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VOLUME CVIIL— NO. 126. REAL CAMPAIGN OF G. O. P. BEGINS HERE TOMORROW Johnson's Fight for Majority in San Francisco Will Be Hot One City's Vote Regarded as Very . Important Factor in the Party's Program GEORGE A. VAN SMITH The campaign for a San Francisco majority for Hiram? TV. Johnson and the entire republican ticket will be on in earnest tomorrow. Tb« la*t pre liminary trill be disposed of tonight by Chairman Ralph L. Hathorn and hie organization committee. The bar rier will be sprung tomorrow on a united and organized republican party fightingr for Its ticket from top to bottom. The managers of the frght for the flrst republican ticket nominated di rectly by the people of California real ize, as ail students of applied politics realize, that because of sentimental rather than vitally practical consid erations San Francisco is the real hattleground in the campaign of 1910. That the vote of San Francisco will riot decide who shall be governor Is freely admitted. That the vote of San Francisco will be an important factor in partisan organization and in the work of the next legislature is not open to question. MICH AT STAKE A sweeping republican victory in San Francisco, not alone for Hiram W. Johnson and his associates on the state ticket, but also for the legislative and local tickets, means more to the new republicanism of California than the mere election of a few . individuals. Democratic gains in a few legislative districts in San Francisco would mean much more to the state as a whole than the mere reduction of the top heavy republican majority in the sen ate and assembly. The rank and file republicans, ap pear to be quite as keenly alive to the situation as are the party managers. The republicans of San Francisco from campaign heads down to tho6e whose sole political activity consists of vot ing on general election days want San Francisco for Johnson and the entire republican ticket. For the first time in many years the directors of the < ampaigrn and t!:e voters appear to be working together honestly. I'ItIMAUV A HARMO.MZEit T!:<? direct primary election law has accomplished in San Francisco the seeming impossible. It has given the republicans generally and the repub lican party managers a common ground and a common purpose. Inspired re ports to the contrary, impartial, pains taking investigation will disclose a re publican harmony the like of which San- Francisco has not known in many years. The conflicting ambitions of a few v.-ould be leaders may be magni fied into alleged internecine strife for the gratification of an occasional sore head, but the fact remains that there is today jess republican dissension in ban Francisco than at any time in the memory of some of the oldest poli ticians. Thanks to the square methods em ployed by the organization commit-, tee. headed by Ralph L. Hathorn. the tally auoai independent candidates and the "knife" for one ur another repub lican nominee has been silenced. Re publicans v.iio have been bitterly op posed for years are working together in Ujfir respective districts or in the <ity at larsre to roil up majorities for the republican nominees. For the first linie in years the party organiza tion lias no knife concealed for one or snore of the men on the republican ticket. Omi.YMZATIOX FItICTIOXLESS Tiie organization committee charged with the preparation and direction of the San Francisco campaign has worked carefully but vigorously. The ret result is the organization of 18 as sembly districts with a single instance of friction. An attempt to conciliate leaders in the big thirty-third assem bjy district was a success, as it related to the leaders. The voters of the dis trict, with scant respect for the desires of the leaders, threw down the pro gram and organized a club as they pleased. The question of club recogni tion in the thirty-third district is the only dispute up to the organization committee. That question will be de termined tonight and with its deter mination the San Francisco campaign ivill be on. Two big district mass meetings will be held under the auspices of the re publican county committee this week. The first will be held at the South San Francisco opera house on Thursday night. The speakers will be Congress man E. A. Hayes. A. J. Wallace, candi date for lientenant governor; Lee C. Gates of Los Angeles and Colonel Francis V. Keesling, the San. Francisco attorney, wno ran Wallace an uncom fortably close second for the nomina tion for lieutenant governor. Friday night a mass meeting will be held at StHmke hall. Octavia and Union etreets, which will go farther than mere protestations toward proving that the republican party Is united. The speak ers at that meeting will be Congress man Julius Kahn and Wallace, Gates and K>es!ing. Charles O'Connor will preside. DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN WILL BE GIVEN IMPETUS Costello and Henley to Speak at Bell-Spellacy Rally The democratic campaign In Alameda county will be given impetus tonight at a mass meeting at Maple hail. Four teenth and Webster streets, Oakland. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Bell-Spellacy club.. Stephen V. Costello and Barclay Henley will be the principal speakers. The Bell-Spellacy. club of Oakland, Is the . democratic central campaign or ganization in Alameda county. Henry O. McPike is president and D. D. SaJes secretary of the central club. Branches have been perfected or are about to be completed in Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro. Hay ward and other towns. • The democratic state central commit- ' \u25a0 tee announced additional plans for its campaign speakers yesterday. Isador Dockweiler, the Los Angeles orator, and Mattison Jones are to be added to the flying squadron assigned to north ern California. Prof. Thomas H. Kirk, candidate for superintendent of public instruction, is to join the northern contingent, and Frank E. Herring of South Benfl, Ind..' will leave, the Bell party at Merced tomorrow night. Her ring, with Spellacy, James Pemberton. candidate for attorney general, and •Barclay Henley. . will speak at a' big San Rafael rally Thursday night, and Herring, it is announced, will remain northern California. Moral Wave Sweeps Board Swamps Slot Machine Bill Police Committee of Supervisors Reports Unfavorably on Ordinance, . The great moral wave has struck the board of supervisors. The slot ma chine permit ordinance was killed yes terday. I>one to death in the house of itji friends by an adverse report brought in by the police committee, it was-sol emnly interred by the action; of every one of the board. The clot machine ordinance is dead. "The c*wnmitte« Is and alirar" vrlll be unalterably* opposed to any-thin* that will tend to lower fn the nlltehtemt de srrf the moral standing- of the com munity or to pla«e before % the youth of the city anything that would en courage the gambling; tipiiit, Inculcate Immoral habits or permit anything; that would prey upon the weaker mem ber* of tlie community." . So read the report of Supervisors Herget, Deasy and Knowles. The committee went on to say that It personally favored "regulation" and not "prohibition" of slot machines, but acknowledged the community was the other way, and it pronounced in favor of rejecting the petitions for. the slot machines' return. u.v.oriMors verdict The IB supervisors present voted "Aye" to this sentiment upon Herget's call for the roll, and the slot-machines' are gone beyond present resurrection. The report of the committee follows: The matter of the enactment of an ordinance permitting the use of slot machines has been before the police committee of the board of supervisors for many months. Mer chants, bankers, cigar dealers and businessmen of all sections of the city have petitioned the board from time to time for the passage of an ordinance that would permit the use of slot machines as "trade stimulators." and your committee held several meetings In the mat ter and has heard fully and with a great deal of consideration the arguments of those favoring the machines and those protesting against them. Previous to the close of the last administration, the slot machine was prohibited by ordinance and a : large source of revenue, amounting to approximately $200,000 a year In license taxes was thereby de stroyed, so that when the present board of supervisors came into of fice it faced a constantly increas ing list of budget expenditures and a greatly diminished source of revenue with which to meet them. This in some way or other had to be made up if the administration of the city's affairs was to be -car ried on efficiently and with proper result to the tax payers. moral committee: It was with the hope of restor ing, in some measure at least, this revenue that the police committee was inclined-to look with favor on the return of the slot machines, but BROWN GOES SOUTH TO BOOST FAIR Head of Publicity Committee Working Up Interest in Post Card Week Frank ll Brown, chairman of the Exploitation and Publicity committee for the Panama-Pacific international exposition, will arrive this morning