The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1901, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCU CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1901 C 11 AGGUSE LAWYERS OF GONSPIRAGY Charge Grows Out of an Alleged Attempt to Bribe a Jury. LT | CAPITAL BUY: LIME DEPOSITS Large Tract of Valu- able Land Near Suisun Sold. Indictments Found on Testi-| mony Given by Former Court Bailiff, Company Is Formed to Build Cement Factories Im- mediately. hree prominent at a well-known rafiroad detec- to-day on the charge of ling and abetting Bailift ted for attempted jury Special Dispatch to The Cali. SUISUN, Oct. 3.—One of the most im- | portant deals in real estate ever recorded in Solano County was closed to-day, when a deed for 140 acres of land was made by ted were Attorneys Alex- for the Union SOr to the West Company, against | tion the suits were original- dward M‘?her and Frederick hdicted i escape. ullivan, t mpany hicago Stre San Francisco. The property is located about five miles northeast of Suisun and contains immense deposits of lime rock, manufacture of Portland cement. Messrs. fter their indictments in | $10,000 videnrs 531 to have been | The responsibility of conducting the in- Thed Starese ot Lynch,'who, it | vestigations wae intrusted to R. H. Dool- R e eaemee, in, a San Francisco cement expert. While 8 ‘fu‘u‘d‘ 'gfield and St. John | sinking shafts and drilling test holes L Gand at nightfall. Lynch | through the rock Mr. Doolin discovered on RS, charged with offering | that an immense deposit of blue clay un- | ror serving in a person: derlies the lime rock nd extends to oth- A number of other indictments 1 against the bailiff later. Lynch er portions of the tract. All that is re- quired for the manufacture of Portland cement has been found on the place, and { the work of the erection of factories will soon begin. The projectors have organized the Eu- reka Portland Cement Company, and among the incorporators are the follow- ing wealthy San Francisco firms Is Badly Beaten in the Ocean View | lpsenfeld's Sous all, Perkins Handicap at the Graves- | & Bros. Company BLUES FINISHES BEHIND { AUTOLIGHT AND DUBLIX | Talbot, Good- n D. Spreckels pe . and Johi The company is capi- end Mecting. | talized for $1.000,000. the entire amount of Ocs e & which has been subscribed. a - s The Eureka Company 1 erect works nges | with "a capacity of 1000 barrels of cement of two miles to the Company tracks for a | tracts a distanc Southern Pacific private railway one mile e Gart er wo: and Astor secon a sixteenth— Al-| furlongs—Femecole | cond, The Pride of | LABOR LEADERS CONFER urlongs—Par Excel ood second, Lady Go- | clusion Act and Passage of Eight-Hour Law. seventy yards— Anna Darling WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—President Gom- = _ | pers of the American Federation of aid r Grounds summary: | hor and Ralph M. Easl a ey 5o¥°™ | National Civic Federation, had a confer- | e s, sellingHas Gire | nce to-day with President Roosevelt and T rinne third. Time, | Presented several matters for his consid- | eration. One was the Chinese exclusion | a furiongs, seling | act, which terminates by limitation in S sec Ben Frost | March, 1902. The labor interests, it ap- pears, desire the exclusion act renewed £ and seventy yards, | and asked President Roosevelt for his aid - Kittie Clyde sec- The President likewise in this direction. was asked to say something in his mes- sage recommending favorable action on the eight-hour proposition pending in Con- ree-sixteenths, Spara second selling—Mari gre: mnd, Nannic Nc e T, = | PRESIDENT PREPARING - g ot B Pt MESSAGE TO CONGRESS £ Lucien Appleby er's 1 and fiv by a of a length | de the track e and a half fur- General Wood Will Enlighten Him on the Condition of Affairs in Cuba. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—It is expected that General Wood will return to Wash- ington the latter part of this month to confer with President Roosevelt regard- ing the Cuban feature of his annual mes sage to Congress. Brigadier General Sam- uel Whitside, at Santiago, will proceed to | Havana to temporarily serve as Governor and he may possibly serve in that capac- ity until the United States withdraws from the island. s Costly Salt Worries Fishermen. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 3—The advance in the price of salt such as is used by the > fishermen in curing fish has advanced to . | such an extent that a number of the fish- ermen who make their homes at playa. FLUSHE OF GOLD | on the other side of the bay, have hauled THE LYNCH up their boats and declare that there is BTAKES | 1P o no chance for profit. The price used {GELE! . 3-—Only _|to be about £ per ton, but it has been N otura] Pk e ita- | ratsea from time to time to 3. then $11, : g t0-daY, | 13516, $i9 and finally $20 50. The fisher- one at prohibitive odds. Flush | men use about 200 tons 2 month. 