The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1896. BILL" BURKE DYING AT UKIAR, The Career of J. B. Owens’ Slayer Drawing to a Close. TRAGEDY OF LONG AGO. Spurred by Jealousy to Take the Life of His Wife’s Brother. NARROWLY ESCAPED LYNCHING A Fortune Spent in His Defense in the Famous Trial of 1874 UKIAH, Cin, Aug. &—J. W. Burke is dying in his cabin, four miles south of town, which he has occupied for the ten or twelve years. Burke 1s a pioneer of this county, and his death would recall to those who were asso- ciated w bim in the early seventiesa in which **Bill,”” as they affection- calied bim, figured, and from the s of which he never fully recovered. Burke married a daughter of *‘old man” Owens, who resided about twenty miles from this place, near what is now known Springs, on the road between d Booneville. After Burke and his wife had been married about a year the former developsd a very jealous dispo- sition, which was manifested toward all whom his wife had any dealings or with whom she came in contact. Ond day, in the fall of 1874, Mrs. Burke expressed a desire to visit her parents at their home. Burke consented, and J. B. Owens, a brother of the lady, agreed to take his sister to her parents. Burke bad been drinking more or less during the ay, and in the miadle of the afternoon returned to his home. There he saw Owens and his sister sitting on porch chatiing, while the various rs of Burke’s family, his parents and rsand brotners, were in and about the house. As he rode up he made some remark which boded iil for Owens, but the latter paid no attention to it. Burke got off his horse, strode onto the porch and there began abusing Owens. Owens became frightened at the careless manner in which Burke handled his shot- gun and started to leave, running up the county road towards this place. He had reached Robinson Creek, 150 yards from the house, when Burke got onto his horse and followed him. Owens pressed on and crossed the creek, which was some five feet deep at its deepest, and probably fifty feet wide. Just as he emerged on the opposite bank Burke caught up with him and placing the barrel of the shoigun not two feet from Owens' left temple fired both barrels, discharging the contents into the _\u.m;{; man’s brain, The unfortinate man lived about six hours. Burke took to the hills and while there was furnished with food and supplies by friends in the vailey. A posse, led by “Doc” Standley, at that time Sheriff of this county, was close on his trail, and & mem- ber of that posse, a young law sindent named Marstella, a clerk in the office of District Attorney T. L. Carothers, was the man who captured Burke. He was brought to town and placed in the County Jail. Murders had been so frequent and many had been committed in such wanton cold- bloodedness and with such willful pre- itation that mob violence was feared. The officery received word that a mob was ‘o attack the jail and take therefrom the eivht men who were at that time its inmates, each awaiting trial for murder. County Judge T. B. Bond made an order transferring the prisoners under arrest for murder to Sonoma County for safekeep- ing. and about midnight oue dark night the eight prisoners, closely guarded, were loaded into & thoroughbrace and driven to Santa Rosa. When Burke’s trial came up he was represented by Hon. R. McGarvey, the present Superior Judge of this County, Hon. J. B. Lamar and Hon. N. Greene Curlis of Sacramento. The latter made the defense in this case the effort of his life, and so great was the strain upon him that at the close of the trial he was speech- less from exhaustion. It is said that Cur- tis tried but one case after this one, that being the case of the Peovle vs. Laura D. Fair, wherein he defended that lady on her second trial for murder. Burke’s attorneys moved for a change of venue on account of the bias and preju- dice of the community, and this was granted. The case was sent to Sonoma County and tried before Hon. W. C. Wal- lace, at that time District Judge for the Ninth Judicial District. The prosecution was conducted by _Hon. . Carothers, at that time District Attorney of Mendocino County, assisted by Hon. Barclay Henley, District Attorney of So- noma County. The trial occupied a week, and every point was bitterly contested. When the case had been submitted the jury was not long in bringing in a verdict, finding