The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1900, Page 31

The SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900. £ Pages 31 10 40 [ esssssssasssasss S ss s s s a et @ettreetes T MEN 'LIFE INPRISONMENT IS THE . SENTENCE OF MRS. MINNIE ADAMS T T —— TED VISITORS AT A nishes Fiendish Mother Who NU Murdered Babe That Stood in the Way of Her keturning to Her Husband. itor Fairbanks and Hon. . E. Holloway Guests of Honor. | | « | i ADAMS, convicted] bolic acid at a drug store on the corner f her infant son,| 0f Geary and Devisadero street This s was missing when the it was > -t nig of the same after pouring Its gex, LB tents down the tiroat of her babe. pal ¢ otive for the crime was also estab- by the prosecution. Mrs. Adams ed h ha ing ] the h drayman. While living Mr with Gray Adams must ith Gray SRR her days in San vent a e 3 eme Cc int ‘Adams received E sread _interest »and stating that he -« g fon. John Rich- | was willing would . died in agony ppo: r two children, but o fusi » maintain little John Richard Gray removal of the child was the e only maining obstacle to a reconcil- ation with her husband, if she was to ept his offer. Thus she planned the - urder and rding to the prosecution K th d him 1 pol babe from its playthings, an outhouse and forced down his throat. Then she arm that her child had been youngster, while play- ard, found a flask which nk it carri the rai that on the | sccic poisoned. Circumstances : 1e murder the fiendish | were t her, and she must pay the L iased a bottle of car- penalt ’ i —_— (found the Yakout waiting, but th ok ‘ f had anticipated. Bogdonovien TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF ] |a ompanions went at once on neg & to invite any Americans. Hotel snd Slashes His Throat me on September 1, sut Bogdonovica and Arms. U refused, stating that he was ] 5 3 i b of the expedition; at he was B e - 3 a t 1, ientific purposes in be- < * half ¢ lan Government 1 could 1 |- not and w not lea this important ] : L duty for the purpose of transporting Mr, i Roberts to Nome whenever fancy seized : 1im | o Now, Mr. Roberts has for some years n the habit of having his own way, | Colonel W. J. Cotton Tells | cinceici witn' e ot 5 vy 2 and this statement by the Russ & e him How Samoa Was Brought | fim not iy indienint " Sut snsey a0 o !hll-n(lw uu’x-lti‘ ”1“' the Sam. s hould land Hm any old place he desired, as she was : Back to Nome. chartered in America and fleW the Ames s an flag and under these cicrumstances 0 - A | no Russian could dictate to him. e E this was startling news is to Captain Deceived the Foreigmers and | put it \le ¥ :m';tn;. h\.apuu;f J‘.‘fhvxknsni\‘ .l; Tty the night of the 14th of August, a very : ik tally Had the Ship in Ufl}ted States neavy fog prevailing, turned the ships o Waters Before Discovery fomdn Seoue. B 4 R e following morning when the | SERGEAN‘T PP‘IP‘E SUES Was Made. eter came on deck he saw by the 00 So compass which way the ship was heading | and hastening s on the br to Captain Johnson, who asxed where they were FOR REINSTATEMENT Among the San Francisco people who tecently returned from the Alaskan | 0In- The captdin replied with the ut- . : B reluad (o . ost s d, “To Nome.' The inter- Writ of Mandate Compelling £0ld fieids are Colonel W. J. Cotton, A | prater coliapsed and tumbing down tne Bl to Restad Bt rmer newspaper man. J( I(m(lrl‘anuxrh»un, stalrs announced the news to Bogdono- t Him M. S 3r They | vich, his chie e winter, ifftending '(.'\!vun“lhfl-* 1!\(-1 cla,uui? lost no time in Aas eativ=in ‘the spring | SSLUDE Y glish and Americans to- B atien ‘Ih” gether, informing them of what he had | K claims, ¥ | done and advising each man to arm him- . ral self and stand by and see the thing Colonel Cotton tells some interesting gh. They at once sprang to posi- | 3 CoRerEting thip' expatiucas tor e of va ¢ and, although poorly i Snd AmericAn exparts who ehar- i and few in number, they were prepared to render a good account themselves. ionovich came on deck in a per- 't rage and demanded an explanation. The ship was by this time in American waters. Captain Johnson stated that as he felt responsible for the safety of his passengers he had determined to take his hip to some American port for a settle- t of the question. Here occurred a dramatic scene, over which it is possible | international complications may arise. | _‘“With great dignity, although trembling with rage, Bogacnovich, stepping back, drew from his breast a document, which to the astonishment of all showed that | he was not only the declared