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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-16
SAN JOSE MERCHANTS
TO BOOST GARDEN CITY
viii Make Business Expedition
to Southern Territory
[SpeciaL Deratch 70 NJ Coln

SAN JOSE. Nov. 15.-To impress
upon the minds of the merchants of
some Of the nearby towns that San
Jose is fast becoming the principal
distributing center between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles so representa-
tives of local wholesale houses, in a
dozen automobiles, will invade the
territory as far south as Pacific Grove
and Salinas on a boosting expedition
Wednesday and Thursday.
The movement is backed by the Mer-
chants association and the local cham
Der of commerce and the boards of
trade of Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister,
San Juan, Salinas, Monterey, Pacific
Grove, Castroville, Watsonyille and
Santa Cruz have promised to give the
San Joseans a royal welcome.
The auto squadron will start from
the city hall in this city at O'CLOCK
Wednesday morning, returning Friday.
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Crop REPORTS

WASHINGTON Nov. I5.-December crop re-
ports OF the United States department Of agri-
culture. ennounced today. are:
Report the acreage and condition of winter
wheat and rye on December 1 will be issued on
Wednesday. December {. at l p.
An estimate on the cotton crop OF l910-19l1
will be issued on Friday, December 9, at p. m.
The final estimate of the acreage. production
and value Of important farm crops of the United
States in 1910 VIII be issued on Thursday, De-
cernbAr ar 40 % m
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steamer Nevadan. which sailed yester-
dav for Honolulu. carried about 1000
tons of freight below decks and; on
deck, 8 herd of beef cattle from Kan
quantity of conlbustibles the Nevadan
carried no passengers.
Two vessels Are Libcied
Two vessels were libeled Yesterday
because. it is alleged in the complaints:
bills. for labor and maferial tld a. hsd aa.i
Sea Nymph and the bark Claus II
Anderson sues the owners 7, of the Sea Sea
for a Judgment of 1919 against Henry
Innd K Co. owners of the Claus.
Water Front Notes.
Receints of lumber yesterday by sea
ed to 2.246,o10 Feet.
The Norwe gfan steamer Cuzco. Cap
lendo via Manzanillo With 500 tons OF
nitrate and 10 sacks of copper ore
THE Curacao left Mazatlan yesterday
for Guaymas.
liner Sierra Captain Houdlette. bound
from this port for Honolulu, was SSS
miles from bere at o'clock Monday
niqhf The Sierra left here Saturday.
D Dunann. general passenger
gent for the Pacific Coast steamship
company, is in Chicago on company
business.
yesterday for Panama and way ports.
and the Pennsylvania sailed for Pan
anna direct
Change of Masters
steamer Jersey late master, j. w.
Mosher: present master. Charles Jarvis.
Licenses Renewed
steamer Fruto,sE T.. W Sautelle, mas
Schooner Carrier Dove, A. E. Arklund.
Enrolment
Schooner America, john Johnson,
CT .
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hollday in the transaction of the bust
ness that always attends the departure
or ship even in the paradise of the
Pacific. The motto OF life in Tahiti is:
If your business interferes with your
pleasure, get ridt of your business.
Accordingly, the merchants memorial
lied the governor. who is the whole
thing in that part of the world, asking
him to detain the liner in port until
the day after the holiday. The COVER
nor listened 10 the cry of his people
and issued a decree re-arranging the
schedule of the liner to suit their pleas
ure. This, is why the Mariposa. usually
more regular than most clocks, came
to be q day late.
When the liner left Tahiti WAS pre-
pairing TO receive lie French cruiser.
Montcalm. with Admiral de Castries on
board. The Montcaln was due there
Monday, and it was the first time
that a first class warship and flag
ship to boot. had visited the island port
in 20 years, the dusky citizens of the
beautiful island as well a the French
officials stationed there, were prepar-
ing for a big time.
Adrien Bonhoure. the new governor
of Tahiti. has already made himself
very popular with the people under his
Jurisdiction While the Mariposa was
in port he and his wife and a party of
friends returned on the gunboat Zelee
from d two weeks visit to the Mar
quesas islands.
The Mariposa's cargo included ship
ments of copra, cocoanuts. vanilla and
tropical fruits. Among the passengers
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offers 70 settle for the days that certain food
was short IL IS thought committee viii re
selected 70 Arbirrate the matter.
Schooner W. j. Patterson arrived today nom
Santa Rosalia- IL viii go on the Marine rail-
ways for cleaning aud new mast before load
ing
Steamers Wasp. Centralis, Carmel and Temple
Barr arrived and schooner Willism Olson and
harkentine Beuicia went 10 the lower harbOr.
Steamer Norwood got away today for san
francisco. All incoming steamers report the
very rough all abe war, from san Francisco.
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GOVERNOR DECREE
DETAINS MARIP0SA
Chief Executive of Tahiti Holds
Liner to Prevent Work.
on Holiday

