The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1900, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1900 11 ‘MIDGET” WESTDAHL IS A WORLD BEATER akland High School Has Produced a Phenomenal Long Distance Runner. | grounds. | Berkeley ridge of dividing hills there are | fined to the brush and the timber in the FIERCE FLAMES SWEEP OVER THE HILLS OF CONTRA COSTA It Is Estimated That Twenty Thousand Acres Have Been Burned Over——Narrow Escapes of Farmho the Town of Berkeley —_— OAKLAND, Sept. 21.—Brush fires started | @ 4444444444 ++4++44444 444 SAVES SCHOOLHOUSE FROM DESTRUCTIO? the valley and the adjacent gulches and hills, reaching into the northern bounda- | ries of Berkeley. The high winds from the north drove the flames ahead with such force that the ranchers were com- pelled to battle for hours with every re- source at their command. Back firing | was resorted to that the houses and grain piles over the burned district might be Special Dispatch to The Call. DIXON, Sept. 21.—To the coolness and bravery of Miss Blanche Holly was due the saving of the Pitts District Schoolhouse from Aestruc- tion by flames to-day. A spark from an engine started a fire in a grove of eucalyptus trees on the farm of James Porter, about a mile from aved. Great volumes of smoke from the fires Dixon. The flames leaped through the grove and across an orchard have hung all day over the city, and as | the fire worked toward the Berkeley hills there was an intense heat ralsed which | accentuated the high temperature caused | by the ‘“‘norther.” In North Berkeley several houses were | scorched by the fires, and hundreds ot 4 men went out to fight the swiftly running | 4 flames. |4 to a fleld of heavy summer fallow The fire spread toward Grizzly Peak. It|4 stubble belonging to ex-Senator H. is hoped that the dying out of the wind | 4 E. McCune. They swept rapidly will enable the fighters to get the fire | 4 over the field and across the county under control tefore it gets over the |4 road. ridge into the range behind the university The Pitts District Schoolhouse was directly in the path of the con- flagration. Miss Holly, the teacher, armed her puplls with wet sacks, the weapons with which stubble and grass fires are fought, and the flames were beaten off and stopped almost at the very door of the lit- tle schoolhouse. When this feat + |+ ‘0 had been aceomplished teacher and pupils were almost ready to suc- cumb from exhaustion, but they had won the admiration of every resident of Dixon to repay them for their devotion. + o GH4++ 4444444440444 4044400 greatly damaged. In sight of Berkeley over 2000 acres of land was burned over. It is estimated the fire swept over at least 20,000 acres before reaching the Berkeley side of the Contra Costa hills. FLAMES URGED ON BY GALE. Buildings, Fences and Grain Stock Destroyed Around Clements. Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Bept. 21.—A flerce fire LA AR RS S a2 The fire started in a brush pasture on the side hills in Baroni's Valley at the| Burton ranch, southwest of Lafayette. | 4 The men on that ranch were called out | 4 and organized to fight the flames. Around |4 all of the ranch houses and property grain | 4 and hay stacks the ground was plowed | 4 for acres to stop the sweep. The sweep | 4 of the fire with the strong wind of last night was irresistible. The flames ran over the hills and swept through the | brush and forests on the Simon Blum ranch of 12,000 acres. Rrs\nns from that | section are to the effect that the damage was only to the pasture lands. The fire was kept off the ranch houses. A determined fight was made at the | Elam Brown ranch and the farmers sue- ceeded In preventing serious damage there. Between the the tee+e starting point and ¥, Small farms, from ‘which it is im- possible to obtain reports concerning the | ossible damage. The ranchers around ,afayette believe that the fire vas con- man hills and canyons. The flames swept over a large section of the Moraga grant territory. There are many Portuguese ranchers on the grant There had been PEEIIE P44 4441444444 br et AP EE A4 440 who have small places. no reports at Lafayette to-night of losses, although cou oming in from the | scene said there were many narrow es- capes. The most serious losses reported were from the destruction of miles upon miles of fencing. It is likely that some stock has been burned. When th ley hill { | tion of b or- thought the upper college town was doomed. The was stopped only by the A dozen suburban homes by the indefatigable work of volunteer firemen. Several outbuildings and outlying barns | were destroyed and miles of fencing were | burned. The fire reached over the hills at 10 morning along the western o'clock_this | range from Contra Costa County toward Berkeley A hot north wind, which had been blowing since yesterday, not only served to fan the flames but had dried everything up beforehand. At every farm | | house the fire was fought and a crowd of men, mostly Berkeley volunteer fire- men, went out over the hills and met the flames a mile from town in the hope of stopping them there. The men were com- | pelled to retreat to town and to exert themselves in saving houses. The fire did not stop at North Berkeley until all the material in its way had been burned out. | At the Martin ranch, about a mile from | | Berkeley, two outhouses were burned and | the other buildings were saved only after | rd work. The rn of H. E. Hawley's | suburban home caught on fire and the { house in which his servants sleep was in flames twice before they were finally res- cued. An outbullding was burned. Mr. Hawley is confined to his bed with paral; sis and his home was so closely sur- rounded by flames that assistance was sent for to remove him to a place of safety. The fenc was b o 0Y, WHO POS- | WILL AN OAKI/ AY ND HIGH SCHOOL . SPRINTING POWERS NTY ATHLETIC LE ound C. Sturtevant's home ' d the house was on fire when the fire companies managed to get a stream on it. The Robert Annis and E Larcher places were threatened. alme ipossible to get an hat part of town, so the fire rting had to be done with sacks. Sturt- evant’s house was the only one which the firemen could reach main fire was coming from the taken up t er thelr ¢ wi - that ntests much States £ 10.40, which 1Is bt ::”"‘r‘}'ifn' A fire started up near the old gh school re tieular! < - - | Alameda Water Company’'s reservoir and : 2 e ek A4 griios o L B m_”h’;,\'&”gg burned over the hills east of Berkeley. So . e T Mot o P eigmably be | great was the heat and so stifiing the smoke that it was impossible for men to 1 ce next vear. - s fight any length of time. It was only the Westdah . i= only 17 years « number of workers that saved the threat- 2 of h Inosy Iy small | ened places eague known as the “midget. Much of the property burnt over was iV R 4 B a = L railroad land. The dry grass was in places two feet high. The eucalyptus SORS OFFERED | NEED NOT TAKE CIVIL ire worked over the Berke- | 1 a line of hose. | | groves on the hills caught, but were not | swept over the country around Clements in this county last evening. The high wind carried the flames along with re- lentless force, destroying property and at several points nearly claiming lives. How the blaze started is not kmown, but the flelds are very dry and a single spark could account for the beginning. It had its inception on the Langford place, near the Clements bridge. It burned along the river for nine miles to Childs Creek, sweeping everything. The wind blew a gale and fighting the fire was useless. At Childs Creek the flames jumped the Mokelumne River, over 200 feet wide, and started on the south side at the old | Stamper place. It was then nearly 11 o'clock last night. A large force of farm- ers, augmented by miners working at the mines there, finally controlled the fire, as the wind went down. The full amount of the » is not known, but It is re- ported that Hart lost his house, sheds and barn full of hay, besides much fenc- ing; Peter Fitzgerald a big new barn and fencing and a big haystack; John Hay- maker sheds, barn. hay and fences; Mrs. Lena Beamerts fencing to about $i000 in | value and a stack of grain. Mrs. Beamert left her place in flames at | 10 o'clock last night. Her grain plle was then on fire and the bulldings were all but destroyed. The whole country around Clements looks desolate and black. All the pasture and much grain and hay have been burn- | ed. The loss probably will reach well into | the thousands. The path of the flames | Was on an average four miles broad, | e e | GRASS FIRE SWEEPS i OVER NOVATO RANCH | Fifteen Square Miles of Timber Coun- try Desclated by the Flames. Epecial Dispatch to The Call PETALUMA, Sept. 21.—A report reached this city this afternoon that a grass and timber fire was raging on the | Land Company’s ranch, near Novata. R D. Hateh, proprietor of the ranch, who was in Petaluma on business to-day, re- ceived a telegram i immed: | ely to the ranch. | canyon. Tt is said fifteen square milas of | | country has already been desolated by | the fire. Thousands of dollars probab.y will be lost in timber alone, as the No- by a thick growth of oak trees. George Clark, the representative of the Burdell ranch ‘which adjoins that whicl, the fire is burning, says that this is the Novata | urging him to return | The fire was | then sweeping through a densely wooded | vata Land Company's ranch s covered | uses and in biggest conflagration in this section since the destructive fire at Black Point thirty- | five years ago. Chief Adams of the Petaluma Fire De- partment went out to reconnoiter. but, owing to the great distance, returned without any new informatio; A demand for & force of men from this city to go| out to fight the fire is expected at any moment. SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 21.