The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1900, Page 12

DAYLIGHT BURGLAR IS FINALLY CAUGHT L 2 oean i an | | WILLIAM MCcKENZIE, ALIAS WILKINSON. A S e o o S | | | i Western Addition caused the police | shot as much trouble as Vetsera, the AS soon as the burglary irfey ‘r]er‘]“;t)e‘fl e footpad, s under arrest. He was T gea &SPFEHH\I esterday by Detectives Harper Yesterday afternoon and Sergeant Tom Ellis. The ated the thief in the -Adelphia known under the allases of < eet, where he had McKenzie,. Willlam Wilkinson n Kearny stre been rooming since his advent in this city. v Lamson. His true name Is said am Scott Knowing the character of the man the e past two weeks the man has THE burglar whose operations in the | ordered him back under penalty of being the palice, Chief Sulliv 1 an and tectives broke into his room and with awn revolvers ordered him to throw up ads. McKenzie, who was in bed. e know he succeeded in ¢ into. at least a dozen g property valued at tives found a portion of the plunder stolen from several residences in the Wi Addition "he prisoner is not unknown to the po- lice. In 1587 he was convieted in San Ber- rdino of attempting to rescue a pris- by boring into the jail in which he and was sentenced to serve in his arrest was ht at the reside! adero street. committ of D. H the house, the crook, | four year Qu in.. Shortly after v intended to remain | being re was_ arrest in Ala- , determined to T meua u ry, and on a conviction, front door he | was sent 1o the penitentjary for three i tO g€l a re- | years At that time he was known as reed open the win- - William Wilkinson. After serving his When. once inside sentence he went to Salt Lake, where he bureau drs was caught in the act of breaking into a house. He pleaded —uilty to the charge and was sentenced to t ars’ imprison- ment. After being discharged McKenzie came to this city and proceeded to WOrry the Police Department by committing a lnumbor of daylight burglaries. pried PLAY FOLKS AND THEIR OFFERINGS OR THIS WEEK | Tivoll Opera-house last night to a crowd- {ed house. The audience was delighted with the sparkling music and beautiful | scenery i | preciaiian 1o Nbocal applasee’ The “In Gay New York™ Makes Merry at the Grand + from the Chronicle of Wolfville and about | as realistic. It has some good points, | however, the best being that it gives Mr, | Hastings an opportuntiy to do a bit of | good acting, which he makes the most of. Tivoli. The comic opera, “The Wizard of the house seemed to never tire of the *Star- light” part song, and Ferris Hartman for himself and associates had to beg -off. The production should have as successful | a run as the “Idol's Eye.” Opera-House. | Orpheum. Etta Butler leads in the Orpheum pro- e oo gramme this week. Thig bright little < {1 Still Pros- California girl, with her fimitations of “The Wizard of the Nile” Still Pros- | (0 Modjeska, Minnie Maddern Held, Edna May and Fou- of tragedy and com- pers, Neill Improves at the Cal- |} ifornia and “Sue” Crowds ! Besides her realistic mim- the Alcazar. fcry there is the fine work of Mr. and . Mrs. Arthur Sidman, in thefr - pastoral “A Bit of Real Life,”" which is ! sketch, eserving of more than -passing notic le Fred and his troupe of trained an als, Buoman and Adelle and the Fo; rest Brothers, also add to the general ex cellence of the programme, which in ad- dition to -the new numbers retains sev- It “Gay New York” possesses any plot and the same can be iocated there will be a large reward d to the discoverer by anybody looking for plots. There is no rhyme or reason in the nonsensical pro- | duction at the Grand Opera-house, but | eral of the best attractions of the past that i a m not caleulated to ‘em- | Week. et barrass the pox office, by reason of the fact that house was. filled to its big ! Olympia. seating: capacity last night. i n;rmn» is good entertainment at T ia New York” 15 & hodge-podge, | Olympia this week.. The programme n Gay New York” is a bodge-pode: up of . series of clever yaudeville consisting of songs, choruses and speclalty acts which do not seéem to have any ex- | the au- made [ and last night every number was recefved. jence and k. This_1s | certatnly 1 At the Chutes last night Miss Mabel simplifies st Je O g X women, good dancing,. some & g Jiee dete ot ;‘m e Stk Muwpd golo singing and fair character work.