The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1902, Page 7

3 | T0 BE PRpEpRpTRpRas—————— TS L S 8 d A e D D e S et et i Copyrigns, T003—swemt. These are not cheap reproductions, but are the actual, same pictures in Pastel Colors by * OSCAR HOLLIDAY BANGHART THAT ARE NOW ON SALE IN EVERY CITY IN THE COUNTRY WE nse of this beautiful series. “<cevrecriverscroccocrccrone many times greater cost than ever be- fore put into a similar arrangement by any have just completed arrangements (at H newspaper) for the exclusive purchase and H il TR R sent one of them absolutely free with each | copy of our Sunday edition. ‘ ree w . THE “3':?\'- Bummer-&ir(" Each ‘The uniform price at all stores THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRID.A&Y.‘DECEMBER 5, 1902. s BANGHART PIGTURES Everywhere On Sale at $1.00 Each ISSUED FREE g 'TO OUR READERS AS OUR UNDAY SUPPLEMENT e e at $1.00, We will prej Sunday Issues GRANTS DECREE TOW.A. BOTKIN Hebbard Frees Husband From the Alleged Poisoner. Judge Hebbard granted Welcome A. Botkin a divorce from Cordelia Botkin yesteray on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Botkin did not appear, contenting berself with being repiesented by he: at- torney. Mrs. Botkin is confined in the Cotnty Jail awaiting a new trial on a charge of having sent poisoned candy to Mrs. Jobn P. Dunning of Wilmington, Del, thereby causing Mrs. Dunning’s éeath. A short time after her first con- viction her husband brought a suit for divorce on the ground that his wife hed een convicted of a felony, but the action was never prosecuted to 2 final judgment. The Botkins were married in Kansas City in 1872. Bamuel North, & cloak designer, was granted a divorce from Rosa North, to whom he was married in Austria in 1882, by Judge Graham yesterday. North was but 14 years of age when be became a benedict. His wife was 27." He testified yesterday that a short time after his marriage Mrs. North became insanely jealous and made his life miserable by fiying into frequent rages and abusing him. He saild that she frequently hurled cooking utensils at him and that on one occasion she broke a valuable violin over his head. ® “She was so jealous,” said North, “that she insisted that I should cease visiting my relatives and friends.” The Norths have four children. Judge Graham also granted a divorce to Florence A. Farley from John P. Farley for cruelty. Farley, who is the son of Barney Farley, the well known road- house-keeper, according to his wife's tes- timony, was not particular about the sort of language he used in addressing her and not infrequently used violence toward her. A divorce was also granted to Amelia Newcomb from Edward E. Newcomb. for desertion. Suits for divorce were flled by Mary Horne against John W. Horne and Celia Caffarefia against Guiseppl Gaffarena for cruelty. The suit for maintenance brought by Georgie B. Smith against her husband, Robert §. Smith, who is a clerk in Breuners furniture store, was decided in favor of the husband by Judge Hebbard yesterdey. Smith testified that after he left his wife last March, because of her treatment of him, he sent her $30 a month. She contracted debts, which he paid, and in doing so became financially embarrassed and was compelled to discontinue the al- lowarice. Smith said he left his wife be- cause she locked him out at night on a couple of occasions when he had been epending the evening With companions. Judge Hebbard advised the Smiths, both of whom are young, to try to settle their difficulties out of court. Archipald Hutchinson, who was married THIES T0 GRAB NATOMA STREET The firm of Miller & Lux made an at- tempt yesterday /morning to grab Na- toma street, eu‘erly from Fifth street for a distance of about half a block, but was prevented by the Board of Pub- lic Works. Workmen employed by the firm’s agents, Madison & Burke, began the erection of a fence across Natoma street where it intersects Fifth street shortly after 9 o'clock. The workmen had succeeded in driving two upright poles to be used as supports for the fence, when they were ordered to desist by Patrolman Murray, who was parading his beat. Murray immediately telephoned to the office of the board and was told to prevent the