Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-20
TENT CITY WILL
OPEN TOMORROW
MANY SUMMER RESIDENTS
ALREADY THERE
GERMAN TARs ENTERTAINED
Officers and Crew Of Cruiser Fake
Are Hospitality Entertained.
Brown Murder Trial
Begins

Special to The Herald. -F'TvzaST
SAN DIEGO. June 19.-Work is be-
ing rushed on all lines at Tent City
getting ready for the opening on
Wednesday. A good many tents are
already occupied and some of the stores
are already open. Electric car service
was inaugurated yesterday, but will
not continue through to the resort
after 6:15 p m. until after the formal
opening. The Tent City band Will be
here tomorrow ready for the first con-
cert Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday
given by the City Guard band and
several thousand visitors attended from
this side of the bay.
German Tars Entertained
This evening the Cuyamaca club ten
dered a reception and smoker to the
officers of the cruiser Fake, now in the
harbor. The cruiser is to remain un-
til Wednesday before leaving for the
north. Last evening officers and crew
to the number of nearly hundred were
given a supper, reception, entertain
ment and dance at Turner hall, shore
liberty being granted to the entire
party until midnight
Capt Behncke has announced that
the cruiser will call here again in Oc-
tober on her way south after a visit
to San Francisco, Portland, Victoria
and Puget sound. He remarked that
he did not think it would be safe for
him to take his vessel past this port
after the exceedingly pleasant time his
officers and crew had had here.
Y. G. Durfee has been selected as
principal of the high school at Escon-
dido. The grammar grade teachers Sc
leected are Misses Elfrida N. Hatch,
Alice Haines, Harriet Sherwin, Ada B.
Cleve, Fanny Pease and Matte Coch-
ran.
Browns Trial Begins
The trial of Anson Brown, the old
man who is charged with numbering
Mrs. Clara Hoke, was begun today. One
Sunday last month Mrs. Hoke and
Maggie Moore were in his cabin with
him, and all three were imbibing liquor
pretty freely. A quarrel ensued in
which Brown struck Mrs. Moore and
the two women escaped from the house.
Later Brown found the two at Mrs.
Moore's house and, renewing the quar-
rel, severely beat Mrs. Hoke. She was
thrown down and kicked numerically.
Several bones were broken and her
skull was fractured, and from the in
juries she died several days later at
the hospital. Brown is 70 years of age,
while his victim and Mrs. Moore were
nearly as old.
H. T. Richards, the civil engineer who
has been laid up for some time through
a threatened attack of blood poisoning.
is able to be out once more. Work
on the railroad for which he has a |
franchise along the water front is to |
be commenced this week or early next
week.
Bids have been opened by Instruct
ing Quartermaster Rolfe for the build
ing of gymnasium and post exchange
at Fort Rosecrans. The building is
to cost close to $4,000, and will prob
ably be of stone. The lowest bidders
were Charles Engebretson on the
stone and wood work, Nichols &
Heilbron on the plumbing, ]. S. John
stone & Sons on the heating and F. S. |
Hartwell on the electric wiring. The
bids will have to be referred to Wash
ington.
Conrad Salem was today appointed a
fourth-class postmaster at La Jolla. |
San Diego county, Cal, vice Lewis A. |
Glover.