The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1907, Page 4

“4 THE SAN F RANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1907. : % Alameda [Contra Costa’ — > Events of a Day in Bay Co Large Transfers Made DFTECTINE IN MTO in Oakland Realty Renewal of Activity and Extensive in Alameda County Sales Reported S ~—With the. re- ther last week came a ed even the most Oakland real estate ned as if investors had iting for the sun.te w they could attend to. part of the week been closed and a f sales reported the first spring davs new impetus to bulld- ough this latter in- el by the heavy month, there being tar 1 without any inter- week permits v the Board of Pub- rection of new build- of which Is more Non dollars. e last week was orper Yot on Broad- first - street Al- f the transaction ade public and wil e filed for rec- t the property new realty Minney. The operty was ap- Company re- t sale, that of a enne to the pany, the price 4 e lot sold occu- s @ ock and it is under- be the site of a large urnish power system to be Pacific president of the 1gh whose offices the sale ports transfers of property 00 last week. comcluded last A hth rchaser 000 large probably and Fallon nde. The for the deals now be closel reports the sale of enth street, be- Telegraph ave- 4 to A. W. John- A. E. Young ) for the Nineteenth and also sold last week the efforts stin, being J. D. Pasmore for $25,000, tmportant sale reported by ker was that of a house street, between S ‘clegraph - hased by Mrs WATER FRONT DECISION AIDS scussing the present condition of a estate market, and the for spring and summer, = greater cuit Court rears 2pped front and develop- £ real ither remend- secrue 1o every £ activity that is ome and ra ks =0 bso. be the to waste tions which industrial merce and that tie, but ted mot prop. s tions of of Oak irnished by the just n build- bee: will 1 bullding, for a term 1 eight months another time ers which have been theast corner ' of street. Chiet € new finan; Belden, Frank Ben F. Wool- 3 ° olas Owens and zers of th e H. B Haines have a capital 000 of which will bank js opened is the third bank Oakland within a n's Christian Associa- a deal for the pur- northwest corner of and Twenty-first which it is purposed to erect = a handsome build- o of the association. Plans ure have not been com- e the details of the pro- been decided upon. t sale of residence prop- week was that of a on the southeast cor- graph avenue and Thirty- which was purchased by Osgood, from M. Gallagher, a of Eden township. The price v Osgood for the property w Osgood has begun the erec- a $13,000 home in Pledmont. ACTIVITY IN BERKELEY Y, Feb. 10.—Fine weather given reaity men the oppor- ty long desired to show desirable s 1o intending.purchasers, and < d carriages that have comperatively idle during the wet yer are busy again, and the mar- accordingly assumed a Uevlier No deal of exceptionsl magnitude ked he operations of the “big fel- last week, the efforts of most of firms in the business being devoted task of getting ready for the several of the immeénsefracts were purchased during ‘the ilast and which are now. to “®old eseekers. ¥ Nearly 2000 acres of land te themorth t of Berkeley comes undet the cad of “undigested tracts,” and the work of getting all of this property avenue ding feet RK the local realty | nee to give resl estate | advanced that! J. Snyder, who | Snyder re- | is a task that ains and skill of }in shape for public s: | calls for the best b the promoters. The Ferrier-Brofk Company has en- gaged Superintendent McLaren of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to {lay out the landscape features for the | nillside land which the Berkeley De- velopment Company has boug and | will be put on the market in a-few | weeks. The Alexander tract. in which George | Schmidt, Wickhaw Havens and others jare interested, is being made ready {for sale purposes, and the Rockridge { tract is also undergoing the same pro- cess. Mason & McDuffie are closing out {the last of the Dwight Way Terrace {property. Coryell, Hackley & Young. installed IIn their mew offices on 1ck ave- {nue, are preparing for number ot deals of unusual magnitude, the detalls of which they are t nounce in the | mear future. The Reed Realty Company is giving | University-avenue property a splendid {boost and that section has stiffened in | consequence. Needham Bros. will be in their new Shattuck-avenue offices next week, and Skilling & C already installed DeKay & Co. have enlarged their plant because of a great increase ness LAMEDA, Feb. 10.