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CUM INDUSTRY Mrs. Cleveland Chooses Professor for Husband Otto Great Comedian, Crosses: Ocean zz I THE SHOrPIXG CKXTEH CP 0IU.AND i S25 Conte st We offer about 75 of these coats on Monday. They are the newest models and come in all the best materials used for coating this easoru The colorings are varied and 1 All sizes are represented for Ladies, Misses and Children, Rather than try to describe these values we are zoin? to leave it to you to be interested enough to look at them from the short description gjven. I ir. fV Your 1 0 Money Earn You thU bj Investing in, Secured by First Lien on City Proptrty For Particulars B.

Bone, Cashier 908-916 Addlson-Hcad Bids. Grant Ave. and Post GL, SAJf FRANCISCO FILES SUITS TO Trustee in Bankruptcy Seeks Possession of Treadwell Homestead Here. RECOVER HOM When Taft Pennoyer advertise this kind of a sale you may rest assured that the sale is as represented. 75c Cases at 55c A Belfast manufacturer has enabled us to make the following offer.

A fun pure linen case, 45 by It, Inches, with 2Vi-lnch hem, hemstitched spoke stitch. A really good value tf sold at Tee. Momlaj's price ea. I 's 1 A Special Item Xonceniing Wdl Taper We 4 not deal In wall paper as a rule. However, when buying eoml printed linens in Paris we were offered a small quantity to match the cloths we ordered.

We show only four patterns, but everyone of them is so odd, so different from anything you will see on this coast, that we call special attention to them, We thought so highly of them that we have given halt Of one ot our principal windows to their display. PAPER Rolls 1 times longer and 1H times wider than American standards, at $2.00 tfre-roll. Printed Linen to exactly match the paper at 13.00 the yard. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.

John F. Kelly, trustee in bankruptcy for James FreadwelL'-' the millionaire alaskan mining man, filed two suits today against Newman A. Fuller and igma Treadwell; one to recover pos-leBSon Of the $60,000 Treadwell home In Oakland the other to set aside a Seed to the same. "It Is claimed that the Treadwells, two years ago, deeded the property to Fuller, a clerk in their imploy and that no money changed hands. Kelly now wants the deed made a deed of trust and asks that 'the property revert to the estate in rder that the funds derived from it vtnev he used to satisfy creditors.

In tfie second suit he asks damages in the discretion of the court, and hints it a possible conspiracy whereby the property was deeded over in order that It might not be lost to the Tread-. wells. Flannel Section Items NOVELTY WAISTIXGS All wool or silk and wool mixtures, stripes and plaids prevailing. All good shades In light and dark colorings. Regular 7ic to 11.00 value.

Monday's price o5c yard. SCOTCH TENNIS FLANNEL Excellent shades of Un, blue, green, gray, blaclr and white. A good fair JOa quality. Monday's price 23o yd. Beacon Robes Something new and attractive in the Bath and Dressing Robe line.

These come packed in boxes, containing enough double-faced material for a robe, two sized cords and frogs to match. The size of the blanket material is 72 by 90 Inches, giving ample material to use in any style selected. The colors are red, blue, green, brown, lavender, tan, black, mahogany and many shades of these. 8 Stripes and fancy figures comprise the patterns. Price, $2.50 the Set.

MRS. GltOlTT i CTjEVEIiAND, VVIIOSK EXGAGEMENT TO FESSOR Tll.VUS J. PRESTON WAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED. SBIfflElSE Shipments From Harbor of Oakland Largest in History of the City. That the outgoing eement shipments this year will eclipse in tho4 any former year is the prediction of local cement shippers.

