The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1900. s COURT ORDERS |ROMANCE BRIGHTENED ISSUED BEFORE | HARASZTHY’S OLD AGE PAPERS FLED Peculiar Qualily of Justice Dispensed by Distriet Judge Noyes. ADVERTISEMENTS. WOMAN'S KIDNEY TROUBLES (DUFF. THE INJURED FRESHMAN, NOT DEAD He Has Been Moved From the Hospital to a Room in His Own Home. Death of Champagne Manufacturer Brings Lydja E. Pinkham’s Vegeta.ble Coms= 5 pound is Especially Successful in Curing this Fatal Woman’s Disease. Partial Disclosure of Secret. % her head touched and whitened still more | by contrast the silky, snowy locks of her | mother, she asserted with suppressed ex- citement that they knew nothing of Mr. Haraszthy. Then her mother forced her back from the window and explained | again to the reporter that her daughter | was too ill for even a word by way of | o= | | | interview. T de a very foolish mistake,” Mrs. | on midt said, ““when I mentioned ier | | How Attorneys Played Both Ends | Against the Middle to Capture the Rich Discovery Claim. name at the Morgue this morning. I | s unstrung by grief or I never should | | have made such a mistake. | | __“My daughter Columbia engaged to Mr. | | Haraszthy? Well, you can set that rumoi | right. No, there was no thought of ar | { such thing between them. He was ju - | | & good friend of our family.” | Von Schmidt withdrew from | [ And Mrs. | pulled the | v, closed the window and | blind’ down. The somewhat agile justice dispensed in the court of Nome and some of the meth- | | ods that characterized it were the burden | | 1,(]@.\(1:}{ iSlrh:‘):lllnd.y t:!}eTgau;b{fr pnfn ‘Y‘; | | of the testimony taken in the Dubois con-/ | a2 B Tame: atanes: wnnts Mew Michasr | | tempt matter before Commissioner H | | | Flood, 23 Polk street. She admitted | | cock yesterday. There were two wit knowing the identity of the woman who | | nesses under e: asked for her at the Morgue, but re- | ination, Robert Chipps, who nd for good so far as | fused at first to give her nume. She si;s th : riki | | that the anxious inquirer was aa thb: mination is concerned, | | friend of the family and that the daugh- X s the attorney, who is | ter Columbia and she were very dear | | | still under examination. | friends. Later she gave Mrs. Von The most interesting part of the day's | Schmidt’s name, but said she knew noth- | proceedings was the description of the| | | ing of the family and believed that Col- | & Blake suit by Chipps and by Metson. The | | | umbia had married since the time whenl euit was brought against the owners of | .. S T " Thewie the Discovery claim, on Anvil Creek, as| | “I will say this much,” Mrs. Strickland £00n as it was known that the owners ot | ARPAD HARASZTHY, WHOSE | volunteered. *‘My father had no entangle- | | Discovery could produce proofs of citizen- DEATH DISCLOSED A RO- ments with any woman. He was a wid- ship. Chipps’ suit rested mainly on the | R ower and was not engaged. His estate contention that they were foreigners and | MANCE. is not so big that there need be any fear | | were therefore not entitled to hoid land. | (From Photograph by Thors.) of efforts to prove claims to it by any | | | Blake's claim was that he had grubstaked | but his recognized heirs.” | | | the three partners and was therefore en- |+ - <+ Arpad Haraszthy was a generous soul— | | | titled to a larze interest in their claim. | too generous for his own good—a high | | | Had Blake's claim prevailed_there would | RPAD HARASZTHY, manufac- | liver and possessed of a keen sense of en- | | [ have been an end to the Chipps claim, | turer of Califcrnia champagne, Joyment of life's pleasures. He was one | | and had Chipps' contention proved suc- gcion of a noble Hungarian family, | of the six charter members of the Bohe- | cessful Blake would be nowhere. The d known among bohemians as Mian Club and it was he who proposed | suits were as opposite in interest as two | . Enows g % | George T. Bromley for membership and | | suits well could be, yet they were both a bon vivant and orince of g00d | secured his election. On all matters con- brought by the same lawyers—Hubbard, | fellows, was found dying on the sidewalk nected with the growing of wine grapes | Beeman & Hume. g | orner of Hyde and Washington | and the making of wines Mr. Haraszthy “You loaned your attorreys to Blake to oL 8 COL¥ | was an expert and took pleasure in im. : s 20 ye to Blake to hefo 2 e | W 00l e = | " 2 . . + . — | bring a suit hostiie (o yous" was the way | sirests ShOLly bofore | 0,00k SUSteTARY | parting {0 others the valuable results of | Ofall the diseases known with which the female organism is afficted, kidney e B 2 3 5 | summed it up in a question to 0 R 2 is observations, reading and experiencs. di i atal. In fact. unless early and correct treatment is aj LEE C. DUFF, THE FOOTBALL PLAYER, WHO WAS HURT IN A RE- | DS | identified at the Morgue when Incldents | “Wwine making was not his only fad. He | {f:fi’fifi: tv:':,:?s‘ fg,:t seldom survives. . 