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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Hindu women
NEXTTOSWARM
TO CALIFORNIA
Men From India Begin to Send
Home for Their Wives to
Come to America
Sikh Who Arrived Yesterday on
Mongolia Brings Spouse
With Him

The problem born of the Hindu in
vasion took a new turn yesterday. when
it was discovered that one of the sikhs
who arrived on the liner Mongolia had
brought his wife with him. Those who
have opposed the invasion have hither-
TO taken comfort in the fact that the
invaders were all of one sex.
Until yesterday there were only
three Hindu women in California, ac-
cording to immigration bureau statis-
tics. There are now four. and the Hin
dus who arrived yesterday announced
that more women were on the way, as
many of the men who first came to
America, intending to remain but a few
years, liked the big wages so well that
they had decided to remain and had
sent to India for their wives.
The woman who arrived here yester-
day is said to be fair specimen of the
women of the Punjab. They are thrifty
house keepers. One woman can do the
cooking for many men and at less ex-
pense than the men could do it for
themselves.
In the Punjab the woman is the ruler
in domestic affairs. The lord and mas
ter earns the family living and the
woman prepares his food, but will not
eat with him. Because he has to get
back to his work she allows him to eat
first. The meal over, she drives him
forth. washes the dishes and then pre-
pares her own meal. which she eats
in dignifed solitude or in company
with the other women of the household
Morally she is said to be beyond re-
proach.
The Mongolia brought only 50 of
these dusky British immigrants, but
among them were three Afghans, mem
bers of a race even more objectionable
from an American point of view than
the tail. helpless Sikhs To the Sikhs
impossibility as an assimiIabIe unit
treacherous cunning that makes him
undesirable altogether apart from his
color and previous condition of servi-
tude. There are said to be about so
Afghans in California and more on the
way.
In addition to the Hindus the Mon
golia brought a number of Russians.
who were originally taken to Honolulu
TO work on the plantations, but like all
the labor that has been imported into
Hawaii, are now coming to the main
land, where they believe their oppor-
tunities win be greater. The Russians
included Is men, women and chill
dren.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
COMETS TAIL TO
get A BRUSHING
Uncle Sam to Comb Ulterior APP
pendage of Sky vagrant
With Big Balloons
Especial Dispatch to The CALI

OMAHA, May 14.-If it. is possible to
accomplish the feat Uncle Sam is going
to discover and determine the eompo-
sition of the tail of. the HALEY comet.
And he. is going to do it at the Fort
Omaha balloon station, near here. the
only place in the United States where
experiments of the kind will be con
Quoted
The work will be in charge of W. r.
Gregg. and C. s.. Wood, meteorological
experts, who have arrived from Wash
ington and who will be assisted by
local officers of the Fort Omaha sta
tion. Balloons will be used for the
purpose of ascertaining the specific
gravity, if there is any, in the comets
tail, and they will also be used in de-
termining what kind of gases, if any,
the celestial visitor is dragging along
in it's wake.
May Is, 10 and 20 are designated by
Professor Gregg as comet days" these
days covering period of time when
the tail of the HALEY comet will be
sweeping the earth. During these
three days the professor and his as
sistants VIII be busy men, prying into
the comet and its tail. Each day 20
hydrogen. BALLOONS. will be sent. up. with
q flock of extra ones ascending each
morning and evening. 1t is hoped to
initiate the balloons SO that some of
them may reach height of Is miles,
and possibly 20 miles.
BY so doing the professor believes he
will be able to touch the tail of the
comet at numerous places and thus
learn of its consistency.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
REPORTED ON INCREASE
313 Minors Involved i'm Conn
plants Received by Society

At the regular monthly meeting Of
the California Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Children, President
r. w. Newhall reported that the in
crease in the number of complaints
filed with the society is taxing the Of
ficers to their utmost, and it may be-
come necessary to have additional
workers on the force
The report Of the secretary showed
the following: Complaints received
169; 313 children involved; 152 children
relieved; So placed in institutions. 9
placed with families, returned to
parents or guardians, 62 sent to the
Juvenile court
Five prosecutions of adults. three
convictions and one acquittal were re-
ported. One case is still pending.
Sixty-three cases were settled out Of
court
Advice or information was given 11S
and 127 persons were warned.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Clearer Sky Promised

