The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1900, Page 9

= : THE SAN FRAN ISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1900. INITIAL STEP OR NEW ROAD Mexican Presents Its Oharter. Line Planned to Commect California With the Present Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. FEEE ST spatch to The Cail 7.—The first road ago, Rock Isl- uthwestern White JAYS M ISSION CON REPORTS cting the AID-DE-CAMP VISITS UNITED STATES v Customs and In- of the American People eral Sene Persia Gen Isaac al and th il welcome what I come h their greate: with th e Shah when the latter’s life SILVER IS AGAIN IN TROUBLE Failing to Account for Money Deposited on Margins. J hn 8. Silver, a business | ment secur jury to-day against him rom the | year or so K h were afterward | of th Quiniand | POSTUM CEREAL. 'STRUCK CENTER When She Found Coffee Was Slowly Killing Her. 2 temperate mode of living rd n regard to food beverages will not avail A Virginia lac Mrs. R. F. Miller of City, eays that she was very e in every way. “I did not sus that ccffee was the poison that was ng my whole nervous system, condition of vertigo and head- e attacks became so fre- hat I was compelled to all kinds of work and forced to wn most of the time. attention was drawn to Postum Coffee by the experience of some jolent M Food thers in regard to common coffes, and occurred to me that perhaps cause of my trouble, so I use Postum, being careful to it made according to the directions 1 the package not have to cultivate a taste for 1 found on the start that it was a clous beverage. he though Moo was im- | ilding of a new | TROOPS ACTIV | ty-fourth | occupied” Bulucan STYLISHLY GOWNED DOLLS ARE ADMIRED BY HUNDREDS Chicago, Rock Island axd| Doctor’s Daughters’ Show in the Maple Room of the Palace Is an Assured Success. HE doll show of the Doctor's Daughters sprang into success ves terday with the opening of the doors, and by closing time at night the visitors had numbered well up into the hundreds. It was as well dressed a crowd as ever thronged the maple room of the Pa The dolls themselves were a sight to see but there were costumes uron the floor that '\':»d with the best of the dolimakers Men were fe far bet ayed only to admire, leav “1! e ladies. Criticism wa 1 | there has not n a doll nners, tor's Daugh- the model » mounted on white green they win- »m 1y ches 4 them, and g from a first prize st of trim riding hs ur rows o plebald pony. to a brid There are calling dre ¢ rty dres tailor m wns dresses and evening dresses greatest care and all per- joining room are the dolls for dolls’ house, the dresser, the »asket and the fish pond. Long be- all the big table on which were the b dolls began to look rather 1 for buying was brisk es were easy. It will be r o wever, 80 no intending p 3 fear being unable to find II's house. donated and Mrs. Miss Bruce. rd, caught were brought as a_continuou b: come e house upc with the tab h a pretty ights. d by Mrs. Hen- mate vthing it should ituae of things, v Miss Kate Dil- rt can ery until ecomes a prize be the last day e ally came for a unincumbered by youthful ques: Two of the fine dolls have already been both to Thomas H. Williams. One, Hearst doll, he bought for $150. and k other, the doll dressed and donated by the City of Paris, he bought for $100. g — . ANTLY ATTIRED LITTLE BEAUTIES WHO POSED BEFORE AN ADMIRING THRONG, AFOOT AND ON HORSEBACK, IN THE MA- PLE-ROOM OF THE PALACE HOTEL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. % Mrs. J. A. Watt, Mrs. eeman ) Hyde and Mrs. Ed Horton. is'in charge of Mrs. Charles The usi W. Slack. The model dolls are in charge of Miss Suzanne McEwen, president of t.e “Doc- tor's Daughters, Mrs. Alfred Tubbs, Mrs. Daniel Drysdale, Mrs. Fred Tallant and Miss Gertie Goewey. E N PHILIPPINES Encouraging Reports From Northern and Southern Luzon. —_— MANILA, Deec. 7.