The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1904, Page 6

THE C 1ISCO CALL, TURDAY, - DECEMBER 24, 1904 HIS VICTINS Accnser of “Dr.” William Proctor Gets Letters Tell- ing of Crimes Elsewhere OFFER THEIR TESTIMONY Mrs. Anna Fleming of San Franciseo Would Help to Conviet Alleged Larcenist RPN 58T Oskiand office San Francisco Call, 1016 Brosdway, Dec. 23. The charges of obtaining money un- jer false pretenses, preferred by Mrs. Emily “Doc- ation be- Centerville, larceny dge Sandhol 2 at $2000 . h ca were taken back to P Ja ait their prelimin Centerville next ter received Mrs. Anna the 3 2108 stealing tha to her were n his reket em back d urn gs was a clus- says which g his one ther was owner. made any ation to-da d her r the pris- afternoon, cuss the case, and to express innocence. g he —_——————— DIRECTORS WANT WORTH Board of Education Decides Ask SCHOOI £150,000 OF BONDS Berkeley to Citizens to Vote for Such an Issue. —The Board decided to issuing of ,000 for the town's public rs in the pro- to be as follows: corner of Grove wa ling, iing, Russ street, lot $30,000; four-room School and addi- six-room annex to . et $10,000; Le Conte & $10,000; two-room annex to 1 School, $5000; school site in ¥ r tract school site in Peralta Park rict, $2500; equip- me for forty-six nmew rooms pro- po $£15,000 for incidental ex- penses, $8500; total, $150,000. The Board of Education will meet to prepare the formal call sed bond election. The the directors is unani- the bond issue. g TAKES UP HEARING OF A BOYCOTT INJUNCTION Attorneys Maguire Submit Briefs Upon the Subject 0 Judge Melvin, OAKLAND, Dec. 23.—The matter of making permanent a temporary in- 5 t estraining the Cooks’' and Union from boycotting the restaurant, on Tenth street, ken up before Judge Melvin | afternoon. A statement of facts ner s will be submitted on briefs h on behalf of J. Mar- of the restaurant. and Waiters’ Union is rep- by fromer Congressman G. Maguire. In this cpse the owner resented Jem pickets had a Union Labor newspaper : fo sale, calling out the headlines, h related to the trouble regarding u t then being boycotted. ———————— Harvested by Wind. A strange freak of the whirlwind in | nirums was witnessed near Neuf- 1 the other day. A large field of arley was being ‘reaped, when 4 sud- dep whirlwind almost in an - instant swept the whole field clear. The grain rose 10 a great height in the air, was then turned over, and finally disap- peared In the distance, coming down n quite a different district. So sudden the occurrence that everything had ppeared, while the amazed harvest- stoed with their implements in From the whole field not as .one cart load could be -London Globe. e e — — WASHINGTON, Dec 28 —Secretary Wilson nas appointed E. H, Webster of Kansas chiot «f the Dairying Division of the Lm:-:-m of ér'lcnme, to pucceed ihe late jor Hemry Aly, ch ed. clean $50,000: | and Fionell Will | ically agreed upon, on which | tion 1s asked by the Citi- | represented by Attorney ! - THAN PAY WIEE William Dunn Leaves County 1o Escape the Payment of | Alimony Ordered by Court H ———— ES WARRANT LJUDGE 1SSU | = \Fugitive Will Be Arrested | and Imprisoned Until He | Obeys Judieial Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, Dec. ather than to pay his wife alim Dunn Newark has given business there and fled the country. A commitment to the County Jail was issued by Judge Ellsworth this afternoon and placed in the hands of Sheriff John N. Bishop. Dunn is a ny William his up j molder, and with his brother conducts a stove foundry at Newark. H wife got a divorce from him some months ago and he w ered to pay her month a 3 He failed to do this and last week was ®sited to appear before the court. He then got one more week in which to pay the money, now amounting to $95./ as up to-day, but it appears His tiv his card from the days ago and has he withdrew ders’ Union some mother has moved wed that he never a gent of alimony, : order not melie Paulovich was told 'by Judge vin to-day that before she could the stody of her two children pr untrue the charges her band, Stephen Paulo- when he got a divorce some time He then charged that she