3 i ENT GAME IN HIS SPINE WAS INJURED AND HE | | . YeS. they were my attorneys,” an-|occurred which polnt to & romance | loved a good dinner washed down with hig | PUSC.. Y pa e i tah § PARALYZED : | s ‘but they told me it | hedged about with mystery, that possibly | own champagne, a bit of opera and Being fully aware of this, .\{r's. Pinkham, early in her career, gave ex- 3 | id be | brightened his old age and made his lite’s | @bove all a pretty woman, for he had all| ‘pustive study to the subject. and in producing her great remedy for woman's : Wasn't the suit brought as a cudgel to | pecember seem but May. the Faantey: of the typical Fremchman. | — Lydia £ Pinkham's Vegetable Compound —was careful to see that it —# | whip the owners of the claim into a com- | : i In his office on Washington street he had A it - : 2 2 | promise? ‘Wasn't it brought so that if in| Haraszthy's body was Identified early | rigged a hammock and a white canvas | contained the correct combination of herbs which was sure to eontrol that d, his case seems to be beyond help. | case you slipped up on any of your own | vesterday morning and soon after it be- | screen as background for his work in| fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles. The Vegetable Compound acts in har- rge room has been prepared for him | proceedings you would have something | came known for a certainty who the dead | amateur photography, his lady visitors, of | mony with the laws that govern the entire female system, and while there at his home in order to give him every {lse "to fall back upon?” pursued Pills- | man was, his daughter. Mrs. George D.| whom there were many, belng the sub-| nre'many so called remedies for kidney troubles, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege The case is a remarkable one. It was| “Yes, I rather think it was” said the s‘““"‘“_"“',"’“f:""m‘e":m,:fii“;ac:;: consumed much sparkiing champagne | table Compound is the only one especially prepared for women. four days after he was injured before he | crestfailen Chipps. { Srief ‘was intense, that was never paid for by the people who The following letters will show how marvellously successtul it is: became paralyzed. The sécond day after| “Wasn't it a biackmailing claim brought | her father had met death under such | grank it. | 5 e he attended the Cali-| attorneys, Hubbard, Beeman & | distressing circumstances. The socfal side of his nature was un- Ang. 6, 1809, leucorrhoea, falling of the womb, ané man football game e, %0 that if the mine owners shouid | Scarcely had Mrs. Strickland left the | duly developed, however, and he was far| «Dpap Mrs. Prvkmas:— I am fail- | kidney trouble. 1 also had a paie ! At that time he| be proved to have been naturalized the | Morgue when an elderly woman, with |from being a “hustler” in business. For | . B o vt Sabe |- when slending ov saihl 3% feeling well, but the seri- | Blake suit could go right on?" s hege hai rived. She was la- | that reason his profits and sales were not ing very ast, —since January have vhen standing or walking, and some- s case was not dreamed | ‘yes' | snowy white i, O tement and asked | 85, Iarge as they should have been consid-| lost thirty-five or forty pounds. I | times there seemed to be balls of fire - | wouldn’t it have de- | boring under great excitemen = ering the low prices at which he placed | have a yellow, muddy complexion, | in front of me, so that I could not see ated report of the in-| appealingly for Mrs. Strickland. When | his champagne on the market. His gen-| g0 1% 0 3™ " bearing down | for about twenty minut Felf th to-day caused much first. If T won, he | told that Mrs. Strickland had gone sha | erosity led him into acts of financial im-| €€’ tirec, and have RN Sl Bl gy e - gl e ldr’t get it from me,” was the way | said that she must fee her—it was a | prudence, and his eagerness to assist his| pains. Menses have not appeared for tired in the morning when I got ug Chipps figured on the situation. case of life or death. She asked the dep- | rleggs with ;\'fs ‘siznnk"rol fl;i- L three months ; sometimes I am trou- | as if I had had nosleep for two weeks. Metson gave some more testimony of ;v who was on duty to tell Mrs. Strick- ;?