The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1904, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALt, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1904. Aged Woman Alleges She Was Cut by a Carpenter Shows Her Wounded Hand ia Court. Says Assailant Is Agent of Saloon Man Who Desires Her Property. e el Mrs. Annabel Joyce of 2661 San Jose | avenue is aged and decrepit and when | she tremblingly held up a bandaged hand for Police Judge Cabaniss’ inspec- tion a nformed him that it was cut| by a knife or some other keen-edged | implement wielded by able-bodied Asa | Hanson, whom she charged with dis-| turbing the peace, his Honor continued the case until a less-congested calendar | enables him to devote ample time to the he ale complainant alleges that arpenter and dwells | m systematically ing to drive her away from the e, is en- | reighborhood and that in the crusade he is acting as the agent of a Barbary Coast saloon-keeper who desires to ac- ion of the two lot quire posse: = she now occupies. Hanson's method of pers. jon, she avers, was confined to | e until she had him arrested | r the peace and then it as- the form of personal violence. | oral for dis sumed ! He invaded her bouse and struck her | face with his fist and when she pted to defend herself he drew a on of some kind—she was too agi- | to note its exact character—and | ed at her with it. The blow was | ved on the hand, which she threw | p to protect her head, and the wound | indicated that a knife was used. Then, she says, he hurried away and swore to | a warrant charging her with disturbing | the peace, the document being signed | by Judge Mogan. This case, too, has been set aside until it can be given the consideration to which its seriousness | entitles it. { . T Alta street is a narrow and rarely used | thoroughfare off Montgomery street, | between Union and Filbert, and when | L. Valentina, occupying No. 124, erect- | ed a fence in front of his residence that | y closed the street to traffic he‘ t think he was putting the gen- public ‘to any considerable incon- | But he did not take into cal- | ion the possible effect of his fence | upon the household of Michael Brady, occupant of No. 120, nor did he offer to the structure after Mr. Brady | ned that it put himself and eat discomfort in their go- mings, as it practically them to walk around the| der to visit their neighbors When suasion failed to Valentina’s obstinacy, Mr resorted to retaliation by em- hing his sidence with a porch h extended in such a way as to and | by means of which the Val- | reached the upper floor of their | Mr. Valentina’s protests | ghed at by Mr. Brady, just as dy’s objections had been over- Mr. Valentina, and when Mr. i ndertook to tear down the porch Mr. Brady equipped him- | ax and started to chop down the Valentina fence. The splin- | ters were merrily fiying and so were | uncomplimentary allusions between Mr. | Brady and Mr. Valentina when Patrol. | man Peshon stepped in and with the vested stopped the| of demolition and advised the ob- | structionists turned destructionists to | e their dispute properly arbitrated | court. Judge Mogan has the case and he will thresh it out in detall on October 28. ve ay render useless an outer | R e Georgg Stewart, an Afro-American Adonis whose undisputed possession of the cakewalking championship of the Pacific Coast makes him the envied of every colored gentleman who aspires to social prominence on the Barbary | Coast, will be afforded opportunity to- | morrow to explain to Judge Mogan his reasons for having fractured the skull of Louis Gomez last Sunday night at Pacific and Montgomery streets. It has not been ascertained exactly how the fracture was administered—whether Mr. Gomez, who is of Portuguese na- tivity, was smitten with a “knuckle | essential to the preservation of har- duster” worn by Mr. Stewart or sus- tained the injury by being flung vio- lently against the curbstone. Of one thing, however, the police are certain and that is Mr. Stewart’s authorship of the cranial damage that necessitates Mr. Gomez's confinement to a hospi- tal. 1t is suspected that a woman is con- cealed somewhere at the bottom of the assault and the detectives are endeav- oring to bring her identity to light. Mr. Stewart’s manly graces are so ir- resistible as to make him a constant { bone of contenticn