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The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
ALAMEDA COUNTY news

FORM NEW CHURcH.-Oakland. March
2z-ArticIes OF Incorporation Of the First
Church Of Christ tScien1ist) Of Berkeley were
filed with the County Clerk to day. The d.
rectors are Julia c. Baird, Mrs Andrew J.
Ralston Mary A. Huggins Gertrude McCaslin
Helen p Smyfh. Sadie r. Juster and Elizabeth
c Witter There is no capital stock as the
MARRIAGE LICENSES. S.-Oakland March
eued by the County Clerk to-day: George
y Peoples, 2S. and Emily E SchoIl. d. both
of San Francisco; Frank J. Bramhsll So and
Helen Houghron. 32, both of Oakland: Carl
Goerfz % and Wilheimina Denning I6 both
OF Oakland; Louis Smith, over 2l San Rafael
and Martha Furst, over IS, Oakland
DEATH TAKES MRS. c. p WARREN
Alameda, March 2z--Mrs- Cora Rayburn
warren passed away to-day al the family resi-
dence 1920 Alameda avenue. She was the
wife Of Charles p Warren and daughter Of
George r. Bissell. one 81 the early principals
of the local School Department Besides her
husband Mrs. Warren leaves two children
Eugene r and Il Keith Warren. Deceased
was native Of ST. Louis. aged 13 years.
THE DIVORCE MILL-oakiand March "a
The following divorce matters were disposed
Of IN the courts to-day: John o. Niedt was
granted q final decree from Emma P Niedt
fn2i decree from Manuel Fost for cruelty and
she was allowed to resume her maiden name
q Martin. Bertha r. Krucleberg was granted
en- fnterlocutory decree from Edward w
Kruckebere for extreme cruelty. Martha Ma
koslc was granted S35 a month alinony pend
Makoski FOR cruelty; Victor Dieudonne was
granted the custody OF the minor children
pending the trial Of his suit against Katie
Dieudonne for deeerfion.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
JUDGE COOK POSTPONES
SENTENCE ON RADCLIFFE
Witnesses as to Character of Young
Man Who Killed Andrew Riley
Will Be Heard.

Harry Radcliffe, convicted of mur-
der in the second degree by jury in
Judge Cooks court for shooting and
killing Andrew Riley at Ninth and
Sheridan streets on the morning of
June 26, appeared for sentence yester-
day morning. His girl wife was in
court and she was the picture of mis-
cry as she sat with her face buried in
a handkerchief.
Attorney Lindsay made a strong
plea for mercy for the defendant. The
Judge asked the District Attorney If
he knew anything about the defend
ant, and he replied that in all fairness
he would say that he knew nothing
against him except that he had been
wild young man.
Thereupon the Judge asked Attor-
ney Lindsay to have the witnesses
present on Monday morning, remark
ing that there was wide latitude al
lowed him in the degree of punish
ment, ranging from ten years to life
imprisonment. The jury, he said,
had evidently believed the testimony
of the wife, otherwise the verdict
would have been murder in the first
degree.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
SUPERVISOR LUNSTEDT
STOUTLY DENIES CHARGES
Says He Never Communicated With
Manager Lawless I'm Connection
With Gas Rates.

Supervisor Theodore Lunstedt
stoutly denies the charges that he was
in any way connected with the alleged
scheme to force the gas company to
pay over money for the fixing of
rates. Lunstedt makes the following
statement:
SAN FRANCISCO. March "A, 1905
Editor OF The Csll-Dear Sir: AS l have
not been interviewed before, owing to the
death of my brother and as the full purport
OF the charges against five members of the
Board OF Supervisors was not called to nv at
tention until this morning, 1 trust you will do
me the justice of giving space to NV. brief
Lawless In my life except in open meetings OF
the Board Of Supervisors and then only bv
asking questions pertaining to the gas INQUIRY
then going on, did I ever visit Mr. Law
less any other official of the gas company
1t has never been my policy a public Off
cial either TO favor or to cfnch corporations
with whom the board and its members were
the 90-cent gas rate did SO feeling that l
doing my duty to the people and Justice
to the San Francisco Gas and Electric Com
pany. It seems to me to be the rankest kind
of injustice 10 attempt to besmirch the char
acter of public servants who are conscientious
Politics is generally considered to be a dirty
game and in this case the game seems 10
have been played to the limit. shall at next
Mondays meeting Of the board not only re-
quest but demand that these ridiculous and
cowardly charges be fully investigated / In
vite a thorough and complete investigation OF
my vote, not only upon the gas question but
upon all matters voted upon since / have been
member Of the board. Respectfully yours,
THEO. LUNSTEDT.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
DIPLOMATS TO HASTEN
TO THEIR NEW POSTS
President Anxious That White Should
Take Up His Duties in
italy


