The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1906, Page 6

EWS OF THE COUNTIES THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL ABOUT THE BAY MRS, MARTHA E. ODELL OUTWITS Ry Promoter of Bureau for Marriage Is Romantic. i e Nets of Cupid Arel Thrown Around Witness HORSEMAN IS BEING | TRIED FOR MURDER| Preliminary Hearing Begins | of Al McDonald Who | hot Mello. the sent- that nd Mello attempted to arose from his ted Mello | and le Locke repeated e commi d of the traged | W , were called to treat wounds and | JUMPS FROM TRAIN AND MEETS DEATH| Lester Melvin Is Crushed Beneath the Wheels of a Car. Melvin umped on and : could walk, was ifth and Web- 3 o'clock at that point 1is body was hor- ath the wheels. grandson of J. Mel- tarmer of - Colusa hose home is at College City. n came to Oakland sev- go and secured employ- of & milk wagon. Four secured a position as de- the Callzhans, caterers Alice streets. Seventh 1ght the tr: prosperous street at 2:30 at Seventh and jumped to his death sed was 4 native of Nebraska and ed in California for. several 'he bod was removed to the ————— SHOOTS AT HER HUSBAND. OARLAND, - April 3.—Considerable excitement was caused in the neighbbr- hood of Te nd Webster streéts ar ning by a pistol . shot, which arned later, was. fired v Mre. ‘William Davis, who-had quar- reled . with her husband at their home, Webster street It is said that Davis went to her heme late at night, and that when her husband chided she shot at him. Davis says the shot was fired in the air; Mrs. Davis declares that she shot at a burglar. Policeman Nick Willlams heard the shot and made an investigation, but as Davis was unwilling to swear .to a complaint no arrests were made. ey HENDERSON CRITICALLY It EERKELEY, April ictor H. Hen- dersom, acting secretary of the Uni- versity Regents, is critically i#l -4t the ®gst Bay Sanitarium. His condition to- day was reported tbbe very serious, He left | streets on his way to| nis custom to jump tram st Tywelfth street. He PROSECUTORS CALVES COBBLE SHANT ORI | Possible Veal Cutlets Feed Upon College-Bred Lawns and Owners Are Worrying SRl BERKELEY, April 3.—If you had a lawn covered with grass that had been raised on a sclentific basis and you had t as cultivated and as cultured as any grass could he, and if a trio of calves w were not scientifically raised and didn’t care a hang for science came into | that lawn and chewed up the grass, | wouldn't you want‘them converted into | veal in a hurry? Professor Jacques Loeb, who lives‘on nia street, once had a crop of sci- entifically raised grass; so did Profes- |sor M. E. J so did Mrs. George P. | | W. Jensen. Now there is no grass. Three- calves belonging to William | L schinskey wandered over the lawns oday and the scientifically raised grass {looked no different to them than any other old grass. They cleaned the plats | loser than a lawn mower Mrs. Jensen telephoned for the poundmen and the calves were prompt- | 1y pinched ise he had to pa Moreover, he is afraid that the grass may prove too rich One of them is already Leschinskey was furious | $3 bail for his | to Marshal Vollmer to see if he could not get out an injunction | against the public exposure of college | bred grass. He threatens suits and all | sorts of legal vengeance if the injuries | to the digestive organs of the calves | prove permanent. Marshal Vollmer advised him to train his loose veal to play thelr own | ack yards. Leschinskey went away | Ing vengeance. He stood guard the calves all night with a stoms p, ready in case they showed | s of acute sclentific grass pol- soning 'HOUSE PARTY | ‘GIVEN-BY THE HARRY MILLERS BY ZOE GREEN RADCLIFFE. T 3.—The Hi home on Adams Pol last night, the g Five hun for an hour or s ) Mre. Ernest Boyes and Mrs. Seth Telcott. "he guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eliassen, Mr. apd Mrs, Raymond Kitchener, Mr. and /Gearge S. Lackie, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Seth Talcott, Phi M Mille: oused a ccasion being & ed furnished the pretty new Mrs. and Mrs, Mr. and | A-°G! Benfamin, Charles Easton, Dr. 3 Mrs. C. L. Morey, unsmore, Mrs fe Cariton, Miss Isabelle Hunt, Miss ¢ Wakefield, Miss Ella Miller, Miss Mar- Ritchie, Miss Margaret Olsece, Miss Flor- Grant, Miss Gertrude Benjamin, Robert Tom Warren, D. Griswold, E. E. Oscar Gower, Ely C. Hutchinson, on, Herbert Whitton. pmet Bran he Wheelock Club will ¢convene at the resi- dence of Mrs_ E. B. Beck next Friday, when . and Mrs. Henry Wadsworth will duties of host | Oakland Five Hundred Club will xt meeting at the residence of Mr. Ibert L. Curtles. enjoy and Mrs. C Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Prather arrived in a special car today from Quebec. Mrs. Prather bas been and is still very il Mrs, A A. Long will entertain a card club next Aveek. Mrs. Guy C. Earl is to be hostess to a whist club this week. s Fred Stolp is contemplating a trip to a Barbara with Mrs. Linda Bryan. e TO IMPROVE HARBOR. OAKLAND, April 3.