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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY. 29, 1905. s\GENERAL STAMPEDE FROM RUEF iS AT YOUR VYOTING BOOTH K. E. Cor. Laurel and Szgramento Sts. CARRY WITH YOU | AND ATTACH THE ENCLOSED PASTER TO A REPU DELEGATIONS IS FORECASTED. i ron Don’t Fail to Vote on » ‘ August 8, 19056 | This Envelope Contains Ticket of SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICAN LEAGUE Put this in Your Pockel—NOW | TO THE POLLS A Clean City, Clean Politics BLICAN BALLOT @ and a Clean Administration The Genuine Anti-Ruef Ticket, Enclosed as Above, Will Be Sent to Every Registered Voter. WILL ATTENPT A CREAT FEAT Los Angeles Plans to Con- struect Water System to Rival Any in the World TO 000,000 Ligunid Will Be Carried Over Deserts and Through Mountains for 240 Miles only supply will be ot exist in water Invo River th in secured e made FOUND DRUNK IN STREETS WITH BIG SUMS IN POCKETS Pollce Arrest Two Men Who at First Are Suspected of Being Million- sire Adventurers. Thursday night Southern police to see the dark t of the ordinar; ause was the discovery a on whose persons wers al sum of $776, most of it much money on men of been theretofore un- | of. | O'Mears was the first to be| up. He was soundly sleeping vay of the Rialto bullding discovered. As the ser- ar the customary search rough the man’s clothes, expecting to | find a knife or possibly a few cents in | enge, he was startled to feel the con- | tact of his hand with real gold. Five mes he dug bis hand into O'Meara’s removing shining en counted the sum 26. scarcely been hurried irto a cell when John Moyer, a dis- arged soldler, was brought in. H was found drunk in the same neighbor- hood, and on his person was found $500. ir wealth was returned to them yes- | terday after they had sobered up. —_———————— Abbas Has Good Time in Paris. Abbas 1I, Khedive of Egypt, had a 1 ter time in Paris incognito than hed come here as & chief of state. tting up &t a gquiet hotel near the ¢ de Triomphe, he led during his short the life of an ordinary traveler. morning, dressed in an ordinary t and wearing a bowler hat, T the Bois de Boulogne in his nobile, or seuntered on foot along levards. He took his meals nt near the Champs Elysees, he waiters were far from suspect- om they had to serye. His even- y dpapraMas » ing Wi ings were spent either at the theaters or more m select music halls. Few and those who did pretended ch amounts to the same thing. About only visit paid by him was to the Turkish Embassy, where he had a interview with Munir Pasha. How Alfonso XIII would have lxed such a quiet, enjovable time!—London Globe. ——— Man’s Opinion of the Flirt. No man admires a fiirt; no man cares for a girl or woman who is willing to) trade pride for flattery. The girl whol flirts thinks she is very wise and is mak- ing & great hit with the fellow with whom. &he flirts. She would have a very different idea of the matter if she could | know_ his real opinion—if she could hear his account of the incident as he tells it to the “other feller.” There is no such | thing &s a harmiess flirtation. No per- son may put his finger in the fire with- out getting the mark. No girl can in- dulge in & flirtation without being con- sidered “cheap” and “shallow.” The fact that the other girls do the same thing is no excuse.—Galena Republican, —_——— That package of old rent recelpts should mnke your foresight sharper. Buy your own home on the installment miun. Real Estate Ads. Sundaw st the knew hi | Hall {the fairness with which the Several Withdrawals in Forty-First District Are Noted. clination of citizens to stand on | t tickets is so pronounced and that the Ruefters are kept v in filling vacancies. The Regis- ! ar of Voters is not heralding the fact at the withdrawals are numerous, such is the truth nevertheless and | indications of a stampede from the 1l are quite promising. ce Wilson nd former Surveyor & - Relchert haveé with- | Theodor 1 the ef ticket of the For- | ly District, as their| d without authority. | ister Jr. and Isaac F. Kydd v their connection” with | ne District | > Thirty-eighth Assembly Dis-| Ruefters threatened to put! Gans on their ticket, hence ing letter was written: SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 1905. J Reglstrar and to Whom it May Con- | authorize and direct the withdrawal 1 & delegate from the eo-called | lican ticket in “the Thirty-eighth As-, District headed by P. A. Bergerot. | WILLIAM GA! i 843 McAllister Street. | Leaders of the Republican League- in | he Thirty-eighth District contem- ! ated the placing on their ticket the | M. Tiedemann, 700 McAllister bt before last A. Ruef, Jo- | Alex O'Grady, John W.