The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1905, Page 5

SPOTS MAR FACE OF I SUY THEATER ZFHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, I\ PORTLAND The Call to ch 8.—The Colum- “price # ed Monday neocssary 1 David S. Stearns, g for a chance to nd for the past tearns secured the ek. Mayer says he t the company will it is probable a stock house. 1d by A. H. Bal- vire before July 1 t is announced, will empt to distur! anagement until hi papers. e a Inv~ Chloroform Route. Atter civil engineer in Warren Improve- yesterday drank a oform with suicidal in- bulance’ was summoned sent to the Emergency recover. Blatter e for some time. age and lives at the o the Telephone Box Robbed. was forced ight yesterday els and nine en. The thief d a screwdriver, d as evidence tion for cancer of the ng in a critical condition Up-to-date In shape and workmenship. A splendid value. 1 have other high-grade Knives as low as.. WAKT A D have excellent make, from. . STAR fine value. My price ) "Razors honed and ground. Eoning 2 SAPETY B, Regular price $2.00. i1 Mzil orders promptly fllled. THAT MAN PITTS. . PITTS, The Stationer, 1008 MARKET ST.. Ovp. Pifth, SAN FRANCISCO. and | Portland this | | & Sheerin for spreading macadam on e telephone box in the Bohemian | | | | | I | { | | ROBBER ROUTED BY CONDUCTOR Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 8.—A lone high- wayman attempted to hold up an elec- | tric car on the San Jose and Santa Clara electric line near Santa Clara at 10 o'clock to-night. Conductor J. Buck | and Motorman Cavello were in When the car reach- | was signaled and | d aboard. He had hand at his side and | te ‘1 he U\ »ved the gun | . demanding | r life Buck grap- | man and wrenched the " from his hand. He threw the| | highwayman into the corner of the car, | | but before he cquld cover hiny the fel- |low leaped from the cay. Buck sig- | naled the motorman to stop and then jumped from the car and started m‘ pursuit of the man. He fired two! shots at the robber, but the latter| jumped a fence and escaped (hel darkness. A woman and child were the passengers on the car. They were seat- | 2d in front and, with the motorman, knew nothing of the attempted hold-up until the shooting occurred. The highwayman was unmasked, about 30 years of age, wore light pants and had a red mustache. b2 S e | OBJECTS TO BILL FOR GRADING BRUNO ROAD in only Protestant Alleges Fewer Loads of | Macadam Were Furnished Than Charged For. | The Supervisors’ Street Committee vesterday heard the protest of George H. Roundy against the payment of a { bill of $412 30 presented by McHugh | San Bruno avenue. The bill called for 217 loads of macadam, and Roundy alleges that only eighty loads were furnished. The demand was referred | to the Finance Committee for investi- gation. The complaint of the Central’ “Park | Association of the bad condition of the north side of Duboce avenue, which is | obstructed by .falling rocks that are dangerous to passers-by, was refemed to the Board of Works. | The committee reported in é\'or | of dedicating the block on Baker | street, between Golden Gate avenue and Turk street, as a boulevard. | The committee recommended the | | construction of a sewer in Mission street from Onondaga to Porter ave- nue, the cost to be defrayed out of the | sale of sewer bonds. This will permit | of the paving of the street, for which | $80,000 has been appropriated, here- after. The committee decided to require specifications for street work to be filed before authorizing the improve- | ment. | The petition of Rosenberg Brothers | for a spur track permit on Japan | street to connect with the Southern | Pacific Company’s tracks was laid over for one week to give property- | owners a chance to be heard in the | matter. | —_———— HEART DISEASE TAKES | A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN ' | | Michael Meagles, Who Has Been a| Faithful Worker at Golden Gate | Park, Succumbs. | Michael Meagles, who had for thef lpsu thirty-three years been employed 'as a carpenter at Golden Gate Park, died early yesterday morning at his home, 2520 Post street, from heart trou- ble. Mr. Meagles had been ill but a few days and his death was unexpected. A widow and eight children survive him. Perhaps no other man has done any { more in the building of Golden Gate Park than Michael Meagles did. He drove the first nail on the fence when the ground for the park was selected. During his long career in this position he missed but few days from his duty. Meagles was a veteran of the Indian war and also performed local duty dur- in the Civil War. He was a native of Queens County. Ireland, and was 64 years old. He was a member of Hercules Lodge No. 53, Anclent Order of United Workmen. The funeral services will take place Friday morning and the remains will be in- terred in the National Cemetery. —————— VERDICT OPF \SUICIDE GEVEN.