The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1901, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 190 (LANDS TEN STRIPED BASS IN HOUR AND A HALF AND BREAKS RECORD Thonjas E. Archer, One of Qakland’s Prominent® Amateur|chief Executive Informs Fishermen, Runs Into School of Game Beauties in Lake Merritt Near Flood Gates and Makes Phenomenal Catch “oTo _BY BUSKNELL o . OAKLAND SPORTSMAN AND HIS BIG HE CAUGHT IN AN HOUR AND A FALF NEAR THE FLOOD GATES OF LAKE MERRITT, THE CATCH BREAKING THE RECORD. 3 STRING OF STRIPED BASS THAT % + E. AKLAND Archer. Nov. 8.—Thomas ins: mong ama- . made A~ 1 A —4 ord-breaking catch of striped y at Lake Merritt. In an hour with ordinary rod and reel, portsman landed ten of the auties, seven of which averaged NTERNTIONIL COURT OF CLAMS Project Is Presented at% the Pan-American Congress. CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. 8.—The Pan-| sa1d, der the projects d to them. ram of felicitation was ordered tos-Dumont, and a cablegram | s for good wishes was sent to th: sh Parliament. project of the treaty for an inter- ms was presented ates. ry speech Francisco L | 4 of Mexico and , said that it was | Olney-Pauncefote , 1897, with modifica- the objections which e same treaty in the enate and which caused | proposed convention provides that | the parties thereto will bind themselves | to submit to an international court a. claims proceeding from pecuniary losse< a « ges occasioned to any state or € on account of acts or commi »f another state or any of its cit provided that such claims cannot rranged diplomatically. The obligation £0 to submit claims com- mences as soon as it is demanded by any the contracting governments. How the Court Will Be Formed. e court of claims will be constituted ,ws: Each contending government | nt one arbitrator, who must of repute, not a native of the inting him, and the two arbi- ogether shall elect a third one, preside. If the two arbitrators a to the appointment of a will ask the Chief Justice of ipreme Court of any of the American e to Gesignate a third arbitrator, not be a native of any of the erested in the controversy. i e states requesting the arbi- e more than two each shall ap- bitrator and the arbitrator 9 Pears’ is not only the best soap for toilet and bath but also for shaving. Pears was | ¥the inventor of shaving- | stick soap. [Established over 100 years. | elected appointing a fifth or proceeding as | its private expenses. | fails so to comply other states may sub- more than fifteen pounds each. Archer is much elated over his success, for it is quite unprecedented in the annals of bay fishing. He declares that in all of his ex- perience he never saw the equal the magnificent string of striped s that were exposed to-day to the admiring gaze of many devotees of the piscatorial sport. It was also the first time on record tnat such a guantity of this specles in the lake. That sheet of never been noted as a fishing ground, though occasionally a small bass two, three or four pounds in weight, would be hauled in by Sa:lenl anglers. Mr. Archer was attracted to Lake Merritt in his search for good fishing ground by seeing a small striped bass that wes caught in the lake vesterday. Realizing what good sport a run of the fish would make. he started out this morning to try his for- tune. Locating near the Twelfth-street dam floodgates, he cast his line and awaited with pole in hand for results. The first bass Archer landed after a hard fight was thirty-five inches long and weighed seventeen pounds. This monster battled with his ‘captor gamely and merrily enough to satisfy any fisherman. Three times the hooked fish reeled out a hun- dred yards of line, and when it finally quit the battle Archer had to gaff his prize to thus appointed will secure the appoint-| ment of the presiding officer in the same manner as above indicated. The presid- ing arbitrator will have the casting of a vote in case of 2 tie. Sentence must be rendered within three months from the date on which the case | is closed. If the sentence is unanimous | it will be final, save that within two | | | months its revision by the same court may be demanded in case its publication givés rise to doubts of various interpre- tations; or in case it fails to decide any of the points at issue the court will decide the case anew and definitely within one month of the date of the application for a revision. | Losing Party May Appeal. If the original sentence was rendered by & majority of the voters only the losing party may appeal to an _international | court composed of five members, of whom two will be selected by