The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-19
SEE TOOK HIS
OAKLAND ROOM.
LAMSON'S WIFE MOVED In UPON
HIM AND He QUICKLY
MOVED OUT.
ANOTHERELECTRICR RAILWAY
THE MAYOR May TAKE STEPS
TO RETURN LAMBERT, THE
RUNAWAY.

With the advent of Auctioneer George F.
Lamson IN the divorce court it would ap-
pear that his troubles have only Just COM
menced. His wife intends to fight against
his getting divorce, and to the bitter end.
In his affidavit filed in connection with his
complaint Lamson cited the extravaganza
of his wife in fitting hither and thither
and putting up at high-priced hotels,
where she would leave bills for her hus-
band to pay. She stopped in San Fran
cisco at the Deyonshire, Grosvenor and
California, at all of which places she left
bills, which, Lamson said, he grew weary
of paying.
Recently the wife took new tack and
concluded to stop at the hotel at which
her husband put up.
Accordingly, a few days ago the lady
came over to Oakland and went to the
Arlington Hotel. She took up quarters in
her husbands room in his absence and
proceeded to make herself at home. When
he returned home the auctioneer found his
wife by his own ireside to greet bin.
He was surprised, but found words to
say, What are you doing here2"
Mrs. Lamson replied quietly: 81 am at
home, the only home / have on earth, and
propose to stay, for [ am sure, as you pre-
tend 10 be Christian, you would not turn
me out in the rain
The auctloneer did not turn his wife out
IN the rain. Instead, he packed up his
effects and went out himself in the rain.
lie took up his quarters at the CrelIin.
Then the wife was forced to leave the
Arlington, and her finances were so low
that she was compelled to borrow 25 cents
from the landlady to get to San Francisco.
In answer to her husbands charges. Mrs.
Lamson has made affidavit that they are
false.
The court will decide as to the prelim-
mary points IN the divorce case in two
weeks.
Mrs. Lamson is said to be lying seriously
III IN San Francisco, at the Devonshire. and
her attorney asked to have the divorce case
tranferred to that city, but the request was
denied.
One of the chief causes of the trouble in
the Lamson family was over the two
daughters, who desired to go on the stage.
III their ambition they were opposed by
the father and encouraged by the mother.
One daughter is now playing in the East
and the other in the Northwest.
PIace-Hunters After Davie.
Mayor-elect Davie is besieged with Office
seekers. 1t Is stated that for the Office of
license inspector, now held by Mr. Maloon,
there are no less than eighty men who
"Ou1O ike 10 serve their country.
Among those mentioned for the place
are: A. L. Mcpherson, Republican com
mltteeman from the Third Ward; Orrin
Page, the man who brought suit to ouash
the charter amendments election, and C.
W. Corner, who held the place under Mayor
Chapman.
There are three vacancies on the Board
of Health to fill, and when the new board
Is organized 1t will choose a health officer,
whose salary Will be $3.50 per month Dr.
Adams now holds this post. His name is
mentioned for reelection. The names of
Drs. Buteau, Olmstead, Kellogg, Lane, a
f. Childs. Hesse and Arnold are also in
the field.
For Chief of Police the names of Captain
Fletcher, Deputy Sheriff White, ex-Police
Officer Filley and J. L. Lyon have been
mentioned. Chief Schaffer also hopes to
hold on to the place.
For City Clerk, the incumbent, Temp
klns, is candidate for reappointment, and
he will probably hold the place, as will
also Ed Holland the post of deputy.
Was John Beach Insane?
The friends of John Beach, who was sent
to an asylum as insane a short time ago.
now make the assertion that Beach was
railroaded to the asylum, and that the
$4,000 worth OF property he was supposed
10 have possessed has vanished. His
friends said this wealth was in Government
bonds or other securities. One of his
friends, Charles Westerfield, who knew
Beach and nursed him at times when his
heart troubled him, said that Beach. who
was 20 years old, did not get along with the
women folks who were at the house
of Arthur w. Jee, Beach's brother-in-law.
Beach had been appointed a guardian of
Jee when the court decided that the old
man was not competent to manage his own
large estates, but Beach could not furnish
the bond of $500, coo necessary and Judge
Catlln OF Sacramento was made the guar
dian. One of the women at Jee's house
complained of by Beach's friends is Judge
Catlin's daughter. Beach was formerly
saloon keeper, and Drs. Paterson and
Ieech, who are Jee's physicians, and who
also attended Beach, say that there is moth
ing in the railroading story, that it is sim
ply the talk of saloon-keepers. The doc
tors say that Beach was clearly insane.
The Strikers for Quinn.
In answer to the published card of w. H.
Quinn, defeated candidate for Council
man in the Third Ward, the successful
candidate, w. G. Manuel, has this to say:
Now so far as the stories of Mr.. Quinn's being
in the employ of the Southern Pacific company
are concerned l have never given them Gre
dence and do not now. l have nothing but
respect and friendship for Mr.. Quinn, and hay
ing been his neighbor as boy and man for
some twelve years, cannot speak too highly of
out RHlle Is true III Is also True bnaJ
the agents of the Southern Pacific company
the Contra Costa Water Com pany and the gang
were all working tooth and nail for Mr..
Quinn. The sharpest and most corrupt ward
strikers in the city were bending every energy
to elect Mr.. Quinn mot because they wanted
Mr.. Quinn, or because they thought they could
move himsa hairs breadth from the path of
duty, but because they wanted to defeat me.
This was the true state OF affairs in the Third
Ward on election day. On the other hand,
again, Mr.. Quinn's social and personal friends
land they constitute many of the best fami-
lies in the Third Ward) were honestly work
ing for Mr.. Quinn and good government, as 1
should have been doing had not been a can.
didate.
Another Branch of the Loop.
At meeting of the Board of Supervisors
Yesterday Daniel Chisholm and II. S. Pc
hermann filed an application for a fran
chise to construct and operate an electric
street railway between Haywards and