The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1898, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1898 CAUGHT BY THE WILES OF A SIREN John Allman Lured to His Ruin by a Woman. Pitiable Plight of a Re- cent Arrival From Victoria. Thrown in the Tanks in This City on a Charge of Burglary. WORKED FOR REVENGE. Robbed the Falss One Who Had Accomplished His Sad | Downfall. John Allman, who was arrested day night and charged withburg- | still languishes in a cell in the City Prison. Behind his arrest is a pathetic story of a prosperous citizen losing his head on account of an at- tractive young woman, whose only alm was to get possession of his money. Allman, accompanied by his wife, ar- rived here several weeks ago from Vic- toria, where he was engaged in busi- ness. Meeting a friend, Allman con- sented to “do” the tenderloin district. They visited a number of saloons, and in one of them Allman met the woman | who is responsible for his downfall. | She is known only by the name of Mat- tle. Allman, despite the fact that he had a wife, fell desperately in love with her. Almost nightly he would re- turn home in an intoxicated condition and abuse his wife. Realizing that his affection for her had vanished Mrs. All- man packed her grip and returned to her parents’ home in British Columbia. Allman apparently became more devot- ed to “Mattie,” and offered to make her his wife. She pretended to love him until his money was gone, and then failing to induce him to telegraph | for more * as she expressed it, she informed him that she had no fur- | ther use for him. The foolish man be- came distracted and drank more heav- 1ly than ever. In his desperation he went to her room and pleaded with her to become his wife, after promi take her to his home in Victori refused to listen to his entreaties and ordered him to leave her room. Smart- ing under the humiliation and cursing himself for his foolishness Allman raited an opportunity to “get ev with her. The following day he rented a room in the same house, unknown to the weman. He told the landlady that he was from the East, and that he was a race horse man. Shortly after he | had taken possession of the room he | saw the gay Mattie leaving her apart- | ments e emerged from the house | he broke into her room and stole her sealskin sacque and some other arti- | cles. He placed the stolen property under his bed, intending to dispose of them at an opportune time. Unfortunately for him, he was suspected. and the police were notified. The property found where he had concealed it, and Allman was taken to the City Prison and Jocked up in the tanks. Last night the woman vwisited the City Prison and had a short conversa- tion with him. She assured him that | she would not prosecute him, provid- ing that he promised to return to his wife. - Allman keenly feels his disgrace, and is anxious to return to Victoria. A MISLEADING STATEMENT. In- An Evening Paper Does an Justice to the Jubilee Management. | The statement made by an evening paper that the Theatrical Mechanics’ Association No. 2 was not interested in | the construction of floats for the Jubi- lee parade is dénied by the members of the parade committee which has | charge of that portion of the celebra- tion. Secretary Fisher of that committee when seen last night stated that when the matter of floats came up for con- | sideration before the body two parties | produced bids and that the Theatrical | Mechanics’ Association was the lowest | and Andrews and Cannon were award- | ed the contract under the supposition | that they represented the association. | At all deliberations of the committee | they were accompanied by a man who represented himself as president of the association. Their bid being the lowest | it was accepted and the contract was | awarded to them and $500 was paid on | account of the $1500 contract. The committee belleves that they | awarded the contract to the members | of the Theatrical Mechanics' Associa- tion and In doing so recognized the or- ganized labor unions of the city. Such representations as were made to them bear out this assumption and any statements emanating from unknown parties are untrue and are denied. The secretary of the parade commit- tee has been instructed to at once com- municate with the Theatrical Mechan- jcs’ Association and ascertain the exact status of affairs. Board of Trade rooms at San Jose yes- terday afternoon for the purpose of | senta- | making arrangements for a re tion of Santa “lara County at the Golden Jubilee celebration proved a pearance and eight of the bers of the Pioneer Society. The lack of interest on the part of citizens in the matter caused much indignation and was commented upon by those present. The question of making an exhibit at the mining