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6 THE SAN NCISCO MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1905. WL TRYBOY | h SECOND TINE Lad Accused of Murdering Thomas Cook Is Saved) by His Lawyer’s Plea ONE JUROR HOLDS OU T O AT | Disagreement Results From Man's Belief That Youth Is Guilty in Minor Degree | 1's fate, Church | twelve | Dis- com- | 3 “Jim Crow” and was Thomas sand- who was and Pem- morrow Pembroke case aly one of ana sent t6 th becomes 2 he Jim Crow have will be set been set free. next EXAMINATIONS ON AT THE UNIVERSITY Studies Are Over for Term, and Tests Now Will Be Appled by Instructors. for- ali and lecture be turned next two exam- | semester. Work for | : med January last examina- allowed their ation before the coming to the -e of doctor | m I of South al meeting of th executive committee | or John W. Buckham Berkeley dur- f regular university which are the meetings * Association , 28 and 29, titute, opening at 26; the Library of California, the seventh an- the Cordllleran section of America, the convention and the of the California teachers, libra- ers, which will be ad- | dent Wheeler, Governor Lukens and Charles S. ———— NEW GYMNASIUM IS OPENED. D, Dec. 10.—The new gym- 1 quarters of the East Oak- Christian Associa- st been completed | Hall, on East Twelfth | xth avenue, were formally | red Fridey evening. A musical pro- | amme W rendered, and refresh- | ts were served after an inspection | e quarters, which are commodious | More than 100 young | of East Oakland have -become | embers of the association. ——r e CHURCH ANNIVERSARY. OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—President David Jordan of Stanford University, | sed the members of the First | st Church of this city to-night, on | ? t nd comfortable. e occasion of the celebration of the | firty first anniversary of the organiza- of the church. The subject of ssor Jordan's address was “The; of the Twentieth Century.” Spe- | services were conducted this morn- | ng by the Rev. H. J. Vosburgh, pastor | f the church, in honor of the annl\'er-l sary. Stomach Diseases CAN BE CURED BY USING Glycozone A Harmless, Powerful Germicide Lndorsed by Leading Physicians One $1.00 Bottle, Free on receipt of twenty-five cents to fzay postage and packing, Sold by eading druggists. NOT GENWINE WITHOUT MY SIGNATURE: €1 OPRINCE ST, NEW YORK WRITE WOR FREE BOOKLET ON RATIONAL TREAYwENT OF DISEASE | There Jepson was without means of support HADS WITH MAX THELEN BRILLIANT DEBATER WINS A PRIZE 0 BRILL % SITY OF CALIFORNIA, WHO, BY H FROM THE COLLEGE FORUM SATURDAY NIGHT WON THE BONNHEIM PRIZE AND FAME AS AN ORATOR. BERKELEY, Dec. 10.—Daniel Had- 1, a brilliant young student of the | < taken rank with | s in college as Max Alfred Weller and W. J. Mus- grove by his victory won last night in the Bonnheim oratorical contest at Stiles | Hall. Hadsell competed with Harry E. | Squire for the glory and gold that goes with the award of the judges in this contest % By his victory Hadsell wins a money prize of $150, besides a prize of $20, paid to him when his dissertation, a ! preliminary feature of the competition, was declared by the judges to be of | worth as to entitle him to com- | the final test of oratory. ell discussed, as did _his op- , Squire, the dictum of Volta ‘International Law is the Juris f Highway Robery.” Hadsell student in the college of soclal clences, while Squire is of the en-| gineering college. Both men are sen- jors. They were the only two students whose dissertations were considered !| good enough by the judges to warrant | their | selection as competitors in the verbal discussion of the chosen topic. Ordinarily live men compete in the final discussion. Albert Bonnheim of Sacra- mento founded the Bonnheim discussion. | have been four contests of the ort, the other three having been won respectively by Alfred. Weller, Max Thelen and W. J. Musgrove. SCULPTOR WOULD | COLLECT MONEY Makes Charges Against Asylum Director Concern- ing Finaneial Deal. 1 BERKELEY, Dec. 10.