The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1905, Page 6

AY, NOVEMBER 8, 1905. — “OF THE COUNTIES ABOUT THE BAY’ MEETS AWFUL FATE N FIRE i Infant Son of Mission San, Jose Farmer Is Burned to| Death in Sight of Father| DIES 1IN LD AGONY | CHILY itehes in Barn | i Play With Mg Results in the Death oi’gr Little Manuel d’Avillal JES SR Manuel ¢'Avilla, John d'Avilla, ébout a mile ion San Jose, | ay at 3 p. m. d a large barn on he two other chil- the un- Nov OAKLAND, { living in from death fire which de: e D'Avilla ranch brother and sister of i narrowly escaped the | story told by the of the chila the ing with matches d the barn to she reached th of her son ) the hands and arms ceeded in tearing away s the child was fildren who were in the barn when the fire started were nearer | the r than their er and escaped jent happened at 3 p: m., and once started for Mission 8an secure the services of a doctor had been so badly burned, | that there was no hope of lite, and death ended his o'clock. Drs. Lee and Emer- | ed the child, but from the | case was hopeless, { e was reported to the (‘urhnerl ~ an inguest will be | he a. m., to determine ility for the death i ] FIND NO TRA( ‘ OF SAFE CRACKERS| Police Fail to Locate Crooks| Who Secured $1100 | From Olsen Bros. After a full day 2l Police De- sea regarding of the bold safe crackers 100 ! fe in Olsen having ymitted the bold crime that th is expected sedn a few b & to batter residence of | ege avenue, S. ne Japanese, was g and was & Hospital. to his sanity. | ago stole " a Berkeley and ng captured the 1 the arrival of e police e e INSPECTS SCHOOLS OF CITIES IN E! Superintendent Crawford Is Pleased With American System of Teaching. | { | | AKL. 7.—County Super- intendent is T. 0. Crawford hes just i from a two months’ stern States, where he visite e schools of New York and Boston. He is delighted with what he saw and comes back thoroughly fim- pressed with the American school sys- tem Mr. Crawford states that New York, instead of noney, 21l niggardly with shes all of its pupils text free, rich and poor that s its principals =a eat deal more than we do here, and its classes are smaller, thirty-five g the maximum, while it is fifty more, and that there are for every scholar who EARLY MORNING FIRE MENACES TWO LIVES Man and Wife Awake From Sleep to Find Their Little | Home in Flames. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—H. J. Fouts and his wife, who formerly conducted the Vendome Hotel in this city, narrowly | escaped a terrible death early this morning In a fire. which totally de- stroyed their home on the old county road near Twenty-sixth avenue. The explosion of a lamp, which had been left burning in the house, was the se of th® fire, and so rapidly did fire spread that Fouts and his wife ( escaped with difficulty from their burn- ing bome. Neighbors hurried to the scene as soon as the fire was discovered and tried 1o save the house, but the fire | had guined too much headway and the dwelling was totally destroyed. Fouts Jost nearly all of his personal property in the flamel e S CHARGED WITH INSANITY. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—Holman C. Rol- lins, the father of Sylvia Gerrish, the actress, is to be examined as to his sanity to-morrow. He was taken into custody this afternoon and his case set for 10 oclock in the morning. Sylvia Gerrish is at present In New York at bher home at Morris Heights and her e mother has sworn to the compiaint. ————— - MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakland, Nov. 7. were issucd Willlam An- The following marriage licenses by the County Clerk to-aay: drews, 26, and Bdwinfred Loesh, 22, NEWS 'RICE N | were | taking advantage of sclentific work in | strong. JA PAN'S FOOD RATION IS GOOD Professor Jaffa Says They Eat on!yerehant Very Rational Basis. OT THEIR BERKELEY, Nov. that Japanese fighters on sea and lan accomplish their wonders on a diet of ice, or a diet popularly referred to a» & “‘vegetable diet,” given a series o . Jaffa, the yus food expert associated With the staff of the agricultural college at the University of California, in an important adaress delivered to-night before the Sigma Xi society at the faculty club-, house on the campus. In & carefully prepared paper Professor Jaffa dealt with the extraordinary re- | sults achieved by the Japanese nation in war and industrial fields, and wea how the Japanese Government, taking advantage of the very latest phases of scientific nutrition experiments, provided a ration for the army and on strength of which the tie brown men” are enabled to do marvelous feats, both in the way of ag- gressive movement and In the way of urance. It has been