The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1897, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1897 WORKINGMEN WANT HELP The Cotton-Mills Employes Against Convict Goods. MANUFACTURERS WILL ASSIST. State Senator Tracy Asked to Push the Anti-Machinery Bill URGED TO FIGHT FOR TH: MEASURE. Good Jute Twine Can Be Mide in the | Qaklani Establisiment at a | Fair Price. Willlam Reay, engineer, W. R. Emery of | the cotton department anu James Moir, foreman of the weaving department of the | California Cotton-mills of Oakland, called upon Julian Sonntag, president of tie | Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion, in his office at noon yesterday, and | presented the protest of the employes of | the cotton-mills against the manufacture | of cotton and jute twine at the San Quen- | tin prison, which was published in THE | CALL yesterday. The committee stated that itdesired th: support of the association in the matter, | asthe work of the convicts is a serious | detriment to the industry they represent. | They then produced and left with Mr. | Sonntag samples of eight and three ply twine, which they declared could be fur- nished in any quantity and of the highest q 3 r. Sonntag said that he pledged the | support of the association to the commit- | teein its endeavor to put a stopto mei ruinous traftic they complain of. He added that the Board of State Prison | Directors and Warden Hale have violated | the plain letter of the iaw by failing to | secure affidavits in regard 1o the twine | purchased, not only by the Examiner, but by others, and said that it was evi- | dently for the purpose of concealing the | facts. “If the directors did not know of these transactions the Warden certainly | did, and that being the case he ought to | be removed from the position he now | holds.” Mr. Sonntag then instructed Oscar | Lewis, who was present, to write a strong | letter, on behalf of the association, to Assemblyman Treacy, asking him to have | the bill presented by the association to pro- | hibit the use of certain machinery in the prison in manufacturing in order to find out how the legislators stand on the proposition and have them on record. | A little later Oscar Lewis forwarded the | following letter to Mr. Treacy: | X FRANCISCO, March 13, 1897. cy, State Assembly, Sacramento, In regard to Assembly bill 3. be use of machinery in the State prisons, we notice it is on second reading | file. .A delegation of the workingmen from the Osakland cotton-mills calied at our office this morning, and are very indignant by reason of | the prison authorities at San Quentin going | into the manufacture of twine, said twine be- | ing used for & variety of purposes, and -he Oakland cotton-milis have had quite a busi. | ness in that line, but recently their customers have insisted that a similar article was offered in this market from the East for 1 cent per ! pound less money, bu: owing to the recent ventilations in this matter it is found that the | so-called Eastern twine was being manutac- tured in San Quentin. and thus the small quantitiesof twine purchesed by the Examiner aud others has demoralized the prices for that 1ine of goods in this market. | Now we consider thisa good time, if possi- | ble, to urge the members of our present Leg's- | lature to vote upon the subject, &5 it has been | proven that the prison authorities cannot be trusted with the handling of labor-saving ma. | chinery, but that they wil) constantly encroach upon the rights of free labor. i 1t may not be pos:ible to pass bill 933 at this session, but we are very anxious to have at least & vote taken upen the subjct. Very truiy yours, Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California, by JULIAN 80! OSCAR LEWT THE POOL GAME ENDED. C. A. Roberts Kuns the Largest Score and Gets a Diamond. The big pool tournament at the Union League Club which began a week ago | burglars. yesterday with twenty-seven players, came to an end last night. The largest score was made by C. A. Roberts, who received a handsome diamond scarfpin as aprize. He also won the second prize, & cut glass silver mounted repository for cigars. The third prize consisted of a gold cigar cutter, and was awarded to Colonel Frank Vail. The contestants for a good while played very good and very close games. Yesier- day afternoon, when, after a week, the game was resumed there were but four players, theend came. A number of prizes are yet to be given to persons who played with varying degrees of snccess. ol slen g Woman’s Relief Corps Incorporated. Laura J. Robinson, Geraldine E. Frisbie, Mary Lang Farmer, Cora A. Merritt and Eliza Shepherd have filed articles of incorporation of the Woman’s Reliel Corps Association ofthe | Department of California and Nevada. M DNGRATEFL