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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
PERSONAL.

Capitalist 7. B. Hickey of Carson
City is at the Palace.
NJ E. Thornton. business man of
ST. Paul, is at the Occidental.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham.
wealthy Bostonians, are registered at
the Palace.
b. G. White, one of Montana's
wealthy citizens. and his wife are reg
istered at the Palace
Captain H. r. Robertson. the famous
log raftsman, is down from Portland
and staying at the Palace.
George l. Paine and wife, members
of two of Boston's oldest families, are
among the latest arrivals at the st.
Francis.
Conspicuous among the signatures on
the Grand register yesterday were
those of DR.. j. NJ. Blodgett Of Lodi
and DIR. T. d. Blodgett of Tulare and
DR. G.. w. McKinnan of Arcata-
William P Harmon, head of the big
dredger mining projects at Oroville,
who has been East on business in con-
nection with Yuba river mining
scheme, returned yesterday and is
staying at the Palace
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
RAIN WASHES
TRACKS AWAY
Heavy Downpour in the
Mountains North of Los
Angeles Floods Canyons
TRAFFIC is DELAYED
Electric Roads Damaged
and Travel From City of
Angels Is at StandStill

Los ANGELES. Feb. iT-Heavy
rains in the mountains north OF Los
Angeles this afternoon sent q food of
water down the canyons at many
places. Near Glendale, ten miles north
Of this city. the Southern Pacific tracks
were washed out for distance Of fifty
feet. the roadbed being carried away
There Will be no trains In or out Of
Los Angeles on the northern lines to-
night. The break will be repaired by
tomorrow morning.
The tracks OF the Pacific Electric
line near Casa Verdugo also suffered
considerable damage At Garvanza.
.SS of an inch of rain fell in thirty
minutes this afternoon and Arroyo
Seco was for a time q roaring tor
rent.
Very little rain fell In Los Angeles
this afternoon. but heavy black clouds
hung about the mountains north Of
Pasadena and IL is reported showers
approaching cloudbursts fell at many
places. Conditions are favorable for a
continuance of the storm tonight
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1.-THE rainfall
for the present storm was 126 inches
at D. m. to-day. Reports from the
country indicate that the storm Is gen.
eral. The rain continues tonight.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
SAVE SKIPPER FROM
DEATH BY DROWNING

ALAMEDA, Feb. 17.-Captain j. A.
Campbell of the schooner Seven Sis
ters, lying in the estuary off the nortf,
end of Chestnut street, was rescued
from the bottom of capsized skiff
shortly after midnight this morning
by Policeman Fred Brampton and
George Lewis. Their attention was
attracted by the mariners shouts for
help. Enfeebled by his experience, the
captain was hauled into boat by
Brampton and Lewis and rowed to
the house of the Alameda Boating
Club. There he was revived with
stimulants and rubbing and later was
taken on board his vessel.
Captain Campbell had spent the
evening ashore with friends and was
pulling his way back to the Seven Sis
ters when he caught a "crab" with
one of his oars and capsized his skiff.
He was so weighted with clothing that
he could not swim to the landing at
the Alameda Boating Club house,
from which he had put out
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
NEWS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY

BLACKSMITH DISAPPEARS. = Oakland
Tsira TsG i,MR9bert and S!,bs Munce blacksmith at
the police as missing.
TRIALS ARE SET.-oakIand Feb II
Inc trial OF Roy Ashberry and William Proc
.9r' charged with bunkoing aged Emily Tyson
OF Niles out of S10S and some jewelry, was
set to-day for March and 13.
PLEADS GUILTY.-Oakland, Feb. IL
henry henry u Morris, charged with passing a hc-
smith nIsa1od dor ,,1It ri on the nrm OF Mesmer-
and will be sentenced next Monday
MARRIAGE LICENSES-Oakland Feb. II
The following marriage licenses were issued
by the County Clerk to-day Claude Harding
q. and Nellie Borden, IS, both of San Fran.
10, both of Oakland
Johnson, 50 years old, pioneer of Oakland
died to-day at his residence, 59f Eighteenth
street. There are four surviving children-Mrs.
George b. NJ. Gray, Miss Eleanor Johnson Miss
Annie M johnson and John g. Johnson.
SHELBY MARTIN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Feb. 1I.-Shelby Martin. who resigned as pay
cause OF i'll health. is on mis- way home from
Honolulu His contemplated trip to the Orient
has been abandoned. his condition not inprov-
LEAVE LARGE ESTATES. s.-oakland. Feb.
lI-An appraisement of the estate of the late
Mary Ann Chabot was filed to-day It shows
Sloo. lo2 ~ II consists almost entirely of
cash, stocks and bonds. An appraisement OF
the estate OF the late Peter ". Remillard filed
today shows that he left an estate valued at
$24i 800 About half the estate consists of
realty and the other half is invested in stock
Of the Remillard Brick Company.
KIDNAPS HIS OWN SON.-Oakland Feb
1!-Mrs z. 1. Brown, wife of Edward Brown
chief freight clerk of the California Naviga-
tion Company in San Francisco has. com
plained 10 the police that her husband last
night kidnapped their son Edward. 6 years DID,
from the mothers residence 1929 Grove
street. The Browns have been living apart.
but are not divorced Brown notified the DO
lice this afternoon that he had the boy and
purposed to keep charge of him pending a
settlement of the family difficulties
PICK UP A WAIF.-Oakland. Feb II
Drenched In the soaking rain cold and hun
cry. Bert Hendry. years old, was picked up
in West Oakland last night and sent to the
City Prison. The police were told that the
boys father had neglected him. At 1741 Sew
enth street, where the boy said he lived no
trace of the parent could be found The child
told the police his father had left him to shift
for himself ever since his mother died The
police will that the waif is cared for
properly and will prosecute the parent.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
OPPOSE GRADE
CROSSING BILL
Commercial Organizations
of Oakland Take a Stand
Against Pending Measure
URGE FIGHT TO DEFEAT
Declare That New Steam or
Electric Railroad Pro-
jects Will Be Blocked
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1fl1S Feb III


