The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1905, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY. JU ~ NEWS OF THE COUNTIES ABOUT TH E BAY CUPID FALS | B WIRELESS Little Tove God Finds Eso- teric Methods at Fault, in His Game of Hearts' OLD WAY I8 THE BEST Oceultism. as Miner Normand Experienced 1t, Leads to Jail Instead of to Altar OAKL. une M—Cupid is not used the twentieth century af exemplified by ns between Mre = miner [ to meth on ONX BUSINENS PLANE. her deal- FRIENDS SPEAK W AS DEATH Awful Accident to a Painter on Rail- Ok PUTEKER University Regents Receive | Petitien in_ Interest of Disrated Gerinj!_n ’leacher; road Bridge. XO ACTION IS TAKEN| T Brake Wheels Beat Contracts Awarded for Work on New California Hall. Resignations Are Accepted R « Samuel Doggett Fatally. | | | L | BERKELEY, June 1.—A petition, signed by 80% Germans, requesting the reinstate- ment of Professor Albin Putgker to his mer rank and pay as professor-of Ger- terature #t the University of Cali- resented to the Regents of at their meeting yesterday. in.” editor of the Jjournal, & and, addressed onnection with the peti- , explaining the feelings of those who st'tn favor of Professor reinstatement. The Reger execulive session while this s belng considered and decided action at this time, preferring for President Wheeler's return Professor Putzker was re- t the meeting of, ago when the stre back and forth Uke a pendulum by heavy | blows dealt by the brake wheels on the tops of the box cars passing beneath him, each one of which threatened to -tear lls hands from the rope and hurl him to Geath on the tracks of the bridge, Sam- uel Doggett, employed (n painting the overnead bridge at Stege, .where the tracks of the Santa Fe Rallrcad cross those of the Southern Pacific Company, was so badly injured to-day that it is doubtf:] if his life can be saved. Doggett, company with two other painters. was at work painting the upper beams of the Santa Fe Company’s new Lridge, when the exhaust from. a power- ful freight locomotive passing uhderneath blew the staging on which they were | standing from under their feet, leaving egistration of nurses, At- torney General AWebb ‘having reported | the men dangling from the ropes with that 14 require a constifutionat | Which it had.been secured to the beams e t to put this duty upon the | Above. Doggett,im failing, caught a rope directly over the center of the train, and, although his body- cleared the tops of the box cars, he was not high emough to es- cape the fron brake wheels profecting above the train, and as each car passed egents. The following matfers were at- tended to during the meet Res: tions were accepted from. Frederic tecturer in law, who has gome to Seattie to practice law; of Dr. Jobn W Besore instructor in Latin. who has been|he was dealt a blow which swung him caided to an eastern usiversity; of W. H.| s1moc oan comtern uuiversiis; of W .| slmost to the top- of.the bridge, only to fall back against the wheel on the top foreman of the Tulare experiment station, and of A. P. Stover, instructor i irrigation, Of the following car. who has left the umiversity to resume fleld | Not until almest the entire train had work in the Government irrigation investi§a- | pasced was the plight of Doggett and his % companions noticed by the train: crew, who hurriedly stopped the train and re- leased the men from their perilous posi- tions. Doggett, bruised and almost in- sensible, was at once taken to the hospital at Point Richmend. where it was found that, although no bones were broken, he was so badly injured by the heavy blows alt by the iron wheels that there is but little hope of his recovery. Both of Dog- get's companions escaped being struck by the passing cars, and beyond being badl aken up when the staging was obert Orton Moody was pr instructor in auatomy and oble was made instre | engincering. Se Josephine rigden laboratory as Alexander Agassiz. Regents _awsrded contracts for i1 as follows: Contra C blown from under their feet were not injured. SAYS HE SAW SHOT FIRED AT F. W. DUNN Company, concrete floor %o, and concrete stair work, § inter.or painting and Hall; the Californ] Company, fire es armon Gymnasium, §2850; the G neering Company, yentiating apparatus for Harmon Gymnasfum, §919; the W. mpany, cork carpeting for Caiifornia | approximately $2700; the Roebling Con- | Hail | struction Company, plaster pertitions and other Frank Dooley of Los Angeles Throws Light-en Myster- ious Affair. plaster work in the attic of Cailfornia Hall, ¢ $1519; the Califorpia Artistic Metal and Wire mpany_ pipe rail in the attic and iron gate evator whaft in the basement, $580; { am F. Wilson Comipany, vebt pipe | the attic, $i34; the Kidder- | mpany, doors and wipdows in tions and pine base dnd steps 60, MAIN CHANCE. next letter, would seem eyes fixed on s the way she ¢ feeding filmy vell of 1 | OAKLAND, Jume 14.