was ng at Truckee with one George Saz- She made no defense, but lately visited friends here and sa¥s she found two children neglected and dirty, ps their custody. and AW afterr the m M. Dy from F. ground of her desertion. oon Grace Downs on She ) of the community property, and the father has the custody of the two children. r divorce has be brought by Mary M. McDonald against William McDonald KINIRT SATS Self-Confessed Burglar Makes Appearance in Court on Murder Charge ARSI + Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1016 Broadway, Dec. 23. David Kiniry, charged with the mur- der of Policeman James H. Smith, was | arraigned before Judge Hall in the Su- | perior Court this morning and pleaded “not guilty He self-possessed was | and told the court that he had not yet | selected his attorney. Judge Hall ask- ed if he wished him to appoint counsel. Kiniry accepted the suggestion and Attorneys H. H. G« were appointed. Kiniry was anxious to plead and did so against the adyv of | the attorneys appointed, but the court said that the plea might be entered | with the understanding that it could be withdrawn in ten days if so desired. Kiniry has confessed that he was | waiting for an opportunity to enter a house about 7 o'clock one night in No- vember, 1903, with a partner by the { name of Goldstein, when they were ar- rested by Policeman Smith, who was returned the fire and Goldstein killed. Kiniry got away, but was re- cently arrested at Los Angeles and identified by a porcelain tooth. He says he did not shoot Smith. 5 Further formalities in regard to the trial were postponed until January 3, when the case comes up to be set. —_—— MANY MEN IDLE PENDING MINING PROPERTY SUIT Adds to the List of the Unemployed. NEVADA CITY, Dec. 23.—As a result of a suit brought by the Champion Min- ing Company against the Home Min- ing Company the latter's mine has | been closed down. The Champion Company has secured an injunction re- straining the Home Company from working the property. { The Home Company employed more Ithan 100 men, who are now idle, awaiting the result of the action. The plaintiff company asks for $400,000 damages from the Home Company for alleged values taken out of the ground. It is feared that the defendant will ask for an injunction preventing the Champion Company from working the disputed territory and greatly add to the force of idle men. ——— | THREE TIMES CHINESE 1 HEARS DEATH SENTENCE Date for Hanging of Lee Look of San Jose Is Set by | Court. SAN JOSE, Dec. 23.—Lee Look, ! who shot and killed Lee Wing, to-day for the third time heard the death sen- tence pronounced. Judge Tuttle set IMarch 3, 1905, as the time of execu- | tion at San Quentin. I Look has been tried three times ang jthe case has been carried to the United States Supreme Court. The first trial resulted in a disagreement, on the second he was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, but the Supreme Court set the verdict aside on the ground that the complaint did | not state that the,murdered man was |2 human being, and for the last trial ine received sentence to-day. Mandate | to do so has left the | | re- on the ground of desertion. | iperior | ntry and E. S. Page | fired on and mortally wounded. Smith | was | Injunction Ties Up Corporation and ! 1S MANSION FROM ITS GROUNDS (CHURCH l o AND BUSINESS E [ | [ | i | | VICT KNOWLES — . - + S M \\'\I‘r\» WHICH W1 BE REMOVED BODILY FROM ITS PRESENT SITE, AND A DIAGRAM SHOWING THE OF THE MARSHAL BLOC AND THE WORTH M. E. CHURCH, THE CORNERSTONE OF WHICH WAS ERDAY, WHICH THE CAPITALIST ORBJECTS TO AS NEIGHBORS. - *- BERKELEY, Dec. 23.