The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 5

THE'SA FRANCISCO! CALL, FRIDAY 25, DECEMBER 1903. SURRENDERS ~ [THEATER WoRK WLVAYTY | 15 SSPENDED That ChrisBuckley Acts With- | out Permit and Notify Police | ARG & Diamond Mateh Company Makes| RAISE PAY OF PLASTERER Transfer of the New Butte R [ County Line to the Southern Inform Board of Eduecation of Pacific Railroad Company| ivil Service Board's Order to | RS Y M Replace Commary by Eligible | DEAL IS QUIETLY e g | MADE C THIS v Inspector Fitzsimon reported to the | IN THIS CITY Board of Public Works yesterday that? &= S vy work was being done behind closed | Collis P, Huntington's Sue-|doors at 240 Kearny street, where a| . # % . 5 theater was being fitted up on a small | CESSOT & : : '_]‘ et g0 HavA] i thout n perit - Mollors whie ) Feared That the Goulds Might | made worse because the fittings, such [se R'lfld in Rl‘il(‘hil]"' Coast as the gcreens and stage paraphernalia, g 8 FEWER PUPILY IN ATTENDANCE President Woodward of Board of Education Issues a State- ment Showing a Falling Off LA APPLY FOR PRINCIPALSHIP g Four New Candidates Present Themselves to Succeed Head of Chinese Primary hool Sl g President Woodward of .= Education yesterday issued a tabu- lated statement of the attendance in the public schools for, the period ending December 18, 1903, The statement shows that there are fewer pupils in attendance, compared with the perjod ending November 13, the last date upon which figures there: on were made public. The present av- erage daily attendance per class is 42.3 | in the primary and grammar schools, while for the former period it was 43.3, being ore pupil less for each class, or » Board of | DEATH MAKES WAGER FUTILE ‘\\'ashiu,«:ton Man Loses a Bet and Passes Away in a Saloon at Town of Colfax ALMOED RELATITES SIT ITWAS CRIE Tl s X Shoofing of Father and Son in a Los Angeles Lodging- liouse Causes an Inquiry I . penaor—— |LIFE ENDS AS HE DRINKS|DETECTIVES SUSPENDED Former Rich Farmer Attempts| Police Board in the Southern to Imbibe Twenty Glasses| California Metropolis Are to of Beer and Then Expires| Hold.a New Investigation Special Dispatehr'to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Relatives of Joseph and Louis Choisser, father and son, of Equality, Ill., who were shot and killed by detectives in this city a week ago while resisting arrest, are taking steps to have the matter Richardson had been drinking whisky | Topened and an investigation had {and other liquor all'day and in the A Which will go behind the findings of the evening made a bet that he could drink ! Coroner’s’ jury, and ascertain whether the five quarts of beer. He swallowed | the officers were justified in the killing. | #eventeen glasses in succession and then The relatives and friends of the dead | fell dead at the bar of the Oxford sa- | men claim that the shooting was en- loon. Coroner Crawford was notified, | tirely unjustified and unwarranted. | but after viewing the remains and | j } ose] or, k learning the circumstances concerning Ph Choisstr, the elder man, was | | COLFAX, Wash., Dec. 24.—Joe Rich- }andaon, a hanger-on around saloons, | {lost a bet and his life here to-night While attempting to prove he could ! xdrink twenty glasses of beer. are of the most inflammable material. | D Fitzsimon said that a man named Mc- Another California railroad has been | Carty pretended to be manager of the added to the long list of properties con- | Place, but that Christopher Buckley | trolled b; B vt b amsic ] narel lht;: ;;alA ..\l\';e; G ing held B A he board notified the Chief of Folic | »K km:n,’: “m,"[ frf”’_l :J::\ Ij’fd‘ to stop further work on the theater | between Chico and Sterl X'T,‘ e (““n"“ and not to permit its use as a theater. the Butte County Ra rh;’i"» “”‘;d into | ., City Attorney Lane advised the board | the ownership of the Chico :‘ 2 North. | that, according to a Superior Court de- | ern Railroad, a cor tion whose ston | cision, Corbett avenue does not run | e, n whose stock | through the block between Douglass | is controlled b iman. Immediate. | was effected the Chico | eased the road to the| Company, which is at | t as a medi for reach- | in Butte | been oad for some tim sgotiating furl a fact which | became known several months ago to people, but it was | the represen- tatives of the