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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1905 (VS TENTH FOR CHARIIES Adeline Reynolds Holds That Such Expenditure Is Not HER HUSBAND —— OBJECTS When Earning Her Own Liv- | ing She Lays Aside a Tithe | for Some Worthy Object| IRESR S 1 the case was day, and Judge while he be- e done the best he thought she e wished to sement before of whether she nas ¢ to her decree. Reynolds wrot rom Santa Maria, in which e states he is on the v would n 10 DISCIPLIN ML BLUECDATS nize their B » antag fellow members will have no place in the | t year. tment after the k cided by the issioners change the ice will be the abso- Frank K. SECRET SERVICE MEN HUNTING FOR BAKER Search for Him Has Been Taken Up in Great Earnest. 2. Dec. 23.—For the first time st of M. Louisa Bowen for 000 from sub-station local postoffice, of which p and the disappearance of Lo , o whom she claims to have given the postal in- spectors have begun & systematic search for Baker. Heretofore it doubt whether Baker could be implicated in the crime, since it -was supposed that OAKLAND, borrowed the coin ined. But to-day the postal inspectors and the secret service agents interviewed Miss Bowen and immediately gan a systematic search for the miss- ing man. It is said they recelved infor- mation that will be sufficlent to convict Baker of being an accomplice of the young woman. a Brown, who took charge of the sub-station in order to give Miss Bowen employment, sald to-night that if the postal authorities decide that she is ble she will make good the shortage in the office. Since Baker's disapearance and the at- tachment was placed on his Ninth-street printing office by Mrs. Brown, many per- mons have called with contracts on the firm. Mrs. Henrietta Donaldson claims 10 hold a chattel mortgage on the office furniture for $1250, and there are many other claims, it is alieged, to be adjusted. It Was rumored to-day that Baker had been seen at Tenth and Franklin streets, Oakland, at € o'clock last evening by Dep- uty Constable Jones, but the police, after talking to Jones, discredit the story. There was another story that Attorney Carey Howdrd was trying to raise bonds that Baker might give himself up and be re- leased. Attorney Howard, however, de- nies absolutely that h> has taken any steps in the matter. AGED M RIES TO TAKE HIS LIFE OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Charles Webber, 60 years of age, tried to commit suicide last night at the Central Hotel in Hay- wards by slashing his throat with 'a pocket knife. He now lies in a precarious condition at the County Infirmary and may not recover. Despondency over an inability to secure work is supposed to have been the cause of his act. Webber went to the County Infirmary yesterday afternoon and was supplied with food. He asked for lodgings for a few days, but left before Superintendent Clark could be consulted. When he en- gaged a room at the hotel at Haywards he registered from San Francisco, but from remarks he made it supposed is that he lived at Palo Alto. Andrew Witt, djoining room, heard who occupled an Webber groaning o'clock this morn- ing and an Investigation proved that the unfortunate man had tried to end his life. He was removed to the County Infirmary. —_———— REFUSES MEDICAL AID. OAXLAND, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Elizaveth Palmer, an elderly woman, who re- fused the services of a physician dur- ing ber last illness, died at 11 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. Jenks, at 517 Eighth street, where she lived. Coroner Mehr- mann will bold an inquest to deter- mine the cause of death. A year ago Mrs. Palmer fell on the sidewalk and broke her hip and has since been in feeble health. She was a widow. 85 years old, and wos a native of New York. ——— Harry Monaba:, who resides at Mc- Allister and Octavia streets, was ar- rested latg last night and charged with battery. He is alleged to have beaten his wife severely during a Quarrel. agreed | con- | has been a question of | that Miss | EWS OF THE COUNTIE JOHN SWETT SPEAKS OF FARM. STUDY. E KELEY, Dec. 2.—Farmers and teachers met together in joint session to. lay for the last time during the gathering educators and grangers at Berkeley. As before the topic of greatest interest to both sections was the moot question |of introducing agriculture as a subject for instruction in the public schools. Johr Swett, the veteran California ed- ucator, who rounded out nearly a half- jcentury of active work as a school man | ars ago, discussed this morning E in which school children may | be induced to take an interest in farm life. In the introductory paragraphs of his paper on “‘Common-sense Ways of Inter: esting Public School Children ih Nature Studies,” Mr. Swett referred to himself humorously as one who, when he at- tended farmers' institutes, ‘“‘passed him- |self off as a school teacher trying to something about fruit growing,” 1d at teachers’ assoclations posed as a granger who wants to learn something | abeut school-teaching.” He spoke in part | as follows ner recently sald to me that boys and ing ‘“educated away from the This complaint is occasionally made Grange meetings, If it is well founded the lition complained of should be remedied. he ways and means are what we have to L time, agriculture was set forth in a “Little