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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
CROOKED OFFICIAL MUST
GO TO JAIL FOR CRIME
Supreme Court of Hawaii Sustains
Lower Tribunal in the Wright

HONOLULU, Oct. THE Supreme
Court has decided the case of the
Territory against Benjamin Hayward
Wright, former chief clerk of the
Public Works Department, overruling
Wright's objections and remandinG
the case to the Circuit Court for the
carrying out of the sentence imposed
upon Wright for embezzlement of
public funds. Wright was imme-
diately arrested when the decision was
handed down and will have to serve
the sentence of three years hard labor
imposed by Judge de Bolt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Delegates Enjoy Outing and Dance.

SAN RAFAEL, Oct. lathe Su-
preme Council of the w. P. E. C. re-
convened this morning at Cockrane-
McNear Hall and took up the matter
of suggested changes in the bylaws.
President Jesse Woods. presided.
Owing to the continuance of the pleas
ant weather many of the delegates Wis
tied Mount Tamalpais, San Quentin
prison and other points of interest. A
jousting contest took place in the aft
ernoon at East Side Park and was en-
joyed by vast throng of people. A
grand ball was given at Armory Hall
this evening. Jesse Woods, president
of the Supreme Council, and his wife
led the grand march. A feature of the
march was the formation of the let
tiers w. P. E. c. by the members of the
council.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
More Chinese Arrive.

One hundred and forty Chinese ar
rived from the Orient yesterday on
the steamship China. Forty-six Of
them are consigned to the st. Louis
Fair. The party includes three women.
two of whom are Is and % years old
respectively and claim to be natives
of the United States. The third says
she is the wife of a merchant resid-
ing here and is accompanied by her
two little boys. On Sho Tchun, a
member of the Chinese legation at
washington, was landed without for
mality by order of the Secretary Of
the Treasury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Counterfeiters Sentenced.

United States District Judge de Ha-
ven yesterday sentenced John d.
Tompkins to Imprisonment at hard Ia
Dor in the State penitentiary at San
Quentin for seven years and to pay a
fine of 500. Tompkins was convicted
of passing genuine 81 silver certif-
Gates which had been raised to $40
by FASTING on them letters and figures
cut from internal revenue stamps.
William O'Brien, convicted on a sim
liar charge. was sentenced to five
years imprisonment at hard labor in
the State penitentiary at Folsom and
to pay a fine of 500.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
FILES ANNUAL REPORT
Policies Written I'm 1908 Exceed Those
of 1902 I'm Every Branch Ex-
cept Marine Risks.

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 13.-Insurance
Commissioner E. Myron Wolf to-day
filed his annual report for the year Of
1903 with Governor Pardee. The
report shows that PIP companies were
authorized to do business during the
year. The amount of insurance writ
ten In 1903 exceeds that of 1902 in
every branch except marine insurance,
which shows a decrease of S2,033,393.
The report says: Although San Fran
cisco is a growing commercial center
the marine insurance has not increased
because many ships are insured else
where. In 1903, $552,92S,5O3 fire in
surance was written, an increase of
sac, 426,531 over the previous year.
The increase in life insurance amount
ed to $1,000, 600"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Grand Jury Asks.
Continued From Page 1, Column 2.