erection of the fence. The board then dispatched two borers and an inspector to the scene with instructions to pull the two posts out of the ground. Mayor Schmitz took a hand in the matter and instructed Chief of Police Wittman to detall officers to see that no overt act was committed by the firm's men. The officlals of the Board of Works say that the agents took advantage of the municipal holiday to steal a march on the city, They thought the police would all be detailed to watch the election and the office of the board would be deserted, but they reckoned without their host. Miller & Lux claim that the street is their private property and they have a right to fence it in. Two years ago they petitioned the Supervisors that the land occupied by the street be assessed to them, in order to acquire title to it. As- sessor Dodge advised against granting the petition, because the street is paved and sidewalked. It is designated on the official map in the City Engineer’s office as a street and has been a thoroughfare on the lot books in the Assessor’s office for thirty years. The only point which may militate against the city’s ownership of the street is that no action has ever been.taken to dedicate it as a street. A Supreme Court decision of 1874, however,. designates as streets those used as such for more than five years. There are conflicting deci- sions, however, and it will be neceskary to examine the abstract of title of the land involved to ‘determine its ownership. Assessor Dodge says there are streets val- ued at $100,000 claimed by individuals, but which are not assessed to them because they are on the maps as streets. [ ] to Jennie 8. Hutchinson in Manila in Jan- vary of last year, flled a suit for an annulment of his marriage yesterday. He alleges that at the time he was married to the defendant he had a wife living, from whom he had never been divorced. He says that he was under the impres- sign that she was dead and did not learn of his mistake until after his return to this country with his second wife. GRAIN BROKERS MAKE COMPLAINT Say That Wheat Deliv- ered at Port Costa Is of Poor Quality. The liveliest session of the Merchants’ Exchange held for some time occurred yesterday. For a time a riot seemed im- minent, but was averted by the prompt action of the grain committee in deciding to send Chief Grain Inspector H. C. Bunker to Port Costa to examine into the condition of 9000 centals of wheat deliv- ered there since December 1 by the “Big Four” as December wheat. This action was made necessary because of a com- plaint made by those who purchased the wheat that it was not a first-class article and therefore was not the grain that should be delivered to them. They de- manded an investigation and the grain committee to avert trouble promptly sent Inspector Bunker to Port Costa to ex- amine the grain. The trouble at the exchange seems to prove conclusively that the *“Big Four” were caught in a tight place recently. Some time ago it was rumored that they were “squeezed” gather tightly in a deal and that to save ‘themselves they had to unload upon the market 40,000 centals of December wheat. The price they received was not a high one and it 1s now said that in order to recoup their losses they must deliver inferior wheat instead of the first-class December article, which those who forced them to sell purchased. The truth of these rumors and grumblings can only be dekermln‘ed upon the filing of Bunker’s report. That there is a row brewing at the ex- change, in which the members of the ex- change who deal in wheat will probably take part with a great deal of gusto, and, judging from the present outlook, with more than a fair share of bitterness, is evident. It is liable to' break loose at any day and the members of the exchange are awaiting the outbreak with consider- able anxlety. 