The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1903, Page 33

THE SAN FRA NC ISCO CALL, SUNDAY MARCH 1, 1903. JTSIDE LANDS 1TTRACT BUYERS —_— Suburbar Properties In- vestments Made Easy. Outlook Meets the of Brokers. ation Busy expected les are I K west &% feet south 'HALLETT TO EDIT THIS YEAR’'S BLUE AND GOLD ;Wins His Fight Against Merwyn J. Samuels After Much Electioneering Volume Will Now Get Down to Hard Work‘ ~ THE TRAGEDY SOPHOMORE WHO HAS BEEN o GOLD, THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, and Staff of the College| CTED EDITOR .-OF BLUE AND | Feb. 26.—The sopho the State University have chosen the Blue and-Gold staft leaders for 1905, and now at the emoke of political battle way the staff will proceed to .hard work. Eugene R. Hal- as elected to the editor’s scissors d paste pot without a dissenting voice, iendly set-to over | p. Mark Danlels the_ b and after a lot of electioneering’ ls won handily by a vote of 160 130 for his opponent Eugene R. Hallett's literary attain- ments are ‘expected to make him a very h of M street, ¢ seven rooms sold for an’ estate, ments on the ea 3 north of O'Farrell ments cons ling of ten rooms ith a two-story fr: the rear, for £ and eight rooms and bath on the west side of ox | seven per month rooms, and two small houses on et, the lot 55x80 feet, for SOME AUCTION PRICES. : Eas , Eldr e & Co. report the fol- . low prices received at the auction held by | h ; them 1 Tuesday v w that goc < . " parties me Mateo F t st M Aacording se brokers lots which were sold at $1000 each a s are re- past week of a lot to - $16% and one to Aug- also one to W. J s to San ) sletion of the pump- Water pipe ghout the park and Spring be turned on this week are made by as folloWvs: of seven mooms lot on venth with three stores and | n rentals amounting property on the between Third flats in rear, now renting for $3800; the southeast d Lafayette o Sioe house o eet, for $11,350; lot 25x136 feet on e of Clara avenue, 160 feet south , for $800; southwest cor- Jose avenue and Farallon street, two lots on the north line of Green east of Laguna, for $2400 each. Surryhne reports a decidedly ac- tive market and a very strong demand for the properties ranging from $5000 to $15, %, more particularly in the Western Ad- dition; but during the last thirty or sixty days he has noted a strong demand for | Mission properties. He reports the fol- lowing sales: Lot on the north line of Union street, 150 feet east from Baker, 25x137:6 feet, for | $1750; lot on the west line of London street, 150 feet north from Brazil, 150x 100 feet, for $2100; two flats, 2740-42 Filbert street, and lot 25x106 feet, for $5000; lot | on the east line of Buena Vista avenue, 150 feet south from Waller street, 35x110 | feet, for $3500; four flats, 1473-756 O'Farrell street, between Laguna and Buchana, and lot 25x120 feet, for $7500; lot on the north- east corner of Stelner and Thirteenth streets, 33:4x90 feet, for $6000; lot on the south line of Clay street, 137:6 feet east from Cherry, 55x127:8% feet, for $5500; old house of nine rooms and lot 28x80 feet at | 1519 California street, between Larkin and Polk, for $6250; lot on the east line of Do- 147 feet south from Twenty second, 36x1 feet, for $3000; lot on the south line of Golden Gate avenue, 260 feet east from Baker street, 25x137:6 feet, for | $1850; on Mission street, 40x122:6 500. B on & Hoag report that the advent of | new electric railroad into Mill Val- hich will be in operation May 1, Is | attracting many home vestors to this suburb, Lyon & Hoag| huve just been given the handling of al jarge tract of land adjoining the station of Mil V The property consists of forty acr large sum of mone: is now being spent ‘n improvements, in & sewers and other street work and planting clud the of trees along the roads. be sold at prices ranging ' per front foot for cash, or | The crection of a num-| s vlanned, as there is not, on easy ter , ber of hou: f | successf: | wines and fruit { Stevenson. There are 20,000 acres of land | | tween | division are sisting of two- |- | tract, Point Richmond, say seckers and in-| ) | of A street, to C. T. 11 Blue and Gold editor. He is a graduate of the Oakland High School, where he was always active in student affalrs. He founded the Biue and White and edited The Idea and The Lyceum, the three organs of the school. Since coming to the university he has been as- soclated with the Californian as editor. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon fra- ternity Merwyn J. Samuels is a graduate of the Oakland High School and a son of Dep- District Atforney George Samuels. an assoefate editor of the Oakland | School Aegis and the founder of magazine the Muse. He was also a leader in the enter-class debating com- mittee and ‘active in other High School socleties, High the | injured by a vacant house in Mill Valley. a large dmand for houses. OUTSIDE BUYERS. Wooster, Whitton & Montgomery report | that they have sold a tract of 170 acres | in' San Mateo County for S. Prentiss | Smith to W. N. Mitchell for $40,000; also | acres in the San Martin ranch in Santa County, in ten-acre subdivisions, for $100 per acre, the purchasers represent. ing arts the United States and Columbia. The lands bought in | ranch are being planted to vineyatds | nd orchards under one general manage- entually the settlers will form assoclation for the marketing of their ) the brokers report. | There is | ¢ Easton, to colonize dridge & Co. have undertaken | the estate of Colonel J. J. in the gelta formed by the junction of | the San Joaquin and Merced rivers, be- | Newman station In Stanislaus | County and Livingston station in Mer- ced County. The brokers report that the Stevenson-Mitchell canal . crosses the Dproperty from east to west, affording an | ample supply of water in connection with | the two rivers named, which surround the property on three sides. Plans for sub- being made, surveys are run and ditches and branch ditches are to be constructed. The brokers made the fol- lowing additional statement: A particularly favorable condition exists In this community, that everything is grown on the property that a newcomer would desire, and | wants can be provided for at once. In view of | the high price of building material it fs pro- posed to use brick largely, which are manufac- tured on the property, for the construction of dwellings and barns, although contracts have | been made for lumber by the schooner load, being brought straight from the northern ports | up the Ean Joaquin Valley and landed on the property. Specially favorable terms are offered to encourage first settlers, of one-fourth cash when the land is secured, another payment in two years thereafter and the final payment in three and four years. No water tax is to be charged for the first twelve months; an unlim- ited supply of water will be furnished the colo- nists for one year’s planting, and thereafter a | tax of only $1 per acre will be made where the parties actually use the water, where the wa- | ter is engaged for the season. In contradis- tinction to Gther parts.of the State lying under irrigation districis, where a‘permanent mort- gage is on the land and an annual tax is charged for water whether used or not, under | this plan the colonists will pay only for the water they use, and then at the smailest price of any Irrigation system in the State. McEwen Bros., agents for the Santa Fe that they have sold twenty-five lots during the last week and that the market will be even more active this week. The Belt Rail- road is being constructed at Point Rich- mond to connect the Santa. Fe and South. ern Pacific with five miles of deep water frontage. When it is completed a pipe line will be laid for the distribution of oil aleng this tract. Sol Getz & Son report sales this week: 50x100 on southeast line of Paris street, near China avenue, to Alfred J. Boudreau, $550; 62:6x240 on southeast corner of Forty-ninth avenue boulevard and K street, to William Havard; 37:6x240 on scutheast corner of Forty. ninth avenue boulevard and L street, to A. Oil- 30x120 cn west line of Forty-elghth avenue, feet north of L street, for $1000, to John 3 50x120 on west line of Forty-eighth . 8 fect north of M street, to Alice T. $900; 50x120 on west line of Twelfth | 100 feei south of L street, to L. (. 75x120 in Outside Lands block 1155, o s for $300; 50x120 in Outside Lands ' Kk 1008, to E. A. Styan for $200; 50x150 on est line of Bighteenth avenue, 175 feet north Conlan. The Wenban, on Butter street, will be turned into a complete office building of four floors. Robert Piper will erect a building on the northeast corner of Central avenue and Haight street to cost $25,000. } | the following 5 bloc | to | weapon with | FIRE IN BUSINESS | ed, S0CIAL atT 15 SHAKEN BY Slayer of Edwin Bur- dick May Be a Woman. Detectives Seek Criminal | Among H's Close Ac- quaintances. Crime May Disclose Scandals Involv- | ing Leaders in Buffalo’s Society and Club Circles. T LA | BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 28.