The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1904, Page 38

2% i HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1904. c — « NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDAW 1118 Broadway. Tele > Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Seventh Ward Republicans Ask H. D. Rowe to Accept i~ || Nomination a Second Time Park St i1 s T clephione Alameda 4592. ' | PREPARE FOR CAMPAIGN = 3 5t g ->——— STER BIRCH DIES PR ® ; P cEvane moseira| President Appoints Com-| Boy Postoffice Messenger Whose Legs | mittees to Direet flmi gtors :’.::::':&;..‘"mnmm' Affairs of Organization | 26.—Lester | s - \ Ozkland Office’ San Francisco ( 1118 Broadway, March 26. | Supervisor H. D. Rowe received the unanimous ind ent of the Seventh Ward Republican Club, together with | m wheels of along be- coming from dway Wednes- the Receivi at 6 o'clock by the use | nomin: th * ; night tion for Supervisor, at an en-' tic meeting of the club held last | in Judge Geary’s courtrocom in Oakland, at which legs, a request that he again accept thel' 1 slowly sank un ed » sad because | s the sole mother and | are now left Among the postof ption has been efforts of Ralph contributed who ses sther sister y electrocuted in Ala- | chort time ago by coming in ve electric ars of age and | very messenger. He a race with the g and a sudden wheel threw him under nd his legs were crushed he eng below the knees —————— FLOWER SHOW | AT FREE LIBRARY | | W WILD Sixty Varieties Gathered in and About Oakland Exhibited in the Chil- dren’s Room. OAKLAND, March 26.—A beautiful collection of wild flowers gathered in and abo t Oakland was exhibited to- children’s room of the Free Library, about sixty v being on exhibition, which came from the hills in Oakland and | | all of d wer show was the idea of Greene and the flowers were nd arranged by a committee 1 teachers of Oakland. rs of the committee were Wolf, chairman; Miss J. , Miss C. J. Giamboni, Mrs. C. Prebl Misse M. Moore, Miss rgaret Fortier, Miss E. M. Sher- man, N Montgomery, Miss Margaret diey Miss Carolyn Reed, Miss | ¢y Hampton, Mrs. Van Duyne, Miss wite, Miss Storrie, Miss Julia Smith, | Miss Vandergaw, Miss Pierce and Miss | sche he close of the flower show | rs were given to various lo- churches. ————— Musician Becomes Derangea. ALAMEDA, March 26. — Hugo Schlam, a musician, is being detained | at his home on Broadway and Ches- | ter street under the care of two phy- siclans. He is mentally deranged and the doctors are awaiting developments before they decide whether the patient wifl be turned over to the Lunacy ission for examination. Schlam > have worried over financial He is 35 years of age, and came here recently from THE YALU RIVER KOREAN BOUNDARY Has Possibilities for Commerce, but Is Difficult to Navi- gate. The Yalu River, a picturesque stream, some 300 miles in length, is the dividing line between Korea and Manchur on the northwest frontier. It avigable by native craft as far &s Shinkuihuo, but steamers are un- able to proceed beyond Antung, the port to which the Russians are now devoting considerable attention. Some les below Antung, but situated in the same bank apd lying close within ry of the river, is the port uf Tat where, when the weather permits, cargoes for Antung are some- times discharged. Tatungkao, how- ever, is difficult to approach, and. as a general rule steamers unload and re- ceive their cargoes at Antung, a port of great promise in the near future. The estuary of the Yalu River is ad, but the anchorage of Tatung- kao is exposed to the northeast winds, which at times blow with great force. The eam has a rapid current, and, owing to the presence of innumerable shoals and sand banke, presents se- rious obstacles to successful naviga- tion. Islands, both small and large, * appear its course, and high hills, covered with bush and timber, break he banks. December until the end the stream is frozen. Un- til lately the region of the Yalu was akmost an unknown land, but with the advent of the Russians ma changes in the ch; ict have taken place. Korean shore lumber formed, of On camps have been - while at Tatungkao and Antung pros- perous native settlements have sprung into existénce. The river teems with native eraft, which ply be- tween the mouth and the higher reach while Jogs of timber, chained the one to the other, float leisurely down the stream. The view at the estuary « the river | East wire while | = during the campaign are: Executive—Hon. Henry A. Melvin, C. H. | Daly, Hugh Hogan, E. R. Ellassen, R W. Fraser, Ezra Decoto, John P. 3 Stalder, Dr. Paul Lanz, W. R v, C. G. Dodge. C. A. James. George H % | D. Inskesp. George | W_ R. Emery and Elliott | Decoto, Fred Seul- ohick, Granville