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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
FIRST MAYOR
OF THIS CITY
DIES ABROAD

News has been received of the death
in Switzerland of Henry Frederick
Teschemacher, whose name is closely
linked with the early history of San
Francisco. In the old days he held the
office first as president of the Board of
Supervisors, and when the consolida-
tion act went into effect in 1852 was
elected the first Mayor of San Fran
cisco.
Henry f. Teschemacher came to Cal
ifornia on one of his fathers vessels in
July, 1S42, when 20 years of age. He was
naturally enthusiastic and soon forced
his way to the front His abilities were
recognized by all, and after serving
faithfully as president of the Board of
Supervisors he was chosen Mayor in
1862, being known as the war Mayor"
as he held office during the Civil War.
Mr.. Teschemacher was the oldest
member of the Pacific Union. Club and
was a charter member of the old Union
Club. formed in 1856 He was also a
member of Oriental Lodge No. IA F.
and A NJ, and of the California His
torical Society. For many years Mr..
Teschemacher and his wife resided in
Europe. Mrs Teschemacher died in
Switzerland about a year ago. One son,
Hubert. who was with his father at the
time of his death, survives them
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
WARDS PLANS
TO ARCHITECTS
Board of Education Adopts
Report as to Competition
for New School Buildings
ACCEPTS EIGHT DESIGNS
Experts Submit Favorable
Opinions Upon the Draw
ings That We're Selected
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.

1O16 Broadway, Nov. IS.
The Board of Education tonight
made the following awards in the COM
petition of architects on plans for new
school buildings in this city:
Lincoln School. s145.OO0; Sutton &
Weeks, San Francisco
Franklin School, s145.o00; Stone &
Smith, San Francisco.
Prescott School. $145,0 900; Bliss & Fa-
VILE, San Francisco.
New building at Thirty-ninth and
Market streets, $4,000; Soderberg &
Dickey, Oakland.
Grove-street School, $4,000; F. D.
Voorhies, Oakland and San Francisco.
New building at Shattuck avenue
and Sixtieth street, $4,000: Sutton &
Weeks.
Grant School. addition. ss1. 900; Stone
& Smith.
Lafayette School, addition. s3S,OOO; 3.
D. VOORHEES,.
the committee on schoolhouses and
Hathaway and Randolph. The board
In reporting on the awards the COM
mittee made note Of the employment
of H. S. Schwatka as an expert. who
passed favOrablv upon the estimates
and the methods of construction which
We're submitted by the competing arch
itects. There was also a special COM
mittee on sanitation that made criti-
cal examination Of the plans and re-
ported that those chosen were we'll ar
ranged. This committee consisted Of
J. W. McClymonds. Superintendent of
Schools; DR.. Dressler of the University
of California, ]. p. Garlick, principal
of the Lincoln School; ]. F. Chandler,
principal of the Franklin School; I. d.
Martin, principal of the Grant School;
Charles F. Keyes, principal OF the La
fayette School: c. F. Gulick, principal
of the Prescott School: c. E Pugh,
principal Of the Washington School.
and Miss NJ NJ Campbell, principal OF
the Grove-street School
The committee on schOolhOuses and
sites reported thai. the construction is
to be fireproof so far as is possible
within the estimates. In awarding the
plans the board reserved the right to
make minor changes.
The first school erected will be the
new Franklin School in East Oakland.
The structure in use is a makeshift, re-
built from a partly burned building.
The board viii call for bids as soon
as legal requirements can be met 1t
is hoped that the new buildings will
all be completed within two years.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
OAKLAND NEWS.