HE Oceanic steam
S h p company's
l in e r. Mariposa,
Captain Hayward,
which arrived yes
terday from Tahiti,
was a day behind
schedule as the re-
suit of leaving Ia
hiti a day late.
The day the Mari
posa was scheduled
10 leave Tahiti was
q holiGay. II the
liner had sailed on
time the merchants
and others inter
ested would have
had to sacrifice at
lea st part of the
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Portland Livestock Market

PORTLAND. Nov. attle-Receipts, 300
Market steady Steers choice. s.. .25 aces; me
dum. S45od5: choice heifers. S4.75d5: good
heef COWS. Ss.5oM4.7J: medium beef cows. 81 80
"a; common COWS. s2M3.50: bulls. S3.5od I;
stays. choice S464.50: calves. light. $7aT50;
hesrr S4df25
Hogs Receipts 500 Market weak. Top,
81. 9.25d9.j0; fair 10 medium. S9G9.25.
sheep Receipts I COO Market steady. sheep.
best valley wethers. 81. 2.25G3 30; fair wethers,
S3G3.25: best vearling wetbers. S4-25G4 -; best
valley ewes. SO SO lambs. choice mountain, 81. p
q %: choice vaIIev. S4.I5m5.
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UxoRICIDE KILLS H1MsELF-cinclnnsti o.,
Nov. 15.-By committing suicide at Chilli
cothee, o.. Edward Glazier, who shot and
killed his wife at a birthday party in Lock-
land. suburb Of Cincinnati Thursday night.
ended futile search in half dozen villages
OF this county.
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st. Louis Wool Market

ST LOUIS Nov. wool-Lower. Medium
grades combing and clothing 23i5 02.c; light
fine. 20a22c heavy fine 15@17c; tub washed,
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les 2z03O1kc: dairies. 23d2Tc. Eggs-Steady
4 receipts. 1854 cases; at mark cases included.
p = q 221kc; frsts 2sc: prime hrsts. 30c. Cheese
v steady: daisies 1917 sdl5%c; twins l4A a
1zi5c Young Americas, l5is dl3lsc; longhorns,
~ Gl5lsc.
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( $500. Market steady TO lower. Native steers,
star; cows and heifers. $3@5.5o: western
steers. SS50d6.25: range cows and heifers
- S59s 4-25: esnners. S27OM3.30 40: stockers ana
/ feeders. S3M5.50; calves, $3.25@125; bulls.
stagS. etc. S36i4.50
Hoss-Receipts 1900 Market 15c 10 25c
lower Heavy. ST30GTT0: mixed 80;
light. s7,T0q7.9o; pigs, s7@7.75; bulk of sales,
Sheep-Receipts. $500. Market steady. Feed
ers lower: rearlings, S464.50: wethers, $3-25G
$50; ewes, S3G $50: lambs. s.. .65 @6.S5-
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Weather Report
RAINFALL DATA

United States Department OF Agriculture
Weather Bureau. San Francisco. Nov. IS. 1910.
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E:rrort. Nv the Ancon Liner

The steamer Stanley Dollar sailed for Aneon
on Sunday. with cargo en- route 70 cities In the
eastern states as follows: 1890 gals wine,
3f9 1872 lbs beans 10.950 cs canned goods. 25I,-
200 lbs dried fruit 242 $50 lbs and cs raisins.
125 ca fruit juice. 200 lbs pearl barley. $500
cs salmon. 2 500 lbs nuts. 1S.455 lbs lead dross.
SO 500 lbs shot. 129, ,52S lbs zinc skimuings ard
dross and 100000 lbs pig lead. valued at
SAT 60T.
In addition TO the foregoing the steamer had
1.526 gallons OF wine for Panama. valued at
s425.
shipments for the North
The steamer Umatills. which sailed for Vic
toria last week. had cargo consigned to various
British American cities. valued at S46.5s4. and
including the following:
5.sO7 lbs dried fruit. 200. 145 lbs raisins.
s.7s6 lbs beans. .622 cs canned goods. los pkgs
fresh fruits 625 meals. 162 pkgs onions, IS
pkgS vegetables, 300 gals and 80 cs wine. 40 cs
mineral water. $50 lbs chocolate Is cs eggs.
% $50 lbs malt. 3.ieb lbs nuts 100000 lbs salt.
% cyls gas, ZOO IT hardwood. 18 rolls leather.
pkgs machinery, $50 rolls roofing
Barley Cruiser Clears
The French bark Genevieve MoinOS was
cle4red Ipswich. Eng. Yesterday. with 55. 163
certals BARLEY. valued at $60679 and - 900 feet
Of lumber dunnage. valued AZ S264-
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVED
nFA

