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THE SAN FRANCISCO CAlL, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1905. INQUIRING INTO METH ODS OF T FOREMAN ANDREWS SAYS |PRISONER DECLARES THAT WOMEN STATUTE WAS VIOLATED Custodian of Publi From Changing urer Ha Continued From Page 1, Column 6. however, that Andrews is rushing the nvestigation with a view to making an example of the officials who were care- The Treasurer'’s Office Committee of the Grand Jury will examine ail the clerks and deputies of McDougald’s ce to-day. This investigati is to| held with a view to determ! who . v 0 of sec made to the that he only th. Expert the story 000, which A Tax office, Auditor’s VISIT SMITH'S DRUG STORE. from District man Andrews r advice ‘ompany and sever the defauiter had dollars were found. the hands of which [ that Smith has not money he has stolen. a small part of it n the vau! But there re but some private 1 were turned over to Ex- received a dispatch from ief of Police at St ing to the follow- involved itness and date , 80 1 can procure The information Lawlor has assigned ai Smith, charging y embezziement, to his day he made an| ses be placed on his rday for arraignment | f As Detective Wren | have returned from St. Louis h by that time the case will ontinued for a week. intended to start for night, but was delayed gald was being sought to | papers. The Treas- trying to raise $15,590 to he shortege made by cashing mith’s _personal check. 1 ave to-day to bring back the embezzler. RS G FINISH COUNT OF MONEY. Treasurer McDougald Lacks Amount Devoto Paid to Smith, | of the money in the vaults The of the city treasury was completed by the Grend Jury yesterday at noon in the presence of Foreman Andrews, Auditor Baehr, Treasurer McDougald, District Attorney Byington, Supervis- | enstein, chairman of the mmittee; George B. Keane, or's secretary; Officer Peter | and Edward O'Connor, repre- g the Grand Jury and who has he custodian of the funds since unt was commenced. mount on hand was ,830 04 and was $1 of the amount called for by the v found to ers and accounts of the office. The last sum named c« sponds practically to the check for $15,590 08, which Chiet Deputy Louis A. Devoto obligingly cashed for defaulting Tax Collector Smith just before the latter absconded. The odd 64 cents represents an excess caused by equalizing the payments of one and two cents on demands. There was also a $20 gold piece over in one of the sacks brought from some bank and a fifty-cent plece over in a sack which came from the United Raiiroads, | but these amounts d@id net affect the final calculation. When Expert Accountant O'Connor notified the assembied city officials that the coin was short by $15,589 40, Dis- trict Attorney Byington immediately made & formal demand on Treasurer McDougald for the amount. gald assured the District Attorney that the money mwould be madé good, but he asked for a reasonable time. McDou- b gald made the following statement: Mr. Andrews and gentiemen, you the confidence that 1 expressed ot the bogis Bing of this count that every dollar that should mmn%uExm. WOMENAND GIRLS Who suffer every month from Oramps, Backache, Vomiting, Dizzin, or Painting Spelis should know Tro g8 few doses of the. Bitters were tak the first symptom they would save ot this unnecessary suffering. Always keep g Hostetter's Stomach handy and you’ always onyay'goo“ th. Thousand: .1 Of other sickly [xfl:fletn have foung | rue. | | cures t also Insomnia, Poor Appetite, Sleeplessness, Indigestion, sia, Costiveness, Biliousness or S HOYWOL | SHIL 8 . ‘women will try it at once. | itly agreed by the officials that his re- | lector from Devoto on false pretenses. | cations | would-be scholars that the capacity | presented at the board meeting next | ervation and the plan will be submit- McDou- | Malaria, Fever | ¢ Funds Prohibited Money as Treas- s Done. | be in the city’s vaults would be found there, less the amount of the check for $15,580 08, has been justified. I can only ask for your confl- dence &nd permission to retain the confidence of the people. I would ask for a little time to take up this check and 1 promise you that the amount represented by the check will be in these vaulte in & very short time. While no reply was made to Mc- Dougald’s request for time, it was tac- quest would be granted, although no formal agreement was reached. The request was considered reasonable in view of the fact that Devoto had handled $40,000,000 during the last three years and were it not for the cash paid on Smith’s perscnal check the cash on hand