(‘_‘m' “:)P“f{,omi ":‘fl:’h’“emsfi;mihf‘e"r_“gn,m bled with a white discharge, and I also | Had faintin, 11s, was down-heartad SICK SOLDIERS TRANSFERRED FROM THE LOGAN TO HOSPITAL Homecoming of the Fighting Men From the Philippine Islands. arters at the Presidio, having been nd fit for discharge. Out of the 268 sick and wounded soldiers 164 were de- clared in need of further treatment. The daughter of Colonel Girard, Mrs. Captain A. R. Kerwin, arrived on the Logan Major 8. O. L. Potter, surgeon United States volunteers, has tendered his resig- nation from the volunteer forces, to take effect December 1 Major Potter will re- sume practice in this city. The bodies of eighteen soldls who died in Manfla were interred in the National Cemetery yesterday. There are still re- maining in the storeroom thirty bodies awaiting burial. COMMISSARY DID NOT WATER MILK Health Board Clears Maguire | and Restores Him to His Position. s=port Logan essel to the were a better ses, were the been brought = expected that at re reaching the aged to survive the seldiers were sent The men were ex- possible after their ar- sult 104 were sent to the Attorney Van R. Paterson Recovers. | ney R. Paterson, whose con- | a »een most pre- ned his shat- for the ¥. in the t The news of r ery w be bu: the worst. His are his re- and after > he will return s e S ELT L Lady Buller's Guardian. H. C man's appointment as of Lady Mary Leflah has been affirmed by H. Wakeman, in a petl: r Chapman’'s removal, a an had procured his As was expected, the Health Board's investigation Into the charge brought by t from the court Superintendent Physician G. E. Sussdorf at E:Yrérg‘_pru?&; of the City and County Hospital against Commissary Maguire, that the latter had watered the milk used in the institution, resulted in a complete exoneration for Maguire. The report of the Hospital Com- mittee to that effect was adopted by the board last night. When the investiga- tion was begun all sorts of sensational disclosures were threatened by Maguire, who, to use his own language, ““was going to pull the hospital down over somebody’s head before he got through.” she was mentally in- make such nomination 4 his position GRAPE-NUTS. BRAINS REPAIRED, £h. o2 Maguire experienced a change of heart, Polished and arpen by &1, owever, on being sssured that he would Expert. be restored to his position, from which he had been temporarily removed by Suss- dorft, if he (Maguire) would promise to keep his mouth closed. Sussdorff was subjected to considerable uncomfortable cross-questioning during the trial by Attorney Matt Sullivan, but the worst that Maguire could bring against Sussdorff was that the latter loved sparrows and hated cats. The action of the superintendent physi- cian in ordering the temporary suspen- sion of the commissary is indorsed, but Maguire is restored to his position as commissary. Louis Loo, the head cook, and D. Richards, a former patient but now a ward tender, were discharged from their positions for falsely swearing that Maguire had given them orders to water | the milk. The report says: While the committes declares that it was - food expert of the Postum Cereal sble to asoertain definitely wheth b What are brains made of? Albumen and delicate particles of Phos- phate of Potash. Chemical examination of the perspiration and urine will deter- mine the amount of recent brain work, by the amount of Phosphate of Potash found, for these delicate particles are thrown out from brain and nerve centers during ner- vous activity, and find their way back to earth through pores, kidneys, bowels, etc. There is but one true way to repair the aaily losses, and that wdy is to furnish the body with food containing a sufficlent amount of these two elements. When the | brain is not properly fed, the evidence is «hown by a gradual decrease In the men- 1al and physical powers of the body. A y er the milk was watered, it 18 & fact t Co., 14m., st Battle Creek, Mich., has given whi 3 hat 'fld.mu w‘-'.