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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
GUARD AND
DIES IN RESERVOIR
Young Woman Leaves Sana.
torium Early in Morning and
Searchers Discover Body
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

lSPecidt Dispatch 10 ne Gail
MILL VALLEY. Jan. 2S.-Making her
escape from the attendants of the Land
sanatorium, where she had been un-
der treatment for more than year for
a nervous affiiction.' Miss Alma Cum
ningham daughter of T. S. Cunningham
of the Postal telegraph company of San
Francisco, found her way to the Mill
Valley reservoir at an early hour this
morning, fell into the water and was
drowned
There was no witness to the tragedy.
Frederick Summers, bellboy at the
sanatorium, found the young woman's
hat ON the bank of the reservoir, and
in this manner the body was located.
How Miss Cunningham managed to get
away from the sanatorium without be-
ing observed is not yet known.
Miss Cunningham and alls other pa
tients were in bed by 10 O'Clock Sat
urday night and she was asleep at
2:3O. She was not missed until after
daylight
When her absence was noted every
available attendant was sent TO search
the woods. Summers knew that the
young woman had been in the habit
of visiting the reservoir with her at
tendants, but it was after noon when
he reached the spot.
In the meantime the father had been
notified in San Francisco, and when he
saw his daughters hat on the bank he
secured permission to have the reser-
voir emptied. The body was found only
a few feet from the hat. There was
no Indication of foul play, and Cum
ningham SCOTS at the idea that his
daughter committed suicide. He said
yesterday that Miss Cunninghams all
ment was principally a case of poor
memory and that she had shown much
improvement of late.
Miss Cunningham was 26 years DID,
and up TO the time of the San Fran
cisco coniagration in 1906 enjoyed un-
usually good health. The exoitement
seemed to unnerve her, however. and
a few months after the catastrophe
she became subject to spells of forget
fulness and melancholia. Her tragic
death completely unnerved her father,
who has had three deaths in his fam
lily within the last year.
Coroner Sawyer took the body to San
Rafael, and later gave permission for
II to be removed to San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Homeless Lack Shelter

Electric light and street railway
service is out of commission in some
sections
oficials of the prefecture are find
ig great difficulty in securing shelter
for the homeless.
The situation in the outskirts of
Paris is even worse than in the city
proper. At Alfortville the dam burst.
overwhelming 200 houses. the people
being forced to fly. leaving their be-
longings behind. The Saone and Doubs
valley is one huge lake about 10 miles
broad. OF six villages the roofs alone
are showing above the water.
The whole champagne region is in
a critical position. vitry lie Francois,
in the department of Marine, stands
isolated in the midst of lake mile
or two wide. All the country between
Arrigny and Larzcourt is under water.
At the latter place several houses col
lapsed. Several villages outside of
Marne are submerged.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Californians on Travels
NEW YORK. Jan. 2s.-californiar

NEW YORK. Jan. 23.-Californians
are registered here as follows:
From San Francisco-E. NJ. Elam. Breslin; NJ
Furst. Hotel Wellington; d. Grant. Hotel Col
Iingwood: c. Magnin. Hotel Savoy: H. D. sted-
man. Cosmopolitan; J. A. McGregor. Holland
Mrs. p C. Station Hotel Wolcott Miss B. Fer
ris. Martha Washington: Miss f. Gregg Hotel
Seville; Miss f. ]. Mendessall. Miss E. Miller,
St Andrew hotel Mrs. ]. O'Brien. Hotel Elan
ders; Mrs. G. B. sperry, Seville: H. Goldstone,
I1ongacre; A. Lachman. Mrs. A. Lachman, Hotel
ST. Andrew: D. v. Meagher. Hotel Flanders; H.
H. Elking, Park Avenue; Miss B. Ferris, Bres-
lin: T. A. Gould Mrs. l.. A. Gould. Hotel Mar
tniaue: T. K Kennedy. Hoffman house; NJ. ii.
Knopfnacher, Navarro; c. w. Tozer, Hotel Sc
Vile.
Los Angeles-C. L. wilkins, Astor house; K.
Durkes. Broadway Central; Miss NJ. Hickey.
Mrs Hickey, Martha Washington; T. w. Phil
lips Hotel Latham; c. w. Clark, Holland: 81.
c. Thompson, Herald Square.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Movement Sweeps Country

