The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903. LEVIN BROTHERS | N DIFFIGULTIES Big Grocers Fail for| Many Thousands of | Dollars. ‘ Committee Elects Trustees to Report on Condition | of Affairs. grocers reet, have falled The fact | ing when | for business was beld at esterday afterncon e was e & was elect- hnson itschke and J & « Michae & Cc auer H Barimore RYE M LanaH EALTIMORE Baltimore Rye leads in universal popularity because there's nothing wanting. It has Absolute Purity Faultless Quality Exquisite Flavor CERISTY & WISE COMMISSION CO... California 8t 8an Francisco, Cal. Telephons Main 7. ADVERTISEMENTS. PLEADS AGAINST CONSOLIDATION: NewhallWould Maintain | Mercantile Library | Intact. ! Says Association Is Gaining Members and Is Out of Debt. ——— Anticipating the annual election of of- | | ficers for the Mercantile Library Asso- clation, which will take place next Mon- | day night, the supporters of the opposi- tion ticket have issued a circular, in | r plans for the fu- disposition of the li- state which they ture conduct ing president, George A. New- | he other hand, will send out the tory circular letter to- rs of the association: | 4, the president and sec- | t fesults; in the ut of deb ng added 3 fo sec new to better ad for any time in a po ts own advancement hat we shall pl NORTH SHORE ROAD WILL CONTROL CAZADERO Efforts Will Be Made to Rival Tent | City of Coronado This Summer. by George d has been It is improve hotel rival Montgom for ma tdea « he re- on the that of wo under can e comforts the Franciscc ——————— City Has No Title. Att ey L e filed an opinion yes- the Board of Supervisors, the city has no right, title or | = in Mission block 89 arch, Twenty-first | streets. Lane says not laid .out through at substantial improve- ve covered a portion of the land h would be included in the limits of 1 street if so extended, but Hill street ation has never appeared upon | officlal map of the city. Assuming | a valid offer to dedicate, | unable to find any evi- r of an acceptance by the | offer, and he is of the opinion as 10 the portion of the block above tioned Hill street has no legal exist is | r ( NG SON | will spend their honeymoon | charming disposition g@nd her r | overdue steamer St. Louis have been re- | doubtless due to bad weather and to the !in need of overhauling. NORMAL SCHOOL GRADUATE WILL MARRY MINING SUPERINTENDENT | Miss Catherine Miles, Da ughter of Late Contractor of That Name, to Become Bride of Ellard W. Carson, Head of Oceanic Quicksilver Properties CSRE » — MISS CATHERINE MILES OF THIS CITY AND ELLARD WHITNEY CARSON OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, WHO WILL BE MARRIED AT | HOME OF YOUNG LADY'S MOTHER N | - - EDDING BELLS will ring on Wednesday rext for am-| other fair graduate of the San Francisco Normal School. | On that day Miss Catherine Miles of 1715 Laguna street will become the bride of ard Whitney Carson of} Santa Clara County The wedding will take place at home of the bride-to-be at 8:30 o'clock in the evening in the presence of relatives and mary Invited guests. The Rev. Father | Calzla of St. Ignatius Church will offi- | ciate. There will be a supper, at which | only the bride and groom and their rela- | tives will be present. The young couple in Los An- the geles The bride to be is very popular among | large circle of friends, becaus ottt estantast PR) B e o e e s INER 5. LOUR NOT YET SIGHTED Officials Believe the Bad | W eather Is Cause of Delay. [ NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—No tidings of the ceived up to midnight. At the offices of | the American line it was said that no anxlety was felt regarding the safety of the vessel, and that her detention was | fact that her machinery and bollers were It is the com- pany’s intention to take her out of ser- vice on her arrival and send her to Phila. delphia for a general overhauling. It is also pointed out that the St. Louis started from Southampton on her return trip a day late, and that on her last westward passage she did not reach here until Mon- day. Following is a list of the saloon pas- sengers booked to sail on the steamer St. Louls when she left Cherbourg on Janu- ary 4: Mrs. Robert Abbe and maid, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ahnelt, Victor S. Alién, Albert G. Bayer, Mr. Fritzbergen, touls Bernie, C. W. Mrs. Catherine Kradford, H. Browne, Miss Alice B. Chandler, dlle D. Cohen, T. J. Coiton, H. S, Cramer, Rev. Arthur Crane, Willlam J. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Dawlen, A. H. Field, R. Barrett Fethlan, Mrs. Forbes, 8. W. Gebo, | A. Goldberg, John Adrian Hesse, Mr. Hell- man, Mrs, Hilton and infant, Mrs. Jacobson, Mr. Kahn, Arthur F. Kirby, George Kolb, Mr. and Mrs Herbert Langford, Miss Bonynge, L. Bouguart, = Langford, H. Lansdell, Fred M. Leonard, A. P. Lioyd, Mile, Louise Mabilet, J. McGee, J. Fanning, Mr. Bgmers, F. A. Messenger, Jose de Alamarry Mila, Mr. Montgomery, Ralph Nichols, Mrs. Nichols, Candes Obidos, Eif Op- penheimer, (3 Mrs. J. Morkin, Major and Mrs. Cunliffe Owen, R. F. A.; Robert A. Pal- Helen A. Ranlett, . B. Sinauer, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Steinharter, Miss Emma Steinhar- Mr. Toynby, Miss Ufland, Miss Blanche | Ulman, Mies Lucille J. Ulman, M Vineberg, S. C. Wechmar, Ed N. M. Zell. T Debating Team Is Chosen. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 4.— The freshman class debating team which will meet the '05 debaters next month in the annual freshman-sophomore debate ‘was chosen at the final tryouts held in the chapel last night. Professor Max Farrand of the history department and Professor Alden and Mr. Bassett of the English department acted as judges of the tryouts. The following '06 men com- pose the team: Joseph Nibley of Salt Lake City, J. L. Maloy of San Jose and ’l E. A. Cunha of San Jose. | C. Miles and the Mate Michael Miles, cal talent. She is the daughter of Mrs. one of the city's earliest contractors. He father secured the contract for the erec the Folsom penitentiary and that of the City Hall site. With George Bromley as a partner he was the first to operate street sweeping machines in 8an Francisco. In addition to, the Normal School Miss Miles is a graduate of the Girls' High School. The prospective groom is the son of George Carson, an old-time resident of w Almaden. He is the superintendent of the Oceanic quicksilver mines,. near San Luis Obispo, recently opened by a Los Angeles syndicate. He resigned as assistent superintendent of the New Al- maden mines to take this position. He is | quite a young man and has made a rapid ! rise owing to his ability. he couple will make their home at the yndicate’s property. URACKSMEN LOOT ~ AFE N SALOON Although Near the City Hall Explosion Not Heard. The safe in the Art saloon, 1410 Market street, was looted by cracksmen early yesterday morning and, although the sa- icon is a short distance from the South- ern and City Hail police stations, the ex plosion was not heard by any of the guar- dians of the peace. The robbery was dis- covered by R. Maguire, proprietor of the saloon, when he opened it shortly before 8 o’clock yesterday morning and he Imme- diately notified the police. Detectives Dinan and Taylor were de- talled on the case, but they could find no clew that would help them in the arrest of the safe-crackers, who were careful to leave nothing behind them that might lead to their identity. In the safe Were $156 in coin, two gold chains and tHree gold rings, which were stolen, and $10 was taken from the cash register. The cracksmen first tried to effect an entrance through the door in the fence on City . Hall avenue, but falled. They climbed the fence on the adjoining lot and apparently tried to get an entrance through a window, which they broke, but found there were bars across it. It was easy for them to force open the screen door opening out on the lot, but they seemed to have had considerable difficulty with a heavy door, the inside of which was bolted. A “jimmy” had been used and the door was forced off its hinges. After effecting an entrance the handle of the safe had been knocked off, a fuse in- serted and the door blown completely off. A portion of the fuse was found inside the safe. The saloon was closed at a few minutes after 1 o’clock yesterday morning and the crackemen had done the job between that time and shortly before 8 o’clock. Accused of Robbery. Antone Hammerle, who conducts a lodging-house at 123% Jackson _street, caused the arrest last night of William Beckman, one of his roomers, whom he claimed had stolen $25 while occupying the same room. Beckman was detained at the City Prison pending an investi- gation. Five five-dollar pices were found in his possession, and he swore he did not know he had them. ——— “Koh-i-Noor” and “Regal” Pencils. The *“Kooh-i-noor” is