LOSES JOB THEN KILLS HIMSELF.-W
A. Shera committed suicide last night by taxi
ing carbolic acid at his home, 1913 Buchanan
street. Dependency occasioned by the loss of
his job street conductor was the cause
of the act.
HAS SON ARRESTED.-Eugene Bennett
was arrested last night on a warrant sworn
10 by his mother on September charging him
with vagrancy. His sister had been trailing
him and when she found him last night she
notified a policeman.
EXAMINING BOARD APPOINTED-The
Civil Service Commission met last night and
named c. B. Rode, Senator Frank Markey and
w j. Tobin as examining board for the ap-
pointment of police patrol wagon and ambu-
lance drivers. Forty places are to be filled.
MOHAWK CLUBS NEW OFFICERS.
media Nov. 2S.-Officers have been chosen by
the Mohawk Athletic Club as follows: Presi-
dent. c. Leslie Killam; vice president Edward
Heritage; secretary. Edward Giles; treasurer,
Adolph Lemke; sergeant at arms. Adolph Rea.
WHIST BENEFIT FOR oRPHANs.-Ala
media. Nov. 2S.-Rebekah Lodge No 107 Of this
city has planned a whist tournament to be
held in the City Hall on the night of December
10. Fifty prizes will be awarded The pro-
ceeds will be donated to the Orphans Home
at Giroy, which is conducted by the Odd Eel
lows
MARRIAGE ADMINISTRATIONS. Nov. IS.
The following marriage licenses were issued
by the County Clerk to-day: John Lawton, %
and Laura E. Carl, 10. both Of Oakland VIII
liam Haanstra, %. Oakland, and Augusta Elc-
halz, 20. Piedmont; Louis G. Ross. 25. San Fran
cisco. and Anita z. Schneider "a Napa; Man.
uel Ferreira 23 West Berkeley and Mar
guerite Enos, 90. San Leandro
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
EXCITEMENT PROVES FATAL.
Aged Princeton Professor Dies After
Witnessing Football Game.

PRINCETON, n. j., Nov. 28.-Rev.
DR.. William Paxton of Princeton Uni
versity and Seminary died at his home
to-day after a two weeks illness. DIR.
Paxton was in his eighty-first year and
his death was the result of paralytic
stroke caused by Overexcitement.
With his family he attended the Yale
Princeton football game on November
II and manifested great interest in
the contest, but was taken sick soon
after his return home. He gradually
improved until Friday and hopes for
his recovery were expressed. but a re-
lapse weakened him and resulted in
his death to-day.
DR.. Paxton was the oldest living
trustee of Princeton. Until 1896 he
was professor of ecclesiastical, homi-
letical and pastoral theology at Prince
ton Seminary and also was president
of the faculty of that institution when
he resigned. He was moderator of the
Presbyterian General Assembly at
Madison, Wis, in 1850 and had since
been prominent in affairs OF his
church.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
PRESSMEN GREET THEIR
INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
Oakland Gas Workers to Give Their
First Annual Ball on
December l.

OAKLAND, Nov. 2S.-Martin P.
Higgins. president of the International
Pressmen's Union, addressed the MEM
bers of the local union at a high
jinks" held Saturday night at Gier's
Hall. The international president was
welcomed by President Louis Schuler
Of the local organization. At the close
of the speaking refreshments were
served. The jinks was in charge of
H. U. Brany. secretary of the local
union; Charles Knist, Louis Schuler,
Theodore Zingle and David Wiley.
The members of the Oakland Gas
Workers Union will give their first
annual ball on Wednesday evening,
December I. Elaborate preparations
are being made for the affair and a
large attendance is expected. The
ball will be in charge of the following
committees:
Committee Of arrangements-John Forrest
(chairman), NJ. n. Hennings, j. McNel j.
McCrudden. Walter Biakely. George Webster
and Harry 0. Merlthew.
Reception committee. Forrest. Daniel p
Mccarthy John Kearney, William Britton,
Thomas lie Fort, Louis Hoffman Jr. and H.
O.. Merithew.
Floor manager-John McCrudden.
Assistant floor manager. Mcneil.
Floor commttee-M, y. Hennings w
Bakely. George Webster, Matthew McKeirnan
and John O'Byrne.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
MOFFITT'S WILL
IS MADE KNOWN
Leaves His Widow $4,000
and His Four Sisters
the Interest ON $4,000
son GETS LARGE SHARE
Receives Remainder of the
Estate, Which 1t Is Be-
lieved Runs to $250,0OO
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.