the heads of the | contending states, four of those thus | above indicated in case of railure to come to an agreement as to the fifth. But, if in case of a non-unanimous sentence, no | appeal is taken within three months, the sentence shall become irrevocable. In case an appeal is taken the case shall be considered and decided irrevocably by the court of appeal, constituted as above, | within such a period of time as it may | fix. Both the court of claims and the court of appeals may order the payment of court expenses by either of the con- tending parties, otherwise the parties must share the court expenses equally. Each of the contending parties shall pay The high contract- ing parties in the treaty obligate them- selves in good faith to comply with the stipulations of the treaty, but if any state scribe to collective notes of censure whicn shall become public and official, provided it is subscribed by at least three of the contracting states. The treaty is to remain in force five years, counted from the date on which the exchange of ratifications by at least three of the states shall take place. Any | state may withdraw from the convention one year after giving notice to that effect. | The Mexican delegation at this morn-| irg’s session of the conference presented a project on international sanitary regu- lations based on the most recent scientific discoveries. The Brazilian delegation presented a project of a treaty whereby arbitration is proclaimed not as obligatory but as a regular means of settling international controversies among the republics of America. MAD DOG GIVES POLICE SERGEANT A HARD CHASE Demoralizes l"ifilmery and a Cigar Store and Is Killed in a Pri- vate Residence. A mad dog on Montgomery avenue, near | Green street, gave Sergeant Christensen and Police Officer Robert Silvey a bad half hour last night. The dog was in front of the drug store.at 509 Montgomery avenue, and was acting queerly. Ser- geant Christensen threw a rope over the dog, but it got away. The animal darted into the adjpining | cigar store, overturned boxes of cigars | and a nickel in the slot machine and got out again before Christensen and Silvey could get hold of him. His next place | was the millinery store of Mrs. Wittman | at 523 Montgomery avenue, where he wrecked a number of opera bonnets. From there he went into an adjoining iat and hid under the bed. In an_endeavor to get out of the last place of refuge the dog got tangled up in a chair, and was unable to extricate himself. Christensen ended his existence with a shot from his pistol. oot oo oot get it ashore. Three others, each measuring twenty- eight inches, one thirty-three inches and one thirty-one inches, were captured, to- gether with three that ran the usual mar- ket size of four or five pounds. After presenting two of the largest bass to friends, Archer had his string photo- graphed. “Fishing is my hobby,” said Mr. Archer this afternoon at his offices in the Cen- tral Bank block, “‘and I indulge it to the limit. T have fieshed in lakes, rivers, bays and ocean, but never ran across such a find as this one. It will make some of the San Francisco fishermen stare when they hear of seventeen pound striped bass. One might travel the boundaries of the as sportsmen all 1y good sport, and to land these big fellows was a job that any lover of rod and reel will appreciate. ‘I have caught striped bass off Angel Island in Raccoon Straits that ran to fair size, but nothing ever approached this bunch. How to account for this run in Lake Merritt I do not know, axcept that these big fellows must have been attracted by a school of young smelt, which probably worked in with the tide.” Archer was besieged all day with in- quiries from fishermen who heard of the | extraordinary catch. i e o] ) CLUBMAN FALS TO PAY ALIMONY Otto A. Bernard Refuses to Support His Minor Child. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 8. ‘Woefully in arrears is Otto A. Bernard, a San Francisco society and club man, who was ordered to pay his divorced wife, Lilly M. Bernard, $25 every three months for the support of their minor child, and Judge Ellsworth has cited him to appear in court Friday, November 22, t6 show cause why it is that he owes $250 on the alimony account. According to an affidavit filed by Mrs. Bernard to-day she was divorced from her husband in October, 1807, when it was de- creed by an Alameda County Judge that he should pay her $25 quarterly for their child’s support. Bernard kept up the pay- ments, it is aileged, only until April 5, 1899, since which time he has absolutely refused to contribute any more money. Now