The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1903, Page 14

14 DOCTOR GARDNER HESS JAILED 15 LD T0 REST FOR PERJURY SimpleCeremoniesMark } Carpenter Placed Under Last Rites Over | Arrest for Violat- Physician. | ing Oath. Remains Are Taken to Dixon | Falsely Accuses G. B. Ludlow | Where Final Inter- of Throwing Acid in ment Is Had His Face. | —= 3. e | e present arge concourse of | The charge of throwing sulphuric acid | | ead professional and in the face of Robert Hess, a carpenter, ‘ e and a nd Hyde streéts on the evening 2 1€ services inst G. B. Ludlow, resident ‘ Sinatitny einstock, Lubin & Co., was of Police Judge Cabaniss yes- | ner, th physic he Judge suggested to Detec- | | pe Ay roing at the ) n, who has been working on r s 01 Clay street e case, that Hess be prosecuted on a | | b « perjury case s called yesterday | w son testified that he had dis- on morning foliowing ' | i throwing Hess had been | | window his store at Point - ghih avenues Investigating a lit a match and ¥ 1 explosion and both own out. Policeman ;; ¥ explosion and ran to e ne. He found Hess with his hair phocin d and his face burned and he advised » to go upstairs and rub his face with | com oii, which he d | € also went E 1g store at Grant | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, DEATH CLOSES THE CAREER OF VETERAN POLICE CAPTAIN |George Birdsall of the Local Department Passes Away at His Home After a Long lliness and lIs: Deeply Mourned by Every One Who Knew Him e d Sutt . whose label was E bottle con g sulphuric acid, ! | sieting Hess allege: dlow dropped after | and he was informed M . e kind had been sold | - ast six months and that the | was < least eighteen months old i or the hat and coat which i » he wore at the time of the w crime s wet, showing that | | acid nad been s over it a few min- | | ! « utes before it was shown to the detective. | | « There were no marks on the coat. , | 1a PROVES AN ALIBI. {1 s . eman Hanley was called and testi- | N fied stated by Gibson re- B gardin xplosion | nd and testified that % - . il 9 he left his place | | % < o ket street with his as- | = -~ hey wa ed across b - h‘,,,"r'l‘:td,.a";r;,i‘ OLICE CAPTAIN GEORGE L tobK bty BIRDSALL, a veteran member Fargo Bank | of the San Francisco Police De- 3 s rt. Veirs left partment, passed away at his A " Octavia street and Ludlow | home, Stanyan and Page streets, | [ vebater trest. When he g0t | o; 5.5 last night. Deafh web fitia £o o e tly after § o'clock his wife and * ildren had not returned from | PATaly His iliness had been of enly & 2 & THE e i Tamalpais, where they had been MONth's duration and occasioned his first VETERAN MEMBER OF T wadbo . 5 ng the day. and he lit the kitchen , absence from duty on the police force for POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO 5 fire to prepare dinner. His wife and chil- | twenty-five years. DIED LAST NIGH e = ren returned in about half an hour. | Captain Birdsall was born in Sing Sing, | . INTERMENT AT DIXON. had dinner 1 retired for the night | N. Y., fifty-nine years ago and came to % N aTF o . Funeral Procession and after § o'clock. He denied abso- | California with an immigrant train In negs of. order and thoroughness of mili- Services at the Grave itely being on Geary street that evening, | 1852. He was made captain of a Zouave tary discipline among the men under him, § e - had he ever seen the bottle of sul- | company raised in this city during the Boftening of the brain attacked the po- A 20T ast scenes in id. He was corroborated by his | Civil War, but did not see service. Later lice captaln about six weeks ago. He 1 w Gardner. Veirs he worked in the meat business until he was forced to give up his dutles on the late f = DISMISSES CASE. joined the police force in April, 1878. police force on March 22 and went to < N The Judge said there was no necessity | _Fromotion to the rank of sergeant came Paraiso Springs, but his condition grad- D alling any more witnesses, as he feit | 11 15%). Later he was raised to a lieuten- ually grew worse and two weeks ago he cr whose ed marble assured that Hess sought to use | 1Y and on J\vme 4, 1892, he was honored returned to this city. Soon after his re- s 2 s beca t which befell him in the gas | ®1th the