The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1904, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1902 '« NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF Al AMEDA r» GAG OFFICER [REASON COMES KNOW NOTHING | ABOLT PRIMARY Senator (. R. Lukens and Frank (. Jordan Make ‘Sudden Return to Oakland it TWO LEADING FIGURES _1':mdid:nes Get | Regard- | | { i Alameda Out Circulars Oakland uUffice San srancisco Call, 1016 Broadway, Aug. 7. | Two men who are of much impor- tance to the political situation rived in Oakland to-day on the eve the ry election. Both deny had anything to do n back to Oakland sure that they don’t bout local politics. ator G. R. Lukens ‘ Frank C. Jordan, < reme Court. the storm the Re leader in with having f George Ran- Iph's super- Senator- w places. with being ause Mitchell, ed to give a contract to the Columbia npany as against Standard Voting , which Jordan rep- stepped off the aid Senator Lukens, “I am dense- to ent political de- it you never knew me trouble just because it was vel-worn. rec eleventh hour >. Jordan, “and I any hand, a citizen, in any »ting machines ic will have to con- | aiting if it hopes for en- t from these two men. fight in the Fifth e only excitement of rimary, with the ex-| contest in Alameda. T the Second with twenty-six delegates, and ever carries that section on Tues- will probably be the nominee of | the party. Th ntest between R. H. E. Espee | and n G. Dodge, both of the Sev- enth Ward, for the Assembly nomina- | tion in the Fifty-first District, is unset- tled. There will be one ticket in that district which will support Lukens for | Senator and Rowe for Supervisor. Espee | has agreed to take his chances with this ticket. Dodge said to-night that his decision would be given to-morrow. In Alameda the contest between J.| Bates, the present Assemblyman, and former Senator E. K. Taylor for ntrol of the delegation is assuming a | peculi condition. Bates takes the| ground that the list of delegates an- | nounced by him will be for him for the | Assembly. As there is no vacancy in the State Senatorship, Senator Know-| land not yet having been nominated for | Congress and not yet having resigned | his State office, delegates to fill a va- cancy that don’t exist cannot be elect- ed. In a circular issued to-day Bates| gives a list of names of those who were given places upon the Taylor ticket who will support his ticket as against Taylor | and who refuse to recognize their place on the Taylor ticket. They are Peter Christensen, William Hammond Jr., ) George Lovegrove, John Lubben, | George McConnell and Charles T. Rose. | BERKELEY, Aug. 7.—The execu-| tive committee of the Berkeley Repub- | lican Club named last night the follow- | Jing Republicans as delegates to the| county convention: Dr. J. Edson Kel-| sey, Charles H. Blohm, W. K. Weir, F. | W. Richardson, Cleon Kilburn, 8. G. Masters, W. E. Knowles, A. E. Shaw, A. 8. Blake, E. E. Mini, R. C. Baird, | George Leonard, Walter A. Gompertz, George C. Pape, Charles E. Thomas, | Robert Greig, D. N. Fraser, E. O. Tur-! ner, Joseph S. Mills, Hugh Forgie, Thomas Winter, Lewis A. Hicks, Frank Fowden, Redmond C. Staats, Thomas Stevenson, Leo S. Rodgers, H. D. Ir- win, J. T. Renas, E. L. Loring, Thomas Dowd, N. L. Neilsen, Arthur O'Keefe and C. D. Malone: —_———————— GREAT DEMONSTRATION PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY " Members of Forty-Three Local Unions Will Participate in Cele- bration. OAKLAND, Aug. 7.—The pro- gramme for the celebration of Labor day in this city is practically complete, and the committee of arrangements is now at work perfecting the details of the demonstration. The celebration will open with a pa- rade on the morning of September 5, which will be followed in the after- noon by literary exercises and a soclal reunion at Idora Park. Nearly all the local unions of Oak- Jand will take part in the parade and it is expected that a number of the Jabor organizations of San Francisco will also be represented. The commit- tee of arrangements is composed of two representatives from each of for- ty-three of the local unions of ©Oak- Jand, all of which will take part in the . celebration. This committee has elected G. K. Smith of the Barbers' Union as grand marshal of the parade. C. W. Petrey has been elected presi- :!'nl. and P. C. Weber, secretary of the ay. The secretary has extended an invi- tation to the directors of the Board of Trade and the Merchants’ Exc to take part in the celebration. —— Dredging Company Will Build Plant. ALAMEDA, Aug. 7.—The Atlantic, Guif and Pacific Company, -~hich is one of the largest dred, companies in the United States, s‘?l‘m begin the construction of a shipyard and dry- dock at the foot of Walnut street in this city. A part of the company's equipment which i now in use in San Francisco will be removed to this side of the bay, where it will be installed in the new plant on the estuary. ———ees Officers Will Get Their Salaries, OAKLAND, Aug. 7.