The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1904 « NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA BURGLARS FIRE Men Exchange Thirty Shots With Deputy Constables Dearborn and Murdock —_—— HOT FIGHT AT STATION —_—— et No Booty, but ~afely tle - RBobbers Escape After Bat in Wagon Is Ended thirty place. - The men we Prcific station at shots were ex- M bailie crangrd o0k the Reamhern WEDDINGS. By Zoe Green Radcliffe. ome Lelng that of Mr. Heimke, and the othe: pretty giri—a pro- ng ber short sojourn active part in sev- table events. Her = brother of Miss . Oz Welnesday next Miss Ruth Kales win | £ive & rowing party on the lake for Mise Han- B Mrs. Louise Allender is at Los Gatos. P B ® Mise Evelyn Hussey is entertain: Miss Fiorence Bioper s .BQ Lomond. s The engagement of Miss Hazel Armstrong and George C. Johnson has been Miss Armstrong oh land High Echool and 258 year there o of the Oak- was president during ber he Girls’ Giee Club. . Mr. and Mrs. A. 'W. Kirkiand cupying their Harrison-street LT P Mrz. Ass Vertser Mendenhall has sent out | ber &t home cards and will receive the f: Monday of each month. £ R Mrs. 3. C. Eaton has also ment out cards for st and third Wednesdays, at her home on Boulevard Terrace. .2y Broadwell has returned from a it with Mrs. T. C. Shankland in County. Wil Etandeford and Dr. Shannon are driving through Mendo-ino County, making the trip is ehsy stages ad stopping wherever faney tates They expect fo be away about weeks Among those who are planning to vieit the exposition at St. Louis in the fail are Mr. an Mes. E. J. Cotton. Mrs. Edger Biehop and her i - ter. Stins Cordeila Bishop, ace home aesie ehey a proionged sojourn at Rowa: o e W The I, G. dennan week. Allens have returned from Rowar- Mre ¥ B Mehrmann and the Misses Curdts are at McCray's “Old Hmnmgl.‘!orl u-ec.nu- #ien River. Dr. Mehrmann ie enjoying & hunt. ing trip in Mendocino County. » D 4 E mother, Bire. Patn omee 0 Vieltis her e Jury Acquits “Sam” Fisher, BERKELEY, July 22—A jury in are again oc- | bome. Mrs. Harry Maxwell will return mext | PICNIC LEADS Two Young Couples Desert Their Homes, Causing Sen- sation in East Oakland LOVERS MEET AT OUTING Joseph Pacheco and Manuel Frates Disappear With Jes- sie Nilva and Lizzie Fella — Oakland Office San F sco Call, Broadway, July 2 Four young people of Bast Oakland are missing from their homes and their families n » bel hat they are participants in a doul pe- ment. The y ¥ Lizzie Feila, Joseph Pac ung folks are Jessie Silva co and Man- eared s he Portugues Shell Mou The parent for the elope- Pacheco is 20 va is 17 ed at 917 Eas ears oid, and for the ociety’s t surprise. blame ther. Miss S who I ears of age and nuel Frates, however, since last ebruary because her lov a, bad deserted he: ———— ALIGHTS FROM FLECTRIC CAE AND DROPS DEAD John An- dersc Charles B. McCarthy of Berkeley Dies Suddenly in Alameda and Au- topsy Will Be Held. MEDA, July 22.—Charles B McCarthy, 2 mining man residing at 2229 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, dropped dead this ernoon at the corner of ta Clara avenue and Webster street er alighting from an electric. car. he fell McCarthy was conveyed 1e West End pharmacy and Dr. Leech was pummoned to attend but R. m d life extinct. De onér Henry Quellin of Ozkland was notified and secured per- mission for the Health Officer, Dr. L. W. Stidham, to have McCart taken to Berkeley. ¥'s body An autopsy to de- the cause of death will be McCarthy was a widower, 68 of 2g=, a native of Boston, Mass ————— PROHIBITIONISTS TO HOLD RATIFICATION MEETING Members of the Party Plan a Big Rally at Hamilton Hall in Oakland. OAKLAND, July 22.—Members of | Prohibitionist party of this city 1 to-merrow evening at Hamilton Hzll ratify the nomination of Swallow | and Carroll. The principal addresses of the evening will be delivered by | the Rev. Dr. John A. B. Wilson of San Francisco and J. M. Glass of Pas- adena. | The other speakers will be Mi | Ethel Cook, R. E. Blight, the Rev. E. F. Dinsmore, Harvey Parker, the Rey. Thomas A. Boyer, the Rev. George Morris, the Rev. E. A. Tade and the | Rev. Joseph Peale. | —————— Kills Big Mountain Lion. | OAKLAND, July 22.