4 nothing to beat and galloped | —_———— p:ea.;e'i a]( '1hm 8. {Hrrsgnna took | Massachusetts Democratic Ticket. e T e it o ihie| BOSTON, Oct. 3—The Democratic State Convention held here to-day placed the following ticket in nomination: Josiah Quincy of Boston; Lieutenant Gov- ernor, John Coughlin of Fall River; Secretary of State, Wellmore B. Stone of Springfield; Treasurer, Josiah J. Chalfoux of Lowell; Auditor, James F. Dean of Salem; Attorney General, A. A. Putnam of Bridge. e and a quarter—Flying | second, Rolling Boer iongs—Moneymuss lon third won, Time, e and a half furlongs, won, Lucien A third New ce, one mile and seventy yards— Frank M second, Miss Dooley Time, five: Wilkes Yale and Princeton Divide Honors. | PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3—Princeton | end Yale divided the champlonship hon- | ors of the intercollegiate lawn tennis tour- | nament, which was finished to-day. Fred- erick G. Alexander of Princeton won the , one mile: 197 (Ransch), 1 to 8. 1" Howard A. Plummer and 8. L. Russell, 2 H e | Maher and Jeffords Fight. ! LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 3.—Jim Jeffords and Peter Maher met here to-night in a | six-round_boxing bout. No decision was given and honors were about even, with 'Jeflorda having perhaps a shade the bet- ter of it. He scored a knockdown in the | second round. 5 =5 z| World’s Champion Bronco Buster. !| DENVER, Oct. 3—M. T. Sowders of . Doe a1 Megro, George | Diamond, Wyo., was to-night awarded Little Eidleweiss and | the world’s champlonship belt for broncho | busting, offered by the directors _of the 1 3 even. 3 Time, 1:14. o ran. G | Festival of Mountain and Plain. The con- Trotting-Horse Races. | test tcok place here vesterday. HAT Ind., Oct. 3.—Summary: stakes, $2000—Country Jay | end fifth heats. Best | n the first and second | Dorothy Redmond, | Tennis Club Election. The new board of directors of the Cali- forniz. Tennis Club held its first meeting t aleo started. | last night and elected the following offi- e won in | cers: Werner Stauf president, Harry time, 2:1%%. Nelghbor | Hajght vice president, Grant Smith sec- _Rejected, Stone and | retary and Walte®8. MacGavin treasurer. rbris Wal | The ~ following Ommittees were also mbria Maid won In | elected: Tournament committee—Frank H mmy Mac. le, Strathiine omg | Stringham, Charles G. Kuehn and George Norée also started, 3 F. Whitney; election committee—Miss 2:14 pace®, purse $1500 (unfinished)—Council ‘ Emma Hunter, Dr. Philip and Judge John won the only heat in 2:09%. Theresa | Hunt. The secretary also acts as a mem- Nomamie, Teak Madge, Lady | ber of the tournament committee. The Beauty Bpot and Peulding Boy also | following were elected delegates to the Pacific States Lawn Tennis Association: William B. Collier, Robert N. Whitney and Dr. C. Sumner Hardy. S ‘Handbell Players Matched. The handball players matched for v Lord Rosebery’s | games which will take place to-morrow at Spsom Lad was second and King Ed-|San Francisco court are as follows s Diamond Jubllee rd. Eight | b ; nd P. Ry v . orses ran. Disguise II (Maher) started | & "una 3. Dustan: M McDonatl snass ond favorite at 75 to 20 against, but Mckinnon vs. M. McNell and G. McDonald; a mile from home he began to swerve 'y H. Lissner and J, J. Kavanaugh vs. W. , purse $100 cats. Best George Cas e l Pietermaritzburg Wins. LONDON, Oct. 3—J. E. Platt’s bay colt | Pictermaritzburg, by St. Simon-Sea Alr, | won the Jockey Club stakes of £10000 at | Newmarket to-day. finished sixth. Pietermaritzburg won | Walsh and J. Brady: E. White and W. Mitch- ix lengths. Four lengths | el "“Giynn and R. Regil; J. Ward and and third horses. Bet.| W. Ward vs. W. H. Egan and E. J. Sweeney; vas 4 1o 1 against Pletermaritzburg | M. Bordor and A. Aguirre vs. J. Bidart and d Dia y n 1 "€ | 3. Errenuiepi; D. Connelly and M. Joyce vs, ,,1:“1‘::;“ S ol agun‘(i W. williams and J. Lawless; J. C. Nealon 5 —_—— | ana 3 3. Kilgallon . Riordon and W. B erley: J. White and W. Magulre vs. J. Col- Thoroughbreds Under Hammer. | jins and R. Murph 2 NEW YORK, Oct. 3—The closing auc- | = $ of stallions, brood mares and | Many Killed at Hungarian Election. LONDON, Oct. 4—“It is estimated,” says the Daily Mail's correspondent, “that twenty-four men were killed and hundreds injured during the Hungarian election riots. In various places voters were coerced by threats of death or tor- ‘At Udurassa a prominent politician, ale The highest prices were: Leigh—Imp. Royal Flush, 5 3 , $4500; imp, 18, by Vera City-Make More, $1000; imp. Bonnie Snood, b. iHeath Time-The Plajden, Mil- rlings at Sheepshead Bay was held m-| Arrow Grass, b. m., 12, | ture. s Eparrow Graes, W, ¥iay | together with his wife and three sons, 5 colt weanling by imp. | was murdered by his fanatical oppo- ¥ -Arrow Grass, Milton | nent: e L Terrible Crime of Jealous Lover. MARSHALL, Mo., Oct. 3.—Al Thomas, jealous over the attentions paid his sweet- heart, Miss Minnie Hayes, by Arthur Cox, shot him fatally. wounded the girl at her home here and then committed sulcide, by imp. Cangiemas- )R ENGINEER'S WAGES.