The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1903, Page 9

FLAMES DAMAGE BUSINESS BLOCK Merchants of San Luis Obispo Meet With Big Losses. Firemen Cut Electric Light Wires and City Is Left in Darkness creek Epre —— DA H SHIP IS PLACED Y A PECULIAR POSITION Owmers of the Lord Templeton Find Themselves Left Without a Fl tion. become an Amer nish ship Lord Term- | s elf begging for any g . € - the S8am wo from Den- is thus ng of papers now depos £ to treasury Tegul stoms oficlals, ¢ owner, left ing for der which '\ MUNICIPAL BONDS 3oard of Examiners Will Pur- se $480,000 Worth of Los Angeles Securities. 8 MENTO, July 15.—The to-day decided to worth of Los Angeles ds. They will bear 3% per iners 15.—~The $459,000 ed by the State Examiners was sold recently to geles Trust Compan umably for the State 1l be finally executed taken to Sacramento ——————— NOTARIAL OFFICES FOR STATE LAWMAKERS wO Attorney General Holds That Mem- bers of Last Legislature Are Not Eligible for Appmntmlnt. AMENTO —In an opinion or Pardee, Attorney | that the number of the Governor may and county of San t exceed seventy. torney General whieh yman of lht ancisco . authorized by | St. Isabel Society Elects Officers. EACRAMENTO, July 15.—The following | were day elected grand officers of the Bt. Isabel Soclety in session in this city: C Mrs. M. C. Enos of San 1 esident, . rs. Maria Glo- | secretary, Mrs. P. Frei- of West Oakland; treasurer, Mrs. a Rogers of San Leandr master of | nies m. Mrs Ros Amalio Azavedo of Sac- Mrs. Maria C. Tav- Quaresma. nimum rainfall at which trees grow #s twenty inches. e ———— GRAPE-NUTS. FOOD IN SORROW. How to Lighten the Burden. feeds his body starves his grief.” Jere may be heart wounds difficult to a well fed healthy body and nd softens the trouble greatly. A lady m., “About a year ago ear-old boy met with t which resulted in his Jeati. xlety and grief and worry that rienced while watching his suffer- death resulted in my having ner- rostration. I could neither eat nor I was soon a total, miserable nough to die. was put on Grape-Nuts food, f-teaspoonful at a meai; the gradually increased until T | Lout three teaspoonfuls at a began to improve almost imme- g strength steadily day by »w 1 have entirely m well throughout. s¢, my sorrow will never en- ave me, zithough they say time wounds, but I am glad to be mentally and physically, for r my burden better. I feel con- t if T had not used Grape-Nuis never have been well again.” ;';‘mc Eiven by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Bend for particulars by mail of exten- #lon of time on the $7500.00 cooks’ contest for T8 money prizes wreck, sick State | ats Company of Pasadena | or cannot legally | THE SAN ¥RANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, PECULIAR CASE - PUZZLES COURT Fresno Authorities Try to Take Child From Fortune Teller. Woman Holds Guardianship | ¥ TV i Papers and Is Well | Recommended. | A wandering female { fortune unrr :ud a little dusky-skinned Cuban girl have been the center of in- terest in the Fresno courts for a couple | of days. The woman, whose name is Miss Aula Moore, came here about three weeks ago in a Ailapi ed old wagon and began | the rc he city, reading palms, selling charms and giving exhibitions of | n with the little girl as her sub- is a mysterious looking wom- | o dresses rathep oddly Miss Moore had beéen here but a few a ttention of the Soclety v 1 of Cruelty to Children lled to the fact that the little girl, | who i ot more than 12 years old, was | being use s @ hypnotle subject at the| woman’s exhibitions. Chief of Police | Morgan and Willlam Harvey of the so- ciety began an investigation. They found that Miss Moore had reared the child | from infancy and had dragged her about the country, compelling her to lead her nce. The girl is ab- "4 f even the rudiments of the 1mf~x~ng\l(nn a war- | as sworn to for the arrest of the | woman for cruelty to chiidren and to-day L A. Chester petitioned to be appointed | the little girl's gvardian on the ground that Miss Moore is not a fit person to have charge of her. Miss Moore on her own part produces papers of guardianship, as well as rec- | ommendations of a high order. Among | these is a document signed by thirty members of the Fifty-second Congress, | stating that the signers knew Miss Moore | | as a lady of estimable qualities. The | | name of Senator George