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g — WOMAN IN DIRE DISTRESS]| DECEIVES SAMARITAN. Accepts His Alms and Chuckles in Sleeve| Footgear Leads to Exposure of Her Perfidy and Battering of His Forehead, BY JAMES C. CRAWFORD. Mrs poured pity | his beard were in turn held up to ridi- ¢ | cule by the veuths, he explained. They | called him “Shérty,” hinted that his clothing had been purlo scarecrow, pointed der | whiskers, stroked their bleated like goats. ‘I came down from Tuolumne to see | my sick brother in Oakland,” plain- | tively he informed Judge Mogan, “and finding him out of danger I crossed the bay to look at the city, and this is the A further result is your dismissal said his Honor, “and I hope you will exper: | | ment while you are in town.” “You bet I won't,” was the rejoind- r I'm going right back to lumne.” . . . Charles Cahlill, who said he was a bridgebuilder from Shasta County, fared very well in the metropolis until he attempted to play it low down upon the Chinese proprietor of a cigar store on Dupont st He dropped a nicke) in a slot machine upon the counter, pushed brought up four noved Par( “to ker than Mr. A demand an when I last saw you,” Har- y evaricated, u haven't changed even * was Annie’s counter false- y began to exchange mari- ces. Inquiry as to the . McLean’s health brought e the declaration that she ow, because she had been om that gentleman soon n. “Nor do I care,” ‘whether he is well or d me shamefully. But Carthy 2" Then from e the information that he ded a shrew and was com- elf-defense to become a pay- ony The profound sym- expressed by Annie's face so forcibly that he im- ited her to partake of in a near-by cafe. She eventide when Patrolman Groat found Annie and ning against each other and re at the intersection of Kearny streets. In re- query as to the cause of f. Harry murmured that their joint g his was a blighted life and Annie blubbered regret that she could not turn the e backward and thus regain rihood. Then they alter- nately sobbed fojth the story herein- before feebly narrated. “Cheer up, kids,” said one of the po- licemen. “Cherrles are ripe and mar- riage licenses cheap.” “Guess you'd better have your ery out where you won't be disturbed,” said the other man in blue. Judge Fritz suggested a May wed- ding and hinted that he might be pre- vailed upon to officiate, but as nefther Annie nor Harry showed inclination to jump at the proposal he sighed and | gave them ten days aplece. | e Wing Lung’s horse was s0 emaciated that to identify it as a horse was some- what difficult, Humane Officer Hooper told Judge Mogan, but a thorough sur- vey of it’s tout ensemble satisfied him that it was of equine extraction, s=o he arrested Wing Lung and charged him_with cruelty to animals. “What do you use the creature for?” Mogan asked Wing Lung. ee sellem fish,” was the answer; pullee wagon. Him belly stlong It “hi hosa. )o you ever feed him?” “Allee time him eatee plenty hay.” Officer Hooper opined that the ani. mal had forgotten how to feed, as it mouthed most gingerly the food sup- | plied to it in-the pound. Then - the | Judge fined the defendant $10 and or- dered that the victim of his parsimony be confiscated and allurhtered_ My My of sx, are 2333y, 20¢; 3 xeY, 23 xdly, | 2Be; 4xs. on made on large printing | <'xteon—vear old P‘elix Mnrquand pir= fered no less than three morning news- | i papers from the doorway of 418 Sutter i street, where they had been deposited | by carriers, and Judge Mogan found {him guilty of petty larceny. The lad resides with his father at 40 Gilbert |street. His plea was that he picked jup the papers with intent to peruse jtheir “help wanted” advertisements and then replace them where he got | them, but the arresting policeman was | positive that the boy's purpose was | larcenous. Sentence to-day. ———— BOARD OF TRADE TO ORGANIZE —Oak- May 3.—The directors of the Board of mees Friday when H. 