—Combs & ¥ {ave begun the work clearing site for their new two-story b block to be erected in Santa Clara ave- between Park and Oak two old structures that occupy the location are to be moved to the corner of Oak and Bank streets, the building that ocpupied the latter corner having been moved 200 feet east on Bank street. The greater part of the ground floor of the Combs & Fisher block is to be taken up by the firm's meat market. The second story will be made into apartments. Delanoy & Randlett have purchased | the Linwood Palmer property in Broad- way, north of Pagle avenue. The land has a frontage on Broadway of 700 feet. This firm also, has purchased the tract at the southwest corner of Paru street and San Jose avenue and plans to cut up both tracts and erect homes. are sher the Lewis & Shaw report the sale of four residences during the week. This firm has made a marked success in disposing of the lots in the Oak Park | tract. Barker & Adams, agents for the Mas- tick tract, opened recently at the west {end, report that work is to start soon on six homes in the tract of lots in the tract are $650 and up- ward. The tract is close to Mastick station on the north side local line ana seventy-four trains pass there daily. The projected Greenwood electric line will run through the tract. Five building lots on Regent strcet were sold during the week hy Scott {¥. Judd to buyers who plan to build. Other sales made by this firm during the week were as follows: Lot on Park avenue, lot on Broadway, three !lots on Encinal avenue, lot on Santa |Clara avenue and three lots on Pacific avenue. The Halsey-Wehn Company the following transfers: provements on reports Lot and im- the south side of Pa- street, to J. H. Cattran; lot on corner of Pacific avenue and St. Charles street E. to J. Ligyd; lot on west side of stnut street, 100 feet north of Eagle avenue, to C. E. Wehn. W. H. Pollard reports the sale of the following properties: Taylor Realty, corner Central avenue and Regent street; five e lots to T. J. Davis, L. W. Mc- Glaufiin, Ralph Davi Smith An- | derson; two lots of t 3. Nason | property to J. P. Hanson; the residence on Chestnut street to Otis. —_—— JIU-JITSU CRAZE IS INFECTING YOUNG AND OLD IN BERKELEY Crowd Gathers Nightly to Receive In- structions From a Master in the Japanese Art BERKELEY, Feb. 10.—The jiu-jitsu craze has infected Berkele: and a crowd of young men may be found nightly in the Young Men's Christian the | Association rooms, drinking the gospel | 4] of jiu-jitsu from the lips of Risher W. Thornberry, who enjoys the unique dis- tinction of being the only ese authorities to instruct novices in the Nipponese art of attack and de- fense. College lads and town boys, together with a lot of grown men and even a few graybeards, have taken up the fad. In time footpads and yeggmen, crooks all, who try will go up ell’ fortified to operate e in Berkel against a community against such gentry. Thornberry was fogga number of vears a United States marshal at Naga- saki, and there studied under Kishoku | Inouye, the instructor of the Nagasakl police. * Thorgberry has been a soldier of fortune in the Philippines and else- | wlere in the Orient. e U P |BERKELEY MAN KILLS HIMSELF IN HOTEL AT PORT COSTA Representative of New York Concern Drinks Carbolic Aeld and Death Is Discovered Two Days Later PORT COSTA, Feb. 10.—The body of L. W. Hughes of Berkeley was found in (& room in the Martinez Hotel this af- ternoon with a partly drained one- |ounce vial of carbolic acid lying on the floor near the bed. It is thought |that Hughes took the fatal draught some time yesterday, as he was not seen about the hotel since Friday even- ipg, when he registered. Hughes rep- resented the B. W. Kilburn Stereo- scopic View Company of 21 Washington place, New York. —_— DETROIT WRITER WINNER OF CONTEST WITH PE {Guy L. Ingalls “Turns " Best De- i scriptive Story on Wonders of Colorado DENVER, Colo.,, Feb. 10.