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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

ing a hotel a few days ago, tired and
dusty after long railway journey, Tim
overheard the clerk remark in an aside
to three men longing over the count
er: Here comes Tim Murphy, watch
his signature. and the polite clerk
blandly showed the register along to
Tim and handed him a new pen. then
stood with arms akimbo exposing to
view a large expanse of Immediately
clean shirt front in the center of which
nestled large yellow diamond. Tim
leaned far ever the counter and plac.
ed upon the register the usual "im
Murphy" and then moved his pen
back to the head of the line. AS he
did so the curious four drew near,
and then something happened-there
was a crash as the pen flew into frag-
ments which alighted in the faces OF
the onlockers while the usual river OF
ink landed fair and square upon the
yellow diamond and formed diyertlng
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

York. Miss LGrd has been so busy in
her special act of being q mascot for
her managers that she has never had
time to own a lucky charm of any
description herself. While Miss Rus
sell has had her diamond brooches,
and Mrs Garter her four-leafed clover
amulets; while Annie Russell has had
her wonderfully ta,lismanIc rabbits
foot, and Ethel Barrymore has cherish
ed her famous blueleyed mud turtle,
as guerdGn of good luck, Miss Lord
has had to scramble along as best
she could, until the son IF the morn
ing and brother of seven stars took
pity on her sad and neglected condi-
ton and sent her jade amulet that is
sure TO bring confusion on all her
rivals and assure the Shubert brsth-
era the whcreWilhal to- fringe both
e1&es of Broadway with new theaters
next year, if they cicose.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

black threads across the skirt front,
representing the latest and greatest
railroad merger The smiling clerk
never turned a hair but beamed be-
nignly upon Tim, and remarked: my,
but you are cutting dash this morn
ing, Mr.. murphy" Tim, however, as
he settled his bill the next day, dis
covered that the rate at clat hotel had
advanced two dollars per day since his
last visit. At the Elks' theater Feb
ruary 25.
The Shah cf Persia has sent Helen
Lord who appears here March 3 in
The Runaways" maycot, and if
there is any ether prima donna in the
dramatic armament who can boast OF
a similar mark of favor on the part
of Oriental royalty, Miss Lord would
like to know. During the whole cf
her professional career, which began
when she sung in "The Belle of New
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

II is good for the Old to be now and
then reminded eli the days of their
EGuth when the plain facts Of life took
shape in their young imagination as
erotesque and Wonderful mysteries
An opportunity t. reVel once more in
the bright past will be given the peO-
pie Of Pine Bluff when "Alice in Won
derland," the Juvenile operetta will be
presented at the Elks' theater Febrll
ary 20. This musical abaption of
Lewis Carroll's great child story is
the work of Miss Hope Leonard OF
New York City, who will have charge
of the production. The brightest girls
and boys are now being drilled for
these performances and have already
reached the stage Of great proficiency.
The costumes, properties etc, especi
ally prepared for these productions are
now on the way and with them comes
Col. F. Bragg, the most successful
manager Of juvenile performances who
ever essayed the work. Songs, dances,
marches, specialties and splendid stage
and calcium effects will be few Of
the charming features of this really
remarkable production, and two and
one-half hours of unalloyed delight can
be promised with certainty to the old
as we'll as the young who attend this
singularly picturesque and beautiful en-
tertainment
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

