The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1904, Page 6

THE STATE OFFERS |PARDEE'S HOME 10'BIY BONDS, ~ FREE OF DEBT Request From the Board!Governor Secures Release of of Examiners for Oppor-] His Homestead FromClaim | tunity to Present a Bid| of a Blanket )Iortglgei HALF A MILLION READY | BANK HOLDS A BIG NOTE| Secretary Melick Explains| He Borrows Money to the That School Land Fund Is Available for Investment; He Secures With Realty PSP | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, April 2% me of Governor George C. Par-‘ h and Castro streets. ease -day from a mertgage covers generally the estate of tate’'s chief executive. Sipce 1902 nd Bank of Savings has held note for $117,500, ured by a blanket mort- property. The re-| however, only affects ome, the more valu- ill subject to the un- of the note. that the Governor had t abou Qek Oaki ernor P ce on Telegraph ave- nth street, improved Folsom streets he Pardee home- . .| EVE AEES worLn UPON ADMINISTER FLETCHER'S ESTATE Widow a Win She J= Unable to Find and the Property Needs Care A ENLARGED LACE SCENE HOUSE OF REOPENING Miss Isabelie Miss Maude 28 —A prome- Irving Lundborg, Mrs. M. J. Richard Lyman, Mrs. E. C Francis Cutsing, Mrs, Frank ton_Koser, Mrs. Ver- n Brown Everts, Mrs. | t, Mrs. George Rudoiph, Mrs MW Cl Walkley, Mt ings, Miss M: Mise Georgle Strong Miss Mary sabeile Kendall Mise Frances . Miss Bdith Sel 2t Mills Coll eeniors ects with the Minie Col. | Thirteenth street and UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY. April 28 —William John Shar- e Albemarle the Imperial; D. Park Avemue; S. Hop- v passed the examination for Kins H. Lagan, at the | the Segree of doctor of philosophy yesterday v en and R. Luben, | afternoon in the chemistry bulling snd will at entrel: J. McBride P. Scanlan, at} S Sos Paimer, at the | e BB or the examination of Protessor John C. Mer- | riam and Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, re- | spectively | The alumni assoclation of Ythe medical de- | | s r of Calffornia will | enses. on_Friday evenine. | . an Francisco Polyclinic, 41 OAK A 5.—The Iollol'-l Francisco. An intercsting. e el were st rogtamme has been arranged for this meet- o e S aers 'E"u'd by | B 1t will inciude an exhibition of cases by | he ~ Enmrico D.I " ¢ Cooper, and papers on *‘Radium | cisco, and Jesus- | ana Radio-therapy” by Dr. Felix Lengfeld, | late professor of chemistry at the University o nd “Formalin as a Surgical Raymond Ruse. — ey - tomorrow evening. April 25. - s v ) T teber, who 15 | Mary Kelley, over 18, both of Fruit- (2} " STy of the University of CaNfSenis 1 | of the class of ‘8. will read the paper. His | paper will be on “The Problem of Life Origin from *he Standpoint of Philosophy: the Re- tion of Life in Its Temporal to Life in Its o o Nom-Phehoment! Phame s | o x| ADVERTISEMENTS. A musical event of more than rest will také pla Sunday afternoon. Open Sores |5 in B b e | | Mme. von Meyerinck will give, with solofsts | from San Francisco abé an auxiliary can be cleaned out, the Tfl | from Berkeley, Schuman's romantie tion swppegf, and a cure efiected | Paradise and the Peri” Admission will be by the use entirely free and_a larg® audience is expected | 10 Le present. The oratorfo will begin af 3! The soloists will be the following Heatn. soprano: uartet—Mrs. Doane L Charlotte Brien Miss Olga Herman. Miss Dora Fisher. Mixed quartet—Mrs. McGlade, M 3 Mr. Gurnison, Mr. Keene. 'Will Give Ocean Trip. OAKLAND, April 28.—The steam- ship Santa Rosa will leave Broadway MYS Extent of §117.500, Which | | NTS IN SOCIETY| ' TERIOUS SLUGGER OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BUSY IN ALAMEDA Ruffian Selects as Fourth Victim of His Violence Young Stanley Sturm, Lightedlbowntown Street---Police Are Baffled| Science Whom He Attacks on Well 4 ] T "HO IS THE LATEST VICTIM OF THE AND CHILDREN WHO 1S BAFFLING LAND CITY | 3 e 15 attacked and beaten in three nights is the record of “Jack the Swatter” up to date. Women and children are the favored prey of the nocturnal ruffian. He began his reign of terror Sunda night by waylaying and cruelly strik- ing Mrs. W. F. Burns at the corner of Everett street and Santa Clara ave- nue and followed this assault an hour and a half later by attacking and sav- agely beating Johanna Holmberg the corneXof San Jose avenue and Re- gent street. The next to suffer at his hands was 6-year-old Edwin Cooléy, whose features were disfigured by un- merciful biows, while the little lad was proceeding along