generally known, said Pro- fessor Jaffa, that the Japanese people | prepared for war with modern | armaments and modern nstructors in | a erally known that i put their arm perior footing to the Russians and per- haps to European hting forces, by v and navy; but not, perhaps, so gen-; the Mikado's people the fleld of nutrition experiments, so that they were fed most sclentifically while | they fought and marched and sailed the | seas in battle. A Government bulletin of extraordinary interest, compiled by Professor Oshima, a Japanese scientist who worked with Professor Jaffa at Middletown, Conn., th vears ago, when both were on & tion from regular university work, was In part the basis of Professor Jaffa’s | address to-night. Professor Oshima | studied the problem of nutrition in| America and at Middletown co-operated | with Professor Atwater, whose home s | at Middletown, but whose official title is | that of Chief of Nutrition Investigations of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Professor Oshima’s bulletin deals with the progress the Japanese people have made in adapting their army and navy men to such changes in diet as they | have found comported best with. the re- sults of nutrition experiments. The food | of the common people and its effects | upon the energies of the Japanese are dis- | cussed by the Japanese writer, the entire ! bulletin being a valuable contribution the litcrature which students of Japan's secret and seemingly miraculous | workings are now studying all over the world. Incidentally, Professor Jaffa, who Is thoroughly familiar as a food expert, with this Japanese dlvision of the field, informed his hearers to-night that one beloved idea of the vegetarian advocates, which is supposed to have its foundation | | in the strength of the famous jinrikisha | men of Japan, must be laid on the shelf. These jinrikisha men are marvelously They are supposed to subsist on a diet of rice. Travelers who see the men run for many miles, eating nothing, apparently, but a little rice, exploit this phase of Japanese life, and rice has ac-| cordingly been acclaimed as a supremely fine food. KNOCKS OUT TRADITION. Profcssor Oshima has knocaed this pretty tradition out, and Professor Jaffa to-night gave it another body blow when he proved that the Jjinrikisha men eat, besides rice, enough energy-producing food to put them in a class along with the best-fed mechanics of Sweden, ath- Jetes of New England and other busky citizens. He cited Professor Oshima’'s table to prove that the jinrikisha men eat energy-producing food, vegetable, fish and meat of sufficient fuel value to entirely discount the theory that their feats of strength are done on a diet of rice. Professor Jaffa spoke to-night in part as follows: The talk thie evening is partly for the purpose of correcting the popular fallacy on the subject of the dietaries of the Orient. Per- haps there is mo one remark which one hears repeated more often than the one which states that the Chinese and Japanese live almost ex- clusively on rice. My own enlightenment com- menced about five years ago, when I was led to make some studies on the Chincse dletaries. I was somewhat surprised to find that they lived more In accordance with the tentative standard set down by noted nutrition investi- gators than do & good many Americans under like conditfons of work; and also it was found that their dlet is very much varfed. It is true that they eat @ large quantity of rice, but when one considers that it takes the place in large part of the potatoes, bread, mush and similar food used by the Westerners, the qual- ity is pot excessive. LEARNS VALUABLE FACTS. Whiie In the Bast about two years ago I met Profcssor Oshima, who, like myself, was employing his sabbatical year in making nu- trition investigations. He related many in- teresting facts about the diet of the Japanese, which corroborated our observations and con- clusions with reference to the Chinese. This in- terest was revived upon my receiving recently { nie report to the United States Government on_the subject. His report is a comprehensive summary of nutrition investigations made in Japan since the first year when sclentific investiga- alcng this line was made. Professor O ows that wherever the mixed died was used in Japan it was where it could be afforded, and that the pure vegetable diet was merely one of necessity, induced by poverty or location. When they had the choice and could afford it they used the mixed diet. The work contains analyses from various sources of about 800 samples of Japanese food materials. The Japaness eat, like the Americans, three meals a day, although In the rural districts it is not