The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1904, Page 16

16 THE FRA NCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8§, 1904. UNGER IS ACCUSED OF GRAVE OFFENSES IN FEDERAL OFFICE Old Employe Is Charged With Vari ous Thefts PLAYING RACES GIVEN AS THE PR v - clerk in the of- Port, has for his own dutiable goo( mails wers r, seizure llector of the i for selz made > em- postoffice sealed of all packages clerk is kept who ded at all, be- ADVERTISEMENTS. > BEAUTY OF SKIN PURITY OFBLOOD Ancient and Modern Ideas on These Interesting Subjects. UP-TO-DATE METHODS For Purifying and Beautifying the Skin, Scalp, Hair and Hands. Socrates called besuty s short-lived tyrsany, Plato a privilege of nature, Theocritus, a delightful prejudice, Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades s solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the gods. totle affirmed that beauty was bettér than all the letters of rec- ommendation in the world, and yet none of these distinguished authorities has left us even a hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of age and disease defled. Time soon blends the Jily and the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with cutaneous disfigurations and crimsons the Roman nose with unsight- ly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes, teeth, and lips yet beautiful by defacing the complexion, and flls the sensitive soul with agony. If such be the unhappy condition of one afflicted with slight skin blemishes, what must be the feelings of those in whom torturing humors have for years run riot, covering the skin with scales and sores and charging the blood with poisonous elements to be- come & part of the system until death? It is in the treatment of torturing, disfiguring humors and affections of the skin. scalp and blood, with loss of hair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest succe! Orig- inal in composition, scientifically com- pounded, absolutely pure, unchange- able in any climate, always ready, and agreeable to the most delicate and sen- sitive, they present to young and old the most successful curstives of mod- ern times. CARTERS CURE SICK HEADACHE. | KI’ER Genuine Must Bear PiLe Fac-Simile Signature Sea ool CAUSE | BOARD AWARDS NEW FRANCHISE | Granting Santa Fe Com- pany Right of Way {ORDERS IMPROVEMENTS {Gives Authority for Pav- | ing and Widening of Part of Fourth and H Streets The Board of Supervisors yesterday passed to print the ordinance provid- | ing for the grant of a franchise for forty-four years to the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe Railway Company for a right of way for a steam road ong Indiana, Eighteenth, ighth and Fifteenth street: | connecting spur track on street. Sixteenth The ordinance will be printed for a period of ninety days in the of- | ficlal newspaper and at the end of that time the ordinance will be finally pass ed. Meantime the question of dam- ages to property to certain owners will Le settled before final passage of the ordinance. The ordinances ordering the paving and widening of Fourth street from Market gnd Howard at a cost of $17,500 | and the paving with asphalt of H | street from Seventh to Twentleth ave- nues at a cost of $35,000 were passed | to print. The sidewalks on the north- erly half of H street were ordered | abolished | | | | The board aisc ordered the construe- | tion of a basalt block driveway nd | Lituminous pavement at the election | booth warehouse at a cost of $1600. Taxes paid under protest for schools 2nd a hospital by twenty-four tax- payers The slution authorizing the Board | of Worl to proceed with the con- struction of a fire engine housz and a chemical house on Twentieth street, near Connecticut. at a cost of $8000, was referred to the Fire Committee. The following ordinances were finally ssed: | i | e ordered rejunded. 