house vote. Lilienfeld had thought it
would be necessary to go over the case
again to make good the accusation
against the inspector, who was already
in prison under the drastic process Of
the police and their detinue book
The foreman returned to the jury
room and then and there was more hot
talk The rupture finally became wide
and deep and a disposition not to
trifle asserted itself. 1t was decided
not to reopen the testimony, and be-
fore the witnesses arrived the door
swung open and the jurors were ready
to go before Judge Sloss, who was
holding court near by.
All came out with the exception of
O'Brien, Drucker and WEIGH. Lilien-
field remained at the door until the
eleven jurors had emerged, and then
gave the stern command to Bailif
Hamiuto
Hamilton A. Dobbins:
Keep those men in there; don't you
let them get away"
The policeman locked them in the
room and the three members of the
Grand Jury were held prisoners.
Before Judge Sloss a roll call was
taken and only eleven jurors re-
sponded.
we have an indictment to present
that was regularly found on Tuesday
night" said Foreman Lilienfeld ''but
d minority of the Grand Jury now seek
to block out business and prevent it's
presentation to court by refusing to at
tend its return. Under these circum-
ct I eli ha he 4 I,
attendance of the jurors and have the
bailiff bring them in
Judge Sloss complied with the re-
quest at once and a deputy Sheriff a
few minutes later appeared with
Messrs. O'Brien, Drucker and WEIGH.
Meantime Grand Juror McLane had
arrived, so there were fifteen Grand
Jurors present, and the presentation of
the indictment was made.
On motion of Assistant District At
torney Weller bail was fixed at $4,000
bond or $500 cash. The bench war
rant was served on Rebstock at the
prison last evening, but no hail was
forthcoming and he remained in his
cell through the night.
The Grand Jury returned from Judge
Sloss' court to its room and took testi-
mony in regard to complaints against
Mrs McMurray, said to have been as
ISOLATED with John Mcmillan in lodg-
ing-house swindling, and concerning
the charge involving Notary Public
Burns
Attention was then turned to the
Election Commission. and when the
resolution had been passed the atmos-
phere was too warm for further BUSH
ness
The preliminary examination of
Charles Wyman, accused of ballot box
stufHng. will be resumed before Police
Judge Cabaniss this afternoon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
LARGEST HOTEL IN WORLD
is PLANNED FOR CHICAGO
Structure VIII Be twenty-five Stories
i'm Height and Will Cost
SIO.OOO.OOO

CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Chicago is to
have the largest hotel in the world.
It will cost $4,000, 900. be twenty-five
stories high and dwarf in size and mag
nificence. il is promised. any structure
OF the kind ever erected. The builders
and owners will be a syndicate of Chi
cago and Eastern capitalists, headed
by Otto Young.
The hotel will occupy property
measuring 400 feet in length by III
feet in depth on Michigan avenue. two
blocks south of the Auditorium. Steel
construction will be used in building
the new hotel, which will be the high
est building in Chicago in point of
stories. with the exception of the Ma
sonic Temple.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
KERN VALLEY RANCHERS
FACE SERIOUS CHARGES
Coroner's Jury Accuses Them OF Com
pIicity in the Murder of an
Old Pioneer

Il
BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 13.-Patrick
Hammer and Philip Walker, both
well-known ranchers of the Kern VAL
ley, are in Jail in this city charged by
the Coroner's jury with completely in
the robbery and murder of william
Nichols, the old pioneer, who was
killed at Vaughn. Both men acknowl-
edge that they came to the barn where
the crime occurred in company with
two Mexicans, and were in the neigh
borhood outside at the time the crime
was supposed to have been commit
ted and that they heard Nichols COM
panion, Waterman, named Gordon
shout for help and did not interfere.
They deny all actual part in the crime.
The Mexicans were arrested a few
days ago.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
COURT UPHOLDS
COMMISSIONER
Decision of Importance Is
Rendered in Stockton, Di-
verting Canal Litigation
REMOVES DIFFICULTIES
Judge Rules That Public
Works Board Has Right to
Begin Condemnation Suit

STOCKTON, Oct 13.-Judge Smith
of the Superior Court of this county
rendered decision to-day which is of
considerable Importance to the people
of the State in general, as it's effect
is to designate who shall have the
right to institute proceedings looking
to the condemnation of private prop
erty for public use.
F. J. Ryan, the Commissioner of
Public Works, recently brought suit
against Lydia VI. Sperry and others to
condemn right of way for a divert
ing canal to carry off the flood waters
to the east of Stockton. The United
States Government had appropriated
large sum of money for building the
canal, with the understanding that the
right of way should be furnished. The
last Legislature appropriated $4,000 to
buy the right of way. and deeds to all
but Il small portion Of the right have
been secured. Others declined to ac-
cept the valuation placed upon their
holdings, hence the suit.
A demurrer was filed, in which the
contention was made that Commits
sioner Ryan was not the proper party
to bring the action, but the court held
that in view of the fact that the law
did not designate who might bring the
action public policy would be sub
served by designating that the Com
missioner had the right to thus main
tain eminent domain. 1t is understood
that there will be no further technical
difficulties in the way of constructing
the canal, the amount OF damages be-
ing all there is for the courts to deter
nina
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
MOTHER SEES HER BABE
KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE
Engineer Mistakes Little Tot for a
Bit of Paper Until Too Late to
Stop Train.

