The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1903, Page 33

THE ¢A FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 14 1903. | | TEST EYESIGHT UPON THE 3TARG Lick Astronomers Gaze| Into Space Unaided by Telescopes. Bedies of Eighth Magnitudei Seen With Natural Vision Francisco Call, { treet, June 13. Lick Observa- | a series of | w big a star can eve. Dr. H. D. 1 a bulletin on “The describing the tests were made and 2 Vision. creening off the e sk =0 that the vision - rupted or aided in any nd that under these con- N { the eighth magnitude Wit e these artific aids the rma observe a of the | - while under the most atmospheric magnitude fainte er C. D. Perrine of Lick Ob has just completed some inter- photographic experime: with the Neptune a its satellite as He discovered that the posi- sateilite ¢ be measured at urately from such photographs micrometer attached to a t and satellite rearly in the posi- em by the American AND VERY SCARCE Are the Most Costly of All the Wild Ani- mals, the most ex- er sllectors and deal- is the t only be- ause it is t st difficult ° . h it nd the w mal to ship has to be handled a mighty big and we have 1l make up for xperience nipped animals five pards and are so n identi- also had them a »phants. We € ng PERIENCE AT SEA. our animal shipment gc thirty-five wfound ammered t abored 3 EX mer we struck ight N ¢ a storm b b h possibe e elepr nost th nad to be throwr This shows wh wild animals much here e many other risks Last ye e of the big American animal dealers he from a beast catcher in Rangoor he had seven fine full- grown rhinocer condition. He sent 3 ze at once ac- ng t and then h had timbers c the great pens that are hoid owerful beasts like these on a steam- expense of these pens and ges for shipping them from re than half-w. E e a big item were the expenses of t sistants whom he had in themselves voyage to Rangoon trip into the inte- jor before m. They had to drag the heavy timbers for the pens with them »wing from bitter previous experience that the Orlental animal catchers would be provided with nothing except bambe ough and strong enough so long stationary, but work apart when they are moved roads At last ached their objective point and then, after all their work and expenditure, they found three small, sick- 1v and poor specimens. Not one of them ' th was in condition to be shipped even to the coast, not 1o mention the long voyage to America here were almost four | months wasted, many thousands of dol- lars Jost and. worst of all, no rhinoceros st the very time when a dozen menageries offering big amounts of money for mens. SAILORS DREAD SHIPMENTS. | “Shipping the beasts is always a harg job. Saflors are afraid of wild animals, | und they handle the cargoes with such | :nwillingness that they often drop a cage to the hold and kill or injure the beast cause they are afraid to get near ugh to it to guide or swing it properly. | “} have often put my arm into a cage 74 rubbed a tiger or 2 lion merely in or- er to show the erew of the ship that they t be apprehensive. But they gen- Jlly don’t do anvthing except to grin heepishly and say: *“All right, mister. You're welcome to them kind of foolish things all you vlease.” We'd rather not.” “The consequence is that when a storm omes and the seas sweep the vessel and tear a few cages from their fastenings, he wild animal men rarely get any help from the crew and many a rare and valu- able beast has been lost merely because | cverybody was afraid of i “The least excitement drives a giraffe =0 frantic that it leaps with uncontrolla- ble fear. The greatest danger in shipping one is that it will break its iegs. They are 50 Jong and thir and the brute is so ungainly and awkward when confined in small gpace that the least trip or stum- | spe: | have an easy and delightful life, NO PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT Millmen’s Strike, If Con- tinued, May Injure Building Industry. Owners Operate in Effort to Turn Out Much Needed Material. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 13 The strike of the Millmen's Union is not likely to end as quickly as expected by the public and there is growing danger that the bullding industry of Alameda County will be paralyzed before the dif- ficulty is finallv adjusted. Conditions to- day remain about the same as when the strike was inauguratei last Thursday morning. Neither the District Council of Carpen- ters and Joiners nor the Millowners’ As- soclation hgve made any ovetures for a settlement and from the present outleok the strike will be bitterly fought on boti £Mes. The millowners have so far de- clared that they will not sign any agree- ment, except that presented by the Build- ing Trades Council. D. C men’s Unlon, said to-da “There is nothing ni men who, went out Thursd: stlll out and every All the s morning are 2 made no advances to jowners’ Association and hav m, and ceived no communication from until we hear from them we will make no move All the mills on the unfair list | that are running are being operated by the owners. Not a ma n any one of them.” Almost all the millmen who went on trike Thurss were paid off at the dif- ferent milie to-day. All the m affected by running but most short han out is at work the strike were them PRESBYTERIANS PREPARE SPECIAL VESPER SERVICE Four Hundred Members of Sunday- | School to Raise Their Voices in Praise. OAKLAND, June 13—A vesper service n a Presbyterian church is a new fea- ture in Oakland, but the First Presby- | teridn Chure.. will have such a service on a grand scale Sunday evening at 3 o’clock, when 400 members of the Sunda; unite their voices in vesper Chiidren’s day songs. The oc- be the annual Children’ schools will hymns 2 casion will celebration_ which is usually observe held at the morning | knowing how sweet = sound at eventide, aise and adora- bel Thayer Gray, the children to sing ham and Miss arranged for g ’ hoir, under the direction of nt Rowlands, will sing appro- priate selections, including the sweet Chautauqua Holy. Holy Lord of two depart ments of the sc en practicing their special songs for a number of wi Gilson and Miss ner In the main de. and tne latter in the primary and now are well prepared se the public. The response follow- er will be by the members of department, who will chant Sees.” Their eong. ‘‘Blossom will be sung as they swing gar- e main department F. 8. Brush will deliver taking as his topic with Rev. short “Lif pirit address tim. n for the occasion will be elaborate scale, the colors to be eing pink and green. Ropes of pink d greens will be draped ery rails to the pillars be- = of pink will form a cur- front of the church, reaching he cefling to the side of the arch and draped again 1o the chandeliers half- way to the sides of the church building. A small army of workers will prepare and place these decorations on Saturday. planned to have this celebra- morning, June 21, but thouznt best to make nd. has been the change. The vesper service will of the regular evening church service, so there g will be no service at 7:3 Sunday. The programme is as follows Organ prelude Sing for Joy, "Tis Children’s Da ation, “‘Greeting,” Pauline Adams; Scripture reading; choir; prayer; respon God Sees,” prima epariment: song, “March to Victory main school: “Palestine Geography.” pri- mary departn Life's Spring- time,” Rev. S. Brush of Alameda; | prayer; song, ‘‘Blossom Belis,” prim department: announcements; "Neath His Banner Glorious,” main ol. —_———————————— MES. HAVENE CALLED TO HER FINAL REST Wife of Prominent Bank Official Passes Away at Berkeley From Peritonitis. June 13—Mrs. J. W. Ha- t her home, 202 Milvia Every effort was but without avail. died to-day street, from peritonitis. made to save her life, Church of San Francisco. Havens was married, and Mr. Leavitt, who performed the marriage ceremony. will officiate at the funeral. The date of the funeral has not yet been set. Mrs. ¥ e J. M. Goew was married May vens, a nephew of the late F. K. Shat- tuck and one of the directors of the First National Bank of Berkeley, the wedding being a soclety event across the bay. L e e e o e e ble will bring it crashing down and then it is good-by giraffe. “A giraffe catches co.a easily, and it is no fun to dose it when it has to be done on a rolling, staggering ship. “The giraffe is a bad sallor, too al- though not so hard as camels, which usually act like- spiteful, fretful, vindic- tive children. moan and complain like sclfish human beings. “The elephant is a good old sailorman. He takes whatever comes along and never says a word. It is a little hard on him to get no green food on a long voy- age, and sometimes the dry food disa- grees with him. Then we have to give him a mighty dose of physic. He doesn't like that, and as there isn't much room to jump around on a ship, there are more comfortable jobs than being doctor to sick elephants on the ocean. . “No, the wild animal dealer does not It's a hard calling, and only a few grow rich from it. Yet none of us ever seems to want to leave it once he gets well into it.”” ——————— Tt has been estimated that no less than 25,000,000 people annually attead the cir. cuses of America. ian Mr=. of San Francisco. She Crawford, president of the Mill- one of them Is stand- | n who was called | are | day | songs at tais vesper service next | Holy | to the (me of the music. | v are | and full of swing and will be given | take the place | e funeral will be held from the First ; the daughter of the | 2, 1902, to John W. Ha- | Tney get homesick and | MISS MAUDE STEVENS WILL | BECOME MRS. ALFRED CORDS Popular Young Couple’s Engagement Announced and Marriage Will Take Place at the Residence of the Groom’s Parents in Fruitvale This Month 0550, | | B | | ' AKLAND, June 13.