The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1905, Page 6

THE SAN.FRANCISCO ‘CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1905. +N —— EWS OF THE CO PLANT DOCTORS TO STUDY | BAFFLING LEMON —_——— Noted Experts Will Grapple With | New Pest. UCH ACTIVITY IN MUSIC AND ART CIRCLES OAKLAND, May 29.—While society is divid- g ite time between xmall functions and the 1 buflder of gowns for the summer the sic studios and ataliers are v preparation for musicales and number of delightful affairs are for this week, the most important opening reception which the Palette, n Club will give in its cozy new Thirteenth street next Friday Federal Authorities Render Aid to | * the State. outing, scenes of bul exhibits. A | being Lyre | Mr. W. E. Rollins, who has just om an extended stay among the In- Arizona, will be the club's honored’ the interesting collection of his e result of his visit there—will be dreadful ble the the KELEY RTowe: ces o 1 exhibition. he rooms of the Palette, Lyre and Pen Club fl ctric reflectors for purposes, time to time the of art will be shown ,there, filling t pas long been felt in Oakland art | ier Martinez and C. P. Nellson, mibers of the club and prominent paint- | give exhibits in the near future. The h e privilege of visiting the s pictures | Miss will preside at the meet- y night, ch promises to be one t important In the history of the Pro icultur- to wipe Grace iday evening also the Hughes Club ‘will an event that always attracts crowd glive & a large lay evening there will be two mu- more than ordinary interest. ase Hall, Miss Marion Fitton, nd girl and a graduate of the Conservatory of Music, will give being assisted by her sister, a plano recital Miss Agnes Fitton, who is said to b2 a very ! and two well-known sing- e ® are sufficient to insure a pleasant evening—Miss Violet Albright and Lowell Redfleld. O Wednesday evening aiso, the Prelude nted band of embryo musiclans, Club, that tal nd of ¢ will give its first evening con e Balette, Lyre and Pen Club. Each of the members will contribute to the programme and their parents will be tje guests The “afterncon of music” on Thursday at the home of Mrs. . 8. Stiles, on Telegraph avenue. is @nother event that is beiug anticl- pated with pleasurable interest. Mrs. Olive Reed Cushman, whose beautiful contralto is t P always & source of delight, and Mrs. John F. e o hOTILeS | Barnett, who is a pupll’of Mrs. Cushman mber of names for and the happy possessor of an unusually sweet will supply the vocal music. Mre. will €ing two compositions of Oscar Weil's, “'Spring’’ and “Autumn,” with violin cbligato by Mrs \. Ewer. E. G, Strick- len, who plays very well, will render some Schumann selections. The concert will be for the bepefit of the building fund of the First Baptist Church. will College sopr. Barne hands c Whi Among the June brides will be a trio from DR ool Department, Mics Gertrude S California; pear. . Miss Blanche Fry and Mrs. Edythe & and sweet,/ pota Mrs. Chisholm's marriage with Woife bhas been set for June 7 at the F.C W on Thirteenth such. better f Mrs. F. C. Watson, on cs s sort when e 14th Miss Fry will wed Harry Ellis e new [ ogical laboratory es- Theirs is to be quite an elaborate af- blished in Southern fornia, the | fair, a large number of friends having been in- g ropriatec - e the reception. isl e g appropriated $30 tted U T ERSsa Hibberd and Edward plight their troth on June 27 at the ‘bride’s A site w ted | home on Vernon Heights. . ore able Miss Winifred Osborne of the high school g re- | department, ghose engagement to . Everett Brown was gecently announced, will also be | ently of the lab- | SrORE Y e I n all probability, as the home prajec s money is t0 |y Brown is building in Piedmont is almost | xpended by e as 500N 4S | finished. e o5 the N e in experiments that are < % haswept_for. Jums is Dot Smces. Y 2 g e O Tray- nection with | teachers alon Miss Helen Chase and lor Bell will wed early in the month of roses, [and Miss Trma Betten of Alameda has select- 4 the 14th of June on which to marry Earl eferred to. Smith’s Professor work 1 lark, a young business man of Pomona. - blight | o TN I by g\{ { Miss Helen Chase will entertain a dozen Ph | g1 friends at luncheon next Thursddy, and on Friday Miss Georgie Strong will entertain, also at luncheon, in honor of Miss Ethel Whit- ney. on pear come out this | the work done | and will upon i T S y On next Thursday evening a qulet little wedding will take place at the home of Dr. W. O'Rourke, when his brother, Laurence O'Rourke, will wed M odiey. 