| Rogers and E. Maestrett! visited Tiede- | mann's place of business and remained there until nearly dawn. After the| all night session they succeeded in per- ! suading him not to stand in.with the | lea in the Forty-first As-| 27 Brazil avenue, desires The Call to state that his name | was placed on the so-called “Regular Republican” ticket of the Thirty-third | District without his consent. The | ticket referred to is the Ruef delega- tion. The Registrar has been requested | to remove Lewis’ name from the ticket. | e Call recently published the in- | ition that the Grand Jury was in ion of facts relating to the ap- ns of Burfiend and McMahon to s election officers in the Thirty- District. Yesterday the Sin| ncisco Republican League was ad- vised that other men had been selected by the Registrar to take the places as- signed to Burfiend and McMahon. In every district of San Francisco there will be a labor ticket in opposi- tion to the Egan-Ruef Union Labor County Committee ticket. The tickets will be filed in a few days. Labor unicns are repudiating so- called indorsements of the Schmitz ad- ministration. The Granite Cutters’ Union gives out the following for pub- lication: { SAN FRANCISCO, July 28. The San Francisco branch of the Granite Cutters’ National DU'nlon is represented in the Buflding Trades Council of San Francisco, but was not consulted in regard to indorsing any political party whatever. Therefore we wish to repudiate the action of that body last night in as fer es we are concerned. C. J. COYLE, President. P. BISSON, Secretary. AR M FORTY-FIRST ENTHUSIASTIC. Republican Leaguers Hold Rousing Meeting at Steimke Hall. The list of delegates of the Republi- can League in the Forty-first Assembly Distriet, as published in The Call and filed with the Registrar, was unani- mously indorsed by a meeting of the Republicans last night In Steimke One pleasing sign of the work of the league was the notice by C. S. Laumeister Jr. to the Ruefites to with- draw his name from their list of dele- gates and the defection of Isaac F. Kydd from the Ruef ticket in the dis- trict. The meeting last night will go on record as one of the most enthusiastic ever held in the district. In the ab- sence of Colonel J. C. Currier Vice President Sheldon G. Kellogg acted as chairman. A. Daggett, one of the delegates and sebdyetary of the club, also officiated. The finance committee recently organized comprises E, B. Cut- ter, Sheldon Kellogg and Maurice Block. The first speaker Introduced by Chairman Kellogg was General C. A. Woodruff. General Woodruff, who is a veteran of the Civil and Spanish-American wars, urged the men of the district to watch, work and fight for success of the ticket and pledged himself to vote in convention for.a clean administra- tion. He pleaded for honesty and de- cency in public affairs and the election of good men as delegates to show that the decent element of the district is behind the delegation. Nathan C. Coghlan, the Assembly- man, was the next speaker, and he dwelt upon the necessity of a strong fight at the primaries. He spoke of league has worked in the district and sald there would be no taint or stain upon the victory that will come to it. The remarks of Leslie Bennett were most timely. He told of the disinclina- tion of business men to go even a block out of their way in the morning to cast a vote and added that If the vote was not cast in the morning it would not be cast at all. He also told of the new arrangement of booths in the district that seem to be placed with a design to hinder the voters in gaining easy access to the booth. In some precincts the booths are on the very edge of the precinct and are only reached after hills have been climbed. Bennett also argued for the individ- 'Horace Wilson ar—id Theodore Reich- ert Send In Declinations. ual vote, which counts: heavily in the primary fight. Although there are enough now on the roll of the league in the district to decide the fight vic- tory can only be brought about by every one on the roll voting at the polls. He then asked that volunteers come forward for election work and at the close of the meeting many re- sponded. Maurice Block of the Grand Jury that indicted Wyman, Steffens and Reb- stock, then told of his knowledge of municipal affairs galned through his experience on the jury. He said that “there are men to-day in the municipal government of ‘San Francisco who would carry away the bricks of the City Hall if they could.” The other speakers were Willlam A. Sexton, the Rev. Mr. Merritt, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Philip Anspacher and L. M. Fletcher. The