at Los Angeles, where he has gone in the interests of Postcard week, boosting pictures of San Francisco. These are photographs taken "before and after" the fire, and a flashlight of the meet ing in the Merchants' exchange when 14,900,000 was raised. X- Ji School Children's day has been changed to Tuesday, October 11, in order that it may not conflict with San Francisco "Women's Postcard day. Several changes and additions hav ing been made in the executive com mittee ' for ' Women's day, the commit tee now stands: Mrs. Lovell White .Mr*. Henry Payot chairman Mrs. Dent Robert Dr. Mariana Bertola Mrs. F. O. Sanborn Mrs. G. Cameron Baroness ron Schroeder Mm. L. L. Dunbar Mrs. Lawrence I. Scott Mrs. C. E. Grunsky . Mrs. Henry T. Scott Mrs. I. Lowenberp Sirs. Leon Sloss Mrs. Eleanor Martin Mrs. I. N. Walter Mrs. Peter Martin Mrs. John P. Young Mrs. John F. Merrill Miss Maud Younger Mrs. J. Metcalfe In the apportionment of the city by Mrs. Henry Payot and Mrs. J. Metcalfi who. constitute the committee on dis tricts for the Women's Postcard day, many district captains were not ap pointed. This was done purposely In order* that good assignments might be left for presidents or delegates, of or ganizations not present last Friday at the chamber of commerce,. It is ex pected that many additional clubs will be represented at the second meeting, which will be held tomorrow at 9:30 a, m. in the assembly room of the cham ber of commerce, 1337 Merchants' Ex change building. \u25a0 ,: Since California, and not San Fran cisco alone, is waging the effective and winning fight for the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1916. Jt has been deter mined, after a "consultation of business men representing all pections of the state of California, that there shall be organized In. 31 California cities aux iliary or subordinate committees to take charge of all exposition business arising within their jurisdiction. In order that the organization might not be made too unwieldy, it was de termined that committees should -be appointed only where population or lo cation made Jt necessary. At the same time it, was calculated to leave, no sec tion of the state unrepresented. Fol lowing is a list of the cities that will have committees: .*{*••* Eureka. Eed Bluff. Reddlnc, Cbico, OrovUle Marjr*vill^ .Woodland. . Colusa. .. Sacramento. Tru«kee, Graf* \ alley; Stockton, Morced. Fr*«no, Hauford. Vlsallu. RskerMield. SsnU Barbara Santa Cruz. Salinas, Watsonville: San Jo*e, Santa Clara, \entura. I/>s Angeles. Pasadena, RWer slde. San Diego. San Bernardino, Long Beach fcau Pedro. ; ' One of the most conservative and powerful institutions in California— the San Francisco clearing] house asso ciation—has given its unqualified ap proval jo the two amendments through .which' it is proposed to add $10,000 000 to San Francisco's bid for the Panama- Pacific international exposition of 1915. The action'of the bankers was unanimous and the resolutions adopted were of a character that appeal to . the average Investor, who, in most of his .financial transactions, is guided by the lead of; his financial advisers. \u25a0 Petal u ma to Aid PETALUMA, . Oct. 3.— The Petaluma chamber of commerce has agreed to distribute 10.000 postals to advertise the Panama-Pacific exposition; The local committee in charge is -Dr. Thomas McClay, Frank Atwater and W. A. Tough. ;. TH F S >^N P R AN C I SCO CALL only on the condition that they could be so regulated by ..'law', as.' to eliminate all the gambling'fea tures of the machine and to correct the other abuses that "grew out of Its use in previous years. Under no consideration' would- the police committee recommend the restora tion of the slot machines on any other condition. The. committee . Is, and always will be, unalterably opposed to anything that will tend to lower, in the slightest degree, the moral standing of the com-, munity, or to place before the youth ,of the city anything that would en courage the gambling spirit, in culcate Immoral habits or, permit anything: that would prey upon the weaker members or the community. The police committee believes' that the slot machine was a matter \u25a0 , for regulation, and not a matter for absolute prohibition, and for that reason thought of submitting to the board, without recommendation, an ordinance permitting the use of two machines at each stand, under such restrictions as would prohibit "playback" and other 5 features of gambling. Slot machines, under such an ordinance, the committee believed, could be -permitted with ample protection to the public. and