The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1903, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCIS . HIRES 4 T0B T0 CARRY OFF HIS PLUNDER Enlisted Man Deserts With Government Property. n Thirty Miles of Copper Wire. et Oificials Send Out Searching Party, | but Fail to Strike Trail | of the Fugitive | Soldier. RIS S s Bimard, sergeant in the de-| charge of of electricity, ted States torpedo and, deserted a week ago last harles E. take the returned to rning re- nd colossal y denies , but ad- the army did take position ttle home his own 1 vard and honest are being made to way, though the ver be caught. tigation probably he next few days. ——— e | Suspected Footpads Booked. | Lester Good E. L. Good, the olding up a a Hayes reet last Friday he City prison ge of carrying| ied they were wore masks, to the evolver when —_———— lead Guilty to Burglary. William Foley and Albert Holz, each about 18 years of age, came up f Cook ester- | burglary. They i were ordered to ap- on November f October ? they en he Crescent Cor- 74 Market street by a special ey wanted to plead guilty Court. They were bell- m the East in search | | or ar- | the morning the prem: | SCOTT'S EMULSION. NOW IS THE TIME. Take Scott’'s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil now. Not next week or next month, but now. You need it to put fat on your bones and strength in your body to stand the cold and trying weather of | the next few months. Nine-tenths of the popula- tion would be benefited by taking Scott’s Emulsion regu- larly three times a day for a month or more every fall to fortify and strengthen the system against the cold and constant chan that occur through the winter. The benefit is particularly marked with young, delicate children. No food that they can take | | Simard Gets Away | after having « -mm:;\(ed‘ ft of 158,400 feet, or just thirty f copper wire belonging to the so far as I knew, | TRUST'S AGENTS THGE CONTROL Dupont Powder Com- bine Prepares to En- ter Local Field. Advent of the Big Concern May Lead to Changes in Managers. R. S. Pennison and James L. Hurd of Dover, representing the Dupont Pow- der Company combine, arrived from the East yesterday and are staying at the Palace. They have come West to take over the several powder compa- nies on this coast which were recently merged into the Dupont combine and will enter upon their duties to-day. It was stated last evening that Pen- niman is to assume charge of the coast interests, which include all the powder mills in this State except that of the Giant Company, which refused to en- ter the combine. His arrival here was followed by considerable speculation as | to whether changes are to be made in ment of the local concerns, ially the California Company’ at the head of which is John ingham, his son and J. F. Nes- The report is that there is to be mith. a centralization of management with its headquarters in this city and that this move will result in the lopping off of heads among the higher officials of rent companies. B coast territory of the combine is to extend as far east as Colorado and is expected to control the powder trade of this section of the United States. Plans r enlarging a number of the mills have been made already, and par- ticularly for supplying the demand of the United States Government for smokeless powder, for which the Du- pont Company has a contract. Shortly after his arrival here yester- day Penniman started for the interior with a view of thoroughly inspecting the various local properties that have been recently acquired by the combine. He expects'to return to the city in about three days. « —_—— HOCKS LEADS LOUGHERY FIVE VOTES IN NEW COUNT Discrepancy Discovered That Will in All Probability Give Him Two More. 12 the recent election Hocks now leads Loughery by five votes. There is a pos- sibility that he may gain two more in the returns of the Sixth A be One of the tally sheets of cinct gives a total vote of sixty- , while another gives a total difference The board et this morn- 0 try and ex- plain to the Election Commissioners how the error occurred and how the discrepancy of two votes crept in. The on made the following changes was to Loughery of this precinct ng at 10 Thirteenth Precinct of the ty-ninth Assembly District Crocker lost 5 and Wehe lost 5. In the Thirty-second Precinct of the Fortieth Assembly District Eggers lost 5. In the Ninth Precinct of the Fortieth Assembly District Sanderson gained 5. — SOME OF BALLIET'S MAIL IS* RELEASED Niagara Mine Not Included in the Recent Frapd Order of the Department. Postmaster Montague recently held up a quantity of mail