The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY — — A RANKS DEPARTED POPE A3 GREAT Pastor Lays a Protest- ant’s Tribute on Pon- tiff's Bier. Says World Wiil Be Fortun- if § ate if Successor Is as Week but Excitement Liberal | Continues. bAE R A s C - | ALA 3 —With the issuance iway v of the call bearing the names of twent ope 1e0 | eight prominent residents and property ¥ R. Dille, | owners for a meeting to discuss matters < t Church, re of Alameda and . mulating public < over the applications Pacific Company for two " hises has received another stir. who profess to belleve S Pacific is behind the which ed In the city ng to select fifty citizens to = 1 settling the matter of . s @ that the corporation enty-eight citizens to call % = & of property owners to be held % % P ty Hall the night of August 5. x good w s pothing to indicate that the . : " = stees are prompted by anything | A e -3 b of intentions to adjust the I forms of s statesmanship and as- cation of the May laws r belonging to a re- b re Against the state; the in F: lergy nce from the management of he the friars in the Philippines. On the the world will be fortunate if roves to be as good and & enlightened as was Leo X } ign has made for peace s erstanding between the Cat e Protestant world. T » Pope Leo” was the subje fa ss delivered this even- s 3 C. Brooks, pastor of Pilgr gregational Church. The H. J. Vosburgh, pastor of the First t rch, gave a brief ad- @ress this morning on Pope Leo. e e———— ' Chess Set in Nutshell. the thousands of gifts recelved Czar his nameday from loyal ans ir parts of the empire none touched him so deeply as a small nutshell ease, iberia, containing a chessboar complete set of pleces, all exq worked in minlature from bone. The author of this little marvel of ingenuity is a convict. Inquiries have been set on foot as to how far the cir- cumstances of the man’s case will justify the Emperor's merciful intervention.— Baltimore American, | ALAMEDR VERY MUGH DNSETTLER Franchise Question Dis- turbs Quiet of the Municipality. SRR Trustees Will Not Meet for a ses and bring the agitation that is s z the city to a satisfactory term- the nsettied state of f ss men and property that there will be no ad- en 1 more than one proper w ntemplated bullding has de- I ing until such (ime as he d of train service Ala- the future. of the city of the Eouthern franchises will be on will ve on Mon- The city lications two amendment to the the franchises will dvertised as the local ie head of those doing REMAIN: OF MISS VEITCH ARE LAID AT FINAL REST. Sorrowing Mother Too Ill to Attend Funeral and Great Fear Is Felt for Her. 26.—The K funeral of iled at Lake ernoon w t floral of- ) beautiful ‘Gates Ajar.” W. Tucker, C. L. King, C. Mitchell T w ed for the present e at Mountain View to attend the | it Mrs, Veitch is not yet able her room, and it is feared that ck of her daughter’s death, the severe injuries she su accident, may result in a UNIVERSITY EVENTS y 26.—C. H. Spinks, the mining department. intenden the Mertel ing a plan developing a re- has ¢ the Arnold V ubenrauch the univer- wild, in the of ‘the Summer School ned to-morrow evening Old Trader Dies. OAKLAND, J Rudolf Duchly, a ndia merchant, died to-day his home in this city at the advanced of 68 years. Deatn came from heart He leaves a wife and three chil- The funeral will take place from late idence, 2222 Shattuck avenue, ired E BERKELEIY, July 2%.—The Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard in West Berkeley is ar- resting programme for an to be given August 7 in “raternity Hall. Tt will be for the bene- fit of the church funds. —_——— MICE AND RED ANTS IN TOP OF SKYSCRAPER Find Their Way Up in Spite of All Mode Pre- cautions. “Where o the mice come from? is a question as hard to answer as where do pins go,” said a New York architect. “My office is on the seventeenth or top story of a modern buillding In the Wall street district. All its walls are solid, and there are no hollows, such as are found in & wooden building. The spaces under the wooden flooring are filled with ce- ment; the washboards are marble, where steam pipes run through the floors the openings are sealed with metal, s0 that one cannot find a cranny to conceal, much less passages for, even a mouse. Yet mice are there, concealed somewhere, making thelr way somehow from floor to floor until they have reached the upper- most. “Only the other day I looked up from my work and saw a small gray mouse, I skated a flat paper weight across the fioor at him, and though it only struck the letter file the fright half kiled him. Then I learned that I had undone, in a second, the work of six months, as it turned out that my stenographer had been cultivating Mr. Mouse's friendship with bits of bread and candy. “The engineer says there are rats in the basement, where they have tallow and oil and soap to live on, but they do not come above the first floor. He showed me once a thin procession of red ants pass. ing in and out of a crack in the marble floor of the