the delinquencies amount to $250, ana the wife wants to know why she cannot get an allotment from her late husband. Bernard was before the court a year ago for neglecting to satisfy the demands of his wife. He appeared in court dressed as becomes a Society gentleman and calmly told the court that he hadn’t any money—that his present wife, who is worth $100,000, gave him pin money now and then and paid his dues in the Bohe- mian Club, but it wasn’t enough to pay alimony with. The court scored him for failing to support his own child. —_— Goff Is President Again, At last night's meeting of the Labor Council Walter H. Goff, who was forced to withdraw as a delegate from the Labor Council by a ruling of the Bullding Trades | Council, but who was reinstated, was elected to his former position as presi- dent. As soon as Goff entered the hall President Michael Casey tendered his resignation as a compliment to the for- mer presiding officer, who was elected by acclamation, receiving a rousing cheer as he took his seat. The reinstating of Goft, with other delegates who were compelled to withdraw under a similar ruling, is a | direct slap at P. H. McCarthy and his Building Trades Council, who are accused as being the direct cause of all that trouble. This, and a declination of some carpenters to quit work at the behest of the walking delegate of the Building Trades Council yesterday, is not intended to smooth over some of the rough ridges left by the late election. The council de- clared a boycott against the football game between Berkeley and Stanford, which comes off this afternoon at Sixteenth and Folsom streets. Similar action was taken ' against Meese, Gottfried & Co., the Reli- ance Machine Works and the Risdon Iron Works. The boycott was raised from the Compressed Air Machine establishment because it complied with union rules. ————— The wise man whé knows more than his wife is unwise if he tries to conceal his knowledge from her. NATION'S HEAD T0 VISIT WEST Dr. Wheeler of His Intentions, e e University President Denies Story of Appointment to Foreign Office, BERKELEY, Nov. 8.—President Benja- min Ide Wheeler- returned to-day from a three weeks' trip in the East, and pre- sided at the semi-monthly university meeting held at 11 oclock in Har- mon gymnasium. He announced to the students that in a personal talk with President Roosevelt the chief executive had said it was his intention to visit this coast as soon as the business of the next session of Congress is over. This will bring him here some time during the sum- mer. The main purpose of his visit, so Presi- dent Wheeler stated, will be to inspect the conditions of the arid lands of the West, so that he can recommend to Con- gress some action to be taken to reclaim the waste territory. Dr. Wheeler said that he believed President Roosevelt will urge a large appropriation by Congress for the irrigation of Western lands as a national benefit. 7 President Wheeler denied the account recently published that he would receive the appointment of Embassador to Ger- many. When asked if the statements were true that he would receive an ap- pointment from President ' Roosevelt’s hands, he classed them as ‘‘nonsense” without the slightest foundation of truth. “I would rather the matter would not be mentioned,” he said, “as it simply brings it again to public mind. It is absurd.” The meeting this morning was address- ed also by Dr. Thomas Aadison, Pacific Coast agent of the General Electric Com- pany, who spoke interestingly on the work in the broad school of life. President Wheeler’s address to the stu- dents was in part as follows: 1 very much enjoyed visiting old Yale and giving to her the fellcitations you sent. There is a kind of virility and abundance of spirit here that reminds one of Yale. Yale is not rich, but like-ourselves has been in need. The old buildings there are the ugliest I have seen ex- cept the ones here. Yale hasn’t much money, but she has any amount of loyalty from those who have studied within her walls. It is always good to meet a man who is a man and that's what Theodore Roasevelt is. There is no suspicion but he is a whole man— a masculine man—and that's the kind of a man to be. He has entered office looking things in the face as realities, so that he might live and act in the real. He is not afrald to act in the light of what he sees to be facts. It was in- teresting to notice how anxlous he was to get at the actual facts. There seemed to be a posi- tive yearning in his mind to get at the real status of things. In talking with him he ex- pressed his great desire for better information regarding