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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1903 YOUNG MOTHER TELLS HARROWING STORY. ON GAS. IN. HER - ROOM -+ TURNS + her from her knife while home with drove ¢ in a drunken her 1 by , she her husband, the young has eked out a miser- saker cmployed by the - Coast on Fourth street, between - Folsom and rison. The child- H wife savs he k to excess while she lived with him and went with other women I allowed him to sue for divorce, for hreatened my life if I did not ce.” explains Mrs. Slegrist. The vorce suit is still pending. Mrs. Siegrist says she procured food for herself and baby by stealing canned goods from a friend. friend had helped her in her distress. Crying hunger forced her to steal from her Best friend. Here is the girl-wife's tale, a story of hardship, cruelty and privation un- paralleled fter my husband threw me in the street 1 went to my father, Geofge e ‘T;ies to -End the Misery of Herself | and Baby. “I wanted to kill my baby so it could die with me. T tried to choke it to death. 1 clutched fits little throat with Brivnde a baker, living at 3820 my fingers. Its face got red and It [ Tyonty_fourth street. My father was began to ery, looking into my face | always good to me, but my mother with a pitiful stare. I coulds't do it.|and sisters, except my baby sister, did I released my grip. That mode of mur- | not like me, 1 tried in vain to get work. Every- Then | sat down, | where T went I was refused on account der was too awful. mursed the baby and turmed om the | FTOTE T IR T RS T ARe O T gas. Holding the child tn my arms T|.: 10t found a friend In an old man, drew in the gas in biz gulps. Then all | 64 yvears of age, George Riegling of | was blank.” 4421, Clementina street. For him I Ths ¢ g 2 kept house and the pay I received was oregoin Put a small part ba maredinie | 50 small that T used to steal his pro- S ’)' \lx | visions and take them to my room. We r-old Mrs. lived only on canned goods. People began to talk about me. think, the old man was the one who gz me work when I was in need, and he had little himself. “Riegling wanted me to marry his son. I refused and he got angry. Then | | | her tale of vagaries of suspected cruelts 2 disordered m Marri 15 the un- |y jeft. T hate men, I hate them. This fortunate months | slander about my character cut me to with a br e savs he | tha heart. ‘Have them say to my baby | arrived here. ARTIST DIES WARD OF CITY Mrs. Cecil Romer Expires in County Hospital, Where She Was Left by Brother SECRETS DIE WITH HER Mammy Pleasant’s Devisees Looked Upon Her as Im- portant Witness for Them Mrs. Cecil Romer, who was promi- nent as an artist and also one of the principal witnesses relied upon by L. M. Sherwood and his wife, proponents of the will of the late “Mammy” Pleasant, who made them her sole de- visees, died yesterday at the City and County Hosbpftal. Though she passed away at a charity institution, Mrs. Romer had a brother in Los Angeles, Colonel Edwin R. Fox, a mining man, who is reputed to be wealthy. He was here at the time his sister was sent to the hospital and left her in that institution when he re- turned.to Los Angeles. That which Mrs. Romer would have told in the hearing of the “Mammy” Pleasant will case will perhaps now never be known. The artist had told Sherwood and his wife, so it is said, thiat she would have something im- portant to say on the stand. She had lived for years at 441 Point Lobos ave- nue. Above her lived Mrs. A. J. Street. To Mrs. Street she. said that “Mammy” Pleasant had been in the habit of com- ing to her rooms, stuffing the keyhole in the door with cotton and dictating to her for hours, almost in a whisper. The secret of what she wrote for this mysterious negress who cast her weird spell over a wealthy wiite family has probably died with her. Colonel Fox took nearly all of his sister's effects with him to Los An- geles, saying he was going to fit her up a studio there with her original be- longings. Mrs. Street says he men- tioned finding among the effects eight deeds “that he could not understand.” It is thought these deeds may have come from “Mammy” Pleasant. Mrs. Romer had estranged herself from her relatives, being eccentric, and she had not seen her brother for fif- teen years prior to April 26, when he She had two sisters, one a clerk in the pension office at Wash- a| Since that time the baby was | ung tence. Her food ha been d b abode in dilapidated The husband, Nicholas Siegrist, | | | | This | | choke ner. ington, the other private secretary for wealthy woman. Mrs. Romer was born in New York was 65 years old. Her parents were Southern people. . Dr. Arthur Chisholm has removed from Phe- lan bullding to 1202 Sutter street, northwest corner Polk. Bridge work and porcelain. * P H -+ that her mother was bad? I'd die first. | “I thought the insult more and more | ecruel. 