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A OAKLAND TRIBUNE 4 BLAMES OFFICER FOR BREAKING UP HIS HOME HOME CAUSE OF SURPRISE ACROSS BAY Officials VJho Wrestled With Bugaboo to Fight Any Attempt to Raise Rates TOE UCt MEXICAN MOBS THREATEN -TO MASSACRE AMERICANS Violent Disorders in Many Parts of the Country Endanger Lives of Foreigners (Continued From Page 17.) Mexico," said George A. Beater, one ner in which the deal was made 'possible by the legal manipulation of deeds presented several legal questions which the city officials were unable to accurately discuss today. Supervisor Alexander Vogelsang, chairman of the public utilities committee, declared that the Home company had done Indirectly, what It was forbidden to do directly and to accomplish the desired obpect upon -technical grounds. He said that the acquisition of the new plant would be SAN FRANCISCO. March 14.

The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, the western arm of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, today purchased the entire plant of the Bay Cities Telephone In this city, Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, for $9,276,000. All but the franchise held by the Home company in San Kranciaco' la now owned by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Thia franchise, official! of the two compantea declared today, will remain In the name of the Home company until surrendered to the city. The acquisition of San Francisco's independent company, the largest of the Home systems operating on the. coast, is but another step taken by American Telephone and Telegraph company to control the telephone business in the Pacific States, thus conv pleting Us Immense net of wires extending over the continent.

BITING SYSTEMS. It follows the recent purchase, of the Seattle, Tacoma and Belllngham independent systems 'by the Pacific company. The plans of the latter company are said to include the pur-, chase of independent systems In Lot Angeles. Portland and Spokane. When a.thesa systems are gathered Into the fold the dream of Theodore N.

Vail, the Harrlman-of the telephone trust who recently visited the coas will have been realized, His masiei mind for organization Is said to be responsible for todays deal. The deal was consummated on the eve of an' election by' which It was planned to test the feeling of the voters of San Francisco on the dual question: first, as to whether perils slon should be given the Home com pany to merge with the Pacific, and whether the city shall bond itself for tt, 000,000 to purchase the Home plant. The strategy of the financiers, aided by theli lawyers, Is believed to have defeated the purposes of this election; Forrnonthrthe telephone problem has been the source of much wrangling between the supervisors and telephone company officials. OFFICIALS SCKPKISEI). The announcement that this, one of the, most Important financial deals In recent years, had been consummated was greeted by surprise by the city officials, who have been wrestling with the telephone bugaboo.

The man AN ALMOST SENSATIONAL EMBROIDERY SALE HEADS THE LIST TOMORROW The great Embroidery Sale, to which we have been looking forward for many months (ever since the goods were purchased in Europe) commences tomorrow, Monday. Over 25,000 yards of- beautiful Embroideries finest quality and most attractive designs of every widtfi and description, at the following sensationally low prices: AT X5 YARD Edgings and Insertions to 8 inches' in width, "which would be cheap at 25c, 30c and 35c yard. AT 23 YARD 5000 yards of Beadings, Galloon, wide Flouncings of every description. None worth less than 50c yard. AT 38 YARD The entire balance, comprising astonishing values in allovers, deep flouncings, rich corset coverings in.

Irish Point effects, Venetian designs; also wide ribbon beadings, -12-inch bandings for summer dresses, beautiful half-" ilotincings 75c, 85c and $1.00 values. AT 85S; STRRynnwg Jrom 4 yards to 6 yards in length is a collection of Topm-end Embroideries consisting of edges and insertions of the finest quality; alsO 'Baby Irish patterns (to be jold in strips only). Values up to $2 strip. SILK SPECIAL TOMORROW ONLY 500 yards of splendid quality (1 yard wide) Shantung Pongee, comprising $1.25, $1.35 and $1.50 values, all at 90 yard- DRESS GOODS SPECIAL For tomorrow only we announce the 1 following exceptional bargains: 500 yards of Mannish Suitings, 54 Inches wide, all wool, in light tan, medium gray and golden brown $1.50 values at $1.00 yard for tomorrow only. Ten pieces all wool-Crash Stritingr524nches -widetr navy-blue golden browjn, lavender, light gray, Alice blue, light tan and black at $1.25 yard, tomorrow only.