the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation that he be incarcerated in the peniten- tiary for life. The main witness on behalf of the peo- ple was an old Indian, by name Suisas, who sat on the bank of the creck and savw the .whole proceeding —the pursuit of Owens by Burke and the shooting, Burke was sent to San Quentin for life, but owing to the fact that he met with ar accident whereby his foot was crushed, his term was commuted by Governor Wiliiam Irwin to ten years, and, with his credits which he had earned, Burke was soon a free man, He returned to his place here, only to find that during his incarceration his wife had secured a divorce from him and left the country. Shortly after Burke married a daughter of D. Ervin of this L.plzce, arid they have a child. & At the time of the killing Burke was re- ' puted to be worth in the neighborhood of %15.000 or $20,000, but the expense of his trial wasso great and the monty neces- sary to secure his release from State prison 80 enormous that he is practically penni- less. Hiscabinis within a short distance of the place where the shooting of Owens took place. Owensat the time of hisdeath was & young man about 25 yearsofage. A widow and one child snrvived him. His widow subsequently married Isaac Cris- vin, a rancher of Manchester, in this county, and his daughter is a school- veacher near this place. FATAL FALL AT FRESNO. Little Charley Combs Drops From a Hwgh School Fure Eidcape. FRESNO, CAL., Aug. 8.—Little Charlie Combs, 11 years of age, fell from the fire- escape on the new High School building this evening to the cement stairway toa cellar fifteen feet below, and sustained in- juries from which he died two hours later. The litile fellow was playing with sev- «eral other boys about the building and he mounted the fire-escape. While descend- ing and when about fifteen feet from the | tated. The bone is shattered and the bul- ground, his foot slipped and he fell. He struck the hard steps headforemost, and the base of his skull was fractured. The bmldmg had just been completed, and came up before the Board of Educa- tion to-night for acceptance. This is the second of Fresno’s school puildings that has had a sad baptism. Six years ago, when the K-street buiiding was completed and opened, a son of George E.Church fell from an upper story and was killed in- stantly. L8 PORTLAND FUGITIVE LOCATED. Lionel Stagge, Forger and Confidence Man, Seen on the Streets of Chicago, PORTLAND, Og., Aug. 8.—From a pri- vate dispatch received in this city to-day itis learned that Lionel Stagge, the ex- Portlander whom the Denver police desire to arrest for swindling operations, is in Chicago under an assumed. name. He was seen in Chicago several days last week, and when he met a Portland man refused to recognize him. Stagge is known in San Francisco, to which place he went after leaving here. He has been in several confidence scrapes, and once ran a monthly banking period- jcal. In Denver hegot up a miners’ direct- ory. He is said to have collected money from subscribers in advance and then de- camped, after having got an afternoon paper into a muddle, and also into bad re- pute. Stagge served a term in the Oregon State Penitentiary for forgery under tha alias of Waterhouse. Pl Rl Al AN ARIZONA ENTERPRISE. Incorporation of the Calabasas Irriga- tion Land and Water Company. NOGALES, Ariz., August 8.—Articles of incorporation of the Calabasas Irriga- tion Land and Water Company were signed here to-day. The incorporators are Augustus 0. Brummel, Washington, D. C.; Morgan R. Wise, Robert Ekey and D. F. Manlove. The principal piace of business is Calabasas, Ariz.; capital stock, $3,000,- 000, divided into 3,000,000 shares. The object of the company is to acquire prop- erty, construct canals for irrigation pur- poses, acquire water and water rights, sink artesian wells, erect pumps-and pumping machines and construct canals, ditches, dams and reservoirs for the pur- pose of storing water. NEVADA CITY EXPLOSION Two Men Maimed in a Disaster at the Live Yankee Mine. Giant Cartridges Ignited by a Spark From a Fuse They Were Testing. NEVADA CITY, CAL., Aug. 8.