The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1904, Page 4

4 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1904 «NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA w© TELLS ROMANCE OF 1 FORTONE PP TROUBLE OVER - AEARN BODY While Under Anesthetic] His Relatives Claim the Fred W. Allen Reveals| Remains Were Held by Story That Is Verified| Nevada Coroner for Money ———— HEIR IS AGED PAINTER Will Soon Leave for City of Manchester . to Claim an Estate Worth $100,000 —_— Oakiand Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 26. While under the influence of anes- | 2 thetjes at the Receiving Hospital this afternoon, Frederick Waldo Allen of 472 Fighth street, a well-known con- tracting painter, told the story of a $100,000 fortune that awaited him England. The tale seemed so romanttc bis listeners smiled and accredited his words to the peculiar power of the darug. Later, when Allen was aroused and informed of the utterances he veri- fled it al! with correspondence and do uments, and what he had revealed un- der the drug proved to be true. Allen visited Berkeley this afternoon for the purpose of securing a contract for painting a building now in process truction. He stepped out on a scaffolding when one of the piece of to the ground, twenty-five feet below. Mis right shoulder was dislocated and Le was sent to the Receiving Hospital. The ‘physicians put the patient under the influence of chloroform Then Allen began to tell his story. He continually called the captain of a phantom ship to wait for him as he had a stateroom reserved and wanted to sall at on for England. In expla- nation he told the captain of the fo tune that awaited him and that was going to claim it. As soon as the operation had been completed and consciousness was re- stored one of the physicians in a jok- ing way told Allen what he had said, remarking that & man's brain evolves peculiar ideas while the soothing dru ie acting on it. Allen then said that what he had spoken was the truth, that an immense fortune awaits him in England and that he expects to start | shortly to claim it and to consider a prope€al of marriage from a who is to be a joint heir, but of whom he never heard until one year ago. UNCLE LOVED BOYS. Allen had one brother, Willlam F. Allen, and the two were favorites with their uncle, Edmond Allen, the captain of a British ship plying between Eng- land and New York The boys were rearc and when the uncle’s American port he came and always reminded them of al promise he had once made that| some time they should share what pos- | sessions_he might acquire. The older | Allen became one of the part owners | in the line for which he had been em- ployed and acquired a fortune. This he invested in Manchester property. When he tired of the sea he settled in | the English city and prepared to en- Joy the remainder of his days. He had | always been a woman hater and never | married. When he desired to establish a home he came to Vermont, where a maiden sister resided. He made ar- rangements for her to return to Eng- land and keep house for him. | All this happened many years ago. | ~Both Fred Allen and his brother went | to the civil war soon afterward, and | while Fred langui | William was kil Before the war ceived the mews of his mother’s death, | and after he got his discharge he dnli not return to his Vermont home, but came West and married. FORTUNE FOUND ALLEN. en lived In San Francisco many until his wife died. Then he to Los Angeles. He became en- gaged in the purchase and sale of real | estate in the southern city. One morn- ing about eleven years he made a strange acquaintance in the office of | another dealer. He had just entered for the purpose of transacting some | business, when the announcement of | his name caused a stranger who was| in the place to step up to him and| question him regarding his blood rela- | tions. When he had answered everything | the stranger Informed him that he and | his brother were heirs to an immense | fortune in England. The stranger said | he was the New York agent of some | English solicitors and that for nearly two years he had been making an ef- fort to find the two brothers. Their uncle Edmond had made a will leaving &ll his money to his maiden sister, who went to keep house for him. The will aiso orovided that when the woman died the property should be given to his twd nephews. The maiden sister followed her brother to the grave very shortly. An effort was made to locate the two brothers, from whom the uncle had not heard since he abandoned the €ea and went to England to live. The English solicitors applied to New York, and their