The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1903, Page 14

fAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1903, WILL MAKE THE MOUNTAINS RESOUND POLIGE BELIEVE WITH MELODIES OF THE FATHERLAND MEN HAD FIGHT Harmonie Singing Society to Hold Three Days’ Outing in|Little Faith Placed in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Many Pleasures Are Anticipated by Members Who Are d % Preparing to Atten THE PLACEIIGN N CureTETTE e o S PLRCESTAI, B PLAGEATAN, Wt PLAGErT AN Amo T S @ =7 /7 8 [ 3 | e EER o PLAGENIA NI L] OCEAN CLAMS | YOUNG STUDENT FOUR PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE POPULAR HAR- MONIE SINGING SOCIETY. George Law Is Drowned |5 i MR G T W‘l“lle g 'imming jn NE hundre: nG fifty members ” | of the Harmonie Singing Society the Surf ] will leave to-morrow morning for Ben Lomond f three days’ | e This is their an s have been The ¢ last month in char; e . and this year's event pr e Halfws ass all others. | S i e " Diiah Harmonie Singing Society is com- | . : of leading Germans of this city ¥ s Olin M. | gothered together to sing the songs o I news- Fatherland. During their pape members will make Ben heir sweet melodies hotel. The affair is stric he & for men. The fair sex is barred, as they | might not be able to stand the strenuous | for to ception wi Harmonie Band ing the reception held at the h riety show w n A playlet wr by members will be presented to interesting No one at noon and at the hote iscourse music dur- 6:30 a wquet will later dance one of the This is said situations and arrive be h At and two hc 1l be given in the expects to get much sleep dur- the da outing. The mem- rs are out to have some fun and the to stay awake nights planning new three | s ¥ morning there will be a| . the members will take part| singing will augmented by | 1 - = A cocktail a | e Plagemar be handed | s fore breakfast. After the first| SRR will g0 to the picnic s 1 bowling, | rowing In the | > | without | evening there will be a vocal and instru- - . the fate | mental concert. The entert will o the p be continued on Monday morning. The ¢ ng erew members wi art for this city at 1:45 clock Mon afternoon. emann and his three broth- the famous ‘“Plage- going along to add ne time Advent Sent Speedily Back to Jail. 2 = had a charge of | . J inst him reduced to petty . ceny by Police Judge Mogan yester- nd he was sentenced to serve six in the County Jail. He was re- from jail last Tuesday morning r serving a six months’ term, and | within a few hours entered the room of Mrs. Germaine Delteil, 640 Howard st | and stole. her purse —_—— Grand Fall Opening Of Parisian Pattern Hat Bonnets, Tail- ! | ored Hats anda Novelties, Sept. 3, 4 and 5. Alpern’s Palace Millinery, 115 Stockton.* —_——— Insolvent Saloon Man. Hubbard, a = saloon-keeper street [ W. H of . e taken | Yreka, filed a petition in insolvency yes- home of rrell {.terday - in . the United States District r Court. He owes §779 and has no et: ADVERTISE: MENTS. ROOS BROS. have just received and have on ex- their latest Fall Fashions in Men’s Shirts, including grays hibition at their store andi show windows the the new in many novel designs. KEARN , at POST, e DLIGE HUNTING FOR EVIDENGE Suspected Saloon Foot- pads Are Not Yet Identified. Detectives Dinan and. Wren, who ar- rested John Smith Den ex-convicts long records sus- of being the two footpads who ated ir saloons of John Bohner, enth and 1345 e all to find the rooms occupied and on picion vesterday ¥ the two suspects in the hope of ob- taini some incriminating evidence in the of stolen watches. They were not who had a look at the two men dnesday night, told Chief Wittman < ‘almost mora ertain that n of the L but he car to it. One of the men who was in the saloon at the time ex- pressed the same opinion About half an hour before the hold-up Imers’ saloon on Tuesday night two n entered the grocery and saloon at the corner of Washington and Leaven- orth streets and had a drink. Two men were in the barroom at the time. The | actions of the aroused suspicion, for when they left t grocery one re- marked, “Well, 1 guess we will take a we watched and instead of taking a car they walked along Leaven- worth street in the direction of Sacra- mento. Th grocer and the two men who were in the room called at the City )n yesterday afternoon, but failed to iuentify either Smith or O'Brien the stran alf an hour t who had a drink about fore the Elmers hold-up. e COMPLETES ROAD FOR J. B. HAGGIN IN PERU | Engineer Welby, Who Constructed Line From Lima to Millionaire’s Copper Mines, Has Returned. A. E. Welby, one