The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY JAPANESE ARMY SIXTY THOUSAND BROWN MEN LAND Mikado’s Horsemen Are Raiding Russian Territory in South Manchuria. PARIS, Merch 4.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Echo de Paris says that when General Kuro- patkin starts for the March 12 he will go on a special train and be accompanied by his staff. “You will return a field marshal.” The Newsky shipyard is about to| LONDON, March 4—The Far East- ten sub-ern news published this morning con- begin the construction of marine vessels of the English type. Work on these boats will be pushed with all speed. THe Harbin correspondent of the Matin says that a detachment of Ja- panese cavalry has entered South Manchuria and is raiding in Russian territory. | Far East onl It | torpedo-boats were put out of action, is reported that the Czar said to him: |and several others so damaged that | They declare that the losses of the Japanese up to February 25 were great- er than had been admitted in foreign newspapers. In addition to five steam- ships sunk they say that five torpedo- boat destroyers, one gunboat and two they will require extensive repairs. sists chiefly of more or less reliable re- ports of Japanese military movements. The general idea among correspondents appears to be that no important land battle is expected before the end of March. Cabling from Harbin, a correspond- ent of the Daily Chronicle gives a rumor that sixty thousand Japanese have landed at Wonson. It is alleged here that 60,000 Japan-‘i squadron. der the guns of a fleet. to threaten Viadivostok or Kirin. ment of the Boxer indemnity tax. CALL'S WAR S abled and another vessel damaged. and a Chinese rising following the first Japanese victory on;lfind. v That Japanese troops are moving through Northeastern Korea scems well established.. The force is small, about 2500 men, and its objective is doubtful. Such a detachment could not be seriously designed D WIFE DESERTS EBARKS A From Chefu a special cablegram announces that ten transports convoyed by three cruisers have been sighted, bound for Liaotung Gulf. The vicinity of Saddle Bay is snid to be the destination of the This bay is about forty-five miles from Yinkow, the port of Newchwang. That the Russian strategists are prepared for such a move on the part of the Japanese is indicated by the announced intention to abandon Yinkow and Newchwang and concentrate on the railroad at Liao- yang and Haichdu. These points are about forty and seventy-five miles, respectively, south of Mukden. The Thaitanho is a small river which crosses the railroad at Liaoyang. Port Arthur is to stand a slege if necessary. Ten transports would not carry a very large nn;iy wh.!. artillery, commissary stores and baggage, and the best such a force could do would be to seize a landing place, entrench it and hold the position un- An attempt has becr_n made to blqw up the residences of the Korean Foreign Minister and his sec- retary because of the former's pro-Jgpuncse attitude. When the Korean Emperor signed the treaty giving Japan a protectorate over the empire it was predicted by persons with a knowledge of native traits that he would be assassinated by the opposition faction, in accordance with a cheerful custom in vogue there. A rebellion has broken out in the province of Kweichow, China, the natives objecting to the pay- i Newchwang will be at the merey of Japan's squadron as soon as the ice is out of the Liao River. The Call's Chefu correspondent announces that Japan has lost a cruiser and had a battleship dis- He predicts a landing near Dalny, the control of the Yalu by Japan HURLS HERSELE CAR SHORTAGE T WONSON DESCRIBES PANIC AT PO RT ARTHUR Eye-Witness Pictures Scenes At- tending the First Battle of the Far East War. MOSCOW, March 3.