—As a result of a | clvil suit for $110 which is now pending | against Theodore Grady, an instructor at ! the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Biind at Berkeley, Doug- las Tilden, the deaf-mute sculptor and plaintiff in the civil action, has filed charges against Grady before the board of directors, alleging the latter has had ample time to meet his obligation, but has failed, and that some action by the board of the institution should be taken. | Grady is an attorney end has becoms in- | volved in money matters with the sculp- | tor, until the two have seen fit to carry thelr troubles into court. The board of directors received the charges through A. J. Ralston, a member of the body, to whom they were ad- dressed. He opened them at the last meeting and they were referred to Super- | intendent Wilkinson. The members of the | board are somewhat of the opinion that the affair is too personal for official ac-| tion on their part, and as yet no report | bas been made by the superintendent. It | is believed a special meeting of the board | be called, but Director J. W. Rich- says he doubts that this will be | ke do A l AGED WOMAN DIES ALONE. | OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—Miss L. Jepson, | an aged woman who lived alone at 2236 | Adeline street, was found dead this | evening in her rooms by Miss Emma | Mahoney, wio had been providing the | woman with clothing and food. Miss | i and had been {ll. Neighbors reported | that she had not been scen to emerge | from home for three days. They noti- | ded Miss Mahony, who went to the | house_with Officer Murray and found | Miss Jepson’s body. It is thought the | woman might have died of starvation. The body was taken to the Morgue. —————— Nodd—On the impulse of the moment the other night I told my wife an aw- ful lie and got caught. Todd—Serves you right. Every lie a man tells his wife ought to be premedi- tated.—Life. o AR R s A Situated in the middle south of Brazil, the capital, Sao Paulo, has a population of at least 250,000, and is inuch more m than any city in South America, excepting Buenos Ayres,” { Miss Hayn | ney, Migs Milton, Miss Jennings, P DATE IS CHANGED FOR CHURCH BAZAAR Organizations of St. Paul’s Will Hold Annual Fair on December 16. OAKLAND, Dec. 10. wing to a con- flict in the dates of the fair and bazaar of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and the benefit for St. John's Episcopal Church, which latter is to be beld at the Mac- donough Theater, the date of the bazaar has been postponed to Saturday after- noon, December 16. All the tickets already sold will be honored on the latter date. Following are the members of the vari- ous organizations of the church which wiil have booths at the fair: Missionary _ Chapter: man, enson, Robert Martyn, M son, Mies Mrs. de H Mothers’ C Mrs Little, M ants Fancy Work Table—Miss Florine Brown as- sted by Miss Creilin, Miss Kales, Mies Fox, Kutz, Mies ' Taft, Miss ibit—Miss Ruth Fooley assisted by gnes Pyper, Cora Huber, Dcrls Craw- Martha Nethewood, Nina Clay and Aprons—DMrs. . Vanderzaw, ) West, Mrs. R. B. Thomp- Mrs. Gritman, Mrs. Kent, Calendars—Mrs. W. A Fearn, Barbour and assist- The Grizzly Bears will be represented by Donald and Dick MeClire, Butler Neide, Horace Pyper and Robert Martyn. St. Agnes’ Guild will have silhouettes by Miss Morgan, fortunes told by Egyp- tians, and a grab bag for the purchasers, Mrs. Walkley will have as assistants Miss Turrell, Miss Parkinson, Miss Hudson, ian Robbins, Miss Yancy, Miss Jennie Morgan, Miss Aver, Misses White, Misses Ad- Miss Farrell, Miss Law, Miss Sutton, Miss Violet Whiiney, the Misses Fore and a host of others. 3 Mrs. Fred Magee and Mrs. Harrison Clay are fo preside over the candy booth. Miss de” Haslia, Miss Virginia Harmon, Miss , Ruth Harmon, Miss Olive Har- mon, Miss Jones, Miss Sybil Jones, Miss Parkinson, Mrs. Edson Ad- ams, Mrs. Sam 9. Prather, Miss Sey- mour, Miss Edna Prather, Miss Margaret Ritchie, Miss Hvelyn Hussey, Miss Rus- sell, Miss de Golia, Miss McEirath, Miss Palmanteer will asist. The handXkerchief table will be in charge of Mrs. J. G. Allen, vresident of the Chancel Chapter, Mrs. Hayden will be assisted by Mrs. H. C. Taft, Mrs. Lilia Brown Evarts, Mrs. George Wheaton. Mrs. Edson Adams, Mrs. W. A. Barbour, Mrs. Frederick Cutting, Mrs. Neville, Mrs. J. Walter Seott, e FARMER DIES SUDDENLY. OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—Peter Johnson, a farmer of San Lorenzo, awoke this morning and called his daughter Emma, asking for a cup of coffee. When she returned with the beverage he was dead. Johnson wis about €0 years old and had been for many years a resident of San Lorenzo. He suffered from heart trouble. Last night, however, he seemed to be unusually well and this in excellent spirits when he called for his coffee. It is supposed that death was due to the heagt trouble. S e YOUTH IS ACCUSED, ALAMEDA, Dec. 10.