The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1905, Page 4

CISCO CALL, TUESDAY. DECE MBER 26, 1905. — | The =— CLOAK AND SUIT DEPARTMENTS y (SECOND FLOOR) Special Announccment! Extraordinary Stocktaking SALE Commences | Q-DAY-Tuesday Ladies™ Cloaks, Suits, Costumes, Coats, Skirts, Cravenettes and Silk Rzin Coats - High Grade Evening Coals Finest lustrous imported Broadcloth. Various modeir. beauti- fully lined zind trimmed; cut long. Colors tan, champagne and white. Regular %?acs $50 .and $29.50 g $35 $45. ON SALE A Tailored Svits (Long Coat Models)._ Tight-fitting suits of superior Broadcloth in black, blue, red d reseda. Coats all silk lined. Regu- [ar prices $50 and $45. ON SALE AT $92.50 a0d $30 New Modecl Eton Svits Of fine Broadcloth, colors blue, green and gray. Coat and skirt trimmed. Regular price $45. ON SALE, TO CLOSE, AT 0 e it S2LS0 New E[oniBlovse Suils Of fine Broadcloth. Colors blue, Alice and lavender. Coats elaborately trimmed with braid; plait~d skirts. 22 SO Regular price $35.00. TO CLOSE AT ..... $ . i Costumes and Dresses Of fine Crepe de Chines and Messalines. Colors white, tan and black; exquisitely trimmed with lace. Regular prices W et S0 ONSMEAT . 20 High Grade Gownsand Reauliful Dresses This season’s handsomest and most desirable models are included in this Clearance Salc Cravenette Ulslers (Guarantced ShowerProof) ....$7.50, $10.50, $15.00, $18.50 On sale at Traveling and Tourist Coals In English mixtures, 45 and 50 inch lengths. Former prices $20 and 81850, ON SALE AT $15.00 2oc $12.50 Sale of Fine Silks 1000 Yards Lovisine and Taficta In checks, stripes andJacquard weaves. Latest designs for street wear. Regular value $1.00... French Surah Checks Best quality, soft and lustrous, in plain and changeable effects. This season’s novelties. Value $1.25 and $1.50. S] 00 65¢ Louisinc Briilante In black and white checks. Value 85¢ Waist Lengths 14 0ff Regular Prices Ktad Neilt Go S CoR.PosT & KEARNY: S18.- D B iiaaidbniialisiaihidsiaelisieoniindiiiiiaiiitadinanaeiialiiod T R e e — —————————————————————————————————— e — e FEAR FOR THE LIV OF FIVE N IN GASOLINE LAUNCH JAIL BREAKERS PURSUED BY SHERIFF IN AN AUTO Three Nebraska Desperadoes Captured After Fierce Fight With Two Posses. KFARNEY, Neb., Dec. 25.—Fred Gil- lette. W. B. Warner and Fred Engle- Tiny Craft From Friday Harbor is Reported Ashore Near Polot Francis. BELLINGHAM, Dec. 2 here that one of the ga —1It is reported ne launches o Priday Harbor which was return- br: I}l. the men who broke jail in this ?’ vmf]'r\” 1;1 s eity yesterday was city jast week, have been captured near ing from this y .y - Holdredge, where they were brought to driven ashore near Point Francis by | pay fn a haystack. They were pursued the heavy sea raging near Lummi | until nightfall by Sheriff Sammons and | Isiand. There were five or six men in | Chief of Police Trindle, who securrd the boat at the time and marine men [aa automobile for the chase, after are apprehensive of the possible re- |hearing that the men had been pori—34 sighted near Elm Creek. Makinrg a stand in a haystack the trio fought off one posse with a re- volver fusillade. Sheriff Gustus of Phelps County with several deputies then drove upon the exhausted men with rifles leveled and the men sur- rendered. aval Veteran led. VALLEJO, Dec. 25.—Chief Boatswain Timothy Sheean, a veteran naval officer, passed away Sunday night at the naval hospital. He rendered dis- tinguished service in the Civil War with Parragut’s squadron. He leaves & large family R Try the United States Laundry. 1008 Market street. Telephone South 420.* \ TELL LOVE IN ALASKA AND WED QUIETLY IN SAN FRANCISCO. Luther Brown of Los Angeles and Miss Alice Clark of Nevada Are United. — [ | | | | | | e o A romance that had its beginning in | Alaska two years ago culminated in a quiet wedding at the Palace Hotel yes- terday afternoon, when Alice Clark became the wife of Luther G. Brown, one of the best known of the younger mem- bers of the bar in Los Angeles. The bride, who is an exceptionally attractive brunette, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H, H. Clark of N da, her father being a widely known mining man, whose in- in Tonopah and Bullfrog have netted him a large fortune. Mrs. Brown is a California girl and a graduate of | Mills Seminary. Alihough she has spent a great deal of