The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1904, Page 9

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1904. Will*FinckCo. 818-820 MARKET ST. Santa Clays for 43 Year SAN FRANCISCO Headquarters s---The Place to Buy Your Toys, Dolls and Holiday Goods---The Largest. Assortment. and Lowest Prices - . XMAS TREE ORNAMENTS. Wholesale and Retail. by all to be the most lete ndsomest and cheapest ne in Frisco. Glass Tinsel Silver or gold t orname - .10e_to §1.00 doz. c to 8o each nd, 12 yards Xmas Candles, Snow, Candle Hold- ers, Cornucopias, Xmas Trees, Favors, eto. Don’t Buy Till You See Our Line. CEILDREN'S TEA SETS. By far the greatest variety ever shown. Some as low as 10c, and graduating in price up to $7.50. WEITE ENAMEL DOLL EBUREAUS, 750 Not shoddy ones. but nest and well-made, size 11x17, with swinging mirror. Others at. 950, $1.50 to $7.50 An immense line of Doll Furniture at the usual cut prices. MECEANICAL TOYS. ENGINES, ETO. ‘Wholesale and Retail At less than sidewalk prices, and many articles you will find nowhers else. LOOK THEM OVER. DOLL GO-CARTS AND BUGGIES. e only place to see all the styles. Folding and Reclining Carts. “and everything new and cut in price, too. BOOXS AT CUT PRICES. All the new copyright fictfon pub- lished at $1.50; our price........ $1.08 And many recent ones cut to.....50c Standard Books and Juveniles, in neat cloth bindings, any number of titles, at.15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 500 per vol. Books of Poems, elegantly bound in burnt leather, at. Other styles from. . All the late popular ehildren’s books at cut prices. Dickens, complete set..... $2.98 Other sets equally low in price. Toy Books, Paint and Drawing Books, Books for Boys and Girls at Ridiculously Low Prices. VISIT OUR BOOX DEPAETMENT. And See For Yourself. WHEEL GOODS. Automobiles, Locomotives, Fire En- gines, Sall Boats, Hook and Ladders, Velocipedes, Tricycles, Cycle Wagons, Hand Cars, Health Propellers, Iron or Wood Wagons, Sulkies, Rocking Horses, Shoo Flys, in all sizes and prices not to be beat. COASTERS. Boys to be up-to-date must have ours. Something new. Come and see it. No higher than others. Toflet Sets, Manicure Sets, Shaving Sets, Collar and Cuff Boxes ‘Work Boxes, Glove and HMandkerchief Boxes, Smoker Sets Photo, Autograph. Scrap and Postal Card Albums, Poker Sets STORE OPEN EVENINGS TILL 10 O'CLOCK. Enives, Razors and Shears Ground and Repaired Picture Frames of All Descriptions Made to Order All Kinds of Electrical Work Done and Repaired. THIEF RIFLES TICKET CASE Somewhere in this city a squad of ars is preparing to enjoy Christ- stolen from the Cen- before the ket case rg ey me time the ti ee sale drawer, of the cash rters to glar did lded the contents | WANT LARGER SHARE OF FIND SN Special Dispatch to The Call. JACKSONVILLE, Or., Dec. 19.—Be- cause they only recelved a nickel each as a reward for finding a tin can con- {taining $7000 ten vears ago O. and C. P. Danielson have begun suit for a more ge ous e of the prize. In March, 1864, the young men, at that time eleven and nine years of age re- ctively, engaged, at the re- quest of Dee Roberts, in cleaning out E old henhouse, uncovered a tin can, rn with age and covered with rust, containing small cloth sacks filled with W one of the clerks | gold coins to the amount of $7000. anager Davis| The boys immediately reported the a taken the | find to their employer, who, after he Mr. Davis| bad counted it, went to the boys and he had mot | '0ld them he had buried it in the hen- ieh demck a short time before for safe- s '®| keeping and that he intended to un- *d him of the| cover it and buy something with it o | shortly. He gave each of the boys 5 Detectives found that entrance had | cents and told them to.say nothing of been gained over the steel gate that|of the occurrence and promised that oetchan ehrens e Syer. Mear. $he] 108 Tors- Wil Gises thein. : c g a As the boys grew older they became £ e height of this gate and| . ., ;.04 that the money did not be- t e district is well lighted |,/ '\, e Roberts and that by right men MUSt| . howld be theirs. In March, 1902, they brought suit against the defend- £ ant to recover possession of the gold for then the irough a small wicket in an to the ticket case and A chisel broke the lock a. itor and watchm o'clock Su Ay n that hour and the erime was probably committed. “The burglary some one well acquainted