The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1903 OARK OUTLODK “Rider” Will Be With- ~-drawn From Appro- priation Bills. Democratic Caucus Decides | Loud Trumpeting of Monster\ to Fight Compromise Measure. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2{—The order of the Benate for the remainder has been quite definitely Appropriation bills will be it of way, and the Panama will be considered while the Zppropriation bills are in conference. An cffort be made to get through other is, fncluding Se: posit bill. Notice of the withdrawal of bills will be given to-morrow. e Democratic Senatorial caucus has jected the two-State proposition for the dmission of mew States submitted by lepublicans. The Democrats also de- lo continue the fight for the om- bill @s it came from the House thout amendment, but not to antag- nize n;;.—ofiflauon bills or executive th 1t cans have decided to pres- ompromise bill to the Senate. strong that the receive very little if any n during the prese the be a e F ded as HUSNTINGTON ESTATE SECURES BIG JUDGMENT Txecutors of Will Are Successful in Their £uvit Against Kneeland end Gates. N. X WHITE PL N b Feb 24.—Judg to-day in rabella D. i CATHEDRAL'S JEWELS TAKEN BY BURGLARS Petersburg Thieves Is Valued at a Million Roubles. CRSBURG, Feb, 2¢ ge has cause 3 His Former Employer. D, Feb Accuses AKERS n t of the ft Vezi was an em- Am e Ellery Anderson. derson was an in- ne time took 2 of tha leaders of the movement in 2 on Pacific Rail- 2 E positions as ompanies. 4 o tavis Changes in Cabinet Offices. WASHINGT Feb. 24—By an er- as been effected M. na will be appointed L. Campbell as Assist- f the Interior and Camp- the position of Assistant General of the Interior Depa vacated by Judge Willis Van ingemer Miller of gyccecd Fra T OLYMPIA Wash Feb. 24.—A formal .harge against Representative Levy of Ying County was filed in the House this g charging him with soliciting itibes in conmection with the investiga ot WSS ting contract. The | :heaker appointed & committee of five to Shook Off Coffee and Got Well. 5500 to shake off coffee and cof- disezses when well made Postum Ce- Food Coffee is served in its place t doesn’t take long to tell the tale. Postm of a fiourishing town die ty, Va., writes: “Up ne ago coffee had me a great ipation, nervousness ges About the middle of last uit coffee and began using Pos- nd ever since 1 have been improv- troubles have now quite disap- to Postum and of my friends to liberty to use this.” m Cereal Co., Ltd., me given by Post Battle Creek, Mich “There is & reason. Loffee is a definite jison to many persons and disease sets i#f the use of even one cup a day is .ontinued. “¥When the poison i= withdrawn and a pure food beverage like Postum Food ‘dffee used the return to health is natur- 2] and prompt if the disease is not too zdvanced, and many, very many old hronic @iseases disappear when the cof- ‘ee is abandoned and Postum used in 15 stead. Many of these old diseases are dden nervous disorders, that is, coffee keéps the merves poisoned and that con. dition crefites and holds disease in some orkan of the body. Take away the cause and give a true, natural nerve rebulld®r ke Postum and the change is often mi- raculous, - or Aldrich’s bond de- | e statebood rider from the appropria- | ELEPHNT HERD Destroys Car Barn at Winter Home of Circus. Animals Spreads Fear in a City. ERIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. | partially destroyed the brick car barn at the new winter quarters of the Barnum & Bailey circus here to-day and burned a | number of cars belonging to the circus. The loss is estimated at $100,000, on which | there 1s an insurance of $33,000. The fire was caused by a lamp falling to the floor in the midst of a quantity of benzoin and other inflammable matter. While the fire was at its height a cor- nice fell, carrying to the ground with it twelve firemen who were at work on the roof. The men were much bruised but ot otherwise injured. ment was occasioned during the removal of fourteen elephants which were quartered in a building adjoining the car barns. It was necgssary to re- move the elephants through a door fac- ing the burning building and across the | tracks between rows of burning and | smoking cars. In order to accomplish | this safely the four keepers took one ami- mal at a time until the entire herd was removed. The loud trumpeting of the ele- nts gave rise to a rumor that the ani- mals had broken loose. This rumor rap- icly spread arounds the city and occa sioned much “alarm. The other animal however, were at no time in danger. The fire was under controi in sbout half an | hour. Six new Pullman cars, valued at $13,000 each, and two new flat cars, valued at $4000 each, were destroyed. More than | 150 feet of the barns was burned to ¢he | ground, and ten stock cars, which were standing outside the barn, were damaged. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST eral Changes Are Made in the Postal Service and More Patents Issued. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2i.—Postoffices es- Washington—Fortson, Sngho- y, Royal H. Lamson post- )stmasters commissioned: Cali- Rocklin. Wash- hol, Addy; James Ore gon . E. Manley, . Douglas County, vice Charles O Colopel James ring b Colonel E n Fran- , Te- ingniter for gas en- Funk, Santa Ana, shold or door sill and Egbert D. Haven, as- to J. H. Crosett, San Laurits Jensen and J. Christensen, San Francisco, safety gas nk 1 Macauley, San Francisco, for printing presses Oregon— liam D. Pine, Rainier, manufacture of Washington—David 8. Dow, adjustable fixtures for window s : James B. €. Lockwood, rotary pump; Philetus E. Snier, Ellensburg, hay stacker drum. ' TELEGRAPH NEWS. | | BERLIN, Feb 24— e Book Publishers’ So- ided not to partict- 24. —Charles for the mur- Strunk in September, 1901 BR. Minn., Feb. 24.—Fire about midnight destroyed the house of August Schultz s & mem- | | i | | | | | of this city and two of his children were suf- §T. PETERSBURG, 'Feb. 24—The Russo- Persian Bank is being organized, with branches at , Tiftie, Baku, Erivan, Tabriz and | Teheran. ! SHREVEPORT., La., Feb. 24 —Frank Brown, a negro, was lynched at McDade Sta- tic to-day. Brown shot e mi ut not fatally | ! br., Feb. 24.—Gus Frymer, who a Mrs. Fred Pulz and beat the into inse: flity, has been ville to avold lynching. RAFAEL, Feb. , the young San Rafael firebug, was to-day ed to serve four years in San Quentin for having committed arson in the second de- gree. MOBIL Ala., Feb. 24—The exercises in with the presentation of the silver e given by the people of Alabama to the A States battleship Alabama were held was marrie Church, ate gave timore, St. Andrew’s Embassador Cho | G. Feb. 24.—The Czar has < construction of the pro- “Kayana Railroad, so as to > | Eive empl ing from £ | PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 2¢—With all | splendor and solemnity of the Roman Catholic | the Rev, J. ¥. Regis Canevin was con- itor Biehop of the Bitisburg Mrs. Juana Hammel. VALLEJO, Feb. 24.—Mrs. Juana Ham- an old and respected resident of this died last evening at her residence, Georgia street, aged 8§ years. Mrs. | mel, | city, 20 | Hammel was a had been a resident here for forty years. Philippine Currency Bill Passes. WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—The House to- | day passedl the Philippine currency bill, | accepting the Senate bill so far %s it re- | 1ates to the islands. TILLIE HABERMEHL'S SUIT FOR DAMAGES IS ON TRIAL Former Cashier in a Restaurant Tells of Her Meeting With Isaac J. Mo The trial of the suit for $50,000 damages ! for breach of promise brought by Tillle Habermeh! against Isaac J. Morgan, a | man about town, was commenced . in Judge Graham's court Yyesterday. | ” Miss Habermehl, who was formerly a ! cashier in a Stockton-street restaurant, | testified that she met Morgan at a down- ! town concert hall, and that up to the time he betrayed Her she was under the impression that he was ll.l: she first learned that he was ried at the Chutes, where she sald she heard a woman ask him about the health of his wife. This is the second time Miss Habermehl has brought an action against Morgan. She had him arrested last year on a charge of betrayal and the case was dis- miseed in the Police Court. California pioneer and | 24.—William J Cas- | FIRE ENDANGERS |OPINION SPLITS - FOR STATERDOD ON STRAITJACKET Assembly Investigators Are Not All of One Mind. Minority Will Probably Ad- vise Abolition of Dread Instrument. —_— ‘Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN QUENTIN, Feb. 24.—Owing to the reticence of the members of the commattee from the Assembly who have been investigating the use of the strait- Jacket in the State prispn at San Quen- tin the nature of the report that will be made to the Legislature 1s not known, but it is evident that there is & division of opinion on the subject, and a minority report declaring against the continuance of the method of punishment will un- doubtedly be made. In fact, J. O. Traber, Assemblyman from Fresno and & member of the com- mittee, nas openly declared his per- sonal opposition to a form of punish- ment which he maintains is a disgrace to the penal institutions of the State. Mr. Traber stated to-day that although his opinion did not voice the sentiments of the remainder of the committee, he as en individual is heartily in favor of the abolition of the straitjacket, and favors the enactment of legislation to that end. “There is no douft” said the As- semblyman from Fresno, “that the strait- jacket is an instrument of torture and should be abolished at once. It is a blot on the name of