The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1899, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1899. | k| N < parel looks X Y brag, but it s i e ‘imter Productions. ADVERTISEMENTS. like ain’t, VOU don't know what Swell Juvenile Ap- until you've seen our That may sound like Every style on the cond floor is a mew ome. An original it Trimming Treatments and Design. WE’RE IN A POSITION TO DRESS EVERY LITTLE CHAP IN FRISCO AND DRESS 1 and al strike 14,700 I in Swell Fashions. you for a VARIETY OF STYLES? Only 00 square feet to Juvenmile Apparel-— NO TWO ALIKE How does that that’s all=and a floor full of comfortable facilities for making purchases a pleasure instead of a tedious job. j For that little UN EEDA OVERCOAT THAT NAME CORNER KEARNY AND UNION STANDS FOR PROGRESS. SQUARE AVENUE. Everything that’s Beautiful in CROCKERY. Great Lerr Over SaLg Prices Away Down. Youw’ll Say So, When You Sce Prices, reat American [mporting Tea Co. Stores Everywhere. 100 Stores. 1899-TAXES-- 1889 VEN THAT THE e Taxes and all perty Taxes will be delin- cent added on MONDAY, AND BATURDAY er 24 and 25, from 7 to 8 EDWARD I SHEEHAN, ctor of the City and County of Ban Painlegs treatment. Per- man cure. Entire time devoted to rectal dis- eases. References those cured. No surgery. A. J, ATKINS, M. D., 98 Sut- ter stresf, San Franclsou, STRONG UNDFJiCUhRENT | OF DISTRUST EXISTS | SAMOANS UNABLE TO UNDER- STAND COMMISSION’S OBJECT. | | | Siegfried Genthe, Correspondent of | the Cologne Gazette, Speaks of the Situation in Apia As | ‘: It Now Is. | Biegfried Genthe, correspondent of the | Cologne Gazette at Samoa, was one of the passengers that the Moana brought in Friday. Mr., Genthe is on his way to ‘Washington, D. C., where he will continue | to watch developments of the Bamoan question for the paper which he repre- | sents, Vhen, seen at the Palace Hotel Mr. Genthe, speaking of the situation in the | islands, said: ‘Your press dispatches and | particularly the correspondence of The Call, have already covered the news so thoroughly that there is but little left for me to add. There {8 a strong under- current of dissatisfaction among the 8: moans owing to their misunderstanding of the object of the commission. They think that the commission was sent to | the islands to give them a new govern- { ment Instead of to make investigations which would form the basis of a report to be forwarded to the thres powers for them to act upon. ‘“The natives cannot disassociate commission’s }imited powers from ability to actually substantlate a new | | form ‘of government for them, and_ conse- | | quently they have been looking for the | | new order of things to commence ever since the commissioners left. As time goes on and nothing is done they gradu- ally beeame more and more dissatisfied until at the Jprosent tme thers 1s an un- dercurrent of uneasiness and unrest that is likely to produce almost anything at the | the | any time. “'As to the frequent outbreaks that have been reported from time to time ever since the blg insurrection was quelled, they are nothing more than family feuds that have always existed in the history of the people and will continue to exist as long as there are Samoans, all the laws to the contrary notwithstanding. These feuds have absolfitely no political significance. “Business In the islands fs in a very unsettled condition owing to the uncer- tainty that surrounds everything. Re- ports_are continually arriving from both | the United States and Australia that the islands are to be annexed first by one of the three powers and then by the other. This makes everything very unsettled and causes those having money to invest to hold off until they have something defin- ite to depend upon.” Mr. Genthe has with him a young Sa- | moan whom he Is taking home to educate. ey ADVER(LISEMENTS. “77 9 Wil “break up” a Cold from the first touch to the most stubborn case of | GRIP It's all very well for people of leisure to “lay up” with a Cold—to keep in- doore—to go South—but work-a-day, ac- tive people can not sparg the time. To this vast majority “Seventy-seven’ ap- peals; it {8 a small vial of pleasant pel- lets; fits the vest-pocket, a ladies’ porte- monnale, card case or child’s school box. The prompt use of “777 will “break up” a Cold from the first touch to the most stubborn case of Grip. For sale by all drugglsts, or sent on recelpt o(}{)rice. ¢ and ). umphreys” Homeopathie Medleine Co., cor- ner Willlam and John Bts., New York. School Board’s Hidden Treasure Among City | [ | A. SIMPSON, secretary of the | Board of Education, is making i o USe of his official position and the power