'Rev. Father Lally, a close friend of the family, is coming from San Jose to officiate at the cergmony. PERSONAL. Dr. J, Louis D. Manson of Philadel- phia is at the St. Francis. J. H. Roberts of Sacramento regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. Dr. Noah, an eminent surgeon of | Berlin, and wife are at the St. Francis. Dr. Mrs. William D. King of LABOR NEWS. ay AWhether or not a against the local res- UNION dey afternoon The members of Typographical Union No. 36 and hive pgssed resolutions against the unrestrict- | pirrs s ed immigration of Japanese and Korean la. | Fittsburg are régistered.at the Palace. borers. A. B. Donald, a ppominent fruit im- S e porter in Auckland, is at ~ the St. ALLEGES SHE WAS NOT DIVORCED. | Francis. o OAKLAND, May 20.—New evidgnoe ‘has been Mockler, president of the First Introduced in support of the maHOm t5 NON: | a Cien gl o b ationdl Bank of Nez Perces, -Idaho, is staying at the Pajace. Alénzo Tripp, manager of-the Tono- pah' railroad, ‘and | the Palace yesterday.fram Neveda, suit Mre. Charlotte Arthurs in her sult against the Oakland Traction .Consolidateg for $16,000 damages. The nomsuit is asked on the grounds | that Mrs. Arthur, who sues under the name of her first husband, wds never divorced from Peter J. her gecond husband. . » Mrs aime that she was granted | T. B. Walker, the millioMaira timber e Fomanamiion in Blackburd Lan- | man of Minpesota, and bis son, Gilbert have been burned. Atto | Walker; are .registered -at the St. the Oakland Traction Company, intro- | Francis. 4 4 e g B r;”{;_f;:g;l Claus ‘Spreckels. returned ygsterday A. W. Postlethwaite and John A. Wrlght of | from.. a several weeks” ‘visit to the thé firflwf Wright who testified that there was pot and nev C B hac been a divorce court in Blackbutn. | TSt ahd‘recreatian. p g nrnBeisth Smensaos | , Among yedterday’s arrivals from the T CONFISCATED TRRu wyns,— [ Antipoder o o stoamahip Sagoms OAKLAND, Ma$ 29.—The police hold a lot- M;‘ _%“m" : :"m,'e odsxe - ;’; g tery ticket, seiged during % recent raid on | €MJO¥{Ng a trip aydend the world. deslers, that calls for a §7500 prize, according | Colonel Daniel Burhs, Sthe *well- e P W of the company | known mining man, who has been ab- g 18: “Who owns the tickes?" eent ih Mexico for nearly two,years, n Perry, a West Oakland saloonkeeper, | returned to San Francisco yesterday. P e ‘{‘;; Ye \:x;;“ "k_;;" '1{0;"*:; Colonel James Busns, who is a prom- - demand. insisting that the Jttie | inent shipping man of Sidney, amrived traband and must be desmoyed. | here yesterday on the steamship So- T Weaneeday tor uch, ude | noma and |¢ staying at the' St. Francis. & lottery tickets. WM #1 W.oR. Scott of Salt Lake, who is to succeed -Division Spperifitéhdant Pal- mer- of - the. Southern ‘Pacific at Oak- land, and H. V. Platt of -the same city, Lukens of San | Hawaiian 4slands, whither he went’ for police, dispute i s Perry's George Samu: charge of selll TELEPHONES SHE IS WED. ~ D, May 28.—Without infosming her her of her intention Miss Jennie M. An- | who' is toe take _Superinfendent In man. formerly of Berkeley, now engagea i | 1 this city Inst might. = Flast wilk go’ Lusinoss in Goldfield, Nev! The ceremony | to Los Angeles %to-day by f the was performed by the Rev. Charles T. Walk. | Coast Line. - s < g Jey. at hig h 1162 $arrison street. After | e 3 A the marriage Mre. Whitman notified her mbther | W. B. How general appraisér, and Ly telephone thai the ceremony. had been per- B. A: Levitt, an attorney of: the: Treas- ;wnn—d 'Hlledfl)'(vdune couple will make their | yry Departmant, arrived .af-the-St. e ‘n G e ’ - e e pome ‘n Gol Francis Yesterday, from Washington, WILL HONOR JUDGES.—Oakland, May 20. | 1hey ar® here in’&chnection: awith: the The Alameds County Bar Association will| Spki cases{ whereth 1t 1s"* charged e & banguet Friday evening at the Athenian that the local customs ©fficials hi lub in honor of Judge Samuel P. €all of the | gy 19 have . riminatéd against ‘“Japanese mer- District Appeliate Court and Judge Willls . . H Waste, who succeeded Judge Hall on the | chanig in the matter of lévying duties bench of Alameda County on- importafipns. ., S THE WHOLESOME : BAKING POWDER: | stayed away for ten months. Wife Alleges Husband Made Her Cease Attending Her Weekly Religious Worship NOW SHE ASKS DIVORCE John H. Delahanty Granted Decree From Spouse Who Left Him Ten Years Ago OAKLAND, May 20.