addressed to the Niagara mine, in which Letson Balliet | is interested. Balliet made complaint | to the Postoffice Department at Wash- ington and laid stress on the fact that | the Niagara mine had not been includ- ed in the “fraud order” recently issued by the Postoffice Department against him and the White Star mines. Or- ders were received resterday by Post- master Montague to release the Niag- | | ara mail { In the yesterday morning, on motion of United | States District Attorney Woodworth, representing Postmaster Montague, the Postmaster was allowed a week's fur- ther time to appear and show cause why he should not be enjoined from | holding up mail addressed to Letson iBaHi(—t or the White Star mine. —_————— In the official count now going on of ' United States Circuit Court | CO CALL, TUESDAY, |CULLINGS OF ONE DAY FROM UT from the classic shades of Berkeley—comfertably warm shades—came Fred Hyres to a city where the chill breezes and the fog made him shudder and | shiver. For two days he fought against | the unpleasant weather and- then he | stole a stove. It was only a little gas heater, valued at $2 50, and the owner thereof was John Day. However, the predatory instincts of the Rerkeley | | gentleman were aroused and he went on his wey searching for some isolated | gas works that he might purioin to | supply fuel for his stolen acquisition. | Before he located the gas works the police located him and he appeared be- fore Judge Conlan yesierday to sing| the epic of the gasless heater and the chill east wind that drove him to crime. The Judge heard him and found him | _guilty of petty larceny. There will be | something coming to the Berkeiey man on Saturday. P 1 Many a cow will have to be sold to liquidate the expenses of the good time ) that Edward F. Snell, a cattle man from Santa Clara County, enjcyed Sun- | day night through the tenderloin dis- trict of the city. Having imbibed some decoction that impelled him to a course | of destruction he went on his way smashing window panes with his fists. | Before the strong reached for him he had broken three | | plateglass windows in as many dif- ferent establishments along Kearny street. When a policeman besought | him to desist he insisted on punching | the guardian of the law with the re-| sult that the windows of his scul were shattered some when he appeared be- fore Judge Mogan yesterday. The ar- resting officer said that the cattle man had paid for all the damage he had done. He was penitent and pleaded with | the Judge to let him go back again to his cattle range, where windows are not and destructive concoctions are re- placed by pure mountain streams. | After a lecture on the perils of going | astray in a large city Edward was ad- | vised to catch the first train back to | the range and then released. 25 it I Captain John Spillane and Policeman { J. J. Conlan were riding up Third street | Sunday afternoon, marveling at the beauty of the day and the peace and | quietude of the district south of the slot. Suddenly in the vicinity of How- ard street wild yells rent the air. The two officers fell off the car and rushed into what appeared to be a Panama revolution on a large scale. Out of a multitude of arms going like flails they dragged Tommy Snailha: putative prizefighter, and a newsboy named Armstrong, who had got so badly tangled up with his opponent that he couldn’t let loose. Both of them were taken to the Southern station, where it was found that Snailham had suf- fered a broken finger. Both Armstrong and the prizefighter appeared before Judge Mogan yesterday. *He tried to cave in me nut wid a cobble stone, Judge,” said Armstrong. “Den I mixed it wid him a little.” Captain Spillane bore out the newsboy's story and he was allowed to depart in peace. Snail- ham will get what's coming to him next Friday morning. . | | Thomas F. Keating told a tale of love militant to Judge Mogan yesterday. He had been arrested on complaint of Liz- zie Farrell for battery. The alleged battery occurred in a lodging-house at Fifth and Folsom streets Sunday night. Thomas told the Judge that Lizzie was “his rag.” “I love the goil, Judge,” he said, “and 1 never meant to hurt her. I'm goin’ to marry her.” Further de- posing, he told how he found her at the head of the stairs in the lodging-house “getting gay” with his hated rival. Then he threw her downstairs and went down and tried to throw her up again, but the burden was too heavy. So after Lizzie had been bounced around some she landed in the matron- ly bosom of the landlady, who drove the strenuous lover /forth into the street. All this Keating told the Judge, who