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SONOMANS ASK
SUPERVISORS TO
IMPROVE SYSTEM
Conditions at County Hospital
and Farm Said to Need
Correction
Physicians Offer Sen ices Free
in Attempt to Place Things
on Sound Basis
il Di.'patch to The Call]
SANTA ROSA. Dec. IT.—A vigorous
attack"has been opened upon the sys
tem under which the Sonoma county
hospital and poorfarm Is conducted.
Physicians, merchants and tax payer?,
•who have been investigating, have be
gun a movement to correct the present
practices*, and at the next meeting of
' the board of supervisors a petition will
be presented, asking that official steps
be taken to remedy conditions. •
- While no specific accusation has been
made, the entire management .of the
institution, the board of supervisors
and certain political favorites lie in
the path of the storm of .protest.. Un
less some action is taken by the su
pervisors to institute reform measures,
those who are leading the fight may
cause the introduction of the personal
element into the case. .Nothing* of a
, criminal nature has yet I been hinted,
frioss negligence on the part of re-
'onsible officials being the extent of
the charges already made. ■■'-..'. .: ."-*.-■
DOCTORS OFFER TO TAKE CHARGE
Backed by many members of their
profession and having the Indorse
ment of a number of property owners,
Drs. J. W. Clint. Jackson Temple and
F. O. Pryor, have offered to take over
the management of the Institution
•without compensation and put an end
to the extravagance that they say has
been practiced for several years. The
personal integrity, professional ability
or business sense of Dr. S. S. Bogle,
the county physician, is not assailed
in any of the statements issued, but
the system, with its rules and regula
tions, and its unusual, standards, is
the object of disapproval. V J."
The three doctors offer to give the
•proper surgical and medical treatment
to the inmates of the hospital and poor
house without compensation for one
year, acting as a board of managers.
If this scheme is impracticable, any
one of the trio will act as manager,
with the privilege .of calling on , the
other two for assistance in the work
that is to be done. They claim that
this would result in the saving of a
large sum. Economy and increase in
the efficiency of the service are prom
ised. The proposition has been taken
under advisement by the supervisors.
GRANGE INDORSES stand
The stand taken by the three doctors
was Indorsed by the Pomona grange.
Patrons of Husbandry, at a meeting
held in Petaluma Saturday. As the ap
pointment of a county physician and
the attaches of the county hospital Is a
matter for consideration before the
•board at tlie first of the year, the
urges the supervisors to pro-
A • Pd cautiously and thoughtfully.
™ Dr. R. M. Bonar, president of the So
noma County Medical society, also
the new plan of management.
• ■ attendance of an interne also la
! by Doctor Bonar.
Doctor Clir.e paid today:
management of th* county
- ital ha.- for a long time been
■ iiaracterized by extravagance, and
it gradually prows wors^. In 1910
; -»■ of oaring for the indi
gents was over $3,000 greater than
■. and the number of in
mates was less. But that is not
all. Interested parties are trying
persuade the board of super
visors to expend a vast sum of
y for a new hospital building.
If money that has been squan
d r.a.d been diverted Into bet
terments we could get along for
many years without a new build
-
lo not think the board is fully
;zant of what is going on out
c, and I am rare the tax pay
ers are not, or there would be a
complaint that could not be
iced. T want th«» indijerents of
ity farm to have every need
plied, but am in favor of stop
\ this waste of the public funds.
re is no objection to taxes
If the money if properly expended.
;-md we need a lot of it in this
*v on our mads. The Panama-
Pacific exposition will fooii be on
-id thousands of strangers will
be here. We should use every
available dollar to get our roads
Hnd streets in order. We have one
of the best counties in the state
and ought to be getting the benefit
• it.
■ jail is another matter de-
F*»rving mention. It is ur.&afe. If
anything should happen to cause a
"-■ollapse of its wails, officers and
prisoners? would suffer severely and
tii» i-ounty could not escape respon
sibility.
It is said that, although the number
of patients had Increased only slightly,
th^re has been an Increase of $1,500
rh* yearly expenditure for drugs and
p irgriral supplies In the last six years.