C. Perkins ap- | pears in the list. The woman has a let- | ter of recommendation also from Gen- | gral Joe Wheeler. ———— ! MRS. WORN IS UNABLE [ TO APPEAR IN COURT | Judge Lawlor Accordingly Goes to| Her Home in Ross Valley to | Take Testimony. | SAN RAFAEL, July 15—~When the trial of the Ross-Makin-Worn suit was resum- | | ed before Judge Lawlor today, Mry n was recalled for cross-examina- | ounsel for the defendant tried to k down her testimony but fafled. | Attorney Boyd then called for Mrs. | Anna 8. E. Worn, the defendant, stating | that he would examine her as a witness for the plaintiff. Her counsel thereupon formed the cou she was ill at her home in Ross Valley and would not be | | able to appear. o ge Lawlor then stated that the | court would go to see Mrs. Worn. Ac- | | cordingly the judge cierk, bailiff, | stenographer and ¥s were con- | / veyed to Ross Va to the Worn home- | stead, where court was in session all after- noon Mrs. W was the only witne: ' examined. The tff wished to prove” FUH [PP'NEEHS by Mrs. Worn that all the transactions, such as the signing of the will, etc., had | actually been performed. Mrs. Worn ac- knowledged she had received the deed of | gift and other instruments alleged in the | compiaint. Court will be resumed at the Worn homestead to-morrow morning at | 10:30 o’clock DESERTS BRIOE OF ONE MONTH Young WifeSaysSpouse | Has Abandoned and | Robbed Her. | 1118 Broadway, July 15. | Robbed and abandoned by her husband | thirty days after her marriage was the Jexpenence of Mrs. W. H. Wanzer, resid- ing at 657 Twenty-first street, as she re- | 1ated her story of unhappiness to-day to Chief of Police Hodgkins. | On her return Monday from a 'visit in | San Francisco Mrs. Wanzer found a note in her rooms. It was from her husband, who announced that business forced him to depart for Australia. With his disap- | | pearance, however, Mrs. Wanzer discov- ered that her wedding dress, diamonds |and other jewelry had taken wings. Since Monday the deserted bride has | heard not a word from her missing | spouse. After consulting with friends the | distracted wife gave the matter into the hands of the police. The Wanzers were wedded in Los An- geles, the former home of the bride. She met her husband while he was a travel- | ing salesman for a pure food company. | At the end of ¢wo or.three months their acquaintance ended in marriage. Harry Brown, & dairyman at Fifty- | ninth and Adeline streets, has disap- | peared, under circumstances which lead | | C. Gargardennec, his nephew, to believe the missing man is demented. Two weeks ago Mrs. Brown left her husband because | of a quarrel. He was suffering from hal- lucinations, fearing that enemies were | about to pttack him. To-day the nephew told the police that his uncle had not been { seen at his home since Sunday. | ———————— Dillard Wants Records. T. C. West, attorney for W. H. Dillard, the former clerk in the United States in- ternal revenue office, who was Indicted for forging Chinese certificates of resi- dence, notified the United States District Attorney yesterday that on Saturday of this week he would apply to United States | District Julige Beatty for an order com- pelling the District Attorney to allow | West to inspect certain records of the internal revenue office to be used as evi- depce in the trial. —————————— Boilermaker Cuts His Throat. Alexander ‘McKinnion, a boilermaker, residing at 56 Hardy street, severed his windpipe with a knife yesterday after- noon at his residence during an attack of delirium. He was taken to the City and | County Hospital, where Dr. McElroy dressed his wound. His recovery is doubt- ful owing to the great loss of blood he sustained. In slashing his neck he missed the jugular vein by the merest margin possible. ——————— Chicago Shortstop Enjoined. NEW YORK, July 15.