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. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY lé 1904 AIAYOR GREFIS |TELL STORY OF GRIM CRIME AT BASE OF RUSSIAN HILL THE ENCINEERS| Los Representatives of the In- ternational Brotherhood BARGIZW { MANY NOTABLES ARRIVE g | Spirited Rivalry Promised | in the Contest for Late| Grand Chief Arthur’s Place | May 11.—The sixth | f the International mc e Engineers to-day, ‘with be- 00 delegates in attend- Hall, fittingly decorated d bunting and remod- requirements of the the place of meeting. the ladies’ auxiliary embled in Blanchard stion of the engineers was at 8 o'clock by Grand W. S. Stone, who deliv- address, reciting the his- organization. the splendid ad been able to accom- ped to perform at f the grand called the roll of delegates and ed with the work ortant committees. Angeles, Second Currie also be e oper- us rail- First As- S. Ingra- others. tance be- is the se- , second as- In- the , founder ent during f its exist- S. convention is genera ines ns of the engineers to-morrow. e s h COMPLAINT AGAINST CARPENTER TO BE MODIFIED Police Officer Who Killed a Man Dur- Raid Will Not Be Tried for Murder. ing a 11.—C. Society M. of- led David Frey main 1d for trial by Just k ce i released on $5000 bond,fur- through the f murder againi s however, and on some less serious L e.—— Ii’'nai Abrabama Adjourns. NEW YORK, May 11.—The United Lodge of the Independ- B'nai Abrahama, after a adjourned to-day. its to the constitu- ADVERTISEMENTS. ALL WOMEN | ish to retain or regain th must see to it that regularity is estab- is an all-important he wise woman will . reso t ostetter’'s Stomach Bitters at the first symptom of apy derangement, because she knows it always gives prompt re- | licf. Pains in the Back, Bloating, | Vomiting, Headache, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Fainting Spells and Sleeplessness are all danger sig- .nals which require the Bitters. | Try one bottle. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS -~ | | | Perfect Fitting Eyeglasses &t Moderate Gost MARKETST | - Schilling’s Best are not ex travagant; quite the contrary . Teas and coffees good-enougt ‘baking-powd—~ flavoring e tracts and spices pure and be - and yet econemical; soda con. mon. { on the recumbent form. | tween 8:30 and 8:556 she heard a man Evidence Given by Witnesses at Preliminary Hearing of Man Accused of Murder of Joseph Blaise Is Re-! peated in Part by Them at Trial in Superior SERGEANT Leon Soeder, charged with murder- ing his brother-in-law, Joseph Blaise, vesterday again faced the jury that will determine his guilt or innocence. Blaise’s body was found at the footofa wall on Taylor street, between Vallejo and Green streets, on the morning of January 11. A gash from a knife, which severed the jugular vein, was mute witness to the cause of death. On the back of Blaise’s head were two cuts that were doubtless cau f a blunt instrument rested for the murder because he alone had a motive for the killing of the ig- norant German. Soeder had secured insurance policies ia the sum of $16,000 on the life of Blaise, the husband of the former’s sis- ter. Blaise was brought from Germany on ay ment and the ultimate gain of a com- petence for his wife and children. Less than a month elapsed between the rival of the two men in San Franc and the violent death of Joseph Bl Around Leon Soeder the police have | woven a strong web of circumstantial | evidence | AWl of the testimony adduced yester-| day related to the finding of the body | | Jaise and the efforts of Soeder to| n insurance on the life of his er-in-law. Dr. Bacigalupi, who performed the autopsy, was in attend- ance during the rning “session, but was informed that he would not be needed. THOUGHT MAN WAS DRUNK. ‘William Hogan, who was the first one to discover the body of Blaise on the| morning of January was the first witness. 