1915 Broadway, Feb. H.
The Board of Trade and the Mer-
chants Exchange to-day adopted reso-
lutions condemning the proposed
grade crossing bill that has been
passed by the Assembly and is before
the Senate at Sacramento.
Objections to the measure were made
to-day before the local organizations
by e. P. Vandercook and Marvel p.
Cert, representing the Western Pacific
Railroad, the new transcontinental sys-
tenn which recently procured a fran
chise to run through Oakland. Cerf
said the bill, if it should become law.
would, in his opinion. prevent that road
from coming into California;; that IT
would give existing railroads the option
to control the methods of crossings
in such a way as to be practically
bar to new lines.
The Merchants Exchange adopted
the following resolution:
Whereas. There is now pending in the Leg
and Senate bill No 341. which are Identical
in form. and which provide legislation for
Whereas, Said bills would be great detri-
ment to the building of new railroads, both
steam and electric, and would thus stifie COM
petition and retard progress therefore, De II
Resolved, by the Merchants Exchange of
Oakland That We are opposed to the passage
OF said Senate bill No. 341 and Assembly bill
No. 472. and strongly urge the Alameda
County Legislative delegation to use their best
efforts to defeat the passage of these bills.
D. G. Brown and Wilbur Walker, rep
resenting the exchange. will go to Sac
ramento to fight the bill.
The Board of Trade adopted the fol-
lowing:
Whereas, We regard the bills before
the Legislature Of the State known as Senate
bill No SAL and Assembly bill No. 4i2. con-
cerning grade crossings, as inimical to the
interests of our community well as against
the best interests of the State of California;
and
Whereas The passage of the bill in it's pres
ent form might retard the building and would
result in preventing and hampering the opera
tion of competing railroads, both steam and
electric; now, therefore. be it
Resolved, That we, directors of the Oakland
the Legislature to use every proper means
and exert every effort to defeat said Senate
bill No. 341 and Assembly bill No. 472.
Resolved. That copy of these resolutions
be sent to each member Of the House and
Senate from Alameda County.
Directors of the Board of Trade pres
ent at the meeting were: c. ]. Heese-
man, D. Edward Collins, NJ. ]. Keller,
r. P. NJ. Greeley, ]. Tyrrel, E. Lehn-
hardt, Dr. II. G.. Thomas and Duncan
McDuffie. e
The Board of Trade: received the
following telegram:
Oakland Board of Trade: Sacramento Cham.
ber of Commerce doing everything to defeat
Senate bill 341 regarding railroad crossings.
preventing building new railroads, steam or
electric. Passed Assembly. Wire your Sem
ators to defeat bill
SACRAMENTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WILLIAM LAND, President
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
STUDENTS MUST
FURNISH BONDS
Sophomore Class Takes First
Action in Preparing to
Protect It's Treasury
LEARNS BY EXPERIENCE
Honor System Is All Right,
but Youths Who Handle
Money Must Give Security
Berkeley once San Francisco Call