—More activity fis| shown in the operations in Northern and Southern Luzon. The reports from the former district come in more quickly and 1{ | telegraphic interruptions are fewer. neral Funston, with Troop A of the | Fourth Cavalry and a score of scouts, last Thursday encountered 100 Insurgents post- | ed on the opposite bank of the Nehico River. The Americans charged across the stream and the enemy retreated, firing | from cover. They left four dead on the neld. A native who was captured report- ed that Fagin, a deserter from the Twen- Infantry, who has been active with the Filipinos with a party of caval- rymen, has been wounded. Lieutenant Morrow with fifty men from the Forty-seventh Regiment attacked and While returnipg these | troops encountered Colonel Victoris occu- pying an_entrenched position with thirty rifies and 300 bolomen. Lieutenant Mor- | row's force charged and drove the enemy from their position, it is believed with | heavy loss. Preceding the fight the expe- dition had captured Major Flores and sev- | e of his Ym{\n“or.l An engagement is reported to have oc- | curred near San Roque, in which, accord- ing to natives, fifty rebels were killed. Beveral minor encounters and capfures are also reported. The American casual- | ties have been very slight. | The island of Bohul has recently been | the scene of more activity on .ne part of | the ingurgents than formerly, and a com- pany has been sent to reinforce the bat- talion stationed there, é | The members of the Philippine Commis- | slon and several military omcials will £ to _Dagupan to-morrow as guests of the | railway management. Their families have aleo been invited. They will return Sun- day. DISPUTE OVER ESTATE OF LATE EMMA ABBOTT | D. L. Muddock Objects to the Ap- pointment of a Conservator in Lunacy. CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—An estate of $100,000 Jeft her father by the late Emma Abbott is the bome of contention in a contest in the Probate Court. When Seth Abbott & after day 1 continued to improve, dream that it would be such ever since the day I left off mmenced the use of Postum Coffee (about nine months ago) have return of the trouble. I have edicine or tonic of any kind dur- nd my present condition h is due entirely to stum Food Coffee. rd several persons say they »stum, but in each case I »on inquiry that it was be- tried to make it like common t 1s boil it four or five minutes. 1 not do, for one cannot get the vor and the food value in so ng. The directions are plain d it only requires a little pa- bring out the beautiful flavor. T ctors find Postum one of their t valuable aids in their treatment of cases like mine.” ere the - few months ago was brought back to Chi- cago insane and sent to an asylum, Mary M. Bartelme was appointed conservator in lunacy over the estate. It consisted of the fund of $100,000 in the Farmers' | Loan and Trust Company, producing an income of $400 a month for Abbott. A petition has been filed by D. L. Muddock of San Diego, Cal., in which he claims the right to manage the estate. He sets forth that he was appointed conservator of the estate by the Superior Court of San Diego County. He asserts also that at the time of his incarceration Abbott Was not a resident of Iilinols, but of Cali- fornia, and none of the property lles in Illinols, but in New York. % ————— Population of Berlin. BERLIN, Dec. 7.—The census returns show Berlin has a population of 1,884,345, compared with l,ffl,g.‘: in 1895, { of earnest protes —_—r————— For a Cold in the Head. Eaxative Benmo-Sunise B CAUSE OF TYPHOID IV ARMY CAMPS Surgeon General Sternberg Makes an Interesting Report. WASHINGTON, Dec. T.—Surgeon Gen- | eral Sternberg made public to-day a report upon the origin and spread of ty- phoid fever in the United States military camps during the Spanish war of 1598, prepared at his Instance by a board con- sisting of Major Walter Reed, surgeon, . 8. A.; Major Victor V. Vaughn, divi- | sion surgeon, U. 8. V., and Major Edward 0. Shakespeare, brigade surgeon, U, S. A. There were over 20000 cases of typhoid fever among the troops encamped within tLe limits of the United States from May until September of that year. It became epidemic in all camps, large and small, | north and south. | The board found that many commands during the war were unwisely situated, that the space allotted to regiments was in some instances entirely inadequate, and | many regiments were a.owed to remain on one site too long. Requests for changes | in location made by medicai ofhcers oa ac- | count of the unfit condition of the camps in question were not always granted. In | some instances camps were set up in spite from medical officers | againet the sanitary unfitness of the sites selected. The camps became very filthy in general, it is stated, and line officers | are thus held respon.ble to some extent for the unsanitary conditions that devel- oped. In this connection the board