The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 6

WOMAN PUZZLE POLICE. OFFICE Wife of 8. A. D. Puter Still Declares That Husband Is to Face Jury in Oregon BERKELEY SHE IS IN Action of Authorities in De- claring That the Man Is Fugitive Bothers Her Not ——— XKBLEY, Jan., 5, —Despite the t t Oregon state authorities ,ake public announcement that 5. A. D. ter is a fugitive, whom the State e of apprehending, and that photo- of Puter and his companion, Hor- , were sent out to-day from newspapers of this coun- anada ed States, Mrs. 8. A. D. Puter, nse, 1517 Bpruce street, o-day proclaimed thet her hus- face his sccusers when the trial comes in the north. es are puzzled, £ r's attit They are ether the wife of the expert is playing & & to throw detec- | her husband’s trail, his dupe, as many ers are said to have been in the past F T her daughter last year. A month came from the au- »sse, Wis., asking that > be home any sehold as it was thought e men hi Puter did ud Puter were to ap- e great ud ssman Binger Her- d because they had £ witnesses at that released without ball, | themselves for land terim, before the date trial, Puter amd Me- to have secured a large om Hiram Goddard of g b ds to tim- north, which lands no For this of- are now being sought ter is sald to have plenty of funds, was expected that he would event- r his wife, in Berkeley, to in whatever country he may The wife, however, in the Spruce street man- not at all perturbed by the work in branding her hus- continues to appear in good m pony desired of e McNULTY CASE CONTINUED. AND, Jan. 25 —Owing to the illness OAK Frick, who e . trial of Lester C. mccused of sttacking Miss Dorothy this morning. Judge five felony cases mow in to be pres- A. Logan, & away After the disagreed, Lo- Frick f & the En- Allen stated morning, and McNulty the case ay. DAUGHTER AT REST. Jan e foneral of Mrs. r resident of Oakland er of California, 0 in Ban Francisco ur ecore 2go, was held to- he late home of the deceased in was in Mountain Jury Acquits King. Jan. 25—A jury to-day mc- g of San Francisco, charged Constable E, 8. pUng to queil s June 4 last. but recovered and The action of the heart de- pends upon the heart nerves and muscles. When from any cause they become weak or ex- hausted, and fail to furnish sufficienit power, the heart flut- ters, palpitates, skips beats; and in its effort to keep up its work, causes pain and distress, such as smothering spells, short breath, fainting, pain around heart, arm and shoul- ders. The circulation is im- peded, and the entire system suffers from lack of nourish- ment. Dr. Miles” Heart Cure makes 2 heart strong and vigorous by strengthening these nerves and muscles. *“T hed paipitation and . my heart, and the doctors sald incurable’ 1 don't believe it mow, for gfter toking six bottles of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure, three botties of the Ne; and three boxes of the Nerve an Liver Pills 1 am entirely cured, and feel better thap I have for five and it is all due to these remedies. 1 ‘want you to know thet your medi cured me. % me from first dose, and I kept right on till 3 in my chest was m:,“malx ept eeling better even after T ¢ ng 1" JOHN H. SHERMAN, Belding, Mich. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first le will if it fails he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind is | 4 also to all Consuls of | complete- | n which Puter end held, for alleged | DF- C. Smith was summoned and at- léwd fraud perpetrated | tended to his injurles, which are pain- ard of La Crosse, Mrs 4 ful but mot serious. Had Stevenson ted that Mr. Puter would | fallen in any other way than face ¢ any minute” He had | @0Wnward on the rail, or had either keley home to attend to busi- | °f his temples met the steel of the she declared, | (*ack, physicians say, he would have » was made 1ir o Coun- it was unavailing. er was not | A close watch was kept on _ | starting THUNDE RS NEAR Thomas Stevenson Lies Unconscious on Rails Until Roused by Coming Train. BERKELEY, Jan. 25.—The fates may intend that Thomas Stevenson. a real- ty operator, residing at 1829 Prince street, shall dle a violent death under the wheels of a flying rallroad train, but thus far Stevenson has outwitted eny such calculation of Iame Fortune, | scoring a second victory last night in & unique contest with the Death that rides on a.black horse. Stevenson fell to the ground in the darkness of the night at Ward and Shattuck avenues at midnight, stum- bling over some projection on the rail- road track there. The accident threw him head foremost on the rail He struck in the middle of his forehead on the steel rail, the force of the im- pact stunning ‘him, while blood gushed om the wound in his head. How long » Jay across the track Stevenson does not know. | He recovered consciousness a few i seconds before a southbound Southern { Pacific local traln came thundering | along ana dragged himself from the tracks in time to avold a terrible death under the ponderous wheels of the lo- ocomotive. Blood-stained and weak from the shock of the fall and