—A large fire started on the De Long ranch, about four miles from Novato, at noon to-day. The | ire has swept several ranches, among them the ranch of Adolph Sco Atded | by a strong northeasterly breeze the fire | 1s now sweeping in a southerly direction ross the head of Lucas Valley. Shortly after it started nearly a hundred | men were employed in an effort to subdue | it, but owing to the excessive heat and the rapidity with which the wind drove the flames they could accomplish noth- | ing. To-night the wind has somewhat | subsided and the fire may be checked before morning. The residents of this city and of Mill Valley were very much ex cited, as great clouds of smoke blew over the ridges and passed over Mount Tamal- pals. Tt is believed that the fire started | in a charcoal-burning camp on the De Long ranch. Another grass fire started on Point San | Pedro this afternoon, but was soon put| | under control. About a hundred acres | | were burned over. The reclaimed land be- low this city also came in for a scorching. About eighty acres were burned over. The total damage to the grazing land In this county by fire to-day is unknown, | but a conservative ertimate places the | number of acres denuded at nearly 2000. | RANCHERS LOSE HEAVILY. | | Spectal Dispatch to The Call | BENICIA, Sept. 21.—During high winds | yesterday several fleld fires were started | | on ranches north and west of Benicia and they have spread at a furious rate. The fires are still burning and enormous dam- | age has been done. Reports have it| | that several ranchers in Sulphur Spring | | Valley are left almost homeless. Large | | quantities of pasturage and grain and | miles of fences were destroyed. A fire started on Daniel O'Connell’s | ranch and was driven south across the| |are the wildest of | Howe insists upon their truth. The issue | | Mrs. Howe at great length, but very little CLAIMS PARDEE PASS THE LIE WAS PAID MONEY' IN COURTROOM Mrs. Howe Makes Serious|Attorney Cary Howard De- Allegations Against , clares Barna McKinne Officer. Spoke Falsely. ———— | 1 Policeman’s Supporters Declare the | Prominent Lawyers Indulge in Sharp Accusations Made in Detail Are the Wildest Sort of Vagaries. A AT Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1113 Broadway, Sept. 2 The accusations in detail of Mrs. A. D. Howe agalnst Policeman Thomas Pardee Words Before Judge Ogden, Who Compels Aggressor to Apologize. Franciseo Cafl, Sept Oakland Ofice S: 1118 Broadway, a prominent 2 Cary Howard, e Alameda County tar have reached the public eye. The charges | aitece to Attorane s 2 were included in a lengthy typewritten Suqibytamrigrt ol document which as soon as it was tiled | o FORCERE raryss bt g with the Board of Police and Fire Com- | (i7f ©08 TN o C0 e with missioners was buried from the gaze of | JhORY 2H eXCNE few momen's all save the officials Interested and Par- | (ItRe QRAen. Wao Srfer SCorns B SO dee's attorneys. The screed goes into| ' .0 g g o g | minute details and teems with all sorts ' P im to make an immediate apology of alleged irregularities on the part of | to the court. Howard made the necessary | the patroiman now under fire before the apology and the incid ed. | Commissioners. {th(e this af[!‘?rnu;ri du; g the hearing | of the suit of Mrs. Elien laker against Pardee's friends declare that the charges | O€ the St of, P e vagaries. But Mrs. | mortgage of 38500, Attorney McKinneasked for permission to make a short statement in behaif of his client, Merrill. He de cribed the action of Mrs. Baker and her husband in the case to be unfair. “These people, the Bakers,w satd M is_between them. The Commissioners this morning heard | Attorney L. Church cross-examine | progress was made. Monday the Board | Kinne, ‘“have caused stories to be pub- will go at the case again, and the fifty | lished which are absolutely untrue. Mr. or more witnesses who have been dancing | Merrill and his wife nave been held up attendance upon the secret meetings will | as having robbed their niece and have be lined up for their testimony nearly every particle of which relates