—Refusal to go to church with her and acts of cruelty, together with his final desertion of her, are the basis of a suit for divorce by Annie L. Barry, who flled suit to-day against David J. Barry, a carriage maker to whom she was married on April 20, 1902, Within a few months | after thelr marriage, the plaintiff al- leges, he refused to accompany her to church and took such a dislike to the members of the congregation of a Christian church to which she belong- ed that he called them all ‘“crazy fools” and told her that if she attend- ed worship any more he would leave her. She said that she believed it her duty to go and trled to reason with him, but to no purpose, and finally she But this obedience to his wishes did not have the effect of bringing peace between her and her husband, Mrs. Barry com- plains. One day, in a fit of anger, he kicked her in the stomach and finally left her, the complaint further sets forth. She asks to be allowed to re- sume her maiden name of Annie L. Rainey. Effie Runde has begun divorce pro- ceedings against W. F. Runde, to whom she was married at Mill Valley in 1900. She says that he deserted her in May, 1904, while they weére living at Ala- meda. She also asks for the custody of their boy, 22 months old. John H. Delahanty was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from Margaret C. Delahanty to-day by Judge Melvin on the ground of desertion. They were married in 1882 and she left him ten years ago. ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS, PRODUCE STORE ENTERED.—Oakland, May 20.—W. G. Manuel's produce store, 334 Eleventh street, was entered last night by burglars, who stole a quantity of merchandise. HELD ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE.— Oakland, May 20.—W. §. Guest, charged with embezzling & music box from Sherman, Clay Co., has been held on $1000 bonds for trial in the Superior Court. LEAVES ALL TO WIFE.—Oakland, May 29.—The will of the late Charles E. Hasty wi filad for probate to-day and his estate, cons ing of acres of land near Placerville, valued at about $2000, together with personai property, is left to his wife, Anne F. Hasty. SUSPECTS CHINESE .SERVANT.—Oakland, May 29.—E. W. McGraw, residing at 940 Fil- bert street, has reported to the police that he suspects & former Chinese seryant, Sam, of having set fire to a Toom in the rear of the residence last night. The damage was slight. IS APPOINTED DEPUTY.—Oakland, 20.—Hugh Goodfellow, son of Attorney W. Goodfellow, was appointed Deputy- District ‘At torney by District Attorney Allen to-day. He will help in the prosecution of cases in the police courts. SAYS DAUGHTER HAS ELOPED.—Oak- land, May 20.—According to Mrs. L. M. Webb of Reno, Nev., her daughter, Lola Webb, 18 years old, has eloped with J. Griffith. Descriptions of the alleged rupaways have been sent to the police. Mrs. Webb thinks her daughter is hiding in Oakland. FORGIVES AND FORGETS.—Oakland, May .—M. M. Leavitt, proprietor of the Oakland Paper Company, has withdrawn a charge of embezzlement he registered against Albert Lid- dell, a salesman, and has given him employ— ment again. Leavitt sald he felt sympathy, Szrmlhe young man, who has a wife and two es. PREPARE TO CLOSE SCHOOLS.—Oakland, May 29.—The public schools will close Friday for the summer vacation and. will reopen .for the fall term August 14. Superintendent of £ckools McClymonds has instructed principals that children will not be permitted to return to school in the fall unless they have been vaccinated. 8 SISTER _ANNA LAID, AT REST.—Oakland, May 29.—The funeral of the late Sister Anna, founder of the Maria Kip Orphanage, was held Satirday” morning from St. John's Episcopal Church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Edgar F. Gee and the remains were in- terred in the sisters’ plat at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San Francisco, 2 JAMES LEAVELL. PASSES AWAY.—Oak- land, My 29.—James Leavell, a searcher of records and a brother-in-law of E. R. Pond, a millionaire of .San Francisco, died this morn- ing_at the County Infirmary, aged 37 years. Iie went to the infirmary ten 'days ago, suffer- ing from heart trouble, He leaves a wife, father, ‘mother, one brother and two sisters, GAINS RELEASE THROUGH ILLNESS.— Oakland, May ‘Connie’ Fitzgerald, a well known character about town, arrested on a charge of burglary, was released on probation to-day by Judge Waste on «a showing made that he was il with consumption and could not probubly live long if kept in confilnement. The charge against.him wi not a strong one and after entering' a ples of guilty he was given another chance. PLAN WATER RATES CASE.