The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1904, Page 9

THE SAN FRA - ARREST OF RESPECTABLE YOUNG ~ GIRL AS VAGRANT IS REGRETTED While Awaiting Entrance to Her Home She _Falls Asleep, But Her Explanation Is Disbelieved and She Is Taken to Jail solton blundered,) “No, I don't want no lawyer,” said when he arresied| Mary Fisher, middle-aged and slovenly, Allie Jensen lastfto Judge Fritz. “I'll plead not gullty a and charged her|an’ waive a jury. Now The girl proved to the | prove me a vag."” Judge Fritz that her| “What do you think you are?” in- would e been averted | qQuired the court. ise of proper discretion on| “Thinking ain't no law,” replied Mary, "man’s pa whose repeated posings as a defendant i d from the Poly- { have not been entirely uninstructive to where she won | her:self. “Only what we know is law; Miss Jensen has|2% I know I'm a workin' lady.” ¥ | marked his Honor, “and I'll give you g firms and was ha duate School, 5 | thirty days in jail to think up some until about an hour | more law.” st. When she arpived | __ 2R 3208 Se t Yred Jackson, a tourist from Gotham, senth street, | 's Jocked and nobody t and sat upon the joining schoolhouse to of the holder of the | d by the extra work she he fell leep, and i Bolton discov akened her she toid | where she lived and was inspecting the Barbary Coast last | S8aturday evening, when Patrolman Skane arrested him for carrying a pis- tol. He did not display the weapon, but had it nestling in a pocket of his overcoat. ried the gun because he had been in- formed before he left New York that it would be extremely dangerous to venture abroad in San Francisco with- out having shooting-iron within con- venlent reach. “Tut, tut,” said Judge Mogan; “the Barbary Coast is not a bit less re- pectable than the Bowery after dark. and I'm sure you would never think of ‘frvizh(mg yourself a vas, elt coripanied | atisfied with the dismissed ret that the your gun and leave it in your trunk that when he|until you enter the country of cow- r's house | boys and Indian: y one there to| . . . | 1 of her dwelling | Edward Davis of 81 Natoma street| ~ maternal roof Miss Jen- | informed Judge Fritz that he had been | some time ago she ex-{held up and robbed of $14 85 by “James atis ith the rental | Kelly, the two Flynns and a Swede,” th she considered | and his Honor continued the case of and thereupon she | Kelly, the only member of the quintet she did not like the | who was arrested, until the other per- > use she could | sons accused can be rounded-up and . ch she did taken to court. guist, speaking | The accuser and the accused had nish fluent been drinking together at the former's expensé, until he got tired of monopo- i with a revolver | while visiting the Bowery. Take back | OF CONSPIRACY Mrs. Watson Arraigned in Portland on Charge of Aid- ing to Swindle Government PLEA OF “NOT GUILTY” g0 ghead and| (ages of Persons Said to Have Been Implicated in the Land Frauds Continued PORTLAND, May 2.—The beginning of the alleged land fraud trials was | signaled to-day in ‘the United States { District Court when Mrs. Emma L. Watson was arraigned on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States Government. Mrs. Watson's attorneys | demurred to the indictment, but Judge | Bellinger overruled the demurrer and ‘)lrs, Watson pleaded not guilty. | Owing to the fact that the prosecu- | tion was unprepared to commence Mrs. The defendant pleaded that he car-| Watson’s case and those of the others | alleged to be implicated in the so-called “land fraud ring” were continued unti! | May 18, although the attorneys for the | defense fought hard against such ac- tion. | The case of Charles Cunningham, the Eastern Oregon “sheep king,” who is also under arrest, charged with de- | frauding the Government of public land, was continued until Thursday or Friday. The cases of T. A. Wood and Hosea Wood, charged with forgery of affidavits for pension claims, was set | to be heard May 9. G AT 5 s O P R A S, | Meyers resented her forcibly expressed | opinion of him by strikin= her. The | apart. | | 4 her her ap-|lizing the outlay and decided to go ) dicate guiit | home. Kelly, the two Flynns and the ° nst her by Pa- | Swede asked him to give them 20 cents | r r | apiece before leaving them, and in or- . - . | der to comply with the request he was the foul names he | ©bliged to obtein change for a $5 gold = tc said M. | Piece. The sight of so much money ap- parently excited their cupidity, for after getting two bits apiece they followed | him, he said, and Kelly forcibly dispos- sessed him of the $14 85. et | e charge st Denis who gave sharply & g at the 1 spe n evidently Before starting on his annual vaca- Lsap ith belief | tion, scheduled to consume six weeks, be offenaive e Master | Judge Conlan cleaned off his calendar. 