—C. N, | vesterday in the United the steamer Eu- due for wages as A. A. Dickie to John Rosenfeld's Sons of | which has stood successful tests for the | g ¥ ., chief of | Rosenfeld were induced to take an op- e 2T entral Railroad | tion on this property several months ago | fiiYan and Maher furnished | by . Dinkelspiel of Sulsun, who had pre- viously c: used experiments to be made of | John ! Track fairly | daily and will employ about 300 men. The | | price paid for the Dickie property w $20.000. in addition to the land rights second, e third. Time, | way have bee: secured over adjoining WITE THE PRESIDENT | Ask Aid to Secure Renewal of Ex- | Governor, | | title in_the singles, while the Yale team, | captured the final match in the doubles. | 'PRESIDENT PROMOTES ' BRAVE CAVALRY OFFICER Lieutenant Colonel Rucker, Popular in This City, Is Named for Colonelcy of the Eighth. . Rucker holds the responsible position of inspector general of the Department of Southern Luzon, with headquarters at Manila, in which capacity he has proved himself a most valuable executive officer. Rucker has a long and brilliant military. record. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union army in Captain’ Barker's Chicago Dra- goons, so called. He served until that vol- unteer company became the Eighth Illi- nois Cavalry. He went from a private to sergeant, then to first sergeant, and in February, 1864, he was made second lieu- tenant for brilliant service. In November of the same year he was made first lieu- tenant for gallantry, and with this rank was mustered out. He re-entered the army with the rank of second lieutenant in the Ninth Cavalry. In July, 1867, he was made first lleutenant, and in March, 1879, captain. In 187 he became major, and in 1900 was transferred to the Sixth Cavalry, which was stationed upon this coast, Lieutenant Colonel Rucker thus becoming a resident of San Francisco. | | | HE first military appointment of | 4 = & 1 | VETERAN ARMY OFFICER WELL KNOWN IN THIS CITY WHO HAS ‘5 JUST RECEIVED A WELL MERITED PROMOTION AT THE HANDS [ OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. | : | At the outbreak of thé war with sPaxn Rucker was ordered to the Philipp! - President Roosevelt is 5 nes, that :f‘ Lieutenant Colonel L. H, miers bo made s hiliian setdutioite | 3 eng Held. e had already acquired a reputa- Rucker, whom the Presldent j,n'ae an Indian fighter with the Ninth named yesterday for a colonelcy. This appointment is of interest to Califor- nia, which may be considered the home State of Lieutenant Colonel Rucker, for here his fams resides, though the of- ficer himself is on duty in the Philippine Islands. The appointment of Rucker was made to fill the vacancy in the Eighth Cavalry | caused by the retirement of Colonel Bell, | the famous Philippine scout. Rucker was { chosen from among the line officers on | Quty in Uncle Sam's island possessions. STANDARD OIL MAGNATE IS CITED FOR CONTEMPT Vice President of Company Directed to Appear in United States District Court. NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Judge Lacombe {in the United States District Court to-day issued an order directing that Henry Rog- ers, vice president of the Standard Oil Company, appear before him Tuesday next to answer for contempt of court in falling to appear before a special exam- iner appointed by the court to take testi- mony In the suit of J. Edward Addicks agalnst the Boston Gaslight Company and the Massachusetts Pipe Line Com- pany in a suit now pending in the United States District Court for Massachusetts. The order is based on the affidavit of Os- car Wagner, a lawyer, who makes affida- vit that he made seven different efforts Cavalry, and to this he added in the Fili- pino insyrrection. His regiment was the first in the islands and the first home. In 1900 he was made acting superintendent of the Yosemite National Park, making an admirable superintendent. In_ March of the present year he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth Cavalry and again ordered to the Philippines, where his spe- cial service in the establishment of civil government in the islands brought him his appointment as colonel at the hands of President Roosevelt. Colonel Rucker will now be ordere to Cuba to join his new regiment. | | | GERMAN CHURCH HAS VERY PRETTY BAZAAR | Ladies Active in Increasing Building | Fund of St. Matthau's | Church. | The bazaar in aid of the building fund of St. Matthau's German Lutheran | Church, which is being held at Union | Square Hall, is a decided success. It Will continue until Saturday evening. The booths are arranged very prettily and of course they are conducted by pretty women. The following interesting programme was rendered last evening: | i - the direction of | s B, e Stis Cessila Zin: Yoeal solo, Miss Juliet Greninger; Naval Miiftia Band, under the direction of M. F. Walten; Keystone Quartet, Messrs. E. Pfaeffle, | 5 ‘ ; s R pl;ix:rl\‘n e "rhr"‘:"r'n:;flnf to serve the order of the court upon Rog- | Keystone Quartet, Mesgrs. _Pfaetfle. E. | ers. | Teach, F. Ball and F. Crase; Naval Militia Band, under the direction of