Already the shipment has reached a larger quantity than In any other past year the same date and It is expected that with the heavy orders which are believed will be put in by northern concerns the figures this year wilt show more than per cent la cease. Tn order to accommodate this predicted increased, facilities for handling any amount necessary are being arranged at Long- wharf. Not only are preparations being made ta handle the reported increase here out the virion to their fleets in order to handle (V btp- biuiiuuii ujiiuinii arw Miaa inniti. i According to local cement shipping representatives this year Will undoubt edly prove a record-breaker, although It Is possible should the Inclement weather continue ttye predicted Increase may not materialise, the reason being the Impossibility of handling this material under wet SHIPMENT LARGE, mo official ngures of the output ot cement from local wharves durlnir the eight months elapsing from January ljf this year have been compiled but an estimate plaoea them at nearly 600,000 tons or 1,000,000,000 pounds, should the weather conditions prove favorable it le expected that the total wilt reach fully 1.000,000 tons before the cement season closes. Advices received here yesterday -report that the schooner Helene, Captain Thompson, formerly familiar about this port, has just completed her 99th round trip between thejaland- ports about Hono lulu and the Pacific coast.

Captain Thompson is well known about this port and his movements across the Paclflo have attracted considerable attention. He is said to have told several local water men during one of his visits to this side that he would make 100 round trips between the islands and the Pa clfio coast before 1913 and indications point to his fulfilling the contract CHARTER RENEWED. It was announced yesterday by offi cials of the Independent Steamship Com pany that the charter on toe steamer Avalon had been renewed for one more trip, the repairs to the steamer Hanalel taking longer than was. expected. The Avalon has been operating between here Nand San Pedro for the past few days while repairs to the Hanalel were being made.

The Avalon is due to arrive nere today with freight and passengers. It will then take on freight and sail south next Tuesday on its last run in the employ of the Independent people. With the running out of the charter witn ins Independent company the Avalon will operate In the coastwise service. MATSU TEST SUCCESS. After a successful trial trip about the hv Thnrria.T afternoon the cower boat Matsu returned to the Atlas Qa Englnu Company's yards where final touches were put to her machinery and late yesterday afternoon the new craft slipped from her moorings alongside the Atlas yards and left for the Saoramento river to go into commission.

The Matsu was built at the yards of William Cryer for M. Matsumoto, the Japanese "Potato King" and will be used for service in the handling of barges on the river. The new vessel Is 52 Jeet in length, with a beam of 1 feet and a depth of 6 feet. It is propelled by an 80-horse power Atlas Gas Engine. VESSEL LIBELED.

The steam schooner Oualala, lying at the United Engineering Works awaiting repairs, repairs, has been libeled by Kon-stent Lats who received injuries recently when the Oualala collided wth, the steam schooner Argyle. The schooner Defender is at the Moore k. Boott shipyards undergoing repairs. Vessels due at Long wharf today Include the steamer City of Puebla and the team schooners Pasadena, Scotia: aad Vanguard. I2JJ0 PE IN INSTITUTIONS Taxpayers Support Many as Convicts, tnsane tind Blind.

SACRAMENTO, Nov. The census of the California state institutions just completed shows that there Is at present a total of 12,710 persons maintained by the taxpayer as convicts, insane, blind and otherwise dependent. One-fourth of this number, or 3018, are In the two state penitentiaries. San Quentin has at present 1901 felons within its walla and of this number 22 are women. At Fol-om there are 1110 prisoners, At all the Institutions there le an Increase of 26 and this le divided among-, all but the Industrial.

Home for the Adult Blind at Oakland and the two reform schools. The Insane asylums shew an increase of It for the month and at present the authorities are complaining that these institutions are overcrowded. There Is a total of S040 in the asylums, this number being made up of 4881 male and 04 female patients. Of this total, however, 1ST are on parole. Paroling at the state prisons has also been active and at present there are 1ST who have worn the striped uniform of the prisons, but now ont and living under the watch of the officials.

More boys are out on parole from the Whittler and Preston reform schools than are held at the Institutions. Only 1st remain at the schools, while Tie enjoy liberty during continued good behavior. ROOSEVELT NURSES BOTHERED BY PROPOSALS CHICAGO, Nov. I. Miss Margaret Fltsserald and Miss Blanche Welter, the nurses who attended Colofiel Roosevelt in Mercy hospital, have obtained a vacation.

