The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1901, Page 25

THE ARLINGTON SPEND REMAINING DAYS IN PRISON Supreme Court Decides That of Women Must Go to the State Penitentiary Swindler - TO REPEN MUST AKLAND, Ja: 5—The life sen- | tence imposed upon Arthur Ar- | { lingt “he confidence operator | z who vietimizec “invrotected wom- | en. has been approved on appeal | by the Supreme Court | "‘T:\T(‘; o {or which Arlington | was the theft of $214 & prose je Smith. According to! \d of vperation Arlington control of his victim of marriage. On the showing her the loca- heir new home he took 1 spot and then sbbed her of her satchel containing the ey Many other instances of the emes worked by Arlington e he was sent to Letters, some of them inclosing | have come to lim.at the County om female dupes in various parts | e country., About a month ago a | an from Oregon arrived in town ex- £ him to_meet her and become | usband. So_compietely had he ob- ined control of her inateven when she nd him a prisoner in the County Jail | s not convinced that she had been | gton was rney prosecuted by Deputy | George Samuels before KNOW NOTHING OF GUINALDD mino Boys Say They Not Heard of His Death. e = Buenca Have stant but Commission that body at ooking for- and is do- out. nt his two sons, - i ted to were school, niversity of - expect to remain here e = re rming to Manila. 3 P | Victor 12 MORE EVIDENCE WANTED ON PEDERSON'S LUNACY Court Holds That Not Enough Facts Are at Hand to Convict Al- leged Maniac. KLAND, Jan. 5—Judge Ellsworth the evidence against Pleasanton man who arly committed fterward, was not ommitment to e col of the e s Stockton rged, but will when Tony > ranch whera ton, Marshal and now de- nst him. He iking heavily DEATH OF SAMUEL ROGERS FROM TYPHOID Thought That It Was Malaria and Refused a Physician Until Too Late. 5.—After a very short Rogers, a San Fran- ng at Frultvale, died id fever. Mr. Rog- Mondey with whei ttack of malaria. endance upon the had ofter been similarly recover. He grew 1 was called on n pronounced it a a said that the Jar worse, &nd Thursday case of typ patient was ever Mr. Rogers wes widower, and s. The whereabq ving. ears of age and. a s brother and two cats of sev- EX-MAYOR MACK WEBBER SUDDENLY PARALYZED Attacked in His Office and Removed to St. Luke’s Hospital, Where He Lies Unconscious. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—Mack Webber, or of Oakland and one of the ens of the city, was sud- stricken with paralysis on Thurs- while in San Francisco and was ken to £t. Luke's Hospital, where he is ow lying in_a eritica stroke came while he was in his office, he wzs at once taken to the hospital his family sent for. He became un- conscious at the time he was stricken, ar s remained so ever since. k Webber was elected Mayor of d in 1575 and served one term. had previously served three terms in the City Counc He has always taker a srominent part in politics since that time but has held no other office. U< i~ S After a girl has been a wife for two weeks she loses all interest in love stories. 5—A dispatch from | ¥ | but had been unable to find it swer condition. The ! He | e | COURT RULES ~ HORTHECTY {Judge Hall Denies a Non-| | suit Asked by Snow's Bondsmen. SRR el Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, | | 1118 Broadway, Jan. 5. | The city of Oakland did not give its consent to the retention of commissions | by R. W. Sr when City sor, by | the fact t a Asses- sor were approved by city experts. Judge Hall so ruled to-day in the suit brought | by the city against the Mayor to recover se fees. All evidence upon this point | was ruled out and the trial went on upon the legal right of the A or to with- | hold those commissions. | of the umption trial this ty Clerk Tompkins, to await n the court fdjourned before the holidays, was called mor g whose return from his vaca to tell what he knew about the missing | 310,000 bond filed in 1897 by Mr. Snow upon taking office. The loss of this paper made le to proceed with the trial at said that he had made a ugh search of his office for the bond In an testified | thoro to further questions, he no recollection of receiving the pape rom ex-Mayor Thomas. The latter had given him a number of such documents, but he had given them back, he did not consider it within his prov- ince to be responsible for them. | City Attorney Dow then proposed to in- troduce a certified copy of the bond. Attorney Charles H. Wilson for the | bondsmen objected to the admission of the copy. The court, however, allowed it | to go in. | Attorney Coogan, for Mayor Snow, then began offering the evidence to show the to the retention of the fees dation for a motion for a Morgan, who served as city ex- pert under ex-Mayor Thomas, was called s to having examined and ow’s accounts as City Auditor ssor. Attorney Dow ob- he question. “I can't see that the witness' testimony | on that point could show that the ecf! 