The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1904, Page 7

— THE ' SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1904. ADVERTISEMENTS. FREE! FREE! Extraorclmary Offer HOLIDAY SHOPPERS To make their Holiday Purchases in the Month of November Free $25,00 ruchuse - $7.50 Tores ot £504 Free E,f.f° $10.00 s - $3.00 Jorth of 8% Free Free $5.00 Pecsase - $1.50 ;;;;‘;;‘;:g;'u Free § Free §2.50 pusum . 75¢. Joreounioke Free Free §1.00 pwam. 25c. Jboteccts pre fl We want you to see our Grand Holiday Display of Beautiful and Newest Creations , Elite Chinaware, Limoges China, French | China, Dinner Sets, Salad Sets, Chocolate | Sets, Rich Cut Glass Ornaments, Vases, { Bric-a-Brac, Lamps, English Porcelain Ware, | Novelties, and Dolls. Fancy Articles of Every Description. Prettiest, Daintiest and Newest Things made, Collected i from the Markets of the World. | Top Quality Teas, Coffees, Spices, Extracts, Baking Powder, Cocoa, Chocolates. ; We want you to see our very reasonable prices, We want you to come just to look, l Take advantage of this very liberal offer, } CUT HERE | CUT OUT THIS COUPON, bri | December 10, 1904, and receive with each purchase as listed above a very ha present of your own SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Nov. 29 , 1904 | Come just to look. ‘ Bring this Coupon with you to any of our stores. NOT GOOD AFTER DECEMBER 10, 1904 T MERE CUT_HERE Grreat American Importing TeaCo. § CITY STORES: 213 Sutter st. 705 Larkin st. 2008 Pillmore st. 146 Ninth st. 't 355 Hayes st. 52 Market st. 1819 Devisadero st. 3006 Sixteenth st. 521 Montgomery ave. 366 Third st. 1419 Polk st. 3285 Mission st. 2516 Mission st. OAXKLAND, ALAMEDA AND Illnl’.“ 1053 Washington st. 1510 Seventh st. 85 23d ave. 616 E. 13th st. STORES IN OTEER CITIES AND TOWNS: Bernardino, al;rmm st. Long Beach, 220 Pine ave. it to any of our stores before AAAH 10D 361 Market st. 140 Sixth S Haight st. F i g " £ Santa Ana. Visalia, 21 Woodl: Watacavilte, 528 Main st Benicts, 6 First st Chico, Bdwy. . bst.3d &4th sts. CarsonCity,Cars'n st,nr.King. Brigham City, Main st. Modesto, 10th st.. bet. Petaluma, 528 Main st. S Helena, Main st §: Rosa. 411 Fourth st. Academy ave, ParkCity. Main st,Schields bg. RadBIuftMain & Oak sta. e Eureks. cor. Fiftk and F sts. Ocean View. Grass Valley, 56 Mill st. Calistoga. Hanford, 208 N. Irwin st. Sonoma. Our 100 Stores Help Us to Help You. i 5 ool (RAY BROTHERS INHALING NOXIOUS Fngaged to Be Married Next eundgy YOUNG His Sweetheart Having Come H | From Roumania. | | r S zfelt, a native of | 26 years old, was found —_— | sbed at 337 S vell et | v . i euttocaies be 11 | Contractors Refuse to Rent g gas, ,‘if-'?,,::: cwaped| Out Their Machines Until ¥ 1ded a dance at Tlai i | om. ad attended » dance at Old Claims Are Satlsfifld[ Shapiro, his intended wife. | | home at 1 a. m. and at| As the result of a communication re- | - as found dead in bed.|ceived from Gray Brothers yesterday | 1s relatives t v v Hie relatives say that his death Was| afternoon the Board of Public Works His marriage to Miss Shapiro was finds itself confronted with a serious| to take place next Sunday. She came problem, to which at present there| seems to be no solution. The board has | for some time been renting three street. | sweeping machines from the firm at a rate of $12 per day. There was no con- | tract, but merely a month to month | egreement. The Board of Supervisors | considered this figure exorbitant, and | the bills of the firm were accordingly | held up. As a result President Schmitz | | of the Board of Works yesterday re- celved the following communication | from Gray Bros.: | | = pervisors i n view of the fact that the Suj holding up our street-sweeping biils, amount: | | ing to $2812 50, for the hire of Wweet-wwiap! | machines, teams, drivers, etc., we beg to m-l List of Premium Nos. 1 to 1200 Loteria | form you that we do not feel justified In con- tinuing this work without being pald f Nacional as Drawn in Mexico City, %t S will not ico, on the m nu of | same and hereby motify you that we will not November, s city from Roumania to marry h He was an ipdustrious young man and earned his living by driving s milk wagon R _SHARE.