| COMPany; scored a hit in singing operatic Taken as a whole the entertainment was | Selections. ‘Other new features are: Fair- el Cworth the admission price. The play | bank brothers, club swingers, and . the is_well staged and the action prompt. { Leons, trapeze artists. The holdovers are Blanche Chapmau’s burlesque ot Mrs. | Jones, Davis and Heard, the Criterion tric- Evans and Maitland, Davenport & ter. Atice Raymond, “With the new mov- ing pictures they-give a ‘good perform- ance. Leslie Carter in “The Heart of Mary- land” won the audience, as did Chris Bruno's imitation of Henry Iryving. Pret- ty Mavel Russell made friends with her e graceful and lively dance; Harry Cashb 2 man made a decided hit with his Hebrew Romaine Not the Aeronant. song; Louise Royce and lda Hawley were commendable in their roles, and Isabelle | Underwood made pleasant impression by a song entitled “Dreams.” i Professor H. €. Romaine, who = per- formed the hazardous: feat of. riding a bicycle down a -forty-degree incline on a rickety trestle last Sunday in. Glen Park, The play, by reason of the earnest ef- | wag inadvertently 5 | . atly confounded with fort devoted fo it and the widely diversi-: geronaut who met a ml’shap. Pr(l\Yeasnunr fied speclalty acts included in it, should | Romaine's ‘‘slide for Jife” was @ -com- bave a successful run. plete success, and of such a nature as.to i call for. the greatest amount. of. nerve. ENJOY THE PLEASURES ‘Ward and Vokes have this week to run | at the Columbia Theater, where they gre in high favor with their production of | “The. Floor Walkers.” The fimial week OF THE FESTAL BOARD agagement - began with .. last | Srobgat formance, on which. occasipn | & nrunilk;-(rr ~de Hek nongs, ?{:;m-e:dan‘\l' Eags | Members of the Society of American ere introdu ard a okes Tucy Daly, Margiret Daly Vokes and |~ Wars Make Merry at Their An- the Hebrew impersonator, | nual Banguet. Much is expected of Yale's trick | mandery of the State of Caldornia, held tastic spectach “The -Evil Eye,” |its second annual banquet last night i which is to be n_for the first time in | the marble-room of - the Prlace :Hotel' to this city at the Columbia Theater next]commeémorate the 11ith anniversary of t Monday night. _ -~ inauguration of George Washington fi Californin. President of the United States. A bountiful feast was spread on-a horse- | shoe table, which was decorated with red roses. Prayers were sald by Rev.Willlam There Ifornia last night was a good a tendance at the Cal- nd a better apprecia- tion of the work of James Neill and his | A. Brewer. “The following toasts were r¢- clever company in “The Gilded Fool.” The | Sponded to: = - i play runs mope &moothly and actively | . The Presidency.” Irving M. Scott: “The than on the opemtng night and notwith- |} avy, standing comparisons between Nat Good- | OuUT C",f;.‘“ Relation to Oriental. Com- win, the creator of the star role, and My, | meree,” Willam H. Jordan:: ‘“The Army’ Neill, is ‘well ‘Worth Beeing. nd Mr. { 70 the Patriot Civilian,” William H.. An- - { derson. - Captain Henry Gilass, U. 8. N;, | acted as toastmaster. TSRO SR 1t yoir have never tasted Jessé Moore “AAS Alcazar. ! The Alcazar Stock Company ~opened | this week with “SBue,” an adaptation 2 tirely. satisficd that he has:told-the:ti 2 from Bret Harte's ‘The ' Judgment of | "hisker. ty it sad be. convirced that. i | about e family. - His only desire ‘ap--| €as! hoe in-the market, made of the Bolinas Plain,” to & good audience, in | ¢ Pext Whiskey. in the world, - pears 1o be. that’ he: shall hot. tell ‘any- | very best yiel, kid, hand turned, ‘will be.[1- o T T T oint of numbers and appreciation, Mr. | TR TR SO 3 thing: ‘which may “reveal his name, - al-|sold for only.$L50 a pair at the ‘Bee Hive | . Representatives. of ‘the various steam- f.,,,,”n,_\_ My Arilliams and Miss Laura ~Ex-Commissioner Edwards Dyin; though he hflx-‘t;fldvm_o. that he will give |'Shoe Co., 717 Market st., near Third. ' * -| ship and railroad companies that partiei- Crem. “peing called before the curtain | Frank G. Bdwards, ex-Fire Cominis-| miapas. TRne Doy T one oot ane s | 1 e pate fn the Oriental trade held a mecting several times. The Jocal coloring of the | sioner and for many. years president ‘nf.