Pacific Com- | pany in this > has developed that the first move to acquire the road | made nearly a vear ago. about the | ials of Dlamnrdi e West to inspect | the concern’s properties in that sec- | tion of ‘%o State. The latter then made | attempt to enter a trafic alli- e with the hern Pacific Com- | with 2 view toward handling | ic and an engagement been made with Harri- was then here, to talk over e su On the day of the ap- | ntm; however, the Southern Pa- magnate suddenly departed for | East, without giving the slightest | n of h going to the repre- f the match company, who t Chie HARRIMAN'S CUNNING MOVE. Arri they openly expressed their indignation over the manner in had been treated, claiming he purposes of their visit| was to confer with yan on this subject and that the | ntment had been made at his sug- vin € ¥ San Harrir later was learned n Pacific surveyors| the neighborhood of| h Company’s road.| Goulds are heavy| the match company, it| Harriman was afraid | betweer ico and Ster-| nucleus of a Gould | to the coast, and it is| ves stimulated by | it known that the| rad a party of sur-| ng out a route to the| ay of the Big Meadows, | arded as one of the most| tlets for a railroad from :hel BLUFF WORK. tactics often resorted to | P. Huntington when he r encroaching on his man, on November 11| ted in this city the Vorthern Rallroad, which | the MAKES ts main purpose f a road from point - miles below Chico to Sterling, the ¢ eastern terminus of the match | road, and a station which ated for its own busines Harriman's L Coas] ded among its directors . Hell- e A Tarael, I M. Holbrook, . A. Hart and John C. Kirkpatrick board organized with Kirkpatrick | esident, and that was the ]dfl! the corporation until the tion of yesterday z that its interests were jeop- s of the Diamond Ma “ompar e finally forced to currender to the Southern Pacific Com- | rew | ny. and with this purpose in view ne president and directors of the| smaller road made a second trip West w weeks ago, and after a confer- ence with General Manager Krutt-| and Chief Counsel Herrin of the Pacific completed arrange- r the transfer. Instead of tak- the road direct Harriman de- , acquire it through his newly company, the Chico and Southern ng over ed t gar Northerr MATCH PEOPLE SURRENDER. At yesterday's meeting at the Palace were signed and they all the paper will be filed to-day. Immediately after the transfer the Chico and Northern entered » a traffic alliance with the Southern Pacific for its newly acquired property, a precautionary measure that e ———————————————— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. IN TEE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED DAYS Powdered Wigs Formed an Important Adjunct to a Gentleman’'s Apparel. It is safe to say that the majority of ald men of to-day would gladly revive if they y e old dignified custom could. But they can 40 the next best thing to it hold on to what hair they hair root or hair not been compietely destroyed cases where the by parasites that infest it Newbro's Herpicide will 6o wonders in the way of couraging a new growth of hair. Destroy the cause, you remove the ef- fect. That is the successful mission of Herpicide. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, ,Mich. 'CASTORIA For Infants and Children. ” The Kind You Have Always Bought | to | cover the amount of the note. street and Clara avenue, and suggests that the Board of Supervisors purchase this right of way for a sum approxi- mating the expense of taking an appeal | from the decision. The board approved the map of the | City Engineer showing the lands grant- ed to the city by Mary A. Fritz for‘ the opening of Tremont avenue from San Miguel ranch. < The board raised the compensation | »f 21l plasterers in its employ from | $5 50 to $6 per day, to take effect Janu- ary 1, 1904. The new rate of wages was | fixed by the Plasterers’ Union. The complaint of M. J. McLean rela- | tive to the bad condition of a boiler in the Hotel Pantheon led to the dis- | covery that a permit for the same had | never been issued by the Super\'i!nrs.l The owner of the building was notified to secure a permit at once. The board recommended to the Su- pervisors that the width of the side- walks on Clement street from Tenth Thirty-third avenue be reduced from 19 to 15 feet. | The