The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 19038, C AUBURN CLEVERLY RIVALS WOODLAND IN SNAP AND SKILL AT BASKETBALL ‘olo County Players Participate in a Contest With Team, and the a Tie Score After Much Very the Placer Event Results in Brilliant Work UESTIONS AGTS OF ARBITRATORS Decision in Il Triumfo Case Does Not Suit Salvador. ER WANTS HER MAIDEN NAME AGAIN Ce Asks Court to f Name of ege of as Margaret GRAPE-NUTS. COULDN'T DO IT. Food She Used £ Material. Didn't Know the Lacked Bui e trouble. Chicago to He said my not being kind of food unds to ¥ 1 would on a diet of nd graham 1 when I want- meat sud no I could sleep 4 to walk the tico ght My sick feelings lef: me « & get well. 1 weaned the . 1 s very sickly and puny. The @ said it would be a wonder if Grape-Nuts had done I concluded to put her on a coffee-mill to grind to her with good ked up very quickly and sh and strength. Now dy f is perfectly day and hungry teful to the makers saved my life and T and health to my littie ame given by Postum Co., Battle dich, I eek, ] LARDN THREL! April 20.—An basketball was urday afternoon befor arge number of spectators. hir exciting £ played The Woodland n High Sc he Woodland players unbroken contestants hool here to 1 and me series of victories redit b ed b d by 12 The result was in doubt igsh. The Woodland te half by a score of 9 t ond half both teams played des- ately and were encouraged by the nd coaching of friends. Neither ever more than two points in siting team accompanie excur- from won In nd was £ &0 first m but fifteen seconds of time left had a lead of two points, and ory seemed certain. The Auburn cc was cheering wildly. Five sec- ds before time was called Miss Sara the midget of the Woodiand team, threw one of the most difficult and beau- tiful field goals ever seen in any game, and the score was a tie, 13 to 13. In the evening a brilliant reception was tendered to the visitors. The Woodlanders returned to their homes delighted with the roval hospitality with which were treated. PERREERER) fofetletetetei il @ MERGHANTS LOGE - A HALF MILLION iUnable to Collect for Goods Sent by Them to Havana. Auburn Snee, HAVANA, April 20.—Transactions that are alleged to constitute frauds upon mer- chants in London, Paris and Frankfort to the extent of §500,000 were developed as | a result of the arrest this afternoon of Santos Vasquez, who conducted a mer- chandise brokerage business in Havana under the name of the Mutual Mercantile Agency of New York. Complaint was made by the German Cgnsul here, acting on behalf of merchants in Frankfort. It is alleged that Vasquez had quanti- ties of foregn goods shipped to Havana during the last six months, giving irf pay- ment ninety-day drafts of John Fruhlin Bros. of London. This firm accepted the drafts, but refused payment when due, saying the Havana house had not sent it money. Mexican merchants also are re- ported to have been victimized. Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, April 20.—Marriage licenses were issued to-day as follows: ward M. Smith, Stockton, 40, and_Mary A ot Ban Wrabcisco, 30; Adam Brun Valleso, 29, Vallejo, 34; John MecCotaghy, 31, and Fior- ence Smythe, San Lorenzo, 30;' John M Holmes, San Francisco, 29, and Ellen L. An- derson, San Francfeco, 22; John F. Hogan, over 21, and Annie McFarlans , over 18; Joseph Dutre, Oakland, 22, and Neliie Fonte, Fruitvale, 19;" Frederick T 'Settelle, San Francisco, 45, and Augusta Ba- ker, San Prancieco, ‘Anfonio D. Goularte, Decoto, 30, und Mary Mello, Decoto, 18; Albert B. Schoons, Sacramento, 53, and Ellen Goachec, Sacrament. ; Frederick W. Ahl- Louise C. Toaspern, tborn, Alameda, 24, Alanieda, 23 | | | Suit Is they SENATOR ELKING - REFUSES TO PAY Brought Against Him by Two Former Employes. Sisberes WASHINGTON, April 20. — Senator Stephen B. Eikins of West Virginia is defendant in a lawsuit for $500,000 filed to-day in the District Supreme Court Robert Burton and George A. Dubrueil. | The declaration in the case alleges that or Elkins employed the plaintiffs in vember, 1%1, to procure for him cer- taln information, plans, data and legal | oriniens concerning the Western Mary- I Railroad Company for the purpose ding him to acquire a controlling in- terest in that company. He proposed to | pay them for