The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1905, Page 6

NEWS OF THE COUNTIES LIFE _TMPRISONMENT. FORIDECLARES BOY [BALLS SCALP FRUITVALE W SR Young Blaker Is Sen-i tenced by Oakland | Judge. | Trial of His Boy Ac-| complices Is Now in Progress. o i AKLAND, N spend the re-| Quentin was morning | W Blaker, city rge SENTENCED. | of the ler he law three £ Cook to Waith the same story | Blaker's | with the | ONF PEMBROKE'S ( kson, who was e scene of the low ame T saw ¥s was but also admits going to make nd will endeavor to one who therefore not impli- king down of the £ his s evening the week JAMER STRIKES ON SHOAL Persous Aboard the Wrecked Vessel Are Rescued by Life Savers. ! Mick mer Argo, th which is city g t the ecked north the st sengers and rew were rescued by the f Robert Smith, a member of ew, was pulled to the steamer by to Geser nt they are | reeches buoy . Argo was gradually the beach and to- feet morth of the pier and t of the ghore | teel vessel, 173 feet long, | It will probably cost refloat and repalr her. | et e g ey Witte Cabinet Is Satisfied. PETERSBURG, Nov. 24.—The | 81 Witte Cabinet appears to be fairly satie- fied with th Congress Government definition by the Zemstvo its attitude toward the | believing that it will pro- | | @uce a good impression on the con- servative sentiment throughout the country and materially aid the Premier in successfully accomplishing his task . of finding a common ground between the reactionists and malcontents SEEKS FORGIVENESS | AFTER MANY YEARS Plea of Wife Charged With Desertion Fails to Soften Husband. : OAKLAND, Nov. 24.—After deserting her husband snd two chidren and re- maining away twelve years, according to the story of her husband, the wife | of William Wallace, a carpenter resid- | ing in East Oakland, s repented of| her action and now seeks,a reconcilia- | tion. Her husband, however, has notj forgiven his wife, who now lives In Santa Ana, Cal, and says that he will | at once begin divorce proceedings. The | discovery of the whereabouts of the missing wonian was made through a; letter received from her by Captain W. R. Thomus. After some inquiry Captain ! Thomas located Wallace in East Oak- Jand and told him of the letter. Wal- lace acknowledged that the woman was his wife, but declared that he would Dot receive her. —_——— TESTIMONIAL TO MRS, MILLS, | OAKLAND, Nov. 24—A number of | prominent mining men of Grass Val- ley have just presented to Mrs. Susan L. Mills, the surviving founder of Mills College, & testimonial congratulating Ler on the recent celebration of her eightieth birthday. A substantial check accompanied the testimonial as a mark of appreciation of her interest in the welfarc of Nevada County. When the Orleans mine of Grass Valley was about to be sold for debt Mrs. Mills supplied the funds which saved the property and | Pplaced it on & paying basis. . . ! f | Point | San Jose avenue. FUL MURDERER WHO WAS TENCED IN OAKLAND TO IMPRISONME o RS NEW JUDGE.—Oakland, Bar Aseociation of Alameda tendered a banquet to-night to Supe- rior Judge T. W. Harris at the Athenfan Club. OMPROMISED.—Oakland, Nov. 24.~ 2 the Central Title Insur- Thomas Duffy $1250 recently decided BAR HONO Nov. 24.- paid TENCE.—Poin: ant, arrestad on i eloping with the to & term of Nov. 9-year-old a pistol and subsequently ethen Smith, aged 16 years, mally charged with a felony. IMPROVING. nic K. Mott, who slipped t Twelfth street and Broad- sustained a eprain of his back, HIMSELF.—0akland, Nov. 24— shot himeelf in the right great tée toying with & pistol: He went ng hospital. RRENDER® HIMSELF.-Ala- T Nov 4.—Fred rar, accused of hav- ing beaten Eimo Ha: ¥ Tuesday night, sur- rendered himself to-day and entered a plea of not guilty in the Justice Court. UK GOES EAST.—Oakland, Nov. 24.— je Henry A. Melvin wili leave for Cinein- rrow, He goes to dellver orfal address before the Elk: He expects to be gone about both of San " Oakland, and co. JEWELER DIES S8 LY. — Oakland, Nov. 24.—Henry A. Treager, a jeweler, died | suddenly thie morning while dreseing. Death pposed to have been due to heart disease. was a native of Roumania, 73 years old, 1 Jeaves one som,-Jacob Treager, who was —Oakiand, Nov. St. Louls, Il Hodgkins to in locating his mother. who was in Portland, February 5, and at that time intended coming to Oakland. She was known as Mrs. Lizzie g= and aiso Mrs. Lizzie Underhill. Raw) JOHNSON'S BODY FOUND.