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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
ALAMEDA COUNTY
NEWS BREVITIES

OAKLAND, April 3.-The preliminary
hearing of James ]. Gilligan, charged with
the murder of Jockey John Epperson,
was to-day again continued until next
Saturday.
Mary Pickering, a domestic aged 40
years, residing in San Francisco, was ar
rested for insanity to-day and will be
committed to an insane asylum. She i'm
AGNES that she is being pursued by men.
The estate of Ignatz Frank has been ap-
praised at 1892 $50, consisting of Southern
Pacific bonds, stocks and real estate.
An appraisement of the estate of Mary
c. Blake, deceased, was filed to-day,
showing total valuation of SOL $3.50 H.
mostly real estate in Alameda and San
Francisco counties and including 3l2
shares of capital stock in Blake, Moffitt
& Towne, valued at $24 $50.
w. E. Shaw to-day commenced suit
against M Henry for the recovery of
possession of mare or her value. s4O0 be-
sides $500 damages for the withholding of
the animal since last October, when.
plaintiff alleges, he loaned the mare to de-
PENDANT.
The Board of Supervisors to-day grant
ed the petition of the residents OF the
Lockwood School District to be annexed
to Melrose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
WILLIAM WlEGMAN
SAYS HE WAS BUNK0ED
NOW SEEKS TO REGAIN HIS LOST
PROPERTY.
Claims He Signed Bill of Sale While
Afflicted With a Tenn
porary Mania.
Oakland once San Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
9OS Broadway, April 3.
William Wiegman filed a suit in the
Superior Court this afternoon against
George E. Beebe and Fred Wiegman, the
latter his cousin, alleging that he was de-
frauded out of his interest in a thriving
general merchandise business at AL
varado.
According to his complaint he entered
irto a copartnership with Beebe on jan
uary 2 1897 Each partner put into the
business $500 and the partnership was to
extend over five years On January 30
of this year Beebe borrowed from Fred
Wiegman $1,000 giving him a promissory
note, payable in one year This money
was also invested in the business. On
February 20 the business was prosperous
and the firms Indebtedness did not ex-
coed $3.50. except the note mentioned,
which plaintiff had also signed, but the
store, stock, fixtures and good will of the
business at this time was worth $4,000.
About this time, the complaint alleges,
plaintiff became very sick, laboring under
temporary mania, and was wholly I'M
able and incompetent to transact any
business, and while in this condition the
defendants Willfully, knowingly and
fraudulentIy persuaded plaintiff by
threats, menace and force to sign and
execute a certain paper, the purport of
winch ne Ola not Inefl understand DuI Is
now Informed is a bill of sale of all his
rights and interest in the business and as
sets Of the firm of Weigman & Beebe TO
defendant, his cousin, Mr.. Wiegman.
Plaintiff in conclusion alleges that no
consideration was ever paid or agreed
upon, and on February q the entire bust
ness was sold by defendants to one Har-
Yey.
Wherefore Mrs. Wiegman asks $1,000
damages on the ground that his business
has been destroyed and his credit and
reputation seriously impaired; besides
5000 for punitive damages for the fraud.
Only last week William Wiegman
sought to have a receiver appointed while
his interests might be determined legally,
but Judge Ogden on that occasion held it
inadvisable to interfere, since he consid
cred Harvey a purchaser in good faith.
1t developed at the hearing of Wieg-
mans petition at that time that his sick
ness was due to too free an access to the
flowing bowl which rendered him incom-
petent to transact business, and for which
he was under treatment, and wherefore he
had sold out.
The trial of the present suit promises to
be sensational.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA NEWS