among the ladies of his color whose habitat is Pacific street. Not very long ago he was shot at three times in rapid succession by a negro { who was piqued by the attentions he (Mr. S.) received from Miss Anastasia Johnson, premiere danseuse in Sam Lopez's temple of Terpsichore. The shooter was so blinded by jealous rage that his bullets flew wide of their in- tended mark. . Five youngsters, whose father is Ru- dolph Miller, butcher, may be the means of having justice tempered { with mercy when he is sen- tenced to-day for threatening to slay their mother at the family home, 4% Hoff avenue. Witnesses testified that the defendant, in drunken frenzy, com- pelled the woman to remain outdoors all nigl while he stormed and raved and thréatened to kill her with a knife if she dared to enter the house, where the terrified little ones were loudly ery- ing. As his imprisonment would mean deprivation of their maintenance, how- ever, it is likely that he will escape the punishment he so richly deserves. &' TR Amelia Duncan, young and passing fair, complained to Judge Mogan that the policeman who arrested her for vagrancy would not summon a single one of her numerous influential friends to bail her out and the result was her incarceration all night and the prob- ably irreparable damage of a blue silk- en gown that had cost her quite a tidy sum and to which she had become very fondly attached. “Oh, dear!” Miss Duncan continued, “I'll be ashamed to go on the street with this skirt after you do let me out. Oh, dear! It's just disgraceful to put a well dressed lady in one of them dirty cells. Oh, dear! Ain’tIa fright” Oh, dear! I wouldn't take worlds an let any of my friends see me looking | as I am now. Oh, dear! I guess I'll just sneak through back alleys till I get home and then I'll put on my green broadcloth. Oh, dear!” But unless Miss Duncan’s friends visit her at the City Prison they will be saved the shock of seeing her in that | soiled blue silk. She was remanded till to-day and the ruling evidently cha- grined her, despite her professed re- | | luctance to venture abroad looking as she then did. John Callahan did not approve the way in which the floor was managed at the Red Rose Social Club’s last hop | in the Turk-street Temple, and ex- pressed his disapproval so vociferously that his forcible expulsion was deemed mony. He returned to the hall, how- ever, where he not only repeated his censure of the management, but of- fered to assume it himself and “run things in style,” if a majority of the masculine dancers would stand by him. Instead of accepting the prof- fered boon the majority again expelled him, and when he arrived upon the sidewalk Patrolman J. F. O'Brien gathefed him in for disturbing the peace. With his ball clothes on Mr. Callahan stood before Judge Mogan and pleaded not guilty, but the police- man’s testimony overwhelmed the plea and sentence was deferred until to-day. . . . Minnie Howard averred that it was not she, but her female companion, who ordered the French dinner for which she was held to pay. It was the other lady, Miss Howard ex- plained, who proposed the difiner, led the way to the restaurant at 531 ADVERTISEMENTS. — FURNITURE DRAPERIES BELGIAN 0AK $110 MUSIC STAND Deliveries are planned to CLOSING DAYS REDERICKS MOVAL SALE The subdued torie of this glorious hard wood is beautifully enhanced by its faultlessness of carving. Every piece is massively beautiful and suggestive of originality of design and great strength of construction. These items suggest the character of the values: $150 HALL RACK ......Removal Sale $145 WRITING DESK ..Removal Sale ---.Removal Sale Price $75 $75 HALL CHAIR .....Removal Sale $70 HALL SEAT ......Removal Sale $65 ARM CHAIR ......Removal Sale Price $45 HALL CHAIR .....Removal Sale . once or during the hotidays. AR KET ST k:fé'flv CARPETS WALL PAPERS ; FURNITURE Price $115 Price $100 Price $52 Price $50 $48 Price §35 Your convenience—sent at Three applications to sell liquor on | the Ocean boulevard were turned down by the Police Commission last night. The proposition of N. C. Twilliger to start a saloon and cafe in the hall | built by the Ocean Beach Improvement Club, vhich has been hotly contested by the beachside residents of the | gentler sex and many property owners, met with defeat. | The women, both those who reside |in the district and