reproved him strongly for his manner of wooing and found him guilty of battery. He will be assessed some corrective a’mnu.n( £n-nlormw morning. John F. Tyler met a stranger - and took him in. The stranger told the charitable man that his name was Ed- ward Burns and that he was strictly “‘up against it.” The birds of the air had their nests, he said, and the foxes their holes, but he (Burns) had naught whereon to lay his head. Tyler's com- passion was moved and he offered Burns the hospitality of his room at 66 Minna street and made him comforta- COURT OF APPEALS ble. Burns is a gambler and loves, the FINISHES ITS TERM | races, but he is willinz to gamblé on = anything. Wherefore he concluded to Stays of Mandates Granted in Sev-{:iflmm& t‘;;illhhhls bfd“"éac“’}l‘; ]H" bet | himse! at he coul eat Tyler wak- eral Cases Which Had Been ing up in the morning and he won. He Decided. arose first and took the stakes. They The United States Circuit Court of | consisted of a bank book calling for Appeals held a session yesterday morn- | $150 at the German Savings Bank. He ing and finished some tag ends of work | told the cashier that his name was Ty- remaining on the files. Sixty days'|ler and was gfven the money. Since stays of mandate were granted in the | then he has been rolling them high at following cases: Empire State-Idaho |the race track, but avoiding Tyler. Mining and Developing Company vs, | Consequently the latter swore out a Kennedy J. Hanley, Moore vs. Bank of British Columbia, Heckfeld vs. United States, Lena Walton vs. Wild Goose Mining Company. an appeal to the United States Su- preme Court was granted in the case of Marie Carrau against O’Callaghan and the appeal bond was fixed in th sum of $500,000, the real estate in issue being in the business center of Seattle | and very valuable. The court adjourned until the first Monday in February. —_——— Substitution Cases Argued. Four attorneys occupied the time of United States District Judge de Haven | yesterday in arguing demurrers, to the indictments charging Willilam F. Dasha, Thomas J. Dempsey, T. T. Bur- nett and three Chinese with conspiracy to land Chinese illegally In the United States. The arguments were made by W. Schooler, Bert Schlesinger, Samnel | M. Shortridge and W. West. The prin- | cipal ground of demurrer was that the indictments did not specify the datails of the alleged conspiracy. The matter was taken under advisement. —————————— Would-Be Burglars Sentenced. Henry Stiles and John /Niles, who were convicted by a jury in Judge Dunne’s court on a charge of an at- tempt to commit burglary, were sen- tenced yesterday. Stiles was sent to | warrant for the arrest of his false |, | friend and the police are him. looking for | All yesterday a pretty, brown-eyed | little girl wandered through the corri- ors of the Hall of Justice. Whenever some compassionate questioner ap- ! proached her she fled into the dark of | the women’s waiting room and sobbed | her heart out in the shadows. Her | mother; Mrs. Annie Pussi, who lives at 135 Henry street, was up for hearing before Judge Fritz on a charge of as- sault with 2 deadly weapon. The com- | plaining witness testified that Mrs. | Pussi had assaulted her with a butcher knife and cut her hand while endeavor- ing to slash her on the head. Mrs. Pus- POLICE COURTS OF THE CITY Criminals and Unfortunates Tell Their Troubles to Judges, Who Rigorously Treat Unworthy, Cheer Up the Meek ] and Lowly and Deal OutJustice Mercifullyand Impartially | Brick Wall Collapses spending a week in jail under a bond s0 high .that his friends could not lib- erate him, Judge Cabaniss fined him $40 yesterday, which amount was paid into the city treasury after some of the accused man’s friends had spent several hours raising the money. Levy was accused of having approached the Misses Angela and Alvenisa Satoris, aged 18 and 16 vears, who live with their parents at 1641 Howard street, and, seizing the elder one by the arm, made an indecent proposal to them. The girls testified that they tried to avoid him, but he foilowed them to a music studio on Geary street. They informed the professor of Levy's ob- Jjectionable al!