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The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15

appointed at the last Congress be re-
quested to pass upon the question of
a bridge in their visit during the COM
ing summer and that no action be
taken until this report be made. The
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, by the River Improvement and
Drainage Association OF California. That It's
president be and he Is hereby instructed to
memorialize the honorable Secretary OF War.
requesting him to instruct the commission OF
of Congress as a part Of their duties to ex-
anime into and report to the best means
6y which the Straits Of carqutnez in said
State of California, can be crossed by rail-
road bridge allowing the needful development
of railroad traffic without adversely affecting
the interests Of navigation reclamation or the
free outflow Of the flood waters Of the San
Joaquin and Sacramento rivers to the sea |;
and to request him that pending such Investi-
cation permission be granted for the con-
struction of a bridge across said straits
Captain w. H. Matson expressed
himself as in favor of similar report
from the committee appointed blythe
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
to that chamber.
William r. Wheeler of the Chamber
of Commerce committee stated that
from what he had learned from ship
pers and engineers he was opposed to
the building of trestle bridge across
Carquinez Straits He did not favor
the owning of bridge by individual In
terests, but thought it should be owned
by the State so that transportation
companies of all classes, railroads.
trolley lines, vehicles and foot pas
sengers might come across. Mr.. Wheel
CT stated that 1t was particularly evil
denced from Mr.. Schwerin's talk that
a trestle bridge was undesirable. Tire
necessity for tug to be provided by
the railroad company. buoys, dredges
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favorite beverage, which is beer. While
the FilipinOs did not seem to be af-
fected in an extraordinary way by
drinking vino" its influence upon the
mentality Of the American soldier was
both disturbing and lasting. Although
he has not tasted the liquor since he
left Manila, several months ago, its
dregs apparently lurk in his system,
for no sooner does he drink a glass Of
beer than his mind becomes deranged
and he does things that he subse-
ouently bushes for.
Park Policeman Mann testified that
he was on horseback when several
women complained TO him that they
had been chased by a crazed soldier,
who called them endearing names and
beseeched them to harken to his dec
laration Of love. Putting spurs to his
steed, the officer went in quest of the
amOrOus warrior and was directed
from spot TO spot by agitated females
who had been pursued. The policeman
and the soldier saw each other stimuli
taneously and the latter. divining that
he was wanted, bounded away at a
rate Of speed that taxed the hunters s
horse to equal Ii was pretty race,
the artilleryman having a start of sew
eral hundred feet to begin with. which
he maintained until his wind began to
yield TO the strain, and then he grad
ually slackened up until he was caught
II his brain had not been in control OF
who's" after effects he might have
eluded capture by abandoning the
roads and fleeing through the brush.
I think" said the Judge to the de-
fendant, that term Of Imprisonment
might promote your professed desire tC
get rid Of that Filipino poison
I think so, too" acquiesced the SOL
der; but I hope you won't make the
term a very long one, because my army
service expires next June"
How would thirty days suit you?'
Fine"
And thirty days it was made
OF the nine women who were ar
rested while visiting a pool place al
56I Geary street, not one responded
when the case was called before Judge
Conlan, and bench warrants were is
sued for their enforced appearance in
court this morning. Mrs Mary Ber-
lin, who escaped during the raid and
was soon afterward captured, faced
the bench, as did Jacob Tuch. pro-
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I prletor of the cigar store in which
pools are alleged to have been sold.
but they, too, We're remanded till to-
day.
Officer Campbell succeeded in TAX
ing into custody six Of the women last
evening. All were imediately re-
leased on $50 cash bail. The excuse
gwen by the women for their non-ap-
pc tarance yesterday was that they had
been informed by their attorney that
they would not be required to come
TO court on that day. The women
gathered in by Campbell We're: Mrs.
w. p. Foster, Fannie J. Whitaker,
I Helen Grant Mrs. j. Murray, Pearl
White and Ellen Murray.
Howard Caradoc Rees had another
brief inning before Judge Mogan, who
continued the case indefinitely, or until
such time as the defendants brother
arrives from New York to take him
back East Rees is the former New
divided occasions threatened to slay
r. NJ. Gignoux.
Mrs. Clara Harrison complained
that her husband. Thomas, waiter,
struck her on the head with a bottle
az 2:45 o'clock yesterday morning
when he found her being entertained
by H. s. Donnelly and G.. w. Gray in
their joint apartment at 500 stockton
street What on earth provoked the
attack she could not for the life of her
imagine, for did not she and Thomas
occupy another apartment in the same
house? If she had gone abroad to
visit at that hour of the morning there
might be some logical reason for the
assault, but why it was committed un-
der such circumstances as she had
just explained would forever remain
mystery to her, unless the plea of
insanity was presented and absolutely
proved. Judge Cabaniss has given
Thomas till tomorrow to relieve his
better halfs mystification.
F. Tornes, apparently a working
man, said he was hungry and without
means of buying food when he was
arrested at o'clock yesterday morn
ing for drinking a bottle of milk which
he picked UP from a doorstep on
Stockton street, near California. He
Was penniless when searched at the
police station. Judge Fritz will in
terview him again to-day.
Miss Mamie Jensen, whose slim fig
ure was effectively topped by q widely
spreading mass of spring millinery,
declared that the treatment she re-
ceived just prior TO her attack on Pa
trolman Dave Murphy was so unjust
as to justify what she did with a hat
pin. e., puncture his neck and head
4 in several places. Was it not enough
to rout the eQuanimity of any lady,
she asked, to have persons butt in and
attempt to entice away her masculine
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Remarkable Curative Properties of
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Stomach Weakness