1 Ten pieces Navy Blue Serge, fancy andtplain weaves, shadow checks and stripes, 48 inches to 52 inches wide; every yard worth $1.25 yard. HUGO ABRAHAMSON WILL RETIRE FROM BUSINESS i III Health Compels Withdrawal of Pioneer Merchant From Firm HOUSE STOCKTON AND OTARREL ti HOUSE Republican Committees Will Meet on Monday in the St. Francis Hotel. FRANCISCO, March Is not altogether certain that Colonel Charles Mifflin Hammond, president of the- Taft Republicans of California, will return from the T.Ako rmmtv ItUMIC I III1IB attend the meeting of the campaign rnmmlttA. at fl, lrPnHnj- ir.1.1 wt.

i- i 13 jiulsi JiHltl-" day morning at 11 o'clock, but It will not be postponed on that account. Should he be absent Phil S. Teller will take his" place. The meeting has been called to continue the work on the plans In contemplation to secure to President Taft the delegates from California to the national Republican convention. Ex-Governor James Nv-Olllett, chair-, man, has called a meeting of the pub- mtttse for the- sarrm -dayr which1 probably will convene immediately after the campaign committee adjourns and outline a plan of publicity that will cover the state.

NO DIVISION OF STRENGTH. The Taft Progressive Republican League of California had a meeting this afternoon In the offices of A. ghlnn in the Clunle building and spejnt some time In discussing the far as it affects the sending of a Taft delegation to Chicago. As has already announced. It Is not probable the two big Taft organisations will merge Into each other, but members of both "organliatlns are working with the end In view of concentrating on one list of delegates to the national convention, so there may be no.

division of strength or effectiveness In the delegation. It Is probable the conference" committees of the two organizations will meet today and form at least a tentative se-lection of names to be considered as available for delegates. It is probable, too, that many new faces will be seen In the seats set aside for the California delegation at Chicago, as the "old guard" Republican almost without exception, announced their desire to stand to one side and give the newcomers hot only a welcome, but hearty support In whatever they can or have desire to do for President Taft WOMEN TO BE BUSY. The coming week will be an 'active one for the women Taft supporters. A permanent organisation of the Women's Taft Club in the Twenty-seventh Assembly district will be efftctod at a meeting In the Improvement Club Hall, 1141 Masonic avenue, nar Height street, Monday night Mrs, Marcy Ci Bell Issued a call for the meetlner tm nnrmr MknlnmaJl iiie speaxer of the evenlrg will be Samuel Shortridge, but Mrs.

Abbie a Krebs, president of the State Taft Republican Club, will also address thajnajV 'In Mrs. Belinda Bailoy, state secretary, will speak. SWOONS WHEN TOLD HER BABES ARE DEAD SEBASTOPOL, March 1. "For Ood's sake tell me If they have all aled. I have had a vision of my little ones In heaven and I am positive they have left me.

I can feej it Is my heart, cried Mrs. H. W. Fletcher, whose three children are dead as the result of toadstool when she regained consciousness this afternoon. She implored the nurse to reveal the truth, and finally Dr.

Kerr was sent for. He tried to soothe the Jlck woman and put off telling her for one hour, then he broke the hews. The woman swocmed. Her recovery from the shock and effects from the poisoning Is very doubtfjjl tonight. The funeral of the three- children ill take place tomorrow afternoon.