'j consented to the retention of the money,” | sald Judge Hall. | “It would tend to show {t,” said Coogan. | “I think not,” said the court; “the ob- | jection is sustained.” [} The testimony of the expert that he| w that the fees were being held out | as also rejected and the motion for a| nonsuit was denled. Both sides then rested and the court set next Tuesday as the date for hearing the arguments. —_——— ACCUSES HIS BROTHER OF PERJURY AND FRAUD 5 | OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—Papers filed with | the County Clerk by James Rankin and Henry Mohr allege that R. D. Rankin, a | brother of the former, in his testimony | regarding his own insolvency swore false. ly, and that he concealed certain prop- erty to defraud his creditors. R. D nkin’s accounts are in charge insolvency for of the colirts In and his petition ¥y proceedings final discharge is scheduled for hearing next Monday. In opposition to the granting of this pe- tition the brother and his partner, Mohr, made th affidavit referred to above. laim that R. D. Rankin transferred estate to other parties to avoid nt by creditors. ————————— Firemen Elect Officers. BERKELEY, Jan. 5.—The Alert Volun- ¥ has elected the follow- >resident, F. W. Lock- ident, Edward Lemmon; re- ary, 'Ernest Reuden: finan- secretary, Albert Miller; treasurer, rge Kohler; foreman, George Horgan; sergeant at arms, Richard Davis. IMMIGRATION FOR THE YEAR. shington disy ye: Nearl r parts of ich to the New York halt a milljon people he world have come from o into the United States during the year 1909 seeking permanent homes. The de- tails of the immigratiun during the ten months ending with October, gathered by the Immigration Bureau and published by { the Bureau of Statistics, indicate that the immigration for the calendar year will reach about 460,000 Of this number more than 10000 come from Austria-Hungary, another 100,000 from Italy and nearly an-| other 100,000 from Russia, while the United Kingdom furnishes more than 50000, of | which number 40,000 are from Ireland. Of the 460000 immigrants, fuily 450,000 come I from Europe, while only about 4000, or | Jess than 1 per cent, come from the | tropics. | | | The indisposition of man in his migra- | tions to select a colder country than that | to which he has been accustomed is dis- tinctly perceptible in the history of our | tmmigration. | The following table shows the total im- | migration into the United States and the | number from the tropics in each year from 1880 to 1900: Fiscal Year. 580, ... Total From Number. Tropics. . 457,557 57 Total sinzc 188....... ARG20 | 102230 | the s: | school department | think. | children are too dependent—that instead | the Old Ladies’ Home at Temescal. SAN FRANCISCO CALL, UNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1901. : Qa DAYTIME SESSIONS OF THE STATE CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES ARE TAKEN UF IN DISCUSSING KINDERGARTENS AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION Sensation Is Created by Mrs. Luecy A. Walker of the Oakland Sehool Department, Who Reads an Unsparing Criticism of Present Methods of Teaching Tots—At the Evening Session Prison Director Fitzgerald Presides and the Reverend E. Drahms, San Quentin’s Chaplain, Is Heard - - Sames m L:L—na:_b E= = - 5 AKLAND, Jan. 5.—Kindergartens | two branches of education are antago- and compulsery education, two subjects that are dear to the heart of the California educato: were under discussion at the sions to-day of the State Conference Charities at the First ot Congregational Church. They were exhaustively discussed by the varfous interested persons present. | For the system of kindergartening now in vogue there was some severe criticism, | and the bill prepared by the educational commission, proposing compulsory educa- tlon and parental schools, received its share of attack. There was a large at- tendance at each of the three sessions. School Superintendent J. W. McCly- monds of Oakland presided during the morning »n, when the relations of kindergartens to the public schools was the topic for discussion. He delivered a short address in introducing the discus- sion, making the ration that if t dec preliminary instruction of children was well done there would be no peed for re- form schools. Le not the amount of Knowledge put imnto the infant’s head, was the way to Wwi it to future usefulness. The kindergarten's office should Le to sup- ply the absence of the mother. The love is the greatest charac- ence in the world, and its making infl place should be filled, when thére is a lack of it, by the Kindergarten. Something of & sprung on er written by Mrs. cher in the primary )akland, was read. Walker was unsparing in her criti- cism of present methods of congucting kindergartens. She combated the idea that the kindergarten child is taught to It was her experience that such of being taught they sought assistance from companions to rely upon themselves or their teachers. “Children with kindergarten advan- tages ought to be found _superior in all ways to those who are deprived of them,” read Nrs, Walker's paper. “But there is general com- plaint from primary school teachers that kindergarten pupils give more trou- ble—that is, they have 1 respect for authority—than any others; that they are less teachable; that they show les: trol of attention and are less willing work, and that they have little sense of personal responsibility. “The trouble is that the underlying principles governing the practice in these to | | nistic; so much so that the one