—Edwin Stearns, secretary of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, has received a communica- tion from United States Senator George C. Perkins and Congressman Joseph R. Knowland in a reply to a letter sent by the Chamber of Commerce regarding a balance in the appropriation passed by Congress last year for the improve- ment of Oakland harbor. The letter states that contracts have been let for the completion of a channel 300 feet wide and 25 fect deep from.the bay to Fallon street, the contract price being $181,000, which is much lower than was expected. * This leaves a balance of §169,000" available for the further im- provement of the harbor. The Cali- | fornia representatives declare that there is no danger that this balance Will" revert to the United’States Treas- ury, as was feared by some members of the Chamber of Commerce. —_—— RELIANCE CLUB JINKS, OAKIAND, April 3.—The first of the w series of monthly Reljance Club nks will be held Wednesday evening ~an excellent programme has been prepared. The numbers will consist of 2 one-act farce entitled “The Decision,” written by Thomas J. Springer and in- terpreted Springer and Superin- tendent A, SWirk; a duet by Norman Stanley and J. McVey; dancing by C. Hughes; music 'by the mandolin and] gultdar trio; a monologue by Jack Shee- han; a.solo by Charles Parker; sleight= of-hand tricks by A. Shirk. and selec- { clusion of ARCUMENTWILL ALAMEDA UNDER [FAIL TO NAKE (PLAN RAILADAD £AD TONORADW Fate of Lester (. MeNulty to Be in Jurers’ Hands on Thursday Afternoon COURT CALLS A HALT RS Judge T. W. Harris Orders a Time Fixed for the Closing of the Trial S gty X OAKLAND, April 3.—The case of Lester | C. McNulty, charged with an assault upon Dorothy Olsen of Berkeley, will be sub- mitted to the jury now listening to the arguments in the case Thursday’ after- noon. This was agreed upon at the con- today's proceedings, when Judge T. W. Harris directed Attorneys Everett Brown and A. L. Frick to agree {as to the amount of time they would yet consume in their addresses. He then an- nounced that the arguments would close by 11 o'clock Thursday, when he would begin reading the instructions, and that the case would be submitted for consid- eration Thursday afternoon, as soon after the noon recess as possible. Today, like yesterday, was spent in ar- gument, and a day and a half of the same is still in prospect for the jurors. Deputy District Attorney Everett Brown talked all of yesterday, and Attorney Frick for the defense talked all of today. He says he will finish tomorrow afternoon, and then Attorney Brown will have the clos- ; ing speech, which he will conclude Thurs- day morning CHURCH LOSES HOLD ON NEW CONDITIONS Dartmouth’s President Urges Broader Scope of Chris- tian Work. BERKELEY, April 3.—President W. J. Tucker of Dartmouth College felivered the third lecture of the Barl series of lectures in the First Congregational Church tonight, his subject being: ““The Moral Concern of Modern Christianity.” He sald in part: Religlon, in e slightly broadened sense, is the most interesting thing in -the world. The eearch after truth in the way of the logical inquiry is the expression of this 1 In one form or another religion : interesting thing; tne form, however, It may speculative, emotional, al, etc. But while this critical spirit has | been everywhere evident within the sphere of religious truth, it has been conspicuously ab- eent from other spheres of thought and ac- tivity. So that we have this singular incon- sistency in the mental habit of our age—a mental habit on the one hand supremely cr ical toward truth and on the other hand utterly uncritical toward power, the material power of the age. Out of this inconsistency there has developed an economic and social n_which constitutes the present moral of Christianity, The church sees that the external condi- tions of its life have marvelously changed within the generation.. The material forces with which it had to do in the earlier stages of their development have expanded far bevond its’ control. The astonishing fact about the wealth of our time is Its comparative Inacces- #ibility for Christian enterprises. More significant still than the incapacity to cope with such forces is the lack of mioral control over the productive processes of the new wealth. More merious still is