exclusively 2d in a wrong light Howard's clients are responsibie for otherwise been pre: Mr. to the character of the Howes and | liberate false statements Pardee. lie,” eried Attorney Howar In her formal affidavit, Mrs. Howe, y jumped to his feet. “My— {among other matters, compiains that | he could proceed further How- Pardee had compelled her to give him $18 because of his alleged care of her brother. ard was cut short Judge Ogden, who ordered silence. She claimed also that Pardee had de want you to distinctly understand manded $250 from her, saying he had | Mr. Howard, that [ will have no suc made arrangements to place her brother, | language In ‘my courtroom.” said t who now accuses the policeman, fn a| court. “Your remarks are entirely v show private hospital in San Francisco. | called for and cer: v do not Mrs. Howe continues with a tale about | proper respect to this court. If you had how Pardee forced her to employ one|any reply to make vou should have wait Maud Ellsworth as a housekeeper. The | eqd until the proper time and made in complainant declared that after Pardee the proper manner. You must apologize and her brother had the trouble she or- | to the court for your language to Mr dered Mrs. Ellsworth to leave her employ. | MeKinne.” Mrs. Howe added much about Pardee's | Attorney Howard apologized to Judze alleged attempts to force money from her | Ogden, explaining that .he had b a at varlous times. She declares that he and promising to refrain referred to Chief of Police e e om outbursts of temper. | little too hast odgkins as | {n the future & Tobin ranch into Spring Valley, where a | troubled with the “big head,” and that | ¢ d's apolo large area of stubble was burned and | Mrs. Ellsworth had claimed ‘Pardee had | g,-"';!he‘h‘;"‘:\{ffl;”:r'.i.-fic’qh\:'v?fil‘:( b A much fencing destroyed. On White's | “pull” enough with the Police Commis- | {nefdent. [ranch two stacks ot newly threshed | sloners to save himsel. | | gain_were consumed. The fire is sup- posed to have started on the Page Tract, | SHE MAY BE WITH | near Cordelia, through the carelessness of | @feinininininininiinieiniol oo dufuioinieid@ | an employe of the Bay Counties Power | Company in blasting. Dense volumes of | | smoke from the fire are still plainly vis- ible in the direction of Suisun and the | atmosphere is sultry. s RANCH BUILDINGS BURNED. Special Dispatch to The Call WOODLAND, Sept. 21.—During the high wind yesterday a fire swept over a large area between Dunnigan and Blacks. Rich- ard Powers, near Dunnigan, was a heavy loser. All his grain, hay and seed wheat | were destroyed. He lost every building | on the place except his dwelling. At one | time he abandoned all hope of saving his residence, and the family carried out the household goods. The house was eventu- ally saved, but the goods caught on fire | and were destroyed. The full extent of the damages on the T. F. Laugenour farm have not vet been ascertained, but it is known that a great deal of fencing, two big piles of baled hay and 160 acres of hay in the shock were | burned. - - Blaze Near Ben Lomond. | Special Dispatch to The Call SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 2 forest fire has aged yesterday | day near Ben Lomond ridge at Graham Hill started again, but | did not do much damage. | done by the new hlaze was the burning | of a barn and its contents. acres of p | turage, much cord wood belonging to va- | rous woodchoppers and a mile of fencing | belonging to D. M. Locke Hard fire fighting saved hundreds of | acres of pasturage and much timber. e e —A brush and | and to- | Fire Near Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 21.—Early this morning a fire started on the Olson ranch, | about twelve miles east of the eity, and at last accounts it was sweeping over | the stubble fields before a stiff northwest | wind. Scores of people were out fighting the flames, but it was =t{ll making he way over the dry grain fields. The Oison | residence, harn and outbuildings were | burned and it was feared that others would go. Fences were, of course, wiped out. | | | | — Many Men Fighting Flames. SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 21.