Reader's of his, printed in 1791; a copy of I have gi' University that contains a farmer's cat- of eight pages, in which the work of agriculturiist is magnified, and boys and | mirls are taught to believe in the dignity and the farmer's work. So far as textbooks are concerned that was the only thing of Its kind a century. COMPULSORY WORK WON'T DO. nsider for a moment what is prac- the rural schools of our own Stat teaching of agriculture in the ele- sols won't do. It has been tried omology and failed dismally. I think common sense way will be to make use the existing school laws and courses of Under the general head of nature suggestions are made to teachers con- oral lessons on plant and animal lite. n bring into school common wild flowers make a simple and untechnical ‘study ol h ething about the forest as ! State echisn samples of frult from the ¢ live, They study fruit grape v In the tadpole season g in_polllw put them In glass jars h their transformation into frogs. ct epecimens of rocks and minerals hool cabinet they 8 or 9 vears old the pupils use the pew State elementary geog- . recently adopted, which is In itseif a | textbook on nature study, full of refer- | to farm and home Hfe. In the rural Iibraries is offered an opportunity of books for children's use relating to There are m f these books some by E. J. Wickson % ~ | garden plat is a desirable attach- ment to a rural school, when it is possible to obtain water f igation in the dry season. [ m: of interesting children in rural life, however, the schools carmot do it 1 would ask the farmgrs whether th L ¥ interest In the coun got In touch with the a’ their work on these 1 know of some young ladies who have d their schools because of a farmer's = of the attempt at nature study. The y must_co-overate. They should take heir boys to Farmers' Institutes and at home n by giving them a colt to raise 1g the girls a part of the poul- ds. This will be part of the ing the young folk in the country rural life NCOURAGE OBSERVATION. t encourage the Women teachers who say they cannot be expected to teach agriculture, milking cows, | making cheese and bread are right. Those things will be taught at home. achers, however, can start their pupils on the way to | Aind out’a great many things from their own | observation and from books about nature and | the farm. How to gain the time to do this extra work? down by one-half the time now given to arithmetic in the higher grades. Many of ths | wisest teachers In Callfornia are trylog to do this now. President Eliot of Harvard has led & movement to do it in the Eas! | Finally, it seems to me that the wise plan for us to pursue at present is to leave the mat- ter of agriculture in the common schools to county boards of education, county superin- tendents, county institutes, high school trus- tees and to the women who do most of the teaching. It has taken twenty years to make a falr beginning of manual training in the ur- ban schools and quite as long to prove the value of drawing in_elementary schools. Vocal music is still considered a fad. The kinder- garten is still antagonized by many teachers for city children under 6 years of age. The normal schools were antagonized for twenty- five years by the old line school teachers, by private schools and by most colleges and uni- versities. Let us possess our souls in patience when we consider the relation of the schools to elementary instruction in agriculture, horti- culture and truck farming and walt for new ideas to take root. One of the most entertaining papers read durihg the entire session of the in- stitute was that of Professor E. J. Wick- son, entitled “The Industrial Use of the Imagination.” Wit and wisdom were combined in attractive measure in the professor’s remarks, and not a dull mo- ment was endured by Professor Wickson's auditors while the paper was being read. It was in part as follows: WICKSON ON IMAGINATION. Those of my hearers who are old enough to be wise will recognize my subject as a graft. Thirty-five years ago John Tyndall had the task of preparing & discourse for the British Assc- clation, and, to escape distzactions, made a journey to the Swiss Alps, taking with him, as he says, “‘two volumes Of poetry,” Goethe's “Farbenlehr” and Bain's “Logic.”’ " One of his critics afterward said he failed to see the wit in calling those books two volumes of poetry. To him Mr. Tyndall simply replied: “Nor do 1" For Tyndall wae deeper than his critic thought; he was not indulging in pleasantry, he had a deeper purpose, and he even went o far as to select his books for dramatic effect, He wished to forcibly suggest that creative work in poetry and in reasoning called into ac- tion the same power of the mind, and he could then proceed to show that creative work in nat- ural sclence proceeded from the same source, He chose as his subject ““The Scientific Use of the Imagination.”” The idea was not new, but the ymes seemed to demand its enforcement, and Tyndall proceeded to meet this requirement | by recourse to the true scientific method, viz: | to fllustrate by & tew simple instances the use | that scientific men have already made of this power of the Imagination and to Indicate after- { ward some of the further uses they are likely to make of it. And this he succeeds In Joing in u way more effective with the peopls to whom he desired to appeal than