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Single Copies 6 Cents.. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday). 1 year $8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday). 6 months $4.00 DAILY CALL— By Single Month 75c SUNDAY CALL, 1 year ; $2.50 WEEKLY CALL. 1 year ....: .1.00 •pOTtr-Trv ) »a.!1y..... -..SB.OO Per Year Extra FOKUGJI L Sunday 4.13 Per Year Extra POSTAGE. } weekly 1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at the United States Postoffice as Second Class Matter. ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. Mail subscribers In Ordering change of address should "be particular to give both NEW. AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. HEARST'S ABUSE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY LANGDON IS STRONG PROOF OF LANGDON'S WORTH BY his refusal to betray the people of San Francisco to the political schemes of Willie Hearst, District Attorney William H. Langdon has uncorked the vials of the Yellow Kid's wrath. Until recently, whenever Hearst's local organ, the Exam iner, had occasion to mention the members of 'the graft prosecu tion Langdon was invariably given the place of prominence. None could cavil at that. The district attorney made the graft prosecu tion possible by his appointment of Hene) r . He gave the fullest measure of loyal, unceasing and painstaking support to the special assistant, to whom he had assigned the place of prominence. Before Hearst discovered that Langdon was a man whom he could not use "for his own private ends* the district attorney was lauded as a model public servant, the savior of San Erancisco. Now, according to the same authority, Langdon is a political trickster, an official shyster, a. trimming, scheming tale teller. He is accused by Hearst of deliberate tampering with -the administration of jus tice. He is charged with violation of his oath of office. He is ridi culed as a madman, made drunk by unearned t applause. He is lampooned as the witless beneficiary of the talents of Heney, who, Hearst says, was chosen at' Hearst's request. Last week 'Langdon was a leader among ,men; now, accojjfling to Hearst's appraise ment, he is only a bit of tinsel on the tail of the Spreckels kite. \" District Attorne}- Langdon refused to play politics with the unfortunate situation thrust upon him by the'eonviction of Schmitz and the confessions of Ruef and his boodling understrappers. He refused to make one of Hearst's messenger boys mayor of San Francisco. He refused to be Hearst's good dog. He offered the selection of a mayor to the people. Right there and on that account the Hearst opinion of Langdon was revised. Hearst's spite against the man who refused to do his dirty work was exhibited in charac teristic fashion. The following excerpts from the revised editorial appreciation of Langdon and his .work by the local Hearst, mouth piece are fair examples of the depths Hearst can reach:.: Before Messrs. Spreckels, Heney and Langdon went into politics the ears of the public were delighted with the sound of thundering blows dealt in defense of decency. * * * Then politics came in and then came trimming stories that were not true." . "The grand jury had been indicting every guilty man it caught • until politics began, as it always does in May. Instantly came the change * * * -the grand jury adjourned. \u2666 '*, * Upon' reassembling it returned some indictments that had already been voted and then faded away. Not that its work was done; its work. was stopped." "There are the Home telephone cases, for instance. The prosecu tion promised a wealth of indictments in this case, but one, of the gentlemen connected with the Home telephone company made sweep ing assertions about the people outside of office who 'held up* the company, and these sweeping assertions included in their -broad ' boundaries certain influences which could help the prosecution's ' political schemes." \J \u25a0i\ "Before the zephyrlike