2 make a!In the purging process H. G. Schu- k | macher, charged with embezzling n ¥ precious stones valued at $6 9 from . | W. J. Hesthal, a Sixth-street jeweler, was held to answer in the Superior | Court [ upon a time Schumacher owned a jew- elry store in the Palace Hotel block and failed for $80,000. Navarro pulled the proverbial oking knife” and threatened to carve a gentleman who accidental- ly jostied him Saturday night on Grant testimeny t0-morrow. .5 It is doubtful, after all, that Alice Warner will become Mrs. M. H. Mey- whom her mother had arrested d charged with battery before Judge nced to- . Amos Jones, ers ¥ E apartment | Fritz. The girl was in court yesterday X kicke back she|and denied improper relationship with thres his face with a | the defendant, and Mrs. Warner stated ¢ k R hastening to | that she .did not think the proposed ” t execution when the | marriage would be a wise thing, be- K As nistered. The defendant | cause she entertained misgivings as he was exercising his|to Meyers' ability or willingness to r gat b support a wife. Then the case was € goings-on i | continued until the young woman’'s s lost her tem- | father is heard from. » 2 vith language| Mevers and the girl were emerging t r wspaper dare|from an Ellis-street lodging-house « when M Warner saw them, and | | | with bail fixed at $2000. Once | | i nue, and Judge Mogan will hear the | { house young woman claims she resides in the on Ellis street. She is employ- ed in a Market-street candy store and 16 years of age. Her parents dwell . A special officer attached to “the greatest show on earth” that is hold- ing forth on Eleventh street appeared as complaining witness against John Jones (colored), and stated that the de- fendant was an ex-employe of the cir- cus and had clung to it since his dis- missal, which took place at Salinas. Mr. Jones emphatically declared that the officer was mistaken. e stuck on ci'kus life—not on yo' life, man!” exclaimed Mr. Jones. “Ise doan want no mo’ of yo' ole ci’kus. Ise ain't no hog, an’ thahfoah know w’en Ise hed enuff. Ise wouldn't be found daid wukkin fo’ no ole ci'kus. It's a decent job Ise kem ter San Francisco fo' n’ not ter rousterbout fo' no ole ci’kus.” His perfervid declaration won out. . . = Night's mantle was softly enveloping Clementina street when William C. Walker entered the lodging-house kept | main question of unionism by his wife, from whom he is sep- arated, at Ne. 363 of that thoroughfare, and exhibited a pistol in a menacing | could be entertained. manner to Daniel Singleton, one of the lodgers, who had him arrested and charged with threatening to kill. Judge Mogan continued the case, till next Saturday, by which time he hopes thc | Dloyes, irrespective parties involved will be less inclined to reticence. It has already leaked out that Walker's Mr. gun play was accompaniea by verbal intimidation of Mr. Single- | the stage ton, and that the cause thereof was a belief on the part of Mr. Warner that Mr. Singleton's attentions — THE MAYOR’'S STATEMENT. Mayor Schmitz was optimistic at midnight over the situation. After an afternoon and even- ing spent in conference he made the following statement: “The conference between President Holland of the United Railroads and myself gives me every hope to believe that an amicable adjustment of the existing trouble can be arrived at. Certain final suggestions were advanced by me and re- ceived in an encouraging spirit by Mr. Holland. I am not able to state what these are to-night, but they will be transmitted to the carmen tosmorrow and may be a solution of the difficulty. A further conference will be held to-morrow."” L + Silence was the watchword yesterday in regard to the differences existing be- tween the carmen and the United Railroads. Neither side had anything definite to give to the public regarding the situation. At the company’s head- quarters it was stated that no changs in the .ituation