—A dh-j structive fire is raging on the forest reser- | vation north of this city. Thousands of | acres have been burned over, reaching from Houston's Flat to Strawberry Peak, | a distance of over five miles. The flames are now being fanned by a high north wind. A large force of men is fighting the | flames. | BETTER CITY LIGHTING SERVICE EXAMINATION ‘ Employes of Corporation Yard and | Fire Department. and Power Com- Renew Its Offer to te Municipality. t and e s b - hAght o City Attorney Lane advised the Board | - . BERS S o wwe missioners yesterday that the - e . e ;,; employes of the corporation yard, me- RITRI I g Sor +ing | chanics and others who were not reported | &8s members of the Fire Department, but | | s were part of the force under the old | . » hoard, are not obliged to take the civil | P service examination In order to retain Temperance Workers Elecl r positions. members The opinion says: f the board of freeholders charter have been consulted their intention with re- here under Their Leaders for the Ensuing Term. Several which d vision: consicieration nd it the universal opinion th art who were subjest at any tim, the fire and all .hose who wes Oakland Office San Francisco Call, oilit f the chief engineer were 5 S : . “:\‘W‘ e 1118 Broadway, Sept. 2L up! f the department and| The annual convention of the Women's s follows cribed by ¥ the right either (o | Christian Temperance to be neld on & Walt- | cluded to- e reorganization scheme pro- | Cluded to-day Unfon was con- by the election of the fol- cure water from wells near the burning buildings. Fortunately this resort to primitive methods saved the church and prevented the fire from spreading. The barn was destroyed, with a large quantity of hay. Boy Breaks Both Arms. OAKLAND, Sept. 21.—The 9-year-old son of Alexander Oyarza. a resident of Alden, fell from a fence this morning and broke his right arm. After reducing the frac- ture the attending physicians examined the boy's left wrist, which had been ban- daged for a supposed sprain. It was then found that the left arm was also broken, the result of a previous fall —_———— Husband the Victor. OAKLAND. Sept. 21.—Sev v Myrtle O'Neli sued John O Nell for s de vorce, alleging great cruelty. O'Neil fm- mediately filed a cross-complaint, making almost the same charges. Mrs. O'Nell failed to answer her husband's cross-com- plaint and to-day a default was entered EATON CASE Argument Will Be Made Before Judge Greene on Monday. i Oakland Office San Francisco Cali, 1118 Broadway, Sept. 21. The taking of testimony in the Heaton before Judge Greene. The argument wiil 15 CONCLUDED | elubs have been organized among the stu- The fire on the | is the McKinley and Roosevelt Club and The damage | Some livel will contest was concluded this afternoon | NOT OF THE SCHOOL FERRY-BOAT ENCINAL IN AN ACCIDENT OAKLAND, Sept. £i.—The crankpin on the ferry steamer Encinal broke as she was ap- proaching the narrow-gauge mole at 1:30 ¢his afternoon, leaving the boat floating help- lessly on the tide. Captain Hempworth quickly quieted the fears of the passengers and sending a hawser ashore soon warped the steamer | OAKLAND, Sept. 2L—Carrie Jackson | will not be excluded from the benefits of the Fruitvale public school because of her epilepsy, but she will not be allowed to attend any regular class. She will come | each day to school and her work will ba allotted to her to take home. The fol- lowing day the child will return with the results of her labors for corrections and suggestions from her teacher. This was the compromise course agreed upon this evening by the Fruitvale School Trustees, who decided that although the child was not the proper associate of ner- vous pupils of a tender age, she shoul | not be excluded from the school altogeth- er. She will not be allowed to rejoin her class as a regular scholar until she shows some improvement in her condition The home plan of teaching the child work was accepted by the trustees as a compromise between the proposition to % X i s O T o 3 X | exclude her altogether and the desire of alongside the whart. X | fer father, who insists that his daughter p % | shail attend the Fruitvale school as a reg- Charles Jackson was not eceting of the trustees this evening, but T Dunlevy stated that Jackson would probably not agree to the plan decided upon. “Jackson has said that he will fight this matter,” said Trustee Dunlety, “if it cost him every cent he has. He says h chall attend the Fruitvale school, if every other child in_the district is compelled t move away. We all feel sorry for the tle one, but the good of the greatest num ber must be considered It is the desire of this board to treat the child fairly and to see that she is deprived of nothing that can benefit her, and that Is why we did ot take advantage of the District Attor- ular_scholar. present at the Students Organize. EY, Sept. 2L.