The San Francisco call., 1905-06-28
through the unguarded ends of their

through the unguarded ends of their
domiciles.
When asked why they had violated
the unwritten law which holds them
immune from arrest for vagrancy SO
long as they stay within Chinatown's S
boundaries the prisoners said they
had become possessed by the migra-
tory impulse that seizes all classes and
conditions of men when the summer
warmth comes. AS they were unable
TO HE them to mountain or seaside
they gratified their yearning for
change of environment by nocturnally
running the police blockade around the
celestial quarter and taking up abode
where they imagined they would be
least likely to encounter interference
The Judge ordered that the unfor-
tunate crew be returned to Chinatown,
and then he warned them that if they
are ever again caught outside that dis
trict they shall be sent to jail. They
shiyered at the words. which TO them
conveyed more than mere threat of i'm
prisonment 1t meant deprivation of
the dope" that is their life-and
death.
Instead of slipping from the founts
of knowledge installed in the public
schools Ralph Smith, Cyrus Mckenna
and Ray Fisher, all in their teens,
dawdlee in Golden Gate Park and in
cidentally teased the buffaloes therein
corralled. Master Fisher, youngest of
the trio, went so far in audacity as to
enter the enclosure and endeavor to
ride astride a Juvenile bison, while his
older and more discreet companions
kept the fence between themselves and
the animals whose tail they twisted.
Judge Mogan sent Master Fisher to the
Juvenile Court and ordered that the
parents of Masters Smith and McKen-
ma be subpenaed to adduce character
testimony.
After five years unbroken courtship
Bradford Sears, a machinist. and Miss
Ellen OFT of ia West Mission street
arrived at a mutual misunderstanding
and for six weeks thereafter they
neither saw nor heard each other.
lust how Miss OFT bore the separation
has not been definitely ascertained, but
that Mr.. Sears neither forgot nor for
gave was demonstrated by his arrest
for battering her jaw last Monday even
ing at her home, for which offense he
was arrested.
why did you visit the lady at all?''
Judge Mogan asked him.
well. / thought it was my duty to
tell her once for all that we could
never be friends again was the an
sWer.
But you could have conveyed that
information without orally conveying
IL. And why did you drink to excess
before you visited her?"
Il took few bracers while on my
way to her house; that was ALL
Miss OFT testified that she could
have been knocked down with
a feather when Mr.. Sears ap-
piled for admittance to her dwell
ing. so surprised was she that he
had not driven her from his mind long
ago as she had expelled him from her
thoughts When she saw he was in
toxicated she declined to admit him,
but he became so disorderly that to
deprive her neighbors of a treat. she
opened the door and let him In. Then
he smote her.
He was pronounced guilty of bat
terry Miss OFT is plump. pretty and
about 80, and her assailant is a decade
her senior and machinist by occupa-
ton.
Gladness was conveyed to Mrs. Han
nah Dempsey of 167 Buena Vista street
when the family goat presented her
with female twins. and Mr.. Dempsey.
too, acquired a great joy. 1t was his
suggestion that the wobbly- legged
youngsters be clothed with names at
once appropriate TO their beauty and
expressive of the esteem in which they
were held by their human sponsors,
and he IT was who decided that they
should be designated Myrtle ana Flora,
those appellations having struck him
by their ephony when he saw them dis
played on vaudeville poster announce
ing the advent of the Montrose sisters,
soft shoe and clog dancers.
That all happened three years ago,
MYRTLE and Flora waxed fair of form