The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1904, Page 40

10 T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY' 15, 1904 ‘*“NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF A — e FILLS POCKETS |JUDGE ORDERS * WITH TOBACCO Burglar With Penchant forfOtto Simon Is Freed of Weed Takes $200 Worth of | Charge of Shooting Mein- (;oods From Berkeley Store| rath Allseits at Lorin ENTERS BY THE WINDOW | TESTIMONY NOT CLEAR Police Think Him the Man Dazed With Liquor, Accused | Who Looted Other Places in the Business District. New Year’s Eve Fracas Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 148 Center Street, May 14. A burglar with an appetite for good - ars and meerschaum pipes is mak- ing his headquarters at Berkeley just hile 2go he helped himself $100 worth of smokers’ supplies » W. R. Wright's cigar store gnd ight he became bolder and walk- n $200 worth of stuff from It's tobacco emporium on ttuck avenue. This burgiar is fas- | He takes only the choicest pipes, and his victim saye ole loot could be carried off lni r practices the same dis- t all his visith He got lace last night by pry- indow that leads into the It was easy then to goods from beneath the coun- and escape with them. The rob- covered until the pro- this morning to open ter bery was not di e are of the opinion that r is familiar with the town places he robs. He is sup- o be the man at whom Officer | took a shot one | ago. ——e————— RELIANCE CLUB RENEWS : LEASE ON QUARTERS President Fitzgerald Appoints Four Committees Which Will Act Dur- ing the Coming Year. AKLAND, Mav 14.—The board of ¢ the Reliance Athletic Club solution @t the last meet- ing the president and sec- retary of the club to renew the lease the present quarters under condi- specified by the owners of the t Fitzgerald has announced ywing committees for the year: e committee — Felton Taylor, Cadogan, G. R. Lukens, Paul J. | hibition — Felton Taylor, P. J.| Cadogan. House committee—Walter B. Faw- cett, Paul J. Schafer, Phil H. Rosen- heim of the board of directors and Dr. £. Weston and C. M. Davis from the club members at large. | Entertainment—E. A. Magill, chair- | man, with instructions to appoint two ther members on his committee. | ———————————— BARRIES TO APPEAR IN | ANOTHER DIVORCE SUIT | . Otto, Streit Would Separate From His Wife—Florence Ledgett Given | a Decree. | OAKLAND, May l4.—Alexander C. Barrie of Berkeley has brought an ac- tion for divorcg against his wife. A few weeks ago he was the defendant in similar action brought by Eliza A. who charged him with cruelty Barrie and alleged that he had confined her n an insane ‘asylum. Judge Ogden 1d that she. was mentally irrespon- le and now Barrie asks for a sep- aration on the ground of desertion. Suit for divorce was begun to-dav by Otto Streit, who conducts a saloon at Eleventh and Franklin streets, against Annie Streit on the ground of crueity. They have a family of children, but the parents have numerous difficulties, some of which have taken them both into the courts. A decree of divorce was granted to Florence Ledgett by Judge Ogden to- day from Harry J. Ledgett on the ground of willful neglect. She was * also-allowed $25 a month and was given ions, had been spending New Year" | tragrant AN ACOUITTAL Does Not Remember the| Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, May 14. Otto Simon was acquitted this after- | noon of the shooting of Meinrath All seits. Judge Melvin held that the tes- | timony was of such a contradictory character that legally there was no ground for a conviction. Simon, with a number of compa: night drinking in the saloons of Lorin. Shortly after midnight they engaged in a quarrel over unionism and All-! seits was shot. He afterward recov- ered. None of the witnesses, how- | ever, were able to give a clear account | of who was to blame for the affair and after spending two days in listening to the testimony Judge Melvin brought | the trial to a close this afternoon. EVENTS IN SOCIETY| By Zoe Green Radcliffe. OAKLAND, May 14.