--District Attor- ney J. J. Allen has reversed his former opinion regarding the payment of Jus- tices of the Peace and Constabies by fees instead of salaries and has ad- vised County Auditor G. W. Bacon to draw the warrants for the salaries of these township officers for the month of July. This has been d« > and the will get their salaries. CAVES YIELD ANCIENT BONES Seientific Men of the Univer- sity Find the Traces of . Former Civilization TELL OF ANCESTORS Layers in Shell Mound Show How Primitive Beings Lived in the Past Days B Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, | 2148 Center Street, Aug. 7. | | | An account of the Investigation of | the question of the antiquity of man | now being made by the department of anthropology of the University of Cali- fornia is for the first time made public | in a bulletin issued at the university to-day. There are already in the uni- versity museum a number of relics of early man that have been declared by their discoverers to have been found in the auriferous gravels. No scientist yet, however, has found such subjects “in situ” and evidence such as this can be accepted as proof of the asser- tion that man existed in California at a period earlier than it has been proved that he existed anywhere else in the world. The excavations of the old Indian mounds at Shell Mound Park go far to bear out this theory of the exist- ence of primitive man. Dr. Max Uhle of the anthropology department is pre- paring for publication a report on the excavations and all that he found there. The age of the mound is indi- cated by the fact that although its summit rises twenty-nine feet above the surrounding plain, its original base is three feet under ground and about two feet below theé level of the sea at high tide. The sinking of the ground is believed to have been a very slow process, extending over thousands of years. The mound, Dr. Uhle believes, was undoubtedly begun on low ground, the immediate proximity of a creek be- ing one of the principal reasons for the selection of the spot. Some 600 specimens have been taken from the mound, half of them being of bone, the others mostly stone. Ten skeletons were discovered in lower lay- ers of the mound and all the evidence points to a gradual change in the bur- ial methods as the layers of earth were piled up higher and higher. In the higher layers were found un- mistakable signs of the custom of burning the dead. The interior of the mound is visibly stratified in many places by distinct layers of shells, fishes and charcoal. There are un- doubted signs of differences of civil- izatlon among inhabitants of the mound at varfous periods. The frag- ments of mortars and pestles were found down to the lowest layer, but in other respects ground objects of stone were found only in the upper layers. ‘Well-shaped bone awls were discovered in the higher layers. A curious in- crease in the number of implements of bone of finer workmanship, not repr. sented in the upper layers, was visi in the lowest layers, signifying a dif- ferent use of the natural resources of the region at different pariods. The fauna represented by the re- markable number of bones found dur- ing the excavation corresponded to that of the present environment of the bay, except that it included the beaver, €lk, bear, otter and numberless other large animals long since vanished from thic part of California. The specimens taken from the mound correspond in many cases to those taken from the limestone caves of Shasta County, which have yielded so many fossil remains to sclentific re- search. Rude implements found in the Shasta caves indicate that prehis- toric man lived thousands of years ago on this rim of the continent. —_——— SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT LOOKS FOR MORE ROOMS Finds Present Quarters Are Not Suf- ficient to Accommodate the Chil- dren of Berkeley. BERKELEY, Aug. 7.—The attend- ance at the schools this week after the summer vacation, demoncirates that there is not room enough to ac- commodate all the children comfort- ably with the present number of schoolrooms. Superintendent S. D. Waterman sets forth the situation in a statement to the public, in which he shows that, notwithstanding the withdrawal of many children on ac- count of the recent vaccination order, there has been an increase of 250 in |, the number of school children. In re- viewing the conditions Superintendent ‘Waterman says: “The need for more school accom- modations and especially for the con- centration of the sch.ols in each dis- trict was never more apparent than at the present time. At least sixteen rooms to the building, as soon a#s the population in each district will war- rant, are the least number that should be provided to adequately meet the needs. “The enrollment in the different schools is as follows: Lincoln 487. Le Conte 332, McKinley 646, Longfellow 158, Aliston-way 105, Whittier 429, Rose-street 60, Hillside 140, Grayson 55, Columbus 228, Seventh-street 70, Page- street 26, San Pablo 226, ‘g!mmerchl 80, High School 630; total 3 BERKELEY RESIDENTS ARE OPPOSED TO VACCINATION Citizens Attend a Meeting and Lay Plans to Fight the State Medical Law. BERKELEY, Aug. 7.