tenth story hall. “They must have come up by minute and devious crevices to this point, one hundred and twenty odd feet from the level of the street. But even so, thelr presence was strange, for all the ground, except Trinity Church yard, two blocks away, is completely and solidly covereq with buildings and pavings. There 1s not a single square inch of bare soil in the vicinity.” REBLEY trustees | aepartment of | OAKLA ND 27, 1903. WOMAN WHO IS CLEVER WITH FOILS ISSUES CHALLENGE TO MALE EXPERT Mrs. Alberta McFarland and Dr. Maurice L. Green Are Listed to Meet in Fencing Bout at Entertainment of the Temple of Ben Hur Organization To-Night 24 S VA2 | | | L PROMINENT OAKLAND | WITH THE FOILS BE JOMAN AND A WELL KNOWN PHYSICIAN WHO WILL ENGAGE IN FORE THE ORDER OF BEN HUR THIS EVENING IN OAKLAND, THE COMBAT TO BE THE FEATURE OF AN INTERESTING ENTERTAINMENT, CONTEST AKLAND, July 2.—Mrs. Alberta McFarland will endeavor to show that woman Is superior to man in | the good old art of fencing, and for that purpose she will meet Maurice L. Green in a combat at The contest will take place at the | Dr. ar POLICE SEARCH FOR THE SLAYER Woman Arrestedin Mys- terious Case by Stock- ton Authorities. Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, July 26.—The police are making good progress in clearing away the mystery surrounding the crime brought to light by the discovery of the remains of & man Friday morning in McDougalds Slough. The body has been identified as that of Arthur Walker, a newcomer to this city, and who for some time was en- gaged at work on the plpe line near Fresno. 1ne police have a woman, Mrs. P. J. Tearr, formerly Edith Gerald, under ar- rest. She is said to have been with the man the day before he met his death. It is also reported that the police have in custody a male suspect, whom they picked up to-day, but they are.very guarded in their admissions. It is suspected that a conspiracy to murder Walker existed. It is rumored that the police are getting very near the bottom of the affair, but for the present they withhold informdtion. —_—————————— Tree Planting in Nebraska. One hundred acres of land in the sand bills of the Dismal River forest reserve, Nebraska, were planted this spring by the Bureau of Forestry. On eighty acres 100,00 ping seedlings were set out; the other twenty acres were sowed with seed. The work will continue this summer. The nursery wiil be enlarged so as to cover two acres, which will hold 2,000,000 seed- lings. The bureau intends to increase the size of the nursery gradually so as to make it grow enough seedling trees every year to furnish sufficlent stock for the planting. It is intended ultimately to turn the whole of the Niobrara and Dismal River reserves, which are now barren sand hills, into forest by planting. The Dismal River reserve includes 86,000 acres, the Niobrara reserve 126,000. A survey of the boundaries of the Niobrara Teserve will be made this summer by E. J. S. Moore of the Bureau of Forestry.— Bureau of Forestry Bulletin Wwilllam Hill of Honesdale, Pa., is the last survivor of the crew of Commodore Stockton’s frigate Congress, which raised the first United States flag over Califor- nia in 1846, | for the edification of the members of that order only. Mrs. McFarland has been a resident of Oakland for-some time, and has proved her skill with the foils in several private exhibitions. Dr. Green is also an expert, and though his professional services are MANY VI3ITORS OGGUPY PULPITS Clergymen From Abroad Conduct Services in Oakland. >— Oakland Office 8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 2. The Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, D. D. of Chattanooga, Tenn., and formerly of | Oakland has accepted an invitation to preach on Sunday, August 9, at the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church. Regular work of the choir will be resumed next Sun- day after a vacation of six weeks, The Rey. Edgar R. Fuller of Bakersfield preached to-day at Fruitvale Congrega- tional Church. The Rev. W. F. Whitlock, D. D., promi- nent in the faculty of Ohjo Wesleyan Uni- versity, Delaware, Ohio, chairman of the Methodist Conference Book Committee and secretary of the General Conference Commission in charge of the session to be held at Los Angeles next year, preach- ed to-day at the First Methodist Church. The Rev. Owen Hotle, pastor of the Eighth Avenue Methodist Church, has announced a series of sermons on “Evo- lution and Religious Thought.” The first discourse will be delivered next Sunday, the topic being “Evolution and the Crea- tion in Genesi Following will be the August 9, “Evolution and Reve- August 16, “Evolution and the Atonement’’; August 23, “Evolution and Eternal Life. ‘The general thought is “Do These Things Disagree?” . The Rev. Henry C. Minton, formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley and a member of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, is on a visit from Trenton, N. J. The prominent divine occupled the pulpit to-day at the Pirst