The 'young women had complained of being tired oui Their weariness, they said, was not due altogether to the Strain of taking care of the Colonel, but to the large number of letters they hsd received, many of them from men who bad made proposals of marriage. "You are the girl for me," wrote one suitor to Miss Fitzgerald. "I am well off, and can make a happy home for you. I fell In love with your picture. Marry me and save bresklng my heart." "Your cere and devotion to a hero," wrote another to Mine Welter, 'have completely broken my A beautiful, capable young woman like you would make a happy wife.

I know I can make you happy." Btill another wrote Miss Welter that he had not been able to eat or sleep since fee fee? eeen her picture, l.e-t fc.Vi OTTO GOERITZ. NEW YORK, Nov, I. Otto Ooerltx, one of the greatest comedians on the operatic stage, arrived recently from- New York with the information that he had com posed a comlo opera which to be pre sented in Hamburg, and which, perhaps, Will be given later in New York, Gperlts le a fine singer, as well as act or, and la especially noted for the Beck-messer in "Die Melsterslnger." He brings his wife and two babies with htm to New Tork every winter. DETECTIVE PLEASANT VISIT Lieutenant Frank Bennet, This City After Fugitive, Likes Hospitality. "The hospitality of the West is won- derful.

In the East our hearts are warm, but we have not learned to let the stranger know It as you do here. said lieutenant Frank Bennet, who it in Oakland from Jersey City, N. with extradition papers to take George Harcourt. alias John Holmes, back to face trial on a felony charge. "The courtesy I have received not only in an official but in a social way nere is something i shall never forget, I want to express my thanks for the uniform kindness and considers' tton I have received, and especially the courtesy from the officials of the city of Oakland." arrived few days ago, and nas Been, entertained since.

He was a guest at the Rugby intercollegiate game yesterday. Tomorrow he leaves for New Jersey with his prisoner, who faces a charge of bigamy preferred by Mrs. Genevieve Harcourt of Elizabeth, N. J. AGED WOMAN FOUND IN INJURED CONDITION With her left arm dislocated ad bruises on her arras and shoulders, lire.

Julia Perl, an aged widow living at (126 Grove street, was plated up yesterday) afternoon by Dr. R. 8. Tladale several yards from her residence. Dr.

Tlsdale tookeher to the Fablola hospital where her injuries were treated. Bhe will recover. The aged woman was going from her house to that of a neighbor's at the time of the acd dent when she collapsed and fell against the curbing. Lamp Man FEAST AS GUESTS Black Dress Goods Section The following items -are goods that should bring prices up to S1.50 the yard. They are extravagantly good values at the price we ask.

BLACK MOHATRS, 8ICISILIANS AND BRILLIANTINE8, tripes and plain soft chiffon weaves, 44 to 14 Inches wide, Specially priced at $1.00 the yard. SILK FINISH, BLACK. HENRIETTA In an Imported grade, Use black color, 44 Inches wide. Specially at $1.00 the yard. MEDIUM WEIGHT BROADCLOTHS In a fast black and splendid quality.

Specially priced at $1.00 the yard. BLACK CHIFFON PANAMA, a 60-inch doth, soft iff texture and all pure wool. Specially priced at $1.00 the yard. FINE SUEDE CLOTH, 41 inches Wide. A new fabrio ot the present season.

Specially priced at $1.00 the ard. i STORM SERGE of domestic make, fast black and splendid quality. Specially priced at $1.00 the yard, FINE IMPERIAL SERGE, 4 4 mcheawide, let black with fine finish. Specially priced at $1.00 the yard. 1 IMPORTED VOILES and ET AMINES, the newest weaves for dressy gowns.

