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for disturbing the peace. 1t was the
first time he had ever imbibed to ex-
cess, he said, for he was a Christian,
as was his better half, who was Miss
Fannie Watson when he led her to the
altar twenty-eight years ago. Their
eight children are also of the Christian
faith and the two that died in in
fancy were formally baptized by a
Christian clergyman. The family
home, at 726 Washington street, is
noted for its Christian orderliness. and
he. as the head Of the family. would
require all his Christian charity to for
give the heather who had shamed his
face by tempting him to drink deeply
OF spirituous liquor.
Didn't you drink intoxicants at all
prior to the overlooking in question ?"
asked the Judge.
No muchee-dlinkee III, like him
an you" replied Charlie Chung, nod
ding rapidly toward Patrolman Mills
and then toward the bench.
Several members Of the Chinatown
squad testified that the defendant was
"a decent Chink" and three of his
half-breed sons were good citizens and
regular voters. The first born. Willie.
operates an express wagon, in which
vocation his sire is also engaged. Case
dismissed.
For intimidating Angelo Bartonrs
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PATROL WAGON DRIVERS
MAY LOSE POSITIONS
Police Board Is Said to Be Contem-
plating the Dismissal OF Eight
Rein Holders

The Board of Police Commissioners
is reported as about to lop of the
heads of eight of the present patrol
wagon drivers to make room for some
of the Schmitz administration friends.
Much concern is felt by those who now
hold the reins on the police wagons.
The present head-lopping bee is sched-
uled to take place soon after the trial
of Whitman is finished.
AS far as it can the Police Board
intends to exercise its power in dis
missing present employees of the de-
partment and appointing friends Of the
administration to the vacated posi-
tions. The patrol drivers under the
charter are civil service employees, but
these men have so far successfully
evaded the taking of the Civil Service
Boards examinations through the pro-
curing of an injunction against the
board. Twice in the last two years
has the Civil Service Commission at
tempted to hold these examination and
each time restraining order has been
obtained by the patrol drivers from
the courts. The job is a fat one, pay
ing $50 a month. No money is spent
on uniforms. so that the salary, in con-
trast to the policeman's, Is clear
money.
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TRAINING FAITHFULLY
FOR THE BENEFIT GAME
Fire Laddies and "Coppers'' Getting
Into Form for Sundays
Great Contest.

Who will win? That is the ques-
ton that is worrying the fire and
police departments these days. The
baseball game to be played next Sun
day at Recreation Park between the
teams of the two departments is as
Stunning the proportions of cham
pionship affair and to pick the win
ner will be no easy task as the teams
will be in as good shape as hard daily
practice can make them.
Lieutenant Michael Joseph Conboy
will lead the rooters of the Police De-
partment again this year. The fire.
men will have strong batting team
this time and with Levy Buckley,
Murphy, Cuneo, Gallatin and Donna
dieu they promise to straighten out
Birdsalrs benders to the four corners
of the park. Seats will be placed on
sale Wednesday at Harris cigar store,
8 Stockton street, and those desiring
choice places had better apply early
as the grandstand seats are nearly all
sold.
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CITY NOW OWNS
MISSION PARK
Purchase Price for Two
Blocks Paid. to Sellers
and Deeds Are Recorded
YORKE GETS SOME CASH
Supervisors Pay Portion
of Claim and Suit Will
Be Brought for Balance