had occurred so far as the officials knew. Mayor Schmitz had no positive information to give regard- ing the result of the afternoon and evening conferences he held with Ar- thur Holland, president of the United Railroads. So far as he knew, he said. no basis of settlement had been reached. The officials of the union professed to know nothing that had beeu done to heal the existing rupture between the United Railroads and its employes. Officials of the company declared that no effectual compromise of the troubles had been adjusted. Only one officlal statement was as- sued during the day, and that came from the carmen’s union. Between the pauses and in the spaces of their plaint it is evident that the employes have no hope for peace. A mass meeting has been called at midnight to-night of the members of the union, at which time the question of “strike” will again be submitted to them. On their decision will result the question whether or not they will quit their present employ- ment. STILL FAR APART. The offer of Mayor Schmitz to act as mediator and avert the threatened trouble was hot particularly popular to either side. Minor difficulties might have been arranged by him, but the was in- volved, and the carmen felt that on this paramount issue no surrender On the other hand, officials of the company stated that there could be no recession in the demand of the United Railroads for the right to hire and discharge their em- of the question whether or not they belonged to a labor organization. Triangularly, it was a busy day with those that are occupying the center of in the threatened strike. Mayor Schmitz made an early an- nouncement that, owing to the pend- to Mrs. | ing troubles and the -duties he felt Warner were more than platonic. The | called upon to perform in the face of three sides of the story are likely to | the impending trouble, he would devote be fully ventilated before the proceedings are terminated. Rt T “Dixie Kid,” the colored pugilist, whose bail of 825 was forfeited on ac- court his full time to his intercession work. Then he went to the pure food exhibit at Mechanics’ Pavilion and glad-handed the multitude as he viewed the goods there displayed. During his absence count of his non-appearance to answer | Secretary Keene went to the wheel and a battery charge in Judge Fritz's court, | Suided the ship of municipal affairs. materialized with his manager yester- day morning and contributed $10 more to the municipal exchequer. MAYOR MEETS HOLLAND. In the afternoon a telephonic arrange- ment was made with President Hol- NCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 1904. DENIES CHARGE: [MAYOR SCHMITZ THINKS SETTLEMENT OF CARMEN'S TROUBLES IS POSSIBLE No Encouragement for the Peaceful Solution of Pending Difficulties Is Entertained by Officials of Company or Union and Men Are Called Upo_n to Vote on | land of the United Ralilroads for a meeting between himself and the Mayor of San Francisco. It was not sought on the part of the company. Shortly af- ter 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mayor Schmitz walked unattended into the Ri- alto building and was elevated to the eighth floor, where the company’s of- fices are located. He stood in the corri- dor for a moment until he located a door with the sign of “General Manager’'s Office” and to this he went. As soon as he got inside ‘he clerks recognized him and by devious ways he was led to a room where President Holland was awaiting him. The two went into conference at once and discussed the situation for more than two hours and a half. Then the Mayor left, going at once to his office. After 6 o'clock he called up the head- quarters of the Carmen’s Union and inquired for International President Mahon. The latter had been at the headquarters all day waiting anx- iously for some message from th: Mayor. S:hmitz gave Mah-n the assuran-e that a possible settiement might be ar- ranged. “On what basis?” asked Mahon. Evidently the reply was not pleasing to the international president. “We can't stand that,” he said. The conference between the Mayor and the officials of the company was continued last night. None of the union officials was called in and the only hint any of them had of the proceedings was the brief telephonic communica- tion from the Mayor. President Mahon had absolutely nothing to give out per- sonally. “The men