fading away of the grand jury one of the . prosecutors exhibited the indictments already drawn against the fight • ; trust, but there seems to be some one, since politics came in, who can promise immunity and' make the prosecution make good the " promise." "And all this trimming and scheming and discharging and tale telling has come into a fine public moment because these men, who started well, got drunk on applause." ' v "The Examiner asked Mr. Langdon to appoint Mr. Heney." ! "The manufacturers of hats don't make any above the normal size, and it would be a distressing sight * * * to see these gentlemen *\* * automobiling around the city bareheaded." " If the people of San Francisco needed evidence of the Konesty and sincerity of District Attorney Langdon's purpose suchTattacks a§, these would be conclusive^ But the people need no such cvi- 1 dence. Langdon has proved himself a man— a public : vservant in whom San Fsrfncisco takes a just pride. He has been called -upon to cope with a situation unparalleled in the history of i American municipalities. He has done the duty laid upon him in an honest, I manly fashion. Over' the protest of ! Hearst, Langdon' has V asked! the whole people to relieve him of an. unsought burden. He has; asked the people of San Francisco to take their government into! their own hands. He has shown himself to be* too big, too broad I to play partisan politics, too much. the man to heed the traitorous! orders of Hearst. - i Langdon .has proved by his refusal to be programmed by Hearst that he is not the man to be swerved from the path of his duty by villainous abuse and misrepresentation, the people Have* faith in Langdon. Spiteful calumny, born "'- in nasty political dis appointment, will but serve to strengthen that faith. The people, of; San Francisco jare with you,. District Attorney Langdon, and will support , >;ou in your adherence to the manly; honest course you have mapped out. - -.Never; mind: -Hearst Abuse' from him is a certificate of -uprightness^his"-; condemnation is a badge qi honor! • \u25a0 ' • ••w.'--' THE APPEAL COURT AND .THE GRAFTERS: TN the. prompt common sense of Appellate Justice; Cooper's ruling I • against'SchmitzV petition^ for a. writ^of mandate, directed to Judge \u25a0Jt r P u « n . c » is a." ample answer, if answer were needed, to the pub lished sneers arid- insinuations touching the integrity of the dis trict court of appeai; ?BuV"it^is;/the"; judgment of (The ; CallTthat this - tribunal is composed (of \ men so far ; above reproach triat their EDITORIAL PAGE Gaftopnisi ßwei^s \:J^^iew^6f\ : i^^'yS^6k^S;'NGy^s standing cannot be in anywise imperiled by slanderous intimation of what they -may (io in the graft cases because of pull and per sonal \u25a0 :''\u25a0 ; \. Lately, the Examiner made a; thiniy: disguised; prediction! to the general. effect: that the appellate justices would-probably "fall. down": when -it; came to passing on ;the cases of the men indicted for public crimes. In brief, its assertion is that Justice Kerrigan, owes his present office to William F.Herrin "arid expects to gojto Herrin when he \u25a0 dies" ;; that ; he is the son in law of James .IVlcNab, who avowedly detests. Rudolph 'Spreckels ; that he is the'eiose associate of G. H. Unibsen, who; spent money freely, to. secure rKe^igan'selec-^ tion; that -Justice; Hall ; ; is the\brother ; injaw of c>f counsel for Patrick Calhoun ; .that "Presiding justice. Cooper is related by marriage to W. I. Brobeck and is soon to -be related i by similar ties to" Downey Harvey, the friend: -and intimate of : j jSchmitz: These relationships have been made the^basis; ,by the | i Examiner for a deeply pessimistic view of the prospects of the 1 graft cases-on appeal and of the honesty .