The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1896, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1896. 13 Interesting Report of Important Up-to-Date News Items in Alameda County AWAITING HIS FORTUNE, A Revolutionary War Claim That Is Now Being Advo- cated in Congress. A SAFE-CRACKING CARNIVAL Railroad Contracts Awarded With a “No Mongolian” Clause Inserted. of art the will of his great- illiam T. Smith. During ary War Smith was the sailing from Philadelphia, ere destroyed by the French. The in 1810, and bequeaths to Smith, Mr. Taggart’s grand- property in Philadelphia, uding some water front. Certain other property was given in trust to certain trus- tees. leged that the trust was not co! h and the property now in stion should be Mr. Taggart’s. Another document he hasis a copy of the Washington Globe of 1842, which re- fers to a bill for the relief of William T. Smith. This was one of the spoliation claims growing out of predatory acts by F Mr. Taggart is hav- French men-of-war. ing the claims investigated to see if he can secure anything out of them. CAN GO TO JAPAN. Board of Education tronomer Burkha ter. OAKLAND, CaL., Jan. 21.—The Board | of Education has granted Professor Charles | Burkhalter of Chabot Observatory a leave i absence to enable him toaccompany the Lick Obsery Japan to witness the ec in August nest. His nued during his absence, as d he will be | valuable nation for the ool was accepted 1gh some mem- expressed themselves as 1 the way the work ers to reside in h t the time the earlier was t was not at ¥ two weeks ago, bu AD CONTRACTS. No Chinese, Mongolians or Japanese to Be Employed. AKLAND, Car., Jan. 21.—A contract ec this county to-day n Joaquin Railroad Com- elso for the construction road in this and San his is the line from in the eastern kton. The con- grading loose cavating 100 feet at 60 cents per The contrac: ned for the company y Hugh Fox tendent of construc- to be commenced 9 days within ter and to be compieted in si Any litigation which may retard work is not to count against the con- tractor. No Chinese, Mongolian or Japan- is to be employed. STILL CRACKING SAFES, Another Neat Job Attempted in East OaXland. Cavr, Jan. 21.—The town in its borders a set of bur- going from one part of the her tempting the officers to Last ht they entered the & Cummings, at East street and Eleventh avenue, but y booty. When the t the safe was left un- OAKLAND, seems to ha glars who turn the handle to the bles were left in the safe, id not want it injured by ow the safe was locked before they ined it, and so to get into it were bored in the front of the e vicinity of the lock. A fuse this, they evidently having scared away before having had an : to complete their job. Charles L. Bell of 1316 Adeline street re- ports that burglars entered his house last night and secured $50. O. G. Newhall, a butcher, reports his place robbed of a small amount of eash from the till. A Franchise to Spare. OAKLAND, Civn.,, Jan. 21.—The Oak- land, San Leandro and Haywards, the Ala- meda and Oakland, the East Oakland and the Highland Park and Fruitvale Avenue I oads are all keeping an eye on the thorougbfare from the city to the section east The franchise of the Oakland ailroad on that | street expired several weeks ago from Broadway to Oak street. From Oak to Thirteenth avenue the franchise runs until June. Itisexpected that there will be a great contest for it at that time. Got a Sheriff’s Deed. OAKLAND, CaL., Jan. 21.—The Califor- nia Improvement Company, which con- trols the Alameda electri ne and the arm Railroad, received a deed | eriff White to-day for the prop- xth avenue, known as | luding a large tract Mary P. Benton rtgage she held six months it was sold at Sheriff’s sale to her- be transferred it to the company and as the time for redemption has elapsed the deed was made out to-day. afe for Twelve Years. OAKLAND, Car, Jan. 21. — Thomas 13 y. alias Harris, was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment at Folsom to- | y Judge Gree There is pending m a charge of jail-breaking wi has been set for trial February 20, but it is not likely to be pressed, as should | he sec rea dits for good behavior he ve nine years to spend in confine- He is now 51 years of age. A heriff took him to Folsom on ain. Jan. 21.