The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1906, Page 14

: HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, = 906 DEGLARES LIOUOR RULED SOLDIER. Eye Witness to Shooting| of Myers Testifies| Steinman Was Drunk| TWO SHOTS FIRED drunk, from his ac- | “Steinman w tions. The soldiers were all drunk, from their actions. Bush talked to Myers. Then Myers said ‘shut up’ and Steinman fired two shots and walked away."—Testimony given by Myer Walk, who saw the shooting of Special Policeman Myers by Jacob Steinman, soldier, in Columbia Square on the afternoon of April 18. e eye witnesses to the ring witnesses testimony, obo-~ the thelr by one co evidence shot his without cipal wit- ruel Shortridge on of Walk. It n Stein- | for vol-| id that after | ked away | given for by a tilt ttorney for Shortridge. questi at a confuse the marked tha: all mat- ed to the court stilled LS PROFERTY A N HOTELS will soon be in| in San Fran- on the north- and Octavia | is owned by Mr: frontage of 214:6 137:6 feet on Octe peck & Co. it has been of four years, with | ns aggregating | Shattuck & Des- | ti Company. The to- | be $96,500. rn’ purposes building large court designed | old Palace tel. s with it an ¥tion lot on the southwest and Bush streets, before mentioned otal rental for the same 60. It is expected that | ill avail themselves of ion and use it as part of their tter Speck & Co. the executors ate of the late Irving af. Scott rranged to Jease to Edwin R.| Frank E. Clark and Charles L. | E reinforced concrete be erected on the| corner of Ellis street and between Powell and Mason 2 period of ten years and a 1 3 0. The building 1 n res, a cafe on 1e ground fioor and lodging-rooms. lding will cost $150,000 and wiil mpleted in about six months. E er important lease arranged for by Speck & Co. is for the property on 2 lot on the south side of Turk street, between Larkin and Polk streets. The lot has a frontage of 137:6 feet and is | owned by Mrs. Charlotte F. Clarke, who will build for the T. Brilllant Furniture Company a five-story reinforceu con- crete building containing stores on ihe ground fioor and 180 rooms above. The lease is for ten years and cais for a total rental of $240,000. The building | ill cost $140,000 and will be designed Meyer & O'Brien. —_— CONSTRUCTION COMPANY NOT SUBJECT TO TAX ON CARS Answering communication from Tax Collector Nichols, City Attorney William Butke declares that the West- ern States Construction Company, in his opinien, is not subject to the pay- ment of a license for the operation of railroad earth cars, as provided for in an ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors in 1903. Burke says that it does not appear hat the company is in the business of racting for any person other than the Southern Pacific, and is therefore not in the business of operating freight or earth cars. In addition, the opinion says that the work is being performed in conformity with a franchise that granted the Southern Pacific a right of way over certain streets, and that, to carry out the franchise, the railroad company has the right to use certain machinery. | of ‘the Blessed Virgin.” | redemptio: Sproule Quits Southern Pacific fo Manage Sn}elf_er TrusT_._ Guggenheims Will Pay Him $35,000 a Year. G.W. Luce Probable ‘Successor on Railroad. ILLIAM SPROULE has re- signed his position as freight trafic manager of the South- | ern Pacific to become the manager of the smelter trust, probably the biggest industrial traffic position in the world today. He will step out of the service of the railroad on September 1, take a month's rest and | on October 1 assume his new duties. He will manage the traffic interests of the great Guggenheim smelting corpor- ations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Africa, small corporations by the hundred and several railway and steamship lines. Sproule was secured by the Guggen- heims during their visit to the Pacific Coast last February. He is the second Harriman man to go with the smelter trust. He succeeds F. W. Eccles, who went East from the Oregon Short Line several years ago and who is now vice president of the trust. proule began work for the Southern Pacific as a clerk in the freight de- partment in 1882. He is recognized as the greatest freight traffic manager in the West. His salary with the trust v it is said, be $35,000 year. | out of the Southern Pacific service, he will retain his conmnection with Harriman, for