101e Broadway. Nov. %.
Special letters of administration were
granted to Mrs. Augusta L. Mofitt
upon the estate of the late Frank ].
Moffitt, her husband, to-day. and the
will was made known. Two years
ago, when the will was made,
the property was valued at $170,000. but
since then it has been increased until
it is believed to be worth nearly $3.50
o00 In asking for the special letters
Mrs. Mofitt stated TO Judge Hall this
morning that the taxes on the prop
erty had not been paid, and that as
this was the last day she did not wish
them tC go delinquent. Other matters
concerning the estate also made it ad-
visable that some one with power to
act take the management of it.
The will was made on July II, 1902,
in which the following bequests were
made: To his sisters, Mary, Maggie,
Emma and Nellie, he leaves the inter
est on $40, 600, 10 be so invested that
they will get the income monthly; to
his son, Jefferson G. Moffitt. a lad II
years of age, he leaves 1000, he TO
get the interest when he is % and the
principal when he is 80; to his widow,
he leaves $40, 900 as she may select from
his estate.
He SAYS that at that time his estate
was worth $4,000 and he leaves the
residue to his wife in trust for their
son, and the hoy is also to get the prin-
cipal of the $4,000 at the death of his
aunts.
Attorneys Allen and Walsh are
handling the estate. and a request in
the will directs Mrs. Mofitt to consult
with William J Dingee, Charles d.
Pierce and Thomas II. Williams for
advice. as they were personal friends
of deceased.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
PLAN OAKLAND
WATER SUPPLY
Two Engineers Appointed
and Another to Be Named
to Investigate Properties
REPORT WILL NOT BIND
City VIII Not Be Forced to
Submit Bond Scheme Even
if Committee Approves
Oakland Office San Francisco Call

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1915 Broadway, Nov. %.
The Bay Cities Water Company an
nounced tonight to the City Council
that 1t had chosen A. NJ. Hunt, a civil
engineer of San Francisco, to repre-
sent the company on the board of en-
gineers that will examine the prop
critics of the corporation with rela-
ton to its proposal to install a munich
pal water supply for Oakland. City
Engineer F. c. Turner has been named
for the city. These engineers will con-
Ter at once to name a third member
of the board and it is expected the trio
Will begin its Investigations very
soon. Attorney r. NJ. Fitzgerald, rep
resenting the Bay Cities Water Com
pany, submitted to the Council an
amendment to the original PROPOSE
tion, which. he explained, succinctly
covers the matter of the engineers re-
port
The revised tender, a communica-
ton signed by c. n. Beal, the COM
pany's general manager, provides that
favorable report by the engineers
does not necessarily bind the city to
submit a bonding scheme to the voters.
But If the report shall be favorable
and the city does not call a bond cleo
ton the city must pay all of the ex-
penses of the commission. If the report
be unfavorable the Bay Cities Company
shall pay the expenses. If the report
be favorable and an election shall be
called the expenses shall be divided
equally between the city and the COM
pany.
On motion of Councilman John L.
Howard this amendment was unani-
mously accepted by the Council.
Engineer Hunt, the cOmpany's rep
resentative, was graduated in 1879
from the United States Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis. After service in
the navy he came to San Francisco
twelve years ago. He laid out the
Midwinter Fair grounds, reconstructed
the Los Angeles street railway sys-
tenn, was constructing engineer of the
Independent Electric Light Company's
plant in San Francisco and has had
charge of the construction of a num-
Der of power plants in the Sierra Ne
vada Mountains. General Manager
Beal informed the Council that Engi-
neer Hunt is not and never has been
in the employ of the Bay Cities Com
pany.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
CHARGES MERCHANT WITH
CONDUCTING A FENCE
Whom He Sold Plunder With
knowledge of Thefts.

