The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1906, Page 16

16 BETRAYS CLERC IND WORSHIPERS Man With Numerous Aliases | Simulates Fits While at Service in the Churches GULLS THE ME DICAL MEN | So Well Is Schemer Under THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1906. FREE LUNCH PATRONS HOARD FOR HER AGED FOLK MAYOR T0 CAL COMPLAIN OF DOG. Animal’s Owner Insists That It Be Given Right of Way 1o Sample Dainties. Teutonic Bartender, Upholds Code of However, Resolutely Table Etiquette. BY JAMES C. CRAWFORD. Control of Himself That| whue the midday luncheon in the sa-, Mogan there was no appearance of the He Experts | Deceives R ing the names Watkins and | een playing upon | a umber of | rs of congregations we righttul name | | . novel plan of has occu- | upon re rmed and i to his woe which has ars and the hos at congregation reduce his suf- Hough for two days, suc hurc ess at decep- Presbyte- apson Memo- urch he fell ab the middle address, which was Rev. J. H. N. Wil- hes. here looked al- who form will from it away one of the pil- | s that the *‘poor to the nearest res- | an oyster stew. him known of is at Dr. Larkir had an experience bodies, and so ' ed epileptic at- dlical man was instantly deception was not dis er religic id to the elbows, his pulse seemed | » something like a nor- the Grace Church had been robbed and his n from him, wihch pre- work as a bricklayer t he was provided with money occasion He was provide ole and cash by a gener- | It is only within the hat the man has been found 1 fraud the kind- | congregations, and notified of the ast week solice were bed as being about 25 years fair or medium fair complex- build, height about five inches. His hands do | | of a man who is en- He dresses fairly Women’s Improvement Clubs. ring the last three days of last v five Chambers of Commerce and three Improvement Clubs in Lake County by | E. Edwords, chief of the Pub- au of the California Promo- | mittee. Lake County is be- | to wake up to the oportunities possibilities of the county and will take every advantage of advertising to | ke known to the world what is there | for the homeseeker and investor. The | nty will be represented at the lec- | res wh h are being given at the Academy of Sciences hall under the spices of the California Promotion ———t——e Matthal Girls Lose Lawsuit. Sug Court decided yesterday Louise and Rose Matthai have no of action against George Ken- because they delayed their appeal rom a Napa County Superior Court sdgment bevond the period allowed | w suit inyolved the owner nedy *hip of some valuable magnesite prop- | erties near the city of Napa. The | Matthai girls had said they would | gue the hance case themselves unless they might come upon an honest pe lawyer. But Clara Foltz appeared for them beforc the Justices. | —————— | { Valentine Candy Boxes. | ¥itting token—a heart-shaped candy- | yox filled with sweets. Haas' Candy stores, Phelan bullding and James | Flood building, 75 | —— i Protest Agninst Interest Rate. Framk Garcia, executor of the estate of Angelina R. Scott, whose property | was valued at $100,000 at her death, | pald to the City Treasurer yesterday under protest tie sum of $250 as the | collateral inheritance tax. Garcia | claims that he should only be charged 7 per cent interest instead of 10. ——— gy Murine Eye Remedy—An Eye Food. | Boothes and Quickly Cures Ailing Eyes. ¢ | starter or.a beer keg. | finger | ing loon at 727 Market street was in process of rapid disappearance, Ed Cody, tall, ar and red-bearded, shouldered his through the rapacious throng sur- rounding the table and introduced to the dainties a French poodle tethered to one of his hands by a rope encircling its neck he «commanded, “Git out o' me wi S - - | i [ [ | | o - = o thrusting aside the regulat boarders. want t' feed dis pup o' mine afore you've aned iverything up.” Then he fell o) c upon the pate de fole gras, frog-legs, | angel cake and other tid-bits, and with his dog he alternated mouthfuls until the platters looked as if they had been tor- nado swept Meantime the ousted lunchers filed in- ignant protest with the presiding bar- -nder, Frank Konow, a stockily-built Teuton, and he responded by en- deavoring to stay Mr. Cody's deyastat- ing hand and maw. ‘This grub,” he explained, “is not in- tended for canine consumption, but for purchasing drinks, indirectly pay for its cost and leave a handsome margin of profit for the house. Unless I err, you have not yet patronized the bar. But even if you now do so, I cannot permit your dog to partake of the luncheon.” Me dog,” retorted Mr. Cody,' gulping | large portion of broiled teal to clear is channel of utterance, “is as good as any of de mugs wot has bin a kickin' t' e an' me an’ him consooms as much o’ dis chuck as we ha’ room for.”