the nar- rowness of his escape, Stevenson stag- | gered bomeward, leaving a trail of blood stains behind him as he walked. { been so stunned that undoubtedly his body would have lain there long enough to be crushed by passing trains Two years ago Mr. Stevenson, while | permitiing a lady to alight from a | train at Ashby station, found the train before he could get aboard, and for his courtesy to the woman was dragged beneath the car and carried | for a block. He survived that experi- ence by great good fortune. If his present luck holds out he hopes to end his days in natural fashion, without the intervention of railroad machinery in any form. {URGES TEACHING OF m QT OTT Q TRADES TO YOUTHS | OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—Colonel John P. Irigh, in an address to the members of the Starr King Fraternity this even- Ing at the First Unitarian Church, dis- cussed the growth of “juvenile incor- rigibility” in the United States during the last quarter of a century. Colonel | Irish attributes the increase of vice, transgression of law and serious crime among the youth of the country to the decrease in the annual absorption: of young men into the trades and hapdi- crafts of the country and to the indif- ference of the general public to petty lawlessness among boys and young men in the larger cities of the country. The speaker declared that the aver- age age of persons convicted of crime for the first time was less than 21 yvears, and said that he had been in- formed by Superior Judge Lawlor that 90 per cent of the first convictions in San Francisco were those of boys be- tween the ages of 15 and 20 years. In proof of this Colonel Irish said that there are now two reform schools in California, and that every State north of Mason and Dixon’s line has from one to five of these institutions, all of which have been established within the last twenty-five years, and that in a majority of the cases of youths sent to these institutions they are easily reformed as soon as they are put to work at a trade. | Colonel Irish attributed the lack ot | oppertunity for boys to enter the ranks | of the trades znd crafts of the tountry | to two causes—first, the influx of for- | elgn labor into the United States, and, | second, to the present apprentice rules | of labor organizations. As a solution I of the problem, the speaker suggesg- ed more restrictions in the immigra- tion laws and a modification of the present rules of labor unions. BRITISH LIBERALS GAIN MORE SEATS LONDON, Jan. 25.—Sir Edward Grey, the new Foreign Secretary, has been returned from the Berwick-on-Tweed division of Northumberland by ths largest majority he ever had. This is typlcal of the general result of yester- day’s elections, which practically were an unbroken series of Liberal suc- cesses.. Out of twenty-one returns this morning the Liberals take seventeen seats, twelve of whichy were captured from the Unionists. The others were divided, Unionists 3 and Laborites 1. The new House of Commons already contains thirteen Jews, with several constituencles to be heard from. This ie a larger number than previously re- corded. C. H. Gibbs (Unionist) has resigned his seat for the city of London in favor of former Premier Baifour, who has @ecepted the committee's invitation to hecome a candidate to represent that constituency. A writ for a new election eannot be issued until Parliament meets, so Balfour will not be present at the opening of the House, which will be his first absence from that ceremony for thirty-one years. Vote splitting between the Liberals and Laborites in the, three-cornered contest for the Govan division of Lan- arksinire has given the Unionists an- other solitary gain. This, however, is offset by several Liberal gains, includ- ing the defeat of Conings by Disrael} in the Altrincham division of Cheshire and the unseating of Hon. J. Parker Smith for the Patrick division of Lan- arkshire. R. C. Lehman, the journalist and oarsman, who is well known in the United States, was defeated in the Bouth division of Leicestershire. The returns to date show that the seats are distributed as follows: Lib- erals 388, Unionists 148, Natlonalists 81, Laborites 48. Of the fifty candidates nominated by the Labor * Representation Committee twenty-nine have been elected. With them will act J. Williams, the miners’ candidate in the Western division of Glamorganshire in Wales, making a group of thirty Laborites pledged to absolute Independence. | AND FOR MEN.—Berkeley, Ji — Eivizio Minl, & A e wversity, now of it in the PRI friends here that there. He ‘been oted until helis in line for a captaincy at a salary of $1700 a year. Mrs. May L. , appointment secretary of the university, i8 to give information about taswmmlumluwfimcmm 1and, Jan. 25.—Town Marshi } of Omkl Berkeley Real Estate. Man Narrowly Escapes Terrible Fate Under Engine Wheels. _— TREASURES COME FROM OLD EGYPT BERKELEY, Jan. 25.