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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07

"If yoG take hsm Jrom me I aDtll ktl
 yofsP' F going to begin now. What do. yot want, mademoiselle? Why do you threaten me?a "Bahy' cried the other, but moving back little as requested. You know you blond white cat. you. It is Eeorge." s'What about George?'' .He is mine. He loves me- You would take him from me"
 If you are speaking of George Brendon''-
 "Of who else should I speak? You know-ah. you know!' .sYes. I know. heard some rumors as to how he helped you. But do not believe for moment that he loves you"
 "He does. You dare ask that he loves"
 T shall do nothing of the sort We may as well understand one another, as you have no right to thrust your self upon me" T do do what do please,' said Lola sullenly
 ''This sort of thing is not allowed in England. am sorry for you, and so I speak. Otherwise I should call the park keeper"
 T want not any sorrow. do want my own George"
 ''Nfr. Brendon is engaged to marry me-" said Dorothy deliberately.
 Lola sprang to her feet with fash ing eyes. Tt will not bev' she almost shouted T love him"
 Sit down." said Dorothy, much in the same tone as she would have used to fractious child, and Lola resumed her seat immediately
 But will have my George she muttered.
 Listen to me- said Dorothy quietly. ''I have no right to answer your ques- tions. But am sorry for you. I will speak to MT. Brendon.''
 "No"-Lola looked up in terror-styou must not do that. He will be very angry-oh, much much enraged."
 "Then that shows me you have been speaking untruths. MT. Brendon does not love you'' AS0S 1s~J SS SJ OsSs A<OAss sprang to her feet again and poured forth her wrath. .sAh, you think he will be milor, and that you will marry him, butt
 What do you know about thatf" asked Dorothy, rising indignantly.
 "Oh, do know much-much," Lola snapped her fingers. "Yes, know that which I do know. can stop him from being milor, and that will I will. If he is milor he will marry you you But as my George he will make me-me"-she struck her breast again me, Lola Velez, madame his wife"
 'tYou are talking nonsense," said Dorothy coolly, though she felt an noyed and puzzled. What can you know ?''
 "That which do know. Wait-oh, wait day-one day, two day, three day, and them She snapped her fingers. "You see-yes-you see how clever I am. go, 60. you white eat. go to get nay George"
 Lola darted away at run, which slackened to rapid walk as she near ed the park gates. Dorothy sat down again, too aFna1ed to follow.
 Gro Be Conttnued.l
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
DRAWING COURSES.

Mechanical Drawing: year. Sketching from Models, Simple Ma chine Drawing, etc. 2 year Screw Threads, Projections, Detail Drawing, etc. Freehand Drawing Pencil, Char
 coal, Water Color and Oil. Two years course
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
~ COMMERCIAL COURSE.

 Penmanship, Arithmetic, Bookkeep- ing, Stenography, Commercial Law, Typewriting. Three years course. DIPLOMAS will be given to all who complete any of the above classes. ITALIAN DEPARTMENTS spe- cial department, under an Italian ir- structor, will be opened for Italians who desire to learn the elements of English.
 SWEDISH DEPARTMENT-A spe- cial department, under Swedish 11- structor, will be opened in Elementary English instruction.
 INSTRUCTORS of the courses and departments will be conducted by competent instructors.
 Glasses will be formed for those who desire to learn to read and write Eng fish.
 CHARLES $. CHAPMAN,
 WILFRED E. GRIGGS,
 J. J. M'DONALD,
 Committee. MAYOR J. P. ELTON. Chairman. October 3, 1904, 1o-6-3
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
WA TRRBURY HOOLDEPARTMENT Free Evening Schools

The Evening Schools will open in the High and Croft Schools, Monday, October 10, 1904. Sessions, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Even ings, from 7:15 to 9:1D p. m.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
HIGH SCHOO q COURSE.

STUDIES I year Algebra, Eng fish History. 2 year--Algebra, half; Geometry, half; Ancient History. 3 year Geometry, United States His tory and Civics. English Literature and Composition throughout the three years.
 Students may enter any class for which they are qualified.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
GRAMMAR SCHOOL COURSE,

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Gram.
 mar and Composition, Geography, U.
 eHistory and Civics, Spelling. ;.-sgl Four Years Course Students may enter any class for which they are qualified.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
FALLING WALL
KILLS FOREMAN
William E. Thorn of Liver
more Is Crushed to Death
Under SpIintered Timbers
NO WARNING is GIVEN
Meets His Fate While Di-
recting Work Of Repair.
ing a Damaged Warehouse

