The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1906, Page 3

THLES OF HORROR \Manc wuria, Sti INALL_RUSSIN, D Policy of Merc1less Re-| pression in the South and the Southwest RIOT AND MURDER SAMARA, Aug. 21—The commander © Borossov Regiment was today at- ¢ and killed st his residence here. erers escaped after saturating of thelr vietim with aleohol of The body and setting it on fire. NDON. ing reforms on t Moscow was of allowed “ADAM” TO START AN EDEN IN WILD AND WOOLLY WEST Creature Whe Claims to Be Founder | Race of on Way to Coast With Followers. of the band b 1 here a few weeks ago t of town, £ went r the belief that of Eden. They me again and was a ided to go to th ers garde dozen or | r of the | WEST | HERMIT ROOSEVELT STARTS ON LONG RIDE IN THE | take Will Vikit the Ramch in North Dakota on Which His Father Roughed It. EADWOOD, S. D. » will' consume a week or SRR e COLORED TROOPS ORDERED TO DEPART FROM TEXAS Battalion of Twenty-Fifth Is Ordered to Oklahoma and Fort Brown Is to Be Abandoned. SHWNGTON. Aug. 21.—The negro | trobps have been -'»rfi!rt—(‘ out Instead to Fort | 106 miles up de from Fort Brown, the of the Twenty-fifth Infantry d to Fort Reno, Okla. in accordance with the the President and is also by General McAskey, e Department of Texas. » of the President also, ranklin Bell, chief of staf, This action lirection of ded omme ke a thorough investigation of the ole Brownsville air_and re- | ¥ the President. Fort Brown is| oned. ARG L e A Goodyear Rubber Company. alesroom at their rubber 220 Spear st.. bet. Howard m._Tel. Temporary 173i. BEHLS S D00 FOUND AFLOAT IN BAY. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. AFAEL, Aug. 21.—Guard Frank Moulton discovered the body of a old girl, clad only a home- uit of underclothing, float- ntin Prison today. He who had the body | The Deputy Coroner be- been in the| two . A plain, small, 4 ring adorned the middle finger of hand though the body had the appear- nee of having been in the water two in weeks, some are inclined to believe it is| t of Ethel Wilson, the 10-year-old ter of Ceptain Wilson ‘of the schooner Agnes. She disappeared from the schooner on July 5 and was sup- posed to have been kidnaped by Chi- nese fishermen living at Point San Pe- dro. Captain Wilson's family were living in San Francisco, but were driven from their homes since the earthquake by Increased rents. AS his schooner was| doing very little, he moved his family aboard it They were happy on their floating home until the disappearance of the little girl. Wilson’s home was at 711 Moultrie street, San Francisco. ~ | growers Recf, Is Leaking Rapldl.. Fear Entertained That| Great Pacific. Mail Liner Is Doomed. Agents Consider Plan| to Dredge Channel to Float Vessel. SPECIAL CABLE 70 THE CALL. ONOLULU, Aug. 21.—Word was sent ashore from the stranded steamship Manchuria late to- night that there was scant hope of saving the great vessel. She fast on the Rabbit Island where she struck early Rough seas have pitched her is ing. about on the jagged rocks until holes | have been bored through the ship's bot- tom. She is leaking badly and all the pumps are being worked. The. tugs which endgavoréd all through the day to pull the Manchuria from the shore have abandoned théir efforts for the night and are-standing by with lines abodard There tomorrow rorning at o'clock, another attempt will then be made .to haul the liner off the reef. It is prob- able that the steamer Alamede will hélp in this effort, but the Manchuria's po- sition-is such as to give little hope for success The agents of the dredger Pacific and of the Pacific Mail Company. are con- sideriig & proposition to dredge a ¢ el from wheére the Manchuria now lies to deep water. This i8 belleved to only féasible plan, but- it .is whether the vessel will last sugh for it to be carried out of her eight boilers have beén red. useless by repeatéd shocks inst the reef damaging their foun- o The port engine also is out n_on aécount of the break- ing of its main steam pipe. The vessel is believed to be about twelve feet farther in shore than when she struck, in spite of almost constant tugging in the opposité direction. Ap- parently the steamer rests amidships a patch of hard coral over which rolls. and pitches, as on a pivot, g especially hard on'the port Every shock dars her terribly bow to st Captain Saunders ays the only chance to save the ship to float her soon. It is doubtful whether there is power enough in Hon- to do s cisco is wanted Captain Saunders shows that he is suffering_from the strain he is undér, but he still assumes all the blame. He is receiving many expressions