habits,” saild Mr watchman ar with when the thief that was supposed to bar with 1d Then he replaced the” left the morning daylight committed by our | He knew and $5000 interest on the same. The case was tried in Jackson Coun- ty in 1802 and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. It was appealed to the Supreme Court, which reversed the de- cision. It was tried here again and the jury, after being out fifteen hours, dis- agreed, nine standing for the plaintiffs and three for the defendant. —_——— The Regina Music Box fs now more popular than ever. Plays thousands of tunes. ( purchased by instaliments. Sherman, Co. the plays of Sunday iIn the drawer. This the thief knew. His knowledge has resulted in the abandonment by us of a long established custom.” A AT, 5 S N it bk ARCH MASONS ELECT OFFICERS.—Ala- be meda, Dec. 19 ameda Chapter No. 70, S Rovai Arch Masons, has elocted the following - oy Shi RN B IV ficers: A. C..Paulsmeier, high priest: C. W we have been in the habit of leaving | IV’ T 8 5 “por Feoribe; D, W. Mar- the receipts for the advance sales for 'y, treasurer; Oswald Lubbock, secretary. SECOND A REMOVAL TO 803 MARKET ST. Any Purchaser of 25 cents or more will be given a CaKe of Fine SKin Soap Rottle of Perfume, or Envelope of Salchel 803 MAR KET STREE FREE--GIFT DAY--FREE Tuesday Deccmber 20th NNIVERSARY choice of SAILOR GARB BRINGS - WOLE TO BEGGAR Face and Hands Belie His Tale of Nation's Neglect Runs Against Policeman in Disguise | BY JAMES O. CRAWFORD. ! When he begged, borrowed or stole the | garb of a man-o’-war jackie John J.!str‘fet. Kane, professional vagabond, imagined | ‘Sorry to ‘Jle';r ¥ou can’'t hear,” re- | that by ‘donning it, adsuming a rolling | SPonded the Judge; “but what is your | a er to this complaint?"” gait and larding his language with ;i g “Ye betcher life it's a bad com- idioms of the sea he would be enabled| ;jaint1 yelled the defendant, with to impose upon the philanthropy that| hands behind ears. “I've had it twen- is akin to patriotism. 1t was his belief| ty year, an’' It's gettin' worse right that especially at this Christmas time, | ajong.” | when the spirit of giving is rampant, The remainder of the court's com- no deaf ear would be turned to the ap-| mynjcations to Mr. McLaughlin were peal of a naval hero who had run afoul| yritten and handed to him by the of hard luck, for such was the role he| jerk, cut outyfor himself, and to make as-, sured success doubly sure he decided t0| poggesgion of one striped bass of rehearse the part on the Barbary Coast | woight less than three pounds cost —try it on the dog, as it were—before| o Bing a fish dealer in Chinatown, venturing it on the more promising, ine gum of $150, exclusive of attor- sections of the city. While he did not ney's fees. Judge Conlan fmposed the expect to glean much cash from the fine. habitues of the coast, by whom it is g— in a tone that was audible on Kearny . . . . James Reece was stealing a potted palm from the porch of Thomas Ash- worth’s residence, 900 McAllister street, at 4 o'clock yesterday, when Patrolman Graham nabbed him. An- other policeman testified that the de- fendant lived at Fifth and Shipley streets. No defense was offered, and Reese will be sentenced to-day for petty larceny. Once upon a time he was a member of the Chicago police force, and report has it that he did valiant service during the famous | Haymarket riot. . \ €S, ME AN CEWEY (APTURED. i} . . Britton street, Visitation Valley, is again convulsed by the Cotelli-Gambozi vendetta. The release on probation of Signora Cotelli, clearly convicted of having disturbed the peace of Signora Gambozi, was accompanied by an ad- monition from Judge Conlan so im- pressive that all present thought it would have the desired deterrent effect, | and the TItallan Interpreter, through lwhom it was filtered, informed the court that not in all his official career had@ he seen the subject of a judicial warning more thoroughly intimated. | Indeed he offered to wager four of his | favorite cigars to one of the brand pre- —# | ferred by Clerk “Jack” Rice that never | again would the door of that tribunal considered more blessed to take than| be darkened by the entrance of Sig- to give, he fb*‘f ;"““‘{’e“"f‘l“;” "‘t’h;:‘“‘:: nora Cotelli as a defendant. Mr: Rice anticipation by the knowledge rejected the proposal on the ground | their sharpened faculties failed to de-| i that it did not mean odds. If he had | tect his imposture he could safely ven- | e 5 5 ._|accepted it he would have won, for ture it on the less sophisticated deni- | . Y E sens of the rempecinble reidefos dis- | Si80OFa Cotelll, &fiar B thetw ‘weeky tricts. So he felt that the time invest- | absence, reappeared vesterday in her e | former role and was accused.of the e experiment was not wasted— ;?