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The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
DISH WASHER is SON
OF ENGLISH KNIGHT
Forfeits Heritage for Love of
Poor Girl
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. 24.-Ernest
Manners, young man working as
dish washer in a local hotel, is found
TO be Erne L. Martyre. son of Sir
Chambers Martyre, and heir to a large
estate in England He disappeared
from England six months ago because
his father ordered him away unless
he broke his engagement to marry a
poor girl.
Through the immigration depart
ment the father located the son here
and has offered TO forgive him and re-
instate him If he renounces his
fancee. This the heir refuses to do,
and announces his intention of buying
q ranch in western Texas and send
ing for his bride.
He had $4,000 when he came to this
country as an immigrant from Bremen,
but lost il speculating in the local
market.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
FOREMAN MEETS DEATH
WHILE WARNING WORKERS
Men Escape Injury, but Engine
Strikes Their Boss
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

OAKLAND, Aug. 24-D. Holland, so
years old, Southern Pacific track fore
man living at Tenth and Center streets.
was run down by an engine near the
Oakland mole this evening while warn
ing his gang of men to avoid an incom-
ing passenger train.
The gang was working on the tracks
which brought the train in. Seeing
their danger as the train approached.
Holland shouted and was calling them
away when he backed onto the track
of the other engine, which was de-
tached. Holland was instantly killed
His body was taken to the morgue
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
BIG COPPER LEDGE
FOUND UNDER RENO
Workmen Extract Several Hun
dred Pounds of Metal

RENO. Aug. 24.-Workmen doing
street work on Lake street in the very
center of Reno today uncovered a 10
soot ledge Of copper. Several hun
d-ed pounds of the metal was extracted
II IS nearly solid metal The ledge is
spparently permanent and was encoun-
tered 10 feet from the surface.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
NEW LINE PATRONIZED
BY MANY PASSENGERS
ST 900 in Tickee Sales is Already
Registered

OAKLAND. Aug. 24.-Today's reg
ular passenger train from the est over
the new Western Pacific line arrived at
noon, bringing SO passengers, most of
whom were from New York The first
eastbound train left Monday afternoon
at o'clock with 80 passengers The
train departing last evening carried so.
The amount of ticket sales today was
more than 81 1000 at the Oakland station.
Passenger Traffic Manager Lomax
announced that more trains, both local
and through, would be operated as in
creased traffic demanded.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
FIRE CAUSES $4,000
DAMAGE AT DEER LODGE

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. PA fire which
did damage estimated at $4,000 and
which, 1t was believed at noon, would
sweep the entire town OF Deer Lodge
in Powell county, "A miles west of
Butte. was brought under control at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon, after raging
for two hours. The explosion of a
gasoline stove in a cleaning shop in
Main street started the blaze.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
GOVERNORS DAUGHTER
TO STUDY FOR STAGE
Jane Haskell, Aged Is, Has The
atricaI Ambitions
{ Seecial Dispatch 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
GUTHRIE, Okla, Aug. 24.-Miss Jane
Haskell. IS years of age. daughter of
Governor c. n. Haskell, has left for
cincinnati to begin her studies for
the stage. expecting to become, mem
her OF some theatrical aggregation
during the present winter. Miss Has
keu was a student of the Northwestern
normal school at Alva last year.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
Western Pacific Officials Inspect Lines
Splendid Terminal Facilities


H. Schlacks,
other officials the Western Pacific with the
rails Salt Lake visited inspected automobiles and
all facilities docks of the
railway Piloted by General Traffic Manage T. l. Lomax
company w
of the
undertaking O'Clock
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
FIRE RACES IN TREES
TOWARD LAKE TAHOE
[Speeiol Dispatch to The Call

AUBURN. Aug. 24.-The forest fire
above Forest Hill is about under con-
200 fire fighters have succeeded in d.
verting flames from the Hidden Treas
ure, Red Point and Herman mines. The
towns of Westville and Bullrun are out
of danger.
The flames are wholly within the
ing northeast toward Summit and Lake
Tahoe. but are said tonight TO be under
control. The $50 soldiers arrived on
the ground at noon and are now in
charge. Already an area of three
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25