uncommon to find four or five meals con- sumed. The meals, however, are generally similar in character. In summarizing the studies of the Japanese Qietaries and compafing them with the average of 185 American dietaries Professor Oshima points out that the diet is amply sufficient, both as regards protein and energy, for the needs of the Japanese. These ctudies of Japanese diet are falrly representative of the diet of the Japanese peo- ple, although, of course, they do mot consider the dlet of the very poor, mor of the richest, { any more than our experiments here in Amer- ica would take in the lowest or poorest class, or_the vary richest. ‘With reference to the army ration, about which o _much has been sald and written, Professor Oshima has some interesting ds A rather startling feature is this Japanese expert’s apparent admission that the Japan- esé soldiers 46 not do as much work as thelr opponente, the Rusélans. Sava the professor: “A common American dietary standard for a man at light to moderate muscular work calls for 103 grams digestible protein and 8050 calcries of emergy. Similar values for a man at moderately active muscular work are 115 grams protein and 3400 calories of energy. Commonly accepted European dletary stand. ards are somewhat lfke these, “Taking into account both the work done and the welght of the P g+ average _undoubt That of 8 dlers, whi edly less than United States or European troops, it will be seen that the army ration js adequate, both as rega. n_and energy. that it has gridently been fixel wpoh With @ view Lo meet. ng requirements of commonly accep! Givtary standards.” . ——— e VALU, MEDAL Nov. 7.—A. J. bullding, Tel . . 7.—The tradition I | WANT THE CITY TO | Charity Workers Would Give # adopted last EXCLUSIVE DIET S SUGGESTS CHANGE IN HANDLING COIN Oakland Mayor Says City Money Should Be Kept in Cireulation. OAKLAND. Nov. 7.—Mayor -Mott has called the attention of the City Council to what he considers the “unbusiness- like methods” of handling the city's funds. He states that under a recent act | of the Legislature the ,question of de- positing public moneys in savings banks may be submitted to the people to vote on a constitutional amendment. At present the money is placed in safe deposit vaults, whereas the Mayor thinks it should be kept in circulation, and he suggests that a proper bond be furnished the banks to insure the city from loss. H. further suggests that the mat- ter be referred to a special committee, and the fitence committee of the Councli will consider his suggestions. The Council has passed to print an ordinance for the condemnation of *‘the Willows,"” bounded by the lake shore, Fourteenth and Oak streets, for park purposes. An ordinance granting a franchise to the Oakland Traction Consolidated for a franchise on Fast Fourteenth street, from First to Twelfth avenues, has been passed to print. City Engineer Turner has been directed to draw plans for imoroving the sewer system of the city. The proposed im- provement will cost $300000, which it is proposed to raise by a bond election. Despite a vigorous protest a license to conduct a saloon at Tenth and Clay streets has been granted to W. B. Quig- ley Jr. A suggestion of Mayor Mott that there | were not sufficlent water mains east of Alice street and south of Third street, a manufacturing district, was referred to the fire and water committee. | TAKE KINDERGARTEN - Their School to Educa- tional Department. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—Finding that the public school system of the city i{s now engaged In kindergarten work, a number of prominent ladies of the city who have been conducting the West Oakland Free Kindergarten at the corner of Pacific and Peralta streets as charity work wish to turn their school over to the city and turn their energies in other directions | To this end the president and members of the board of directors have addressed a communication to the Board of Educa- tion, asking it to take the school. They state the school has an average daily attendance of sixty, and the following ladles have signed the communication: Mrs. E. C. Farnham, president; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Watt. Caroline Van Dyke, secretary; Mrs. J. W. Shanklin, Mrs. Charles T. Walkley, Mrs. F. F. Weston, Mrs. W. G. Palmanteer, Mrs. Rdgar Bishop, Mrs. E. Button, Mrs. Henry ‘Wadsworth, Mrs. Franklin Bangs, Mrs. Dana H. Mathes. The matter is now in the hands of the finance committee of the board for con- sideration. ————— WOULD CLOSE SALOONS. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—Many of the merchants of San Leandro have de- clared®n favor of a law providing for the closing of saloons on Sunday and they will work to have the matter sub- mitted to the voters of the town. A committee, composed of O. J. Lynch, T. B. Morgan, W. B. Welisel, W. R. Locke and J. A. Holmgren, has been appointed to interview other merchants and agitate the questioh of Sunday closing. At a recent meeting of mer- chants William Locke was chosen tem- porary chairman and W. 8. Weisel sec- retary. * —_————————— MUST PROVE THEIR CHARGES. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—Subpenas were served to-day on Chief of Police Dinan and Police Officers James Welsh, Frank de Grancourt and M. Morris of the San Francisco Police Department ordering them to appear as witnesses in the in- vestigation of the charges made by the three patrolmen against Captain of Police W. J. Peterson of the Oakland Police Department, which will be heard next Thursday morning by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. Chief Dinan informed Detective Denny Holland, who served the subpenas, that the witnesses would be on hand. —_——— FIGHTING FOR REALTY. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—A hard fight 1s being made over the sale of Moss- wood, the home of the late Julia T. Moss, by T. A. Willlams, the present lessee, who had an option to buy the place for the same figure any one else named. The executors accepted an of- fer of $50,000 for it, and Williams was about to exercise his prerogative when, owing to a stidden rise in property, $20,000 more was offered, and the ex- ecutors wish to reopen the bids, which he is trying to prevent. POLICEMAN IS DISMISSED. BERKELEY, Nov. 7.—Policeman J. W. Virgin was dismissed from the de- partment last night at a speclal s sion of the Town Trustee: His case was considered behind closed doors un- til midnight. Marshal Vollmer had recommended the officer's dismissal, charging him with forsaking his post of duty at night repeatedly. The de- | posed officer has been under suspension since November 1. He is to be given .‘ chance to plead for reinstatement at a special meeting to be held to-morrow night. —_———— MRS. SILL LAID TO REST. OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—The funeral of Mrs. Emma 8ill, the wife of Officer J. F. Sill of the Oakland Police Depart- ment, who dropped dead on the street last Saturday night, was held at 2 p. m. to-day from the family residende, 2108 Grove street, the services being con- ducted by the Rev. Charles R. Brown. Detectives George Kytke and Frank Lynch and Police Officers MeSorley, Keete, Cockerton and Curtiss acted as pallbéarears. Interment was in Moun- tain View Cemetery. . ———— Aucumggn nnmx-.—q:sm. Nov. 7. is to be exacted by the Town Truetses here- after, an ordinance to that effect having been | OF COMMERCE s Will Form Cen- tral Organization to Ad- vance Oakland’s Interests MASS-MEETING CALLED More Than One Hundred Cit- izens Sign Petition Asking That Body Be Incorporated OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—That the mer- cnants of Qakland are determined to organize a Chamber of Commerce to advance the Interests of the entire city, | regardless of other civic bodies, s proved by the fact that more than 100 representative men have signed a peti- tion to co-operate in the plan. Al- ready the papers necessary for the in-: corporation of the chamber have:been | prepared and they will be forwarded to the Secretary of State as soon as the plans of the organization have been formulated. A meeting for that purpose has been arranged for next Saturday evening and it will be held at the Athenian Club. Whether the merchants will con- solidate the existing civic bodies un- der the name of the Chamber of Com- merce or will form a separate central organization has not been decided upor and these matters will be the topics of discussion at the meeting. Among those who have asked that such a body be formed are Mayor F. K. Mott, Supervisor John Mitchell, Henry A. Butters, W. G. Palmanteer, Edson F. Adams, W. W. Garthwaite, W. G. Hen- shaw, D. Edward Collins, Chairman F. W. Bllger of the Republican City Cen- tral Committee, City Attorney J. E. Mc- Elroy, Superior Judge T. W. Harrls, Councilman Fdwin Meese and most of the mercantile establishments of the city. ALAMEDA GOUNTY NEWS. HUSBAND WAS CRUEL.—Oakland, Nov. 7. An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted Mrs. L. E. Abbott to-day from A. Abbott on the ground of cruelty by Judge Henry Mel- vin. PARTRIDGE AT UNIVERSITY.—Berkeley, Nov. T.—John S. Partridge of San Francisco is to address the university etudents at the semi-monthly meeting in Harmon gymnasium next Friday morning at 11 o’clock. LIBRARY ATTACHE APPOINTED.— Berkeley, Nov. 7.