—The residents of Berkeley are preparing to wage a war against the practice of vaccinating school children. Last night a mass meeting was held at the home of Mrs. John A. Wilson, 2219 Ashby ayenue, and preliminary steps taken to fight the State law. The matter will come up before the Board of Education in a few days and a bitter controversy is ex- pected. Dr. Woodson W, Allen, 2 member of the Board of Education, is one of the prompters of the crusade.” He says he will resign if the practice of vaccinating schoel children is maintained, and his sentiments are sounded by a large number of prominent citizens. When the Board of Education meets, O e na no lowed to enter an: school in the city. ’. Funeral of Thomas M. Fry. OAKLAND, Aug. 7.—The funeral of Thomas M. Fry was held to-day at 1 p. m. from the late residence of the deceased at 814 Eleventh | 1 { ‘ success. The Realty Bonds and Finance | the market by this means is on the | Ferry Electric Rallroad, giving Central Oak- AUCTION SALE AGAIN REVIVED Real Estate Men Return to a Time-Honored Sys- tem of Opening Tracts SUBURBS ARE GROWING Alameda, Fruitvale and Berkeley Give Evidence | of Growing Prosperity Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1016 Broadway, Aug. 7. A strong indication of the increasing interest in choice real estate on the eastern bay shore is the revival of the auction sale. Only one auction sale has been attempted upon this side of | he bay in many years, and that was a Company sold an entire tract in one afternoon a few months ago, and now | another event of the same kind is an- nounced. The tract that is now being placed on Telegraph-avenue line of the Oakland Transit Company, and within a few blocks of the new Piedmont branch of the “Key route” ferry system. Three of the'most influential real estate firms in Oakland are behind it, the Realty Bonds and Finance Company, A. J. Snyder and Richard J. Montgomery. Montgomery has opened an office at the corner of Foriieth street and Tele- graph avenue in order to care for those who wish to visit the property. In re- gard to the opening of this new sec- tion and the plans being made, Mr. Montgomery said: Since the inauguration of the Key Route land the benefit of a twenty-minute train service with -monthly commutation tickets at $3 per month and the shortening of the time to thirty minutes between the foot of Market street, Francisco, and Telegraph avenue, in this city, there has been an unprecedented | demand for houses of all kinds within walking distance of Telegraph-avenue station. It is, therefore, not surprising that many far- sighted people with idle capital are seeking investments in this locality and building houses to rent. In fact the demand has been 50 active that few opportunities are given to the thrifty and industrious, who have a lim- ited capital, to purchase lots on easy pay- ments. It is gratifying to note that a large property-owner has authorized the sale of over sixty lots in Central Oakland tract No. 2 at public auction on Saturday. August 20, at 2 P. m. The =ale is to take place on the prop- erty to enable purchasers to see what lots they are actually buying. OPENING NEW SECTION. Having been for several vears heavily in- terested in Central Oakland, I have opened an office at the Key route station, corner of Telegraph avenue and Fortieth street, and will co-operate in bandling the auction sale in con- junction with A. J. Snyder of 467 Ninth street and _the Realty Bonds and Finance Company of Fourtcenth street and Broadway, Oakland, 1 have such unbounded faith in the future of Central Oakland on account of its geographi- cal location between Oakland and Berkeley that I bave given up my office at 467 Ninth street in order to give my personal attention to Central Oakland property. Central Oakland is a tracting much at- teption on account of it ‘arm belt and uni- form high elevation. I have lived there many years and know whereof 1 speak. Owing to the fact that many of the streets were not graded until recently the prevalling impres- sion has been that the land was low. The extension of the sewer system and the grading of streets has fully demonstrated the fact that Central Oakland averages 64l feet higher elevation than Fourteenth street and Broad- way, the rise being so gradual that it is hardly perceptible to the naked eve, The property to be sold at auction ranges from 106 to 118 feet elevation. While the section to the north of Oak- land is building up very rapidly, there {s also a decided development to the south, and H. A. Pleitner of Fruitvale reports the following sales in support of this fact: Residence on Belleview street, r Fruit- vale avenue, to Mrs. Florence Dean of De- troit, Mich.; cottage on Ejeventh avenue, East Oskland to C. H. Gotlschalk; cottage on Twenty-fifth avenue, Fruitvale, to Johanna Quinlan; cottage on Fremont avenue to Al- fred Friebel On Pleitner’s High-street tract three houses now in course of construction on lots sold pectively to T. T. Burnett, John Moeller d M. J. Petche. There are more demands this time of the year than at the same time in any preceding vear. BUSY BERKELEY. BERKELEY, Aug. 6.