The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1904. DISCORD May Cause Jurors to Ask for Dismissa GRAND JURY To Take Up Election Commission BALLOT-BOX FRAUDS Dragnet Catches Jos. Rebstock HE session of the Grand Jury this afternoon may be at- | tended with some sensatigpal developments. The attempt ! will be made to indict the Election Commissioners on charges of ignoring the law in appointment of precinct offi- cers. Ifit fails, it was said yesterday, a request may at once be made to the court for dismissal of the Grand Jury. Some members of the Grand Jury are seeking, in the opinion of e others, to conduct the investigation of the pri- The discord that devel- | e meeting on Tuesday evening, when adjournment | is with unwarranted vigor. was in disorder, may result in an open rupture to-day. Jjoseph Rebstock, who was inspector in the Almshouse yesterday in anticipation of an ct, was taken into custody -tment that will be returned to-day. i — + The discord among the grand jurors | missioners. We shall then learn just | ove rt to indict the Election|how the jury stands, what influences | C rs is so pronounced that an | and sympathies are at work in it. I ope: is likely at the meeting | don’t believe we shall be able to ac- tt af As a result of the row | complish anything and I guess that th t abrupt adjourn- nean the end of the Grand Jury. e t, several members However, if there should be an un- be at they will not attend | expected turn in affairs and we find | er n The jurors who | that we have votes enough to go ahead k ctiv to unearth | With prosecutions whenever the ev th ¢ n frauds are di dence justifies, there will be no dispo- | py art, and if the | Sition to let up on the violators of the law. In fact, if we are assured by the | result of to-morrow’s session that we on Commission it apparent, as r investiga- | have & working number of grand "box stuffing would be|Jurors, we shall in ail probability go sbable that the court|into things with renewed vigor.” , aismiss the Grapd| The Election Commissioners are al- |leged to have made appoiniment of | election officers without regard to the | provisions of the law that the officers eks have now been spent and the only re- ient of two men Steffens, a fraudulent other Joseph Rebstock, sed of conduct while nspe in the Eightieth or Rebstock was rcts in which they serve. Messrs. »berts, Voorsanger, Devoto, Leffing- nd McGuire admitted this derelic- when called before the jury, but nal. REBSTOCK UNDER ARREST. ph Rebstock was yesterday in have soug anticipation of an € he to stuff 1 t s feel that they Y that will be returned . b el B Snats: st him this afternoon. Foreman feld of the Grand Jury gave the instructions to the police, it '~~1-—rl that Rebstock might take to before the bench warrant could as did Adolph Steffens, the pe | Stuffer who was indicted recently. Rebstock served as inspector in the | Almshouse district, and Fairfax H. Wheelan, W. H. Hazell and Dan Fitz- g d testified before the Grand Jury that he to when the witnesses chal- lenged them, and furthermore allowed several inmates of the poorhouse to vote notwithstanding that it was clearly demonstrated they were not en- titled to do so. Rebstock, it appears, was somewhat insolent before the jur- nd this had something to do ith indictment. a granite cutter by trade, of age en who rried out Men of high stand- those whom e been after. ould naller be issued, voters sing any hope held = was one e the ors witn ning in- Sutter street, and h 8. The exy of build- | p . agiiated with the Maestretti fa . ala ve was tion in the Forty-third Assembly Dis- trict TO-DAY. VOTE much ¢ ged and 1 nent of the city as in- fact that he at was an election officer in m of the law inhibiting the of more than one public of- lso been the subpect of in- Street I and time spector same violz holding t be taxpayers and residents of the | heir plea is that the statutes in this | n are impractical and uncon- | placed under | being | refused to administer the oath | He lives on Central | He at present holds a position in the | the | | [ | {1 | 4 “HELLO” GIRLS GO ON STRIKE 400 Portland Telephone Op- erators Hang Up Receivers and Desert Switch Board RETURN IN AN HOUR D JURY WILL | RETURN DUCT AT THE POLLS il AGAINST IS AFTER- mmr'num«r PRIMARY DA T Hazell testified that when he went to | lenged by { the Almshouse precinct on the morn- ng of prim | phoned to the Registrar’s office for in- | structions, and after put the elec- tors under oath concerning