M. F. Walten. More Gannqry Vessels Arrive. The church council in charge of the| The tenders Alitak from Kodiak and affair is made up as follo Golden Gate from Hunters Bay, the ship | Heinrich Goetjen, president; John Bruns, vice | Eclipse from Chignik and bark J. D. Pet- president; Ernest Jatho, sncrell'j)ryl: Lgc_‘lwls ers from the same place and the schooner Cochius, recording secretary; Louls ~Waas, A Cochinn, | TeORlit Rucnas, Adoiph Echleve; | Dopish fromy. Kilaal among the arrivals yesterday. The Golden Gate came down under sail in eighteen days. Soon after leaving Hun- ters Bay the thrust shaft broke and Cap- tain McKenna sailed back. The vessel was beached, but repairs could not be made, so the propeller was unshipped and another start was made on September 15. The Golden Gate made splendid time Rev. Hermann Gehrcke, pastor. The ladies in charge of the various | booths are the following named: Jce Cream—Mre. Harry Winter, Mrs. Dett- mer, Mre p, Mre. H. Haines, Mrs. K. Him- melman, Mrs. 8. Schieve, Miss M. Ohland and Miss Emilic Eisert. Dolls—Mrs, H. Mauch, Mrs. H. Meisel, Miss Gehrhardt, Miss Emma Falch, Miss EAdn;‘ cle Radine, Miss Dora Meisel and Miss down, but was within ninety miles of San | Glootz. Franeisco for six days without a chance Foney Work—Miss Mary Falke, Mrs. Ida | o get in. Huck, Miss Lubbe, Mrs. A. Helmes, Mrs. | “mhe Eclipse brought down 46,722 cases Lacheman and Mrs. Peters. Wheel of Fortune—Mrs. Ludwig Cochius, Mrs. P. Cochius, Mrs. Canpe, Mrs. Fritz Muller, Mrs. Lucy Muller, Mrs. William Wehr, Miss Fortriede, Ludwig Cochius, Willlam Wehr, Miss Kimmelmann and Carl Nickel assisted the la- dles. Lemonade and Candy—Mrs. R. Kochendorfer, Mrs, Bertha Schmolz, Mrs. M. Thun, Mrs. H. Kockler and Miss E. Muller. Coffee—Mrs, Thompson, Mrs. Kempf, Mrs. Dahmke, Mrs. Fuetscher, Mrs. E. Radins, Mrs. T. Huch, Mrs. Gompertz, Mrs. English, Mrs. and the J. D. Peters 36,000 cases of sal- mon. The ship was for five days drifting beilween Point Reves and the Farallones without a chance to get in. The Peters reports the Ferris 8. Thompson as get- ting ready to sail from Chignik for home on October 1. — e Peter J. Hegarty a Benedict. Peter J. Hegarty, regimental adjutant of the League of the Cross Cadets, and | Annie Schultz and Mise U Helne. Miss Ella M. Fitzgerald were married | WArt—Mrs. G.Olsen, Miss Gall and Mrs. L. |y yterqay at St. Peter's Church by the Fish Pond—Mrs. Wagner, Mrs. M. Hansen, | Rev. Father Casey. The church was Mre. Emma Olsen, Mrs. Gall and Miss Aima | crowded with friends of the young couple. Hansen. Miss Bessie Fitzgerald acted as brides- Japanese Tea and Flowers—Mrs. H. Gehrcke, Miss Goetjen, Miss Anita Hermes, Mrs. Mirta Hermes, dirs, E. Mauch, Miss Olga Dierks, Miss Jennie Huck, Miss Anna Ohlandt and Mis Dora Bannick. 3 Curlosity—H. Mauch, R. Winter, Schulken and Johann Huck. ——————————— Farnham Still Fighting. John Farnham filed a petition for a re- hearing In the case involving the office of Public Administrator in the Supreme Court yesterday. The court recently de- mald and A. J. Sullivan officiated as best man. After the ceremony the bridal party assembled at the home of the bride's parents, 2764 Twenty-fourth street, where a wedding breakfast was served. The young, couple will spend their honeymoon at Del Monte and upon their return will tske‘up their residence at 2745 Bryant street. Herman e e Clancy’s Case Ready for Jury. The case of Patrick Clancy, the special officer who shot and killed Attorney J. N. E. Wilson on May 27 last, will go to the cided on _appeal that many of the ballots cast for P&rlck Boland had been marked | jury to-day. The hearing of evidence for in such a manner as to make possible the | the defense was concluded yesterday morning when John H. Wise, ex-Collector of the Port, was called to testify that ‘Wilson's reputation was bad. ————————— Divorce Proceedings. The following suits for divorce were filed yesterday: Mary E. Cowden against George A. Cowden, cruelty; Helen Alma Hankins_against Samuel J.’ Hankins, de- sertion; Ida Mae Chlemens against Julius T. Chlemens, desertion. Hazel E. Openshaw was divorced from Joseph P. Openshaw yesterday on the ground of desertion. e Tl CAPTAIN DWYER_GIVES BAIL.—John Dwyer, captain of the British steamehip Flint- shire, was arrested vesterday on the charge of having allowed a Chinese to escape while the vessel was“lying at Oakland. He was released on bonds in the pum of §300. identification of their voters and a new trial was ordered. If the Supreme Court grants the petition for a rehearing and makes its reversal absolute, Farnham will be given the office of Public Administra- tor until January, when the present term expires. ————— Mysterious Knife-Wielder. E. Morris, aged 20 years, residing at 22 Tehama street, was stabbed in the left side while standing on the corner of Pa- cific street and Montgomery avenue at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Morris said an unknown man who was passing by plunged a knife blade into his side. The injured man was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where it was found the knife blade had struck a rib directly over the heart. A description of the man who did the cutting was given to the police, TWD VAGANGIES - FOLLOW SGANDAL Board Acts Decisively in Berkeley School Trouble. Resignations of Principal Atherton and Miss Earle Accepted. BERKELEY, Oct. 3.