The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1904, Page 6

N FRANCISCO CALL, V DNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1904. « NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA K BOARD WORKS FOR OAKLAND Members of Trade Organiza- tion Listen to Reports on last Year's Work DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED Local Commercial Body Is Pledged to Lend Support to Needed Improvements s 8 Broadway, April 19 ual meeting of the Oakland Trade was held this evening, r the reading of the reports on work by the president, sec treasurer, the nominating ittee, of which Sol Kahn, James P. Taylor, 8. M. Dodge, Irving C. Lewis and John P. Maxwell were members, submitted the following names as di- rectors for the ensuing year nominations ylor the sec There being no on motion of James retary cast a ballot g named by the nominating committee The report of the treasurer showed a belanle of more than $80 in the treas- ury after paying all bills for the year. REPORT OF PRESIDENT. The report of President R. H. Cham- ber was general in its nature, and as follows ain was in part we WORK « ¥ w Secretary repor show plished in vear ing the follc what by part as WE ties, twice ng, ten times twice: artists Educational Les ovement Committee te Associat ounty, twice Webster-street five times; Oakland Real times; Alameda 4 Boosters, four b boostin, clated committer Improvement Clube, once. Bince our last annual meeting 2237 excur- sionists heve participated in the “all day for # dollar’ excursions run every Monday and | Friday throughout the year under the auspices of the board. During the year upon these ex done citizens of almost every country in Open Sores can be cleaned out, the su, tion stopped, and a cure by the use of Only morbid matter is destroyed bfiolhb marvelous icide, which al liows Nature to build up hedlthy tissue. Al y ra- ected bsolutel " Used and endorsed by leading by leading drugi trial y‘fldmlu:‘fi"‘%"."d !lh. bea genuine bears my signature those | & " | George =4 but incidental thereto. OFFICERS GIVE [P THE SEARCH 1 Quest of Man That Shot Mrs. | Elizabeth Werren on Sun- day Night Comes to End | NEW THEORY ADVANCED | —ene | | Belief Is Held That Woman I Was Wounded by Enemy, | Not by Bold Highwayman Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, April 19. Another day has passed and the as- | sailant of Mrs. Elizabeth Werren at the Werren saloon Sunday night is {still free. Sheriff Bishop has about abandoned the quest of the highw: | man, there being absolutely no clew | to follow, and as no serious attempt | was made on the part of any other | officers to apprehend the criminal it | be said that he does not even en- joy the distinction of being pursued. The rather improbable theory has bobbed up now that the shooting was | done not by a highwayman, but by an ‘ « | emy of the Werrens seeking revenge. All the circumstances that brand it | as a deliberately planned hold-up are | being overlooked in order to support this theory. The man and his two pis- his masked face, his demands for raised hands, the Kkilling of the Wer- dog and finally the shooting of Werren are either ignored or ex- | plained as simply bluffs to cover' up | the real nature of the crime. But the f remains that Mrs. Werren prob- | ably would not have been shot had | . rens | ‘| she obeyed the bandit's commands to | stand still The new theory is hung upon the fact that the Werrens have had quar- with their neighbors over cattle. F. Weeks, editor of the Ala- Daily Encinal, relates a conver- he overheard about a year ago while returning from an outing In Wildcat Canyon with his son, Walter R. Weeks, and Leo Brown of 1400 Louisa street. The trio had stopped the Werrens for refreshment and while there Mr. and Mrs. Werren quar- reled with a man over the theft of some cattle of the Werrens. - m what I could gather,” rels said s to-day, “the Werrens had used the man of stealing their cows. 1an wanted a retraction, but Mrs. insisted that he was the thief. This angered the man that he atened to strike the woman, but nterference of my son prevented it. It is just possible that this shoot- ing is the outgrowth of that guarrel. I know it happened a year ago, but then people nurse their wrongs a long time.” In her excitement since the shooting Mrs. Werren has declared that she knew the identity of her assailant. She did not refer