The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1903, Page 9

THE - AN FRANCISCO CALL, WED DAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1903 YOUNG LADIE® WILL GIVE ENTERTAINIENT Dancing and Amateur Performances Will Be Offer INSTITUTE as Amusements for the QGuests. 3 i 2 &2 P mer R S ——— SR WAL TS e B R e '8 WHO WILL ASSIST AT THE VAUDBVILLE T TO BE GIVEN TO-NIGHT BY COUNCIL NO. 15 ES' INSTITUTE Miss M ant; Miss Bes- [ Mrs. Martha | WILL MEET OLD «r | High School Champions -/ Accept Clubmen’s Challenge. ———————— Sentence for Feb. —~Unitarian afforded an opportunity ALAMEDA, Club members will be norrow night of lstening to the cham- n voung debaters of the”Alameda High back to their elde Thrée speakers in the club, Colonel Babcock. Colonel W. Mas- M. pond, have been chosen verbal tilt with Roswell Dague, Ira W. Kibby and Ralph Marx, the trio that recently wrested the §tan- ford cup from the team of the Lodi High School in a forensic contest at Palo Alto. fees | e veterans have been quletly burnish- be | ing up their logic and rhetoric when no- was looking and are confidentially assuring the vmpathizers that they will come out of the battle of brains with cclors flying, but they are careful not to hether the colors will x full mast when the debate is de- —— > Remission of Fees. POSTUM CEREAL. A CORKER But Not Much of a Pastor, cock, Maslin and Dr. Pond assert that they will give the stripling orators S s Cokibisd ivid imitation of what old Demosthe . N N s ke was like when he was at his best. t the voungsters are not daunted. T but whose pri- e | Y0UNG DEBATERS 'CARNEGIE OFFERS b NEW LIBRARY Berkeley's Request Is Granted With $40,- 000 Gift. BERKELEY, Feb. 17.—City Superintend- ent of Schools 8. D. Waterman to-day re- ceived a letter from Andrew Carnegle, stating that he would give Berkeley a $40,- | 000 library buiflding providing the town would furnish a site and provide $4000 a year for its maintenance. The town now gives over $5000 annually for the support of jts library and no apprehension is felt over securing a site, so that the Carnegie library is practically assured. A special meeting of the library trus- tees will be held some time this week to consider Mr. Carnegie’s offer and to see | what can be done toward securing a site. be flying at | | to be debated is the same that | was no means exemplary. | at Palo Alto: “Resolved, that sutspoken of his parish- | California should be divided into two habit of remonstratiog | States, the dividing line to be fixed by a | i it " about this and his | competent body.” The students will de- | was, “Don’'t 6o @s I do, | fend the same side they did in the cup ccntest, the negative. Under the clrcum- Sk shysioiine, | Sto0ces the boy champlons do not see v v _‘ how the old men can best them in the al men Who | ¢ rengic match. After both sides have of drinking Leen heard judgment as to which trio | then . ell their patients not | wins will be awarded by a vote of the t wh use one or the | audience. A sometimes it | SR, B kr tor out and he has Heavy Truck Crushes Boy’s Leg. g Coffe wwsician of | OQAKLAND, Feb. 17.—Ralph Johnson, | @ W,): liberal | aged 9 years, of Seventeenth street and « from my vouth and my | San Pablo avenue, fell under the wheels k } college in |of a truck weighing 15000 pounds this I continued |Bfterncon at Clay and Eleventh streets free hough T was | and bis left leg was badly crushed. The . . suff ntly from a | flesh of the limb was almost torn off, but k n as diabetes insipidus, a | the bones were not broken and amputa- that well known o be due |tion may not be necessary. The boy 1y weight was below | tNrned out to avold another cyclist and | 1osing his balance fell in front of the R5S.9 nic medicines were |4 ucl driven by B. E. Court. His wounds re and | gere treated at the Recelving Hospital. i S P ip— suspicious of coffee | English Army Captain Dies. . e babit by taking up | OAKLAND, Feb. 17.