agent came West. After look- ing over San Francisco he went to Los Angeles and called on the real estate man, who was a boyhood friend of his, when the chance meeting with the ob- ject of his search took place. Allen heard little more from the es- tate until two years ago, when the New York agent informed him that a woman had proved the right to the title of the uncle’s wife and had been allowed a third interest in the estate. About one month ago Allen received a communi- cation from this woman asking him to come to Manchester and marry her and that the estate would all be settled within sixty days. She said she would forward a draft to pay the painter’s expenses, and this he is expecting every day. He Raa not given any deci- ed in Vermont, hip touched an | to see them,| had ended Fred re-| J supports snapped and he was throw 1.1 woman | APPEALTO AU THORITIES i El)istrict Attorney Is Asked to Investigate the Case and He Promises Action —— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 26, Trouble in getting the body of Mich- ael. Ahearn, which was found in the | Truckee River a few days ago, has i caused an appeal to be made to the District Attorney’s office here by the relatives of the dead man. They want | the actions of Coroner Updyke of Washoe County, Nevada, investigated. ; They intimate that the body was held | for money, and whea coin was not sent the body was buried. | Mrs. John Martin, a daughter of Ahéarn, told Deputy, District Attorney W. H. L. Hynes to-day that in answer to a query as to how much it would cost to have the remains sent to this | city she had received a reply that/it | would cost §85. To this she agreed. Later it developed that more than $100 was found on Ahearn's person. A mes- sage was sent to Mrs. Martin that it | would be 1 right and that the body | would lea Reno Saturday last. A local undertaker met the train at the Sixteenth-street depot on Sunday | morning, but the body did not arrive. | Another telegram was sent and a | replv was received informing the rel | tives that if they wanted the body they | must send $100. In view of the former messages the whole affair had a pe- culiar look to the family. They re- fused to send any money, and in the meantime the remains have been buried at Reno. The District Attorney of Washoe County, Nevada, has been communicated with and he has prom- ised that an investigation will be made. —_——— e [ WILL WELCOME FIRST CAR ON NEW ROAD | Citizens of Point Richmond to Cele- brate Opening of New Street Rallway. POINT RICHMOND, July 26.—The new street railway, which connects the two parts of Richmond and which will connect with the San Pablo line of the Oakland Transit Consolidated system, will begin operations Thursday. The citizens of Richmond are preparing for a big celebration in honor of the event. The new corporation is known as the st Shore and Suburban Street Car Company. It is believed to have the backing of the Standard Oil people. Its present line begins at the Standard Oil Works and passes through the business section of the hill town and then runs out Macdonald avenue to the Southern | Pacific depot, in the new town of Rich- mond. “ The celebration next Thursday will consist of a barbecue, automobile and horse races and various athletic sports. A number of spe es will also be made. Those in charge of the celebra- tion are L. M. Grant, William Richards and J. Murray. Superior Judge William 8. Wells, W. Rheem, State Senator C. M. Belshaw and othérs will speak. —_———— INCORPORATE TO CARRY ON TENT WORK S anthropists Take Steps Looking Toward Reorganization of Important Undertaking. OAKLAND, July 26.—Articles of in- corporation of the West Berkeley Un versity Settlement Association were filed with the County Clerk to-day. The purpose of the corporation as set forth in the articles is to establish and maintain a settlement which shall be a residential center for the betterment of the young people of the town of Berkeley. The directors are Hart Greensfelder, E. J. Wickson, J. W. Richards, Thomas F. Dowd, Christian Hoff, Er- nest C. Moore, S. D. Waterman, Ed- ward L. Parsons, J. T. Renas, Friend William Richardson and Louis Titus. This move by Berkeley philanthro- pists looks to a reorganization of the settlement work of which Mrs. Phebe Hearst was formerly the patron. —_————— SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSES AND WORKMEN ARE HURT Lathers on the Realty Syndicate Building Fall Into a Lot of Timbers and Iron Work. OAKLAND, July 26.