The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1904, Page 40

SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, MARCH L HORSES' SAFEIY IS CONSIDERED IR e Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wants (‘hutes inTwo-StoryStables | —_— COMMENCES CAMPAIGN Drills for the Animals Are Also a Feature of Scheme to Save Them From Flame Oa kla nd Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 12 1 fire drills for h ire escapes lodged in stabl B NS O WROTe . EEe above the ground are advocated by the Society for the Prevention of Is, and the organiza- tely inaugurate a uce governing bodies s on this side ordinances requiring n to provide safety exits for ncy. The the Preven- is orizinated ers after the stables in which burned to he Society for An Baker, Fred Dr. FLANES BREAK 0T IN ENGI Summeoned to Extinguish 0il Blaze on a Locomotive | BIG MACHINE DAMAGED | Leak in Furnace Pipe Is the | Cause of Explosion That Wrecks and Ignites Cab ol March ALAMED! 12.--Fire out this morning in an oil-bur motive standing ir broke inig loco- sponded. | laid a line from High street and | cinal avenue to the blazing engine was ready to play a The Cordes Hose Company and eam on the big machine when the employes in the rounfthouse concuercd the flames It was through a defect in the oil- that the locomotive scovered leak had permitted the inflammable fluid to spread over the machinery beneath the When the jets in the furnace were lighted exvlosion followed, flames broke forth from under the loco- tive and in an instant enveloned the burning apparaty tcok fire. An u ebox. ary F hos and | o4, causing the stoker to jump for o the. Spe | his life. The woodwork of the cab was measure to be submitted |, gineq and the oil-burners demolished. Counc it is intended 0 | ppe gamaged engine was the first on submit 1ik sures to the boards of | the goyth side lecal line to have an oil- C Trustees da and Berke- |, ming furnace installed : . LANE AGAIN P cnth street, in o e incin- | tion of! & in any of animal the e the no ground fro ns where horses will be a chance but of the stable as useful to fire- « to he we all know b ficulty there is mong t of = ring a blaze. P ables could v e with the mals 1st them to walk stable in Ala- anged to put in COMING HOME TO ANSWER CHARGE OF IRREGULARITY Lieutenant Neilson May Be Court- Martialed for Alleged Discrep- ancies in His Accounts. t sseng I rs returning on t i transport irst Lieu- ; derick B. Neilson, Tweifth . It is reported that Licuten- be ordered home rtial for hav pay accounts whi 1 at Batangas. It is that strenuous efforis de in the young lieuten- the r straight- ty iago. turn, his t ant el Charles E. L. has returned from M rted at headquarc Colonel Davis is we: department. Afte few days here visiting b s and comrades, he will pro- his new post at Detroit, Mich. Commahder J. H. Bell from Mare Island yesterday and til the arri transport command of her. ander of the ar- tional Guard ter part of yeste: nference with Gena spend old f will remain in town & Soiace, ————— ,Serious Riotling Between Students. VIENNA rious riot- between and 200 esch students t0-d in of the Forty stu- were wounded. The police had in restoring order. Reports n Prague, Bohemia, say the police tions there are filled with students and other The ultimate proclamation of martial law at Prague is threatened ————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, March 12.—The follow- ing marriage licens:s were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Frank Mec- Kenzie, 32, and Mildred N. M. Offey, 27, both of San Francisc David M. Williams, over 21, Oakland, and Ida De San Francisco; De- ng b= occurred university. > der difficult rioters. mpsey, over 18, los Pratt, 60, and Mr=. Nettie Gourley, 40, both of Fruitvale ——— Wedded in a Restaurant, OAKLAND, March 12, — Joseph Martin and Louise La Croiz were mar- ried this afternoon at the Maison de I'Opera restaurant. The ceremony was performed by Police Judge Mortimer ith. 2 o Suburban realty is advancing ! rapidiy—The present is the time to buy. Secure a choice bargain NOow through our REAL ESTATE COLUMNS. B. Davis, en- | me down | of | | Ex-Brakeman Says That He Will De- part if Autho: ties Dismiss Case Against Him. OAKLAND, March 12.