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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
DISCREPANCIES
ARE FOUND IN
ACCOUNTING
Clerk of Justices Courts Is
Summoned Before the
Grand Jury
George S. McCOmb Hailed Before
lnquisitOrs After Account
ant Makes Report

Discrepancies in the hooks of George
S. McCOmb. clerk of the justices courts,
discovered by the grand jury in the
course Of its Investigations led to that
official being called before a special
committee of the grand jury yesterday
morning to explain the peculiarities.
4 would term them clerical errors
rather than discrepancies" said Nc
Comb i'm speaking Of the situation.
There were errors in two items on
my books amounting in all to about
81 and 1 was called before the grand
jury TO explain them This / believe
did TO their satisfaction. Inasmuch as
this is a grand jury investigation 1
can not as an official go into any fur
ther details Of the matter. When the
grand jury makes its report and if
there is anything contained in it deal
ing with the conducting and manage
ment OF my office. 1 viii be willing to
make 4 statement for publication. Until
then ] think it would be best to re-
main silent"
NOT FIRST VISIT
His appearance before the grand jury
committee yesterday was not McComb's $
first visit TO the secret chamber. He
WAS subpenaed to appear A week ago
and It was then rumored that all was
not correct in his accountings. He left
the grand jury room after long ex
animation, considerably agitated, and
when asked 10 the line of question
lngs declared it was in regard to Ger
tain matters connected with the board
Of p
his ONCE was connected with the board
OF public works he refused 10 explain.
Following his first examination he
has been more or less of q storm cen
ter. II developed that the grand jury
committee looking into his affairs was
far from pleased with his attitude
toward his work The members of the
committee seemed to think that he was
not paying sufficient attention to his
duties
The rumors and whispers regarding
him TedOubled when he was called be-
fore the committee for the second time.
Prior 10 this A. s. Evans, a public ac-
countant, had gone over his books.
Following the meeting of the COM
nittee in the morning there was
meeting Of the grand jury proper in
the afternoon at which Evans was the
only witness.
EXPERT Is RETICENT
L am hired by the grand jury to in
Vestigate the books Of the various Of
iicials. said Evans, and my testimony
was as TO the conditions in which 1
found them. In the line of my duties
I went over the books OF the clerk of
the justices courts. What I discovered
is contained in my report to the grand
jury and can not be made public by
me"
1t was expected that the grand jury
would take some important action at
its meeting. but the expectations were
not fulfilled. Evans was the only wit
ness and shortly after he had finished
testifying an adjournment was taken
until next week.
Whether or not indictments viii fol-
low the Investigations could not be
ascertained. The common opinion is
that the grand jury will content itself
with making a full report Of its find
ings and that a great deal of the re-
port viii be in the nature Of a censure
Of several city officials for the poor
mana cement Of their Offices
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
BALDWIN ESTATE
FACES LITIGATION
Temple Heirs Will Sue to Re-
cover $40 Acres OF Ranch
Property
May Also Make Legal Fight
for 1000 Acres OF Land
Worth Sl,000,000
Special Dispqtch to The Call

Los ANGELES, Jan. 27.-A suit
which it is predicted will plunge the
s25. goo. 600 estate left by E. j. Oucky)
Baldwin into litigation and prevent
the clearing up of its affairs by April
will be filed in the superior court to-
morrow by Attorney Charles s. Nc
KeIvey, acting on behalf of the heirs
of A. NJ. W. de Temple. who will lay
claim 10 $40 acres in the Rancho
Potrero Felipe Lugo. the total value
of which is placed at s15O.OOO.
Still another suit in which the
Temple heirs will seek to recover
1000 acres in the Rancho Merced
worth S1.0O0.0O0 may be filed by At
torney McKeIvey.
1t will be contended by the Temple
heirs that the $40 acres sought to be
recovered were decided in 1872 by Will
liam Workman to his daughter, Mrs
A. NJ A de Temple. the deed giving
her a life interest in the property.
Provision was made that the prop
erty should go to her heirs at her
death.
During Mrs. de Temples lifetime.
it is stated, Baldwin induced the
Temple children to deed to him all
the title they held in the ranch prop
erty. but it is asserted that portion OF
the ranch in which Mrs de Temple
held an interest was intact when she
died and this property should now
revert to the children
gAGGAGEMAN ADMITS RoBBERY-Cheyenne.
Wvo Jan 2T-CarI F. Olson baggageman ON
the Union Paeife. today pleaded guilty before
,5SsfcD q rOhhInQ
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS
TO ENTERTAIN OFFICIAL
Secretary of Organization to Be
Welcomed in Santa Rosa
ISpecial Dispofch 10 The Call

