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The San Francisco call., 1909-02-20
Shipmenfs by the Queen


The steamer Queen sailed FOR Victoria We'd
nesday with cargo consigned TO various British
Columbian cities, valued al $12,50 and including
the following:
1895 lbs raisirs. 7Gs5 lbs dried fruit. 1917
pkgs fresh fruits. S2S rkgs Yegeta bIes > bbls
four. $50 es eggs. - IS canned goods. 252 lbs
cheese, 9Si lbs chocolate. 725 lbs and 10 Is
meals, II. eco lbs malt, $1,000 his oileake IN OPS
lbs peas. Al COO lhs salt. SIS gals and 5 Is
wine. % mineral water. cs bitters IL cs
arms and ammunition, 10.132 lbs eopperas IL
pkgs drugs, 8 pkgs electrical goods IL pkgs
machinery, 1fG bbls and 13 cs oils, 81 pkgs
roofing material 1000 lbs shot. 237 lbs tobacco.
8 Dcs steel.
points follows: For Australia and New Zea.
land. 80 lbs seeds, G spool silk and pkgs
Org goods, valued 1T $s59; Fiji islands. 90 cs
canned goods aud 1 hales overalls. valued al
1896: Tanning island 81 cs canned goods valued
at $137; Friendly islands. 40 cs salmon , es
cheese. 60 windows pkgs vehicles. I es var.
nish and bales netting. valued at SI96
Tonnage engagements
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Water Front Notes

Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 17S,000 feet.
| NThe Pacific Mail liner Korea, Cap
| tain Andrew Dixon, arrived yesterday
at Honolulu from the far east and will
be here probably next Friday.
| The Hartman steamer Rose City
| will sail for Portland tomorrow in
Sfead of today.
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Army Transports

The Logan is in port
The Crook is In port.
The BufOrd is in port.
The Sherman is in port.
The Warren is at Manila.
The Sheridan is en- route to Manila.
The Dix is at Seattle.
The Thomas sailed February 10 from Manila
for this port
The fitzpatrick sailed February II from New
York for Manila.
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average snow on ground, 2O7 inches.

average snow on ground. 207 inches.
SYNOPSIS
The pressure is rising over the northern half of
the Pacific slope. Light rain has fallen in Ore
gon and Washington and also in the far northern
counties OF California. In the central and south
ern counties pleasant weather prevails. 1t is
somewhat cooler over most of the state
High winds are reported at TOnopah, Salt
Lake. Flagstaff and Independence
The relative humidity at Red Bluff was 20 per
cent and at Fresno 70 per cent.
FORECAST
San Francisco and Yicinity-Fair Saturday
brisk northwest winds
Santa Clara YaIley-Fair Saturday; light north
winds.
Sacramento yalley-Fair Saturday; light frost
in the morning: light north winds.
San Joaquin yalley-Fair Saturday; fresh north
winds.
Los Angeles and vicinity-Fair, cooler Satur-
day: brisk north winds.
A. G. McADIE District Forecaster.
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Ibsen and Hercules are under time charter for
the Pacific trade for three years
The French ship La Perouse is chartered for
wheat from here to Europe at Is shillings.
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NEWS OF THE OCEAN
crude OIL for Honolulu

