The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN TRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NO\’EMBER 17, 1904 DEATH FOLLOWS AN EVICTION. Baby Dies of Exposure in Its Mother's Arms PO - D .. OLD BABY DIED I TUESDAY TF STREETS HER NIGHT 1) her lips. The touch sent a chill to her | heart. It was as of ice. Frantically she hurried into a drugstore at Seventh and Folsom streets and begged the clerk to do something for the little one. | He told her that he could not help her. The terrified mother finally reached { the home of her sister, Mrs. Salvatori, 1 Folsom street, where she stag- gered into the house crying, “Baby is | sick.” Mrs. Salvatori took the little ia Ayver wandered ets Tuesday ng her four- in her arms. | at lodgings Hicks, e eviction M Ayer was influence of liquor. | ey her arms the|bundle of humanity into her arms. Kt on the streets. | . Why. the child Is dead!” she cried o upen. iae The mother had been for several hours The litte laughing and c00- | hoiging a dead baby to her breast. | ing cheerfully in the pieasant sunlight. | As night drew near the baby began to he mother tried to he walked aimlessly »wing where to go. She n to her lodgings,” for b thrown from her o was locked. She where to find her hus- d, George Aver. She had not seen for several days. s passed and repassed the The cold night gir chilled the little one’s tender flesh t+ awakened crying pitifully. She The little one was taken to the Morgue, where it was determined that | death resulted from exposure. The! | mother was arrested and placed on the detinue book, pending the result of a | Coroner’s inquest. Detective Coleman, | ! who was detailed on the case, shortly terward arrested the father, George Ayer. Investigations made by the de- tective show that both parents were addicted to the use of liquor. The father was sleeping in a stable while his wife was walking the streets with the dead baby in her arms. Mrs. Hicks, the landlady of the lodg- ing-house at 331% Sixth street, says in a doorw but as passers- | by moticed her she clutched the infant | (28t Mrs. Ayer was not forced out, but | became abusive and left. closer go her breast and resumed heri‘ —_— weary tramp. - ; Drunken Mother’s Cruelty. ered and hungry, the woman | Il o8 S ok “The: sl . Josephine McMenimen's four- months-old babe w: crow g mother. grew colder and little Lawrence, the| perishing of in-| baby, walled fretfully. Mrs. Ayer took | nutrition when the police found it at onme of its tiny hands and pressed it 0| her residence, 118% Langton street, and burried it to a hospital, where its death is considered almost a certainty. And | as the child starved the mother was | stupidly drunk. When the woman was | | arraigned before Judge Mogan she had | nothing to say and to-day she will be | sentenced for cruelty to a minor child. Her husband is a laborer, and the Hu- mane Society folk say he is a sober and industrious man. | R —— CALIFORNIA SHIPPERS OPPOSED TO AN ADVANCE | ADVERTISEMENTS. Say Increase of Minimum Weight in | Carload Lots of Canned and Dried Fruits Is Unfair. The recent advance by the Western transportation lines of the mlnimum: in carload weights for eastbound dried | and canned fruits from 30,000 to 40,- | 000 pounds has raised a protest| among a number of the California | shippers. They are now circulating | a petition for signatures, asking lhnl: the old weight be restored on the ground that the advance is unfair. The reason assigned for the advance | is that the railroad companies desire to relieve the present congested condi- | tion and shortage of cars, but the con- tention is openly made by the smaller shippers that the advance was really effected for the benefit of a few large | j concerns. It is held by the lhipperuk that the raising of the minimum | weight seripusly handicaps Eastern buyers in their purchases, for it means that they will have to buy more than they can really handle, es- | pecially in small towns, where 30,000 | pounds of canned goods is about all the consumption demands. has been granted to | Hunyadi Janos Natural Laxative | Water. WHY ? Because it is the best! T DR A DAB AT visit, DR. JORDAN’S angat §IUSEI OF ANATOMY ° : 1051 MASKET 8T, bet. GhATR, 8.7 Cal, The Anstomical Museum in the —,——————— Werid. eakiewses of any comtracied Ginease pocitively cmred by the oidest Metcalf Returns to Washington. Specaine: Conez Est. 36 years. DR. JORDAN—D'SEASES OF MEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Secre- tary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor returned to ‘Washington to-day from Oakland, Cal., where he went to vote. He was accompanied by Mrs. Metcalf, who will pass