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THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 190 KATHRYN OSTERMAN IN VAUDEVILLE. WHAT HAPPENED T0 ACTOR HARRY CORSON CLARKE Theatrical Concern Is Golden Rewards of<r the Variety Stage Induce a Popular Favorite to Forsake Legitimate Boards. light San Franciscans a‘'theOrpheum,Where She Will Appear Next Week. Company this week at Grand Isi- and, Neb. Jane Plunkett (Jane Ir- win) has already left the company and gone to New York. And over the “What Happened to Jones” company hovers the | Breatest cloud of gossip of its sensational | existence | The Leavenworth Times has been trying to get at the inside facts in the much ais- cussed case, and this is the resul Mr, Clarke explained his position as fol- low Latest Star to'Make the Dissolved. Change Will Soon De- ADELEINE BRUGUIERE . will M leave the Harry Corson Clarke S vear I started out with several | néw people in the company. We struck | two or three discordant notes, though, in | the selection. I was forced to get rid of | them. My show must be absolutely free from any such evils. Last week at June- tion City I announced & play’ that the d O That is a perfectly legal th | gave them two weeks' e. It i8 cus- tomary in the professic er 1 made that public annou: nent 1 went around to the members I wanted and told them the company would reorganize the day following the close, and they would go on. I have dates hooked until May. | “We have been making mo opening night—a barrel of it ¢ since the and not a e H’H’-’*—WOWQ+OW mrrn nt plece agalinst us. 0 the trouble. You see s like thia. | s o | I ve got my wife (he waved his hand tc- | ward her), ‘and several of the troupe were | %\mwlx— she could not shake hands with ! told them. the season and it does. Thatis all there is to it. I have % | three new to take thelr ight on and Plunkett) nion, 3 tk season T | Mould close. > others : M ! | Her husband, Pedar Broguiere | a million in r Franc 1 is from e of the -kn families | e t. Her father is Judge Mc- | :l: San_ Francisco e has been | studying for the and it was through cho w with me. | Bhe had been with \Iod4<~m\ only six| YOUNG DOCTORS 22 SENT UPON THEIR INTERESTS THE PACIFIC COAST BUILDING FIRM CANNOT SATISFY BHUSEN CAHEE e e ‘ HEAVY D[MANDS Work of ~“California’s nteresting C Take Pl L X e te;est;:g&::;?:rgha‘:el :tes'( g Representatives. I jus. | > PR Hahnemann College| . B .| Failure of Marcuse & e ninia s T o Commencement. Remmel. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15—Sena- on the Secre- Frank Miller, ento Chamber of that a special tor Perkins to-day call tary of Agriculture w president of the Sacra. Commerce, who urged agent be sent to California to look into the horticultural and viticultural indus- tries with a view to considering what products of California are suited to the markets of the Orient and Australia. Representative Waters has introduced amending Chapter 213, Revised ng thut any person who e to set on fire any timber or upon the public domain shall emed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine of not more than $5000 or a term of imprisonment of not more than two years, or both. Fines col- lected under this bill are to be pald into the public school fund of the county in which collected. severnte bility to meet a claim Puget Sound Lum- estate and building | temmel of Alameda petition in insol- d bankrupts ye: de Haven. The firm are $330,743, of | cured by property Paris ve feet h A85 W . of whieh | 1 to be exempt. { "he pe “.Iun <r Julius A. Remmel ahows\ 1 WORKING TO SAVE THE FOREST GIANTS ts are 311 .