would have been 64 cents over. The check is the one which Devoto ex- pected to receive silver for from the United Rallroads. Foreman Andrews asked McDougald if he contemplated making any changes in the manner of conducting the af- fairs of the office. To this question McDougald replied: “Hereafter we will make nqo pay- ments of money not authorized by the Auditor and sanctioned by the char- ter. That is to say no more chécks of | kind will be cashed at our win- dows and even money will not be changed.” Expert O'Connor said that the bal- ance of coin which should be on de- posit in the vaults was based on the book accounts. O'Connor. gdvised that books be experted for several ¥ s back in order to ascertain if the balance is correct. O’Connor also criti- cized the manner of cashing State war- rants for the University of California. Supervisor Brandenstein stated that the practice had been inaugurated with the approval of the Finance Committee for the purpose of saving the cost of transporting the money to Sacramento, which amounted to more than $1000 yearly. McDougald said that the cus- tom would be discontinued in view of its irregularity. Foreman Andrews secured the per- sonal check of Smith for $15,590 08 from Devoto after giving the latter a re- ceipt for it. The check will be used in the prosecution of Smith for em- bezzlement, McDougald set about in the after- noon to raise the money, several of his friends having come to his rescue. It it understood that the full amount will be subscribed by to-day- and turned into the city treasury. It is said that James B. Smith, the brother of the defaulter, has assured McDougald that he will guarantee the payment of the amount secured by the ex-Tax Col- —— COMMITTEES PREPARE FOR REGENTS’ GENERAL MEETING Proposal to Construct Scenic Railway to the Lick Observatory Is Considered. Monthly meetings of four commit- tees of the Board of Regents of the University of California were held yesterday in the offices of the various chairmen. The principal committee meetings were those of the Wilmer- ding School of Industrial Arts and the Lick Observatory. It was decided to close the Wilmer- ding School term on June 28 and re- open about the middle of August. Di- rector Merrill reported so many appli- are being received from of the school will be seriously over- taxed. The work of construction of the new school building is necessarily slow, owing to the fact that it is be- ing erected by the scholars. The iron forge work will be re-established un- der the direction of Thomas D. Moore. The annual budget will be Tuesday, The main feature of the Lick Ob- servatory committee meeting was con- sideration of the proposal of promi- nent capitalists of San Jose to build | an electric road between the Garden | City and Smith Creek, with a cabie road extension to the top of Mount Hamilton. The proposed scenic road will cress a portion of the Lick res- ted to the board. Work on the light and power plant of the observatory, toward which the Legislature gave $10,000, has been begun by Director Campbell. Routine meetings of the committees on library and museum and grounds and buildings of the university were also held. BRIEF CITY NEWS, CHINESE RESCU S FISHERMEN.—Jacino Carnglia and Peter Cassino, while flshing last night near McNears Point, were nearly drowned by their boat capsizing. Two Chinese fishermen rescued the Italians. MILLIONAIRE'S NEPHEW ARRESTED.— Fred Triest, & nephew of the millionaire hat manufacturér, was arrested last night by Po- licemen Kearny on a warrant sworn out by | Andrew Leary, proprietor of & livery stable. | low and that she had on her sick bed CORBETT AND GREGGAINS SUED.—Suit was filed yesterday by the Miils Novelty Com- pany against Harry Corbett and Alexander | Greggains, the well-known eporting men, ‘to recover $500 on a promi note issued by | Greggains and indorsed by Corbett on Febru- 1905. The consideration for the note ary 27, | 1= not given. SCHOOLHOUSES ~NBED REPAIRING.— School Director Boyle yesterday submitted to the Bupervisors' Finance Committee a revised iist of the schoolhouses In dangerous condition and requiring immediate repairs for which the sum of $305000 hes been asked. The list #hows the most urgent repairs required which will take $144,000 at once, including twenty- one schools which should have new drainage systems at a cost of $89,000. MONEY DISAPPEARS.—Mrs. E. Warren of {116 Fairmount street reported to the police satchel in her home and she believed (hat Henry Sliver was the thiet. Silver was em- ployed during the day repairing a gas stove. Mrs. Warren alleges that she laid her satchel, which contained $500, on & table and went out, When she returned she found some of the money gone. B8ilver was arrested. LEAGUE OF THE CROSS BAND CON- CERT.