—Two political BERK dents of the University of California. One the other the Bryan and Stevenson Club. campaign work will be done. The McKinley Republican Club was or- | ganized on the authorization of the Re- | publican State Central Committea. It plans to arrange several rallies in Berke- ley. The following are the officers of th club: President, R. S. Pierce; secretar John M. Eshelman; treasurer, J. H. Ar- | nola. A spron et e oo The Bryan Club has elected Clarence | I3 ;mpg;u n which says we may exciude | Edwards president; H. M. Love, vice pres. PRI s S L T 1 ident; John Macke; W, Meux, treasurer. President McKinley has been sent the | following telegram: ““Students of the Uni- versity of California send greetings, an- nouncing the orga tion of the McKin- ley Republican Club. —————— Licensed to Marry. secretary; High School Girls Reinstated. OAKLAND. Sept. 21.—The six high school girls, Miss Vida Hatfield, Miss Va Morrow, Miss Marion Morrow, Miss ¥ ¢ Perkins, Miss Alice TLawes and | Miss Edna Orr,- suspended by Principal McChesney, will return to school Monday | apology having been made for the breach | of discipline_occasioned by their disobe- OAKLAND, Sept. 2.—Marriage licenses | ¥, were lasued to-duy to Thomas Clalr Hame, | dlence of orders. iiton, 20 years of age, and Jennie Bray, I both of Oakland: Manuel A. Silva, and Mary L. Peters, 34, both of San Lorenz George Silva, 29, and Mary Enos Barrow: Fire in East Oakland. OAKLAND, Sept. 21.—The residence of A, L. Grimall, East Fourteenth street, 18, both of Alameda; Willlam John Ba between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth nard, 24, and Maggie May Joseph, 23, both | avenues, was burned this afternoon. Tha of Gekland. is $2500. The fire started on the roof. Sunday Call Are Our Bathing Girls Immodest? A social prob'em of to-day, by Grace Fern, one of the most versatile of | lowing office against her, thus giving the husband vic- | b | Eastern writers, who has been se- ; B against her, thus -|be made next Monday afternoon ot 2| h e L S ] Lt e i e Y cured o mrie cxcosvely Tor e < | secretary, Mrs Mitchell; corresp A S L SR RN .. 4 ) : : ESTON FUND. ey, Mo A W i e will argue for Silas W. Palm in support | Sunday Call. Sues for Maintenance. . - Mrs. Qliver E. Clifford; auditor, Mrs. M. H. of his petition for letters of administra- | Oakland Red Cross Society Contribu- | (‘ariwright: vice pre !«&dunl M'J;r:r, );m— & :vx. OAIEI\'LA}\'IhI. Skspl. 21.—George W. Eames, | tion a:ll Attorneys Whitney sr:un NLZ» % X 4 N. Woodman; first vice president,'Mrs. Chris- | a raflroad brakeman, has been cited to igs Je 2 can Farmi 3 agrees to ereci tions .Are D"‘_]y Increasing. Uin Mansfigld; vice presidents of county as- | appear before Judge Ellsworth next Mon. | oumer for Mies Jennie M. Heaton. How the Ameri Farmer Is Fooled = B OAKLAND, Sept. 2l.—A meeting of the | sociations, #rs. E Mitchell, East Oakland; | day morning at 10 o'clock to show cause | MOSt of to-day was devoted to the hear- . . Red Cross Bociety was held at 420 Four- | Mre 8. M. N Woodman, San Leandro; Mrs. | why he should not pay $35 toward. the | Ing of testimony contradictory to that Out of Millions. teenth street this morning to receive re- | .14\ Haywards; Mrs. J. H. Rhodes, Berkeley S nert of his wife, Mamie Eames, and | glven by Warren Heaton, who is lined up ports of committees on the work for the | Mre. M. B. Pelton, Oakiand; Mre. 1da M. | (neir daughter Lizzie, aged 11 vears, with those who oppose the aileged daugh- : ———— and 8 relief of the Galveston sufferers. Collec- | Jamison, Oakland. ter's claims. Heaton declared that he ns for their benefit will be taken up in of the Oakland churches next Sunday. Cash contributions have so far amourted The Red Cross ladies hope to om Oakland. Large donations have been received at of the com- iscussing the id that this iquarters, California Lodge No. 2, Order of Her- the | in the course of her annual address the | retiring president, Mrs. Sarah McClees, | said: 1 feel that no more fitting comment can be made than to quote the words of Abra- ham Lincoln: ‘When the victory shall be complete, when there shall be neither slave nor drunkard on the earth, how John P. Irish on the Stump. OAXLAND, Sept. 21.—John P. Irish will | open the campalgn for the Gold Demo- crats in Indianapolls on Thursday even- ing, September 2. He will stump the | State of Indiana during the campalgn. —_———— ssible for the ¢ competitive bids mination for t present a similar offe pderstood that they <e the board had ction ‘n the matter. B —— Isolate Consumptives. f submitted a plan for the tie = aflicted with tuber- being treated at the City al. He recommends new pavilion in the resent hospital site and at $7000. Dr. Bazet sald segregation of tubercular tive. but there are no needed improvements. 