| been she victin of o woman-of the world, ference. 1s-Fargo butlding yesterday to play is about the same as the oid theme ! O The days of forty-nine, extept that the| e Hoand, scene is Jaid in . a stock-raising lecality | and there are no miners to be seen. The | old-time vigilance committee, - with tols in their beits and Rnives in ti boots, do the farcical business in' the act, and the audience laughs at the- surdity of it all. The villain is tried by Judge Lynch for the murder of the Sher- Aff, and the trial is rudely terminated by 1s confined t0- his._ Nome. ‘on Dolores street by an attack of fHness ©!mo hope of his recovery. Hé had Pis- | ailink Tor some time, . but - within s Tew Jast | 9238 he has been fafling rapidly. The end may come at any moment. 5 —_—— A big weekly story paper, Park News.. Laf est_short storfes. §1 per year, ¢+ O 4040904045 4564D4-0400090¢0 9090400028404 080 B stern | " Commander Franklin Ji Drake;: s of so grave.a character that-theéreé s’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1900. THS O If Footpad Is Highly Born His Record Shows Him a Degenerate. KNOWN UNDER MANY NAMES The Young Man Had Evil Associates and Was in the Police Court on -a Vagraney Charge. e A youth of high degree may be: the young footpad, Simon Louis Munckros von Vetsera, or whatever his name is; but if he really is a scion of Kuropean nobility it is certainly better. for: theblue blood so- clety of the Old World that he emigrated early. His Mistory in this city 1s one mainly of low associations and vagrancy and the romance thrown arcund hm is very much dimmed by his degenerate ca- | | getting to bed until.3 or 4 a golden harvest in the attempted to rea for his pistol. which Addition Dy plundering houses Was under the })lilnlw. a_A][rvr a struggle o s % ocupents. As| be was fi handcuffed and taken to | g the absence of the gccupant 5 the City Prison. In his room the detec- | keep trac | the arrival of the supposed-to-be-dead | Sheriff, at the head of a posse of law and | order men. The production is like a page |v | from Prince | claimed as a particular_friend, at a cop- { Nile,” commenced its third week at the | Twenty-second and Valencia streets. to | | severe investigation; and only Stops when i } | the lad has all the ‘open the | youth. The most interesting phase of ‘the | is | extraordinary story is the manifest will- | man went by a multitude of names, one | almost for every day in the week. Once, |on a charge of vagrancy, and was lec- | engaged at honorable employment; | other-evil {"the slightest doubt, and reer in San Francisco. . It has been discovered that the young' | [ TR0 G0 g e R R e S A S G o coCon SO RCAR RCAR a8 n o b e SRS S R e 4 at least, he was in the Police Court here At times he was being: a dishwasher and house servant, but most of the time he was deriving his living from the earnings of a fallen woman or. source: While Vetsera was committing his. rob- beries in this city he roomed at the Bruns- wick House, Sixth and Howard streets. For mearly a month he stayed there, never ‘clock in the ping all day. He had no | baggage whatever. He paid his bill last Frid afternoon and- departed. -That| same evening an unknown man called at the house and asked for him. He sal Vetsera had stolen a suit of clothes, a | sme _other property from him. ‘etsera was a chloroform tured by Judge Mogan, morning and s B e B e G e R S SR SHCES SR S S5 S S S S FRED C, SMITH, WHO .SAYS HIS COMPANION WAS DROWNED, 000G 0L+ O+OE O IO+ OGP0+ 00+ 0+ 0400 ten feet of him without stopping. A few moments later his frail craft struck a | rock - and -Smith was thrown out. He | scrambled on some rocks and took off | his pink shirt, which he waved at passing craft, but pink was not an = attractive color to any of the mariners passing that way. and they falled to respond. e shipwrecked sweeper says he thinks | he was cast away on Lime Point and he stayed there without food until Saturday morning - at_ 9 o'clock, when a soldier named Wordsworth, crossing in a boat from Angel Island to the Presidio, plicked him up and landed him at the Presidio 0 RED C. SMITH, a sweeper in the employ of the Harbor Commission, startled the front yesterday with a redfire tale about a drowning that | 's the name he used here st have had morey all the time,” sald the clerk, * ght when he came | in he gave