Presbyterian Church, Dr. T. H. Avery conducted services to- day at Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, The First Congregational Church pulpit was occupied to-day by the Rev. C. A. Dickinson, D. D. The Rev. Stephen R. Wood, a veteran of the Philippines and Chaplain of Gen-’ Spanish war, preached to-day at Ply- mouth Avenue Congregational Church. The Rev. Ernest E. Baker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will return with his family to-morow from Ben Lomond and will take residegce at 121 eral Liscum Camp, service men of the Thirteenth street, 1 + tuary in Alameda. Mrs. McFarland Is an enthustast upon her art, which she says is the triumph of all skill, and when she was requested to give an exhibition be- fore the members of the Order of Ben Hur in Oakland she decided to make it a test of skill between members of the two sexes. There will be other numbers on Templggot Ben Hur to-morrow night, and | given to Oakland, he lives across the es- | the programme and also dancing. L a3 o e R e e 2 e ] BANKS COMPLAIN OF CAPITALIST Two Santa Rosa Insti- tutions Sue Alvinza Hayward. Special Dispatch to The Call: SANTA ROSA, July 26.—Suit has been brought agalnst Alvinza Hayward, the capitalist, by the Savings Bank of Santa Rosa and the Santa Rosa Bank, both of this city, to enforce an agreement to pur- chase and sell the big Henley ranch, near Covelo, in Mendocino County. The action was filed iIn Mendocino County. The banks named secured title to the property in question in February last, and at that time entered Into an agree- ment to sell the same to Hayward for $50,000, the deal to be consummated on or before May 7. When the time came around the banks jointly tendered to Hayward a deed to the property, and de- manded the payment of the purchase price agreed upon, which it is alleged has not been paid. The property In question lies mostly in Round Valley, near the town of Covelo, and is one of the best appointed stock ranges in the northern portion' of the State. It consists of 8000 acres of land, partly improved. The action asks for a specific performance of the contract and to declare a lien in favor of the banks on the lands for the purchuse money, with interest on the same, and that in de- fault of payment the property be sold and the proceeds applied to the amount due the plaintiffs, and for a personal judgment against Hayward for the un- paid balance, and for an execution z,ainst the capitalist for the same. ———— Good Points of a Houseboat, . Having passed four delightful summers on a houseboat, our family is still more enthusiastic than ever. For several sea- sons it has been impossible for us to take a vacation of a month or two away from business, and consequently we have been compelled to have the Wah-ta-Wah an- chored in some convenient locality where I could get to business every day. There is no chance for bad drainage on a house- boat. No matter how hot it is on shore, you can find a cool spot on the water.’ One has the pleasures of boating, bathing and fishing combined with perfect safety, privacy and independence.—Country Lire in America. AL ANEFTITI A [or the County of Alameda FIND3 VILLAGE PILED ON GAAS Schmidt,thePostmaster, Goes Searching for Lost Town. el awe L 1) Not Even a Splinter Marks Spot Where the City Stood. Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, July 26. The. once flourishing village of Interna- tional, that little jumping-off place In Contra Costa County that the hand of man swept out of existence In a night, was found to-day by Postmaster George Schmidt of Berkeley. But alas! It 1s'only | three carloads of splinters and boards and nalls, miles away from the scene of its former hopes and activities. The discovery was made at the ex- pense of a whole day's search, in which were engaged Postmaster Schmidt, School Director Willlam J. Schmidt and Anson S. Blake, erstwhile directors of the In- ternational Explosive Company, in which | Robert B. Mott and W. I. Sedgley were also d'rectors and vice president and manager respectively. It was worse than looking for the hang- ing gardens of Babylon, far worse than searching for the ruins of burled Nineveh | and a chimerical chase compared with the pursuit of At'antis. Not much as a splinter betrayed the site of the vanished village. It was only a bare expanse of plowed acres. Aladdin with his little lamp could not have made a better clean- up. The searchers scattered in three direc- tions. Postmaster Schmidt went to the site that International used to occupy, thinking it might have come back in the night. But it hadn’t. Postmaster Schmidt | learned by inquiry, however, that the town had been shipped to Alameda, after | it had been loaded on three flat cars. Fol- | lowing this clew to Alameda, he discover- ed the dismantled village in the freight yards in that town. The finding of the lost city was enough for Postmaster Schmidt and to-morrow he proposes to get warrants in M the arrest of R. B. Mott and W. ley for making away with the Schmidt has been