—The con- jtest for the best descriptfve articles on | Colorado inaugurated by the Denver { Press Club last summer for the benefit {of the delegates to the convention of |the International League of Press | Clubs, ‘held in Denver in: August, was closed and the prizes were awarded to- day. From all points of view the | contest was entirely satisfactory. The prize winners were: Guy L. Ingalls, Free Press, Detroit, Mich., $250: Opie Read, Inter Ocean, {Chicago, $250; Merton J. Keys, Star- | Chronicle, St. Louis, Mo., $200; R. M | Brinkerhoff, Blade, Toledo, Ohio, $175; L. G. Early, Times, Reading, Pa., §$125. busi- | ness | reets. | The price | c American | ever officially commissioned by Japan- | OVERTAKES AP Arrests Passenger Alleged to Have Stolen Dog and Carries Him to Station NOTIFTED BY 'PHONE | ALAMEDA, Feb. 10.—Speeding swift- ly in an automobile, Detective William ‘Wahmuth raced after an electric caf for 2 mile this afternoon, caught up with it and arrested a passenger, Frank Miller, who had in his possession a valuable bull terrier that had been stolen, it is alleged, from A. V. Judson of the East End. Miller and the dog were taken to the city prison, where Judson identified the animal. Judson said he would swear to a charge of petty larceny against Miller. Judson had telephoned to the police that 2 man in a hunting suit had stolen the dog, and that he was on an elec- tric car bound west for Oakland. De- tective Wahmuth immedlately got into | an automobile with a chauffeur and went flving to overtake the electric | car When the automobile caught up with the car Wahmuth jumped out, boarded the trolley coach, located Mil- ler and the dog and in a few moments the auto was headed back to Oakland with Miller and the canine. GLAGH 13 IMIMINENT OVER STREETS OAKLAND,.Feb. 10.—A clash is im- minent between the municipal authori- ties and a so-called ‘“citizens’ commit- | tee of 100,” headed by “Booster” E. B. Webster. The “boosteny” have an- nounced they will proceed tomorrow morning with a procession of wagons to dump rock in holes in the streets in the business district. Mayor Mott declares that any move of that kind will be followed by the arrest of the “boosters.” | “If the streets are to be repaired, the street department will do the work,” says the chief executive. Mayor Mott is not opposed to the renovation of the streets. He is op- posed to what he terms the ‘cross- roads village methods” of the “boost- ers.” The Mayor says that the time is ripe to assert the self-evident fact that what the city of Oakland required as |much as anything is a dignified atti- de of its people toward civic affairs. He is opposed to buffoonery, he says, in the handling of civic matters. Webster heads a self-styled commit- tee of 100. Last week the committee appeared before the Board of Public Works to call attention to the con- dition of the streets. Mayor Mott in- vited any of the Interested citizene who desired to assist in the repair work to contribute $1000 worth of rock and agreed to use the street department | forces in putting the rock where it | would do the most good. | Now come the “boosters” with their programme of a circus parade. which has aroused the wrath of the city's cutive. SHOW INGAEASE WASHINGTON, portation of | tures reached Feb. 10.—The ex- iron and steel manufac- its highest record dur- ing last year, according to figures | compiled by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The total for 1906 aggregated $172,600,000, an~ increase of $30,000,000 over the preceding year. Practically every one of the im- portant articles or groups of articles share in this gain. Pig iron shows {an increase of $1,000,000; bar iron an | increase of pne and one-third millions; | steel rails $1,500,000; steel sheets and | plates $1,250,000; structural fron and | steel nearly $2,000,000; wire $1,750,000; | builders’ hardware nearly $2,000,000; locomotives nearly $2,000,000; sewing machines nearly $1,500,000; mining ma- | chinery more than $2,000,000; type. | writers $500,000; printing presses more than $500,000, and bar iron, an increase | of more than $1,000,000. Tin plate has ‘passfld the $1,000,000 mark in the value of its exportation. The value of tin |plates and taggers tin exportea ag- | regated in quantity 27,064,477 pounds, | valued at $1,001,688, . SHERIFF ARRESTS ~ FIRE GAPTAING | SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL | _ SAN JOSE, Feb. 10.