—By the col- lapse of a scaffold on the Realty Syn- dicate building, Broadway, near Four- teenth street, four workmen were in- jured to-day, all of them falling fif- teen feet into a mass of timbers and iron work. The men were putting up iron lath- ing. Head Lather Bailey and Roy Smith _suffered bad sprains of the an- kle. W. Donovan and O. S. O’Brien were cut and bruised. Smith and O’'Brien were sent to their homes. —_————— Freight Train Stalled. OAKLAND, July 26.—An axle of an oil tank car broke this morning a mile west of San Leandro, stalling a freight train and blocking main line traffic of the Southern Pacific Company for several hours. The. train was run- ning fast at the time the accident oc- curred and several hundred feet of track and ties were torn up before the cars were stopped. The Stockton fiyer was sent around by way of Mar- tinez. e sion on the proposition of marriage, but says he will certainly go to Eng- land and make his showing for the es tate. He expects to be enriched by about $100,000. ———— Canvass for Celebration Funds. OAKLAND, July 26.—A committee composed of Harry G. Williams, for the Merchants’ Exchange, Edwin Stearns of the Board of Trade and E. G. Busweill Jr. of the Native Sons of the Golden West began a canvass of the business district to-day to raise money for the State celebration of Ad- mission day, which will be heid in Oakland. —————— Fire Threatens Press Club. OAKLAND, July 26.—Quick work by the Fire Department this morning saved E. C. Thuber & Co.'s paint ware- house, 463 Tenth street, and the Oak- jand Press Club’s quarters from de- struction. The fire was started among ::nl buckets by the boiling over of glue. The damage was slight Aged Mason Dies. OAKLAND, July 26. — Ambrose Merritt, 77 years old, a pioneer un- dertaker of Oakland, dled to-day in San Francisco. He was a past master of Brooklyn Lodge, F. and A. M., of this city, which has taken charge of the funeral. The body has been brought to Oakland. —_—————— ‘William Wagner's Funeral. OAKLAND, July 26.— The funeral of the late William Wagner, the pio- neer capitalist, will be held to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock from the fam- ily residence, 869 Campbell street. In- terment will be in Cypress Lawn Cem- etery. —_——— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, July 26.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Daniel Sullivan, 22, and Lulu Scheiding, 17, both of land; Jiesmol 36, an lia Anarini, 28, both of Oakland. [ — & FINIGAN GIRLS WIN PROPERTY Williams and Sweeney, At- torneys, Must Give Back the Land Held as Security Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 26. The three daughters of Colonel P. A. Finigan have bested the attorneys of their father in a suit for a piece of Berkeley property. In a decision to-day by Judge F. B. Ogden, Attorneys George N. Williams and James P.{ Sweeney are required to give back to| them a block of realty worth $4000 in | {\vunsidernflon of the payment of a $500 fee. | The land was deeded to the attor- neys as security for their fee for de- fending Finigan in a divorce action brought against him. When Finigan was ready to settle with his attorneys he tendered them the $500, but they claimed that the land had been given | to them outright and refused to give it back. The land was the property of | Lillian, Maude and Mary Finigan, the daughters, who deeded the land to the attornevs to help their father. In the decision handed down to-day Judge Ogden holds that the deed was a trust deed and that upon the payment of the $500 the land must be reconveyed to the young women. EVENTS IN SOCIETY BERKELEY, July 26.—At an afternoon card party given last Saturday at her home, 2208 Dyight way, Miss Janet E. Mason, daughter of Joseph J. Mason, announced her engage- ment to George F. Emanuels of Los Angeles. Along with this interesting news came the an- Douncement that the wedding would take Place in the spring. Hearts were played dur- ing the afternoon, the prizes golng to Miss Adelaide Bangs and Miss Loulse Eastman. The guests were Mrs. Leo Dungan, Mrs. W. M. Cameron, Mrs. Frank Simpson, Mrs. Thomas Clark, Mrs. Adolph B. Check, Miss Hope White, Miss Mabel Warnick, Miss May Morrison, Miss Jessie Craig, Miss Helen Rob- ineon, MMs Alice Marsh, Miss Florence Mar- Vin, Miss Grace E. Foulds, Miss Martha Leon- ard, Mies Juliette Bennett and Miss Helen Besinett. e ik ALAMEDA, July 26.—City Clerk James W. Gillogly has returned from a short vacation spent at Guernetille. Mrs, E. A. Ridley of 1501 Sixth street is home from Camp Bonita, Sunol, where she passed several weeks. Albert Albers departed yesterday for Men- docino for a two weeks' outing. ¥ Joseph F. Forderer Jr., son of President J. ¥. Forderer of the City Trustees, is nowl at the family residence, 1212 Regent street, after spending two months in a San Francisco hos- pital as a result of an injyry sustained through a fall. Alameda Teachers Resign. ALAMEDA, July 26.