The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1906, Page 14

ThE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1908 MAUDE ANBER WINS DIVORCE DRDER SALE IF FRANCHE Supervisors Will Receive |Court of Appeal Is Unable Proposals for Privilege| to Agree With Wilkerson for a Telephone System| in Respect to Reversal VOTE HURRIEDLY TAKEN |DIAMOND T00 IS LOST B IR \fter Ordinance Is Passed|Affectionate Manager of a Three Members Record-| Road Edition of Fiddle- Dee-Dee Gets All Blanks ECCA E ed as Voting Against It| T g for the sale of | em to the ereon | Maude Amber is entitled to a divorce from Ira Puerl Wilkerson, according to a decision rendered by the Court of Ap- peal yesterday. The case was appealed from the Superior Court by the hus- band, who claimed that the local tribunal had no jurisdiction. to try the suit. Al his arguments are rejected as valueless by the Justic and the original decree e was taken so quick- did not ervisor Rea Girl Is One of Nine Comely Spinster~ Sisters. SHE EXHIBITS RARE FINESSE Rival Suitors Argue and Then Threat Is Ulttered. HER WARNING MOST TIMELY BY JAMES C. CRAWFORD. Among the young men who had en- tree as welcome suitors at 220 Vallejo street, home of the nine Carbini sis- was d to or@er | must stand s presided in | Mrs. Wilkerson, known on the stage terrupting | as Me Amber, was one of San Fran- nment | cisco’s prime favorites when . Fischer's Box inance | was in its heydey of popularity. Wilker- Ke W nformed ‘that | son was distinguished principally on ac- count of being her husband. After “Fid- dle-Dee-Dee” had run its course here Manager Friedlander decided to put the | show on the road, and Wilkerson was sélected to handle the company. When | the nutfit returned from a somewhat in: glorious trip several of the ladtes pri: informed Miss Amber that Ira 4 not been es reserved as he should | ve heen toward one of the actresses. Then there was a row. Wilkerson car- ried & revolver and threatened dire things against those who had been guilty of separating him from his “Maudy.” - At one time he signified his willingness to let “Maudy” go provided she would re- | 40 Mar- Howard a street to th IcAllister t a diamond ring he had bought for her o n the installment plan. During the Winfield Blake, another popular nber of the Fischer company, is al- to have secreted himself for one day the Berkeley hills. Mrs. Wilkerson easily secured her di- vorce, but her husband appealed on the ground of leck of jurisdiction. Miss Am- ber is at present charming the residents of “Coo " land, and Ira runs a vaude- ville hous® in the Garden City. TYREE IS ACCUSED OF SHARP PRACTICE| Western Securities Company Sues Him to Recover $100,000. Hiram Tyree, whose troubles in Salt Lake have caused considerable comment of late, was joined as defendant with the Western Agéncy Company in an action filed by the Western Securities Company yesterday to recover nearly $100,000. This sum, the plaintiff alleges, Tyree has se cured through sharp practice. While Tyree was acting as vice pre of the Western Securities Company, intiff_in the action, it §s asserted that he. secretly incorporated the Western Agency Company, naming F. M. Ralff as | president and issuing the stock to C. B. Bates as trustee, it being agreed that at anv time demanded Raiff should ré- sign in favor of Tyree, Wbezzled The Nati m lege Company filed a the petition te ownershir were amended so k on Mon- clock in m March 1. Be Tried Again, “hadwick re C defendant from the cal- breught to Subsequently, it Is alleged, Tyree r | caused the passage of a resolution in w. ¢ | which it was agreed thar the Western Agency Company €hould turn over to the Western Securities Company 10 per cent of all commissions it received from the | Continental Life Insurance and Invest- ment . Company on. premiums paid through the instrumentality of the West- ern Agency Company. In return, Jt s alleged, he caused the Western Securi- ties Company to turn over to the West- ern Agency Company 1,000,000 shares of the first named corporation Tor flotation. After selling 24,000 shares of the stock, it is sald, Tyree announced that he was in control of the Western Agency Com- pany, and under the agreement he pro- Control her rail- |ceeded to sell Western -Securities stock controls £ 1 . | yntil he had disposed of $100,000 ‘worth. roads as absolutely as if she | Now the Western Securities Company % |asserts that it should have the money owned them. [ recetved through - the sale of the stock. ’I-h - | and it asks that a receiver be appointed ere