The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1904, Page 38

38 T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 190i C s T AN R e THIEVES WORK AT BANK DOOR | | | TEAR’S YIELD OF THE MINES Whittier Man the Vietim of | California Is Second to Colo- Some Deft Pickpockets, Who Jostle Him in the Crowd . OVER 82000 IS STOLENjIlEL’ORDS Robbers Secure the Money in:This State’s S Front of Cashier’s Window and at Onece Hurry Away | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2—A. E. Hurst, | 2 wealthy citizen of Whittler, was the victim this holdest daylight robberies that has ever committed in this section of the In the crowded corridor of the ty Savings Bank, at Second and , streets, he was robbed of $2140 which had just been handed to him by the paying teller. He did not get out f the building before a professional bee: his escape w the nal p money in order to ment on a piece of perty which he had purchased, and when he presented his check at the ank there was so slight delay about shing it, and during the short wait a umbse bank, crowded around him. money was paid over and Hurst ke w He had not walked before two well dressed d him in the crowd. They ffered profuse apologies and m hurriedly. As soon as Hurst ed the sidewalk he felt for his money, but it was gome. He at once returned to the bank and re- ted the robbery, but the two men had jostled against him had eared supposed that they got Several persons who were in the crowd reported having seen one quickly pass a roll of bills to ickpocket had secured the money and | r of persons, supposedly custom- | afternoon of ome of the his | rado in Production of Gold for the Last Twelve Months GBS OF THE MINTS e Ty ilver Output Has Total Commercial . Value of Less Than a Half-Million i WASHINGTQN, Jan. 2—The Director | of the Mint to-day made public his an- nual statements of the approximate distribution by producing States and Territories of the products of gold and silver of the United States for the calendar vears 1902 and 1903. That for 1903 for the principal States follows: (Commercial ¥ .) Iver. §16,540 1 State or T erritory— Alaska A3 A I $6.91 4 784,000 Totals (minor States omitted) % The principal increases 340 3 30,520,688 and decreases for the year are shown as follows: Alaska—Gold, decrease $1,424,000; sil- ver, decrease $32,000. These decreases are due to the season in which run- ning water was available being about a month shorter than other recent years. Colorado—Gold, decrease decrease $791,000. These de- h_greatly - interfered with produc- tion. Idaho—Gold, increase $§12,000. increase $592,000; silver, $6,428,000; | s were due to the miners’ strike, | BACON LEAGLE - AGAIN ACTIVE),, | Club Is Organized and Agita—l | eresting Papers e 75 Mgl e Teks logical Society of America IREAD OF MIGHTY FORCES THAT SHAPE THE EARTH Are Presented at Sscond Session of Fifth Annual Meeting of Cordilleran Section of Gec- Held Yesterday at Berkeley Away Shakespeare's Homnors| &~ R TP | WILL SEARCH FOR DATA| iT‘lle Society Will Not Spare" | Expense in Hunt for Mat-!| | | | ter to Establish Its Claim | 2. — Let William | Shakespeare tremble in his grave | before the aitar of the beautiful | old church in Stratford-on-Avon! No more will flocking en- rich the town of his birth by their | pilgrimages; and more will they travel over to Shottery and make eyes at the two pretty girls who have in! | their veins the same blood as Anne | Hathaway, and who now show visitors over the picturesque cottage in which the alleged bard’s sweetheart lived! Or, at any rate, if the actor-manager | Wwhé somehow got the credit for writ- ‘ ing the mighty Bacon's plays is not | shorn of his borrowed glory instantly, | it will be only because the newly in- | corporated Bacon Society of London | has been unexpectedly hampered by facts or by lack of facts. | Ifind, from interviews with various {members of this organization, that plans are now in preparation for a | concerted Anglo-American attack on | Shakespeare that will be of greater force and effectiveness than anything conceived by Ignatius Donnelly or even Mrs. Gallup. Armed with cipher indications that Bacon wrote Shake- beare; with circumstantial evidence LONDON, Jan. 2 Americans no \ i ‘ ther man and then leave the build-| Nevada—Gold, increase $681,000; sil- | ver, increase $391,000. That there is a gang of profes-| Montana—Gold, decrease $245,000; sil- sional pickpockets in this city ver, decrease $1,619,000. ne know Yesterday's tournament Utah—Gold, increase $1,: 000; silver, of roses tted this gang several jncrease $2,360,000. in money and dia- Washington—Gold, increase $162,000; seven additional | gjjver, decrease $164,000. reported to the police eir operations in Pasa- 1 the crowded cars going 000. Oregon—Gold, decrease $452,000. A total net decrease is shown in the gold production of $5,575,000, and net TESS STOLE { increase of $1,100,000 in the production HER HUSBAND'S LOVE | of silver. . Virginia Woman Sues Widow of Late 2.—Countess rhazy, widow of the late Count n Esterhazy, who was at on. n i time secretary of the Austrian Embassy I i f hington. suit is the defendant in a for $100,000, brought by Lang, who charges that untess alienated her husband's The papers were served on intess here to-night £ says her husband left Virginia on August 3 and sented himself. She charges of the time has been spent v De Lang in the company of Countess rhazy in Washington. Friends of > aid to-night that De Lang i y her as a friend no knowledge that age Major W. H. Heuer Asserts Big Tidal Ditch Was Not Built for Purposes of Navigation 0 e ALAMEDA, Jan. 2—Congressman Victor H. Metcalf has forwarded to City Clerk James W. Gillogly copies of the communications that passed be- tween himself, Colonel W. H. Heuer, in - charge of the improvement work on o S facniong le 4 member| Oakland harbor, and General G. L. X ¥ and is sald 10| Gjjlesple, chief of engineers of the eans. sterhazy is the daughter arroll of Washington, a es Carroll of Carrollton. the signers of the Dec ndependence. The Countes ice married, her first hu been General Griffin. She s many friends at the Austrian court s sald to & favorite of the She ¥ independen* fortu: —————— WOMEN WILL WORSHIP WITHOUT THEIR HATS United States army, with reference to the request that Alameda be permitted to utilize a narrow strip of land on the south side of the tidal canal as part of a water park and also with respect to the petition from private parties asking *o be allowed to construct a wharf in the big ditch near Park street. Mr. Metcalf states that he sees no prospect at present of zny person or company securing permission to build a landing in the canal. He is of the opinion, however, that the Government will be willing to allow the city to make use of the strip of land as part of a park site, but that it will not convey the reality to the municipality. Major Heuer in his report to Gen- eral Gillispie says In part: “The tidal canal was not construct- | ed for navigation or commercial pur- poses, but solely with a view to carry- ing water from San Leandro Bay to Oakland harbor for flushing and main- taining depths in the latter. Three drawbridges were placed across the canal in order to permit dredges to pass through in case redredging of the canal should become necessary. Hence, un- less and until Congress decides that the tidal canal may be used for navi- gation and commercial purposes and provides tunds‘ fo; the opelral}(on and maintenance of the same, elieve it Aged and infirm Wo- | 1,13 be injudicious to grant any per- will be exemot from this rule. | mits for the establishment of any hence those who G» not remove their | wharves or landing places within the 11 be assumed, belong to the canal. If permission be granted to the City of Alameda to erect even a small Church-Going csidents of an Oregon City Decide to Remove Bonnets in Sacred Edifices. BAKER CITY, Or., Jan. 2.—A ma- of the church-going ladies of the ive determined to inaugurate a They have advised the pas-| rs of the several churches Yo request all women to remove their hats when tend divine services next Sun- ng. ! »ment is a general one and of the women who attend rious churches in this city have with the new seif- | > v agreed to comply imposed rules. men t class. —— SR P wharf or landing place in said canal AGED WOMAN FALLS DOWN it might be claimed that this was a 2 recognition on the part of the Gov- THE DARK | ernment that the tidal canal was a pub- B BT | lic waterway, and applications for Mrs. H. L. Whitehead Meets With Wwharf or landing place in sald cana] thereafter be consistently refused. T an Accient Thet May | see mo objection to authorizing the Prove Fatal. City of Alameda to plant trees and OAKLAND, Jan. 2.