1 was alone. I declded that I | would kill myself and murder the baby. When I got home this afternoon I was seized with a violent impulse to do the deed at once and end all misery for us both. Then I seized the child, clutched her little throat and tried to Her face got red and she { cHed, lookihg into my face with a piti- ful stare. I couldn’t do it. I released my grip. The thought appalled me. 1 sat down, nursed the baby and turned on the gas.” Mrs. Siegrist was found by roomers at 1116 Mission street about 6 o’'cloek last night. She was sent to the Central Emergency Hospital. She begged Dr. Tillman to kill her. “Kill me, kill me,” she shouted. “Oh, let me die. They said I'was 3 bad woman, but they knew not what they said. Oh God, let me die. Take care of my baby. Educate her and keep her good and pure.” Screaming and fighting the young mother, writhing in agony, was treated lagainst her will. The surgeons strapped her to a bed so that she might not do herself bodily harm, for she said she would will herself should she again get a chance. “But I won’t kill | i my baby; let her live, she is good; they say I'm bad. Oh God!” and the patient struggled to free herself from the straps. > Later the child was brought to its mother. She clasped the baby to her breast and sobbed herself to sleep, while the little one innocently munched a piece of bread, cooed, and with its little hands toyed with its mother's hair. in 75 Styles of Regal ANKLE-FIT ‘PEG’ One of the snap- piest models of the year. A great favorite with young business and college Metal, Russet and Patent % Leathers, with light extension soles and military heels. The new Regal Oxfords are most remarkably different from any other line of low-cut shoes that can be shown to you. 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The largest retail sh. business the world. 93 stores i principal cities from London to Bo:n !‘rtn:ll:‘fi': THE SHOE THAT San Francisco: fet Brvee 820 Market Street 17 O'Parrell Street Oakland Stors. 33 Sen Pablo Avenue REGAL PROVE TANNERY TO CONSUMER s | $3.50| R B -| maintenance, supplies and sataries of nurses, ' Million Dollars for Improve- ~ ments. " 7AX RATE $1.16 Geary - Street Road to Be Bought. REPORT FILED o BT The Board of Supervisors yesterday recelved from the Finance Committee the draft of the proposed ordinance fix- ing the appropriations to be allowed each department of the city govern-| ment during the next fiscal year and making a municipal budget of the same. The ordinance makes a total ap- ! propriation of $7,287,000, which necessi- tates a tax rate of $107 on every $100 ©of assessed valuation, based on esti- mated asscssment of $510,000,000. In- cluded in this amount is $357,000 for the maintenance of the parks, which under the charter is outside of the dol- lar limit. To the amount enumerated must be added the sum of $477,000, to be raised for bond redemption and in- terest fund, which will necessitate the levy of an additional 9.36 cents, thus making the total tax levy for municipal purposes for 1905-1906 the sum of $1.1636 on every $100. The Finance Committee sets aside the sum of nearly $1,000,000 for mew per- manent improvements, of which $350,000 is for the conversion of the Geary- street road into an electric municipal street railroad system and the con- struction of a mew road In connection therewith along Point Lobos avenue, | from Fifth to Tenth avenues, and along Tenth avenuc to Fulton street. The sum of $150,000 set aside last year for a Twin Peaks nuxiliary water supply system Is reappropriated. | Other improvements designated are as follows: Purchase of land for preserving Telegraph | Hill, $25,000; improvement of Precita Valley | swamp, $15 at San Jose and Mount Vernon avenu acquirement of land for St. Mary's square, ¥25,000; restoration of pavement on Fourth street from Howard to Townsend. 3$1(,600; approach to new -Third- street bridge. $12,000; convenience station south of Market street, $7500; removal of bluff at Twentieth and ~Kentucky streets, $7500; completing paving of Mission street to county line. ST000; purchase of land from Sev- enteenth street to Corbett road, $5000: safety stations on Market striet at Battery, Mont- gomery, Grant avenue and Mason, $5250; ex- tension’ of Piedmont street, $4000; extenston of Manchester street, $1500; bronze balustrade in rotunda of City Hall, $4000; additional street signs, §1000; culverts or bridges in the University Mound .district, $1250; police $ta- tion on Bush street near Polk, $20,000; engine- house in House of Correction district, §18,000; firehouse on Presidio Helghts, $18.000; com- pleting park on Dolores stréet, $1000; improve- ment of proposed road from Ocean avenue and Corbett road to the county line, §! 