OAKLAND, Nov. 2S.-Henry Spar
Der, a hardware dealer at SAT Broad
way, was arrested to-day on a4charge
OF receiving stolen goods. Z. D.
Schumacher, residing at 66 Elgin
Park, San Francisco. accuses Sparber.
Schumacher was arrested for steal
ing hardware from the Dunham- Car
Hayden Company, by whom he
had been employed. To the police the
young man said he had been induced
to become a thief by Sparber's offer
To take all the plumber brought to him.
Sparbers place was searched and a
quantity of goods claimed by the com
pany was found by the police. Spar
Der was released on $4,000 bonds.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
SEEKS To ANNUL OIL
OOMPANY'S MORTGAGE
StOcl1hOlder says Land Was Given as
Security for Heavy Notes With
out Authority.


A suit 10 set aside a mortgage on
twenty acres OF land in Kern County
belonging to the Mercedes Oil and De-
velopment Company, was begun in the
Superior Court yesterday by A. r.
Tsrwster, one Of the oil company's
stockholders. He represents that the
property is worth about S1O0.OOO and
that the notes secured by il amount
10 $4,000. but he questions the au-
thority of those who gave the mort
gage. The action is directed against
the oil company, the Continental In
vestment Company. TO which the
mortgage was assigned, E. L. Wemple,
7. eP. SDiers, Matthew Arnold and
Homer Wilson.
In 1901 the company gave Wemple
a note for sS6.67s, with the land as
security for that and other advances
not 10 exceed s35. 900. Six notes cover
in the latter sum were given between
September, 1901, and March, 1902
The plaintiff alleges that three of the
directors in the oil company were in
terested in the notes and that their ac-
tions were without authority. He also
contends that the directors cannot be
induced TO bring a suit TO stop the
foreclosure because they are under the
control of Wemple.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
School Teacher Wins.

few minutes before the attempt
upon his life yesterday morning Judge
Hebbard decided the case Of Ada Mar
tin against the Board of Education.
ordering writ of mandate granted as
prayed. Miss Martin was principal of
the Noe Valley Primary School at a
salary of $50 a month. In October.
1897, the board removed her to the
post Of assistant at the Hearst Gram
mar School at a salary of $50, which
was later reduced to SIS. In Novem-
Der. 1899, the board resolved that Miss
Martin had been unjustly removed.
but that she was not entitled to back
salary. Thereupon she sued for 1854
and judgment in her favor is given for
that amount.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
In letter to his wife he says:
Sues Daughter for support.

a mother, 10 years old, seriously ill
and dependent upon the charity of
friends for subsistence, complains in
the courts that she has appealed in
vain to her daughter for comfort and
support. The suit was filed yesterday
by Lavinia Bruning against Dora Brun-
ing Bohlken. The plaintiff says that she
is about to become a public charge
while her daughter has a station in
life and property in her own name
sufficient TO warrant her in keeping
her old mother from want. She asks
the court to compel Mrs. Bohlken to
pay her So week. Walter c. Stew
ems and Alexander & Church are her
attorneys.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
TWO NEW SUITS AGAINST
GET-RIC--QUICK CONCERNS
Contract Holders Go to Superior Court
in Effort to Get Their Money
RapE

Two more get-rich-quick concerns
Were yesterday made the objects of
attack by H. f. Hobson, who has
heretofore hailed a number of others
into the Superior Court. Representing
twenty-one contract holders, he sues
for the recovery of $4,000, collected
on about 1900 contracts by the Bene-
fetal Bond and Security Company. He
also asks for the appointment of a
receiver for the company's assets,
books and records. He alleges that
the business is illegal and fraudulent
and that a large amount of the funds
collected has been misappropriated
by the officers of the concern for their
personal use.
Similar allegations are made against
]. E. Field and NJ. w. Zuckerman. do
ing business as the Franco-American
Mercantile Company, and against the
Peerless Industrial Company of Wash
ington, d. c., which has been acting
as treasurer for the mercantile"
company. In this case Hobson rep
resents seven contract holders and it
is alleged that there are more than
1000 contracts outstanding. upon
which the company has received more
than 100000. 1t is charged that about
$4,000 of the sum has been wrongful
ly converted by the officers of the
company
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOT FOR BEST FARM
In the state.

