The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1906, Page 20

CHINESE AN 1S SHOT it N HOLD-UP OF SALOON T MAID MATRON I'wo Masked Robbers Fire on Crowd of Italians, Who, in | Maternal Counsel Shatter His Troth. Induces Him 1o Assailant Is Jilted by a Son of She Who Is Battered. AS EXPLOSION WRECKS HOUSE S et Fred Tietjen Strikes Match in the Hallway'of Home With Disastrous Results HURLED INTO STREET Mission Resident Narrowly Escapes Serious Injury ‘When Deadly Fumes Ignite An explosion of gas late last night awalted arrival of the viands he had | Wrecked the residence of Fred Tietjen, | 2736 Folsom street, and threw its own- er out Into the middle of the street. He was badly burned and bruised, but fortunately esoaped serious injury. The accldent was a very pecullar one. Tletjen returned home shortly after midnight and, as was his usual custom, struck a mateh to light the gas in the ballway. There was a terrific explo- slon, a shot of flame, and when Tietjen came to, several minutes' later, he was lying out in the middle of the street with his hands and face badly burned and several bumps and bruises about As soon as he pulled himself together Tietjen started an examination. He dis- covered that his house was almost a total wreck. Nearly every window in the place was broken, many doors were wrenched from their hinges, and even the boards on the sides of the house were torn loose by the force of the explosion. Nearly all the furniture was ruined and scattered about the rooms. | A strange phase of the explosion was that no fire followed. Tietjen sald he smelled the gas as soon as he entered the place, but did not an- ticlpate any danger. He belleves the | ‘With the velocity of Barney Oldfield's 4‘ dangerous fumes must have been escap- Ing for some time as the entire house seemed filled with gas. Tietjen was first Market street, endangering the life and w treated by Dr. Potter, who resides in the Iimb of pedestrians on the crossings | | neighborhood, and then removed to the Central Emergency Hospital. man Cornelius who intrepidly ba:red[GLIDE TWENTY MILES | OVER DANCING FLOOR | Yale Juniors Get Plenty of Exercise at Their Promenade. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 23.—Fresh- Their Terror, Shout in| an Uncontrollable Fashion | e e t— | Ong Gow, whose comeliness of face and { window ere he sat down to sup in a E swestness of temper almost redeemed her | Fourth-street restaurant, and as he BEDLAM OF VOICES bigness of feet, warmly loved and, os- > g = tensibly, was beloved by Wong Quong | ordered he was startled to ses the sus- FRUSTRATES PLANS | Wing, glass-wiper in a high-class Cau- | pended garment suddenly ascent, ap- o | caslan drinking place on Kearny street, | parently of its own volition, and dis- —_— and although no formal announcement of | appear through the unclosed casement. o : their betrothal was issued, preparation to | Dashing to the sidewalk he $aw Ro- Attempt to Silence OuULCIies ceiebrate the nuptials during the Chiness | bina Raymond removing the coat trom E 1 |new year, commencing this day, were|the end of the walking stick with With Bullets, but Fail,|mase by their numerous respective cous- | which he had fished it out of the r . e . |ine Eo the heart of Ong Gow was very | taurant. Judge Conlan gave Mr. Ray and John Bazini Receives| mond six months. | =t P a Wound in the Melee! | After filing formal complaint that his | female consort, Annie Whitney, had fel- B onlously cut his hand with a pocket- masked men with Tevolvers| knife, Dominick Rogers, a Barbary Coast | his body. rto the bar of the Sal- | bartender, relented and informed Judge 2 end De Haro | | Shortall that he did not desire to prose- ght, and ordered the pro- cute the woman. But his desire was ve guests to throw up overruled and Miss Whitney is likely-to | The occupants of the sa- | | | get about three months' imprisonment. bewlidered and began to 8 Wit ® tly the two masked men For stealing Superior Judge Carroll e at randpm. John Bazini, Cook’s setter dog, valued at 3150, from the he guests, fell to the fioor, owner's residence, 2101 Broadway, Alfred seriously wounded. The robbers rushed Dougherty was committed for grand lar- ut of the @oor end made good thelr ceny by Judge Conlan, with bail fixed at $2000. Odds are freely offered that Judge » were six people In the saloon { Cook will not preside at the trial of the ade thelr appearance. | | case in the upper court. he proprietor, was be- | | | 5 Fowiite an C the others were busy Besides Bazinl there | auto In a race finish the bicycle be- Paolo Fontana, Jo- strode by Harry R. Bohn sped along | Louis Bartolett! and | | and provoking anathemas from them as they fled from its path. It was e s | 4 | the way and brought