California and a disgrace to the State prisons.” The committeemen were up bright and early after the session last night, which lasted until mianignt. The meet- ing to-day was called to order by Chalr- man Edgar W. Camp and the examina- tion of witnesses behind closed doors was continued without interruption un- til the noon adjournment. The agree- ment that none of the proceedings should be given publiclty was rigidly ad- hered to, and the witnesses themseives refused to divulge the nature of (heh“ testimony. Captain J. D. Hunter, Lieu- tenant of the Yard Dan Sullivan, Dr. Casey and Warden Aguirre were called during the morning session and jnter- rogated at length on the matter under investigation After the noon adjournment a visit| was made to the incorrigible cells and | Morrell, one of the worst characters in the prison, was questioned. He maln- tained that solitary confinement was in- juring his eyesight, but it is understood that the committee was convinced be- yvond doubt that his allegations were without foundation. Several officials throughout the prison wers examined during the inspection of the various de- partments and it is understood that they spoke in favor of the continuance of the straitjacket. At 5 o'clock the in- vestigation was concluded. CALL HEADQUARTERS, BS8ACRA- NTO, Feb. 24—The Senate will to- orrow take up the report of the special committee appointed to visit Folsom prison. Senator Tyrrell's resolution to have a select committee appointed to continue the investigation will also M | come up, end a heated debate is antici- pated The Board of” Prison Directors will pay a it to Folsom prison next Satur- day night to investigate the charges of cruelty that have been made against Warden Wilkinson and other officers of the penal institution. e Glen Ellen Inquiry Ends. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, 24 —The special committee of the Assem- appointed for the purpose of examining into the affairs of the State Home for Feeble- minded Children, at Glen Ellen, has completed s work so far as the taking of testimony is cerned and a portion of its report is In the rse of preparation. The committee holds that the trustees are personally responsible for the misapplication of the and wi Jessup trust fund, eport recommending that the Attor- meral be directed to at once bring suit them personally to recover 33676, the amount found to have been misapplied. | reference to the misapplication of §16,000 from the contingent fund. the committee will advise | the Assembly that the Governor be notified of that fact, and that he be requested to investi- gate the affairs of the institution, with a view to taking such action as may to him seem proper. LITIGANTS ARE FINED 4 FOR TOO HASTY APPEAL Judge Ross Gives Heavy Censure to Idaho Company for Its Action. Judge Ross of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals administered a heavy rebuke for a frivolous appeal to the higher court yesterday by upholding the decision of the Idaho District Court in the case of the Owyhee Land and Irri- gation Company vs. C. C. Tautphas, and fining it one-tenth of the amount in litl- gation for its too hasty procedure. Tautphas sued in the Idaho court for $40,83) alleged to be due him from the ir- rigation company as payment for his en- gineering work in constructing a canal. The defendant claimed that the contract | made with Tautphas was signed by one | not having competent authority to act, the | even though it was the president of the concern who affixed his signature to the document. ° In his decision Judge Ross characterizes the appeal of the irrigation company as groundless and frivolous and fines it $1000 for its lack of legal acumen. The following decisions were also hand- ed down: George W. Moore et al. vs. A, B. Hammond et .al., decision of Oregon District Court affirmed; Northwestern Pacific Railrcad Company vs. Wallace | Mix, decision of Montana District Court affirmed. ’ it Soutkern Pacific Earnings. The Southern Pacific Company has is- |sued a statement of earnings and ex- | of $3,073,825. As the gr a single man. She /1sfled with the terms of the will mar- made no sign of opposing it. penses for the six months ending Decem- ber 31, 1902. It shows the gross receipts to have been $45,983511, which is an fin- crease of 32,234,968 over the receipts for the corresponding period of last year. The taxes and expenses are given at $30,530,- 06, an increase of $3,083011. The net in- come was $15,784,017, and out of this in- ccme the company spent for fixed charges and rents $5030,065 and for betterments and additions $10,777,781, leaving a deficit er portion of the ten milljons spent for betterments went to improve the Central Pacific road, the Geficit is merely the result of careful bookkeeping. e, Beaudry Will Is Uncontested, OAKLAND, Feb. 24—The will of the late Annie Beaudry was admitted to pro- bate to-day without a contest, although one daughter, Miss Isabella Beaudry, is left $12,000 to the exclusion of three other children. The excluded children are sat- ana e — Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Feb. 24.