—George 8. Davis, shartstop of the American League Base- bail Club of Chicago, was served to-day with a temporary injunction restraining Oakland Office 8an Francisco Call, | | poration, were brought before the Grand him from playing with any other club until October 1. The writ was granted on the ground that the Chicago club holds a written contract with Davis for his ser- wvices during the season of 1902-3. JULY 16, 1903. HAPPY COUPLE JOINED IN WEDLOCK, BROTHER OF THE BRIDE OFFICIATING PELTS TEACHERS Miss Mattie M. Brunk and Charles M. Staats Are United *in Marriage at Home of the Young Lady’s Parents, Rev. Alfred Brunk of Christian Church Performing Ceremony Grand Jury May Indict Them for Fraud on Friday. There seems to be a strong probability that Herman and Jacob Eppinger, mem- bers of the ruined grain firm of Eppinger & Co., will be indicted by the Grand Jury on next Friday. The members of that | body held a session last night and dis- | cussed the matter at great length. No‘ vote was taken, but there was unanimity of opinion that the two brothers had been gullty of fraud and should stand trial Bernard Ettlinger, the third member of the firm, will likely escape prosecution, as the Grand Jury has little or no evi- dence against him. The Grand Jury was in session untli midnight last evening. A number of wit- nesses were examined, and District Attor- ney Byington was present to give the members his legnl advice and assistance. ‘When Foreman W. J. Bryan called the body to order there were present J. Wil llam Goetze, John F. Merrill, Alphonse Hirsch, Charles Fisher, James B. Smith, Frank B. Peterson, Samuel Pollack, E. J. Gallagher, Joseph Lawless, Adolph Unger, Wesley Heldt and James W. Rellly. A. G. Platt and James L. Fields, the experts employed by the recefver and creditors to examine the books of the cor- Jury and submitted a list of figures which proved that the ruined firm was guiMty of wrongdoing. The experts informed the members that they had not completed | their work, but were in a position to tes- tify that the books were in a deplorable state. . F. S. Mitchell, a bookkeeper employed by Eppinger & Co. and who is now em- ployed by Recelved Wadsworth to straighten out affairs, was called as a witness. He was questioned closely but could not throw any light on.the investi- gation. He said he knew nothing of the affairs of the Pacific Coast Warehouse Company, as all his dealings were with the grain firm. Strong testimony was given against the Eppingers by W. W. Topping, bookkeeper for the warehouse company. The witness talked more freely than he d#1 when be- fore the body a week ago. His evidence was very damaging to the firm, Emile Besson and Calvin N. Langton, messengers employed by Eppinger & Co., ‘were also called as witnesses. They were unable to enlighten the Grand Jury. They simply told how they had taken ware- house receipts to the banks and had brought back the momey to their em- ployers. ————— MRS. HUGHES FAILS TO Husband of Assaulted Woman Claims Prisoner Is Man Who Called on Mrs. Rubenstein. Mrs. Bridget Hughes, the woman who was brutally assaulted and robbed by thugs at her home at 314 Gough street last Thursday afternoon, was taken last night to see Fred Zimmerman, who was arrested on suspicion of being her assail- ant, but she failed to identify him. Mrs. Hughes was accompanied by her husband, who Immediately identified Zimmerman as the man who had made frequent calls on Mrs. Rubenstein. ————— Bunko Men Are Arrested. . Ed Price and Nels Johnson. two well- known bunko men, were .arrvested last night at the ocean beach by -Officer galns of the mounted police for bunkoing R. J. Love, a young student of the Uni- versity of Tennessee, who 1s visiting Ca ifornia for his health. Price and Jdln- son, by means of the old lock swindled Love out of $40. but gave un hu:'. $20 when he threatened l.hnm with arr 0O CrRLZS 2 “ITLI TS - e son eiiies ERKELEY, July 15.—Miss Mat- tie M. Brunk and Charles M. Staats were married at noon on Sunday last at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amon Brunk, of 1616 Rose street. It was entirely a home affair and attended by only the immediate friends of the bride and groom. In honor of the occasion the house was beautifully decorated with flowers and ferns. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Alfred Brunk, pastor of the Chris- tian Church of Butte City, who is a brother of the bride. Miss Josephine Staats, a sister of the groom, wes the bridesmald and Christian Refverts of Petaluma the best man. Lit- tle Alice Brunk, sister of the bride, acted as flower girl and strewed flowers in the fath of the wedding party. A wedding breakfast was served after the ceremony. [RAr The engagement is announced of Miss Fern Smith and Harry B. Green. The date for the wedding has not yet been an- nounced, but it will take place some time in the fall. Miss Smith is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of 