The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1903, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1903. WOMAN FALLS 10 HER DEATH Aged Inmate of the German Altenheim Plunges Out a Window in Second Story | | | | | of NURSE SEES BODY DROP! RS * S veed Mrs. Anna Scherb Loses Her | Life a Room While Groping About at Fruitvale Home N Call, 16 Oakland Office San Francisco 1118 Broadway, Dec Mrs. Anna Scherb, 78 years oid, fell forty feet from the second story of the German Altenheim, Fruity at 1:30 >k this morning and was instantiy Shortly before aceident occurred Mrs. Bergin, an attendant at the home, the aged woman moving about Mrs. Be also heard ned in Mrs. Scherb's he nurse rushed to her ant to d out rom failing it is sup- posed f t of the window while her room. The dead an inmate of the home She was a native of here are no relatives in roner Mehrmann took e POSTMASTER LEYDECKER DENIES ACCUSATIONS Claims That Charges Made by Dis- charged Clerk Are Without i tion and Malicious. ALLA DA, D 16 O Nissen, good of t jecke bénelit of Ala- ited aects of disobe- tions of the rules and of letter cz many stamps Alameda ould have sold as m inured to the good e for the peop ays a nd expansion of the local depart- ent. 1 have never solicited the sale of stamps to outsiders, as I well knew such action would be in direct he postal rules. Nissen's e not only baseless, but a desire to get even im discharged from service were pro ecause I ke Gov JOCKEY WARD WRECKS A LOCK-UP FORMER Police Claim the Pardoned Slayer of John Keliv Has Committed a State Prison Offense. XD, Dec. 16. — Richard mer jockey, who was par- ed former Governor Gage after ng a ten years' sen- 1 penitentiary for X g J t the old Bay Dis- a in serious trouble with the Ward was sted 1 1 s. While co tempor in the West Oakland awaiting transfer to the City smash- Ward wrecked the ce , and thereby, according e, committed an offense prisonment in a of Police Wil- tion to-morrow osecuting Attor A. P. Leach r complaint against Ward. Ac- rding to the former jockey’s brother, rd is insane. it asinsspmor ANNA ROSS REFUSES TO SURRENDER HER SON pta n appli ke ey w Deciines Offer From Alameda People Who Would Take Her Offspring Into Their Household. OAKLAND, Dec. 16—Miss Anna convicted of murder, and by the of a jury condemned to life isonment, has refused to vonsent to adoption of her nine-year-old boy Angus Melnerny and his sister, Mrs. M. Williams, of Alameda. She has cided that the home where he now » Ban Francisco is the Leet place him Mrs. Ross will anpear for ten Frid dict arriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Dec. 16.—The following iage licenses were issued by the rk to-day: Samuel W. Mc- : and Rosemond A. Jorgenson, both of Walnut Creek; John 4 An- derson, 41, and Matilda C. Wilson, 37, both of San Francisco; Charles H. Bil- lington and Lillian Maggio, 26, hoth of San Francisco; Robert I 18, both of San Francisco: Robert E. C bb, 23, and Luella L. Benjamin, 24, both of Oakland; William F. Wild- erson, 25, and Jessie E. Campbell, 22, both of Oakland. ————— Death of Aged Widow. OAKLAND, Dec. 16.—Mrs. Caroline A. Burney, an old resident of this city, died last night at the home of her drughter, Mrs. W. J. Jenkins, in Fruit- vale, at the age of 80 years. The re- mains will be sent to Burneyville, in the San Joaguin Valiey, which town named after the husband of de- ceased, Major Burney, for interment. ———— Gaylor on Second Trial. OAKLAND, Dec. 16.—The recand trial of Charies T. Gaylor for burglary was bezun before Judge Elisworth to-day. Gaylor was caught in a closet in the home of Professor Wilkinson of Berke- ley on the night of Septembwr 1. He n, over 21, and Lillian M. Stamer, | pleaded that he was drunk at his first | trial and the jury disagreed as to a verdict. — s Our frame department is showing a vew line of frames in gilt. osk and souveau finishes. Good for Christ nborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st, ® i i ~ AROUSES ANGER ARREST OF B0 Howard K. James, Collector of Bills, Accuses Henry James of Crime of Embezzlement ——eats MATTER UNDER INQUIRY Sl Justice of Peace Requests| District Attorney’s Office | to Investigate Proceeding ALAMEDA, Dec. 16—Circumstances surrounding the arrest of Henry James, | a n a charge of embezzling $10 | from D. Rogers, publisher of the Alameda Tidings, have caused Jus-| tice of the Peace F. S. Cone to request | District Attorney Allen to make a| thorough investigation of the case.