3 ol plant i the City Hall, $2500; repairing Cor- bett, Ocean. San Bruno, San Jose, Point ‘Lo- bos and View avenues, $12,000; oiling county roads, $5000; improving streets in front of city property, including the paving of Baker street between Oak and Fell, §25,000. REPAIRS TO BUILDINGS. Repairs _to public buildings other than schools, $78,260; repairs to Fourth and Sixth street bridges, $6000; repairs to bituminous pavements, $40,000; repairs to basalt and cob- Dble streets, $51,500; cleaning and repairing of sewers, - §§5,000; improvements to streets -on water 'front, $5000; improvement of Berry street between Second and Third, $1500; to widen Mission street between Silver avenue and Tingley street, $1500. ‘When the ordinance was read by title by the clerk of the Board of Supervisors Boxton wanted to know if any of the other committees of the board had been | consulted in the compilation of the budget. Brandenstein replied that the Finance Committee had labored long and hard the document which was now submiMed to the hoard for its consider- ) ation. The ordinance contains the in-| junction in several places = that the amounts appropriated for salaries are to be expended for civil service emploves only. The ordinance also specifies in de- | tall the number of emploves for which | provision is made, notably in the case of | those of the department of electricity. | Among the appropriations recommended | are the following: Finance committee for experting the books, accounts and proceedings of public officers and the books of corsorations having dealings with the city government, $5000; completing purchase of burial ground for the indigent dead in Ean_ Mateo Countt, $5000: sanitary measures in Chinatown, $1500; stationery and printing, $31,500; purchase of book typewrit- ing machines, £1200; for printing report Civic Architect D. H. Burnham. $3000: furni- ture for public buildings, 81: i expenses connected _with the acquirement 'of public utilitice, $5000; Grand Jury expenses, $2000; Jater for public buildings excepting schools, §14,000; hydrants, §50,000: ligbting strests and public bulldings, '$320,000: additional clerk for Auditor, §1200: additional cieark for Treasur- er, §1200; salary of an extra Assistant District Attorney, $3000, and extra bookkeeper, $1200: salaries Justices of the Peace in accordance with law Increasing the same, together with clerk and assistants, $26,400; additional guards and van driver for Sheriff, $3300; maintenance of jails, S TEN EXTRA POLICEMEN. The Police Department is allowed $734,400 for 600 patrolmen; $12,240 for ten additional patrolmen besides appropriations for the regu- lar_complement of commissioned officers. The Health Department gets $7200 for san-' itary fnspection, £5020° for plumbing fospec- tion, $2400 for food inspection, $3600 for dairy inspecticn, 86000 for market ‘inspection, $36,420 for salaries of employes of the emerzency and insane detentjon hospitals, §10,240 for malnte- nance of the emergency hospitals. k| The City and County Hospital ic allowed | $22.400 for wages of attendants, $99,100 for ) §6000 for ward equipment, $5000 for tents for + Luberculous patients and’ §2400 for chapiain | serviee, The 'Department of Electricity Is_allowed $18,780 for salaries of main office, $12.720 for salarfes of fire telegraph office,’ $10,740 for salaries of machine shop, $19,440 for salari on outside constructic 80 for new equly ment and addition ‘to system, $1500 hauling underground : outside work. The Fire Department receives $747,630 for , salaries, $6720 for n‘!?m- of new company in | Richmond District, §7600, for extra five days’ v:mhm. making fifty-one days in all. £103,500 for expenses and maintenance, $18,800 for two new engines, one truck and one chemical en- gine. Besides the regular salaries, the Department of Elections gets ,400 for nl“&lnlry«axl;rtl. es p- $47.330 for general exprmses $53,1 or Sighty voting machinés I addition” to the forty now o by the cjty. ; + SALARIES IN Wi BOARD. . ‘The appropriations for salaries of the main otfice of the Board of Warks | as last year and $47,105 is asi service. bureau of streets FINNCE_ COMMITTEE SUBMITS CITYIUNGER MAKES BUDGET TO SUPERVISORS. property, '$58,000; appropriation of the city toward payment 'of salarfes and expenses, ,000; repairs and sanitary plumbing to fifty schools, $100,000; total §1,505,000. For salarles and maintenance of public libra- ries $76,500 is allowed, and the park fund is fixed at $357,000. Accompanying the budget was the re- port of the Finance Committee thereon, in which reasons are assigned for the varjous appropriations. The report says in part: TO OPERATE ROAD. In order to make effective the declaratory ordinance recently passed the sum of $350,000 is set aside for the reconstruction and con- version by the municipality of the Geary street road into an electric road with an under- ground conduit system. The road thus to be constructed will begin at Kearny and Market streets and extend along Geary street .to Fifth avenue and along Point Lobos avenue to Tenth avenue