—Point Rich- Nov. 24.—The bedly decomposed body ed to be that of Theodore and, who fell from the Key Yerba Buena about two weeks a0, from the bay off Richmond last night. A Key Route badge was pinned to the shirt of the dead man, HOOTS HIMSELF, ACCIDENTALLY.—Ala- meda, Nov. 24.—C. W. Chapman, a plumber emploved in San Francisco, ehot himself acci- dentally to-night while practicing with a smal: rifie in the basement of his home, 2508 He was trying to extract a jammed cartridge from tne weapon when the cartridge exploded and the bullet entered the left breast, penetrating the lung cavity. Chap- man was rémoved to the Alameda Sanitarium, where the wound was dressed by Dr. J. E. Clark. TROUBLE OVER OLD DOCK.—Paint Rich- mond, Nov. A _row between the Richmond Land and Canal Company and the Humboldt Lumber Company of Oakiand over an old dock resulted to-day in the arrest of Captain C. A. Bartholomew, Thomas Kennedy, T. Davie and W. H. Jensen on a charge of malicious mis- chief. The dock, iocated on some land purchased a year ago by the -land com- pany, is claimed by the lumber company, and the men arrested were sent to Point Richmond to remove it. JSBAND'S CHILDREN. — Oak- o Her refusal 1o live in the rear ore at 200 Telegraph avenue caused Mrs. Ole Olson not omly to leave her husband, but 1o take his two children by his first wife with her. Olson wants the police to recover the little ones, who are Olga, aged 13 years, and Adolph, mged 10 years. Mrs. Olson left her home Wednesday morning, but returned in the afternoon with Policeman John Murray and secured her trunk. Then, according to Olson, sbe went to the school and took the children. Olson has been unable to locate them. BACON HEIRS.—Oakiand, Nov. 24.—The Bacon Land and Loan Company, a close cor- poration composed of heirt of the late Henry D. Bacon, the millionalre, was dissolved to-day because of Gisagreements among the members of the family. Miss Carrie J. Bacon and Mre. Ella Bacon-Soule, former wife of Professor Frank Soule of the University of California, could not meet the desires of their brother, Frank Page Bacon, in the matter of invest. ments. There was a mutual agreement that the company should be dissorved and Judge T. W. Harris signed the formal order to-day. OPEN MEMORIAL HOUSE.—Alameda, Nov. 24.—Bishop Wiillam: Ford Niclols formalty opened the Lion Memoriai House, 1904 Ciinton avenue, last night. The institution is for the late Edgar J. Lion and is to be con- Jucted as an Industrial bureau for women who Fupport themselyes and have others dependent upon them. Following ave the officers of the institution: President, Mrs R. W. s vice president, Mre. P. S. Teller; trensurer, . A. Victors; corresponaing secretary, Mrs. Fouza; ng eecretary, Dr. Mary D. Fletcher; executive committes, es Cow- ing, Hebard, Rosenthal, McCain and Spalding. P —— RAILROAD MAN'S HOME ROBBED AND THEN BURNED TO GROUND REDDING, Nov. 24.—The home of John O'Shea, section foreman on the Iron Mountain Rallroad, located near Minnesota station, was robbed yester- day and then burned to the ground. O'Shea was down the track four milas when the fire took place. He left a watch and considerable money in his house and after the fire not a trace ot the metal or works of the watch could be found. An attempt was made on a former occasion to rob the . O'Shea home. | | | | — Oakland, | i a walter, /512 Bush street, San | { | lor. held by J. C. 8. Blackburn. WS TOD YOUNC Crusade Against Those Who Hire Children Begun by State Labor Commissioner FRED BECKER A€CUSED SRS W Alleged to Have Violated Law in Employing H. Thomp- kins, Who Was Killed OAKLAND, Nov. 24.