@n[loau The professor summoned a police: , who arrested the “masher” in a nearby restaurant. The defendant had a number of wit- nesses to testify to his former good character, and in view of the fact that he had aiready spent a week in jail Judge Cabaniss leniently fixed the fine at $40. This punishment will probably be sufficient to hold Levy for a while and will serve a necessary warning to a large class of objectionable men who make it unsafe for women to walk the streets unescorted. > et ine George T. Querbock, charged with the murder of his flancee, Mrs. Annie Wil- son, at her home, 5 Capp street, was arraigned before Judge Fritz yester- day and instructed as to his righ’ - arm of the law | The further hearing of the case was | Of the brick wall in front remained in- set for November 23, when the result of the Coroner’s inquest will be known. Querbock is accused of kicking his af- flanced wife to death and cutting her wedding garments into shreds in a jealous rage. The autopsy surgeon stated in his report that the woman had died of fatty degeneration of the! heart. The mutilated clothes and the fact that Querbock had gone into hid- ing after the discovery of the woman's body: aroused the suspicion of the po- lice, who arrested him when he reap- peared. To the arresting officer he ad- mitted having kicked the woman sev- eral times and leaving her lying on the floor. His admissions resulted in a charge of murder agalnst him, the out- | come of which will probably depend on the result of the inquest. . e Conrad Kelth, an aged street sweeper, who is said to have in bank upward of | $25,000, was convicted of petty larceny ! in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday and will be sentenced Thursday. He was arrested several days ago by Detectives Taylor and Ryan because he had pur- chased a clock from a man who had stolen it. The police say that the aged sweeper had been in the habit of re- | ceiving stolen property and disposing ! Despite the wealth that Keith | of it. is possessed of, he refused to bail him- self out and lay in jail during the time his case was under consideration. Nelther would he hire an attorney. He asserts that if a fine is imposed he will | serve the time out rather than part | with any of his money. the strange, miserly He is one of characters unworthy to win it. - e Because they needed the money, John H. Gilmore, alias Morgan, and Michael Ryan, alias Golden, two typi- cal crooks, walloped a waiter named Adolph Miller on cramento street ‘Wednesday night until hd was helpless. They abstracted a $5 gold piece from Lis pocket and also took his new derby hat. As they fled up the street they plumped into the arms of a couple of burly policemen, who put them in a place where wallops are barred. Thence they came before Judge Conlan yester- day, charged with robbery and were bound over in the sum of $2000 each to answer to the Superior Court for their rigorous treatment of the home- ward bound waiter. oy Alfredo " Goling and Pedro Revers were held in $2000 bonds yesterday by Judge Conlan on the charge of bur-| glary. Sunday morning they forced an entrance to a jewelry store at 512 Broadway. Revers stood on the out- side to guard against surprises and his companion entered the store and began to ransack the premises. Before the pair secured any plunder they were surprised by Corporal Fraher and Po- licemen Holmes and Silver, who are usually to' be found whenever a crim- inal is plying his trade on the Barbary Coast. The intruders offered no ex- planation of their presence in the jewelry store and will have to answer to the charge of burglary in the Su- perfor Court. . . Yee Sing, who is accused of having killed a countryman named Yee Gee some months ago, over the winning of an Oriental maiden’s affections, is un- | dergoing his preliminary examination | for murder before Judge Mogan. | George H. Bahrs appears for the prose- | cution and Hiram Johnson for the de- fense. Yee Gee was shot twice from behind as he emerged from Ross Alley and fell on the curb of Washington ' street. Yee Sing was found some hours | later hiding on the roof of a China-| town gambling house, through which the witness testified the assassin had made his escape. The hearing will| probably last several days. | - . - [} Claude Jones, who, during the course of an argument in a saloon on Mason street, swatted Frank Brady on the head with a cuspidor in a rude and un- seemly manner, was fined $100 by Po- lice Judge Fritz yesterday. The charge originally was assault with a deadly weapon, but was reduced by consent of the prosecution. . | i An attachment was issued yesterday by Judge Fritz for the person of Grace Howard, the complaining witness in a criminal libel charge against Arthur G. Wheeler, a mining man, whom she accuses of circulating charges detri- mental to her character. Wheeler has been in custody for more than a week, si's appearance was so strange that Judge Fritz deemed it wise to have her held pending an examination by the Commissioners on Lunacy. Conse- quently he refused to reduce the origi; nal