—Captain Frank | Boronda of the San Jose Fire Depart- ment was arrested today and taken to { the County Jail, where he is being | closely confined. His relatives and iends are not permitted to see him. fr | The Sheriff’s office is reticent as to the charges against Boronda and a fel- low fire captain, Amador, who was ar- | rested late last Saturday night on his |return from a fire. No warrant has | been issued for the arrest of the im- prisoned firemen, ang will not unless Sheriff Langford has completed his in- vestgation into certain matters in | which he believes Amador and Boronda were implicated. It was rumored on the streets today that other arrests will be made tomorrow, and that the charges grew out of the alleged elec- tion frauds. | MANY ANNAPOL; CADETS TO BE DROPPED FROM ROLL Report ¥From Aeademy Shows That Thirty-Eight Midshipmen . Must Leave Hecause of Deficiencies WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—A report |'received at the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, regarding affairs at | the Naval Academy shows that thirty- eight midshipmen will be dropped on arcount of deficiences, fifteen will be turned back and seventy-seven slightly deficient will be warned and continued with their present class. The thirty- eight vacancies will be filled by ap- pointments between now and March 1. ————— Some plants are affected by form, just as animals are. loro- ive plants, which shrink from the human touch in ordinary circumstances, lose their irritabllity chloroform vapo: in air charged with L) SEVERELY BEATEN BY THREE THUES Zictor Doassan, a hotel-keeper of Beattle, and Fazian Conrade, chef at Delmonico’s restaurant, were held up by three men in Sutter street, be- tween Buchanan and WQster. night, severely beaten and robbed of their watches and jewelry, ‘The two men were taken to the Central Emer- gency Hospital, where it was found that Courade was suffering from a possible fracture of the skull. His face was lacerated, and it was neces- sary to tdke several stitches. Doassan ‘was not severely injured. Two of the highwaymen covered Cour- ade and Doassan with pistols while the third footpad went through their fockets. When Courade showed a dis- position to resist he was beaten on the head with a revolver. The three high- waymen escaped. BOY LOSES MONEY IND NEW HAT OAKLAND, Feb. 10.—Walter Murray, a carrier for a San Francisco news- paper, who resides with his parents at broad daylight this all the money he had, and & new hat. Murray was held up at Twelfth and Alice streets by a roughly dressed, heavy set man, who stepped from a new building. After taking the money from his victim the thug snatched Murray’s hat, a new one, from his head, and warning the boy to make no outery, |ran along Twelfth street to Jackson street, and disappeared in the direction of Chinatown. J. Petersen, who lives at 3304 Mission street, in San Francisco, was robbed of an Eagle's pin, set with a diamond. The pin was stolen from the lapel of Peterson's coat at 1178 Twenty-third avenue. Thomas Jennings reported that thieves had entered his room at the Golden West Hotel and- had stolen a diamond pin and a suit of clothing. James Richards was also the victim of room thieves. They stole a tuxedo suit, & frock suit and a plain black suit from his room at the Portland House. J. O'Rourke's home at 564 Albion street was entered by thieves, who stole a diamond pin and some other articles of small value. Mrs. G. M. Stinson left a purse con- taining a considerable amount of money, a watch fob and a gold clasp in | her room at 1162 Washington street, which were stolen by thieves during her absence. Thieves stole $25 from a purse which Mrs, A. Churchill had left in a trunk in her room at 1817 Seventh street. H. 8. Kriegbaum, proptietor of the Juanita Hotel, accepted from a man giving the name of Crosby in payment {for a room a Confederate $10 bill Crosby secured $5.50 in change and dis- appeared. | Around the Bay STARTS ROW IN SALOON—Oakland, Feb. 10. Thomas McCarthy, an optician, started a row in a saloon at Thirteenth ang Washington streets 1ast night and after smashing a plateglass win- dow was arrested on charges of drunkenness and malicious mischief. P ESCAPED PRISONER CAPTURED —Oakland, Feb. 10.—H. O.<Rodgers, scaped from the chaingang last Friday, has ibeen reeaptured. After his rearrest Rodgers confessed that he had stolen $4 from the saloon of E. Le Prottl, at E. Broadway and Forty-ninta street. RECEIVE NOTICE OF MOTHER'S DEATH— Oakland, Feb. 10.