whom ques- tion was raised. | | | One of the Almshouse Inmates chal- day to watch the pro- | edings Re told him ‘‘there would be 3 the rough house he wanted.” When voters were chal-| lenged the inspector paid no attention, | | ahd when protest was made that he ! | should ad er the oath he dis- { posed of the matter by the announce- ment, —, let him vot Later in the Rebstock tele- =3 Hazell was Intrepid M. ‘Wiley, whose home and legal residence is on Mission street. Hazell and Whee- lan s the law and demonstrated that Wiley had no right to vote in the Eightieth Precinct. But the ruling of he inspector was, ““Oh,—, go on and vote.” Many were allowed to vote illegaily, according to the testimony of Whee- lan, Hazell and Fitzgerald, and when objéction was made Rebstock acted in | a high-handed manner as well as be- ing free in the use of foul ianguage. The witnesses were corroborated be- fore the Grand Jury by E. E. Whitney, who was a member of the election board. o+ INMATE OF THE ODD FELLOWS' PRUNE CROWERS l WILL ADVERTISE Dried Fruit l’rmnnlion As- sociation Is Formed by Orchardists at San Jose NS 1 P SAN JOSE, O 12 A meeting of the pr ¥, b yoon provided 1 e f n of the Dried Fruit Pror jation to consider 3 - f and creating a market fruit product of 1 valley than 200 orchardists were present. Paul Shoup presided as che T heme of advertising as pro- P Horticultural So- ads uit East 5 cents per having theincrease g fund—was favor- increase | HOME AT OROVILLE DROWNED A. Porter, Seized With Fainting Fit, Falls Into Feather River and Disappears. OROVILLE, Oct. 12.—A. Porter, an inmate of the Odd Fellows’ Home, was drowned this afternoon b; the Feather River at a point where the | He rzter was very swift and powerful, walking near the bank when he taken with a fainting spell which he was subject and fell back- | ward into the water. at once. His body has not been found. He was a member of Four Creeks Ledge No. 94 of Visafla. — TWO MORE OF THE ST LOUIS BOODLERS SENT TO PRISON Former Speaker Kelly Given Two Years and Gutke Sentenced to Five. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12.—Charles F. Kelly, former Speaker of thé Lower House of the municipal assembly, and Charles A. Gutke, a former member of that body, were sentenced to-day to terms in the penitentiary for con- p i - matter was re-|nection with the Suburban bribery it Dried Fruit Promotion | deal. Kelly was given two years for ASE0 n, h is to be composed | PE rjury and Gutke five years for brib- of jve business men and|ery. growers, a JESIRP P I « ~ | ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COMMONWEALTH TOBACCO COMPANY 1S INVOLVED | J., Oct 12.—Vice| in papers filed to- | Taylor tempo- rery. ointed Jerome receiver for the Commonwealth Tobacco Company A rule for cause to be shown why the receivership should not be made permanent is re- turnable in Newark on November 9 The receiver was appointed on appli- jon of George P. Butler, who owns 000 worth of bonds of the com- and to whom it is claimed the 1y is indebted to the extent of $50,000, on demand notes. The liabili- ties of the company are given at § 000, consisting principally of outsta; ing demand notes. The assets are es- timated at $75,000. —— . Agnews Has 1039 Patients. SAN JOSE, Oct. 12.—At the month- 1y meeting of the trustees of the State Insane Asylum at Agnews to-day the usual reports were submitted. There are 1039 patients in the asylum at present. Work on the new cottages is progressing. VISIT THF EXPOSITION | Three Thousand Members of Order Celebrate the Special Day Desig- nated in Their Honor. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12.—Three thou- | sana Knights of Columbus visited the where they W\ exposition grounds to-day, celebrated the special day designated in their honor and also commemorated the 412th anniversary of the discov- ery of America by Columbus. Ad- dresses were delivered by Archbishop | Glennon of St. Louis, Rev. Thomas H. Malone of Denver and others. Pl Will Not Hang Boy Murderer. MARYSVILLE, Oct. 12.-—Claude F. Hankins of Alameda, the 14-year-old murderer of George Morse, son of De- | tective Harry Morse of San Francis- co, is on trial to-day in the Superior Ccurt of this county. The jury was completed this afternoon. District At- térney M. T. Brittan accepted several men who stated they would not agree to a verdict to hang the boy. Mrs. A. W. Webb of Alameda, sister of the ac- cmed,m is attending every session of the ling1nto | to | He disappeared | l RISES COLUSA FARMS | SACRAMENTO RIVE AND FLOO Water Pours Through Breaks and Damages Crops to the Extent of $60,600. COLUSA, Oct. 12.