the country’s needs. T told him that to become acquainted with things he ought to look at them. He told me that he had decided just as séon as Congress was through its session to come to this coast. So he will be here next summer. He is coming out to the Pacific Coast in order that he may become acquainted with conditions on the Pa- cific strip, He is very much interested in af- fairs in the section west of Kansas and he is prepared to take an active hand in the irri- gation of the arid West. He sees in it a na- tional duty. He will not hesitate to support a national contribution for irrigation of the West- ern lands the same as he would advocate im- proving rivers and harbors. It is a national poliey with him to turn toward the arid West, He knows the country is not a desert, as most people think, but a waste which can’be made fertile through proper means. I am glad to be back among you. There is no place T have seen so good as Berkeley. I am back here for the purpose of attending the foot- ball game to-morrow and I want you all to be there behind that team. e a body of stu- dents until noon to-morrow and then be & body of football enthusiasts. Put your minds on vic- | tory and hypnotize that team into carrying the ball across the line. President Wheeler, besides attending the bicentennial celebration at Yale, visited ‘Washington, Chicago and other Eastern cities. He held conferences with many scholars for the purpose of looking over material for the university faculty. He also made arrangements for men to come here to teach at the next summer session and opened negotiations with others. President Wheeler's selections for new faculty men will not be announced until after the regents have taken action on them. President Wheeler_stated that John Ga- len Howard, the New York architect, would start for this city next Monday to look over the grounds with the view of taking up the general superintendency of the construction of the new university buildings. @ il @ WILL BREAK MAIL RECORDS Remarkable Time to Be| Made Half Around the Globe. —— NEW YORK, Nov. 9—When the Cunard liner Umbria sails to-day she will carry a batch of mail matter that arrived in | San Francisco on last Monday on the | steamship Ventura from Sydney and | Auckland. It will be the speediest mail delivery ever accomplished in the world— more than half-way around the globe, by steam at sea and steam on land and steam at sea again, in less than thirty days. The New York Central Railroad will de- liver the mail bag—which includes several bags—on board the Cunarder within five minutes of her sailing time this morning and the steamship will have the letters in the London postoffice on the morning of November 16. It will beat the fiction of Phineas Fogg by twenty days. The Ventura left Melbourne, Australia, on October 14, bound for San Francisco by way of Sydney, Auckland and Hono- lulu. From Melbourne to San Francisco the distance is about 9200 miles; from Syd- ney it is about 8500 miles; from Honolulu 2600 miles. The Ventura stopped at each of these ports. She arrived at Sydney late on the 15th and her average speed was about 400 knots in twenty-four hours. From Sydney it took her three days to Auckland, and from Auckland to the Hawaljan Islands eleven days. Her passage from Honolulu to the Golden ‘Gate was exceptionally speedy, although it did not break the high record. The Ventura anchored in American waters on the morning of November 4. The mail bags were brought ashore ‘and placed on the regular mail trains of the Southern Pacific and_then run over the Union Pacific, the Burlington and the Lake Shore and then to the New York Central. The first feat of this sort was on Sep- tember 7. The run was made over the Central and the mail was put on board the Campania on that date and delivered in the London postoffice and made ready for distribution on the morning of Sep- tember 14. This run was not like that which will be finished this morning, A special train was run on the Lake Shore road from -Chicago to Toledo, and ripped over the rails at sixty miles an hour, overtaking the fast mail which had left two hours before. To-day’s mail delivery will be by regu- lar transcontinental mail trains, e ex- treme distance from Melbourne to London by way of San Francisco and New York is 15,265 miles. Nearly 11,000 miles of the new route be- tween England and its far away colony are covered by American ships and raii- way trains. The beating of the last rec- ord of 31% days will prove that mail can be taken through New York more quickl: than through the Suez canal and mucl more quickly than by the all-water route. e ““Th says the editor of the Preston (Kans.) Plaindealer, “is the only paper in Kansas that has been under the sam management for eleven years, nevel missed an issue and never paid out a dol- Iar for labor.” 