me nearly a dozen good cigars, | he fays took place Thursday and his own he 6f them two-bitters. Thursday 1LUghT | rescue after being nearly forty-elght ¢ drunk. He wore at tmes | hoyrs without food. -According to Smith ble diamonds—a ring a6d & | pe went for-a hoat ride on the bay with a boatman named. Fred Sheehan last Thursday. They started from . the Clay- street: wharf between 12 and 1 o'clock. When between Alcatraz and Angel Island Sheehan lost an oar, Smith says in the course of his thrilling tale, and in reach- ing. for it fell oyerboard. = Smith tried to reach him' the other oar and lost that | also. ' A moment later Sheehan sank from ales of .the Aus- | sight—so Smith says. his father had | Unable to procure the oars, Smith avers “‘Heldburghausen,” | he was. helpless, and the boat drifted to- Vienna, but had been | ward Lime Point. It drifted all the after- | noon, and passing boats paid no attention | to the ctles and signals of distress of the two_very valus stud. i At the Central House, §T1 Market street, | s to be known about the | in there July 31, 183, registered - as | cording . to ' Ed his companion Woener."" Aramonte. Westman, the night cle: booked himself. as Later on Vetsera mon Louis Hirver: sts of the onishment over his trian nobility. owned the thirty mi from robbed of it by a wicked Prince. When he reached the Central the de- | ock. Sweeper Smith's thrilling stary would be readily believed could it be proved that such a man as Boatman Sheehan is miss- | ing, but it cannot be fournd that any such | erson even existed. Chief Wharfinger | {enderson intimates that Smith is “‘smok- | ng.” The sweeper is one of Governor Gage's Los Angeles pets. He is to have a job in the penitentiary when there is an ' opening. No rescued castaway was land- | Jone occupant. It grew dark, and then a ed at the Presidio wharf Saturday or-at | big steamer drew near. Smith thought he |- any time recently, so far as the post au- was saved, but the vessel passed within | thoritles know. time as a house servant for W. F. Herrin, | could only come from personal touch, is so he claimed, washed dishes at two or | undoubtedly true. - three places and tended bar at Coso's, | So_far as that feature is concerned, I had given him. He pawned his overcoat | which demonstrates his business’ ability. | Thoss | have been reduced to his admission that | the name he gave is not exactly correct. As a matter of fact, he has juggled his | der the name of Prince Aramonte he | ing for $230. He did not get it. | he now carries. There is considerable in Ponlatowski, whom he | ‘‘There is not a particle of doubt that returned in two weeks. He worked for a | knowiedge. of military matters, —which am thoroughly- satisfied of. the absolute : ' Trying to Readjust Rates for generate nobleman was finely dressed and first for 7 nd then put the watch | The people about the place could not | mann_Oelrichs had paid his fare from | name about, added a bit here, lopped n[f1 ote a_ lett: to Miss Jennie Flood ask- | After two weeks at the Central House | this name that would serve to.establish ILHBAU MEN | his" father is an officer in the Austrian General Trans-Pacific wore 4 gold watch that he sald his mother in for 320, on he sold It for $10, | bear directly upon his identity. of his tales. He sald Her- | w York to San Francisco, and one day Some ihere, and thus bufit up the name tsera said he had secured a_position | his Austrian relationship. per mine In Arizona. He then left, but | army, and that this boy has an intimate IN EUNFEH[NEE ALE BELG Traffic. Under the name of Sebold Herbertsteln | truth of his narrative.’ e W sheg dishes at the United States | \{‘etessergewélg"?; |fi‘rtl:g l:'x" Qfi‘,‘“gfi yfor _}tée o o Tetters. fsom a mislag | MIEHC (hree charges of assault With intent companion at Denver under the name of to Tob were registered against him at the “Prince Hirverstein” while he was at the | City Prison. e will be brought into the (.en'm]l House, l‘am th;y :‘e,e sek“xt Inre- ‘ g?lg‘c]fnéoun for arraignment to-morrow to letters written a: = | XA E Dliksion to sell stock ‘on commission.. . Vg%gflfl;ff apparently overjoyed at the —_———— ¢ desire,”” he said to-night. | BELIEVE FOOTPAD'S STORY. '{E;Lt;‘i ‘nl‘ hg gestrall l::n Al e plligs ne First Convention of the Kind Ever e | the better for me.” Held on the Pacific Coast—Com- Oakland Is Confident That It Has | Yetsera admitted that within two years mittee Is Named to Fi Captured a Real Nobleman. | he had sent his papers to the Embassa- oF- 2 | ‘dor at Washington, and that they were maulate Plan of Action. OAKLAND, April = 30.