—The local repre- sentatives of the State Labor Bureau be- gan thelr crusade against the violators of the new child labor law this afternoon, when two warrants were issued for the arrest of Fred Becker, a prominent meat dealer and member of the Butchers’ Board of Trade. Becker is accused of employing Henry Thompkins, aged 13 vears, who was killed in an elevator ac- cident November 1L The child labor law, enacted by the last Legislature, makes it a misdemeanor to employ youths under 14 years of age dur- ing school terms without an order of the Superfor Court. In vacations the child must have a certificate from the Super- intendent of Schools before he may be lawfully employed. The law further provides that: no child under 16 years shall be employed in a dangerous posi- tion. Becker is accused of having vio- lated both these provisions. Young Thompkins was crushed to death by an elevator which he was operating in Becker's meat market, and the Labor Commissivner decided to prosecute. Pur- suant to this decision, John M. Echel- man, Deputy Labor Commissioner, to- day swore to the warrants against Beck- er, on orders from Labor Commissioner W. V. Stafford. —_———————— FLAG FOR NATIVE SONS. BERKELEY, Nov. A tattered old war fag, presented to the Berkeley parlor of Native Sons by Postmaster George Schmidt, was the center of in- terest at a meeting of the parlor to- night, when speeches of presentation aifld acceptance were made by prom- inent citizens. The principal address was given by John S. Partridge of San Francisco, a member of Stanford Par- A. W. Atherton, who spoke first, represented the donor of the war flag. Judge McLaughiin, past grand presi- dent of the order, responded. Songs by Miss Virginia Goodsell and choruses under her gramme. Representatives Daughters of the Confederacy Legion, G. A. R. and Native D were present and took part in the cere- monfes. direction varied the pro- the ot ———— MARITAL DISAGREEMENTS. OAKLAND, No divorce actions ere begun to-day: Charles H. Laswell from Mary B. Las- well, for desertion; August Milier from Emma Miller, for desertion; Inez Todd from Rush B. Todd, for crueity; FPhebe J. Seed from Frank J. Seed, for desertion. Interlocutory decrees of di- vorce were granted te Winifred G. Hayman from George S. Hayman, for cruelty; KEthel Geisenhofer from Otto Gelsenhofer, for cruelty; Nellie G. Noblett from Edward B. Noblett, for neglect; May Orans from John Orans, for neglect. A final decree was grant- ed Margaret A. Lundy from Edward Lundy for desertion. —_———— FAIRFAX WHEELAN TO SPEAK. OAKLAN Nov. 24.—Fairfax I Wheelan wili address the members of the Men's Club of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Tuesday evening, November 23, The subject of Wheelan's address will be “The Meaning of the Recent Munic- ipal Elections of the Country ———— SOCIALISTS DEFEATED AT LABOR CONVENTION Resolutions on Public Ownership I troduced But Declared Out of Order. PITTSSURG, Pa., Nov. 24.—The most important decision reached to-day by the American Federation of Labor was the refusal to grant a charter to the National Stogie Makers' League be- cause the trade is so Clo‘!ely 1dentified with cigar making. The socialist delegates introduced two resolutions on public ownership which the committee on resolutiens did not concur in. President Gompers de- clared both resolutions out of order. A special order was made for 10 o'clock to-morrow morning for the election of officers and selection of a city for holding the next convention. —_—————— CHORUS GIRL RENUSES TO WEAR BRITISH FLAG \ Irish Lass Defies Management the Night Prince Louls Attends . the Theater. NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Because she would not wear a tiny British flag the night Prince,Louis afd his staff were at the theater, May Leslie, a chorus girl, was fined $»b and yercterday served notice of suit for damages against the management. The flags were sent to the theater by British officers :nd the girls in the chorus were instructed to wear them. Miss Leslie, who is Irish, refused point- biank. “I'm not the trst Irish martyr,” she declared. ——————— BATTLESHIP OREGON COMING HOME FROM ASIATIC STATION Historic Vessel Is to Be Placed Out of Commission nand Given u 'Thor- ough Overhauiing. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—As soon as the historic battleship Oregon, . now under orders to return home from the Aslatic - station, reaches American waters she will be sent to a Govern- ment navy yard and placed out of com- mission for a thorough overhauling. When recommissioned she will be placed in the second line of defense, use being found for her in home waters. The out of date battleship Massachu- setts, now at the New York Navy Yard, will be put out of commission. Her place will be taken by the battleship Indiana, now completing repairs, « ‘What ship will take the place of the Oregon on the Asiatic station has not been decided. —_——— Enters Race for United States Semate, LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. 