the practical elimina- tion of a large olass of the population from the church, The distinctively industrial popu- lation s not distinctively Christian; to the average member the: labor union stands in place of the church. Capital in its normal use, as the agent of production, is moral; more effectually moral than it can be made to be by any dtheér,use. The increase of capital need not alter its character; growth carries with it possibilities of harm, if the harmful element grows more rapidly than the good as of other things. The trust, as an aggregation of capital, may introduce ‘harmful elements which would- not have grown under the: natural increase of capital in a single case. It s as vet too early to say whether or not there is a danger in the trust which does not inhere in the ordinary enlargement of capital. There are single corporations Which are more nearly monopolles than any trust which has vet ap- peared. Putting ourselves, however, in the place of the man who has caught most completely the spirit of our age, the spirit of work, it does not follow that we are to allow this spirit to go unchecked as it takes possession of men. My protest is against the uncritical habit of mind of our generation toward material power. No man can guarantee the ethical quality of power or of powerful men. Inventiveness is the creative spirit which has made of the modern world a huge workshop. Here is lo- cated the seat of power. The dominant in- terest and force of our time is industrialism. Christianity now has the opportunity and therefore the obligation, to enter as a con- trolling spirit into the organized life of the world. In no respect can Christianity show more clearly its capacity to deal with man as the subject of progress than by . dealing With men of whatever type under the present conditions of material progress. ——————————— HOLD ANNUAL CONVENTION. OAKLAND, April 3.—The annual con- vention of the Alameda County Sunday- school Association was held today at the Union-street Presbyterian Church, the opening session being held this aft- ernoon. The convention closed - this evening with the election of officers for ‘the ensuing year and a general discu: sion of Sunday-school work in Alameda County. The afternoon session was devoted t the reading of reports of the year's work in the various Sunday-schools throughout Alameda Coynty, and ad- dresses by the Rev. F. H. Maar of the Fourth: Congregational® Church, Miss Clara L. Ewalt_of Columbus, Ohio, and C. R. Fisher, general. secretary of the association. At the close"of the session luncheon was served by the ladics of the church. At the evening session ad- dresses were made by the Rev. J.. C. Bolster, the Rev. C. 8. Patterson of San Franciscosand Professor Willlam F. ‘Bade of the Pacific Theological Semi- nary. tions by the Reliance Club quartet, composed of . James ,McVey, Norman Stanley, Frank Figone and Lowell Red- field. Refreshments will be served Che new series of jinks has been in- augurated to promote goodfellowship in the club and create interest in in- 1 creasing the mecmbership roll. | i ———————— - LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. { ARRIVED. ' Taesday, Aoril 3. ! Stmr Pomona, Swanson, 17 nours from Eu- ks, reka. Stmr Columbia, Doran, 58 hours from Port- , via Astoria 45 hou: 8 stmr Saturn, from Magdalena SAILED esda; Stmr Aberdeen, Ifstrom, for Gr: Eunr Samea, dsen, SDar. Bark Mohican, Hersey, Honolulu. Power schr_Sotoyome, ‘Bash, - Stu; #n operation- for appendicitis being thought necessary, e Secretary Hendersori has been fer three days under the special care of George Reinharat of the univer- Neither Dr. Reinhardt nor the um people have until -today made public the facts of Mr. Hender- son's grave condition. scorder James Sutton is filling Sec- retary Henderson's place in part at California Hall. Scbr Ro; { " OUTSIDE BOUM Scbr Anteloge. e EPWORTH LEAGUE TO BANQUET.—A great gathering and banquet of the Epworth League will take place at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Twenty-first street, near :‘f;‘é:‘ on Friday evening, April 6 at 7 o 2 ents in hand are C. H H. C. Wistrand. L. Paltengl Davis. _ 5 man, J. Tooker, Miss C. on the committee having the N A suggestions as to —_— e NEW- PRESIDENT ‘ELECTED. OAKLAND, Apfil*3.—Dr. A. H. Pratt ‘ligs been-elected president of the Board of Bducation. The néw: standing com- mittees are as follows: Classification — CIlift, Wood and Rogers. Evening schools — Hathaway, ~Red- ington, Ingler. g Finance — Redington, Hathaway, CIlift. Furniture and supplies—Nunan, Wil- cox, Crandall. 