ST. PETERSBURG, March 24.-Mc-
Cormick, the retiring ambassador to
Russia, has received urgent instruc-
tions from Washington to proceed to
Paris at the earliest possible moment.
WASHINGTON, March 24-Inquiry
here reveals the fact that the orders
to ambassador Mccormick to proceed
Immediately to Paris are to be ex-
planned, not on the ground of any dip
lomatic emergency at the French capi-
tai, but solely because of the PRESIDENT 8
desire to have Henry White, former
secretary of the embassy at London
and newly appointed ambassador to
Italy, take up his post at Rome at the
earliest possible moment. The project
ed international agricultural congress.
in which the Italian Government has
succeeded in interesting President
Roosevelt; the attitude of Italy toward
San Domingo; the probabilities of peace
negotiations in the near future, in
volving combined action by the Euro
pean powers, and several other diplo-
matte matters of Importance, all new
and, therefore, preferably to be dealt
with by the incoming ambassador
rather than one about to be transferred,
are some of the reasons assigned for
sending White at once to Rome, al
though he had fully expected to enjoy
a vacation in this country.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
KINIRY MUST SPEND HIS
LIFE IN PRISON.
HEART BREAKER
LANDS IN JAIL
Special Dispatch to The Call.

DENVER, March 24.-After twelve
years of strenuous adventures, Mrs.
Scott Smedley, formerly Miss Edith
Simmons of Atlanta, Ca, a bewitching
blonde, has landed in Jail charged with
obtaining money on false pretenses.
Joseph Wells, a once wealthy Ne
braskan, charges that she has secured
$4,000 from him by promising to Sc
cure a divorce and marry him. Wells
is IS and Mrs. Smedley 33. After get
ting his last $4,000, he says, she left
him and came to Denver, where her
husband. a former Lincoln clothing
salesman, had started q flourishing
business and bought an automobile
with the proceeds of his wife's f1irta-
tions. Husband and wife were taken
back to Lincoln to-day.
Mrs. Smedley had two husbands be-
fore she married Smedley. She posed
at Nebraska boarding school as sim
gle and an heiress, and spent brief va
cations alternately with her two hus-
bands until one of them cast her off.
Then she shipped the other one, mar
ried Smedley and, after a year with her
rich lover Wells, is said to have Sc
cured all his money and to have left
him.
When arrested she was in Colorado
Springs TO meet a rich Texas lawyer,
who thought she would get a divorce
and marry him.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
COMMERCIAL MUSEUM SENDS
STATEMENT TO BRISTOW
Addresses Federal Commissioner ON
Subject of Freight Movements
On the Pacific Coast.

The Pacific Commercial Museum
has addressed letter to j. L. Bristow.
Federal commissioner, relating to
traffic, in part, as follows:
The report of the Canal Commission having
contained many potent facts relating to the
commerce of the Pacific Coast and the effect
upon such trade by the opening OF the canal
to more direct by Eastern shippers as
we'll as by those of England and the continent
of Europe this institution undertook to elicit
information from the important trade centers
of Central America, South America and the
west coast OF Mexico, besides other Pacific
Ocean countries. to the opinions of the mer-
chants in those countries regarding the pos
sibilities of creating and fostering a more
direct trade with the Pacific Coast OF the
United States.
As a result we have received from many re-
liable sources information indicating that mer-
chants of the above mentioned countries are
both eager and willing to extend their rea-
tions with the Pacific Coast. and that while
present conditions of freight transportation via
Panama may be a favorable reason why such
would be possible, yet in many cases 1t has
been pointed out to us that the opening of
the canal or the operation of the Panama
Railroad Jointly with outside steamship SER
vice. tramps or otherwise, will unquestion-
ably lower the transportation rates on Euro
pean goods exported to Pacific Ocean coun-
tries, thereby eventually shutting out the sug-
gested possibilities Of increased business with
the Pacific Coast.
1t is known that even to-day notwithstand-
ing the high cost of transportation by direct
steamer, or via Panama, Europe is chief
competitor in the markets OF Pacific Ocean
countries. 1t should be apparent that with
still cheaper freight rates and opportunities
for quicker delivery by the use of the canal.
or the Panama Railroad, the European trade
in those markets will stfll further tend to
affect the commercial relations Of Pacific Coast
merchants.
1t is, therefore. naturally contended that due
consideration should be directed toward main
tanning conditions serving to strengthen and
not jeopardize the foreign trade Of Pacific
y
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
MILK DRIVERS
DISPUTE ENDS
60