advised that Mott and Sedgley had no right to take the village after it had been foreclosed upon and it is upon this advice that he is going to make his charge —-——— —— REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. SATURDAY, JULY 25 Daniel Crowley to Catherine Razzaut, lot on N line of Pacific street, 16 W of Polk, W 23 by n to Henrietta Frankiin, of O'Farrell and Steiner ; $10. T. Milligan, et, S4:8 N of Ri lot Call ne of Baker street, 25: gitt Company He £ Page street, 100 W 6:_ $10 vings and Loan Soclety to Marion on N iine of Twenty-ninth street, 5 114 $940. to Oriando 1 1 to Ana R. 115:25 hrader, lot on N line of Dupont _street and 17:2% by N 46, G0-vara lot division 1 of 50-vara lot map, 394: also 1-15 of subdivision 9, above referrad to: $1600. Chichizola o Company to A. Fodera, lot on SW corner of Washington street and Wet- more place, W 56 by § James H ¥ to Margaret O'Shea, un- divided % o SE line of Bryant street, | NE of T SE 80: $10. Shea to James A Bryant street, 301 by SE 0. quitclaim deed and Catherine McGrath ‘to Clara Margaret O SE line 3 H Wise, 1ot on N corner of Seventh and Cleaye- land or Cleveland streets, NW 23 by* NE $10. Angelina Pincelli to Leo ¢ line of Harriet street, E 5: $10. Michael | by William n Francisco (corporation sole) to , lot on N line of Harrington street, 300 W of Mission, W 125 by N 100, lots ), 70 and block 4, Academy Tract: $1500. Builders’ Contracts. Edward B. Hindes (owr with Ralston Iron Werks ( hitect Tharp—Fire igh basement brick bullding on S I street, 164:6 E of Taylor, E 60:9 by S $1407. Johanna Hempel Caine (contractors) (owner) with Kaighin & Martens & Coffey archi- tects—All work except mantels, shades gas fixtures, plumbing and painting for a three- story frame building, attic and basement on SE corner of Washington and Broderick streets, E 09:6 by 50:2%; $7100. Same owner with J_ F. Noonan (contractor), same architect—Plumbing _gas fitting and sew- ering for same on same; $1015. Morris Rothschild (owher) with Louis Cereg- hino (contractor), Syivain Schnaittacher archi- tect—All work for two three-story frame bulldings (flats) on E line of Franklin street, 55 8 of Vallejo. S 55 by E 92:10; $17.810, ‘Independent Electric Light and Power Com- pany (owner) with J. H. Lemon & Sons (con- tractors), Bliss & Faville architects—White- washing and painting for addition to power station between Humboldt and Twenty-third Teets from W Georgia eastward; $1375. National Brewing (owners) with Riley & Rock (contractors), John & Zimmer- mann architects—Excavation, concrete, brick and jron work for new malting department on lot commencing at l‘fli!!l 120:3% S from SE corner of Webster and Fulton S 47:8%, B 77:6, N 30:6, E 12:5%, N 17:21§, W 80:11%; ¥ lein_(owner) with ¥. J. Fernhoff (con- tractor), Phillpp Schwerdt architect—All work except slectric work, plumbing, painting, man- tels, shades and gas fixtures for a frame building on lot om S line of O'Farreil street, 22:6 E of Larkin, E 23 by S 90; $10,340. Same owper with Joseph Flood (contractor), me architect — Plumbing, _gasfitting and wering for same on same: $1605. - ' —————— Deserted Logging Camps. Scattered throughout Northern Wiscon- sin are scores of abandoned lumber camps, some of them comprising buildings enough to form small villages if they were occupied and most of them, includ- ing at least one commodious log house, commonly called a “shanty,” capable of sheltering many people In snug if not ele- gant quarters. Though they were left to decay when they had served thelr pur- pose, many of these camps are still in a fair state of preservation, and a compara- tively small expenditure would make them habitable. And in the majority of cases they occupy land that could be bought for a few dollars an acre. A possible use for these camps is sug- gested by 'the success of an experiment tried by a Pittsburg physician who s a firm bellever in the open-air treatment for tuberculous troubles—a treatment which at no distant date will be generally adopt- ed. The physician, Dr. Flick by name, purchased an abandened lumber camp in the hills of Pennsylvania and converted it into a sanitarium by repairing the shan- ties and adding a number of tents to the equipment. There he takes his patlents and compels them to lead a rough, out- door life, with no luxuries but plenty of fresh air and plain, nourishing food. He is sald to have made a great many cures by his treatment, and his sanitarium is crowded with patients the year round.