—An ex- plosion that came near costing John Dur- bin and Al O'Donnell their lives occurred this morning at the Summit, or Live | Yankee mine, about a mile south of this ; | city. Durbin, who is a miner, came up to toe surface to get some fuse and giant powder caps. O’Donnell, an engineer, went with him to the powder-house, prob- | ably thirty feet from the hoisting works. Durbin obtained a box of cartridges and while holding them in his hand started to test a piece of fuse. A spark from the fuse fell into the box | of cartridges, causing a tremendous ex- plosion. Both men were knocked down and terribly cut by the flying pieces of copper from the caps. Durbin’s right eye | was injured, and at first it was believed | that it had been blown out. It is now believed that the sight has not been destroyed. His right hand was shattered and he received serious injuries in the abdomen. As soon as the men recovered from the | first shock Durbin ran from the building to a ditch near by, into which he fell. O’Donnell’s right hand and arm were badly torn and he sustained serious in- juries in the groin. In spite of his dis- abled condition he followed Durbin and dragged him from the water into which | he had fallen. Then O’Donnell lowered the cage and hoisted the miners to the surface, telling them to care for Durbin while he tele- graphed the news of the acciaent to Superintendent Nihell. The telep one and the wall surrounding it were spat- tered with his blood. After sending the | message he dropped to the floor ex- hausted. Dr. Tickell was soon at the mine and gave the injured men the necessary at- | tention. As both are young anid vigorous | it is the physician’s opinion that they will i recover. Durbin was taken to his home at Grass Valley and O’Donnell was brought to this city. * Within two feet of where the explosion occurred was a fnll box of giant powder, but it was not exploded by the concus- sion. — e AFFRAY AT MODESTO. William TYoung Shot and Seriously Wounded by Andrew Mills. MODESTO, CaL., Aug. 8. — William Young, a farmer, and Andrew Mills, the latter an employe of Young’s father-in- law, 8. 8. Baker, fought on a main street of the town this afternoon. During the fracas Young’s right leg was shattered above the knee by a bullet from Mills’ re- volver. A fine horse driven by Mills had died and the trouble between Young and Mills grew out of its treatment. Their quarrel { was renewed to-day and Young, who is a large man, rush-d at Mills, a small man. They fell together, but Mills drew a re- volver in failing and fired. Young got hold of the weapon and prevented a sec- ond shot. The doctors say Young’s leg cannot be saved and Young refuses to haye it ampu- {eglhn not yet been extracted. Millsis in jail B — Jailed at Woodland. WOODLAND, CaL., Aug. 8 — Noel Giguere, who stole a horse and buggy be- longing to L. McConger at Winters last Sunday evening and was afterward cap- tured at Lakeport, was brought to the County Jail by Constable Banning this afternoon, having been held for trisl be- fore the Buperior Court. Giguere has a hard reputation, and boasts that this was the third horse he had stolen during the ast two months. He escaped from the one reform school about two months azo, aud the officials have besn trying to locate him ever since. He is &bout 20 vears of age, and has relatives living in this county, near Cacheville. 3 —_——— Tragedy at Madera. MADERA, CaL, Aug. 8.—Mrs. F. G. Smith, the mother-in-law of George H. Smith, a jeweler of this town, committed suicide this evening by cuttin, Bhe had arrived in Californis gtgn:l:li,m'; son-in-law and daughter six montn sago. Since coming here she became dissatisfied, but did not wish to return to her folks in the East. About 5 o’ciock she procured one of her son-in-law’s razors, and going toan outhouse got down on her knees and commenced to gash her throat. Her rations for the entertainment of ABDUCTED FROM STANFORD: CAMPUS Student Kaufman and His| Bicycle Carried Away by Outlaws. ROBBED OF HIS CASH. Conveyed in a Carriage to an Unfrequented Locality and Released. TIRES OF HIS WHEEL CUT. Prevented by His Captors From Riding Away to Spread an Alarm. STAN FORD UNIVERSITY, CAL., Aug. 8.