grade. of captain. Birdsall's turn he was stricken with pagalysis, ;' bez fying ;nw T ion as a means of gratifying name was alwavs s ynonymous with strict- which was the ultimate cause of death. maiden name, - H e of the emi- Gardner this commu i~ 1d usehol fa- grievance which he had or imagined he had against the defendant. Possibly Hess’' motive might have been to influence in some wise the litigation now pending be- tween himself and the defendant growing out of the charge of petty larceny pre- | CLERK O'ERIEN TIRED NEARLY KILLS WOMAN, OF THE COUNTY JAIL THEN PAWNS JEWELRY Willing to Be Taken Back to Wash- |S. H. Humes Arrested by Detectives ent of his | ferred by the defendant against Hess in | s to mary | another court for stealing his dog. ington for Trial for Em- on a Charge of Felony Em- =kill as a = “Yet it goes without sayin, continued bezzlement. ) bezzlement. * throng r”:' :.’, n]; Judge, “that this charge is not only After having been incarcerated for | S. H, Humes was arrested yesterday by g o e ‘J’:’";]‘:":‘\;)?“r‘e:j’a"_':“"':x:’i’;ffl"‘ : Ty 2&wn | about six months in the County Jail, John | Deteciives O'Dea and Mulcahy and this know of Yern Solano. | the power of the court to render Ludlow | Lawrence O'Brien has concluded that he | morning will be charged with felony em- : t beariug the remains | that he is absolutely and completely vin. | Will save time, money and health by | bezzlement. After beating and almost cisco drew slowly into the | dicated in the premises. It has been not abandoning-any further contest against | killing a woman with whom he was ltving ¥ 1 came 10 @ standstill be- | only established by the evidence, but ab- | extradition and by allowing himself to be j Humes pawned her jewelry and pocketed e . r-n“m";"f -\"“1""“1‘ At lutely demonstrated to my complete | taken to Washington, D. C., for trial. the proceeds. To the detectives he admit- o e gy L s i h;;»racsmnl ma{r he is 2o Builtless of the | O'Brien was employed by a grocer In | ted his guilt and professed repentance. et n from Sacramento con- | to do with 1t eltner airerr e 2nOtNg | the national capital and obtained leave | Humes and Susan Sparics Ieed together tained n “ommand- | This is such a very palpable case of cold. | Cf absence to visit this State on a bridal | at 45 Stockton street until March 12, when « Masonic | plooded and wicked perjury that I really | tcur. After he had left it was discovered | the beating occurred. Miss Sparks was ; by a 1'«1'29’ p \m]l-: ; gest the law be set in motion against that his accounts were about $5000 short | taken to the City and County Hospital, - Toved ine avisville. | Hess and 1 more particularly suggest that | and he was arrested on an indictment for | and while Iying RVl ularly : s lc | anc ving at the point of death - ed the deceased | 1, you, Mr. Gibson, as you are the detec- | embezzlement by the Federal Grand Jury | Humes induced her to sign an order mak- e P 1’3 the funeral| ive in charge of this prosecution.” |in the District of Columbia. His faithful Iing him custodian of her jewelry, valued .= : Show ok the deceased phy- | Gibson took Hess t6 the City Prison and | Wife called upon United States Marshal | at $200. Humes immediately pawned the S Bee. fes the pall pearoatives | booked him on the charge of perjury. He Shine vesterday and announced that he | valuabies fon $80, which fact became . i gy b g :';s """;‘”' (o | Was later released on $2000 bonds. was t}eslmus of being mk?; back 10 | known to the woman sterday, and she g part: escorted to Washington as soon as possible. o o ic z ting. The casket, almost : —.....p_~ ;C mpm.md foha D.O“_"' 1 a mass of ferns and pink Important. BUTTE. Mont., A 20,—] . b , -+ April 20.