are no pass-bribes, |t take possession of what may remain > : H of the $100,000, that an -Injunction fEsue no mail frauds, no ff@lg}\t dis- | restraining Tyree from disposing of the - g “14: | portion that may yet remain in his pos- camnagons, no bu“dlng 0( sessicn and that the agreement under | trusts, no graft Read Russell's “Soldiers of the Common Good” in| ’ =h 1 Everybedy’s for March. | | { | »efore the Supreme ADVERTISEMENTS. Railroad France wkich Tyree collected all of this wealth | be declared null and void, | |ROBERTS HAS AGAIN JUMPED HIS BONDS Zie fi508 year Accused Bunko Steerer Fails to Appear for Trial Be- fore Judge Lawlor. For the second time George Roberts, a bunko man, has preferred to take | refuge In flight rather than face his 75 eents & copy |trial on a charge of grand larceny. | When the case was called In Judge Lawlor's court on $aturday Roberts The Advantages of Both | was not present, but at the request of | his attorney, who promised to have him in court yesterday morning, a contin- | uance was ordered till that time. Yes- terday morning Roberts failed to ap- pear and the Judge issued a bench war- rant for his arrest. He was out on $3000 bonds given by the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, but at | the attorney’s request action on the | forfeiture of the bonds was delayed un- | til ‘today. | Roberts was arrested on March-20, |1963. He 1is charged with having | | Nose-Glasses and Spectacles (without their objectionable features) are to be & “Bertelin; t found Combination Eye- | Glass”—fits everybody, | Gold, With First Quality Lenses, $5.00 Open Saturday Evenings. HARRY NORDMAN 2 14 Granl Amug Seed Talk Canpicte and reliable information and advice on seeds, planting, etc., in our new and beautifully illustrated annual gatalogue, 1906. Mailed free on request steered W. In Perry, a visitor from Los Angeles, to a room on Third street, | where Harry Walters and J. Rounds, two bunko men, soon relieved him of | $80. He was held to ahswer and while waiting trial in Jadge. Lawlor's court | fled to Seattle. his bonds of $3000 being | forfeited. Detective Ryan was sent with the papers for his extradition, and | it took him sixty-four days to accom- plish his object, owing to the efforts of the gambling fraternity there to save Roberts. Roberts was tried and convicted, but on appealing to the Supreme Court he was granted a new trial. e i To Attend Shakespearean Lecture. | ing court to her? ALL snng&%nlglmu AND President Altmann of the Board of | BEducation has addressed a letter to the varlous schools requesting that pupils studying Shakespeare attend the lecture to be given by Frederick Warde at the Girls’ High Bchool tomorrow aft- ernoon. The teachers and only those | pupils studying the bard's works will | be admitted. 4 | et e W | Lawson Fines Hotel Man. | Danlel O'Keate, 2" Hotel ‘man of He: vada, was fined $10 yesterday afternoosn by Justice Lawson for contempt of court for tearing up an order of ex- amination issued by the court. Suit was brought against O'Keefe for .the recovery of money and after his fail- ure to answer the arder a deputy sheriff haled him into eourt. Fruit Trees and Ornamental Plants COX SEED CO. 411, 413, 415 Sansome Street SAN FRANCISCO -FOWNES Hand and glove— fashion and Fownes' GLOVES _— BURGLAR TAKES A WATCH.—Jc Bchinder, Seven! avenue and Lake ltruw 7 stolen | house on lower Br ters, all in spinsterhood, were Louis Vannucci, aetat nineteen, and Juan Santa Cruz, whose years slightly ex- ceed twenty. And strange to relate, with such a wealth of marriageable femininity to select from, the two lads singled out the same lass as the ob- Jject of their tender attention. That she acted in the embarrassing TERE AR NINE OF THEM TWO SWAINS WITH - SINGLE CHARMER THIEF'S BOOTY IN 00D TASTE Sartorial Connoisseur Pays Visit ‘to Clothing ' Store and Supplies Himself Well TAKES ONLY THE BEST the instrument, and lo! when he re- turned his gaze to where it had been it was not there. <When he became satisfied that the fun-loving firemen had not concealed it by way of a joke, he went forth in quest of it, ard in a Pacific street saloon discovered Joseph Stone giving practical demonstration of its excellence to a large and admir- ing concourse, about equally divided as to sex. It was rolling out the Pilgrims’ Chorus from “Tannhauser,” when the Interruftion came. “I must a-bin awful drunk when I lifted it,” said Mr. Stone to Judge Con- lhan, “for I don’t like them things no- ow."” / “What is their displeasing quality?” inquired his Honor. “They