—T. C. Lane, the Southern Pz brakeman that bance in the offices intendent Palmer at kland mole last week and atened A. W. Baker, assistant su- perintendent, with a pistol, is |in the toil > law and is |ing how to get o He was let go | | last week on condition that he would get out of town. He went to Stockton, but returned to Oakland a few days ugo and was rearrested. He was taken before Justice of the Peace Quinn this morning and pleaded that he had been drinking heavily, but that if given another chance he would not trouble the Southern Pa- | cific offici more. His bond was fixed at 00 and case put over until next Wednesds In the mean- time it is believed that arrangements | can be made for his release. Lane had his hand crushed while switching some cars last summer and | the arm had to be amputated. He has been drinking a great deal since, but when able to go to work was given a position at Tracy as switchman. At |the end of the month he was given considerable less pay tha s due him and coming to Oakland down to the mole and raised a | aisturbance. The officials believe that a W, he means to do them harm and as he has put himself in their power going than ve the county they are not be satisfied with anything an agreement on his part or stand trial for less to le his ¢ | BLOW WITH AN | BREARKS GIRL'S HAND Miss Blanche Bertheaud Receives Painful Injury While Chopping Kindling Wood at Home. BERKELEY, March 12.— Miss Blanche Bertheaud crushed her left | hand in a frightful manner this morn- 18 while chopping kindling wood at | he home, 1731 Milvia street. In at- | tempting to split a stick of wood she | struck the hand that held it with an |ax. The ax was dull and instead of naking a clear cut crushed four of the | metacarpal bones. | So heavy was the impact that the | splinters of the bones were forced | through the flesh. The sight of the wound and the pain caused Miss Rer- | theaud to ery out and by the time the | members of the family had responded she was lying in a swoon on the floor. | Dr. J. T. Farrar was hurriedly called and he mended the bones as well as | their svlintered condition would per- |mit. Miss Bertheaud is a student at | the Berkeley High School. — Neeley Will Appeal | OAKLAND, March 12, — David | Neeley, the Berkeley nurseryman, wiil Lanigan the $8000 awarded her by a damages for his having failed y her. Attorneys representing parties were engaged to-day in both the preparation of a bill of exceptions on a motion for a new trial with the idea of appealing the case to the Su- preme Court. It is stated in his be- | half that it will take all that he has to satisfy the judgment. —ir s Debating Team Selected. ALAMEDA, March 12. — Roswell Dague, Jerome Polijzer and Arthur Rader have been chosen to represent the Alameda High School in a forensic contest to be held on April 29 with a team from the Stockton High School, The selections were made yesterday, the other candidates for the team be- ing Norman d’'Evelyn, Arthur Alvarez and Lorne Hendry. ————— St. Marys Will Play Jesse Moores. OAKLAND, March 12.—The Phoe- nix baseball team of 8t. Mary's Col- lege will play the Jesse Moores, the champions of the Midwinter League, on the college diamond on St. Pat- rick’s day. The Phoenix team is con- siderably weakened by the injury of Poultney at Berkeley. —— e Grocery Store Burglarized. OAKLAND, March 12.—Peterson Bros.' grocery at 473 Twenty-third street was entered by burglars last night, but though the thieves ran- sacked the place thoroughly, they se- cured nothing of value. the roundhouse at [ the epst ena, d before the flames | were got under control and alarm was t 1 in and the entire department he thought | make a fight before he« pays Mary | FROM SOPHOMOR to Senior Co-Eds an MISS GRACE_STOKES 3 | % T BERKELEY, March 12.—"“For dogs | and boys there won't be room.” | That was the “beware” sign that | kept the men away from Hearst Hall thi afternoon while the sophomore girls were entertaining the senior girls | of the university. And that suggests | anothér question: Why did the girl!