—ADnis E. led for letters of guar- A. Brown, age 16, for the ng his ciaim against the father, Pdward Brown. AD\ El{'l‘lbm"]’s. furnish machines, ei~., to the city until some | | definite conclusion is reached in reference to our bills now unpald The three machines rented from Gray Brothers were used In the district east | of Twelfth street and south of Market, | and If they dre withdrawn it is likely | that many of the streets in that district will go unswept. To do the work of the | machines by hand would necessitate the employment of a large force of men | and it is sald there are not sufficient funds avallable to pay for having the| work done by a broom gang. The only | way President Schmitz can see out of | the difficulty is a settlement with the contracting firm, as he says it is doing | the work for about ome-fourth the| amount it would cost to have it done| | by hand. ————— ‘Will Hear Hazers To-Night. At 8 o'clock this evening the school committee of the Mark Hopkins In- stitute of Art will begin its investiga- tion of the charges of hazing brought against several art students by young 0. . 3000011514 | Albert de Rome, who alleges he was T ased o 20 | seriously injured as a result of such ets entitle holder to ome-half of | practices. The investigation was to - 2 | have opened yesterday morning, but gy M4 O, 05 O | ywing Se the aca e g o, of error in composition, the three | one of the members of the committee DT Lho hary NI NREPESE e ; it was decided to postpone the hear- ing until this evening. 2.50/10905 -50/11187 2.50/11380. rizes instead of the proper amounts.— Church | be | inscription | the Christian church in COLUMBIA PARK BOYS TO-BE -SEEMN Al BESE Clever Little Fellows Will Show Their Ability as Musicians and Actors. 0 ADVERTISE SAN FRANCISCO Convention Man- agers Decide to Distribute Quite Unique Medallion By Some thousands of specially designed medallions symbolical of San Francis- co are to be distributed throughout the Eastern and Middle Western States by the committee on publicity of the Christian Church Convention which is to be held here next August. A num- ber of leading ministers of the Chrl tian church met yesterday at the Y. M. C. A. and adopted the design of a medallion, the center of which will ornamented with a bear and the “‘Bear These will quantities to every America 1905." be sent in minister of for cisco, large distribution. The Rev. Walter M. the Rev. . C. Macfarlan the Rev. Mr. v and the Rev. Frank S Ford resolved also that all the letter paper in connection with the conven- tion should be of the California poppy color. All envelopes and postal cards are to be embellished with the most picturesque scenes in and around San Francisco, while every bit of printing issued will be stamped with some de- sign characteristic of the Golden State. Professor H. ( ered an interesting addr Significance of Sufferin, Fresbyterian Ministers’ yesterday. The exodus of the stalwart American White, I'.D. Biddle, Ph.D., deliv- s on “The " before the Association | farmers from the old farms of the East {and of New Fngland especlally was described before the Congregational Ministers’ Association yesterday by the Rev. W. W. Wikoff in the course of an account of his travels through- out the Eastern States. Foreigners— Italians and Chinese, he said, are taking possession of the old home- steads. making of them nothing but truck farms. An all-day conference and prayer meeting has been arranged by the Methodist Ministers’ Association, which met yesterday morning at Hall. The date fixed is December &, and the hours will be 10 a. m. till noon, 2 till 4 p. m. and 7:30 in the evening. The culmination of the conference will be a “love feast,” presided over by Bishop Hamilton. Dr. W. 8. Matthew, | presiding elder, will occupy the chair at the day meetings, and among the | speakers are to, be Dr. E. R. Willis, the Rev. George A. Hough, the Rev. Dr. Francis M. Larkin, Dr. George W. White and the Rev. A. C. Bane. “Ag- gressive Evangelism—Pushing For- ward the Gospel” is the theme that will be discussed. The meeting and confer- ence will be held at Grace Methodist Epiecopal Church, Twenty-first and Capp streets. Between 500 and 600 Methodists in- terested in city church extension will | assemble at the annual tea at the same church at 5 o’clock on Thursday even- | ing, December 1. I J. Truman will preside, and Bishop Hamilton is ex- pected to return from Kansas in time to deliver an address. Professor Dixon spoke before the Methodist Ministers’ Association yes- terday on “The Religious Basis of Poetry.” Bishop Harris spoke of the effort being made on behalf of the widows and familles of soldiers sacri- ficed in the Japanese-Russian war. Bishop Harris will deliver a lecture on Friday evening at the Y. M. C. A. prior to his sailing for Japan. —_——— 717 Market Street. This is the number of the great shoe sale that starts Thursday morning. The ‘building is to be torn down and we must move. This stock of ladies’ and men's shoes must be digposed of at once. | Numbers of clerks are now busy mark- ing down the shoes, and by Thursday everything will be ready. Tables wiil be loaded for bargain hunters. 