—Mrs. George Sterling, who is a clever member of the Pjedmont Whist Club and who generally plans ‘‘some- thing different”” on her day to entertaln, took her cue yesterday from the fact that it was Fr and the 13th of the month. Bad luck whiled away the intervals between sames and the wcores were kept on cards on which snakes, skulls, owls and other emblems of witchcraft were sketched in water colors. Red roses filled every nook of the dining- room, where a light luncheun was served, and lent @ vivid bit of color to the table, whereon 2 great stuffed owl blinked wisely at a circle of_dencing skeletons. The hostess had thoughtfully provided ageinst disaster, however, and a rabbit's foot swayed protectingly from the chanaelier. Mrs. | Mygatt must have had & rabbit s tout in her pocket, for she carried off the prize. Among those who enjoyed the original aft- 1 a 4 ernoon were Mrs. W. Sharon, M Gliman, Mrs. Edward Mrs. H. att, Mrs. Wickham Havens, Mrs. ing, Mrs. Henry Bratnober, Mrs, J 3 A " aall, H. Cupwell, Mrs. riving there in time to meet the in- Thomas, Maxwell, Mrs coming train. The parade will be met Hox , M A1 d Mrs. 3 Richardson. T aa s at Thirty-sixth street by the Emery- | > ~ . ville committee, which will act as an | ™ ) e Wheelock Club yes- | : Aiernoon was an claboraie. aflalr and | €SCOTt. Speeches will be made at the made particularly enjoyable by the originality | depot. of the hostess, Mrs. Charles G. Yale. The picturesque reeidence on Vernon Heights was with spring bloseoms—white haw- thorn in the drawing-room and great red popples and red hawthorne in the hall and ‘den” giving a pleasing touch of color to the rich furnishings. The score cards carried out a clever idea of the hostees and were unique mementoes of a happy occasion. A wheel and a Yale lock were artistically combined on each card. forming a monogram of the names | ¢_the hostess and the club. When the prizes had been awarded, Mrs. Fine and Mrs. Palmer being the lucky ones, the twenty guests Wwere seated at one beautifully decorated table in the dining-room, where ices and other dainties were served. Mre. Yale was assisted in_entertaining by her daughter: rs. Wilton D. Bailey and Miss Emd Yi The club members present were Mre. E. J. Barrett, Mre. E. B. Beck, Mrs. Q. A. Chase. Mrs. G. W. Cook, Mrs. A F.’ Coffin, Mrs. J. A. Folger, Mrs. Andrew Fine, Mrs. E. A. Heron, Mrs. Samuel Hub- bard, Mrs. Frank 1. Kendall, Mrs. Gordon M Stols, Mrs. F. E. Welles and Mre. John Yule. The substitutes were Mrs. Arthur Crel- lin, Mrs. C. Minor Goodall, Mrs. Edward Palmer, Mrs. Sam Breck and Mrs. Louis Tasheira. A A musicale for the benefit of the First Bap- tiet Church in Alameda was pianned by lirs. H. W. Haslam. her Fome on Alameda avenue being thrown open for the event last Tues- day evening. Half a hundred guests enjoyed a very pleasing programme, which was as follows Song, Mirs Jennie Hinds of San Francisco: plano solo. Mise Blivens of reading, Miss Laura Price: song. cornet_solo, Mise FElsie Cahili: piano Miss Myrtle Maxwell; song, Miss Winifred Wiison. of the programme the hostess and in the At the conclusion freshments wers served by the young ladies who had assisted evening’s entertainment. The two lareest events for next week are the evening concert of the Wednesday Morn- ing Musical Club and Mrs. Nicholron's card party. The Wednesday Morning includes more than & hundred members now, and as each will be entitied to bring the Ebe!l rooms. where the concert place. are likely to be more than comfortabl filled. _Some of the best musicians in town belong ‘to this club, and as several of these ““best’” are to participate In the programme it will bs well worth while to accept an invita- tion. M= Nicholson is planning to entertain iIn permiseion to resume her maiden name | honos' of two former schoolmates, Mrs. of Florence Gleisner. Creighton Carmine and Mrs. George Martin Mrs. Carmine, before her marriaze to Lieu- RO - S TR tenant Carmine was Minnfe Campbril and she ‘Will Pay the Debt. | . OAKLAND, May 14—The estate of the late Emanuel Paget, widow of the late Professor Paget, head of the French department at the University of California, has been appraised at 823,444 96. She left a large part of her estate to pay off debts assumed by her husband during his life time, which his family had been unable to pay by reason of the Franco-Prussian war. He spent his life in trying to pay off these claims and at his death had been unable to accomplish his desire. What he failed to do his wife has now done for him. What remains after these debts are pald will g6 toward estab- lishing a scholarship at the university. —_——— Stumbles and Breaks Arm. ALAMEDA, May 14.—George Burnley of Ban Francisco, while running to caich a Jate train at Morton street sta- tion on the south side line last night, feli and fractured his right arm. Burn- ley tripped on a rail near the depot @nd narrowly escaped being run over by a freight train. He was conveyed to the residence of Mrs. C. Collins, 1541 Central avenue, where he had been vieiting, and giver surgical attention. —_——— “Do you think fiylng machines will ever come into general use?” “I hope not,” answered the Custom- house officer. “It'll be mighty hard to have the usual amusement with passengers from Europe if they do.”