} | mix the dogs and the boys up in the | same sentence? And why did the girls | | want to warn these two noble animals away? Was it because they consid- ered the “stunts” too awfully awful ght of man and even brute? | the “sophie” girls set out | in verse and between > who runs may read. For | instan one of them says, “We're to | have an exhibition to beat those of all | tradition.” That indicates that there | was need for the warning legend. But | here is the way the whole thing reads on the invitations that were sent out: re to have an e: beat those teacher = ar that wiil frolie some S0 just be dressed and walt till two, When Brown™ will call for you ! Tis to be i1 Hearst Hall on Saturday after- | noon. For degs and men there won't be room | The men were wise enough to stay away, all except the janitor, and what few dogs showed up were sent howl- ling. So that after all the entertain- | ment, whatever turn it happened to take, went on without disturbance or | guffaws from the rude fellows. It was really one of the prettiest af- s of the From a certain phie,” who passed the news ?alnng afterward, was discovered | 1(11:1( “Mi Head's kindergarten” was (in session some part of the afternoen. Miss Phoebe Binney and Miss Sue { Ross were the teachers and all the other “sophie” girls primary students. | The class sang all the “ring” songs | in its repertoire and between times the {aforesaid “stunts” were done by the Misses Ann Thatcher, Hazel Hobson, Franklyn Jones, Grace Stokes, Sophie | Treadwell, Bertine Wollenberg, Edith Busser and Ina Titus. | After the class had been dismissed | the *"sophies” refreshed the seniors | with a dainty Juncheon and after that they danced. The hall was decorated with red, the class color, and carica- tures of a lot of well-known student people decorated the walls. i The affair was in charge of the fol- lowing committees: Entertainment—The Mi¢ses Beriine Wollen- berg, Isabel McReynolds, Ann Thatcher, Grace Stokes, Gertrude Friediander, Sophie Tread- well. year. s | | Refreshm Misses Phoebe Binney, Ruth Wik Wright, Mayer ani Smittle. | Invitations—The Misses Edith Busser, Joe Campbell, Belle Smith, Ethel Jones, Levy, Hibbard, Putnam, Franklyn Jones, Ray anm Eiliot. - Finance—The Misees Tita Bailey, Kate O'Neill, Gladye Meyer, Harriet Smythe, Per- cival, Callender, Willard The Still and Hampshire, Misses Marian Morrow, —_—— A Strange Old Medal. Attached to a very ancient human skeleton found in one of the old mines in the Wichita Mountains was a strangely carved medal. It is four or five inches Tn diameter. On one side is a raised figure representing two hands clasped: on ane cuff is the American eagle; on the other are three bars extending lengthwise of the cuff. Above the hands are a pipe and tomahawk crossed. On this side of the medal are the words: “Peace and Friendship.” On the other sile is a bust of President Jefferson, with the inscription, “Thomas Jefferson, Pres- ident of the United States, A. D. 1801.” A silver ring is fastened to a post on the top of the medal.—Kansas City Journal. ————i . The Blind Man’s Whistle. In Japan the blind carry a peculiar kind of whistle, which they blow as they pass through the streets, and people who hear it separate and leave the pathway clear for them. There are a great many blind persons in Japan, and if they were to employ the makeshift of a child or dog to lead them there would be numerous com- plications in the narrow streets. When heard in the dead of night the “blind whistie” has an especially pathetic and mournful sound.—Golden Penny. DOGS AND BOYS ARE EXCLUDED Male Students Are Warned Away From Reception Young Ladies of University Mingle in Festivity N _/_“WSB HARRIET SMYTH E GIRLS" FUNCTION d Obey Warning, While | NI | [l TWO SOPHOMORE GIRLS WHO ASSISTED IN ENTER- TAINING SENIOR SISTERS. UNIVERSITY EVENTS March 11.—Three eminent lec- ak before the university during the month of April. The first of _hese to lec- ture wilt be Dr. George Egyptology at the Univ will discu: fubject upon which he is 3rf, professir of who a of mstdered one the foremcst authorities. | The Hyde lect livered on April lterary treate by than last, wren t interfered zreatly Robert i jout » the 3 in_ French will be de- . the time for these | h earlier this year mncement exercises the cttendance. M holds a scholarship of instruction at Hyde lecturer this year. be e S, ara, Welnstock lecture “will rwell of Chicago. 3 s d of e bix. Chicam ry gaie Ren Lot 'm bearing his name, which was establish:d forty years agc ooty M- ablish:d forty years ag with whe T of public The secind | d asiners subjects. | Dur, e and President Grent's adm istration he vccunfed positions or Governme:(. ¥ St The Glee Club w bers Sunday after; ill sing the following num- | noon in the ¢ beginning at 4 o'clock “*Absent Tynes). 