—Last night White found Thomas Hannigan g about the courthouse yard in He said he was 85 vears of age ! a pioneer of this city. He was exam- ined to-day as to his sanity, but was found 10 be suifering from physical troubles n ed by exposure and lack of nourish- He been an inmate of the in- ¥, but was discharged some months ment firmar 480, rants Leave to As- | | | for the ensuing year. the High School | to 3:30 without | Saturday night. The exhibition will, therefore, close to-morrow (Wednesday) night as at first planned. The change was brought about by the desire of some of the largest exhibitors who do not think it ad- visable to have their prize-birds kept in exhibition coops longer than the period originally stipulated. To-day’s attendance was very large, and there will be a special concert on the closing night. HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKIAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadway, Jan. 21. § The office of Wells, Fargo & Co. is being moved from its old location on_ Washington street to the corner of Twel{th and Franklin. The motion of counsel for Mrs. Adams to strike ‘out portions of the complaint filed by young Fred Adams in a suit to annul the Mar- tinez marriage has been peremptorily set for next Saturday. The suit of A.J. McGovern against John L. Davie and other officers of the Davie Ferry Company has been on the calendarof & San Francisco court for some time, 8nd is DOW ex- pected to go to trial at once. George J. Wheeler, aged 52 years and 9 months, died this morning at hs home at Forty-fifth street and San Pablo avenue. ran a mative of ‘Naw. York, but had lived tn Oskland for the past ten years. The Council passed a new resolution last night transferring $2000 from the general fund to the library fund. The money in the latter fund is now exhausted and the City Treasurer will not object to making the transfer. Parties are in the city making terms to have a six-day bicycle race in the tebernacle next month. Application has been made to secure the building with permission to build a special track on which the races would be run. A young men giving the name of Sumner was arrested at Twenty-third avenue last by Officer Keegan, and & charge of carry- rcealed weapons placed against him. ing c In each hip pocket Davis carried & large gun. George H. Vose Jr., who resides at 582 East Twe! h street, East Oakland, has in his pos- n a history of Milton, Mass., and a history gusta, Me., both of which give & complete ting record of the Vose geneslogy year 1066. J. D. James, charged by Con Crowley with holding him up at the time his team disap- peared, had his examination in Haywards. | CrowleY took the stand. The result was the | defenss asked for & dismissal. The prosecution sgreed and James was set free. The one hundred and_thirty-seventh anni- versary of the birth of Robert Burns wili be celebrated to-morrow evening by the St. Andrew’s Society. The affair will be in the nature of & Scotch concert, and will take place in the Y, M. C. A. auditorfum, corner of Clay and Twelith streets. A middle-aged German giving the name of Charles Schermster, was found by Officer Cooney last night atSeventeenth and San Pablo avenue in a demented condition. Dr. Mayon | made an examination this morning and found | the man slightly deranged though not danger- ously nor necessarily permanently so. A meeting of the board of directorsof the Young Men’s Christian Association was called 'ast night for the purpose of electing officers A quorum was not pres- ent, however, owing to the absence of some of the’ directors from town. Comsequently .nio business was transacted, and the meeting was adjourned until further notice. The preliminary examination of Arthur Kel- ley was postponed: this afternoon until to- morrow. Oscar Chapman, the San Joaquin farmer from whom Kelley took the money, has disappeared. If he cannot be found by that v complaint will be filed charging v with assault with a deadly weapon for the eitack he made on the brakeman while the latter was attempting to arrest him. YiChT EL~UB_BUIL[1|‘NG. It Is Finished and Will Be Formally Opened on January 31 Josephine Woods Was Sentenced. Health Officer McLean’s Im- portant Mission. ALAMEDA, CaL., Jan. 21.—The annex to the Encinal Yacht Club's house is com- pleted and on January 31 will be formally | opened by a party exclusively for invited | guests and ladies. The annex is 30 by 70 feet and is situated at the north end of the main building. It is to contain a billiard- table, a pool-table, a double bowling-alley, a shuffle-board, a cardroom and a big fire- place, where members may enjoy them- selves. The new building and its accouter- ments and furnishings cost $3000 and make the club’s quarters very complete and superior to those of any other club on the Pacific Coast. Confidence Woman Sentenced. ALAMEDA, Car., Jan. 21.—Josephine Woods, the woman who went about among the residences frightening lone women by telling them that she was just out of an asylum for the insane and needed money, which she invariably got, was found guilty by Justice Morris of a charge of vegrancy and yesterday sentenced to jail for ten days.” The woman is certainly an impos- tor, but she may also be a little wrong | mentally. If she is she combinesa cun- | ning with it that stands her in good stead | in the matter of getting money. Dr. McLean’s Trip. ALAMEDA, Car, Jan. 21.