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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
BANKER CLAIMS
FAILURE is DUE
TO PROHIBITION
President of Defunct CaIistoga
Institution Is Captured
in Washington
Asserts Temperance Wave in
Country Is Responsible
for Trouble
Especial Dispatch 10 The CALI

WASHINGTON, D. C., March ID
Harry H. Brown 80 years old. presi-
dent of the defunct Calistoga bank of
Napa county, was arrested at the New
Willard hotel this afternoon by Detec-
tive Bauer of the central office on a
charge of embezzlement
A private detective had been trailing
Brown around the country for the last
two weeks and finally located him in
this city The washington police at
first declined to take any action in the
case, but today dispatch was re-
ceived stating that an Indictment for
embezzlement had been returned
against Brown by the Napa county
grand jury. The telegram was signed
by the district attorney and the sheriff
of the county.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
On Special Mission

l4Ou ~ Tic pASLCSts dS WOA a. ~ A%-oAJ
governors of provinces and mayors
throughout italy. He had also Official
letters introducing and recommending
him to Giolitti. minister Of the -
terror.
These letters, prove that Pc osfno
came to Italy as special con- aislonet
from the American governme rrt
of his purposes was to trac'. ao IS
leaders of the Black Har ave
escaped back to Italy fre tas nited
States. He had imports o-ne Il lists.
personal descriptions aHd 3eographs
of the. criminals he soaeh
Aaother purpose was Il make some
agFeement between the italian and
American governments to prevent the
emigration OF members of the Sicilian
Malta and the Neapolitan Comorra and
to perfect arrangements. II they should
leave Italy, to seize them when they
landed in the United States.
Notes in a memorandum book proved
Petrosino had remained few days at
Tunis en- route to Italy. He had been
at Tripani. in the northwest corner OF
Sicily. about so miles from Palermo,
and to other towns in northwest Sicily
which are known as nests Of the
Malta He had been reporting to Wash
ington through various American con-
suls
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
'bRAVEFOE
|. OF LAW[FSS
/. SHOT DOWN
Lieutenant Joseph PetrOsinO OF
New York Police Victim
OF ASSaSSinS
Slain in Palermo, Sicily, While
on Important Mission
Against Criminals
Head of Italian Squad at the
Metropolis Meets Fate He
Often Prophesied
American Authorities Will Wage
Relentless Warfare Against
Class Implicated
Especial Gable 10 tn. CALI

~ ONE, March Lieutenant
X Joseph Petrosino OF the New York
i - police department was assassf-
mated in Palermo. Sicily. at 10
o'clock last night by emissaries OF the
Black Hand, whose members hated and
dreaded the detective as their most
dangerous enemy in this country and
in America.
Petrosino was crossing the Garfbaldt
garden, a park In the Piazza Marina.
Two men, who walked slowly as II out
for the air. approached him and opened
fire with revolvers.
Four shots were fred and Petrosino
fell dead One murderer hurled his
pistol at the body and both fed
Petrosino's body was taken to the
main police station. 1t was identified
by the project OF Palermo by means
of letters and other documents.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
HOME again, after three years

cnnfinued on Page IS, Column
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
MARINE

Officers and crew Of navy hospital ship Relief
come home transport Thomas. Page 4s
LABOR
The San Francisco labor council has declared
against the proposed imposition Of cents
pound on coffee. Page Al
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
SNAPSHOTS AT FARM WORK.

There is no better way to stop a
wash in a field than the following
method:
The cultivation Of camphor trees as
a substitute for oranges is being con.
sidered in parts of Florida.
Is there any wild grass that you can
cut down and bring in for the cattle
to stamp down in the yard for manure?
There may be a low swale where you
can get some Of this. It will all help
to keep up the farm.
Get some old rails and sharpen
them then drive them into the ditch.
level with the ground, so that when
the rains come the rails will gather
the stalks and grass, and in a years
time the ground will be nearly level.
Such dams should be four to seven
rods apart.
After your potatoes are out of
bloom NOV the tops of, but not too
close, and see if you don't have the
finest and most beautiful crop you
eve had. This is an Irish kink from
a potato grower Of Washington u
ty. The idea is that the tops have
done their duty after blooming. Try
a few.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