| Particularly has Judge Cone urged that there complete inquiry into | the reasons why Attorney Howard K. | James swore to a complaint -harging“ boy, shall be z client collector’s actions therein. ! ding to the complaint on file in | Cone's court, Attorney James, that the $10 was embezzled while | boy was in Rogers’ employ. Now | the accused youth and denies flatly that he was ever in Rogers’ em- | ploy. The boy denfes any embezzle- | ment, but says he owes Rogers $5 bal- | ance du on a $10 loan. 1 Rogers is unwilling to assume re- sponsibility for young James' arrest. torney James Insists that the pro- ding is reguls full investigation THE BOY'S STORY. Henry James says that some time ago he wed $10 from Rogers to pay to Sacramento and upon re- id back $5. Subsequently he| who asked him if he would | lance before Christmas and | thought he would be able to. | | r, and says he invites =aid he Then Howard K. James had his name- arrested and the boy declares the r said to him in court: “I have and it will be easier for you to fight the case.” The lways intended to pay A that Rogers told him tHorize Howard K. James | arrested, thus making it the world that he was an B. Tappan, to whom defendant went for advice, | ting the proceedings, said the »f a stigma of crime on the boy was a raceiul act. *This affair should be probed to the bottom and I for one will lend all the assist- | ance within my power,” he said. i H. K. JAMES' SIDE. | J. D. Rogers said he had loaned Henry James money at various times and that tae b back. that that to acc ment him Howard K. James said: “Henry was employed by Rogers to get tain money and turn it over to Rog- but he did not. Instead of doing 50 he decamped with the funds. When I had him arrestéd he wanted to square the action and I told him that if he| v had invariably paid it He had not yet paid back all loaned him on the last occa- | Rogers said. He would pot say | he autiorized Howard K. James | ry James of embezzle- effort to collect $5 from wa ¢ in his use Ji we rrange to repay the money and prove that he had no criminal intent 1 would ask the court to dismiss the charge. Justice of the Peace F. 8. Cone re- 15 his coanection with the matter thusly Howard <K. James made out the complaint against Henry James and swore to it before me. To-day he wanted to amend it so that the amount alleged to have been embezzled would read $5. 1 told the collcctor that I was not satisfied that all was straight in his proceeding thus far and set the en- tire matter for hearing to-morrow at 9 o'clock. Young James was closeted | with J. D. Rogers, H. K. James and | Attorney M. W. Simpson to-day and afterward called upon me and wanted | me to permit him to withdraw his plea | of not guilty end plead gulity. I would not permit any such action. I have no- tified the District Attorney's office of the case and to-morrow -expect to give the whole proceeding a thorough legal airing.” —_— GAS OVERCOMES A BERKELE DRUGGIST Tube to Heater Breaks and Escaping Fiuld Nearly Caunses the Death . Ewing. BERK Dec. 16.—J. A. Ew- | ing, proprietor of the University | Phaimacy, corner of Addison street | and Shdttuck avenue, was overcome | thie morning in his bedroom by gas aping from a broken tube connec- rion to a heater in the spartmenn‘L FEwing was unconscious when his| clerk, H. E. Sadden, attracted by the | odor of the gas, investigated and | “ouna his employer in a serious con- | ditien. Sadden worked over the senceless man after clearing the room of the fluid and restored Ewing. ’Ihel druggiet explained when he regained Limself that pressure on the tube had causeG the conection to part and send the flow of gas into his room instead of irto the sto; ——————— WRECKER OF TRAINS THREATENS RAILROAD Prosecution Trying to Fix Responsi- bility for Letters Written to | Great Northern Officials. HELENA, Mont.,, Dec. 16.