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 1S.-Mrs. S.
Y, Robertson. living few miles north
of this city, stepped to her front door
to-day to see the Santa Barbara-Los
Angeles train rush by. and the sight
that met her gaze shocked her so that
fatal results are feared.
Just as she looked at the engine she
saw the pilot strike her baby daugh-
ter, seventeen months old, and hurl it
into the ditch beside the track, dead.
The child was playing between the
ends of two ties, and the engineer
mistook it for a piece of white pa
per until too late to stop his train.
The Coroner's jury exonerated the
engineer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Accused of Making Threats.

NAPA, Oct. IA warrant was
sworn out for the arrest of John Gle
quel Of Calistoga this afternoon by
Frank Drouet. Drouet was awarded
the custody of Giequels minor daugh-
ter some years ago on account of Gle
quels i'll treatment of the child and
the father resented this. Giequel, it is
alleged, recently told Officer Ed. Pow
er in Napa that he would kill Drouet
on sight and then take his own life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
nOOTHSONfE DELEGATES
FOR GOURMANDS OF COAST
Steamer Leaves Honolulu With Two
Large Crates of Frogs for
san Francisco.

HONOLULU, Oct. THE oil steam
er Argyll has taken the first large
shipment Of island frogs to San Fran
cisco. She carries no less than 100
dozen fat. green batrachians destined
10 soothe the demands of mainland
gourmands with their tender hind
"kickers." The frogs are held cap
tive in two large crates, the tops of
which are furnished with wire net
ting. They were delivered TO Mons.
Crison, the Argyll's cook. who
takes charge of them until they reach
San Francisco.
Crison states that the demand for
frogs has grown so great on the coast
that the stock is not sufficient TO sup
ply customers. For this reason he
came TO the islands for an additional
supply.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
CONNECTS OIL LANDS
WITH THE TIDE WATER
Coalinga Company Completes Its Pipe
Line From Its Lands in Fresno
County to Monterey.

MONTEREY, Oct. 13.-The Coalin-
ga Oil and Transportation Company's
pipe line connecting the company's
oil lands in Fresno County with the
tide water at Monterey is completed
and service will begin on Monday
next. The line is 1872 miles in length
and is equipped with four pumping
stations and a storage system con-
sisting of five 55,000-barrel tanks at
New Monterey. The company is con-
tracing to furnish fuel oil to local
consumers at one-hah the regular
price.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Beer-prinking Horse Dies.

HEALDSBURG. Oct 13.--Lolly, a
trick horse, died here to-day. When
the owner would go into a saloon to
get drink he would remember
Lolly and give him bucket of beer.
Many times both owner and beast
have been seen staggering together
down the main streets of the town.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
Fire chiefs discuss Explosive.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. 13.-At
to-days meeting of the Pacific Coast
Association of Fire Chiefs, paper by
Inspector McDavitt of Philadelphia
Board of Fire Underwriters on the ex-
plosive power of celluIoid was heard.
A discussion followed on dangerous
combustibles in common use, with side
lights on recent CONGREGATIONS. This
afternoon the visitors were taken by
steamer up Burrard Inlet.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
FRANCHISE is GRANTED
FOR NEW RAILROAD LINE
Company Secures Right of Way
Through San Diego City and Will
Build Into Arizona