ARRIVED
Monday. November IA
I1:45 o. M, stmr Coaster Higgins, 63 hours
from Columbia river; 100000 feet lumber to
Little Diamond lumber company
Tuesday, November 15
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New York Metal Market

NEW YORK. Nov l5.-Standsrd copper.
steady; spot and November. 12:5o@12. Soc; De
Februsry. i2.s5ai2. soc: March i2 7oaI2 eoe.
London steady; spot. f5T les Sd; futures, f5s
15s. Arrivals reported at New York today. 195
tons. Custom house returns show exports so far
this month OF II 403 tons. Lake copper, 13d
13.25c: electrolytic, 12s71z 61Sc; casting, sc
Tin~Firn: spot. Sc. e.s5a8e. 75c: November.
Sc. So a sc. 80: December. January and February
36 5G36. 60c: sales reported Of 10 tons spot
at 36.35c. London, firm; spot, f165 los; fu-
lures, 1855.
Lead-Quiet, 44o64.5oc New York and 4.25d
4.30c East st. Louis. London. spot f13 IS Sd.
5-s065.9Oc East st. Louis. London, spot f24
2s Sd.
Iron-Cleveland warrants. 49s Sd in London.
Locally iron was steady. No. l foundry north
ern. No. l southern and No. ! southern soft.
S15.TJ d16.25; No. 2 southern. S15.50d16.
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l5--Stmr Manitou

BosToN-Arrived Nov 15--stmr Msnitou
from Antwerp
Sailed Nov. 15-Stmr iceland. for Liverpool
LoNDoN-Sailed Nov. 1J-Stmr Luxter, for
Tacoma
York.
NAPLES Arrived Nor. fs-stmr Tacrima
from Philadelphia and New York.
Memoranda
Stnnf Shoshone. hence Nov. II for Grays Hsr-
hor. arrived at Assoria Nov. Is in tow stmr g..
c. Lindaner and reports while crossing Grays
Harbor bar night OF Nov. IA. struck bar.
smashing rudder and disabling propeller; vessel
leaking; baeked>ont and anchored for three hours
when stnr G.. {. Lindauer. bound into Grsys Har
Dor from San Francisco. picked vessel up and
towed IL 70 Astoria: feet water in hold; making
wafer st the rate Of inches an hour: vessel viii
probably be lowed to Portland drydCck-
Per stnr WilheImiHa-Nov. Is. ?. m. 90 miles
OFF San francisco, saw 4 masted schooner aud 5
masted schooner bonud north.
ASTORIA, Nor. 1J.-Arrived. stmr Shoshone
10 tow stmr G. C. I.indauer from San francisco
Nov II for GrayS HarbOr: fcrmer broke rIddcr
put in here to effect repairs.
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Ey THURSDAY &

we will sell at 205-9 Valencia st. at II m. 80
head good drivers and draft mares. also so Dig
horses and mares Outside stock sold on corr-
Phone Park 2723. CLcJGH & BRODIE- Auer'rs.
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U. S. Branch Hydrographic once

A branch Of the United States photographic
office located in the Merchants Exchange. Is
maintained in San Francisco for the beneft OF
of expense. Navigators are cordially invited to
visit the office where complete sets of charts
and sailing directions OF the world are kept at
hand for comparison and reference and the
latest information can always be obtained re-
garding lights. dangers TO navigation and mat
tiers OF interest to ocean commerce
:. . ]. G. BURNETT
Luetenant. U. S. N. in Charge.
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Nv United wireless