decided to postpone action upon the strike question,” he said, “in deference to the request of the Mayor of San Francisco. The time limit will expire at midnight to-morrow. I have had no information from the Mayor since thé meetirg Sunday morning un- til 6 o'clock to-night, when he told me that he was in conference with the of- ficlals of the railway company and hoped to arrive at some agreement with them that would be acceptable to members of our organization. I hope be will be able to do so, as every single man connected withi our organization is anxious on behalf of himself and the public to avoid any trouble.” SCHMITZ IS HOPEFUL. When the conference broke up be- tween Mayor Schmitz and President Holland it was close to midnight. The place of meeting was kept a secret, and all the Mayor would say was that it had been held on neutral ground. Tt was understood that the Mayor and the officials of the United Rallroads met in the Palace Hotel, in apartments spe- cially reserved for the occasion. The Mayor was delegated to give out what- ever information he thought fit. Generally he was optimistic over the sitdation and seemed to think that there was a possibility of settlement without the dread arbitrament of a strike. He gave no details of the terms upon which he based his hope of pre- venting the carmen from going ‘out. When he was asked the question as to whether any method had been arrived at regarding the question of unionism, he laughed and said he was pledged to secrecy in all of the proceedings of the conference. To-day, he said, the con- ference would be resumed, and perhaps a more detailed statement could then be made regarding its proceedings. e G REFUSES COGIN INJUNCTION. Judge Hunt Holds He Cannot Prevent Corporation Discharging Men. Judge Hunt yesterday, for the sec- ond time, refused to issue at the re- quest of Frank Cogin, a motorman, an injunction restraining the streetcar men who belong to Division 205, Amalgamated Association of Streetcar POSTUM CEREAL. . J If the Dr. held up his finger at you at breakfast and said: “It’s that COFFEE, you know, that causes your stubborn, sick spells and my medicines are useless, fighting against the daily poison to your nerves you take in coffee. You simply cannot get well until you quit coffee, so if you continue to use it we must all consider you like to be sick all day as an exchange for the pleasure of a cup of coffee in the morning.” ‘How We Do Hate Facts And keep on drinking coffee and enjoying the headaches, stomach and bowel troubles, nervous prostration and the whole train of disorders that follow, after'we have used coffee long enough to build in the diseased cells, and when these cells exist we sim- ply cannot be well. We must stop the daily poison of coffee and let good old Dame Nature make new and perfect cells for us. A Pleasant. Wa Out, And an almost immediate comfort and relief is to quit coffee absolutely. Have as many or more cups of Postum Coffee, but be very sure to know—insist upon knowing that it has been boiled, actual boiling, not less than 15 minutes. Many cooks try to prepare Postum by 5 or 6 minutes’ boiling, but that will not do. Of course there’s no harm in drinking a weak, insipid cup of underboiled Postum, but where’s the use, when it can be had rich, deep brown, with a decided crisp coffee snap, hot and deli- . cious? Don’t let them serve it to you half-made. After a day or two you will find (p: troubles are better. That's Your Cue. ““There’s a Reason’’ for robably to your surprise) that the old sick Follow It. POSTUM COFFEE Look for the miniature book, “The Road to Wellville,” each package of Postum and Grape-Nuts. Ssues —_— STATEMENT OF CARMEN. | | 1 SAN FRANCISCO, May 2.— The executive committee met this evening to consider the sit- uation and discuss any proposi- tion the Mayor might have to lay before them, but the only re- port received from the yor was that he was not yet h conferring with the company and that he would be unable to submit any report before some time to-morrow. The committee then decided, inasmuch as the three days | | would expire at 12 o’clock to- | morrow night, it would be nec- 1 essary to arrange a general mass-meeting of all the men and in accordance instructed the { president and secretary to ar- range for a mass-meeting to take place at the Alhambra | Theater at 12 o'clock midnight, Tuesday, May 3. The