—Treasures from the ®oil of Egypt, in which have been buried for centuries the kings and court figures from old dynasties have just been received by the university authorities and will be set up in the museum of the university at the Affiliated Colleges In San Francisco. The shipment of Egyptian antiquities which contains these treasures was sent by Dr. George A. Relsner and are the result of excavations made for the wniversity at Naga-ed-Der and Gizeh. There a vast quantity of material of great interest and importance was obtained. ~Eleven cemeteries were excavated at Naga-ed-Der and | the resuits definitely established the chronology from the earliest or predynastic period to the latest or Coptic perlods. 3 From the anatomical material vbtained Pro- fessor Ellfott Smith of the Khediyial School of Medicine is proving that the Inhabitants of Egypt of all periods belong to one continuous race. presenting the same physical and ana- tomical' characteristics. The mummies found in some of the prehisioric cemeteries were in @ remarkable state of preservation. Among the objects found were flint knives, stone, copper and bronze implements, paint palettes; ornhments of jvory, pottery, beads, amulets, coffins,_clothing and embroideries. At the great pyramid of Gizeh, where the expedition had & grant for excavation, the explorations revealed the history of the royal cemetery. The most important objects found In this cemetery were seven small stelas of the time of Cheops, covered with exquisite reliefs, one of them, representing Wep-em- Nofret, son of the Pharaoh, being beautifully painted. There was also an extraordinary white limestone head of Ka-Nofer, an official of Cheops; a very fine double statue of a riegt, named \€ennuw, and his wife, and a imestone offering bowl of Yeni, another officlal of Cheops. 1In later tombs were found thirty- four statues and groups giving a great variety of forms and workmanship, the most remark- able of these being a wooden statue of a boy found beside the coffin of what is supposed to be his mother. —_— e ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS PROFESSOR BACON ILL.—Berkeley, Jan. 25.—Professor Thomas R. Bacon of the Univer- sity of California is sertously ill from neu- raigla CRUSADE AGAINST VAGRANTS,—Oak- Carey of Em- eryyille has ordered all vagrants out of the town. Seven have been lodzed In the County Jall as the result of a raid :ast might. RUSH RAILROAD WORK.—Oakland, Jan. 25—The Key Route construction department 1s rushing work on Its Twenty-second _street extension from Yerba Buena avenue to Broad- way, Large crews are grading and preparing to lay tracks through Loulsa and Poplar streets. PLEADS NOT GUILTY.—Oskland, Jan. 25. John Certer, grocery clerk charged with embezzling $10 from O'Dea & Boyle, his_em- ployers, pleaded pot guilty to.the charge this morning and his trial was set by Judge Smith for Jenuary 27. Carter says his arrest was A mistuke. DISTRIBUTES DIETZ ESTATE.—Oakland, Jan. 25.—An order was made this-morning by Judge Melvin distributing the estate of the lai Alfred C. Dietz. valued at.$250,000, to his widow, Sarah J. Dietz, with the exception of two small annuities to be paid quarterly to Mary A. Boygr and Nellle P. Dietz. NEW TEMPLE FOR MASONS.—Oakland, Jan. 25.—A contract was filed for record to- day between the Masonic Temple Assoclation of Berkeley and Robert Grelg for the erection of a handsome four-story structure to be built on the northeast corner of Shattuck avenue and Bancroft way and to cost $44,170. McCONNELL IS RELEASED. — Oakland, Jan. 25.—J. J. McConnell, who was a deputy County Assessor_and assistant secretary of Oakland Camp, Woodmen of the World, gave $1500 cash bail this afternoon and his bond was released by Police Judge Smith. McCon- ne‘;l Is accused of appropriating $350 from the lodge. MARRIAGE LICENSES.~Oakland, Jan. 25. The following marriage licenses were issued by the Cognty Clerk to-day: Charles E. Wag- ner, 25, Mgrkeley, and Agnes Stenson, 18, Oakland; Chr] A. Sorensen, 81, and Ida E. Johngon, 28, both of Berkeley; Antone M. Salvadoe, 81, and Julia Sflva, 18, both of Oakland. WOMAN'S PURSUER, SANE. — Oakland, Jan. 25.—Paul Schulz, chdrged with annoyin Miss Clara F. Boardman, a Franklin School teacher, has been declared sane by Dr. E. N. Ewer. Schulz will be tried February 16 for ocarrying a concealed weapon, & knotted, chain- like bludgeon having been found on him when he was arrested. WILL NOT SUBMIT TO KNIFE.—Oakland, Jan. 25.—Alfred Walford, whose back was broken by a fall at Boole's shipyard two days ago, refused to submit to an operation to-day, and has been taken home by his wife to 1 Simpson place, San Francisco. ' He f{s paralyzed- from the 'hips down, and the doc- tors say his death is certain, Even with an operation, his recovery would be very doubt- ful. ROUBES CLUB TO' ACTION.—Alameda, Jun. 25.—F. W. McCann. a member of the bosrd of directors of the Alameda Advancement Association, spoke before the Central Improve- ment Club last evening and deciared that the Southern Pacific {nfluences had much to do in the little interest taken by the Advancement Assoclation in the Hart and Greenwbod rall- Toad projects. As a result of his talk the {m- provement club "adopted resolutions favoring competition and asking the City Trustees to take prompt ection on the applications for franchises now before them. ANNUAL REPORT OF FIRE CHIEF.