—8imon - Louls | returned to him through the Austro-Hun- 2 :\lune-n:’os ;‘on ?P{SQ}::R has satisfied the | garian Consulate in Shan Francls"t;;.f’!“hoge T e T ©Oakland police that the rem; -l dacuments ‘are now, he says, with friends Sanan i WO years s al c and wanderings is truth to'a verity. " The | f7st two Fears of W STRCS Cee ot $20 WHAT CONFERENCE MEANS. outhful footpad, who claims connection’| from his father, but these ceased because with the highest familics of the Austrian he no- longer - sent back-his changes of iy empire, does not finch under fthe -most | address. 1 vak e rate on Asiatic transporta- tlon ‘of dry goods, raw mate- rial, machinery and manufac- tured articles is ' now fixed by the rate from ‘inland points “east- ward to the Atlantic: seaboard, and fs affected by the deep-water rate through the Suez canal: Of course, but-a small percentage of the car- riage is by Tail, and the distribu~ tion points are fixed on the Atlantic seaboard. When the same commerca is start- ed ‘westward from its inland points of origin nearly 50 per cent of the carrlage 15 by rail, and different conditions are at once presented. ‘The purpose of the transcontinental roads i3 to stand as a unit in fixing such a rate as will start the trans- portation of commerce going to Asia ‘at once westward from its inland WILLIAM POHLAR TRIED TO COMMIT FRATRICIDE Engaged in a Saloon Quarrel With ‘His Brother and Stabbed Him. Willlam and Edwin Pohlar, two broth- ers, residing at 810 Bryant street, engaged ‘4n a quarrel fn a saloon at 531 Sixth street last night and as a result the former stabbed his brother Edward in the thigh. | The mother of the young men ran be- tween them and attempted to secure pos- sesston of the knife and was badly cut in the hand. The wounded man was remov- ed to the Recelving Hospital. ~After his infury had been dressed he was taken to the City Prison and charged with disturb- ing. the peace, Willlam Pohlar escaped in the effort of his iIntérviewers to fathom | the secret of his family tles warm a spot. Chief of Police Hodgkins flatly-declares his belief in the boy’s story, for despite his four years of battling.about the world frankness *of | reaches: 100 } | ingness of the young highwayman te con- ceal nothing but such facts as might trace:| his_connections’at home. That the story he has told of the rob- beries in San Francisco is true was fully | verified to-day, when John J. Deane, who was held up by Vetsera last Monday night | at Broadway and Franklin street, visited the Oakland City Prison. to identify. :the | footpad. Vetsera had not been apprised of | Deane's coming, but without - ceremony was taken into the captain's office, and was seated there when Deane appeared. Vetsera recognized his victim immediate- ly. There was a-smile as Deane sald: the excitement. The police are searching | “We have met before.” for him.. 'The: mothier had her injuries | O OMEIN-and start all return com- “Yes,” replied Vetsera. dressed by a. family -physician. ~Family merce at once eastward from its “And 1 think I obeyed orders,” added |trouble was the cause of the quarrel, Asiatic origin. Of course, the same Deane, “and ‘ender the ‘same circum- principle applies to the trade of stances I would do it again.”™ “The newspapers.said your lady com- | panion was on your-arm;” remarked Vet- sera, “but that wasn't se. She was: sim« pty walking alongside of you when I put the pistol at-your head.” " - “'Yes, that's s0," replied Deane. And_you gave me $350 when I asked you to hand over your money;” -continued the young highwayman. “Yes, that is.80,t00,” was the response. “You don't 100k as big as you did that night,” commented Vetsera, ‘after. eritic- ally examining the ‘visitor. % “There 1s-one_thing in your story. that is'not correet,”” remarked Deane. ''That.is About your hand trembling when you put the . pistol:af my- head.