2602 Grove street and formerly lived in Newark, where she is well known. Mr. — riore RECENT BERKELEY BRIDE, AND BELLE WHOSE EN- GAGEMENT 1S ANNOUNCED. + o Latest Report From Bedside of the Pope OME, July 16, 10 a. m. ~=The following med- ical bulletin has just been issued : * “The night was little tran- quil and sleepless. The gen- eral condition of his Holi- ness presents no other modi- fication, except greater fre- quency of breathing, due to an augmentation of the pleuric fluid. Pulse 88; ‘temperature 36.3 centi- grade; respiration 36. “LAPPONL” “MAZZONL” e Y UNUSUALLY HEAVY RAIN DOES DAMAGE IN ARIZONA Several Streams Overflow Their Banks and Considerable Grow- ing Grain Is Destroyed. PHOENIX, A. T, July 15.—Unusually heavy rain visited this valley for two hours this afternoon. Five miles north- west it is sald the precipitation was nearly two inches. In Cave Creek there were two distinct floods which reached the val- ley north of Glendale. They swept across the Arizona irrigating canal, tearing away an embankment and still farther south in places broke across the Maricopa canal and Salt River Valley canal. Glen- dale was flooded for a .time and some grain destroyed. While the rain is de- structive to grain crops just now, It is a good thing for stockmen, as certain ranges were getting dry. —_——————— Abandon Idea of Holding a Fair. ‘WOODLAND, July 15.—The directors of the Fortleth Agricultural District have abandoned the idea of holding a distriet fair this year. The committee failed to procure subscriptions to make good the State appropriation vetoed by the Gov- ernor. ————— Saloon-Keeper Commits Suicide. WATSONVILLE, July 15—Cy Johnson, a saloon-keeper of this city, committed suicide at his home this morning by tak- ing carbolic acid. Financial dlmcultlel are ascribed as the cause. HIGHLAND CATTLE. m'rmm Wmm l‘rmndolufilyvtththmn four inch plain Flemish Brown Oak will make a beautiful pic- tuntotmrm : —e | Green is connected with a San Francisco commission house. Miss Maude E. Sherry and Henry E. Franks were married Wednesday evening, July 1 at the home of the bride’s mother, 2250 Fulton street. In honor of the event the house was profusely decorated with flowers and ferns and a large number of relatives and friends were present to speed the bride and groom on their jour- ney through life. The Rev. E. W. Work, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, was the officlating clergyman. Miss Birdie Sherry, sister of the bride, was the maid of honor and Miss Josephine Maux and Miss Sadie Pullen the brides- malds. Wililam Popert acted as the best man. The nuptial vows were exchanged under a large floral bell and just as the last word was spoken a ribbon was drawn and a shower of flowers fell upon the bride and groom. An interesting feature was the distribution of wedding cake from a tree, to which pieces of the cake were tied in satin bags. Mr. and Mrs. Franks left for Wads- worth, Nev., where Mr. Franks holds a position as a civil engineer, for a wed- ding trip. The bride is well known in Berkeley and the groom is a graduate of the class of 1902 of the University of Cali- fornia. ————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, July 15.—The following marriage lcenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Francis W. Cherry, 8Ban Francisco, 28, and Edith L. Langer, Alameda, 22; James Henry, Oakland, 39, and Victorla Cannon, Berkeley, 40; Charles E. Jared, S8an Francisco, 35, and Pearl 1. Coonradt, Sonoma, 24; Philip I. Oakeshatt, 35, and Edith M. Blalsdell, 28, both of Oakland. ————— Toy Pistols Cause Five Deaths. PASADENA, July 15.—Burdette Kerr, 12 years of age, is dead from lockjaw, the result of the explosion of a toy pistol on the Fourth of July. TOPEKA, Kans., July 15.—Paul Forbes, son of ' W. A. Forbes, died to-day of lock- jaw. He was accidentally wounded by the premature discharge of a toy plstol on the Fourth of July. PORTLAND, Or., July 15.—Charles Wert and Thomas F. sm‘bh. aged 13 and 14 respectively, dled to-day as the result of injuries inflicted with toy pistols on the Fourth of July. CLEVELAND, July 15.—Cnarles Hines, aged 9, dled to-day, making the eighth death here from lockjaw since July 4, —_— Princess Takes a New Title. DRESDEN, Saxony, July 15.