2 S e High schools—Wilcox, Isaacs, Wood. Industrial ~ education—Wood, Isaacs, ru. Newell, 5 days 4 hours | Ingler. Judiciary—-Crandall, - Clift, —Reding- ton. g 5 Observatory—Ingler, Crandall, Nu- nan. AR Ty TRl e Rules and: regulations—Rogers, Wil- cox, Nunan, Yo AT Sehoollouses . Hathaway, { OAKLAND, April 3.—Revision of ‘the municipal charter has been broached in the City Council. Councilman Thurston has introduced a resolution requesting ‘TO REVISE CITY CHARTER. el The city has outgrown its present or- zanic “law, acrording to the resolution. | Grand Jury to Investigate Conditions Revealed by the Rey. P. C. MacFarlane OFFICIALS SUBPENAED President of Board of Trus- tees and Chief of Police Haled Before Inquisitors ALAMEDA, April 3.—The Grand Jury is to begin an investigation of conditions in Alameda, as disclosed by the Rev. P. C. MacFarlane, pastor of the First Christian Church of that city, in his crusade against the violation of the alleged violation of the liquor law and alleged violatlon of the liquor law, and running of Chinese lotteries will also be investigated. The recent action of the clergyman in himself getting evidence against poolrooms and cigarette sellers and the discovery that liquor has been served to young girls in the back rooms of saloons in the Encinal City have caused the Grand Jury to take action. The inquisitorial body -today issued subpenas for the Rev. P. C. MacFarlane, W. J. Gorham, president of the Board of Town Trustees, Chief of Police Con- rad, and City Justice of the Peace R. B. Tappan. They will be asked to place any evidence which they may possess in the hands of the jury, ALAMEDA GOUNTY NEWS HORSE AND COW BURN.—Oakland, April 3.—Sparks from a chimney set fire- to the barn of Owen Riley at 820 Thirty-first street at 9 oclock tonight and & horse and cow perished. VALUABLE CAMERAS STOLEN.—Oakland, April 3.—Mrs. James Bixby of Baker avenue, Fruitvale, has repofted the theft of an assort- ment of cameras from her home. The cameras were valued at $300, SAYS HUSBAND LEFT HER.—Oakland, April 3.—A suit for divorce was begun today by Anna E. Wedekind against George L. Wede- kind. She alleges desertion. They were mar- ried in Plumas County in 1861. GAMBLER = FORFEITS BAIL.—Oakland, April 3.—Robert Willlams, arrested for sell- ing pools cn the races at Bmeryville, forfeited an aggregate of $100 bail this morning. There were three charges against him. JUDGE MELVIN ‘TO LECTURE.—Oakland, April 8.—Superior Judge Henry A. Melvin will begin & course of lectures on ‘‘Medical Jurls- prudence’” at the Oakland College of Medicin: and Surgery on Thursday evening, April 6. FILE DUGDELL WILL —Ouakland, April 3. The will of the late Charles Dugdell was filed for probate this afterncon and shows the es- tate to be worth §20,656.62, He left his estate to & number of sons and daughters, who sur- yive him. MERCHANT IS DISCHARGED.—Oakland, April 3.—J. A. Harvey, a merchant of Marys- ville, who was accused of stealing $35 from George E. Faw, a real estate dealer and poli- tician, was discharged by Police Judge Smith today, owing to the fact that no complaint had been filed against him. TRAIN STRIKES MILK CART.—Alameda, | April & —John Vallejo and a milk cart he driving were struck by a local train on Encinal avenue, ear Oak street, Jags aight. Valleip was knocked Into the street and badly brulsed. The cart was wrecked and the horse injured €0 that it had to be destroyed. PRESBYTERY TO MEET.-Oakland, April 8.—The Oaklatd presbytery, will hold its regular meeting at the First byterian Church of Berkeley. The first sesslon of the meeting Wiil be held on Monday evening, April 16, and three sessions, morning, - afterrioon and even- ing, will be held on-the following dsy. OMITS AMOUNT FOR CHWRCH.—Oakland, April 8.—The will of the late Michael Heeney was filed for probate with the County Clerk today and discloses that while there was a clause in the will leaving nioney 'to the parish priest of St. Francis de Sales Church for masses, the anunt, bowever, is omitted. The estate is valued at over §10,000. WELL-KNOWN CONTRACTOR DEAD.— Oakland, April 3.—Willlam P, Wetmiore, a well-known_contractor”of this City, died last night at his home, 563 Eleventh street, aged 73 years. The deceased has resided in Oakland for the last thirty-one years. A widow and four children, I. W. and Willlam Wetmore, Mrs. W. D. Moody and Mrs. W. S. Higgins, survive. THORNE TO GET FEE.—Oakland, April 3. Decision was given in favor of -Dr. W. S. Thorne today by Judge Melvin in his suit agafnst the estate of the late Josephine Duns- muir for one-hall of a fee of § He was paid $1000 on account, but had to sue for the remainder, the claim belng made that the sum was all the services were worth. ACCUSES HIS ACCUSERS.