The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1900, Page 4

CAMPAIGN AT SAN JOSE IN ULL SWING Edwards Apparently Leads in the Mayoralty Race. R N Gang Willing to Sacrifice the Bal- ance of the Ticket for the Re-election of Martin for Mayor. ——— Special Dispateh to The Call SAN JOS One week from to- will be held, and s time on active work will be sides. The gang has begun s forces and has select pre workers. The citizens' comm s £ Eadw K ar I greater 8 reform move- ly all indorsed | in adminis- g a 4 pass HAWAII AND PORTO RICO WILL SEND DELEGATES wed Six Representatives he Democra vention. the d a wh him s, asking wouid seai the Haw [ send thelr de agers say there is of giving promi- tion to the Porto Democrats believe n view of the fact atform will con- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1900, a strong anti-imperlalistic plank. By the delegation from Forto Rico giving it six votes the Democratic agers say they would demonstrate in ctical way their contention that the a part of United States territor: equal in all things political with India: Territory, Alaska or the District of Co lumbla. e MISSOU'RI REPUBLICANS ENTIRELY IN ACCORD | | [ KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 4.—Edward A. Rozier of St. Louis, United States Dis trict srney, was to-night selected to | pre over the Republican State Con- vention to-morrow as temporal man. Mr. Rozler's selection was unan mous and it disposed of the first s v discord incident to the convention. Dur- ing the afternoon State Ce mittee had met to name the temporar: cers and Rozler was about to be nomi- t giv- eholder when a any offic trong element again prevailed it would that John L. Bittinger, Con- eral to Montreal, and Major Wil- m Warner of Kansas City, prominent candidates for delegates at large to Phil- sentiment adelp would have been compelled to arop e race. The fon will nominate a full State ticket and select four delegates at large. There is_ practically no contest over the State offices, with Joseph Flor: [ L Rallroad and Warehouse C missior the only candidate for Governor. ————— Democratic Convention. SPOK A Wash,, May 14.—The Demo- of Washington will assemble in n here on Saturday, May eight delegates and eight al- crats State conven to elect to_the Natlonal convention, to at Kansas City on July 4. It will f the largest convent! n_th f the call providing ng County, number with contest greatest here AAL REPUBLICS WANT OUR PROTECTION TRANSV 14.—The Herald’'s s the following 5.—A commission Wessel: nd g the republics YORK, May spondent s ask the United over the ners are empowered to assume a protectorate orate s protec s, the America. nje's cap- € in_ open arbs of Cape th American and very train which jes to the front has ayed. apidly who is rain b un- general hope in “We will maintain our in- if we can. 1f we cannot we to the American people to Surel is . we may be foot of the d peace and pro- nd Stripes.’’ PREPARING FOR REGATTA AT BEAUTIFUL BELVEDERE Officials Are Appointed and the Order of Events Is Settled for Olympic Day. ng of the tta committee held at th. llowing sit It at th to fi Theodore Elsfcldt Taylor, J. Laib J. P. Bogan, sck; marshal ; assistant mar- Meherin order of events will be n barge race betw atch race Baker Olymy will' swimmin, ra g ich entries should be sent to E. at the Olympic Club before Fri. In the junior barge race ¢ crews entered, and the Jice of positions will be as follows: rst, South End Rowing Club; seconc Dolphin .Boating Club; third, Alame: ting Club; fourth, Olympic Boat Club; h. Arjel Rowing Club, following entries w made for the junior outrigger skiff race J. C. Stamer and H. C. Guild of the Alameda Boating Club, Charles Wilson of the Ariel Rowing Club, Victor Caglieri of the Olympic Boat Club and M. J. Breen of the South End Rowing Club. The boats will be taken over to Tiburon by the ferry steamer leaving the city at 9:30 2. m. The regatta will commence on the arrival of the 1:30 p. m. boat from San Franciseo. The only complete Cape Nome cloth- ing ou friters on the coast. CLOTHING BLANKETS TENTS SHOES RUBBER UNDERWEAR oIL GOoODS MOCCASINS BOOTS TOBACCO 11 unable to visit us write for full information. We are hand ing the bulk of the Caps Nome business. Te Red ro-n'b A.J.PRAGER & SONS 57-859 MARKET ST OPPOSITE POWELL e SCEY SRS S @4—0—0”@4%’—0—0—«%‘4%«00%%-@4‘&0—0—‘0%“ o | wife,’ | so, and if he did he told me nothing about | to pay the rallroad fare of Miss June SANTA CLARA NINE ARE _ THE BASEBALL CHAMPIONS B e S O R AnanCan s g J. J. RYAN. T. J. NIHILL, Manager. F. J. FARRY. E. P. FINT by H. GRAHAM, Captain. FELIX J. GALTES. O = sever his connection with the team as g creditable | ptitded to cred- | of forme rs, i8 en The season of 1900 was a very short one, | . ason: beguis xn.. | OnLY" twelve played—seven o s h the big Stanford and der less s e e [ Tkl imateur many r 1d left college | teams of th. as the Koenigs, that it was conside doubtful if a good | Altos and’ San Jose s team could be pi the field in such | _Of the seven pl t y short time. task was en- | Berkeley four 3 rusted Natlonal | a1} ‘were victories, m r the season League fam len set to work with ‘ of 190 a record of nine victories and | a will, but at the end of two weeks had | three defeats. Summing up the record of yuse for- » be AR INDULGED xamina- ss was 1 7 | coveted diary kept 182 Neal safd t R - the existence of st he i knew “that “Fair wa. hand at taking = Further tioning only I served 1 pinion. He said he neil will to be the ) gri nitted that he Ance In a Note His Penchant fori trouble with Sen or Fair in % | Is it not a fact,” said Pence, “that at Making Testaments Is | that time SenatorFair charged you with Habi | having conspired with Mr."Palmer, the Dubbed Habit. | THe%ila " anpwered ihe witnosad. Bim 2 | | was am articlé publ 1 and nt 10 | | Senator Fair and demanded a retraction refused to make one and I resigned | thwith."” | you not blame Mrs. Craven ouble hat_time | r thought of such a thing,"” | that Senator Fair and Mrs. | He One of Mrs. Craven’s Star Witnesses | Is Flatly Contradicted—Mrs. Hor- | ton Punctures Bryant’'s State- ‘ ments Regarding Her. | did you not? - I did not n hip.”’ A star wi d a star document in -d and | fav of the nents in the Cravén- 8 of th notarial attes- Fair n gave the case a new im- pended to the pencll deeds. By | » .o these negatives, backed up by a week the case | jpo B e 8 t on of various witnes the at- that handwriting v the R e ] orie on h th tention that the mind « they have tary C ¥ says he used when done, or alm s future pro- 1 question were acknowledged | o, ' we 0 rintec r | st RSE gpc iy were not print 1 until long | threaten to part the mildly sensa- torney Garret W, MéEnerney, on. be- tional. provonents. next offered | H. N. Bry s statement that he bor- e one »f Mrs. Craven-Falr's mem- | d $50 from James G. Fair in June, ndum books i‘-lufl. he said, “to prove 1 > t some people must be either gifted that June Payne might enjoy | oeh “long “memories or take copious a contemplated trip tc It Lake City|notes.’” In this book appears the hand- was flatly denied from the witness stand | writing of both Mrs, Craven-Falr and her by the lady in question in Judge Troutt’s | daughter, Mrs. Margaret Koehle court yesterday. | Some of the most interesting notations In answer to the question of the clerk | [ead: “Will ‘made September 21, 1594 . wort . 3 . ver told me time as to her when she was sworn she said her name e Of Tty 2002 Pine | was Mrs. N. J. Horton. She said that March 2. 1801, Ste let- | after leaving this city she married the March ade will man whose name shé now bears, but, not- | at 202 Pine—evening—1 g withstanding this fact, she was none other "1‘.' = "‘””':f( “'rmr:l" !,\"ll“' o ”\’;‘“‘; than the June Payne referred to by Mr. | a¢ 593 Sutter street.” 8. I, wa Bryant and had come to the city for the | Opera-house (Columbus) May sole purpose of contradicting bis state- | “May 21, 1892, made will which ment. | from Cal Hotel. Mr Horton testif at she came to The book filled with memoranda of | San Francisco in 1382 in respouse to a let- | imilar nature and prov as the attor- | ter from H. N. Bryant, who informed her | neys contend, that Mrs, Craven-Falr and | that she could sccure emplovment here fis 0 her daughter were aware of the ne- a typewriter. On arriving in this city she | cessity of complete notes on passing ! took apartments at the Golden W events. One of the most startling notes, | Hotel, where she remained for a week, | which has heretofore been kept out of the After leaving the hotel she went to Oak- , purports to be a copy of one writ- | land for a six weeks' stay. As affairs did | ten by Senator Fair. It reads: i not