jingle like a lot of tin pans tied to a dog’s tail,” was Mr. Stone's elegant description. When it was ascertained that ine- briety has been his normal condition for many weeks he was remanded for sentence. +- premises with rare finesse was made apparent by the testimony adduced bex fore Police Judge Mogan, where Mr. Santa Cruz accused Mr. Vannucel of vagrancy—a charge which, it may not be amiss to state right here, was abso- lutely unwarranted. While the fact that Mr. Vannucci was arrested through the doubly besieged fair one’s instrumentality might lead to the inference that she bestowed ex- ceptional favor on his rival, it would not beé just to positively Rssert that she was partial to eithér of the gentlemen. More reasonable would it be, in the light of the evidence, to surmise that she acted solely In the interest of peace preservation when she imparted to Mr. Santa Cruz the warning that impelled him to file his formal complaint. For had she not been informed by Mr. Vannucel himselt that he had a “forty-four,” thereby meaning a revol- ver of 44-caliber, and that his purpose in carrying the weapon was to “let dgy- light” into the carcass of Mr. Santa Cruz if that gentleman continued pay- “ Who can say that her timely hint to Mr. Santa Cruz did not avert a tragedy? Several things tended to convince the magistrate that Mr. Vannucel was not as bad as had been alleged by Mr. Santa Cruz. One of them was the proof that instead of being a vagrant he was an industrious clerk in a fruit store at 420 Broadway and another of them con- sisted of the fact that he had tem- perately discussed the situation with Mr. Santa Cruz ere he ever uttered menace. While the arguments set forth by Mr. Vannucci to Mr. Santa Cruz were as applicable to one side of the contro- versy as the other, his resort to argu- ment served to show tkiat he was not naturally truculent. “There are nine ~of them Carbini girls,” he said to Mr. Santa Cruz. “Why don’t you choose some other one than the one I have chosen?” “Why don’t you choose some other one than the one I have chosen?’ was Mr. Santa Cruz's not-illogical retort. The young lady in the case did not know whether Mr. Vannuccl was really armed or merely blufing when he declared’ ‘to her his inten- tion of shooting, as he daid not display a firearm, but his man- ner satisfied her that he was desperate and likely to fulfill his threat. Good- ness knows she had done all that any one could do to prevent a rencontre be- tween “the boys” In fact, she could have done no more unless she dismissed one of them, and she had no assurance that such action on her part would have mended the situation. After declaring that Mr. Vannuccl was not a vagrant and opining that Mr. Banta Cruz filed that charge be- cause he could not find ground for any other, the Judge bade all concerned to 80 away. ¢« s . ‘While he was waltzing with his new sweetheart in a Market-street dance academy last Saturday night Lester Hastings, ironworker, was poked in ths face by the right hand of his former sweetheart as she swung past him in the embrace of his successor as her ‘“steady.” He expostulated, whereupon she repeated the poke, and her escort followed suit, and the finish of the en- suing scramble found Mr. Hastings upon the street, where he was prostrated by the fist of one Monroe . Moore, house- painter, and then kicked on the headl by . the shoe of an unknown. He was “get- ting back” at Mr, Moore when Patrol- man Schmidt arrested both of them. Judge Shortall dismissed the peace disturbance charge, and Mr. Hastings then obtained a . warrant for the arrest of the John Doe who had kicked him. Mr. Hastings resides at 372 Hickory avenue and Mr. Moore’s home is at 110 Eddy street. .‘ Pz “Send up that gentleman with the Rockefeller head,” said Judge Cabaniss to Hailiff Donahue, who thereupon re- leased from the cage and presented to the bench John McCarthy, hirsutely destitute and minus the lower portion of a left leg. . Patrolman Mills gave Mr. McCarthy a very bad character, averring that his favorite tipple was Chinese gin, and that when under its influence he had a penchant for unbuckling his artificial Hmb and utilizing it as a weapon to assault inoftensive passers-by. Ten days e tlng pronouncement. C. E. Paddock was endeavors sell a phonograph to :‘m“s;:fl:f‘&: firefighting crew stationed !me mk { y when - tention was momentarily diverted from ES “Do you mean to tell me,” said Judge Cabaniss, incredulously, “that you can determine whether a man is lying or truth-telling by simply gazing into