The National conservation associa
tion was formed last July at a meeting.
with Doctor Eliot as chairman, called
ia Cambridge. Mass. with the purpose
OF helping. through a large individual
membership to put into practical effect
the conservation principles declared by
the conference Of governors at the
White House in May. 1908.
The association was formally launched
last October, since which time it has
secured membership extending pretty
generally over the country. Pinchot
said tonight:
The National conservation associa-
tion is not in politics. It believes that
conservation is a great moral issue,
broader than any party or section and
more vital than any political question
or measure now before US.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
CHILDREN KIDNAPPED
BY SON OF TILLMAN
Senator and Wife Are Threat
ened With Suit by Their
Daughter in Law
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 23-Mrs. Du-
gas Tillman, wife of b. r. Tillman Jr.,
will bring suit in the supreme court
tomorrow against United States SEN
ator Tillman and his wife for the re-
covery of her infant children Dousch
and Sarah
Young Mrs. Tillman alleges that she
has been deserted by her husband and
that his parents are keeping the chill
dren and will not allow her to see them.
She has been making her home since
her alleged desertion with the family
of DIR. Francis Pickens Butler in this
city.
She is a granddaughter of, F. w.
Pickens. who was minister to- Russia
under President Buchanan. Her moth
er was born in ST. Petersburg in Ro-
manoff palace and was named
Douschka, the czarina standing god
mother.
Douschka Pickens was married to
Doctor Dugas of Augusta, father of
young Mrs. Tillman. She was married
to Tillman in 1903. They separated in
November, 1908. Mrs. Tillman saying
her husband was drunkard and that
he abused her. They were reunited
in February of last year, but in De-
cember Mrs. Tillman became i'll in
Washington and she charges that her
husband deserted her at that time and
practically kidnapped their children. She
has not seen them since.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
SISTER OF PEER GETS
LIBERATED FROM PRISON
Lady Constance Lytton Is Fa-
vored by Home Secretary

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2S.-Lady Con.
stance Lytton, sister of Lord Lytton
who served week of two weeks sen.
tence in Walton jail under the name OF
Jane wartons for smashing the jail
windows, was liberated today.
Lady, Constance was liberated week
in advance of her term on orders from
the home secretary. She is in an ex-
hausted condition.
1t is said that she has been forcibly
fed since January is and has been sub
jected to gross insults by prison Off
cials
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
FRANCE GRlPPEDBY
DtvASTAT|NGfLOOD
Vast Territory Inundated and
Paris Threatened by
Rising Water


PARIS, Jan& 24.-The Seine continues
to rise rapidly and at o'clock this
morning had reached within couple
of feet of the roadway of the Place de
la Concorde. Many additional buildings
have been flooded. including the print
ing works of the omcIal Journal
River authorities say the Marne will
rise three feet by Monday. and they
have instructed the mayors of all towns
along its banks that the riverside
houses must be vacated at once.
Monterau is totally under water. An
urgent request has been sent to the
military authorities at Fountainebleau
for 5000 rations.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
A National Disaster

The floods are fast assuming the pro-
portions of national disaster. In the
north. east and west hundreds are
homeless and ruined. Although it is
impossible to estimate the damage, it
will be great
The rise in the waters continued all
day. At Paris the torrent almost
touched the arches of the beautiful
bridges, threatening their destruction.
The Pont des Arts and the Pont de
L'Alma are in lmomentary danger.
The sharp cold of yesterday led TO
the hope of abatement of the floods,
but this morning a heavy snow. set in,
turning in the afternoon to rain, which
is still falling.
NJ. Lepine, project of Paris, took the
gravest view of the situation
The weather bureau" he said,
forecasts further rise of 80 cent?
meters tonight. 1 do not know what
to do in the face of this situation. .
One of the water mains, serving one
of the most populous ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
burst tonight, and those districts are
without water 1t is feared that the
ely will be in like condition soon. as
the flood is invading the pumping sta
tions The compressed air factory.
which supplies elevators in Paris. also
has been forced to shut down.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
ST. LOUIS WOMAN
BROWNS IN A BATHTUB
Prominent Railway Mans Wife
Meets With Strange Death

ST. LOUIS Jan. 23.-Mrs. Samuel e.
Allender 50 years old. wife of the chief
special agent of the st. Louis and San
Francisco railway system. was drowned
In boathtub today. Physicians say
death followed an attack of vertigo.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
TONOPAH SEES
HALLFY'S COMET
Especial Dispotch 10 The Call