agent of the | an capitalists, but officially sent and | a representative of the imperfal Rus- | sian Government. As such representative, | he declared, he and his countrymen were | grossly insulted and outraged by being | kidnaped from Russian waters. of er Samoa in San Fran- r Siberia last June for iting the conc ton the 'n Siberian Syndicate ited) of London, on the eastern coast Colonel Cotton thinks there is that th will result abt tween Rus serica Y WINS TWO MEDALS AT PARIS EXPOSITION ts of Health Statistice and Education and Social Economy ccorded Recognition. gold was discovered in such in Nome,” said Cotton, pital was attracted to Siberia a corporation organized under the name of the Eastern Siberian Synrdicate, sited, of London, with a capital of one )n shares, par value £1 each Th ate is composed of very prominent h, Russian and American capital- CIT Ciy mil syn rmation ves- | ists. It is rumored that Lord Salisbury | “'SRAPSe SO STUES AN, wate - | s wers e Cal a s Exposi- | and the Duke of Fife are iarge share- | greatly aback and instantly realised sion sion 1hat the San Franc! holders. | serious complications stared them in the tice of health and that ‘The Samoa was chartered by repre- face. However, it was too late to back ocial economy at the eX- | sentatives of the company and safled from | 0Ut now, The Cossacks, although pre- tlomai Jury . of Awards. ' San Frascisco June 10. Among the pas- ) fohi™oo ‘steam was crowded ‘on and in o . he issued in cember | Sengers an interpreter named Mc- | ghort time the ,amoa dropped her anchor - which the Mavor assured Pherson, who, althcugh born in Russia, | off Nome, near the United States infan- ' would be pald for by travels under an English passport. It is | try barracks. The captain went ashore, neisco, will accompany | the feeling among the English and Ameri- | and, :-xgfluinlnx the case to Major Evans, e cans t more or less of their troubles | @ file of soldiers under command of Lieu: - the sculptor, of San | cah® T O ot by the Interprotation | tenant Knudson was sent on board ‘and | the English and American contingent came ashore, but the Russians were not permitted to land. Later the ship was an- | chored under the guns of the revenue cutter Manning and the soldiers were ent_ashore. “*A court of inquiry was at once held and after due_dellberation it was ordered that the Samoa, under the escort of the | Manning. should take the Russians back | to Siberia and turn them over to the Yakout there. The Samoa Is to return to Nome, pick up Mr. Roberts and his party gold medal for . sthall Players he ¥ of this latter individ: sympathized with th others. as heaundoubtedly - Russians and hated | It was understood by the enting the English syndicate Roberts, the well known n mining engineer, would be their er, as he was one of the principal or- jzers of the syrdicate. Bogdonovich presented the Russlan capitalists and as the expedition was going into Russian waters Bogdonovich was agreed upon as Opportunity. - will be offered by the | a Monday special | , nd women for $1 85 made of the best st style toe, in| 1, to-morrow for Hive 8hoe Co., 717 | A Golden he ¢ Be | Francisco Riding Club. | there i | nies | Brewer. . Third. | the chief while over there. jand take them to San Francisco. > : | "“After arriving on the Siberian coast ' “Apprehensions are felt as to how the Esstern Star Assists. and completing a portion of the work | Russian officials will act, once they get Mr. Roberts desired to return to Nome, | to which the Russian strenuously ob-| “All sorts of overtures have been made jected, but eventually gave in. | to Bogdonovich in the endeavor to smooth “The Samoa returned to Nome about | over matters, but he refuses to be pla- July 2 after taking on board the engl- | cated. He is determined to at once report neers left behind. She steamed out on|the matter to the Russian military attache the 2ith headed for a section of the Sibe- | at Washington, who, he says, will see va B Chapter, U. D., Order of | the American ship in their waters. ern t its meeting last | mated $2) to the Galveston fund. Did you parade? If so, get the Wasp's souvenir edition Native Sons’ celebration . ; rery | rian coast, where the party expected to | that the honor of Russia is upheld dnd all e Rotopraphed. . On Sats ai ‘all | meet the Russian gunboat Yakout. Upon | rights for mining in Siberia by the, Kasts i B g ¢" | Arriving at the appointed rendesvous ern Siberian Syndicate withdrawn.” RIING CLUB SIWELLS EAGAGE N MERRY WhR Stockholders and Directors Quarrel