sof the best-known rail ad engineers in the country, who went to Peru a year ago to superintend the construction of a road for J. B. Hag- gin and his mining assoclates, returned | yesterday and is staying at the Occi- dental practi Hotel. The ro: which is now completed, extends frem Lima | eastward to the copper properties owned by the Haggin interests, a distance of ve mi It was started at an ation of 12,000 feet above the sea and s its terminous at an 2vation of 17,000 feet. The construction work was accomplished with considerable cifficulty, | but the builder had ample funds and he e force of native labor. The the road taps, Welby says, it runs as high as 40 per r. It took twelve months to complete the line and his work being done Welby has returned to California to join his family, which is sojourning in the rt of the State. Some the general superintend- e Rio Grande Western Raillroad d. he gained considerable notoriety by reforming miles of that line from standard gauge in one day. —_—————— Confirms Lower Court. In the case of B. G. Hurlburt, plaintiff, versus Eliza J. Arthur and Henry Miller, defendants, the Supreme Court finds that the judgment of the lower court was right and it is affirmed. The decision was rcudered by Justice Lorigan, with the concurrence of Justice McFarland and Chief Justice Beatty. In the case of Willilam Johnson, plain- tiff, versus D. H. Bibb Lumber Company, defendant, the Supreme Court found as follows: “The order denying the motion for a new trial is reversed.” The decision was rendered by Justice Lorigan and con- curred in by Justice McFarland and Jus- tice Henshaw. used ¢ mine e S Ry Woman Badly Beaten. E. D. Charters, a barkeeper at the Grand Hotel bar, was artested yesterday on a warrant issued by Police Judge Mo- gan charging him with battery. The com. plaining witness is Willlam Bailor, who alleges that Charters brutally beat Mrs. Kirby, landiady of the lodging- house at 29 Stockton street, on Wednes- day night. She was unable to leave her bed yesterday from the effects of the beating, and therefore she could not swear to the warrant herself. Charters was drunk, and after the attack on Mrs. Kirby he was arrested on Grant avenue by Poliecman Riehl for drunkenness. ——— Lundy pays the highest price for loose diamonds. 4 3d st. and 52 Market st. * O’'Brien, | Stories of Bowers Suspects. e Many Persons Will Testify at This Morning’s Inquest. e The police have come to the conclusion that the whole truth has not yet been told in regard to the meeting between Patrick Lervey and Martin Bowers when the latter arrived home unexpectedly | from Mare Island and found the former | visiting Mrs. Bowers. The woman, Ler- | vey and Mrs. McCallum of Portland, Or., all agree that there was no serious trou- ble. The neighbors assert that there was. Saloon-keeper Follis has ccme forward with the information that Bowers was informed by Harry Walsh that Mrs. Bowers was keeping company with Ler- | vey. Bowers immediately left his work { on Friday nighit and came home to find Lervey at the house. The ‘evidence is | conflicting as to what followed. Some | say Bowers did not show his displeasure ! and other say that there was a fight be- | tween the two men. | The next day Bowers partook of the { ham from Goetjen's grocery and fell into an illness from which he never recovered. Immediately after his death Lervey went | to the Bowers house and remained there | | until 4he day of his arrest. The police feel that a knowledge of the events fol- | lowing this meeting of the two men will | go far to solve the problem of Bowers' ! taking of. The statements of Mrs, Bowers and Lervey in regard to what happened that night are somewhat conflicting, although | both deny that there was a fight. Ler- | vey has told so many falsehoods that it | was no surprise yesterday to learn that he could play cards and that he could read his own name on the laundry bun- dles which were left for him at Follis' saloon. SAW SOME WHITE POWDER. Mrs. Harry Bowers stated last night | that she had seen her sister-in-law give the sick man some white powder. She ! | | | i | | { WOMAN ARRANGES HER FUNERAL AND THEN ENDS HER EXISTENCE Aged Mrs. Pertsch Dickers About the Price of Her Cremation, Pays the Bill, Leaves a Bribe for the Coroner and Expires| { WERLTHY WOMAN TAKES RER LIFE Temporary Aberration of Mind Drives Her to Suicide. o R did not know what it was at the time. She says that she has heard that arsenic| | comes in that form. The chemists found | | that the arsenic in the dead man’s stom- | {ach was arsenious acid. This poison fs | a white