The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1903, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 CAPTAIN MEYER FALGONER TIRES OF HIS POVERTY PPN SIS, Former Secretary of the Court of a Verdict in a Wife in the Lower Tribu Becomes Despondent Over*the Reversal by the éupreme SHOOTS JOURNEYS FAR Caledonians Ends His Life. SESRRSTR ) Writes to Deputy Coroner McCormick and Turns on the Gas. | e ory letter and Peter After writ and accountant iay WILLIAM WELCH FALLS 1903, SEAS WRECKING fson Is.Sustained. € ¢ sterday sumed practice ————— Receipts of Recorder’s Office. there was a total of Fflfi A ”WUHG[ Working on the Third Story of the Big Building on Nob HAHK BIH:UH Damage Suit Won by His Hill the Unfortunate Laborer Loses His Balance and Is - i B ; : s 4 : . : irty- S or. nal and Then Kills Himself| Violet Butler Tires of| Killed, His Skull Being Fractured by Thirty-Foot Fall | Proposed W a A 2 4 2 as Been Ties That Bind Her |+ : Vessel B to Husband Abandoned. | | Well Known New Yorker Is | | Hatches Are Washed Away " Accused by Wife of De- ! and Crafi’s Hold Fills sertion With Water. . o0 of saving Mrs. Violet Aubrey Butler, formerly i TTG";iTC;.h,(»:wen: as | well known throughout the country as | var! iffied, Copretigped s ol an actress, has asked a loca! court to sel Rock'a week ago, n 5 | grant her a divorce from Guy T. Butler, mote. % : = | clubman, athlete and well known man- ] e e b e | about-town of New York City. i which- represents the macine insuranc | Mrs. Butler has traveled 600 miles for | companip, Cuptutes Joh Nestentre, Ioenl | the purpose of instituting her sult for | L e p e feorason g s gt cppn | separation, which she bases on the. simple | ['[to try and save. the wrecked vessel. It | grounds of desertiorn, but on what pretext i‘ | was proposed to ‘m,—u“ u‘.‘ermn—fl 100 | she purposes to establish a residence:in tons of the vessel's cargo In 'V.\" T 3 to | Californta 15 to be determined during the | | ighten her and, at the fi:st available high ! progress of her suit. tide, for powerful tugs to attempt to pull | Mrs. Butler and a woman relative, ac- | | the:vessel from the rocks companled by a colored maid, arrived at | | Yesterday a barge witk longshoremen | the Palace Hotel last Saturday evening was towed to the vicinity of wreck by | and registered from London. For sev- ! a tug.and the intestion was tor the work eral days the two extravagantly dressed | of anmping part of the cargo of coal to | women were conspicuous figures atout po s plaw" - the hotel court and ladles’ grill, and much il b e yiala | speculation was indulged in as to their ity of Mfussel. Rock yesterday prevented identity and the real purpose of their | ‘ai‘ %fv»k »}:P‘n_ donie to Hgh lwls(l to this city. '+ bford. The tug and the lighter reciained | ENJOY THEIR VISIT. 1 in the vieinity of the Afternoon rides, rips to Chinatown, t | hours and then can theater engagements and late suppers oc- : bor, a1 cupled the greater part of their time until | H Captain John Metcalfe was aske :am | early vesterday, when the fact that Mrs. | 1 | night 1t the chances were -for. sav | Butler was here for the purpose of bring- | | | the Gifford. He replied that owi ing a sult against her husband became | . | | he seas which: have -w: | known. When the wife was asked concern- | vessel in the last twenty- | ing the report she emphatically denied it, { 1| prespects of savin | adding that it was all “tommyrot,” and uncertain. Her | refused to further discuss the subject. (%777 | | away and the vessel is f | Ten minutes later, however, Mrs. Butler, watér, and il now seeres as | her relative and their maid were hurried- tota abandoned. i |1y packing their trurks, and at 2:30 In / | Pending ' further - instructions om | | the afternoon a carriage was ordered and { | Lioyds, all proposed: work. to. save the | the trio started off for Monterey. kR vessel has $ | _When the woman left the hotel- Mrs.| se. | Butler remarked _that she would return | INCE work was begun of the big | e fn}:n [Thursday. 3uch to the surviise of Watrmont Matel e Year agn; birthe [ >y | the hotel attaches, however, the late p . . e train from Monterey lagt night ‘brought | crest 6f Nob. Hill. no ’“‘““5.