—Steve Simone, employed as an oiler at the Elmhurst carhouse of the Oakland Traction Consolidated, was arrested early this morning by Deputy Constable George D. Gray on the complaint of Miss Louise Cabral, who alleges that Si- mone deel;ed her unier promise of marriage. She is 18 years old. Simone gives his age as 19. Justice of the Peace F. 8. Cone fixed Simone's bail at $2000 and thus far the defendant has been unable to secure his release. Miss Cabral lives with her family near Elm- hurst. She says that she came here for a warrant for the arrest of Simone because she could find no Justice of the Peace in Brooklyn or Oakland townships H ) 1 PLAN TO WORK FOR FRUITVALE Suburban Real Estate Men Organize an Association to Advance the Distriet TOURIST HOTEL PROJECT Indorsement of Enterprise Is Given by the Oakland Real Istate Association OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—Following the example of the real estate dealers of this ecity, the brokers of Fruitvale have organized a real estate asoclation of wnich almost every handler of real estate in the eastern syburb of Oak- land has aiready become a member. At a meeting hcld recently at the ne offices of arles F. Lee, temporary ! officers were elected and a committee | rembership. The tem- porary offi of the new organization a Charies F. Lee, chairman, and Taylor G. Grubb, secretar and the membership cqmmittee is composed of T. G. Grubb, R. Yost and Mr. Potter. Permanent organization of the new appoiuted o association will be effected at a meet- | ing to be called during the week by the chairman, when permanent officers and directors will be elected. It is ex pected that Charles F. Lee, who has Jjust’ opened new offices at 1300 Fruit- vale avenue, will be elected president of the organization. The members of the Oakland Real Bstate Association have indorsed the proposed licensing of local real estate agzencies, and yesterday, at the regular monthly banquet of the association, held at the Hotel Metropole, a com- mittee was appointed to confer with the city authorities and notify them of the action of the association. The as- sociation also adopted resolutions in- dursing the Claremont Tourist Hotel. The annual banquet and election of offi- cers of the organization will be held on the second Friday of the new year. Some of the directors of the hotel company, which will be known as the Claremont Hotel Company, have already been chosen, and the company will be incorporated during the coming week. Stock in the new hotel will be placed ou sale at several of the local banks at $10 a share. The directors of the company are Hugh Hogan, Louis Titus, F. M. Smith, J. Y. Eccleston, F. C. Havens, J. H. Spring, A. H. Breed and J. W. Havens. INSPEC® NEW BOULEVARD. The proposed boulevard connecting Broadway with the grounds of the Uni- versity of California was inspected last Wednesday by Mayor Mott, Supervisor Rowe, former Councilman McDonald, Trustee Farrier 'of Berkeley and a com- mittee of the members of the Mer- chants’ Exchange of this city. The route of the proposed boulevard ig from the interseétion of Broadway and Col- lege avenue over the latter thorough- fare, thence through the Pryal estate and M. M. Dunn’s property, through the Helen Palache and Garnett lands, | through the property of Jehn Garber, | through the grounds of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, along roads already constructed to Piedmont way, and to the grounds of the university, with which it copnects at a point near the Greek theater. All the members of the party mspect- ing the proposed route of tihe new boulevard heartily indorsed the project. The most important deal of the last week in Oakland real estate was the purchase of a lot, 75 by 100 feet, on Seventh street, between Broadway and Washington, street, by A. N. Wachs of this city from Ellen L. Grant. The sale was made by F. C. Watson of the Realty Bonds and Finance Company, and the price paid for the property was $25,000. Anotier large sale was the transfer of a lot on the north side of Seventh street, between Broadway and Webster street, by Hathan Hurt to Louis Schaffer. The sale was made through the office of George Austin, and the price paid for the lot was $10,000. James J. McElroy has just sold to the Charles A. Waltz Safe and Lock Com- pany of San Francisco, through J. S. Naismith, a block on Fifth street, be- tween Chestnut and Adeline streets. The price pald for the property was about $10,000, and the entire block will be occu- pied for a factory for the manufacture of safes and locks. BERKELEY MARKET. Two large transfers of Berkeley real estate were recorded last week, the first being the sale of an, entire block of fine property known as Elmwood Park.to A. H. Breed by John G. V. Agar. The prop- erty will at once be subdivided and placed on