his eyes? “Yes, sir,” replied Charles T. Boger, professiongl phrenologist, accused of attempting to defraud an innkeeper. “And am I to understand,” his Honor pursued, “that by similar test you can positively ascertain the sincerity of a woman's statements?” “Yes, sir,” Mr. Boger returned, with great emphasis. “Then,” quoth the magistrate, “I am tempted to suggest to the Board of Su- pervisors that you be paid a large sal- ary for sitting here beside me and ap- plying vour detecting gaze to persons who sit and testify where you now sit and astonish nie.” 2 Mr. Boger, middle-aged, sharp-feat- ured, spectacled and very deaf, had been arrested on complaint of Mrs. Minnie E. Barrett, keeper of the Le- land House, 1118 Market street, who averred that he took advantage of her temporary absence to surreptitiously remove his baggage from the apart- ment occupied: by himself and wife, while hé was owing several weeks' rental for sald apartment. He declared that Mrs. Barrett was in the house when he transferred his belongings, and his wife, youthful and comely, swore the same thing. | “Why, she had my husband’s watch as security for what he owed her,” said Mrs. Boger to the Judge, “and she knew we could rnot stay in her house because he could not make enough money there to provide us with food.” “The watch is worthless,” Mrs. Bar- rett exclaimed. “Well, it's ‘all he had to give you,” Mrs. Boger retorted. “I'll give you thirty days in which to pay what you owe this complainant,” sald the Judge to the defendant, “‘and if you cannot earn the required amount by reading human heads you should turn your hand to some other honest means of getting it. Your penetrating glance must have gohe awry when it led you to imagine that this complain- ant was to be trifled with. Man, know thyself.” The Bogers now occupy lplrn}kntu at 526 Eddy street. Mr. Boger recently addressed the Credit Men’'s Association on the subject of his putative optical gift, but whether the “tips” then ten- dered by him have resulted in a tight- ening up of mercantile credits has not been revealed. . Mrs. Mary Anderson disobeyed Judge Mogan’s mandate that she remove her disorderly establishment from 865 Market street, where it was within view and earshot of the Lincoln school, so she was rearrested and will be sen- tenced today, : Four female Inmates of the place were before Judge Conlan and will re- celve further hearing tomorrow. * . . Edward Martin was accompanied by two women when he stole eight phono- graph records from Kohler & Chase's music shop on Kearny street, and to Judge Mogan he alleged that he had bene drinking and committed the theft in jest, as one of his companions was his wife, who dearly loved a joke. The phonograph records were recovered and Mr. Martin’s record {s under in- vestigation by the policeman who ar- rested him. ¢ e ® Harry Brown, who said he arrived quite recently from Cleveland, Ohilo, stole three pairs of rubber boots from the home of Michael J. Hodge, team- ster, 17 Steuart street, and Judge Shortall gave him ten days. b e In return for his rescue of Abe Bar- ron from a scrimmage in which he was being worsted Patrolman E. Monahan was struck a violent blow on the mouth by that person, who will be sentenced today by Judge Shortall for peace disturbance and battery. Mr. Barron dwells at 75 Harrlet | | street, 1s employed by John A. Roeb- ling & Sons and was being freely beaten by a number of assallants when ! the officer, whom he treated so ungrate- fully, plucked him' out of the melee last Saturday night at Ninth and Har- rison streets, S R Newton Fprd, who bribed a boy ta steal for him ‘from Sanborn, Vall & Co.'s stationery store, where he was formerly employed, will’'be sentenced on four petty larceny charges today by Judge Conlan. Mr.. Ford’s home was | plentifully stocked with his plunder when the detectives searched it and arested himiii. fiiys. s yesterday for the arrest of Abe Becker, proprietor of the Fawn saloon on Grant avenue, on a charge of mgmu- 0 | her lover, Louis Method of Entry Is Through Enfpty House and by Hole Dug Into Thin Partition M. Stein, senior member of the Royal Clothing Company, 112 Ellis street, de- plores the impeccable taste of the burglar ‘who broke into his store Saturday or Sun- day night. According to Stein the thief picked out and ran off with what was ab- solutely the cream of the stock. All that was sterling went, and only that which might be termed a fraction of a degree below highest excellency remained. The list of stolen articles shows the burglar to be at least