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The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Charged Goods to EMPLOYER.

Nellie st. Clair, alias Hulda Leroy,
alas Julia Smith, was arrested in Oak
land yesterday by Detectives Braig and
Siivey and charged at the local City
Prison with having obtained goods by
false pretenses. It is alleged that Nell
lie obtained a dress, hat and coat from
a local dry goods store of the value of
$40. The woman, who is a negress,
was in the employ of Mrs. Maud Hyde
Of Athol avenue, East Oakland, as a
maid. She represented to the store
people that her mistress had ordered
the goods. After she procured them
she left the employment of Mrs. Hyde
and the detectives succeeded in locat-
inE her yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
THIRTIETH NAN
SENT TO JAIL
Supreme Court of Colorado
Furnishes Three More Efec-
tiOn Officers for Contempt
AUTHORITY QUESTIONED
Attorneys File Brief Dis
: putting Right OF. Tribunal
to Assert Jurisdiction

DENVER. Colo, Dec. 24.-Attorney
TO be presented to the United States Su-
preme Court in the application for a
writ Of habeas corpus for Michael
Dowd. one Of the thirty election Off
cials who have been sentenced to Jail
by The Colorado Supreme Court on
charges OF contempt based on their ac-
tions at the polls. The brief questions
the authority Of the Supreme Court to
take jurisdiction Of an election.
The brief further states that the ac-
ton OF the Supreme Court in taking
charge Of the election in this city will
open the eyes OF the rest OF the country
TO what is meant by government by
injunction.
Three more election officials were sent
to jail by the Supreme Court to-day for
contempt, making a total Of thirty who
have been sentenced for violation of
the courts Injunction issued prior to
the November election.
Isaac Goldman and Edward Sweeney,
judges in Precinct Two. Ward -Four,
Denver, were sentenced TO serve four
months in jail and TO pay fines of 800
and costs each. The court declared
that they had knowingly and 'willfully
permitted repeating. Clarence p. Dix
on. clerk in Precinct Thirteen, Ward
Three. was sentenced to jail for four
months and fined $3.50 and costs.
Indictments against Michael Callahan
and Jacob Schurtz. charged with cleo
tiOn frauds in 1903, were quashed by
Judge John I. Mullins to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
al" BERTHIER
DIES SUDDENLY
Former Recorder of County
Expires in a Chair After
COnyersing With Friend
PROMINENT POLITICIAN
Prominent Eagle and Repub-
1ican Leader Falls a Vic
tim to. Heart Affection

Albert Berthier, former Recorder of
this city and well known here for more
than twenty years, died suddenly of
heart failure shortly after o'clock last
night in the office Of the Gait House,
1900 Market street. Berthier had been
a sufferer from heart trouble for many
years and only a week ago he COM
planned Of being very i'll.
Berthier was seated in a chair in
the hotel office and had just finished
talking with one of the clerks when
he was seen suddenly to drop his hands
TO his side and apparently faint away.
Medical aid was summoned. but Ber-
thier had already passed that stage
where human assistance avails.
'Al' Berthier, as he was more .famil-
iary known, was a native Of Virginia
City, and 81 years old. He came. to
San Francisco about twenty five years
ago and had since taken an active in
terest in politics. He was elected Re-
corder about eight years ago and
served one term. He did not seek re-
nomination and he has since been en-
gagged in the real estate business and
also in different ventures with Jerome
Bassity, the well known saloon keeper.
Berthier was always a stanch Re
publican, He was one of the organiz-
ess Of the Republican Mutual Alliance.
His influence was always felt in politi7
eal CIRCLES and he had a host Of friends.
He was very popular with his asso-
ciates and only few days ago was
elected chaplain of the. San Francisco
Aerie of Eagles.
Berthiers wife died several years
ago. He is survived by two married
daughters and sister. Mrs. Sands
Fornan. The funeral will take place
from the Eagles Hall on Tuesday at
1890. =.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
LONDON FOG LIFTING,
BUT is STILL DENSE
Anxiety of Shipping to Make
and Leave Port.

