The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1906. SENATORS PSS PURE | I:U[][] B”_L ; recommended by the Presdenc. | 'Congress Is Hostile Toward the Navy Department. Bureau Chiefs Dis- pute Cause of Feeling. Only Four Votes Against the Measure. Upper House Acts After| Fifteen Years’ De- | liberation. |Last Year’s Appro- Proposed Law Makes Adulter-| L . : ‘ 1 ation of Foods and Drugs Pt e Remains Untouched. » a Misdemeanor. : [ WASHINGTON, Fet Special Dispatch to The Call, teen years of more or WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Because of the decided feeling of hostility that exists in Congress just now toward the navy—or, rather, toward the Navy De- partment—it is practically certain that nothing will be done this year in the way of authorizing new warships. One additional battleship wouyld have been e. Several ef- 1d the bill and er of o nm\\tt-:;r:d provided for, fu all probability, thus The BINI as paseed | following out the recommendation of the President, but for the extraordinary quarrel that has been going on among the bureau chiefs of the department for nearly a year over the two battleships authorized last March. Twelve mont lacking about three weeks, have passed since the navy bill ear became a law and all that i been consumed by bureau in drafting plants for the ves- and destroying them. The first step toward calling for bids from build- ers has not yet been take: Chief Constructor Capps a misdemeanor to or has o f corpora- are made re- formed the bl naval committee recently that “tenta- 5‘ 2% tive plans” were still being prepared and Com- | .nd that he belleved that by July 1, 1906, the department would be ready to ithorize the beginning of construc- tion. Differences of opinion among the € | navy ch regarding the amount of * | space and weight to be allotted to each vessel for boilers, engines, coal bunkers and other features are responsible for are to adopt plans. efs “It will be useless for the naval com- | mittee to ask the House to appropriate money for another battleship, with ab- utely nothing done toward buildin, <+ | CHIBF NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR, WHO ANNOUNCES THAT PLANS FOR NEW BATTLESHIPS AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS A YEAR AGO WILL NOT BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE FIRST OF JULY. drugs, medi- HOCH’S LAST CHANCE FOR LIFE IS GONE e two vessels authorized last March ald a member of this committee to- in talking about the features of the | coming naval appropriation meas- We are trylng to keep the facts these two vessels quiet, so that | we will not be embarrassed on the floor by being called upon to defend the in- action of the department. “There 18 a very general feeling in | the committec that one more battleship ought to be authorized this year; but | whether the committee will provide for.| another vessel is a question. It would certainly do so but for the fizzle of the | two ships of this class authorized a | . : IR : | vear ago, and we will have a hard time | Governor of Illinois Denies| i xing tne House believe that another | te Pttt TR vessel ought to be appropriated for His Petition for a while the bureau chiefs are still en- ati gaged In a controversy about the main Commutation. featyres of the ships ordered last Feb. 21. — Goy- | March. ipon the Board of Pa Hoc P his recom ~ | YEAR'S TIME SAVED ‘ ce IN COLLEGE COURSE | University Limits Ath- | letics and Simplifies Ex- sentence Hoch | Clar] 14 be Johann he wo amination System. | WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 21.—After to | & trial of four years President Carroll D. Wright and the authorities of Clark ne College are satisfied that they have vernor Deneen. | Solved the problem of a three-year | coll course for the A. B. degree, If I had been before the Czar | © by saving to the students the e been acquit- |t sometimes spent in preparing for | intercollegiate athletic contests and also the time taken at some institutions | in preparing for examinations. The firat step toward such an adjust- ment was the adoption of the group sys- tem of studies, under which the regular subjects and the electives were proper- 1y balanced. These groups comprehend instruction in all those branches legit- | imately belonging to the college course. The amount of work to be done is near- | ly the same as in four-year colleges. | For instance, while Harvard calls for | fifty-one hours to a course in four years, | Clark calls for fifty hours In three —_——————— BRAKEMAN KILLED IN WRECK THOUGHT WORK OF FIENDS Cars Derafled on New York Central by Fishplates Placed Between Rails. NEW YORK, Feb. Troy, a brake: S n the wreck of a freight train Island last night under cir- circumsta: which Coroner Baxter of Watervieit and the railroad men cate a deliberate attempt at or some other train m Court- as nt- ney