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The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
CHAMPION OF REFORM
WILL LECTURE HERE
DIR. Wilbur F. Crafts Arrives in
San Francisco

DIR. Wilbur F Crafts, superintendent
of the international reform bureau. ar
rived in this city yesterday morning
after a fortnight's tour across the con-
tinent from Washington, where the
organization has its headquarters. He
has lectured on reform in a number of
large cities, and it is his intention to
spend eight days here, in which time
he will speak in several churches on
the subject OF gambling and opium
Doctor Crafts stated last night that
he would take up the exclusion of mo-
ton pictures of the Jeffries-Johns
fight during the remainder of his cam
paign. He remarked:
Il believe that San Francisco has
placed herself i nthe lead of the race
for the fair and she is certainly de-
serving of it,"
Doctor Crafts is of the BELIEF that a
great many pictures are being shown
which although of moral fitness are
harmful to children.
Next Tuesday night Doctor Crafts
will speak at the First Presbyterian
church in Berkeley on Worldwide
War on Great Evils" Following is his
program for San Francisco:
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
HIS GOAL WAS
HYMENEAL ALTAR
Football Player Scores Over
Parental Interference in
Game of Love
Continued From Page L

was in the grandstand draped In vi
salia colors and with only scorn for the
Hanford men. 1t was in the last half
and it must have been the third down
with 2 yards and S5 inches to gain and
the ball on Hanford's 25 yard line. A
touchdown was essential to Hanfords
victory.
The ball was snapped back to Price.
the halfback. He clung to it and
dashed down the field. The white
washed lines flew under his fast feet
and IL Visalia men and several substi-
tutes doubtless fell before his deadly
straight arm. Before his run was over
Miss SteinmaQ found herself cheering
frantically for the rival halfback At
the football team dance that evening
the couple met.
Then the affair, which eliminated at
San Rafael yesterday. started. Prices
father would not listen to the idea of
his son marrying.
But yesterday morning Price came to
San Francisco, met Miss Stenman and
her sister, Miss Anna Steinman, by ap-
pointment and took the boat for Sau-
salito, where Prices chum, c. S. Cold
well, had an automobile ready to speed
them on to San Rafael, Justice of the
Peace Magee and happiness ever after.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
ACCUSED
OF AWFUL CRUELTY
Mountain Resident Faces Charge
of Starving and Choking
His Offspring
[SpeeiaI Dispatch 10 The Call

SAN JOSE, July S.-A tale of cruel
ties inflicted upon little children that
rivals the stories of the inhumanities
practiced by the inquisition in the dark
ages was told to Justice of the Peace
J. T Wallace this morning when Mrs.
Isabella c. Merriman. special humane
officer, appeared to secure a warrant
for the arrest of C. H. Sisson, resi-
dent of Mountain View. The, warrant
was given to Constable McCoomb for
service, and Sisson viii be placed un-
der arrest early tomorrow morning.
According TO the statement of Mrs.
Merriman, the bathroom in the Sisson
residence was a veritable torture cham
ber A young girl, aged 10, the eldest
daughter of Sisson, was forced to apply
for assistance at the home of neigh
bor Yesterday after being beaten by
her father and it was through her that
information was received in regard to
the manner in which the man treated
his children.
The humane association has been in
formed that Sisson half starved the
children all of the time Whenever he
believed that any of them had stolen
bread from the pantry he would place
a rope around the neck of the one he
suspected and haul him up to the tips
of his toes by running the rope over
the top of a door. In this way con-
fession would be secured and the Of
fender then was severely whipped
The specific charge made today is
that Sisson treated his 10 year old son
in q cruel and inhuman manner.
There are four children in the fam
ily. The humane association is in
formed that Sission was forced to leave
Washington some time ago for similar
offenses.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
CHAMBER LAUNCHES
REVISION CAMPAIGN
Stockton Commercial Body Has
Completed Report Favoring
Commission Plan
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