wheel and rider | he other short and |y,.oy untfl Jast Saturday evening, when | tO an, abrupt halt ey Wor uong Wi v at for emande: r.. Bohn, hands,” ordered the h,,nfhfi o ;‘:Kop::frd"?ild}dli;hmfi when informed he was under arest. ’ . ; be indefinitely postpohed. “Bicycling at excessive speed on a wildered Itallans | “..ru; me why, O Wong Quong Wing,” | Public thoroughfare,” was the officer’s sobbed little Ong Gow. | reply. | “Because my revered mother so wills| But when the prisoner was searched it was the muttered enlightenment. | At the Central station his captor con- “You love your mother more than you | Bratulated himself on having nabbed | love your Ong Gow,” walled the maiden. | Something more serious than a mere “And why not, O unreasonable one?’ | misdemeanant, for among Mr. Bohn's spluttered the swain. “‘She preceded you | Personal possessions were one large and in affection, and it is written that a | man’s mother shall have priority over | 2ll other females In his consfderation a!] long as she stays on earth.’ It is a cruel law,” moaned Ong Gow. | “Not so. illogical one,” retorted Wong | Quong Wing. .“It is universal law, for | even the white devils have a proverb which says that a man can easily get a wife when he wants one, but where can | he get a second mother?” who was re- d County Ho: e a few minut made their es- e “What a chestnu! blubbered Ong | Y Harry Mook soon ar- | Gow, and thrusting Wong Quong Wing | .5 Ff”fi % the | {rom her presence she hissed, “Go home | t 8; Of 18013 mmy, O weak one.” hey are Hnd when her primal disappointment and e weeks | SOTTOW gave way to calm thought Ong e v ks | Gow arrived at the conclusion that she 1p E had been very shabbily treated by the to tally maternal relative of Wong Quong Wing, and to that venerable lady she went in | ngry mood. ou have shamed my face by forbid- ding your son to marry me,” she said, “and I demand to know the cause of your objection Is not my character | honorable?” E “Your character,” replied the prudent dame, noting the truculence in her visi- tor's eye, “is irreproachable; but my son cannot support a wife and his mother, too. Why cannot you walit, O impatient Ong Gow, until my bones are lald away?”’ Ong Gow’s reply was not disclosed to Police Judge Mogan, before whom she was accused of having most seriously bat- tered Wong Quong Wing's mother. The er female displayed a semi-denuded scalp and a large wisp of iron-gray hair as material evidence in support of her charge, and Ong Gow was promptly pro- nounced gullty and remanded for sen- tence. Many cousins of the contending parties were in court during the hearing, and two opposing factionists, Chin Toy and Ching Quong, engaged in debate so vo- ciferous in the corridor that they were ar- rested and booked for peace disturbance by Patrolman Skelly, specially assigned to preserve decorum within earshot of the magistrates. Chin Toy, it was explained to the Judge, had pronounced the con- duct of Wong Quong Wing an outrage, and Ching Quong warmly took issue with him. Both of them wiil De sentenced to- day. the Central where his wound Millar and Dr. Mc- rad glanced off a rib. arrow escape, for the been aimed at his e first to raise a g had evidently en- d arrived here s ago from Mendocino visiting a cousin at ood where the at- p occurred is a lonesome cally deserted at night. farrison, Graham, Regan 1l were detafled on the to & late hour had made Detectives and O case, bu no progress e S, Falls From Telephone Pole. An@rew McIntosh, & telephone line- n reeiding at 861 Brannan street, fell from a telephone pole at Octavia street end Willow avenue yesterday after- noon and suffered a fracture of the spinal column and internal injuries. | He was removed to the Central Emer- gency Hospital —_——— WOMAX WANTED IN VALLEJO.—Dora | Afams, who was working as & waitress at 500 Eutter street a3 Dora Dvans, Was arrested yes- terdey by Detectives Bunner and Freel and | taken to the City Prison. She is wanted in Vallelo on & charge of petty larceny preferred Béward Kramer, proprietor of & lodging- se and &ence b Bhe #aid she had been . “What's the use?” said Judge Shortall in response to Fritz BSanderson’s re- quest that he be permitted to intro- duce character testimony ere sentence ‘be passed upon him for peace disturb- ance and vagrancy. Then he was given six months. His Honor's time-saving refusal was probably prompted by knowledge of the fact that every police officer on the water front was ready to pronounce Mr. Sanderson a chronic vagabond, and petty larcenist. Indeed, several mem- bers of the harbor squad so ’testified before his petition for postponement was submitted. osd $25 by Kramer to purchas me things 25 she supposed thet was why she had been arrested. CALNE