The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1904, Page 5

HUNDREDS TAKE | AN OBLICATION Class Initiation by Compan-‘ ions of Forest of Ameri- ca in Golden Gate Hall| IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY) Organization Is Congratulat- | ed on the Accession of So to Its Membership TR e Many 4 fifty strangers were the order Forest of Amer- Hall last night in ut 1800 members of rship in resuit of a movement ace & red by the va There took pls ning which was most patriotic colors; reme and grand he will Institute. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. Sleepiessness i Many 8 woman re- es awake ho come by sleeping powders diseased he the best gorants, nourishing the ng the appetite and in- bing sleep. +500 Reward for Women Who Cannot he Gtred. makers of Dr. Pierce’s tion now feel fully war- g to pay $500 in legal , Female Weakuoess, Prolapsas, g of Womb, which they cannot | y is a fair and reasomable means of cure. | s sick for over vears,» writes | Esq Ao of Altamont, Grandy Co.. | =She had uterine disease and was treated o physicians and got no relief. At last I bout Dr. Pietce’s medicines and we de- try bis ‘Favorite Prescription,’ I sent ind got one bottle and the first and sleep. She had not siept any | for three oi Being sure that it would cure Isest for five more bottles and when she | taken the sixth bottle she was sound and | wel THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL, TUESD Y§ MARCH 22, : 19 NICOLO CRUDO ~ FOUND GUILTY Man Who Foully Murdered | Prospero Migale Last Year Must Spend Life in Jail JURY S0 RECOMMENDS Occupies Only Minutes in Deciding De- fendant Guilty as Charged s g colo Crudo, tried before Superior Judge Lawlor for shooting and killing his fellow countryman, Prospero Mi- gale, at the corner of Green and Kearny eets on November 8, 1903, was found guilty of murder in the first degree last night. The jury was out just forty-five es and returned the verdict stated, with a recommendation that he defendant be confined in prison for life The crime for which Crudo must pay the penaity was one of the most cold- | blooded murders of the vear. He was not arrested till two days after the killing had taken place. His nephew was first placed under arrest nied any knowledge of the crime. Cru- dc later arrested and confessed to having killed Migale, claiming that he had done 8o in self-defense. Crudo and Migale quarreled over money matters in a saloon on Dupont was street. Crudo left the saloon and al- nis defense that he was fol- 1 Migale, who attempted to stab him | The defense put up by Crudo was weak. Much difficulty was experienced by e prosecution in securing the tes- timony of witnesses in the case. Per- jury was hinted at and had not Crudo X found guilty some of the wit- would probably have been ar- 1o will be sentenced on April 2 —_———— GIVES BRILLIANT TALK ON ST. LOUIS X POSITION Mrs. Abbie E. Krebs Discourses on Coming World's Fair to Large and Enthusiastic Audience. The subject, “The St. Lot gs,” ér last night by was tre Mrs, 1 her lecture at Lyric Hall supplemented her remarks by a e history of the Louisiana purchase then vivid description e grounds and principal State and t dings. ecture was illt ran on to a strated by a col- of stereopticon of the is owing the lecture Harry J. Miles 1ced some beautif: moving pic- scene different parts be used in of our State ex- in at- views from at a as a part A large a lance. The proceeds of the lecture go to the s with Wwhich the connected and which that to nce was lec- are Eben I. Russ of Penn- at the Palace ner W. E i e Palace. herford Irones of the steam- tic is at the Palace. D. B. Fairbanks, a capitalist is at the Grand. Beehler, commander, U. 8. N., istered at the Occidental. Frank H. Buck, a well-known fruit grower of Vacaville, is at the Palace. Walter Raymond of the well known excursion company is at the St. Fran- cis Gerber of Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, is at the ce. Rucker, a business man of San is among the new guefts at the Francis. State Senator C. M. Belshaw and wife are down from Antioch and stay- g at the St. Francis. Captain W. H. Patterson, a veteran pilot of the Columbia River, and his wife arrived from the north yesterday and are at the Occidental. William P. Hammon, head of the big dredging