The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1900, Page 9

SWARMS OE LEONIDS IN NOVEMBER SKIES Long Delayed Meteoric Showers Are Liable to Occur at Any Time These Nights. o 1 | | | As many persons are discouraged by the t made in vain for several T to observe the méteoric show- ¢ November, it is well to recall the the iast appearance of Leonids numbers took place in 1867, and their period is about thirty-three vears e recurrence is not really overdue as vet Tinlike other astronomi this cosmic: - has dictions of thou . proved correct to an astonishing degree. Estimates of the length and breadth of ofly conjectural, re- t of plan- re merely the best in- be drawn from inade- reparations > n gre eal phenomena, cools interest and uncer- navalling, as they of valuable nega- 1 swarm not hav- ties of the com- e more, and p o eEs. Falling w T s ex ed i rculars iesued from rvar « vatory during the las swarm is likely On the 13th will rise le to 'direct obser- ng the ensuing s the Leonids may ful- ut shall we be in . | | | | | | l | 1 - + MISS ROSE O'HALLORAN, THE | WELL-KNOWN STRONO- | | ME I readiness 1f thev ness the missed o or mourn In dark- | ROSE COURT HOLDS THAT GRAY S NOT GUILTY Charge Against Him Is Dismissed by Judge Cabaniss. SRR SR the dispute be- tractor, and fargaret, has ended Judge Cabaniss e charge of abduc- Gray by his former charged with abducting vears of Gray was ier Ames and che. led Attorney as he had . about an argument it was rs. Gray took he Judge and obtained a cree gave her he two children, 1o see them at Sunday, Octo- it out with her her again till the Sacred Heart where she had been Gray had tele- day that he was to rive and would re- ner. When she the nurse to the , one of the and Gray's Now we've g You'll never see was greatly influ- he witness said. , =aid that Gray she would never began to cry ana ed at her and ed: “I'm going pess was in a halr 1 and was scarcely able fon the witness de- said to her that Sun- Eoing to see , would not_treat her mean- red did not complain that she had her papa. Mildred testified that on Sun- g, October 2%, she went to the | nize the men in case they DARING CRIME S COMMITTED 1N MiSSIon Henry Meyers Is Beaten and Robbed by Masked Thieves. — 1 | | i | | { | Two masked men last night entered the | bar in the Mission Turn Verein Hall, at Eighteenth and Lapidge streets, and after | secure! binding Henry Meyers, who was in charge, robbed the cash register of | $3 60. Both men were armed with revolv- | ers, which they threatened to use on Mevers if he made an outcry. After tying | s hands with a silk handkerchief they | 1y choked hitm and then locked him in a closet. The police were notified im- | mediately after the robbery, but up to an | early hour this morning they had not suc- ceeded in obtalning a clew to the perpe- trators of the daring crime, rs was sitting on a table reading a | per when the robbers entered. In ment of the hall were a number uvenile athletes, who were practicing horizontal bars, but they knew nothing the robbery until sometime after it ed se interested in the story ding,” sald Meyers, when n of the robbery to De- m, “and did not sce ey’ both wore whiie ely hid their faces. hey covered me with their revo.. looked kind of longingly toward n door, when I saw a third ma ngly suspect of His back w to me but notwithstanding I noticed that he con- nually looked up and down the street to see of anybody T ching. After 1 threw hands the rob- but secured v I had with me. hands_ with after choking into closet which bar. I remained left and then 1 kicked open After considerable trouble I ged to release my hands, and run- utside shouted for the police. Two rs readily responded, and after get- ting a description of the men from me went in search of the desperate fellows. I did not kncw that they had rified the cash drawer until I returned to the bar. The drawer was on the floor, but the con- tents were gone.” Meyers thinks he will be able to recog- are arrested. He says one was rather slim, about 5 fi 6 inches In height, and had a small tache. The second was tall and heavily built. He could not ee his face, as it was | closely concealed by the handkerchief, The one who remalned outside was of | medium height and was dressed in a dark | suit of clothes. The three men, Meyers says, wore siouch hats. The handker- | bers searched my bound and me & | chiefs which the two who did the active er did the witness tell | he corner for candy and | she wo g0 over and see her he used to go a great deal and | He opened the door for her and if she would like to d she would better go home her coat, but papa told her to go his wife would give her and asked her If she would like to boarding school. He gave her Jumps of sugar and she was the convent in Oakland. The paps called to see her ana +'mamma had gone away with which made her cry. Sat- mamma came and took her the convent. Mamma had al- 1 her well. She told papa that hat she had breakfast in mam- m and Mr. Mitchell had eaten u cfasi. but she knew Mr. Mitchell teasing her. Roche said he had other wit. were not present and asked inuance. He admitted that their would only be cumulative and ige dismissed the case, remarking civil remedies were abundantly his opinio e ANGELOW IS AGROUND ON YORKSHIRE COAST Steamer in Precarious Condition, but Passengers All Wade Ashore at Low Tide. LONDON, Nov. —The Wiison line steamer Angelow, carrying 100 Norweglan emigrants _for the TUnit States, went day night near Withernse, of Yorkshire. There was excitemeft on board, but the m and the shore sandy. The ain declined assistance by rocket. and en the tide receded all waded ashore, men carrying the women and chil- Angelow, which i= in a precarious is_jeftisoning her cargo. She was out of her course owing to the fo"- The steamer Angelow was built at Hull 1 She is of 9% tens displacement, 33 feet € CHICO, Nov. 12.