—The police to- night found an eye-witness to the at- | tempt made Sunday merning to Frank W. Dunn, while he was strug- | gling with Lee D. Robbins at Thir- | teenth znd Clay streets. The newcomer | on the scene is E. P. Dooley, a photog- . $305 60. It was cecided to grade around Califo; taking the earth needed for the Ci Hall terraces from the site of the new brary building, to be bullt from F. Doe bequest. ——— ACCUSES A POLICEMAN. ia i the ad- red that kill | wheel, place of business, n as usual “andor, the 8ear ome ave returned to tice of the Peace boid another- ju- Police and appointed policeman , who has t Oakland ssion 10 rent on June 20 ion of Pledmont residents for 1 police protection was refer- he Chief of Police for report. et of Police reported in favor lice ambulance ser- Athletic Club was nold & boxing He op- posed 4 plan to hire ambut s on call: e board decided to ask the Super- visors to establish an ambvlance ser- vice in connection with the Receiving lospital —_——————— ART EXMIBIT AT NILE CLUB. OAKLAND, June 14.—Artigt members the Nile Club opened their first an- of paintings to-night of pual exhibition el the que rooms of the club, 1107 Sroadwey. The exhibitors were Xavier Martinez, C. P. Nellson and W. E. Rol- lins. The rooms were thronged with many guests, including ladies, who were specially invited to this, the first night of the exhibition. The exhfbit will be open for a week. Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons, from 2:30 to § o'clock, will be reserved for ladies. —_——————————— WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE. OAKLAND, June 14.—The Rev. Mar- cue Friedlander, rabbli of the First He- brew Congregation of Oskland, will | leave this city to-morrow .evening for the East, where he will spend his va- cation. During his sojourn in the Bast Rabbi Friedlander will attend the Gen- eral Conference of the Hebrew church, which 18 to be held in Cleveland, Ohlo, after which he will visit Chicaso, New York and the other large cities of the SICK HEADAGHE Positively cured by | these Little Pills, ° tress from Dyspepsia, In- | digestion and Too Hearty | Esting, A perfect rem- | edylzznm-.mj Drowsiness, Bad Taste | in the XMouth, Coated | ‘Tangue, Patn in the Side, | OAKLAND, June 14.—Alfred C. Scott, a collector for the John L. Howard Company, has declared that he was ar- rested maliciously Sunday night by Pa- P. McKeegan because he had t officer to pay a coal bill eat of sending the delinquent account to the Board of Police Commis- sioners. Scott was acquitted this morn- ing in the Police Court on charges of drunkennese and needless blowing of ‘a police whistle. McKeegan testified that | rapher of Los Angeles, who, according | to the police, saw a man in a light over- | coat shoot at Dunn and interfered in | the encounter and took the pistol away | from the man who had used it. Accom- | panying the man who did the shooting | was a woman, who, according to Doo- ley, shouted, “Hit him! Soak him!” | Dosley sald that 'the woman disappear- ed, as did the pistol user after he lost | the weapon, | Dooley, who has been visiting in | ton street through to San Pablo ave- b | Berkeley, related his experience to | Whipple Hall, a friend, and through | Hal}, Dunn and the police learned for | the first time that Dooley was at the scene of the mysterious affray. At po- lice headquarters to-night Dunn said: “This is the first I knew about Doo- ley. I saw>no woman there. If there was one around the corner she must have been with Robbins or with the man who shot at me. I do not know who she might have been. So far as I am concerned I would not have made any trouble about this affair if a wo- man had been concerned, but as there was not, so far as I am interested in it, 1 propose to prosecute Robbins.to the limit and to find the man who shot at me if it be possible.” Dooley has been keeping in the back- ground since the shooting. He told his friends he did not desire the notorlety of the affair. Detectives have been sent out to locate him at Berkeléy before he returns to Los Angeles. He is here on a brief visit. 