prosper she decided to return to Salt I wish Nettle R. Craven burled in my Lake, which she did in_April, two days | vault. James G. Fair.” Following this after the earthquake which occurged in | note a comment, evidently made by Mrs. Koehler. “Used to call on mother quite often,” the note reads, “‘but I do not remember the dates. It was a habit of his to make wills at our house and to con- | sult with mother on investments or busi- ness changes.” Another note, evidently made by Mrs. Craven, reads: ‘“Last will | made September 24, 1804, Wrote Birdie so0n after that he had made another will and that I was provided for outside of the After the memorandum book was duly | introduced in evidence John J. Fleming | certified to the correctness of a dia of the Lick House by which the defense will ‘attempt to prove that Senator Fair could not have visited Mrs. Craven-Fair at the hotel wl‘mut being seen and caus- lng comment, Irs. Craven-Fair was recalled to answer & question of minor importance, as were | Estelle Houghton, Rabert A. Coulter and Charlotte Clarke." An adjournment was then taken until this morning. that month, Mrs. Horton's very imporiant, testimony is considered as it directly impeaches | Bryant, who was one of Mrs. Craven's | star witnesses. Bryant testified that he | met Mrs. Craven in Senator Fair's office | in either May or June, 1892, at which time Fnrlr introduced the school teacher as his wife. “I went ‘to Senator Fair's office,” Bry- ant testified, “to borrow $0 with which Payne from this city to Salt Lake. Fair handed me the money, and as 1 was leav- ing Mrs. Craven came in, ‘This is my sald Senator Falr. ‘She has come to my office to see me at work.' " On cross-examination Bryant would not swerve from his statement that the meet- ing occurred in June and yesterday Mrs Horton was called to disprove his asser- tion. She testified that she left this city on April 22, 1892. She went to Salt Lake | City and resided there several years. She finally married W. J. Horton and now lives with him in Los Angeles, where he conducts a_livery stable. She was posi- Hit the Dog With a Nozzle. tive she left San Francisco on April Phii Wand, the well-known referee, | ca D1, Bryant provide you with transpor- | appeared yesierday in Judge Cabaniss’ | ation?’ was asked. Sty el s "6 a1 not. He never. gave me any | m a charge of violating order 1599 due me for | ©f the Board of Bupervisors. The arrest answered | Was made by Special Officer Mahoney, head gardener at the City Hall. Wand was at the hall Saturday and his dog ran | over one of the grass plats. Mahoney | threw a nozzle at the dog twice, hitting | it each time. Wand heard the dog yelp | 5 with pain and saw Mahoney throw the | DId he ever mention to you anything | D02zle the second time. Wand called him | about his having been introduced to Mrs. | & brute and was PURpty Argeniod. Xoe! Craven by Senator Fair and did he men- | JUdg¢ agreed with Wand and dismissed | tlon anything about the Senator having the case. | referred to Mrs. Craven as his wife? TR A Fittous it AP | “He did not,”” was the final answer of e . e et Bicyclists Discharged. e witness on direct examination. 4 7 On cross-examination Mrs. Horton sajd f“'e twelve bicyclists arrested Sunday | she came to this eity to testify in the case | »(1€Tnoon on Market street for fast riding at the request of the executors of the Fair | 200 not having bells on their wheels were | Wwill, who located her a week ago. Not.|distributed among the police courts yes- withstanding the attempt.of Lafe Pence | {€rday. They were all dismissed with a to break her down, she did not waver | FePrimand except Philip Schneider, a but adhered to her story and the-dates, JcSsenger boy. Judge Cabaniss in dis- | given throughout. missing him sald he cught to’be encour- | Charles” 8. Neal, manager for the Fair ag:ed, as it was something unusual to hear estate, was the next witness. Neal came | ©1 & messenger boy being in a hurry. to give his opinion of the various docu- T e ments _introduced by Mrs. Craven, not Will Prepare New Charter. from the View of a handwriting experl, | gpecial Dispatch to The Call. but from his own knowledge and famil-. £ farity with the dead millionaire’s style of | LOS ANGELES, May M4.