Harvest of Two Rows of Ben Davis.
the returns from which are included
in the report.
The varieties were chiefly Baldwin
and Ben Davis, but Stark, winesap,
Grimes golden, king, Belmont, Bell
flower, Fameuse, Rome Beauty, Wal
bridge, pippins and a few others were
represented. A few plots Of Baldwin
and Ben Davis were sprayed with Bor-
deaux mixture before blooming but
most of the orchard received no treat
ment, except the spring application of
l%ime-sulphur until after the petals fell.
AS soon as possible after the blossoms
fell the entire orchard was given a
heavy spraying with %arsenate of lead
alone, or with %arsenate of lead com
bined with Bordeaux mixture. The
Baldwins were several days advanced
before spraying commenced but the
Ben Davis were exactly right.
The spraying outfit consisted of a
IA horsepower gasoline engine, a $50
gallon tank and tower, mounted on
trucks, and was easily drawn by one
strong horse. The bamboo poles were
ten feet long, and one handled by the
man on the tower being further length
ened by a light brass extension about
three feet long. A "gooseneck" or
crook was used at the end of each rod
to give a downward angle to the noz-
zle, thus directing the spray straight
into the calyx cups.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
PARAGRAPHS OF WISDOM,

Keeping a cow because she is pretty
may be all right as far as it goes, but
it is not good business.
No one ever heard of the time when
the best fruit would not sell at a fair
price somewhere within a days drive
Of the grower.
Farmers are the only producers
who allow the buyer to fix the price
of their property. But they are rap
idly changing this state of affairs by
organization.
The sunrise farmer will scarcely
know hard times if they come, say,
ten years hence; but the never-get.
busy-till-afternoon chap will be calam.
ity bowling about every day.
An old mower run up and down the
sides of the public road around the
farm will get away with the weeds.
Not your business? Perhaps not,
strictly; but the satisfaction of a
clean highway will be yours.
The primary object of cultivating
crops is to keep the soil in good ION.
dition, but if it were not for weeds a
lot of farmers would neglect this i'm
portant work. Sometimes our bless.
lngs come in disguise.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

The best record obtained was from
a Ben Davis tree sprayed with Bor-
deaux before bloom, and once heavily
with %arsenate of lead soon after the
bloom fell.
The Ben Davis tree were estimated
to be less than two per cent. wormy,
including the drops, and the picked
harvest was only a fraction of one per
cent. wormy. The Baldwins averaged
one or two per cent. more wormy
than the Ben Davis. owing to the fact
that they were further advanced when
sprayed. The third orchard of trees,
20 years old, which was sprayed
about two weeks after the bloom fell,
ran from three or four per cent.
wormy on some trees, to 33 or "a per
cent. wormy on others. The only un-
sprayed check that was reserved yield
ed 42.5 per cent. wormy. So far as
could be determined, the second and
third sprayings with poison had so lit
tie effect in reducing the percentage
OF worminess that they did not pay.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Time to Chance Subject.

The Courier-Journal tells Of this
embarrassing statement made by a
well-known Louisville woman who is
known as Saying things without
thinking" Her daughter was enter
tanning a young man on the front
porch and the mother was standing
at the fence talking to the neighbors
next door. In the yard of the latter
was a baby a little over a year old,
and it was trying to walk. you
shouldn't let it walk so young" ad-
vised the thoughtless matron. "Wait
until it's a little older. l let my
daughter walk when she was about
that age, and it made her b~ow-legged.'
The young man began to talk ener-
getically about the weather.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
BEST TIME FOR ALFALFA.
October and November Generally Re.
garded as Right Time for Plant
ing; How to Do It.

The best time to SOW alfalfa Is DC.
tober or November. The next best
time is February Is to March 81. 1t
prefers a rich, sandy loan such as a
fresh second bottom, or branch bot
tom (not at all wet, or a rich old
garden, of a we'll "cow-penned' plat.
AS far as possible the soil should be
clear of grass and weed seeds-for
these are the bane of alfalfa. At least
one season of culture in a clean crop
like cotton or COW peas (plowed), or
other plowed and hoed crop, Is desir-
able. With three or four tons of rot
ten stable n spread broadcast
per acre and plowed in, it will not be
found necessary to inoculate the soil,
or the seed. Commencing now, an
excellent preceding crop by way Of
preparation is cow peas.
In August or September prepare the
land by deep and close blowing (put
in the stable manure at this time) and
narrowing. Just before sowing the
seed scatter broadcast about 800 or
800 pounds Of 10 and
potash and harrow in. Then
lay off rows 80 inches apart,
strew ESQ pounds per acre Of 10
caid and so pounds of nitrate Of soda,
cover by throwing several light fur.
rows on it, be cultivated. Every
February you plant rutabagas, using
about Is pounds of seed per acre.
That's about all. No thinning will be
necessary. You may SOW 20 pounds
of seed broadcast if you wish, that be-
ing the method adopted in the west,
but sowing in 30-inch rows, so that 1t
may be cultivated, is preferable.
Every February you should apply 600
to 800 pounds land upward) per acre
Of the 1O-4, and potash, and it would
be we'll to apply five to ten bushels of
air-slaked lime per acre about once in
three years.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
new SENSATION FOR D0BBIN
Come to Think of It, He Would Have
Felt Funny Sitting in the
Position Indicated.

