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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
$4,000 HOUSE At
FAIR OAKS BURNED
Home of R. D. Girvin in Pol
hemus &enue Destroyed
by Flames
Clubmen Arrive in Automobiles,
DOff Coats and Join the
Bucket Brigade

MEMO PARK, Dec 26.-The $4,000
home OF r. D. Girvin OF the firm of Cir
vim Eyre was burned this afternoon.
The house was in Polhemus avenue.
Fair Oaks. Clubmen brought by dozen
automobiles fought the flomes to no
avail Mrs. Girvin was alone when the
fire started
The flames made such rapid headway
she was unable to save her jewels or
valuables. Fashionable visitors at the
Menlo golf and country club rushed TO
the scene in motorcars. The men took
off their coats and joined the bucket
and hose brigade The blaze had too
great start, however. and soon the
house was smoldering ruin.
Girvin was one of the first to reach
the scene. He was playing golf at the
club links when telephone call noti-
fed him of the fire He leaped into
Percy Moore's automobile and was
driven to his place. Thomas Breeze,
II. Mcdonald Spencer and Worthington
Ames, who were at the club, followed
and helped fight the flames.
The loss is partly covered by insur-
ance. The first is said to have been
caused by a defective hue.
Girvin, his wife and daughter, Miss
Lee Girvin, will live temporarily at
the home of Percy Eyre in Fair Oaks.
Eyre is the brother in law and busi-
ness associate of Girvin.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
POTATO CULTURE ON
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Modern Methods Prevent Scab
and Rot

Prince Edward island is one of the
most successful producers of the po-
tato. It's total area under cultivation
is less than 1900 square miles; the
annual yield of the potato crop aver
ages 100000 bushels
The most successful growers are. not
content to accept passively the fact
that scabs will appear on potatoes, that
they grow better in some fields han in
others, that rot bights them and that
while some are smooth rounded and
of desirable size, others are knobbed,
pitted and either unsuitably large or
too small.
Temperature and soil are favorable
to the production of this vegetable.
The island is situated between 46 de-
grees and AZ degrees l minute north
latitude and 62 degrees and 81 degrees
% minutes west longitude. The mean
average temperature in the last four
years was: May. 4S1 degrees; June,
55.57 degrees: July, &C AZ degrees; Au-
gust 66.22 degrees; September. 5S.52
degrees. and October, 1922 degrees.
The soil best suited here is light
loan over a heavy subsoil The heavy
subsoil stops the draining away of
fertilizers and retains sufficient moist
ure to protect the plant in time of
drought
The most favorable results have been
obtained in fields that have not been
manured for many years. The opinion
prevails that manure pollutes the po-
tato and disposes it to rot before and
after digging. Newly cleared wood
lands yield large crops for many sue
cessive years without the addition of
any fertilizer. To aid exhausted soil
commercial fertilizer is used 1t has
been found that lime, clinkers and coal
ashes thrown on field will set up
scab. 1t would thus appear that this
disease may be due to mechanical irri-
tation in the soil. To prevent rot
great attention is given to the time Of
digging. The best time has been found
to be when the tops begin to grow
dark green, not when they have
turned black. When the latter hap
pens the potato has already begun to
rot. BY observing these methods a
white, smooth, rounded root of me-
dium size is secured. The best pota-
toes produced here are shipped in
boxes. carefully selected, and marketed
as No. l and No. 2.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
NAT GOODWIN IS
SUED FOR DIVORCE
Edna Goodrich Said to Have
Surprised Husband in Room
With Actress
Actor Gives Fourth Service"
Dinner to Friends to CeIe=
brate Suit
Continued from Page i

days previous to the holiday to avoid
unpleasant interviews on the subject of
his connection with the mine promot-
ing firm. of which the notorious Graham
Rice was the active partner. He had
secluded himself to certain extent,
and had written letters to his wife
which indicated that he was bored to
from New York.
Mrs. Goodwin sympathized with her
husbands frame of mind and decided
to give him a pleasant surprise. She
prepared an old fashioned Thanksgiv-
ing day dinner. She roasted the turkey.
and with her own fair hands made a
pumpkin pie, seasoned just as she knew
Nat liked them There was cranberry
jelly. too, all of a culver, and other lit
tie delicaeies which she knew her hus-
good things in basket, Mrs. Goodwin,
accompanied by her maid, boarded a
train that set her down in Toronto on
Thanksgiving eve. She had given no
hint of her coming and arrived at Good
wins hotel unannounced She went to
the door Of the actors suite and
knocked.
What she discovered when the door
was opened has not yet become known
except to her most trusted friends. 1t
is all in the papers in the case, which
are in the hands of her attorney, Her
man l.. Roth
Moses H. Grossman, counsel for Good
win. was secretive tonight regarding
his clients affairs. 1t was learned, how
ever, that while the name of the core
spondent does not appear in the papers,
the intimation is given that she is a
well known member of the theatrical
profession.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
STARTLING INVASION OF
THE "CITY OF ELMS'
5000 Strange European Birds
Flock TO New Haven