717 Mar- ket street, near Third. : S L e TEMPORARY CUSTODY.—After hearing the preliminaries in the application of Mra. Cynthia Markle for guardfanship over her grandchildren, Cynthia and Sybil ~ Brown, Judge Graham continued the case until Jan- uary 6, until which time the grandmother shall have custody of the girls. Lavina arown, the mother, opposes the application. t appears that Mrs. Brown more than a year ..., obtained an interlocutory decree of di- vorce from her husband, but &one to live with him again 1t ie alleged that they have mistreated the little ones. in mind San Fran- ! Epworth | o e ¥ COLUMBIA PARK BOYS WHO WILL GIVE AN ENTERTAIN- MENT IN THE ALHAMBRA —— - 3 For those who wish to see just how clever a band of bright, well-trained | boys who take an interest in their work | can be a treat is in store Thursday night at the Alhambra when the boys of the Columbia Park Club will give an entertainment. Major Sidney S. Piexotto, the head worker, has arranged a programme in- cluding three finished gymnasium acts, | ! songs by the full chorus of thirty-five boys, with duets and trios of boy volces, the military band in concert { and also in conjunction with the drum and bugle corps. Aside from the strictly musical por- tion of the programme the very best vaudeville acts will be given, includ- | ing Master O’Day in his wonderful coon act, Master Talbott with his well- known singing, Master Farmer, a crack | boy dancer, and the ludicrous Dutch solos, act, the hit of this summer’s trip, “The | Three Fritzes.” From e y point of view the programme will be a high- class and attractive one, and it is al- ready assured that the evening will be a social and artistic success. The entertainment will be given un- der the patronage of the board of gov- ernors of the Columbia Park Boys’ Club, James D. Phelan president, Charles 8. Wheeler vice president, Mrs. Andrew M. Davis recording secretary, Harvey Loy corresponding Secretary, O. N. Orlow, Willilam Greer Harrison, Richard Hotaling, Fred J. Koster, R. B. Hale, Sig. Stern, Mrs. P. N. Lilien- thal, Mrs. M. H. de Young, Miss Fran- ces Jolliffe, Mrs. I. N. Walter, and Sid- ney 8. Peixotto head worker. ——— TRYING TO AGREE AN IMPARTIAL UPON IXAMINER Judge Morrow to Order Books of Peyton Chemical Company Looked | Over by Unprejudiced Man. The application by the E. I. du Pont | de Nemours Powder Company for a restraining order against the Peyton | Chemical Company and others occu- | pied a part of the afternoon session of the United States Circuit Court yes- terday. Frank D. Madison and Oscar Sutro appeared for the complainant, C. W. Slack and James M. Allen for the respondent and M. C. Cerf on be- half of Walter Bartnett. Attorneys for respondent said that they did not object to an examination of their books, but they did not want the examination to be made by per- sons hostile to them, and they did not wish to have certain secrets of powder manufacture exposed. They charged that the complainants were actuated by ulterior motives in the matter and wanted to pry into defendants’ busi- ness for their own purposes. Many affidavits were presented on both sides. Judge Morrow advised the parties to agree upon some person who should be appointed by the court to examine the books and that they re- | port the result of their determination ; | in court this morning. —_————— Life Insurance Men Should read the analysis of the New York Life financial methods in November number of the Era Magazine. Ten cents. All news stands. . Rubber Company Creditors. The heaviest creditors of the West Coast Rubber Company yesterday filed proofs of their claims in the Su- perior Court, The claim of George | : Fredricks, former president of the| | concern, aggregates $29.525 45, which | is in excess of the statement made by the company in its petition in insol- | yency. Fredricks puts in an item of | $2100 ag salary for twenty-one months’ service as president and he holds $685 94 in assigned claims, in addition to promissory notes aggre- gating $23,630. The claim of the Ttal- jan-American Bank Is for $10,000, and of Bennett & Goodall Company for $24,077 60. The Voorhees Rubber Manufacturings Company’s bill is for $9074 93 for goods supplied. (CLERK GAGAN ENDS HIS LIFE Postoffice Fmplmo Goes to the ark and Shoots Himself Through the Head SE R G. W. Gagan, postal money order clerk at Station C, shot and killed