(N at $3550 exempt | for and to proceed with the wor £ recoms- e - CONGRESSMAN KXAHN S}:N‘DS mended by the Callfornia Debris Commis- a ENCOURAGEMENT. = were not a surprise, as | sion In their report to Congr No ap- propriation is asked. nown that the Puget + The Secretary of the Treasury pany had demanded a M & an- s California Club Has Enlisted the = r reu: Remmel | nounced that Cape Nome, A has 53 B £ the State Fed- = % r obligations, The | been made a sub port of entry. pport of the State Fe T Dé a trust deed to| Representative Jones of Washington in- ‘ eration. near pleces of property as security | troduced a bill giving the Secretary of ~ . r i as they had waited | the Interfor discretionary power to ex- S 3 money they decided | tend the time for making final proof in desert land entries. He Introduced s elved yes- | to nni realize on their set for noon y: a_resolution directing the Secretary nf firm. in order | War to make a survey of the < | ship canal connecting Puget Sound .Ard Grays Harbor and to estimate of the same. Senator Proctor from the Committeo on Military Affairs to-day mad adverse report on the bill for the Telief of volune i far as Ulnv*‘ ac l) the same condi- teers who served in the Phl!;p‘nr- Islands 1o reaity market in Ala- | bevond the period of their_enlistment. In nclsco is sald to be the | reporting the bill Senator Proctor said: “As the law now ts there is no dls- crimination between the regular and vol- unteer soidiers in the payment of tracel | pay. Though prior to Fanuary 1, 1899, soi- diers, both regular and volunfeer, who had been discharged in the Philippines were paid full travel allowances from the place of discharge to that of enlistment, yvet payment or refusal of these allow- ances is not due umi soldier as a. matter of right. but rests In the option of the Government. This being so, it is urged as a further reason that the paymaster general estimates that the Government | would be under the necessity of di TS- | fng more than $7,000.000 to those who come within the terms of the bill." Pensions: California—Original—Waiter C. Spann, Red Bluff, $6; John C. McCor- The insolvent firm ve years in building plan. and all be good, al- be realized upon for om one to ten years. hos during irs s there is hough nearly ill of | eir contracts. | dy can lnsui | to be a gro.l the part of creditors. n of the Puget Soun: he average claim presenting the price _ There are also a num- | ims, due to plumbers pers and to holders of « Gic " Boiatere Howme, - Loo Angelts, #6: ng iy aA creditors are: San Fran- | Colin G. Strong, San Francisco, $10. In- Alameda Savings | crease—Charles Metzger Soldiers’ Home, 8 . Aetna, AtA Los Ange g B aios, | S Washiion = Grigingl — Franklls D, Cook, North Yakima, $6. NATIONAL UNION ENTERTAINS, Humt Large Attendance and an Excellent |} Programme of Varied Numbers. M ‘Urr‘h anwi qafi’t\ hu;luln*" mflc C 1 TS ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED OF STANFORD GRADUATES from ) [».‘(,ln? re scheduled as Miss Grace Clark of San Jose Will Become the Bride of Ray N. Strohn. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Feb. 15—The announcement "e| National Robbery Condemned. rvey of the Social Question" was | c for the regular weekly discus- | sion of the Sociallst Labor party at the ‘,T"}",T‘}‘ ‘:‘,\ ‘,‘;\‘f’l’,;“ {: L‘ pills, F.| Academy of Sclences building last night. | is made of the coming marriage of Miss W. Carm M. H. Wascerwite, Bon:| A. H. Sanborn reviewed the progress of | Grace Clark of this city and Ray N. ager, R B e foor | e w oclalist movement and Fei§7 Ot % | Strohn of Los Angeles in June next. The A ubbell, H. W. Maas, H G.| :‘1;“ ru' xr.“ ;um:;@mm was rOfeBle in | engagement is the result of avcourum(p % o C. B Torres, L. Vinoent, W, 3 | t1e extrems for the Wifimate stesess f | that commenced at Stanford University, Pretty boxes and odors e R Y ren patia that tHe Invasion of | where both young people graduated. Miss | Philippines by the Americans were alike | S1ark Is a daughter of the late W. H. are used to sell such Run Over by a Train. both | Clark, a prominent capitalist, and is the n y 3 ” | wn SINh: ‘e Sisie | bheir to a couple hundred thousand dollars. | | Sler 2Euih; ‘a hnnper-on _sbhout ”“‘f - Was mbt bound 1o acknowiedes | Strohn was one of the most prominent soaps as no one would anforan racetrack, was run over and in- | £ %igilt"(at the weaker party might | Students at Stanford, being a member of have. T sentiments of the gpufifl. | the glee and mandolin clubs and the base- were ball club. spe touch if he saw them un- poikhded and several short] ¥ e sredding will probably take place fn San Diego, and Miss Virginia Hearne, a S.