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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
NEW CABINET ASSUMES
GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN
Former Premier Is Accused of
lmperiling Monarchy

MADRID, Feb. 9.-Internal liberal
dissensions eliminated today in the
resignation of the Spanish cabinet, of
which Moret Prendergrast was pre-
mier. The king at once charged Jose
Cantalejas Mendos, a democrat and
leader of the extreme liberal left, to
form a new ministry.
This he has done. the ministry being
constituted as follows:
PREMIER-Jose Cantalejas Mendos
FOREIGN MINISTER-Garcia Prietro.
INTERIoR-Senor Sagasta.
WAR-General Aznar
MARINE-Arias Mirande
FINANCE-Senor Sobian.
JUSTICE-Ruiz Valarino.
PUBLIC WORKS-Senor Calbeton.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTIoN-Senor Romanones
The dissension was the outgrowth of
the premier's intended appointment of
a minister Of the interior and the con-
tention of the right wing of the lib
erals that Senior Morets catering for
the support of the republicans tended
TO imperil the monarchy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
WOMAN PHYSICIAN DIES
AFTER NOTABLE CAREER
DIR. Mary E. Greene Won Fame
i'm Medical Profession

SEATTLE, Feb. 9.-Dr Mary E.
Greene. widely known as a physician
and lecturer on the nutritive value of
foods, and whose fight for the privilege
of entering the medical profession won
her fame As years ago. died today at
her home in this city, aged 66 years.
She was president of the American
household economic association and
had charge of diet kitchens established
by the Red Cross for sick soldiers in
the south during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war
She was the first woman admitted to
membership in the New York medical
association, after hard fought opposi-
tion.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
MRS. SAGE STREWS GOLD
ALONG HER WAY WEST
Gives About $I5O,OOO to Charity
in Three Days
[ special Dispatch 10 The Call


GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. 9.-In a
three days journey through Texas Mrs
Russell Sage, who says she is on her
way TO California to enjoy a much
needed rest, made contributions to
charity amounting to something like
S15O,OOO.
The little town of Uvalde got $40, 600
for an orphan asylum $4,000 for a
hospital fund at Ell Paso: BrackettvilIe
sanatorium, $4,000 A school fund at
Pecos received $4,000, sanatorium at
Boerne $4,000 and a half dozen hospi-
tails and asylums over the state got
from 81 900 to SO 900 each.
Accompanying Mrs. Sage is her
nephew. Major Slocum, and Mrs. Slo-
cum. The party is travelling in pri-
Yate car
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
EDITOR SPEAKS ON
POLITICS AT STANFORD
eDClares Both Great Parties Are
Dead
Especial Dispatch to The Call

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Feb. o.
Chester H. RowelI, editor of the Fres-
no Republican, president of the Lin
coin Roosevelt league and one of the
most prominent figures inthe political
situation in California at the present
time, spoke this morning in assembly
hall on the topic of "The University
Man and Public Service" He said that
both of the great political parties in
this country were dead. that the repub-
lican party was busted and that the
democratic donkey was dead on it's
feet.
The Civil engineering society last
night elected the following new mem
bers: B. j. Garnett, 10; H. r. Rams
dell, 10; A. Taylor. II; r. NJ ST John,
II; c. E. Bee, II. and w. B. Macmillan,
III
S. Griffith. '13. at 10 Lasuen. cam
pus rooming house. isthe latest addi-
ton to the list of those suffering with
the measles. this making the eighth
case on the campus.
The junior opera committee in prepa-
ration for the annual opera of the third
year class. has picked f. W. Matthew of
San Francisco to take charge of the
stage direction of the play. Tryouts
for the choruses. both men and wom-
EN-, are to be held Friday afternoon.
Seven names were added to the roll
of the German club at its regular meet
ing last night. The new members are:
Misses +. B. Haig. II: J. Sheldon. II:
A. westwick. II; Fl. Flugel, Is; C. T.
La Grange. II; A. G. Hollensteiner. II,
an, G. keystone 10
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
INVENTOR ENDS LIFE
AS RESULT OF FAILURE
Samuel III. Butcher Shoots Him.
self in New York

