The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1906, Page 40

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Franklin was i p d on @ blood-soaked bed. | —_————— | MAYOR ORDERED OUT OF TOWN FOR CLOSING THE SALOONS Head of the St. Cloud, Minn., Municipal- ity Decides to Obey the Command. ? | ST. CLOUD, Minn, Jan. 6.—Saloon and business men at a secret mecting to-day decided to order Mayor Benzen out of toyn within twenty-four hours. The trouble grows out of the Mayor's order closing the saloons at 11 p. m. and all day Sunday. To-day the Mayor £aid to a reporter that he would go to Mexico, where he has interests, > remain You ought to have this beautiful buffet in your dught jull finish urges an influence for refinement taste. is one of the season’s newest patterns, and _In it the spirit of simplicity finds bold The feature of handwrought construc- into harmony with the severity of out- workmanship and material are fully up to our al high standard. ully selected for its beautiful markings. Top is inches long by 20 inches wide. plate mirror, 32x8 inches. Made of heavy quartered oak, Beveled French One drawer is plush lined silverware. Fine ball-bearing casters. Weathered Would cost at least $25 at other OUR SPECIAL PRICE stores. - $17.50 THE HOME FURNISHERS A. B. Smith Company 128=132 Ellis Street DEATH STAYS. -~ [iAND OF LAW | Wife’s Charge That Husband | Blackmailed Van' Winkle Cannot Be Heard in Court LETTERS | SHE RETAINS | | Woman Denies Any Wrong- | doing and Holds Epistles | «in Order to Get Divorce Though Jessie May Watson claims that she holds letters from her hus- band, Charles N. Watson, in which he asked her to assist him in an attempt to blackmalil the late Lawrence E. Van Winkle out of $2,,000 by a suit for alienation of character, it is impossible to bring Watson to trial on the charge, as the principal in the suit, Van Y7in- kle, lles in a sulcide’'s grave. Yester- day Van Winkle's attorney, Samuel Knight, returned to Mrs. Watson the communications written to her by her husband, and declared that the poss: bility of prosecuting Watson ended with the death of the young hardware man. The letters Mrs. Watson alleges were addressed to her and which she gave to Attorney Knight were to be made the basis of a prosecution against Wat- | son for blackmail. They are sald by Mrs. Watson to have been written at the time the suit for alienation of his wife's affections, brought by Watson against Van Winkle, was pending. SUICIDE STOPS PROCEEDINGS. | 1 | In many of the letters Watson is al- | leged to have advised his wife to help | him secure the $25,000, the amount for | which Van Winkle was sued. In one | letter it was suggested by Watson that [bls wife go to Van Winkle's attorney and make an alleged confession that ’she and Van Winkle were Intimate. |In the letter Watson held that Van | Winkle would never let the matter go | into court and would settle for the lnmounl of the suit. Other letters ad- ! | | | i vised Mrs. Watson to give incriminat- ing testimony and promised that the writer would take her to another part of the country, where they were un- known, and spend the money gained by the conspiracy. The tragic death of Van Winkle, who was found dead Thursday after- noon in Golden Gate Park with a bul- let wound in hfs head, not only baffles any attempt to try Watson on a charge of blackmail, but ‘also ends the suit | brought Watson against the dead | man. For many months the suit has been hanging fire, although Van Win- kle filed a deposition denying the charges. VAN WINKLE MADE DENIALS. | Van Winkle denied that he had ever had improper relations with Mrs. Wat- son, or that his conduct was in any | way wrong. He denied that he had ever | kissed or hugged her, or that she had been with him alone in his room or he |in hers. He also asserted that no cor- | respondence ever took place between them. Van Winkle admitted that he had taken Mrs. Watson to Marchand's restaurant for supper andcthat he had taken her out for a drive to the beach. In an interview Mrs. Watson refused | to glve out the letters for publication, | but declared that she intended to keep them, in order to obtain a divorce at some future time. Her reason for not applying for separation now, she de- clares, is that she is not in a position to take oare of the children. She is at present living with her sister, Mrs. Catherine Rogers. The parents of Charles N. Watson sald yesterday at Cazadero that their son did not conspire to blackmail Van ‘Winkle and that he had had no com- munication with his wife since she left home. AMASSES A FORTUNE . IN DREAR KLONDIKE After an Absence of Thirty Years Frank 8. Lang Returns Home. Speclal Dispatch to The Call | MANITOWOC, Wis., Jan. 6.—After an | absence of thirty-four years, Frank 8. Lang, who, as a boy of 15, ran away from his home in this city and entered upon a carcer that has been remarkable, and during which time he amassed a fortune in the Klondike, returned to Manitowoc this week for a visit to relatives. He is on his way to visit his aged mother in Germany. Lang came here from 8an Francisco, where he stopped for a short visit after his arrival from Alaska to arrange for the shipment of a hydraulic mining out- fit to be used in mines of which he is the owner. Coming to Manitowoc as & boy of 12 in 1869 in company with an uncle, Lang was apprenticed to the tinsmith trade. I .1871, dissatisfled and imbued with a spiril of adventure, Lang disappeared. He'is now a brother-in-law of Senator Clark of Montana. PRIZE STOCK FROZEN TO DEATH IN POND Reno Rancher Finds Twenty- Eight Head of Cattle Fast in the Ice. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Jan. 6.—Twenty-eight head of | cattle were frozen to death in the icy | waters of & pond in this valley yesterday. | The cattle were discovered frozen fast in the ice by the owner after he had searched the entire valley for them and finally decided that some one had stolen them. It is the supposition that the ani- | mals became lost in the blinding snow storm which raged here seyeral days ago, and, making their way Into the pond, stood there until stupefled with the cold and snow. The cattle were prize beef stock and were valued at several thou- | sand dollars. —————————— CONSTRUCTING [LASS CAGE FOR THE INAUGURATION Pattison Will Rest in Comfort While | Taking the Oath as of Obio. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 6.—The glass cage for Governor-elect Pattison, in which he will stay during the exercises of the inauguration next Monday, was erected to-day. The framework was hammered together in the middle of the reviewing stand, opposite the State- | house on East Broad street, and the glass, which will take up three sides of the box, will be put Into place early on Menday, The cage will be about 12x12 feet. Besldes the cage, the Gov- ernor, who is not at all well, will have footwarmers to Increase his comfort. —— s by A Barton County woman who 18 sning for divorce introduces as testimony a twenty-year-old newspap:r which calls her hm‘n th:: ‘;fi :h:‘n says tne was right it nowW.~] l-l City Journaly’ Lo ._xn. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1906, T0 GIVE SCENE FROM “R0B ROY" Miss Wilson Will Portray ‘Character of Outlaw’s Daughter, Helen Macgregor WOMEN TO AID SISTER ————— Benefit Entertainment Will Be Given by Lady Lovat At the approaching benefit to be given by the Lady Lovat Lodge of Clan Fraser, Miss Hattie Wilson will appear in a scene from the dramatization of Sir Walter Bcott's famous novel “Rob Roy.” Miss Wilson will portray the character of the Scottish outlaw’'s wife, Helen Macgregor, and will be supported by a cast that is made up from merabers of the lodge. The bene- fit is for a sick member of the order and will be given at Pendo Hall, 8443 Seventeenth street, next Wednesday evening. s Miss Wilson received praise for her work as Helen Macgregor when she played the sketch which is the first scene of the third act of Rob Roy. Last year she appeartd at Native Sons' Hall The following cast of characters inr cludes those who took part on that oc- caslon and who will be seen with Miss Wilson next Wednesday night. Act III, scene 1—The Pass of Lochard: I'rancis Osbaldistone, 1. W. Forsyth; Bailie Nicol Jarvie (his friend), D. M. Lees; Rob Roy Macgregor (an outlaw), David Mowatt; Dougal (the crater) (hls henchman), John Michael; Captain Thornton, D. H. S8im; Robert.and Ham- ish (Macgregor’'s sons), James Lillicoe and James King; Allaster \a piper), L 8. R. Tevendale; Helen Macgregor (Rob Roy’'s wife), Miss Hattle Wilson. Eng- lish soldfers—Messrs. A. Copeland, H. King, W. Lapp, C. Macarthur, W. Pow, R. Russell. Highland -lasses—Misses Jeanie Ferguson, Lizzie Ferguson, Mar- jory Hamilfon, Jessie King, Mary Kin- naird, Jean Manwell, Hazel Pow, Annie Strang, Annie King. Clansmen— Messrs. A. Brown, R. Philips, N. Mac- farlane, James Stewart, H. R. Campbell, A. E. McKay, J. MacCallum (a Heilent laddie), Master J, H. Sim. ibanclnx will conclude the ‘celebra- tion. ———— Snow Blocks Raliroad Tracks. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 6.—Fifty miles of Rock Island Railroad track are now blocked by snow near Caresizozo, N. M. Five rotary snowplows and 100 men with picks and shovels are at work. Rock Island trains are being Lodge of Clan Fraser| sent around on a 700-mile detour by way of Fort Worth or over the Santa Fe. — e % L SRS TS, BR AMATEUR WHO WILL AGAIN GIVE A BCENE FROM “ROB ROY.” of— STEADY GROWTH OF CATHOLIO POPULATION IN THIS COUNTRY, Records Show an Increase of More Than Four Hundred Churches During the Past Year. Special Dispaich to The Call. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 6.—From advance sheets of the officlal Catholic Directory, published here, it is found that the total Catholic poulation of the United States is 12,651,944, an I crease of 189,151 over the previous year. The total number of Catholic priests, Including secular and’ regulars, is 14,- 484, an increase of 627. The total num- ber of Catholic churches is 11,814, an increase of 427 over the previous year. An increase of nearly 35,000 In the num- ber of children attending Catholic schools 1s shown. CUNS OF NAVY T0 BO0M SALUTE Elaborate Arrangements Are Being Made for Reception of Chinese Commissioners ARMY WILL CO-OPERATE P R Professor Jenks of Cornell Is Designated to Represent the State WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Professor J. ‘W. Jenks of Cornell University was to- day designated by Secretary Root as & representative of the State Department to recelve at San Francisco upon thelr arrival the distinguished Chinese Com- missioners now on their way to this coun~ try to study American methods with a view