—The Board of Ed- ucation to-night closed the scandal in the Berkeley Commercial College, so far as official cognizance went, by accepting the resignations of Principal A. W. Atherton and Miss Gertrude Earle of the steno- graphic department, who had charged her superfor with misconduct. The action of the board had been forecasted. It was sharp and decisive. Ten minutes’ time sufficed to cover the formalities of the session, and when all was over, Miss Earle, escorted by her father, and her for- !mer friend, Atherton, disappeared from | the lobby, where, with scores of pupils of the school and their parents, they had been hearers of the proceedings. ment in the spicy pedagogical scandal were returned to Miss Earle, who declares she will retain the missives from the late principal unless Atherton’s friends at- tempt to secure his reinstatement. In that case the young woman threatens that she will tell the whole story, putting letters and all under the limelight of pub- lic criticism. Letters in the Case. The chief development in the Berkeley Commercial College upheaval to-night was the making public of the proceedings at the secret committee meeting Tuesday night, when the charges and denials by Miss Earle and Principal Atherton were heard. There were three letters read, as ollows: BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 1, 1901 Berkeley Board of Education—Gentlemen: I deem it necessary to report to the members of the Board of Education the conduct of Prin- cipal A. W. Atherton. I make a direct charge | against him for not only threatening my life, but that of every member of my family. To- day he Insulted me as no gentleman could or ever would, using the worst and most vulgar language possible. He went so far as to tell me he would slap my face and throw me head- iong down the stairs—not only that, but mak- ing boasts as to what he intended to do in the way of bllickening my character. Gentle- men, you may call on me for anything in con- nection with what I state. Respectfully, GERTRUDE EARLE. | BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 1, 1901 | To the Berkeley Board ‘of Education—Gentie- men: I understand that a paper has been filed with you to-day by Miss Earle alleging that I have sald something out of the way to her. I have not seen the paper, but beg to state that any uncalled-for, unwarranted, intemperate or unprofessional remarks attrib- uted to me are absolutely false and a part of a well-laid_scheme to “break me in ome way it not in another.” Respectfully, A. W. ATHERTON. | BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 1, 1901 Berkeley Board of Education—Gentiemen: It { hae_developed since the election of Miss Ger- | trude M. Earle that she is incompetent and | insubordinate. I am prepared to furnish nu- ! merous specific instances of both. A. W. ATHERTON, Principal Berkeley Commercial College. The board, in view of the resignations, simply filed these communications. All of the directors and Superintendent 8. D. Waterman were present at the meeting. Tuesday Night’s Proceedings. President J. R. Little called the meeting to order and requested Superintendent ‘Waterman as secretary to report the ac- tion of the committee of the whole, which met in private session Tuesday night. ]Superlntendent ‘Waterman reported as fol- ows: Communications from Miss Earle, charging Mr. Atherton with certain unprofessional re- marks, also a communication from A. W. Atherton denying the same, and also a com- munication from Mr. Atherton charging Miss | were read. Resolved, That the resignation of Mr. Atherton, now in the hands of the super- intendent, be produced at the next meeting of the board for action. Passed unanimously. The president was requested to ask Miss Earle for_her resignation. Passed unanimously. The report was received and adopted and the clerk wrote the following peti- tion: To the Board of Directors: We the under- signed pupils and parents of the Berkeley Com- mercial School here express our wish to retain the services of Mr. Atherton as our instructor, realizing his ability in the commercial depart- ment. The petition was signed by forty-four pupils and twenty-four parents. Miss Earle’s Resignation. | Miss Earle’s resignation was read and | accepted unanimously. It is as follows: BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 3, 1901 Berkeley Board of Education—Gentlemen: T wish to tender my resignation as teacher of the stenographic department of the Berkeley Commercial School, to take effect October 4, 1901, owing to the fact that the principal and myself cannot agree. I am willing to render my services after that date until some one Is secured to take my place. Respectfully, % GERTRUDE EARLE. Mr. Atherton's resignation, immediate- ly following, was accepted by the board. The board then adjourned. Miss Earle presented hed resignation this morning and afterward received the letters written to her by Atherton. The Directors had decided that as the prop- erty was hers it should be returned as soon as her retirement was assured. She said to-night In reference to the letters: If Mr. Atherton is reinstated I shall make the letters public and fight to the end and I shall win. TIf he is kept out 1 shall say nothing, but forget that the affair ever happened or that the school ever existed. Statement to Pupils. 