1 | ranting permission to Henry Whitley to | A n temporary tracks for grad- s from the bay shore right of w Company along Twent » H street south, thence avenue south. confined in the County | lishing grades at certain | y-third street, Landers street | to the Assoclated Oil ylvania avenue for a pipe zing the appointment of a machinist | retaker for voting machines and election booths. | Tmposing a graduated license on junk dealers of nd $1 per quarter, according to the | business done. ‘ | The Board of Works transmitted a copy of the map of the district affect- ed by the proposed change of grade along the bay shore right of way of the Southern Pacific Company. The | : & —F | cost of the reconstruction of pave- | SEIZURE CLERK IN TH TOM- | | ments is fixed at $50,000, which expense ;w rEy“”m vl SUB- | | ic to be borne by the company. cause their contents are deemed of lit- tle value. It is rumored that this is not the first time that Unger has been under a cloud in the same office. The other, his accusers say, was smoothed by the in- friends ruary, 1802, Unger was elevated from the position of seizure clerk in the Collector’s office to the position of chief clerk in the customs service. In June, 1803, he resigned, giving as the cause that t he duties were too arduous. He then imed ‘the. duties of seizure clerk, and the real cause of the change in the service was kept quiet. t it now said that when Unger left the position of seizure clerk in February, 1902, he was short in his ac- | counts about $2000. This, it is alleged, he attempted to make good by turning in payments of from $200 to $300 a month. Unger’s successor, Henry Farm- | er, reported the shortages to Collector | Stratton, and it is now given out that Unger was forced to resign his position | as chief clerk. Whatever money was | stolen was made good and the crime was kept quiet. Farmer succeeded | Unger as chief clerk, and the stealings | would not have been discovered had not Unger continued his peculations. But Unger found the temptations of the seizure clerk’s position too strong for him. For several months it has | been suspected that valuable articles | of jewelry have been stolen from the mails. Investigation showed that the stuff had been turned over to Unger. It | could be traced no farther. When the seizure clerk learned that | nis doings had been discovered he re- | signed. Collector Stratton declined to accept the resignation and suspended ['Unger until the situation can be sifted | to the bottom. Regarding Unger’s troubles, Stratton deelines to be interviewed. | “I must refer you to the authorities at Washington,” he sald. “This is de- partmental business and I am not per- | mitted to discuss it. I can say that Mr. Unger is suspended for cause.” As soon as the discovery of Unger's | second offense was made’ Stratton placed the case in the hands of Special . Treasury Agents West* and Channing. They referred the facts to the United States District Attorney, who is absent from the city. His return is expected soon and then the charges will be taken up. | TUnger is a popular man about town, | being a membeér of the Olympic and the Family clubs. Race track gambling is given as the cause that led him to go wrong. He is living at 1416 Fell street and had been in the Custom-house ser- | vice for nearly thirty years. He was in hiding yesterday. To all inquiries | made at his residence the answer was, ‘Not at home.” He was not to be found at the clubs. He has disappeared from all his old haunts. Meanwhile the clos- est reticence regarding the affair is ob- | served by the Federal employes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Seizure Clerk Cress Unger of the customs ser- vice at San Francisco has been report- ed here as short in his accounts a few hundred dollars and has been suspend- ed pending an investigation. Unger was | formerly chief clerk, but was found fauity, principally on account of carelessness in the conduct of his work, and was taken from his place and | given a less responsible position. In his | new position Unger had considerable | opportunity for defalcation or diversion ! of funds, but his shortage, so far as yet Iwur-, does mot amount to a large sum. REVERED MAN | PASSES AWAY AT GREAT AGE Nicholas Dabovich, one of the oldest | and most respected members of the Servian colony on this coast, a pioneer | of California, dled at his residence in | this city last Thursday evening. He was 85 years old. Mr. Dabovich came to California in the spring of ’52 and was one of the | first merchants to engage in the whole- | ale fruit commission business, and carried on large imports from South American ports. On Sunday a special service was con- ducted at the late residence of the de-‘ parted by Father Sebastian. There | were also services at tne Russian| church. The church was crowded with | friends of the deceased. The ceremony opened immediately | after the usual Sunday communion liturgy, the choir rendering an impres- | | sive chant of the collect {orihe burial | | service. 