-of this court. | But Cooper, Hall and Kerrigan. are .all. proved men. All, of j them have been- longhand .prominently; identified with the, adminis-1 tration of the law nr the courts, of ;this . state* and none-of :them I has ever been blown upon by : the breath "of scandal— not .until | now. No act > of: any r of these men warrants so much as a suspicion j that his judicial course might . be influenced -by any .consideration* I other than those 'of.which^their court may lawfully 'take cognizance; /The; election of : lastVyear^ -in Vwhich^they were elevated Ho their high; positions, was notable for: the ; fact that it resulted in : the emphatic; turning; down of 'candidates -for' judicial; offices'; who -werei unfU.\- That election, Ht~wiH^^ decency.- , It was convincing; testimony of the regard in wliicrt Cooper, Hall- and Kerrigan Avere: held at'that time by the; people— ;| and 'there has ibeen, no -occurrence.of: any kind since then,-no?act of theirs^or; of any of -them, to } lower "their standing as men; or as ministers of the- law. - . %' *! ;•;'\u25a0\u25a0. The; Gall i-refusesSto believe -that Cooper, 1 'Hall n or Kerrigan' would ' permit _' the*: influences or ; friendship;, of marriage or even (of blood, to 'move ;th^ ii mm R art ! al judgment "of men j and -"'things according' to -the law; ; The Call;;therefpre;:w^ petition: , It was^tojhaye^ castlonHhe^grave of .a. stillborn; slander.;; :;' • , •" - \u25a0 i . - A..New : - York -banker .is ; going ; itp -build^himseif -a ! rgliiss' hpuse, v butithe^waHs w«hbe;so^thick'Hhat;he?can^sit^inside-a'nd ; m at|fKe|stbrielthrowers: \u25a0 : ; .•-\u25a0 •••"-. '-•-,- > : ':~*. *.-.,--,>--, •; '~* ' k -/\u25a0* -r'i /. • ' - .^r \u25a0•\u25a0 • ••• \u25a0 \u25a0.-\u25a0-•*- \u25a0-• 'Pefeohal \u25a0wP^ Mcßae of Portland Is at the St. Prancjs.. \u0084 \F. : C. Mickelof.Weavervllle is at the Imperial. . > illlram; Lloyd of St. Louis is at the Baltimore.:- . v L. Lau'ghlin of, Shasta Springs is at the "Palace. 1 \u25a0-'\u25a0 ' .-"iv . ;.R. .y. Davis- and wife of are at the. Majestic. ;^ . "T; N. A., d'Arcy and wife of Wonder, Nev., are at 1 the Savoy.V ."> . Colonel' George N. Black" of : Los An geles is at' the Majestic annex. : P. W. Sayre of Los Angeles regis tered .yesterday at the. Jefferson. ; George vWingfleld "arrived ; at. the St. Francis from Goldfleld yesterday. Mrs."; George ' l'Estrange * of 7' -London i registered i yesterday at the' Imperial.' ' James 7. Cleary/and ' wife') of : Syracuse , i registered yesterday at the Hamlin. |; P.*" r W. Mathews, a wealthy Eureka i [ lumberman,^^ registered 'yesterday . \u25a0 at ! j the, Dorchester." ; \u25a0 .. r-.u. I ;. . Rev. :\u25a0; Dr; Reese ; T.'; Alsop of Brooklyn ! returned to;^ the • Fairmont '\u25a0"• from - the i Yosemlte , yesterday. ' : j ':, •Lieutenant -Ernest .G. Blngham, 'med- j Icali, department, U. S. . Ai; has .arrived : from JtheVeast , rand "yesterday 'relieved : | Captain s Carroll v D. > Buck as' chief j exe- j ! cutlvejof , ; the*; general "hospital^ at the i | Presidio; V .;" \ '; ; \ -\u25a0 \u25a0 ;' ' ; . i : '\"'M\ \u25a0 -A." party : of " school : ; teachers , . from ' i Indian ";territory, Sunder" the ..*>' escort of | JohniD."; Benedict of .Montague, I. T., la : at ; the ; Savoy.;- Ttre r party.'; consists "of i | Maude T7T 7 Stephen, >Lolo", Garrett of | Tahlezuah,';; Josephine s BakeV X of LVlnlta,' j Bertha^Thomassen.of ivinltaj': Elizabeth j ! Spears i of -MelvinA Mrs. Olivia tPardoun \ \ of I Euf alia \ and Emma" Ingram : of Fort I 1 Gibson. ' > ' ' • Lady— l s have .; given you sixpence; what ; morß ,'do : you swant?. /JiTramp^-rm } afraid. that policeman Is goingUo?arrest jne."" i ' %%\'"!''^. \u25a0'\u25a0' ;?Lady-^— How. can I prevent that? ' Tramp-^-Just- take my. arm "and. be talking :to ,y me' ; lovingly," \u25a0- and he will think 1 ; I'm! your landvlet- uj j pass.