—The tendency among all late purchasers of property in'Berkeley is to locate in the north and southeast parts of town. The Wheeler and Scenic Park tracts are the most attractive in North Berkeley and the Berry & Bangs Tract seems to have been singled out as the most desirable in Southeast Berkeley. In each of these districts may be seen some of the finest residences in the college town. Many new ones are building and contracts are being let daily for others, ‘Within the last sixty days the firm of W. J. Mortimer & Co. have sold $19,000 worth of building lots in Scenic Park. Upon all of these will be built substan- tial homes. Among the houses being built in this tract is one for John Galen Hownrd, the supervising architect for the university, who has designed for himself a home of most original design. Besides this there is being built a mod- ern apartment-house to be called Cleon Court, upon which $60,000 will be spent. In the Wheeler Tract Mortimer & Co. is building for Professor Edward N, Prouty a home that will cost $5000, and for Dr. W. W. Underhill of San Fran- cisco another that will cost $3500. The firm of Albee & Coryell has lately sold ten lots in the Berry & Bangs Tract, upon all of which their owners are preparing to build. Through this firm Charles H. Goodall has purchased a lot on College avenue, between Stuart and Derby streets, which he will utilize for a handsome seven-room home, for which he has contracted. The firm has aiso negotiated the sale of the J. W. Erwin home at 2513 Benvenue avenue to Professor Samuel Fortier of the Uni- versity of California, who contemplates making some extensive improvements before occupying it. ACTIVE IN ALAMEDA. ALAMEDA, Aug. 6.—There has been a lull in the local realty market during the last week, but dealers look for a spurt in transfers with the commence- ment of the new month. Building con- tinues to be livelier than sales. Several firms engaged in erecting homes are planning to do much work in August. Frank N. Dodd of the Alameda Land Cempany reports that his firm nego- tiated the transfer of two large lots on Sherman street, near Clinton avenue, during the week. Two residences of the colonial pattern are to be built on the lots. The land company also ;A Stanley, A. C. of two houses and lots on Lafayette street, between Buena Vista and Pacific enues, and started work on the con- truction of a six-room house on Pa- cific avenue, near Chestnut street. Charles Adams & Co. of Bay station have done considerable in the renting line of late and negotiated the transfer of a house and lot on Taylor avenue during the week, the purchaser being Charles C. Dauser of San Francisco. Hally & Co. are erecting a cottage on Brigge avenue and have a number of transfer and building deals under way. A. R. Denke reports three sales dur- building ing the week and a boom In R R SN S e | BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Telephone Main 1088. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 77. | ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. | Telephone Alameda 559. {UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY, Aug. 7.—Regent Charles 8. ‘Wheeler is entertaining President Wheeler and a number of the summer school faculty at his country home, ‘‘The Bend. in Shasta County. on the McCloud River. The faculty members In the party are Professors Albert S. Arrhenius, A. C. Coolidge, H. 'Grandgent, F. B. Gummere, James Ward, R, A. Daly and H. Morse Stephens. artin Centner, instructor in German, and C. L. Biedenbach, principal of the McKinley School, have just returned from a 325-mile tramp through the high Sierras. They visited the Yosemite, Lake Eleanor and Mount Dana, walking every foot of the way. Pack animals were used to carry their outfits. Willlam Clark Crittenden, the first Rhodes scholar to represent California, will leave for Oxford University on August 25, there to take up his studies and remain for three years. En route he will stop over at the St. Louis exposition. Thomas Risley, who played on the second eleven as half-back last year. will not re- turn to coliege this vear, as he has accepted a good position with a mining company. The loss of Risley will be serious for the univer- sity, as he was counted on to fill one of the places made vacant by the retirement of eev- eral veterans last yei CHURCHES PAY ATTENTION TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE Services Are Held for the Special Benefit of the Children—Pastors Return From Vacations. OAKLAND, Aug. 7.—Speclal services for children were held to-day in several of the Oakland churches. The Sunday- school of the First Congregational Church was reopened after a month's vacation. Music was supplied by the boys’ chofr. Exercises were conducted by the superintendent, the Rev. }-Ienry B. Mowbray. At the Union-street Presbyterian Church this morning the pastor, the Rev. Dwight E. Potter, gave an {llus- trated talk to the children. The Rev. T. S. Young, a delegate to the world’s Sunday-school convention at Jerusalem, will deliver an address on ‘Wednesday evening at the First Pres- byterian Church on the work of that assembly. The official board of the Eighth-ave- nue Methodist Church will hold an in- formal reception Wednesday evening at the church. The Sunday-school of the First Uni- tarian Church will reopen August 14. —_———— MINISTER RETURNS HOME TO FACE HIS ACCUSERS The Rev. Charles W. Hoag, Charged ‘With Eloping With Mrs. Bene- dict, Is in Oakland. The Rev. Charles Wayland Hoag, formerly pastor of the Plymouth Avenue Congregational Church, who disappeared on