3 Right Rev. Innocentius, Alaska, read the burial service. Rev. Abbot Sebastian (a nephew of the deceased) preached a sermon in the Servian language, the text being “I would not you to be ignorant, ! brethren, concerning them which are | asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as | others which have no hope.” The interment was at the Bervian cemetery In San Mateo County. | ——— | New Bank Doing Big Business. The officers of the Mechanics' Savings Bank report that thelir deposits already amount to over $460,000,00. Half a mil- on dollars has been loaned on San | Francisco real estate. | The_bank has been in business only ince February first of this year, but its assets are already nearly three-quarters Bishop of The | of a million. The paid-up capital is | $250,000.00. Interest is paid upon sav- ings from date of deposit. . SWITOHMAN'S ERROR COSTS HIM HIS LIFE George Spicer Is Killed Through His | Own Negligence on Work Train in the Potrero. George Spicer, a switchman for the Lantry Contracting Company, was killed in the Potrero early last even- ing by being crushed between two cars. The accident was due to Spicer's own neglect in not throwing the proper switch. A collision result- ed and several cars were badly wrecked. The train on which Spicer was kill- ed is used by the contracting company for grading purposes in the Po- trero. Work for the day was com- pleted and a locomotive and several cars were being backed into the yards for the nigh Spicer should have thrown the switch to a side track, but instead he left it on the main line and the train, which was moving at a fair rate of speed, crashed into sev- eral empty cars. Spicer was caught in the jam and killed. The cars were thrown from the track and several hundred dollars’ worth of damage was done. Spicer was 27 years of age, was married and resided at 508 Twentieth street. ———————— ‘Wedding invitations printed or engraved. Ed- ward Knowles Co., 24 Second st., nr. Market, * 0OOOO0OOOOO0OOOEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKOOOOOOOO ADVERTISEMENTS. 5 HILBERT MERCANTILE CO.¢ 138-144 Second Stree Telephone San Francisco, Cal. rivate 313. A TOWER OF STRENGTH A PYRAMID OF PURITY A MONUMENT OF MERIT slolololclolclolelelolelolelololelololelololslololeleleleleleleleleleleleToTelo) QOOOOOOOOOCOOOAOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOEOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO POLICE ARREST AGENT OF A FAKE CONCERN ‘W. F. Jurgens, Representing the “G. S. Ward House Furnishing Com- pany,” Is Behind the Bars. ‘W. F. Jurgens, the agent of the “G. S. Ward House Furnishing Company,” a fake concern, was taken into custody by Detective Charles Cody last night and locked up at the Cen- tral Police Station. It was the scheme of the alleged company to get vic- tims in cities all over the coast. Al- ready the promoters had fleeced Sacramento people out of a couple of hundred dollars. ‘Within the “last month 2500 circu- lars were distributed in Sacramento and a great number of these brought results. The company announced that a friend of the lady to whom the cir- cular was addressed had won a prize In its “guessing contest’” and that this friend wished to tender the prize to her. It requested that 30 cents be forwarded for the purpose of paying postage. In this way the concern made its profits. Jurgens admits that but few premiums were ever sent and that the concern was not legitimate. He says he was employed by a man named George H. Marshall and that he had no other interest in it than that of an employe. Marshall, he says, left for St. Louis last Friday. Captain Burnett is inclined to dis- credit Jurgens' story and thinks that Marshall is only a myth. ————————— TO TERMINATE TRUST.—Sidney H. Ped- dar _and . H. Lloyd, trustees of the estate of Willlam Arthur_Green since 1886, day petitioned the Probate Court to termi; the trust and pay them $10,000 for services. Their final report shows the receipt of $66,086 and expenditures of $62,580 03. The estate owns realty at Eddy and Market streets, on Howard street. near Fourth, and on Jones street, near O'Farrell. ————— Trachoma is granulated Eyelids. Mu- rine Eye Remedy cures this and oth Evye troubles, mlLl weak Eyes ulronc‘.e: ————— REAR ADMIRAL KEMP TO ARRIVE.— Rear Admiral Kemp on Wednesday of this week will begin the investigation of the af- fairs of the office of the United States Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels in_accordance with orders issued by President Roosevelt a few ‘weeks ago. ————— For Coughs and Colds children take Piso’s Cure without objection. 