—Bertha J. Brown, aged 13 years. was to-Gay ordered committed to the insane asylum. She on Saturday last and all proved unavallire go for a | After returning from the ride | hing red to drink in Shasta water | work used to hide their faces were found, outside the entrance to the bar, having been thrown away by the robbers, —— e REDUCTION IN THE PORTO RICAN FORCE Formal Order for the Withdrawal of | Troops Is Issued by Secretary Root. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The following order was made public at the War De- | partment to-day: i By direction of the President, the Depart- ment of Porto Rico will be discontinued on De- | cember 15, 1906, and the island of Porto Rico | and the islands and keys adjacent thereto will | be attached to the Department of the East and | designsted as the District of Porto Rico. The colonel, lieutenant colonel, headquarters, | band und one battallon of the Eleventh In- | fantry and the squadron of the Fifth Cavalry | now serving in_ Porto Rico will be relieved from duty therein as soon as practicable and sent to New York City, whence they will pro- Ceed to such stations as may be designated hereafter. Rrigadier General George Davis, U. 8. V., | now in command of the Department of Porto | Rico, will upon the discontinuance of that de- | | partment repair to Manila, Philippine Isiands, Ana report to the commanding gemeral of the | Division of the Philippines for assignment to duty as Inspector general of that division. ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of W By command of Lieutenant General Mil H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. This order was issued after a full cable consultation with Governor Allen of Por- to Rico, and after General Davis, who lately has been in command, had made his recommendations. It was the opinion of Governor_Allen_that the reduction of the force in Porto Rieo would be eminent- 1y satisfactory to the people of the fsl-| and, and that the force to be retgined | would be ample for all present purposes. | This order leaves in Porto Rico the na- | tive regiment, consisting of £50 men, a battalion of the Eleventh Infantry and | batteries F and G_of the Fifth Artillery. These troops will be under the command | of Lieutenant Colonel James A. Buchan- an, who is now_in command of the na- tive regiment. It is quite probable that | the troops which are ordered from Porto Rico may in time be sent to the Philip- pines. PR AL RTLAND, Nov. 12.—J. B. Amold, a tele- n‘;“h operator, killed himself on the street here, about noon to-day, bv shooting. Arnolg had been employed on the Oregon Rallroad an vgation Com! 1 it Coyote. Or. He enigned on account of 1l health and came to preparatory to returning to his home in Carlisle, Ind., where his mother lived. — LN . 12.—Willtam Hunter and J 'F | | any | found that a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1900. B0ARD THIE 10 INTRODUCE PUOR PAVEMENT Supervisors Oppose Bitum- inous Rock on Basalt Foundation. A R Dispute Over Schoolhouse Repairs Approaching Settlement—Big Con- tract for Street Sweeping to Be Awarded Soon. ASRERAE An ordinance presented at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday roviding for the pavement of several downtown streets with bituminous rock on a basalt or cobblestone met with considerable opposition. Sev- | members objected to that kind of ement on the ground that a concrete ation was manifestly superior to the pa fou; other. The ordinance provides for the paving | with bituminous rock on a basailt base of S mento street from Montgomery to Battery at a cost of $5320; of Clay street from Montgomery to Battery street at st of §3120; of Grant avenue from O'Farrell to Bush at a cost of $7087, less $2500 to be contributed by property own- f Pine street from Sansome to Bat- v at a cost of $2183. Reed objected to its passage on the ground that the board had been pledged to remove cobblestones throughout the downtown district. “There is a duty resting upon us to re- mcve bblestones,” sald Reed, “and to pave certain streets with the best pave- | bject to paving a street with bituminous rock on a basalt base, as it is the worst kind of pavement. Any bro- own_ politician “would do that for city, but we should have a pavement t will stand the heavy traffic. This ad- ministration stands for the best pavement there is, even if we must pave a less num- reets.” is pleaded that there were no (ur}g: ment ker the C | available for the bes® pavement. | Board of Public Works had recommended the work with the understanding that a g ntee of maintenance for ten years should be required. Curtis agreed with Reed that a concrete foundation was preferable to other, but Tobin &ht the wisdom of the 1oard of Pub- Works in recommending the inferior pavement should be deferred to. City En- Eineer Grunsky said the bituminous pave- Mment on depressed cobbles had been tried with success in other cities, but results any were not as good as on a concrete founda- | tion. The difference in cost would war- rant the use of the cheaper pavement, the expense would be reduced by 25 per Brandenstein objected to an exper- a cent imental pavement and McCarthy contend- ed that the rhea‘ier pavement would not & tand