VETERAN MASON HoNoRED-oakIand. Aug.
24.-George H. True, for "a years treasurer OF
Brooklyn lodge No. 225, F. A. NJ was
the guest of honor at reception which the
lodge gave last night in celebration of Trues
seventy-fou birthday anniversary Past
Master ]. w. Evans. behalf Of the lodge,
presented a purse to True.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
20 Corpses Found
Charred By
Flames

Q PoKANE. Aug. 24.-It is believed
that more than 200 PERSONS. nearly
all fire lighters. perished In the
Idaho forest fires. Superintendent Wei
gle of the Occur d'Alene national forest.
after receiving many reports of disaster
to various parties OF his 500 employees.
posted a bulletin today in his office at
Wallace announcing the death of 81
Of the men, and also stated his grave
concern for the safety OF Ranger Jo-
seph B. Hahn and "A men who were
surrounded by fire Saturday night in
the forest on the Big Fork of the
Occur d'Alene river. near where an
other party lost 13 men
Hahn was for four years the best
athlete of the Washington state col
lege at Pullman, renowned football
and baseball player.
Twenty Charred Bodies
The charred bodies OF 20 FIRE lighters
were found yesterday on Setser creek.
in the St Joe country
Two burned Japanese dragged them
selves to Avery. Idaho. last night. and
told of the death of 10 OF their com
Milwaukee railroad. had gone out to
fight the fire and had reen surrounded
by flames. only two men escaping death.
The rangers missing in the Thompson
Falls country of Montana were not
heard from today. so far as known
here.
Woman Victim
The number OF deaths in the state OF
Washington was reduced to three, all
in the Pend d'Oreille valley near New
port. One of these victims. Mrs. Ernest
Deinhardt, wife OF a rancher, was the
only woman known to have been burned
to death in any of the fires.
1t will be noted that nearly all of
the dead were FIRE fighters. The whole
sale loss of life occurred Saturday
afternoon and night. when the bodies
of men were striving to check the
flames in order to save the various
towns that were threatened. The
names of many of the dead will never
be known. The rangers employed all
the able bodied men whom they could
impress into the service.
Bodies UnrecogniZable
When the groups of fire lighters were
overwhelmed the camps were also de-
stroyed. the clothes were burned OF
the bodies of the men and the bodies
of the dead were often so eharred that
searchers stepped on them. thinking
they were pieces of burned logs. The
fire obliterated the trails and the
burned country is dif1cult to go
through because of fallen trees.
With the towns out of danger, and
the settlers fed to places Of safety.
the rangers were able TO devote them
selves entirely today to the saving of
the trees. and with effect Various
fires are isolated and will die for lack
of fuel
In Montana rain and snow fell. check
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
Great Britain Passive

LONDON, Aug. 24.-In communique
issued tonight the foreign Office an
nounces that the British government
has no objection on political grounds
to the annexation of Korea by Japan.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
Unoompromising Warfare

lie said that he felt that owing to the
attitude OF members of the organiza
tion he was at perfect liberty to carry
on uncompromising warfare.
When 4 statement by William Barnes
Jr-, the Albany leader. TO the effect
that there would be a night in the con-
Nention against its domination by
Roosevelt was read to him, Roosevelt
said.
They viii have all the fight they
want / am only going 10 the con-
vention because I feel that the in
terests Of the people Of New York
demand that the republican party
be given q chance TO stand squarely
and uncompromisingly for clean,
decent. honest politics.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
Issue Clean Cut