services rendered him or | bis business in this matter provided k ned r-uxuftrull'\g inte |est in the road. The decfaration avers that they accepted the empioyment on these conditions and from time to-time furnished the defendant certain informa- at the expense of much time and great labor, and also transmitted him le- gal information, etc., which assisted him in securing the controlling interest in the company. When, however, they request- | ed compens: n for their services, Sen- | ator Elkins, it is stated, failed and neg- lected to pay them. It is declare after the Gaqulds acquired the We | Maryland, Messrs. Burton and Dubrueil demanded their share, but that Senator | Elkins refused to pay, although he had m.ade millions out of the deal. YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE IN A LODGING-HOUSE | Heq;z Sends Bullet | Reason Unknown. | Henry Rademann, 20 y | resides with his folks at 425 Precita avi nue, committed suicide by shooting him- self in the right temple shortly after 10 | | o'clock last evening in the Stanley House, { 110 Sixth = | They 1. who has been employed | by the California Glue Works for the last Rademann | four rs, left his home last evening at | |7:%. He €aid good-by to his folks and told them he was going down ‘town and | would be home early. At 10 o'clock he | | procured a room at the Stanley House and Asked that he be awakened at 5 o’clock in the morning. Fifteen minutes later Mrs. 8. Francis, | | & roomer in the house, heard the report of | & pistol and the fall of a body. She noti- | fied the proprietor, Louis Faurent, and he | called in Officer Kreuger. | On entering the room the officer found | the body lying on the floor with a bullet wound in the right temple. The deceased left a piece of paper bear- ing his name and address. The young | man's stepfather, Captain Theodore | Schmalholz, visited the Morgue last even- ing and when questioned could give no possible reason for the suicide. —————— ASHTON STRUGGLE BROUGHT TO CLOSE ! OAKLAND, April 20.—It developed to- day that Frank Ashton had disappeared | for good with his little 5-year-old daugh- ter, Leonie, and so far as any proceed- | ings that may be instituted by Mrs. Ash- ton to recover her offepring goes, what- ever victory she may gain will be a hol- low one. Mrs. Ashton applied to-day, to Judge Greene for a modification of the original the child given into her custody. No one, | however, was able to throw any light on where the child was or Ashton, and leave was granted to publish a summons. rs of age, who | divorce decree so as to have the care of | LAUGHTER FILLS | their eyes, | enough Free Masonry to bluff his unsus- | | | i | '\ i | i \ | | ribs young son-in-law. | rious star attgaetions to appe HE GOLUMBIK “Are You A Mason” an Exceedingly Funny Farce. “Trilby"” Goes Well at Cali- fornia—* Dancing Girl”’ at Alcazar. —_— The Fliegende Blatter via New York, and fun of the best, is the jovial Ger- | man farce of Laufs and Kratz, “Are You | a Mason?” Leo Dietrichstein transposed | | it from the fatherland to Broadway, and | seems not to have lost an accent in the | process. At least the farce harvested the | laughs from Its opening measures, | and, in the seats late sacred to the Camp- | bell shiver, wrung a final wriggle from tired 'sides at its hilarious close. ~ Past | noble grands and majestic exalted rulers | | chortled traternally with the un-Masonry, | their expert explosions at some of the | | more ludicrous travesty alone distinguish- | ing them from the common herd. The | women, too, found the unready tear in | the women who, like those in | have ached since Eve's time | the farc | to see the other side of the lodge door. | The fun of the thing is that the men of “Are You a Mason?’ haven't seen the other side of the door, either. It seems that there is a more than usual mother- | in-law, whose unusual ambition it is to see her son-in-law a member of the order. Attacked hy his wife on the same sub- ject, the young man promlses to enter the fold while his other half is away in the country. Circumstances in the shape of a fascinating music hall person induce | Mr. Perry to forget his resolve, and the | unexpected descent of his wife and ma ternal relations upan his unloneliness be- | gins'the complications. A sense of fillal s well as a sincere regard ather's plethoric purse, | fall from grace. With the encyclopedia he learns cause Perry's help of the pecting relations into believing that he is already a fledgling of the ordgrs The hu- | mor on't is that his father-in-law has been bluffing in the same way for twenty | years, using up his leisure lodge nights on perfecting himself in the noble game | of poker. Each believes in the other's pretentions, but the son-in-law confesses, to the lovely virtuous indignation of the older bluffer. There is more and still more, complication upon complication, but | all adding steadily to the joy of living: The company, b d by John C. Rice and Thomas A. Wise, does duty very suf- | ficlently. Wise as the father-in-law e udes fun at every pore, and is less like the animate comic paper person than most of the others. He has a smile curved like a horizontal slice of watermelon that should not be omitted in his qualifica- tions, and is generally among those pres- ent. Mr. Rice is less natural in his meth- ods, but equally funny as the dig-in-the- | Edward Abeles furnished an uncommonly good female impersonation, and Sally Cohen and Eva Muller as the Perry maid and wife both help. | The wuld continue its last night's s and will only last the | week | The Columbia management has made a | siight change in its policy of perform- | ances, and the annpuncement is ouf ithat | h fter there will He matinees Wednesday as well as Saturday. Th | rangement will hold good until fu notice and has been found necessary ow- ing to the limited time allowed the v: rin the im- mediate future. ‘““‘Are You a Mason?”’ en- gagement comes 1o close on Sunday night, and thereafter there will be but si s and two matinees each week, Mary Manndring, Sothern or the do mnot appear on Sunday BLANCHE PARTI} x Grand Opera-House. A better house than has been the fa of the recent SBhakespearean productlons | at the Grand Opera-house greeted the “‘Othello” last night, third in the serle: rough His Head for Some | Where Ashton has gone is a mystery, known only to a few, and they are not | giving out the information. The with- | drawal of the child from the storm cen- | ter, however, promises to bring to a close | a flerce struggle between the parents over | the possession of thelr daughter. famous Merry-Ashton loye letters have | now lost their materiality and unless they are used by Mrs. Merry in her divorce suit in the East will not be introduced as evidence. ———— Late Shipping Intelligence, ARRIVED. Strar Chehalis, Thompson, 64 hrs from Grays Harbor, bound south, put in to land passen- = ” DOMESTIC PORTS. | ABERDEEN—Arrived Apr 20—Schr Enherl Buhne, hence Apr 5; schr James A. Garfleld, hence Apr 12. Balled—Barkentine Quickstep, for San Pedro. PORT BLAKELEY—Sailed Apr 20—Br ship Glerericht, for Caquimbo, The | | strong in_others. It was Miss Tyler's turn last night, Desdemona carrying off the honors of the | production. Though Miss Tyler has hard- ly the traglc air, her accompli light art, carries her gracefully th the role. Her reading of the part is sin- cere and intelligent, and her clear, sweet, penetrant voice gives not a small part of | the pleasure one derives from her per- formance. Mr. MacLean suits better the Johns and Richards of tragedy than the noble Moor. His make-up was singularly e, suggestive of something between the man from Mexico and 2 tobacconist's Indian. He seemed no less out of key in the spirit | of the part, that was played in a strict theatrical and unconvineing fashion. He schel Mayall's beaming good nature is a poor basis upon which to build an Iago, and it is only a mild, good-natured sort of | rogue he succeeds in presenting. His fine voice and presence, however, make him always an agreeable adjunct to-the cast. The rest fill in with varying success, | Blanche Stoddard as Emilia most enjoy- able. Next week an elaborate production of | “Julius Caesar,” with the addition of Em- mett Corrigan to the force now at the theater, will take the stage. California. “Trilby,” with Emmett Corrigan as Svengali and Fanny Gilette in the title role, is being presented very successfully at the California this week. Last night's | audience was large and exceedingly gen- erous with applause. Alcazar. Henry Arthur Jones' powerful play “The