® Now, the pistol New Zealand, Australia, Japan, the Philippines: and the Straits Settle- ments. It is belleved that by standing as a-unit the transcontinental roads can send and return a large share of “this’ trade by the ports of this coast, and - distribute it from here instead of from the Atlantic Coast. The “issue is ‘a.great one. It is simply ‘whether this transportation shall go-two-thirds the circumfer- ence of the globe by water, or one- third by water and the rest by ral, If the rall win, the cotton fabrics ———————— e e A ssansannad J General Joseph Wheeler has written threeexclusive articles upon “My Eight Months in the Philippines.” The first of thess papers appears in the magazine section of next Sun- day’s Call and will be the best and most authoritative ac- count ever published of the conditions existing in the fethpetie "",fs_"}?' a8 8, '_°°kv and- it looked big islands. 4 and the raw cotton; machinery, ma- Then. the two talked about the way Vet- ‘M’Mw terial for Asiatic rallway construc- sera_wore his handkerchief mask. When tion and all the commerce gener- ated in our exchanges with Asia the interview -closed each man. was. well ‘will finally he handled both ways on satiefied that they had met before. ‘PROMINENT MERCHANT Deane hiad no trouble in’ recognizing at 3 this icoast. onze the [owy ‘c0d; geotle Woich nf Vel IS CALLED- BY DEATH |2 " Wil be secn readily that his is “If -was just as He -talks how,’ sald | e a conflict between the Eastern and ‘the - transcontinental -lines. . The former. now .get. a- short haul both ways . in this trade; the latter are reaching for a’ Tong haul both ways, -giving the Eastern roads their share in_the’local distribution. It is estimated that the success of Drane, ‘‘Utile above a whisper, vet clear and with that unmistak accent which T.could not fall to recall S Mrs. Stedden and Miss. Bennett, two of ihe women who were held up-on- Boule- vard Térrace in Oakland, Saturday night, visited the jail to-day, but beyend recog- nizing o geéneral simflarity to the -high- George: Webb Alexander, president of ‘the Alexander-Yost . Hardware - Company and a well-known - business man of thi: city, dled yesterday’ at Livermore, Ala- ' meda. County. Mr. ‘Alexander has been identified h the hardware business for bl “He itved with more than thirty wayman Who nearly frightened then to | . - 3 £ ; ‘Vetsera. A 3 e S ¢ ety e e i -hem Vil ke necessary a large Afier an interview. to- ady,wim his pris- George A. and Jesse Alexander. * addition to. their. equipment and to - 1 2 iheir operating force, all of which ‘angr, Chict Hoagkins, sa s £00 brecaing and. To-Moreow Czarina, the - nicest . and all -of the marks of L am en- QQQO?OQOQ“0@009000@@O60@@@600000@00000@@09600@0@@®@©@Q©©®@‘3 RCROSORCR 2 PIOPD P99 P900D D0 0000000000P0000929900009P0000900099000000009008 S & = b of ‘interest to.this coast. and. refinement. The beaititul - gy Doy es that will give them to-morrow we celebrate our eighth birthday gn this store : the last birthday we shall have in this building, for we are subjact to the great law of supply and demand, and sorry ‘In a sense as we shall be to quit this old camping ground, we shall be glad when PRI we can stretch our legs‘ vfagal_mn hints. o i 143 e «eaZ3C @& In.our new bulldfflg, for c‘;lms'leld! mexican g7rJass hafic- we are indeed cramped mocks, extra large size..$1.25 here. cotton hammocks, with 2 steel stretcher .. 5o feet of 5-ply 3}4-inch gar mexican grass h a m m ocks, den silks new designs and colors| ~ hose, complete, with coup- " in: foulard silks, includ-| = Jing .i:iveiesesionen ...8425 ing polka dots; 24 inches wide| 23 feet of same hose, with coup- ...... ORI W R G P T b TR O .$2.25 new plisse silks, in plain colors, [ garden hose reels.. ..g8c in fluffy designs, - ivories, old| fine garden sets, just the thing rose, reseda, cardinal, etc.; 20| for ladies to botanize with, inches wide...oioiiiiiiaiy per set of three pieces....10¢ for May and its many; garden trowels .-.5€ bs'ts (in" our big and busy basement.) ' outings and picnics we| offer - a sample " line of high| shm 'aists. 