—The engage- ment of Miss Maude Stevens and Alfred Cords of Fruitvale is an- nounced. The wedding will take place at the residence of th { groom’s parents in Fruitvale on June 2. Mrs. | | The engagement is announced by L. L. Stevens of 820 Thirteenth street, mother of the bride-to-be. | Miss Stevens is a most accomplished | young 1ady and has many friends in this | city, where she has resided but a short | time. She i graduate of the high | | school at Toni: Mich. Since her arrival from the East she has been living with | her parents bere. | Alfred Cords, the groom-to-be, is a son | Robert Cord: of the men who! ade the Comstock famous. The Cords | | tamily is we'l known to the early res deins of this State and they were prom- | inent 1 the rly history of Nevada Zfter a ho moon journey throughout tte southern part of the State the young ple will take up their residence ‘n Son neisco. one | ANIMALS DIFFERENTLY ! AFFECTED BY RAIN | | Some Revel in It, While Others| Are Miserably Dis- consolate. | “The effects of a rainy day upon the anl- | mals of a zoo,” sald a keeper in the New ! York Zoological Park the other day, “are as interesting to ws as any know in connection with a collection of beasts. Each one takes the damp atmo | sphere in his own particular way just as | people do, s that animals | are a heap more cheerful about it. a “Now, take that big timber wolf over there. revels in & rainy day | and skips s gay as you picase. All | {he wolves are the same. Rain cheers 'em up. “But the llons are different. T and fume and growl and snarl unless you give 'em an extra allowance of meat or a | big pan of warm milk. Then th seems to get any of the cat | sleep, but a rainy day nerves of a lion or akes are kept in just a certain tem- perature all the time and you would think that the reach them. Perhans it doesn’t, but T have al- v noticed that all the reptiles are ac- | | tive and | cheerful, if a reoiile can be | when it rains. { he deer family, the bears, the various sorts ¢f wild goats, chamofs, and the like, don’t seem to mind the rain a bit. “Birds, however, are the most down-in- i ate, dreary things in day. They don’t sing; | hardly chirp, but just settle down to be as miserable as possible. Excuse me from the feathered tribe when the clouds are low. be surprisea,” conciuded the keeper, “how many people brave the rain | ana snow to go through the zoo. Last | Sunday, and vou know how it stormed, scores of people were here. and we weren't surprised. as it's an old story to the worid on | us. Vve scen veople stand for hours in the rain watching the seals enjoving the downpour. Why do they do {t? Oh, I know more about animais than I do peo- { ple? Ask some of the rainy-day ones some time!”"—New York Mall and Ex- | press. 4 _— ee———— Warns Trustees of Trouble. BERKELEY, June 13.—Frlend W. Rich- ardson, editor of the Berkeley Gazette, filed a demand oa the Town Trustees last night that the annual town advertising contract be awarded to him in lieu of the | Dativ Standard. which was awarded the ! contract a week ago. Richardson claims the Standard has not been established a year, in accordance with anact of the last Legislature. He announces that he will enjoin the Town Auditor and Treasurer from paying the Standard’s bills. | R PR T S DAYTON, O.. June 13.—The funefal of the late General Alexander McDowell McCook, re- tired officer of the United States army, who {diea_on Fridey morning, will be hold gt the | residence of his daughter, Mrs. Charles A. | Craighead, on Monday. The body will then be taken to Cincinnati for burlal. —e—————— HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 13.—Cyrus P. Gil- len of Plaua, Ohlo, one of the two Erie express car locters arrested heré yesterday, pleaded guilty to-day and was sentenced to prison for f-om cne to three years. He was also fined 3$500. Meacus Jones, also found In the car, will | plead gutity. ——— PHOENIX, Ariz.. June 13.