that is in it to further | the interests of the Hidden Treasure Oll Company, of which he was recently elected president. As a grafter Secre- tary Slmpson has transcended the dizzy heights attained by the Gedge-Conlon- Armstrong combination and has got in on a proposition that bids fair to make him hundreds of dollars for every nickel that was realized by those other worthies of the School Department. Every fact in the case the Board of Education is in- formed of. Simpson himself, when con- fronted with proof of his double dealing with the city, dared make no denial, and it is probable that an investigation more searching than that into the affairs of the Supplies and Buildings and Grounds Com- mittee ' will be made. | Stmpson does not need the paltry salary | he recelves as secretary of the School | Board. He is heir to the estate of Dr. J. A. Simpson, and his wealth is estimated at from $250,000 to $400,000, but he is an old time lieutenant of Phil Crimmins and by | that political worthy was placed in office in order that political manipulations might be made the easier and more suc- cessful when they were connected with the School Department. Secretary Simp- gon himself was willing to take the job, as the history of previous school boards had taught him that there is no more richly dcllar-strewn ground under the control of the city and county govern- ment. The Hidden Treasure Oll people were as quick to s son’s commercial value as he was accept their subse- quent proposition, and they cor uently approached him through one of his warm- est friends, Bruce B. Kimmis of 201 Turk street with a proposition to take the pres- idency of the company and 1000 shares of the capital stock for doing so. Simpson demurred at first. School scan- dals were getting into print pretty regu- larly at that time and he had no stom- ach for anything of that sort; but it was cleverly pointed out to him that with a thousand shares of his own and 30,000 of the company’s he ought to make fair money in unloading & considerable por- tion of it on the teachers at 5 cents a | share. Then he accepted and since that | time has fairly earned the presidential honors which were thrust upon him. The company was incorporated only two weeks ago with J. A. Simpson a.%pea.ring on the papers as president, R. W. Priot vice president, Bruce B. Kimmis secre- tary and George Higgins, the oil expert, | and George Wiggens as directors. The property which the company has benmdl SIMPSON UNLOADING OIL STOCK ON THE TEACHERS cused of Double Dealing. Accepted One Thousand Shares to Act as ADVERTISEMENTS. Secretary Ac- Company’s Agent Pedagogues. sortment of goods: its stock consists of 328 acres of land near | Spanishtown in San Mateo County, upon | Wwhich, as in many other secctions round the bay, pronounced indicati of oll have been discovered. A derrick has been moved on the ground and arrangements are being made to begin boring within | the fortnight, but the members of the company do not care to assume all of the risk that necessarily attaches to an oil proposition. Consequently they have sued 100,000 shares of stock, par at a ¢ lar, and placed 20,00 on the market at 50 cents. It is these 30,000 shares that Simp- son has been paid to unload upon the hundreds of sckool teachers in the de- partment. It was a clever business stroke that placed Simpson at the head of the com- any. It Is a well-known fact that thers s no more frugal class of salary-earners in the city than the teachers in the pub- lic schools. There is hardly one of them that has not anywhere from $100 to some- thing up in the thousands, saved up lor safe Investment or against a rainy day, and now that the oil fever has hit the town they are dragging out their shekles to blow against a proposition tuat offers & chance to make them 35 on $1, where the average safe investment yields them not over § or 8 per cent per annum. The company took all these conditions into consideration and also the fact that no official of the School Department was in a position to do the teachers more of the favors that are vital to them and their welfare than Simpson. After so figuring they offered him 1000 shares of stock to use this influence of his for his own and their gain and -Simpson is using it to the Queen’s taste. The deputies in his office are performing the unprofitable routine | while he is out among the vedagogues writing certificates. In fact, Simpson has one so far with his new proposition that e yesterday gave orders to the depart- ment carpenter to erect in his office at the City Hall a cabinet in which he pro- poses to'display samples of oil taken from | the Hidden