SANTA ROSA, Jan. 27.-Plans are be-
ing made here for the reception and
entertainment of William Shaw, gen
eral secretary of the United Society OF
Christian Endeavor, with headquarters
in Boston. Tuesday when he will spend
the day and evening here as a guest
of the Sonoma county Christian En-
deavor union.
He will be accompanied on his TRIP
here by State President Neil E. Monroe
of the California state Christian En-
deavor union, Past President Leon V.
Shaw of oakland and Past President
John Hatch of the Golden Gate Chris
tion Endeavor union of San Francisco.
The pastors and presidents Of all
churches and societies in Sonoma
county will be the guests at banquet
Tuesday evening.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
LANDSLIDE NARROWLY
MISSES TRAIN COACHES
Carries Away Fore Part of En-
gine, but Crew Escapes

REDDING, Jan. 27.-The wreck of a
train on the Sacramento Valley and
Eastern railway by 4 landslide six
miles east of Bully late yesterday was
narrowly averted by the quick action of
Engineer Iverson, who, warned by his
fireman on rounding a curve, applied
the emergency brakes, stopping the
cars just as a great mass of earth and
rock crashed across the track.
The engineer and fireman jumped for
their lives as the cow catcher was
struck and the pilot and cylinder car
ried away.
The passengers were roughly shaken
by the sudden stop, but none was in
jured- The track was blockaded for six
hours by the slide.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
STUDENTS PIE CLUB
CAUSES INVESTIGATION
Organizers Laugh at High
School Authorities

Los ANGELES. Jan. 27.-Students of
the Polytechnic high school were en-
joying q laugh today at the expense
Of the city school authorities in con-
nection with the war upon fraternities.
They had caused IL TO be noised around
that a new fraternity, the Ell Pi, had
been formed and attained a large mem
bership. An official inquiry was or
dered and took place today.
When the ringleaders were haIed be-
fore the inqusitorial body they testified
gleefully that the ETH Pr fraternity
was an "eat a pie" club formed to
obtain wholesale rates on pies at the
luncheon hour.
The cases Of seven students who are
said to have confessed membership in
real fraternities were reviewed today
and a decision viii be handed down
Saturday.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
PALO ALTO NATIVE SONS
ENTERTAIN VISITORS s
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

PALO ALTO, Jan. 27.-Pa1o Alto par
lor, Native Sons, held a most interest
ing meeting last night, at which the
following visitors were present: Grand
Past President'Dr. c. w. Decker, Grand
Trustee Thomas J. Lennon of Marin
county, Grand Trustee Thomas Mona
han of San Jose and c. c. Rowe of San
Jose. Judge Lennon made an address.
After the meeting a banquet was
served, A. T. Lund past president of
the local parlor, presiding as toast
master. Among the after dinner sperk-
ers were e. A. Hettiniger. Charles r..
Detrick, James Farmin, J. L. Greer, E.
p. Cashel and C. M. Decker.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
YOUTHFUL LOVERS
END LIVES TOGETHER
Marriage Opposed; Sweethearts
Found Dead in Buggy

DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan 27.-Vernon
Barr, aged 16. and Miss Lima Ammer,
aged IA, were found sitting upright
in young Barr's buggy at the Barr
farm south of Monroe, Ia, early today,
both dead. A tin cup in which there
remained a mixture of strychnine and
water was close by. 1t is thought des-
pondency over opposition to their mar
riage because of their youth caused
them to commit suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
WIFE is ACCUSED OF
DESERTION IN THIS CITY
Husband Can Not Induce Spouse
to Go East
rc.. nj III = III
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

BOSTON. Mass, Jan. 27.-AIleging
that his wife, Martha B. Creamy, de-
serted him in San Francisco December
"a, 1906, and that she has refused to
leave the western city, Frank D. Creamy
brought an action for divorce in this
city today.
Creamy has been a resident of Bos-
ton for three years, but says his wife
prefers San Francisco to any other
place in the world.
The couple were married in Chicago
six months before the desertion.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
AUSTRALIAN MINERS
ARE SENT TO PRISON
President of Association Among
Strikers Convicted