—M. Arkounin, an actor. who has returned here from Port Arthur, was an -eyewitness of events there prior to his departure. He lived at a Japanese hotel in Port Ar- thur and received the first warning of the likelihood of hostilities from his Japanese landlady on February 3, when : she declared that the Japanese had al- | ready landed at Yinkow, and that an- other place soon would be taken. On February 7 the Japanese began leaving Port Arthur. Upon orders from Vice- roy Alexieff those remaining on Feb- | ruary 9 were detained, about 100 of | them being held up at the hotel The warships in® port had been cleared of all wooden work on deck on the Tth of February, but this had the telegraph and telephone service. The town was still quiet and business went on as before. The children went to schoel, the banks and shops were open and even New Chinatown show- ed no signs of commotion. “At about 11 o'clock on the morn- ing of the 9th I again heard shots. I proceeded at once to the square and found the people were panic stricken. Chinese women and children were running from their homes, glancing anxiously behind them as they hur- ridd away. Al the shgps, banks and other places in town at once closed. We could see two great columns of smoke arising from one of the bat- teries, and thought they were due to an explosion, but it was soon learned that this smoke came from the mor- | tars. e w landed at Wonson, ffi.?:‘;:fi\-ebfi&g Manchuria. i The Shanghai correspondent of the In Korea the weather is cold and | Daily Telegraph asserts that three there is snow. Here it is compara- | Separate Japanese armies have landed tively fine in Korea, and the Paris edition of the | not occasioned alarm. The people | “Suddenly the firing stopped and the were surprised to see flashes of fire | Japanese fleet began to steam away. It from the Golden Hill forts, but even | Was rumored about the town that an this did not suggest distrust. explosion had occurred on board one of The sea is still rough at | Port Arthur. New York Herald publishes a report from Chefu to the effect that six Japa- nese cruisers, escorting ten transports, VLADIVOSTOK, March 3.—It is re- ported here that a Japanese steamship, B . the name of which is mot known, was | have been seen steaming in the direc- sunk in the sea of Japan on February | tion of the gulf of Liaotung. 25 while on her way to Wonson with a| Nothing in any of these reports is load of rice. | improbable, but it is likely that the Eye-witnesses of the naval fight at| Japanese are maintaining strict se- Port Arthur have just arrived here. | crecy as to their movements. . "JAPAN'S WAR PLANS. Continued From Page 1, Columns 5 and 6. — = strong bands have been formed throughout Manchuria. The Russo-Chinese Bank is closing, preparatory to removing to Mukden. Women and children are preparing to leave Yinkow in anticipation of the arrival ot the Japanese fleet, which is ex- pected when the river opens, probably a fortnight hence. The United States gunboat Helena and the British cruiser Espiegle are making preparations to leave the drydocks in a week’s time. On account of the impossibility of defending the coast at Yinkow until such time as a thaw permits the construction of entrenchments and forts, the Russians have prepared to retire up the main railroad line. There are practically no defenses here, and although the shifting and reshifting of troops and artillery to the small forts at the mouth of the Liao River have the appear- ance of an intention to defend Yinkow, the military authorities depend upon an inland engagement to put a stop to the Japanese advance. As far as yet known the on that General Kuropatkin’s headq Viceroy Alexieff proposes to remain at Mukden indefinitely, as that city is the center of the Ch viceroyal bureau; second, that th which is almost impossible of defensg, will be held if possible on account of the «railroad conn Haiching and Liaoyang are the will be withdrawn. on account of these points. That the Japanese will arriv struction of defenses is believed wonld appear, also, that the autt besieged. . ly plans decided on are: First, uarters are to be at Mukden, inese administration and has a e plain west of Tashihchiao, ection at Port Arthur; third, extreme limits to which troops the exposure of the railroad at ‘e before a thaw permits the con- to be practically certain. It horities expect Port Arthur to be JERRY McAULEY MISSION INAUGURATED IN CITY Quarters on Howard Street Where the Unfortunate May Receive a Help- ing Hand. A three days' conference. inaugurat- | ing the opening of “The Jerry McAuley | Mission of San Francisco,” began yes terday at 824 Howard street. The ser ice lasted throughout the greater parll of the day and long into the night. Mre. Carrie Judd Montgomery was!