—The Sacramento day night. This is the highest mark ever reached so early in the season. | Water is pouring through the breaks |on the east side, which had not been repaired, though they occurred last winter. The water pouring through | these breaks is rushing on corn, beans | and buckwheat flelds, causing losses | that will be between $40,000 and $60,- 000. Bean and corn harvesting had just commenced. The buckwheat is not yet thoroughly ripe. e T HEIRS BREAK WILL WHICH FOUNDED A UNIVERSITY ! Ceurt Decides for Contestants for Cor- rington Estate, Worth Quarter of a Million. PEORIA, 111, Oct. 12.—The jury in the Corrington will case, in which the heirs sought to break the will, re- turned a verdict to-day, giving the es- tate to the heirs. The will of the de- ceased devoted his estate of $250,000 to the establishment of a university. | Among the witnesses were Dr. W. R. Harper and Professor Albion W. Small of the University of Chicago. The case | will be appealed to the Supreme Court. ——————— Art School Supplies. Drawing pencils and papers. drawing instruments, draughtmen’s supplies, inks, sketch pads, oil colors, drawing boards, thumb tacks. crayons and erasers; ai- ‘ways the best. Sanborn, Vail & Co.. 741 Market street. e & FREE —— FREE — FREE. LUNCH—DINNER—TEA. ——— CREPE PAPER —— SETS ——Consisting of — TABLE CLOTH, 12 NAPKINS, 12 DOILIES. As a Table Ornament Nothing Could Be More Desirable or Serviceable. A SET "REE WITH WANT ADS. IN THE SUNDAY CALL. See announcement on classi- fied page. P e | River reached twenty-one feet to- night, and is still rising slowly. This rapid rise was caused by the heavy | rains of Satur Sunday and Mon- | Citizens of Santa Cruz Are VANT MONOPOLY OF STATE FAIRS Sure They Can Offer Most Attractive Inducements e Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 12.—The public spirited citizens of Santa Cruz, headed by F. S. Granger of the Santa Cruz Electric Railway, are making every | effort to have all future State fairs held in this city. The fair at Sacra- mento was a failure from a financial | standpoint this year, but Santa Cruzans are satisfied that this city has the natural advantages to make a State fair ' a paying investment and beneficial to Santa Cruz. With this idea in view the prelim- inary work upon the new racetrack in Last Santa Cruz is already under way. Much of the capital stock has already been subscribed and it is the intention of the stockholders to make the track the equal of any in the State. The Santa Cruz, Capitola and Watsonville Railway is to extend a spur track to | the entrance of the new track. R e TS SRy CABOOSE ROLLS DOWN | A STEEP mBAl\hMEl\T Freight Train Jumps Track in Sierras and Two Members of Crew Are Badly Hurt, SACRAMENTO, Oct. 12.—About midnight last night two cabooses and | two freight cars of a westbound freight train jumped the track one mile west of Applegate, a small sta- tion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. | One of the cabooses rolled down the embankment about thirty-five feet and severely injured Conductor P. L. Campbell and Brakeman P. J. Kelley, who were riding within.. Campbell’s face was badly cut, and Kelley’s back was sprained: The injured men were brought to the Railroad Hospital in ) this city for treatment. The derailment was caused by a de- fective truck on one of the heavy freight cars. It was eight hours be- fore the wrecking crews cleared the Agree to Work When Com- pany Promises to Investi- gate Alleged Grievances PORTLAND, Oct. 12.—Nearly 400 telephone operators employed in the two main offices of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company in this city walked out shortly after 1 o'clock to-day, having declared a strike against the company, alleging cruel and unjust treatment by a supervising forewoman, who alternates between this city and Spokane. Six girls re- fused to join in the movement and did their best to satisfy the demands of | the thousands of subscribers in this city and vicinity. As soon as the strike was declared the | local manager of the company com- municated with headquarters in San Francisco, asking that experienced op- erators be sent here at once. It is understood here that the Telephone Op- erators’ Union in San Francisco re- fused to sanction such a move on the part of the company. Shortly before | 2 o'clock the strikers returned to work under promise