her life in Nevada, she has made many visits to San Francisco and enjoys a large acquaintance here, where the news of her marriage will be received as a pleasant surprise by the ! majority of her young friends Luther Brown is as well known in San ancisco as in his adopted town, for he as taken an active part in politics, most | notably as secretary of the Congressional | committee that managed the campaign |of Congressman McLachlan. Although the law is his professionj Brown is also interested in several mining ventures and it was this fact that was materially re- sponsible for yesterday's marriage. Two years ago Brown and Clark, the latter accompanied by his wife and daughter, went to Alaska, and while Mrs. Clark and her pretty daughter remained |in Nome, the young lawyer and Clark | proceeded ‘farther north to the region of | the Arctic circle on an exploration tour. It was in Nome that Brown and Miss Clark first met. An attachment developed between the young couple and it soon | became known to Brown's newly made acquaintances in the north that he was wooing the fair malden. His persistency | eventually won for him a promise of | marriage and returning to Los Angeles | Brown impatiently bided his time until he | could claim Miss Clark as his bride. | It had been originally arranged that the | wedding should be celebrated in an elab- | orate manner in the home that the Clarks | are building across the bay, but delaying- | ing contractors upset the carefully lald | plans of the couple, and the scene of the | nuptial ceremony was changed to the | Palace Hotel, where the Clarks have been | living' during their stay in San Francisco. | Judge Frank J. Kerringan officlated at the wedding, which was attended only by the immediate relatives of the bride, and a few hours after he had pronounced the | couple husband and wife Mr. and Mrs. | Brown were speeding eastward on thelr | noneymoon trip, which will include a visit | to Washington, where the happy husband has a business engagement. Returning to | California several weeks hence, Mr. and | Mrs. Brown will make their home in Los | Angeles. terests —_———————— | LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN ! GIVEN MEDAL BY NATION a Child From Death, but Is Himself Seriously | Injured. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 25.— | George Poell, County Clerk-elect of this | county, to-day received a letter from | President Roosevelt Informing him ! that the first medal of honor- given | under the act of Congress approved February 23, 1905, had been awarded to him for conspicuous bravery in sav- ing the life of a child at the risk of his | own and expressing warm commenda- tion for the deed. |~ Poell, who was a locomotive fireman, ran alongside his engine to the pilot and snatched a little child from the track, saving it from harm, but him- | self fell under the engine, losing a leg | and being otherwise badly injured. —————— NEGRO FLAGMAN TURNS HIS TOWER INTO FORT Rescues Shot Dead After a Battle With Police and People on the Street. PADUCAH, Ky., Dec. 25.—In a battle between a policeman and John Tice, a one-legged negro flagman on the Illi- nois Central, who had barricaded his tower at Eleventh street and Broad- way, Patrolman James Clark' was shot twice in the hip and Tice was riddled with bullets by scores of peo- ple with rifles and pistols from the surrounding streets and roofs. The negro became enraged because some one threw bricks at his tower. He began firing from the tower at people on the streets below. When the po- | lice attempted to arrest him he fired on them until he was killed. TS T T COUNTESS ACCUSES BARON OF HAVING DEFRAUDED HER s Alleges That He Horrowed Money Giv- | ing as Security an Auto He | Did Not Own. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Baron Fred- erick Seefeld, whose residence is at present in Philadelphia, was arrested here last night, charged with having secured money ungder false.pretenses. The police say that Countess Ilka K. Palmay, who is living at a New York hotel, charges that several weeks ago she loaned the Baron a large sum of money, taking his automobile as se- curity, and that afterward she learn- ed that the automobile did not belong to him & == PEE i PRETTY DA GIRL WHO YES- | TERDAY BECAME THE BRIDE OF A LOS ANGELES ATTORNEY. g -+ {MRS. THAW’S PICTURE USED BY BUTCHERS Placed on Calendar and Fam- ily at Once Causes Trouble. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. * PITTSBURG, Dec. 2. Beast,” an art calendar printed in Eliza- beth, N. J., is commanding cabinet photo- graph prices and more, notwithstanding the fact that it bears the advertisement of a firm of butchers. It may involve the publisher in a damage suit, because “Beauty” Is recognized as Mrs. Florence Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the former model and show girl, now the wife of Harry Kendall Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire. The calendar shows a beautiful girl re- clining ou the skin of a polar bear. The head of the ‘‘beast” remains attached to the peit and the cheek of the beautiful woman is pressed against the jaw of the brute. There seems to have been no at- tempt on the part of the butchers to make capital of the Thaw social sensation, for they confessed that they were at loss to know why the calendar became so pop- ular the first day that they could not hand them out fast enough. It was all explained when an agent of the Thaw family called at the shop and demanded the entire edition. At first the butchers refused and were inclined to be defiant. But when the agent threatened their arrest and offered to pay a good price for all that were left, the butchers surrendered what remained. Then the agent went out to buy up the coples that had been given away. People are holding on to them and few who possess the pic- ture will admit it. —_————— THREE MASTED SCHOONER SUNK IN A COLLISION Meager Details of Accident to known Vessel on Atlantic Coast. NORFOLK, Va. Dee. 25.—With all her headgear torn away and her top- sails set, an unknown three-masted schooner has sunk in twelve fathoms of water six and a half miles northeast of Winter Quarter lightship, and di- rectly in the path of coastwise naviga- tion. The information is contained in a report made here by Captain Charles James of the Merchants’ and Miners’ steamship Juanita, which passed the wreck yesterday. According to Captaln James, the schooner evidently was the victim of a collision. Only her topmasts above the crosstrees are out of water and the ap- pearance of her topsails indicates that the disaster occurred not long before the Juanita passed. No sign of wreck- age was geen, however, nor was there anything above to reveal the identity of the schooner. The fate of her crew is not known. ————— BODIES OF MURDERED MEN ON WAY TO PHILADELPHIA ‘Wife of Vietim Unable to Shed Light on Recent Tragedy in Mexico. EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 25.—The bodies of Robert Rutherford and C. W. Mec- Murray, who were murdered on the night of December 17 ncar Diaz, Mex- ico, reached here to-night. Mrs. Ruth- erford and Miss Anna Rutherford of Philadelphia, wife and sister of one of the victims, accompanied the remains. They will leave for Philadelphia to- morrow. Mrs. Rutherford stated to-night that she was unable to ald the Mexican authorities who are investigating the murder of the two Americans with any information save her own belief that robbery was the sole motive for the at- tack on Finstad's home. e et e Two Killed in Smash Up. . FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 25.—A horse attached to a buggy ran into Pennsylvenia special No. 29 at Del- phos, O, at 5 o'clock this morning, and Henry von Horst and daughter Rose were instantly killed and Mrs. Barney Wahnoff, also a daughter of Von Horst, was severely injured. ————— FOUND IN A BATTERED STATE.—Olat Olsen of 225 Fourth street was picked up yes- terday morning at Fourth and Howard streets ir. a badly battered state. Olsen was intoxi- cated and it is likely he received his injurles lél.l;u-lmhr.;.z,l._ Ho owas treated at the to Jall for ‘Beauty and the Un- - | tenement houses and the danger was en- FRE THREATERS THE TENENENTS Big Factory Destroyed in New York and Panic Ensues Among Near-by Residents CROWDS FILL STREETS R Two Mén Fight in High Win- dow While Throng Below Watches Strange Struggle ek LSt NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Hundreds of ten- ement babies and their toy-laden Christ- mas trees were carried into the street before daylight to-day during a fire which threatened to obliterats several blocks of the city in the vicinity of Fifty-eighth street and Eleventh avenue. A six-story