The Greatest Thing in the World,
is love- any schoolgirl can tell you
that. and when the writer's of Rose
Coghlan's play were hesitating about
a title they decided to call it THE
Greatest Thing in the World. They
might have called it by any other name
such as The Wo@ing OF the Widow, >
for instance or why BOYS go Wrong,
nut after all they did the best thing
they could for it. There IS plenty ui
love in The Greatest Thing in the
World" Everybody is in love with
somebody else. The ce@rse of true
love DIES not. in all cases, run smooth
Some almost tragical. The love OF
some members of the party is return
ed With the others it gees begging
and one is amazed, indignant, sympa-
thetic and a half dozen other things
at the same time. Apart from the
love theme the problem of heredity
IS introduced in the old formula that
the sins of the father shall be visit
ed upon the children" but the play
does not leave its auditors with feel
ing of depression CIR send them home
an easy prey to nightmare. Rose
Coghlans performance cf tue part
of Virginia Bryant, a fashionable so.
ciety woman, who is dominated by
material love and struggles increasingly
to lead her son from the paths of dissi.
paticn, is one which enables Miss
Coghlan to display wide range OF
emotions, indeed her struggles are cal
culated to make her auditors feel ac-
tual sorrow, sometimes even impels
then to turn away their eyes from the
spectacle of a mother suffering over
the fall from grace of her eldest son.
Perhaps nothing Miss Coghlan has
done in the years that are past ex-
cept Peg Woffngton, is finer than her
performance of Virginia Bryant. She
touches the heights and depths of a
mothers sufferings, her stage pres
ence is magnificent. her acting and
Aocution such as few women on the
stage today can display. One of the
finest handled scenes is that towards
the close of the play in which Miss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

Rev. ]. M. Hawley has been quite
busy mailing out this week the min
utes of Little Rock Methodist con-
ference 1t contains mu1h valuable in
formation for MethodiN It's, especially
those within the Littl Rock confer.
ence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-21

Coghlan, supposed to be the mGther of
grown up sons. who are INDUCING in
love making themselves, declares her
own love for the man who has loved
her for tWenty-fe years, 1t is the
acme of delicate, dramatic art. The
sweet. self-sac crificing American moth
Ell who is the glory of the home and
always the best girl to her boys is
beautifully depicted by Miss Coghlan.
To be seen at the Elks' theater Febru-
airy 23
The Head walters" which comes to
tae Elks' theater on Wednesday, Feb
ruary q. is the one musical comedy or
ganization which grows stronger with
the theater going public each season.
In the FIST part of the play a fash
ionahle summer hotel is presented at
which Percy and Harold arrive loaded
down with money. Their ideas of So
cial enjoyment are lurid, and their
money IS scattered right and left.
The second part is the Shamrock Rath-
skellar in New York. owned by Issy
Jarks. a Hebrew, WIZ has an eye to
business, as may be imagined from
the fact that he gave an Irish name to
:. German Rathskellar Percy and
Harold arrive full of enthusiasm from
their summer trip. and, having more
none ythan they knew what t. do with
decide to buy the Rathskellar and run
it themselves to show how place of
that kind should be run for the cOnven-
ience and comfort of its patrons. They
have some little inconvenience there
themselves, and this is the way they
get even with Issy Marks: When they
do get possession of the place they
proceed to make things lively. The
music is all new and will include
those popular hits ''It was the Dutch
"On the Way to Carlo Town. and
There Are Lot of Things You New.
er Learn at School,"
Tim Murphy is quite an adept with
the dencil, and were he nct great
comedian the chances are he would be
great cartoonist. Not only is he
clever with the pencil but also an ex-
pert at pen and ink work. His sigma
ture on a hotel register is a wonder,
not particularly on account CT any ar
tistic merit, but owing to the guam
tity of ink he manages to eXude from
the pen-neat and precise, he writes
lin Murphy and then with a
| flourish moves back with the pen and
dashes off T that can only be liken-
ed to a river of ink and generally
causes more or less CONSERVATION to
| the usually urbane hotel clerk. Enter
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Attractions at the Elks tkeatcT this
week are as follows:
February 23-Rose Coghlan.
February 24-" -"Headwaiters.'
February 2o-Tim Murphy.
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The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
Judge Morrow Returns

United States Circuit Judge W. w.
Morrow and Mrs. Morrow returned
yesterday morning from a seven
weeks trip through the East and Can
ada. With the party were Arthur
w. Foster. president of the California
Northwestern Railway, and his wife
and four children. Jesse w. Lilienthai
and wife constituted the third family.
Judge and Mrs. Morrow remained ten
days at the st. Louis Exposition. Then
they visited Washington. where they
were entertained by President Roose-
Welt and wife and Admiral Dewey and
wife. Baltimore, the battlefield of
Gettysburg, the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. West Point and New York
were next visited. The return was
made over the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way. with stops at Montreal and other
places.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
Sues Gas Company.

