The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1902, Page 31

NEW3 OF -THE BAY CITIES.. Al FIRE MARSHAL KERNS IS CONVINCED | BLAZE WAS OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN Flames Spread So Rapidly That Families in Upper Flats - Are Compelled to Hurriedly Vacate---Timely Arrival of Oakland Engines Prevents a Greater Loss of Property The disas- rred near way station last night, for a time threatened out the whole block of be the work of ations by Mar- g the ruins to-d fact that a former by the firebug on the ), prove to the satisfaction 1 that some person, urged o remove an objectionable ng rom the neighborhood, match which resulted in a The fire had evidently been started under the shed used by the Chinese for sleeping quarters, with a view to having the wind carry the flames to the kerosene store- room of Steen’'s grocery, which was only a few feet away. This was what hap- pened, but most of the oil was of high fire test and went through the conflagra- tion unignited. The circumstance that carries convic- ticn that the blaze was of incendiary ori- gin is the fact that on the night of April 20 a blaze was started in the kerosene storeroom of Yates & Rankin’'s grocery, which was then next to the Chinese store of Hop Woo, but it was soon extinguish- ed. Investigation at the time showed un- mistakable evidences of a firebug’s work. The laundry of Gee Thang and the ad- joining bazaar of Hop Woo. which are both owned by a wealthy Chinaman in Berkeley, have long been regarded ‘with scontent by the residents in the neigh- borhood, and the Chinese declare that they have received many threats for fail- ure to vacate the vicinity. Gee Than; The losses are as follows: laundry, $ Hop Woo, bazaar, Steen Co., $5 Mrs. J. Hamlin, $1000 $1000; Nathaniel Byrne, Dr. Trueblood, $5000. Marshal Kerns said: “I have no doubt this fire. like that of its predecessor a few weeks ago, was of incendiary origin. .The circumstances surrounding its out- break, the threats made against the Chi- nese, ‘and the similar conditions under which the fires started convinced me that the cause was not accidental. The troubls is that the fire itself destroyed evidence which miight have assisted us toward a solution of the mystery. Firebugs do not do thelr work as a rule In a way that will leave clews to their identity.” mes cloc were first discovered at k, issuing from the Chinese he rear of the Steen Com- Before the volun- could appear on the ried the fire to building, a two- tores on the ground cery ompanies Trueblood and Mrs. d the flats upstairs, eep and hurried pid was the pon the arrival 2l and Golden peal to the Oak- or assistance, the i. Three stores were destroyed. n the destruction that little evidence remained from the officers could gain any clews. ames. es from Temesc 2 Cr comp DISTRICT ATTORNEY ACTS IN THE MARSELLIS CASE Details Detective Herbert to Investi- gate and Determine Cause of Woman’s Death. AND, May 24.—The verdict of the | in the case of Mrs. Caro- | Marsellis has induced District len to start an investigation | who is responsible for the ath. It resulted ceording to from some unknown cause, and under the cir tances the District At-| of property in Berkeley that formerly be- torney feels bo to take official notice | lorged to P. A. Finigan, the former San He detailed Detective Her- | Rafael caitalist, bert to-day to take it up. Herbert has begun a search for evi- dence. Upon his report will rest a deci- | ——— ‘Erxe(;‘r;&:'.k}e‘}her any further action will be | Three Robberies Against Footpads. REORRSSEY. b OAKLAND, May 24.—James McCoy and Rejects Claim of Emrick. | Walter Baldwin were held for trial to-day P o on a third charge of robbery, the com- OAELAND, May 24.—City Auditor A.| plainant being T. Takohiso, one of three H. Breed has rejected W. J.- Emrick’s | victims of the pair of self-confessed foot- claim for $275, as passed by the City | pads. Ball was fixed at $3000 by Police cil, for work alleged to have been Judge Smith. You Sleep, M E IN 15 DAYS ““Gran-Solvent” the Wonder of the Oentury. Strictu re Dissolved Like Snow Beneath the Auditor says the Council has no right to | allcw the claim, that duty being imposed | upor the Board of Police and Fire Com- | missioners. The board has refused hith- erto to allow the demand on the ground | the Emrick ejected a City Inspector from is shops while the work was in progress. The fight over the claim has become a cause celebre at the (ity Hall. —_—e ‘Warfield Files a New Suit. |, CAKLAND, May 2i—General R. 