The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1905, Page 6

6 ’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1905. = OF NEWS AWAY BURGLAR Pursues Thief Whom She Surprises as He Is About to Make Raid on Dwelling - WIFE ALONE IN HOU\'E[ Mrs, L. S. Church Confronts a Prowler at Night and Drives Him Out of Home —A woman's ar last night oin 8. Church x & Church, 56 woman is the who stood her ng intruder rightened o gather up s lares and away from 9 o'clock Mrs. ade no re- later was e by e crash of the house. She lighted the lar, who was the kitchen urch made see the fug darkness. Satis- tven off the thief, locked wup the STUDENTS WHO ARE TO SPEAK FOR COLLEGES nt has es thet Sapta ). w of is year from of the ter made t the sociated e ter y the lofst en 4 & tion, the student expected vietory boating coach, E. n; Ebenezer rank Clarke: ly. : Mar- Harold Plummer liis; Helma, Mark ———— WOMAN ATTACKS OFFICERS. OAKLAND, April 18.—Armed with g2 with which she threat- ened to kill the first man who en- tered her house, Mrs. Ellen Lellever, residing on Thirty-ninth $treet, gave e to C table H. T. Hemstead H e to-day, when they at- ipted to take a stove from <her he enraged woman was dis- striking Hemstead a v on the head, and the belongs to William M. n hoe —_—————— BANQUET FORMER PASTOR. ALAMEDA, April 13.—Rev. W. W. ~ é r. and wife were tendered and banquet this evening ibers of the First Congre- h, of which Mr. 8cud- 3 ormerly pastor. The festal olee were spread in the assembly hall of th ew church, which will be cated next Sunday. ty persons participated and banquet, which wer Hitchecock, pastor of the church. - D — ADVERTISEMENTS. Stomacfi'Disem mEANS § Discard Injurious Drugs vee A Harmless Powerful Germicide Endorsed by Leading Physicians. Send twenfy-five cents to pay postage on Free Trial Bottle. Sold by leading druggists, NOT GENUINE WITHOUT MY SIGRATURE: O clotigtagtnt €10 PRINCE ST., NEW YORK. WRITE rOR Faex BOOKLET O RATIONAL TREATMENT oF Distase. he ringing of | Two | by the Rev. L. Po!ter, OAKLAND, April 18.—After hearing | many witnesses and listening to much family history, Judge Henry Melvin jand Drs. O. D. Hamlin and Susan J. Fenton decided that Miss .Alice B. { Courtwright, daughter of Rev. C. W. | Courtwright, a retired East Oakland minister, is insane and she was com-| mitted to Napa Insane Asylum to-day. Her affliction shows itself principally through her talk abouts her family, !whom she has accused’ of disgraceful | lacts. Her father cried in giving his | testimony against her. A determined effort is being made on | the part of the young woman to save herself, and H. G. Walker, her attor- ney, has filed exceptions to the judg-, | ment of the court and in the morning will ask a jury trial. If it is denled he states he will begin habeas corpus procecdings. ! Doctors are divided in their opinions {@bout the woman's sanity, and allo- | paths and homeopaths found another | rock to split upon. Drs. N. A. Cham- | berlain and Clarence Selfridge main-| tained the woman is sane, while Drs. | L. L. Riggin and A, Shirk, the allo- aths, swore that she’is insane. | She was found to t» insane at Chi- cago a couple of years ago, but friends': stepped in and got the court to allow | them to take her. She got away trom" them. Owing to the charges made by | the young womar against her family | the matter has attracted considerable | attention. 3 ¥ IAYOR CONFERS WITH. OFFICERS OAKLAND, April 18.—Mayor Frank | | X. Mott inaugurated to-day at the City Hall @ cabinet of city officials, which | | shall meet as occasion requires for gen- | } eral discussion and formulation of poli- Aged Father of the Young Woman Weeps While Testifying Against Her. 'Doctors Called in Case Differ Widely as to Patient’s Mental Balance. PROTEST ADE ICAINST FEES iStudents of University Ob- ject to Tax Put Upon Them by the Authorities BERKELEY, April 18.