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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
OAKLAND CHANNEL
PROJECT ASSURED
Rivers and HarbOrs Committee
Promises Appropriation for
80 Foot Channel
knOwIand Also Places Suisun
Survey Before Body and
Secures Approval
[Special Dispatch TO The Call

lOFeCIdt DiSPotcH 10 nc SduI
WASHINGTON, FEB. 1.-Representa-
tive Knowland today placed before the
rivers and harbors committee the ap-
proved survey of the 80 foot channel
for Oakland harbor and asked for an
appropriation sufficient TO start work
on the project. He was assured that
an appropriation large enough to en-
able the work TO be begun would be
made.
Representative Knowland said:
L brought UP the matter of the
Oakland channel before the rivers and
harbors committee and asked for an
appropriation in order that the work
might be begun soon. / was assured
that an appropriation would be forth
coming, but no mention of the amount
was made ! was told that the appro-
priation would be in Keeping with the
economical policy of congress. but that
enough to start work on the project
would be voted
Il also placed the approval survey of
the Suisun project before the commit
tee and was assured that suitable ap-
preparation would in all probability be
voted +"
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
WOMAN TO GO TO
SAN QUENTIN CELL
Mrs. Emma lie DOux Goes to-
Prison for Life Under Sem
tence for Murder
Illness OF Prisoners Mother
Prevents Meeting Before
She Leaves Stockton
[SpeeioI Dispatch to The Call

STOCKTON. FEB. Mrs Emma lie
Doux, recently sentenced to se>ve life
Imprisonment for the murder of Al
bert " McVicar, will be taken TO san
Quentin tomorrow morning.
Sheriff Walter r. Sibley. accom-
panied by Mrs. George Shepherd. the
iailer's wife, in whose custody Mrs. lie
Doux has been during her inearcera-
tfon in the county Jail. viii conduct
the murderess to San Quentin.
Mrs lie Doux mother was unable to
visit her because of illness The sheriff
will leave on the 7:16 Southern Pacific
train and before the day is over the
trunk murderess' will have begun her
life sentence.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
PLEADS IGNORANCE
OF LAND FRAUDS
Hermann Denies knowledge of
Any Wrong Doing in Blue
Mountain Reserve
Former Commissioner Gives De-
tails of His Career and
COntradicts Witnesses

PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. Former
Congressman Binger Hermann finished
giving direct testimony in his own be-
half in the trial of the land fraud con-
spiracy case against him in the United
States district court, and late today his
cross examination began.
Prosecutor Heney had barely begun
when court was adjourned, Hermann
having merely testified under his ques-
tioning that Cornelius N Bliss was sec
retary OF the interior when Hermann
was appointed commissioner and that
T. A. Hitchcock was made secretary
two and a half years later.
Throughout the day Hermann had
gone in great detail through his career
as commissioner of the general land Of
flee, especially as concerned the crea-
ton of forest reserves. He denied all
knowledge of wrong doing in the Blue
mountain reserve. and told of the high
esteem in which at that time the men
who recommended it We're held
DENIES ALLEGED FRIENDSHIP
Hermann declared that he never had
known intimately f. p Mays, the Ore
gon politician, who, it is charged in the
Indictment was implicated in the al
legged conspiracy with him, and had no
acquaintance whatever with W. \.
Jones, alleged to be another of the con-
spirators.
He declared that he never saw the
Mays letters urging that the with
: ~,
did not hear of them until after the re-
serve had been withdrawn The de-
fendant placed little Importance upon
q telegram notifying Mays that he had
recommended the withdrawal, declaring
that the information contained in it
was matter of record and as such had
been given out as news 10 the press.
TELLS OF DETECTING FRAUDS
1t is the contention of the govern
ment that the withdra wal of the re-
! serve was the direct result of the Mays
! letters and that the telegram to Mays
| announcing the commissioners recon-
mendation was advance information"
While the witness did not generate d
suspicion in the Blue mountain propo
sition, he was suspicious of a proposed
reserve in the Rogue river country and
| in WalIowa, and in the latter place in
vestigated 50 thoroughly that he un-
! covered the operations of land sharks
and induced the secretary of the inte-
rior to modify the order creating the
/ Wallowa reserve.
CONTRADICTS TWO WITNESSES
Hermann said the version of the rep
rimand by Secretary Hitchcock as
| quoted by w. Scott Smith who was at
| the time Hitchcock's private secretary,
was at variance with the facts. 1t was,
( the defendant testified, concerning an
interview he had given a ST. Louis, Mo,
newspaper, which displeas sed the secre-
tary
Hermann denied emphatically the
testimony of Emmett Callahan, Baker
City lawyer, who swore that when he
had told Hermann that the objection in
Oregon to the creation of the Blue
mountain reserve could be removed by
elimina ting the school lands from the
reserve Hermann had told him not to
be so insistent on this point, that there
are only few acres of school land, and
| they are held by our friends
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
JUSTICE BREWERS IDEAS
FOR JUDICIAL REFORMS
By JUSTICE D. ]. BREWER