the latter is in- terested with the Guggenheims. G. W. Luce, general freight agent of | the Southern Pacific, will probably suc- ceed Sproule. No official appointment | h et been made. Luce entered the | ce of the Southern Pacific as a trafic a ser { clerk in the auditing department twen- | ty-two years ago. PRAISES THE NUNS AND FATHERS. Archbishop Montgom- ery Speaks of Their Service After the Fire In Jefferson Square last night Arch- bishop Montgomery and Father Wil- liam Sullivan officiated at the celebra- tion of “The Feast of the Assumption The services consisted of the rosary, litany, sermon and benediction. In his sermon-Arch- bishop Montgomery said: | “I am very proud of the priests and the nuns of San Francisco, who from the day of the disaster followed the refugees into the camps and remained with them and encouraged them and sympathized with them. I am also proud of the refugees and I congratu- late them on the general spirit of pa- tience and the rourage manifested. “Doubtless there has been suffering, but that suffering has been mitigated as far as the generosity of a great| people could mitigate it. Speaking on his theme “Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, What It Is and the Reason for It,” his Grace said: “The devotion is one of honor and reverence and the reason is her neces- sary relation to the incarnation of ou Lord. We cannot even think of the in carnation, we cannot even pronounce he name of Jesus Christ without t thinking of the Blessed Virgin and no man can fully understand the incarna- tion unless he understands her place in the Catholic church. One of the reasons, to my mind, why so many Christian people have lost their hold upon the great contral truth of Chris- tiani namely the incarnation of X is that they have for some rea- | son or other, separated the Blessed Virgin from her place in the plan of atEka CONTROL OF aPRING VALLEY, Local financial circles are deeply in- | terested in a story to the effect that | the control of the Spring Valley Water Company will soon pass into new hands. Accordihg to this report, a syndicate of San Francisco capitalists has been formed for the purpose of purchasing the majority of tue com- pany’s stock and reorganizing the cor- poration. W. B. Bourne is credited with being the father of the financial project, which, it is claimed, is being worked quietly through the medium of several brokerage firms. The majority of the Spring Valley Company's stock is distributed among small holders, | while the bulk of the company's bonds are held by 1. W. Hellman for his banking concerns and a number of his wealthy clients. The proposition is to buy up the stock as the opportunity presents it- self. - For quite a time the stock has been quoted at a very low figure and has not been an inviting investment to the speculator. It is carrying an assessment which, with the constant | agitation for 8 municipal water plant and the added expenses resulting from the recent earthquake and fire, has had a strong tendency to weaken the stock on the market. According to well-informed men who pretend to enjoy the confidence of those | who are in the deal, it is the intention of W. B. Bourne and his associates, in the event of their scheme being suc- cessful, to spend several million dollars in improving the company’s property in order to meet the requirements of a greater San Francisco. They have been quietly at work for several months and are said to have secured a large number of shares of stock in the market and from private sources. LR, e TR Hop Prices Jump High. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 15.—The hop growers of Sonoma County are jubilant over' the raise in prices during the month. - Less than four weeks ago they were begging for 10 cents per pound for this year's crop and were refused. A shert time later the price went to 12 cents, and then has ad- vanced a cent at a time until today 18 cents was offered and several grow- | ers were requested to give a refusal of their entire crop at 20 cents until e e Eyes Inflamed by Dust and Smoke? Wurise Eye Bemedy Sootbes, Quickly Cuies, # tomorrow evening. The indications | accomplished. | Dorchester. | They will return here tomorrow for a| — BAVBLING TO S0P alON IN SIAM. Emperor by a Gradual Process Puts on the| Lid in His Country The Emperor of Siam decided a few years ago to stop gambling there.