bond. The little girl wandered over the hall waiting for news from her father that the amount of the bond had being unable to secure bonds, and the complaining witness apparently would like to drop the matter. However, Judge tz wants to hear the rest of the testimony and will attempt to force the attendance of the complaining wit- ness if she can be :oung by the police. of a great city and counts no cost too great | to retain his gold and no method too | been raised. Occasionally she would | Archie Burton, John Quinn and John pay a visit 1o the jail and with as brave | McCarthy, three boys only 33 years a manner as she ¢ould summon would | 01d, Who are accused gf having stabbed assure her mother in Italian of the cer- | Martin Kruger, a grocery keeper on tainty of her release before night. In|Secdnd street, were up for arraign- the twilight the father came down and | ment before Judge Mogan yesterday, told his daughter that her mother must | but their cases went over until Novem- remain in jail all night. He had been | ber 23 to await the outcome of Kruger’'s unable to find the sureties. Then the | injuries. Reports from Dr. McGinty at little one's reart poured over. It was |St. Mary's Hospital showed that the Folsom penitentiary for two years and Niles to San Quentin for one year. They were arrested on the morning of begins to compare with Scott’'s Emulsion. Pure cod liver oil is scarce but if you get Scott’s Emul- sion you'll be sure tt:’iet only the purest and best We'Tl send you a sample free, upon request. SCOTT & BOWNE, 405 Pearl Street, New York. June 23 while attempting to break into the drugstore of E. J. Smith, 158 Eddy street. ——————————— Jordan Sues for Damages. Thomas J. Jordan, who last January ‘was severely beaten at Pythian Castle by a number of prominent coursing men, flled a suit for $32,000 yesterday. The defendants in the suit are John and James Grace, M. Nealon and John Holton. so lonesome, she sobbed, at home with- | injured grocery man would probably out her mother that she didn’t want to | die. Some testimony was taken tend- go back there. So overwhelming was | ing to show that the three young hood- her grief that some of the officials made | lums entered the bar of the grocery it possible for her to spend the night in | and demanded drinks, which Kruger Jail with her mother. Then the sunlight | refused to give them. They then went broke through her tears. It was a fa- | into the grocery portion of the estab- vor she had hardly hoped for—to spend | lishment and wrecked it. When Kruger a night in jail with her mother. The |attempted to eject them they attacked father says he is certain of obtaining | him with knives and wounded him four the sureties to-day for the release of | times, probably fatally. his wife. Prin il oyl Ao M VA - James O'Neill had a spot of white- Daniel Levy, a ladies’ tallor, will | wash on his shoulder and was there- probably “cut out” accosting women { fore arrested as a possible porch on the street for some time. After | climber last week by Detectives O'Dea, NOVEMBER 17, 1903. WORKMEN NEARLY BURIED ALIVE and Laborers Run for Lives. { Horse Is Half Covered by De- bris and Is Rescued With Difficulty. S=lES AT S Several workmen excavating a lot for !a new building at 653 Howard street | had a narrow escape from death yes- | terday afternoon. A 21-inch brick wall | supporting a frame house at 657 How- {ard street, next to the lot undergoing | excavation, suddenly crumbled and fell with a crash, burying a wagon and | half covering one of the horses with ! debris. The workmen saw the heavy | wall sagging and ran just in time to | escape being buried beneath tons of | brick and mortar. ! J. A. O'Brien, a contractor, was di- | recting the work of excavating the lot | for a new building. Both the lot and ihouse next to it are owned by A. | Gness of 401 Fourth street. There was | no ome living in the basement of the | house that collapsed, but the upper | storles were occupied by Mrs. E. J. | Lanzill. The fnmates of the house fled | into the street terror stricken when the | structure began to topple. A portion j tact and that was all that saved tha | whole building from falling into the | excavation. | The countractor and owner were un- | able to account for the sudden giving | way of the wall, but it is most likely that the workmen undermined it. The horses harnessed to the wagon | that was belng utilized for hauling away the excavated material were res- | cued from their perilous position with | difficulty. Work will be delayed on the | site until the house at 657 Howard | street can be substantially propped. —_— e —— SED OF BREAKING INTO CORNER GROCERY George F. Reed’s Story Is Discredited and He Is Booked for Burglary. While Policeman Desmond was pa- troling his beat on Howard street early vesterday morning he noticed that one of the windows_ in Conor Murphy’s grocery and saloon at the corner of Howard and Mary streets had been broken. He entered the place and dis- covered George F. Reed in the store. Desmond asked Reed what he was doing there and he replied that there had been a fight on Mary street and the window had been broken. As he knew the proprietor of th: store he thought he weould enter and make an investigation. The officer was not satisfled with Reed’s explanation and detained him till Murphy regched the stors. Murphy denied knowifg Reed and on looking over the premises a box of cigars and two bottles of whisky were found wrapped in paper, ready to he carried away. Reed was booked at the City Prison on a charge of burglary. —_—————— | Investigating Shaughnessy’s Death. | Detectives O'Dea and Mulcahey have | for the present concluded their investi- gation into the circumsrances attend- ing the death of John Shaughnessy, an @x-convict, on Sunday. An autopsy was made on the body by Dr. Baci- galupi yesterday and it showed that death was probably due to congestion of the lungs. As it was claimed that Shaughnessy said he had been drugged in a house on Grant avenue the stom- {ach was sent to the city chemist for | analysis. Meantime O. P. Danis and { William Doyle, who were drinking with | Shaughnessy in their room at 606 How- ard street on Sunday, are being de- tained in ‘“the tanks,” pendng the re- port of the chemist. ———ee—— Mrs. Bowers Arraigned. Mrs. Martha E. Bowers, charged with the murder of her husband, Martin L. Bowers, on August 25 by administering arsenic to him, was arraigred before Judge Cook yesterday. She was rep- resented by Attorney Frank Drury. The case was continued till Ncvember 21 to be set for trial. | @il il @ | Mulcahy, Reynolds and Ed Gibson. The further fact that he could give no explanation of his presence at Califor- nia and Laguna streets strengthened their suspicions. Developments in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday showed that O’Neill had stolen some valuable jewelry from the home of Mrs. Las- clottes at 1567 Jackson street and had presented the plunder to two men, one of this city and one of Sausalito. The jeweiry was recovered, but O'Neill | ACCU! \ FLAMES SLAY BABY PATIENT Cot Catches Fire While Nurse Is Absent From Chamber. Blaze Begins in a ‘Croup Screen” Surrounding the Bed. ADVERTISEMENTS. IMPORTANT T0 PIANO BUYERS Pommer-Eilers Music Co.’s Great Clearance Sale of Good Square Pianos — The = Money-Saving Piano Event of the Year—Sale —_— Eleven-months-old Ivy Powell died at the Children’s Hospital last Sunday; evening from the effects of burns ac- | cidentally received while she was un-| dergoing treatment for acute pneu- monia. | Miss Ethel Stafford, the nurse v\‘ho1 had charge of the case, was called from the chamber to answer a telephonic in- | quiry from the little patient’s parents, | and when she returned, ahout three| minutes later, a ‘croup screen” en-| vironing the cot upon which the little one lay was in flames and the coverlet was also ablaze. Hastily plucking the child from the burning couch the nurse found that its garment was smoldering | and she quickly wrapped it in a quilt| and then summoned help. Dr. Emma K. Willits and Superintendent of Nurses Catharine Brown promptly re- | sponded and, labored to alleyiate the baby’'s sufferings. Fifteen minutes later the child was dead. MYSTERY OF FIRE. The fire was caused in some way by a defective apparatus used for giving pneumonia patients inhalations of med- icated steam to accelerate their breath- ing. The contrivance consists of an ordinary kettle, heated by a gas stove placed upon a chair at the head of the cot. Attached to the orifice of the ket- tle is a tin pipe, -which conveys the steam to the interior of a ‘‘croup screen” surrounding the bed. This de- vice is used in most hospitals and at the Children’s Hospital the first accl- dent recorded against it resulted in the death of Baby Powell. | and Albert Powell, the father of the little victim, is a racetrack follower, | about a week ago he came here from Los Angeles with his wife and baby and took apartments at the Winchester House, on Third street. The little one | contracted a cold, and on Thursday her condition was so serious that the phy- sician in attendance had her sent to the Children’s Hospital. Saturday | night her temperature was 104 degrees and her breathing very