LONDON, Dec. 24-The lower
Thames tonight presents an extraord-
mary and unprecedented spectacle,
The fog. slightly lifting, reveals from
Liverpool to Greenwood Beach hun
dreds of great liners and steamers from
every quarter Of the gioDe.- lifting an
ehors and. preparing to move to docks
after three days of ipaction and OBJ
security on account of the banks of fog.
A number of outward-bound liners
have been able to proceed, but, conse-
quent to the great number of incoming
vessels gathered at the mouth of the
Thames ard other points in the chan
mel and coupled with the anxiety of
these craft to reach their docks, ship
ping reports are full of minor casualties
. and collisions.
Up to midnight no serious disaster
has been reported.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT
BENEFIT OF HIS VIEWS
Engineer Noble Is Called to Washing
ton in Connection With Palouse
TrsT-Oaff0n PrOiPof

lEElkhLIOD IEOJCCts
SPOKANE, Dec. PAT. A. Noble, the
resident engineer of the United States
Geological Survey, who mas prepared
the plans for the Palouse irrigation
project, has been called to Washington
to be present at the negotiations be-
tween the Government and the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company.
The railroad has submitted a PROPOSE
ton to the Government to surrender
possession of Washtucna Coulee for
approximately 100000 so that 1t can
be used as a reservoir for irrigating
about 5000 acres.
The building of the proposed irriga-
ton system is part Of the work de-
signed by the reclamation act and the
Secretary of the Interior has already
set aside 81, O0O, coo for the scheme As
the scheme was outlined the coules
was the key to the situation for the
storage of water. The Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company had a track
down the coulee to Connell ten years
ago and ceased to operate 1T for sew
eral years. Early last spring the COM
pany reconstructed the track into Con-
nell.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
French Count in Police Court.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Charged
with systematically robbing a man
who had befriended him, young
man. whose name is said to be Count
Norman de lie Creasan Luis, a mem
ber. of an old French family. was ar
raigned in the Police Court to-day.
Despite the young mans protest that
he was innocent, he was held in $1,000
bail for hearing. The complainant
was John S. Cortland, a retired mer-
chant.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
TONGUES OF FLAME LEAP
a. FROM BURNING NINE
Efforts to Cheek Confiagration Seem
Unavailing and Sides of Slope
C0IlanSe

MAHANOY CITY, Pa, Dec. 2f.-To-
day tongues of flame leaped forty feet
high from the burning Merea mine and
all efforts to check the fire have thus
far proved unavailing.
3 The stope has been almost entirely
swept of timber from the pumphouse,
where the fire originated last night, to
the surface, a distance of nearly 400
feet.
The roof and sides of the stepe. have
collapsed in several places. Several
mine inspectors, officials of the Dobson
Coal Company, who own the mine. and
others spent almost the entire day in
an effort to confine the fire to the
man" stope, but with what success
they are unable to determine. The col
liery, which is one of the largest in the
region. is IN no danger.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
CONCORDIA CLUB HOLDS
ITS ANNUAL FESTIVITIES
Splendid Banquet Is the Principal
Feature of the Socfety's Hoii-
day Entertainment.

The Concordia Club held its annual
Christmas festivities last night at its
clubhouse, Van Ness avenue and Post
street. About us members were
present, all of whom took an active
part in the proceedings. At midnight
the entire company adjourned to the
large banquet hail on the third floor,
where a liberal supper was served.
The affair was Of an informal ma
tUre, as is the custom of the club at
functions Of this season. No set
speeches were made, but there were
many brilliant little talks by several
Of those present. It was late in the
morning before the festivities came to
a close
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
OF AN ITALIAN Is SOLVED
Remains Are Found I'm a Deserted Mill
Under circumstances That
Point to Murder.