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JAMES MEDIGAL ASSH., 250 ST. JAMES EULDING, B e e e e e e Y ¥ done on a municipal fire enge. The ) THEATERS' nered effort to get possession of a piece | Theater 5 withdrew his sult to- | Me,” | day ard filed another in its stead, the de- | dram GINGINNATI, 0. - = DAMAGE “'ROUGHTI BY SUP- POSED INCENDIARY FIRE ON DWIGHT WAY. * — OFFERINGS FOR COMING WEEK John Drew at the Macdonough—Man- ager Stevens Will Present a Mili- 2 tary Drama. OAKLAND, May 24—John Drew and his Frohman Company from New York will give a presentation of “The Second in Command” on Monday evening at the Macdonough Theater. This will be Mr. rew’s only ampearance in Oakland. Marager Landers Stevens of the Dewey T offers his patrons for the week Leginning Monday night an ambitious production of “The Girl I Left Behind one of the most successful military as ever staged in the United States, The scene is laid in a Western frontier fort and stockade, which have been be. sleged by Indian warriors. ————— Typewriter and desk: A bargain at H. Scheli- haas’ furniture sale, 11th st., Oakland, e Four Brides Under Age. OAKLAND, May 24.—Applications for licenses to marry were granted to-day to four brides-elect, each of whom had the consent of her parents, because she had not reached the legal age of consent to wed, as follows: Mary J. Marshall, 16 to marry Clarence Wood, 26, both of Oak. land; Frances E. Castillo, 15, to marry Francisco Encalada, 2, both of Berke. ley: Minnie Rapoza, 17, to marry Antonio P. Marques, 3, both of Oakland; Palmira A. Gonzales, 17, to marry Manuel J. Guido, 21, both of Oakland. Other licenses Were issued to Herbert Silverton, 38, Mary Hunter, 3, both of Oakland; ‘John Teviin, over 21, and Lizzie Wagner, over 18, both of Oakland; Conrad Abban. 30 Marysville, and Maria Wagner, 30, Oalk. land; Charles Spears, 37, and Carrie D, Schiek, 32, both of Oakland ¢ Plucky Boy Stops Runaway, ALAMEDA, May 24—Frank Sanford, aged 13, stopped a runaway horse belong.. ing to the Grand Central Market this morning. on Chestnut strect after the driver, John Matthias, had been thrown from the vehicle and badly bruis Young Sanford was riding wltl{ Matthias when the latier was dragged from the seat in his efforts to control the fright- ened equine. After Matthias- tumbled from the wagon little Sanford grasped }hc lines and Dung on to them tenaclously or several blocks, finally by horse to a standstill e —————— Davoust Will Appeal. OAKLAND; May 24.—Martial Davoust, whose suit agairst the city of Alameda for causing the death of his wife was defeated by Judge Greene yesterday, an- nounces that his attorneye, Reed & Nus- baumer, and Campbell, Metson & Camp- bell, will appeal from the decision {o the Sup{;me Co“:ll'thnt“?a.t Wwas nonsuited on e groun: at citles are for accidents. (b —————— Owes on a Big Note. OAKLAND, May 24—D. A. McColgan of San Jose began suit to-day against J. F. Devendorf for recovery on a note for $15400 given by the defendant in 1897 and made payable to the Union Savings Bank of San Jose, now defunct. The nota was assigned by the bank to the plaintiff. —_—————— Children’s Day OAKLAND, May 24.—The Fis ‘ongre- gational Church Sunday S::hoorl"wtl:ll hold @ children’s day celebration, following the morning to-morrow. WILL RECLAM MRID SECTIONS Irrigation Work Ahead for University of Calitornia. Congressional Appropriation ak 8 Pcs ible Start on Surveys. TR BERKELEY, May 24.—Professor E. W. Hilgard, dean of the College of Agricul- ture at the University of California, re- ceived word to-day from Elwood Mead, chief of the office of Irrigation Investi- gation at Washington, confirming the news of the recent award of $65,000 made by the conference committee of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives for ir- rigation inhvestigation and assuring him that the much-needed surveys of the seepage lands in and about Fresno would now be speedily accomplished. This assurance of Professor Mead's means that the long struggle the agri- cultural and irrigation experts of this State have been making for an adequate Cengressional appropriation to provide for the proper drainage of the alkall lands of Fresno County has been suc- cessful. The constant raising of the level of the subterranean wa'ers in the Fresno Dis- trict due to the absorption by the soil of the water carried in the irrigation ditches, has of late years resulted in the actual flooding of a great deal of valu- able land by this seepage water. Not only that, but