—The band of fty pieces of the’ First League of the Croes Cadets, will «_ concert and ball ‘to-night at Nativi The following is the programm . “‘Father of Vietory and Peasant” I Trovatore intermezzo, yesterday that $250 had been taken out of a ! CAUSED HIS DOWNFALL. Leona Brooks Is Released After Po= lice Ques tion Her. Absconder Denies Report of a Conspiracy| e AR Continued From Page 1, Column 7. Buch is Smith's platform as expressed to-day and he seeks to divert all sym- gnlt’hy intended for him to his wife and aby. For The Call the prisoner, though re- luctant to discuss the case, gave de- nial to some of the stories current about his flight and what led to it. He sald: “So they are trying to inject pol- itics into my dowhfall. Well, it 18 long | range fighting, which will be cleared up in the end. I am the culprit and I alone should suffer.. I was ‘one of ! the boys,’ made merry with the girls and the pace brought ruin to me, as it will to every ome who pursues the; course unchecked. No one knew of the impending crash unless it was my brothers. I kept my own counsel. DENIES STORY OF CONSPIRACY “No one profited by the peculations except the women whom I favored. I had no confederate and now that the money is spent I have no friends. I! make this as a statement of fact, not | as a plea for sympathy. You say they | are trying to show that conspiracy ex- | isted by which the delinquents were | not notified in order to make penalties | effective against them unawares? Well, | that is not true. No, nor did I have | any legal advice toward furthering a | conspiracy of this kind. Attorney Ruef was engaged by my predecessor ,to | push the delinquent tax collections, and has done so. He was not an appointee | of mine and what he has done has no | bearing on my case whatever. I took | funds from the big corporations, not from the poor people and the losers are ! those who can best afford it. “When it was Impossible to longer avoid detection I left. I went to New York, where I hoped to hide. On the way I gave way under the nérvous strain, and when I reached New York City I went to a sanitarium, where I recuperated. The moneys that I ab- stracted slipped through my fingers so fast that I hardly realize what has be- come of them. Nothing is left now. I squandered it ‘on others. SAYS HE WOULD SURRENDER. “Tiring of being hunted I resolved to surrender and was on my way back to Los Angeles when apprehended. The sleeping car ticket which was found on me shows that I stopped over here in St. Louis for two days, awaiting friends from Hot Springs, whom I expected to assist me in get- ting into communication * with® my brothers in order to pave the way for surrender. These friends falled to come and there was nothing to do but take a train West. I was prevented by the detectives from boarding the train. “When I first started borrowing from the tax funds I always refunded the amounts. Then I found myselt unable to make good and before I knew it 1 was an embezzler. Giving and entertaining was a passion with | me. Through my drug business I was thrown into contcat with many charming women and I succumbed to their smiles. That is the only excuse I can offer. It is a very poor one, for which I seek no leniency in the pub- lic’s judgment. “No one knew what was going on. It was my secret and it troubled me as time went on until I thought I would be crazed by the weight of guilt. Now that I am locked up, I crave only to be taken West at once to face the music and take my punish- ment. “No, don’t talk of my family. I am unworthy of them. I brought dis- grace on them and have forfeited every human claim for consideration.” Smith’s frame shook and he sobbed when informed that his wife was very { inquired abous her recreant spouse. TALKS OF LILLIAN LESLIE, ““‘Of Lilian Leslie much that has been printed is fiction,” he continued. “I will refuse to deny or affirm the story that I gaye her $20,000 cash and $30,000 in | jewelry. It is silly. I do not know where she is and have not been in communication with her. You newspa- per men can do me no good and no! harm, since I am down, and I do not | want to talk and appear to be working | up sympathy for myself. All I ask is to be left alone. My nerves are all gone and I am a wreck.” Blanche Smythe, alsc known as Leona Brooks, admits that she formerly lived in Chicago and Lewiston, Ill. She says she is an orphan, but