—A remarkable highway robbery, com- mitted here on the campus a few nights ago, has just come to light. Two men in a buggy stopped, captured and carried off at the point of a pistol oneof the best known students in the senior class, Adolph G. Kaufman of Tacoma, Wash The night was dark. Kaufman was re- turning on a bicycle from a late ride, when, wheeling along cautiously in the darkest part of the thickly shaded avenue just back of the women’s gymnasium, he met a carriage. The driver called to him to *‘hold on a minute,” and the cyclist, thinking it was only another of the many cases of confusion resulting from igno- rance of the direction of the winding driveways on the extensive campus, jumped from his wheel and stopped near the horse. One of the men got out of the buggy, remaiking as he did so that he was ‘“‘all turned around in these drive- ways.” He approached Kaufman and thrust a pistol urder his nose. “Hamp that wheel into the buggy and pile in yourself,” he muttered. Kaufman attempted to treat it as a joke, believing that some of the fellows had put up a hoax on him. But he was soon con- vinced that it was a serious matter when he felt the muzzle of the pistol touch his lips and heard a viie direction from the man in the buggy. He did as he was or- dered. Seated between the two men he was driven by a back road westward in the di- rection of Redwood City. They went through Kaufman’s pockets and took $61, the student having recently received quite a sum of money to pay his board bill and square up his summer school expenses be- fore starting for home. Fortunately he had paid his bills that day. At each attempted remonstrance he was told to keep his mouth shut. nor would they allow him to talk. Finally, when about five miles from the university, they stopped on a lonely stretch of road from which there were no farmhouses in sight, and teld Kaufman to get out. He realized then that they meant to leave him, and he pleaded earnestly for the bi- cycle, which he had borrowed from a friend. -So anxious was he to get back the wheel that he promised faithfully that he would ride directly home and not make an attempt to have them apprehended. After a little parley in an undertone with the driver the other man got out, lifted out the bieycle and with his pocket-knife cut almost througn the hind tire. The two then drove rapidly away in the direc- tion of San Francisco. > Kaufman arrived on the campus after midnight, trundling his wheel. gn apolo- gizing for the condition of the tire and his inability to pay for another at that time he confided the story to that friend and subsequently to one other, admonish- ing both to strict secrecy. Kaufman fears the college joshers and the junior annual. Each year of the four that he vas spent here he has been a shin- ing mark for illustrated witticisms pub- lished in the Quad.” He preferred to keep this experience a secret rather than be twitted about it when he returns with the other students next month for the opening of the fall term. He is a musician of really extraordinary ability and remarkable versatility. It was he who organized and irained the Stan- ford band of jorty pieces, the excellent playing of which was a feature of two of the great Thanksgiving day football games in San Francisco. He can play any musi- cal instrument from a Jewsharp to a piano, but his specialty is the slide trom- bone. Kaufman has composed a Stanfora march, senior, junior, sophomore and ireshman marches and other music. Sey- eral of his pieces have been played repeat- edly Ly the park band and g_v the Colum- bia Theater orchestra in San Francisco. — FIRE ENGINEERS AT SALT LAKE. Delegates Gathering for the Twenty- Fourth Convention of the Inter- national Association. SALT LAKE, Uran, Aug. 8.—The first contingent, numbering ‘aboat 200, of the Fire Engineers, arrived in this city to-day toattend the twenty-fourth annual con- vention of the International Association of Fire Engineers, which will convene on Monday morning. The sessions proper will occupy three days and the fourth ard final will be devoted to sight-seeing. The convention will be called to order at 10 o’clock on Monday morning by the president of the association, F. J. Roulett, and addresses of welcome wil! be delis by Governor Wells, on behalf 3‘:"{3‘: State; by Mayor Glendinning, on behalf of the city, and citizens representing vari- ous civic and other organizations. The rest of the day will be devoted to business, and in the evening a reception will be tendered the members of the con- vention and their friends. Tuesday and ‘Wednesday will be principally devoted to the business of the convention, inter- spersed with short excursions and musical and other entertainments in the evenings. The citizens have made extensive prepa- 1 the fighters, and in this they are aided by fi:: State and civic officials, so that the mem- bers of the convention and their friends will be well taken care of while they re- main here. As an indication of how the fire en- gineers stand on the monetary question at a vote which was taken of those who ar- rived to-day 139 voted for sound money and only 29 for the free coinage of silver. TR Ko To Drepen a San Diego Oil Well. BAN DIEGO, CAL, Aug. 8.