—Oakland, April 3.—Lee Quinn, a young rugmaker of East Oak- land, who_was recently arrested on complaint of Mrs, Jemnie Montgomery and discharged, has sworn to complaints charging the woman and her husband, Rdward Montgomery, with attempted blackmail. He alleges that his ar- rest was the result of his refusal to give the Montgomerys §100. MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Oakland, April 3. The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk today: Robert M. Henning- sen, 48, Goldfield, and Agnes C. Sansome, 85, Oakland; Charles Heatley, 30, and Char- lotte S, ' Elses, th of Oakland: Harry Cohn, 30, Biggs, and Mildred Ross, 24, Oakland; Max E. E. Rickter, 26, and Nell G. Fordham, 28, bLoth of Elmburst. ~ REPRIMANDEI IN COURT.—0ak- land, April 8.—Mre. Fred Graves reappeared in the Police Court thfs morning to testify against her former husband, whom she had arrested for battery several times, and owing to her fll-timed and aggravating remarks she was _admonished by Prosecuting Attorney Leach, who threatencd her with imprisonment. Judge Smith discharged Graves with the ad- Vice that he.stay away from the woman. WILL: SUE BONDSMEN.—Oakland, April 3.—Suit was begun today against Arthur P. Holland and L. N. Cobbiedick as sureties for E. J. Stewart for the sum of $2154.62 by War- ren G. Sanborn. The defendants are bondsmen for Stewart, who is a potary public, and it is alleged he certified to a_signature that has caused Sanborn the logs of the sum sued for. The actlon i the result of a fraudulent land eale perpetrated by a man pretending to be James Irvine of San Franclsco. - ALDRICH /| SEEKS ~ ESTATE.—Oakland, April 3.—Hearing of George A. Aldrich's pe. tition to recover an cstate of $124,705, which is held in trust for him by his sisters, Mrs. Annie A. Barton and Mrs. Helen A. Dunning, was commenced today in the Probate Court. Ald- rich has made many futile attempts to break the trust. He was jrovided for by his father, the late Willlam Aldrich, the trust being ar- ranged because the son was not’ deémed men— tally competent, it ix said. The trust has been handled with scrupylous fidelity. TRUSTEBS AT OUTS.—Alameda, April 3.— City Trustees W. J. Gorham and E. J. Probst are at outs as a Tesult of the appointment of Nelson C. Hawks to be a library trusteé, vice John Lutgen,” restgned. -Probst asserts that Gorham, Who is president of the municipal board, had promised him tbat he would ap- point G. Harold Ward library trustee and that he had broken his word. Gorham ex- plained that he changed his decision to name Ward at the reques; of the West End Im- provement Association, which had indorsed Hawks for the position ———————— DEATH OF A PIONEER. OAKLAND, April 3—The funeral of' Robert Pfluger, a pioneer of California, and one of the most respected citizens of Oakland, who died Monday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence, 927 Linden street. Born in Germany in 1821, Mr. Pfluger came to America as a boy and grew into an American citizen of sterl- ing character. In 1851, with his wife, he made the long journey from Illinois across the pldins, settling in Northern California. Afterward he went to Ne- vada and éngaged in mining for many years. He had resided In Oakland for twenty-five years, but retained his min- ing interests as president of the Sun- light Mining Company. He would have been 85 years old in July. There are five children surviving, Robert L., Ed- mund, Mary, Katherine and Emma. EARCHLICHT CHARGES STICK 70 |Grand .Jurymen Refuse to Testify - Against Official ThgyJ Sald Was “Crooked™” EIKERENKOTTER SCORES Superintendent - of ‘San Ma- .teo’s Poor Farm Shows He Simply-Made Few Eirors REDWOOD . CITY, April 3.—The in- vestigation by the Board of Supervisors into charges against Albert Eikerenkot- ter, superintendent of the County Poor Farm, embodied in the last report of the Grand Jury, was held today. No evidence was produced to warrant the charges made against Eikerenkotter. No one ap- peared before the Supervisors to father the charges. The Supervisors were forced to subpena " Foreman Xnight of the i Grand Jury before they could get him before them, although he was in town at i the hour set for the investigation. District Attorney - Bullock refused to proceed with the investigation, claiming that his' duty lay simply in acting as legal adviser to .the board upon any questions of .Jaw which might arise. At- torney George C. Ross, representing Albert Elkerenkotter, after vainly en- deavoring., to get some member of the Grand Jury present to take up the mat- ter .on: behalf of that body, took it up on behalf of his client, Foreman Knight and