any philo- | sophic argument could have been. It was particularly necessary just at that time that this should be dome. The wave of popular-interest in the achievements of natural sclence was running high. Books and maga- 2ince. were laden with discoveries, and Jecturs platforims were ablaze with demonstrations in chemistry and physics. The people were get- ting- the idea that all that they needed to do | was to equip themselves sufficiently with in- struments of glass and braes to lay bare all the secrets of the universe—they were éven prone | to think that they could “‘find out God™ Py this line of searching. It time to show them, thought Tyndall, that such hopes were vain. FARM IMPROVEMENTS, 1 have invoked this powerful work of Tyn- dall which accomplished 80 much a third of a century ago toward a better understanding of e relation of cientific research to other great aemhwl .l‘n-nklnld. because it m.i 1o our pi rong impuises toward .indus- a1 “achievements may ead some tt_.uuu that here at least we have ething quite ditferent intellectually from et- 7505 35 ecuring an entifels’ new oAt of mevh: &l in ing an rely. new of shall confiné my effort a few suggestions on the “agricultural use of the i on'” and endeavor to r them somewhat con- crete by ai & the significance of forms in animals and plants. Let us consider briefly a few of the more obvious manifestations of forme in_agricultural tices and products and ask what they t us of themseives and ourselves, what thex tsah us of ¢ g cussion? Annmmlmnlmuum 'Declares That a Compulsory Agricultural Course Is Not Advisable. a Waste of Family Fuml*} OUGHT 70 BROADEN NATURE WORK be reminded that of { to Professor Brown of the | | form. The very word agriculture implies that; not improved form in a moral sense; not ‘tin good f8rm" as approved by a soctety leader; ot n a good form'' as depicted in the ad- vertisements of popular tonics—but improved form in an asricultural sense. But an im- proved form of what? Manifestly of every- (hing on the farm except the farmer and his bank account; these {mprovements belong to the preacher and the economist. Let me Sug- gest a few striking instances of improvement. First, improved implements. Contrast fhe modern riding gangplow and the forked stick | of anclent agriculture and surviving still in benighted regions, Or compare the California {ragtion engines, pulling plows encugh to turn & 40-foot width ‘of land with the single furrow plow which lacked rational adaptation to ite work, even as late as Jefferson's time. Or | think of the flall which perhaps some of my older hearers remember swinging, lifornia combined harvester, steain propelled and riding the plains of the San Joaquin, au- tomobilo as a battleship, which its fuming | chimneys ' and castellated 'etructure cause it 0 resemble. ! CATTLE DEVELOBMENT. Second, improved animals. Compare the lordly shorthorn and other cattle bred for | beef, every useful part expanded to fullness, \and every useless part repressed. with the | swayback, cat-hammed, long-legged ‘‘hos ‘urul which Jullus Caesar hunted In Gaul. | Compare also the deep capacious dairy breeds with the wretched unprofitable scrubs which still remain to emphasize the quality of their | betters. Remember also the _thoroughbrel | racer and the draughthorse; the greyhound and | the mastiff; the game fowi and the light | Brahma—grand instances of agricultural form | @s_adapted to various powers and uses. Third, improved plants. Study the uniform- ity of California orchard trees, cabable of a maximum of product with least cost of wro- duction. Learn the economic importance of pare the grand, many times double rose with the scant but graceful eglantine. Remember the flavors, odors and colors developed in the improved fruits, the food value of grains, the durable beauty of flowers. 1f we should review the achievements of progressive agriculture in all lines it would Le easy to demonstrate the service rendered by the creative faculty in industrial affairs. . It would be clear that to reach any success in.industrial effort there must be an ideal. In no lne has this been more clearly demon- strated than in the development of the domestic animal, as has already been suggested. But even In smallest affairs the same rule holds— no man can prune a tree intelligently without an ideal of a tree of that variety in his mind. Nor can he turn a furrow nor can he hitch up a team without such a conception. Men who cannot conceive an ideal of what each act should be are our stupid men. men who never can do anything. \ MUST LOOK AHEAD. Now what is, the conclusion of the whoie matter? Educafion is the only agéncy by | which the frue can be enforced and the false cast out—not shallow, inadequate, incomplete education which misieads, because the pos- sessor thinks he has gold, but it is only silver. | Teach handicraft, teach imitative arts, but do not think that those are the end; they are but means to an end of which they are un- conscious. Humanity must see bevond the ends of its fingers, and the guaranty is that as one ]dfl!n go farther and forms conceptions of the | principles and understanding of the mate- | rlale Invol , handicraft is improved and its reward multiplied. In the present demand for a change in ped- agogic subjects, s0 as to better serve the time and the people in industrial advancement and o arouse