fair and participating in the parade was discussed at length, and the following committee appointed to canvass among the business men to raise funds so that Santa Clara County can make a proper showing: J. S. Sel- by, Colonel T. R. Weaver, J. P. Fay, C. M. Wooster and Frank Stock. James E. Gordon was named to see the ex- | ecutive committee of the Golden Jubi- lee celebration and make all necessary arrangements. The Almaden Quicksilver Mining Company will make a fine exhibit at the mining fair. It will consist of a large lake of quicksilver, upon which vessels of iron, copper and other metals will be floated. Harry J. Bee, a Cali- fornia pioneer of 1820 and now a resi- dent of this city, will be in charge of the county exhibit and represent the California pioneer. . .. Park Music To-Day. The Golden Gate Park band, weather permitting, will render the following pro- | into p | Mayor because the members of The meeting of citizens called at the | “frost.” But nine persons put in an ap- : were mem- | gramme to-day at the park, commencing at 2 p. m.: Overture, “Der Tambour der Garde" (Titl Morceau, *“Entre Nous'™ (J. W. Baume); “Reminiscences of Doni- zett!” (Godfrey waltz, “Flowers of Petersburg’” (Resch); descriptive, “Voy- age in-a Troopship” (Miller); fantasia, “Robert- le Diable” (Mariani); trombone quartet, selected, Messrs. Tobin. Scheine, Belman and Klotz; finale, third act bridal chorus from “Lohengrin” (Wagner); march, “King Spaghetti” (E. Schmitz; State song, *“Hail, California” (Gro). e SIGNED THE LEASE. Lincoln School Property Handed Over to the Real Estate and Investment Company. The Board of Education closed up the business of letting the lease of the Lin- coln School property last evening. A meeting was held at which P. J. Martin, president of the San Francisco Real Estate and Investment Company, to whom the lease was awarded; Secre- tary Tupper, of the same organization; President Barrington and Secretary ‘Welch, of the Board of Educaticn, were present, and the lease, after having been carefully examined by the attor- ney of the board, was signed by the parties concerned. The bonds have already been placed in the sum of $30,000 in a responsible surety company, and the company goes ession of the property on Feb- ruary 1. DOWN ON MAYOR THOMAS. The Army and Navy League De- nounces Discrimination. OAKLAND, Jan. 8.—Thg¢ Army and Navy League met to-night and elected Colonel George W. Houget president. Colonel H. D. Talcott was also nom- inated but only received twenty-four votes to ninety for Houget. J. W. Osborn and ex-Judge Fred Adams made speeches deuouncing the the League %vere unable to get any work from the city. They claimed the Army and Navy League were back of the Mayor in securing him his nomination for office and electing him, and that he had failed to remember this when an old soldier applied for work from the / TOOK IN A GUILELESS SIRANGER F. Poulter and J. Mil- ler Thrown Into the Tanks. Supposed to Be the Two Men Who Bunkoed a Countryman. Frank Swansen Fell Among Thieves and Was Robbed of $800. A SANTA CLARAN’S FIX. Captain of Detectives Bohen Deter- mined to Rid the City of “Grafters.” Detectlves Egan and Tom Gibson | late Friday night arrested two well dressed men whom they strongly sus- pect of being Eastern confidence men. They gave their names as F. Poulter and James Miller, and were locked up in the tanks pending an investigation. Christmas morning a man named Swansen arrived here from San Jose, | “I'll try it at eight pounds,” he said, sliding the weight along the beam at that figure. “It won’t .o. She weighs ever so much more than that.” He slid the weight along several notches further. “By George!" he sald, “she welghs more than ten pounds! Eleven—twelve —thirteen—fourteen! Is it possible?” He set the baby and the scales down and rested himself a moment. “‘Biggest baby I ever saw,” he pant- ed, resuming the weighing process. “Fifteen and a half—sixteen. This thing won’t weigh her. See! Sixteen 1s the last notch,andshe jerks it uplike a feather. Go and get a big pair of scales at some neighbor’s. TI'll bet a tenner that she weighs over twenty pounds. Millle,” he shouted, rushing into the next room, “she’s the biggest baby in this country. Weighs over sixteen pounds.” “What did you weigh her on?” in- quired the young mother. “On the old scales in the kitchen.” “The figures on those are only ounces,” she replied, quietly. *“Bring me the baby, John.” —_—— A Strange People. New York Timee. Nofhing could better prove the utter unlikeness of China to other nations, or could come nearer to showing that she is not a nation at all, than the ease with which a few hundred German sailors have been able to seize one of her most valuable harbors. Here is a mere handful of men who have