the best 10c pen- cil. The “Regal” Is the best 5c pencil. The ‘*‘Mephis! is the best 10c copying pencil. The *“Regal” copying pencil, just out, has no equal. Trade supplied. San- born. Vail & Co.. 741 Market street. * \ NGTRESS TELLS " STORY N GOURT Maud Amber and Her Husband Tell Their Troubles. Judge Cabaniss Decides to Withhold Decision for Thirty Days. B Th i The trial of Ira Puerl Wilkerson, | charged with threats against the life of | Maude Amber Wilkerson, leading lady at | Fischer's Theater, was opened and closed in Police Judge Cabaniss’ courtroom in | rather a mild way yesterday afterneon. The Judge, after hearing the testimony of several witnesses for the prosecution and that of Wilkerson for the defense, de- | cided to withhold his decision for thirty days. His Honor also added that if Wil- kerson in the meantime made any threats against his spouse he would be brought up before the court,afid be severely dealt | with. The hearing of the case did not really | attract as much attention as was expect- ed. It was rumored “along the line” that Miss Amber would be there with a lot of sensational testimony against the man who is accused of having threatened her life. It was also expected that the mar- | ricd life of the couple would be reviewed ! in cpen court, all of which would give the gossips a stock of material sufficient w last them through the year. Such was not the case. The testimony was confined entirely to the threat which Wilkerson is alleged to have made ainst his wife's life. No stories were out their differences during y days of their married life and there- srowd left the courtroom ppointed. MISS AMBER TESTIFIES. | Miss Maude Amber was the first witness | to appear on the firing line. The fair on !lightly tripped up to the stand and was eusily sworn in. She was attired In brown dress, a sealskin coat and one of 1 picture hats with a huge blacl | plume floating to the breeze. Miss Amber did not appear to ‘be in the least dis turbed and was as self-possessed though she were dolng her stunt at the O'Farrell-street amu ment e or paying a bill at her dressmaker's The actress began by saying that she had known the defendant for sixteen years and that she had been married to him for twelve years. During that time she admitted that he had never even threatened any violence until the night of Janu f the present year, when, Miss Amber alleges, her husband said he would take her out on the public street and actually beat her to death. She stated that on the night of January 7 Wilkerson came up on the stage and told her that he wanted to talk to her for her own good. She testified that she told him that she did not want to talk to him at all, whereupon Wilkerson threatened tu beat her to death on the street. Miss Am- ber could not remember whether it was O'Farrel] street or Brannan street, but rald it was some street, all the same. After Miss Amber had concluded timony, Thomas Andrews, her t kerson had come on the stage on the night of the alleged threat. They all cor- | roborated Miss Amber's testimony, | could not remember whether or not Wil- erson had threatened the life of his wife | or was merely reasoning with her. | PRODUCES WEAPON. | Detective Gibson produced an ugly-look- ing weapon which he swore was given to him by A. E. Fischer, manager of the theater, on the night of dJanuary Fischer then went on the stand and told | hew Wilkerson had come up to him on | the night of January 7 and voluntarily { handed him the gun, which was after- | ward turned over to Gibson. | Wilkerson was the last witness to be { examined, He said he did not threaten the life of his wife, but merely tried to | reason with her and when she appeared | cold toward him witness testified that he said: “Maudy, you talk as though I | intended to take you out on the street | and beat you to death.” | At the conclusion of the testimony Judge Cabaniss did a lot of thinking and finally concluded to withhold his decision for a period of thirty days. In the mean- time Wilkerson was dis ged on condi- tion that he no longer annoy his wife. Burton Holmes To-Night. Burton Holmes, the lecturer, will con- tinue his series of illustrated lectures at Steinway Hall to-night, the subject be- ing “Portugal, a Land of Loveliness." Mr. Holmes spent the months of last summer in journeying from Gibraltar to the North Cape and Portugal naturally serves an initiative. The land