Dotting the high hills. thousands of
San Franciscans have held early morn
ing vigil to-witness the flight of Hal
Fleecy fogs have somewhat obscured
the view during the last two mornings.
However, a clearer display is promised
for the next few days as the brilliant
wanderer Journeys closer to the earth.
Astronomers; bring we'll grounded as
surances that on May. 1s the distance
between the two planets will be but a
matter of 14,0O0Oo0 miles.
On that occasion the, celestial traveller
will pass between the sun and the
earth. During that interval the earth
will penetrate the tail of the comet 1t
will enter the cone of rays shortly after
noon and will emerge at about II
o'clock at night. After that date the
comet will be visible for few days in
the early hours of night. It's appear
ance will grow later and later toward
the end of -the month until 1t passes
finally from view.
1t was rs years ago that Halley's
star paid its last visit to earth. 1t was
observed in Rome in November, 1885,
and was the object of close study for
nine months.
During the week some excellent pho
tographs have been taken at the Lick
They will be subjected to
the scrutiny of the scientists, in the
hope that some. new and valuable data
may be gathered.
Astronomers are unanimous in their
statements that no unusual effects will
result from the passage of the earth
through the comets tail. BY some it
has been thought that there may be a
spectacular meteoric display, but others
are inclined to doubt this
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
BIG COUP PLANNED
BY STOCK PLUNGER
Hero of Wall Street Raids. Wins
Confidence of Senator From
the Middle West
[ Especial Dispatch TO The Call

l9PeoIot OSPolch 10 4 nc NdHJ
NEW YORK. May 14.-The New
York, World prints in washington
dispatch the story of a coup that
failed. The special says that David
Lamar, hero of many Wall street spec
ulative raids and of strange suits
against big corporations. who was once
indicted; tried and acquitted with
Monk Eastman and other members
of that thugs notorious gang has left
Washington after three weeks care
fully laid campaign to pull off "a. big
coup in the United States senate which
might have been successful.
1t was probably one of the most am
bilious and daring schemes ever CON
ceived by the brilliant intellect of the
stock plunger and his associates. BY
his clever manipulations he had COM
pIetely won the confidence of United
States senator from one of the middle
western states. man of considerable
influence on the democratic side of Is
senate.
This senator has been mentioned as a
possible democratic candidate for the
presidency in 1912. He has an unbIem-
ished reputation for integrity. but he is
as innocent of the ways of Wall street
and its men as a year old babe
Lamar had this, senator primed to
make a great speech in the senate in
connection with the railroad rate bill,
but .deftly interviewer with the rail-
road facts given by the stock plunger
were others, involving detrimentaIly
the United States steel corporation.
Had the speech been made the steel
stocks would have sold off and every
body short on them would have made
pot of money.
The senator had been led to suppose
that Lamar represented the conserva-
tive business interests of New York,
who were patriotically opposed TO the
greedy tactics of ]. Pierpont Morgan
and other kings of Wall street, and
wanted railroad bill put through that
would be fair to merchants and nom
speculative businessmen and the gen
eral public.
Lamar introduced himself to senator's
and congressman as Judge" Lamar
He spent money lavishly and lived in
style at the New Willard hotel until he
was exposed when he suddenly left the
hotel and took train for parts un-
known.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
LODGE CELEBRATES
50TH ANNIVERSARY
500 MasoDs and Friends Attend
Entertainment

The fiftieth anniversary of Oriental
lodge No. IA, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, was celebrated last evening at
Golden Gate hall. Five hundred mem
bers and friends of the lodge enjoyed
the entertainment which had been pro-
vided and the banquet which was sub
sequently spread.
During the evening a handsome solid
silver loving cup was presented to
George Howard Thompson. treasurer
of the lodge for 27 years and former
master of the lodge.
The following took part in the pro-
gram: Benefits string orchestra, Miss
Helen Colburn Heath Knickerbocker er
quartet-R. C. Ayres, Fred Purdy. f. H
O'Donnell and Jay Dwiggins.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
LOUIS HILL SAVES
LIFE OF A WOMAN
Railroad President Speeds Pri=
vate Car 80 Miles to Succor
Rattlesnake's Victim
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