to any quarrel with neigh- bors, howew but to a man who wished to establish a saloon prear the Werren place. The man had asked the couple to sign his application, but they had refused. But Werren himself de- res this to be most unlikely, observ- that it is a mere suspicion of his He refuses to name the man to whom his wife refers. All the circumstances in the case in- that it was only a well laid plan fc b y. It is very like the hold- up that occurred recently in a Fruit- s0 the ing wife's. vale store and officers who have worked m the case declare that the same man acted in both places. Mrs. W n's condition was some- what improved to-day, so Dr. J. Ed- son Kelsey, the attending physician, gaid. There is always the danger of pneumonia, however, and the woman is by ne ns out of danger. s il Suspect Gets Out of Jail. BEERKELEY, April 19.—Deputy Marshal Carey arrested a man at an | early hour this morning on suspicion that he was concerned in the recent store robberies. Carey put his man in | the West Berkeley lock-up, but this morning the fellow was gone. He had broken the flimsy lock of the | r jail and escaped. | —_———————— Charged With Till Tapping. OAKLAND. April 19.—Clarence A. Rankin, who has a police record, was | arrested this afternoon tor till-tapping at McMillan & Cox’s grocery, Seventh and arket streets. Cox caught Ran- kin acting suspiciously and sent for the police. . + been among the excursionists in the Union has been repre- ] 1y times by the excugsionists. e excursions have proved very profitable, ly to Oakland, but also to surrounding v citizens of Ala- | the worla hav nd y ing one of these trips. worth of property has been sold in this county to these excursionists, Your secretary would be pleased to have any member of this board or any citizen Interested in the w of the board present in these rooms a M or Friday afterncon be- tween 1:30 a o'Clock, to meet these excur- | slonists, hear their words of praise for the trip | and listen to the talk on Oakiand and Ala- meda County, lasting ten %o twenty minutes, given in_these rooms. | LITERATURE SENT OUT. Advertising Oakiand -and Alameda County through residents of less favored sections of the world is the principal work of this body. The foregoing portion of this report has been Since our last annual mecting over 400,000 pleces of literature have been sent out from these rooms by your sec- retary and his aseistant. This entalls a vast amount of clerical work and the demand has | increased to such an extent of late that both the undersigned and his- faithful and -con- scientious assistant, Miss Curran, have not | only worked here in these rooms many even- piugs, but in order to ketp up with the de- mand have at times been obliged to come here on Sundey. With the largely increased membership in this board of late very much more literature and of a finer class of workmanship can be #oL out during he coming year. Juring the vear, whilé all committees ehis board have worked hard' and. Elven caucy time—without _ remuperation—the executive committee, the committee on harbor and water front and the committee on rallroads have been called upcn to attend more meetings than any of the other committees of the board. The newspapers have ' devoted very many | columns of valuable space to this board and its work and” have been not only willing at { @M times, but anxieys to.join with this body ‘m advertising Oakiand and Alameda County, To the local newspapers-and their representu- Lives and o the local representatives of “the n Franciseo papers the thanks board are certainly due. y el 3 With the present mem year 4n the Board of 'rna.m to e the most {llustrious in the of this board anc more literature ean be malled throughout :w":;w:lnud world than in any previous year n istory. resul in values as well as mml‘-uu.w AR OAKLAND, April 19.