next meeting will be held Friday evening of the coming week. e HOLD ROU G MEETING. Republicans of Thirty-Eighth District Turn Out in Big Numbers. i The San Francisco Republican League Club of the Thirty-eighth Assembly District held a rousing meeting at Jef- | ferson Square Hall last night. The representative people fof the district were there, among whom were many of the fair sex. There were 420 pres- ent. Vice President Franklin B. Bull was chairman, taking the place of President Max Goldberg, who was un- able to attend. Enthusiasm and ap- plause were the order of the evening. The big demonstration proved beyond a doubt that the citizens of the Thirty» eighth District mean business and are out for law and order. Chairman Bull opened up the pro- ceedings by a rattling good talk. He thanked the big crowd for coming, which showed by thelr presence that they were interested in the political situation. He exhorted them all to keep up their enthusiasm and above all things be on hand at the polls of the primary election on August 8. Telling speeches were made by Sen- ator E. I. Wolfe and C. M. Fickert, the purport of which was that the munici- pality should be freed from the band of grafters that now held full sway. Both the speakers conceded the fact that the coming battle was no easy one and that the opponents were allied with shrewd and alert workers. Wolfe sald that reports had been circulated that he was the creature of Ruef. He branded this statement as a malicious falsehood, and added that he dld not represent Ruef in any way. The following temporary officers were elected as permanent "officers of the district: President, Max Goldberg; first vice president, Franklin B. Bull; second vice president, J. H. Curley; sec- retary, C. C. Morris, and treasurer, I Goldman. Following is a list of delegates elected by a unanimous vote to rep- resent the voters of the Thirty-eighth Assembly District: Edward I Wolfe, attorney at law, 700 Brod- erick street. Charles M. Fickert, attorney at law, Jefter- * Charis O Morrie. elerk, 811 L arles C. Morrls, clerk, John H. Curley, merchant ’&fix::mfm Golden Gate avenue. Winthrop J. Fifield, capitalist, 1362 Web- ster street. J. A. Hammersmith, jeweler, 865 Eddy street. T. S. Stealy, dentist, 720 Turk street. Anselo May, superintendent, 1315 Stelner Charles Klarnet, barber, 1874 Eddy street. Jeremiah Hastings, conductor, 26 Farren avenue. J. J. Sullivan, attorney at law, 1832 Mo- Allister_street. Max Goldberg, broker, 1288 McAllister strest. Jullus Israelsky, insurance, 1848 MoAllister street: A. A. Friedlander, attorney at law, 500 Mo- Allister street. o e M. W. Melntosh, attorney at law, 910 Steiner street. . B. Dalziel, veterinary dentist, 605 Golden Gate avenue. M. A. Nathao, attorney at law, 1656 Fulton street. 5 Boomer, veterinary surgeon, Golden Gate avenue. b A Head E cashier Spring Valley Wi Works, 1124 O'Farrell stragt. & e Yater 'A. QL ‘Well, attorney at law, 1126 O'Farrell street, John J. Conlon, painter. 1727 Golden Gate avenue. Robert B. Sullivan_ journalist, 1026 Golden Gate_avenue. 1. Goldman, ‘merchant, 1563 McAllister street. John T. Nourse, attorney at law, 824 Eddy street. Benjsmin. Abrams, 1426 Fulton reet. Franklin P. Bull, attorney at law, 1417 Scott street. D. B. Faktor, liquor dealer, 1772 O'Farrell street. merchant, Jesse Mayer, butcher, 1226 Bady street. A. Van der Naillen Jr., clvil engineer, 810 Fulton street. Frank Robb, manager Millbrae Dairy, 810 Octavia street. J. F. Nortod, clerk, Southern Pacific Com- pany, 605 Baker street The Joys of Going Come to the fullest measure to those who indulge in the practical convenfences. If you go by land or sea you need a trunk; we have ladies’ trunks, men’s trunks, wardrobe trunks, trunks of wood and trunks of leather, bureau trunks, hat trunks, sult cases, coat cases, club Everything for the traveler and prices right. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. * o e B 1t Rt il T The Department of Marine and Fisher- fes at Ottawa has shipped 250,000 eggs of | the Atlantic salmon to be planted in Van- | couver Island waters. The experts think that ‘Atlantic salmon will do well in those ‘waters. ——— Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court, in a recent opinifon on a stock gambling case, sald that deal- ing in futures was the “self-adjustment of soclety to the probable.’ HOPES TO CONVERT MORMONS OF UTAH Grandson of Prophet Smith Will Try to Reorganize + the Church. ) SALT LAKE, Utah, July 28.