the market by Breed & Baneroft of this city. They have issued a handsome pamphlet descriptive of the tract. Clin- ton H. Wall has just purchased a lot on the corner of Telegraph and Durant ave- nues, for which he paid $17,000. The pur- chaser will at once begin the erection of a three-story building on the property. Howland & McArthur, real estate deal- erg, formerly located at Fruitvale, have just opened new offices at 1113 Twenty- third avenue. N F. M. Clevinger, a well-known East Oakland dealer, has recently removed his office to 1220 Twenty-third avenue. Willard R. Wright has just opened a new real estate office at the corner of Fruitvale avenue and Hopkins street, in Dimond. ‘Connected with him is R. G. Jons, a well-known architect and builder. Kreiss & Horswill report the following sales for the five weeks ending Decem- ber 2: Bullding containing two stores and two flats on Seventh street, between Brush and West, Norman Brockleburst to E, J. Lloyd. Northwest ccrner of Mérrimac street and Telegraph avenue, frontage on Telegraph 95 feet, to Dennis Johrison. by F. J. Horswill. House and lot, north side Harmon street, McOsear to Sanger. Cottage south side Ashby avenue, 50 feet elda Clubb to B. west of Shattuck avenue, L. Bear. Cottage on west side of Dover street, 40 feet Dorth of, Creek. Joseph J. Hineh to R. Blais- ell. ~ Lot on south side of Twenty-eighth street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth avenues, with contract for erection of building by J. §. Myers to W. W. Atwood. - House and lot, 32x100 feet, west side of Market_street, 70 feet south of Thirty-fitth street, B. Birdsall to F. J. Horswill, F, J. Howswill, same property, to Mary J. Westlake. Cottage on south side of Pleasant Valley avenue. Sidney McClure for Continental Build- ing and Losn Association. t T0x100 feet 5 inches om north side of Thirty-thira street, F. J. Horswill to C. M. MacGregor. Cottage and lot, 80x100 feet, south side of m street, H, L. Bradford to J. T. House l-nee:~ lot, 30x120 feet, west side of Adams streq Charles MacGregor to . A._ L. Kreiss! o House and lot. 40x00 fest, north side of Per- kins street, between Adams and Vernon, C. M. take and Jot $6x100 fesk on west side of Locksley avenue, 40 south of Clifton, S. G. Worden to A. I, B.‘ni L. Krelss, same. property to Martha E. —_————— DAMAGES HOME.—Oakland, Dec. caused b this dam.. R TR 1 grapl FCHT FOR SN FSTATE INPENDS 'Trend of Testimony Suggests That a- Battle Over the | Property Is Very Probable WOMEN MAY LITIGATE e Sequel to the Tragie Death of { { ns Claim Married Them ALAMEDA, Dec. 10.—Mrs, F. M. Wil- ) Hams, who claims that she was married ' to the late J. Fletcher Sims, the wealthy iren manufacturer who lived a dual life and who was known hefe as F. M. Wil- liams, may make a contest for a share of the estate of the capitalist. Sims died last week at Providence Hospital as the result of brain injury sustained by | falling' from an automobile. The asser- tion of Mrs. J. Fletcher Sims of Berke- ley that she was the true and lawful spouse of the deceased and that they had never been divorced seems not to have deterred “Mygs. Williams” from ! planning a contest. Attorney W. H. L. Hynes has been retained by Mrs. Wil- liams to guard her interests in the set- tling up of the estate of Sims, and it ! is regarded as probable that if no formal contest is instituted a compromise may be reached between the two women who afiirm that Sims was the husband of each. M F. M. Williams, in answer to a question at the Coroner's inquest into the death of Sims, held last evening in Oakland, sald that she had married him under the name of Williams in Southern California, \but upon the advice of At- torney Hynes refused to tell when or by whom the alleged ceremony was per- formed. Mrs. Williams is still in possession of the luxuriously furnished bungalow on Buena Vista avenue and Stanford street, where she and Williams, or Sims, re- sided for nearly theree years. The realty, house and contents are assessed at $7600 and the property stands in the name of F. M. Willlams. It is surrounded by a high board fence and few besides the inti- mate associates of Sims and the Willlams woman have ever viewed the interior of the establishment. SAVES GOODLY SUM FOR MUNICIPALITY Local Manufaeturer of Fire Gongs and Police Boxes Reduces Expense. OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—The plan of manufacturing ' the police telephone boxes and fire alarm gongs for the en- gine-houses of the city in the city machine shoo. introduced by Electrician Babcock, has resulted in a saving to