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The Waterbury Sunrise and the An,
sonia Pirate are the best 75c alarm
clocks on the market. H. c. Hotfilter,
ieweler, S24 K street
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Hardman pianos never lose their tone
They are the highest grade made. We
also handle Chickering, Harrington, and
other pianos. Wiley B. Allen Co., 415 K.*
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Whisky Hill Wells office, 631 K.
Transfer Co., COG X, either phone.
See Capital Sac. Van & Storage Co.
Pine wood for summer. $3.50 per
cord. f. Cady, 215 L. Both phones
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To Let-New Groom fiat, modern i'm
provements. Apply 1920 H or H. J.
Goethe.
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'Wieland's Extra Pale" Lager, S1.1O
doz. quarts delivered. Blauth. 4O7 K
Tel 297.
Phone Lands, 1913 Third, wood, coal,
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DIR. thurman seems to be making friends
during her stay here, and expresses Il
determination to stay in the city for
some time to come. IL
Fragrant Cigar.
La Premerencias are we'll termed
fragrant and healthful'' The flavor
of the tobacco used is exquisite. - A.
Coolot, distributor.
You can hear Gilmore's- band this af-
ternoon and Sousa's tonight at the
beer garden, Twenty-eighth and M
streets, through the monster graphic
phone. Beer and other beverages from
the Old Brewery Tavern across the
street.
Mrs. Frances Moeller has returned
and opened a studio for voice culture
in the Oschner building, 1882 K street,
rooms Al and ~. Officebhours 8 to y
a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m. Fridays except
ED.
Pineapple cocktail, a delicious bever-
age and powerful agent in aiding diges
ton. 1t invigorates the system and
makes rosy checks and bright eyes; SOC
and 81 per bottle. Sanitary Liquor
Store, 321 K. Phones 9S7 red and 74l
Sample free.
| Steinway, Emerson and Ludwig
pianos improve with use. they are high
grade and have stood the test of time.
A. ]. Pommer. sole agent, cor. Ninth
and streets.
Take seat at the Eagle Connection
| cry; order your ice-cream soda for >
cents or your dish of ice-cream for 10
cents. 724 K.
The Waterbury Sunrise and the An,
sonia Pirate are the best Toe alarm
clocks on the market. H. c. Hotfilter,
jeweler, S24 K street.
Hardman pianos never lose their tone
They are the highest grade made. We
also handle Chickering, Harrington, and
other pianos. Wiley B. Allen Co., 415 k
To Let-New Groom fat modern i'm
provements Apply 1920 H or H. j.
| Goethe.
.'Wieland's Extra Pale" Lager. 81 1C
a doz quarts delivered. Blauth. 407 K
Tel. 297.
Phone Lands, 1913 Third, wood, coal,
ice.
Large variety of electric fans and all
electrical fixtures. Tom Scott, 3O3 J. ST.
Try Grenadine frappe or Grenadine
| ice cream sodas at Fishers. 800 K
Whisky Hill Wells office, 631 K
Transfer Co., COG X, either phone.
See Capital Sac. Van & Storage Co.
Pine wood for summer, $3.50 per
i cord r Cadv Ok Roth ,phopoct
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THE ARCADE HOUSE.

