The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL. WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20, 1904. 7 DEATH OF FAIRS IS IN UESTION Samuel A. White Testifies Before John A. Hosmer, Sit- ting as Court Commissioner | | | CONDITION OF THE BODIES S ST Asserts That to Best of His, Knowledge Dead Capitalist’s| Head Was Not Removed itions in the case |} son and others vs began in the office | sitting as Court erday morning. R the firm of J. M. Can- New York represented | seliett & Meyer- | ives of Chan- k. appeared er set aside | between of Mrs. was broug entered h Fair Nelsor and e of the & White. hat he received the nd mole on Sep- mpanied them lors in this city. ansit the coffins | sight. They were | where they re- X r, when they sy reom that might and ey Witness coffins were opened the coffins were fas- patent ciamps, but could whether they had been tam- first being closed or ntaining the body of was first opened. In- opper shell con- was a g e t this shell was ersed, the at should have been b »eing above the feet T irely wrapped in customarily used » far as the wit- bandages had ad was in good cc decomposed. had been p als and i silk stockings had The head was so the face as has been the mother of Mrs. the city at the time the = ormed, but did not e was taking any risks in per- t he had received instrue- Oelrichs to prepare the be resumed this of the emvloyes Insurance Company Loses Suit. Suprefne Court decided yester- the American Fire Insurance could not lawfully recover rom W. H. H. Hart, who is ve had property belong- Justo Mining Company 000 without proper he lower court award. ges to the insurance company of $390, but that judgment Alec a carpenter, 4§ years of age, was arrested by Detec- | t Bailey vesterday afternoon and he City Prison on a charge urbing the peace. A telephone message was received at police head- )at a man was annoying and following women at Powell ond ejo streets and Bailey was sent to gate. He caught Anderson in the act of folloging 2 woman and ar-| rested him. WORRY A Sure Starter for Il Heaith. Useless worrying (a form of nerv- is indipectly the result the nerves) of improper A furniture man of Mem- eding. says: About a year ago I was afflicted | « nervous spells, would worry so ial things. to consult one of the best « in Memphis and he asked many questions if I drank cof- ’ His sdvice was: ‘Go to some pro. on store and get a box of Postum, place of coffee and as you ed to your desk to a great ry and get out in the open air , as possible.” I followed his tions regarding Postum. s to brace me up, but all | ay 1 weigh 165 and all of | ubles are gone and all the | to having followed this wise physician’s advice and cut off the coffec and using Postum in its| place. “I now consider my health perfect. 1 am willing to go before a notary public and testify that it was all due ¥ having used Postum in place of % me given by Postum Co.. k, Mich. There’s a reason for gquitting the drug-drink coffee, and there’s a rea- son for drinking Postum. Trial ten days proves them all. Look in oach package for a copy ©f the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville.,” | hig | success, | 2nother expbsition anslozous with the former | and including the eight Andalusian rovin | whicn are ia. | is the most ancient in Spain and the o | cided to admit agricu'tural machinery of | and to that of our country. | of representing the expcsitors of said machin- PUTS RECEIVER IN T0 MANAGE Seymour B. Church Is Ad- judged to Be a Bankrupt in the United States Court SCHEDULES SHOW FIGURES LA AR Oi the Face of Things Lia-, bilities and Assets as Contain- ed in Petition Nearly Balance gde W In the United States Dist Court vesterday Judge de Haven appointed H. L. E. Meyer Jr. as receiver to wind up the affairs of Seymour B. Church in | barkruptcy. Church filed a petition in bankruptcy in which he averred th-t he was unable to pay his indebtedness in full and gave as the reason the slump in the price of pig iron which had been bought under contract to the extent of 16,000 tons when prices were r. With the petition in bankrupt- Joseph Hutchinson, attorney Church, filed several schedules in which the condition of Church's financial af- fairs was shown in detail. The show- ing filled many sheets of legal paper. As summed up the schedules showed that the liabilities were, on the face of | things. $465.672 42. To offset this there were assets valued at $44. 