— ‘Washington Star. | —— 4 is paying a visit to her old home after a long absence. Mrs. Martin iz aleo naying her first visit to Oakland in nine years. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bates and since her marriage with Dr. Martin has re- sided In Berlin. % The “‘bridge’” vartv civen by Miss Willlam Hamilton Morrison Thursday evening is said to have been a delichtful success, notwith- standing the intricncies of the game and i newness to Oaklanders. Mr. and Mrs, Mor- rison are ideal entertainers, however. and know EBow to make their guests enjoy them- melves. Mrs. Willlam Geer Hitchcock of New York was the honored guest. She was for- merly Miss Cassie Drum and is a sister of Miss Sarah Drum. accompanied by Mrs. W. §. Ray and ber son Fred Ray, will leave for the Yosemite Valiey within the month. Fred Ray will be among the graduates at the uni- versity next Wednesday and will aiso receive his commission as a major of the college militia. —_—— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, May 14.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Anthony Justi, 22, and Flavina Roderick, 18, both of Oakland; John W. Wilkins, 26, San The Gordon Stol: ‘| Francisco, and Bertha M. Russell, 20, Oakland; Harvey G. Stuart, 53, and Louisa Spear, 53, both of San Fran- cisco; Thomas E. Hays, 27, and Julia H. Dashiell, 22, both of San Fran- cisco; Charles Walker, 39, S8an Fran- cisco, and Grace L. Jordan, 83, Cleve- land, Ohio; Alexander Greig, 26, San Francisco, and Lida M. Petit, 26, Oak- land. —— Hurt by Fall From Horse. BERKELEY. May 14.—Miss Maybelle Mentz, the daughter of Charles F. Mentz painfully injured this evening by being thrown from a horse. Her father was riding the animal and had taken the girl on behind. The horse reared and threw thHem both to the ground, Miss Mentz striking on her head and shoul- ders. She suffered a fracture of the left ‘collarbone and a number of cuts and Dbruises. . Mentz was not injured. | e————— Thére is no- reason why a girl shouldn’t set her cap for a ¢ -Italist. - ’ | ter Oakland pulls into the new depot | nue it will be greeted with a reception re- | two guests | takes of 2430 Hilgard avenue, was| SANTA FE DAY WILL BE GREAT People Will Greet First Teain as a Messenger of Progressive New Fra AND MUSIC The Big Floral Parade Will Start From Eighth and Broadway at Early Hour PEECH LS Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, May 14. When the first Santa Fe train to en- at Fortieth street and San Pablo ave- that should assure the officlals of the company who will be on board that the entrance of another transcontinental road into this city is thoroughly ap- preciated by its citizens. Bands will play, the incoming train will be re- ceived with a bombardment of flowers and speeches of welcome will be deliv- ered by the Governor, several city and county officials and a number of prom- inent citizens of Oakland. Captain A. H. Paysen, assistant to the president of the Santa Fe, and another official will respond on behalf of the company. | The first train, which will be known as No. 41 regular, will leave Point Richmond at 10:20 and will reach this | city at 10:35 a. m. On board the initial train will be the following officials of | the Santa Fe Company: A. G. Wells, general manager; W. A. Burrell, gen- | eral traffic manager; J. J. Byrne, gen- eral passenger agent; Ed Chambers, | general freight agent; F. J. Shepard, general superintendent; R. B. Barrows, chief engineer; W. B. Stacey, assistant engineer; A. H. Payson, assistant to the president; J. W. Walker, district | superintendent; T. Tuttle, train master, |and Mr. Harlow, division master me- chanic. The members of the Santa’Fe day committee leading the big floral pa- rade will start from Eighth and Broadway at 9:30 o'clock and the pro- cession will follow the line of march out Broadway to San Pablo avenue and thence to the Santa Fe depot, ar- | | After the speaking the march will be continued to Park avenue and down that thoroughfare to the race track, where the parade will be reviewed and | the prizes awarded, after which the | athletic events, automobile and bicycle races will be held. Admission to the track is free to every one and the | committee in charge of the celebra- | tion is making preparations to handle |a big crowd. The public schools of Berkeley and Emeryville will close on Santa Fe day, { but the Oakland Board of Education | has decided not to close the schools, |owing to the fact that the following | Wednesday is a holiday. The mem- | bers of the City Council have accepted | the invitation of the committee to at- | tend the reception in a body, and in- | vitations have been extended to for- mer Mayor Barstow and the members | of the Council which granted the franchise to the Santa Fe to be pres- ent. e WILL KEEP HOLIDAY. Berkeley School Children to Join in Welcoming First Train. BERKELEY, May 14.