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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-23
$3.50, $40, SIP, SIS,
$I8 AND $25
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ChiIdren's Department.

We've II great line OF Children's
Goods, both in Suits, Odd Pants,
Overcoats and Refers. Our 81. so
Suits for Boys in blue, black and
brown. would be considered good
value for So.
Refer Suits, sizes 3 too years;
Double Breasted Suits, sizes 8 20
16 years.
Boys Refers in 'Chirchilla and
Astrachan, superbly made and
trimmed-a coat that will keep him
warm in the coolest weather. Sizes
{ to 1G years. Prices are Sc, So
and So.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-23
PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE OF
FICE FIXTURES AND EIRNlTIIR r

On November 30, 1897, at 10 O'Clock n.
III. at the office formerly occupied by the
Traders Loan, Trust and Deposit Com
pany. No. 132 salem nyerue, Roanoke,
Va. will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton, for cash, the following articles of
personal property:
l Farrel Safe with Deposit Boxes. g
star ding counters, ratings and doors.
roller top desk, ilat-top walnut desk
revolving office chair, ! office stool, 3
chairs, cane bottom, > small tables, /
typewriter, clock, letter press and
stand, l stove and pipe, 1 map of Roam
oke city, pigeon-hole case for checks.
carpets, 2 waste baskets, money
tray, envelope rack, l check punch.
Code o. Virginia, l lot bank supplies
checks, deposits slips, etc, , spittoons.
Al the same time ana place will also
sell mt public auction the nnexpiie ed Term
OF lease for the Offices formerly occupied
cy the Traders Loan, Trust Company.
The said uneXpired term will Begin on
december LIST, 1897, and continue until
May /, 1898.
II. II. HALL,
Receiver for the Traders Loan, Trust and
Deposit Co.
10 room house with six acres of land.
four chicken yards and houses. sta
BILE and other out buildings. two miles
from Terry building, one mile from West
End roundhouse. Just the thing for a
railroad man. Terms reasonable and
cheap. Pedigo-l}elle Real Estate Co.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-23
Trim med Hats and Bonnefs.

NO HIGH PROFITS. EVERY DAY
SOMETHING NEW.
Such prices as ours on Millinery are
magnets whose power none care to resist.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-23

TT. I. HALL,
Receiver for the Traders Loan, Trust and
Deposit Co.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
CIVIL SERVICE PROJECT.
Merchants Association to Hold a
Public Meeting Advocating State
Reforms.

There will be an open discussion upon
the subject of State civil service law at
the quarterly meeting of the Merchants
Association next Thursday evening, Janu-
airy IA, at the Academy of Sciences Hall.
The association has received from Hon.
James A. Waymire. member of the AS
sembly, copies of two bills that he intends
to introduce in the present Legislature
upon the subject of civil service. One bill
applies to the cities of the State and the
other to the counties OF the State. The
association has also received from n. Z.
Conrey. prominent advocate OF civil SER
vice in Los Angeles, a copy of bill care
fully prepared by him and based upon
the New York and Illinois statutes relat-
ing tie civil service in cities. He has made
this bill also apply 10 counties OF the State
and it will be introduced in the Leeisla-
ture by Assemblyman John Cross OF Los
Angeles.
1t is expected that the result of this dis
cussion of the bills at the quarterly meet
ing next Thursday evening will be a reso-
luton addressed to the Legislature OF the
State favoring the establishment OF civil
service throug bout the cities and counties
OF California. The public is cordially in
vited to attend the meeting and take part
in the discussion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12

BY BULLET AND THE BAY.
Novel Method OF Caspar Burri, a Swiss,
to End His Life.

Novel Method of Caspar Burri, a Swiss,
to End His Life.
Caspar Burri, a native of Switzerland,
committed suicide early yesterday morn
ing and his body is now in the Morgue.
Burri was determined that there would be
no mistake about the ending of his exist
ence. His method of getting away from
the material world had in it the element
of originality.
Burri went to the end of the fishermen s
wharf on Union street ana placed two
stones on the stringer, so that he could
mount to the top of cluster of piles. A
fisherman named B. Gilllo, mending his
nets, watched the proceeding curiously,
and his interest was aroused even to tenn
porary excitement when he saw the man
take pistol from his pocket and place
the muzzle to his forehead.
There was muffied report and then the
body plunged forward off the pies into
the bay. G lilo called for assistance, end
jumping into his boat, which was near by,
rowed to the place. Burri's booy had dis
appeared, and after some effort Gillio re-
covered the body of the dead man.
The remains were removed to the
Morgue, where the Coroner learned from
the passport and other papers belonging
to the deceased his name, nativity, age,
etc. Burri was go years of age and miner
by occupation. His passport was dated
1855 and resigned in 1869. 1t is believed
that Burri's home was in the canton OF
Luzerne Deceased had no money in his
pockets.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12

