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GOOSE HIGH, But
OH YOU BIRDMEN!
Lieut.. Beck and F. E. Scotford
Will Go Hunting in
Flying Machines

The goose will han khigh from the
game bags of F. E. Scotford, chairman
of the local aviation meet committee.
and Lieutenant Paul w. Beck. signal
corps, u. S. A, secretary and military
adviser of the committee. when the
aviation goose shoot now being
planned is held on the Yolo marshes
some time between Christmas and New
Years. Scotford, in a Wright biplane
driven by Walter Brookins, and Beck.
with Glenn Curtiss in Curtiss' own
machine are to hunt geese from the
planes, meeting the feathery sky
scrapers high above the earth and
ing blinds" ever devised. The ad-
venturous hunt will take place on a
day to be agreed upon, and the scene
of the goose slaughter will be the
marshes between Davis and Sacra-
mento.
birds into the high levels of the air.
but they intend to ride to the field
from San Francisco in their biplanes
and return here with their full game
bags.
Scotford and Beck were recently
hunting in the marshes. and the army
officer was more successful, killing IL
birls to Scotford's one.
WELL Scotford declared at last, 81
could beat you shooting from an aero
plane, and if you want to make a bet,
1 can bag more birds from a biplane
in minute than you can in a day.
Beck was willing to make the wager.
The wrights' representative and Glenn
Curtiss were communicated with, and
they agreed to join in the hunt. So
California is to furnish the newest
aviation thrills of the season.
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LISSNER PROPOSES
MUCH LEGISLATION
Many Progressive Measures to
Be Presented to the
Legislature
[seeeioI Dispatch 10 The Call

Los ANGELES, Dec. 10.-Legisla
that embraces the most progressive
measures, such as the initiative, refer
ehdum and recall. popular election of
senators, submission Of constitutional
amendments for equal suffrage to a
vote of the people, and etate conserva-
tion of natural resources is on the pro-
gram for this winters work at .Sacra-
mento, according to statements made
today in an address to the City club
by Meyer Lissner, Chairman Of the re-
publican state central committee.
According to Lissner, the proposed
legislation includes the following:
Conservation of natural resources.
Regulation Of the price OF crLde oil by com
mission.
the railroad commission, to have jurisdiction ovei
all public service corporations.
Railroad passes TO conform to interstate com
merce law subject.
Initiative, referendum and recall applied tC
state and counties.
siipiihcation of direct primary law.
Approval Of proposed income tax amendment
to national constitution.
Shorter ballots by making some administrative
Offices in state and county appointive instead Of
elective.
Submission of amendment for woman suffrage
clerks and deputies.
Elimination of fee system.
General law to provide for commission form
of government in municipalities
Reapportionment that will give Los Angeles
county the largest representation in the state
assembly of any county in the state, and one
more congressman.
Much has been promised. and the
ability to prepare and digest legisla-
ton in short session of little over
two months is limited said Lissner
No legislature has ever passed a con-
siderable number of important meas
ures, and If the next legislature comes
anywhere near passing all the legis-
lation that has been suggested it will
be because it has been more fortunate
than its predecessors in the compilation
of preparatory data"
Issner divided the proposed legis-
lation into four clossesAbetter con-
troll of public utilities by the people
legislation that will bring the govern
ment nearer to the people, application
of business methods to public affairs
and humanitarian legislation.
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RUMORS OF ELOPEMENT FOLLOW
AUTO TRIP FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE

Rumors of an elopement, followed by
explanations from their families and
friends, was the aftermath of a trip
Friday to Redwood City, where DR..
Wallace Bruce Smith, u. S. N, and his
fiancee, Miss Sarah Louise Blake, Sc
cured a marriage license. The bride
elect was at the San Mateo home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Henry Blake, and the motor trip to
Redwood City was made In the A. W.
Wilson automobile. The gossips said
Immediately that A. w. Wilson was
the proverbial friend in need, or Cupid
in disguise, and had loaned his ma
chine to the couple.
The improvised romance was dis
PEELED yesterday by the mother of the
bride elect, who announced that the
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ENGINEERS Of
81 RAILROADS
MAY QUIT WORK
Great Majority in Brotherhood
FavOrs a Strike for In
creased Wages
Unless Agreement Is Reached,
Every Line West of Chi
cago Will Be Tied Up
Especial Dispatch to The Call