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the various forms of Indigestion and
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It is not cure all. but for any stom-
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That is exactly what Stuart's Dys-
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In persons run down in flesh and an
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Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can be
found at all drug stores at so cents per
package.
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REV. DAVID EVANS SPEAKS
TO CITY BUSINESS MEN
Organist Samuel d. Mayer Is Inn
pressed With Their Hearty
Singing of HYMNS

A great assemblage of business men
again attended the MONDAY Lenten
service at the Chamber of Commerce
yesterday The Rev. David Evans,
rector of Grace Church, conducted
the service and delivered a powerful
address, which was listened to with
intense interest. The singing of the
hymns, Guide Me. o Thou Great Je-
hovah," MY Faith Looks Up to
Thee" and Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
was heard throughout the vast build
ing.
At the conclusion of the service
Samuel d. Mayer, the organist, said
that in all his long experience he had
never heard such hearty rendering of
hymns by a body of men.
DR.. H. H. Bell will conduct the SER
vice to-day; Rev. e. Nelander to-
morrow; DR.. F. w. Clampett Friday.
and DR.. E. r. Ollie Saturday.
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Decrees Asked and Granted.

Andrew London has sued Lille H.
London for divorce alleging cruelty.
Lettie Nye asks for divorce from
Thomas F. Nye for desertion. Hattie
A. Clark asks for a divorce from
George W.. Clark for cruelty. Henry
Haseler complains that his wife, An
Eic, has treated him cruelty and he
asks for a divorce on that ground.
Emma A. Ford has sued John S. Ford
for divorce. alleging willful neglect.
Giuseppina Colombo Gustavino says
her husband, Charles, struck her on
various occasions and she asks for a
divorce for his cruelty. DEGREES OF
divorce were. granted yesterday to
Grace d. Wilder from Eugene F. Will
der for desertion. Lulu A. Miller from
George w. Miller for desertion, John
r. Whalen from Amanda l. Whalen
for desertion and Agnes Brantley from
Richard F. Brantley for failure to
provide.
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escort while Summing? That was
what provoked her to disturb the
peace, and it was the policeman's s
seeming approval of the provocation
tnat led to the hatpin-play and the
additional charge of battery.
With a gentleman recently arrived
from Tonopah, Miss Jensen explained,
she visited an O'Farrell-street concert
hall at 1880 o'clock yesterday morn
ing and no sooner were they seated
than one Of the managers of the place
invited her companion to inspect the
green-room, whatever that might be.
Miss Jensen protested against being
left alone, whereupon the manager
called her a 'knocker," and insisted
on depriving her of the society of the
man from the mines. until her pru-
dence gave way TO anger and she dis
tarbed the peace. 1t was while await
ing the arrival of the patrol wagon
summoned by her custodian that she
jabbed him with the pin taken from
her coiffure, and she supposed she was
driven to frenzy by realization of the
humiliating position in which she
found herself. If the Court Ques-
toned her plea that she was a victim
Of gross injustice, she would call its
attention to the fact that a lady who
happened TO be passing by at the time
rage and was also run in for disturb
ance of the peace.
The lady alluded to was Miss Helen
Williams, buxom and self-reliant who
informed the court that she was en-
route from a candy store managed by
her to. her home when she witnessed
and protested against the rough man.
ner in which the policeman was
handling Miss Jensen. who was to-
tai stranger to her, and that the po-
liceman made her a prisoner also.
L must find both defendants guilty
as charged" said Police Judge Mo-
gan.
That" quoth Miss Jensen, with
whitening glance at the bench, "is what
a lady gets for refusing to take the
double-cross from bum music hall
manager"
After my arrest" murmured Miss
/ Williams struggling her plump shoul-
ders, Il suppose 1 would be foolish
to be surprised at anything the cops
or their friends might do
Jane Wilson, a pretty young girl,
was accused of stealing a morning
newspaper from the doorway of 48S
Fourteenth street where it had been
deposited by a carrier, and Patrolman
Ewing expressed abaility to prove
that she had made a practice of that
kind of petty larceny, SO Judge Moran
continued the case till next Saturday.
Mrs. Annie Thompson charged her
husband, Frank, with exhibiting a re-
yolver in rude and threatening man
ner, and Judge Conlan will hear the
other side of the story Tomorrow
The Thompsons have been married
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Left Her Room Door Unlocked.