'C. the president oAl ‘asmoubor. the for the year. u use CYKO developing you perfect and clean detall. e dozen up to and committees | Transfer of the smissal,” | ce no more discourteous treat- | TROUBLE OVER SALE OF MINE ;Mllhonau'e Franklin Farrell‘ f Claims to Have Been De-. | frauded out of $600,000 | | !FRICTION OVER PRICE | i e { Irregularities Alleged in the| Parrot | Property Located in Utah | ————— | | NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 3.—In the | suit of Franklin Farreil, the mliilion- | aire manufacturer of Ansonia, and others againsi Thomas Wallis of this city and Robert D. Grant of Salt Lake City to recover $600,000, 2 second count was put in by the plaintiffs in the Su- perior Court here to-day relating to the transfer of the Parrot mine to the Amalgamated Copper Company. It appears from the papers that in| 1859 Franklin Farrell owned 62,604 | shares of the property. The holdings of | {his family brought his total to 102,459 | shares. The plaintiffs, it is said, agreed ; with the defendants for the_sale of | these holdings at $50 a share or as | much more as could be obtained. Ne- | gotiations followed, it is declared, be- | tween the defendants and “William | Rockefeller or H. H.' Rogers, or the Amalgamated Copper Company.” The prospective purchasers demanded the control of a majority before taking the property. The members of the Far- ! 1 nd the defendants secured tional holdings sufficient to raise total to 115,719 shares, or a ma- | v of the 230,000 shares outstanding. of the defendants were ned as sold at $40 a share, | te eceived by the plaintiffs being given as $4,628,760. The plaintiffs claim that the defendants received 00,000 or. about $600,000 more amount returned. In making the sales, it is asserted, the defendants also obtained 2% per cent commission on the total amount sold at the returned price of $40 a share. ———— ENATOR SMOOT FLEECED ! BY A WILY INDIVIDUAL { i Entertains and Gives Monpey to Man Who Impersonates a Federal Odiicial. SALT LAKE, May 3.—A verdict of ity was returned by a jury in the Federal court here to-day in the case of J. C. Peltier, charged with having impersonated a postoffice inspector. Pel who was arrested in Texas several weeks ago, obtained sums of | money from several prominent Utah 0! ans and officeholders, includirg nited States Senator Reed Smoot. He represented that he was a postoffice inspector, and that he had been sent here at the request of Senator J. C.| Burrows to investigate the charges against Senator Smoot. Peltier was entertained several days at the home ! of Smoot and obtained a suit of cloth- | ing from the woolen mills at Provo at the Senator’s expense. —_————— JUMPS TO HIS DEATH IN Unidentified Man in New York Stands at Bay and Then Takes His Life. NEW YORK, May 3.—Shrieking | snd laughing and brandishing a knife | to keep off all who would interfere ! with his suicidal purposes, an uniden- | tified man, about 30 years old, jumped off the coping at the entrance to the Fourth-avenue trolley tunnel at Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street t day and was instantly killed. H struck the pavement between the rails squarely on top of his head. He! chose the moment for his jump ap-| parently with the idea that a car which left the tunnel at the time| would crush him if his leap did not prove fatal. The motorman brought the car to 2 stop with the fender over the man’s body. —_————— POWERS ASKS TRANSFER ; TO THE FEDERAL COURT | Yates of Illinois and Black of New York Appear as His Attorneys. GEORGETOWN, * Ky, May 3.—| Caleb Powers, accused of conspiracy in connection with the murder of Wil- | liam Goebel, to-day made application to the Scott County Circuit Court to have his case transferred to the United States District Court for the eastern district of Kentucky. Powers has | been once sentenced to death and twice to life imprisonment on the same | charge. He has been granted a new trial in each instance. Coincident with the flling of the petition was the appearance of former Governor Richard Yates of Illinois and Frank 8. Black of New York as coun- sel for Powers. | —————— { FIRST REGULAR TRAIN OVER | NEW ROAD TO SALT LAKE Given Elaborate Receptions at Vn-l-x ous Stations on Way From Los Angeles. | SALT LAKE, Utah, May 3.