24—The Courler-Journal will tomorrow morning print the formal announcement of the entry of W. B. Haldeman, editor of the Louisville Times, into the race for the seat in the United States Senate now The elec- tion will take place early In January. CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Another ‘made to-day by the police in connection with the scalping of tickets for tne Thankasiving tootball xame. George Perry was ‘tour $1 50 tickets for §20. 2o arrest was : 1S DENANDED Prominent Merchants Say i Fire Chief Is Not Compe- i tent to Hold His Pqsition’ CHARGES ARE GRAVE Allegations of Neglect of Duty Are Denied by Head of the Department OAKLAND, Nov. 24.—Charges of in- competence were filed against Chief Engineer N. A. Ball, of the Oakland Fire Departmént this morning, in a petition filed with the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners by Frank Mathews, president of the Bay City Iron Works, in which the signers of the document, fifty-three in number, ask that the Chief be removi rom his position, on the ground inefficiency in the handling of the recent fire in the manu- facturing district at Third and Clay streets. In his reply to the charges, Chief Ball, who has always been rated as a thoroughly competent officer, declares that the allegations are absolutely | false, and are either the result of mis- information, or are caused by personal or political animosity. The Chief says that, so far as the charges themselves are concerned, he will have no difficulty in disproving all of them, and that he courts a full in- |vesllgation by the Commissioners. The petition, which, Chief Ball says, was circulated at the instance of Presi- dent Mathews of the Bay City Iron ‘Works, which were badly damaged in the fire referredto, charges, among other things, that Chief Ball did not turn in a general alarm on his arrival at the fire, agd that he took time to carefully remo¥e his coat and vest,and fold them on the seat of his buggy be- fore turning in a second alarm. CRARGES ARE GRAVE. The Chief is also charged with having refused to allow the firemen to turn a stream of water on the Burn- ham Standeford-Company’s mill, on the south side of Second street, and that employes of the mill forcibly took a line of hose from the firemen, and used it to extinguish the fire which had spread to the lumber piled in front of the company’s mill on Second street. Charges are also made that when a 4 ND'S FIRE CHIEF, AGAINST I OAKL NS’ “WHOM CHARGES OF INCOMPE- TENCY HAVE BEEN FILED. i CLUB WOMEN TO APPEAR IN CLASSIC PLAY BY ZOE GREEN RADCLIFFE. OAKLAND, Nov. 24.—For the first time in the history of Oakiand clubs a dramatic even- ing ie to be given in a public theater, with the cast composed entirely of club women. On Wednesday evening, December 6, the women of Berkeley's exclusive club, the Town and Gown, will present a sceme from *Pygmalion and Galatea,” and ‘‘In a Balcony,” by Brown- ing. Immense interest is being manifested in the affair and the audience promises to be ope of the smartest ever seen at the Macdonough. The ltuie kpiscopal Church oi St. John Is to be the beneniciary and unfloubtediy the mdebt- edness that weighs hea upon it now will be considerably lightened by these clever Berke- ley women. The most prominent society women in Oakland and the college town are interested The Hst includes rles Starella Butters, the names of Mrs. representative of the Burnham-Stande- | Mrs, Francis Marion Smith, Mrs. Henry A ford Company asked for assistunce to | Butters, Mre. William Letts Oliver, Mrs. Wil- ! prevent the spread of the flames, Chiet | llam S. Goodiellow, Mr KOA;‘A;\:'E{; oy Ball was abusive and profane in his iy e e refusal. D. Girara, Mrs. The records of the Fire Department 1] Mrs, Uscar Fitzalan Long, Mo B ATt avak Oscar Luning, ohn F. Conners rs. show that a general alarm wasa turned Mary Puertan, 3 R - in from box 65 on the day of the fire A St. George Clitton Kroll, Mrs. which destroyed the buildings in the | B ¢ Farnu o B B oy | block bounded by Second and Third |Josephine Hyde, ay, Mrs and Washington and Clay Streets, and | Frederick Morse, Melvin, Mrs. Henry Wetherbre, Mrs. Kdwin Barbour, Mrs. J. B Hume, Mrs. Archibald Berland. Mrs. A. K. Crawford.and Mrs. Ueorge R. Chambers. From Berkeley the