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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

Mrs. Mead had rented rooms, the
prisoner made no attempt to conceal
her purpose, nor the fact that she
was a married woman. To Mrs.
Ralph she explained that her husband
was running a cigar and confectionery
establishment on Market street, and
that it was her purpose to assist him
financially. Previous to taking rooms
of the Ralph woman it is stated that.
Mrs. Mead secured a lodging at $50
OFarrell street. Miss Frost, the land
lady of the O'Farrell street house,
is authority for the statement that
Mead accompanied his wife when
she paid her weeks rental on the day
she took possession, and that he plain
ly explained the purpose Of his wife,
and dilated upon the fact that they
were strangers here and had some lit
tie capital which they did not propose
to draw upon. Mrs. Mead remained
at the O'Farrell street house but one
night. Miss Frost met her upon the
street and informed her that she per-
Initted no such conduct in her dodgers.
Mrs. Mead then went to the Ralph
house.
Both Mead and his wife were al
lowed by Judge Low to go upon their
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
DEAD sMUGGLER's RICHES.

SALINAS, Sept. 3O.-When James Har-
k1ns, who was confined for one year in
the San Jose Jail several years ago for
opium smuggling, died in April 1897, he
left fortune estimated at S112, 000 con-
s1st1ng of 1764 acres of land in Santa Cruz
County known as the San Andreas ranch
house and lot on the northwest corner
OF Twenty-ffth and Howard streets, San
francisco, and an immense quantity of
grain, stock and other personal property
in Monterey County. This he devised to
ms sister, Annie Welsh, the real estate
for her use during her life, and the bal
ance for her use and benefit absolutely.
On her death the real estate was to be
divided, share and share alike, between
one daughter and three sons of a dead
sister of Harkins, named Margaret Ford
The will was filed and probated on May
81, 1897.
This afternoon Attorney F. J. Murphy
of jacksonville, on behalf of Mrs. Welsh,
executrfx, asked to be substituted for
Holbrook & Maher as counsel. He stated
that the property had increased in value
and was worth now over $50 900, and that
owing to ambiguity in the wording of
the last will of Harkins it had been de-
cided to have the court pass upon the
document and determine exactly what
was meant. Suit will be commenced next
week by one of the Ford heirs, and there
is great curiosity as to the outcome of
the question of the distribution of the
old smuggler's wealth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

l. both the exhorter and his wife gave
way to uncomfortable emotion and
sobbed piteously.
Neither the preacher nor his wife
y had any testimony to submit in their
b behalf, nor any explanation to offer
l. of the horrible and revolving charges
made out against them. Both protested
Y their innocence and seemed at a loss to
= explain the accusations that were SO
l. strongly brought against them.
Officers JOY, Mclean, Sylvester and
Gillen offered much damaging testi-
4 mony, as did also Mrs. Ralph, the
4 landlady of a rooming- house at 80
l. Turk street. where 1t was alleged Mrs.
Mead had hired a room for immoral
purposes.
Joy, the arresting officer, claimed
4 that the prisoner, Mrs. Mead, has been
y upon the streets at all hours and that
l. last Saturday evening while out in
\ the drenching rain plying her nefarious
trade she accosted him. The officer
= was dressed in civilian garb, and, con-
= sequently, the woman did not know
y that she was "up against a. repre-
/ sentative of the law.
According to the women who con-
duct the houses at which it is claimed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
SORE HANDS
FOR EIGHT YEARS
Pain So Intense Would Nearly
Twist Fingers from Sockets.
Pulled Up Like a Toad.
Water Ran Through Bandages to
Floor. Had to Walk the Floor
Until Would Fall Asleep.
Fingers Peeled Like an Onion.
Doctors Gould Not Cure.
Cured BY Cuticura.