himself yesterday in the bushes near the museum in Golden Gate Park. Let- ters found on his person show that the desperate deed was prompted by si ness and despondency. A paragraph in one of the letters indicated that he had been embezzling stamps, but that the shortage might be small. Post- master Fisk, as soon as he was ap- prised of the tragedy, ordered an in- vestigation of the books and accounts of the dead man. Three pistol shots were heard at 11:30 a. m. by Policeman John Shea near the museum. He started in the direction of the sounds and within ck- when one { hundred feet of the clump of bushes he heard a fourth shot. Hastening to the spot he saw the dead body of the post- office clerk lying on its back, the head bloody and a foot or so away a cheap revolver which contained four recently exploded shells. On Gagan’'s person were found a letter addressed to the Coroner and two others sealed in stamped envelopes, one addressed tb his wife and the other to Mrs. Poulte- ney, his sister. The Jetter to the Coroner follows: reads as To Coroner—886 Valencia. Mrs is my wife’s mother. She Is there to. My name is G. W. Gagan, residence 2 Twenty-fourth street Clerk at station C postoffice, Twentieth and Mission. This-1s a case of suicide, pure and simple. Cause of act, despondency, sickness and ap- proaching insanity. The two letters I would earnestly request be mailed without being opened. The con- tents are purely personal and have no imme- dlate bearing on my act. Am member of Golden West Camp, W. of W. The §5 pants pocket please give to Mrs. Gagan watch and chain 1 would like George to ha That is my nephew The letter to his sister indicates that he had been in the habit of embezzling stamps, but that his shortage would not exceed $20. It reads as follows: At the park, Monday a. m My dear sister—i have glv times pains on Account of my last one finishes up my earthly car bave been Kind to me and all of us and T hate to leave you, but I am downcast and despon- dent and have worried so that I am approach- ing insanity. My life insurance is paid up for current month afid is in favor of Minnle. It is in safe at office with other personal papers in my private drawer. I have not taken stamps lately, but I have $40 due me rrom P. O. to datc and owe O. h $20 bor- rowed money, so if there is a dis $20 should cover it. 1 am sicl Help Minnie collect the Insurance money sell the store fittings if possible, otherwise furn them back to C. C. Olmstead, Sag Rafael 1 owe a few personal bills, but my ®fe can- Give my love to Ida and tell With a Lrother's fondest love. GRANT. The Minnie mentioned in the letter is his wife. e GUSTAVE SCHERF Sau AID OF FEDERAL in cels the debts. her good-by. JUDGES This Denied, He Takes an Appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Gustave Scherf, under indictment for the murder of Rudolph Schultz, applied to United States Circuit Judge Morrow yesterday for a writ of habeas corpus, but it was denied. He then flled notice of appeal to the-United States Supreme Court. The trial of Scherf had been set be- fore a jury in Judge Lawlor’'s part of the Superior Court yesterday morning, but Attorney Murphy appeared and informed the Judge of the proceedings in the Federal Circuit Court. He ar- gued that those proceedings \\ould put a stop to the trial till the appeal | to the United States Supreme Court | had been decided. The jurors were | excused and the Judge put the case over till Saturday morning for de- | cision on the point raised by Murphy. ————— Would Sell City a Cemetery Site. Supervisor d'Ancona Is in receipt of an offer to sell a tract of land in San Mateo County for a city cemetery for $190 per acre. D'Ancona believes that the city will soon be able to purchase a cemetery of its own at a reasonable figure and the joint Finance and Hos- pital Committee will meet shortly to | consider various offers for the purpose described. FRAGERS ~here Will Be somethmg DOIng at Pragers o-Day Don’t Miss It. Sofa Pillows (Second Floor) Food Choppers | (Third Floor) This is part of a bi le line Universal Food Chopper— | = inac w! hought from o laree Bast. ern manufacturer. The pillo Fine for your mincemeat,| pm menufacturer, The p nuts, etc., that we | with pretty have been selling at I R = i e $ 98c; will be onspe- is worth $10.00 we offer to-day at.. cial sale to-day at. | Visit ! Hundreds Our !Y of Cafe | l’a "lv rfi Holiday ‘F"“l;‘:im:“ i ALWAYS RELIABLE Attrac- Service AMH ' JONES 5’3& tions i 7 MRS REBSTOCK MUST [ROOF REPAIR STAND 4 TRMU BILL PASSED | Demurrer to lmlutnwnt A\c-"-\uper\isnrs Enact Law