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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

For a number of years Washington
has been far and away the largest
lumber producing state in the Union,
and it still is ahead but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with it.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
HORSES ARE STOLEN.

IL Mars. la. cnl -Four horses
We're stolen from the farm oil Joseph
Pelroy near Westfield. last night
Sheriff .Arenlt is securing the country
in AN automobile in quest If the horse
thieves.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

KANSAS CITY. aio.--Lord Charles
Beresford. Of England. and rarty of
English friends. en- route to Mexico.
spent Saturday In KanSas C.:y.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Mesquite Time.
flow sweet at balmy eventide
To loiter by the alder bush
And breathe the fragrance Of the noWere
Mid dreams Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
flow restfully the night descends!
!, Gently her trailing robes enWrap
The weary world in folds Of gloom
Through which the blinking stars arr
SLAP!
The moonbeams dance in shhnnering lines
The ripples silver meath their touch
And laugh in ecstacy of-SWAT!
The tallest pine tree on the shsre
fain would fell with mighty crash
To make q paddle large and long
And that blamed old mosquit0-SNASHl
New York TimeA
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

The number of women enrolled at
the universities Of Germany this sum
mer is 1.44l, an increase of 1913 per cent
over last summer,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

White fish fry, Matched by the United
States hatchery at Kingston, ~ Y.
when liberated, almost invariably ex-
patriate themselves Immediately by
swimming to their natural feeding
grounds along the northern shores of
Lake Ontario
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

New York city consumes more but
ter than both London and Paris. The
average daily consumption is $4,000
mounds
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Professor John Cleland has retired
Prom the chair of astronomy of the
Glasgow university. after occupying it
for go years
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Leading japanese provision mer-
chants have agreed TO dispose of 800
bags Of Brazilian coffee during the
next t:ree years
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Recent discoveries in Norway of hui
man bones mixed With hearth ashes
indicate that the cave dwellcrs of the
North cape were cannibals.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Rent, clothes, service, wines. beer,
tobacco, all are cheaper in English
than in American towns, and prices
of meats. vegetables, bread. butter,
poultry, eggs, much the same.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

new microphone the invention Of
two Swedish engineers, is reported to
have greatly increased the range Of
long distance telephones.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
CUT sc ooo POUNDS
OF WATERMELONS

Webster CITY. ia. or -
Thirty thoussild pounds OF
watcrmcions Hiil be consumed
here tomorrow Whom the people
of the county wiil ctaehratc
Watermelon day" The melons
will arrive from Musoatine this
evening. one of the conditions
OF the occasion is that no one
shall be permitted 10 cut Il POI
lticai melon whit. this celebra-
ton is on.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
COOK RENEWES His
PLEDGE TO DANES

Copenhagen. Oct 7--professcr Torp,
the rector, of the university here. has
received the following cablegram from
DIR. Cook:
records will so to you first.
Frederick A. Cook"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

A contemporary says mushroom
poison is destroyed by boiling. DIR.
Ford, of Johns Hopkins, says mush
room poison is not destroyed by boil
Ing
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

An English chemist says that $780,
900 may be made by any one who Gre
ates a new perfume.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Electric power is used on 32Ss miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
14S miles operated by other means.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Neither boiling water nor cold 200
degrees below zero kills the sprout in
some seeds. Professor I'ecquerel found
three seeds 81 years old that sprouted.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
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W PnAn OPENEn-

CHINESE ROAD OPENED.
Pclsing Oct 5.-T'hc k;llgan railroad
TIE tilst line in China to be constructed
SOLELY H., Chinese, WAS officially opened
To-Day
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

The Importation of Holsters into the
United States in 19oS amounted to s.
2l2,945 pounds, valued at S1,4ol, 449 Most
of them came from Canada
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
."lnverted Gravity"

From the Youths Companion.
I'VE have reversed the ordinary laws
of nature" said witty United States
senator, speaking of himself and an al
most preternaturally dignified col
league.
have sunk by my leVitY"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

The walls of the lock of the Panama
canal at G;.tun will be reinforced with
1000 tons OF rails.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