—In compli- ance with her request, King George has conferred upon the Princess Louise, former Crown Princess of Saxony, the title of Countess of Montenegro. —_—— Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. ‘Wednesday, July 15. Dart, 80 hours from ureka. Schr Ida A, Campbell, 5 hours from Polnt Reyes. SAILED. ‘Wednesday, July 15. Stmr Ruth, Batchelder, Westport. Stmr Ac¢me, Lundquist, Siuslaw River, with #chr Sacramento in tow. Schr Sacramento, Mercer, Siuslaw River, in tow stmr Acme. DOMESTIC PORTS. ABERDEEN—Sailed July 16—Stmr Sants Monica, for San Francisco. (girrived duly 1 “Bkin Wrestler, from Hono- "EORT GAMBLESailed July 15—Bark Sea King, for Port Pirie; bark Palmyra, for San Francisco. PORT TOWNSEND—Arrived July 15—Bark Bea King, from Port Gamble, for Port Pirfe. Passed out July 15—Bark Palmyra, from Port Gamble, for San Francisco. TATOOSH—Passed in July 15—Br ship Chil- tonford, from Roflka lnr Vlclorll. B C. SEATTLE—Arrived July 15—Stmr City of from Skagwi Sailed July lHlmr City of Topeka, from Skagway. Sailed July lk!tmr Newsboy, for Austin. SLAND PORTS. LU Arsived duly 35.-Bark Argyn, hence July 6. HONOLULU—Arsives, July 15—Bark Ed- , hence July 2. Lmroon—m.amyu—ommu. g:}%t:!m ‘Westernland, for Phila- RT SAID—Arrived Jul; N - o ly 15—Stmr Nin. N GHONG prior o , July 1 e Yoohama, aig, o oo, TR New Yark, from New York. Stmr Coquille River, | indeed. C GHICAGD CRITIC Professor Robert Her— rick Raises a Row With Educators. One Woman Teacher Ex- presses Wrath Against Instructor. e Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, July 15. If the ears of Profesgor Robert Herrick of Chicago are not tingling from all that is being said in denunciation of him by the fifty or more women teacher-students | taking work from him at the summer ses- slon of the University of California, it must be because those tuneful appen- dages are impervious to abuse, for they are saying spirited things behind his back. It amounts to open warfare. Professor Herrick came from Chicago to give instruction in the art of writing. He is young, good looking and successful. | He is also cynical, satirical and unmerci- | ful. He has written some books— good books, too—and has reached that point on the road to fame where he can afford to stop and criticize consistently. He belleves that criticism of the hlrd)’ sort is good for the soul, and since com- | ing to the summer school he has given his method full play, wherefore the murmurs of discontent. | In his criticism of the Papers submitted | Professor Herrick has been unsparing. He has not revealed the names of the writ- ers, hut he has made them feel uncom-| fortable. Many a story that tife author fancied would land her among the Thack- erays and Dickenses and George Eliots | he has torn to pieces unsparingly. | At least one woman, a teacher-student, | has had the hardihood, however, to pro- test against the prnlEPSior. She was of-| fended over one of 'ofessor Herrick's choice designations, and so waited a chance for revenge. The chance came yesterday, when he asked the students to write a paragraph on any subject they chose. The paragraph of this combative | student was written, submitted and read | in class to-day by Professor Herrick, In substance this person, whose name is| known to Professor Herrick only, writing | upon the subject of pedagogy, sald: “It is hard enough to be a poor school teacher working for a smail salary with- out coming to the summer school to be treated as if you were a nonentity. You come to the class and are made to feel that no one has the slightest interest in you, and you are not known from Adam. If you happen to say anything you are | treated as if you were a bore.” All this was directed at Professor Her- rick. It was the complaint of a school teacher cut to the quick. It also was a grand opportunity for the target to in- dulge his satirical humor, and he did not miss it. “Now,” sald he, “‘the person who wrote this must have a cockeyed view of things, | I want to say that the instructor | is interested in the students, but when he has to meet them every day, and so many of them, it takes some time to get acquainted all around. I'm dofng the best | I can. And as for being bored by stu- dents, they certainly do not bore me un- less, of course—they happen to be bores. Of course, 1 don’t know many of you from | Adam—but, then, I'm not acquainted with | Adam either. I want to repeat that this paper was written from a cockeyed point | of view.” The incident ended in a laugh, but the offended teachers are not appeased and they are still saying unkind things of the | Chicago professor. @ il @ |CROBES DIE BY GAS ROUTE Little Nuisances Are Pu Out of Life in a Death Cell ALAMEDA, July 15.