—Cdroner Leland held inquests vesterday ‘upon the body of Hart Greensfelder. who shot himself through the head at 2123 Pine street, on February 26, and on Joseph Flannigan, who swallowed ca bolic acid at 1418% Pacific street on Februa 27, In both cases verdicts of rmuicide while temporarily insane” were rend: | spots. | comes more or less opposite our earth BRIGHT SOL. e Can Be Observed| With @ Small Telescope. | Seen on Eastern| Limb of the Great Orb, BY EDWARD IRVING. AUTHOR OF “HOW TO KNOW THE STARRY HEAVENS." For some little time past there has been an unusually fine assortment of dark spots drifting across the visible surface of our sun, as it slowly rotates on its axis. Those who have been re- | cently watching the sun with their telescopes have been rewarded by an ever shifting panorama of sunspots, as | one group after another came into . sight on the left or eastern limb, pass- | ed in review across the disk and disap- | peared around the western edge. Judging by previous experience, the present sunspot epidemic will not last ' very much longer. The freckled face | of the orb of day is liable at any time | to change into a spotless disk of al-! most uniform brightness. It will be well, therefore, for all who ! a interested in the welfare of the giant globe whose radiant energy ! keeps our world alive, to give an oc- casjonal glance in its direction with | any suitable instrument that may be at hand. Even a small telescope pro- vided with a dark glass will give in- teresting views of the drifting sun- Most of the spots are In irregular | | groups or clusters, the individual spots | | breaking out, enlarging, and merging | into one another; or splitting up and | growing smaller, until they finally' close over and disappear. H The dark spots in each group are all | surrounded and connected by a less dark shading which is known as the penumbra. There are also brilliant | white clouds or faculoe scattered about | in the neighborhood of the dark sun- spots. It takes the sun about twenty-five | days to turn completely round on its| axis. The earth goes round the\sun| in the same direction, so that if the periods were equal, the spots and groups of spots would appear to go through their various = maneuvers without changing their places to any great extent on the sun's disk. But as a matter of fact we take a whole vear to go around the sun, while it rotates on its axis in about twenty- five days. Each group of spots, there- | fore, if it lasts for any length of time, or there- | every twenty-seven days, about. The visible part of the sun, on which these sunspots occasionally make their | appearance, is a spherical mass of luminous clouds, enveloping the entire | body of the sun and hiding its dense and superheated gases from our sight. From the intense heat and’light thrown | out by this cloud-sphere it may readllys be inferred that its clouds do not con- | sist of condensed water-gas, like the clouds which sometimes fill our earthly skies. They consist of similar con- densations of the dense metallic gases which constitute the main body of the sun beneath them. What we see of the sun is therefore a layer of clouds com- posed of small liquid drops of the u combined chemical elements, both me- tallic and non-metallic. These drops have been condensed, by their exposure to the cold of outer space, from the hot elementary gases of which the sun is composed. METALLIC CLOUDS. ! From the globular shape and intense | brilliancy of this enveloping layer of metallic clouds, it is known to u(ron«- omers as the solar photosphere or | light-globe. It is this photosphere that we refer to when we Bay that we can see the sun, | The sunspot freckels, which occasion- | ally disfigure the surface of this visible | phmosphere make their appearance somewhat periodically, their maximum of frequency being about every eleven years. They are confined almost en- ! tirely to a broad belt on each side of the solar equator. These two sunspot zones .correspond fairly well with the earthly zones which we term the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Sunspots appear to be due to violent and sometimes cyclonic uprushes of in- visible supeérheated gas from the in- tensely hot interior of the sun. They temporarily force back the clouds com- posing the photosphere and cause them to pile one on the other in erupiive- looking cloud banks. As the ascending gases are less luminous than the photo- spheric clouds around them, they as- sume the appearance of dark patches or blotches surrounded by lighter shad- ings, with the bright photospheric cloud banks outside. The bright sphere which we call the * sun is ahout 864,000 miles across. A cluster of sunspots is often 50,000 to | 100,000 miles long and wide. Single spots are sometimes 50,000 miles across, | with a dark central