 1000
houses submerged. The water is still
rising.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

OVERHAUL OLD cRU1sERs-vaIleio. July
3l.-PreparatiOns being made BY the navy
yard authorities 10 put into commission the
been lying in the local channel for the last two
years. The vessels will be brought up to the
very latest type
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

of October 10, The president desires
me to convey TO you and those in
charge of the celebration his special
appreciation and thanks for your kind
invitation. He regrets exceedingly
that his engagements and itinerary
Will not permit of its acceptance.
GEORGE c. PERKINS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

The sensitiveness OF Photographic
films is said to be increased by a pre-
liminary exposure, too brief to pro-
duce a latent mag
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

The diamonds produced by the re-
Gently discovered field in German
Southwest Africa are of the first quail
ity, but low in weight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
War on Stock Gambling
Millions Lost


It il generally recognized that the
people OF this country lose millions
OF dollars annually IN stock gam
bling where there is no stability In
value. Such men as Roosevelt and
Hughes have done much TO abate
the evil In order to protect the pub
lie Buy real estate, own 1t out
right and IL becomes either an In
vestment or a home for you Buy
In a section that must naturally
progress and you will at least be-
come well to do. Witness the for
tunes that have been made 10 the
outskirts of all large cities. also
right here in our own san Fran
cisco. W
Sunnyvale is but an hours ride
from San Francisco at the highest
1t is the center of the richest agri-
more factories in proportion TO its
size than any city on the stssAYld
we have 100 acres Set aside for more
that are coming The assessed val
uation has increased over 1000 per
cent IN the past years.
Lots IN Sunnyyale Acres. one
third OF an acre ard over. $500 a lot
and Up. $50 cash and $40 a month.
Trains leave Third and Townsend
at $50. 1910. 11:4O, etc.
SunnyVaIe Land Company,
W. 4. CROSSMAN. Prest.
~ MONTGOMERY ST..
And Bank Bldg. suRDyvale,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Affects Even Morals.

II is we'll known that the condition
of the public roads affects the peck
cts, the health, the tastes, n even
the morals of the people. The cost or
transportation affects every human
being. If a producer, it affects the
value Of his products; If a consumer,
it affects the price of his purchases.
1t costs the Western farmer as much
to haul a ton of wheat five miles to
market over the average road as 1t
does to ship the same by freight from
New York to Boston, or by water
from New York to Liverpool. Twen-
ty years ago it cost $40 to ship a ton
of produce from Boston to Liverpool;
to-day it costs Sis. 1t is not neces-
sary to add that it costs the Western
farmer as much to-day to haul his
wheat to market as it did twenty
years ago, and that these prices will
continue stationary so long as the
roads remain in their present condi-
ton.
One of the alarming tendencies of
the time is that our boys and our
girls,-our men and u women, are
leaving the farms to live in the cities.
They prefer the glare of the gas light
to the isolation of country life, and
who can blame them. At this partic-
uiar time farmers are unable to Sc
cure help, while the cities are filled
with idle men. These conditions can
be partly remedied by the improve
ment Of the public roads, for as We
improve our roads, we will also i'm
prove and beautify our country
homes. Good roads give us more
time and more pleasure. Speed in
transportation is economy of time,
and the old saying that time is mon
ey'' was never so true as it is now.
People who have good roads accom-
lplish more, see more of life, and live
more in a year than their mud-bound
neighbors do in ten.-Maurice O.. Ell.
drige, in Good Roads Magazine.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Economy of Split-loC Drag.

It is now estimated that the earth
road can be properly maintained with
the split-,og drag at about SIS per
mile per annum. To maintain the
$4,000 miles of earth road in Ken
lucky annually with the split-log drag
would therefore cost approximately
S250,00O. If you spend $4,000 on
bridges and for grading of earth
roads, salaries and incidental ex-
penses, you would still have about a
million dollars left, with which to
build stone and grade" roads. This,
at $4,000 per mile, would build about
$50 miles OF stone road annually. 1t
would be difficult, however, to &C
complish this under the present sys-
TEN of road administration, as a large
part Of the property tax, as we'll as
the statute labor tax, Is worked out"
on the public -oads.-Good Roadg
Magazine.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
AS TO NEWsPAPERS.