Dancing GIrl” was presented at ti Alcazar Theater last night, and the clev- er stock company gave it a most creditable production. It was weak in spots, bLut| Most interest centered in Miss Bertha Creighton as Drusilla Ives, the dancing girl, and she came out of the ordeal with flying colors. Her con- ception of the frivolous butterfly, alwa: craving for gayety and admiration and ] despising the quiet, God-fearing life of her | family and- friends, was admirable. In | her emotional scenes she was most ef- fective. Miss Oza Waldrop scored a great success as Sybll Crake, the cripple, play- ing the part with rare charm and swee ness. Ernest Hastings gave a satisfac- | tory portrayal of the part of the Duke ot Guisebury, but it cannot be classed as one of his successes. Albert Morrison's John Christianson was true to life and earned for him a special call before the curtain after his strong scene with Dru- silla toward the close of the second act. George Osbourne as David Ives, Dru- silla’s father, was excellent. Few things are more dramatic and artistic than his curse in the third act. The other parts were ‘well sustained. Tivoli. Von Suppe’s comic opera ‘‘Fatinitza opened the week at the Tivoll to the de- light of an appreciative audience, which oblivious to the fact that the opera is an old-timer, welcomed it with all the enthu- | siasm that they would give to a new ome, ' 1t is superbly staged, and the costumes worn by Caro Roma and Bertha Davis were dazzling. These ladies, the first as Viadimir and the second as Princess Lydla, were all that could be desired. Arthur Cunningham was an. ideal Colmti of the bourbon-nosed type of Russia and | | of next month. | Rock Island | e1 in as a brakeman away back in & | and went away merry. AFTER TWENTY-THREE YEARS AS AGENT VETERAN RETIRE S D. W. Hitchcock Will Receive a Pension From Union Pacific and His Position Will Be Filled by Samuel Booth on E2 Fifteenth of Next Month e VETERAN GENERAL PASSENGER | RAILROAD COMPANY WHO I8 ABOUT TO RETIRE AND THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN NAMED TO SUCCEED HIM. AGENT OF THE UNION PACIFIC AVING reached the age limit of| 7 years, D. W. Hitchcock, who | has been for twenty-three ycars | general passenger agent of the Union Pacific Railroad in this will r¢tire on a pension on the 15th The responsible position | will be filled by SBamuel Booth, who for, the last two years has acted as confiden- tial secretary to Traffic Director J. C. | Stubbs at Chicago. | The retirement of Agent Hitchcock will | be greatly felt by all who know the genial | old man. He is a universal favorite and | is one of the best known and respected | railroad men on the coast. With the | exception of Agent Clinton Jones of the system Mr. Hitchcock ha held his position continuously longer than ther general agent on the coast Hitchcock began, lke nearly all | successful railroad men, at the bottom of | the ladder. His first service was with the Cleveland, Chicago and Cincinnati road, known as the “Big Four.” He star | | | but the officials recognized his ability ~F and his promotion was rapid. In 1871 he came to this city as agent of the Bur- lington route. He was later called to Ch cago, where he held the position of pa: senger agent for that road for six years. In 18%0 Mr. Hitchcok was appointed gen- eral passenger agent.of the Union Ps cifie in this city, and has held that posi- tion for the last twen hree years. In 1581 he made a trip to Australla in the futerests of the Union Pacific and the Santa Fe railways. He was absent about fcur months and gathered in his travels much valuable gransportation data for the companies. Mr. Hitchcock is now 72 years of age, and under the new rules of the pension system of the Union Pacific he retires on half-salary. He was a great friend of the | late 8. H. H. Clark, who was president of both the Union Pacific and the Pacific roads for many years. Samuel Booth, the successor of Mr. Hitchcock, Is 40 years of age. He has teen in the Southern Pacific service for many years, and was until appointed sec- retary to J. C. Stubbs district agent for the Southern Pacific at Fresno. M souri (@ el foslowfonlonfonfomfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfenfonfenfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfontonfostonfostosionfontenfonfonionfofenfrnfon