9 74. The assets, in other words, were shown in the schedules to nearly equal the liabiii- ties. This showing was, however, con- tingent unon the market to some ex- tent. If the price for pig iron should 20 up the value of the assets, which consist largely of iron, would increase. If the market price continued its down- ward course the assets would shrink accordingly. Joseph Hutchinson made a statement | in t in which the general situation was outlined. The largest creditors are Meyer, Wilson & Co., the indebtedness being approximately $200,000; Girvin & ., to whom $20,000 is due, and Bal- r. Guthrie & Co.. to whom, in round figures, thereis due $35000. Of the $200,000 due to Meyer, Wilson & Ci 3,000 is secured. Inclided in the lia- bil are notes of M. W. Upton and others amounting to $20,000, the liabil- ity of Church being due to the fact that Church indorsed the paper. As $15.000 of such notes were paid last Saturday it was presumed by Attor Hutchin- son that all would be found to be good. The indebtedness, so sa2id Attorney itchinson, might be further reduced ailure of some of the pig iron now under contract to appear in this cit; Some of it was still not declared abroad for export to the United States. In ad- dition to the three larger -creditors there were many others, but none for large amounts. The proceedings in court were per-| fectly amicable. H. L. E. Meyer S f Meyer, Wilson & Co. was present ! 2nd suggested that h 1 P for H. L. E. Meyer Jr., be ceiver. This was agreed to readily by Attorney E. Pillsbury for Meyer, Wiison & Co., Charles Page for Balfour, Guthrie & Co. and Warren Gregory for | Girvin & Evre. Judge de Haven made the appointment of Meyer and fixed the bond at $20.000. The bond was filed soon after the adjournment of court, | the bondsmen being H. L. E. Meyer Sr. and Thomas Binne! of Balfour, Guthrie & Co. Meyer is now in charge of Church’s affairs. Church is still confined to his home by illness and has not been out for many —_———————— INVITATION EXTENDED LOCAL MANUFACTURERS Exhibit of Farminz Machinery Is De- sired at the Annual Fair in Province of Cordova. h Consul in this city has received letter from the Chamber of Commerce of Cordo’ Spain, re- questing American manufacturers to make exhibits of farming implements | and machinery at the exposition to be held at Cordova in May of this vear. The city of Cordova is the cen- ter of a rich agricultural country, but ts development has been slow owing to the lack of modern farming imple- ments. The coming fair will be broad- er in scope than those of former vears and as machinery of American manufacture seems to meet with par- ticular favor a good field is open to Jocal manufacturers. The text of a letter forwarded by Carlos Carbonel president of the Cordova Chamber of | Commerce, is as follows: the auspices of the Chamber of C: 1 Industry, over which I ssisted with the moral and ul of the provincial deputation | authorities of this capital and the there was held during the month fal exposition in this c jcultural products of great the same forces, in | i to hold | om- the province. May last a provinc of indust:ial and agr’ tor which reason . tion with the said Chamber of Com- c9-ope! merce and , Industry, decided bave i the month of May, 1904, it to be more ex- tensive or regional in scope than the former, Sevilla, Cadiz, Hueiva, Malaga. va, Granada. Jaen and Almeria. | all ilroad lines. rhe tair held yearly in_the month of M most attended by ali classes, in- | principal agriculturists of the | reasons given it was de- i which is cluding oun! & For the + exposition, and as pub for the adoption of mod: mplements and the abandonment of pri omes, @ very large amount of machinery vas scid. The house of Oeborn & Ahles alone ore than 200 machines. wsc of this magnificent showing and ring that the mext exposition will em- a much jarger territory. and the United es of America being the coumtry from hich the best machinery for agricultu comes, it is especially desired that the manu- | tacturers of said machinery present their war-s. For this reasom we direct this to you may take Steps to anmounce to said manu(actyrers the coming exposition. Though there may not be any premiums, we feel that will sell very large guantities of ma- which will redound to thelr benefit will fake charge nds in the las pi rel This Chamber of Commerce they have not some one else to do so. — e ——— Complain to the Mayor. Four boys, R. Voelcker, Lane Wells, Ludwig Hage and Allen Reel, visited he Mayor's office yesterday and com- plained that they had been discharged from the United States training ship Pensacola without funds and that they were far from their