At Is tooIlsh to argue hat county
papers are not necessary and proper
in the intelligent dissemination of in
formation, or that they are not neces-
sary to properly inform their con-
stltueney fully as to The various mat
tiers OF importance which arise in ev-
cry county. They perform a very
great work IN the life of
the world, AID every man should sup
port ms county paper in good faith
!or the common good. 1t is absolutely
Tor the great dailies, cover
ing large territories, to handle all
these county matters in detail, and if
CheS coutd there is a certain perceht-
age OF the people who would be lie
prlYed OF the daily on account of its
price. On the other hand there are
many people residing in the various
counties, men of means, with families
whose fntellects could be greatly. i'm
proVedEy reading a high-class daily
neWspape-. It is a duty every man
VINO can afford it. owes to his family.
Ine observer Company, of Charlotte,
n. VI publishes every morning The
Daily observer, carrying full tele-
graphic news from every part of the
world, full news of the State in gen.
eraI, and a variety of editorial COM
IneRt' presenting views of all sides on
0E quesNon, all OF winch TENDS &c
improve the thinker, makes broader
minded people and develops indie
pendent thought. The Observer Com
pany also publishes every afternoon
Inc Venln Chronicle, and every
TUESDAY and Friday The Semi-Week-
yOpSerVer In a general way, all
hes papers strive to attain the same
nd-th making of a paper which
VIII be a welcome visitor to every
mans home, and to be a means of
enlightenment. The Observer is $500
Chronicle is $500 per year; s1.25 per
three months. The Semi-Weekly OBJ
server is $1.OO per year; % cents per
three months.
sample copies will gladly be sent
upon request. THE price may seem
nigh, but the recollection of quality
remains long after price is forgotten"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Some New "HowIers.,'

An article on Examination
Humor," in a periodical called Nor
NAL Echoes, contains some good
"howlers." They are none the less
interesting for coming from students
in training for teachers. A criticism
of William Blake that "as a child he
was precocious in poetry, but in later
years it developed into dogmatism,"
is a lesson in the art of being mar.
ticulate, while the remark that "the
works of the time were mostly
Satyrs' is quaint though obvious. The
translation OF "caviare to the gen.
eral" as they gave the best of fish
to the servant is worth thinking out,
and so is the note on WordsWorth's
great line in the ode, "the winds come
to me from the fields of Sleep" as
found in Old Immortality, e
hat the wind blew across the flow
ers. OF course there is boggling
over proper names. There is moth
ing, indeed, so good as the descrip-
ton Of Cromwell as "a man with
coarse features and having a large.
red nose with deep religious convic-
lions beneath, or the case OF the
"lapsed man" who, having by way
OF exception attended church, ad-
mltted to the rector's wife that he
had benefited, for he had learned
thai Sodom and Gomorrah were two
cities, whereas he had always thought
they were man and wife.-Manches.
ter Guardian,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Train Blown From Track.

Wilmington, Special. B. Foun-
tain, of the Atlantic Coast Line, is
advised that Wednesday afternoon at
$50 o'clock, while a Wilmington
bound freight train of IS ears was
standing at a water tank at Dudley,
a short distance this side of Colds
boro, a gale of wind of cyclone pro-
portion struck the centre of the string
of cars blowing six of them, all emp
ties, clear of the main line and one
ON the track, blocking traffic for four
houEss No one was injured and there
was no freight loss. A wrecking crew
was sent from Wilmington and ex-
pected to have the line clear by night.
So far as could be learned there was
no property damaged in the country
round about.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
An Innorafion in Roads.

During the last few ears much in
terest has been taken in the crusade
for good roads, and in many parts
of the country model stretches of
highway have been constructed by
good roads" commissions to serve as
examples to the natives of each local.
ity. Much valuable instruction has
been impaired in this manner, but
apparently no plan discovered for
overcoming the difficulties of road
building in a sandy soil. It remained
for a Minnesota man to adopt a new
method of construction suitable to
such a condition.
Mr.. George w. Cooley, State High
way Engineer of Minnesota, has de-
signed a road that is seryiceable in
spite of a sandy foundation. A Sec
ton of his new construction is located
at Cambridge, in Isanti County. In
this district there is nothing but sand
for a top soil, and it is impossible to
preserve a road without adding some
other material. Mr.. Cooley finally
decided that sawdust was the COM
ponent necessary, and a four-inch
layer Of this was raked into a stretch
of road which had been carefully
graded. Passing teams thoroughly
ground together this mixture, and
whenever ruts were worn into the
surface they were filed with fresh
sawdust. The fine particles of wood
gradually rot, forming a heavy loan
with the sand, and the result is a
firm roadbed suitable to all ordinary
t-amc.-HGrper's Weekly.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Storm Damage Serious.