—E. James Finney, an under- , received a telegram this morning notifsing him of the death of mother, Mrs. Agnes J. Finney, at Goshen, Ind. The deceased was 75 y¢ of age. PROHIBITION OFFICERS ELECTED—Onk- land, Feb. 10.—The Woman's Prohibition Club elected the following officers: Chairman, Mrs, Minple B. Tyler; vice chairman, Mrs. Emma V. Spencer; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary S. Kerr; recording secretary. Miss Callie Powers; chaplain, Mrs. Pettus; musical director, Mrs. Lulu Andrews. PISTOL CARRIER JAILED—Alameda, 10.—Joseph Paredez, employed on the s Olty of Para, was arrested last night for ca ing a concenled weapon and disturbing the pes Paredes had a revolver. which he threatened to use on any one who wousd molest him. A. Mamamasano, a shipmate or Paredez, was also arrested for peace disturbance. Feb. er » A e e WANT INCREASED WAGES OAKLAND, Feb. 10.—Longshoremen and lumber handlers have demanded an increase of from $3 to $4.50 a day in wages. The new scale presented by them is to become effective Feb- ruary 18. R s R WELL-KNOWN MEN INVOLVED IN CLOSING OF SONOMA DISTILLERIES Internal Revenue Officers Sel; Establishments for Vielnti of the Ligquor Laws SONOMA, Feb. 10.—Internal Revenue Officers N. J. Saviers and Sherman T. Williams dering the last week seized several illicit distilleries, While none. of the party will discuss the matter, it is known that there has been a loose observance of the law by a number of the wineries for some time past. ‘A dozen or more well-known men in the town and valley are known to have been involved. —_— PRESENT MRS. ROOSEVELT Telt Members of the Crew of the Battleship Louisiana Show Their Regard for ife of Nation's Executive | WASHINGTON, Feb., 9—Three mem- bers of the crew of the battleship Loui- slana presented to. Mrs. Roosevelt a large silver loving cup yesterday after- noon. The presentation occiurred in one of the parlors.of the White House and was arranged as a surprise. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt were very much touched at receiving. this remem- brance from the crew of the battleship on which they journeyed to Panama and back. L R E———— ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIMSELF other at Magzatlan, Mexico, Antonfo’ Benita tried to escape by running away. He stumbled and fell, however, and "f k:ll:\} by the accidental discharge of his pistol. e R —_— IMPORTANT POSTAL CHANGE tant change in the administration of the Postofice Department will become ef- ::‘m:h{e about the uth::‘* nst., division of correspond will be di- vided and distributed among other bu- reaus of the depa t. S last | 217 Twelfth street, was held up Inlton, wherse he had an opportunity to morning while | measure the sentiment concerning re- serving his route, being robbed of $1.50, | cent revelations of San Francisco's civic EL PASO, Texas, Feb: 10.—After kill- | ing one policeman and -wounding an- | the | render, but wi Fire nen the Fire 'GOod Progflamme of Entertainment Is Arranged" BERKELEY, Feb. 10.—With song| and story, speechmaking and refresh- | ments. the new quarters of Berkeley Lodge of Elks No. 1002 will be opened | tomorrow . evening for the inspection of guests, Addresses will be made by R. P. Bpone, Charles Dunscombe, A. E. Shaw, George Schmidt, Dr. C. A. Meek, | Clyde. Abbott and other prominent | smembers. Mrs. Carolyn Crew-Rasor and the EIks' quartét will sing and George. Drum will give stories and | sOngs. { The Elks have the entire upper floor | of the new Shattuck building for their | clubrooms. An assembly hall is ingy; cluded in the space. Thousands of do lars were expended upon the furnish- ings of the quarters | SOUNDS SLOGAN IN GRAFT WAR HERE Rev. Bradford Leavitt of the First Unitarian Church has returned from a trip to New York, Washington and Bos- scandal. Before his sermon yesterday he discussed the situation in the follow- ing significant word: Everywhere in the t I found the people greatly Interested in the sityation in San Fran- clsco; everywhere they are watching us closely, anxious to learn everything possible about the real conditions here. Much of evil has been written and spoken of us all over our land; most of it unfortunately true, and our Eastern friends are béginning to wonder what is the matter with the decent people here; whether there 1s any good in us.. whether we have any leaders, any public spirit, any sense of clvic righteousness, and whether in the face of 8o much disaster and our own shortcomiogs we can ever regain what we have lost, both of things material and moral. 