| According to Rev. F. L. Snyder, a Pres- | byterian missionary, who arrived on | Monday on the liner Hongkong Maru, | the Emperor has made good to the ex- | tent that in all Siam only-nine gamb- | ling houses now exist and next April they will be closed and the land will| be free of the evil. The Siamese by nature are as fond of gambling as the Chinese, and the police | s of this city show how far the| will go to indulge his favorite | am covers considergbly more| v than Chinatown and shelters ,000,000 more people than the | late Oriental quarter did. But the Em- peror stopped gambling just the same. He started in a few years ago. He divided the country into districts and issued a decree forbidding gambling in | certain outlying provinces at the ex- piration of a stated period. The im- perial ban was then laid on other| provinces less remote. Gradually the| circle narrowed. The number of gamb- | ling houses in Bangkok meanwhile | was judiciously reduced. ! “Gamble all you want while you| may. When the time comes to quit, | continue at your peril,” was the sub- | tance of the Emperor’s order. In Siam what the Government says, goes and when the time came the gamblers| bowed to the inevitable. When Mr. Sn left Bangkok nine gambling houses i operation there with Government license to run until the Siamese New Year, which be- | ins next April. | When the time comes,” said Mr. | nyder, “those houses will close and | the most wonderful reform ever at- tempted in any land will have been| There has not been a| single case of disobedience and I firm- Iy believe that after next April gamb- ling in Siam will have been absolutely | wiped out.” | =3 Paul Mohr of Merced is at the | sav | K. M. Smith cf Sacramento is at the Savoy. E. A. Pruguiere of Monterey is at the St. Francis. C. A. Webber and wife of Los An- geles are ai the Dorchester. A. Luly and party of Los Angeles, who are touring the State, are at lI|e‘ | PERSONAL F. H. L. Harris, a clothing meychant of | Los Angeles, who has been visiting the East, iy at the Baltimore. Albert Steinberg, manager of the Baltimore Hotel, and his wife have gone to the Hotel del Monte for a two | weeks' vacation. Fred S. Morris, one of the million- aires of Portland, Or.. and John D. Wil- cox, prominent in real estate circles in Portland, passed through the city yes- terday in a private car for Los Angeles. | few days and will be at the Majestic. e S YL i Insolvent Merchant. | T. A. Ronsheimer, a merchant of Se- | bastopol, filed a petition in insolvency | yesterday in the United States District | Court. He owes $1964 and has $1000 | assets. | SUITING Quaker Cloth. Al wool. A very soft material which WILL NOT CATCH DUST. Smart and dressy and will give won- derful wear. A fabric which we can heartily commend. All leading shades in stock. _ A yard - 75¢ Use PEROLIN An Anti = Dust are that 25 cents will be reached be- fore thie crop-is ready to Marvest ~ Sweeping Powder | complaint of Special Pension Examiner | occult way, Stearns, a few years later, | vesterday to the receivership suit, | 8un by his wife, Rush denies that she | mem PHYSICINS AGREE 1570 STEARNS Three Army Surgeons Certify That He Was Disabled by an Injury TRIED FOR FAKING Four doctors, and army doctors at that, agreeing in their diagnosis of the physical condition of Howard Stearns at different times were the trump cards played by the defense yesterday at Stearns’ preliminary examination be- fore United States Commissioner Hea- cock. Stearns had been aryested on O. L. Sues, who accused him of having presented a fraudulent app..cation for a pension. It was charged by Assist- ant United States Attorney Ben L. Mc- Kinley that Stearns had received an injury to his spine in Schenectady ten | years ago that had been pronounced in- curable by a physician; that, in some succeeded in passing an examination for enlistment before a regular army surgeon who failed to discover that Stearns was afflicted with any malady, and that Stearns could at will simulate curvature of the spine so well as to | deceive the most experienced surgeons. Stearns, In answer to the questions of Willlam B. Bealizley, one of his at- torneys, said that the original injury | had been cured before he applied for enlistment and that the fact that he passed the medical examination was proof of that statement. He said that the injury which at present incapaci- tated him from hard physical labor had been brought about while playing an official game of baseball on May 8, 1904, at the Benicia Barracks, when he