The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1904, Page 16

ADVERTISEMINTS. AN EASTER CHANCE. The boys all need a suit at Easter time. styles to show you to-day. children’s clothing - the most complete and Pacific Coast—RUSSIAN BLOUS SAILORS. TWO-PIECE SUITS. A primc favorile with boys. Brown, gray and dark Iabrics. Trouscrs lined throvghout 8 to 16 ycars. Best suits cver sold al the price. $3.00 BROWI 516518 CONFIRMATION SUITS. All-Wool Black and Blve Che- viols, Thibets and Serges. Ages 8 to 16 years. $5.00 MILL TO MAN MARKET So we've picked out three They are just an indication of our boys’ and , ETONS, BROWN’S BUSTERS, Prices that, everybody knows can be had only at Brown’s. Brown and gray mixtures. For dress or school. Wear like iron. Trouscrs lined throughoul. 8 to 16 years. HDOS. & CO. ST noNIcomERyY 1HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 19us. OVERFLOW CROWDS FILL FOUR POLICE TRIBUNALS Folk That Arrive Too Late to Obtain Admittance assortment on the NORFOLK SUITS. A very popular slyle for boys. $3.00 REPUBLICANS | ARE VIGILA Plan for Biennial Convention of the State League of ! Clubs at Sacramento| oty , president; Felton 'y, and J. F. Nourse, file with the secretary of cates of election and secretary of their cl shov on before | May 1 m at Sacramento between May me of the opening of the Arrangements for reduced rates will un- be made with the transportation ertificates for that purpose can | the ticket agents when pur- | { | of Sacramento are preparing to icome to all visiting delegations, place has a splendid reputation as are sure to be well taken | roy tha i ané as ntion of the League “lubs of California is becoming * important and looked-for event. Ite work in the past has been potent for the success of the party. Continued efforts will be | Let eves club be tully toward carrying ful campaign | Leeding Republicans rom all dis- | appear before the convention and ith that is in them and of the | eir district | crganization there is strength. Let us | inve to organize and again dy eur utmost | romote the interests of our party, belleving | that by so doing we can best promote | the welfare and prosperity of the country. arles F. Curry, Secretary of State, ting on the advice of U. S. Webb, At- | torney General, has filed both petitions | for a Congressional District Conven- tion in the Fourth District: There are now indications that two sets of delegates will be chosen to rep- resent this district in the Republican National Convention. There are two Congressional District committees, each claiming to be the district governing body of the Republican party within the meaning of the primary election law. It is not clear that either com- mittee will yield to the judgment of | the State courts. The highest court of appeal is the national convention it- self and there the contest will prob- ably be adjusted. ———— Dr. H. W. Hunsaker has removed his offices from the Parrott buildin, to rooms €30 to 634 Starr King bulfiung.l 121 Geary street. r () , have issued the fol- | va RAILROAD CLERKS POOR GAME FOR MONEY LENDERS idge Hebbard Decides an Assign- ment of Salary Is Flimsy Secur- ity for a Loan. Money lenders who advance cash to clerks of the Southern Pacific Com- pany and take as security an assignment of +wages base their hopes for reimbursement on a very flimsy article, according to a decision rendered by Judge Hebbard yvesterday in the case of W. C. Knox against the Southern Pacific Company. He decided that Knox could not col- lect from the defendant the money ad- ; T. H. Weyburn to H. B. railroad clerk, on the strength of an assignment by Cady of his sal- ary for the months of November and December, 1502. Judge Hebbard’'s decision reverses that of Justice of the Peace Daniels, | who gave Knox judgment against the railroad company. volved is $150. The amount in- Knox claimed that he was entitled to redress on the strength | of a notice he had sent to the South- ern Pacific Company informing the corporation that he held Cadys as- signment. e N Town Talk. The Easter number of Town Talk is now out with an artistic cover and fifty- two pages of reading matter. That this breezy weekly appeals to a large class of Ts is evident from the quantity and lity of the reading matter, its spright- y comment in satirical vein, its breezy, dignified personalities, its able disserta- tions on current topics and its excursions into the field of light literature. The cur- rent number is of absorbing interest from cover to cover. . ————— Sutro. Forest Suicide Removed. The remains of the man that com- mitted suicide in the Sutro forest were removed to the Morgue yesterday af- ternoon. They were found on top of the hill east of the Almshouse after a search of three hours and a half by Deputy Coroner Meehan and Messen- ger Carrick. The clothing worn by the suicide was a gray checked sum- mer