patronesses Include Mrs. Charles T. Blacke, Mrs. Alexis Lange, Mrs. Edward S. Parsons, Mrs. Chauncey Wells, Mrs. Edward Bull Clapp, Mrs. Leon J, Richardson, that seven of the eight éngines of the City were used on that date in fighting the fire. In response to the charge that he lost time in sending in a second and third alarm Chief Ball says he can prove that the second alarm was turned Frank Soule, Mrs. in the moment he reached'the fire, and harles Mills Gayley, the third as soon as the second . V. Hathaway, had ceased to sound. Regarding the . e charge that he took time to carefully | gaeton, Mrs. D. Mrs. Walter Mart, remove and fold his coat and vest, the | Miss Anna Head, Mre. J. M. Pierce, Mrs. E. Chief says that a dozen people can prove it false. The charge is also made that the hose couplings on the battery of the W. Dorst and others. . Mrs. James J. Allen_ was hostess to half a hundred guests to-day,” wio enjoyed the intri- cacies of bridge whist, and later a dainty col- Fifteenth street hose wagon, called in | lation. Assisting her . E. J. Cotton, the petition the water tower, were | MIs “l“flrddr};:‘"‘:__m oL ey lfir:" (?hr:rr;\; missing, and that a messenger had to | g, e Stk i M IR be sent to the engine house to get them | Bahls, Mrs. Louis Ghirardelll, = Keller, Mrs. Churchill Taylor, Mrs. Charles Lovell and 2 t attery could be put into Do e : t Mrs. Felton Taylor. action. This charge proves itself false, for the couplifigs of the battery are a part of the apparatus, and to remove and replace them would take an hour's work by the machinist. The Shakespeare section, of which Mrs. J. R. Scupham Is the popular curator, has arranged a programme of unusual promise for the next Ebell meeting, November 28. Mrs. Frederick Stratton will sing a_number of songs, all by CHIEF FEELS CONFIDENT. the ‘‘tmmortal b-l;d.“ lnemdmg:h "‘Orp;—us i With His, Lute” (‘Henry VIII"), Charles Fon- Chief Ball said to-day that an officer R Y teyn Manney beline’), Harvey Worthington Loomis; *‘Under the Greenwood Tree” (“As You Like It"), Frederick Ayres Johnson. Then an original sketch, ““When Mr. Shake- speare Comes to Town,” will be presented by members of the club. Mére than ordinary in- terest Is being manifested and doubtless the day will be @ brilliant success in every way. Mrs. Arthur Tasheira (Miss Helen Garth- waite) was a much feted bride to-day. Hei afternoon hours were given over to a reception, a welcome home affair hostessed by Mrs. E. N. and in the evening she and her re entertainea at dinner by the Engelhard The dinner guests fourteen, while a hundred or moré called during the afternoon to felfcitate the bride, who has but just returned from the honeymoon trip to Tahiti. The receiving par- ty consisted of Mrs. W. W. Garthwalte, Mrs. _Louls Tasheira, Mrs. F. M. Butler, Mrs. W. H. Huntington, Mrs. John D. Eby, Mrs. Benjamin Bakewell, Miss Maud Mackie, Miss Gladys Gould, Miss Phcebe McElrath and Miss Alice Conklin. in the San Francisco Kire Department present at the fire in question made an observation as to. the number of engines which would have been used to 'subdue a blaze of the same magni- tude in San Francisco, and commented upon the excellent work dome by the local department in preventing the spread of the fire from the block in which it originated. The Chief also says that it can be proved by disinter- ested persons that the entire center of the block was in the grip of the flames before the alarm was turned in. i Among the signers of the petition for the removal of Chief Ball is W. J. Emrick, who some time ago was awarded a contract for repairing one of the city's fire engines. When the work was completed Chief Ball refusea to approve it. Chief Ball, when asked what his action would be in regard to the charges made by the signers of the petition, said this afternoon: The charges made agamnst me In this peti- tion are fatee in every particular, and I shall | Louise. ’ Tequest the board to make a thorough investi- [ “The George Hammers have rented their Lin- gation, as 1 have nothing to fear, and can |ga Vista house to Mr. and Mre. Milton Bulk- prove by disinterested witnesses that the allega- | jey who are planning to return with Mrs. Hons aré without foundation. In one way the | Kate Bulkley for the winter. filing of this petition with the board pleases o S mé tery