—The joint con- vention of the Alameda County circles of the Women of Woodcraft opened this evening with a banquet in honor of the grand officers and the visiting representatives, which was held at the Maison de 1'Opera, at which addresses were delivered by the grand guardian, Mrs. C. C. Van Orsdall, and a num- ber of the guardian neighbdrs of the Alameda County circles. Mrs. C. Eb- | berson acted as toastmaster, and among the speakers were: Mrs. M. E. Kline of Alameda; Dr. V. A. Der- rick, grand adviser of the order; Mrs. J. T. Willlams, guardian neighbor of Oakland Circle, and several visiting neighbors. The address of the evening was de- livered by Grand Guardian Carrfe C. Van Orsdall, who spoke of the growth of the order in the past seven years. She said, in part: 7 The story of all great stery of small beginnings, of un achievements is a ering faith, of sleepless persi Nothing in all the | world’s history ever sprang into life spou- tanecusly perfect. No following was ever | gathered about any movement or idea without the lodestone of faith to draw men and women to it—a faith which would ¢nable them to live for it, fight for it, and if need be dle for it.. WONDERFUL GROWTH. The story of the Women of Woodcraft con- tains these elements. In Aprll, 1867, when our order was orgapized by the seven men and women who were called by circumstances Lo this task there¢ was no outward and visible sign of the stature it would attain, the re- sults it would record, the splendid develop- ment it would be granted In seven shoit years, Its beginning was essentially small, | place, humble. But there was faith | was granted the gift of persistency—the per- | sistency which crawled when it could not walk, walked when it could not rum, picked itself up when it stumbled, never knew when it was | whipped, moved always a step at a time aad | each step forward. The results to-day are worth looking at, not > gather lazy or conceited content therefrom, but to quicken our ambition and fire our en- thusiasm in the great work before us—for we have only begun to grow, only touched ihe outskirts of the work we are destined to do for the order, and {hrough the order for the homes of the West, thi reat West of ours, which is surely, if ther uch a place, God's | own peculiar country. In seven years, starting with no assets but faith and persistency, we have paid death al of $764,755—almost We have accumulated ‘surplus as- bearing bonds. We have gathered a member- ship of 42,000 in 582 communities of the niue Pacific From an unknown and unrecognized little organization with no ratiig in the financial. world we have reached a point where our war- rants in any of the towns In Oregon, Colorado, Washington or California can be cashed at any bank with no more hesitation than if they were bank drafts. These results are not to be placed to the credit of any one man or woman, or any set of men or women. Every member of the order, with a devotion and enthusiasm which is peculiar In the history of fraternal orders, has helped, has contributed his or her share of effort and of loyaity. We have always had in a remarkable degree a “‘working member- his trait we must each studiously cultivate, as individuals, as local circles and in_the Grand Circle. This gathering to-night is a gathering of the representative workers; and as I have an especial fondness for those who do things— those upon whom falls the ““work of the world,” T am proud of the honor of belng one of you, STATE RANKS HIGH. Celifornia ranks third in membership among the nine States, with Colorado first and Oregon second. You have over 7000 members in the State now. You have the population; you have the energy and ambition; you have a ‘‘good thing” to talk for and recommend to those seeking fraternal insurance. It's up to Cali- fornia to rank second—even first. Will you | grasp your opportunity? I have faith to be- lieve you will. The principal event of the meeting will be the joint initiation to take place to-morrow evening at Maple Hall. Every camp in this county has sent several candidates and the class will be a large one. The initlatory work will be conducted by the team of Oak- land Circle, under the direction of Cap- tain of the Guards Mrs. A. L. Miller, | and each of the chairs will be occu- pied by one of the visiting officers. | After the initiation the sixteen guards of Oakland Camp will give a fancy military drill, and following this an address will be delivered by the grand guardian. GOOD TIME COMING., On Saturday evening, April 23, an open meeting and reception to the grand officers will be held at Wood- men’s Hall, at which the grand guard-. ian will explain the objects of the or- der for the benefit of friends of the members and strangers. A hearty in- vitation is extended to the public to attend this meeting. The circles which will take part in CIRCLES OF WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT HOLD SUCCESSFUL JOINT