—Frederick W. Smith, grandson of the prophet, Joseph Smith, and the son of Joseph Smith, the present head of the Reorgan- ized Church of Latter Day Saints, has i started a propaganda to convert the Mormons of Utah to the former prin- ciples of the church as enunciated by the prophet. As the initial step in his cam- palgn Smith has issued an open letter to the Mcrmons of Utah, appealing to them to abandon polygamy, commercialism and political Interference. Authorities are quoted to prove that Brigham Young led the people away from the teachings of the prophet. ————— ANTIQUES REGULARLY MADE TO ORDER Haundled by Unscrupulous Dealers Who Make Large Profits From the Ignorant. The rage for collecting has grown stead- 11y until the demand for curios, the craze for old glass and old prints and old furni- ture has become more and more acutely keen. What could be picked up for a £5 note fifteen years ago, or even ten years ago, now bring £10 or £12. The demand for the antique having, therefore, become | S0 great that even suburban households ! want their old glass and their old china, the supply has, of course, become far less. ‘What is the result? The genuine article h‘ns become correspondingly more expen- slye. Perhaps of all frauds that of making antique furniture is one of the most suc- cessful; so much sothat even experts are often deceived. Austrian workmen are particularly clever at this kind of work. “‘Old” _Sheffleld plate is another well known fake, and even as you can get your latch key dipped in silver on the Margate Jetty for threepence, so is the faked “old” Sheffield “dipped.” The design is first made in copper and then dipped—and, needless to add, shows the copper beneath after a few earnest applications of brusn ‘and plate powder. When you think how many years the genuine Sheflleld will wear and wash and clean without show- ing the copper beneath, this seems a par- ticularly wicked and vicious fraud on the collecting public. A partner in a high- class firm of Sheffield silver mills once told my friend that they could easily make £5000 a year more if they lent themselves to copying - “old plate,” which s now made with the =ole in- tengion of cheating the public. The would-be collector must be wary in picking up old Sheraton brass fenders with claw feet, as these can be made for less than 12 shillings each, and a dealer once boasted to me, in a moment of con- fidence, that he did a thriving trade in them, and that his customers were de- lighted with their “bargains,” especially when he sold them a fine old embossed tub or jardinlere to go with their fender on lion legs for an extra pound! Bow and Chelsea figures being always expensive, even when copled, thcre is a great and growing demand for Stafford- shire pottery, and our German friends are supplying the demand for this in the shape of thousands of sheep, and cot- tages, and money boxes, and pastille burners, and greyhounds and dogs of every kind. These—costing sixpence to sevenpence each—are eagerly snapped up by the collecting public at 8 shillings each and sometimes more.—Pall Mall Gazette. ————————— Dr. Dowie Threatens Paris. Dr. Dowle’s threatened invasion of Paris, in order to drive sin from: the city, has caused no little consternation among those of the inhabitants who have heard of it. The fact is Paris considers herself quite as virtuous as Chicago, and Dr. Dowls proposal to come nere, in the aggressive American way, with drums beating and big advertisements, is par- ticularly painful to them. The knowledge that he will have plenty of funds at his command, together with several assist- ants who speak French, is, however, some consolation. Dr. Dowie would do well, at the same time, to recollect that if he fails to drive sin out of New York and London it will be far more difficult for him to.succeed here, where life is more attractive anu the floating popula- tion more difficult to get at.—London Globe. ——————— Unwinding Red Tape. Nothing the President has done re- cently has called forth more comment of a favorable kind that his appoint- ment of a commission to find out how the transaction of public business can be simplified and the red tape regula- tions done away with. We have a bufeaucracy in this country, which, while radically different from that of Russia in that it doesn’t dominate in public affairs, has become such an ob- struction to business that the move- ment to get rid of it to as great an ex- tent as possible meets with the hearti- est approval.r The President cannot prosecute this reform with too much vigor if the public is to be satisfied.