CrEGe OH Tor Honolulu
The tank ship Marion ChilcOtt was cleared FOR
Honolulu yesterday with 6J5.200 gallons OF crude
oil and 75 drums OF dlstillate, valued at S11 100
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Did Not Know Captains Name
United States Customs Inspector Nc
Chimes boarded the scow schooner
Matilda yesterday at Howard street
wharf for the purpose of examining
the schooners papers The captain
was not on board. The crew, consist
From the crew McGinnes tried to
learn the captains name, but after
half an hours trying went ashore un-
enlightened. They had only been on
the Matilda five months, the fair haired
mariners explained, and had never had
occasion to. address the skipper by
name or refer to him as anything but
the "old man."
"Ay tank" volunteered one of them
as McGinnes was leaving. dat vonce
ay har man call him Fred, but ay
ban not sure.
Delayed by Late Mails
The Pacific Mail liner City of Para,
Captain Nelson, left Spear street wharf
promptly at noon yesterday for Pana-
ma and way ports but did not leave
When sailing time came the Office mall
was not ready. so the time of waiting
for it was put IN by captain Nelson
the mail reached the wharf it was
sent out on the tug Arab.
CoIIides With French Bark
The scow schooner Sarah flirted with
the tide yesterday morning and was
caught in the embrace OF the current
and swept across the bow of the French
shin Germaine anchored off Meiggs
wharf One of Crowiey's launches,
which had been sent out TO chaperon
the Sarah across the bay, reached the
scene in time to rescue the scow be-
fore it had suffered any serious dam
age The Germaine was uninjured.
Charter Norwegian Steamers
Harriman's Portland and Asiatic line
has chartered the Norwegian steamers
Selja, Rygia, Henrik Ibsen and Her
cules for three years. The Selia will
be at the charterer's disposal at Hong
kong May 1, the Rygia at Portland
June l. the Hercules at Portland Oc-
Ifober ] and the Henrik Ibsen at Hong
kong June l. They Will replace the
German steamers that were chartered
when the direct service between Port
land and the orient was inaugurated
Water Front Club Rejuvenated
The Little Johnnie Jones' club will
hold its first reunion since the fire at
the Latin hall, corner of Green and
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gTeuaOrausIn

ScOw sehr Sarah collided with Fr bark Ger
maine lying on Meiggs wharf Feb 10: no
damage.
Per stmr Claremont-One hour after leaving
Ventura lost blade OF propeller.
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Weather Report

United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau. San Francisco. Feb 10, 1909
RAINFALL DATA
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sUBLEAGUE CHAMPIONS

OAKLAND Feb. 19.-Oakland high
school won the subleague basket ball
championship by defeating Oakland
lepolytechnic by a score of "a to Is
Street and Smith We're put out of the
game for rough work.
Sam Hiidreth today sold Guiding Star to
W. Z. MAXWELL
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NERNoN GETs BATEMAN

AfTLWAUK EE, Wis, Feb. 19.-Quale
Fyatenan. pitcher and outfielder OF the
Milwaukee American association base
ban team, was sold today to the Vernon
club Of the Pacific Coast leag@
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Tonnage engagements
The Norwegian steamers Selja, Rygja, Henrik
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Work place u BSgeE Winner
a Hig price Rec TO- shaw
Warden due Devech wis
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Apprentice allowance.
Weather clear. Track fast.
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on at 3:24k. Peer. 7-20 place.
:. Winner ch. g. by Batten- Count
silly after drive. Second and third
-ithin striking distance OF the pace.
the end. but labored under the dis
El Picaro showed surprising speed.
MT lay along fairly close throughout
'se raced each other into exhaustion
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The Little Johnnie Jones' club will
hold its first reunion since the fire at
the Latin hall, corner Of Green and
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-20

THIRD RAcEsix fuongs selling
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es. on at 2:3715. Box, place, SIS show;
ow. Winner CHI c. by Box-Tooache. Trained
ood Won driving. Next two easily. High
lay within striking distance of leaders first
. Avon at head of stretch and won out in long
eatedly attempted to savage him St Avon
nuch ground at start was tying himself on
poorest going in stretch. Cuernavaca outlasted
d Brush Up early pacemakers quit in stretch
d into fence by Dargin while in contending
rly. made up ground. Others ran poorly.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09

reau of the Chicago Times. and the
son accompanied him. each Of them
sending several columns of ca bes and
letters every week. One day Storey
fired the elder Wilkie by cable, and
the son went to the head of an Ameri-
can commercial agency III London,
where he remained almost two years.
Returning to Chicago. he re-entered
the newspaper field and soon became
city editor Of the Tribune, Frank Z.
Vanderbilt was financial editor of the
paper at the same time, and the two
became chums When Lyman j. Gage
was made secretary of the treasury
he took Vanderlip along as private sec
rotary and in a short time made him
assistant secretary of the treasury
Vanderlip remembered his friend VII
kie, tried him out on some work for
the government and succeeded In get
ting him appointed chief of the secret
service. This is the story of John L.
Wilkes rise as have it from the lips
of newspaper man who used to work
with him as a police reporter. WINE
much of it has seen the light | think
it has never been printed before in all
it's details.
Secret Service" True to Name.
In Office Mr.. Wilkie Is one OF the
most democratic and easily accessible
Of all government employees. There
are two rooms in the treasury building
with the legend Secret Service over
the door Anybody can walk right In
and will usually find Grief Wilkie In
his shirt sleeves going over reports or
considering some knotty case. In the
same room is his assistant. W. Eel Mo
ran, and in the adjoining room are a
number Of clerks. Nothing mysterious
about all this. but the most prosafc
and matter of fact routine of every
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09