Re- cusing Him of Violating| quiring Fireproof Mate- Election Law Disallowed | al in Certain Distriets e e 8 | SIS e e Joseph Rebstock, inspector at the re- cent primary election, who is charged with violating the.election law by re- fusing to administer the oath to a voter whose vote was challenged, is using every technicality known to the law to save himself from being put on trial The Board of Supervisors yesterday passed to print the ordinance ing a district hin which materials t be used in r destroyed b, as defined by the second ordin gins at the w »nly mu ing all roofs total The section of the distriet, Yesterday morning Judge Lawlor dis- y line end of Van N avenue, run- allowed the demurrer to the indictment, | ning to Green stre Baker, to saying that the most serious point| Geary, to Broderick, to South Brod- raised by the defendant was the ab- to Thirteenth, to Division, to sence of the term “qualified” from the| Channel to Bay and to the point of pleading. He thought that point could | be ning be tested during the trial by the de- fendant urging that he was a public officer at the time and was therefore Emil Pohli urged an amendment that would permit be used ervisor Lun- redwood but shingles in repairs, Supe ndt qualified t6 act as an election of-pstedt sald a compromise’ measure had ficer. The court would take the general ;’“““yd““’“‘ upon that was deemed view, however, that no individual would | “2iF POth to the insurance men and to . = the lumber dealers. The vote was: be permitted to urge his disability as a| y e Amers, Bent, Boosh. Branden. defense in the commission of an unlaw- | stein, Braunhart, Comte, Connor, D'An. ful act. Hocks, Lunstedt, Payot, Attorney Newburgh obtained thirty an—14. Noes—Boxton, days to prepare exceptions to the Su- son—3. preme Court. Newburgh then moved > board passed to print an that the action be dismissed on the Dance prohibiting the shaking of ground that the defendant having tes- chips™ in public places. measure cted and bunko men frc Permission was Oil six-inch steel pipe portation of crude street on and along id ordinance gned to pre acing the unwary granted the Pacific to lay a for the trans- oleum from King ond street about two hundred feet to its fe tified before the Grand Jury on the charge for which he was indicted there could be no further prosecution against him under section 64 of the Penal Code. He contended that the taking of the testimony before the Grand Jury was to all intents and purposes a criminal prosecution under the meaning of the Transportation Company line statute. ot. District Attorney Byington argued| The roadways of Dolores street be- that the section of the Penal Code re-| tween Twenty-second a Twenty- ferred to ériminal prosecutions in the | third and Castro t between Jersey courts, and not to proceedings before; and Twenty-fifth were accepted. Street the Grand Jury. which were simply in| Work was ordered in blocks on Chenery, | Palmer, Fairmount, Nineteenth avenue, Second and Third avenues. Ordinances were finally passed au- | thorizing the return of protested taxes for schools and hospitals to a number obtained judg- the form of an investigation. After considerable argument the Judge denied t motion. A further one, that the proceedings be stopped as the court had lost jurisdiction, was also denied. ] The defendant then pleaded not guilty | of taxpayers who had and the trial was set for December 12, | ments against the city and ordering the same day on which the trial of | Street and s work in blocks on Charles Wyman, charged with fraudu- | Sacramento, Cagtro, H streets, Cres- lent voting, has been set. ent and Elevenoth avenues, Army, e —e iHllzv». Clement, Miguel, Mateo, Laid- LAKE COUNTY COMPANIES.—Articles of | ley, Arlington and adjacent streets. incorporation of four companies were ,,,n,,l with the County Clerk yesterday by the same | = TEEIE incorporators—A. M. Haines, James K.| TO DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. Burch, Franklin Bowring, Fred L. Berry and | T. Ritter, by his wif H. M. Carquerville. The capital stock in [sued for a > case is $25,000 and t eac the names of the Li sanies are Lake County Company, Clear Lake Company. | tr id it is alleged that sines Lake County Laundry and Lake n the brother. Gustave, has refused to turs Coupty Tce Company. | over any of the profits of the business. Headquarters for Useful Holiday | Gifts SIDEBOARD — Solid oak, golden finish. . Three drawers and two large cupboards. Top has bevel plate mirror. Entire piece beau- tifully carved and $13 60 o { | highly polished. Price