11 of this year, He told of seeing a man. lying on the roadway between | Vallejo and Green on Ta lor street. body he thought it was a drunken man and kicked it. Then he noticed that it was lving in a pool of blood, and he hurried to the residence of Sergeant of Police Christiansen, at the corner of Taylor and Green streets, where he in- formed Mrs. Christiansen that a dead man was lying on the street. The ser- geant appeared shortly and the two men went up the hill toward the body. As they ascended the hill a well- streets, dressed man came down the roadway, | saw the body and picked up a hat ly- ing some fifteen feet away and laid it He remained with the body until Sergeant Chris- tiansen and Hogan reached the place. Then he went away. Sergeant Christiansen’s testimony was to the same effect, but more detailed. After he had viewed the dead body he made a search of the neighborhood within a circuit of 100 feet for some weapon. He said it was apparent that a murder had been committed. On the wall above he found some marks of feet that might indicate a struggle, but he said these might have been made by boys playing on the edge of the cliff. The police theory is that Blaise was murdered at the base of the wall by Soeder, as no evidences of blood can be found on any portion of the retaining rockwork. HEARS AGONIZING SCREAMS. Mrs. Christiansen followed her hus- band and testified to the fact that while sitting in her kitchen on the night of January 10, at an hour be- utter an agonizing scream. The sound came from the direction of the retain- ing wall on Taylor street. Some chil- dren from across the street were visit- ing her little ones and she sent them home at 8:55, by which she fixed the time. All in her home were frightened by the scream and the children pre- vailed on her not to go out of the house, Detective William Armstrong, who was sent out by the Police Department o S HRISTANSEN >d by the blow | eder was ar-! omise of remunerative employ- | When he approached the | | [ { ] | | CARROLL JUDE,SR D:E‘QADA ~T —EOM / =cEpe=w, s — B LB MAN ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, LIFE INSURANCE AGE THAT INSURED THE VICTIM'S LIFE AND SCENE IN COURT AS POLICE OFFICE 2 2 S BLOOD-STAINED CLOTHING. g Blaise's life. On the last visit to the room at 827 Jackson street Soeder was evidently annoyed because the insur- ance company had refused to issue a $10,000 policy on Blaise's life. | “I have a good notion to tell the Pa- cific Mutual to go to said Soe- der, “but I am afraid other companies cklist is afraid that se,”” remarked the ou don't intend to o | = 3 -3 3 g e g -] B ] you will do up Bl doctor jocularly. do that, do you?” Soeder smiled and said my brother-in-law. We went to school together and lived only six miles apart in Germany. I'm not,going to harm him.” E. H. Osbourne, a solicitor for the Pacific Mutual Life Company, who wrote the policy for $3000 for Blaise | and subsequently secured $7000 more in the Hartford Life Company for him, testified to the transactions between himself and Soeder and Blaise. He had nothing new to offer beygnd his tes- timony at the preliminary hearing, wherein he described the three meet- ings he had with Soeder and Blaise and the writing of the policies of in- surance, amounting in all to $16,000. SALOMON IS INDULGENT. Lester Gregory, Pacific Coast man- “Why, | pany of New York, testified to two in- | terviews he had with Soeder in refer- | ence to a $5000 policy on the life of | Blaise, which the defendant expected | from the New York office and indenti- | fied two letters written to him by Soe- der regarding the matter. F. W. Vooght, general agent of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, testified to applications made to his company by Soeder to insure the life of Blaise and to the refusal of the company to insure with a policy for more tharf $10,000. This closed the tes- timony for the day. During the testimony the defendant was unmoved but attentive, and only his characteristic habit of blinking his eyes showed nervousness. General Sal- omon, his counsel, was singularly in- dulgent in his cross-examination and allowed the opinions of inexpert wit- nesses regarding the wounds on Blaise’s body to get into the record without