The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1903, Page 9

CANAL SYSTEMS Professor Fortier Finds Irrigation Plants Thriving. Turlock and Modesto Ditches Will Supply Thousands More Acres. L n T Sk Berkeley Office 8an Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Aug. 2. Professor Samuel Fortler, the irrigation expert 5 the University of California. who recently began investigation into the irriga systems of California, returned to-day from an inspection of the Turlock and Modesto canals in the San Joaquin alley. His tour extended over San Joa- quin, Madera, Merced. slaus and Fresno counties a observations will be embodied in a report to be issued. Professor For arrived in that Te- slon 100 1 ¢ e ramifica- tions of T he sew enough to convi nse va to the State and increasing in importance. anals are in & condition to be he purposes to revisit the make some practical sugges- benefit of the farmers and Of his observations Pro- ays riock irrigation system to be ell_ordered is more popular was and litigation ls stopped. Those | b the hardest and attacke The acreage irri | | ry foods, and 1 ne landhalders down fon to & ' and diversi- ted, W be some but that Professor Fortler is working und priation of $10,00 made by the Gov. e State for investigatic systems of Call | a, assisting the farmers, | i DEFINITELY SETTLES MOOT LEGAL QUESTION | Attorney General Renders Opinion Relative to Repayment of Ille- | gally Collected Taxes. | inquiry from District | ir of Mariposa County rel- | nent of lllegally (-n]ri Attorney General | nion yesterday set- | s of all such claims. e Political Code made it | Boards of Supervisors of taxes illegally | passed at | n of the Legisiature makin yees to present their | nse payment. Gene ct | vears ol litical Code is appli provides that claim a year after the pay collected taxes. Hence present time is barred of limitations. ! the opinion, then, that | servisors must refund only ¥ o ted taxes as have been | 1301 and have been made the | aims within six months after | | payment —————— WIFE OF MUSICIAN CLAIMS HE IS NOT GOOD PROVIDER of six months af- | e CHILD INMIDAIR Dagmar Hendrickson Has Narrow Escape From Death. Engine Catches Telegraph Line and Little One Is Entangled." Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. %. A b-year-old girl had a most miraculous escape from death last evening and was rescued after a most exciting experience after dangling from a mage of wires in | mid-air. Little Dagmar Hendrickson, the 5-year- old daughter of John Hendrickson of 98§ Sixtieth street, Golden Gate, was play- ing near the Santa Fe track at Sixtieth and Lowell streets when suddenly engine 7 came along. The child stood watching the train at a safe distance from the track. Suddenly the smokestack of the locomo- tive caught on a dangling telegraph wire, | and in a twinkling the pole was pulled down, and with it a maze of wires. child was caught in some manner in the wires, and at the same moment the wire caught on the engine broke, releasing the others and suspending the ghild in midair between two poles. The child was hoisted in the air before even she had a chance to scream. She bravely clung to the wires, however, un- | til nelghbors who witnessed the aceident | hurried to the scene with a blanket, which [ | was stretched beneath the little one and | S°™€™Y she dropped into it, very much frightened but vohart. ———— DEAD COUNT'S FAMILY FAILS TO SEND ADVICES Van der Velde to Be Buried in Oak- land at Expense of His Friends. Count Van Qer Velde, whose life ter- minated suddenly on the beach last Sun- day, will be quietly buried on Friday 2 p. m. The funeral will take place in Oakland from the undertaking estab- lishment of Leitch & Corrigan, $78 Broad- way. This man of noble birth, brought up In luxury, the assoclate of the upper classes and at one time the faverite of the notorious Princess de Chimay, would lie in & pauper's grave but for the inter- vention of & few friends. Consul of the Netherlands George G. J. Marsily has taken a interest in the case. He stated that he was only slight- ly acquainted with the dead man, but that the Count had formally called upon him some time ago and inscribed his name in the register of the const He had had a long conversation with him at that time | and had learned considerable of his his- tory, the main facts of which have al- ready been published. The Consul said: The funeral will take place as stated unless we receive advicss from his home in Belgium to make other arrangements. No advices have been received as yet. Th was a gentleman end his family a nobl one. Under the existing circumstances it was perhaps as wall his end came when it did. I never heard of his eonnection with Princess de e e o Chimay, but her magnificent figure and great beauty attracted so many men that I am not surprised to hear that he fell a victim to her charms. —_—e—————— BOARD OF EDUCATION ON ANNUAL INSPECTION Accompanied by Mayor Schmitz and Superintendent Langdon, Body Visits Outlying Schools. The members of the Board of