—Deputy Sher- iff Fred Murdock has returned from | a hunting trip in the mountains back of Mount Hamilton. He brought back | the skin of a California mountain lion !and the antlers of three deer. The farmers of the district where the lion was killed presented Murdock with 2 set of resolutions of gratitude for killing the marauder, which had been doing much damage to stock. ————— B. Walker’s Funeral. OAEKLAND, July 22,—The funeral !of Thomas B. Walker, who was drowned in the Truckee River several days ago, took place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from James Taylor's un- dertaking parlors. The services were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Speers and the Rev. Mr. Baer and were held | under the auspices of the Knights of | Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic. —_——— Form Fruit Company. OAKLAND, July 22.—Articles of in- ,corporation of the Therman Fruit | Company of Sunol were filed to-day with -the County Clerk. The capital |stock of the corporation is $50,000, divided into shares of the par value of $10 each. The directors are E. D. | Carothers, H. R. Rupert, E. G. Rupert, E. E. Rupert, F. G. Rupert, J. W. Ru- pert and Irwin Passmore. ——— . i Marriage Licenses, ; OAKLAND, July 22.—The following | marriage licenses were issued by the | County Clerk to-day: Lloyd C. In- graham, 29, and Maude M. Plopper, Justice Samuel's court to-day ac- |21 Doth of Chicago; William. A. Dun- quitted “Sam” Fisher, a saloon-kesper, | COMOPON, 36, and Mattie B. Robinson, whose license was taken away from 5o Poth of San Fran o Manyel 7. him because of disorderly conduct, of | CES2riS. 51, Mission San Jose, and the charge of seiling liquor without a | M&ria Dolethea, 2% T wande. license. Three men testified that they | purchased beer and whisky at Pisher's F Arrested for Stealing Corn. place and no defense was attempted, . ALAMEDA, July 22.—Harry Heinze but the jury acquifted without hearing 'and Walter Thede, S8an Francisco lads, argument. : were arrested this morning by Police- GIRL STRUCK BY A WAGON Vo Cw{z l':epullor,-_c_w‘com A UCK A WAGON.—Oakland, and attémpting to take it to Fran- b Grcve . wat uneken down and puisiusss 0150 They ake detained in the City Prison awaiting advice from the trict Attorney as tp what on will be made of them, e MICHAEL AHEARN’'S TRAGIC ing on Government Job i r Sad icts Violent End of Oakiander Work-! n Nevada—Wife znd Daugh- News That Told of the Murdar 5% i DEATH PROPHESIED BY SEER ! |H. F. Dikeman. This evening H. 1 | GIVE A NAME 10 DEAD VAN Body Found in Berkeley | Hills Identified as That I of “Jackson Spires LIFTS VEIL OF MYSTERY Findings of the Autopsy Physician Clear Away Suggestion of Foul Play i e e me ! Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center street, July 22 8. Jackson Spires is the name of the { man whose body was found in Co-ed :Canyon on the State University | grounds yesterday by James von Loben . Seis. The identification is positive, hav- { jing been fixed by a sister of the man fand half a dozen other people whe knew him as “Jack” Spires when he iwu an employe of the Pacific Coast Lumber Company four years ago in Berkeley. | - The body was first recognized by a i | triend who came from San Frane { | this morring, a man who did not leave his name with the Coroner. When the news got abroad that the -body | “Jack” Spires was in the Morgue a i number of his old friends in town rec- ! ognized at once that he was the man who formerly lived and worked in | Berkeley. Among those who identified him were W. R. Wright, George { Thompson, S. J. Siil, Fred Foss and H. | Cory of the Union League Club of San Francisco ‘identified Spires. Mr. Cory said that he met him a | | week ago in San Francisco while he was walking along Ellis street. Spires was then standing near Corbett’'s sa- loon in company with Frank Moses, for- merly of Woodland, which was also the {home of Spires, Mr. Cory said that hé' had never heard that Spires was miarried or that he ‘ever masqueraded | under an assumed name. Spires was a heavy drinker and the came to Berkeley while under the in- ! | fluence of liquor and wandered about until he came to the spot in the hills| | where his body was found and lay | down, there contracted a chill that re- | sulted first in congestion of the lungs | {and heart and finally in death. The] | autopsy physician's findings bear out| | this theory and there is not any sug- | gestion of foul pla; | Spires was a native of Woodland and | 32 years of age. He was reared by his grandfather, S. G. Baker of Woodland, his parents being dead. His only other | | relatives ate an aunt, Miss Ella Baker | 7, - & - - & S & [ MICHAEL AHEARN £ AND RO AND WHOSE TRAC ACCORDING TOLD SEVERAL WEEKS AGO BY A FORTUN - 5 OAKLAND, July The violent | turned inside out and a gold watch and death of Michael Ahea man whose body we und yesterday in the Truckee River, mear Reno, Nev., wag predicted by a fortune