—Health Of- ficer McLean 1s likely to go to Washington as a member of the committee of the Cali- fornia River - Improvement Convention. He will use his influence to induce Con- gress to make liberal appropriation for the improvement of the tidal canal. The County Board of Supervisors has contrib- uted $250, and the City Board of Trustees $100, provided he is appointed on the com- mittee, and the chairman of the commit- tee has assured him of the appointment | provided the money is forthcoming. A Big Party. ALAMEDA, CaL., Jan, 21.—The young men of Alameda will give a big party at Harmonie Hall February5. It will be a retarn party to that given not a great while ago by the young ladies of the | Shakespearean Club to the young men. | The committee of arrangements consists of H. Masterson, F. Youngberg, E. Ca- brera, Bert Remmel, Dr. Bcott, Paul Kel- logg and Harry Landsberger, Woman’s Exchange. ALAMEDA, CAr., Jan. 21.—The receipts of the Woman’s Exchange daring the year 1895 were $1977 50, and the disbursements $7705 less. Seventy-two families were nelped during the year and forty versons assisted to find employment. The ex- change has had one of the best vears of 1ts existence. THE OCEANIC COMPANY. Its Annual Election Held and Yearly Reports Read. The Oceanic Steamship Company held its annual election yesterday morning. Of the 25,488 shares of stock, 23,488 were represented, and the following directors were elected: J. D. Spreckels, A, B. Spreckels, Charles Goodall, C. M. Goodall, A. L. Tubbs, A.C.Tubbsand T. S. Dick- ins. The new board of directors organized by re-electing the former officers, as follows: President, J. D. Spreckels; vice-president, Charles Goodeall; treasurer, J. D. Spreck- elg & Co. ; secretary, E. H. Sheldon. The reports of the president and the other officers were brief, and they showea that the affairs of the company are in a prosperous condition. Specifies His Charges. C. L. Laumeister and Alpheus Bull Jr,, a committee appointed by the Grand Jury to in- vestigate the slleged misappropriation of fees by Deputy County Clerk Henry Morris, met in the County Clerk’s office 1ast Right for a few Poultry Show Closes To-Night. OAKLAND, Cav., Jan. 21.—At a meet- ing of the Poultry Associetion, held to- n’xzht._n was decided to rescind the action taken lust night (o coutinue the show to minutes. L. G. Carpenter, a reporter, specified his charges against Morris and gave the names of witnesses who he said would substantiate them. Morris asked for the fullest possible in- vestization, which County Clerk Curry is now making. FAIR 1S NOW FIRE CHIEF, The Southern Pacific Engineer Wins His First Politi- cal Fight, LEFT WITHOUT ASSISTANTS, Offices of First and Second Assistant Abolished by the City Council. OAKLAND OFFICE SA¥ FrANcisco CALL,) i 908 Broadway, Jan. 2L { | William H. Fair was elected Chief of the | Fire Departrient this afternoon by Fire | Commissioners Wilson and Peirsol. Mayor | Davie said that the present chief was one | of the most efficient ever in office, and did | not attend the meeting. For several weeks the two commission- ers have been manipulating a change, but “has taught me that woman cannot do justice to herself, her frienas and her country without the right of citizenship. “The -statement has been made that women are good and pure because they are out_of politics. It 1s a poor rule that does not work both ways. If it works so well on the women why not try it awhile on the men? Where is there a just man who will say that men should do the votin and women pay the taxes? If men wi continue to hang the women, they at least ought to be permitted to ask the reason why. Theright to freedom and the right to vote spring from the same origin. Laws should not be made for man nor for woman, but for mankind. The rights of men and women should ever be reciprocal. Political nghts reserve no sex, and there- fore the word ‘male’ should be stricken from the State Constitution of California. “Men of California, it is for you to decide whether woman shnli receive her just in- heritance; it is for you to determine whether she shall have equal ponutical rights and equal responsibility with yon in the administratioa of State and National | affairs.” A Student Unmercifully Beaten.} BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 2| —Harry Rodgers, 8 student in Boone's Academy, was the victim of an unmerciful and un- provoked tlogging on Saturday night by a number of university students, for whose arrest he swore out warrants to-day. He was returning home from San Francisco on a late train and after leaving Berkeley station was assaulted by the students, N % e AN A ) OAKLAND’S FIRE CHIEF, WILLIAM H. FAIR. [From a photograph.] 