Thomas E. Curran of 1926 Twenty
fifth street brought suit yesterday in
the Justices Court for $299 80 dam
ages against the San Francisco Gas
and Electric Company. Curran al
leges that he has paid all his bills and
owes the company nothing. He says
that on July 13 an agent of the COM
pany came to his house and demand
ed payment of several gas bills, and
upon his refusal the agent demanded
immediate payment in lloyd tones and
in the hearing of neighbors and then
had the gas meter removed. Curran
demands the damages to soothe his
ruff1ed feelings.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
BURIAL OF ALEXANDER
YOELL AT SANTA CLARA
Deceased Left a List of Names of Per-
sons Whom He Wanted for
Pail Bearers.

J. Alexander Yoell, who died at
Highland Springs July 10, was buried
yesterday. Services were held at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Charles S. Levy, 2517 Octavia street.
and also at st. Ignatius Church, where
a requiem mass was celebrated. The
interment took place at Santa Clara.
Mr.. Yoell was native of Ports
mouth. England, and was rs years of
age. He was the father of Mrs. c. S.
Levy, Mrs. George Theobald, Alice,
John H., Gertrude E., Herbert A.
William A. and Beatrice E. Yoell,
Mrs. Emily F. Dunn and Mrs. Milus
Parkhurst.
Before his death he requested that
the following persons act as pail bear
ers at his funeral: Edward McLaugh-
lin and A. i. Rhodes of San Jose, S.
w. Holiday, w. W. Montague and d.
NJ. Delmas of San Francisco; also J.
La Violette of the sodality of st. Ig-
natius in this city.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
STATE SUING
WEEtS-FARCO
Corporations Unpaid Taxes
on Franchise and Realty
Form Basis of Action
is INDORSED
President of Company Makes
Statement Not Including
Value of All Property

The State of California has decided
oc not the Tax Collector of the city
and county of San Francisco has the
right to sell at delinquent tax sale the
real property of corporations holding
franchises beyond the city. Within
the last few months the Tax Collector
of this county advertised for sale the
realty of several Notwithstanding
corporations, including Wells. Fargo
& Co. and the Central and Southern
Pacific companies. All of the corpo-
cured injunctions from the Superior
Court preventing the advertised sale.
There was no provision in the law for
setting the sale for a further date and
it was supposed that the incident
would close for this year.
Yesterday. however, Attorney Gen
eral U. S. Webb, on behalf of the peo-
pie of the State of California, filed an
action in the Superior Court against
Wells, Fargo & Co. for the collection
of $3O.600 SO due for unpaid taxes,
penalties and costs of litigation.
The complaint is a model one in it's
recitation of the causes leading up to
the necessity of litigation and in set
ting forth, in detail, every official ac-
ton of the city and county and State
officers since the issue was first raised.
The complaint alleges. in the first
place, that the defendant corporation
was engaged in the banking and ex-
press business and was the owner of
real estate and franchises on the first
Monday in March, 1903, when the as
sessment was levied. A demand was
made upon the corporation for a writ
ten statement of its property by the
city and county Assessor. In response
to the demand Dudley Evans, presi-
dent of the company, made the fol-
lowing return: Money, s55O.169; SOL
vent credits, S4.45O,772; solvent debts.
S4,47O,020; S5 harnesses and saddles.
$1190; 128 horses, S6400: trucks,
5000; 20 wagons. $5720; 20 pairs
scales, $500; Is safes. $40; office fix
lures, 15,OS1: two typewriters, $50.
To the above list was attached the af-
fidavit of Mr.. Evans that it was true
and correct list"
1t was set forth In the complaint
that Mr.. Evans did not value the real
property or the companys franchise.
When the Assessor got around to it
he decided that the real estate was
worth $S1,50O and the Improvements
thereupon s2S0,6OO. and he also as
sessed the company's franchise at
$45O,000.
The complaint of the Attorney Gen
eral recites every detail of the action
of the Assessor and the State Board of
Equalization, which boosted property
values 80 per cent and fixed the State
assessment at $O.561, making. when
the city and county tax was tackled on
total rate of s1.O76 on the hundred
dollars. The whole story of the as
sessment is told up to the point of at
tempting to sell the Wells-Fargo real
estate. When the injunction was OBJ
tanned by the banking and express
company the real estate was saved
and the taxes against the company fo-
its franchises were still in the air.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
Known Merchant
Passes Quietly
to Rest.