-— Tit-Bits. \u25a0 *. -i -. "It Us* .a;> very /peculiar summer." w«iv,Jcs,'^ answered ythe .man whose mind Jsj; always ion|flguress''lt 'is , the first i summer VI can •; recall when the beef! jtrust|wasfputtingrup': prices ' instead of j the; ice * trust. "-^-Washington ' Star. ] Gossip in; Railway Circles THE baseball members "of the Transportation club will engage in a contest with the Palo Alto Nationals today at Palo Alto. Notwithstanding, the fact that the Palo Alto- team -enjoys a great reputation the -members of the Transportation club's nine; are not at all afraid to meet . them. They assure everybody that they will make an excellent show ing, as their uniforms have been de signed on. a" pattern furnished by.Man ager. George Fraser and are exceed ingly pretty. The uniform .is white, with cardinal. finishings and socks and Harry Buck says that it Is suggestive of a barber's pole. ._--.,•...;• • Bruce * Norton, traveling passenger agent of the Union Pacific, with head quarters at Fresno, was in the city yesterday. 'He said that the San Jo'aquin ,' valley ' was never more pros perous'thanr'at present. '.'The -crop of. raisins," he remarked, "will be immense, and the growers already are' being offered 5 to 6 cents a pound. Present calculations indicate that 'about $5,000,000 will be received by the Fresno county growers for their raisin crop." \u25a0— ' • • '• C.C. Crane, who represents the pas senger interests . of the New York Central lines, has gone to Los An geles to bring to this city 150 tourists who came over his road. The party is making a tour of the state and will arrive here Tuesday. * • •' - Carl Howe, traffic manager of the Merchants' despatch, in writing to John A. Gill, local general agent of the line, says that for the month of June 91 per cent of th.eir cars arrived In Chicago from New York on the third day and 9 per cent on the fourth day. \u25a0 . • • Jay W. Adams of the Nickel Plata and H. J. Snyder of the Mexican Cen tral have returned from Los Angeles. • • • William C. Brown, senior vice presi dent \of the New York Central lines, made an address the other day before ,the Buffalo chamber of commerce with which he \u25a0is so well satisfied that he has had printed several million copies and Is distributing them from Alaska to Cape Horn. Brown makes some In teresting disclosures, not the least. of which; is the -statement that the- New York Central lines are "half owned by women" and ttiat ."we railroad offi cers are merely trustees" for tbe 'ladies and the "gentlemen who own the rail roads of the country and that is why they, the trustees, maintain "our rates, or limit our service to reasonable pro portions in' the interest of the large body of- the very people who are our owners." Brown -adds: "During the Verse Current in the Press of Nation "CLING FAST TO HOPE" TIT HO thinks tomorrow will not \/V/ %brl«g him more y V Than, the sad days and years he's passed before. Wno thinks that joy > is false and love a cheat. That since some things are bitter, none are sweet. Has cast away — or lost — his kindest friend: . ' % Hope; which all men should cherish to ' the. end. Cling fast to Hope! " What though she : show to thee Visions of gladness which shall never be? v \ ; Wouldst thou walk blindly through a darkened vale Because the sun shows heights thou .; canst not scale? Wouldst- thou tear - down the drapery - of thy. halls Because it hides the rough and jajrged walls? \\ Man of the downcast face, lift up thine eyes, t . Look on the. world which all around thee lies, To left ", and right full many a path thou'lt: see . - \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 «5k Whose . fifst long stage . was grief and miserjT •And _ yet ,w Mich ended in the ways of \u0084 \u25a0\u25a0;\u25a0".., ease j. :W~. Leading along cool brooks, 'mid flow ers and trees. Remember this: That In a life whose sum Includes both Joy - and Sorrow, there must come . A time . when Sorrow, having spent his all Of wrath upon thy head, must then let fall •;•; i His shattered sword, and give unwill . ing place To Joy. who follows him with shining \u25a0/.' face. v3«£jj3Kafi So .when,', the end' approaching, thou lookest back Over the lights and shadows of thy - track/ And by the clear' rays " of the setting »: . sun " \u25a0- Seest plain what blessings thou hast \u25a0 lost or 'won, Thou then .'canst lift thy voice and \u0084.' * raise, thine -ey,es And thank' the God' above thee in the skies ;'\u25a0•\u25a0* That ; In the darkness 'where thou oft _;.' didst i grope There 1 was not lost thy greatest treas { ure, ; Hope. . •— D. M. Goetgius, In New York Sun. -WHEN; JIM WAS DEAD "Hitsarved him right." the neighbors' sed; ;b; b . An' 'bused* him for the life he'd led, An' him a-lylng. thar. at rest With ,not a. rose upon . his breast J * Ah! menpy cruel words .they sed, ~ When Jim was dead. '.'