sug- | ests that greater authority be given med- | feal ofcers In questions relating to the hyglene of cam \{'h?re water carriage cannot be secured in permanent camps it is suggested that all fecal matter be disinfected and then carted away from the camp, and the board has made a special recommendation that galvanized iron troughs containing milk of lime be utilized for this purpose. Infected water was found to be an im- portant factor in the spread of typhoid in the encampments of 1898. To guard against the contamination of the water supply, facilities for the sterilization of water for troops in the field are recommended. Flies which swarmed over infected fecal matter in the camp pits are believed to have transmitted typhoid bacillus. 1. has been conclusively settled that a company badly infected with typhoid cannot rid itself of the infection by u!mflly changing its location, as it carries with it the spe- cific agents of the disease. Complete dis- infection of men and effects is absolutely necessary. Except where urgent necessity makes it necessary, the board urges that one com- mand should not be located upon a site re- cently occupled and vacated by another, Malaria was not a prevalent disease among the camps during the war, al- thoug ort attacks of typhold were iagnosed as some form of malarial fever. Altogether about one-fifth of the soldlers in the national encamp- ments during the Spanish war developed typhold, about half of the cases being cor- rectly diagnosed by the army surgeons. The death rate was 7.61 per cent, and the average period of incubation was found to be about ten and one-half days. You Are Invited To-day to the opening of the bankrupt ghoe sale. Ladles’ shoes that cost between $250 and $3 50 for only 75c a Falr at the bankrupt shoe sale of the California Shoe Company. 1506 Market street, above C‘A‘ty aveiug FLORENCE SELLS FEARED TRAGED! Reasons for Not Telling of Her Mother’s Misdeeds. COLUMBUS, Dec. 7.—Florence Sells re- sumed the stand ir her father's divorce case this morning. She enumerated the presents Bott had given her mother, dia- mond rings being among them. Bott also gave her mother fancy liquors. Her mother told her of these presents. In the evening Mrs. Sells would unlock thé side door. Florence had driven her mother down to Brunscn block, !n which Bott's bachelor quarters were located, when Florence's father was at home. Florence and her mother went to West Baden, Ind., in May, 1899. Bott came a few days later and was often in her mother's room af night. Her father was not there. Florence and her mother were at the Thousand Islands for a month in was there, too. Bott and her m one occasion went away on a boat one morning and did not return until night. Asked why she had not told her father of her mother's ‘misconduct, Florence sald: brought up with the one idea of telling my father nothing. When I grew up to understand what it meant I dreaded tell- ing it. I feared a tragedy. I knew how my father loved mk“ mother and did not want to break his heart.” “When 1 was a little girl T was | WITNESSES TELL OF HOFF'S DEEDS Schooler Reprimanded for Severe Way of Cross- Examining. ; ‘Tudge Cook Falls From a Car on Way to Hall of Justice | and Breaks & Finger. The toils of the law were wound more and mere closely about Albert Hoff in | Judge Cook’'s court yesterday. Witness | after witness gave most damaging test mony against the de During the aftern: L | Hosmer and Schoolcr became involved in | | an altercation and for awhile it looked as | if the wordy war might terminate in seri- | ous trouble. Police Oficer Robinson, on | the stand for the prosecution, was cross- | examined at great length by Schooler for | the defense. The attorney claimed that | Robinson was not an impartial witness. | Schooler began to wax wrath and with | | the rise of his fre his questions were | ishnuled in such a loud voice that Hos- | mer took exception to the handling of | | the witness. Judge Cook reprimanded | Schooler for his conduct. | On the opening of the case yesterday | morning Dr. Inman completed his testi- | mony. He was followed by Antone Gil- | letti, who kept a fruit store at Twentieth | | and 'Guerrero streets at the time of the murder. He was called to 803 Guerrer street as soon as the tragedy was dis- | | covered. Running upstairs he saw the | | body of Mrs. Clute lying on the floor. He | | became frightened and