the winter here. AN & CO. 1081 Market St 5. | Mercer, carpenter, that they cordially { welcomed the aid assured them by the { and the four able-bodied men herein- ! ened him unto ! Judge Mogan the policeman THREATENS T0 SAY WIFE AND HAS FIREARMS READY Tough Lattle Carpenter Battles With Quintet Tries (0 Explain Possession of Six Guns —_——— BY JAMES C. Four able-bodied men experienced such difficulty in retaining their seats upon the prostrate figure of Samuel arrival of Patrolman McHugh. Even then Mr. Mercer's complete subjugation was not accomplished without strenu- ous effort by the quintet. The struggle occurred upon the side- walk fronting the Mercer residence, 85 California avenue, Bernal Heights, and its cause was Mr? Mercer’s endeavor to | fulfiil a threat to slay his wife. Thel woman's screams attracted neighbors, | before alluded to cast themselves upon the would-be assassin and succeeded in bearing him to earth, but their ability to hold him down was problematical when the bluecoated reinforcement ap- peared. Of rather slender bulld, the man was a marvel of muscular strength. One of the conduerors lik- “a bundle of steel springs.” When the case was called before testified | that in the defendant’s dwelling he! found six fully-loaded shooting irons, |and the wife averred that he had in-| tended to use the weapons in his work | of extermination. | denied, | An ancient-appearing shotgun, | highly prized by him, he sald, because | | relic of an indulgent father’s once-vast This the defendant | claiming that he kept the;| armory merely on acount of its value| from the viewpoint of an antiquarian. with | flint and steel attachment, was most it had directly descended from his| great-grandfather, who riddled many a Tory soldier with its contents during the revolutionary war. A more mod- ern rifle of Winchester pattern was also coddled because it was the sole CRAWFORD- at the Annapolis, that she went to that hostelry, she told the Judge, and if she accosted perfect strangers with demand for monetary loans and abused those who declined to contribute she had no recollection of doing so. Had she been drinking? Well, she admired the im- pudence of any one who dared ask her such a question as that. After the Judge had pronounced her guilty she returned to the mourners' Lench, resumed perusal of ‘“Weavers and Weft” and smiled and sighed with the heroine thereof until the Hickey finger wagged her jailward. Adolf Cassasso, accused of fast driv- ing at Fourth and Market streets, asked Judge Fritz if he had ever seen an ice wagon exceed the regulation speed limit. When the Judge, after due reflection, answered in and added that he had always regard- ed an ice wagon as a synonym for vehteular slowness, Signor Cassasso de- clared that at the time of his arrest an lce wagon was directly ahead of his horse. His Honor glanced reprovingly at the complaining policeman and was evidently on the verge of dismissing the case when the Prosecuting Attor- vey suddenly whispered to the officer and then as suddenly asked the de- fendant: “The wagon ahead of you—was it laden with ice or was it merely a nice— n-i-c-e, nice—wagon?”’ Then came the disclosure that the vehicle In question was owned by a furniture-moving firm and that its gor- geously decorated exterior led Mr. Cas- sasso to describe it as a nice wagon. Prosecution triumphant. Sentence to- day. “And it is such an old pun,” sighed his Honor. the negative PORTO RICANS (ROWD COURT Anxious Plaintiffs in Suit| Against Naknek Packing Company for Withheld Pay TELL TALES OF CR['ELTY( Laborer Hired by Chinaman Says He Was Beaten and Put in Oven by Celestials Twenty Porto Ricans who spent an unprofitable season in Alaska working for the Ndaknek Packing Company were | in Judge Graham's court yesterday | morning at the beginning of the trial of their suit to recover wages. The! original suit was in behalf of thirty of the laborers, but nineteen of them are ! said to be satisfied with the payment | made by Fook Soo, the Chinese labor | contractor who hired them. A. B.| Treadwell is prosecuting the claims of the eleven cthers and, judging from yesterday’s proceedings, a compromise | is in prospect. The hearing did not progress very far. After two witnesses had been ex- amined it was discovered that the pleadings. were defective and Judge Treadwell asked for time to n.mend.: Judge Graham suggested that in the |Swear That the Reputation | BRADBURY CASE NEARING AN END Defense Makes a Futile At- tempt to Break Down Tes- timony of the Complainant DETECTIVES ON STAND e e of the Woman’s Husband for Honesty Is Not Good Special Dispatch to The Call SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 16.