Tuesday. November 15
STEAMER CARLOS wlllapa harbor for
San Francisco: Nov -. 3 p M p miles miles
southeast Of Point Arena; expect TO arrive
about midnight.
STEAMER wATsoN-From Seattle for San
Francisco: Nov. Is. II 8. M. of Northwest
Seal rocks; moderate northwest wind; will ar
rive about 1o:39 Nov. 16.
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Naval Storer-Turpentine and Rosin


SAVANNAH. Nov. I5.-Turpentfne firm at 7ec;
sales. 50T; receipts, ae5; shipments, All; stock,
1857.
Rosin firm; sales. 2S6a; receipts, 1880: ship
nents, 40; stock, 7o,492.. Quote: B. s5.I2l2;
8 5s7Is: G, So S575. 30; H. S5.9o0 5.95; I. Sc; K,
ss-35; NJ, $500: y, $500; VIC, f$7.15; WV,
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-16
Liner China Talks to Coast

The Pacific Mail liner, China, home
ward bound from the orient. but not
due here until November 26, is already
in wireless communication with this
coast. On Monday night at s o'clock
the China was 1.450 miles the other
side of Honolulu. $3.50 miles from this
port. The operator of the United Wire
less company here knows this. because
the China itself told him: The China
liners Siberia and Korea. The Siberia,
due here Friday was 1900 miles away,
and the Korea, outward bound, about
39 miles this side of Honolulu. The
ing at the same time and made med
ley that kept the operator here guess
ing for nearly an hour He finally got
gave each, ship his o. k. and kind re-
CARDS before resuming the more sim
pie task of playing central to the chat
tering ships within a radius of a mere
few hundred miles.
Melville Dollar Sails Saturday Week
The California Atlantic steamship
company will dispatch the steamer Mel
Vile Dollar a week from Saturday for
the isthmus via San Pedro with freight
for New York and the gulf. From now
on a steamer of the new line Will
leave here every other Saturday and
San Pedro every other Monday
The operation of water line by in
terests unconnected with rail trans
portation has already developed a new
water trade between the Pacific coast
brough, in addition TO their direct line
between Puget Sound and the isthmus
are now operating steamers between
Colon and New Orleans and Charleston
In connection with this gulf service
they have established relations with
barge lines on the Mississippi The
cargo now on the way aboard the
steamer George W. Fenwick will be
transferred at Colon to the steamer
San Mateo. which is now on the way
from Philadelphia to Colon with
cargo of hardware for this coast. The
San Mateo viii carry the FenwicRs
cargo TO New Orleans and Charleston
Some of it is destined for ST Louis and
1t will be taken all the way by water
except for the haul across the isthmus
of Panama.
Facilities for transportation up the
Mississippi are being improved and the
new line promises to build up an inn
portant trade between this coast and
that part Of the middle west that can
be reached by the great navigable in
land waterways that railroad manipu-
lation had rendered pra actically useless
Wflhelmina Arrives from Honolulu
The Matson navigation colnpany's
liner Wtlhelmina, Captain Peter John
son. arrived yesterday from Honolulu
with large cargo of island products
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sSnow on ground, 3 inches
SYNOPSIS OF WEATHER CONDITIONS