teller and expected by his family. his daughter, Miss Kate Ahearn. The young woman said to-day: | “Several weeks 2go mother consulted a clairvoyant, who, among other things, foretold father’'s tragic death. The fortune teller predicted that he would die by violence. Mother has worried greatly over the prediction ever since. It made a deep and lasting impression on her mind and she could not get rid of it. When the news of | father’s death reached us, it was what | we all expected to hear.” | Ahearn's home was at 925 Pine street, this city, where his wife and three | daughters now live. His remains are | now at Reno awaiting shipment to his | family in Oakland. , the Oakland So say |and there was a rope about his neck. | His body was found floating in the stream and the particular location of | the assault is uncertain. | seems to have been the motive for the |ecrime. The victim’s pockets were | menths ago. Ahearn's skull was badly fractured | by the San $100 in coin, wh had when last seen peared. Ahearn who ha wn to have had disap- is the second Oakland man been found dead in the Truc- kee River within one week. Only a few days ago the ody of Thomas Brown Walker was taken from the waters of the river, but there is no evidence of a crime in this case. rn’s body was badly mangled when brought to Reno. His skull gave eviden of a brutal ault, after which a rope had been used in choking the unfortunate man. Mrs. Ahearn was not informed of the tragic death of her husband until late | this evening. She could suggest no explanation of her husband's death, but thought the motive for the crime, if one had been committed, must have been robbery. Ahearn left Oakland about six Francisco Construction | Company, but took a position with the Government in Nevada. He was em- ployeds in the construction of several Robbery | large irrigation canals in the western portion of the State and received a | good salary, Man Who Declares He Is Son of Mahajarah of Lahore Gets Six Months in Jail Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 22. Ramina Aramancha Singh. the self- styled Hindoo Prince, who declares he is the son of the Maharajah of Lahore, pleaded guilty to a charge of petty lar- ceny to-day before Superior Judge F. B. Ogden and was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or to serve six months in the County Jail. He was accused by a egerving man at Chris Buckley’s ranch of having stolen $62 50 and was arrested on a charge of grand larceny. nified a willingness to plead guilty to petty larceny. The District Attorney said the case against him was weak and advised that he be allowed to plead guilty to the minor charge. The “Prince” was somewhat taken aback at the severity of the sentence, as he returned the money taken from the man and pleaded gulity, -and thought that the limit was too much. Miss Mabel Falker, who, he says, has promised to become his wife, was in court to hear his sentence. She has been loyal to him through his trouble and as soon as he was sentenced visit- ed him in jail. The young woman is now trying to raise sufficient money to pay the fine. It is thought that tHe Oriental furnishings in the “Prince's” apartments at 105 Ellis street, San Francisco, may bring the necessary sum. L (et D S, S AN S ISt SIS St ey HINDOO PRINCE |ERDICT STILL PLEADS CUILTY | L AVES DOUBT Mystery of the Death of Dr. €. F. Hill Unsolved by a Ceroner’s Jury Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 22. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Dr. Charles F. Hill of Los Angeles, whose body, with a bullet in his brain, was found in the Piédmont hills last week, was unable to decide to-night whether the-case was one of murder or of sui- cide The evidence presented was not of a nature that would dispel a mystery and the jury returned an open verdict, | leaving the authorities to probe further !!nlo the matter, although there seems S urtevant, Edythe Chapman, Etta L.