Educa- tion, accompanied by Mayor Schmitz and School Superintendent Langdon, began their annual inspection of schools yes- terday. A number of schools in the out- lying districts were visited, Hunters Point, Burnett, South End, Sun- le, John Taylor, Monroe, and Sheri- The | including | : . |-aa They we! Mrs. Mary Beynolds in Div dan schools. They were all found in ex- Asky; m’;‘» Alowed ";';e sunic—u-m condition, with large numbers of | pupils. a Month. Deputy Superintendent of Schools Suz- nt for divorce filed ye r- | zalo addressed the teachers of the first | Reynolds against Clark W, { cian, she charges that vd that for the last | provided for her or their | for $0 a month for her- | for the suppong and | They live at 107 | asks a month 1 the chi rce were also filed by Rosa ank Gowan for cruelty, t Henry Well- Mamie E. Drollin- Drollinger for de- H were granted to Game Law Violators Are Caught. | arle < Deputy ¥ish ( of black base were = Vogelsang of the ced that quantities ng served on tables sent Deputy Davis to r Valley 1o see how The law ack bass to be only by hook and Davis d Constable Parker of d found some set bass nets in | Vernon and and A. 8 to carry off the The fishermen were arrested and ce of the Peace Mulaney of Nicolaus, ter County, held them to answer in cash bail eack | e e v | | Police Commissioners Meet. | At & meeting of the Police Commission- | ers held at the Hall of Justice last even- | ing Thomas D. Daley and David B. Sut- | ton were appointed members of the regu- lar department. The case of Patrolman Jobhn Jordan was postponed until next | Tuesday evening, and a charge of refus- | ing to obey a subpena made against Po- liceman Harry Crowley was dismissed. | Policeman Teutenberg, charged with un. | officerlike conduct, was exonerated. | held for | Faymaster's Department of | who will sall for the Philippines on Sep- | tember 1, was tendered a farewell ban- grade on the subject of arithmetic yes- terday. About twenty-five pedagogues listened to an interesting discourse. Through inadvertence Director Wood- ward was quoted in last Monday's Call as saying that a competitive examination for positions as teachers would not be two years. The period *‘one year” should be substituted for “two years,” as it is highly probable that an- other examination will be ordgred next June or July. —e————— Lieutenant Foster Banqueted. Lieutenant Horace G. Foster ‘of the the army, quet at a downtown restaurant last even- ing by fellow members of the Press Club. Lieutenant Foster enlisted during the Spanish-American War in the Eighth California as a private in the company commanded by Captain Barnes, and was mustered out as a lieutenant. His service in the Philippines will extend over a pe- riod of two years. Those present at last night's affair, besides the guest of the evening, were: Joseph A. Sheldon, Cap- tain W. S. Barnes, Dr. A. P. O'Brien, Winfield Blake, Philip Bolger, Dr. C. D. McGettigan, W. J. Batchelder, W. W. Kaufman, Arthur G. Fisk, A. T. Dobson, L. E. Stover. ——————— Died of His Burns. Henry Hammerschmidt, Who was burn- ed by ignited gasoline last Sunday after- noon, died is the German Hospital at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. His mother, who was taken to the same place to be treated for burns, is In a critical condi- | tion. They were engaged in cleaning fur- niture in toeir rooms at 123% Sixth street, using gasoline in a teacup. man struck a match for the purpose of lighting a cigarette and the flame of the match ignited the vapor from the gaso- lllnp, setting them both on fire. Woman’s Nightmare pure. The critical ordeal No woman's happi. ness can be complete without children; it is her nature to love and want them s much so as it is to love the beautiful and which the expectant mother must pass, however, is so fn:fht vu:i dread, pain, suffering and danger, it that the very thought or dangerous. The use of the comipg event that it is safely passed without any danger. great and wonderful remedy is always appliedexternally, and has carried thousands of women through (be Bradfield Reguiator Co,, Atiasts, Ga. > fills her with apprehension and h A There is no necessity for the uction of l&e i i of to be either painful 80 prepares the system for This Mother’s Friend for | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ‘26, 1903, INSPECTS GREAT - |WIRES SUSPEND WILD STRUGELE |DESPERATE ~ FOR THE CASH Wife, Aided by a Brother and Lawyer, Battles With Husband. —— CRIMINALS ROB 9IX MEN Family - Differences of the| Enter Grocery and De- Ashmores Provoke a Lively Scene. The screeches of an angry woman in- harmoniously mingling with the gruffer tones of several men's voices aroused the neighborhood of Mission and Ninth streets vesterday afternoon and readily suggested to a large crowd which gathered in front of the Pearl lodging-house, situated on the northwest corner of the mentioned streets, that something out of the ordi- nary was occurring within that estab- lishment. Investigation developed the fact that W. E. Ashmore and his wife, the latter