—President Roose- | You won't find *Jesse Moore' W repas jed from the| Until further notice Pacific Coast | t¢lt Will be the guest of Butte's labor Unions | cheap pors . isn't mads ;::echupmr::’n . funeral car and borne to the | Steamship Company’s steamers will leave N s Irction DI fhe ims e wpente No | Be’ TULL 4 Bl ety isville Masonic lodge, under | | ombard-street wharf (Pier 27) for ports | Tl — Hieat-poonie. * s the obsequies were held, | in Puget Sound, British Columbia and by members of Silveyville | Alaska. e lodges, formed in line of | Steamers will leave Unjon-street whart | march in advance of the carriages. Sac. | (Pier 19) for Eureka and Southern Cali- | ramento Commandery, composed of sey. | fornia. £k | enty members in full uniform, acted as X > | escort. The fraternal body from Sacra. KESWICK STRIKERS' CASE mento was accompanied by Sacramentc IN JUDGE MORROW’S COURT Concert Band, which led the way to the ¥ == | cemetery, rendering en route the solemn | Present Evidence Showing They Do | strzins of Beethoven's and Chopin's fun- Not Intend to Harm Non- eral marches. he solemnity of the occasion was made dcubly impressive from the fact that every business house in the city was «<losed during the passage of the long pro- cession through the streets. All the pub- Ye schools were closed for the afternoon | end the children added to the great as. | membly that lined the streets and gath. ered at the burial place. The impressive Titualistic ceremony of the Masonic or- der composed the service at the grave, The several parts were Interspersed with wacred selections by the band My God, to Thee” wad rendered as the carket was slowly lowered into the grave, At the conclusion of the ceremony the | grave was covered for the reception of | the wealth of flowers that had been ocon. tributed as silent testimonials of the es. | 1ecm the living had for the honored de- | ceased. The floral display was elaborate, beautiful and appropriate. The beautiful | until next Monday. Charles” P. Eels appeared for the com- | TUnion Men. The injunction proceedings brought by the Mountain Copper Company, Limited, of Keswick against the striking miners and the Western Federation of Miners oc- cupfed the attention of United States Circuit Judge Morrow. vesterday after- ncon and further hearing was continued W. 8. Goodfellow and pany and the strikers were represented | by John H. Murphy of Denver, Colo., and Charles J. Pence of this city. Mr. Eels read the affidavits heretofore published wherein the deponents tell about the strikers threatening with death the non-union men who arrived on the | railroad for the purpose of working in the ruines and smelters of the company., Mr. Fels also offered in evidence a copy of the Miner's Magazine, published at Den- —————— Made Aids-de-Camp. A clrcular letter has been received here from Chicago announcing that the follow- ing well known members of the local and Army posts have been appointed s-de-camp on the staff of General horas J. Stewart, commander-in-chief | of that organization: T. H. Goodman, A. | D. Cutler, George Stone, W. C. Waters, W. H. Alken, W. H. Savage, Jesse B. Ful- ler, J. B. Lauck, George M. Mott, P. W. Stocksleger and W. S. Daupenspeck. ————— ADVERTISEMENTS. | The honor of possessing the largest membership of any automobile club in the world rests with the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, which has LOW no less than 2180 member: ADVERTISEMENTS. ] You cannot buy the raw ma- terial for the price we sell the best ready-to-wear clothes. We use only the finest ma- We advertise tfuthfully because it pays us best. e stedy 2 4 ing to be the official or- terials; the tri i ty tokens completely hid the grave ang e | Ve¥» 804 purport ials; the trimmings are se: lerge portion of the plat from view, {om"_ | gan of the Western Federation of Min- | lected so as to give good satis- ing the largest and most handsome ocol. | 5 faction; the workmanship is the lection ever seen here. Mr. Murphy denied that there was any- Point Reyes Creamery...... S dioeas « er: | tFing official about the magazine or the best and the styles are new and Rich, grassy flavor. Large 32Vc Bweden bas 34 co-operative societies, | TCPOTL Published in it by B. F. Barbeo, | f§ Original. squares ........ 