'Mater Aurea” (Gluck, arranged b H. J. Stewart): “Dotleurs,” violin Solo 1 ieur | temps), - Mr. Stebbinger; ‘‘Reveris" (A, M Storch); “‘Lenely” (Max' Spicker); vocal solo, | arla ffom “Elifah” (Charles Elston) | nade” (Schubert); drigal,” H. J. Stew. | art. Mr. Stewart direct the voices, | The Boating Association me! t this morning in North Hall and ratified the agreement re. Iy entered into hy nt- s | 1 1 (I:;n becomes affillatec nudents. The un standing is that the ags fon will r»nmd" property and pay its own L8, receiving onl, the protection of the Associated Students. A} the same meeting it was decided to underkradvate Audente, ‘whether. mbmias Tt the assoclation or not, to enter the try-outs | for the varsity rowing erew. The association i& now having constructed a four-oared barge that will be ready for use about the first uf April. A cap and crossbars has heen adopled as the emblem to be worn by my A o0 o Y members of the ————— ¥irst Baseman Clancy Missing. OAKLAND, March 12.—First Base- man Clancy, who gigned to play with | the Oaklands during the coming sea- | son, has not reported for practice, an¥ Manager Ewing thinks he may have Joinea the Montreal team of the Toron- to League. Kwing has notified Secre- tary Farrell of the National Associa- tion and as goon as the missing player is located he will be ordered to report to Ewing. ——————— Plan Special Service. OAKLAND, March 12.—The thir- teenth century of the death of Pope St. Gregory the Great will be solemnized at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Seventh and Jefferson streets at the 10:30 mass this morn- ing. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. Father Cantillon. The choir has been augmented for the occasion and will be led by Professor A. Greg- ory. ————— 8 Election Officers Held for Fraud. DENVER, March 12. — George H. King, handwriting expert, who exam- ined the ballots cast in Precinct 2 of the Fourth Ward at the election of Supreme Court Justice, under order of District Judge Johnson reported that 726 ballots found in the box 587 had been written by eight men, and of these 583 bear the Democratic heading. After receiving the report Judge Johnson held William H. Green, a city detective, and the other election officers of this precinct for trial in the Criminal Court. Their bonds were fixed at $500 each. —_———— ‘This is merely a tentative explana- tion. Perhaps it is for fear that she may some day be caught in a cyclons that induces woman to so beautifully decorate that portion of her wardrobe that no one ever sees. | | Brik O. Lindblom, | due. | Alaska, rcording to his wfe he is woith $3, | vorce. {was seated | pute a « NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ATTORNEY SIS THE LINDBLONS Action Is Brought Against Klondike Millionaire and Wife to Recover a Fee COMPROMISE EFFECTED i Lawyer Asserts That Ser- vices in Adjusting Suit for Divorce Are Worth $5000 — Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broedway, March 12. For his services in bringing about the settlement of the difficulties between the Klondike mil- lionaire, and his wife, Mary A. Lind- blom, Attorney Hugh Aldrich demands $3900. In a suit for this amount begun to-day he says that he was promised $7500. He has been paid 3200 on.ac- count and is now suing for the balance A few years ago Lindblom was journeyman tailor In this city. He con- tracted the gcld fever and went to where he struck it rich - With the acquisiticn of great thelr troubles began. They quarreled while on a trip te Burepe, bat returned together. Shortly afterward, however, Mrs. Lindblom began an action for di- She alieged that Lindblom had developed an unusual fondness for the society of other women, and made her travel second clags in order to save money on their trip abroad. Before the case came to trial a com- promise was effected and Mrs. Lind- blom received $1%0,000. It was during these negotiations, Aldrich claims, that he earned his fee. —_————— SNOW NOT GUILTY OF TORTURING Did Not Have Any Hand in Tying Hitching Rone to Animal's Tonse. OAKLAND, March the manager of local sewing ma- chine agency, who was accused of having attempted to force a balky horse to move by