June 20 from his home, 486 Thirty-fourth street, and who was accused by W. N. Benedlct of 586 Thirty-sixth street of having eloped with the latter's wife, has returned to this city and is now staying at the home of a friend. Mr. Hoag is broken down, both mentally and physically, and he is now under the care of a phy- sician. His wife, who placed no cred- ence in the stories regarding the sup- posed elopement, is attending her hus- band. Mr. Hoag’s attorney, A. S. Ormsby, says Mr. Hoag went directly from Oakland to his former home in El Paso, Texas, where he remained until he heard of the accusations against him. He then at once returned to Oakland. As soon as he has recovered his health he will retire from the ministry. It is said that Mrs. Benedict, with whom the minister was accused of eloping, is staying with friends in Den- ver, Colo. —_——————— Church to. Blame for the War. ALAMEDA, Aug. 7.—Bishop M. C. Harris of the Methodist Episcopal board of foreign missions, who has been stationed in Japan and Korea for many years, gave an address this evening at the First Methodist Church on the war between Russia and Japan. He de- clared that the Russian people were not responsible for the conflict, which was brought on through the machinations of men high in religious and political circles. The leaders in the church of Russia, he sald, exercise a power as great as that exerted by the political leaders. These men, imbued with the ambition to make Russia a worldwide power, were responsible for the war. —_—————— Association Wants Hospital. OAKLAND, Aug. 7.—The Young Women's Christian Association has prepared a petition to the Board of Health which will be presented at the next meeting of that body, requesting the board to provide a suitable hospi- tal for contagious diseases, where pa- tients taken from hotels and lodging- houses may be safely isolated without undue discomfort. The petition states that contagious disease cases have been recently discovered in hotels and private boarding houses, and that the hospitals in this city refused to receive the patients. e ———————— ‘Will Try to Incorporate. POINT RICHMOND, Aug. 7.—The citizens of Point Richmond have de- termined to renew the attempt to in- corporate the town and to this end C. R. Blake, president or the - Greater Richmond Incorporation Club, has ap- pointed a committee of three members of the club to circulate a petition to the Beard of Supervisors asking that Richmond be incorporated. The mem- bers of the committee are H. B. Kin- ney, W. A. Lucas and Toney Tufve- son. They will begin the work at once. —————————— Fire was discovered about 8 o'clock yesterday morning on the roof of En- gine-house No. 12 at Commercial and Drumm streets, Word was sent to Chemical Engine No. 3 at 112 Jack- son street and its members hurried to the scene with their engine and quick-, ly extinguished the blaze. The fire had been ‘caused by a spark from the chimney. —_— at the West End. He considers that the market is exceptionally brisk for the summer season. Hammond & Hammond have several deals in process of negotiation that they expect to complete next week, This firm reports that the demand for modern cottages is far in excess of the supply. ————————— The Swiss Government has passed a GRtinE Wit Jantaetie aed” Sheurs ng wi o al AND SKIP OUT Two Prisoners Seize Deputy Sheriff and After Tying Him Make Their Escape POSSE ON THEIR TRAIL Men Confined in Prison for Horse Stealing Said to Be Desperate Persons Special Dispatch to The Call. ONTARIO, Ore., Aug. 7.—Bob Hess and Ed Chester, the two prisoners con- fined in the Malheur County Jail at Vale for horse stealing, made a daring escape at 6 o’clock this morning. Dep- uty Sheriff Thomas was giving the men their breakfast when he was seized, bound and gagged by the two men and locked in a cell. Then the men secured arms and horses and started for the hills. Vale is a small town of about three hundred inhabitants and but few peo- ple were astir at the time of the es- cape. It was two hours before the citizens became aware of what had happened. A party was then organ- ized and started in pursuit. Hess and Chester were recently ar- rested on the charge of horse stealing. They had seventeen stolen Frorses in their possession when arrested. Pre- vious to that they had attempted to ship two cars of stolen horses from Parma, Idaho. Both are desperate characters and will resist arrest if overtaken, e S A ENGLISH FLAG [N HUDSON BAY British Ship Nelson Plants Banner of St. George in Lancaster Sound Country ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 7.