of to he large amount of time @xpended through freight of New York | quring g four years' course in Inter- | cars was backing, when two|.;jjcge athletics,” said President | : 7 Jumped the track and | yrignt “was eliminated at Clark Col- | rolled down an embankment, Courtney | og, Neverthcless the students have | | crushed under a car. The Coroner men found a number of the ties between a way as to surely that passed. The Cor- nvestigate abundant means for amusements in in- dulgence in games of all kinds, but un- der proper regulations. “Through prohibition of intercollegiate | contests, adjustment of examinations, thus avoiding suspending the regular et R exercises of the college, and by the CHICAGO WOMAN HELD UP elimination of waste methods, Clark HALF A BLOCK FROM HOME (ollege is able to give the students as much real Instruction as is given by four-year colleges to its candidates for & bachelor's degree.” Iroad Choked Until Nearly Unconscious Forced to Give Up Purse a » Pp——" { ———— CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—Half a block | qvoor yINDS CHAMPION from her house, at twilight last nighl,i IN WARREN OF oMING Mrs. Josephine T. Lewis, well known | jn Buema Park and & member of = Va-|wyesters Statesman Indorses the Re- | rious woman's clubs, was robbed by a | marks Made by Perkins of | bhold-up man. She was choked until | California. 1 nearly uncopscious and then Was com-| wASHINGTON. Feb., 21— Senator pelled to draw from her fingers her tWo | g.00¢ received another indorsement in dlamond rings valued at $250. Her | It came from War- . . | the Senate today. purse was also taken. | ren, who presented a voluminous peti- So frequent have become the attacks v P | tion from women in Wyoming, praying on women that residents of Buena |, .. (p. expulsion of Smoot. Warren Park recently Inaugurated a private | ,;q that he had been requested to ac- police service. The city police in that company the presentation of the peti- | region are so few in number 2s to be | ;" ith some remarks of his own. powerless. . He added: pathl iU G The subject of the petition is before the Flay Fighting Hads i Teagety. proper committee and I hope to be guided hy ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 21.—August | hecPreport. of the commitice, when mans o Berkit, 12 years of age, was shot and |] should express my opinion’before the report killed today by his uncle, Willlam is made I shouid be Inclined to indoree what Berndt, 18 years of age, at the boy's |Va% Ssid upon the subiecs @ few days aince home in Irondequoit. The unclé had by the Senator from California. been reading “vellow” novels and was Warren referred to the speech of illustrating, according to his own ad- | Senator Perkins, which was favorable mission, “how heroes fight” He for- | to the city jall she again went to bed to Smoot. e got the revolver was loaded. He has been placed under arrest on a charge of maneleughter. —_———————— “Bring Them Out to California.” Bring out your folks and friends to fornis while rates are low. The Santa Fe jegrapk ticket and see that they get tention. Conductor will look afier ihe way 2o Californie. - Near Gallows for Another’s Crime. TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 21.—Governor Stokes today granted a reprieve of thir- ty days to Rufus Johnson, a negro sen- tenced to be hanged for the murder of Miss Fiorence Allinson at Burlington. George Small has confessed that it was he and not Johnson who killed the ‘woman. JKTO, Feb. 21.—Prince Arthur of -mt today invested Admiral 'l:fo d Field an Marihals Yemagata and Oyama with the orde of merit. Fleld order 1S NOW WILLING 10 RETURN HERE Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Feb. 21.—The discovery Sunday morning of a complete counter- feiting outfit in the room occupied by Mrs. Bertha E. Gordon at the Portland Hotel and in the storeroom of the ho- tel have convinced the police and United States secret service agents that the woman is a far more danger- ous person that they supposed when she was arrested as a fugitive from San Francisco. Mrs. Gordon is kept under close surveillance at the city jail, and at the request of Special Agent Neuhausen of the Treasury De- partment nobody is allowed to see her except the officers working on the case. The plant in part was discovered by the janitor at the hotel. In the base- ment storeroom he located a small stove of the kind used by counterfeit- ters And a quantity of speclally pre- pargd coal. Further search of the wo- man’'s room disclosed a large pasteboard bbx: containing molds, dies, a crucible, plaster of paris and other implements and materials used by makers of bogus money. Mrs. Gordon appeared in the municl- pal court this morning for a rearraign- ment as a fugitive from justice. She expressed a desire to return to San Francisco and face the charge agalnst her there. Mrs. Gordon decided yester- day that she would leave hér bed and appear In court. When located by de- tectives at the Portland hotel she avolded arrest for several hours by going to bed. When finally removed and refused for two days to arise. She did not want to appear in court, she sald. Mrs. Gordon still insists that she was married to E. 8. Gordon, a wealthy timber man of Coos County. She also denies that she was a participant in the alleged wedding of Bertha Lerch and E. 8. Gordon in Vancouver, Wash., October 21. —_—— SANTA ROSA DEMOCRATS PREPARING FOR CAMPAIGN Issue a Call for a Meeting at Which Delegates to the City Convention Wil Be Selected, SANTA ROSA, Feb. 21.