TONOPAH. New. Jan. 23.-The entire
population of Tonopah witnessed what
is believed to be Halley's comet tonight,
the brilliant heavenly wanderer being
plainly visible to the naked eye, rival
ing Venus in its brilliancy.
Many persons went to the hillsides
with small glasses to watch the phe-
nomenon, the view of which was great
ly aided by the clearness of the at
mosphere at this altitude.
The tail was long and well defined.
New Comets Orbit Given
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Jan. pa cable
message has been received at the Har-
ward college observatory from Kiel.
giving calculations of the orbit of the
new comet. known as Comet A, 1910"
The comet was nearest the sun Janu-
ary II, its distance from it then being
S.500.000 miles
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
BUILDER FOUND DEAD
ON A STREET CORNER

Henry CartIedge, a builder and con-
found dead at the corner of San Jose
and Mount Vernon avenues yesterday
morning. Cartledge is said to have suf-
fered with heart trouble for a number
of years.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24

MILWAUKEE,. Wis. Jan. 23.-Speak-
ing of statements regarding the price
of meat, Patrick Cudahy. president of
the Cudahy Brothers company, said that
If thereswas such thing as beef
trust and it had been practicing unfair
methods he hoped it would be punished
TO the full extent of the law.
THE boycott probably will bring
down prices" he said, but the price of
livestock has got TO come down before
the price of meat does, and the whole
saler will be just as well off, or better.
when prices are lowered than now, for
the dealer has to have a margin of
profit no matter what the price is.
"1t is the farmer who will suffer, and
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
DepOsed Forester Succeeds DR..
Charles w. Eliot as Head
of National Body
Will Maintain Washington Of
fee and Continue the Fight
Before Congress
Cunningham Coal Claims Are
Held Up by Commissioner
of Land Office
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

w ASHNGTON. Jan. 23.-The cleo
W tion Of Clifford Pinchot to sue
ceed DIT. Charles W. Eliot as
president of the National conservation
association was announced tonight
Doctor Eliot, at whose suggestion
Pinchot was elected, retains the hon
orary presidency. Pincnot takes active
charge Of the association tomorrow.
His headquarters viii be in Washing
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
INDEX OF TffE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE KEARNY SO
MONDAY, JANUARY "a, 1910
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

hESTERDAY-Raiu; south wind; maximum
temperature, So minimum So
FORECAST FOR T0DAY-Unsettled weather
with occasional rain; moderate NV winds p I3
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Meat Boycott. Urged

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 23.-Representa-
tives of more than 5000 workingmen
met today and drafted resolutions call
Ing for a boycott on meat for a period
of from 30 to so days. Including the
families of the men. more than $4,000
persons are interested in the proposed
boycott to force reduction, not only
in the price of meat. but all other food
products, the cost of which is soaring
hevond moor r11ap,s ,,aauc
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Packers Unmoved by Boycott

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-"Revolu-
tions have been started by less than
what the American people are suffering
now," says Senator Joseph L. Bristow
of Kansas. Meat foots up to a quar-
ter of the average household expenses
and it ought to be cheaper today in
stead of dearer than it was 25 years
ago by greater economy in it's prepara-
tion and sale. When 1 was a boy 25
per cent of the carcass went to waste.
Now nothing goes to waste-not even
the blood"
Senator Bristow's words crystallize
the sentiment of protest in all parts of
the country against the higher cost of
living. Thus far the movement, which
first took form in actual boycott at
Cleveland, has met with most success
in the west.
Against public clamor packers reply
that high prices for meats are attrib-
utaole to high prices of corn, and ad-
vocate that. the poor be educated to eat
cheaper cuts.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Aviators Unable to Face Fierce Wind and Rain
Throngs Wait in Vain for the. "Birdmen' to Fly

a Tfaan Louis
heaHeho loo mcemenLu nd
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Promises Rigid Scrutiny

The impression now is that the TAX
ing Of testimony will begin Friday
Representative James, a democratic
member Of the committee, said: The
investigation viii be thorough. 1 shall
call for every witness I think can shed
light on the situation. AS constituted
the committee ought to be able to
get al the facts without playing any
politics.
Although Senator Root was placed
on the committee at the urgent re-
quest Of the president. there have been
reports that he would not serve, mas
much as he is counsel for the United
states in the Newfoundland fisheries
arbitration soon to be argued before
The Hague tribunal Vice President
sherman, who named Root as a mem
Der Of the joint committee. said the
senator would serve.
When the house meets tomorrow it
will probably ratify the selection of
Representative Graham OF Illinois as
one of the democratic members of the
investigating committee. He was
chosen by the democratic caucus in
place Of Representative Lloyd.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Begin BaIlinger Inquiry