—It devel- ! oped this afternoon at the trial of Isaac | Gravelle, charged with dynamiting| Northern Pacific trains, that the Great Northern Railway Company had re-; ceived a threatening letter mailed two | months ago from Cascade, Mont., in which a demand was made for $15,000. The State claims Gravelle wrote the | Cascade letter. Most of the time of the | prosecution so far has been taken up in | an effort to prove the handwriting of Gravelle and to connect him with let- ters demanding money from the North- ern Pacific. Automobile Race Date Set. PARIS, Dec. 16.—At a conference of the representatives of the automobile clubs of eight nations held here to-day, it was decided that the race for the James Gordon Bennett cup shall take place between July 7 and 15 next over @ course 84 miies long. ake with crime, when Rogers, | | disavows the lawyer and | | commissioned officer | sentenced to five years' imprisonment | | ever had.” | cans 22. The triumph of the Democratic | cans, the Non-Partisan Public School | FEATHERED PETS MAY SOON BE EXILED FROM ALAMEDA City Council Now Considering Ordinance Which Says That No Poultry Be Allowed Inside Town Limits. Citizens Suggest That Cats and Donkeys Be Barred | THE FBATHERLES) VARIETY ¢ 1 1s AT PRESENT THE MOST | ACEPTABLE. ALAMEDA 'ln i Il Y BRAYING, CACKLING, CROWING, INDIGNATIONN MEETINGS ARE IN ORDER AMONG THE INRABITANTY OF THE ALAMEDA BARNYARDS - D RECENTLYY THAT HAVE RIPPED THE AIR OF ALAMEDA TO SHREDS, UNTIL THE LAWMAKERS HAVE RISEN TO SILENCE THEM. )5 1 = ANOTAHER e THE MUSICAI CHANTICLEER SOME OB TE FEATHER OF THE ISLAND CI 211 GRATORY; ",%’fu % HOWLING, QUACKING BEASTS CRUEL OFFICER IS DISHONORED German Court-Martial Sends “Non-Com™ to Prison nndi Discharges Him for Brutality | —_— | BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Owing to his mis- treatment of soldiers on 150 counts and | abuses of authority on 100 counts a non- named Franzeje | of the Eighty-fifth Infantry has been | and dishonorable discharge from the | army by a court-martial held at Reds- burg. The court declared Franzeje had | displayed the “brutality of an ox/| driver.” 1 One witness who had run his head against a wall until he dropped uncon- | scious the seventh time was asked by the Judge: “Why did you do such a senseless thing?” “An officer told me to do so,” was the reply. “But he had no right to order you to do such a thing,” said the Judge. i “I had to obey,” replied the witness. | “If 1 had not he would have reported me for insubordination.” Franzeéje had a favorite stick, which he called “Friedrich Wilhelm.” This he broke while beating a private, and he got another and christened it “Fred- erick the Great,” who, he said, was “the best sergeant the Prussian army RN S S 8 Returns From Boston'’s Election. BOSTON, Dec. 16.—The city election returns, completed to-day, show that Mayor Patrick A. Collins, the Demo- cratic nominee, was re-élected by a plu- rality of 26,495 over George H. Swallow, Republican. The Democrats also elect- ed their candidate for Street Commis- sioner, twelve of the thirteen Aldermen, and all of their nine candidates for the School Committee. The Common Coun- cil will stand: Democrats 54, Republi- School Committee candidates over the combined oppcsition of the Republi- Association and the independent women voters is viewed as one of the most im- portant features of the election. —_——— lishmen Win at Cricket. ©Y, N. S. W., Dec. 16.—The| great test match at cricket | B SYD: first [CTORY RESTS WITH JININE Conqueror of Wos Gil in Santo Domingo Triumphant | v After Two Days’ Fighting | A ST Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1803, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PUERTO PLA‘T:A—: Dec. 16.