NEW YORK Feb. s.-samuel H.
Butcher. 80 years old, who lived for
merly either in San Francisco or Dem
yer, left rambling letter ito the
press and then shot himself through
the head in an uptown hotel tonight,
dying soon afterward.
Butcher was the inventor of ma
chine for cutting bulk butter into
cubes for table consumption.
Failure ito get this invention on the
market preyed upon his mind.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
PRIESTS WORDS
AS A WITNESS
HURT CONBOY
Clergyman Testifies in Murder
Trial to Drunken Condition
of Former Police Captain
Defendant and His Daughter
Much Agitated 5y Evidence
OF Father Byrne
Summary Of Testimony
at COnboy Trial Yesterday

The defendant. COnbOy, seemed
10 he intoXicated.-FA ATHER
JOHN BYRNE.
ConbOy was very intoxicated.
JOHN ID. O'BRIEN.
Lagan stepped back and turned
when CODboy shot him.-EDWIN
HOGUE.
COnbOy hung on to post
and waved his revolver around,
threatening the crowd.-JDHN A.
ULRICH.
My brothers. coat was not
ripped when 1 had it in my pos
session after the sEooting-MIsS
MARGARET LAGAN.
COnboy did not have the re-
Volrer in his hand. took it
from his hip pocket.-POLICE-
MAN LOUIS III. NYE.
ConbOy seemed TO be intoxi-
Gated. He seemed to have lost
control of himself mentally and
physicaIly.-ALBE ROCHE.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
Contradictory Evidence

Johnson's place was taken by District
Attorney Charles NJ. E'ickert but the
case continued to be conducted by his
assistant, Maxwell McNutt. With the
exception of the testimony given by
Policeman Louis II. Nye, the witnesses
corroborated one another strongly
Nve's testimony was contradictory to
the whole. Several witnesses had testi-
fed that Conboy, after shooting Lagan,
had waved his revolver around on the
crowd, threatening to shoot the first
man that attempted to modest him and
that the policeman who captured him
took the revolver from his hand. Nye
testified that he took the revolver from
Conboy's hip pocket.
This was a point on which the attor-
neys for the defense evidently intend
to base their case.
John A. Ulrirh, a merchant, living at
2o90 Pine street, who was attracted to
the spot by the shooting, said that as
the crowd gathered Conboy waved his
revolver and cursed.
You say he waved his revolverg'
said Attorney Dunno in cross examina-
ton.
"He did" said Ulrich.
isn't it true said Dunno suddenly,
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
RaiIwavmen Vote to Strike

CHICAGO. Feb. By reported
vote Of 3,007 TO 81. switchmen members
of the brotherhood of railway train
suen Of IS Chicago railroads decided in
favor OF a strike. The vote was an
nOunced today.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
Testimony of Priest

The state rested its case with Father
Byrne. His testimony was in line with
that of those who preceded him. Wit
ness after witness told the same tale,
all to the effect that Conboy had been
intoxicated, that he had shot Lagan
and had been identified by the latter.
The courtroom was fairly jammed
with spectators with the opening of the
case yesterday. Attorney Hiram w.
Johnson, who was retained as special
prosecutor, was not present, having
Withdrawn from the case the night be-
fore In explanation of his action he
made the following statement:
81 was employed in the Conboy case
by the brother and sister of Bernard
Lagan. They could i'll afford to pay
me my compensation. I found that
/ could not give them fair equivalent
in service for my fee; therefore, l sent
for them last evening and returned to
them the money they had paid me and
quit the case"
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10