A really superb cloth at our price. Specially priced at $1.00 yd. BUTTERICK PATTERNS 1 Butterlck Patterns, the Delineator and Winter Style Book are on sale and display at our Pattern Department. t. --V SHIP MUCH HAY.

TUBA CITT, Nov. -This fall has teen scores of carloads of alfalfa hay leave Live Oak and vicinity. J. F. Shannon reports having; sold several thousand tons of hay and much of the nay now being shipped has been -sold bv other parties, Send Us a Lock oi Your Hair .4 Let Us Show Yon FREE, Just How Beautiful Your Hair Can Be suae.

mere is no longer any excuse for a woman (or man). tolerating streaked, prematurely gray, or faded hair when she can so aulckly, easily and safely make It a beautl ful brown of any shade, or black. If desired. No one would ever suspect your navlng usea Mrs. Potter's walnut-Tint, Tor It stains so evenly and perfectly and leaves-tne nair sort ana glossy, it taxes only a few moments onoe a month to ipply this wonderful stain.

Walnut-Tint Is. free from lead, sulphur, silver and all metalllo compounds, and will not rub iff. Has no odor, no sediment, no areas. Mrs. Potter's Walnut-Tint Hair Stain sold by first-class druggists every' lion Don't accept a subatl (There.

The price is one Dollar, and a botu should last you a year. Batista hitsY prefer a test before buying, tfther send 25 Cents-for a trial package, with full directions and a valuable book In the care of the hair or send a look if your hair for us to stain as a sample, hike. Address Mrs. Potter's Hygienle Supply 1760 Groton Cincinnati. Ohio.

if you send sample of hair, indicate lhade desired. -T Talk To Our 1 1 II I 1 Uf I III I A ready obtained a foothold in the northern market. PRINCETON, N. Nov. I.

The dis tinction of being Mrs. Graver Cleveland was sufficient Inducement 'to prevent the widow ot the former President from marrying again. For her second husband she baa accepted Prof. Thomas Joseph Preston of Wells College. Mrs.

Cleveland, as Frances Folsom, was graduate of Wells and she hae been one of the most active and loyal alumnus of the college, drover Cleveland died In June, 1908, leaving, besides his widow, four children, the oldest of whom; It is rumored. Is about to announce her Professor Preston wss a student at Princeton at the time Cleveland was alive, but he entered when more than 49 years bid. He is now 60 and Mrs. Cleveland 48. The professor is head of the department of archeology and history of TO Program of Music and Read ings to Be Feature of the Evening.

The Oakland City Teaehere' Club will hold a social gathering at Intermediate School No, I next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The faculty of this school, assisted by an efficient hospitality committee, have left nothing undone to insure a genuinely good time for the large crowd expected to De present. Refreshments will be served and an unusually good program has been arranged. Tbe club wlQ have the pleasure of hear ing Howard E. Pratt, tenor soloist, and William W.

Carruth at ths piano, as well as Miss Ethel A. dramatic reader. The program is as follows: (s) ee muss was wunderbares (b) Lens Howard E. Pratt. Vale chromatlque Qodard William W.

Cerruth. Dickens' Characterisations: (a) galrey Oamp, from Martin Cbuzsle-wit (b) Mrs. Nlcholby, from Nicholas Nlch-olby. (a) Beck I Trotweod, from David Cop- perfieid. Miss Ethel A.

Coplin. Those who will receive the guests sre Miss Margaret Poors, club president; Mrs. ranter. Miss Zannette W. Potter, Miss Elisabeth Miss Rush.

Miss Etta Ogden, Miss Msgulre, Mlse Houston, Miss Mitchell, Miss Keeler, Principal V. Martin, Messrs. Paley, Campbell and Hasty. These will be assisted by Miss Alice Stew art of the Cole School, Mlsa Sprague of Lockwood, Oeorge Edgar, principal of Franklin, and H. Patrar.

principal of Orant. FOB eoiicoios The epidemic of Jnfluenza-Coryza Grip is rapidly spreading throughout the entire country, the importance of escaping contagion, with a long winter ahead, appeals to everyone. Dr. Hum phreys' "Seventy-seven" meets the exigency of the epidemic. Taken early, cuts it short.