—In honor of | the Santa Fe's coming to Berkeley a | half holiday on Monday for the school | children was declared to-day by the Board of Education. The children are | expected to spend part of Monday morning throwing flowers at the first | Santa Fe train that puffs into town. | Wagonloads of flowers will be on hand | for the children and what are not used | for decoration will be strewn in the ! path of the train. | A telegram was received by Francis | Ferrier of the citizens’ welcoming | committee this afternoon from H. K. Gregory, assistant general passenger | agent for the Santa Fe road, saying | that the train would arrive at the new | Berkeley station at 10;30 o'clock on Monday morning and stop ten minutes | or longer in order to give the children | time to decorate the train. Mr. Greg- ory adds that the Berkeley committee will be taken to Oakland so that it can participate in the Oakland cele- bration. SRS N— Alamedans Will Celebrate. ALAMEDA, May 14.—This city will be well represented at the Santa Fe e L Ll BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77. ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Alameda 4592. PRI TR o UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY, May 14.—The programme for the commencement exercises, Which .are to occur in the Greek Theater at 10:30 o'clock on Wednesday morning, will be as follow: Invoeation, Rev. Carroll Melvin Davis, '79; hymn: “The Relation of Biology to Modern Life,” Herbert McLean Evans, college of natural sciences; “‘Chivairy in the Legal Pro- fession,” Fred Louls Dreher, '01, Hastings Col lege of the Law; The College Lite of Wome: Elizabeth Cecelia Arneill, coilege of letter: The Educative Character of Medical Study. George Asa Harker, medical department; | 4 I Leadership,” Max Thelen, college | sclences; delivery of military com- the Governor of California; award missions, of the university medal and conferring of de- grees, the “‘America. The class of '79 was entertained this even- ing at the home of Governpr Pardee in Sac- ramento. A dinner was served and a large number of the class, of which Governor Par- dee was one, re present. A big delegation from the Young Women's Christian Associatfon left on the afternoon train for Capitola to attend the annual con- ference of college women's assogiations. The conference will begin with an opening address this evening by M'ss Bertha Conde, national sécretary for the college women's associations It will continue every day until next Sunday | and many notable people will be present. The sebfors will visit, the usual places on the campus during the pllgrimage on class day, Monday morning. Richard OConnor will speak at the Le Conte oak, Scott Hendricks at | the senior oak, Max Thelen at South Hall, | Edwin Roadhouse at the agricuitural buflding, Miss Tallulah Le Conte at Hearst Hall, J. K. | Neighbor at the chemlstry building, Hamilton Fletcher at the mining building, Miss Martha Rice at the library, Edward Abenheim at the | ;nlef]hlnlu' bullding and Philip Carey at North | all. president of the university; chorus, | | | i —_———— Hawley Quits Berkeley. BERKELEY, May 14—Walter E.| Hawley, the university student who confessed to the embezzlement of $550 | from his employers, Mikkelsen & Berry, | and then saved himself from prosecu- tion by promising to repay the money, left town on the 6:35 o'clock lccal train this morning, bound for his home in | Los Angeles. He was accompanied by | his mother, who came from Los An- | geles to help him out of his trouble. | Hawley expects to take a position in | New Mexico. —_———— Stolen Outfit Recovered. OAKLAND, May 14—The horse, | wagon and harness stolen yesterday | from A. Bruschini, a vegetable peddler, were recovered to-dav by the police. | The horse and harness had been sold | by the thief to S. J. Parsons of 860 | Twenty-sixth street and the wagon | was found in the possession of Joe Lemos of Moraga Valley. —_———— Charges Are Dismissed. OAKLAND, May 14.