—Miss Mary E. Kelly and Miss Mabel Miller, teachers in the local School Department, have resigned, both having obtained posi- tions in San Francisco schools. Dr. George C. Thompson, the newly elect- ed principal of the Alameda High School, has -moved his family here from Marysville and will reside at 2159 Clinton avenue. Next Monday the public schools will open for the fall term. e Plumbers to Foot Bills. BERKELEY, July 26.—The plumb- ers of Berkeley will be asked to pay some bills as voluminous as their own. The Town Trustees have discovered that they have failed to pay a fee of $4 on some 150 plumbing jobs in Berkeley, so they have ordered Town Attorney Hayne and Sanitary Inspec- tor Haws to begin suit against the re- calcitrants. eSS E R T R Wants Estate Probated. OAKLAND, July 26.—Petition for the probate of the estate of Thomas B. Walker, who was drowhed in the Truckee River on July 14, was filed by his widow to-day. passenger agent for the Southern Pa- cific Company and leaves an estate valued at about $10,000. e 1 He was a traveling : Bicycle Riders Face Penalty. BERKELEY, July 24.—Bicycle rid- ers have proved such nuisances by riding on sidewalks in violation of town ordinance that the Town Trus- tees last night decided to raise the penalty for violations. Hereafter the lawbreakers must pay a fine of $5 for heir first offense, $10 for the second, with a maximum of $50 for the third. 'HUNDREDS OF DELEGATES ATTEND SYNODICAL MISSION CONFERENCE |After Discussing Many Busjness Questions Those Assembled Take Part in Social and Reception---Luncheon and Brief Ad- dresses on Features of Society’s Work End the Deliberations - ¥ x 3= 4 OFFICERS OF AND DELEGATES TO NODICAL SOCIETY OF HOME MISSIONS CONFERENCE. OAKLAND, July 26.—Nearly 300 dele- gates from all parts of the State at- tended a conference and luncheon of | the California Synodical Society of Home Missions of the Presbyterian church, which was held this afternoon | in the parlors of the First Presbyter- fan church. Immediately after the close of the business meeting, a reception was ten- dered to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Coolidge, of Palo Alto, and Mrs. M. H. Gilchrist, of Los Angeles, who have just received appointments as mis- sionaries. Mrs. Coolidge was formerly secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, and gave up her office to accept the appointment. The conference opened with devo- tional services, conducted by Mrs. D. A. Mobley, after which Mrs. W. H. H. Hamilton, State delegate to the Gen- eral Assembly at Buffalo, delivered an address on the work of the assembly. Mrs. D. N. Ross spoke on “Missionary Impressions,” after which Mrs. R. B. Goddard, vpresident of the society, read her report for the last quarter. This report showed that much progress has been made by the organization | during the year, and that during the last three months several missionaries have been dispatched to new fields. A brief report by the treasurer showed a handsome balance at the close of the last quarter. The morning session closed with the reception to the new missionaries, after which luncheon was served by a number of the younger members. Sev- | eral brief addresses were made during the progress of the luncheon, the speakers and their subjects being as follows: “Our New Missionary, Herbert F. Cony | idge,” Charles Duncan of ‘Stanford Unizersit “Mrs. Coolidge, retiring sec. iary of the Ycune Women's Christian A:soclation,” Miss Persis Holman of Palo Aliu; ‘'Harriet Browa, State secretary Yeuas Women's socation,”” Lucia_Robinson Pesvle,” Dr. Hadlock of Springfield, | Young People In Missions,” Miss Edna consisting of addresses by Miss Min- nie Shaver, of Tueson, Ariz., and Mrs. H. F. Coolidge. . During the morning and afternoon sessions, vocal solos were rendered by Miss Irma Momberg, Miss Amv Rinehart, Miss Dora M. Fish, Mrs. J. E. Whitehead and Clement P. Rowlands. The officers of the California Synodi- cal Society are: President, Mrs. R. B Goddard. San Fran- cizco; vice'presidents, Miss Janet C. Halght, Oakland; Mrs, W. T. MacElwee, Madera; Mrs. H. T. 