as- | sisted by a brother and a lawyer, were settling a family difficulty, which finally | ended in a division of honors and the coin f the lodging-house till, over which the ispute had originated. The Ashmores have not been living hap- ! pily for some time. While sharing the | same roof and the profits of the lodging- | house, Mrs. Ashmore some months ago saw fit to isolate her husband in an apart- | ment far from the one she occuples and since then they have not been on speak- ing terms, except when they met once | a week to reckon-up the business of the | house and divide the revenue. Yesterday Ashmore, who is also en- sa street, was unexpectedly served | with a summons | brought by his wife, in which she alleges | unfaithfulness on his part. He immedi- ged In the liquor business on Mont- | in a suit for divorce| spoil Proprietorand Patrons. Cover Victims With Revol- vers and Take Coin and Jewelry. e Daring Felony Completed, They Back Out of Store and Succeed -in Making Their Escape. Vol i Two desperate men committed a dar- | Ing robbery at the grocery and liquer | store at the northwest corner of Turk and Leavenworth streets at midnight | last night, and relieved the six men who were in the place of some fifty dollars and considerable jewelry. ' | The robbery was the most audacious | that has been reported to the police in | many years. Just at midnight two men walked into the grocery store, entered the saloon por- | ton of the place and covering the pro- prietor, John Bohner, with revolvers, commanded him to throw up his hands, ‘Wlth the threat that If he refused he | would be filled full of lead. Both men had their faces covered with ately consulted his attorney, Thomas D. Riordan, who proceeded to Instruct his cilent on his community Interest rights as bearing particularly on the Pearl lodg- ing-house. It was suggested to Ashmore that he had better implant himself at | once behtnd the counter of the lodging- | house office for the purpose of seeing that his interests in the place were prop- | erly cared for. | SECURES THE CASH. | Accepting the advice, he engaged the | services of a friend, and they started off for what later proved a scenc of a lively encounter between husband wife. Ap- | | | bandana handkerchiefs, with cnly their | eves showing. \ | "When Bohner was cdvered by the men | he thought that they were some boys | of the neighborhood who were joking [ with him, but the imperative demand of | one of the robbers to throw up his hands | had the desired effect. Bohner had & pls- | tol at the end of the bar, but with both men pointing their revolvers in his face he had no chance to reach for it. ©One of the thugs walked behind the bar | and took $% from the register. | VICTIMS OBEY ORDER. parently Mrs. Ashmore had anticipated his coming. Ashmore, arriving at the lodging-house, immediately endeavored to assert his rights by removing the cash from the drawer. He had barely con- | cealed it in his pockets, however, before | his wife appeared on the scene and a | second later they were mixing it in a lively manner. It was at thi$ stage of the proceedings that Attorney Butler, rep- resenting Mrs. Ashmore, and her big brother heralded their presence by fall- ing upon the husband, whom they forced into a room and throwing him on to a bed proceeded to recover the cash he had taken from the till, Beveral times, as the struggle proceed- ed, Ashmore tried to draw a pistol and finally succegded, but an effort o use it proved unavhiling, for, as was afterward discovered, a 10-cent piece had siipped into the aperture adjoining the chamber and prevented the operating of the trigger. After a hard tussle the wife managed to secure about half of the money which her husband had taken from the cash drawer, and then a truce was deciared. Ashmore was released frgm the grip of | his antagonists and was permitted to re- join his friend, who awaited him on the sidewalk. That Ashmore had been badly handled was evidenced by his ruffied appearance as he wained the sidewalk and a few whose attack he had not resented with | the physical force at his command. ! THREATENS ARREST. Although somewhat chagrined by his temporary defeat, he announced that he would carry the matter into the courts | to-day, and intimated that he might have | Attorney Butler arrested for battery. Discussing the affair last evening, Mrs. Ashmore was at first disposed to pooh- pooh the suggestion of a quarrel, but finally consented-to talk, giving her side of the affair with a bit of cdloring. She sald: My husband and I have not been living in | harmony for some time. He has proved un- hulh[ul.’ and for his wrong 1 have begun di- vorce proceedings against him. Yesterday he came to the house and after procuring the keys from the servant stated ihat he intended taking charge of the prer- jses. While we were talking in the hallway the dsor-bell rang and [ went to answer it ing to a desk unlocked the drawer in | Which 1 keep the money and procured $100. 1 hded “that he return the money, but he refused. 