The deeds conveying the transfer to
the city of Mission blocks sc and 81
purchased under the bond issue for the
proposed Mission Park from two re-
ligious societies for 1921, $50. were re-
corded yesterday, the money Tor the
same having been paid over to the
sellers.
The recommendation OF the Finance
Committee that T. M. Yorke co.
be paid S5S13 on its August and
September demands for repairing btu
minous pavements was adopted by the
board. The demand called for SoS10 6S
and had been previously refused pay
ment because the committee held that
the capacity of the plant was not large
enough to do the work charged for.
Neither the city nor the company
prejudices any rights In par
TALLY settling the claim, 1t being
understood that court proceedings will
be instituted to settle the dispute. The
company wants $4,000 more.
The Century Club of California pc
utioned the board to modify the the
ater ordinance so as to permit Of the
erection of an auditorium seating 275
people in Its building at Sutter and
Franklin streets. The Board Of Works
has ordered operations to cease be-
cause the ordinance will be violated.
The petition was referred to the joint
Fire and Judiciary Committee, which
meets Friday at 1:30 .. m.
Acting Chief of Police Spillane re-
quested the board to re-enact an old
ordinance. making 1t unlawful for any
person to stand, walk or sleep upon
any grass plat in public parks, the
object being to arrest tramps who lie
on the grass principally in Washing
ton and Union squares The matter
was referred to the Police Committee.
The roadways Of Fifth avenue be-
tween Lake street and the Preside
reservation, Cherry street between
Washington and Clay, Fourth avenue
between Point Lobos avenue and
Clement street, and Pacific avenue be-
tween Cough and Octavia were fully
accepted.
The Board of Works was authorized
to expend 1925 to set back the hydranrs
on Fourth street between Market and
Howard, which Is to be widened and
paved
Jake Rauer was granted permission
to explode blasts for grading purposes
on the north side of Ellis street, be-
tween Cough and Octavia.
The Board of Works recommended
the repeal of the ordinance ordering
the Improvement of Mission street be-
tween Onondaga avenue and Porter
avenue and the passage of a new ordi-
nance which shall properly describe the
different classes Of works to be per-
formed on the street The recommen-
dation was referred to- the Street Com
mittee.
Edward Graney. through his attor-
ney, made formal demand on the
board for the payment of his warrants
for the shoeing of horses OF the Fire
Department, which have been held up
for two months.
Bids for official advertising were
filed by the Daily Journal of Com
merce at Sl4 cents per half inch and
Evening Post Publishing Company at
20 cents and were referred to the Print
ing Committee.
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STEPHEN LIKES
NOT THE PRESS
Surgeon, Mayor and Health
Boards President Meet
Secretly at the City Hall
WOULD EXCLUDE PAPERS
Three Pensioners of the
Schmitz Administration
Plan to Stop "ROasts'

DR.. James W. Ward, president Of the
Board of Health, Mayor Schmitz and
DR.. j. 1. Stephen. Chief Surgeon Of the
Emergency Hospitals. held a consulta-
tion Saturday night with a view to
placing restrictions on the newsgath-
erers Of the city dailies. Smarting un-
der the sting Of the many exposures OF
misconduct in office, these three city
officers considered the advisability Of
excluding the press from the hospitals
run under the municipal government.
and thus preventing reports Of alleged
grating methods from gaining publi-
city in the papers.
DR.. Stephen has been for some time
complaining Of the distressing articles
published regarding the lax and i'm
some of his associates in the hospital
service. AT Wards suggestion a meet
ing was arranged with the Mayor.
The three asDirants for long life IN
the money! getting municipal posts
quietly sought out the rooms Of the
Board Of Health last Saturday night.
and under the lowered gas lights tried
to adopt a plan whereby the nuisance
Of newspaper "roasts" could be done
away with without mourning too much
the displeasure Of the press. When ths
issue came up for discussion Stephen.
who has at divers times and places
said that as soon as the newspapers
exposed bis methods he would throw
them from the hospitals, showed th9
white feather and weakened on te final
vote. Schmitz and Ward favored ex-
Guiding the newspaper men, but Ste
phen,. fearing the publication Of mora
of his peculiar methods in ONCE. said
that he guessed that the press had
better have one more chance" II was
decided TO let matters rest as they
are for the time being.
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BOARD DESIRES
TO BUY LANDS
Supervisors Seek Offers Of
Sites for Improvements
and Will Sell More Bonds
POUNDMASTER RESIGNS
Irwin Gives Up Fight and
Society Is to Run Institu-
tion for Impounding Dogs