LIVERMORE, March 14-While su-
perintending the repairing Of a ware
house of Anspacher Bros, damaged by
the windstcrm last Thursday night,
William f. Thorn, foreman in the
employ Of Anspacher Bros, was caught
by a falling wall and instantly killed
this morning. The unfortunate man
was badly crushed and he was so deep
ly buried beneath the debris that it
was some time before the rescuers were
able TO extricate the body from the
ruins.
When the men went TO work to re:
pair the damage one Of the walls was
tottering AID il was necessary to prop
il W to keep it from falling. Thorn
was directing the work on what seemed
the most dangerous part OF the wall,
when, without warning, another part
of the wall near which he was stand
ing came down with q crash, burying
the foreman beneath a mass of planks
ard timbers. Rescuers at once set to
work to release Thorn, but when they
reached the body life was extinct.
Thorn was 40 years of age and leaves
a wife and four young children He
was a prominent member of the Liver
more Fire Department and was also
a member Of the Woodmen Of the
World and the Foresters of America.
The funeral viii be held next Wednes-
day under the auspices of the local
lodge of Foresters.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
BOOSTERS WILL RALLY
AT RELIANCE CLUB
New Organization Invites All Citizens
Interested in Public Improve
ments TO Be Present.

OAKLAND, March 1.-THE Oak
land Boosters will hold big rally at
the Reliance Athletic Club gymnasium
tomorrow evening, and If is the in
tentiOn Of the members to devote the
meeting to the determination of the
'knocker" and to give a big boost for
the proposed bond issue.
The Boosters desire that every
citizen of Oakland who is interested
in the advancement of the city attend
the meeting and help to make the oc-
casion a success. Among the speak
ers will be Mayor Warren Olney,
Councilman John l. Howard and
other members of the City Council.
Delegations will be present from the
Board of Trade, the Oakland Real
Estate Association, the Merchants
Exchange and other organizations in
terested in the improvement of this
city, and a rousing meeting is ex-
pected.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
MORE is APPOINTED
SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR
Executors Of the Sather Estate Show
That Their Trust Is Well
Cared For.

OAKLAND, March John T.
More was appointed special admins
traitor Of the estate Of Eleanor H
More by Judge Greene to-day There
is a contest pending over the probat-
ing Of the will of the deceased, two
surviving sisters alleging that she was
unduly Influenced by John F. More in
the making Of her will. The estate is
valued at about SIS, 900 and consists
Of large interests on Santa Rosa ISL
and
The executors of the will of Pedar
Sather, who died in 1856. filed an ac-
counting to-day, in which they show
they now have on hand to the credit
OF the estate sec, 900. besides valuable
pieces of realty. Sather left 500, 600
TO the four children OF his daughter,
Mrs. Josephine Bruguiere. The ex-
ecutors state that two of the children
have attained their majority and have
been paid their legacies.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Marriage Licenses.

OAKLAND, March 14-The follow
ing marriage licenses were issued by
the County Clerk to-day: Samuel I.
Dodson, 35, Oakland, and Marcia NJ.
Campbell, 19, Berkeley; Alfred H.
Blow, 80, and Jessie NJ. Hawkins, 19,
both of Oakland; John Toole, Al, Point
Bonita, and Helen Hanson. 81. San
Francisco; Gustave Anderson, "a, and
Kitty Carreg, %, both of San Fran
cisco; Walter Kuykendall. 81, and Isa-
bella Tubman, 10. both of Oakland
William E. Ellis, over 81, and Eliza
beth Ellis, over 18, both of Alameda
John c. Schmidt, Al, and Barbette
Kamlieter, 50, both of Oakland; Ed
ward w. Kammerer, %, and Anna A.
Bolton, 20, both of Arbuckle, Colusa
County.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Save She was swindIed.

OAKLAND, March 14.-Marie c.
Johanson has begun a suit against
Matilda Peterson, formerly Matilda
Carlson; Henry Peterson, a real es-
tate agent and II. A. Parkhurst, who
she alleges have sWindled her out-of
s1400 on a bunko land deal. She
traded a piece of Oakland realty to
the Pedersons for a piece of property
in Salinas. The deeds were put into
the hands of Parkhurst in escrow
upon the condition that he should not
deliver the deeds until the $500 mort
gage on the Salinas property had been
satisfied. She claims that this was
not done, but that the deeds were
transferred Immediately and that be-
fore she knew it $500 had been bor-
rowed on the piece of Oakland realty
she had traded.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
UNIVERSITY EVENTS