1 then calledl in my brother and Mr. Butler, who is acting as my attorney, to as- | sist me, and we succeeded in securing the re- | furn of @ porticn of the money. He then left the house, threatening to return with rein- | forcements. My husband and I have lived apart for some time, but this is the first time he has asserted any rights to the house or interfered with me in its management. ———e TELLS HOW PROMOTER WRIGHT JUGGLED ACCOUNTS Witness Shows the Method Used to Cover an Indebtedness of $8,017,280. LONDON, Aug. 25.—Arthur Russell, ex- aminer of the official recelver's office, who hgd charge of the liguidation of the Whit- a;er ‘Wright companies, was the principal witness to-day against Wright. He sald that at the end of November, 1900, the London and Globe was indebted to brok- | ers and jobbers to the amount of $8,017,280. | This liability, which did not appear on | the balance sheet December 5, 190, was transferred to the books of the sister companies, of which Wright was man- aging director. and Globe was dealing in shares of com- | and gol to which no capital had ever been sub- gcribed. Shares to the extent of more than $5,000,000 in companies of which Wright was managing director had no market value whatever. The case was continued. —————— TIMOTHY HOPKINS’ MOTHER DIES AT WOODLAND HOME WOOLAND, Aug. 2.—Mrs. Catherine Marston, the mother of Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of the late Mark Hop- kins, who came into possession of about $5,000,000 of his money through the terms of his will and subsequent litigation, died at her home in this city to-day. Timothy was the issue of a former marriage with Thomas Nolan, who died in Sacramento in the early '70's, His widow married the Jate H. F. Marston of this city, and she has ever since resided here. After hér second marriage her only sur- viving child by Nolan was adopted by the late Mark Hopkins and given his name. Mrs. Marston leaves four children, the issue of the second marriage. They are Mrs, Fannie Collins of San Francisco, H. F. and J. J. Marston and Mrs, J. M. Nelk of Woodland : ———————— First White Hanged in Sixty Years.. MEDIA, Pa., Aug. 2.—Robert Kilpat- rick was hanged in the jail yard here to- day for tne murder in February, 1902, of Elizabeth Bearmore, his housekeeper, He was the first white man to be executed in Delaware County in more than sixty years. bruises he had received from his wife, | In the meantime he entered the back parlor,] YOung men, each about In December the London | The young | Panies which had never been formed and | ‘With hus pistol still pointed at the pro- | prietors he backed away and leaving his | partner to hold Bohner under cover with | | his gun he went into the back room of | the place. Five men were seated at a { table playing a friendly game for the | drinks. The robber leveled his revolver at | the players and =ald that he was in need {of money «nd that if any of the partici- | pants in the game made a move he would { kil them. Bruce D. Kimmiss, a physician living at 201 Turk street, one of the play- ers, thinking that the robber was joking, sald, “I have $% and a good watch and chain. If you get it you are a good one." | The robber in stern tones replied: “Now, | I'm’ not kidding: cough up or I'll certain- ly put you to sleep for keeps."” Kimmiss realized that the man meant business and handed over his wealth and | his jeweiry. C. H. Lauders, who is as- sociated with Kimmiss, was the next vie- tim. On the thug's demand he handed over his watch and chain and 25 cents. | Charles Rust, a Grand Army of the Re- | public veteran, handed out a nickel and was lucky enough to hold out a valuable | gold watch and chain. | SIMPSON PARLEYS. | Chief Deputy Pax Coliector J. A. Simp- son was next commanded to hand out his valuables. When he told the desperado ! that all he had was the 2 cents on the | table in front of him.he was ordered to turn out his pockets. | About this time the other robber called upon. iis partner to hurry up and get out of the place. “Now, gentlemen, if any of you make a {move it's all day with you. We need | this money, otherwise we would be more lenfent with you,” sald the desperado calmly. Both men backed out of the ,door and when Dr. Kimmiss recovered \himself | |and ran to the ‘street they had dis- appeared. Pollce whistles were blown and Policemen P. J. McMannus and Tom ©O’'Connell were soon on the scene. Neither patrolman had seen any one in the neighborhood whom they could sus- | pect, and they were surprised when told of the affair. Detectives Wren and Bailey were sent | to investigate the case, but they have lit- | tle hopes of making an arrest. The victims describe the robbers as 25 years of age. | B | FOOTPAD CAPTURED | BY A POLICEMAN ; James Shea Attempts to Rob Sailor | William Stevens and Comes to Grief. James Shea, a notorious character, well known to the police, attempted to hold up Willlam Stevens, a sailor, on Paeific street, near Sansome, at 2 o'clock this morning. | Stevens' cries attracted Snecial Police- | man Gillen to the scene. At his approach Shea fled, followed by two shots from Gillen's revolver. He was captured a few minutes later by Policeman Joy on Pacific street, near Kearny. Stevens was badly beaten about the | head, but his {plurles are not serlous, | Bhea was locked up in the City Prison. ——— VOTE '.l.'O WITHDRAW FROM FRUIT EXCHANGE SAN BERNARDINO, Aug. 2%.