13 g |ACCOMPLISHED ALAMEDA GIRL 1S NOW ADOLF SCHUBERT'S BRIDE Frieda Kaehler Marries Man of Her Choice at Her Parents’ Home, Relatives and Inti- mate Friends Witnessing the Ceremony TALENTED YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS MARRIED YESTERDAY AT THE HOME OF HER PARENTS, RELATIVES AND A FEW INTIMATE FRIENDS WITNESSING THE CEREMONY. | \ | M LAMEDA, Nov. 8.—Miss Frieda Kaehler, daughter of Professor and Mrs. H, E, Kaehler, became the bride of Adolf Schubert this evening at 8 o’'clock. The wed- ding ceremony was celebrated in the par- lor of the Kaehler home on Pacific ave- nue. The Rev. A. Jatho, pastor of the German Lutheran Church of Oakland, of- ficiated. Miss Kaehler wore a bridal gown of white satin, with an overdress of liberty silk. Miss Dolly Chapman, the maid of honor, was attired in pink taffeta, with an overdress of white organdie. The best L o e e o e e e e i e e o o ) CUTG HIS WIFE WITH A RAZOR Painter Keeffe Slashes Spouse Twice on Left Side. Correlius J. Keeffe, a marine painter Iiving at 29A Morris avenue, seriously cut his wife with a razor early this morning: He was arrested and charged at the Southern police station with an assault with intent to commit murder. Keeffe began drinking during the early part of the night and while his wife was temporarily absent he retired. Mrs. Kecife returned with her sons by a former mar- riage later, and endeavored to rouse her husband. He was in an ugly mood and proceeded to demolish the furniture. During the scuffle a lamp was overturned, and Gil- bert Fackspader, Keefe's stepson, a young man about 21 years of age, and his younger brother, aged 17, went to the as- sistance of their mother. Picking up the overturned lamp, Gilbert proceeded to beat his stepfather over the head with the lamp chimney. Keeffe turned on his wife, and drawing a razor slashed her twice on the left side. The boys continued to protect her and finally drove Keeffe out of the house. One of them called Officer R. H. Beamer, who arrested Keeffe and took his wife to the Receiving Hospltal. Dr. Millar, who attended her, found two deep wounds in the left side. One was under the armpit and the other on the left breast. The eldest boy was also cut slightly upon the throat during the scuffle. Mrs. Keefe was placed in bed at the Re- ceiving Hospital, ‘as her wounds were too serious to permit of her removal. Mrs. Keeffe has been married three times and has had one child by each hus- band. Keeffe has been drinking heavily of late and gets Into an ugly temper when intoxicated. The prompt action of Mrs. Keeffe's eldest son prevented the house from taking fire when the lamp ‘was overturned. ® CITIZENS PLAN WATER WORKS Residents of Linda Vista Tire of _Contra. Costa Service. Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 8. The Linda Vista Water Association has been organized by residents of Linda Vis- ta to furnish a water sugply to its mem- bers independently of the Contra Costa Water Company, whose service ehe asso- clatl:ér clf.;.lmi:‘ is-not only inadequate, bu* exceedingly high. The mgmbers have subscribed $300 to- ward developinz wells capable of supply- ing the district. The officers are: Presi- dent, John C. Hill; vice president, F. M Butler; secretary and treasurer, Leo R. ‘Weil; special committee on subscriptions, W. B. Dunning, Samuel J. Taylor and Myron T. Holcomb; on site and plant, I'. M. Butler and W. B. Dunning. ‘Among those who have joined the asso- ciation are the following prominent Oak- e ggins, Rev. Robert Ritchie, J. S. J. F, Wiggins, Rev. Rol chie, J. S. Naismith, Julien’ Mathieu, C. F. Baker, Bronson, W. B. Dunning, F. M. Butler, Myron T. Holcomb, Samuel J. Taylor, George H. mon, Lao K. Well, E. N. Engelhardt, Lungbarg, Dr, W, ¥ , Dr. run- tol R. Gould, Gilbert Belcher, John C. Hill, W. K. Vickery, J. H. Atkins, H. D. Nichols, H. B. Nichols, Kemmerley Bryan, M. H. Turner, Mrs. A. T. Silsby, W. T. Veitch, Mr. Whitaker, 1. Kullberg. + man was Berthald Blauert. White and green were the colors of the decorations. Following the marriage was a reception and banquet. Those present at these events were the relatives and intimate friends of the young couple who had wit- nessed_the wedding. Mr. Schubert’s bride is an accomplished musician and a clever amateur actress, and has often lent her talents to assist the cause of charity. The groom is em- ployed with the Thegdore Gier Company of Oakland. Mr and Mrs. Schubert will spénd their honeymoon at Monterey and after re- turning will _ reside at 2011 Ratlroad avenue. FLATLY REFLSE. 