company at Oroville, returned last evening from a business trip to the East and is staying at the Palace A party consisting of Mrs. Theodore van, Mrs. James C. Codman, Miss Paine and Miss R. Howard, prom- nt in Philadelphia, arrived at the alace yesterday. Uslutano Beppu and Kanaka Kubata, commissioners to the St. Exposition, and 7. ng the Yokohama Specie Bank France, arrived from the Orient vesterday and are staying at the Occi- dental. St e Perry Registers Protest. The orders made in the Kryzyanow- ski estate do not satisfy Attorney George H. Perry, legal representative f Charles Rickman, the pickle manu- f rer, who, under Mrs. Kryzyanow- ski's will, inherited her estate. He vesterday asked the court to set aside the order suspending Rickman's powers as executor and appointing Public Administrator M. J. Hynes spe- cial administrator of the estate. Perry, who is now associated with the Nagle firm, which, when the estate first came into court, preferred charges of wrongdoing against him, properly obtained and that his client, Rickman, did not receive proper noti- fication. —_———— Teamster Killed by Fall. Albert Gunnison, 30 years of age, a teamster for Aigeltinger & Co., who resided at 223 Eleventh street, was thrown from his seat on a hay wagon yesterday morning at Van Yess avenue and Eddy street. His head struck the | curbstone and he sustained a fracture Dr. Pierce’s Pleasent Pellets should be | Of the base of the skull. He was taken wsed with *Favorite Prescription” when- | ever a laxative is required. to the Central Emergency Hospital, i where he died at 11 o'clock last night. Forty - Five | and de- | { s Expo- ed in a bril- | Abbie | Kikuchi, rep- | ST. FRANCIS HOTEL OPENING IS MADE A SOCIETY EVENT Magnificent New Hostelry Is Thronged by‘Beautifully’; Gowned Women and Their Escorts—Two Hun-| dred Guests Inscribe Their Names on Register PEOPLE EAGER San Diego City Securities Find Ready Purchasers Among Local Investors e H | | i | | | | | | || [ | (| | i | +|OTHER ISSUES STAYED —_— State Will Subseribe Sum of Tested by AttorneyGeneral fnaif 1208 Special Dispatch to The Call BAN DIEGO, March 21.—At the regu- lar meeting of the City Council to- night the Finance Committee reported that in pursuance of the resolution and an order of the Council the City Clerk has received subscriptions from local fnvestors for the $150,000 of the bonds {offered to the public. The amount | subscribed, on which 5 per cent had | been put up, was $117,000, in lots of | from $20,000 down to $500. The Council | ratified all of the sales and the bonds | will be ready to-morrow at the office of the City Treasurer. | | There are other city bonds ready for | issue, but they are not to be sold at | the present time because the present | sate will give to the city ail that is | needed, and by waiting until the rest of | the money 1s needed the city can s: | interest. The Board of Works was di- rected to advertise monthly and let a contract for iron pipe. A letter was received this evening from W. S. Melick of the State Board | of Examiners offering to take $50,000 of | the water bonds for the State if the le- | Attorney General. The offer will doubt- | | less be accepted, as the official red tape | will be unwound about the time that | the city 18 ready to sell more bonds. F 4 < = MEMBERS OF MICHIGAN CLUB TO ENTERTAIN J. B. ANGELL College Men Plan Recention for President of Their Alma Mater at University Club. the Through the courtesy of the Uni- versity Club of this city the Michiga Club of the Pacific Coagt will enter- tain James B. Angell, president of Michigan University, at the University Club rooms on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The entertainment will be in the form of a reception, at which all of the prominent University Michigan men will be present to pay their re- | spects to the president of -their alma mater. v and special Embassa and is on this coast by invitation of President versity of Califor- the Wheeler of the Un special nia to address the students of the | te University on charter day, March 23. Seats have been reserved for Mich- igan men at Berkeley for the charter day The Unlversity of | Michigan men desiring Invitations for the reception or reserved seats charter day exercises may have the same upon application to Stuart M. Kohn, 