8 a r plan io isolate the ards= R H Drs. McCar- Baum opposed Dr. Bazet's plan, wag defeated when a vote b _——e————— The Divorce Record. AKLAND, Sept. 21.—Blanche Anway mer suit to-day for a divorce from Rerry Anway. She alleges cruelty on part of her husband. | proud the title of that land which may ! freely claim to be the birthplace of the | crusade of both revolutions that shall in that victory—how nobly EDMUND HINDMAN WAS MENTALLY COMPETENT mann's Some, will give an entertainment d ball for the berefit of the Galveston sufferers on Sunday evening at Germania | have ended Hall Henry idman has charge of the | distinguished that people who shal: have | Cous arrahgements | Dlanted and. nurtured to maturity hets | JCUrt Beserves Decision as to Wheth- The entire recelpts of Oakland Park | the political and moral freedom of their er Second.Codicil Was Legally A t will be donated to the Gal- | species Made. by Manager Vosmer. | "Mrs. D. T. Curtis, president of Oakland —— e { Union, reported that an effort was bein, made (0 boyeott all grocery stores which BRUTAL HUSBAND'S KICK | sold liquors. She said Mayor Snow had MAY CAUSE HER DEATH {xl"((‘.flsnd himself as opposed to the cur- few ‘ordinance. belleving ‘that to arrest - , | boys that violated was more demoral- Crazed from the effects of liquor, R. W. | jing than the fact that they were on the | Willis, a painter, brutally kicked his wife | streets after 9 o'clock at night. The last evenipg. from the effects of which | Mavor had suggested that parents should she is likely to die. The Willises live at | keep their children off the streets after 1080 Howard street. Shortly after 5 o’clock | the 9 o’clock hour. last evening Willis went home drunk and Fire but No Water. not finding his wife home went in search | of her. He found her at her sister’ ,2nd ordéred her to go with him, and :(;-T: OAKLAND, Sept. 12.—Lack of water en- | she refused he brutally kicked her. The | dangered a large section of Alden to-night | Unfortunate woman was picked up in an durlng a fire that destroyed a large barn, unconscious condition and removed to the ‘ owned by C. Sorenson, on Shafter avenue OAKLAND, Sept. 21.—At the concluston of the testimony in the Hindman will con- test this morning Judge Greene decided that Edmund Hindman was mentally competent when he made his will and at the times when the two codiclls were | added to the document. Though the tes- tator was competent, held the court, the question still remained as to whether the codicil made June 16, 1893, which Is being contested, was appended in regular legal form. Judge Be In view of this point of law Greene ordered that_a continuance taken until October, 5, when final argu- ment will be made. —— Miller Held to Answer. OAKLAND, Sept. 21.—Willlam D. Miller was held to answer to the Superior Court on a charge of murder to-day by Justice Quinn_of Pleasanton for the killing of aged James McFarland last Saturday, | Receiving Hospital. The doctors, after and Forty-ninth street. The structure |an examination, gave as their opinion | was in the rear of the Columbus-avenue that she was fataliy injured. Presbyterian Church, which was on fire Willis was arrested by Detectives Rior- | several times. Tt was saved by a volun- Adan and O'Dea and locked up in the |teer bucket brigade of men and women, tanks. He will be held pending the result | who were compelled, because of the cut- Lot his wife's injuries. ting of the water-hydrant supply, to se- never stated to any person that Jennin Heaton was the daughter of his late cousin, Warren D. Heaton. Heaton acknowledge in the presence of Whitney that Jennie was the daughter o( | the late Warren D. Heaton and the one | most entitled to letters of aaministration on his estate. Several other witnesses corroborated White's testimony. M. N. May, a son of Heaton's first wife, was called to the stand in opposition to Miss Heaton's petition for letters. He tes. tified that Jennie Heaton was brought to the May ranch, near Lincoln, Placer County, by his mother when Jennie was about a_vear old. May said he did not know who the child’s parents were, but was positive that his mother was not the mother of Jennie. On cross-examination May restified that his mother always treated Jennie Heaton as her own child. - Depreciation of Money. In 1573 a silver dollar was worth one dollar and six-ienths in gold. In 1878, eighty-nine n 1583, eight-five cents; In 1888, seventy- In 1893, sixty cents and in 1596 forty- Money may depreciate but there one standard stomach remedy, which has not | chan in half a century, and that is Hos- | tetter's Stomach Bitters. It always has been Albert W. 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