—From dispatches received here it is learned that heavy fighting has besn going on | at Santiago for the last two days and that puised. General Caceres has issued a proclamation declaring that he be- lieves General Jiminez has driven out President Moraies and that he will sus- tain the Government to the utmost. ° The Government has advised all fam- ilies to leave Santiago. General Na- varro, Governor of Monte Christi, has arrived to reinforce the revolutionists and a decisive attack is expected in a very short time. Telegraph wires leading into San Domingo have been cut and no news can be received from the capital. It is believed the rest of the country will stand by the Government. President Morales is expected in Santiago at any moment to restore order. Governor Cespedos of Puerio Plata, seeing that the commander of the fort refusges to obey his orders, has resigned and left Villa Nueva. The Assistant Governor is now in command. The garrison of Fort Villa Nueva is ap- parently in sympathy with the revolu- tionists. e B SR WILL DISTRIBUTE MANY DINNERS TO THE POOR Salvation Army Will Give a Christmas Tree for Needy Children at the Local Headguarters. OAKLAND, Dec. 16.—The Salvation Army is making preparations for its annual Christmas tree for poor chil- dren, which will be given at the local headquarters on Christmas evening. In addition to the tree a large num- ber of complete Christmas dinners will be Qdistributed to needy families in Oakland and a special distribution will be made of garments and shoes. A large number of circular letters, asking for contributions to the fund, have been sent out. Last year the Salvation Army sent out 165 baskets between the teams from England and |of provisions. Australia, which has just been con- cluded, lasted six days and was won by the Englishmen by five wickets. ——— Fifty million gallons of petroleum were produced in Burmah and Assam last year. i oifigrieiprrs. BE! , Dec. 16.—The Board of Edu n has elected the following named teachers: Miss Lede Biehl, Miss =y VARI POULTRY ALS0 TERRORIZING AMOST ALAMEDANS - ’,’%MI T -+ ETY OF 0 LICENSE TAGS SHT LESSEN THE NOXI00S FEATURES. o o+ - ALAMEDA, Dec. 16.—“And what 1 the roosters do then, poor things?’ | might well be asked of the future of | dinance that | I8 passed. | have to take a back roost, but gabbling | hens, or, better ; of coal at them. the revolutionists have been re-| local chanticleers, as it was of Cock Trustees, and which will practically ex- ile the crowers from the municipality, Not only will the chickens geese, quacking ducks, squawking night herons and gobbling turkeys will also have to move if the measure be- comes the law of this island. Tnterest- ed residents have deluged the City Trustees with a request to amend the ordinance so that the voice of the braying donkey will not be heard in the city and that the night-prowling bac- chanalian tomcats will be forced to seek other back yard fences than those situate and lying within the corporate limits of the city of Alameda, whereon to raise meows to high heaven and at the same time raise the ire of all who hear the hair-elevating discord. Grunt- ing pigs and dumb rabbits likewise have enemies here and these persons are endeavoring to persuade the City Trustees that the proposed ordinance should be framed to prohibit the pres- ence of such animals in Alameda, .x- cept in the form of pork, ham and ba- con, or rabbit stew. Here are what some reprosentative citizens think about the now famous anti-poultry oi- dinance and the proposed amendments: Judge R. B. Tappan—1I think this agi- tation could be settled by having chick- ens licensed the same as dogs. Rib- bons of various colors could be fastened about the accks of the roosters and vet, metallic bands could be put on their feet. I would not favor taxing cockerels or pullets until they were several months old and knew enough to run when one threw a chuak 1 must confess that 1 like chickens, but particularly so wheh they are dished up in savory brown gravy. Senator E. K. Taylor, Mighty Wong of the White Highbinders—It grieves me to see 80 much opposition develop- ing against chickens and pigs. Boti make up the favorite dishes of the i bedchamber, jawakened hy the.fumbling at the doer, \ inot a trace behind him SENDS BULLETS AFTER BURCLAR Woman Awakened by Prowler Uses Her Pistol With In- tent to Kill an Intruder SHOOTS THROUGH A DOOR —————— | Mrs. Samuel Perey Repulses | Thief Who Tries to Enm!