— Oakland, Jan. 25.—The annual reports of Chiet N. A. Ball of the Oukland Fire Department and Fire Warden George McDonald show that the total cost of the department for the year was $103,627 81; that 243 alarms were turned in; that the total loss by fire was $40,440 70 and_the totel amount of ipsurance was $48,- 230 70. Chlef Ball rocommends that the water ains throughout the city be enlarged: that & new engine house be’ built on near Twenty-fifth street. and that engine be installed at Golden Gate. —————— RAILROAD EXCITEMENT. FRUITVALE, Jan, 25.—Rumors are filling the air touching movements of the Southern Pacific and the tern Pacific in this suburb way @ ehemical d pany has blocked the new company in the location of a station on the Derby tract morth of the Southern Pacific station at Frul Pacifie tracks. h Western Pacific_control of the Leona Heights branch of the Oskland tion Consolidated. In the nature of things officlals of the various roads nelther confirm nor deny the many storles which are current. e e———— CONTRADICTS OFFICIALS. OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—Otto L. Hasge, charged with presenting fraudulent clalms for { on Fehruary 1. The latest victims are WAKES AS DEATHIALAMEDA NEN | | [E INDORSE CALL Commend,_ Paper for Pub- lishing Suburban News in Its Various Fditions OF BENEFIT TO CITY Advancement Association Urges That Rival® Publi- cations Follow Example R ALAMEDA, Jan. 25.—The policy of The ' Call in publishing the Alameda County news in its entire edition has met with the approbation of the Ala- meda Advancement Assocfation, and Manager John H. Hartog has issued the following letter to the various civic or- 8anizations throughout the county: ALAMEDA, Jan. 24, 1808. Gentlemen: At our last directors’ meeting I was instructed to communicate with you to see if we could not solicit your support in an effort to induce the Chronicle and Examiner to publish thelr page of bay counties news In their entire issue, like The Call does. A great many of those papers go East and_a large number are read by visitors to San Franciseo, and It ls those people whom we should ac- quaint with the existence of our clties on this side of the bay. The people who live here are less interested in this page, as they get thelr local news more fully from their local papers. Will you kindly take this matter up in your organization and let us hear from you? Our idea is that if you and other bodies to WhOm We are addressing this letter could meet and. discuss this matter we might succeed in Dringing enough pressure to bear on the news- VRDErS 1o consent to the request. Yours truly, ALAMBEDA ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION, —_—————— SECRET TOLD AT LUNING LUNCHEON A SRR BY ZOE GREEN RADCLIFFE. + OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—For weeks past Miss Charlotte Elsey has been denying the tender understanding between herself and Charles W. Heatley, with which Dame Grundy has charged hen, but to-day she capitulated and surrendered her secret. It was at Mrs. Oscar Luning’s luncheon in her honor that Miss Elsey acknowledged her engagement, the de- nouement heing accomplished by means of the silver slipper that lay at each plate. Tucked Within the toe of each dainty souvenir was & card on which two hearts and the mono- &Tams of the happy palr were inscribed. The engagement of Miss Elsey and Mr, Heat- ley Is the culmination of u little romance in Which all of the friends of the popular couple have been much ([nterested, every one with any match-making propensities at all—and where is the woman who hasn’t ?—helping to bring about what was unanimously conceded 10 b® & desirable conclusion. Mr. Heatley 1s one of Oakland’s most successful young business men and Is a fine-looking man, in every way worthy to be the husband of one of the most charming society girls in Oakland, Miss Elsey is the daushter of Mrs. A. L, Eisey of this ity and of the late Charles Elsey, a well- known California pioneer. The engagement of his daughter will be interesting news In the northern part of California, where the family 1s well known. > The luncheon over which Mrs. Luning pre- sided to-day was as charming an affair as one could expect of an ideal hostess. Twelve guests sat around the great cifetlar board, brid maid roses tulle and hl?' ribl blending ex- quisitely fn a delighttul, rose-hued picture. Miss Elsey is a daring chauffeur, and in cor pliment to her accomplishment on each name- card was a water color sketch of an automo- bile girl. Several beautiful gowns were in evidence at the luncheon, the dashing little bride-to-be wearing an cxtremely modish ereation of white lace, while the hostess' robe of Irish point, with relleving touches of pink chiffon, was & “'perfect dream” of a gown. Miss Mabel Reed, whose own trousseau is being made for a pretty June ceremony, was also the wearer of a lovely gown—a delicate pink chiffon. Mre. Luning’s