upon the evaporation of this seepage a precipitate of alkali is leit upon the surface which destroys the fer- tility of the soil The last appropriation by Congress, $50,- 000, was not enough to allow for any attention to this Fresno trouble and the evil has been on the increase during the present year. Finally Professor Hilgard wrote to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson bringing the matter to his atténtion and ‘also sent urgent appeals, backed by Pres- ident Wheeler, to Senator Perkins and Representative Needham asking that they influence Congress to make an appropri- ation large enough to defray the cost of making surveys for drainage in the trcubled district. Despite all efforts, the House appropri- ation_ for irrigation investigation was only $50,000. This was not agreeable to the Senate and finally a conference committee of the two bodies compromised on $65,000. It is understood that the extra $15,000 is to be expended upon surveys in Califor- nia -alone. Professor J. M. Wilson of the depart- ment of irrigation at the university, of which Professor Mead is head, will pro- ceed at once with operations in the Fresno district as a result of the final action of the Congressional committee. 1t is purposed by the United States en- gineers to make the proper surveys for drainage canals only and leave the State government to accomplish their actual construction. Professor Wilson is now on the ground. Besides the work in the southern region part of the government appropriation will be expended in_ searching for irrigation sources in the Santa Clara Valley. Pro- fessor E. J. Wickson of the agricultural department of the State University is now in that district ready to direct the work. R e e e e R Y ) LET3 CONTRAGTS FOR BIG TANKS Oil Rapidly Supersedes Coal on Southern Pacific Road. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, May 24. The Southern Pacific Company has let contracts for the construction along its liues of eight oil tanks with a capacity of 20,000 to 55,000 barrels each in’connection with its conversion of locomotives from cual to oil burning machines. At the West Oakland yards two new tanks with a capacity of 110,000 barrels of oil are now being set up, making a total storage capacity at the yards alone of 150,000 barrels. The work is being done by a Pennsylvania firm. Of the new storage tanks two will be located at San Francisco, each of 55,000 barrels capacity. Others wiil be distrib- uted as follow Tracy, 55,000 barrels; Yort Costa, 55,000; Alameda Point, 55,000% South Vallejo, 30,00; Roseville Juncticn, 20,000; Sacramento, 30,000, The company will also distribute smaller tanks along the road. These ar- rangements for handling the new. fuel include nothing that will be done on the southern route of the company’s lines. 1t is estimated that the exclusive use of ofl will net a saving of $1,500,00 a year over coal. "Thirty-nine engines on the western di- vision have used oil during the last month. The estimated saving on this run has been $16,000. The locomotives traveled 100,000 miles. The company has ordered 250 new oil tank cars, wi a capacity of 13,00 gal~ Jons each, double the size of cars now in service. —e——— Closing out prices in furniture. H. Schell- haas’ corner store, 11th st., Oakland, . Secretary Testifies Sensationally. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 24.—Testi- mony of a sensational character was brought ‘out to-day at the trial of Letson Balliet, the alleged mining king of Baker City, Or.,;~who is accused of fraudulent use of the mails in selling shares of the White Swan gold mine, misrepresenting his interest and the value of the prop- erty. Miss Alice Young of San Francisco, Balliet’s private secretary, testified thaf vpon orders from Balliet, telegraphis, written and oral, she had in divers cases turned over to notorious women various sums_belonging to the White Swan Min- ing Company. —_— Mining Camp Is Burned. SALIDA, Colo., May 24—The town of ‘Whitehorn, a mining camp twenty miles north of this city, was practically wiped out of existence this forenoon by fire which started in the Witting Hotel. Twenty buildings were destroyed. The loss is estimated~at $25,000. Mr. Witting, proprietor of the hotel, and Mrs. Lampe were badly burned. FOR SALE, Just finished, one ladies’ high - class hand-made Brussels lace costume, suitable for reception and theater wear. one richly fancy jacket of lace and silk in the Gib- son and Eton style, ‘We make all kinds o " wo this line to order. work