was a soldier in the United States Signal Corps. He showed also that before he filed his application for a pension he was examined by a board of three army surgeons in Oakland, who signed his application and certified to the na- ture of his injur The case will be submitted this aft- ernoon. —_— RUSH 15 OPPOSED T0° REGEIVER. Says Wife Paid Him to Marry Her and Did Not Advance Money Tommy Rush declares formally that his wife, Lizzie, bought and paid $2000 for him. The fact that Tommy claims toc have been purchused as a husband has been published. In his answer filed b lent him $2300 with which to start the saloon on McAllister street, which is the object of dispute. On the other hand Rush alleges that he entered into a contract on Febru- ary 1, 1806, by which he agreed to marry the present Mrs. Rush, and that she gave him $2000 as a gift, and be- cause he kept his promise. He denies that he became intoxicated to the point where he cannot look after the business and asks that the ‘receiver be dis- missed. Peter L. Jordan brought suit yester- day in the Superior Court against ary Isabella Jordan for the annull- ment of the marriagé that took place September 23, 1905. He alleges that his by fraud and that at the time of the wedding his bride knew that she was the lawful wife of Frank Hamilton Fitzgerald. The Jordan wedding occurred at Steckton, the present Mrs Jordan go- ing by the name of Mary Isabella Ross. Jordan sets forth that he was given io understand that a divorce had been se- curea by his intended from her former husband, but that it has since appeared he wae tricked into the wedding. Judge Kerrigan granted J. E. Bassett a divorce from Josephine Bassett on the ground of desertion. that his wife ‘left him nearly three years ago and that she refused to live with him, although he had frequently pleaded with her to do so. Divorces were filed yesterday by Lil- lian Leary against John J. Leary on the ground of willful neglect, and Hen- ry Neimann against Amelia Neimann tfor intemperance. The Rossbach divorce case, which hs been heard on and off before Judge G ham the last two weeks, was closed sterday and submitted. Margaret Cuiley was granted a di- vorce from Willlam Culley on the ground of desertion. P L b ‘Werner Bros., | Expert watchmakers & jewelers, 2106 | Fillmore bet. California & Sacramento.*® LN G 0y Hop Pickers Wanted. Several thousand men, women, boys and girls are now wanted to harvest the hop crop of California. Picking | will begin about the middle of next | week. and the hop growers have noti- fied the California Promotion Commit- tee that they are in need of many hands. The pay this year has been es- tabiished at $1 a hundred pounds, and the growers will furnish free portation to the hop fields for all who desire to work. The fruit crop is also about ready for gathering, and as soon as the hop season is over the hands so employed can obtain further employ- ment gathering, packing and cutting fruit for drying. All who are desirous of going to the hop and fruit fields for work can learn details from the Cali- fornia Promotion Committee, Union square. Bassett said | trans- | BLAZING OIL BURNS - THREE PERSONS. 'Tenement Dwellers En-| | veloped by Flames of an Exploded Stove SENT TO HOSPITAL The explosion of an oil stove in a tenement at 3 Sharon street, a small thoroughfare near Sixteenth and Church yesterday resulted in a blaze which severely burned three persons. The injured are: Mrs. B. Demonte, her husband. B. Demonte. and E. Tanetta, occupants of the place. The flames spread to two adjoining buildings. slightly damaging them. The prompt arrivel of the Fire Department prevent- ed a serious conflagration. The fire started when Mrs. Demonte upset the oil stove on which she was cooking dinner. Her clothing caught fire and she ran screaming into the yard. Her husband ran to her assist- ance and his clothes were ignited. The screams of the man and woman at- tracted several other occupants of the house, among them Tanetta. He rushed to the assistance of Demonte and his wife and while trying to extinguish | the blaze his clothes caught fire. Cool | | headed neighbors managed to roll the | burning trio on the ground in time to save their lives. All three were badly burned about| their faces and bodies. They were re- moved to the German Hospital near by. | Demonte is the most seriously burned, | but will recover. - i The house was badly damaged by the flames, which spread to