Alameda avenue, near Walnut street, Monday evening. Stanley Sturm, 14 years of age, and the fourth victim of the mysterious “swatter,” in relating to-day his cn- | counter last night with the elusive as- | day night but few women have sailant, said: I lef: the store of J. W. Cross on Santa | Clara avenue and Benton street, where I am |said that some of those that do are | employ | after ‘walking along the avenue as far as| , at five minutes before seven, and Walnut street turned to g0 to my home at 2304 Alameds avenue. When I got close to the - WELL KNOWY [RIST DYING Former Justice of Court, Chas. N. Fox, Strick- _en With Paral ek ciinay Oaklang Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, April 28 Former Justice Charles N. Fox of the Supreme Court of California, was stricken with paralysis about 5 o'clock | yesterday morning at his home, 1057 Market street. Dr. A. K. Crawford, who was called in to attend the jurist, emtertains lttle hope for his recovery. Judge Fox has been slowly sinking since he was stricken and it is thought the end will come within twenty-four hours. > Charles N. Fox came to California in 1858, having been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Michigan dur- ing the previous year. For more than twenty-five years he practiced law in San Francisco, during which time he served as general attorney for the Spring Valley Water Company of San Francisco. In 1889 he received a com- mission s Justice of the BSupreme Court of the State from Governor the unexpired term of Jackson Temple, who had resigned. Judg. Fox is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows of California, and has served as a member and as president of the Board of Education of Oakland. ———— No Strike at Point Richmond. POINT RICHMOND, April 28.—The strike of the machinists on the Santa Fe system has not become effective at Point Richmond, none of the men em- ployed in the local shops having quit work. The master mechanic has ex- pressed the opinion that the men will not leave the shops, as most of them consider the as only affecting the local unions where the men have walked out. 3 —_——————— April 28.—Eight jurors were accep! to-day at the trial of the first case against the scavengers ‘were arrested for alleged viola- of the garbage crematory ordi- ‘The trial will be resumed next o. Egsa at | rsis of Brain | ¢ the residence of Dr. W. E. entral avenue and Walnut streec, | an leaning agalnst the fence and of & tree. Just as I was op- | 11 s posite to him he jumped out and without say- ing anything and made a swing at my head. striking me, the gutter. taokled me around the neck He missed but hung onjand threw me into | He then walkled off in the direc- avegue and I ran home. | ¢ light bulld and not tall. be sbout 30 years old, and | wore dark clothes. He said mothing to me ¢ the time he was helding and trying | beat me Where young Sturm met the “swat- ter” is but ane block from the place | where the Cooley child said he was ac- | costed ana brutaily battered by a man | he did not know. Chief of Police John | Conrad is making extra efforts to en- trap the after-dark terror, whom he | believes is a young man with an ab- | normal mania for inflicting torture | upon women and children. Since the | “swatter” started his campaign Sun- the | courage to traverse the thoroughfares { without an escort after dark and it is well “heeled” to give the “swatter” a | cold lead reception should he essay to I try his tactics upon them. SAMOAN CROPS * ARE INCREASING Natives Turn Their Atten- tion to Cacao Planting and Meet With Sucecess i —_— Special Correspondence of The Call. B APIA, Samoan Irlands, April 9.— | Far removed from the -urging of the political waves of larger seas, Sa- | moans, foreign and native, content or | Gisturb themselves with the rule and | ruling of their own limited horizon. To | the foreign residents Governor Solf so | far has been satisfactory. He caused the native peopie to piant at least | 1,000,000 cocoanut trees during German occupation, and these trees will within |a few years be in full bearing, adding | about 50 per cent to the native copra | crop. Under other inspiration the na- tives are planting cacac and the Gov- ernor is encouraging the movEment. Evidently, despite many difficuities, | Samoa 14s advancing. Freight rates |from San Francisco practically pro- | hibit trade, so few orders go to that | port, while business with the colonies is prospering. It is generally believed | Watermean, being appointed to flll out | that the