* he was arraigned before Police Judge Shortall, the charge being that of battery, Mr. Cody’s head was swathed in bandages and he professed inability to describe the weapon with A which Mr. Konow had assailed him. added, “makes no difference, me wot wuz a-comin’ t' me. I dof’t blame no gent for stickin’ up f'r de etiket o’ his free lunch table. I'm from Fruitvale, but w'en I'm sober I knows dat dogs has no business mixin' wid gents dat is lunchin’. Dis gent gimme mine, an’ I've no kick comin’.” Nor was it to be expected that Mr. Konow would remember whether he wck Mr. Cody’'s head with a bung- “I don’'t know what it was F slugged him with,” said Mr. Konow, “but I didn’t hit him at all till he poked his finger in my mouth.” And of course you could not allow his to remain there permanently?” suggested the court. “Certainly not,” responded Mr. Konow, with alaerity. Then, in view of Mr. Cody’s contrition and his damaged cranium, the complaint against him was dismissed. e f'r he giv James Wilson, an able-bodied pro- fessional mendicant, . was given six months by Judge Mogan for having | orally abused persons who turned down his whining appeals for alms on Kearny street. “I didn’t swear loud enough for them hear me,” he pleaded. “Well, I'll speak loud enough for you to hear me,” was his Honor's preface to the imposing of sentence. ereesy Daniel Casey, butcher, residing in the Mission, declared he was not intoxi- cated when Patrolman Connell arrested him for disturbing the peace by harass- a Chinese passenger on the last car that ran out Valencia street Satur- day night. “What, not drunk and aboard the last car?” exclaimed Judge Cabaniss, incredulously. “My dear sir, you must ve felt awfully lonesome—as I have felt when circumstances over which I had no control compelled me to ride on a last car to my home.” Case dismissed. . . August Huker, keeper of a Sixth street Jlodging house, confined his tipple to lager beer, which may or may not have enabled him to defeat in fistic combat John Parker, his star boarder, who drank whisky only. The gentle- men went to Columbia Square Park to fight, and Mr. Parker was in distress when the policeman arrested both of them for peace disturbance. In pres- ence of Judge Cabaniss they shook hands, promised to neither drink to excess nor engage in fisticuffs again, to @ {and his Honor dismissed him. Pat Enright, whose-horseshoeing es- tablishment Js at 840 Montgomery avenue, was leading an equine at San Francisco and Mason streets when Fred | W. Clark. a business rival, whose shop is at 861 Greenwich street. accused him of having circulated a report that he (Mr. C.) was a habitual imbiber of strong waters. Mr. Enright resented the accusation by battering Mr. Clark, for whic¢h he will be sentenced to-day | by Judge Shortall. Conspicuously displayed on the cor- sage worn by Miss May Kelleher, ac- cused of vagrancy before Judge Con- lan, was a campaign button bearing a counterfeit presentment of the coun- tenance of Mayor Schmitz, and as the prosecuting policeman told his tale she fingered the disk in such a way so as to draw general attention to it. But | when his Honor pronounced her guilty as charged and sentenced her to three ! months’ imprisonment, she plucked off the button, dashed it to the floor and exclaimed: “I suppose if I'd a-been wearing his button he'd a-gimme six months.” Then she expressed, in unprintable phraseology, her opinion of the absent well-wisher who had evidently advised her to wear the political ‘emblem as a possible means of obtaining leniency from the bench. e e Edward Chapman of Alameda was accidentally bumped by the cable car engineered by bert Hembrecht at Market and Kedrny streets, and he gave the gripman into custody on the charge of having: committed battery. But when the case was called before Judge