Warren, J, F. | Conkiin, E._R. Jackson, Wagor . Smith, George C. Waiker, Dr. F. R. Jarvis, Stanley Moore, Charles Jefiries, Jobn G. Buswell, Low- is, perhaps, not very prepossessing. A long vista of mud flats extends mile upon mile along the river bank, but . silent and rapid transformation has been effected within the last few months, the great possibilities of the Yalu Valley for commercial develop- ment attracting alike foreign and na- tive capi —_————— A wedding ring has been found in- «ide a shark. This gonfirms the fear that the shark and a victim had be- come one. + Don’t stand still— Improve your position. Read the HELP WANTS in THE CALL. — e ——— committees | were appointed by President W. A. Donaldson to act for the club during the coming campaign. The meeting of the Seventh Ward lub was the first definite move in the approaching campaign. The members of the various commit- tees appointed to represent the club Who H_R. Browne, Hugh #ogan Jr., m, Frank R. Thompson, James D. es Moir, Manuel Fonte, W. D. nk D Moyer, F. J. White, Charles 8. Wightman, Stuart W. Booth, Henry Perry, Fred K. Fox, Frank H. Garcla, Alex. Ander son, T. B, Crandell, George lngraham, John Burke, Oscar T. Hoyt A P. Parrott, George G_ Cummings, Walker and John W. McNiece. Among the speakers last night were: udge Henry A. Melvin, George Plerce, John Ezra W. Decoto, C. A. James, W. William Hunter, J. J. Edgar, wmes Putallo, J. P. Cook, J. M g i. Garcla, C. G, Dodge, John B. H. Daly, A. M. Wjckland, L. §. Frank R. T on, George Ingra M. Green, Leon B. Goldberg, Maurice | | ‘ | | | Wilber Fraser, m, V" Geary, Henry J. Derby, Fred Seulberger, M. Colgett, G. A. Deasy. B. H. Griffith, C. Wilson, A. E. Rose, Willlam R. Geary, A. Donaldson, Stanley Mcore and C. E. Kinnard The follcwing officers were elected last night by the Republican Army and Navy League to serve for the ensuing | term Langan: lieutenant res; major. W. J. Quigl r, Comrade Walling: officer of the day, D. H. Hawkins; officer of the guard, Comradé Ellsworth, EVENTS IN SOCIETY OAKLAND, March 26.—The *‘house-warm- ing”’ reception given this evening by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mauvais was a brilllant affair, the pretty new colonial residence on Oak street resounding with the pleasant sound of merry- making until a late hour. Cards were the order of the evening, five hundred being the tavored game. The Mauvais home ie admirably arranged for entertaining and a profusion of spring blossoms and foliage added much to the gen- eral cosiness and picturesqueness of the scene. Several very “stunning’’ gowns were worn the ladies present, the hostess herself look- charming in a pale blue crepe de ssisted In receiv- ing ber guests by Mrs. Frank C. Watson, in @ beautiful violet gown; Mrs. A. P. Leach, Mrs. A. A, Long: Mrs. James Tyson, in a black lace glittering with spangles; Mrs. John b; Clay Hamoton, in white; Mrs. A. A. Long, Mrs. Henry Rosenfeld, Mrs. Edythe Chisholm and Miss Sally Field. Misses nor Lan- ders and Miss Lulette Mauvals assisted in scoring for the games. The Invited Zuests were: Dr._ a 3 C. 8. Akerly, S e Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ames, Mr. and Mrs. & A Bacheldor, Mr. and Mrs. r. Dan_Belden, and Mrs. Louis Bissell of Georgs Bornemann, Mr. and Mrs Er- lLee Cole Burnham, Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Clift, Mr. and Mrs. Georse de Golia, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Engs, Mr. and Mrs.'W. 8. Gage of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Gross. Mr. Hampton, Mr. gr.l:nd Mrs. J. J. L AL ach, Mr. and Mres. . A. Long, . Mrs. Charles Lovell, Mr. and Mrs. S‘el:‘rfll.nl:lfl, Mr. and Mrs. Sheiby Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rosenfeld of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs, F. W. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. J. Loran Pease, Mr. and Mrs. D.'A. Proctor, Mr. and Mrs, Felton Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Chugehill Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Tysorf of Alameda, Mr. and Mrs. James Tyson, . k C. Wateon, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Williamson, Louise Allender, Mrs. Edythe Chisholm, M Carrier_and Sally Field of San cleco, Miss 1da Lackey, Miss Ena Lang- worthy, Miss Edith Manning of San Francisco, Miss Carrie Nicholson, Miss Belle Nicholxon, Miss Florence Stewart, Miss Eleanor Lan- ders, Miss Lulette Mauvals and Messrs Wil- liam Rabe and Walter Hale of San Franetsco, Fred Henkening of Alameda, Dr. H. J Lackey, Ralph Langworthy, Louis Rosenfeld, Charles Smith, Morton Tuft Robert Bain Jr. g Mr. and Mrs. B Miss Wilton was the hostess fo-day at a charming affalr given in honor_of Miss Mae Burdge at the Miller home on