board designated the location of fire escapes on several buildings in va- rious parts of the city. The board ordered transmitted to the Board of Education the communication | from the Civil Service Commission sug- gesting that requisition be made for the certification of a civil service elig- ible to succeed W. E. Commary, as- sistant inspector of buildings, as was told in yesterday’s Call. The Board of | Education desires to dismiss Inspector of Buildings McSheehy and retain Commary. According to the decision of the Civil Service Commission, Com- | mary will have to go, and McSheehy, who was appointed from the civil ser- vice eligible list of inspectors, will hold his place in accordance with the de- sire of the Board of Works. The board ordered bids to be adver- | tigsed for the repaving with asphalt of New Montgomery street from Market to Howard. —_———————— 0 Soldier Says He Was Beaten. George Harrison, a discharged sol- dier of the Fourth Infantry, was tak- en tofthe Harbor Hospital last night, suffering from a broken nose and pos- | sible fracture of the skull. Harrison, in company with Cornelius O'Dea, a soldier stationed at Angel Island, came to this city vesterday afternoor and proceeded to celebrate. About o’clock they drifted into the Del Paso cafe, conducted by Mullin & Sullivan | at Battery and lifornia streets. Harrison got into an altercation with J. W. McCormick, the bartender, over some drinks won on the slot machine hd Dave Sullivan, one of the propri- ors, ejected him from the saloon. | Harrison claims that he was beaten when he reached the sidewalk and Sullivan makes the statement that the soldier received his injuries from a| fall while running away. A detective | was detailed on the case. Harrison | was removed to the Central Emerg- ency Hospital, where he will be held for observation. —————— Sues Bettman on Note. | Theodore Brunswick, to whom was assigned a note for $4221, made by B. D. Pike and Frank Bettman, filed a | suit yesterday against Bettman to re- The note was assigned to him by Pike, who | paid Dr. G. Schiff, to whom the note was payable, the entire amount. + —— was deemed most advisable, and then the directors of the Chico and North- ern leased the Butte County line bacl |and Miss | Richardson’s death decided that an in- a ‘total of 764 pupils less. The present quest was unnecessary. average daily attendance in all 'the : classes qf the high, commercial, gram- | Richardson was once a “well-to-do mar, primary and evening schools is| farmer. He had been acting as porter 29.3 pupils, against 40.2 for the preced- | around saloons for several years. He o 4 g | was 51 years old and had no known ing period. The statement in detail| ,qyives, He will be buried by the| heds'd ‘coumy. % | | || paad o = 1 cuns | | 8 |l i SUDDEN DEATH 5 | 8% |25, | £ |81 OF A FUGITIVE | 2% Gremmer . andl o -8 | | e e | | SANTA FE, N. M. Dec. 24—Moody Merrill of Boston, alias C. F. Grayson | of Silver City, died suddenly to-day at Silver City from pneumonia. Merrill pective vacancy in the principaliship | had held vety high positions in Boston, of the Chinese Primary School, result- | when he suddenly disappeared and was ing from the resignation of Miss Rose | g;nhosed to be dead until a short time Thayer, have presented themselves inago Political enemies revealed his addition to the five whose names have | whereabouts, and he was arrested in already been published. They are Miss| New York City on - serious financial Eliza D. Keith of the Clement Primary | charges. In New Mexico he had made School, Mrs. C. . Newhali of the a new fortune, and - represented the Spring Valley School,, M Fanny | Colers of New York in the Southwest Greenhood of the Henry Durant School |and had been president of the Silver W. G. Relichling of the|City National Bank. Chinese School, | BOSTON, Dec. 24.—Moody Merrill was | Miss Thayer is now speeding on her | under indictment in Boston on a charge | way to Philadelphia, where she will be | °f embezzlement alleged to have been | married on December 31 to a gentle- | COmmitted about ten years ago. He| .. | was arrested on this charge in New | man who holds a responsible position in | ¥ 3 | Cramp’s shipbuilding plant. 1t is said York a few months ago and brought to that he will shortly take a cruiser pur- | DoStoB.