—The slayer | of Edwin L. Burdick, the prominent busi- ness and soclety man who was murdered on Thursday night or early Friday morn- | ing, is still at liberty. The police and detective forces of the city have worked assiduously upon the case for thirty-six | but nothing tangible has devel- | hours, oped. The lines upon which the police are now | the murderer will be found amgng the close | working indicate their belief that acquaintances of the dead man. The District Attorney openly expresses the opinion that somebody in e Burdick social circle murdered the clubman. The circle was comnosed of a number of mar- ried couples, in the prime of life. They were intimately ac socially. The circle has beén di more or le: dal. In fact grown out of District Attorney. tuft of hair a promising clew, apparently has fallen flat. Chief of Detectives Cusack says the hair matches Burdick’s. Cusack added: My opinion is that Burdick had an ap- pointment with somebody at his house that night. Whether the person was a man or women, we do not know. There are indications that it was a woman, but, at the same time, it may have been a | man.” Burdick, the widow of = the dead man, arrived here to-day from Atlantic City and was closely questioned by Dis- trict Attorney Coatsworth and Chief Cusack I neither know nor can conjecture any- body who would have committed the murder,” said she, *‘except somebody who had an interest in ending the between Mr. Burdick and myself.” Late to-night two women were brought the District Attorney's office uestioned. he other seemed examination brought however. be a maid. Their out nothing ne; to Still later the police found the which Burdick was mur- dered. It is a steel-tipped golfers’ putter. Where they got it, the officlals refuse to say at present. It is sald there are marks upon it belleved to be bloodstains. DISTRICT OF HALIFAX Flames Cause H;avy Loss and Three Men Receive Serious In- Jjuries. HALIFAX, N. S, Feb. 28.—A tremend- ous fire, fanned by a fierce wind, threat- ened the business district of Halifax with destruction for several hours to-night. Property to the value of $300,000 was de- stroyed and three firemen were seriously the collapse of a ladder on which they were standing. The fire started in the starch room of the biscuit and confectionery works of Moir, Son & Co., opposite the City Hall and public library. The employes had just left the building. A general alarm was sounded, calling out all the firemen and police, and the garrisons were turned out as a fire-fighting and patrol force, the | Royal Engineers manning their own ap- paratus and preparing for the use of dynamite on buildings should the fire get beyond comtrol. The high wind drove the flames east and north. All the buildings opposite the Moir building on Duke street were con- sumed., The west end of the City Hall was next ignited, but after a desperate | fight with the advancing flames the fire- men won. 'The fire in the City Hall was confined to the upper story of the west end, whera the public library was situated. The li- brary was considerably damaged. In the meantime, the wind having shift- the fire spread south along Argyll street, and before it was finally checked all but two builldngs in this block were consumed. Moir's immense factory, cov- ing almost a block, had become a roar- ing furnace and approach was prevented. A heavy fall of rain accompanied the gale, and this rain no doubt prevented the further spread of the flames. —————— DR. JACQUES LOEB WILL LECTURE ON THEORY OF LIFE Famous Scientist Announces a Dis- course Explaining His Views on the Vital Phenonema. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Feb. 28.