Boulevard ter- race. About fifty guests enjoyed several games of five hundred, the hostess being assisted in entertaining by’ Miss Burdge, Miss Mary Bar- ker, Mrs. Willlam Colby, Miss Beatrice Vroo- man, Miss Emma Knight, Mrs. Charies Ro- dolph, Miss Georgle Strong, Mise Marion Ever- son, Mrs. Cleyeland Forbes, Miss Eilsle Ever- son. Mrs. E. J. Nicholson, Mrs, Robert Foster, iss Marion Smith and Miss Ethel Olney, The Invited guests were Miss Edith Gaskill, Miss Grace Eperry, Misses Kuowles, Miss Nightingale, Miss Marion Goodfellow, Mra, George Rodolph, Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald, Miss Bessic Paimer, Miss Bates. Mrs. William H. Morrison. Miss Carolyn Oliver, Miss Evelyn Ellis, Miss Violet Whitney, Miss Minnfe Ray Wilcon, Mrs. Francis Musser, Mrs. John Hampton Lynch, Miss Mona Crellin, Misses Wilcox, Miss Gertrude Carlton, Mrs. Bernard Ransome. Mies Florence White, Mrs. Von Ade- lung, Mrs. Louis Bartlett, Miss Ethel Moore, Miss Grace Sanborn. Mrs. Willlam Pringle, Mre. Walter Hart, Miss Ruth Wilder and Miss Ray Wellman. . Next Tuesdsy the annual election of offi- cers of Ebell takes place, and in addition an- other very important question will be settled | by vote—the question of a buildi 7 jong Hst of desirable locations hun'nn.l‘:f; el stmmered down {o five and one of these five will be chosen next Tuesday. The special coms mittee on the bullding eite has recommendea the purchase of a lot at the corner of Webster and Merrimac streets, the property of Mrs. Archie Borland. The lot is 100 feet and can be purchased for $5500. The other sites_under consideration are: Northeast cor- ner Boulevard terrace and Webster street, 100 x125, price $9000; northwest corner Tele:n h avenue and Charter street, T5x100, price 75&: northwest corner Telegraph avenue and Twen- ty-fourth street, 100x100, price $3000: east side of Harrison street, mear Fourteenth, §2x150, price $7380. As each site has many advocates the question to be decided next Tuesday is causing more than the usual interest to be manifested in August Manasse, | | OPERATION MAY SAVE PROFESSOR SLATE'S EYE Surgeons Remove Particles of Glass From Injured Optic of Dean of College of Natural Sciences Met With Serious Mishap Thursday PROF. FREDERICK SLATE OF THE U GHT MAY BE SERIOUSLY IMPAL THAT BEFELL HIM IN THIS CITY THURSDAY NIGHT. s 'NIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, WHOSE RED AS THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT e i | L - BERKELE March 26.—As the re- sult of ah accident in San Francisco Thursday night Professor Frederick Slate, professor of physics and dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of California, underwent an operation at St. Luke’s Hospital yes- terday, the purpose being to save, if possible, the sight of one eye, which is endangered. Professor Slate slipped and fell after leaving the University Club and in striking the pavement his spectacles were broken, some of the glass enter- ing the eye and cutting it severely. At first it was thought that the glass had gone into both eyes, but for- s . . tunately for Professor Slate this did not happen. He was in the company |of a physician, who was able to give was found that the glass had pene- trated the eyeball, through the Ilid, which it lacerated greatly. The surgeons removed several small particles of glass from the eyeball and several stitches were taken in the eye- lid. Upon the success of the opera- tion depends the sight of the injured eye. The accident occurred just after Professor Slate left the club, where he had been spending the evening. He failed to see a curbing that skirts the front of the building and tripped over it, with the result stated. NEW AND QUEER . FOR FASHIONABLES London Society Finds It in the Devil- Fish From Mexico. Strange are the pets that London fashion compels its followers to keep, and various as they are strange. A new Cuban poodle was the rage a few months back. A special canary fol- Jows. Now it is a fish again, and the strangest of fish at that. The goldfish Fwill have to look to its laurels, other- wise it will most certainly be super- seded in popularity by the devilfish, a most quaint looking reptile, for which, a leading dealer states, there have been innumerable demands of late. The real home of this fish is Mexico, and owing to its being somewhat rare the cost of a devilfish is considerably higher than that of the goldfish, which can be bought for a few pence, W the price of its rival varies from fiy to ten shillings. A curious character- istic of the devilfish is that it almost invariably remains at the bottom of its bowl or tank, and it is most unusual to see it swimming about. Unlike its golden-scaled relation, it does not de- mand a frequent change of water in its home, but will live quite well in the same water for weeks together, while its taste in the matter of food is not hard to please, for a devilfish likes nothing better than a very small worm. As a general rule London dealers sell these fish by pairs.