80 much pressure was brought to bear on them in behalf of Fred Campbell that they hesitated till to-day. Yesterday an- other candidate appeared in the person of | G. W. Woodward, a well-known Grand Army man and a member of several secret orders. He petitioned the board, and it was thought that as Peirsol isa G. A. R. man Woodward would be accepted as acompromise candidate. But this after- noon a resolution was read by the clerk declaring the office of Chiefof the Fire Department vacant. Both commissioners voted aye, and the resolution appointing Fair was introduced and passed by the same vote. ‘W. H. Fair is the engineer who refused | to take the train out of Sacramento that was taken on its fatal journey by Sam | Clark, who perished on”the demolished bridge. He has never been heard of in | politics and kis fight was a short one. He | first thought he would like to be a police- | man and his application is now on file. A | few weeks ago he became more ambitious | and thought he would like to be Chief of the Fire Department. He made his fight quietly and won. He is an expert en- gineer and has passed the Southern Pa- cific examination, but since the strike the | railroad has not had an engine for him." | Fair’s appointment was to have beenl‘ made last week, but it was delayed and it was stated that bis chance was gone. At | noon to-day Campbell and Woodward | both felt confident, but as events proved | their hooes were groundless. Unless the Council passes an ordinance creating an office of first assistant Chief Fair will have his hands full. An ordi- | nance was passed last night abolishing the | {»osmon of second assistant chief and Fire | Warden and the ordinance creating the | office of first assistant and Fire Warden | was beaten. As the first assistant’s office was abolished three months ugo Chief Fair is much more at the head of the de- partment than anv of his predecessors. — MRS, COOPER CONFESSES She Tells a Berkeley Audience Why She Is a Woman Suffragist. Dr. Wendte a Sympathizer—A Stu. dent Unmercifully Beaten—Mr. Morford’s Death. BERKELEY, Cav., Jan. 21.—Mrs, Sarah B. Cooper told a large audience at the Congregational Church of Berkeley to- night how she came to be & woman suf- fragist. Prior to her remarks Rev. Dr, | ‘Wendte of Oakland gave a brief address, in which he referred to the few privileges which women were allowed to enjoy only a short time ago, what a change for the better in their behalf has taken place in the last decade, and what greater things for them are yet to come. “I am a woman suffragist,” said he, *be- cause I was born one, because it was bred into my very bones. I would be glad to see many men to-day driven out of posi- tions which they hold to give way for women who are far more competent to fill them. 1 hope to see the time,” said Dr, Wendte, ‘‘when women will be' professors in the University of California. There are many women in the country to-day whom I dare say are well able to fill such positions with the greatest of credit. Any influence which will tend to broaden. the | sgnere of woman surely will tend to better | t! e community.” Mrs. Sargent, president of the State Suf- frage Society, interposed a few remarks, She entered a strong plea for the passage of the amendment to the State constitu- tion striking out the word “male.” s, Cooper followea in her character- istic forcible manner of address. She said that in asking for the privilege of voting woman is not seeking charity, but justice. l “The logic of experience for the, past se venteen years,” said Mrs, Cooper, who he says were in a hign state of in- toxication. They claimed 2s a reason for giving him a drubbing that he had been paying an undue amount of attention to a certain young lady frisnd of theirs. This Rodgers flatly denied. Without further preliminaries they threw their vic- tim on the railroad track, where each took a turn at giving him a round of hard blows. Rodgers blew a police whistle, which was responded to by & night watci man, who stated that it was out of his line of business to lend assistance to any one in ithat kind of trouble; that he was em- ployed by the storekeepers to watch their places of business at night. After an hour of cuffing the university men allowed Rodgers to go. He has sworn out three John Doe warrants for their arrest. An attempt was made to serve thenf to-day, but without avail. Death of Mr. Morford. BERKELEY, CaL., Jan. 2L.—An inquest was held to-day on the body of Charles A. Morfora of Lincoln street, North Berkeley, the bookkeeper in the employ of D. Everding & Co. of San Francisco who was instantly killed last night at Berry- man station, North Berkeley, by the engine of the local train. The Coroner’s jury, after sitting for two hours, returned a verdict of acciaental death. Mr. Morford was unmarried and lived with his sister, Mrs. A. M. Kennedy, near the corner of Edith and Lincoln streets. The jury recommended that the Board of Town Trustees pass an ordinance com- pelling_the Southern Pacific Company to maintain suitable lights at Berryman sta- tion and all other stations within the town limits of Berkeley. Berkeley’s Truant Officer. BERLELEY, Car., Jan. 21.