—The attempt partly empty exchequer by doubling the fees paid by students in the en- gineering colleges and by more than doubling the gymnasium fee exacted of students is not to be carried out without a serious protest from the col- lege men affected. To-day & petition addressed to the autborities of the institution was cir- culated on the campus in which the al- leged injustice of the proposed action was referred to and the desirability of rescinding the order of the authorities was explained. Scores of names were promptly attached to the document, | and in & few days it will be filed with the powers in control of the university. Prominent students who are familiar with the affairs of the colleges here profess to see in this latest increase of students’ fees the last straw upon the camel's back. They declare that it is unjust to arbitrarily add to the burden of the engineering students with a 100 I'per cent increase of the fee exacted from them. The money thus secured is supposed to cover the wear and tear and injuries sustained by apparatus the embryo engineers use. Last year about 800 of these students paid the $5 fee be- fore going to the summer school at of the university authoritfes to- fill ‘sumvefllty police staff this morning | Santa Cruz, where practical work re- cies to control the municipal adminis- | tration. Those who took part to-day in cElroy, City Engineer Turner, Auditor Breed, City Treasurer Bates; George Fitzgerald, president of | City Council; Edwin Meese, chairman of the Council Finance Committee, and | The general condition of the city was | glven consideration, plans for immedi- | ate action along lines of public im- provement being freely discussed. clals that there should be no delay in | furthering street work wherever need- ed, and that the policy should be main- tained of pressing such betterments as | rapidly as possible. City Auditor Breed gave a general statement con- erning the public funds and presented an approximation of what would be avaflable during the next fiscal year. | By the interchange of views the heads prized and | of the various departments expect to | | keep in close touch with each other | during the present term, and to make | the cabinet meetings an important fac- tor in the harmonious administratjon of J public affairs. 2| " The Mayor expressed himself as well satisfied with the results of the first session, particularly as the plan re- ceived the unanimous suport of the of- | ficials in attendance. G e VICIOUS HORSE ATTACKS A BOY OAKLAND, April 13.—A vicious stal- lion grabbed Herbert McAuley of 4897 Shattuck avenue by the thigh to-day and ehook hirh and had to be beaten | over the head before it would loosen | its hold on its victim. The horse hung | on with the tenacity of a bull dog. Mec- Auley’s father, attracted by cries, struck the horse on the head with a heavy monkey wrench in order to make it let go. McAuley fs 17 years of age and drives the horse each day from their home to his father’s blacksmith shop at Sixth and Franklin streets. To- day, in going Into the stall, the horse tried to crowd him and when he hit it with his hand to make it step over it 'grabbed him with his teeth and shook {him like a rat. The boy was taken to the Receiving Hospital, whare it was found his thigh was badly lacerated and the muscies bruised and bleeding. —— A —— PIONEER WOMAN PASSES AWAY. OAKLAND, April 13.—After a res- idence of more than half a ‘century in Calfornia, Mrs. Mercy T. Hatch, one of the best known pioneer women of this c'ty, dled to-day at he: home, 1221 Myrtle street, 92 years of agc. Mrs. Hetch was the widow of the late Asa D. Hatch, who was p-ominently identified with the early politicai his- tory of California, having besn the chairman of the first Repub'icaa con- | veation ever held in the State. Mrs. Fatch was a native. of Maine anc was born June 28, 1813, she came to California in a sailing vossel, | which came around the Hora, arriv- ing in San Francisco on April 7, 1858, The family resided in. that city until May, 1875, when they. came to Oak- land, where Mrs, Hatch has resided ever smoe. Y The deceased was the mother of T. H. Hetch of Alameda and C. i3, F. A., Miss Emma and Miss Minnie L. Hatch of this city. She was also: the grand- mcther of Mrs. Asa V. Mend2phail, the wife of a well known attorney of Oakland. ———— e —— “CONDUCTOR'S ASSAILANTS GUILTY.— Oskland, April 13.