a mfan of calm fore- thought. He chose In a manner to pro- vide him for long. In the line of the solid and useful he took four entire suits of clothes, four overcoats, @ve pairs of change trousers, sixteen shits of under- wear and two dozen white shirts. As a re- lief for exaggerated sobriety of dress, he added to this five fancy vests, five silver ‘watch chains and 150 pairs of cuff buttons. Five sweaters he took, presumably for wear on dark, cold nights passed at pro- fessional pursuits. Reflection over a pos- sible invitation to a masqyerade ball in- duced him to include a conductor’s uni- form, and a look at the weather, which ‘was threatening, caused him to add two umbrellas to the heap. In socks he dis- played a characteristic which may furnish a-clew to the police. He took twelve dozen pairs—all fancy—and this careful hosierial foresight seems to point to a- man who has suffered much in the past from want of necessary darning. The manner in which the thief broke into the store was rather original in its simplicity. By an alley he entered the lower floor of the empty lodging-house back of, the store, and then from the hall dug a hole through the plaster and laths of the partition into it. Stein left his store Saturday night, and discovered the burglary yesterday morning. The police- men on ‘the beat saw nothing suspiclous Saturday or Sunday night, although it must have been on one of these that the somewhat suspiciously voluminous pile of clothing marched off down well-lit Ellis street. Stein thinks that the leader in the cperation must be a man who is a con- noisseur in haberdashery, judging from his discrimination in picking from the stock. The thief overlooked only one trick. In the store was an assortment of dress suit cases. He could have packed the cloth- ing in some of these and then have walked out like a gentleman, and not like a taflor's apprentice. Detective Ed Gibson is investigating the affalr. YOUNG MAN VICTIM OF CARBON-MONOXIDE Two Others Sleeping in Same Room Arise Earlier and FEscape. Antone Baldocchi, a young Italian rancher, fell a victim to the deadly fumes of carbon-monoxide yesterday morning. He and two companions, Ferri Frenieo and Vincenzo Lucchesl, came to the city from the country on Sunday and engaged a room at a lodging-house at 110 Pacific street. They all slept in the same room. Frenieo and Laucchesi got up early and left the lodging-house, but Baldocchl slept on. The bedmaker discovered him’uncon- scious in bed and gas was ecaping from the jet, which was slightly turned on. Baldocchi was taken in the patrol wagon to the Harbor Emergency Hospital, but he died shortly after'1l o'clock in the afternoon. The police were notified, and after mak- ing an investigation were satisfied that it was an accident. The lives of the other twp were saved by not sleeping as long as the unfortunate Baldocchi. The Coroner’s office was notified and permission was given for the body to be taken to an un- dertaker's parlor. Baldocchi was only 24 years of age, and a native of Italy. MILLER BOOKED ON CHARGE OF MURDER Witness Says He Saw Him Kick Cosgrove Several Times. ‘Willlam Miller was booked at the City Prison yesterday on a charge of murder for fatally kicking John T. Cos- grove, an ex-policeman, in front of his grocery at 839 Vallejo street on Sunday night. The prisoner will appear in the Police Court this morning for arraign- ment. Edward Preve, blacksmith, 1602 Ma- son street, e a statement to Detec- tives Graham and Coleman yesterday morning. He sald he had been in Mil- ler's saloon nearly all of Sunday after- noen. Miller accused Cosgrove of®go- ing out with his wife. Preve was go- ing home with his mother about 8 o'clock, when she called out to him, “Look, Ed.” He looked and saw Cos- grove lying on the sidewalk and saw Miller kick him two or three times. “I went and held Miller back,” said Preve, “and chased him into the store. I told him to get out of the store or I would give him some of it himself.” Preve and his two brothers, who were taken into custody on Sunday night, were released yesterday morning. — e MARY LOUISE BOWEN SAYS B SHE IS INNOCENT OF CRIME Her Attorney, Bert Schlesinger, Pro- poses to w that She Had Been Hypnotized by Baker. Mary Louise Bowen, indicted by the United States Grand Jury for having embezzled $806 while money order clerk in the Oakland postoflice, ap- peared yesterday in the United States District Court for arraignment. She was escorted by E. L. Cram, an elderly man and friend of the family, and Bert Schlesinger, her attorney. When her name was led by Clerk Manley she walked to tie clerk’s desk 2nd stood by her att y’s side while Manley announced the fact of her indictment. In a clear, firm volce she pleaded “not guilty,” and then resumed her seat. No date has yet been assigned on the cal- | endar for her trial It is understood that Lawyer Schles- inger will i that Miss the embezzled money, but gave it to I w. ker, who had exercised something akin to and as powerful as a hypnotic influence over her, it is alleged. 