2 with & membership of over 800, | | | | 12ra of San Mateo yesterday | that he had disposed of ten of his polo ) or make it permanent organizer of the State of California. Mr. Murphy then read affidavits from strikers wherein they denied having beea guilty of any acts of intimidation or vio- | lence. ——————— HOBART'S POLO PONIES BRING TWENTY '.I.'ROUMN.D Hearry Payne Whitney Purchases Ten, Including the Famous “Terry McGovern.” Walter 8. Hobart telegraphed E. D. Bey- the news ponies to Harry Payne Whitney for the sum of $20,00 in New York. Hobart re- | tained two of the ponies to take with him to England. Hobart's friends consider that he made a good sale by disposing of the ponics so readily. He is credited with having cieaned up fully §15,00 on the deal. Among the ten scld to Whitney is the famous pony Terry McGovern. —— Police Powerless to Act. For two months the police have been powerless to suppress the inmates at 1129 Dupont street owing to an injunction be- ing issued at that time by Judge Cook. | To-day the Judge will hear affidavits ard other evidence, which will egable him to decide whether to dissolve the injunction the | There will be more white un- Best F'ull Cream Cheese, 1b 15¢. derskirts worn this season than Sliced Pineapple, 2-1b can. 3 for..28c i J| heretofore, as they are the cor- Singapore. Usually 16c. rect garments for the smartly § VANILLA or #E){lo% EXTRACT, 15c | v : ottle C, ; dressed woman. The following Potatoes. Best Burbank. Pound..le figures show how ' reasonably A Cook dry and mealy. Direct from grower. they are priced: i . ’ GHIRARDELLT'S CHOCOLATE, 23e. 2 an’® 2. ‘omaf . xtras. -] cans.... c | Ladies’ Underskirts, made of Hesperian Brand. Usually 10¢. Lonsdales’ best cambric; 12-inch flounce. with clusters of tucks and genés!itthing: finished with underflounce; full width .-.ornroo.. D100 " LEAF LARD, 50c pail w)% French Sardines, in_olive oil. Can.9e Genuine. Packed in France Usually 12l4c BEST BRAND CORN STARCH, pkg Be. Scotch Oat 15¢ packages. von .Bi)cc | > 4 Tuesday, Handsome Line of Ladies’ == Brox Underskirts; full widths; circu- st .'.n.‘ ooy aong 2 853’: J la_r‘ rufii;s;'dda_imily trimmed Has flavor dnd one ghest priced with embroideries. ... u 50 s | . Benzilene Soap, large cakes, 6 for..25c¢ Twice the value of Fels-Naptha. No rubbing. Jesse Moore Whiskey, qt. bottle....G0¢ AA, < i Ladies’ White Underskirts— Hundreds of new ideas. Elabors ately tucked and trimmed 0'11‘* s g e g i with Valenciennes and sl 50 ,.':g o q’un:t.“'"tt:‘:“a:fi sg‘c’ |-l Poirt de Paris laces.. > Quality counts. not price. Worth $1.00. i and up. COUNTRY BUYERS. Special prices to Hotels and Resorts. Send your list for figures. We freight. 918-922 Market St. i a » | legatees under Mrs. Lux's will. pay 1001 Fillmore St. 119 Taylor St. Park lfi—nWHM 1031 1903. | CHARITY LANDS HER IN PRISON ! Misguided Miss Williams Is an Unfortunate Samaritan. Father of Child Is Arrested for Abandoning His Offspring. ‘Wrapped in rags, unclean and neglected, a tiny pink mite of humanity was left some time early yesterday,morning on the | steps of the San Francisco Foundling Asylum at 913 Golden Gate avenue. Hazel lams, passing by, heard the| little one’s cries and took the | child in charge. For her Samar-| itan act she spent the remaining portion | of the day in the City Prison and was only released when a thorough investiga- tion by the police developed the fact that | her part in the transaction was entirely innocent. ‘ Miss Willlams, who lives at a lodging- | house on O'Farrell street, had been spend- | ing an evening of gayety with friends and had been hospitably entertained. About midnight she took a cab to visit a frlend who resides on| Golden Gate avenue. When she reached | her-destination she found that her friend | was not at home and, having dispensed with the cab before she made this discov- | ery, she was forced to return on foot. As she passed the foundling asylum the feeble cries of a baby attracted her atten- | tion and, making a hasty examination in | the moonlight, she found the little one on the doorstep. p TAKES BABE TO A FRIEND. Prompted by the urgings of a wide | | charity, Miss Willlams took the little | wastrel in her arms and carried it to the | home of Willlam Berliner at 430A Fulton street. Berliner hastily concluded that ne had troubles enough of his own, so he evicted the baby and its volunteer guard- ian. Miss Wifllams, still full of her Sa- maritan resolves, proceeded with her charge to the Receiving Hospital, where the child was turned over to the tender care of Matron Kane. hospital authorities, who suspected that she might know more of the maternity of cordingly Policeman Lycette was sum- tion, where she was detained until an in- vestigation could be made. This resulted