homes, which are in Eastern cities. They | produced their discharge papers, | which showed that the causes of their | dismissal from the service were “‘un- desirable and Bureau of Navigation orders, January 11, 1904.” The Mayor advised the boys to-make complaint to - the Federal authorities. The boys claim that they have two months’ wages coming to them. but were giv- en no warrants for the same. ery if | | | 1 | i 1 12 ! Judge on some roof | 'POLICE JUDGE MOGAN FLAUNTS DEFIANCE TO FRENCH REPUBLIC Murderer Is Held Despite the Claims of Consul That Local Authoriti es Have No Jurisdiction. Althea Twins Are Se dich s ek Unless the French republic has cruis- ers to spare from the territory of Ton- kin and soidiers to burn from the dreary wastes of Algiers, a low- browed sailor named Louis Corvec will answer in this country for the murder of a shipmate named Vincent le Meur. Yesterday Judge Mogan decided that | the local courts had jurisdiction over the prisoner and the offense and com- mitted the prisoner without bail. The murder was committed on board the French windjammer Vercingetorix while she was moored to the Vallejo- street wharf on the night of January Corvee cut a slit in his partner of the forecastle because his victim re- fused to romp with him around the | deck at the unholy hour of 11 o'clock at ‘ night. From the effects of the playful gash Le Meur died. Both men were | citizens of France and the crime was committed on board of a French ship. The French Consul at this port de- manded the custody of - the prisoner from Chief of Police Wittman on the first day of Corvec’s arraignment, seven days ago. The demand was based on the articles of the Consular Convention, signed by the United States in 1853. Prosecutor Greely was unwilling to turn over the prisoner to the tender mercies of a court that sent : Dreyfus to a long confinement on an | uninhabitable island, so he dug ‘out some dust covered tomes in the Dis- trict Attorney’s office. In one of the | cases contained in the volume, legally known as “120 U. S. Reports,” decided by Chief Justice Waite, one of the greatest jurists of modern times, was a decision reached in the case of People | vs. Weldenhus, to the effect that any rime committed on board a foreign vessel that disturbed the peace of the people residing in the port where the | crime was committed was clearly with- | in the jurisdiction of the courts whose authority extended over suchs ports. It was decided that the Consular Convention treaty applied only to dis- | cipline aboard ship and did not extend to felonious assaults which might affect in any manner the quiet or that usually covers the water ffont of a large city. It was shown that the Consular Convention treaty, the Court of Cassation in France . ~ld ex- actly the same view when it tried and convicted the captain of an American ship for killing his mate and seriously wounding a sailor in the port of Havre. Judge Mogan listened to the authori- ties citéd by Prosecutor Greely and committed Corvec on the charge of murder without bail, His word is as the law of the Medes and Pergians and never alters. Though the French bom- bard San Francisco and level the Hall f Justice to the ground, Corvec can still be found safely landed on the grass in Portsmouth square and the in. Chinpatown, dealing out equal and exact justice to all men and looking for a chance to pass on the French sailor’s crime. Despite the verdict of the Coroner’s jury in rendering a verdict of justifia- ble homicide in the case of Richard Ed- wards, who shot to death Joseph Mar- tini in the latter’s saloon on Pacific street, Judge Mogan _ eld the defend- ant for the crime of willful murder and refused to fix any baill for his re- lease. The defense introduced no tes- timony, although at the Coroner’s in- guest an Italian appea~ed whose testi- mon gave Richards a solid basis of self-defense for the Killing, which he admittedly committed. The prosecu- tion believes that the Italian has fear of a perjury charge, while the defense maintains a grim silence on the testi- mony they expect to pioduce. Alice Edith Dickason, who at one time laid clagim to a widow's share of the immense Blythe ! estate, a portion of which forms the base ¢f the triangle at Grant avenue and Market street, was convicted yes- terday in Judge Mogan's court of va- graney and sentenced to three months ! Thomas Blythe was Ap- in the County Jail. one of the pieneers of California. parently he discarded all scriptural in- | junections about cleaving to one woman. Onc of the women he clove tc