—Mrs. H. L. shrubs along the very narrow strip of Whitehead, residing at 1075 land adjacent to the canal, provided the Government does not relinquish its control or ownership of said strip. Many applications are now on file at this of- fice for positions as bridge tenders on the various bridges across the tidal canal. If it became necessary to oper- ate and maintain these bridges it is es- timated that the annual expense to the She ‘was awakened by the doorbell | Government would exceed $20,000, and at 11 o'clock and started down the | this expense would have to be incurred stairs in the dark. Forgetting that! if the canal were declared a public nav- teenth street, last night plunged over stairway, from which a carpenter | had removed the balustrade, and fell | to the floor below. She sustained a | broken arm, a dislocated shoulder and interpal injuries that the doctors say may prove fatal, owing to her ad- | nced age. | South Dakota—Gold, decrease $4,076,- | the balustrade had been removed, she | reached for the rail to steady her de- | scent and in so doing lost her balance and fell. Drs. Akins and Herrick. e e UNIONS TRANSACT FIRST BUSINESS OF NEW YEAR Carpenters Enjoy First Half Holiday Under New Schedule—Sheet Metal Workers' Officers. OAKLAND, Jan. 2. — The seven tallymen employed in the yards of the Puget 3ound Lumber Company, who | were formerly members of the Long- shoremen’s Union, have applied for membership in the Tallymen’s Union. The Tailors’ Union will hold an in. stallation of officers next Monday even- | ing. After the ceremonies a banquet will be served. The first half holiday was granted to carpenters throughout the county to-day as is provided for in the new schedule. The milk wagon drivers will install their newly elected officers on Sunday evening, January 10, at Becker's Hall, The Sheet Metal Workers' Union elected the following officers last night: President, J. A. Doyle; vice president, C. Morrison; recording secretary, Harry Costen; financial secretary, H. A. Wissing: warden, J. Kelly; conduc- tor, A. Ebinger; business agent, 1. J. Allen. She is being attended by | | marriage licenses were issued by the | igable waterway. —— s OAKLAND, Jan. 2.—The following County Clerk to-day: Bryce B. Mc- Lellan, 51, Stege, and Charlotte E. Benedict, 48, Alameda; Chris Walsh, 37, and Grace L. Van Alstine, 17, both of Oakland; William J. Smith, 21, and Fredericka A. Gilbert, 18, both of San Lorenzo; William Rissland, 33, and Marie J. Frustuck, 30, Francisco; Frederick Cremer, 44, Elm- hurst, and Selma J. Anderson, 29, Crockett; Ernest Reese, 21, and Elsie | Higginson, 18, both of Berkeley; Axel | H. Nelson, 25, and Theresa Peterson, | 27, both of Berkeley; Isadore Mintz, 3, and Sarah Mendelshon, 19, both of San Francisco; John F. Floyd, 29, and | Annetta M. Burt, 30, both of San Francisco; Hugh 8. Aldrich, over 21, and Cana B. Schofield, over 18, both of | Oakland. —————— Entertains Employes. Last evening the F. Thomas dyeing establishment was the host, through Henry R. Newbauer, its manager, to all its employes, nearly 1200 in num. ber. The guests enjoyed an entertain. ment, dance and supper. Mr. New- bauer said that this was one of the methods adopted by the establishment both of San ' from the life and acknowledged writ- |ings of Bacon, and from what little is | known of the life of Shakespeare, the society is now raising capital in Lon- don to pay for a minute search in libraries, institutions and private houses where it is possible further documents may be found throwing direct light on Bacon's side of the case. Lord Verulam of the family of Grimston and the present holder of {Lord Bacon's baronial title, has at | last consented to allow Gorhambury, | Bacon’s seat near St. Albans, to be | searched. The Bacon Society firmly | which | believes that the data exists will prove finally that Shakespeare's fame has been one of grand chimera. | | | GREAT SCHOLAR ENGAGED. | The second scheme is the presenta- i tion of the beliefs of the Bacon So- -ciety to the world, with the facts on which these beliefs rest. The plans | for propaganda are enterprising. The society near the British Museum, and Curator Emile