The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1906, Page 5

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Co, 1 Montgomery San Fran 3 California SGURES!CKHEADAGHR Genuine Must Bear Fao-Simile Signature X CARTER ITTLE IVER PILLS. {HE SAN FRANCISGCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 190v. ~ GIRL, THEN HIS OWN. 'Mother’s Rescue of . Daughter Leads | to Tragedy. 'Bartender Enraged ' When He Is to Be Deserted. Josie Labat Meets Death With E. A. Coley. PIIE e A ce hall habitue, as she lay n bed yesterday morning, and ng the pistol on himself, blew out his brains. The tragedy oc- ed on the third floor of the Grand ific Hotel, 1014 Pacific street. ley, who was formerly a sergeant e Coast Artilley, ed in the Haymar d He has woman er intimate been for several s extremely jealous of the girl'’s mother came to take her home. | s he flew into egan to drink hea: en he was leaving the da Well, good-t good- e hall , everybody.” one t,” some baby girl to return to the parental insisted Col I say, good-by of the place mutte went to the girl's room braided her for her deter leave him i zle of pulled Nelson still entered gasping a 8 His record in the army ellent one. The woman was a Clara paper- ars old. She has the dance halls for an ex daughter of a nger. S frequenting over a year PAXTON MAKES OATH THAT HE IS A PAUPER| Says Everything He Had in| the World Is Now Worthless. According to his own admissions In vits flled yesterday in Presiding Graham's court by Blitz W. Pax- puted capitalist of Sonoma, mis- has pursued him like a pestilence nce he deserted his first wife and lind son and invalid daughter years ago to enjoy a trip to Europe on the in- come of fortune. At that day Paxton was a leader of society, and wealth en- abled him to maintaln an enviable posi- tion In the swagger set. 0-day he gays under oath that he is a pauper, and he asks that Judge Graham set aside the order directing him to pay his son, John W., and his daughter, Roma, $350 each to enable them to defend the appeal he has taken to the Supreme Court from the order directing him to pay each of them $50 a month for their maintenance. This sum, he says, he is absolutely unable to pay, for the reason that he possesses nothing In this world upon which he can raise a dollar, being as poor as a mendicant in the street. Continuing his affidavits, Paxton says that all of the stock he owns has either depreciated in value until no one would pay a cent for it, or it is pledged for all it is worth. Further, he asserts that be- fore his mother’s death she advanced him within & few dollars of all his interest in her estate is worth, and that his brother, Charles E. Paxton, says that he owes his mother’s estate a full $100,000, and purposes taking action to see that his assertion is judicially affirmed. And then, continues Paxton, a blight has fallen on his one remaining asset, Madrona Knoll, the Sonoma County vine- yard, that was long looked upon as one »f California’s most valuable properties. Madrona Knoll, says Paxton, has beeh invaded by the dread phylloxera, and all of the vines, that used to mean a large income to him, have been destroyed. He | further says that the winemaking ma- chinery at Madrona Knoll has depreciated in value until it is not worth one-half that was paid for it, and its value is dally growing less through inaction, as the | grapes that once passed through it by the ton no longer ripen, and woe is on all the land. C. W. Weaver of Sonoma corroborated Paxton’s aseertion that the phylloxera has destroyed the vines at Madrona Knoll, and he says that the property is not worth more than $35,000 at the out- side, and but a small portion of the place is owned by Paxton himself. Next Fri- day Judge Graham will pass judgment in the case. ——————— Police Commissioners Meet. | At a meeting of the Board of Police | Commissioners, held last evening in | the Hall of Justice, Policeman Oliver | P. Beggs was placed on trial for a | ebt of $130, due M. C. Lasky. a money lender. It appeared from the testimony | that Beggs had borrowed money from Lasky since July 1, 1803, and that, on October 31 of last year, he had given a promissory note to his creditor for $130. Since that time Beggs has ap- pealed for relief to the bankruptcy court and the Commissioners will ren- der a decision In the case on mnext meeting night. Several restaurant proprietors were charged with having sold liquor without meals, but as it was proved that they acted in good faith and believed the purchasers de- sired meals with the liquor the charges against them were dismissed. ———————— Travels der False Pretenses. A well-dressed young man has been | going the rounds of the city recently | soliciting help for the family of a | switchman named McArdle. who. he | represents, was