tastes and sentiments in sympathy with rural empioyment, care should be taken They are | not to substitute information for education, It Is teaching for the good oid purposes of mental awakening and strengthening which st not be lost sight of. The new vedagogic naterinl will be better than the old in its intrinsi¢ usefulness and suggestiveness, but the art and selence of employing it in school work will be the same, in motive and purpases, that bave ruled since g0od teaching bezan. J. B. Neff, conductor of Farmers' Insti- tutes in Southern California, read a paper on “Teaching of Experience in Irriga- tion.”” Other papers were: ‘‘Some Practi- cal Aspects of Seed Testing,” Miss Allce ¥. Crane; “Cereal Improvement,” G. W, Shaw, assistant professor of agricultural technolog: “The Needs of California Viticulture,” F. T. Bioletti, assistant pro- fessor of viticulture; Against Plant Diseases,” assistant professor of plant patholog: “Farmers’ Institutes and Co-operation D. T. Fowler, conductor of Farmers’' In- stitutes. Smith, ————— DR. GLADDING TO WED. BERKELEY, Dec. 20.—Soclety was startled to-day by the announcement that Dr. Charles F. Gladding, physician at the Folsom prison, Is to be married next Monday to the widow of Harry Heywood, a member of the wealthy Heywood family, founded by Z. B. Heywood, a lumber king of the State in early days. Harry Heywood died about eight months ago, leaving a for- tune to his widow and children esti- mated at about $100,000, his share of the elder Heywood's estate. The estate had been apportioned a few weeks be- fore Harry Heywood's death. A large share of it went also to Walter Hey- wood of 203 Cedar street in Berkeley. Dr. Gladding is a prominent physi- cian, who also has had much to do with State and local politice. He has been identified with the section of the party popularly referred to as Governor Par- dee’s wing and was appointed to his present’position at Folsom by the Gov- ernor. S = The wedding next Monday will take place at Mrs. Heywood's home at 1410 Spruce street. It is stated that Dr. C, K. Jeness will perform the ceremony, It is understood that Dr. Gladding may soon resign his State position. He re- cently came into possession of valuable property in the business district of Oakland through the death of a near relative and- the management of the estate may require all of his time. - —————— WILL ‘HONOR LABOR. OAKLAND, Dec. 29.—=The commit- tees in charge of the arrangements for the convention of the State Feder- ation of Labor, which meets in this city on January 1, 1906, are satisfled that everything will be in readiness for the welcome to the visiting dele- gates by to-morrow night. The sirects through which the parade will pass have been decorated with evergreens and flags, and the work of hanging flags and bunting on the public build- ings is now in progress. An excellent means of advertlsing Oakland and Alameda County has been uadopted by the general committes of the convention, this being the use of special stationery for all of the com- mittee’s correspondence. The enve- lopes used are embellished on the back with a map showing the com- parative size of Oakland and San Francisco, and on the front is a pho- to-engraving of a bunch of chercies, with the legend, “Picked in January,” Many thousands of the envelopes hava been distributed to merchants of this city for use during the convention, ———————— FRENCH WAITER HELD UP. OAKLAND, Dec. 29.—S. Arnautou, a waiter, said to be of high-born French descent, was beaten into insensibility and robbed of $100 at 1 o'click this morning at Harrison square, Tenth and Harrison streets. ¢ The waiter, who resides at the Capi- tol Hotel, Eleventh and Franklin streets, sald three men attacked him. He believes they knew he had the money, which was a remittance from relatives in rm:ec. Arnautou did no: report the 3 to the police, ex- plaining that he did not want to worry sisters who reside In this city. He sald his family was driven out of France by Napoleon IIL } | | S S ABOUT THE BAY SWANT CIVEN [PLOT REVEALED [SEEKING LAND [ROUCH PASSACE UNQUE HONOR| BY ACCONPLICE| FOR ITS RAILS| OF TROPIC BIRD Peruvian Government Offers Dr. Max Uhle Place as Di- rector of Research Work RESIGNS AT UNIVERSITY Regents to Receive His Re- quest That Contract With the State Be Terminated e R - BERKELEY, Dec. 20.—Signal honor has been ,accorded Dr. Max Uhle of the an- thropological department of the Univer- sity of California by the Government of Peru, which has invited him to take the position of director of anthropological sur- veys for that state. Dr. Uhle {s under contract to the uni- versity to serve for five years, three of which have almost expired. He has Wfl(-I ten to the Regents asking that he be per- mitted to terminate this contract at this time, and the resignation which accom- panies the request is to be presented to the Regents at their next meeting. A story that Dr. Uhle has resigned as the result of differences with Dr. Fred- erick Putnam, head of the anthropological department of the university, is denied by the authorities. Dr. Uhle’s new post under the Peruvian Government is es- teemed as an important and honorable place, promotion to which would be cov- eted by any archaeologist. The archaeological explorations of the ! University of California in South America have been in charge of Dr. Uhle, who spent the