3 ————— BASEBALL CLUB TO GIVE DANCE. SAN RAFAEL, June 14—The enter- | tainment and ball to_ be given . in the schoolhouse next Saturday evening, June 14, by the San Quentin Baseball Club promises to be a success. The committee is working hard to make it an enjoyable affair. —_———————— ‘Will Become a June Bride. PALO .ALTO, June 14.—Mr. and Mrs, Theodore Vandervoort have announced the engagement of their- daughter Florence to Harry E. Murray of Santa Cruz. The wedding wlill take place the last week in June. T ——————— Scott, with C. 8. Johnson atd E. C. Thurber, were making a nolse at Seventh and Market streets Sunday morning, when he arrested Scott. Captain of Police W. J. Petersen tes- tified Scott was sober and -showed no signs of having taken a drink when he arrived at the police station. John L. Howard Jr. declared Me- | Keegan had threatened to “get even” | with Scott over the trouble concersfng the coal bill. | After his acquittal Scott announced he would prosécute McKeegan for mak- ing an unwarranted arrest. —_——————— VICTIM CAPTURES CHECK PASSER.‘ OAKLAND, June 14.—Two0 years ago Dr. W. R. Allison obtained from John G. Herr, a saloon-keeper at 28 San Pablo avenue, 325 on a draft purporting to be drawn on the Newspaper Association of St. Johns, New Brunswick. ~Herr learned shortly afterward that the pa- per was worthless. But Allison had dishppeared. Teo-day while the victim was in San Francisco he literally ran into his man, recognized him and turned | Allison over to a policeman. Allison is 52 years old, a graduate of a New York medical college, with post graduate honors from Leipsic. He told the Oakland police that drink had caused his ruin. B MERCHANTS AS IMPROVERS. OAKLAND, June 14.—Merchants and rroperty 8wners on Waslington street bave ealled a meeting for Friday morn- ing at 10 o'clock at the City Hdll to dis- cuss the question of opening Washing- ase and to organize a Washington- street Improvenient Club. The move contemplates the extensive rehabilita- tion of that thorpughfare, its lighting and general attractiveness. This meet- ing will also ml;(cup the proposition of & new ¢ hali. SAN JOSE, June 14.—Miss G sce Fray and William Black, popular young peo- ple of this city, were married . ‘s evens 5 Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Fray. Only relatives BOII.ER-IA‘K’g SKULL CRUSHED. gnd a few friends attended the wed- POINT RICHMOND, June 14.—While ' ding. The ceremony was performed by at work on thé new tanks of the Stand- | Rev. J. Wilmer Grasham. Mr. and Mrs. ard Oil Company, J. Gulart, a boller- | Black will spend ‘théir honeymoon at maker, aged 25 years, jnissed hig foot-| the Portland Exposition. The groom js ing on the scaffolding on which he was ! a prominent young business man of this working near the top of the tank and | eity. Ay % fell to the ground, twenty feet below. He struck fairly on his- head, and though not instantly ‘killed, his skull je fractured and there Is no hope for: his recovery. 35 — ASK GUARDIAN FOR THAYER. OAKLAND, June 14—A petition for jetters of guardiarship on the person and estate of ¥dward F, Thayer, the well-known salcor man, has been filed by Mrs. Mabel B. Angell, his daughter. Mo is at present at the Livermors San- itarigm-and in a very bad way men- | tally. The move is made by his wife e ——————— Weds Santa Cruz Belle. . SANTA CRLZ, June 14—A marriage of interest in college circles was cele- brated to-day, when A. N. Sheldon, an } instructor and graduate of the State ! University at Berkeley, married Miss Gladys Grover at the residence of the tride's parents. The bride is a young soclety. lady of the city and an accom- plished musiclan. - $he 1s the daughter of 8. F. Grover, the retired-lumber mer- chant. Dies Whil '<'Iilllu His Brother. and two daughters to protect his prop- urty interests, 2 ————— PISTOLESI WINS SUIT. SAN RAFAEL, June 14.