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DEATH STRIKES PATI
AT THE A
President of Pacific Rolling Mill
Company Expires , After Brief
_ Illness?Striking Career
At End.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Patrick Noble, president of the
Pacific Rolling Mill Company, died '
early Saturday mornig in Stanford
Hospital, where he had been under j
treatment three weeks. He was 71
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years old. The funeral services will
be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon!
at the Church of St. John the Evan- J
gelist and interment will be in San
Mateo County.
A penniless boy, carrying a letter;
of commendation from a business'
man in New York, Patrick Noble!
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came to San Francisco via Cape |
Horn when 19 years old, just as the !
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racilic IVOlllIlg 1U111 ^UIUpcillJ nuo
being formed. He presented the let-'
ter to W. C. Ralston, who was numbered
with D. 0. Mills, William A1vord,
Governor Leland Stanford, |
James Flood and Senator Fair
among the stockholders. Thus he
gained a start as clerk in the concern
of which he was destined to
rise to the managership, and, follow-!
ing the company's reorganization in i
1898, to the presidency. Noble be-'
came a power in business. About
^ 1893 he furnisned tne steei ior Tne
Mills building, and he was connected
with the early development of the
cable roads. In 1889 and 1890 he
served as Supervisor.
He was interested in many charitable
causes, served for many years
as president of the Humane Society
and was a member of the Bohemian
and Transportation clubs.
Noble was born in 1849 at Abbe
ville, S. C., was a member of the
Charleston College class of '68
and fought with the Confederate
army from January to July, 1865,
when 16 years old. He leaves a widow,
a son, a daughter and eight
grandchildren. The son is Vice-Fres
ident Edward B. Noble of the Pacific
Rolling Mill Company, who lives
in Berkeley. The daughter lives
with her husband in Hamburg, Germany.
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WARNING TO GROWERS !
OF SWEET POTATOES
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Clemson College, Oct. 12.?Sweet
potatoes should be dug before frost
or continued cold weather approaching
frost. The sweet- potato is a
tropical plant and both vines and
roots may be damaged by tempera-'
ture above the frost point, warns the
Extension Service horticulturists.
The earliest date of the first kill- j
ing frost in the Piedmont section is(
October 23rd, Sandhill section Nov-,
ember 1st, Coastal section, November
9th. |
Th6 prevalent idea that the vines
must be frosted before the pota-,
toes are dug is wrong and the prac-j
tice dangerous. It is unsafe to wait,
later than the above dates to gather'
potatoes. Many growers who waited
until frost last year lost their entire
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crops, regardless of the kind of stor- j
age facilities.
Of the two evils, immaturity and ,
frrket iniiirv t.hp fnrmflr is least in- 1
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jurious, as the immature potatoes
can ,be kept, while frost-bitten roots
can not be kept' under any condition. J
Vines should not be removed except
from potatoes to be dug the
same day. Experiments and observations
indicate that potatoes so treat- i
ed are hard to cure. However, if
frost kills the vines before potatoes
can be dug, clip the main stem at
base of plant before thawing takes
place.
The house should be filled within
two or three days, and curing should
begin on the first day and continue
ten to fourteen days depending up
on weatner conditions.
There is more danger resulting
to
from under-curing than over-curing
the latter being indicated by the appearance
of long sprouts a condition
which is undesirable but more safe
than the absence of all sprouts.
Lady-of the House?Do you know
what time my husband came home
last night, Anna?
Anna?No, ma'am, but his shoes
were still warm at 1 this morning.
IK NOBLE
GE OF SEVENTY-ONE
MAY TAKE ACTION
IN PROHIBITION
Dactic Move Now Being Considered.
Seizure of Veiaels.
Washington, Oct.. 12.?Seizure
and sale of foreign ships violating
American prohibition laws is under
consideration by the bureau of internal
revenue as a means of curbing
liquor smuggling. Officials of the
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uureuu weae iepit^rcxilcu tuiugm oj
seeing no solution to the problem
other than through invoking libel
provision of the Volstead act against
ships bringing in liquor.