5 The only people who know all the de- tails of the prospective battle royal are the members of the grain committee of the exchange, who sent Bunker up to Port Costa. They know that there is on file at the exchange a complaint written by several grain brokers who purchased the wheat and who upon its delivery found, they say, that they were not get- ting the real article. On the contrary, the complainants state in their written communication, they recelved wheat that was not up to the standard. It is weevily and full of sweet clover, they say, and therefore not the grain they bid for. The complaint is in the hands of the grain ,committee and I tor Bunker. The committee, which consists of Fair- fax Wheelan, R. D. Girvin, James Hogg, W. Baehr and H. C. Somers, refudes to give out who the complainants are and . MOTHER"S HEART 15 6LAD A6V A FATML wounDt Grand Vaudeville Sophie Zuboff Consents to Return to Her Home, Kiss and a Oaress Ends an Affecting Interview at City Hall, e S SR “I'll go with my mother, Judge,” sald Sophie Zuboff yesterday to Judge Ker- rigan, at the close of an affecting inter- view with Mrs. Zuboff, her mother. As she spoke she placed her arms about her mother’'s neck and kissed her. “Sophle, Sophie, my child,” oried Mrs. Zuboff, as she folded her daughter 'in her arms, “I knéw you loved me. 3 A light of joy showed in the eyes of Mrs. Zuboft as ghe carefully wiped the traces of tears from her daughter’s cheeks and kissed her fondly and then obliterated from her own face the traces of sorrow which her struggle for her daug‘ter'u welfare had left there. Mother and daughter left Judge Kerrigan’s chambers with thelr arms about each other, Sophie appearing very glad that the love for her mother which had been dormant in her breast had been aroused and Mrs. Zuboff looking extremely happy because her daughter was once more under her pro- tection. The interview between the mother and daughter was a strangeé one. When they first met in Kerrigan's chambers, Sophie appeared devold of feeling, even refusing to kiss her mother. Mrs. Zuboff spokg to her of her own love for her, - the R: e her two brothers bore her and finally asked her if she did not love her father. “Yes,” replied the young girl, “and my brothers too.” “Sophie, Sophie, do you love me also?” cried Mrs. Zuboff, falling to her knees and clasping her daughter’s hands! The girl's eyes filled and she gazed at the kneeling form. She apparently struggling against some influence and ap- reared to wish to make a response. For several seconds she remained silent and then a hysterical sob shook her young form and a tear rolled down her cheek. “Mamma,” she cried, and the struggle between love for mother and the prompt- ings of a school-girl’s frivolous mind was over. .1 am a good girl, mamma,” she whis- pered as she raised her mother to her feet and embraced her fondly. “I want to go with you.” v ‘When complete reconciliation had been effected Judge Kerrigan came into the room and told Sophle that she was free to make her own choice of guardians. “I'll go with my mother, Judge,” she announced and the court nodded assent. Mrs. Zuboft told the young girl yester- day that if she would return to her until she was 18 years of age, six months hence, she would offer no objection to her mar- rlage to Keener, if at the end of that time she felt that she really loved him. The happy ending of the interview will result in the dismissal of the habeas cor- pus proceedings instituted by Mrs. Zuboft in the Superior Court, though it is hardly probable that she will consent to drop the charges she has brought against B. Kirby Keener, the cash register salesman, and Mrs. Jane White, who, Mrs. Zuboff says, }mduced her daughter to leave her home. COMPLICATIONS ARISE FROM A SACK OF COIN Solve a Perplexing Question of Law. Willle Saunders, who lives at 23 De Boom street, found a sack containing gold on the street, and Walter Larsen, a bigger boy, who lives at 7 De Boom street, took it from Willle, claiming that he ‘had lost it, and gave Willie a nickel for findipg 1t. Willie told his mother and she went to the Larsen home and de- manded the sack. Mrs. Larsen said ft telenged to her, but Mrs. Saunders was not satisfied and Mrs. Larsen compro- mised by giving her $11, half of the money in the sack. Mrs. Saunders took objection to the amount and notified the police. " Acting on the advice of the police Mrs. 1Saunders called at the property clerk’s oftice yesterday morning and handed gver the $11. Detective Crockett was detailed to see Mrs. Larsen and he got the other $11 from her, which was also handed to the property