Endorses the APDL L0 | “Heaven bless you, Judge,” was Mrs. Kate Wall's fervently uttered saluta- tion as she stepped from the cage, tonched the brim of her cowboy hat with & sofled finger and faced his Honor Piano Player | Cabaniss. | “Thank you,” was the coldly volced response. “You are accused of va- | grancy. What was the term I last sen- | tenced you to on the same charge? | “Heaven bless you, Judge, but that's | & delicate question to ask a lady,” re- plied Mre. Wall, with cordial evasion. |~ “Pardon me it I have shocked your ense of propriety,” sald the bench, | “but I thought you might obviate the | | necessity of our referring to the | { ords to ascertain just how often you have been sentenced for vagrancy.” | “Heaven bless you, Judge, I've been ‘sent up twice,” Mrs. Wall hastily con- . | fessed, with trepidation in tone and \mnnner. “Never mind looking at the | books,” she continued. “I wouldn't put | you to any trouble on my account for | anything, heaven bless you.” | “Fifteen days,” was the pronounce-’ | ment. | “Heaven bless you,” devoutly ejacu- lated Mrs. Wall. Then the new clerk examined the rec- ords and tound that Mrs. Wall had been “sent up” for vagrancy no less than | ave times. e She writes as follows: “Of all similar instruments, the Apollo is certainly the most pexfea I am absolutely delighted and ER | | | | | | | | | ) g *- —% fully loaded revolver and a bunch of keys that savored of burglarious use. “What d'ye do for a ltving, anyway?” inquired the booking sergeant. ’ “I'm a detective,” was the startling answer. And such he turned out to be—not a human sleuth commissioned by the mu- nicipality. or even identified with any recognized private agency, but a self-con- stituted tracker of crime and.criminals, a la Sherlock Holmes. In an office on Montgomery street, he stated, he com- bines the pursuits of attorney-at-law and detector of law breakers, and in the.lat- ter capacity he considered himself quali- fled to carry firearms and as many keys as he cared to freight his pocket with. When arraigned before Judge Mogan on the fast bleycling charge he pleaded not gullty and was glven a continuance till next Tuesday. H Infallible as a dealer of justice is trial by jury. With materlal evidence to ald them in framing a decision, twelve good and true citizens fafled to decide wheth- er Charles Dondero fractured the fish laws by having In his possession silver bass that welghed less than three pounds aplece, and then twelve other good and true citizens, after the material evidence had been destroyed, returned a verdict of gullty as charged. Judge Mogan will pronounce sentence to-day. o .o Andreas Pico, with' nine charges of petty larceny and one accusation of grand larceny confronting him in Judge Mogan’'s court, has demanded that a jury be impaneled to decide whether he is sane. Since his escape from a Junatic asylum, he avers, hc.has not been offi- cially pronounced of sound mind, and therefore he opines that he cannot legally be held to account for the offenses alleged against him. His appeal will be depided to-day. For two consecutive weeks Frank Swit- zer, able-bodied and mentally unimpaired, shunned labor of any kind and insisted on eating and sleeping at his family's expense, and it was in response to his brother's complaint that Judge Conlan removed the incubus by sentencing him to six months’ Iimprisonment in the County Jail, with a recommendation that he be introduced to work on the rock pile. . . s e Charles H. Lombard’'s dress suit ‘case was stolen as he stood awaiting a car on Market street, and a person who wit- nessed the theft informed a policeman, who arrested Leon Metzger with the plunder in his possession. by Judge Conlan. Three months, chanted beyond words with it. The ease of its mechanism which permits the necessary shading, the possibility of transposing, make it a unique in- strument.” We ere Sole Agents for this great in- strument. Benj. Curtaz & Son 16 O'Farrell Street [ | | unemey F. T. Sulz. Mrs. Adelaide Lloyd Smith, accused of obtaining $300 by false pretense from Mrs. Sarah Kutscher of 74 Willow avenue, was arraigned and instructed by udge Mogan, and then the hearing of the case was set for next Saturday. She announced that her interests “for the present” would be attended to by Her gown and hat were brilliant red and one of her sons sat by her side in court. . e F. K. Cunningham doffed his overcoat and hung it upon & hook near an open men to-night figured it out that the Yale | —i- | junior promenade guests who took part | |in all the forty-one waltzes and two-steps |In the Second Regiment Armory last night danced a total distanee of twenty miles. This is allowing a little more than a half mile for each dance. The | freshmen have no privileges at the crown- ing soclal event of the season at Yale, so contented themselves with Watching the | dancers and engaging in a rush for sup- | per, which was served during intermis- | stons. The dancers were beneath the shell in which Yale defeated Harvard and the football won from Harvard by Tom Shev- lin’s eleven. The grand march was led by Committee Chairman Willlam McCor- mick Blair of New York and his sister, Miss Lucy Blair. TRADING STAMPS GIVEN IN CHURCH St. Louis Pastor Offers Ex- tra Inducements for Reg- ular Attendance. Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, Jan. —Trading stamps have invaded the church, and the St. Louis pastor who has introduced them believes their value will soon be notell by other clergymen. The Rev. Luther E. Todd of the First Methodist Episcopai Church was gthe originator of the idea, and his first ex- perience on Sunday was so successful that the plan will be extended to the entire | congregation. A regular book has been fs- sued to each child attending Sunday- | school. A two-cent stamp 1is given for attendance, one blue five-cent stamp 1s the reward for each new scholar brought to the school and a one-cent stamp {is re- turned for every penny given as an offer- ing on Sunday. ‘When the stamps in the book amount to $1 they are turned in to the premium committee and the scholar is permitted to select from a long list of prizes. —_——————— GENERAL WHEELER HAS MILD CASE OF PNEUMONIA Hope Entertained for the Speedy Re- covery of the Well-Known Veteran, NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—That Briga- dler General Joseph Wheeler of the TUnited States army (retired) has a mild attack of pneumontia was announced to- day at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith,” in Brooklyn, where General Wheeler is jll. . The following announcement was made by Mrs. Smith to-day on authority of Dr. McCorkle: “General Wheeler was stricken with pleurisy Thursday night. Pneumonia developed Sunday. Dr. A. J. McCorkle is in charge of the case and had Dr. E. G. Janeway in consultation Monday. The case is mild, the temperature be- ing only about 100. The patient is rest- ing easily and hope for a speedy re- covery s entertained. His son, Major Joseph Wheeler Jr., and two. of his daughter are with him.” | Chieago labor organization to discrimi- THREECORNERED ViR VER LAND Cattlemen, Sheepmen and Lumbermen of Nevada Are Getting Ready for Trouble UNCLE SAM IN MIX-UP| Owners of Woolly Animals Determined to Make Fight to Get Grass for Stock Bpecial Dispatch to The Call RENO, Jan. 23.—There {s much trouble at present between the sheep men and the lumber men and cattle men of the western part of this State and the neighboring lumber districts of California. The trouble arises over the destruction of the timber land by for- est fires and damage done to ranges used for grazing purposes by the cat- tle men. The lumber men contend that a majority of the forest fires are set by sheepherders. The cattle men object to the passing of sheep over the ranges because of the fact that they trample | down the grass. The sheep men have | signified their intention of continuing the same policy tnis year as in the past and say that they will resist with force any action on the part of the cattle men and lumber men. The situation is complicated more by the action of | the Government in setting aside a great | portion of the disputed territory as a | forest reserve. i T VS SN IR WANT TO BUILD A LEVEE TO PROTECT BAKERSFIELD | Citizens to Discuss Plan to Prevent Damage From the Waters of { Kern River. | BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 23.—Under | plans now being formed by the Trus- tees and in response to a petition signed by nearly all of the property owners in Bakersfleld, there will be a joint meeting of the Trustees and Su- pervisors during the first week in February to devise means of raising funds for building a levee to protect Bakersfield and vicinity from the waters of Kern River in times of freshets. 1 OIL MEN IN KANSAS APPEAL TO GARFIELD ate That Standard and Railroads Conspire to Crush Them. y CHANUTE, Kans., Jan. 23.—The inde- pendent oll refiners of Kansas have mailed to James R. Garfield, Commission- er of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labof, an appeal for jus- tice against .the alleged conspiracy be- tween the Standard Oll Company and the rallroads to shut Kansas oil out of the market. The refiners who signed the appeal have invested more than 31,000,000 in refineries, tanks; cars, storage tanks, wagons ‘and barrels. They clalm that by reason of a | conspiracy between the Standard Oil Company and the railroad systems in the Southwest they are limited to the State of Kansas for & market for their refined oil{ that to all points outside of Kansas the frelght rates on all the products of crude petroleum are unreasonably high, and have been maintained at such unrei gonably high rates for the express pur- pose, and for no other purpose, than to confine the business of the independent refiners to the State of Kansas. MAY BOYCOTT COAST ORANGES AND FIGS Objection Made Because the Fruit Is Packed by Japan- ese Laborers. 