| the first speaker to give her experience | in “slum” and rescue work, and Mrs. Cora D. Humphreys, a prison mission- | told of the achievements in the; labor she has taken up. Other speakers in the afternoon ses- sion were the Rev. B. W. Ward and the Rev. James Woodworth, who has devoted much of his time to prison| work for almost half a century, and has been secretary of the California Prison Commission for the last thirty- nine years. Dr. George W. White, pastor of Cen- tral Methodist Episcopal Church, at- tended the evening conference and made an eloquent plea for “the man | who is down in the world,” and J. Clarence Westenberg spoke on drunk- enness and its results. | This afternoon Rev. Mr. Ward will | relate his experience in “slum work” | while in New York, Philadelphia and | Boston, and in the evening C. H. Bright, a missionary from Peru. will| speak on “Pardon for Great Sinners.” | ————— { WILL CALL CONVENTION | FOR GOOD ROADS CAUSE President Moore of National Associ- ation Will Take Steps to In- crease State Interest. Governor Pardee has addressed a letter to the California State Board of Trade in reference to a State conven- tion of the Good Roads Association, to be held soon in this State. The letter is as follows: | | of and | but —& ENIGHTS TEMPLAR PREPARE FOR THE COMING CONCLAVE Thousands of Easterners Are Expected to Visit This City Next Sep- tember. Preparations for the entertainment of the Knights Templar who will come to this city next September to attend the twenty-ninth triennial conclave arc rapidly progressing and neither pains nor money will be spared in giving the visitors a true California reception. The last conclave held in this city was in 1883, and the crowds of people that came West were so taken with the cli- mate and the city that even a larger number is expected this year. Already one-third of the money needed in entei- taining the visitors has been collect=d and committees hawve been appointed to secure the remainder. The Oakland and San Franciscorcom- manderies have raised emough money among themselves to enable each to en- tertain their friends in their own way. A public subscription will be taken up, this money will be expended in making pleasant the visit of the thou- sands that will Jive temporarily in this city. " —_—— STOPPED FROM GRADING WITHOUT A PERMIT | John Kelso Runs Foul of Board of Works, Which Prevents Further Operations, Acting on orders from the Board of Public Works, Officer Beach yes- terday stopped grading operations on Lombard and Montgomery streets, which were being conducted by John Kelso without a permit. Complaint had been filed with the board by James Guthrie that the grad- ing was causing the land to slide in all directions and made ingress tol surrounding houses difficult. Later in the day Kelso telephoned to Beach that he would resume oper- ations this morning. Beach told Kelso that he would arrest him and his workmen if he did. “All right,” said Kelso, “send three or four patrol wagons out, for we will resume grading.” —— The principal articles imported into Moscow are mechanical and agricul- tural machinery, hardware and cutlery, cotton, raw copper, cash registers, HIN AT NOTEL Mrs. Frost Charges Husband With Revealing Fact of an Inheritance and Leaves | IS TRACED TO SAN JOSE] Well-Known Young Railroad , Man Finds Matrimonial | Life Fraught With Trouble | Soognss 5 The matrimonial career of William T. Frost, former ticket agent in this city for the Rock Island road, is being fraught with many trials and tribula- | tions. His marriage to Miss Ratten- berry was a recent social event in | Oakland, but was quickly followed by | a disagreement and suit for divorce brought by the young wife, who | charged cruelty on the part of her hus- band. About this time Mrs. Frost's| grandmother died in the East and be- queathed to her granddaughter an es- tate of about $75,000. Thereupon friends of the young couple interested them- | selves in effecting a reconciliation be- tween the Frosts, and eventually suc- ceeded, notwithstanding the strong op- position interposed by the mother of the young wife. Peace having been restored in the Frost household, husband and wife planned a trip to the East to look into the estate which Mrs. Frost was soon to receive. They gave up their home in Oakland and moved to the Russ House in this city and Frost, three days ago, resigned his position w'.h the Rock Island road and im- mediately prepared to leave with his wife. When he returned to the hotel, however, he found that she had dis- appeared, but a hurried search lo- cated her in San Jose, where, it is sup- posed her mother, Mrs. Rattenberry, hes since joined her: Yesterday Frost's wife wrote him a