the city of §1500 ing the fiscal year of 1904-5, as shown by the annual report of the City Elec- trician. When purchased from manu- facturers of Mlectrical supplies the telephone boxes cost the city between $75 and $100, while their construc- tion in the city shop costs but $22 50. The fire alarm gongs cost} when bought from the manufacturers, $150 each. They can be made by the city for $60 each. City Electrician Babcock advises in i his report that the work of putting |the fire alarm and police telegraph wires underground in the business center of the city be completed as rap- idly as possible, as the efficiency of the service will be greatly added to by this improvement. He also advises that the city ask the Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company for a reduc- tion in the rental for street arc lights. In this connection the City Electrician says in his report: At the close of the fiscal year 1904-5 the city had 755 arc lamps burning at a cost of $7 35 per lamp per month. Nct inciuding the marsh lands the city has an area of fourteen square miles, glving ffty-four lights to the square mile. At the close of the present fiscal year, ending July, 1906, we will have approximately 800 street arc lights, for which we will be pay- ing $7 per light per month. This will give us 57.14 lights to the square mile. As a comparison, it may be stated that the city of Portland, Or., with an area of forty square miles, has 1034 street arc lights, for which they pay $5 31 per month. At Los An- geles, with an area of 44 square miles, they have 1510 street arc lights, for which they pay $670 per month. The comparison is of inter- est: Fortland, with 28.35 lamps per square mile, at a rate of $5 81, pays $150 53 per square mile per month for its street lighting. Los An- geles, with 34.32 lights per square mile, at $6.76 per lamp per month, pays $231 66’ per square mile per_month for its street lighting. Oakland, with 57.14 lamps per square mile, at the rata of §7 per lamp per month, pays $399 98 per square mile per month for street lighting. It would seem, therefore, that, owing o the greater income earned by the Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company Dy its lines, the city might _reasonably ask a material reduction from the price now paid for its street lighting. e e MYSTERY REMAINS UNSOLVED. OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—The identity of the man whose body was found on the rocks at the Oakland mole, with a bul. let in the brain, still remains a mys- tery. The police have run down every clgw and have found nothing which throws any light on’ the case. Hun- dreds of people have viewed the re- mains at the Morgue, but no one has recognized the features of the dead, or if they have they have gone away without a worgd. The body will be held as long as possible in the hope of se- curing an identification. ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS. | WILL PLAY WHIST.—Oakls The ladies of St. Columba's parish will give whist_tournament at Maple Hall Friday even- irg. December 15. The proveeds will go to the parish fund. WILL ELECT OFFICERS.—Oakland, Dec. 10.—The Sons and Daughters of the Maritime Provinces will elect officers to-morrow even- at Maple Hall. After the election a musical and literary programme will be rendered by members of the society. CHURCH BAZAAR.—Oakland, Dec. 10.—The Ladies'’ Ald Soclety and the King's Daughters of the Golden Gate Methodist Church will hold a fair and bezaar at Klinkner Hall, in Golden Gate, on_Friday afternoon and evening, De- cember 15. ' TEMPERANCE WORKER TO LECTURE,— ! Oaklund, Deec, 10.—Miss Marle C. Biehm, pres- j ident of the Tilinols Women's Christian Tem-~ ! yerance Union, is visiting triends In this city, She will lecture while here under the auspices of the local W. C. T. U, m is known @as one of the most brihant members of the national organization. and, Dec. 10.— g, Dec. 16 logical Seminary will' be dec NEWS OF THE COUNTIES ABOU ELL NOW RANKS . Capitalist Whom Two Per-! City | dur- | CHURCH IS BENEFITED BY A NOVEL AFFAIR Mother Goose Bazaar Well Patronized by People of san Rafael. Special Dispatch tb The Cail. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 10.—"“The Mother Goose” bazaar and entertainment given ig the opera;house Friday and Satur- day afternoons and evenings by the women of the Methodist church for the benefit of the church was a very pleas- ant and enjoyable affair. The “Mother Goose” booths were very attractive in appearance and were well patronized. The musical and literary features of the programme were greatly appre- clated. Mrs. C. Br Bergen, Mrs. H. T. Lewis and Mrs. C. B. Barnes were in charge of the affair. ———————— FCRESTERS OF SAUSALITO TO HOLD BIG INITIATION | s Large Class' Will Take Obligations at Meeting to Be Held To-Morrow | Night. " SAUSALIty, Dee. 10.