clerk. A short time later M. P. Olsen called upon the property clerk and claimed the money. He boards with Mrs. Larsen. The case will be laid before one of the FPolite Judges this morning, and he will be asked to decide who is entitled to the money after hear- ing the statements of Mrs. Saunders, her son Willie, Mrs. Larsen, her son Walter, and the claimant, Olsen. ! —_—— LARGE DEALS ARE MADE IN LOCAL REAL ESTATE Properties on Powell and Mission Streets Are Sold for Round Prices. Two large dea® have been made in local realty. Mary T. Emerson, who recently sold the southeast corner of Battery and California streets, 35:9x137:6 feet, for $175,- 000, has bought 34:4%x137:6 feet on Powell street, adjoining her previous holdings, for $105,000. This gives her half of a 50- vara on the west line of Powell street between Ellis and O'Farrell. 0. D, Bald- win is the seller. of the newly acquired holding agd Madison & Burke acted for Mrs. Emerson. Henry Kahn has purchased through the agency of Madison & Burke the northwest corner of Mission and Seventh streets. The lot has a frontage of 8 feet on Mis- sion street and 8 on Seventh. The im- provements consist of the New Orleans Hotel and a store. The property is di- rectly opposite the new Postoffice. —_——— GEORGE RECK PUNCHES ATTORNEY BOYNTON’S FACE Defeat in Divorce Proceedings Causes Assault on the Successful i Attorney. - George Reck, who supplies limes to sa- loons, and who was a short time ago sent to the County Jail for five days for contempt of court for faflure to pay his ‘wife alimony, Wfl&ns the trial of a suit “or divorce on the ground of cruelty brought by Mrs. Reck, punched Attorney C. €. Boynton in the face yesterday in the corridors of the City Hall. No dam- age was done. The trouble occurred as Boynton was leaving Jud@e Graham's courtroom, where he had just secured a divorce for Mrs. Reck. The assault was unprovoked and was undoubtedly caused by the man- ner in which Boynton presented his story 'of the various acts of cruelty Reck had been guilty of. @ iviriieiiisieiivivineiie il @ absolutely refuses to discuss the question. The members admit recelving the com- plaint and say they have sent Bunker to Port Costa to examine into its merits, but are dumb when questioned as to who the gentlemen are who'made it and will not divulge the names of the men who sold the grain. LOVE INFLICTS: Russian Dies'Because He Is Flouted by Tina de Spada. Her Departure So Affects Him That Heart Stops Its Beating. ‘When Tina de Spada, the oriole-throated soprano who for the last four months has delighted the audiences at the Tivoll with her singing, turned her face toward the rising sun yesterday morning and waved a farewell to the hills and spires of San Francisco she probably did not know that a man whose heart had broken for love of her lay dead in his sleeping apartment ‘with his- sightless eyes still holding in them the image of herself. nor is it certaln that even if she did know this she would have cared much. Lovelorn worshipers and broken hearts are blase matters to the diva, who uas been courted through varyiag climes and places from St. Petersburg to Cali- fornia. One woman’'s heart is entirely insufficient for the demands upon it under such circumstances. The young man whose love for the sing- er proved a fatal wound was Michael Bel- lavin, a Russiah, aged 31 years, and brother-in-law to the Right Rev, I Tik- hon, Bishop of the Greek-Russian Cathe- dral at 1715 Powell street. For more than two years past he has been acting as sec- retary to the Bishop. ATTENTIONS ARE SPURNED. ‘When Tina de Spada appeared at the Tivoli Bellavin became a nightly fre- Quenter of the place and, his devotion to the young woman was a matter of re- mark to her friends. He constantly sought an introduction from mutual acquain- tances, and at the request of the so- prano, who was annoyed by his atten- tions, thiss+was.denied him. He wrote her notes declaring his love for her, pralsing her beauty and her voice and declaring his own unworthiness. One night, as De Spada was seated in a box watching a performance given by other members of the company, Bellavin forced his way in and introduced himself. He met with a chilling reception and there- after he