cannot | posst | other. serve as a preparation for the If asked to specify some point ' | wherein_this antagonism is most evident I should say it is in the ideas of what | constitutes the greatest good for the child. The kindergarten =ays if only the child is_kept happy all other goods will be added vnto him without effort on his part. ‘The school =ey: dure a season of Jis ultimate bappines: the same in both The highest mental and moral attainment. Here we | are precipitated into the old world dis- pute as to what constitutes happiness— immediate pleasurc or future reward. Kindergarten practice emphasizes the former idea, school emphasizes the lat- ter.” Superintendent McClymonds. replying to Mrs. Walker's views said that all she advocated would come in time. Just now efforts were being' directed toward har- monizing the work of the kindergarten and the primary school. This had been complished in the one public kinder- garten of this city, Mr. McClymonds said, and teachers were glad to have pupils come from it. Addresses upon kindergarten work were made Ly Miss Anona M. Stovall of the Golden Gate Kindergarten of San Fran- cisco, Miss Grace Bernard of Oakland M. Fitzgerald, president of the ard of Prison Commissioners. The work of the Young Men's Christian Association was discussed just prior to the talk and papers on the kindergarten work. The speakers were D. Edward Col- lins, president of the local assoclation; Henry J. McCoy, secretary of the San Francisco Association, and W. M. Par- | sons, State secretary of the association. | The 'interesting staiement was made by Mr. McCoy that in the night schools con- ducted by the association in the United | States 26,000 boys were enrolled and over four hundred associations were formed in colleges, with a total membership of 35,000 With Professor Mary Roberts Smith | presiding the afternoon session com. | menced ‘with a discussion of the co pulsory school law which is to be pr | sented” for passage at the next Legisla- | ture. Miss Jessie Watson, representing the Association of College Alumnae, read | the bill and commented upon its features. It proposes to authorize the boards of education of the State to compel children under fourteen years of age to attend school and to maintain parental schools, where a truant officer provided for will detain incorrigible chiidren. The bill pro- vides that where the parents can show 25 SOME OF THE MEN PROMINENT AT THE STATE CHARITIES’ CONFERENCE IN OAKLAND. that they are poor and dependent upon their children the Board of Education can excuse them from attendance. “There is no doubt that the lack of a compulsory education law in this State has caused many mental and physic wrecks, said Superintendent cCl monds. ‘““The schools have not been es- tablished for the simple purpose of giving citizens an opportunity to send their chil dren to them. If the State gives schools it has a right to expect the chil- dren for whom they are supported to g9 to them. It ought surely to have the right to compel them to go if necessary. “There is a law on the statute books now compelling parents to send their chil- dren to school. It was passed in 1884. But it is inoperative because it makes no provision for truancy. The whole force of the statute lies in'the fact that a tru- ant officer is provided. Provision nothing can be accomplished. “Children intrusted to our care ought to have the best possible education under the best possible conditions. We spend lots of money on schools, but ought to spend more. We would then have to spend less on penitentiaries. I'm a firm bellever in the doctrine that the child should not be sent to school if its parents are to be pauperized in so doing, and I'm & believer in the doctrine that the child should not be pauperized In mind and body for the sake of its greedy parents. This proposed law contains a provision that Boards of Educatidbn shall decide whether parents are able to support their children. I think that is the safest way to submit it to the Legislature, as it wiil be sure to meet with opposition unless it contains some such rellef measure for people who are really dependent, “The parental school is a necessity. Without it a compulsory education law amounts to nothing. In my capacity as School Superintendent many parents come to me for advice. I can’t do anything but tell them to send their children to the reform school if they are particularly bad. A reform school is the only place In the State where we can send such boys.” During the general discussion which fol- lowed Mr. McClymonds' remarks, L. P. Fisher, principal of the Central School, Dr. H. H. Hart, Mrs. Watson, Professor Smith and Miss Katherine Fel- ton spoke. Mr. Fisher sald the disposition was to interfere as little as possible with the rights of parents. Dr. Hart thought the provision giving educational boards the right to excuse the children of poor parents would have the effect of render- ing the law ineffective. Parents would be apt to pauperite themselves, he con- tended, and appeal to the sympathies of the board. Mr. McClymonds thought the If there is no such | privilege would be abused, of course, but that anything more rigid than the pro- posed law w d not pass the Legisiature. “Distruct