Evidence gathered by federal enforcement
agents was said to have
disclosed that masters of foreign
ships frequently conspired with their
seamen to violate the prohibition
laws. The supply of alcoholic beverages
has been greatly increased
along the Eastern seaboard by this
means, it was said.
The bureau is understood also to
have discovered definite connection
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smuggling and a "whiskey ring"
through which the smuggled commodity
is marketed.
Act Carries Teeth
The Volstead act provides specifically
for confiscation of vehicles
of transportation employed in violation
qf that law. Bureau officials
were said to feel that although foreign
complications may result, they
should take steps in that direction in
order l!o control the traffic. No estimate.
has been, made of the amount
of liquor thus reaching American
"bootleggers," but officials are
agreed it has reache4 large proportions
within the last six weeks.
Technically foreign ships are
within jurisdiction of American
laws when inside the three mile
limit. This makes them liable to
confiscation at any time contraband
goods is found on them. The
belief was indicated, however, that
seizures of a few ships would end
the activities of the seagoing bootleggers.
Certain foreign shipments are alleged
to have employed a unique
method of defeating prohibition.
The reports revealed, it was stated,
that pay of seamen had been reduced
to nominal amounts and in
some cases to the amazingly small
figure of $1 a week. In lieu of more
pay tne seamen were permnxeo to
lay in stocks of liquor in foreign
ports and deliver it in American
ports.
Sure Of Conspiracy
While questions of masters always
have brought denials officials
here were declared to be 'confident
of the existenc of such a conspiracy
sine the pay reduction has been
made without protest from the seamen.
A case of record in the bureau was
said to show that foreign seamen on
one ship had smuggled through approximately
800 quarts of Scotch
whiskey, purchased abroad for
about |1 a quart and sold here at
more than $10 a quart.
Officials declared they were handi
capped by lack of men in both the
customs service and enforcement
corps with the large number of foreign
ships entering American ports.
Quarantine of icers, it was said,
had been unable to make the
searches of ships necessary to catch
all smuggled liquor because of the
time limitation and have admitted to
'treasury officials that they were
powerless to check the growing traffic.
Assistant Secretary House, head
of both the customs service and the j
bureau of internal'revenue said two:
months ago that "it would take an ,
army" of agents to patrol the shore ;
linpc anil Hpfpnl" smncrclprs wVinsp '
methods were declared to require
the highest grade of detective work
even at that time. The present disclosures
were believed to indicate
such increasing boldness as to require
more drastic legal action.
British coins prior to the coming
of the Anglo-Saxons were modeled
after Phoenician coins brought byj
traders. j
BIG REDUCTION
IN SHOP FORCE
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Roanoke, Va., Oct. 12.?Notice of
a 20 per cent reduction in the shop
forces on the Norfolk & Western
railway system beginning with laborers
and helper^, effective October
16, have been posted in the company's
shops, it was learned here today.
Though not officially stated, it
ie understood the reductions will
eventually reach mechanics.
N. D. Maher, president of the
road, tonight announced that the reduction
in the working forces would
be gradual and that "proper notice
will be given in every case." He added
that it is not contemplated to
make any "big reduction" and that
wherever retrenchment is made it
will be "carefully studied out beforehand,
so as not to impair the
road's efficiency."
It was learned today that in a
number of departments minor re
auctions aireaay nave own m<tuc.
According to an official, officers of
departments| have been , instructed
to "give careful study to their organization
with a view to effecting
all economies possible." These instructions,
it is said, apply , to a
clerical as well as mechanical
branches of the company. The road
employs a total of about 33,000 persons.
The reductions are prompted by
heavy operating expenses, an official
said. He pointed out that the
road spent approximately $1.16 for
every dollar earned and that the
September report would be "very
discouraging," despite the increased
passenger and freight rates."
WHEAT FARMERS WILL
DEMAND $3 A BUSHEL
Wichita, Kan., Oct. 12.?The
Wheat Growers association of the
United States, with a -membership of
70,000 in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
Nebraska and South Dakota, has issued
from its office here a proclamation
to all its members urging them
to refrain from selling any wheat
after 8 p. m., October 25, until such
time as the price of good wheat is
raised to $3 a bushel at growers terminal
market.
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