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-The 3S,7o0 loco
motive engineers employed on the 81
railroads running west of Chicago have
voted to strike unless their demands
for increased wages are granted by the
railroads. according to the returns of
the strike vote now being counted by
the leaders of the brotherhood of loco
motive engineers in session at the
Great Northern hotel.
The count will be completed tomor-
row and the result will be announced
at meeting with committee repre-
senting the railroad managers. Re-
turns from the districts counted thus
far. however. show conclusively that
the men are practically a unit in re-
inforcing their demands for a higher
scale of pay and that the early pre-
dictions are being verified that the
referendum would show from 95 to 80
per cent in favor of a strike
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wedding had not taken place. but would
be an event of next week Mrs Blake
said that the day had not been set.
although rumor says that Wednesday
is the appointed time and that the
place is st. Matthew's Episcopal
church at San Mateo. The wedding
will be pretty affair, with military
appointments, and there probably will
be a reception at the Blake home in
San Mateo.
The wedding will be one of the most
interesting of the season from a social
point of view. Miss Blake's father is
the head representative of the Stand
ard oil company in Shanghai. and
Doctor Smith is a popular naval officer
and brother of DR.. Reginald Knight
Smith.
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$4,000 SMUGGLED OPIUM is SEIZED
WHEN MINNESOTA REACHES SEATTLE

Cheetham has been dismissed from the
Minnesota
The opium seized today, which would
have commercial value of $10,S25, was
all found in the forepeak of the Mime
sofa A box in the chain locker con-
tanned $50 tins of the drug Twenty
tins were found in a water bucket hung
conspicuously, 20 tins were concealed
in a pair of overalls, and small guam
titles were found scattered all through
the sailors, quarters, mixed with the
soap and borax. Forty men will con-
tinue the search of the ship tomorrow.
Officers of the ship say that at orien-
tai ports as much as $1,000 has been
offered for position in the stewards
department of the Minnesota
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SEATTLE. Dec. 1o.-Customs officers
Minnesota discovered $4,000 worth of
opium.
Customs officers at this port were
notified before the Minnesota arrived
last week that she was carrying 20
Chinese stowaways and $4,000 worth
of opium. Last Saturday, when First
Oficer T. Cheetham walked down the
gangplank and handed a bundle to
Dock Watchman Edward Robson, Gus
toms officers seized the bundle. 1t con-
tanned s44O worth of opium, and both
were arrested.
Robson had previously enjoyed the
full confidence of the customs officers.
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men were found in manger covered
with hay. In closet on the second
floor of the house the body of Mrs.
Bernhard was found
Robbery was probably the motive of
the murders. as the house had been
ransacked and the pockets of the dead
turned wrong side out. According to
neighbors, Mrs Bernhard always kept
a large amount of money in the house.
An oldfashioned clock weight was
four,d in the barn tonight. 1t was COW
cred with blood and evidently was used
by the murderers.
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VEAL THY WOMAN AND THREE MEN.
MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED ON FARM

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 1o-The bodies
of Mrs. Emeline Bernhard, rs years
old: her son. George. 40 years old; Tom
Morgan, a trapper, and hired man
named Worth, were found late today on
the Bernhard farm, at Martin City, Is
miles south of here. All had been
beaten to death.
The four persons were last seen
alive by neighbors Wednesday. Sus-
picion was first excited when the rural
mail carrier noticed the mail was not
removed from the Bernhard box.
In the barn the bodies Of the three
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SALESMAN JUMPS FROM
BED ON A BURGLAR
Arising Quickly to Close VIM
dow Lands on Thief
[Speeiol DispoLch 10 NJ Cali

VALLEJO, Dec. 10.-Jumping out of
his bed to close a window, A. L. Pas
ley. a travelling salesman of Fan Fran
cisco, planted his feet upon George
Pevich, a burglar who was in the act
of rif1ing the pockets of his clothes.
Paisley weighs 2s5 pounds. and when
he alighted on Pevich the latter let
out scream which caused Paisley to
fall on the thief. Despite the plead
ings of the burglar Paisley held him
down until one of the other dodgers
in the hotel summoned a deputy sheriff.
He was held to answer to the superior
court with bonds fixed at $1,000.
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Man runs AMUCk
and Two ARE Shot
After Barricading Himself in
House All Night at Grayson
Fugitive Surrenders
[Spcciol Dispatch 10 The Call