estab- lished themselves on land to th:h} they have no shadow of a claim, and | with only the shadow of a pretext for their action. Close to them is a big town, every one of whose inhabitants has a deadly hatred of foreigners, even when Inoffensive, and within a few days march are millions and millions | of men who, under intelligent leader- | ship, can fight both desperately and | effectively. Yet the Germans have | met with little more resistance than they would have encountered if they | had tried to steal the luncheons of half | a dozen children on their way to a | country school. The Chinese could | GRAND ARCH ADOPTED BY THE JUBILEE COMMITTEE. T Il R ¢ IR 0997 of Committes adopted a design for an arch the has of Doric architecture submitted by Walthew & Corbett. The jubilee parade committee favored a design of Sutter'’s mill, but owing to the possi- bility of such a structure being demol- ished by wind and weather. the executive committee deemed it best to adopt a more substantially built arch. The arch is to be formed painted white. illuminated by HE executive committes Golden Jubilee of wood, The crown, which will be a myriad of electric | lights, will be supported by slender col- umns, four on either side; and these col- umns in turn will be supported by sub- stantial pedestals. In the center of the crown on one side in gilded reliet will be the arms of California; in a correspond- ing position on the opposite side will be the arms of San Francisco. Upon the corners of the crown will stand in reliet figures of Marshall and of Sutter. Be- neath the coat of arms will be, also in gllded relief, a miner's pick, pan and shovel. The dates of 1848 and 1898 beneath the figures of Marshall and Sutter will be outlined with electricity. The arch will measure 36 feet from the street to the base of the crown; and 65 feet from the street to the summit of the crown. It will span a distance of 42 feet, and the supporting pedestals will be 23 feet in thickness. The committee was notified yesterday that Edwin L. Head had been appointed marshal of the Native Sons’ division in the parade. A special invitation to attend the jubiles celebration has been sent to the Society of the Associated Veterans of the Mexi- can War. Over twenty of the seventy- five members of the soclety have already signified their intention of marching In 1ie procession. The committee is partic- ularly anxious that there should be a good representation from the Soclety of Veterans, for all recognize the fact that through the efforts and self-sacrifice of the men who fought in the Mexican War the Golden State is now in a position to celebrate its Golden Jubilee. Grand Marshal Morse has announced the apopintment of the following addi- tional alds: Dr. J. C. Spencer, D. C. Martin, F. C. Wegener, Willlam B. Weg- ener, B. P. Oliver, Dr. W. D. McCarthy, L. Chaldecott, Joseph E. Barry, F. 8. Kelly, Dr. A. P. O'Brien, Dr. T. C. Rethers, Charles Stallman, Dr. W. F. Chalmers, Rudolph Herold, Bert Morrow, Dr. H. H. Hart, L. Jockers, Dr. W. A. Martin, Dr. J. G. Fitzgibbon, Dr. Conrad ‘Weil, Dr. Stirewalt, Dr. B. F. Clark, W. B. Meckfessel, Dr. M. Solomon, John R. Haake, J. J. Lerman, Gus Russ, Sol Jacobs, John L. Meares, Clarence G. Fol- lis and M. Heller. The naval militia of the National Guard of California will take an active part in the public demonstration of the Jubilee celebration, and Captain Louis H. Turner has informed the parade committee that he and his staff will appear in the parade mounted, and that the two local divisions of the local naval militia will parade elther as infantry or artillery. L. F. Parsons, secretary of the Los| Angeles Stock and Mining Exchange, has | written to the executive committee sug- | gesting the advisabllity of a generous dis- | tribution of posters in the southern part of the State. He Is of the opinion that | many wealthy Eastern visitors will come | to the city to visit the mining exhibit. Calaveras County is to be excellently represented in the Jubilee celebration. Under the supervision of Thomas Lane and of twenty pleces, known as the veras County band, from the Utica C a mine, is to form a part of the parade. The county will also enter in the parade foot soldiers and a float representing a five-stamp mill. The members of the band will wear the regulation miner's costume—a red shirt and overalls and a | broad brimmed hat, upon which will be | fixed a miner's lantern at night. The official souvenir programme will be edited by Colonel Robert H. Fletcher, the author of “A Blind Bargain” and “Mar- jorle and Her Papa.” The programme will be isued under the supervision of the Jubilee committee. e ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— city; that if a veteran wanted to secure any work on the