‘“1. ! ri her has. heen. of | the two women and their maid back to. cidsnts had happened to any of " | : edssl 19 | the hotel, which they quietly eutered, the large force of.workmen: en- finally abandor t . up and, going -fo the parlor on the first floor, | gaged on ‘that structure until the death | | | money that she e N, port they asked that the clerk be sent to them. | o¢ Bridge Builder- William Welch yester- 11 - will be winz They explained that they did not want day" forenaon 5 3 PSS Wl WAL 2K their presence in the city made known| ‘- p gE g i - e NA a5 Aslinad to rigistor The stecl skefeton of three stories of the | | | ASKS SECRETARY OF NAVY structure-fs erected, and on the ‘top of.it Mrs. Butler and her relative. were ac- | companied back to the ¢ity by a-wealthy | resident of Washington, who . secured apartments at the Grand and later joined | the women at supper at'a downtown re- | sort. When -seen at midnight the gentle- ; man.dented all knowledge of Mrs. Butler's affairs.” Mrs, . "Butler's’ suit. was filed E parted for Monterey, folet Aubrey and Guy T. Butler in New York City on the after- roon of January .12, 185, was-an affair’ of conslderable note, as the graom w. then one of the most popular of the younger set'of the metropolis.” Butler had ‘a few months before inhertted a large estate through the death of his- mother, who was the widow of General Butler of 1 the- Confederate. army. She committed suicide at her Mount Kisco home. time of his mother's death Butler w roughing it in the wilds of Arizong anc New Mexico, where he hid participatec in- the Geroninio raids and made merry - with the bands of cowboys. He had pre- divorce suit and declined. to discuss her | At the | | TO HAVE. HAZING STOPPED | | M. D. Hyde of the Army and Navy ! League Says He Will Have Mat- ter Investigated. Hyde, commander Weleh was engaged at 8:39 o'clock whert | he lost his life.. Those who saw him just | before ‘he fell say he was. tightening up | the rivets in a steel beam and that’ the wreneh - sTippe@, caustng the unfortunate werkman .to *lose. his balance and’ fall His: descent was checked--by his:body s i striking a_ste¢l joist on the second ‘@oor, T Marcus D. the local br League of Cz & st | but it rebounded and fell te the ground, gram to the | which it strucle héad foremost. When:the “seas———— ot tat i | to. stop | body was reached by the nearest work- T 3 g E: % Ho enston I Acad- men - Welch vf;.s breathing. his last, his * | -TRON WORXER _WHO . WAS ,(:‘,“f > /m‘] v skull having been badly fractured. ° KILLED “BY A 'FALL FROM [ lately to the effect that the practic |~ Welch was 2% years old and 'unmaryied. BUILDING. become quite common at Academv | The " Bridge Builders’ Union will* take - | % | once again ané he says ne will 4o all in | charge of the remains. - = ** | his power to have it stopped | 3 DRORNORROR) e 3 ecgerecfenfocforosfonts £ Mr. Hyde 2 graduate of the Annapolis | * * R 4 . | school and he has aiways been: oppcaed to THREE-TON WEIGHT AMATEURS PREPARE TO { the anclent custom of hazing, se. long fn & IN: “BVERYMAN | [0Fce at the Naval Academy. When he CRUSHES A WORKER APPEAR IN B | }earned of the recent revival of the cus- S | tom, he at once set to work to try te Dramatic Club pf Genitlemen’s Sodali- ty to Give Complete Performance Fatal Accident to. Charles. Smith, a'| | { have it stopped. ’ Stane Cutter, While Engaged [ -3t was Mr. Hyde's intention to put ths cisco to positive énthusiz; Never Before Were We So Busy. fied the offite, "and- the bo } was taken to Morgu | Captaim Meyger's friends say that he had become -unduly despondent over the ac ir igned avout wife except that th agree ance. [ commander | erward of | Simce they left here seven years' ago | member of | little has been heard of Butler and his | had agreed to dis- | and had separated after a short . PR AT = = viously received a large sum of ‘money | in Drilling Holes. 