much, for it shows that during the ten | Next Saturday promises to be a gala day, days that it has been in circulation only ffty | musically, with the Adeiphian Club of Ala- tures were secured by those interested in | meda. A delightful programme has been ar- from my position. If, dur- | yanged for the socizl reunton, and a new guar- ing the eight years that I have been at the | tet, consisting of Miss May Gilmour (soprano). head of the Oakland Fire Department, I have | Mrg Walter Longbotham (contraito), Clinton heade o more enemies than this would indi. | A, Mors: (tenor) and C. A. Rossignol (basso), cate, 1 think I should be very well satistled. Will make its initial appearance. P Quite a little colony of well known Oakland people are located at the Athens, the new apartment-house on Broadway, among them being Mr. and Mrs. Louts Tasheira, Mr. and Mrs. ¥rank Parcells, Mr. and Mrs. George Hammer and the Misses Mahoney, Emma and sig: having me removed —_————————— TALKS OF TEACHING. OAKLAND, Nov. 24.—President Ben- jamin Ide Wheeler of the University of ¥ —_— California told the Starr King Frater- | Belleved to Be Fragment of Meteor nity at the First Unitarian Church at; ‘Which Broke Up Sixty-Five Fourteenth and Castro streets in this Yenrs Ago. city to-night what he believed a model NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—A cable dis common school should be. He rele- patch to the Herald from Paris says gated to the background in this ideal M. Camille Flammarion, the eminent system of his for the education of the | pronsh astronomer. writes that the BERNARD COMET SEEN & IN VICINITY OF SATURN Iher affiiction was more than she could }later the last vestige of light failed her. REASON FLEES WITH DARKNESS Woman Bereft of Her Sight Goes Insane and Has to Be Committed to Asylum AFFLICTION T0O GREAT Worries Over Her Terrible Sorrow Until Imbeeility Comes as Relief to Woe OAKLAND, Nov. 2i.—Stricken with blindnéss, which has caused her to go insane, Mrs. Lillian E. Fuiton, 34 years: of age, was committed to the Stockton Asylum this merning by Judge T. W. Harris. With the home she loved and the world about her blotted out of her life, bear. Mre. Fulton is the wife of a man MNv- ing. at Sacramento. Disease attacked her eyesight ard a few months ago she was admitted to the Home for the Adult Blind on Telegraph avenue. A short time DOUGHERTY ENTERS A PLEA OF GUILTY Tllinois Educator and Banker Sentenced to Ternt in Prison. PEORIA, Ill, Nov. 24.—Newton C. Dougherty has pleaded guilty to five of the forgery charges against him and will be taken to the Jollet penitentiary. He appeared before Judge Worthing- ton to-day, pleaded gullty, and WAS given a sentence of from one to four- teen years on each of the five counts, the terms to be concurrent. When the prisoner, accompanied by W. T. Irwin, one of his attorneys, his son Ralph and a Deputy Sheriff, left the jail for the courtroom, Dougherty said to the jailer: “Well, I guess I'll have to do it.” In the courtroom there = were 200 spectators. Attorney Irwin addressed the court. He said that Dougherty had turned all of his property over and had given him the power to settle tha affairs of the prisoner. He added that Dougherty's property would amount to more than the school board defalca- tions. He admitted that Dougherty had been careless and that he stood willing to take his punishment. Judge Worthington replied as fol- lows: v “l find it necessary to send him to the penitentiary, as the law provides. It will be a severe punishment.” While the Judge was speaking Dougherty looked straight ahead and did not move a muscle. He said noth- ing when the sentence was pronounced and was taken back to jail, escorted by his attorneys. This marked the closing scenes of the most - astounding school fund robbery brought to public notice. For twenty- five years Newton C. Dougherty, as City Superintendent of Education and for nearly twenty years as, secretary of the board, had almost absolute control of the school funds. He issued serip and handied notes and checks as if they were his own property. As president of the Peoria National Bank, Dougherty was enabled to cover up his peculations so well that from June 30, 194, to June 30, 1905, the school fund shortage amounted to $94,000. While all of the books of the beardghave not yet been examined by the special audlting committee, It is currently believed that the aggregate amount of money taken will reach $1.000,000. 