5 s ‘a defense the plea | did not use any of | Why n merchant conducting business? commodation. The we ask you to make use of them a little at a time. CASH OR CREDIT ) = BROWI STANDARD QUALITY BELOW MON We have a new Department—It's a CREDIT Department. our “CHARGE” account is open to all rellable people. You may buy at our store a Suit, Overcoat, Furnishings, of any kind and have it “CHARGED.” let your CREDIT be your working capital, just as the Every garment’ in our marked with plain figures, that YOU or.any one else can read, and the price is the same, CASH or CREDIT—no extra charge for the ac- jooks are here to be filled with YOUR name; need in the way of Clothing for Men or Boys. we do not send you to another firm. This CREDIT is extended to you by BROWN BROS. & CO., and you have the privilege of making your selection from their enormous clothing stock and paying for it MILL TO MAN and Hat, Shirts, Ties or store is by “CHARGING” anything you UNDERSTAND US, They have been in the clothing business right here in your midst for THIRTY-NINE years. This guarantee is good enough for you— For Fair treatmqnt, Honest merchandise at honest prices. THE PRICE IS THE SAME BROW SI6'5I18 MARKET S 'GOMERY B RESTRICTED Supervisors Wish to Confine Selling of Fireworks to ——— At yesterday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors Coffey Introduced an amendment to an ordinance providing that hereafter permits to sell fireworks be issued only to citizens of the United States or to firms and corporations composed of citizens. The ordinance, which requires such permits to be ob- tained from the Fire Marshal, was re- ferred to the fire committee. Coffey stated that the object of the amendment is to prevent Japanese from entering into competition with white merchants in the sale of fire- works for a few days previous-to the Fourth of July. The board authorized the glerk to Citizens of United States; \ 1 have printed 300 copies of the specifi- cations of the proposed municipal Geary-street road and twenty-five sets of the blue prints of the plans of th system at a cost not to exceéd $200. The. recommendation of the Mer quired under a bond issue as the first proposition in the report of Civic Archi- tect Burnham was referred to the com- mittee on beautification. The recommendation of fhe Board of Works that artificial stone sidewalks be laid on Lombard street between Van Ness avenue and Baker street was re- ferred to the street committee. A proposed ordinance imposing a license of $2 on persons operating steam stationary boilers after they have been given a practical examination by the Board of Works was referred to the fire committee. The ordinance ex- empts persons actually engaged in the occupation named from its provisions. The Election Commission was al- lowed $4,359.61 to pay the expenses for the primary and gemeral election this year, there being .a deficit in jthat amount in its appropriation. ‘The board adopted a resolution pro- viding for the dismissal of the suit to condemn land on Dupont street, be- tween Pine and California, belonging to Vicior Albouze and others. Ex-Super- vis)r Comte addressed the board in sup- port of the resolution, saying that un- der the modified plans for St. Mary's Square the fiontage on Dupont street wiil not form part of the square. ————————— DUFFY ASSERTS HE WAS % MALICIOUSLY PROSECUTED Sues Willlam H. Metson, Jafet Linden- berg and John Bryntesom Zor Damages. Suit for $256,000 damages for alleged malicious prosecution was filed yester- day by Thomas J. Duffy against Wil- llam H. Metson, Jafet Lindenberg and John Bryhteson. Upon complaint of the defendants in this action Duffy was in- dicted by the United States Grand Jury | architect chants’ Association that the Panhandle | extension of Golden Gate Park be ac-| last January, but was released from custody on motion of United States Dis- trict Attorney Deviin. It was during litigation over mining interests that Duffy made the state- ments that later led to his indictment. After. investigation Devlin stated that he