THE ARCADE HOUSE,
blocks from depot. Strictly first-class and
open day and night. Large, airy rooms.
from Csc up, and baths free. II. ARNOLD.
Proprietor
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demonstrate. Babcock & Wilson chain
CRATES stokers will be used, automat-
ically feeding the coal, which, in con-
nection with the automatic conveyor
system, will be taken direct from the
dock to the CRATES beneath the boilers
without any handling whatever. AL
though similar mechanical devices are
well known in the East there are no
modern plants of this sort on the Pa
cific Coast.
Acting under instructions Moore &
Co. will incorporate in the new plant
the latest and most approved auxilaries
of every description, taking advantage
in the construction of the best modern
Eastern practice The engines are to
be the most economical type designed
for high pressure and to be directly
connected to the large electric genera
tors. The plant will also be supplied
with economizers, surface condensers,
a special system of feed water heaters
and every other known modern ap-
pliance necessary to complete effective
ness. When completed the plant will
be without a rival in the local field
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separated, the wife leaving the cottage
at Larkspur TO reside in this city. In
his complaint the husband charges that
Wright maliciously enticed her away and
has ever since detained and harbored
her"
The confession was made one evening
after PurtelIe had taken her TO task
about certain familiarties he thought he
had noticed Wright taking with her. She
denied at first, but when the husband in
sisted that he could not have been mis-
taken the woman broke down. She cried
piteously and admitted that she had
wronged him. Wright was the cause, she
said she had not intended to sin, but
in his hands she was wax to be nodded
10 any mood.
Shortly after she and her husband had
moved into their Larkspur cottage, she
said Wright's attentions had begun. His
chosen times of approach were those
when her husband was in the city. She
knew. she said, that the man meant her
wrong, and she avoided him as much as
possible. He was persistent, she added,
so much so that, not content with calling
at the house, from which she prevented
him from entering time and again by
locking the door, he would follow her into
the woods close at hand when she went
for freWood.
At last, Mrs. Purtelle declared to her
husband. Wright abandoned persuasion
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thing within a reasonable realm of
competition.
The new plant will be of the very
highest grade throughout and when in
stalled will be the most modern power
station on the coast. 1t is estimated
that the new company will not only be
able to supply the wants of the city in
electric power. heat and light, but will
be able as well to furnish power to it's
competitors. The class of machinery
that will be installed is the most ex-
pensive in the market, yet by the use
of superior economical devices will gen.
crate electricity at the tremendous re-
ductiOn already indicated.
The firm which has the work in hand
has been commissioned to supply for
the new company Babcock & Wilson
boilers of forged steel construction
throughout and capable of carrying a
working steam pressure Of 250 pounds.
This capacity is most unusual, as COM
pariSOnS with other local concerns will
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1t Will Be Without a
Rival.
A REVELATION IN MACHINERY
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY
BEGINS WORK.
Modern Appliances Will Enable the
Competitor in Light and TeIe-
phone Service to Establish
Reductions in Prices.

Rapid progress is being made by the
Independent Electric Light and Power
Company in preparing for the actual
work of competition in the local field
of telephone service, electric heating
and lighting. Under instructions
from Claus Spreckels and sugges-
tions from Engineer NJ Hunt, the
firm of Charles c. Moore & Co is
designing plans for what shall be
the most modern and most effective
steam plant on the Pacific Coast This
plant will be without a rival west of
the Rocky Mountains and will have few
equals in the United States. 1t will
have all of the best features of the best
plants of similar character in the coun-
try and will have none of their defects.
In it's construction the finest and most
modern machinery known to 1nechani-
cal engineers will be used. While it
will be the most expensive plant for
the production of electricity on the
coast, it will still be the most ecOnomi-
cal, as it is estimated that it will be
capable of generating electricity at a
cost of from 15 to so per cent less than
any other existing plant on the coast.
In the construction and location of
the new plant two factors of the great
est Importance have entered. The new
company, much more fortunate than
the corporations with which it will
compete for public patronage, will have
the advantage of an unlimited coal and
water supply practically without cost:
Instead of being forced to pump water
distance of more than a mile, the
new company will have at the door of
it's power house more water than it
will need. Instead of being compelled
to haul coal at great expense, the new
company will be able to transfer with
out cost all it's coal from the dock to
the CRATES beneath the boilers
In this way enormous expense will
be saved. Even without the advantage
of the best machinery in the market
these savings would place the new
company in the field as a formidable
competitor. In many respects the
steam plant of the new company will
be a revelation to the people of the
coast Nothing like it is in existence
in the West and one must travel to
New York to see its equal and find any
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NARROW ESCAPE.
Lieutenant E. r. Irwin, Wounded
During the Filipino Trouble,
Is Herr

Lieutenant E. r. Irwin, Company NJ,
Washington Volunteers, has arrived from
the Philippines and is registered at the
Russ. Lieutenant Irwin was wounded
during the engagement with the Filipino
insurgents before Santa Ana. An hour
fornia Volunteers was struck with a
Mauser bullet six feet from the spot
where Irwin met with his mishap.
81 was distributing ammunition" said
Lieutenant Irwin, among the Washington
boys in rice field when l felt a singing
sensation in my neck and / was knocked
over the cartridge box. From the course
which the bullet took must have been
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A Larkspur Capitalist Is Sued
for Heavy Damages.
The Woman Confessed to Her Husband
That She Was Unable to Resist Her
Pmrsuer's Influence.