They will be burled in on i Tn nr niiTi mrn III rU I UL UU I LIIILUT garrison is small, and is now prepar ing for an assault. i Six thousand people, "many of them Americans, have fled from Torreon. Violent disorders re- in progress at Tamaullpas and Vera Crux, while Pu-ebla. Morel os and Guererro are practically In the hands of bandits and in surrectionists. As an indication of the situation as viewed In Washington, the Army and Navy Register, an official organ, said today: There is nothing in the situation in that country, far as available Information from tlio best possible quarters throws any light on the subject, to Indicate the maintenance of a stable government capable of controlling (hp disorderly factions which are widely separated and entrenched iii mountain sections difficult of.

access and easily defended jflrfiSS" attack; I'ndcr such circumstances the army has Its task and His The inclination of the, American government to avoid 'the issue must be rccog-nlzed as merely a postponement of the inevitable. To most observers' qualified to Judge results It is only a question of when there will be in Mexico real trouble beyond the capacity of that government to suppress. FORCED TO FLEE. NEW YORK, March 16. One hundred and thirty refugees from Mexico, all Americans, arrived today on the steamship Morro Castle.

Two-thirds were women and children who' had left Vera Cruz on twenty-four hours' notice. "Anarchy practically rules all over I Attempt Made to Take the Life of Judge Otto (Continued From Page 17.) to take up the hunt for the perpetrators of the crime. Judge Rosalsky was unable, In the excitement Immediately following the explosion, fo give a detailed account 'of the matter. The package had been deljii-ered by mall the last delivery of the day and had been brought to' him by a hall boy. MA FI A SUSPECTED.

It was suggested that the attempt to murder Judge Rosalsky was the work of the Mafia. In July, 1908. after Judge Rosalsky had sentenced Cosmlna Riecobono to ten years' Imprisonment' for attempted robbery, he was told by the prisoner: "The Mafia will get you for this." As he was being led from the courtroom Riecobono said in French to an acquaintance: "He gave me ten years. You take care of him for me." Only a short time ago an Italian forger was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary by Judge Rosalsky. The Judge said omphatically tonight: "I have reasons to suspect that friends of this man sent me this, bomb to murder Most of the Stanford Seniors Come From Southern Cal-, ifornia as Formerly.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. March 16. A class of over 250 students will graduate from Stanford in May, As usual, the southern countips have contributed the major portion of the university enrollment, hut the senior class this yeanhas representatives In an untisunlly large number from middle, western and eastern states. A partial list of cnndldates for graduation Issued hy the faculty Is as follows: in Flora Anne Itagley, Eunice Case, Bertha Wilhelnilna Piebcr. German Irene Frances Pnrnside, Fllth flochel Iiulse Marcus, Kb ye Until r.erlrurie Anne MIllcrLlllUui Krsheeg Rivers, Ada Robinson, Clara l.yclla Scbaaf, Norhert Scheele, Kertha P.

Zwalenhurg. itomanlc, Jingiuiges-Roberta Tlaslrtr, Jiilkv, Kngehta Moore, Afftda New-kirk, Lynda, Louise Sfrlcklrr, Jere Turpln, XIny Vertrees. Kngltsh Literature Ethel Louis Baxter, Fredireck 'Harold Beach. Harry Hammond Leslie Blarichard, Grace Burke, Kihcl Ie Crosby, Jessica Don-Carlos, Katherine Pvetvltt Graham, Clarence Bray Hamntond, Frances Mprcy Hoyt, Evelyn Clara Hulsmun, Laurence Burclt Jackson, MHiy 1oulse McCarthy, Ora Martina Mc-1'iermott, Hamilton Murray, Olive White KMlenberger, Gertrude Dardler Workman. riillasophy-Rulh E.

Shaw. Psychology Alma Holmes. Education Otha Harrison Close, Emma (llndvs Olll, William T. Brooxle Cnrtwrlght Stewart, William Roy Tanner. M.