—Court Sausa- {lito No. 150, Foresters of America, will {hold a large class initiation here next i Tuesday evening and will celebrate h a banquet after the meeting. Sev- eral prominent citizens will take the | obligation. The grand officers of the | order and many vigiting members from !San Francisco, Tiburon, San Rafael and other points will be in attendance. —e———— PIONEER MERCHANT ILL. SAN R. FAEL, vec. 10.—Captain H. A. Gorley, one of Marin's oldest mer- | chants, is lying dangerously ill at his residence here. Captain Gorley organized and went | with Company D, First Infantry, Call- i fornla Volunteers. in 1861 DR. JORDAN TO AID PLAN OF BELMONT i Placed on Committee to Se- cure Publicity as to Cam- paign Funds. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Perry Bel- mont of New York, chalrman of the j Publicity Bil! Committee, which is 1 stituting a movement for publicity campaign contributions,” to-day an- nounced that the following, in addition to those whose names have already been published, have consented to serve as members of the national organization to secure legislation: Governor Hanley of Indiana, Governor Mon- tague of Virginia, Governor Cummins of lowa, Governor Blanchard of Loulsiana, Governor rfield of Maryland, Governor Dawson of West Virginia; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Fede ation of Labor: George Gray, United States Circuit Judge, Delaware: Charles W. . president Harvard Univer— | ic A | sity: Edwin A, h‘i{ermun. president University | : 8 P. Faunce, president of y Coll Bowdoin Ci member of v of Wiltiams lege : Republican orman E. Mack, Ne ational Democratic Committee; handier, former Secretary of the Navy, Washirgton, D. C.; Charles B. Hughes, | counsel of New York Legistative Investigation | Insurance C resident of former United States Senator Willlam F. Vilas, formerly neral; Everett Colby, State Sea- I Jers for. { mer Mayor of Chicage ember of Democratic National Commit- | tee; rles A. Gardner. chairman of Law Committee and State Publicity Bill Committee; ew York. former Judge; Wil- liam: F. Harnty, Philadeiphta, former chafr- af Demoeratic National Committee; R. P Carter H. Harrison, man R. Kenngdy, former United States Senator from Delaware: Charles S. Hamlin, Boston; Cromwell Gibbons, Jacksonville, Fla.: Van L. Polk, Tennessee: d Sterr Jordan, presi- dent of Stanford University. California; James H. Wilson, Wilmington, Del. After the holidays a meeting of the na- tional organization will be called to ap- point committees and arrange an order of business and procedure. ’ ————————— TEXAS MAN THE FATHER OF TWENTY-FIVE CHILDREN B. a Farmer, a Foe to Sulecide Desmuke, the Race Tden. TAYLOR, Tex., Dec. 10.—J. B. Des- muke, a Lee County farmer, a well preserved man in good health, 6§ years of age, and weighing upward of 200 pounds, is the father of twenty-five children. Desmuke is a Confederate | veteran. He married Susan Singleton in Tennessee at the age of 20 and she bore him seven children—three girls and four boys—the latter two sets of twins. After his first wife died Desmuke married in 1867 Ella Skinner of Ala- bama and twb girls and ten boys were born of the union. In the second lot were four sets of twins. His second wife died in 1882 and in 1883 Desmuke married a widow, Mrs. E. C. Ker, from which union three girls and three boys were bor —_—ee————— Change in General Manager. DENVER, Dec. 10.—Announcement was made to-day by J. H. Young, gen- eral superintendent of the Colorado and Southern Railroad, that he would succeed J. M. Herbert as general man- ager of the road at once. The official notice of his appointment will be made in a circulaT over the signature of Second Vice President H. A. Parker. Young has just returned from Chi- cago, where he has been in confer- ence with Herbert. The latter, in his capacity of first vice president, will spend most of his time in the East. Young is a native of Utah and began his railroading career in Salt Lake. ———————— DIES THINKING WIFE LIVES. New York Arifist Succumbs Three Days After Spouse. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Carl Freder- ick von Saltza, instructor in fine arts +at Columbia University and at the Teachers' College, died to-day at St Luke's Hospital after an iHness ex- tending over a month. He died in ig- 3. a norance of the fact that his wife had died three days before him at the same hospital. Mrs. von Saltza suffered from an affection of the heart. Young Philip von Saltza, a son of the dead couple, won fame during the past football season as fullback of the Columbia University. senior in Teachers' College. sl Ploneer Woman Dies. OAKLAND, Dec. 10.—Mrs. Short, a pioneer of Alameda County, died last night at her home in San Leandro. She came to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 1854 with her husband and had lived in San Leandro for the last forty-three years. She leaves four children—Mrs. Jennie C. Connor of Qakland, T. F. Short of Vir- ginia City, Nev.: Mrs. Grace Haywood of Oakland and Mrs. M. A. Johnsen of San Leandro, —_——— “Taps” for Grand Army Veteran. BEAUMONT, Tex.. Dec. 10.—Colonel C. D. Peck, manager of the Texas Car Association and past grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Texas, died at Houston to-day. 5 —_————————— S5% o 1o, Ha e Dk I ot toa ety d‘tfiu‘ 6t e BAY OE LOBEL WIKS " TS SUPPORT | Russia Approves Project for a Railroad to Con- nect Siberia and Alaska WILL AID THE VENTURE Commissioner Appointed in St. Petersburg to Formu- late Contraet- Regulations BERLIN, Dec. 10.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the scheme of Baron Lecoq de Lobel, the French engineer, for the bullding of a railroad from Siberia to Alaska, has been approved by the Rus- sian Government, which has named a commission to formulate contract regu- lations. Baron de Dbel represents a group of French capitalists who propose to bulld a rallroad from Siberia to Alaska by bridging and by tunneling under. Bering Straits. It is said the enterprise will be capitalized at $250,000,000 to $300,000,000, and that the money centers of France, Russia and the United Stateg will be asked to share in the financial phase of the project. PIONEER CATHOLIC PRIEST IS VERY ILL Specfal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10.—Catholics throughout all parts of Southern Call- fornia ' will be grieved to learn of the serious {illness of Bishop Peter Verda- guer DD., Vicar Apostolic of the diocese of Brownsville, Tex. He is suffering with pueumonia, and there is little hope of his recovery. To all old-timers of this part of California the Bishop Is better known as “Father Peter,” and by this fa- millar name he is known and loved by thousands! For thirty-five years he was a parish priest in Southern California, and of this perfod twenty years he spent as rector of the old Mission Church of Our Lady of the Angels at the Plaza. In his religious work “Father Peter™ had gone up and down throughout this Southern California country, saying mass in chapels and at various stations, com- forting the sick and dying, and giving his ministrations to all in need, and there is probably not a better known member of the Catholic clergy in this part of the Southwest. Ten years ago he was called to Rome and was then made a Bishop and given charge of a diocese of which Laredo is the seat. He ‘contracted a cold a wees ago while returning home from New York, having just completed another journey to Rome. e e STORM WRECKS BOATS. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 10.—Avalon, Santa Catalina, is cut off from the rest of the worid, as a result of the north- east gale which for two days has been sweeping the channel, making landing there imuvessible. A wireless telegram received by the Times late to-night states that great damage has been done to the pleasure fleet which is anchored in Avalon Bay. The bay forms a good anchorage except when the wind is from the northeast and then it is impossible to protect the shipping. Four glass bot- tom boats are plled up on the beach totally wrecked, but there has been no Ilos! of life. To-day the Wilmington Transportation Company’s steamer C brillo tried to enter the harbor but found it so hazardous that her eaptain put back to San Pedro. There has been ng steam- er here since Friday and probably rone will enter the bay before Wednesday The financial loss to owners of the small craft will be heavy. —_————————— POLICEMAN RESCUES TWO FROM DEATH IN FLAM Officer Detel Rushes Into Burning Bullding and Rouses Old Men Who Are Fast Asleep. W. D. Volk and Lewis Reed, aged men, would have been burned to death in the fire that broke out in Volk's blacksmith shop at Ninth and Bryant streets early this morning had it not been for the bravery of Policeman Detel The old men were fast asleep in the room above the shop when the blaze broke out. 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