and tried force and succeeded in his de-
sign. From that time forward. according
to the complaint, Wright's relations with
Mrs. Purtelle were accomplished by said
defendant under menace and duress and
threats of exposure.
Just what were the feelings of Purtelle
al this revelation are not known. He
violently denounced his wife and she left
him, as he alleges, at the lnSugation of
Wright, and is now in this city making
her own living. The husband, whether
doubling the woman who had confessed
her unfaithfulness or being unwilling to
act without proof, called upon an attor
ney, who advised him that the only rea-
Sonable method of satisfying himself of
the true condition of affairs was to en-
ploy a detective.
Purtelle acted upon this advice. The
detective was engaged to shadow Mrs.
Purtelle, and did so so faithfully that
a week ago yesterday all the evidence
the husband thought necessary was
placed in his possession. The detective
had followed Wright and Mrs. Purtelle
to the Hobson House, All Kearny street,
where they had taken room. He no
proceeded to the door behind which the
couple were concealed. On the demand
of the proprietor of the house the door
was opened and Wright and Mrs. Pur-
telle were revealed.
The scene was dramatic in its intensity
The husband, who had so long controlled
his feelings, rushed at his erstwhile
neghbor, attempting TO strike him.
Wright jumped back and falling upon the
bed with his hands and heels in the air
attempted to explain.
Hold on. Purtelle, he is said to have
exclaimed. Hold on; we were only hold
ing a consultation on a business matter"
Purtelle was restrained by the detec-
tive and the clearinghouse proprietor and
taken from the room, the others vacating
as quickly as possible. Saturday morn
ing Purtelle called upon his attorneys
and instructed them to file suit for dam
ages against Wright. Shortly after leav-
ing his lawyers Purtelle claims he re-
ceived an intimation from Wright that
he was ready to settle. Purtelle referred
him to his counsel. In a conversation
later over the telephone Purtelle's at
torney says he told Wright he would
not talk of settlement until the Larkspur
capitalist saw fit to secure an attorney
and make the terms before a notary and
a stenographer.
After that conversation nothing was
heard by Purtelle or his attorneys from
Wright, and the suit was filed as soon
as the complaint could be drawn, which
concludes: THAT by reason of the prem
ises the plaintiff has been and still is
wrongfully deprived by the defendant of
the comfort, society and aid of his SAID
wife, and has suffered great humiliation
and distress of body and mind in con-
sequence of the wrongful and mali
cious conduct of the defendant in his
damage in the sum of ten thousand
100000 dollars, gold coin of the United
States"
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FOUL FIGHTER
BILLY SMITH
A RANK FAKER
Would Not Consent to
Meet Green.
WANTED GUARANTEED PURSE
THE PUBLIC DISGUSTED WITH
THE LATEST JOB.
THE PUBLIC DISGUSTED WITH
THE LATEST JOB.
Return Checks Were Given the Spec
tators and Their Money Should
Be Refunded by the Club
Without Delay.