heavy teaming. On motion of Reed the resolution was referred back to_the Street Committee and the Board of Pub- 1 ic Works with directions to determine what it would cost to pave the streets named in the best way known to engi- neering science. The resolution requesting the Superin- tendent of Schools to notify the board whether or not hd would audit demands for repairs provided the Boards of Pub- lic Works and Education acting jointly caused such work to be done, was adopte Mayor Phelan called attention to the ar- ticle published in Sunday's Call in which Auditor Wells stated that he had been advised by his attorneys that the signa- | ture of the Superintendent was not neces- sary on demands for schoolhouse repalirs. His Honor held that the adoption of the resolution would be unnecessary. Comte objected to_ it, as it simply contained a | request, and Braunhart held that “it was an arrogant assumption on the part of official to place the Political Code abdve the charter in the government of his office.” The California-street Cable Railroad was granted permission to install a tank of 7000 gallons capacity for storing crude petroleum in its powerhouse. Authorizations were passed for the pay- ment to W. F. Cordes of the sum of $502 and to Joseph Frederics & Co. $§75 on_the contract to furnish carpets for the Hall of Justice. The request of the Board of Public Works to be authorized to enter into a contract for the sweeping of public streets | beginning_January 1, 191, and terminat ing June 30, 1901, at an estimated cost of 390,000 was referred to the Stpeet Com- mittee. The communication of John Nightingale. calling attention to the advisabllity of paving Market street between Van Ness avenue and Valencia with bituminous rock. thus making a uniform pavement from Sansome to Castro streets, was re- ferred to the Street Committee. An authorization for $384 40 for the maintenance of inmates at the Whittier Reform School was passed. An walks at the crossing of Buchanan and Filbert streets; eranite curbs on Centrat avenue between Page and Halght streets: bituminous rock on the roadway at the crossing of Page street and Central ave- nue: artificlal stone walks at the cros Ing of Thirtieth and Dolores streets, eran- ite curbs on Thirtieth street between Do- lores and Chenery streets and an artificlal stone walk on the crossing at Eddy and Steiner streete STEAL LIQUOR AND ARE CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS Gang of Toughs Raid a Second-Street Saloon and Two of Them Are Captured. John Gleason, 22 years of age, a cod- fisher by occupation, and Edward Fufr- long, 15 years old, were arrested last night by Police Officer Winzler and their names were placed on the detinue book, pending an inquiry into their actions. Early yesterday morning the saloon of Joseph Caldarella at 102 Second street was | ralded by four young men and a quantity | of liquors was taken from the show win- dow. Luigi Caldarella, a_brother of the proprietor, swore out a “John Doe” war- rant charging maliclous mischief. Officer Winzler vesterday saw the gang in the neighborhood of First and Minna streets and gave chase. He caught Glea- gon and Furlong and took them to the City Hall Station. Shortly after thelr ar- rest Luigl Caldarella identified Gleason as the man who had thrown the missile through the window of his brother's sa- loon, and the warrant that he swore out in the morning charging him with mali- cious mischief was served by Patrolman Harry O Dea. The two others who it was supposed had a connection with the affair escaped. Eleven bottles of Rock and Rye were found in the possession of Gleason and Furlong and were booked as evidence against them. Furlong is sald to be an escape from the Boys’ and Girls’ Ald So- clety and Gleason has served a number of terms for petty offenses. —_— HIGH-PRICED TOBACCO IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Flames Break Out in Building Ad- jacent to That Occupied by Cali- fornia Fireworks Company. A fire which started last evening in the rear of the cigar house of Boltz, Clymer & Co., at 217 Front street, threatened for a time to result in a disastrous conflagra- tion on account of its proximity to the occupied by the California Fire- ompany. The fire department re- Sponded quickly, however, and the blaze was extinguished after it had entafled a loss of about $1000. Shortly before § o'clock Special Officer Sam Rowland noticed smoke issuing from the building. which is also occupied by Coates & Co., tea importers. He imme- diately turned in an alarm from box 264, ‘When the firemen came to the scene they juantity of leaf tobacco and boxes were ablaze in the rear. Through hard work they sucteeded in confining the flames to the place of origin. —— e 3 Albert Hoff Returns to City. Albert Hoff, the ccrl;‘t'l:ud ‘murderer of Mrs. Clute, was bro 'rom San Quentin n to this .elt{fut evening. He is now locked up in the Broadway jail pend- ing a second trial, which was recently granted him. Hoff is clean shaven and appears thin and sickly. The case will be retried In Judge Cook’s court, \ foundation | An ordinance was passed to print or-| there | goring the laving of artificial stone side- | WILL GIVE OLD STREET PAING MHAY ILLEGALLY Ordinance Passed in Direct Conflict With Charter . Provision, ——— City Officials Must File Inventory of Property Under Their Charge. Condemnation of Alta The- ater Postponed. e | The ordinance authorizing the Board of | Public Works to dispose of all street ma- | terial removed from the public streets | | which is unfit for further