Kept the audience in good spirits. Ed-| ward Webb, the Herald correspondent, tcok notes with characteristic vivacity, Ferris Hartman in the role of Izzet Pasha made all the fun in the second act, but the audience missed the topical songs. He will throw in a few during the week to remind his audience of old times. Orpheum. The Orpheum has an excellent bill this week and the many clever turns are de- lighting the numerous patrons of the pop- ular home of vaudeville. Republic. The minstrels and the vaudeville turns at the Republic this week are attracting good sized houses. The people are all clever and the audiences are given plenty to laugh at. The singing is excellent also. Fischer’s. Fischer's Theater was crowded last night, the beginning of the new week of “Helter Skelter.” The combination of pleasing nonsense and music went off with snap and took well. The stars of | the company, Blake, Kolb, Dill, Bernard, Hermsen, Maude Amber and the others, kept up the fun with little Interruption. The minstrel act had the usual rounds of applause and a curtain call. Every- body in the seats had a fill of laughter | “Resurrection” commenced its second week at the Central last night with an- other crowded house. The play has cre- ated a profound sensation and is sure to fill the theater during the remaining nights of its run. Bugenie Thais Lawton, startlingly realistic In her portrayal of Maslova, continues to excite the enthusi- asm of the audiences and to secure innumerable curtain calls. Landers Stevens has achieved a brilllant success as the Prince. All the other characters are well played. “Resurrection” is well mounted and those who delight in the ad- mirable production of a great drama should witness it. There will be a speeial matinee Thursday next in order that those engaged In the other theaters may have a chance of seeing it. Monday even- ing a new detective drama, in every re- spect the equal of ‘“Sherlock Holmes,” will be produced for the first time in this city. 1t is called “Caught in the Web.” The new programme at the Chutes pleased large audiences at both perform- ances yesterday, and the “Cycle Maze, ridden by Gus Seyfried and F. W. Shee- lor, proved one of the moste sensational acts ever staged. men ride at the most extrordinary angles and seem to defy every law of gravity. Green and Werner, the “babes of the jungle,” scored a great hit with their coon songs, as did also Lizzie Wilson in her German monologue and Teutonic ragtime songs. Brooke Eltrym, the well-known mezzo- soprano, pleased with ** 'Neath the Moon- beams on the Hudson With Marie” and “Woulfi You be True to Eyes of Blue,” and for an encore “The Man In the | RATES. ARE CUT B HUNTINGTON Electric Road Magnate Begins a Vigorous Fight. Special Dispatch to The Call. Los AN(}ELKS,VX;HI 20.—H. E. Hunt- | ington proposes to wield a long kaife in | the fight with the steam roads and to-day his company, the Pacific Electric, an- nounces a sharp cut in the Interurban rates. The plan is to issue a 500-mile ticket book, selling for 36 25 and making | a fare of a cent and a quarter a mile be- tween Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasa- dena, Monrovia, Alhambra and all points | on the trolley lines. The city fare re- mains at five cents. The new book will be the same as the steam road mileage and good over the entire Pacific electric system. For the beach towns even a lower rate is made by ten-trip ticket books. reduction, which is said to be only a fore- runner of surprisingly cheap troiley trans- portation throughout Southern California, is expected to cut severely into the steam raflroads. Passenger traffic and corre sponding cuts are promised later in frieght rates. Huntington has his fighting clothes on, but merely declares he wants to do the “square thing'' by the people. The steam lines take a different view of his enterprise. The City Council to-day programmed to deny the eighty-mile three-cent fare blanket franchise sought by Senator Clark and E. H. Harriman and their assoclates. It 1s rumored that the Clark-Harriman combine will apply for a franchise on a five-cent basis. Declines to Prosecute, When the case of Joseph Garcia, charged with assault to murder for shoot- ing at Grace Kendall at 340 