l. Allow but one appeal from the trial
court, except where a serious constitutional
question is at stake.
2 No case should be reversible for mere
error in admission of evidence, in ruling OF
the court, or in the judges charge, unless
such error works serious injustice upon the
defendant.
3. Encourage higher ethics among the
legal profession.
+ Appoint judges OF the highest character
and greatest learning.
;. Remove the bench llom politics by
lengthenng the terms OF judges.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION
IS NEEDED TO CHANGE SYSTEM
Bu MARCUS c. SLOSS.
Justice of the Supreme Court of California

The details of Justice Brewers ideas are too
briei to allow OF the matter being discussed at any
length. However | am OF the opinion that, to &C
complish his aim it would be necessary TO amend
the constitution of the United States.
OF course we all concur in the belief that
Justice should be meted out speedily possible,
without the usual obstacles thrown in the way by
members of the legal profession, such as hair
splitting techncalities. We not but agree that
reversal of judgment the grounds OF mere error
in the admission OF evidence, in the trial
Judges charge or error in the ruling OF the court
is wrong; however. as | said before, I believe an
amendment to the constitution would be necessary
to properly these points.
agree with Justice Angellotti that complaint
can be made on delays in this state, are able
q L.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
Board Negotiates for Loan

OAKLAND, Feb. 1.-The fight for
appropria tions by the federal govern
ment for the dredging of Oakland har-
Dor has been carried into the halls of
congress. The first decisive advanta ge
was gained yesterday. when the con-
gressional delegation from this county,
aided by Senator Flint, induced the
board of army engineers to reverse
itself and approve the recommenda tions
made by Lieutenant Colonel Biddle.
The report, in which Biddle's sugges-
tions are sanctioned. has not yet been
submitted. but Congressman Knowland
telegraphed to Mayor Mott today that
he had appeared before the rivers and
harbors committee this morning.
He said that his purpose in aking UP
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
JEROME B. GOSSAGE is
BURIED AT PETALUMA A
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

PETALUMA, Feb. 1.-The remains of
Jerome B. Gossage, who died suddenly
in Seattle, were inferred in Cypress;
Hill cemetery here today Gossage was
a member Of one of the wealthy pioneer
families of this section. He had large
business interests in Seattle. Besides
his widow he leaves one daughter Cos
sage was born in Petaluma in Feb
ruary, 1872.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
DOES NOT REVERSE DECISIONS,
SAVE TO RIGHT GRAVE WRONG
Bp WILLIAM B. GILBERT,


ndorse heartily all that Justice Brewer has
said in regard to the delays of the law and to
versals 1t has been my practice for years to act
in accordance with the ideas he advances, and to
grant reversals only when feel that am righting
a grave injustice by so doing
1t is part of the trend of affairs legal through
out the country. The feeling against reversals
merely the ground of technicalities is growing
rapidly. In this they following the English
custom, which has prevailed for years In England
such reversals much than in our courts
These remarks not new, however-President
Taft has said it all before
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02

further appeals This idea much
last legislature criminal
which passage and allows for appeal
after the finding of the
be referring the state or California
any large extent appeal established 1904
has proved OF handling This proved
M the fact that supreme handling the
filed recently July and
appeal
always several behind calendar
should be reversed
appeal opposite verdict reached retra The original
sponden make another appeal and believe this the
meaning Of Justice Brewer.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
SENATOR THOMPSON
OF DAKOTA RESIGNS