be made a source of legitimate rev enue to the city. OPPOSITION CONQUERS It has lately developed, however, that the general public is not fa vorable to the restoration of the slot machines on any condition whatsoever. Protests have been filed by organizations representing all classes of citizens. The Mer-. chants* association, the Y. M. C. A., the Royal Arch, the city front fed eration, the Downtown association, numerous other -organizations, and even some of the cigar dealers themselves, have placed themselves on record as emphatically opposed' to the restoration of the machines. \u25a0Moreover, persistent rumors of an attempt to monopolize the man ufacture of the machines , in the event of • favorable action by the board, which, of course,' could not ' be countenanced, has disposed the committee to change its opinion as to the advisability of enacting such an ordinance and to seek other means for making up the loss of revenue caused by the abolishment of the slot machines. With these considerations in mind your com mittee therefore recommends that the petitions on filv> requesting the restoration of the slot machines be denied. In conclusion your committee wishes to add that It has been sub jected to considerable abuse in this matter from anonymous letter writers and has been frequently and grossly misrepresented by the press, but that at all times it, has been actuated solely by a sincere desire to do what it. thought best for the community at large, to re store in some measure at least the revenue that was lost to the city and to afford relief to those men engaged In the legitimate cigar business who had suffered by \u25a0 the ' severity of the law. \u0084 . .. GERMAN SOCIETY OPENS COMPETITION Plans Building for Turk and Polk Corner and Offers Prizes to Architects The German House association Is now holding an architectural competition. The program calls for a four story building to occupy a lot 137% feet square, located at the northwest cor ner of Turk and Polk streets. The so ciety has called into consultation August G. Headman,- who has'been"re tained as architectural adviser. The architects invited to submit plans are Denke, Henry Gellfus & Son, Frederick H. Meyer, Phillips Schwerdt and Henry H. Meyer. The three submitting/ the plans best. suited to the requirements of the German House association will enter into a final competition with full plans,- elevations and sections. These three will receive prizes of $750, $500 and $300. The competition will be what is known as the double form. The program calls for. a cafe (or rathskeller), bar, bowling alleys and kitchen, large, banquet hall, subject to subdivision for smaller occasions, and a main hall with dance, floor of about 5.000 square feet. This hall also is to be used for theatrical and concert, pur poses; parlors, barrooms wardrobes, reading rooms, club and lodge rooms. The cost of the structure is to be 5200.000. ; "';• M The drawings are to be submitted un signed, and without any distinctive mark to indicate the author. The Jury will consist of the building committee and . the adviser, "their recommenda tion to be approved by the board of di rectors, whose decision will be final. CIVIL SERVICE TESTS SLATED IN THIS CITY Lists of Eligibles for Vacancies to Be Created The United States civil service com mission announces that "on February 4. 1911, a third grade or, subclerical ex amination will-be held, in this city and at. various other places throughout the twelfth civil service -district for f the purpose of creating -lists of eligibles from .which all -vacancies, in' positions of watchman, messenger and skilled laborer in the twelfth civil-service district in the following branches of, the service and' offices will he filled: Cnstoros perrlpe. Internal revpnuP.serTi<re;-snb treasury ««>rvirp. mint' nnd .nssay Bervicp,' oiiFto dUn ' pprylro of public. hulldlngß. • immlßration service, ptenmboat Inspection serrice. -marine and hospital pervice, Indian -.serTice.'-. lighthouse : ser vice,- navy yard serrloe. pension "agency,; bureau of animal Industry offices, weather -bureau of fice*, engineer department »' at larKe,'- ordnance department at large, quartermaster, department at large. • ; .... Applications and further information may , be -obtained : from the .local-secre- tary., board of civil service examiners, in this city, or from the, secretary of the 'twelfth, civil service district, also in this city. , V • . AVa< sonville -Apple . Annual October 10th to 15th... Special excur sion rates and trains "..via - the * Southern Pacific, from Third and .Townsend Streets Depot. An 'Apple- Show .where apples grow. For details' see Agents Southern - Pacific, -Palace ..