BERKELEY. March 1.-THE Mask and
Dagger. Dramatic Society of the University
has completed arrangements for. the presenta-
ton Of The Jealous Wife. the eighteenth
century comedy. in the Assembly Hall Of stan
ford University next Saturday night. The
play was staged successfully in Oakland a
short time ago and the club received an IN :
vitation TO become the guests of the SWORD
and Sandals. Stanford dramatic organiza
tion. An excursion probably will be arranged
from Berkeley for those that are desirous OF
accompanying the college actors to Stanford
The Art Associate of the university has
arranged for an illustrated lecture to be given
in Hearst Hall Wednesday evening, Samuel
pie of the Holy city Horatio Cogsweu will
sing several solos during the evening
The foreign agents Of the university library
in the European centers are now busy In Tor
warding cOnsignmeuts Of new books 70 the
lust received a large block Of books from the
agency in Paris. Within the last ten days
eight boxes Of books have been received from
foreign agencies
Professors Henry Morse Stephens and VII
liam Carey Jones have been selected as the
speakers at the semi annual meeting or the
Associated Graduate StudeRts of the Univer-
sity which viii be held on April .. The mem.
bers of che senior class will be the special
guests of the graduates on that occasion
The local chapter Of the Sigma Alpha Ep-
siIon fraternity will be the guests Of James
NeiIl the actor at a box party TO be given to
morrow evening at an Oakland Theater Nell
is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
has been frequently entertained at the chapter
house in Berkeley.
The Agricultural College Of the university
probably viii be the next institution al Berke-
ley to receive attention from the Legislature
The last legislature gave a quarter OF
million dollars for the building OF California
Hall. The efforts OF those now interested in
the University's welfare will be directed to
ward the procuring Of funds from the state for
new buildinC Tor the Agricultural College
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
-FOUR MEMBERS
BLOCK QUORUM
COuncilmen Hold a Street
Corner Caucus and Keep
Away From Bond Meeting
SPECIAL CALL FAILS
Baccus' Scheme to Get an
Appropriation for Fire De-
partment Makes POther
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
lis Broadway. March IA

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway, March IA.
Councilmen Aitken, Fitzgerald, Baccus
and McAdam formed a combination to-
night that prevented the holding of a
special meeting by the City Council to
discuss the projected bond issue. A
call for the meeting had been sent out
over the signatures of Councilmen Gu
vellier, Elliott, Howard, Dornin and
Pendleton.
Councilnen Wallace and Meese ap-
peared this evening and with Elliott,
Cuvellier, Howard and Dornin num-
bered one less than the required quo
rum of seven members. PendletOn was
absent, being confined to his bed by
illness. The other four absentees held
a street corner caucus in front of the
City Hall and decided they would not
attend the meeting.
The refusal is said to have been based
upon a desire of Councilman. Baccus
to shake up a favorable sentiment for
his resolution to add sS5, 900 to the bond
issue for the Fire Department.
This resolution was laid over tonight
in committee of the whole Objection
to it is raised by members of the bond
committee on the ground that the cost
of maintaining the additional equip
ment could not be met by the 81 tax
levy rate.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Asks for Accounting.

OAKLAND. March 14.-Suit was
begun to-day by William M. Hatfield
against the Continental Building and
Loan Association for an accounting
for rents upon a piece of property on
Linden street, near Twenty At
torney Luttrell for the plaintiff alleges
that the defendants got a decree of
foreclosure on the premises, but that
the plaintiff holds a redemption right.
He is willing to pay the amount of the
Judgment, but demands an accounting
of the rents collected by them.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
OPEN THEATER
WITH CEREMONY
"Ye Liberty" Playhouse Is
Dedicated With Speeches
by Prominent Citizens
AUDITORIUM is PACKED
First Performance Is a Great
Success From Both Social
and Artistic Standpoint
Oakland Office san Francisco Call.
Ills Broadway, March Il