—At the meeting of the Board of Education last night it wasdecided to retain the services of Truant Officer Esmond who was ap- pointed a short time ago as an experiment. Reports as to the work he has accom- | plished in the various districts were made | by himself and by the teachers whosg | truant pupils he has been able to discover. | Principal Waterman stated that the mere fact that a truant officer is in {own keeps many boys from running away from | sehool. Director Norton stated that the Lorin | school is bad? overcrowded, and accord- | ingly suggested that an addition be made to the b\\fidinm Plans for the annex will | be presented at the next board meeting. | ‘Want the Managership. BERKELEY, CAL,, Jan, 21.—Class and varsity polit are again forming the topics for discussion in the corridors of the university buildings. In addition to the | candidates for the various class offices come the aspirants for the Rfool- ball managership, which is probably | the most important and responsible | position to be entrusted to a student. | Those who have made themselves known | as candidates for this position are Dwight Hutchinson '98, J. F. Reinhardt '97 and F. P. Taylor '97. All three of these men | are experienced players on the gridiron, | Reinhardt having played left tackle in the last intercollegiate. Letters of Guardianship Secured. BERKELEY, CAL., Jan. 21.—Two years ago George W. Blakeley, who lived at Lorin with!his wife and family, was sent to the Agnews asylum. The children were sent to the Temescal home, and with the exception of an occa- sional visit to the home Mrs. Blakeley has disappeared. Their house, partiaily guilt, has geen‘ permitted to go to ruin, and now Blakeley’s affairs are to be straightened out by his friends. They obtained letters of funrdianahip over the children to-day, and it is supposed that this will cause the | mother to come forward and help in un- raveling the business tangle of ger hus- band. —————— A Young Seaman Drowned. A sailor named W. G. Renaut was drowned under peculiar circumstances yesterday morn- ing. He was at work painting one of the sides of the British ship Reliance, just off Mission Rock, when he fell into the hl{ennd £ank be- fore any effort &t rescue could made. ' Ca; tain Robinson reported the drowning to the Morgue. Renaut, who was 20 years of age, bad just been promoted third mate from ap- preniice, and was to teke hie place in the cabin to-day. He had been flve years with Ceptain Robinson. His fatheris a prominent business man of Bristol, England. Jdocal agent of the Chilren’s Society is still | PERSECUTING A CHILD. Rev. Dr, Hobart Investigates the Case of Laura Fuscl_l. WITH A CHRISTIAN FAMILY. A Fifteen-Year-0ld Gir!l Who Has Been Made a Victim of Calumny ‘ and Spite. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.} 908 Broadway, Jan. 21. Although little Laura Fusch is con- scientiously doing Ler duty as a domestic in an East Oakland family, snd although Rev. Dr. Hobart and Mrs. Eddy of the First Baptist Church have pronounced the cruel calumny as being viciously false, the searching for the girl. “Dr. Hobart and myself went out to the place where Laura is engaged, this after- noon,” said Mrs. M. J. Eddy to-night, “and we found that she went there within & couple of hours of leaving the place where she was employed in the dining-room. The story of the young lady as published in yesterday’s. CALL is true in every particular. The story first published was a cruel wrong, and to repeat it without any investigation is heartless. | Mrs. Prescott’s conduct is beyond my comprehension. She is in office for the purpose of preventing cruelty to children, and in this case she is actually causing cruelty. Ifshe had come to us we could bave willingly told her the truth.’ Miss Laura” Fusch was seen to-day and said she had never spoken to any reporter except a CaLL man. “The story pub- lished in to-day’s Chronicle is a very cruel one.” she said. ‘‘No one came to see me, although it would have been an easy mat- ter to find me. Itsays I went back to the hotel a few days aiter the ‘elopement’ it talks about and said that ‘the partner- ship’ I made with the two men was not satisfactory and I had broken it off. I took everything belonging to me from the hotel when I came to this house, and I have never been back there since and have not seen any one connected with the hotel.” The situation in regard to Laura Fusch would be Iudicrous did it not cause pain and anguish to an innocent little sufferer. She was visited to-day by the Rev. Dr. Hobart and Mrs. Eddy, and yet the agent says the society