LAKEV1EW. Ore. May t4.-President
Louis w. Hill of the Great Northern
road probably saved a woman's life
today He is touring, central Oregon,
and made haste for so miles in his
private car 10 save the life of sMs1
George Gibbs, wife Of 4 ranchman in an
isolated section. who was bitten by a
rattlesnake.
The womans arm was in a serious
condition. and Hill volunteered to bring
her to the nearest doctor who lives
here. Hill telephoned to the physician
to be ready with all necessary APP
paratus to perform an operation if he
he found it necessary.
There are some 20 persons in the
party. but Hill postponed ali scheduled
program to get Mrs. Gibbs under the
care Of physician at the earliest pos
sible moment. Hill is on an investigat-
ing tour preparatory TO extending the
railroad into central Oregon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
NINE PERSONS HURT
IN WRECK OF TRAIN
Cars Are Badly Smashed and
One Is Burned

WICHITA, Kan. May 14.-Nine per-
sons were injured when the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient passenger
train, No. 2. was wrecked tonight near
Milton, Kans., so miles southwest of
here. Spreading rails caused the
wreck.
The train was running 10 minutes
late when the accident happened The
engine did not leave the track, but the
tender was thrown bottomside up, the
baggage car was burned. the bottom
torn out of the smoker and the chair
car left the track. The sleeper re-
mained on the rails.
The injured were taken to hotel in
Milton. where physicians attended
them.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
BRAW AND BONNIE SCOTS
MAKE MERRY AT FAIRFAX
Annual Picnic of st. Andrews
Society ENJOYABLE Event

The forty seventh annual family
annual picnic and games of the st.
Andrews socitey of San Francisco were
held yesterday at Fairfax park, Marin
county. An interesting program of
races was run off under the trees, and
dancing and sports were engaged in
by Scotch residents of this city and
Oakland. A large number attended the
nicnic
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
GREAT POCAHONTAS VISITS
MANZANITAe COUNCIL

Manzanita council No. 40, Order of
Red Men, was visited Friday night by
Margaret Booth, the Great Pocahontas
of the order, and in honor of her visit
the degree work of the council was
exemplified by the team of No. 49,
George Wheeler, formerly captain of
the degree team, presented the Great
Pocahontas with bronze statue on
behalf of the council. and was himself
presented with a watch fob by his fell
low Red Men,
Music and refreshments were enjoyed
during the evening.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
SERVICES IN
THE CATHEDRAL MISSION

The opening services at the cathedral
Mission of the Good Samaritan. at
Potrero avenue and Twenty street.
will be held today. The morning serv-
ice will be between 1880 and IL o'clock
and the evening service. at which the
Very Rev. ]. w. Gresham, dean of the
cathedral. will preach, at 7:45. The
opening session of the Sunday school
will be held on May %.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
SIX MEN HURT BY
COLLISION ON BRIDGE
Freight Trains Crash and En-
gines Are Demolished

HUGO. Okla, May 1.-two freight
trains on the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroad collided on bridge over
a small stream near here today, injur-
ing six men. Both engines were de-
molished. The most seriously hurt are:
Hugh Hammersly, engineer; f. c. Fry
fireman.; George A. Grain, brakeman
and ]. w. Curry. brakeman.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
CLERGYMAN ADVERTISES
TO DRAW CONGREGATION
Nevada City Pastor Resorts to
Printers Ink
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

NEVADA CITY. May 14.-Rev j. M.
Barnhart Will not preach to empty
benches, if advertising will bring the
people TO his church. He has discarded
the old time methods of waiting for
people to come and has adopted the
modern methods of advertising for a
congregation. He has had number of
dodgers and posters printed and is
using newspaper space to call atten-
tion to his sermon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