—Disgusted | because his millions have failed to pro- }rure for him immunity from the en- | croachments of business and church people, W. E. Knowles, a former Klon- dike Croesus, now a prominent resi- | dent of Berkeley, has given orders to | have his magnificent mansion at Du- rant and Telegraph avenues removed | | entire from the handsome grounds it | | has hitherto adorned. Despite the fact that Mr. Knowles | when he built his imposing home four | years ago bought enough land as a site {for a dozen ordinary homes the area | has not proved sufficiently large to | | protect him from a large business | | block which J. A. Marshall, another Berkeley capitalist, is erecting in the | rear of Knowles’ mansion nor to pre- serve him from the close association | | which the new Epworth Methodist | Church has provided for the Knowles menage. A fortune was put into the Knowles home, its value being estimated at $40,000, but despite its elaborate char- acter and its great size every vestige |of it is to be moved from the corner | of Durant and Telegraph avenues. ! Workmen began yesterday the task of transferring the mansion to the new | { home site recently bought. CORNERSTONE LAID, ‘While the church people of Berke- 1 1 the Masonic fraternity gather- | ed to-day to lay the cornerstone of the Epworth Church, across from the Knowles home, a gang of men were | busy preparing to move the mansion so that it no longer wotld face the | church or be in its neighborhood. { Two other weaithy men, residents, whose homes are close to Mr. Knowles’, are planning to either move | | | | iing and build elsewhere. S. Page, living at Bancroft way and Telegraph ave- nue, close to the business block which J. A. Marshall is erecting and near the Epworth Church, is one of these citizens, who is preparing to call in the house-mover, and Louis Titus, resid- across the street from Mr. Knowl is another. Each of these men has a splendid mansion, surrounded with elaborate grounds, and all are indignant that the fashionable résidence section of Berkeley, which they fancied was to be exclusively for the rich residing there, has been invaded by the busi- ness block, the apartment house and the Methodist church. Mr. Knowles has bought a large lot on Durant avenue, north of Telegraph avenue, closer to the foothills, and there workmen are preparing to receive the Knowles establishment when it has been taken from its present site. CROWDS INTERESTED. Crowds of curious persons gather daily in front of the Knowles mansion, watching the spectacle of a million- aire’s palace being taken entire, with all its inhabitants, away from a spot which long has been one of the show places of the city, to a new location. Mr/ Knowles grimly surveyed the crowd to-day and remarked: It's tough to have your home treated this way, but I'm going to try the experiment of | moving the house big as it g, instead of building a new one. The folks like this house and we wou't give it up. Do I object to.the church? Well, churches usually sidered desirable additions to a first-class resi. dence district, but I don’t care to be put in the attitude of objecting to them. I do object to a big business block being buillt adjoining my home, but as I can’'t prevent it I'm going to take up my house and go. 1 understand that Mr. Gale and Mr. Titus are algo to move. They live across from the church and the business biock. Some one is going to put up an apartment hcuse in the rear of the church later, and that won't be exactly a desirable thing. What am I going to do | with the property here—the land I am leay- re mot con- | The church people do not coincide in the view that their building could bandicap the value of residence prop- erty. They are to spend nearly $30,000 on the structure and think it will be a thing of beauty. They watched the workmen removing Knowles’ home away from them to-day, but regretted merely that \the Alaskan millionaire was depriving himself of such excel- lent spiritual company. MASONS OFFICIATE. The cornerstone of the new Epworth Methodist Church was laid under the auspices of Durant Lodge, F. and A. M., of Berkeley. The exercises were elaborate and imvressive. ‘Under the leadership of Worshipful Master Wal- ter Gompertz members of the Masonic fraternity marched from the I. O. O. F. Hall to the church site, where hundreds of church officials and ‘members were present. The Masonic Quartet of Oak- land, compesed of D. M. Lawrence, H. ‘W. Patrick, Alfred Wilkie and William Neilsen, sang *“‘Hall, Giorious Morn.” Rev. J. A. Batchelor ofiered prayer, ““Coronation” was sung and Rev. Clar- ence F. Reid. agent of the board of missions, delivered an address appro- priate to the occasion. Rev. J. C. Simmons, a veteran min- ister, read the church ritual prescribed for such events, and William H. Waste, president of the board of trustees of the church, invited Grand Master George W. Hunter to lay the corner- stone. The grand master responded in an eloquent address. The Masonic Quartet rendered other significant songs and the cornerstone was then laid according to the Masonic ritual. The church is to be of gothic design, the plans calling for an edifice which is expected to be worthy of Berkeley's reputation as a city of beautiful homes ! * ) $1500 Disputed in San Jose Court. SAN JOSE, Dec. 23.