About eight years ago got sore hands, it
commenced with kind of a burning sensa-
ton on my fingers and on top of the hand.
When 1 commenced to rub them, you could
see little white pimples on the skin. rubbed
more and more, until felt like twisting nv
fingers out of their sockets. l had high
fever, and cold chills ran over me, and so 1
kept it going until was tired out. Nights,
had to walk the floor until fell asleep
My hands peeled like an onion, the finger
. nails got loose in the roots, and the water ran
out, and wherever there was little pimple,
there the burning fire was, and tell you and
can prove to you, that happened at least ten
times. During the day, 1 had to attend to my
business, for am running blacksmith shop,
horseshoeing, and L would not shut up the
shop for anybody, but it was hard. My hands
pulled up worse than a toad. When drove
horse nails, the water from my hands ran
through the bandage, on to the floor. My
customers refused to look at my hands. Ihad
a friend to take me to the doctor; he gave
solution Of something to battle my hands
with. was working every day, and did not
know what to do so L went to another doctor,
ment in Utica newspaper, and got the Gu
TIoURA REsoLyENT and CUTICURA SOAP. The
nails hardened up and peeled off and don't
believe there is one of the first nails left on
nv hands. What have told you is true. 1
do this for your benefit and humanitys sake.
would not suffer any more as did, for the
whole country. CASPER DIETSCHLER,
Feb. %, 49,. Pembroke, Genesee Co., Y.
Sold throughout the world POTTER DRuc AND CHrn.
CoaP Props. Boston Howto euro Every aumOr, free.
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only escaped States prison by mirac- :
ulous good fortune. / have recently
been trying to regain possession of my
children, who lately became heir to
nearly a half. million dollars by the :
death of their maternal grandfather. <
There is nothing this former wife of
mine would stop at if she thought she
might harm me, and perhaps this is
her work"
Mead claims he came to the coast <
from Sioux City early in the year.
First he went to Seattle, where he
and his wife gave the greater part
of their time to Christian work. Early
in June Mr.. and Mrs Mead came to
this city, and on the 18th of June .
purchased for $500 cigar and confec-
tionery place at 1919 Market street.
On the 18th of July Mead disposed of
the store and with his wife has since
been living at 125 Turk street. He has (
in his possession hattering recon-
mendations from well known Metho-
dist, and shows handbook that gives
him credit for S110O in deposit at the
California bank
Neither Mead nor his wife express
any fear as to the outcome of their
present difficulties.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

one connected with the special agent S
office. 1 Immediately telephoned Special
Agent Moore Of what had occurred and
Jointly we set to work to undo the I'M
fortunate occurrence.
IF either the special agent or myself or
any member of our respective staffs had
had an idea that case of such notoriety
could have slipped us in an unguarded
moment we would have remained in the
court continually.
Il protest against the singing out Of
myself as to blame entirely and say fur
Their that a conscientious effort was made
upon my part to carry the case to a sue
ceSsful issue and such efforts continue
The woman will be apprehended and that
ShnrtlNr -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
WARDS INSPECTION TRIP.
The Assistant Plumbing Inspector
Learned Some Things.

Assistant Plumbing Inspector P. F.
Ward returned to San Francisco yester-
day after months absence in Eastern
cities.
He states that he visited all the large
cities east of the Mississippi. and found
nowhere such excellent plumbing as is
to be found in San Francisco. In most
places, however, he discovered that Qrdi-
nances were enforced which prevented
the fndiscriminate tearing up of paved
streets to lay pipes.
I'm Boston 1 found the best arrange
ment'" remarked MI ward s+ me city, city.
sewers it and then lays all necessary
wires and pipes, including gas and water,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

ARE THEY PURSUED
BY A SIOUX CITY NEr1ESIS :?
Methodist Exhore Is
Charges Are Brought Against
n

x ERIOUS charges are pending
against ]. NJ. Mead, a regularly
certiacated Methodist exhorter,
~ and his wife. On Wednesday
evening last Mrs. Mead was arrested
by Officer Joy and charged with
vagrancy The case came up for trial
yesterday morning before Judge Low.
Much damaging testimony was onered
and the woman was adjudged guilty.
Sentence was, however, suspended at
the request of Prosecuting Attorney
Reynolds, and the charges went over
until Monday, when it is proposed to
reopen the case. Mr.. Mead was also
arrested yesterday and charged with
vagrancy, and will be tried with his
wife.
The Mead case offers many extra
ordinary and mystifying features The
trial of the woman was the occasion
of a most affecting scene, and when
the verdict of guilty was pronounced
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
Distinguished Arrivals.