Treasure diggings. ‘When Simpson was confronted yester- day with proof of the fact that he was using his positlon for his own personal | gain he did not deny the charge. “Sup- | pose I am unloading a little stock on the teachers?” said he. “I have got as much right to do it as any one else and our proposition is as good as that of any of the companies that are floating stock on the exchange. It is a bona fide proposi- tion; we have got our machinery and are going ahead with our work; all we want is money to do it with. Tnere is =lenty of it in the School Department and if the teachers want to take a_chance with us they have got a right to do it.”” With Mr. Simpson’s innocent view of his graft the School Board, however, does not agree and it is possible that either Mr. Simpson or the ofl company will go out of business in that neighborhood as soon as the im- minent Investigation s finished. QUED and LACE EFFECTS. all widths. to $6.00 each, shades. great variety. with Insertions to match. NOTE--- EMBROIDERED and ORPORLy, 892 BUILDING 173 CASE AGAINST JOSEPH FRENNA | Turner Murderer Will Soon Be Tried. — e Preliminaries have been settled and the prosecution is ready to proceed with the trial of Joseph P. Frenna, who shot J. F. Turner in the Crocker building about two months ago. Frenna's case is on Judge Cook’s calendar for Tuesday morning, but it is probable that a continuance will be | granted, as another ®case precedes it. | During the several weeks that have elapsed since Frenna sent five bullets into his victim’s back a local detective agency has been busy in an effort to obtain evi- | dence to prove that Turner was a fighting man, but with poor success, while, on the other hand, the prosecution has succeeded in a like effort regarding Frenna. The prosecution is convinced that ‘tihe tive which prompted Frenna to murder tner was to provent his being arrested on a charge of perjury, alleged to have been committed during the trial of the several charges against Turner instigated by Frenna. It is saild that Frenna pre- ferred risking trial for murder with Tur- ner out of the way, on the contention that | he acted in self-defense, rather than go into court &5 a defendant charged with ury, wi urner living. D o nrosecution {5 satiafled that it will be able to carry its case to a suc- cessful conclusion with the motive named as the cause of the assassination, Frenna will doubtless allege that he acted in self- defense, but in the event of this being nullified by the testimony of witnesses that Turner was shot in the back, Frenna will set forth emotional insanity as a de- fense, sald emotional insanity being | caused by the action of the dead in rob- | bing his slayer of several thousand dol- lars. In anticipation of such a defense, the District Attorney is prepared to show that such a contention cannot have a basis, as witnesses will testify that Fren- na not only acknowledged that he got back all the money he loaned Turner, but that he received as high as $0 a day in- | terest on a loan of $3000. | The prosecution will prove that in Oc- tober of 15% a settlement was effected | between the murderer and his victim, Frenna recelving 36000, with interest, and reconveying all the securities he held to Turner, including a $24,00 mortgage and valuable property in Modoc County. The trouble between Frenna and Turner was caused, the prosecution will further show, by a statement made to Frenna by Laur- ence S. Megginson that the securities re- celved from Turner were valueless. At that time Frenna threatened to kill Tur- ner. Additional securities were given and trouble was averted. Witnesses will tes- | tfy that Miss O'Donnell, Turner's sten- | ographer, told them that Frenna would Xil ‘Turner unless restratned, and. this. coupled with the testimony of a local broker that Frenna acknowledged that he was settled with Turner and refused to make a statement of any debt, is, in the mind of the District Attorney, sufficlent to secure a verdict against Frenna of “guilty of murder in the first degree.’ A military display at Mechanics’ Pa- vilion next Tuesday evening with the Twenteth Kansas. Secure tickets at Sherman, Clay & Co. s —————————— Army Chaplain to Preach. Rev. T. G. Steward, D. D., chaplain of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, U. S. A., will preach at Bethel A. M. H. Church, Powell | street, between Jackson and Pacific, this morning ¢4 11 o'clock. Chaplain Steward is one of e most prominent men of the colored race. He will leave for Manila Monday morning, the 234 inst. ———————— See Keith's sale millinery goods, slight- 1y "'”’“’5“ by water from upstairs. Fine hats hal: gflceA “Kelth's" millinery, Phe- lan’s building. . —_—————————— Jobbers and Manufacturers. Members of the executive committee of the Pacific Coast Jobbers' and Manufac- turers’ Association from Seattls, Port- land, Tacoma, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento will arrive In this city to-morrow. The members for the North- west will probably journey in company, & & B 8 500 dozen LADIES’ UNLAUNDRIED, HEMSTITCHED. INITIALED H pure linen; 15¢ and 256 each. NEW GOODS. Our New Importations of NOVELTY GOODS for our LACE DEPARTMENT have all been received and we are now showing an elegant as- the following New all over CHIFFONS in EMBROIDERED, APPLI- New GATHERED, RUFFLED and PLEATED CHIFFON and LIBERTY TRIMMINGS in Cream, Black and colors New CORDED, TUCKED and EMBROIDERED TAFFETA SILK VESTINGS in Cream, Black and colors. New BLACK LIBERTY and CHIFFON RUFFS from $2.00 New NET TOP TRIMMING LACES in Ivorgand Ecru New WHITE, ECRU and BLACK ALL-OVER NETS in New BLACK SILK CHANTILLY LACES and INSERT- INGS. BLACK SILK POINT VENICE LACES and BANDS. New NORMANDY, REAL TORCHON DE PARIS, POINT APPLIQUE LACE SMYRNA, POINT , different widths, ANDKERCHIEFS, coming in on the Oregon express to-mor- row morning. All the members of the committee have sent notification that they will be present, with the exception of those from Los Angeles and San Diego. They will undoubtedly be present. The first meeting of the new association to be attended by representatives of the seven Pacific Coast citles In the traffic league Wwill be held to-morrow afternoon in the hall of the San Francisco Board of Trade, e e i | Ladies’ taflor-made su cloaks, | Credit. M. Rothschild, 334 . . fur capes, Post st. — Maria B. Judah Dead. Maria B. Judah, widow of the late Gen- eral Henry M. Judah, U. S. A., died re- cently at Greenfleld, Mass., in her sixty- | eighth year. Mrs. Judah was well known In this city in early days, when her | husband, then Captain Judah, was sta- tioned in the West. She was prominent in church matters, preferring a life in the church to one as a member of tha | socfal set, although she was frequently seen at brilliant gatherings. She was the | daughter of John Ferguson, one time Postmaster of this city. —_— e Trapper's Ofl cures rheumatism & neuralgia. Druggists, 5c flask. Richards & Co. 408 Clay. —————— THEY STRUNG HIM UP. NGS until 9. Sundays Full Set of Teeth, pain- less extractions free..$4.00 up Gold Crowns, .50 up Fillings . 25¢ up Teeth Without' Plates Our Specialty. We give gas. 2 o < ® = =) = o < “VAN VROOM?” 997 Market St., Corner Sixth. A AR AR AR AAA AR AAAAAAN GEO. W. KLEISER, D.D.S. Harry S. Sniffen, who alleges that he | this city to Alaska, filed suit yesterday was brutally abused by the officers of the | against H. H. Bodfish, the captain, and whaler Beluga during the voyage from |the Pacific Coast Steam Whaling Com- Values of Interest in waists, hosiery and velours During the coming week special values will be offered in waists, hosiery and velours, which are worthy of any lady’s inspection. Ladies’ Waists Ladies’ corded effect silk waists, solid colors, desirable shades, well made and perfect fitting; worth $6.50, this week for $ 4 % 9 O each Hosiery Monday we shall have on sale a line of ladies’ black cotton hose with unbleached maco cotton feet, spliced heels and toes at the extraordinary low price of I 6%(: a pair Figured Velours Persian figured velours 28 inches wide, latest designs and colorings, used for upholstering and drapery pur- poses, worth $1.00, now at the special price of 75Cayard 129 Kearny St. any, owner of the ve: 10,000 damages for his s alleges that Captain Bodf; 11, 1858, inflicted_grievous mental pain by f; ing him up by a rope hind his back, nchion and letting him hang for half an hour. He alleges that his suffering was so acute that he was unable to sleep or eat for a week. Then the captain refused to furnish him with ¢ ysical and astening his hands be- | food other than salt meat, the plaintiff continues, for a period of four months. Then he was_confined in cramped quar- ters for another period, and for all this suffering he demands $10,000 damages. —_—— Thistleton, 272 Sadowa st., Ocean View, has forsale the choicest and cheapest homes in S. F. _— N s SRR RIS A i CASH'OR LITTLE-AT-A-TIME. An Extraordinary Special! Cobbler-Seat Rocker, in Antique Oak and Mahogany, $2.00 this week THE J.” NOONAN FURNITURE COMPANY (Inc.), 1017-1023 MISSION STREET, Above Sixth. Phone South 14, Open Evenings, For further particulars address S. W. DENNIS, M.D., D.D.S., Dean, 416 Parrott bullding, or GILBERT M. BARRETT, A.M., retary, 1121 Sutter st Rk e