*but be disappeared before his i chased by the Turkish Government to | “pr Mimcalled: o o e death| Constantineple; {was the first intimation of Merrill's | i S e | whereabouts since he failed to answer NEGRO GIVES DINNER i to the indictment found against him. TO NUMBER OF IOWANS The police had heen exerting in vain | | every éffort fo find the man. Merrill | made and -lost several fortunes. From 1868 to 1871 he was a member of the | | Massachusetts House of Representa- | two years he tes His ambi- Totals ..5... 934 | 30.3 Four new candidates for the pros- Jefferson Logan the Host of Politi- cianS at Famous Possum and Chittlin Dinner., . Jefferson Logan, ex«&hve. gave his | tives, and the followi $ d in the S annual possum supper to the State ‘,"VE, 5 officials and politiclans of Towa this | tion Was to BE'Mayor of Boston. In the ] week. Governor Albert B. Gummins, | fall Of 1890 he succeeded in- defeating | MRS. HOAR DIES UDDENLY. | hearing will begin next Thursday be- | morning from Australia via Honolulu, | trude Driggs, who was found guilty | | of attempting to influence a juror dur- | ing the trial in the Superior Court of | wanted in Equality, Iil, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The presence of the two in this city having become known to the Illinois officials, the local offieials were tele- graphed to arrest and hold the men. ‘When Detectives Hawley, Cowen and Murphy attempted to place the men under arrest at the Hotel Broxburn, where they were staying, a fight en- sued and both the Choissers were shot and instantly killed by the detectives. The latter claimed self-defense and a Ceroner’s jury exonerated them. Since the holding of the inquest other witnesses have come forward whose statements contradict in every detail the testimony of the detectives. The District Attorney’s office is making a thorough investigation. Mayor Snyder to-day suspended De- tectives Hawley, Murphy and Cowen from duty pending the inquiry. A fore the Police Court. It is announced | this afternoon that relatives of the| murdered men will take the matter be- fore the Grand Jury. —_————— Australia Will Send Commissioner. VICTORIA, Dec. 24.—The steamer Miowera, which reached port this brought news that while declining to | asgent to petitions of commercial men | to defray the cost of an exhibit of the natural and manufactured products of Australia at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Government had de- cided to sehd Professor Anderson | Stewart as the Australian representa- tive. —_—— | Claims Floodwaters of a Creek. | SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—E. G. Wheeler, | representing the Bay Cities Water Company, to-day filed a claim to 200,- 000 inches of the floodwaters of the Uvas Creek, measured under a four-inch pressure. The point of diversion of | this vast supply of water is where the Uvas#flows through the Catherine Dunne ranch, near Madrone. The | water will be taken by capal to the| Coyote reservoir. — e Pays a Fine to Gain Freedom. LOS ANGELES, De: —Mrs. Ger- | lute title to the place. Secrétary of State William B. Martin, | "O"a8 . Hart for o et A State Treasurer G. S. Gilbertson, Chiet | 11 TeOubicans, Bt he lost at the Justice Charles A. Bishop, Associate X% ° ! ; b Justice Horace E. Deemer and a score | Cr2ti¢ nominee. g | In New Mexico, under the name of | more Iowa political nobles (all of the | . g e Qolonel Charles F. Grayson, Merrill Republican faith) sat down at the | 3.0 “ pul - Carried on extensive and profitable bus- black man’s table and were regaled | : " M Iness ventures. with possum, chittlins, sweet pota- toes, home-made port wine and other | delicacies. | Every year Jeff Logan gives a pos- sum supper to the politicians of Towa and never a year is there refusal from | those who are within the State. Among those who have partaken of the possum at the old slave’s humble home are Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of Agricul- ture James Wilson, Senator William P. Allison, Senator J. P. Dolliver, Con- gressman Robert G. Cousins, Con- gressman J. A. T. Hull, Congressman William P. Hepburn, Minister to China Edwin H. Conger, Governor Albert B. Cummins, Governor Francis Marion Drake, Governor Frank D. Jackson and scores of others. Logan was born a Missouri slave al- | most sixty-five Until the ears ago. emancipation