itself, the architecture and the people lend themselves to unusually interesting pho- tographic results, while the national sport of bull fighting offers an excellent sub- ject for motion pictures. Those who have attended the Burton Holmes lectures in years gone by need not be assured that ‘i]ur, Holmes has availed himself of every possible opportunity for the making of pictures. As a result the series of mo- tion pictures is unusually Interesting and unique. Doubtless there are six or seven different views of the Portuguese bull fight shown by Mr. Holmes, and the pres- ent fact is established that while the Por- tuguese variety is not In any way lack- ing in excitement op interest, it differs materially from the ! barbarous Spanish style In that there is seldom any blood shed on the part of the bull, horses or the human actors in the drama. In addi- tion to these bull fight pictures, Mr. Holmes will show a number of motion ictures of street scenes in Lisbon, re- Iilous processions and military parades, The still pictures are beautifully colored as usual, and all the pictures are from original negatives taken by Mr. Holmes or by his fellow traveler and lantern ope- rator, Mr. Oscar Bennett Depue. On Sat- urday afternoon at 3 o'clock Mr. Holmes wlill lecture on Denmark. e District Court Proceedings. A. H. Rehfeld, the pawnbroker recently convicted of buying uniforms from soi- dters, yesterday applied for a new trial in the Unjted States District Court on the grounds that there is nothing in the arii- cles of war forbidding a soldier sell- ing his uniform after being mustered out, and that the uniforms sold by him had been left In pawn. ‘William B. Ewing, the former oil pro- moter, who was arrested in Chicago, yes- terday pleaded not guilty to the charge of using the malls for fraudulent purposes before the bar of the District Court. His trial will be set on Saturday. Milton G. Strong, a retail butcher of Al- ameda, filed a notice of bankruptcy. His assets were 32854 and liabllities $3633. New Series of Tyndall Lectures. Dr. Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall, the famous authority on psychig phenomena, who during the last few ths has been atiracting large audiences at Steinway Hall, will open up a new series of psy- chological lectures Sunday night, January pt 8. The first lecture of this series, which takes place Sunday, is entitled, “The Gene- sis of Psychic Phenomena; Its Study and Its Meaning.” It will serve to make clear some of the abstruse problems of psy- chology that the visit of Dr. MclIvor-Tyn- dall has made popular. The followlng Sunday night, January 25, Dr. Mclvor- Tyndall will lecture on “The Power of Thought; How to Obtain and How to Use 1t.” the | very | af accustomed | i William | Rusk and Samuel Simpson told how Wil- | but | 8| ADVERTISEMENTS. PRESIDENT FULLER OF THE EWELERS’ ASSOCIATION and Sight From the Ravages- of Catarrh. Pe-ru-na Cured Him. REAT many remedies to temporar- ily relieve catarrh have been devised ! from time to time, such as spra snuffs, creams and other local applica- tions; but_as a rule, the medical profes- | slon has little or no enthusiasm in the treatment of catarrh. | "It is generally pronounced by them to | be incurable. It therefere created a great sensation in medical circles when Dr. Hartman an- nounced that he had devised a compound | which would cure catarrh permanently. The remedy was named Peruna, and in | a short time became known to thousands of catarrh sufferers north, south, east and west. Letters testifying to the fact that Pe- runa is a radical cure for catarrh began | to pour in from all directions. | Thousands of such letters are on file in the office of The Peruna Medicine Co. Rev. E. Stubenvoll, Pella, Wis., writes: thanks for my complete restoration. All | through the winter I suffered from throat | ana lung trouble, but recovered my en- { tire heaith by the use of your excellent | remedy. Peruna.” | 'The following letter from a prominent | gentleman of Los Angeles is a case in | point. Mr. J. W. Fuller, president of the Jew- elers’ Assoclation of Los Angeles, C has been in business in that city for se enteen years out of the forty-five that he has been engaged in business. Con- cerning his experience with Peruna he says: *[ was troubled with catarrh of the head for many years. It affected my “I feel obliged to extend you my personal Threatened With Loss of Hearing, Smell sense of smell, hearing and sight. 