—Licenses to marry wers issued today to Ralph J. de Luchi, aged over 21 years, and Josephine Car- stein, over 18, both of Oakland; Alfred W. Hare, 31, Fresno, and Grace O, Dunsmoor, 2, Oakland, 4 With | ILL ARE AGAINST 'WEAR THE GOWNS | CHARGES SPOUSE SUES 70 003 WITH BRUTALITY WHTER COMPINY Republican Candidates Hold Meeting at Temescal. Cuvellier Ridicules the Prop- osition to Buy Contra Costa Plant. ———— OAKLAND, Feb, 24—Warren Olney, candidate for Mayor, and the other can- didates of the Republican ticket address- | ed a largely attended and representative meeting to-night in Pizzola Hall, Temes- cal. The keynote of the meeting was op- position to the Contra Costa Water Com- pany’s domination of the city and the | terms of denunclation in which the speak- | ers expressed their views on the subject were enthusiastically received. ‘Warren Olney reviewed the efforts of the Committee of Five to find a source of water supply that would put the eity | in a position to bulld its own water plant, | which he characterized as the only sure | |} | way of throwing off the water company’'s yoke. He said that the only way to get en honest government is to eliminate the water company from politics, otherwise there will be no end to its corrupting in- fluences. “I say that this i the most unscrupu- lous corporation that I ever heard of,” #ald Mr. Olney. “Now it is trying to deride the report of the Committee of Flve by insinuating that there is not | enough water in the Niles gravel bed to supply the town. There is ample. Ala- | meda Creek has the largest watershed in California—600 square miles. It supplies half the water of San Francisco and five million gallons a day to Oakland, and is inexhaustible. It rests with you whether we shall have this great boon.” Councilman B. C. Cuvelller ridiculed the | idea of purchasing the Contra Costa | plant, which he said the Contra Costa Company would like to have done. He said: “Mr. Bair of the Labor ticket is all right, but I think he is mistaken in his policy on the water question. He would buy the Contra Costa plant. 1 say we don't want it. It's nothing but a lot of old junk. Mr. Adams, the Contra Costa's | engineer, told me that Lake Chabot will be filled up with debris and useless in! | eighty years. Do we want such a plant? | Besides that, there are 150 miles of two- inch water pipe in the city—totally inade- quate for a city of this size. | *“Mr. Bair would have a commission ap- | pointed to set a value on the plant. Well | we've had one experience with a water company tribunal, and that's enough. | The plant is not worth $7,000,000, and the | water company would not let any com- mission set a smaller valuation on it, be- | cause then it would have to accept in- | terest on a reduced valuation.” Ge H. Pearson presided as chairman of the meeting. Invitations to speak were responded to by City Attorney Johnson, City Engineer Turnmer, City Treasurer | Taylor, J. A. McPherson. George S. vans, 1. J. Hardy, City Auditor Breed and G. Aiken. L. PATRIOTIC WOMEN RECEIVE. Relief Corps Auxiliary Welcomes Its | National President. | The Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary of | the G. A. R. held a reception yesterday | | afternoon in Utopia Hall, Sutter street, in honor of its natlonal president, Mrs. Lo- | dusky J. Taylor, who arrived a few days ago from Missouri with the object of | meeting the various committees having | | in charge the arrangements for the forth- coming G. A. R. encampment. The hall | | was crowded by representatives tmmf—i | ganizations' in Oakland, Alameda, San | | Jose and other localities. i i Mrs. E. @'Arcy Kinne, past national | president, attended by numerous officials, | | received Mrs. Taylor with a hearty greet- | ing. In a speech of welcome Mrs. Kinne | told Mrs. Taylor how deeply they were | | all touched by her presence and In a few | | moments the visitor was inundated with exquisite gifts of bouquets. One, a bas- | ket of poppies, was specially and made by Mrs. Sarah H. Wilson of Appomattox Relief Corps No. 5 and was a duplicate of one presented by the same | corps to Governor Pardee. Mrs. Taylor | | was delighted with the basket containing | the emblem flower of California and said that while she had never before beheid | | the beautiful flower she had often heard | | of it, and assured her friends that among | 211 the kindnesses she had cherished she would especially remember that exquisite presentation from the women of Appo- | mattox Rellef Corps. Commander in | { Chlef