hall will be open at 12 o'clock; the meet- ing will be called to order at 1 o’clock sharp and one hour will | be devoted to discussion of whatever proposition the Mayor may have to offer. The vote will be taken at 2 o'clock. The hall will be divided off into sec- tions. Each section will be in charge of a member of the executive board. Each member will be given a blank ballot, upon which he will write his vote. Ballots will then be taken up by the executive committee men and counted by the regular tellers of the organization. By resolution every member of the organization is requested to be present under the penalty of a fine of $5. Each member’s name will be checked off as he enters the door. ks - Employes, from cafrying out their al- | leged conspiracy to strike, unless his discharge from the employ of the United Railroads is secured. Judge Hunt refused the infunction Saturday before the suit had been propefly as- signed to him. His decision of yester- day affirmed his action of Saturday, he having held then that he had no power to interfere with individuals or corporations in the employment of men. PLACES POISON | IN AN APPLE Ottie Smith, Clerk in the Southern Pacific Claims Bureau, Commits Suicide —— Ottie A. Smith, bookkeeper in the claims department of the Southern Pa- cific Company, resigned his position last Saturday and poisoned himself early yesterday morning. \ He was found dead in his bed at| 736 Geary street when Mrs. C. L. Burt, the landlady, knocked at his door to call him to breakfast. A piece of an apple and several notes, one addressed to his brother, Professor Z. P. Smith of the Pacific Coast Business College at San Jose, lay on the dresser. The| notes were as follows: | Mrs. Burt: 1 ate an apple which evidently contained some poison, as I feel that the end with me is near. Please telephone my brother, Professor Z. P. Smith, Pacific Coast Business College, San | Jose. Give him the bunch of letters which bear his name and address. He will take charge of my remains. Good-by. O. A. SMITH. 12 o'clock m., May 2, 1904. Dear Zannie: When you read this 1 will have crossed the river and be numbered with the dead. Please have my body cremated. Give my love to all the folks. April 30, 1004, Zannie: 1 resigned my position with the Southern Pacific Company. therefore it will not be necessary to inform them of my de- mise. There is nothing in life after all OTTIE. P. S.—The letter addressed to the United Loan and Trust Company should be taken there by you in person before they hear of my death so you can get the insurance policy. . 8. To the Coroner and Jury—Gentlemen: My death will be due to the fact that I ate an apple which contained some poison. 1 exon- erate any one from being responsible directly or indirectly for the apple being in my pos- session. 0. A. SMITH, 736 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal. Monday, 12:01 a. m., May 2 The date to the last note was “April | 30, 1904,” but a line was drawn through it and the later date substituted. This would indicate that he had had the idea of suicide in his mind for a day or two. The “Zannie”’ mentioned in the notes is the suicide's brother, Professor Z. P. Smith. He called at the Morgue yesterday with his friend, United States Marshal John H. Shine, and his grief was uncontrollable. He said he cculd not imagine what caused his brother to kill himself. “He may have been gambling again,” he added. In explanation of this re- mark Professor Smith said that his brother had resigred a position paying $125 per month in Oregon and came (o this city in order to break away from the gambling habijt. Ottle Smith was a fine-looking man. He was a native of Tennessee and only 29 years old. His friends say that he was of sober habits and was a charm- ing companion. He had been living at 736 Geary street for about a year and a half. P — Talk of Dumb Beasts. Professor Jacques Loeb delivered an interesting address on “The Reasoning Powers and Instinct in Lower Ani- mals” before a large audience in the Academy of Sciences auditorium last |’ night. Professor Loeb has made a life study of dumb beasts and he gave many interesting examples of their shrewdness and intelligence. —— . Wants Family Located. Sarah Goldberg of 918 Huntington avenue, Roxbury, Mass.,, has asked School Su ntendent Langdon o lo- cate the tfllflv of Barnett Robinson, who came here twelve years ago. Robinson died, but his widow, Dina Robinson, and two sons, Jacob 2ad Samuel, are supposed to be alive and heirs to certain property. | national committee. v | net be difficult; the candidate for V 11 o’clock The hammer will fall on the finest line of PARLOR FURNITURE in the city. Three- piece and five-piece suits in the stock. Also couches, leather chairs, mission parlor furniture and odd parlor pieces. Your E'ice Is Our Pr_ice 16th and Mission Sts. THEIR CHOICE IS FAIRBANKS Republican-Leaders in White House Conferenee Dis- cuss the Viece Presidenecy o Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, May 2.