—The seal- ing steamship Erik, which was char- tered by the Government and convoyed an auxiliary expedition to the steam- ship Neptune, which has been in Hud- son Bay for the past.year with the Canadian official expedition sent for the purpose of annexing territory there, re- turned here to-day, bringing Major Moodie of the Northwest mounted po- lice, Governor of Hudson Bay. The Erik met the Neptune at Port Burwell, Ungawa Bay, on Monday, July 25, and spent a week transferring coal and supplies. She started on the return journey last Tuesday, while the Neptune cruised north to Lancaster Sound, hoisting the British flag and proclaiming British sovereignty over that region. Major Moodie reports that the Nep- tune went into winter quarters in Ful- lerton Inlet last October and found the American whaler Era, the only vessel known to be in Hudson Bay during the past season, wintering in the same vi- cinity. The Neptune built a fort there, established a garrison of police and or- ganized the place as a port of entry and stopped illicit trading with the na- tives. The Era paid duty on all goods intended for trade with the natives, thereby admitting Canadian authority. —_——— DISTRUSTS BANKS AND LOSES MONEY IN BLAZE Instrument Maker Deposits Savings in Tin Box and Transfer Is Fol- lowed by Fire. SPOKANE, Wash.,' Aug. 7.—Dis- trustful of banks, P. A. Klein, an in- strument repairer of Spokane, with- drew his hoardings from a local bank recently and buried them in a tin box beneath the little shop which he con- ducted on Howard street. Last evening ‘fire swept away the structure. Klein was away at the time and returned this mornig to find his shop in ruins and his money gone. He was frantic with excitement. His nephew Clarence Skillman found the box to-day but the fire had melted the solder and ruined some of the con- tents. Klein says he had $500 in bills and several thousand dollars in securities in the box. He refuses to make known the amount of his loss, but says many of the securities are ruined. Two boys, who were poking in the ruins this morning, found two fifty- dollar bills and six ten-dollar bills. The bills were burned upon the edges. —_————— KEENE'S TROTTING HORSES HELD UP BY RAILROAD Station Agent Finds Too Many “Dead- - heads” in Charge of the Animals. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 7.—Seven carloads of James R. Keene's stable of trotting horses were held up at the New York Central station here to- night and not allowed to proceed to Yonkers until the stationmaster, Syl- vester Burns, had collected $212 80 in railroad fares from men deadheading their way from San Francisco. The men protested vigorously and not un- til Burns threatened to sidetrack the horses in the yards did they settle. The horseman’s contract with the railroad company provided for six men to care for the horses in each car, but when the train reached here there were as many as fourteen men | in some cars. —— I G — Hold Final Meeting. The final meeting before the pri- mary of the various committees and delegates of the United Independent Republican Club of the Thirty-ninth Assembly District was held last night in Golden West Athletic Hall, at Point Lobos and Ninth avenues. Almost every member was present. Judge John R. Aitken presided and John J. Cassidy was secretary. Reports were recelved from all the precincts of the d:strict showing that a thorough can- vas had been made of the voters. At- tention was directed to the fact that the names of Herbert Williams and R. A. Sarle upon the Ruef ticket had been placed there without theirknowl- edge or consent. Both, it was said, are active wo members for the election of the United Independent delegates. —————— It is human nature to dislike who are smarter than we to those 10 RATNT i) Maniae, Suddenly Regaining Mental Soundness, Finds Six Deaths Charged to Him MUST NOW STAND TRIAL Awakens as If From a Stupor and Has No Remembrance of His Series of Crimes I L Special Dispatch to The Call. DES MOINES, Towa, Aug. 7.—Awak- ening from a Rip Van Winkle dream of six and a half years, during which he killed three men and fatally wound- ed three others, John W. Stone will be brought from the insane ward of the Iowa penitentiary to Des Moines to be tried on a charge of murder. Stone undoubtedly lost his reason while in search of an invention that would make him famous and wealthy. | He worked for years unceasingly upon all sorts of peculiar devices and finally obtained in Canada a patent on a corn elevator for carrying corn .from the wagon to the crib. His studlous appli- cation made him nervous and excit- able and, finallv positively violent. Several times he ran amuck and used his revolver with deadly effect. Now he must face the court here in a trial for murder. Judge Conrad, who sentenced Stone to the insane hospital, has died and Stone’s father has removed from Sioux City to Ohio, but will return.to be with him at his trial. Stone has apparently awakened from the stupor that has hung over him. Mystified by his surroundings, he has asked his whereabouts. He was as- tonished to find himself in an Institu- tion for the insane and asked why he was there. He was told the story of his crimes. He could not believe the record of his own deeds. Though a mental and physical wreck when he entered the institution, Stone has gradually improved in body and | mind until he is apparently in posses- sion of all his faculties. | e | DIFFERENT METHODS USED | TO CURE DRUNKENNESS | Nailing Their Ears to the Sidewalk Is Persia’s Persuasive | Way. “There is only one custom in our country which I would like to see es- tablished in America, and that is the custom of dealing with drunkards,” said Isaac Yohannen, a Persian mis- sionary who lectured to a large audi- ence at the Norwegian Lutheran Church last evening. “In our country when a man gets drunk we take him and