—Oakland, May 20.—City Attorney McEiroy, William R, Davis and .R. M. Fitagerald, special counsel for the city, have decided to save time and expéne in the preliminary skirmishes in this year's water rates suit in tne United States ourt. They have concluded that the Contra Costa Water Company’s application for a temporary injupction, pending the main trial, will be granted, as the complaint is identicai with that upon which last y temporary restraining order,was made. No affidavits wiil be filed this year, the city's counkel relying upop those available from the case of 1904. set for Wednesday,, MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakiand, May 29, The following marriage licenses wero | y ‘ounty - Clerk to-day: Herbert Stout, 21, and Allce M. . Nickerson, both ' of 'Oakland; Frederick A. Fre ., and, Pauline M. Grant, Alameda’ Ge d: Eranc H. Hayden, Francisco; Martin Madsen, 23, Oa Bllen Petersen, 23, San Francisco: nk H. garcia, over 21, San Ratael, and Wilhemina A: arcia, over 18, Oakland; Arthur Wicks, 20, and Fdith H. ‘Dickerson, 20, both of 'San cisco. MEDA, May 20.—Miss Lucca Buch, anaghier of Mra Minoa Bueh 5 955 Taylor avenue, ,and prominent in_local soclety. be- came the bride of Clyde Carman of Oakland Saturday. The marriage was ormed at the First regational -Church in 8an Fran- clsco by the Rev. George €. Adams. Mr. and u% Carman wll'}'n::h their Mm:fhllmu”"xc"" e e annouriced s Irene Zacharias. §nd William” Taylor. city. -date for the wed: both of th's ding has not yet Miss -Irene week to st T5o be. heIG 1 Woodland. Sne o1 Forest ' to be e is presentative of Hamlet Circle No. 64 representat this city. \e 35 INJURED ON MOLE TRACKS. « OAKLAND, May 29.—Samuel Levy, Senator Leavitt Has Another Ballet ‘Computer That He Would . Sell - Supervisors BIDS ARE AGAIN ASKED Communication Read From Grand Jury Asking for'a Better Keeping of Books S—e—e OAKLAND, May 29.—The question of supplylng Alameda County with bal- lot machines was again taken up by the Board of Supervisors to-day and it looks as if Senator F. W. Leavitt of Alameda, who last year, as agent for the Central Supply Company, was glven the contract for furnishing ma- chines, will be given another chance to bargain with the county, this time Wwith a machine of a new make. This morning he appeared before the Super- visors as the agent of the Dean Ballot Machine Company, of which Thomas H. Willlams, the horseman, is presi- dent, and asked the board to rgscind all former resolutions and readvertise for bids. By the votes of Kelly, Mitchell and Horner this was done, while Rowe and Talcott voted against the measure. Leavitt gave as his excuse for not ful- filling his former contract that when he went East to give the ordar for the machines he saw this new machine and thought it so far superior to the other one that he aid not place the order, but waited until he could get the agency for the machine he now repre- sents. The resolution calls for bids to be submitted by June 12. The board this morning appropriated $500 toward the Fourth of July fund for”a celebration in this city on that day. . A communication from the Grand Jury was read before the Supervisors in which that body asks for a better system of bookkeeping. It points out the fact that duplicate laundry bills were passed by the board for one month and it wants to make such a thing impossible in the future. —_———————— PROGRESS ON NEW SCHOOLS. OAKLAND, May 20.—The Board of Educa- tion to-night awarded contracts as follows for moving old school buildings: Lincoln School, J. Bayles & Son, $3000: Prescott School, Wal- ter Sueell, $1802; Grove-gtreet School, J. Bayles & Son, $400. Bids for construction complete of the new Washington School, Shat- tuck avenue and Sixtieth street, were received as follows: Charles Roeth, $67,085; Cook & Young, $66,980;» Wilson-Lyon Constructicn Company. $65,748, Lowest bids totaled $59,000 on segregated Work on the structure. The board called for bids on construction of the new. Prescott School and on the addition to the Grant School. The annual election-of teachers will be held Friday night. ‘ BRIEF CITY NEWS. GETS WARRANT FOR BOATMEN,—C. H. Harwood of Los got warrants yester- day for the arrest of two Stow Lake boatmen, who, he says, Insulted him and his woman companion on Sunday. ood was rowing with his friend. DES] NDENT SALESMAN ENDS LIFE.