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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-05-06
J Domestic Notes.

Domestic Notes.
1--WE noticed one thing"
And what is that?"'
When one gets loaded it's usually
his wife who explodes.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-05-06

First Contractor-Why did you stop
that sky-scraper at % stories?
Second Contractor-Labor got too
high
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-05-06

For sprniaa n. apd n bruises; .sssS:::sSsENT
Sold by all Dca,rs, n "
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
AUTOS WIFI VOTERS
FROM HOME TO POLLS

Never have automobiles played so i'm
portant a part in a California election
as they did yesterday. The closed car
riage and the two horse buggy have
been relegated to the days of long ago
The automobile has sprung into being
as a campaign necessity along with the
modern ideas of direct prima ries and
public control of public Offices
Voters who were rounded up at the
last hour yesterday and rushed to the
polls to cast a ballot for some favorite
candidate were not driven from their
homes in the old steel tired rigs which
formerly served the purpose. They
were whizzed to the polling place and
back to their homes in the biggest and
speediest of touring cars.
1t was not in San Francisco alone
that the automobile took an important
part in the political work of the day
The candidates for state offices through
their organizations and supporters in
other cities and towns of the state had
machines bearing their banners on the
go from morning until night. In San
Francisco the automobiles were busy
in behalf of practically every candidate
for state, county or judicial office on
the entire ticket
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
ROOSEVELT ENTERS
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

WASHINGTON Aug 16-That Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
he will candidate the republican
in 1912 and preparing the belief of of
the who directing republican congressional
pagn.
1t fatty declared that Rooevel knowledge that the nomina
will be forced the back of the extended
that he planning Cheyenne Roosevelt will
the from He will make speeches half
His will be He believes
that the real and that but
candidate has election 1912
There doubt that Roosevelt that the states
OF the will send large delegations 1912
pledged for him candidate There equally doubt
according republican
a fire.
Roosevelt prevent
the republican leaders today and that steadily
of popular approval
Mr. Taft SO far he this and
political speeches Colonel Roosevelt making
his nomination a surety.
Presidential elections months
will whether president republican
democratic being shaped Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Taft that he (Taf( will for
taking for granted that Roosevelt will be
trip big toward his election
presidential campaign will Should
democratic
the Roosevelt aurein fact other but Roosevelt
-o republican victory, Roosevelt republican
victory There doubt that he would party
making that member that party
pretty of election if nominated
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
MYSTERIOUS VISIT
To MURDER Scene
Strangers After Midnight Break
in Front Door of Kendall
House
Deputy Sheriff Hears a Team
Drive Furi0usly to Starbuck
Farm and Return
Especial Dispatch to The Call

CAzADERO. Aug. IA mysterious
visit was paid the scene of the Ken
dali murder near Cazadero after mid
night this morning by some person or
persons. who forced an entrance into
the house by breaking open the locked
front door Apparently nothing was
disturbed inside of the house.
Deputy Sheriff Ernest Trosper. who
lives near the Kendall house, heard a
team drive furiously by his place about
o'clock this morning Later he heard
did not strike him as suspicious until
this morning, when ne went to the
Kendall place. of which he is custodian.
and found that the outfit had driven
into the Kendan-Starbuck property.
He fastened to the house and found
that the door had been forced. Tros-
per made thorough search OF the
premises, but could ind nothing that
would Indicate the purpose OF the visit.
The Kendall ranch is located on a
mountain road. which is not heavily
travelled, and the house itself is a quar-
ter of mile from the main road, De-
ing reached by steep canyon road,
which a driver unused to its curves
would have difficulty in covering at
night.
District Attorney Clarence F. Lea at
Santa Rosa was notified. and he imn1e-
diately instituted a search for the Wis
itors- Every livery stable in the dis
tr1ct was asked If team had been
driven out during the night. No trace
of such a rig has been secured
District Attorney Lea has instituted
inquiries in Oakland to learn if Mrs.
Starbuck. who leased the ranch to the
Kendall family. could throw any light
on the night expedition to the scene
of the tragedy in which her tenants
lost their lives and had their remains
crpmafed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
BIRDS OUTWINGED
BY BOLD Man BIRD
LIE Blanc Beats Carrier Pigeon
Six Minutes in a Fifty
Mile Flight