10 dozen percale grade leather belts; not a belt in shirt waists, the lot worth less than 75¢, and with stitched yoke, body lined: in blue and white stripe and red some as _high as $1.25; they | and white; sizes 32 to 44....50¢ come in white kid, black seal,| 20 dozen shirt waists, of heavy brown, green, - navy, ~garnet percale, with white yokes, and tan, in- real leather;! nicely tucked ~“down front all _1%4 inch, and back; and kid or in _blue and leather white, red lined; some and white, metal - stud- black and ded; birthday white, sizes “the six o'clock house.” price 32 to 44..75¢ 1] THE LAST MAY-DAY WE SHALL SEE INTHIS STORE. _ | without accomplishing mueh beyond the | election of Third Vice President J. €. MAYDAY STAKE w"-L man of the conference. BRING OUT GOOD DOGS There seemed to be some confusion at | the outset as to the reason for the con- | to mean a readjustment of the trans-Pa- cific and transcontinental traffic. The only Off at Union Coursing action taken was the appointment of a Park. the \.a,musx:(rans_mfimc swa‘mgmp com- A midweek reserve stake of unusual ex- ta 2 oposit o | P late defintte. conelnsions as to what | Coursing Park. _Sixty-four high-class dogs will compete. for big prizes and a to. report progress this morning. The | good day's sport is assured to the follow- committee members are: D. E. Brov:‘n. Hongkong manager of the Northern Pa~| (i onter in the performance of Sarah Schwerin of the Pacific Mafl Company, | Gold, an Emin Pasha-Minnehaha pup, who represents also the Occidental and | which will make its initial appearance on Oriental and Toyo Kisen K lines; The probable winners in the first round Pacific line; J. S. Van Buren, manager of ,are: May Queen, Rienzi, Wandering Tom, the Toyo Kisen Kaisha lines at Hong-| Wonder, Hurricane, Metallic, Lavender, kong: Alexander Center of the Occidental | e ——————— T — Stubbs. of the Southern Pacific as chair- ference, but it was generally uiderstood | An Interesting Card to Be Run committea composed of representatives of | cellence will be run off to-day at Union is ‘needed. The committee was instructed ers of the Interesting pastime. Interest cific Company; General = Manager Kaisha | the sward. General Agent Dodwell of the Northern Maid of Erin, magnate, Santonin, Freda and Oriental line; A. S. Mihara, Hongkong Slim, Sleety, Mist, False Flatterer, representative of the _Nippon Yusen | Tyrone Prince, Los Angeles, Lottie M, Kaisha; C. S. Whealler, Hongkong agent ock Boy, ~Statesman, St. Anthony, of the Dowdell line; J.'S. Van Buren of n, Risky Attempt, Vixen, Magneto, uckland, Red Hind, Royal Anne, Round- about, Thornhill, Sleigh Bells, Wildwood and Papita. The prizes offered are: Win- ner, $60; runner-up, $40; next two, §20; next four, $12 50; $7 50, and next sixteen, $2 50; X Hares are run- ning much stronger than for the past three months. The running will begin on the arrival of the 10:15 train. Following is the result of last night's drawing: Midweek reserve stake, sixty-four entries—H. Lynch’s Lexington vs. Erwin & Lyon's May Queen; Pasha Kennels' Rude Awakening vs. Pasha Kennels' Rest Assured: Lande & Ger- Ber's Rienzi vs. J. I. O'Brien's Wandering Tom: R. E. de B. Lopez & Son’'s Wonder vs - Aeneid Kennels' Agamemnon; J. Hurley's Hurricane vs. {. Carter's High Jinks; Pasha Kennels' J. P. Theitt’s Tar o’ Hill: J. M Hongkong, and Stoddard of the Occidental and Orfental Company. The principal matter that the conference has to consider is the inward-bound traf- fic to overland points in the United States. During the past ten years the de- Velopment of the Oriental trade has been g0 rapid that steamship lines have multi- | plied very rapidly. There are now eight competing lines and the tonnage has in- | creased to such a degree that freight rates are greatly reduced to many points. It is now sought to divide the business so that all of the trans-American roads that con- | nect with trans-Pacific steamship lines | may make a profit, instead of cutting| each other's throats, as they claim they are doing now. The whole scheme is to | beat the Suez canal competition. The railroads and steamship lines rep- | resented in the present conference are: Canadian Pacific Railway Company in connectfon with the Canadlan Pacific Steamship Company; Great Northern | Rallway in connection with the Nippon | cott's Freda C nin's (names) Bowery Boy ; W. Sreamer's Jesse Moore vs. Jeff Martinette's Slim: T. Yusen Kaisha from Seattle; Oregon Rall- . J. road and Navigation Company in connec- 8. }?ffi“cfi&(nfl;‘,fi\-fk}” tion with the Northern Pacific Steamship | Keeels, Bolion® 2 i Company from Portland: Santa Fe Rail- road Company in connection with the Cal- ifornia and Oriental Steamship Company from - this port and San Diego, and the Southern Pacific Company in connection with the Pacific Mail, Occidental and Ori- = & Los Y . Angeles; H. L ttie M ve J. J. Edmonds’ Morning Glory; F. A. McComb's One Spot vs. J. Hur- ley's $hylock Boy: J. I. O’Brien’s Statesman va. PK R. L, Taylor's (names) Winning Lassie; N. Sterl & Knowles' Whitlng’s Anthony vs. ental - and Toyo Kisen Kaisha companies. nony | .