- prepared a crisp, dainty and deliclous | tee is unabls to fix responsibility, however, food for the express purpose of quickly | wing to the fact that employes and patients iscuously. a 2nd surely rebullding the brain and nerve | was done prom: supply and the watering cemters and has given it the name of The report further says: Grape-Nuts. e 4he R id s nary examinatis This food is made by selecting the |into the condition and quality of said milk the proper parts of grains and tresting them | Seperntondent PRVSIcias, acted < and time practically | given in that bebalf this committee, and v heat, moisture a1 in the hu. | B ntendent phyeician was justified, in the same manner Nature does in u: instance, in ordering body during the first part of diges- eaid’ | upon the written statement The result is that the finished — suspension ts of three of the ployes of the hospital asserting the existence of_said adulteration. It is the opinion of your committes that the charges of adulteration made against sald com- are not sustained by the evidence in- missary troduced. The evidence offered was faulty. un. reliable and insufficient, and not only falled adulf the 18- to establish any teration by ‘comm| sary, but was also of such indefinite character tion. not only contains the needed elements for brain buflding, but they are ready to be presented to Mother Nature in such & shape that she quickly absorbs and uses them. The good, solid, substantial re- sults obtained every day by people who use Grape-Nuts proves the faocts. The mew food is found in all first-class grocery stores and 1s one of the most toothsome and palatable novelties yet produced, In the way of food, requiring no cooking or preparation of any sort, but, on the contrary. it is ready for im- mediate use and suited to the athlete, brain worker, epicure or invalid. established incompetence, mental and physical, of the employe Richards and the fm- | proper motives of the employe Louis Loo, and your committee y recommends their Your committee respectfully the comm: , Mr. Maguire, onerated, should be reinstated in his said po- sition without any deduction from his salary A for loss of time pending his suspension. the same kind on the Blake suit. It was & good deal of a surprise to the reputable lawyers in Nome, he said, how attorneys couid prosecute two claims against the same plece of property, eachclaim diamet- rically opposite to the other and each tend- Ing to destroy the other title should it pre- | vail. The plaintiffs were bound to get hold | of the claim anyhow. Another interesting bit of information was contained in Chipps’ description of how the company palmed off a lot of ma- chinery it had found not suitable on one of its receivers in the Topkok district. The machinery had been purchased by the company for use on the claims it had wrested from the miners who were work- ing the beach. It was found of but little use, however, arnd the matter of a receive; for 'the Topkok mine being under consid- | eration the machinery was loaded on | barges to await the appointment. When | the appointment was made the ink was| rot dry before the barges were on their | way to Topkok. It was found that the machinery could not be sold without a« tion by the board of directors of the col pany, so McKenzie called the only d rectors’ meeting there is in the history of | the company. Chipps was at the meeting, | but as it was only a formality anyway he | did not pay enough attention to learn | what price was paid. “I knew it was a | good sale, though,” sald Chi?pm ‘Whatever | the price, it was paid out of the proceeds of the mine, and it must have been a good | one, for it is understood that the price squeezed from the mine was more than | the machinery cost in the first, place. | Cameron, one of McKenzie's friends, was | then receiver of the Topkok mine. | Some of the philosophy of McKenzie | was also given place In the record. It seems he told Chipps that the idea was to get the claim into litigation and then | let the owner :fw' but in the meantime he could get all the gold out. “You understood, then, that you would et a favorable decision?’ asked Pills- ury. “Yes, I suppose I did. McKenzle said he could get a favorable decision, turn the gold over to the piaintiff and let him get out of the country with it.” To offset this Attorney Geary brought out the fact that the case was to be tried before a jury, to offset which Pillsbury agmn brought out the fact that the panel of jurors which was to try the case was made up of Soapy Smith’s gang, and that there was more chance of them doing the right thing for McKenzie than for the court to do so. There seemed to be no loophole nor opening of any kind that was not stopped by some one belonging to_the company or owned by McKenzle. Metson's story of the way the court ran its affairs was another revelation in northern justice. Its fountain was of the prophetic order and it saw and filled the | want even before the courtesy was re- quested. The court arrived at Nome on Saturday, July 21. Judge Noyes told Judge Johnson, one of the defendant’s at- torneys, that he was not going to hurry that he would probably record his com- mission in St. Michael before he opened | court and that would take nearly a week. | On Monday, July 23, he appointed Me- Kenzie receiver in charge of six mining | properties and it was six hours after the | appointment that the papers in the suits in which he was supposed to have been appointed were flled. When McKenzie ot his appointment he posted out to the iscovery, the richest In the bunch, and took possession. The first news that the court was work- Iing was conveyed to the mine-owners when they were told their mine was in the hands of a receiver. It would be in- teresting to know what would have hap- ened had Judge Noves decided to hurry. hen later on an injunction was granted to restrain the defendants from working | the mine, and it was not until three weeks later that the application for the injunc- tion was filed. is plece of legal fore- casting was done by Archie Wheeler, the court reporter, who practiced law in his leisure moments. And still later, in a fit of charity. the court made an order ap- pointing Wheeler court stenographer at a salary of $3000 a year. The appointment ‘was made to date from July f Wheeler arrived at Nome on July 21 and the order itself was not made out until the middle of September. @ ned etson was not sat with the smal bond of the receiver, and he appeared hel fore Judge Noyes to ask that it be in- creased. His request was refused, and the court took occasion to lecture the city attorney on the many great virtues of the receiver. Judge Noyes said McKenzie was & man of sterling integrity and in this case there was no necessify for a bond at all. When Metson got to know him ‘would better. the Judge added, he nize McKenzie's true worth. But Metson d the defendants had discov- ered the true worth of the ver, He was running the mine in a most extrava- "|ndt u:rya:on, n.n'dum hllll ut he w: poorer Eroumd and was taking only thas which wi flcrem. But that was only his worth miner. Then Metson told of the findin, two_orders in which Judaa N i fiho: forth he had no further jurisdiction in the cases, orders to which Metson had re- ferred in his previous testimony. He sald he ‘l"o&m 1 :l orders -llm)e-lt into the 5 no file mark upon ‘where th h:do L no one knew ey Toon was Just going on o, tell haw Frost, the al agent of the Treasury, spent his time and of his .umi'n'fl 1 thering evidence for the McKenzi ;lln.fixtdfll and watching the detondlnts. when the adjournment hour came and the case went over until this morning. For a Cold in the Head. . Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. land, if she should return, that “Colum- | Haraszthy, an expert miner, in the hope | sked for her. mother’—and ‘“Columbia’? mysterious person be? As tery deepened. mother” Columbia’ who could that ¥ the day grew older the | The gray-haired, feeble, excited old lady had Jeft, refusing to give her name. Mrs. Strickland would who Columbia | was. Those who knew Haraszthy well at romance. With his repu- blade and the cumulative once scented tation as a ga that name Columbia, those of his frienls | who saw the gayer side of his life werc startling | repared to believe whatever Bletlosures might be made in the way of entangled heartstrings. The grief-stricken, exclted old lady, “Columbia’s_mother,” it was learned last night, was Mrs. J. H. von Schmidt, who lives at 1612 Washington street. ' “Co- Jumbia’ is none other than her daugh- ter, Miss Columbla J. von Schmidt, who was formerly a stenographer in Har- aszthy's office. Haraszthy spent the last hours of his Iife with the Von Schmidts. fie had told other friends that he was going to dine with friends and e)?efled to be home early, but it was