labored, and Sunday morning her cot was inclosed by the “croup screen” and the medi- cated steam administered almost with- out intermission until 9:45 o’clock p. m., when the nurse was called away and | the fatal accident happened. PLAUSIBLE THEORY. The kettle contained a quart of water, half a teaspoonful of turpentine, five' drops of earbolic acid and five drops of oil of eucalyptus. It was at first thought that the kettle had exploded, but that theory does not account for | the blaze, as turpentine was the only combustible ingredient in the kettle, and its proportion was so small as to preclude possibility of the vapor catch- ing fire. A more reasonable hypothesis is that the flame of the stove was wafted to the “croup screen” by the draft made by the nurse openlng and closing the door when she wert to the telephone. An inexplicable phase of the matter was the melting of the solder at a joint of the tin pipe, several feet above the stove. While the child’s parents are dis- tracted with grief over the awful fate of their first-born, they do not attach blame to Miss Stafford or any one else connected with the hospital. The father stated yesterday that he will reserve his opinion until all the facts| are brought out at the inquest to-day Miss Stafford has been in the Chil- dren's Hospital about seven months, and prior to coming there had served | nine months as nurse in a hosoital at | Boulder, Colo. She is very highly spoken of by the Children's Hospital | | medical staff and Superintendent of | Nurses Brown, all of whom are at a loss to explain just how the fire orig-| inated. ———— WANTED ON CHARGES OF FELONY EMBEZZLEMENT f—— | +H. G. Schumacher, Jeweler, Is Placed Under Arrest in Los An- geles. Lasts Only Two Days—Best and Most Reliable Makes of Pianos at One-Third to One- Half Less Than Regular Prices —Easy Payments to Suit Pur- chasers—Interesting Informa- tion in Prices and Terms as Follows: We are constantly taking square planos in nge for uprights because uprights take D less of the parior space, yet square plancs are tuneful and fine. Is your room big enough? Come quickly, or write or phome. We never had so many good ones at one time and we must sell them in a hurry to gain room. To those who want & pfano for a child ng. or those who will have to trument in a year or two and ing of a goodly sum of money as & prime factor. this great clearance sale 3 of unquestfonable importance. This® sale of square ptanos at remarkable prices om ex- tremely easy payments will become & most popular_event in the history of plano selling in San Franctsco. This sale lasts but two days. It will pay you to make an early call to secure thess cholce barzains. STEINWAY—The “finest model of square fano Steinwa: produced: sold when at $500. Special sale price on this.$93 A plano of this quality will sell at regulas Steinway agencles for $250. ase, 7 1-3 oe- 3 e: carved legs Iyre; a that line that made a reputa CHICKERING—Ebon: full plate; heav legs and lyre; good care is e condition of this instrument yet musical; not noisy or “‘tinny." price ... » VOSE & SO color; 7 1 v _moderate use and dent from the extra good powertul, Sale Rosewood case, matural ves octagon legs: plain rame; good tome; only moderate power; fine condition through- out. Sale price .. FISCHER—Finest model of this price when new $300; sale price BEATTY—Full fron frame:; sound good condition; sweet tome; very touch. Sle DFICE v.ovvvernssnesnsereen STEINWAY—Rosewood. case, 7 1-3 octaves; second-hand squares of this old and well- known make are always good and this one is well preserved. It is smailer than the average square. Sale price. 378 VOSE & SON—Ebony case, 7 1-3 octaves: excels in volume and quality of tome and is an undersized square; We espe- clally commend it. Sale price... 67 HALL—Rosewood case, 7 1-3 octaves; squares of this make are famous; this 13 a good ome, sound as a dollar and up to their best average in quality of tone and power. Sale price 38 TERMS: All pianos are for sale on terms. of $8 down and $3 per month, and some instruments may be had for as liftle as $8 down and $2 per month. FULLY GUARANTEED. All planos guaranteed fully. Any instru- ment purchased at this sale may be exchanged within two years toward the purchase of an- other instrument if desired. If every ome this city could realize the exact situation it is nothing would be left for sale by Thurs- day night. 'Pommer-Eilers Music Co. | San Francisco's Busiest and Best Piano Stare. 653 MARKET STREET. Next to the Examiner Building. IT’'S NOT A STIMULANT YOU WANT, BUT A CURE. 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