Dictator Billy Smith, the mysterious
ear-chewer and champion job fighte~ OF
America, by courtesy of Captain James
Gillin of the police force was granted the
privilege last evening of entering the
ring at Woodward's Pavilion in civilians
dress and announcing to a generous sport d.
ing public that because of the meager at
tendance he would not fight Green.
The ultimatum of the dictator was
greeted with boots and yells of Put MIN
out of the house" Smith has got cold
feet!' and other remarks which are not
printable.
To the credit of Green it must be said
that he was satisfied to fight Smith in
accordance with the articles of agree
ment, to which he had attached his sig
nature. They read as follows:
1--WE, the parties of the second part.
agree to box twenty COO rounds for a de-
cision, Marquis of Queensberry rules, for
and in consideration of sixty-five (65) per
cent of the gross receipts to be derived
from the admission fee to said exhibit
ton; the said gross receipts to be divid-
ed between said parties of the second part
as follows, to wit: The winner to take
seventy-five per cent and the loser to take
twenty-five per cent
There is not a single line in the articles
Wnlch stlpulates that in case of a limited
attendance the club should guarantees the
hghters any particular sum other than
what the percentage of the house called
for.
But Mr.. Smith the bully pugilist bar.
room scrapper, etc, had the audacity to
demand for his services a guarantee OF
$500 before he would condescend to ente,
the ring and carry out an agreement tc
which he had attached his signature.
Such men as Smith should be cast aside
as nuisance and disturher by all clubs
that contemplate the giving of boxing en-.
tertainments. His record speaks for it.
self. He has had numerous fights which
owing to the foul tactics he emploved
were lost. His fights with Green at Carson
and with Lavfgne in this city are not above
suspicion. Previous to his fight in Carson
ne telegraphed a particular friend in this
city, who had nursed his first wife on her
sick bed. to bet money on Green. and
when he was training for his fight with
Lavigne in Alameda he sent the same
friend $500 in notes with instructions tc
place 1t on him. Lavigne was Satisfied
that Smith could whip him. but expect
ing good house and good betting he
Iavigne) was willing to take the loser s
end and then depart for England where
he had an opportunity of meeting ''Jim
Burge. and by losing to him win also a
large amount of money in the betting
1t is about time that the boxing clIIbs
of San Francisco deal with these hipno.
drome pugilists and vagrants with an iror
hand. 1t is not many years ago wher
first-class fighters battled to a finish for
a $500 purse with the California Athletic
Club, and then there was no such thing
as asking a pug, WHO do you like for q
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Charles ". Wright, one of the wealth
Jest residents of Larkspur, Marin county,
and president of the American Land ana
Trust Company with offices at 132 Market
street in this city, is posed as more than
an ordinary villain in a suit filed yester-
day at San Rafael. The plaintiff is VIII
liam H. Purtelle, also resident Of Lark
spur. and publisher in this city of several
building trades journals. He sues Wright
for $4,000 damages, charging that his
wealthy neighbor debauched his wife,
May Purtelle, and ruined his home.
The complaint is sensational enough in
itself. but the testimony promised in sup
port of its allegations is even more so, in
GLIDING, as il will, the testimony of Pur-
telle. a private detective in his employ,
the wife and one other, to the effect that
the Larkspur landowner was caught with
Mrs. Purtelle in a room in we'll known
upper kearny street lodging house only
a week ago yesterday.
Before that exposure the wife had made
a voluntary confession TO her husband.
She admitted that she had been uufaith-
fuI, and without saying so in so many
words had painted a picture of Wright
that has no prototype other than Sven
gall She did not like the man, she said,
and dreaded his approach, but sucn a
dread influence did he exert over her
that she could do nothing but submit TO
him.
Purtelle is IS years of age. His wife IS
%. a not unhandsome and slender little
woman They were married, accoring TO
the complaint, at Vancouver, 3. c, IN
1891, and from that time until the shadow
of Wright fell across their paths had
lived together as man and VIE. About
TWO years ago Purtelle purchased from
Wright a lot in Larkspur, on which he
erected a house, himself and wife going
there to reside. Wright seemed to take
an interest in the couple, and soon, it is
said, Mrs. Purtelle was a visitor at
Wrght's home and a friend of Wright s
wife. Purtelle was doing well publishing
papers in this city, but thought he saw
an opening for another journal in Marin
County and started the Record at Lark
spur
The members of the Wright and Pur-
telle families were friends and neighbOrs,
nothing more, and even according to the
complaint no advance was made by
Wright against the happiness of the Pur-
telle household until July of last year.
Then, the plaintiff alleges, ''On or about
the 10th day of July. 1898. and at divers
times and on other days after that day
said defendant, WTOngfully cOntriVing and
intending to injUre the plaintiff and TO
deprive him of the comfort, society, aid
and assistance of his wife. and in the first
instance above alleged fOrcibly and with
out the consent of the said May Purtelle
wickedy, willfully and maliciously de-
bauched the said May Purtelle."
This allegation is based entirely on the
ago, as a result of which the Purtelles
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Intercollegiate Game.