| NEW SPECIMEN OF FRUIT { but little disposition to do so, the sui- cide theory prevailing and all investi- gztion seemingly having been dropped. Mrs. M. L. Burrall, street, at whose home Dr. Hill resided for about six weeks previous to his death, told what she knew of the man, and then John William Chard, of 357 Geary street, San Francisco, who found the body, testified. Chard’s testimony was similar to the statements he has already made, and when he had con- cluded Under Sheriff J. J. Hanifin Jr. wae called. Hanifin told of his investi- gation, but stated that he could find no pistol, though one might be concealed in the underbrush near by. Dr. 0. D. Hamlin testified that he ‘had made the autopsy on the body of :the-deeeased, and that the wound might have been self-inflicted had the deceased Reld the revolver in’ his right He had been employed | of Woodland, and Mrs. Lee Larue of Yountville, his sister. The body will i ] | be shipped to Woodland for burial and | | { | the inquest will be held next Wednes- ‘ Illinois Tunnel Company Will Erect | | day night. | | J. R. Larue and L. A. Larue of San | | Francisco, brothers of Mrs. Larue’s | husband, identified Spires’ body to-| night. J. R. Larue said: | “Spires had been knocking around | San Francisco for several months since he left Woodland. He dranR heavily and in his cups would go to| Berkeley, his former home. A month | ago he was there while drinking. For | some time Spires had no steady work, spending most of his time around re- | scrts in San Francisco.” —_———— PROFESSOR TURNER RUNS WHOLE CIRCUS e | | American Historian Objects to His | Classrooms Being Turned Into a Wild West Show. BERKELEY, July 22.—If there are to be any circuses in his classrooms | during this summer school at the Uni- | Versity of California Professor Fred- | | erick Jackson Turner of the Univer- | | sity of Wisconsin and instructor in | American history, wants to run them himself. In other words, he is going | to swing the whip and be the only | ringmaster. At least, that is what he gave some of the men students to un- | derstand when he spoke the following word3s to-day in his class in history: | “If this is to be a Wild West show I want to have it understood that there is but one circus ring and that I will conduct that myself.” The suggestion for this curtain lec- ture is said to have come from the co- | ed element in the classroom, who ob- jected to the way the young men were cutting up in the back of the room. —_————— Stage Romance. L OAKLAND, July 22.—Lloyd C. In- graham and Miss Maude M. Plopper, both of Chicago and members of the Elmer Walters theatrical company now playing an engagement at the California Theater in San Francisco, were married heresto-day by Justice of the Peace W. R. Geary. The cere- mony was made very short in order that the pair could get back in time for the afternoon rehearsal. ‘They were accompanied by Mrs. ' Walters, wife of the company'; manager. Twelve New Teachers Named. o OAKLAND, July 22.—The names of tweive teachers who have been ap- pointed from the preferred list of pub- { lic school teachers were announced by | theory. regarding his death is that he| | storage | buildin be constructed five sto- ies below the st level and seven stories above 1 The floor on the et level will be a vast covered — BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN | ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Teiephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street Telephione Novth MANY INIONS G0 0N PARADE Oakland Cooks and Waiters| Hosts at a Social Event| at Their Headquarters | ALAMEDA. TWO THOU 'A.\[)A L8 7] A PO REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. They Entertain Members From San Franeiseo, Who' Attend Social in Numbers Alameda County Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 191§ Broadway, July 22 The Cooks’ and Waiters’ Internation- al Alliance held a reunion and night pa- | rade here this evening augmented by a large pumber from San Francisco unions. The occasion was a general social . planned by the local unions to which were invited unions Nos. 30, 41, 44 and 110 of San Francisco. Unions 31 and 525 of Oakland were the hosts. After the parade the throng was taken to the headquarters at Eighth street and Broadway, where refreshments were served. i The parade started at First and Webster streets, where the 8 o'clock train from San Francisco was met by the local unions. Five extra coaches attached to the regular train gave aec- commodation to fhe visitors who at- tended with a band. From First and Webster streets the parade went up to Broadway and up Broadway Fourteenth, down Fourteenth to Wash- ington. down Washington to Eight thence to the headquarte: There were 1000 men Roman candles were fired as the parade marched up the street and red fire il- luminated the thoroughfares. The com- mittees having the affair in charge are as follows: | Arrangements — Martin Gregorvitch F. G. Fentiman, C. Cow C. W. C. McBride, T. Voju lich, B. Sears, Harry E. Moore. Reception—Mrs. A. Babbendorfe, M May Babbendorfe, Miss Maggie K nedy, Alec Babbendorfe, Blass Cleclak J. Cooper, E. Wéir, T. Cletkovich, Kirchum. Dan Kiernan