]yvsol, for which the contract sets a
price of $3.20, is now costing the
:rtty $5.20 a gallon. AntikamnTa,
h la sdd at $1 a pound at a profit,
?qid to cost $16 a pound when de
red for use at the county hospital.
A perfuired soap costing 21 cents a
rake wholesale is used in this free in
stitution.
HIGH PRICES FOR SUPPLIES
The Investigators say that, while one.
grocery firm holds a contract to supply
lemon extract at T 48 cents a pint, an
other grocer, without contracting.": is
(riven $1.75 a pint for the extract from
the. country treasury.. V '■-'-'■.r !
Dr. F. O. Pryor, when seen yester
i day,'said: .-■ • .■-*,-■■' ■"""".".""/"-,
Our investigations show that sup- \
plies are■ not brought^on a- purely "•;
competitive basis.. . 'Exorbitant :
prices have been paid* in many in
stances for noncontractt goods. ;~A' i
grocer states that goods for ,the•
•furnishing of which he holds;con
tracts were bought elsewhere at an :;
increase over the .. con tract'?; price..' -
Another grocer, in a signed; state- '
* ment. charges substitution of in- ?
ferior goods. Owing to the unex
pected adjournment of the board of ".;
-visors when we took this mat- [
ter up with them, * we* ; were not '
given the opportunity properly t to:;.
present our data. 'This will be done
at the next meeting. ''.* ", V
It is not my purpose to atack any ",
man or group of men. It fa the :
system that r would destroy—the- ;
old pernicious system whereby men ;
gain office and hold it by"favor
ing- those politically active at the -
expense of me taxpayers. When .
the public is aroused to demand It
we shall have 'common honesty in
business and politicstalike."'
Lnder the present' system the physi
cians who do charity work are? barred
t*-- from treating an indigent patient If his
condition '■ makes it ' necessary 5 that he
be taken to the. county* hospital. None
hut the county physician is permitted
to handle the case. 1'- This is the rule
that is sought to be set ! aside
Arrange.to spend Christmas and New
.Tears; at Del Monte.- > Big golf tourna
ment. ■ ;.-. : . ■. ,:■*.■■■;
Hackett and Former Leading
Woman Are Secretly Married
BEATRICE BECKLEY
IS ACTOR'S BRIDE
Ceremony Takes Place in an
Office Building Between
Performances
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 17.—James K.
Hackett, the actor producer, was the
leading figure in a drama not of the
stage late yesterday afternoon, when
he was secretly wedded to Beatrice
Beckley, who for four years, Including
the time when Mary Mannering secured
her divorce from Hackett, was a mem
ber of Hackett's company. Three of
these years Miss Beckley was Hackett's
leading woman.
The wedding came as a complete sur
pris- even to members of Hackett's
company, and it was not until the spe
cial train bearing Hackett's company
to Chicago, en route to St. Louis, had
left early this morning that news of the
wedding became known.
Miss Beckley did not arrive in Mil
waukee from London until yesterday.
The ceremony was held between the
time of the Saturday matinee and the
evening performance, and after the
week in St. Ix>uis the two will go to
New York for Christmas and their
honeymoon.
Hackett was married at the office of
Fred C. I.orenz in the Loan and Trust
building. The ceremony was witnessed
by Lorenz and his son and there were
present at the time half a dozen mem-'
bers of Markett's company, his man
ager and Miss Grace Hardy.
Miss Beckley is a resident of Lon
don and is about 24 years of age and a
woman of great beauty and charming
presence. Her occupation was given
as "none."
Miss Beckley came to Milwaukee all
the way from London for the marriage.
The weddiner was so managed that no
one in the Loan and Trust building ob
served anything: unusual. Members of
the company. Hackett's manager and
others came into the building singly,
one going up in the pl^vator, another In
the second one and still others by way
of the stairs.
Both Appeared Here
James K. Hackett and Beatrice
Beckley are well known to local theater
goers. Miss Beckley was Hackett's
leading woman when he brought "The
Prisoner of Zenda," "Sampson," "Mon
sieur Beaucalre" and other plays to
the Alcazar a year ago. Hackett has
been starring in "The Prisoner of
Zenda" for half a score of years.