powder. | None of the attendants in the saloons | | of drinking in company .with Lervey will| { say that they ever heard any conversa- | tion in regard to the poisoned bridge | builder. Lervey and the woman were | quite affectionate and she generally paid for. the drin The District Attorney stated yesterday that he thought he should question John Cunningham again to ascertain why he attempted to show that he was the friend | of Bowers Instead of admitting that he | Nwas intimate with Mrs. Sutten. | The Chief of Police and the District At- | | torney are confident that the ham pur- | | chased at Goetjen's grocery was poisoned with arsenic by Mrs. Bowers. They not believed that she was sick, too, as she | bas stated, Both say that they feel that | they have enough evidence to secure a conviction alth h the detectives are still searching for cerroborative circum- stances. Charles True has told the Chief of Police that he was present when the bridge builder's watch was given to Cun- ! ningham and that the circumstances were as to!d by Mrs. Bowers. A. B. Loomis of Portland, Ore. nephew of the suspected woman, a in San Francisco yesterday and v his aunts in the city prison. He says he will remain here until after the pros- pective trial. TELL STORY TO-DAY. The Coroner's inquest will be held at {10 o'clock this morning at the Morgue Mrs. Sutton, Mrs. Bowers, Lervey, Cun- ningham and 411 of ‘the important wit- | n in the case will give their testi- mony. The Coroner, with the possible assistance of District Attorney Byington, will examine all of those who may have anything of importance to tell. | The jury will consist of W. E. Hanson, | do | | i 236 Montgomery street; Walter Knight, 331 Sacramento street; F. A. Zane, 2324 | Clay street; Roger D. Magee, Marin | County; H. A. Walsh, 973 Post street; Gilbert, Berkeley; F. R. Bur- vlor street; J. F. Walters, ght street; J. B. Brooks, 238 Mont- ; E. L. Fitzgerald, 207 Fost Holman, 1242 California J. Danziger, 606 Clay street. Professor Green and Chemist Morgan reported to the Coroner yesterday that i they had found more than four grains of arsenic in the dead man’s stomach. They | are now analyzing the medicines taken | from the Bowers house. | Detectives Coleman and Taylor are still trying to find some trace of the purchase of arsenic at a drug store by some of the parties supposed to be implicated in the | murder. Attorney Vaughn, who is conducting the defense, states that he has some in- | teresting evidence to produce at the trial. | He will not disclose the nature of this in- | formation. It is understcod that several | private detectives will be put on the case | by the friends of the suspected women. | | | | | | | | ————————— Suggests the Whipping Post. James Mitchell, a tailor, living at 3210 Steiner street, was arrested on Wednes- day night by Policeman Nye on a charge of beating his daughter Mary, a quiet, gentle girl. She and her sister were In | Police Judge Mogan's court yesterday when the case was called. Her face bore evidence of the beating she had received. | Policeman Nye said that Mitchell made it a practice to beat his daughters and his sister-in-law and that he often terror- ized the neighbors. The Judge said.the whipping post was the only thing adapt- ed for the punishment of such men as Mitchell, and he regretted it was not in vogue In this State. The case was con- tinued till September 8. —_———————— Southern Pacific Makes Low Rates to California—Colonist Rates Go In Again. The Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and connecting railroads, taking independent action, will put colonist rates into effect daily, commencing September 15 and last- ing until November 30, in order to bring settlers to this State. These rates are; From Sioux City, Omaha, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Leavenworth and Houston, $25; from St. Louls and New Orleans, $30; from Peoria, §1; from Bloomington, $32; Chicago, $33. ——————— Union Convention on Labor Day. California organizations of the Western Federation of Miners, United Brotherhood of Raiiway Employes and all local un- ions of the American Labor Usion are to hold their first State convention at Assembly Hall, Parrott building, on La- bor day. Delegates will be present from various parts of the State. Pacific Coast | Musicians’ Union, Local No. 8, has de- cided to affiliate directly with the Ameri- can Labor Union and will retain its na- | tional affiliation. The union has béen or- ganized independently of the A. F. of L. for the last four years and was formerly affiliated with the Knights of Labor. in