tving hitching rope around the animal's tongue and then hitching the rope to a dray, was acquitted in Judge Smith's court this morning of a charge of cruelty to ani- ma The H. K. Snow, a showed that Snow in the bugzgy during the entire time that the alleged tortur- ing of the horse was going on. _————————— Preparatory School es Dispute. BERKELE March -The Berke- ley High School nine defeated the Boone's Academy team at baseball this afternoon at Freeman's Park, the score being 12 to 11. In the last half of the ninth inning, when ‘the score stood 11 to 10 in favor of Boone's, Solinsky of testimoyy | Berkeley batted out a two-bagger and brought in Shaffer. The umpire of bases called Shaffer safe, but the um- pire at the plate declared that he had been put out by the catcher, and a dis- In the meantime Solinsky “sneazked” in, ma ng the score 12 to 11. Boeone's men are dissatisfied with the r and will protest the game. —————————— Mrs, Kate Carter Dead. OAKLAND, March 12.—Mrs. Kate Carter died to-day at her home, 614 Fifteenth street, after a long illness. The deceased was the widow of the late George A. Carter, and was a mem- ber of the Ebell Society and the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. She was 62 years of age. Bt T A e Airship Wrecked by Storm. POINT RICHMOND, March 12.— An airship which was being construct- ed here by Professor Robert H. Botts and which the inventor intended to enter in the competitions at St. Louis, was torn from ‘ts moorings and total- ly wrecked by Thursday's storm. Pro- fessor Botts has not vet decided e, | whether he will build another ship. —————e STRIKING EXAMPLE OF PH L ADAPTATION The “Cold Storage Rat,” Earless and Tailless, Comes to Support Evolution Theory. When cold storage was first intro- duced into this country the chilly stor- age rooms ‘were absolutely free from rats and mice. The temperature was kept considerably below the freezing point and in the cold surroundings rats and mice were unable to live. In time, however, the rich stores packed away there proved too tempt- ing for thieving rodents and they be- gan to make inroads into the cold storage rooms, at first paylng a hur- ried call and as soon as they ha’ taken a few nibbles rushing with a shiver out into warmer places. Gradually, however, these visits were lengthened and became more frequent, not without considerable mortality among the rats, but in the end there grew intc being what is known as the “cold-storage rat.” This animal has neither tail nor ears, both having been frozen for his ancestors, resulting in their total loss to the families of the first intrepid pirates of cold storage. These carless and tailless cold stor- age rats are perfectly at home In a temperature below the zerc mark. They thrive on wintry atmospheres, and very probably if they were driven out into the warmth of a heated room they would suffer a great deal and perhaps many would perish. “This, I think,” says a writer in the Atlanta Constitution, commenting on the phenomenon, “is one ¢f the most striking examples of how the animal kingdom in the wise economy of nature can adapt itself to the most severe sur- roundings.”"—New York Commercial, —_——— To Be Restrained. OAKLAND, March 12.—The incor- rigible runaway girl, Isabel Maguire, was sentenced by Judge Hall to-day to be confined for four years in the Mag- dalen Home, providing the Sisters will take her, otherwise she must go to a State reformatory. She is but 12 years of age, but already has an unsavory reputation on both sides of the bay. a | HORSE ALLAMEDA o [ELLS A TALE - OF BRITALITY “ i | Mrs. Ray Stark Says She Was i Bound and Placed in a Hos- pital Basement Over Night ; MIND MAY BE A]-'FF.