*. Hotel,'. Flood Building. Market Street Ferry: Depot, Third and Townsend Streets .Depot; Broadway and 'Thirteenth Street; ' Oa kland.-: \u25a0;\u25a0 \u25a0 ~ : \ •:\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0*•• ;\u25a0'-" "y \u25a0-/-. .;>"•,\u25a0>•\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-.\u25a0\u25a0"\u25a0\u25a0•* \u25a0. SENATOR ELECT BtTHrETV-^JacksonTllle, Fla., \u25a0 Oct. -3. — The funeral; of Senator*. elect N.*-B.' . Broward wan held today.;, GoTernoriailcbriet. accompanied by his oablDet.-afuU.battalioriof . the N»<ionM puard -and thousands of citizens accompanied the body to the. cemetery, j . .: \u25a0 - McCUTCHEN AIRS WATER RATE VIEWS Spring Valley Attorney's Con ception Differs From Farring= ton's Preliminary Decision Argues That Income Value of Property or Worth of Stocks Can Not Be Considered Edward J. McCutchen," attorney f or i the Spring Valley water company, ex-! plaining, to United States District' Judge Edward Farrington just where Judge Farrington's decision in the pre liminary proceedings of the water rates case' failed to agree with McCutchen's conception of the law. . was the most novel feature yesterday of \u25a0• the final arguments in the suit which has been on the federal court calendar since 1903. . Since that year the Spring Valley water company has .enjoined the' city and county of San Francisco from en forcing the water rates established by the board of supervisors and succes sive temporary injunctions have, been issued every year since then. The tes timony on the original injunction suit was concluded in December, 1905, and since that date briefs and other papers have been filed by the city attorney's office and the corporation attorneys, prolonging the controversy;' until yes terday, when the final argument on the application of the company for a per manent injunction was begun by Mc- Cutchen. For the first time in> seven years San Francisco is about to -know what is the legal water rate. DIFFERS FROM THE COURT Judge Farrington, sitting in one jal the preliminary injunction suits in 1908, delievered an opinion in which he maintained, among other pointß at is sue, that the value of the Spring Valley, company's plant could not be computed on the basis of the cost to the city of constructing a municipal plant with the Tuolumne sources. It was on this point that McCutchen, reiterating "with all due respect to the court," main tained that Judge Farrington's law was not the law. as McCutchen contemplat ed it. ,'.; . ;;:V'*r : & Judge Farrington, who is judge for the United States district of Nevada, will render the deciding opinion on the case, based on the evidence which was taken before Master in Chancery Hea cock, on the briefs submitted and on the argument ,of counsel. McCutchen held the floor yesterday. He may con clude his argument today, and he 'will be followed by Assistant City Attorney Thomas E. Haven, who conducted the water litigation during City Attorney Long's incumbency. J. H. DockwelTer. water expert for the city, was with Haven in court yesterday. McCutchen was flanked by Attorneys Heller and Powers and Robison. .' DOESXT CONSIDER INCOME In his argument McCutchen said yes terday that in ' adjudicating the value of the Spring Valley water company's plant for the purpose of fixing water rates the income value of the property could not be considered, neither could the value of the stock and bonds of the corporation. He quoted eruditely frotn a German political economist, who ex pressed himself in tomes on the sub ject of the combination theory of:val ues. The feature of that theory Is;that a well wedded pair of gloves is worth more than what the combined value, of the individual members . of the team would be if they were divorced. S On that analogy McCutchen contended that the combined value of the Spring Val ley properties was more than the. value of sum total of the -separate- particles. He declared that the only rheasure.of the property value would.be the cost of reduplicating the system, a method of which Judge Farrington had dis approved. - \u25a0 \u25a0 .'\u25a0'\u25a0 In the afternoon McCutchen elaborat ed on that point and quoted extensively from the testimony of Engineers Ad ams and Grunsky to show that It would cost the city, ti'pward .of $45, 000,000 , to bring 54,000,000 gallons of water daily into San Francisco from the Tuolumne district. EARLY DEMAND FOR TICKETS FOR BIG SHOW Advance Sale for Wild West and c'-t , .Far. East Performances In anticipation of the large crowds that will no doubt attend the perform ances of the Buffalo . Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East; combined show's, and to afford greater conven ience to prospective , purchasers,' the downtown sales of seats will begin this morning at The Owl drug company's store, 778 Market street; \u25a0 Tickets may be purchased for any! of the 'Wild, West-Far East exhibitions, which will begin tomorrow afternoon, promptly at 2 o'clock,' and continue twice daily for the five days ending Sunday nighty It is unusual for the Buffalo Bill- Pawnee Bill combination to sell its seats' In advance of the opening per formance, but so many, requests have been received by the management from prominent persons, in San Francisco that, it was deemed: advisable to depart from the .established rule in this in stance.'- - , \u25a0 ' FALL SUITS \u25a0 * '\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0•' '\u25a0 * _ _, ' \u25a0«^» 1 im • ' .^Mte W99 S^FEIN-BLOCH Your Figure and Ours— Our clothes are made to fit your figure. Our figure is made to fit your purse— : " / :. j '". '•. - = \u25a0 '*' ', . \u0084'/] '.'.. •. •\u25a0 rftrvrt \u25a0 d> Ar\ ;\u25a0.'•• ; You can buy suits for. less money; \-:~ .' „ You can '.buy suits ' f or , more ; money; "' • But you can't buy better suits for the same money. ROBERT S. ATKINS 168 Sutter Street Near Kearny SEWER BONDS IN SIX DISTRICTS STOPPED Supreme Court Decides That Bay Sanitary Boards Can Not Make Improvements Power Is Vested in Municipali ties to Which Localities in Dispute Are Annexed By a decision of the supreme court handed down yesterday the issuance of $355,000 worth ofbonds for sewer im provements is stopped in six of the bay county, sanitarydistricts that have "be come annexed- to a municipality since bond elections. The case in point that decided the fate of pending petitions was that of the East Fruitvale sani tary district, which by* annexation has become a part of Oakland. Other districts which' have been de nied the right. to proceed with the issu ance of bonds voted upon by the dis tricts are:-' Redwood sanitary district, $36,000 bond issue; Seminary Park san itary district, $75,000 bond issue; Fitch burg sanitary district, $75,000 bond is sue; Elmhurst sanitary district, $75,000 bond issue; • Upper Fruitvale sanitary district, $60,000. SETTLES LOXG DISPUTE \u25a0 The decision is of far reaching Im portance and settles a point that has long been in dispute. In all the cases the situation was the same. The dis trict had voted to bond itself to make the sewer improvements under the pro visions of the statutory act*" for the for mation of sanitary districts. Before the actual, issuance. of the bonds the dis trict had voted for annexation with the municipalities. The question then involved was whether the rights of. the sanitary boards appointed to issue the bonds and have, the work done were not dissolved upon' the district becoming a part of the municipality. The* districts held that as the election for the improve ments had been held prior to the an nexation and under statutory pro\-isions the issuance of bonds was a valid pro cedure. \u25a0 ' ' OXE BODY SUFFICIENT • In the opinion of the supreme court it is stated that with the effacement of the district by merger with the munici pality air the. rights; of the board and all the work of street improvement be comes municipal matters and the san itary board is dissolved. The opinion holds that to allow another condition to prevail would be \u25a0 to* have two bodies exercising governmental functions In one community. "Such a condition would produce confusion and conflict." It is. pointed out that, the Oakland freeholders' charter covers the dispute with the proviso that on filing retuVns on the annexation "that the territory to be annexed shall be to all intents and purposes a part of the municipal cor- DISTRICTS LOSE RIGHTS All of the cases had been decided in lower courts in favor of the sanitary districts. The decision of the supreme court says that all the rights of a san itary district are \aken up by the muni cipality into which the district becomes merged and that the district Is then governed by 'the charter of the muni cipality. • If the disarlct wishes to proceed with the construction of its own im provements, the court pointed out that this could be done under a later, act entitled "An act to provide separate sewer districts within the municipal ity.".. \u25a0 ,"-» : M , i" FORTY MEN IN SMALL SHACK.BREAKS LAW Trio