AIsneak more in sorrow than in anger, !"
began Judge Gibson. ''if Judge Works,
who has been on the bench of this court
were an amateur in the profession, 1
would be inclined to overlook such mat
ter. But when a man OF the standing OF
Judge Works attempts this | think some
action should be taken" Then Judge
Gibson vent on to declare the statements
IN the brief scandalous.
Ex-Justice Works listened while Judge
Gibson went on and the Supreme Court
Justices looked little surprised. "He
has reiterated his assertions in scan
dalous letter that he has read. He insin-
yates in his brief that Judge Torrance did
not act in good faith. His language
shows the animus of the attorney. His
language is scandalous, impertinent, I'M
Just and unfair. An example should be
made.
HE has reiterated in his brief in the
scandalous remarks and thus showed that
this was not mere inadvertence.
Chief Justice Beatty asked ex-Justice
Works if he refused to withdraw his re-
marks and the ex-Justice said ''yes, sir. !"
Judge Gibson then continued and
alleged that ex-Justice Works had got
into the habit of making such statements
in briefs. "In suit in the United States
Circuit Court the same scurrilous matter
has been incorporated in brief by him.
This is not his first offense. and unless
something is done there will be no safety
for any one on the other side of the case.
We ask for mild punishment. We do not
ask for his disbarment at this time"
City Attorney Doolittle objected to
having filed the statement read by the ex-
Justice, saying that it contained the same
matter contained in the brief. Then ex-
Justice WORKS spoke:
at has been said" he began, "that 1
have declined to strike out parts of my
brief and that l adhere to what 1 have
said. What are the facts and circum-
stances? The very question at issue in
this appeal is whether the Judge has sat
in a case when he ought not, whether he
has tried a case in which he was inter
ested. 1t is not implied that Judge Tor
rance sat corruptly. But if the attorney
is seeking for language in reference to
a Judge sitting wrongly be can find it in
the decisions of this court.
Gan honest, indepen dent bar is as
necessary to the administration of justice
as an honest bench. If an attorney cannot
call to the attention of this court that a
Judge has sat below where he was dis
qualified, then we are living under a des-
potism. Here was Judge sitting who
was a taxpayer and a water-rate payer.
and who, as such, was liable to pay his
share on the $1,000, 600 for which the city
was to obligate itself. They say that
have unjustly made charges against Judge
Torrance. L said the same things in his
court. No assertion is made that Judge
Torrance sat willfully. We do not impute
any improper motives to him."
City Attorney Doolittle made some re-
marks, IN which he held that ex-Justice
Works had impugned the motives of
Judge Torrance.
The motion to dismiss the appeal and to
strike ex-Justice Works brief from the
file was taken under advisement. The
statement read by the ex-Justice was not
admitted to file.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
NATIVE SONS OFFICERS
Grand Master ]. w. Warboys
Witnesses the Installation
O. Odd Fellows
A Camp of Woodmen of the World
Adds 10 Its M m bership-Gr and
Army Officers Take Office.

The officers of Golden Gate Parlor, n. S.
G. W., we're publicly installed last night
in the main hall of the Native Sons build
ing in the presence of very large mum Der
of members of the order and friends OF
the parlor. The installation was by Dep
uty District President Henry Lansing, as
sisted by L. G. Conway as marshal and E..
D. Roach as secretary, and the officers
who received the changes were: j. j.
Sweeney, P. P; H. Wenzel, P; M. G..
Eichel, j. ]. Harrington and H. Brandtjen,
vice-presidents; Dana Wilson, +. S.; Adolf
Eberhart, r. s.; +. S. Frank. NJ; D. B.
Villain, T.; L. d. Sourian, l. S.; Harry
Grove. Q. s.
After the installation there was recita-
ton by George s. Terkildsen; duet, Mrs.
e. J. Ehrman and Mrs. Mollie Phillips;
mandolin and guitar trio, Messrs. See
kamp, Koch and Proll; recitation, Ed
Sweeney; vocal music by the Golden Gate
quintet, e. G.. Hahn, ]. A. Douglass, G.
Iriplett, J. B. Biebesheimer and S. a.
Douglass; recitation, Miss Effie Bond.
During the evening a handsome badge
was presented to Otto Koefer, the retiring
president.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
Is Not Married to Jimmy
Treadwell and Doesn't
Expect to Be.
Thinks a Good Deal of Ivan and
Would Not Give Him the
CODY.
Ivan Called FRI quently While Sh :
Was Away, but Has Not Been to
See H.r Since Her Return.