streets he had to take off his G. A. R. badge. The sentiment of the meeting wis shown in the vote for president, as Tal- cott, who was supposed to be Mayor Thomas’ choice, received but twenty- four votes. —_————— Ina D. Coolbrith to Lecture. Miss Ina D. Coolbrith, one of aur most widely known California poets, 1s to de- liver a lecture on “Personal Reminiscen- ces of California Writers,"” under the au- spices of the Century Club, in their hall, 215 Sutter street, on Tuesday evening. The meellni can be attended by any one on paying the small entrance fee. NEW MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKE. For a week the guilty wretch had possessed the secret in silence, start- ing at every sound and catching his breath at every shadow. Yet he told himself that he was quite safe, that no one knew of his gullt but himself. They might guess, but they could prove nothing. He would -do it again if he had a chance. It was nature's first law to protect oneself. He had thought it all out—how he would act, and what he would say. Yet when the first breath of suspicion was directed toward him he started and turned pale, and all the defense which he had so elaborately constructed fell to the | ground when his wife turned her ques- | tioning eves upon him and said: “John, did you post that letter to mother I gave you last week?"” | “¥es” | “Are you sure?” e ¢ “‘She never received it.” “Yes—I mean—Dash it, I—" “John, don't swear.” “Yes—er—I mean I won’t, my dear.” “It is very strange.” ““Yes—er—perhaps it was lost in the | post.” | “¥Yes; that must be it,” mused his wife. “I wrote mother to postpone her visit for a few months, and I have | Just received a letter saying that we imlxhl éxpect her to-day.” Once alone the wretched man prayed that a nine-story house might fall upon him and crush him. —_——— Agvances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. where he Is engaged in farming. While walking along Market street he was ac- costed by a fashionably dressed man, who pretended to have been introduced to him in the Garden City. Swansen foolishly admitted that he was looking for a doctor who had treated him some time ago. The stranger said he was well acquainted with the medical gen- tleman and offered to accompany Swansen to his office. Swansen ac- cepted his invitation and together they went to a room on Post street. Sev- eral men were seated about a table en- gaged in a game of studhorse poker as they entered. One of them was intro- duced to Swansen as a warm friend of the doctor for whom he was looking. After a short conversation Swansen was induced to take a hand, with the result that he lost $500 in a few min- utes. Realizing that he had been robbed Swansen visited police head- quarters, and Gibson and Egan were detailed to arrest.the schemers. From a description given of the men they apprehended Poulter and Miller and locked them up in the tanks, pend- ing an investigation. Last night Swan- sen visited the City Prison and was shown the men. He was unable to identify them, and they were released by order of Captain Bohen. They were however ordered to leave the city un- der penalty of being arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Recently several complaints have been received at police headquarters concerning the operations of the men, but owing to the refusal of their vic- tims to prosecute they were not mo- lested. Captain Bohen. is determined to rid the city of “sure thing grafters,” and with this end in view he has specially :]:taned Gibson and Egan to arrest em. Something Wrong With the Scales. The story is of a young and de- voted father. The baby was his first, and he wanted to weigh it. “It's a bumper!” he exclaimed. “Where are the scales?” The domestic hunted up an old-fash- foned pair that had come down from a former generation. It was the only welighing machine in the house. The baby, wrapped in the fleecy folds of some light fabric, was suspended from the hook, and the proud young father assumed charge of the operation. shove them off into the sea by mere force of numbers, and yet the thought of attempting thisdoesnotseemtohave occurred to anybody in all the huge so-called empire. Instead, the Chi- nese are offering money, concessions, anything, if the insolent strangers will only go away, and, in anticipation of refusal, are negotiating with other strangers, equally rapacious, for as- sistance in accomplishing what they might perform for themselves in ten minutes. This state of affairs is mysterious only to those who think of China as a country with a ruler and a people. In reality the Germans have invaded only the bit of land on which they stand and have insulted a few officials at Peking and a few peasants on the coast. The rest of that vast population will