left the house and | did not return. | . Officer Robinson was the next witness. | | He was on duty at the Seventeenth street | station when he was ordered to go to the | | scene of the crime. He arrived at the | | house about 5:30 o'clock He procured a | lamp and with Officers Phelben and Fil- | | bert went upstairs. They found the body | of Mrs. Clute in the bedroom. After the | Coroner’s deputies had taken the body away he went down to Eighteenth and | | Valencia streets and found Foley, who | had been employed by Mrs. Clute to lay the carpets. He took Foley down to Cap tain Seymour’s office, where he was inte viewed by Captain Eeymour. Under in- structions Robinson went over to Ala- meda to find Hoff. He returned the same evening. The next morning he went to room 110 in the Lindell House, found a | carpet bag lying on the bed and under instructions took it up to police head- quarters. The bag was identifled as be- longing to Hoff. John Bouse, the next witness, testified that Hoff came into his store on Van Ness avenue and Turk street on Decem- | ber 15, about 10 o'clock a. m.; that he re- | turned again at noon and stayed there | till shortly after 1 o'clock, He left, saying | that he was going to work for a nice lady | who had given him a dollar the day be- | fore for hanging some pictures for her. | Hoff came back in the evening about 7| o'clock, read the papers and stepped up to the bar and said that he had a sore hand. Bouse looked at the wound, which was in the palm of his hand and about an inch long. He recommended to him to pour some whisky on it. Hoff was about ! to explain how he hurt his hand when Bouse was called to the front part of the store to wait on some customers. Hoff left the store later and went in next door to the shoemaker's store, Volge's, by the rear way. Harry Neemever was the clerk of the | Lindell at the time of the crime. He tes- ified that he had known Hoff since 18%4; endant. session Attorneys that on December 13 a woman, whom he identified as Mrs. Clute from a photo- graph, called at the house. She left a card telling Hoff to call Wednesday to do | some work. On December 15 Hoff came into the Lindell House on or about 6 o'clock. He was cariying his carpet bag | and asked for the key of his room. He went upstairs, but remained only two or | three minutes. Hoff showed Neemeyer a [ wound on his hand, saying that he | scratched it with a nalil. The case went over till Monday morn- | | Ing at 10 o'clock. hand by a fall from a streetcar while on | his way to the Hali of Justice. During the morning session the injury became so | painful that Judge Cook declared a re- | cess and took Dr. Inman into his cham- bers to set the broken finger. AN EARLIER START. The Narrow-Gauge Hunters’ Train for San Jose to Leave at 9:30 p. m. The Saturday night train on the narrow gauge of the Southern Pacific, familiarly known as the hunters’ train, which for vears past has been leaving the ferry de- pot, foot of Market street, at 11:45 o'clock | for San Jose and way points, will com- | mence to-night ieaving at 9:30 o’clock, and so continue until further notice. This train runs Saturday nights only. LUM YU IS ORDERED DEPORTED TO CHINA County the Victim of White | Neighbor’s Spite. | Lum Yu, an aged Chinese farmer of Mono County, was before U. 8. District | Judge de Haven yesterday and received | his sentence of deportation to China for | | not having caused himself to be regis- tered in accordance with the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act. | Yu is sald to be the victim of spite and | ersecution, but there was no help for | B he having clearly failed to comply | with the law, although through no fauit {of his own. He owned an eight-acre | plece of ground near Bridgeport, which | e had cultivated for the past forty years, supporting himself B5" ratoing | vegetables and selling them to the peo- ple of his neighborhood. A few months ago certain persons desired to open a road through Yu's ranch, and he refused the amount they offered him for the right of { way. Shortly thereafter he was arrested | by the local authorities for not having been registered. He explained that there were no Chinese near him, and that he | was ignorant of what was taking place In the great world outside of Mono County, but ignorance is no excuse, and he has =old his ranch and will go home to China at the expense of the Government. Y “” Not only one Price §1.50. NEW EDITION. With twelve illustrations by How- ard Pyle. 