having brothers and sisters, is unwilling to tell of her past. She was released from custody to-night, and will start for San Fran- cisco, she declares, to-morrow. “I have known Mr. Smith four years,” she stated to Assistant Chief of Detectives Keeley, “but was never in- timate with him until September. Then he began paying me attentions. He gave me on an average of $200 a month. Four weeks before he left Ban Francisco 1 went to Hot Springs with a woman friend. He gave me $250 then. I was there until I got a tele- gram from him, which informed me that he was here. I suppose the detec- tives had been watching me and fol- lowed me up.” LEONA BROOKS SHEDS TEARS, She was assured that this was the truth, and gave way once again to tears. Miss Brooks asserted that she knew all the time that Smith was mar- ried, but that while he would talk for hours about his baby he never men- tioned his wife while they were to- gether. “Did he tell you about his shortage?” she was asked. “Yes, when we met here, he told me that he was $60,000 short. I asked him how in the world he lost that much money and he assured me that it was lost on stocks and bonds in Wall street. He told me that he had got to barytone solo, of Columbus® G. Richar selection, Brave.” BOYS WILL GIVE.—To-morrow evening the olumbia Park Boys' Club will give an afnual minstrel show at the Alhambra Theater in a ccrdance with its custom for the last A years, There will ‘be a_chorus of seventy-fiv Knights ‘march, of { | boys who will sing the latest songs and many solos will be given. The second part of the programme iacludes vaudeville and a one-act sketch. The music will be furnished by the club band. The price of admission to all Darts of the house will be 25 cents. —_—— Delivers Interesting Address. At Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Noe Valley Civie Club a very interest- ing address was delivered by Rev. Willlam Rader upon the subject, “The People and the City.” laid particular stress upon the neces. sity of each voter's taking an interest in the approaching election. The club will hold a meeting each month from now om. . . PR . i plunging there and dropped everything faster than could go.” Miss Brooks sald she believed Smith had been quite liberal with Miss Les- He. She ~was a vaudeville actress, “quite the handsomest woman she ever saw, though,” she confessed. ‘Mr. Smith was good to all the girls, ‘vou know,” she said. “He was an ad- mirer of the sex. Too bad that now he must suffer for his generosity.” New Route to Napa. Quickest time h-t:::‘!‘::fli Francisco and m%li 2. and'!ap B hesever thought money i i PSP La e SR T L WILL BUILD RAILROAD THROUGH TIMBER TRACT Grading for Short Line on Northern Coast Is Now Under Way and Rails Have Arrived. The Western Redwood Lumber Company, whose mills are located at Jenner, a new town on the coast line, near the mouth of the Russian River, has begun the construction of six miles of railroad, with a view of con- necting its mills' with its timber lands. It was stated yesterday by the presi- dent of the company, A. B. Davis, who is at the Palace Hotel, that the rails East and the line will be finished as soon as possible. The company contemplates the ex- tension of the new road later on to a poifit thirty miles north of its mills, in the midst of one of the richest tim- ber districts in Central California. ‘When the company acquired posses- sion of its timber properties, about two years ago, and proceeded to build its mills it opened negotiations with the officials of the North Shore Rail- road for an extension of the latter’s line two miles in order to afford the lumber company necessary facilities for shipping its product to market. The North Shore people could not see their way clear for making the ex- tension and the lumber company fin- ally financed a project of its own. ‘With its own outlet for its lumber it is estimated that the mill company has deprived the North Shore road of an annual revenue in the way of freight traffic of between $40,000 and $50,000, in addition to encouraging what may later prove a competing line in fits own territory. JUDGE LAWLOR OVERRULES DEMURRER OF MAESTRETTI Ex-Governor Budd Demands Immedi- ate Trial and Case Is Continued Till May 6 to Be Set. The motion to set aside the indict- ment of the Grand Jury charging Frank A. Maestrettl, Commissioner of Public Works, with fraudulently at- tempting to induce a person to give false testimony was dismissed by Judge Lawlor yesterday and the de- murrer to the indictment was over- ruled. Ex-Governor Budd took an excep- tion. The defendant