was of the opinion that Duffy was not mentally responsible for his stat ments and asked that the charge against the accused be disml Dufty represents himself in’the ‘suit filed yvesterday and makes the allega- tion “that the defendants swore falsely against him that they might place him ‘dn prison for a term of years and then make way with $1,000,000 of plaintiff's personal property which they have in their possession.” . Some very swell wedding announcements come from Edward Knowles Co., Superior Printers, 34 Second street. L s deliv- _ered the sixth of his course of lectures .before the Mechanics’ Institute at Gol- den Gate Hall last night. The subject was “The Physiocrats’ Attempts to Abolish Restrictions on the Freedom of Industry and Trade.” The crowded condition of the hall attested the pop- ularity of this course with gtudents. The next lecture in the course will be delivered on March 19. PERMITS WILL BOARD ORDERS GENERAL PLAN Supervisors Pass Ordinance Relating to Construction of All Public Buildings —_—— The Board of Supervisors yesterday finally passed the ordinance providing a general plan for the construction of all public buildings under the bond issue, the building plans to be open to competition among California archi- tects only, and also for the appointment of a supervising architect to superin- tend the work of construction. Supervisor Duffey said he proposed to submit an amendment at the next meeting increasing the fee to be paid to the successful architect in the com- petition from 3 to 5 per cent of the cost of construction. Duffey denfed the pub-~ lished charge that there is a “Job™” in the ordinance whereby some supervising would secure a plum of $120,000. “This board’ wants to do something.™ said Supervisor Duffey, “and I desi‘r’e to say that within six months work will be commenced on all public build- ings for which plans are already out- llnl;d under the bond issue.” . A. Schulze of the San Fr: Chapter of Architects objected 3:"(‘:.;? tain provisions of the ordinance, Incl ing the one fixing the fee at 3 per o for the accepted plans, which he sal should be 5 per cent on the total cost of construction. Supervisor Gallagher said that 2 per cent had been deemed a proper fes to Pay a supervising architeet, the 3 per cent paid to the architect who preparsd the plans making the 5 per cent usually charged for such combined service. The 2 per cent is.designed to cover the ex- pense of supervision alome and it might be necessary to employ several super- vlssing architects, Gallagher said. upervisor Nicholas said the er of school buildings is impel‘ltlv:‘c'é:\': in deference to the protest of architects he would consent to a postponement of action for one week on t! ordi- nance. Supervisor Boxton insisted on the bill being finally passed and the amendments made afterward. Schulze objected to the final pas- sage of the ordinance before the objec~ tionable provisions wers eliminated. He urged that the architect whose plans are accefted should continue as con- sulting architect and receive a § par cent fee and the City Architect should exercise supervision over the construc- tion of the buildings. W. H. Mooser, an architect, urged the adoption of the 6 per cent fee and dented that a pub- lished letter of ‘h was intended to reflect any discredit on the members of thg board. MINING ENGINEER DIVORCES HIS WIFE She Decides They Are Badly Mated and Leaves Him. H. L. Weed, a mining engineer and for- merly a resident of Spokane, Wi . Wis Franted n Seerabod deamn by Sotes obd) ham yesterday on the ground of desertiod, Weed testifled that more than a year ago he was called East on business, and upon his return his wife refused to live with him longer, telling him.that ghe had de- cided they were very badly mated, Margaret H. Marx was granted a decrese from Albinus F. Marx by Judge on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Marx sald:that her husband was formerly as- sistant harbormaster at Honolulu. He has not provided for her for thres years, A decree of divorce was also granted to Lil- Han from Karl von Linden for desertion. Suits for divorce were flled by A. O, against Josie Netzel for desertion, Karo- line against J. A. Haglund for crueity, Joste against Charles Wheeler for failusg to provide, Georgia against Willlam T Anderson for cruelty, Charles against Jennle Huden for desertion and Joseph H. against Maud Marx for desertion. Suit was flled by Chester R. against Jennle N. Hunt to annul thelr marriage, Hunt stating that his wife was under age :n.- he married her.