— Savannah News. —_——————— Servant Problem in 1667, There was a servant problem a cdu- ple of centuries ago, but it was solved in a rough-and-ready fashion nor yet an unpleasant one. As Pepys records, on April 12, 1667, he came home, “saw my door and hatch open, left so by Luce, our cook maid, which so vexed me that I did give her a kick in our entry and offered a blow at her.” But this, which would have made a police- court case in these days, beems to have left the har- mony of the seventeenth century house- hold undisturbed. For with the kicks came the halfpence.—London Chronicle. ————————— In all homes ,wh-g- thrift is the rule reading the store a is a part of the daily routine—and the pleasantest part to most housewives. | EACLES WILL VISIT CHUTES First of August. Set Aside for a Day of Enjoyment . by Prosperous City Aerie CONTROLS CONCESSIONS Fraternal Order Invites Public to Share in the Good Things Provided On next Tuesday, August 1, the keys of the Chutes will be turned over to San Francisco Aerfe No. 5, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the committee in charge promises all who attend on that day and night a royal good time. In addition to controlling all concessions the committee has secured the new pavilion, where there will be given a grand ball in the even- Ing. The order of Eagles to-day stands in front as one of the leading fraternal bodies. The last semi-annual report of Secretary Gustave Pohlman of San Fran- ¢isco Aerle No. 5, Fraternal Order of Eagles, showed an Increase of member- ship to over 2000, with a treasury of over $30,000, showing a marked increase in the advancement of the order, which is due to the faithful work of the officers, es- peclally President John S. Barry, on whom most of the work falls. All are welcome to join and spend a pleasant day and evening at the Chutes. Following is the committee of arrange- ments: J. G. Bass, chairman; Charles B. Mish, secretary; T. J. Clancy, treasurer; J. George Crowley, chairman ticket com- mittee; Luke M. Marisch, chairman order committee; D. J. Cramer, chairman floor committee; R. H. Rusch, chairman press committee; J. W. Boyce, chairman recep- tion committe: —_——— COLLECTION OF PICTURES OF JOHN PAUL JONES Steel Engravings Mostly Caricatures of the Famous Ad- miral. There has been'placed on exhibition in the large reception-room of the Seo- retary of the Navy a small collection of steel engravings of Commodore John Paul Jones. Many of these plates are over a hundred years old and while some are compliméntary to' the great American sea captain, the majority are decidedly otherwise. It is believed the most of these engravings were made in France and England soon after the glorious victory of the Bon Homme Richard over the British sloop-of-war Serapls. They are mainly carlcatures and depict the great sea captaln in ridiculous attitudes. In one of the pictures he is repre- sented as a regular pirate of the old Spanish main type, with swarthy com- plexion and long black halr and beard | streaming in the breeze. He carries a cutlass in one hand and a big pistol in the other. There are several more pistols in his belt and he is surrounded by small cannon belching forth fre and smoke. His costume includes a leather apron, on which is prominently dis- played the piratical symbol of skull and crossbones. To add to the ploture the ship is on fire. 3 In another engraving Commodore Jones is depicted as a Chinese pirate engaged In the mild-mannered occupa- tion of scuttling & ship. He has the usual equipment of pistols and cannon and battle axes and is surrounded by a breastwork of his many victims. Another engraving represents him in the uniform of a Russian admiral and two or three show him in the uniform of the Unitied States navy. There is a general similarity in the countenances in all the engravings, indicating that they are probably based on the same portrait. —e——————— Floating Nests. ‘When the mother grebe is ready to lay her eggs she searches out some re- tired spot, among the reeds and rushes of a lonely lake, and there scrapes and pushes together a low heap of mud and decayed reeds, says C. William Beebe, in May Recreation. Here on this water- logged islet—this merest semblance of a nest—she broods her eggs. A moose splashing among the nearby lily pads may send floods of water over the sit- ting bird, or the winds may disentangle the little raft of reeds, sending it scud- ding to the farther end of the lake, but the bright eyes of the mother bird never falter. She carefully covers her eggs with decayed leaves whenever hunger forces her to leave them. Although she does not weave the reeds, yet in some way they hold together until the last little grebe crawls to the edge and plunges off head first. Or he may leap upon his mother’s back and thus ride proudly forth into the world, exchang- ing the soaked, decayed leaves of his cradle for her feathers.