those who are in- terested in it from other motives, help- | ed largely to win the victory for mor- !ality. Mrs. Lovell White, president of the Outdoor Art League, made an ap- | peal in person to the board. Five other ladies, residents of Carville, testified | that they strenuously objected to any | more saloons in the neighborhood. | At the afternoon session the Police | Commissioners’ room was crowded with | feminine residents of the Ocean boule- | vard district. A large delegation of |ladies from the Outdoor ..rt League was also present. Twilliger's case was first called. He reiterated the statement that he in- | tended to conduct an orderly house and | that jf granted a license he would per- Protest of Women Wins a Victory No More Saloons Along | Ocean Beach Boulevard !0 OPEN CASE mit nothing improper in the resort. Attorney John Carey, representing the element opposed to the granting of the license, declared that if the hall must be transferred into a saloon and restaurant the following conditions were demanded by his clients: The bar and cafe must be in the same room and there must be no side rooms or partitions. Thero must be no speaking tubes or dummy elevator by which drinks may be conveyed to rooms; the openings and entrances must not be changed; nothing but tea, coffee and soft drinks may be served after 10 p. m.; no drinks must be served outside; if any of these conditions are violated the license shall be revoked. Commissioner Drinkhouse advocated | letting Twilliger run his restaurant for | four weeks, after which a decision could be reached as to whether or not | the license would be granted. Several | of the ladles of Carville were permit- ted to give their reasons for protesting against the resort. After admitting| the testimony of others the Cmnmls-, sioners decided to go into executive session and to give their decision inithe evening. Action on the application of the Em- ployes’ Register Company, which ap- plied for a license, was postponed one | week. The remainder of the session| was principally devoted to hearing ap- plications for saloon licenses. e CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ELECTS NEW MEMBERS | H. D. Loveland Appointed to Repre- | sent the Body at Trans-Missis- sippi Commercial Congress. At a meeting of the Chamber of { Commerce the following members | were elected: California Hotel, O. Greenwald, Hickman & Masterson, | Russo-Chinese Bank, I. Strassburger & Co., Theodore Gier & Co., Union Fish Company, George , Warren ! Hooper. | H. D. Loveland was appointed as a representative of the Chamber of | Commerce to attend the Trans-Missis- | sissippi Commercial Congress at St | Louis October 25 to 29 inclusive, | A resolution was adopted requesting { the Senators and Representatives from | California in the national Congress to endeavor to have an appropriation | made for the improvement of the Pre- | sidio in line with the request made to | the Secretary of War by General Mac- | Arthur. | The death was announced of three | members of the chamber, Messrs. P. | B. Cornwall, John W. Grace and 8. T. | Alexander. Rufus P. Jennings was appointed a | delegate to represent the Chamber of { Commerce at the National Irrigation | Congress to be held in El Paso, Tex., November 15 to 18, A resolution was adopted that the chamber co-operate in the efforts made to induce the Association of Of- | ficials of the Bureaus of Labor Statis- tics of America to hold their next an- nual convention in San Francisco. A resolution was adopted that the chamber indorse the proposed con- stitutional amendment to be voted upon at the election on November 8§ exempting the Academy of Sciences from taxation. A resolution was adopted that the | chamber indorse the efforts of the | California Promotion Commiittee in in- augurating a trip to Portland next | year to the Lewls and Clark Exposi- tion. Efforts will be made to induce the Manufacturers’ convention to hold its next session in San Francisco. The chamber indorses the constitu- | tional ‘amendment to be voted for at, | the election in November that all ships | or shipping employed in either foreign | or domestic navigation or in the fish- | eries be exempt from"taxation, | e Broadway, ordered the various courses and drank half of the five 'quarts of claret that were consumed with them. When the fifth “bot” had been emptied