Nursing’” was the subject of a paper read by Miss Octavine Briggs of San Francisco. Miss Briggs told about the little home she lives in in Tehama street, where the sick and needy send for things to eat and medicine and to borrow money. through friends of from her charges. She pleaded that the usefulness of nurses would be doubled if ;‘h?y went to live among those whom they elp. The proposed act creating a State Board of Charities and Corrections provides that such board shall consist of six commis- sioners, who shall hold office for six years each, ‘the members of the first board, however, to classify themselves by lot so that two shall go out of office every two years for six vears; that the Gowvernor shall be a member ex-officio; that women may be appointed members; that no of- ficial or director of an instifution subject to the terms of the act shall have a place on the board; that the Commissioners shall act without pay. but shall receive their traveling expenses; that the ex- penses of the poard in any one year, in- cluding the secretary’s salary ‘of $1800. shall not exceed $4000; that the board shall provide itself with offices in the city of San Francisco; that the fallure of any Commissioner to attend three consecutive meetings, unless excused by a vote of the board, shall be construed as a resigna- tlon; that the board shall investigate and make reports upon the public charitable and correctional institutions of the State and cities and counties of the State, and such private institutions as receive pub- lc funds other than State hospitals; that all plans for new jalls, workhouses, alms- houses, children’s homes, orphan asylums and public hospitals, and for important alterations to such like institutions as are in existence, shall before adoption be sub- mitted to the board for suggestions and criticism. Prison Director R. M. Fitzgerald was in charge of the programme at this even- ing's session. Prison reform was the sub- ject under discussion. Before introducing Rev. E. Drahms, chaplain of 8an Quentin Prison, Mr. Fitzgerald gave a brief history of the prisons in this State. The first were located In ships’ hulks. San Quen- tin was located in 1851. Prisoners were loaned to contractors for terms of years, which proved a pernicious practice. ison directors, when they got into office, used the place to pay their political debts. There was an utter lack of discipline, and escapes were frequent. voluntary subscriptions from She is able to carry on her work | the cause and the small sums | —— The Rev. Mr. Drahms spoke as follows: It is an axiom in penology that the wors prisons turn out the worst prisoners and thy best prisons the best prisoners. The ides then of reformation strik history of prisons only man‘s inhumanity to system of punishing men for thefr crimes § best exemplified at the prison at Albany. Mos of the prisons of the world are stitutions. The _solitar: is in vogue in Philade: regate system reforma of the question e congregat: ion of prisoners is ow Old and young, the novitiaty and the hardenened criminal, black and whita mingle together. The young men come into contact with the old jail birds_ and the effect is to harder them, too. The men live sometimes tw in one room and it is utterly useless to to do anything for them. They ought to together only a reasonable time each day. A night there ought to be single celis for eact or’ them. Otherwise the prison Is & hotbed foi crime. I advocate another prison in this State. should be bullt in the southern part of ¢ tate. The saving in railroad fave for trans and officers would pay It should be composed of three sec tions—one for whom reform is impossible, on for first termers and one for young men. I would resuit in the moral and intellectual im: provement of prisoners and pave the way for their reform. The present system of sentencing prisoners is utterly wrong. In this State wi have the definite system. The matter of pun ishment is left to the discretion and caprice of a Judge who is often times unfair and in consistent. We should adopt the indeterminats system of sentencing. It ls now in vogue i1 nearly all the States. The prisomer, under it is practically sent to prison for life and hii sentence 1s determined just so soon @s he shows evidence to a body of competent met that he has reformed. The parole system in this State is an up-to date institution. Under certain _conditions when a man has served half his term, he i released from prison. He is taken charge o by friends, who have secured him employment This ameliorates his condition greatly, as usw ally a prisoner when he is released, is bani rupt in pocket and character and reputation The reform schools are grand Institutions and I wish we had more of them. There I only ome trouble about them, however, and that is that they don’t keep the boys long enough. They are sent there for a year or tw{ and don’t have a chance to learn a trade, lef alone form their character. Dr. Hart, Professor Smith, Craigle Sharp and M. R. Blank of the Whittiei Reform School entered into the discussion which followed Rev. Mr. Drahms’ address, Sherman Smith, superintendent of the re. form school at Whittier, who was to have spoken upon prison reform, was unable to be present on