the delectation of human beings who, by | “But that,” he | complainant, and an attorney for the United Railroads suggested that the case be dismissed. “Because,” he explained, “the alleged ibntlery was really an unavoidable ac- cident, and. besides, the complainant lives in Alameda.” “But,” ventured the court, “surely the fact of residence in Alameda does not disqualify to prosecute in San | Francisco?” | “No, no, no,” and “No, no, indeed,” the lawyer blushingly admitted, nor was his blush entirely gone when the | case was dismissed. | s s For disdurbing the peace of an Or- pheum audience Sunday night George Meads, a house painter from Oakland, was fined $5 by Judge Cabaniss. Mr. Meads had evidently been dining when he entered the theater with a [young woman and loudly ‘“roasted” | the busy usher who had hastily, but courteously, directed him to the seats called for by his ticket coupoas, and then he addressed as “a big stiff” and | threatened to batter a mild-mannered bystander who requested him to make less noise. But ere he could put the threat into executfon he was grasped by the mighty right hand of Special Officer “Jack” McCabe, hoisted aloft end thus conveyed to the sidewalk, | where he was set down right side up {End advised to go away. Instead of accepting that wholesome counsel, however, he uttered wicked epithets and otherwise provoked the arrest that | followed. i The young woman stayed and saw | the show. | . . . Charles Haggen and Patrick Hines, |carmen, sat down to eat in Nick | Madas’ restaurant, 345 Sixth street, {and while Charles recklessly ordered oysters and bottled ale Patrick prac- i ticed gastronomical safety by calling for ham and eggs. Ere he had gulped the first ‘bivalve Charles regretted that he, too, had not adheréd to plain fare. “Das oystare,” he remarked, holding forth for Patrick’s optical and olfac- tory = investigation a rather sickly looking substance, “may hay ban goad before et died, bot ay tank das was al loang tame aygo.” “Quit beefin’ an’ be a sport,” Patrick | responded, masticating with relish his own viands. “How can Ay bay ‘ay spoart?” Charles asked, as he shiveringly re- | turned the oyster to the plate. “Kick down th' bloomin’ place,” promptly replied Patrick, “an’ teach this dago not to serve oysters that ought to have been {in their grave months ago.” “Ay wull yoost doe ate,” quoth Charles. And he did. When the policeman rushed in he found himself in the midst of a mass of wreckage, and both Charles and Patrick were augment- ing it as rapidly as they could smash furniture. Charles preferred forfeiting his bail to appearing before Judge Conlan, but Patrick was there and opined that his erstwhile companion was prostrate as a consequence of having swallowed the single oyster. Patrick then agreed to see to it that the restaurateur would be paid for the breakage and ne was dismissed. . . . Harrison Porter, aetat about 20, was buggy riding with a young man and two young women, and almost drove the ve- hicle over Patrolman Dougherty at Twenty-fourth and Folsom streets. Mr. Porter was the only member of the quar- tet who falled to elude arrest, and Judge Mogan dismissed him with a severe repri- mand. “The speeding of horses and buggies on Sunday along this city’s thoroughfares is a relic of hoodlumism’s heyday that must be discouraged,” said his Hopnor. “It is as obsolete as the bell-bottomed trousers, puffed and ofled hair and stiff- brimmed hat- worn by the youth who handled the ribbons and held the admira- tion of jthe girl by his side. Mr. Porter, your Sabbath recreation was about a score of ‘years behind the fashion. Go home and study how to be up to date.” . s e “Doctor J. G. Fitzgibbon — For God's sake keep your office Lalfway clean,” was the missive, signed ‘Janitor,” that pro- voked Buperintendent Pryor of the build- ing at 642 Sutter street to dismiss from his service Fred Eyre. The discharged Janitor “went after” Mr. Pryor in such a belligerent manner that he was tapped with a hammer in the hand of that gen- tleman, and Judge Cabaniss has given himself till next Thursday to decide whether Mr. Eyre’s accusation of battery was wisely filed. i AR ‘With a bunch of violets in a button- hole of hie threadbare frock coat, Edward Seliger, elderly and bearded, bowed sub- missively to the six months’ sentence pronounced by Judge Mogan. It was the wont of Mr. Seliger to haunt the City Hall corridors and obtain alms by false pretenses. 