1 spent lots of money with doctors and the use of local applications to re- lieve me, but to no purpose, until my attention was called to the wonderful | effects of Peruna. | I must say that | met with most | surprising .and satisfactory results. | Peruna teoi' hold of the complaint and drove it entirely eut of my system. “Although well along foward the | allotted span of man’s life | am | p/eased as a child over the resuits, and feel like a young man again."’— b .. | J. W. Fuller: . Such letters as the above arehot used | for publication except by the written pes- mission of the writer. A pamphlet filled with such letters will be sent to any address free. This book should be read by all who doubt the cura- lity of catarrh. If you do not receive prompt and satis- | factory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving = | full statement of your case, and he will | be pleased to give You his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohlo. NEWARK DELAYS - FERRY SERVICE yesterday morning as she 'was leaving | the Alameda mole on the 7 o'clock trip. | She was crowded with passengers from | Oakland and Alameda, who, after a long. 4‘ cold drift on the bay and a series of ad- | ventures with improvised towing craft were at 10:20 o'clock landed at the ferry { depot. The machinery went wrong as | the Newark cleared the slip. The tide | carried the ferry-boat up the bay, and | the case with which the officials respon- | sible for the ferry system lose their heads in an emergency did the rest. The ferry-boat Encinal, on .er trip { from San Francisco, went to the Ne: ark’'s assistance and spent some time tr: ing to tow her to the mole. The Encinal proved a failure as a towboat, and the Southern Pacific tug Rival took up the burden, and after a long and tedious | struggle got the Newark to the wharf at the broad-gauge mole. | Meanwhile the officlals ashore slowly came to life and awoke to a realiza- tion of the fact that while all this tow- ing was golng on some 2000 working men and women whose bread and butter de- pended on their reaching San Francisco in time to go to work at 8 o'clock were marooned on the disabled Newark. The Bay City was idle, but had no steam up. Her furnaces were lighted, and in the course of a leisurely interval the Bay City was ready for use. The Newark's passengers were trans- ferred to the Bay City, and at 10:20, more than three hours after leaving Ala- meda mole, were landed on this side of the bay. The breaking down of the New- ark also knocked out of tune for several hours the narrow-gauge schedule, and to the growls of the passengers maroon- ed on the Newark were added the groans | The ferry steamer Newark broke down | BUILDING AOAD 70 TIMBER BELT The Caspar Lumber Company is about to expend a large sum of money for the purpese of reaching a new and large body | of redwood timber in Mendoecino County. To bring the timber into reach of market it will be necessary to run a long tunnel and to construct a raliroad several miles in length, The tunnel will pierce the Coast Range mountains at a narrow part of the range. A contract has been let to | Carney & Roy, contractors of Santa Bar- | bara, for the tunmel. It is expected that the work will be done by the first of June next. Millions of feet of redwood will fall | when the company is ready to cut it. The new belt of virgin redwood is east of the Coast Range mountains and abo | fourteen miles from the coast line of M docino County. There is a sawmill and logging camp of large size at Caspar, but operations there have resulted in prac- tically cleaning up all the timber and it is necessary to seek the new region to con- tinue the business. The increase in the price of redwood during the last two vears has made lumbering much mor | profitable than it has ever been before | this State. Timber lands of all sorts have advanced about 100 per cent in value. Large tracts that were for sale a few menths ago have been withdrawn from the market, the owners anticipating a still greater price. There is therefore large money for the Caspar company in opening up its beit east of the Coast Range. The country Is very rough. The road will be for private use exclusively and for the sole purpose of moving the timber. | @ el e @ of those who followed on later boats, which ran from thirty to sixty minutes late. Red Top Club Dry 1 DRY MONOPOLE | CHAMPAGNE