the excelsior | factory on one side and the house oc- | | cupied by C. McGrath on the other. The | | total property loss amounts to about | $3000. MILLIONS PLEDGEL T0 BAGK LEAGLE. |Holders of Big Policies Sign Membership Roll and Put Up Deposits Large property owners, who were among the heavier losers by the San Francisco fire, filed into the quarters of the Policy-Holders’ League yesterday and enrolled their names as members. The enrollment practically began yes- | terday. ° Prior to this the members of | the board of trustees, who represent | losses amounting to more than $30,- | 000,000, had agreed to stand together in securing just settlements from the fire insurance companies. Yesterday many millions more were pledged. To each ber a card was issued as he | pledged his support and deposited one | per cent of the face value of the policy or policies represented by him. No de- posit is less than five dollars. Applications came in so fast yester- day forenoon that the office force was | unable to keep up with the business, but the policy-holders were in good humor and waited with patience. The noon and leading business men were constantly in the ranks. The most important business that the Policy-Holders’ League has in imme- diate view in the popular estimation is in connection with the Fireman'’s Fund settlement. The league is assisting the | officers of the Fireman's Fund in all | consent to the marriage was obtained | PoSsible ways to get the best prices for | securities and other assets, this being of advantage to all concerned. A meet- | ing of the policy-holders of the Fire | man’s Fund will soon be held with the | Poliéy-Holders' League. PUAN A NEW HOME FOR THE COURTS. | | ham, representing the twelve -Superior Judges, appeared before Mayor Schmitz and Supervisor Nicholas, chairman of the building committee of the board of Supervisors, and Supervisor Gallagher, chairman of the finance .committee of the board, yesterday and submitted plans for the Superior Court building. The building proposed is a two-story strocture 137:6 feet. square, on the northeast corner of Hyde street and Golden Gate avenue. The owner, Mur- ray Innes, offers the whole of the sec- ond floor for Superfor courts, cham- bers, jury rooms, Grand Jury rooms, | County Clerk and City and County At- | terney’s offices and law library. The rent asked is $1000 a month for two years, with the privilege of extend- & Allen are the architects, and their plans, Wwhile they may be changed somewhat to meet all the require- | ments of the departments, were consid- ered desirable for the purpose. The Mayor and Supervisors Nicholas and Gallagher expressed . themselves as favorable to the plans, which will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors | on Monday next. —_—— He Had an Awful Edge On ocket knife, but we fixed it’ See us for cutlery or cutlery repairing. | Stoltz's, cutlery and barber supplles, 1835 Fillmore, above Sutter. - _— His FIND BODY IN BAY.—The body of an un- identified man was found yesterday in the bay at the foot of Jories street by Alfred Greenway ‘and Andrew Alpholi. The dcad man was about 40 years of age. His.body was removed to- the | rush to sign continued into the after-| Judge Carroll Cook and Judge Gra- | | ing the lease three years longer. Dodge | LOAK ano SUIT HOUSE - 538-5560 McALLISTER ST., ear Van Ness Avenue Good News McAllister Street Cars Bring You to Our Store Direct No more walking in order to procure Better Quality and Lower Prices than Anywhere 0DD COATS, 0DD SUITS, ODD SKIRTS, ODD WAISIS On Sale This Week at a Fraction of Their Value ODD SUITS on sale now at $5.00, $6.00 & $10.00 ODD COATS now on sale at $2.50, $3.50 & $5.00 ODD SKIRTS now on sale at__ $1.50, $2.25 & $3.50 ODD WAISTS now on sale at 43c, 50c, 75¢ & $1.45 Fall Styles Ready New Style Suits New Style Coats New Style Skirts At Prices Beyond Competition modern - hotel and reopened August JOHN G. BARKER FORMERLY PROPRIETOR American or European plan. in San Francisco. 15th. proprietors assure its character and comfort. STEWART-BARKER CO. | HOTEL COLONIAL. i Hotel Jefferson TURK AND GOUGH STS., FACING JEFFERSON SQUARE AN HOTEL OF UNUSUAL CLASS 250 ROOMS, Single or En Suite; 100 PRIVATE BATHS The latest and most Newly furnished The names of the GET THE BEST IT PAYS CARY SAFES Are Fireproof RICHARDSON BROS. i31 FIFTH STREET Near Mint. Stock on Hand. Scrap Iron Wanted First-Class Broken Cast Scrap Wanted by MOORE & SCOTT IRON WORKS MAIN AND HOWARD STS,, S. F. LOST Certificates, Checks, Receipts, Bills of Lading and Negotiable Paper of every description replaced by a Bond of The Metropolitan Surety Company of New York. Contract. Ju- dicial and Fidelity Bonds. JUDSON BRUSIE, Manager, Room 10, Ferry Building. D. W. CARMICHAEL CO., Inc.. Gen. Agents. 