2 . Five times last week was Miss Pearl Marshall arrested for drunkenness and released with a caution not to repeat, ; and her sixth consecutive appearance be- fore Judge Mogan resulted in an order that she be imprisoned half a year. s s % ‘When he appears before Judge Mogan this morning Isaac Solomon of 122 Twen- ty-ninth street will be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for battery and placed under a peace-keeping bond so heavy that he will not be likely to pro- cure it. 95 : He was just . from serving a term for wife- when he went to his home and threw his young daughter BLOCKS OPENING OF CEMETERIE Board Asks City Attorney . for Opinion Relative to Streets in Burial Ground SPUR TRACKS OPPOSED Citizens Protest Against Lo- cating New City Hospital on Old Site of Institution The Board of Supervisors yesterday adopted a resolution introduced by Mc- Gushin directing the City Attorney to vigorously defend the suits now pending in the United States Circuit Court where- by efforts are being made to reopen the cemeteries within the city limits, and also to furnish the board with his legal opinion on the question of opening streets through the cemeteries. The City Attorney has advised the Health Department not to issue permits for the burial of dead bodies in the ceme- teries within the city limits, on the ground that the final hearing of the suit brought by the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Association has not been had in the United States Supreme Court. That tri- bunal, according to the City Attorney, overruled the demurrer of the city to the suit, and pending the final adjudication of the case no burial permits will be issued. The Point Lobos Improvement Club flled a protest against the reopening of the local cemeteries on the ground that it will be detrimental to the interests of the city, and calling on the Board of Su- pervisors and Board of Health to prevent them reopening. . A protest signed by 129 citizens and freehclders was flled against the proposed locating of the new City and County Hospital on the present site on Potrero avenue. The protestants petition the board to set a time for the hearing of their objections to the old site before final action is taken. The protest was referred to the joint committee on Health and Utllitfes. 4 The protest of the International Broth- erhood of Teamsters agalinst the granting of permits for spur tracks designed to aid private enterprises and causing ob- struction of the public streets by railroad cars, which is pronounced to be illegal and subversive of the interests of the general public, was referred to the Street Committee. The City Engineer was directed to make and transmit a new officlal map of the city and county of San Franeisco con- taining the various subdivisions in which the city is divided. The ordinance adding pneumonia to the list of diseases of which physicians must glve notice to the Health Department was passed to print. The roadways of Stanyan street be- tween Grattan and Alma streets and of Stanyan street between Parnassus avenue and Grattan street were fully accepted. Sidewalk work was ordered on Fourth avenue between Clement and California streets; Sixth avenue, between Fulton and B streets; on Tenth avenue, between Point Lobos and A streets, and street work on Sixteenth street, between Mar- ket and Castro. The Santa Fe Company was granted a permit to build a spur track at points on Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, and on Indiana street. A permit was granted to the Southern Pacific Com- pany to lay a spur track on Hopper, Sixth and Seventh streets. The ordinance calling on the City At- torney to compromise the action of Daniel Wallace to quiet title to lands in South Park was lald over for two weeks. The Board of Works was allowed $3000 to redress old basalt blocks to be used In street work under the bond issue. The ordinance creating the position of cashier in the Department of Electricity at a salary of $100 per month to legalize the appointment of J. D. Wiseman to the place was finally passed. ———— STATE COURTS HAVE NO AUTHORITY IN CUSTOM-HOUSE Secretary of the Treasury Advises