Dr. Wiegand, president of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company, ac-
companied by his wife and secretary, ar
rived from New York late last evening
and registered at the Palace. In the par
ty was also Gustav H. Schwab, partner
of Hermann Oelrichs The latter met the
visitors on their arrival at the ferry and
escorted them to The hotel. The latter
stated that the trip was simply one of
pleasure. The party will go to Vancouver
within few days, making short stop
at Seattle and will leave Vancouver on
October 10 for Japan. where business In
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

own recognizance, and returned to
their lodgings at 125 Turk street.
The wife of the exhorter is a mod
est looking little woman, gentle as to
manner and refined in appearances. Her
dreadful experiences have left her APP
parently cool and calm. She seeks to
offer no explanation of the strange
case, save to assert that she is limo
cent.
Rev. Mr.. Mead has studied over the
case and believes it one of mistaken
identity, or else the work of his for
mer wife, a wealthy woman of Sioux
City, Iowa.
This lady, the 'vagrant,'" said Mr..
Mead, us my second wife. ] divorced
my first wife several years ago, and
permitted her to have the custody of
our two children. Shortly after our
divorce Mrs. Mead, my first wife, was
accused of a most serious charge and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
Death of w. q. Watson.

w. H Watson, a man long identified
with the interests of California and Ne
vada, died at his home, ISL Octavia street,
last Tuesday In the latter part of the
fifties he organized the firm of Watson &
Bean. hardware dealers in Sacramento,
and in 1863 went to Virginia City, Nevada
where he engaged in the mining business.
Later he became Secretary of the Alta,
BENTON. Lady Washington and other
lower Gold Hill mines. Deceased leaves
two sons, William H. Watson Jr. and
George P. J. Watson, both residing in this
CITY Death was the result of apoplexy-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

extending connections of each from the
street to the curb in front of. each lot
is wanted at the time. The property
owner is obliged to pay for the connec-
tons just the same. as part of the tax
ment is laid, and then there is no excuse
for tearing up afterward. Everybody has
connections.
''San Francisco is almost the only city
that permits everybody to tear up the
streets to lay pipes according to whim.'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
Struck by a Car.

Alfred MADISON, residing at 48 Sacra-
mento street, was struck by Valencia
street car No. 10 shortly after o'clock
last evening while crossing Market street
at the corner of East. The car knocked
him down and he was dragged for a
short distance. He was taken to the Har-
Dor Hospital by Officer Flemming and a
broken ankle was dressed by Drs. Thomp-
son and Morrison.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
The College of, osteopathy.

2O6 Kearny street, will formally open Oc-
tober 4. We have made arrangements
whereby a diploma in this institution en-
titles the holder to two-year credit with
medical college.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

yesterday it was stated that number
of inquiries had been received asking if
the schools would be closed on Monday,
October 3. This was formerly a holi-
day, 1t being the one set apart as State
labor day. Under recent legislation the
State and national days were merged
into one-the national day. Hence the
schools will not close tn-mnrrOW
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
Says He Cannot Visit San Francisco
Just Now.

Mayor Phelan yesterday received the
following self-explanatory letter:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept &C. 1885,
70 Hon James H. Budd, Hon. James D.
Phelan (Mayor). and others of Committee San
FRANCISCO, Cal: The President is warmly ap-
preciative of the cordial message you have re-
Gently sent to him in behalf of your State and
the city of San Francisco. While he had ex-
pected to visit the Pacific Coast, at this time
ne nnds mis- public duties such as to render
IL impossible to make extended a trip This
ne greatly regrets but hopes to be able next
year to accept the invitation which you have
SO graciously rendered him
]. A. PORTER, Secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
The Paris Exposition.

The officers of the Manufacturers and
Producers Association are taking a great
interest in the coming exposition to be
held in Paris in 1900 There is a particular
desire to awaken the wine and dried fruit
men to the Importance of making exhib-
it's, and to begin TO prepare for it at once.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
MCKINLEY DECLINES.

terests of the big corporation will be In
Quired into.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
ELEGANT
NEW SILKS!