—The Santa Rosa Democratic city central commit- tee has called 2 mass meeting for Mon- day evening for the purpose of select- ing delegates to the Democratic City Convention, which will meet Friday evening, March 2. The committee also decided that there should be fifteen delegates from each of the six wards in the city at the convention. For the first time in the history of Sonoma County ballot machines will be used at the coming election. The machines have been offered the city free of ex- pense, for the purpose of showing the public the advantages over the ola methods. —_——— Hotel Litigation Is Compromised. SANTA ROSA, Feb. 21.—The Iitiga- tion of the Bane Estate éorln;l::y against George W. Wilson Jr., former manager and lessee, has been com- promised and the hotel again taken r.vker b{ the l:lsnem The action wul en at a meeting of the cry p editors helfl! —_———— Runaway Boys Are Captured. I CASTROVILLE, Feb. 21.—Four run- away boys from San Francisco, Joseph Murray of 42A Gllbert street, Thomas Cole of 239 Fifth street, Frank. Malley of 164 Clara street and Charles Maher of 5 Enterprise street, were a.rre-tod! here to-day and turned over to Sheriff P Balinas. —_—— If your business is growing you must 1 wonder how you could have been con- tent with the stinted advertising space of a year ago—and a year hence you ’wlll wonder at to-day's modest show- | of St John's Episcopal Church by Rey. XS WIES FOR LGHTING LGS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—The Los Angeles City Counell, acting under the new public service law, today began the work of regulating the charges for service to the public by the several cor- porations of the city operating public utilities. 'The maximum rate for gas to be charged in the city was fixed at 85 cents per thousand cubic feet. Eleven cents per kilo-watt for electric light and 10 cents per kilo-watt for electric power ‘was fixed as the maximum charge for that service. All of these rates are practically the same as those now being charged by the corporations operating these fran- chises and there will probably be no contest in the matter. One gas com- pany asked to have the rate fixed at $1, but this request was denied. In the matter of regulating the charges of the two telepnone compa- nies doing business in the city, a com- mittee was appointed to consider the suhject and report at a special meeting next turday. The two telephone companies maintain different schedules of prices and it js expected that oppo- sitfon will be encountred in the fixing of their rates. All fixed rates will take effcct July 1. Recently all of the cor- porations operating public franchises were required to furnish the city state- ments of their valuations, ecapitaliza- tions, assets, llabilities, earnings, etc., and it was upon these figures that the Council today based the maximum charge for service. TRIAL OF FRENCH IS AGAIN DELAYED Another Postponement Nec- essary Owing to Illness of a Juror. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 21.—Another postponement in the trial of former State Senator Frank French, charged with bribery, was necessitated this morning by the illness of J. B. Allen of Oak Park, one of the jurors. * Judgo Hart ordered a continuance until Fri- day morning, when Charles T. Jones, special counsel for the prosecution, will make the opening argument. e s U LOS ANGELES POLICEMEN CAPTURE ALLEGED THIEVES Arrest Three Men Who Are of Having Broken lnlo!'l-m Cigar Store. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Three al- leged burglars were captured this moraing by patrolmen, who chased them several blocks and used their re- volvers in an attempt to stop them. Al- though two of the men succeeded in making their escape through a South Main-streot alleyway, they were lo- cated at their lodging place later and taken into custody. The men gave thelr names as Fred Walter: Edward Thempson ard Thomas Tanner. They carried a bundle containing 560 cigars, which Walters admitted were stole from the cigar store of C. J. Spait, at Seventh and Main streets. —_—e—— Dr. Murray Will Fight the Case. SANTA ROSA, Feb. 21.