is making ‘‘strenuous efforts” to ‘rescue” her. All her ac- quaintances at the church sympathize with her, and are doing their best to set | matters right. Members of the church | who have investigated the matter declare tbat “the story of the elopement with the bibulous cook und porter have been told by the provrietor of the Hotel Wilson out of spite, because the girl left without giv- ing notice.” Laura is but a child, 15 years of age, and the influential First Baptist Church is | determined that her good name shall be preserved. | Mrs. Prescott said to-night ‘that the - | terview attributed to her in to-day’s papers | is false. She says she is only trying to get the facts in the case, and up to the present | time she has only succeeded in hearing | the side of the story told by the girl's late employers. WATCHED BY AR OFFICER. Sad Plight of Two of the Per- formers in “Old Ken- tucky.” Chickens That Were Not the Work of the Propertyman’s Art. There are a couple of obscure’actors in | the *‘Old Kentucky’” Company, now play- ing at the California Theater, whose names do not figure on the programme, and who have never in any way sought to advertise themselves. Notoriety; however, has been thrust upon ther. It was on account of these actors that an officer, representing the majesty of the law, went to the California Theater, bright and early last night, and having secured a seat in the first row, which commanded an uninterrupted view of the stage, he watched the performance with the/stern and judicial air of a man who is ready to make an arrest at a moment's notice 1f circumstances are grave enough to war- rant it. During the second act, when the | two actors hold what in theatrical par- lance is known as the left center of the stage, the officer redoubled his attentions. His object was twofold; he wished to see whether he would be justified in making any arrest and he also wished to assure | bimself that the two actors were of flesh | and blood and notv property dummies. It must be explained that the actors, | though alive, are not human beings but | chickens. Their modest share in the en- tertainment is to stay in a coop till a pickaninny yanks one of them into the glamor of the footlights, plays upon its feathered back as if it were a violin and | | afterward makes it perform a pas seul to | the inspiring music of a breakdown. On Monday night there were spectators in the audience who did not relish the | chicken’s share in the entertainment, and yesterday several of thetn called upon Sec- retary Charles Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and lodged complaint. The burden of their allegation was that the pickanniny han- dled the bird with unnecessary roughness and that he banged its little feet roughly on the floor, as well as flashed it before the footlights in a manner that terrified the little creature and cansed it to endure men- tal anguish, as weil as bodily pain. “If the charges made were not exagger- ated,’”” said Secretary Holbrook yesterday, ‘“the chicken is being tormented, and we can put a stop_to its further appearance ‘on the stage. It is our duty to investigate complaints, but we have to be quite sure that it is not a dummy chicken. There was a baby at the Busb-street Theater once—but that’s another story. The propertyman in that case was cleverer than most of his kind.” Secretary Holbrook’s officer, who at- tended the theater last night, will report that the chickens are alive and that they are of the common or barnyard variety, when he meets his chief this morning. What else he will report is not to be divulged until to-day, but if the alleged bodily pain and intense anguish have im- it is probable that both chickens wili have to retire permanently from the stage asa profession. MICHAEL M'CARTHY'S PLAINT. He Begins Suit Against William Blaney for ®299 for Malicious Arrest. Michael McCarthy has begun suit in the Justice Court against William Blaney for $299 for malicious arrest. McCarthy was arrested on November 4, 1895, on a warrant sworn out by Blaney charging him with threats against life, and was imprisoned for twenty-four hours in the City Prison, being compelled to give | Lind was the Union h& pressed tnemselves uoon the officer’s mind | $500 to secure his release. On being heard the case was dismissed. McCarthy alleges that ‘‘many persons, whose names are unknown to him, hearing of the said arrest and supposing the plain- tiff to be @ criminal, have ceased to respect him, and he has been otherwise injured in his good name and reputation and health, and whereby and by means whereof he hath sustained damagesin the sum of $299.” INSULTING LADIES. H. Skirm and Philip Waltz Convicted by Judge Conlan of Disturbiug the Peace. H. Skirm and Philip Waitz, the two agents for enlarged photographs, appeared