‘ a Bedroom at Early Morn| - | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Dec. 16. | Mrs. Samuel Percy, a widow residing | in the Allendale tract, near Fruitvale, is not the kind of wowman that pokes her head under the pillows and screams when burglars are about during the midnight hours. Far from that. When a prowling thief tried early this morn- ing to make his way into the Percy the undaunted occupant, Jjumped from her couch with a pistnl at | hand, and sent a couple of big leaden | bullets through the door paneling. Following the shots Mrs. Percy ran ‘to the door, opened it and was disap- | pointed to find the target at which she had blindly fired was gone. Still de- termined to get the prowler if she could, the woman hurried through the house, but the burglar had fled, leaving except the opened back door through which he had disappeared. After a thorough search Mrs. Percy reloaded her pistol and returned to rest. Constable Tom Carroll was noti- fied, but there was nothing to be done. Mrs. Percy declares she is competent to protect her own home, even if she is a widow and alone. ———— CORNELIUS IS GIVEN AN INCREASE IN SALARY Cloakmakers S#ill on Strike. Several | Unions Affiliate With State Fed- i eration of Labor. = | The Street Railroad Carmen’s Asso- ciation has raised Richard Cornelius’ salary from 3100 to 50, which will carry with it the additional duty of business agent. The office will give Cornelius more scope in the right to | interview officials when adjusting grievanc It is sa that his first duty will be | to see that ihe old hands get the back pay in accordance with the ruling of the arbitration board. The union do- nated $200 to the Colorado carmen's Robin in the nursery rhyme, if the or- | Strike. is now before the City ! The following unions have been added to the State Federation: Boat Builders ». 16 and Rope and Cordage Workers . 10,425 of San Francisco; Flour and Feed Packers No, 13 and Laborers’ Pro- tective of Stockton; Sign Painters and Tailors of Oakland; Teamsters of San Diego; Woman's Union Label League and Blacksmiths No. 271 of Fresno; Labor Council and Federal Union No. | 9611 of Watsonville Highbinders and if we are to be de- | prived of them it will be demoralizing to our appetites. The City Trustees will strike a solar plexus blow at Ala- meda's unique Oriental organization if they deport poultry and swine. George J. Foster—I am against cats and have been that way since I was able to throw rocks. It meutters ru:vtl to me, however, if the poultry ordinance is 8o amended as to prohibit the keep- ing of felines in the city. At our house we have an anti-cat statute that is in force both in the front and back yards. ‘We have traps and spring guns to up- hold the law and down the cats. In the last six months nineteen of these yowling disturbers have gone into our deep hole whence no cat returns. Captain M. W. Simpson—I I’ke chick- ens better in a ple than T do in a! back yard. As I am interested in this | fowl ordinance, however, it would not be fair for me to say too much about the matter at present. Judge F. S. Cone—No pigs should be permitted within the corporate limits of Alameda until they have first geen the butcher. Ducks have always been a favorite bird with me, although 1 will admit that there are many quacks about them. As to the chickens—wel] that is a different laysone that T am not prepared to hand down an opinton on. City Marshal John Conrad—My pet fowl is the jailbird. With chickens I have naught to do except when I mix with them occasionally in a cestaurant. It is up to the Board of Health and the City Trustees to “run in” or run out of ' town.all roosters that disturb the peace and ganders that gabble at everybody. Edward Dean—I am for amending the poultry ordinance so that it will require the owners of braying donkeys to muzzle the beasts before they go to bed. If this is not done it will be hardly worth my while to go to bed, | | | { Actors’ Union No. has set aside $2000 for the sick and disabled reserve fund. Delegates Westoby and Leon will represent the union at the State convention in Fresno next February. There isnochange in the Cloakmakers' Union strike, which originated through the employers’ refusal to accede to the| workingmen's demand for a short Sat- urday afternoon. The following unions elected officers for the cnsuing term: Carpenters’ TUnion No. 483—Pr ident, w. H. Hutchinson; vie president, W. J. Morris; recording secretary, Charles L. Apperson; finan- cial secretary, Guy Lathrop; treasurer, 0. M. V. Roberts; warden, W. H. Mec- Susan; conductor, William Quintal;} trustee, C. Meanwell; delegates to Dis- trict Council of Carpenters, W. H.