WASHINGTON, Feb. Fountain L
Thompson. recently appointed senator
from North Dakota, has resigned on ac-
count Of I'll health and w. L. Purcell
Of Wahpetons has been appointed his
successor The announcement was
made in the senate today by Senator,
Money and Purcell was sworn in.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
PAPERS ISSUED FOR
BROGAN'S EXTRADITION
Illinois Executive Signs Requi-
sition on Governor Gillett
GSooo;,I D;soaJoL 10 Tbe C,U1

SPRINGFIELD, H., Feb. 1.-Gov-
ernor Deneen issued requisition on
the governor of California today for
the return to East st. Louis of Gibbons
Brogan, alias Given Brogan, now under
arrest in San Francisco, who is wanted
on d charge of murder. 1t is alleged
that on July II, 1908. Brogan shot and
killed Andrew Ma gill.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
BAD ROADS AROUSE
WALTER MARTINS IRE
BurIingame Property Owner
Protests to Supervisors
Social Dispateh 10 The Cal I

REDWOOD CITY. Feb. 1.-The board
of supervisors received "A communica-
tion today from Walter :. Martin OF
Burlingame protesting against the poor
condition of the main county road be-
tween Baden and BUrlingame. and ask
ing that something be done TO improve
the highway. AS the porto nOt the
thoreughfare referred TO lies in the
first township the matter was referred
TO Supervisor James T. Casey of Colma.
who declared that his road fund has
been very low 70 ia long time
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02

BANKRUPTCY PETITIoNS-Pe in bank
ruptcy were died yesterday in the United
states district court by J. A. Fitzgerald of
san Francisco. whose liabilities are S3,9ei aud
assets S69f; Manuel Cabral. an Oakland la
borer who fails for <1.635, without assets
aud by Richard Paul Darlington OF Oakland
who Is unable 10 paw a cent on his debts ot
SS25.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
7 b e E n d
Is in Sight
Poor old Van Ness

We were the hrst 10 build on Van Ness after
the fire and we've been here so long that we're
quite attached to the old avenue. But we're go
ing to leave it at last-going downtown" this
month to our new store on Geary street.
Meantime, like Mayor Mccarthy, we're shaking
things up with a vengeance out here-cutting
prices all through the house TO keep up our
sales. Wherever you see green tag land they
are PLENTIFUL you'll get a quicker heart beat
for it will mean furniture bargain worth
swapping up quick.
Come out this week and help US celebrate the
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
ATTORNEYS COULD DO MUCH TO
FACILITATE TRIALS BY COURTS
By F. NJ. ANCELLOT1I,
Justice of the state Supreme Court

| agree with Justice Brewer that the members OF
the legal profession could accomplish great deal
toward the facilnation OF prompt action by the
court were they so inclined.
ALSO agree that judgments should not be re-
versed on mere error in the admission OF evidence
error in the ruling of court in the trial judges
charge; however
The report, as published. of the remarks Of Jus
tice Brewer do not MAKE his ideas any too clear,
but ! am OF the opinion that he means when he
says, Il propose that the states enact laws that VIII
permit of but one appeal after the trial Judge that
the case may be taken into only one court above
that of the trial Judge OF course, in the event OF
, reversal of decision and order for rehearing of
=. = L.. k.o . .t,e,,.. and
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02
LOCAL BAR IS
TRYING TO END
DELAYS OF LAW
Association Appoints Commit
tee to Secure Opinions on
Remedy for Abuses
Judge Curtis II. LindIey Gives
Suggestions TO Supplement
Brewers Ideas

The plea Of
Justice Brewer Of
The United States
supreme court for
:ac reform Of the
American Judi
ciary has found
q "A i'm IN q q late
echo in san Fran
cisco
The local bar
association, under
the direction OF
It's president. Cur
tis r. LindleY. is
taking the first
step TO rid the
- TO { O. s sion OF
those ills that
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02

delays this able to keep well abreast
of our work OF the district appeal
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-02

O. Bar from the judiciary who has left it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
TRAMP KNEW HUMAN NATURE
Simple Stratagem That Secured for
"knight of the Road" Sub
stantial Meal.