use thereon to | any department of. the city government | desiring to use the material was passed | to print by the Board of Supervisors yes- terday. This action was taken notwithstanding | | that the fllegality of the procedure was pointed out when the ordinance was ree- ommended for passage by the Street | Committee. To demonstrate the conflict | | of the ordinance with the charter it is but | necessary to read the language of both | side by side. The ordinance says: | Authority is hereby conferred on the Board | of Public Works to dlspose of all street mi | tertal removed from the public streets whi is no longer fit for use thereon to the Boar: of Park Commissioners or any other depart. ments of the municipality desiring to use the same. Provided said departments fila with the Board of Public Works requisitions for m: terial required and that they bear all the costs of transportation. In the chapter relating to the Board of Public Works the charter says: Sec. 32. The Supervisors shall select some place in the city and county which shall be known as the corporation store yard, wherein shall be kept all supplies, material, imple- ments and machines belonging to the city and County. to be used in repairing or cleaning and sprinkling the streets or for any improve- | ment theron All cobblestones ~or stone | blocks or other material with which any street or portion of a Street may have been paved | or planked shall, if at any time removed from Said street, be taken to said yard and thers kept, accounted for and disposed of by t! storekeeper in the same manner as other sup- plies. Supervisor Reed desired to know if the | ordinance was intended to repeal the | charter, and called attention to the fore- going facts, but the measure prevailed. The bill directing each officer of the city government to flle annually in the clerk’s office of the board an_inventory of all personal property under his charge belonging to the city was passed to print. The Board of Public Works was direct- ed to secure for use of the city such lamps | as have been appropriated for other uses. | The board is aiso authorized to replace eleven bronze lamps belonging to the city | and formerly located around the City Hall, with others of similar pattern, the | expense to be pald out of a surplus of | 82745 59 in the street lighting fund. | “Ivan Treadwell and others were granted | an extension of ninety days within which | |15 compiete the grading, macadamizing, | etc., of Grove, Clayton, Masonic avenus and contiguous streets. | The resolution rescinding the permis- sion granted to the Central Park Amuse- ment Company to build a gravity rail- way and consiruct a temporary building of iron adjoining in Central Park was re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee. Brandenstein sald he had visited the premises and failed to discover any dan- ger in the construction of the bullding. omte desired the reference of the reso- lution to the Judiclary Committee, so that | the board would continue to have the building under its control. Dwyer object- ed, as the Board of Public Works and Fire Warden already have supervision | | over the construction. Brandenstein ex- | | plained that the report that the bulilding | was being constructed in violation of the | | fire ordinance was unofficial, and the re- ‘sc(ndlng ot the permission had been rec- ommended on that score. | “Brandenstein’s resolution revoking the ! license of the Alta Theater and ordering | the immediate closing of the playhouse was referred to the Fire Committee. Ber- nard Leszynsky, owner of the theater building, stated that he knew nothing | about the steps taken against his house | except what he had read in the newspa- | pers. He promised to do all in his power to make required alterations. A resolution was adopted directing the Board of Public Works to investigate the estimated cost to the city and interested property owners of rf,ducln{ the widths of the sidewalks on Clement street from 19 to 15 feet and Division street from 10 to 17 feet. | The conditional acceptance of Twenty- | fifth street, between Guerrero and San | Jose avenue, paved with bituminous rock, | was passed to print. Several ordinances and resolutions were lald over for one week owing to lnlufll-I cient publication. | The board adjourned to meet on Wed- | nesday night to take up consideration of the water question. TRANSPORT SHERIDAN | READY TO SAIL ON TIME Will Carry Recruits and Hospital | Corps Men Assigned to Duty in | the Islands. i Arrangements are being rapidly com- pleted to enable the transport Sheridan to leave this port on the 16th Inst. Fully | 300 recruits will sail on the vessel, in ad- | dition to thirty-one hospital corps pri- | vates, two female nurses and two acting | hospital stewards. Acting Assistant Sur- geons C. I. Wyche and C, F. Kuhn have been assighed to the ship and will report on the romrleunn of the voyage for duty in the Philippines.. Dr. Kuhn will be in charge of the medical department of the | vessel during the voyage. The recruits will be under the command of Captain Harry A. Smith, Fifteenth Infantry, and Lieuterant T. H. Koch, Thirteenth Infan- try. | Twelve volunteers received their dis- charge yesterday. The number of con- | valescent volunteers at the Presidio is be- | ing rapidly reduced, as the room and | quarters occupied by them is much need- | ed. The transports Logan and Thomas | are due here, cach vessel having more | than 250 sick and wounded on board. W. J. Reynolds, a private of Company E, Forty-second Infantry, died yesterday