Berkeley ONCE San Francisco Call,
214S Center street, Feb. II.
For the first time in the history Of
the university class officers who handle
money entrusted to them as managers
of class enterprises will be put under
bonds, as is done in commercial life or
in public office. The sophomore class
decided to-day that its officers, some
of whom will have charge Of many
thousands Of dollars, shall all give Sc
curity, to be regularly provided by
first-class surety company.
The action taken by the sophomore
class is, in part, the result of George
W. LADDERS defalcation a year ago,
when he was business manager OF the
Occident magazine, a university pub
lication, and the sophomore class treas
urer. He came to the college from st.
Helena and was prominent in all the
activities of his class.
Lauder belonged to the Phi Kappa
Sigma, an exclusive fraternity, and
this society later assumed the respOn-
sibility of making good his peculations.
His accounts as class treaurer were in
belonging to the Occident magazines
treasury.
The fraternity men shielded him in
the first instance and his cash, as class
treasurer, was made TO balance. Lau-
der disappeared soon after, however,
with several hundred dollars Of Occl-
dent coin and has not been heard Of
since.
Because of this and of similar af-
fairs the students believe that business
customs should prevail where business
is done by college classes. The sopho-
more class has taken the initiative and
at a meeting this morning appointed
H. z. Sherman chairman of a COM
mittee to submit list of the bonds un-
der which class officers are to be put.
The business manager of the Blue
and Gold will have the heaviest bond.
and his probably will be for not less
than $4,000. In his position he handles
more money than any other class Of
ficer. The bonds of other class officers
will be in proportion.
The class this morning nominated the
following sophomores for positions on
the Blue and Gold of '07: Editor, r.
Gabbert and Gurden Edwards: busi-
ness manager, Jack Eggers and j.
Hastings. The election is to take place
a week from to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
WILL RAISE DEBT FROM
FINE SACRED EDIETCE
Bishop Hamilton Predicts Great Re-
suit at California a-Street Methodist
Episcopal Church Tomorrow.

Within the walls of California
street Methodist Episcopal Church
there was great joy last night at a
dinner at which sat Bishop John w.
Hamilton, d. D., LII. d.; DR.. w. S.
Matthew, DIR. George B. Smyth, the
Rev. George A. Hough, W. C.. Baker
and number of laboring men. pro-
fessional men and young men engaged
in city pursuits.
When Bishop Hamilton arose after
many others had spoken, he brought
out volley of applause. by saying
that next Sunday morning, February
19, there would be a collection that
would place the handsome edifice out
of debt. He prophesied that the Califor-
nia-street Church would be the most
popular in San Francisco and he pre-
sented the scene before him as evi-
dence to strengthen his prediction. He
spoke of the permanence of the Chris
tian church. When all else crumbled
and faded it had lived, grown and be-
come powerful.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
SCHOLARS TELL
OF UNIVERSITY
LIFE IN EAST

BERKELEY. Feb IT-Profesors A. O.
Leuschner and Irving Stringham. who were
chosen by the graduate council of the State
University 10 represent It at Johns Hopkins
University at the sixth annual meeting of the
Association Of American Universities have re-
turned and report successful meeting at Bal
'inore- The California men incidentally gave
heed 10 the progress universities are making IN
the East, and each reports that the advance
ment OF every university Of prominence is most
notable Much regret, they say, was expressed
al the inability OF President Wheeler to be
present at the meeting. President Eliot OF
Harvard, who never before has missed a meet
inG Of the association. was also absent un-
svoidsbly.
Announcement was made at the Baltimore
meeting Of an important action taken by the
University of Berlin with reference to America n
Students In the future bachelors degree
taken IN an American university will eutitle
an American student 10 the same privilege at
nssium- Attendance upon graduate courses in
any institution OF the Association of American
Universities VIII be accepted as equivalent to
resident stucy at the Berlin university Tor TIE
degree Of doctor Of philosophy.
The following programme viii be rendered by
the University Orchestra in the Greek Theater
next Sunday: Overture. .Raynond'' fT,hon
as); "cujus Amman. from .'Stabat Mater
tBossinD: Ballet Music from Faust (Gou-
ter; waltz, "Ange d'Amour'' CWaldteufeD
The women students OF the university are
pxf
Wednesday In elaborate fashion The mo
ersnne includes tennis tournament and has
ket-oah contest In the morning and regatta
cr Lake Merritt in the afternoon. In the even
ing the 'co-e EDS" will be at home TO their
friends at Hearst Hall, where dancing win he
enjoyed. Booths will be installed on the lower
floor, and the upper floor VIII serve as a dane
ing hail. There will be FIVE booths-a Dutch
booth, colonial booth, an Indian wigwarn a
Puritan corner and an ''Occident'' booth Lit
tie men and little women dancers so called
are 10 dance the ninuet feature that is ex
pected 20 be a novelty.
The university department of architect,,re
has removed from its old quarters over the
poetof6ce TO apartments in the new First Ma :
tiOnsl Bank building The three front rooms
Of the nth story have been chosen by John
Galen Howard, head OF the architectural dc :
psrtment, FOR his office and the draughting
rooms.
Members Of the Commerce Cub of the un,-
versity have obtained the coveted privilege of
visiting and examining the San francisco
Clearing house and the American National
Bank TO- morrow morning
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
YOUNG MAIDEN
DESERTS HOME
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
1915 Broadway, Feb. Il.