—The | first regular passenger train from Los | Angeles over the San Pedro road u-; rived in Salt Lake City at 10:30] o’clock this morning, about four hours | late. It was stated that the deiay was | due to no fault of the management, but that the train was repeatedly | “Held up” along the road by reception | committees with brass bands, and! bearing flowers and fruit for the 224, passengers who filled the coaches. A | large number of Salt Lake people were present and cheered the arrival | of the train. | 2= | FIVE TEXAS RAILROADS | PLACED UNDER ONE HEAD | sGuthern Pacific Merger Bill Recetves | the Signature of the Governor. | AUSTIN, Tex., May 3.—The South- ern Pacific merger bill was signed by the Governor to-day. It provides for l"‘e consolidation under one manage- ment of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio, the New York Texas and | Mexican, the Gulf, Western, Texas and Pacific, the Galveston, Houston and Northern, and the San Antonio and ]Gulx roads. - It also requires the San | Antonio and Gulf be extended from Stockdale to Cuero, a distance of eighty miles, within two years. ————— Four Men Lost in an Yce Fioe, STILLWATER; Minn,, George H. Sullivan, City Attorney, has received a telegram from his brother Joseph, who is in Nome, Alaska, stat- ing that their brother had beenlmlnmleemlnmms“ off the coast of Alaska. re were three men with Harvey Sullivan in a |- jaunch and they have not been heard from since last Wednesday. | East street, | burger Company at ! cashier of the defunct May 83— | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1905. SAN FRANCISCO PLAY IS BILLED FOR CENTRAL | | i .= <! FRANK W. WINCH, WHOSE MEL- ODRAMA WILL BE PRODUCED AT THE CENTRAL. B On Monday night, May & the Cen- tral Theater’s bill will be an original melodrama taken from police annals | in this city, entitled “The Criminal of the Century. The author, Frank W. Winch, a newspaperman, has selected | | a most interesting and thrilling story | and set it in a frame of local scenes. Laughable comedy, pathos, excitement | and thrills are promised in plenty. The scenery will include views of the Cali building illuminated with myriad of lights: Broadway-street pler, Meiggs wharf, Crowley’s boathouse, the Harbor Hospital and many cthers. A most novel scenic sen- sation is promised in the submarine | den. This scene has been pronounced to be one of the most original stage devices ever conceived. Every piece ! of scenery in the play is new and a good entertainment is promised. —e——————— PRESIDENT'S HUNTING PARTY STORMBOUND i Roads Are Muddy and the Trails Ex- ceedingly Dangerous for Horsemen. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., May 3.—For three days the President's hunting party has been stormbound in the mountains. Rain and snow have fallen continuously and tc-night there is no sign of a break. The roads are muddy and the trails exceedingly dan- | gerous for horsemen. Grizzly bears are thé only kind of game tHat will be hunted for from now on. Thus far the king of the Rocky Mountain beasts has eluded the President and he is very anxious to get one. Ten brown bears have fallen to the party. —_———— CASHIER OF PACKERS FACES GRAVE CHARGE Accused of Embezzling Nine Hundred Dollars From Swartzchild & Sulzburger. DENVER, May 3.—At the request of the authorities of Springfield, IIL, local detectives have arrested H. P. Raynard, or, as he has been known in Denver, H. A. Davenport. Raynard |is accused of having embezzied over | $900 from the branch of the Swartz- child & Sulzburger Packing Company, located In Springfield. The prisoner is said to have admitted his identity {and states he will return to Illinois without requisition papers. Raynard was employed as cashier and book- keeper for the Swartzchild & Sulz- Springfield for over four years. —_————— BANK CASHIER GIVEN SEVEN YEAR SENTENCE A. B. Spear of Oberlin Admits That He Made False Entries in the Books. CLEVELAND, May of Oberlin, to-day in the United States District Court entered a plea of guilty to one count of the indictment, charg- ing him with making false entries