STOCKTON. July s.-The special
committee of the chamber of commerce
appointed to take up the matter of Sc
curing for Stockton a new city charter
providing for a commission form of
government, has submitted a report to
the people of Stockton, together with a
petition, which, when signed by Is per
cent of the voters, will make il man
datory on the city council to call the
election on the proposed amendments.
The petition is now in circulation.
The council having refused to rec
ognize the formal prayer of the COM
mittee from the chamber the latter
body decided it would be better to take
advantage of the provision of the state
constitution, which makes it mandatory
on city council to submit charter
amendments to the decision of the peo
pie whenever Is per cent Of the quali-
fed voters OF the city petition for the
same.
Fifteen amendments have been pre-
pared, embracing the desired changes
in the present charter and harmonic
ing the provisions of the charter with
the changes sought.
Briefly stated, the effect of the adop-
tion of the Is amendments Will be as
follows:
Nonpartisan nominations and elections. as pre-
vided In the Berkeley charter.
Vesting the legislative and administrative
power of the city in a council OF rve men.
elected by the city at large for four years,
each to be paid a salary sufficient to enable
him to devote his entire time to the affairs
Of the city.
Making each councilman the head of de-
partment
Giving the council power to fx terms and
salaries Of all other employees
Making II mandatory the council when peti-
toned by 20 per cent of the voters to cali an
election TO decide the recall of any officer
Making ii mandatory the council when peti-
toned by 20 per cent Of the voters to cali an
election to submit any ordinance to the people
The salary of the mayor is fixed at 81 600
year and of each of the eouncilmen at $3, ,0oO
The chamber of commerce committee.
which has prepared the amendments
and placed the election petition In cir
culation, consists of the folloWine q
prominent businessmen:
w P. Steinbeck, former Mayor M. j.
Gardner, George E. Houskem. Frank b.
Minis, l. H. Frankenheimer E. C. Dick
inson and ]. NJ. Eddy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
TEX RICHARD HAS
ANANIAS GROGGY
According to Governor Gillett'
Prize Fight Promoter Is in
a Class by Himself
Chief Executive Makes lnfer-
enCe That Baron MunChansen
Has a Worthy Successor

Continued From Page I
San Francisco yesterday as declaring
that Gnlett was a liar two or three
times. that Gillett told certain persons
he would not interfere with the light
and that Gnett had been drinking
when he gave out the alleged interview
in Chicago
The governor when asked for re-
ply to Richards charges gave out the
following written statement:
my attention has been called 10
published interviews with Tex Rick
ard. wherein he puts me in the Ana
Mas club" He might have done worse
by putting me in his class.
DENIES CERTAIN ASSERTIONS
Il never told any one that I would
not interfere with the fight. / have
said that a sparring exhibition was
lawful in this state, but that prize
fight was a felony. I have also sara
that il was the duty Of the local au-
thorities to enforce the laws OF the
state against prize lighting and that
the governor had no right to step IN
and prevent tumults. riots and infrae-
tions of the law. excepting where the
local authorities were unable or un-
willing TO do so.
The press of the country printed
interviews with me that never TOOK
place. In those interviews I was made
to say that / favored the fight; that IL
was a good thing for San Francisco
and that it would bring lots Of money
to the state all Of which ( never said,
and in which l DO not believe.
These false interviews came so fast
that / began TO believe that Il was be-
ing done for the purpose OF creating
an impression that the fight would
surely take place in this state and
that the governor and those in author
ity We're in full sympathy with ii and
that this might discourage those who
were anxious TO save the fair name of
the state.
NOT A CITIZEN or STATE
The attorney general told me that
Rfckard told him that il. was not go
ing TO be a sparring exhibition. but
ever seen. Rickard is net citizen
of this state. He came here for the
express purpose Of violating our laws
If he had been permitted to have done
so he would have put shame upon San
Francisco and disgraced the fair name
of California throughout the world.
IF I had not inteTfered he would
have carried out his plans. he would
have wantonly violated our laws and
he would have left us TO bear the
best we could the just criticism that
is now being made by the people of
this nation against the. fight and the
race riot il caused.
California is moral state II is
not in sympathy with men like Tex
Rickard or the game which he fol-
lows. 1t Is interested In elevating its
citizenship and fnstilling high ideas
In the mind OF Its youth
Prize lighting is demOraHzing and
brutal and cOrrupts the morals in youth
and 1 hope it has seen It's last days in
California"
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
GOULD'S DIVORCED WIFE
GETS MARRIAGE. LICENSE
Friends Declare Frank Gould
Also Has Remarked