Toy, Helen Frost, (fiuy Vernellen Whaley. Illstorv ellle Allen Bray, flraoe Thomas Lynch Coleman, Florence May Fellows, DeltaAvis Garst, Mary Louise Herron, Katherine Barbara Luik, Marion Allison MacLachlan. Nina Ethel Molse, Virginia Moore, Elizabeth Ella Murphey, Wlllard Hodges Newman. Douglass Krle Newton, Cyril Raymond Niinan, Elsie M. Parker, Reglna Ryer-sun "tiertrude Elisabeth Sanborn.

Emma Schwab, Frances Lillian Shaw, Ruth Cathertno Pudden, William Eugene Tul-bny, Martlia Florence Wcndling, Eva Ulnnche Whelan. Kconomlca and Social Science Charles Lewis Allen, Derte Irma Dennis, Albert A. Frost, Wallace Belmont Graham, James Edwin Hlgglns, Laurence Landreth Hill, erbert Lincoln Huhbard. Harlan Jlrlee Kaufman, Oarton Donald Key ton, Kerd Prince, Henry Bwafford, Nelll Compton Wllaon. I're-legai John 3,.

ljeman, Slewart Ashley Jhv Cooper, W'l'isni C. Daltsell. John Allen Davis, Maurice F. Ended, Moses Miller Fogel, Norman 1. French, Manley Edward Elmer Wilson Ileald, Joseph Walter Hebert, Klcard Hoge HelWnann, James William Henderson, Marshall B.

Henshaw, John Wtalev Howell, Uall Carhart Larkln, BIB IP EEADUn IBEflli of the party. "American men and women are swarming Into Vera Cru. Hundreds implored the ihip'a officers to take them on board the Morro Castle, but, of course, only a limited number could be booked. "Engineers, business men and miners with their families are awaiting the first opportunity to get out of the country'-" TO PREVENT RAIDS. AUSTIN.

Texas, March 16, Governor Colquitt said today that he would ask Brigadier General Duncan of the Department of Texas on Monday to satidn ten detachments of United States cavalry at towns between El Paso and Del Rio to assist Texas rangers In preventing raids by Mexicans, on cattle, VIVAS FOR LDERO. LAREIWfjis, March 16. Twq thousand the peace commission movement in Mexico participated in a parade through the streets of Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from this place today. Along the line of the march the name of Madero was greeted with almost continuous "vivas." The demonstration, grew out of the meeting In Nueva Laredo of a peace commission now traveling In Nuevo Leon. The commission hopes to cre-ate'sentiment against further revolutionary agitation among the masses of the people, particularly among members of labor unions.

The "commission" is similar to others now at work In other portions of the republic. Its members are union labor leaders. Body of Woman -Found -By! Husband Hanging By Trunk Strap. 1 (Continued From Page 17.) that believed they would go for a drive. "That's Just what I want to do." she replied, enthusiastically.

"I have been anxious to go out all day." "Get ready; put on a heavy coat and we will start in ten minutes," said Lorillard as he started downstairs. Fifteen minutes later he returned. His wife's fur coat and hat were on the bed, but she could not be seen. After searching through the apartment Lorillard entered the bathroom and was horrified. The body of his wife was hanging limply at.

the end pfa canyas trnk strap attached to a small reservoir in one corner of the room. Hastily getting out his penknife Lorillard held up her body and with one sweep of the knife cut the strap. For the next five minutes he worked over her frantically in an effort to revive her. She did not resporwf to his treatment and he telephoned to Assistant Manager Summers to send a physician. Dr.

A. A. Moore, the hotel physician, Immediately responded. There seemed to be faint evidences of respiration and he labored for half an hour, using all known scientific meth ods in an effort to save her. At the end of that time he sent for his assistant, Dr.

H. L. Hooker, who Joined him and contributed his skill. Their efforts were without avail and fifteen minutes after Dr. Hooker came the thwr-ltfraEorfliatfl' was dead.