interests of a single German {firm are too closely considered, but | that the orders for the extemsion of | favor comes directly from Berlin and | that the Governor is powerless to coun- | teract it. t Cglenm ':::fir % w":’n’.y T S 0 Bend y salf . new law has been passed, making it impos- sible for the Chinese to obtain a trad- ing or business license. They are not even permitied to peddle or be em- ployed in stores as salesmen. The law ‘was necessary to prevent their ulti- mately monopolizing business. Cacao planting goes steadily ahead, but FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1904 University of California Offers Course in Library to Its Students LECTURES TO BE GIVEN —— Return of Faculty Members and Coming of New Men | Adds to College Currienlum Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 :Center Street, April 28. The University of California has un- dertaken to teach the art of conducting a library and the curriculum for mext year will include a course in elerhent- ary bibliof hy and library science. Th’e co‘\‘:‘m‘ri.lpwybe given by Librarian J. C. Rowell of the university library and his assistants. It will consist of eleven lectures on library science, which will be given by the dif- ferent members of the staff on Thursday evenings during the first balf-year in the Bacon Art Gallery. The design is to give such informatioa regarding books and their use as will be partieulariy helpful to students and wilF include lectures on the arrange- ment of the library. There will be dis- cussions of such subjects as “What and how to read, how to use the cata- logue, reference work, trade bibliogra- phy, book buying in foreign countries and book binding.” This course is merely the prelimi- nary step to a larger and well organ- ized school for librarians. There are a number of other addi- tions to the curricula for next year that will be valuable. Instruction in Celtic will be given by Dr. Richard Henebry, the recently appointed in- structor in Celtic philosophy. Henry Rand Hatfield, lately appointed asso- clate professor of accounting, will in- struct ih accounts, commerce and prac- tical banking. The law department will be strengthened by the return of Pro- feesor George H. Boke and the addi- lon of Lester H. Jacobs, instructor on nsurance law. Professor Thomas R. Bacon, who ha been spending a year in Europe, wil return and offer courses on the French Revolution, the history of the Chris- tian church and Eastern Christendom. In addition to the elementary course on English history, Professor H. Morse Stephens will instruet in modern Eu- ropean history from 1600 to 13%0; Pro- fessors Bernard Moses and William S. Ferguson will give instruction in the recently created department of politi- cal science. Professor William A. Setchell of the department of botany, who has been abgent in foreign countries for a year engaged in the study of botanical methods in European universities, will also return to resume his work. —_———— DEATH OF NOTED ACTRESS. Nelly Farren, an Old-Time Favorite, Passes Away in London. LONDON, April 28.—Nelly Farren, an old-time Gaiety Theater favorite, died to-day of gouty affection of the heart. Nelly Farren was a member of the first Gaiety company which visited the United States. It became known in 1898 that she was suffering from ad- versity, and her friends, March 17 of | that year, gave her the most remark- able benefit ever witnessed in London. Every available seat was sold weeks ahead, netting $25,000, ‘'while sub- scriptions poured in from many sources. When the performance be- gan it was said that Drury Lane had never held such a large number of people. —_———— Begins Boulevard Work. OAKLAND, April 28.—Work on the Harrison-street extension te form a portion of the Lake Merritt boulevard, from Twentieth to Twenty-fourth street and Pay place, was commenced to-day under direction of Superintengd- ent of Streets Ott. - — they see small advancement of their interests. During the last week a petition re- specting claims arising out of the late war was presented to Governor Solf. It strongly urged his assistance in bringing before the Governments at ‘Washington, Berlin, London and the Arbitration Court at Stockholm the subject of the war claims so long held in abeyance. The petitioners call at- tention to the time elapsing since the happening of the events which gave rise to their prayer, and recite with forceful argument the rightfulness of their claims and point to the injustice and hardship wrought by delay in