Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-18
ARE BANQUETED
BY SAN DIEGO
OFFICERS OF CRUISER Fake
WELCOMED ROYALTY
GERMANS TURN OUT IN FORCE
Chamber of Commerce lndorses Eff
forts of Board Of Education to
Secure New High School
Building
sneclal to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
SAN DIEGO, June 17.-This evening
at Hotel del Coronado, the officers of
the German cruiser Fake were the
guests Of the chamber of commerce at
a banquet at which some three score
and ten of the business men Of the
city sat down with their guests. G. II.
Wagner presided as toastmaster,
speaking in English and German as the
occasion required. A welcome to the
city was extended by Mayor John L.
S. Sehon. There are but nine officers
on the Fake and the regulations per-
mitted but five of them to leave the
ship at one time. Capt. e. d. Scott,
senior officer at Fort Rosecrans pro-
posed the toast "The Emperor" and
the response was by Capt. Behncke.
president Roosevelt" California"
San Diego" "The Fake" and other.
toasts were proposed and respond
ed to-.
Tomorrow evening another banquet is
to be rendered to the officers and crew
at Turner hall by the members of the
local German societies. 1t is expected
that there will be seventy or eighty
from the Fake and some 300 residents
of San Diego present. Supper will be
served from to s o'clock. Louis Fritz
will speak the welcome and there will
be a few other toasts, after which
dancing will be indulged in. At this
banquet only German VIII be spoken.
At the meeting of the chamber of
commerce yesterday, strong resolutions
were passed indorsing the efforts of the
city board of education to secure a new
and suitable high school building, In
place of the present structure. A COM
mittee was appointed also to take up
with the city council the matter of
putting a larger street force at work.
The interlocutory decree of divorce
granted year ago to Linnie Keller
against James Keller was made final
yesterday by Judge Torrance. The GUS
tody of the two children, Charles and
Gladys Keller, was awarded to the
mother.
No News of Luther n. Jewell
A letter from Col. Fred Jewell. cashier
of the Citizens Savings bank, who left
almost month ago to prosecute a
search for his missing brother, Luther
H. Jewell, states that he has almost
given up hope of finding trace of the
lost man. Luther Jewell was in the
Yaoui country, in Old Mexico, looking
after some mines which he owned. He
disappeared about May 8. A report
was current that he had been murdered
and his body burned, but this proved
to be a lie made out of whole cloth by
Mexican who wanted the large re-
ward that had been offered by Col.
Jewell.
The special election held at Oceanside
this week on the proposition of raising
5000 for the schools by special taxation
was carried by vote of 80 to 9.
Secretary Wood of the chamber of
commerce returned this evening from
Portland, where he went to install the
exhibits of San Diego county. He says
that the county is we'll placed and is
better off for distinctive exhibits than
any county in the state.
Chief of Police Jose Jimenez of En-
senada is in San Diego for few days.
while waiting for papers relative to his
demand for Antonio Felez. When he
reached Los Angeles he found that
Felez was not to be released there until
June %. He will come up again.
M. y,
Sunday school attended a picnic today
at Lakeside, the young folks going out
and returning by special train on the
Cuyamaca road. At the same time,
St. Paurs Episcopal Sunday school
picknicked at La Jolla, going out on
the Pacific Beach and La Jolla road,
over $50 strong.
Low R. r, rates to Coronado Beach.
NOIInOI ENEnNIOEO