Pretty black-eyed Hattie Unger, who
has seen but sixteen summers, is miss
ing from her home, 1476 Fruitvale av-
enue, Fruitvale, and her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Unger, are fearful
that their daughter has eloped with
dies peanuts ON Santa Fe train. They
have confided their fears to the police
and a search for the absent girl has
been begun by the authorities.
Miss Unger was last seen in Fruit
vale Wednesday afternoon. When she
did not return home in the evening her
father made inquiries of his daughters
girl friends, but failed to find any clew.
While Unger has no positive proof that
Harry Nichols is responsible for the
disappearance of his daughter he de-
clares an attachment has existed be-
tween the pair for some time. Mrs.
Unger said tonight that she believed
her daughter was stopping with friends
and that she would return to the fam
lily happy and single.
Miss Unger'S parents conduct a
tailoring establishment and the girl as
sisted them. She is an attractive
brunette and when she left home was
attired in q blue skirt, red waist and a
large red hat. According to neighbors
Miss Unger made her first romantic at
tempt to elope last summer, but was
captured with her dress suit case and
baggage at the Sixteenth-street sta
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
SAY HOCH'S
WIFE DIED FROM POISON
Arsenic Found I'm Stomach, Which
Indicates That Murder
Was Done

CHICAGO. Feb. 17.-Doctors w. 9.
Haines and o. w. Lewke. who have
been analyzing the stomach and liver
Of Mrs. Marie Walcker-Hoch, the lat
est victim Of Johann Hoch. declared
definitely to-day that the woman's
death was due to arsenical poisoning.
DR.. Lewke, who is the Coroner's physi-
clan, said the arsenic in the stomach
indicated an intent TO murder.
with the evidence Of four analyses
before u.s. said DR.. Lewke. there is
no doubt left that Mrs. Walcker died
as the result Of work which would
have done credit to a Borgia-'
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
LEAKE TO ADMINISTER
THE DUNSMUIR. ESTATE
He Files Petition to Be Appointed to
Place Made Vacant by Resigna-
ton of Charles III. Lowell.

OAKLAND, Feb. 17.-Following
the resignation of Charles H. Lowell
as administrator of the estate of the
late Josephine Dunsmuir, the petition
of w. S. Leake to be appointed to fill
the vacancy was filed with the County
Clerk to-day. AS soon as the matter
can be heard the change in admins
traitors will be made final. This, it is
understood, is according to the wish
of Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress,
and the heir to the property left by
Mrs. Dunsmuir.
Lowell, prior to the death of Mrs.
Dunsmuir, was her manager and had
charge of Sather Farm, the beautiful
country home of the deceased near
San Leandro. This property is val
ued at $500 and brings in an an
nual rental of $4,000 a year. In the
will Lowell was left legacy of $10,-
600.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
METHODIST BOOK CONCERN
TRANSFER is RECORDED

A deed was placed on record yester-
day showing the conveyance by the
Methodist Book Concern in the City
of New York to Louis Friedman of
the property at 1887 Market street
for a consideration of S125,OOO
A mortgage was also recorded at
the same time to secure a loan of
$4,000 made by the Methodist Book
Concern to Louis Friedman, the prop
erty conveyed being given as security.
The mortgage Is to run for four years
at 6 per cent per annum. Friedman
had made deposit on the purchase
price and 1t was once reported that
the sale would be Cancelled.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
Describes Comets Motion.

BERKELEY, Feb. 17.-The latest
Lick Observatory bulletin issued by
the University Press gives an account
OF Assistant Astronomer Aitken'S in
vestigation of the motion of the comet
discovered by Borrelly at Marseilles
on December 2S. Instead of being
merely a transient visitor, as most
comets are, Aitken finds that this
comet is a member of the solar sys-
tenn and that it makes a complete
revolution about the sun once in seven
years and three months.
1t reached its point of nearest ap-
proaeh to the sun on January 16,
passing between the orbits of the
earth and Mars. In about three and
one-half years it will reach the fur
ther limit of its orbit and will then be
outside of the orbit of Jupiter.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
BOARDM NOW
HAS GUARDIAN
Aged Millionaire Admits His
Incompetency and Asks
Palmanteer's Appointment
YOUNG WIFE WINS OUT
Succeeds in Preventing Octo-
genarian Husband From
Giving Estate to Charities
Oakland once San Francisco Call.