set- tiement. The petition concludes: We urgeptly request your Excellency to lose no time A communicating with the treaty powers, and also directly with the Arbitrations Court, it your Excellency thinks proper, so that matter. which so vitally concerns many people in Sa shall ~ receive prompt and continued attention until a set- tlement be finally and satistactorily made. We sir, servants, Deutsche Handels and Plantagen, Geselischaft der Suedseeinseln zu Hamburg O Riedel; G. Coroner’s Jury Justifies Ac- | tions at the Shooting of the Liquor - Crazed Negro MOTHER TELLS STORY Witnesses Testify at Inquest to the Dangerous In- sanity of the Vietim Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, April 25. A Coroner's jury to-night heard evi- dence in the case of Henry Wilson Anderson, the negro who was killed yesterday morning by policemen at 460 |- Third street, and rendered the follow- ing verdict: | “We find that death was caused by | gunshot wounds in the neck and chest inflicted by members of thé Police De- partment of the City of Oakland at 460 Third street, Oakland, while in the discharge of their duty they were at- tempting to take said Anderson, and | we find that said shooting was justi- | fiable and commendable upon the part | of said officers.” | The verdiet was unanimous, being | signed by the following jurers: C. 8. | Griffith, foreman; Charles Ha C. | M. Richardson. pV.W. Fry, H K. | Kirby, C. M. Keep, C. E. Lambins. | That her son had been crazed by drink and was on the verge of delirium | tremens, Monday and Tuesd: was | the testimony of Anderson’'s mother, Mrs. J. N. Anderson. She had known | that he had been confined for nineteen days in the State Hospital at Stock- torn while suffering from the effects of heavy drinking. Samuel Mellust, who occupied rcoms in the Third-street place, testified concerning Anderson’s pistol shooting and of his insane no- tions that be was fe be lynched; that men were pursuing him. Dr. O. D. Hamlin gave evidence concerning the wounds in Anderson’s body. Policeman Sherry and Special Police- man Charles T. Ford recounted their | experiences with Anderson when he | shot at them after they had been sent |to the house. Sergeant of Police Charles E. Clark explained to the jury what | occurred when he shot at Anderson through the window in the place where he saw the negro—aiming a pistol at him. Anderson dropped, and it is sup- posed Clark’s bullet was the fatal one. Immediately alterward policemen en- tered the tombarded house and took the dying negro. Members of the Salvation Army took charge of the funeral of Anderson, which was held this afternoon at Moun- tain View Cemetery, where the body was interre. The expense was borne by the county, because of the mother’s | straitened circumstances. INDIANS FALL N A BATILE Yaquis and Mexicans in a Desperate Fight at the San Miguel River Special Dispateh to The Cail. HERMOSILLO, Mexico, April 28.— Four hundred men of the Eleventh Battalion and fifty mounted rurales, commanded by General Luis Torres in person, overwhelmed the 300 Yaquis who came down the San Miguel River to meet them as they advanced upon Rayon, the town seized by the Yaquis on their recent raid. bonera, just north of the town of San Miguel, and the Yaquis were driven back with the first onslaught of the rurales, who rode right in the midst of them in the face of a hot fire. Backed by the infantry, they suc- ceeded in routing the Indians, who fled along the river, leaving ten dead on the fleld and many wounded. Eight Indians captured in the fight were hanged to the nearest trees. About fifteen of the Mexicans were wounded, the majority of them being rurales, who fell at the first ¢ The mounted troops followed close upon the heels of the fleeing Yaquis for some distance, but later fell back with the infantry, which, under Gen- eral Torres, continued its advance upen Rayon. ———— PEOPLE OF NAPLES TENDER LOUBET HEARTY WELCOME Reception Given the French President | Equals in Enthusiasm That Ac- corded Him in Rome. NAPLES, April 25. — President Loubet arrived here to-day from Rome W. Partch, Adolf Nauer. A. Tattersall, F.|and was given a reception equaling in J. 