During the past weekwe have received
large shipments of NOVELTY SILKS for
FALL WEAR, and direct particular atten-
uon TO the following lines, which are
Offered at unusually low prices:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
NEW WESTERN HOTEL

X EARNY AND WASHINGTON sTs.-RE-
modelled and renovated KING WARD q
CO European plan. Rooms soc to 81 90 dav
IS to IS week. IS to $50 month Free batha: hos
and cold water every room; fire CRATES in aver
room; elevator runs ell night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

No School Holiday Tomorrow.
At the office Of the Board Of Education
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER.

9. The Scranton boys for the first time
wish they were married so that they
might be discharged from the Thirteenth
regiment.
4. The board of assessors finds another
dog in Pine Brook.
g. Certain men who had bets on the
Smith-Judgc contest wonder why they
didn't do 1t another way.
g. Two women get into a scrap over the
same hat at a millinery opening.
{. The Woman's Christian Temperance
union decides that II is better to spill
wine into the ocean over the bow OF
ship than into mems throats.
s. A. B. Dunning tells the people at
Omaha why they don't make good roads
in Scranton and vicinity.
g. Mr. Gilroy rciterates his statement
that the board OF appeals is a nuisance.
10. The chief OF police and the captain
indulge in a heated discussion over the
stars and bars on their new uniforms.
IL. The new dramatic company In this
city finds itself afflicted with too many
stars.
70. Society ladies refuse to drop whist
and take up poker.
IL. The board of trade recommends
wind as a medium for filling the holes in
the asphalt pavement.
IA. Another vocal teacher sets up busi-
ness In this city.
10. Ex-sheriff Robinson shoots a squir-
rel.
16. The Thirteenth regiment gets orders
to move somewhere.
II. Casey, OF the sixth, Is again at the
bat.
IS. The girls come out ahead in the
civil service eXamina tions.
10. Street car employees lay plans to get
Manager Siiliman into a game of pool
90 Mr.. John Jermyn starts building a
new hotel in Oswego.
81. Alderman Millar banquets the grand
jury.
o. Scorchcrs gradually accustom them
selves 10 the bicycle ordinance by tumb-
! ling indiscriminately under everybody S
| feet
2S Mr. Lansing gives a pink tea to the
councils in his handsome new home.
"a. A few of the safe tapping burglars
are caught (?.
25 The aliigators at Nay Aug park send
| q round-robin to DR., Hill asking for city
steam in their tank.
&c. Street Commissioner OBoyle con-
suits the weather indications to see how
| soon snow may take the place OF red
shale.
81. The court house elevator makes a
| trip.
| %. The horseless carriage takes fright
| at a street cleaning brigade and runs
| away.
20. The camera hend assorts his sum
! mer's spo!ls.
| 80. Ministers earn their salaries this
| inonth--ivo Sundays.
| 81. The city Is full OF pretty teachers
| from the country.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
Music in Scranton,

That this city is fast developing into
a music centre of more than ordinary
discrimination and ability, is beyond
argument. From the character of its
population, in which two of the great
music-loving races of earth, the Ger
mans and the Welsh, form a large por-
tion. it would naturally follow that the
elevating influence of music would pre-
dominate in the taste OF the people.
But the time has come when musical
culture of high order is to direct and
sway the natural inspiration of art In
this community. The possession of not
only singers of great merit, but pianists
and organists who would anywhere be
recognized with respect, and at least
two violinists whom any city would be
proud to claim, Scranton is year by
year gaining a title to distinction as
a nucleus of musical advancement.
Now that a Conservatory of Music,
fully worthy the dignity of that title,
besides many private teachers of wide
culture and thorough capability seem
to have come to stay. the local outlook
for one of the greatest refining in
fluences of the ages, with all the grace
and beauty intimated therein, is most
promising.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
THE PHILIPPINES.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
With wise regard, both for the interests
of the United States and the decorous
requirements of the situation. the instruc-
tions to the Paris Peace commission are
kept secret The precise terms proposed
will not be known until they are made
public in Paris: but it may be set down
as certain that they provide for a COM
mercal base, with sufficient territory to
furnish its support and administration, to
give II a hinterland. A mere coaling sta
tion would give the United States too lit
tie. Mere territory, for the sake of ter
ritory, the United States does not desire
and has not sought.
But this country must possess the same
commercial base I'm the trade of the East
which Great Britain has in Hong Kong
Nor can the lesson of that possession be
forgotten. Acquired fifty-tive years ago,
bare rock, for twenty years and more
IL was valueless. Its expense far exceed
ed its return. Lacking territory or health
retreats, it destroyed the garrisons placed
there. Out Of one English command sta
toned there only eight survived. 1t
proved slow. costly, difficult work to build
up port without a hinterland.
This experience shows the necessity Of
adding Luzcn to Manila, and added it
will be. over the rest of the group the
United States must possess reversionary
rights In the future. and in the present
rights of trade and of preventing opprec-
sion. Nor has Spain more than a NOM
inal sovereignty over the larger part Of
the remainder. The Sultan of the Sulu
Islands is paid an annual subsidy to keep
him quiet. On Palawan there are but
trading posts. Mindoro has no taxable
population. But a bare fraction, say Il
fourth, of Mindanao is inhabited by the
semi-civilized Tagals; the rest is savage.
The one field for trade and development
In the group Is Luzon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
A RECOLLECTION.
. e. Curtis in Chicago Record.