1 was assured repeatedly that our fddling, melodramatic Mayor, who takes himself so seriously, the smooth and ofly boss, and the vast expanse of intellectual nothingness and moral turpitude that appears to oceupy the crania and hearts of our ciiy fathers, con- stitute a far more real handicap to our future progress than earthquake and fire. I replied that 1 was sure of it. They are beginning to speak in pitying voice of the city with the millstone about its meck, put there while we were down and bleeding. puj there while the whole country was lending & band to lift us—put there and pressed down and ground in—not by strangers who were ene- mies, but by those of our own household. as though & son should throttle his wounded mother. They don't understand it. Where is our public spirit? they ask-—where are your Jenders —yonr prophets? 1s Rudolph Sprekels the only man among you? had to admit a good deal of this: but it was a privilege to tell them publicly on sev- eral occasions another side of the story to see the effect afterward In certain newspaper ed- itorfals. Tt was good to tell of the splendid self-sacrifice work on the relief committee of Dohri and Phelan and Magee and De Y complaining bravery of man after man here, who, losing home and the careful accumnulations of hard-working years, everything the world counts wealth, vet lost no held on the greater things that make for true manhood. T told them the splendid story of the Cali- fornia ipsurance companies, determined that whatever other companies elsewhere might do and hewever hard hit their own stockbolders might be, they would do the honorable thing right up to the limit, tbough they sell their g00ds and mortgage their homes to do it, T told them of instances of individual honor and high-mindedness that could not be ex- celled; and assured them that we are not alone a clty of grafters and plunderers and union labor demagogues and commonplace vulgarity in high places, but a clty also of decent and honorable American men and women, who love righteousness and hate corruption, and tbat, by and by, when we have set in order our homes and ouf businesses, we shall have a civic house cleaning and thrust out these men of ill fame who blacken our reputation among the Amer- ican people. To you I will say: ann and Cushing and many others; of the un- It is high time we do something besides t and if we don't do something to rehabilitate this city morally pretty soon, it will be no fit place for a home for decent people. SERVICES AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH Congregation Assemble in Edifice For First Time Since Disaster With the return of the congregation of the First Congregational Church to the rehabilitated edifice in the down- town district the members of ‘Plymouth Congregational Church in Post street held services as a unit yesterday for the first time since the April disaster. Dr. 1. Curtis Meserve, D.D., occupnled the pulpit. As the services yest rday marked a new epoch in the life o. the church the congregation had been per- sonally urged to put forth a special effort to be on hand at the morning and evening worship. The efforts of the pastor were rewarded by the attend- ance. GOVERNMENT ISSUES PAPER ON EVAPORATION PROBLEMS Result of Experiments in California Are Made Known and Effort to Improve Barley Is Begun Farmers interested in the problems that confront them through the loss of water by evaporation are requested by the ‘Federal Government to apply for a bulletin that has been issued by the United States Department of Agricul- ture dealing with the results of irri- gation and dralnage Investigations. During the last few years experi- ments have been made by the office of experiment stations . in co-operation ‘with the State of California to measure the losses of water by evaporation from Jirrigated orchards in California and to determine the effectiveness in checking these losses of various methods of ap- plying the water and of cultivation after’ irrigation. The experiments