of sym- pathy from the passengérs. They are demanding that the steamship company provide them with accommodations. The inter-isiand steamers which acted as towboats have arrived here with the Asiatic passengers of the Man- churfa on board. Many of the other | passengers came in overland. SAUNDERS HAS GOOD RECORD. Enjoys Reputation as a Careful and | Able Navigator. The Pacific Mail Company made ar- ments with the Toyo Kisen K Company yesterday sha Hongkong Maru, on Friday, fated Honolulu to their destinations in the which will leave here to carry a number of the ill- Manchuria’s passengers from ient. The Hongkong will be able to about 100 cabin passengers, 20 ge and about 300 Asiaties. Those to find accommodations on the kong will be taken to the Far on the Korea, w will leave here September 4 Much sympathy was expressed y for Captain Saunders. who has assumed the blame for the Manchuria For many years safely navigated between here and Panama. In “cut of dangerous dogholés of in daylight and dark, in fair r and foul, he directed jthe vements of his ship without mishap. commanded the liner Newport when rtered by the Government y transport during the Span- American war, The Newport was Zast ch ves- various selected by General Otis as a flagship, Island Over little tra poorly - surveyed routes, intricate channels, Captain rs navigated the vessel in safety brought her home without a scratch on her paint. As far as the Pacific Saunders’ Mail service is career is un- y at an end, but he has many friends and when clear of his present trouble will-have little difficulty in get- nothér command ell-known shipping man, in a po- “Saunders is an able navigator and hat my deepest sympathy in his pres- t trouble. He has taken the Blame, and probably was responsible, but that does not ¢hangé my opinion ‘of his abil- ity, and when he gets out of this and wants another $hip I will have no hes- itation in giving kim one.” The Manchuria, it is generally un- derstood, 18 the personal H. Harriman, who also owns the agnolla.. Both vessels were chartered to the Pacific Mail Company. It would take three years to huild a vessel sim- tlar to the Manchurin * - Manchuria. SUING T0 DISRUPT - WATER GOMBINE. SAN JOSE, Aug. ‘21.—The Bay Cities | Water Company, which is the defend- | ant in numerous suits brought by fruit in the valley to restrain it from diverting the waters of thé Coyote Creek, today brought action against the Sar. Jose Water Company, the: Sprin Valley Waters Company and the ‘Sub- urban Company to condemn .certain |1ands owned by them, forming. a strip direetly across theé reservoir site of the plaiptiff. The Bay Cities Cumpany during the past few years,K has acquired 15,000 | ree of land for water purposes along | the Coyot¢, Llagas and Uvas creels. It claims 800,600 inches these thrée stréams, and it Is said to heve expended nearly- $2,000,000 in its piciéct Lof acquiring and impounding the waftr: In its camplaint-the company alleges that the defendant companies are mo- ‘nupo)les, and that they have conspired together to hold this strip of land to prevent’ the construction of the reser- | voir, and that they are maintaining an armed guard there to prevent the em- ployes of the plaintiff from working. novm BREAKS WITH VOLIVA.Chicago, 21 —Jobn Alexander Dowie suid last 13 tlm all negotiations between hlnuelt and Wil bur Glenn Voliva for mlkmt of the Zion City tangle bad been declared off. reef, | Monday morn- | will be an extreme high tide | and | and aid from San Fran- | Captain | sition to do as he wills, said yesterday: | property of | of water from |™ | Fast o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, | SIS HENEY, | [EX DUNN EXONERTES OTHER DFFIGERS. SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. VALLEJO, Aug. 21.—Lieutenant Ed- ward H. Dunn Independerice, ‘who has ben censured for his. alleged attempt. to implicate’ his« brother officers in the scandal for which he himself has just been tried @t the navy yard, has come forward/wi®h a letter, in which he fully | severely exonorates’them from all blame in the matter. Since the pubHcation of the sa- tions made by Marion \hur(‘hlll tI\E messmates of Dunn have severely criti- cized the latter, claiming that he was responsible for the slurs that had been cast upon the honor of.the officers of the ship. The -feeling in was such that they refused to speak to him and it i§ only since he has writ- ten to the cofmanding officer of the Independence ‘f8lly exonerating them from all the charges and insinuations that have been made against them that he has again been taken intqg favor. of the receiving ship | the matter | Against State Senator - ‘Mays and Associates| ' PORTLAND, Ore., ‘Aug: 2 Wm\ the | ‘céthpletion.of the jury in ‘the ‘Usdited States District Court today. in.the case | of the United States against State Sen- ator Franklin P. Mays, fofmer State| Representative Willard N. Johmson and Deputy Sheriff George Sorfenson the for action and ifi the opening. argument | of Francis J. Heney, specfal assistant to the Attorney General, echoes were heard of battles that are past as well as the mutterings of tne battle that is at_hand. I~ "Heney spoke for an hour and a half, and during that time outlined clearly and’ definitely the alleged wholesale fraud by- which the Government charges the defendants and others planned to make it the victim of a gigantic steal. charges. are true, all of the . other comparison. - Heney's outline of what the Government claims it can prove, in part, follows: VE We expect to prove. that the defend- ants in this case were implicated in g conspiracy wheéreby they obtained from 20,000 to 30,000, acres of school lands from the State by fraud. These sections were in the proposed boundaries of the | Blue Mountain forest reserve, and these | | created. As early as- 1900 Defandant John!on | commenced to get:school lnnds in the region that was afterward d into this reserve. - We will also s! ol ta man named Kellel s Hyi ded: Chicago, commen 3¢ lands there for speculaty ofisfl We will show that' D ays | and Sorrensen had »‘guv on the Cascade forest . ,gh; jiseh United States Senator. itcliell, created July 1, 1901, nn ‘tlm Mays and Sorrenson aequired ti l! thesva- cant school lands in tlon.' It proved so successful and firo table that immediately they conhceived theé scheme of creating a much larger reservé, and George' Sorrenson went around .various north end Portland saloons and other resorts and secured ‘signatures ‘to ap- plications in blank for 50 cents apiece. The Government expects. to show | turther that Senator Mitcheil expedited |the new reserve before the Commis- sioner of the Géneral Land Office and Secretary of the Interior ' and, kept continually writing to Mays, “telling him - what he had done. It will be shown that Joln L. Rapd, C. A. Johns and other leading citizens of Eastern Oregon came down her# to see Senator Mitchell for the purpose of protesting aiainst the creation of the reserve and that as soon as they telé- phoned Mitchell that they were coming the Senator immediately held a con- Sultation ‘with Mays' about 'it, so that when the deleiatlon reached here they |'were met by the assertion from Mitch- ell that he did not have anything to do with forming the reserve, but that President Rooseévelt was unalterably wedded to the forestry policy and could not be swerved in his determination. At e el e e ME 15 K LR, MANCHURIA AT THE MA!L DOCK IN | SAN FRANCISCO AND A VIEW OF Jfifidei?s'u[cnn I JONES CISE SPECIAL DWT’ATCB TO Tfll CAL‘A REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 2 of G. W. C.Jones. the: xmnn.%t;gnj" r | with kuung Mrs. Mary Brand | His action is looked upon at the navy | Teach' Ca which will be full of i be conducted by ‘R. F. Fo authorities on bridge. practice problems and elu in The Call—and in no o | Tuesdays and Thursdays. | they will be accompanied arranged as to test the sl ducements as will bring || Foster as a writer on and The Call promises i season of rare enjoyment of which will appear on 'Bridge Whist Expert Wil for the liner| N Sunday, Nfigust 26, The Call will begin the publication 'of a series of lessons in bridge whist the expert as well as the beginner. These lessons will Mr. Foster’s articles,’ two or three times a week, probably on Sundays, understanding of The Call’s readers with such in-" talent on the coast for the competitions. ; Every bridge player knows the standing of Mr. cinating and popular game now played with cards. He is the author of the standard work on this sub- ject, “Foster’s Complete Btidge,” which is umversally accepted as the law and the gospel of bridge. “Mase is a lar and a perjurer!” shouted Lawyer Edward Tauzsky. The stucco Cupids on the walls of the Unitéd States Circuit Court shud- dered. Two of the jury awoke, sat up and took notice. ~Lawyer Bert Schles- inger,. who represents Mr. Mase blushed, and Judge Edward Whitson. who, without seeming effort, had kept awake all day; forthwith addressed Mr. Teuzsky: “I think such language is very improper at this stage of the cuse. When the counsel comes to ad- dress the jury and he desires to call Mr. Mase a liar or a perjurer, he may do so, but it is not propér. at this time." The occasion for (his startling epi- scde ‘was. the trial of the case of.the Pine H#ll Consolidated Mining Company ve. Cerf, who three years afo was su- perintendent of the mine, which is lo- cated in Placer County. It was shown that,' during the year and nine months of his incumbency, he received from the company $43,544, and there the dis- pute begins.