weight suit, well worn; a soft black hat and a pair of heavy black laced shoes. The body had been ly- ing in the brush for more than a month and was unrecognizable. o qu e e Weak Eyes cured by Murine Eye lem- edy. Cures pink eye and all inflamed conditions. » —————— Sightseers. The Sightseers, a club composed of ladies and gentlemen that has existed in this city for a number of years and organized for the purpose of taking walksgn the country, will hold its an- nual meeting in the A. O. F. building to-night. The business sesgion will be followed by an entertainment and dance., Each member will be permit- ted to invite three friends. —_—— $100 Rupture Cure for $10 by Hunter, 1206 Market st. Send for circular, . —_—— Petitions for Spur Track. The Sanitary Reduction Works filed an amended petition with the Board of Supervisors yesterday for .permis- sion to lay a spur track to connect with its works along Berry street. crossing Seventh and Division, curving into De Haro, crossing Alameda and Fifteenth, to the northerly line of Six- teenth street. —_——— When you get run down and awake perspir. ing begin to take Piso's Consumption Cure, LAW IS WITH BLITZ PAXTON Banker Defeats His Former | Wife in Her Efforts to, Get Increase in Alimony| A petition to modify a decree of di- vorce, the means taken by Bessie E. Paxton, the singer, the former wife of Blitz W. Paxton, the Sonoma County banker and capitalist, to se- cure more alimony, is not the proper proceeding, hence Judge Murasky found against her yesterday, and or- dered the entry of an order denying | her petition. She must file a suit in equity to set aside the agreement she made at the time she secured her di- | vorce, in which she waived all claims against Paxton for the sum of $13,200, | to be paid in monthly installments of $100, which agreement, she claims, was | obtained from her by misrepresenta- tion. 4 The matrimonial history of the Pax- tons is a stormy one. They were mar- ried in 1882, and have two children, a boy and a girl. The boy, who is | now almost 19 years of age, is blind. | The troubles of the Paxtons com- menced a short time after their mar- riage. In 1894 she sued him for di- | vorce and obtained a decree on the | ground of cruelty. She agreed that | she would waive all claims upon Pax- | ton provided that for a period of 132 ' months he would pay her $100 2 month. | When the children grew up and the | boy lost his sight and the girl became sickly, Mrs. Paxton found it hard to make both ends meet on $100 a month, and she went upon the stage. For a period of two weeks she sang at the ' Orpheum. Then Paxton fell heir to a | fortune estimated to be worth $500,000, and Mrs. Paxton thought it about time that he should do a little more for | her than give her $100 a month. She | accordingly filed the suit to amend | her decree of divorce, basing her claim | on the ground that Paxton, to obtain her signature to the agreement cono- | cerning alimony, had willfully and fraudulently concealed the true state of ‘his finances. 3 Ella Phillips «is seeking a divorce | from Edward P. Phillips on the ground | of cruelty. She says that ever since their marriage, in November, 1899, he has treated her in a cruel and inhu- man manner. She charges that he frequently beat and cursed her, and that on one occasion he tore off her | clothes and flourished a knife in her face. ‘ Decrees of divorce were granted to Sadie Hamilton from Alexander M. Hamilton for neglect and Maude Lev- inson from Solomon Levinson for cruelty. Judge Kerrigan made an order yes- terday awarding to Carrle E. Calla- han, formerly the wife of Ward Hoff- man, the custody of her daughter, Neita Hoffman. ———— The Olympic Club Bonds. The treasurer of the Olympic Club, Mr. HENRY B. RUSS, is the only person au- thorized by the club to purchase its bonds. WILLIAM GREER HARRISON, President. | to Botkin Trial Drift Down Stairs and Find Instruction and Amusement in the Minor Courts — Since the opening of the Botkin trial dally, the audiences being largely made up of folk that arrive too late to ob- taln standing room in the higher trib- unal and ¢hen drift downstairs and into the minor temples of justice. This human overflow may not be regaled as much as it would be by the testimony and tilts of counsel in the famous pois- oning case, but it seldom fails to get entertainment that {s worth much more than the price of admission. The people that yesterday fllled every inch of the space allotted to specta- tors in Judge Mogan's court were both instructed and amused while Violet Carter and James Stevens were under examination on a charge of having | stolen money from a Portuguese mari- ner one night about a month ago in a Washington-street saloon. The fe- male defendant's story was especlally interesting to the masculine portion of the assemblage, inasmuch as it exposed some of the inner secrets of her