Stewart and his staff paid a visit| to the hostesses during the ceremony, when a cordial exchange of greetings took | place. | Among those who attended the recep- | | tion to give welcome to Mrs. Taylor were | | the following named: Geraldine E. Fris- | | bie, second vice president; Sarah D. Wi- | | nans, commander of the national home | board; Cora A. Merritt, assistant national ’ | inspector; Elizapeth D. Kinne, past na- | | tional president; Ida L. Jarvis, national | |ald and department president; Carrle Hawley; Margaret Schoen of department | Kansas; Fannie B. Mathews, past nation- | | al assistant inspector; Emma B. Leeds, | president Lincoln Corps No. 3; Catherine | Munson, Oakland; Ada M. Brown, Appo- | | mattox ~ No. 5; O. R. Miller, Lookout Mountain, Berkeley No. 35; P. Stanton | Marshall, past department president Phil Sheridan No. 2 of San Jose; Bessie John- | son, president General George M. Meade Corps, San Francisco; past department officers—Cora A. Merritt, Oakland; Irene E. Gibson, Oakland; Laura J. Robinson, San Francisco; Lettle M. Winans, Peta- luma; Susan Gwilt of Oregon; past\de- pertment secretaries—Eliza Shepard and Lizzie Hatch; past department treasur- ers—Mary McCleve, Sarah Farwell and Mary E. Furgerson; Past Department In. spector. Sue Tripp; Hannah J. Hobbert, ald; Mrs. Sarah H. Wilson, past depart- ment aid; Flora A. Mdrrell, past aid; Hannah Felker, past national aid; Mary P. Btevens and Lydia J. Warff, —————— Young Man Loses an Eye. Arthur Howard, a teamster, living 'at 157 Minna street, got into an altercation with a negro named Abe Robinson, a bootblack; in Union square last night and had his right eye put out with a stick. Robinson, after hitting his victim, relent- ed and conveyed him to the Harbor Hos- pital, where the injured young man was treated. The man’s eye.was completely torn from its socket and had to be ex- cised. His assallant was turned over to the Harbor police station and booked for assault with a deadly weapon. He denies that he had a fight with Howard and says that the putting out of the eye was accidental. pri S Mrs. Wright Brings Another Suit. Myra E. Wright, who recently secured judgment for $80,000 against Frank V. Wright and the. :ellnn!y' Isl-‘:g Paci Company, filed s against ‘Wright yesterday. She asks for judgment for $15,160 22 she alleges she advanced i ‘Wright in 1889, and for which she alleges, she holds his notes. Wright 1s her brgther-in-law. 1C. | than 100 years old, the property of Mrs. designed | 5" OF COLONY DAY Ebell Members Enter- tain in Fashions of “Ye Olden Time.” SRS Rare Relics of Revolution! Are Displayed During the Reception. . | Oskland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Feb. 24. " “Colonial day™ at the Ebell Club rooms to-day attracted onme of the largest gath- erings-ever assembled in the club’s head- | quarters. Side by side, quaint gowns of | ve olden tyme" vied with rich and belu-; tiful dresses of to-day.. The hostess, Mrs. | B. Parcells, and her assistants were | all garbed in- colonial gowns and wore | powdered wigs. \ The stage, with its artistic arrangement of old-fashioned clocks, pictures, chairs, ornaments and spinning wheels, not_to forget the great open fireplace and man- tel resembled a living-room of revolu- | tlonary tlmes. Around the auditorium were tables presided over by different members of Ebell, on which were dis- played a rare lot of old china, laces, em- brolderies, brass articles and pottery, all worth several times their weight in gold. Among the things displayed by Mrs. E. | W. Masten was an autograph letter of George Washington and numerous arti- cles of lace and jewelry once belonging | to President Polk’s niece, Mrs. Masten's mother-in-law. Mrs. William H. Friend's table was filled | with china and other curics, including a | water color painting more than 100 years old. On the ceramic section’s table were | some ‘“savers’—tiny tea plates—made for | the benefit of the Bunker Hill monument | fund. Also a rare black Wedgwood jar. | belonging to Mrs. William Clift; some Sheffield copper candlesticks owned by | Mrs. Dick, and a “Franklin teapot” more | D. W. Gelwicks. Among others who loaned rare and beautiful curios were Mrs. William High, Mrs. Willlam R. Da- vis, Mrs. E. C. Morrison, Miss Gertrude Carlton, Mrs. Bosley, who has some ‘“rat- | tail” spoons of the carly seventeenth cen- | tury; Mrs. Harry Benner, who gave some | tankards of the time of George TIT. und{ Mrs. E. de Golla, who exhibited a neck- lace of white camellias’ and gold beads ! | more than 200 years old. H REPRESENTS LAST ART. A picture on Mrs. Willlam H. Creed" table was much admired, being made of | silk threads pasted on in such a manner | as to resemble fine tapestry. It was made | in Switzerland and was the product of | a lost art. It is the property of