BERKELEY, April IA determined eff
fort is to be made to arouse the same col
lege spirit and student enthusiasm over
the approaching baseball contest with
Stanford as marked the great football
season of last year. The college men have
begun to see that their baseball players
have the same support and encourage
ment that helped their gridiron veterans
to the victory of last Thanksgiving. The
same spirit which manifested itself there
is beginning to materialiZe once more. 1t
broke out for the first time this afternoon.
Placards announcing a grand baseball
rally had been posted in conspicuous
places in the campus during the day. The
notices brought throng of students down
to the bleachers on the lower campus
shortly before o'clock. The old-time
feeling was abroad and it showed itself in
the old ways. AS Coach Corbett came on
to the diamond with his men and began
arranging their positions, those on the
bleachers remembered Cochran and hia
giants and the California yell went ring
Ing over the field. 1t was the first time
that the baseball men have been really
cheered this season; but the spell was
broken. Again and again the yell was
given and it came out at intervals during
the practice.
It had the desired effect upon the men
and they put in the snappiest practice of
this term, The same thing will be, car
ried out daily, s from !, now on. until the
while the enthusiasts are organizing a
rooter's club, similar to that of last term.
decked in a blue and gold hat. The club
will. form the yelling center of the Cali
fornia section at the big games, and will
enliven the proceedings with baseball
The project of university circus for the
benefit of the Athletic Association Is
to hold the affair within the enclosure
around the cinder track. The promoters
Of the plan have estimated that ii will
this report before the next meeting of
the Athletic Association. Should 1t re-
ceive the sanction of that body the circus
emf term,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
NEW DEPARTURE
IN MESSAGES
BY MAYOR SNOW
Does Not Believe in
Pigeonholing.
FOLLOWS UP SUGGESTION
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED FOR
IMMEDIATE ACTION.
Attention Called to the Gambling
Evil With the Advice That It
Be Suppressed at
Once.
MAYOR SNOW TO
STOP GAMBLING

There is one other matter OF
vital interest to the city, differing
greatly from the subject of
finances already considered, but so
claiming your immediate attention
that l refer to it here. 1t relates
to the morals of the community. 1
refer to gambling.
No person should be permitted
to keep a house for the purpose of
gambling or any place where
gambling is done. Every such
place in the city of Oakland should
be closed. I purposely refrain
from any statement setting forth
the details of gambling at this
time. We need an ordinance pre-
venting and Furnishing gambling.
If you will pass it it will be en-
forced. I hope that the press will
give our intention prominent no
tice, so that orders recently given
for gambling outfits to be set up in
this city may be rescinded.-Mayor
Shows message to the City Coun-
ell.
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SHE FEARS VISITS
OF HER EX-HUSBAND
E. a. Won SCHMIDT WANTS TO
SEE HIS CHILDREN.
His Ex-Wife Produces Letters He
Has Written Since the Legal
Separation.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.


S0S Broadway, April 8.
Captain E. A. Won Schmidt and his d.
vorced wife, Isabella Won Schmidt. ap-
peared before Judge Greene to-day and
created lively scene The well-known
yachtsman, through his attorney, Hugh
Aldrich, moved the court to modify the
divorce decree recently granted so that
he might be permitted to occasionally
visit his three children at their Alameda
home. Judge Greene. however, sat
down" upon the captain pretty hard.
ITS 500 to nothing" said his Honor,
that If you go to the home of this
woman you would certainly commit some
breach of propriety. No, no. you cannot
go there"
Isabella Won Schmidt held the same
opinion. She was fortified with several
letters she had recently received from
Captain Won Schmidt, wherein he begged
for permission TO call at her home and
see the children. In one of these letters
he accused her of having perJured herself
at the divorce trial. Again, while Cap
tain Won Schmidt was on the witness
stand he tried to convince the court that
he could call at his former wife's home
without committing any breach of pro-
priety. Judge Greene, however, decided
that the captain should be allowed to see
his children at some friends home twice
each month.
Released and Rearrested.
OAKLAND, April Erred Foster who
was arrested on charge of felony en-
bezzlement last week in an alleged at
tempt to, get away with several race
horses, had his case dismissed in Re-
corder Bradford's court, on the ground of
lack of jurisdiction, at Emeryville to-day;
but the District Attorney, anticipating
the step, had new complaint and war
arrested and later released on bonds.
Huber's Death Confirmed.
OAKLAND, April 3.-There is now no
doubt that Henry Huber, the Oakland
boy who was with the troops at Manila,
Information has been received in this city
substantiating the story published in The
Call a week ago. The lads parents have
no longer any hope that their son is still
alive.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.