—Six oil paint- ings valued at $1500 are the basis of a suit flled in the Superior Court to- day by W. H. Hunt, a baker, against Mrs. M. J. Whitlock and Henry French. The paintings involved were painted by Artist P. L. Peters and are entitled “Fairies,” “Dove,” “La France Roses,” “Storm on the Coast,” “Chrys- | anthemums” and “Judith,” Peters sold the paintings to Hunt and Mrs. Whitlock secured possession ! of them for a debt before they came into the possession of Hunt. A de- livery of the paintings is asked by Hunt or their value in cash, which is placed at $1500. —_————— “Tell me,” she asked, after she had accepted him, “am I really your first and only love?” —er—no, dear,” replied the drug but you are something just as —Philadeiphia Press. { | l | by Paper Firm Is Destroyed by Flames. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.—Fire this morning destroyed the two-story brick building at the northwest corner of Requina and Commercial streets, oc- cupied by the Pioneer Roll Paper Company, entailing a loss to building and stock estimated at $100,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Pioneer Roll Paper Company carried the largest stock of paper in Southern California and it sustained practically a complete loss. - In addi- tion several printing presses and other machinery were ruined. — s Willie—1I met our new minister on my way te Sunday school, mamma, and he asked me if I ever played marbles on Sunday. Mother—H’h! say to that? | Willie—I said, “Get thee behind me, Satan!” and waiked right off and left him.—London Tit-Bits. 1 And what did you! 3 their handsome houses or lease them | ng? Haven't decided vet. and churches. OIL PAINTINGS SUBJECT FIRE IN LOS ANGELES !R(]CK HITS LOCOMOTIVE OF A LEGAL ACTION CAUSES LOSS OF $100,000 AND DELAYS OVERLAND Ownership of Six Canvases Valued at | Two-Story Brick Burilding Occupied | Progress of Oregon Express Checked by Two Peculiar Accidents Near Redding. _ REDDING, Dec. 23.—A large rock rolled down a hillside just north of Keswick station lasi night cnd struck the fropt end of the iocomotive haul- ing the Qregon express, knocking the pony trucks from the trac Luckily the train was moving very slowly in fear of landslides and was not wreck- ed. The express had just been re- leased after being held at Kennet by a wrecked gravel train. Both acci- dents caused a delay of three hours. —_——— Towne — That beautiful young heiress we met at Bong Tong Beach is in town now. Browne—Jove! How do you know? Towne—Saw her behind the rib- bon counter at Bargen's to-day.— Philadelphia Press. Lratindy e O S KINGSTON. Jamaica, Dec. 28.—The United Frult Company's steamer Admiral Dewey, which stranded \Wednesday night at the en. i trance of Port Morant. Jamaica. was pulled Loff the reef to-day by a wrecking tug. «NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA UTHER WOMEN [FLEES RATHER |'TAKES H s c———————— POLICE BOARD DROPS HEARING Commissioners Consider the | Accusations Against B(‘l‘t. Henderson to Be Flll]l\')': ACCUSER IS CHARGED | : | i | Four New Naumes ;\qldwl.tc” the Roster to Fill \':lcancu-ii 1 AR Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1 1016 Broadway, Dec. 23. Henderson | vestiga- Regular Policeman Bert | was vindicated to-day at an in tion by the Police and Fire Com sioners of accusations of theft made { against him by Special Officer August J. Jacobson. Mayor Warren Olney and City Attor- ney J. E. McElroy of the Police Board, who conducted the examination, ! agreed that the statements made by ! Jacobson were