nucleus 30,000 miles ' wide. Thus a spot as large as our| world wbuld be too small to attract much attention, when seen from the earth, 93,000,000 miles away. . Sunsvots are intimately connected with the earthly phenomena known as the aurora borealls, or northern lights. | Also with what are called magneuc‘ storms, affecting our electric lighting, | telegraph, cable and telephone systems. | The invisible torrent of finely divided matter which is continually ejected’ from a sunsnot appears to be strongly | charged with electricity. Its particles are so extremely small that the pres-. sure of light from the sun overpowers | the the solar gravitation and prevents | them from falling back to the. sun when the original impetus is exhaust- ed. They therefore keep on ascending ! until they finally leave the solar sys-' tem behind. If (he sun did not votate this finely | divided material would shoot straight out into space like a huge fountain or| jet of steam. But owing to the solar rotation it is bent back into a spiral form, like that of a watch spring or of a Catherine wheel. INVISIBLE SPIRAL. 4 This invisible spiral of electrically charged matter is continually enlarg- ing. When any part of It strikes the earth it produces the various electrical phenomena already mentioned. Our “‘magnetic storms” generally arrive about twenty-six hours after a sun spot has come opposite the earth, and similar magnetic disturbances are lia- ble to occur subsequently at intervals of about twenty-seven days until the outrush of electrically charged mate- rial has ceased. This is often long after the sunspot from which it was ejected has dwindled away and died nm. tele- scopically. These intervals of ubmxt '!wenty- f a score of women, some of them of con- | ! weeks cleaned up nenrly $3000 by vic-. | women. i Carpentar yesterday | capital operation. j desertion. i the Yoell will contest, which has been | | missed. | seven days are, of course, due to the HOMEN VICTINS OF A SWINDLER Talk of Love and the Race Horses Soon = Separates Them From Their Money GRAB AT BIG PROFITS Los Angeles People Invest in New Get-Rich-Quick% Concern to Their Sorrow ! ———— Epecial Pispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 8.—More than i siderable prominence, are mourning the disappearance of a dapper young fellow who was known here as J. S. Smith, and who during the past three timizing people in a °get-rich-quick game. Nearly all of his victims are! Smith played no favorites and as a diversion made love to Miss Carrie Car- | ter and was soon engaged to marry her. She learned of his business enter- | prise and desiring to profit thereby ! | gave him $300 to invest for her. telling | ! him that the profits would be sufficient ! for them to furnish their prospective home. He took the money, but the profits have not been forthcoming. His game was very simple. He ad- vertised that he would pay 10 per cent’ !a month interest on investments for more than $100, and stated that his plan ' could not be beaten. He invited corre- spondence or personal investigation. | When a vigtim called upon him he rep- , resented that he had-an infallible sys-' tem of beating the races. and in order to convince a victim he would offer to place a small bet. This invariably | won and resulted in a larger invest- | ment next time. Having gained the confidence of his victims it was easy ! for him to get what money the victim had. Fgr a month he paid the 10 per cent dividend, using a portion of the capital intrusted to him, but when his bank roll approached the $3000 mark he departed. It is supposed he went to San Francisco, and the authorities there have been requested to look out for him. e WIFE WINS COUNTER SUIT FOR DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND Harry Carpentar, Charging Desertion, Is Sued by Spouse for Cruelty and Loses. The tables were reversed on Harry in Judge Gra- ham’s court, when after praying for a divorce from his wife, Fredda Car- pentar, on the ground of desertion, she was given a divorce from him on the ground of cruelty and penurious- ness. The couple have a child. In the cross-complaint upon which ! Mrs. Carpentar obtained her divorce she told of the cruelty of her husband | and showed marks upon her wrist and arms where, she said, he had grasped her. When asked by Judge Graham if he gave her money, she said he had, | adding that the amounts never exceed- | ed 10 cents. Judge Graham also granted a di- |vcrce to E. W. Dixon from her hus- ! band, George A. Dixon, on the zround‘ of cruelty. Several suits” for “divorce were flledi yesterday in the County Clerk’s office. | Emma Vialard asks for a divorce | from her husband, Albert Vialard, on | the ground of cruelty. She says he twisted her arms, beat and kicked her when she was weak after undergoing a She asks for a re- straining order to prevent his dispos- ing