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13.-The City
Council last night granted a franchise
for railroad through this city. to be
built east into Arizona, one of the
terms of the ordinance being the be-
ginning Of actual construction within
six months and completion by January
1. 1907. Mr.. Richards, who obtained
the franchise, says his principals are
not connected with the Rock Island
road, said to be headed toward this
city, The outside survey will be be-
gun next week
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
ALLEGED COUNTERFEITERS
ARE PLACED UNDER ARREST
Former Real Estate Dealer of Los An
geles and Companion Must
Answer Serious Charge.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13.-W. ].
Hine, once a real estate dealer in this
city, and Charles Craig, whose name
does not appear in the directory, were
arrested to-day on charge of coun-
terfeiting.
For some time it has beeen known
to the United States officials that con-
siderable spurious coin was being
fioated in this section, principally at
the sea coast towns, and presumably
by some person living in this city. In
the house of w. j. Hine, 1901 Wall
street the officers found a valise filed
with all sorts of paraphernalia for the
production of counterfeit dollars, half
dollars, quarters and dimes, together
with quantity of unfinished coins.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
SAN QUENTIN PRISONER
MEETS ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Convict Ross Grasps Live Wire to Pre-
vent Himself From Failing and
Is ElectrOcuted.

SAN RAFAEL, Oct. ia. r. Ross,
a convict, came in contact with a live
wire while painting the sash and blind
building at San Quentin prison to-day
and was instantly killed. Ross was
working on a scaffold and slipped. In
his endeavor to save himself from
falling he grasped a wire carrying
1000 volts, of electricity. He dam
gled in the air a minute and then
dropped to the ground. When picked
UP he was dead.
Ross was serving eight years for a
felony committed in Fresno. He has
relatives residing in Tacoma.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
stevedores Do Some Lively Work.

TACOMA, Oct. ia local steve
doring firm has loaded the German
ship Peru with 124,S5E bushels of
wheat in seventeen hours, an average
of 1874 bushels per hour. 1t is con-
sidered a record-breaker. The ship
is under charter and cleared to-day for
the United Kingdom.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH
is SEVERELY INJURED
Bruce Tiege Falls While Trying to
jump Freight Train in the
Gan J0co Vardc

SAN JOSE. Oct. 13.-Bruce Tiege,
whose parents reside at Biz Octavia
street, San Francisco, was injured to-
night while attempting to board a
freight train in the broad gauge yards.
He was returning from Salinas to his
home and had a ticket to this city.
While trying to jump a freight train
he missed his footing and was dragged
along the track and badly hurt. His
condition is serious.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
SONOMA GRAPE GROWERS
WILL SUFFER SMALL LOSS
Damage Done to Crop by Recent Rain
storm Is Much Less Than
They Anticipated.

SONOMA. Oct. 1S.-Grape growers
say that the rain has done less dam
age to grapes than they anticipated
with the total rainfall of 1850 inches.
The rainfall during the past storm was
$50 inches. During the interval be-
tween the first and second rains about
one-third of the entire grape crop was
gathered. The other two-thirds is
more or less damaged. but the greater
part will be saved
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
SALT LAKE-LOS ANGELES
LINE NEAR COMPILE TION
Eighty Miles of Track All That Are
Needed to Finish the
New Road


SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. ia
stretch of eighty miles is all that in
tervenes now between the completion
of the San Pedro. Los Angeles and
Salt Lake road, which is to join Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles, Cal. Track
laying from Caliente, New, has now
reached the Vegas ranch in Southern
Nevada. which is but forty-seven miles
from the California line. The work
from Daggett,. Cal, is also being ac-
lively pushed.
Part of the grading on the eighty
mile stretch is already completed, and
it is hoped to complete the COMPARE
lively easy work now remaining by
the LIST of the year. By February 1,
it is believed through trains between
the two cities will be in operation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
ILLNESS DRIVES FORMER
SAN FRANCISCAN TO DEATH
Francis A. Miller browns Himself in
Bath Tub at the Odd Fellows
Home at ThermalitO

Home at Thermalito.
OROVILLE, Oct. 13.-Francis A.
Miller, an inmate of the Odd Fellows
Home at Thermalito, committed sui
eide this morning by drowning himself
i'll bath tub. Sickness prompted the
act.
Miller went to the home from Yerba
Buena Lodge No. Is and was an old
resident of San Francisco. A. slate was
found in his room on which was writ
ten: Il can't stand this pain any
longer" Below this message was
scrawled: MY ills can't be mended,
but are easily ended, so here goes to
turn up my toes"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14