The Ballinger- -PinchOt investigation
win be begun Tuesday by the joint
congressional committee. 1t seems GER
tain that not much can be accom-
plished until late in the summer. es-
peciauy if the committee decides to
visit Alaska 10 inspect the coal lands
in dispute
Senator Nelson viii confer tomor-
row with Secretary Ballinger. Clifford
Pinchot CLAWS. Shaw and Price and
viii report TO his colleagues Tuesday
as To the time needed by them to pre-
pare their cases. Many witnesses will
be brought TO Washington, and some
viii come all The way from Alaska
unless the committee decides to visit
that far of region.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
PeopIe's Rights at Sax

The rights and property of the Amer
icau people are at stake This associa-
tion viii be on the firing line in the con
servation night. Its immediate task will
be 10 90 what il can toward getting
good conservation laws enacted by con-
gress. Hereafter ] expect to devote
what energy ] have TO the association,
as I did 70 the forest service in the
past. / believe that the National con-
way to help the cause of conservation. -
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
AviatOrs Ready for Flights,
But Gale Renders Plan
Too Dangerous
Thirty Thousand People Stand
in Rain Patiently Awaiting
Aerial Exhibition
Paulhan Expects to Make Rec
Ords at TanfOran If Wealth
er Clears
Noted FrenChman Has Narrow
Escape From Death in
Auto Accident

.HE air defcd the aeroplanes at
Tanforan yesterday and the chal-
= lenge was not accepted. There
was no aviation, although Louis Paul
han, the hero of the Los Angeles
meet, had his Farman biplane taut and
trim, ready for flight, and his snappy
little Bleriot keyed to the point But
there was a IS mile wind cutting in
gusts across the wide field and a rain,
varying from an insistent drizzle to
heavy downpour, falling almost con-
tinually. While Paulhan and his as
sociate aviators. Mason and Miscarol,
were reluctant to disappoint the 10000
people who had gathered at the San
Mateo county racetrack to see the
"conquerors of the air." they felt that
it would be suicidal to attempt to
COuouer
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Big Throng Disappointed


So 10000 people were disappointed
The majority of them fingered until
alter o'clock in the hope that the
weather would moderate and the ele-
ments would submit to the French
birdmen- But there was no modera-
ton of SUFFICIENT duration TO satisfy
the aviators. The birdmen are not
stormy petrels-
At 10 minutes after o'clock it was
announced that rain checks" would be
given the spectators so that they
might return to the meet on another
and fairer day. However. many thou
sands had left before that announce
ment was made. and there was keen
disappointment and some bitter criti-
cism expressed over that circumstance.
Early yesterday morning the people
began to arrive. at Tanforan over the
United Railroads and Southern Pacific
tracks, in automobiles and on foot.
Thousands crossed the bay from Oak
land, Berkeley and Alameda. SausalitO.
San Rafael and interior points to see
what was to have been the first flight
of heavier than air machine in central
California
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
MEAT INQUIRY
BYGOvfRNMENT
BEGINS TODAY
Federal Grand jury to Decide if
Prices Are Artificially
Kept High
Packers Ready for Combat and
Hard Battle Expected to
Be Waged

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-With the heads
of all big packing houses gathered
here and attorneys arrayed on each
side the governments investigation of
the dressed meat industry is expected
to be ready when the federal grand
jury convenes tomorrow. Whether or
not the price of meat is artificially
kept high is to be the contention of
the coming battle.
Subpenas have been prepared to
bring before the jury witnesses from
all departments of the packing house
business.
The packers are ready for combat.
"All I've got to say" said j. ogden
Armour, 'is that such cooperation as
may exist among packers is a benefit
to the public, rather than the reverse. /.
Three lines of action have been out
lined. These are:
Criminal prosecution of alleged
violation of the antitrust claw.
Civil action for the dissolution of
the National packing company.
Contempt proceedings for alleged
violation of Judge Grosscup's in
junction restraining packers from
fixing prices in restraint of trade.
Practically all the evidence gathered
by the government in previous inves-
tigation, it is said, has been abandoned
and entirely new data will be utilized
Scores "WastefuI Housewives"
SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 23-High
prices of food are due as much to the
have the spending of the wages of
American workingmen. as to the
avarice of the tariff protected trusts,
according to f. P. Ripley, president of
the Santa Fe railroad. who is passing
the winter here. Ripley has just issued
spread strike against high priced meat,
in which he asserts that the boycott
may have a beneficial result in teaching
wasteful housewives needed lesson in
economy
General increases of wages and the
rapid increase of money in circulation
are among the causes of high prices"
said Ripley, but extravaganza is the
paramount cause. Most housewives
whose husbands earn good wages will
pay three to four times as much for
foods done up in fancy packages as
they will for the same foods without
the frills. And they will not go to the
store or to the market if they can have
a telephone. The telephone adds to the
cost of living for thousands of families,
and so does the 10 per cent which the
grocer has to add 10 his prices to cover
the cost of delivery.
This is a land of great wealth, which
has been developed in excess of the
needs of the people and halt is in
evitable. The time for the halt seems
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Paulhan Is Cautious