CONVENTION Grand Guardian Carrie C. Van Orsdall Delivers an Interesting Ad- dress on Work of the Order During Seven Years, Showing Its Growth to Have Been Phenomenal, With Far-Reaching Benefits; | | | | | | | | o« e 'T MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT WHO ARE IN DANCE AT THE JOINT CONV TION OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY ES THAT BEGAN ITS SESSIONS IN OAKLAND LAST EVENING. —- * WILD CURRENT ON A RAVPAGE Lightning Rips Equipment Out at Standard Elee- tric Elmhurst Station BRI, Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, April 19. A vagrant lightning stroke played havoc this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Standard Electric Company’s sub-sta- tion at Elmhurst. The electricity made connections somewhere along the com- pany’s low tension lines, was conducted into the station and burned out the large fuse board, destroying the watt meters and the ammeters. So heavy was the strange current that it melted dewn the marble fuse board backs like s0 much iead. There had been an electrical storm in the neighborhood shortly before the crash of the uncontrolled current tore with a blinding crash into the station. For a few seconds there was a sizzing roar, while the fuses that protect the instruments were blown out and the escaped “juice” traveled to the nearest conductor for a passage to the earth. Superintendent W. H. Pollard, in charge of the station, had a narrow es- cape from being electrocuted. He had left the switch board only a minute before the flash occurred and was walk- ing out of the door. Even then the force of the shock sent him several feet off his balance. Repairs were made rapidly se that those supplied from the Elmhurst sta- tion should not be inconvenienced. It is known as a low tension station, the current being light for use by small patrons. The high current house is at Mission San Jose. —_—————— Councilman’s Wife Injured. OAKLAND, April 19.—Mrs. B. C. Cuvellier, wife of City Councilman Cuvellier, is suffering’ from a badly fractured leg, the result of a fall Sun-| day evening at her residence. Union street, near Fourteenth. PRI s L S s S the joint meeting and the reception to the grand officers are: Oakland Circle No. 260 of Oakland, Palma Cirele No. 111 of Haywards, Olive Branch Cir- cle No. 313 of San Leéandro, Encinal Circle No, 361 of Berkeley, Spruce Circle No. 369 of Ala- meda, Cerrito Circle No, 458 of West Berkeley, “Alma’ Circle No. 492 of Bast Oakland, Forresta. Circle No. 515 of West Oakland, and’ Alvarado Circle No. 500 of Alvarade. [ The members of the.committee which has arranged the meeting are: Dr. V. adviser of g B B M. E. nae of Ha: % son of San ). Mrs. ley. and Dr._Fannie . S no, Mrs. Munce, Mrs, Driver of Gakland. irkwich of Berke- Miss Claribel Davis and Mrs, eda, Mrs. May John- | PLPILS WILL PLANT PALMS P S bt Alameda Arbor Day Exer- | cises'to Be Participated in | by Public School Children i ALAMEDA, April 19.—Trees, most- |1y palms, will be planted on all of the public school grounds during the Ar- bor day exercises to be held here Fri- day afternoon. Literary programmes befitting the occasion will be rendered at the schools. Among the principal speakers .will be several ministers of local churches. President Frank Otis of the Board of Education will preside at the ex- ercises at the Alameda High School to begin at 2 o'clock. Colonel John P. Irish of Oakland will deliver the ad- dress. He was a close personal friend of the late Hon. J. Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor day, and as Fri- day is also the birthday of the man whose motto was “Plant trees,” the orator and time chosen are. in happy harmony. Mr. Irish will speak from the rear steps of the school building to better afford room for the large crowd that is expected to be present. Rev. William Norman Guthrie of Christ Episcopal Church will make the address at the Longfellow School and the Rev. Philip Fletcher Cone of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is | ident Rooseveit BURN STORES AT FRUITVALE Flames Destroy Numbor: of Small Shogs That Were on the Old County Road prOE I PR RESIDENCES ARE SAVED Volunteer Fighters Knock Down Building and P?'e- vent the Spread of Fire —_— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, April 19. Fire at 3 o'clock this morning de- stroyed a small block of buildings at the Old County road