2 AMERICAN MINISTER ACTS FOR FRANCE Receives the Second Install- ment of Plumley Award From Venezuela. LCARACAS, Nov. 8.—In view of the fact that no representative of the French Government called on the Venezuelan Government on November 4 for the sec- ond installment of the Plumiey arbitra- tion award, that being the date the money was due, the Venezuelan Govern- ment asked the American Minister, Mr. Russell, to receive the installment, and yesterday the money was delivered to the American Minister. It was announced from Paris on No- vember 16 that the Foreign Office had been advised that President Castro on November 15 had refused to pay the sec- ond installment of the Plumley arbitra- tion award. The arbitration covered damages sustained by French citizens in Venezuela during revolutionary periods prior to 1903. The judgment was in favor of France, which was awarded about $650,000, and President Castro paid jhe first installment three months ago. —e————— BIG DRYDOCK WILL BE TOWED TO MANILA Trip From Chesapeake Bay Will Take Three or Four Months. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—J. D. Wood.] a tug master of Norfolk, Just signed a contract with the Navy Department to o out to Manila on the D. D. Dewey on one of the most remarkable cruises of modern times. The D. D. Dewey means the big steel floating drydock now at Sol- omons Island, in Chesapeake Bay, which is destined to dock the largest ships of the American naval force in the Far East, youth of the land reading, writing and ; (n Sl iory of La Plata announces thel ie this great structure can ev arithmetic, and first and foremost placed giscovery of the Bernard comer of 1892 \‘:u:npuond (hm:n ":l:r be ..::. that cultnre which teaches the child to |, © Jod of Saturn. be a gentleman, to be clean, to polish tn- the neighborho e his shoes; to bring him inte accord with the established order of things. —_——— . WILL IMPROVE CITY. OAKLAND, Nov. 24—City Engineer Turner s preparing plans to widen of the Wolf probably a fragment 1840 ——————— ARMY AND 'NAYVY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Army or- Pleasant Valley and Lake avenues to{ gers: po;t Commissary Sergeant Ar- a uniform width of I10 feet in con- | 4}, G. Wood. now at Santa Rosa, Cal, nection with the scenic road along Cem- | {5 yeljeved from duty in the Philippine etery Crcek. which is now practically | pjyision, and on the expiration of his assured. furlough will e sent to Whipple Bar- plans for the new sewer system which orders: Acting Assistant Sur- it is proposed to copstruct with money Yicith from an issuance of bonds. The posed system will cost between $250,009 tswain G. Ollif & nd $300,000, and the plans i N ‘home. ferred M. Flammarion says this comet is| Bay and Manila Bay. Competent naval officers believe that m} Pro- | the hospital at Sitka, Alaska, to his|ance of 14,000 miles lying between Cheupennl comet, which presumably broke up in | Dewey can be towed at the rate of about 100 miles a day and allow about three or four months for the trip via the Suez canal. S el S PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT NAMES GOVERNOR FOR NEW MEXICO ¥ ‘WASHINGTON, the following statement: President announces the ap- to the naval station at Culebra. | pointment of Herbert J. Hagerman of will be ready within sixty days. The intended | paymaster's Clerk K. T. Gleiser will pe | Roswell, N. M., as ‘Governor of New 1ine, Market, olia and Canning nd to Fort and Cemetery Creek: the itk @ Bayai for treatment. % i The City Engineer is also preparing ! ygcks, Ariz, for duty. fraprovements lude sewers in Ade- im- provement of the main lake sewer and — e in New Mexico for DEUV s F e S LONDON, Nov. 2L—It was o an-|8Rd In view of it the President thought : Mmeflymrnmn it best to.select a man who was in no L PASO, Tex., Nov. 2¢&—General B. o . Ui Secretary 2 3 ), g S Tt way connected with either of the fae- e s T tna tuioi ‘r""""i%mn-m Taceeeted by "ot | tions, Mr. Hagerman was mtmm m rles Hardinge, now British Embassador to m‘flw&"mtw in Chihuahua, Mexico. ; Russia. J retary Hitchcock.” Mex., | of 1 from the Naval ospital Mexico, to take effect at the expiration n-l7 i ’.Eourur Otero’s term, January 22,| s There