BOULDER CREEK. Dec. 24.-Af-
ter a lapse of two years the disap-
pearance Of Rossetti Pedrattt has been
solved by a workman, who, while in
specting a battery OF old boilers in
the Dougherty mills that have been
closed for the last three years, dis
covered the charred and calcined
bones Of a human being. The iden-
tity Of the remains was established by
a metal medallion Pedratti was known
to wear around his neck. It had
dropped through the CRATE bars and
thus escaped the flames that de-
stroyed the body. The only one re-
naming of his family, Pedratti had
left Italy to escape a vendetta that
had left him motherless and father
less only to met his death at the
hands of the relentless Mafla in Cal
ifornia. His death removed the last
Of the heirs to valuable estates In
Italy,
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few PeOI = Know How Useful 1t Is in
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature,
but few realize its value when taken
into the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take Of 1t the better. II is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating on
ions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and i'm
proves the complexion; it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; IT
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison Of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the
best charcoal and the most for the
money is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozen-
ges; they are composed of the finest
powdered Willow charcoal and other
harmless antiseptics in tablet form.
or rather in the form of large, pleas
ant tasting lozenges. the charcoal be-
ing mixed with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved, acondi-
ton Of the general health. better COM
plexion. swester breath and parer
blood. and the. beauty of 1t is that no
possible harm -can--result from their
continued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit. sef
A Buffalo physician. IN. speaking OF
the benefits OF charcoal, says; Il advise
stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all pa.
tents suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels and TO clear the complex
ion ana purify the breath. mouth and
throat; + also believe the liver is
greatly benefited by. the daily use OF
them they cost but rs cents a box al
drug stores and although in SONS
sense a patent preparation. yet be.
neve I get more and better charcoal
IN Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than In
any OF the ordinary charcoal tablets
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Miles ns a Militin,nan.

BROCKTON, Mass, Dec. PA re-
arrangement of the most important
positions on the staff of Governor
elect Douglas was decided on to-day
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
United States army, retired. instead OF
being made adJutant general was ap-
pointed inspector general and will act
as the military adviser of the Cover
nor, In effect holding the position OF
chief of staff.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
CHANGES AMONG PRELATES
OF T4IE CHURCH OF ROME
Mgr. Chappelle to Be Relieved OF His
Duties as Papal Delegate

ROME, Dec. 24.-While Mgr. Chap
pelle, Archbishop Of New Orleans and
papal delegate to Cuba and Porto
Rico, soon will be relieved Of his post
in the Antilles, he still will retain the
Archbishopric of New Orleans.
With the REIMBURSEMENT by Mgr.
Broderick of the post Of auxiliary
Bishop of Havana. it is said that he
will be entrusted with the confidential
mission of urging greater offerings OF
Peters pence in the United States. be-
cause of the relations existing between
France and the Holy See.
Recommendation have been made
to the Vatican to have Mgr. Edward
Fowler, secretary of Archbishop Harty
of Manila, appointed auxiliary Arch
bishop of Havana in succession to
Mgr. Broderick.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
DESTITUTE COLORADO
MINERS IN ST. LOUIS
Sixty-Two Men Forced Out of State
Reach Fair City in Search
for Work.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24-Sixty-two Col
orado miners have arrived in st. Louis,
having beaten their way from La
Junta, after being driven out of the
State by deputy sheriffs. Most of them
left their wives and families at Cripple
Creek and other places in Colorado
where they had worked. They are look
ing for work and most of them are
without money. -
At the Worlds Fair, where they went
to look for work at wrecking, they were
unsuccessful because they had no mon
ey with which to buy admission tickets
to the grounds to see the contractors.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
TeIls story of Being Held Tn.