season the family found shelter in tent,
but the unpleasant dream of poverty Is
now. past and the family will soon real
ize their comfort in a home of plenty.
Fractured His Skull.
OAKLAND, April 3.-John Broderick;
residing at S13 Filbert street, was found
lying on the sidewalk on Linden street
near Seventh street, this morning with
his skull fractured. He, was taken to the
Receiving Hospital where, after being
somewhat revived, he stated that he had
been knocked down and kicked in the
head by Frank Jackson, colored man,
Jackson was soon rounded up by De
tectives Shorey and Hodgkins and is be-
ing detained at the City Prison, aWa1tins
developments in his victims condition.
The physicians at the hospital, TINS
afternoon trephined Brodericks skull ana
his condition is serious.
Four Divorces Granted.
OAKLAND, April 3.--Superior Judge
Ellsworth to-day granted four DEGREES of
divorce. Mary A. Case was given a
divorce from James R. Case on the
grounds of extreme cruelty and willful
desertion. She was given the custody OF
the minor child and S25 monthly alimony:
Maud Dawson sustained her charge OF
willful desertion against William w.
Dawson and was also granted divorce:
Mary E. Bornhorst was given legal
separation from Herman Bornhorst on
allowed to resume her maiden name, that
Of Mary E. Wetter. Mary E. Noble was
granted a divorce from George A. Noble
on the ground of cruelty.
Fell Off High Trestle.
OAKLAND, April 3.-Charles Smith, re-
siding at 500 Forty-second street, was
treated at the Receiving Hospital to-day
for a confusion and sprain of his left
shoulder, sustained in manner
that might have cost him his
life. On Friday last, while driving
over a small trestle near North Berke-
ley his horses baked and backed his We
hicle over the edge of the platform. Just
then the trace broke and the horses were
released; but the wagon, with its occu-
pant. fell to the bottom of the creek. a
distance of about forty feet below. The
wagon was demolished and Smith miracu-
lousy escaped with the injuries noted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
SAN FRANCISCO CALL.

BUSINESS OFFICE of the San Francisco
Call, corner of Market and Third streets open
until ~ O. clock every night in the year
BRANCH OFFICES-527 Montgomery street,
corner Clay; opep until $50 o'clock.
PSI Hayes street: open until $50 o'clock.
s21 McAllister street; open until $50 o'clock.
els Larkin street: open until $3.50 o'clock.
1871 Mission street; open until 10 clock.
2261 Market street, corner Sixteenth; open
until o'clock.
JOG Eleventh street; open until o'clock
1926 Mission street; open until o'clock.
NV. corner of Twenty second and Kentucky
streets; open until 8 o'clock.
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Released and Rearrested.
Huber's Death Confirmed.
Death of Mrs. Samuels.

OAKLAND, April 3.-Mrs. Cecilia Sam
uels, mother of Deputy District Attorney
residence, S5615 Isabelle street, after a
lingering Illness. She was aged 70 years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH.
". S. Literal Is Remembered by His
Kansas Relative

OAKLAND, April 3-W. S. Literal, a
painter who, with a wife and three chill
dren, has been living from hand to mouth
In little, poorly furnished shack in West
Oakland, will no longer find the need of
3, substantial weapon with which to down
the wolf from the door. He has come
him by an aunt who died recently in
Kansas. He is made the sole heir to her
enormous farm and other properties.
home was destroyed by fire. and for a
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
DIVIDEND NOTICES.

DIVIDEND No. (30c per share) of the Paau-
hau Sugar Plantation Company will be pay
able at the office of the company 1927 Market
ST., on and after MONDAY, April TO- 1899
Transfer books will close TUESDAY, April 4.
1889. at D IL. ii. SHELDON Sec
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
FOLLY OF THE
SIGNATURE LAW
An Oakland Newspaper Will Take
No Chances, but Obeys the Stat
utes on Police Items.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

April
EX-SENATOR DARGIE, of Of
n Oakland Tribune
state intends TO
to
O. one dead
possibly
writers
practical demonstration
public
brtaly his
lows only because there was reasonable doubt his
says For murderer Will secure his deserts
for impossible
a
Last night another child be lodged
This article
for
cak
Without the
publisher eartices
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAD tenants elected for 81; collections made;
city country. PACIFIC COLLECTION
ROOMS papered from So whtened. 81 up
GOOD home for children; near school s
Clara St
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season the family found shelter in a tent,
but the unpleasant dream of poverty II
now past and the family will soon real
ize their comfort in home of plenty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04

GET your shoes half-soled while waiting CSC
TO Soc. $50 Mission St. bet. list and % SITS.
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SITUATIONS wANrED-Continued.