Secretary Brown of the Grand Jury were put upon the stand, but they refused to tesiify, de- claring the Jaw would not permit them to divulge what occurred in the jury room and that the report was there to show for itself. District Attorney Bullock then stated that a number of persons had been sub- penaed and were present to testify to other alleged offenses not covered by the report of the Grand Jury, but Mr. Ross objected. He sald his cllent had come there prepared to refute the charges made against him and which had been published, and that he was prepared to g0 on with such investigation. Eikerenkotter was placed on the stand and soon explained away the alleged discrepancies with the exception of a few errors in his books which he admitted frankly while on the stand. Mr. Ross showed errors in the report of the Grand Jury greater than in those admitted by the accused. Reports from the County Treasurer's and Auditor’'s books and comparison with the report of the Grand Jury for 1904 showed that in 1905 Mr. Eikerenkotter had conducted the County Farm in a more economical manner than in 1904 when he was praised by the Grand Jury. The produce from the farm alleged to have been sold and not accounted for was shown by the Treasurer’s report to have been accounted for months back. The Supervisors took the matter under advisement. It is expected they will exonerate.the accused official. STANFORD LAW CLASS® ELECTS OFFICERS Students Deecide That They " Prefer ‘i:T.]I));;’ to “L. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April 3.— G. D. Boalt of Palermo and C. L. Fire- baugh of Palo Alto have been elected, re- spectively, president and secretary of the graduate class in law, which will'be grad- uated next month. This class will be the first to receive the degree of juris doctor from Stanford. Some time ago the academic council = abolished the old LL.D., which had heretofore been conferred for three years' law study, and substituted the newer J. D., making it optional, however, with the outgoing class which of the degrees they should receive. At 8 recent meeting the class decided for the J. D. degree. —_—————— STUDENT NOMINATIONS. BERKELEY, April 3.—Ollie F. Snedi- gar, the idol of the college men, be- cause of his magnificent work as an athlete and all-around university man, was nominated for the office of graduate student manager by Phil M. Carey at a meeting of the Associate Students to- day in Harmon gymnasium. Snedigar is captain of the track team, and has been a football star for three years. He is a member of the Bachelordon Club. L. D. Bohnett, a prominent Y. M. C. A, man and a former editor of the Call- fornian, is Snedigar's only rival. He was nominated for the place today by F. P. Grifliths. Other nominations were wmade as follows: FPresident of the As- sociated Students, R. P. Merritt and R. H. Van Sant; vice president, George Jones; secretary, R. C. Farrel and C. H. Ramsden. —————————— PIONEER WOMAN DEAD. ALAMEDA, April 3.—Mrs. Margaret Kane, widow of the late capitalist, Michael Kane, and a pioneer woman of California, passed away this afternoon at her residence, 752 Lincoln avenue. She was a native of Maryland, 92 years of age, and descended from the people who settled in Maryland and Virginia a generation before the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Kane came to California in 1850 and had made her home here for twenty-two years. She is survived by two sons, Frank and Charles Kane, and three daughters, Mrs. R. W. Theobald, Mrs. E. G. Buckley and Miss Mollie Kane. Her funeral is to take place Friday morning from St. Joseph's Church. GIRL WHO SLEPT 13 WEEKS IS BETTER Recovers Health After Suf- fering From a Puzzling Malady. LOS° ANGELES, April 8.—Miss Florence Parker, whose mysterious sleep for thir- teen weeks excited the interest of the medical fraternity all over the country, has just left the Sisters’ Hospital and will remain in the city a few weeks visiting friends. Miss Parker is the daughter of a wealthy Arizona mining man. She began her strange sleep at Tucson, A. T., and gradually lapsed into coma. For weeks ghe lay in a trance, and until about two weeks ago there was little hope of her re- covery. She began to recover consclous- ness, however, and has gradually come into a normal condition. e et e Germany Not Opposing Russian Loan. BERLIN, April 3—The Boersen Cour- ier, which #as pro-Russian Umpnhlu‘ denies that the German Governmen s decided to shut the German market to the proposed new Russian loan, PESCADERD (Ocean-Shore Company Is Be- hind Scheme to Build Line Through Rich Timber Belt WILL PARALLEL CREEK et Fab Road Will Shorten Trip Between San Francisco and Sania Cruz by Ten Miles s R Special Dispatch to The Call PESCADERO, April 3.