too flimsy and indefinite to warrant any action against Hender- son. On ¥ { matter missed. Charges of making false against a brother officer with the pur- | pose of injuring him, which had been | preferred by Chief of Police Hodgkins { no other witnesses. Jacobson reiterated | | the assertion that he had seen Hender- son take a bucket of paint from the | residence of Mrs. M. Gardner, at Third | avenue and East Fifteenth street; that | he had at another time observed Hen- | derson pick up an artificial fire log in a | acant house in East Oakland, and | that on still anether occasion he saw | Henderson riding a wheel, which Ja- | cobson thought belonged to an em- ploye at the F. M. Smith place, in East | Oakland. When closely questioned Jacobson admitted that he was unabl to tell what Henderson had done with the paint, that the bicycle was not sto- | len and that he did not see Henderson | take the artificial fire log home. Jacob- son also admitted that he did not har- bor the friendliest of feelings'for Hen- derson, because he said Henderson had | at one. time refused to speak to him and had also spoken unfaverabiy of the witness to one of Jacobson's patrons. | Henderson denied that he ever took | any paint from the Gardner house and affirmed that he had received permis- | sion to use the bicycle at the Smith place and that he had picked up the artificial fire log in the vacant house to put it in a more secure place. Hender- son further stated that he had boarded | compelled to order him to keep away | from the Henderson house because of | erratic conduct. | William F. Woods and Charles A. F. | Jorgensen were appointed regular po- | acting regular police officers, | Resolutions deploring the murder of | Policeman George W. Brown by an un- | known man and extending sympathy to | the bereaved family of the dead patrol- | man were adopted. DEATH RIDES AT THROTTLE Engine of a Berkeley Flyer Kills Hiero Cornell Near the Emeryville Racetrack . 2 Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, Dec. 23. Hiero Cornell, lately from Porter- ville, was killed by a Berkeley local train at 5 o'clock this afternoon as he was crossing the railway tracks near th¢ Judson Iron Works. He was em- ployed at the Emeryville racetrack by E. B. Jennings, but had done a few days’' work at the iron works and was going to the works when the Berkeley fiyer, on its way to the mole, struck him and threw him into the ditch be- side the tracks. His head was crushed and he died before he reéached the Receiving Hospital. The train stopped and picked him up and he was taken | to the mole and transferred to the Seventh-street local and taken off at Broadway. Cornell was about 45 years of age. He was a member of Companion For- esters of America. His home was at Porterville, where he had a child the care of h In his pocket in | ster, Celia Cornell. was a letter rom his of the remains and Cornell’'s family. —_— Sir Knights Will Celebrate. OAKLAND, Dec. Commandery No. 11, Knights Tem- plar, will participate with- California Commandery No. 1 of San Francisco | in a Christmas celebration, which will be held in the Masonic Temple in San Francisco on Monday, December 26.| The members of the local command- ery will assemble at their headquar- ters on Monday morning and will | leave for San Francisco on the 7:45; teiegraphed to ! Captain W. H. Craig. H ———————— t | Majority Jury Verdicts. t Several States have laws permitting | { majority verdicts to be returned by | juries in civil and criminal cases, the I concurrence of from two-thirds to five- sixths of the jurors being necmary.l | The trouble with the present system is that when jurors refuse to saecrifice their convictionsthere is a costly and | unnecessary disagreement. The cause of justice would be served by a two- thirds vote in civil cases and a five- sixths vote in criminal cases. Another | advantage to be gained by the change would be that the corruption of jurors | then would b_e a more elaborate, costiy and danger6us process. — New York 1 | ALAMEDA GODNTY NEF in the Roll of Department |- on of Mayor Olney the| | assertions | Jacobson for a month and was finally | X | Galindo, lice officers and Charles F. McCarthy | ; and Thomas A. Boyle were named as | : sister. Coroner Mehrmann took charge | > 23.