—Bdward R. Williams, Job Tubman Jr. and Joseph Connolly, three of the four men who attacked and beat C. V. Gard. ner, & conductor empioyed by the Tract pany, on , were con- | victed of battery in 1 of the Po- lice Court to-day, and will be sentenced to- morrow. Herman Peller, the fourth member of the crowd, of was found not gullty and dis- ———— MUST PROTECT CT 'ARKS.—Oakland, Apri] 15, Public. pasks. shasl macbe as temporary abiding places of public #chool bufldings pending construction of new edifices | L2CtUTE &ypsum_into p mill will be built near the Santa Fe| on the ol sites, in inion city’s law department -mrm T ol deed in the elty's archives which & &b-u-uulormrkw |‘Alexander McAdam, chairman ‘of “the | | Council ‘Street Committee. 1 e same sort of school is to be op- | erated, and students declare their be- | Hef that its success will be madterially | endangered if the $10 tax is insisted pon. | The charge of $3 for gymnasium pur- poses affects all students. Until thias year only those who took gymnasium work paid, and the charge was $1. Now | all must pay, whether they take gym- lna;lum work or not, and the charge is $3. | The Regents at thelr meeting a few days ago were informed by their fin- ance committee that the university’'s income this year is to be less than hith- | erto owing to change in the Btate's as- | sessment figures, upon which a large | share of the institution’s income de- |'pends. Economy, therefore, was or- | dered, and with the economy ordered | has come the added tax put upon the | university students. | Students at the university now pay | an armory locker fee, a medical exam- | ination fee, & military uniform fee, sem-'| |inary room fee, delayed registration fee, | special examination fee, re-examination | fee and a special fee for non-residents. CONDEMNS HOME OF 0LD LADY OAKLAND, April 13.—Surrounded by rats and flith, unwilling’ to voluntarily abandon her hovel that she called home, Mary Eilliott, a negress, reputed to be more than 100 years old, has been taken in hand by the Board of Health, and her wretched quarters in a barn at Twenty-second and Linden streets have been condemned as unfit for human habitation. This drastic step has been taken be- cause the aged occupant of the miser- able hut has resisted for months ef- forts of charitably disposed persons to better her condition. Attempts to in- duce the centenarian to leave utterly falled. She persisted that here was her home, for which she paid rent, and none had the power to dispossess her. De- spite her years the old woman's mind with the same argument. Her friends gave up in despair at last and appealed to the authorities. 3 Concerning herself Mrs, Elliott is si- her life, only deflaring that she has passed the century mark. Among her acquaintances her extreme age has been a subject of much discussion, and ences seem to verify her claims. £ ———t y DENY PLACING A PRICE ON HEAD OF CHIN JACK | 3£ Oikiand; Members of the Seattle Chinese Fra- teriity Say There Is No Truth ‘in Interpreter’s Story. fraternity have made a public state- ment acknowledging that they offered a reward of $50 for information es- ‘tablishing the identity of alleged Chi- nese spies in employ of the Gov- ernment immigration o intend- ing, they say, to expel such tes from membership in the er flKG‘] proved.to be members. deny, however, that a circular was ‘issued | placing a price of $1000 on the head of Chin Jack, local Chinese interpre- ter, as reported on information fur- nished by Chin Jack.: ——— BEDS OF GYPSUM - 7 AMBOY, April 13.—Large beds of| gypsum have been discovered near owners will install a plant to manu- laster. station and a tramway laid from' the quiring the use of a great deal of ex-|sults. the initlal meeting were City-Attorney | pensive apparatus is done. This year| g — ——— City | is clear and she has met all advances | JudE¢ lent. She refuses to tell the story of |{ occasional remarks about her experi- |$35,000. Apri] SEATTLE, Wash.,, April 13.