nail him to the sidewalk, driving the spikes through his ears. Then when other people come along they spit in his face and kick him until he is so- ber. I think this method would do a great deal of good in America, because | you have more drunkards than we do. There are no saloons in Persia, the | chief beverage being home-made wine. They don’'t even know what beer is.” “Our officials have several ways of making prisoners confess to crimes,” sald Mr. Yohammen. “The favorite method is to take them on a stand, around which all the people of the town gather, and then put out one eye. If the crime is not very great an arm is cut off or a leg severed. If it is only a trivial offense probably an ear is sacrificed. Very often innocent peo- ple are subjected to these torments, but it cannot be helped.. “The Persians very seldom hang a man for crime. If he kills another he is fined $15 and allowed to go. If he kills ten or a dozen and the people finally decide that he ought to be put out of the way he is hanged. ‘But he is not hanged as they hang men in this country. He is hanged by the feet and a heavy weight is tied to his head. Then he is allowed to die. If the ac- cused prisoner is a woman her hair is shorn from her head, providing the offense is a trivial one. If it is a se- rious one she may be turned into a room filled with mad cats and be scratched to death. “Persian jails are dark cellars and contain no furniture whatever. The | Government doesn't feed prisoners, this being left to friends of the ac- cused. If he happens to have no friends he will starve to death. Often- times when food is brought by friends the keepers of the prison and other of- ficlals appropriate it, so that the pris- oners have to go hungry.” ——— Many Oyster Men Named Smith. “Yes, sir,” said the old Fulton-Mar- ket fisherman, as he solemnly chewed a wisp of straw and audibly wished for the return of the oyster-shucking sea- son, “yes, my name's Smith. I'm one of the unfortunates of that name that's in the oyster business. Do you ever stop to think what a lot of us there are in this business? Well, there are and, as a rule, every Smith that goes into| oystering gets rich at it. I knew twen- ty-three of that name in the business in Connecticut alone, at one time, and every one of them did well, by gosh! Must be I was misnamed. All the oth- ers got along famous in the business, and there's a bunch of them down on the Chesapeake Bay who have hit it up well. There were three of the Smith brothers who cwned the whole busi- ness at Oyster Point in New Haven and who were big shippers to Europe. All of 'em left fortunes when they died. Frank Smith owns about all the oyster grounds there are at Stony Creek and Clinton in the name of the Stony Creek Oyster Company, and his brother Charlie owns the grounds that Frank does not. Every Smith that's gone into the business done well, "cept one—that’s me.”—New York Com- mercial. —————— Great Rangoon Bell Restored. After conquering Burmah the British undertook to carry the great Rangoon bell, the third largest in the world. to Calcutta as a trophy, but dropped it overboard in the River, where it defled all the efforts of the engineers to raise it. Some years later the Bur- loss, begged to be allowed to recover it. Their petition was granted, and, by at- taching an incredible number of bam- boo floats, the unwieldy mass of metal was finally lifted from its muddy bed and triumphantly restored to its place. | Market, | W FIGURES TELL SORY OF WAR Report of Adjutant General of Grand Army Will Show a Membership of 250,000 ORDER 1S PROSPEROUS Pension Commissioner Esti- mates That 800,000 Vet- erans Still Enjoy Life SRR SRR Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Aug. 7~The report of | the adjutant general of the Grand | Army of the Republic to be made | at the national encampment at Bost will show an active membership | a quarter of a million. The total nu ber of Civil War veterans still living is | estimated by the Pension Commis- | sloner at 800,000. | During the year ending June 30, {1904, 9029 members of the order died. | The Pension Commissioner reports that but a few more than 30,000 vet- erans passed away during the same period. It is a plain inference there- fore that the Grand Army of the Re- public is composed of the younger and more active survivors of the great war. During the last year the gains in the Grand Army aggregated 23,000, while the actual losses were slightly In ex- cess of the gains. The order is organized into forty- five departments, embracing about 8200 Grand Army posts. During the last year thirty-three new posts were crganized, sixty-five surrendered their charters and about 100 failed to make | reports. n ot ——————— REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Alameda County. SATURDAY, AUGUST 6. Thomas E., R. E. and Katie Y. Rice to Ro- salia Ward (wife of R. F.), lot on W line of 151:6 S of West Fourteenth, S 40 by 125, Oakiand. quitclaim deed (recorded Au- gust 5, 1904); $10. Clara L. and John W. Pepper to Marga: Meilus, iot on W line of Wood street, 86 Division, N 35 by W 112, block 688, map, Oakland; $10. Minerva J. Sweeney (Todd) (wife of Sween: (by Frank M. Todd, attorney) to Joseph Chibos, lot 