'Ames, San Francisco;. Mrs. Samuel Minor,- Los Angeles: Mrs. T. F. Day, San Anselmo; Mrs. L. H. Terry, Santa Barbara; Mrs. M. M. Harding, Sacramento; Mrs. Leon- ard Stocking, Agnew; Miss Julla Sayre, Madera: Mrs, M. Wales, Redlands, and Mrs, vice - Jerrior, Berkeley: dents_womamw's board, Mrs. R. B. X San Francisco, and Mrs. Samuel Minor, Los Angeles; recording secretary, Mrs. J. Prutzm: San ¥Francisco; corresponding secre- tary, M Walter Mead, Francisco; 3 San Young People's secretary. Miss Julla Fraser, Oakland; secretary of literature, Mrs. A. G. Garrett, San Francisco; editorial secretary, Mre. F. H. Jones, San Francisco; secretary of Freedmen, Mrs. Dr. Moody, Los Angeles; financial secretary, Mrs. F. S. Page, on ley; treasurer of contingent fund, Mrs. G. H. Bordick, Oakland; Mrs. F. S advisory “committee, B. Hume, Mrs. E. €. Kroll. W. H. Darden, M. E. Boyce, Miss Grace H. de Fremery, Mrs. Hugh Glichrist, S8an Anselmo; Mrs. J." H. Whistler, Berkeley; :; Newhall, Berkeley; rs. rs. Charlt Mrs. Brinkerhoff and Perkins. —————————— WILL REPRESENT CITY.—Mayor Schmitz yesterday appointed J. W. Raphael to represent the city of § clsco at_the for the opening of the New- York subway. MEET AND WED AFTER YEARS of His Schoolboy Days in the FEast Are Married Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center street, July 26. Twenty years ago Frank D. Chase and Mrs. Atlanta J. Lincoln lost sight of each other in the whirl of the world. In the Eastern city where they were born they had been raised together and they went to the same school, manu- factured the same mud pies and danced in the same company when they grew up. But matrimony finally parted the childhood friends. He married and she married and they drifted asunder, so that they knew nothing of each other for a long time. In time he amassed a fortune by hard work and a year ago came to California to live, his wife having died in the meantime. The hus- band of his childhood’'s friend had passed away, too, though neither knew that the other was widowed. Not long ago Mr. Chase learned that Mrs. Lincoln was in San Francisco. A visit followed, with then a mutual ex- change of confidences, and finally it ended, as all gomances do, in marriage. Last night sa - the culmination of it all, when they were married by the Rev. B. F. Sargent at his parsonage. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Chase took the train for the East. Mr. Chase is fifty-one years old and his bride fifty. He is from Vermont and is investing in Berkeley property. The couple’s per- manent residence will be in the col- lege town. —_—————— POLICEM C. E. KENTZ ADVISED TO RESIGN Chief Hodgkins Has Talk With Patrol- man Who Mixed in Brawl at Shell Mound. OAKLAND, July 26.—Chief of Po- lice Hodgkins has advised Policeman Carl E. Kentz, who was arrested at/ Shell Mound Park Sunday on a charge of disturbing the peace, to resign from the Police Department and save himself the notoriety that would be given him should he be obliged to foce a meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners. No complaint has yet been issued. Kentz will probably fol- low the Chief’'s advice. ———— Husband Anprais to Police. OAKLAXD, July 26.—Harry Mur- ray, a Pullman car conductor, has asked the police to assist in the search for his wife, Jessie Murray, who, it is charged, eloped with Joaquin Pa- checo. The pair, it is said, were ac- companied by Lizzie ¥Fella and Manuel Frates. Murray thinks his missing spouse is at a dance house near Men- dota. —————— Sent to Napa. OAKLAND, July 26.—J. W. Dun- ning of Berkeley was found to be in- sane this morning after an examina- tion and was committed by Judge F. B. Ogden to the State Hospital at Napa. He had threatened to burn down his house and his nephew, J. L. Kennedy, swore toa camplaint charg- ing him with insanity. e ey Face Burned by Powder. OAKLAND, July 26.—John Mitch- ell, a schoolboy living with his parents VARNEY SUIT OPENS AGAIN Appeal to Be Taken From Decision Handed Down by Judge Seawell Last May ————— HEIRS Compromise Upon Which the Judgment Had Been| Based Fails to Hold| S s Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1016 Broadway, July 26. The litigation over the estate of the late Thomas Varney of Livermore hnsl broken out afresh. Notice of an ap- peal from the decision handed down by Judge Seawell of San Francisco last | May was filled with the County Clerk 1 | ARE AT OUTS|4 ™" — | . 