The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1905. PASSES 10 SCRMIT] N LETTER Andrews of Grand That the Foreman Jury Declares Mayor Made htcments‘k That Are Entirely False| JURORS M. \\ I\‘DIFT TWO OFFICIALS TO-DAY | i \ Results of Investigations of Treasurer’s Office to| Be Given to Them and Several May Be Accused reman Andrews sharply denied yesterday that he knew of Defaulter Edward J. Smith’s crookedness before the former Tax Collector fled the town e news was told him by the e allegation made by the he knew that McCabe had accounting is branded falsehood by Foreman ng is the juror’s let- | NCISCO, May 9 Mayor of 1905, the At- o Teasurer who participated figures. The SAYS STATEMENT IS FALSE. hose business career, s known to many and presume you are personally ac- herwise 1 am sure he would mot | from time ubmitted o ng expert, some six nion and report. Mr. INVESTIGATIONS. TEILS OF s office, Mr. Brobeck th into submitting his at it could be properly | before Judge Sloss. | gation upon the part | sion and the Grand | u!t‘nl in the e from the civil service | calendar. easure and gratifi- d chapter 1 pages 82 and 33 of the observe the | | DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. DANGER SIGNALS. No engineer would be mad enough to ron by the flag which signaled danger. s different with the average man womsn. They attempt constantly to run by the dan- er signals of ature and that cosSts of lives ! lttr'ngl thousan: P and broken, when there is 2 constant feeling of dull- pess and languor, Natu i hoisting the danger si nal. The stomach and its silied organs are failing in their work and the body is losing the nutrition on which its strength de- pf:x.ds. uch & condition calls a prompt use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It cures dis- ses of the stomach and _ ther organs of digestion nutrition, purifies and enriches the blood and — buflds up the body with - sound, solid 'flesh. I have had s much bene- rld tobrulfe- con.n. work. but yeceived no bemefit. ‘ Golden ing 1t I felt so much h-t:- give it a fair lually his 1008- vaor. 81 stamps. Dr. Pierce's Pelicts Curc Constipatios. | been violated in the Treasurer’'s | gations. assisted | © { out foundation ) (o I A wilfull shall or nduct . pend- ing an offcial The zeal and displayed upon to take immediate 'Y presume’y hysical cond it 2 of the poor unf, t. 1 respectfully nicate with the Very truly, . pital MAY FIND INDICTM The Grand Jury will meet in Judge Lawlor's court to-day to take definite action on the investigations made the affairs of the Treasurer’'s office. It is expected that one or more indict- | ments will be found. It is certain that the jury will also call to account some one in the license office. Foreman Andrews has announced that s on 424 of the Penal Code has but he declines to say what aetion may be taken by the jury in regard to it. Graft has been rampant in the license office, but the foreman refuses to say who was proved guilty by the investi- “The Grand Jury will do its duty,” he sald. “The results of the in- vestigations will be laid before the jury to-morrow and it will be up to them. WILL MAKE SHORTAGE GOOD. City Treasurer McDougald yesterday issued a public statement, in which he announces that the personal check of defaulting ex-Tax Collector Smith for $15,560 08 which Chief Deputy Devoto ed will be taken up. McDougald desires to inform the public that the rumors prevailing that he would not make good the check in the event that the Grand Jury should return indict- ments against him or Devoto are with- The statement follows: Treasurer's Offics, City Hall, May 9, 1905. In the mattef of the shortage in my office, resulting from the action of E. J. Smith, Tax Collector, 1 wish to\annotince that T will cover the same. No action that can or will be taken in the premises will deter me from returning to the treasury the money represented by the check cashed by my deputy for the Tax Col- lector. This statement is made to set at rest many conflicting rumors and to Inform my friends and the public of my intentions. E. McDOUGALD, Treasurer city and county of San Francisco McDougald has already received a€- surances from a number of friends which will enable him to gather the funds to take up the check. Some of those who wish to aid McDougald in his trouble are indignant at the delay of the Grand Jury in taking whatever action it may see fit in the premises. | McDougald hopes to have all the money subscribed in two or three days. bRy LEONA BROOKS ARRIVES. ‘Woman Whom Smith Met in St. Louis Tells Her Story. Leona Brooks, the woman with whom Tax Collector Edward J. Smith fled after