guests to-day were Miss El- sey, Mise Reed, Mrs. Percy Walker, Miss Lil- lian, Breliing, Miss Grace Runyon, Mrs. George A Alexander, Mrs. W, A. Schrock, Mra. George E. Perkins, 'Mrs John Connors, Mrs. Bruce Barnett and Miss .Anlt.l Thomson. Fred Dieckmann has gone to Georgia to be- come a benedict, his marriage to Miss Marie Hopps to_be a brilliant eociety event in Sava: nah on Jenuery 31. Miss Hopps, who made many warm friends during her visit to Miss de Golia last winter, belongs to an aristocratic Southern famlily, and several hundred guests are to participate in the nuptial event. When My Dieckmann returns with his bride {hey will reside n the Lakeside district, where e has aiready secured a residence. . . W. W. Standeford and Mr. and Mrs. Shargn were passengers on the Slerra bound for Honolulu. A large crowd of were at the wharf to bid them bon SUICIDE WILLS HIS BODY TO SCIENCE NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—While a celebra- tion was taking place in the new dining- room of the Colonial Hotel at Eighth ave- nue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street on Tuesday night John T. Jackson, 50 years old, member of a prominent Lan- cashire family in England, wrote a fare- well letter, wrapped a comforter around his body, drank cyanide of potesium and lay down to die. Jackson had been a sufferer from locomotor ataxla for eight years and had once been partially cured, When he saw that the old malady had re- turned and he-was in constant pain he de- clded to die. \ In his letter, Jackson saild he hoped his wighes would be carried out and directed that his body be taken to Bellevue Hos- pital and there devoted to science. He was anxious, he wrote, that the physi- elans who had been kirjd to him in that in- stitution two years ago, when he was suf- fering from pneumonia, should benefit by his death, “I have suffered for nearly eight years with locomotor atax:a,” he wrote. “Six years ago I was told that T had nine months to live. Now I am going to com- mit suiclde, for my life is a burden. I may say that humanity is not kind.” Jackson wrote further that he hoped that his body might assist in some way ‘The story runs that the old com- | toward L.e discovery of a cure for loco- motor ataxfa. He sald he had been all over the world and had seen everything v report runs that the Western | WOTth seeing. e ierner weap miose® | TOMPKINS LOPS OFF THREE MORE HEADS SAN QUENTIN, Jan. 25.— An even dozen officlai heads have been lopped off by Warden Tompkins since he re- ceived notice that he would be relleved stationery to the Board of Supervisors, took | Guards Joseph V. Chiles, F. E. Arm- stand in bis own defense to-day. Hasse Ittedhl“fl‘wm” and on the bills, but stated they were errors Were the ent by ity Sur- ent ot h“rew- never proved bills in the condition in which they ol T O the adm £ e r, County Superintend, hocls Crawford, County Tveasurer o thelr deputies, Who SWore they &D] has gone for further hear- UNDERGROUND WIRES. e | State Drury Melone, ! strong and Drury Melone Reynolds. Armstrong {s from Uklah and was a member of the death watch. Reynolds, who is a nephew of ex-Secretary' of beén em- ployed at the prison off and on for the last fifteen years. ASKS FOR A RECEIVER. OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—Charging that both | the Home Bullders' Bond and Trust Company and the Federal Realty Company are tnsolvent, ¢ Morgan has broug) action ask- o “bebait of the. that the funds of the Home &m'- tion have been diverted to those of the Fed- that gl-wmuu‘a m"‘%’n be ABO FOR SANTA FE Reveals Plan for Freight Terminal at the West End U |OAKLAND DEPOT “C0-£05" A " THE BAY NNOT [FINIGANS TELL HINE IN PLAY FAMILY SECRETS Visit of Railroad Officials Mask and Dagger Society!San Rafael Judge Hears Annual Show Fails to W:in Approval of Authorities — From Witnesses How Cap- italist and Wife Disagreed ROUTE IS KEPT SECRET|THEY'RE NOT ON LIST|DAUGHTER ON STAND Company Will Only Say That | Executive Committee Issues|Millionaire Is Said to Have tation Will Be Close to Twenty-Second Street SRR T OAKLAND, Jan, 2.—A number of the general officials of the Santa Fe Rallroad, who are making a tour of in- spection of the road west of Chicago, have arrived in Oakland, and their com- ing has revealed the fact that it is the intention of the company to erect a freight depot in this city in the near fu- jture. The members of the party, which is to remain here for several days, are Trafic Manager J. E. Gorman, General Superintendent I. L. Hibbard, General Freight Agent W. G. Barnwell, Superin- tendent of Power A. Lovell, Master Me- chanic S. L. Bean, and Division Superin- tendent J. W. Walker. The visiting officials arrived in a spe- clal train, one of the finest ever seen in this city, and while deciaring that they were simply making a tour of inspection | of the road, verified thereport that it is the Intention of the company to erect & freight depot in Oakland. They refused to make known the proposed route of the road, but said that the new depot would be built near Twenty-second