proclamation freed him | he was the property of Colonel Red- head in Southern Missouri, and after he was free he remained for many vears on the Redhead estate. He came to lowa a score of years ago and be- came the political leader of the gwoes in and around Des Moines. For the last decade he has been janitor of the Senate cloakroom and controls the negro vote. nd young fiegroes who offer their ser- ne- | Invitations to his annual | | possum dinner are eagerly desired and | |a<vuepted. The politicians are aervedi | by the members of the Logan family | to the Diamond Match Company, whic will continue it as a rail connection be- tween Chico and its properties at Ster- ling. The Butte County Railroad is thirty- one miles long, and is considered one | of the best constructed railroads in the | ‘Walsh’s Faith in Washington. State. Originally it was supposed that| Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado min- the road was designed merely to assist ing man of millions, is moving into his the match company in getting its mate- | new Washington residence, which is rial to market, but when it was discov- | decidedly the finest house in the capital ered that the heaviest of rails and the | city. Its furnishings are also superb, best of machinery had been purchased | and as Mr. and Mrs. Walsh are fond to operate the road the suspicion was| of society and believe in making their quickly aroused' that its rails were | friends have a good time it goes with- destined to extend over the State line | out saying that their home will be the rices for the occasion. Logan sits at the end of the table and does the hon- ors with an old-style courtesy courtliness learned while he | slave.—Chicago Chonicle. —_———— was a and make connections with some trans- | scene of many gorgeous entertainments | continental concern. | during the approaching season. _— | Mr. Walsh’s large and expensive of- HARRIMA TO STANDARDIZE | fice building in Washington is getting HIS SYSTEM OF RAILWAYS the finishing touches and the tenants { are gradually moving in. The building | is called the Colotado, and nearly all | of the ground floor space is divided into Worked Out Gradually. ;henunlu_l stores that rent for fancy OMAHA. Pec. 24.—W. 8. V. Thorne, | E::::,: o’}";.x'i:?.x'; :u’;:::i f:.'.'l director of purchases for the Harri- | Washington will eventually be the very man lines, who has been in Omhha;he.d center for scientific, literary and for several days, gnnounced that the | ,rigtic people.—New York Commercial. equipment of the entire Harriman | system will be standardized. When | the plan has been carriéd into effect | | it will be possible to duplicate any | piece of rolling stock at any shop of | the system. The work of bringing the | equipment to a uniform style will be | worked out gradually as new stock and repairs are required. | The plan of standardizing will 1n- | clude the Unfon Pacific, Southern Pa- | cifiec, Oregon Short Line, Oregon Rafl- | Work of Bringing the Entire Equip- ment 1o a Uniform Style Will Be SEE THE PICTURES “A LITTLE TRATTOR TO THE SOUTH" CONCLUDED IN THE NEW YEAR EDITIO) OF THE and | road and Navigation Company, Illinofs | Central and Chicago and Alton. s B T Biguature of S s el il NEXT SUNDAY CALL | her suit to obtain possession of the JeE : z 3 X | famous Hill fortune, to-day paid a fine | Wife of United States Senator From | ,¢ s500 imposed by the court and will | Massachusetts Passes Away. | be released from custody. WASHINGTO! Dec. 24.—Ruth | | Miller Hoar, wife of Senator Hoar of | NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Frederick M. Cush- | | Massachusetts, died suddenly to-night |'In€, & naval veteran and eaid to have been o) 571 at the battle of Manila Bay, was to-day sen- | iat her home in Washington of anzina | tenced to Iife imprisonment’ for shooting his | | pectoris. | wife during a quarrel on July 21 last. | Senator Hoar, the family physician | ——— | | of forger: | seph Day, his custodian. BROTHERS WED THO SISTERS Interesting Marriage of Four| of the Residents of Green| Valley in- Sonoma County, PauPe g & CUPID CAPTURES FARMERS! e LR Brides and Grooms Journey to San Francisco After Cere- mony at a Country Chureh | p Lakikoe ki Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 24.