1915 Broadway, Feb IL.
Rather than take his chances of
standing his trial on the charge of in
competency made against him by his
wife, Millionaire Joseph Boardman
acknowledged at the opening of the
hearing this afternoon that he was not
capable Of looking out for his affairs
and asked Judge Ogden to appoint w.
q. Paimanteer of the Central Bank as
his guardian. The move was entirely
unexpected by his young wife, but her
attorneys said they were only anxious
to stop Boardman from giving away
his property. Palmanteer- would be
agreeable to them, and he was appoint
ed forthwith and his bond fixed at
$3.50, 900
Boardman is over 80 years old. A
Few years ago he married Blanche
Walker, 1S years of age, by whom he
has one child. 1t recently came to the
knowledge of Mrs. Boardman that her
husband was about to give away a
large part of his estate to the Y. NJ. C.
A. and other institutions. She imme-
diately began proceedings. Boardman's
income from his property in San Fran
cisco amounts to $4,000 a year. His
property in Oakland yields $500 year.
He has $4,000 cash in bank and money
invested in the Realty Syndicate.
Many witnesses were summoned in
the matter, but owing to the action
taken by Boardman the expected legal
fight was not necessary. Aged and bent,
Boardnan said ne would like to be
sworn. He asked for the protection of
the court, admitting that he could not
properly care for his property request
ing the appointment of Palmanteer.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18

OAKLAND, Feb. 17.-Enra ged be-
cause his former queen has obtained a
divorce and married another man.
Meterio Bonavish, a Roumanian gypsy
king, has sought revenge by kidnap-
ping five Of his children, who were
given by the court to the mother now
Mrs. Mary Stanley, when the divorce
was granted. One of the children,
Maretsa, girl fourteen years of age,
was stolen last summer, while the
mother was camped near Marysville.
The father later sold the child to a
fellow gypsy, Michael Stancovich, for
500. After buying the girl, Stancovich
by means of beatings and threats
forced the girl to marry him. The
ceremony was performed at Marys-
Vile by the Rev. Father Coleman, in
July, 1904, the father having falsely
stated that the child was eighteen
years of age.
Previous to the KIDNAPPING of the
girl The father had induced a son,
Frank Bonavish, to leave his mother
He taught the boy to steal and then
turned him adrift. The lad is now
in the Whittier Reform School.
Last night Bonavish, who is camped
with band of gipsies in Fruitvale,
SbO1e dUOlHeI Ol Iu6 CnllQren, Clara,
10 years old. This morning the
arrest. While she was at the police
station the father, accompanied by his
eldest son, came to the tent of Mrs
Stanley and lured the two youngest
children, Rosie, age 8, and Edna Beat
rice, age 8 years, from the tent and
carried them away. The mother re-
turned TO find the tent deserted. AL
ancf n1I l.xr& l1k1
former husband she hurried again to
the police and reported the loss of the
last Of her little ones
A policeman was sent at once to the
camp of Bonavish at Fruitvale. but
the willy gypsy, fearing pursuit, had
not gone there sbut I'D taken the
children to some other lace for safe
keeping. The members of his band
denied any knowledge of his where
abouts, saying that the captain" had
gone to San Francisco early in the
morning. Up to q late hour tonight
he had not returned to his camp.
The warrant for the arrest of Bona
wish is now in the hands of the police,
but Mrs. Stanley fears he will escape
Mrs. Stanley, who is a gypsy fortune
teller at 616 Broadway, tells the fol-
lowing story of her ex-husbands per-
secution since she was divorced from
Bonavish in 1901:
Bonavish, who sometimes goes under the
name or lganowitch, was cruel TO me almost
from the day of our marriage, and 1 finally
got divorce from him in Colorado on June
IL lSOl Shortly afterward 1 married nv
present husband Frank Stanley and since that
tlme my first husband has given me no rest
One by one he has stolen my children. begin
ming with my son Frank, who is now in the
REFORM school. Then he stole my daughter
Maretss, whom he later forced to marry Mich
ael Stancoyich, to whom he sold her for 500
The child hated her husband from the drst
ano at last sne ran away and fearing pursuit
attempted to commit suicide Now this ms n
has stolen the rest OF my little ones and 7
know that unless l can get them back before
he can get away he VIII sell them too Frt
/ will not give them up, and intend to And
out whether he can take my children from, me
after the courts have given them 70 me.