AMIENS, France, Aug. 16.-The first
aerial race between the birds OF ma
ture and of mans production took place
in the course of the great aerial cross
country competition and was easily won
by man.
A flock of AZ carrier pigeons was
released at Douai yesterday at the same
time that LIE Blanc, in his Farman
biplane, started from the mark on his
so mile fight to Amiens. Rising with
out tremor through the calm air, the
biplane soon outdistanced the birds,
and when LIE Blanc reached Amiens
the flock was not yet in sight, the first
pigeon arriving 6 minutes and 20 sec
onds after lie Blanc.
Before the last of the flock had ar
rived Legagnieux, who had started at
the same time as LIE Blanc, but con-
sumed minutes more on the trip,
reached Amiens, beating the last pigeon
by IL minutes.
Herbert Latham flew today from
Issy les MolineuX, in the suburbs OF
Paris. to Amiens, stopping en- route
to take lunch with friends at BreteuiI.
He thereby accomplished the last lap
In the cross country race, a distance
of about 6s miles, but in the reverse di-
rection.
He will return to Paris tomorrow
morning with the surviving competitors
in the cross country race. The ayia-
tors attached to the FRENCH army will
also participate in the final lap to-
morrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
SPECIAL TYPE USED
FOR CANDIDATES. NAME

Decided comment was caused among
republican voters in San Francisco yes
terday by the fact that the name of
Robert Harrison Fitzgerald, candidate
for clerk of the supreme court, ap-
peared on the official ballot in a differ
ent style of type from that of any other
candidate on the entire ticket. Fitz-
gera16s name was printed in small
black face type, while the names of his
opponents. as well as those of all other
candidates for office. appeared in a
larger but much lighter type.
At the registrars Office yesterday il
was explained that the difference in
the style of type used was due solely
TO mechanical necessities. Fitzgerald
had requested that the full name, Rob
ert Harrison Fitzgerald" under which
he mad signed his affidavit of nominal
tion on file in the office of the secretary
of state, be used. The name was too
long to fit column of the ballot in the
style of type adopted.
The law distinctly calls for the print
ing of the names of all candidates in
a uniform type face. but it was held
by the election commission that the law
could not demand an impossibility and
the change was made.
The distinction on the ballots was
easily noticeable and caused many
questions to. be asked by voters at the
election booths and many inquiries to
be made at the registrars office.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
BALLINGER CAUSES
WORRIES FOR TAFT
Pressure Brought on Secretary
to Resign Without Request
From President

BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 16.-With re-
Taft's reorganization plans might go
on the rocks because of the refusal of
Secretary Ballinger to resign, 1t was
stated today that when Senator Crane
was first called into the situation it was
on a telegram asking If he could I'M
dertake "a mission to the west for the
president" This mission to the west
turned out to be conference with Sec
rotary Ballinger regarding a plan for
his retirement from the cabinet.
1t is known that heavy pressure will
be brought to bear upon Ballinger to
resign without putting the president in
the position of asking for that resig-
nation.
The fifteenth of September will tell
the story, and apparently no one in the
meantime can tell just what the out
come will be.
CONSERVATION OVER VOTE
Beverly was upset today when news
came from New York of the defeat of
| Theodore Roosevelt for temporary
chairman of the New York republican
state convention.
! The fact that Lloyd c. Griscom, pres
| ident of the New York county commit
| tee, had been in conference with Presi-
dent Taft Saturday night and Sunday
added to the CONSERVATION that the
dispatches created Taft made no
! comment for publication.
! There is nothing to indicate that he
knew of Griscom's plan to force a vote
! on Roosevelt's name.
So far as can be learned, Griscom' s
| talk with the president had to do solely
| with the general situation in New York
| state, and Taft took the ground that
| harmony ought to be brought about if
| possible before the Saratoga conven-
| ton. The story that Griscom took a
| message to Roosevelt that would affect
! the future relations between Roosevelt
| and the president is discredited in Bev-
| erly. Taft assumed the attitude that
any overtures, if they may be neces-
sary, must come from the other side
COMMENT ON ROOSEVELT
| The statement issued by Roosevelt
apparently placing himself squarely on
| the side of the "progressives" has
created much comment here. What
effect today's developments in New
York may have upon the organization
| plans that have been in progress is a
matter of conjecture.
So far as can be learned, there is a
| disposition in Beverly to stand pat on
| the plans as announced. The publicity
| that has been given to these plans may
retard them for a while, but there is
apparently plenty of confidence that
| they will go through.
| Senator Crane, the central figure in
| the reorganization plans, spent two
| hours today with President Taft He
would not even deny some of the stories
| that have been sent out of Beverly
Secretary Norton, who, it is generally
| believed, has been working in close
| harmony with Crane, was especially
| reticent today.
| 1t is known, however, that Crane
submitted a complete verbal report to
the president of his observations in the
west and what he had learned recently
| in New Hampshire and Vermont.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
CLEW FOUND IN THEORY
THAT GIRL WAS KILLED
Merchants BiIIhead May Figure
in BenignuS Mystery