1 ~ -“of Motality Play. j Mmbtiex i {ha h{»};* of the United S 9; mactes VETERAN PILOT WHO; MADE DBESPONDENT BY. BROOI FronmieDis Hthers antate,cbot hdw ""e"'} Cliarles §mith, a Stonecutter residing dt | A long contemplated produetion of the | Senators from this Stat cuci-aa ey | A LAWSUIT, WENT TO GDLDEN AND | ! ; |the corner of Church and Twenty-fifth | morality play, “Everyman,” by the Dra- | core tn BUToDe Bt the Tresent tms e ,,,‘,fl‘" g IJFE WITH A RE { .MEETS VIOLE’I" A'I!BREY~ ['streets, was ihstantly killed yesterday m"malic Club’ of” the Gentlemen's Fodalty | Navy by telegraph yusterday. Mr. iyda Upon his return to New: York City he| e siope yard at Second ahd King streets |-will be given fn St. Igpatjus College hail | states that if his messags does not have e —_— el i I,‘l‘"“;‘m;“"‘x"t‘l and A0 by a lirge block of sandstone, welghing | on.the evehings ot October 28.and 20 A Wit Ne T swat B o DRRIED because he wa nting a mew- trial ‘to the with during this g three tons, toppling over and crushing | Long before Frohman's. English “”"".f,?:;;;:::v:rzh# e S .61t of losing & lawsuit that he |ec ased ife against riod tl.him. Smith was engaged in dr 1‘.’\;; pany camie {0.this clty undes the manage. | ives . G the Hotel Savoy. About r ul 0 was then finishin oles in a flat block of sandstone, with [Mment o e : en dec! = ot irapdy. won 4 i v swed in - Louje Aldrich Theatel B hao EArol b oo 88 O St bs: b e advivecy of the ‘Gentlemen’s- So- Injured People Seek Damages. — P&t Tiouly We vator. sha 10 she. bronght wd was preparing ‘for a futy tric crane that was employed in lifting | dality Dramatic' Club tq present the| The following suits for damages wers . the best khown' pilots suit for dam t was® given t on the road with Rose the stone upon drays. The three-ton | Elizabethan drama and, to . follow -the | filed yesterday: Derry McGuire against Qur superb DlSp[ay Pacific Coast, sént a’ revolver ‘bullet into in" { Dertor ¢ warding her 4| lan's company. piece behind Smith was clutéhed by the | minutest ‘details of the play. There Wil | Extckoon & Pettersor, for $3000 for ir . his. brafn-at 10 o'clock: yestetday morning"| damages, 4nd the dafendants-fook an ap- | A mutual taney ended in the wedding | crane and the foreman shouted. to Smitn | be no-females in, the presentas vies received in a caveln at Ryndon, of in ‘Golden Gate .Park.” - . al t ‘the e Cou Pending the | of . Butler and Violet A v at the t dut of the way. Smith was very | Play Because there were no femal vada, while he was in their employ; Har- 2 At that hour Wert Carting of 756 First | appeal Mr er died and her -hushand | Church of St. Mary.. on ry 12 - A v in getting up, and just as_he. was | Productien in’ it origtal ‘form. - | ry.T. Jennings against Adolph Mever, for - was Wheellig a_baby carwdge’|-was substituted 4s. pluindft He was.| wedding breakfast at'the St. James Ho- | rising the ‘ponderous block which the | Will, Rowevet, be the same. or similar | 35,000 for injurics caused by o feactious rustic arbor. riorth. of the cey- reul that the death of -his wife had tel was folowed by a trfp to Florida, | crane hatl begun to lift toppled over upon't Stage accéssories.as seen in the presenta- |norse fast May; George Bowman againse lc urS thé repori of a re- red the case so far as the outcome of | yhence the young'couple journéved slow- | Smith's back., breaking the ‘spine’. and | tian by 'thé Londen compaay «of plivers. .| Huwe & Hippley, for $8289, for hurts in- proceéding in the directso retrial. was concerned and brooded uver | 1y out to this city and tegistered at the crushing the irunk and abdomen. | e s, e | Mcted by a falling scantling May + lasc; : 4w the dead bo u»»r\ ancholy mood impelled him | Palace Hotel. Butler “blew” his money | S S B SR Bl T ‘[',,\usn-anans are.migrating in large hum- [-and Thomas Sippola ;\ al‘nst the ('nmg: the .afbor <el p in the same reckléss manner as he did be- | papps 10 K ae bers to South Africa o accqunt of -the.| Samdstone Company, for injuries cause: And OUI’ MOcht : revolyer lying on-the ground c aptaln Meyer wns born in nd had | fore his marriage..and before he left here | m?;,';:’}:}]\\'mL ! Tty P 0“< ek 1 drouth in Westérn Queensland. It ,,“I‘,?!E,. a falling piece of stone in Colusa PrIces . .o right. hamd. A° powder-burne llowed theé sea since 1819, H ed | it was generally known among his more | killed while duck -hunting at ak this | mated that not less than £9,000,60 worsl | Chunty. in December, 18 Each of the stained holé. m- the cight tempie- sh- s om ihe Hng- | intimate friends that he had exhausted | norning, fourteen miles west-of Osden. ohe | of stock has_beenlost by dreuths dyring | plaintiffs. charges the defendants with Have aroused the ladies of San Fran- where ;thé ind St Sl o Ad fram:the | fearly ‘af) bis ready. cashiand. had fo-dp= | Woonl was Inictad. By A stray ahiot,. the | the past sev - yeard, *+* | neglect and carelessness. | ing- inform police, vho 1n {urn noti- de in 1863 peal’ to -acquaintapces for temporary as - = ADVERTISEMENTS. Lor the Supreme Uort_.last -Monday | MR. LEAKE REMEMBERED' E BY FORMER EMPLOYES Two Handsome Tokens Are Presented | to the Retiring Manager of R The Call. =4 The émploves of Thé.Call-on the’ occa- _slon of W..S. Leake's retirepjent ‘as mran ager of ‘the. paper essembled at’ the com posing rooms Wednesday evening and’ p 1 sented bim with two: handsome and val- | wable tokens of their esteem. The pres:-{ entation was pfompted by the feeling that’| those connected with The Call were:losing @ true friend: During the six yearf that Mr. Leake has been. in charge of the pa- per his relations wigh'all of his emmployes | were guch that,by his withdrawal, they | experiencel a parting from a° camrade | rather than an emnployer, -’ A book ‘of -autégraphs, ‘containing the | | signatiire of-each -perspn employed in the | various departments over - which Nr. | | Leaks has..presided, handsomely bound and fllustrated, was first presented.,Then | {'a watch-chafn and Jocket, mounted with a | magnificerit diamond, also’ a diamond | studded knife, were given him. W. J. Martin, the business manager of the pa- addressed - the .employes and. spoke the -regret the men congeoted with The Call felt at the determimatién of Mr, Leake to sever his connectiow with them. He then iptroduced John McNaught, who | succeeds Mr. Leake, and that gentleman made the presentation speech. °. When hé:had received the gifts the re- tiring mangger replied, emphasizing -his - -3 | sorrow at parting from his old employes, Eicians for halfa.century. Avosasehen - ] | and when he had concluded his remarks 8Bend for {ree boak of testimonials. ) godspeed ‘was ‘wished him in his new oc- JOUNETON, OLLOWAY & CC., Philadeiphia. cupation-and a fatewell .was. sald.". Ointment TO-DAY | We will make a speclal shewing | or Short Scarfs, - Medium Length Boas ™ | And Flat Stoles ‘ In the Very Fashionabie ! SQUIRREL || THE FURRIER Y 19 GRANT AVENUF | Hetakell's Otntment socomplishes saton- mhing cures of skin diseases, after the most Powerful internal remedies have failed. After bathing the partwith Heiskell's Soap | Gse Heiskell's Otntment and it will quickly remove all Blotches, Pimpier, Eruptions and Sores. Cures Tetter, peies, Sait Rbeum, Scald Head, lich, Ringworms, es, Barber's Itch : relieves and Ticers. P Sold Milk Below Standard.’ ‘Warrants were ordered issued by Health Officer O'Brien yesterday for the arrest | of Frank Straub, owner of a bakery at | 35 Duncam street; Joseph Kennel, keeper of a dalry on San Bruno road; Charles G. Ahlgren, ~hotel-keeper ~ at 247 Steuart | street; H. La Pachet, Alameda farm, and Johh Schwerin, restaurant-keeper at 85| | Bay street. Thex will be chasged with | baving in thelr possession milk below the | réquirgd standard. | C —— e | Church Fair a Succe; | The fair in aid of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, which opened at Ein- tracht.Hall, on Twelfth streef, last aight, attracted a large crowd, and the initial | day was a decided success.. The fair will | be contihued this afternoon and evening. | ~CUTLERY BRADE WARRANTED FOR BARBERS, BA- kers, boo*“lacks, bath- houses, biiliard tables, | hrewers. bookbinders, candy-makers, canners, dyers, flour milis, foundries, laundries, paper- bangers, printers, painters, shoe factories. stebiemen, tar-roofers, tanners, tallors, etc. The big Insurance companes are our custom- ers. Mysell-Rollins,22 Clay,first-class printers, ® o : 3 | monumeht to. the memory of the gremt | e ook Complains Against -composer,. Richard Wagner, was con- Captain of the Sailing Schooner tlucted-under 't pspices of Mme. Fabt Garms. .| in “Tgnhhauser’” with success. Those who | three hundred, which is a Zood audience | The case ‘was then continued until next ed experi He is now supposed to be-in New York. Mrs. Butler, although | | notof great beauty, dresses expensively | and is generally adorned with numerous | diamonds. - She is said to be a native of Sweden. i MME.. MUELLER HONORS : MEMORY OF COMPOSER San Francisco Admirers .of Richard | ‘Wagney Celebrate “Unveiling. of Statue at Berlin. 