Weiderlich, distinguished as a Bacon scholar, has beenf secured to | give all his time to the work. The | society considers that until now the | world has never had an opportunity of hearing the Baconian argument properly presented. | | To the end that it may now hear, a band of lecturers on Shakespeare- Bacon questions is being obtained. All lectures are to be submitted to the | Bacon Society before engagements are made, in order that there be no in- accuracies or repetitions. Each mem- ber of the Bacon yjSociety has been | written to with a view to enlisting active personal co-operation. The | names and addresses of sympathizers | with the a‘ms of the society are being | secured in order to increase the mem- | bership. Until now its ranks have been | composed of the scholarly few whose | personal inclinations have drawn them together. Steps will be taken to bring the objects of the society before liter- jary and educational institutions | throughout the world. It is probable that hereafter a series of Bacon So- ciety pamphlets, one each month, will 1‘ be published on the authorship of the Shakespeare plays. A representative of the society said yesterday: “It is of paramount im- | portance at this juncture that every | statement made in the pamphlets or | lectures be undeniably authenticated. Nothing will tend to Inspire greater confidence in our work than an un- | broken record for truth and modera- tion jn every statement which ema- nates from or is rgcognized by the so- i If the impression can be estab- lished that the members are a band of seekers after truth, desirous of being corrected when in error, but determined, at all cost, to arrive at | a definite solution of the problem, and “not a coterie of enthusiasts bent on having a theory accepted, regardless of the difficulties which surround it, the suggested propaganda will meet i with a sympathetic hearing.” | COLLECTING BACON MATTER. | The Bacon Society is collecting a | valuable library of Bacon literature, records of all of Bacon's manuscripts, dates of publication, charts -showing | the doings of men known to have been | associated with Bacon, and a list of I | braries, institutions and houses where | it is possible valuable documents may | be found. One piece of work which | will take years of patient effort will , probably be begun in a short while— {an .extended compilation of coinci- dences in the vocabularies of Bacon | and Shakespeare. 2 2 SUNDAY FOREIGN Incidentally, the society—or at least a majority of its active members— belleves that Pope and Macauley did grievous wrong to their hero in cast. ing stones at his moral character; and before they get through with their work they hope to convince the wait- ing world that James I was all wrong in disgracing his Lord Chancellor for taking bribes. The trouble with the society here- tofore has been that members spent years clearng up points only to find | the same ground had been covered by some one else. It is to do away with this waste of patient enthusiasm that the old society has had itself formally incorporated, engaged a secretary and | settled down to organized siege on the | possibly immortal William. Owing to | the legal delays incident to incorpora- | tion, the society has made little pro- ' gress yet, and consequently it is not, as a body, prepared to make any lsvreeping statements. The secretary is n correspondencé with many prom- inent Baccnians in the United States and on the Continent who have not has taken permanent rooms | f | +- 3 g TWO SCIENTISTS WHO ARE TAKING AN THE SESSIONS OF THE CORDILLERAN SECTION OF THE GEO- LOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AT BERKELEY. ACTIVE INTEREST IN | | BERKELEY, Jan. 2.