thereupon en- tered a plea of not guilty and Budd objected to any continuance. He de- manded an immediate trial. He sald the defendant was a public officer and the indictment hanging over his head hampered him in the performance of his official duties. He was: satisfled, he sald, that the defendant had noth- ing to fear from an honest jury. Assistant District Attorney Ferral said he was just as anxious as de- fendant’s - counsel- for -a speedy trial and he would place no obstacle in his way.toward that end. ‘erral said he also had nothing to fear from an hon- est jury. The Judge continued the case till Saturday to be set. ST. ANTHONY'’S SODALITY * AGAIN PRESENTS PLAY “Hermigild,” Acted by Young Men of St. Boniface Church for Second Time at Alhambra. The friends and parishioners of St. Boniface Catholic Church assembled at the Alhambra last night to see the amateurs of St. Anthony's Young Men's Sodality in “Hermigild.” The play deals with royalty, the scene being laid in Spain, where in- trigue and falsity estrange the King and’his son. Being partly religious, the play was the more adapted to the occasion, and the audience applauded the actors when they won the over to the Catholic faith. The performers did better than s usually expected of amateurs. Ph. Hobrecht was clever as Argimund, Duke and commander in chief of the King’'s army. F. J. Glunk as Count Gorwin, chancellor of the realm, was capable in this difficult role, and his advice to the King at critical moments was one of the features of the play. The play was written by Rev. J. Oech- tering, and the entire production was under the direction of the Franciscan fathers of St. Boniface Church. —_———————— OLD MAN KILLED BY AN EIGHTH-STREET CAR Thomas Kendrigan, After Having Buried a Son, Falls Victim of Painful Accident. Thomas Kendrigan, a laborer, 63 years old, was knocked down and killed yesterday morning by a south bound street car on Eighth street near Folsom. J. L. Badger, the motorman, informed the police that Kendrigan deliberately stepped In front of the | car when it was only a few feet dis- tant and too close to allow of the car being stopped in time to avoid a collision. Other spectators corrobor- ated the statement of the motorman. He was arrested on a charge of man- slaughter and released on a $60 bond. A curious feature of the accident was that on the preceding day Kendri- | gan had attended the funeral of one of his sons. Yesterday morning his son James, with whom the father was living at 1208 Folsom street, sent the old man for a loaf of bread, and it was while on this errand that he met his death. ————e————— DR. PAWLICKI RESIGNS AS ASSISTANT SURGEON Abides by Order of Health Board and Is Succeeded by Dr. Frank Tillmann. Assistant Emergency Surgeon C. F. Pawlicki yesterday filed his resigna- tion with Health Officer Ragan as he was requested to do Tuesday. The Tesignation was demanded for the good of the service, it being alleged | that the doctor was careless in the | performance of his duties. Pawlick: { dictated his resignation to Clerk Ed- ward Coffey and insisted on cutting out the words “honorable,” ‘“respect- fully” and other polite terms from the communication, averring that he had been unjustly treated by the Health Board which had forced him to re- Dr. Frank J. Tillmann, formerly a district health officer, will succeed having. mmmflumn n, i : a:n.w Health Officer Ragan g for the road have arrived from the | Scares Hur i the Rios _In Chicago From Page 1, Column 1. inate in assaulting people. There were 2 number of instances where mobs boarded street cars and wantonly at- tacked those riding in them, giving as & reason later that they were strike breakers, when in fact they had noth- ‘ing whatever to-do with-the trouble. Edward, Jamison and Edward Boswell, the latter a colored medical student, were two sufferers from this cause. The mob ‘that boarded a State-street car on which they were riding, dragged them off and beat them unmercifully. Walter -Norton, another colored man, | while passing Van Buren and Market j streets, was proclaimed to be a strike- breaker, and was beaten almost to death. Up to 7 o’clock to-night a score of men had been taken to hospitals. One of these, T. 8. Carlson, a superinten- dent employe@ by Montgomery Ward (& Co.,, may die. Carlson is in charge {of the auto trucks of Montgomery lWard & Co., and was riding on the first of a caravan of six machines, which was passing the teamsters’ head- quarters at 204 Madison street. While his attention was occupied by some of the machinery on one side of the auto truck, he