years from 1899 to 1901, and again from the end of 1903 to the present time, in expeditions to Peru. In tQe in- terval Dr. Uhle was occupied in classify- ing and cataloguing his coliection and pre- paring his report, as well as participat- ing in the archaeological exploration of the California shell mounds. His first in- vestigations in Peru were made in the vieinity of Trujillo, especially at the ruins of Moche, where he obtained a large col- lection of the finely painted pottery char- acteristic of this regton and of other spec- imens. Subsequent explorations were made at Huamachuco, also in Northern Peru, and at several lccalities in South- ern Peru, mainly in the valieys of Chin- cha, of Ica and at Huaitar, in the valley of Pisco. In most of these excavations, as in those of Northern Peru, several distinet types of culture were established by the relative position and character of the structures and finds. These investigations have made very probable a succession of from four to six distinct periods in the various localities. They are therefore important in tracing for the first time a definite historical sequence in what has hitherto been the chronological chaos of ancient Peruvian civilization. On his second expedition Dr. Uhle vis- ited several localities on the coast of Southern Peru. Excavations were con- ducted at Ancon for the purpose of deter- mining the historical development of this ancient settlement. A large collection of pottery, textiles and other antiquities were obtained. The aiscovery of a new prehistoric site near the main necropolis resulted in the collection of specimens of an entirely new type and apparently of great age. ©On the southwest slope of thy Cerro de Trinidad the remains of another type of ancient civilization, hitherto unobserved, were discovered. On the completioh of the explorations at Chancay Investiga- tions were carried on northward along the coast, in the valleys of Huacho and of Bupe. Various sites in these places were visited, and the ruins of an exten- sive ancient town near San Nicolas were made the subject of an extended explora- tion. Dr. Uhle’s latest explorations have been in the region of Cuzco. WILL EXTEND SAN DIEGO LINE John D. Spreckels Announces Intention of Running His Road Up Coast to La Jolla R S SAN DIEGO, Dec. 29.—The San Diego Electric Raillway Company, through its president, J. D. Spreckels, an- nounced to-day that as soon as the men and materials can be secured the line will be extended to Pacific Beach and La Jolla, a distance of about four- teen miles up the coast from the cen- tral portion of the city. In an inter- view this evening Mr. Spreckels sald: ‘We heve been considering the advisabllity of extending a suburban street car service to La Jolla and have declded that conditions warrant such an investment. I am anxious the streel car system shall be kept ahead of the needs of the community, and, feeling assured that sucn an_extension can be profitably operated, we have decided to put the new line in. This will be an extension to the old town line, for which ralls are aiready ordered. Desirable rights of way have been secured and some additional sur- veys will now be made to take advantage of the best grade obfainable. The road will be largely Tun on a pAvate right of way. It will be a fast electric service, with the best and ‘most modern car equipment. Plans for the sub- urban cars are already drawn and contracts for the new cars will be let at the same time the rails are ordered. Rail orders will be placed within the next thirty days or so. We have other plans for further street rail- way development under consideration, but I am not prepared to state what these plans are at the present time. Manager Clayton of the company stated that the work on the line would be completed just as quickly as money can complete it and that orders for material will be placed immediate- 1y. The line will parallel the present motor road, which is owned and oper- ated by E. S. Babeock. B THSTS AT UNIVERSITY. BERKELEY, Dec. 29.—Important ex- periments designed to test the merits t of bullding materials are to be made ' soon by the engineering department of the university. Concrete steel, preparation Qeretofore untried, now in use on a number of buildings | in Los Angeles, will be tested, as will | Prang also the plan of using reinforced con- crete. Concrete steel construction has become an important factor in struce tural engineering work. The unaiver- sity civil engineering department will make a strength test of the various materials used in this style of con- struction, under the direction of Pro- fessor Frank Soule and Professor C. Derleth Jr. The tests to be made of California ceinents are expected to how the worth of the California ar- ticle, as compared with the imported. The results will be published as a de- partment bulletin. BOAT IS STOLEN.—Oakland, Dec. 20— from Ji erry, at the foot of Alice street, has reported e paice, "3 ey Companion of Renton Tells of Zimmerman's Plan to Make a Dash for Freedom ASKED TO BRING SAWS William Kelleher Says the Desperate Prisoner. Had Requested His Assistance OAKLAND, Dec. 29.