probably never hear of this piratical act, and will not care particularly about it if they do. —_———— Unique Souvenirs From India. Not the least interesting of the souvenirs which Lord Elgin brought home on the completion of his vice- royalty in India are two remarkable specimens of native caligraphy pre- | sented to him by the Nizam of Hyder- abad. The first, which is in the shape of a tree, with birds perched on it cvershadowing the portraits of Lord and Lady Elgin, covers a space of about eight inches by four, and into this compass is crowded the whole of chapter viil. of Saadi’'s Gooliston “Rose Garden,” which usually makes forty-five pages of printed matter. Every word is written in a bold, flow- ing hand, and although difficult to read with the naked eye,is easily de- ciphered with the aid of a magnifying" glass. The second part of the Nizam’s offering consists of two grains of rice bearing inscriptions in similar micro- scopic characters, the fifst concerning their Excellencles’ visit to Hyderabad, and the second concerning the artist who did the work. This is one Syed Shakir All, who a few years ago sent a somewhat similar offering to the Queen as a birthday present. e —— e Parisian barbers are legally com- pelled to wash their hands after at- tending a customer before waiting on another. They must "aiso use only nickel-plated combs. GLITTERING ADORNMENT [N DANGER A Star Now Worn by P. C. Peters May Escape Him. Is Alleged to Have Re- fused to Acknowledge an Honorable Debt. Formal Complaints Made to the Police Commissioners by the Viectim. FRIENDS THAT FOUGHT. Having the Advantage Peters Locks Harris Up, but He Is Soon Released. “A feast or a famine.” That's what the Police Commissioners are begin- ning to believe. First a case, then cases, and afterward mysteries. Who can blame them for their thoughts? “What's to be done?” and almost be- fore the question is answered a police- man, who is under the impression that the general public is asleep, finds him- self without a glittering adornment which gives him both the right to ride on street cars free of charge and to impose upon a good-natured public. Last evening Officer John Brownlie was dismissed from the force on ac- count of complications of which he is aware, and last evening a formal com- plaint was presented to the Commis- sioners against Officer P. C. Peters, who is alleged to have “fooled” a man who had loaned him quite a sum of | money. Thomas Harris, a conductor on car No. 5 of the Sutter-street Railway Company, will be the complaining wit- ness. According to his story the su- perintendent of the line, Johnson Rey- noids, will assist him in the case to | the utmost of his ability. It seems | from statements made that Peters and | Harris were at one time friends. They told their pleasures and their joys to | each other, and yet at the present | else. when the officer had used almost the same language In the conversation which they had held but a few days ago aroused his ire. ! The Number of Languages. English Exchange. The least learned are aware that there are many languages in the world, but the actual number is prob- ably beyond the dreams of ordinary people. The geographer Baldi enum- erated 860 which are entitled to be considered as distinct languages, and 5000 which may be regarded as dialects. Adulguns, another modern writer on this subject, reckons up 3064 lan- guages and dialects which have existed. Even after we have allowed either of these as the number of languages we must acknowledge the existence of almost infinite minor diversities, for almost every province has a tongue more or less peculiar, and this we may well believe to be the case throughout the world at large. It is said there are little islands ly- the inhabitants of which do not under- stand each other. Of the 860 distinct languages enum- erated by Baldi, 89 belong to Europe, ca, 117 to Oceanica—by which term he distinguishes the vast number of isl- | ands stretching between Hindustan | and South America. | ——— e Soup With a Vengeance. British Humor. One of the highest officers in the German army is very particular that his soldiers are properly fed. He is in the habit of making unexpected visits to the barracks and inspecting the food in person. On fhe occasion of one of these visits he perceived two soldiers carrying a steaming boller from the kitchen. “Put it down. commanded. The astonished each other. One of them rushed off, but reap- peared in a few moments with a spoon. “I want to see what sort of soup you get,” said the general as he dived into the boiler with the spoon, but as soon as he tasted it he spat it out, ex- Fetch a spoon,” he soldiers looked at claiming: “What sort of broth is that? It tastes like dish water. What is it anyhow?” “That’s just what it is, your excel- lency,” replied the soldier. “It's the water the dishes were washed in.” ———————— EN DESHABILLE. Deshabille can be impressive, as we learn in a letter of Charles Dickens to the late James T. Fields, the American publisher. Dickens wrote: *I dreamed that somebody was dead. It was a private gentleman, and a particular friend, and 1 was greatly overcome when the news was broken to me (very delicately) by a gentleman in a cocked hat, top boots and a sheet. Nothing ‘Good God!’ I sald, ‘is he dead?" ‘He is as dead, sir,’ rejoined the gentle- time each is wondering who will ' be the victorious party in robbing the | other of a position which now glvesJ‘ him the sustenance of life. | Feeling or thinking of olden times | does not draw them away from the de- | sire to square accounts, and some- | thjng will “be doing” before many.| days have passed. Two letters have | | been sent to the Police Commissioners | by Harris, and without doubt his plea | has been answered. Peters’ case will probably come up at the next meet- ing, and it is thought a star wil be awaiting a newcomer. | The story as told by Conductor Har- | ris reflects to a considerable extent | upon the honor and integrity of Offi- cer Peters. He said last evening: “Peters came to me and through a plea of friendship borrowed $100, which he promised to return in installments | of $20 per month and $10 at the end of the payment for the use of the money. I willingly gave him the money, but up to the present time 1 have not re- celved one cent of it, nor the interest on the sum loaned. “I did not press Peters for the amount until the last few weeks, when I absolutely needed the money. My | brother had his knee dislocated, and | there have been other doctor bills to | pay and I was in rather a tight place. | I went to Peters and asked him for the | amount. He told me to wait a few | days, and that has since been the ecry. | “Things of this kind went on from | day to day, and I concluded to make a | last appeal. When I again asked for | the amount due me or even one of the | installments 1 was cursed for my trou- | ble. Hot words arose, and I cursed back, with the result that I was locked up by Peters on charges of dis- turbing the peace and using vulgar language. “My case first came up in Judge Campbell’s court on January 5, one day after my arrest, but the case was con- tinued until the next week. Then it | was called in Judge Joachimsen’s court on January 8. The case is marked as dismissed on the records, but I was told, possibly by a friend of Peters, that I had been fined $5, but that the | case had been fixed. T am of the opin- jon, however, that the case was dis- missed. I will press the charges | against the officer to the bitter end, and I think my superiors will help me | in the case.” After the conductor’s arrest he was released on his own recognizance, but the fact that he had been arrested man, ‘as a doornail. But we must all die, Mr. Dickens, sooner or later, my dear sir.’ ‘Ah!’ I sald; ‘yes, to be sure. Very true. But what did he die of?" The gentleman burst into a flood of tears and said, in a voice broken by emotion, ‘he christened his young- est child, sir, with a toasting fork! " | Some sensitive men refuse to appear | in deshabille on any terms. ‘“There was a_lovable English clergyman,” says Mark Twain In “A Tramp Abroad,” “who did not get to table d'hote at all. His breeches had turned up missing, and without any equiva- lent. He said he was not more partic- ular than other people, but he had no- ticed that a clergyman at dinner with- out any breeches was almost sure to excite remark.” The completest deshabille is obtain- able in the tropics. The late Henry Drummond cnce wrote home from Central Africa that he had nothing on but a helmet and three mosquitoes. Sydney Smith, who was the first man to pray in August for the power to take off his flesh and sit in his bones (a blessed condition which, on paper at ‘least, has been made possible by Professor Roentgen), described the height of bliss attainable by a Sierra Leone native, to be sitting in one-half of a melon, with the other half on his h‘ead, eating the pulp.—Cornhill Maga- zine. —_——— DOWN ON AN ENGLISH ACADEMY. Sir: In this decadent month, after the great sea serpent has usually risen once more to the surface of the press—only, perhaps, to be choked in a far from un- seasonable effort to emulate the diges- tion of other contributors, by swallowing the gigantic gooseberry—no sensible man will feel and no honest man will affect surprise at the resurrection of a more ‘“ridiculous monster” than these. The notion of an English academy is too se- riously stupid for farce and too essen- tially vulgar for comedy. 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