—Exchange. ————— Alive and Kicking. Senator Dubols of Idaho tells of the case of a miner in that State who had been reported as dead by a number of the Idaho newspapers. It would appear that the miner had a keen sense of humor, for, with reference to an obituary of himself, which appeared in a Boise City paper, the alleged dead man ad- dressed the editor with a view to cor- recting certain misstatements in the sald cobituary: “My dear sir,” wrote he, “relative to the obituary of myself appearing in your issue of the 22d ult.,, I beg leave to call your attention to several errors therein. In the first place, I was born in Massa- chusetts, not in Rhode Island; secondly, my retirement from the liquor business in the year 1899 was not due to ill health, but to the fact that I was unable to se- cure a renewal of my license, and, third- ly, the cause of my. death was not heart disease.””—Collier’s Weekly. —_—————— Army and Navy Cooks. A bad cook on shore can break up a happy home, while put him afloat or in garrison und he will send a ship’s com- pany or a regiment into the “brig” or the guardhouse by squads. The men in Uncle Sam’s uniform can no more live without cooks than any other civ- {lized man. The army and navy cook is at /last coming into his own, and while/ the Government may still hesi- tate to recognize him as an artist, it is at least compelled to regard him as a ‘specialist. Like the strategist or the torpedo expert or-the farrier, he is now to have special schools in which to de- velop those natural gifts without which cooks are as impossible as poets.— eveland Plain Dealer. Unnecessary Nolses. Noise is easily misinterpreted as a sign of vigorous enterprise in all lines of hu- man activity. There is a bustle of trade which no one would suppress. The loud- est shouter is not by any means the most -accomplished and effective orator. The best work may be done without great clamor and uproar. Noise is commonly associated with the faker, who covers the pinchbeck quality of his wares by strid- ently their virtues. Much of the noise of the city street is entirely un- suppressed with- find a fertile fleld for its beneficent office. Philadelphia Ledger. 1 TWO BAGLES WHO ARB ING A WARM TIME FOR AERIE NO, 5. AR- AL RICH RELATIVES COME TO AID OF MURDERER IN NEVADA Acquisition of Funds Enables John Hancock to Secure Delay of Execution. RENO, Nev., July 28.—John Hancock, under sentence of death for the cruel murder of Dr. Engelke and Peter Ed- miston on the desert of Lincoln County, this State, several years ago, does not intend to go to the gallows until every effort has been made to secure another trial. Hancock was convicted several weeks ago and until to-day has been in the condemned cell at the State Prison awalting execution. This morning, in the Supreme Court, an attorney made a motion asking for ten days’ additional time in which to make a motion for a new trial. Hancock was thought to be without funds to fight his case and for this reason had given up the battle. It is now understood rich Eastern rela- tives have come to his ald. ———— n Doctor and His Tailor. The doctor of a regiment stationed in India received a letter from his tailor, in- closing a long overdue account, and con- cluding with a polite Inquiry after the debtor’s state of health. The sawbones replied thus: “I have received your hypo- critical letter, hoping that I am in a good state of health. Hear, thern; what your chances of my living long enough to be able to pay your bill are. I attend as- siduously every cholera case in the camp, and I am making smallpox a special study. I swim every morning in a lake swarming with alligators. At a recent at- tack on a hill fort I went with the for- lorn hope and was one of the three who returned unwounded. To-morrow morn- ing I shall go, unaccompanied and on foot, Into the jungle and wait for the man eating tigress as she returns at dawn to her cave and cubs. If it be she who falls, I shall spend my leave In the fever haunted jungle, following up big game, and if I survive that I shall cool myself after its heat by joining a party to as- cend the peak of Dhawalagiri, whose snow slopes and glaciers are as stiff as your prices.” The doctor eventually came home in safety, and the tailor's anxlety and his bill were both settled.