— John Lawkence Jersches, a salesman out of em- plovment, killed himsel? last Sunday night by haling illuminating gas in his room at 10813 Hayes street. The decedent was formerly a member of the Eleventh Company Signal Corps of New Jersey. CHARGES MALPRACTICE.—J. W. Miller, a horseman, filed sult yesterday against Dr. 8. W. Goodale for $6000 demages for alleged malpractice. Miller says that he bruised his hand and went to Dr. Goodale for treatment. So unskilltully was he treated, he alleges, that blood poisoning set in with the result that he has completely lost the use of the injured member. SNEAK THIEVES KEEP BUSY.—John Nordmpan, 11 Clyde street, reported to the po- lice yesterday that while he was in a_saloon at Hinckley and Pinckney alleys on Sunday night his gold watch was stolen from hfs vest pocket. John Burns, conductor on the Califor- nia-street line, reported that he saw a boy about 14 years of age, pull the lock off a no- tion stand at California and Battery streets and run away with some packages. HELPING TO TRANSFER.—Edward C. Robinson, private secretary for Horace A. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is visiting the Custom-house for the purpose of overseelng the transfer of the customs rec- ords to the Appraiger's bullding as soon as the Federal courts and offices in that build- ing shall have been removed to the new build- ipg on the northeast corner of Mission and eventh streets, which will be some time in August. ALLEGES MALICIOUS George H. Dowling filed suit \vestérday against Isaac Freeman and Willlam A. King to recover $10,000 damages for malicious prosecution. Dowling alleges that the defendants, With the sole obfect in view of injuring his reputation, sed his arrest on April 22 on a charge ot disturbing the peace. He was acquitted in the Police Court, he says, and hence the defend- ants should 'be to pay for the injury they Bave done him. AGRICULTURIST WANTED.—The United States Civil Service Commission announces an examination on June 21 at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Marysviile, Fresno and Reno for the position of assistant, office of ssed and plant introduction, Department of Agriculture. Bal- ary, $1800 per annum; age limit, 20 years or over on the date of examination. Apply to the United States Civil Service Commissfon, Washington, D. C., or to the secretary, Board Civil Service Examiners, postoffice, San Fran- cisco, for application form 1312. ADVERTISING DOCTORS SENTENCED. United States District Judge de Haven yes. terday .passed_sentence upon four doctors who hag been convicted of having sent 'prohibited matter through the malls. A ‘fine of $500 each was_imposed upon Henri Sylvester, allas W. J. Sylvester, R. Brooks Lee, R. H. Meadows, alias Dr. Weston, allas *“The Oid Rellable Dr. A fine_of $300 was imposed upon Dr. H. McGregor Willson for a similar offense: Willson fs an old man, & member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the jury had recom- mended him to the extreme mercy of the court. A stay of execution of five days was allowed in each case. PETITIONS IN INSOLVENCY.—Petitions insolvency were flled yesterday in _the District Court as follows: John loon-keeper, Fortuna, liabilitle $500; . Norris, carpenter 854 Habilities $16,840, itors are R. OSECUTION. in United States o. $2132, assets and bullder, assets $278. <, Kimbrough §211 17 acramento Building & $2600, Friend & Terry Lumber Company $3586. The remaining llabilities consist of small items. Thomas G. Dabney, train conductor, Sousalito, also filed a petition. He owes $307 and has’ no assets. He took the pauper's oath to avold payment of the clerk’s fees. SPADONI TO BB DJ TBD N Spadon, lunati te of the State the fnsane at ‘Napa, mnx""ugfiwfi"&’m b become ¥ the United Statés Immigrant Bureau in & few ‘:‘x'm'uu reason that he has a fc within Sacramento, The heaviest credi $2176, W, P. Fuller & n tion LONDON—. New York. ; = W YORK--Areived May 20—Stmr Stai- Vot B e sedo s B Sl ve. 3 % ¥y #“:avhr;:'u Gade Gibrehar 20— Stmr Koo nigen York, Tor Napies aad IES ABO CHURDY CONC_OFFERS COUNTY WO FILE EMON_DISEASE | MaKES TROUBLE| ~ NEW MACHINE| HER OWN WILL| IN ONE CRAVE Mrs. Jane Rex:tor Says She | Remgins of Edwin Stephens Is Weary of the Bicker- ings of .Her Rglatives UNABLE TO PLEASE ALL Instrument Will Remain in County Clerk’s. Safe Until . After Death of Testatrix it OAKLAND, May 29.