- Cerf swore that he ex- pended it all on behalf of the company, and that he sent the vouchers for every dellar of it to J. Frank Mase, secre- Readers. nterest and instruction for ster, greatest of American capitally illustrated with cidated hands, will appear ther Pacific Coast paper— Upon suitable occasions by tournament features so kill and develop the card- Mase deposed that there was a short- age of $9200 in Cerf's accounts, and | that vouchers for that sum were never sent to him and that they do not ex- ist. To add to the complication, the | books at the mine kKept by Cerf cannot be found. Cerf said that he left them in thc office at the mine when he left. What purports to be the account mad- up by Mase from the monthly state- inents and vouchers sent by Cerf show out the strongest bridge made a -deposition to fhat effect Mr. Mase was branded by Lawyer Tauzsky @s a liar and perjurer. —_— ‘Will Reopen Slot Machine Case. instructor in the most fas- ney C. H. Pond of Senoma County states that at the earliest possible day he will move for a rehearing of the slot machine: case before the Supreme Courl.® This is the case in which the Third District Court of Appeals held that slot, machines paying losses in rr.erehn.ndlle are not illegal. ts bridge-loving readers a in these lessons, the first Sunday next. y &ard as the most honorable thing he could have done under the circum- stances. The letter, which he has forwarded the commanding ofticer of the ship, ‘.mdm Gilee B. H.u'ber is as follow Sir—In view of the articles that have | recentiy appeared in the press regard- |ing my brother officers of this ship, and arly against Paymaster Nichol- s d Paymaster's Clérk Poore, ;us!lcn— to them I feel it my duty to | Tefute the false statements made pub- llc was not - introduced to Mariol (huxohill by Paymaster Nicholson an at no time has tnere béén any jealousy between us, nor tp my knowledge has she cver of my brother officers. officers of the wardroom are in Ino sense responsible for my present trouble, and in fact throughout the whole affair they have done all. that was in their power. to assist me, so I out in so damaging a light the least that I can possibly do is t6 contradict ‘the (alse accusations that have been The charges that they bave made me the scapegoat in order to clear | themselves from any suspicion or pun- ishment for misconduct is absolutely wllhoul ground. Very- respectfuny, DUNN, Lieutenant, N. The Commundlng Officer, U. s RS Independence. ——a Concert at Leonhardt's Rennur:.nl snd cafe every ev: nlng 6 1 Good in to eat an drink :l 1334.1338 Ffllmg:e. g e San Eureka and cxamive sites, buildings, in | been entertained aboard ship | feel that as they have been brought '| Grunouer, a leading merchant here, has WILL SITES.—Washington, Aug. ' B3 W. s, superintendent of Federai buildings at San Francsco, bas een directed to yisit San Diego, ta Cruz, 3 £ sl the Linden Hotel, South San- Pmeueo. began in Judge Buck's court. heu to- day. «The morning was spent in’ salect- ing a jury and only two witnesses were examined during’ the afternoon. ; * Dr. D. B. Plymite, the first wit gave some expert testimony as to the condition of the body of Mrs. Brandrup when he examined it shortly after the Murder had been committed.- He de- clared that the woman came ‘to her death’ by strangulation and that the large . scratches upon her necK were without doubt made by the finger nails. The most jmportant. part o? tlie doc- tor's testimony, however, was a posi- tive statement that mortar and plaster were found by lMm .in "the woman's hair and on her body. Some:plaster, he asserts, was also ground in.so the wounds upon her neck. The second witness, Miss Blise Va derbos, ‘chambermaid of tl?: .Lt"nd:n Hotel, testified that it was her helief that the woman was murdered in Jones’ room and her body dmgzed from there to the adjoining room. SCHOOL TEAGHER: FEARS ALLAYED. - Many a Ichool teacher will be re- lieved today when she reads that a mis: take was made by:the Board of Educa tion in the, congtraction of the resolu- tion-passed by,the members on Mon- aay..and that. vaeation pay will -be withheld only until- ane 30, 1907, thus making the no-Pay eriod only eight | weeks in all. When. the resolution was decnded upon by the board ‘it was understood that it Should odly afféct the present fiscal year. The mistake in the word- ing of the document, which said that ny should begliven betwe the x\n ‘of the spring term and thd open- ing-of thé fall termi of next year, was not- noticed &t the time the vote was taken;, but compplaints from teachers:in various parts:6f the city, today . kept | the members busy making explanations. Whether the.pay will be given for vacation time after June 30, 1907, is.a matter yet unsettled, but it is probable that if the finances of the department will admit the method of payment will Kingi River Canyou—Glunt Norest. 