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
authorized the City Attorney to solicit
offers for the sale of all lands required
for school purposes and for the new
County Jail and addition to the Hall
of Justice under the bond issue. In
the event of failure to receive offers
to sell within the appraised valuation
fixed by the City Engineer. then con-
demnation proceedings to acquire the
lands will be commenced.
An ordinance was passed to print,
fixing May 1, 1905, as the date for
the filing of bids for sewer bonds to
the amount of $443,600, and school
bonds amounting to $4,000.
The offer of Henry Mulvihill to sell
a lot on street. near Fourteenth
avenue, for the Golden Gate Park and
cepted and a demand for the amount
was drawn in his favor.
The board confirmed the purchase
by the Board of Education of block
No. 3 in the Mission and Thirtieth
Streets Extension for $500, the cost
to be paid out of the proceeds of the
sales of school bonds.
1t was decided to dispense with the
inspection of elevators in the City
Hall and Hall of Justice and devote
the funds to repair work.
The board ordered demands filed by
eX-Poundmaster Irwin, aggregating
$460S IS, and those of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
for 1929 60 TO be paid. The society
was employed a year ago by the board
to conduct the pound and Irwin, the
Mayors appointee, was dispossessed
of his Office. The Superior Court con-
drmed the action of the board and the
society will proceed at once to i'm
pound stray animals, Irwin having
agreed to resign as Poundmaster. The
Mayor said he will approve the bond
of the society.
The Mayor was authorized to sell at
auction ten horses condemned by the
Fire Department.
The southerly half of Fifteenth
street, opposite the termination Of
Sharon street, was ordered to be paved
with bitumen.
The following ordinances were
finally passed:
Fixing the width of sidewalks on
California street, between Presidio
and Thirty-third avenues at fifteen
feet.
Ordering the construction of a con-
crete parapet from the beach to the
Cliff House at a cost of s4500.
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of insomnia had something TO do with
his desperate resolve to chop down
the Dodge dwelling. At any rate,
when he began TO hack at the humble
abode he felt that his act was justified.
The Misses Annie and Teenie Faix,
sisters of William, corroborated his
statements as TO the dementia-pro-
ducing effect of the cowbell. On the
night Of the chopping. Miss Annie
averred, Brother Bill" dropped on his
knees and with clasped hands raised
supplicaungly requested Mrs. Dodge
either to muff1e the bell or TO remove
il from the COW during the nocturnal
hours. Miss Teenie appreciated the
Interior motive of the belI-ringing at
unseemly hours. The plain truth of
the matter was that the Dodges
coveted the lot upon which the Faix
home stood and were Systematically
endeavoring to force the Faixs to va
cate ii. Miss Annie added that the
bell-ringing was only one feature Of
the annoyance visited on her and hers
by the Dodges, as while she was plant
ing vegeta bles in her garden Mrs.
Dodge sat upon the dividing fence and
made hideOus faces at her. It was
Miss Teenie's opinion that the cow
had been trained TO walk around the
FaiX cottage all night long and TO
shake its head so as to keep the
brazen clamor going. Nor was Miss
Annie surprised that Bill" committed
the chopping for which he was ar
rested. Indeed she Would not have
been astonished if he had buried his
ak in the brain of the COW, which,
by the by, was very elusive animal
Unlike good little children, il would
be heard, but not seen.
John Dodge, son Of the complaining
witness, denied that the noise made
I'LL L..
as the defense alleged. Furthermore,
so frightened were the Dodges by the
threats of Bill" FaiX that he (John)
had loaded his shotgun and awaited
the personal attack which he believed
was inevitable.
Mrs. Foux, also residing in the dis
turbed district, heard the thuds Of Mr.
Faix's ak as he swung it against the
Dodge abode, and also saw splinterB
Fly. She begged Bill to abstain
from killing Mrs. Dodge.
Then to Police Judge Fritz was i'm
parted the informa ton that Mr.. Faix
had recently appeared as complain
ant against Mrs. Dodge in the court
of Judge Cabaniss, the lady being ac-
cused Of disturbing the peace. and
that one outcome of that sQuabble
was the erection of a very tall fence
between the two homes by the owner
Of the one occupied by the Fakes.
So His Honor continued the case Of
Dodge VS.. Faix till next Friday, by
which time he will probably have
ascertained whether the defendant is
deserving OF Imprisonment or mere
reprimend.
"Dr." George Hire, with hair and
hat and frock coat q Ia Buffalo Bill
and Alfred Bell, devoid Of pictures
oueness. were arrested for vociferously
berating each other and thereby dis
turbing the peace at Kearny and Pine
streets, to the huge entertainment Of a
crowd that blocked traffic. "Dr" {"
Hire was expounding the virtues Of
his Celebrated Magic Gipsy Remedy, -
while Mr.. Bell was extolling the utility
OF certain household articles which he
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son by exhibiting deadly weapon in
rude and threatening manner"
arthur Newman was before Judge Mo-
gan. The weapon in question was an
aEtiquated military frearm, alleged to
nave been in active service against
santa Anna, and the prosecution de-
clared that 1t was aimed by Mr.. New
man at Master Bartoni while the lat
ter was lettering in propinquity to the
newman chicken-house on Delaware
avenue. between San Jose and Ocean
avenues, Ingleside district. The de-
fense protested that the weapon was
not deadly. inasmuch as 1t was incap-
able OF being fred and that therefore
the complaint was defective. The relic
OF turbulent past will be produced
In court to-day and on its serviceable-
ness depends to some extent the courts
finding.
A. L. Nesbitt alleged he was drunk
when William H. Wheeler robbed him
OF $50 in Fifth-street barroom. and
A. l.. Nesbit was drunk when he ap-
peared before Judge Mogan to testify.
His manner was rude and he insisted
on interrupting the witnesses under
examination, each interruption being
prefaced with Now, lookee here.
kid. When the court sternly admon-
ished him to maintain silence he said.
Now, lookee here, Judge, be a good
fellow" and to his undisguised aston
ishment he was promptly ordered into
custody, with instructions that he be
kept there until he is sober.
When the energetic Bailiff Hickey
summoned Tim Sullivan to step forth
from the cage and confront Judge Mo-
gan on the charge of drunkenness
three men in various stages Of un-
kemptness promptly responded. After
considerable difficulty the particular
Timothy Sullivan wanted was picked
out and quickly disposed of and then
the other two were taken one at a
time and treated as their respective
cases demanded. Inquiry. by the bailiff
developed the fact that the incarcera-
ton of the three namesakes was not
In the nature of family reunion, as
they met for the first time in the cage.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-07
Sues to Break Sisters VIII