—Through a confes- sion secured’ to-day by Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa County from William Kel- leher, one of the men who was arrested with H. D. Renton for the theft of a lot of copper wire from a warehouse at Point Richmond and who was afterward con- fined with him in the Martinez County Jail, where Renton gave a revolver to John Zimmerman, it was learned that the latter, with Renton and another prisoner, had planned a general jail delivery and the murder of Sheriff Veale and the jaller. Kelleher was approached by Renton and Zimmerman while a prisoner in Martinez and after being sworn to secrecy the plot was revealed to hign. He was told that “it was up to him” to get some saws into the jail as soon as he was released. Kel- leher told the Sheriff to-day that he feared Renton and his desperate accom- plice and was afraid to refuse to do as they wished, .80 he promised to smuggle the required tools Into the jail as soon as he was freed. After being released, however, he weak- ened, and he It was who flnally gave the information which yesterday led to the discovery of the revolver hidden in Zim- merman’'s mattress. Renton’s examination.on the charge of having carrled a weapon into the Mar- tinez County Jall has been set for ‘Wednesday, January 3, before Judge Hay- den, and his bonds have been placed at $2500 cash. ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS DIVORCE SUITS.—Oakiand, Dec. 20.—J. J. Sheehan was granted a final decree of divorce from Mabe] Sheehan to-day on the ground of cruelty. Luclle M. Lynch has begun a divorce action against John F. Lynch for desertion. WANTS HEAVY, DAMAGES.—Oakiand, Do, 20.—Mary L. de Gouvia began an action fof £40,000 damages against the Pacific Coal Com- pany to-day for the death of her husband, John M. de Gouvia, who was killed through alleged carelessness of the company. | MAY INSTALL FUNERAL PARLORS. Oakland, Dec. 20.—By a decision of Judge M vin to-day J. E. Henderson and F. W. Hart can establish_undertaking pariors on Webster street, near Fourteenth, notwithstanding resi- dents’who attempted to enjoin them. CHARGED WITH SWINDLING.—Oakland, Dec. 20.—Louis Kohler of 953 Magnolia street was arraigned to-day before Police Judge Sam- vels on @ charge of having obtained $175 from the late Mrs. Maggle Price under false pre- tenses. LICENSE ORDINANCE SIGNED.—Oakland, Dee. Ma Mott to-day signed the new license ordinance, which wil] take effact Janu- ary L and will increase the city’s revenue $50,- Q00 a year. The measure is subject to amend- ments,” several of which have been already in- troduced. VENTURA ASSOCIATES.—Oakland. Dec. 29. An crganization to be knewn as the Ventura Assoclates was incorporated here to-day with a capital stock fixed at $200,000, The directors are G. E. Brinckerhoff, R. H. Chamberlain, D, E. Collins, Cary Howard, G. §. Lackle, J. B Richardson and A. T. Stewart. LABORERS ARE INJURED.—Oakland, De 20.—James Bass and T. Pedro, empioyed as | Dorers by the Ransome Construction Compan: were serfously injured yesterday through the collision of the gravel train on which they were riding with & bank which had shifted close to the track. Both men were taken to the County Hospital. FUNERAL TO BE HELD IN OAKLAND.— Oakland, Dec. 29.—The funeral of Willlam Liddell 'a pipneer mining man of this State, who was killed last Wednesday at the Rawhide mine in Tuolumne County, of which he was su- perintendent, will be held to-morrow at 11 a. m, from a local undertaking parlor. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. DIES OF HIS WOUND.—Oakland, Dec. 29, John Plerson, the Walnut Creek merchant, ied of his self-inflicted wound at an early hour this morning, after lingering twenty-four hours with a bullet in his brain. His body was re- moved to the Morgue from the Receiving Hos- pital, where he died at ¢ o'clock this morning. An inquest will be held on the body. FALLS FROM MOVING TRAIN.—Alameda, Dec. 20.—A. H. Kriete of 8i6 Santa Clara ave. nue fell from & moving train at High-street station last cvening and narrowly escaped be- ing crushed beneath the wheels. He was dragged for some distance, and after losing his hold was shoved the length of a car before the train was stopped. Kriete was severely bruised, but no bones were broken. RECLUSE AN OAKLAND MAN.—Oakland, Dec. 20.—Attorney John W. Gwilt has received 2 letter from Attorney S. C. White of Chehalis, Wash., asking for information concerning the relatives of Harry Irwin, an aged man who is living the life of a hermit near that place. Ir- win claims to be a former resident of this aity ard believes some of his relatives are still liv- ing here. He is without friends or money. MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakland, Dec. 29. The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: James F. Bates, 25, and Edith Brown, 18, both of Oakland; Frank A. Lawton, 40, Los Angeles, and Marie Dahlback, 40, Oakland; Morris I. Hassetf, 26, Skyland, and Mabel M, Chamberlain, 28, Berke. ley; Charles E. Boot, San Francisco, and Violet Hall, 20, Alamed; FREEHOLDER NOMINATING PLAN.—Ala- meda, Dec. 29.—Resolutions favoring the nomi- nating of a candidate from each of the election precincts for the board of freeholders to be chosen to frame a new charter for the city have been adopted by the West End Alameda Improvement Association. Under the plan the nominees are to be named by the various fm- provement clubs from different portions of the munteipality. = WILL GIVE ANNUAL BALL.—Oakiand, Dec. 20.