to the adoption of those that seem desirable for the improvement of thLs Chinese people and Government. Profes- sor Jenks left Washington this afternoon for San Francisco, where he will arrange for the execution of certain plans for the reception which he has prepared in con- junction with Chief Clerk Cenby of the State Department, who will look after the commissioners when they arrive in ‘Washington. It is the intention of the President to give this commission & reception in full accord with its dignity and importance. Therefore, the navy will take part in the ceremony upon the arrival of the com- mission in the Golden Gate, and the army will do its share when the members land in San Francisco. Ships and forts will fire salutes, the ships will be dressed and probably a detall of troops from the Presidio will form an escort to the dis- tinguished visitors. PECULIAR MIX-UP IN RELATIONSHIP Young Woman Becomes the Sister-in-Law of Her Brother. GOUVERNEUR, N. Y., Jan. ¢—In 1500 Francis L. Brown, a widower, and Electa M. Price, a widow, each with three chil- dren, were married. Young Earl Brown and his stepsister, Alice Price, fell in love and were married two years ago. Yesterday Eugene Price, brother of Alice Price Brown, married Lena Brown, sister of Bugene Price’s brother-in-law, Lena taking as her husband her own brother-in-law. By the marriage of her brother to Alice Price, her stepsister, she became the sister-in-law of her stepsister and by her own marriage the sister-in- law of her full brother. Department | ADVERTISEMENTS. WHAT SULPHURDOES For the Human Body ia Healm*\ and Diseasa. The mention of sulphur will recall to many of us the early days when our mothers and grandmothers gave us our daily dose of sulphur and molasses every _ spring and fall. It was the universal spring and fall “blood puritier,” tonie and cure-all, and mind you, this old-fashioned remedy wa3 not without merit. d, but the remedy was crude and unpalatable, and a large qua tity bad to be taken to get any effect. Nowadays we get all the beneficial ef- fects of sulphur in a palatable, concen- trated form, so that a single grain is far more effective than a tablespoonful of the crude sulphur. In recent years research and experiment bave proven that the best sulphur for me- dicinal use Is that obtained from Calcium (Calctum Sulphide) and sold in drug stores under the name of e clum Wa- fers. They are s holocate coated pellets and contain the active medieinal principle of sulphur in a highly comcen- trated, effective form. Few people are aware of the value of this form of sulphur in restoring and maintaining bodily vigor and healith; sul- phur acts directly on the liver and excre- tory organs and purifies and enriches the blood by the prompt eltmination of waste material. Our grandmothers knew this when they dosed us with sulphur and molasses svery spring and fall, but the crudity and im- purity of ordinary flowers of sulphur wers often worse than the disease, and cannot compare with the modern concentrated preparations of sulphur, of which Stuart’ Calclum Wafers is undoubtedly the bes! and most widely used. They are the natural antidote for liver and kidney troubles and cure constipation and purify the blood in a way that oftem surprises patient and physician alike. Dr. R. M. Wilkins while experimenting with sulphur remedies soon found that the sulphur from Caleium was superfor to any other form. He says: “For liver, kidney and blood troubles, especially when re- sulting from constipation or malaria, I have been surprised at the results ob- tained from Stuart's Calclum Wafers. In patients suffering from bolls and pimples and even deep-scated carbuncles, I have repeatedly seen them dry up and disap- pear within four or five days, leaving the skin clear and smooth. Although Stuart's Calelum Wafers Is a proprietary article, and sold by drugsgists, and for that reason tabooed by many physictans, yet I know of nothing so safe and rellable for consti- pation, liver and kidney troubles and es- pecially in all forms of skin disease as this remedy.” At any rate people who are tired of pllls: cathartics and so-called blood “puriflers, will find {n Stuart's Calclum Wafers a far safer, more palatable and effective prepa~ ration. Miss Grata Grelg. the first woman to be admitted to the bar at Melbourne, recently made her first appearance in court. King Edward's chef, M. Menager, was among those to receive birthday hono: on the occasion of his Majesty's recent ¥ celebration. A ( Why don’t you stop it? still doctoring! But changing ment. You are doctors does not cure your sickness. You are trying one medicine after * the with the same disgusting disappoint- other don’t need doctors. You don’t need drugs. You do need electric life force. Use Electro-Vigor and you will be well, strong and happy. Use Electro-Vigor—the 2o0th Century discovery. Nearly every ailment Patent medicines do you no good. You are a drug doser, and thg only change in your bodily condition is for the worse. Why don’t you stop this drug habit? Why don’t you avail your- self of the modern remedy? Proceed on Nature’s own lines. Use the life-giving, healing, strengthening forces of Electricity. This is the Electric Age. You can see on every hand the wonders of Electricity. You ELECTRO- Soledad, Cal. DR. 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