As the Princess Flavia, Mies Beck
ley gained as many laurels in the play
as did Hackett in the part of Rassendyl.
After remaining here eight weeks
Hackett organized a road company with
Miss Beckley in the lead and traveled
back to New York. Later they went
to London, where Miss Beckley had
won a high reputation as an actress
before she met Hackett.
Miss Beckley is remembered her* as
a very beautiful young woman. Even
beside Hackett, who stands 6 feet 2
inches in his dressing slippers, she had
that queenly stature essential to her
part in the Anthony Hope drama.
AMERICAN COTTON IS
IN DEMAND IN JAPAN
Liner .Is Unable to Carry All
Offered as Cargo
SEATTLE, Wash.. Deo. IT.—The
Great Northern liner Minnesota, the
largest steamship on the Pacific ocean,
sailed for the orient today with 16,000
tons of freight, and for the" flrst time
In her history was unable to take all
the cargo offered.
Flour and cotton made up the largest
part of the load. Shipments of cotton
from the United States to Japan are
three times as large as ever before,
and every steamer sailing for the orient
has a full cargo.
The big cotton movement is due to
increased manufacture of cotton cloth
in Japan and the disfavor into which
Indian cotton has fallen because of tea
short fiber.
YOUNG WIFE DRAWS UP
WILL AND TAKES LIFE
Property She Expected to In
herit Given to Child
MEDFORD. Ore., Dec 17.—After
making a will disposing of property
she expected to inherit and providing
for her three year old daughter, Mrs.
Luella Forbes, 23 years old, of Twin
Falls, Idaho, committed suicide here
early today by taking laudanum. Her
father, F. F. Richmond of Twin Falls,
is reputed to be wealthy. That the *>ui
cide was premeditated is indicated by
the fact that the will was written
October 5, in Kansas City, and the
laudanum purchased in Bisbee, Arizona.
Disappointment in a love affair was ap
parently the cause of the deed.
TWO THOUSAND WILL
LOSE BY THIS FIRE
Building Occupied by Los An
geles Company Destroyed
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec. 17.—The
Colyer Van and Storage company's
building, Fourth and San Pedro streets.
was -destroyed by fire early this morn-
Ing. More than 2,000 persons had
goods stored in the warehouse and the
total loss vili reach $150,000. accord
ing to Curtis Colyer, president of the
company.
THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1911.
James K. Hackeit and his bride, formed]) Beatrice Beckley, who were
married secretly.
SENATORS DIVIDED
ON PENSION DILL
"Dollar a Day" Sen ice Measure
Causes Inquiry as to
National Finances
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—A sharp di
vision of sentiment among senators re
garding service pension legislation, pro
tests against large congressional cx
i penditures, the Russian treaty question,
continued investigations and enactment
of the urgent deficiency bill will keep
congress busy this month. Both houses
will adjourn Thursday until January 3.
The Sherwood "dollar a day pension"
bill, which the house has passed,
may not find an easy way in the
senate. Senator Gore of Oklahoma, lead
ing democratic member of the pensions
committee, has started an Inquiry Into
the possibility of postponing action un
til the next session, when there will be
no presidential election. Gore contends
j that the- bill will not be popular in
j congress after the presidential election.
Senator McCumber, chairman of the
I pensions committee, while not commit
■ ting himself to the Sherwood bill, today
! expressed the opinion that jomc general
| pension legislation would be enacted
this session.
He thinks that congressional action
should depend upon the state of the
treasury, and has ta-ken steps to ascer
| tain that and to determine what various
plans of legislation might cost.
Tne house democrats will caucus on
a number of pending questions, prob
ably after the recess. The leaders con
j tend that the economy program must
be maintained and that some of the
demands of committees and democratic
members for appropriations must be
refused, but In such a way as to avoid
party dissension.
The pension bilL alreaJy passed by
the house, carrying from $40,000,000 to
$75,090,000; the demand of the public
buildings committee for an omnibus
measure to carry between $25,000,000
and $30,006,000, and other large de
mands on the treasury have compli
cated the situation. Democratic leader
Underwood insists that the public
buildings bill shall not be put through.
The tariff board's report is expected
from th« president this week, but the
ways anU means committee probably
will not recommend action on the wool
or other schedules until after the re
cess, but will then proceed vigorously.