—N. Y. Tribune. ————— Making Money in Michigan. The town has been the mark for a number of fakers the past week or two, but the crowning glory of all was the work of one slick gent who was selling a compound good for all the ills that flesh is heir to. He came here from Ona- ‘way, wherg he had unloaded all his stock and was of necessity forced to make more. He went to the drug store, bought fifty-four bottles and corks, green wrap- ping paper, 20 cents worth of bitter aloes and some burnt sugar. Then with the aid of a few palls of rain water he com- pounded his dope. In two days he sold the whole business at from 25 cents to $1 a bottle, with the exception of a pall- ful of the “remedy,” which he left in his room at the hotel. We axpect to hear of great results from the ‘“‘medicine.”"— Prague Isle News. CHINA WILLINC T0 HAVE ROAD Imperial Government Sane- tions Project to Build a Line in Canton Provinee PROMOTER IS NOW HERE Chin Gee Hee, Oriental Mag- nate, Is Studying the Mar- kets in San Francisco Special Dispatoh to The Call SEBATTLE, July 8.—A cablegfam from Hongkong to the Quong Tuck Company announces that the imperial Chiness Gov- ernment has sanctioned the rallroad pro- Ject in the southern part of Canton prov- ince that Chin Gee Hee of Seattle is pro- moting. Chin Ges Hee is now in San Fragcisco and will return to China for & month or so. It s probable he will go out on the next trip of the Hill liner Da- kota, for Chin Gee Hee is deeply inter- ested In the big steamships because of the business relations he has maintained with the Great Northern rallroad for sev- eral years. The priginal purpose of Chin Ges Hee was raise half a million dollars in this country to finance the short line projected in Canton province. The projeot has grown and already Chin Gee Hee has had subscribed more than $1,500,000. The origi- nal project cailed for about thirty miles of construction witu an ultimate exten- sion a hundred miles farther to conmect Wwith a road leading to Canton. Since Chin Gee Hee began work on his big scheme he has been tendered a con- tract to construct 500 miles of new road which wili tap a country south of his line. This new road would form an ad- vantageous traffic agreement with the Chin Gee Hee line and it is probable the three projects will be carried forward to= gether. The object of Chin Gee Hee's mission to San Franecisco is pri to investigate markets. He is ex ly anxious to buy all the equipment for the rallroad in this country and Is giving the preference to the Coast. His agreement with the Seattle Steel Company calls for the construction of rolling stock in Seattle unless the boycott against American goods is made effectt MARINE TOADS PROVE TO BE CANNIBALISTIO Love for Flesh of Their Owa Kind Gets Them Into Trouble. The muster roll of frogs in the aquar- fum of the 200 has been decreasing of late. Recently the cause was found A cannibal frog (two of them in fact) was at the bottom of the mystery. They had been living sumptuously. One day last week two giant marine toads from the West Indles went to dwell in the aquarium. It was not known at the time that they had canni- balistic tendencies. They came from the New York zoo, but the donors must have forgotten to warn the Philadelphia zo0 officials that the toads were fond of a frog diet. Thelr reception in the frog colony was marked with coolness. Bull frogs and piping frogs alike eyed the newcomers with distrust. They had ample cause, as was later shown. One by one the smaller frogs began to disap- pear. Two small alligators first came under the ban of suspicion. They were removed. That night two more frogs vanished. A turtle was next looked on with distrust and removed from the frog tank. Still the small frogs contin- ued to disappear. One day one of the marine toads was caught red-handed. Keeper Bowers was looking in the tank, when suddenly there was a great commotion In the water. The submarine ferns and grass waved wildly. One toad—the largest—was hunt- ing and a small frog was swimming the race of his life. He lost and the big fellow seemed to smile as he gulped the little one down. It will probably be the last frog he will eat for a long time unless he decides to devour his mate. The marine toads are now in a separate tank, spending their time looking regret- fully across the room at the home they left. 2 Another rare toad arrived in this city under pecullar circumstances last weelt and the zoo is now Its home It too, is a West Indian, but of the tree toad family. It made the journey from its native land concealed In & bunch of ba~ nanas. T. J. Downs of 2968 North Fourth street purchased & bunch of bananas and placed them in his kitchen. That night his wife was awakened by a cracking noise. She thought the house was on fire. Investigation disclosed the tree toad walking up and down the kitchen win- dows. As it walked the cracking noise was made. On its toes are little vac- uum cups, which enable it to hold-on to a smooth surface. 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