3 ST Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan, 23.—The juicy orange and the fig may be made the objects of a boycott by the Chicago Federation of Labor at its next meeting. Secretary Lockets recelved a communication from A. Hierom Shera of the California State | Federation of Labor to-day, asking the nate against all fruit packed by Japanese labor. The communication states that Japanese laborers have completely displaced white labor in the frult-packing houses in many localities on the Pacific Coast. Shera wishes to make the proposed boycott na- tional in scope. He lives in Uplands, Cal. _———— GOLD BRICK WORTH $200,000 UNEARTHED IN NEW MEXICO Discovered Under the Foundations of | a Mill Which Was Being Dismantled. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Jan. 23.— In dismantling the old Albemarle mill, in the Jemez Mountains north of this contractors, discov- the foundations a big, solid gold brick, supposed to be worth about $200,000. It is supposed to have been stolen and hidden there by some former employes of the mill when the mill was in operation ten vears ago. The contractors have been taking out the machinery to ship to the United Verde mine in Arizona. Great secrecy has been preserved about §.a%t week ut/the greatest Iron Bed Sale ever held. Prices that make the goods seem like gifts. If you ever in- ‘tend to furnish do not miss this sale. _— = ture; with immense posts; enameled: in apple green; full 4-4 size; a good $13 value. This week 73 $7 Apple Colored Beds for..$4.25 $13 Apple Colored Beds for.$7.75 L Apple Whl(e and Gold B.'eds 3925 A Dle. “hlle Beds for $10.50 Cream 815 Solld Brass Beds for..$38.50 Regular $28.50 Moss Enamel Beds for - 82 and Gnld $6.25 Q“C"i‘r‘ Cream and Gold Enameled Beds— In 4-4 and 3-4 sizes; high head and foot. 36.50 values for. $1330 Cream and Gold "B $9.25 $20 Appie Enamel Beds for.$15.28 $18 Apple Enamel Beds for.$13.36 $11 Apple. Whits and Gold Beds 8.8 Gold Beds RS $9.50 $24 Moss Green Beds for. . $i9.00 Regular $36 Moss Enamel Beds for Regular $38 Black Beds for Regular_$21 Gold hite and and Brass Apple, White | Beds for 2 - and -7 ‘\\\ \fl\m\s“\m\&‘{m 233-235-237 POST ST. SHAHP DEBATE AMONG MINERS President Mitchell and Vice President Lewis Have a Wordy War in Convention INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23.—The con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America to-day adopted the report of the scale committee with practically no changes. The discussion of the proposition to indorse the plans of the anthracite miners caused a clash between Presi- dent Mitchell and Vice President Lewis. Considerable feeling was shown. Lewis made the statement from the floor that he thought a full explanation of the anthracite situation should be made by the president. He said he knew nothing except what he had read in newspapers. | President Mitchell replied that he knew no law requiring a president to report to a vice president, and added: “I d4id not know until yesterday of the success of the movement to secure a conference with the anthracite oper- ators, and I do not know what demands the anthracite miners’ convention will make. The demands have not been formulated.” Lewis replied that he thought he was worthy of being taken into the confi- dence of the organization, when the convention moved that the debate cease. The convention elected John P. White, president of the Iowa miners, and Patrick Gildea, president of District No. 1, Pennsylvania, as delegates to the In- ternational Mining Congress at London. The report of the tellers showed the election of the following: President, John -Mitchell; vice president, T. L. Lewis; secretary-treasurer, W. B. Wil- son; delegates to the American Federa- tion of Labor, John Mitchell, T. L. Lewis, W. B. Wilson, John Dempsey, H. C. Perry and John Fahey. The operators of Iilinois, Ohio, In- diana and Western Pennsylvania have begun to arrive for the conference. e CALIFORNIA NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE James B. Scott Approved as Solicitor for the State Depart- ment. WASHINGTON. Jan. 38.