letter to the effect that she had left him because of the publicity given-to the fact that she was soon to inherit a fortune, which she attributes to her husband. Frost, however, strongly suspects that his mother-in-law is re- sponsible for his wife’s absence, but undaunted by his failure to keep his wife within his reach, he purposes to | use every possible means to ‘induce her to return and friends have prom- ised to again assist him in his ef- forts. e WILL ISSUE PAMPHLET ON SANITARY LAWS Health Board to Prepare Literature to Distribute to Householders for Their Guidance. The Board of Health yesterday adopted a resolution providing for the framing of a pamphlet of instruction relative to sanitary laws to be placed in the hands of householders for their ihstruction. The resolution recites that the interests of the public health can be materially served by the issuing of proper literature on the subject. ' The pamphlet is the combined effort of the Federal, State and City Health boards, The title of the pamphlet will be “Health Hints for the Household.” The contents will inciude “Definitions of Infection and Contagion,” “Poisons of Earth, in Water and Food;” “The Gos- pel or Philosophy of Cleanliness,” “The &pcial of Dirt, Dust, Garbage and fuse,” “Communication of Diseases by Contact with Animals,” “Quaran- tinable Diseases” and “Management of Contagion.” The resignatipn of C. J. Peterson, steward of the Emergency Hospital was accepted and D. W. Barry was appointed to the vacancy. The resignation of Helen Collins. head nurse of the operating room at the City Hospital, and Superintendent Diggins of the Smallpox Hospital were accepted. i Dr. Sidney Worth was appointed consuiting homeopathic physician at the Almshouse. G. J. Plato was appointed night clerk at the City Hospital. ———— Hawali Will Not Exhibit. HONOLULU, March 3.—It has been definitely decided that Hawaii will make no exhibit at the St. Louis fair. The sum of $30,000, which the Legis- lature appropriated for an exhibit, will be returned to the treasury and be used in relieving the stringency caused by a recent decision of the Territorial Supreme Court invalidat- ing the county government act. The effect of the decision was to return the management of all county affairs to the Territorial Government. ————— Since King Henry took up the hobby of canary breeding prices have stead- ily advanced until birds have been sold at $350 a pair, 4 ~ [PON BURGLAR Mrs. M. Tighe Flies Bravely at Housebreaker Who Dis- turbs Her Sleeping Child ARTLED THIEF FLEES Progress Stopped by Locked Door, and Roomers Capture Him in Rear of the House Mrs. M. Tighe, who conducts a lodg- ing-house at 323 Taylor street, bravely attacked a burglar who entered the room where her little daughter lay | abed last night, and he was captured | after he had | by two male roomers made an ineffectual attempt to escape through the rear part of the house. Shortly after 10 o'clock Mrs. Tighe put her little girl, aged 10, to bed and returned to the parlor to chat with her sister. Suddenly screams from the lit- tle girl rent the air, and rushing into the child's room Mrs, Tighe and her sister discovered a burglar going through the chiffonier. Mrs. Tighe made a grab at the man, at the same time screaming for help and beating him over the head.. The burglar broke away from her and ran down the hallway to the rear of the house. The back door was locked and when two male roomers resvonded o the alarm the burglar, seeing that es- cape was out of the question, ‘pretend- ed to have got into the wrong house. Police Corporal Fraher arrived on the scene and placed the man under arrest. Mrs. Tighe's little girl almost went into hysterics from fright. She says that when the man "saw her she rose up in bed and he shook his fist at her, saying, “Keep still, or I'li#kill you.” Mrs. Tighe said: “I heard the child scream and rushed into the room and grappled with the burglar. I beat him severely on the head till he broke away from me. Had I got*my gun I'd have killed him. He didn’t get a chance to get anything, but if my little girl had been asleep the thief might have se- cured two gold watches and some money. One of the watches was on the bureau. “Earlier in the evening we always leave the front door open so that roomers can enter. About 8 o'clock to-night a silver-handled umbrella was stolen from the hall. bout a month ago one of my roomers had a valuable gold watch