Mrs. Sorensen. who rooms at Van
Ness avenue and McAllister street,
when on a visit to her mother on last
Monday inadvertently left her rooms
unlocked. When she returned after
her visit she found that her $500 seal
skin coat had been taken from it's ac-
customed place in her clothes closet
Nothing else was taken by the person
who removed the coat. A description
of the garment was furnished to Cap
tain Mooney of the City Hall police
station.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15
SPRINTS AFTER LADIES FAIR
ON The PARK PATHWAYS.
ArnorOuS ArtIffergrnan 0CdreS Women
Becomes Himself Quarry of Mount
ed POIiSe, Who Run Him Down.
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

Private "Jem" Murphy, United
states Artillery. ascribed to the en-
during effects Of indiscreet indulgence
ia vino" his unseemly conduct last
Sunday afternoon in Golden Gate
Park. Vino he explained to Police
Judge Fritz. is the standard tipple Of
the natives Of the Philippines, and it
was while serving Uncle Sam in the
islands that he imprudently imbibed
the stuff TO excess. It being cheaper
and much easier to obtain than his
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15
Card and Loose Leaf Systems.

$500 buys a card index drawer, 500
record cards. alphabetical index and 20
guide cards. Twinlock and Moorehouse
Loose-leaf ledgers and Shaw-Walker fl
ing cabinets. Complete Office outfits in
our stationery department, including
printing and bookbinding. Sanborn, Vail
& Co., TAI Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15
ASK DISTRIBUTION
OF CROCKER ESTATE
Heirs OF the Deceased Capitalist Re-
quest Court to Give Them
PrODertieS.

Charles H. and Clara e. Crocker,
heirs of the late Henry 9. Crocker,
have petitioned the Superior Court for
distribution to them of the estate Of
the deceased. In their petition the
heirs set forth that the annuity pro-
vided for in the will of the deceased
in favor of Mrs. Sarah e. Mckee has
l;ipsed through the death of the bene-
ficiary in Los Angeles at recent date
The death of Mrs. Mckee, the Pc
t.tioners further set forth, leaves the
estate in a position where distribution
can be ordered without affecting the
interests of anyone. Out of his share
of the estate Charles H. Crocker must
pay some $4,000 in bequests. The
most valuable assets of the estate the
petitioners ask distributed to them are
1880 shares in the H. S. Crocker Com
pany and SIS 900 in cash.
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Several lady members Of the Sun
shine Society requested Judge Mogan
to give Mary Ann Hamilton, chronic
inebriate, one more chance to reform,
as they believed her reformation is
still a possibility.
If l let you CO." said his Honor to
Mary Ann, will you do as these la
dies want you to dor
Well" was the answer, I'm tired
of Jail and guess I might as well
take a whirl at salvation"
She was given opportunity to take
the whirl.
Miss Florence Thompson, young
and comely and neatly groomed, re-
quested that she be given time to ca
BILE to her opulent friends in London
the news of her Dredicament ere she
be tried on the charge of pilfering a
case of cheap jewelry from the EN-
porium. She recently moved in the
upper circles of London society, she
informed Judge Mogan, and IL af-
forded opportunity to communicate
with some of her former associates in
the haut ton this little matter of her
arrest would surely be arranged to the
satisfaction of all concerned His
Honor gave her week in which to
work the cable.
The policeman who arrested Miss
Thompson averred that in her apart
ment at 621 O'Farrell street he found
a silver flask which. he believed, had
been stolen by her.
My dear man. she said, "if you
only knew where and how to search
you might find more things which 1
did not steal" With which crushing
remark she returned to durance.
Ii Shue, who killed Leong Nooey at
her home, 637 Jackson street, on
February 10, was sent to the Superior
Court by Judge Mogan, who denied to
fix bail. Leong Nooey was a married
woman, and because she refused to
elope with Ii Shue he hacked her to
death with cleaver.
Jackson Hatch, Atlee r. Hunt and
Armin G. Hansen, young art students
accused of permanently injuring Al
bert de Rome, fellow pupil at the
Hopkins Institute, by 'hazing" him.
will be tried by jury in Judge Mogan's S
court on March %.
=
John r. Brennan, charged with
having forged the name of Wetmore
Bros, contractors, to two S25 checks
while he was in their employ, was
sent to the Superior Court by Judge
Con7an.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo-, March 14-In the
ballot on United States Senator to-day most
Of the Niedringhaus strength was thrown TO
Judge Selden p Spencer Of st. Louis who
was chosen a compromise candidate last
night In the Republican caucus. The vote
not elective.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15
Passenger Service to Santa Barbara.