—In the case of §. P. Blumenberg vs. L. C. Pistolest to recover $500 on a promissory mote Judge Lennon held that plaintiff’s con- tention as adduced from the evidence was very weak and rendered a decison SANTA vz, June 14—Wiillam Bender, who arrived on Monday even- ing from Logansport, Ind., died this morning while visiting his brother, An- drew FEender, at Soquel. The brothers had not met for sixteen years. e A S SACRAMENTO, June 14. e, pers were issued to-day at the fice for the return of Louis BHs, in Napa upon a of [ | 1 | Will Spend Honeymeon at Exposition. | Daiton. ing at the home of the bride . parents, | Angeles, and Emiiy B: s e S A s i e it INGS LIKE PENDULUM e TRUST DEEDS ARE SET ASIDE Estate of Late Lady Yarde- Buller Is Freed From Its Many Entanglements OAKLAND, June 4.—Trust deeds to KLAND, June 14—Clinging with the | Property valued at $114,000 and made by ngih of despair to.a rope suspended | the late Lady Yarde-Buller were set aside | from the beams of a bridge above &, to-day by Judge Melvin on ..e ground pidiy moving freight train,/and swung | that she was incompetent to make them and her estate has now been turned over to Vincent Neale and George T. Wright, the administrators, who also .represent Walter Yarde-Buller, the nusband, and Ralph K. Blair, the son of the deceased ‘woman. Some time prior to her death the de- ceased made several trust deeds to her property to W. H. Chapman, who held the property up to the time of her death. He however, realized that they were of little value and made no opposition to their being set aside and the property being turned over to the administrators. The estate consists of -a- building at the corner of Pine and Battery streets in San Francisco. It was supposed that Lady Buller had left a will in England, made out shortly | atter her separation from her husband, leaving all of her estate to her two sons by her first hushand, one of whom has since. dled. Nothing, however, could be found that could be construed as a will and Yarde-Buller, who is now in qlh Africa, has put in his claim for a p: of the estate, which by law he is entitled\ to. FALSE FOVER CAUSES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Because the Expected Groom Failed to Arrive Eunice Hobbs Takes Poison. OAKLAND, June 14—Being disap- pointed in her one great love at the age of 45 years was too much for Miss Eunice Hobbs and in her grief she took a dose of laudanum and strychnine with suicidal Intent. Instead of being | led to the altar a blushing bride, Bheé was taken to the Reécelving Hospital | in the patrol wagon. She said she was to have beem married to-day, but when | her flance failed to come for her by noon she became despondent. She was employed by Con Donovan as his housekeeper at his- homes on| Telegraph and Alcatraz avenues and| was found shortly after!#-w'slock to- | day In great agony. The " discovery was made by the Donovan children, who notified their father. She refused to give the name of the man she was to have married. 'She sald her parents| lived at Santa Rosa and. that their name was Bennett, though she goes by | the name of Hobbs. ALAMEDA COUNTY. NEWS, SEEKS SEPARATION.—Oakland, Jure 14.— Suit for divorce on the ground of cruelty was begun to-day by -Alice H. Franz against George Franz. They have one child of which she asks the custody. DIES FROM INJURIES.—Oakland, June 14. G. Tiatono, an Italian laborer, died to-day at the County Infirmary from injuries sustalned several days ago in an accident at the & A, L. Stone Company’s construction camp, near San Leandro. Tbe Coroner took charge of the case. MAYOR WILL ADDRESS WOMEN'S CLUB.—Oaklznd, June 14.—Mayor Frank K. Mott will deliver an address to-morrow after- noon at 4 o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church chapel oefors the Women's Civic Im- provement Club. The meeting will be open to the public. NATIVE SONS' THEATFR PARTY.—Ala- meda, June 14.—Alameda Parlor No. 47, N. 8. G. W., will give a theater party at Ye Liberty Playhouse, Oakland, on August 8. ceeds are to be utilized by the organization in preparing. for the celebration of Admission day at Sacramento, AWARDS CONTRACT.—Oakland, June 14.— The Board of Public Works to-day awarded to the Wlison-Lyon Construction Company a contract to. build Engine .Company No. 7's house at Golden Gate for $11,399. Charles Roeth, a rival bidder, said he would contest the award. CHURCHES ' TO MERGE_Oakland, June 14.