—Three interest- | ing papers were read to-day at the sec- ond session of the Cordilleran section of the Geological Society of America, meeting annually for the fifth time. The papers described certain areas of the earth whose phenomena present mate- rial for absorbing geological study. That by Professor Andrew C. Lawson of the University of California on “The Geomorphogeny of the Upper Kern Basin” was, of course, interesting lo- | cally, but the papers of Professor W. G. Tight, president of the University of New Mexico, on the glaciation in South America, and R. S. Holway on the cold air currents of the Pacific Coast were no less engaging. In describing the upper Kern basin Professor Lawson used illustrations and maps to assist the auditors in com- prehending more readily the features of that wonderful region. In part he sald: “The upper Kern basin differs from the other large canyons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in its meridian trend and its remarkably straight course. This canyon dissects a high valley which has an area of about 100 square miles, and it is situated at an average altitude of 2500 feet above the bottom of the canyon. This high valley was evolved at a time when the Sierra Nevadas were much lower than now. | About 2500 feet above this high valley is still another high valley, which rep-| ‘resents an earlier stage in the evolution | of the mountains, when the Sierra Ne- vadas were not more than 3000 feet above sea level at the highest point. The remnants of this old mountain sur- face are still found in the summits of Mount Whitney and Sheep and Table mountains, at an altitude of 4000 feet or more. DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNTAINS. “In the récognition of these high val- leys we have a record of the develop- ment of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by uplift and dissection in very distinct stages. Since the Sierra Nevadas re- ceived their present general infigura- tion they have been glaciated. The glaciation has very materially modified the geomorphic characters of the moun- tains, partly in the direction of reduc- ing the crests by the sapping of glacial cirques. These cirques are great am- — phitheaters which have been eaten into the hearts of the mountains, and where these amphitheaters encroach upen one \another the intersection of their walls has the effect of greatly reducing or obliterating the higher crests of the mountains. “The high Sierras in the vicinity of the upper Kern basin present perhaps the finest {llustration of this process of mountain reduction to be found any- where. The peculiarly straight chara ter of the upper Kern Canyon finds its explanation in the fact that it follows a line of rifting in the earth’s erust. Such rift valleys are rare, the best illustra- tions being the valley of the Dead Sea in Palestine and the prolongation of that valley through the lake region of Africa, as described by J. W. Gregory. RECENT VOLCANOES. ““The study of this uvper Kern basin affords us a basis for the subdivision of quaternary time and also enlarges our ideas of the length of that division of the geological time scale. A minor fea- ture of the region is the existence of very well preserved volcanoes of recent date in some of the high valleys de- scribed.” The paper of Professor Tight was de- voted to a description of the hitherto unstudied region of the Bolivian Andes of South America. The chief results of a cursory examination by Dr. Tight show that three distinct periods of gla- ciatiom are to be found in these moun- tains. separated by perlods of deglaciation and eroslon. He also racognized an im- mense extinct lake, perhaps the largest lake anywhere in the world, which was co-existent with the time of maximum glaciation. This lake is 500 or 600 miles long, and its abandoned shore lines are & | { | i t | the head while playing with some com- | | began to show symptoms of falling eye- | I | | | | | | \ |HIS IMAGINATION HORSE DASHES INTO FUNERAL Runaway Collides With a Car- riage, Wrecking Buggy and Menaeing Lives of Mourners LAD DIES FROM BLOW O HEAD Robert A. Morgan Passes Away After Suffering Five Months From Injuries to His Brain| ACTIVE|BLINDED ~ WITH TERROR | P Diseased Mind Peoples His| People Attending Obsequies of Home With Phantom Burg-| James Fujol Narrowly Miss lars—Death Climax of Story| Being Killed or Badly Hurt i | i Berkeley Office San Francisco CalL{ 2148 Center street. | A blow from a baseball bat received ' five months ago brought death to-day | to Robert Archibald Morgan, aged 11 years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George | 2 -, v .. | eral persons and demolishing the buggy W. Morgan of 2330 College avenue. He | {7% BUPIE SOl U000, reed: The car- was the boy who, a month ago, twice riage was mnot dam"‘ - a m-r“- encountered a burglar in his home, a| ghort delay the driver proceeded on his burglar that