—The members of the Carmen's Soclai and Benevolent Soclety of Alameda County will give their ninth annual ball on February 13, 1906, and tickets for the affair have already | been placed cn sale. The members of the com- mittee in_chargs of the arrangements for ths ball are W. E. Watkins, G, W. Bacon, J. W. Smith, A. J. Scott, E. M. Skaine, George Bal lantyne and W. H. Heaver. . SMOKE FRIGHTENS WOMEN.—Oakland. Dec. 29.—Occupants of the Grand Hotel at ! by the burning_of waste paper in 30 3. Joyce, (wh:-blhmull of the store of James beneath the hotel. WOULD-BE FOOTPAD WORSTED.—Oak- o. 20.—James Anderson of San Fran land, e i to. Constable Tom Carroll of Fruitvale fit he was held up last m‘arr;u I:; corner of the old county road and ‘h‘u a nderson, n throw up his eaw that the footpad was un- jaw, kne SIMS' GETS INCOME. OAKLAND, Deec. 29.—Mrs. Alice E. Sims of Berkeley, widow of the Fletcher Sims, was granted letters of aaministration on his estate by Judge T. W. Harris to-day and also an in- come >f $350 a month for the support of herself and children. There was no objection made on the part of Mvs, Blanche Williams of Alameda, who set up a glaim to be his widow. The thrm&-«l contest over the estate has been abandoned. The estate, it is be- lieved, 1S worth about $100.000. D —— e — A three days' festival s to be held in buried, and near which is the asylum where he ended his daya I sent out. | DIRECTORS’ MINUTES the scone. | late ! D. Spreckels, is sought by ! Kayser, the general auditer of the com- Bay Counties Railroad Com- pany Files Condemnation Suits in City of San Rafael DEEDS PLACED ON FILE Corporation Will Run Line Through Marin and Sono- ma to the Town of Napa Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFARL, Dec. 20.—The Bay Coun- ties Railroad Company, recently ineorpor- ated to run a line from San Franeisco through this county and Sonoma te Napa, a distance of forty-five miles, to-day filed deeds and a number of sults to condemn | tide water and other lands. Condemna- tion of all the tide water lots in Richard- son's Bay, between Strawberry Point on | the west and the western end of Belve- dere on the east, is asked for on the ground that they are needed for terminal purposes and yards. The company also asks for a strip 100 feet wide running back to the Corte Madera marsh. Five actions for condemnation were filed in the Clerk’'s office and a notice of each action was filed in the Recorder’s office. Several conveyances to E. M. Wilson and R. M. Hotaiing’ and reconveyances by Wilson and Hotaling to the Bay Counties Railroad Company were placed on file in : the Recorder’s office by A. R. Baldwin to-day. The company's surveyors have been on the groundgfor several days and are work- ing under the directions of G. §. Dillman, who was the chief engineer of the West- ern Pacific Rallroad. They have moved their camp to the easterly end of this city and will probably begin where they left off on Corte Madera marsh. There are over fifty defendants named in the condemnation, the. principal ones being B. F. Lyford and the Valentine, Reeds, Crooks, Coleman, Forbes and Deffebach estate: —_——— - OLD SAN FRANCISCAN HURT. SAN RAFAEL, Dec, 20—-Giuseppl Nocia, an old San Franciscan, was struck by | the electric shoe of the North Shore! train this afternoon and his thigh was badly fractured. He was taken to the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Canes- =a, in Picnic Valley. WORE FUITS FOR THE STATE Dates, Pineapples and Hardy Oranges Developed by the Government Plant Bureau ———— WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The activ- ity of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agricuiture in its efforts to improve agricultural condi- tions throughout the United States is set forth in the annual repert of the director of the bureau, B. T. Galloway. Co-operative work with the agri- cultural experiment stations of the several States and Territories has been extended. School garden work has been assisted in many ways and 175,000 packets of seeds have been supplied to schools. The work on cotton has in- cluded the conducting of experiments to secure early and weavil-resisting types. Single-germ beet sugar seed will sgon be produced in quantities suf- ficient for fleld demonstrations, New varieties of hardy oranges, new pine- appies and new races of corn and cote ton have been developed in the labora- tory of plant breeding. Valuable strains of tobacco have been obtained by hy- bridization. It has been shown that heavy seed produces better plants thag light seed. 1 The growing of winter wheat has ‘been extended in the southern portions of North Dakota and Minnesota, and new cereals adopted to the Seuthern States have been developed. A new date garden has been established at Yuma, A. T. especially for the culti- vation of varietles from the Persian Gulf. The planting of grasses as sand binders has produced important resuits. At the seed laboratory %364 germination tests and 1415 tests for mechanical purity have been made. Of 1220 samples of seeds obtained in the open market, 230 were found to be elther adulterated or mis- branded. The foreign explorations have resulted in the securing of many valuable varie- ties of dates for the Government date gardens in Arizona and California and also many important dry land fodder plants, The results achieved In combating dis- eases of orchard fruits have been espe- cially gratifying. Remedles for the dis- ease of orange trees known as “die back” have been discovered, and the pro- portion affected in a region. where ten vears ago 50 per cent of the trees were has been reduced to less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. Disease-resistant l"l:: are being developed and propa- gat \ In the Congressional seed distribution nearly 36,000,000 packets and of Seeds and more than 230,000 grape vines, strawberry plants and bulbs have been | was flooded. forcing them Barkentine, Fourteen Days « From the Columbia River, Seeks Shelter at San Pedro LOSES PART OF LOAD For Seventy-Two Hours the Vessel Is at Mercy of High Wind and Heavy Seas PN SAN PEDRO, Dec. 29.