—Oekland | 3 parrow gauge train, in command or|.firook1yn » - t | BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083, BERKEL 2148 Center Sircet. Telephone North A MEDA. 1435 Park Street. | — . n \ from the residence of R. M Myrtle street STATE TO By the wi CHILDREN of the directing the remo signs. The directors have erested in the subject to a pbers of the Exchange or not Bartlett | against Jacobson, will be investigated | LU E g by the Police Commi ers. | a_long fliness. Sua acobson and Henderson were called | * tlott, her husban. | before the investigators. There were rrow morning a4 ck at the Oakland Crematory. AD DIES OF INJU Leonard Taynte tuck avenue ing. at which a verdiet of a endered WANT PAR Yecember 23. cidental DON FOR A Miss ( n a pardon from G the belief that lishe liam O'B. Macd dahl (wife of L« 12, Augus $10. nforosa Galindo to Felix B. 50 b W 1 and Height: ast Cak Mary and Frits Miche Benediet, lot on NW and Marfa M. Jones, Margaret as their attorney K Jones) to John P. Hansen, lot on th ner of E Twenty-first 6 by S on Fifty Assoc 150, blocis D, map iates’ Tract, East Oakland H. V. J. and Josephine vain to J. A. Mar- shall, lot on I line of Cherry street, 80 S Maple, S 150 by E 120; lots 9 to 12, block B, map No. 2, Univer Villa Tract, Berkelayf Abner 1. and Ada J. Lowell (wife) to J. W, Reese, lot on E line of Henry street, 270 § of Rose, E 135 by S 30, portion lot 10, block 1o Graves and Tayior Tract, Berkeley; $10. W. Reese (single) to J. R. Wat (married), lot on E line «f Henry stree by S of Rose, § 30 by E 135, being 8 30 fock, Jos 10, block 1. same, Berkeley: $10. Frederic Jesup (or Frederic Jessup Stimson, trustee) to Isaac W. and Ella M. Brrflmm"f. re-record 860 d 17, lot on SE corner of Mapie and Cherry stre: s 9 by E 120, lots 9 to 14, block B, map 3, University Villa Tract in piat V.'and D. Peraita Rancho, Berkeley; $2400. C. Goets (or Carl Goets or Gots), Mrs. ¥. J. (or Frances J.) and P. (or Patrick) Clieve (hus- band) to Oliver W. H. Eariey, lot on N line of Stuart (Moss) street. 200 E of Sacramento, B 40 by N 135, lot 25, block 31. Smith subdivisien, Matthews Tract, Berweley; $10. Eva and George F. Peek (husband) to H. V. J. Swain, lots 86, 61 and 62, map Untversity Villa ’!"iact_ in plat 77, Peralta Rancho, Berke. ley: 310. puise W. B. Kel ish, Berkeley, llogg (widow) to St. Mark's lot on the SW corner Cedar .77, W 138, N 47.88, ® map Martin Kellogs perty Berkeley pre v Hannah Conroy (widow) to Edmund and Nannie E. Maddock, lot on B line of West street S of Seventeenth, § 25 by E 90; portion lof block F, map property North Oakland Homestead Association, Oakland; $10. F. E. and Zetta M. McNear (wife) to Ellen McNear (widow), lot on N line of Caledonia E of Grove street, E 30 by N ;lot 34, map Caledonia Homestead Asso- on, Oakiand: $10. The Realty Syndicate to Pollle Phoebe Smith (single), lot on the SW _cormer, 10 feet, lot 30 and_ all lot 31, map Stanford Tract No. 2, Oakland; $10. Benjamin Healey (single) to Willlam (single), lct on the W line of Wood f Lincoln. N 26 W 102:6, block Boardman's mep, Oakland: $10. seph Wohlfrom (widewer) to Max W. Koe- nig, lot on_the N line of Forty-fcurth E of West, E 50 by N 100, lot Alden_Tract at Temescal, Oak Reller to Harry L. Holeomb, E line of West street, 108 N of T 27 by E 90, loc 6 and port . map 2, \Whiteher Tract, Oakland: $1475. Harry L. and Nyda W. Holcomb to Hans D. Hansen, same, Oakland: $10. ah Ann Lawrence (widow) Nina interest to Kiames! Beaum: in_lot ing. 3. S. and Clare ) to K. Venchiar- utti et al, same. Oakland; $10. We (single) to Buges Br block 1, resul 3 2 Antisell's Berkeley: $10. ugene L. Brock (single) ¢ 10 feet, lot 29, block 1, ley: $10. Katherine Van Iderstine to John Jderstine (single), lot on E line of Fruit dvenue, 100 S of Nicol avenue, S 30 by 150, lot 3, block D, De Welf Tract, Fruitvaie, Township, $10 to Eva O same map, H Van —% FREE FREE PLUM PUDDINGS — , ¥ — MINCE MEAT. WITH SUNDAY CALL SMALL ADS. 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