the other lady suddenly remembered that she had left her purse at home and requested Miss | Howard to await her return while she went to get it. Miss Howard waited and waited until she as well as. the | professional waiter were tired, and | then she was arrested for defrauding an innkeeper. Said arrest was an outrage, she declared, for she was simply a guest .of the other lady. Judge Cabaniss, however, could not be persuaded to take Miss Duncan’s view of the case, and he sentenced her to forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. . e 8 George Bronz, a Greclan lad with the face of a poet and the torso of a Jeffries, alleged that it was his uncle, | George Landers of Sixth street, near Howard, who sent him abroad to ped- /dle without a license and then took tall the profits of his {llegal traffic. The boy has been less than a year in this country, he said, but he has al- ready learned the ways of the side- | walk merchant and makes consider- able money. He has never attended school, is illiterate and does not be- lieve that Uncle George intends to have him educated. Judge Mogan con- ued the case until Uncle George can be haled into court and asked to ex- plain his treatment . of the little chap. \ —_——— Dutch Captain Fined. Customs Collector Stratton yester- day sent notice to Captain G. Bona of the Dutch ship Europa that he would be required to pay a fine of $1000 for Meteor and from one of Crowley's customs officers had arrived. The breach of law was said to have hap- pened last Sunday., . B Many ladies are martyrs to suffering. Thelr best help is Parker's Ginger Tonic. Parker's Hair Balsam is life to the hair. ® B SUTRO ARGUMENT ENDED.—The argument for ang against a partial distribu- tion of the estate of Adolph Sutro and for and ‘against the validity of the charity trust clause B T e s re given forty days in which allowing four men from the launch | launches to board the ship before the | submit their | — . LIEUTENANT RICHARDS' TRIAL RESUMED BY MILITARY BOARD Many ‘Depositions Are Read Before Court-Martial Touching Upon Sanity of Accused. The triad of Lieutenant George S. Richards Jr., who is accused of dupli- cating his pay accounts, was resumed vesterday at the Presidio. To support | his plea of insanity a lot of documen- tary testimony, gathered in the Philip- | pines, was introduced. Among these were depositions from Lieutenant R. W. Buchanan, Captain W. L. Eyre, Lieutenant 8. O. Fuqua, Lieutenant I. | A. Baxton, Lieutenant H. S. Howland, | Captain R. R. Stevens, Captain J. L. Hines and Captain G. S. Goodale, all of the Twenty-third Infantry. Their statements regarding the san- ity or insanity of the accused were nearly all non-committal. The trial will be resumed this morning at 10 o’clock. Vice President Corral on arrival here on Friday morning will be met at the Oakland mole by a tug from the navy yard, which will have on board repre- sentatives from the different commer- cial organizations of the city and a delegation of army officers. On arrival on this side of the bay the distinguish- ed visitor will be escorted to the St. Francis Hotel by a detachment of field artillery led by the Third Artillery Corps band. Dr. W. L. Keller, who is accompany- ing the squadron of the Fourth Caval- ry from Fort Riley to the Presidio, on arrival here will relleve Dr. C. C. Bil- lingslea, now at the General Hospital, Presidio. Major B. H. Randolph, who suffered & stroke of paralysis some two months since, is sinking very fast. Among the patients who came over on the transport an and have gone to the General Hospital are Major E. A. Mearns and Colonel W. 8, Scott, Philippine Constabulary. - Lieutenant James Conway, Philippine Scouts, who has been il at the General Hospital for two months, leaves for the East to-day. —_——— Expel harmlessly, through the natural channels, all impurities from the system (or circulation) with Lash’s Bitters. * —_————— DA SILVA AND LEE TOY APPEAR IN COURT Da Silva and Lee Toy voluntarily surrendered themselves to the United States Marshal yesterday morning and were taken into the United States District Court, where Thomas C. West made a plea for the reduction of bail on the second indictment. Judge de Haven, having consolidated both in- dictments for the purpose of trial, re- duced bail on the second indictment to $3000 each: Immediately after the adjournment of the court Lee Toy was released on bonds by the same surety company that had furnished bonds for the prisoners on the pre- vious indictment. But Da Silva was left cooling his heels in the prisoners’ room of the Marshal's office until after 4 p. m. He said that Mr. West would return with his bonds shortly. —————————— Burnett’s Extract of Vanilla—Used exclusively by all leading hotels and clubs. © PEDDLER IN TROUBLE.