2o0d vacation out offers o1t That.could. be Geehed Bpoaat b a_ sion hlfi; Sfll;.rrx i:lolll:tnhl cumb:ié. Wi leal camping mong - aciier® 6 P 5 ’ Trees. Write agents Southern P I . Hay Crop leavy uthnv’-. m g ~ BYRON, Aug. 21.—Postmaster Morris just let the contract for a $3500 public ‘hay warehouse. The building will be 60x176 and will be capable of holding 1500 tons. This season's—hay-crop is the ,greatest ever taenrud in th vl- e i : Government forces cleared it3 décks It the Government's| fratds in this .State appear puny by | defendants wanted to ge( the rmrvn tary of the compa.y at New York. | the deficiency stated, and for having | STOCKTON, Aug. 21.—District Attor- | Iw the same after that date. as it m ; , o8 ROSE Y TUTORS DOING PoLITIES. | hind Miss Coulter in’ | Renomination Fight SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 21.—The cam- paign for the nomination of Superin- tendent of Schools in this county be- |fore the Democratie county convention is a.lively one. Miss Minnie Coulter | is a candidate. to succeed herself for the third term, and former Principal A. C. McMeans of the Fremont School in this city is her opponent. The teachers of the county favor the retention of Miss Coulter and are busily engaged circulating petitions which all teachers and trustees of schools are asked to sign, requesting |the ‘delégdtes to the Democratic con- |vention to renominate’ Miss Coulter. They recite her qualifications and clatm that-they are tne best fitted to |judge of the work déne by the super- intendent. The petitions were circulated in the urches Sunday night, the of Miss Coulter taking advantage of the opportunity to reach a large*num- ber of teachers with little work. ~Professor McMeans' candldacy is the direct result of his unceremonious re- moval “as- principal of the Fremont School in July by the Santa Rosa Board |of ®ducation. The sentiment on both {sides of the fight makes it one of the deepest concern to the friends of each candidate. LIQUOR MEN ARE - GIVEN PERBATS, At the meeting of the Police Com- | missioners last night licenses to sell | liquor were granted to sixty-five ap- Owing to the absen: | Commnissioners ‘Umbsen and | the board devoted all of its time to the | consideration of the liquor license ap- | plications. Following is a list of the | applications granted: George Coleman, 1037 Golden Gate avenue; George H. Long, 308 Third |street: " Mrs. J. Murpry, Point Lo- |bos and Thirteenth avenues; 1 Rhode. 145 Turk street; E. R. Menstadt. 316 Polk street, Weisman & Stuart. Seventh and _Mission streets; Albert | McCormack, Buchanan and MgAllister streets: C. J. Bergtelat, 108 Eadl street: s Levy, 1166 Post street; James Con- J n#1318 Steiner street; G. Bresser. 129 $t street; F. H. Meegard, 108 Elli street; P. Ma\.Donnugh 1602 Mission istrget; Frank Conway, 139 Montgomery street; D. Moran, 2 Pearl street: Albert | Healy] Steiner and Sutter streets: Wil- tiam "C..Crayton, 718 Golden Gate ave- nue: Alfred Lewis, 1569 Ellis street; G. Adriane, Steiner ' and Page strests; Krampert & Eisenmenger, 2120 Sutter slreet. T. . Viechio, - 805% Greenmch‘ 53 Elm .avenue: l"T Tehama street\ ?enrze Sarantid 407 Haight street; ohn Dorr, 1028 Gear)' street; Bake & Stuart, ‘Gough ang Turk streets; J. W.| Becker, 304, McAllister street; J. Olsen, Third and Harrison streets; J. W. Riley, | 211 Willow avenue: Ivancovich & de la ntanga. 1827 Fillm street; Carli, 422 Broadway: P Kehnke. 310 Market street; John Vetmlllch 528 Va. lencia street X ley, Fourth and Bryant streets: C. A ‘eacock, 235 Olive W. F. Reeder, 945 O'Farrell John Caley, 333 Montgomery M. J. Norton, 128 East street; W. %21 Folsom . McKee, | ‘!