Col- lector Stratton to Disregard Attach- ments on Merchandise in His Care. Customs Inspector Stratton received a letter yesterday from the Secretary of the Treasury with reference to the case of Wolff vs. Macoronis, in which both parties claimed to be the owners of the same merchandise in the Custom- house awaiting release- upon the pay- ment of duties. The property had been attached by the State courts, but not- withstanding this fact the Collector re- loased the goods as soon as the duty had been paid and the Federal statutes complied with in other respects. The Secretary advises Collector Strat- ton that merchandise in customs cus- tody is not subject to the orders, judg- ments or decrees of any court, and that no State officer can have any control over it. He advises further that exe- cutions can attach only upon the full discharge of the goods from such cus- tody and that after the duty has been paid and the delivery permit issued the Government has no further concern with the goods. —_—————— By General Acclamation. In the high-class restaurants and Ro- tels, in the home of the able provider, in fact, wherever a good palate serves as a guide, the selection of Moet & Chandon “White Seal,” vintage of 1900, is positively manifest, and this delicious product is proclaimed the ‘‘champagne of the day.” - No less than 99,387 cases of Moet ‘& Chandon champagne were brought into the port of New York dur- ing 1905, which amount is over 50 per cent greater than was imported by the houge second on the list, as compiled in the Custom-house statistics. At all so- cial gatherings, prominent functions and banquets the feature proper is “White Seal,” vintage 1900, and the great increase of its sales is evidence of its continued popularity. Body of Suicide Idemtified. The man who committed suicide on a bench in Columbia- square early yes- terday morning was Antone Calamarl. Detective Reynolds, who was detailed on the case, ascertained that Calamari came from Redding on November 6 and had been living at the Winchester Hotel. He was in arrears for the rent of his room and had not been working since living at the hotel. It is sup- posed that the lack of funds and em- ployment drove Him to send a bullet through his brain. ———— Private Banks Show Prosperity. The thirty privatae banks of Cali- fornia are prospering Imn an unprece- dented manner according to the report of the State Board of Bank Commis- sioners. These institutions have ag- gregate resources of $9,689,590 83 and their deposits amount to $7,452,429 63, Between August 25, 1905, and Decem- ber 30, 1905, the gain in assets was $5,824,025 12 and In deposits $4,808,- 246 95. — & ‘downstairs and battered his aged better half because she would not give him money to spend for drink. He is a butch- er when he is mot a prisoner. IS LOOT FOR ROBBER. - Dutiful Petra Erro Victim of Thug Who Takes Her Meager Savings. LITTLE CH MAID WHO WAS BEATEN AND ROBBED SUNDAY NIGHT FREN BY A VICIOUS FOOTPAD, WHO ATTACKED HER IN FRONT OF THE D. H. BIBB RESIDENCE, WHERE SHE IS EMPLOYED. Right on the top of Nob Hill, at mid- night, Sunday, Petra Erro, a black-eyed little maid from Southern France, was suddenly seized by a man, thrown to the ground, kicked and robbed of a round golden $20 piece. Off, far off, in a little stone cabin in the craggy Pyrenees, an old, old goat-herd and his old, old wife, are confldently waiting for the 100 francs ' which every six months, like a miracle, comes to them across the seas, to provide them with the little luxuries that console for the ills of old age. But they will wait in vain. For it is from their grand- daughter that twice a year comes the precious gift, and that grand-daughter is Petra Frro, and Petra Erro was robbed of the small, cherished hoard. She is only a domestic, Petra Erro, but she is good. She is the maid of Mrs. D. H. Bibb, wife of the well-known lum- ber man at 1118 SBacramento street. It would be an indiscretion to ask the amount of her wages, but probably they are not very large. Yet she manages to save on them, and twice a year a regis- tered letter goes to France and gladdens two old hearts. Saturday her week's pay completed the sum which it was almost time to send. 5 But Sunday evening Petra’s sister, Francesca, came to see her. The girls had not seen each