216 Crocker building. As President Angell probably- ity but two or three day University of Michigan men through- out the coast- will doubtless avail themselves of the opportunity to meet him on the evening of March 24. ———————— Think He Is a Burglar. William Howard was arrested last night by Detectives Dinan and Wren and his name placed on the small book at the City Prison. He was picked up on suspicion ¢f having been implicated in some of the many recent burgiaries that have baffled the police of late. | When searched a gold watch and a diamond pin were found on him. The olice claim that Howard is an ex-con- exercises. - e ———— Boy Hurt by Wagon. Eddie Stenerson, 12 years | who lives with his parents | Montgomery avenue, sustained a | broken leg yesterday by being run down by a laundry wagon. He had just | alighted from a Powell-street car when he was struck by the wagon, which p ed over his leg. The wound- !ed boy was taken to the Emergency Hospital. ———————— Ttalian Cut in Neck. Marino Seardigli complained to the police last night that he had been cut during a row by a man he did not | know. on Pacific street, near Sansome. | Peter Landini, who was with the man who cut Seardigli, was arrested and | charged with battery. He denied hav- at 913 ted States for any case of | says the orders were illegally and im- | ing been implicated in the cutting and | would not divulge the name of his com- panion. | —————————— Child Killed by a Wagon. Edward Holgersen, the little son of Edward Holgersen, residing at 2952 Twenty-first street, was killed yester- day at Twentieth and Folsom streets by being pun over by an express wagon driven by HArry Corder. The boy was picked up by H. J. Powers and taken to the Emergency Hospital, where he died soon after his arrival. Corder was placed under arrest on a charge of manslaughter, - Angell was formerly Min- | for | will | of age, | | SINGS WHILE . SPOUSE FICHTS band Battered by Roughs, but She Misses Not a Note cial DL SPOKANE, March 21.—With her hus- band, Arthur Guerin, fighting the | floor of the theater and at times down in a wildly fighting of roughs, with all of the orchestra except the piano player leaving to join the battle, ! Nellie, Guerin, the star at the Coeur d'Alene Theater, sang through her phrt lzst night without a break or a quiver. Most of the chorus girls fled from | the stage when the fight started, but | the star continued to sing, with one eye on her battered husband and the other lon tHe quaking piano player. It was | a good exhibition of nerve and training. | The trouble started through offensive remarks made by William Ackerman, who was later placed under a surgeon's care and is now locked up in the City Jail. on a mass —_—e————— | SAYS THAT GODEAU STRUCK HIM BESIDE DEAD BODY | A. J. Camous Will Swear to Complaint This Morning Charging Under- taker With Battery. A. J. Camous, president of Persever- ance Grove of the Druids, says that he will swear to a complaint this morning charging Julius Godeau, the undertaker, with battery. Camous alleges that Go- deau struck him and felled him to the floor in the room where lay the corpse of V. R. Dastrivigne, a saloon-keeper of 521, Valencia street, who died yesterday | morning. | Camous was on the committee to in- terview the widow about .the funeral of | her husband. He gave the case to an- | other undertaker and, incurred the | wrath of Godeau, who, he claims, struck | him before the weeping widow as they ‘ stood in the death room. ———— | Must Pay Monthly Rental. | City Attorney Long yesterday ad- | vised the Department of Eleclrlcltyf | that the American Protective Company | |and the American, District Company | must pay 50 cents a month rental for | each connection they may make with | the central office of the company which transmits the fire alarm to the Central Fire Alarm station. —_——— Opening of St. Francis. The opening of the St. Francis Hotel last evening was quite a society event, music, mirth and wine adding zest to appetites. Noticeable among the tab! of diners was the prominence of Moet & Chandon White Seal champagne. ———— WASHINGTON, “March 21.—The Supreme Court of the United States to-day granted the petition of the United States to interveme in the case of the State of Kansas vs. the State of Colorado, fuvolving the use of the water of the Arkansas River. —————— PHILADZLPHIA, March 21.