—The charge against Frank Mendoza of cattle steal- ing has been dropped from the caien- dar. He has been tried four times for the offense and it is not believed by the District Attorney that the prosecu- tion can secure a conviction. ——— THE INSTRUCTIVE STORY OF TWO “MARKET LEADERS.” | | | The “Wheat King” of 1898 and the “Cotton King” of 1904, Although few if any people had pre- dicted so early a termination of the career of the ‘cotton market leader” as that of yesterday, few experienced financiers doubted that such an end would eventually come. Certain indica- tions in the career of “market leaders” are unmistakable, and one is the evi- dence that one success in a speculative venture has led the lucky adventurer to believe that his judgment was infal- | lible and his luck impregnable. The notable case in point that occur- red in May, 1898, suggested the outcome of the Sully operation. Even the “cot- ton clique’s” achievement of January, 1904, must yield for dramatic interest to the “Leiter” corner in wheat six years before. The speculator who fig- ured in that episode bought wheat as low as 65 cents a bushel. The short Eu- ropean supply and the Spanish war came in to help him; he put the price up on the 10th of May, 1898, to $1 85 per bushel. The newspapers chronicled his movement and serfous articles were written' (a foretaste of this year) to show what “young Leiter had done for the American farmer.” It was the burden of nearly all current comment that no onk had ever grasped the facts of the market more intelligently. What young Lelter did was to pur- chase on borrowed money contracts re- quiring delivery of 85,000,000 bushels. He sold a part, as Sully did of his, and even after the 10th of May had $5,000,000 clear paper profit to his credit. On June 13 he confessed insolvency. The consumer had refused to keep on buying, but the corner manipulator day celebration in Oakland on Monday. Many persons from here will attend the exercises and the West End Im- provement Assoclation will have a beautifully decorated vehicle in the parade in which will be seated twelve members of the organization. S —— . NEILL COMPANY TO GIVE “A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE"” Great Play of French Court Life Will Be Produced at the Liberty , Theater. OAKLAND, May 14.—"A Gentleman of France” will be the next attraction presented by the Neill company at Ye Liberty Playhouse. The play was adapted by Harriet Ford from Stanley Weyman's great French story, the scenes of which are laid in the courts of Henry II of France and Henry of Navarre. The hero, Gaston de Mar- sac, a soldler 6f fortune, plays a prom- inent part in the making of the latter’s fortune. % James Neill will appear in the char- ‘acter of De Marsac and Edythe Chap- man will play Madamoiselle de la Vire, the beautiful heroine of the play. Miss Chapman has appeared in a variety of characters since the first appearance of the company in this city and has proved herself an artist of ability. ————— Everything moves faster on'a down- grad:; especidlly a fast young man. could not stop. His creditors, therefore, found a way to make him do so. In 1898, as in 1904, news of the failure was culled a “bolt from the blue.” For twenty-four hours no one could under- stand it. After that interval, however, every one remembered that he had pre- dicted it all along. ‘With Leiter, as with his more recent imitator in another market, it could be sald that he showed a fair comprehen- sion of the conditions of supply, very great misunderstanding of the nature of demand, and total inability to distin- guish the proper limits of the use of credit. The moral is 80 old that noth- ing but a sensational case in point can interest the trained observer in it.— New York Evening Post. Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Saturday, 1 Etmr James S. Higgins, Higgins, 51 hours :!I:‘lp Falls of Clyde, Matson, 15 days from Y Stme Eaith, Hall, 92 hours trom Tacoma, SAILED. Lo " saturdey, May 14, Stmr Bronawick, Bilitsen. Fort Brags. 3 gr.'-nz t):'elll‘ N rg, Alblon. & Caty., _ The result of a cricket match in Mel- bourne was cabled to Londonm, 17,000 miles, through nine relays, in two and 4 half minutes. | Park. SHERIFF BISHOP WELL PLEASED Makes Semi-Annual Inspec- tion of All the Interior Towns of Alameda County CONDITIONS ARE GOOD Communities Are Law Abid- ing and Deputies Experi- ence but Little Trouble Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, May 14. Sheriff John N. Bishop has inaugu- rated a system of semt-annual inspec- | tions of the towns and districts in the | Interior of the county which are un-f der the immediate jurisdiction of his | deputies and he has just returned from a trip through the county. The Sheriff hoids that as the policing of the great- er part of Alameda County devolves upon the Sheriff’s office the work of the deputies should be kepit up to the highest possible standard. He be-| lieves that this can be best ac-| complished by a personal inspection, | and to this end has | introduced the new system. | In speaking of the conditions pre- vailing in the interior Sheriff Bishop said:. “I found nothing to criticize in the work of any of my deputies, and the conditions in the interior towns | | are perfectly satisfactory. The officers | are as a rule well liked and have little | difficulty in keeping the peace without ! trouble. My only reason for inspect- ing the offices of the deputies is that they may not become lax in the per- formance of their duties.” 