—Realizing that no matter what she might do she would be unable to please all her relatives in the disposition of her property, Mrs. Jane Rector, resiCing at 4610 Grove street, to- day filed her will, made out just as she desired it," in the office of the County Clerk, The instrument was placed in the safe, and is not to be opened until after | the death of Mrs. Rector. ‘When Mrs. Rector appeared at the County Clerk’s: office this morning, and asked that her will, properly made out and indorsed, be flled, to be kept un- opened until after her death, she sald that she had several times made a will, but that each time some one interested in the estate had begged her to make some change in it, “T am tired of the bickerings and im- portunities of my 'relatives,” “said Mrs. Rector, “and this is just as I want it. If you will keep it here until I am gone, 1 will be ever so much obliged.” The will was then deposited in a pigeonhole of the safe, where it will re- main with thé contents unknown to any- one except the tedtatrix until after her death. —_————————— JURY IN KAHN INQUEST RETURNS QUEER VERDICT Does Not Decide Whether Banker Com- mitted Sulcide or Was Killed by Accident. STOCKTON, May 29.—The inquest over the remains of Louls Kahn, the banker, was held at Oakdale to-day. The jury returned a ver- dict declaring that he came to his death by a shot from a revolver held in his own hands. Whether it was a case of suicide or accident the jury did not say. The remains will be taken to Oakland for cremation. No receiver had been announced for the de- funct bank up to a late hour to-day. e suspense_among those interested is sald to be great. The Western National Bank of San Francisco has been active in- levying attach- ments to secure its claims. —_—————————— WESTERN FUEL COMPANY WILL SHUT DOWN MINES Refusal of Men to Accept Reduction of Pay Cause of Trouble in Nanaim TACOMA, May 29.—As a result of Satur- day night's disagreement between the Nanaima coal miners and President Howard of the ‘Western Fuel Company that company to-day decided {0 close tha, mines Wednssday, throw- ing men out of employment. “The com- pany maintains that it cannot operate the mines profitably under'the new elght-hour law unless the mep will accept a reduction In ‘wages. The men show no signs of changing Thetr minds. Nanaimo businéss men are Sreat: 1y alarmi DAWSON MINER LOCKS COIN IN SAFE AND DISAPPEARS Clailm Owner Has Not Been Seen Since He Deposited $15,000, His Sea- son’s Clean-Up. TACOMA, May 29.—Henry Currier, owner of claim No. 21, below Lower Dominion, after locking $15,000, the output of his spring clean-up, in a safe di ed. After deposit- ing the money Currier started toward the river saying he would be back in an hou He has not since been seen. The court at Dawson has been asked for permission to open the safe. His friends think that Currier must have become sud- denly demented and wandered off. ———— THIEF WHO USED PEPPER TO BLIND VICTIM ARRESTED Colorado Tourist Identifies Photo of Gambler Who Took His Coin im Cowardly Way. SAN BERNARDINO, May 20.—W. C. Mor- ton, a well-known mining man and gambler, was arrested by the Sheriff to-night for the robbery about six weeks ago of George Dresher, Colorado Springs tourist, whom he ’h% blinded with red pepper and robbed of $140. Morton was photographed fn the County Jail some time ago and the Sheriff sent the picture to Dresher, who identified the robber. —— e BARBERS WILL TURN OUT IN THE LABOR DAY PARADE Members of the District Council of Carpenters Welcome Their Presi- dent Back From East. The members of the Baybers' Union met last night and decided by a unanimous vote to turn: out and parade with the hosts of labor on Labor day. The' barbers asked the Labor Counell to levy a boycott on the shop at 7 8t_ckton. street for violation of union rules. F. P. Nicholas, president of the District Council of Carpenters, was welcomed home Dby his associates last night. Nicholas was a. delegate to the International Convention of the Bullding Structural Allfance. . The State Federation of Labor has elected Harry A. Knox, N. Blum and F. J. Bonning- ton as delegates to the Anti-Japanese League. ——————————— LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Stme Meteor, McFarlane, Seattle, DOMESTIC FORT. PORT BLAKELEY—Salled May 20—Schr Willle R, Hume, for Payta Paru. Amrived ' May 20—-Schr Invincible, from Eagle Harbor. ISLAND PORT. KAHULUI—Sailed May 20—Stmr Ne- braskan, for San Francisca. FOREIGN PORT. VICTORIASafled May 