Charles Cheule of SO4 Eighth street
was brought TO the Receiving Hospital
last night to be treated for lacerated
scalp. He told the attendants that
he had been held UP by two men at
Tenth and Folsom streets and one of
them hit him over the head with a
club. Cheule says he knows who the
men are, but he will not prosecute
them.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
BATTLESHIP IOWA BUMPS
INTO PIER AND is INJURED
Accident Occurs While Vessel Is Be-
ing Docked at Newport

NEWPORT NEWS. Dec. 24.-The
United States battleshiD Iowa, while
being docked at shipyard here to-
day, came in violent contact with the
structural work of the pier. The ash
chute and guard rails were carried
away and the ship otherwise dan sged.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
EXTRADITION PAPERS
FOR DIR. L. S. CHADWICK
Cleveland Sheriff TeIegrapbssn a / Request
to Governor Oden of
New York.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 24-Sheriff Barry
to-day telegraphed Governor Odell of
New York asking that the extradition
papers for DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick,
jointly indicted with his wife, Cassie L.
Chadwick, on a charge of forgery, be
granted on the Sheriff's arrival in AL
bany on Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Try Blnko Game.

: john Morrison and Jonn Boyd were
arrested last night in the store of the
Gleason Ruggles Drug Company at
Clay and Kearny streets and placed in
the tanks at, thesCity Prison pending
According to Policeman
Nelson who made the arrests, the men
were attempting to rob the clerk on
short change game. Before they
were successful Nelson appeared and
arrested them.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Butte Jury Disaereeu.

BUTTE, Dec. 24.-After being out
forty hours the jury IN the case OF
Jerry Slattery. the well-known sport
ing man. charged with the murder OF
Patrick Mahoney, was to-day dis
charged by Judge McCleerney after
they had made futile effort TO reach
a verdict. The case has attracted
much attention and there will bs
retrial.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Faster Time westward.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The Rock Island
has decided upon further reduction
in the tine Of its trains between Chi
cago and Los Angeles. Beginning to-
morrow the California special will leave
Chicago at $40 a. M, arriving at Los
Angeles at $50 a. m. the third day
The Golden State Limited, after to-
morrow, will be run on 6S-hour sched-
ule.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
irish Giant in poorhouse.

NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-After hav-
ing been exhibited for more than five
years, during which time he has visit
ed nearly all the principal cities of
the United States and Europe. Will
liam Connery, known as "the Irish
giant" to-day. was sent to the City
Almshouse. Connery is Z feet 1 inch
in height
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Lillian Rnssen,s aTiriumnh..

NEW YORK, Dec, s24---Lillian Rus
sell was given very demonstrative
welcome tonight on the occasion of
her return as d star at the Casino in
Lady Teazle."
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
Twelve Dead; Twenty Hurt.

PARIS, Dec. "a. - The victims of
last nights railway collision in a fog
between the London Boulogne express
and the Lille express outside the
Northern Railway station here num-
Der twelve dead and twenty seriously
injured. All the victims were French.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
NiRSKY' GOOD
WORK GOES ON
Adjustment Of the Pass
port System Will Be the
Next Reform in Russia
UNDOING PLEHWE'S ACTS
Well Known Eagle and Re
publican leader Falls a
Victim. to Heart Affection


ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24.-Russia
is onthe eve of abolishing the passport
SYSTEM The question has already been
decided in principle by the commission
whi6h is Investigating the passport
question new law will be prenlul-
gated by the Senate within. six weeks
as one of the solid reforms resulting
from the administration of Interior
Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky.s ~,
The .Zemstvos of the Government of
Tiver and of the District Of Novo-
torshk have had restored TO them the
right to elect their presidents from
among their own members. A year ago
the. late Minister ofHthe Interior Won
Piehve disspproved of the presidents
elected by these Zemstvos and replaced
them with his own pominees. The
restoration OF the right to eect their
presidents in the case of the two Zem-
stvos mentioned is regarded as being
a significant sign of the times.
! CHERNIGOV, Russia; dec. 24.TForty
members of the local ,zemstvo. inciud-
ing the president, who signed the recent
telegram to Emperor Nicholas, have re-
signed
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
FYre Destroys a Coronado Home.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 94.-Firs to-day
destroyed the large two-story house
owned by Frederick w. Koepen on
c avenue, between Tenth and Orange,
at Coronado. Loss $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
RAVES INsANELY OVER
DEATH OF HIS SISTER
Aaron Brakeman, Seventeen Years of
Age, Is Taken to the Deten-
ton Ward.