('TEI)? Dr. Power, the Resident Pliy-| | sician, Says Story Is Rav-! : ings of Demented Woman | AT Y | | | i2A tale of purported crueity almost | unbelievable is now under investiga- | | tion by the peclice upon the ecom- | ! plaint of Mrs. Ray Stark of 2005 Mis- | street. Mrs. Stark alleges that while an inmate of {he California | General Hospital on Douglass street | Dr. Jaynes had d her hand and foot | basement over reamed with pain. | 3 he entered the hos- Tuesdzy and gave birth to| ild that night. On the following | g she claims. that she was| i placed in the basement, be- | teft there until the following | morning. M. Nathan, a brother, came to see her on Thursday after-) noon and had her taken home. Dr. Power, the dent physician at the hospital, savs that Mrs. Stark | is suffering from exophthalmic goftre and. in his oninion, was insane when brought to the institution. He de- | olared pocitively that Mrs. Stark had | never been moved from the ward from her entry into the hospital ungil she 1 home. Mrs. Stark made the following state- ent last night: “Last Tuetday night, when I was suf- ring e uciating pain, and possibly | | made considerable noise, Dr. Jaynes | 1d me that unless I shut up he would tie my hands and feet and lock me in | | the The agony I was in was so | great that 1 could not keep quiet and » next day he carried out his threat | I was taken to the cellar below and | h and fest were both tied. | “On Wednesday my mother and broth- | er eame to the hospital for me and took | me home. They at first diseredited my story when I told them of the outrage- ous treatment I had received at the d an | m | ceilar. hands of the hospital physician and his assistants, and it was some time be- | fore I cculd make them believe that | what I told them was true. Detective Bailey was detailed on the case. He found the weman in a very weak and apparently dying condition and sent for Assistant District Attor- | ney Ward at 1 o’clock this morning to | take her dying statement. 8 Il THE DAY’S DEAD. i‘ | = - kS Eastern Mcrchant Dies in San Jose. s JOSE, March 12 —William | Benjamin Rothschild, a prominent | merchant of Hartford, Conn., died suddenly at the Vendome Hotel to-day from pneumonia. With his wife Rothschild had been touring the State jand came here two days ago from Los | Angeles. He was at once taken ill He was 44 yvearg of age and a native of Connecticut. The remains were prepared for shipment and will be sent ast to-morrow. | HARTFORD, Conn., March 12.— William B. Rothschild was a member of the firm of Horsfall & Rothschild, prominent merchants in this city. He left here on February 13 last with his wife and a party of friends on a tour through the West and South and the first intimation of his illness was a telegram received to-day announcing his death. He was a native of Hart- ford and 44 years old. Mr. Roths- | child is survived by a wife and three children. - Death of Carey B, Bates. SAN JOSE. March 12.——Carey B.| | Bates, a well-known resident of this | city, died at his home at 44 George street late last night. He was a native of Rochester, 72 years of age. In the | early '560's he went to Minnesota and remained there until 1884, when he came to California. For a time he conducted a retail grocery store here and afterward went to ranching. On the death of his wife in 1889 he went to Minnesota, where he remained un- til about eight months ago. A num- | ber of grown sons survive him. PRGN Lt S Uncle of Harriman Dead. | NEW YORK, March 12. — Ouveri Harriman, a former drygoods mer- | | ehant in this city, died to-day at Mount | Kisco, aged 75 years. One of his chil- dren is Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. E. H. Harriman, president of the Union Pa- cific Railroad, is his nephew. Alameda County Deaths. OAKLAND, March 12.—Mrs. George Jorgensen, wife of a prominent hard- ware dealer of Haywards, died yester- day at the family residence in Hay- wards, aged 40 yecrs. Deceased leaves besides her husband two children, a girl baby and an 8-vear-old son. ——————— UNHAPPY COUPLE! SEEK RELIEF IN THE COURTS OAKLAND, Ma.ch 12.—Abbie du Bois was granted a divorce to-day by Judge Elisworth from Harry du Bois on the ground of ¢ ‘treme cruelty. It | was alleged that was in the habit | of choking her. Suit for divoree was begun to-day by | Clair D. Howes against .abbie R. Howes cn the ground of desertion. They were marric .n Boston in 1892, but for the last year, he says, she has refu-ed to live witi him. A second complaint in 1 divorce ac- | tion hczun by Matilda Beckwith was filed to-day against Harvey Beckwith. She brought a suit some time ago while he was in Alaska and was about to get a divorce when he appeared on | the scene. He told a hard luck story of shipwreck and hardship and the case was reopened and he was given an opportunity to answer it. Before | it came to trial the suit was dismissed Now she has begun another, | he flatly | his infant sor | made a House | character of | with | the population |laid in Ttaly. R —— ! BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY | OAKLAND. 