at the general hospital. ATTACKED HIM WITH A EKNIFE AND BLACKJACK Jules Noisat Secures Warrants for Arrest of Joe Lavier and Wal- ter Williams, Jules Noisat, Fillmore House, Stockton street and Broadway, swore out war rants in Judge Mogan's court yesterday for the arrest of Joe Lavier and Walter Willlams on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. HIS appearance showed that he had been roughly dealt with. Noisat alleges that he called at 627 Montgomery avenue Sunday night to see Mary Smith, a lud{ friend. The two de- fendants accosted him and demanded to know his business. He resented their in- terference and a fight followed. Willlams attacked him with a knife, cutting him on the neck and over the eye. TLavier hit him on the head with a “black jack,"” knocking him down. They also kicked him while he was down. French’s Room Found. Detective Cody vesterday found in Oak- land a room that had been occupied by Clarence French, the ‘“electrical” safe- cracker, who n%ented in this city and Chico. In & trunk were three letters of in- troduction signed by Robert L. Barr, a San Quentin convict, and comm French to the good graces of I M. De- lano, Colorado Springs; Frank B. Hamil- ton, Denver, and M. E. Alexander, Crip- ple Creek. The letters say: “Mr. French's social position here is unquestioned.” i i st e ” “McCoy’s Trip Through i This 1s the hc:tchlnt phrase which Henry J. McCoy, 1l neral secretary of the ¥ ristian Young "W-‘n CF‘ i Msncuuqn, -fl: an mtd«crlpthn there an lantern views produced. SHNTA FES e BHTE SCHEDULE NOT APPROVED State Board of Railroad Commissioners Orders a Hearing, Rates to Bakersfield Same as South- ern Pacific’'s, Which Supreme Court Is Now Consid- ering. T o The Railroad Commissioners held a reg- ular meeting vesterday afternoon. The most important matter to come up was a petition from the Santa Fe railroad ask- ing for the adoption of its new schedule of passenger rates between this city and | Bakersfield. The Santa Fe's rates, ac- cording to the schedule, are the same as those of the Southern Pacific, which have | been protested and are now awaiting the | pleasure of the Supreme Court. The Santa Fe Company has fixed the same rate as the Southern Pacific, its fig- ures to some of the more important points being as follows: From San Francisco to Antiock., $150; to Stockton, §2 30; to Mer- ced, $4 25; to Fresno, $5 %0; to Guernsey, $7 05; to Bakersfield, $8 10. ' The Commis- sloners were opposed to approving this tariff until a decision had been rendered by the Supreme Court in the Fresno case. The board examined the Santa Fe tariff carefuily and found it to be in excess of what it considers a just and reasonable rate. The Santa Fe has consequently been ordered to show cause, if any it has, why ‘the rates as set forth in the new tari should not be reduced and a hearing has | been set for the afternoon of December 10. The Commissioners voted to hold a hearing on December 11 of the demurrers of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and others relative to the action recently | brought by the Los Angeles Traffic Asso- | ciation. The board also instructed its| secretary to notify the railroad corpora- tions which have been delinquent in filing their annual reports that the same must | be sent in immediately. The companies that have not yet been heard from are the Southern Pacific, McLeod River, Nev- ada, California and Oregon and the Na- | tional City and Otay. . | GRIM REAPER GARNERS | C. MOODY PLUMMER | Editor and Proprietor of the Trestle | Board Passes Away After Ill- ness of Brief Duration. " C. Moody Plummer, publisher and editor of the Masonic organ, The Trestle Board, | r!led last Sunday at the Homeopathic Sanitarium from the effects of an unsuc- cessful operation for an internal disease. The news of his death comes as a shock to his many friends and fellow Masons. The short duration of his illness, which lasted only three dnys, warned few of them of the approaching end. Mr. Plummer was born in Bethel, Me., in 1828, and had been in the State four- teen years at the time of his death. Be- fore coming West he conducted a hotel at Bath, Me., and later became water- front reporter on the Boston Atlas. He was a member of the firm of Chamber. lain, Haines & Plummer, which published the Bath Northern Tribune, a paper still lnyf“’ff"“' Mr. Plummer established the Trus: Board in 1891 and_ 1t has since remained the organ of Pacific Coast Free Masonry. The deceased leaves a wife, a daughter in the East and two sons, Melvin and Al- vin Plummer, to mourn his loss. The lat- ter has been assoclated with him in the Trestle Board. Deceased held the order of thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, was a mem- ber of California Lodge No. 1 and was a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar. He was also made a knight commander of the Court of Honor by the Supreme Scottish Rite of the United States. He Was also a member of the Eastern Star. At the time of his death Mr. Plummer was aged 72, but carried his years well. }{l: fl:l";fil‘&\l( WIlllbe held on Wednesday rom the Masonic Temple by o Mo P! y California ——————— GOES EAST TO PROMOTE NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY Elisha B. Worrell Confident of Abil- ity to Establish Fruit Con- densing Factory. Elisha B. Worrell and Daniel F, Sher- man of the Sherman-Worrell Fruit Com pany are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Wor- rell has been making inquirles concerning the establishment of a factory in_this city for the manufacture of