Convicted of Violating Cubic Air Ordinance Thomas Ayers. Stephen Manley and William G. O'Dell were convicted before Judge Weller yesterday on a charge of violating the cubic air ordinance. Pa trolmen Nolan and Patton, who made the arrests, testified that they "were passing a* shack in Sixteenth avenue between G and H. streets'. when Nolan declared that -he heard sounds issuing from the building. Patton declared that Xolan was mistaken. To prove his assertion, Nolan heaved a cobblestone-against the shack, and a few seconds later men were seen to be emerging from the doors, windows and rickety chimneys. Although only the three men '.were captured, the policemen declare that fully 40 men were occupying the building. "DR." THOMPSON'S CASE LEFT TO HIGHER COURT The case of "Dr." Robert Thompson. aJiflp-'James Grant, charged with the murder of. Eva Swan in a complaint sworn tn by Detective M. V. Burke, was stricken from the calendar in the police court yesterday. Judge Conlan held that' the superior court had taken cognizance of the 'grand jury indict ment issued against- Thompson charg ing him with murder^ and . that this fact eliminated the case from the lower courts., . - , ij-iv*;; TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1910. GRAHAM SEVERELY SCORES HUSBAND Says George Prentice Childers Should Be Tarred and Feathered Margaret Johnson Charges That Spouse Beat and Jumped On Her "A scoundrel of this man's makeup should be\ tarred and feathered. Since I -have been "trying divorce cases I have never heard testimony that dis closed such reprehensible conduct on the part of a husband. I invite the police authorities to investigate this man Childers. A man who would om> week after marrying a Rirl of tender years attempt to sell her into slavery should-be driven from the city." This castigation was administered yesterday by Judge Graham to George Prentice Childers of the Standard man ufacturing company In granting Flo rice M. Childers a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Mrs. Childers tes tified that she married the defendant December 5. 1909. One week later he told her' that he knew another Rlrl who was nicer than she and suggested to his wife that she go out automobile "riding with a man of his acquaintance. She indignantly refused to do thin. Telling- her that he always got "glo riously drunk" Xew Year's er«. Child ers stayed out all of New Year's day and -the night before, the wife stated, leaving her without food or money. She was forced to walk to the ferry and borrow 10 cents from'a policeman in order to get to her mother's home at Oakland. Childers. told his wife sTie was no sport because . she would not drink wine. Vv. ; ; <•• • Because she used oil to start a" fire with green and damp wood Mrs. Mar garet Ellen Johnson was assaulted by her husband, Thomas J. Johnson, with his clenched fists, thrown from the porch of their house to the ground, after which Johnson Jumped on her. rendering'her unconscious, she charged in a divorce complaint filed yesterday.' Johnson is a farmer at San Gregorio, San Mateo county, and has an income of $2,000 a year. His wife asks $100 a month allmonj'. Mrs. Johnson charges further that the defendant told her that If she did not leave the ranch he would tie her up and take her away: also that he tore her clothes off and forced her out of the house at 8 o'clock at night. John WJj Wilson of the Visalia sad dlery company, was accused in a di vorce complaint -filed yesterday by Elizabeth Wilson with having threat ened to kick her out of bed. which she was occupying on • the. advice of a physician. 'If you have an operation performed I :will break, your ribs, as I did my first wife," "Wilson is alleged to have said. He also threat ened to break her ribs because she was sweeping the floor at 8 o'clock at night, the complaint avers. Divorces were granted ' yesterday a3 follows: By Jurtsp CabaniFS — Cora A. from Georc» H. Stroagr. \u25a0 wlfiful neglwt; William I*, from Brrtba Jack»oo. desertion. R.y Jndge Van Xostrand — IrTing C. from Ro slnn Sauter. d»s^rtlon. Suits, for divorce "were begun by: Elpanor J. ajralnst E. J. Hill, willfnl npglwt; I Yosemtte acalnst Xorman E. Thaxton. desertion; . H«iry • R. against Leonora Pearl William*, de sertion: Marj- C. against William 1.. Boone. de sertion; Maud Xolder a*ain»t Olirer P. McFall. rrnelty: Jesslp A. against Charles C. McDonald, habitual intemperance. WOMAN CHARGED WITH THEFT BY LANDLADY Hazen Gibson, a prepossessing young woman of 25, has been arrested and placed in detinue at the city prison by Detectives