—Dr. Jacques Loeb, the world famous biologist, now at the University of Cali- fornia, has announced: that on next Thursday evening he will deliver an ad- dress before the Harvey Club on the question, “Is a Complete Sclentific Ex- planation of Life Phenomena Possible?” The announcement that Dr. Loeb will speak on this question aroused wide- spread interest in the university, as a | great deal of misapprehension exists in regard to the views the distinguished scientist holds on this great ®iological problem. Reports have been frequently circulated that Dr. Loeb claimed to be able to create forms of life. These ridiculous stories have worried him greatly, so he bas resolved to definitely state in his lec. ture before the Harvey Club just what his views are and to recount what he has dgne In the laboratory to substantiate his theories. e EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GOES INTO SESSION Grand Army Veterans Commence to Perfect Arrangements for Next National Encampment. A meeting of the executive committee of the Grand Army of the Republic was held last night at 25 Montgomery street to per- fect arrangements and whip matters into shape for the thirty-seventh national en- campment, which will take place in San Francisco on August 17 of this year and which will continue for one week. George Stone called the meeting to order. The committee on halls reported that they had secured all the halls necessary for the use of the natlonal encampment, the Woman's Relief Corps and the La. dies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Measures were also taken looking to the holding of a session of the national organ- ization of the Sons of Veterans at the same time. The headcuarters of the G. A. R. will be in future at suite 1in the Grand Hotel, on the first floor, where the meeting next Saturday will be held. ~ on Bur- | t first appeared to be | tigation ta be | One was handsomely gowned. | HERO RECEIVES REWARD ‘'FOR SAVING TWO LIVES George D. Cobb of the Oakland Lighthouse Is Given the Much Coveted Decoration Bestowed by Service for Signal Acts of Marine Bravery g— | [ LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED A MEDAL FOR | | SAVING THE LIVES OF TWO MEN WHO WERE CAPSIZED DURING | | A STORM IN OAKLAND HARBOR SIX YEARS AGO. i X3 ! | i i | | AKLAND, Feb. 28.—After waiting six years George D. Cobb, the man who trims the lights for Un | cle Sam in the harbor, has come | into his reward—the reward of | bravery and self-sacrifice. For the rescue of two persons from drowning off the Oakland harbor lighthouse on December 26, 1896, he has earned the honor of wear- ing a medal on his breast, the souvenir, appropriately inscribed, having been | awarded to-day from the lighthouse de- | partment at Washington. It was a stormy day after Christmas in | | | fallen 189 when Cobb saved two men from drowning at the peril of his own life. He | | was assistant lighthouse-keeper then at | the mouth of the estuary, under the vet- | eran Charles McCarthy. McCarthy's only son was drowned trying | to make the lighthouse in a boat. life against a high wind and a strong tide. All of a sudden their boat capsized. Cobb did not walt for anything more, but lowered a boat at once and put off i i BOARD REQUEST PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOLHOUSE At a meeting of the Board of Education held yesterday afternoon a resolution was adopted requesting the Board of Public ‘Works to submit plans, specifications and | estimates for a new brick school building, | which 1s to be located on the site of the | Washington Grammar School. The new schoolhouse is to contain eighteen rooms. | L. M. Shelley, the new Deputy Superin- | tendent of Schools, appointed by Superin- tendent Langdon, presented a demand for his salary. The board at firct refused to | approve it, as Shelley’s right to hold the ! position of Deputy Superintendent is be- ing questioned by D, J. Sullivan, Who held the position under Webster. Sullivan has | applied to the District Attorney for per- mission to begin quo warranto proceed- ings against Superintendent Langdon's appointee. The board finally decided to approve Shelley’s salary demand for Feb- ruary on condition that its actlon would | net be taken as a precedent. The Federation of Mission Improvement | Clubs presented a resolution to the board against the admission of Chinese to public | schools which are attended by white pu- | plls. The board appointed Trustee Walsh a committee of one to make an Investiga- tion in regard to the advisability of in- | stalling auxiliary fire alarms In the schoolhouses. Miss Margaret O'Neil was appointed a substitute emergency teacher. e |POLICE DO NOT BELIEVE PRINTER’S THRILLING TALE Archie Hubbard, a printer employed by the Union Lithographing Company, 320 Sansome street, caused a sensation at the Central police station about 10 o'clock Fri- day night by declaring that while he was at work an unknown person had fired two shots at him, one of the bullets enter- ing his hat and the other going through his left trousers