-r":\'\[:fld 't have been, perhaps, if he | Séme offense by the same complainant. — had devoted more care to physical de- | «— tail in his makeup. His hands and face | belied his apparel and the narrative prefacing his petition for alms. | Swaggering down lower Pacific street | as #f the sidewalk were heaving like the deck of a vessel breasting a billowy sea, Mr. Kane spat tobacco juice co- piously, hitched his trousers frequently and hailed likely-looking passers-by. “Belay there, mate,” was his form of greeting. “Lay to an’ listen to de story of a galyant 'Merican seaman in dis- tress. I fit an’ bled for Ole Glory wid Dooey at Manillar, I did, an’ it's an| | orficer on de bridge of a battleship I'd | be t'day if an ongrateful country 'ud do its dooty as well as I done mine.” If the person thus accosted evinced interest sufficient to invite further| communication Mr. Kane unfolded a| tale of unrewarded heroism, that sel- vdom failed to bring the desired mone- tary contribution. | Several wideawake coasters—men | who prided themselves on their ability | to unmask pretense—had thus been | taken in and done for when Mr. Kane met his Waterloo in the shape of a plain-clothes patrolman. Him f dis- guised, the mendicant neglected to con- | siaer that other persons might be simi- | larly attired to deceive, and when | hooked his right index finger in a gay \ ing buttonhole of the coat worn by al burly man in artisan's costume he had | | no misgiving, but unloaded his intro- a y 8 h with unrestrained free- dom and glibness. “I =till lor de ole flag,” he appended to his stereotyped | !1- int of a natlon’s ingratitude, “an’ am more sorrier for de land of me birth |dan I'm angry at her.” So passively | I 11 I | | | | | | Accompanying Signora Cotelli her twelve-year-old daughter, Nina, leged basic cause of all the trouble, but Signora Gambozi did not appear. her counsel explaining her absence by reporting an %approaching augmenta- tion of her maternal responsibilities, ! coupled with confidence that her in- terests would be faithfully served by him. The charge was merely a repe- | tition of the previous story. Signorina Nina had' reopened the inter-family was his appeal listened to that he felt| emeute by addressing uncomplimen- |a coin sub tion was as good as se- | tary allusions to Signora Gamboat cured, which feeling of confidence made | every time that matron ventured | his nerves jangle all the more fiercely | when the stranger abruptly grasped his | shoulder, shook him vigorously and ex- | claimed: | “w'y, ve bloated bum, what are ye | tryin’ to work off on me, eh? You a | saflor, with a mug sweating whisky, abroad, and complaint of the girl's conduct to her mother seemingly pro- voked the latter to disregard of the Judge's caution, for her oral retorts were hardly less frightful than the gestures accompanying them, all of which was of more than ordinary rep- | were obvious her protection from un- | your eye your finger-nails were plow- \I vant heem to have ze hard sen’- rehensibility, because of Signora Gam- bozi's state of health. Indeed, if Sig- | an’ hands like a milliner's? W'y, ye | copper-plated vag, ye never did a day’s | work in yer life, ashore or afloat! WATKINS GOES 0 BIS TRIAL Another Diamond Invest- ment Man to Face Jury for Mailing Letters to Dupes HE ACCUSES OFFICIALS Says That Employes of Los Angeles Postoffice Were Also Implicated in Scheme 0. J. Watkins, reputed by Postoffice Inspector O’Connell to be one of the smoothest operators of get-rich-quick- schemes in the State, was brought from San Jose yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Dingley on an indictment presented by the Federal Grand Jury at Los Angeles, where he will be taken for trial. The indict- ment charges Watkins with having on February 4, 1903, devised a scheme to defraud Walter W. Fisher, P. W. Ross, Wallace I. Brooks and George Wich- husen on a weekly installment plan, the victims being promised a diamond valued at $100 or that sum in cash. It is further alleged that in pursuance of