—Michael J. O'Rourke was arrested yesterday and with swindling Mission women on & dye scheme. He would sell them a tle of halr dye and promise to send a r around, but the latter never ADVERTISEMENTS. Coffees e Our ., 3.8 40 ofies are so good that You will want more. Fresh Coffees 15, 20, 25, 30 cts. We are giving Free | B. Keane, that he either render a de- | could see at a glance that the other charges Colorado, California, Kansas and Ne- MAYOR REFUSES Notifies Union Committee He Will Render Decision Favorable to.. Drinkhouse —_—— GATHERING 'STATISTICS RN Says Cigar Making Has Not Fallen Off and Other Charges Not Sustained —— A delegation from the Cigarmakers’ Union, headed by M. Blum, president of | the union, waited on Mayor Schmitz | yesterday and conveyed a request to| his Honor, through Secretary George ' cision or reopen the investigation mto‘\ the allegations made agalnst Police Commissioner Drinkhouse that the lat- | ter is using his official position to ad- vance the interests of his cigar busi- | ness. Keane brought word to the committee ' that the Mayor positively refused to re- | open the inquiry, saying that he had | heard all the necessary evidence, which he holds failed to substantiate the | charges made against Drinkhouse. The | Mayor sald: | I will probably give my findings in the mat- | ter efther to-morrow or Thursday next. The | reason for my delay in announcing my decision, | Which I must confess will be in favor of Mr. | Drinkhouse, is the delay I have experienced in | securing statistics from the Internal Revenue Department. relative to the number of cigars manufactured in this district. One of the charges made against Mr. Drink- house was that by reason of his dealing In Eastern made cigars the business of the local | union cigar shops had fallen off considerably, | resulting in the loss of jobs by cigar-makers of this city. From statistics furnished me for the First District there hag been an enormous crease in the number of cigars manufactured. However, I am seeking correct figures relative to the number of cigars made in this city dur- ing the last year or two, and I am confident that T will be able to prove that, instead of a Gecrease, a substantial increase will be shown, which will disprove this particular charge agalnst Drinkhouse. Any one who was present at the investigation were absolutely disproved. The fact that Mr. | Drinkhouse supplies but a very small percentage | of the saloons with his goods shows conclusive- | 1y that he did not intimidate dealers to buy his goods. Another reason for the Mayor's de- | lay in formally announcing his decision | is that Drinkhouse's friends desired to | have several of the witnesses who had | testified against him recalled in order | to show that they had been mixed up | in business transactions in the sale of | cigar shops that were not as repre- sented and so impeach their evidence. Drinkhouse himself thought that this would look like persecution on the part of the administration and he declined to take advantage of the point, pre- ferring to let ‘the matter rest on the| evidence as presented, which the Mayor | holds did not prove the charges. FITCH’S “WAY OF THE WORLD” LACKS POWER Rodin, the great French sculptor, has Just placed on exhibition in Paris the complete product of his hand and brain. Good, bad and indifferent it is— all there. “This is all of me,” says the big man; “I'm satisfled. If you're not be hanged to you!” I wondered if Rodin's were the rea- son for Clyde Fitch exhibiting his com- edy, “The Way of the World,” that the Alcazar is exploiting this week. Just where the play comes in the Fitch chronology I don’t know, but it needs a Rodin robustness of self-belief to keep it there at all. Curiously uncon- vineing I found it; o, too, I think, the large Tuesday night audience that had gathered to take it in. Yet there was realism galore and of the novel Fitch kind. There is a dramatized baby, a