4 BRANCH OFFICES | OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77. ALAMED. A 1435 Park Street. Telephore Alameda 559. FREIGHT CARS ARE WRECKED {San Jose Passenger Train Crashes Into Them Near Guadalupe Creek Bridge this afternoon. The entire matter of | (REW ESCAPES INJURY the trust, which is holding together an estate of $325,000, will be threshed | out before the highest tribunal in the State. ‘When the decision was given by Judge Seawell it was In accordance | with a general compromise arrived at by fourteen heirs of the estate, which, | it was thought, had the consent of one | or two heirs not included in the com- | promise. This, it now transpires, was | a conclusion drawn without warrant | and the dissatisfied ones, through the | California Title and Trust Company, the present trustee of the estate, are to appeal to the higher court. The litigation has continued for four- teen years, and the compromise ar- | rived at last- May was in accordance with terms offered the various con- testants seven years ago. The estate was originally appraised at about $500,- | 000 and went to eighteen different heirs. The whole estate, however, has been | held together by the trustees in the face of the opposition of fourteen of | the heirs, who wished to have the es-| tate distributed so that they might be | given their shares. The pretext for holding the estate together was found in the fact that annuities were to be paid to Emily A. V. Brownell of $75 a month, Frances Raleigh of $100 a month and Harriet A. Loomis of $75 a month. The claim of the heirs was that only a sufficient sum to enable payment of these annuities should be held together, instead of the entire es- tate, and according to the recent com- promise but $25,000 is necessary for this purpose, and the balance was to be distributed to the heirs. The claim of Nelda King, whose mother, Mrs. Grace English, was left an annuity, was not considered in the recent compromise. Mrs. English died and the daughter claims that the an- nuity should descend to her and wants | $60,000 held in reserve to satisfy her | claim. —_———— GRAND STAMM OF RED MEN | eighteen months of nearly $3 | Travelers Who Were Occupy- ing the Coaches Receive a Scare and Shaking Up ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. s JOSE, July 26.—The passenger train which leaves here at 4:30 a. m. collided with an engine and freight cars just east of the Guadalupe Creek bridge as it was leaving this city. Two freight cars were demolished and the front of the passenger engine was smashed. No one was injured. The passenger train was almost brought to a stop before it struck the freight cars. Engineer Marsh was making up a freight train from two sections of a train that had just come in and the trains were so long it was necessary to use the main line. As there is & curve at the point the engineer on the passenger train could not see the freight until it was almost upon it The passengers were jarred a little by the sudden stopping of the train. A two hours’ delay to the passenger train was caused by the wrecked freight cars. —e———————— COMPANIES THAT NOW INSURE AGAINST THEFT New York Concerns Branch Into New Field and Find Many Clients. NEW YORK, July 26.—Insurance enterprise has just taken up a new field in this city, where several prom- inent companies have made offers for the business of retail butchers and grocers, victims of continued thefts of horses, amounting to a total loss in 8,000, and NAMES ITS NEW OFFICERS | the butchers and grocers have decided H. Schulz of San Francisco Is Chosen to Direct Affairs of Body Dur- ing Coming Term. SANTA CRUZ, July 26.—The Grand Stamm of Red Men completed its work | to-day with the election of the follow- | ing grand officers: Grand ober chiet, | H. Schulz of San Francisco; grand sub- chief, H. Griele, San Francisco; grand vice chief, G. Ritter, Sacramento; grand chaplain, J. Wunder, Sacra- | mento; grand secretary, M. Fuetscher, San Francisco; grand treasurer, F. Schneider, Sacramento; grand trustees, | D. Cohn, J. Rumetsch and P. H. Schrei- ber of San Francisco. | M Grand Treasurer Schneider reported that $7500 had been disbursed for sick benefits during the past year and $425 for funeral expenses. The net surplus remaining in the treasury is $76,500. A banquet was given this evening in honor of the Grand Stamm. | ———— BLIGHT STRIKES PEAR | Io ORCHARDS OF SHASTA| © Member of County Horticultural | Board Sends Out Warning to the Fruit Growers. REDDING, July 26.—The which laid low all the pear orchards of | the Fresno district, has struck the pear | trees of Shasta County. The state- ment is made on authority of C. N. Tharsing, a skilled orchardist and member of the Shasta County Horti- cultural Board. Tharsing says that he has found evidence of the blight in the Anderson district, in this county, where scme of the finest and earliest Bartlett pears of the world are grown, as well as in the Stillwater district. Tharsing is warning the orchardists that unless they take prompt action nothing can stay the effects of the blight. ———— National Oil Company Is Enjoined. HOLLISTER, July 26.