PLAIN SUICIDE CASE. "It is a clear casejof suicide," said Coroner Felnberg. "She evidently started to dress to go out and then hurriedly threw aside her wraps and hanged There had been no domestic troubles, I am informed, and there seems to have been no reason for her killing The strap she used to hang herself was taken from a trunk found In the bedroom. It had been ripped from the Inside of the truTikr A number of articles were scattered about In her hurry to get the strap. Lorillard Is a cousin of Pierre Lorillard, a New York capitalist.

"I haven't seen Bceckman Lorillard for a year and I know noThlhg about his domestic affairs, said Pierre Lo, rIMard tonight. Hangs Himself When Twins Keep Howling NEW YORK, March 16. While his twins, who are alleged to have been the cause and hiotlye for his act of "self-destruction, howled themselves hoarse In a crib, Frederick Kalendousch hanged himself to a gas fixture here tonight. He was discovered by his wife hefore life was extinct, and hurried to Bellevue hospital. It is thought he will recover; Neighbors declare that the twins, who are now two months old.

could make more noise than all the bahies in the neighborhood combined. Kalendousch was st first proud of them, but soon their yells began to grate on his nerves. 46; UNABLE TO WRITE: 56; PROMINENT LAWYER it BOSTON, uMarch. 16. Ten years ago Moses H.

teuer could not read or write. Today, at the age of 66, he Is a member of yt'hes Massachusetts bar. Stuer camr to this country a little more than a decade ago; To support his family he went from house to house selling small wares. Then he became Involved in a lawsuit. Before Judge Pierce In a local court, Steuer successfully argued his own case and recovered from a deputy sheriff who had replev-ined some of his goods.

The court proceedings gave Steuer an Inspiration and he began to learn the English language by reading words on signboards. Working by. day and' studying at night Steuer laid Ihe foundation for his professional career, which started -i-i-i-i'i-i- Clarence MrDonnlJ. Arthur Wheatley Palmer. Jerouin Oeven-uux J'elers, Alfred Worcester Robortson Harold.

Meredith Sherman, A Sonthelmrr, Lester Douglas Summerfield' Warren Tucker Joseph W. Vlckers' Ielena II. Walker, Martin Luther Wani Faul Philip Ward. UilSHE HIK HERSELF used by the Pacific company as tne, basis for an argument for an increase In telephone rates. said that any attempt to raise the existing tariffs would be resisted, not by "himself alone, but by the entire board, TO P.VFKGUAnD IUgIITSV Mayor Holph stated thut he would Insist upon having the rights of the city safeguarded.

As the-news came as a surprise to the mayor, he was unable to discuss the various phases of the purchase. -S That the transfer of the properties was accomplished in a. legal way, but that the Home Telephone company was legally bound to tfTntlmto to serve its patrons, was the opinion of Daniel 8. member of the public utilities committee of the Board of Su-pervlsors. Officials of the! Home company announced that the plant had been sold to Its rival because it had been a losing proposition since its organization and.

the Investors could not wait untij the initiative election was held. Vice-President Robert N. Frlck. who Is also counsel for the Home company, said that the deal was legal, and that the permission of the cltv to sell the plant wag not legally required. TO OPERATE HOME.

Horace- D. Pillsbury, attorney for the Pacific (Telephone and Telegraph company, 'who, with Henry T. Scott, president of the- Pacific company, engineered lhedeal-ln-hehalf -that corporation, announced that the Home plant would be operated independently by the Pacific company until such time as the two plants could be pty-gically amalgamated. He said that engineers of the Pacific company would first have to investigate and upon their reports the time for such a consolidation of plants would be fixed. This probably will take place, he said, In a few years.

ing spring and summer season. This la especially true of the contents of ihe suit and cloak and millinery departments, where only ttte latest and most fashionable models are shown and wilt be placed on sale at greatly reduced prices. The firm considers such fln arrangement phenomenal at the middle of a seasonr when the newest things are arriving for' the coming months in fact, considers It something never before done. The corporation, which 1ms been In existence In Its. present form for 30 years, was particularly anxious to have Hugo Abrahamson remain at its head, but his Insistence that his falling health made his withdrawal Imperative has prevailed.