seemed to realize that his love ‘was hopeless. Up to this time, according to his friends, he had been a man of correct habits, but despair drove him to excesses and he sought rellef from his sorrow in drink. For three months past he has indulged heavily in stimulants and the protesta- tions of his friends and relatives availad nothing to change his course. He still maintained an adoring attitude toward the charming soprano and each night found him at the Tivoll, waiting for a glance at the woman who had snared his -heart. - LOVE'S WOUND FATAL. - ‘Wednesday night he retired early to his apartment at 1715 Powell street, where the cathedral is located. He was in such a condition of nervous prostration that Dr. Victor G. Vecki was summoned to at- tend him. He administered sedatives and left his patiént apparently resting easily. But the knowledge that Tina de Spada would depart in the morning and that A Police Judge Will Be Asked toDProbably he would never see her again gripped his heart until it ceased its beat- ing. When the family went to awake him in the morning he was dead. Bishop Tik- hon has been absent in the East for a few weeks and does not know of the tragedy. He is expected to return to-day or to-morrow, agd the funeral will not take place until then. Bellavin came from a prominent Rus- sian family and was educated at St. Pe- tersburg. He had traveled widely before coming to San Francisco, where he had resided for *the last two yéars. Tina de Spada is on her way to Austria to'take possession of the title and estates of her father, by whose recent death she became a Duchess. So the width of two conti- nents and an ocegn will separate the dead and the loved. Sugar Superintendent From Utah. George Austin, agricultural super- intendent of the Utah Sugar Company at Lehi, Utah, and member of the Legisla- ture of that State, arrived in the city vesterday and is registered at the Lick. Mr. Austin is making a hurried visit to California in connection ‘with the beet- sugar industry, and leaves to-day for Los Angeles. DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. DON'TGOITBLIND There’s No Need To in San Francisco —the Way Is Almost Hedged With Guide-Posts. Have you ever read a newspaper arti- cle—a glowing account of some incident told in elusive words to lead you on—and found it ended up with a proprietary med- jcine advertisement? Annoyed you, didn’t it? . And were you convinced of the merit of the article? We think not, because it told the experience of some stranger in a far-away town. To take his word for it was like “going it blind.” It's a very different thing when a statement is pre- sented from a citizen, from people you know, and that’s the case here. Joseph P. Jackson of 2 Rose avenue, now retired, says: “Of all the remedies I ever used for my back and kidneys none took effect so promptly or acted so thoroughly as Doan’s Kidney Pills. For years I had trouble with my back and jatterly it ached all the time. I dreaded to stoop on account of the acute twinges which shot across my loins when I at- tempted to straighten, and many a time I was compelled {o place my hands on the sfall of my back and press them into my. loins for the slight assistance that makeshift afforded. 0 boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills stopped the backache and positively removed other symptoms of sluggish or-overexcited kidneys. I am only too pleased to recommend a prepara- tion upon which the public can rely.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn_Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name, Doan’s, and take no substitute. AMUSEMENTS. NATIVE [SONS’ HALL. EVENING, Dec. 8, at 8:30 o'clock. ot A Bx)!NGLE CONCERT. iven — miss LILLIE LAWLOR, THE MINETTI STRING QUARTET, M. VENTURA and MR. FRED MAURER. Planist. WL A5°'55 00, $1 50 and $1 00, at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s, Where the Special Orders are Now Ready for Delivery. O BASEBALL. CALIFORNIA LEAGUE GAMES, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, P. M.; SUNDAY, 2:30 P. M. , g o SACRAMENTO vs. SAN FRANCISCO. % RECREATION PARK. ~ % Eighth and Harrison Streets. uunu;malnu.smm Co. m(hepcymento!ZSee'xv. o L To L fSTIONABLE EMPHATIC. ’gfl gfi'&EDfixfED