The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1904, Page 9

THE SAN FR FRAZIER TAKES WIITING'S JOB Changes Announced in the 6eneral Management of the California Northwestern ARE EFFECTIVE TO-DAY New Head of Company Was Formerly a Superintendent of the Southern Pacific former superin- on of the and t of the Toledo, n later later Railway, will eral manager ther Hereafter he will hasing agent of posit alifornia N - of entering on RECEREEEETS T S Ly OF CROSS CADETS AGUE GET READY FOR CONTEST Companies Are Chosen to Compete Frida it at Mechanics’ Pa- vilic Tre Trophies. d to Com- erect an e floor of the Pa- on the ge will iding n Re- on gale this d building. ——— s on Schools. cation issued a cir- ting that the flag »olhouses on the one h anniver- Will Display f F ng relieved from lay, June 3. Pu- their homes are flowers to the w for gathering by the —_————— For Bunker Hill Day. of Bunker Hill day the 3unker Hill American ms of Vermont and alifornia Pioneers. Los invited the societies to Park and the imwvitation bably be accepted. The War has been reguested to alute fired from the s in the harbor on the day. ety of H Bunker il pro y 25.—Lazard Freres 5,000 gold at the assay to Paris to-morrow, being tainabl 10 days and see if is the trouble. Mean- time use Postum 'EX-BALL PLAYER KELLY .~ ROUTS FEMALE ACCUSER In the Court of Judge Cabaniss He Proves That It Was in His Struggle to Disarm Miss Gertie Williams of a Razor That She Was Slashed Ac There are baseball fans of long standing in this community who will learn withs gratification that Al Kelly, 1 r idol, was not the mur- derou otch that Miss Gertie Wil- llams depicted in her complaint charg- ing him with having slashed her face with a razor at 171 Minna street. While less notorious than the Kelly of Bos- ton, whose ability made him the first $10,000-a-year prize beauty of the pro- fession, and while his fame did not spread as extensively as that of his il- lustrious namesake of Philadelphia, whose to the plate wrested vic- sry from the jaws of defeat and was ned ve this California in : Kelly was the pride of the bleachers nd the glory of the grand stand when ral consecutive seasons he twirled the spheré for the San Fran- sco team and struck out fts rivals. when King Alcohol at last ed him out of the box he was ac- anied to the shelf by the regrets d winning tickets. These are the who will be glad to hear that Miss Willlams exaggerated her portrayal. Judge Cabaniss dismissed the charge of assault with a deadly weapon after he had heard the evidence. Kelly stat- ed that the complainant and a young woman named Minnie Rice, both armed 1 when he butted in to prevent d, whereupon Miss Williams ed her weapon upon him and cut his upper lip and cheek before he suc- ceeded In wresting the blade from her hand. of the weapon the woman's face was hed accidentally. In court she uld t disprove the defendant's statem Minnie Rice, the other woman in the ised to return to her hus- pectable living if Judge dismiss the charge of cy on which she was arrested at or work, and his 1 for it. mal complaint has been st Mrs. Anna Speakman, attempting to murder by cutting her st Thursday ed with Lefevre ving knife the Spes took pla and M Walker charges Mrs akman with hav- ed, her h a deadly same carving knife—by hile she was at- fight. Mrs. Shaw 0, was cut by Mrs, weapon while she was en- restore peace, but Mrs. d formal complaint. re set for June 4 before ph Egan, alias “Kid,” is held in $ stand trial in the Superior charge of brutally beating stableman. The prelimi- nation was before Judge similarly ac- Judge Frits, ney for the complainant Quirk, at whose house J. J. is a boarder, paid the $10| ne pleaded inability to pay for port of his minor child. Judge e stallment and con- Heaney on having modating landlady. W 7 In substantiation of his charge that seorge Ske, a diminutive Jap, had a lottery ticket in his posses- the complaining policeman sub- ted as evidence a sheet of rice pa- hat looked as if an ink-soaked e had crawled over it. George 1s exhibiting it to a compatriot hen the 2 est was made. “How do you know,” inquired the defendant’s attorney, flourishing aloft the e “that this is a lottery ticket you ready to swear that it is not a Japanese love letter or a of the Port Arthur fortifica- the complaining witness was 't to swear any such thing. Then - conceded that the document was a Chinese lottery tick- et, but it had been issued more than year ago and was preserved as a iriosity by his client. Dismissal of defendant by Judge Mogan. . s e From the walistband of Charles R. Brewer's trousers protruded the han- dle of a 45-caliber Colt’s revolver as he sauntered along Pacific street Tuesday evening, and when arrested for having in his possession a deadly weapon he expressed