In the winter of 1905-6 strange bird
made its appearance in the "Citv of
Elms, almost under the shadow of
Yale university.
At distance the bird seemed the
color of an ordinary blackbird But
close by its black plumage had a green
ish gloss, showing bronze reflections
when the rays of the sun struck it at
certain angles, while on the back were
dainty little arrowhead spangles of
brown. But most striking and charae-
teristic of all was its slender. bright
yellow bill. Who had ever heard of a
blackbird with yellow bill?
1t was the European starting. per-
haps a delegate from the horde of for
eign invasion sent to spy upon the land
of the sons of Eli. Be that as it NAV. II
was not many days before there was a
small, party of strange birds, then more
and more of them. The. next season
there was small resident colony. And
now, in less than five years from the
time of their first appearance. they are
fiocking by hundreds. multiplying by
leaps and bounds If in FIVE years the
one local spy has become 5000 how
long. pray tell. will it take the 5000
to become 100000?
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
FAIR BATTLE IS
WAGING IN south
California Representatives Go
into Enemy's Country With
Argument
New Orleans to BOmbard Com
gress With Miniature Cotton
Bales and Pecan Nuts
Confined from Pnre 1

ginia laboring with noncommittaI con-
gressmen. The Missouri delegation is
receiving the attention of Bell and his
coworkers. and lines are out in okla
homa. Tennessee and kentucky. A. w
Scott Jr. is at Buffalo, where he hopes
to secure withdrawal of the indorse-
ment of New Orleans. He will visit
Syracuse and other New York points
before returning
News from New Orleans is to the ef-
feet that the Gulf City boosters have
taken new heart from home conferences
and will arrive here 100 strong at the
opening of congress. Headquarters will
be opened and southern products dis
tributed as souvenirs. The San Fran
cisco distribution of wine and oranges
made a great hit, which New Orleans
hopes to copy by giving out pecans.
miniature cotton bales. etc. One of the
congressman who failed to receive any
of California's good things said to Rep
resentative Kahn yesterday:
Julius. 1 have been bilious for a
week It occurred to me that some of
those California oranges would help
pull me through"
He received box by return messen-
ger. -and at last accounts was feeling
fine.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
BUSY Times FOR
The MAILMAN
Big Increase in the Christmas
Postal Business Over
Last Year
Delayed Packages and Cards
May All Be Delivered by
Tonight
Continued from Page i

Adams, Foreman of Special Delivery
A F. Schuler and Foreman Douglas
Zirkle of the distributing department.
Through the employment of 100 extra
wagons and 200 extra men City Super
intendent f. E. Honn of Wells, Fargo
Co. was able to deliver Christmas
week express the day received and also
pick up outgoing packages within an
hour after notification.
A heavy increase over business of
last year was noted, but the exact per-
centage OF, increase can not be given
out until the books are balanced The
extra wagons employed handled only
the pick UP" work, while regular
Wells Fargo wagons attended to the
distribution and such of the collecting
as could be reached. BY this system
no accumulation of express was per-
mitted
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
'SHORN OF TRESSES
wife SEEKS Death
Mrs. Ida StOOr Attempts Sui
eide After Husband Clips
Her Hair
WOman's Heart Broken When
Ruthless Hand DespOils
Growing Glory