—London Mail. —_——————— An 0dd Cause for Striking. Peculiar glass in the windows of the new $250,000 factory of the Elgin National Watch Company at Rlgin, I1L, may lead to a strike which will in- volve 500 employes. When the building was opened six weeks ago it was found the windows were of peculiar manufacture and would admit light readily, but could not be seen through. Because of the glamor in the rooms the employes ob- jected when moved from the old build- ing. Foremen advised them to wait until a tria] had been made and quiet was then restored. Five weeks' test has resulted in severe eye troubles, and, it is gaid, severe headaches. A mass-meeting was held and com- mittees appointed to @raft a resolution for presentation to President Hulburd and Superintendent Hunter.—Chicago | Tribune. - dia some very was one of the performers Clever tandem riding. b ; Members of the Harmony Whist Club were guests yesterday of Mrs. Joseph H. Hunt at beautiful home on Tel ave- e e enest stores were mads By Mre the coming election. voted on: ri3 e M. Shaw, Membership committee—Mrs. Edward Booth, Mrs. George H. Colline, Mrs. T. G, Harrison, Mrs. W. G. Palmanteer, Mrs. George Rodoiph, At # o'clock on the same afternoon Marshal Darrach, the rean give readings from the Among those who visited the horse sh last night from this side of the bay wnu'.' party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cur. tise, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Adams, Mr, and Mis. M. J. Laymance. Charles M. Sadier and daug! Sadler, and tbe Van Sicklens of Alameda were also among the spectators. Miss Van Sicklen | weapon, wi Venton | 20 ¢ erchant of Venice.” | 52,¢ yestes hter, Miss, May | the apd Mrs. Nairne. Mrs. John T. Dille T ntertain the club at its next meeting. o, 32 regular meeting of the Wheelock ciab Yecterasy Mrs. Gordon Stolp was the hostess. Prizes were won by Mrs. Charles Yale ana Mrs. Stols. Mr. and Mrs. Wendail C. Thomas leave to- morrow on & trip to the large Eastern cities. Mr. Thomas represents a large Bastern houce, he _trip 15 to be one of business and pleas- They intend taking In the World's Fair on their return. CITY CHARGES QUARREL.—Patrick Me- Mr. ana | Mahon and Joseph Brennan, Inmates of the Mrs. Willlam Langenour of Woodland and | Aimshouse, quarreled over a pair of rday and struck 4 With u cane. R i : assault with o deadiy rested and with assault 3 EVENTS AND DOINGS O A CENTURY BACK Some Extracts from the London Globe of February 29, 1808 and 1828, 1808—A numerous and respectable meeting of the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool, interested in the trade of America, was held on Friday, in that town, in pursuance of a requisition for that purpose, when the late Orders in Council were taken into consideration. Mr. Rathbone, in a long and able speech, detailed the various advantages this country de- rived from the American trade, in the course of which, he stated, that nearly fiye hundred voyages are made from ‘America to England alone in the course of a year, in ships, the burden of which amounted to more than 123,- 000 tons; that the amount of British manufactures annually exported to American was more than £10,000,000; that the Government derived from the Liverpool portion of the trade alone not less than £1,000,000 a year, and that the average debt due from Amer- ica to this country is not less than £12,000,000, the payment of which is now interrupted by the embargo in the .hlm instant medical treatment. It American ports. Mr. Rathbone next took a view of the American trade to the West Indies, and stated the de- pendence of those islands on America for provisions. He then adverted to the trade of America to the East Indies and China, the export to each of £500,000 annually in silver only, and the facility which this was ad- mitted to give to the trade of our Bast Indla Company. Mr. Rathbone concluded by lamenting the interrup- tion of all these sources of revenue, and with exposing the mischievous ef- fects of the late Orders in Council. He was followed by Mr. Richardson, Mr. Martin and the chairman, Mr. J. Crop- per; the last of whom added that the supply of flnmeq to Ireland this year was only 10,000' casks, whereas the usual annual supply was about 60,000, Two petitions against these Orders, one to the Lords, and the other to the Commons, were then read and unani- mously agreed to. 1828—A return has been printed, by order of the House of Commons of the quantities of grain of all kinds deliv- consumption for every month from January 1, 1827, to January 5, 1828. The following is the result of the whole year: Barley, 239,472 quarter: beans, 87,818; Indian corn, 26,619; oats, 349,559; peas, 21,841; rye, 14, 307; wheat, 516,965; making a total of 1,256,584 quarters. The quantity of all kinds remaining in warehouses on January 5 last was 306,157 quar- ters.