great surprise. “Down in Geowgia, suh,” he said to Judge Cabaniss, “a gentleman is not interfeahed with by the police so long as his weapon is in plain sight. It was igno'ance of yo' law, suh, that | led to my arrest.” Then he went on to state that be- fore he left his native Georgia to tour the great West he heard that the Barbary Coast of San Francisco was a rather tough slum, and it was for self-protection only that he packed a pistol while inspecting it. “Yo' must allow, suh” he added, | “that if T had been ha'bohing feloni- |ous intent I wouldn’t have made a public exhibition of my revolvah.” He wes dismissed. . | Martin Hannon says he is not the | John Doe who assaulted William A. Lucas of 2251 Mission street on a | Kentucky-street car one evening of |last week, and he resents his arrest for the offense, because he bears few or none of the physical characteristics described in the warrant issued for the arrest of John Doe. Moreover, he |can prove an alibi strong enough to convince Judge Mogan that Mr. Lu- |cas has another guess coming as to the identity of his assailant. The | case will be called next Monday. B8 The | . “Ah want ter be arranged wif | Gawge,” said Miss Selma Taylor | (quadroon) when she was placed be- {fore Judge Magan and accused of bat- tery. “You mean ‘arraigned,’ I presume, his Honor suggested. “Yis, sir; an’ ef it pleases de coht, razors, were about to engage in | In the struggle for possession | ross the Face and He Was Cut Ise purfeh a juhy trile.” “All the luxuries of this depart- ment are yours to command,” re-| sponded the Bench.. “But who is! ‘Gawge?' Miss Taylor explained that George Smith, also colored, was the person with whom she desired to sink or swim. He was arrested with her and pleaded that he was a professional musician. “The joint inning is set for May was the court’s order. 5\ e Henry Wehner pleaded guilty to having obtained $50 from a money lender by means of a false order, and | Judge Mogan will sentence him to- | day. 217, Mrs. Peter McGrath, who had her husband arrested for hirling a stone matchbox at her head, was in re- pentant mood when she appeared be- fore Judge Mogan, and her tears| flowed freely as she requested lenient treatment for her only means of sup- port. The case was continued till June 1 to give Mr. McGrath oppor- tunity to show that he intends to re- form. Matilda Peterson confessed that her yachting costume¢ was worn simply and solely because it enhanced her personal attractiveness, and then she expressed intention to return to her home in| Haywards if Judge Mogan would dis- miss the charge of vagrancy on whlchj she had been brought before him. Never was aboard a yacht in my | life,”” she confessed, “and bought these clothes just because they are becom- | Ing.” She was ordered to cross the bay on a ferry-boat. CISCO CALL, TH | weight of brass filings, but the singular | keep a junk store on Third street and | i he should buy for $18,000 a burden that e { A jury in Judge Mogan's court will hear the case against Manuel Magglo, accused of offering for sale in his store on Washington street a striped bass | that was several ounces less than three | | pounds in weight. The trial has been | set for June 1. 4 i Fred Box and Arthur Cox were the names given by two young ironwork- ers charged with having Chinese lot- | tery tickets in their possession. “That's an improvement on Doe and Roe,” said Judge Mogan, “and is less monotonous than Smith and Jones or Brown and Robinson. Case continued.” .5 e Abraham Lincoln Frickes, who came down from Healdsburg with a check for 875 in his possession, was in the company of known thieves when a po- liceman rescued him and placed him in the city prison for safe keeping of his wealth. As he sat in Judge Fritz's courtroom the human harpies hovered in the corridors awaiting his release, but Balliff Conlan spotted them and aw to it that Mr, Frickes was not re- stored to their company. e-— CHARGES OF FRAUD MADE IN MINING DEAL ! Fifteen Thousand Shares of Stock the | Basis of a Suit in the United | States Court. i Suit was filed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court by Bert Schlesin- ger on behalf of the Pine Hill Consoli- dated Mining Company against Joseph | Rosenthal to recover 15,150 shares of the capital stock of the company and coste of court. The complaint alleges that when the plaintiff bought certain mining property in Nevada County in July of last year the defendant falsely {and fraudulently represented that it would be necessary to pay to the Seal Rock Gold Mining Company 15,150 ghares for its interest, and that J. Thomas Carlson was the representative | who was to receive the stock. It is al-| leged that these representations were false. —_———— Say Taxes Should Be Refunded. A