—The City Council this aftefnoon instructed the City penmanship. “I branded the pencil wilka forgery the | Attorney to prepare an ordinance of in- tentlon to call an election for a Board of. first time I saw it,” said the witness. I told the attorneys for the executors that | Freeholders to draft a new charter. money except that which was my services as stenographer,” the witness. “To_your knowledge, did he borrow $50 from Senator Fair?” “He had no authorization from me to do it Defeat Stanford and University of California and Cther Amateur Teams. G O S P S S The rest of the seasor s played h' no coach to direct affairs, which makes the work of the team all thé more | { | MOFFITTGOMES { Athletic | now circumstance | Mald of Erin; Sterl & K | memnon vs. J. Dean's ‘Bell of Anderson. | a string of sixteen dogs with them. B B B ST T S e e O ® * é GUY W. CONNER. 1 T. E. KELLY. T. C. TURNER. ¢ R. F. KEEF! L + G+ sseieoe® team for the last | 0 be a wonderful ara College years it is founa S the gre mes In 1889 the re three nd without a ord was sixteen and in ries and victories otal of f de thre rt vietori ts. he record for with Stan Ber same time Viet ford 9, defea victories over ng a total defe E 4 Much of the or the team of was due to the talncy of Charles Graham and the effi- clent management of Thomas J. Nihill | T NEIL| - TO FIGH * JACK MOFFIT OF CHICAGO, * @ @eicietoiooenston| ACK MOFFITT, who has ht-(‘n! matched to fight Al Nefll, arrived in | this city last night and was im- mediately the center of a‘group of | warring fight promoters, each anxious to assert the right to the control of Moffit pugilistic performances before the public Both the Columbia and the Natfonal clubs lay claim to the fight, but point with certainty to the latter club. “Billy” Kennedy, the manager of Al Neill; Sam Pooler, Moffitt's manager, Gibbs and Groom of the Na- tional Club, have reached the agreement that if a $1000 depc s placed in the| hands of a stakeholder as an assyrance | from the club that it will pull off tfe fight | on June 1, the Gibbs and Groom combina- | tion will get the fight. Charles Newman has guaranteed the necessary sum, so the fight Is practically settled, as the Nation- al Club declares positively that it will have a license for that date. | There will be a meeting to-day, when | all matters will be finally settled. If the $1000 be not forthcoming, Kennedy and Pooler will sign with the Columbia Cluh. [SIXTY DOGS WILL RACE FOR THE MIDWEEK STAKE Fast Hounds and Big Entries for Union Park—Well Known Coursing Men Arrive. There will be a sixty-dog stake at Union | Park on ‘Wednesday for regular midweek | prizes. The draw 1s: J. Anthony's Patriot vs. T. Henry's Menlo Maid; N. P. Whiting's Ward Ena va F. Her- rin's ‘St. Elmore; D. Shannon's Safeguard vs. J. Keenan's Mira Monte; R. E. de B. Lopez & Son’s Sara vs. J. Hurley's O K Capliol; T. J Cronin's Maid of Ball J. Keenan's Royal Ouk; George Lahusen's Firefly va. A. L. Aus- tin's Lok Angeles; T. McCabe's Bony Boy vs, : Reannex; Jeff Martinett's Slim v J. R. Smith's Jennie Wilson; Sterl & Knowles’ O'Hare vs. Captain Kane's Master Davenport; R. E. de B. Lopez & Son’s Minnewawa vs. Jeff Martinett’s Sally Brass; C. O. Petersen’s Siiver | Cloud Irwin & Lyon's Silver L@n; Gus Ab- ercrombie’'s Rock Island Boy vs. P. J. Riley's | Ploughboy; Pasha Kennels' May Hempstead | ve. . T. Logan's (names) Leah; Condrey & Rought's Flying Crest vs. P. J. ‘Riley’s Moon- bright; A. Massey's Hadiwist asha Ken- | nels' Roundabout; M. B. Kavanagh's Hard Lines vs. R. L. Taylor's (names) Winning Las- | sie; Curtls & Son’s Cash vs Aeneid Kennels' owles' Frosty Morn | vs. Sullivan & Traynor's Castle Island Boy: J. Dean’s Brilliantine vs. Connell Bros.' Dun- more; Condrey & Rought's Nellle R vs. T. J. Cronin's Rose of Tralee; J. Carroll's Bluestone v8, Aeneid Kennels' Athena; T. J. Cronin's | Thornhill vs. Condrey-& Rought's Tea Shine: J. Hurley's Hurricane vs. J. Hurley's (names) Shylock Boy: J, Rowning's (nemes) Dempsey Lass ve. Gus Abercrombie's Miss Richmonc A. Johnson's Mountaln Beauty vs. A. L. Aus. | tin’s Thorndune; J. Carroll's Red Hind vs, C, Wieley’ Alameda Lad; A. Johnson's Bald Eagle vs. P. Rellly's Beatty Rose; D. Winder's (names) ‘Random Aim vs. Ster] & Knowles' Oleda: J. R. Smith's Petronius vs. Condrey & Rought's Royal Lady; Aeneld Kennels' Ag: Rusgsell, Allen and Wilson, the well-| known coursing men, arrived in this city last night from the Bast. They brought —_———— Famous Ex-Pitcher Dies. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 14.—Billy Taylor, at one time the most famous pitcher in baseball circles in this country, died here this morning of a complication of diseases. At one time he pitched for the famous Athletics and also for the Philadelphia Athletics and other leading clubs. He was coack for the first Ameri- ‘can team that visited Europe and Cuba. | high schools are absorbed just now in the baseball, of the tournament, which ‘will exceed $1000, will be the the GREAT INTEREST struction and which will be brought to a tournament was only a chance affair—a sort of overflow from the Mayday fes vities—now that it is fairly u Bush that it past few we their athletic training under teachers while they were boys in schools, whereas the California boys had T up_the work v ge. It is the d hat out of this will grow up a sy athletic clubs in the grammar schools, der proper instructors—that wil dem rated x 3 ygrounds in ¢ stion with For their g: the boys hav been compelled heretofore to go to places outside of town or to priva the tournament of their distribution with a will In order to give all the children a cha games the ¥ to see the has Tuesday commence half an hour I who gives her ¢ arrested at terd. the City Prison, where she was on the charge of taking opium i jail.” She had a paper contained ws its, but on examining the walnuts it found that the kernels had been taken out and morphine substituted no strong e pects, IN THE GRAMMAR GRADE CONTESTS | of-War Tournament Soon to End. | Lead to the Formation of Ath- letic Clubs in the Vari- ' ous Schools. ATLES e The boys of eleven grammar and four football and tug-of-war tourna- w ler wa thinks he can easily demonstrate is an excellent thing for growing The defeats of the University of ornia athletes in the East during tb -ks have been ascribed by com critles to the f: that th athletes are men who cc This t Ten baseball ms have te: in have been played on the avera The standing of the clubs at the present time is as follows: CLU ¥ w Helghts 4 0 B Horace Mann 4 0 4 I oty sesen 3 1 2 John Swett 5 2 3 5 2 3 4 H 2 n 5 3 2 é 7 4 1 > |1 fission 8 8 0 | 1000 The fo ames are scheduled k vs. Hor: + reet grounds: 5. Hearst, 11 a. m., same grounds Horace Mann, vs. Jame Jame ootball tov the fi y the Clement Middleton, che a prel th incipal Bush which w Cosmopolitan high schoo of-war contests a2 fte » from the I »ol of Mech: nd Polytechn ly,.it may be sald t interested onl which will at the proceeds given to the retirement T ers’ Annuity Society, proceeds of the Mavday celebrstion | re devoted. Over 16.000 tokets have wi ! dy been distributed among the various noolg and the children have taken hold rd of ) p. m., and ter. at 1 port will Took Morphine Into Jail. h Burke, a woman cupation Branch Cou rt E th by Guard e Esparto School Commencement. two being release t WE LOUISVILLE ver CHICAGO, track fast NEW YORK 1quis eaded NONAH STAKE WON N AWALK BY SILVERDALE Baseball, Foothall and Tug-i‘Schorr's Colt Runs Away From His Field at the Louisville Track. —_— How the Teams Stand Now—May | At Morris Park the Talent Has a Very Hard Day, Kriss Kringle Being the Only Favorite to Win. S May 14— le practica onah stak | ment that was Inaugurated a fortnight | geldings to-da. > {ago by Principal Bush of the Polytechnic | of only Silverdale His High School for their amusement and in- | Eminence, they 1 R sults close next Tuesday afternoon. Four beau- | _Six and a balf X | tiful trophies are being competed for ana Fom. Aureole se | the enthusiasm with which the boys have | Bive and a he entered the contest has been a revelation won, Lady to teachers and parents alike. l“‘:‘-a o . Principal Bush believes in athletics in | 0%, (UEORES. SERORS the grammar schools. While the present o M fourth race at Morris I turlongs CHICAGO’S TWO RECORDS. Plays an Errorless Game and Shuts Out New York. STANDING THE CLT Special Dispatch to The Call | WOODLAND, May 14.—The commence- ment exercises of the Esparto Union High School will be held at vy Hall Friday evening, May . _The graduates American Association Games. are Willlam A. Adams, D. Q. Adams BUFFALO, M alo 10, Milwauk Louise B. Baur, May B. Cole, D. Howard | ,gvELAND e M Gilliam, Essie M .Humphrey, Minnie H. > peny Stephens and Sarah 8. Stephens. 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