condensed Califor- nia fruit by a new process. He said yes- terday that he had been busy for several weeks and had met with much local en- He and his associates hoped tion to take advantage of next season's fruit crop. He will start for Boston to-morrow. Much Boston capital has been invested. In his opinion the enterprise promises to have far reaching possibilities in Increas. Ing the market for California produc and in the establishment of a large new industry In_this city. Mr. Worrell has been invited to speak before the State Hortlcultural Soclety at the next meeting, but his engagements prevent him from accepting the invitation, UNCOLLECTED TAXES MAY SWELL THE CITY’S INCOME Snug Sum in Assessments That Lie Fallow, But May Yet Be Collected. Uncollected taxes may, when gathered in, add $60,000 to the city's treasure. Ex Tt Williams of the Board of Supervisors as been searching the unpaid tax records with some startling results. Willlams finds that the Bank of British Columbi» owes taxes on personal property assessed in 189 amounting to $35.165 51. While this might have been collected at the time now it has probably become outlawed. Other banks are heavy debtors and Wells- 0 owes taxes for 1890 footing up $54,- v —————————— PROMINENT FREEMASON LIES AT DEATH'S DOOR Thomas H. Caswell, supreme grand commander of the Scottish Rites of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, les at death’s door at his home, 2620 How- ard street. Dr. Wadsworth. his physi- cian, “u fl:::uhn'g for his life, but the odds are ns' m. 'rh:‘dlsea.se which afflicts Mr. Caswell is an Internal one of a difficult character to be dealt with. His fliness has been of but short duration, but owing to its na ture exceedingly wearing. ——————————— Sons of American Revolution. The California Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolution will give a ban- quet at the Merchants' Club next Thurs- day evening to commemorate the hundrea and twenty-third anniversary of the agreement to articles of confederation and perpetual union between the States. EmI- nent speakers will give addresses on ap- ropriate toples. On this occasion mem- DT o0 Drivileged to Invite ladtes, for whom ample ' accommodation has ‘been provided. The committee in charge _consists of Geor{a W. Spen- cer, William J. ~Dutton, Geo E. Howe, Z. U. Dodge and Charles T. Hutchinson. The following named were elected members of the soclety at the last held meeting of the board of ma rs: Daniel Augustus Ostrom Jr., R‘\# s, mmn.tor::' Andrew Jackson ning, o and Edwin TaThin was Brooks, James m War Putnam Danforth. e . Will Observe Eros. GSTON, Jamalca, Nov. 12—Pro- et Pickering of Harvard University n the erection of an observatory awn, near Mandeville, for his mneog: He hogl to take ob- servations of the planet s in Decem- ber, and will subsequently dertake ob- servations of the moon. sults are Important re- | USES WARREN ENGLISH'S PHOTOGRAPH AS A DECOY hen Widow Baldwin Sees It She at Onee Rushes Out Here to Meet Arlington, Whom She Supposes to + tinues to | latest vietl her home | Mrs. Ba story of h wily Arlin seeking in said she hi she expect: through a ment whic been kept Arlington of himself. fornia and away. ARTHUR ARLINGTON, WHO CAPTURED WIDOW WITH IRRESISTIBLE BAIT. - AKLAND, Nov. 12—Though he has been sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in the penitentiary, Arthur Arlington, who is being held at the County Jall pending the decision of the Supreme Court on his appeal for a new trial, con- make women his dupes. His m i{s 4 Mrs. Baldwin, who says s in Chicago. ldwin this morning told the ow she had been fooled by the gton to Jailer George V. Tay- lor of the County Jail, where she appeared formation about the man. She ad come all the way from her home in Chicago to meet Arlington, whom ed to marry. She had become acquainted by correspondence with him matrimonial bureau publica- tion, into which he had put an advertise- h she answered. The correspondence between them had up for more than four months. told a glowing story of wealth piled up by mining and stock investments, and sent what purported to be a likeness He urged her to come to Cali- marry him, saying that he had a lawsuit on his hands and could not get Be the Original. Mrs. Baldwin promised to come West as soon as she could straighten out her af- fairs, which she had set about immedjate- 1y to do. In the meantime she had sent the photographs of herself and two daughters. The letters that passed be- tween the couple burned with affection, and there was every promise of a real loye match. True to her promise, Mrs. Baldwin left her home in Chicago and came to 0;}):« land, arriving here last Wednesday. had been accustomed to address her ters to just Oakland, and had an ide this was a frontier town, but when 8ot off the train at Sixteenth-street sta- tion she concluded that it was something of a city. To find Arlington was ¢ task, but she set about it with rs from t and made num The four letters reached arling- J . she said, quiries. ton at the Count Arlington’s story about a Mrs. Ba..win to belleve that engaged at the courthouse. and t She inqu Ing she appeared early. : the janitor for Arlington, and was told that such a man was prisoner at the Courity Jail. Thither she went, to learn the story of Arlington's misdeeds and his sentence for ! pt an manded to see Arlington, who was mediately brought from his apartmen In the presence of the officials the couple met. “How dare you play with my affections, sir?