dramatized cocktall, a couple of x-eali autos, a christening, a house concert with a gilded tenor and whatnot. But these—except the tenor—are obviously lugged in and of absolutely no import to the action of the piece. Scandal and politics are the basis of the plot. A young wife, neglected by her husband, who is running for Goy- ernor, accepts the escort andattentions of another man, who is unhappily mar- ried. The wife is innocent in her folly —abnormally so—but seriously com- | promises her reputation. The consequent scandal threatens to ruin the husband’'s political prospects, and the climax of the play is reached when the husband rushes in at the baby’s christening to yell, “This is not me chelld!” Really, Theodore Kremer at his creamiest could not have beaten this. They have before the christening, by the way, raked in the Bishop for a little wedding on the side, down in the master’s study—the Bishop brightly suggesting that the wedding should come before the baptism. Of course there are moments as In any Fitch play. The concert is one of ADVERTISEMENTS. each—A new shipment of in Bagdad, Oriental and width. $3.00 $4.00 Tapestry. $L.00 Tieestsy. Portieres. $4.50 $3.0 $2.00 and other styles. 20 patterns FIGURED DENIM, 36 Best q“usli(y heavy, plain DENIM, Best quality heavy, plain BURLA yard 111, 113, 115, 117, 1 Drapery Department. Couch Covers. 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Mrst James Sco- bie, an honorary member, who has presented the society with a bed in the Scoble Memorial Sanitarium, was introduced. The programme was as follows: Overture, ‘“‘Scotch Airs,”” McW. Cosgreev: songs,_ ‘‘My Own Native Heather'" and “Scot- tish Blue Bells,”” W. Balnaves: plano solo, Miss Lulu Sherwood: song. ‘‘Auld Joe Nichol- son’s Bonnie Nannie,” G. St. J. Bremmer; bagpipe selection, John Reld; song, Lomond,” Miss Ryder; présentation of badg: ‘William Balnaves; “‘Bowling Braes, ‘“Mary of Argyle,”” Mrs. James D. Craig; rea ing, John Duncan; song, Mrs Speedie; plano selection, Miss Sherwood; song. Lachlan MacLachlan; ' heather _distribution and ‘‘Auld Lang Syne.” Miss Velma Lillle was the accompanist. DIES IN CELL.—O. Abrahamson, & sailor, was found dead In his cell at the Harbor sta- tion last night. He was arrested in a doorway on East street & few hours before. ATTORNEYS COME TO BLOWS AT CONCLUSION OF SUIT Henry H. McPike and Robert Duke Fight It Out in the City Hall Corridors. The trial of the suit of Albert Mack to recover $250 from Henry H. Mec- Pike was begun yesterday in Justice of the Peace Van Nostrand's court. Mack is the assignee of W. S. Leake, who indorsed a note for Matt Storm, the horseman, for $500, jointly with McPike. The note became due and Leake was mulcted for the full amount. Suit was thereupon brought against McPike for his half. McPike admitted that he had indorsed the note, but set up as a defense that Storn had signed a chattel mortgage to Leake on a horse, Sunello. McPike was severely cross- examined by Robert Duke, attorney for Mack, as to whether he (McPike) had not told Duke on a number of oc- casions that he would settle his half of the note with Leake. McPlke denfed this and the case went over for fur- ther argument. After the adjournment McPike and Duke carried their differences outside of the courtroom to the corridors of the City Hall. Bystanders say that.the fight was very pretty while it lasted. Blood flowed on both sides with the advantage slightly in favor of Duke, but both belligerents retired from the scene and went home for repairs. —_————————— rmuatag pital yesterday iting from alcobolism: Fred Simon of 1160 Mission street, Aanie “Doe” of 736 Pacific street and Mamie Donelly, alias Mason. ADVERTISEMENTS. them. Very cleverly the dramatist shows here the conventional “sassiety” attitude toward music. Then there are Mr. Fitch's usual handily touched in gossiping dames, but little else. The players did their best with the material. Miss Lilllan Lawrence was quite convincing in her cocktail brew- ing, and was a sincere and gracious figure to the limits of her opportunity. Miss Elizabeth Woodson was quite charming, though lacking a little in the essential breeziness of the part, as the divorced and sorry lady. John. Craig did a good deal for the husband, but could not hide all of the sawdust. 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