in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morning | to answer to the charge of disturbing the | peace. Captain Gillin was present to prose- cute the cases. Mrs. J. W. Coffey, 2830 Sixteenth street, wnd Miss Annje Williams, who were in- sulted by the two defendants on Monday afternoon, gave their testimony, which was in effect that the men tried to force their wares on the ladies, and that when the ladies refused to buy the intruders in- dulged in vile and insulting language. The Judge commented severely upon the conduct of the defendsnts. “If Ihad been around the house at the time,” he said, ‘T can assure you, you would have been laid up in ihe hospital foraslong as I intend to sentence you.” He expressed his re- | gret that no greater charge could be placed | against them, but he intimated that he would give them the full penalty. Prosecuting Attorney &ogan expressed | himself in similar terms, and requested that the severest penalty be administered. 1 The defendants were ordered into cus- tody and will appear for sentence co-day:‘ THE CAREER OF MAGUIRE, Incidents in the Life of a Veteran Manager of Theaters. HE ACQUIRED GREAT WEALTH. The Houses of the Drama Which He Established and Managed in This City., Thomas Maguire, whose death in New York was announced by the dispatches published yesterday, held sway in San Francisco as a manager of theaters for nearly a quarter of a century. At one time during a period of his greatest pros- perity he was reputed to be. worth a mil- lion dollars, yet the wires say he was des- titute when he died, depending for sup- port on a pittance from the Actors’ Fund. Thomas Maguire came to San Francisco from New York in 1849. He was then about 25 years of age. Not much is known of his early life in New York beyond the fact thathe was a hack-driver. When he went East in 1864 he wore diamonds, dis- played a superb golden watch and had plenty of money to spend. He put up at the Metropolitan Hotel, and while makin, night rounds was robbed of money an jewelry. e made a protest against the back-drivers whom he suspected, and de- manded restitution on the ground that he was once a New York hackman him- self. The story goes that they refused to surrender the spoils on the ground that Maguire was rich and could stand the loss. He acquiesced in that view of the case and no arrests followed the incident. In 1852 Maguire built the Jenny Lind / Thomas Maguire, the Veteran Theater Manager, Whose Death in Destitute Circumstances in New York Was Re. ported in Yesterday's Dispatches. [From a photograph taken in 1575.) Theater. It was on Kearny street, near Washington, on what is now the middle lot of the old City Hall site. On the Washington and Kearny street corner was the famous EI Dorado, chant street corner adj a ° B & H 3 5 L ning the Jenny | | stitions. otel. The ground | covered by the three buildings was subse- | quently sold by Maguire to the City and | the City Hall erected thereon. The enterprising manager purchased the | San Francisco Hotel on the north side of | Washington street, between Kearny and | Montgomery. He tore down that build- | ing, and in 1854 erected on the same site | Magure’s Opera-house. In that house | many of the greatest actors that the world has produced were presented for the first | time to the playgoers of San Francisco. | Maguire secured for his theater the best talent available, and success seemed to smile on his ventures. In 1862 he built the Academy of Music on Pine street, and then his misfortunes began. The venture broke him and he never rallied again to maintaiu success for rolonged period. He leased the Eureka Theater on Montgomery street, between Pine and California, but the business there was not profitable. Mr. Maguire's last active work in this City was performed as manager of the Baldwin Academy of Music, now the Baldwin Theater. In 1875 Mr. Baldwin built the house and 1n 1876 the theater was n‘&ened under the manage- ment of Tom Maguire. In 1878 or 1879 Maguire went East and resided there until his death. 0ld timers who knew Maguire well assert that much of his prosperity achieved at the Maguire Opera-house on Washing- ton street was due to the excellent business qualities of his first wife, whose maiden name was Douglass. Victim of an Explosion. N ‘Welch Hanlon, the old man who while work- ing for Contractor Perrine in a quarry near the Seven-mile Heuse on November 9 was horribly injured by a premature explosion, died at the City and County Hospital yester- day. At the time of the accident Hanlon, who was 60 years old, was “tamping” a hole which had just been “sprung.” The powder of the fuse became ignited by the intense heat and the explosion followed without warning of any kind. Hanlon’s right arm was blown off and his eyes were burned. His companion also lost his eyes. e Kate—Just look, these boots are ever so much too big. Mary—Yes; vou must have glven him the number of the street instead of the number of your shoe.