The democrats were not agreed last
summer as to the wool tariff, many
favoring free raw wool. This question,
trust legislation and other things will
be considered in caucu?.
The proposed plan to open the caucus
to the public has developed strenuous
opposition from those democrats who
believe that party differences should
be settled behinJ closed doors.
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SAN JOSE CANDIDATE
FOR BOARD CONVENTION
[Special DhpaUh io The Call]
SAN JOSE. Dec. 17.—1 nan effort to
bring the July semiannual meeting of
the California Development board to
this city an excursion of more than 125
people will go to L«s Angeles January
12 on a special train and attend the
meeting to be held there at that time.
The details of the excursion are being
planned by a committee consisting of
W. L. Prussia, F. E. Chapin. E. R. Ever
ett, O. W. Chllton, George N. Herbert.
Joseph T Brooks, W. E. Spearman, Val
entine Koch and John S. Williams.
SNOW OPENS WAY FOR
CARNIVAL AT TRUCKEE
TRUCKEE, Dec. 17.—Snow began
falling at 5 o'clock last night and has
continued without Intermission since
that time.
This has brought forth the announce
ment that the annual Truckee winter
carnival will open Saturday. The carni
val lasts several months every winter.
At du«k tonight there was two feet
of snow on the level. Before morning
it is probable that three feet will have
fallen. It is expected that by the open-
Ing of the carnival there will be five or
six feet on the level.
Santa Fe to to£fA««e!««P '*' -
Daily at 4 .oV.lock p. m. Fast schedule.
Santa Fe office. 67:1 Market street.
Phones Kearny 315 or J3S7I. •
GIRLS SEARCH IN
RUINS FOR MONEY
Fund Started in Santa Barbara
for Hotel Employes Who
Lost All
{Special DUpaich to The Call]
SANTA BARBARA. Dee. 17.—The
servant girls who leaped from the third
story of the Potter hotel annex yes
terday afternoon when confronted by
flames that later reduced the struc
ture to ashes were reported by their
physicians today to be not seriously
Injured.
Miss Stella Ruch was believed to
have been fatally Injured. She in
haled smoke and was apparently life
less when rescued. At the hosuital to
day she was able to whisper, but could
not open her eyes, both having been
badly injured. Miss Hannah Lackey, who
Jumped to the ground, suffered severe
Injuries to her back, but was not
seriously hurt. Miss Agnes Shultz has
a broken ankle.
Tony Dominguez. the volunteer fire
man who broke a leg when he fell
two stories from a ladder. Is in the
hospital.
The two score or more girls who lost
practicaliy all of their worldly pos
sessions in th« fire spent several hours
today in going Into the ruins looking
for lost money and Jewelry. The house
keeper found three diamonds whioh
she had lost and a sum of money was
recovered.
Philanthropic work, was continued
today, the fund for the benefit of the
girls being augumented by several hun
dred dollars.
Mrs. W. E. Dargrie of Oakland headed
the contributions w!th $100, and many
other gruests at the hotel Rave «üb
etantlal amounts, Local fraternal or
ganlzations ha\*e announced that they
will contribute to the fund. Many citi
zens have sent bundles of clothingr to
the srtrlp.
General Manager Potter said today:
"That the fire was confined to the
one annex shows the durability of the
hotel buildings. I am pleased with
this proof of th<* fire resisting qualities
of the Potter buildings. The steel lath
and the plaster exterior kept the fire
from spreading. A wooden structure
kx-ated many times the distance from
the fierce furnace whirh the laundry
became toward the end could not have
withstood the flames even with the
heroic work that the fire fighters did;
but this work, with the reinforcement
of metal and plaster on the outer walls,
was to some purpose. I shall have even
greater faith hereafter in the fireproof
character of the hotel."
FEDERAL HOSPITAL AT
MONTANA FORT BURNS
:•-POPLAR, Mont.. ; Dec. IT.—The gov
ernment hospital on the Fort. Peck res
ervation was^destroYe'diby fire today.
Th<=> | i mat were taken safely r out «' of
the huUdins?. hut many lost their cloth
ing: and personal effects.