—The oil well at Ocean Beach, now 1200 feet dee: will be sunk to a depth of 2000 feet D’P-. company of expe old company. The indications are very favorable. on a lease from the AT s e ’ Rejoicing at Santa Monica. SANTA MONICA, Can., Aug. 8.—Mrs. Winthrop E. Lester (nee Hobart) pre- grandchild saw her and gave the alarm, | sented her busband with a daughter this and Smith arrived on the scene but a min. ute too late to prevent the tragic deed. - | morning, and congratulations are arriving by the score. THE EMPORIUM. 1 Bring the baby with you—You can leave baby with the nurses in the nursery on mezz{nine floor to the left while you are shopping—There’s a little bed ready for him when he’s asleep—Picture Books THE EMPORIUM. e | THE EMPORIUM. 1 to amuse him when avake and an expe- | | E {DERS IN FASHION— rienced nurse to care for him. We'’re Openi [ C o EXTRAORDINARY CARPET CHANCES. Enlarging the We need more 9¢ Toom in this sec- Carpet DeP . tion of the store alrtady. Can’ t wait on customers comfortably. Going to add 3000 square feet of space at once. %his will necessitate the rearrangement of all the fixtures. Things will be torn up. It won’t be quite so nice shop- ping for Carpets during this enlarg- ing time, but we will make it an ob- ject to vou to come and buy. High-grade floor coverings will be offered during this enlarging sale at prices:lower than Carpets were ever sold for before in this city. Here are some of the prices, which include making and laying : BIGELOW AXMINSTER—Next to Royal Wilton the highest grade czu}:ct made—most artistic designs and colorings, with border to match, always $1.75. Sale Price $1.45. BODY BRUSSELS—Lowell & Bigelow’s standard make—full 5- frame quality—always $1.25. Sale Price $1.10. WILTON VELVETS at the price asked everywhere for Tapestries— the new colors and designs—are bound to please the most critical— always $1.25. Sale Price $1. ROXBURY & SANFORD’S Celebrated TAPESTRIES—guaran- teed 10-wire to the inch—large va- riety of choice patterns—always goc. Sale Price 80c. Extra quality of ,TAPESTRY BRUSSELS in new patterns— splendid assortment borders to match —always 75¢. . Sale Price 60c. Mattings Enlarglng S.a\lsd Ircjluc- ons on 350 ralls Jap- Affected. anese and Chinese Mattings. Buy NOW—they’ll prob- ably never be so cheap again. We offer for next week 200 rolls of many patterns of Japanese Linen Warp Matting, worth 3oc, at 2214c per yard, or roll of 20 yards........... $4 Also 150 rolls Extra Heavy Seam- less China Matting, regular 2oc qual- ity, at 15¢, or roll of 2o yards....$2.50 CueZTNEZ22ER) RAMBLERS—$49. We offer for this week 50 of the favorite _high-grade RAMBLER BICYCLES, 1895 model, at the very special price of $49 each—guarant:ed by us for one year. Ladies’ or Men’s Models. RAMBLERS have been manu- factured for the past 17 years, and are the best bicycles money can imlld. This is the best BICYCLE OF- FER of the season. C=TEE22ER) Millinery All Millinery now o on hand marvel Reductions. ousiy reduced . in rice to effect immediate clearance fore the arrival of our Fall Stock, now en route. School Hats inall the latest shades W ERS A1t are I b at are left at COST PRICE. +For remainder of TRIMMED HATS no reasonable offer will be re- fused—they must go before the ar- rival of our Fall importations. . Percale g dozen Men's - est French Percale Shirts 75c. BosomShirts,bodies of fine white muslin, open front and back, perfectly laundered. Three nove] patterns in quiet color effects, sol?l regularly at $1.50, on sale at 75¢ eacn. Men’s Furnishing D:partment, first floor, Rotunda. 2RI MORE SHOE VALUES. Simply more and better for the money than anywhere else. Every pair reliable and trustworthy and an exceptional value at this week’s spe- cial prices. FOR MISSES—Sizes Il to2 Misses’ Vici Kid Button spring- heel, made with back stay, the leading school shoeu..cceeesiiecinnneninn 8175 Misses’ Kangaroo Calf Spring Heel Button, very durable......... 8175 Misses’ Pebble School Shoes,Atogs atent tip. «.