—London Globe. e A satisfactory result of the recent fire at Chicago is that the persons whose duty it is to protect -our places of public amusement against fire have stated that they intend shortly to do VENERABLE ECC | HELPS SCIENCE Through It the ' Scientists Trace the Origin of Bitu- men to Animal Remains TWO MILLION YEARS OL All - Theories of Previous Investigators Overthrown by This Latest Discovery —ee Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, March 26. Through the prehistoric egg now at the University of California the scien- tists have been able to prove the origin of bitumens, a thing that has puzzled more investigators and aroused more antagonisms than almost anything else in the scientific world. Recent analyses of its contents by Dr. Morgan of the chemistry department of the university go to show that bitumen is actually derived from animal re- maing that nature has changed in the course of ages to its present composi- tion. The egg with which these experiments were made was found imbedded in a rock on the cliffs that line the Glla River in Arizona. It was incased in a mold of rock that has been preserved along with it, the whole being not un- like a meerschaum pipe and its velvet case. The shell is still there, but the contents have undergone various chem- ical changes, so that they now resemble a rock of crystal. No detectable changes are to be found on the surface of the shell, which, for all the scientists are able to make out, is just the same as that of the common duck's egg of the present day. As to the age of the egg, the scien- tists are not yet agreed. ‘Tha.t is a question that is still being discussed by them. The hitch is over the geological age in which the egg wasaid. Some think it may have been born during the quartenary period, anywhere from 15,000 to 50,000 years ago. Others think it is of the tertiary perlod, estimated recently by Professor A. C. Lawson to be 2,700,600 years ago. Just think of an egg 2,700,000 years old! Whew! What if it should break! Dr. Morgan told all about the discov- ery of the origin of bitumens via this patriarch of the egg family this even- ing at a meeting of the California sec- tion of the American Chemical Society. His subject was “A Peculiar Occurrence of Bitumen and Evidence as to Its Ori- gn.” In the course of his story Dr. Morgan explained that he had picked out particles of bitumen from the egg, thus proving that it is of animal origin. He said in part: Hardly any sclentific question has been de- bated more vigorously than that as to the origin of bitumens, especially since the in- dustry has assumed such industrial import- ance. Natural gas, liquid petroleum and solid asphalt are universally admitted to have been deriyed from a common source, thelr existence in these varied forms to-day being due partly to a process of natural separation and partly to chemical changes wrought by water, air, heat and pressure. One theory ascribes to them a purely chem- ical origin, Steam acting on various metals or carbides hypothetically existing in the in- terior of the earth is thought by some to be an adequate source for all bituminous matter, the process being similar to the interaction of water and calclum carblde used to generate acetylene, Most investigators prefer to be- lleve that all bodies of this nature are de- rived from an organic origin, one group holding that vegetable, another that animal are the source, Experiments have been made in the labor- atory or factory either with the view of sup- porting a particular theory or in some cases in the hope that a cheap method of manu- facturing petroleum might be discovered. From fish oil and again from lingeed oil, distilled under pressure, substances have been obtained o similar to natural ofls as to be indistin- guishable. In one instance the product was sold on the market. This experiment can be made to support almost any hypothesis. Under these circumstances much time and thought have been expended in the endeavor to ascertain whether unquestioned evidence could not be obtalned to show from what kind of matter natural deposits have been derived. Hitherto, while many things have pointed in one direction or anothpr. there has always been two sides to the question as to the origin of any particular deposit and evidence in eup- port of both