10 CONSOLIDNTE Plymouth Congregation-| alists in Opposition to a Union. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1113 Broadway, Nov. 8. A war Dbetween the Congregational churches of North Oakland is imminent. Its basis is the effort which is being made | to force a consolidation of Plymouth | Congregational Church and the Fourth | Church. Plymouth’s people declare they do not desire to amalgamate, while the | leaders in Oakiand Congregationalism be- lieve that there is not room enough for :he two organizations in the same terri- | ory. It is an old story, this fight on consoli- | dation, but it did not reach a cruclal point until last evening, when a church council was held. The delegates were from the First Church and from the two churches directly in interest, as follows: First Church—Mr. and Mrs. C. Z. Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Whitman, Mrs. A. H. Bridgman, Mrs. S. F. Swain, Miss Emily Swain, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Keyes, John Rob- ins. Fourth Church—E. T. Leiter, Charles Irving, George S. Naismith, James Mitchell, John Mitchell, Mrs. S. Wright, Mrs. George Naismith. George Leiter, E. Palioe. Plymouth | Church—Miss Belle Keefer, Miss Carrie Pulel fer, A. A. Jones, Joseph Bacon, Mrs. S. K. Love, Mrs. Tenney, S. S. Batchelder, Edward White, Mrs. Benneits, Dr. George Mooar. The Fourth Church people, whose house of worship is located at Thirty-fourth ana Adeline streets, desire to move east nearer San Pablo avenue, but the Plymouth com- | municants, who worship at Thirty-fourth | street, near Telegraph avenue, object to | the invasion of what they declare is their territory. And they object also to con- solidation. Therefore the council was called in a desire to straighten the tangle. But it is not straightened. After a long executive session, of which Judge J. M. Haven was chairman and C. Z. Merritt secretary, the council was ad- Jjourned without action. The opponents of consolidation succeeded in keeping that cuestion away from the chair. They de- cl}ned to join in a call for another coun- cil. It remains now for the Fourth Church | peovle to say whether they shall change their base of operations, invade Ply- | mouth’s territory, as claimed, and fight it out for support. ———————— More Philippine Teachers Wanted. BERKELEY, Nov. $—Mrs. May L. Cherey, appointment secretary ~at the | University of California, has received a | letter from F. W. Atkinson, superintend- | ent of public instruction in the Philip- pines, asking her to recommend twenty | young men for teachers in the islands at §1200 a year. He will cable for them as required. Superintendent Atkipson stated that no more .women teachers would be appointed, as there were no further ac- | commodations for them in the islands. He congratulated Mrs. Cheney on her selec- tions, declaring that the California men and women were second to none as teachers. Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Nov. 8.—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Manuel Gomes, 37 years old, and Mary Belle Francis, 16, both | of San Leandro; Frank W. Simpson, 3. and Anne Mary Mason, 24, both of Berke- ley; Frank F. Ellis, 26, Ventura County, and Eloise H. Trowbridge, 18, Berkeley; Adolph F. Schubert, 38, and Frieda Kaeivl- ler, 23, both of Alamed: —_————— Despondent Cook Attempts Suicide. OAKLAND, Nov. 8.—Because his sweet- heart had left him Gus Lichenfeldt, a cook on the schooner Oregon, attempted to commit icide to-day by shooting himself. After a physiclan had exam. ined the wound, the seafarer was pro- nounced to be in no danger of death. —_— ‘Woman Reported Missing. OAKLAND, Nov. 8.—Mrs. S. Wright, an inmate of the King's Daughters' Home, has been reported to the police as missing. She is mentally weak | toanéd it to Georze W. | appeared | are fo GLERK INVESTS GOREN"S MONEY What Former Official Told Lawyer Many Years Ago. Government Attorney Wants Tidal Canal Suit Trans- ferred. i Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 118 Broadway, Nov. 8. Attorney A. H. Cohen made a fruitless search to-day in the County Clerk’s office for the papers that were filed in 187 when the Government instituted proceed- ings in condemnation of lands for the Alameda tidal caral. The late A. A. Co- hen was then awarded 32176 by an Ala- meda county court for a portion of his land, but he would net accept the money. Now the money is missing. Attorney Co- hen says he -once a: former County Clerk Allen, now deces where