12, block Q, Paradise Park, Oakland; $10. Estelie and Leo L. Nichols to Mary E. Pope, lot 34, block F, map No. 2. Linda Vista Terrace, Oakland; $10. Margaret M. Bulloek (widow) and Ella L. Bullock to Mary H. Abbay (wife of James N.), lot on SW corner of Eighth an W 100 by § 25, being N 25 f | 10. bioek K. Market-scrcet Tra conveys all interest in said (Margaret M. Bullock) acquired under from Lizzie Lux et al. 804 D 28, also all est as heir at law of H. E. Bullock, decea. also deed conveys all interest in same of L. Bullock as heir at law of H. E. Bullock deceased, in same; $10. ‘The Realty Syndicate to City of Oakland, uses of a public road, a strip 60 w tending from E line of Linden street to Fortieth, being 30 feet on each side of an tiguous to line as follows: Beginning a where center line of Spring street if D E would intersect E line of Linden, thence ) 151.5, thence on curve 575 feet radius reflect- ing to right or S 50.7 to south line of Fortieth, said curve continuing until center line of F tieth becomes tangent thereto, portion plat Kellersberger's map Ranchos V. and D. Perai- ta, Oakland; valuable consideration. Granville D. and Elizabeth C. Warren (wife) and Harry E. and Jane H. Warren (wife) to Emma F. Heath, lot on NW line of Eighta avenue, 100 NE of East Twenty-first street, NE 50 by NW 125, block 132, Clinton, East Oakland: $10. C. and 1da Christensen to John J. and Cath- erine M. Nielsen, lot on S line of East Twenty- third street, 302 E of Twenty-first avenue, B 32 by S 140, portion of lots 24 and 25. block 74, map of Iots in Brooklyn deed conveys home- stead interest of first pts, East Oakland: $10. Harrlet J. Graham (Hatfleld) and Fred Gra- ham (husband) to G. Vandenpeersboom, lot om NE corner of Brooklyn avenue and Howard street, E 130 by N 82:6, lots 94 and 95, prop- erty of Capital Homestead Association, Brook- Iyn, East Oakland: $10. A. L. Sobey (single) to Annie E. and W, J. O'Donnell, lot 25, block 3, map of the High- land, & resubdivision of blocks 1, 2 and 3 of Tuohy Addition to Berkeley, Oakland Town- ship; $10. Walter and Fasute . Frear to George D. Hutchison, N 37:6 of lot 6, block B, ka Homestead, Berkeley: $10. George Losekann (single) to J. L. McLaren, lot on N line of Essex street, 362:2 B of Shattuck avenue, E 100 by N 108, lots 14 and 15, block D, map of E portion of Newbury Tract, Berkeley: $10. Maitie M. and Hans J. Hansen to Kate Zim- mer_(widow), lot 14, block P, map of blocks M. N, O and P, Harmon Tract, Lorin, Berke- ley; $10. Fenjamin F. and Meda S. Brown to O,_A. Rudolph, lot beginning 60 fest W from NW corner of Prince and King streets, W 60 by N 75:3, portion of lot 17, block 9, betng W iy lot 17, Regent-street Homestead Association, Berkeley: $10. Carl A. and Eugenie Schenk to Eugenie Schenk Jr., lot on W _line of Grant street, 50.95 S of Lincoln, S 40 by W 400, lot 3, block 1, Edith Tract, Berkeley; gift. The Realty Syndicats (corporatiam) to Cyrus H. Allen, Iots 21 to 23 and N 16 feet of lot block 24, McGee Tract, portion plat 67, etc., Berkeley; $10. Anna Schmitt (widow) to John and Mamie €. Plerre, lot on S line of Haight avenue, 131:11 W of Seventh (Webster) street, as same now exists, S 70 by W 101:113%, Alameda; $10. Christina _ Barthol (Schobel) (Schwab) to Adam Barthol (husband), lot on N line of Prince street. 50 E of Calais, E 50 by N 133, Jot 10, block 1, map of N 3 of Harmon Tract, . E 75 by N 130, and E 25 feet of lot 18, map of Beaver Tract, block No. 1, Berkeley: $10. Berry-Bangs Land Company (corporation) o Cornelius Beach Bradley, lot on W' line of Col- lege avenue, 200 N of Stuart street, N 100 by W 148, lots 7 and 8. block A, Berry-Bangs Tract, map No. 2, Berkeley, deed agree- ment; §10. Same to G. Walter and Leila B. Monroe and Henry Kerr, lot on E line of Regent street, 150 § of Derby, S 50 by E 148, ot 21, block C, same map. same, Berkeley: §10. Louis H. Sharp _and W. G. Cohen to Lou H. Knapp and _Willlam G. wett, land bounded N by Madison street, E by Court. W by Mound and S by San Jose avenue (Jef- ferson street), being block 65, Stratton's map, ; also note for $500 made by Thomas m January 9. ‘90, and claim of said Mathewson based upon said note for $0€S 39 as per No. 2 claim book ourt, San Francisco, quitclatm Passing of Meerschaum Pipes. “A meerschaum pipe that would have brought $25 ten years ago wouldn't bring more than $10 now,” said a to- bacconist. ‘“Meerschaum pipes used to be tashionable and popular in America, but they are not much sought for to- d"%t isn’t strange that the liking for them should have waned. The meer- schaum is an unsatisfactory pipe at the best. Drop it, and it is irretrievably broken. Try to color and for a month It tastes like soap. “It isn't the meerschaum in ome of these pipes that colors, a mixture of beeswax and oil that the carvers rub into the block before they carve it. You could smoke a pipe of pure meerschaum all your life and at your death it would be as white as it had been at your birth. It is the oil and the beeswax—only that—which colors. | A pipe of really fine briarroot costs to-day from $10 to 325 or $30. In the past it would not have cost more “":. $8 at the outside.”—Washington When a man about all he does is es with his wite listea.