Humiliated beyond endurance by her
husband. who cut from her head the
luxuriant masses and coils OF golden
hair. Mrs Ida stoor. wife Of a butcher
living at All Valencia street. attempted
TO commit suicide last evening at her
home. All last night her crudely clipped
head lay still on a pillow at the central
emergency hospital. while the surgeons
fought to save the life which the woman
had held valueless.
Her domestic life wrecked ty the cru
city of her husband and her pride de-
stroyed by his ruthless act. Mrs. Stoor
left her home after her hair had been
cut. purchased some bichloride of mer-
curry tablets and swallowed them.
Mrs. Stoor is a cOmely woman OF %
years of age. and her heavy growth OF
golden hair was her one vanity and the
boast of all her friends. She cared for
it with skill and dressed it with in
genDity.
But all that was terminated yester-
day afternoon. Stoor went home from
the street, where he had spent the time
in holiday recreattons- The couple had
a quarrel. AS a climax OF their dispute
StOOr grabbed a pair Of scissors. He
threw his wife down and held her by
the head and shipped on her golden
tresses close TO the scalp. His work
completed. he left the place.
Mrs StoOr followed soon after. pur-
chased the poison. returned to her room
and prepared to die.
When her condition was discovered
she was hurried to the Mission emer-
gency hospital and later to the central
emergency hospital Up to a late hour
last evening Stoor had not been To-
Gated.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
STATE OF TABASC0
TO HAVE RAILROAD
Proposed Route Now Being
Laid Out

The consulting civil engineer of the
proposed line is now on his tour of
inspection through the state of Ia
basco to ascertain the most practical
and economic route to select for the
construction of the Veracruze, Tabasca
and Campeche railway. reports Consul
A. J. Lespinasse at Frontera.
Although the line will traverse sew
eral towns in Tabasco. it is feared that
owing to the increased cost of defect
ing the road TO San Juan Bautista, the
capital, may not be built to that pont
Acting under tbs conjecture, the gov
ernor Of Tabasco has informed the wee
president Of the proposed railway that
he would endeavor to induce the state
congress to grant a lberal subsidy to
hs road built TO the capital. instead of
having t connected therewth by a
branch Inc.
Frontera's Typographical poston and
distance from the points which VIII be
traversed by the railway render m
possible for the Inc to be built to this
place. but hopes are entertained that
branch road vii eventually be built
hereto from San Juan Bautsta
You may have noticed that good
many men who attend church are not
frnnbla6 with incov,r,io
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
CHICAGO PACKERS TO
ENTER SALMON FIELD
Northwestern Fisheries Conn
pany May Be Purchased

SEATTLE, Dec. 26.-AccordinE to the
Times, negotiations are being carried
on for the sale to Libby Mcneil &
Libby of Chicago of 10 salmon can
nerfes In Alaska and the ships and
other property owned by the North
western fisheries company, a Guggen-
helm corporation. The price to be paid
is reported to be $1,00O,O0O. The full
rugged ships ST. Paul, Elwell, J. d.
Peters, A. ]. Fuller and Benjamin F.
Packard. A. c. Coos and Harvester are
said to be included in the deal for the
sale of the Northwestern fisheries COM
pany.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
COLD WATER BANISHES
MANS WISH TO DIE
He Makes 40 Foot Plunge, but
.CraWIS Out

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. Dec. .26-
John Christiansand Jumped 40 feet from
a wagon bridge into Chippewa river
today with suicidal intent He went
under the ice and came up zoo feet
down stream at an airhole. He grabbed
the Ice and crawled out. He went
home and said that the cold water
made him feel so much better that the
desire to die had left him.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
Wright AVIATOR
SETS new MARK
FOR ALTITUDE
BrOOkins Also Makes Daring
Spiral GIides While $4,000
Persons Cheer
Parmalee, Glenn Curtiss and
RadIey Will Compete in Big
Speed Match Today

the wreck when my mechanicians ap-
peared.
They were excited. much more so
than the people who saw me fall This
was so because they had been expect
ing an accident and all afternoon had
been gesticulating to me TO come
down"
Samuel Perkins gave his first exhibit
tion Of his man carrying kites. He
suspended stool on the cable OF the
kites and. drawing himself up with a
tackle, observed the aerOplane maneu-
vers from a height Of about 250 feet
for two and half hours.
The wind tore a sightseeing balloon
from its cable. Anchor chains hastily
thrown out were all that saved it from
being blown away. After breaking its
cable the balloon finally was driven
upon one of its anchors and was ex-
ploded
Three men were arrested near the
gates OF the field for selling counter
felt grandstand tickets. Hundreds of
dollars paid by patrons Of the meet for
the worthless slips Of cardboard were
found upon them
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
Aviator Hits House

NEW YORK. Dec e6.-Frank Mora K.
Belgian trick bicycle rider came to
grief today when he essayed an initial
aeroplane flight over the Hudson river
from Gutenberg. \. J. Morak started
the engines Of his aeroplane and after
swinging in an uncertain fashion
around the old Gutenberg racetrack.
headed toward Manhattan The ma
chine crashed against 2 house and the
aviator fell 80 feet suffering cuts and
bruises
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
RUSSIAN MOBILES TO JOIN
WITH AUSTRIANS IN HUNT