Pretty Mrs. ]. J. WEIGH returned to her
mothers home at 5o21I Larkin street,
yesterday afternoon. and spent the hours
weeping because of the notoriety which
her absence from the City had gained for
her. She denied having been married to
Jimmy Treadwell or having any notion of
being married to him or having been in
his company while away.
"Why, l have only met him half dozen
times; he has never called upon me" she
said. Il met him incidentally when ON a
visit to San Jose. It's absurd, the idea OF
mixing my name up with that of poor,
innocent Jimmy. l think a great deal of
Ivan TreadwelI, his brother, and he
thinks a great deal of me. l would
not for a moment give him the go-by for
Jimmy. But | have had no notion OF
marrying either of them. 1t is true that
Ivan has called upon me frequently for
some time past-indeed we have gone
tandem-r riding almost every day. We
were out Monday last and he took me TO
dinner. l had an engagement to go
riding with him on Tuesday evening.
met Jimmy on the street. Ibid not know
he was In town. l asked him when he in
tended to return 10 San Jose and he said
In the morning
ION Wednesday / went to Oakland to
visit some friends, but before leaving the
house / sent a note to Ivan addressed in
care of Vanderslice 81 Co., and expected
it to reach him before he left there with
the tandem"
Here Mrs. Welsh mother took up the
story. "At o'clock Ivan came here,
riding up on the tandem. he just looked
too sweet, too-his face all lit up with
q iIaq Rut oh M ad w q asked
my daughter and | told him that she was
gone. 'Somewhere?' he asked. told
him 1 didn't know. Well, he said, 'Pll
wait an hour And he did. He sat here
talking to me for an hour. Then he went
away with the tandem. About an hour
later he came back on single to inquire
if she had returned. He has been here
evening to see If she had got back"
"Oh well. mother, this. is my state
ment." broke in the young woman. ut
doesn't matter where he went or how
many times he was here. | don't think
he has acted nicely about this matter. He
could have saved all this notoriety. for he
must have got my note and so knew
where / was.
Where was II Well, / went to Oak
land, as l say, Wednesday afternoon and,
let me see, did come back the same night
or the next day? Oh, it was the next gay
at noon. 4 came over on little business,
and then went with some friends to San
Rafael. where l remained until to-day. l
would have been there yet but that l hap
pened to pick up The CALL and was con.
fronted with my own picture"
"She came hurrving home after that"
interrupted her mother ''All this would
have been prevented if she had told me
where she was going
But often go away for days without
telling you where / am going" said the
daughter. II had no idaa they would
say | ran away with Jimmy Treadwell
just because l spoke to him the night
before"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
G. L. Bresse, One of the Public
Spirited Property Owners on
Larkin Street Who Has Con-
tributed Literally to the Light
ing Fond for That Street.