80 TO that convention to make
the speech exactly as il had been
planned originally and while 1 hope
there viii be enough good sense to
prevent any one opposing the prin-
ciples for which I shall stand, yet
If they do oppose them then it is
their own affair and so far as I am
concerned the issue shall be abso-
Iutely clean cut.
some of Roosevelts closest friends
In the state have told him they are
doubtful OF the outcome, and he has
replied that he himself felt that even
though he should be successful in the
state convention at Saratoga and such
z platform as he desired should be
adopted, the result of the election
would be in grave doubt.
The colonel has told his friends tha;
he did not feel sure the Roosevelt
Hughes forces would receive unouali-
fed support from the organization al
the polls.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
ROOSEVELT To
GIVE ENOQUARTER
TO "OLD GUARD"
Win or Lose, the Colonel De-
Clares Himself for UncOm=
promising Warfare
Former President Enters Combat
Realizing That Outcome
Is in Doubt
Titanic Battle to Be Waged on
Floor of New York State
Convention

T TTICA. N. Y. Aug. "a
Theodore Roosevelt sepcd no
tcc today that he wouId mage
mar without quarter on the "oId
guard Of the republican party in
Mem York state. Having been drown
INTO the fight. as he Says. against his
nil, he has determined to pursue it to
the end. pin or lose.
Roosevelts intention was indicated
more clearly than at any time before
by statement which he issued today.
The colonel said he was going into the
Hght with his eyes epen and with full
realization of the fact that he might
not be successful
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
First Step in Fight

Colonel Rooseveit's Endorsement OF
state Senator Frederick Davenport
yesterday was the first step in the fight
which he expects TO carry on from now
until election time He decided today
10 90 TO the state fair in Syracuse Sep
tember l. to speak and at that time
he may talk politics.
Vice President Sherman. who is one
Of the central figures in the struggle
and whom Colonel Roosevelt opposed
bv his Endorsement of Senator Daven-
port, said emphatically tonight that he
would not talk about the situation.
Colonel Roosevelt spent the day with
his brother in law, Douglas Robinson.
at his country home, 20 miles east of
Utica Late tonight he went TO Herki-
mer by automobile and came to Utica
n train to resume his westward trip.
lSenator Davenport called on Colonel
Roosevelt today TO talk over the politi-
cal situation in his district. Colonel
Roosevelt was not willing to say what
conclusion they reached.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25

Continued ON Page 2. Column
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
Political Conditions in England.

With seventy election districts unpolled
the British ballotinS at the close of
yesterday assured the liberal-labor-na ton
alist coalition majority over the union
lists Of ten votes. no matter what may
come from the additional returns But
this does not mean that the iiberal-labor
combination will be able to control the
house of commons without the assistance
of the Irish party. Ii is impossible for
that combination to- score a majority,
even though all the remaining seats out
side of Ireland should be captured by the
liberals and their immediate allies.
So complicated is the situation as a re-
suit of the wiping out of the clear liberal
majority of forty-one over all other
parties returned at the election of 1906.
that already the prophecy is heard that
another appeal to the country will occur
within year. Indeed, imminent is
the prospect of another general election
that the party organizations are to be
kept intact for continuous campaign work.
and thus there is every prospect that
England will experience an unbroken
period of agitation for perhaps the next
year.
One of the significant features of this
balloting, now drawing to a close. has
been the frank satisfaction OF the woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
What Public Libraries Are Doing.

From the Columbus Dispatch
The whole influence of the public libra
ries will probably never be known, but
that they are doing much to supplement
the work of the public schools is evident.
A significant report is that of the
Libraries of Brooklyn. where 4,OOO,OO
volumes were circulated last year. the
branches serving the largest proportion
The newcomers are reading English and
American books and they are reading
books in their own tongues, of which
the libraries have a fair and growing
stock. Better still, they are reading, not
so many novels as books of serious i'm
port-books that teach them something
OF the country to which they have come
and shed some light on the practical side
of life. This is, of course, partly due to
the efforts that all modern librarians are
making to put "the treasures that are
within into the hands of those whom
they may help. A library is no longer
something to be looked at and admired.
but something to be used something to
sharpen the wits and broaden the knowl-
edge and increase the efficiency of those
who read. And the man for whom the
library is doing all this is being helped
both negatively and positively. Exactly
how much he is being helped and just
when and where the benefit will appear
not even he may know, but that the ag
gregate of helpfulness is great is un-
deniable. 1t is adding to the education
that is making both the American born
and the newcomer a better man and
citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
The Society of the Banana.