other for several weeks, and in the joy of the meeting they decided upon a little celebration. This than going consisted in nothing less down a few blocks to the Maison Agulrre, 1813 Powell street, and there partaking of ‘“‘un petit verre’—a little glass. Tt must be remembered that Petra and Francesca are from gay, Southern France, and that there it is not considered shock- ing to go, on a Bunday night, to the vine- clad arbor of the village inn, and there sip a little of th‘ generous Spanish wine -_——pe REFEREES WILL SETTLE DISPUTE Western Pacific and Termi- nal Company Reach an Agreement. Referees have been appointed to settle the difficulty between the West- ern Pacific Railway -Company and the Terminal Realty Company growing out of the effort of the first named cor- poration to’ condemn “a strip of land through the ~block bounded by Fif- teenth, Sixteenth, Rhode Island and Kansas streets. Charles 8. Neal, Herbert E. Law and B. F. Brooks, all of whom are well known in the busi- ness world, will hear the contentions of the litigants, and upon their report Superior Judge Hunt will reach a de- cision in the case, It is the contention of the Terminal Realty Company that the Western Pa- | cific is not proceeding in good -faith and desires to condemn.the land solely to defeat the effort of the ,Southern Pacific and Santa Fe companies to run spur tracks into the district, for the purpose of developing a manufacturing center. On the other hand., the West- ern Pacific charges that the Terminal Company is working hand in hand with the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe and plan the spur tracks for tHe sole purpose of staying, if possible, the in- ‘vasion by the Western Pacific. - - In the preliminary skirmishes the ‘Western Picific. was victorious, so the Terminal Company has consented that the referees named be appointed to reach an equitable adjustment of the difffculty. -+ which: picturesque smugglers bring over the frontler, right under the noses of the vigilant customs men. Besides, it was a very little glass tHat they had, a “very little glass, oh, just like that,” said Petra yesterday, as she recounted the terrible story, and she held up her hand with the index finger about a quarter of an inch from the thumb, the space between evi- dently representing the ‘little glass.” But, alas, they were not in happy, in- genuous France. When they returned toward the Bibb mansion, unknown to them a bilg man with a slouch hat fol- lowed them, dodging from shadow to shadow. At the corner of Powell and Sacramento streets Petra put her sister on the car. She waved her good-by, then turned toward the house, a half block away. She reached it, went up the steps, reached the last stone—and then the thing happened. Suddenly Petra felt long, museular fin- gers reaching from behind clutch her neck. She screamed, and the fingers, closing tighter, stopped the second scream. Then she feit herself huried down the steps. She struck the pavement with a great shock, and above .her she saw a man bending, gigantic in the light of the moon. He kicked her brutally, once, twice, then snatched from her nerveless hands the purse which held the precious twenty-dollar plece, and vanished around the corner. Staggering, trembling like a leaf, little Petra climbed back up the steps, opened the door, fell into the arms of her mis- tress, who was hurrying out. called by the scream, and broke out in a passion of weeping. And it was not for herself, for the pain, the fear, the indignity, that she was weeping, but for two old, old people, at that very moment, perhaps, huddled before the fire in their little hut, among the Pyrenean crags, and thinking of their grand-daughter, far away in the land of romance. Supervisors Authorize M ing to Consider Questiol of Mongolian Imigrati@ TO BUILD NEW HOSPIT Board Directs Plans to Prepared for Struectw on the Site at Bay Vie The Board of Supervisors yester adepted a resolution introduced by Supe: visor Nicholas which authorizes the Mayor to call and arrange for a conven- | tion to be held in this city during the early part of the month of May, 1906, of representatives from the various cities and communities in the States and Ter- | ritortes west of the Rocky Mountains for the purpose of considering the proposed | legislation to