have been bitter . Nov. 24 —President 3. T. Miller will be detached from, | Roosevelt to-day authorized the | STANFORD AN DES N ALISK J. S. Bureham, 02, Drowned While Working for Gov- ernment in the Far North END OF FINE CAREER Member of Honor Fraternity at Palo Alto Institution Meets an Untimely Death ik Spectal Dispatch to The Cail STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov Word has been received here that Burcham, a Stanford graduaté of was drowned in Alaska while in the ploy of the Government. Burcham was throughout his college carder a well known and brilllant student. He was elected to membership in the Sigma X which is regarded as the highest h that can be bestowed on a student. several years he was engaged in Govern ment work In the Far North om t United States steamship Albatross, and on several expeditions of the Fish Com- missfon. , He leaves two brothers, W. D. Bur- cham, '09, 4nd J. T. Burcham, who grad- uated in 9. LEAVES ONE AZAVEDO TO JOIN ANOTHER Queer Tale Is Unfolded Dur- ing Hearing\of a Di- voree Suit. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call SAN, RAFAEL, Nov. 24—After hearing the tale of the marital troubles of Mrs. Thomas Azavedo of Sausalito, who is su- ing for a diverce and asking alimony, Judge Thomas J. Lennon ordered Azavedo to pay her $40 alimony, 310 costs and 25 counsel's fees. It was brought out in the evidence that she was married in the Azores to Raulino, Azavedo when she was 12 years of age. veral years after Rau- lina Azavedo eame to America. He cors responded with her. She met Thomas Azavedo during her husband’s absence, and »becnu:e she liked him better than Raulino they assumed marital relations, living as husband and wife until lately. They went through a marriage ceremony at Cherokee Flat, , in 1889, although ::;L was not divorced from Raulino until PROVIDES HOME SITES FOR THE COLLEGIANS Extensive Improvements Ave Planned for Benefit of Faculty and Students. Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. — »* STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 24— A tract of land southeast of the umiver- sity campus will become an addition t that part of the Stanford estate devo to the homes of the professors and stu- dent fraternity houses. The tract is be- tween College Terrace and the present Quarters of the campus residents. The new area will be subdivided into quarter- acre lots, which will be leased for ten years at a time. The trustees in opening the tract intend to make the conditions for outsiders more liberal than is now the case. Faculty members, however, are to be given a preference. They will be obliged, upon erecting a residence, to guarantee that the structure will cost at the minimum $4000, while a non-resident will be required to expend all of $6008. —_———— MEMORIAL CHAPEL SERVICES. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 24— The pulpit of the Stanford Memorial Chapel will be occupied Sunday morn- ing at the 11 o'clock service by Rev. Robert J. Burdette of the Temple Bap- tist Cbhurch of Los Aangeles. Dr. Burdette will also deliver a sermon at the special union meeting which is to be held at the university on Thanksgiving day. The customary musical service will be rendered In the chapel by Dr. Blodgett. —_——— 3. ™02, em- 24 MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT REMEDIES GIVEN MORE TIME Internal Revenue Tax Their Prep- arations Will Not Be (ollected Until Next January. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—A circular was issued to-day te collectors of in- ternal revenue by Commissioner Gen- eral Yerkes of the internal revenue service postponing until January 1 next the order requiring internal rev-\ enue taxes to be paid on certain prep- arations sold as remedies, but contain- ing a preponderance of alcohok Tie circular states that the chemical bu- reau of the service has completed the analyses of eleven such remedies, which come within the scope of the order of September 12 ———— e TURKEYS ARE FAT AND SO ARE THE PRICES DEALERS DEMAND REDDING, Nov. 24—Turkeys for Thanksgiving are going to be scarce and the price away up. Turkeys are now selling at 23 to 25 cefits Im the Redding market and dealers say they will be 40 cents a pound before the day of slaughter. The turkeys are unusu- ally fat, but the supply is short. ABOUT THE BAY: 4