Fourteen alleged Black Hand conspira-
tors are on trial at Toledo. and the prose-
cution hopes to be able not only to Sc
cure a conviction in the individual cases
of the defendants, but also to demonstrate
the existence Of a widespread robbery
and blackmail enterprise of which the
prisoners on trial are but one group of
agents. A most amazing series of docu-
ments has been laid before the court
in proof of this charge, comprising rules
and regulations governing the Black
Hand organization. Whether this is
national or merely local group Is not
yet plain. The title, freely translated, is
Society of the Banana and Faithful
Friends" Were it not for the atrocious
character of the rules and the prescribed
penalties for their violation this might
seem almost a joke. But the Society
Of the Banana and Faithful Friends"
appears from the constitution to be no
eleemosynary institution. The punish
ments awarded to recalcitrant members
range from deprivation of a share in
the profits for time. to death, including
such little attentions on the part Of the
faithful as branding. cuts with knife
in number according to the gravity OF
the offense and such marks of disciple
nary attention. There is no lack of
maintain discipline. The Society of the
Banana" knows no man as friend who
does not obey implicitly. Only one ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
The Departmental Pay Scale.

The appeals of the government clerks
for consideration in the matter of salary
increases should have weight with the
members of Congress, who are now en-
joying the benefits of 80 per cent in
crease recently voted on the score of ad-
yances in the cost of living. While this
matter was, under debate in the House
the plea most frequently heard from the
floor was that Washington is an expen-
sive city in which to live and that mem
bers should not be compelled to MAIN
tain themselves and their families here
on the meager stipend of $1,000 a year.
The average annual sojourn in Washing
ton of a member of Congress is four and
one-haf months, possibly five at the out
side. The government clerk lives here
twelve months of the year at a much
smaller range of pay than the congress-
man.
There have been no changes upward in
the departmental pay scale for many
years. The occasional promotions grant
ed TO individual clerks have no place in
this reckoning. The only fair test of the
status of the government employee is OBJ
tanned by striking an average on the
basis of the aggregate of salaries divided
by the nufflDer OF workers. Ih1S average
stands just where 1t has for several
decades, while unquestionably the de-
mands upon the purse have increased
materially. Wages have been advanced
in various lines of industrial occupation
meanwhile. The government clerk is
practically the only worker who has not
benefited by the general advance in COM
pensations and who has suffered equally
with all others from the advance in ne
ceSsitieS.
The plea of economy is made now as it
has always been made whenever depart
mental chiefs have undertaken to bring
The needs of the clerks before Congress
for legislation. But the denial of just
measure of salary increase is not war
ranted by present conditions at the Treas
ury. Indeed, the wisest economy lies in
the direction of consideration forrthe men
and women who are doing the govern
ments work. Liberality in this regard
il not waste of funds, for the employer
gets better results from contented than
from a disconnected corps of workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
Diplomacy and Its Cost.

In speaking for higher salaries and
better provisions for our diplomats at
their posts the President stated the case
last night very frankly. We should sup
port the service in the proper way. We
should recognize what is required of our
representatives abroad, and see to it that
they are able TO meet their official obli-
cations without drawing upon their pri-
waite means.
For years we have been wholly illogical
about this matter There has never been
a serious thought of abolishing the serv-
ice The proposition when advanced has
answered the ends either of fun or OF
sneering. And yet while continuing the
service we have made only beggarly al
lowances for its support. Many of our
representatives have been obliged to open
their own wallets for their own comfort
I.nderpaid by their government, and face
10 face with requirements calling for
liberal outlay, they helped support the
ss,yernment instead of being supported
by ii.
Just now we are all complaining about
The cost of living. Some describe il as
the high cost of living, and others as the
cost of high living. Be that as 1t may,
the outlay is large. and in many cases the
income small. All are anxious to have
the difficulty solved.
That is a domestic matter, and must
Weld to some sort of domestic treatment.
The ouidnuncs are turning it over in
their minds.
But this other is not domestic mat
ter. We cannot regulate life in foreign
capitals We are obliged to recognize
local official and social conventions. We
are in Rome there, and must keep the
Roman track. Our boy must not appear
as poor boy at a frolic. We want to
see him take his place in the line, and
bear himself so as to win the respect
and favor of his associates.
AS the President said, it is an old sub
ject There has been talk and to spare
about it for years: Nearly everybody
understands it. There have been Sena-
tors and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT men
10 vote against an increase of allow
ances whose private views leaned the
other way. No campaign had been made
in favor of an increase, and they feared
the effect on those of their constituents
who in the matter of salaries thought
less of the man serving at distance
than of the one serving at home.
1t is to be hoped that the matter may
be presented at this session Of Congress
in a way BETTING its Importance. Our
place in the diplomatic world has been
and the political world, and we should
meet all of our obligations according to
our standing among the nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27
Meat Eaters.
: CITY Journal.