STILL IN HoSPITAL-M. J. GllImacker. who
was badly burned iD the recent destruction of
a launch of the foot of Van Ness avenue is
still I'm the hospital. At the time of the acci-
dent Gillmacker gave his name as Joe Harris
and attempted to avoid publicity In connec-
tion with the matter. He is member OF the
Sausalto yacht club and is in the motor
boat and marine engine business at 81 Pine
street
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Practice Is Common

FTdCIiCe Is OOHHlOH
1t was further pointed out. both at
the White House and by Attorney Gen
eraI wickersham himself that a com
parison of the Lawler draft and the
presidents letter would show that the
differences of the Kerby statement were
unwarranted- Wickersham alluded to
the practice common in the government
departments of subordinates preparing
letters and documents for the consid-
Grafton of their superiors and their use
by them in whole or in part as they
might see Mt.
Secretary Ballinger and LawIer were
in conference for a long time this aft
ernoon with Attorney General Wick
ersham. While they were so engaged
at the department OF justice a mes
senger was sent out for copy OF
newspaper containing the Kerby state
nent. When BalIenger emerged from
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
First Drafts Burned

Kerby asserted further that all of the
preliminary drafts used in the prepara-
ton of the letter were burned in a
CRATE in the interior department at
the suggestion and under the super
vision of Don A. Carr. BalHnger's pri-
vate secretary. Kerby drew the in
ference that the LawIer draft had been
adopted by the president essentially as
his own; that Ba1linger and his legal
adviser had therefore virtually pre-
pared the exoneration which Taft had
issued over his own signature.
Almost simultaneously with the pub
iication of the Kerby statement. Attor-
ney General wickersham sent to the
Ballinger- -Pinchot investigating commit
tee, then in session. copy of the Law
Ter draft. accompanied by letter to
Chairman Nelson. in which wickersham
declared the document had been over
looked in sending the papers requi-
sitioned by the committee at the request
of Attorney Brandeis.
The publication OF the Kerby state
ment evoked from the White House
statement declaring that there was "ab-
sOIutely no foundation for the state
ment that the presidents letter of Sep
tember Is, 1909, was substantially pre-
pared for the presidents signature by
Assistant Attorney General Lawler.'
and asserting unequivocally that 'the
president dictated his letter. personally.
as the result of his own investigation
Of the records and cousi6eraffop 81 DO
uments and papers in his possession at
the time and upon the report of the at
torney general
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Two Paragraphs Stand

This draft by Lawler was delivered
this afternoon ITO the Ballinger- Pm
chot committee and ordered spread
upon the records of the investigation.
Careful comparison of the Lawlcr
draft with the letter of the president
shows that in fact Taft did adopt. prac-
tieally verbatim. two short para graphs
OF LAWYERS language.
The substance of the two documents
is otherwise widely dissimiIar.
The subject was on every tongue to-
night in Washington. where almost
every man. woman and child is bitterly
either BalIinger or Pinchot parti-
san.
The thing came to a head today in
the publication of statement at
tributed to Frederick w Kerby. one Of
the stenographers in the office of Sec
retary Ballinger. in which Kerby re-
lates at length the circumstances under
which he alleged the Lawler draft to
have been prepared.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
EASTERN

Two government Witnesses against sugar tru
are SICK. Page :
Ballinger's vindicstion by president dictst
by Oscar Lawlor. Page
wan street plungcr plans coup in senate
cause decline in stocks Pao.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

Continued on Page 81 Column ?
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Secretary's Assistant Devotes
Two Days to Drafting
ExOneratiOn
SIX UNSATISFACTORY
EFFORTS ARE BURNED
Department StenOgrapher Says
Lawler's Thoughts Were
Used by Executive
IT'S COMMON PRACTICE,
SAYS WICKERSHAM

TVTASIIINGTON, May 14-Os-
w car Lawler. assistant attorney
- general of the interior depart
ment, of which Richard A. Ballinger
IS the head. did in fact prepare a
draft OF letter addressed to Secre-
tary Ballinger and in such form and
phrase that it might have been adopt
ed verbatim and signed by the presi-
dent as Taft's exoneration of the sec
rotary from the charges of L. r.
CLAWS and authorizing the dismissal
of CLAWS from his position of special
agent of the interior department.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
TELEPHONE IxEARNY Sc
SUNDAY. MAY Il. 1910
EDITORIAL
NEWS TO-DAY
This man must fail.