GERMAN. & years in this country would like
to have a place as private bookkeeper, porter
or ianitor; understands interest work thor
oughly. ADOLPH FRESE, BAG Hayes st.
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ERRAND boy, so per month HOWE. 21s Sac
st
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GOOD men wanted; big pay 40 Ellis St.
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AN experienced vlneyardist and wife would
like situation; understands wine making and
farming thoroughly. Address A. CAS-
SAGNES sI3 Jessie st.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04

WANTED-By an Englishman, aged %, any
kind OF employment flrst-class references. Ad-
dress Box 1872, Call Office
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WANTED-An active, energetic young man for
domestic dry goods department.; for Sacra-
mento Apply to-day from to 3 p. M, 523
Market st.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06

eyes of the world to the practical value
of the automobile. Mr.. Davis says he
without accident or mishap of some
kind, but he is taking along some dupli-
cate wheels and an exhaustive repair
kit and he is confident that he can over
come all difficulties. On a straight,
smooth road, clear of other vehicles,
he says he will make from twenty to
thirty miles an hour. The average rate
of speed will not be half that. In the
Rocky Mountains the old stage trails
to Denver and beyond will be followed.
1t will be the severest test to. which the
automobile has ever been subjected,
and II the vehicle succeeds it will be
one of the triumphs of the period.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06

and a much larger increase in those of
the southwest, most notably in Texas,
the total vote of which increased from
900. 600 in 1880 ito 100000 in 1890 and $780,
900 in 1896. The population of Texas,
2,2eo, 900 in 1890, is probably near s.
600, 600
A state census taken of Kansas in
1895 on the other hand showed the
population of that state to be less than
in 1890, while in the same period the
population of New Jersey had increased
IS per cent Between 1890 and 1895 the
population of Florida increased from
$780, 900 to 465, 900, while the population of
South Dakota, 1928, 900 in 1890, was re-
turned as 100000 five years later
The growth of population in Ameri-
can states between 1890 and 1900, adds
the Sun, will be in accordance with the
increase of the urban population in each
rather than with the gain in agricul-
tural districts. As majority of the
cities are in the north, it appears likely
that the center of population" in 1900
will be on or near the banks of the
Wabash in the state of Indiana, at
some point northwesterly from the
present center and nearer the Illinois
than the Ohio state line.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06
1t Might Be.

= f things come his way, that fellow
Castellane. who is cutting a swell
on Jay Gould's money. NAV get
glory OF a certain sort or. in lieu of
that. the thrashing that wouldn't upset
the peace OF mind of any considera BILE
part of the public.
This Frenchman is doing his best 20
get notorious in connection with the
finale In the Dreyfus case. 1t appe RS
that the Prince of Monaco, whose i'm
mense earnings from the gambling
license he grants are known about, has
placed his chateau at the service of the
Dreyfus family, for their sojourn when
the famous prisoner is acquitted as
the world believes he soon will be-
With the motives or the propriety of
this invitation the public has small
concern. But Castellane has taken The
matter up. He wrote a right sassy
letter to his highness of Monaco. He
tried 10 be impudent He remarked
that the prince was mixing up in things
that were none of his business He un-
dertook to tread on corns and wit on
ANN'S' HiS ''of> q iiiii6 at lii'- 6oihpiihS
business and spoke scornfully of the
princes possible relation by marriage
to Dreyfus.
If this bit of impertinence would only
lead to something practical, it would
be warmly welcomed. 1t would suit
the public If the man IRON hcnaco
would challenge the Frenchman 10
combat in which one of the two woulI
get killed outright and the Other be
carried off the field MORALLY wounded.
That would amount TO something. I'm
der the recital Of the details CT d Gag
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06
Personal and Pertinent.