The Labor Council held an execu-
tive session last night, at which the
disputed question between the milk
wagon drivers and the Cooperative
Milk Company was taken up. Some
time ago the union men demanded
that the company be boycotted as un-
fair because stockholders were put on
the wagons, but this the Labor Coun-
Gil refused to allow.
After lengthy discussion the coun-
ell decided that the drivers at present
employed by the cooperative COM
pany be admitted into membership of
the Milk Wagon Drivers Union at the
regular rate of $40. This also stirred
up discussion, as the union has two
admission processes. The sum of $40
is charged for admission to the union,
while $40 membership entitled those
who join and pass a medical examina-
ton to certain benefits. The council
submitted the following report on the
question::
THAT the Milk Wagon Drivers
Union shall admit to membership the
milk wagon drivers at present en-
ployed by the Workingmen's Cooper
ative Commercial Company at fee
of $40 each, and that the Workingmen's 8
Cooperative Commercial Company
shall sign the agreement of the Milk
Wagon Drivers Union, and that all
drivers needed in the future shall be
selected from the membership Of the
Milk Wagon Drivers Union"
Michael Casey announced that he
would move to reopen the case at the
next meeting of the Labor Council
on next Friday night
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
ALL OFFENDERS
. TO BE EXPELLED
Scandals at University to Be
Followed by Measures
Radically Administered
MOTHER BEGS FOR son
Thieving Senior to Be Dis
missed Boisterous Con-
duct Not to Be Allowed
MOTHER BEGs FOR son
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call
2148 Center Street. March "a

2148 Center Street. March "a.
Strict enforcement Of rules that are
supposed to govern the conduct of uni
versity students Is to be one of the
results following the scandals created
by Yell Leader Bulkeley's expulsion,
and the arrest two days ago of J. A.
Harris, a senior, charged with stealing
from his fellow students. Riotous con-
duct hitherto allowed to pass unno-
ticed is to be followed by summary dis
cipline summarily administered. Com
plants against offending students will
to be well founded punishment will
follow at once.
Expulsion from the university is to
be the fate of j. A. Harris, the stu
dent who has confessed to a long
series of thefts from his comrades. The
widowed mother of young Harris Wis
tied President Wheeler this morning
and with tears pleaded for mercy for
her son. The blow to her Is regretted
by the college authorities, but SYM
pathy for the mother is not to inter-
In the case of the dishonest senior.
He will be expelled as soon as his case
is passed upon by the court.
The university authorities apparently
are determined to show that offenses Of
students are not condoned In the slight
est degree by the faculty, and the stu
dent body, as well, agrees for the most
part that strict measures should be
taken in all cases Of rule breaking, so
that the outside world may know OF
the university's feeling in the matter.
The students official paper this morn
ing editorially says: I'VE don't want
thieves and then follows a ringing
editorial from the pen of Editor ]. P
Loeb.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
Four Jurors Refuse
to Give Extreme
Penalty.
After Long WrangIe
Verdict Finally
Reached.