1008 Fillmore st. M. TRAUNER LADIES® TAILOR : : Formerly 706 Sutter Street, now 2332 POST STREET, near Devisadero. Open for Business. STATE TO SEND &0 DELEGATES. The State Board of Trade has re- solved that it will be represented, with other California organizations, at the National Irrigation Convention, soon to be held at Boise, Idaho. The decision was reached at the board’s meeting yesterday in the ferry bullding. The two delegates who will assist others from California are John P. Irish and the board’s secretary, Arthur R. Brigg: will be composed of delegates from all the States west of the Missourl River. It will consider legislation to be proposed to Congress for adoption part of the continent. The importance of the representation of California is | great and the delegation from the Golden State will in the aggregate number approximately fifty persons. Cragie Sharpe, a member of "the board, will look after the exhibits to be sent to the State Fair by Alameda County and the State Board of Trade. as in past years, owing to difficulties of transportation. At s LA, Body Found in the Bay. The body of an unidentified man was wharf yesterday afternoon by fisher- men and removed to the Morgue. From appearances the body must have been floating about the bay for several days. He was about 40 years old;, heavy set and wore rough clothes. A ragor and two pipes were found in the pocket of the coat, but no papers that might lead to his identification. The convention to _be held at Boise| looking to the welfare of the western | The board’s exhibit will not be so large | found floating in the bay near Meiggs | MOB MAKESATTAGY 0N WORKMEN, A gang of workmen employed by the United Railroads in the vicinity of the McAllister-street carh use was at- | | tacked by a crowd shortly after 5 | o’'clock last night. Before any violence resulted the armed guards of the United Railroads scattered the attack- ing party and peace was restored till the workmen, after g ei reached Devisadero street in a work car. There they were attacked again More than one nundred men armed with bricks, cobblestones and club joined in the assault. A lively scrim mage ensued in which several of the workmen were slightly bruised. An immense crowd gathered. The free- for-all fight was stopped by the ar- rival of the police, who arrested Mi- chael Biscuiou and Sam Diovedes, sup- posed to be the leaders of the attack- ing party.. They were charged at the Park Police Station carrying concealed weapons. The police were cautioned to watch for further trouble, but none occurred. | ———— Redfern, Warner and R. & G. Corsets: full stock; corsets fitted: at 907 Ellis st.. near Van | Ness ave. Dora Canirowith and Georgle Hendy.* New Branch of Tamalpais Read. | The Mount Tamalpais Railroad Com- pany began laying rails yesterday from the “bowknot” to Redwood Can- yon, a distance of four mues. It is as- serted the road will be in operation in thirty days. At the terminus of the road the company will build a hotel to | cost between $70,000 and $100,000. VESTS A special line of ladies’ Lisle Vests, made of pure white gauze; summer weight; low or high neck, long sleeves, short sleeves or without sleeves. Each - 50c Another excellent value in Ladies’ Lisle Swiss Ribbed Vests, with Valenciennes lace edging. 2 .. S Van Ness Avenue and Sutter Street HOSE We repeat here one of our last week’s suc=- ‘cesses—LADIES’ COT= TON HOSE. Medium weight, double heel and toe, elastic top. For sale today at ; Per Pair - 25¢ A store with a reputation BEDSPREADS The volume of trade done by our Domestic Department-is eloquent testimony to the good values offered. You will be tempted to ‘purchase these WHITE HONEYCOMB BED- SPREADS, 2x2!4 yards long— full size, in fact—for Each - $1.00 Van Ness Avenue and Sutter Street BLOUSES Just a few left of these blouses, or GOLF JACKETS. They are all wool, and are stocked by us in a choice va- riety of colors, with collars or collarless. We regularly sell them at $2.50, $2.75 and $3.00 each. For today they will be shown at the special price of Each - $1.90 See Our Complete Line —_— O ————— MEN’S UNDERWEAR