such scheme, Watkins deposited in the postoffice at Los Angeles a letter ad- dressed to P. W. Ross. The concern was called The International Credit Company of Los Angeles. Watkins said after his arrest that Frank C. Mulkey, secretary of the Civil Service Board in the Los Ange- les postoffice, was head of the con- cern, while he himself was general manager. He said also that Ross was paymas- ter in the postoffice there, and that last April Ross walked into Watkins' office and demanded of the stenogra- phers that they should cash his con- tract under penalty of having the con- cern’s ‘mail stopped. “I own a 240-acre ranch in Los An- geles,” added the prisoner, “and they | thought it would be a good thing to arrest me about the Christmas holi- days, so that they could shake me down. Since my arrest they have telegraphed me that they would settle the case on payment of $70.” Inspector O'Connell said that Wat- kins was the head of the Maturity In- vestment Company of this city, and that the postal authorities drove him out of town by issuing a fraud order and stopping his mail. Watkins then removed to San Jose and started the San Jose Investment Company on the same lines as the others. ‘Watkins walved examination before United States Commissioner Heacock yesterday and was ordered removed to Los Angeles. His bail was fixed at $2000, but the prisoner was unable to furnish bonds. ——— A dream of pleaswre, the new two for quarter size American, $2 75 box 25. * nora Gambozi's welfare alone were menaced, the complaint might not have been filed; but for reasons which | 1 | | | pleasantness manded. The Judge expressed desire to have Signora Gambozi tell her story in ccurt to-day, and there is probability that his desire will be gratified. - s was imperatively de- | Arthur Graham of Oakland, charged with violating the anti-expectoration | ordinance, told Judge Fritz that he was aware of the illegality of deposit- ing salivary offerings upon the side- walks of the city across the bay, but had po idea that so metropolitan a restrfction existed in San Francisco. Despite the jar to his Honor's local patriotism, he visited no severer pun- ishment that a reprimand upon the audacious Oaklander. s = s Judge Cabaniss called Mme. \'era; Franz to the witness stand and asked | whether she desired him to punish er release Robert O’Smith, accused of blackening her eye when she sought to prevent his removal from her maison on Post street of a trunk. “It has been proved,” his Honor suggested, “that while he was bruising ing deep furrows in his cheeks.” “I care not for zat,” the lady ex- claimed. ‘“‘Hee bust my eye fust, an’ taince.” So he was fined $10. Mme. Franz subsequently explained to an audience in the corridor that her implacable prosecution of Mr. O’Smith was pro- voked less by the eve-blackening than by his statement in court that she annoyed him by bestowing tender at- CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa- ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years. 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SN FRARCISCO'S COLUMBIA 525 Nightly, Including Sunday—Matinee Sat. ELAW & ERLANGER PRESENT THOS. Q. SEABROOKE In the Spectacular Musical Farce Novelty, THE BILLIONAIRE | MARVELOUS THEATER SCENES | In the second act, showing lobby and anditorium oom::‘uu i every detail, in- | troduct & DOV satire first- ndlenoe and famous -frst-nighters” in | New York. The funniest, most original and entertaining idea ever presented om | the American stage. A FEATURE THAT TESTS | The Laughing Limit of Human Endurance. | Beg'nning hext MONDAY NIGHT Henry W. Savage Offers the Musical Satire, | THE SULTAN | OF SULU/| By George Ade, Author of e County Chair- | “The Sho Gun™ | e rinEsT Arda i V0 H. W. BISHOP, Lessee and Manager. ALL THIS WEEK 25c—THURSDAY MATINEB—26e | Oliver Morosco Offers HOWARD GOULD—J. H. GILMOUR ‘ and the Incomparabie Majestic Players in the great scenic drama, JIM BLUDSO ““The College Widow. SEATS READY THURSDAY. . = > I N. Morrls' Great New York Success. Eumpeafl and “mencan stal’s 5?’&”‘3;‘} A 'J“(;?:!