done any day at 696 Thirty-Eighth St Oakland, Cal. MISS E. DE SMET. MAY 25, 1902. PROMINENT OAKLAND POLITICIAN TO WED BERKELEY YOUNG WOMAN Engagement of Chief Deputy Auditor Hanifin and Lillie Belden Hunt Has Been An- nounced —— They Will Marry in July — S 0 O 4, @ A O PRSI | WELL-KNOWN AND POPULAR , YOUNG COUPLE WHOSE EN- GAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED. ‘ e — | Wednesday, July 23, at the residerice at San ‘Quentin of Mrs. Philip. F. Casey, a sister of the groom-elect. The affair will be strictly a family gathering. Only the relatives.of the bride and groom will be present. This is in accordance with the desires of both Mr. Hanifin and Miss Hunt. The groom-elect is one of the most popular young men of Oakland, which has been his home all of his life. He occuples a prominent place in official and fraternal life, having been for years Chief Deputy County Auditor. Mr. Hani- fin is also secretary of Oakland Lodge No. 171, Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks, and one of the most active members of that thriving organization. The bride-to-be, who is an accomplished young woman, has her home in the col- lege town with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hunt. -+ AKLAND, May 2.—Announce- ment has been made of the en- gagement of J. J. Hanifin Jr of this city, and Miss Lillie Bel- den Hunt of Berkeley. The wedding will be solemnized on FIGHT MAY AID THE PRODUGERS Dairy Exchange Agitat- ed Over Question of Quotations. Miss Kelley to Give Address. OAKLAND, May 24—Miss Florence Kelley, the distinguished social reform worker of Chicago, will deliver an ad- dress to-morrow evening at the First Uni- tarian Church, her subject being “How Far Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” GEOREIAN GALS 0" HENNERY Minister at the Dallas Couference Incurs a Rebuke, B . DALLAS, Tex., May 24.—The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at to-day’s ses- sien of the General Conference, created the Order of Deaconesses.. This Is said by the church authorities to be the most ad- Members of the San Francisco Dairy Iixchange are agitated over the proposi- tion to abolish the daily quotations of duiry products during the prevatence of the existing speculative tendency. The subject s causing considerable dis- | yancaq and radical step ever taken in the cussion among the thirty, ~wholesale | church policy and discipline. The newly. houses which constitute the eX-j glocted Bishops, Dr. E. E. Hoss and Dr. chenge. A number of the most important MMELS GUESTS WITH STOVE PANG Why Harriet B. Frazier Wants an Absolute Divorce.. Complains That Her Husband Il Treats Her Friends at Table. Oakland Ogn San Francisco Call, Broadway, May 24. Fryingpans and other hot things fromy the stove have come too thick for Mrs, Harriet B. Frazier of 1303 Tenth street, according to her complaint for divorce against her husband, Ferdinand F. Fra- zler, a commercial drummer with a re- sponsible position in San Francisco. She is trying to compel her husband to pay her alimony pending the outcome of her suit, and to-day she secured an order on her use citing him to aj before Judg%mene. !gere to lhovep::x- why he should not pay her at least $50 a month. Mrs. Frazier complains about much in her husband’s conduct, but she regrets most his actions at the table. When he would get into one of his tantrums, she asserts, he made things hum for everybody concerned. Several times when they were sitting at the table with guests he sud- denly grabbed hold of the table cloth and pulled everything—food, dishes, sugar bowls, molasses jugs, milk pitchers and trays—to the floor and then laughed’in Joy. If she took him to task, the wife avers, ke would vanish into the kitchen and re- appear with all the hot stove implements he could hold in two hands and one by one let them fly at the heads of his wife and guests; if the family fled he flew after them, belaboring with rryint‘am and kettles and cooking dishes until he could find nothing more to wield. Mrs. Frazier alleges her husband’s con- duct has become so unbearable that she can stand it no longer. She fears, so the complaint runs, for the life of her child, 19 years of age, who is thrown Into a spasm every time her husband loses his temper, which is quite often. She wants the child and an absolute divorce. Elizabeth K. P. Hopkins was granted a divorce to-day by Judge Greene from Clarence L. Hopkins. She charged him with neglect. — STATUE OF VON STEUBEN WOULD PLEASE GERMANS N | Berlin Papers Comment Favorably on a Bill Introduced in Congress. BERLIN, May 24.