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It costs you We have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, 85000, aid to any person who can find that the above testimonial letters before obtainin; the writer’s special LYDIA E. PIN] K:E C HAM MEDIC] 'SPRING VALLEY COMPANY DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR DEPRECIATION The line of the investigation into the values of the Spring Valley Water Com- pany’s property by the Board of Super- ors as a committee of the whole last | night was chiefly directed toward an at- tempt to have the officlals of the com- pany reduce its figures on the given cost of the Pilarcitos Creek property. The testimony developed that six miles of the | thirteen miles of pipe laid in 1868 had been | taken up and replaced by larger sized pipe, | the cost of which also appeared in the values given. Reed and Brandenstein, who | conducted most of the examination of the | witnesses, questioned them with a view | to having them acknowledge that the value of the pipe taken up should be | stricken out of the original cost. Pelham | Ames, secretary of the company, would | not have it that way. | Ames gave the items of cost of the | Pilarcitos Creels property as follows: Land, $160,07 3; tannels, $2441 82; San M teo and San Andreas tunnel, $73,624 01; reservoir, $227,162 07; dam, $223,969 52; pipe line to city, built in 1868, $199,605 2; the “forebay."" $14,982 20; new pipe line, built | in 1897, §999,562 88 total. $1,201,427 43. Ames said no interest had been added to the original cost. ““There are seven- miles of thirty-inch ipe in use,” sald Assistant Engineer Carl hussler. ‘‘About six miles of the thir- teen miles of pipe originally laid has been taken \?\ and replaced by five and a half | miles of forty-four-inch pipe and 1400 feet ipe. The pipe taken | up is now stored in the company’s yard. * Ames was recalled and testified that the thirty-inch pipe had been charged to con- | struction in 1368 and still appeared under | that account. It was not to be regarded | as having been discarded, as it was ready | to be used at any time for repairs. To & question asked by Reed whether the pipe | should not be charged to depreciation. | Ames sald: | ““There is no depreciation. The old pipe | is still fit to use and will be used. As far as the books show the pipe is still in use. | I do not know whether the tunnel bulilt | in 1861 is still in use. No part of the cost | of the Pilarcitos property has bee for out of the water rates. Repairs to | the plant, however, have always been | pald for out of the ratés. If any of the | pipe is taken up and replaced it is charged to maintenance and dges not come out of | the stocks and bonds.” ity Engineer Grunsky suggested that | the inquiry be directed toward ascertain- ing the weight and quality of the iron In the pipe and Ames promised to produge the specifications in the contracts at the next_meeting. Assistant Engineer Schussler was of the opinion that plre depreciated in value ac- cording to_the length of time it lles in the | The thirty-inch pipe now re- maining might last thirty years more, though it had been in the ground for thirty-two years past. When Branden- stein endeavored to pin Schussler down to that admission he said that though he had been an engineer since 137® he did_not have enough experfence to determine how long wrought iron pipe would last. Reed drew from Schussler the testimony that of the two dams designated " r’* and_“lower” the ‘‘upper” was not needed. Schussler would not admit that it was useless, but he said that if the works were to be constructed over again the upper dam would not be bulit, as there wAs mo necessity for ft. At this point the committee agreed to O+++ 4444444444 4444440 amend the ordinance providing for the ap- pointment of an expert engineer and an expert bogkkeeper by striking out the ex- pert engineer. The committee then recom- mended that an expert bookkeeper be ap- jointed for two months at a salary of 50 per month to assist the board in its investigation. B —— T | COFFEE, ELITE BRAND... ‘A cup that cheers,” per Ib. ASPARAGUS, 2-LB. CAN..15¢ Hickmott’s silver crescent, reg ASPARAGUS TIPS, HICK- MOTT'S, 3 tins for.. ..25¢ Extra fine and delicious, regu- lar 15¢ per tin. 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