communication was received yes- terday by the Board of Supervisors from Brand & Brand, a law firm, in | which it is held that under a decision of the Supreme Court, dated April 1, 1904, the Supervisors may, under sec- tion 3804 of the Political Code, refund taxes illegally levied without the neces- sity of claimant alleging involuntary payment or payment under protest. The firm takes the ground that the taxes pald under the special levy for schools and a hospital must be re- turned to the great body of small tax- payers whose means did not permit them to engage legal services for the purpose of protesting and bringing an action against the city. —_———— Wants to Be Fire Commissioner. Among the aspirants for the pros- pective vacancy on the Fire Commis- slon as the result of Commissioner Maestretti’s promotion to the Board of Public Works are Willlam Finnegan, Horace Perrazzi, Stephen A. Byrne, Fred Myers and J. Daughney. It is said that Byrne stands a chance for appointment since he is credited with | having done good work in the Thirty- third district for Mayor Schmits. Byrne | is a collector for the gas company. —_————— Refuses to Redeem Bonds. The attorney of the Union Trust Company has presented seven Montgomery-avenue bonds to City Treasurer McDougald for redemption. McDougald refused to pay the amount demanded, $9000, representing the face value of the bonds and the at- tached coupons, on the ground that| there are no funds in his possession | for the purpose. The attorney will ! make McDougald's refusal to redeem | the bonds the ground for bringing a suit against the city to compel pay- ment. ———— I Log Cabin! “The bread with a flavor” * your dealer—wholesale—900 Dolores st. —_——————— Finds Body in Bay. Antone Guilizzi, a fisherman, resid- ing at 1323 Montgomery avenue, found a corpse floating in the bay off Fort Mason at a quarter past 5 o'clock yes- terday morning. The body was that of a man and had been in the water between one and two months. The features are unrecognizable. The clothing was dark and well worn, the trousers being held in place by a piece of hay rope, and strands of rope being used as shoe laces. R Hills Bros.' Arabian Roast is new fresh, yet old and mellow. Ask . and . {lives at 405 Bush street, this city. He | first start in Nevada. COHN'S BRICK VEILS MYSTERY Aged Vietim and Brother With Whom He Quarreled Will Not Ask for Warrant BLACKMAIL IS CHARGED Man Refuses to Complain and Police Are Powerless to Pursue Investigation e Mpystery veils the pecullar transac- tion wherein aged Elkan Cohn tried to have a “gold brick” coined at the Mint on Tuesday. The spurious ingot would have been worth $25,000 had it been gold. The evidence shows that Cohn al- most fainted when he discovered that his brick was as worthless as an equal feature of the case is that he declines to prosecute the man who swindled him. Cohn is a money lender who has of- fices in the Crossley building at the | corner of Second and New Montgomery | streets. The man who sold him the brick is Max Guttel, who is said to who lives at 1556 Railroad avenue. Ac- cording to Cohn'} office employes Gut- tel has devoted most of his time to the | race track. Blackmailing is strongly charged by Cohn's friends as the real cause why & was worthless. It is openly stated that Guttel formerly imposed on Cchn to the extent of $7000 and gave him the | “gold brick,” valued at $25,000, to settle the account. COHN REFUSES TO TALK. | Cohn refuses to discuss the case. He | stated that he did not care to talk about the “gold brick” story. Appar- ently he is much broken in health and mind. He is rated as a millionaire and has a brother, Moritz Cohn, who is also supposed to be wealthy, and who is seemingly taking a keen interest in | the alieged robbery of the elder broth- er. He reported the transaction to the | Police Department Tuesday pight, but has failed to make good nhis promise to have his brother swear to a complaint. In such a state is the affair that there | can scarcely be a prosecution of Gut- t el. Elkan and Moritz Cohn made their | They accumu- | lated money, but they fought. The | cords of the Nevada courts are bur- | dened with the suits over real estate between the two brothers. In this city Moritz Cohn has sa eral times | that he wished to have his brother | declared mentally incompetent. | GUTTEL CHOKES COHN. | One of the features developed was that neighboring tenants in the Cross- ley building heard screams from El- kan Cohn’s office and when they rush- ed in they found Guttel choking him. At other times Guttel is said to have beaten the old man. Cohn's friends say that Guttel has sold three resi- dences in the Richmond district to Cohn and received the money for them. Investigation, it is said, proved that Guttel had no ownership in the proper- ty. Altogether, they estimate, Guttel has secured more than $30,000 from the elder Cohn. It is stated that a prom- inent attorney of the city is mixed up in the alleged swindles. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Cap- tain Martin sent Detective Tom Gibson out to make inquiries. Gibson accom- panied Moritz Cohn to Alameda, where it was supposed Guttel would be found. There it was learned that he had left for Chicago the night before. Gibson stated that from the actions of Moritz Cohn and his brother neither of them wanted the accused man arrested. —————————— Falls Into River and Is Drowned. SACRAMENTO, May 25.—William Leslie, who went to work this morning to unload rock from a barge at a break in the levee south of this city, fell into the water and was drowned. Leslie’s home was in Bellview, Pa. | icle building, | of Market street JRSDAY, MAY 26, 1904. FREES TYNER AND BARRETT Jury Returns Verdict of Ac- quittal on Charge of Con- spiracy in Postal Cases DEFENDANT COLLAPSES| Counsel for the Prosecution Makes Desperate Effort to Counteract Sympathy e WASHINGTON, May —Within twenty-two minutes of the retirement of the jury in the case of James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett, tried on charges of conspiracy in connec- tion with their duties as law officers of the Postoffice Department, a verdict of not guilty was rendered. The throng which filled the court room throughout the arguments to the jury hardly had time to leave the building before the jury was back and the foreman an- nounced that a verdict had been reach- {ed. General Tyner, expecting a longer wait, had been wheeled from the room and his nephew and co-defendant has- tened to give an order which caused him to return. General Tyner appeared greatly ex- cited as he attempted to face the jury and when the verdict was returned he broke down completely. Several of the | jurors wept with him and all of them shook hands with him. The Tyner-Barrett case was begun on May and has been before the ‘court f inetéen full days. The principal arguments made to- day were by A. S. Worthington, for the defense, and Major Holmes Conrad, special counsel for the Government for the prosecution. The latter directed his efforts almost entirely to an at- tempt to counteract any influence on the jurors’ verdict which might result | from sympathy with General Tyner. He told the jury that they had no right | to entertain sympathy for General Ty- ner, nor the young wife of Barrett, who was a witness in the defendants’ be- half. —_——————— DECORATION DAY HOLIDAYS. Special Excursion Rates. For the three holidays, Saturday, Sun- day and Monday, May 28, 29 and 30, the California Northwestern Ry., the Pictur- esque route of California, will make one fare for the round trip from San Fran- cisco to all points on the road, except euburban. These tickets will be good | geing Saturday, Sunday or Monday, with | the return limit Tuesday. May 31. This| will give many an opportunity to get out into the country for a short trip just when it is at its prettiest. Get a copy_of “Vacation 1904, look over it,| and take a pleasant trip during these | three days and at the same time arrange | for vour summer outing. On Monday. | May 30, the train will leave Camp Vaca- tion at 5 p. m.; Russian River Heights | at 5:10 p. m.; Guernewood Park at 5:15 m., and Guerneville at 5:20 p. m.; from Glen Ellen at 6:15 p. m. Both trains will stop at intermediate points, | arriving in San Francisco at 8:45 p. m. Ticket offices 650 Market street, Chron- and Tiburon Ferry, foot — e LOS ANGELES WAREHOUSES ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE Authorities Are of the Opinion That the Blaze Was Started by an Incendiary. LOS ANGELES, May 25.—A fire broke out during the early hours to- | day in the warehouse of the Los| Angeles Lime Company ag 2365 East Second street, and quickly spread to the adjoining warehouse of the Home Telephone Company, and the building occupied by the Los Angeles Steam Carpet Cleaning Company, destroying all three structures, with a total loss of $10,000. The fire was evidently of incendiary origi SANTA CRUZ, May 25.—The first campers have arrived In the State Sempervirens Park. bles being erected will be ready for cy by June 1 and a dally stage ser- 1 be Inaugurated. ADVERTISEMENTS. /> in the history of It is a genuine in- novation and at once expresses grace, architectural beauty and the highest de- velopment of tone power and purity. The appreciation shown everywhere for the NEW SYSTEM CONOVER .Piano proves not only its merit, but evinces the high de- gree of musical in- telligence that exists throughout America, Come in now and examine this beautiful piano_ production. 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