—Mem- | 3 bers of the Seattle Chinese Masonic lfim Vista avent Qu | bearers Jr., Wil 'THE COUNTIES ABO [y Miss OURTWRIGHT FOUNDICATCI AN O NEV EDIFICE CHILDREN JOIN- PLAN STREET INSULTS C0-EDS| FOR SAN MATEO| JUNIOR LEAGUE| IMPROVEMENTS University Girls ' Breathe Easier Now That Police Have “Hugger” in Custody STUDENTS GIVE ALARM Boarding-House Inmates De- teet Berni Ameda in- Act of Accosting the Women RKE. BE] the university breathe easier now that the police have in custody the man who has created a miniature reign of terror during;the last few days in the vicinity of Hearst Hall, where the women stu- dents most do congregate. Berni Ameda, a middle-aged man, ‘Who says his residence is at 333 Vallejo street, in San Francisco, was taken into custody by Officers Watson and Edgar of the after a call for police aid had been sent in by friends of some of the frightened ‘women students. > A mysterious ‘“Jack the hugger” type of individual has been haunting the campus for a week, lurking in the by- ways and screened paths of the univer- sity grounds, accosting ‘co-eds” as they passed him and in several in- stances attempted to embrace them. The university police were informed of the strange man’s actions and have been keeping a close watch for him. To-day & number of students in the Walworth, a boarding-house near Hearst Hall, observed Ameda accost women students as they passed him, and judging from the flight of the “co- eds” immediately after meeting the stranger the Walworth House inmates decided that the “hugger” individual was in a position to be captured. A hurry call to the police brought Edgar and Watson to the scene and they gave chase to Ameda. The man ran several blocks, but was finally cap- tured. He sald that he came over on the 7:30 o'clock boat from San Fran- oisco to gather pond llies in Co-ed Canyon. He was arrested at 11 o’clock, and at that time had made no éffort apparently to get Mlies. He will be held pending investigation of the case and {identification of the stranger by “co- eds” who have suffered from his in- DOES SPLENDID WORK_ FOR CITY 'OAXLAND, 'April 13—The annual meeting and-election of officers of the Oakland Board of Trade will be held next Tuesday evening at the headquar- ters of the organization, -510 Twelfth street, at which time the annual re- ports of the president and secretary will be submitted for the roval of the members and directors. C. Cap- well, the president of the “Board of Trade, has spared no effort to increase the efficiency of the organization dur- ing the last year, and he has every rea- son to be satisfled with the progress made during his administration. The annual repert of Secretary Ed- win Stearns shows that in the last year the Board of Trade has distributed more than 300,000 illustrated booklets and other pieces of literature descrip- tive of Oakland and Alameda County to inquirers in the Eastern States and in Europe. By means of the “All Day for a Dollar” excursions more than 1700 strangers have been induced to visit this city, and many of these have since become permanent residents. The Board of Trade has also rendered valuable aid in getting an appropria- tion of $350,000 for the improvement of Oakland harbor, and has, through the work of its secretary, been largely the means of locating many new manufac- turing enterprises in Oakland, which have since become important factors in the commercial life of the community. ALANEDA COTNTY NER ‘WEDS HIS ACCUSER.—Oakland, 13 Joseph Perry, 10 years old, residing at/ 668 Bast Sixteenth street, was married to-day to Miss Sarah Ward, yeays old, who had caused his arvest. SALOONMAN FORFEITS BAIL. April 18.—J, P. Bettencourt, an Hast Oak- land saloon-keeper, forfeited $50 bail in the Police Court to-day on & of violating the midnight closing ordinsnos. 8.—Oakland, 1 18, FAILS IN CHARG Agp P dge S. P, Hall to-day denied ’:.“" 3 Slvorse Lo o it s tn U Fo. clu.r('::“hnfl not been sustained &nd were trivial to warraht & decree. BUSINESS PBOP% SOLD.. it sales it yeaf was con- summated when Alfred W. Gates & busi- nes lot on the corner of Thirteenth Frank- lin streets to Bdward McGary and Thomas Hansom of Con Costa Water Company and_Antone Clecak. purchase price was MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakland, April 15 oy e oy e tonday . Anione B C r : * (Bt tin Sy o 10 both or Oakland; Le ‘Hoy I Brown, and Emily Flora, 17, both .‘fi Manuel D. Ferry, 26, and Jennle 19, both of Niles, . . LB LAID AT REST.—Oakland, funeral of Mrs, BUC. oule; esday, was to-day from thl?iunflv at 160 belng con- 1 suc ‘Silva, over :80 p._m, by the Rav“‘b.