‘10 qlxteen!h Anderson & | Meyer, Thirteenth and Howard streets: } .con D. Stone, 1232 Sutter street; No- | ena & Piere, 708 Front street; Levy | Wine Company, 1431 Eddy street; F. Byrne, 105 East street; Ward & La- moore, 11 Polk street; Smith and Ber- tich, 231 Larkin street; H. J. Sullivan, 312 Ollve avenue: E. & W. T. Dinni- gan, Pierce and Ellis !lre!:s L. Plen- ning. 3279 Sixteenth street; John Gill, 337 Third street; R. T. Gift, 11% Stock- ton street: H. F. Sahlander, 281 Na- toma. street; J. O. Winters, Davis and Clay streets; F. Hemicke, Hyde and Filbert streets; R. Lynch, 32 Julian avenue; W. Stillell, H'n]e and _Ellis streets, and Albert Goldstein, 415 Hayes street. The board will meet again at police BOYS IN PRISON FOR STEALING HORSE. Attorney Outlmes Case"Teachers Lme Up Be-! Runaway LadsFrom San Francisco Fall Into Hands ‘of the Police |TRACES BIG 'DEAL USING PETITIONS MAKING FOR HOME SPECIAL Dl:P.\TLH TO THE CALL. BYRON, Aug. 21.—Isidore Navarro and Isidore Goldstein, aged respectivély sixteen and thirteen vears, weré arrest- ed yesterday by Constable Le Grandj charged with stealing a horse nean Tracy. They bréught the animal up the valley, coming directly through town. Constable Giesekie of Tracy was sent for and took the boys to jail this evening. Both youths ran away from home im San Francisco several days ago, and |after reaching Tracy became disheart< {ened and sought to get back home. | They. took a horse from a pasture and {n!ended so_they say, to ride to Oak- and. Theé Navarro boy says his parents are friends |Tefugees and live in Golden Gate Park. in tent 36, on First street. The Geld- stein boy says his parents are also refu- gees and live in a tent at 2 C street, Golden Gate Park. They both claim. to have run away from home because of bad treatment. They do not look hard- ened or criminal. The younger boy is a mere child LOOTERS DESTROY 'PHONE CABLE: An attempt to steal the cable of the fic States Telephone Company on Jessle street on Monday = resulted. in several hundred phonés south of Market stréet being put out of com- mission temporarily and also in'the ar- rest of AlSert Mcintyre and Richard Mamlock, two 17-year-old boys, who were arraigned yesterday miornng be- fore Police Judge Mogan The arrested youths deny all re- sponsibilty of trying to steal tha cable, but admit that they were taking orass fixtures from the cellar of a suilding at the corner of Sixth and Jessis sgtreets. The temporary cable strung by the telephone company for the accommoda- tion of its south of Market street patrons passes through the basemsnt f the house in which the lads were operating. The hundreds of tiny | per wires wound in the cable l'attractive, apparently, to thé young laoters, and they tugged and hauled at it until the electric connection was broken. The officials of the company in run- ning down the trouble with the system discovered the mischief done in the Jessie-street house and summoned Po- liceman J. Powers, who placed Me- | Intyre and Mamlock under arrest. The | accused boys strenuously assert that they did not intend to stedl the copper .- | cable and say that two men whom they had seen around the house in the after- noen must have done the damage. *After being ararigned on a charge of grand larceny before Judge Mogan the | defendants were released on $500 cash bail each. —_——— Life Termer Secks Release. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 21.—Governor Pardee has been petitioned to release Edward Morrell of Fresno, who is serv- |ing a life sentence in San Quentin on a charge of robbery. One night in September, 1394, Morrell visited the | jail and after being admitted overpow- ered the jailer, takiig his revolver and keys. He then proceeded to the cell where the train robber Chris Evans was confined, releaséqd him, and they left together. After some months both were captured. The charge against Morrell was robbery, he having taken the revolver of the jailer. * 4 - headquarters tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. [ Pianos we place at your service. black and white. ! 1420 Van Ness Ave. WE TELL EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR | PIANOS. ‘When you come here to learn something about our knowledge and our experiénce We tell you why one piano is worth more than another, although perhaps you can’t see any difference yourself. And you can place absolute reliance upon every word we say—and our guarantee is put down in We sell such reliable pianos as Everett, Behning Kranich & Bach, Harvard, Clark Wise &’ Co., Bachmann-Kurtzmann-Schiller. TERMS? Come in and see us, make some nice arrangement with you so that this quéstion will not bother you. and we will _CLARK WISE & CO. Cut Rate Music Dealers. The sign above is that ~and lavaliers. or jade, which has been worn for centuries by all “Oriental rulers to ward off evil. We are collecting some rare old jades from the -.ends of the world and have them mounted in curi- ous Oriental designs, in odd chains, rings, bracelets $ AT A of the Chinese luck stone