The family horse, who rejoiced In
the eminently proper equine name Of
Dobbin, had earned a rest by long
service, and was accordingly sent
away to the country to spend his de-
Ginning years in the broad pastures of
a farmer friend of his owner. The
distance being somewhat excessive
for his rheumatic legs, he was shipped
to his new home by rail.
Little Edna, the family fo~ur-year-old,
viewed the passing of Dobbin with I'M
feigned sorrow. She sat for a long
time gazing disconsolately out of the
window. At last, after a deep sigh.
she turned with a more cheerful ex.
preston, and said:
Did old Dobbin 60 on the choo-
choO cars, mamma?"
Yes, DEAR" answered her mother.
A broad grin spread over the little
girls face. 81 was just thinking" she
said, how funny he must feel sitting
up on the plush Observation-Disclosures
Home Companion.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
The Same Old John l..

Old John l.. Sullivan always had a
fine Irish wit, and it remains with him
in his advanced age. Not long ago he
was appearing in a Baltimore theater
and the manager, for business rea,
sons, introduced him to a wealthy
youth of the town. The youth was a
typical chollyboy, the sort Of a speci-
men that old John abhors. Sullivan
was washing his face in the theater
dressing room when the two arrived,
and they waited patiently until he had
finished his additions. When John
had dried his ~countenance he gave the
dude one look, and then said to the
manager: well, | congratulate You,
Jack, is it a boy or a girl?'
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
GROW ROOT CROPS PROPERLY
Best Method Of Wedding and Thinning
Out Onions, Carrots, Beets,
Parsnips and Satisfy.

Onions, carrots, parnips, beets and
satisfy must be kept free from weeds
and grass from the time the plants
push above the ground until the leaves
are large enough to shade the soil,
says the Baltimore American. The
hand cultivator and weeder is the best
implement for the work. Straddle the
rows and cut away the young weeds
as soon as the rows a be distinctly
seen; follow with the cultivator in a
few days, stirring the soil about n
inch in depth. This frequent working
will keep the ground mellow and at
the same time kill the young weeds.
The plants should be thinned as soon
AS they have made the fourth leaf.
This may be done either by hand or
two,inch steel hoe is mostly used by
the gardeners, and the fOur-inch hoe
by the truckers. Whatever method is
followed, they should be thinned the
proper distances, so they a make
good sized roots. Onions, from seed.
require careful wedding when plants
are small. in the trucking districts
the wedding and thinning Of the root
crops is mostly done by contract for
so much per row. The early crops Of
beets should be thinned out to stand
four inches apart in the row; the
plants pulled out are set out in ad.
joining rows. first cutting off the tip
Of the root and cutting the leaves
within half an inch of the crown. Beet
plants have great vitality and will
take root and start into growth a few
days after planting. Those transplant
ed plants will make large bulbs, but
not as large as those grown direct
from seed.
Parsnips, carrots and satisfy cannot
be transplanted; these should be
thinned out early so as to give the
roots plenty Of time to grow. The
French and oxheat carrots will not
need thinning, as they are pulled as
o O as half grown.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
DREADFUL DANDRUFF.
Girls Head Encrusted-Feared Loss
Of All Her Hair-Baby Had Milk.
Crust M~issionary's Wife Made
Two Perfect Cures by cuticura.