—Dr. George B. Murray, who was arrested last week on a charge of practicing dentistry without first having passed the re- quired State examination and secured a certificate from the State Board op Examiners, will fight the case. He has retained . counsel and while awaiting trial will continue to practice. ————— ‘Weds a Government . PETALUMA, Feb. 21.—Miss Rose Mul- ler of this city and A. J. Flickinger of Vallejo were married at the parsonage John Partridge. The groom is an em- ploye of the Government at Vallejo, where the couple will reside, i N THE DARK| BY LANDSLIOE ACCL Stockton Officials Unable to Find Any Clew in the Barnett Poisoning Case WILL QUESTION WIDOW District Attorney Intends to Subject the Woman to Severe Cross-Examination Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Feb. 21.—The mystery sur- rounding the sensational poisoning of the Barnett family has not yet been solved. Mrs. James Barnett, the widow, left this morning for. Black Diamond with her three-months-old babe to make her home with her younger brother, Elmer Ramsey. This afternoon Assistant District Attor- ney George F. McNoble sent a deputy sheriff to Black Diamond to bring her back in order that he might interrogate her concerning the mysterious deaths. By the strange death of her husband Mrs. Barnett and her baby were left with- out support. Her brother, Preston Ram- sey of the Mare Island Navy Yard, came to her assistance and settled all the bills incldent to the deaths and funerals of James H. Barnett and his little son and | daughter. Mrs. Barnett remained over in | this city in order to testify at the Cor- oner's inquest, and this morning left for her brother’s home. “I can tell In very short order whether Mrs. Barnett has any guilt in connection with this matter,” said Assistant District Attorney McNoble this afternoon. “‘She has Diamond, and 1 am going | SULE Lo B)AGk e | The first engine was thrown down the | to send a deputy sheriff after her and bring her back. We will bring her here in the office and question her thoroughly for four or five hours. In other words, we'll ‘sweat her.’ If she is guilty in any way you may be sure we will find it out There’s no criminal living who can under- g0 @ severe cros five hours without letting the guilt crop out somewhere. We'll go into the famuy life of the Barnetts and see if we can un- cover any motive for the crime.” - As a matter of fact, no progress has been made in the solution of the mystery further than establishing that mercury poison produced the death of the fathar and his two children. Mrs. Harely, the neighbor who assisted the family when Barnett was stricken, is talkative. She was taken sick while at the house and thinks she was poisoned. She is quoted as saying: “I am certain that 1 was polsoned; they can’t fool me about that. After I learn something in regard to a few questions I heard asked by a certain party I will be able to say more. Until then I do not want to say anything. This I am certain of, however—I was poisoncd. 1 am also quite certain that I obtained the poison by drinking some coffee at the Barmert place. “During the next day they did not want me to attend Mr. Barnett, who was se- riously {ll. The second evening I attended him while his sister ate supper. [ then ate supper and drank half a cup of coffee. This was about 6 o'clock. At 11 o'clock I was taken ill, and have not recovered vet. I know I was polsoned when I had supper there the last time.” Mrs. Barnett is a small, quiet woman of average intelligence. She is about 2% years of age, undemonstrative and apparently frank DEPUTY PREVENTS A BOLD JAIL BREAK Discovers Two Prisoners in the Act of Trying to -ale Wall. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Feb. 21.—An attempted jail break, planned by A. G. Salter and J. M. Thompson, prisoners in the Coun- ty Jail, was thwarted this evening by Deputy Sheriff Fred Shore, who di covered Thompson in the act of scalirg the wall of the jail yard. Thompson was making use of a rape made from strips of blanket which had been lowered from Salter's cell and fastened to the bars of the windows. The blanket rope made it easy for the prisoners in the jall yard to clam- ber to liberty, and it is probable that more than one man who is now serv- ing time would have attempted ihe break had the plan not been discov- ered. Thompson and Salter are cellma-es, and the two planned the attempt while locked up together. During the day Thompson was allowed the privileges of the jail yard and it was then that the plan was outlined. Thompson is serving a sentence of six months for passing a fictitious check, and Salter, who is a San Francisco tailor, is awalting trial on a charge of perjury. —_—————— RETURNS AN OPEN VERDICT [ IN THE CASE OF WILCOX Coroner’s Jury Is Unable to Determine in What Manner to Hix LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—A Coroner's jury to-day returned an open verdict in the casc of Jesse M. Wilcox, a motor- man who was found dying in his room at midnight Monday from a revolver wound through the body, under un- usual circumstances. The verdict reads: “The jury finds that Jesse M. Wilcox came to his death by a gunshot wound in the heart, by whom inflicted and whether with murderous or suicidal in- tent to the jury unknown."” 