—The trial of millionaire Bradbury was resumed to- day before Judge Lennon and a Jury.i Attorney Hosmer subjected Mrs.I Hanifin to a severe cross-examination | but did not shake her testimony. He then asked her many questions, seek- ing to impeach her reputation. | Upon redirect examination District | Attorney Boyd showed that Mrs. Hani- fin had been a hardworking girl in the employ of respectable families in Fruit- | vale and Oakland for many years. Edward Hanifln, her husband, testi- | fled to the condition of his wife immedi- | ately atter her encounter with Brad- bury. She was crying, he sald, and in a fainting condition. Mr. Kierulff, a| young attorney of San Francisco, con- | ducted the cross-examination of Hani- | fin. It was marked by tilts between meantime the matter should be "f”';d:.!ufige Lenmofi and Kierulff, in which | out of court, but declared that he would | Kierulff came out second best. In re- y do everything in his power to see that‘ sponse to a question by Kierulff as mJ the men got their pay, whether he had not made a statement | The Chinese contractor and his fore-| ., o non named Chambers that he ex- ““Don’t scold me," pleaded Kettle, “it’s cook’s fault. She used stale water instead of filling me with fresh, when she built the fire. She should know that water which has been boiled two or three times will spoil even you, my high grade Mr.” Golden Gate.” Nothind does with GOLDEN GATE COFFEE but tisfacti Ne —me cowpons—ue croci aroma-tight t 1d i bulk. J. A. Folger @ Co. Established half a Century San Fr-nfllco No Breakfast Table man, Soo Yen, were represented by L. G. Carpenter and the Naknek Com- | pany by W. H. Hutton and Max Kuhl | The company cofitends that It is ex-| onerated from any liability on the la-| bor contracts because it paid the| Chinaman a lump sum for the men supplied. This is the usual practice of | the canning companies. They arrange to pack so many cases of salmon each season and engage their laborers In bulk, paying the Chinese contractors all | the way from $10,000 to $50,000 a season. | In the case of Fook Soo, says Mr. Car-| penter, 300 or 400 Chinese and Japanese | laborers have been paid and nineteen ofl the Porto Ricans. The others have been offered $550 for the eleven, but| want more. Treadwell asked yes(erday" if the offer would be renewed, but Car-| penter said he would have to see his| complete without | pected to sue Bradbury and make $50,- 000, Hanifin made a positive denial. The defense called as witnesses De- | tectives O'Dea and Mulcahy of San| Francisco, who testified that Hanifin's | reputation for honesty was bad. i Bradbury then put on several wit-| nesses to testify that Mrs. Hanifin's| reputation was bad. Of these only two testified that her reputation was bad and they were women, one named Ma- | mie Perry, who admitted she was also | known as Dottie Young, and her sister, ! Carrie Perry. | The trial will be resumed to-day. | —————— | Masons to Celebrate an Anniversary. | PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 16.—The Ma- | scnic Veteran Association of the Pa-| cific Coast has decided to hold its twenty-seventh annual session in EPPS'S The Cream of Cocoas. COCOA *The Most Nutritious and Economical Sherwood & Sherwood, Pactfic Coast Agta. STATEMENT OF THE estate. An old-fashioned Smith & Wes-| Mrs. Grace Squires, defendant on | Client first. | Portland during the Lewis and Clark {ant was a boy, and it had been treas- | although neither an heirloom nor a| | souvenir of a happy childhood, was| among his cherished possessions be- | | | | ! of Juana Besang, Mexican. | Nether lip perforated by knife wielded | skirmishes are of almost dailly occur- son revolver was new when the defend- ured by him ever since. Another pistol, | cause it reminded him that feminine honesty is not a myth, inasmuch as it had been given by an impecunious lady | for whom he had paid a milk bill. His possession of the two remaining pistols could not logically be accounted for on either sentimental or practical grounds, as they looked ugly and were of cheap manufacture. Case continued till to-morrow. PR g A race war that originated in Pinck- | ney place has slopped over into Hinck- ley alley, and police reports are to the| effect that it threatens to spread to other points of the Barbary Coast. The belligerents are Mexicans and Porto Ricans, and .the casualties thus far re- corded are: Marie Pinto, Porto Rican—Right in- dex finger almost amputated by teeth Theo Bustamento, Porto Rican— by Lorenzo Andrino, Mexican. Justina Rodriguez, Porto Rican—Left | hand severely cut by knife in hand of | Manuel Alvarez, Mexican. In each of the