—Miss Alice Bixby was ap- pointed cataloguer of the public library by the trustees last night to succeed Miss Mabel Weed, resigned. Miss Bixby was formerly an attache of the library of the United St Agricultural Department at Washing ton, D. C. SCHOOLBOY RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS. Alameda, Nov. 7.—Clarence Fieldhouse, 11 years of age, and residing at 1427 San Anto- nio avenue, was thrown from a bicycle while riding to the Mastick Grammar Echgol this morning and rendered unconscious. He suf- fered a severe concussion of the brain, but escaped without & fractured skull. WILL REBUILD CAR LINES.—Alameda, Nov. 7.—President W. J, Gorham of the City Trustees has been informed by the manage- ment of the Oakland Traction Consolidated Company that the corporation will soon begin the work of broad-gauging its local lines. Op- erations will be commenced at High street and the road on Santa Clara avenue will be the first improved. DBEATH COMES WITHOUT WARNING.— Oakland, Nov. 7.—Mrs. Margaret Thompson, the wife of Willlam Thompson, died suddenly from heart disease at her home on Bonna street, in Fruitvale, at 12:05 a. m. to-day, aged 47 years, The case waé reported to the Corcner, end an inquest will be held. deceased leaves two children, James T. and Arthur E. Thompson. POLICEMAN'S RESIGNATION AC- CEPTED.—Alameda, Wov, 7.—Fred Bramp- ton's reeignation as a member of the police department has been accepted by the City Trustees. City Trustee Fritz Boehmer was not in favor of accepting the patrolman’s resignation, but wanted to dismiss him in dis- grace. Charges of unofficer-like conduct were preferred against Brampton by Chief of Po- lice John Conrad. TESTIFIES TO CRUBLTY.—Oakland, Nov. 7.-In the Pereira divorce case, which is now on trial here, and involves the disposition of $100,000 worth of property, May Fitzgerald lestified to-day that she lived next door to the couple, and that one night Mrs. Pereira called to her from her bedroom window at 1 o'clock in the morning and got her to tela- phone for a policeman to_arrest her husband, Who was abusing her. ira is a wealthy cigar and poolroom man iR this city. TOWN RECEIVES LAND.—Berkeley, Nov. 7 Town Clerk Merrill to-day received from the Realty Syndicate a deed to a strip of land ten fest wide on the west side of Grove street, between Addison and University avenu The syndicate informs the town that the street work necessary to be done in connection with the dedication of this strip will be without e pense to the town. The extension of Grove street car line northward is expected to follow this etreet improvement. BROTHER FIGHTS BROTHER.—Oskland, Nov. 7.—Asserting that his elder brother un- auly influenced his father to disinherit him Fugene Mangin has brought a contest of his father's will. The trial beganibefore Superior Judge Ogden to-day. Eugene Mangin alleges that he was not allowed to see his fatl August Mangin, during the parent's last hours and that the elder man's mind was polsoned againet his younger son by the brother. To August B, C. Mangin, the elder son, the former well-known cepitallst left his estate Jalued at more than $20,000. .Now Eugens ingists that his brother misrepresented him, would not allow him to see the father and finally induced the old man not to leave any- thing to the younger son on the ground that he was a spendthrift. The contest of brothers promises to be a bitter one. E s v e SWINDLER BEGINS LONG TERM IN JAIL Defrauded the Miners of] Nome Out of Approxi- ! mately $100,000. I Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Nov. 7.—C. R. Griggs, who with G. W. Duncan perpetrated the Midas Creek frauds in Nome in 1902, has been brought to Seattle and was to-day taken to the Federal prison on McNeil's Island to serve a five-year sentence. Griggs and Duncan claimed to have located fabulous- ly rich claims on the mythical Midas Creek, 300 miles up the Koyukuk River. On their representations Judge Moore created a mining district and named a commissioner. Then the two men sold interests in claims, cleaning up approxi- mately $100,000. Griggs was arrested in Portland and taken North for trial, oul Duncan has disap] 3 ARTILLERYMAN IS FATALLY INJURED AT FORT FLAGLER Skull is Fractured and Shoulder PORT TOWNSEND, Nov. 7.—Corporal ‘Wahmstead of the One Hundred afd Sixth Company, Coast Artillery, was serlously and probably fatally injured in an accident which occurred at noon to-day at Fort Flagler. Practice with 16-inch guns was in progress, when a defective carriage mechanism blew out, a plece striking ! was In charge of the g squad, turing his skull and ocating shoulder. An officlal inquiry Wil commenced to-morrow to cause of the sccident his ~ be the W {: frac- Ot At b R e SR A O IE Sai et WANT CHAMBER |NAY HAVE BEEN HOLEP ROBBER Alameda Police Release Fred Dodge, Who Answers to the Description of Footpad FOOLS A CITY JUSTICE Tells Story of Traveling to Isle City to Escape the Tumult in San Franeisco ALAMEDA, Nov. 7.