%' ‘Walkley, & Dieckman, B. “Slubbs, Harry Baker, B, Wards, Bernard Ransome, Roy Macdenald and Lawrence Harris. BANK FOR —Cen- terville, April 13.—Senator J. G. Mattos and a number of well-known business mem of this section ‘have for the and savings entire establ] nk Do At Centerviiie, “and “the capital stock has been %mfl‘w and s 1 San WILL April LEY, April 18.—“Co-eds” of ; §! ; Cornerstone of First Metho-{San Rafael School Pupils dist Episcopal Church Laid| Promise to Assist in the With - Fitting Ceremonies MANY, PASTORS ATTEND Rev. E. R. Dille of Oakland Delivers an Address Ap- propriate to the Oecasion Boecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN MATEO, April 13.—The cor- nerstone of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church of this city was laid to-day with appropriate ceremony. Rev. Samuel Quickmire, pastor of the church, presided and was assisted by several other well-known clergymen. The ritual of the Methodist church was used. Rev. W. Kent, pastor of the M. H. Church in Redwood City, read the opening statement, and the Rev. James H. N. Williams, pastor of Simpsdn Memorial M. B. Church in San Francisco, read the prayer and ‘the Scripture lesson. Rev. E. R. Dille, D. D, pastor of the First M. E. Church in Oakland, delivered the ad- dress on the t “Behold I lay in you for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone. He that belleveth shall not make haste.” The benediction was pronounced by the Rev. €; H. Kirkbride. 10 MEN DIE [N NARA RIVER Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, April 13.—Peter Costa, who resided near Yountville, and Roma da Col, a young San Franciscan who was visiting Costa, were drowned In the Napa River late Wednesday night. Their bodies were recover#d this morn- ing. Costa and Da Col, with another young man who worked on the McFar- land place, spent Wednesday together near Yountville. In the evening they went down to. the river and got in an old rowboat. Costa and DaTCol intend- ed taking their companion across the river to his place of work. When they got Into-the boat it rapidly filled with water and Costa .and Da Col fell over- board. They were unable to swim and the current being swift they were car- ried off and drowned. Their companion managed to paddle .to the shore. At midnight he notified the household of J. L. Webber, who lives near by, of the fate of Costa and Da Col. Early this morning the neighbors commenced to drag the river for the bodies and finally succeeded in raising them. -_—_- - % MEETS DEATH NDER ENGINE Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, April 18 — Charles P. Vanekers, an inspector of the Santa Fe, was crushed to death to- day by a locomotive at the Needles. Vanekers had gone under the engine to repair some defective part when the enginer started it up after giving three blasts ou the whistle. Vanekers failed to crawl out in time and was caught under the firebox and fatally crushed. e e——————— PORTLAND, Ore., April 13.—It is announced that combined effort of the heavy shippers of Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, through the organization of the North Pacific Jobbers’ and Man- ufacturers’ Assoclation, has resulted In recognition by the railroads of the justice of the demands made for re- vision of distributive rates. Reduc- tions to become effective in about two months have been promised by the traffic representatives of trans- continental lines, as follows: On first and second class, about 10 er cent; third 'class, unchanged; 'ourth class, about 2° per cent; and fifth class, about 15 per cent. R — GOLD NUGGETS FOR GUESTS . AT WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. L. Meecham of Barstow Surprise Their Friends After ” a Banauet. BARSTOW, April 13.—Gold nug- gets for guests was the unusual fea- ture of the first wedding anniversary celebratéd by Mr. and Mrs. L. Meech- am of, this town. A large number of invital were issued and after the banquet each g was presented with a nugget from the Bvening Star mine, which a year before Meecham fitml;h.wnnd as a bridal gift Harrier Popular in Vallejo. VALLEJO, April 18.—Attorney L. V. Harrier, who was appointed to the Superlor Court bench of Solano Coun- levation of Judge Buckles, is a grad- fiqfil of the University of California. at Berkeley he was a class- mate of Governor Pardee and was on o;.