pro- fession of dance hall waitress. She stated that on the night of the alleged robbery she induced the complainant to purchase and helped him consume no less than twenty-eight quart bottles of beer, for which he paid 50 cents a | bottle, 50 per cent of the total sum | being paid her as commission on the dales. When she requested her escort to buy the twenty-ninth bottle he balked, and then, concluding that there 'Was no more money to be made out of him, she decided to “shake him,” and was attempting to do so when he struck her. “Then what did you do?” inquired the Judge. “I smashed his nose,” murmured Vio- let, “and then the policeman came and I was arrested for robbing him.” Stevens, who was bartender in the saloon where the confessed assault and alleged theft occurred, succeeded in convincing the court pretty thoroughly | that he was not an accomplice of Vio- let in the “shaking down,” as he termed it, and the court intimated its inten- tion of dismissing the case against him to-day. The woman, however, is like- 1y to be held to the Superior Court. P e Arother case that conveyed recrea- tion to the bench-warmers was the complaint of Marie Alberts against ! Lola Hallett and Lillie King. Miss Al- berts charges unprovoked assault and battery upon her by the defendants on the night of March 1 in a subterra- | nean vaudeville theater at Kearny and Jackson streets, wherein all the par- ties were employed to attract and en- tertain a capricious public. Testimony for the prosecution was concluded a few days ago, and yesterday the de- fense had its inning, all the witnesses i being attaches of the temple of amuse- the police courts have been crowded jment. {intend to A. Hallett, who described himself as assistant manager, saw Miss King and Miss Alberts (stage name, Gismonda) with their fingers entangled in each other’s coiffure, and after some diffi- culty he separated them. To the best of his knowledge and bellef no blows were struck. Julius Mentle, who proudly proclaimed himself a come- dian, witnessed the altercation between Lillle and Gismonda, and had an in- distinct recollection of hearing Miss Hallett advise Miss King to “give it to her,” but he saw no blows struck. Chris Nelson, another comedian, was in his dressing room when he heard the row, and when he rushed out and saw that it was “only a hair-pulling” he re- turned to seclusion. Miss King ad- mitted that she pulled Gismonda's hair, but positively denied having struck her. | As she haufd Gismondd’s flaxen tresses that lady shouted, “Willie, help me,” and Miss Hallett remarked that| it was then too late for “Willie” to help her. Miss Hallett swore that at .no time during the dispute was she within five feet of Gismonda, and cer- tainly did not strike her. Conflicting with the foregoing testi- mony are the statements of the com-| plaining witness and her “lady friend,” | Miss Leontine Center, also a vaudeville | artist. These two ladies declare un- equivocally that both the defendants plied their fists on Gismonda's coun- tenance until her eyes were blackened and her cheeks badly scratched, injur-| ies which confined her to her home for four days. | A decision in the case will be handed down this morning. Policeman Ferguson posed as com- plainant in two courts. He caught Charles Larsen in the act of disturb- ing the peace on Steuart street, near Howard, and Charles broke away from his grasp, ran to the second story of a near-by house and leaped from a rear window into a coal yard, sustaining in- juries which necessitated his removal to the Harbor Hospital. In the mean- time John Peterson, a friend of Lar- sen, embraced Ferguson with the in- tent of aiding the fugitive to escape, and he was arrested and will be sen- tenced to-morrow by Judge Mogan for obstructing an officer. Judge Fritz heard the case against Larsen and gave him twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. TR Jurge Cabaniss dismissed the charge of attempted larceny against Henry Tallman, who pleaded that he did not rob Miss Annie Sheridan when he ran up and grasped her shoul- ders as she was walking along Tenth street. The young lady’'s purse was detached from its fastening and drop- ped to the ground, and she had Tail- man arrested for attempting to steal it. Tallman’s defense was that he mis- took Miss Sheridan for a young wo- man with whom he was well acquaint- $3.00 Confirmation Dresses Very prettily made, with solid yoke of tucks and Val. lace insertion, full fancy sleeves, very stylishly draped skirt. Sizes 6 to 16 years. 