—The cowgregation of Oak Chapef have petitioned the courts to be allowed to take the name of the Plymouth Church, already In existence. It is stated that the two. organ- fzations are to be jolmed, both contributing their properties toward the building of a greater church. SCHOOL DIRECTOR RESIGNS.—Berkeley, June 13.—Pr. Woodson W. Allen resigned the office of School Director at the meeting of the Board of Education last night. Iil health was sssigned as the cause. ~Robert Crelg was awarded the contract for the construction of an addition of four rooms to the San Pablo Avenue School. The bids for constructing ad- ditions to. the Le. Conte and Lincoln scHools \ were refected. as being too high. The plans of A. H. Broad for an additiod to the Colum- bus School were accepted. - MARRIAGH LICENSES.—Oakland, June 14.—The following marriage lMoenses were is- sued by the County Clerk to-day: Ciarence C. Ullenbruch, 23, and Annle M. Weaver, 25, botd of San Francisco; Francis L. M. Hus, 27, and Frances Irish, 28, both of Oakland; Frederick M. Lajeunesse, 30, San =co, and Mary A. McNiece, 25, Oakland: Edwin R. Donaldson, 24, and Rose A. Christianson, 23, both of Qakland; Walter J. Hynes, 21 and Mae Clancy, 18, both of San Franctaco George H. Beach, 83, Los Angeles. and Ida Schafer, 30, San Franclsco; Edward A. 36, Memphis, Tenn., and S, Price, 21, Oakland; Charles E. Curry, 24, San Francisep, and Anna E. Miles, 21, Berkeley; arry E. Cary, 26, and Blanche H. Fry, 25, both of Oakland; Helley H. rain, 27, A. J. Paulson. 28, an of San_Francisco; George M. Flint, 25, and Lucia M. Oliver, 20, both of Oakland. Laura nd; ITALIAN GUNBOAT UMBRIA WILL GO INTO DRYDOCK Vessel Will Proceed to the Government Navy Yard at Bremerton After s Short Stay at Seattle. : SEATTLE, Wash., June 14.—The Ital- fan gunboat Wmbria, Captain Corsl, ar- rived here to-day, She is on a tour of the Western world, haying been at sea for fifteen months. She will remain in Seattle five or six days and ‘will praceed from this port to the Government navy yard at Bremerton, where she will go into drydock. AND nqrrn.m GRAIN FIELDS Flames Spread Over a um Tract of MODESTO, June 14.—Fire caused a 1088 of $10,000 on the west side, south of Newman, yesterday. A hot box on a’combined harvester started the which consumed 3 i Frame a Bertha Mohr, 19, both | ORATOR CHOSEN BY COMMITTEE Samuel Shortridge to De- liver Natal Day Address Display of Fireworks on Shore .of Lake Merritt ! OAKLAND, June 14.—Preliminary ar- rangements for the celebration of the Fourth of July in Oakland are now com- plete, and the executive committee in charge ct the programme for the day and jevening will deyote the remaining time to the perfection of the details of various features of the celebration. Samuel M. Shortridge has accepted the invitation of the committes to .act as orator of the day, and a double quartet under the di- rection of Clement P. Rowlands, will fur- nish the music for the literary exercises. i It has also been proposed that a number of views appropriate to the occasion be Theater during the exercises. Harry G. Willlams, chairman of the | finance committee, has already secured | subscriptions to the amount of $2750, and everal of the largest contributors to the last celebration fund have not yet been heard from. He says that when the com- mittee has completed its work he is sure | the amount available for the celebration will be fully as large as that of last year, when $5300 was secured for the celebra- tion, The afternocon and evening committee, through its chairman, Fred Sinclair, has | dectded that the best location for the dis- | play of fireworks in the evening will be on the shore of Lake Merritt, rather than in the City Hall Park, or on a float in the lake. A ladies’ committee has already been organized to take charge of the serving of refreshments at the Willows after the parade, and a number of applications have been received from local fraternal and civic organizations to take part i the parade. It will be held in the morn- ing and will be followed by a luncheon served by the ladies’ committee at the Willows. Immediately after the luncheon the literary exercises will be held at the Macdonough eater, and -these will be followed by the field events and the re- gatta on Lake Merritt. The display of tireworks in the evening wi. end the cele- bration. HAYWARDS, June 14.