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 26-Grand
Dukes Nicholas Nicholaevich, Michael
Nieholaevich and Serge Mikhailovich
departed today for Skiernewice, Rus
sian Poland, where theyswiil hunt with
nine Austrian personages, among them
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir pre-
sumptive to the Austrian throne The
highest Importance is attached to the
meeting.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
ARABS CLASH WITH
BRITONS IN PERSIA
Fifty-four Men Slain in Brush
on Southern Coast

BUSHIPE. Persia. Dec 26.--A land
ing force from the British cruiser Hya-
cinth had a serious brush with Arabian
gun runners on the southern coast of
Persia today Fourteen of the British
were killed or wounded. The Arabs
lost 40.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
MAN WITH BROKEN NECK
REGAINS HIS FACULTIES
Los GatOs Rancher VIII Prob
ably Recover
[ lSreoiel D:--ctch 10 The Cell

Los GATOS, Dec. 26.-John s. Zuran.
the rancher who suffered a broken
neck IN a runaway accident last Fri
day regained consciousness today. and
10 his establishment greeted the ply
slcian- Dr George Fowler. with a merry
christmas. The favorable indications
noted today were contrary to an ex-
pectatons.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
Four FIY at Once

NEW ORLEANS, Dec 26.-Wth Ro-
land Garros high above the field try
tng for altitude and Moisant. Simon
and Hamilton chasing each other about
the racecourse at the City park avia-
ton field. four aeroplanes were in the
air AT once today
feature Of the afternoon was a FIVE
mile monoplane and automobile race.
which was won by Moisant
tiarros reached the highest altitude
of the day 6.495 feet while the fast
est mile during the day was made bv
Moisant in I minute 4-5 seconds.
Hamilton had engine trouble again
TO-DAY
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
LOCKED HOME FUNERAL
PYRE FOR CHILDREN
House in Ashes, Mother Finds
Offspring Perished

GLASGOW, Ky. Dec. 26.-On return
ing nome from an errand today, Mrs.
Robert Boles of Wisdom, KY. found her
house In ashes, and In one corner of
the ruins the charred bodies of her
three young children. Mrs. Boles care
fully covered the fire and locked the
doors when she left home and it was
evident the children had tried to
escape.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
Doctor HaIts Grahame-White

LONDON. Dec. e6.-Acting on the in
structions Of his medical adviser,
Claude Grahame- White. who had a
narrow escape from serious injury a
week ago and whose aeroplane was
burned sunday, has decided to forego
further attempts at flights across the
English channel for distance in com
peting for the baron de Forest prize Of
500 600
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
CAROLINE ISLANDERS
MURDER FOUR WHITES

BRISBANE. Australia, Dec. 2s.-Ad-
vices received by steamer from Ponape.
Caroline islands. are that the natives
in Ponape revolted recently and muir
dered four Europeans and five friendly
natives.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
NEW OWNERS ACQUIRE
THE GILROY GAZETTE
50 Dispalch % The "a

GILROY, Dec. 26-L c. McKenny.
who has published the Gilroy Gazette
Tor years. has sold il and his plant to
j. O Crome Of the Roseville Register
and Themas III. Burland. who for the
last year has been foreman in the Ca
zette Office
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
American Craft Flies

MINEOLA, l. T., Dee. 2G.-FranIx
Schumacker, "a mechanic employed by
Walter I. Fairchild. a consulting en-
sineer. today made six short straight
away flights i'm Fairchild's monoplane.
II is said to be the first time an
American monoplane run by an Ameri-
can engine has been aloft.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27

Be sure and have a generous supply
of Italian Swiss Colony wines on hand
on New Years Day when your friends
call to extend their best wishes. The
Colony's fine old ports and sherries are
California's choicest sweet wines.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27

TWO KILLED IN FIGHT-waycross, Ca. Dec.
26.--Tvo persons are dead. third is wounded
and a fourth is probably dying as a result of
fights southeast Of Waycross yesterday and to-
day. The dead are Walter Allen and Daner
Crews. Allen was shot through the heart by
Walter Crews, who In turn vas shot by the
dying man as lie fcl'
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
COTTON KING cENrpoIrc

COTTON KING GENEROUS Smith. Ark.
Dec. 2G;-Idis was happy Christmas for
James rernandez, formerly a Texas league
basehali player and more recently police
man. Eugene S. Scales better known as
4. cotton King! presented Fernandez with
Scales ~F -
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money If 1t fails. 70.
w. Groves signature on each box. Csc.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
EIGHT Ru1Lpl

EIGHT BUILDINGS BURN-SIount Ida Ark
Dec 26.-Fire which started early today de
StrOyed property here to the amount OF SIS OOO
Eight business buildings were destroyed.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27

You may have noticed that A good
many men who attend church are not
troubled with insomnia.
The evening world., 1910-12-21
DEAD MAN IN BARREL
SHIPPED AS POULTRY.
Find Made When Unclaimed Piece
of Freight Is Opened-Mystery
for Canadian Police.