of his savings, Sarah E. Warren wants treedom¢ from Andrew J. Warren for non-sup- | pert and desertion; Marie Detlof from Christian Detlof for desertion and ' Jeremiah Sullivan from May Sullivan, | Sullivan asks for the cus- | tody of one child. —_———— COUNSEL FOR PROPONENTS REST IN YOELL CASE Testimony in Rebuttal Will Be Brought by Contestants and Suit i Will Soon Be Argued. i The testimony for the proponents in i H mm-w. ERERRY ERRRR ERRY RRRRRERRRR ARRRRR RRRER RN KRR R RRRRRR mmummn RREREERRER RRRRRR RRRRRRREY, RRRRRRVRRE RRRRRY up for hearing in Judge Kerrig&n!; court for several weeks, is finally in and the counsel for the contestants spent all day yesterday in rebutting | previous testimony. H But one witness, Samuel G. Buck- | bee, was called to' the stand, but the | pcint needing his testimony was finally | argued between counsel without the| witness testifying. To-day the attor- | neys will argue on the insolvency fea- ! ture of the case and several warm de- i bates betwen counsel are anticipated. ! The depositions filed in the case are , those of Edward J. McLaughlin, a banker of Santa Clara, and Samuel G. ' Tompkins, an attorney of San Jose. Tompkins told in his deposition of the visit 'made by Mrs. Yoell while en- deavoring to secure a loan on a deed to valuable property that she said ; Ycell had given her. The loan was re- | fused when Mrs. Yoell would not per- mit the deed to be recorded. Passes a Fictitious Check. William J. Boradori of Frank B. Peterson & Co., wholesale grocers, 52 California street, obtained a warrant | from Police Judge Conlan yesterday | for the arrest of “John Doe” on a | charge of uttering and passing a' fictitious check. On March 4 a man | representing himself as J. D, Sunol called at the flrma office to pay an account of $22. He gave a check for! $42 on the ‘Anglo-Californian _ Bank purporting to be signed by J. Nathan &;, and received the balance of 520. The man was not Sunol and the check was worthless. Detective \sfhibaker is searching for ‘‘John 0e.” — Asks Court to Dismiss Action, J. A. Drinkhouse & Co. in answer to the complaint of the Blackwell's Dur- ham Tobacco Company claims that the action against it should be dismissed on the ground that the Durham Com- pany, which is a corporation, has fail- | ed to file the necessary certificate of | incorporation with the Secretary of | State and asked that the action be dis- 3 — fact that it takes the sun that length of time to rotate sufficiently to bring the sunspots once more opposite to the earth. a - The perfodic s ion of. magnetic storms and the exact nature of their connection with sunspots are qulte re- cent discoveries made by E. Walter Maunder of Greenwich Observatory, England. - They throw light on a num- ber of what were prevlo\xuly inexplica- ble phenomena. : Berkeley, Cal., llmh 8, 1“ ——-——o-.-q——-“ Sale of paintings at the Gump Collae— 3 tion commences thl- qvenlu‘ THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905. THE ~EMPORIUM. ! I THE EMPORIUM. THE EMPORIUM. RERE RRRERVRERR RERRRE RERER, RERRERR RRY RERR RRRRERERRR RREIERRE LXZRRERRRR RRRERR RRRRY, could be shown the first day. Cutlery Jewelry Silverware Flatware Brushes Combs hundreds of them. Beginning this morning : 29-Inch Silk Pongee—A beautiful soft mestic manufacture that is a unlmg good S tailer; per yad . . . . e substantial wear; retailed in m-ny $1. 2!“ our sale price - extra weij wanted, this $1.38 quality, yard . satin-striped _batistes, Palazzo fancies, neat E S Lonsdale, to-day, per yard Men’s and Y ouths’ Vests 75¢ $1.50 to $2.00 Values A maker's surplus stock of all-wool cloth vests, in plaids and mixtures; also blue and black serges and cheviots in the smaller sizes; just the thing to brighten up an old suit; at half pm:e and less beginning this orning, your choice !\:‘rhflelh‘elot lasts; each 7 50 Curtain Sale Housekeepers, attention A great quantity of choice new Nottingham Lace Curtains, in white, ecru and Arabian color, are on sale this week at these prices: $1.25 Curtains, pr - 88e $1.35 Curtains, pr - 99¢ $1.75 Curtains, pr $7.29 $2.50 Curtains, pr $7.95 36 lncll Black Peau de Sole—All pure n]k a fabric that 36-Inch Black Tlfletl—The Emponum-mnnud taffeta, ht, glove finish; nnwwhmuumoq New Wash Goods 15¢ On I tables in the wash goods section to-day, fine, special iyt d-mty dots, fine white dotted swisses; allof them new, season. onable and stylish goods, at the uniform price, per yd. 10c Cambric—The fine yard-wide cambric, fully eqllll to 7% - Bhe Great Sale of the Will @ Finck Co. Stock At About Half Price Now in progress. Enormous crowds in attendance yesterday. upon as promptly as we should have liked; but we'll try to do better to-day. have been engaged and additional room provided for the special The “’lfim Housefurnishings Leather Goods Barbers® Supplies Musical Instruments Celluloid Goods Small Furniture Traveling Bags, Glassware, Efc., Ek. L DDA B B0 & Great Sale Sample Skirts Beginning this morning, we offer an extraordinary and timely purchase of a manufacturer’s samples and surplus stock of Walking and Dress Skirts— broadcloths, mohairs, silks, voiles, Panamas, cheviots and mixtures—several Cosmetics Mirrors Razors Corsets $5.00, $7.