in an entire corroboration of Miss Wil llams" story and she was released last evening, very much wrought up over her | incarceration amd strongly determined to | let other people’s babies alone. { Detective Coleman learned that child was the offspring of Mr. and Mrs | Jack Mason, who live in room 27, 118 Eddy | street. He visited the house, and after satisfying himself that he had found (ke | parents took the father into custody. | Mason was taken to the Hall of Justice and ‘told his story to Captain Martin. He was subsequently booked on a charge of violating sectlon 271 of the Penal Code, relative to the abandonment of children under the age of § years Mason is only 22 years of age, and he states that his wife is but 18. He tells a pathetic story of hardship. His state- ment is as follows: STORY OF HARDSHIP. I met and married my wife in Los Angeles about a year and a half ago, and after our marriage we engaged In the theatrical busi- ness, touring the coast with Murphy and Mack. We were getting on splendidly until my wife, owing to her delicate condition, was unable to work any longer. We came to’ this city and [ endeavored to secure some employment that would be profitable. I was unsuccessful and was finally compelled to accept a position in McGrath's saloon on Taylor street, playing the | plano for $1 50 per night. When the baby was | | born I had to pawn everything I owned, includ- | ing our watches, to pay the doctor fees | I did not have even sufficlent money to pur- | chase clothes for the child. A few days ago I | t t t wrote a letter to the Foundling Asylum about having them take the little one, and recefved they a reply which seemed to Intimate that would do so. This morning about 1 o'cl hired a hack and took the baby to the and left it on the porch. The first time I knew that it had not been taken in was when the de- tective called at the room this evening. If I can get on my feet I am ready and willing to take care of the baby. It is hardly possible to P | of & chila would make ro statoment. A young mcn who claims to bé her brother and Is protecting her in her trouble. Mrs Mason s maid>n name was Eva Bennett. It is said her parent Adams’ Sarsaparilla Pills (Chocolate Coated.) Cool, cleanse and purify the blood, cure con- stipation, biliousness, sick headaches, 10c, 25¢.+ e RAILROAD RATE MEN HOLDING . CONFERENCE | Representatives of Western Lines Meet for First Time on Pa- cific Coast. A conference is now in progress in this | city among representatives of the passen- | ger departments of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Rock Island and Rlo Grande railroads for the purpose of revising the joint rate sheets of the latter rcad to points west and east of El Paso, Deming, Phoenix and Albuquerque. It is the first conference of the kind that has ever beer held on the coast. Usually they are | held seml-annually in the East, but this year, through the influence of E, O. Mc- Cormick, passenger traffic manager of | the Southern Pacific Company, the cor- porations were induced to send their rep- resentatives to San Francisco. Among those attending the conference are A. A. Black of Topeka, chief rate clerk of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa | Fe; M. C. Harris, chief rate clerk of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles; V. R. Stiles, general freight and passenger agent of | the El Paso and Southwestern; T. W Thompson, local general agent' of the Rock Island system; R. H. Donaldson, chief rate clerk of the Southern Pacific, | and F. E. Batturs of the passenger de- | partment of the latter road. The rate men expect to remain in ses- | sicn the greater part of the week. The changes to be made in the rates will, however, be of no great importance. —_———— t Lux Trustees File Report. ‘The report of A. N. Lewis and T. B. Bishop, trustees of the estate of Miranda W. Lux, the widow of the Ilate Charles Lux, was filed in the Probate Court yesterday. The report shows that during the seven years they have handled the estate they have received $742,614 45 | and expended $693,583 05, leaving a bal- ance of $9,031 40 in their hands. Of the amount expended $22312 50 was pald to The in- come from the estate during that time, barring loans, was $288,490 