—The committee in charge of the Fourth of July celebra- tion has received a communication from Captain George F. Wethern, the officer in command of Company F, Fifth Regiment, N. G. C. of Oakland to the effect that the invitation of the committee to the members of the company to take part in the Fourth of July parade has been ac- pc{nec. A that neafly the full strength of thé company will be represented in the line of march. The members of the De- gree of Honor of Haywards will also be in line and will be headed by a float, as will a number of the other fraternal or- ganizations of this and some of the sur- rounding towns. Harry Bradford has vol- unteered to organize a drum corps. which is guaranteed to add to the noise if not to the music of the celebration. The finance committee reports that up to date $1541 50 has been subscribed for the cele- bration, $728 5 having already been placed in the hands of the committee. The dec- oration committep has secured the serv- ices of a Ban Francisco firm of decorators to furnish the flags and bunting for- the streets, and the work of hanging these will be commenced in a few days. i 2% | LIVE BABY FOUND | IN SMALL BASKET Infant Is Left by Mother in Front of a Home at Dutch Flat. DUTCH FLAT, June 14.—George Faller, & blacksmith at this place, found a small basket containing a baby girl hanging on his gate Tuesday morning, and a note with it, saying the mother had left the baby, knowing it would have a good home, as Faller and wife have no chil- dren. 'The little one is being well taken care of. ————————— HLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS IN PRESENCE OF FRIENDS Despondency Following a Drunken Spree Causcs 2 Resident of Ukiuh to Commit Suicide. UKIAH, Juna 14.—Word was received to-day from Uvper Lake that Harry HLenfro had committed suictde there. T'he deceased hod been drinking heav- fly for some time past, and surprised his friends by walking into a group of them to-day and informing them that he was tired of life. He then drew a pistel and blew out his brains. ———————————— TRAMP ACCIDENTALLY STARTS A FIRE AND IS BADLY BURNED Several Vacant Houses ia the Town of Mayfield Go Up in Smoke and Flame. SAN JOSE, June 14.—Several vacant houses in Mayfield were burned They were accidentally fired/ by a the buildings seriously burned and nearly suffocated by the smoke. He will recover. Loss about $2000. DISPUTE OVFR BOARD BILL % CAUSES SERIOUS SHOOTING Michael Purcell Is Wounded Four Times by W. A. Hall at Los Angeles May Dfe. LOS8 ANGELES, June 14.—During a | aispute over & board bill at Agricul. tural Park to-day Michael Purcell was shot four times by W. A. Hall. Three of the bullets lodged In Purcell's breast and one in the arm. He may die. —_———— Goen Adrift in Fog.. SANTA CRUZ, June 14—An Itallan the fog on Sunday, and his boat com- renced to drift. e drifted twenty-five opposite Point Sur before he got his bearings and turned back. Fle was ab- sent three days, and many thought that lte had heen drowned. ‘Brings in Verdict of Guilty. June 14.—The jury in the to Citizens - of Oakland | 'FINE TIME ASSURED | DIGNITARIES PRESENT MACHINE displayed on a screen in the Macdonough SILEMN SERVCE AT SIN HATED !Three Graduates of Church | Divinity School of the Paecific Ordained Deacons - . . 3 T 3 I n Arrangements Made for Big |Impressive Ceremonies Are | O Conducted by the Right Rev. William Ford Nichols Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN MATEO, June 14.—85t. Matthew’'s Churth in this city was the scene to-day of fmpressive ceremonies in which the | | the graduating class of the Church Divinity Scheol of the Pacific were or- dained to the office of deacon with all the solemn rites of the church they have ministers. The sacred congregation, which represented leading members of the denomination from San Francisco to San Jose. The thres candidates who presented | themselves for ordination weras Hubert Cowley Carroll, & graduate of King’s Col- lege, London; Britton Day Weigle of Canada and William Hardin Wheeler of New York. They were ordained by the Bishop of California, the Right Rev. Wil ltam Ford Nichols. In this service Bishop Nichols was assisted by Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey, rector of St. Matthew's Church; Rev. J. O. Lincoln, Rev. Mardon D. Wil- son, the publisher of the Pacific Church- man; Archdeacon Emery and several of the graduates of the divinity school. A sermon was preached by the Rev. Frederick W. Clampett of San Francisco. The reverend gentleman counseled the young graduates upon the serious char- acter of the sacred duties they have to assume in their chosen calling and he urged them always to keep before them the high ideals which are the beginning and the end of their profession. The service, solemn in its sacred interest, was concluded with the eucharist. ZIMMERMAN FOUND GUILTY OF ROBBERY Jury Agrees Upon a Verdiet After Having Been Out All Night. MARTINEZ, June 14—After remaining out since 11 o’clock last night a jury in the case of John Zimmerman, accused of highway robbery, brought in a verdict of guilty at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. Be- fore a unanimous decision was réached several ballots, standing eight to four for conviction, were taken. Zimmerman i8 accused of being one of the two men who held up and robbed messengers of the Central Bank of Oak- land of $10,000 while they were on their way to the Standard Ofl works at Poiut Richmond. —_——————————— SURVEYORS ARE AT WORK IN SAN LORENZO VALLEY Proposed l-’ie Would Open Up 2 Section Containing a Large NTOISTS MEET WITH A BSHi | Make a Short Turn to Avoid i a Collision on a Bridge | and Strike Telephone Pole JAMAGED : IS 1 ccupants Narrowly Eseape Being Dumped Head First Into a Creek Near Ross | Epecial Dispateh to The Cail SAN ANSELMO, June 14—R. E. Ham- mond of the Hammond Lamber Com- pany of San Francisco, who is residing for the summer in San Rafael, gave an satomobile ride last night to a party of friends through this valley to Lark- spur and recarn In record-breaking time. As they were rapidly approach- ing the Barber bridge on the coumty road between Ross and this town they perceived a vehicle crossing the bridge, : and reversed the machine to turn to the right. The headway was too greaf, however, and the automobile and its oceupants would have gone over tha bank into the creek, twenty feet be- low, only for a stout telephone pole, | which withstood its momentum. The | automobile, which is a very large and expensive one, was damaged and sent to San Francisco for repairs. The mem- | bers of the party, outside of a bad | fright, were none {he worss for their ride. e [{CABBAGE BUGS KILL VALLEJO RESIDENT | Peculiar Death Is Brought to Attention of Medieal Fraternity. Epectal Dispatch to The Call VALLEJO, June l4—James T. Flan- nagan. a well-known resident of South | Vallejo, died this mornfiig from poisen- | ing. Flannagan’'s case is described as one of the most peculiar that has ever been noted in local medical circles. Flannagan ate sauerkraut in a local saloon Monday and during thwe night be- came violently ill. He got no relief until last night, when he vomited great quan- titles of cabbage bugs that have infested the plants in this section. Flannagan was a member of the local lodge of Foresters of America and a well- | known young employe of the navy yard. —_———————— WILL LOCATE IN § PALO ALTO, June 14 sey, proprietor of the Jubilee Incuoator Works, located at Thirty-secand street, Oakland, has announced that he will move his plant to Sunnyvale. He has been looking for a location in this valley for some time, and the Sunny- vale people have given him three acres of land as an Inducement to locate In that town. The enterprise will cause the removal there of about forty fami- { Ites, and this, together with the ex- tensive works now being started by the Goldy Machine Company, will make Sunnyvale quite an important manufac- Amount of Timber. turing center. BOULDEFR CREEK, June 14—While the Coast line and the Southern Pacific Railroad have been engaged in a fight over the rights of way up the coast above Santa Cruz, a gang of surveyors claiming to be independent of either road have for the last three weeks been making preliminary surveys for an electric road in the San Lorenzo Val- ley, crossing the headwaters of Boulder ——— ACCUSED OF INCENDIARISM. PALO ALTO, June 14—A warrant has been issued for the arrest of J. Anderson, alias Cassidy, on -the suppo- sition that he