—Down deep in the | basement of the new Andrew Carnegie | building, donated to the city for its free library, is a chamber that is death to all microbes. When the little pests that are said to be the cause of nearly all the ills of human flesh are enticed into a com- partment the fumigating machine is turned on and the microbes are done for. Alameda claims to be the only city pos- sessing a Chrnegle library structure with an apartment wherein microbes are so scientifically smoked out of existence. Sanitary Inspector Eugene C. Maillot is the lord high executioner of microbes and he officlates at a slaughter of millions whenever Librarian Frank B. Graves col- lects a sufficient number of books for the | execution of the death sentence. The | books fumigated are those that are known to have been read in sickrooms or handled | by patients afflicted with contagious dis- eases. This precaution has the indorse- ment of the Board of Health and the board of library trustees and is regarded as a down-to-date method of decreasing the population of disease producing mi- | crobes. Formaldehyde gas Is the agent ot destruction used. e e COAST BASEBALL WAR NO NEARER THE END Chicago Conference Fails of Efféct in Settling the Local Feud. CHICAGO, July 15.—A short conference was held to-night between President Henry Harris of the San Francisco team of the Pacific Coast League and Secre- tary Farrell of the National Assoclation of Professional Baseball Leagues, the ob- ject of the meeting being a desire on the part of Farrell to promote peace in base- -ball circles on the Pacific Coast and to bring all factions into the organization he represents. Practically nothing came of the meeting. Neither Owner Harris nor Morley of the Los Angeles team care much, they say, whether there is peace between their organization, the Pacific Coast League, and the Pacific Natlonal League or not. They say that they did not know that W. H. Lucas of Tacoma and D. E. Dugdale of the Seattle club were to be here for a conference. “‘Neither Mr. Harris nor I care whether .things are fixed up or not, because we are the victors in the coast fight,” said Morley. “For the good of baseball we should like to see peace, but I cannot say that peace will be brought about on the coast. We are here on invitation of Mr. Hart and did not know until we arrived that any of the others were in town. We ‘will leave for the East on Friday and will be gone for. possibly a month.” ———— Finds Many Victims. noxonm.u. July 15.—An epidemic of painful disease npon.a. but there have beéen no m ‘directly attributable to the diseases | “cific MURDER SEGRET STALKS ABROAD Redmen Threaten the Revelation of a Mystery. Feudists at Indian Colony May Tell of Tribesman’s Death. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 15. Out of a series of stabbing affrays of recent occurrence the peace authorities of Alameda County are hopeful shortly to get a clew to the murder of Manuel, an aged member of the Mission Indian coloney at Pleasanton, who was hacked to death in his cabin about a year ago. Efforts of the county officlals, as well as those put forth by the township offi- cers, have failed utterly to uncover the murderer, although the District Attor- ney’s office is confident that the knife wielder's identity is known to many of the Indians. A rift in the cloud of mystery that has covered the crime broke to-day at Pleas- anton, when a large number of the ranch- | erie_colonists appeared there in court at the arraignment of Lopez Sanchez, one of thelr number, who stabbed Robert Silva during a jealous row about am In- dian woman. That quarrel had been fol- lowed by another, in which Magdalena Mariana, a dusky denizen of the red men’s rendezvous, plunged a knife into Joseph Marshall and bit his hand serious- Iy while he was trying to ward off the amazon’s attack. Miss Mariana was arrested this morn- ing and her case added to the anger of the assembled tribesemen and camp fol- lowers. It was among the throng of in- terested and belligerent red mem that mutterings of vengeance were heard this morning, and the whispered threats that the secret of old Manuel's murder would soon be disclosed. The