—It is now be- lieved .by the police that the man ar- rested yesterday morning at 2 o'clock at the corner of Santa Clara avenue and Sherman street by Special Police- man A. V. Huft and who gave his name as Fred Dodge was one of the palr of highwaymen who held up James Hague of 1719 Stanton street three hours be- fore. Dodge was taken into custody by Huff for roaming the streets after 2 o'clock and was released yesterday morning at 10 o'clock by City Justice R. B. Tappan, no charge having been booked against him. Dodge was well dressed and answered the description given by Hague of one of the footpads who robbed him. Hague did not report the hold-up in which he figured until last night and the police were then unable to secure any trace of Dodge. Dodge was sober when arrested and when questioned by Justice Tappan as to why he was abroad in Alameda at 8 o'clock in the morning replied that he came over from San Francisco to escape the noise and tumult of that city. gt OAKLAND, Nov. 7.—Carl Schroder, a barber, residing at 108 Franklin street, San Francisco, reported to the police that he had been held up at the corner of Tenth and Franklin ’streets this evening and had escaped from the foot- pads after a hard struggle. After an investigation the police came to the conclusion ' that Schroder had been mixed up in a fight. The barber claimed that he had lost his watch, but the timepiece was found near the scene of the alleged hold-up. Schroder’s face indicated that he had been in a struggle. BOY OF EIGHT SHOWS REMARKABLE GRIT Though -Both Arms Are Broken, He Walks a Mile. Special Disparan 1o The Call. REDDING, Nov. 7.—Eddie Wilson, the eight-year-old son of -Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson of Castella, fell sixteen feet from the top of a tree in which he was play- ing yesterday, and both of his arms were broken just above the wrist. Young Wilson was playing with comrades about a mile from his home. While in the tree & limb broke and the lad was precipl- tated, landing on his hands. The bones of both arms were .snapped. Without a murmur the boy walked to his home, a mile away, his arms hanging limp and useless. SHASTA COUNTY MAN CHAMPION SLEEPER Spends More Than Three- Quarters of His Time in Slumber. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Nov. 7.—George Martin of Anderson is breaking all records as a somnambulist. Martin went to Chico last week, went to the Hallam Houss, ate supper and went to sleep. He slept alt the next day, and after being awakened partook of & hearty lunch, went to sleep again and remained in a deep stupor for twenty hours.. Now Martin is at the Butte County Hospital, where he con- tinues to sleep. He has slept more than three-fourths of the time since he ar- rived. RIG WITH TWO MEN GOES DOWN A BANK Happy Valley Youths Fall Upon Barbed Fence and Are Badly Hurt. Special Dispatch to The Call REDDING, Nov. 7.—Victor Anderson and Charles De La Rose, youths of Happy Valley, miraculously escaped death yesterday while going to a dance east of the river. While going down a steep grade their horse falled to make the turn, and horse, buggy and riders were hurled forty feet down an embank- ment and against a barbed wire fence. Both men were badly injured, the buggy i i wrecked and the horse will have to be I DSOME PREMIUM 1S PAID FOR BONDS San Franciscans Make Heavy Investment in Redding HAN Securities. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Nov. 7.—The municipal bond issue of $145,000 recently voted by the electors of Redding for the improve- ment of streets and sewers and the erec- tion of a city hall was sold last night to N. W. Ha & Co. of San Francisco at the handsome premium of $7500. The bonds bear 5 per cent interest and the premium more than covers the first year's interest and expenses of election. —————————— THINK THEY HAVE THE MEN ‘WHO DYNAMITED A TRAIN Four Suspects Arrested by Officers Who Investignted the Wreck in the Tangair b yesterday 8- Constable W. F. Cook and Deputy gheriff Yancy McFadden have returned from the scene Of the wreck. Con stable Cook WATER FAMINE \Residents of Menlo Park Will Be in Serious Predic- ament Unless Rain Comes RESERVOIR NEARLY DRY Agitation to Compel Com- pany to Enlarge Plant Is Rapidly Assuming Shape MENLO PARK, Nov. 7.