&lanlurd’finend nfrfl:flss (,ls;lrk who r‘esldes | . 4 there, will be mar at the same time to Washington's Birthday. another Stanford graduate. Miss Grace The memorv of George Washington will | *h'llrrksla n);)w on )’ur wa; ;Iu Enrope wgm | nored by the loca % | Miss Strohn, a sister of her_ flance, but | 7 She local councils of the | oiil¥ etiion” dothie i An; My Mist] Clark's Older sister, Mixs Anna Clark, a ew months ago rried Jerome art Yamme has been preparea. | of the y ronint B g ‘nu\)ude :n o‘ggdnt.f by Hon. + witse | SEVERE EARTHQUAKE OCCURS IN LIMA, PERU expressing the same | e disguised. Beware of a soap that depends on something outside of it. s Institute on Thursday e\'en- | inst., at Metropolitan Hall. Muth boarded the train_at Tanforan | Pears’, the finest Park and swung himself under t { brakes to ride as far as Ingleside, where | & £ - the train was bound with a load of race | in the world is scented or | horses. At the siding the train gave a | sudden jerk and threw Muth from his | | position “on_the brakes, costing him his | life. soap g ment of the institute, under ‘Whose auspices the exercises will be held, rom- ises 1o make this year's celebration a memorable one. Judge W. P. Lawlor of not, as you wish; and the you wish; an the Superior Court has kindly consontes % | —————————— sident money is in the merchan- |, —rertt Tt T hol 80 polsnanCAlNe N DR Shock Lasts for Forty-Five Seconds lse not' s EhTHs Colonel W. G. Edens, assistant super- Opposed to Darkness. and Terrifies the Entire dis¢, not mn the X. intendent of the free delivery service of | The Public Improvement Central Club Population. | the United States Postoffice Department, | has filed with the Supervisors a protest | Special Cable to The Call and New York Her ald. Copyrighted, Herald Company. 1500, by the New York All sorts of stores sell it, especially | with headquarters at Chicago, Arfl\ed‘ last night to spend a few weeks in this against the proposed suspension of street lighting for the next four months. It | cannot sa druggists; all sorts of people ar® | giate inspecting the working of the free | claims that such & course would sct ay| LIMA, Peru, Feb. 15.—An earthquake wsing it. ldelhery system. Edens accompanies l a menace to the lives and property ot the | shock which began at five mlnum before citizens. - 17 o'clock. this morning and lasted forty- says | It is noticeable that Mr. [ ny nothing agai Plunkett, Francisco. Mrs. Bruguiere s o h’\\e been its ope leasantly 1as been tions should o larkp pe )Iu I un which wer 4 n't k h.ns agal not tru Then ing to Mrs. B 2y,” five seconds caused great alarm. There was movement from southwest to north- east, accompanied by a rumbi The disturbance hu% not bad an since ptember, 18t 5 Dosies rushed out of their homes into the stree It is believed that no persons were in~| ured. The worst freshe the river Rimas age on the outsk since 1591 occurred in | MOTHER FINDS THE : BODY OF HER CHILD Agnes Ahern, Fifteen Months 014, | Drowned in a Lagoon at Tiburon. Special Dispatch to ‘The Call. | —Face downward in TIBURON, Feb. the black slime left by the retreating tide, the body of l5-month-old Agnes Jane Ahern lay in the lagoon here v\‘nl well nigh frantic mc town in vain for her who is the Ahern of Railroad, ered her bab . the mother dragged the 1 the child from the deep it to the house summo: Life was pronounced this afternoon. After he