street, and not far from the water front. The new depot will be used simply for Oakland business, and all San Francisco freight will continue to be handled at Point Richmond. Emeryville will con- tinue to be used as the passenger ter- minal of the road. TEsgealios FAVOR THE NEW ROAD. Builat Trades Council of Alameda Indorses the Western Pacific. OAKLAND, Jan. 25. — The Building Trades Council of Alameda County has adopted resolutions favoring the West- ern Pacific Rallway Company, which read as follows: ‘Whereas, The most important question that can engage the attention of any community in this busy age of commerce Is that of trans- portation and quick communication with the rest of the world, ‘as thereupon depends its standing as & business center and the pros- perity of lts citizens Dy making possible the establishment and maintenance of factories, mills and those bueiness enterprises which go 10 bufld up a prosperous and important busi- ness city; and Wheres The citizens of Oukland, Alameds and Berkeley so happily placed on the shores of our magnificent bay as to give them the best possible advantage in & great and growing commerce from the seaward side, should, in the logical sequence of events, grow into a great metropolis and center of trade, which can never result without facilities for easy and quick communication with every part of our State and the entire country; and ‘Whereas, The monopoly now existing in raflroad transportation hes driven to other and less advantageous localitles the business which shouid be done here, by the establishment and maintenance of high and almost prohibitory" rates, thus retarding the growth of our com- munity and sidetracking us from the commerce of the world; and Whereas, The prospect of a competing trans- continental rafiroad entering tbe city of Oak- land and connecting us with the rest of our country and the’ Atlantic seaboard has beconie an assured fact, although meeting the opposi- tion of intcrests already Intrenched and that through force of habit feel that they own the entire city and State, has encouraged our citi- zens and brought to them a realization of the great possibliities of our community; be it therefore Resolved, That the Building Trades Council of Alameda County, in regular meeting assem- bled, and having the best interests of our peo- ple At heart, welcomes the advent into Oakland of the Western Pacific Rallroad, feeling that it marks the beginning of & new era of prosperity for the people of our entire State and our own community in particular; and, be it further Resolved, That we pledge’ our every effort to ald in overcoming the opposition offered to. the building of this railroad by those who are already feeling the loss of the monopoly of the transportation business which they have so long held and abused; and, be it further Resolved, That this Building Trades Coun- cll, representing that I portion of our peo- plé interested in the building industry, does pe- titton the honorable Secretary of War, W. H. Taft, to grant to the, Western Pacific Railrcad such whart facilities and right of way over the public lands as may be necessary to the es- tablishment of the said Western Pacific Rail- road. Golden Gate Division No. 364, Order of Railway Conductors, has adopted resolutlons welcoming the Western Pa- cific to Oakland, but objecting to what the resolutiows declare are unjust and impracticable plans of the Gould engi- neers for crossing the Southern Pacific company's property. The resolutions are aimed principally at the proposed method of crossing the Peralta street ygrds at grade. In this connection E. L. Bair, chairman of the committee on resolutions, explained: ‘We belleve that if the Western Pacific in- sists on crossing the Southern Pacific yards they should go overhead or underneath, well knowing that it grade crossings are allowed and accidents occur through the failure of in- terlocking _ plants to work . satisfactorily the men who grant the franchise or the City Council will not be arraigned and held respon- sible for these wrecks, but we, as employes, will be censured. McLAURIN DISCUSSES BOYCOTT IN ORIENT WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—“The people of California are just as fanatical on the subject of Chinamen as the people of South Carolina are on the subject of the colored man,” emphatically declared former ex-Senator McLaurin of South Carolina in addressing the Senate Com- mittee on Commerce to-day. “It is absolutely impossiple,” said he, “that the Department of Commerce, head- i | Statement Showing What Activities Are Permissible e . BERKELEY, Jan. 25.