A clever little bit of human nature
was used by a knight of the road" re.
Gently on matron living in suburb
OF Pittsburg, and as a result he slept
with full stomach that night.
The suburb is quite small, and when
the tramp dropped off freight and
ambled up the main street he was quite
hungry. There were about ten houses
which gave fair chance of meals, and
the tramp lost no time. He was not
surprised when the first housewife
Slammed the door in his face, nor the
second, for that was natural and the
proper thing to do. But when he
reached the ninth house, or rather was
helped away, he was thoroughly dis
gusted. The town certainly had him
hoodooed.
After a short rest and deep think
the hungry one knocked at the door
of the tenth house.
Madam, can you let hungry man
have a bite to eat? don't think you
can, though" he said. The woman
opened her ears.
"Why can't II" she inquired. !
"The woman next door said you
didn't have enough for yourself"
He got his meal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
GROWING Nasturtiums.

Of nasturtiums there are dwarf and
climbing varieties, to suit all situa-
lions, with flowers practically alike.
Any ordinary well-drained soil will
support them perfectly, even though
it is decidedly thin. In fact, they
blossom better in such earth than in
very rich, for in the latter they run
to leaf and are apt to rot off in wet
weather, in their own dense shade,
especially if at all crowded.
Sow as early as the ground is
ready. The dwarf or Tom Thumb di-
vision will be in bloom in two
months, insects will leave them alone
-aphids colonize unpleasantly on the
climbers sometimes-and they will
still be poisoning when frost comes
if picked freely. This is true of
most ANIMALS, in fact liberal picking
induces generous Towering, for they
go on, industriously bent on producing
seed, until allowed to do so.-Grace
Tabor, in Woman's Home Companion
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
is YEARS OF SKIN DISEASE

For sixteen long years have been
suffering with bad case of skin dis
ease. While a child there broke out a
red sore on the legs just in back Of
my knees. 1t waxed from bad to worse,
and at last saw I had a bad skin
disease. I tried many widely known
doctors in different cities but to no
satisfactory result. The plague both
cred me more in warm weather than
in winter and being on my leg joints
it made 1t impossible for me to walk
and was forced to stay indoors in the
warmest weather. My hopes of recov-
cry were by this time spent. Sleepless
nights and restless days made life an
unbearable burden. At last I was
advised to try the Cuticura remedies
[Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills]
and I did not need more than a trial
to convince me that was on the road
of success this time. 1 bought two
sets of the Cuticura Remedies and
after these were gone was differ
ent man entirely. am now the hap
piest man that there is at least one
true care for skin diseases. Leonard
A. Hawtof. II Nostrand Ave, Brook
Ign, N. Y, July 30 and Aug. 8, '09."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
A Horse Lover,

James R. Keene, who is noted no
less as horseman than as financier,
said at luncheon at his Cedarhurst
residences:
MY love of horses has been a great
comfort to me all my life. have al
ways kept my horses in their place,
though. 1 haven't allowed them to in
terfere with my business.
Some men carry their love of
horses altogether too far. Such one
was young father who stood, with
his fair wife, before the crib of their
first born.
Isn't he wonderful?' the young
mother cried. Did you ever see any
thing like him at twenty-six months? ?
Maternal love is all very WE'LL the
father retorted, impatiently, but please
don't try to compare it with two
year-old thoroughbred
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
A Cynical Synonym.

"Poor Myra Kelley" said maya
zine editor at the Authors club in
New York, twas almost as distressed
as Mr.. Carnegie at the spirit of graft
and crookedness rampant among us.
'The young writer, at dinner OF
magazine contributors, said that we
worshiped wealth-that was our trou'
BILE. Then she crystallized her mean
ing In an anecdote.
"She said that one man asked an
other:
"'What position does Blank hold in
the community
ga very honorable position was
the reply.
els he wealthy?
"'Wealth and honor said the other
are synonymous terms in America to-
day."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
R0OSEvELTS' HUNT
FOR AFRICAN GAME
Lions and Other Animals Shot in
Large Numbers.
YEAR ON DARK CONTINENT
Naturalfsts Collected Hundreds of
Specimens for the Smithsonian
Northumberland Photoo.
rapher of the Party.