26. ——— Docia Nolan Released. Docia Nolan, who was held to answer before the Superior Court on Saturday by | ! Police Judge Cabaniss on the charge of | robbery, along with her male associates, * Michael Nolan, Bernard Whitelaw and | John Davis, was released from custody yesterday on %5000 bonds. Her sureties were her mother, Mrs. Mary Looper; her brother-in-law, Harry Masters, both of Stockton, and the Etna Indemnity Com- pany. —_———— Don't neglect a Cough. Take Piso's | Consumption in time. By drugststs. Cure for 25¢. | ent’ population, e SPRING VALLEY FILES A SUIT Alleges 'That Supervis- ors Violated Charter Provisions. Obtains an Injunction From Judgde Morrow Tying Their Hands. | The Spring Valley Water Works filed a complaint yesterday in the United States | Circuit Court against the city and county | of San Francisco and the Board of Su- pervisors to restrain them from compell ing the water company to accept the re- | duced water rates put into effect by an | ordinance adopted by the board on March 9, and to restrain them and all others from instituting suits to enforce the wa- ter rates or to declare the franchise of the company forfeited. Judge Morrow is- sued a temporary restraining order and a summons to the defendants to appear | in court on May 4 and show cause, if any | they may have, why the tnjunction should not be made perpetual. The complaint is voluminous and goes | into the history of the water works. With reference to its property the complainant | says: VALUE FIFTY MILLIONS. All of the sald reservoir sites, water rights, water sheds and sources of supply have been | purchased by the said complainant at prices much less than their present values respect- Ively, and the sald reservoirs and other works have been erected and constructed as ekill- fully and economically as possible under the direction of engineers of the highest skill and learning, and without any useless or unneces- sary outlay; and have been o purchased, pre- pared and constructed for the sole pu of #Upplying the sald city of San Franeisco and | its Inhabltants with water as aforesaid, and | are not profitably applicable to any other pur- pose. Taken together, they constitute a sys em of water supply for a great city, abso- lutely unique in the world, and are not only ample for the needs of the city with its pres. | but are capable of extension the construction of additional dams and ueducts. such as will store and supply suf- LZDVERTISEMENTS. CUTICURA OINTMEN Purest of Emollients and Greatest of Skin Cures. The Most Wonderful Cirative of All Time For Tnnuriig: Disfiguring Skin Humours And Purest and Swestest of Toilet Emollients. Cuticura Ointment is beyond question the most successful curative for tortar- ing, disfiguring humours of the skin and scalp, including loss of halr, ever compounded, in proof of which a “single snointing preceded by a het bath with Cuticura Soap, and followed in the severer cases, by a dose of Cuti- cura Resolvent, Is often sufficlent to afford immediate relief in the most dlstressing forms of itching, burning and scaly humours, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy cure when all other remedies fail. It is es 80 in the treatment of infants and chil- dren, cleansing, soothing and healing the most distressing of infantile hu- mours, and preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, scalp and hair. Cuticura Ointment possesses, at the same time, the charm of satisfying the simple wants of the toilet, in earing for the skin, scalp, hair, hands and feet, from infancy to age, far more effect- ually, agreeably and economically than the most expensive of tollet emollients. f \ The young woman told her story to the "l'rrg(»‘;her they are reasonably worth over $50,- 00, 000. sight folho complainant, been secured in ad- vance of any visibi ot ) the child than she’ chose to confess. Ac- | 4 e e Doneuty Seiee | mot only on account of their largely increased moned and took her to the Central sta- | Value, but they would have been deveted io | other uses such as would have contaminated | and unfitted them for domestic water sources. | rates collected by the company from the | — o v city for the hydrants, namely, month for each hydrant, were just and equitable, although