'Stehlin, Ah_ Mu, Grevsmuehl & lc.hrd"—lrflu C. Hethering- H. A Kruse. ‘'war claims ” is about $2560,- 000, for which the United States and Great Britain are held jointly liable. The British colonial papers state Great Britain is ready to uttlt‘. enthusiasm that accorded him in the Eternal City. The event was some- what spoiled by the rain, which came down in torrents, but great crowds of people stood for hours without um- brellas. The President spent the mernoonl in the roval palace. This evening he attended a banquet and later was Fab- | present at a gala performance in the Theater San Carlos. The opposing forces met at La Car- | «“NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA PLAN T0 TURN [PRAISES WORK OUT LIBRARIANS| OF THE POLICE OF THE CALL IN | ALAMEDA COUNTY , Telephone North 77. ] ] ALAMEDA. Whereabouts of Missing Spouse Through The Call OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone 1435 Park Street. | Telephone Alameda 4592 i —_— M A M- | BOHLMAN HEARD FROM Pl ) | BRANCH OFFICES | 2148 Center Street. RECEIVES NOTE T FROM HUSBAND Destitute Woman Diseovers Man With Checkered Career Sends Letter to Young Wife From City of Los Angeles ALAMED! 22 —Through the publicity The Call to strange disappearance of Albert Bohi- man from this city, his wife. M lie Bohlman, whom he left in de ute circumstances and with twin sons but 14 months of age to care for, bas heard from her missing husband. To-day the young w received a letter from her pouse, written from Los Angel which he asserts that he has bee victim of pleurisy of the heart for o weeks and was unable to communic with her. Bohlman did not state i epistle whether he was in a hospi not, neither did he give his address He assures his wife in the letter that he will see her soon if he is able. In the meantime Mrs. Boblman and her infant sons are being eared for by the Catholic d- | geles in search of her husband, as she | fears she would not find him there. Bohiman and his family came here from San Jose, where his career was checkered and sensational. He was a member of the Livery Stablemen’s Un ion, and because of his abflity w | elected a delegate to the Federa Trades and o treasurer of the latt body. One night three months ago ! was discovered lying on a sidewalk the Garden City with a bullet wouand his hip. He told a story of a hoid-up and said that $240 which had been in his possession and which belonged the Federated Trades had been taken by the footpads. An investigation of the affair satisfied the authorfties thét Boh!man had inflicted the gunshot in- jury upon himself and that he had probably lost the money in gambling. To avoid scandal the Federated Trades decided not to prosecute, but they ex- ; pelled Bohiman. —_———— ! ‘Will Hold a Debate. OAKLAND, April 28.—A debate will be held Saturday evening at the - Public School Assembly Hall, La- fayette Square, between teams from the Oakland High School Assembl and the Ecclesia of the blind depart- ment of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind. The speak- ers will be: Ecclesia—Maud Hilton. Charles Weile, Walter Scurlock, af- | firmative: High School—Lester Uren, Robert Macdonald, FPobert Clark { negative. The question is. “Resolw That the United States Senate sho: have ratified the treaty with Panama Lloyd Taylor, president of the Oakland High School Assembly, wil be c judges will be Willlam Carey Jones, Joseph Garlick and A. ‘W. Scott. —_——— Scanlan’s Case Continued. | OAKLAND, April 28.—The case of | Patroiman John P. Scanlan, charged . with battery on J. J. Mulvey, a crip- | pied newsboy. was continued to-day { the Police Court until May 2. | —_——————— Chicago had an attendance of 20080 - 000 pecple at her World's Fair, but St | Louis counts confidently on an attend- | ance of 0.0 00 ! ————— | Awaits Third Death Sentence. SAN QUENTIN, Apfil 25.—After() | more than four years' imprisonment i in the condemned cell and having been i TR twice sentenced to death, G | Suesser will again receife a sente: | for the murder of Sheriff Henry Far |ley at Salinas. The condemned mar who is 20 years old, was taken to Sa; Jose this afternoon and will appear before Judge Tuttle to-morrow meorn- | ing for sentence. —————— Plaintiff Awarded Onme Dollar. MADERA, April 28.—After being out an hour and a half the jury in thé Roberts-Fresno Democeat libe! suit to-night gave a verdict for the | plaintiff, awarding $1 da: The | complaint asked for .000. This { was the second trial. the jury in the | first case last fall having - failed to | agree. ———— CEDARVILLE., April 35 —David Miller of Surprise Valley last night committed salcide by shooting himself with a riffie. He was { belping to drive cattle to Big Valley. Ore. and seemed in good spirits. The reason for hus sulcide s not known. pectant mother must so full of K Is to love and ne home can be completely without them, =F \l A