20—Br stmr Tar- tar, for Yokohama ard Hongkong. OCEAN STEAMERS. ERBOURG—Salled May 28.Stmr Fried- B ot ittt e e Now Yo, via London. May y 27—Stmr Ryhn- dam, from Rotterdam for New York. and Lizard May 28. Rhae- ‘Hamburg and Duver, for New York. LA -Arrived 20—Stmr = Hro ,”Phu!:d‘:l!ml. via St. Johns, N. F, N APLES— Arrived May 25—Stmr Ciita a1 New York. “3 Arrived May Zi—Stmr Al- Kurfurst, {rom New York, via Plymouth and DOVER- May 20—Stme I NPON - Arrived Mm UT FOUR CHILDREN and His Victims Interred in Mt. Tamalpais-Cemetery FATHER BURIED ALONE Schoolmates of - Josephine Cover Last Resting Place of Their Friend-With Buds - Special Dispatch to The Cail SAN RAFAEL, May 29.—The remains of Bdwin B. Stephens and-his family of Mount View were interred in Mount Tamalpals Cemetery to-day. Rev. A. E. Ulrich, pastor of the Methodist Church in this city, officiated at the grave. Mrs. George Bell, sister of Mrs. Stephens, Herbert S. Stephens and Herbert Ste- phens, respectively uncle and brother of Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pind and a half-dozen women also were present. Stephens was buried in one grave, his wife and infant, in the same casket, in anothery and the remaining four chil- dren in one large grave. The graves were strewn with flowers sent by little Josephine's schoolmates. FLESH 1S WEAK SIS THAN Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, May 29.—Mark Twaln {s not coming to Nevada in July. This sad news to Nevadans was received by J. M. Fulton, the author’s old friend, to- day. A few weeks ago the citizens of Reno joined in extending the great writer an invitation to agaln“visit.the scenes of his early privations and later triumphs. They had planned a great reception for him. To-day ° from Mark’s quiet retreat in the hills of New Hampshire came the following: I thank you sincerely for' the invitation: Were 1 a few years younger I would acecept it. I would let somebody else do the oration, but as for me, I would talk, just talk. I would renew my youth and talk and talk and talk, and have the times I used to have when I was in the dear old Sagebrusit State, the time 6f my e. Then the gray-haired man who has written things that have been read by every nation recounts his early ex- periences in the sageébrush State. He writes of them as the day when he thought he was troubled and when life was sweetest; tells: of the men long since dead who with him ‘helped make the history of Nevada. He closes With a prayer for the welfare of his old ‘Western friends and thé hope that the big celebration will be crowned with success. “The spirit is willing, but the flesh will not stand the long journey,” quaintly writes the humorist. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH IN NAPA CITY Building Purchased by Mem- bers Dedicated With Im- pressive Services. Special Dispatch to The Call NAPA, May ' 29.—A ' new Christian Science church has been organized in Napa and articles of incorporation will be filed in a day or so. A large number of members have joined the mew church association and have purchased the building formerly occupied as a Presbyterian ~mission.” The building has been renovated and entirely re- built and was completed to-day. Yesterday the new edifice was dedi- cated with appropriate services. Mrs. O. E. Clark and Mrs. C. Mann acted as ushers and Mrs. W. N. R. McDougall was organist.. A" votal duet was ren- dered by Mr. and Mrs. McDonald of Vallejo. A large number of promi- ment Christian Scilentiists from San Francisco were present. o g JUDGMENTS AFFIRMED ‘BY APPELLATE COURT New Tribunal Renders De- cisions in a Number of - - -Cases. : SACRAMENTO, May 29.—The Appel- late Court to-day handed down' deci- sions affirming Judsmen!l in the Su- perior Court in the following cases: Peoplé ve. A. Durand. Tuolumine County, convicted of assault with a. deadly weapon, People vs. Willlam Cleary, Solano County, con. victed of robbery, order of court granting new trial affirmed. In re estate of Sarah°C. Hay- den, San Joaquin County: order appointing A. L. Wating guardian affirmed. A. Boyer vs. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, So- noma County; judgment in action In ejectment affirmed. Frankie White vs. John H. Wise et al., San Francisco: judgmens for costs with $50 additional as damages. LIVES THOUGH WHIRLED HIGH IN AIR BY MACHINE Otler at Colton Cement Plant Miracu- . lously Escapes Death While at Work. SAN BERNARDINO, May 20.