Over Dilhan's Dismissal. et Board Issues Stock to Clmummt; the Captain’s Friends, Who Are Now Preparing to Go to Law. ——— There is a mer war on In the San | The stockhold- ers of the club and the few left over di- rectors are exchanging compliments and likely to be an appeal to.the courts before the disturbing matters are finally adjusted. | The fight revolves round the war- scarerd Captain Dilhan, founder of the | club, stockholder to the tune of 35) shares and former riding master of the elite. | The trouble started some few weeks ago. | The cay n w en a three weeks' | leave of a ence, but at the expiration of | his vac comin tion, instead of recciving.a wel- | glad hand, he got a frigid note, | setting forth that his Services were no | longer required. Dilhan, however, is not the man to accept defeat meekly. ‘He ap- 13 pealed to his friends, the stockholders, and they put In a petition praying that the former 1g master be reinstated. The board paid no attention to the ap- peal—although the petitioners repres 445 shares, more than one-half of the 775 shares, which constituted the original is- | sue of the club Indignant at the treatment they had re- | cefved at the hands of the directors, the | stockholders con Attorney John J. Barre Barrett” bit of advice was | to have the books of the club examined and that advice was falthfully carried | out_yesterd 3 An »n of the books was an | Th e ihan’s friends, who found without the formality of ind putting the matter r to D . 400 ¢ sha 't San Fran- | hg School stock was issued, the | ing hou up by George Quarre, an emy 3 Dalzelle Brown, one of the ciu " said an Indignant stock- the four directors mselves S they couid “It's this way der la ent_the ma- club matters. But that | stock was not ed legally. There was no meeting called and the matter was not put to vote. | “The riding club has not been very pros- | perous of late,” went on the stockholder. | “Members have been dropping off and | those who still remain have been giving ut little attention to ciub matters. In fact, this inattention has been so marked that there was not enough interest in | club matters to get'up an election and in | default of one the old directors held over, | ‘And now only four of the required eight | are fulfilling the duties of their office—J. Dalzelle Brown, secretary; W. B. Chap- man, president, and Directors Flournoy and Buckingham. Director Sam Knight is in Nome, Miss Farquharson is abroad. | Mrs. Fannie Lent, annoyed by the con- | tinual_petty quarrels, has resigned. and | Mrs. Hooper, who is suing the club for ihe ‘death of a valuable horse, has also | resigned. However, in spite of all the | misfortunes the club has suffered, the | are determined to once | stockholders a in put the ciub on its feet and win ou h this d in view we intend to force a meeting of the directors and have that 400 extra share issue recalled. If we are| not successful with the directors we shall | bring the matter into court.” | The San Francisco Riding Club, al- though it h all the swells on its mem- bership list, is not a purely social organi- zation. It combines business with pleas- | ur All the business of the club ig sup- posed to be attended to by the stockhold- er Members e only entitled to the privileges of the club, The club is also in a prosperous condi- Wit UNFIT FOR A MOTHER | Kimross Wants Custody of His Baby Because Her Mother Is an | Actress. | William H. Kinross believes a vaudeville | actress is so environed that she is an un- fit and improper person to have the cus- tody of a minor child. He expresses this | | belief in an answer filed yesterday to the | ction for divorce recently instituted by | his wife, Adejaide Kinross. Kinross de- | that he has Ffailed to provide his | wife and baby with necessaries of life, as | | she alleges, but avers that he has always supported her and their child, Pauline | Ouida Kinross, as became their station in | | tife. | Some time ago, he further alleges, his wife deserted him and went on the vaude- ville stage. For that reason, he says, her | environment is such that she is unfit to have custody of her baby, and he asks that the same be awarded fo him. —_—— University Alumni Meeting. The Alumni Association of the Univer- sity of California met last night at the Hopkins Institute of Art. It was an- nounced that the Le Conte memorial fel- Jowship fund of $10 000, contributed by the graduates of the university, had been | completed and that out of the income for the current year two fellowships had been created. The appointees are Miss Alice Robertson, M. 8. (Biology), Cand, Ph. D., and Knight Dunlap, M. S. (philos- ophy), Cand. Ph. D. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Charles S. Greene, '8, of Oakland; vice president, | H. W.' O'Melveny, '8, of Los_Angeles’ second vice president, J. D. Mortime: 1500, of Berkeley; secretary, James Sut- ton; trustee of the association, T. A. Per- kins, '96; trustee of the Le Conte Fellow- ship Fund, J. M. Whitworth, '72; coun- cilors to Associated Alumni—Miss’ Emma Hefty, Herbert Dam and Rev. W. A. —_—— Money Loaned to Pay for a Mass. In a complaint filed yesterday by John H. Roche against Patrick McKenna and Elizabeth Kennedy in the Justice’s Court the plaintiff alleges that the def. $20 for money loaned for the purposs of having mass sald for the repose of the soui of the mother-in-law of Patrick Mec- Kenna; that although able to pay the money ‘and repeatedly requested to do so, the defendants have refused to pay any part of the $20 loaned by plaintiff. it i S e Baptist Church Anniversary. The First Baptist Church, Eddy street, near Jones, will celebrate its fifty-first an- niversary to-day. Rev. E. A. Woods, pas- tor of the church, will preach a special sermon, A programme of music and ad- dresses’ has been prepared for the occa- sion., Appointed Guarding Inspectors. Port Collector Jackson vesterday ap- pointed J. Toland. H. Z. Verney and L. | of the Masonic Cemetery by his peculiar | down | schools. | attendarice at A, Heiner guarding inspectors at salarics of $3 per day. —_———— Two Years for Walters. ‘Walter Walters, the Santa Rosa coun- terfeiter, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Jndfe de Haven to two years’ imprisonment [n the peniten- tiazy at San Quentin and to pay a fine o . This has led to the introduction of special lines CRAZY COACHMAN TRIES TO END HIS EXISTENCE IN A GRAVEYARD Butts His Head Against a Tombstone and Then Batters His Skull With a Hammer and a Chisel Until Overcome by Spectators. | | DEMENTED MAN WITH A SUICIDAL MANTA. | — HOMAS CRONIN, formerly a coach- | He threw away the hammer, seized a man for Sanders & Johnson, Phelan | chisel and cut himself seven times on the bullding, hes been for some nishts | SR S CReRRs BE TR GRaTTocdy, e terrorizing residents in the vicInlty | cirength of fourteen men to hold him til the patrol wagon arrived from the O'Farrel-street station. Cronin was taken to the Recalving Hos- pital, where his wounds were stitched and ed. He was then locked up in a The man’s mind Is unbalanced, and terday morning he made a des- perate attempt to kill himself at the cor- ner of Masonic and Central avenues. Leon | padded cell and & straitjacket put on bim Btrauss, who lives In the nelghborhood. | He had - caw him attempt to butt out his brains (Johnson for four years, action but was dis- | emplo | out of the dingy apartments and was n been coachman for Sanders & | B g ] x o capture | charged about three weeks ago owing to againiat a tombatons, NI RETad toy ca his peculiar actions. He had been room. m. 5 , ng at t oto House, but spent most of | Cronin ran to the corne: ‘_“3;‘"" iring | BiS nights wandering around e cemetery were working on tombstones, a selzing | and scaring the wits out of people in the tried to batter his brains out. a hammer, neighborhood. TECHERS T0 | of instruction, to make them uniform in all jchools. thereby giving equal rights and privi- eges to al The board Intends to formulate a pian and ot it. which will settie, once and for ail. the method of cting teachers into the de- partment when needed. The charter provides for ivil service, but this plan cannot apply to the hool Department, as teachers are properly certified and have already passed one test, in either graduating from the university, the normal school or having secured their certi- fcate ugon examination. The question of promtion of puplls from grade to grade should, in a properly supervised de- { partment, be lert entirely with the principal TU PUS .|-|UNS | and class teacher. However, opinfon on this | question {8 somewhat divided, and the board —ne . | has adopted a conciliatory measure, thereby | excusing certain puptls who are honorary and Board of Education Finds | recommended from examinations, and examin- ing others, allowing the -years standing to | count for one half and the examinations of the Additional Classes | board to count for the other half, thereby ad- | justing the matter fairly for all. | The most important work that the board has Necessary. e e e ‘rflnsld»rarinn it was finally agreed to change the present nine vears' course of study of the primary and grammar schools to an elght years' course, thus following the plan adopted | by nearly all' of the large cities of our unfon. Manual Training. Mark Promises That All Teachers Appointed Will Be Employed by the Priority of Service System. introduction of manual training: Number of centers. or labo 7. total approximate —_— .