* demanded the defiant Mrs. Baldwin “Give me back my plctures and letters, and I will give you back yours.” But Arlington was eq sion. He denied emphatical ever seen the waman the ocea- hat he had or her pictures be- fore or that he had ever corresponc with her. But she stuck to her tions and Insisted on the return plctures and correspondence. The words of the couple were becoming mo: eated every moment, and finally, when a h pulling match seemed imminent, Arling- ton was taken back to his quarters, Before she went away Mrs. Baldwin drew from her pocket ture Ar- lington had sent her. half-tone llkeness of ex-Congressman Warren B. English. The disgovery of this further deception Increased Mrs. Baldwin's rage, and she swore to have vengeance upon Arlington. She stated that she had spent nearly all her money coming to California, and would have to walt until her daughters sent her more. Inquiry at the Albany Hotel fafled to find any Mrs. Baldwin there as a guest The letters to Arlington bore the print of that hotel, but the envelopes might have been secured for the purpose Arlington was co of swindling Mrs. Mamie Smith a year ago, and Judga Hall gave him a life sentence, there hav- ing been three prior felony convietions against him. Since uis incarceration in the County Jail, the officials say. he has had a large correspondence, and almost altogether with women. D. 8. Hir charge. from all bl Sacramento ing of the which was charges con and comple: held N investigatio sent to you m | with little Second—T! subject of | disproved b | Third—The open secret g0 on unde dence. if it cannot else than a if a boy is the chances he will in either a full by Su Injured” Is more force are employes to this Inst the records this institut LOS ANG] dro_street, he_fi Franklin & tractors. with great Oakland Office vember 10. “ was positivel Sy 1ha Sfers S the scne 5, o L een common, but now the d is so lax no cne wanted to get aw; contradictory and therefore not trus Twelfth-That “'there is a certain kind of im- Trustees. trol over that matter, commi; inated In the crematory of the Store and Yard Cleant y's barns Street.- Forty horses were in HIRSHBERG 15 EXONERATED Trustees of the Ione School Find Him Entirely Blameless. San Francisco Call, 12 18 Broadway, Nov. The trustees of the Preston School of Industry at Ione have filed with Governor Gage thelr report of the investigation of Council of Southern Jurisdiction of the | the management of that imstitutiorr and shberg, the superintendent lame and is as follows: To His Excellency, Henry T. Gage, Governor | of the State of Californta: Bee of October 12 appeared an ar- ticle severely critieising the management of the | Preston School of Industry. At the first meet- Board of Trustees held thereafter, on the 13th day of October, 1900, the superintendent, D. §. Hirshberg, demanded an | immedliate and thorough Investigation of the | tained in sald article. The board began an examination that night | ted the same at its next meeting, After a full and complete n of sald charges we beg to pre- the following report: First—The statement ‘‘that Superintendent D. Hirshberg is to be replaced was recet surprise and -little regret in lon on investigation, was found to be untrue. he statement that “it had been tha a good deal of comment. both in town and at the school, that he had been al- | | lowed to remain up to the present time” was y reliable evidence. e statement that “it has been an that Hirshberg has been unable to tatn any kind of discipline in the school: | that the majority ~¢ his own subordinates do not speak to him except when obliged to do so in the performance of duty, and that practices r his very nose and known to him that show a state of unprintable depravity and | degeneracy among the inmates of the school almost impossible of belief” is not true. Fourth—The statement that ‘“‘Hirshbers has always boasted of his pull with the administra- tion and that he is likely to fight an effort to | oust him or offer objection to the appointment of a successor'” was disproved by reliable evi- Fifth—The statement that “there are plenty | who will say that there is a condition of affairs | at the school that would warrant its abolition, be remedied, but when detalls are asked for they say that they cannot afford to falk and some one clse must bear the brunt.” | tieular and citize was disproved by direct testimony of the officers and employes of the school. Sixth—The statement that Aucted the Preston School of Industry Is a black | largest and Bithy blot upon the map of the State; that | it is anything but a reformatory Institution: | tinuin that on the contrary it is declared to be little | 55 chairman of at first_con- that school of infamy and erime; that taken fnto it with a trace of de- cency and the possibility of belng made a man are 100 to 1 that through his asso- cintions all of this will soon be wiped out and | the course of time be graduated -fladged criminal of the foulest kind or an idiot” is not only untrue, but is an out- | rageous and libelous statement. Seventh—The a few instances of dlseases, contracted at the school; that boys, | ete., at the schools’ s not true. | ‘Eighth—That ~one Jerry Green was punished | perintendent Hirshberg and and that in resisting the officer tatement that “there are not ¢ boys being treated for vile Captain Wood he had his face true, and we further find ti no was used to punish than was abso- Jutely necessary upon said Green, and we fully exonerate Mr. Hirshberg from charge of brutality. the implied Ninth—The statement “that Adams was dis- charged because he d to pay a fine of §10 ting A boy escape’ Is untrue. {m:n:%.