SET, Burglars Stole His Money and Goods and Destroyed His A Thoughtful Saioon Man Who Fur- nishes Marauders With Too's for Tueir Trade. William Purnhagen, good-natured and affable, has been turned into a misan- | thropic and surly, individual in a single night. He is a man of the world and was philo- sophical enough until yesterday to allow that iniquity is as necessary in the make- up of the social elemeut as bydrogen is in the atmosphere. Three times in the past year or so since he has become the possessor of a saloon at the corner of Seventh and Market streets the place has been broken into by Twice the thieves broke into every drawer, creating more damage by sheer vandalism than the value of the booty they obtained. Realizing this' Purnhagen made it a practice to hang up a sign on the front of his safe informing cracksmen: The safe is open and there are only valueless | books in it. His object was not only to save the burglars unnecessary work but to protect his safe as well, On the shelf back of the bar he alwavs kept a screw-driver and a “jimmy” of the best pattern in case his visitors might care to inspect more closely into the in- terior of closets and things. In other words, Purnhagen expected that the burglars might call on him aLy night when he was not al home, and he preferred to give them shipshupe manner without destroying his property. At 2 o'clock Friday morning he closed up his place of business and re- tired. At 5:30 o'clock his barkeeper, John Frais, opened the bouse again and to his astonishment he found that the place had been turned topsy-turvy. Burglars had - profited by the three Three games were played and ! such facilities to | | piy their trade that they wouid do it in HOT A NERVE QUIVERED Hypnotism Supplants An- esthetics in Sur- gery. A SUFFERING WOMAN RELIEVED, Mrs. Clothier Converses While Her Flesh Is Stripped With a Scalpel. WAS ENTIRELY UNCONSCIOUS OF PAIN. After the Ordeal She Remembered Nothing but Her Chat With the Physicians. Hypnotism promises to become a prom- inent factor in modern surgery. Consid- erable hypnotic experimenting has been geing on of late, but many of the most successful investigators of this phase of psychological science have refrained from giving or neglected to give the results of their work to the punlic. An apt illustration of the adaptability and harmlessnessof hypnotism 1n deilca and painfnl operations were furnished a few days ago in the case of Mrs. A. R. Clothier of Collinsville, Solano County, now residing at 2115 Webster street, in this City. An operation, which is known among the surgical fraternity as“'trachelorraphy,” was performed on the lady about ten days ago under bypnotic influence, but *perin- eorraphy” was performed later, and owing to aggravaled conditions from the previous operation was a serious ordeai. Dr. M. E. Van Meter was the operating surgeon, assisted by Dr. Charles Clark, who readily placed the patient under the ifluence of fiypnousm. The only other persons preser.t during the operation were the assistant surgeons and nurses. At the first operation the lady was bypnotized while - lying on a couch, and walked at the bidding of the doctor to the operating table, and after the ordeal returned to her former resting place. At the last operation Dr. Clark approached her as she Jay on the operating table and, placing a hand across WILLIAM PURNHAGEN, a Favoritt With the Burglars Who Frequent the Neighborhood of Seventh and Market Streets. hours’ Iatitude given them to cut their way in through the panel of a rear drawer. They helped themseives to whisky and other Jiquors, as well as to cigars. They then used the proprietor's tools and broke into the cash drawer, where they secured some $8 in small change. They broke open & nickel-in-the-slot machine, and for once made a record of having beaten that seductive gambling device. They also de- molished the cash register. Mine host Purnhagen does not feel 80 burt at the loss of his money and goods as he does at the ingratitude of the bure- lars who used the tools he furnished to them with such destructive effect. NEW TO-DAY. 4 made it popular. Suadaisiaiaisitia i BT A big demand for a popular Cigar is to continue the high grade of excellence that JACKSON SQUARE CIGAR! THEY’RE STRICTLY CUBAN HAND-MADE. ALL DEALERS. RINALDO BROS.