@Snow ground, inches
SYNOPSIS OF WEATHER CONDITIONS
TIE disturbance over Arizona has remained
nearly stationary. Unsettled weather prevails IN
Arizona with rain In southern Utah and snow
in Colorado. An area Of high pressure Overlies
the central portion Of the country, causing cold
and somewhat cloudy weather. The barometer
continues low on the Atlantic coast north OF New
York The temperature has fallen from u to 20
degrees in all southern states. East bound trav
slers may expect cold weather from Colorado
east on the Pacific slope there has been fall
IN temperature in the section north OF San Fran
cisco and a slight rise in the San Joaquin val
lev The pressure distribution favors northeast
winds and low fogs along the coast
FORECAST
San Francisco and vicinity-Cloudy Wednes-
dsv: light east wind, changing TO moderate west.
Santa Clara valley-Cloudy Wednesday; light
south wind.
Sacramento vaIley-CIoudy Wednesday; light
north wind
San Joaquin vaIley-Cloudy Wednesday light
east wind.
California south Of the Tehachapt-Cloudy
wednesday; light north wind, changing 20 south
A G.. McADIE. District Forecaster.
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HYDRoeRAPHIc OFFICE
Depth at mean low water. entrance to harbor
PLACE IT Date Remarks
Grays HarI 10 Oct 27IDepth given is for south
channel
Willapa b % Sept. 49,.
Column r. 25 ISept- 23i 3i.-..............-.....-
Bar buoy to right OF
Nehalm RI 9 July 10. entrance. Channel Is
shifting TO or b.
very narrow. 80 It
TiTImk b 8 July 5Channel shifted I mile
south IN gale Nov %
Yaquina BI 131s Sept. 12l -.
Sluslaw r. AZ Sept nl.......................
Umpqua r. Sept. SOL ......-.. =. ....-
Coos Bay.l IS Oct. scan buoy No gone.
Coquille r 8 Oct. 4Channel straight.
Rogue Rivl 2 sept. H..
Kiamth RI Oct 3channel southwest.
HmbIdt B. 10 Sept 1Channei straight work
ing north,
s Pedro BI 20 IOct. 3No change IN channel.
S Diego b 2s15 Nov 1No change in channel.
Pablo BI "a Aug 20Depth in dredged chan
mel
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Time Ball
United States branch photographic office, Mer-
chans' Exchange, San Francisco. November
Is, 1910.
The time ball on the roof of the Fairmont
hotel was dropped today exactly at noon Pacific
standard time (l2oth meridian, or at sh. 00m
0os. Greenwich mean time.
J. c. BURNETT
Lieutenant. U. s. N. in Charge.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1910-01-07
APRIL.

i--Federai prison in Fl Leayen.
worth, Kan. burns.
a-Great ire in Fort Worth, Texas
....D Death OF Admiral cervera.
s-7-country swept by destructive
storm.
s--Death OF Helena Modjeska, great
Polish actress
s-Death OF Ethan A. Hitchcock. for
mer Secretary Of the Interior. !. Payne
tariff bill passed by House. Death OF
f. Marion Crawford. American novel
isL
10-Cipriano Castro fcrcibly expelled
from Fort de France. Martinique. }. .
Death Of AIgernon Charles Swinburne.
English poet.
22--Death OF Gov. Lllley OF Connectl-
cut. Theodore Roosevelt lands at
Mombasa, East Africa. /. Death OF
former Senator David Turpie Of IndI-
ana.
2s-cov. Wilson Of Kentucky par
dons alleged Goebel conspirators . !.
Death Of ex-Sen. Stewart OF Nevada.
observation-disclosures taken by consti-
tutional army.
25--Sultan's palace In Constantine
pie surrendera.
27-Abdul Hamid deposed and his
brother installed as new Sultan OF Tur-
key. Mehmid v.
so-Daughter born to Queen wilhel-
nina Of Holland. Severe storm
sweeps lake States.
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Grand

2-chlna deposes reform Grand
Councillor Yuan Shi Kal.
3-Earthquake rocks Stromboii ISL
and and parts OF Sicily and Southern
italy American warship feet ar
flyes at suez and sends boats to relief
OF Mcsslna.
l-Supreme Court volds $4,000. 900
tine against Standard OIL Co.
6-7--severe cold wave envelops
country.
might riders convicted OF murder
In Union City. Tenn.
s-Rev ]. II. Carmichael kills Cid
cor Brown In Church at Battle Run.
Mich.
io-Twenty -four men killed In mine
explosion In Zeigler. III.
ii-Rev. J. II. Carmichael, preacher
murderer OF Battle Run. Mich. kills
himself In Carthage, III.
l2--Explosion In mine near Biuefield.
w. Va. takes 100 lives.
l4-Death OF Vice Admiral Rojest-
yensky in St Petersburg.
1T. Jenkins Hains acquitted Of
completely in murder OF VIM. Z. Annis
Great strike OF hatters in Eastern
States begIna
is-Elihu Root elected Senator from
New York.
20-Sixty lives lost by burning OF
Wsierworks crib in Lake Michigan. of
Chicago.
22-Sentence OF Herman Billek. Chi
cago poisoner. commuted to life i'm
prisonment. :. Congress votes TO build
two large battleships.
2s-Six thousand die In earthquakes
In Central Persia.
2s-Liner Republic sunk near Mar
thas Vineyard. after collision with
Italian steamer Florida; six lives lost.
2e-Death of Coquelin. French actor
27--Former State Treasurer Frank
2. Glazier. of Michigan. convicted OF
misapplying State funds.
2S-United States withdraws from
government OF Cuba: Gomez is inaugu-
rated President.
29-Earthquake and tidal wave de-
Yastate southern coast OF Spain.
Fierce blizzard sweeps United States.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1910-01-07
MORSE rs BITrER.
Convicted Banker Claims He Has Beer
Made q Victim.