was struck by a brick hurled from the window of the teamsters’ headquarters. A large gash was cut in the side of his head and he sustained a violent concussion of the brain. SAVAGERY OF A MOB. A furious riot, which resulted in fatal injuries to a non-union driver, took place to-night at the Intersection of Harrison and Desplaines streets. A deltvery wagon of the Fair, a large department store, was attacked by a crowd of men, who hurled bricks, stones and bottles. The rain of mis- siles was so furious that in a few minu- /tes all the windows in a saloon, in front of which the wagon passed, were smashed. Two policemen, who were escorting the wagon, drew their re- olvers, and firing into the group, drove back the crowd until they could reach the wagon again. At Canal and Polk streets a union teamster drove his truck across the way and blocked fur- ther progress. The delivery wagon was then driven into an alley and Chambers, the driver, jumped and ran for his life. He dashed into a saloon on Polk street, followed by a mob. He was refused shelter in the saloon and driven out into the street. He then ran into a small shed on the bank of the river, where he at- tempted to hide. He was soon dis- covered and beaten into insensibility. He was dragged to the roof of the shed and the mob attempted to throw him into the river. It was unable. how- ever, to pitch him far enough and he fell on a pile of coal on the river's edge. The mob surged after him and again began to beat him. He was kicked in & savage manner, pelted at short range with pieces of coal and three heavy shovels were broken on his head. His nose was broken, his head cut in many places, and his clothing was a mass of blood when the police, who had re- sponded to a riot call, reached him. He was taken to the County Hospital. He will die. Officers Sharkey and Kelly, who were cut and bruised in many places, also were taken to the hospital. LIST OF KNOWN VICTIMS. The injured are: W. Jamison, attacked ing on street car, and badly beaten. Edward Bosweil, attacked and beaten at the same time as Jamison. strikers while rid- ards in a in streets; head cut. Walter Martin, shot in the leg; not serious. George Wright, ear torn off by a stone. Simeon Johnson, beaten by strikers; head badly cut. D. Scott, colored non-union man; shot in the shoulder. Police Officer Patrick Doyle, head cut with ick. colored walter; brick. Samuel Spriges, taken for & nou-union driver and badly beaten. Isaac Foster, standing in a mob gathered near the Majestic Hotel; badly beaten by ‘wagon . Samuel Foster, brother of Isaac Foster; bad- 1y beaten. Michael Smith, ‘bystander; struck om the heud by a fiylng bottle. ‘Unknown colored. driver, in the employ of the Coal Company; attacked by & mob; rendered unconscious. George Baker, Struck on the head by a billy in the hands of a private detective. 1sof an Edward Olsen, clubbed by wagon guards; head cut. T, C. Carlson, may be fatally injured; struck én ine head By & missile. David Love, colored non-union man; head cut and stabbed in the left arm. Sidney Chambers, colored, driver, beaten and Kicked until unconscious; will die. Policeman John Sharkey, head cut with & brick, badly bruised about the tody. Policeman James Kelly, cut about the head brul 208 o MeNelll left eye cut ana wounded in the arm. Carleton, hit on the head with a brick; condition critical. Edward Olsen, beaten by private detectives. John Stock, non-union teamster, beaten and ry Simpson, colored waiter, taker for & on s Gver, head Mommed thronph ihe lass of & strestcar and bedly cut, ten and thrown from car the press unconsciousness. John Toutler, mistaken for non-unfon man, knocked down and - beaten, shot through the ht arm while on the ground. T wesh Gomes, former ‘employe of & depart- ment store, beaten by crowd of ten men; sev- eral scalp wounds and one eye badly damaged. Policeman Frank Clark, attacked by a crowd and severely beaten, head cut in half a dozen places. Besldes the names given above. there were fully twice as many who were in- jured in the various fighte of the day, and whose names could not be learned. In one fight at Harrison street and Michigan avenue, four men were knocked down by wagon guards and carried off by their friends. Similar ! occurrences were the rule, whenever the police charged into a mob, and the number of injured to-night is probably closer-to seventy-five than te twenty. At a meeting of the Employers’ As- sociation fo-night it was decided to call upon Governor Deneen for troops and later an attorney for the tion left for Springfleld. Hospitals reported to-night Q:u the strikers had endeavored to shut off coal for the institutions. Surgical In- struments ordered by one hospital for an npec{’nl § nar;tl&n were refused delivery | e strikers. Mayor Dunne was emphatic in his. declaration to-night that he would not acquiesce in any call for outside as- in Reyiog.