NEW YORK, July S.-Ralph Hill
Thomas, assistant treasurer of the
American sugar refining company, and
Mrs Helen Kelley Gould. who divorced
Frank Gould on August 25, 1909, OBJ
tanned a marriage license today at the
city hall.
Now that his former wife has OBJ
tanned a marriage license 1t is an
nounced by friends arriving here today
from abroad that Gould and Miss Edith
Kelly, an actress, were married. five
weeks ago in Paris She is in no way
related to the first wife
Assertions that Gould and Miss Kelly
were to be married or had been
married abroad often have been
made and as often denied But
those who speak today say they have
Goulds own warrant. They We're guests
two weeks ago, they say, at dinner
he gave in Paris. at which he an
nounced his marriage to a few inti-
mates on condition that they withhold
the news until his divorced wife had
either married or had published her
enga cement.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
SPRING WHEAT IN BAD
CONDITION EVERYWHERE
Average Is 80 Per Cent That of
q Year Ago

WASHINGTON, July s.-Startling re-
ports on the condition on July 1 of
spring wheat were made today by the
crop reporting board of the depart
ment of agriculture.
The average condition of spring g
wheat in North Dakota, South Dakota.
Minnesota and wisconsin, the four
states which contain more than SS per
cent of the total Spring wheat acreage
In the United States, was only 62.5, as
compared with 92.5 a year ago and a
10 year average of SIS.
The average condition of spring
wheat throughout the United States at
the beginning of the present month was
61.6. while a year ago it was 92.7 and
the 10 year average was ST..
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
WOULDST CURE JAG?
Go TO CITY JAG FARM
Los Angeles Considers Plan to
Reform Its Prisoners

LOS ANGELES. July S.-A municipal
jag cure farm" will suppIant Jail cells
for inebriates in Los Angeles if the
city council accepts recommendation
prepared today by the police commits
sion and indorsed by Chief Galloway
The farm, according to the plan, is TO
be established on 1850 acres which the
city owns on the river bottoms skirt
ing Griffith park.
Chief Galloway and the members of
the police commission say the farm
can be made self-sustaining. while the
drinkers. who now serve or 10 days
in the city jail, can cure themselves
by means of healthful work
If the council at its next session
Monday accepts the suggestions of
fered, confirmed drunkards will be
given six months sentences on the Jag
farm and will work out their. own sal
vation
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09


HIINB What difference the atmosphere Of store
uuHflA where the employees our instead of the
E2 What difference the employees themselves, the
/9Aparance of Stocks the number and class of
What difference the personality of the merchant whose
assistants say and our instead of the and you-but
nots getting to my
merchant did the talking while listened Said he:
mo buy loyalty The salaries pay my assistants are
for rendedor standing behind selling my
goods
But for the higher seces-loyay, enthusiasm interest,"
pay friendship. courtesy and fair My employees my
business associates and treat them SUCH
"A satisfied empoye good advertisement satisfied
and advertise and goods truly
my daily advertisement in The Call.
There here who doesn't feel perfectly
presence wouldn't have otherwise make point
their and address them Miss MIR So-andSo always
Isn't that rather a large order2" | asked
Oh no.. he answered. it business make this
liked with both and employes-and
attend my business strictly
Is there any wonder that this employees are loyal and enthus
ashc?
His business successful because he gives both customers and
employees square deal
His advertising reflects the spirit of his store- rings tue-be
advertisement sous will hnd and they receive courteous
and satisfactory this where the employees and
"our and sreun unaraid when the boss around
The Call has helped make this uccessu.ts advertising
columns carry his 10000 people every day. and thew
respond most literally.
Call and its 10000 daily eders9 You have their good will
and custom you will take the trouble tell them pour news
their home paper
have advertising service for line of business which
rings every word
Phone Kearny SO and will call you.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
SOLDIERS STORM JAIL
IN SEARCH OF NEGRO
Projected Lynching Bee Mar
rowiy Averted

WASHINGTON. July S.-Determined
to avenge the probably fatal injury to
one of their fellow soldiers. Private
Scott of Battery d, Third artillery. u.
S. A., between 40 and so white troopers
and artiIlerymen from Fort Meyer, Va,
early today made an attempt to storm
the Alexandria county jail on Fort
Myer heights to lynch Robert Jackson,
negro. Jailer Harry Crack persuaded
the soldiers that Jackson was not with
in the jail, thereby saving the negro.
Private Scott was slashed across the
abdomen with a razor during a fight
between a crowd of negroes and some
soldiers on a trolley car bound for Fort
Myer the night of the Jeffries-Johnson
fight.
Colonel Reed. commanding the ga'rri-
son at Fort Myer. has ordered an in
vestigation into what he termed IAN
incident savoring too strongly of the
Brownsville affair"
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
LIGHTED CIGARETTE
CAUSES 100 TO DROWN
Falls in Powder Keg on Barge
and Explosion Follows