sides. The discovery of a fossil egg, partly filled with asphalt, in which all evidence points unequivocally to the fact that the asphalt has been derived from the natural contents of the egg, is considered of great sclentific value, inasmuch as it is the first case in which the kind of matter from which bituminous matter has actually been formed can be definitely proven. Since an co fains in concentrated form material like that constituting animal tissue the actual deriva- Hon of bitumen from animal remains by a natural process is thus proven, This fact does not mean necessarily that some petroleum h: not been derived from other sources than ani- mal matter, however. The history of this prehistoric egg will soon be published in the form of a bulletin at the university. Just now the efforts of the sclentists are directed toward discovering its age and species. —_———————— SMALL BOY DISCOVERS PROCEEDS OF ROBBERY ‘Willlam Conger OAKLAND, ‘March 26.—Several hundred dollars’ worth of silver plate, which was stolen on July 19, 1902, from the residence of Socrates Huff, president of the San Leandro Bank, by Rosael Torres was discovered hid- den in a thicket near San Leandro Creek to-day by Vantis Huffmaster, a small boy residing with his parents in San Leandro. The little fellow was fishing in the creek, when he saw a bright object protruding ‘trom‘ the ground and on digging it up brought to light a silver mug. Further dig- ging resulted in the discovery of all the plate stolen from the Huff resi- dence, and the boy at once returned it to the owner. Shortly after the robbery Torres was arrested in San Francisco in the company of a voung girl he had ab- ducted from Fruitvale and he was convicted of the robbery on circum- stantial evidence and sentenced to eleven years in San Quentin, but until ered from the warehouses for home | to-day no trace was found of the sto- len silver. ————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, March 26.—The fol- lowing marriage- licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Edward T. Mills, over 21, Oakland. and Ida E. Coles, over 18, San Francisco; Wil- liam E. Cummings, 22, and Edith M. Streeter, 21, both of Briggs, Butte ot Albert L. Wagenheim, 21, rey, over 18, Oakland; Berthold Wer- der, 21, Sacramento, and Maud M. Philipps, 19, Pasadena; Aaron Neu- mann, 31, San Francisco, and Edna Howell, 22, Berkeley; Harry Dumont, 26, and Eleanor M. Larkin, 22, both of Alameda. D e i e of Temperance Union. SANTA CRUZ, March 26. — The Tri- County Woman's CL_.:tian Temper- ance Union will be in session in Santa Cruz on April 19, 20, 21 and 22. The ict comprises the counties of ta Cruz, Monterey and San Benito. 1 HORSE OWNERS |OFFICERS FIND MIKE & TEST STOLEN COIN James Nealon Objects to|Fruitvale Constables Arrest Assessment of His Stable| J.Keck and A. Blum, a Bo) at the Emeryville Track| on the Charge of Burglary | i | INTERESTED | GROCERY I OTHERS ROBBED N, Dalton Accuses Him of Try-| Box Holding Money Is Stolen ing to Evade the Taxing| From Store of A. Rerat and of His Racing Animals! Is Found Under Doorstep PLASSE st | | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 2 The finding of a strong box Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 26. James Nealon, ex-Assessor of San w h i Francisco, and County Assessor Dalton . $124 25 hidden under the steps of the of Alameda County have had a’clash | home of Joseph Keck, a young Frui over the assessment of the race horses vale painter, led to his arrest & belonging to Nealon at the Emeryville | charge of robbery, as well as that of racetrack, and it is belleved that there | his 1l-year-old stepbrother, A. Blun is a-well laid plan among the horse- | The store of A. Berat was robbed about men to try to evade the payment of | 8:30 o'clock last night and the box, con- taxes on their horses; that Nealon is simply acting for a large number and is making a test case. He claims that his horses should be assessed in San Francisco, while Dalton states that the | horses were in Alameda County at noon on the first Monday in March and he asserts that should such a rule pre- | vail as contended for by Nealon, when the horses scatter after the race meet- ing is over none of them will ever be taxed, as they will not in all proba- bllity reach their home stables for a year. Nealon, with City Attorney McElroy and Attorney Hughes of San Fran- cisco, met Assessor Dalton and Dis- trict Attorney Allen this morning and had a spirited debate over the ques- tion, which Dalton finally ended by re- ferring to District Attorney Allen for | an official opinion, with the declaration that he will seize the horses in case the District Attorney’s opinion is favor- able to his contention and Nealon still refuses to pay his taxes. UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY, March 26.