‘ht:t: founders of the Chapter the hfl.aPL to Vulkrj‘od e ‘the new . came to re- side and served two terms as City SBuperintendent of Schools. Later he was elected City Attorney and has held that office for eight years. —_———————— WIII Relteve the Marblehead. VALLEJO, April 13.—The cruiser Marblehead, now stationed at Pana- | ma, will come north as soon as re- lieved by the monitor Wyoming, now en rToute to the isthmus from San Diego. Navy officers here are of the opinion that Admiral Goodrich of “Pacific ~will spend much ‘Borhood ‘of the Lawis snd Clark Be- position. to his ty to fill the vacancy created by Lhel Work of Improving City WILL BE GIVEN BADGES Teachers Are Meeting With Great Success in Enlisting Aid of the Little Ones Epectal Dispatch to The Call. BAN RAFAEL, April 13.—The junior league of the San Rafael Improvement Club has the names of nearly 700 chil- dren attending the public and parochial schools on its roll. The children will ald in improving And.benuumnl San Rafael and will induce othars to do the same. 4 The children promise to refrain from ‘throwing paper in the streets, and they will report the existence of stagnant pools where mosquitoes might breed. Each member of the league will be pre- sented with a badge—biue and gold for the grammar school pupils and red and white for the children in the primary classes. Each class will be presented with a pennant bearing the letters J. L. tl’. C.—Junior League Improvement Club. The teachers of the schools are work- ing hard to keep the children interested in the work. —————— ARRANGING FOR A DANCE. BAN RAFAEL, April 13.—San Ra- fael Council No. 10, Y. M. I, will give its first annual ball at Hall Ra- fael on April 26. The committee of arrangements is composed of L. Girard, O. J. Short, R. Kinsella, John King and Frank Erard. L. Girard hes been appointed floor manager. His assistant will be Richard Kingella. —_———— HOLIDAY FOR THE CLERKS. SAN RAFAEL, April 13.—Nearly all the merchants of the city have ex- pressed their intention of closing their places of business on April 29, that employes may attend the Boyd Me- morial Park dedication. —_——— WILL ATTEND DEDICATION. SAN RAFAEL, April 13.—Luther Burbank, the noted horticulturist of Santa Rosa, will attend the dedication of the Boyd Memorial Park and make a short address if his health permits. — e & SUNDAT-SCHOOL WORK REVIEWED Special Dispatch to The Call. BTOCKTON, April 13.—The five hun- dred delegates to the State Sunday- School Convention had a busy day and Central M. E. Church was crowded at every session. The day’s work was Ix- teresting and profitable to the dele- gates, practical methods having been presented by the speakers, among whom were Dean Hiram Van Kirk of the Berkeley Bible Seminary, Rev. Samuel Patterson of Petaluma, Marion Lawrance of Toledo, Mrs. M. G. Ken- nedy of Philadelphia, Howard Bement of Palo Alto and James H. Scarr of Sacramento. Late this afterncon there was a teachers’ luncheon, with I. N. Halliday as toastmaster. This evening Dr. Clampett, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, addressed the convention on “The Sunday-School a Unique Oppor- tunity for Character Bullding,"” and Dr. Lawrance on “The Sunday-Schoel Teacher as a Soul Winner.” The con- vention {s pronounced the most suc- cesstul gathering of {ts kind {n the his- tory of the State. ————— FORESTERS OF AMERICA HOLD A BIG INITIATION Seventy-Five New Members Are Re- ceived Into the Lodge at Vallejo. VALLEJO, April 13.—Members of the Foresters ¢~ America owned Val- lejo to-night. There were excursions by trains and boats from Napa, San Francisco and Contra Costa County, and 500 members of the order came here to take part in the big initiation and banquet. Seventy-five new For- esters were received in the Vallejo lodge, Court Farragut. At the con- clusion of the I ceremonies a banquet was in Eagles' Hall b; the Ladles’ Auxillary, Companions of the Forest, and it was long after midnight before the last of the visitors departed for home. —_——————— FIRE SLIGHTLY DAMAGES SAILORS’ CLUBHOUSE Blaze on Roof of Vallejo Structure Is Before Much Headway. VALLEJO, April 13.