—The remains of 4 nerves n:u.u“«-,.pmgv. D'Oyly Tulloch Rochfort, late oy weight | ¢ the First Hants Artillery, England, pounds. Well o died last Friday in Sausalito, after s & delicious, health i | ety ana meeeaenk. | o vain search for health, will be sent from = Nawe f ished by Postum | Oakland to Victoria, B. <., for burial. tle Creek, Mich | Captaln Roehfort was a scion of an old ur physician does drink cof- giieh family, which lias been prominent i better do as he Postum a trial hake off coffee kecy weik 3 ells you 1o in the politics of England from the ad- T'nat's the easy | vent of William the Conqueror. He leaves and get well and | a wife and seven children, who were | with bhim when he died. i Mr. Carnegle in his letter says: “Your population !s surprisingly smal for the extent of the community, show- ing that it must be sparsely settled. It is evident that there should not be a large Jibrary building, but several small ones. 1 will be glad to give one moderate-sized library building costing $40,000, which sum is far in excess of that usually given for | the population.” NON-PARTISANS WANT TO POSTPONE CONVENTION BERKELEY, Feb. 17.—The executive committee of the Non-Partisan Tax- payers’ party will endeavor to change the date of the party convention, which, through a misunderstanding, was set for March 7, the date of the Republican con- vention. At o meeting of the committee to-night | it wae suggested that the convention might meet on March 7 and organize and adjourn to March 9 to name|the candidates for office. Chairman H. J. Squires was Instructed to look into the legal standing of the situation and see if some postponement cannot be made. The committee will meet next Tuesday night, when the delegates for the primaries will be nominated. e DIVORCED WIFE CLINGS TO HER YOUNG CHILD OAKLAND, Feb. 17.—Frank Ashton swore out a writ of habeas corpus to-day to secure possession of his ten-year-old daughter, Aytla Leonle Ashton, which he alleges 1s In possession of his divorced wife, Mary S. Ashton, residing at 1721 Grove street, the child having been placed by the decree of divorce in the custody of the grandmother, Mrs. Eliza- beth Ashton. On Saturday last the chlid visited the mother, who since has refused to give her daughter up. Ashton’s wife obtalned a divorce from him in August last on the ground of fall- ure to provide. Hannah Brackman to-day brought suit for divorce against’ William Brackman on the ground of desertion, i 1118 Broadway VALENTINE WiLL di MAY BE TESTED | WidowofLatePresident | of Wells Fargo Co. Dissatisfied. She Says Community Proper- | ty Was Wrongfully Given to Others. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, Feb, 17. [ In a petition for the distribution of the | ate of her late husband, John J. Valen president of the Wel rgo Com- Mrs, Alice Blanchard Valentine to- day intimated that she will attack the | provisions of the will distributing over half of the communi property to others than herself. in the Wells-Fargo Company and in the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company was acquired after her mar- riage and that Valentine had no right to distribute more than one-half of the prop- erty to other heirs. Under the terms of the will the widow receives the homestead in East Oakland, valued at nearly $30,000 and $65.000 i sh, The entire estate is valued at $426,352. Three children, Edward, Ethel and John J. Valentine, by a former wife, are bequeathed over $100.000. Four children of the petitioner, William, Dudley, Elizabeth and Philip Valentine are bequeathed $ 0. The total béquests amount to over $200,000, apart from the widow’'s share. 1 her petition Mrs. Valentine asks one-half of the community prope be distributed 1o her, or if the heirs will agree to it she wishes one-third of both the separate and community property. hat ROOM THIEVES PLUNDER DENVER HOUSE LODGERS Carry Away a Large Assortment of Clothes and Miscellaneous Articles. OAKLAND, Feb. 17.