which Mrs. Bowers was in the habit | | body and tied up in separate packages AGED WOMAN WHO ARRANGED FOR CREMATION OF HER RE- MAINS, THEN KILLED HERSELF. oner and $1 for the landlady for med in killing he Verdier, landlady house, 781 Folsom street, of the lodging- melled the odor of illuminating gas proceeding from the direetion of room occupied by Mrs. | Pertsch. She gave the alarm and when . | the door was forced open the dead body e ——— % | of Mrs. Pertsch was found bed. Her EFORE aged Mrs. L. Pertsch | clothing lay on a chair, neatly folded, and several notes written by the dead woman on the table. USED RUBBER TUBE. A rubber tube extended from a gas | burner to the mouth of the suicide and a 1 aopy S | handkerchief tied under her ch the sums of money she wanted t0 DAY !, 5003 the top of her head b the undertaker, the Coroner and her land- | gept the mouth closed. The notes were lady written in German and are transiated as About three weeks ago Mrs. Pertsch | follows: turned on the gas and lay down | to die at 2 o'clock yesterday morning she had carefuily ar- ranged for the disposition of her sited an undertaker and inquired | Thurs e | as to the cost of cremating a “!:,hmx | body in an inexpensive manner | i and she left full directions as to the | body to the disposition of her body, together with the | youGiaeh, Yaase My, best thanks 1 send money for the undertaker, $5 for the Cor- | vor for not taking my body to the Morg: —— e Another note stated that in a i tin box ADVERTISEMENTS. in her trunk was $8 for Undertaker PRI~ e il s A e AP a3 | haass, $5 for the Coroner and $1 for the | landlad Undertaker Maass received through the | SORE HANDS mails yesterday morning a note in Ger- man, of which the following is a trans- lation: undertaker—Please call | —_— ng, September 3, at room | street, and ask for Mrs. Itching, Burning Palms, Painful Finger Ends, With Brittle, Shapeless, Discolored Nails, As Well asfimglmsss and Hednpss. ide was 70 years old and evi- a native of Germa as she spoke English but imperfectly She had been rooming at Mrs. Verdier's for about a month. Nothing is known of her antece- dents or famil About three weeks ago she called on Undertaker Maass and in quired as to the cost of cremating a body. that a lady friend of hers » that her husband was poor and fford an expensive buri: All that she wanted was & plain box. The | undertaker informed -her that the body | could be cremated at a total cost of $50. VISITS UNDERTAKER. She returned three days later and re- | quested the undertaker to write the terms as he had stated and he made a memo- randum on the back of one of his cards, which she took with her. The following is a translation of the s note left for Mr. Maass: Mr. Maass: I set aside fifty dollars for the | cremation of my body, including coffin and at- tendance, as-in accordance with my inquiry |1 add an additional eight dollars for extra One Night Treatment with Cauti- cura, the Great Skin cqre. Soak the handson retiringin & strong, hot, creamy lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry and anoint freely with Cuticura Olntment, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, or bandage lightly in old, soft cotton or linen. For red, rough and chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with brittle, shapeless nails and painful finger ends, thistreatmentis simply wonderful, fre- quently curing in a single application. Complete local and constitutional treatment for cvery humour of the skin, scalp and blood. with loss of hair, may now be hdd for one dollar. Bathe with hot water and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the surface of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and apply Cuti- cura Ointment freely, to allay itiching, irritation and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and lastly, take the Cuticura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse theblood. This treatment affords instant relief, rmlu rest and sleep in the severest 'orms of Eczema and other itching, burning and scaly humours, and points to-a speedy, permanent and economical cure of torturing, disfiguring humours, from pimples to Scrofula, from infancy to age, when all other remedies and the best physiclans fail. i body. A’ high state of nervousness and physical | afiments comyvels me to dle. I have no rela- tions. —Tin- box In trunk. Mr. Maass, . please | tell my landlady to be quiet and say nothing, as the money is in the tin box, $38 for v $5 for the Coroner and $1 for the landlady for | the use of the gas. I pald my rent in advance to-day. The key