—The San Bernardino County Fruit Exchange, rep- resenting local associations in all parts of this county, except the extreme west- ern, in session at Colton to-aay, voted to withdraw from the Southern California Fruit Exchange. This action was taken by the directors after the question had been referred to the separate exchanges for ratif.cation, and it means the first substantial defection from the co-opera- tive plan of marketing fruit which has been in vogue in Southern California for a dozen years. The San Bernardino County Exchange represents 660 carloads of citrus frult shipped last year, and It expects to con- trol 1500 to 2000 the coming season. It plans to market its fruit independent of either the exchange or the Citrus Unlon, both of which are represented in the Eastern markets by the California Fruit Agency, a joint selling concern. It is ad- mitted that it will cost the county ex- change more to market the fruit than it would the Southern Californ! . Exchange, on account of the much greater volume of its business. But the alleged arbitrary methods of the latter, in combining with theeCitrus Union to force independent growers Into the concern, led to a step which may be far-reaching and possibly lead to the demoralizas of the markets, Orchards controlled by the county -ex- change represent the best of this citrus dtstrict. —— . Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. » Tuesday, August 25. Stme Santa Cruz, Glelow, 13 hours from oss 2 DOMESTIC PORTS. Al EEA—Salled Aug 25—Schr A B TR Ay Balled ‘Aug 25—Schr West Home, for San Francisco. o MISTERY VELS [BOND ELEGTION BONER'S DENTH N SEPTEMBER Relatives of a Bridge|Geary Street Proposi- Builder Believe He tion to be Settled in ‘Was Poisoned. October. Police Asked to Investigate | Regular Municipal Contest His Fatal Ill- Is Third Event of the ness. Campaign. —_— ——— A searching investigation into the cause | Citizens of San Francisco should not of the death of Martin L. Bowers, a ioverlook the fact that two impoftant elec- | bridge builder, who died at the German | tions will take place before the regular | l-k'npltnl yesterday afternoon after a | municipal elect! On September 29| mysterious {llness of several weeks, will | twelve propositi for public improve- be made by the detectives and officials of | ments will be submitted to the people. the Coroner's office. Harry E. Bowers | The question will then be settled whether | l-::l s-m;eel:;fwf“' !tm:‘tlhera and :::x-r-l!:- bonds shall be issued to carry out these | v, vely, of the , ap- posed peared at the Coroner's office last even- (; e ST; 'gm 68 Jugsovement.. On | ing and made allegations that the de- | cuene’ o Geary-gtreet rallroad prop- | ceased came to his death by the adminis- | o on, W0 be submitted fo the Woters, } D v 5 election of | tratlon of a polson so sublle I Its ature | municipal officers for the ensulng two| a perlod of eleven weeks. Foave will ake pisce. ! According to the story told by the rela- | The Republicans stind an excellent | tives of the deceased to Deputy Coroner chance of winning nearly everything in| Michael Brown last evening, Bowers was | SIEht at the election for local officer taken 111 eleven weeks ago after partaking = ThiS bright prospéct of success is bring- of some ham. During his fliness he was | i08 out a leglon of candidates for the| treated by three physicians, who diag- favor of the nominating ccnvention. In| nosed his case as ptomaine polsoning. the matter of Supervisors a great deal| The statement of decedent’s brother and Of interest is manifested. Voters were | his wife is to the effect that the wife of assured when they were invited to sup-| Bowers, who resided at 370 Clementina street, purchased the ham after partak- ing of which Bowers was taken {ll. Upon her return home the deceased, they as- sert, partook of the ham and in about twenty minutes was taken violently ill. Dr. Dillon was called and attended to him for two weeks at his home, He was then removed to the Waldeck Sanitarium, where he was under the care of Dr. McLaughlin for four weeks, and returned to his home in an improved con- dition. Dr. Lagan was then called in, but, according to the statement of Harry | Bowers, refused to act as medical ad- | viser, owing to the fact that.Mrs. Bowers failed to give Bowers the medicine pre- | scribed. He rapidly grew worse and yes- | terday afternoon, Alta Lodge No. 106, I. 0. O. F., had him conveyed to the Ger- man Hospital, where he died at 4:30 p. m. The brother maintains that Bowers al- lowed his wife to retain possession of a | bankbaok calling for $3000 in the Hlbernla] Bank until recently, when, after a dis | agreement, he took the book from her by force and she threatened to get even. | The