ABILENE, Kan, Aug. 16-What is
regarded as significant elew in con-
nection with the supposed murder of
Miss Bertha Benignus here Sunday was
discovered today. The merchants bill
head upon which the German. note
found under her window was written
was taken from a box on the table in
the corner of the girls room. In this
box she kept receipts and private let
ters
This is believed to be further evil
dence of murder and to indicate that
the murderer engaged in a thorough
search OF Miss Benignus' effects, prob
ably In an effort to get possession of
some document. 1t also seems evident
that he was fairly familiar with the
contents Of the room.
An immense throng attended Miss
Benignus' funeral today, among them
Earl Livingstone, to whom she was to
have been married yesterday.
An arrest before night in connection
with the murder of Miss Bertha Benig-
nus is probability. Two persons are
being kept under surveillance quietly.
A development today is the state
ment by member of the family that
Miss Benignus carried certain amount
of life insurance. how much and for
whose benefit is being investigated
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
LAWS ARE
BROKEN FREOUENTI,Y

The voting district south of Market
street and east of Seventh afforded a
s'rong contrast to the precincts in the
fashionable neighborhoods in that the
heaviest vote was polled in the after
noon Contrary to belief, the voters of
NOD nil proved early risers and the
strongest vote was cast during the
morning hours
In the twenty-ninth and twenty
eighth district especially the vote
Jagged until the closing hours. when
the booths were busy scenes. A glar-
ing laxity of election law enforcement
was found throughout the southern
precincts. Workers importuned voters
In the immediate vicinity of the polls
and in some cases at the very door.
The Anderson ticket, carefully printed
and prepared, was passed out by an
army of political henchmen, to be
carried into the booth by the elector
A common form of violation was to
help the voter mark his ticket. The
law permits two commissioners this
right when the voter is blind or IL
hterate, but yesterday single COM
missioner was frequently alone with
the voter
In precinct of the twenty-ninth
district an electioneer accompanied a
man across the 100 feet radius and
into the booth, where he helped TO
mark the ticket. At the voting booth
of the Palace hotel, New Montgomery
and Howard street. w. E. Beck. q
Johnson lookout, challenged a vote
which a commissioner had helped to
mark. The challenge was voted down.
Policemen stationed at these booths
did not interfere with the vote getting
zeal of the workers. Excepting in
rare instances they failed to prevent
two persons from preparing a ballot
The Palace hotel vote was cast early.
Obadiah Rich. manager of the hotel.
was among the first to deposit his bal
lot.
Johnson's lookouts complained that
the Anderson men were in charge of
the booths. and frequent bitter argu-
ments enlivened the monotony of the
poll.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
ABANDONED 1T
For the Old Fashioned Coffee was
killing.