Taken during its prevalence preoccupies the system and prevents its invasion, A small vial of pleasant pellets fits the vest pocket At your druggist 25c or mailed. ITomeo. Uedktae Cor. WU-Una au4 Aaa JmtUB(at, TEACHERS' CLUB arts at Welts College, The date for the wedding has not yet been announced. With the news of her engagement comes the question as "to whether or net Mrs.

Cleveland will, lose the privilege of franking the United JStatee malls be cause of her coming In 1909 It was authorized by Congress that all letters bearing the name of Mrs Frances Folsom Cleveland would be eent through the malls free. It Is said that ks soon ae she becomes Mrs. Preston the franking privilege automatically will cease. 'It A popular impression has been 'that Mrs. Cleveland, as the widow of a for mer president, has been drawing a pen Ion, authorised by Congress.

Mrs. Cleveland never got a pension. The bill was Introduced, but did not pass, Mrs. McKinley got a pension ef $8000. OF POTATO KING' George Shima Holds Banquet In Honor of Commission Men.

Produce- nen of the bay region are still smacking their Hps over the dinner that wae provided for them by Oeorge the Japanese "potato king," at the letter's Island horrus near Stockton In the delta country. Shlma has made It an annual custom to entertain the men with whom he does business as the largest potato grower in the state. Shima and his assistant, Jake Fletcher, received the 45 guests at Cattle ranch near Honker slough. Bhima's guests were: O. T.

Leftch of the Ennls Brown Company of Sacramento; Phil Storey of Wood Curtis Company of Sacramento; Governor Adams, Oeorge Blddock, Minor, Charles Why, Roscoe Piatt and E. Piatt of the Piatt Produce Company; William Lambourne of the Fred Lam-bourne Company of Los Angeles; Will-lam Ryan and Walker Glenn of the R. Laxelere Company ot San Francisco; p. W. Russell of the T.

J. Hammond Company ot Fresno; M. R. O'Brien of B. Bailee Company Los Angeles; Grant BUUngton of the Hunt.

I nai.cn company or uaaiana; Harvey Condlt and Jack Blbball of Dunbar-Hansen of Ban Francisco; Charles Bogus and C. E. Olbbs of O. A. Webster Company Of Ban Francisco; Charles Beck of Frank Burnham Company of Ban Francisco; Ed Webb and R.

W. Winters of the Jonas Erllnger Company of San Francisco: Perry, Burton Kelly and Mc-Bride of Wolf et Sons of Los Angeles: Roscoe Zuckerraan. Edgar Schwartz and B. J. Guggenheim ef Well-Zuck-erman of Los Angeles; A.

C. Oullahan and Ted Btone of A. C. Oullahan Company; James Knox and A. F.

Roberts of Hobbs-Parsons Company; D. C. Russell and Glen Paddock of the Stockton Seed Company) Steve Ptcar-do, Ralph Vlgnolo and George Fox of Vlgnono Plccardo; Phil O'Con-nell, William Kerr, Glenn Kerr, B. Nicols, Dan Mcintosh, C. L.

Dickinson, Guy Covault, W. Carroll Kirk-men of William. Willis Company; W. G. Dosler, traveling freight agent of the Santa Fe, and M.

Dixon of Dixon Brothers. FOOTBALL PLAYER AND PREACHERJjET ESCAPE VANCOUVER, Nov. A prisoner working on the streets ran away. Policeman Hogan, who had charge of the- men, chased the fugitive, but eould not catch him, Hogan saw John Sohaefer, a High school football player, coming in the opposite eo he stopped, completely exhausted, and panted: "Orab him, Johnny." Schifer did so, snd threw the man on the lawn of St. Paul's English iAithersn church, Just as Rev.