Henry S. Crocker, a pioneer of Cali
fornia, who, for nearly half a century,
was prominently identified with the
stationery business in this city and
Sacramento, died yesterday in his
apartments at the st. Francis Hotel.
He had been i'll for number of years
with organic troubles, and during the
last few weeks he had been at deaths
door several times. Deceased was
native of Troy n. Y, 70 years of age,
and is survived by a widow and a son,
Charles H. Crocker, who has been as
sociated with his father in the man
agement of the firm of the H. S.
Crocker Company for more than ten
years.
In the early days of California Henry
S. Crocker went to Sacramento, where
he founded what later developed into
the largest stationery concern in this
State. Through the influence of his
brother, Charles Crocker, one of the
trio of millionaires who built the Gen.
trail Pacific Railroad, the printing firm
in Sacramento obtained contract for
the stationery and printing supplies for
the great transportation corporation
and enjoyed the latter's patronage un-
til late in the sos, when the railroad
company concluded to do It's own work.
By that time the stationery firm had
practically gained a monopoly of the
printing business on the coast and con-
tinued to maintain it's lead for many
years until Eastern competitors en-
tered the field.
Meanwhile H. S. Crocker had ac-
cumulated immense wealth and it is
supposed that he leaves several mil
lions. He was the last of four broth
ers, the other members of the original
Crocker family being Charles, E. b.
and Clark Crocker, all of whom were
connected with railroad projects in
California. For nearly ten years H.
S. Crocker had not been in good
health and this fact resulted in his
son taking his fathers place at the
head of the firm as its active man
ager. The Crocker family was among
the first to move into the new st.
Francis Hotel and during the resi-
dence of its members there H. S.
Crocker had been confined almost
continuously to his rooms. In his last
hours he was attended by his devoted
wife and his son, who had been pre-
pared for the end for week. The
funeral will take place tomorrow at
2 p. m. from Masonic Temple under
the auspices of Golden Gate Com
mandery, knights Templar, of which
Mr.. Crocker had been a member for
years. Interment will be private.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
GETTING READY
FOR ELECTION
Judge Dooling of Hollister
Will Eulogize Sage of
Esopus at Ratification
TRIP OF UNION LEAGUE
Gossip Touching Republican
Nominees in the Several
Congressional Districts