and Peralta ave- nue, Fruitvale, owned by J. H W Riley. owned by R. W. Hickok and were dis- covered by Benjamin Chew and Che‘n- tet Pierer, boys who were sleeping in the rear of the store and were nearly suffocated by the smoke before they got out and gave an alarm. The fire spread to Crosby & Lechin- sky's meat market, burning that as well as Ed. Stanley’s barber shop and Mrs. Young's candy store. Firemen with a big force of other volunteer residents pulled down J. Kel- ly’s shoemaker's shop and this checked residences. During the fire oil in the grocery exploded. Several fire fighters had nar- row escapes from injury. The caus2 of the fire was not learned. Losses reach $10,000. with insurance. ————————— CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF BATTLE OF LEXINGTON Sons and Daughters of American Rev- olution Unite at Banquet at Occidental Hotel. dred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the battle of Lexington the Sons of the' American Revolution gave a large banquet at the Occidental Hotel last night. L% orated for the occasion and small ta- bles gaily illumined with colored can- of Sons and Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. Chaplain Rice of Al- catraz Island officiated at the opening ceremony, offering a brief prayer. Following the praver was a-pres- entation to the society by James Hull Sherman Bartholomew. A small gavel, banded by a broad strip of cop- per, was the gift. The copper on the gavel was made from nails extracted from the side of Commodore Isaac Hull's frigate Constitution. What added even more sentiment to the oc casion was the fact that the nails were originally driven in the vessel by Paul Revere. The gift was received by the as- sembly amid great enthusiasm and a dered Mr. Bartholomew. A telegrain was received from Pres- stating that he ex- ceedingly regretted his inability to be present, but that his heart and soul were with the company on the mem- orable occasion. Among those that spoke during the S. Hubbard, Jenne Morrow Long, Mrs. Henry Wetherbee, Mrs. Curren Clark and Colonel A. D. Cutler. Several songs were rendered in con- n by the California quartet, con- Goetting, Smith, cl sisting of Messrs. Gage and Parent. —_————————— HEAVY OIL CARS JUMP FROM TRACK CRUZ, April SANTA 19.—In a wreck to-day at Opal 200 feet of track was torn up and three cars were derailed. All trains were de- layed several hours. The accident oc- curred at 11 o'clock. A San Francisco freight train going toward Santa Cruz crossed the railroad bridge at Capitola, when the rails commenced to spread. with oil tanks and the caboose were derailed. The track spread for four feet:in width, and the weight of the heavy cars sunk the wheels deep in the earth: e g High Masons in Session. The annual session of the Grand Chapter of the "Royal Arch Masons opened in the Masonic Temple yester- day and after.an all-day session ad- journed until to-day when the officers elected and appointed for the current term will be installed. To-morrow th> Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar will meet in annual conclave in the Temple and will be in session three days. In the evening there will be a reception at the Mechanics’ Pa- vilion to Eminent Commanter Thomas H. Browne and a review of the entire scheduled to speak at the Wilson School. Senator J. R. Knowland is to be the orator of the day at the Haight School. The speakers for the Mastick School and the Everett School have not yet been selected. In addition to the addresses there will be singing by the pupils at the various - schools. The ladies of the Adelphian Club and committees from the Alameda Advancement Association and the West End Improvement As- sociation are assisting the Board of Education in arranging the Arbor day programme. —_—————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, April 19.