GRAYSoN. Dec. 1o.-Adolph Kohler.
who last evening shot and slightly
wounded two persons and fired at 9TH
ers, was arrested this morning by Sher-
im Dingley and a posse from Modesto.
Kohler, who was armed with a revolver,
barricaded himself in his house all night
and defied the officers, but with the
coming of daylight decided to surrender.
He ran amuck in Grayson last even
ing about o'clock and emptied his six
shooter twice at passersby. Those hit
by the bullets were w. 7. Shaw and his
son, at whom six shots were fired. The
boy was shot through the arm and the
father received a flesh wound in the
head.
Shots were fired at others, but they
lost no time in getting out of range. IT
is believed Kohler is demented
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BERKELEY ELKS WILL
GIVE SUNDAY DINNERS

BERKELEY, Dec. 10.-An innova-
tion will. be attempted by the local
lodge of EIks commencing tomorrow,
of giving, Sunday dinners to members
of the lodge and their families. The
dinner, which will be held under the
direction of Secretary Harry A. Sully,
will be held from to o'clock.
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CLAIM FILED ON EVERY
DROP IN MCCLOUD RIVER
ID. F. Doak, Wealthy Timber Owner Wants All the
Flowing Water Clear Down to Bedrock
[special Dispatch 10 The Call

REDDING, Dec 1O.-Every drop of
water in the McCloud river has been
located by D. f. Doak, who has filed
a notice laying claim to $4,000 inches
at point near the junction of the
stream with Pit river Lest a drop
might escape him, the notice reads that
all the water that flows to bedrock or
that may hereafter flow to bedrock is
claimed for the purpose of developing
electrical power for useful public pur-
poses.
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Doak filed another location claiming g
10000 miners inches for irrigation and
domestic use in the Sacramento valley.
This water is to be diverted through
ditch six feet deep and six feet wide
and zoo miles in length, and will be
sold. the notice says. in Shasta. Te-
hama, Colusa. Glenn. Plumas. Butte,
Yuba, Sutter and Sacramento counties.
d. P. Doak is large timber land
owner, possessing thousands of acres
of forest along the Pit, McCloud and
Sacramento rivers.
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Smaller increase Refused

The strike vote is the result of the
breaking off of negotiations November
7 following a series of conferences
that began September 26. After seal
ing down their demands, the represen-
tatives of the engineers announced
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11

1t is said that all his mean acts are
quickly brought up before a drowning
man-and the same might be said of q
candidate for Office.
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points at difference could be arbitrated,
but as yet nothing definite has been at
tanned whereby the dispute could be
ended.
| Strikes have been averted. however,
| means of arbitration suggested by Chair
man Knapp and Commissioner Neill, be-
| tween the railroads entering the Jersey
City and the steamboat pilots operating
| railroad ferries between Jersey City and
New York: in the New England states
through arbitartion in the middle west
by a board of mediation, and on the Chi
cago. Rock Island system through arbi-
tration. All told. through the kindly Of
fees of the arbitration board IS threat
ened strikes have been averted over the
different railroad lines OF the country
since January l. 1870 1t is estimated by
an official of the Interstate Commerce
Commission that at least $10000.000 has
been saved to laboring men alone and at
least like sum to the railroads on which
| strikes have been threatened.
| Necessarily the one great factor In all
| these strikes has been the insistent de-
mand for an increase wage scale. On the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad the increase
in wages amounted to $4,000 annually;
| on the Pennsylvania system the increase
| amounted to $4,000; on the Rock Island
an estimate puts the figures at about $780,
| 900; on one of the New England roads the
| increase is $4,000; while the Southern
Railroad, 1t is expected, will increase it's
annual pay roll about $50, 900 should they
| acceed to the demands of the striking
telegraphers and subsidiary employees
ployes of the AZ railroads centerng In
Chicago, demanding an increase Of wages
a,n
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SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
BY CONSTANCE cARRUTHERs