2 ———— LARGE CROWD ATTENDS ‘ PETALUMA RACE MEET | Jockey Gregory Is Ruled Off the Track | | has been done there. for Life for Alleged Pulling of Sea Air. PETALUMA. May 14.—Twelve hun- | dred people, about four hundred of whom came from San Francisco, eat- tended the cpening day's racing of the Jockey Club meet to-day at Kenilworth The track was in good condi- tion and the card was run off with dispatch. Horace Egbert was presid- ing judge, C. J. Jeffries of Spokane, | Wash., associate judge; F. E. Mulhol- | land, starter, and 8. J. McGibben, clerk | of scales. The following bockmakers | had charge of the betting: George Rose, W. P. MacGrane, Paul Ridley and H. L. Jones. G. Bullman, brother of the famous | jockey, J. Bullman, now with August Belmont, won his first race on Nullah. Jockey Gregery was ruled oft the | track for life for the alleged pulling of Sea Air in the second. races start- ed promptly at 1:15 and the six events were finished at 4 p. m. The winning of George P. McNear, Harry Stover's Petaluma horse, created enthusiasm among the local people present. The events resulted as follow First race, selling, purse $300, six fur- longs—Nullah (104) first, Step Around (102) second, Chileno (106) third. Time, | 1:15%. Second race, purse $200, four fur- longs—George P. McNear (108) first, Sea Air (105) second, Light of Day (105) third. Time :48%. Third race, selling, purse $200, one | mile—Leash (107) first, Fleurish (118) second, Searcher (118) third. Time, #ourth race, purse $200, five furlongs —Albemarle (114) first, Mimo (114) sec- ond, Suburban Queen (112) third. Time, 1:0235. Fifth race, selling, purse $200, six | furlongs—The Pride (113) first, Dr. | Sherman (111) second, The Lieuten- ant (94) third. Time, 1:15%. Sixth race, selling, purse $200, one mile—Tannhauser (98) first, Judge Voorhies (105) second, Moor (118) third. Time, 1:43%. —————e—— RECORD-BREAKING CROWD ON THE BOWLING GREEN i Rev. Dr. Logan Defeats Charles Adams by Score of 21 to 17 After a Great Game. The largest crowd of the season was attracted to the new bowling green at Golden Gate Park yesterday. The spectators were treated to some excel- lent bowling in both tournament and practice play. The best tournament match was a doubles in which J. Eaton and Dr. Hamilton beat Y. C. Lawson and Alex Craig. The latter were expected to win, but their op- ponents proved too clever for them, winning by the close score of 21 to 19. Four tournament matches were played in singles. By far the closest was that in which the Rev. Mr. Logan beat Charles Adams, 21 to 17. Dr. Gunn proved too strong for J. 8. Web- ster. The score was 21 to 13. The other two matches were one-sided. T. G. Aitken beat J. S. Black, 21 to §, and 7. L. Crowe beat D. Dalziel, 21 to 6. The best practice match was that in which M. L. Crowe and Willlam Hamilton beat J. T. Dare and H. L. Tickner. The score was 21 to 20. The following other practice matches were played: W. . Stewart and Joseph Gray beat J. C. Moffatt and J. Reld. 21 to 18; R. McBean beat R. Calhoun, 21 to 8:; Moffatt beat Thomas McNaught, 21 to 9; James Gray and J. M. McLachlan beat R. Park and G. C. Patterson, 21 to 17; A. Wilkie and Y. C. Lawson beat D. O'Brien and A. B. Maguire, 21 to 18; Dalzlel beat W. R. Eaton, 21 to 12. ————— PALO ALTO PLAYERS WIN FINAL GAME OF LEAGUE Defeat Baseball Team of Lick High School After a Decidedly The baseball team of the Palo Alto High School defeated the Lick team athletic grounds diamond in the final game for the ' Academic Athletic League championship. The score was 16 to 4 In favor of the visitors from the south. The game was the visitors' from the first inning to the last. | open and free admission given to a METCALF SEES WORLD'S FAIR Returns to Alameda County With Praises for Its G‘ood‘ Display in St. Louis ————— HARBOR TO BE IMPROVED | Congressman Speaks Hope-! fully of What Is Yet to Be Done for Coast by Law _— OAKLAND, May 14.