of the telephone pany’s officials that the matter would | be fully investigated and all wrongs, | should they exist, be adjusted to the| satisfaction of the operators. Trouble has been brewing in the lo- | cal office of the telephone company for | some time, due, the strikers say, to| the actions of a supervising fore- | woman who has inaugurated a system | of ‘“demerits” or “marks” for the in-| fraction of rules which the operatofs | assert are overrigid and inhuman. Each “mark” against an operator means a deduction from her salary at the end of the month; eight marks for three successive months results in the oper- ator’s position being taken from her. The girls, to the number of 100, met last night and organized a union, which has affiliated with the Federated Trades Council. It was determined that unless to-day brought an ame- lioration of the alleged wrongs that at a given signal the operators would | leave their boards and walk out. Word of the impending strike was passed among the several hundred operators who were unable to attend last night's | meeting, and when the signal was given | shortly after 1 o'clock almost the en- | tire operating force quit their places. | —_———— COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATED BY ITALIANS AT THE FAIR | com- | Anniversary of Discovery of America | Made Occasion for Presentation | of a Flag to St. Louls, ST. LOUIS, Oct, 12.—Commemora tive of the 412th anniversary of the | landing of Columbus on the island of | San Salvador, exercises were held at | the World's Fair to-day in honor of | “Italian Day | Many prominent Italians were here | from all parts of the United States and | they were assisted in celebrating the | day by the Italian societies of St. Louis, the Italian Embassador at | Wi ashmgtnn and several officials of the | Italian Government. The featuge was the presentation of a handsams Ttal- | ian flag to the city of St. Louis by | the Embassador, Baron Mayor des | Planches. A banquet of 1000 covers followed. —_———————— Marseilles Strike at an End. MARSEILLES, Oct. 12.—The coal- heavers, who have been on strike for nearly two months, have agreed to re- sume work on the employers’ condi- tions. This brings the great dock workers’ strike to an end. ADVERTISEMENTS. A POLLUTED C ITY RESERVOIR Makes Prudent People Think of Means to Protect Their Health. “PERUNA, BY L‘HEITIIG IIE‘LTIIY 'UL'WIS MEMBRANES, IS A GREAT PRECAUTION AGAINST ACQUIRING DISEASES FROM INPURE DRINKING WATER.”"—Dyr. S. B. Hartman. ITY reservoirs furnish the water for the vast multitude of people who constitute the population of our nu- merous cities. These reservoirs are liable to be con- taminated. Contamination is almost un- avoidable. If the people who drink city water could know what happens to the water they are drinking they would be more careful. Many citles furnish water absolutely unfit for drinking. The dangerous qualities can be re- moved by boiling the drinking water. In some cases this is very inconvenient and puts a great| burden upon the| - WORTH A POUND Yet oF for self-protection. But in spite of all precautions, people are, especlally during the fall months, exposed to the dangers of impure drink- | ing water. Wherever the exposure is unavoldable the system can be protected in some de- gree by healthy mucous membranes. A mucous membrane free from catarrh is not so llable to absorb disease germs as an unhealthy mucous membrane. Indeed it may be doubted whether a perfectly healthy mucous membrane is subject to contaminations of this sort. At least this much is certain, a mu- Miss Minnie Coop, 150 Hasting st., St. “I cannot speak too highly of the cous membrane perfectly free from ca- tarrh is not so liable to become infected as a mucous membrane that is deranged by catarrhal congestion. The logic of this is that during the | month of October - * | every one should] ayWREAWES take the precau- HEALTEY. tion of cleansing and healing the mucous membrane by | the use of Peruna. | A teaspoonful or two of Peruna taken | every day during the fall months, when | the drinking water is at its worst, is a great precaution against acquiring dls- eases from impure drinking water. A few doses of Peruna put the mucous membranes right and guard the system | against impurities. If the cities cannot protect the inhabi- tants from Impure drinking water, the inhabitants must protect themselves by membranes | keeping the mucous and healthy and entirely free from | catarrh. This can only be success- fully