'Ye Liberty Playhouse" was dedi-
Gated tonight with more Of ceremony
than usually falls 10 the average thea
ter opening. There were little addresses
by Mayor Olney. President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler Of the State University
and Judge Gibson. and there was an
audience that crowded the new theater
from Dit TO dome
The interior Of the new theeter build
ing is completed. but the entrance is in
imperfect shape. and the management
hopes to have this finished before the
end Of the week However, everything
is safe. and the City Council and the
Chief Of the Fire Department have
been consulted as TO what is demanded
for the complete protection Of the audi
ence-
When the curtain went up tonight
James Nein stepped forward and intro
duced Mayor Warren Olney, who had
few words 10 say about the opening Of
a new theater in Oakland He was fol-
lowed by President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler. who told of the educational
value Of the theater, and next came
. Judge Gibson. who had a few words 10
say upon the social side of the theater.
Then the James Neil company pre-
sented "A Bachelors Romance, the
opening play, which win run for the
rest Of the week
The orchestra Of the new playhouse is
under the direction Of Gustav Hinrichs
and is one Of the features Of the place.
The audience was large and fashion
able and there were many parties The
boxes were occupied by Benjamin Ide
Wheeler and party, John A Britton
and party. DR.. H. p Travers and Dr.
O. d. Hamlin with their families and
friends. Harry ". Bishop and party
Charles f Naylor, Byron Rutley ana
A. D CoDlin with their families and
friends The lOges were occupied by A
/. Stone and party, Mayor Warren Oh
nev and party, W. H Machnnon and
party and John T. Corners and party.
In the audience were Frank G Havens
and a party Of twenty, F. NJ Smith and
marty Of ten. Al Wood and a party Of
ten. Charles J. Heeseman and party,
Dave Mclaughlin and party. F. l. Ken
dali and party, Asa V Mendenhal,
Miss Florence Hatch, Willis Sharpe,
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Grifiths, Mr. and
Mrs. ". Garrison, Mr. and Mrs j. p
Maxwell. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Maxwell
and others.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15

at the works. Jackson entered the en-
ploy of the Giant Company when a
boy and served sixteen years. He was
a native of New York 32 years of age.
He leaves a brother and three sisters
in West Berkeley. Pepin had been with
the company six years. He was SS fears
old. a native of Santa Cruz. His home
was at Clipper Gap. where his mother
lives and where his father was killed in
a powder explosion in 1892.
Coroner Curry will hold an inquest
on a day yet to be named. This date
depends upon whether any more of the
bodies is found during a thorough
search that is to be made of the ruins
tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
obiects to Trustee,s Hens.

ALAMEDA, March IA. Harry
Harrison of 2124 Buena Vista avenue
has filed a complaint with the City
Clerk against City Trustee c. j. Ham
mond as the owner of flock of chick
ems, which, Harrison. claims, are al
lowed to run at large and damage his
lawn. Harrison asserts in the COM
plant that if Hammond does not keer
his poultry at home hereafter the law
will be invoked to compel him to dc
so.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
JUDGE SAYS WIFE CANNOT
TESTIFY AGAINST HUSBAND
Mrs. Campbell Barred From Taking
Stand, as Decree of Divorce
Is Not Final.

OAKLAND, March lin the case
of Mrs. Laura Campbell against her
husband, L. D. Campbell, whom she
had arrested for an alleged assault
upon his mother-in-law, Mrs. H. Cut
ter, Police Judge George Samuels de-
cided yesterday that Mrs. Campbell
could not testify against her husband,
owing TO the fact that she had been
granted only an interlocutory decree
of divorce and not a final decree.
Attorney w. H. O'Brien, represent
ing Campbell. raised an objection to
Mrs. Campbell testifying upon the
ground that under the law she was
still married and therefore legally
barred from testifying against her
husband without his consent. The de-
cision of the Judge is in line with the
recent decision Of the Supreme Court.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Progress on Boulevard.

OAKLAND, March 1.-THE Board
of Supervisors to-day approved the re-
port of the viewers appointed to re-
port on the proposed scenic boulevard
to be built along the Contra Costa hills
from Oakland to Haywards. There
were no new protesants and a resolu-
ton was adopted allowing $791 so ex-
ira damages to a few claimants. Con-
tracts will shortly be let for the con-
struction of a part of this road.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Makes Many Pleas.

OAKLAND, March 14.-Attorney
George F. Witter, charged with cruelty
to animals, entered three pleas this
morning before Police Judge Smith,
namely, not guilty. once in Jeopardy
and that he had once been acquitted.
Attorney Witter also demurred to the
complaint. Witter has been arrested
thrse times on the charge and has
twice succeeded in setting aside COM
plants. 1t is alleged that Witter drove
a horse to death.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15