— Boston Transcript. JOSEPH C. PIERCE DEAD, A Former Berkeley Athlete Sud- denly Expires at Santa Barbara. WAS ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM. Prominent at the State University and a Member of All the Varsity Teams. Hiram Pierce, a Santa Barbara lumber merchant, who arrived from the south a few days ago, on a business and pleasure trip to this City, left for his home last night by rail, in respouse to a telegram announcing the sudden and unexpected death of his young brother, Joseph, yester- day morning. Joseph C. Pierce was well known in San Francisco and vicinity during his college days at Berkeley, for among his fellow-col- legians thefe was probably never a more generally popular man than ‘‘jolly Joe” Pierce. Prominent in athletics from the time he entered college in '91 with the class of 95, “he established at Berkeley an unprece- dented record as an all-round athlete. He was center rush on the varsity football team, catcher on the varsity baseball team, a weight thrower and tug-of-war’s man on the varsity track team, a member of the varsity crew, a member of the varsity band and of the Chi Phi Fraternity. But more than for his ability as an ath- lete Pierce was liked as a good fellow, for he was the personification of the jovial, light-hearted young collegian, andsome, over six feet in height, and weighing over 200 pounds, he was a fine physical specimen of California manhood. His college course was suddenly cut short about two years ago by the death of his father, followed a few months later by the death of his sister. After leaving the State University young Pierce took charge, with his brother, of his father's lumber business and became a member of the firm, one of the oldest in Southern Cali- fornia. Blood Poison the Cause. SANTA BARBARA, CaL., Jan, 21.— Joseph Charles Pierce, aged 23, died in Santa Barbara this morning of blood- poisoning, the result of an abscess formed during an attack of tonsilitis. Visitors to the Santa Barbara flower fes- tival last spring will remember Pierce as the merry clown who, with several of hiy friends in outlandish costume, drove a hoary mule decorously clad in pantalettes. The frolics of this merry band, whose identity was carefully concealed at the time, and in all of which Mr. Pierce was the ringleader, geriorming the most ex- traordinary acrobatic feats to the delight of spectators, was the one touch of genu- ine fun which relieved the esthetic strain of the festival. The dead man’s only brother and busi- ness partner, Hiram Pierce, is in San Fran- cisco, and the funeral will not take place until after his return on Thursday afternoon. BICH MINES IN" CHINA, A Local Chinese Millionaire Is Soon to Help Develop Them. Several Hundred Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Machinery to Be Shipped. Lee Wee, one of the leading wholesale merchants and importers of the Chinese district, has gone into mining. He has been 1n San Francisco since 1852, most of the time a merchant. Within the past few years he determined to be a niner of Chinese gold and silver, and within the next two or three months half a million dollars’ worth of machinery will be shipped to the empire from this City. It is well known to students of history that the superstition of the people has retarded, if not absolutely prevented, the opening and development of gold, silver, copper and other mines in China. If the body of a long-ago-departed Celestial is known to repose in & hillside, the miner must be intrepid to bury so much as the point of his pick in that precious soil. Lee Wee knows this as well as anybody, and, in speaking of the superstition of his countrymen yesterday, said: *‘It's all fool- ishness. I'm as good a Chinaman as any of them, but 1 don’t believe in any of that stuff. I live too long in the United States.”” LeerWee is too shrewd to embark in a wildcat scheme or to invest his thousands in_an enterprise for the development of mines unless he knows that he can get at those mines despite the prevailing super- His agents are in communica- tion with the Emperor, and Lee Wee did not come to a definite conclusion until he was officially assured that his expensive machinery and operations would be pro- tected. Lee Wee, though an officer in the Ning Yung Company, one of the largest Chi- nese organizations in the United States, is very much American in his ideas. He educated three of his relatives, Nep Yune, Yung Kin Song and Tou Chong, at the university, and also procured a special instructor for them in mineralogy, mining and civil engineering. Two of the sons are now in China, and the third one re- cently returned with a large collection of ore specimens. 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