POISONED BY INSTANTANEOUS Naka-
da, a Japanese farm hand. died last Wednes-
day at DR.. Matsusakrs hospital. sos Dupont
street. The attending physician told the Coro-
ner that Nakada took poison by mistake for
medicine.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14

WASHINGTON. Oct IS-The President
yacht Msynower Is 10 be placed out Of com
mission soon ano her officers assigned to the
battleships which soon win be ready for
service.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14

Special for today and Sat-
urday only mems fancy
vests In worsted. wcol ana
matelasse. in black. brcwa
and noVys regular s. and
S9.So Va ues for Sl,3S.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-05-19

audience was composed entirely OF
deadheads, and all the plays produced
We're damned. If any actor-manager
showed tendency to hard-boiled egg
otism or wished for self-advertisement
he found his name mentioned in the
smallest possible type at the bottom
of the playbll and was shut off from
enjoying a monopoly of the limelight
1t was a drama in which leading
ladies, who had proved to be mislead.
ing, were doomed to walk on in cheap
and unbecoming "reach-me-downs,
constructed in the fashion of the yeai
before last. 1t was a drama in which
gallery first nighters were condemned
to enthusiastically applaud plays OF
which they had the lowest possible
opinion, drama where dramatic
authors-those pure and gentlel
spirits-winged their way to a nobler
and more exalted sphere.
Mr. Gilbert went on to say that he
was 10th to believe the British drama
was in such parlous state as some
people pretended. Critics condemned
~ - SSAASIdls with u DIX u, DuI
they were kind to it in detail, and he
found it difficult to reconcile the con-
demnation in bulk with this approval
in particular We were likely to at
tach undue Importance to any TEN.
porary dramatic slump" Ten. 20.
so, 100 years ago we were told that
the drama was on the down grade, and
the same things would probably be
said in another hundred years time,
when there would be state-aided the
aters, with dull plays, short runs and
insignificant performers, and when
there would be dramatic schools, in
which all the principal actors ana
actresses would enter themselves as
pupils.
Mr.. Gilbert, referring TO the COM
pliments paid himself for producing
clean plays, related how he and the
late Sir Arthur Sullivan relied upon
the advice of a supposed Japanese
authority to provide them with an ap.
propriate air for the entrance of the
mikado in the opera of that name
The authority recommended what he
said was the Japanese nationai
anthem and they adopted it. The air
had been performed many thousands
of times since. 1t was only long after
the opera had been produced that an
undoubted authority, while praising
the work generally, expressed his
amazement that the authors had
woven in the air of one of the riskiest
songs ever sung in Japan. When
therefore, he was applauded for the
cleanliness of his efforts, he remem-
bered how he and his late colleague
had been induced to take up one OF
the most disgraceful songs a prurient
mind could imagine
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-05-19
ANSWER FOREIGN MAIL.
stenographers Well Paid for Trans
Iating Business Letters.

Translating business letters receiv-
ed in Chicago from foreign countries
and making business replies in the
same language has come to be one If
the profitable side lines of stem
ography and typewriting.
Just after the Spanish war, when
Cuba and other Spanish territory
came into close touch with Chicago as
business center, many stenographers
undertook to master the Spanish lam
guage to the extent of business cor
respondence. But even before this
there was a necessity for typewriting
in foreign languages, and as this ne
cessity has grown the stenographer
has kept pace with the demand.
The card of young woman opera
tor in one of the largest Office build
ings reads: "Translations in French.
German. Spanish, Italian and Portu-
guese. Typewriting done in the above
languages" This young woman not
only can accomplish this but the de-
mand for the work is steady, Ordi-
narily the business man. through a
messenger sends the business letter
which he receives, and when the work
is done the letter is posted back to
him, worked into good English. If It
be an order that is to be filled, or the
request for prices, some one capable
OF replying to the letter is sent to the
office of the Young woman and taking
his dictation in English she translates
it into any one of the five languages
at her command.
This work is better paid than is the
ordinary stenographic work of the bet
ter class, and the time is approaching
when the mastery of two or three Ian
euages at least may be looked for a.
one of the exactions of the school Of
shorthand and typewritine.