—Miss Lillian Rogers and Miss Dora Rogers became the brides respectively of George Os- born and Jesse Osborn at Green Val- ley last evening. The brides are sis- ters and the grooms-are brothers.. The wedding was one of the most unique | by reason of that fact which has taken place in Sonoma County for many years. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. A. Bissell, pastor of the Green Valley Congregdtional Church, in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives of the contracting parties. After the ceremony theinewly wedded couples drove to this city. On this morning's train the quartet | went to San Francisco to spend their | honeymeon, after which they will re- turn to Green Valley to reside, where each of the grooms owns a ranch. —_———— BABY CARRIAGE UPSETS ; THE BURGLAR’'S PURSUER Industrious Criminal at Biggs Manages to Escape During an Accidental _Tumult at Night. BIGGS, - Dec.. 24.—Six business houses in Biggs were entered by bur- | glars at an early hour this morning. | Roy Parker was asleep in the rear of | one of the stores and was aroused by the breaking of the front door. He jumped from bed with pistot in hand, But fell;over a baby carriage and the frightened burglar ran. —_————— Litigation After Half a Century. SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—After fifty-one years a suit was brought to-day to | quiet title to a piece of property claimed by the estate of Jose Dolores Pacheco. The suit is that of Pierre E, H. de Saisset against Valentine Koch as administrator of the Pacheco Pacheco died February 25, and in 1890 Koch was appointed | administrator of the estate. De { set claims he owns a lot on Seventh | street and that he has/possession of the property, but the Pacheco estate | claims an interest in the land, and he | asks for a decree giving him an abso- | | | | 1 SETIR ai Strike in Kern Sheps Continues. | BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 24.—No sot- | tlement has been arrived at of the | trouble in the Southern Pacific shops and yards at Kern. The striking em- ployes are still out and the shops are | doing very little, but the yard work is going on regularly, other employes handling the switching. The officials have made no overtures to the men | and it is semi-officially reported that the company will not make any terms with the strikers, but will reduce the | force here to a minimum and do all the work possible at Los Angeles. ——— Forger Will Not Be Pursued. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 24.—It is highly improbable that any attempt will be made to recapture Tharlow W. Parker, who, while being brought back to this city from Montana on a charge escaped from Detective Jo- Parker’s rel- atives have offered to restore the va- rious amounts the young man secured from different persons in this city. | 4,000,000 ‘a considerable INDIANS MAKE THE CHARGES Agent at the Colville Reser- vation in Washington Re- ported to Interior Department o Rl R 5 REQUEST FOR AN INQUIRY e Federal Official Said to Have Been Dereliet in the Man- agement of the Aborigines S ey SPOKANE, Dec. —Charges have beep sent to the Department of the In- terior at Washington against Indian Agent A. M. Anderson of Miles, Wash., who has charge of thé Colville Indians. A. C. Routhe and M. F. Gibson, Spo- kane attorneys, have charge of the matter for the Indians and have asked for an investigation. The charges include: Allowing the Indian police to frighten a child to death; allowing the police to handcuff a cripple and leave him for ten days practically helpless; refusing to allow Indians to leave school to help harvest and thus causing the loss of crops; taking children to school without the knowledge of parents, who though{ them drowned. Affidavits accompany the ¢harges. ————— CANE SUGAR PRODUCTION. | The Past Five Years Have Seen an Unprecedented Increase. The Department of Agriculture, in its official “crop report” for Novem- ber. announces that the indications are that the world has entered on a new | era in the production of cane sugar. The department quotes estimates plae- ing the total sugar production of the world in the year 1903-04 at 10,425, 800 tons of 2240 pounds each, includ- ing 4,342,800 tons of cane sugar and 6,083,000 tons of beet sugar, and says as to cane sugar: “During the past five years the world’s output of this product has