Theodore Roosevelt's hunting trip in
Africa, officially known as the Smith
son1an African expedition, lasted near
~ eleven months and was most sue
cessful in every way. The colonels
desire to hunt big game was not all
tnat was back of the trip, for the
smithsonian Institution wanted speci-
mems of the fauna and fora of the
Dark Continent and commissioned the
ex-president to obtain them. For this
reason, part of the expenses were
borne by the institution, but Mr..
Roosevelt paid all the expenses of
himself and his son Kermit, presuma-
ply earning much of them by his arti-
cles In magazine for which he re-
celVed record-breaking price.
Not wasting much time after leav-
ing the White House, Colonel Roose-
welt sailed from New York on the
steamship Hamburg, headed for Ma
pies. With him were Kermit and
three naturalists, Major Mearns, Ed
mund Heller and ]. Alden Loring, and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25

slowed in the hold was most of their
elaborate outfit for killing or photo
graphing the animals of East Africa
and for preserving the specimens des-
tined for the Smithsonian Institution.
Kermit had trained himself to be the
chief photographer of the expedition,
but he also turned out to be consider
able of hunter.
A great throng of friends and ad-
mirers babe the colonel farewell, and
he sailed away, but could not entirely
separate himself from the world, for
practically all the way across the At
lantic wireless communication with
the Hamburg was maintained. More
over, at the Azores, and again at
Gibraltar, he found the officials and
people insisted on doing him honor,
and when he reached Naples on April
5 the entire populace turned out to
greet him with flowers and cheers.
Boarding the German steamship Ad-
mtral for Mombasa, Mr.. Roosevelt
found in his cabin a quantity of flow
ers and letter from Emperor William
wishing him good hunting" At Mes
sina a stop was made to view the
earthquake ruins, and there, at King
Victor Emmanuels request, Mr.. Roose-
welt and Kermit visited the Italian
monarch on board the battleship Rex
Uplberto. The party arrived at Nom
hasa April 81 and was received by
Acting Governor Jackson, who had
been instructed by the British govern
ment to do all in his power 20 further
the plans of the expedition. Unusual
privileges were granted the hunters,
and Mr.. Roosevelt and Kermit were
licensed to kill lions.
At Mombasa the party was Joined
by r. ]. Cuninghame, a veteran Afri-
can hunter and explorer, and Leslie j.
Tarleton, and these two managed the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25

TO feel better when I had taken only
one bottle of Compound, but kept on
as was afraid to stop too soon." Mrs.
SADIE MULLEN, 272s N. B. St., FL.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly.
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fourths of the JOY of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound?
|, For thirty years it has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
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liberation, fbroid tumors, Irregular.
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If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia r.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound will help you.
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Your letter
will be absolutely confidential.
and the advice free.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
Good Work Proceeds Slowly.

At the present rate of increase near
ly forty-five years must elapse before
sufficient hospital accommodations to
provide for all the INDECENT consump-
tives in the United States will be pro-
vided, declares the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention Of
tuberculosis. Although over 1000
beds in hospitals, sanatoria, camps
and wards for tuberculous patients
were established last year, there are
fully 100000 INDECENT consumptives
who ought to be placed in such institu-
lions and total of only 22,720 beds in
the entire country. On May l, 1909,
there were 1924 beds for consump-
tives and 294 institutions. The annual
report of the national association
shows an increase of 80 institutions
and $500 beds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
KISSING the Bride.

At certain church it is the pleasing
custom at a marriage for the clergy
man to kiss the bride after the cere-
mony. A young lady who was about
IN he married in the church did not
relish the prospect, and instructed her
prospective husband when making ar
rangements to tell the clergyman that
she did not wish him to kiss her. The
bridegroom did as directed.
well, George" said the young lady
when he appeared, did you tell the
clergyman that I did not wish him to
kiss me?"
ooh, yes"
"And what did he say"
'sHe said that in that case he would
charge only half the usual fee"