An electric motor is used in San
Francisco to haul sand for grading
purposes. With a drag and cable the
sand is scraped from the hills to fill
the holloMs.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

German has only S,275 millionaires
I'm marks); that is, owners of $4,000
or over. OF these "mllionaires." Prus-
sia has 5.S37. Bavaria 631, Wurtem-
berg 243, Baden 151.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

F. s. Weinhold of Brookside. Pa,
last season raised on % acres about g.
900 bushels of ear corn. Many Of the
ears We're over 16 inches in length.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

The fur trade of the world makes
use of more than one million catsklns
every wear,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

Japan in 1908 made go. 100000 pounds
OF paper and imported 4S.O0o000 pounds,
q consumption of S0S.o00,ooo pounds. or
So pounds per capita OF the population.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

IN old Holland. when couple APP
oiled for divorce. they were locked up
In one roomed, trying out cabin. with
one dish and one spoon. II. after a
month. they had not come to limerick
they got the writ. which was seldom
asked for after this bundling.
The population of Germany, apart
from Immigration and emigration. in
creased by SS2.624 last year. In Eng
land, the births exceeded the deaths by
B9S,S21; in Italy by 357.17S: in Bel
GUM. by ills: In Holland. by SS,l66;
In France. by 46.411.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07
Tulane university realized an endow-
ment fund of s1.OoO.000 last year.

English agricultural societies have
started Q sparrow crusade. Bounties
kaEo paid for birds and eggs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
.COLlWOOD CLEARED
|. BY CORONER'S JURY
lie Is Found Not Responsible for
Death of Boatman Fred
Fitt0ck

ALAMEDA, July 9.-Frank Collwood
was exonerated today by coroner's
jury that sat in the inquest in the
case of the death of Fred Fittock, an
aged boatman, who lived with his wife
and daughter in an ark on the tidal
canal near the Park street bridge.
Fittock and Collwood had words on
the evening of July over the attempt
Of Fftt&k to punish his daughter be-
cause size visited the ark occupied by
Collwood.
In an effort to protect the girl from
being beaten Collwood showed Fittock
and the latter fell, striking upon the
back of his head. Paralysis followed
and the injured man died two DAYS
later. Collwood was taken into custody
by the Oakland police to await the out
come of the inquest.
The jury returned a verdict in three
minutes completely generating Coll
wood from any responsibility for Fit
tock's death and finding that the old
boatman came to his death from
cerebral hemorrhage, due to degen-
Grating of the brain tissue, resulting
from alcoholism
Mrs. Della. Fittock, the widow. and
her daughter, Miss May Fittock, tes-
titled that the husband and father was
a heavy drinker and that he was ugly
when in his cups. Both said that they
had repeatedly requested Collwood to
protect them from Fittocks violence.
Harry A. Grove and Herbert Canning
testified that they were eyewitnesses
to the alteration between Fittock and
Collwood and both asserted that Coll
wood did not strike Fittock, but merely
showed him away when the old boat
man tried to strike his daughter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
VARIED ATTEMPTS
AT SUICIDE FAIL
Laundry Worker Tries Devious
Methods Without Success;
Is Thought Insane

OAKLAND, July 9.-Cutting the veins
of his wrists. leaping from a second
story window and dropping from ex-
haustion after running at top speed
from his house. Anthony Prizgint was
found to have swallowed strychnine as
a climax to his attempts at self-destruc-
ton today. He was confined at the re-
ceiving hospital pending an examination
for insanity
Prizgint is g, laundry worker and lives
at 1861 Filbert street He has recent
ly undergone severe strain nursing
his wife through a long illness. and to-
day decided that life was not worth liv-
ing.
With Kitchen knife he backed al
his wrists until the blood flowed, when
he sprang from second story window
Picking himself up from the lawn, he
started to run, falling breathless al
Twenty and Market streets
Prizgint displayed a peculiar pallor al
the receiving hospital, which caused
Dr. Irwin and Steward Plat to use the
stomach pump. and later an eight ounce
bottle of strychnine was found In his
clothing He had swallowed quantity
or the drug before leaping from the
window
Except for the fact that his strength
was gone Prizgint was physically little
the worse for his experiences, the
wounds on his wrists being superficial
Annie Azovich was detained at the
receiving hospital today suspected OF
insanity. She was said to have de-
stroyed her clothing and to have tried
to jump from high places
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
POPULAR COUPLE
TO MEET At ALTAR
Wedding of Miss Marjorie Howe
and Harry EnceIl Will Be
SOIemniZed at Riverside.