Washington, May 2S.-(Special)-When
President Taft goes to New Haven next
month to attend the commencement ex-
ercises, when his son Robert will be
graduated from Yale, he will, in all likeli-
hood, attend the reunion of the class OF
1892" This does not signify that be-
loved President was a member of any
such class graduating in that far-away
year, for at that time there was no Yale
at all. The reunions OF 1.-THE class of 1922
are composed of alumni who are back for
a visit but who have no class reunions.
President Taft will see the Yale-Har-
ward boat races, as did his illustrious pre-
decessor, Colonel Roosevelt, some years
ago, when Theodore, Jr., was leaving
Harvard. There will be big special din
ner at New Haven in honor of the Presi-
dents presence. and it will be a happy
time in Yale social affairs. great many
Washington people will be present.
Mrs Hawkins Taylor of Washington
owned very large and very white bull
pup named Baron, which was the pride of
her life and the apple of Mr.. Taylors
eye. When Mrs. Taylor went to Europe
she took Baron with her. Baron contract
ed some sort of illness which made him
puff up all over, as though he had eaten;
q lot of dry sponges and then drunk sew
Aral pals of water Mrs. Taylor was
alarmed and sorrow stricken. She hurried
from capital to capital all over continent
al Europe, consulting specialists. doctors
and canine veterinarians. They said that
Baron was doomed with elephantiasis
and that he would soon pass away of eu-
thanasia. Mrs. Taylor knew that her
husband would want to see Baron before
he died, so she came straight home, and
Baron, looking like a big. lazy, good-na-
tured toad came with her. Baron was
chloroformed and was buriedNwith all the
Rites of a canine king. He was ID years
old.
Mrs. Burrows, wife of the senator from
Michigan, will return to her home in Kali
amazoo as soon as Congress adjourns
She has recently returned from a short
visit to the senator's son-in-aw and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. George McNier
IN New York. who arrived few weeks
ago from Europe. Mrs. McNier will
visit her old home In Michigan In Septem-
Der.
Mrs. Ballinger, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, has returned to her home in
Seattle. She will be Joined there after the
adjournment of Congress by the secre-
tary. Mrs Ballinger will spend the sum-
mer at her home in Seattle. and will re-
turn to Washington the latter part of No
vemher. Mrs. Ballinger has made many
friends, both In resident and official cir
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INCREASED WAGE SCALE
FOR THE LABORING MAN
BY JONATHAN WINFIELD