—The Kladderadatsch’s American cartoon - to-day . represents Bartholdi’s Statue’ of Liberty welcoming the statue of Frederick the Great. Ia the background is Uncle Sam rolling up the Stars and Stripes In Cuba preparatory to leaving. Further back are American sol- diers bayoneting Filipino bables and shooting bound captives. Congressman Barthold’s bill, introduced in the House of Representatives at Wash- ington on_Friday, providing for the ersc- tion at Washington of an equestrian statue of General von Steuben in recogni- tion of his friendship for the United States is pleasantly commented upon by the newspapers here as a mark of appre- clation of Emperor William’s presentation of the statue of Frederick the Great to the United States. -~ RLP Burton Talks of Cuban Tariff. TOPEKA, Kas., May 24.—Senator J. R. Burton is in the city on his way to Wichi- ta to attend the Republican State Con- vention. Senator Burton is mentioned on some sides as a candidate for chairman of the convention. In discussing the Cuban tariff bill Burton said the measure would likely pass the Senate in some form, although there was considerable opposi- tion to it and not along party lines either, The contention, he said, centered around beet sugar. —_— SAN DIEGO, May 24.—Fire last evening de- stroyed the residence of J. D. Woodruff. No one was in the house at the time and no fire had been left by the family. @ i ik @ E. A. Coke Smith, were ordained this af- ternoon. The conference ratified the recommenda~ tion made by Dr. Tigert including circuses in the list of worldly amusments that the church membership should not indulge in. The question of creating the Order of Deaconesses was then taken up. When the two reports were placed on the cal- endar last week the vote of the commit- tee was a tie, 13 to 13. Dr. McGee "of Georgia characterized the proposed order as a “hennery for hatching out female preachers.” Bishop Duncan called him to order and ruled out the language quoted on the ground that it was unparliamentary. The newly elected Bishop, E. A. Coke Smith, spoke earnestly for the adoption of the minority report which favored the crea- tion of the order. W. R. Webb of Tennessee, in advocating the minority report, complimented in the highest terms the Catholic chureh for its order of Sisters of Charity and the work they do. The minority report was adopt- ed, lmf!uhffi.“nngmtfila gr(‘!er otl Deacon- esses of the Met! st Episcoj Church, South, was created. s houses are in favor of suspending the quotations for a perlod of sixty days or longer until speculation shall cease and] the market shall become more firm. meetiig of the exchange wiil be held to- 100rrow, when it is expected that a de- cision in the matter will be reached. A member of one of the firms most ac- tive in calling attention to the benefits it is said will result if quotations are eliminated for the time being said yester- day that he believed that at least twi thirds of the houses connected with tl exchange will vote for the change. It reported that unless the exchange decldes to adopt a new policy several houses will break away. 7The meeting to-morrow promises to be very interesting and pos- sibly may result in the disruption of the Dairy Exchange. For some time past the present diffi- culty anent quotations has been brewing There has generally been a difference of from one to two cents per pound or per Gozen between the quotations of the ex- change and the prices which the whole- sale “merchants have been paying. In- variably the merchants have been paying higher prices than the quotations call for. ‘While speculation is in progress it is ad- mitted to be an impossibility to estab- lish a uniform quotation, or, in other wcrds, a price per pound that would be satisfactory to every merchant. The advocates of the suspension of quo- tations claim they are working in the interest of shippers as well as in the in- terest of themselves. They claim that if quotations are suspended a competition will undoubtedly arise among the mer- chants that cannot help but secure for tke shippers in the country better prices for lhefl- produce. Death of Colonel Currier’s Wife. = Iast Friday morning shortly before 1 o'clock Mrs. Nataline B. Currier, wife of Colorel J. C. Currier, one of the directors of the Soldiers’ Home at Yountville, died of hemorrhage of the brain after a lin- gering iliness at the .family residence, 1504 grondwly. 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