A Parker and Davis ratification
meeting will be held in the Alhambra
Theater on the evening of Thursday,
July %. Judge Dooling of Hollister is
slated to pronounce the eulogy on
Judge Parker of Esopus. There will be
other orators, but Dooling is to be the
star speaker. Tim Spellacy,> chairman
of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, will occupy a conspicuous place
on the platform and shed the light Of
his angelic countenance on the audi
ence. 1t is said to be a sure go that
Thomas ]. Geary of the Jeffersonian
Democracy will address the meeting
and perhaps j. V. Coleman, who has
rendered the party illustrious service as
an orator and angel, will consent to
speak. The silvery voice of Franklin
K. Lane will not enrapture the local
war horses of the party on that occa-
sion, as he is listed to speak to the
Oregonians at Parker and Davis
gathering in Portland.
The special Pullman train chartered
by the Union League Club of San
Francisco for an excursion to Los An
geles, will leave the Third and Town
send streets depot of the Southern Pa
cifc next Thursday at 7:30 D. m. The
members of the Union League of the
southern city will dedicate their new
home by round of festivities begin
ming next Friday evening and termi-
mating on Saturday night.
1t seems to be definitely settled that
the Republicans will renominate J. n.
Gillette for Congress in the First Dis
trict. J. c. Needham in the Sixth and
James A. McLachlan in the Seventh.
1t is also clearly foreshadowed that
Joseph r. Knowland will be nominated
in the Third and Duncan z. McKinlay
in the Second District. In the Eighth
there is a sharp contest in the Repub-
lican camp between NJ. L. Ward of San
Diego and S. c. Smith of Kern.
The political atmosphere in the
Fourth and Fifth districts is hazy.
There is a rumor in political circles
that the Republican nomination in the
Fourth District has been promised by
somebody or by some so-called organ
ization" to G. B. Benham. Reference to
the State blue book shows that Ben
ham ran for Congress in this district in
1900 as the nominee of the Social Dem
ocrats and received 969 votes, against
II, III for julius Kahn, II, 742 for r. Por-
ter Ashe and 1116 for DR.. c. c. O'Don-
nell
The report goes that r. H. Country
man of San Francisco has a good
chance of winning the favor of the Re
publican convention of the Fifth, but
party sentiment seems to favor the Sc
lection of a candidate from the Repub-
lican hosts of Santa Clara County.
There are many indications that the
Congressional and Senatorial district
conventions will not take orders from
small bosses who have elected to speak
of themselves as the Organization"
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
Death of a Noted Astronomer.

LONDON, July 1s.-Professor Isaac
Roberts, the distinguished astronomer,
died to-day at the Beacon Observatory,
Crowborough, Sussex County.
His original investigations in the do
main of astronomy have added largely
to the worlds knowledge of the stars,
clusters, nebulae and the structure of
the universe. He also made study of
geology and up to 1880 pursued his sci
entific Investigations at Liverpool
On leaving that city he was present.
ed with an illuminated address signed
by the Mayor and leading citizens of
Liverpool. The honorary degree of doc
tor of science was conferred upon him
by the University of Dublin in 1892.
In 1895 he was awarded the gold
medal of the Royal Astronomical Soci-
ETY., on the council of which he served
for several years. Since 1890 he has
been conducting his studies at Star
field, Crowborough.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
MRS. VANDERBILT SELLS
VALUABLE PROPERTY
Her Agents Close Deal Affecting
Realty in Commission Section
for $4,000

The first sale of Mrs. Vanderbilt's
real estate in this city under the au-
thorization given to Thomas Magee &s
Sons to sell all her properties in sub
divisions has just been made for $751;
600. The property sold is on the
southeast corner of Davis and Wash
ington streets, fronting 81 feet s
inches on Davis street by 1877 feet s
inches on Washington. The improve
ments on this property consist of one
story frame buildings, which have
been renting for long time past to
five tenants for $470 a month. 1t is
the intention of the purchaser soon
to erect a new building on this proper
ty, as there are now no leases on it.
The purchaser is one of the shrewdest
capitalists, whose name is withheld
for the present.
This property is in the produce and
commission section, where Senator
Fair bought so heavily years ago
Many of the Oelrichs properties
bought by the Spreckels-Phelan syn
dicate in this part of town, it is said,
will be improved and 1t is confidently
believed that the oft repeated and
long looked for movement in the sec
ton north of California and east of
Montgomery is about to take place
Modern buildings, and these alone, are
needed TO hold and increase business
in this level and convenient portion Of
the city's wholesale section.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
Accused of Making Threats.

Maxine Giovannoni, a travelling
salesman for G. Fontana & Co., sur
rendered himself at the City Prison
yesterday and was booked on charge
Of threats against life. The complain
ing witness is Carlo Selori, a carpen-
ter at 319 Broadway, who alleges that
on July Giovannoni threatened to
blow his head off. Giovannoni was
released on $1,000 bonds. Attorney
Spinnet says that Giovannoni was a
witness for Selori's wife in her divorce
suit against her husband and that Sc
lori has since been calling him a per-
jurer and making threats.