—Room thieves ran- sacked the Denver House, northeast cor- ner of Washington and Eighth streets, this afternoon contents of half a dozen rocms and carry- ing off a small wagonload of plunder. The thieves, for the police think there must have been more than one, operated <0 quietly that in one room they did not | arouse a sleeping occupant, R. Feeley, but took 20 cents from his trousers pockets and carried off A valuable banjo. So far as reported to Detective Kyte, who was detailed on the case, the room- ers and their losses are as follows: P. Blumenthal, room 25—Dress suit c: sult of clothing, pair of trousers, brush and comb, manicure set. Adolph Gomez, room 2—Guitar. R. G. Feeley, room 29— Banjo and 20 cents. H. Gluck, room 34— Silver watch, chain and charm, suit of clothes and pair of shoe Other rooms were entered and stripped, but the polic could learn the particulars because the were absent. The rooms were opened with keys. Mrs. A. M. Ball. the nroprietress of the house, could furnish no as to the identity of the thieves. The burglaries were accomplished between 3 and 6 o' clock this afternoon, se, not ——————— | BOWLING TOURNAMENT | DRAWING TO A CLOSE Golden West Team Defeats the Americans and Are Winners of the Class ‘“A’” Trophy. The bowling tournament which is be- smashing and ripping the | PILFERING HOUSEWIFE BREAKS DOWN IN COURT 'Mrs. Lulu Phillips Weeps Hysterically When Detectives Repeat Her Confession. 1;vvr\MA.\'l'H./\Rr‘ ) WITH BURGLARY, | | BUT WHO IS BELIEVED TO BE A | | KLEPTOMANIAC. Iur-n she made the same piteous confes- | sion, and her husband, Charles A. Phil- | lips, heard it Miss Sophie Hertel in court this after- noon identified a small clock, two pleces | of ribbon, a satchel bag, a palr of tan | | gloves and an atomizer, which had been stolen from her rooms, and were found at the Phillips residence. Mrs. Emma Stolcken, proprietress of | | the Pleasanton, had seen Mrs. Phillips, | | whom she knew, leaving the house the afternoon the stuff was stolen. W. L. Mitchener, a real estate agent p AKLAND, Feb. 17.<Shrouded in|at 1010 Broadway, had heard Mrs. Phillips black, her features half-hidden | she intended to go to the Pleasanton { nd_heavy velling, Mrs. Lulu | that same uf[;;;nnnn o e : Mrs. Mattie Pharls, a dressmaker, testi- ips sobbed and wept in the | e - o Court this afternoon as the | fied Mrs. Phillips- told her over a phone ) e that same evening she had been at the confession of her pilfaring was repeated | uge * Detectice Shorey dentified a k from the lips of the police detectives Who | pa had found in Mrs. Phillips’ possession ad.heard the despairing words of guilt| that fitted the lock on Miss Hertel's room amined and identified the numerous trifles | Prosecuting City Attorney Leach of De- when ihe rable woman was taken | door. | into custod | REPEATS CONFESSION. In a steady stream victims of !hn‘ “Did you have any conversation with wretehed housewife's petty pilferings ex- | Mrs. Phillips about these articles,” asked ing played in the different bowling al- | 11'\35 will be concluded with the Friday night's contest. § The Golden West team has already won | enough games to assure it the first place in class * The results of | ing’s games are as follows: last even- GOLD WES ' AMERICAN | Schult .....181 191 178 |Smith . ....143 Melsner 180 198 179! Clinton ... . | Ra 2159 190 170! Walton ... | Krome .. S Martin Schliehting Totals 819 Totals . ] | PACTF i 0 172| Lagarde | Kflmer . Loughrey | Davis Tribeely Runsell 2 her Lux 145 160 223 | May | Totals ...518 808 924 Totals ... 848 897 871 EAGLES | 11 Johnson 194 156 163 Tieeves 181 128 Morgan ... 136 12 Berquest 155 192 Osman _../218 104 | Campbell 159 151 Ballentine 124 148 | Bira 201 142 McConnell (177 148 Totals ...808 889 78S’ Totals ...81 'TELEGRAPH NEWS, ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 17.—Three more deaths d fever occurred to-day at Corneil | ORD, N. H., Feb. 17 Requisition pa- | pers were filed bere to-d for the return to | Minneapolis of Former Mayor A. A. Ames. ST, LOUIS, Mo., Feb, 17.