robbing the city of nearly $100,000, arrived in San Francisco yesterday. | Ehe maintained at first that she had not left with Smith, but had met him in St. Louis by appointment. Later she admitted that she was with the de- faulter during his flight until they ar- rived in New York. There the woman read an account of Smith’s crime in a newspaper and learned, she asserts, for the first time that he was a criminal. She became alarmed and almost created a scene in the hotel where they were staying, but Smith soothed her. She left him, how- ever, and went to Hot Springs. Later Smith telegraphed her to meet him in St. Louis, and detectives who traced her ‘from- Hot Springs found him through following his ‘paramour. She is not the brazen type of the| fallen woman with whom the defaulter was infatuated. She seemed worn and tired from the effects of her experience, but even in that state her claims to attractiveness could not be disputed. Chief Dinan and Foreman Andrews of the Grand Jury, who interviewed her in the Chief’s office, are both cer- tain that she knows more than she told or can ever be made to tell. “Smith was not what could be called a spender,” she said. “When I asked him in New York what he had done with the money he sald ‘I don’t know; it just went.’” “How much money did he have?” was the pertinent question asked her. “He must have had nearly $34,000 when he left.” “I don’t think that he had that much,” she replied quickly. *“He only had a little in a wallet.” The woman Wwas Very nervous throughout the investigation and times seemed on the verge of collap: She will be kept under close police sur- veillance. The belief still exists that Smith has cached some of his steal- ings and the detectives believe that she may know the hiding place. The woman’s accounts of her rela- end the | your | into | office, | | ST ORI || { | | | | | | Scott 1 i Tax Collector, permitted to resume his duties. | will draw salary only for the time he | has worked this month. _His retention | tions with Smith strengthen this be- lief. “Smith paid my expenses,” she de- clared. “but he never bought me any jewelry. I do ngf think that he could | have spent more than $2000 in all upon | me. I lived in a flat near Pine and Jones streets while I was here and he paid the expenses. that he was crazy Leona Brooks says that when she left him Smith was a mental and phy- sical wreck. Detective Wren will leave | St. Louis to-night with the defaulter and will arrive here Sunday. g SO WILL IMPROVE SERVICE, ‘Will Merge Licensc and Tax Offices for Better Suvervision. J. Harry Scott, the newly appointed | is of the opinion that | the affairs of the license office have | not been properly conducted in the ast and he proposes to effect a reor- ganization of the offic To that end he will have the license office trans- ferred from its present Iqeation in the City Hall to the main office, where the taxes are collected. Scott proposes to have but one cash- | ier to handle the moneys received for Loth licenses and taxes. He has ap- p(\.n‘xd his brother-in-law, Oscar Cur- . to the position, and C ili aluu' be responsible for he collec- tivne. Scott says there has been too much divided responsibility, and he means to effect a reform in the man- ner of transactiong the city’s busi- ness, A Scott yesterday brought nearly all the clerks of the license office over to the tax office for the purpose of pre- paring the delinquent tax roll. He ex- pects to have the list ready by next Saturday evening, as it will go to the | printer next week. Scott does not con- template making any removals in the | George B. Benham has | office now. assumed his duties as Chief Deputy Tax Collector. Scott said that he knew of Deputy James W. McCabe's | alleged shortcomings and he did not intend to remove him. “McCabe is a good clerk,” said Scott, “and when he returns he will be of the place will depend on his good conduct in the future.” McCabe went to the Central Emer- genary Hospital yesterday to be treated i for his nerves and left for his home in the evening. LABOR NOTES. The fifth annual ball of the Boxmak- ers’ and Sawyers’ Union will be given on the evening of June 17 at Native Sons’ Hall on Mason street. The following committee has been appointed to take charge of the ente tainment: C, Amrheim, chairman; Ennis, F. McLaughlin, J. Hughes, W. Despte and H. Brockowsky. The following members of the Butch- ers’ Union have been placed in nomina- tion as members of the board of direc- tors of the California Co-Operative Meat Company: C. E. Schmidt, C. F. Scheithe, Herman May, C. W. Petry, London and Richard Cornelius. The election will take place on Thursday evening. Directors for this co-operative com- pany were indorsed by the Millmen’s | Union at its meeting Monday night. | They are Davie, Richardson, May and Plugradt. RICH SPOILS FOR ARABIANS HODEIDA, Yemen Province, Turk- ish Arabia, May 9.