SYDNEY, n. 5. W. Jan. 27.-President
Bowling Of the national miners asso-
citation was convicted today of obstruct-
ing work at the mines during the strike
and sentenced to one year at hard labor
in prison. The other strike leaders were
each given sentences Of eight months
CT hard labor. while number of miners
SFere condemned to brief terms Of i'm
prisOnment
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
SANDHILL CRANES RUIN
RED BLUFF WHEAT CROPS
Farmers Hire Hunters to Kill
Predatory Birds

RED BLUFF, Jan. 27.- Sandhill
cranes are playing havoc with the grain
fields bordering the river near this
city. The damage done is so great
that the farmers have hired hunters
and supplied them with long distance
firearms.
acres Of grain have been ruined and
the ground will have to be reseeded
If a crop is raised this year
Never before have the cranes been
so numerous as this year.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
SLAVERY REFUGEE, 1Io
YEARS OLD, is DEAD

ELYRIA. o., Jan. 27-sUncle john
Ramsay. 11s years old, thought to have
been the oldest person in Ohio died at
the county farm near here last night.
Ramsay was slave and escaped forty
years before the civil war going to
Oberlin, which later became historic as
a station for the underground railway
for escaping slaves.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
FIFTEEN INJURED IN
RIOT AT ELECTION
Police Charge Crowd to QueII
Socialist Outbreak

BRUNSWICK, Duchy of Brunswick
Jan 27.-During a socialist election re-
form demonstration last night several
shots were fired from the crowd. The
police charged, using their sabers ener-
geticaIly. Fifteen wounded persons
were removed to hospitals. A police
sergeant was seriously injured.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
MAY CONTEST WIFE'S
SUIT FOR SEPARATION
[SpeeiaL Dispatch 10 The Call

Special Dispatch 10 The Call
SANTA ROSA, Jan. 27.-George W.
Kingsbury, proprietor of the Lick
house in San Francisco prior to
the fire, who was recently made the
defendant in a divorce suit by his wife,
today filed an answer putting himself
in position to make a contest if he
so desires when the case goes to hear
ing
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
PETALUMA GIRL TO BE
MARRIED IN OAKLAND
[ [SnecinI Di.paleh d The CaRl

PETALUMA. Jan. 2T.-A wedding of
unusual interest will be solemnized
Sunday in Oakland when Miss Gertrude
Wfnans OF this city will be claimed as
the bride OF David Clark Tucker of
Willows. Glenn county. Miss Winans
is a daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.
Winans. pioneer residents OF this city.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
PAYING PLANT pEsI

PAVING PLANT DEsTRoYED-Hermosa Beach.
fan 2T-Fire starting from the explosion Of
An oil well today destroyed the paving plsnf
II the Barber asphalt company and large
stock Of asphalt. and severely burned Charles
Hopper engineer. ana Samuel Dumond. The
victims viii recover.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
Rosebud Lard Bill Passes

That there is not unanimous approval
of the present method of disposing OF
reservation public lands by lottery was
made evident in the senate today.
Gore offered an amendment to the
Rosebud land sale BILL permitting
applications for the land to be made
by registered mail instead of requir-
ing personal registration.
Burkett criticised the present system
He told of the crowding of the trains
and the insufficient accommodations in
frontier towns on the occasion of recent
openings. which, he said, had been
marked by much crime and bloodshed
Gamble and Crawford of South Da-
kota defended the present method as
the best obtainable. After a mild
filibuster, the bill was passed.
The senate refused, however, to pro-
ceed with the Pine Ridge bill, which
will he considered tomorrOM
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28
Attack on Republicans

Charging the republicans with being
responsible for the high cost of living,
Hef1in of Alabama declared in speech
in the house today that never before
had it cost so much to produce crop
of cotton as during the last year The
high cost of living, he said, had in
creased the cost of the cotton crop.
Hefin arraigned Speaker Cannon and
"Cannonism," eulogfzed the republican
insurgents and declared that the meat
trust has sprung UP under the republi-
can party"
He predicted democratic success at
the next election. Referring to the
meat trust he declared the republicans
should say to it:
You shall not further pinch with
hunger the starving people of this
country; you shall not reduce the com
mon people of this country to the
slavery of the peasants of Europe
Admitting that the Payne tariff law
would have to be justified by the re-
suits of its practical operation, Boutel
of Illinois, member of the committee
which framed the measure, made Wig
orous defense of the new law in the
house today.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28

BAGGAGEMAN ADMITS RoBBERY-Cheyenne.
Wyo Jan 2T.-Carl r. Olson. baggageman on
the Union Paeifc. today pleaded guilty Defore
Cnmmissioner GIN 70 rObbing the maIlS
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
BUILDING MACHINES AND MEN.
(By Rev. Charles Stelzle.)