« Tha other _ transcontinental roads repre- | Ripple; F. A McComb's Said Pasha va 3 Sented in the conference are the Rock Isl- | Dunlea’s Exin: b, Winders fnam At and, Union Pacific, Chicago and North- | western, Rio Grande Western and Denver | and Rio Grande. | The number of important officials at-| tending the conference seems to be a sur- | prise to even the local railroad people, | and it is freely predicted that the results | will be important. The proposition is a | Sweetbriar vs. T. J. Cronin’s Vixen; J Carroll Bluestone vs. J. Carroll's Auckland; M. Lon: don's Magneto vs. Sterl & Knowles’ O"Hara; J. Carroll's Red Hind vs, R. E. de B. Lobvez & Son’s Diablo; G. Abercromble’s Victer King vs. Pasha Kennels' R Roundabout v Cronis W. C._G new. one, but it fs generally understood | JUL Mir Foa: J. Murnane's Wiliwood va: and generally ‘appreciated. | Captain Kane's Misa Penman; . de B. Lopez & Son's Miss Pepita ve. J. C. Mack's e Merchants After a Short Work Day. Della M. A committee representing the fruit and commission men will meet A. D. Shepard, general freight agent of the Southern Pa- cific Company, to-day to secure a decision concerning fixed hours for the delivery of | freights. Brhis is a part of the movement | 1o, shorten the: hours of store keeping, | which has already given rise to one meet- ing of the merchants. If Mr. Shepard shall decide that the company will deliver no freight before 4 a. m. and none after 4 p. m. to the trade the movers for the shorter day say that they will have ac- complished their purpose. — e————— The bonds of friendship are stronger than the ties of kindred. —_— e German Catholic Officers. The final session of the convention of the German Catholic socletles of California was held yesterday, after the delegates had attended a high mass at St. Anthony’'s Church. The election of officers resulted as follows: . President, F. B. Schoenstein; first vice president, George Buecker; sec- ond vice president, Lud, v. Raesfeid: re- cording and financial secretary, Henry F. Budde; correspondln§ secretary, Car A. Schnabel; treasurer, Jacob Fredricks; di- rectors, Robert Frost, Charles P. Conrad and A. Meyer. San Franciseo was chosen as the place of meeting for next year. OPEN SAN FRANCISCO TO CHICAGO Santa Fe Route < The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System begs to announce the completion of its railway from San Francisco to Chicago—2550 miles. It is the only railway which owns and controls lti track from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Michigan. It proposes to furnish prompt and satisfactory service, and it hopes to receive a generous proportion of the public patronage. Y A May 1st freight will be handled regulariy to and from the East and all pointsin the San Joaquin Valley and Southern Calitornia. Freight Depot: Corner Spear and Harrison Streets. The date for inaugurating passenger train service will be ennounced later. nitarian - Conferenee, - six- bein- the Unitarian ey, from- Tuesday, May 1,1 5ame to- Friday, May 4. The last of the session will be'devoted to business of .the Women’s Unitarian- Confere! 5 % There 1% not’hln§ in -his -demeanor but 6ints to a high-bred bexlrm,l‘n§ l:l'li,l.t he ! a ds- of a family of high 1? ve not p it ‘were of ‘in- B sy iSd L Dosll Santly verify no deubt in m: oo as] very ‘statement he has muide. x the :traffic and. at the hem. verity tamity sanvlgemet?’e}:gfifl”fl?m b aud ographic s upplte befare the: representatives are. mentioned - a- - way ¢ supplies, ! -the: represen of the | 'to prove the truth-of “story. He has et i ; v g -t | hidden nothing - but.. the aiora aehioh | ind mounting at Sei s "“""’"’ lu:‘:; on. corporations got et street. for two hours JOHN J. BYRNE, 4 EDWARD CHAMBERS, General Passenger Agent, General Freight Agent, Lines west of Albuquerque. & ~'W. A, BISSELL, Assistant Traffic Manager, Santa Fe System.