in- creased from 3,000,000 to upward of tons, quantitatively the greatest increase ever made in any filve-year period in the history of this industry. Moreover, for the first time in a half a century the ratio of in- crease in the world's production of cane sugar has exceeded that of sugar made from beets, the per- centage of increase in the former product for the five years being about double that of the latter. The four years from 1900-01 to 1903-04, inclu- sive, were each in its turn record- breaking years for the production of cane sugar. The previous high-record crop (3.530,000 tons) was that of 1894-95, the crop made just before the outbreak of the revolution in the most important producer—Cuba. “The high record crop in the his- tory of the world’s beet-sugar produc- tion was that of 1901-02. Since that date there has been a decline in pro- duction it Europe, amounting in all to about 1,000,000 tons, but the pres- ent year's estimated output still shows increase over that of five years ago.” The report shows that about 70 per cent of the cane sugar of the world is now annually produced on tropical and semi-tropical islands. The pros- pective output of 1903-04 of the lead- ing single producers—Cuba and Java —constitute 45 per cent of the world's cane sugar.—Washington Star. — Practical Benevolence. Londoners are becoming accustomed to the sight of the comfortable car- riages which convey crippled children between their homes and the schools, which, thanks largely to the energy of Mrs. Humphry Ward, now form part of the educational system of the Lon- don School! Board.—New York Come mercial. !and Mrs. Patterson, a friend, were with | | her when she died. Mrs. Hoar had | ! been in poor health for some time, but] { an improvement in her condition had | been noted recently and her sudden rieath caused a great shock to her | family and friends. The body will be taken to Worcester to-morrow for burial. No funeral ser- | vice will be held in this city. Mrs. Hoar, prior to her marriage, | was Miss Ruth Miller, daughter of a well-known New England family and was the Senator's second wife. Chicagoan Dies at Montecito. SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 24.—The remains of D. E. Richardson, who died at Montecito at a’late hour last night, | were sent to Chicago to-day for inter- | ment. Richardson, who was a promi- | e nent figure on the Chicagé Stock Ex- change for several years, had been spending the past few winters at San- | | ta Barbara, having purchased a beau- | | tiful home in the suburbs of the city. | | He had been ill for two months, suf- | fering from a complication of diseases. I Pionecer’'s Wife Dies Suddenly. ! SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—Mrs. J. M.| | Kimberlin, wife of the pioneer seed | grower of Santa Clara, was found dead | |in bed at her home this morning. | | Heart trouble is supposed to have been | the cause. She was a native of Penn- | sylvania and. 70 years of age. She | came to California with her husband in 1852 under.the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Board. ——————— German Army Decadence. Considerable sensation has been made in:Paris by the appearance in the Gil Blas of an article entitled | “The Greatness and Decadence of the German Army.” The author is evi- ! dently very familiar with the condi- | tions in that service. The’ points he makes are that the general discon- tent and spirit of revolt in labor circles is extending to the army, be- ing taken there by the youths from the towns and cities. By them it is communicated to the youth from the country, who, at the end of their ser- vice, take it home with them. The tmmediate results are seen in the in- creasing unwillingness of the youth of the country to join the colors, for they know beforehand the severe treatment they are likely to receive. The author -says, also, that the average German officer is not only lacking in enthu- slasm In his duties, but is actually cold toward them, accepting them ag the dullest routine ADVERTISEMENTS. ractings i many a household is made Jjoyful and happy through the melody of a fine new PIANO purchased from our estab- lishment. To all our patrons in partic- ular, and to everybody in a general way,we extend XMAS GREETINGS. w i B Alen @, 931-988 MARKET 8TREET AWiley B Men Ce SAN FRANCISCO W, and