—This town and its vicinity are threatened with a water famine. All the sprinkling carts have béen called in from the roads and the dust is stifing on the highways. Gardeners have been warned to use water sparingly and if the rain does | i ation here will be serious. The source of the trouble is the Bear Gulch pond, which has given out, and there seems to be no immediate prospect of its re- plenishment. The opinion prevails that the company owning this reservoir should have enlarged it long ago to meet such emergencies. The monthly ipcome for the company is $5000 and an agitation s crystallizing here to urge the corporation to expend some of its income in improving its plant. Four-fifths of the company is owned | by the Unlversity ot California and the other by Charles N. Felton. FIRE ATTACKS GIANT REDWOODS OF MARIN Flames Subdued Only After Fierce Struggle of Ten Hours. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 7.—What, might have proved a disastrous forest fire in Redwood Canyon yesterday evening was checked and subdued by the prompt action of a band of fire-fighters under the leadership of Superintendent W. J. Thomas of the Tamalpais Scenic Railroad. For awhile the fire's hungry flames had things their own way, but Thomas and his band, after ten hours’ bard fighting, finally ‘won. The cause of the fire is unknown. It is supposed to have been started by a lighted cigar butt carelessly thrown into the brush. Redwood Canyon, which comprises about 600 acres, was purchased recent- ly for $60,000 by William Kent. Kent will erect an elegant tourist hotel near the head of the canyon. A preliminary survey for a two mile and a half spur from the Scenic Rallroad to the scene of the proposed tourist hotel was com- menced yesterday. —_———— WANTS ASSAILANTS JAILED. SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 7.—A. P. Shan- nom, a carpenter, swore to a complaint before Judge Magee against John Friz- zi, a saloon-keeper, and an unknown blacksmith, both of Larkspur, charging them with assault with a deadly wea- pon. Shannon claims that while acting as peacemaker in an early Sunday morning quarrel between Frizzi and Charles 8. Scott, librarian of the Cali- fornia Mining Bureau, the blacksmith felled him with a‘ hammer and Frizal kicked him. The row occurred in front of Frizzi's saloon in Larkspur. ——— FINDS GIRL WAS INSANE. SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 7.—A Coroner's inquest was held to-night over the re- mains of Jennie Mahoney of 263 Devis- adero street, San Francisco, who com- mitted suicide by throwing herself in front of a moving freight train last week near Schuetzen Park, and brought in a verdict that she commit- ted suicide while temporarily insane. ————— PACIFIC GROVE GRAND ARMY POST ENTERTAINS VISITORS Department Commander Is Givem Royal Welcome by Veterans of the Civil War. PACIFIC GROVE, Nov. 7.—Grand Army circles were astir in this locality to-day and to-night, the event being the annual visit of the department commander to the post. Department Commander W. W. Russell of Marys- ville and Assistant Adjutant General John H. Roberts of San Francisco were met by a delegation of members of Lucius Fairchild Post to-day and were extended the hospitality of the city. The post, in conjunction with the ladies of the Grand Army and the Relief Corps, united in giving an entertain- ment and banquet to the visitors to- night. —_—— WANTS RAILROAD TO PAY HIM FOR INJURIES CAUSED BY STEAM Special Officer Burned During War Be- tween Corporations Is Sulng \ for Damages. SANTA ROSA, Nov. 7.—The suit of David W. Wade against the California Northwestern Railway Company for $3000 damages went to trial - before Judge Emmett Seawell to-day. The case is the outgrowth of the fight be- tween the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway and the California Northwest- ern Railway. The steam road used en- gines equipped with steam pipes, to thr jets of steam where the work- men *desired to cut its ralls. Wade, acting as a special officer, was severely burned. —————————— | AssEssors oF sTaTE soox TO MEET IN SANTA ROSA Arrangemeuts Are Being Made for the Entertainment of the Visitors Next Month. SANTA ROSA, Nov. 7.—The annual meeting of the County Assessors of California will convene in this city on December 12 for several days’ sessiom. The local arrangements for the recep- tion and entertainment of the visitors are in the hands of County Assessor Frank E. Dowd of this county. —— e CHINESE COOK CHIDED BY HIS MISTRESS HANGS HIMSELF Scolding for H | Forgetting to Provide Bread for Breakfast. . FRESNO, Nov. 7.—Chow Chee, lord of the kitchen of the Wagner family, for- t the hot rolls In his oven this morn- The lady of the house chided him and he took the scolding so much to heart that he secured a rope and n,:xedhhnulfto-hdd.rln the barn- —_———L Vineyardist Takes a Wife. SANTA CRUZ, Nov. 7.