1118 Braadway. Telephone Main 1083. | BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77 ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Eagle 502 B e i) CONTEST OVER WOMAN'S ESTATE Havens Answers the Goewey Brothers’ Protest Against Probating Sister’s Will ALL LEFT TG HER BABE Dying Mother Changes For- mer Testament at the Last Minute and Fight Ensues L] | | } i it Oakland Office San Franc Call, 1118 Broadway, March 12 There is to be a con t o the estate of the late Gertrude Goewey Havens and in an ansyer filed to-day by John W. Havens to the protest of the Goewey brothers against the pro- the will of their denies their allegations : 1 fight for the property by its deceased mother. there is little likeli- of a compromise being effected after the marriage of Ge trude Goewey to John W. Havens st will which she left he share of the Goewey Estate Company of San Francisco, valued at about $30.- sister d last bating of will make It is stated that hood Shortly | €00, to her four brothers, James M | Charles H.. Frank B. and Herbert S Goewey, it being property inherited from their parents. This will was not superseded until Mrs. Havens was on her deathbed The birth of a son was the cause of the mother's death. Shortly before she died she sald wished to make le and boy. Th inother will had to the by Haven former will w brothers. T w everything ill was filed and shortly afterward the fl the lege that their when she unduly by Goewe mads infly s incom last will when s ten nd w ST il ON ISTHMIAN CANAL TO BEGIN SOON WORK March 12. — The on Interstats ay began determine WASHIN Committee and Commerce to- hearings to legislation for the ernment the canal isthmus of Panama. Rear Admiral Walker said he be- lleved that work on the canal could be begun in two or three months. The liquor question was injected into the discussion by a remark of the admiral that the principal would come from licenses to eating- houses and saloons. 1king of the class of labor that it would be necessary to employ in the construction of the canal, Admira Walker said that the blacks from Ja- Foreign series of th zone on revenues maica were the best fitted ¢ ob- tainable in the vicinity of the can zone. But there were not enough of those laborers. China and Japan brought over and coolie labor from would have to be this work. He esti- mated that the maximum number of laborers nesded would be som 000. Other persons who would these laborers would of the zone come inereas to some £5.000. PR e TSR N A Literary Find. Edward Sullivan, Bart., in the February Nineteenth of a “forgotten volume in speare’s library”'—that is to say, of book which Shakespeare seems to have known and used largely in his writing, however little the fact has been noted. It is one of extreme rar- ity and the opening part of its title runs as follows: “The Civile Conversation of M Steeuen Guazzo, written first in Ital- fan and nowe translated out of French by George-Pettie, diviced into foure bookes.” Sir Edward Sullivan remarks “The work evidently much read in England, as it went through two editions in the course of six years— the second edition appearing in 1386 —s0 that, having regard to its char- acter and popularity, there is nothing surprising in the assumption that Shakespeare in some way became ac- quainted with its contents. Certainly he would have found in it a “plctuge of Itallan manners, cere- monies, customs, occupations, foibles, dress and thought of the day'—a storehouse of information for a play Sir Edward Sullivan gives quite a long series of parallsi- isms between Shakespeare’s writings and Pettie's translation of the “Civile Conversation.” The play of “Hamlet” alone supplies eight cases of remark- able “similarity of thought and mode of expression,” and, as Sir Edward remarks, We are aware with what freedom Shakespeare utilized the cur- rent literary material of his d London Chronicle. —_—— At a recent fashionable wedding in sir writes Ceatury Shake- } London the hats of the bridesmaid wer- trimmed with natural flowers; and it is predicted that the style will be popuiar next summer. — ——e - THE MURDERER WHO LAUGHED. The Second of the Remarkable Storles By Alber: Sonnichsen. NEXT SUNDAY CALL.