injured in a raflroad | accident. The man presents a card of | identification purporting to come from | a Mr. Mills of the United Brotherhood | of Raflway Employes. Secretary Jo-, |speh Murray of that brotherhood | knows nothing of the solicitor and | nothing of the McArdle family. er their | ¥ Mother love had triumphed and Josie Labat was resolved to quit the wvile life of the dance halls along Pacific street. mother, weighted with age and sorrow, had come to plead with her From San Jose the sweet roof. But Elbert A. Coley, with whom the girl had lived, loved her,he said, and he murdered her and then dispatched his own miserable life when he learned she was about to Ieave him. BN YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS MURDERED YESTERDAY BY E. A. COLEY, A |- BARTENDER WITH WHOM SHE HAD BEEN LIVING, BECAUSE SHE HAD DETERMINED TO RETURN TO HER MOTHER. SEES ESTIMATES VALUE OF SPRI VALLEY WORKS City Engineer Says the Plant of the Water Company Is Worth $25,450,327. City Engineer Woodward filed yes- terday with the board of Supervisors an estimate of the value of the plant’| of the Spring Valley Water Company, | which he fixes at $25.450,327. The seg- regated items follo Peninsula system—Pilarcitos system, $1,228,660; San Andreas system, includ- ing Locks Creek aqueduct and Ocean View pumps, $2,407,944; Crystal Springs | eystem, $5,280,019; Millbrae pumping | station, $296,580; water rights, $720,00 Colma right of way, $27,943; total, pe- ninsula system, —$9,961,146. Alameda Creek system—Alameda main pipe line, Belmont pumping station, works on Laguna Creek property, Sunol filter beds, Sunol aqueduct, lands, water rights, etc., $5,155,081. City distributing system—Office, lot and building, $6,- 676,121; Lake Merced lands pumping plant, $750,000; drainage works, etc., $2,703,979; miscellaneous propertles, material on hand, etc. $205,000; total, $25,450,327. —_———— POSTAL CLERKS' BALL.—The annual ball under the auspices of the postal clerks will take place at Golden Gate Hall next Friday cvening. Arrangements for the affair have been completed by the executive committce. BEGINS INQUIRY TO ASCERTAIN . WATER RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR | Committee of the Board of Supervisors Recelves Report of Spring Valley’s Recelpts and Disbursements. Secretary P. W. Ames and Chief Clerk G. E. Booker of the Spring Val+ ley Water Company appeared last night before the Water Rate Committee of the Board of Supervisors at the City Hall and testified regarding the earn- ings and expenditures of the company. The Investigation was conducted by | Supervisor Gallagher on behalf of the committee in the endeavor to fix a just rate for the fiscal year ending .June 30, 1907. The hearing will be continued next Monday night at 8 o'clock. —————— Vertical Filing Cabinet. You can file fifty thousand letters in & space sixteen by twenty-eight inches—if you use a Shaw-Walker Vertical Lateral Filing Cabinet The greatest economiser of office space made. Neat, snux and solid. We'll be glad to ex- plain. - Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. * em e Teamster Throwa From Wagon. Joseph McSwegan, a teamster, resid- ing at 1170 Harrison street, was severe- ly injured yesterday afternoon at Sec- ond and Folsom streets when his team collided with another truck. He was treated at the Central Emergency Hos- pital. Teddy B and Teddy G “The Roosevelt Bears”’ The rope was cut and up they flew, Beyond the clouds and The crowd went home Of the jolly bears and away from view. and talked for days their funny ways, Of the tricks they played on the village green And the stories told of Folks watched the sky things they’d seen. both noon and night; The balloon was not again in sight. The Bears at a County Fair To-Morrow . Sunday Call PLACE YOUR ORDER TO-DAY. IN LEGAL WAR Arguments .fqr Injunetions Come to Close, but Judge Morrow Reserves Decision EXCITEMENT PROMISED Rival Lines Will Probably Resume Active Hostility When Judgment Is Given The arguments in the railroad case came to an end yesterday morning. Judge | Morrow, however, will not be ready to announce his decisivn inside of ten days or two weeks. The decision will be on the question of granting temporary injunctions, asked by both the Southern Pacific and the West- ern Pacific against the other, and pre- venting the carrying on of work upon the disputed strip north of the norih training wall of San Antonio Creek. The trial to decide permanently the claims of the two companies will come up later, probably not before two or three months. As Judge Morrow’s decision upon tempo- rary injunctions “during trial” is apt to be appealed by one or the other of the contestants, there is every promise of nice, long, mixed-up litigation. Between the announcement of Judge Morrow’s