The Southern Pacific announces that train
No. D The Coaster. will leave Third and
Townsend streets depot at its usual time 3
a. M. to-day. March 15. and will TO Santa
Barbara and to Los Angeles II the way is
clear. On this trip The Coaster will carry
the thirty-eight-chair parlor cars which
have just been added TO it's equipment
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15

eleven years, have three children, and
the husband and father manages a
saloon at 80 East street.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-15

John r. Brennan, charged with
having forged the name of Wetmore
Bros, contractors, to two S25 checks
while he was in their employ, was
sent to the Superior Court by Judge
Conlan.
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Mrs. Annie Thompson charged her
husband, Frank, with exhibiting a re-
volver in rude and threatening man
ner. and Judge Conlan will hear the
other side of the story tomorrow.
The Thompsons have been married
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
Germany in China,

From a Singapore Paper @".. /
 German mercantile ability is demofi- strated by the great advancement of her trade and enterprise in the Celestial Elm pire within the last few years Germa@ trade grows more rapidly there than that of any other country. Germany's imports into Hankow aggregated s952.O0o She has in- vested in the coal mines of Ping-Sainx nearly $1. .00O: In Chinese cotton mills. S2.3oO.oOO; In silk factories. $76.oo0; in Erain mills. S1.ssO. 900; Shanghai gas worFs s71,o00; in whSrves. docks and lighterS $1.soO.o0o.
 Seven German steamers ply on the Yangtze river. The North German Lloyd runs twenty-seven steamships in the coast every fortnight a steamship arrives at Shanghai. coming from Bremen direct. In 1908 BPS steamships carrying the German flag visited the port of Shanghai
 Germany controls GO per cent of the import and 45 per cent of the export trade of Tientsin. The number of German firms there is twenty-nine. Before the Boxer riots there were only twelve. German cap ital aggregatng $4522.O0o is engaged in that place. Similar reports of German trade advance come from Chefoo and other points long the coast of China
 leading German export journal Urges upon the German government to strive to obtain influence and place in the admin tstration of the Chinese maritime customs" so as to promote German trade interests III China, It also recommends the establish ment of German missionary schools, hos nttals etc, for the same purpose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

gone to a depth of eighty feet before the hard pan of clayey subsoil was reached.
 To dig this all out will be a task comparable to building big stretch of the Panama canal. A little ditch full of clear water on one side or the swamp represents all that has been done by the taking out of few thousand tons. Incidentally it indi- cates the final outcome of this kind of mining The face of the earth will not be permanently disfigured. The big holes in the ground will simply add to the number of the country's attractive lakes.
 The work In the meantime, if it is as successful as is expected, will build up industries on the edge of this swamp and other swamps that will be slightly enough as manufacturing plants go. The station at East Lex ington shows az a chief feature q briquetting house equipped with spe- cial machinery into which the wet peat is thrown and and from which it emerges in the shape of pressed cylin- ders with a hole running through the centre. They are compact and almost as hard as coal after they have been properly dried under conditions of in- tense heat. A capacious kiln for car bonizing Is in process of construction. The mOI1VS power department Ol the Boston and Maine has now for seV- eral weks been trying this fuel on shifting engines and for short local runs. It has been found that the peat briquettes make an exceptionally hot fire and that the cost is less than that of coal, while hardly any smoke comes from the smokestacks. The only dis advantage that has appeared in one that will normally disappear if the use of the briquette ever becomes uni- versal-peat fuel cannot be used In connection with coal in the same To- comotive; either the one kind of fuel must be employed or the other The peat briquettes have not been tried as yet for long railroad runs, for the req son that depots of supply would have to be established along the route, since all through trains have frequently to coal up. If, however, success contin- ues no doubt the use in long hauls will come.
 The universal prevalence of vege- table compositions that may be commer- cially available Is what makes the in- dustrial possibilities of peat impress sive. All mud does not look alike, but most of the black muds have calorific chusetts Institute of Technology has various parts of the country and while to local conditions, just as there are differences among grades of coal prac- tically all have combustible qualities peat fuels is that they burn with a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
War on Ticket specuIators.

Boston Transcript.
 That New York theatrical manager who has enlisted force of private de- tectives and policemen in the effort to stop speculation In tickets on the side walks in front of the entrance will have the sympathy of the public. The an swer of the speculators that the theatre posed of at an advanced price is not a good one. It Is the custom of theaters generally to do this, but they do 1t. not because they wish to send people away from the box office to the hotels to buy tickets, but as a matter of pub lie convenience. There is a wide diff tor and the reputable theater ticket agent at the hotels. The former is a speculator. pure and simple. He buys up tickets to get as much more for them as possible. The hotel ticket seller IS an agent. pure and simple, and receives a commission, not from the theater but from his patrons.