The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1904, Page 25

THE DAY, JANUARY ADVERTISEMENTS. THE SHOE TRADE PARALYZED NEVER BEFORE IN THE HIS- TORY OF SAN FRANCISCO HAS A SHOE SALE MET WITH SUCH MARVELOUS SUCCESS NEVER BEFORE HAVE THE PEOPLE RECEIVED SO MUCH SHOE VALUE FOR SO LITTLE MONEY. P. F. NOLAN PRESIDENT OF NOLAN BROS. SHGE CO., IS RETIRING FROM AND E BE CL( NOT 0. SANDS THIS WEEK WE WILL CLOSE ARGAIN ..WE HAV PRICES. ¥ PAST TWO WEEK | VALUES WE ARE GIVING. | | BUSINESS ’ERY SHOE IN OUR BIG STORE IS TO D OUT REGARDLESS OF COST. ONLY THE ODDS AND ENDS E HUNDREDS OF REGULAR LINES, ‘ ‘G ALL SIZES AND ALL WIDTHS, { WHO PURCHASED DUR- ARE PROOF OF OUT MANY LINES OF W AND UP-TO-DATE SHOES AT SPECIAL E NO RRANCH STORES.. NOLAN Phelan Building BROS. | 812-814 Market Street 9-11 O’Farreil Street TRAIN ROBBERS GET N0 BOOTY Florida. Bandits Blow Open a Baggage Car, but Escape When Are Attacked = king tk car. The engine 1 of shots fired nand engineer ne and escorted ach, and the rob- n.ahead about half a 3 pen the baggage nductor went forward, m d was driven back Heck took ra four robbers se- e pa g was going on. and Baker counti £ robbers 400,000,000 yvearly in ADVERTISEMENTS. Makes Men Vigorous Valuable Prescription by Which Any Man Can Make Fis Own Remedy to Cure Himself at Home Sent Free to All. Write for it. WILL MAKE A MAN OF YoOU. feeling of phvsician and own wxtensive private starthing success. ssed_ its equal has it thousands of ght about the cures th: The doctor willingly entirely free to any man . and they wiil find it It is good for sexual manhood, mervousness, weak ari@beele. lack of force, pros- ght sweais, inabilit the berail im icod to the musci ervous system and It makes the man of €5 as the yoyng man again eager ihe cause of your condi- h a remedy send your name day to the Dr. Knapp Med. idg . Detroft, Mich.. and in‘an lope the doctor will at omce e N compound them o that any weak man can cure himeelt in his own home without being unger obligations 1o any ope, It costs you pothing ard the soomer you write the S00Der Jou will be cured. be LIPTON LIKES CHICAGO PIGS - Yachtsman Buys Animals in the Lake City and Ships Them Across the Atlantie WASHINGT( Jan. 16.—Although the United States is deficient in creat- =ds of animals, according Wilson, who outlined the policy of the Department of Agricul- ture to the House Committee on Agri- | culture to-day, Sir Thomas Lipton buys horses and pigs at Chicago. The horses, said the Secretary, he ships to | Ireland and trains them as jumpers, | then sells them in Great Britain to ten stone Englishmen” as Irish jump- | ers. The pigs, of which he selects the thin on he cans as “Irish bacon,” | which he also sells in England. | retary Wilson believes that the United Stat can furnish the mounts for the cavalry of Europe, with proper study of the breeding of horses, and the department is turning its attention to this subject at the present time, The only thing the United States has ever duced in the way of new breeds, he . is perhaps a few breeds of hens, ough we have converted a running into a trotter. ussing th problem of irriga- n e Secretary said the experts of s department re studying the prob- lem of how to le the soil so as to conserve the water already available. In this connection he mentioned the sugar beet crop, which he said was steadily on the increase despite the dire predictions made at the time of the passage of the Cuban bill. “We cannot now raise more \han‘ seven and a half tons of sugar beets to the acre,” he said, “but with a con- | servation of the water in the soil by | cultivation we can increase this amount, and when we produce fifteen| tons to the acre we can repeal all of | the sugar tariff laws with impunit: { he forests of the countr: retary declared to be disay an alarming rate. He asked fc se of $100,000 additional for the bu- | reau of forestry, d ing this to be the time to inaugurate new methods in forestry. —_———— Russia’s Short Cut to India. | It will be no misfortune, from the standpoint of Asiatic tranquillity, if the | account given of a catastrophe to the | Orenburg-Tashkent -Railway by a cor- | respondent of the Times be confirmed. This long and costly lihe was almost avowedly planned as a menace to Af- ghanistan and Northern India. It could | not have any other purpose; indeed, the country through which it pass: | after leaving the Aral Sea, being chiefl barren land, inhabited by an extremely spars® and nomadic population. But commercial considerations never count for anything when any extension of ]lhe‘Russian sy:‘em!uf_s:jra!egi(' rail- His method has the indorsement ways engages official minds at St. Pe- | of Jeading physicians, and sev- tersburg. The scheme was conse - s i Pt Iy aduu{ed‘ in spite, it is believed, of | SF2} peciminnt " educational insti- | some objection on the part of the then tutions ha\e_ adopted it for the Finance Minister on the ground of the better physical