BELMONT, April Tn the game of
baseball played in the college campus
here yesterday the team from Santa
Clara College defeated Belmont by ascore
of 10 to 2 a marked improvement was
shown in the work of the Belmont team.
their playing being the best they have
displayed this year. Pitcher Kelly, the
regular twirler for Santa Clara, was alb
sent, but Nihill, who off1ciated in his
place, did good work, barring a tendency
TO become wild at times Santa Clara S
heavy batting and the sensational field
ing of Prll of Santa Clara were the fea-
lures of the game.
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Positions.
Oakland.
San Jose.
TALKED FOR PROHIBITION.
Orator Stewart Speaks of Saloons as
ga National Sin"

Hon. Oliver W. Stewart of Illinois. the
well-known Prohibitionist orator, ad-
dressed d considerable audience at Pyth-
ian Castle last night. He held that the
existence of saloons was "a national sin"
for which the individual was responsible.
He was not in favor of any compro-
mise with the liquor traffic, advocating
it's complete determination. Restrictions
by law he declared, were simply a modi-
fed form of Government protection to the
saloons He is a forcible speaker and
closely holds the attention of his auditors
from beginning to end.
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back wounded men on a litter from the
field hospital to the ambulance.
THE fire was so hot in the engagement
that two men who were Killed outright
were used by their comrades as a sort of
breastwork to shield them from the bull
let's, half a dozen of which shot into one
of the dead men, My wounds have all
healed except a small one in the
shoulder"
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hit by sharpshooter who was hidden in
a tree on the road which was several
feet higher than the field. Two men of
my company helped me across the. line
during the fire to the field hospital back
of blockhouse II. I was then taken to the
reserve hospital at Manila with four
other wounded men, and we were shot at
a number of times by the insurgents.
When we passed Paco church the fire, was
persistent, but their aim was bad and no
body was hit Later, however, one of the
hospital corps was killed while carrying
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Flor de Heyneman.

Finest pure Havana cigar on the mar
ket. First-class stores have them on
sale. If your dealer does not carry them
send us So for a box of twenty-five Flor
paid. State color wanted. Money refund
ed to you if cigars not satisfactory. Hey
neman, Brown e. Co., 1T and 119 Pine
street, sole agents.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08
A Lecture on Manila.

Douglass White, who has recently re-
turned from Manila, will lecture at Ma
tive Sons Hall April IA under the aus
pices of Cathedral Council No. 50, Young
Mems institute. The subject, of his dis
at Manila An interesting programme
has been arranged for the evening in con-
junction with the lecture.
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pany to recover $4,000 for personal inju-
ries. Plaintiff AYERS that, through the
negligence of the defendant corporation,
he was knocked down by car on Sutter
street. near Devisadero, on February 3,
and before he could pull himself off the
track the wheels of the dummy passed
over him. crushing his right leg in such
a manner that II mad to be amputated.
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ors and either Borchers or Andrews in
the box. Oakland will present Shea for
it's delivery clerk and Lou Hardie has
been persuaded to stop digging for succu-
lent CLAIMS for the afternoon and farm
flies in the right pasture. The teams are
evenly matched and are determined to
duplicate the great exhibitions of last
week. consequently there will be a gold
en- opportunity for the cranks to sprain
their voices again to-day. The lineup is
as follows
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08

end. AS the fight did not come off. doubt
less the booksellers will return the bet
tors money without deducting the usual
percentage taken out when a contest is
held. 1t is bad enough for the spectators
to take chance of losing their admission
money without suffering the further loss
of a commission on bets made in the pool
rooms,
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08

The famous old JESSE MOORE WHISKY is
recommended by physicians for family and
medicinal use because 1t is pure.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08
Miss Romietta Wallace Succumbs
to Heart Failure After Four
Hours Illness.

S oMETT WALLACE the youngest daughter of Judge and Mrs
IV evening Death like flash when the unmey
a ter
rb mistake by hundreds the The
had
unavaing
able a
the most
her brother n
RoT1o the latter
houra a o
to
family i Santa Clara
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BASEBALL TO-DAY.
Oakland and San Jose to Battle for
SUPREMACY.

San Jose will make its first appearance
at Recreation Park this season at
8 o'clock this afternoon, when the
Gardeners will go up against the Oak
lands in the first of a series of two games.
Hanlon will be on first base for the visit
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08
His Leg Crushed.

Charles Lundquist filed suit yesterday
against the Sutter Street Railway Com
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Program ns

6-selection. Carmen (by request) .Bizet
7-March, Wien Bleibt Wien" .Schramei
S-Overture ''Semiramide" ..-.-.... Rosslni
9-Pilgrim chorus from "Tannhauser
.......................... Wagner
10-Waltz, Merry War Strauss
11-Medley on popular airs. stone