He will, however, continue to make his home In Oakland, where he has large property interests. At present he Is tLos Angeles, recuperating. The remaining members of the firm plan to continue the activities of Abrahamson Brothers along the lines followed They declare their "entire confidence In the future of the city and contemplate further plans and investments following the sale and reorganization. Crowded Court Soon Kept in Uproar at Trial in Mraysville. MARTSVILLE, March The Jury In the Dltzler assault case was completed this morning by the addition of three men to the three women and Six men already chosen.

Most of the men are young-, but the women are older. Attorneys and Magistrate Hides kept the crowded court room In almost continuous laughter. The Justice fined Attorney Brlttaln $5 for contempt In asking Mrs. Phelps, who charge's she was struck by DItz-ler, If there was not something In their relations that she would not care to have made public. When the cime was jibcutwtn ho ad-Journed until Monday ruie'of the jurv-men ohjected because be Is on officer of the municipal election on thut day -and would lose $6 hy silting on-the Jury, The prosecution offered to pay half of that sum if the defense balance, Justice Hicks objected to iny such arrangement, declaring that he would have "no boughten" Justice in his court.

PHYSICIAN ATTEMPTS TO GRAFT ON THUMB March Id. Gordon Sewell, while chopping kindling completely severed the top of his left thumb. A physician picked up the dismembered section of the thumb, and while the lad was un- an anaesthetic, placed it In po sition and Is now trying the experiment of grafting It back Into proper place. The success, of the procedure is doubtful, though the physician claims that the. youth of the boy makes itjmsslble If Is no further shock" or Injury sustained.

WINS V000 S. H. STAMPS At the Weekly drawing held last evening In the parlors of the S. tt H. Green Trading fltatnp Compuny, .1.

J. Wheeler of 5605 tover street, Oakland, held the lucky ticket which won 10A0 stamps, given sway by Money-Rack Smith, the progressive Washington street merchant. This is the second week that Money-Hack Smith has given away this amount of stamps. The Idea will Continue iiirln fnnnfh. Tola HON.

LADY HER.VEY-IlATHl'RST. LONDON. March 1. Captain Sir Frederick Edward William Hervey-Bathurst has just obtained a divorce from his wife, the Hon. Lady Hervey-Bathurst, on the grounds of infidelity Marquis Piedre de Jancan, a retired officer of the Grenadier Guards, Is named as the cause of the domestic Infelicity.

Hon. Lady Hervey-Bathurst Is a daughter of, the fourteenth Baron Inclilquln, by his, second marriage. One of sisters is married to Marconi, the Inventor of the wireless telegraphy system. Japan and Russia's Imminent Partition of China Leads to Quick Action. (Continued From Fape 17.) ate" needs of provisional government of United The American goy-ernment has approved the transaction on the condition that full and equal participation be offered to Russia and Japan.

It is understood that thfse two gov-emments have agreed In principle to the participation, the details of which remain'to be settled. This statement calls particular at? tehtloh to the grouping of the nations and the even more startling fact that Japan -and Russia are' acting apart' and unquestionably in oncer ORDERED TO ORIENT. The following Is the Pacific fleet, which has been ordered to the Orient: Armored cruisers: California (flaj-ship of Rear Admiral Thomas), Can-tain Chas. H. Harlow, at Honolulu; Colorado, Captain A.

at Honolulu; South Dakota, Captain Frank M. Bennett, at Honolulu; Maryland, Captain John Elliott. Asiatic fleet (now In Orient) Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdock, com-mander-tn-chlef; Rear Admiral Regl-nal P. Nicholson, ordered to command.