midnight when he was found lying on the sidewalk but little more than a block from the Von Schmidt home. to take a Hyde-street car and was prob- ably waiting at the corner, his umbrella | raised to protect him from the driving rain, when he was stricken down by the fatal heart disease. He was still breath- | ing when passengers on a Hyde-street car saw him and went to his aid, which must have been soon after he had sunk uncon- sclous upon the sidewalk. Death over- took_him before the ambulance reached the Receiving Hospital. Mrs. von Schmidt refused last night to be interviewed regarding Haraszthy's re- lations to members of her family. She ad- mitted, speaking from an upstairs win- dow, that haraszthy had spent the even- ing with them. She said: ““He was an iIntimate friend of our fam- {ly and called often. He was here Thurs- day night and we were all together in the arlor. I do not remember what time he ft. 5ty daughter Columbta? She has been very sick and is not able to see you. We ol teel very much broken up by Mr. thy's sad death.” H:?t!:{! ;’:mrnent Miss Columbia appeared at he window herself and leaning out Gntil’ the mass of brown hair crowning | He had evidently been intending | | of replenishing-his wealth. The life in Alaska did not agree with him. Coarse food and other hardships of mining camp i life told upon his health. He returned from Alaska only last Wednesday, being a passenger on the steamer Kimball. He brought with him a number of nuggets | and reported to his family and friends that he had located a number of claims which he had reason to belleve were rich | evidence held in the romantic mystery of | enough in the vellow metal to make him | & wealthy man when next summer should | bring the opportunity to work them, During his six months’ absence his champagne business was conducted by his daughter, Mrs. George D. Strickland, widow of a naval officer. Her mother | was Miss Jovita Vallejo, the beautiful | daughter of General Guadalupe Mariano | Vallejo. The mother dled years ago. Mrs. Strickland and Carlos Haraszthy were the offspring of the union. Carlos is now en- gaged in business in Tahiti. Arpad Haraszthy had an ancestry of which any man might justly be proud. He was born | in Hungary in ‘1540, His father was Count Agostin Haraszthy, the Intimate friend of Kossuth. The discovery of a plot in which he | was associated with Kossuth for the liberation of Hungary forced him to flee for his life. He | came to America. and later by the intercession of our Government Austria consented to let | him return to Hungary and bring his family out to the New World. After living for a time in New York he came across the plains to Cali- fornia, and some years after he planted a vine- yard in Sonoma County and became one of the ploneer viticulturists of California. He died in_Nicaragua. o [Sreat-irandfather of Arpad Harassthy was Viceroy to the King of Dalmatia. Arpad Haraszthy, while still a young man, made a careful study of the wine-making in- dustry and spent months in France and along the Rhine for that purpose. He became im- bued with the idea that California was an ideal place for the manufacture of champagne, and on his return to the State in 1862 he in- vested many thousands of dollars In that en- terprise. Mrs. Ida Hancock of La Bruyere rancho, in Los Angeles County, and Mrs. Michael Flood, 728 Polk street, in this city, are sisters of deceased. The body was re- moved vesterday afternoon to the Flood residence. The autopsy showed that heart disease pwas the cause of death. The funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon from St. Mary's Cathedral. The services and the interment will be private. DAVID BISPHAM WILL SING AT A BENEFIT Associated 'llu;t;'l::al Managers’ Per- formance in Aid of Charity Fund Promises a Huge Success. The Assoclated Theatrical Managers will give on Thursday, the 224 inst., a grand continuous performance in ald of the charity fund. The curtain will go up harply at high noon, and the theater- Soing public will have an opportunity to Sitness one of the grandest performances of its kind ever held in this city. The committee in charge of the affalr walted yesterday on Manager Maurice Grau, and after the great operatic mag- nate had heard of the good local work the association s doing In San Francisco he willingly gave his consent to allow any of his artists to appear at the performance who may