—Several of the owners and promoters of -~ the . Ocean Shore Railroad have taken a step _!hn! has set railroad gossips agog and given 2 new impetus to the plans and hopes of timber.men In the Pescadero. Valley. The Pescadero Railway and Improve- ment Company has quietly been incor- porated and measures have been taken to tap one of the richest redwood tim- ber belts in the State. The capital stock of the new railroad, which is pal- pably an oftshoot.of the Ocean Shore Rallroad and feeder to it, has been fixed at $600,000. The . incorporators are John B. Rogers, chief engineer of the Ocean Shore Railroad; Walter L. Dean, Lewis H. Sage, Robert J. Gra- ham, J. H. Goldman, L. R. Natbohm and George Leungh. 3 The new railroad will start near the town of Pescadero and will parallel Pescadero Creek for a distance of eight miles. It will tap the rich timber belt and carry the product to the San Fran- cisco market. they choose, may utilize the route into this valley as a part of the system from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. should be done the trip between the two cities would be shortened at least ten miles. It is expected that the Southern Pa- cific Company, which has spent many thousands of dollars in surveys of the Pescadero Valley, will meet the rivalry of its competitor by building a road of its own. LABOR DIFFERENCES REFERRED TO MAYOR| Carriage Owners Allege That Strikers Have Been An- noying Them. g Delegates from the Stable and Car- riage Owners’ Association called on the Mayor yesterday to make complaint against alleged unfair treatment at the hands of the striking stablemen, whom they charged with carrying on a system of _violence against patrons of their stables. Some of the delegates went so far as to say that harness had been cut and other offenses committed. The Mayor promised that there would be no destruction of property or other acts of violence tolerated by either side to the issue involved. In the meantime, he promised to make a personal investi- gation of the situation. The Hackmen's Unlon represented to the Mayor that its members had been interfered with by men from the Stable- men's Union who ordered them oft O'Far- rell street while they were waiting to take their customers home from the theaters. - This allegation will also be ia- vestigated by the Mayor, as he declared | that this act, if really committed, would be an Infringement on labor -union prin- ciples. Collls P. Lovely, grand vice president of the International Boot and Shoe Work- ers’ Union of America, has made his an- pearance in this city on a tour of in- spection and investigation, The Steam Pipe and. Boiler Coverers’ Union, No. 16, has become affillated with the National Association of Heat, Froat, General Insulators and Asbestos Work- ers of America. This affiliation brings several trade crafts. under one general management. A permanent protest committee, formed from the numerous laber organizatiens in this city, has been established in the in- terest of Meyer, Haywood, Pettibone and St. John, the men now confined in an Idaho jail. This committee, represent- ing fifty-seven labor organizations, will have full charge of the mass-meeting to | be held in Woodward's Gardens on next Sunday. ., Plasterers’ Union No. 66 elected the fal- lowing officers for the President, M. Callabhan; vice-president, Willlam Mulvihill; recording _secmetary, M. Riley; financial secretary, John Twy- ford; corresponding secretary, Alfred Fork; treasurer, George Keck; sergeant- at-arms, T. L, Callahan. ————— DESERTED WIFE ATTEMPTS TO END HER EXISTENCE Mrs. Luey Lang Takes Polson Because Her Husband, a Cook, Left Her Penulless. ensuing term: Despondent because her husband had deserted her, Mrs. Lucy Lang attempted to end her life last night by taking poi- son. She was discovered in time, how- ever, and was rushed to the Central Emergency Hospital, where antidotes were administered and she was soon out of danger. She refused to say where she got the poison or what Kind it was, al- though she admits that the stuff she took was deadly. Mrs. Lang’s husband is a cook. Several months ago he inherited considerable money, she declares. When the weaith came his affection for her cooled quickly and he finally left her destitute. She had beén unable to get work, she said, and seeing that she would soon have to face starvation she decided to dle. Woman’s that hour Not only will this be‘. done, but the Ocean Shore people. If If this | pectant mother must so full of st she looks 3t WILL BEAUTIFY ~ HOME OF DEAD |Citizens of San Mateo Take Steps to Preserve Cemeter) Presented by Mrs. Parroti FREE NO MORE PLATS Committee Appointed to De- vise Plans for Restora- tion of Burial Ground Spectal Dispatch to The SAN MATEO, April 3.