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $|500 values—enough, probably to last out . the balance of the week; but choicest ones will be ™ tunity to save 50c on the dollar in buying youx new Spring Skirts, for we have marked $2.95, $3.95, $5.00, $7.50 M&LM\ BRSNS Silk Pongee 63c And Two Qther Big Specials It will be a lively day in the silk section with staple, much-wanted weaves of silk marked at prices like these. finish pongee of do- - 63e e 8856 $1.05 l5e Tuxedo Veilings For Spring Forty new maha; actually forty of these curious and beautiful geo- metrical designs that are entirely new and different from any we the ve g Some , some dottcd the col- oub he,bmwnwnvy.lldllh 250--500 Couch Covers 3 Under Value Awen,he t alllnx.IOnshl fringed r; pgaop vk oy Szm(hnn.urh $2.50 Covers, each . $325 Cayos: each . - $1.49 - $1.69 - $2.18 CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST- Many customers did not get waited goods, only a small of which & Finck goods on sale consist of : o Totlet Articles Rubber Goods picked out first, of course—a great More salespeople Books Notions Baskets Games Stationery Trunks N d them AAAA AAAS AARAR AAZAAA AAXAAARARA ARARAAAAAAARAARAAN WAL AAN AAARR AR AR S AR AN S A Wrappers $1.10 Two lots of 1905 lawn and Lenten Groceries Ligquor Specials These for Thursday Only Puree de Fole Gras—$1.25 jar Puree de Foie Gras—25c tin. . . oym.—amzxc«. —I-. AR AAARAAAAAAA RRARAA AR AR ARAAAA AAARAALRRARARAR ARRAARAAR S AAARRARAN AR AR A AMERICA'S GRANDEST STORE REAR ADMIRAL HOUSTON DIES IN SWITZERLAND LANCASTER, Ohio, March 8.—A private cablegram received here an- nounces the death at Lausanne, Switzerland, of Rear Admiral Edwin S. Houston, U. S. N., retired, aged 60 years. He was sojourmng in Switzer- land for his heslth. O RAILROAD OFFICIAL DIES AT HOME IN BERKELEY Benton H. Langley Passes Away Af- ter Long Service in Corpora- tion’s Imterests. BERKELEY, March 8.—Benton H. Langley, agent on the Pacific Coast for the Panama Railroad Company, died last night at his residence, 2301 Cedar avenue. He was 63 years old. Death resulted from . a complication of dis-| eases. Mr. Langley had been the rep- | resentative of the Panama corporation in San Francisco for three years. He lLegan his career in railroading when twelve years old, working in Minnesota fér the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company. He was with that corporation for t,hh-ty years, attaining there the posi- tion of division freight and passenger agent. He later became passenger l‘ent of the Montana Central, a branch of the Great Northern line, and after that was connected with the Panama Company. - He was a prominent Mason, having been eminent Grand Com- mander of the Knights Templar of Min- nesota for two terms, a Mystic Shriner and a thirty-second degree Scottish rite Mason. He is survived by a widow and two children. $ ——— _Dies Far From Home. OAKLAND March 8.—Dr. J. A-fin 7 {ed on for appendicitis. Miller, a well known physician of West Oakland, died in ,Houston, Texas, on February 24, and the remains were interred at Avalon, Texas. Dr. Miller's death was caused by pneumonia, con- tracted on February 17. His wife and children were with him at the time of his death. ks S President’s Secretary Dies. Juan Antonio Sifontes, cousin and private secretary of President Rega- lada of Salvador, who arrived here about a week ago and engaged rooms at the Palace Hotel, died yesterday in a private hospital, after being operat- Sifontes had been ailing for several months and came to this country on the advice of his physician in San Salvador. Sev- eral days ago he called to his assist- ance Dr. E. Calderon, who prescribed for the patient, but the latter failed to follow the advice and a few days ag® he was forced to go to the hospital, where he submitted to the surgeon's knife. He died at 12:30 yesterday afternoon. The body has been turned over to a local undertaker, who is awaliting instructions from Salvador. Sifontes was 32 years old and was a prosperous coffee planter. ey it ‘Wealthy New Yorker Dies. NEW YORK, March 3.—Henry Bar- clay, millionaire clubman and sports- man and vice president and trustee of the Barclay Realty Company of New York, died to-day, aged 61 years. S — P G — There are men who finally consent to go to work when they can't make a living in any other way. NEW NEWBRO’S GOINGT Delightiuily fragrant. Cooling to scalp. Stops liching instantly. remedy that “'kilis the Dandruif Qerm." ING !t GONE ! HERPICIDE