OF eight was appointed, two TO each block
thus far Illuminated by arc lights: On the
800 block, Ed Christian and NJ. Beslar; on
the 400 block, Julius Seyden and Sol
Friedmann; on the 500 block, M. Com
peril and M. Scott; and on Laguna street,
on the block from Hayes to Grove, Charles
Alpers and z. Sven.inich.
These sub-com mittees will canvass their
respective blocks for further subscrip-
tions with which to place additional
lamps on the blocks already lighted and
with the view of extending the light from
Franklin street to Larkin.
The same dark condition that is to be
found on the eastern end of Hayes street
exists on the lower end of Larkin, as the
lights on this street have not been ex-
tended further than Golden Gate avenue,
but this drawback is about to be remedied
by the action of the Larkin-street I'm
provement Club, which body has among
its members some very spirited property
owners, notably G. l.. Bresse, a large real
estate owner on the line of this thorough
fare, who has made an offer to guarantee
the expense of lighting one block out of
his own pocket provided the other prop
erty-owners would combine and do like
wise. Mr.. Bresse, when seen at his office
at Alp Pine street yesterday, said:
II consider it the duty of property
owners not only to assist the storekeepers
to improve the appearance Of their streets,
but it should also be the duty OF every
man who owns lot to subscribe for the
light. What value should my holding be
to me if / could not be able to rent the
houses erected thereon.
81 am member of the Larkin- street
Improvement Club, and I have contrib
uted more than my pro rata of the ex-
pense TO beautify that street, and | will
do my share to have the lights continue
TO Market street, thus making one con-
tionous circuit from Polk along Suffer to
Larkin. and to where Larkin forks off in TO
Hayes and Ninth streets.
This is what we want and what We
must have or else we will have to brand
the other property-owners as being remlss
in their own interests"
Charles Alpers, at last nights meet inc.
subscribed So to the celebration to be had
on Hayes street in the near future, and he
offered the use of Mowry's Hall free for
the use OF the club.
Previous to the adjournment 2. ]. Com
pertz offered the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That the thanks of the HAYES VAL
ley Improvement Club be rendered to orr
Representatives in Congress for the able fight
made to defeat the funding bill; and be it
further
Resolved, That this club also extends ;ts
particularly to THE CALL, for its die.
nified stand on behalf of the people of Cali.
fornia against the passage of the aforesaid
funding bill.
This resolution went through with q
whoop and yell of JOY from the large
gathering present.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING.
Henry Miller, Despondent German,
Shot Bullet Into His
Rreast.

Henry Miller, German, aged probably
As years, attempted suicide yesterday
shortly after noon in a gun store on
Kearny street, near Sacramento. 1t is
quite likely that the man will soon die.
Miller asked the clerk in the store to
show him revolver displayed in the
show window. He then charged the
weapon with cartridge from the box &C
companying it. Suddenly there was a
report and Miller sank to the floor shot
through the left breast.
Miller's injury was examined at the
Receiving Hospital, where DR.. Bunnell
declared it to be fatal.
The sufferer, who was in great pain,
stated he had arrived in this City some
few weeks ago. Formerly he lived in
Chicago. where he worked as butcher in
various hotels. He claimed to have lost
some money in the wheat market prior to
his departure for this City.
1t was learned that Miller was destitute
and in debt. He brooded over the death
of his wife in 1894 and thought life was
not worth living.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
IN FINANCIAL STRAITS.
The Finance Committee of the Board
of Education Is Laboring Under
Heavy Difficulties.

The Board of Education is preparing to
exercise the utmost economy during the
next few months, in order to tide over
financial difficulties that threaten through
overdrafts on its funds and because of
decreased apportionment of State school
moneys.
Official word came from Sacramento
yesterday that the apportionment for the
first six months of the year would be
Sab, 694 y, or about $4,000 less than was
received at this time last year.
If the second apportionment, which
comes in July, is proportionally less the
department Will be in desperate straits for
funds before the end of the year and the
teachers will not only not receive the half
months salary that was held last year,
but are quite likely to be short like sum
during the coming twelve months.
Even should the apportionment reach
$630,000. the amount calculated by the
Auditor, there will be deficit, and only
the strictest economy in the purchase OF
supplies and the work on buildings will
keep the board from cutting the teachers
off.
1t is not expected that the second APP
portionment will go much over 1920, 900,
and the Finance Committee of the board
is straining every nerve to meet the situa-
Ion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
Young Mems Institute.

A council of the order was instituted in the
city of ST. Louis in St. Patrick's Church on the
4th inst by Deputy Supreme w. L. Nee of the
Kentucky jurisdiction, in the State of Mis-
souri,. That makes the fourth council of the
order in the city named
Sacramento Council has elected Edward
West president P. A. Fitzgerald secretary and
z. J. Douglass. c.. Farran and II. P. Rayon its
executive committee.
The new officers OF Ferndale Council are
Andrew Haley, president; Joseph Crowley,
secretary; Rev. T. Nugent, Z. A. Agler, w
Gwinsell, J. Whitman and S. F. Agler, E. C.
San Carlos Council has elected Manuel
Perry president; w. Hunt, secretary: ]. r.
Miller, J. T. Devine and " A. Glotzbach, E. C.
Santa Rosa Council has elected J. T. Plover
p, w. J. Plover g., Peter Toryey, z. II.
Nonan and ]. Keane e. g..
San Luis Obispo Council has elected p
Hughs p, P. F. Isola s.; J. A. Retezky r.
Hearne and ]. J. Lopez Z. c.
Copper Council has chosen P. J. Kennedy for
president and f. A. Sullivan for secretary. and
the officers will be installed on February s.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
HAYES VALLEY
IS NOT BEHIND
An Improvement Club Or
ganized There Last
Night.
Spirited Offer Made By G. L
Bresse to Assist the Store.
keepers.
Plans to Hive Circle of Lights
on Po.k, Larkin and Hayes
Streets.