—Congressman Victor H. Metcalf arrived at his home here from Washington this evening greatly improved in health after his| recent iliness. Both he and Mrs. Met- | calf express themselves as being de- lighted to get back and are in the best of spirits. They were at St. Louis for a few days to view the World's Fair and speak in high praise of the show- | ing that Alameda County has made there by its display. Congressman Metcalf was very tired after his journey, but he found time to say that the last session of Congress had not been without results and that next year would see the fruits borne by the work which had been done. In speaking of the improvement of Oak- land harbor he said: kins and myself have the assurance of General McKenzie, chief engineer of the War Department, of an addi- tional survey of the harbor calling| for a depth of 25 feet by 500 feet in | width to Fulton street. This means a great deal for Oakland, as it will ad- mit of deep water ships coming right up to our wharves. The work now under way will be continued until we can get another appropriation next winter. “At St. Louls I was specially in- terested in Alameda County's exhibit and cannot say too strongly of what | California has one of the most striking displays in the Liberal Arts butlding. Of course Kansas and Missouri have made spe- cial efforts, but California will hold its own. | ! | “Senator Per- — - — VENTURESOME BOYS IN THE BULL RING. | Swarmed Through the Gate, Over the Fence, and Made Animal Weary. . It would seem from an account given by a Kansas man that the Mexican bull fight is considerable of a bluff, | that it does not require the skill, cour- | age and agility to be a bull fighter that most have believed. Frank Dibert of | Eureka was visiting in EI Paso and went to a bull fight across the lines of | Juarez. For the Eureka Méssenger he writes a full description of what he saw, concluding as follows: “Durirg the two hours’ .port six horses and seven bulls were engaged in | the fight and two horses and three bulls were killed and quickly dragged from the ring by a mule team. The eques- trian part of the sport was a roaring farce, very much like Don Quixote's fight with the windmill. In the last round of the bull fight an American feature was introduced that nearly took our breath. An outer gate was thrown hundred boys ranging from 12 to 18/ years of age, mostly El Paso kids. The boys did not wailt to enter the inner gates leading to the arena, but swarm- ed over the fences into the bull ring from every side. A fresh bull met the boys in the center and semed dazed at the dare-devil spirit of the American kid. This was a feature of the buil fight not advertised, and of which I had never heard. However, the boys exhibited more bravery and fearless. ness in tackling the big, wild, wiry bull than the armeg and tralned bull fighters. They had no weapons but their wamusseés and sombreros, with which they teased and pelted the bull Some of the smaller kids pulled the bull'® tall, while others went close in front and threw their coats over his horns. They finally worried the bull so much that he ran to the gate and bawl- ed to get out. The boys then actually culled to the manager and pleaded for a fresher and wilder bull."—Kansas City Journal. ———— - . Points About “Esperanto.” The following will give som. idea of the new language. This is part of a verb: Ami, to iove; amanta. loving: aminta, having loved; amonta, about to love; amata, being loved; amita, hav- ing been loved; mi amas, I love; vi amis, you loved; il amos, he will love; ni amus, we should love; ili estas am- ata, you are loved. These forms will hardly strike the average reader as any loveller than those with which they may be acquainted from old grammars. It cannot be any. more difficult to learn to say “amo,” or “Ich liebe,” or “j'aime.” than it is to say " Then, in Esperanto, there are other things, such as feminines in “in,” diminutives in “et” and au in- troductory “cu’ as a question mark. “These particulars.” we are told, “are particularly useful in constructing words.” For instance, “pli” means “more.” “Pli bona” is “bette: “mal- pli bona” is “less good” and “pli mal- bona” “worse.” “Ig” means the art of making, -and bona is “good”; so “bonigo” means “making good” and “pli bonigo,” “making better” or “im- provement.”—New York Press. —— ‘Was Very Observant. As in the Eastern church Lent ex- tends for forty-eight days before East- er, and the fast is most rigorous, its obsecrvance will entail considerable suf- lterln‘ upon the Russian soldiers in semi-arctic Manchuria. All flesh must be abstained from after Sexagesima Sunday, and from the Monday in Quin- quagesima until Easter neither cheese nor eggs may be eaten. Any infringe- ment is severely regarded. For the murder of his mother a ik was sent to Siberia. On the wmc con- Xammm’.znmmm was Lent, the landlord, being a Jew, brought out meat. my father also rather than eat mea in Lent."—New York Tribune. !