in- cluded applying the water at various depths, showing in every case a notice- WITH SILVER LOVING CUP {able decrease in evaporation with in- crease in depth of applying the water ‘and -of cultivation. A full acgount of the results of the experiment§ is con- tained:in the bulletin. : . The Department of Agriculture i now. bending its efforts to produce a pure strain out of California barleys. ‘While the barleys of this State are held to be the equal of any in the world, 1e. Government is convinced that a t improvement in the quailty may }fi effected through proper experiment .and getting back to a.pure strain, the ‘barleys grown here being largely mix- ures. ~The outcome of the experiments s ‘.rmu- mean added wealth to the State. s O St ‘FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSISTS - - POLICE IN RAID ON SALOON _SPRINGFIELD, O, Feb. 10.—T) police, with the aid of the Fire De- partment, led a saloon this - noon and with ladders scaled the walls of a five-story building and captured thirty-one men who had escaped from the place and taken refuge on the roof. The police attempted to get on the WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—An impor-|roof through the building, but found | es barred by, to sur- Department - officers as- rereivess arrived with cended with Elks ,ré)f Berkeley to Open New Clubr09 unties | ms Tonight > | | | | i e SIBBATH SCHOOL LEADERS TO TALK OAKLAND, Feb. 10.—Joy Pruden and | James Edmunds of Portl Ore., will | econduct a Sunday school institute com- | mencing Wednesday afternoon at the| First Baptist Church. Addresses will| be given by Edmunds as follows: Wednesd 3—2:45 m., na, Suceesstul Clas School.”™ Thursday, _Febry 2: . “The Ministry of Teaching’; 7 n Orderiy School: Its Elements and 43 p. m., “‘Deeviopment of the R Friday, February 15 p._m., “The Matrix of Character”: 7 “The Liging Cbild in a Dying Chure 3 p. m., “Organized Classes for Young People Pruden also will give an address each afternoon. The institute wéll be open to the public. Major George A. Hilton, a noted evan- gelist, is holding ‘a series of meetings in Union street Presbyterian Church. speak each aftermoon at clock. | “John Wesley, | the Eighteenth Centu was the sub- ject of Rev. H. J. Vosburgh's sermon this evening in the First Baptist Church. 4 Rev. C. M. Hill, president of the Berkeley .Baptist Seminary, preached this morning in the Tenth avenue Bap- tist Church. An address on Abraham Lincoln was delivered this evening in the First Con- gregational Church by Rev. Charles R.| Brown. ! Captain Dutton, State lecturer for the Independent Order of Good Templars, conducted services this morning in the Methodist Church South, Thirty-fourth and Elm streets. Rev. J. W. Horn, the | pastor, preached a revival sermon this evening. Rev. R. H. Gushee, rector of Christ| Church, Ontario, preached this evening in St. John's Episcopal Church. —_— NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE PRESIDENT ISSUES CIRCULAR Tells Policy-Holders That Funds of the Company Are Being Expended in Just Way NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—A circular let- ter to policy-holders by Alexander E. Orr, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, was made public today. Orr declared that the company's affairs were being conducted econom- ically. Concerning the reports that the pol- iey-holders’ funds were used In faver of one of the tickets for trustees at the recent election, Orr declared the company’s representatives were forbid- den to use such funds or to take up the time of salaried employes in busi- ness hours and that te the best of his| knowledge “not a dollar of the pelicy- | holders' money was spent improperly.” N G TR WILL CONNECT LINE WITH THE MEXICAN INTERNATIONAL — President of Kansas City Rallroad An- , nounces Intended Improvements to Be Made by Corporation EL PASO, Feb. 10.—Before the end of the year, according to a statement glven by A. E. Stillwell, president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, a branch of that railroad will be built to Spofford Junction, where it will connect with the Eagle Pass branch of the Southern Pacific, connect- ing with the Mexican International at Ciudad Porfirio _Diaz, Cohulla, Mexico, thus_giving et line from Kansas City to X 'Feb. 10— Ch: "at of this eity, died tuls afternoon at the public hospital a result of injuries sustained at the time of the earthquake. He was conduecting & meeting of the council when the bullding collapsed. Mayor Tait was 68 years old and of Scotch descent. —_— CALIFORNIA RANCHER’'S DEATH HONOLULU, Feb. 4.