FTRE CAUSES HEAVY Loss-Mexico City. Feb.
9-Firc today in the yards Of the central
branrh af the National railways Of Mexico
destroyed property valued st $lJo,000 gold.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10
EXPLOSION AT
BURKPS UNDER
INVESTIGATION
District Attorney of SOnOma Be-
Iieves Murder Was Attempt
ed at SanatOrium
Determined to Establish the
Identity of the PerpetratOr
of the Outrage
County Authorities Are Already
in Possession of Valuable
Information
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
SANTA ROSA. Feb. 9.-Convinced that
s murder was attempted Saturday night
~ Dr. Willard p. Burke's health resort
when a tent house occupied by Mrs
Luella Smith and her infant son was
blown up with dynamite District At
torney Clarence T. Lea returned 10
night from an investigation at the san
storium and redoubIed his efforts to
secure evidence that viii establish the
identity Of the perpertrator of the out
rage. IL was announced tonight that
the authorities Were in possession of
valuable information which would
probably result in clearing up the mys-
terry surrounding the explosion, and
that the matter would be presented TO
the grand jury.
Prominent Man i'm Case
Important facts connected with the
sctual hring Of the dynamite which
worked havoc in the tent. and the tes-
timony OF persons who have been ac-
quainted with Mrs smith for several
Years. together with direct charge
that a prominent Sonoma citizen was
the father of the infant who narrowly
escaped death were some of the inn
portant results Of the days investiga-
tion. Everything tended to discredit
the theory OF attempted suicide. and
tonight The thorities have definitely
discarded that solution Of the mystery.
Tt was announced tonight by District
Attorney Lea that an investigation of
every feature Of the incident was in
progress and that important develop
ments could be expected within the
next two days.
Keeps Evidence Secret
The sudden discarding Of the sui
eide theory which was advanced sun
day to account for the explosion, it be
came known today. was due largely TO
Information supplied the district at
torney by d. Warren billiard, who had
maintained confidential relations with
Doctor Burke during period of Is
years. and Monday resigned a lucra-
tive position as cashier and book
keeper at the sanatorium The i'm
p0rtance Of the information given the
authorities by Dulard is accentuated
by the fact that at present District
Attorney Lea refuses TO make it public.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-10

testimony coming from the lips of a
priest of his own church yesterday ef-
fectually broke the composure and
seeming Indifference of Michael Joseph
Conboy, former captain of police now
being tried on the charge of numbering
Bernard Lagan. The testimony was
that given by Father John Byrne, who
was called to the central emergency
hospital shortly after Lagan was shot.
He testified to the Identification of
Conboy by Lagan and declared that the
police captain at the time was in an
intoxicated condition. This was the
last of the evidence offered by the
state, and when Father Byrne ceased
and rose from his seat Conboy dropped
his gray head into his hands.
Daughter Grief Stricken
At this stage, also, his daughter
Miss Nina Conboy, who hitherto has
heard the testimony without betray-
ing any emotion, lost absolute control
of herself. Her eyes filed with tears
She tried to hide her grief from the
crowded courtroom by raising a news
paper to her face, but the sad endeavor
was without avail A moment later
court had adjourned and the father
and daughter were together, her hand
touching his coat sleeve.
Daddy" she said. brokenly
That's all right said Conboy with
assumed gruffness. Then, looked around
if apologizing for the episode
It's unhappy position" he said;
IAN unhappy position" His daughter
recovered herself by degrees and
moved away, and Conboy followed in
her wake, shaking his head and mur-
muring to himself
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-08-25
Democratic Speaking.

Quite good crowd assembled at the
motion picture tent on Main street Mon
day at 2. m. to hear Hon. Henry G.
Stuart, Democratic candidate for Com
gress, and Joseph C. Wysor speak on
the issues of the campaign from Dem
ocratic point of view.
A. ). Hlgginbotham, chairman of the
democratic county committee, presid-
ed, and introduced the speakers.
Mr.. Stuart was the first speaker. and
after good natured Jolly to the Taze-
well people, he devoted himself to the
tariff. He declared himself in favor of
tariff equaling the difference in cost
OF production at home and abroad. Af-
ter brief reference to stand-patters
he turned his attention to the constitu-
tlonal convention, and stated that the
object OF that convention was to get rid
of every negro vote, and said that he
was proud of his record as a member of
that convention.
Mr.; Wysor following, spoke of his
long friendship with MIR. Stuart. and
quoted with great gusto and annrovsI q
remark that he had heard on the street
that Henry Stuart was good at swap
ping horses or legislating against rail
roads He took a different view of
the tariff from the candidate, and wish
ed the tariff removed from forei0n
goods so that they might be bought
cheaper, thereby forcing down the orice
OF domestic goods made by home labor.
Speaking of the income tax he said rich
people would not stand for it. but tbev
wanted the poor to pay taxes for them.
TINS IS rather a dangerous statement to
make, when 1t is remembered that the
last Democratic Legislature went over
whelmingly against the amendment
to the Federal Constitution proposed bv
the Republicans in Congress to tax the
incomes of the rich. In speaking of the
disfranchising clause of the State Con-
stltution, he said it was the aim of the
convention to disfranchise only negroes.
and that If few white men were dis,
franchised by the operations of this
clause it was unavoidable.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-08-25
BURKES GARDEN.
What People Are Doing in Virginia. S
Most Beautiful Section
Burkes Garden. Va. Aug d