—The university will be represented against Stanford by three men who have helped to uphold the honor of their alma mater on other occasions. Max Thelen has won a Carnot medal, a Bonnheim prize and defended the university in three intercoliegiate debates. Joseph P. Lucey carried off the last Carnot medal and Robert L. McWilllams bas been an alternate on a Carnot team and a Bonnhelm debater, Emile C. Nathan, the alternate, is a junior Who bas competed in a number of de- bates at the university. by t was esolved, That the executive and ap- pointive powers In citles having a population of 40,000 or more should be concentrated in the Mayor.” The intercollegiate debating committee has selected the following well-known men to act as judges at the California and Stanford de- bate, on April 18: United States Circuit Judge W. W. Morrow, State Supreme Court Justice Lucien Shaw and Supreme Court Com- missioner J. A. Cooper. » The topics of the lectures to be given in Hearst Hall on Wednesday and afternoons, March 30 and 31, by Professor Eduard Meyer of Germany will be, respectively, “Individualism in Anclent History” and “Socrates.” lectures will be open to the ublic. b President Wheeler and the deans of the col- leges united last week in sending an a5 to President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard Uni- versity on the occasion of his seventieth birth- day, which occurred on March 20. Dr. Sidney Dean Townley, for several years instructor in astronomy at the university and at present of the International Latitude Ob- servatory at Ukiah, will deliver two lectures before Professor Leuschner's class in modern astroncmy some time during April. The titles of the lectures will be “‘Explanation of the Several Classes of Variable Stars,’’ and “The General Relations of Variable Star Phe- nomena."" . The examination of candidates for the first California Rhodes Scholarship will begin on April 13 and continue on following days. Brom among those who shall pase this examination will be selected by the president the one who is to receive the scholarship, candidates will be asked to assemble at § o'tlock on the ‘morning of April 13 at a place to be announced later. President Jordan Will speak. OAKLAND, March 26.—President David Starr Jordan of Stanford Uni- versity will addrgu the members of the local Y. M. C. A. at 3 o'clock to- morrow afternoon,on the subject of “The Full Heart.” This will be the first of a series of lectures by President Jordan. Music will be furnished by the association orchestra and male quartet. —_———— Lessons for Leap Year. In England leap year is supposed to confer upon the fair sex the privi- lege of choosing life partners for bet- ter or for worse, but the custom is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The gypsies, especial- ly in Hungary, enjoy and make a very | extensive use of the right at all times, in accordance with an ancient custom. Thus a marriageable young gypsy girl in the land of the Magyar:, as soon as her heart is smitten, takes good care that the smiter shall hear of the havoc he has wrought and have a chance of consoling her. With this praiseworthy object in view, she has a love letter indited, places a coin in a piece of dough, bakes it and throws the billet-doux during the night into the bedchamber of her bridegroom- elect. Then she possesses her soul in patience and awaits developments. The Burmese maiden begins her mar- riage campaign at a much earlier stage. In order to get together a goodly gathering of young men from whom to choose, she places a lamp in her window at night—it is known as the “lamp “of love—and entices all those youths who are candidates for the order of benedict. In sunny Andalusia the peasant girl whose young huskandman prepares a tasty pumpkin cake and sends it to his home. If he eats it—and the Anda- lusian girls take good care to make it highly edible—the pair are forth- with betrothed.—London Telegraph. ————————e A well-known Englishman has just returned from a trip into the jungles of India after big game. He had one of the most expert guides in the world with him, and one of the sportsman's friends asked this guide how his em- ployer shot while on the trip. The mldc: replied: “He shot divinely, but God was very merciful to the animals.’'