Louise Bee yesterday filed a peti-
ton against George S. Hoover to have
the will of her sister, Marie E. Hoover,
set aside on the grounds of mental
ircompetency and undue influence.
The testatrix left $1,000 and valuable
real estate to her husband and friends
and cut off her sister and her sisters
child with 81 each. The plaintiff al
leges that Mrs. Hoover sold a valu-
able piece of property at the corner of
Stockton and O'Farrell streets to Matt
I. Sullivan for consideration of $40
and bases her claims of mental in
competency on the transaction.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-07
WHITMAN STATE
STILL IN DOUBT
Commissioners Examine More
Witnesses and Continue
Case Till This Evening
GAMBLING HAS STOPPED
Special Policeman Says He
Heard Chinaman Give Sig
nal of Warning to Ellis

The case Of Chief OF Police Whitman,
charged with neglect OF duty and In
competency, was resumed before the
Board of Police Commissioners yester-
day afternoon The testimony intro
bearing on the charges preferred
against the accused official and the
bulk Of the witnesses emphasized only
the well known fact that since Ser
geant Cook took charge Of affairs in
the heather quarter. gambling has been
suppressed and the clubs closed. The
prosecution will require about two
more sessions to complete its testi-
mony. These sessions will be held this
evening and tomorrow night On
Thursday night the defense will pre-
sent its case.
Captain of Police Thomas F. Duke,
whose district comprises Chinatown,
testified he had received no orders rela-
tive to the suppression OF gambling in
that section. He has charge only Of
uniformed policemen and he claimed
that inasmuch as a special squad is
detailed for that particular purpose the
interference of outsiders would do more
harm than good. Duke served in
Chinatown on several occasions and
admitted it was a difficult matter to
stamp out gaming.
James DOwney, a special policeman.
delivered hard blow to Sergeant Ell
lis, who confessed before the Grand
Jury to having taken bribes. Downey
stated about the middle of November
he was standing on corner with Ellis.
when a Chinese came up and informed
the latter that Chief Whitman was IN
Chinatown. Ellis Immediately asked
his informer if he had told the other
Chinese and when told that only few
of the heathens had been warned, FL
lis became excited Immediately and
went away hurriedly, rubbing his
hands.
Sergeant Jesse B. Cook, who has sue
ceeded in suppressing gambling. and
to whom the Chinese attribute super
natural powers, was the next witness
called. He said his method was to
clean all the gambling houses out as
quickly as he found them occupied.
Cook admitted that two years ago,
when he was detailed to Chinatown, he
requested Chief Whitman to remove
him. but his superior refused to do so
until Ill health made 1t necessary.
The remainder of the witnesses
Sergeants Brophy and Trayer, Detec-
tive George Mcmahon, Watchmen
James Lambert and j. W. Alsot and
Guides Tim O'Neill, Henry Jacobson,
George f. Hemings, John W. Lennon,
Charles Burnstein, John W. Hinch and
William Gallagher. all testified to the
fact that since Cook has been in the
district gambling has ceased The case
was put over until this evening at 7:30
o'clock and the cases of Sergeant
Prayer and Brophy were set for Friday
night.
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DIN DRIVES
NAN TO DESPERATION
HE TRIES TO RAZE HIS
NEICHBOR'S HOME.
WELDING of AK Leads to Court
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