MONTREAL, Dec. 2l.-When n barrel,
which WIS consigned to a . nom
existent institution In this city as con-
tanning poultry n which had been
lying for three weeks in a cold storage
warehouse. was opened to-day II was
found TO contain the body OF an old
man. The head OF the body was tied
down between the feet with ropes, but
sperticial examinations by physicians at
the Morgue. TO which the body was
taken, faded to revea any marks Of
violence. There We're no identifying pa
pers or labels upo the body, which Is
evidently that OF a man about sixty
years old.
The barrel Vas marked for shipment
10 j. Janitor. Bishops College, Montreal.
That college aent out Of existence sew
eral years ago According to the police
the barrel was originally shipped from
Jarvis. Ontario, where the records are
said to show the nalne OF the shipper Ia
have besn McSorley. II was consigned
TO J. H.. Bousiield. st. Lawrence Mar
ket, Toronto. according to the officials
Bousfeld stated to the police TODAY
that he never received the barrel and
kaows nothing OF It's subsequent reship.
went to this city, Unable to make de.
livery the railroad to-day opened u,
Darrell t. dispose of the poultry It was
supposed to contain In order to cOvei
freight charges.
The evening world., 1910-12-21
SAYS HER SONGS CAUSED
RUSH TO ROAD HOUSE.
Mrs. Fennel Wants $3.50 for Them
and Also Wants Papers
in Trunks.

Mrs. Jeanne Allen -Marceou
Fennell. the divorced wife OF Colonel
Theodore Marceau. the Fifth avenue
photographer. who claims that she sang
for n living all last summer down AT
the Annadale road house at AnnadaIe.
Staten Island, and wasn't paid for IT,,
was heard to-day In n complaint In the
Second District Municipal Court, Staten
Island. to recov r $3.50 back wages and
three trunks which are said to contain
documents proving her claim TO a 800
900 estate in Fresno. California. The
trunks were a part OF the personal eff
fccts taken by Mrs. Fennell to the road
house. OF which Mrs. Louise Sucker is
the proprietor.
The arrangement with Mrs. Sucker"
said Mrs. Fennell. a handsome blonde,
was that | should pay a dollar a day
until II was demonstrated hat my play
ing and singing made the place popular.
Then she agreed to give me 81 "a day.
l sang for every night for some OF the
! est people on Staten l~sland-the Staten
Island Lodge OF Elks came often and
only on my account-but | never got
n cent, and when l left in October Mrs,
Sucker held my trunks
Mrs. Sucker denied that Mrs. Fen.
nell had made the place n success and
said tina she didn't consider Mrs. Fen.
nell much shakes az "A singer.
Judge Brown reserved decision.
The evening world., 1910-12-21
PRISONER TAKEN
WITH SUIT CASE
FULL OF SILVER
Many of the Articles Appar-
emily Stolen From a
Newark Home.

While trying TO dispose OF a quantity
Of silver articles at p~uwnshops a man
who gives his name as Arthur Middle
ton and says he lives In Yonkers was
arrested this afternoon at Sixth avenue
and Thirty-sixth street. this city, by
Central Office Detectives Hawkins and
Kenny. Middleton had ~ suit case IN
which were found l26 pieces Of silver,
They were marked "F, NJ" and ct. f.
NJ" Middleton said Tho silver had been
given to him 10y n ma" whom he met ut
LonnoX avenuc and ono hundred and
Thirty-fifth street, receiving instructions
to dispose OF II and divide tho money.
Middleton was taken TO H~eadquarters
and searched. A ticket on a Newark
%pawnshop and "A Newark street cal
transfer were found on him. The de.
| t~ectives nj once t~clophoned to chief Car,
roll of Newark, and were Informed that
the silver was the property OF Miss
Florence Murphy, sister Of former GOV
Francis Murphy OF New Jersey, and Ia,
! been stolen from.her home. 40. 7cS IIigl
street, Newark, last night while Ia,
family was at dinner.
Middleton even had some OF the forme.
Governors cigars II cigars cutters IL
his possession,