e OAKLAND, March 24-Life impris-
onment was the verdict brought in
this afternoon by the jury in the
Kiniry murder trial after twenty
four hours elaboration. The long
discussion was the result Of the refusal
Of four Of the jurors TO hang the man
they believed was guilty of the crime
IS charged. The all-night session was
q very strenuous one, and at times the
arguments among them resulted al
, most IN a resort to blows.
While an agreement was made
among the jurors that nothing should
be said as to how they stood or the
points upon which they disagreed, two
were so incensed at the compromise
they were forced to make in order to
bring in verdict that they consented
TO talk, and said that Carl Kreiling,
Alfred II. Hay, c. A McClain and A
]. Partridge were responsible for the
verdict Of life Imprisonment. These two
jurors said that they. all agreed that
Kiniry was guilty and that he fired
the fatal shot. Hay told the other
jurors that he once voted TO hang a
man. and that he could see him about
him in the jury-room, and that he
would not hang another, even If he had
l. let Kiniry go.
the verdict. He ailnlessly looked at
the end Of his fingers as Judge Greene
read the verdict before its announce
nsent. and when Clerk AcNulty read
the verdict aloud Kiniry gave no indi-
cation Of his feelings. although he es-
capped hanging by a narrow margin.
dis day OF sentence was set for Fri
DAY week, and he was taken back to
the Jail
-rto,,, ,,-a,,, ,,.,,a,,s 1,,-;7e.- ~ ,,,,o,-.
who were disappointed at the verdict.
District Attorney Allen, Deputy Har-
lis and Police Judge Mortimer Smith,
brother Of the policeman for whose
murder kiniry was tried, were openly
chagrired at the compromise verdict.
harris said. 1T was as clear q case
as ever went 10 a jury, and these men
who arc responsible for it upon their
oaths during their examination said
that they had no feeling against the
death penalty"
1t was shortly after O'Clock yester-
DAY afternoon when the jury retired
for deliheratiOn. and they were ushered
back twenTy-four hours later. The
sJrors who tried the case were: George
". Shreve, r. T. Phillips. Otto Me
haus, Carl Kreiling. Alfred H. Hay
Farley ?. Granger, ]. A. Marshall
Justus OVeracl1er, G. A McClain, John
u. Greed and W. w. Walker. They
took seventeen ballots. but never once
did more than eight vote for he death
penalty. The question was openly put
10 the four as to which they would do
II there were but two verdicts possible
either TO acqIit or hang the defend
ant. They said they would make him
a free man first
Kiniry. while not yet % years of age,
is looked upon as one of the worst
criminals in the country. Kiniry's ca
reer shows that he would stop at noth-
ing, and it was not his fault that he
old not kill Policeman Henderson Of
Los Angeles, upon whom he opened
fire at short range at the time Of his
captlrre
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
Strengthens His Chain of
Evidence Attaching to
the Buggy and It's Driver
NEGRO WOMAN'S STORY
Two Females Said to Have
Met Men and Received.
Large Quantity Of Gold.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1016 Prooduov March %

.
Several interesting and probably i'm
portant facts developed in the
Siege hold-up case to-day. A ne
gro woman offered what may be
important evidence relative to the
disposition Of the coin that was
stolen; cartridges from the Winchester
that one Of the robbers carried were
found and more witnesses were exam
ined regarding the Identification Of the
buggy which one of the highWaymen
was supposed to have hired from Aber-
nethy's stable
This morning Sheriff Barnet took the
horse and buggy from Abernethys
the mysterious &c. RUSSELL hired the
rig. The Sheriff drove out San Pablo
road, where the rig was carefully ex-
amined by w. G. Wilt, foreman Of a
construction gang on the new Rich
mond electric road, who noticed on
Monday the DAILY buggy and second
one driven hard toward Oakland. Will
lit said: This horse is the same In
color and size as the one l noticed
Monday"
Adam Frost Of West Berkeley saw
the two buggies speeding along Mon
day morning on Hopkins street. The
drivers inquired where Sacramento
street was, and how to get into Oak
land. The pair answered the descrip-
ton of the robbers.
John Rose, a boy, to-day found sew
eral Winchester cartridges in the grass
on Sacramento street near University
avenue, a block from where Days
buggy was found
Hester MlngO, a negresS, has related
a story of seeing two men and two
women empty grip of loose gold coin
Monday afternoon at the corner of
Fifth and Franklin streets. The wo-
man said she saw a tall man standing
there with the grip when a young
woman approached him. Shortly after
ward second man, short and stocky,
joined the pair. The tall man opened
the grip from which the young woman
took several handfuls of gold coin.
The short man was also given q guam
tity OF the coin. A second woman
Joined the group after the short man
departed, walking slowly along Frank
lin street toward Sixth.
Leland Clark and Ralph briggs, boys,
found a canvas telescope bag this
morning in barn on Center street,
near Shattuck avenue, Berkeley, which
contained mems underwear, an empty
money-box, inscribed Bank of Butte
County, Chico, CAL some books and
papers, containing the addresses, AL
bert Macy, Eldora, Ia, and Albert
Macy, New Providence, Ia. A Wells,
Fargo & Co. Express seal was on the
bag. The police think the find was
discarded plunder from theft
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
Bible STORY
IS EXPLAINED
Special Dispatch to The Call

BALTIMORE, Nd, March 24.-The
biblical story of Eve being formed from
the rib of Adam was explained to-day
by Professor James L. Dennis of Balti-
more.
Nowadays men have twelve ribs.
Eight thousand years ago they had
thirteen. Professor Dennis knows this
is so because he has seen old skeletons.
He said party of which he was in
charge, discovered ITS mummies In
Egyptian tombs, and that of this
number the thirteen ribbed individu-
ais were so plentiful as to make this
anatomical popularity a distinctive
feature
These peculiar skeletons dated back
5000 years B. c. Professor Dennis told
an audience at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, $50 men soon after the crea-
tion must have had thirteen ribs
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
WEST BERKELEY MATRON
TRIES TO END HER LIFE
Husband Declines to Permit Despond-
ent Wife to Be Seen by Any
InpuirerS