-ueday.. ang in- € _he wo strongly oppose vmmewmnmeeamm en- e bva iy, 0 shaniis, rokchiva s Hmit of reserve,” the Mayor declared to-night. “I am empowered to call on every able-bodied citizen over t?p age of 18 years. Of course, I could not | call on the striker or the strike break- er or thelr sympathigers, but I 3 eir § ‘would | have to w upon the citize of MOBS BATTLE WITH TROOPS ST. PETERSBURG, May 3.—Reperts of slight disturbances in various places of European Russia during Easter Monday are now coming in. At Milito- polaw a mob for seven hours held high carnival and burned a portion of the town. At Nijni Novgored a battle oec- curred between soldiers and the crowds on Millijonaia street. The soldiers killed one person and wounded many. WARSAW, Russian Poland, May 3.— An unknown man shot and killed a Police sergeant on Hosea street at 9 o'clock this morning. The murderer escaped. LODZ, Russian Poland, May 3.—Four men to-day shot and killed a police sergeant and severely wounded a detec- tive who tried to arrest them. Serious riots occurred in the streets during the night. The military fired on a crowd, killlng four persons and wounding several others, FALLS VICTIM OF BUNKO MEN e i RENO, Nev., May 3.—Two notorious confidence men of this city met James Anderson, a Government official of Washington, In this city at an early hour this morning, and by purporting to be Tonopah mining men induced him to engage in a poker game in which he lost a large amount of cash and a check for $600. The Washing- ton man is now awaiting the arrival of more money from the capital with which to continue his official trip to Tonopah and Goldfield and the card- sharps are hiding from the police. —_— e NORWAY’'S LIBERTY DAY TO BE COMMEMORATED Orations, Songs and Music Arranged to Fittingly Celebrate First Day of Freedom. The Norwegians of San Francisco are making extensive preparations in anticipation of their . celebration of Norway’s liberty day, to be held on May 17 at Saratoga Hall, 840 Geary street. Liberty day {s Norway’s most prom- inent day of festivities and one of great importance to her people, it be- ing in commemoration of the day Nor- way gained her freedom from Den- mark. The Norwegian Singing Society, un- der whose auspices the celebration will be held, has arranged an excel- lent literary and musical programme, which consists of a festival overture, especially composed for the occasion; an oration and vocal and instrumental numbers. A one-act musical com- edy, “‘Off to the Mountains,” the songs of which are of national renown in Norway, will be the feature of the programme. It is by C. P. Rils and will be produced under the direction of H. F. Monsen. A capable company of players has been engaged to in- terpret the comedy. At the conclusion of the programme dancing will be enjoyed. The following committees have the affair in _hand: Arrangements—An- ton J. Lohen, chairman; William Jensen, secretary; George Herdal, treasurer; T. Tellefsen and Nels Nor- strand. Reception — Klaus Olsen, chairman; Otto Ottesen and N. Mor- tensen. —_———————— Jury Impaneled to Try Raia. A jury was impaneled in Judge Dunne’s court yesterday to try the case of Pietro Raia, barber, Francisco and Mason streets, on a charge of per- jury. It was in Rala's barber shop that the quarrel arose on Sunday night, January 22, which led to the murder of Joseph Brogardo by An- drea Brazzilio. Rala was one of the witnesses at the Coroner’s {nquest on Brogardo's body and he was arrested for giving false testimony. ———————— Open a commereial account in Citizens’ te Ban! 518 Montgomery, corner (s:?m:nerdllk.‘with $20 or more. . ————————— Amended articles of consolidation of the Pajaro Valley Rallroad Com- pany and the Pajaro Valley Extension Railway Company under the name of the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Rail- way Company were flled in the office of the County Clerk yesterday. The line operated by the company runs from Watsonville to Salinas, with short branches connecting various agricultural districts. HE TREASURER'S OFFICE FLOOD SWEEPS AT BARRIERS Big Dam at St. Johns, Ariz., Gives Way and Seven%l Towns Are in Grave Peril —_—— LOSS OF LIFE FEARED Water in the Little Colo- rado River Is Out of Its Banks and Rising Slowly —_— WINSLOW, Ariz, May 3.