and along Tenth avenus to Fulton street and Golden Gate Park. This appropriation will permit the actual opera- tion of the road In the early part of the fiscal year of 1906-7 by the purchase in that year of the necessary rolling stock and other equipment. That the commercial progress of the city is dependent in a great measure upon the efficiency of its transportation facilitles is obvious. And it is equally obvious that we should rest content with nothing but the best of such facilities. The unwillingness or in- ability of private corporations to give us the service to which we are entitled leaves the city no_alternative. The appropriation of $25,000 is for the pur- pose of preventing the destruction of homes by blasting operations and to preserve Tele- graph Hill as an historic and esthetic land- mark. There can be no doubt as to the wis- dom of the policy of preserving this hill The board, of course, does mot concern itselt alone for the immediate commercial needs of the city. but must also be guided largely by intelligent ideas for its beautification. ~The hill is picturesque to a degree and known to the seafarers the world over as a distinctive and inspiring feature of our harbor. The loss of the hill would be irreparable. This is in line_with the present movement guided by D. H. Burnham of Chicago for the adornment of our city. To bring the school buildings in a better state of repair and sanitation we have specif- ically segregated from the school appropria- tion the sum of $100,000 to be devoted ex- clusively for that purpose. It must be re- membered that in addition to the allowances in the budget there will inure to the benefit of the school department for the construction of mew school buildings a sum in excess of §1,000.000 already realized out of the sale of municipal bonds and avallable for the pur- pose. HANDICAP. Your committee directs your attention spe- cifically to the fact that by recent State legislation respecting the school department the revenues of the municipality were cut down by about a quarter of a milllon dollars. This handicap your committee has sought by every means within its power to offset and has endeavored to meet carefully and fully the malntenance needs of every department and to provide for important public improve- ments. In conclusion your committee submits that an examination of the proposed budget will disclose that of the amount of the rev- enues ralsed by the dollar tax between 19 and 20 cents has been get aside for permanent improvements and repairs in the nature of public improvements. No action was taken on the ordinance as recommended by the Finance Commit- tee. The board adjourned to meet this evening at 8 o'clock, when taxpayers will be given an opportunity to be heard as to their desires for improvements. The budget will in all likelihood be passed to prirt in the shape as presented by the Finance Committee. Two hundred copies | bave already been printed for distribu- tion and more will come from the printer to-day. An attempt will be thade to pass the ordinance to print Thursday evening or on next Monday. ‘A week later it will be finally passed and then will go to the Mayor, who has the power to veto spe- cific items therein if he so chooses. It will take the votes of fourteen Super- visors to override the Mayor's veto of any item. —_———— Millinery Sale. Miss I. E. Connor will offer to the la- dies of San Francisco her entire stock of trimmed Hats, Toques, Bonnets, both French and domestic, at half their reg- ular value. Sale beginning Monday, 9 a. m., 138 Geary street. L4 ——————————— Pleads in Vain for Her Child. The only time that Mrs. Dottie Her- rick, who is held in the detention ward at the City Hall, showed any symptoms of insanity yesterday was when they tried to take her nine-year-old daugh- ter -from her. Then she became vio- lent and her shrieks rang through the hospital. “My husband has deserted me; let me have my little girl,” she pleaded. The woman came here several days ago from Oakland. She was charged with insanity by her brother- “in-law, S. J. Herrick. The child was given in charge of Mrs. J. Hayes of 1101 Thirty-second street, Oakland. Mrs. Herrick will be examined by the Insanity Commissioners to-day. : — e —— “No victories are accomplished with- out enthusiasm”; but you can’t be en- husiastic in a straitjacket. Give our advertising “elbow room,” or you can’t put much enthustasm into it. —e————— Spring Valley Enjoins City. United States. Circuit Judge Morrow vesterday issued an injunction res straining the Mayor and Supervisors of this city from enforcing the water or- dinance for the ensuing fiscal year. The" Spring Valley Water Company filed a bond of $200.000. The Contra Costa. Water Company filed a suit in the 'United States Cir- cuit Court asking that the authorities of the city of Oakland be restrained from enforcing the water rate ordin- ance for 1905-06. An order to show cause was issued, returnable on May 81 —_—————————— MURINE EYE REMEDY cures Eyes; makes Weak KEyes Strong. Soothes Eyo Pain. Doesn’t Smart. 