now, in view of the man- way to the cemetery. ner of the boy’s death, the doctors be-| Thehfuz:lerul was énat oll James h’xju:le ieve wi | and the hearse and carriages had lr::‘;,:““ only the vagary of a diseased | {0 ' }ert Brown's undertaking par- = | lors, where the services were held. As The boy received the fatal blow on| g™ FoC i Logched the cormer of Thirteenth and Washington streets, the frightened horse, hitched to a light buggy, turned the corner of Breadway and came tearing toward the line of carriages. All turned safely out of the runaway’s path except the last, the driver of which was unable to turn Oakland Office San Franctsco Call, 1118 Broadway, Jan. 2. A runaway horse dashed into one of the carriages of a funeral prucession at Thirteenth and Washington streets this afternoon, endangering the ltves of sev- panions. For awhile afterwards he act! | ed rationally, but in a month or more sight. The physicians who were called | attributed this affection to the blow | the lad had received, the brain being injured. He complained of pains in| phig team In time to escape, and the the head often and suffered severe| front wheel of the buggy struck the headaches. | hub of the rear wheel. The shock over- On November 17 the Morgan house | was ransacked by burglars while the| family was absent and many valuable, things taken. The excitement attend- | ing this episode and the talk of thefam- | ily had its effect on the boy's already | weakened mind and a week later he reported fhat he had encountered a burglar in the upstairs hallway while the house was full of people. The next day the boy repbrted another burglar, | turned the buggy and the horse freed himself from the wreck and ran on. Beyond a few scratches the hack was not damaged. The runaway is owned by Dr. M. M. Rowley. Fujol was an employe of the Oakland Transit Company. At the funeral to- day the services were conducted by the Rev. Clifton Macon, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. The pallbearers who had, he said, come into the house | while the family was at dinner. | Marshal Kerns investigated the Mor- gan premises, but could find no trace of a burglar's ingress or egress. The boy said he saw a burglar climbing| up the front porch at his second visit, | but this was shown to have been an impossibility. It was then that the| condition of the boy's mind was no- ticed and physicians summoned to at- tend him. | here was some doubt for awhile among the physicians as to whether the boy really died from a brain affec- tion or from ptomaine polson through eating the leaves of a passion vine three weeks ago. It was found, however, that the passion vine leaves had not affect- ed the boy’s health. The rgan family has been pur- sued by a hard fate during the last year. About nine months ago Eddie Morgan, aged 8 years, fell from a local train upon his head, the injury result-' ing in aimost complete loss of eyesight. The father of the boy. who is now su- ing the Southern Pacific Company for | $20,000 for the injury to the child, is himself an invalid. These accidents, coupled with the death of Robert and the robbery of their home, make a sad chapter of misfortunes. The funeral of the boy will be held from his late residence at 2 o’'clock to- | morrow afternoon. | | | | These periods of glaciation are’ | e bl | FEARS TROUBLE N KISHENEY Rabbi Isidore Myers Calls Upon | | i | \ [ | | Booth-Tucker memorial™ America to Ask of Czar| Protection for the Jews S A R 1 “Christmas in Kishenev” was the| subject of a sermon delivered yester- day in the Bush-street Synagogue by | Rabbi Isidore Myers. The rabbi took for his text the words of King David, “And he shed the blood of war in peace” (I Kings xi:5). In part he said: “Christmas will be celebrated in Rus- sia on Thursday next, the 25th of De- cember falling in that country on the 7th of January. Russia is thirteen days behind such countries as America and England as regards the calendar and | a few centuries behind as regards civil- ization. “Some years ago Russia introduced a national institution under the name of ‘progron,” a word which implies a de- sire to destroy like a thunder storm. The obiect of the ‘progron’ is to ter- | rorize the Jews. Dramatically consid- ered, a perfect ‘progron’ is a tragedy in | five acts. Anti-Semitic