above cases an arrest was made, but several cutters and slashers are at large and pursued by the police. It is significant that the three injured ones are Porto Ricans. An invasion of Pinckney place by natives of Uncle Sam’s new possessions in the Atlantic and a threatening ousting of the Mexicans therefrom was the basic cause of a fray that has grown to such | alarming proportions that sangulnary rence. The Mexicans taunt the Porto Ricans with having relinquished their national independence, and the Porto Ricans retort by expressing pride in their new allegiance and contemptu- ously alluding to the Mexicans as “‘alien | peons.” As every male Porto Rican and Mexican carries a knife fashioned and intended for stabbing, and as every woman of either race is prone to use her teeth when engaged in warfare, the outlook for surgical and police work is encouraging. e fere Edward T. Wheatley, charged with ha#ing stolen $325 from Mrs. Elsle Hil- fisch while serving as her bartender 2t 249 Stevenson street, was sent to the Superior Court, with bail fixed at $1000, by Judge Cabaniss. .18 Miss Dollie Martin, whose debut as a danseuse on Pacific street was quickly followed by her first appearance as a defendant in the Police Court, giggled nervously when Judge Fritz remarked that her second arrest for drunkenness would result in her incarceration for; at least thirty days. 1 “I really can’t help laughing, Judge,” ghe chuckled, “although it means no disrespect to you. I drank absinthe last night and it has kept me laugh- ing ever since. No more of it in mine, you can bet yours.” And she fairly jelied with merriment as she walked away. < “ e e Half a dozen putative dentists—H. E. Bock, Robert Dunn, J. C. Perry, C. H. Whitely, A. J. Brackenridge and M. H. Shord—were accused of practicing without licenses and each of them de- manded a separate jury trial. Judge Cabaniss took the applications under advisement. & miie I Mary Fagan, a former school teacher, who was accused of disturbing the peace of the Hotel Annapolis, at Bush and Stockton streets, last Tuesfay evening, whiled away her time in Judge Mogan's court by reading ‘‘Weavers and Weft,” by Miss M. E. Braddon, and #0 interested did she become in the tale that her name was thrice called ere she responded. Then she turned down a leaf corner and handed the volume to ‘Bailiff Hickey with a request that he hold it for her. - It was to visit her sister, housekeeper | blocks from where he had left them, half a dozen distinct charges of theft, calmly sat in Judge Cabaniss’ court and heard Mrs. Verlie Campbell of 123 Turk street and Peter Hoy of 1105 Laguna street testify against her. She was caught in the act of rummag- ing Mrs. Campbell's trunk during that lady’s absence from her apartment, and in her purse were found a dia- mond ring, a marquise ring, a dia- mond stickpin and a golden horse- shoe set with pearls, all of which were identified by Mr. Hoy as prop- erty stolen from his residence. The defendant’s attorney asked for time to make up his mind as to whether he will offer at the preliminary hear- ing a defense or allow the cases to g0 to the Superior Court, and the Judge granted a continuance till this morning. BT e Sidney Danby, accused of felony embezzlement, was remanded to the Superior Court by Judge Mogan, with ball set at $500. John Morris, presi- dent of the Danby Company, Lim- ited, alleged that while acting as cashier of that corporation the de- fendant received .and falled to ac- count for a salary warrant for $76 deposited by John Donaldson, a pos- tal clerk. R e Judge Mogan issied a warrant charging Charles Boyvd, keeper of an inn on the San Bruno road, with ex- tortion. Boyd had two boys, J. F. Benéke and Willie Sage, arrested and accused of driving away a horse and cart which were found about two but the lads claimed that the horse was wandering when they met and stopped him, and as no regular com- plaint -had been filed the case was dismissed. Then it came to the ears of the Judge that Boyd had obtained a $50 bafl receipt and $30 cash from Beneke by threatening to prosecute him for horse stealing, and when taxed with the act Boyd confessed it, but claimed that the $80 was due him for damages sustained by his horse and cart at the hands of Beneke and Sage. After investigating that claim the Judge pronounced it unjust, in- structing his clerk to refuse payment on the ball receipt and also advised Boyd to refund the $30 cash he had | taken from the boy. Boyd declined | to do so and the extortion charge was entered. It will he heard to-day. s R Emanuel Simoni, peddler of plaster of paris statuettes, opined that he could not be compelled to pay license