development enormous outlay, and the Czar’s sanc- | tion having been obtained, the work was at once put in hand. Later on an- other argument for pressing forward its completion came to the front; it would, said its promoters, shorten the | | distance to the nearest point of the Chinese frontier by no less than 2000 | miles. After this brilliant discovery meney was poured out like water, and to water it has returned. That mighty but erratic river, the Syr Daria, | | through whose v lley the line passes, has converted a continuous stretch of fourteen miles into a lake fifty-six feet | deep and thirty miles broad. But there | |15 every probability that the inunda- tion will soon assume much greater | i miles through country liable to sub- | mersion whenever the Syr Daria over- | flows. It will be good news at Cabul.| where the ambitious undertaking, so | meaningless, except for war possibili- | ties, has aljways been regarded as hav- | ing for its primary object the subjec- | tion of Afghanistan to Russia. —_————— Hungarian peasants have a super- stition that fire kindled by lightning can only be extinguished by milk, and owing to their refusal to use water a barn with a farmer’s whole hay crop has beey burped in one of the prov- inces. | entersd the building. | materially from tha HOWTO GROW TALL SLEUTHS BLOCK THE INOUIRY Private Detectives Seek to Learn All That Is Said by Jurors in Iroquois Theater AT 1 [ARREST IS THREATENED | {All But Eight Churches in] Chicago Will Be Permitted to | Reopen for Sabbath Service e g 18 CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—But one witness was heard in the Iroquois Theater in- quest to-day, and the jury then ad- journed to inspect the interior of the theater. A lively debate took place when Dep- uty Cc A force of de- tectives employed by the owners of the oner Buckley and the jurors| building followed them around and in- sisted upon listening to all that wa They moved away only when ley threatened to have all the de. s arrested. The sole witness to-day was James Cummings, stage carpenter of the { Iroquois Theater. and He was evasive in Coroner Traeger re- several times. - f other stage em- had his replies Cummings’ testimor to that he swore he ployes, save did not differ | shown a dozen of them how to open | the ventilators, and they unanimously swore that nobody had ever shown them anything about the ventilators. Rev. Charles L. Roberts, rectgr of the Camden-avenue Methodist Church, died | Remington learned of the matter, and | to-day of injuries received in the fire. As a result of orders issued by Build- ing Commissioner Williams, only eight of the twenty-nine churches closed for violations of the building law will re- main with closed doors to-morrow. The others will have a capacl Commissioner Willlams to sidered safe. —_— e She Was Game. Because she lost in a wager made last summer Miss F e Parmalee of this city Christmas afternoon ate of ice cream sitting in the front vard of her father’s residence while the thermomet vas just below the zero mark. Ac ng friends to the number of a sco more gathered = )d-’gree con- ¥ 1 limited by | around to cheer her, swhile passersby | stopped to witness the act. Miss Par- mal the daughter of Captain Ed- ward malee of the quartermaster’s departme: United _States army.— Chicago F erald ADVERTISEMENTS. AStartling Discovery That Will Revolutionize the Physical - Condition of Mankind. Why Remain Short and Stunted When Youn May Learn Free the Secret of How to Grow Tall? No Matter How Short You Are or What Your Age You Can Increase Your Height. attention in the scientific world than that made by K. Leo Minges of Roch- ester, N. Y. Mr. Minges is to short | Nevada. l | | MENMAGE BEARN NEWS 0F CRIVE San Jose Woman Receives In- formation From the East That Her Five - Year - Old Nephew Was Foully Murdered B 0y VICTIM THE HEIR TO A LARGE ESTATE Intimation Made That the Life | pected, begin legal proceedings against | ! the anti-toxin trust under the anti of the Youth Was Taken to Prevent the Distribution of Property He Had Interest In —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. ey of this city to-day received word of what is considered the murder of Day- | ton Remington, her five-year-old nephew, in Freeport, Ill., last Sunday The child was the son of the late Dr. G. W. Remington and Mrs. L. F. Mc- Millin of San Franeisco, and was ralsed at Modesto. There was a mystery in the passing | of Dr. Remington that only came to light after his deati. to a large fortune in the East. Mrs. expected that her son Dayton would inherit his father's interest. She com- municated with her husband’'s rela- tives, and as a result Mrs. S. Reed, a sister of Dr. Remington, came to San Francisco anq on September 30 started back to Freeport, 1ll, with the child to ! claim his portion of the setate. Mrs. Remington, who was living at 1220 F in straightened circumstances and con- sented to the child going. The boy was