the jury returned a verdict of ac death. - REPUBLICANS MEET TO DISCUSS SUBSIDY BILL Several Amendments Considered, In- cluding One to Reduce the Term to Ten Years. WASHINGTON, Feb, 15. — The Repub- lican members of the House on Merchant Mart a conference tc Committea curing co-oper If y put forward, reducing the term of vears and to eliminat tions of the act old vesgels. No vo were and no agreement b understanding that the meet from time to time tions as they aros of the bUl by the was to be until ’X\usda . SETTLING WOLFSOHN CASE. | Mysterious Corpse Will Probably Be Labeled “L. Reuter.” | Special Dispatch to The Call. | LOS ANGELES, ‘Feb. 15.—What may | prove the final chapter in the Wolfsohn mystery will be enacted when Leon F. Moss, representing Public Administrator | Kellogg, will file an amended complaint praying that the name of L. Reuter be substituted In the probate proceedings | for that of Aaron Wolfsohn, the myster- jously insured young man who is or is not dead. Public Admlmsxmm- Kellogg finds he is supposedly in ' charge of Aaatwolfuolin: dootased; wit surance licy for $10.600 in his for which he has given no accou His attorney, in recounting the facts in the puzzling mystery, will officidlly admit that Aaron Wolfsohn is not dead and never died in Los Angeles County; that | the name of the unidentified suicide whose remains were for some time supposed to be those of Wolfsohn is L. Reuter, which is the name the dead man left when his body was discovered and buried by Mrs. O'Neill of-San Francisco. A copy of the papers will be served upon Oscar Bamberger, attorney for Aaron Wolfsohn's father, who will be enabled to protect any rights that his | client might have in the quesjfon of | identity. | RTINSO BETTER SERVICE PROMISED. | English Postoffice Methods Shortly | to Be Changed. | LONDON, Feb. 15.—Replying to a com- | plaint in the House of Commons to-day R. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in behalf of tne Postoffice, promised the Liverpool and Manchester cotton merchants a revision of the Post- office regulations, to enable quicker tele- gnphlc commurications with the United | tates after business hours on this side of the Atlantic, but while business is being transacted in New York. prathasta i Death of Mrs. Franck. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Feb. 15.—Mrs. Caroline Franck, wife of ex-State Senator F. C. still| } Franck, died at her home in Santa Clara this morning. A few days ago she was stricken with apoplexy and death resulteq from this. She was one of the best known residents of this county and had been a resident of Santa Clara for over a quarter o( a century, Mrs. Franck was born in ‘ and was % years old. Besides her hu: d a grown son and daughter survive h Madeleine Bruguiere. +os@|_ ADV SREIRTR PEPL 4000000400000 00040 006060606000 00-05 04»0—0-0- week at Grand Island, and_will | 1 thy St. Louis es. From | 1 New York. Miss w York. She is due to miration for d weeks ago to her ,vAk of the lr uble arke Bruguler e following SIGMUND STRAUS ENDS HIS LIFE | Was a Pioneer Merchant‘ | of San Jose. | —e. ’ Specta] Dt ‘ SAN JOSE, Fe a ploneer merchan! to The Call. Slmund Straus cide. Straus on nm bed and In his clenched hand was liber revolver. _The bullet had en- s h in the brain rs of age and a a res orty-five years, he cond ative of Bavaria. ed himself and about 75, for himseif. abits. This jeweler in had mot his door- yesterday ed he klI.vl 41(« had a MARE ISLAND CHANGES. Captain Mead Will Relieve Captain Reiter on the Philadelphia. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Captain Wil- liam W. Mead has besn detached from as captain of the ravy yard, Mare < crdered to com- ered ot me battle- ng at_ the Union co. Captain Wil- cen ordered to duty ie Mare Island Navy Yard A.DVEBTISEKIN"‘I. CONTRACTED AILMENTS PERMANENTLY CURED. 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