PauIhan, slim, wiry. fiuttered about
in tan waterproof like a distrait
sparrow tempted to wet his plumage.
but still cautious in the face Of the
ominous storm.
TT is a tempest; it will be almost.
If not quite. impossible to fly in it,"
he declared repeatedly and dolefully.
For he wanted to fly and buck the
breezes with his tried biplane. but he
realized the force of the gusts. which
were turning umbrellas inside out and
driving the less hardy into the cover
of the grandstand- A tempest at an
aviation field is quite different from
tempest in a teapot.
About IL o'clock the rain started to
fail. First there was steady drizzle.
The tall eucalyptus trees that lined the
amphitheater were half hidden in the
mist. The San Bruno hills faded be-
hind the rain. Some people sought the
congested shelter OF the grandstand.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Sky Is Threatening

All morning the sky threatened and
rain spattered insolentIy on the car
windows and the tonneau tops of the
automobiles But fitfully the clouds
would become threadbare in places and
the optimists could see enough blue sky
TO patch a pair of biplanes. The weather
report had predicted showers m the
morning. with clearing in the after
noon. 1t was a guess half right; only
the worse half was the unprotected.
During the morning hours the mecha-
nicians, working under the direction OF
Mason and Miscaro1. toiled over the
delicate frames and intricacies of wires
of the machines. which were familiar TO
the San Franciscan only through the
remote acquaintance of newspaper and
ma gazine pictures and the medium of
motion picture films. The machines
were in the saddling paddock. and
thrcngs hung over the fences near the
shed to view the wonders.
About noon PauIhan arrived. His
hat was crusted with mud. He was
nervous, for on his way to the course
a streetcar had bumped his automobile
and he and Edwin CIeary. his manager.
had been we'll shaken up. 1t was a
bad start TO make on day marked
with such hazardous weather. Had
that incident not happened Paulhan
might have been in mood to dare the
,.-ors+ oP tba Turbulent wind
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
SUBURBAN
COAST

Hsiley's comet seen at Tonopah. New. bei
visible 10 NAKED eye Page
Duck hunter drowned in Richardson's h.
when boat is overturned Pape I
Young woman eludes guard in sanatorium Al
dies in Mill valley reservoir Page
Judge and jury fail to awe COW claimed I
dairyman. PAGE I
Rev. R. A Gleason. Santa CIara's head +
signs to solicit funds fcV new college. Page
Tiny baby girl stabbed to death and bo,
thrown in creek paoa
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24
Personnel of Committee

The committee then will consist of
the following:
Senators-Knute Nelson of Mime
sofa. chairman; Frank p. Flint of Cal
ifornia. George Sutherland of Utah,
Elihu Root Of New York, Thomas H.
Paynter Of Kentucky and Duncan u.
Fletcher OF Florida.
Representatives-Sam w. Mccall
Of Massachusetts,, NJ r. Olmstead Of
Pennsylvania, Z. II. Madison of Kansas.
Edwin DENLY Of Michigan, Ollie James
Of kentucky and James NJ Graham Of
Illinois
Cunningham Claims Held Up
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-According
10 a statement issued today by Com
missioner bennett of the general land
ofice none of the applications to enter
Alaska coal lands has passed to entry.
IT also is shown that Of the Alaska coal
Continued on Page 2. Column
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Cunningham Claims Held Up

ContInued ON Page 2 Column
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Continued on Page 2, Column
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Saws Farmer Will Suffer

beyond poor mems means.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-24

viii the Masonic Order Rebuild
Solonon's Tcnpleo
See the article in The Sunday
Call next Sunday.