objection. All he tried to de- velop was that the night of January 10 wgs damp and misty, which was readily admitted by all the witnesses for the prosecution. What bearing this after a telephone had been received from Sergeant Christiansen regarding the finding of the body of Blaise, tes- tified along the same lines as Chris- tiansen and detailed his search for a | knife in the neighborbood of the crime. He corroborated Christiansen as to the | position of the body and the wounds upon it. Deputy Coroner Charles Meehan was the next witness. He took the dead body of Blaise to the Morgue on a call | of the Police Department. He jden- tified the clothes taken from the body and the contents of the pockets, which consisted of a bunch of keys and a let- ter from Blaise's wife in Germany to! her husband. The trousers’ pockets were outturned when he took custody of the body. He testified as to the fatal wound in the neck and the two wounds in the back of the head. +FORECASTS THE CRIME. Following him_came Dr. William G. Mizner, medical ‘examiner for the Pa- cific Mutual Life Insurance Company. His was the only testimony that de- veloped any new fact. He told about visiting Soeder and Blaise on two oc- casions, of having examined Blaise for insurance and of the refusal of the <ompany to grant a $10,000 policy on fact has on the case of the defendant General Salomon refused to state, —_———— ‘Want No Blasting. Property owners and residents in the vicinity of Green and Sansome streets filed a protest yesterday with the Board of Supervisors against the granting of permission to E. C. Holmes to explode biasts for grading purposes near the streets named. The protestants say that the propérty upon which permission is wanted to blast is adjacent to that upon which Gray Bros. conducted quarrying operations, which resulted in great damage to ad- Joining property. B Obstructions on Beacon Street. The Board of Works yesterday re- ported to the Board of Supervisors that thirty-seven feet of the fences on Beacon street complained of by the property owners in the neighborhood have been removed, struction of three feet on Beacon street. It was impossible to determine how much of Thirty-first street is ob- structed, as there are no lines to measure from, he’s | ager of the Aetna Life Insurance Com- | leaving an ob~ [ERICAN GIRL PRISONER H0LD 4} | United States Consul in | France Secures Protec- tion for a Fair Georgian CRLA Court| DOCTORS ELECT NEW OFFICERS Homeopathic Medical So- ciety Opens Convention and Proceeds to Business | Annual Reports Show That the Imstitution Is in a Flourishing - Condition Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, May 11.—The twenty- eighth session of the California State Homeopathic Medical Society/ was | opened at 10 o’clock this morning at | the Sea Beach Hotel by the president, Dr. A. C. Peterson, of San Francisco. The principal business was the re- port from the board of censors, which | met and passed on six applicants: Dr. Lilla M. Tenney of Oaklagd; Dr, E. B. | Philbrook, of Santa Cruz; Dr. T. C. Robingon, of Grass Valley; Dr. T. H. ‘Winslow, of Oakland; Dr. Philip Rice, of San Francisco; Dr. J. C. Gafin of San_ Jose. The officers elected were: President, | Dr. S. S. Salisbury, of Los Angeles; | first vice president, Dr. T. G. McCon- {key, of San Francisco; second vice president, Dr. Ruth Bennett, of Santa Cruz; secretary, Guy E. Manning, M. D., of San Francisco; treasurer, Charles | Léwis Tisdale, M. D., Alameda. Board of Censors—Pliny R. Watts, M. D., Sacramento; Guy E, Manning, M. | D., San Francisco; Francis B. Kellogg, M. D.,, Los Angeles; M. D., Los Angeles; fienry L. Stam- bach, M. D., Santa Barbara. ! Board of Directors—=J. M. Selfridge, M. D., Oaklang; William Boericke, M. D., San Franelsco; Charles Lewis Tis- dale, 4. D., /Alameda; A. C. Peterson, M. D., San Francisco; Sidney Worth, | M. D., San Francisco. Board of Examimers—Charles Lewis Tisiale, M. D., Alameda; E. C. Buell, M. D., San Francisco. £ Alternate—Guy E. Manning, M. D,,’ San Francisco. | Committee on Legisiation—Charles | Lewis Tisdale, M. D., chairman, Ala- | | | meda; H. R. Arndt, M. D,, San Fran- | cisco; George H. Martin, M. D., San Francisco; Pliny g ‘Watts, M. D., Sac- ramento; C. B. ‘Dickson, M. D., Los Angeles, | Dr. Guy E. Manning, the secretary, gave his annual report. He was fol-' lowed by Dr. C. L. Tisdale of Alameda, who as treasurer of the board of di- rectors reported on the finances. He also reported for the State Board of Examiners, and spoke of the favorable results of the bill passed by the Legis- | lature in regard to the law of licensing practitioners of medicine. Dr. Tisdale said numerous arrests have been made by the Board of Examiners. While the technicality of the law had not been passed upon by the Supreme Court, | everything looked favorable toward it | being upheld. The students of the homeopathic college were compliment- ed, not only for their high averages in hcmeopathic branches, but in pathology and bacteriology. P. F. Laird of Utica, N. Y., was elect- | ed a corresponding member, and one resignation was received, that of Dr. M E. Hoffmann of San Francisco. i afternoon the programme was as follows: | In memoriam—“Albert Stanley Do-! lan, M. D.,” Dr. H. R. Arndt of San Francisco; “W. S. Ruby, M. D.,” Dr. F. B. Kellogg of Los Angeles; *“T. L. John- son, M. D.,” Dr. C. L. Tisdale of Ala- meda; ‘“Report of Institutions Under Homeopath?: Control,” Dr. Guy E. Manning of San Francisco; “The Prob- lem of the Homeopathic College,” Dr. William F-ericke of San Francisco, dis- cussion by Dr. A. K. Crawford; “The Use and Abuse of Hydrotherapy,” Dr. Thomas Evans of St. Helena; “Diseases of the Vascular System,” Dr. Frederick G. Cannev of San Francisco; ‘‘Lesions of the Myocardium,” Dr. A. K. Craw- ford of Oakland; “The Protective Func- tion of the Organism,” Dr. T. G. Me- Conkey of San Francisco; “The Blood Pressure in Health and Disedse,” Dr. Manning of San Francisco. 1 This evening the president, Dr. Peter- | son, read his address. | | The following delegates are here: | PARIS, May 11.—United States Con- sul General Gowdy recently received a letter from an American girl saying that she was locked up in a Provincial jail without any charge having been | made against her. The Consul General sent a representative to the jail and secured the girl's release and return to Paris. He then cabled to her pa- rents, residing at Decatur, Ga., re- questing funds for her return to Amer- ica. The girl related a sensational story. She asserted she had been abducted by an American seeking to marry her, and said she accompanied him on an auto- mobile tour, was locked up in a room in a country hotel and escaped and at- | tempted to walk across the country, | but was arrested as a wanderer by the | French authorities. | Inquiries made by Mr. Gowdy's rep- | resentatives established the correctness | of her detention at the Provinclal jail, but the story of her abduction was not verified except by her statement, which has been reduced to an affidavit be- ifore the Consul. The names of the | persons are withheld, as no legal steps have been taken against the alleged abductor owing to the doubtful char- acter of some of the accusations. Pend- ing the arrival of friends the girl is | being cared for by the American Young Men’s Christian Association. ATLANTA, Ga., May 11.—The young woman whose case has been reported from Paris as having been investigated by United States Consul General Gow- dy, appears to be Miss Belle Crane of Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta, whose | father is a prominent business man here. He has recently received a cable- gram from Consul General Gowdy, but the exact nature of the message he is at present unwilling to give out, Miss Crane formerly was a student at Ag- nes Scott College, Decatur, and is well known and popular in this city and at Decatur. Ae LRl SRR, DO NOT OBJECT TO WOMEN SINGING IN CHURCH CHOIRS Vatican Authorities Deny Having Re- ceived Such a Protest From American Prelates. ROME, May 11.