factory building at 534 and 538 West Fifty- eighth street was completely destroyed, | with a loss of $100,000. With tenement houses on three sides and with the gas tanks of the Consoli- | dated Gas Company within reach of showers of- sparks, the water pressure partly failed when the fire was hottest. Fire engines were hastily coupled togeth- er, pumping in pairs, and this device, to- gether with the bold work of the firemen, who advanced almost into the zone of the flames In order to play on the fire with the weak streamsg, finally saved the hundreds of surrounding homes. The fire was first discovered when flames burst from the third-story window and belched completely across Fifty- eighth street with a roar like a discharg- ing cannon. When the fire department arrived and tried to put up its compressed air extension ladders to the sixth floor the ladders refused to extend. This de- layed the firemen several minutes. Half an hour after the fire started, al- though it was still long before daylight, the rooms of Roosevelt Hospital, some distance away, were lighted as if by day- light. There was great alarm among both patients and their attendants. Such crowds rushed out of the tenement houses near the fire that the police from several stations were called out to handle thef. At'the height of the fire thousands of spectators momentarily forgot the burning buildirg in watching a struggle in the upper window of a tenement-house in Fifty-eighth street. A man started to climb over the window sill to drop to the street in his night clothes. Another man rushed out to save him. The two fought in the window above the sidewalk, while the crowd below cleared a semicircle. A blanket picked up at hazard from bed- ding which other tenants were trying to save was stretched directly under the | window. It was not needed, however, for the ' half-crazed man was drawn back through the window by main strength. The sun had risen before the last of the Christmas trees was carried back into the tirely over. One fireman was injured by | falling glass. ; ———— NEGRO PRISONER SHOT DEAD BY A SON OF HIS VICTIM Death for Black Man Officer Who Tried Arrest Him. TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 25.—An unknown negro this afternoon fatally cut Cap- tain J. J. Mitchell, a special police of- | ficer, while resisting arrest. Captain Mitchell died soon after. The negro was placed in jail, and in_ thirty min- utes a crowd of enraged citizens gath- ered about the jail. A son of the offi- cer who was killed, it is alleged, shot and killed the negro through the jail window. Who to Speedy Kills [E—— e e N INFANTSSCHILD Digestion.Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither g;imx}{nrphine nor Mineral. | B oT NARCOTIC. 1 Racipe of UL Lor SIMUEL PITCHER Prarplin Scud~ Rkt Seli ~ Ao Sovdd # W S o Aperfect Remedy for Conski fion, Sour Sloml:‘bm Worms Convulsions Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimile Signature of NEW YORK. ALb rhon ;‘)Dusws—“;(l NIS Sl R o Sl e ol v old BANKER’S SON ADMI SEVERAL BURGLARIES Says That He Robbed Steam- ship Passengers in San 3 : Franecisco. Special Dispatch to The Cail. VICTOR, Colo., Dec. 25.—James Old- field, charged with burglary and a su pect in connection with the murder o Frank Scott at Colorado Springs, h confessed several burglarfes, but denies all knowledge of the Colorado Springs tragedy. Oldfield says his correct name is James O'Neil and that he is a son of William | O’Nell, a banker of Kansas City. He left | home about one year ago, and was given 3150 by his sister as expense money unfil she received a latter from him. He never wrote, never had a situation since that time and has been existing on money de- rived from burglaries. O’'Nell admits that he robbed a hotel at Rocky Ford. He and a confederate also looted several gentlemen’s furnishing stores throughout the country. When burglaries were numerous in Denver he was one of the men who worked with a gang of thieves and showed them how to use skeleton keys. O'Neil says that in San Francisco he robbed passengers leaving steamships. In Chicago In the City Clerk's office he re- lieved a man of a $10 bill. O'Neil will plead guilty to burglary, serve his sentence, return to Kansas City and begin life anew. GASTORIA CASTORIR For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Use - For Over Thirty Years | HAMIL ACCOUNTS TO BE MAD © PUBLIC | Expenditures of Insurance | Agent at Albany to Be | Referred to Committee. NEW YORK, Dec. %5.