‘P\'TED WOMAN." Iberg.” vening price ¢ CALIFORNIA LAST FIVE N Albertina Melich; Alfred A. Farland; Alda Hemmi; Lucy and Viate; Vernon; Ford Sister: illon Brothers; Orplenm Motion Pictures and HERRMANN THE GREAT Assisted by MARIE HERRMANN. Regular Matinees Every Wednesday, Thurs- day, Saturday and Sunda PRICES—10c, SHTS Rose Melville In Her Original Comedy Creation, — 8 SIS HOPKINS WARMEST THEATER IN TOWN STEAM HEATED THROUGHOUT Next Sunday Matinee. James A. Herne's Greatest of all American Plays, SHORE ACRES Kl 0DO Every Afternoon and Evening in the Heated Theater, Rain or Shine. Extra Christmas Mats. $0%: D¢ 2 SEATS ALWAYS SELLING. ALCAZAR TO-NIGHT—MATS, SAT. AND SUN. Great Hit, Sol Smith Russell's Play, PEACEFUL VALLEY. JOHN CRAIG_AS HOSEA HOWE. — Delightful sentiment. Sat., Sun., 25¢ to B0e. il BOTHWEL _ BROWN New Musical Extravaganza, PRINCESS FAN TAN SCORES OF SPECIALTIES! 300 PERFORMERS! A BIG SHOW BY LITTLE PEOPLE! AMATEUR NIGHT and—— ELEETRIC FOUNTAIN THURSDATY. Japaness Belasco & Mayer, Proprietors. B. D, Price, General Manager. ADMISSION, 10c. nounced elsewhere, | Mansfieid’s Version, | Ol(l Permission of “e' 'l(mke ! 3 The , Heidelberg | .. California OAXLAND TBACK. Racing every week day, {lub A Magnificent Presentation New Year's Week—'‘LOST RIVER." Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. iy wmcr hze c‘o,: i noltdresum' peiasce $1000 EANDICAP, to Be Kan WEDNSSDAY, Deo. 21. Lof heem? Ze ver-ay idea! Ha, MAYER | cRISTMAS HANDIOAP, $3000 Added, to Be Run pa!” she shrilled. A PROPS T Market Street, Near Eighth. .Phone South 533, | por special trains stopping a the track take o oot of Market strest, at 12:00, o, & TAllros snetnters o TO-NIGHT AND ALL THIS WEEK. . e T et o dered to pay Mary C. Wilson $25 a month ali- MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. jeave th. ck at 4:10 and 4:45 p. m. and tm- mony this morning by Judge Hall pending the trial of a divorce suit brought against him. He has aiready been divorced once and con- tributes $20 a month to a former wife. What jackie did ve rob of them rags, !eh? Come on, ve soak!” | " As the burly man shook the chatter- ing Mr. Kane with one hand he dis- played a silver-plated star with the | other, and without further ado hauled the bogus mariner to prison. There | it was ascertained from an investiga- tion of the records that under various aliases—Smith, apparently, preferred | —the prisoner had several previous | convictions for vagrancy and begging. | Police Judge Mogan will sentence him | to-day. John Maguire, accused of failing to provide for his four minor children, inadvertently confessed ownership of SHREVE & COMPANY POST AND MARKET STS. JEWELRY, DIAMONDS AND OBJECTS OF ART HREVE'’S will be open evenings ADVERTISEMENTS. Superb Production of Lincoln J. Carter's Great Melodrama, TWO LITTLE WAIFS m the Criterion Theater, Chicago, DI e PEMPEST and SUNSHINE In the Title Roles and the Bntire Cent Sest and Mechaniéal it Electrical and Mechani¢al ects, St iiing Al the Tmel Eve., 10c_to 50c. Mats., . 2%e. Prlces B PBCIAL MATINEE! MONDAY AND ALL NEXT WEEK. The Heart of Chicago THE WEEKLY CALL $1 per Year. iy after the last race. mediatel HOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. —_— ey MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS. A A e e ALHAMBRA ILast Concert TO-MORROW, WED. EVE, AT 8:15. Paderewski .50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00. P einway Piano Used. Reserved Seat Sale for Oakland Concert at Macdonough Theater Friday, Decembar 23, at 2:30 p. m., now open at box office of the the- ater. Fischer’s Theater S. A. McDonnell’s Pharmacy $20, which had been taken from him when he was searched at the Central station, and Judge Fritz sent for the { money and handed It to the defend- | ant's sister. who had been preserving the little ones from starvation. “This is the children’s season,” saild his Honor, “and it's you, Mr. Maguire, instead of me that should be playing Santa Claus for your offspring.” Mr. Maguire obtained relase on pro- bation by promising to shun his pa- ternal responsibilities no more. . - . James McLaughlin, charged with expectorating in a public place, said he was rather deaf when Judge Ca- baniss requested him to plead. “I'm hard o' hearin'!” he -h’uud. T, NEXT COR. FOURT until Christmas. Careful selections of Presents can be made after the day’s rush is over. The store is always bril- liantly lighted. The most prompt and interested attention is invariably given to Patrons. The variety of appropriate Gifts “is almost limitless ¥ 3 ¥ 3 3 ¥ 3 TONY LUBELSKI, General Manager. ‘omtinnous Vaudeville snz and 20c; Children 10c. At every Matinee tals week. A box of fine candy to All the boys and girls. Ten Great Acts. g 3 ® : g il DON'T FAIL TO 24 k] i £3