decision and the taking of an appeal, however, there will be a short space of time which may prove packed with excitement. Whichever rallroad gains the decision will doubtless make a strenuous attempt to strengthen its po- sition between legal rounds, and probably both are at present preparing or pre- pared for the contingeney. For instance, if the Southern Pacific should be dented injunction against its rival, it would be an obvious move of the latter to jump upon the disputed strip with a thousand men and lay as many tracks and con- struct as many edifices as possible while the Harriman attorneys were rushing to the Circuit Court of Appeals to file an appeal and obtain a new temporary re- straining order. The vice versa would occur should it be the Western Pacific injunction that is dented, and both companies are probably at present massing their forces for the brief but vigorous fray. It was Judge John Garber who, for the Southern Pacific, closed the arguments in court yesterday. He dwelt mainly upon an exposition of the nature of the grant by which the Southern Pacific owns the tide lands, seeking to prove that right of access to deep water was an easement going with these lands. When he had finished Judge Morrow said a few words in appreciation of the excellence of the cases presented by both sides, and an- nounced that he would not give his de- cision till he had studied the arguments, which are to be printed. F. W. M. Cutcheon, counsel for the Western Pacific, left for his home in New York yesterday, and Joel Valle, his asso- clate, leaves for Denver this morning. SCAVENGER WAGONS WILL BE MEASURED Supervisors’ Committée Acts on Complaint Against San- itary Reduction Works. The Supervisors' Health Committee yes- terday considered the complaint of the Scavengers’ Union that the Sanitary Re- duction Works is unable to handle the garbage brought to the crematory and | that the accumulation of refuse is a men- ace to public health in the locality. C. L. Tilden, president of the corpora- tion, denied that there had been a strike among the employes; and sald that more men would be put on so that the conges- tion of scavenger wagons would be re- lleved by Sunday next. Bupervisor Lonergan, chairman of the committee, asked some pointed questions relative to low wages and long hours of the laborers, twenty of whom had quit work, to all of which Tilden gave evasive replies. Lonergan sald the committee had made a personal Investigation of conditions at the crematory and ascertained that the complaint of the scavengers was well founded as to the overcharges made for burning garbage. Lonergan told of one man who was charged $1 4 and his load of garbage measured four and a half cu- bic yards, which at the legal rate wuld cost but % cents to burn. Lonergan said there were 100 garbage wagons standing in line on Sunday last. The committee decided to recommend the passage of an ordinace prescribing the manner of ascertaining the amount to be collected for the incineration of garbage and placing the supervision of the measurement of the capacity of garbage wagons in the hands of the City En- gineer. The ordinance provides that every wagon shall have prominently at- tached thereto a metallic rod which shall have engraved on one side thereof the graduated capacity of the wagon. A charge of $3 is to be made for the official measuring of the wagon, and any vio- lation of the ordinance is made a misde- meanor. The committee decided to take formal action on the ordinance next Fri- day afternoon. — e FAKE CITIZEN RELEASED FROM CELL IN THE COUNTY JAIL Hans Morthensen, Mariner, Swears That He Is Umable to Pay a $300 Fime. Hans Morthensen, after having been imprisoned in the County Jail for thirty days, was discharged yesterday by United States Commissioner Heacock. Morthensen had pleaded guilty of hav- ing used a fraudulently acquired certifi- cate of naturalization for the purpose of obtalning a sea-going license from the United States Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels. - He was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 or to be imprisoned in the County Jail until the fine should be paid—all of which is a pleasant legal fiction, for under the Federal law a defendant having served thirty days of such imprisonment may be released upon his making oath that he is un- able to pay the filne. Morthensen did this yesterday and made a bee line for the water front. PENNSYLVANIA SWEPT BY A SEVERE STORM Snow Falls to a Depth of Two Feet in Places. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.