relatives also allege that (ke money | | was in Bowers' name, but that during port the delegates put forward by the clubs of the United Republican League | thal the Assembly district delegations| should settle the question of Superviso-| rial nominations. It happens that the number of Supervisors corresponds with | the number of Assembly districts, hence | it is probable that each district delega- tion will present to the convention the name of an indorsed candidate for the| Board of Supervisors. | It would_not cause a great deal of sur-| prige in pdlitical circles if General George Stone should become the Republican nom- inee for Mayor of San Francisco. His| merits as a possible candidate were con- sidered two years ago, but at that time he would not permit his name to go be-| fore the convention. His friends assert| that he would accept the nomination in | this campaign If the convention should decide te place him at the head of the ticket. & | ADJUTANT GENERAL. { At the present time he holds the re-| sponsible position of Adjutant General of | California, having been appointed by for-| mer Governor Gage to fill the vacancy the illness his wife induced him to place | caused by the death of General W. H.| it as community money. | Seamans. General Stone is a man of abil- Both Harry Bowers and his wife as- | ity and executive force, but it is a que serted that they belfeved that It was not ' tion whether he could adjust his busi- ptomaine poisoning that caused the death | ness affairs so that he could give all of of thelr relative, but some subtle drug | his time to the public service for a period administered with malice. | of two years. It is understood that he | The widow of the deceased could not asked to be relieved from thegduties of | be found at her residence last evening. ' the Adjutant Generalship shoftly after | William Mevyers, who conducts a saloon Governor Pardee was inaugurated, as he at 231 Fifth street, stated last night that gesired to give more time to the cement | Bowers had told him that his lliness was ' mapufacturing business in which he is caused by ham purchased by himself and jargely ¢ngaged. that his wife had also suffered after hav-| Henry J. Croc ing eaten a portion of it. | midable competitor for the Republican Fare: < qipsngatattiny o nomination for Mayor. Efforts were made KREUSHE . by his friends two years ago to get him b bk i | ln’lo the political arena, but he positively Details of orr fused to go in. that Charles W. Slack would make an ex- MONASTIR, European Turkey, Aug. %. cejlent Mayor, but his consent to run for —The once beautiful city of Kreushevo ' office cannot be obtained. It is the general is a heap of ruins. The women and chil- | talk that his nomination would be equiva- dren are homeless, exposed to the weath- | lent to his election. " | “A. B. Spreckels, another widely known er and famine. The tow is rendered un- | A B Spreceels Wil FOT Nime { inhabitable by the odor of corpses, | POBUAR FEPMV NI JiF e o be pre- | which are neglected, and gnawed by dogs | sented as a candidate for Mayor. He gives | | and pigs, the Turkish authorities refus- | , pegative answer to every delegation. { Ing to allow them to be removed under i quties as president of the Board of the pretext that an inquest will be held. | pari Commissioners are congenial and Kreushevo s eight hours distant from ' iie apout all the time he can give to Monastir. It contains 250 houses and 1000 | (pe public service. | inhabitants, mostly Vlacks, calling them- | gpeupen H. Lloyd has been declining gofyea Gimesks, nominations for Mayor ever since 1876, After making fortunes abroad by their and the habit of declining has so grown on diligence and economy they return 10, phym that he canmot break away from it.| gpend their wealth In Kreushevo, where hey own fine houses. furniture and jow- | FIELD OF ASPIRANTS. | ker may become a for- WERGHANTS TALK ON BOND IS Baldwin Would Increase Liquor License for Revenue. Phelan Says County Hospital Is Germ Breeder and Death Trap. There was a largely attended meeting last night at Golden Gate Hall, called by the Merchants' Assoclation with the ob- ject of considering the proposed bond is- | sue which is to be voted on next month by the citizens. Frank J. Symmes, presi- dent of the Merchants' Association, pre- sided. Though unable to attend, A. S. Baldwin ‘wrote, stating that he opposed the issu- ance of bonds for the construction of school bulldings, sewers or any other im- provement or purchase of land, because he thought that sufficlent revenue could be obtained after payment of salaries and the other expenses connected with the city government to provide for such improve- ments and acquisition of properties, pro- vided the retail liquor license should be increased to a sum corresponding with licanses in vogue_in other cities of the country. Baldwff went on to say that | during the last five years the assessment of real and persomal property had been increased about 320,000,000 and the tax- eaters. he continued, had kept steady eye upon