MODERN STREET SCENE IN CATANIA, TO
WHICH CITY MEssINA REFUGEES FLED.
made less of show than usual. In
March there was disturbance IN
northern Mexico, near the Rio Grande
river. which did not do much damage
On the following day Chlapa, over the
Mexican border was roughly shaken
and there were even a few casualties
Earthquakes are SO infrequent In AZ
RIGA that some scientists have been in
clined to regard the dark continent as
immune This year, however, that the
DRY has been made untenable. Two
heavy shocks were felt In the Kongo
Free State, almost directly under the
equator, covering an area Of hun
bred square miles.
But the most convincing realization
Of the insecurity with which we walk
the earth has come to the American
people through the seismic exhibitions
which have occurred nearer home, the
horror of April 1s, 1906, in San Fran
cisco. the devastating shock OF l9O2
which wrecked the island of Mar
tinidue in twinkIing and the similar
yisitations on the Carolina coast. Nor
does it detract greatly from the inse-
curity of our position to be told by the
scientists that it is only the necessary
settling of the earth's crust. ITS a
long time settling we retort rather
unamiably
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
Sicily /
II
and
Calabriia
By GEORGE II. PICARD.

APPALLING as it is, the recent ca
lamity which has plunged the
italian peninsula into the deep
est sorrow and the remainder Of
the civilized world into sympathetic
horror is nothing especially novel.
More than once has 1t been demon
strated with awful distinctness that
CaIabria and Sicily are not terra firma.
It is region which has been shaken
so frequently and so disastrously by
seismic CONFUSION that it has long ago
passed into history as 'the home of
the earthquake" In ancient times 1t
was the battle-ground of southern Eu-
rope, and even at that early day it was
a saying common enough that "the
earthquake takes from Calabria that
which war has left"
1t is bright and smiling region, a
sunlit and fertile land, country so
kindly dealt with by nature that it
seems to be mans ideal Of everything
that constitutes At abiding place. In
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
Uncle Sans 4 4
e 4 Secret Service
fsssk~
Work of Government Detective Bureau, Which Is Bone OF
Contention Between Congress and the President
Sketch of John E. Wikie, Chief of SIeuths.

All of these things and some others
made congress forbid the further lend
ing out of Hawkshaws. There are
stories and cartoons to the effect that
governmental spy system has grown
up in Washington This the admins
tration denies, but at any rate there
will be an investigation.
Wilkie Started as Reporter.
The head of the secret service start
ed life as a reporter. He is, John e.
Wilkie of Chicago. son of a famous
newspaper man in his day who was
Wilbur F. Storey's chief editorial writ
er on the Chicago Times. Young VII
kie started as fire and police report
er and was so intensely in earnest in
the role that he bought a fireman's
helmet and outfit and went to all the
fires to help out, receiving much chaff-
ing therefor both from the real fire
men and the other reporters. He show
ed the same spirit in his police report
ing and in at least one instance sue
ceeded in unearthfng a sensational
crime. A store burned In a manner to
show that it was fired by incendiaries.
The proprietor was out of town at the
time, but came in on train soon aft
err In rummaging about through the
ashes Wilkie came upon charred
photograph, evidently taken of the
owner Of the store when much
younger man, but on the back Of
which was a Philadelphia address and
a name different from that by which
the merchant was then known. On
being confronted with this witness
from the past the man supposed the
jig was up, broke down and confessed
that he had set fire to his own store,
using time fuse that would allow
him I'd get out of town. This was not
the only piece of sherlockhOlmesing
done by the young police reporter.
Every avail bic moment he was loung-
ing arounC detective headquarters
picking up IDEAS.
Some time later the elder Wilkie was
placed in charge of the London bu-
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
Nursing the Best Paid Occupation.