- statement that “Hirshberz had & reonal row with nearly every officer in the | Pretiution and that they all despise him, but | sentiments. arral to_tallc for fear of losing their y denied by the several of the school. the larger boys when first sent itution’* is doubtless true, as this ie an evil which is incidental to all reforma-~ tory schools, and is one of the reasons for com- mitting moral delinquents to these schools, but of this institution on that peint wiil led in very pearly stamping out this spectal evil and | San Jose. and Mary A. Nolan, can absolutely do so as s0om as we get our col- | San Jose; Jose J. Santos. 2, Haywards, lege system ot “Fhirteenth—That ther ition in force. boys committed to ‘are fon who ought not to be com: B rue, but neither the Board ndent has any con- E. M. Preston, J. H. Dungan, Charles H. ‘Dunton, Trustees. e ELES, Nov. 12.—A fire which orig- ng Company. oo o ERCA v, om San Pe: -sweeping plant. The horses aifficulty removed ity and practically a0 of the company's vehicles rescued. Total loss §2000. In the issue of the | of { | m} . - of the barn and a SISTER-IN-LAW DISPLEASES HER Mrs. Myra Fay for This Reason Leaves Her Hus- band and Home. Oakland Office San Francisco Cal’, 1118 Broadway, Nov Too much sister-in-law, instead of the usual too much mother-in-law, is the rea- | son why the Bert E. Fay family of two | of West Oakland could not get along. Tha h in | troubles of the couple were aired before The report ‘exonerates Hirshberg | Court Commissioner Babcock by the mais | member of this disrupted family, who sought divorce on the ground of deser- tion, and to-day a decree was entered 'n the Superfor Court in Mr. Fay's favor. Fay, In giving his testimony before the Court Commissioner, said that he and hi | wite Myra got along amicably until about | a year ago, when he brought his sister. Mrs. Hill, to live with himself and wife. Immediately his wife took offense and de- manded that she be ordered away. She said she was not in the business of keep- ing boarders and would be supreme in her own home. Fay tried to pacify his wife, but she persisted in her demands until he bought a ticket with the purpose of sending his sister to Los ‘Angeles. But before the sister could get away she became ill. Fay went off to work ona morning, leaving the two women in the house. When he came back at night Re was surprised to find the house empty ex- cept for the sister. who bad been consid- | erately left a bed. The wife had taken everything with her and fled. The fol- lowing day Fay received a letter from his wife, In which she sald she had left him for good. He has not seen her since, but has recetved several threatening letters, which were placed In evidence at the Commissioner’'s proceedings. Fay says his wife made life a burden for him and that one of the worst offenses was that of trying to make him lose bis ition as a clerk in the employ of the southern Pacific Company. ————————— RATIFICATION AT VISALTIA. Rousing Demonstration Because of the Republican Victory. VISALIA, Nov. 12—Republicans in par- in general of Visalia | and vicinity to-night ratified the election ! of McKinley and Roosevelt. Ome of the political gatherings ever held in | Tulare County began at 6:30 o'clock, con- ‘o midnight. Charles G. Lamber- the Republican County | Central Committee, and Deputy County | Clerk Harry B. McClure were the chief managers of the ratification. Half a car- load of fireworks was imported and wagons with urns of fire driven through the town during the even- ing produced a brilliant effect. Five hun- dred flambeaus and torches were carried in the procession and it was noticeabla | that many of the most substantial busi- ness men of the town were in line. At the | head of the parade was a galaxy of Rough Riders, whose maneuvers won the cheers | of the multitude. Hundreds of people were turned away from the Armory owing to the lack of room. The stage was decorated with the Stars and Stripes and pictures of McKin- ley, Rooseveit and Lincoln. Judge H. C. Littie was chairman of the meeting and Senator H. V. Morehouse of San Jose the orator of the evening. The Senator was never more eloquent, more persuasive or more patriotic in his He made his greatest hit | when he compared McKinley with Lin- coln. The speech throughout was listened | to with close attention. At its close the | audience arose and gave three cheers for McKinley and Roosevelt. Licenses to Marry. OAKLAND, Nov. 12.—Licenses to marrv were issued to-day to Michael Hayes, f2, and Victoria Gorris, Oakland: Jacx Aul Doxey, 2, and Mannie Koch, 19, San neisco: Frank Eugene Foss, £, and Grace Romenia Webb, 38, Oakland: Edward Willlam Stelnmetz. 7. Mission 37, Mission \ and Carrie M. Silva, 1S, Haywards: Archi- bali MacPhail. 3. Oakland, and Grace Meclver, 25, Oakland: Elmer Virgil Day, 40, San Francisco, and Mrs. Sarah Francis ‘Andrews, 43, San Francisco: Mary Fran. tment under the -y jrely in the hands ces O'Connor. 20, San Francisco, and e eInE the several countien. Fours sperior | Archibald Cobb Wilson. 34, San Francisco. fully, ——————,———— Appointments Announced. LONDON, Nov. 13—The Times ‘mornlu announces the following | pointments: Lord Raglan, Under Secre tary of State for War; Earl Onslaw, Un- der Secretary of State for the Colonies: Earl of Hardwick, Under Secretary of State for India. “it seems certain,” the Times, editorially, “that the will conmsist of twenty est recorded in our pelitical ARt unfortunate. but 1t garded by Lord this TS, history. be rel