—Acting Governor Stoddard to-day commuted to imprisonment for 1ife the sentence of Simon Aldereite, the Mex- !ican who was to be hanged at Prescott next ¥Friday. On April 1, at Prescott, Alderette quarreied with J. R. Ward, a (nvelln(] | painter, and killed him. It was thvndering very loud one day when little Charlie Horner, pged 4 yoars, sald: “Mamma, God must be scrubbipg to- day:. *“What makes you think so, Charlie?” asked his mother. “Why,” said Charlie, “don’t you hear him moving the tables around?”"—Yonkers Statesman. e “I suppose you are glad the theatrical season Is closed.” answered ~Mr. Stormington I will welcome the relief. The lack of money is easler to put up with when it is not accompanied by the neces- gity of toil.”—Washington Star. FRUITVALE COUPLE WHOSE E. GAQEMENT HAS JUST BE ANNOU. D. - \ MARKET “TIP IN YEAR 1858 Poor Facilities for Com- munication Made Trade Wary. con the settlement it is commo: history of $ the centenary Remarkable as has b of the Louisiana purche comparcd with the the city in which is had to that part of the city’s history within the past two score and f years, There was not in 1838 a rallroad west of The b | eference | | Bicyclist Says He Has Recovered | Macon of Trinity | has becn suggested that radium derives its | the atoms of radium may possess the fac- JUST ANNOONCES \SALINAS T0 LOSE | AKLAND WOMEN - WHAT GUPID DID Groom Telis of Marriage and Surprises His Friends. Alameda Ycung People Wed and Keep Union Secret for Six Weeks. ALAMEDA, June 13.—Another marriage surrounded with a tinge of romance, which Is just now in vegue with local young people uniting their hearts and hands in matrimony, was announced to- day by Albert H. Morris, who knew all about the nuptial union, for he was the one who acted the groom’s role. The oth- er party to the marrlage was until the last day of April Miss Ellzabeth Shattuck, daughter of Mrs. Adelia Shattuck of 2062 Buena Vista avenue. On that day Mr. Morris and Miss Shat- tuck called upon the groom’s father, the Rev. George Morris of the West End, who made them one and also conferred upon the pair his parental blessing. The wedding was witnessed by the mother of | the groom and the mother of the bride, but they didn't tell, and it was not until to-day that the young couple decided to | apprise: their friends that they wera not | only sweethearts, but were also husband and wife. The groom is a brother of former Jus- tice Henry T. Morris and George T. Mor- ris, with whom he is engaged in business here. He is a Unliversity of California | graduate and well known and popular. ——e———— OWNER CLAIMS HORSE | WALKIREZ WAS RIDING Wheel That the Accused Pawned. OAKLAND, June 13.—Report comes from Constable Scott of Gilrcy that the owner of the horse Victor Walkirez, charged with the murder of the aged col- ored woman Elizabeth Leroy, was riding at the time he was captured, has been found and that he is Manpel Nunes, a Porfuguese. The horse was stolen from him and ‘it has been returned to the owner. Walkirez | insists that he did not steal the hnrse.! but that It was given to him by some | horse thieves, Chief of Police Hodgkins nas also re- ceived a report from J. A. Wilson, 2 bi- cyele dealer of Lorin, stating that he has | just recovered a wheel rented to Walki- | rez last April. The wheel was in the pos- | session of a saloon-keeper in'West Oak- | land, where the murderer had pawned it | for 8. _————————— Vestry Chooses Rector. OAKLAND, June 13.—The vestry of | Trinity. Church has chosen Rev. Mr. Episcopal Church of | San Francisco as rector. Rev. Dr. Bake- well thus becomes rcctor emeritus of the church. —_—————————— Frofessor Thompson on Radium. Professor J. J. Thompson writes an im- portant note to Nature (April 30) respect- | ing recent explanations of the action of | radium. It m\u recently been established that radium glves out sufficlent energy to | melt half its own weight of fce per hour. What is the source of this energy? It energy from the alr surrounding it; that | ulty of abstracting the Kkinetic energy from the more rapidly mioving-air mole- cules, while they are able to retain their own energy when in coilisfon with the slow-moving molecules of air. Professor Thompson shows that even tha possession | | of such a property would not explain the | outlet to the! ’ andalia Line. The Western terminals of that road were in | the cottonwood flats opposite St. Louls, now known as East St. Louis, 1. The ticket office of the Vandalia line in St. Youis was in the old P ' Hotel— now a mere recollection—on Fourth street. From that point 1 omnib