Entertainment—F. G. Fentiman, Ben- jamin Sears, William J. Jensen, C. McBride, J. Baccassia. The headquarters were filled to o flowing. Letters of regret at not b able to attend were read from Ma Eugene E. Schmitz of San Franci and Mayor Olney of this ecity, who is away on his vacation. Speeches were made by various officers of the differ ent organizations. —— e CHICAGO TERMINAL TO ss Structure Twelve Stories in Height. CHICAGO, July —Work gin at once on the new termir plant of the Illinois Tunne! Company to be constructed on the dock property just purchased along the west side of the river extending north from Taylor street. It proba- bly will be the largest structure bu for such purpeses, being twelve sto- fes and covering a ground space 440 feet wide and 699 feet long. The | freig rd for the receipt and ship- | e ment of goods over the steam roads. | by In the sub-basement fifty feet below | Tr2 will be the freight yard for the tun-| nel service, with switch tracks and lines leading underground to every | part of the business section of the ecity. —_—p————— CALIFORNIAN'S BOAT IS WRECKED IN NEW YORK Auto Craft Owned by F. C. Havens of Oakland Crashes Into a Car Filoat. NEW YORK, July —A sixty-five foot automobile boat owned by Frank C. Havens, a wealthy citizen of Oak- land, Cal., has been partially wrecked | in the East River. Four men were| aboard and the boat was moving rap- | vorce was idly when it collided with a car float. | Putnam agai Nearly six feet of the little craft's|ground of stem was torn away and some of the | granted to- passengers jumped to the float. be-| from Har Lipscomb lieving their craft was about to sink.|ground of incompatibility; A wrecking tug reached the scene| Young from Alice M. de Youns on quickly, however, and hoisted the |ground of desertion: Grace A. Morgan auto-boat out of the water. It is not| from David Morgan for desertion. known if the owner was aboard when | the collision occurred. —_——————————— FIRE IN A GROCERY RESULTS IN FATALITY Boys Accidentally Set Fire to Building and One Lad Loses a His Life. CHICAGO, July ~— Edward Schempp, eight years of age, was burned to death and his father, mother, three brothers and an uncle severely burned in a fire that de- stroyed the grocery and living apart- | ments of Willlam Schempp yesterday. jIt is believed that boys playing behind the grocery with matches accidentally |the City Superintendent of Schools this morning. They are Nellie M. Ogden, Carolyn Dinsmore, Helen Har- rington, Clara Burrows, ‘Whitney, Laura A. Wescott, Mae Ba- 614 Sixteenth | KéT» Irene Harkinson, Emma Stockton |a Stanislaus farmer, and Genevieve McKeever. ———— COUNCILMAN MEESE RETURNS.—Oak- land, July 22 —Councilman Edwin Meese, chlln!::n of the Street Committee of the City Council, has returned from his vacas i Southern California. gie hand when the shot was fired. When the testimony was all in the jury, con- sisting of A. Castin, A. M. Jackson, L Heérman, W. H. Nickelson, J. H. Solon- maker and J. H. Phillips, came to the conclusion “that the wound might have been self-inflicted, and that it might have not.” Justice of the Peace James G.eQuinn, who conducted the inquest in the absence of the Coroner, approved of the verdict. Xl Elizabeth © set the building on fire. —————— 1S EXHIBITED AT STOCKTON STOCKTON, July 22—G. W. Elsey, is exhibiting a very fine specimen of fruit which he calls the plumcot. It is a combina- ition of plum and apricot and closely | resembles a small round tomato or a Japanese persimmon. It has a plum seed. The meat is solid #hd stringy like a plum, but it has a most u- liar flavor. Elsey states that the fruit of the tree, as does the plum or ap- ricot, but that it is attached to the main trunk of the tree by a very short stem, looking when in” place like a red bump on the trunk of the tree. MIS§ TURNBULL RELEASED.—Oakland, July 22.—Miss Eva Turnbull, who eluded the )dlc.w:bgllll IIL.&'.,D by ellol'-blbl.‘ down a wa pe attached side of the Wind- sor Hotel, at liberty in the o cheas ‘locket “Eriaguel Derosae” "o l does not grow on the small branches® never. ache—it is the nerves iAching Teeth Delay Business As a matter of fact, however, teeth Never mind, call it what you like. we can cure {t. We will save the achers if possible. That is, if you wish. Or will extract them without pain. Fine dental work for little money Gold Fillings. .$1.00 Silver Fillings 500 Crowns. .$3.00 Porcelain Post-Braduae Dental College, 3 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO. 973 Washington St., Oakland. San Jose. = = e Sacrameato,