- cnq) 4 m.l[l]‘ ml ot N.m[nm[”"hflr of special 2 e teachers (a ghly «qualified to perform the Miss A. A. Duffy, assigned to addi- | work), 6 number of schools sending boys, 3i: ber of boys taking manual training, about tional class in the Peabody School Miss M. A. Roilins, to additional class in the Bernal Heights School; Buena Vista School, additional class, teacher not selected; Hawthorne School, addi- cllowing fizures show the extent of the tion domestic_science: Number of r laboratories, number of special o teachers qualified perform the work), of schools ding eighth grade girls, number of zirls taking cooking, 1200, tional class,. teacher not selected; | ™4y oot intends to purehase out of the Ha iti , | revenue of this flscal year §2000 worth of indi- ight School, additional clas's Tevenus of this fiscal sear FHAT worth of IndE- teacher not selected.—School Board’s hooks. It is hoved that during the coming | action to relieve crowded condition of P e Wi} by expauel for: fhie | In order that a small number of books can ade | £oaeh a large number of ehildren the board fn- esult of the first inspection made |tends to establish distributing centers in various ntAfc:o:u: reported by Superintendent | parts of the city. The principals of the schools oy ’ ‘ o - | selected as centers will be responsible for the Webster to be in a congested condition the | er distribution and care of the books, and Board of Education yesterday decided to | incinal will be responsible for the fur- .stablish an additional class in each of | of the supplementary books used in five schools in the Mission district, namely Peabody, Bernal Heights, Hawthorne, his school. The extra expense of administration imposed by the new charter, payable i y . This | out of school fund for six months....§10,066 37 Haight and Buena Vista schools. : & ; \ | will necessitate the appointment of five | Pn,\ml»m lnl‘f water bills, heretofore additional teachers, and two have already | Pald out of 5,240 00 been selected. Miss A. A. Dufty, Wgohwals il cons of the Peabody Schoo 5,29 37 :&T’::lgh:;z:\'&‘:;d to a class of fifty pu- | Intrcduction of special lines of :ork plls which are to be transterred from the e R ey G Marshall Primary, found by the board to | proximately) ........oocccooeeeeeeeenn... $6,000 00 be overcrowded. Miss M. A. Rollins, who | Introduction” of cooking... S 2,220 00 was consolidated out of the Henry Du- 'l‘!;\;l:m new 'h.n’f'-‘”h‘f‘avu !l‘h»f.vol.bund? R rant School, will be assigned to the class | ymprovements on Lafayetts School, de- to be formed out of the overflow in the | stroved by fire...... Senserasisis:. MR | Bernal School. This class “6{‘,,3’:‘35‘;.&:,‘?; P-:;«;;a;:fl.:: indigent and supplemen- e tshed outside of the scnool. B “will in_all likelihood be equipped with additiond] classes include the Buena Vista, Hawthorne and Haight schools and Total additional expense.. +...$33,700 13 Promotion by Priority. possibly the Fairmount. As two vacant| perhaps the incident which is of most Dointed. Other schools in the district may | the ‘department is involved in the asser- tion made by President Mark yesterday that all teachers appointed now will be employed in the priority of service sys- tem. To teachers this means the only just method of promotion. It was absolutel and unfailingly .followed by the predeces. sor of this hoard, and when it was over- thrown The Call showed the evil which resulted. Favoritism and scandal took the place of merit, and women who had been in the department less than two months were advanced by favor to stable posi- tions, while women without a pull or in- fluence were relegated to the unassigned list without pay. The Call exposed this traffic, and now President Mark says that priority of ser- vice wiil govern advancement. He says re dditional teachers, and if so wiil F vided by the board. The full list of uppuln}:‘és will !I;;-‘g announced at next yednesday's meel 3 “L?k‘mlrmm}l Mark says that the congestion was practically as Superintendent Web- S1er has reported it, though found in some cases to be exaggerated. Superintendent {Webster explains by saying that the at- {endance may have been lighter on Fri- day, but the enrellment