offered for sale, and it was the vituper-
ative effort of each gentleman to dis
credit the others deelarations that
constituted the peace disturbance.
DIR" Hire testified that ten years
ago he began selling his cure-all at
Kearny and Pine streets, popularity
known as "Fakirs' Corner" and that
he nightly held forth there for eight
consecutive years, when he left the
city in response to the clamor of ailing
ruralists in all parts of California.
Several days ago, when he returned
from a tour that conveyed relief to in
Vulnerable sufferers, he found his old
stand in possession of Mr. Bell. Moth
ing daunted, however, the doctor"
erected his porta BILE pharmacy and re-
sumed the harangue that had never
failed to win an auditory. Nor did IT
then fail. So magnetic was it that
the throng surrounding Mr.. Bell quick
ly fiocked to the doctor" whereupon
Mr. Bell INDUCED in uncomplimentary
not TO say libelous, illusions to the
"Gipsy Remedy" Retaliation in kind
led TO the arrests.
Judge Cabaniss cautioned both de-
PENDANTS and then dismissed them.
Police Captain Duke was attired in
off-duty garb Sunday afternoon when
FreQ 1alne dccOSteO MIN at hedrny
and Bush streets with these words
Say, you're a spry-looking mug;
let's have a quarter"
Instead of complying with Mr..
Lathe's modest demand the captain
took him car riding to the Hall of JUS
t4ce and to-day Judge Mogan will
sentence him for begging.
Bruno Hook borrowed c. Schumas-
ser's 81 watch on pretext that he had
obtained a situation as timekeeper, but
his real motive was to pawn the ticker
and appropriate the cash proceeds to
his own use, for doing which he was
arrested and charged with petty lar
ceny.
so you wanted to keep time, hey?'
said Judge Conlan, with fine sarcasm,
to Mr.. Hook.
We'll, 1 did keep time, didn't I?'
was the smiling response.
Thirty days for perpetrating such
an awful joke" was the courts decree.
Charlie Chung, queueless and radi-
ant In an emerald sweater, told Judge
Mcgan that 'dlinkee no good" by
which he intended to convey the i'm
preston that he regretted the slip into
inebriety which resulted in his arrest
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PERSONAL.

Charles w. Coe. a San Jose cattle
man, is at the Palace.
r. B. Spence, a Monterey capitalist
is registered at the Occidental.
Walter L. Vail and his daughter. of
Los Angeles, are at the Palace.
C. H. Jones, wealthy lumberman
of Tacoma, is staying at the Palace
t. B. Henderson. an Gilman of
Bakersfield. is a guest at the Palace.
j. H. Roberts. one Of Sacramento's s
well known citizens, is at the Occi-
dental.
r. B. Burns. chief engineer Of the
Santa Fe lines, and wife are at the
Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G.. Mott, prom
inent members of Los Angeles society.
are at the Palace.
F. M. Bechter, immigration COM
missioner of Hawaii, is at the Cali
fornia. on his way East.
Thomas J. Lynch, who recently
made a rich strike in Tonopah, is
registered at the Palace.
Charles Rolla Peters. the well
known artist, is up from Monterey
and is staying at the st. Francis.
J. D.. Gallery a Pittsburg street
railway magnate, and his wife ar
rived at the st. Francis yesterday.
1006Tdl MdHdSeI SdlflI OI the
Southern Pacific Company has re-
turned from a tour of inspection of
the company's system in the south.
Among yesterdays arrivals at the
Palace were Attorney F. S. Short of
Fresno and John S. Eastwood, civil
engineer of the same town. who are
here in connection with reclamation
project.
George w. vaIlery. general man
ager of the Colorado Midland road.
and party composed Of Colonel D. G..
Dodge, former president of the Den>
yer and Rio Grande road, and his son,
George Dodge, and their wives, ar
rived here yesterday In a private car
and are staying at the st. Francis.
They are making pleasure tour Of
the Coast.
r. D. Davis has returned from New
York after an absence Of sixty days.
Mr.. Davis is delighted to get home, as
the present weather conditions in New
York suffer badly by contrast with
those of San Francisco. Nine inches
Of snow and ice on Broadway was a
portion of his experience that he is
glad to exchange for California cli-
mate and a temperature of S6 degrees.
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Booked on Two Charges.

Donald McFadden and Walter Ay-
hens were booked at the City Prison
yesterday by Detectives Graham and
Harrison on charges of burglary and
grand larceny. They are accused of
stealing sixty hides valued at $500
from Krenz Brothers tannery on Six
teenth avenue on March L. They stole
a horse and wagon to carry the hides
to a barn on Usage alley, where the
hides were later recovered. The horse
belonged to Florian Andreas, a
rancher, but the police have been
unable to find an owner for the
wagon.
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William Faix. heavily bearded and
OF stolid mien, declared that he did
not bring his AK into play until he
had exhausted both suasion and
threats. Instead of giving him court
eous hearing, however, Mrs. Jane
Dodge, his neXt-doOr neighbor on
Twenty-second avenue between X and
L streets. Sunset district, scoffed at
him. and the bell attached to her
cows neck tangled more loudly and
exasperatingly than ever. His slum-
Der was murdered by the interminable
changing, and maybe the insanity born