w. Z. Curtis in Chicago Record.
1t is queer what freaks the memory
takes. We can all testify to that Judge
Day was giving his experience to q friend
in Canton recently while he was resting
between the close OF his labors as secre-
tary of state and tht taking on of his
responsibilities as chairman of the peace
commission. He spoke of the momentous
scene at the white house when the peace
protocol was signed. 1t was a great
historical event and the gentlemen who
participated were afterward photo
graphed in a group that their faces might
not be forgotten After the signatures
had been attached to the document that
closed the war, the president made a
brief impromptu address, which was elo-
quently responded to by the French am
bassador.
Judge Day says that, by one of those
mental phenomena for which we are not
responsible, while Nj. Cambon was speak
ing his mird went back thirty years to
the time he first met President Mckinley.
Both had recently come to Canton to
practice law and were employed on oppo-
site sides of case that involved less
than $50. 1t was tried before a country
justice of the peace in blacksmith shop
down In the southeast corner of Stark
county. and to save expenses the oppos-
ing counsel drove there in the same ve-
hicle. Thirty years later they stood to-
gether as the chief figures in the diplo-
matte negotiations that closed a war.
one as president and the other as secre-
tary of state
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
Paw for the HOSPITALS

There is no good reason why the
hospitals should not receive pay from
the government for the care of the
soldiers. 1t is to the credit of hospi-
tails of the country that with one or
two exceptions they have freely opened
their doors to the army sufferers with
out intimation of remuneration. Yet
In many cases, probably the majority,
they can i'll afford the enormous ex-
pense thus entailed. Not few, the
church hospitals in particular. re"
ceive no state aid and yet have been in
defatigable in their efforts to afford
relief to the sick. 1t is enough that
daily they give of their bounty TO allie
viate the misery of the nations poor
without demanding that they furnish
medical attendance, food and general
care for the men who have lost health
in devotion TO their country. The gov
ernment is amply able to pay these
expenses and should do so as it did
in the civil war.
In the meantime while the red tape
process attending the recognition of
this duty may be ir progress the gen.
erosity of the pu. iiC in certain Eases
as IF the Medico ChirurSlcai hospital,
tf Philadelphia. srtuld lie uns:.nted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-03
COLONEL STONES PLATFORM.

1t will he my purpose when electec 10
so conduct myself as TO win the respect
and good viii of those who nave opposed
me as wcll as those who have given ne
Their support. ] shall be the governor
OF the whole i'eop!s o: The state. Abuses
nave urdou5tc ily gown ur in the .eSis'
lature which are neither the fault oil one
party nor .hc other but rather mo
growth Of custom. Unnecessary inNcsi-
cations have been autro lied by commit
tees. resulting in unnecessary expense 10
the state. 1t will bs Ily care and Dur'
pose to correct these and other evils In sc
far as ] have tie power. 1t VIII be my
purpose while governor Vt Pennsylvania.
as IL mas bcen my purpose III the public
positions that / have hcld, with Gods
help. 10 dscha "gc my whole duty. The
pGorle are crcC than the parties 20
which they belong. / am only Jealous of
thcir favor ] sh ~ only attempt to win
their approval and my experience has
taught rlc that that can best be done by
an honest. modest. daily discharge Of
public duty.