in the bank's books. District Attorney Sullivan recommended that all other indictments agalinst Spear be nolled. Judge Tayler at once sentenced Spear to seven years' imprisonment in the | Ohio penitentiary. JAILED NR VIOLATING EKANSAS ANTI-TRUST LAW Secretary of Grain Dealers’ Associa- tion Must Serve Sentence of Ninety Days. TOPEKA, Kans, May 3—E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association. was to-day | placed in jail at La Crosse, Kans.. to serve a ninety days’ sentence for the violation of the anti-trust law. This case is a noted one and has been fought through all of the courts to the highest tribunal in the last four years, — e LINCOLY, Neb. Grover Cloveland has mads a Ifberal contriba. tion toward the endowment fund of the Hast- ings College at Hastings, Nev. The sum fa ot stated. | | the oath he dizappeared and did mot | |return until Sunday afternoon. He was its | FULL HONORS FOR DESERTER Buried With the Regulation | . Military Ceremonies by the Order' of His Colonel NEW RECRUIT A SUICIDE Had Not Yet Been Convicted, but Oecupied a Cell Wait- ing for the Court-Martial / NEW YORK, May 3.—Under pecul.h.r circumstances & deserter from the reg- | ular army was. buried to-day with mil- itary honors on Governors Island. It | is Delleved to be the first case of the kind on the army records. A handsome young fellow March 7 at the recruiting {Newark, N. J. He gave his name as | Mike Broad and appeared to the re- | cruiting officer like some of the young men who cccasionally enlist to bury | their troubles. Two hours after taking enlisted on station in | then sent to Governors Island under a | charge of desertion. In some manner | \Bl‘Old smv-<led into his cell a small ‘\1al of carbolic acid and the other day | | | when the sentinel tried to arouse him | from what appeared a sound sleep, the | prisoner was found to be a suicide. | | Colonel Smith of the Eighth Infantry, in command of the garrison, when in- formed of the mysterious affair and tragic ending of the young scldier, ordered that he be buried with military | honers, finding justification in the fact | - that Broad was only awaiting trial, | and was not a military convict by ver- | diet of a court-martial. | —_——— | SUIT OVER A TRIFLE COSTS A LARGE SUM | Government Spends Hundreds in Ac- tion Involving Forty-Five | Cents. | NEW YORK, May 3.—It has been | officially determined by the Board of | United States General Appraisers that | Miss Mary M. Goodwin of Boston can- not recover the sum of 45 cents ex- acted as duty by the Collector of Cus- ! | tome at Bangor, Maine, on a souveni: | spoon_of American manufacture re- | | turned from Newfoundland. S i Miss Goodwin testified that .she { bought the spoon in Boston and gent | | it to a relative at St. Johns. It aid} | not match some other articles and | was returned for exchange. The Ban- | gor Collector held it up and mulcted Miss Goodwin 45 cents, and that lady/ | at once appealed to the general board, | Intimating that she needed the money | more than did the Government. It is possible she will carry the case | to the Federal Circuit Court. The liti- | sation has already cost the Govern- ment several hundred dollars. [P —— DEWEY AND HIS COWBOYS ALLOWED TO GO FREE Case Against Them for Killing Mem- bers of Berry Family Dis- | ‘missed. i NORTON, Kans.,, May 3.—The case of Chauncey Dewey, a millionatre ! ranchman, and Clyde Wilson and A. J. McBride, cowboys employed by Dewey, who were charged with hav- ing killed two members of the Berry family, neighboring ranchmen in| Northwestern Kansas, has been ended {in the District Court here, the Judge dismissing the defendants without trial. The prosecution failed upon | several occasions to beginfhe trial, al- though the defendants were ready. The three defendants were acquitted a year ago after a sensational trial for the alleged murder of another mem- ber of the Berry family. | i | SONS OF HENRY BURDEN ADJUST DIFFERENCES Compromise Said to Have Betnx Reached as to Division of the Big Estate. | NEW YORK, May 3.