| Hutchinson, Carl Peterson, B. McNeil, | O. M. V. Roberts, J. Boushey, Isaac McDonald, O. Cutter, F. J. Kreamer, | Edward Bacon and W. J. Kidd; dele- gates to the Labor Council, T. E. Zant, J. W. Mayder, Ira Johnson, O. Pierce, C. E. Burton, J. J. Jensen and C. H.| Tubbs. | Undertakers' Union No. 9049—Pres- ident, W. H. Legte; vice president,| P. H. McGinn; secretary, John Driscoll; treasurer, C. Christeni; trustees, J. W.| Bollen, H. B. Brown and S. E. Rein- hard; delegates to Labor Council, E. J. Coffaney and Manfred Schwab. 1 i s | ARE TO SOON | RECEIVE OVERDUE PAY | Manager Chapman Says Every Possi- | ble Effort Is Being Made to | Hasten the Settlement. General Manager Chapman of the United Railroads yesterday issued the following statement in response to the report that the Carmen’s Union is about | to demand a hasty settlement from the company of back wages together with | the 5 and 10 per cent advance due the! employes under the conditions of the recent ruling of the board of arbitra- tion: ““The company is doing its utmost to hasten the payment of the extra money due to the carmen under the award of | the board of arbitration. We fully ex- pect to commence payment next week. Before the wage demands of the men were submitted to arbitration the com- pany voluntarily promised that what- ever the award might be it would con- | sent that the increase commence to run asof May 1. For this the union expressed its thanks to the company: The task!| of going back over the payrolls and seg- | regating the men into the three classes according to the length of service, and CARME { then accurately ascertaining the num-| ber of hours each manworked each week | from which to figure their addmonal‘ earnings, is stupendous. The increase, of pay is figured by the hour and to as-| certain the actual hours worked by each’ man is essential. The secretary’s of- fice is devoting night and day to com-| P oy borhood that rolls over and bravs in his sleep. A donkey might be a patient animal, but this S not so with the human being who lives nea- him. | Captain A. P. Smiley—Pullets are ali right, but we should do away with all old hens and roosters. They are the ones that make the noise and the trouble with their cackling and crow- ' ing. Cats also should be barred from | the city and donkeys should be ad-| mitted only on circus days. T hope that May G;Il.l;hor. Miss Calla Frasier, | as there is one of the long-eared and | the chanticleer ordinance, wi ‘Miss Louise Davis and li-'m Mott. | Joud-mouthed quadrupeds in my neigh- | needed amendments, wlll'p:: p e Al | the robbery. ROBS A WONAN IV HER HONE | Thief Locks Aged Vietim in a | Room and She Is Not Discov- | ered for Forty-Eight Hours ! —— - FINALLY RUN TO RS ARTH Alleged Criminal Is Caught in This City and Will Be Re- turned to Seene of the Crime Special Dispateh to The Call. Wash., Dee. 16.—News reached here to-night of the arrest in San Francisco of Willlam Hoyt, who is wanted by the police on a charge of robbery. He accused of robbing Mrs. §. 8. Stetson, mother of G. W, Stetson and W. C. Stetson of the Stet- son Post Mill Company, of $30 and then locking her in her home, where she re- SEATTLE, is mained without aid for forty-eight hours. His wife, who was employed as a companion by Mrs. Stetson, and whom he forced to accompany him from the house at the tinde of the robbery at the point of a revolver, arrived here last Saturday in company with her father, J. H. Gridley of Madison. She has been residing in Portland ever since leaving Seattle and has donme all in her power to cause the arrest of her husband * since she has known she | would be protected from him. She will be the principal witness against Hoyt when he is brought here for trial. Last spring Mrs. Hoyt was employed as companion for Mrs. Stetson, who