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Anton A. Mein- hold, 51, and Marie W. Siemen, 44, both of San Francisco; Melvin L. Graham, 32, and Barbara L. Till, 22, both of San Francisco; James B. Blair, 31, and Mary | Crane, 29, both of San Francisco; Rob- lert W. Patrick, 24, San Francisco, and | Mae M. Condon, 22, Los Gatos; Edwin B. Church, 23, Sattley, and Lilla M. Nichelson, 20, Berkeley; Frank Foster, 25, and Annie Nunes, 23, both of Oak- land; Henry H. Hackman, over 21, and Tillie Johnson, over 18, both of Liver- more; William C. Hackman, 24, Liver- more, and _Kulla Babbitts, 23, Alta- maont. membership of California Commandery No. 1 in full Templar uniform. After the review thereswill be an exhibition drill by the commandery’s famous drill corps, a musical programme and ball, l The flames started in a grocery | the flames from spreading to nearby. In commemoration of the one hun- | The big dining hall was prettily dec- | dles were surrounded by merry parties | vote of thanks was immediately ten- | evening were John P. Irish, Colonel A. | Two monster cars loaded | o« i it »m:"‘————‘ BRANCH OFFICES ") OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone Novih 77. ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Alameda $593. —_— THINK CONTEST 1S AT AN END | Demurrer of Fabrizio Nigro's | “Heirs to Contest to His Will Sustained by Court DEMAND A TRUSTEESHIP | Plaintiffs Contend Appoint- | ment in First Testament Is Valid—(Claim Disputed Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, April 19 | Attorneys for Mrs. Ellen Nigro and | her daughter, Madeline, believe that they have put an effectual stop to the contest begun against the probating |-of the will of the late Fabrizio Nigro | owner of the Poodle Dog Restaurant | property in San Francisco, whe property valued at $500,000. Judge Greene sustained a demurrer filed them to-day and they take this as an indication that their points are well | taken, although their opponent has leave to amend and try again. | The contest is brought on the ground | that shortly before Nigro died, he was declared incompetent. Jdst before this proceeding had been taken he made a | will in which he revoked a former wi and left everything he possessed to his widow and daughter. In his first wi he left his estate to Domenico and Francisco Alberti of San Franeisco, in | trust for the two heirs, the truste | only to have control until the indebted- ness on the estate had been paid off. | The last will cuts the Albertis out of the matter entirely. The contest is brought by them and they present the first will the legal will, alleging that Nigro was incompetent to make a will when the second was made. | The demurrer sustained to-day ob- | jects to the Albertis’ petition on the | ground that they are not interested as | beirs under either of the wills, and for | this reason are barred from bringing |a contest. —_———— | DISCUSSING RATE:! TO THE { left by { EXPOSITION | {meng(-r Agents Will Soon Decide ‘ on an Equitable Selling Bas { SANTA BARBARA, April 19.—A gen- | eral understanding concerning the rates | for round-trip excursion tickets to the | World’s Fair at St. Louis and the days | upon which they may be sold probably | will be reached at the convention of the Transcontinental Passenger Agents'As- | sociation, now in session in this city. Representatives of the passenger de- partment of nearly every railroad wi of Chicago are in attendance upon the convention, and it is generally conceded that fixing rates for World's Fair travel is the most important matter to be considered. Representatives of roads operating on | the Pacific Coast have been trying to force the hand of Eastern passenger agents and allow execursion tickets to be sold from coast terminal points two days a week instead of one, and in this they probably will be successful. The sessions are being held behind closed doors. An effort will be made to-morrow to adjust the pro rato rate on transcontinental passenger business and put it on a more equitable basis, satisfactory to all roads concerned. It was decided to-day to hold the next convention of the association at Chi- cago, some time in July, the exact date to be determined later. —————— ENRAGED HUSBAND SEEKS WIFE'S LIFE SALEM, Or.,, April 19.—G.. D. Trot- ter, a prominent. merchant of Stayton, attacked his wife yesterdays with a knife and threatened to kill her. She escaped to neighbors and afterward made her wayv to her relatives a few miles out of town. Trotter armed him- self with two guns this afternoon and followed, vowing that he would kill her. The officers organized a. posse and are pursuing him, but at a late hour had failed to locate the infuriated m: He is believed to be crazy, as his wif moves in the best society. Trotter has a quarrelsome disposition and recently had several lawsuits over streets with the town of Stayton. 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