authorities have been seriously hampered in their work heretofore because eévery move made has been met by an unanimous declaration of “I don’t know” from the scores of In- dians that have been interviewed. The last two cutting affrays have aroused followers of the men who were victims of the knife and there was no | doubt about the feeling that was aroused Openly some of the In- would be confessions be- in the rancherie. dians said there fore long. The authorities purpose to strike while the fire is hot, and to break down the wall that has hitherto ob- structed them in their labors. Deputy District Attorney Will Harris, whose home is at Pleasanton, says the sentiment is strong against the rancherie, which has been the sceme of innumera- ble stabbings and not a few murders. But the Indians heretofore have been banded together in a mutual league for self-pro- tection. Even when one of their number caused the arrest of an assallant mem- | ory would become very defective by the time the trial was reached, and convie- tions have been rare for that reasom. With the Mariana woman in jail, and her arrest seems to have provoked her followers as much as her knife wielding aroused the other side, the peace offi- cers say the time.is ripe for a renewal _ of the inquiry into the unsolved murdee mystery. — e —— KU!’}EBB SCOUR HILLS IN SEARCH OF DEER Season Opens and Nimrods Devote Many Hours to the Quest of Big Game. The crack of rifles and the baying of hounds were heard in_the hills of Marin and other counties yesterday. It was the opening of the deer season and the hunter was out early looking for pronged beasts. The agile quadrupeds sought safety in flight, but many fell through the unerr- ing alm of the hunters. The members of the Tamalpais Gun Club, Country Club and kindred organiz- ations enjoyed great sport. The heat did not stop these nimrods. They walked over the hilis and kept an alert eye for game. Within a few days the hunters will return from the chase, bearing with them evidences of their skill and good luck. Venison will be enjoyed by those *| who know the fortunate huntsmen. There will be stories to tell and the exciting in- cidents of the chase will furnish gossip for months. The season does not close until October 1. The law will not permit one person to kill more than three bucks during one season. Does and spotted fawns cannot be killed at any time. No deer meat nor deer hides can be sold. SUPREME COURT HEARS PETITIONS FOR WRITS Los Angeles Woman Wants Custody of Daughter and Attorney Wants Dimmick Released. Attorney A. D. Warner of Los Angeles petitioned the Supreme Court yesterday for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a child known as Arvilla Bell Barnsdall. It s stated that A. A. Hopkins, Califor- nia agent for T. N. Barnsdall, a million- aire oil magnate of Pittsburg, Pa., has the custody of the little girl at present. Mrs. C. B. Davis, mother of Arvilla, claims that she surrendered the guardian- ship of her daughter through fear of be- ing raflroaded into an asylum. She claims that Barnsdall 1s father of the child. Attorney George D. Collins alsq flled a petition yesterday asking for the release of Walter N. Dimmick from San Quen- tin. Collins argues that his client should have-been released last June, when his two-year term expired. The lawyer wiil appeal to the United States courts if un- successful in the State Supreme Court. Chief Justice Beatty took no action in either case. SAYS BECKEL i GET NO PENSION Pinkerton Denies Story That False Check Manipulator Will Get Con- sideration From Bankers. Willlam A. Pinkerton makes a most emphatic denial of the oublisned rumor that the detective bureau of which he is a prineipal has advised the American Bankers’ Association to give Forger Charles Becker $300 a month or any other sum to keep him out of further mischief. In reference thereto Mr. Pinkerton said yesterday: Representing the police interests of the American m‘ Assoclation members, wiah 1o say that they do c-n-.-..oz the finger for Becker and If Becker interferes with them they will pursue the same tactics fhat they did before, when they sent him to The matter of subsidizing ing has not béen con- dered by the members of the assoclation If commits other you can, depend Train Wrecked Near Kansas City, KANSAS CITY, July 15.—Missouri Pa- r train No. 1, known as Colorado limited, which left this ",y