far below the actual the | Denefit derived by the city, and that the | rs. | COMPAnY under the old rates was enabled | o pay its operating expenses, interest and | Mayerie. | taxes and to declare dividends on its stock | of 462-100 per”cent during the year com mencing July 1. ever of the same ndivi, in the year 1900, except the def hart and Wil al the suggestion, water committee that be popular, and hoping , Jarity and a re-election to office, and with the | purpose of depreciating the market value of city and county, acquire the same at a greatly reduced proceeded without any other or further evidence than they had before them in the | ceedings of the preceding year, and wi knowledge or even the suggestion of and by thelr said ords: by the said city | for water sup ment of fires, c hydrants, rate therefor, | water supplied hydrants attached to supplied with water | s which is unknown attached live on the money I am earning and take care | pipes of the Visitacion Wate: [ Mrs. Mason is confined to her bed andsl SupeTYIsOEn fxed the sald'n that then the number of b is with her | with the distributing syste was about 3560; are 3 Angeles. | DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. | new rates are unjust and | plaint further sets forth: ports to fix the rates tg be charged for sup- effect, of law and i prives complainant of the equal the laws, and was never passed or adopted by said Board of Supervisors in the it by rates pretended thereby {-¥islons of the constitution of the United States and unauthorized; wag pretended toard without any notice to any other pe provision In any law, organic or statuto said State of California providing' for metio in the premises to your orator or any other person Interested; that said pretended bill or ordinance was never introduced in sald Boant of Supervisors in the month of February, 1803 or at any time, or ¥ charter required In | dinances, and that the same was on day of March, 1903, b { Super: visors. by its pretend tended to be passed to print. Chester F. Wright, 6 Geary st., upstairs. World.” the Jews to Palestine. was large and at the close of the lec- ficlent water. for the wants of more than 2- 000,000 inhabitants, and for a small expendi- ture, compared with the fundamental expendi- Its ‘‘Instant rellef for skin-tortured babies,” or ** Sanative,antiseptic cleans- | | The value of these prop- | | | tures already made. in, or ‘ Ome-night treatment of the erties already acquired for such extensions is . » op | Dot Included in the value of the plant in use | hands or feet,” or * Single treatment by complainant as hereinafter set forth. Taken | of the hair,” or *‘ Use after athletics, cycling, goif, tennis, riding, sparring, or any sport, each in connection with the use of Cuticura Soap, is sufficiens evidence of this. ot Pt e St e meat. 30c., Soap, [ 5 Rme FPotter In fact, if they had not, by the fore- | they would have been practically unattainable | The complaint goes on to say that the | Blindness 13 often caused by ne- glecting weak eyes, poor lignt, painful, sore, watery or injured eyes, etc. Geo. Mayerie's Ger man Eyewater instantly relieves all eye troubles; price 50c. Ge German Optician Inst.. 1071 Market $5 per The complaint then al- leges: AN ILLEGAL ACT. That in the month of February, 1901, how- the sald Board of Supervisors, consisting duals who had acted as such | endants Braun- n and one Stafford (appointed to vacancles as aforesaid) in pursuance of and being’ advised by ‘ | DEAL FOR FLOCA MILLS 15 OF \ such a measure would thereby to galm popu- s tion for Purchase of Coast Properties Expires. he properties of the complainant so that the If it should so elect. could price, like pro- thout the any addi- on with the subject, in nance of February, 1901 T8 or compensation to be pald and county of San Francisco plied to it for the extinguish- leansing of sewers, etc., through from the said rate of $5 per month | hydrant. which would amount .to . and which they had themselves, but ar previously determined to be a just to a lump sum of $80,000 for through all the hvdrants in he city and county. That the number of such | and connected with and by the sald dis ipes of the complainant then was 3 ides which thera wer fonal fact in connecti