3 Tries to End AlL Patrick Terry, living at 614 Howard street, attempted to commit suicide last night. He was found lying at Third and Vernon streets, writhing in' agony. He was taken to the Emergency Hos- pital by Policeman Nolan. On the way to the hospital Terry drew a pocketknife and attemnted to stab him- self. Nolan caught Terry’s arm in time to stop the deed. Dr. Tillman pumped Terry's stomach out. Des- spondency, due to drink, caused the deed. ' * —_——————— Order your wedding cake boxes from Ed- ward Knowles Company, 24 Second st. . “'li Give a Military Ball. A militaty ball will be ‘given next Saturday evening by Company A, First Infantry Regiment, National Guard of Califorpia, at the Armory, Page and Gough/ streets. UP SHORTACE Hands Sack of Gold to Colonel Billy Hamilton in Full of All Demands | EXPRESSES HIS REGRETS | Collector Relates How He| Ordered Investigation to Be Made in the Accounts The trial of Cress Unger, former seizure clérk in the Custom-house, was resumed yesterday before United States District Judge de Haven and a Jury. United States District Attorney Devlin took an active part in the pro- ceedings, assisting Assistant United States Attorney Charles M. Fickert, who has been put in charge. Frederick S. Stratton, Collector of the Port, sat | by the side of the prosecuting officers and frequently advised with them. The wife, daughter and son of the de- fendant occupied seats in the court- room. Bert Schlesinger of counsel for Unger was assisted by Attorney Seth Mann, a life-long friend of the defendant. Willlam Hamilton, special deputy, told how he had met Unger by appoint- ment on October 16 last year. It was on a Sunday, and Unger informed him that he had failed to deposit certain money with the cashier, but would do So on the following day. On the Tues- | day following Unger said he was go- ing to resign and handed over to Mr. | Hamilton a sack containing $1505 in | gold coin, which was in full of all de- | mands that could be made against him by the Government. Clement G. Perkins, cashier of the Custom-house, testified that Unger de- | posited money with him every day. Ellis A. Holmes testified that on Oc- tober 24 he was detailed to take charge of the seizure-room. Unger told him that fhere had been a shortage and that he expected to resign and go into business. The witness had a conver- sation with him at his house later, when Unger expressed regret that the thing had happened. Collector Stratton, on being recalled, said that Unger had asked his permis- sion to remain in the office for a while, | for if he should absent himself abrupt- | ly the newspaper reporters would no- tice it and then the whole matter might become public. The witness allowed him. to remain until October 20, but did not permit him to perform any of the duties of the office. The witness then told of his having started the Investigation on September | 30. That was a holiday and the wit- ness went to his office for the purpose | of consulting data as material for a speech to be delivered by him. He | found Mr. Farmer there and while they were talking a package of money came up from the Postoffice to be checked by the seizure clerk and then sent down | to the cashier. “I told Mr. Farmer that that was against my positive instructions and I | demanded of him that he should begin an investigation of the accounts of the seizure clerk's office,” added Mr. Stratton. The trial will be resumed at 11 a. m. to-day. ———— PERSONAL. G. K. Gilbert of the United States Geological Survey arrived at the Ocei- dental yesterday. J. M. Gardiner, who is connected with the electric supply company of Monterey, is staying at the Grand. J. B. Pearson, a mining man of Nome, is at the Grand. J. A. Day and J. R. Ager of New York arrived at the St. Francis last night. J. Sloat Fassett of New York, who is largely interested in California mining and owns several ranches in the West, arrived here yesterday and is at the St. Francis. J. A. Graves, president of the Farm- ers’ and Merchauts’ Bank of Los An- geles, and wife are at the St. Francis. Milton W. Smith, an attorney of Port- land, is at the St. Francis. George M. Band, a Chicago business man, is at the Palace. B. R. Baumgardt, a well-known pub- lisher of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. J. A. Monroe, freight trafic manager of the Union Pacific Railroad; T. M. Schumacher, traffic manager of the Ore- gon Short Line; J. A. Reeves, assistant general freight agent, and C. J. Me- Nitt, auditor of the same line, arrived here yesterday for the purpose of tak- ing part in the conference between of- ficlals of the Salt Lake road and the Southern Pacific relative to an inter- change of traffic between them. J. S. Leeds, general manager of the