inasmuch as he manufactured the goods he hawked. While the un- looked-for nlea was under considera- tion by Judge Mogan the peddler in- troduced for nis inspection minia- ture presentments in plaster of Na- poleon Bonaparte, George Washing- ton, Sitting Bull. Abraham Lincoln and Buffalo Bill, to say nothing of images of various animals. His Honor is still considering. ) Mr. Carpenter declared informally in id Cherk sourt that Soe Yeu, tha fremin, Rid, VRRORIWE. - The Site St fer 1 o astaalted in this city by one of | in€ is September 11. which is the date the first Masonic lodge on the Pacific | had the Porto Ricans and that threats had, ., " 0", 2anized at Oregon City ;’;:"d::jfr"eggfh‘::‘l;’f e lin 1848, 1t s expected that there will lot, and in Alaska would buy Chinese be a large attendance of Masons {ro‘m, e dmunk and refuse to work. For |all-over the Pacific Coast to Join in | B, B e enalty of 50 cents an | celebrating the important aniversary. hour, and besides, the men are said to | ¢ = i Indian Lad Kills Schoolmate. v lies which used up a Baye I P %! RIVERSIDE, Nov. 16.—In a row| portion of their wages due. | be, the first witness, was|among pupils at the Indian school at, et bl o les Colby was hit on the ¢ the employes and he said that Banning Char ‘t)i':: (()Zhlt::mennbeylt him cruelly and head with a pistol and he in return| nearly killed him. They also placed shot and killed Tom Bucanoros and him In an oven. Ramon Vilanero, the wounded Fred Smith. Smlthx ({,‘ron- ‘itness, was foreman of the Porto | ably will die. All are young Indians. | didy | Colby was brought here and lodged in | jcans and responsible for their en- ?ag:menL He :ahi that he met Fook |the County Jail, charged with murder. ‘ e oo Sy Soo on the street and was taken to thel _ . oo o= OO e office of L. A. Peterson, where he was | 4130 Anderson to-day desigmated Superior told that he would be pald 35 a head |Jjuagr, 7 26, Srvedt o SGP SIURECE Sl | for all the “Castilians” he could get.- He ¢ 12" zainst the A. Brown Company. engaged thirty-six men at $110 each, signing the contracts himself, as in- structed by the Chinamen. He said he | was told that Peterson would be re-i sponsible for the pay. He only received | $26 on his commissions and says he | lLias been paid nothing for his services| as foreman in the north. i ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR THANKSGIVING Some Decided Novelties In our China and Glass Department So suggestive of Thanksgiving ——e————— Brother Sues Brother. Edward C. Ellinghouse, as speciali administrator of the estate of his, mother, Bertha Ellinghouse, who died | February 14, 1903, yesterday, through his attorney, Samuel Short- ridge, sued his brother, Oscar Elling- house, to set aside the conveyance of property by the mother to the son before her death. Two lots in South San Francisco, $840 cash and twenty shares of building and loan stock are | involved. Edward contends that his mother was weak mentally and was absolutely under.the dominion of Os-| car, who poisoned her mind against his brother and sister, Mary Stone. e Poker Chips Figure in Court. Justice of the Peace Golden yester- day gave judgment against M. Wein- | berg, who sued Ben Levy, a barber, | for $25. Levy purchased poker ¢hips | to that amount in the gambling place | of the California Social Club, of which | Weinberg is manager, at 118 Eddy street. Levy lost all the chips in the game, but failed to produce the money for the same. Weinberg had to make Levy's losses good to the other play- ers, but the case was thrown out of | court by Judge Golden because it was | based on a gambling proposition not | recognized by the law. ————————— Drank Ammonia for Gin. Justice of the Peace Lawson yester- day gave judgment for $224 in favor of Claus Simberg, who sued L. 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Losses In process of adjust- ment or in suspense. s resisted, includl $1,163.300 43 on Fire Risks running one year or less, $7,252,831 33; reinsurance 00 per cent Amount reclaimabie by the in- sured on perpetual policies. 13,343 44 Superannuation fund ....... 482702 23 Due to other compan insurance . 760,901 45 | st other Liabilities 144,729 10 Total Liabliitles ............ 36,102,908 33 INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire Premiums . s O Recelved for Inte: dends on Bonds, Stock: and from all other sources . Received for Transfer fees .. Total Income EXPENDITURES. amount paid for Fire Losses di Net “ losses of previ $4.796,234 55 952,228 00 idends Pald or allowed for Commission or Brokerage ....... 1,500,287 18 | Paid for Salaries. 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