—The spoils cap- tured by the rebels at Sanaa included thirty guns, 20,000 rifles and much ammunition. The garrison and the Turkish officials were permitted to leave the city. . Riza Pasha, commander of the Turkish troops in Yemen, has heen superseded by Marshal Ahmed Fezi Pasha, who has been reinforced by eight battalions of Albanians. Sanaa, the capital city of Yemen province, capifulated during the night of April 20. The rebels then pro- ceeded to besiege Menakha. The lat- ter has a garrison of 5000 men, but the troops are said to be mutinous. e — ‘WASHINGTON, May 9.—The land office at Marysville, Cal, has been consolidated with the Sacramerito of- fice, with headquarters at Sacramento, ——————————— ‘We are selling agents for "wuam.n ‘s Ideal Fountain Pen,” and sole agents for “The Marshall,” the belt 8100 twnuln pen in the world. Co., ' 741 Market street. . all the time. —.‘_ Never boast of work g €0 o 1h the SPrinE RO Seame w’?‘g] fl:,'d." No, I do not think | He | CROOSING SITE FOR 4 TONNEL Railroad Contractors Getting Ready to Begin Task of Boring Through Sierras CAMP PLACES SIS Work, It Is Believed, Will Be Commenced Near Truckee | About the Middle of June e Special Dispatch to The Call TRUCKEE, May 9.—It is belfeved | that the work of boring the big tun- nel of the Southern Pacific through the summit of the Sierra Mountains at a point one and. a half miles from here will soon be commenced. Charles Erickson of the firm of Erick- son & Peterson of Los Angeles, gen- eral contractors for the Southern Pa- cific, was here and spent several days between Blue Canyon and the sup- | posed east end of the tunnel looking for good places for camps and gener- | ally viewing the entire length of the | mountain through which the hole will | be bored. 1t has been announced that the | Southern Pacific Company has award- | ed the contract for this great work to this firm and that it will commence preliminary work some time during the, month of June. = While here | Erickson made arrangements with a | Truckee butcher to furnish his camps with meats, and gave out that he | probably would want his supply of | meat about the middle of June. Heretofore the citizens of Truckee have been loth to believe the many stories that have been published con- cerning the boring of this tunnel, but since learning that Gould has with- ; drawn from the Harriman crowd and | will build the Western Pacific from | Salt Lake to Oakland, they believe the | Southern Pacific will be ready to meet the time of their competitors when | the Goulds complete their line from | coast to coast. By beginning the work | SELECT | the tunnel bored by the time the | Western Pacific is driving the last spike at Oakland, thus enabling { Harriman to go his competitors one | better by the time their road is com- | pletea. RALLROAD MEN IN CONVENTION PORTLAND, May 9.—The Order of ‘Railroad Conductors began its thir- tieth session in this city to-day, Grand Chief Conductor E. E. Clark presiding. The reports of the grand officers were submitted and commitees were ap- pointed. The only business not of a routine character transacted to-day was the postponement for another two vears of the proposition to change the convention from once in two years to once in three. | Consjderable interest is being de- veloped in the selection for the next place meeting. Cineinnati, Boston and Memphis, Tenn., are making vigorous efforts to secure the conven- tion. o S e, i i NINE THOUSAND CHILDREN SENATOR CLARK'S GUESTS | Entertained at a Park Near Butte | at the Exnense of the Mil- | lionaire. BUTTE, Mont., May 9.—About 9000 children were the Arbor day guests of Senator W. A. Clark to-day at the | Columbia Gardens. { forming the main divide of the Rocky | Mountains, about three miles south- | east of Butte, to the children for the day. Special trains were run over the Oregon Short Line, the Northern Pa- cific, the Butte, Anaconda and Pa- | tots collected from every point in the county. were turned over to | everything being free for the ones, including the icecream saloon, the soda water booths and the the merry-go-round, etc. —_—ee————— | %S“'ALLO\\'S A MOUTHFUL | Lather’s Throat Is Punctured and He Also Suffers Brain Concus- sion. TRINIDAD, Colo., May 9.