IT always drank coffee with the rest
was nothing for breakfast if we did not
have it on the table
Il had been troubled for some time
with my heart, which did not feel right.
This trouble grew worse steadily.
Sometimes it would beat fast and at
other times very slowly. so that / would
hardly be able TO do work for an hour
or two after breakfast, and il 1 walked
up hill it gave me a severe pain
II had no idea of what the trouble
was until a friend suggested that per-
haps it might be caused by coffee drink
ing. I tried leaving of the coffee and
began drinking Postum The change
came quickly. I am now glad to say
that l am entirely we'll of the heart
trouble and attribute the cure to leav-
ing off coffee and the use of Postum.
"A number of my friends have aban-
Postum, which they are using steadily.
There are some people that make Pos
tum very weak and tasteless. but il it
is boiled long enough. according TO
directions. it is a very delicious bev-
erage- We have never used any OF the
old fashioned coffee since Postum was
first started in our house"
Read the little book, The Road to
Wellville." in pkgs- There's a Reason
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
LAWLOR OUSTED BY
ELECTION BOARD
Former Pugilist Is Accused OF
Campaigning for Himself;
Heacock Also Dismissed

Jimmie LawIor. former pugiIist,
Flannery follower and proprietor of a
saloon in San Rafael, was forced to
resign position as election clerk in
the first and second precincts of the
forty-third district early yesterday
morning. after ballots with Lawlor:s
name written in as delegate to the
republican county convention had been
handed to voters entering the booth
Nj. b. Heacock was asked to resign
with Lawlor
Lawlor was accused of having writ
ten his name in as delegate before
handing the ballots to voters, and of
whispering TO voters when he handed
them their ballots to write his name in
Heacock was suspended simply because
he had been tearing off the ballots at
the time the specific offense upon which
the commissioners acted was COM
mitted
Both men were cited to appear be-
fore the election commissioners tomor-
row morning at 10 o'clock. The case
probably will go to the grand jury, as
the ofense charged is rated as a felony.
d. j. Sidwell, special agent for the
Provident life and trust company. and
watcher at the booth, charged that Hea-
cock handed him ballot upon which
Lawlor's name had been written in.
Sidwell discovered this when he began
TO mark the ballot, and he protested
and ordered another one. This was
given him.
Later B. K. Badger of the Associated
land and finance company was entering
a booth with his ballot, when Lawlor
whispered request to write in his
name as delegate to the county con-
Ventlon. Badger answered that he was
competent to do his own voting. but
later he and Sfdwell telephoned the
registrars office of Lawlor's illegal con-
duct.
commissioner Gator hurried to the
oooth, which is at O'FarreIl and Jones
streets, and found that Lawlor had been
sworn In as clerk by the election
officials of the precinct in order to fill
vacancy. Gator told Lawlor and Hea-
cock to resign Immediately
though a resident of San Rafal1.
LaWlor is registered from Is Mason
street He became notorious during
the Flannery trial in San Rafael. when.
1t was charged, he attempted to talk
to jurors. with the intention of inf1u-
enc1ng their verdict
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
VIRGINIANS ARRIVE IN
FRANCE WITH STATUE
Figure of Washington to Be
Presented August Is

PARIS. Aug. 16.-Colonel James
Mann. chairman of the Virginia com
mission appointed last winter by the
general assembly of the state to pre-
sent to the republic of France a bronze
copy of the HOudOn statue of Wash
ington at Richmond, arrived here to-
day, accompanied by State Senator Don
p. Halsey and State Senator F. w.
King, the other members of the dele
cation
The ceremonies of presentation will
take place at Versailles Tuesday, Au-
gust Is.
The statue will stand between one
of Lafayette and a bust of Admiral
Suffern. who commanded one of the
French ships which went to the aid of
the colonies in the war of the revolu-
ton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
GERMAN SHIPYARDS.
IDLE THROUGH STRIKE

BERLIN, Aug. 16.-As a result of the
fight between the German ship builders
and their employees, all the shipyards
of Germany except the government
works are now idle. so far as new
construction is concerned. Ship own
ers are in many cases sending their
ships to England for repairs.
The men demand an increase of 10
per cent in wages and a So hour week.
The ship builders maintain that these
demands are cloak to political pur-
poses.
The number of men idle is about
$4,000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17