—Determinad efforts are now being made to restors St. John's Cemetery and Dreserve it as one of the beautiful places in San Ma { teo County. The ground for this cem etery was given to the public by Mrs A. M. Parrott, whe indicated her desira that no charge be made for plats. Tha land was deaded to the Arehbishop of this diocese in trust for the people, anc a board of three trustees was crea Rev. Father Callaghan, Mrs. R. Hayne and John Parrott are now tacting appointed trustees. pected that plat owners would contri ute at -least to keep the grounds good -condition. This has not t It was ex- ) been done, and all appeals for proper cars of the sacred place have been in vain The cemetery has gome rapidly into | decay until it appears that something must be done at once. At the meeting called to discuss the situation Duncan Hayne presided. He recited the various difficulties tha have met every effort to preserve tho cemetery ‘as a beautiful place. Plat owners have refused te respond, and caretakers have been discouraged to the point of resignation. It was sug- | gested therefore that in future a | eharge be made for the plats and a | portion of the money thus realized be | reserved for a perpetual care fund This view of the case was supported by Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey, Charles M Morse and J. G. McCarthy. It was an nounced that the Archbishep is willing to accept any reasonable regulations | the plat-owners care to adopt. | It was decided, therefore, to appoi ja committee with authority to establish { suitable rules and regulations for the maintenance of the cemetery These laws will be submitted to the Arch- bishop and the trustees for their ap- proval. The commitiee having this | matter in charge is as follows: Rev. N B. W. Gallwey, Rev. J. H. Kimball, Dun can Hayne, James Duffy Jr. and Charles M. Morse. HARDY CANADIANS MAKE ROUGH TRIP Break Ice for 400 Miles on Journey Down to Mae- I pherson. SEATTLE, April 3—The advance guard of the mounted police expedition which left Dawson on December 20 for Fort Macpherson, on the Mackenzle River, Yeached the Dominion today. The object of the trip was to establish an all-winter route between Dawson and Macpherson. The second half of the expedition is ex- pected at Dawson in ten days, with mail from Herschel. The party got through without mishap, although it experienced weather 70 below zero. Better time was | made than had been expected. They had | to break the ice for 400 miles and encoun- tered snow on both trips. The expedition took a mew route, via Mayo, and passed over the Rocky Mountains to the north- east. | ———— | Raise Pay of Police Officers. BAN JOSE, April 3.—The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in session td | night raised the salary of every officer | connected with the Police Department $19 | per month. Money was also appropriated for the purchase of new fire apparatus. —_———— BUSINESS WOMAN'S LEAGUE HOLDS ELECTION OF OFFICERS Mrs. Clara Folts s Honored and Dele- gntes to National Conventien Are Selected. The annual convention of the Califor- nia Business Woman's League was held in the assembly room of the Parrott building last night. Mrs. Clara §. Foltz, retiring State president, was unani- mously elected honorary president, and Mrs., Harriett Yale Orton, Mrs. Martha Herrick and Miss E. L. Kinney, attor- ney at law of Los Angeles wers elect- ed delegates to the National Business ‘Woman's League in Chicago, which will meet on June 10. The following State officers wers elected for the next year to serve the California Business Woman's League | Mary Fairbrother, president; Mrs. Dor- othy J. Johnson, redording y Mrs. Donnizella Aldrich, vice president; Mrs. Mae E. Johnson, treasurer; Mrs, Sannie H. de Wet, organizer; all of San Francisco. The league will hold its next meeting at 710 Taylor street Tuesday evening, April 17, at 8 o'clock. ———e—— - Supervisor s Too Fast. Supervisor Rea and his automebile were pinched last night on Baker street. near the panhandle. The chauffeur, John J. Pageol, was booked at the Park Police Station for fast ‘mobiling. The arrest was made by Policeman McKevitt, whe is detailed with a motor cyele to do this sort of work. Rea’'s auto was tearing }along like a limited making up time, b the motor policeman managed to ca up. , When a debutante can appear uncoi- scious . in a low-neck gown she is beg!n ning te cateh on. Is to love and no home can be co . ; pletay e forward to the critical jon and dread.