Il saw so much in the papers about
the wonderful cures effected by Pyra-
mid Pile Cure 1 determined to give il
a trial I bought from my druggist one
50-cent box and used it as directed, and
by the time / had used the last 'pyra-
mid vas entirely cured; in four days
after ] began 10 use the pyramids all
Inflammation was gone. was perfect
ly easy sll the time, the excessive dis
charge stopped at once and stools be-
came easy and gentle.
i was unable to get my own firewood
for four months, and half the time
when / could walk at all had to walk
half-bent. I used many pile remedies.
ealves and ointments. all to no effect
until used one 50-cent box of Pyramid
Pile Cure and was cured.
Il would not be afflicted as was four
months ago for the best farm in the
State Of Arkansas. ] can give proof
and reference OF the wonderful cure to
all who are afflicted as / was. Please
publish my letter that ] may advise the
afflicted" w. z. Wallis, Piggot, Ark,
box 26.
The experience Of Mr.. Wallis is that
Of thousands OF others who suffer for
years with the most painful forms OF
hemorrhOids or piles, and after trying
everything they hear Of give up all hope
Of cure and look for temporary relief
only. To all such little book published
by Pyramid Drug Co. Marshall Mich.
brings glad tidings, as il tells all about
the cause and cure Of piles and is sent
free for the asking.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
WIFE IS WEARY
OF LIFE ALONE
Spouse of L. R. McKillican,
Prison Guard, Asks Di-
vorce, Charging Desertion
HE is AT san QUENTIN
Woman Freed From Man
Who Sprayed Her With
WhitewaSh and Spent Cash
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
10fc


1016 Broadway, Nov IS.
Suit for divorce was begun to-day by
Mabel j. McKillican, wife osLeslie R.
McKillican, former deputy County
Clerk and more recently a guard at San
Quentin prison. on the ground of de-
sertion. She was formerly Mabel J.
Shoe, and her father is reputed to be
wealthy
The pair were supposed to be living
happily together but since McKillican
has been absent at San Quentin the
statutory period of year has elapsed
and has given the wife her grounds for
complaint. The papers were filed by
Attorney Hart H. North at l o'clock,
and at 2 o'clock the hearing was taken
up by Judge Ellsworth, but was aft
erward continued until Wednesday.
Suit for divorce was begun to-day by
George NJ. Woodside against Nellie L.
Woodside on the ground of desertion.
They We're married in Phoenix, Ariz.,
in 1895.
A final decree of divorce was granted
Minnie E. Ecker to-day from George L.
Ecker, drummer, on the ground Of
cruelty. She alleges he sprayed her
with whitewash She also saws he
squandered S26, 900 of her money.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
Gives Woman Freedom.

OAKLAND, Nov. 2S.-Police Judge
Mortimer Smith to-day suspended
judgment in the case of Mrs. K ia
cobson, who was arrested on COM
plant of Mrs. B. Ampeard on charge
of disturbing the peace. The women
laid claim TO the same man as hus-
band. His Honor intimated that Mrs.
Jacobson's conduct had indicated that
she was bit irrational and that no
good purpose could be served by send
ing her TO Jail. Mrs. Jacobson had de-
clared she was the contract wife of
Ampeard, who is an engineer. The
other woman stoutly defends her title
to lawful wedlock with the man in
question.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
say They Were swindJed.