stolen from his room.” The burgler gave the name of Al- bert Schadel, and claimed first to be a railroad man, then a soldier. He affected drunkenness, but the police believe they have the man responsible for many burglaries. Mrs. Tighe is a_large woman and showed great bravery. The little girl has been placed under a doctor’s care, as she was unnerved by her experi- ence, — e PUZZLING - QUESTION FOR THE BOARD OF WORKS Requested to Define the Difference Between an Alleged Spite Fence and a Conservatory. When is a conservatory a fence? When is it a wall? These are prob- lems that have been passed up for so- lution to the Board of Public Works. B. J. Brun and D. Abrams own flats near the corner of Broadway and Franklin street. The flats are sepa- rated bv but two feet six inches of real estate and of this two fect belongs to Abrams and the other six inches to Brun. Abrams recently decided to inclose the two feet belonging to him and accordingly secured a rermit from the Board of Works to build a con- servatory. The ' conservatory con- sists of a solid wooden wall three stories high with a glass roef, no floors and the ends partially inclosed with glass, The so-called conservatory effectu- ally shuts out the light from Mr. Brun’s windows and he objects most strenuously. According to his state- ments Abrams had the wall erected as a spite fence because of Brun's refusal to purchase certain property from him. He says further that the contractor employed in building the wall intimated to him that the work might be discontinued if a settlement were made ' with Abrams. In the meantime ;e,u up to the Board of Works to decide when is o conserva- tory not a conservatory. — Mrs. Vining Wants Her Child. Irene V. Vining, who was married to Frank L. Vining in January, 1902, | known | filed a suit yesterday for the custody. of their one child. She complains that February 9 he forcibly teok poseession of the child and placed it to care for it. WERiery i ——_;‘T‘"—_‘—"—_ CROWS SERIOS outhern California Orange Shippers Are Likely to Be Unable to Get Fruit East ALL PLANS ARE UPSET Railway Officials Admit That Refrigerator Rolling Stock Is Now Almost Exhausted Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 3.—Severe weather conditions in the East -have caused a shortage of cars in Southern California, which is placing the orange shippers in a bad position. It is admit- ted by officials of the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railroads that the re- frigerator rolling stock will be exhaust- ed in five or six days and that ship- ments from that time on will depend entirely upon the rapidity with which the cars can be brought back from the East. “We are liable to ‘be caught badly short,” said G. A. Parkyns, assistant general passenger and freight agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad. “The railroad companies have done the very best they could, and under average cofiditions our supply would have been sufficient, but we have had to face weather conditions in the East that entirely upset all our estimates. The Southern Pacific Company had 5000 cars under contract from the Armour people for this year, but instead of making three or four trips with them we will probably be able to make only one. It has been impossible to unload the cars in the East, and they have been held up in round houses and any available place of storage until the cold spell subsides. We now have about 500 cars at hand in the Los An- geles division, but as the shippers want 200 a day you can see how long they will last.” A. H. Naftzger, president of the Southern California Fruit Exchange, said to-night: “We sent out a bulletin to-day ad- vising growers to hold up on their picking until we are able to find just how we stand on the car question. We are practically assured an orange crop of 30,000 carloads this year and we ‘will need 200 cars a day for all work- ing days for the remainder of this month and for April and May. We cannot count on the return of cars.” ————— ANOTHER THOUSAND ADDED TO EXPOSITION FUND Additional subscriptions to the fund for the San Francisco exhibit and building at the St. Louis Exposition are reported by L. M. King, secretary of the general committee, as follows: man's Funfl, $100: Giant Powder Com- $50; Baldwin & Howell, $30; Hyman Union Pulp and Paper Company, §: . (Inc.), $26; Hansen & Elrick, $25; Tubbs Cordage Company Russo-Chi’ nese