—Michael Dutra, a ranch owner of Hanford, Kings County, Cal, arrived in Honolulu on the Ventura, January 26, coming in the hope of recovering his lost health, but died the day following his arrival. | buckshot. | Koch's daughter, | Two months ago he’'went PR B B Rt L RN Marin San Mateo BLOWS OUT BRAINS WITH SHOTGUN LivermoreRancherCommits Suicide While Despondent Because of Long Illness BIG ESTATE OAKLAND, Feb. 10.—Despondaent from long iliness. Christopher Koch, T4 years old, a Livermore Valley rancher, committed suicide Saturday night by blowing out his bralns with a charge ‘A The deed was committed the Dolan: Canyon ranch, owned by twenty miles from LEAVES Livermore. Koch stretched himself out on his bed, placed the uzzle of a loaded shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger of the weapon with his toes. The charge of shot tore away the top of his head. Koch lived for many years at Tassa- ra, where he owned 160 acres of land. to live with his daughter on account of his falling health GASCADES OF FIRE IN-A LAV PIT HONOLULU, Feb. 4 —Halemaumanu has filled up within a week 200 feet, according to marks and measurements made, and the lava is still pouring in. There are beautiful cascades of fire, as one side of the pit fills up and then the molten lava suddenly breaks over to the other side. Captain Cart tug Iroquol source of the r of the United States »s returned from the lava flow on the side of Mauna Loa. The fires of the f dead. but rumblings and h evident, and there is much of fascinat- Ing interest to be seem From poo, Captain Carter made the jour to the head of the main flow, wh he saw a fissure three feet wide and great length, from which the red lava had burst dividing the flow from the Kau flow he could see the cooled stream from a great crack farther up. At the source of the main flow he discovered a pickle bottle, in which were tobacco, cigar- >t hot Standing upon a ridge ette papers and matches. . Some thoughtful person had left a smoke for. “some forlorn and shipwrecked brother.” \WOMEN DWN 3UGAR PLINTATION HONOLULU, Feb. 4{.—A close cor- poration, in which all the stockholders are women, has been formed to oper- ate the Halawa Plantation, Limited, on the. island of Hawail There are twenty-four shares of a par value of $500, with power to increase to $1,000,- 000, and the stockholders are: Mr: Jane Wight, four shdres; Mrs, Alic Atkins, two; Mrs. Florence Patton, two; Mrs. Clara G. Bryant, two; Miss Cath~ erine S. Wight, two; Mrs. Mary D. Ma- son, two: Miss Maude Wight, two; Mrs. Emma Wood, two: Mrs. Julia May, two; Mrs. Eliza Y. McKenzle, two. There are many women in Hawa holding sugar stocks in different g, panies, but this is the first instance ¥ Wwhich women have become the sol proprietors of a plantation. _—— EDITOR KILLS GAMBLER WALLA WALLA, Wash.,, Feb. 10.—A special from Pendleton, Or., says: John P. McManus, editor of the Pilot Rock Record, shot and killed Robert Estes, a gambler, in the Pullman saloon on Main street late yesterday after- noon. No meotive is known. to exist for the erime, as the men were not ac- quainted. It is presumed MeManus took Estes for another man whom the editor believed had robbed him last week. Every Heart Beat Forces about 8 ounces of blood out of the heart, and sends it coursing through the veins to the remotest part of the body. This is the amount required by nature to nourish and sustain your body. Every ounce less than this means a shortage in nature’s supply of building-up material. A weak heart cannot meet this demand, and conse- quently you suffer. If your heart skips a beat, or flutters, palpitates, pains_you, or you have shortness of breath, you may be sure that the heart is working imperfedtly. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure will strengthen the heart muscles and nerves. ‘I had been a great sufferer for 15 At the time I taki Miles' Heart Curs I been to my bed for months. I had frequent sinking sometimes as many as three in a day, during which my heart would seem to beating, necessitating the call- a pi fan to mmu& first bottle