would be the same. The Marshall Primary was crowd- ed, and results in an extra class in the Peabody. The Fairmount was found not crowded, but if the classes fill up a va- cant room will be utilized. The average the Bernal was 43, but on fccount of the mixed grades it is deemed expedient to form another class. The Hawthorne is not crowded, and a vacant classroom could accommodate 45 puplls. In the Columbla Sckool some pupils have no desks, but they were all sitting on some kind of seat, Mark said, though he de- nied @ rumor that some were sitting on soap hoxes. The school is congested In the primary grades, and fifty puplls will be transferred. with the option of attend- ing the Hawthorne or Haight. either of Which will have an additional feacher. So many applications have been denied at the Buena Vista School that an outside room will be rented and an extra teacher ap- pointed. The Agassiz is crowded in cer- Pain classes and the overflow will be sent to the Hawthorne, Halght or Edison. as esire. p‘fi’g?kdmys that all pupils attending the Horace Mann have desks and the enroll- ment is 984, or 32 less than last year, with the same number of teachers. ~One hun- dred pupils of the advanced eighth grade will go to the High School at Chrm;n#. but no (urthbnr dis;urba.nce of the classi- ade. Ao o ‘the board will visit the Ev- erett, Douglass, Crocker, Dudley Stone, Hamilton and other schools in the vicin- ity, and it is almost certain that at least two additional classes will be formed. Mark’s Annual Report. Chafrman Mark filed his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, %l‘]o with the Mayor yesterday. In his report Mark refers to the changes inaugurated by the charter in the administration of the department. He considers the centralization of authority in the princi- pals and the increased ~supervision of schools to be in the nature of improve- ments. The report says: The board has abolished special privileges for the reason that the department should be considered a unit.” What 1 of real worth for one school should also be of value to another. teachers out of the department and the congestion of schoels will be relieved. Court Southern Heights. Court Southern Heights of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters celebrated the eighth anniversary of its institution by an entertainment, banquet and dance, in Shiels building, last night. There were present about three hundred and fifty persons. The following was the pro- gramme of entertainment: Vocal selecticns, quartet, Mrs. Longworth, Mr. Longworth, Miss Taubmam, Mr. Jones: plano solo, Miss May Gardner; soprano solo, Miss Pengelly; cornet solo, Miss Winnie John- ston: song, Mr. Jones; sailor's hornpipe, Mr. Rentoul: remarks, G. A. McElfresh, H. C. duet, Messrs. Miss' Cotton; song, Mr. Hansen: cornet solo, Miss Violet Johnston: duet, Messrs. Kelly and Marlow; recitation, Master Lloyd Head; trio, Messrs. Kelly, Marlow and Hansen. The affair was under the direction of the following committees: Arrangements—H. Duff (chairman), Dr. Stet- kes, H. M. Kelly, B. Hedstrom, R. Ellis, T. R. Hamilton, L. C. J. Perry, Wiiliam Stewart, Dr. Herrington, William Rae and J. W. Ham- ilton. fam Stewart (chairman), R. Reception—W Gillander, George Dow, P. J. Cotton, H. M. Kelly, John Swan and James Grelg. Floor—T. R. Hamilton (floor 5. B. Hedstrom (assistant floor manager), J. P. Jar- vis and R. Elis. ————— Divorce Suits Filed. Suits for divorce were filed yesterday by Lucy M. Hawthorne against Layet A. Hawthorne for failure to provide, Sadie Blackwell against George M. Blackwell for desertion and Lucinda Vande: against R. F. Vanderpool for dmrg.ml | | The following figures show the extent of the | ; total cost of equip- | (es- | | known of the woman and h PENHILESS AHD DESERTED WO EADS EHISTEACE Beside Her Child's Ashes Mrs. P. Walewski Shoots Herself Police Batter Down Door and Find Woman Lifeless With a Bullet Through Her Heart. —_— Mrs. P. Walewski, a Polish we siding at 730 Vallejo street, comm ctde last night by shooting he the heart. Her husband her two months ago and w was empty and the cup! laid the ashes of her dead side her and fired a fatal they came from Chicago almost but a short time ago. She left which could not be interpreted, with her body, was taken to th About three months ago Wal wife and 1§-year-old son came here Chicago. Two weeks later the sor )eared. Where he went no now, but it is presumed t ent somewhere On ad passed when the fat disap- week seen afterward. The neighbors think went to work in Oakland Since the departure