FIRST DIVISION. Saratoga (flagship of Rear Admiral Murdock), Commander Hnrrison H. Bispham, at Olongapo, P. Cincln: nati, Commander Samuel S. RobiHon, at TaTui, China; Albany, Commander ten Rrd i ack sott a NaK ''K I k' China.

SECOND DIVISION. Helena, Commander Chester M. Knepper, crult-ing on Tang Tse rlvei; ano, Victor Houston, cruising on Yang Tse river; Qulros, Lieut. John W. Schoenfeld, cruising on Yang Ta; Famar.

Lieut. Kdward, JJ. Washburn, cruising on Yang Tse. THIRD DIVISION. Callao.

Lieut. Stuart W. Cake, at Wu Chan, China: Monterey, Commander Mark L. Bristol, at Swatow, China; riscataqun, Lieut. Stephen Wallace, at Canton, China; Wilmington.

Commander Webster A. Edgar at Canton. China. FOVilTK DIVISION. Monadnock, Lieut, Emll V.

Svarz, I at the naval station, Olongapo, P. i Pampanga, Lieut. Chas. A. Woodruff, cruising In the waters of the Philippines.

Auxiliaries: Rainbow (temporary flagship of Rear Admiral Murdock), at Shanghai, Wompatuck, at Manila; Alexander (collier), 'at Ca-vite, P. Aharenda (collier), 'at Taku, China; Nanshan (collier), merchant complement, William T). Pritch-ard, master, at Olongapo, P. I. Pacific reserve squadron.

Captain Charles Pond commanding: at Bremerton: Raleigh, at St, Louis, at Bremerton. U. DR. Wl WANTS SOB. I LONDON.

March 16. Though- he 'fias offered the foreign port-' folio in the new Chinese cabinet, says th Peking correspondent of Daily Telegraph, Wu Fang Is I determined that he shall be reappointed Chinese minister at Wnsh-ington. The correspondent, states that fit Is understood Dr. Wu's motive is A desire to raise the Important Chinese legations to the rnk of em- bassles. i KICKING LADY STIRS j.

CITYjDF BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, March 16. Tlio "Kicklnir Ibq-, wno mgmiy tnrows out ono splendidly electrically lllumlneted leqr over the entrance to the Empire Theater, has come under the bun of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Marshal Garuum has bpr.a!4ked to stop the "Kicking iady'i" kicking. State's Attorney William F. Broenlng has been In conference with the marshal, snd Inst night the state's official, made avsonil visit to the thentet.

The "Kicking Jdy" had stopped kicking because the electric current had been turned off, but at Mr. Briwnlng's request the Current was again switched on, and the "Kicking Lndy" performed a tfunt for about five minutes while the state's attorney and the (marshal gravely In-tpected the performance, Both said, they could bps no impropriety In the sign. UNCLE SAM SENDS 111 DOGS ON RUN STOCKTOJf AND O'FARRETjIi THE LACE BACK FROM EAST Thinks Swimming Should Be. Taught in Local Public Schools. After a three trip through the Middle Eastern States, City Superintendent of Schools J.

W. McClymonds returned home The official went east to attend the national convention of school superintendents at St. Louis. HP was accompanied by City Architect J. J.

TJonovan on the trip eaBt as far as St. Louis, from which point the latter left for New York and Boston to study the architecture of the latest school buildings. On the return trip McClymonds stopped at Los Angeles for a few days, spending the time In visiting the schools. He has a number of plans for Improving the steel structures of this city and in speaking of the trip said: "The physical development ot the pupils in the grammar and high school grades Is a feature of the Eastern schools, which to my mind might be ined- Jrf -Chliarefl arr taught In some of the grammar schools in the East to expert swimmers, arid I would recommend the Including of swimming pools In the Oakland schools. Manual training, of which I am strongly In favor.