EDITORIAL
This man must fail Page a
Build the Stockton street tunnel Page a.
Minister Gage 5 prehistoric boots. Page IA
General increase OF railroad rates Page a.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
Trust Has Whip Hand

The men on Fishermen's wharf talk
Of revolt against the trust, but don't.
The trust dominates the retail markets
erough the monopoly of certain kinds
~ fish and makes itself the main Gus
toner at the wharf Tarantino takes
UP fully half Of the bay catch for the
western company So the trust has
the whip hand. Massolete may defy il,
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
FOREIGN

russian guido viclimizcs Americans 8
Paris night life. Page
unusual honors given 10 Colonel Roosevelt
University Of Berlin. Pap,
London absorbed in preparations for fnr
Of King Edward Friday Page
Grief for King Edward causes a curious n
ID national NE OF England. Page
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE advocates chang
accession neelaration OF king Pag'
Passion play at oberammergau opens n
distressing climatic conditions. Par,
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
SUBURBAN
COAST

Stsnford's week OF festiyity will begin wi
college play Parc a
Judge Shaw Of san Diego may win doub
ihoofseinehi' Page :
Pueblo indian outbreak, caused by 1iouo
quickly subsidies. Page .
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

THERE was trouble on fisher
mems wharf yesterday when the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-01-28

the bearing down. I recommended it
to some friends and two of them have
been greatly benefited by - Mrs.
MAE MCKNIGHT, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman
st. Louis, MOI was bothered
terribly with a female weakness and
had backache, bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. l began taking
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the Sanative
Wash and now I have no more troubles
that way."-Mrs. Al. HERzoG, 5722
Prescott Ave-, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is a difficult one,
doctors having done you no good.
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pirkham's Vegetable
Compound a trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
flammation, liberation, displacements,
fbroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner-
vOus prostration. 1t costs but a trifle
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-01-28
COST OF WATERWAYS
PLAN Oh CONSERVING WATER
POWER SUGGESTED.


Washington.-Almost every section Of
the country will find subjects of local
as well as general interest in the prelim-
mary report of the National Waterways
Commission, submitted to Congress to-
day. This preliminary report recon-
mends, among other things, a general
pls q of conservation of water power,
wit the shaping of projects in the light
of future needs of streams, resort to
Federal Inc State legislation, rather
than to unnecessary channel improve
ment merely to enforce reduction of rail-
road freight rates, with inhibition, on
the other hand, of manipulation Of such
rates to freeze out water competition, a
uniform system Of distribution Of cost
of waterway improvement between Fed
eral, State and local governments, avoid
ance of multiplication of ports, restric-
ton of dam construction permits, inau-
guration of such water projects only as
can be completed within a reasonable
time, a Federal tax on power furnished
the consumers, reservation by the gov
of power to alter or repeal
power rights.
The commission holds that the Fed
eral government has no proprietary right
or interest in n~avigable waters which
would authorize the collection of tolls.
1t believes that each consent to construct
a dam should provide that the grantee,
whenever necessary to subserve naviga-
ton interests, must construct and fur
nish power for a lock suited to the local
ity and to probable traffic developments.
The most essential requirements for
the rehabilitation of water traffic is as
serted to be the establishment of har-
monious relations between railways and
water lines. In practically every case
of water routes the boats are operated,
the report says, in connection and in
harmony with railway lines. The COM
mission believes transportation facilities
will be still further promoted by COM
pelling joint rates and prorating agree
ments, through bills of lading and physi-
cal connection between rail and water
agencies, separate warehouse and ter
minal systems for railroads and water
ways being often a waste of capital.