pocket. He fired four shots himself, but as it was dark he did not se any one and only fired in the di- rection which he thought the shots came from. Detectives Dinan and Braig were de- tailed on the case and on searching Hub- bard they found an unloaded revolver in his pocket and four loaded cartridges, which he said he had taken from the weapon. They made a thorough examina- tion of the place where tic buliets were said to have been fired, but found no marks. Three empty shells were found in a paper box, where Hubbard said he had put them. Hubbard’s hat was powder burned and so was the lnside of his trous- ers pocket. From this fact the detectives came to the conclusion that he had fired . ool ettt il to the rescue. By the time he reached the men, clinging with desperation to maintain a hold on the keel of the up- turned boat, they were nearly exhausted. One, William Burke, was forced to let go. but he had just strength enough to cling tc an oar and swim until he reached the rocks. In the meantime Cobb got one of the men, Frank Whipple, into the boat, but the { | | other man, John J. Kennedy, had | back from exhaustion. Cobb jumped into the water to his rescus, and after a sharp struggle managed to swim with him to the boat and land In safety. Lighthouse-keeper MecCarthy laid thel case before the lighthouse department and suggested a medal for Cobb. The | wheels of reward turned slowly, and 1t | was not until after a lot of bickering and | correspondence that the medal was final- | That same day | ly awarded. The Oakland harbor lighthouse-keepers | have the record for lives saved from Cobb saw three men struggling for dear | drowning, no less than eleven people hav- Ing been rescued, and all this has been accomplished In the face of difficulties in the way of antiquated apparatus and a boat thirteen years old. | SERMONS OF PASTORS | DEAL WITH THE TIMES | The services at the churches this day | are as follows: | Howard-street M. E.—Morning, “Our Pecu- llar Name''; evening, “‘Uncovering Sin.” Pas- tor, Rev. A. C. Bane. Stmpson Memorfal M. E.—Morning, A Pecu lar Grace'; evening, ‘Diversities Pastor, Rev. John Stephens. Grace M. E.—Evening, “The Young Man in His Own Mind."" Pastor, Rev, F. M. Larkin. California-street M. E.—Morning, *“Ways to Observe Lent'; evening, “Paul, thé Preacher, s Saint."” r, Rev. Clarence Reed. Morning, “The §upreme Issue | evening, preaching. ‘Pastor, Rev. | John A. B. Wilson. First M. E.—Morning, preaching; evening, “‘Christian Brotherhood,”” by Stanley Webster. Pastor, Rev. Frank K. Baker. First Congregatienai—Morring, * Suffered”’; evening, ‘‘Teaching in Parabl Pastor, Rey. George C. Adams. of Gifts." | Third Congregational—Morning, ““Working Qut Your Own Salvation”; evening, ‘“The | Emancipation ot a Soul.”” Pastor, Rev. Wil- llam Rader. Plymouth Congregational—Evening, ‘“‘Home, What It Is.” Pastor, Rev. L C. Mes rst U. P.—Morning, and aven- ing. “Following Afar Oft.” Pastor, Rev. H. B/ First Unitarian—Morning, “The Church Uni- versal and the Claims of the Sects.”” Pastor, Rev. Bradford Leavitt. Second Unitarian—Mornin, “A Living Church for a Living People.” Pastor, Rev. Jay Willlam Hudson. & chmond Congregational—Morning, *Trut Contrasted”; evening, “Truth Embodied. Pas: tor, Rev. Philip.Coombe. & mflulnuel lEVlug'l,)cll — I(hnrnlnl. ““Bibl tudy”’; evening, ‘‘Songs of the Bibie.” Pa lo;‘ ReV,EF."W"I. algher. rst Englisl itheran—Morning, ““Tempta- tion from the Mountain Top''s eveuing. e | ten Meditation.” E. . M. C. A.—Afternoon, Man,” by Rev. Calvarian Society otions in St. thedral this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Father Harvey of St. Patrick's Semi- nary, Menlo Park. will preach the last mass this morning in_ the Holy Cross Church. Rev. Pather Calzla will deliver the discourse at the 10:30 oiclock mass this morning in St. Ignatius Church. ‘Rev. Father Forhan will de. liver the sermon in the evening. First Presbyterlan Church—Morning, ‘‘Jesus Christ Convinces of Sin"'; evening, ‘“The Decla- ration of Independence.” Pastor, Rev. s or, Rev. W. K. —_————— Arrange Benefit Performance. A literary and musical entertainment for the benefit of the suffering people ot the northern part of Sweden will be given at the Young Men’s Christian Asso- clation bullding next Tuesday night. It is to be under the direction of the Swedish Lutheran Ebenezer Young Peo- ple's Society. A fine programme has been prepared by the committee of arrange- ments, which