—The dam at St. Johns gave way at 2 o'clock yes- terday afternoon and a great flood of water is now coming down the Little Colorado River. The water is repon:: to be twenty feet high and a mile wi The dam Wi.l fifty feet high and back- ed water for eight miles and was a mile wide and averaged a depth of twenty- five feet. The wuerlw:: used to irrl- ate a large body of lan ‘At Holbrook, a hundred miles north of St. Johns, greai excitement prevails and it is feared that the town will be damaged. The Santa Fe sent ffty freight cars to Holbrook, where the merchants loaded their goods into the cars. Every dam and every settlement between Holbrook and St. Johns may be swept away and a large number of people rendered homeless. The break- ing of the St. Johns dam was caused by the breaking of the dam at Greers, forty miles south of St. Johns, caused by rains and melting snow in the mountains. St. Johms, Ariz., is located about twenty miles from the New Mexico line -end is without railroad communication. It is on the bank of the Little Colorado River, which is here a small stream flowing to the northwest. Holbrook is seventy miles northwest of St. Johns, on the Little 'Colorado River. It is a town of 250 inhabitants, the county seat of Navajo County, and is on the Santa Fe Raillway. It is sev- enty-five miles from the New Mexico State line. HOLBROOK, Ariz., May 3.—The wa- ter in the Little Colorado River is now out of its banks and is rising slowly. It is not known whether the main flood is coming in a gradual swell or whether the wall of water from the burst dams is en its way down the valley to the town. In the darkness to-night and with no means of communication with the upper river country it is im-~ possible to tell. Holbrook has been entirely deserted to-night, people having left their homes and climbed to the higher ground. A pecial train loaded with household goods and merchandise is standing on the Santa Fe track at Holbrook ready to pull out the moment the water threatens to inundate the town. But one life has been lost so far as known, that of a Mexican reported drowned at St. Johns. The farmers in the Little Colorado River Valley have undoubtedly suffered great filnancial loss from the flood wa- ters and the situation may be much worse there than apprehended. Hope is entertained that the waters ‘will not reach the residence portion of Holbrook, but if the river continues to rise, even slowly, there is no doubt that the business section of the town will be flooded and perhaps washed away. Every precaution has been ta- ken to safeguard the Santa Fe prop- erty and it is so situated that unless the force of the flood is very great but small damage will ensue. —_————— Taussig Made Commissioner. The suggestion made some time ago by Rudolph J. Taussig, its president, that the Mechanics’' Institute.give a fair at the Pavilion to follow the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland has grown into something of a definite na- ture. Governor Pardee has appointed President Taussig a special Commis- sioner to the Portland exposition to determine the feasibility of this city receiving some of the best exhibits made there for the proposed fair of the institute. —_——— Runs Amuck With Knife, Louls Cavino, a cook. was arrested yesterday afternoon at Clay and San- some streets by Policeman W. D, Scott and”booked at the City Prison on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He was under the Influence of liquor and was chasing people with an open pocketknife in his hand. He made a slash at the throat of Charles Emmons, a potato peddler, just miss- ing his jugular. ADVERTISEMENTS. X doi Soft hats in Optimos, Tele- scopes, flat brims with or with- out binding, Tourists with dented crowns, brims that turn down in front; Columbias, Graecos, Fedoras, ete, with plain or fancy bands; colors black, brown, russet and tan. Stiff hats in various shapes i+ the same colors; $2.50 is the value, $1.95 is the price. On sale in both stores. ki Ladies should visit the Art and Reception Room in the Powell and Ellis store—music . every afternoon from 2 until 3. Hats *1.95 exclusive hat stores is the con- tinued growth of our hat de- partments. Both at the Market and Powell street stores we are Hundreds of customers buy these hats at $1.95, for they know the hats equal the usual $2.50 article of other These hats come in stiff and soft shapes, in all the popular styles and colors. Wi, SNWOOD5(0 HE best evidence that we sell hats at lower prices than ng an immense business.

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