—The Senate in executive session to-.ay confirmed the following nominations: Theodosus Botkin, Utah, Consul at Port | Luis, Mauritus. James B. Scott, California, solicitor for the Department of State. Pressly M. Rixey, Surgeon General and Chiet of the Bureau of Medicine and Sur- gery in the Navy Department. Postmasters: California — Susan - L. Drake, Colusa; Stephen D. Ballou, San Luis Obispo; George W. Holmes, Seima. —————e Will Ship Remnins East. BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 23.~The re- mains of Professor Herbert F. Bur- rage, lately in charge of the manual tralning department of the public schools here and who died last week of pneumonia, will be sent to his for- mer home at Weston, Mass. C. E. Bur- rage, a hrother of the deceased, ar- rived to-day and will tlke the remains the discovery. East. —_— e KANSAS LAND FRAUD CASES. ARE CALLED UP IN COURT Former State Senator Among Those Accused of Conspiracy to Vié- late the Laws. ' KANSAS CITY, Jan. 23.—The cases against F. Dumont Smm:, a State Sen- U 28 Ryan, formerly lnlyector in Western Kansas, and Roscoe Wilson, postmaster at Jetmore, Kans., indicted recently by the Federal Grand Jury at Topeka on a charge of conspiracy to violate the land laws of the United States, were called in the District Court here to-day before Judge John F. Phillips. i The attorneys for Smith and Ryan filed demurrers, while Wilson’s attor- ney moved that the indictment against his client be quashed. Argument was begun on the motions. ————————— SNOWBOUND TRAIN RELEASED. w Alle to Secure Coal and From Section-House. DURANGO, - Colo., Jan. 23.—A pas- senger train on the Denver and Rio Grlndl Railroad that had been snow- bound on the Cumbres Range since ‘Thursday reached =Durango to-day. The passengers, who ‘were cooped up in the train four days, obtained provisions and coal from the section-house and ffered only slight inconvenience. A large force is shoveling through the slides. in Animas Canyon In an || AMERICAN NAVY BEST IN WORLD President Roosevelt Voices the Belief That It Would Vanquish That of Japan e R Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Jan. Z3.—“We would whip Japan If the navies of the two countries were matched ship for ship and man for man,” said President Roosevelt to-day In a talk with Dr. James Sherrer, president of Newberry College of Newberry, S. C. So the edu- cator says. Dr. Scherrer has lived five years In Japan, where he was a tutor. When Dr. Scherrer visited the White House to- day the President asked him a great many questions about Japan, the Jap- anese navy and the fighting qualities of the Japanese ships and men. Dr. Scher- rer sald that he believed the Japaness navy, man for man, was the best in the world, but the President contended that the American navy, man for man, was the best, and expreased the belfef that this country, if it should ever have a war with Japan, would defeat the Japanese it the navies were matched ship for ship. President Roosevelt expressed the high- est admiration for the excellent fighting qualities of the Japanese and spoke in the mest extravagant manner of their magnificent fighting machines. The conversation is reported by Dr. Scherrer, who left for New York this afternoon. He came to Washington to invite President Roosevelt to deliver an address at ths semi-centennial celebration of the establishment of the Newberry College. The President expressed regret that he would not be able to attend. ———————— JOHN A. MeCALL SELLS HIS SUMMER PALA Disposes of Long Bramch Mansiom for Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—John A. McCall, former president of the New York Life Insurance Company, parted to-day with what he had often spoken of as his mos: prized possession, the summer palace erected and furnished at Long Branch ac an expense of $500,000. The place was sold to Myron H. Oppenheim, lawyer. Tho purchase was made for a client who s not now in this eity. The purchase prics was iu the neighborhood of $350,000. Of this amount McCall receives oniy about $100.000, as the property is encum- bered with mortgages amounting to $250.- 000. The principal encumbrance om tho place 1s a mortgage for $150,000 given b McCall on January 2 of this year to the New York Life Insurance Company as security for notes to that amount which he turned over to the' trustees on the An- drew Hamilton account. A JUDGE GRANTS PRISONBR'S REQUEST. John Martin pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary in Judge Cook's court yesterday. The Judge sentenced him to serve one year and six months in San Quentin. Martin the Juogs v send him to Folsom, as he. been at one time on Haggin's ranch in tht melghborhood and the scenes would be familiar to him when be was working on t . Besides. be said. he suftered from heumatism, and confinement in San Quentin Would be injurious to his health. The Judge Sranted his request. Martin broke Into the Foom of Edward B. HUll, 791 Sutter street, oo December 4