5 It is not believed the District Attor- ney will take any cognizance of the case, as there was no evidence that would show the case to be other than Sold in Pints and Quarts only CELESTIN - xamination for four or | NO NEW BATTLESHIPS (STILL WORKING |TWO KILLED WILL BE AUTHORIZED Because the bureau chiefs of the Navy Department cannot agree upon plans for the construction of the two battleships authorized by Congress last year, the House naval” committee will refuse to report any bill carrying an appropriation for a new warship, as Accident Near Delta Is Said to Have Been Caused by Water From a Large Ditch BRAVE MAN PERISHES Engineer of Train Is Buried by Tons of Earth While Trying to Save Another Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2L—Traffic was blocked ail day.on the Shasta division of the Scu.aern Pacific Company, due to the wreck caused by two landslides last night, in which Engineer Lennis Freel and a man named James T. Keiser wers killed, and Engineer C. E. Wickes and others se- verely but not dangerously injured. The landsiides occurred three-quarters of a | mile above Deita an.. the scene today was one of great havoe. It has developed that the efforts of the train crew to rescue Kelser, who was stealing a ride on .ne train, led to the | death of Engineer Freel. Keiser was | caught by the first landslide that struck | the train, and was unable to extricate | himself from the platform where he had secreted himself. Sceing his predicament the trainmen went to his assistance and while they were so engaged the second | landslide burfed both the engineer and the man he tried to rescue. Kelser hore on his person a card show- | iIng membership in the Typographical Union No, 193 of Spokane, Wash. His body and that of the engineer were re- moved to Dunsmuir. | embankment by the force of the land- | slide and dropped almost to the river be- {low. The second engine and several of the cars were derailed, but no passengers | In the coaches were injured. Besides En- gineer Wickes, Firemen James Peters agd | Richard Miller were injured, but not se- riously. Freel was in a wreck at Gervin four years ago, when his fireman was killed. He was In charge of the Roosevelt special when the President visited the coast, He DYING WONAN SES SPOUSE Fresno Wife Declares That Husband Shot. Her Because She Sued Him for Divorce HE PLEADS INNOCENCE Police Search Dwelling and Find Revolver With Four of the Chambers Emptied Special Dispatch to The Cail | FRESNO, Feb. 21.—John D. Leady shot and fatally wounded his wife, Lydia A. Leady, this evening on a crowded street. Four shots were fired, | one of which took effect. | Mrs. Lemgly was hurried to a hespital, | where she declared that her husband | 4id the shooting. Her condition is very critical. She says that as she was walk- ing along K street she met her husband. | They stopped and had a few moments’ | conversation. They then separated, and | a moment later he swung around and shot her. The cause of Leady's act is supposed | to de anger at a suit for divorce which |she has recently instituted against him. She alleges gross crueity and abuse and constant intoxication. Leady, in his answer filed a tew days ago, de- | nied her allegations and asked for the | custody of their child. |. As soon as they received Mrs. Leady's statement the police placed Leady un- der arrest. He was in an Intoxicated conditign, but when taken to jafl per- sistently denled that he had fired the | shots. When searched he had ne weapon, but later a revolver with four chambers empty was found at his | house. | The affair created a great sensation | about the city, and loud indignation | was expressed. Sugsestions. of lynch- | Ing spread ltke wildfire, but found lttle tavor. —_— | More Quakes In Wewnt Indies. ST. THOMAS, D. W. L, Feb. 21.