—The Vatican au- thorities deny having received objec- tions from American Archbishops re- garding the impossibility of enforcing the papal decree providing for the restoration of the Gregorian chant and the banishment of women from church choirs. It is pointed out in this connection that the decree did not call for the exclusive use of the Gre- gorian chant, nor did it forbid con- gregational singing, including, natur- ally, female Vvolc ———e——— The Ambidextrous Society of Eng- land devotes itself to encouraging peo- ple to use both hands with equal fa- cility, 4 From San Francisco—Dr. H. R. Arndt, Dr. Guy E. Manning, Dr. Willlam Boericke, Dr. | Frederick 'C. Canney, Dr. T. G. McConkey, Dr. Phillp Rice, Dr. Edgar Bry, Dr. | George H._ Martin, Dr. Florence War Dr. Clarence D. Potter, Dr. Sidney Worth, Dr. | Laura B. Third, Dr. A C. Peterson. i Los Angeles—Dr. F. B. Kellogg, Dr. J. W. | Hawes, Dr. W. E. Waddell, Dr. Burieigh ' Parknurst, Dr. E. C. Buell, Dr. F. S. Bar-| nard, Dr. Helen Woodroffe, Dr. §. 8. Salls- y. Dr. C. B. Dickson. ramento—Dr. James T. Martin, Dr. Mary | emiller, Dr. P. R. Watts. Oakland—Dr. N. H. Chamberlain, Dr. At Crawford, Df. Robert L. Hill Jr.. Dr. | Busan Fenton, Dr. Alice Bush, Dr. J. M. Sel- | fridz Dr. C. L. Tisdale, Alameda; Dr. Thomas Evans_St. Helena; Dr. Willlam Simpson, San | Jose; Dr, H. L. Stambach, Santa Barbara; | Dr. Charles H. Walter, San Jose: Dr. M. | B. Campbell, Patton; Dr. E. A. Dickinson, Ukiah: Dr. etrie Hoyle, Santa Cruz; Dr. Amelia_ G 1, San Jose; Dr. E. P. Philbrook, Santa Cru e e YOUNG PRINTER IS KILLED BY TWO NEGRO ASSAILANTS Clarence Meyer Slashed to Death With Razor in His Kansas City Home. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 11.—Clar- ence Meyer, aged 22, a printer, was terribly slashed and killed in his home in the southern part of the city last night. According to Mrs. Meyer, who reported the matter to the police to- day, two negroes entered the house at 2 o'clock in the morning. While one held the woman to prevent her giving alarm the other struggled with Meyer, slashing him with a razor on the head. throat and body. - Mrs. Meyer became unconscious and did not recover until many hours later, when she found her husband dead. The house had been ransacked. The police have found no trace of the negroes. —————— Will Improve Agnew Asylum. SAN JOSE, May 11.—At the meet- ing of the trustees of Agnew State asylum to-day the bid of the Western | Gas Construction Company to con- struct a gas plant for $4890 was ac- cepted. Treasurer Montgomery re- ported $52,823 in the contingent inud. Plans for replumbing the hospital at a cost of $10,000 were approved. There are 1052 inmates of the hos- pital, the largest number ever there. e tre————— Peny That Clarke Committed Suicide. NEW YORK, May 11.—It is assert- ed by the mother and sister of Harold A. Clarke, says a World dispatch from Paris, that the wealthy young Californian who was found dead In his Toom in a Paris hotel Monday did not commit ‘suicide, despite the fact that all circumstances point that way. —_—— BIAGINI GETS JUDGMENT.—Judge Heb- bard vests gave judgment to the defend- ant in_the suit of J. Chelini against F. Biag- inl. Chelini sued for $325, the price of wine he sold to Blagini. The latter refused to pay for it because it was sour, The mtmunz of ! axpert witnesses proved that he was righ CHANGES IN THE BOARD | W. E. Waddell, ' | Methodist Episcopal church, South. Dr. | { General Conference. His eloquent per- e o NIRRT i “PE-RU-NA SAVED MY LIFE,” Writes Mrs. W. McRoberts. | Feel So Good.” A YOUNG MOTHER’S LETTER 2 Mrs. W. McRoberts writes to Dr.} Hartman from Delano, Miss., the fol- lowing: % Delano, Miss. Columbus, Ohio: ¢ 1 perfectly well of ! ¢ catarrh. I did as you directed me to? and took Peruna and Manalin. The} third of March I gave birth to a ten pound baby girl and we are both well § and happy., 1 am very thankful to you and Peéruna saved my life. 1 recommend it to everyone and can't praise it enough. “I send_you my own and my baby" L ¢ picture. She is so sweet and good,— $she is a Peruna baby. I have such work and take care of my baby and feel so good. “There are three or four of my4 neighbors using Peryna now since it did me so much good. They were just run down, and they think it is fine, it is so good to give strength.”