Washington, May 21.-(Special.) with
out exception railroads and other inter-
state public service corporations have re-
sponded to the demand made by their
employees, both in the mechanical as well
as in the clerical departments for an in
creased wage scale and better working
conditions. The reason for the AMIGA BILE
adjustment is given by an official of the
Interstate Commerce Commission as a
condition which is easily remedied by an
increase In either the passenger rates
or freight rates of the railroads.
The railroads at the beginning of the
present year anticipated series of gen.
eral strikes in every department, which,
it is said, IL allowed to prevail would
have paralyzed tariff and caused loss of
hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions
sons out of employment.
Two of the important classes of men
the conductors and engineers and fire.
men. controlling perhaps by their vast
labor machine the entire tariff of the rail-
roads and steamboats, in the country-no-
tilted several of the railroads that they
would strike If an increase In wages was
not granted. The incipient labor troubles
were averted and little annoyance from
these old disputes is expected in the near
future. owing to the prompt action of the
railroads in meeting the demands of the
men.
In the west, however. like demand
is being made by the switchmen and en-
ginemen which threatens to impede and
delay ns-continental railroad tariff IL
the issue is not promptly met. This dis
pute effects about II railroads and about
125.0O0 men.
1t is no nearer settlement now by ami
cable means than when arbitration was
first suggested by Martin A. Knapp,
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and Charles p Neill, COM
missioner of labor, constituting board of
arbitrators under the Erdman act, who
are especially employed by Congress to
officiate in such cases.
In the south the Southern Railroad
and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
company are having a stubborn disputes
with telegraph operators. Arbitration
has been preached by both Chairman
Knapp and Commissioner Neill, as well
as representatives Of the laborine men
and the railroads. Some meetings have
been held for the purpose of suggesting
or accepting some plan whereby the
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cles, during her first season in WASH
ington as a cabinet hostess.
The passing of A. Rustem Bey, formerly
charge d'affaires in Washington, is quite
blow to society, or/fhe. Ottoman charge
had become Leader in certain set.
where he was very much liked He has
been transferred to the Turkish embassy
in Paris, which probably suits him better
than Washington, for there is an atmos-
phere In the French capital which cannot
be duplicated here, no matter how hard
some persons try.
One Of the early autumn weddings will
be that of Assistant Paymaster Dallas
Bache Wainwright. Jr. u. s. N, son of
Capt. Dallas Bache Wainwright, United
States coast and geodetic survey. and
Miss Mary e. Cassard, daughter of Chap
lain and Mrs. William G. Cassard of the
naval training station at Newport Pay
master Wainwright is on duty at the
training station. He is a nephew of Rear
Admiral Wainwright OF this city.
Gen. and Mrs. John P. Story will not
open Whitehall, their beautiful country
place. near Annapolis, until next month,
after their daughter. the Countess de Bus
seret, wife of the Belgian minister. has
sailed for Belgium.
Mrs. L. z. Letter OF Chicago has gone
to Beverly, Mass. where she is building a
splendid summer mansion near the Taft
cottage. She will sail for Europe June 4.
Mr.. and Mrs Preston Gibson have
evolved something entirely new in the
way Of invitations. Recently the Gibsons
gave a house party at their country place
which they call Hampton Farm Wigwam,
on the Potomac. The invitations read I:
Chief Preston Gibson and his squaw
summon to>heap big feast and war dance,
the seventeenth day of the fifth moon,
at sHndown. All braves and squaws must
be in full war paint"
The marriage Of Miss Mariana Full
nan, daughter of Capt. William f. Full
man, U. s. N. and Mrs. Pullman. and
Mr.. Austin Ledyard Sands took place in
Trinity church at Newport, r. l. A re-
certion in the homo of the Fullmans fol-
lowed the ceremony. Captain Pullman,
who is in command of the battleship Mis-
sissippi, went to Newport for the we'd
ding and gave away the bride in cere-
mony.
Mrs. Champ Clark. wife of Representa-
tive Champ Clark of Missouri, sailed for
| Glasgow Scotland, this week, to be pres
ent at the Pan Presbyterian congress. to
which she is a delegate. Mrs. Clarke was
accompanied by Mrs. Woodward, wife OF
Representative woodward of West Vir-
ginia. They will make q tour of the Brit
ish isles and will visit number OF in
teresting places on the continent, includ-
ing ,Oberammergau. where they will see
] Tile Passion Play"
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than schedules that have formerly been
In operation during the past three years.

than schedules that have formerly been
In operation during the past three years.
In every line of a railroad department
increases in wages of employees are looked
for by members of the Interstate Com
merce Commission said an official of
that body today. When a railroad vol
unfairly increases its wage scale you can
say that 1t contemplates an increase in
either its freight or passenger depart
ments to meet the added expenses. The
freight rates are not juggled with as
much as are the passenger rates and for
two reasons. They are generally large
patrons of a particular road and should
rates be increased reduction of tariff
might result. In any event a complaint
would be filed by the shipper with the
Interstate Commerce Commission. The
matter would then be taken up and in
vestigated. If the railroad is decided
against, it is usually source of ma
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terial benefit 10 competing lines. hence
these rates are only increased as last
resort. But to meet the condition no hes
itancy is left by the roads in increasing
tho passenger rates The traveller pays
the expenses ard incidentally for the in
crease TO the wage Garner
Very seldom in the history of the In-
terstate Commerce Commission has a
complaint of excessive passenger rates
been filled by a private individual. The
commission can only take cognizance of
a complaint and as they are rarely filed
the railroads can do what they please
with the passenger ra hes." 1t is the same
old story: the ultimate consumer pays the
freight.
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Salt in Lithia Water strength.
ems the blood corpuscles, regu-
lates the moisture Of the It's
sues, and stimulates the action
of the heart. Found only in
Benscot Lithia Water.