Burkes Garden, Va, Aug. "a.
Bowen Long is spending a few days
at Salem, Va.
Three children of MIR. and Mrs. Lon
Davis have diptheria
Mrs. ]. B. Meek returned Monday
from visit to Roanoke.
Rev. George W. Fox preached at
Green Valley last Sunday.
Miss Fannie Ryan, of Washington. d.
e., Is visiting friends here this week.
Miss Lucille Snapp returned yesterday
from visit to friends in Washington
county.
Clinton Barns, ST., of the Cove. ia
spending while with his daughter.
Mrs. F. Nj. Moss.
Nj. p. Eagle will leave in few days
for Manchester, KY, where he will
enter school again.
Rev. w. M. Patty filled his regular
appointments at Central church and
Glade on last Sunday.
Mrs. A. G. Hall, of Graham. and Mrs.
Rufus Hale, of Bluefield, are the guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Eagle.
Mrs. ]. H. Stuart, of TazeweII. and
Mrs. Spracher, of Graham, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. John Thompson.
Mrs. Palmer Etter has returned to her
home here, after visiting relatives at
Tazewell and Graham for two weeks.
Rev. w. H. Greever, of Columbia, s.
e., and E. L. Greever, of Tazewell.
came Saturday for visit to homefoIks.
Mrs. Matte White returned to her
home in Bluefield Sunday, after visit
to her mother and other relatives here.
Misses Ethel and Georgia Kinser. of
Chrlstiansburg, spent a fortnight with
relatives in the Garden, returning home
last Friday.
Rev. E. l.. Richie, who has been in
Atlanta, Ca, for two months, exchan0-
ing pulpits with Rev. Schaeffer, is eX-
pected home this week.
Miss Bessie Crockett, of Tazewell.
visited her uncle, Dean Peery, last
week, and proved herself quite ar
equestrienne by accompanying a party
to Beartown.
''Rhoda," the Methodist circuit rid
er's faithful saddle animal, returns
thanks to G. w. and b. r. Moss fol
two loads of nice hay Others will heal
some polite horse talk when the hay ar.
rives.
T. c. Bowen and family, of Tazewell
spent Saturday night and Sunday here
with j. Meek Hoge and family. o.
their return they had a runaway neal
the residence of j. W. Yost, and mar
rowly escaped serious injury.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-08-25