accomplished| by _the intelligent use o Should you desire special instructions regarding the use of Peruna, write to | Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of the | Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, and he will give you the benefit of his valuable advice gratis. Louis, Mo., writes: merits of Peruna. I was troubled for clean four years with a malarial condition of the system, making me susceptible to colds and afflictions resulting therefrom. several remedies, “My digestion was very poor, my breath bad and my sleep poor. but nothing helped me until I tried Peruna. I had used “A great change took place and I knew within a week that I had at last found the panacea for my troubles witlp the results. At the end of that tim me in perfect health ever since. of doses and find that it soon restores me.’ I used it for nearly two months and felt satisfled e I was strong and well and it has kept If I feel badly at any time, I just take a couple Ce innte Coop. | SWEDISH BOTANIST I HONORED AT STANFORD Pehr Hjalmar Olsson-Seffer Awarded Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by University. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 12. Pehr Hjalmar Olsson-Seffer has been awarded the degree of doctor of phil- osophy at Stanford University. Ols- son-Seffer is a native of Sweden and rior to coming to America held a long list of positions and honors. H2 was a botanist, journalist and linguist. He was the editor at one time of a Finnish political paper and to escape the resentment of the Russian author- ities went to Australia. In 1902 he came to Stanford, where he has since | remained as a graduate student and as an instructor in the department of systematic botany. The executive committee of the In- ter-Society Debating League of Stan- ford University has decided to put up a cup to be contested for by the high schools of the southern part of the State similar to that which has been offered for three years to those of the northern schools. The high schools of San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Riverside countics are to be included in the fleld of con- test. The school first winning three debates will take the cup. Snow Falls in New York State. NEW 12.—The first ASKS ACCOUNTING FROM LARGE IMPLEMENT HOUSE Action of Stockholders of Kingman & Co, Creates Stir in Illinois Financial Circles. PEORIA, IIi, Oct. 12.—A sensation | was created in financial circles here to-day when Charles A. Jamieson, for- merly a member of and still a stock- ! holder of the firm of Kingman & Co., | one of the largest implement houses in the United States, filed a bill asking |for reliet and an accounting. The ‘capl(al stock of the concern is given at $1,850,000. Its interests are distribut- ed as follows: Kingman & Co., Peoria, $600,000; Kingman Plow Company, Peoria, $600,000; Kingman Implement { Company, Omaha, $200,000; Kingman- Mocore Implement Company, Kansas City, $250,000; Kingman St. Louis Im- pjement Company, $100,000; Kingman & Co., Texas, $100,000. The par value of Mr. Jamieson's holdings in the va- ! rious companies is given at $588,000. | KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 12—H. G. Copping, local manager of the King- | man-Moore Implement Company, says Jamieson severed connection with the firm five years ago, that Jamieson is only a small stockholder and that to- action will not affect any of the | irm’s houses. —_—e—————— Re-elect the Retiring Directors. NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—The stock- YORK, Oct. R e NEW BOILER INSPECTOR APPOINTED.— John E. Wynne, brother of Congressman ‘Wynne, has been appointed Assistant Inspector of Boilers at this port. snow of the season fell at Albany, | hclders of the' Pacific Coast Company Schenectady and a number of other | held their annual meeting in Jersey places up the State to-day. It melted |City to-day and re-elected the three as fast as if fell retiring directors. ADVERTISEMENTS. —*1 s[5 SUITS FOR 10| Five Dollars for Five Minutes of Your Time Walk out Kearny street to Sacramento—come into our Big Store—slip on one of these swell $15 suits—pay us $10 for it—keep the other $5 in your pocket—and you will be just that five spot to the good. Easy money—isn't it ? Fabrics are those stylish “Scotchy” tweeds and cheviots—also hard finished suitings and cassimeres. Colors are nut brown, tobacco brown, steel and gun metal gray. Styles aré the last ones out. 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