rom I0e Jersey city journal.
The vegetarians are making hay while
the clouds raised by high prices are thick
est. They assure us that the prohfbitive
cost of meat is a blessing in disguise
in that 1t will drive the American people
to a diet of grains. vegetables and fruits,
and that the change will make them
healthier, richer and happier. Whether an
exclusive vegetable diet is the ideal thing
for man may be left to the scientists and
faddists to settle, or for each individual
to decide for himself, but there is no
doubt that most persons eat more meat
than Is good for them. A little enforced
abstinence would benefit almost every
body. DR.. Wiley says the doctors of the
future will be dieticians, and, for that
matter, many of the most successful ply
sicians of the present time devote more
attentions to diet than to drugs. In very
numerous ailments only radical change
in diet effects cure. And the first thing
the doctors prescribe, as rule, is meat
Men who use their muscles in heavy out
door work in this climate are perhaps
stronger for eating meat, but even in
their case moderation is important. No
one should eat meat at every meal, and
not too generously at any meal. The
conventional course dinner, with its three
or four kinds of seasoned meats, kills
more men than the railroads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27

cuse can possibly be accepted in extenu-
alton Of neglect of duty That is drunk
enness. Cowardice rs the chief of cardi-
nal crimes, save perhaps treason. Evi-
IDENTIFY the Society of the Banana is
not the sort of club that mollycoddle
would select. Indeed it is believed that
this delectable organization is recruited
not by volunteers. but by desperate men
who are in the power of others, ana VINO
are literally forced into a career OF crime
in order to protect themselves from de-
nunciation to the police. Thus the So
dety breeds in crime and thrives upon
it. A successful prosecution at Toledo
may assist materially in putting an end
to this diabolical institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-27

suffragists In the discontinue of the
liberal ministry. There has been much
less of disorder traceable to suffragette &C
tiyity than was expected. Indeed, save
for the heckling of speakers by the usual
processes of interruption and cross-ex-
animation, the campaign meetings were
quiet. But it is becoming evident that
the suffrage workers have played an i'm
portant part in the fight. Their enmity
toward the liberal government was
reckoned with at the outset as one of
the forces of antagonism. Whatever
may be the fact, 1t is certain that the
suffragettes will point to the virtual de-
feat of the liberals as in large measure
their own work, and claim national con-
sideration as an aggressive force of seri-
gus political consequence.
Taken altogether. the British political
situation is a most perplexing mixture.
There are budget proposals that dlsplease
many liberals, while they antagonlze the
old conservative sentiment Of the coun-
try. There is the war with Germany
agitation that cuts across all party lines
and renders political calculations value
less There are tariff reform proposals
that find advocates In both parties ana
lay the foundations for new ahgnments.
There is finally a strong backnre OF
woman suffrage sentiment. unauestionabiy
influential in determining the votes OF
great numbers of men. And with all
these issues and tendencies there IS an
undeniable sociological condition In the
background of grave importance and serl-
Gus menace to the Industrial prosperity
OF Great Britain. With another generai
election almost certain to result from the
inchoate conditions caused by the ballot
ing now just closing, the part OF the
political prophet who seeks to forecast
the British future is beset with almost
prohibitive difficulties.