the increase and had added a | suicient amount to the salary roll and to the list of employes to consume it all. Symmes spoke of the opportunity the citizens will have to vote on the proposed {ssue of bonds to the amount of $18,000,000 for city improvements. Judging from what many people were saying. sald Symmes, there seemed to be a lack of confidence in those who were liable to have the spending of the money, an as- sertion that prompted a volley of ap- plause, repeated again and again. Wheiher the lack of confidence was jus- tified or not, said Symmes, it must not be forgotten that extravagance exists and will continue to exist in all municipal at- fairs, which he said could not be conduct- ed exactly like a mereantile business. He asked if the merchants were pre- pared to go on another serifes of years with Schoolhouses a discredit to any first- class city, with sewers a patchwork, end to end, and a publie library in unfit quar- ters, and with parks and playgrounds ab- solutely below the standard of any first- class city. F. W. Dohrmann felt the bond issue ra- quired careful and serious consideration before reaching a final coneclusion. Ex-Mayor James D. Phelan approved a bond issue far as it _applied to new schools, a new City and County Hospital, | parks and playgrounds and a sclentific sewer system. He deplored the conditica of the City and County Hospital, which he described as a germ breeder and death- trap. Other speakers were Miss Catherine Hit- tell, City Engineer Grunsky and George Renner. —_——— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Aug. 2.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: James Flood, . and Martha M. Turner, 33, both of Oak- land; Wayne MeCloud, 2, San Franeisco, and Margaret L. Matthew, 23, Berkeley; Carsten F. Stromberg. 21, and Anna E. Eide, 21, both of Oakland; Jules J. Al- | tube, 37, and Amelie Altube, 31, both of San Francisco; Wilbur H. Halsey, 3, and Sophie E. Sohst, 25, both of Oakland. —————————— Chinese Convicted of Robbery. Chin Yeun and Yee Hung, Chinese high- binders, were convicted by a jury in Judge Cook's court yesterday on & charge of robbery, and will be sentenced on Sat- urd; On March 27 they went to a house at 5% St. Louls alley, knocked down Lai Sim, one of the women inmates and forci- bly took from her two bracelets and three gold rings of the value of $80. els. The Turkish inhabitants of the sur- rounding villages have long envied the | prosperity of Kreushevo. n July last the authorities of Kreushevo, observing the threatening movement, begged the | Vall of Monastir to send reinforcements, | There is a large field of Republican as- pirants for the County Clerkship. Talk of a complete readjustment of that de- partment of the municipal government meets with great favor. Among the prom- —————— | Stornebrink Will Recover. Louis Stornebrink, the young man who was accidentally shot in Mendocino Coun- | as the garrison of thirty soldiers was jpent names mentioned for the nomina- | ty on August 7 last, is making rapid prog- insufficient to cope with an insurgent at- tack. These warnings were ignored. On | August 2, the day fixed for the Bulgarian | attack on Kreushevo, while four mar- riages were being celebrated in the Greek | chureh, a number of Komstijas, by pre- arrangement, remained hidden in the church and were locked in by the sacris-| tan on the conclusion of the ceremony. | At 10 o'clock at night they sounded an | alarm by ringing the church bells. Simul- taneously a band of 300 insurgents headed by Peteroff entered the town, discharging their riffes. The terrified inhabitants remained in- | doors. The band first burned the resi- | dences of the Mudir and massacred the garrison of Turkish soldiers and officials | of the town, but the intruders spared the Turkish barems. | On the following thorning the Komstijas established a provisional Government and instituted a new police and municipality. They killed ten Christians, whom they be- lleved had betrayed their plans of the commissfon. The notables of the town were compelled to contribute $10,000 to.the revolutionary fund. The provisional Government constructed a rampart inclosing the town and the in-| habitants were ordered to melt down | thelr spoons to make bullets. The Turks, informed of the capture of the town, sent from Perlep three squad- rons of cavalry, which were attacked en route and compelled to retire with a loss of 100 killed. On ‘August 13 the Turks concentrated seven battalions and one battery on Kreushevo. They made an offer to the Komitaijitas to allow the women and chil- dren to leave town. This proposal was declined and the bombardment began. The Komitaijitas quickly abandoned the town and escaped to the neighboring forest, where pursuit was impossible. The Turks entered the town, and, gulded by Turkish villagers from the neighbor- hood, attacked the houses of the Greek notables and ordered the inmates to be searched and stripped. They seized the money and jewels and ravished the wo- men, those who resisted being killed. A Greek priest who sought to protect his daughter was killed. The girl's earrings were torn out andgher hand was chopped off to secure a bricelet. ‘When the houses had been pillaged the Turkish peasants loaded their horses with whatever the soldlers left and the resi- dences were burned. The sack of Kreus- hevo lasted three days. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The following Californjans are in New York: From San Francisco—J. Chamblebals, at the Grand | Union; F. Colburn, at the Manhattan; Mrs. W. T. Martin, at the Grenoble; E. J. Rateliffe and wife, at the Union Square; D. B. Sparks and Willlam Trainer, at the Bartholdl; G. Uhl Jr., at the Vietoria. From Los es—Rev. G. Quinan, at the St. Denis;: W. J. Barrett, at the Earl- ington; A. T. Crosby, at the Park Ave« nue; G. Mitchell and wife, at the Victorla. ——re e Mme. Humbert Appeals. PARIS, Aug. 25.—Madame Therese Humbert and her husband, Frederic Humbert, have signed an appeal to the Court of Cassation against the sentence passed upon them last Saturday. tion are those of Colanel Thomas O'Neil, | ress toward recovery and will soon be )d(:;jor Hugh T. Sime and State Senator | dismissed from the Lane Hospital, where John H. Nelson. he now lies. There is very little opposition in Demo- sl — cratie cireles to the nomination of Frank- | AUTOMOBILE | ‘::IGE‘EE;“:S o JORSE. — y E e Oscar Muesdoffe: lin K. Lane for Mayor. Yesterday a well-{ . i0; Gear the park vesterday afternoon known Democrat remarked: | their horse took fright at an automobile and “The programme is to nominate Lane. | ran away. A Muesdoffer was throws to the A printing office downtown is getting cut | ground an eut_on the - e was his picture, fifty feet wide and ome hun- | treated at the Fark Emergency Hospital dred feet high.” Thomas W. Hickey is the organization’s ADVERTISEMENTS. candidate for chairman of the Democratic BACKACHE. convention. Joseph E. O'Donnell will be put forward as an opposing candidate. Unless all signs fail there will be lively doings in the Democratic convention. District Attorney Byington's renomination is assured. The masterly activity of his deputies at the primary election brought geveral solid delegations to the Byington camp. The old Democratic plan of ap- pointing a speclal committee to select can- didates for the Board of Supervisors will not be set aside to please the district lead- ers. Franklin K. Lane may be permitted to name the whole bunch, after the fash- fon introduced by James D. Phelan. The advisory counctl, or central body, of the United Republican League will meet this evening to consider campaign sub- jects. This central body Is composed of the vice president and executive commit- teeman of each Assembly distriet club of | the league. Topics pertaining to registra- | tion will recelve special attention to-night. The league s desirous of getting every | Republican voter on the register. ————— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Postoffice Changes, Army Orders and Patents Issued Recently to Local Inventors. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Postoffice discon- tinued: Washington—Sappho, Clallam County, mail to Beaver. Postmaster commissioned: Backache is a forerunner and one of the most common symp- toms of kidney trouble and Thomas R, Strader, Miramar, womb displacement. Pourtn-class postmasters sppointed: cati-| READ MISS BOLLMAN'S EXPERIENGE. {a—Robert G. Altkin, Mount Hamilton, 4 e Clare. County, vice Listle Geodlow, re- | _ . Some time ago I was in a very signed; George Wilson, Merrill, Klamath Coun. | Weak condition, my work me ty, vice Frank . nervous and my back ached frightfull; y all the time, and I had terrible houi- Calitornia— . Brandon, resigned. Army orders—First Lieutenant Ben Lear Jr., Fifteenth Cavalry, will to commanding general, Department of California, for duty until further orders. Captain George W. Mc- Tver, ‘Seventh Infantry, upon being relieved recruiting service, Partland, Or.. by Cap- tain William Wallacs, will réport’ to San | Fra nelsco, thence to Philippines. Patents lssued to-day: %"fl'lfll—lo&l w. assign it Fraw- aches. ““ My mother got a bottle of Lydia E. P{nkhnm’go v ble Com- pound for me, and it seemed to strengthen my back and help me at once, and I did not get so tired as before. I continued to take it, and is brought health and strength to me, and I want to thank you for the it has done me.” —Missa Kite = Ax.k lgiznd St. & Wales Ave,, Y ty. — o Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures because it is the greatest known remedy for kidney and womb troubles. Every woman who is puzzled about her condition should write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., . Hamiin, ‘Patadens, grass lawnmowers; Sydney B. House, Saticoy, steam 4 assignor one-half to H. 'hill) San swing letters: Henry Tustin, vebicle nut wrench; El Los smelting _ fut Smyth, Berkeley. can n der N-n'm‘:é san L. Van attachment automatic leading machines: Wilflam R. Sny- der, Seattle, anvaratus for controlling move- meit of cars upon nclines. and tell her all,