affected with disease of the spine and ' b was not strong. . Remington does not give full par- s of the child’s death, but says T information is conveyed in tel- egrams from the Coroner, Prosecuting Attorney of Freeport County. It is intimated that the child was made away with to get the estate. | Last Sunday, the day her son is said | to have been murdered, Mrs. Reming- ton was married to F. L. McMillin, and e and her husband left for Freeport | last evening to investigate the death. To-day Mrs, Seeley received word that | the train they were on was wrecked in e — BANK ELECTS OFFICERS AND DECLARE Result of the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Italian- American Institution. The stockholders of the Italian- American Bank held their fifth an- nual meeting yesterday and elected the following officers: President, Sbarboro; vice president. H. J. Crock er; directors, A. Sbarboro, H. J. Crocker, Dr. P. de Vecchi, P. C. Rossi, M.“J. Fontana, “€."A. Malm, AT Merle, G. Garibaldi and L. Boitano; attorney, D. Friedenrich. A dividend of 3.60 per cent was paid on all savings deposits and a div- idend of 5 per cent was declared on the capital stock. The balance of earnings was carried to the surplus account. The handsome new build- ing for the bank on the corner of Sacramento and Montgomery streets was reported to be approaching com- pletion. The books showed a growth of the assets from $369,450 36 on De- cember 31, 1899, to $2,237,249 94 on December 31, 1903. ——————————————————— ADVERTISEMENTS. WITH YOUR STOMACH You Are Certain to Lose if You At- tempt the Use of Force and Violence. You cannot force your stomach to do work that it is ungble and unwilling to do. It ‘has been tried time and again, with always the same result. The stom- ach is a good and faithful servant, but when pushed beyond the limit it rebels. Some stomachs will tand much more abuse than others, but every stomach has its limit, and when that limit is reached it 1s a very dangerous and un- wise proceeding to attempt to force it into doing further work. The sensible and reasonable course is to employ a substitute to carry on the work of di- | gestion and give the stomach an op- No new discovery has attracted more | men and women what the great Wiz- | ard Edison is to electricity. He has gathered more information relative to bone, muscle and sinew than any one else in existence. tall has been a hobby with Mr. Minges for years, and the resuits he has ac- complished are startling to a high de- gree. By his method every man or Making people grow | | portunity to recuperate and regain its lost strength. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the only perfect substitute to take up and carry on the work of tired, worn-out stomachs. They are natural and easy in their work and cause no disturbance | They contain | all the essential elements that make up | in the digestive organs. the gastric juice and other digestive fluids, and will digest any food that a strong, healthy stomach will, and do lt[ in the same time and in the same wa; woman not over 50 years of age can be | They work independently of surround- made to grow from two to five inches ing conditions, and the fact that the| in height, and any one older than that | stomach Is weak or diseased does not may increase his height perceptibly. | influence them at all in their useful and their pupils. crease your height you should read the book, which telg how this re- markable discovery was made and re- vezls to you the secrets of how to grow tall. It is free. You are not asked to spend a single cent, and if you desire it we will send you the statements of hundreds who have grown from two to five inches in height by -following this method. The results are quickly accomplished. Many have grown as much as three inches in two months. There is no in- convenience, no drugs or medicines, no operation. Merely the application of - | proportions, as the line passes for 330 | o scientific princinle in a perfectly hygienic and harmles way. Your most intimate friends need not know what you are doing. All communications will be sent in plain envelopes. book, “The Secrets of How to Grow Tall,’ interest and instruct any one, One thousand of these books will be given away absolutely free, postage prepaid, while the present edition lasts. If you want to grow tall write to-day, in strictest confidence, for a free copy. Address THE CARTILAGE CO.; Dept. 546C, Rochester, N. Y., U. 8. A. ' lets. . contains illustrations ‘that will | effective work. Thev will digest food just as well in a glass jar or bottle as they will in a stomach. You can ses that for yoursell by putting one of of | them into a jar with a square meal and | If you would like to in- | €ome water to enable it to work. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets by thus | relieving the stomach of its work enable that organ to rest and recuperate and regain its health and strength. The process is perfectly natural and plain. Nature will heal the stomach just as she heals a wound or a broken limb if she is not interfered with and is per- mitted to-do her work in her own way. All interference is prevented by Stu- art’s Dyspepsia Tablets, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for| sale by druggists everywhere at 50 cents a box, and if you are afflicted with dyspepsia one box will make you feel fifty times better. You will forget | you have a stomach and rejoice in the forgetfulness. No druggist would be so short-sighted as to try to get along without Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets, for they are so popular and are so well known for the good they have done and the happiness they have caused that any druggist caught without them would lose the confidence of his cus- tomers and be regarded as below the standard. His business would suffer'as a result and his patrons would go to other stores and buy their drugs there, as well as their Strart's Dysrepsia Tal SAN JOSE, Jan. 16.—Mrs. Mart See- | v. | of Health of the city He was the heir | isom street, San Francisco, was writing to her sister in this city | Sherift and | S DIVIDEND | A. | WILL FIGHT “DEATH TRUST” Chicago Health Board Aroused at Inerease of Prices by the Anti-Toxin Combination COST NOW EXORBITANT Authorities Throughout - the Union Will Be Urged to Establish State Laboratories el CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—The Chicago Medical Society and the lilinois State Medical Association will, it is ex. [ t |trust law. Secretary Pritchard of the | | Health Department said to-day that he had information to that effect. An | {official statement regarding ‘‘the death trust” in anti-toxin was issued to-day by Secretary Pritchard. The state- | ment says: i | | The anti-toxin trust i= nothing more or | than a traffic in human life. Three con- | cerns, which manufacture and practicaily con | trol the anti-toxin sunply ©f almost the en. tire country, have seen fit to arbitrarily ad- vance the price of their product 100 per cent This discovery was ‘made by the Department | of Chicago, when in ordering its needed supoiles for charity work it was met with these incredsed quotations. | The department felt compelled to call pubkc attention to the evidence that a combine had been formed which effectually controlled the { price for the only kmo renfedy for the most rze to the child life of the coun- arily our object was to call the immediate effect t would have on the death rate of children in the city | of Chicago. Since the discovery of anti-toxin the Devartment of Health has done all in its_power to encourage its. It has fur- | nished its. own medical inspectors to admin- i and has vided the anti-toxin in all cases where people were too Poor to pur chase & |, The horizontal increase in price made by {"the trust means that the city of Chicazo will be compelled to apurppriate double the sum | to do the same amount of charity work in | aiphtheria cases for 1904 that it did in 1903 This city ean do, ana doubtless will do, but outside of this it must \be remembered that is burden will fa aviest on the self-respecting, self-suppor! heads of fami- of modest incomes hould theria invade their home: y be comuelled the Increased the n trust d be grievous. 3 oted that the increased prices ¥ the trust to the city are the prices mannfacturere a_jobber. This pplies not orly to C -ago, but practicall to the entire country. The publicity already | en has aroused the medical profession to highesf indignation and no doubt will result in some action speedily beinz take to provide a supply of anti-toxin from sources other than that of the combine, | A. F. Nightingale, one of the trus- tees of the University of Illinois, to- day said: | | I think that eyery State in the Union should have a. laboratory the manufacture \!(; anti-toxin serum for use in that State. 1 P S, S. SPROAT IS BROUGHT { BACK TO FACE ACCUSERS Prisoner Refuses to Talk Regarding His Wrongdoings, Referring All | Questions to His Brother. { Edward S. Sproat, who was arrested near Santa Ana on Thursday night, was brought back to this city on the owl train last night by Detective Bai- ley and locked up in the City Prison. Sproat is accused by numerous busi- mess men about town of having ob- ained more than $60,000 worth of goods ,on misrepresentations and it is under- stood that more than twenty com- plaints will be lodged against him. | Sproat refused to talk last night. He ! referred all questioners to his Qrother Samuel. Detective Bailey stated that the prisoner maintained a moody silence during the trip to this city and when asked regarding the case flatly declined to talk. Deputy Sheriff Stewart of Santa Clara County left San Jose last night for Santa Ana to bring back Samuel Sproat. L. D. Costa, a San Jose mer- chant, has swern to a complaint charg- ing Sproat with obtaining $700 worth of { goods by false pretenses. Several other } complaints will be sworn to by other | San Jose merchants as soon as Spn){( reaches that city. > N H ——— ey MISTAKE OF OPERATOR CAUSES A COLLISION Fireman and a Brakeman Are In- jured in a Disaster Near a Town in Nevada. A report of a head-on collision was received yesterday at Southetn Pacific headquarters here. At 2:30 o'clock this morning a freight train ran into the east-bound Atlantic exptess, which was moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour, near Woolsey, Nev. The fireman and a brakeman on the freight train were injured and both engines were badly damaged. No one on the passen- ger train was hurt. | The accident is alleged to have been caused by an error of the telegraph op- erator, who delivered orders to the freight train stating that the express was four hours late, when it was only three hours behind time. R Ilinols Society Meets. At a meeting of the Illinois Society of ! California, held in this city Friday evening, Cuionel Billings, who was prominent in Federal Army affairs dur- ing the war of the rebellion, delivered an interesting lecture. He was chosen by General Grant to pass through the Confederate lines to ascertain if Fort! Darling had been evacuated and suc-, cessfully eluded two lines of pickets. The talk was much enjoyed by those | present. Among the other entertainers were Dr. Maude Noble with slide trom- | bone solps and Miss Marie Kenny in . dramatic sketches. The next meeting of the society will be held at California | Hall, 1015 Clay street, Oakland, on Fri- ! day evening, February 19. . ———— Bricklayer Reported Missing. | Beale B. Tracy, a bricklayer, disap- { peared from his home, 204 Leaven- | worth street, on December 28 and has | not been heard from since that time. | Yesterday his wife and mother notifled ' the police. They fear that Tracy ! has met with foul play, as he left his | home to go to work. Later he called ! at a Sixth-street saloon and left his| tools and a sum of money there, but | never called for them. ¢ e Woman Renorted Missing. Mrs. Mary McDonald, wife of Roder- ick McDonald, 217 Valencia street, has' been missing from her home since Wednesday afternoon. The woman is | slightly demented and eluded the vigil- | anceof her daughter, since which time she has not been seen. She wore a black jacket and skirt and fur collar ette. | | | e Will Exhibit at St. Louis. I The State Library Trustees met in | the City Hall last evening and decided 1 to send an exhibit to the World's Fair at St. Louis. The exhibit will em- brace a history of California in gen- | eral and will be particularly devoted to work performed in connection with | librarfes. ? | | l A number of suits as pictured have been added to our special sale goods. They are made in pretty Scotch effects, in all-wool winter weight fancy che- viots. The sizes range from 4 to 12 in the garments as a whole, but not in every pattern. Up until a few days ago they sold for $6.00, $5.00 and $4.50. The early ccmers can get them now for $3.35. Other Sailor Suits in different colored serges, only in ag:s 3, 4 and 5 vears, have been reduced from £6.00, $5.00 and $3.50 to $2.35. There still remain a few Norfolk Suits and a few Sailor Suits in sizes 3 and 4 only, which formerly sold for $6.00. These little suits are reduced to $1.70. Boys’ tap coats in pretty Oxford gray worsted chzviots and tan coverts for boys 3 to 13 at $2.65. Children’s fincv Kersey Overcoats in bright col- or3, reduced from $8 50 and $7.50 to $4.63. The values are extreme, so the garments are go- ing fast. We urge you to call early. Boys’ Wool Sweaters 7ac We hive select d 120 sweaters from our $1.00 I'n2, which w= will place orn sale to-morrow at 75e. The ages are from 7 to 14 years. The colors are green and gold and black and white.- Our sale of late reduced the assortment in lower priced goods to almost noth'ng, so to continue-the sale and have representative goods-at 75:, we made the reduction here stated. : Babies’ Sweaters in ages 2, 3 and 4 years; colors light blue and white, pink and light biue, light blue and c:rdinal; regular $1.50 goods, reduced to $1.00 exch. ¥ P szieé' Swea'ers in ages 2, 3,4 and 5 years; this is a dainty little sweater in white and pink; formerly selling at $1.00; sale price 73¢. ! Tennis flannel waists : and “blouses.- in - light. medium and ‘dark effects at 25e. Corduroy Sailor Hats 75c Children’s large sailor hats in corduroy, with glazed or plain leather tops. The colors of the cor- duroy are red, blue, white and tan; all sizes are rep- resented in the assortment. These hats have been selling regularly for $1.50, but we will close them out now for 75¢ each. —e Out-of-town orders will be filled to the bsst of our ability; orders will be filled in the rotation we receivs them, and the best laction will be sent from the assortment to each customer; if the goods we send ars not satisfactory they can be returned and mone, will be refunded. P SNWOO0D§( 740 Market Street ’