—The President had in conference with him to-day Speaker Cannon, Senators Aldrich, Al- lison, Hale, Platt of Connecticut, Spooner and Lodge, and Representative Hemenway. Afterward there was another conference of Senators in Sen- a‘tor Aldrich’s committee room. These leaders discussed the political situation as to the platform, the candidate for Vice President and the chairman of the The platform will ce President not so easily settled and the selection of the chairman of the nation- al committee most difficult. There is a popular move in favor of Speaker Cannen for Vice President, but he does not: want and would decline the nomination, believing his place is in the House of Representatives, where, as Speaker, he can do more in carrying | forward Republican policies than as Vice President. Other members of the conference agree that the Speaker should not be sacrificed. They hope to see Senator Fairbanks of Indiana nom- inated for Viee President and they hope that Illinois will lead in the move- ment by instructing for Fairbanks. The conferencg. considered at length the question of a chairman -of the na- tional committee. Ex-Governor Crane of Massachusetts cannct take the place; there is objection to Governor Murphy of New Jersey; Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is a possible selection and sc is J. W. Blythe of Iowa, general counsel of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Blythe is a good poli- tician, comes from the West and has the confidence of laboring men as weil as capitalists. He does not want the | place, but the President, Speaker Can- non and others at the conference hold a high opinion of Blythe and he may | be drafted. The meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Congressional Committee will be held in Chicago about the time of the holding of the Republican Na- | tional Convention and it will then be decided where the headquarters will be. . HEARST WI 2—In CHICAGO, May the Demo- cratic primaries held to-day the follow- ers of William R. Hearst scored a vie- tory over the faction under Carter H. Harrison, which has heretofore been the dominant power in the Democratic party in Cook County. Of the delegates to the State conven- tion the Hearst party secured 227, Har- rison 195 and tem vere instructed for John P. Hopkins, which means they will not be for Harrison under any circumstances, as Hopkins and Harri- son are enemies of long standing, and sixty-four uninstructed. g 29 Democrats Meet at Salinas. SALINAS, May 2.—The Demacratic County Committee met this afternoon for the purpose of selecting ten dele- gates to the State convention at Santa Cruz on May 16. The delegation was not instructed. The following were elected delegates: Cheri Z. Hebert, T. C. Butler, John Iverson. Thomas Me- Cool, R. F. Johnson, P. E. Zabala, David Wallace, B. J. Riewarts, T. Renison and J. J. Bervins. ———— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS A A A A A A A AR A, DANDRUPF CAUSED BY A GERM. A New Discovery that Kills the Germ and Prevents Baldness. Pretty nearly all the hair preparations for dandruff have some merit in allaying itching of the scalp. and in being a fairly good dressing for the hair, but there is only one that recognizes what causes dandruft, falling bair and baldness, and that destroys the cause, a little germ— and that is Newbro's Herpicide. This germ eats iis way into the scalp, it digs Up the scalp into Mttle white scales. Un- less it is destroyed there’s no permanent stopping of falling hair and cure of dan- aruff and baldness. Newbro's Herpicide kills the germ. “Destroy the cause. you remove the effect.” Sold by leading d:us gists. Send 10c in stamps for The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich.