The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1904, Page 3

POLICE HAVE NO CLEW 'TO BROWN'S ASSASSIN Search for Patrolman’s Slayer a Blind One e Detectives Believe Him to Be Footpad Who Has Been Hold- ing Up Oaklanders---“Babe” Curtin Arrested. THE - SA PEABODY MAY TET BE SEATED Republicans in Legislature Will Endeavor to Keep Him in Governor’s Chair MORE FRAUDS “FOUND | " e ——— ‘Women Among the Offenders at the Polls in the Recent Election in City of Denver B Re ! DENVER, Dec. 18.—Expert M. M. | Hamma has examined the ballots of| | Precinct 3, Fourth Ward, submitted to| | Mim yesterday by the Supreme Court, {and will report to-morrow that 240 of | the 271 ballots found in the box are ap- | parently fraudulent. Of these 235 are { Democratic and five Republican. Wil- | liam J. Kindel, Supreme Court watcher, | has testified that City Detective Wil- liam Green, one of the four men on trial for contempt of court in this pre- cinet, instructed repeaters, many of | whom were women, but did not in any | manner interfere with the watchers or | voters in general. | Alva Adams, the Democratic candi- | date for Governor, has lost 1182 of his| plurality of 5 in_this county by the action of the Supreme Court in order- ing the Election Commission to elim-| inate five precincts from the returns. ! | His plurality in the State still stands at about 10,000 By the Supreme Court's orders the | | Democrats lose three Senators, who were apparently elected, in this city and the Republicans gain control of both branches of the Legislature, with a majority of thirty on joint ballot. They are planning to submit to the Legislature evidence of frauds in Den- ver and ask that body to declare Gov- ernor Peabody elected. The Supreme Court is to be reor- ! ganized April 4 next by consolidation ! with the Appellate Court, and will con- sist of seven Judges, two of whom are | to' be appointed by the Governor.... ] | it | i ! P — SCRATCHING CHICKENS | CAUSE A FATAL DUEL | | Baby Killed by Stray Shot When Men Fight for Trivial L : Reason. CHURCH POINT, La., Dec. 18.— ! Because . John Davi chickens scratéhed up Mayor Murrell's front | | garden two men had a shotgun duel in the street this afternoon, resulting in the serious wounding of Davis and | | the instant killing of his two-year-old | ' child by a stray shot, | —_——————— | A dream of pleasure, the new two for quarter size American, $2 75 box 2%.f * AR L S Exploding Powder Burns Boy. | CHICO, Dec. 18.—Edward.Lewis, 14| | | years old, was terribly burned at his | | | parents’ home in Clear Creek last | night. The boy, while filling shells 8 | dropped a match into a large can of | & \te as to the | powder, exploding it. His head and ! re is a bare possibil: | face were badly burned, and it is ity aint clew expected” that he will lose his eye- work_out, but this | FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1904. DULL SESSIONS FOR CONGRESS R S A Little to Be Done During the Week and Adjournment Will Be Taken Wednesday HOLIDAY RECESS IS NEAR Question of Place for the Inaugural Ball, the Only Matter to Be Discussed —_— WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The Senate will adjourn on Wednesday for the Christmas holidays ind no business will be attempted previous to that time. A large number of the Senators already have left for their homes to spend the holidays, and there is an understanding that immediately after being called to order on Monday the Senate will ad- journ . until Wednesday and that ‘Wednesday’s proceedings will be con- fined to the mere formalities. Soon after the Senate reconvenes in January the Committee on Appropria- tions will report the legislative appro- priation bill. It will be the policy of the Senate to take it up as soon as possible and to have other supply measures follow speedily- The exodus’of members of the House from the city since the adjournment Friday indicates that the lower branch of Congress will be without a quorum when it meets to-morrow. Should this be the case, and should any member make the point on the floor of the chamber, the only thing that can be done is to adjourn from day to day un- til Wednesday, when the Christmas holiday recess until January 4 begins. The question of where the inaugural ball shall be held is the only matter of legislation in sight in the House for the week. This will come up under suspension of the rules on a motion from Representative Morrell of Penn- sylvaMa. The Senate has proposed the Pension Office and the House the Con- gressional Library. There are indica- tions that a deadlock has been reached on the matter and that when it is dis- cussed again the Capitol building will be proposed as a compromise. T e New California Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Postmas- ters have been appointed in California as follows: John L. Gail at Moneta; Anna Kleiser at Broderick, Yolo Coun- ty: Joseph E. Fulton at Hueneme, Ven- tura County; Lizzie B. Verhein at In- dianola, Humboldt County; E. R. Kirk at Sherwood, Mendocino County. The office at Greenleaf, Madera County, is discontinued, the mail going to Fresno. e National Bank for Alaska. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Application has been made at the Treasury Depart- ment to establish the American Na- tional Bank of Fairbanks in Alaska, with a capital of $50,000, with J. J. Hag- gerty, William A. Connell, John W. Roberts, Emanuel J. Silverman and H. D. Leehey as directors. e — The man who has the stamp of genius on his brow usually has the gloss of it on his garments. | said. ADVERTISEMENTS. Yy a man at is not likely from indications to-night. & | sight. Twe i Broadway, | As sustaining the footpad-murder ] . murderous thugi | theory, the evidence of the autopsy |* wi . s for a week in | | | performed by Dr. O. D. Hamlin shows | this = gl | that the bullet in the lung was fired, i ! | by a man standing within several feet - “ £ of Police] ¥ B R 5 —¥ | of Brown and took a downward course. H tives who s CTIM OF SENSA- | | This would indicate that Brown -was he mystery S LB standing in the street, on a level below Eir and | ks Sae ¥ s .. | the murderer who was on the sidewalk. d v a word| % o Tl o T Th'; ball through the arm inflicted only e officers in| man of medium height who might be |2 flesh wound bre oo *| Wearing dark clothes and a slouch hat,| Brown had been on the police force since June, 1901. Before that he was a conductor on the lines of the Oakland Traction Consolidated. His home was with his young wife, his baby and his mother at 53¢ Twenty-seventh street. The chief obstacle in the way of a solution of the murder is the absence of any statement from the victim. s cry of “Murder, murder, I'm | That is the extent of their knowledge concerning the murderer of Patroiman 3rown. So far as the police are now informed the last person to talk to Brown be-| fore he was murdered was J. H. Mc- | Kay, a shingler, who lives at 1059 Ciay | street. He was hurrying on his bi- | | cycle to the Providence Hospital | Brow: across the street from where the shotsj Shot,” was the only utterance from | were fired. McKay detailed to-day to | Bim. By the time help was at hana Detective George Kyte the circum-| the mortally wounded man was unable by o ey to speak. It Is surmised that Brown © was Hding fast on the sidewalk when | D20 Seen a man at the place where the Brown. whe was mounted on his horse stand- | Shooting occurred because he dis- ing at the curb, hafled me, asking me to stop. | mounted. A few moments before that 1 replied that I hoped he would excuse me this | Brown was on his horse, as described vered every de- meager- permitted. The for revenge and eliminated light of the | character of the s declares that the man v was in his opinion 1p and robbed M and Harrison the shoot- told the de- the general di- was killed. The Brown rs the description of the *mw"-‘» I;A'ai in f.].u-:axa hl:r:‘:'. ‘T. "\';_‘; ‘fir | by McKay. But it is only a matter of » beg hospital, where a friend of y 1IL | o % % began his single- | prown said T ought to know hetter than to vio. | conjecture. What prompted the police opping R. H.| late the ordinance. man to cross the street after McKay eteenth and Harrison By that time I had dismounted and was | left him cannot be known. ¥ in the evening of Decem- | CTossing toward the hospital entrance with my Captain of Police W. J. Petersen and lowing that night by attack.| Fhccl. Brown had turned away from me and | petective George Kyte made a critical . g ¥ | 1 was up on the entrance steps when I heard SphR 7 th Korie” {5 Bkehe St bbing W. H. Britton at Thir- | three pistol shots in very rapid succession. I | e€Xamination of the scel -nig! d West streets. Early jast|raw Brown wheel around and throw out his | the same hour as the shooting oc- right arm as If to grab somebody. I ran over 10 where he was resling. but some one else had got there and was holding him. Shortly before McKay was accosted egrs by | by Brown Miss May Sullivan and Miss e enenue. Then | Fiora Alvarez, nurses at the Provi- ar out of these five casny | dence Hospital, walked out of the tions given of the ”,_v;hn"“ building. On their way down Broad- i victims are sufficiently cloes | Wa¥ they met the patrolman, who was the police that one man sag | O% horseback. talking to a man. Com- 3 o 28| ing toward them on Broadway the | curred in order to get a clear idea as to the view that Brown might have had of the west side of Broadway when he stood on the east side with his horse. The conditions tended to verify ! the theory the police have adopted. Brown's funeral will be held Wednes: day morning at 10 o'clock from St.: Francis de Sales Church. The police department will be represented by a large delegation. | afternoon J. B. Duarte repelled | s assault in East Oakland. | night Milton Bulkeley was| ¥ a robber at Twenty-eighth | RSO Ser She miarion young women observed a light. Miss HUNTING FOR THE FOOTPAD. iku]h\gan remarked that it must be a CURTIN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION | After tw four hours of hard dig- | small automobile. They met a man a| There is a strong suspicion in police ging the murder has resolved | little later riding a bicycle. circles in San Francisco that the foot- | i 1R g P ] pad who shot and killed Mounted: Po- | | CHIEF HODGKINS' VIEW. Detectives are trying to learn the re is little evidence at hayd | }dentity of the man whom the nurses 1l help. Not a person has been | saw talking to Brown. Chief Hodgkins, t can give a clear description | after receiving reports to-night from who was seen to run down | Detectives Kyte, Quigley, Shorey and liceman Brown was Anthony Curtin, better known as “‘Babe” Curtin, who was arrested last evening at the Hall | of Justice in that city. It is known that | he was in Oakland on Saturday night | and the description given of the foot- this robber Every effort of rtment is bent on this mission and west on Twenty-sixth ice i o | the shooting. H. M. San- | coceiaity detaslod, aatgec? WhO Were| paq by those who got a glimpse of him | florist; Frank Smith, the e answers that of Curtin. i This te a cold-blooded murder of a police- man in the discharge of his duty while trying to arrest or examine a suspicious character. The man who bas been holding up citizens this last week is the man who killed Brown. Curtin_is waiting under bail for his | trial in Judge Cook's court on a charge of burglary. He and Clarence Frank-, lin, alias Fallon, on the night of March | | Donald McClure, the mes- | J. H. McKay, the shingler, | saw the fleeing murderer,i | | they saw a man’s figure. g d £ Brown was not a man to make personal or of- Half a dozen other witnesses tosthe | ncial enemies He was particularly quiet and | 25 1903, broke into the saloon of Wil- pistol's flashes were examined to-day, ! uncbtrusive. In many respects he was as | }iam G. Schroeder, 925 Mission street but noth 1t indefinite st-’+me—+g | Zentle as a woman. Polite and inoffensive, | They were at work on the safe when procured from them. The de- r;_ldmula not have made an enemy had he ;r:sy \;ere‘ d;\s‘cfi(\)’::d b%higetg:é lzolzicei;l es . n R. S. v n oking for a heavy-set Unfortunately we are handicapped at pres- was alleged that Curtin fired a shot at Maloney. They ran into a lodging house at 9191 Mission street and burst | into the room of W.' N. Broughton. They kept Broughton at bay with a re- volver for several hours till the police- men who had been summoned by Ma- loney had disappeared from the scene | of the burglary. They were arrested | a few days later. Curtin was released on bonds when he was held to answer; but has not yet been tried. Franklin was tried and | convicted. His sentence has been post- poned from time to time pending Cur- tin's trial. Curtin's record is a bad one both here and in other States.; Curtin was arrested last' eveningdat the Hall of Justice in San Francisco ! ¥ by Detectives Mulcahy and O'Dea. He | Prices: $10 to $35 surrendered himself upon learning that the officials were looking for him, || full dress. and claims that he will be able to: ; prove a complete alibi if charged with the murder. He says he spent the early portion of Saturday evening at his mother’s home in San bt and the latter portion in sal about ' town. He says he was not in Oakland at all Saturday. He will be d until the detectives have an ) investigating his story. take him to Oakland for tification as the REDUCTION SALE WALL PAPER To close out a large number of short lots before stock-taking, we shall offer special inducements for the next two weeks at our Mission-street store. This sale will be especially attractive to those who desire medium and high grade papers at a very low price—less than half the regular rates. The assortment is large, embracing over fifty thousand rolls, among which are ordinary white blanks, gilts, tapestries, fancy stripes &nd two-tone effects of all colors. It will pay to purchase now for future requirements.. It is well to bear in mind that those who call first will find the best assort- L. TOZER & SON CO 762 MISSION STREET MOTHER'S KISS DOOMS BABES Expert Asserts That Thus Are the Deadly Germs of | . Consumption Transmitted DISEASE NOT INHERITED Generation After Generation | Dies Because It Oceupies the Same Surroundings —— Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—Dr. William E. | Quine said to-day that if one-tenth | of the money annually expended upon the consumptives of Illinois were | spent in preventing the disease it would soon be eradicated. He added that the next State Legislature would | be petitioned to donate enough money to place Illinois in the front rank. “‘Consumption is not inherited,” he “‘Generation after generation | dies of consumption, because it occu- pies the same surroundings. For in-| stance, a woman is ill of consumption and becomes a mother. That child is not born with consumption. But the mother picks it up-and fondles it. The germs are upon her lips as she kisses the chil& The germs are transmitted from lip to lip. That child becomes contaminated. Consumption was born in that kiss. “You have seen a mother taste the food of an infant. She places in her mouth the spoon which later will be used by the child. In this manner also germs are carried to the child. “You have seen a man delivering ice in large quantities drag it over the stone pavement. Perhaps he| dragged it over the floor. There was expectoration upon the pavement and upon the floor. Later meat was placed upon that ice. Cold never kills the germs of consumption. The germs were transferred to the meat. The meat was prepared for food and eaten, and consumption followed. “Fresh air and sunlight are the best remedies that I know of. Many persons seem opposed to these, how- ever. Many go to the trouble of plac- ing cotton in the cracks of windows, that no fresh air may find its way into their sleeping apartments. Many insist upon having storm doors to keep out the wind. They are fostering consumption.” - — TWENTY-FIVE-CENT BILL CAUSES TRIPLE TRAGEDY Three Arkansas Merchants Meet in the Street and Fatal Shoot- ing Follows. ROSA, Ark., Dec. 18.— N. J. Warren and his son, H. H. Warren, and Ed- ward Bickerson, all merchants, were killed yesterday in a street fight, growing out of a dispute over an ac- count of 25 cents, claimed by Bicker- son. A feud had existed for several months and was renewed yesterday when the men met on the street. The younger Warren opened fire on Bick- erson ‘and killed him. John Bicker- son, a brother of Edward Bickerson, shot and killed both Warrens before they could again fire. 2% i % Suits to Measure®10 %35 Finished This Week Suits ord;red any time this week will be ready in time for Christmas. We can make this promise because we have our own cutters and tai- _ lors, and operate our own workshops right on the premises. We guarantee ‘material, workmanship and fit. ; for business suits, $30 tb $50 for tuxedos and SNWO00D 5 (0 740 Market Street and Cor. Powell and Eddy Sts. HETLLID ppom L1F | planos (all .brand new) | quoted—We must | Net cash actually rec MUSICAL. PRETTY WELL THANK YOU! | That’'s What We Did Saturday and Day Before — But Twelve Others. The Twelve Not Sold Is What Is Bothering Us—What Shail We Do? Give Them Away? No! Can’t Do That, But We’ll Split ’Em in Two. Not How can we get rid of six “Weber” planos, one “Wheelock” and five “Stuy- vesant” pianos, the quickest, without losing money—that is, without losing much money? We have promised to get rid of tais entire “Weber line” before our competi- tor (who now has the agency for “Weber,"” with shipments on the way) gets his stock in, and we have got to turn thids upside down to accomplish It within the next few days, or be caught napping. We have six fine and costly Webers, one Wheelock, and five Stuyvesant to sell within the next three or four days, and we have simply GOT to sell. We want cost for them—factory cost—if we can get it, but a few dollars either way y Won’t hurt much on these few, and we propose to deliver the goods. Just give us a chance, and if you are in the market for something real fine— | a “topnotcher”—at_about the price of a medium grade, then get our cost fig- ures on a “Weber,” for when an aver- age of $208 is knocked off the regular price of Webers, what's the use chas- ing around after a conglomerate mixed lot of low-grade new, and second- hand “Whatnots,” ambiguously com- piled, and described like job lots— what's the use? Our Webers, Wheelocks, and Stuyve- sants—all from the “Weber concern,” | and from whom no inferiot instruments ever come—are for sale (fine, fresh and new) more than $200 below their rank and class. They can be had on terms of $50 down, and $15 per month, on the few that cost us over $300, and all oth- ers costing us less than that, shall go | at _$25 down, and $10 monthly. We have in addition to these, four superb “Schaeffer” planos (the new scale) than which there are few finer made; to sacrifice—yes sacrifice—to- morrow, and cost price of either of these fine Schaeffers will place them down so low—considering their fine class and grade—that no one can afford to buy anything in a piano below $300 without first seeing the “Schaeffer. The Schaeffers sell from $375 to $500— Just watch us come near splitting them in two, and in some cases even worse than that. Another good make improvements, fresh and new (no old “comebacks,” or second-hand pianos called “slightly used,” but new) for $165 on terms of §10 monthly—And still oth- ers on down to $106—factory cost. These latter two makes retail always for more than twice the pric here unload, that's al and if frankness, fairness and a square deat mean anything to those loeoking for a piano, then youll find things with all modern ! right, at 126 Geary—opposite the City | of Paris dry goods store. CLARK WISE & CO. UNITED STATES BRANCH STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~——OF THE— THURINGIA INSURANGE CONPANY F ERPURT, IN GERMANY, ON THE 31st day of December, A. D. 1908, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the | Insurance Commissioner of the State of Cali- of sections fornia, pursuant to the provisio: 610 and 611 of the Political Cod as per blank furnished by the Commissioner: ASSETS. Market Value of all Stocks Cash and Bonds owned by Company.. $394,770 32 Cash in Company's Office. . 216 73 Cash in ‘Banks . 176,798 14 Interest due and Stocks and Loans . %3 &3 Premiums in due C lection ‘Cfl\ o4 Total Assets .... $1,273,489 36 LIABILITIES. Losses in Drocess of Adjustment or in suspense . $55,872 00 resisted, Including expenses 18,561 84 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks running one year or less, $852,- %61 98; reinsurance 50 per cent.. 426,430 90 Greas Premiums on Fire Risks Tunning more than one year, $613,404 47: reinsurance pro rata 351,118 78 All other Habilities .....ccoveen. 73,661 98 Total Liabilities INCOME. Premiums ... Received for interest on Bonds, Stocks, Loans an: from all other sources. Received from home office. Total Income ... EXPENDITURES. . Net amount vald for Fire Losses (including $11,520 94, losses of ous_years) . Fecrwas $627,065 19 .. 386362 T7 or ch for officers, clerks, etc.. 65,279 15 Paid for State, National and Local TAXOS .ooovon- . 24,420 74 All other payments and Losses incurrsd during the year..$679,! Risks & Premiums | Fire Risks. | Premiums Net amount Risks) writtenduring the year Net amount RI expired during the year . .| 121,247.344 1,425,504 29 mt in| foree Dec. 31. 1903] 108,080,437 53| 1,466,356 45 F. G. VOSS, United States Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 224 day of January, 1904. # EDWIN -F. COREY, Commissioner for California in New York. '$111,417,525 05/$1,579,684 34 N PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: V0SS, CONRAD & CO. 208 Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal. THE WEEKLY CALL