—The six round bout scheduled for to-night between Gus Ruh- lin and Marvin Hart has been decl owing to the non-arrival of Hart. Postponément of the Trial of G. W. Rumble. In its most gorgeous raiment San Francisco society was formally wel- 3 ’ o - comed to the Hotel St. Francis last| United States District Judge de evening, the occasion being the openin {(EUiven Lyeslarady - gretryien. e - de- % it . » € | murrer to the indictment charging Lee of the new hosteiry, which entered UDOn | 1im with conspiring with T. J. Demp- its business career in a most brilliant | sey, William F. Dasha and T. T. Bur- manner. - Invitations had been issued I nett to land Chinese illega { to several thousand people by the man- | Assistant United States Attorney agement, and, favored by pleasant Ben L. McKinley asked that the trial weather, those who were fortunate of the case of the United States vs. enough to receive these invitations | George W. Rumble, indicted for using { made it part of their ning’s pro- | the mails for the purpose of further- sramme to view the magnificent inte- | | rior of the modern establishment and view its than which | thers are probably none richer or bet- | ter in the world. The formal reception to the guests was preceded by a din- ner, an elaborate affair, of which more than 800 persons partook, p: te par- ties being the feature and occupying | tables in both the main dining-room 1and the handsome grillroom adjoining. Even then the hotel service was almost unequal to the occasion, for the demand for tables was ater than the antici- pations of the management of the hotel. | Each table had a distinctive decoru- ing a scheme to defraud, be postponed until May 9, the date of the trial hav- ing been previously fixed as April 5. Mr. McKinley exp gs, ined that he need- ed more time in which to procure wit- nesses from the East and also to fa- miliarize himself with the case, it hav- ing been in charge of the late Edward J. Banning. W. H. H. Hart, counsel for the de- fendant, objected and Judge de Haven refused to grant any further postpone- ment. D. B. Jennings, owner of the schooner Adelia Griffin, filed a libel against the Southern Pacific Company to recover tion and a separate menu, an innova- | $193 damages alleged to have been | ciom in modern hotel methods that seri- sustained by the schoomer by reason | e v tested the ing ity of the chef: f a collision with the defendant's |and their culinary force. steamer Herald on October 9, 1903. Dinner over society assembled in the —_————— | brilliantly illuminated lobby of the| — Orders Payment of Demands. [hotel and enfoyed a promenade con-| The Supervisors Finance Commit- | cert, the music being furnished by th: | hotel orchestra from a position on the | richly gilded balcony that overlooks the | marble-pillared office. For two hours |a constant stream of fashionably | dressed women with their male escorts |in evening dress poured into the hotel, | at the big entrance of which a cordon | of police was busily engaged keeping | the way clear of a curious crowd that | swarmed about the building, eagerly seeking a view of the brilliant scere | within. ‘As theater time approached | the gathering somewhat diminished, but 11 o'clock found the hotel lobby and its elegantly furnished parlors again the scene of an attractive throng, gathered there to partake of a mid- night supper, for which hundreds had to wait their turn In the main dining- rcom. . During the early part of the evening, while Manager Allan Pollok was wel- | coming the foremost of his visitors, Chief Clerk John McDermott and his assistants were kept busy behind the hotel desk, assigning rooms that had ! been engaged in advance by people who intend to make the St.