—Louis G. Bohle, former United States Marskal and a well known citizef of St. Louls, iz dead, as the | result of an operation for cancer. | CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—The Rev. Charles G. Trusdell, for more than thirty years the su- perintendent of the Chicago Rellef and Aid i Soclety, died suddenly last night of heart dis- case. BOSTON, Feb, 17.—Charles T. Russell, chair- man of the Massachusetts Civil Service Com- mission, dled suddenly last night of apoplex He was a brother of the late ex-Governor Rus- sell. LONDON, FEeb. 17.—The statement was made to-night that Lord Charles Beresford has accepted the command of the channel squad- ron. This will necessitate his retirement from Parliament. PARIS, Feb, 17.—The Foreign Office to-day announced the appolntment of the Vicomte de Chambrun to be an attache of the French Enm basey at Washington, He Is a great-grandson of Lafavette. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—At the monthly meeting to-day of the Copper Producers’ As- scciation the formal notice of withdrawal of gamated Company and Its allied con- cepted, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, —Ex-Secretary of | 8tate John W, ter has been selacted to take charge of the case of the Unlted States in the presentation of the Alaskan boundary question to the special commission, —————— Death From Natural Cause. BERKELEY, Feb. 17.—The official in- quiry Into the cause of the death of Jo- seph Chappie, who dropped dead In Moun- tain View Cemetery Sunday while acting as pallbearer at a funeral, was held this evening at the local branch morgue, the jury returning a verdict of death from valvular disease of the heagt in accord- ance with the testimony of Dr. 1. E. Nich- olsen, who performed the autopsy. The funeral -of the deceased will be held Fri- day afternoon at 1 o'clock from lower Odd Fellows' Hall and will be conducted by the local lodge of Odd Fellows. Past Grand Master W. H. Barnes of San Fran- cisco will deliver the eulogy. The follo: ing ‘past grands will be honarary pall- bearers: Phil Sheridan, John Woolley, George Tallman, Joseph McClain, F. H. Payne and Willlam Kelley. —————— Harris Arendt’s Estate. OAKLAND, Feb. 17.—The estate of the late Harris Arendt, the Pleasanton grain merchant, has been appraised at $49,065. oot ik O et 4 _ROWDIES ASSAULT JAPANESE.—A num- ber of rowdies assaulted Kakichi Yamada, a teacher at the Japanese night school, Bush street, on Kearny street last nigh teacher's nose was broken and he was taker to the Emergency Hospital. where his injuries were attended to by Dr, Stevens, tective George Kyte, the succeeding wit- nes: Y overed from the Phill- st Oakland. This was ain issue, namely, the | that had been ips' residence in es,” replied the detective. “I told factental to:olig A her she had no business to go into the preliminary examin n of Mrs. Phillips | 0 - 2 s E on a charge of glary—entering the | T00T et RES F artments of Miss Sophie Hertel, in the e e Mrs. Phillips hton House, 1162 - Washington | answered, and I don’t know what made e n ; me go there. street, and removing various articles. g% o g These were subsequently found at Mrs. | We had another r(w;ffxgtinn in’ the Phtll home and identified by the ::::I‘ of the Chief ot Police, when she o SOBS VIOLENTLY | ‘I cannot understand why I took those p 2 3 | things.' Through it all Mrs. Phillips sat appar- it e i | | a $20,000 bequest to Dolly Barrett, alias | ceased, and a $1000 bequest to her mother, ymposed until Detective Kyte and ently J. Police Captain to L Miss Herstel's room and took the ; s but didn’t khow why The force of it Petersen narrated all came | E She said she did not nee upon the woman and she broke down in | Casiiied € AL 1 h"'! need a fit of violent sobbing, while her hus-| " o e band and his father tried to soothe the | "mh“— i, 8 ol :" x'll‘iial a ing wo There was no defense, | CONtN > n v e \l(n‘n:-r”\l‘ l?r\:;(a'v\. iting ‘\‘ml(l the case |2y had been granted by Justice Smith, was concluded by Prosecuting Attorney | various other '(:Iqum- appeared ‘(nr A. P. Leach and asking for a continuance | their property. The first was Mrs. Pau- until Saturday it m that their ei-| line Seott, 1501 Leavenworth street, San