s and bag- gage wagons for Vandalia trains left| twice a day to cross the river by Wig- gins’' ferries. or on the lce in winter. A few merchants in the Northwest 1 the St. Louls merchants bought in New York, and th came East over the Vandalla. The old Planters’ was a sért of commer- cial exchange then, and business men con- | gregated at the old hostelry cvery after- noon to confcr with such merchants as | alr radium = phenomenon. Imagine a portion of ra- | dium placed within a cavity in a block | of fce. The ice melts. Where does the | energy come from? By the hypothesis | there is no change in the energy of the | tem in the cavity, for the | energy gained by the radlum is lost by the alr, and heat cannot flow into the | cavity from the outside, for the melted jce around the cavity is hotter than tiie jce that surrounds it. Other recent ex- planations are examined and found to be at least, doubtful. The view suggested | to Professor Thompson is that the atom ! of radium is not stable under all condi- | | tions and that among the large number | of atoms contained in any specimen of | radium there are a few in the condition | i which stability ceases, which pass into | come other configuration, giving out en- | as they do so. This explanation is | cre; developed at some length and may be | accepted, at least provistonally. [ o ittt @ | were starting for N York, frequently giving orders to them for merchandise. It sometimes happened that a St. Louls : merchant would bring orders to New York for several concerns which were in! other ling on the afternoon tr s, or more before the omnibuses left the Planters’ the street and the corridors ¢ so congested that trafc was im- pedcd. FEELING MARKET AHEAD. 1t was frequentiy. the that mer- s frem the South the North- , k¥nowing by their St. Louis corre- when the latter were going to leave for the Eastern market, would jour- ney by stage or boat. or both, several hundred miles in order to.confer with the St. Louls merchants who were coming Fast to “feel the market.” This commer- clal dlagnosis was usually for six months ahead, or longer. The telegraph was not much of a factor then in business. On cne occasion several concerns in St. Louis which sold {0 the Northwest had an intimation that there was going to be an advance in.several lines of staples. This information few of the leading merchants in the Northwest. It was suggested that those who recelved this “tip” should go to St. Louis for a conference, as the St. Louls ‘The departures were mostly and for an hour houses that had the Information expected | their representafives to come York at an early date. Navigation on_ the Missouri River was closed. The great, the only commercial artery, was frozen from bank to bank all the way from Omaha, then a village, to St. Louis. The country was in the rigor of winter. It was snowbound. A con- ference of the business men who had re- ceived the “tip"” from St. Louis was call- ed. There were six men at that. meeting, each of whom in his time became a mjl- lionaire and contributed to the commer- cial greatness of the Northwest. There was but one thing to do—go to St. Louis. A great sleigh was constructed. It was provisioned and furnished. It left theelty of St. Joseph from Market square, drawn by four horses. The gix business men re- ferred to were its passengers. MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. 1tach was armed, and a part of the outfit was ammunition. The party was bound on a commercial mission, but it to New was necessary to be prepared for robbers, | who Infested different sections of the State. . There had never been a com- mercial journey like this before and there never was one similar to it afterward. The men traveled by the post roads of the State, which were circultous and often uncertain. Rivers were to be crossed which had not been bridged. And what if the winter should break during the journey? What means of transpor- tation would be resorted to then? Time was_transmitted to a | i i | ful. They made their purchases none too when they became facts! The party kept | on its way. There were relays of horses | at several points. More than once, when these relays could not be obtained In the usual way, horses were bought. Thesom- mission had to reach St. Louis in time. | The St. Louis business men were await- ing its arrival before proceeding to New York to take advantage of the market. The journey was completed in eight days and fractions of nights. The com- | mission reached the Planters’ Hotel late in the day. The conference lasted during i{he night and part of the next day. In the afternoon the St. Louis business men who had suggested the conference left by way of the Vandalla line for New | York. The result of the trip East was success- 1 socn. Within less than ‘thirty days prices on the articles they were mostly inter- ested In—domestics and prints and woo!