--\u25a0\u25a0 -' ' / - "Jes' killed hlsself," Too mean ter ' \ ;;-.-. • They- didn't have one t word ter, give Of -. comfort" as -they hovered near. An' gazed on 'Jinv a-lylng there! "Thar . ain't '• no ; use i ter talk." they sed '; : y ;-"He's better dead!" v - But suddenly the room growed "still, While: God's .white sunshine seemed ter .fill ' The dark 1 place with a gleam of life, An'/o'er the dead s*»e '\u25a0] bent— Jim's wife! An'l with' her. lips: close— close to his. As- though; he knew, an'.felt' the; kiss, /, She 'sobbed— a; touchln* 'sight 6 ter "see-— "Ah! : Jim ; was always" good to" me!" ' I tell you, when. that cum to light It kinder, set. the dead man right; 'An', VrounditheJ.weepin', woman! they - Throwed ; : kindlyTarms;of love that day. And 'mingled with her. own they shed The'.tenderest tears— when Jim! was \u25a0 dead. , — F. L. ! Stariton, In Atlanta Constitution. THE, NEW NATURAL SPIRIT Now lay"the;little doll away. ;With\its soft i golden^ hair." V. Ini the" toy [cradle place instead The funny \u25a0 f urry f bear. : '. . The jsweeti faced ;doll } is dead and ,"gone r^fAnd 'passed junto iits' rest, 'A'ndiugly"*Bruln's'cuddled now To ; little 'motfc*c'.s breast.- — Judge.? ; JULY 14, 1907 v latter part of 1906 and the first quarter of the present year the ex penses of the railroads of the tnlteJ States have been increased from ?99. 000;000 to $100,000,000 annually In in creases in- wages of employes. A still further and material Increase will be effected when the recently enacted law restricting the hours of labor of a large number of railroad employes be comes effective." • • • George A. Brown has been appointed acting superintendent of the Western Pacific at Stockton la the place of H. H. Griffith, who has been transferred to the charge of the Boca and Loyalton road. "Is an Arctic sock a shoe or a sock?" This Is a problem which promise*' shortly to engage the attention of the Interstate commerce commission. The consumer says it Is a shoe while the rail road companies declare it to be a sock. John A. Gill of the New York Central is responsible, for the question arising. It " seems that Gill secured a carload of the arctic footwear from its place of manufacture in Massachusetts and had it sent out here under the shoe raa-. Then there was . a merry row. The western lines refused to accept the car under the shoe rate and said that this ; species of foot covering was distinctly ! a sock. Incidentally, a sock takes a higher rate. Gill has a pair of the cov erings on exhibition. He thinks that they should take the shoe rats as there is no leg to them. The question as well ; as the exhibit has been referred to J. W. Spencer, chief inspector of tbe transcontinental freight bureau In the city. • • • "Times have changed," mused C. C. Crane of the New York Central lines, "since I^>egan ray career as a railroad man. That was 29 years 9 months and 9 days ago today. The entire passenger department of the Southern Pacific, consisted of General T. H. Goodman, myself and eight others. I remember one day A. N. Towne and; General Good man talking abou^, typewriters, and Goodman said he would be eternally dinged if he would have one of those noisy rattletrap machines in his office disturbing the slumber of the clerks, and Towne agreed with him heartily. A few months after this conversation Goodman got one of the machines and . ordered