VICTORIA, B. c., July S.-The blue
funnel steamship Bellerophon, which
arrived today from Liverpool via
oriental ports, brought news from
Canton of the loss of 100 lives during
the dra gon festival there last month
AS a winning dragon boat in race
was racing the Japanese barge. crowd
ed with spectators, one of the boats
crew threw away a cigarette. which
fell in an open gunpowder keg on the
barge. The explosion wounded a num-
Der and resulted in panic, 100 per-
sons being drowned.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
BIPLANE FALLS
With BARONESS
Woman Aviator Precipitated to
Ground From Height of
Fifty Meters
Fright at Passing Machine Is
Cause of Accident, but Vic
tim Escapes With Life
Continued From Page 1

1920 o'clock near one of the ocean
piers in the central section of the city,
swung up to the inlet over the five mile
course and then. after a beautiful turn,
shaped his course down the board walk
to Ventor Returning. he made per-
feet landing at the starting point
Signals that Curtiss would go aloft
were set at 9 o'clock and great crowd
was on the beach and board walk to
see the flight.
Aviator Brockins, in Wright BIZ
plane, failed in his first attempt to
leave the ground a half hour after
Curtiss made his flight
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
Bemiss Boosters Organize

The w. II. Bemiss boosters club was
organized yesterday at an enthusiastic
meeting OF his friends in Unity hall,
ther Bemiss candidacy for clerk of the
supreme court. w. II. Urmy was elect
ed president of the club: James Nc
Gowan. first vice president: M Me-
Connsghy. second vice president: ]. ].
Rogerson. third vice .president; E. A.
Kenny, secretary. and j. b. Pickett as
sistant secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
Mayor Blamed for Trouble

Licking county. of which Newark is
the county seat, is dry under Rose
local option law, but anti-saloon league
officials say that the law is not en-
forced. Wayne B. Wheeler, state su-
perintendent OF the league, in an inter-
view at Columbus tonight declared to-
days situation was brought about
through the negligence on the part OF
Mayor Atherton.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
Assumes Another Name

"Of course it must be remembered
that all this became known TO me later
and that for six years | believed the
woman. Later l came to San Francisco
and she remained in the east, presum-
ably working as demonstrator, but
/ received information from some or
my relatives that she was travelling
under the name of Mrs. w. A. Marvin,
and a letter so addressed to her fell
into my hands In this letter Marvin
referred to her as wife and signed HIM
self as her husband.
Marvin. have since learned, is now
in Oregon, the manager of At copper
company, and l shall attempt to secure
an aff1davit or deposition from him.
In regard to this letter Mrs. Clap
ham said that it had been written by
Clapham himself for the purpose Of
harassing her.
II have affidavits OF several persons"
rejoined Clapham. showing that she
received numerous letters addressed TO
Mrs Marvin and the statements of the
postmaster bear them OUT so 1t will be
OF no avail for her to claim that this
single letter was written by me. Be-
sides I have ample proof that she
Travelled about the country with him.
After she Joined me in San Fran
cisco she began to work in my office
and soon noticed that she was show
ing an undue familiarity with my en-
ployes, one man named Chandler Otis
and another Lawrence. One day / hap
pened to follow Otis into a room
through which he had passed and
found some scraps of letter in my
wifes handwriting Evidently they
had been torn up and thrown there by
Otis. I gathered the scraps, and. piecing
them together, made out the following,
which will be used as an exhibit ip
the trial"
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
IDENTIFIES BODY AS
THAT OF j. III. McCLUNE
Man Who Died in Hospital Was
Former Politician

William InElis. a clerk for Assembly
man Nat Coghlan, yesterday Identified
the man who was found in a dying con-
dition last Sunday in a doorway at
Montgomery and Clay street as James
IL McClune, a FORMER politician and
one time campaign manager for Cagh-
rlan.
Mcclure was found unconscious by
Policeman John Morgan and died
shortly after being taken to the central
Emergency hospital RE was buried as
sau unknown. Inglis made the identi-
~5icatio yesterday from a description
and from an examination of the cloth
9ng, having become convinced from a
published description that the deceased
was Mcclure.
- Inglis had seen Mcclure the day be-
afore his death in the same clothing
ahat was taken from the body. The
- utopsy showed that death resulted
from organic trouble.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
tYNCHERS TAKE
MURDERER'SLIFE
in LIQUOR WAR
Slayer of Restaurant Proprietor
Hanged by Mob After All
Day Riot
Troops Guard Prison After the
Crowd Secures Victim and
Many Inmates Escape

that Of Louis Bolton. where bar
tender. Edward McKenna, was hit over
the head with brass knuckles. The
detective who hit him was pursued by
a crowd and was rescued with diff
Guilty by the police The detectives
and their prisoner were followed by
the mob to Jail
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
Finds Love Letter