Mrs. Ril- | liet. | The musical numbers were in keeping with the day, the first being “The Spin-| ning Song,” by a chorus of twenty voices, the ladies being JUn costume, while Miss Vaughn worked the wheel and spun yarn The next was a ‘‘minuet courtship dance | by Mrs. Edgar Stone's children, Wheeler | nd Alison. Wheeler was attired in a| colonial ‘suit of white satin with blue satin vest, while little Alison was a pic- | ture in a blue and pink brocade over a skirt of blue satin. Mrs. Harry Carlton | sang “Ye Little Birds That Sit and Sing,” ! composed in 1607, and a cradle song, the quaint old cradie used belng the prop-| erty of Mrs. William H. Friend. Mrs. W. Percy gave a talk on “Colonial —China, Cloths and Customs,” which was very enteriaining. ! The hostess, B. Parcells, wore and old jewelry. Others in the recelving party who were | in costume were: Mrs. G. W. Percy, In gray and blue siik | brocadé. i Mrs. B. M. Walsh, In a pink eatin gown | with white lace fichu. Mrs. T. C. Coogan, In a pink figured satin. A. H. Breed in an old gown of black yellow striped silk. | . Gordon Stolp wore a pink silk brocade | l"‘\(‘ll ress with skirt of blue silk and white lace | chu, Miss Adah Brown was In blue point d’esprit. Miss Eva l;nv:ell wore a white brocade over K skir 2, C. Morrison wore_an old-fashioned | #ilk with black lace. M' C. Noyes wore heavy black silk white fichu Nellie Vaughn wore her mother's wed- & gown of purple silie i es was picturesque in white | C. Chapman wore a striking dress cade over white silk. | Niam H. Creed was in gray silk. | W. Masten wore a quaint purple | embroidered neckkerchief. | W Mrs. E. silk and white DRESSES ARE UNIQUE. Mrs. Willilam Friend wore a very old black stik shawl with gray dress. re. F. McHenry wore a pretty pink silk. Mrs. Edgar Stone’s gown was of yellow silk | and white lace. | Mrs. Edgar Bishop was becomingly attired | in gray and black with black and white lace. | Mrs. H. P. Carlton wore a very old wine- colored dress of heavy silk. | Miss Chariotte Collins was in gray poplin| trimmed_with fringe. Mrs. E. H. Benjamin represented a Quaker- e!suln gr in wore blaclk silk. Was gorgeous In a red stlk with Miss Jean Gregory wore a brown plaid silk. Mrs. Milton Bulkley appeared in a very striking gown of white and violet brocade over a red satin skirt. Mrs. David T. Curtis was in pale blue with black lace shawl. Miss Grace Burrell wore a tan and red check dress with white net underwaist. | Mrs. L. S. Burchard was in pink and white silk brocade and Miss M. Farrier wore white | brocade paniers over pink silk skirt. | Miss Mabel T. Gray was charming in a pink brocade over pale pink satin skirt and a very ©ld embroidered fichu. Mrs. William High was beautiful in a thin | white dress of her great-grandmother's, with a 'Three wide collar and cap of almost priceless lace. | Mrs. J. R. Scupham was in black and white | striped silk. | Miss Geraldine Scupham wore a white and | purple brocade. | Miss Elizabeth Scupham wore a barred | goingito be of great benefit to the State | nainsook made before the Revolution. COLORED PUGILIST CONFESSES TO MURDER ENID, O. T., Feb. 24.—"Black Pearl,” | tiie negro who came near being Iynched here last night for having killed Jim Jenes, a Kansas negro, in a saloon quar- rel, to-day in a confession alleged that he is the pugllist who fought Fitzsimmons in 1891 and who fled in 189, after having killed a man in Califcrnia in a street fight. The prisoner, in abject fear of his life, stated in jail that after committing the California crime he went to Cuba in | 1596, but returned to this country in 1%00. He was supposed to have died in the Pa- | cific Cdast, Two weeks ago “Black Pearl,” who has been in the Territory | for some time, fought six rounds with a | local man. All talk of lynching has sub- eided. ] i i e COMPROMISE ENDS SUIT A OVER WATER FRONT LAND OAKLAND, Feb. 2.—The compromising of a suit over valuable water front land to-day ended a controversy that threat- ened to be endless. The parties to the settlement are Willard C. Doane, J. P. Dameron and W. C. Parsons, who were | suing the Oakland Water Front Company ' to quiet title to a plece of land on the water front lying between Webster and Alice streets. It was clailmed by the plaintiffs on the ground of prior occu- pancy and residence, but the Water Front | Company refused to acknowledge the validity of the title. The suit has been pending tweive years, and there seemed no way to end it until the Water Front Company agreed to pay a substantial sum to the three counter-claimants to get out | Peralta street, !10 call at the prison to have a lu( the Southern Pacific Company. |low rates from C Abandoned Wife Asks Arrest of Her Ab- ‘sent Husband. Declares He Has Left His Family Destitute, and Involves a Woman. i i | Oakland Office San Frangisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Feb. 24 Charging that she had been.brutally | "oy CITY COUNGIL Fight Against Crema- tory Finds Its Way Into Courts. Second Ward People Attack Officials Who Gave Franchise. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1113 Broadway, Feb. 2. Another phase was added to the cam- abused and abandoned by her husband, | paign against the establishment of a cre- Mrs. Mary J. Johnson, residing at s35% procured a warrant to- day for the arrest of William Johnson, an English sailor. The complaining wife declares she has been left destitute with five children, the youngest two years old, to support. Incidentally, Mrs. Johnson declares that her absent husband had been over friend- {1y with a young woman, and that instead | {of supporting his family had lavished presents on this acquaintance. In relating her experiences to Chief of had married Johnson fifteen years ago in Liverpoo!, and shortly afterward they | came to Oakland. Three years ago, she says, her spouse went to Alaska, re- pmained away a year and during all that | twelve months sent not a penny to her. to again | He returned, she says, leave his family in poverty. only Then, Mrs. Johnson declares, she discovered his un- | faithfulness. few weeks ago Johnson was at home, {and, his wife says, beat her brutally in responsg to her demands that he support | his famiiy. Mrs. Johnson accused Miss Dora Men- delson, a talloress at 37 Seventh street, of having won her husband’'s affection, but that young woman, with her parents, not only-dented any knowledge of John- son, but flatly asserted they had never heard of Mrs. Johnson, who claimed she had taxed the young woman with friend- ship for her spouse. “The statements are ridiculous and ab- solutely untrue,” declared Miss Mendel- son. COLORED COOK HUGGED | the City Council. | Police Hodgkins, Mrs. Johnson said she | 1 LADIES ON THE STREET Chief Wittman Arrests Fred Desporte on Charge of Disturbing the Peace. ' Fred Desporte, a colored cook, took a notion into his head Monday night to imi- tate “Jack the Hugger,” which landed him in the City Prison on a charge of dis- turbing the peace. He appeared before Police Judge Mogan yesterday and the case was continued till to-day at the re- quest of the defense after Chief Wittman testimony. The Chief happened to be standing at hortly after Market and Kearny streets midnight and around one of two The lady screamed porte dodged into a doorway. The his arms who we and De Chief awaited developments, he saw De: another lady who was passing he pounced upon him and handed him over to Police- man Meredith. Meredith took Desporte to the patrol box and rang for the wagon. ner Meredith noticed a revolyer on and when | porte throw his arms around | | was filed for | and Policeman Meredith had given their | observed Desporte throw | ladies | After the wagon had left with the pris-| the | ground where Desporte had been stand- | observed by the officer. It'is thought that Desporte may be the colored man who has women in the Western Addition by hug- ging them. Some of them may b? asked ook at him. —_— SEWING MACHINE AGENT CHARGED WITH BATTERY Mrs. Kate Barskey Secures a War- rant for Arrest of William Stevenson. Mrs. Kate Barskey, an clderly lady ltv- ing at 1025 Folsom street, called at the warrant and bond clerk’s office yesterday, accompanied by her daughter-in-law, and secured a warrant for the arrest of Wil- liam Stevenson, an agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Doe™ on a charge of battery. { ing. which he had evidently dropped un-| been terrorizing | matory in the Second Ward by the filing of an impeachment sult to-day against Patrick H. Sexton, through his attorney, James H. Creeley, sued to have all of the Councilmen, ex- cept George W. Dornin, ousted for mal- feasance in office for having viclated a prelimifary condition required by thelaw in the granting of the franchise to the Pa- cific Incinerating Company. The plaintiff charges that the City { Council neglected to publish a notice of intention before the franchise was award- ed, which he considered sufficient ground for thelr unseating. He also wanted $500 reward as informant, which, if he wins, ‘will net him $000 for the ten Councilmen. Attorney Creeley's petition for a cfta- tion upon the Councilmen to appear and defend themselves was denied this after- ncen by Judge Ellsworth, who held that the Grand Jury was the proper channel for the Second warder's appeal for relief. That was just what Creeley wanted and he announced that he would at once ap- peal to the Supreme Court for & writ of mandate compelling Judge Ellsworth to {ssue the citation. It will be taken before the Supreme Court to-morrow. As the City Councilmen have only s month more to serve the chances are that they will be out