The APOLLO
will do everything
that a 1 other
Player-Pianos do —
and then produce
effects that other
Players neverthought
of producing
Shemanjplay & Go
CHINA'S PEACE
DELEGATES SET
STAGE FOR TALK
Wu Ting Fang Protests That
Premier Violated Armistice
by Attacking Rebels
Fioods Continue and Millions
Face Starvation in
Central Provinces
SHANGHAI. Dec. 17.—Tang Shao Tl.
' the representative of Premier Yuan Shi
Kfi, accompanied by his suite arrived
here this afternoon and was met by a
srreat concourse of natives. Including
the foreign consuls. The .streets were
densely crowded with people, who ap
peared apathetic.
Tang: Shao Yl made a formal visit to
Doctor Wu Ting Fang, the foreign sec
retary In the revolutionary cabinet, and
agreed to the proposal that the meet
ings of the government and republican
delegates shall begin tomorrow at the
town hall. Each side Is represented by
five delegates, among whom are Tang
Shao Vi and Doctor Wu Ting Fang.
UWU TIXG FATSG PROTESTS
Doctor Wu made a formal complaint
that Premier Yuan has violated the
armistice'by attacking the revolution
ary forces in Shansi, Shensl and Anh
ivf-l. Tang promised to convey the
protest to the premier.
Grave reports have reached here from
the interior. Trade and commerce are
at a standstill and economic condl
j tions are becoming desperate. Travel
is extremely dangerous because of loot
ing and discontent among the soldiers
who are on half pay.
MII-LIOXS STARVING
In the northern part of Kiangsu,
Anhwei and Kiangsl the floods con
tinue and millions of natives are starv
ing. Unless peace is arranged and re
lief organized the rigors of winter are
likely to drive the masses of Chinese
In the central provinces to desperation.
According to Nanking advices the
revolutionists are making extensive
preparations to resume lighting Imme
diately th.c armistice is ended.
MARYSVILLE TO HOLD
YULETIDE CARNIVAL
Festival Events Will Mark
Civic Improvements
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
MARYSVILL.E, Dec. 17.—The streets
of Marysville are bright with yuletide
greens and Christmas trees In prepara
tion for the 11 day carnival, which will
begin Wednesday, in celebration of a
number of Important civic improve
ments, among which are the new elec
tric light arches which have been erect
ed in the principal thoroughfares.
The festival, which will be held under
the auspices of the Chamber of Com
merce, will continue from Wednesday
until New Year's day. Street shows,
band concerts, dancing In the streets,
masquerades and a parade will be fea
tureß of the celebration.
The program will begin Wednesday
night with the lighting of the arches,
which are similar to those In Fillmore
street in San Francisco. They were
erected by the Chamber of Commerce.
The celebration will also commemorat*
the completion of extensive street work.
Physicians recommend the Lurline
ocean water tub baths for nervousness,
Insomnia and rheumatism. Try one for
that tired feeling. The Lurllne Baths
are at Bush and Larkln streets.
I picture Values i
yu cCr \JL\XLJ vjn
MM • Reserve stock held in cur ware jfipw
§01 rooms /or //?e /a/c shopper. \Wi
ifjjl — another innovation in picture \/Ga
Mm *■ setting introduced this Week, , , (AjJw
£»\il; making it possible to offer spe- /vml
aw ciats from a stock as complete |Rift-
OyS as before the rush started. Aw
tfj| :: — another reason <: why we say jiM
jm "THIS XMAS GIVE PICTURES'' Jy|
Sw (dlfe£f&' A rt Galleries &J
/(rfl C^Ma^^ Gram Aye. til
i* in 3 Floors Devoted Exclusively to Pictures and Framing jS^»
Miss Anne Manhire,
Once a Queen, Will
Now Become Bride
CHICAGO TO TAKE
FOUR LIVES FRIDAY
Murderers to Pay Death Pen«
alty Two Days Before
Christmas
CHICAGO, Dec. 17. —The week before
Christmas will be hangman's week in
Chicago. Friday, December 22, four
men—Ewald Shiblawski, 24 years old;
his brother. Frank. 21; Philip Sommer
ling. 34. and Thomas Schultz, 19—will
be hanged in the county jail for killing
Fred W. Guelzow Jr.. a truck farmer,
on the morning of October 20. Two
others, equally involved in the murder,
received life sentences because of their
youth, each being 16 years old.