25c, . RETIRES FROM HEALTH BOARD Dr. Stinson, Senior Mem- ber of Body, Hands Resig- nation to Mayor Schmitz Dr. J. Coplin Stinson has resigned his position as a member of the Board of Health. His letter of resignation was handed to Mayor Schmitz yesterday and was accompanied by a request that it be acted on.at the earliest conve- nience of his Honor. Dr. Stinson at- tributes his retirement from the board to two reasons, one being that his pri- vate affairs prevent him from devoting the necessary attention to the business of the board, and the other that he is contemplating a trip-abroad and is anx- ious to free himself of all local respon- sibilities. ‘When asked yesterday concerning his resignation the doctor said he had been considering it for some time, and he added that he regretted severing the friendly business reiations that exist between himself and the other members of the board. Lately he has missed sev- eral meetings of the board, and he considers it his duty to reSign in order that his vlace may be filled by some other physician who can give the proper attention to the city’s affairs. Two years ago Dr. Stinson was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Health as the successor of Dr. Wil- liamson, and is now the senior member of that body. —————— Lectore To-Night, Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, Works of Michael Angelo.” “Life ana Ilustrated; 8 o'clock. Admission 50 cents. —_————— ASKS DAMAGES FOR DEATH. —Suit against the United Railroads for $20, was begun yesterday by L. Kane, as administratrix of the estate of Catherine Kane, who died March 18 from injuries sald to have been sustained the day before by be- ing run over by a Mission-street car at Elev- enth street. 465 dam- CHILD IS RUN OVER AND KILLED BY ELECTRIC CAR Little Frank Barry Meets Sudden Death While Trying to Cross Fourth Street, Frank Barry, the 3-year-old son of George Barry, a laborer, living at 39 Shipley street, was knocked down and killed by an electric car early last evening on Fourth. street, near Fol- som.. The child’s skull tured and his body was badly mangled. According to the story told by the | boy's parents, he had been missing when news of the accident was brought to them. It appears that the lad was attempting to cross the track, when he stumbled and fell directly in front of a north-bound car. Before Motorman George M. Eagli ould ap- ply the brakes the child w killed. Eaglin was later arrested and charged with manslaughter at the Central po- lice station. ——— PERSONAL. H. D. Siesing of The Hague is at the | St.. Francis. H. L. Survey is staying at the Occidental. E. E. Goodlove, a well known min- ing man of Hodson, is at the Grand. A. R. Sprague, a well known fruit man of Sacramento, is at the Palace. P. R. Helm, a prominent resident of Honoluly, is a guest at the Occidental. E. P. Boynton, prominent in the so- cial set of Boston, is at the St. Francis. K. Oguri, who is attached to the Jap- anese legation in London, is at the Palace. H. Jasper Smith of Johannesburg, South Africa, registered yesterday at the §t. Francis. Major I. F. Whyte of the British army, who is on his way to the Orient, arrived at the Palace yesterday. J. L. Hestwood of San Jose, who is engaged in mining in Alaska, is at the Grand, having returned from the north yesterday. B. T. Allen, of the United States Bureau of Forestry, and his = wife was frac- | Ford of the Coast Geodetic | | | | | | arrived at the Occidental yesterday from Washington. Cabell Whitehead, A. W. Ashby, J. D. Ludy and George H. Russell, who are interested in mining in Alaska, ar- rived here yesterday from the north and are registered at the Palace. Josef Przedecki, Consul General foe the Imperial Ottoman Government at Breslau, Germany, who is touring tHls country, arrived from the East last evening and is registered at the St. Francis. S. Akatsuka, third secretary of the Japanese legation at Washington, | delegated by the Japanese Minister to from his home but a few momen(si welcome Prince Fushimi, who arrives from the Orient to-morrow, came from the East last evening and is staying at the St. Franecis. ADVERTISEMENES. PRESCRIBED BY THE BEST PHYSICIANS FOR Coughs. Colds. Noarseness. Brom- chitis. Croup in Children. and All Throat and Lung Troubles Try a bot! o-day: don’t walt i1l the doctor says “CONSUMPTION.” 35¢; 50c AT ALL DRUGGISTS CURES IN A DAY