The Philadelphia School for Nurses,
2219 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa,
offers free Scholarships in trained
nursing to young women in every
state in the Union. The scholarships
cover the full Two Years Course, with
room, board, uniforms, laundering,
ETC., included, and railroad fare paid
to home town or district upon the
completion of the Course.
A home study course and a short
resident course are also provided,
which quickly open the door to oppor-
tunity and enable progressive students
to render a noble service to humanity
and at the same time acquire for
a substantial income from
the best paid occupation now open to
women; besides qualifying every stu
dent to deal with emergencies in the,
home that may mean the saving of
loved ones life.
Far seeing philsnthropists are add
ing to the resources of this school,
with the view of ultimately extending
these benefits to earnest, energetic
young women in all country districts
and in all the smaller towns and cities.
The Institution is approved and en-
dorsed by leading physicians and edu-
Gators of the entire country. Some of
the leading men of this state are its
strong supporters and endorsers, as
will be seen by the catalogue which
will be sent to any one who writes to
the School for it.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
A Horrible HOld-Up.

s'About ten years ago my brother
was "held up'' in his work, health and
happiness by what was believed to be
hopeless consumption" writes w. R.
Lipscomb, of Washington, N. @. "Hes
took all kinds of remedies and treat
ment from several doctors, but found
no help till he used DR.. Kings New
Discovery and was wholly cured by
six bottles. He is well man to-day.u
It's quick to relieve and the surest
cure for weak or sore lungs, hem
orrhages, coughs and colds, bronchitis,
La Grippe, asthma, and all bronchial
affections. Soc and $1.00. Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by J. r. Kruger.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
st, Complicated System.

GSbr OoAAFAASc~VSN SJSS~A'
" Mr.. Wilkie assigns these men much
as he assigned reporters when on the
city desk of a newspaper The prin-
chile is the same. although the sys-
tenn is infinitely more vast and COM
plicated. The men work under the di-
rect supervision of the various depart
ments to which they are assigned or
under the subordinate secret service
bureau in whose territory they hap
pen to be placed, although the Wash
ington bureau keeps track Of them all.
In this way the head of the system has
a more thorough inside view Of the
workings of the entire nation than
any other one man outside Of the pres
ident and his cabinet advisers
What will be the upshot of the pres
ent investigation no man can tell. The
most probable outcome, certainly the
most sensible one, would involve
consolidation of all the detective agen
cies OF the government under the de-
partment of justice. 1t would do away
with the fiction Of shifting men from
department to department, would save
time and avoid confusion and would
make 1t impossible in future to Grip
pie this most important governmental
agency through congressional interior
enca
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
by JAMES A. EDcERTON.

THERE Is no government depart
ment concerning which less is
known than the secret service.
At the same time there is none
about which there is greater public
curiosity, which Is just now heighten-
ed by the row between the president
and the congress.
The secret service Is Uncle Sans
Sherlock Holmes. 1t catches counter
feiters and now and then bags con-
gresham or senator who has not been
content with making laws, but has
started to breaking them also, thus
working both ends of the line. It was
this feat of getting a few legislators
Ento jail that caused all the trouble
Between Mr.. Roosevelt and the present
session. Congressman do not like to
be imprisoned, for which we can
scarcely blame them, considering the
other infections they have to bear,
such as associating with each other
and listening to each others oratory.
President Roosevelt charges In eff
feet that it was because the secret
service had exposed Senator Mitchell
and an Oregon representative in the
land fraud cases that congress cut
down the appropriation for the secret
service and prohibited it's use outside
Of the treasury department, Whereat
certain members of the house, dignified
senators and others not so dignifed
regard themselves as grossly insulted.
Come to think Of it, there is something
in the nature of a personal insult in
sending man to jail or even in init
mating that he ought to be there,
though most men do not base their
objection to Imprisonment on this
ground Now, the president did not
say that all members of congress
should go to jail, but only that the law
they had passed helped nobody but
criminals. and the chief argument il
its favor Was that it keeps members of
the two houses from being investigated
and prosecuted.
He went further and intimated that
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
ANTLTuBERcULosls CRUSADE.
Funds Raised by Christmas Stamps
The Travelling Exhibit.