fort will be have the serious charge of | Francisco, formerly a neighbor of Mrs. burglary reduced and the wife sent to a | Phillips, who identified a -white bed- sanitarium spre and a linen tablecover. Mrs With the evidence all in the motive for |Mattle L. Cheadle, 1418 Ninth street, Mrs. Phillips’ conduct is unexplainabie | {dentificd two silver spoons and except on the theory ihat she is a clear- | an embroidery needle. Mrs. Pharis cut kleptomaniac. Of such trifling value | recognized a lady’s purse she said had were the effects she purloined that the len from her last summer, and contained $8 when it was filched. Household articles claimed by Mrs. A. P. Partridge, 14 inth street, had been returned to her, as her name was marked on the goods. WRATH AROUSES THE ASSEMBLY Legislators at Olympia Nearly Engage in Combat. pelice find no reason why she shouid de- sire them. And her own cry was: “I took the things, but I don’t know | why 1 did.” | To. Detective Kyte and Captain Peter- PUTATIVE CHILD WING VICTORY Widow of George Bar- rett Drops Contest « "to Will okt Oakiand Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. 17. The contest to the will of the late capi- talist, George H. Barrett, instituted by his widow, Antoinette P. Barrett, did not go to trial before Judge Hall to-day, but was compromised. 'The widow objected to of to-day the lower branch of the Legisla- ture fought over the railroad commission bill and the final result was the taking of the bill out of committee of the whoie and voting down the recommendation of that committee to indefinitely postpone measure. At times it seemed that legislators would indulge in fisticuffs. The bill is now at the foot of the House calendar for the second reading and the commission men, who have demonstrated that they have a constitutional majority in the House, intend to press the passage of the bill, regardless of the fact that a McDonald, a putative daughter of the de- be- 94 Delia McDonald. It was claimed by Mrs. Barrett that her husband was unduly in- fluenced by Mrs, McDonald and daughter, | and that they led him into making a will in their favor. By the terms of the compromise as an- nounced by Attorney Harry Pulcifer, the alleged daughter and her mother will re- ceive the original bequests. The wlduw‘ receives the balance of the estate, valued | at nearly $50,000. Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Feb, 17.—The following marriage licenses were issued to-day: G.| C. Hastorf, aged 24, San Francisco, and Lulu M. Jennings, 20, Oakland; Charles F. Centlivre, 31, and Agnes F. O'Brien, 19, both of San Francisc: F. Weisshand, 45, and Bertha Kreske, %, both of Berke- ley. Senate. At the noon adjournment, when the) ten- sion in the contest over the bill was the greatest, Lewis of King County took ex- ception to a ruling by Speaker Hare, and as the House adjourned made his way to the desk and denounced the ruling as ‘“‘crooked work.” Speaker Hare sprang from his chair with the evident intention of taking physical fevenge on Lewis, hut he was dissuaded by friends, although he continued to challenge Lewis outside and settle the dificulty.” Lewis, mission men, who were also loudly de- e i SOLDIER BADLY INJURED.—Privates Ed- ward Sullivan and John Haine of Company C. Seventh Infantry, were engaged In a scuffle he Presidio yesterday, which resulted in Sullivan’s skull being fractured. Haine, who ed in the post guardhouse, says the affair was the outcome of a friendly trial of strength. Sull condition is serious. BERLIN, Feb. 17.—Professor Mommret, torlan, was knocked down by a cab to-day and sustained a slight injury on the back of ihe head. l the challenge and the) trouble subsided without blows being struck. FALLS FROM BUILDING.—Joseph O'Con nor_ a carpenter, residing at 1708 Howard street, fell from a bullding on Masom street, | between Pine &nd California, yesterday, frac- turing his skull. He was conveyed to St Mary's Hospital. A year ago O Conmor fell from & building and then susiained a fracture of his skull. ‘The injured max is in & pre- carious condition, e 3od = OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 17.