- ens—went soaring. But the St. Louls market had been protecied. The trade of the Northwest was benefited. CHANCES TO GET RICH. Fifteen years later one of the men who made the trip by sleigh from the North- west to St. Louls, and who was enabled thereby, through his St. ‘Louis corre- spondents, to take advantage of the mar- ket, became a millionaire. The mission to New York cnabled him to control the mariet in the Northwest. That was the bezinning of his fortune. Not long after the fifteen years referred to he came to New York, and became a partner in one | of the great concerns that had given the | “tip” to the St. Louls contingent—a house ! whose store is now not far above City Hall. On the strength of his coming to New York new commercial lines were es- tablished direct with the Northwest. And these lines helped to establish business that bullt up the great northwestern trade. The man who came to New York | and did this died here about one year ago. He had accumulated a large fortune, and retired several years before his death. Every man who madc the trip to St. Louis by sleigh is now dead. Every one became a great commercial factor in his day. % This is one story in connection with the city which is soon to commemorate the “‘Louislana purchase.” Considered in the electric. light of present times it leaves fiction limping. B Illinois Society Picnic. OAKLAND, June 13.—The Illlnois So- clety held a basket plcnic at Pledmont Springs to-day, which was attended by a ‘large number of the natives of Illinols and their friends. The exercises were be- enough to eol'ulder these possibilities | gun at 11 o'clock. IT5 SUB-STATION College of Agriculture About to Abandon the Site. Lack of Profitable Results Is Reason for the Pro- posed Change. o Qe Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, June 13. On account of lack of results the Col- lege of Agriculture 'of the University of California is about to abandon the sub- station near Paso Robles that was es- tablished for the benefit of the farmers ot the Salinas Valley. The only thing that can save it to the farmers-of that section is a large subscription to help pay the expenses. The College of Agriculture has discov- ered that the cost of maintaining the sta- tion is too great in proportion to tne re- sults obtained at other stations. Primarily established to assist the horticultural in- terests of the Salinas Vailey, the country | was found unadapted to extensive fruit growing. The land on the east side of the Salinas River especially is lacking in fer- tility, and the hard pan is so near the surface that the roots of trees do not gain a substantial hold or enough nutrition to let them thrive. Besldes all this, the rain- fall for the whole section is very light. The land is better adapted to stock rais- ing, and the university may continue the station there for that reason if it receives the support of the farmers. Professor A. R. Steubenrach, who has the matter in charge, has informed those interested of the contemplated change and is waiting to hear from them. As the farmers are vitally interested in the station they are expected to do something toward retain- Ing it. UNlVER?I]rYiE'VENTS BERKELEY, June 13.—Professor Elmer E. Brown of the department of educa- tion has been honored with the appoint- ment to membership on the “committee on instruction in American institutions, National Municipal League. created by the Among the other members of the committee are Dr. | Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Re- | views, and President John H. Finley of the College of the City of New York. Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the-&'niversity of Lelpsiz, has accepted the university's invitation to be present at the dedication of the Loeb Laboratory and is now on his way across the continent. Professor Ostwald 18 considered the greatest of living chem- ists. The laboratory will be dedicated on August 20. The College of Agriculture is getting ready to move a number of departments into the “tin building” on the Hillegass Tract, now being emptied of the unfver- sity’s archaeoclogical treasures, which will be stored in a warehouse in San Fran- clsco. Professor Hilgard, dean of college, contemplates tearing out all the partitions on the first floor of the agricul- tural building and equipping a large lec- | ture-room to take the place of the small ones in the building. INGALS MARRIES GIRL WHO HAD HIM ARRESTED Man Accused of Wronging Mary O0’Donnell Escapes Prosecution by Making Her His Wife. OAKLAND, June 13.