Is also Included in the curriculum of all the schools. "I found, students of the classical and commercial courses in the high schools working side by side In the manual train-department. This condition breeds democracy and should be encouraged. "TUelleve the boij-d of education did well in choosing" the Forty-fifth street and Broadway as the site for the Oakland Manual Training and Commercial High School." Mustache Freezes To the Sidewalk NEW TORIC "March 16. Maihew Qulnn, 40 years old, of 179 Lafayette street, Newark, kissed the pidewalk In real earnest today In front of the Market street station, and was unable to raise himself by reason of the fact that his mustache froze to the pavement.

Qulnn fell asleep' face down with his Hps against the sidewalk In front of tbe Pennsylvania railway station, and when he awoke cried with pain. A policeman to hta rescue with a penknife and severed that part of him which still clung to the MODERN WOMAN NOT KANSAS CITY, March 1. "If the woman of today were deprived of modern methods and appliances apd forced to live as our grandmothers lived, she would freeze or starve to death through Ignorance of the crudest laws of self-preservation, said Miss Josephine Casey, sewing, (nl struptor In one of the olty, Mgl schools, in an address at the KaJnsas City Historical Society Exposition. "Factory, packing-house and wholesale grocery," she continued, "have taken from the housewife's shoulders the burden of carding, spinning and weaving the family garments, to say nothing of the curing of meats, preserving fruits, making butter and cheese and even refining sugar. The housewife of the old day also was the family doctor and kept rows of dried herbs tied above the great chimney where hung the sausages and hams being smoked for winter One feature of the exposition today was a quilting bee, in which a number of women prominent in society took part.

A movement was started to form an "old ladies' among the society women, the Winlmum age herbs lied nbove the great chimney the, object of the club to be "the perpetuation of memories of the olden time. CI Owing to the 1H health of Hugo; Abrahamson, president of the firm of Abrahamson Brothers, merchants, and Washington streets, the firm has announced his retirement from the company. The retirement win take place as soon as details' of the business ran be arranged, the establishment In, future being run along the same lines as In the past by i the two remaining, heads of the firm, Jules and Henry Abrahamson. Preliminary to the operation of tnt store under the new arrangements the firm announces a monster sale of all the contents of the store, beginning tomorrow, March 18. The sale is made necessary by the fact that a certain amount of money must be realized to carry through the transaction of transference of interests.

In preparation for the sale Jules Abrahamson, who left several weeks ago for the east and Europe on an extended trip, has cut short his time' to return and take chnrge of the sale. The firm; considers the sale particularly noteworthy because it will mean placing on the market every 'article in the store, practically the entire stoclc being goods offered for the com Men in Store Are Thrown in a Panic as Bullets Crash Through Windows. BAN March What was intended as an outbreak of the Tong war, the smouldering fires of which have bf en threatening to cause a at any came tonight when hlrty shots rang out In the neighbor-'31 of the Huey "fling headquarters. MoHes of Just, how the shooting occurred, -many were concerned1 in it, and vhcther or not any, were injured, differ but ono tiling is certain? the war Is on and it Is hardly likely that -there will be any abatement of "One of the pistol wlelders, Woori Gun, 4 under arrest. It was a few minutes before 12 o'clock that, the shots began nd a crowd of Chinese In the liquor it ore of Wan Fing were thrown into a inniv'f Bullet after bullet wps sent; in it.thi-m from persons on the outside, and liMlngumJer benches or had sscsped at the rear when the Chinatown a.nvud.

Patrolman Mike Dolan Rufilit Woon slinking along, searched -lim, found a 88-eallber revolver with lour empty shells and two full shells and i large number of cartridges In his Docket. Mould, Su snd 882 'MARKET ST. Ladies! Your Easter Suit Has Arrived COME IN ANT? LET VS SHOW IT TO KOU. THB MATERIAL 18 BEAUTIFUL AND NICELY TRIMMED. THE PRICK 18 VERT REASONABLE.

Remember! We have two Stores 253 Post 882 Market 6n.