‘ { sumed. C LAMEDA » SAVES LIVES OF MINERY Engineer Remains at Post When Fire Breaks Out to Hoist Them From Shaft BRAVE FIGHT MAKES Men Would Have Perished in the Lower Levels but for His Heroiec Conduct Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANE, Wash., May 14— Prompt action by Engineer Hooper in the Evolution mine at Osburn, Idaho, saved three miners from death by fire at an early hour this morning. The miners were working in a shaft 150 feet below the surface when a fire broke out from the firebox of the boiler lacated in a shafthouse cover- ing the open shaft. Engineer Hooper discovered the fire, which communi- cated itself in a few seconds to the shafthouse. He gave the signal to the underground men to come to the sur- face and stood at his post managing the hoist uptil the men reached the top, when all rushed from the now rapidly burning building. There was no time to save anything and had the engineer attempted to extinguish the flames before signaling the men below they would have perished. The shaft- house, blacksmith shop and much of the timbering of the. mine was con- Loss $4000, no insurance. ———————— Liner Alameda Salls. The Oceanic Steamship Company's liner Alameda, Captain Dowdell, sailed yesterday for Honolulu with a full cargo and passengers, among whom were the following named: J. B. Agassiz, Leonard G. Browne, Miss Grace M. Cooke, T. H. Desbrow, J. D. Kennedy, A. Popple, J. Suther- land Ross, Miss A. R. Thompson, Ira Wells, Miss Laura Weils, Ward Wells, Harry Cushman, M. Xatrer, Mrs. L. Rider, G. R. Robinson, A. A. Bartlett, M. Salis, Marquis Tavares, G. W. Schriver, A. Kunst and M. Ahe. e giaisiats ‘Will Sail on Puebla. Chief Officer Harry Gaukroger of the steamship Doric leaves to-day on the City of Puebla for Victorla to visit his | mother who resides at the British Col- umbia city. The Dorie will make an unusually long stay in port, not leav- ing for the Orient until June 1. This gives Mr. Gaukroger an opportunity for which he has been looking for some time as, although the distance between here and Victoria Is compara- tively short, the Doric’s sojourns in port have also been brief. —_— Tows Schooner to Siuslaw. The Spreckels tug Dauntless, Cap- tain Shea, returned yesterday from Siuslaw. She left here May 9 with the schooners Oakland and Sacramento in tow and on Friday left her charges off Siuslaw. In spite of the fact that the trip north was made in the teeth of a stiff northwester, the Dauntless made good time. e —— The Overdue List. There was no change made yester- day in the rates of reinsurance on the vessels posted on the loocal overdue list. The Carroliton is quoted at 15 per cent; Lamorna and Lamoriciere at %0 per cent; Lurlei at 15 per cent, and the Conemaugh ‘at 65 per cent. g ()R‘Mhll/ Arrives. The American Eawalian Steamship Company’'s big freighter Oregonian from Honolulu with a cargo of sugar, passed Delaware Breakwater May 13. Pl 0505 ok Time Ball Branch Hydrographic Office, U. 8 N., Mer. chants' Exchange, San Francisco, Cal., May 14, 1904, The Time Ball on the tower of the Ferry building was dropped exactly at noom to-day— I e. at moon of the 120th meridian_or at 3 P. m. Greenwich time. J. C. BURNETT. Lieutenant, §. N.. In charge. —_— e —— Largest Locomotive in World. The Schenectady plant of the Amer- ican Locomotive Works has under way the building of the largest locomotive in the world. It is to be the Mallet articulated type, will weigh 465,000 pounds when Jcompleted, which is 207% tons, and is intended for freight work on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road. The machine will be of the tan- dem compound style, with a peculiar arrangement of drive wheels and cyl- inders. It is being built as an exper- iment, and is intended for use as a helper on the mountain divisions of the road. The heaviest engine now in use on the Baltimore and Ohio weighs 162% tons. The new locomotive will have 320.- 000 pounds on the drivers, a tender weighing 130,000 pounds with coal ca- pdcity of 13 tons and a water capacity of 7000 galions. The wheel base is to be 303 feet; the traction power 70, 000 pounds, and on a perfectly level track the engige is expected to haul o:/er 10,000 tons.—New York Commer- cial. —_———— He Kept His Seat. The near-sighted man, comfortably ensconced in the corner of the car, looked up at the woman who was hold- ing a large bundle in one hand while she clung to the strap with the other. “Madam,” said he, a wave of sud- den generosity sweeping over him, “I make it a rule never to give my seat up to any one, but I will be glad to help you. Let me hold your bundle for you. “Oh, thank you, sir,” replied the fair passenger, “I hope you know how.” ‘Whereupon she deposited a gurgling six months’ old infant m his lap, to the undisguised joy of the rest of the strapholders.—Cincinnati Times-Star.