—During all the | duplicate has already been killed in the | “to_come who was surrounded by a body of com- nouncing the Speaker’s ruling, declined oAYS DIAMOND - WAS EXTRACTED | Miss Bradshaw Charges Young Man With Theft. | Claims Gem in Her Ring Was Changed for a Com- mon Crystal. d Office 1 Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. 17 d with having fliched a diamond goid ring he had borrowed from Miss Odessa Bra haw, residing at 2157 | Market street, Harry Burd, a solfcitor for the Automatic Sewing Machine Com- pany, was arrested this afternoon by De tective George Kyte and lodged at the City Prison on a charge of larceny. ccording to Burd it is all a joke, b Miss Bradshaw does not think so. W a brilllant gem once sparkled In fts set ting she now on a dull_and worthless bit of crystal. Miss Brac shaw declares that t oung man had the substitution made 1 therefore ghe ia minus a gem she valged not enly for i trinsic worth, but because It repres a token of affection from her best young man. And he is not Burd According to her plaint, Burd was among a party of visitors at the a shaw resldence recently. He tried €n the ring during the call, but found he could not remove the band. The day following it was cut off by one jeweler and taken to another by Burd to be repaired. Wher | the token finally arrived in Miss Brad shaw's hands the substituted That was why she went to the polies | and swore to a warrant for Burd's arrest The case will be called to-morrow in the | Police Court TO GIVE PROGRAMME OF MUSIC AND FARCES Entertainment to Benefit St. Igna- tius Athletic Association Takes Place This Evening. entertainment which for have seldom been equaled Wi bogus stone had been An will vartety 1 ba given this evening at Ignatius Col- lege hall for the benefit of the St. Tgnatius { Athlet Association. There is to be an opening overture by the St. Ignatius College Orchestra, an organization which has on many occasions received the ap- plause of the public. 'here will be a two-part chorus b St. Cecilia Choral Soclety, vocal solos; a drill, “Darktown Pickaninnie: and a farce, “The Painter's Apprentice.” Later a burlesque on “Richard 1II" and a hu- morous sketch, “Five Minutes in the Rogues’ Gallery,” will be presented by competent young men Part two will be opened with a sketch - and chorus by the company, entitled “The Gentlemen Coons’ Parade,” to be fol- lowed by songs and d s and a special- ly‘arranged minbtrel programme. e | Prohibition Rally. An afternoon conference of the Pro- hibitionists and temperance workers wiil be held in the Academy of Sciences Hall next Thursday afternon at 2 o'clock on the occasion of the famous temperance singers of Chicago, the Meneley Quartet Besides the singers. James L. Himrod, the | president of the Young Péople’s Christlan Temperance Union, and I H. Amos of Portland, Or., chairman of the State tral Committee of that State, participate in the pr ceedings. Mr. Amos will speak on the Prohibition Alliance at this meeting Many local workers will attend the | ference and visitors are expected the varfous towns about the bay. The following are the topics to be discussed: “The Most Effective Literature for Propa- Work,” “The Power of the Bal- he Prohibition Allia . —_—————— Secretary Bradbury Resigns. At a meeting of the directors of Shreve esterday Se tary Alfred W who has been with th ewelry eighteen years tendered his resignation, giving the cause of his re tirement .as advanced The director elected L of the partner of George R. to t va- Georg n Shreve, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NO GREASE OR DANGEROUS DRUGS In ‘“Herpicide,” the New Scientific and Successful Dandruff Treatment. Have vou dandruff? Then you have a contagious parasite disease, unpleasar unheaithy and one that will eventual lead to baldness. To cure it you must destroy the parasite that eats at the root of the hair. 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