W. I. Eck, the pastor, auived. Eck went into the basement of the church and obtained a rope, with which, the unruly, jrlsonerj a end, to. JalL I I m.

Mil OF course you have electric light fa tout home, office and have you enough of If you are using ordinary Incandescent carbon lainps it Is safe to assume that you have not, because the only way you canjtbtaineriough of electric light at minimum cost Is by'using" the" most perfect electric lamps of the aotfi Century SWEDEN TO SEND COB SOOTS EE Keen Contests Expected When Rifle Corps Comes to STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Nov. The Swedish -rifle clubs, In response te the American Invitation to send a team ot marksmen to the United States, are making efforts to organise the strongest poe-alble combination of riflemen to pertlcl-pete in the Swedish riflemen proved the cloeeet rivals of the Americans in the shooting contests at the Olympic games, where they led all other nations. They know each other's oalibra and Captsln p. H.

Hedenbald, president of the Swedish division of ths International Rifle union, Is of the opinion that some keen contests mav therefore be expected. The construction of -two more battleships Is to be demand v1 from the Swedish psrllament by the admiralty next year. The ships will be of the eocalled type, displacing TfiOV tons and making- a speed of IJ knots. Eaefc will carry In armored turrets four 11-inch guns and a secondary armament of It six-Inch long distance quiekflring guns. It Is expected that some new destroy ers will be built, and tour submarlnee have been ordered.

AH ot the vessels will be built In Swedish shipyards. The splendid work of ths Swedish offl-mrs enraged In Instruction of the military police of Persia has been called at tention to by the publication of a report It was said that tbev were ta ha with drawn because they eould no longer be assured of their pay. This is denied here. The foreign office here has bad no In. formation that their services would be dispensed with, and It is not thouirht llkelv that Russia and Great llrltaln would demand their return, lor they are verv efficient.

The war fcr the control of the Rwedlnh oil markets, which verently resulted In a vli-tory fcr ths Standard Oil Company, is to he renewed by the newly tncorpnr-eteii Brltiah-Swedlh Oil Company, with a capital of 11,000.000. The new company le 4e taka ever the biietnem 'ef the Indian Reftnlog company, which, has as Caotatn P. Lundatedt has two new Swedish aviation records by re maining; in me air hours and 46 minutes while attaining an altitude of suuo feet MOTHER OF CRIPPLE COMMITS SUICIDE CLEVELAND. Nov. A small.

light haired boy with a twisted spine, who wns barred from the United 8tatee, won't hear the news till he reaches Hun gary, his mother may be dead then. After saving enough from her earnings as a scrub woman to pay her boy's pass- age to America, Mrs. Zophls Jerabek was Informed that Kills Island authorities had turned bark the boy beceuse of a slight deformity, in his spine. She couldn't stand It. Wishing td die, she leaped from the fourth floor of a downtown office build ing and Is near death.

Sha probably will die. The boy Is out In the North Atlantic, ocean on an east bound lmmla-rnnt ehtp. It you have lost all your teeth I have something far better than a plate over the entire mouth. Mv method is far superior to and cheaper than the old-time bridge work, Don't have your teeth or roots extracted, no, matter how bad they are. If they are loose, I will tighten them.

Twenty years' experience; five years in Oakland. Estimates and examination FRES, Work guaranteed. Dr. J. MafMri; V' DENTIST.

Mai'dunough Theater BulMtng I Ith ami Broadway. 1322 Proadway. Rooms S-s-19. Hours: to Sundays. 10 to iJi evenings.

4 to Phone. Oakland 1335, Edison Mazda Lamp These lamps give from two to three times the light of carbon lamps without Increasing your present light bill Talk to our Lamp ilan about recent electric lamps and lighting. He positively can show you the fath to profit not only in the matter of light for the home, but also regarding the power of light to develop yourbusineas Gat and Electric Co. I3th and Clay Sta. Phone Oak 4.

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