20c Baster Ribbon .Made possible only by a master purchase by our New York buyer—20c LIBERTY SILK RIBBON, 4 inches wide, of every color and shade, for every ,21 purpose, including “Confirmation Sashes.’" e 20 20c Women’s Hose 20c WOMEN'S BLACK COTTON HOSE, double heel and toe, sale to-day, and THE SAVING IS YOURS. The prices are as pleasing as the Hose. VEILINGS—Appropriate for Easter Wear. Fancy Mesh Flowing Veils 13 yards long. A dainty accessory for your new spring hat. Our regular 35¢ quality. $8.00 Run=About Skirts ' This $2.75 Skirt is one of a great variety of styles and materials in bluer gray, brown and black. Skirts are made for service, Your choice to-day .. $7.00 Dress style; for comfort, too. Skirts These CHEVIOT and BROADCLOTH SKIRTS are trimmed with !lilor-a'fifclml straps, emphasizing. its long flo lving below the hip. A chic and natty Si Hats at BOYS' STRAW HATS at 25c. correct styles. 34. Special to-day Come early— Waists None prettier than this heighten the general tone. irt at. .. Boys’ 60c Straw That's the startiing news. For Children. 35¢c Fleece-Lined Derby RIBBED VESTS, Pants and Drawers, 's a fair warning. $1.00 Mercerized Petticoats A sample line in BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED PETTICOATS, deep deon plaited flounce, garments worth $1.00. 90c Percale Wrappers WRAPPERS MADE WITH DEEP FLOUNCE, trimmed bretelles over shoulders, © lined to waist, large variety of patterns to select from. it SOy R e TR v i 75c Percale tylish WAIST at 45c. Comes in polka dot designs. i BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL LACES I Our LACE DEPARTMENT, enlarged and beautified for the convenience of our customers, will be a center of conspicuous interest to-day. Send in your name and address and we will mail you free of charge our Spring Bookiet No. 1 when ready. MARKS BROS. $1.95 $3.00 value at | 12%¢ l Special to-day only . . [12%c | | Special at New Automobile Veils For Easter, 3 yards long, in all the smart leading shades of the season. [82.75] as we{lff 82. 75 lines and the gr:ncoful flal'l 85 ,00 This season’s sizes 18 to ’90 wer 6be Special to-day. ...... | 65¢c Extra full sleeves and cuffs { on Third street. THE HOME OF HONEST VALUES, 1220-1222-1224 MARKET STREET. HALE’ HALE'S. Bab Stockin ZSI5C pr. They're lace open work from ankle to top. 5 Ribbed and seamless, in pink, blue, white and black, sizes 4 to 6. As pretty stockings as any mother would want for b;by and as pretty stockings as she will pay-more for unless-she thinks of Hale’s to-day. Easter a week from to-morrow. clothes are to be thought of. Iron Thread Stockings, 25c pair—The best stocking for children's wear, medium heavy and extra heavy; double knees; sizes 6 to 10. 25¢ or + 6 pairs for $1.40. Stockings at 35c rulr—Women’l regu- lar 50c stockings; fine Hermsdort Baby's new Infants’ Lace Stockings, 25c¢ pair— Fine imported, assorted, lace pat- terns; colors: white, pink, blue and black; sizT 4 to 6. Infants’ Mercerized Stockings, 25c— Fine ribbed, full fashioned; color: pink, blue, white, red and tan; sizes 4 to 6. black; allover lace from ankle to top; also gauze lisle, with lace ankle; sizes 8 to 10. MILLINERY—We are as busy behind the scenes as we are in front. Lots of new hats out every day. Now Easter Candy. Small eggs, just like birds’ eggs, made of candy, 25¢ Ib. Small Easter candy eggs are 10 for 15c and 15 for B, according to size. Big chocolate eggs, with cream cen- ters, pure, best of all, at 5c each. And those big eggs with glass in one end that you can see a picture through. &¢ to $1.00. Here are rabbit candy boxes, from b6c to $2.50. Happy Hooligan, Alphonse, Gaston, Gloomy Gus, 10c and 25c. The children will have lots of fun with them after the candy is gone. Then there are ducks and chickens and Easter novelties, some in baskets and some on stands; lots of them can be filled with Easter candy; from 5c¢ to 50c. All our Easter cards and booklets come lnlboxes or envelopes. Most every price. MILLINERY—It’s the great num- ber and the variety of hats that strikes women first. No two alike, every shape and every color. It's beautifully trimmed. Then the prices complete the conquest. Electric scalp treatment cures dandruff. Hale's hairdressing pariors. 2le’ Soop Market Street, Near Sixth. Easter Neckwear. New Styles at 25c. We know you want to see them. Bishop and tab shapes, open work or lace insertion, some trimmed with small pearl buttons, but then those Persian medallions are the prettiest, we think. Some are made from bands of bias folds with briar stitching between. Then there are the white Swiss styles, pretty Bul- garian embroidered stocks, white and cream. Venetian lace. So important, a whole table is given over to them to-day. The biggest variety at 25¢ we have seen. MILLINERY—We like to have you come and look around and let the hats talk to you for themselves. 