Every machine is designed and con-
structed upon one or more of these six
mechanical principles-the lever, the
wedge, the screw, the pulley, the inclined
plane, the wheel and the axle. Never
yet was there a successful machine built
unless it was built with these mechanical
powers as a basis. The draughtsman is
given the largest liberty in the matter
of the general form of the machine
which he turns out, and he has a fine
opportunity of stamping it with his ideal
of just what that finished machine should
be like, but, nevertheless, he cannot de-
part from these mechanical laws.
In making our life's plans, we, too,
are given considerable liberty Where
we shall work and what we shall work
at, are matters which we generally de
eide for ourselves. There are excep.
tions, of course, but as a usual thing, we
have the decision in our own hands. And
whatever the work may be, it will al
ways bear the impression of our own
personalities. The worker in wood, or
iron, or stone, the manipulation of leather
or of cloth-no matter what may be ones
occupation-even when it is the running
of a machine, somehow or somewhere in
the job, puts something of himself into
it. Every working man knows how true
this is. The tool-marks are always
there.
But while we are given this liberty
and this opportunity of working out our
ideas and our ideals, true success can
be secured only as our plans are depend
ent upon the operation of certain well
defined principles. Honor and integrity
are the foundation stones of real power,
and no man may rob us of these. Men
may take away our regulations, but our
characters are ours forever. Reputation
is what others give us. Character is
what we make for ourselves.
If what l have said is true of the ma
chine, if one cannot construct even an
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
MAcHINIsrs WILL PICNIC.

Denver Lodge No. Al, l. A. of M, will
give picnic June is, at Lakeside. The
committee has arranged quite number
of novel features. One of them is con-
test for the most popular lady. The prize
for the winner of this contest will be a
handsome diamond ring.
The Machinists desire that each union
nominate a candidate for this contest.
Send name and address to committee,
500 Club building; also photograph
The plan of voting is this: Gate tickets
will be sold at 10 cents each, space on
ticket for candidates name, and only
tickets deposited in box at gate counted.
So in order to have your ticket counted
tickets must be deposited at gate before
10 p. m. Remember only tickets fur
nished by us can be used in this contest
Another feature OF this picnic is a
member of No. Al will ride wheel down
the Shoot-theChutes into the water
There will also be a wire stretched
across the lake and one of their mem
bers will walk this wire and carry an
other on his back.
There will be many prizes given fol-
contests of all kinds.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
THE BULLETIN APPRECIATED.

While The Bulletin is being knocked
by those we are showing up in their true
light, others are expressing their appre-
citation of our efforts in unmistakable
terms:
Mr. j. A. Conkle, Box 759, City.
My Dear Mr.. Conkle-I want to express
to you my hearty congratulation on the
great improvement you have made on
The United Labor Bulletin. 1t carries
two or three times the amount of news
that it formerly did. 1t is put up in an
attractive and interesting way. You GER
tanly seem to be the right man in the
right place | will, of course, read ii
with much more enjoyment when l find
that the articles against local option
have disappeared. So
Wishing you success and with kind re-
CARDS, | am,
Yours very sincerely,
CHRISTIAN F. REISNER.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
AUXILIARY ELECTS OFFICERS.

Woman's Auxiliary No. 54 to Denver
Typographical Union No. 40, held their
annual election Tuesday of this week.
The result was the election of the follow
ing most excellent list of officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs Kathryn williamson; vice
president, Mrs. Nellie c. Smith; secre-
tary Mrs Edna Hoops; treasurer, Mrs.
Myra Purdy; chaplain, Mrs. j. c. Gaiser;
guide, Mrs. William Tanner; delegate,
Mrs. NJ E. Goodwin; alternate, Mrs. Will
liam Tanner
The auxiliary is organized expressly
for sociability and the promotion of the
label of the Allied Printing Trades Coun-
Gill; in whose hall, SO King block. they
meet The election was held at that
number Tuesday. This auxiliary should
receive the support of every member of
the local Typographical Union. 1t is be-
lieved that during the presidency OF
Kathryn Williamson it will become a
power in labor, as well as Typographical,
circles.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
BARTENDERs ELECT LYNCH.