—After litiga- | tion in various courts extending over | a period of twenty years the sons of | the late Henry Burden, of Troy. N. Y., | inventor of a horse shoe machine and other devices from which he amassed | a fortune, are reported to have set-! tled their differences by compromise. | The plant at Troy alone is valued at $10,000.000. More than $100.000 in | punsel fees and court costs has been | ?xpended in the fight among the heirs. | S e S S e Y i TWO TRAINMEN KILLED 1‘ BY EXPLOSION OF ENGINE ] Boiler Blows Up, but No Damage Is | Done to the Cars At. tached. | LAS VEGAS. N. M., May 3.—In one | of the most peculiar accidents that\ ever occurred on this divisioit of the | Santa Fe Engineer E. W. Davis and | Fireman J. W. Swisher have just lost | their lives. The boiler of an englne‘ hauling & heavy work train blew up | and the men were Instantly killed. The | engine was blown to pieces, but Iit-| tle damage was done to the rest of the train. The officials here say the ac-! cident is unexplainable. —_———— MANY CHINESE SMUGGLED ACROSS SOCle\' BORDER | S Dressed as lm They Gain En- trance to the United States. BL PASO, Tex., May 3.—A Chinese | arrested last night while entering the ! United States, impersonating a Mex- | ican, says,;many of his countrymen | are successfully working this ruse. Ac- | cording to his story, hundreds of them fill the Mexican border cities and are smuggled in at every opportunity. ! a soldier, who was at cne time a doctor. He suffered from catarrh of the stomach. : bowe. | ‘he most wonderful Special Tmcmms.numn-rwmnm The Mexican for Diseases VETERAN OF THREE WARS Cured of Stomach Trouble By Pe-ru-na. Pe-ru-na Proves Infaiiibie For Catarrh of the Stomach. Copt. W. W. Jackson, 705 G Street. N, 'W., Washington, D. C., writes: “I am eighty-three years old, a veteran of the Black Hawk Mexican and Civil wars. I am by profession a physician, but long since abandoned the same. ‘“Some years ago | was serrously affected with catarrh of the stomach. My sufferings wers protracted and severe. ““I tried every known remedy with- out obtaining relief. In desperation ! began the use of Peruna. “l began to realize immediate though gradual improvement. After the use of three botties every ap- pearance of my complamnt was re- moved, and | have no hesitation in recommending it as an mfalible remedy for that disorder. large army of men -.na ‘women Rave been cured of dyspepsia stomach mnblc:hly Peruna, after -vernmn.slu remedies. Finally they resort to patent medicines. Thousands have gome through this same ordeal At last they try Peruna, when they get cured. The reason for this is that they have had catarrh of the stomach all the time. They have been doctored for almest everything else but catarrh of the stom- ach. They have been given artificial diges- tants, such as the active principle of gas- tric_juice and pancreatic juice. All this availed nolhin‘ Peruna alone In the case of Capt. Jackson we have His sufferings were protracted. He tried Peruna as a last resort. He, like a2 multitude of others, found instant rol and permanent cure. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever locgted. Peruna not only cures catarrh of the stomach. but catarrh of the head, throat, kizneys or any other organ. DISEASES OF MEN sia and bave tried the ordinary Without relief are safe in assaming that their cases are catarrh of the stomach and should at once begin with a course of Peruna. Peruna is sure to cure these cases. It never fails. ricocele, wo treat by our improved medical vibratory method, wlere others use theknife. We issuea bond proved rn- h Conea for t! the injured Prostate never fail. mne g from W em i nessand w0 can obtain lmmu(fi'u emr day’sspecial tregtmentand chndacnbingfieumnndrlmolu Anacortes., Tacoma. Bverett, cnred 'b th-tn-hnn -. 25, &.u;::hfi }rlb:n'ol l-‘.uh . ai - lnmdfly 'o:hd | Company’s steamers for Ah‘a Ry.; us-me.r'!‘u—:o., ‘e DR, Tll.GflTT co. 1140 MARZET ST. Hale's &r : Francisco, Cal. i k: ) o3 g g The thousands of people who write to me, saying that Shiloh’s Deme— 14 2 30, June 7. Bonita, $ & m. May 2 10. 18, 28 June 3. 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