—The home of the naval branch of the Y. M. C. A, which is one of the largest structures in Valleio, was slightly damaged fire this morning. Fire was discovered Town Trustees of Palo Alto Meet Property Owners and Consider Proposed Work PROPOSITION FAVORED —_— Steps to Be Taken at Once to Bituminize and Macad- amize Big Thoroughfares ——e Special Dispateh to The Cail. PALO ALTO, April 13.—A mass- meeting of property-owners was held last night at the call of the Town Trustees to get an expression of opin- fon In regard to extensive street im- provements. The Trustees made a re- port showing the amount of work proposed, its estimated cost and the engineer’s preliminary plans. The plan includes the paving of Lytton, Hamil- ton, Everett and Forest avenues for six blocks and Alma, High, Emerson, Ramona, Bryant and Waverly streets for four blocks. The material to be used will probably be bitumen in part and crushed rock In part. The cost to the property-owners is estimated at from $125,000 to $150,000. Some op- position to the project was manifested, but a majority of those present at the meeting Indorsed the proposal. The Trustees will probably begin proceedings at once to have the work done. Ten-year bonds forming a len on the property will be lssued for the cost of the work and installments and interest will be pald annually. Under the law providing for such bonds any property-owner has the right to pay his entire proportion of the cost when the work is completed, and many of the owners will do so. —_— - M m-mm—-——————b WORKMEN DIC [P A SKELETON Special Dispatch to The Call SAN BERNARDINO, April 13 — Workmen engaged In ‘digging the foundation for a new gas plant at the corner of First and D streets were | startled this afternoon when they found | 2 human skeleton buried about two feet below the surface of the street. The bones were those of a large man. So far as could be ascertained from the crumbling remains there had been no violenge done the body. No one here remembers burials having taken place on the spot where the bones were found. ROTTEN EGGS FOR SOCIALIST Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, April 18.—When a Socialist named MecClain critieized the National Guard in caustic terms and referred to the Native Sons of the Golden West as a “lasy and shiftless class,” some boys climbed to the top of adjoining bullding and broke up the meeting with rotten eggs. agreed to leave town at once. —_— WIFE FORGIVES HIM AND HE IS RELEASED Charge of Larceny Against San Jose Barber accused of Robbing His Family Is Dismissed. SAN JOSE, April 13.—Nicholas de Franco, who, & week ago, left his family, taking with him $3§00, has been forgiven by his wife and to-day the grand larceny charge against him was dismissed. The accused testified that he went to Los Angeles to open a barber shop and that he had no in- tention of deserting his family. On this showing Justice Benson dismissed the charge. ————————— AUTOMOBILIST HOOK OFFERS NO TESTIMONY Young Miilionaire Who Ran Down and Killed Miss Birtwistle Rests ¢ ‘When Prosecution Closes. LOS ANGELES, April 13.—The preliminary hearing on the charge of manslaughter of B. 8. Hook, the wealthy young automobllist who om March 26 ran down and killed Miss Margaret Birtwistle, was concluded to-day in Justice Plerce’s court. The defense offered no testimony. The be made to-morrow. Cherry Crop Is Light. CORDELIA, April 13.—The cherry crop throughout Suisun and Green valleys Is the lightest in years. The by | Tartarian variety will not yield more than 50 per cent of a crop, while the on the roof of the building, and after | Royal fadl several minutes’ hard work it was Otbcrl \'Alnrl.:;n":! t‘rl\fil:s;n‘lum “e: extinguished. cept apricots. ADVERTISEMENTS. RiSI BREAS them through their ordeal with No woman who uses “Mother’s Friend” need fear and serious And other .fl’l,m avoided by the use of This great remedy lGod-lendhm;mrym' most criti and no pain. the suffering and danger incident to birth; for it robs the ordeal of its horror end insures safety to life of mother and a condition more favorable to also healthy, strong and n Our book otherhood,” child, and leaves her in speedy recovery. The child is OTHER'S = FRIEND UT THE BAY - ~