is the upper ender under the | trunk. Mr. Maass, please be so kind and re this missive to the Coronmer In case he can read German. Mrs. Verdier was unable to throw any | light on the woman's antecedents and Deputy Coroner Michael Brown could not learn anything as to her history. The Coroner ordered that the wishes of the dead woman be respected and the body was turned over to Undertaker Maass. ———e—— Wantéd More Liquor. } John Lynch and John Murphy, marine | firemen, were arrested at an early hour | vesterday morning by Policeman Burns | on a charge of burglary. They were in-| structed by Police Judge Cabaniss ves- | terday and the case was continued till tos | day. They had been drinking and en- gaged a room at 27 Vallejo street, where | another man was asleep. They wanted | more liquor, and carried away the other | man's clothing to pledge it for more drinks, for which they were arrested. L —_—— Death of Daniel E. Brewster. Dantel E. Brewster, clerk for Thornley & €o., customs brokers, died yesterday morning in this city after a long illness. i Mr. Brewster was one of the most gemial and popular men on the floor of the Cus- —_———— By our works we are known. Good printing vays you. Myzell-Rollins, 22 Clay, printers. ¢ tom-house. He came here about twalve | e e v f the steamshis throuehout the world, years ago as purser of D flfi.cunn“""c"‘"m? T Chenwinowe | Scandinavia, and worked for the Pacific wfln “hm'u.?-'h.mm Ave | Mail Steamship Company and the Oceanic Every o line. | her. | volver | made an | given to keep | twenty-three help which may be necessary for carrying my | « |Mrs. Nathan Cahn Found Dying in a Closet by a Servant. AT a8 Evidently suffering from ten fit of mental aberration, Mrs. S Cabn, wife of ‘Nathan Cahn, a w retired dry goods merchant living at 0 Fell street, herself through the art at §:40 o'clock yesterday morning dted almost instantly. Mr. Cahn ate his breakfast alc Mrs. & remaining in her apartments. He was fn a room in the front part of the house when the attention of himself and Marfe Hinard, one of the servants, w ted by the noise of a ant | rushed to a jproom the sound had issued and four iy of her mistress lying face downward the floor, her garments stamed with od, She called Dr. W. A. Martin. who resides next deor. When he arrived the unfort- e woman was gasping in the throes death Investigation showed that she had cured an old revolver which had been around the house for years and, seek- ing tbe closet, had pressed the muzzle of the weapon to her left breast and fired. The bullet went through the body, and struck the wainscoating behind Underneath t body the re- was found. Mr. Martin no- the Coroner and Deputy Brown investigation. At the request d family permission was the body at the house. was born ig France forty- ago and had been married vears. o cause beyond mental derangement can account for the i a beautiful home, a de- i and a large circle of lov- and had never indicated in way that she was dissatisfled with 1 She attended a meeting of the French Society Wednesday afternoon and passed the evening at the residence of her brother, Joseph M. Willard, at 1820 Pine street. At both pla e seemed to be in the best of spirits After her death a note written by her mn French was found, of which the follow- ing is a translation: T> My Beloved Nathan: You had reason, my tified of the berea Mrs, eight Cahn years ing friends ny ged these ve me, my dear Nathan, I cause thee and em- 3 all my own. Adfeu. A thousand ki from thy EPHORE. Her brother, Joseph M. Willard, said that his sister had absolutely no cause for taking her life. “She was rich, adored by her husband, family and friends and of exceedingly happy disposition,™ the bereaved husband, twenty yvears his wife’s senior, prostrated by the shock, and the at- that he may not w reported to is ion. ——————————— Santa Fe Road Censured. In the inquest yesterday on the body 3. Naghta, a Japanese, Injured by be- ing struck Santa Fe train and whe died on August 6 in the German Hos- pital, the jury added to their verdict the following: “Caused by Rallroad a carélessness of the Santa Company and employes of Fe said compan) ADVERTISEMENTS. FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND TUESDAY We Labor Stockton Best P pounds each T o I otat ges, sack $1.45 large and clean. ok at or sample. de. 113 We I some boiled to SH, FAVORITE ) 5 e PK W T large sqs 38¢ MASON JARS, \1".\R"[;. Lf T bars 25¢ Usually Se. Best Butte Best Laundry Soap, Full weight, better than Babbit , 8 gt. bot, 49 Usually 65c. ro. 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