New York, Jan. 4--With 4 supreme
effort to be cheerful, but with emotion
occasionally getting the better Of him
Charles W. Morse left New York today
70 begin l6-year sentence In the fed
sral prison at Atlanta, Ca, for viola.
tion Of the national banking laws.
Before leaving the Tombn, where he
had been confined for the greater part
" the last year, Morse received bis
wife and two sons and then the news.
paper men. He was too Affected 10
say anything, but handed out q care.
fully prepared statement.
Morse left at 10;46 O'Clock IN Gus.
tody Of Deputy United States marshals.
The party occupied stateroom.
Morse's statement IL bitter and dra.
matte.
~ am going 70 Atlanta to begin
penal servitudo under the most brutal
sentence ever pronounced against a
citizen In a civilized country,b IL his
opinion Of the sentence.
81 have hoped,p the statement con.
tinues, with that hope which comes
from q consciousness OK my innocence,
that win not have TO close out for.
ever the light and liberty Of this world
under such an inhuman sentence. /
have felt that the fact that I had paid
= fine Of $1,000, 900 and served a year
In prison would satisfy the cry for a
victim and l have steadily believed
that the courts would be compelled TO
give me a new trial.
when I learned that the private
detectives OF the prosecution were the
keepers Of the jury, that the jury drank
like men upon jaunt or a holiday,
rather than citizens engaged In SO.
rious service, and that as result, two
OF them were rendered unfit, / natur.
ally hoped / would be allowed another
trial by another jury, free from these
hostile influences.
ut seems, however, that the courts
intend 10 establish the practices which
make rum.drinking part Of jury
service and private detectives as the
custodians OF q jury a permanent insti.
tuition. BY this sentence and judgment
| may be brought 10 ruin; but the dam.
ago done TO me Is mot half as import.
ant as the Injury to the administra.
tion OF justice. I am now up in years
and must, with the passing Of time,
pass also; but the record Of my con.
vietion and the way it was brought
about viii remain lasting and dan
gerous example Of a government gone
mad In search OF n victim.',
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on FOUND IN ArHABAsoA.
Secret Borings SHOW Inexhaustible
Supply, ommittee Is Told.

Ottawa, Ont, Jan. 4.--Evidence Of
the value Of the Athabasca oil fields
has been given before the Dominion
senate committee by Alfred Won Ham.
mcrstein. He stated that for the last
eight years he had been exploring the
field between $50 and $50 miles north
OF Edmonton, and that some Of the
wells had revealed the presence Of oil
and gas in large quantities.
The wells varied In depth from ESQ
to 1900 feet. He showed samples of
naphtha oil and Of oil collected in the
sand. He declared that In the wells
which he was boring there were mex.
hanstible supplies Of this material.
Near the surface It was found In a
hardened state, while 90 feet lower
down It was found in semi-liquid
condition.
His work had been carried on secret.
ly, He declared that there was no
foundation for the statement in the
prospectus Of the California & Alberta
Oil company that 1t had discovered
oil on a l0,ooo-acrc property 80 miles
north OF Edmonton.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1910-01-07
JUNE.

i--Alaska- Yukon Pacific exposition
opened In Seattle.
2-3-Riots marked street-car strike
in Philadelphia
e-Death of Col. A. X. Mcclure.
Ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie
Canada, damaged by boat. Elsie ST.
gel murdered by Chinese convert in
New York.
io-Death of DR.. Edward Everett
Hale.
11-Liner slavonia goes ashore in
Azores.
12-Earthquake devastates section OF
Southern France.
ls-Corporal shoots three officers al
FIT. Des Moines. Iowa.
14-Death Of President Penna OF
Brazil i. One hundred and forty mine
perish in burning ship near Aomon,
Japan.
ls-ls--Automobile races at Crown
Point. Ind.
1s--Nine persons killed in collision
Of interurban cars near Duna Park,
Ind.
22-Daughter born to King and
Queen of Spain.
23-Mine explosion at Wehrum, Pa,
kills seventeen men.
24-Death OF Sarah orne Jewett,
American authoress.
a7-Bomb explosion in Chicago In.
Jures seven persons and does sl5O.OOO
damage.