'This morning Superintendent Waterman and President Little, immediately after securing Miss Earle's resignation, closed the shorthand department and dismissed the pupils until after the vacation of next week. At that time it will reopen under a new instructor. Superintendent Water- man went before Mr. Atherton’s class and made the following statement: In justice to Mr. Atherton I want to say to you that any statements made to the effect that he has been dismissed from the department are false. It is true that there is trouble in this school. We had hoped that it would escape undue publicity. The present trouble was pre- cipitated by the ill-advised action of the stenog- raphy teacher in speaking of it before her class yesterday. The shorthand classes have been stopped until after next week's vacation, but the school will continue throughout the year. There is no doubt of that. The Directors do not open a school to close it. In all this matter they have acted fairly and have done what they Dbelieve to be right. Dr. R. H. Burke. SAN JOSE, Oct. 3—Dr. R. H. Burke, who until a few months ago was a promi- nent physician of San Jose, died at the Sisters’ Hospital at Los Angeles of Bright's disease this morning. He was married a little over a year ago to Mrs. Charles Armstrong, the widow of one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders who was killed in Cuba. Some months ago Dr. Burke's ill-health compelled him to give up his practice and he went to the southern city for the beuefit of his health. b i Lightning Kills Horse and Rider. RED BLUFF, Oct. 8.—A frightful fatal- ity occurred near Corning, about twenty miles from here, yesterday eveni Cardla Jobe, the li-year-old som ot s Supervisor C. S. Jobe, was struck by a flash of lightning while riding horseback, and both horse and rider were killed. —_——— Andre Grossett Commits Suicide. BERKELEY, Oct. 3.—Andre G was found dead this morning in an sot: house at the rear of his residence, 1627 Falrview street, having ended his life with carbolic acid. Some time during the night Grossett drcssed himself in his best clothes and taking his blankets left the room alone and went to the outhousp. This morning his body was found by & Bergmann, who resides at the house: ou! a year ago rosset 't fiolde Dby ‘cutting. his throat. He had been out of work for some time and was old and in {ll health. Grossett was last employed as a bonkkeeg[er for the Pan- oama Canal Company. He was a native of France, aged 69 years, wife and daughter. i and leaves a The bunch of letters which form an ele- | Farle with incompetency and insubordination | | | ! | ‘ally he was gforced to leave the church. ADANES GAW FEW J0BER MOMENTS Daughter Testifies He Was Continuously Intoxicated. RS Visiting Episcopal Clergy- men Offer Testimony in His Behalf. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, October 3. Miss Agnes S. Adams resumed her place in the witness chair this morning in Judge Meivin's court to describe the many drunken escapades of her father prior to the shooting of Dr. John G. Jessup in Berkeley. Miss Adams began at the point whare she left off when the court ad- Jjourned yesterday afternoon, after she had related all that had occurred between the time when her father first began to drink in 1888 up to 1896, when the family removed from Fremont, Ohio, to Cincin- nati. Miss Adams testified to a series of events in the unfrocked clergyman’s career which revealed that he saw, during | the past five or six years of his life, very | few sober moments. He was almost con- tinuously under the influence of liquor and he was unable to retain a rectorship for any length of time because of his failing. “How did your father conduct himself | after your family went to Cincinnati in 1896, Miss Adams?” asked Attorney Church. “Father drank worse than he ever had after we went to Cincinnati,” replied the witness. “He had an attack of delirium tremens there. He would imagine that little devils were sitting upon the picture frames In the rooms of our house and he would scream frightfully at all hours of the night.” “Did he manifest aversion for any par- ticular picture in the rooms?"” Aversion for Bishop’s Picture. “Yes. A portrait of Bishop Willlams, who was at time the presiaing Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, excited him very much and he used to say that it was a picture of the devil.” “While you were in