$1.75 Misses’ Russet Spring Heel But- t -$1.75 FOR CHILDREN—Sizes 8 to 10;. Children’s Vici Kid Button, made with back stay... . $1.35 Children’s Vici Kid Button, Yale toe, patent leather tip........... .81.35 Children’s Kangaroo Calf School Shoes, all solid. $1.35 Childr:n’s Pebble oes, A. i $1.00 S. tip Children’s Extra Quality Pebble Goat Button.............. Seckaarad $1.35 Children’s Kid Button, a good ser- viceable shoe, sizes 4 to 8.........75¢ FOR INFANTS. Infants’ Fine Patent Leather But- ton.. Infants’ Infants’ Kid Buttos Boys’ Calf Lace Shoss, Boys’ Calf L: toe.. Boys’ Calf Button Shoe: Boys’ Calf Button Shoe 3 PICTURE FRAMES—HALF. A carload of Picture Frames just received— the handsome and artistic style shown in picture — will be sold as lead- ers for one-half regular prices. Oak and Gold Florentine 6~ inch Molding, 20x24, matand glass......$2.3 Oak and Sik- ver, same de- sign and size... Oak and Sil- ver, same design, 22x27...........$2.50 Cream and 1d, special design, 7 inches wide, 20x24, mat and glass: oo B3 Same, all go! veenene$3.60 100 other patterns equally low. Picture and Frame Depariment, sec- ond floor, fromt. c Tubes. ..19C 35An }(inds of Drawing Materials for Sdélol?cp?;nd Tissue Pager for Lamp Shades, Paper Flowers, Fancy Boxes, etc. J Plain Crepe (Dennisan’s)...30c a roll Tint:d Bopue!e(r (Dennison’s).4oc roll Qutfits (Dennison’s)....25¢ and $1.00 Artis's’ -Materials Depariment, ond floor, f‘rant.i b LOWEST IN PRICES. | THE EMPORIUM. Our: Midsummer Special in great de- mand. - Send name anps addressgto Mljaefl Order Department for a FREE copy. There’s a complete flat of four rooms under, the mezzanine floor in the rear fitted up just as a flat should be—Wall coverings designed by our artistic dec- orator—Furnishings from the various de- partments. [ U —re o) ng New Goods This Week. If you should look into the great receiving-rooms of the EMPORIUM now it would be hard to convince you that there was any such thing as ‘““dull times.” vanguard of the largest Fall stocks ever bought for this city have already arrived, and our receiving clerks and packers are'havmala very busy time of it. The EMPORIUM leads the procession. E i A month earlier than you are accustomed to being served. The EMPORIUM—leaders in style, price—leaders in every way. ties for Fall that is made in_this city. About Fall There has been no aphazard buying for Dress Stuffs. the great Dress Goods sections of the World’s Grandest Store. An expert has made the selections of fab- rics for the fall trade after an exhaustive study of the fashion forecasts. Only the very choicest styles were accepted from the manufacturers, and the influence of ‘*spot cash” was brought to bear in re- ducing cost. The EMPORIUM will lead this fall in styles and prices. See the preliminary displays, which in- clude the following new weaves : Gauffre Two-Tone. " Friege Jacquard. Fantasie Boucle. ‘Broche Velours. Persian Broche. Broche Monotone. Jacquard a Louis XIU. Nouveaute a Jour. Matelasse d' Orient. Drap de Moutonet. Tete a Negre. Satin Princess. Among the newest colorings are : Bronge &’ Art. Blug Capet. Marron & Or. Rouge Richelicu. Marie Louise. Au Bergine. Mordore. Souterelle. Hirondelle. Gloire de Paris. Esperance. Fauore. Cr=ZEEZ22ED) Women’s A consignment opened . last Thursday worthy UfldeTSklfts- of special ~mention. High-grade goods that will give the best of satisfaction at prices you have been accustomed to paying for less desirable kinds. Fine French Flannel Skirts—silk em- broidered—pink, blue, cream and black— $1.98 to $3.38. Flannelette Skirts—extra width—made of nice “fuzzy” material—fancy pink or blue stripes—on a cambric yoke—wide hem— 49c Each. _Flannelette Skirts—extra wide—fancy pink or blue stripes—silk-embroidered edge— 89c¢ Each. Heavy Marseilles Skirts—embroidered edge—extra wide—bought to sell at $1.25— 98¢ Each. Muslin Underwear Depariment second floor, near main elevator. 