The torn letter was as follows:
My Dear, Dear Chan: Your long
letter was SO sad. II you only knew
how much you were to me. / know 1t
is terrible for you in that room every
night all alone with no one to talk to
you, but II I could be with you, you
know l would. Dear. / think of you
all night, from the time Il leave here
until | see you again the next morning
Go to -. | would, because / want
only you and you alone. / don't ask
You to share me with any one. l could
not, and, what is more, never will share
you with another. even in thought
But go out, dear Iknow how hot
it must be in that room. But don't go
near any one, viii you, dear? Because
l love you so and, remember, you have
--I now--but--n will
not call until 12-call you up-
you and only hope that Almighty God
will help me to be worthy of you, be-
cause | believe you are true to me.
Don't make me jealous OF you (do); it
will only kill my love In time. Last
she turned to speak to you. but I
was"
This letter" said Clapham, "I put
away, and / first thought 1 lost it, but
found 1t today"
More Burning Missives
Apart from the newly found letter
Clapham strengthened his case by Sc
curing a deposition from Andrew
Bruhn, a local musician. who said that
the employe, Lawrence, once lived at
his house. and on, leaving forgot to
take number of love letters which
Mrs. Clapham had written to him
These, he said he turned over to Mrs
Clapham when she begged for them
~, y, a. IAr,I I@1 n
friend of Claphams, Bruhn gave them
up only on condition that Lawrence
was to be discharged. To see that
this condition was fulfilled he said he
kept one of the letters, and that he
would hunt through his papers to see
if he could find 1T.
THE whole affair" concluded Clap
ham, is startling-even to me. In
making my recent Investigations I dis
covered that she had at least 16 aliases
in her lifetime. She has been known
as Francis Eugene Barcelo, Francis
Wilson. Eugene Wilson, Eugene
Francis, Francis Gordon. France Mar
vim, France Clapham. France Haden,
France Whitney, France Driscoll, Irene
Lawrence. France Gore. France Bayrd.
Mrs. Duke Thompson, France Langdon
and France Robinson"
Woman Alleges Cruelty
In her letter Mrs. Clapham declares
she is sick in bed resulting from beat
ings administered by her husband six
S1onths ago. She accuses him of con-
Ssssing to her having robbed a jewelry
store in which he was employed, but
having escaped on a technical defense.
OF the many marriages which she is
accused of celebrating, she says:
Il never married any man except A.
j. Clapham. The charge that my
brother is my child is a. pure lie and
utterly ridiculous. Clapham knows that
that the boy is IA years of age and
that / was only 20 years of age when
married Clapham. The letter which
he said was written by Mr.. Marvin he
told me before 1 commenced my suit
for divorce was written to him by a.
girl named Ada Specknan, who was
one OF Claphams victims"
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
Behavior Arouses Suspicion

Later [ had occasion to meet MIS-.
Gore and, as by this time my Wife's s
strange behavior had made me keenly
suspicious, l asked Mrs Gore about II.
She denied the story emphatically ana
in great indignation told me that MRS.
Clapham was the daughter OF Rhoda
Wilson, a nurse, and Antoine Barceio,
the son of a rich New York broker.
This, while 1T has nothing to do with
my married relations, gives some INK
ling of the mystery with which my
wife cloaked herself.
Though l wished her to remain at
home and go to house keeping she IN
sisted on working herself and refused
to be known on the outside as mar
ried woman. Believing her single, sew
era1 men were unduly attentive TO ner
and she informed me that some or them
proposed marriage. After our mar
riage we lived in New York and she
secured a position as cashier in Dream
land park The head cashier at this
place was James Stevens Farrell, and
later | discovered that both OF them
took a day off and were married, CIV
ing the names of James Stevens and
Eugene Francis. / have secured a
witness to the marriage, who posi-
lively Identifies the two as Farrell and
my wife.
Farrell in time became the right
hand man of Pat McCarren, the poll
tician, and is now justice of the peace
in Morganville, n. j., and is very pros
porous.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09

Miss Sallie James Furnham has just
completed the bronze frieze for the
decoration OF the board room in the
international bureau Of American re-
-publics in Washington.