Cincinnati was your father an inmate of any asylum?” “Yes. He was confined in a sanitarium for some time to cure him of an attack of delirium tremens.” “Did ke have charge of a church at that time?” He was the rector of a church in the suburbs of the city.” ““Where did you go after leaving Cin- cinnati?” e “We came to California in 1898. Father was offered and accepted the rectorship | of the parish at Hanford.” How did he act while there?” | There was no improvement in his | habits. His speech was moody and dis- connected. He continued to drink heav- {ly and would cry out In his slee, “Do you remember any particular act of violénce on his part while there? | “In December of 1893 he attacked with-| out cause a negro who .was chopping wood. We heard the sound of the chop- ping and father rushed out after the man | with a revolver in his hand, threatening | to shoot him at once. The colored man | became very angry but I finally pacified | him and he went awa. | | | | “Did he do anything else that woul show that he was not In his right mind. “Yes. On another occasion in Hanford he ran out of the house after he had pre- | pared to retire and discharged a pistol in the air. He sald he was afraid of demons. His eye was glassy and his hair stood on end. ~After he came into the house he trembled like a leaf.” | Miss Adams sald her father kept up his | drinking while at Hanford until he was | again on the verge of delirium tremens. | His actions became scandalous and fin- Shortly after leaving the rectorship he was unfrocked by the Rishop. The attor- neys finished with Miss Adams just be- fore the noon recess and she gave a sigh of relief as she left the witness chair. Clergymen Testify. The afternoon furnished something of a surprise when two Episcopal clergymen, | who are visiting the coast as delegates to the Episcopal Convention, were announced as witnesses for the defense. One was the Rev. John M. Hewitt, rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ohio, and the other the Rev. John A. Ely, rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Cincinnatl, Ohio, both former associates of Charles G. Adams, the last named having attended the Baxley Gambia Theological Seminary with him in_1869. “ The Rev. Mr. Hewitt was the first wit- ness. He testified that he had met Adams in 1871 while they were rectors of country churches in Pennsylvania. They became | firm friends and frequently exchanged pulpits. | “When you lirst saw Mr. Adams, Mr. | Hewitt, what was his manner?” “He was a very earnest man and great- | 1y interested in his work. He had a phil- osophical mind and was considered a bril- liant man. He preached over the heads of his hearers—what 1 mean is, that his parish was not 2 particularly brilliant one and they didn’t understand his sermons.” “What were his habits of dress when you first saw him?”" “Well, when I first saw him he looked as if he had come out of a bandbox, but I noticed in 18¢, when I last saw him, that he was very slovenly in his appear- ance. But I didn’t attribute this change to drink. I thought he had merely ac: commodated himself to his environmen “What was his demeanor when you saw him in 1896? Was his conduct peculiar?” “He was considered eccentric then. For instance, he used to wear a silk hat and a Prince Albert coat while riding around in a_sulky, which perhaps no farmer would do.” = g “Were there any other eccentricities | that you recall?” Adams Was Eccentric. “I remember on one occaslon we waited | a long time for him to come down stairs | before saying prayers at the breakfast table, and finally we had to say them without him. After breakfast we heard him up stairs singing to himself, and upon investigation I found that he only had a nightshirt on. That was while he was staying at my house.” “Did you ever receive letters from him indicating anything wrong in him?" “Yes. 1 received a letter from him of | many pages relating all his troubles, and articularly referring to charges that had geen made against him for being intoxi- | cated. It was a very incoherent letter.” “Did he appear to you to be logical or illogical in his conversation?"” “Well, we couldn’t agree always. He probably thought he was logical and I thought I was logical.” “Did you ever notice lquor?” 7 “No. I never observed that he was in- | toxicated, though, of course, I had heard that he drank.’ The_Rev. Mr. Ely, who followed the | Rev. Mr. Hewitt, testified that he attend- ed the same college with Adams, but that he had not met him for twenty-five years after they graduated until 1896, when Ad- ams went to Cincinnati. He was instru- mental In getiing Adams_the rectorship of a church in the suburbs of the city. Not long after Adams was given charge of the church he began to drink again and was attacked with delirfum tremens and was taken to a sanitarium for treat- that he drank ment. “Did you see Adams at the sanita- rium?” “Yes. He was In bed, looking much the worse for wear, but sober.” “Did you say anything to him?” “Yes.” I told him he couldn’t stay at the church any longer—that I was respon- sible for him and that he would have to Zo. He didn’t combat the command I gave him, but he seemed to think he might go back. John J. Bandman, a mining engineer of San Francisco, and V. B. Allen, also a mining_engineer, were the last witnesses of the day. They testified concerning acts of Adams and said they considered him insane. The case went over until to-mor- row morning. The defense will probably finish its case to-morrow, when the prose- cution will begin putting in testimony in rebuttal. Cisco Man Robbed. James O'Neil, who sald he was from Cisco, stated last night at the Central Emergency Hospital, to which place he had been taken to have some lumps on his head attended to, that he had been held up on Howard street, near Fourth, b}r stltiree men, knocked down and robbed o | Methodist Episcopal Church South to a YEAR'S LABORS UNDER REVIEW Bishop Duncan Opens the Session of South Church. Committees Appointed and Annual Reports Are Submitted. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Oct. 3. Bishop W. W. Duncan this morning called to order in the Asbury Methodist Episcopal South Church the fifty-first an- nual conference of the Methodist Episco- pal Church South of the Pacific jurisdie- tion. There was a good attendance of Tilergymen, lay delegates and their fami- es. Conference committees were appointed by Bishop Duncan as follows: Public_ worship—J. E. Moore, J. Wi Colonel Harden. b p Memoirs—W. P. Andrews, T. C. Renfro. B)hllfl, cRnu:;i“’, g ‘Qndrew!. W. A, Whit- mer, D. R. Wilson, J. W. P . F. un!gp}l. P. .-\nd(r);‘"& T L By worth League—J. A. 0. Ruseell, C. Todd Clark. R Mstrict record—A. V. Harbin, Gu: . J.FF.‘Roberx!. V. ‘onference relations—Z. J. Needham, J. Pratt, A. L. Paul, A. Adam, J. W. Ray, C. = Clark, P. F. Page. State of the work—E. H. McWhorter, W. Fenton, Joel Hedgpeth, H. C. Meredith, S. Dilley and B. H. Green. Sabbath and temperance—W. A. Booher, Henry Hunsaker, W. F. Coffin, T. Thomas, W. T. Goulder, C. C. Black. Books and_periodifals—W. O. Waggener, J. Squires, H. W. Currin, R. F. Allen, L. C. Wilson, P. T. Ramsey. Committee on admissions—H. C. Mereditl A.B.idam. J. M. Pratt. - oard of missions—J. W. Ray, E. H. Mc~ Whorter, J. V. Northey. g e Board of education—J. P. Strother, W. A. Sooner. Batchelor, Reappoint Secretaries. All the secretaries who served last year were reappainted. They are: Recording secretary, Willlam Acton; assi ant recording secretary, W. T. Goulder; sta- tistical secretary, P. F. Page: assistant sta- tistical secretary, W. E. Phillips. Reports made by presiding elders of districts showed results attained during the last year. J. E. Moore reported for San Franciseo district, J. E. Emery for Colusa distriet and J. J. N. Kenny for San Joaquin district. Since the last annual conference Rev. J. M. Martin and Rev. D. Bauer have dled. Rev. L. A. Green left the chugeh for personal reasons. The afternoon session was given over entirely to the women of the missionary and aid societles of the various distriets. Reports of work among the Japanese were fead. It was the general belief, as expressed By the lady speakers, that there should be a Japanese clergyman of the sist in the schnool with the Japanese. Rev. Dr. Fenton Preaches. This evening religious services were held. The Rev. W. J. Fenton of Chico preached the sermon. The conference will continue in session until next Monday. Following are the conference members: P. Andrews, Salinas; R. F. Allen, Pet: and missionary work William Acton, Lakeport; W. M. Arm. . Boonville; G. W. Archer, Anderson; J. : R F. Beasley, Winters s F. Betts, Hollister; Blankenship, Linden; W. A. Booher, ton; J. M. Brown, Milville and Oro; C. Black, Healdsburg; H. W. Currin, Sonora: W. F. Coffin, Ukiah. E. Clark, Potter Valley and Redwood; V. Dilley, Orland: O. F. Emery, Colusa district; G. H. Fraser, Galt: J. Fenton, Chico; B. H. Greene, Los Banos; W. T. Goulder, Los Palos; L. Hedgepeth, Dinuba and Oroso; D. F. Houck, Snelling and_Waterford; V. Harbin, Sulphur Creek; O. E. Hyden, Rockville; J. J. N. Kenny, San Joaquin district; W. H. Kincaid, Arbuckle; W. A. Lindsay, loverdale; E. H. McWhorter, Alameda: A. Meredith, San Jose; O. E. Moore, San Francisco; Z. J. Needham, Visalla: H. Neate, Hornitas and Cathay; A. Odom, La Grande; P. F. Page, Woodville and Exeter: J. M. Pratt, Lincoln: J. M. Parker, Sutter City ana_ Grace: W. Madera: A. L. Paul, Walnut Grov Ray, Yuba City and Gridley; L. C. Hanford; ¢ B. Riddlick, San Francisco; J. F. Roberts, Big Dry Creek: P. T. Ramsey. Selma: J. C. Sim- mons, voodland; C. E. W. Smith, Stockton; E. Squires, Colusa; F. M. Staton, Gilroy L. C. Smith, Knights Landin Eimira; T. Thomas, Wil ers, Henleyv H A mer, Merced; N. A Wilkinson, president M.’ College; c. Wilson, Red Bluff; W. D. Waggener. Santa Rosa; C. Todd Clark, Upper Lake; E. J. Page, Lemoore and Coalinga: T. G. Patterson, Mil- ton: O. D. Russell. Maxwell: J. B. Needham, Sanger; J. C. Wooten, Oakland: F. E. Dixon, Kingsburg; J. C. 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