for a | lengthy term of years was the unfor- tunate who appeared in the Police Court yesterday and was punished for her sins. \ unquiet | in | 1859, eight years after the signing of | arching for Missing Trunk Emma Kessing took her troubles be- fore Judge Cabaniss yesterday. She complained that Ellen Raifson had bat- | | tered her in a fat at 732 Ellis street and | | then locked her in a room, where she i rusted in a vile repose for two solitary days. {owner of the flat, and said she had | rented it to her alleged assailant and | her husband. She retained one roem ! for herself, and it was in this narrow | abode where the imprisonment is said { to have occurred. | The defendant denied all the charges, | and said that her landlady was unduly | insistent in overseeing family affairs, ! in which she should have had no inter- est. Judge Cabaniss was puzzled some- what over the conflicting testimony and allowed the case to be continued for one week. The fact that the defend- ant had removed to an abode at 220 Kearny street weighed strongly on the side of acquittal, because the interven- ing distance is an ample guarantee that no further trouble can come between the two women, unless one of them is really looking for it. f | | 9 i | The Althea twins, who pirouette and pose at Fischer's Theater nightly, | With complexions like r And powder on their trouble yesterda: oses, - Were in A land- eight trunks when they attempted to move from Peasley street to a more satisfying neighborhood, where thoroughfares are paved and shine through the fog. The landlady was unwliling to part with them. She is said to have held out one trunk in the hope that some day the twins might return to the old home and she would have clothing | to dress them through the winter. They applied yesterday to Judge Fritz for a search warrant permitting them | to recover the missing luggage, and it was issued. Look out for stunning wardrobes when the twins get posses- { sion of that trunk. lights A rather startling development oc- curred vesterday in the case of Ed- ward and Gecrge Marshall, who are charged in Judge Conlan’'s court with battery on Mrs. Sarah Rogers, who is probably better known to first nighters as the widow of “Duxie Rosenbaugn. the wealthy wholesale liquor dealer, who killed himself some years ago, leaving his fortume to his wife. The defense introduced a witness by the name of Miss Marie Fculk, who gave her address as 322 Mason street. | She testified that Mrs. Rogers had of- fered her $200 to say that she was a witness to the alleged assault, but she | spurned the offer. She told Sarah to | take back gold, for gold would never buy & Notwithstanding the evidence intro- duced by the defense, it was somewhat | evident that Judge Conlan believes | Louis Marshall actually assauited Mrs. Rogers. A decision will be rendered; to-day. . Mary McGinley, who is rather deserv- ing of pity, but needs corrective meas- ures, was sentenced to the County Jail | for three months vesterday by Judge | Mogan. She has the record of having | been arrested more times than any | | other woman in the city. Her latest! escapade was to find a place of repose[ in the street fronting the Palace Hotel. | Traffic was suspended while she was being removed. Mrs. McGinley at one time possessed several hundred thousand dollars. all | of which she has frittered away. After the death of her husband she appar- | ently lost all hold on re- Hcctability and went the pace that kills. Several at- tempts have been made by her former | friends to have her committed to some refuge where she could be taken care of properly, but the Lunacy Commission has refused to declare her incompetent. | i { Frank Drew, “the gas light burglar,” was held to answer to two charges of burglary by Judge Cabaniss yesterday in bonds of ‘$1000 on each charge. He | adopted the novel method of walking | into a sleeping man’s room, lighting the gas and heiping himself to whatever | valuables he fancied. When the sleeper | awoke he told him it was time to get up, turned off the gas and silently stole away. One sleepy victim caught the; burgiar and another identified stolen | goods found in Drew’s possession. | e Where the Wurzburger Flows. isitors to the Louisiana Purchase Ex- v tion at St. Louis this year will find P | many things in that progressive city out- side the Exposition fence to take much of their time and attention. No one en- terprise, however, will command more at- tention than the great buildings and plant of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing As- ociation, the largest brewery in the arld. wThe average man who blows the foam from his glass of lager gives little thought to the great industry ‘which pro- | nces this most delightful of beverages— the only drink that keeps a man cool in summer and warms him in midwinter. The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Associa- tion alone sent out 100,402,500 bottles of ‘ts beers in 1903, and since 1875 is cred- ited wif 402.500 bottles, girdle the over enou; San Franc bottles. This great output of it placed end to end. would globe eight times and still lap gh to connect St. Louis with isco. Budweiser,” the favorite beer of the st Bi':“;, establishment, exceeds the cales of all other bottled beers combined, it purity, delicious flavor and tonic prop- erties making it a household beverage. —_— e ‘Runner Coleman Acquitted. Michael Coleman, a boatman and yunner for the Sailors’ Home, was {ried yesterday by United States Court Commissioner Heacock on a charge of having aided two seamen to desert from the British ship Ladas on De- cember 15. Coleman was discharged for lack of evidence to convict. ——————————— Insolvent Carpenter. George Moenning, a carpenter re- siding in Berkeley, filed a petition in insolvency yesterday in the United States District Court. He owes $395 | and has $59 assets. £ — Richmond Range. PATTOSIEN'S will sell you a Rich- mond Range for $27 50; regular down- town orlcc.usn. L th the bewildering total of 1.410.- | Want Their Stock Back. C. W. Purrington, Lizzie C. Robin- son and W. A. Ross, who claim to be the owners of 3050 shares of stock in the Columbia Bowling Association of 11731% Market street, filed a suit to re- cover the stock yesterday against L. B. Mayer. They also ask for an in- junction restraining Mayer from voting the stock. The! plaintiffs allege that they gave the stock to Mayer to vote | it and that he is using it to further his own ends. ————— Asks to Be Appointed Guardign. Margarita Rico, mother of Joseph, Rudolph, James, Bernice, Norice, Caroz, Ermentine, Juanita and Clarice Rico, applied to the Superior Court yesterday for letters of mrdhnshlpf over the children. She claims she de- | sires legal authority to care for their | interests in the estate of the late Dr. Mariano E. Gonzales. —_———— Charges Are Withdrawn. The petition of Carolina St. Quentin for a revocatjon of the order appoint- ing Guillermo Mack executor of the wiil of William Mack, her husband, was dismissed yesterday in the Pro- bate Court on motion of the attorneys for the petitioner. They also withdraw all the charges made against Mack. ——— Sues Husband for Support. H. M. Langhorne is the defendant in a suit for support filed yesterday by October. Rafael thirteen yvears ago. o S L T G wi 3 i withemt infury. = A Mrs. Kessing claimed to be the | lady withheld one of their seventy- | the | TWO SECTIONS |FILE A REPORT (CITY OFFICIALS ~ TRADE SPACES 1 . | Sacramento Valley Delegates Demand Change in Allotment of Room and Wiggins Yields FILCHER IS SURPRISED | ' | He Says That Southern Coun- ties Have Secured Better Posi- tion by Getting in the Center ! | A lightning-like change of space was | effected yesterday, with the consent of ithe California Commissioners to the St. Louis Exposition, by the counties of the Sacramento Valley and Southern | California. The Commissioners met ’Sunday night, with Secretary E. B. ! Willis, to finally allot the space in the | agriculture building at St. Louis to the | counties and sections that have decided | to make collective exhibits representa- | tive of their several localities. | There are twenty-nine counties that | [ are to exhibit their products and re-| | sources apart from the State's collec- | tive show, and if San Francisco suc-| ! ceeds in putting up a building on Mu- | | nicipal row there will be thirty counties | | that seek individual distinction. In this| ‘ array is included every county south of | 'Tehachapi, and more: than a score of | | counties north of the dividing range of | mountains that separates Central and | Northern California from Southern Cal- | ifornia. ‘When the aliotment of space was fin- | ’ally agreed upon Sunday night by thei Commissioners, or practically agreed | upon, subject to some slight modifica- tions that may be found advisable, the counties of the Sacramento Valley were given space in the heart of the Califor- nia exhibit. In front of them and fac- ing on a main aisle were the counties of Southern California in solid array. SACRAMENTO DELEGATION. On Monday a delegation came down from the Sacramento