OAKLAND, March A.-Tons upon
tons of nitro -glycerin exploding at the
Giant Powder Works plant at Giant,
Contra Costa County, to-day crushed
out the lives of two men and so badly
wounded another that he had to submit
to the amputation of his left foot. The
dead are Farrer Jackson and John
Pepin, workmen in the separating
house at the plant; the wounded man
is Ben Schartau, foreman of the mix
ing-house. All of the men were trusted
employees and had been in the COM
panys service for years.
In addition to the loss of life and the
wounds the explosion caused great de-
struction of property. This loss of prop
erty is not so much expressed in dollars
and cents as ii is more apparently in
the number of buildings Shattered and
the area affected. The buildings may
not have cost more than $4,000, but this
represents the cost of two buildings,
large amount of glass and other things
Considering the amount of explosive
involved, the damage is not SO great as
it might have been. There have been
explosions of the same amount OF nitro
glvcerin that affected places much
more distant. The damage from the ex-
nlosion at Giant is confined to the pre-
cincts of the town. This is due largely
to the nature of the building in which
the explosion occurred, it being so
firmly built and walled about that the
concussion was kept within bounds.
XuDETCII Is COMPLETE.
The separating house was, of course,
utterly destroyed and the washing
house. hundred yards away,
was teleseoped so that it will
have to be rebuilt entirely. All that
remained on the scene of the separat-
ing-house was a hole in the ground
ten feet deep and seventy feet in diam
eter. few piles and stanchions and
some water All around was devasta-
ton and debris. The eucalyptus trees
near by were stripped of all their
limbs and leaves, the leaves themselves
being split into pieces. There was not
a stick of whole timber about the place
and wherever there was a splinter it
was buried a foot or two in the ground.
The bodies of poor Jackson and
Pepin were nowhere to be found by the
men that searched the ruins afterward.
They had been pulverized, like the in
animate things that once made part of
the separating house. The utmost
that could be discovered of any part of
the mems bodies was a piece Of scalp
not much larger than dollar. This
was identified as a portion of the body
of Jackson by his brother, Arthur
Jackson, who recognized the color of
the hair that still clung to it.
Exactly what caused the explosion
will never be known, as the only men
that could give an explanation bore
the secret with them to death. There
are a number of theories advanced, but
none that seem to fit the case. About
the most plausible is that the acid with
which the men were working caught
fire and got so far beyond their controI
that it went off. The officials at the
plant say, however, that the men were
too inexperienced to let such thing
occur, though they do not advance any
other theory to take the place of this
discarded one.
1t is certain. however, and it was
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Gain Their Liberty.

OAKLAND, March 14.-Mrs. A.
Willard. alias johnson, and MoIlie
Gaunce, Della Wright and Ella Mil
Ter gained their freedom from the
County Jail on a writ of habeas cor
pus on the ground that a Police Judge
of this city has no right to sentence
prisoners to the County Jail. They are
a part of the batch of twenty-four
whose sentences come under the same
ruling. Six are now at liberty.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Claims He was Badly Beaten.

OAKLAND, March 14.-Orlando
Kstto, a foreman al the Judson Iron
Works. claims that Cornelius Leary
and William Reed. former employees,
beat him into insensibility Saturday
night because they thought he had
caused them to be discharged. Reed
and Leary were arrested. Their cases
are before Police Judge Samuels.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Reliance Ladies, Night.

OAKLAND, March 1.-THE MEM
bers of the Reliance Athletic Club
viii entertain their lady friends at the
club gymnasium next Thursday even
ing. March II, with a musical, literary
and athletic programme arranged by
A. E. Magill. who will direct the en-
tertainment.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Vaudeville by Oarsmen.

ALAMEDA. March 14.-Arrange-
ments are being made by the Alameda
Boating Club for its annual vaude-
willie show to be put on at ArmOry
Hall on April %. The committee in
charge Of the affair consists of Albert
Kihm, Judge Fred S. Cone. Frank E.
Browning. Z. 3. Thorning. A. G. Bell
and Fawn Mott
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
WILL ERECT BUSINESS
BLOCK ON BROADWAY
Heirs of Stevens Estate to Build Four
Story Apartment House Near
POStOfIice.

OAKLAND, March IA modern
four-story house is soon to be erected
on Broadway on the lot just south Of
the new postoffice. The new building
will be constructed by the heirs of the
Levi Stevens estate, who are repre-
sented by A. d. Wilson, president of
the Security Bank and Trust Com
pany. The building will be 62x150
feet and will be constructed of brick
and stone. 1t will cost when COM
pleted about 100000.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
Mrs. Abbie w. Tenney Dead.

OAKLAND, March I4.-Mrs. Abbie
w. Tenney, wife of the Rev. w. A.
Tenney, a retired Congregational min
ister, died to-day at her home, 2227
Andover street, at the age of IS years.
The deceased was a native of Maine
and leaves four children. Alfred E.,
Camilla D. and Charles B. Tenney and
Mrs W. A. Day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
lEVVS OF The COUNTY OF ALAMEDA 70
BRANCH OFFICES
OF THE CALL IN
ALAMEDA COUNTY
OAKLAND.

OAKLAND.
Ills Broadway
Telephone Main 1OSS-
BERKELEY.
2f4S Center Street
Telephone North ~.
ALAMEDA
1885 Park Street.
Telephone Eagle 5O2-