Washington, N. c., Special.-This
city was visited Wednesday after
Moor between 2 and 3 o'clock by a
very severe wind and hail storm that
swept owe the lower part from the
water front in an easterly direction,
the wind attaining a velocity Of
about Go miles and doing consider
able damage. Five large smoke stacks
of the Kugler Lumber Company
plant were blown down causing an
estimated damage of $4,000. The
Moss Planning Mill sheds and kiln
were demolished; damage $1,000. The
Banner Lumber Company's sheds
and stacks, $500. Farren & Co.,
canning factory stack, 500. The
slcop Cassie was blown ashore high
and dry on the banks of Pamlico
river. At the Kugler Lumber Com
pany. a large section of the mill roof
was lifted up and carried a distance
of se~venty-fve yards across the
street.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Kentucky's Improved Roads.

It may be of interest to all Ken
tUckians to know that their State
leads all of the Southern States in
the percentage of improved roads,
Tennessee and Maryland only having
nine per cent. improved. Florida five
per cent, South Carolina four per
cent, Virginia three per cent, Mis-
souri, and North Carolina two and
one-half per cent, Texas two per
cent, while all the other Southern
States have less than one per cent.
improved.
We need only to compare results,
however, with expenditures to be
convinced of the weakness of the
present road system. = Good Roads
Magazine.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Discovers Substance to Supplant
Radium.

The announcement of DR.. E. Still
man Bailey of Chicago, at the meet
ing of the Southern Homeopathic
Medical association in convention at
Mobile, Ala, of the discovery of
"radiothor," a substance made from
pitch-blend, which, he says, is destin-
ed to supplant radium, is the engag-
ing topic of scientists and medical
experts. DR.. Bailey said that he had
tried his new discovery with success
in treatment of locomotor-ataxia and
similar diseases. In discussing the
discovery DR.. Bailey said his expert
ments were yet in their infancy, but
he believes radio-thor will find a
great use by the medical profession.
His chief purpose now is to find the
most advantageous way of applying
the substance. DIR. Bailey declares
that with the use of the substance he
can photograph objects through six
inches of wood. He exhibited a glass
tube containing some of the material
and showed that when placed in con-
tact with the negative pole of a mag
net, the materiol becomes luminous.
Dr.. Bailey admitted that expert
menting with the new substance was
affecting his nervous system. The
elimination of any such deleterious
results in the use of radio-thor by
physicians, it is believed, can be
worked out.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Vegetables as Medicines.

Carrots are excellent for govt.
Cranberries correct the liver. Aspa-
ragus stimulates the kidneys. Wat
ercress is an excellent blood purifier.
Honey is a good substitute for cod
liver oil. Parsnips possess the same
virtues as sarsaparilla. Celery con-
tains sulphur and helps to ward off
rheumatism. Bananas are beneficial
to sufferers from chest complaints.
Celery is a nerve tonic; onions also
are a tonic for the nerves. Beet root
is ~fattening and good for people who
want to put on flesh. Tomatoes are
good for torpid liver, but should be
avoided by equity people. Lettuce
has a soothing effect on the nerves
and is excellent for sufferers from in
somnia. Spinach has great aperient
qualities and is far better than medi-
cine for sufferers from constipation.
The juice of a lemon is excellent for
IRE throat, but should not be swal-
lowed, but used as a gargle.-Ameri-
can C~ultivator.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
An Odd Milk Test,

One clever housekeeper has Ie2rnoa
to outwit a milkman, whom she sne-
pected of diluting his stock Of milk
She kept in her kitchen a fine steel
knitting needle, which was always j.,
a high state of polish.
AS soon as the milk came into he
house she stuck the needle lightly
into the can and drew it out in an
upright position. If no drop adhered
to the needle that milkman heard a
line of talk on watered milk that
caused him to be careful how re dali
lied with the pump On his next visit.
It is said if there be even q little
water in milk not a drop of it will ad.
here to a needle SO used.-NeW York
Times.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Darkness Overshadowed Rocky Mount
and Rain, Snow and Hail Fell.

Rocky Mount, Specialize most
peculiar storm in the history of this
section occurred Wednesday after
noon Rain, hail and snow fell and
dark clouds overshadowed the city at
2 O'Clock. Lamps had to be lighted
in many instances while places of
business were forced to cease on ac-
count of darkness. Passenger trains
Nos. AZ and 80 were operated into the
city with headlights and all ears
lighted as at night. For the hour of
day with the exception of eclipses it
was the darkest time ever recalled by
the oldest citizens. All forms of
lower animal life prepared for night
and chickens went to roost.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
Artificial Sapphires.

M. Lacroix, a member Of the
French Academy of Sciences, has just
read a paper before that learned
society on the manufacture of sap
phires. He has discovered practi-
cally the composition of the precious
stone, and has succeeded in obtain
ing some specimens which almost re-
semble the real stone. 1t cannot be
said that M. Lacroix has yet dtscov-
cred the exact process, for those
which he has obtained would not Inn
pose upon a skilled lapidary who sub
jected them to q severe test.7LOs-
don Globe.