Golden Gate avenué Saturday aftérnoon, was called in Police Judge Conlan's court yesterday Miss Kendall astonished the Judge by saying that she would not prosecute the case. The Judge continued the case until to-morrow. @ i O Soldier Suit.” Kalacratus gave a clever equilibristic and hoop rolling exhibition, and the Alarcons, a quartet of Mexican singers, dancers and Instrumentalists, gave a performance full of color. Evens and Lindsey, triple horizontal bar experts, and the animatoscope, with new moving pictures, completed an excellent bill. The amateurs will appear on Thursday night. |ronnectlon ‘with the | will contést. INDIGTED MEN HEAR GHARGES Former District Attor- ney of Sonoma Ap- pears 1n Court. "County- Pbysiciaxi and Two " "Qitigens Among Those . Invelyed. SANTA BOSA. ARRH %.—This afternoon before Judge Albept. G. Burngtt in the Superior Qdugt four men were afraigned on indjétments returned. by the Grand Jury of Sfhema Coupty. They werp for- met. Distrigt Attorney Orlow O. Webber, ehargedswith embezzlement in layng re- moved some 1awt books and persou¥ prop- erty belonglog™ to. Bémnmma, County. from the Courthouse when-lis térm of office expired on Janmwary 3; Cosmty Physician M. M. Shearer, charged with haying mis- uged county money goming to.him as cus- todlan of the pay patients’ fund at the hospital, and D, W. Cozad and Charles H. Holmes Jr., charged With perjury in sendational ; Lowry The indictrients were read to éach indi- vidual, and then the cases wege eontinucd until ‘“Thursday, April . {for ~answer or pléading. Counsel for tife “@geused an- nounced thefr intention Zof haying sub- penaes issued for the entive membership | of the Grand Jupy, and déclare they zoing to examine these men in regard to their qualifications as grand, jusors, and diso n regard to their prejudies and dilegéd bias against the defendants, It is alleged that somé members of the Grand Jury are bit- terly prejudiced against one of the men indicted. The cases be bitterly fought. |® - it @ This | CHARGE PISTOR " TH FORGERT Illineis Police Lodge . -Preacher in Clark l County Jail | | CARBONDALE, { H. Campbell, pastor of t Christian church at Anna, 311, has been arrested at | the request of the police of Marsha |on a charge of forgery. The pre | was taken to the Clark County jail | Campbell came to Southern Illinois from | California and became a railroad fireman. !l'umpbell fs said to have a wife and a | 4-year-old daughter in the,West. He be- | came interested in religious work, joined | the Methodist church and became a | preacher. Difference which caused him to leave that church and join the Christians. Last fall he was connected { with the Illinols Anti-Saloon League and b I, April 20.—Rev. R. arose | with “that organization he had troub He is considered a forceful preacher apd built up the church at A ring th | three months’ torate. e MAY ESTABLISH BIG CAR-BUILDING SHOPS RKELEY, April 20.—It is said that the Southern Pacific Company intends to sceure the big factory of tue Pacific Coast Lumber 2nl Furniture Company at West Berkeley and turn it into a car-building factory. When the factory was built the p of Berkeley donated to the compan amount sufficient to purchase the sit upon the agreement that 100 perse should be employed continuously. This has never been done, and now the com- returning to the subseribers their indicating a desire to clear up the title to the property for some deal, which is said to be the transfer to the Southern Pacific Company. | The property would'be admirably suited | for this purpese, as it Has a machinery equipment valued at $130,000, and could easily be turned into a car-building insti- tution. B yeople n ADVERTISEMENTS. BIFFERS - | To expel thie poisons that have | accumulated in the system during the winter you ought to take the | Bitters. It is the best spring tonic | and blood purifier before the pub- lic. It also cures Stomach, Liver, | Bowel and Kidney Disorders. Try it and see for yourself. ARTIFICIAL TEETH AT COST Made by Experienced Graduates., A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. POST-GRADUATE DENTAL COLLEGE Week days, 9 to 9; Sundays, 9 to L 3 Taylor st., cor. Golden Gate ave., S. I 973 Washington st., cor. Tenth, Oakland. 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