BERKELEY, July "a marriage of
interest to Berkeleyans and college
students of the university Will be SOL
emnized Monday at Riverside. Miss
Marjorie Howe, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. z. B. Howe, and Harry A. Encell
a graduate of the university with the
class Of 1906 and a prominent young
attorney of Oakland, viii be married.
Formal announcement of the engage
ment was made last summer.
Miss Howe is talented in musical
and artistic ways and has devoted
much of her time during the last three
years in studying art and music in this
city and in San Francisco. She is the
only daughter of DR.. Howe. a well
known resident of Riverside, where he
has made his home for the last 25
years.
The groom elect formerly lived in
Los Angeles and recently passed the
bar examinations. He is now connect
ed with the law firm Of Robinson d
Robinson in Oakland. He was pror1ni-
nent as a student of the university
and is a member of the Bacheolordon
house club. the Winged Helmet honor
society of the junior class and the gun
club. Mr.. and Mrs. Encen will make
their home in Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
LEACH DISCUSSES
WATER RATE CASE
President of Peoples Company
Says About $4,000 Is
Involved

OAKLAND, July 9.-President Frank
has prepared a statement defining his
company's attitude in the recent de-
cision of the supreme court reversing
Judge E. C. Harris decision multiplying
the ordinance fixing the water rates for
Oakland for. the year 1900. Since that
time the plant of the Contra Costa
water company has been taken over
by the Peoples water company.
STATEMENT BY LEACH
Leach's statement is in part as fol-
lows:
Before any new trial by the superior court Of
Alameda county. the water company Will have
the right to intIoduce any such and further
facts showing the valuation of the plant as
may seem best to the directors of the water
company What the outcome OF that trial may
be can not of course, be predicted. The supreme
court merely holds that the facts which were
produced at the former trial not sufficient
to sustain the $7,oo0.000 valuation fixed by
Judge Hart for the year OF 1900. OF course,
this valuation only affected the Oakland division
and did not include the Berkeley, Alameda,
Richmond Piedmont, San Leandro or Alameda
county branches of the water company.
In the event, however, that it should be
finally decided that the water company was not
entitled to the rates which were collected it
would have small bearing on the finances Of the
city Of Oakland and its citizens has been greatly
exaggerated. The maximum amount that could
possibly be recovered would not exceed about
SIS, 000
MAY HAVE TO RETRY CASE
1t is too early for the board of directors to
determine what it will do in relation to trying
the again. 1t may be possible that
there some points of law in relation to
fixing the matter of rates OF great value not
only to the water company but to the people
Of Oakland for the future guidance in rate
fixing that have not been settled in this de-
cision. and it might be necessary to retry the
case again.
In the statements that have been made as to
the amount OF rebates involved the has
been greatly exaggerated. due to the fact that
these estimates were made by persons estimating
amounts involved for the period extending over
several years Of water rate controversy. where
the decision under discussion only affects the
water rate for the fiscal year 1901 and is com
paratively small amount.
The decision, of course does not have any
bearing on the present rates of the Peoples
water company, they are now established I'M
der agreement with the city OF Oakland and
are practically the rates that were contended
for by the representatives of the city Of Oak
land at the time the suit commenced which
made the fight for water rate reduction.
AS to the city purchasing the water plant or
such part of il might be required for city
purposes. the company is not unfriendly to the
proposition but 1t is question that has not pro-
ceeded far enough vet to afford any details for
discussion at this time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
MRS. VERA DE MOLE
DENIES BEING ALIEN
Woman Detained at Seattle Is
Released on Bail