Bank, $25; Watsor, Taylor & Sperry, $20; Heynemann & Co., $20; Robertson Raft Com. pany, $20; C. W.' Marwedel, Bremen Fire Insurance Company, $20; H: Warehouse Company, $: d Lithograph Company. . §20; Roth, Blum & Co., $20; Neustadter Bros., $20; Gecrge Goodman, 320; French-American Bank, §15; Germania National Bank, $15; George Hermann & Co., $15; H. Dinkelsplel, $10; Frank O. Peterson $10; Abbot A, Hanks, $i0; Theodore Gier Company, $10; George E. Plvm- mer & Co.. $10; James Graham Manufacturing Company, '§10: Golden State Bank, $10; J. Perry Jr., $10; Brown & Adams, $1 o2 Cann, Beicher & Allen, $10; Rochdale Whole- sale Company, $10; Anglo-American Crockery and Glass Company, $10; David Bush & Son, 10; California Optical Company, $10; Mark . Gerstle, $10; Columbus Savings and Loan Soclety, §10; Edwin W. Joy, $10; D, R. Mc- Nelll, $10: French & Linforth, $10; Micha- litschke Bros., $10; Mendelson Bros., $10; Clal h-Golcher Company, $10; Boardman Brox., $10; Oscar Heyman, $10; Kron Tanning Company, $10; Guy T. Wiyman, $10; B Hart & Urother, §10; A. Meyer & Co., $5; W. A. Miller & Co., $6; W. 8. Mo $5; Alex J. Costa, $5: George T. W ; H. Van Bergen, $5; E. Gentil, Valentine Schmidt, §5; Stein (the p: cash (312 Market street), $3: L. C. Meyer, $5 Fleischman & Cler>, $5; Bénjamin R. Swan, $5; E. Curtis, $5. —_————— Child Assists Drunken Mother. Mrs. Lucile Fentan was arrested last night by Policeman J. A. Ryan on the San Bruno road. The women was found in a drunken ¢ondition with her three-year-old girl, Olive, with her. rrill Chemical Com- and the little girl was trying to pilot her mother to their home near the Mail Dock. The woman was booked for drunkenness and the child given into the charge of the matron. g —_—— Death Calls Chicago Capitalist. CHICAGO, March 3.—Robert T. Moore, son of W. H. Moore, the well- Chicagd” capitalist, died to- day at Saranac Lake, New York, of pneumonia. The decedent was mar- ried last Sunday, when his th was declared imminent, to ies Ruth Emmons, daughter of the late New York banker. Both of them were soaked with nln: | found in some trom a barge and part of alcargo recently The fish “I went to sleep that night,” con- tinued M. Arkounin, “without realiz- ing that fizhting was going on. The next morning I Saw the battleship Cesarevitch in the eastern basin of the harbor, near the dock, and the battleship Retvizan at the entrance to the harbor. They were apparently in good condition. At 8 o'clock the mil- itary authorities took possession of | thie Japanese vessels. | “During the bombardment the wind | blew toward the forts, and consequent- |1y the smoke from our guns interfered | with the aim of the Russian gunners. | “The cabmen in Port Arthur had been drafted into the military service, and it was almost impossible for those leav- ing to get their baggage taken down to the railroad station.” TRYING T0 FIY RESPONSIBILITY New York Officials Begin of Collapse of Big Building WARRANTS ARE ISSUED List of Known Dead Reaches Fifteen and Several More - Men Are Reported Missing NEW YORK, March 3.—There are fifteen dead, fifteen known to have been injured and three persons re- ported missing as the result of the collapse of the unfinished Hotel Dar-: lington building in West Forty-sixth | street yesterday and of the resultant | injury to the Patterson Hotel, directly ! in the rear of the collapsed building. | The search for the dead among the | twisted iron girders and masses of stone continued all last night and to- | day. A wrecking force is now at work | and is aided in its efforts by a steam derrick. Many large arc lights have | been erected over the mass of twisted | timbers and beams and operations will | go on throughout the night. | Four bodies were in sight late to- | night, but much work will still be re- quired to reach them. The bady of Frank Allison, brother of Eugene Allison, president of the Allison Realty Company, was taken from the ruins to-night. Allison is| supposed to have been on the n|mh{ floor of the building at the time of the | disaster. The body was found agafhst | the wall of the dwelling to the west. | It was horribly mangled and was in | a net work of iron girders. In a pocket of his coat was found a letter written by Miss Amy L. Mar- quitz of St. Louis. The Coroner said that the letter indicated that the cou-, ple were to have been married and that they intended to reside in San Francisco. i Allison was an expert gunner in