Valley to inspect the layout of space as prepared by the Commissioners. They saw where the Southern California counties were and made a vigorous protest. In fact, some very strong language is reported to have been used on Monday, and the one room occupied by the commission in this city was the scene of great in- terest. Telegrams were sent and confer- ences togk place. When the shades of evening fell Monday the Southern Cali- fornia counties had still the space that had been allotted to them. Yesterday morning the delegates from the Sacra- mento Valley dropped into the com- ; mission’s headquarters again and re- newed the struggle to get the space on the main aisle. Commissionsr Wiggins met them and promptly surrendered the space he had and took in lieu the space in the center of the exhibit. Wiggins smiled urbane- Iy, as is his wont, all through the day. He said that his coanties wouid be sat- isfied to exhibit in the middle space and that the Sacramento Valley counties were entirely welcome to the place orig- inally assigned to.the southland. To say that Commissioner Filcher was aston- {ished when he found that the Sacra- mento counties and the Southern Cali- fornia counties had agreed to trade room in the big show puts the case mildly. * SOUTH IS THE WINNER. Filcher said that the middle space the Sacramento Valley deiegates had in- sisted upon giving up for the front row in the show was preferable to the place the valley had traded for. “Southern California gets a place now where it is bounded by four aisles,” he said. “The Sacramento Valley counties are on two aisles only. I couldn’t help it. ¥ tried to show the Sacramento Valley dele- gates that they had better stay where we put them when the space was allot- ted Sunday, but they have decided oth- erwise.” Afer the exchange Commissioner ‘Wiggins was asked for his version of the matter. “It is very easy to tell it he said. | handed to the Mayor. ON THEATERS Commissioners of Works Sub- mit the Results of Investi- gations to Mayor Sehmitz ALTERATIONS —_— Some Playhouses Are Deemed Perfectly Safe, While Others Are to Be Reconstrueted Pk, o The Commissioners of Public Works filed the report of their investigations into the condition as to safety of the various theaters with Mayor Schmitz yesterday afternoon. The final report has been under consideration by Com- missioners Schmitz and Casey for three days. They disagreed on certain items contained in the report and some were eliminated as being too drastic. After the report “had been revised it was The latter de- cided not to make its contents public until he had thoroughly gone into it. It is understood that the report or- ders many changes in the construction of the Alcazar, Fischer's and the Or- pheum, in order to make them safer : cases of fire or panic. It is said that certain of the alterations required would compel the closing of one or two of the houses for a period of time. The theaters announced safe after a few minor and unimportant alterations are made include the Columbia, Tivoli, Central, Grand Opera-house and Cali- fornia, which are pronounced entirely safe as to exits and other requirements. A number of minor theaters located in stores are unfaverably reported om. with a recommendation that they be closed unless they comply in every re- spect with the theater ordinance. —_—e———————— Revenue Cutter Cadet Wanted. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that an exam- instion will be held at San Francisco February 25 for the pesition of ca- det, revenue cutter service. Age lim- it, 18 to 25 years. The salary of a cadet is $500 per annum and one ra- ticn per day. Apply either to the United +States Civil Service Commis- Washington, D. C.. or to the sec- v of, the Consolidated Board of Service Examiners, 301 Jac street, San Francisco, for appli- cation form 304, which should be ORDERED commission at Washington. New Process for Making Ga The Construction Company “Amer- | ica” was incorporated yesterday with a capital stock of $10,000. The direc- tors are Philip Meyer, Peter Harden, Paul Keyser, A. F. W. Delius and G. H. Bahrs. The company is formed for the purpose of developing a process of making gas invented by Philip Meyer of Santa Rosa. Experiments will be conducted in the city of Vallejo. ————————— w by a Fall. Henry Robertson, a shingler, vears of age, died at St. Joseph's Hos- pital yesterday from injuries received on January 14 by falling from the roof of a building on the corner of ‘Webster and Post streets. & - “The - Sacramento Valley delegates wished to have