volunteer. David Bispham, the singer, who is now appearing in grand opera in this city, kindly consented to ap- pear, and Walter Damrosch, the great musical genius, will accom_‘pnny him in his selections on the plano. The price of ad- mission to this remarkable benefit per- formance will be $2 for lower floor seats and 81 in the balcony. Tickets are on sale at the box office of all the local theaters in this city. The Opera News Letter. If the News Letter went In for spectal editions all the year round as the East- ern weeklies and monthlies do, to-day's e might be called an opera. In the first place, the musical and _economic features of the Grau season are treated in detail. The criticism is candid, con- able. The soclal end of it s up by Reginald Schuyler, who, I ks bt Gescribing the gowns of women, goes in for full detalls of the dress o men, mentioning names with hig usual dor. And “Lady Algy" gives all'the so- 21.:1 Eo-lp that has marked the first week of the season. * pr G S Does Not Favor Ungraded Classes. Superintendent otusc:l:ols Webster is sympathy Wi e proposed not, In BYmPRtY Baucation %o ina ed classes for pupils who may be e one or two studies and yot be romoted on their average standing. &a\me\- believes that ungraded cl..-g‘ should only be provided for the indolent vicious pupils. They are not, he says, “nprove those senclars who are ént in some studies and deficient in others. He favors the plan of having parental or truant schools, where habitu- ally bad pupils may be taken care of. g emsbaives £ tmsn iy The Prettiest Yet. Are the shapes and finishes o. our new frames just recelved. Exquisite designs juare d other od s in, oval, square and other odd shepes, fin. B h sue aninlast eoil top arpments 4a1 e8! , - mats to match, at Sanborn, Vail & Co.'s, 141 Market Street. . | SIMPSON TELLS STORY OF HIS MARITAL WOES In Divorce Complaint He Says His Wife Assaulted Him and De- stroyed Property. John H. Simpeon, a veteran of the civil war, filed sult yesterday for a divorc from his wife, Etta M. Simpson. He al- leges cruelty as cause of action. Stmpson says he married his wife at Lathrop in 1800. Tt was her wont, he says, to throw beer bottles, wina bottles and similar arti- cles at him. On several occasions. he fur- ther claims, at the Hotel Mateo, in San Mateo, where they resided, she maliciou: ly destroyed his medals, Tare paintings, furniture,. bric-a-brac and, in fact. every.- thing breakable in their apartments. Five oll paintings, two pastels, ks and etch- ings, clothing and bric-a-brac of the value of $1425 were destroyed on one occasion, h £ rived him of all his property other than gln pension, which is not destructible. Richmond’s Improved Condition. By the contemplated reduction of the width of the sidewalks on Clement - street, by which thres feet on each side will be added to the street, a great improvement will be added to this thoroughfare, which has become the Market street of the Rich- mond district. Point Lobos avenue still retains its ploneer character of being a driveway leading to the CUff House and the milita condition of this avenue duri the t six months, since Felix Mczfugh ?o‘:k charge of it under a contract with the Board of Public Works, is marked. Im. provements on a far more extensive plan are contemplated as soon as the Supreme Court renders its decision on the legality of the park bonds. The executive board of the Point Lobos Improvement Club. which has' as its chairman George Fleteher, is prepar- ing plans for the betterment of the west- ern avenues and streets oceanward of the blocks through which the northern pan- handle will extend. —_———————— Lectures on Omar Khayyam. Professor Charles Mills Gayley delivered a lecture before the Channing Auxiliary in the parlors of the First Unitarian Church yesterday on Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's peculiar genius, the lecturer said, found its natural level in the eplcurean philosophy of poet. The author himself he as a somewhat a Te man, later years lived a solitary life of study. Professor Gayley also read selections from James Thomson, author of the “City of e Dreadful Night.” Thomson, * he claimed, was the founder of English po- etic reaiism. Write fornew catalogue of watches, fewelry & sliverware. Hammersmith & Field, 38 Kearny. * ~ and he adds that she has thus de- | reservation. 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