—With 100,000 feet of her deckload of lumber gone and badly battered and torn from a strenuous thres days” conflict with terrific storm, the barkentine Tropic Bird, Captain Wick- { man, out fourteen days from the Col bia River, crept behind the shelter of outer breakwater late to-night. The Tropic Bird left the northern port on December 14. and for three days her voyage was fine and uneventful. On De- cember 17 she ran into a severe south by southwest gale. the storm breaking upon the vessel with sudden fury, stand- ing the barkentine on her beam ends and setting the decks awash. For three days the crew and captain battled to save the ship, and to add to their worry and hard- ship, for sixty hcurs the cooks’ galiey to fight the fury of the storm without food. On December 19 the storm was flercest, the winds and waves severely battering the windjammer, forcing the sailers to take refuge in the cgptain’s cabin. Finally the huge chains which secured her deck- load were swept inta the sea. With the loss of the deckload and the abatement of the wind, the vessel righted herself. The lumber lost is valued at about $2000. St Bvewt i DELAY IS FATAL, Fallure te Provide Light Is Cause of Wreek of Bark. VICTORIA, B. Pec. ~But for delay in its manufacture a light would have been established on Amphitrite Point, where the bark Pass of Mei- fort was lost on Tuesday night. The Board of Trade this afternoon tele- graphed a resolution to Ottawa ask- ing tbat a telegraph line be conmected to the whaling station at Seachart in Barclay Sound, about twelve miles 1.! tant from where the Pass of Melk! was lost, and that arrangements be made with the Pacific Whaling Com- pany to use their steam whaler Ovion in lifesaving work. ipboyiptabeg VESSEL IN BREAKERS. Freach Bark, Coal Laden, Is in Dan- Ferous Position. ASTORIA, Dec. 2 A vessel sup- posed to be the French bark Jean Baptiste, coal laden, from Newcastle, N. 8. W, is in the breakers, north seas, with both anchors down. The bar tugs Tatoosh and Wallula are standing by and although she Is in a dangerous position it is thought with their ald the bark will pull on the early morning tide if no v lent changes in weather conditions are made. — SCHOONER ON ROCKS. PORTLAND, Dec. A special to the Oregonfan from Bandon, , States that the three-masted schooner Advance is on ‘the rocks at the north side of the mouth of the Coquille River and that she will probably go to pieces. The crew has not Dbeen rescued and 1= in great danger of being lost. The Advance is owned by (. F. Dee & Co. of San Francisco. R — CAMILL, The CalP’s Great Artist, Has a Full-Page Drawles I IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. A R WOMAN THE CAUSE b4 OF DEADLY DUEL Her Fondness for Another Man Than Husband Pro- vokes Shooting Affray. BISBEE, Dec. —George and E M. McClean were fatu wounded in a revolver duel whiech t place in the Wolverine Boarding-house at Lowell last night. MeClean caugut Haigler In the company of his (Mu- Clean’s) wife and fired six shots through a window at Haigler, wio drew a revolver and returned the fir McClean was shot through the £ and Haigler through the abdomen. MecClean thought his wife and Halgier were too friendly and laid a trip. Ho left home under pretense of going ‘o Douglas, and returning shortl pecked Into a bedroom window, saw them together and opened fire. Both men will dle. e ——— Death of William Brewer. SAN MATEO, Dec. 29.—Willlam A. P Brewer, one of the wealthiest residents of this section, dled yesterday at bis home at El Cerrito Park. SUUTTS MuvLs LSION MOTHER - R AND CHILD. Let the mother take Scott’s Emulsion for the two; it never fails to benefit them both. One EXAMINED IN COURT | €an eat for two, but nour- Suit Against Water Com- pany in San Diego on Trial. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 29.—The second day of the ‘suit of E. S. Babecock against the Southern California Mountain Water Company and J. D. Spreckels, Ly which the control of the company, which now rests in the defendant, J. Babeock, was devoted almost eptirely to the ex- amination of the minutes of the board of directors of the company and to the issued certificates of the stoek. A. H. pany, was on the stand all day. The t of the suits California Mountain Water Company i about $4000 due for rent dw: beock and his som, A. | ishing two is a different thing. It calls for a de- gree of internal strength that the average woman lacks. People of luxury are not very strong by habit; overworked people are weak in some func- ltbeirm from exhaustion or surroundings. Scott s | Emulsion ms. depend- . €d upon to overcome such conditions. It isaw derful food for a motfer and child. SCOTT 2 BOWNE, 4og Pruct St M