—Willlam F. S THREATENED FOLLOWS TRAL 0F A DECENER Woman (laiming to Be Vie- tim of Second Johann Hoeh Asks Pelice Aid in Fresno STEALS HER SAVINGS Says Man She Is Pursuing Has Fuily Dozen Wives Scattered Over the Country LTRSS A Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Nov. 7. — A mysterious ro- | mance, tinged with crime that had its | inception five years ago in the little wvlv Iof Berry, Vt., came to light here to-day when Mrs. Maud Macgregor, dark and not come for another month the SituU- jecidedly handsome, applied to the police for the arrest of one, John Putnam allas John Hart, who, according to her story, the police of a dozen cities have been eagerly looking for. Putnam has not yet been located, but the woman declares he is in town and the police hope to have him in the toils before morning. Mrs. Macgregor declares that Putnam is another Johann Hoch. Since he victim- ized and then tried to kill her five years ago she has learned that he has had not less than a dozen wives in different parts of the United States. In this woman's case Putnam secured her money, nearly : 32000, before the date set for the marriage, lrand then refused to marry her. When she tried to make trouble he shot her and left her for dead. When she recovered she sworé an oath that she would bring the man to justice, and for that purpose she has followed on his trail for five years. WASHINGTON SHINGLE MILLS SHUT DOWN Plants Will Not Be Operated for Sixty Days After December 1. Special Dispatoh to The Call. SEATTLE, Nov. 7.—Shingle manufl(* turers, representing most of the* outpu of Washington mills, agreed to-day upon a sixty days' closedown, beginning De- cember 1. The mills will be closed to curtall the output by about S000 cars. Several of the larger mills have been standing out against the closing move- ment, but after the utter demoralization in the market during the last week, all but one of the big plants came into the agreement. Detalls have yet to be closed up, but the movement will be a success. Representatives will be sent to California to interest the redwood shingle-malkers in the plan. BOY INCENDIARIES RUIN AN AGED MAN In Spirit of Revenge Toss Cigarettes Into Weeds { and Destroy Home. SAN JOSE, Nov. 7.—The incendiaries who set fire to the barn of aged Ar- thur Bassett at Washington and Four- teenth streets, last Sunday afterncon, causing a blaze that destroyed the barn, two horses, Bassett’s house and all his personal effects, are two boys— Ray Cline, aged 11, and Leslie Russell, d 13. The boys say they carried away Bassett's front gate Halloween night, and he made them return it, and in revenge they threw two burning eig- arettes in the dry weeds by the barn. —— - — SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE BUYS A BIG HOTEL IN FRESNO J. A. Cooper Pays $145,000 for Cholce Property in the Rajsin City. FRESNO, Nov. 7—The Grand Cen- tral Hotel, which occupies one of the main business corners of Fresno, has been sold to Appellate Judgs J. A. Cooper of San Francisco for $145,500. Fulton G. Berry, the former owner, has leased the hotel for five years and will continus to run it. Meanwhile Berry will erect on the same business block what Fresno Is sorely In need of, a first-class tourist hotel. The new structure will be six stories high and work will begin on it befors the end of the year. —_—— New Police Chief Named. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.—The Police Commission to-day named Walter . Auble Chief of Police to succeed W. I ‘Hammel, resigned, and selected - Paul E. Flammer for chief of detactives, vice Captain A. J. Bradish, who is placed In charge of a sub-station wiwm the rank of captain. —— e Mystery of Dylng Pearls. A pearl necklace from the collection of M. Thiers, which is now at the Louvre and which was originally worth $100,000, i is “dyhig” and gradually losing its value, at times, but that is frequently cnu:y A London expert says that pearls. w: by their being kept in the dark. beautiful pearl necklace . thing of its luster while st away in the dark, but has regained its value when exposed to the light again. As a rule pearls improve by wearing, but the action of the skin of various persons acts differ- ently on them. One woman will greatly increase the luster and the value of her pearis by wearing them, but others will take all the luster out of them. Turquoises are a jewel particularly sus- ceptible to outside influ : spoiled. Let & little ofl come in contact | with your turqueise, or a little of the 1 soap in washing, and the stone will turn green.—Exchange. —_— Cannibalism of Black Bass. quote from the Fox Lake representa- ; FR8% § i £t | T £ gfi