—New York Tribune. EASTER BRIDES. Showing able Malds Are Wearing to | the Altar. EASTER EDITION. NEXT SUNDAY CALL. e e e el in the intercollegiate debate | The question discussed | debaters in the final debate last night | 1as he pleases; heart has been stolen by the stalwart | & + | \ taining nearly $500, was stolen. The finding of it with part of the money | to-day was deemed sufficlent warrant ! for the arrest of the pair. Rerat conducts a grocery at Four- | teenth street and Pruitvale avenue. | Last night he went to lodge and left his wife and-their boy in charge of the store. Mrs. Rerat went into a neigh- | bor's to talk and the boy Was left {alone. Young Blum came along and | began a conversation with young Rerat {and the two went out on to the side- walk and while they were talking the box was stolen. When the theft ‘was discovered the matter was reported to Constables Car- | rell and Dearborn, who this morning | secured a search warrant to go into Keck's home, the presence of young Blum giving them an idea that per- haps he had been “stalling” for Keck. They searched the house through and were about to leave, when they looked | back as they went down some steps and saw the box. A number of robberies have taken place in the Fruitvale district of late |and Carroll and Dearborn give it as their belief that the two they have in custody are responsible for them. In Keck’s pocket was found a bankbook with about $600 to his account in the Oakland Bank of Savings. Both Keck and Blum deny any knowledge of the affair. e —— TROUBLESOME NAMES AT SEAT OF WAR |Spelling and Pronunciation of Places in the Far East. The war in East Asia is preferable | to our old friend the war cloud in the Balkans in one respect, nainely, of the names it involves. Turkish names were not particuarly bad, nor Ruman- ian, but those of the other lands and peoples involved were literaily un- speakable. For what mere Anglo- Saxon tongue can do justice to a name which written displays one vowel and sixteen consonants, and spoken resem- bles nothing so much as three coughs and a sneeze? In East Asia there is, of course, some incursion of Russian barbarities of speech. But so far as Japan, Korea and China are con- cerned, all is pretty easy writing and speaking. Short names, abounding in melodious vowels and lquid conso- nants, make the local nomenclature a thing of beauty and a joy. In so far as the names in question are at all perplexing, the circum- stance is due to outside perversity. The variorum editions of some of the simplest and most musical names are little short of distracting to even the most philosophic mind. The seesaw of “Corea” and “Korea” we can en- dure, through long habituation. But what shall be said of the.rame of the capital of that country? We were brought up to write it “Seoul.” But some of our neighbors persist in spell- ing it “Seul.” Others aver that “Soul" is the only proper form. Still others are satisfled with nothing but “Sul.™ And now here comes an estimable au- thority with the assurance that we shall not know salvation unless we write it “Seyool.” In such case, what are we to do? Call it “Constanti- nople” and go on to the next word? ‘Well, the next is Manchuria. Wha Oh, well, “Manchooria,” if you pleas: or “Manchouria,” if you prefer; or “Mantchuria,” if you like that better; or “Mantchooria,” if you insist upon it; or “Mantchouria,” if you won't be happy until you get it. All six forms are In use, and, for all we know, half a dozen more. Then there is Mouk- den. There are those who regard with pity those whe know not “Mukden,” and also those who are prepared to maintain “Mookden” against all the world. Nor does the Amoor escap Some insist that it is the “Amour,” while others with equal confidence proclaim it the “Amur.” Of course, | too, there is the Yalu, or Yaloo; and also the Sungari, or Soongari; like- | wise Chefoo, or Chifoo, or Chefu, or | Chitu; not to mention Tokio, or Tokyo, and Fusan, or Foo-San, and— but that way madness lies. It is probably wuseless to protest against such vagaries. There is no positive authority upon these names, since the Chinese and Japanese origi- nals are not spelled with letters, but are expressed with ideographs. Each man will insist on interpreting them and our elastic lan- uage makes it possible to express the same sound.with “00,” or “ou,” or long “u.” Where, however, such pos- sibility of diversity exists, with sub- stantial indifference among the va- rious forms, it is a great pity that uniformity cannot be agreed upon and stuck to. When the world has for many years been accustomed to write “Seoul,” and “Soul,” and “Sul” and “Seyool?” Granted that these also jexpress the same identical sound with | equal exactness, they do it no better than the old form did and does; and i there is no use in discarding an old and familiar thing for a new ani strange one, unless something is to | be gained by the change.—New York Tribune. - SEE THE PHOTOGRAPH. | Remarkable Composite Picture of the Fashionable Worship- ers at St. Mary's Cathe- dral EASTER EDITION.. NEXT SUNDAY CALL.