ent Wife to Be Seen by Any
InGuirers.
BERKELEY, March 24.-Two at
tempts to commit suicide were made
to-day by Mrs. May Douglas, a young
married woman Of West Berkeley,
both of which were frustrated by
friends and members of her family.
No reason is given for the rash ac-
tions of the woman, the husband, who
is a mining amalgamator, declining to
permit his wife to see any inquirers or
to give information himself regarding
the case.
Mrs. Douglas tried to throw herself
from the deck of Key Route ferry
boat this morning on Its first trip to
San Francisco, but was restrained by
passengers, who caught her as she
rushed toward the rail.
Soon after 9 o'clock the young
woman made her second attempt at
suicide, this time swallowing the con-
tents of a three-ounce bottle of lin
iment in her home. Her mother was
present and promptly got the assist
ance of a physician, who admins
tered an emetic and saved the de-
spondent woman's life.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
SAY PANAMA ROAD SHOULD
BE FOR FREE COMPETITION
Californian Cannerfes Company Adj
dress Important Communication
TO Commissioner BristoW.


The officials Of the California Can
neries Company have addressed COM
munication to United States Commits
sioner Bristow of the Panama Canal
Commission stating their views on the
railroad across the isthmus. The can
merry men contend that the railroad
SHOULD be for free competition and that
the Government might dispose of the
steamship lines on the Atlantic coast,
leaving the lines there as we'll as on
the Pacific coast free to be operated
by private enterprise. The communi-
cation in part reads as follows:
There is no need to say more on
this subject, because we feel satisfied
that your investigation will demon
strate the situation, and we will there
fore conclude by merely mentioning
that to-day California produces in
many lines of agriculture sufficient for
5O,000,000 of people, with less than
100000 consumers. Between this
State and the center of population of
this country, as you are aware, there is
what might be termed a vast desert,
which. must be crossed by the rail-
roads to reach the consumers We
have at our door the vast Pacific; we
have one of the finest seaports in the
world, and yet instead of having twenty
or thirty steamship. lines centering
here and going out and bringing in
products and making this great dis
tributing point We find only a few
steamship companies, and these con-
trolled by agreements and contracts in
restraint of trade. When this city and
State reach their proper position as
distributing center for products and
manufactures, both inward and out
ward, the railroads will find just as
great profit in carrying goods from
Pacific Coast ports as far east as Utah
as they ever had in controlling the sit
uation by combinations and agree
ments''.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
INFANT GIRL is FATALLY
BURNED AT PARENTS HOME
Little Marie Elsie Lenhoff Meets With
Awful Death While Playing
With Sister

Marie Elsie Lenhoff, one year and
ten months old. died at her home; 1745
Ellis street. last night as the result of
burns received while at play the night
before with her sister, a year her
senior
The little girl was playing near an
open window and her sister set fire to
the curtain The flames enveloped the
child and she died last night after
suffering tortures for several hours.
The body was removed to the
Morgue. The parents of the child are
grief stricken over the sad tragedy.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
Policeman Book Promoted.

OAKLAND, March 24.-Patrolman
Charles Book was to-day appointed
sergeant of police by the Board of
Police and Fire Commissioners, the
deciding vote being that of Mayor Oh
ney. Commissioner Turner had pro-
posed Books name. and Commissioner
McElroy had presented Policeman
John Cox as a candidate for promo
ton. Book was appointed to the force
IN 1Q01
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
Child Eats strrchnine.

OAKLAND. March 24.-George
Lawrence Jr.. the six-year-old son of
George Lawrence. residing at 244
Harlan street. died to-day from eating
strychnine tablets. thinking they were
candy. The little fellow found a bot
tie of the tablets on a shelf and swal-
lowed a large number of them. Short
sly afterward he was taken with con-
vulsions and told his mother that it
was the white pills" DR.. Legault was
sent for, but the child died before he
arrived
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25
LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIyED.

Friday. March "a
Stmr San Pedro. Rasmussen, 80 hours from
San Pedro.
stmr chas Nelson. Christensen, 81 hours
from San Pedro.
Schr Eva. Bjornstorm. "a hours from San
SAILED.
Friday, March a.
Tug Dauntless. Shea, IN search Of schr C A
Kioee
stmr Norwood. Martin, Seattle
FOREIGN PORT.
VICTORIA-Passed In Mar 2Estmr Sena-
tor, from Seattle.
Passed out Mar 24-Br stmr wellington,
from Nsnaino for San Francisco; stmr Una
tllia, from Seattle. for San Francisco.