SEATTLE, July 9.-Mrs. Vera de
Mole, who came here recently from
Hongkong and was charged with being
an alien unlawfully in the United
States. was released on $1,000 bail to-
day by United States District Judge
Hanford.
The woman's attorney offered testi-
mony in the form OF letters OF intro
duction given Mrs. de Mole four yeers
ago by Governor Frank Murphy.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tfves A. c. Francis. United States Sen
ator John KeaR, and Walter Reed.
mayor of Long Branch, all OF New
Jersey.
Mrs. de Mole. who has been a pris-
oner in the immigrant detention sta
ton, says that she was born in FL
dora, Ia. of American parents; that
she Is the wife of William II. Bray
of Red Bank. n. j.. and that her rela-
tives are prominent In Iowa and New
jersey.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
SANTA CRUZ WANTS
TIE EARLY TRAIN
Businessmen Fear That Morn
ing Service May Be Adam
doned by Southern Pacific
Especial Dispatch TO The Call


SANTA CRUZ. July 9.-The Santa
Cruz chamber of commerce has entered
into negotiations with the Southern Pa
cific company in the hope to continue
the train service which brings the San
Francisco morning papers into the city
at $40 o'clock.
Special stress is laid by the CONNER
cial body upon the fact that the ar
rival OF this train with the morning
mail from San Francisco will enable
the local merchants to receive and
answer on the same day their CORE
spondence, which is heaviest from San
Francisco and way stations.
The early arrival of the train like
wise facilitates the handling and dis
tribution of great volume of the daily
postofflce business. and Postmaster
Lincoln is among those who are plead
ing for the continuance of the early
morning train service
If the train is taken OFF, as threat
ened, the mail will not arrive until
nearly noon and will not be distrib-
uted until afternoon.
A curious and somewhat amusing
phase of the situation is presented
by the attitude of Duncan McPherson's
Morning Sentinel, which has been Sc
riously affected by the early delivery
Of the San Francisco morning papers
in a field which it has long hoped tc
claim as its own, but to which IL has
not been able to supply an adequate
news service.
In spite of the fact that the mer-
chants and public are united Tin favor
of the early service, the Sentinel, in
the hope that the circulation of the Sar
Francisco papers will be curtailed, Is
the prospect of the withdrawal OF the
train.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
ENGINEER SCORES
BOARD OF WORKS
Fastener Claims Award of the
Valve Contract Was Against
Interests OF City

Replying to a statement by c. A.
Day, president of the board of public
works, in which he defended the action
of the board in the recent valve con-
troversy, ]. Roy Tanner, chief engineer
for the Pittsburg valve and construc-
ton company. yesterday addressed a
letter to the official in which he took
issue with a number of his statements.
Day was quoted as saying that the
board believed 1t was justified for many
reasons in it's decision favoring home
industry, even though the bid of the
Pelton water wheel company was
$56 900 in excess of that submitted by
the Pittsburg concern. He stated that
5000, 900 OF the bid price. $39S, 900,
would be expended in labor, giving
employment to a great many local me-
chanics and keeping the money at
home. and further that the municipal
engineering department had recon-
mended the Pelton valve as superior to
that of its competitors.
MAKES EXPLICIT DENIAL
In reply Tanner denies explicitly that
the engineering department could have
recommended the product of the Pelton
company as a superior article, and in
technical description of the officials
test claims that instead of being SUI
perior to the Pittsburg company's
valve the former fell far below the
specifications of the engineers. He
charges the board IN this respect with
not having acted for the best interests
of the city Continuing, the communi-
cation reads:
Your statement that San Francisco labor will
be enriched to the extent OF 500, 900 could moi
| be true II the concern executing the contract
is well and economically run.
I prepared to make affidavit to the
following facts:
ESTIMATES FOR LABOR
Our total bid price of some s342 900 includes
an estimate on labor OF 100000 which Is about
26 per cent of the total bid. This estimate Is
not hypothetical, but is based on actual per
Torrance. This amount includes all overhead
shop expenses such as superintendent, foreman,
llaborers, etc, who would have to be kept
and paid whether we had the contract or not.
SO that The total amount drawn by the
mechanics would be below this. Moreover. not
more than 100 men would be directly employed
on this Job at one time.
Any shop which can not meet this proportion
is not efficient, and l do not believe that you
could get the Pelton water wheel company tC
admit that they fall far below the standard
II they do admit this, they viii also have tC
admit that their equipment is inadequate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
Local Brevities