—Walter C. Ingals, superintendent of construction of the Oakland Transit Consolidated, who was arrested on a charge of seduction under promiise of marriage on the complaint of Mary O'Donnell, the 17-year-oid daughter of a West Oakland railroad man, married the girl this evening. The ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace Quinn in the private office of the County Clerk, in the presence of the girl's mother, whose signature ap- pears on the marriage record book to cer- tify that she gave her consent to the marriage of her daughter, as she Is under age. The criminal prosecution of Ingals will be dropped. —_—— e CHINESE OFFER REWARD FOR CAPTURE OF KERR Six Companies Guarantee $150 for Arrest and Conviction of Yow Lem’s Murderer. OAKLAND, June 13.—Chief of Police Hodgkins issued a circular this evening offering a reward of $1i0, which has been guaranteed by the Chinese Six Companies for the arrest and conviction of Clarence Kerr, who is charged by a Coroner’s jury with the murder of Yow Lem, a Chinese cook. Lem was assaulted and terribly beaten at Ninth street and Broadway on the night of June 5 and died the next day from his injuries. ’ Kerr is the man said to have the fatal blow. —_————————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, June 13.—The following marriage licenses were issued to-day: George M. Clark, 29 years, and Olive E. Rerat, 24, both of Oakland; Manuel E. vears, and_Zefreneirio Sorfa, Alvarado; Manuel J. Rose, 2 years, and Mary Freitas, 22, both of Al- inflicted | varado; Louls Buhlert, 22 years, and Irene Barnum, 26, both of San Franeisco; Louie F. Thomas, 24 years, Haywards, and isa- bella L. Rose, 24, San Ramon; Adelph C. N. Nelson, 29 years. San Francisco, and Emma Johnson, 33, Oakland: Frank Silva, 48 years, Plesanton, and Filomena da As- sumpcao Vieira, 30, Haywards; Frederick A. Cook, 21, Emeryville, and Annie Sheehan, 25, Berkeley; Harry G. Siskron, 32 years, and Mary E. Callaghan, both of San Francisco. —ee————— Chosen District Deputy President. BERKELEY, June 13.—Frank B. Hey- wood of the local postoffice, past presi- dent of Berkeley Parlor No. 210, Native Sons of the Golden West, has been ap- pointed. a district deputy grand president by Grand President H. R. McNoble. His jurisdiction will extend over Haleyon Par- lor of Alameda, Eden Parlor of Hay- wards, Washington Parlor of Centerviile and Berkeley Parlor. —_————— Funds for Free Hospital Bed. ALAMEDA, June 13.—Mrs. Willlam H. Baurhyte, treasurer of the card tourna- ment recently given in Harmonie Hall for the benefit of the free bed maintained in the Alamede Sanitorium by the Civic Section of the Adelphian Club, announces that the net proceeds are 335§ 40. —————— 1 ocialist Lecture. OAKLAND, June 13.—A lecture will be given to-morrow evening at the Temple of Ben Hur under the auspices of the Soctal- ist party by Professor F. E. Reynolds. The subject will be “The Power of En- vironment.” ~ The public is invited to at- tend. ——ee———— Recovering From Illness. OAKLAND, June 13.—Fred S. Stratton, Collector of the Port of San Francisco, who has been #ll for same time, is pro- gressing favorably, and his physician says he will be out ln/momur week. in municipal government | the | FORM A UNION Organize Female Auxile iary to Typographi- * cal Order. Wives and Daughters of Mem- bers Sign Roll and Elect Officers. —— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, June 13. A women’'s auxiliary to Typographical Union No. 236 has been forgned in Oak- land. The charter roll has been signed by a number of the female members of the union and many of the wives and daughters of the members. All the female typesetters are eligible to membership in the organization, as well as the wives, daughters and sisters of the members of Union No. 36. This is the only union in Oakland that is composed entirely of women, and they { propose tg show their relatives and | friends of the sterner sex that they can be just as good union members as are the regular hands upon the case and lino- type. They hope to be able to bring about a more social feeling between the familfes of the members of the union, and they are just as enthusiastic as any full-fledged union “man” in Oakland. The officers of the new women's union are: President, Mrs. C. E. Hawkes; vice president, Miss Mae M. Lucas; ‘secretary. Miss Mary Dickinson; treasurer, Miss Jessie E. Nesbit: gulde, Migs B. Wey- man; board of trustees—Mrs. Grace E. Irving, Mrs. J. A. Prentls and S. E. Backess. @ it @ JAPANESE PLAN - NEW INDUSTRY ! | Will Establish Plant for ' Working Rice ! Refuse. ——— s Accopding to Colonel S. ¥. B. Morse, | general traffic manager of the Southern | Paclfic- Rallroad, the Japanese colony at Port Lavaca will establish a plant for the manufacture of matting and hats from rice stra | “The Japanese are the ploneer rice grow- ers of the world and cultivate the staple | on a more scientific basis than the Ameri- | can farmer does. In Japan every product | of the rice crop is utilized to some pur- pose, while in the United States the planter relles entirely upon the rice proper for his income. In Japan rice bran, which has a market value for cat- tle feed in this country of $7 a tom, Is | used for tollet purposes, bringing more than three times the American pri while the sfraw is regarded as of prac tically no value in this country. “The Japanese of Port Lavaca,” says Colonel Morse, “will soon begin the manufacture of Japanese matting and the finest of hats from rice straw, and it is only a question of time till our own rice planters in Texas and Louistana will take up this industry, thus making the South the center of supply for matting and straw hats of the finest texture and manufacture. The best mattings In_the | world are made in Japan, while the high grade of rice straw hats are known the world over. There are several kinds of | grass growing along the Gulf, so the Japanese tell me, that can be utilized for making matting of a good grade. “They tell me it is identical with that used in Japan for that purpose, and thers is no reason why this should not becoms a paying industry in Louislana and Texas. We will also see silk culturs on | a large scale along the Gulf befors many years. Mulberry trees grow rapidly and luxuriantly along the coast, and as the mulberry tree is all that is necessary for silk culture, we will soon have all these details in the hands of practical Japan- | ese. OTHER ENTERPRISES PROPOSED. “There are many things that can be made from rice, and as soon as we get a few more ‘Japs’ at Port Lavaca they propose to establish variow$ manufactur- ing enterprises, and rice will become more valuable than ever known in this coun- try. There are in Japan about 7,000,000 acres of land devoted to rice culture, which is worth about 3300 an acre, while in Louisiana and Texas the best rice lands are bringing 315 to $20 an acre, and | during the next few years I expect to see our rice lands selling at $100 an acre. We have about the same area of rice lands in our belt, but there are at this time only about 5500 acres under cultivation. The coming of the Japanese to the rice belt means more to our planters than any- thing else, because they will teach us to make matting and hats from the straw and starch and wine from the rice, thus adding millions of dollars in value to the product.” As reported in the New Orleans Times- Democrat, there are now in the Texas ol flelds several expert Japanese oil men. They are M. Amanda, president of the Holden Oil Company of Echigo, Japan: K. Kurata, chairman of the board of directors of the same company, and J. Kitano, chief drilling engineer of the company. They are now at Beaumont, where they are being shown every cour- tesy, and it would not be surprising if the Japanese made some large invest- ments in the Southern Pacific’s oil fields. —New York Commercial L R STORK WILL NOT PAY ITS VISIT AT THE JAIL Danes Interest Themselves in Jor- gensen’s Companion, Who Will Soon Become a Mother. OAKLAND, June 13.—The Danish res- idents of Oakland and San Francisco have interested themselves in the case of Jo- hanna Mueller, the girl companion of Jorgensen, the absconding bank eclerk from Denmark, as she is about to become a mother. Arrangements are being made to have her removed from the jall, where she is now confined. To-day Sheriff Bishon received a letter front. the Danish Consul asking that he allow the girl to be removed from the jail to a-private sanitarfum and that Dr. be given charge of her dur- ment. SherMf Bishop is much power he has in is a United States not sure as to the matter, prisoner, but he has when she is confined jail NOTICE T. M. KENDALL has returned to the BON TON BOAT HOUSE, Lake his retu December fine line of hire on the sailboats fishing i i ! boats—the finest | ever been bulit for IHR. Special rates for i