refrigra- tor car department of the Santa Fe, which is also involved in the squabble between the roads, also arrived here yesterday from Chicago and will be fol- lowed to-day by Assistant Freight Trafic Manager Edward Chambers. It is proposed by the Salt Lake road of- ficials to settle all matters in dispute at this conference, which will last several days. —— Troubles of the Married. Judge Sloss granted a decree of di- vorce yesterday to Emma McNaughton from Harry McNaughton for extreme cruelty and failure to provide. L. Ras- mussen was granted a decree from Carrie E. Rasmussen for desertion. The petition of Jerome S. Childs for a trans- fer for trial in Shasta County of the suit for divorce filed against him by Edith G. Childs was granted by Judge Graham. Mrs. Childs opposed the mo- tion on the claim that her husband de- sired a change of venue only for the purpose of annoying her, but the court found that such was not the case. Suits for divorce were flled by Marea Eliza Stevinson against Willlam W. Stevinson for desertion, Annie M. McCann against John McCann for cruelty, Lucile V. Lynch against William J. Lynch for cruelty, Harry Westayer against Vic- tory Westayer for cruelty, William Ferrier against Louisa Ferrier for de- ertion, and Robert J. Reid against | Minnie C. Reid for desertion. | Attorney O’Grady rese in his wrath an | Rebstock. MAY BE FINED FOR CONTEMPT Joseph Rebstock’s Attorney Complains to Judge Lawlor Ahout Fairfax Wheelan WILL FILE AFFIDAVITS Asserts an Attempt Is Made to Impress Jury That Wit- ness Is Not Telling Truth The prosecution closed its case yester- day afternoon against Joseph Rebstock, indicted for violation of the election law when an officer of a primary election precinct. While Fred Hancock, the first Wwitness for the defense, was testifying, said that Fairfax H. Wheelan was ma ing noises with his mouth and shaking his head so as to impress the jury with the fact that the witness was not telling the truth. The Judge said it was wrong for Wheelan to do that, and O’Grady saild he would file affidavits in the morn- ing bearing out his statement. Wilber C. Knox, Fairfax H. Wheslan and Albert E. Whitney testified to votes being challenged and to Rebstock’s re- fusal to administer the oath. They also testifled to the vile language used by Wheelan said that Rebstock had remarked that they could send him to the State's prison if they liked, but he | would not administer the cath. When a challenge was made as to an inmate of the Almshouse, Rebstock would say, “Oh, ——, he'll vote, anyway.” Attorney Newburg, in his opening statement for the defense, asserted he wouild prove that there was a _conspiracy on the part of Wheelan, Hazell and Fitzgerald to prevent inmates im the Almshouse from voting. The defendant was employed in the Street-sweeping De- partment by Mayor Schmitz, and therein lay “the milk of the cocoanut.” The de- fendant had been so harassed and an- noyed by so many challenges that he might have used strong language. He would also prove that the challenges were not properly made. Fred Hancock, janitor at the Mer- chants’ Exchange, was the first witness for the defense. He was one of the judges at the Almshouse booth and re- mained from the opening of the polls tiil the votes were counted. He declared that Rebstock was administering the oath all the time. His examuiation was not concluded when court adjourned till | this morping. Frank A. Maestretti, Commissioner of Public Works, was an Interested specta- tor in court. His case was called yester- day mo:ning ard was set for trial on May 31. He was indicted for fraudulently attempting to induce a person to give false testimony. The trial was set for May 31 under the objection of his attor- ney, who wanted an earlier hearing. ADVERTISEMENTS. AN AWFUL SKIN DISEASE Sores Covered Neck and Cheeks— ltched Day and Night — Noth- ing Did Me Any Good —Was Growing Worse. CURED BY CUTICURA AT COST OF $4.50 Miss Nellie Vander Wiele, of Lake- side, N. Y., writing under date of April 18, 1904, says: ‘I do wish you would publish this letter in the news- pers, so that others suffering as I g:ve may see it and be helrd. 1 suf- fered for many months with an awful skin disease, sores covering my ears, neck, and cheeks. Scabs would form and they would swell, and itch da; and night. Then they would open and blood and matter run out. I had tried many different remedies, but nome of them did me any good. 1 was growing worse when I tried the Cuticura Remedies. The first application helped me, and when I used two cakes of Cuticura Soa: three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, I was completely cured.” TORTURING, DISFIGURING human cope with them. That Cuticura Soa Ointment, andm are 5, proven doubt testi- mony of the civilized world. Cutieurs, Soap, and Pills are. ST SR THOMAS MAGEE & SONS Real Estate Agents § Monigomery Strest, San Francisca, it et 1 Sl