650 Suits The special offering in the MEN’S SUIT art- Must Go. ment this week is ncl"t an every-day happening. - Our New York office informs us of the shipment from our own factory of the entire fall stock, and in order to make room for same we have grouped 650 Men’s Suits, values up to sxls !in one great Iot. Your pick THIS WEEK at $8.45 a Suit. The picture shows the styles—the mate- rials are dependable—All-wool Tweeds in | tan, brown and gray plaids and stylish | mixtures. These Suits bear the EMPO- | RIUM guarantee for worthiness in every way. LOOK AT THESE PRICE REDUCTIONS IN THE ages 4 to 14—made in double-breasted style of strictly all-wool fabrics, in gray, brown and tan mixtures and stout tweeds. Former price $4.00. $7.50 GUITARS FOR $2.75. The balance of our Great Special Purchase of Imported Guitars to be closed out this week at $2.75—Don’t miss this chance—you’ll never have a like one. CHAUNCEY OLCOTT’S SUCCESSFUL SONGS, Now being sung at the California Theater. Molly, Oh.... Mavourneen ... Story of the Old Countree.. The Christmas Tree..... My Beautiful irish Maid... Katy Mahone. OLCOTT’S Serenade... Now Do You See?.. And His Latest Minstrel of Clare . Successes : . My Love Remains the Same.. OLCOTT’S Home Song...... ‘Minstrel of Clare Medley Waltz N w A B838888 | The make the First Showing of novel- New The Silk-Makers’ Art seems now Silk to have reached the highest de- MKS. gree of excellence. The results in color combinations are simply wonder- ful. Never before were the exquisite blendings of nature in her rarest flowers so closely copied. Impossible to describe the early arrivals of Fall Silks, we can only give them a name. At 48c, 58c, 70c and $1.00 a yard—Gros Grain and Satin Brocade, 20 inches to 22 inches wide, choice new evening colorings, large and small designs, novel scroll and floral effects, yellow, pink, blue, Nile green, lavender, white, cream, etc. At $1.00 a yard—Novelty Swivel Surah Silk, 22 inches wide, cream grounds with very large polka dot and with col- ored figures, six or eight different effects, entirely new. Should be sold at $1.50. At $1.00 a yard—Novelty Taffeta Silk, 22 inches wide, cream grounds with black hair line, checks and colored ribbon effect stripes, actual value $1.40. The pattern colors, pink, blue, yellow, Nile green, lavender, red. At 48¢c a yard—Black and White Checked Taffeta, all silk, very desirable for Waists and Children’s Dresses. Regu- lar value 75¢. At 60c and 79c a yard—Black and White and Gray and White Striped Taffeta, unusually fine qualities. Sold regularly at goc and $1.00. At 75¢ a yard—24-inch Black Figured Taffeta, all silk, an extra fine quality, really worth $1.00 a yard. The latest small and large designs. At o8¢ a yard—Black Brocaded Gros Grain, large scroll patterns, width 22 inches, heavy weight, beautiful soft finish. Cannot be duplicated for less than $1.25. E=22ENNEZ22ER) Blanket A fine California Wool - nket, 87 per cent wool Bargains. just enough cotton to make it strong and substantial, size 66x80 inches—big enough to tuck in all around— others charge $5.50 a pair. EMPORIUM special price for this lot $3.95. SUCH SUIT-SELLING. BOYS’ DEP’T. At $2.65—BOYS’ KNEE PANTS SUITS— At $3.00—BOYS’ KNEE PANTS SUITS— ages ‘; to 10—in the pretty reefer style, now in most demand—tine blue Cheviot —wide sailor collars. We shall close them out at $3.00—$1.50 less than for- mer price. (ool —ve oy e B — e 23] DRUG DEPARTMENT. Regular rates here lower than so-called “cut rates” elsewhere. A perfectly | equipped Drugstore. Best goods only at Tan {nces never equaled in San 0. isterine (Lambert’s)... Syrup of Figs (Californial Paine’s Celery Compound.. Pinkham’s Compoun: Cauticura Resolvent Joy’s Sarsaparilla. PRESCRIPTIONS 25c. Unless they contain some very expen- sive drug. Then cost. We are agents for the unexcelled Eng- lish Perfumes of Kent Bros., London. You can buy them cheaper from us than any- where else. ¢ SYRINGES—JOBBERS’ PRICES Fountain Syringe, 1 quart.. Fountain Syringe, 2 quarts. Fountain Syringe, 3 quarts. .55¢ If you are suffering from nervous ex- haustion use McKenzie's Nerve Treat- ment. 2z Cafe The dainty lunches served :in 44 the Cafe are growing in favor Dq, t. daily. Everything served is of the very best—salads, cold meats, patties of all kinds, OUR own make pastry, delicious icecream, superb coffee, tea and chocolate. Thidprlces are STRICTLY POPU- LAR—don’t forfiet that. - You can meet all your friends here between 12 and 4— *“It’s the fad.” E2ESREZ22ET) ndy The EMPORIUM is a ?“r Ca dY regular beehive of * in- actory. dustry. you know that we have a large Candy Factory downstairs and manufacture every pound of the delicious candies that we sell our- selves? We guarantee it fresh and of best materials. = Lowest prices known. Our French Mixed, superior to the 50, kinds sold elsewhere.... 5¢ a poun g