—Bourdieu & ‘Walli, lessees of the E. C. Lully stock ranch at Bitterwater, have sued out! an injunction against the National Oil Company of Coalinga to stop the build- | ing of a pive line through the Tully ranch and to recover damages for the alleged loss of stock and the destruc- tion of feed. The thrown 300 men out of work. —_——— Will Organize a Promotion Committee. HEALDSBURG, July 26.—The. busi- ness men of this city met last evening | for the purpose of organizing a promo- tion committee. Edward Rowland, of the Bank of Healdsburg, was elected temporary chairman and authorized to appoint a committee of five to draft a | plan of organization. | kinson (wife of H | ment in 850 D. | blight, | ¢ | to insure their horses and wagons against theft e e— REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Alameda County. TUESDAY, JULY 26. (widow) to John H. Nerney e of Fallon street, . Oakland; gift. Barker (husband and Mortimer, 381 W of 7 and 3, ompany, s Seventh, Mary C. line W 40 b >, property of nd; $10. il and Henrietta K n N line of y N 140, portion lot 41, ad Tract, Oakland; $10. O'Rourke et als. y-sixth s S 120:3, portion lot Central Land C tner to F. P, th street, 700 E of block to Richard J (single), lot on NW cormer of X Telegraph _avenue, 30, W10 D, 5 W40, B 160, portion lots 1 and 2, map Montgomer: ) to Lillian M. At- undivided one-half of Jot on W_line of Fontainebleau avenue, 125 N of East Fifteenth street, N 100 by W 108:9, map Fontainebleau Tract, East Oak- For d Emily V. Marshall to Adam Axx, , Leonard Tract, Berkeley: $10, 7. Littlefleld to 8. D. ower) lot on S line of Ward street, h, W 80 by S 134:6, portion lots and 13, block C, map S portion of Blake Tract, deed given to set aside agree- 167, Berkeley; $10. John and Julia Lavelle, Cornellus Denovan land; $10. J lexander Robertsom, lot on N t McGee, E 40 by N 135, portion lot 6, block e University Homestead No. 3, Mary H. and James N. Abbay to Ellen Bar- nett (single), lot on E line of Stanford avemu 111.40 S of Essex street. S 38.43, E 124.35, ) 52.50, W 99 lot 7, block P, amended map Newbury Tract, Berkeley; $10. Fyederick and Anna C. Bammann to Sarah Roundy (wife of Alvin). lot on N line §f nal avenue (since widening), 50 E of Willow street, E 30 by N 140, lot 6, in W 3 of block E, lands adjacent to Encinal, Ala- meda; $10. .\lary‘ J. and Joseph Stark to Frederick B. Schmits, lot on NW corner_of Moss avenus and Ruby street, N 125:8, W 45, S 118:5, B 45:6, lot 43, and portion ef lots 42 and 44, Oakland Railroad Homestead, Oakland; $2500. John Nicholl and O. E. Hotchkiss (executors estate 1. Barrett) to Edwin Suther- d. all in t in Iot at intersection of NW e of Tawenty-seventh avenue with SW line of right of way of Southern Pacific Rallway lots 9 and 10, subdivision of $1450. Sutherland 10 by SW 50, Company, bl to John Santa Cruz to Have New Gas Company | SANTA CRUZ July 26—A new gas proceedings have | company is being formed here for the purpose of furnishing gas to local con- sumers. 1t will be operated by the | light company, which recently built a big plant on the beach. ————————— Gives Reading Before the Assembly. SANTA CRUZ, July 25.—Mrs. Isa- belle McDonald Alden, known in the literary world as “Pansy.” gave a read- ing this evening at the Twin Lakes | Baptist assembly. ADVERTISEMENT BECOMING at 1047 Thirty-eighth street, was bad- ly burned about the face to-day by the explosion of a cartridge which some one had thrown into a bonfire about which he was playing. One of his fin- gers was also cut by a piece of the flying shell. —_—— e Machinist Drops Dead. OAKLAND, July 26.—William J. Currier, 25 years of age, a machinist, dropped dead at 8 o’clock to-night at his residence, 956 Fifth street. A few minutes before he died Currier complained of pains in his chest. He came to Oakland three years ago from Leadville, Colo. A wife survives. The Coroner took charge of the body. —_———————— MAYOR APPOINTS STENOGRAPHER.— Mayor Schmitz yesterday appointed Miss Hen- rietta Botcher as stenographer in his office. A MOTHER Is an ordeal which all women approach with indescribable fear, for nothing compares with the pain and horror of child-birth. The thought of the suffering and danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a zhadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women have found that the use of Mother’s Friend during pregnancy robs confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother’s Friend carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents ‘‘morning sickness,”” and other dis- * comforts of this period. i o et MMOTHER’S $1.00 per bottle. Book containing valuable information free. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atianta, Ga.