the money was, and the reply as follows: ‘O, that money is well inv I have When the hearing of the petition of Mrs. Emily G. Cohen for an injunction to re- strain the Atlantic, Guif and Pacific Dredging Company from excavating prop- erty belonging to her within the lines of the tidal canal came up in Judge Hall's court this morning an assistant from the United States District Attorney's office and asked that the case be transferred to the United States Circuit Court, claiming it to be the omly court that has jurisdiction. Judge Hall postponed action in the mat- ter untii next Friday in order to give A. H. Cohen, who represents his mother, time to prepare papers in oppesition to the request from the United States Dis- trict Attorney. IN OAKLAND SOCIETY. OAKLAND, Nov. $.—The colonial fair, which is in progress at Wendte Hall un- der the auspices of the Woman’s Alliance of the Unitarian church, is attracting large crowds. The prettily decorated booths, with their tempting displays, are presided over by ladies in picturesque colonial costumes. Each evening an at- tractive programme is presented. The noonday luncheon has been made a spe- cial feature of the fair, and to-day nearly 200 people partook of Mrs. D. T. Fowler's tamous chowder, which was only one of many dainty dishes on the menu. The calendars which are annually got up by the ladies of the Unitarian Society are unusually attractive this year and le at the “literary table,” whieh is in charge of Mrs. E. I. Dyer, Mrs. A. B. Dennison anc Mrs. A. W. Palmer. On the fancy table, over which Mrs. F. M. Tillson presides. are all kinds of articles suitable for Christmas gifts. Mrs. Tillsoa is assisted by Mrs. F. Jackson, Miss Addia Gorrill and Miss Rowena Foster. At Mrs. C. R. Yates’ booth is a minia- ture doil show. Mrs. J. P. Winchester, Mrs. Stetsonm, Mrs. Egbert Stone and Mrs. ‘Adams are also at this booth. The children's booth, where various kinds of toys may be found, is In chargs of. Mrs. Lyons, Mrs. A. H. Clough, Mra. O. M. Gardiner, Miss W. S. Wilcox and Mrs. G. W. Campbell. Fresh homemade French candies are dispensed by Mrs. Donald MacNicoll, Mrs. A. W. Burrell, Miss Katherine Potter and Miss Carne Gorrill. In the “delicacy booth,” which repra- sents an old-fashioned kitchen, Mrs. F. H. Barnes is in charge, assisted by Mrs. Henry Cushing. Mrs. George Meredith, Mrs. N. L. Courtian and Mrs. F. J. Lea. Mrs. J. H. Potter: presides over the apron_booth, and Mrs. L. H. Porter ani Mrs. W. T. Hamilton are in charge of the table of decorative art, where exqui- site articles of needlework are on display. The pretty red and green booth where lemonade is dispensed is presided over by Miss Emma Swain and Mrs. D. E. Bor- tree. An old-fashioned concert, under the di- rection of D. P Hughes, was one of the chief attractions this evening. The luncheon to-morrow will be under the’ supervision of Mrs. C. H. Redington, and the promise of Boston baked beans and other New England dishes is a tempt- ing one. In the afternoon at 2 o’clock a programme by the Sunday school chii- dren will be given, under the direction of Mrs. Willard ——————— > Youthful Thieves in Jail. OAKLAND, Nov. S.—Application has been made to send Abraham Williams, 13 years old; Frank Enos, 12 years. of age, and Manuel Raposa, 12 years old, to a State reformatory, the youths having raided P. L. O’'Brien’s jewelry store, 710 Seventh street, last evening. One of the youngsters engaged the proprietor’s at- tention while his companions rifled the showcase. Later they were arrested and the stolen wares were recovered. Child Injured by Fall BERKELEY, Nov. 8—Edna Duff, the 11-year-old child of Mrs. Flora Duff of 2110 Kittredge street, was injured last evening by falling on her head from a seesaw while at play. She suffered a slight concussion of the brain, but was pronounced out of danger to-day. —_———— Acme Club Contests. OAKLAND, Nov. 8$.—The Acme Club has signed Perry Queenan of Milwaukee and Young Gibbs of Cleveland for a fif- teen-round contest, to_take place at the exposition building November 22. The men will fight at 136 pounds. Besides this number there will be two preliminaries. ADVERTISEMENTS. FI1GPRUNE Cereal Requires less sugar than tea, coffee, or any other cereal coffee, the wholesome fruit sugar contained in figs and prunes largely supplying this need It is the verdict of every housewife that FIGPRUNE is the most economical and nutritious of any cereal coffee. Boil from 5 to 10 minutes only. ALL GROCERS SELL cfivwxm ENGLISH b i mealiio Saxom, seaibd: Weak Men and Women {.:o:l-wlul Dnm-fi“ health and t can 3 g;- strength to sesual organs. 23 Markee