—An- | other very severe earthquake shock was felt at noon today on the British married a Miss Scott, niece of Father | West Indian Island of St. Lucia. Slight Quinn of the Sacramento Cathedral. | shocks have been felt here at fre- Wrecking crews from Dunsmuir, Red | quent intervals since February 16. Bluff and Sacramento have been at work | at the scene of the slides all day and | expect to have the track cleared by mid- night. It is sald the earth was set in motion by becoming saturated by water from an irrigation ditch on the crest of the hill. WEBER WAY (f7 | Out Today verybodys ADVERTISEMENTS. A HEW TR It is possible that Adolph Weber will be granted a new trial. His fate yester- day passed Into the hands of the Supreme iCOun of California. Through his attor- neys, Grove L. Johnson and F. P. Tuttle, the Auburn youth who was convicted and senteniced to death for the murder of his father, mother, sister and brother in No- vember, 1904, plead for a new trial. In- sufficlency of the people’s evidence, er- rors by the trial court and new evidence for the defense were the grounds relfed agazine The Insurance Investigation How much has been ae- co nplished in safe-guarding policy holders from still more upon by the appellant for gnother chance to plead his innocence before a jury. At the end of the argument U. 8. Webb, Attorney General of the State, showed cause why the new trial should not be granted and advised that the sentence against Weber be carried out. Attorney Grove L. Johnson appeared in court for the first time since his recent illness, and although he was still weak- ened from its effects, he spoke with clear- ness and vigor. He argued that the evi- dence, purely circumstantial, was far from sufficlent to prove that Weber com- mitted the crime. “He intimated that it was the force of public sentiment in the little mountain town that brought about the conviction. He openly declared that Attorney General Webb, who conducted the trial, had asked many questions which were vicious and tended to pre- Jjudice the jury. He assigned numerous errors to the court in its rulings and instructions. Counsel relies for a new trial, how- ever, mainly on new evidence. In the trial one Henry Carr, a San Francisco pawnbroker, testified that the blood- ! stained revolver found in the Weber barn a short time after the murder was the one he had sold to Adolph Weber. He | further swore that this was a peculiar type of revolver and the only one that he had ever had. Through his attorneys | yesterday Weber introduced the affidavit | of Edward Harrington, who swore that he bought a revolver of the same de- scription of Carr, and of J. C. Applegate, who swore that he was with Harrington' when the latter made the purchase. The affidavit of N. C. Beard was also intro- duced. Beard swears that he possessed the identical revolver found in the barn at the time when Carr testifies that he sold it to Weber. Afdavits of three physiclans were also introduced to show now the burns on the dead bodies were produced. Attorney General Webb contended that he had done nothing to prejudice the jury and argued that the affidavits were in- sufficient for the granting of a new trial. e ey MAYOR OF LONG BEACH IS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Stands Accused of Having Accepted a Bribe In His Capacity as a City Trustee. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Mayor R. Eno of Long Beach was held for trial the Superior Court today on a charge of having asked for and accepted a bribe in his capacity as a member of the Board of Trustees of the city of Long Beach. He was ordered to give a new bond for $5000, and Willlam M. Varney and Willlam Nelson, property owners of Long Beach, qualified on it. — e MONTEREY HOPES TO SECURE ENCAMPMENT OF GUARDSMEN Invitation Is Sent to the State Militia to Visit City During the Coming Summer. MONTEREY, Feb. 21.—The National Guard of California is to be iInvited to hold its annual encampment here this spmmer. The City Trustees last night ordered an invitation sent to the com- manding officer. Monterey will make provision for the entertainment of .the citizen roldfers if they will come here. Owing to the fact that an army post is plunder and corruption. In Everybody's for March, Lawson says “While MecCall, McCurdy and Alexander have been de- posed, the other organizations- and their -methods remain These men have gone down before the storm as carcasses thrown to the wolves to dis- tract attention from the real culprits. What is worse: alil check has been removed from the giant grafters of tHe ‘Sys- tem’ who have tightened their hold on policy holders’ mil- lions more surely than ever before, and are supreme in their power.” The remedy for this—see Lawson’s “Black Flag on the Big Three” in Everybody's for March. ! Verybodys agazine 15 cents & copy £1.50 a vear 60 i - Records 3O ‘We are selling 10-inch Zonophone records (positively the best made) for 50c each. No other store sells any 10-inch T less than 60c. tor and Columbia records records Also at the lowest Eastern prices—3se up. 20.000 records constantly on hand. here it is belleved that the Invitation will be accepted e O — Switchman Is Accidentally Killed. BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 31.—Herbert McIntosh, a switchman for the South- ern Pacific, was killed in the yards at Kern by being run over by freight cars which were being switched. Meln- tosh’'s foot was caught in a frog while he was walking on the track and he ‘was unable to release it in time to save himself. His family resides in Pasa-