The illumination of Hayes street from
Franklin to Laguna is only the COM
mencement of what will follow to bring
this section into prominence as COM
mercial center.
. AT meeting of the storekeepers, prop
erty-owners and residents of this street
last night at Mowry's Hall, Hayes Val
ley improvement club was organized, with
Charles Alpers president and Frank Fall
secretary.
This organization is only temporary,
however, as committee of three on per-
manent organization and order OF bust
ness was appointed. The committeeman
are: Frank Fall, ]. II. Scott and P. j..
Gompertz. This committee will report
at the next meeting on Monday night, at
which time a prominent club organization
will be formed.
At the meeting last night committee
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
The Sloat Monument for
Monterey Ready for
the Pedestal.
Each County Will Be Repre-
scented by a Block of Gran.
lite Contributed.
Many of the Base Stones Have Al.
ready Been Placed--The Memor.
ial Described.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
QA2 Broad NAV Ian IL

SOS Broadway, Jan. IL
The SIoat monument, to be placed in
front of old Fort Mervine at Monterey,
has been completed at Rupert Schmid' S
studio.
Major Edwin A. Sherman, chairman of
the committee on design and construction,
describes the monument as follows:
The platform base is TO be twenty-four feet
square and six feet high, faced with three
courses of granite stones four feet long, two
feet wide and two feet thick. There are nifty
seven counties in the State and each county is
TO be represented by stone bearing its date of
organization and the date OF July z, 1896,
placed in the face OF the foundation of the
monument. These, with the cornerstone
re presenting California make ffty-eig ht leav-
ing eight other stones 10 complete the square,
which are assigned to the United States navy
the United States army, veterans of the Mexl-
can War, California Pioneers, Native sons of
the Golden West, Native Daughters Of the
Golden West, the public schools and the Ma
tional Guard of California, The cornerstone
was laid by the Grand Lodge of Masons of
California July z, 1896, on the iftieth ami
versary OF the hosting OF the American flag at
Monterey.
Captain Thomas G. Lambert, the receiver of
the S. oat Monument Association at that place,
reports having received the stones consigned
to him with the freight prepaid as directed,
from the following counties, viz: Alameda,
Contra Costa Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San
Joaquin, Napa, Placer, Plumas San Luis
the stones of the United States Navy and the
Grand Parlor of the Native Daughters of the
Golden West, while other stones are being
prepared
The interior of the platform base is to be of
solid concrete. The shaft or pedestal is to be
fifteen feet in height, as per the design. On
the front face bronze medallion representing
the old custom-house and the raising Of the
American flag and the name John D. Sloat.
On the north side the medallion of Captain
John c. Fremont, on the west side the medal
lion of Commodore Robert f. Stockton and on
the south side the medallion of Surgeon Will
liam Maxwell Wood, the feet surgeon who
went through Mexico al the risk of his life
an d obtained the information of hostilites
having broken ont and war declared between
Mexico and the United States, which he Sc
cretly conveyed to mmodore Sloat.
The statue of Commodore Sloat is to be ten
feet in height of bronze, and pointing to the
flagstaff at the custom-house where the flag
was raised. He is standing by capstan with
the proclamation in his left hand in the act of
giving orders
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
Colonel Cass Post.

There was large number of people present
at the public installation of the officers of
Colonel Cass Post, G. A. R., in Mission Parlor
hall last week. The installing officer was
Timothy Curran. s. p. P. c., and he delivered
the charges TO the following named in very
impressive manner: John ONeIl. P. c. ire
elecled); Hugh Shields, S. V. c.; K. E. Dow
dali, J. VIC; Edwin Kelly,S. (7e-electeo); John
Marsey, chaplain (re-elected); James II. Riley
(re-elected) o. of D.; J. D. Byrnes, o. of G.; II.
J. Brown, adjutant; Timothy Curran, O. NJ.
tre-elected); J. Butler, S. M; w. A. Walker
o. S. After the installation there was must
cal and literary programme, and an address
by Major q. w. Arbuckle P. L. c.