For several years my husband
was a missionary in the Southwest,
Every one in that high and dry at
mosphere has more or less trouble
with dandruf and my daughters scalp
became so encrusted with it that l
was alarmed for fear she would lose
all her hair. After trying various rem
edies, in desperation I bought a cake
Of Cuticura Soap and a box Of Cuti.
cura Ointment. They left the scalp
beautifully clean and free from
dandruff, and l am happy to say that
the Cuticura Remedies were a com.
plete success. / have also used SUI.
c~essfully the Cuticura Remedies for
so-called 'milk-crust' on baby's head.
Cuticura is a blessing. Mrs. j. A.
Darling, 80 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio,
Jan. 20, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

and made NE feel like a new person,
and it shall always have my praise"
Mrs. W. ?. VALENTINE, 9o2 Lincoln
Avenue, Camden, n. }.
Gardiner, Mel was q great suf-
ferer from a female disease. The doc
tor said | would have to 90 to the
hOspitalfor an operation. but Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound COM
pletely cured ne in three months."-
Mrs. S. A. WILLIAMS, Il. I. ID. No. ii,
Box 80, Gardiner Me.
Because your case is a difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compounds trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as ill.,
tlammation, liberation, displacements,
tibroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner-
vous prostration. It costs but a trile
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
STOPPED HER SONG OF JOY.
Slight Forgetfuiness That MARRIED the
Full Appreciation Of the
Welcome Rain.

Isn't that a lovely shower?' eX>
claimed Mrs. Randall to her friend in
the parlor as they gazed out on the
sudden %downpOur.
Yes, We need it so badly"
Need it? ] should say We did. It's
a God.send. Why, our goldengloWs,
hyacinths and roses out in the back
yard are shrinking for the want Of
rain. The sprinkler cant take the
place of rain, you know"
Indeed not
"Oh, I tell you this is just lovely,'
See how it pours. And to think that
just when everything threatens to dry
up and every one is praying for rain
nature answers these appeals and
sends us beautiful Good heavens"
whats the matter??'
I've left the baby out in the yard"
The Circle.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
RESULTS OF SPRAY
Interesting Experiments with
Apples in Ohio.
Best Record Was Obtained from Ben
Davis Tree-No Russeting Of Fruit
Detected, and But a Small Per
Cent. Were Wormy.

The Ohio agricultural experiment
station last year made some interest
ing experiments with spraying on an
apple orchard. A summary, as writ
ten by H. A. Gossard is in part, as
follows:
The orchard used for experiment,
the property of Mr.. John A. Stokes,
consisted of II acres located near Ere
mont, Sandusky county. Four acres
consisted of trees "a years Old. four
acres of trees 20 years Old and four
acres of trees II years old. The three
orchards contained 534 trees in all,
Besides these were about two acres
of scattering trees of various ages,
not included in the experiment, but
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Sex in CromWeUs,

OF course with the sexes on a foot.
ing Of equality as regarded oppor-
tunity, it would not be long until a fe-
male Cromwell made her appearance,
and, having made her appearance, was
getting her portrait painted.
The painter, once more a fawn-
ing, courtly fellow, would have the
picture a fattery; but she rebuked
him in words that became historic!
Paint in the hips" she command.
ed, sternly, showing that she could
be nor rigidly devoted to the truth
than Oliver himself.-Puck.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
ORIGIN
OF a Famous Human Food.

The story Of the great discoveries
Or inventions is always of interest.
An active brain worker who found
himself hampered by lack of bodily
strength and vigor and could not carry
out the plans and enterprises he knew
how to conduct, was led to study va
rious foods and their effects upon the
human system. In other words, be.
fore he could carry out his plans he
had to find a food that would carry
him along and renew his physical and
mental strength.
He knew that a food which was a
brain and nerve builder (rather than
a mere fat maker) was universally
needed. He knew that meat with the
average man does not accomplish the
desired results. He knew that the
soft gray substance In brain and
nerve centers is made from Albumen
and Phosphate Of Potash obtained
from food. Then he started to solve
the problem.
Careful and extensive experiments
evolved Grape-Nuts, the now famous
food. 1t contains the brain and nerve
building food elements in condition
for easy digestion.
The result Of eating Grape-Nuts
daily is easily seen in a marked sturdi.
ness and marked activity Of the brain
and nervous system, making it a
pleasure for one to carry IN the daily
duties without fatigue or exhaustion.
Grape.Nuts food Is in no sense a
stimulant but is simply food which
renews and replaces the daily waste
Of brain and nerves.
Its favour is charming and being
fully and thoroughly cooked at the
factory it is served instantly with
cream.
The signature of the brain worker
spoken of, C. w. Post, is to be seen on
each genuine package Of Grape-Nuts.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, The Road to MELVILLE"
there's a reason"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Next Best,

A certain young minister in Phila'
Aelphia, recently ordained, Is still very
nervous and sometimes his remarks
do not convey exactly the meaning he
intended. A few Sundays ago he rose,
fumbled with the papers on his desk,
blushed. and then said:
MY Friends: II am sorry to say
that / have lost the notes for my ser.
mon, and I therefore cannot deliver
1t. I will have to do the next best
thing. therefore. and read a few chap
tiers from the Bible!"-Illustrated Sun.
day Magazine.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
MAKING UP RIGHT QUANTITY.
President Taft's Wififut Misinterpre-
tatIon Of Little Girls Intended
Naughty Rebuke.