the space that had been given to us. I made no objection, but said that the Southern California coun- ties could make an exhibition that would attract attention anywhere. We are willing to accommodate.” Commissioner Wiggins pulled his mus- tache reflectively and smiled. If he be- lieved that Southern California had se- cured the best part of the exhibition space he did not say so. All through the wrangles for space Wiggins has never appeared to be ruffled. Yesterday afternoon after the trade had been made he was more complacent than ever. properly executed and filed with the | N WORDY WAR Secretary Moran of Civil Ser- vice Board Passes Lie and Au- ditor Bachr Orders Him Out NO BLOWS ARE STRUCK | Trouble Arises Over Commis- sion’s Verbal Notice That the *‘Held-Up™* Demands Be Paid —— An exciting scene occurred yesterday afternoon in Auditor Baehr's office dur- ing a wordy altercation, in which Sec- retary Edward Moran of the Civil Ser- vice Commission passed the He to Baehr, and the latter ordered Moran out of the office. Baehr accompanied his order by an emphatic shove of Moran, and the latter lost no time in | getting away from the irate Auditor. | There were no blows struck. although | for a moment a full-fledged boxing bout, regardless of Marquis of Queens- bery rules, seemed imminent. The trouble arose when Moran en- tered Baehr's private office and in- formed Baehr that he could audit the demands of certain employes in the Board of Health, Fire Department and Department of Electricity, the payment of which had been previously disap- proved in a written communication by the commission because certain civil service rules had been violated in the appointments. Baehr desired to know if the commission would file a written notice to that effect in order to rescind its previous action. “Oh, no,” said Moran; “I give you verbal notice. Commissioners Rogers and Bahrs say it will be all right for you to audit the demands. as they want to see the men get their money.” Baehr was dissatisfied with this expla- nation and said: “The Commissioners want me to do something which they | will not do themselves. I think they | are a lot of ‘crooks’ in their way of do- ing business, and you are in with them.” “Do you mean me “Yes, T mean you. “Well, you're a liar,” said Moran. “You get out of my office,” said Baehr, advancing threateningly toward Moran, “or I'll put you out.” Moran and Baehr moved flercely on each other., and the latter adminis- tered a shove to Moran, who then stood not unon the order of his going, but went at once. Moran in explaining the action of the commission in only verbally notifying Baehr to audit the demands said it could mot do anything else. It. how- ever, wanted Baehr to assume the re- sponsibility of paying the demands of the men, some of whom have been waiting three months for their salaries. The men involved in the controversy are J. J. Sullivan. chief plumbing in- spector; G. J. Berger. Almshouse clerk; N. J. Barry, W. T. Horan. E. A. Cale- | | garis, clerks City Hispital: Arthur Garms, messenger; F. Ruddy. might watchman: W. H. Lamb. market in- spector: W. J. Hudson, machinist Fire Department, and C. J. Murphy. cashier Department of Electricity. Baehr characterizes the course of the commission in refusing to give a writ- ten notice that it has rescinded its ac- tion in disapproving the payment of the demands as preposterous, and he re- fuses to assume the responsibility when the commission is on record as disap- proving their payment. —_— —ee——— Gas heaters. formerly $4.50. now $2.50, at San Francisco Gas and Electric Com- pany, 415 Post street. - Seek Damage- for Arrest. R. T. e, W on Dec =Der 28 was arrested by William Mahény on a charge of disturbing the peace. sued Mahony yesterday for $5000 damages. He alleges that his arrest was mali- cious. ——————— The grape cure at Weisbaden has for a long time been an important feature of the autumn season at that famous health resort. 999 MARXET STREET. Child, call at 997 and ADVERTISEMENTS. WE DON'T PUT ON VERY MUCH STYLE UP HERE We Deliver the Goods Just th You'll find something doing in the Clothing line every day on & this corner. Most of our stock is piled on boxes and counters, but the value is in the clothes. Don’t Forget This lmportaht Fact. We guarantee every piece of Clothing we sell. Thousands of pleased patrons will tell you this if you will only ask them. The Good Things can’t last forever. 000 Market Street,sii" If you want clothing, -And convince yourself. BUT e Same, LEANUVI 666 ANV L66: be it for Man, Boy or