Now it is announced that play, based
on the Dreyfus case and written by Emile
Aela, who has previously said he is going
10 write novel on the same subject will
be produced In this country. The play is
not yet written.
Since Herbert Putnam has received his
recess appointment as librarian of con-
gress. and has been fulfilling the duties
of his office, he has filed eight vacancies
In the library staff without asking advice
or any of the politicians big or little. The
resulting rumor is that when congress
convenes the senators who have been
thus ignored will refuse to confirm Mr..
Putnam's nomination, unless he recognizes
them in his appointments.
The conflict which has ragged in certain
circles in Washington around the question
as to whether several hundred women
clerks In the patent ONCE who ride bcy-
Giles shall wear their short skirts during
business hours appears to have been end
Ell by Assistant Secretary Webster Da-
Wis. who has declared himself in favor of
allowing those who come to the office on
wheels to wear their wheeling clothes.
Mr.. Davis thinks the costume Is most be-
coming.
Henry Norman, the British correspond
enr of the New York Times in speaking
OF the Philippine question and the way 1t
strikes Englishmen. wants to know why
President Mckinley should not request
the loan of one of Great Britan'e highly
trained administrators from India or
the Straits settlements. "If we." he says,
had a difficult campaign against red In
dams, we should not hesitate to seek the
advice of one of your great Indian fight
ers."
Joseph B. Lee, the Christian Science
healer, who failed to prevent the death of
Mrs. Pocell at Crescent Beach, Conn,
last week, has now been called in to treat
valuable Attorney COW at Crawford. N.
]. No bulletins are being issued, but at
last accounts the COW, being apparently
of little faith, was still i'll. The animal,
which is the property of Benjamin F.
Bailey of New York, himself believer in
the faith cure has been treated by several
veterinary surgeons without result.
In Boston, where bicycle riders ara NOT
required by law to carry lights at night,
fears nevertheless prevail in the cycling
world that such a law will be pascal.
Accordingly the carrying of lamps by
those who want the light they shed is
discouraged as much as possible One
method used by expert wheelmen when
tney encounter man Win q lamp on
the fork lis front wheel is to crowd
him into a properly light place and then
ride so close as to break the lamp off
without having collision or doing other
damage.
John Roberts, formerly a New York
liquor dealer, who was arrested in 1877,
and spent two years in prison for bur-
glary of which he was convicted and sub
sequently proved to be innocent, is suing
the state of New York for sl3s 1876, "a dam
ages. The court of claims had awarded
him $500, which he considers insufficient.
while the state declares it excessive. The
case is attracting considerable attention
from lawyers because of it's rather unus-
ual nature and of the probability that it
may serve to establish a precedent.
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Where the Center Will Be.

II soon as the work of preparing
for the census taking in 1900 be-
! gan, the guesses started as TO
the point that will be found to be the
center of this country's population I'M
der the new count. Touching this ques-
tion little chapter of history relating
to population centers, printed recently
in the New York Sun, is of present in
terest
BY the first national census. the Sun
says, taken in 1890, when the population
of the country was not much greater
than that of New York City to-day, the
center of population was twenty three
miles east of Baltimore 1t was still in
the neighborhood of Baltimore, though
to the west of that city, In 1900. In 1910
it was near Washington. In 1920 it was
at Woodstock. Va, and in 1880, 1910 and
1850 in the present state of West Viz
ginia. In 1860 1T was a little to the
south of Chillicothe. Ohio, this being
the first official appearance of Ohio as
the center of population, though it has
remained the political center of popula-
ton steadily ever since.
In 1870 the center of population was
on line in Ohio between Chillicothe
and Cincinnati; in 1880 it was in the
neighborhood of Cincinnati and in 1890,
the year of the last national census. it
was in Decatur county, Indiana, near
the Ohio boundary, and on line be-
tween Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The
government estimate of the present
population of the United States, exclu-
sive of countries over which its soveT-
eighty has been extended, was rs 900 600
on June l, and all sections of the coun-
try have participated, though not
equally, in the growth of population
since 1890, when it was 100000.
BY the coming census the Ohio and
Mississippi valley states will probably
be shown to have gained less from d.
rect foreign immigration than in any
previous decade, while the citizens of
tie middle and New England states
have, relatively. gained more. There
has been a substantial increase in pop
ulation, larger. probably, than in any
period since the close of the civil war,
in the southern and south border states,