SUCCESS OF - One Vast Score of Animated and Delighttul Faces at Every Performance. Every Word a Laugh, and Every Laugh One Prolonged Laugh. A Great Cast of Popular Favorites, and Scenery, Costumes, Stage Settings that eclipse. Reserved Seats, 25¢ and 50c_at night. Sat. Sun. and Holiday Matinees, 25c. Children at Matinees, 10c. Hurry for Seats. See Prof. Bothwell Browne’s Ballets. ) o e A VAUDEVILLE KOHINOORS! Helene Mora; The Barrows-Lancaster Company; Thorne and Carleton; Harrigan; Heras Family and the Biograph. Last Week of Captain Webb’s Seals and Sea Lions; Gus Williams and Collins and Magdell. For the Bénefit of the... Iedical Department of the... San Francisco Polyclinic To Be Given at the Alhambra Theater Eddy and Jones Streets, Saturday Evening, December 6, 2 \ 815 O'Clock, Seats on sa'e at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, Kearny and Sutter Streets, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These holding admission tickets may reserve seats at Sherman, Clay & THEATRE ™ REPUBLIC= ONLY THREE MORE NIGHTS, '.1 HARRINGTON REYNOLDS CO. THE SPORTING DUCHESS. PRICES..... +.25¢, 80c, TSc—No Higher 25¢ and 50c Matinee To-morrow and Sunday. Monday Night, December $—“MOTHS.* Beerbohm Tree's Powerful Dramatization of Ouida’s Famous Story. GRAND: N b house LAST THREE NIGHTS OF THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE STOCK COM~ PANY, In a Grand Scenic Production of WINCHESTER. A Romance of Virginia in "63. POPULAR PRICES, 10c, 15¢, 25c, 50c, TSe. Next Week The You: A TIVOLIGSE:. EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK at 8 Sharp! TOY MATINEE Saturday at 2 Sharp! _ Don’t Fall to See the Favorites in The Toy Make HARTMAN, ANNIE MYERS, WEBB, CUN- NINGHAM and the Other Clever People, BRING THE CHILDREN FOR TOYS ON SA4. WEEK DECEMBER 8, The Serenade. COLUMBIA 5257 ALL THIS WEEK—INCLUDING SUNDAY. MATINEE SATURDAY. THE BOSTONIANS H. C. Barnabee and Wm. H. MacDonald Props. The New De Koven and Smith Opera. MAID MARIAN. Beginning Monday, December 8, . CAPTAIN’ JINKS Of the Horse Marines. CLYDE FITCH'S BEST COMEDY. ELIZABETH KENNEDY as Mme. Trentonl SEATS NOW SELLING. B 4 _ 8&ursco I STy Market Street, near Eighth. Phons South 533. {IO-NIGHT—EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. The Greatest American Drama Ever Written. Hazel Kirke A Beautiful Romance of the Human Heart. The Play That Eclipsed ‘“East Lynne.” PHIGES_EVBNIN S. 10 to 50c. MATINEES, 10c, 15¢, 85¢, Nfit ‘Week—Champlon Lightweight of the ‘World, P JIMMY BRITT, In the Big Hit, “BOWERY AFTER DARK. THE CHUTES! High-Class Specialties in the Theater EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VISIT THE THRIVING INFANTS IN THE LIFE SAVING INCUBATORS! BABY TIGERS IN THE Z00! ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN SATURDAY NIGHT. The Chutes Phone Is Park 23. STEINWAY HALL, FRIDAY EVENING, Dec. 5, at 8:15. FAREWELL CON( 3 FRANZ WILCZEK MRS, G “‘IM “@mfi THE WEEKLY CALL <« $1 per Year. Reserved Seats, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Box | e ng American Traged- ek 1ot Opre: G, 0. e A S g WAGDS OPERA CALIFORNIA LAST CHANCE TO-MORROW NIGHT. The World's Greatest Musical Comedy, The Belle of New York 25 and 50 cent Matinee To-morrow. Sunday Night—HAVERLY'S MINSTRELS, with GEORGE WILSON, the King of Funmalke ers. Positively the Best Show of its Kind. _— ALCAZAR== LAST THREE NIGHTS, MATINEES TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY, Brown’s N MONDAY NIGHT—First Appearancg in Over Two Years, the Popular Favorite, MR. ERNEST HASTINGS, IN MIZZOURA. ——SEATS NOW READY— MECHANICS’ PAVILION FURORE EXTRAORDINARY, ELLERY’S ROYAL Italian Band CAV EMILIO RIVELA, Director, EVERY EVENLI NG SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. MATINEE. “:m POPULAR PRICES. SIS e e CLAY - RESERVED SEATS AT SHERMAN, oo . Dmsalc Hacing!&flacing! EVERY WEEK bi RAIN OR SHINE. New California Jockey Club Ingleside Track SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY. . Races start at 2 p. m. sharp." Train leaves Third and Townsend streets at $:15 p. m. and leaves the track immediately ater the Tast race. Reached by street cars from any part of the Eau. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.