MILK LAW vToLATED-c. Mason OF Corde-
liza was fined SO by Police Judge Deasy yester.
day for shipping watered MIX INTO Tue eit'' ~
being HIS first offense
WATCH FOR SAFE cRAcKERs-Acting on a
dispatch from Stockton, policemen have been
watching the trains in the hope OF nnding Two
safe crackers who had a tight with the police
there one who was wounded, was supposed
70 be accompanied by his wife and son, 10
years OF age.
CARPENTER KILLED-Harry Bell carpen-
ter was instantly killed yesterday morning
when q refrigerator which he was attempting to
load on an express wagon In front OF MS shop,
slOl Turk street. slipped and crushed him be- be,
meath its weight Bell was about 40 years oid
and resided in the rear Of the shop.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALs-Two of Gray Broth
ers' Transfers Giovanni Angelo and Ernest
Santoris. were arrested Thursday by Policeman ma,
P. B. Mahoney on charge of cruelty to AMI
mails. Angelo fined s. by Police Judge
Shortau yesterday, and the case of Santoris was
continued By Judge Conlan till today.
BUNGALOW CLUB ELEcTIoN-The Bunga-
low club, composed OF 25 young businessmen,
chose the following officers at the annual cleo
past president; Gerald Nunan. president Rich
ard Hurley. vice president; Louis Dufour, sec
retary: Charles Hubner. treasurer; Morris Grit
fifth. sergeant at arms
NO CHANGE OF MANAGER-There will be
no change in the officers Of the Associated oil
company, according TO a statement Nissued yes
terday BIZ Assistant Manager Scribner. The ru
NOR that Scribner was TO succeed W. s. Porter
IN the management of the company denied
by the former. who says that he is only acting
as manager temporarily, until the return of Por-
ter from Europe.
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY soLD-what is
known as the sold horse SALE in police circles
occurred at the auction rooms of j. GoIloyer,
1874 Pine street. Thursday. Personal property
taken from prisoners and left unclaimed with
the property clerk from July 1, 1907, to June
80. 1905 was sold for S1.417. The total of
coin found prisoners and not called for
amounted to $1,224-75.
AERIE No. 5 ENTERTAINMENTS auditorium
was crowded Friday night with the guests of
San Francisco aerie No. 3. Fraternal Order of
Eagles who accepted the invitation 10 attend
the ladies night in honor Of DR.. c. A. Glover,
recently elected president of the state aere,
and Gustave Pohlmann, reelected state secre-
tary. There address of welcome by
Frank A. Costello. president of No. 8. presen-
tation of jewel to Past State President
James F. Cheetham, a minstrel show by the
Eagles big minstrels and an exhibition drill by
the aerie's degree team, followed by an order OF
u dances.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
BOILER INSPECTOR CAUSES
ARREST OF ENGSTRUM
Contractor Is Charged With
Violating City Ordinance
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

SAN JOSE, July 9.-F. o. Engstrum,
the open shop contractor who has the
contracts for the erection of the state
normal school building in this city,
was arrested this morning on charges
preferred by F. w. Brands, member
of the local machinists union and city
boiler inspector, for operating steam
boiler on the normal grounds without a.
license. The contractor virtually adj
mitted his guilt, which was a INSIDE
meanor. when he Immediately applied
for a license.
Engstrum occupied the lmelight last
winter. when the state engineering de-
partment was called upon to investi-
gate charges that the five buildings
he was erecting at the Agnew state
hospital for the insane were firetraps
The arrival of Engstrum in this CITY
has stirred up great amount of feel
ing among the members of the build
ing trades council. 1t was with a re-
lance on Engstrums supposed backing
that the builders exchange, an organ
ization of the contractors, issued a re-
duced wage schedule recently The
matter has not yet been settled and
Union workmen are still locked out
here.
1t is charged by open shop sympa-
thizers that the arrest today is but a
part of an extensive plan to harass
Engstrun.