—Charles Dev- ereill, an ofler in the cement works at Colton, had a miraculous escape from death MOTHER ACCIDENTALLY KILLS REDDING, May 29.—The 9-months-old baby Reynolds, a' well known. millman’ MEMORIAL DAY [N SAN NATED tRedwood City: Citizens Re- | spond to Appeal for Buds to Decorate-Heroes’ Graves LITERARY EXERCISES Programme of Great Merit Will Be Rendered and San Francisco Man Will Speak Special Dispatch to The Call, REDWOOD CITY, May 29 —Unusual preparations have been made this year for the celebration of Memorial day. The exercises to-morrow will be held An appro- in the Alhambra Theater. priate programme of literary and mu- sical excrcises has been arranged. The orator of the day will be Frank Mc- Beth of San Franeisco. The public has responded generously to an appeal for flowers and one of the most splendid displays of blossoms in the history of the town will be the result. CLERK'S ERROR MAY GIVE FREEDOM TO A CONVICT Mistake Discovered in Record of Seme temee of a Colaveras Comnty Felon. SAN RAFAEL, May 20:~Louly Branden- burg, a convict in San Quentin, sentenced from Calaveras County in January, 1899 on two commitments of nine years each, stands an ; excellent chance of being released because.of a clerk's carelessness. According to the rough minutés of the Calaveras County court the second sentence is to commence at the expira- tion: of the first. The deputy clerk neglectea to enter this in the minute-book’ If eor— rection 1§ not made, Brandenburg Wwill- seek his.release on a writ of habeas cOrpus e CONDEMNED MAN INSANE s IS VERDICT OF A JURY Porto Rican Murderer WIll Go to Ukiah Asylum Instead of to the Gallows. SAN RAFABL, May' 29.—Miguel Antony, a Porto Rican, sentenced ta be executed June 9, is insane. This Was determined by a. jury to- a . _He will be taken to Ukiah. _Antony i‘é&?‘ Lee Gar ! San Bernardino County in ——— Will Make Study of Rubber. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 20<A ten years' Investigation of the rubbet industry of Central America i3 the missfon on which Dr. P. H. Olsson-Seffer, head of the department of | systematic botany, left the university to-day. | O. H. Harrison. a leading planter of Southern Mexico, .and a number. of athers engaged in the same business have combined their capital for the improvement of the rubber Industry and have employed Dr. Olsson-Seffer-to make original investigations. a ———— WILL TRY CONVICT FOR ARSON. SAN RAFAEL, May 20.—Joseph Davie; the convict: who attempted to_burn the “Jutemul | @t San Quenhtin Prison. was arraigued ta-day before Judge Lennon A a eharge of . argon. The trial was set for June 20. —_———— SAN FRANCISCAN BUYS FAST OIL BURNING YACHT LUCERO Vessel Bullt by Late Charles Fair Sold to Captain Goodall for 1 $10,000. BELLINGHAM, May 20, —Cagtain T. D, Goodall of San Pranciséo has purchased the fast ofl-burning yvacht Lucero fyom ,the - re- celvers of the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company for $10,000 and wlill take -her to California as soon as she can be floated from the ways on Eliza Island. The Lucero was bullt by the late Charles Fair and luxuriousiy finished for private cruising. She Is said to have cost $30,000, — e DISCOVERY OF. BODY REVEALS GRAVE CRIME IN ARIZON. sault Are Found om Desert Near Phoenix. PHOENIX, Ariz.. May 20.—The body of a mdn who. evidently met death through foul ‘play was found -eighteem mfles west*of Hers on" the desert yesterday. It iv believed fo be that of Georgs Alivezos. a Greek. The crime must have been or - four month: The'* skuil o by s ago. * skull of the *j crushed. s o7 Saped SLAVES WERE ONCE SOLD .. ' IN STATE .OF CALIFORNIA Records, Show That Thirty SACRAMENTO, May, 20.The srefords of Sacramento ‘Cunty show that thirty slaves of Afrjcant descerit were sold In this county dur ing the fifties. sln deveml cases 3 were L\llud to purchase their hm:; case a si that of their children. -In cne gave his note for a lffgp sum,; & .freedom Shd taithrully pald tha bl , every *the slases were brought, ‘to. Callfornia 10- tha tion of the'.State constitution. FAILS TO HEAR € N - % ° -OF TRAIN AND S KILLED Deaf Traveler Meets Awful Fate While .SAN BERNARDINO, May 29.° Jean" Malin- :’:1 a Pole, -M‘Lc_lm ‘::t :mm Honolulu g o o ) fast traine ‘came alon - Hb in the air and™shockingly -mangiéd, CARNEGIE WILL PAY FOR . ORGAN IN OLD MissipN Has Donated the' $1500 Due o . SANTA BARBARA, F 20 Wie Old Mis- received news » that Andrew Car- has given $1300 needed tp complete. the payment for the new ,organ tly instatled. —_—