H. E. Whitehouse and E. S. Stras-
burg, conducting business as the Gold
en- Gate Realty Company at 5 Fourth
street, were arrested by Detectives
Whitaker and Bell yesterday and
booked at the City Prison on two
charges OF grand larceny. The COM
planning witnesses are Daniel Mack of
Jackson, Amador County, and Her
man Spilner of San Jose. Each was
looking for an investment and called
at the realty company's Office. where
he was induced to pay $500 for half
interest in a stereopticon business at
722 Market street. 1t is alleged that
the representations made were false.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call,
2lzS Center Street, Nov. %

Pas Center Street, Nov. o.
Captain9J. =. Nance to-day fled
his report with President Wheeler on
the cases Of thirteen seniors who are
alleged to have taken part in the riot
on the campus a few weeks ago. These
thirteen men are supposed TO have fail
ed 70 give Nance satisfactory expIana-
tion Of their actions during the riot, as
their names were kept by Nance for
further investigation after he had re-
ported in the cases Of forty-eight SEN
iOrs recommending that the forty
eight be placed on probation.
No Information was vOuchsafed by
Captain Nance to-day in answer to
queries from the anxious men whose
fate hangs in the balance. Many of
the men fear that Editor Hale's sus-
pension for q year is likely TO be dupli-
Gated in their own cases. Captain
Nance refuses 70 calm their fears. He
has passed the matter up TO President
Wheeler. who received the report this
morning.
President Wheeler declines 10 be in
terviewed He took the same action
when the report regarding the forty
eight seniors was sent TO him by
Nance. In that case the president i'm
mediately sent out notices to the men
informing them Of their fate. II is
supposed that be viii take similar &C
tion now, 50 the thirteen men are look
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29

peared from Berkeley, and his wife was
not expected to live, according TO re-
ports he received from home. The con-
science stricken embezzler, who had
been spending the funds he took from
the postoffice for hotel bills, bought a
ticket TO Berkeley and gave his atten-
tion to the sick wife he had deserted.
She hovered between life and death for
a month. and Kellogg nursed her him
self. None knew that he had returned
until to-day, when Kellogg came out
into the light and showed himself.
Kellogg says he will continue to live
in Berkeley. try to meet all his obliga-
tions and convince people that in TAX
ing the postoffice money he was merely
rash, and not criminally inclined
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-29
SENIORS EXPECT TO HEAR THAT
MORE ARE SUSPENDED.
Captain Nance Submits Second Report
Regarding Students Riot on Campus.

ing for envelopes from the university
recorders Office.
The cccident Magazine, a conserva-
tive weekly publication edited by SEN
iors, prints to-day a leading editorial
advocating the placing Of students on
the faculty students affairs committee,
so that the present strained rela-
uions" which. the magazine SAYS. exist
between the student body and the fac
ulty may be changed for more cordial
feelings. 1t was the students affairs
committee that recommended the dis
missal from college Of Editor Hale. The
Occident intimates that the commit
tees action is resented by the students
and has caused strained relations. q"
The editorial in question is, in part, as
follows:
II we had a committee chosen from the stu
dent body 10 represent ii, working in coop
Grafton with the students affairs committee.
there could never be any danger that the lat
ter would act without a full understanding
and sympathy for undergraduate ideas and
Ideals We do not say that this committee has
ever acted n such way. but it cannot be
denied that the student body has frequently
expressed antagonism toward those judging II.
This antagOnism is unfortunate, for, as was
said in our first issue this term, II ''weakens
the university Everything should be done
70 kill it. That would strengthen the univer-
sity.
We are convinced that If the undergrad
uates felt that they had share in Judging
their acts that the judges We're subject
10 their own judgment. then such antagonism
would be stamped out and the present strained
relations succeeded by the bond Of amity that
can come only through cooperation. There
fore this proposal 10 have A unity between fac
ulty and students should be considered. It is
part ana parcel Of senior control. We believe
that the one will make the other effective and
both will obtain beneficial results which neither
could of1er alone.