modify and repeal the pro- visions of the Chinese exclusion agt. The convention will be called for the purpose of obtaining the opinion and an intel- ligent expression of sentiment of the peo- ple of the aforesald States on the ques- tion of Mongolian immigration. The board adopted a remlullou! duced by Supervisor Lonergan - ing the &.m’i: Public Works to submit at once plans for the construction of the | Smallpox Hospital on the site at Bay View heretofore purchased by the city for the location thereon of said hospital, together with an estimate of the cost of such construction within the limit of $20,000, such plans first to have the ap- proval of the Board of Health. The resolution recites that the present quar- ters, which include a number of election booths, are inadequate for the comfort of the patients afflicted with virulent dis- | eases. | The reauest of the Iroquois Club that the legal questions involved in the pro- posed grant of a fifty-year franchise to | the Ocean Shore Rallway Company for an electric road on Twelfth and ogher designated streets be referred to the City Attorney was referred to the Street Com- mittee. Local Union No. § of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pe- titioned the board to investigate and reg- ulate the charges made for electric lights furnished to the residents of this city. The communication, which was referred to the Light Committee, says: “The present rate charged for electric Hghts tends not only to curtall the con- sumption and retard the extension of the system, but it actually prevents consum- ers from being properly served. It is therefore a public wrong which calls for an immediate remedy.” The board set aside the sumx of $11,000 out of the Laguna Honda School with which to complete the Crofger Grammar School. The board set to-morrow /might as the time for carrying on the investigation for the fixing of gas rates. Gallagher insisted that the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company be required to furnish a mors detailed statement of its financial opera- tions so that the elements making up the cost of the production of gas and elec- tricity will be clearly shown. SEEKS TO NULLIFY ACT OF DIRECTORS Mrs. Harriet Gill Sues the Ocean View Land Company. Suit was filed in the Superior Court yesterday against the Ocean View Land Company by Mrs. Harriet G. Gill, a stockholder and director of the cor- poration, to restrain the company from cfrrying out a contract under the terms of which it is alleged the com- pany has agreed to dispose of the Ocean View ranch, San Mateo County, to the C. M. Wooster Company, for $121,000. Mrs. Gill avers that at the time the corporation was formed it was agreed that the voice of all of the directors and stockholders should be necessary to make binding any agreement that might be entered Into for the sale of lands. Later she says a resolution was passed fixing the sale price of thejgifan Mateo ranch at $150,000, but not n- standing this fact a few of the mem- bers .of the board of directors got to- gether and entered into a contract with the C. M. Wooster Company transferring the land for a considera- tion of $121,000, but agreeing that the price should not be paid until after the | company had cut up the land into lots and sold the same. Asserting that the action of the di- rectors was illegal, Mrs. Glll asks the court to cancel the contract. —_——— See Edward Knowles Company about your wedding invitations. 24 Second strest. - ROBBED BY THREE Richard Letens, a laborer, living at_the Wolf House, 202 Sixth street, reported to Policeman M, Whelton about 3 o'clock yesterday morn- ing that when he entered the doorway he was attacked by three young men and his purse, econtaining $2. was taken out of his pocket, Letens was considerably under the influence of lquor and could give no description of his as- sailants. \ YOUNG MEN.— ., Cafe Fiesta ._(Formerly TAIT'S) MARKET AND POWELL STREETS Entrance Opposite Columbia MANAGEMENT Theater OF H. W. LAKE FRENCH COMPOSITIONS. GRAND CONCERT THURSDAY, PEBRUARY 15. To be rendered by of Sol 1. March fr. “La Reine 2. Symphonic Poem, * 3.-Violoncello solo— © (a) ““Meditation™ (b) “Elegie"" FEBRUARY-22—AMERICAN COMPOS . .Tables Reserved Free of Charge. 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