—The exgcutive committee of Associated Students is- sued to-day a list of student activities to which its formal sanction is given, the list constituting soclal, dramatle, musical and athletic affairs that it permissible for students to engage In during the current term. The Mask and Dagger Dramatic Society, a “co-ed” or- ganization, finds that its customary play s not included in the lst of per- missible activities. The executive committee was empow- ered at the by devise a list of affairs, for student par- ticlpation, it being declared then that the need for such supervision was evi- dent when it was known that many bright students had falled to graduate, the term before, because of devotion te sudent activities rather than to studies. The list of approved events this term is as follows: February—Friday, 3, senior assembly, Hearst Hall; Priday, 9, sophomore hop, Harmon gym- nesium: Friday, 9, Y. W. C. A. banquet; Fri- day, 16, University Assembly, Hearst Hall; Th Y. women's. ., Hearst Hall: Thursday. 22, colonial ball, Hearst Hall; Satur- day, 24, Carnot debate, Harmon um; Tuesday, 27, sports and pasumes, Hearst Hall. Friday, 16, sophomore buripsque riday, 23, Tredle Clef Club (pven- day; ‘Satucaay, 31, freshman track California.) A, and Y. W. A. banquets: 'Saturday, 7, intercollegiate baseball game, Stanford vs. California; Sat- urday, 14, college of commerce banquet; Tues- day, 17 Skull and Keys play; Friday, 11, mill- tary ball, Hearst Hall; Saturday, 21, Intercoi- leglate track meet, Stanford vs. California; Friday, 27, second senior assembly; Saturday, 28, intercollegiate regatta, Stanford vs. Cali- fornia (afternoon); Saturday, 28, intercollegiate debate; Monday, 30, Associated Women Stu- dents (open house). May—Final examinations begin April 27 and end May 10. Senior week begins Monday, May 14. nur:umh, senior extravaganza; 15th, senior ball; 16ih, commencement. The dictum of the executive commlt- tee of the Assoclated Students regard- ing these matters is treated lightly by the college daily, the Californian, which to<day editorially says: The executive committee of the Associated Students has just issued a list of events that the undergraduates may hold during the pres- ent semester. The announcement furtheg con- tains the information that no event not sanc- tioned by the committee will be allowed by the students. We thought that this farce came to an end at the close of the fall term. Is it possible that the men who control the destinies of the student body bave nothing to do but jest at the expense of their constituents? The members of the executive committee know well that the list that was drawn up last term had absolutely no effect on student activities: t eve ofttouk place without the sanction of ecutive committee, and that the latter body made no attempt to enforce the proposition that no function could take place without their sanction. What's the use of making a law that 1o one will obey? What's the use of Y m. a rule‘that everybody jests o hen the executive committ: power to punish the scoffers? We remembe: that last ferm the seniors gave a smoker. It was not in the list of allowed events. Who cared? Everybody went. No one thought of the executive committee. Why didn't the exec- utive committee stop the affair? It was ad- vertised for weeks ahead. It is a waste of time and of paper to draw up a list of favored events. No one pays attention to them. They are of no force. We publish them in order that the undergraduates may get an idea of a portion of the events that are scheduled for the pring term. The list s not complete, by no means complet CHANGE IN CONTROL OF STEAMSHIP LINE NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—The secretary of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company announced to-day that the company had acquired the interest of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company in the Ori- ent-Pacific line to Australia. The service in the future will be known as the Orient Royal Mail Line. Hitherto the Orient-Pacific line business has been done jointly by the Orient Steamship Company, with six vessels, and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, with four vessels. It is the stéamships of the‘latter company, together with all interests and good will, that the Royal Mail has acquired. The deal does not involve the South American business of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company from Liverpool. LANE MAY YET GET POST ON COMMISSIO —_— ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The nomi- nation of Franklin K. Lane of Califor- nia to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission will be held up by the Senate until the entire question of railroad rate regulation is settled. If the membership of the commission is increased from five to seven or nine membes Lane will be confirmed. Otherwise an adverse report will be made. The nmlntman\ of Lane to succeed ex-Governor Fifer of Tilinois trans- formed the commission into a Demo- cratic instead of a Republican body. ‘Three members would be Democrats after the confirmation of Lane. This proved extremely distasteful to the Re- publican Senators. They believe that ed by a man from California, should be | If governmental regulation of railroad able to deal intelligently and satistactorily « with the series of commerelal questions involved in our relations to China.” McLaurin was talking to the commit- tee as spokesman of the representatives of the cotton growing industry in favor of the bill providing for the appointment of a commission to Investigate conditlons in the China export cotton trade. McLaurin discussed the Chinese boycott blem and declared it should be hand- by commercial rather than political agencles. Ry e MINE WORKERS TO DECIDE FOR PEACE OR WAR TO-DAY L —_— o INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 25.