QlSll dllCIllScu II H.
Registered this
year, did your
mo. certainly not
returned the trOu-
bled triplets. wv e
registered last year,
though, and now
they won't let us
vote,
Lawyers, said
Zemansky, Il refer
you to the law. To
vote this year you
must be registered
this year. You can
not vote, and 1t is
so ordered. There
is no appeal from
this decision, and a
demurrer will not
be sustained. By,
by, attorneys all"
Whereupon Ze-
manSky applied him
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
HORRIBLE TACTICS
USED BY A Grew
Lad Alleges He Was Thrown in
Sack and Dragged Through
the Sea

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 1.-THE United
States marshal was authorized today
to arrest J. Harry Sleeves of the fish,
ing smack Albarella and the entire
crew, charged with inficting corporal
punishment on John Rogulis, 15 year
old boy The lad alleged that the
master and crew marooned him on an
uninhabited island in the gulf of
Mexico after beating him and dragging
him in the sea behind the stern of the
vessel, tied in a canvas sack.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
BUILDING PERMITS
GRANTED AT STOCKTON
,ceinI Disoafch to The Call

Especial Dispatch to The Call
STOCKTON, Aug. 16.-Building per-
mits have been issued as follows:
To M. F. Hughes for frame building
to be erected in the Oaks at a cost of
$4,000.
To C. C. Henderson, who will erect
a frame building to cost $1,000.
To the Aurora engine company, which
will construct a corrugated iron build
ing at 1876 South Aurora street at a cost
OF $3.50.
To Leonardini & Gianelli for improve
mentsS at the corner Of Sierra Nevada
and Flora streets, to cost $3.50.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17

Zemansky yester-
day came a plain
tive call from Ben
jamin Mckinley,
assistant United
States district ats
torney, seconded by
the indignant voice
of Garrett McEner-
ney, the attorney,
and an injured
plant from San
ford Feigenbaum.
All are in the for
first district.
Say, look herei"
the three shouted in
unison over the pal
pitating wire. they
won't let us vote
out here. They say
were not regis
tered"
Are you regis
judicial Zemansky
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
Lind Ready to Accept

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 16.-John A.
Lind. former governor of Minnesota, in
an interview tonight gave what is con-
sidered by those who know him to be
strong indication that he will accept
the democratic nomination for COVER
nor of Minnesota.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
Folk Doomed for President

KIHSSVILLE, Mo-, Aug. 16.-The
candidacy of Joseph w. Folk for the
presidency in 1912 was unanimously in
dorsed today at the meeting of the
democratic committee for the first con-
gressional district
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
Primary Nominee Withdraws
Democrat Wants Toga

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Aug. 49,
Sterling p. Bond of ST. Louis filed
declaration today of being candidat
for the democratic nomination 70
limited States senator
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
Wrong Man Arrested

SALINAS. Aug. 16.-The Yama guchf
suspect. who was arrested here last
night. was released today. He proved
that he was M. d. Sharoa of San Jose
and not the alleged slayer of the Ken
dali family.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17

BANQUET TO BE GIvEN-Oakland, Aug. 16-
Z. A. Young, president OF the Merchants
row evening at banquet which will be given
by the board Of directors on the eve of Young s
departure for the orient. Young is a dele
gate Of the associated chambers Of commerce
TO the far east.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
LEARNED LAWYERS
DIDN'T REGISTER
But Mckinley, McEnerney and
Feigenbaum Kicked Because
They Couldn't Vote

Sandwiched in between suffering
calls from the ignorant and unlettered
voter that came jangling across the
wire to Chief Deputy Registrar Harry
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
PICTURE GIVEN TO ELI

PICTURE GIVEN TO ELKs-AIameda Aug. 49,
Judge r. B. Tappan has presented TO Ala
media lodge Of Elks. of which he is a mem
ber an oil painting of the old Tappan bone
stead at the West End il appeared more
than 30 years ago. In the picture is shown
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17
TEMBLOR IN FRANCE
LASTS III SECONDS

MOUTIERS, France. Aug ia
heavy earthquake shock was felt here
this morning. 1t lasted 81 seconds,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17

self again TO settling the troubles OF
the ignorant and unlettered
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-17

tered?' calm and judicial zemansky
asked.
Sure we are came back from the