of office long befofe the courts pass on the question of their malteasance. ALEXANDER BOYD'S WILL IS FILED FOR PROBATE Large Estate, With i;cupflnn of Be- quests to Relatives, Is Left to Widow. The will of the late Alexander Boyd, the capitalist, who died on February 5, probate yesterday by his widow, Jean McGregor Boyd. Boyd leaves his estate, estimated to be worth $2,000,000, with the exception of a few bequests to relatives, to his widow, and he also names Ler as executrix. She is to manage the estate during her lifetime and make such disposition of it as she chooses upon her death. Under the will Mrs. Boyd is to support their two sons. She is also to pay to Rosie Boyd, a daughter-in-law, and her two children $200 a month each for a period of twelve months; Mary Jane Weeks, a sister of the dece . 200 a month for life; Helen C. Boyd, a niece, $# a month, and Margaret McGregor, a sister-in-law, $100 a month. —_———— No Contest of Esmoil Will. OAKLAND, Feb. 24—The will of the late Mrs. Lucy Esmoil, formerly Mrs. Auzerais, was admitted to probate to-day without the threatened contest between the surviving husband, Leon Esmoll, and his wife's heirs materializing. There will be a fight, however, when the guardian- ship of Mrs. Esmoil's son, John L. Auze- rais, comes up in two weeks. Then the surviving husband and John W. Willlams will fight for the guardianship. —_—————— The Quick and the Dead. Oxford University by a very closes vots | some montha ago decided to retain Greek. Mrs. Barskey said she had purchased a | sewing machine worth $75 from the Singer Company on the instaliment plan and had raid up $60. called at her house yesterday morning | and roughly demanded payment of the next installment. She offered him $1, and when he refused to take it she offe him $2. “He would not take that either,” con- tinued Mrp. Barskey, “and he and the other man seized the machine and thrsw | it downstairs, breaking the stairs. When | I remonstrated with him he grabbed me by the shoulders and shoved me down- stairs.” John Barskey, son of Mrs. said that If he had been at home when Stevenson called both he and his compan- ion would have been subjects for the Emergency Hospital | COLONIST TRAFFIC TAKES A BIG JUMP Thousand Take Advantage of the Low Rate the First Seven Days. That the colonist rates to California are is evidenced in a statement issued yester- day by Traffic Manager E. O. McCormick The the East went into ef- fect on February 15. The result for the first seven days, that is from the 15th to the 2Ist inclusive, was carefully watched by the traffic department of the Southern Pacific Company and produced great as- tonishment. According to Mr. McCor- mick’s statement 1540 persons holding col- onist tickets came to California via Og- den during that period and the total num- ber who arrived by way of El Paso was 1525, making a total for the seven days of 3063, “This record,” sald Mr. McCormick yes- terday, “has never been equaled since the rates were first inaugurated. In fact, the number far exceeds what we expect- ed. 1 might say that we did not dream of such a showing. When people stop to consider they will agree with us that 3063 during the experimental days of a low rate season is something remark- able.” —_—————— ‘Wants Nuisances Abated. The University Mound Improvement Club petitioned the Board of Supervisors yesterday to. -abate alleged nuisances caused by the maintenance of daliries on various streets in the University Mound district. The club states that it has ap- pealed to the Health Board and Grand Jury to better the sanitary conditions in the locality, but without success. S ——————— “I thought Spoonamore was going to marry Mise Garlinghorn, but I see she has let him get away.” ““Yes, her father didn't appear to be at all anxious for the match, and her mother was a little too anxious. She lost him on account of the bad team work.”"—Chicago Tribune. Barskey, | | i An option on French or German came very near driving it out. A few years henee the change will probably be made. ‘or the dead languages the liking is more academic than real. The student who de- clared their condition was due to the fact that they had been studied to death did not give the whole explanation. The modern trend is toward modern things— toward the living speech as well as the living thought. English. German and French are the three great languages of the world. A hundred years ago Span- ish was In the front rank: it excelled English in numbers, but it has dropped hopelessly behind and English leads. The faflure of a umiversal language is due Company, and “John|largely to the fact that English is con- quering the world.—Baltimore Herald. b Rt s oo Tt is said that King Edward wil return the visit of King Carlos of Portugal next Stevenson and another man | syring. T0 WORKING GIRLS