°On the mc- tion of the United Mine Workers' Convention this morning ml}h m m?:a ‘welfare of The ton Tave o O rates were to be made effective it should be done by a Republican com- mission. SAN DIEGO SHOWS SHE IS ENTERPRISING SAN DIEGO. Jan. 25.—San Diego busi- i nning of last term to | Given Spouse $1 “Onee in a While” to Purchase Fool Special Dispatch to The Call SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 25.—The trial of the Finigan divorce sult was resumed this morning before Judge Thomas J Lennon. Misses Maude and Marie Fini- gan, daughters of Colonel Finigan Ly a former wife, were present in eourt fhis afterncon, the former taking the wit- ness stand in behalf of her parent Tha point that the court has no jurisdictio: which was raised by the defense whel it asked to have the case transferred from San Francisco to this county on the ground that the plaintiff had not been a resident of San Francised> the required three months, is giving the prosecution some difficulty. According to the testimony the Fini- gans moved over to San Rafael during the latter part of 1396. with the inten- tion of making this their home. They had their family trouble here and Mrs. Finigan went to San Francisco, where she instituted a suit within a moenth after her departure. The defense has thrown upon the prosecution the bur- den of proving jurisdiction. The question of residence was gone into very deeply this afternoon. Mrs. Spotts, a relative of Mrs. Fini- gan, took the witness stand for the prosecution to-day, and was subjected t0 a severe cross-examination by At+ torney James P. Sweeney for the de- fense. She had testified that she had seen the defendant shake his fist un- der his wife’s nose, and heard him use violent language at the California- street home. During her redirect ex- amination it was brought out that the colonel would occasionally leave a dol- lar on the kitchen table for his wife to spend for meat, vegetables and other foodstuffs for the family. She also testified that she pawned a diamond for Mrs. Finigan. Mrs. Finigan was placed on the stand agaln for cross-examination. ated that while at Del Monte she h: been frequently Insulted by the colonel Once while seated in the dining-room with Mrs. Eleanor Martin and others the colonel became very abusive and left the table in anger. One night, she said, they had a row at midnight, and Finigan went out to get Judge aor- row to draw up divorce papers. He ralsed another row at Del Monte because she sang when he was absent and because shie danced. He packed up in a rage and left Del Monte the next morning. That evening while she was talking to a. she refused Miss Mynnis Boyseén, testified that her sister passed a very unhappy married life. ‘The prosecution then rested and Miss Maude Finigan i her fatn- er's behalf. She said she and the other daughters were ry fond of their stepmother and were always on friend- ly terms with her. She denied ever hearing that her father was harsh or used profane language to his wife. She declared that neither she nor her sister interfered whenéver there was any dis- agreement between the parents. She had never heard her father accuse her stepmother of cutting his daughter out. Neither was she aware of Mrs. Fini- gan acting improperly on any oceasio:. The only time, she sald, she noticed her father was jealous was when his wite, who was very frank and outspoken her conversations with him, would t of the extraordinary attention being paid to her. She considered that there was nothing wrong dome when Mrs. Finigan chaperoned a party to the bowling alley, indulging in Weish Fare- bit and returned to their rooms in th- Hotel Rafael shortly after midnigh: 8he heard her father say to his wife “When you are out as late as this you should come in quietly.” The witness said Mrs. Finigan ler: her husband’s room and spent the nigh: with Miss Marie Finigan. Next day she left against their wishes and went to her parent’s home in n Francisco. Her daughters tried to induce her to return home, but she refused and In- stituted divorce proceedings in san Francisco. On cross-examination by Attorney Dorsey an effort was made to show that San Rafael was a temporary home, their real residence being San’ Francisco, but the witness was positive San Rafael was her father's home. —— WANTS HIS STOCK. Jan. 25. —Onkland, h— Suit was b © J. B. - — rough! to-d.‘y‘lw B. Hays against —_————— LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—Mrs. Ella Quil- was found dead in her hot room in San Julian . She had committed su - cide by ing carbolic acid. The woman's the several days ago and NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. What Hunyadi Janes Is The Origin of the Name fn Hungary, in the 15tn . tho:rnved a wonderful e v