of her Walewsk! has given little in any ope. She was very poor and alone. Charitably inclined the wolf from her door. Last 7 o'clock she called to A who occuples a room adjoining hers, Comgluned that the boys were making much noise in the street. ke replied to her that such a thing could not be avoide and their conversation ceased. He heard her turn the key in the lock and s afterward was startled by two repor from a pistol. He heard a slight move ment in the room and then another shot Other occupants of building heard same thing and Poli James W was called. The o1 locked and broke it Mrs. Walewsk! lay grasped & smokin A’x:hl in hand and to her left lay a ¢ taining the ashes of her daught in. on the who died in Chicago. The pistol used wa a cheap thirty-eight-cahber w an a bullet from one of its chambers had passed through the woman's heart. Or a table close by was a note which had been penned by her, but it has not y been interpreted. There were two bullet holes in the wall at the head of the bed. Both holes wero owder burned. This fact caused De oroner Brown to oall Dete: McMahon and Ross Whittaker case. It is probable, though Walewski turned the weapon wall to test It. then placed reclining position an led ence. She was about 40 years of CITY WOULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR DAMAGES Chief Engineer Holmes Objects to Filling In of Foot of Spear Street. Commissioner Man Public Works recelv from Chief Engineer H bor Commission, in W if the city should fill the foot of Spea the commissior government an agreement whart In repair during such eons and to indemnify the damages that might occur time. The solid bottom in of the street is shelving and that might be ma place large quanti filling _the adjacent place the stand: pile structure. Holmes says missioners, under section litical Code, would have the right to stop any such constructlon unless the con tions referred to were agreed uj of the Board ruct th e would ten: mud, ¥ but th ot would di The Board of Works w here to its original intention, anpounced two r ths ago, to construct a plank roadway on t st wharf. city's portion of Spe: NETTIE R. CRAVEN IS SHAMMING, SAYS COOK Though Eminent Physicians Pro- nounce Her Mentally and Physi- cally Ill, the Court Believes Otherwise. Judge Carroll Cook took occasion yese terday morning to excuse his action in | peremptorily ordering Mrs. Nettie R. Craven to be taken from a bed of paia and brought to court arraignment. The court declared he placed full reliance in the reports and testimony of Dr . | observation of the appearance 3 | | . Lustig and Theodore Rethers to that Mrs. Craven ‘was able (0 come court. He further said that rom his nd ¢ own ns of the accused, he be not only in a physic tion to come to court without herself but had she desired ¢ come into court alone a nas: On the opening of made an order on payment to Drs. $i> each for their se Mrs. Craven. He then expre | ion as stated. there will be no mare consolidation of | —_—e————— Yerba Buena Chapter. Yerba Buena Chapter, U. D., Order 24 the Eastern Star, the baby chapter of this order, was officially visited last by the worthy grand matrom, Mr 3 McComas: the grand patren, L. Dar- ling; associate grand matron, associate grand patron, grand secretary and grand Conductress. ~There were present about 200 members of the order in Golden Gate Hall, among the number several past grand officers and officers and members of all the local chapters. During the evening the work of the order was exem- plified for the benefit of the visiting clals by the initiation of fourteen canc dates. Twenty applications for membe ship were presented. After the close of the meeting there was an adjournment (o the lower hall, where an excellent banquet was served —ee————— Music at the Park. Following fs to-day’s park musie pro- gramme: Overture, “Die Irrfahrt ums Gluek' .. Concert mazourka, “La Czarine”. Selection from the “The Grand Duchess’ “The Lion Chase'. “Musical Tour of Eurc Fantasie from “Faust”. Selection from “‘Belisario’ Solo for Barytone—W. H. Postilion” waltz.. e Hunt in the Black Fore: Soms of the Golden West —_—————————— Bankruptcy Matters. Guy E. Gross, real estate broker, Santa Rosa, filled a petition in insolvency yes- terday In the United States District Court. His debts are $12,389 05 and he has $335 assets. Michalitsctke Bros. and other creditors of E. F. La Croix of Salinas filed a peti- tion in the United States District Court esterday to have La Croix declared an voluntary bankrupt. They allege that he owes them $1000.