&CO 300-302 BATTERY ST., S. F., Coast Agents. mmmmmmmwmwmmmmmmfi LA e L T L e e T T Ly Yy Ty YTy Ty T Ty ey Ty Ty T her temples, which were covered with a handkerchief, said soothingly: *“You are going to sleep now on this lounge, and will feel much refreshed when you awake.” “Am 1?” she asked contentedly, and in a few minutes, being toid that every one had left the room but himself, she failed 10 see or hear any of those moving about per. T.e surgeon bent over her and touched her forebead, but she showed no sign of consciousness, though she was aware of all that Dr. Clark said and did, conversing with him and acquiescing in every statement he made and obeying him as a child would. In the meantime the operator had arranged his instruments ana_began his work. A shight stream of blood followed the glittering scalpel, and still she quietly discussed the topics of the day with her companion. Needles, scissors ana knivi were bereft of their terrors and the faintest-hearted could but lose himself in interest and wonder as the operation progressed. Every moment or so the doctor said to her: ““You can neither feel touch or pain; you are resting perfectly,” and she repeatea her affirmation of each statement and lay a3 quiet aud motionjess as if in slumber, the muscles relaxed, the respiration regu- lar and normal and the voice subdued. At times she complained of weariness and asked to change her position, but sub- sided at & wora, believing herself perfectly comfortable. She asked for water and drank from an imaginary glasswith per- fect satisfaction to herself. At last the task was finished and the physicians prepared -to lift the patient from the tauvle to her bed. Dr. Clark's influence was again brought to bear and she became rigid as If frozen so. perfectly did she respond to the “*hypnotic uusges- tion.” After being placed on her bed she lay passive and relaxed while tol she would soon wake and would feel no pain or weariness. ‘Post-hypnotic sugges- tions,”’ as tuey are called, seem the most remarkable of all, for they control the subject after waking, leaving them free from the influence of the operator. After the ‘lady had been comfortably placed the sargeons withdrew; Dr. Clark stepped back. from ‘the bedside to the middle of the room and watched her closely without speaking. 5 As thongh he had uttered his command aloud she began to: count “One, two, three,’ and on reaching ‘‘twelve’’ she threw back the handkerchief from her face and opened her eyes. Bhe remem- bered nothing with the exception of. her conversation with Dr, Clark, and there was no appearance of exhaustion or pain. Later on she complained of a smarting cemsation, but was nersuaded by further “suggestion’’ that she was quite well. The bypnotist has :hg¢ power to impose silence upon his subject, as well as'to con- trol tbe senses, but in this case speech did not interfere with the physician, and the patient asked the privilege of talking, which she langhingly told hii was 80 dear 1o her sex. DESTITUTION AND DEATH. A Singular Case on Zoe Street Investi- gated by the Humane Officers. A peculiar case was investigated by Offi- cers Mciurry and Frank Holbrook of the Sceiety for the Preventiun ot Cruelty to Children yesterday. At 21 Zoestreet lives Peter Dahl, his wife and a boy 9 vears of age. When the officers arrived they found that early in the morning the otner chiid, a girl 4 years of age, had «led and was still lying in the bed 1n which she died. There had been no pbysician in attend- ance and no undertaker had been called. The appearance of the body indicated that neglect had played no small part in the taking off of the littie one. The par- ents pleaded poverty for their neglect, and stated that they did not have a cent in the world. The officers called the case to the atten- tion of the Associated Charities, but they were informed that the family was known to the association, and that assistance in that direction would be thrown away. It is probable that the boy who is living will be cared for by the society. The case of the dead child was called to the aiten- tion of the Health Department. . TWO0 DISEASED HOBSES. A Serious Cage Discovered at Bay View in a Cow Pasture. Special Officer George Delmer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has found two horses recently that were inflicted with glanders. The first was at Bay View, South San Fran- cisco, and the case was so bad that the ranchers and dairymen 1n that locality were almost crazed with the fear that their 800 head of milch cows would be- come infected from eating in the same pasture with the afflicted animal. The horse was killed and it is likely that the man who turned the creature loose at Bay View will be arrested. The other case that Officer Delmer in- vestigated was thatof an express horse owned by a man named Ryan, whose stand is at Mission ana Sixth streets. The horse was sent to the Health Department veterinary stable, in oraer that no mis- take should be made in tbeailment be- fore the hor-e is killed. BUTLE'S RED RECOAD Evidence That the Australian Ccmmitted All Kinds of Crime. Lesage Discovered to Be Alive, but a Third Victim Identified as C Burgess As the investigations of the Australian police as to the past history of Richard Ashe, or as he