1 The celéebration of the unveiling of the | e DAMAGES WANTED FOR’ : SPOILED LINOLEUM Also' a Sea C The John Breuner Company filed a libel yesterday in the United States District Court against the bark Jacobson to re- cover $1168 damages alleged to have been Inflicted upon a cargo of lineoleum by reason of careless stowing. . The sult of John W, Pearston against M. C. Harrison as owner of the sailing schooner W. F.-Garms was begun before United States District Jufige de Haven yesterday without a jury. The suit was brought to recover $300 .damages for breach of coptract, Pearston alleging that though his passage had been paid on the Garms from Manila to Port Townsend, Captain Péterson of the Garms put him ashore at Manila because he refused to sign articles as one of the crew. The trial will be eontinued to-day. W. Dighy Johnston appears for Pearston, who is a sea cbok, gnd W. H. Hutton for the cap- tain, Mueller last, evening at L fore an entbusiastic composer’'s admirers: Mme. obri Muéllér was one of the first women’ to appear beforz the San Franelsco public in, Wagnerian opera; and in fhe year 1576 sang the part of Elizabeth c Hall be- St the great house remember Mrhe. Mueller as she appeared fn the part showed that thev hag not forgotten her by the enthusigsm displayed | on her introduction, last evéning. Mr. Hoffmann made the introductery address, dealing with the life of Wagner from the, time of his birth to his death. Several _stercopticon views followed, -showing the home of Wagner and his last resting place. The selectioms were: March from “Tannhauser”; scene from thitd act of “Tannhauser”: scene fro “‘Gotterdammerung”; “Albumablatt’; ov ture, “Rienzi”;" spinning chorus from “Fl¥ing Dutchman.’’ £ The spinning -song was given by the ladies’ class of Miss Meyerinck and the rendition of the chorus was exceptionally good. The attendance is estimated at about ——— Looks Like Desertion. ‘What looks like a heartless case of de- sertion was reported to police headquar- ters yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Willlam Titus, 161 Chenery street, called and said that her husband, who is a lgundryman, took all the money there was in the house on Saturday night, saying he was going out to buy some groceries, and she had not seen or heard of him since. They had been married five months and she is in a delicate condition. She could not account for his absence. He is 34 years of age; 5 feet 9 inches tall, of light com- plexion and has brown hair and slight mustache and is slim of build. —_—— Patriotic Banquet. The California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has appointed a committee to arrange for a banquet in commemoration of the disbanding of the Continental army on the 18th of October,- 1783, It will probably be given on Octo- ber 22. Among toasts to be responded to will be, “Patriotism and love of country #re the strongest bulwarks for the preser- vation of the National Government” and “The independence of the American col- onies was a benefit and a blessing o England.” __ ek considering the seafing capacity of the small theater. e * Expert Says Duffy Signed Deed. Theodore Kytka, the handwriting ex- pert, was the only witness examined yes- terday in the suit of Thomas - Duffy against Jafet Lindeberg, which is on trial before a jury in Judge Graham’'s court. Tuesday. Kytka swore that the signature on the. deed of the mining property in- volved in the suit is in Duffy’s hand. Duffy claims that he never signed the document, P R Annual Moonlight Excursion. The annual moonlight bay excursion of the Young Men's Christlan Association will take place this evening. The steamer General Frisble has been chartered for the occasion and will leave Mission-street pler at 8 o’clock. The party .will be taken to El Campo. Refreshments will be served on board the boat, ; ‘are volunteefif- Hence the vast army who ; smole the ~ Enlist Now—and . . 'SAVE THE BANDS ‘Two Bands from RECRUIT CIGARS are equal to one tag from STAR Tobacco in securing presents.