— Mrs. W. McRoberts. ‘ Dr. S. B. Hartmaj Dear Sir: “I fi good health now. I do all my house- . We have from mothers concerning the benefit of Peruna to their babi “I Do All My Housework and Take Care of My Baby and 1| thousands of testimonials . RS. L. M. GRIFFITH, Areo, Idaho, writes: “I am thirty years old and never had any children; but since beginning your medicine I gave birth to a W?ound baby girl. I am stronger than I have been since I was quite young. God bless you and your medicine for- ever.” MRS. L. M. GRIFFITH. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hart- man giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Co- lumbus, Ohio. REVEREND KILGOE STIRS | PATRIOTIC MEI'HODISTS' Eminent Divine of the Southern Church Gives Elogquent Address at Conference. LOS ANGELES, May 11.— Practical- | y no business was transacted by the | Methodist General Conference to-day. The early ntorning session was devoted entirely to a consideration of the report of the commiittee on rules, as reported | by Rev. Dr. T. B. Neely, chairman. The reading and debating of the vari- o@is sections governing the manner- of transacting business on the floor of the conference and the reference of motions and resolutions to committees took up the time of the conference until recess, at which time the report was left un- finished. There were many sharp pass- ages at arms between the parliamen- tary experts, which somewhat é&n- livened an otherwise dull an} feature- less session. -4 After recess, the duty of receiving and welcoming fraternal delegates, which was not completed at yester- day’s session, was taken up, and long addresses were made by Rev. Willlam Dobson, fraternal delegate from Can- ada, and Rev. John C. Kilgoe, of the| Dobson’s address was a very able one. Dr. Kilgoe, who is a noted pulpit ora- tor, aroused the enthusiasm of the delegates to a degree not before reached at the present session of the oration, in which he asserted that no one could love the stars and stripes more than the people of the South, brought cheers from the assembly and at the conc'usion of his address the entire audience arose at the request of | Bishop Andrews and sang “America.” This afternoon there were several committee meetings, the most import- ant of which was the itinerancy and book concern committees. PRESIDENT'S S DURING OY: "MMER PLANS TER BAY VISIT Only Official Visitors Will Be Received by Executive While Enjoying Usual Outing. WASHINGTON, May 11.—President Roosevelt's plans for the summer were announced by Secretary Loeb to- day. They are tentative, but proba- bly will be carried out, as follows. The President will go to Oyster Bay, about July 1, remaining there until after he receives the official notifica- tion of the choice of the Republican Cornwvention. Then he expects to re- turn to Washington for a stay of two or three weeks, returning thereafter to Oyster Bay and remaining until short- ly after the middle of September. It s announced that the President will not receive any delegations at Oyster Bay and that he will only receive those vigitors on political matters who come through the Natiomal Committee. All ter Bay will be limited to those whose missions are on official business. - e 1 fother visitors to be received at Oys- | Cincinnati at Chemulpo. WASHINGTON, May 11.—The Navy Department was advised to-day of the arrival of the Cincinnati at Chemulpeo. where she relieved the Raleigh. The latter vessel left Chemulpo to-day for ‘Woosung, where she goes for coal and fresh supplies; also to communicate with Admiral Cooper, commander in chigf of the Asiatic station, for in- stglictions. She probably will return to Chemulpo. o 3 Ean B O S Secretary Taft Will Take a Rest. WASHINGTON, May 11.—Secretary Taft will to-morrow leave for the Ad- irondack Mountains for a stay of tem days or two weeks. 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