is better known to fame, Butler, progresses the industry with which he prosecuted his criminal projects becomes more sirikingly apparent. The steamship Zealandia which arrived yes- terday brougnt news of crimes recently traced to the handiwork of Ashe as well us information of new evidence of his connection with those murders with one exception which were already traced to his door. The exception referred to is that of H. Leischet, or Lesage, whose remains the police supposed they had found the Blue Hills. Lesage has been working under the name of Miller as cook in a hotel at Graiton, and :ine published ac- counts of his disappearance, though the topic of general conversation, seemed never to have reached him. The body which the police supposed to be Lesage’s has now been identified as that of a young man named C. Burgess. The latter came to Melbourne about a; vear ago, and frcm there went to Sydney. | It is now known that he left his lodgings | 10 go with Ashe to the mines. Several cases of forgery have incident- ally been proved against the prisoner. Several suspicious overtures were made to the Australian bank, but according to Mr. Elderton, the bank’s financial agent, he secured nothing from them. The police are looking up the mysteri- ous disappearances of Napoli. an Italian of Neriga District; Percy William Mar- chant, Joseph Dresser of Gundagi and Collier of Sydney. In the two latter cases the; police say the evidence points very strongly to Ashe. They bhave also found that he bas been in jail many times, and has probably committed all kinds of crime, ———————— Slashed on the Chesk. C. H. Stone of 782 Stevenson street was taken to the Receiving Hospital yesterday morning to have an incised wound on his cheek at- tended to. He said he was coming out of See- ba's saloon, Pine and Kearny streets, when an unknown man slashed him with a knife. ————— ACKNOWLEDGED superfor. the W. all sizes. 109 and 111 Market st. tz safes, 1o SMILED IN THE FACE OF DEATH John Miller, James Childs’ Murderer, Sentenced to Be Hanged. Judge Cook Reviews the Evi- dence and Utters the Fatelul Words. Miller Ruthlessly Slew a Man Who Prevented Him From Kiliing a Woman, Jobn Miller, who murdered James Childs in this City on the 18th of last No- vember, was sentenced to death by Judge Carroll Cook yesterday. The execution will take place in the State prison at San Quentin on a day to be fixed hereafter. Miller was given to understand that he will be hanged some time about the latter part of May. When the death sentence was pro- nounced the prisoner at the bar evinced very little emotion. He knew that this fate was in store for him, the verdict of the jury having left no discretion to the court. At the conclusion of Jndge Cook’s impressive words Miller looked up quietly, smiled in a sort of half -apologetic way, as if he were sorry to have caused so much inconvenience, and then cast his eyes down again, remaining thereafter per- fectly calm and silent until led away to his cell by the bailiff. He will soon be turned over to the warden of the San Quentin prison, where Willie Hearst’s twine supply is produced, and from that dreadful place he will never emerge alive. The crime for which Miller is to be hanged caused much comment at the time of the tragedy. Miller had quar- reled with Mrs. Nellie Ryan, with whom he had maintained intimate relations and was following and shooting at her on Clementina street ir this City. Mrs. Ryan fled into the doorway of Childs’ home just as Childs was going out and in order to protect the woman Childs stenped between them. Tle woman thus escaped and this enragad Miller to such an exient that he turned his pistol on the man and filled him with bullets, killing him in- stantly. After the pisto! was empty Mil- ler snapped the pistol at himself several times, pretending to attempt suicide. He was caught redhanded and kis conviction followed quickly. An attempt was made to prove that Mil- ler was ‘insane at the time he fired the fatal shots, but the jurors in recent years are not so hospitable to that defense as they were in times gone by, and they took the view presented on behalf of the prose- cution by Deputy District Attorney Hos- mer. The testimony showed that he had been subject to epileptic, fits, but the at- torney for the people demonstrated that this physical condition did not render the subject incapable of judgine between right and wrong. He was therefore held re- ponsible for his murderous act. Attorney J. N. E. Wilson made a strong plea on behalf of the prisoner for a new trial, contending that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and asserting that errors were made in the trial prejudi- cial to the ipterests of his client. Judge Cook sald be thought the points were-not well taken and deniea the appli- cation for a new trial, whereupon no:ice of appeal to the Supreme Court was given. KILLED BY THE FALL John Bennett, a Carpenter, Met Sud- den Death Yesterday Afternoon. John Bennett, a carpenter, aged 50 years, was almost instantly killed yesterday aft- ernoon by falling from the roof of a build- ingon which he was employed, near the corner of Pierce and Filbert streets. Bennett picked up a plank that he thought would be hard to Jift, and the un- necessary amount of exertion employed in the act caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground below. He was dead when a doctor arrived, his neck being broken, Bennett lived at the corner of Natoma and Eleventh streets, and leaves a wife and several children. JEWELRY store, 5-7 Third, removed to 303 Kearny. Large stock of diamonds, watches etc. e ————— Spohr’s Oratorio of “Calvary.’” The usual monthly musical service at Trin- ity Church will take place this evening, when Spohr's oratorio, “Calvary,” the story of the Passion of Christ, will be surg for the first time in Californis. The performance will be given under the direction of H. J. Siewart, organist of the church. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. -0-0-0- §-0-0-0 C. CURTIN NEW TO-DAY —DRY GOODS. LINEN DEPARTMENT! GERMAN AND IRISH LINENS! This week we will place on sale our SPRING IFIPORTA~ TION OF HOUSEKEEPING LINENS and call particular attention to the following five SPECIAL VALUES: 1 21 SISO pieces EXTRA QUALITY GLASS 2C LINEN, blue and red checks, warranted pure linen, worth 15c a yard. Yard $1.50 Dozen $1 OO 575 pieces Extra Quality German TABLE = DAMASK, elegant designs, full 72inches in width, good value for $1.50 a yard. Yard ( $1.50 Dozen $3 OO SS(D dozen Extra Quality BLEACHED = DAMASK NAPKINS, 26 in. square, Ger= man manufacture, regular price $4.50. Dozen We are also showing an elegant assortment of Bureau Covers, Scarfs, Sideboard Covers, Damask Towels, Lunch Sets, Pillowcases, Sheets, Tray Cloths, Doylies, Pillow Shams, Breakfast Sets and Fine Damask Table Cloths. 400 dozen Superior NAPKINS, ufacture, new designs, worth $2 dozen. (300 dozen LOOM HUCK TOWELS, size 18x36, warranted pure linen, Irish man=- ufacture, worth $2.00 a dozen. Quality DAMASK 22 inches square, Irish man- ' 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. ush |FURNITURE, r EASY TIME We carry a large line of Su- perior SECOND-HAND GOODS, as well as NEW GOODS. Note SonTe Prices : 500 Carpets, all sizes, from. .$4 50 up 150 Bedroom Suites, from 80 dozen Chairs, from. 75 Stoves, all sizes, from Parlor Suites, from..... Showcases, Counters, Bars. Largest Stock—,Iargest Store, Lowest Prices. J. NOONAN, 1017-1019-1021-1023 Mission Street. 516-518-520-522 Miuna Streei. Above Sixth. Phone, Jessie 41 Open Evenings. LOUIS e 1330 Market St., Opposite Seventh, CUTRATES —oN— DRUGS, PERFUMERY, PATENT HEDICINES, RUBBER 600DS, TOILET ARTICEES, FINE WINES AND LIQUORS, HIGH-GRADE CIGARS. DO YOU SMOKE? It's Expensive, But Here's a Snap: Belmonts, 1214 size La Rosa. 1214¢size.. Sancher & Haya, 12340 size. Kl Telegrapno, 1214¢ size General Arthur, 10c stralght. General Burnside, 10c s:raigh! Figaro, 5 straight . Kiug B, oc suraight * RETAIL AT WHOLESALE PRICES. .cut to 3 for 253 ~cut to 6 for 253 .Cut L0 6 for 4ad GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! ; The sacrifices that are being made daily by me to accomplish the desired end of closing out my business quickly have but one pleasing feature to me. It is’s that the PUBLIC, with whom I have done business for the past THIRTY-SIX YEARS, are the’ GAINERS by my LOSSES, and I will continue to make these losses so as to secure the greater part of your trade, until my entire stock is closed out. THIS WEEK SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS will be offered in Dress Goods, Silks Blankets, Quilts, Table Linens and Napkins. TO MERCHANT TAILORS AND MANUFACTURERS. My entire stock of Single and Double Width Cloths and Cassimeres reduced to HALF PRICE. Positively No Goods Changed. C.CURTIN, 911 AND 913 MARKET 8T. R A ity oficial of Elizabeth, N."J., consulted a"physician in the country, whers he was spending his vacation, about 4 chronic dyspepsia with which ke had be¢n.a good deal troubled. It took the form of indigestion, the food not becoming readily as- similated. After prescribing for some time, the physician finally told him he would have to be treated for several months with 2 mild Jaxative and corrective—something that would gradually bring back his normal condition without the violent action of drastic remedies. A little later he sent to the Doctor a box of Ripans Tabules and wrote him what he understood the ingredients to be and the Dector forthwith A pronounced the formula a good one and just what was nedded in the case. i\