Farrell and Bailey on com plaint of Mrs. Barrett of 1348 Geary street, who alleges that the defendant purloined $4.0 from her while a lodger at her house. Bood Pianos of Medium Cost It is not necessary to be extravagant in the purchase of your piano. Really, good pianos may be bought on easy pay- ments at any of our stores at prices that are identically the same as such instruments would cost on the floors of their manufacturers. We carry no pianos that are not good enough to bear our unqualified guarantee : none that will not give last- ing and satisfactory service in appearance and durability and in musical quality as well. No medium 'priced instrument enjoys such an enviable reputation as The Ludwig Piano Made in the .most, modern and perfectly appointed of fac- tories, equipped with every device for labor-saving and econ- omy in manufacture, built "by the highest skilled labor only,' the Ludwig offers more real value in tone, finish, design and per- manent usefulness than any piano at or near its cost. For more than;twenty years the Ludwig has been the leading medium priced piano on the Coast. Our stock of Ludwigs is at all times complete. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES .WILEY B. AT.LEN BUII.DIXG 135-153 Kearny and 217-225 Sutler Stresi Oakland, Tan Tireirth and 1105 WaMhfngrton . OTHER STORES-^— lion Ancrel«-«, Sarramento, San Jose, San Dlearat 'Phoenix, Arizona; Reno, Xevada; Portland, Oregon Now Altogether LAND THIEVES ARE DENIED REHEARING U. S. District Court of Appeals Decides Against Binger 10 Hermann's Associates Decision Against Welching In surance Company Affirmed by Upper Tribunal The United States district -court ot appeals began its October term yes terday. Thirty decisions were handed dov.*n. which is the ratH>rd number on any one day for years. Judge W. C. Van Fleet, circuit judge for % this circuit, was upheld in four important decisions and reversed in but one minor > The petitions of Willard N. Jones *nd Franklin P. Mays. indicteV convicted with Binger Hermann "'for land frauds in the forest reserve of Oregon, for a rehearing of their case* was denied by the court, and they will now have to serve their prison sentences. It was decided that if any buildinK was destroyed by a fire originally started by the earthquake of 1908 such building would be considered to have been destroyed as the result of tiie original fire, no matter how many intervening structures were first de stroyed by the fire. This decision was Issued by the court in the case of the German savings and loan society against the Commercial Union assur ance association for the loss of a build ing next to the subtreasury in Com mercial street. The. lower court's de cision was affirmed. According to a decision handed down yesterday the Western Union telegraph, company will have to pay $500 to Jennie Lawson for falling to deliver a telegram to her at the Hotel St. Fmncis, 318 Union street, Seattle, which she owns, until several days after it had been received. She was anxious to sell her hotel for $10,000. but she needed money and appealed for a loan of $500 from a friend in West Vir ginia. He telegraphed January 27 that he would send her the money. Th« message was not delivered until Feb ruary 15. In the meantime she hart been compelled to sell her hotel for $6,500. Other decisions were: Haas Broth ers vs.' Hamburg-Bremen fire Insur ance company, reversed; United steam ship company vs. A. Schilling & O\. affirmed; Leege & Haskins vs. Ur.uVd steamship company, affirmed; Warma nola sugar company vs. Pacific Mail steamship company, reversed, and Ta, coma mill company vs. National Bank; of Commerce, affirmed. RAPIDITY OF CURE OF DRUNKENNESS In Three Days the Patient Is Hfcn- self Again For the treatment of periodical and habitual drunkenness nothing can equal the Xeal Three-Day Liquor Cure. •which Is an absolute specific tnr chronic alcoholism. It makes no dif- ference how Ions? a man has been drinking, how much or how little he drinks, "or what he drinks, the Neal treatment has never failed to cure in three days' time. There are no hypo- dermic Injections used and the m»>ili- cine Is purely vegetable and harmle«s. The patient from almost the very first dose has lost all desire for drink, and when h© finishes the treatment on th« third day is thoroughly himself asa't>. The Neal Institute in San Francisco. at 1409 Sutter street, has cur^d men and women who had become alcoholic wrecks and restored them to their family-and friends in perfectly normal and healthfut condition In three days" time. • -,-'. ?\j -