Is more than 70 years of age. In order that she would be satisfied her hus- band was given quarters in the house. The three were the only occupants. Early in July Hoyt learned that Mrs. Stetson had $80 locked in her trunk. He broke open the trunk, it is alleged, and stole the money. Returning down- stairs, he told his wife to get ready to leave the place in a hurry. She de- murred, and the husband placed a re- volver to her head. telling her to obey without question. Before going Hoyt locked all the doors of the place. When Mrs. Stetson missed them she found herself locked in. In her feeble condi- tion she was unable to unlock any of the windows and was forced to remain a prisoner until the arrival of her son. W. C. Stetson, forty-eight hours after The Hoyts v e traced to Portland through Gridley, the woman's father and Hoyt having deserted his wife and gone on to San Francisco, she w me than willing to return and tell he story. Her father was sent after her and she will remain with him at Mac ison until Hoyt's trial. Detectives wi leave San to-morrow after Hoyt. for cisco Hoyt was arrested on the cormer of Mission and Third reets last night and locked up in the City Prison pend- ing the arrival of an officer from Se- attle. e STATE LUNACY COMMISSION HOLDS QUARTERLY MEETING Proposition to Have Patients in the Asylum Make Their Own Clothes Is Given Consideration. STOCKTON, Dec. 16.—At a quarterly meeting of the State Commission in Lunacy and the superintenden the State hospitals for the insane to-day the proposition of having the patients in the asyiums make their own wearing apparel was considered at length, but no action was taken. Papers were read by Drs. Asa Clark and A. W. Hoishoit of the Stockton institution, and both were extensively discussed by the doe- tors present. After the joint session the Commis- sion in Lunacy indorsed the plan of the Stockton managers to install an lce piant and authorized them to proceed as soon as improvements now under way are completed. New plumbing was or- dered in the old building at Napa and the managers of the Agnews Hospital were authorized to call for bids for a cottage to accommodate 104 persons. No action was taken on the request of the managers of the Southern Cali- fornia Hospital for a cottage to be used by the female kelp. —_———————— HEAVY DAMAGE BY FIRE IN PORTLAND Blaze Starts in Chinese Tenement and Causes Loss of $50,000 to Merchants. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 16.—Fire which originated in a Chinese temement lo- { cated in the heart of the business dis- trict of this city at midnight did dam- age to the amount of $50.000. The blaze was first discovered In the lower por- tion of a three-story brick building on the west side of Second street, between Stark and Oak, occupied by Chinese merchants on the lower floor and as a lodging-house in the upper stories. The flames soon enveloped the whole build- ing and spread to the building occupied by the American Type Foundry Com- pany, which was badly damaged. pleting the accounts. It will require the examination of, ¥, thirty-five pay rolls containing each “fully two thou- sand namesandinvolving between sixty- five thousand and seventy thousand en- trics. Twenty extra men were working on the rolis last night and by continu- ing the nmight work we will doubtless be able to commence payments early next week.” [T T PP Carmen Elect Officers. OAKLAND, Dec. 16—The Carmen’s Union held its annual election to-day at headquarters. the contest being spirited_throughout. The result fol- lows: President. W. H. Ellison: vice president, J. W. Smith; financial sec- retary, in doubt: recording secretary, J. F.. Anderson; treasurer. E. C S’trlub- conductor, Frank Willlams: Sarden. W. §. Kimmell; sentinel. Sam Kendall; trustees. G. B. McHale, long iddle term; E. term: Robert Scott, mi Fitzsimmons, short term: delegate to George R. Crane Tesno convention, X (l;eleptrs to Federated Trades, J W - A. 8. Ander- th, Charles Parsons, A. ; 3::. Ww. H. Ellison. J. Kruger will also go to the Federated Trades as an extra delegate. California calendars and 'art souvenirs for the milllon. Sanborn, Vail & Ca. ¢