account of pressing busi- ness. TELLS OF NEEDS OF UNIVERSITY President Wheeler’s Report to Legislature Is Good Reading. BERKELEY, Jan. 5—The biennial re- port of the president of the University of California to the State Legislature wll be received from the printers by to-mor- row and will be made public at once. The report makes a phamphlet of 1% pages. This will be President Wheelgr's first re- port to the Legislature. It i3 a very im- portant document and contains many rec- ommendations and suggestions to the State’s law-making body. In his report President Wheeler first speaks of the university as it was when he came to it. Its growth, its present po- sitlon among the universities of the world | and its future position are carefully dealt with. Particularly is the future of the university spoken of. At considerable length President Wheeler gives his plans for the coming vears, offers suggestions and recommendations and speaks of what must be done to follow the growth of the State institution and how that growth may be further continued in a healthful way. Each department of the university is re- viewed and criticized. President Wheeler ideas of what should be done for the bet- terment of these departments are give: Some valuable statistics, showing the e: act financial condition of the university and comparing it with other universities, are in the report. Ways of securing bet- ter financial support in the future are pointed out. The recommendations will be considered with unusual interest on account of the new president, the rapld growth of the university and its bright prospects. —e————— Cared For in Old Age. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—Mrs. Constance Da- vidson, one of the first members of the Congregational church, will be cared for in her old age by that institution. The church will purchase for her a place in She was under restraint because of her weak mental condition and the church will pro- vide for her so that she will not have to be sent to an asylum. Her family is not in a position to care for her. e To Test Billboard Ordinance. BERKELEY, Jan. 5.—J. C. Green, a bill poster, was fined $10 to-day by Jus- tice Edgar for violating the town bill- board ordinance. Green's attorney flled a bond and gave notice of appeal to the Superior Court. i This was the first trial under Berke- ley's new ordinance, which provides that bd’lboll’dl shall not be more than six feet high and must be six feet from the side- Were not ‘as_fequired but held thatos ‘were ni as juf , buf el Ariinance was & unconstitutional, = WERRY OF LIF SHE SEEKS DENTH Young Girl Leaps Into the Eay From the Foot of Clay-Street Wharf. —_— This morning at 1:30 the fishermen at the wharf at the end of Clay street were alarmed by the actions of a young girl, who was loftering on the dock. Ere they had time to approach her and make in- quiries concerning her actions the girl gave a cry and leaped off the dock into the waters of the bay. The fishermen quickly launched a boat and rowed out into the darkness of the bay where they faintly saw the body of the girl. As she was sinking for the sec- ond time the men took hold of her cloth- ing and pulled her into the boat. With herolc eftorts they strained every nerve to reach the dock on quick time, and fif- teen minutes after the girl had jumped from the dock the fishermen were con- veying her unconsclous form to the Har- bor Hospital. The doctors at the hospital had been in- formed by telephone of the attempted sul- clde, and had everything prepared to re- vive the unfortunate girl. soon as the Ump and saturated body was laid on the operating table the doctors detected a faint sign of life, and worked with heroic vigor to revive the flickering spark. After thirty minutes’ work the doctors an- nounced that they had every hope of sav- ing the life of the one who would have drowned herself. The would-be sulcide is a brunette be- tween 19 and 20 years old, ut five feer three inches in height and was dressed in a plain black dress and bodice, with black button shoes and black velvet hat. Nelther gloves nor purse were found in her clothing, and the only article of value was a gold ring set with a single opal. —_——————— Pulled His Own Teeth. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—Judge Greene be- lieves that a man who can pull out two of his own sound teeth is not in his right eenses. That was the evidence offered in the case of Cornelius O'Nell, who was up for commitment on a charge of insanity yesterday. O'Neil pleaded that the teeth were too long, but the court held that the weight of the testimony was against him. 1 GLOSE WATCH 1§ New Year Dinner. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—The employes of the Oakland branch of Sherman & Clay were given a dinner last evening at a local restaurant. Those who attended were: John C. Walling, C. A. Neale, F. Lindeman, R. C. Rose; W. L. Mason, W. M. Doyal, A. G. Schmitz, Louis Schmits, Charles Skinner, George Flick, Fred Jep- son and J. T. ce. S———— More misery and crime result from 1dI ness than from all other causes mlln.t KEPT ON GERMANY Talk of the Possibility cf War With Some For- eign Power. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BbJREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Much inter- est was displayed in diplomatic circles here to-day In Senator Hawley's state- ment on the floor of the Senate during the debate on the army reorganization bill “that we are not altogether out of sight of some possibility of war with some Eu- ropean power.” This power is undoubted- ly the one that Secretary Root referred to in his sensational speech several months ago in New York, and to meet which both the army and navy are mak- ing preparations. While there is not an official willing to stand for the statement, it is evident that the national authorities are carefully watching Germany, and it is known that the policy of the board of which Admiral Dewey is president has not lost sight of the desirability of having American men- of-war distributed in such fashion that American interests will be adequately pro- tected in case of war. Germany ordered four battleships last summer to China. is was met by the dispatch by this Government of the bat- tleship Kentucky, and by orders recently given to the New York, making the total effective force of this Government in Asiatic waters, in addition to gunboats and protected dchulae!rn.ktwg hettluklps. the Oregon an entucky; two monitors, the Monceres and the. Monadnock, and two armored cruisers, the New York and the Brooklyn. Besides these vessels, the United States has its Pacific _squadron, which would promptly reinforce the Aslatic command, consisting of the bat- tleships Iowa and Wisconsin. The Philippines would undoubtedly be the battleground, as the German vessels would have to be near their base of sup- plies in case of war. ‘With respect to the Atlantic coast it is known that Germany has not been col- lecting any supplies of coal or munitions of war in the West Indies, and, so far as she is not in alliance’ with any to seize a base and woul:tld. thednfm.tb. as was “flhfi 1t is particularly desirable point of view t the TUnited States the Danish West !ndlefi be promj ortifled an use of her as 8. ‘This Government is ive force, however, um'&'&% being available the battleships Kear- sarge, Alabama, Indiana, Massachusetts, Illinols and Texas, in aadition to pro- tected cruisers and gunboats. PROGRAMMES FOR OAKLAND THEATERS The Macdonough Will Try a Week of Low-Priced Standard Drama. OAKLAND, Jan. 5—The Macdonough Theater will try a week of popular price drama, beginning Monday. ‘the Jessie Shirley company will open Monday even- ing with “Trilby” and will play through- out the week. “Trilby” will be produced on Monday and Thursday evenings, the “Country Girl” on Tuesday and Saturday evenings, “Moths” on Wednesday, “The Ugly Duckling” on Friday, ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy” for the children's matinee on Saturday and “For Liberty and Love” on Sunday evening. This is the third season of this company on the road. The most expensive seat will be 50 cents. The Dewey Theater will produce “The Last Stroke” during next week. ——————— POLICEMAN LAWRENCE'S ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED ALAMEDA. Jan. 5.—Joseph Lawrence, for thirty years a policeman, is to be mar- ried to Mrs. Constancia Rosa, a San Le- andro lady, within a week. The engage- ment was announced to-day. Lawrence’s first wife died about a year ago. It transpired after her death that she had transferred her half of the com- munity property to her two daughters. She was jealous of her husban and feared that he would marry again. Law- rence commenced suit for the recovery of the property. The suit was decided in his favor. Now he is to married, but he has provided his daughters by giving them a house to themselves next door to the one he will occupy with his bride. ———— Barbers’ Officers to Be Installed. A public installation of the newly elect- ed ofticers of the local branch of the Jour- neymen Barbers' International Union of America will take place to-morrow even- at 32 O'Farrell street. In consequence of the closing hour, § o'clock, the time fixed for the commencement of the cere- monles is 9 o'clock. In recognition of the good feeling exlltln, between employers and employes all of the proprietors of union shops will be present. A select pro- consisting of oral and instru- mental music, has been arranged for the occasion. The barbers, considering the short time they have been organi: into a_union, have surpassed the expectations of the promoters of the craft's affiliation. Runaway Collides With Car. A runaway team attached to a buggy, in which were two men, caused no end of excitement along Montgomery avenue last night. At the junction of that ave- nue and Pacific street the runaways atoi Dut ‘the " prope stock ia s trade, contin their mad career, broke their traces by colliding with an streets. ™ son: st k gn( caught. were found to be serfously injured about their withers an¢ chests. In the excitement the occupants of the buggy vanished, leaving theis broken property unciaimed. rante £ oo Storm Does Good. OAKLAND, Jan. 5.—The storm has done no damage in Alameda County, but ha: been of immense benefit. There has beer a rainfall of 112 inches for the storm, ane a total of 10.51 inchcs for the season against 16.69 inches last year. 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