propaganda, | some Incidents as a pretext, boys throwing stones as a feeler, and then | the mob passing from breaking furni- | ture to murder and violence. The Eas- | ter horrors of the Kishenev programme | beautifully marked in terraces on the jn April last have thrilled the civilized | banks of the mountain surrounding the | world. The old damnable lie that the | plateau. There have evidently, Dr. Tight sald, been very widespread and very important climatic changes in that region in recent time. Mr. Holway's paper was technlcnlly[ descriptive of the Pacific air currents, dealing particularly with those of that coast of the United States. F. M. Anderson of the geological de- partment of the Southern Pacific Rail- r?ad was elected president of the so- ciety. proved facilitles for research will re- sult in a great increase of members. MARIE CORELLI'S ANSWER. Perhaps the most entertaining re- sult of the society’s renewed labors so far has arisen from an invitation to the redoubtable Marie Corelli to subscribe to the society’'s organ, “Baconia.” Here is the answer she has sent to the editor: “To the Editor of ‘Baconia’ Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon: I would as soon subscribe to a maga- zine written by lunatics and published at Colney Hatch (this is the name of a famous English lunatic asylum) as to your ‘Baconia (sic), which is produced evidently merely to gratify the inter- meddling -pedantry of small modern scribblers, who, in their utter inability to do anything notable themselves, take up the scandalous business of robbing the world's greatest genius of his name and reputation. The people of this town — Stratford-on-Avon — have sufficient records of the living and grand personality of Shakespeare (apart from all the written testimony of his friends and compeers) to enable them to smile at the ridiculous at- tempts made by the ignorant and envi- ous to disprove his fame. The donkey who brays out that Shakespeare ‘left no mention of his plays in his will’ chooses to forget that there was no ic), to show its appreciation of the good 2!lied themseclves with the soclety so|literary copyright in the poet's time, work of its employes. jfar, and it iz expected that the im- and that, therefore, plays which he (in the entire lack of pedantry conceit which persuaded Lord Bacon —that traitor to his country—to men- tion every ome of his productions by name, and even to set down the aif- ferent libraries where he wished them lodged, in special bindings—good lack!) considered more ephemra (sic), had no financial or legacy value what- ever. No truly great genius has ever thought his own work precious. That kind of consequential pride in self is only manifested by persons like Mis- tress Gallup and the promoters of ‘Baconia’ (sic). May your few sub- scribers ever grow less! “MARIE CORELLL” It should be explained that the “sics” are all those of the famous au- thor of “The Sorrows of Satan" and other lurid novels. ————— Officials At Odds Over Funds. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 2.—Sherift Frank P. Grace and County Auditor Charles A. Pool had a brisk contro- versy this miorning in the SHeriff's of- fice. because Grace refused to furnish Pool with a detailed statement of the various amounts he collected as Tax Collector for the special school funds from several districts of the county. The Sheriff had turned in a lump sum of $24,077 42 to the Treasurer and ob- tained an authorization from the Au- ditor for that amount without furnish- ing the latter with the statement showing the exact sums collected from each district. A truce has been declared. | ! ning at 9 o'clock this morning. Jews had murdered for ritual purposes | furnished the pretext for ‘shedding the | blood of war in peace.’ “It was chiefly Jewish industry and intelligence that made Kishenev pros- perous, and now that the Jews have built up the place Russian justice seeks to get rid of them. Hampered as they | are by cruel laws, feeling themselves | to be objects of direst hatred for re- ligious and social and economic rea- sons, without a friendly hand to pro- them, with the bitter memary of * eir terrible experience during the last E 3| ‘progron,’ the Jews in_ Kishenev are naturally stricken at the approach of Christmas, notwithstanding that this | Booth-Tucker were J, M. Page, warden of the Recelv- ing Hospital; J. B. Ingersoll, R. C. Kennedy, George Doolan, D. Grierson and R. Gethin. ——————— YOUNG GIRL ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE Mabel Gordan Swallows Carbolic Acld and Physiclan Has Hard Task Saving Her Life. Mabel Gordan, aged 13 years, Is Iying In a precarious condition at the Emergency Hospital, due to carbolic acid poisoning. The young girl was employed as a servant by a family in Berkeley and on New Year's day vis- her home at 320 Thirteenth street. On yesterday afternoon the girl told some playmates she was tired of living and went to a drug store on Erie street and bought carbolic acid, ng a quantity. Her playmates saw the look of agony on her face and cried for heip. Her mother respond- ed and -the girl told what she had done. She was hurriedly sent to the Emer- gency Hospital and Dr. Miller worked over her for quite a while before he relieved her system of the poison. She will recover. —_—e————————— SALVATION ARMY TO HOLD A MIDWINTER CONGRESS Members From All Over Central California Will Take Part in Convention. The Salvation Army of this city will hold its midwinter congress here from January 5 to the Sth. Salvation Army workers from all over Central Califor- nia will participate. The purposes of the congress, which is held semi-an- nually. is to get the various workers together and talk over the plans for the work for the coming year. The new Central building on Mission street is to be dedicated as a “Consul in honmor of the great work done by the late Mrs. among women. The building is to be used for the provin- cial headquarters for the entire coast and also as a Women’s Training Col- lege for evangelical work. A boarding- house for the young women of the army who work in the daytime In | stores and offices will also be connected with the new building. —_—————— Well Received in Concert. Vratislan Mudroch, violinist, and Madame Mudroch, mezzo soprano, made their local first appearance last night at Steinway Hall, under the aus- pices of the Bohemian-Slavonian so- cieties of San Francisco. Mr. Mud- roch was a fellow pupil of Koecian and Kubelik, with the famous Hunga- rian teacher, Professor Seveik. and shows fair facility in his handling of the violin. The violinist was well re- ceived by the audience and contrib- uted the “Ballade and Polonaise” of Vieuxtemps, the Paganin| concerto in D, that was heartily encored, and two Smetana numbers, “Fantasia,” from the opera “Dalibor,” and “Ukoleba,™ from “Hubicka.” Mme. Mudroch's Slavenic songs by Novak were excep- tionally interesting. She sang also two Smetana songs from the opera “Kiss,” and “Pisen Hany,” by Kovar- ovic. Mme. Mudroch has both tem- perament and voice, but the latter is almost wholly untrained. —_——— Entertains Her Spanish Class. Miss Caroline Dowling entertained the students of her Spanish class in the Lincoln Evening School at her resi- dence at 1340 Howard street Friday night. A little farce adapted from the Spanish was pregented by the pupils. e ——— i reaching ,the comscience of the Czar. season is supposed to bring a message | of ‘peace and good will.’ ‘ “It is possible that the threatening | danger will be averted by the timely expression of American sentiment ! But a sofemn duty devolves especially | upon the Angle-Saxon portion of Chris- tendom to petition the Czar and the Pope to educate their respective adher- ents not to give credence to the outrag- eous calumny that the Jews require hu- man blood for ritual purposes. They will thus lessen the chances of vile fa- natics bringing disgrace upon Chris- tianity by ‘shedding t)}e blood of war in peace.’ W it Bohemians Dine in State. Members of the Bohemian Club filled | the banquet hall last evening and en- | joyed their annual Christmas dinner. The room was beautifully decorated | with holly berries, mistletoe and greens. | During the repast a choral organization rendered old Christmas carols. There were speeches and toasting. The serv- ants were dréssed in old English cos- tumes and brought in the boar's head, | plum pudding and other dishes with ceremony. 1 ——— . The cars of the Market-street line were stopped at 12:30 o’clock this morning in order that the company might have time to make some re-‘ pairs on the line. They will start run- |