—The snow- storm which prevailed last night and to- day throughout the eastern portion of Pennsylvania was the heaviest of the winter. In the mountain regions from fif- teen inches to two feet of snow was re- ported. Railroad traffic was considerably delayed during the early hours of the day, but to-night the situation was so much improved that there was little or no delay reported. A large number of collieries in the an- thracite region were unable to operate because of the scarcity of cars and the inability of sufficient men to reach the mines. urn ‘ l EVER OFF.RED AT few specimen clearance redu TABLE Weathered Oak, leaves. LIBRARY TABLE Mahogany, feet in length. with Dutch Oak, highly drawers, cast brass pulls. TEA TABLE Selected quartered Oak, tilting top, with rim. LADIES’ DESK Mission style, solidly constructed. BOOK RACK very dainty. Solid Oak, carved bevel by & Annual Cle eet. Portieres, Sofa Pili earliest convenience. Many of our floors. NEW itur k. THE BIGGEST VALUES WE HAVE A CLEARANCE SALE Thesé values should be seen to be appreciated—note these ctions: ENGLISH BREAKFAST folding beautifully carved, § DOUBLt==-DESK TABLE carved, 10 dainty weathered Oak, Inlaid Mahogany, fretwork ends, 6=-FOOT SIDEBOARD anels, French late mirror in back, 2 feet arance Sale Also embraces special offerings in all departments: Carpets, Oriental Rugs, Lace Curtains, ows Specially good values which we urge you to inspect at your the choicest productions still on W. & J. Sloane & Co. YORK 114-122 POST STREET SAN FRANCISCO MANY ADTOISTS IRE ARRESTED The park police, under the direction of Captain Gleason, began a rigid enforce- ment last night of the laws regarding automobiling in the park. Fifteen merry parties that were speeding along in their automobiles In the moonlight were stern- 1y hailed by bluecoats and escorted to the Park police station, where they were held until bail arrived. One machine traveled too fast, some forgot the rear lights, and others were on the main boulevard, which is denied the drivers of benzine buggies after & o'clock. Before 8 o'clock the Park sta- tion looked like a garage, and still they came. Charles J. Keenan was taken in for at- | tempting to smash records unofficially; Dr, Frederick Butterfield, Arthur B. Ca- hill, Monte C. Fink, J. A. Sampson, James Green and Louis Huffsmith were arrested because they displayed no rear light; Alexander Bond, Cleveland Cummins and James Green, chauffeur for M. H. de Young, were taken into custody for being in prohibited sections of the park. Later in the night Samuel Richstener and Ralph Brown were taken in for not having license numbers displayed on their machines. A. B. Hunter, M. Marble, Mat Leary ad W. H. Eddy also fell into the arms of the law, failure to display the lights required being their offense. Complaints have been frequent of late that the autoists were disregarding the ordinances and Captain Gleason ordered the “raid.” Te head of the Park station is determined that the auto people shall conform to the ordinances when they come into his digtrict. WOMAN LOSES EYE IN SALOON FIGHT Mrs. Annie A. Cohen Has Mrs. Jessie Merritt Ar- rested for Mayhem. Mrs. Jessia Merritt, who has a lodging- house at 114 Sixth street, was arrested yesterday morning by Detectives Bell and Whitaker on a warrant from Police Judge Conlan’s court charging her with may- hem. She was released on $100 cash bdail. The complaining witness is Mrs. Annie A. Cohen, wife of a musician, formerly of this city, but now living in Sacramento. Mrs. Cohen came to the city on a visit and about 3 o’clock last Tuesday morning she was in a liquor store at 139 Sixth street with Mrs. Merritt's son, who Is 13 years of age. Some one told Mrs. Merritt where her son was and she hurried to the liquor store.. She ordered her son to go home and told Mrs. Cohen she ought to be ashamed of herself to be drinking with a boy at that hour of the morning. The boy refused to go home and his mother, who is a buxom woman, knocked him down. Mrs. Cohen, it is sald, Interfered to- protect the boy and Mrs. Merritt struck her on the face. Mrs. Cohen wears eyeglasses and the blow broke them, a plece of the glass penetrating Mrs. Cohen's left eye. She has lost the sight of the eye. Mrs. Cohen declares that she was in the lquor store when the boy entered and she was not drinking with him. She did not know whose son he was. Mrs. Cohen's father-in-law is a retired ser- geant of police. —_——————— CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—W broker, filed a voluntary petition ruptey to-day. He scheduled $53,600, assets $140. His princi on a number of grain transac aggregate $50,000. m Hooten, a grain n bank- Habiltties of 2754 Miles ® F.FX.L. modations for travelers. of comfort lovers. Take tfie Crnia Limited San Francisco hicago No other train crosses the continent with such luxurious accom- It is the best in the West and the choice See the GRAND CANYON on your way East. FRED W. PRINCE, City Ticket Agent, 653 Market St., San Francisco, Cal