President Taft is fond Of children.
with whom he is a iavorite. A charm
ing story on this head comes from Gin
%cinnati.
Once, when a pretty Cincinnati sir!
was a child Of six or seven. Mr.. Taft.
calling at her house, found nobody
home excepting herself She enter
tanned him a little while. and when
he rose to go, he stopped down and
kissed her.
"Hcre's one he said, for the baby.
Here is another for little jim. And
here is a third for Rillie-boy.'
The little girl, drawing herself up,
said haughtily-she had been reading
a novel:
Mr. Taft, you forget YOURSELF"
He bent down again.
so | did he laughed. "Well, here's
n for myself"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
HOSPITALS a Benefit to Property.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
has recently concluded an investiga.
ton, which shows that SIS per cent.
of the tuberculosis sanatoria and hos.
pitfalls of the United States have been
a benefit to the property and health
of the communities in which they are
located. In the case of more than 62
per cent. of the sanatoria the presence
Of the institutions has helped to in
crease the assessed value Of surround.
ing property.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Mother Bird Drove Bow AWAY,

People on Main street, Dallastown,
Pa, witnessed an amusing sight the
other morning, when a curious small
boy who climbed into a maple tree for
a closer inspection of a nest Of young
robins was put to flight by an angry
mother bird. Discovered by the old
bird after he had clambered into the
tree the y0ungster was sayagely at
tackled. The bird pecked viciously at
his bare hands and face, causing him
to retreat to the ground, and then
driving him home.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
TiIIage Of Asparagus.

The question of the size of aspara.
gus shoots is merely a matter of soil
fertility and good tillage. Very few
growers have reached the limit in the
amount Of manure that can be used
profitably. Manure may be worked
into the soil in the fall, early in the
spring, or after the cutting season.
The size Of plants secured from the
end of the cutting season until cold
weather determines the size of shoots
that will be cut the next spring.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Let's Be Fair.

The wires have flashed the new
that a peach basket hat worn by a
woman in a canoe, and rendered lop.
sided by the careless zephyr, caused a
list and overturned the craft. At this
point the correspondent, evidently
male and prejudiced, stopped short. If
he wished to be fair he should have
gone on to tell that the occupants of
the boat grasped the hat, climbed
aboard Of 1t, and until their rescue
Jared sumptuously on the fruit and
garden truck which constituted a part
of its artistic decoration. The true
news expert never is biased.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
Had to Hear Evidence.

Some ladies were visiting at
Blanche's home one day. During the
conversation, while the visitors were
there, n Of the ladies was describ-
ing how the blowf1ies laid eggs and
they Matched out as maggots. Four
year-old Blanche did not seem to be
interested in the conversation MOI pay
any attention to what they had been
talking about. After the visitors had
gone, Blanche said: '
Mamma, l don't believe flies lay
eggs"
Why" asked the surprised mother.
Because l never heard one cackle,"
explained the doubling Blanche.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17
The Aappiest.

In the smokinS-room of the Finland,
discussing a June wedding, Andrew
Carnegie said:
And thank goodness it wasn't an
international marriage, though the
bride did have IS millions.
Not" appended Mr.. Carnegie, that
l object to international marriages
wherein the two parties are good and
honorable and we'll matched. But so
many of these marriages are like one
that a Boston cynic described to
me.
WAS it a happy MARRIAGE asked
this B0stonian.
ooh, quite said he. The bride
was happy, her mother was over
joyed. Lord Lacland was in &C.
s%tacies, and his creditors, | under
stand, were in a state of absolutely
endless and uncomfortable bliss"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

this valuable nledi-
cine, LydiaE.P Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound. | suf-
Iercd from terrible
headaches, pain in
my back and right
side. was tired and
nervous, and SO
WeakIcould hardly
stand. Lydia Z.
Pink Negeta-
bic Compound re-
stored he to health