ton Ward.
Aaron Brakeman, youth of IT
years, was taken to the Central Emer-
gency Hospital last night suffering
from hysteria over the death of his
sister, which occurred six months ago.
He was brought to the hospital by his
uncle, Antoine Klein. who said Brack-
man began showing signs of mental
unbalance two weeks ago and since
then spent most of his time in crying
and wailing over the death of the
girl, to whom he had been warmly
attached.
It is not believed that Brackman's
affiietion is more than hysteria. His
home is at 422s Twenty-sixth street.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25

- The ,Chernigov .Zemstvo on December
20 teiegra phed resolutions begging EN-
peror Nicholas in the most loyal man
ner to convoke legally elected members
of the Zemstvos to present pro-
gramme. of reforms for his considera-
ton. The Emperor on December %
wrote the following Endorsement on the
Chernigov Zemstvos dispatch;
+ II consider the action of the presi-
dent. to- be. presumptuous and tactless.
Questions of state administration are
.,of no concern to the Zemstvos, whose
functions. and rights are clearly. de-
fined by the law"
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25

The more money a man makes by
not getting engaged the more he can
lose lending it to those who do.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25

Are yoIi looking for employ
ment? DO YOU want to better
your position?
If so be sure TO look over
the Help Wanted Columns of
THE CALL You will find some
one that wants your services.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-25
q 2 2 = = = :
First Ri9hfway
Cleanup Sale
OF HCH-CRADE SHOES

Sale that will add to the fame Of the Rghtway Sale
that will sensation. Sale that means much to
you you to This is our first Cleanup and
your first opportunity to participate in genuine Right
way bargain event Twenty-Five expert shoe will
be your You are assured of perfect fit high
quality and every favor that it is within power 10
grant.
THE SALE WILL BEGIN TUESDAY MORNING.
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Cleanup Prices
onLadieS' Shoes

Cleanup Prices on
Children'S Shoes
= Shoes for young ladies are included
under this head. Great chances here for
mothers to accomplish neat saving.
Patent Leather Bluchers-Sizes 4 to
II; turned soies, spring heels. Sell regu-
larly for $3.50 and $2oo, according to
size. Special price to close OUT CT nm
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Children's ShoesEGreat for wear and
foot-form lasts
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Cleanup Prices
on Boys Shoes

We are specialists IN boys shoes. We
search untiringly for the best-the wear
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best at special prices:
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and carefully made to stand hard wear.
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Cleanup Prices
on Mems Shoes

Great chance for real saving. Price
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-26
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.

BY virtue of judgment of the Superior
Court OF Wake county, North Carolina.
made and entered at the February term
1854 OF said court, in the case OF e. B.
Barbee and G. B. Barbee, trustees OF G.
B. Afford and his wife Texanna o. AL
tord. VS. Sanders Battle and his wife
Ciarah Battle, will offer for sale at
public cutlery, to the highest bidder.
for cash, at the court house door. said
county, in the city of Raleigh, N. c..
on Monday 18th day of April 1904, at
II o'clock m, the following described
tracts of land, viz:
1st tract. Situated in Buckhorn town.
ship, said county and State and adioin-
ing the lands of Samuel Norris, Margaret
Hamilton and others, and more fully
described in deed from Samuel Norris
and wife to Sanders Battle. containing
thirty acres, excepting therefrom fifteen
acres sold to Ri hard T. Wilson.
End tract. Situated in Buckhorn town
ship, said county and State, adjoining
the lands of ]. II. Collins, w. II. overly
and others, beginning at an ash on the
banks of Carys Creek, running down the
members of said creek. 40 poles to a
stake, thence south 10 w. 20 poles to a
stake thence east As poles to stake.
thence north 81 poles to the beginning.
containing 16A acres, more or less.
VIM. B. JONES. Commissioners.