consists of Charles J. Lan- der, J. P. Sandberg, Miss Betty Ander- son, Miss Loulse Chytraus and Miss Ida Carlson. a shot while the revolver was in his pocket, as there were no powder mark on the outslde of the trousers. The de- all the shots himself, but he denied it. All newsdealers on the Pa- cific Coast sell The Sunday Call, with beautiful Art Sup- plement. tectives accused Hubbard of having fired | ®T® of San Francisco turned out in large || srand ball given under the auspices of —————— Butchers’ Masquerade. At Saratoga Hall last night the butch- numbers, the occasion being the second the Journeymen Butchers’ Protective and Benevolent Association of the Pacific Coast. Many pretty costumes were in | Kussian assurances to | warranted assumption. | of the Sultan about the middle nf Mare | conveying a | the last _eight mont | Charles Defrense 85 GERAMANY DOUBTS LA SINGERITY Has Fears of Outcome of Trouble in the Balkans. Russia -Is Again Suspected of Hiding Her Real Intentions. Special Cabie to Call and New York Herald Copyrigi b t New York Heruld Publl: Compa BERLIN, Feb. 25.—The German Govern- ment is dissatisfled with the Russian of- ficial copmunique on Macedonian affairs. Officials I have approached-say that the Christian pop- and are an’un- Although the at- titude of the German Government in sup- porting the Macedonia reform note Is of- ficially correct, the prevailing sentimert in official circles is one of suspicion to- ward Russia. The Conservative orgs content themselves with chronicling facts, he viation are uncalled while those more outspoken, like the Morgen Post, claim that no one will b deceived by the pate nces. of Russia and the movement due to derstanding between Russia and an un- Bulga- | ria. The latest Russian communiqu the slumbering fears of Russi in the Balkans, which man financial intere to the heavy de g he curitles and the German erest in the censtruction of the Bagdad Railway That most intimate reiatio exist be- tween the Kaiser and the Sultan is shown by the fact that the Crown Prince Eitel Friederich, w will leave h shortly for the East, will be the gue surances and presents from the Kalser. FREIGHT CAR THIEVES PLACED UNDER ARREST Detective Peter Lewia of the South- ern Pacific Makes Clever Sapture. Detectlve Peter Lewin of the Southern Pacific Compaay returned to the city yes- terday after effecting the capture of four men who have been stealing from freight cars between here Los Angeies for heir names are alfas “Fren James McAuley, Ray Sterne and Fred Coombs, allas “New Zealand,” who have all served terms in the State penitentiary Their last -plunder was obtgined from a car on January and consisted of 240 pairs of silk stockings and ten bun- dles of fancy quilts. Lewin was detailed on the case about a week ago and traced the thiaves to San Miguel, San Lufs Obis- po County, where, with the assfstance of Constable W. M. Sitton, he arrested De- frense, McAuley and Sterne. He found Coombs in Santa Barbara. The four were placed in jail at San Luis Obispo. A por- tion of the stolen silk stockings was re- covered and will be used evidence against the four men. It is estimated that during the e months their plunder would amount thousands of dollars. They peddled the stolen goods in the interfor towns and cities. Complaints had been made to the company by ‘merehants about their pack- ages being tampered #ith, and Lewin was detailed on the case with successful re- sults. i as ADVERTISEMENTS. Oak Chif- fonier $10 Guaranteed solid oak Chiffonier, 70 inches high, 30 inches wide; large drawers; French plate mir- ror; beveled, $10.00 12x20 inches. Hardwood rocker, very pretty de- sign, wood seat. _ This week, spe- cial, $1.85 We make estimates on furnishing entire homes, hotels and rooming houses. Furniture held 30 days on payment of small deposit. Freight prepaid on orders of $5.00 or over to any rail- road station within 100 miles of - San Francisco. Credit and free delivery in city. k. an R SEres ‘Trade-Mark Dr. Kellett's. Oil of Eden Sweet Spirits of Eden Rheumatism, Liver and Kidney Troubles, are positively cured with Kellelf's Oil of £dew =vd Spirits of Eden. Trade-Mark. evidence and the grotesque characters of some of the male dancers evoked much merriment. The affair proved a great suc. cess. . - Soald by ali Druggists and local dealers. For proof of truth send address to California Co- Operative Medical C: gth St., Qakiand, Cal., or 327 E St., Eurcka,