reasonable time. That is equivalent to
saying that no other railroads will ever
be built and work on the Panama Canal
will have to stop. AS a matter of fact,
all experience of the business world has
shown that big jobs attract big contrac-
tors, with first-class equipment, who
can do the work more economically and
better than is possible tor smaller men.
After all, what makes life worth liv-
ing? Is it not to make our sojourn here
as pleasant and profitable to ourselves
and others as possible? What a magni-
ficent country we would have, if we
could only travel over it. Our schools,
our churches, our social life would all be
quickened into a new life. No more
would we hear the remark a stanger not
long ago made about one of the prettiest
and most fertile parts of the County
1t is the most beautiful place l ever
saw, but l never want to see it again"
Let us get broader view of life, of
our duty to our community and to our
fellow men. Let US do this work for all
the people, not few, and do it now.
We can if we will, and, when it is done,
the sun in all his course will not look
down upon more prosperous and hap
py people, and certainly they will live
in the fairest spot in all the earth.
E. l.. GREEVER.
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actual figures. But suppose we esti-
mate the actual cost at a rather exag-
gerated figure and put it at $5. .OOO. 90
per mile, which is certainly more than
enough, and we would have 5000. 900 90
as the cost of 120 miles of road. IL that
be true, o. If the cost be reduced to
SOW, OOO.OO, we could not, with money
in hand or to be collected within the
near future, fulfil the requirements of
our third proposition-thatt these roads.
which are to benefit all the people
should be built quickly. That being
true, and still being in mind the desira-
bility of all of our propositions, the next
question Is: Is there any way by which
this necessary money can be provided.
The obvious and only way is by a bond
issue: We cannot get the money any
other way, that is certain. The
whole matter then resolves itself to
this: Without a bond issue we must
sacrifice one or more of our fundamen-
tai propositions.
This being true, we are left to decide
the sole question of whether or not a
bond issue is practicable-can we carry
it?
The wisdom of a bond issue per Sc
whether 1T is ever justified in principle
even If perfectly practical, has been
questioned by some. Some of these OBJ
jections are:
(a). 1t would raise taxes. Granted.
but We will never, never, never, have
roads without paying for them, and
they must be paid for out of taxes
That is the only way the Government
has OF obtaining money. But an issue
OF bonds, running for period of years,
distributes these payments so that they
nQad q A,..Il
miles OF road in short time and collect
enough taxes in the meantime to pay
for them, would, indeed, be burden.
(b). Il do not want to leave a debt
for my children to pay" That is a
sound reason for a hard-headed. com
nonsense business man to give for not
incurring large personal debt, which
his children might have to pay. When
an individual contracts a debt, he knows
that his health may fail, business re-
verses may come, or death may take
him away. These are the reasons that
deter him, and these alone. A county
is not like that, it is like a corporation
"A body without death and mind
without decline" Sickness and death
cannot touch it. Tazewell's taxable
values are increasing every year and
must continue to increase. More coal
mines VIII De opened Ihe Norfolk 4
Western Railway Company is building
its Indian Greek line, which will add
tens Of thousands to taxable values.
and coal mines along the route will be
opened. So the county cannot possibly
experience any one of the trouble S
which make private debt of large size
unwise. But let US look further into
into the matter-into the real business
principles involved and the equities of
the case. 1t is a sound business princi-
pie that every business proposition, if
successful, ought to be self-supporting,
in measure. That is, its future should
largely be taken care of by its profits.
Good roads will increase values. That
is as certain as that the sun shines.
Even if they did not, by some perver-
sion of all laws, known and unknown,
increase the nominal or market value of
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lands, they will render all parts of the
county more accessible and all products.
except that which walks to market
will be more valuable to the producer in
the exact amount of the difference in
cost of marketing then and under pres
ent conditions. The market price of a
oushel of potatoes, a bushel of apples. a
hundred pounds of bacon, &C., is fixed
regardless of our roads. Whatever il
costs farmer to get his produce to the
railroad comes out of what ought to be
his profits. If it cost him s.. 90 to get
one tho sand pounds to the railroad
when lt ought TO cost him S.. 90 to get
three thousand pounds to the same
place, he has lost, in cold cash, $40 w.
So. good roads, in the saved profits to
the farmers, will more than doubly paw
any increase of taxes that could possi-
bly, be levied. Al a business PROPOSE
ton, then, 1t is safe to say that they
Will actually more than pay for them
selves.
But suppose that the visible and ac-
tual saving to the people were not SO
great as it is bound to be, how about
the equity and justice of having the
coming generation help US paw for the
roads which both we and they are to en-
JOY! Parenthetically, it may be very
pertinently remarked that we will leave
no personal obligation on anyone. We
may leave tax to be paid on the prop
erty we leave (and we will have to leave
it,, by those who own it, but we will
leave no personal Obligations. When
you die and leave children, they will be-
long to one of two classes: either they
will hold on to what you leave them or
they will lose it. If they hold it, they
will be able to pay their just share Of
the cost of what you help build for their
benefit and will thank you for the priv
ilege; if they lose what you leave them.
they will be free from any burden. But
can anything be more just than that
those who receive a benefit should paw
for it? But it may be said that the
roads, when built, have to be cared for
in order to benefit those who came after
us. Certainly. Why not? Does the fact
that house has to be repainted now
and then, and has to have new roof
occasionally, deter you from building a
decent home for yourself and your
family after you are gone?
1t would seem to be self-evident
proposition, based upon natural equity,
that all who use a road should help pay
for it.
But has the issuing of bonds for per-
manent public improvements been prov
en- by experience to be wise and practi-
cable? Every mile of railroad in the
United States, perhaps in the world,
has been largely built by money raised
on bond issue. The United States,
the richest nation history has ever
known, is right now carrying to a glo-
rious contamination the greatest engin-
eering project ever Notwithstanding
ing of the Panama Canal-and is doing
it on bond issue. The Government
will charge tolls, to get its money back
That means that the owner of the mon
ey that builds the Canal will get a re-
turn. We, the taxpayers, who put up
the money to build roads, will also get
our money back, and much more, in the
direct saving to each individual. Last
weeks Outlook, a most conservative
high class, publication edited by DR.