was the incendiary whe attempted to burn the Pillsbury bulld- ing Sunday morning. Anderson’s wife is one of the proprictors of the lodging- house in the Pilisbury bullding, and tramp, who came rushing out of one of | fisherman known as “Dick” got loat in Creek and thence down the Pescadero and up the coast to San Francisco. This route would open up a country where the supply of timber insures an im- mense freight for years to come. Mil- lions of cords ¢l wood and several bil- lion feet of lumber would find a ready outlet that a road up the coast would not reach. The engineers are thought to Dbe workiug In the interest of the Coast electric road. As the Southern Pacific already has & line surveyed through the sume territory, it now Jooks as if the fight will be carried on in the lumber regions, with Boulder Creek as the headquarters. — ————— SAN JOSE MERCHANTS MEET AND ELECT THEIR OFFICERS Chamber of Commerce of Gardem City Is Enjoying the Greatest Growth in Tts History. SAN JOSE, June 14—The San Jose Chamber of Commerce at its annual election has chosen the following of- ficers for the ensuing year: President, V. A. Scheller; treasurer, Safe Deposit Bank; managing board—T. C. Barnett, J. A. Belloll, Major C. P. Braslan, Jo- seph T. Brooks, Will 8. Clayton, Charles J. Cornell, Henry C. Doerr, F. Jansen, W. P. Lyon, 8 T. Montgomery, W. J. O'Brien, W. S. Orvis, Joseph H. Rucker, Joseph D. Radford, R. S. Ruble, V: A. Scheller, Paul Shoup, L. Sonniksen, W. Trinkler, V. Koch; Alex J. Hart, James W. Pitman, J. P. Jarman, Byron Mil- lard, F. B. Brown. The Chamber of Commerce is enjoy- ing the greatest growth m its history and new members are constantly being added. It was decided to maintain the San Francisco headquarters during the time that the Lewis and Clark Exposi- tion is open. AUTHORITIES ARE FOR GRANDSON T % Phoebe JACKSON, June 14.—An held to-day In the case of , Willlams, who was found dead yester- day morning at her home iIn Lancha Plana, twelve miles southwest of here, with two gashes in her throat, severing the windpipe and artery. The jury brought in a verdict of murder at the ! | hands of a party unkmown. Word has hend Chester Maker, aged 17, a grand- son of the victim. He has been missing since Sunday night. The authorities believe that he has some knowledge of the trime. - 3 MANGLED BODY OF A MAN 1S FOUND UNDER A\ BRIDGE been sent to various points to appre- | tuere has been considerable discord | between them of late. Anderson is a shoemaker and formerly worked hera He is supposed to be in San Jose, the officers having traced him there from San Francisco to-day. —_—————————— PRISON OUTPUT OF BAGS SOLD. SAN QUENTIN, June 14—Owing to the extraordinary low price of 3% cents per bag, which is a cent and a quarter lower than Calcutta bags, all the output of the prison jute mill has been contracted for up to August 1 The Warden is daily recelving large orders from various points In the country, which he s unable to 1l and at a rough calculation it would take more than a milllon grain bags to all these demands. The bag season -~ erally closes during the early of August. —_—————————— ELECT NEW OFFICERS. SAN RAFAEL, June 14—The follow- ing were elected officers of Lagan In- stitute No. 52, Young Ladies’ Institute, for the ensuing term: President, Mrs W. J. Wickman; first vice president, Miss Agnes Watson; second vice pres- ident, Miss M! Whitmore: recording | secretary, Miss K. Timony: financial secretary, Miss M. Kaneen: treasurer, Miss Minnie Kreuger: marshal, Mrs. Franz Frey, and trustees, Mrs. William Toner, Mrs. James Watson Jr., and Miss M. E. Boyd. —————————— PRISON TO USE CRUDE OIL. SAN QUENTIN, June 14—At an early date the prison will use crude oil as fuel for generating steam to run | the jute mill and an electric lght plant. According to the estimates fur- nished by Consulting Engineer W. R. Fickert, the installation of oil as fuel #nd an electric lighting plant will re- i sult in a saving of $7000 annually. Ex- cavations are being made for the two oil tanks, each of a capacity of 2500 only | body of a mar, Laundry Tag ou a Piece of the Ulothtix -~ Benrs the Name ot J. F. Knight. COLTON, June I4—The probably killed train, has been found in the the.Santa Ana River under the :;fit-l -fl‘e“ helow this town. A on pei I ¥ Knight* A ) g ) i