° Francis their permarnent home and by travelers who were anxious to enjoy the com- forts of the new hotel while in this city. | The registration for the day numbered | more than 200 and included some of the most prominent Eastern people who had been wintering in Southern Cali- fornia and had arranged to visit San | Franeisco when the St. Francis opened |its doors for business. Among the guests were many who have traveled over the entire world and not a few of these sought out Manager Pollok to congratulate him on the splendid ar- rangement of his hotel and the many | comforts it provides, equaling all and | surpassing many they had received at | other establishments in various coun- tries throughout which they had trav- eled. tee vesterday ordered the demands of Nathan for horses furnished to horses were purchased in open mar- ket, that the inviting of bids for the pur- pose of awarding a contract would have delayed the matter so that the horses best suited for the department could not have been purchased. The committee also allowed the demand of Dr. Charles Morgan for $250 for expert testimony in the case of the people against Marthg Bowers. eV 2 B CHICAGO, Mareh given the decision over Jack O Keefe six rounds of fighting to-night / e Says Water Bills Are Too Larfe. Frank O. Mello, tenant of the prem- ises at 116 Jackson street, yesterday | filed a sult against Hildebrandt, Pos- ner ‘& Co., from whom he leases the property, to recover $192. He charges that he has been cheated out of the | sum sued for by the defendants, | who, he says, compeiled him to pay water bills according to the meter in the premises, knowing that the same meter was used to register the amount I0! water used by a tenant at Front and Clark streets and a blacksmith shop in the rear of the placs. —_———— Meyer's Suit in Court’s Hands. The suit of August F. Meyer against the-Columbia Brewing Company and H. D. Ulrich and Martin Ulrich, di- rectors of the concern, ‘for an injunc- tion preventing the interference by the defendants with his possession of stock in the company was argued and submitted in Judge Kerrigan's court yesterday. The action is one of about half a dozen brought within the last few. months to settle the differences between Meyer and Henry Tietjen and the directors of the brewing com- pany. $50,600 When Legality Is| | gality of the issue is sustained by the | APARTMENT IN THE ST. FR TN, NP SERS A LN’ N ST. A v v | AND THE MANAGER AND CHIEF TRIAL FOR CONSPIRACY | CLERK OF THE HOTEL. | e e + | Judge de Haven Refuses to Grant a re Department to be paid. The | the Fire Commission explaining | DONS A BURIAL FOR THE BONDS| ROBE AND DIES ! Presentiment of Washington | Woman Is Fulfilled and | Grim Reaper Is Punctual |BIDS FAMILY GOOD-BY | | Declaring Her Last Day Had | Come, Mrs. Anna C. Paul | Retires Never to Awake R Spe Dispatch to The Call j TACOMA, Wash,, March 21.—With a | presentiment that she would die Mrs. Anna C. Paul, aged 80 years, donned | her burtal robes at her home in Ocosta |last Saturday and a few hours later passed peacefully away. Mrs. Paul had told her children last Tuesday that she would dle on Satur- day. That morning she arose at an early hour and told her sons that it would be her last day on earth. She proceeded to array herself in a neat black dress, ich she had made the day before, and in which she requested | to be buried | After kissing the members of her family farewell she lald down in her room and, folding her arms, soon fell {Into a peaceful sleep. Her sons al- 110\‘-5 her to slu er for an hour, b when they approached the bedside t were astounded to find that she | died Mrs. Paul w and leaves a One of the sons, of Ocosta e | McCLURE'S FORMER WIFE SHARES HIS BANX ACCOUNT | Judge Seawell Awards Her $500 Out of Sum Saloon Man Has on a native of Germany sband and two sons. Rob Paul, is Mayor Deposit. Mrs. Fanny McClure, who recently | secured a divorce from Willlam Me- | Clure, proprietor of the saloon at the corner of Brannan and Beale streets, was awarded $ yesterday, the McClure's ba [ Clure, who went | 1898 and made Mrs | opposes he: asserting tha he fund before she nd that the aim t he was in p | proved th ity property Decrees of divore vesterday drew Bailey ern from I desertio against John W. tior ta Machinist Meets Terrible Death. | )NORA, March 2L — Harry Stand met death | the door fac the presence He was s jumper ca pulley ar | death severed fre He was an | unmarried man ars of age. _—————————— ] Fire at Dargie Residence. OAKLAND, March 21.—The resi- dence of William E. Dargie, East Twelfth str Lake a fire started f) The Second C | | | was slightly | | edifice, corr streets, was the scene of a fire sca | this afternoon, a blazing | causing the sounding of an alarr | aamage was done. | % B ;5; W.& J.SLOANE & CO. FURNITURE - CARPETS - RUGS - DRAPERIES- 114-122 POST STREET