—At meeting to-morrow the investigating committee composed of five trustees of the New York Life I nee Company | eeive from Secretary John €. stateme pdge Andrew E | which | cure. Thi anxious to know all the legislative ex- penditures and will expect President Mc ) throw light on whatéver may be ained in the aper wiu also ve investigat- be presented t | ing committee. | President M { over Hamiltc | | all and his son have gone s statement together sincs s arvival from Paris on hat President Mc- | Call will send the trustees’ committee a statement of his own to accompany Ham- | ilton’s, and may contai further %5.000 of | proposition with regard funds paid to Hamilton, which, it will be remembered, McCall said he would restore to the company before December n, " Hamilton did not account satisfactorily for the mone —_——————e From your neighb point of view your phenomenal success is merely a case of bullhead luck Now is the time when you can so joyously avail yourselves of your If you are on our books, come and get your re- turn presents here, and—don’t worry about the*mogey. On the other hand, if you are not on our books and have not beenon them, come in and get established. A dollar or two deposit is all you need. There are thousands of unexpected gifts received whose equivalent book account with us. must be returned. Don't worr books are open to you. MUSIC CABINETS—One of the nicest gifts can be found. 1In fine Yo the home that ished oak or mahogany. sic room. Prices as low as WRITING DESKS — Home Desks and Escritoires for spondence. In all woods, and all sizes. Fitted with holes and drawers. MORRIS CHAIRS—Great easy resting Chairs that give comfort to the body andgpeace {o Rich velour cushions go the mind. with each Chair. ‘We have all woods. Prices as low as SOFA CUSHIONS—In beautiful velour and silk tapestries; in colorings both bold and deli- $2.00 T TABLF. COVERS—In plain and two-tone reds and greens and changing olive shades. Large for any table. A $2 wp cate; fillings of the finest :llk floss. As enough beautiful gift in- deed. Prices from .. AXMINSTER RUGS — Piano size—27 by 63 values. Special this week.. LARGRE AXMINSTERS — Room-size and little more than half Iz feety Rich patterns, high-grade, i These Cabines a rich setting to any parlor or mu- @ o b all styles Prices as low as ches. A high-plle Parlor Rug in delicate two-ione colorings and Oriental and floral designs, Regular $3.75 In finely pol- s pieces tér from § ' man Chairs, also Students’ lady’s corre- $3.75 Desks, a lery of pictures, pigeon them } sg 5" We have them at L) velour coverings BED SETS—A whole new line of Ruifled Bed Sets, all com- plete. Arrived practically_too late for the holidays. Will close them out ss up for one-third off. Prices from .... T LINEN—The whole line on dele. Best quality Irish Linen. What could be neater than a Table Linen Set? ALL PRICES. or folding-door CARPET none but the price. Size 9 by soft upon hundreds SILIKK COMF' Sweepers. And the prices are away down. So you get 2 bargal a gift at once. Our Friedman special value, Get yourself y your after-Christmas pocket-book. Our / PARLOR CHAIRS—In almost any design and any price you could ask for. stered velour and silk covered parlor Great $3.50 uphol- 10 up. Smaller Ro- upholstered e —— ————————————— - — PICTURES — Our second floor is a perfect gal- and every one of them has been carefully chosen for its sub- ject and execution. Prices from c u — e e ———————————————————————— COUCHES—A _Couch for the library or dem, or, in a small home, room, makes a most acceptable gift. the dining- $9.50 S—Silk and Sateen Comforters, in all the delicate shades and color- ings; in plain and s5 no a Couch for all prices—some in as low as - floral designs Prices as low as. e . vt e SCREENS—They are five and six feet high, of golden oak, and of the dark Mission fin- ish, with pictorial panels and inserip- s5 'p tions. Prices from .cecvevens S—Here is a gift that your SWEEPER! neighbor will be deeply thankful for. We have best Bissel's Cyco-Bearing §2.95 n and BUCK’S — Everybody now knows what a Buck's Stove or Range is, and hundreds its New of people know one for Year's. Prices from $14.50 to $68 Terms as low as 81 down.