At the regular meeting of the Bartend-
ers' Union, Friday evening. in the Club
building, David Lynch was elected bust.
ness agent over Fritz Henning and Rob.
ert Nave. Mr.. Lynch received but three
votes more than MI Henning. who is
very popular in the labor world. 1t is
predicted that Mr. Lynch will make a
frstclass business agent, as he was well
advanced in the labor movement in Gal
weston, Texas, from which city be came
but recently. Here's boosting for you
and your organization, Lynch.
Mr. Henning having resigned the secre-
tary-treasurership to run for business
agent, Jacob Francis of the Eagles club
was elected to that important position.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
THE RESOLVlNGS

We find the following going the rounds
of the press, and we do not know what
to do with it unless we dedicate it to the
Building Trades Council which re-
solved at their last meeting to denounce
the editor of The Bulletin for his stand
in handling the Trades Assembly water
committee, of which the president of the
Building Trades Council was a member.
We do not know of an utilization of the
Building Trades Council that contrib
utes one cent to the support of this
paper There are one or two men in the
Label League from the building trades,
but they came through the Assembly,
which does not pay per capita tax to the
League.
This is the item:
THE A. F. of L. at the Toronto con-
vention adopted some very pleasing reso-
lutions concerning the labor press, and
trade unionists throughout the country
can now settle themselves back comfort
ably with the satisfaction of knowing
that the labor editors have been pro-
vided for for another year at least.
There is nothing in the world that dis
tends an editors stomach and swells his
bank balance like a nicely worded reso-
luton When the union man is asked to
subscribe for his home paper all he
need do is spring a copy of the resolu-
lions and the editor sinks away abashed
and ashamed. When the printer hangs
around the desk on Saturday afternoon
waiting for his envelope, all the editor
need do is read him the text of the latest
resolutions and the printer man goes
away without his money with smile OF
ecstatic joy on his face. For two neatly
printed copies the coal man will fill the
cellar to the muzzle, and one copy mod
estly framed will stock the pantry from
the grocer's for at least a year Resolu-
lions are a great thing and, when sea
soned with an occasional knock and two
or three well-timed kicks about anything
at all, make the average editor so happy
he wants to go out and steal something.
He don't need money and shouldn't be
trusted with it, and if he can't run
paper to suit everybody just for the fun
of the thing he amt good union man
and ought to get out of business Labor
Times Herald, Fort Wayne, Ind.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12

engine without the observance of mex
orable law, is it reasonable to suppose
that a man can be built haphazard, or OF
scrap-pile material? What fool the
machinist would be if he went to that
scrap-heap in the back yard and fished
out of it a cracked cog wheel and put 1t
into an otherwise perfect machine. But
that is precisely what many man is
doing in building his character. The
cracked cog wheel may soon send the en-
tire machine to the scrap-pile, but there
is no scrap-pile for the human soul. 1t
lives on forever
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12

ing year and at the same time constant
ly raising the price of food till today in
the great free country we are actually
allowing thousands of children to become
stunted in both mind and body for want
of adequate food This may seem to be
using exaggerative language, Lut stay
and examine few OF the government
statistics and you will readily see that
so soon as you increase the cost of liv-
ing out of proportion to wages you just,
in the same ratio, increase crime.
Had cooperation been generally and
properly carried out among us, there can
be no reasonable doubt that many girl
now the inmate of a dishonored grave
would have been living a useful life and
many man now restrained behind pen
itentiary walls would today be among
the honored and useful workers of the
world Fortunately, for our own state,
we have men who are spending their
time and substance in putting the matter
into working shape, among them Presi-
dent Lang and the officers of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative Union
are doing a grand work and deserve the
active support of every union man and
woman.
Let us quit ranting about the trust and
get out and organize ourselves and CO
operate together in the true sense of the
word. The trusts have simply taken adj
vantage of our slothfulness and are do
ing for themselves as individuals, what
we have neglected to do for ourselves
collectively. JAD.
United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-05-12
UNION LAUNDRIES

The laundries listed here are plants
which have recognized the rights OF
their employees, have granted a short
work-day and have signed a minimum
wage scale (no piecework) The label
each is entitled to US is a guarantee that
they are living up to their agreements
otherwise the label would not appear on
the laundry list when delivered. Assist
In securing a universal short work-day
and fair wages for the girls by demand
ing their label on your work