—W. L. | Courtney, a lather, s in the Sisters’ | Hospital here, suffering from concus- sion of the brain and with probably half a dozen lath nails lodged in his throat. Courtney fell from a Scaffold at the in, and his head struck on a, beam twenty-five feet below. mouthful of lath nails when he fell. Upon regaining consciousness he com- plained of severe pains in his throat. { He remained conscious only a short | time and is now delirious. His con- dition is serious. He is about 85 years old and unmarried. 5 ———————————— EMPTY AUTO ON A WILD CHASE THROUGH STREETS Machine Spreads,Terror in Portland, Me., Finally Plunging Off an Embankment. PORTLAND, Me., May 9.—A large touring automobile, just purchased by W. B. Thombs, caused much excite- finally destroyed itself. A few hours after Thombg the car it suddenly started in front of his home on the Eastern prome- | nade, and, with no one in it, whizzed lat top speed for a mile along the promenade; running over and slightly injuring one man, causing two run- aways and scattering people right and left. Finally the machine s: ed to the left and out of the street and plunged off a forty=foot embankment to the railiway tracks, near which it brought up a total wreck. —_——— WEDS DEAD WIFE'S SISTER AND STEALS HER MONEY CHICAGO, May 9»—:‘1‘& fimelh Fischer Hoch resumed her testimony i to-day in the trial of Johann Hoch. lher immediately after the @death of her sister, of his success in obtaining ssession of her money after she E:d married him-at Joliet, Ili., and of how Hoch had then fled from Chi- 0. a‘l)r. Lewke of ‘the medical staff of | |the Cm-nner‘l office was the last wit- day. He swore that in his | the death of Mrs. Welcker- by arsenical pol- s S at once the Southern Pacific can have | The gardens are | located on the side of the mountains and Senator Clark’s | street railway system was turned over | cific and the Great Northern, and the | The gardens in their entirety | the children, | little | cafe, ! OF NAILS DURING FALL | Columbian Hotel yesterday afternoon, | J. | where a new stairway was being put He had a | 1 bought The witness told how Hoch had wooed | TERROR KILLS YOUNG WOMAN Colorado Miss Thrown Into Convulsions by the Fear of a Surgical Operation DIES IN A FEW MINUTES |Ordeal She Dreaded Only a Simple One Involving No Risk of Her Life — Epecial Dispatch to The Call COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 9. One of the saddest deaths in the his- tory of Colorado Springs and one of the §strangest cases in the experience of jany of the physicians called was that of Miss Susie Herrin, who died at the home of her mother, 314 East Monu- | ment street, yesterday morning at 5:30 | o’'clock. The/ girl is declared by the | physicians in atendance to have died | from fright. | ~Miss Herrin was 19 years of age and i in perfect health until yesterday. She {showed signs of nervousness in the ‘morrmg. and her mother decided to | send for a physician. When the girl | learned that a physician was coming | her condition became more serious, and | when the doctor arrived and reported that treatment in the nature of a slight operation would be necessary the | young woman went into hysteries and convulsions, and another physician | was summoned. The two worked des- | perately to bring her out of the gerious | condition, but were unable to relieve | her. | Efforts to induce respiration by arti- ficial means were resorted to, and final- ly a third physician was called. The | | efforts of the doctors were continued | for nearly an hour and a half, but were utterly unavailing, and the girl died a half-hour later in convulsions. An autopsy performed upon the body 1showed that the direct cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage, induced by fright. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence. Miss Herrin was well known to the young peovle of the city and was a student of the high school last year. She was very handsome. The physicians unite in saying that there is no other exvlanation for her ; death than that it was caused by ter- ror due to fear of a simple operation. e SPOKANE PASTOR WANTS BOWLING ALLEY IN CHURCH ‘Hls Idea Is to Interest Young Men and Women of Congre- gation. ? SPOKANE, Wash, May 9.—Dr. Henry 1. Rasmus of the First Meth- odist Church in Spokane is agitating the proposition of installing a bowling alley in the basement of the new church about to be erected by his so- ciety. His 1dea is to interest young men and provide amusement and en- tertainment for them, believing that bowling alleys conducted under the auspices of the church would be pleas- ant for the young men and also inter- est young women. Dr. Rasmus would also provide other games, and, in fact, make a recreation-room of the new church basement. ISLANDERS REFUSE | TO WORK ON CANAL l.