the large has on The attempt to combine all flouring mills of the Pacific Coast falled. The option that was secured the several large properties expires time limitation to-day and will not renewed. Willlam Thomas, who was ae- tive in trying to make the combinatio sald yesterday that so far as he was ¢ cerned no additional steps would Qe tak- en. The conditien of the money mar! is the cause of the failure. After t first option expired an extension was se cured. At this time the money market is in no better shape than it was at the beginning. Mr. Thomas said further: The press dispatch that tells that the | Cramps have been compelled to seek financi ald gives an inkling of the trus situation the money market. The underwriting of such propositions_appears to have reached its pres ent limit. The flour mill combination lookel well as an Investment amd it was a goo thing. On the face of the present showing the income is 10 per cent, which is certain! good. The public will notice that the bee’ trust has not been put through. That is proposition nearer to the Eastern capital than the flour mills of the Pacific Coast and a o reduce the cha be- e others (the number of to the said complainant) | to and supplied by the distributing r Company, the eaid Board of ydrant rate at the each hydrant and )'drnrms connected m_of complainan that such hydrants at present That In February, 1902, 3939, In addition to the allegation that the illegal the com- That said pretended bill or ordinance pur- plying wateg to the said city and count d | much larger ome. But the capitalists have its lnhabu;i for said fiscal year. but thas | not taken it up. I have acted on the advice | the same {Win fact null and void ‘and of mo | 0f an. associate in New York. who wr that the mroney situation is mo better and tha under existing conditions there is no chan to perfect the proposed arrangement. Takin this fact into account I shall go no fart at this time. The properties that were included In the prospective combine included the chief flour milling plants of California, and alsc those at Tacoma, Seattls and Portland. For some weeks the situation has been well understood by the flour millers and the announcement that the deal cannot be perfected now will not surprise them Doubts have been freely expressed by the millers in the last month on the score of success. One circumstance that may have dis couraged the Eastern capitalists is that there has been a falling off in the de. mand in the Orfent for flour. Mills In the Northwest are preparing to curta their production. Mills at Minneapolis ara preparing to shut down. The Eastern flour mills are reported to have a largs surplus of flour on hand, and this sur- plus they are sending to the Orient a an actual loss that they may realize for the money invested. The movement of this surplus to the Pacific Coast is facili tated by discriminative rallroad rates, and and was adopted without due process n manner that deprived and de- protection of manner that other ordinances or legislative acts or resolu. lons of sald Board of Supervisors are passed saild Board of Supervisors, and that the to be fixed are wholly llegal, unconstitutional under the said pro- that said bill or ordinance to be finally passed by satd complainant or rson interested, and without any passed to print as by said reference to bills or or- y said Board of Super- ed vote and order, pre- Royal Worcester Corsets, style 4468, at 75c. —_—— Emigration to Palestine. Leon Album of New York delivered a | lecture last Sunday afternoon at the | nis diminishes the demand for flour mill- Kneses Israel Synagogue on “The Life | . on the coast. of Israel Among the Nations of the He advocated the emigration of The attendance THE HAGUE, April 20.—Th~ Government of The Netherlands has decided not to make an appropriation in ald of the Netherlands exhibit at the St. Louls Exposition. turer’s address he was warmly applauded. The San Francisco Gas ani Electric Company takes pleasure in inform- ing the public of San Francisco that from this date the maximum ratz for gas furnished will bz 7S¢ Per 1000 Cubic Feet All orders for new business will be promptly attendedto . . , . San Francisco Gas and Electric Co. 415 Post Street ol ¢ U DA, Ok R ael