The holiday season has witnessed a
general revival of interest thruout the
state in the anti tuberculosis crusade.
This has been effected by the sale of
the National Red Cross Society's
Christmas stamps for the benefit of
the crusade. This society, originally
organized to afford relief in war,
pestilence, and sudden disaster, de-
cided that tuberculosis belonged in
that category, and SO lent its aid to
local anti tuberculosis societies by
supplying stamps at cost of printing
to be attached to Christmas packages
and mail, the same to be sold for a cent
a piece. Not only in Minnesota but
thruout the country Christmas givers
purchased large quantities of these
stamps, each one of which in addition
to holiday greetings, bore message
of hope and help to the neglected
consumptives.
About 600 of these stamps were
sold in Minnesota, largely thru the
efforts of DIR. I'll. M. Bracken, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Health, and
Mrs. George III. Christian, Chairman
of the Health and Hygiene Committee
of the State Federation of Women's
Clubs.
St. Paul and Minneapolis in addi-
ton to the stamp idea had ''tag'
days; in the former city wholly for
the benefit of the consumptives, and
in the latter, partly for their benefit.
Tag dayreceipts in the Twin Cities
amounted to $50, 200, which will mean
that complete municipal program on
the most approved lines will be in
stituted for the care nd instruction
of the 1000 or more needy consump-
tives of the Twin Cities.
The Travelling Exhibit of the Min
nesota State Board of Health was
again put on the road early in De-
cember. Two exhibitions and
lecture series have already been con-
Quoted, and in both places, Duluth
and Two Harbors, the result was the
formation of local anti tuberculosis
committees. In Two Rarbors nearly
half the population attended. In
Duluth very elaborate program of
instruction for all classes and sections
of the city was carried out, over
eighty addresses being delivered. The
success Of the Duluth exhibit was
largely due to the splendid work of a
few public spirited citizens. A fea-
ture of the Duluth and Two Harbors
campaign has been determined cru
SADIE against nailed On storm win
dows. That a considerable portion Of
the population of these places sleep
all winter in alright bedrooms was
shown to be a serious menace to
public health. In Two Harbors the
head of every household where storm
windows are found fastened on in
such way as not to be readily open
ed, will be requested by the local
committee to make the necessary
changes. The window tent also as a
convenient device to secure pure air
at night in a cold climate will be re-
commended.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09

ne they did not want to be investigated
If they had records that would not
bear investiga tion presume he meant
they might exempt themselves by
special provision, but should not Grip
pie the whole detective agency of the
government That Is talking some,
even for Roosevelt Congress waited
a. few days, and then the senate passed
some mild hammered resolutions, adopt
cd amid oratory not so mild and &C
aompaned by thoughts positively un-
speakable, directing the committee on
appropriations to investigate the secret
aervice, the message and everything
else with a handle ON that looked as If
1t could be used to cause trouble. The
house merely asked him for the facts
on which the president based his state
ments. evidently wanting him to show
his hand before it did any blufing.
THE head-on collisions the house has
had with Roosevelt on former occa-
stons have apparently taught it eau
lion
Hunted Down Land Frauds.
The secret service proper belongs TO
the treasury department, and its chief
duty is to catch counterfeiters For
twenty years, however. it has been the
habit Of the chief of the service to
lend his men to other departments
wherever needed. Among those ST
borrowing Uncle Sans sleuths was the
secretary of the interior, who used
them In hunting down land frauds, In
which they gathered in the United
States senator and congressman before
mentioned 1t Is also whispered that
the secretary of the navy used one OF
the detectives in hunting down an alb
sent naval official, and the place where
he was found laid the basis for di-
verce suit That caused another row.
Morris tribune., 1909-01-09
ALI Sicily Devastated.

The seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtles seem to have been the most pro-
life earthquake periods In modern
times. In September, 1893. all Sicily