Frank Shiblawski was a, trusty in the
county jail three years ago when Her
man Belik, a poisoner, was sentenced
to be hanged, and aided in the erection
of Bellk's scaffold. He recalled tfte fact
today when sounds of others at work
putting together the scaffold on Which
the four men will be hanged could b«
heard in the cells above.
Never since the Haymarket riots of
ISB7 have so many lives been taken bj
the state at one time. On November 11
of that year A. W. Parsons, August
Spies. Adolph Fisher and George Engle
were hanged for their part in the riot
ing.
In 1904 the so called "car barn ban
dits" were executed, but they were only
three -r- Peter Neidermeier, Gustave
Marx and Harvey Van Dine.
All legal executions in Cook county
since the hangings resulting from the
j Haymarket riots have been conducted
by Deputy Sheriff Charles W. Peters,
who will have charge of the quadruple
hanging this week. His record by that j
time will be 37 executions.
There have been no deaths by the
gallows in the county since October 22,
1909. when Andrew Williams, a negro,
was hanged for wjfe murder.
BANDIT KILLS ONE MAN;
TWO OTHERS WOUNDED
TOPEKA. Kan., Deo. 17.—One Mex
ican laborer was killed, one mortally
wounded and another slightly wounded
early this morning by an unknown
Mexican bandit, who entered a bunk
car in which five Mexicans were sleep-
Ing. An hour later the slayer invaded
a Mexican lodging house several blocks
distant and opened flre on the Inmates,
but failed to hit any, and escaped be
fore the police arrived.
ROSE CARNIVAL
RULER SAYS 'YES'
Earl Menker, Former Stanford
Student, Wins Pretty
San Jose Girl
\[ ■ SAX r' JOSE, "r>cc. 17.—; The; engage
ment; of Mips ; Anne Manhlre, .who,- as
Queen Anne ruled 100.000 people dur
ingl, the four days of; the rose carnival
in May,: 1 10. and Karl Menker, a for
;mer Stanford man.; is announced.- The
: wedding:ls to 'take place in the early/
: spring. ~~ -; ■:.--,.-,■ ..■}■.■■ ~ ■ j ./'
When Miss 7 Man hi re was chosen
queen she was*a^ student at , the San
Jose normal school and was - selected
by the students: ;'' y ■
The crowning of Queen Anne- was
perhaps * the most elaborately"; planned
pageant "ever witness? in this"city.
WOMEN ARE RESCUED
FROM CHICAGO FIRE
CHICAGO. Dec. 17.— Battalion Ch!»f
Conway of the Chicago fir<! department
was dangerously burned by an explo
sion of gas and several women weru
overcome by smoke In an apartment
building fire today. The women were
carried from tho third floor down a flra
escape.
The Piano
Honored by All
, No piano needs fewer word.4
of introduction than the Chick-'
ering. Not that it has been,
so. lavishly advertised as' many,
• ; others, but because no piano
ever lived eighty-eight years
■.-.,,-..; -- that had not actual merit as
| .;■.'.the basis for its long life.
I '■ ; It is the universal piano.
j Whatever critics may say of
| '■] .. other good pianos', all : unite in,
I :•:"; their marked courtesies to the
Ghickering.
nn8 ".,.. Whether in aris
■ ISl^^^aMW :- ■ tocratic Boston, or ■
jLJ^Hs2^^sl in Philadelphia, or
Washington, or
|fSMS|||||m I % Chicago, or San
Em SJWBEIa • Francisco, or the
,: Sw^ "**^ European capitals
— everywhere the
Chickering piano is honored
- above all others.
-.-■---••■-•,.■•
There is something more in
this world than '-■business and
• :; dollars. And it is generous and
. ' honorable for other piano deal-!.,
ers and manufacturers to laud ,
the glories of the Chickering. .
The Chickering is sold only
at Eiler? stores, 975 Market,
street, San. Francif-o; . 557.
" i v \;:'Twelfth street, Oakland.
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