the; United States Navy. serving in the| Spanish-American War. He returned from the Philippines only a few months ago. . !Dlslrict Attorney Jerome, Coroner Scholer and officials of the building de- partment began an investigation to- day and will seek to place the respon- sibility for the disaster. The Coroner said he had issued warrants for “Eu- gene” Allison, presumably Charles R. Allison, of the Allison Realty Com- pany, and also for Paul Schwandtner of Pole & Schwandtner, the iron work contractors. Allison, he explained, is sick in bed at his home with nervous prostration and that a lawyer repre- senting Allison assured him that, owing to his client’s condition, it would be impossible to give him up.at the pres- ent time. p Among other warrants issued are two for Willilam O'Hea, chief architect for Bogge & Neville, and Frederick Mohn, an iron worker foreman for Pole & Schwandtner. Mohn, however, may | be among the dead. Shirley Greene says his brother, Wil- | liam R. Greene, 63 years old,'a foreman on cement and fireproof work for the Roebling Company, had not been seen ! or heard from since yesterday, and is' supposed to have perished. ; Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the sergeant of police in charge of the ruins telephoned for an ambulance, | saying a man had been found there; who was still alive. et Captures a Strange Fish. Michael Dougherty, a coal trimmer, cap- tured a strange fish yesterday in the bunkers of te Panama liner Acapulco. The fish was ! damp coal m,ln*r:_ | ceived from British Columbia. ! the head of an eel. the body of more than six inches in length. took it to tbe place he buys his man behind the bar provided a curjosity is making the in whose tub it has invited to send the fish Tardan of Stanford University. Inquiry to Ascertain Caunse | -5 SUTRO ESTATE HOLDINGS ARE SOLD AT AUCTION Large Number of Unimproved Lots Find Ready Buyers, Who Crowd Salesroom. An auction sale of properties on the ocean beach and on the park fronr, lots with marine view and lots on Ashbury Heights, was held yesterday by Baldwin & Howell by order of Dr. Emma L. Merritt, executrix of the es- ! tate of Adolph Sutro. Practically an entire block bounded by Forty-sixin | and Forty-seventh avenues and Castro | and Fulion streets was disposed | first. The lots were of uniform {on the avenues, 25x120 feet, the cor- ners on Castro and Fulton strees | were 32:6x100, and the inside lots on | these streets were 25x100 feet. Four- |teen lots on Forty-sixth avenue | brought $250 each and three lots were | sold for $300 each. All lots facing on | Forty-seventh avenue brought the | uniform price of $600 each, with the | exception of three, which had been | previeusly. seld, two of which are ac- | cupied as a station by the Commercial Cable Company. The corner of Ful- ton street and Forty-seventh avenue brought $1325. The cormer of Ful- ton street and Forty-sixth avenue was sold for $900. The corners on Castro and Forty- street and Forty-sixth seventh avenues were sold for 3535 and $910. The lots facing on Fulton street were sold from $620 to $685 each. The Castro-street frontages, exclusive of the corners, were sold for $390 to $580 each. Four lots on Forty-seventh avenue, near Clement street, were sold for $305 each, with the exception of the corner, which brought $435. Two lots about the middle of the block between Clement street and CHff avenue brought $280 each. Two lots fronting bn Cliff avenue, near Forty-fifth, were sold for $790 for the corner and $475 for the lot adjoining. An irregular shaped block between Ashbury street and Clarendon avenue, including eight lots, brought $2000. Five lots facing on the Ocean boulevard, betwzen O and P streets, were sold for $860 each. The sale took place at the auction room of Baldwin & Howell at 25 Post street. A large crowd was in attend- ance throughout the bidding. ——————— Ofticers Elected. At a meeting of the Presidio Heights Improvement Club held Wednesday night at Crafts and Guilds Hall on Presidio avenue the follow- ing officers were elected: President, A. Sbarboro; first vice president, John R. Aitken; second vice president, An- drew Carrigan; third vice president, Warren D. Clark; treasurer, Wallace Bradford; secretary, O. C. Pratt; as- sistant secretary, E. M. Cooper; exec- utive committee, George W. Turner, S. J. Hendy, George F. Beveridge, Spencer C. 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