48c Men’s Shirts. You regularly pay $r.00. They’re laundered, the best per- cale, stripes and figures, medium and light colors, splendidly made and perfect fininf, Some of them have two pairs of cuffs. They're a little soiled from handling. See what a difference we make in the price to cure that hurt. Instead of $1.00 pay 48¢ to-day. Every size in the lot, 14 to 17. $1.00 Veils at 50c. ‘Welcome news for Easter buyers. No one can afford to miss coming the first day. 25 dozens that we wers lucky enough to get. It's all we got, too. They're pretty Brussels net in drop effect everyone is wearing, with |lr‘e chenille dots around the edge, 1% yards long; black only. Here's your Easter veil at just half price; just 300 of them this morning. 50c. ed and who would not have resented his rather rough method of making his presence known. In dismissing the case the Judge advised the defendant to curb his impetuosity when he over- takes ladles of his acquaintance on the street. | . John P. Killilea was sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment for rifling a | telephone box on Devisadero street| while he was under the influence of liquor. Gibson was found wandering on e § | scene painters. It will be remembered the roof of a Potrero residencesand the policeman believed he was contem- plating burglary, but John satisfled Judge Fritz that he was merely drunk and foolish, so he was dismissed with a caution to abstain from climbing when he again absorbs aleoholic stim- | ulants. MARKS BROS. l - e e Francis J. Lake was drunk, incapable and making a human door mat of him- self on Third street, near Howard, when two policemen discovered him early yesterday morning. As it was found that only twenty days ago he concluded a long term of imprisonment for vagrancy, Judge Mogan sent him back to the old home for three months. « s e A battle royal was in progress at 23 Minna street when two peace guard- ians arrived, but of the dozen or more coMMatants only two were arrested, and as Reynold Hoff and Theodore Lui they posed before the bench of Mogan yesterday morning and were fined $5 aplece. e« <a''e Somebody in the Sunset Restaurant, near Mission. said or did something that incurred the dis- pleasure of Charles Johnson, and at 3 o'clock yesterday morning he was about to open a bombardment of the premises with a big pistol when Offi- cer Owen captured man and weapon. Judge Mogan continued the case till next Monday at the request of the po- liceman, who desires to ascertain some- thing more about Mr. Johnson's rec- ord. s Judge Mogan is still wrestling with the complex legal problems developed by the litigious propensity of the Ka- flishes, who dwell on Prospect avenue. In the same block reside the McEach- ans and the Newmans, and for more than a twelvemonth last past the three families have been at bitter and re- lentless war. The story of the tumult first entered the courts when Duncan, chief of the McEachans, was accused of assault by Miss Pearl Kaflish. The man was held to the Superior Court, where a jury ac- quitted him. Next he appeared as de- fendant before Judge Mogan on a charge of addressing offensive lan- guage to Miss Kaflish, and that accu- sation is now under advisement. Then came the young woman's mother with a charge .of disturbing the peace against Katie Newman, her next-door neighbor, and that case, too, is under Jjudicial consideration. The two casks! were due for final settlement yesterday but when his Honor surveyed the ar- ray of lawyers and witnesses he or dered a continuance till April 21 “By which time,” he subsequently re- marked, “I hope that an all-around agreement out of court shall have been effected. The longer the original case remains in court the more numerous do the side issues seem to become, and if an amicable settlement cannot be ar- ranged by the parties themselves, I'm afraid that entire block of Prospect avenue will be involved.” AR T Tito Bernardi showed to the satis- faction of Mogan's court that he was merely defending himself from assault by Frank Rossetti, who was armed with a pistol. when the twain were arrested in the Pacific street saloon in which they were employed as bartenders. Bernardi’'s weapon was a light piece of wood, but the charge against him was assault with a deadly weanon. In dismissing the case against Ber- rardi the Judge remarked that he would like to have arresting officers devote more care to the charging of prisoners, as evident ambition to make cases more serious than they really are often leads to dismissal of the com- plaint, whereas conviction of a minor offense might be secured on.the same testimony. Rossett! will introduce evidence for his defense to-day. . . John Hamilton, who fired several pistol bullets through the door of his brother-in-law’s dwelling in the West- ern Addition, must answer in the Su- perior Court the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. His bail was fixed at $500 by Judge Mogan. LB | S SO S Mr. Balfour has joined the committee of a banquet to be given to British that quite recently the Prime Minister himself painted a beautiful scen& ‘of England under protection. ADVERTISEMENTS. BUTTE SATURDAY—MONDAY—TUESDAT. 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