Arthur James to learn to use it. James is now in charge of the in formation bureau. Oh my! How he perspired trying to find the keys. Af ter six weeks of continuous , study James got off a letter to Towne. and Towne fell so much in love witn the cleanness of the writing that he. too. ordered a machine and made F. G. Randall, who is now secretary of Ascot park In Los. Angeles, learn to use It." Nagasaki Ship Yards Are Kept Busy CONSUL C. B. HARRIS reports th?;t 190S was a prosperous, busy and very satisfactory year for iiih Mltsu Bishi dock yard and engine works at Nagasaki. He adds: "Workmen to the number of B.D Xi were employed. Many important addi tions or extensions were found nect-- sary and made to facilitate the work i-: filling contracts for the building v! vessels required by the various Jap anese .steamship lines. Amonjj the tno:;t notable Improvements were the bu'lo- Ingof large turbine shops to manufac ture marine steam turbines and turbo generators. ->. .. "Ships built during the year wer* six Oviean going 3teamers. with a gross tonnage of 12,390 tons, indicated horse power 12.449; four torpedo boat de stroyers for the Japanese gV«brnment. and one steel caisson for No. . 1 dock. The work on hand at the beginning of 1907 included, two vessels for tha Japanese government, a torpedo de stroyer and a dispatch boat. There ar* also under construction seven ships of an aggregate tonnage of 64,240 tons for different steamship companies. "Tbe attention of American manufac turers Is called to this ship building plant, it being by far the largest in Asia, thoroughly modern and progres sive, at all times In the market for th« best material, "latest, improved ma chinery and tools. There Is no good reason why America should not re ceive a good portion of the company's orders, they being placed, even for American goods, almost entirely In Great Britain.** Demand for Camphor Is Increasing SECRETARY JAMES WILSON of the department of agriculture In a recent address delivered before the American club of Pittsburg declared that' the United States was successfully experimenting In the pro duction! of camphor. He said, in part: - "For years the department has been \u25a0 distributing camphor tree seed and thousands of trees are now growing throughout the south and in the Pacific coast states. Two years ago a serious effort was -made to develop the manu facture, of camphor from .these trees."- By Improvements in -. manufacturing processes satisfactory results have been accomplished and a larg e . manufactur ing concern is now building up a cam phor grove of 2.000 < acres in Florida, from which it hopes to make Its cam phor. This firm uses more than $500 - 000 worth/ of camphor ; every, year/* A Japanese newspaper states that tbe Tokyo government has on foot a* pro ject for the extensile plantlnjrof for ests of .uctnphor.tre**. The demand for camphor increases, having now reached over 10,500.000 pounds annually.' and it will not be long until It reaches 13 - 000.000 pounds, says the Japanese »ii. thority. Making Willow Ware yin Belgium REPLYING to an Oregon inquiry relative. to the possibility of a market. in Belgium for willow (osier). Consul James C Me Nally of Liege writes: "The principal users of willow ar. located in West handers and BrTbanu especially in Maldeghem. Tamtae. £SJ: sels, Bralne-l-Alleud. etc. There 1, o small native growth of osier^in ;&* glum, butuhe greater.part is i'nipofted from Spain and-the Netherlands ?The Belgian wicker .work Is hand made ex c uslvely . and the better \ product^ ll elude .work ." and flower baskets - a«I hampers, linen and wine baj Jets to?s cages, cradles, drew makers'" S furniture, etc. " The Tough work° ? ' eludes . packing, hampers S 'and 7 trunS," baskets, for collieries, sieves T far «f * works, hampers for : butcher^ bakers, dog and fowl baskets £^ d for:the>/ar,and naVy department/'^ The value of the yearly finish^? nts * •*<»• 1 in this industry l s XJ *« *%& $™ Uct