— Milwaukee Sentinel. —_————— There are about 30,000 automobiles in use in the United States. FIND JEWELS WORTH FORTUNE Hotelkeeper Discovers Valuable Gems but No Owner. Woman Leaves Diamonds on Washstand and Disappears. The proprietor of a fashionable coun- tryside resort was amazed yesterday noon upon stepping into a small wash- room adjoining the dining hall to see upon the washstand & small fortune of mag- nificent dlamond rings. The rings are all of unusual design and of great beauty and brilllancy. One ring alone was judged to be worth fully $1000, while the aggregate valuation of the whole lot must be between $5000 and $3000. The proprietor naturally expected they would be called for, but up to going to press last night no one had appeared to claim them. Among the guests who stopped at the inn for luncheon was a very handsomely attired woman, who after dining inquired of one of the servants the way to the washroom She is described as being of about av- erage helght, with very graceful carriage and was arrayed in the very height of fashion She was a stranger and rather gave the impression that she was an actress. Immediately after luncheon she drove away with her escort The Call knows where the rings can be found, and when properly identified they will be restored to the rightful owner. AFFECTED CATTLE NOT ALL UNFIT Partly Diseased Animals Good for Human Beings. Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, July 26. Dr. Veranus A. Moore, professor of pathology and bacteriology of Cornell University, who has just finished a visit to the University of California, does not belleve that cattle only partly affilcted with tuberculosis are unfit food for human consumption. In a pamphlet on the sub- ject of bavine tuberculosis Dr. Moore says that an animal may be diseased in several parts of its body with the germs of con- sumption and yet the parts unscathed will be perfectly safe to eat. This fact has been established after many tests with never a fatal result. Butchers and cattlemen have become cognizant of the discovery and now meat goes on tables every day in America that has been cut from beeves siightly affected with tuberculosis. Even the Government has lately withdrawn its embargo from this class of cattle and ordered its in- spectors to pass that which is not dan- gerously afflicted. Dr. Moore finds that this must be done, for if all the animals afflicted with tube: culosis were to be thrown away, thera would be very little meat left for people to eat, S0 extensive is the disease among animals. Besides this It would make pau- pers of thousands of cattle men. When the accuracy of the tuberculin test was demonstrated a crusade against the dis- ase was started. It was found, however, when the extent of the disease was appre- ciated, that the cost would be so enormous that legislative boflies hesitated to make the necessary appropriations. Now care- ful sclentific Investigations have brought about a better understanding of the real nature of the disease and eradication of the animals will be unnecessary. —e——— CONTINUED PURSUIT OF VERMIFORM APPENDIX Is the Sport of the Surgeons to Be Interfered With? Dr. John Henry Carsten’s argument to the state medical soclety against the in- discriminate removal of the vermiform ap- pendix appears to be irregular and un- ethical. We have always been taught to belleve that vermiform appendices wers what the lawyers call ferae naturae— wild things in which nobody can claim property, and which anybody is free to take. The better the appendix. the better the operation, and the more sport in the chase. At this late day we cannot accept Dr. Carsten’s theory that a healthy appen- dix ought not to be removed. An appen- dix is an appendix whether healthy or not, and modern surgery definitely ascer- tained that the function of the appendix is to be amputated. That is its place in the economy of man, and for countless ages nature has directed her efforts, in the process of evolution, to the beneficent work of producing a vermiform appendix that could be easily separated from the patient together with 3$250. She has suc- ceeded, and when Dr. Carsten advises that the appendix be left alone to wither and flap like the last leaf on the tree, it strikes us that he Is counseling the sur- geons to violate the ordinances of nature. If Carsten would content himself with an imitation of the fish and game laws, and advocate a closed season for the ap- pendix the suggestion might be worthy of serious consideration. Perhaps it might be better for everybody If mo ap- pendices were taken, say, between the Ist of July and the 1st of October, and none less than four years old and not more than twenty-five by any one surgeon in a season, unless the taking of the appen- dix were absolutely necessary to feeding the doctor’s family. Tnis would be a rea- sonable regulation, and it would tend to eliminate the mere pot hunter, who slash- es recklessly, and has a tendency to re- move more appendices than his bank ac- count really requires. However, the detalls of the closed sea- son can be worked out later. We have no desire to usurp any of the medical soci- ety’s functions; but it is none too soon to protest against the pernicious doetrine that a man has a right to keep his vermi- form appendix merely because it is heaithy, or that he has any property rights whatever in his appendix. The time has not yet come to beat the scalpels into plowshares and the forceps into pruning hooks.—Detroit Free Press. —_———————— f Canada’s exports and imports have al- most doubled in six years.