\'anvcs From Buhnmns Object to Laboring in Swamp and | Rebel. | COLON. May 9.—Fifty Inagua Isl- 25 they are certainly extra good LARGE AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSES—With buds and foli- age; the same as exclusive mil- liners ask' 1.00 and 1.25 for. Out to-day for first 59c time at. Another table contains hundreds of AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSES, 3 in a bunch, and of- fered at 25¢ and 39€ a bunch. The constant coming of new goods crowds the old things out. That is how it happens that we offer Children’s A Rl - That were formerly -35¢ and 30c. They are /all soiled from han- dling, but none so badly but what one application of soap and water will make them look as fresh as ever. Some bretelle style, some trimmed with embroidery. New Corsets The best models in four depend- able lines—the W. B, the R. & X B.’a La Spirite and Thompson's Glove Fitting; we have them all and for all fig- ures at a popular l 50 . price CUSHION SLIPS—Finished on three sides, just leaving an opening to put the cushion in; Oriental patterns; full of color; tasseled corners. Spe- ]9c cial at FREE INSTRUCTIONS IN PYROGRAPHY, under the su- pervision of Monsieur Vernieul; classes every afternoon, I to 3 o’clock. New designs for burning, originated by Mons. Vernieul. |w Black Silk Petticoats at Women who know values will buy them quickly, for with plenty of swish and rustle. MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. EINSTOCK, LUBIN & CO. "\Tflfi SILK HOUSE. GRANT AVE, S. E. COR. GEARY ST. 4.95 for the money. Heavy silk, Accordion pleated flounce. To arouse interest and increase business in the new wash goods section we offer Fine French Organdies al 4oc is the regular price every- where, but we want to be differ- ent—different in a way you’ll ap- preciate. If you want nice material for a dinner dress, an evening waist or costume, this is a good change to get it. Light grounds, with rosebuds amd Persian pat- terns, and black, with bunches of violets. For making skirts and suits for vacation wear we have a fine as- sortment of KNOCKABOUT SUITINGS— In tans, browns, blues, grays and mmtures, that will stand FOREIGN WASH FABRICS— Very choicest run of the looms; sheer -tissue weaves; silky chambrays, with open work stripes and fancy nub etamines. Worth 23c, 35¢ a yard, at WHITE DOTTED SWISS—For waists and children’s dresses; dots as small as.pinhead and as large as a dime. 150 alr&rle:mn Door Panels 75¢, 95¢, 1.50 * Sizes to fit most any door in some one of these three groups; Rococo and Battenberg designs, and many of them to select from. ART BURLAPS—For decorat- ing dens, bungalows cozy cor- ners, and for general drapery purposes; yard wide; about thirty patterns. Yard. l-zc -_ WRITE TO-DAY. who were brought here on the Amer- jcan steamship Advance last Friday and who were detailed to work at the Colon reservoir two miles back of | Monkey Hill station, obstinately re- | fuse to work, claiming that they have to work in mud swamps; that their huts are not fit to live in, and that their food is unsatisfactory. The isl- anders marched in a body yesterday to the British Consulate and laid their complaints before the Vice Consul, who is looking into their grievances. In the meantime the men are idle. ————————— ROME, May 9.—In view of the situation in the island Of Crete the Italian battleship Sardesna and the cruiser Giovanni Bausan have been ordered to go to Sunda Bay, in the northern part of that island. ARCHBISHOP YIELDS TO WISHES OF KAISER Emperor Willlam Fornis Plans to Gradually Germanize the Alsatian Clergy. ROME, May 9.—According to in- structions from the Vatican, the Arch- bishop of Matz has given in to the de- sire of the German Government that the seminarists of Metz should fre- quent the theologican faculty of Strassburg, with the object of grad- ually Germanizing the Alsatian clergy. This move is considered to be par- ticularly important at the present mo- ment in view of the struggle between France and the Vatican. and (Bahamas) contract laborers, i i | I ment in the streets here to-day and | Liquozone, $1.00 size® Liquozone, 50c size Peruna, $1.00 size.... Swamp Swamp Boot . Carter's Pills Laxative Broi Cascarets . Castoria, F1 California Syrup of Figs. ‘Malted Milk, 50c slne.. Powder . No better£ooth powder Dentaline . Choice liquid tooth was| Tooth Brushes. As good @ brush'as yor . Grant's T¢ N Lydia Pinkhnm s Compnund $1. 00 size. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Army Is One Mile Long and Includes Every Kind of Drug Store Goods, Patent Medicines, Family Remedies, Stationery, Etc. 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