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Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
MAN THINKS HE'S AN ACTOR;
POLICE HUMOR HALLUCINATION

this morning and this afternoon we
had a prayer meeting inside"
Brundage has been before the in
sanity commission several times, but
has generally come off with flying
colors. His wit and quick answers to
all questions put to him did not SAVIOR
of madness and those who know him
best say that while touched in the
head, Arthur knows more than some
people who are supposed to be sane.
He has laugh that is mirth-pro-
voker and he invariably laughs at his
own jokes and others laugh to hear
him laugh.
AS long as he has a place to sleep,
one meal day and a chance to work
about some theater, Arthur is content
ed, and the condition of the money
market or the threatened war with
China do not disturb his serenity.
He is not so badly off," said the
officer who brought him to the station.
II took him in because of the disturb
ance he was making, but he is gentle
as a lamb and never gives us any
trouble. Last night he wanted to drive,
however, and after coming to the sta
ton reproached the desk man for not
sending the auto for him."
Brundage wears brimless hat, and
on state occasions caps this with the
crownless brim of another hat that
was given him as a joke. He puts
grease paint on his face whenever he
can borrow stick from some actor
and always carries some dilapidated
false whiskers and eyebrows in his
pocket.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
DOZEN YEARN
FOR SCHOOL JOB
NAMES FOR SUPERINTENDENT
ARE NUMEROUS
Berkeley Professor is Mentioned as
Possible Director of Los Angeles
dueation-Members are
Uncertain

Members of the school board say
they are as far from knowledge of who
is to be the next superintendent of that
body as ever. Each of the members
has been beseged by letters and tele-
grams boosting every candidate.
The sentiment of the members has
even been changed from time to time
and the final solution of the question
is similar to Japanese puzzle before
it has been solved.
There are fully a dozen candidates
for the position. 1t is said that each
is more or less qualified to occupy the
chair of the superintendent. But from
appearances, the fight for final sue
cession to that chair is going to be
bitterly contested and the champion
will be so only by the closest margin.
j. NJ. Quinn. member of the school
board, said yesterday that the senti-
ment of the individual members was as
scattered as are the people who have
opinions as to who should succeed the
resigned Foshay.
1T is impossible to even predict an
outcome at the present time Every
member has received telephone and
telegraph messages from friends of all
the candidates. There has been a flood
of letters, each boosting or suggesting
that a different candidate be elected.
1T was whispered about last night
that Professor Moore of the University
of California at Berkeley was a pos
sible candidate, but it is thought by
some that an outsider cannot be
named. Personally do not know him,
in fact l have never before heard of
him. On questioning around find that
he is not very well known here gem
orally. l cannot say why he has been
suggested.
The next meeting of the board will
be held February 26, the time for the
regular meeting. The president, how
ever, may call a special meeting be-
tween now and then, at which time
something definite may be learned"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
NO MORE BLACK HANDS
Postals That Created Scare Were Ad-
vertsing and Boston, Much
Excited, Now is Easy

Special to The Herald.
BOSTON, Feb. 1S.-No more fright
will be caused in Boston by the ar
rival of "black hand" postals through
the mails, for it is now known that
the postals were nothing but an adver-
tising scheme for attracting attention
to a particular brand of soap.
Those who received the first cards
here, which bore black hand and the
words only four, three. two or one day
more, as the case might be, have re-
ceived an additional card containing
the advice, mo more black hands--use
SOAP"
This explains all the mystery of the
postals, but the result will probably
be that congress will pass a law for
bidding this particular system of ad-
vertising, as the same plan has been
followed out in many parts of the
country.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19

Homeless children received and plaoed
In homes for adoption. Apply Rev. o.
Y. Y, Rice, superintendent Children 5
Los Angeles ''s'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19

DO you love music? II SO GET n
Tslksa'Phone free Of The 1eralS '
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20

BERKELEY, June 1S.-Students OF
geology and those whose interest in
this branch of science has been
aroused by the earthquake, a phenom-
enon the study of which is made more
interesting by a knowledge of geology,
are looking forward with pleasurahle
anticipation to the coming to the uni
versity of DR.. George Davis Louder
back, who is to deliver special course
Of lectures on geology at the uniVer-
sity summer school
DR.. Louderback is one of the brilliant
sons of the University who has left
California TO achieve honor in other
fields. He is a graduate of the univer-
sity with the class OF 1896, receiving
his doctors degree three years later.
He is q research assistant of the Car
negie Institute of Washington, d. c.,
the head of the department of geology
at the University of Nevada, a fellow
of the Geological Society of America,
secretary OF the Cordilleran section OF
the society and a fellow of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
of Science.
DR.. Louderback's courses at the sum-
mer school will include one on by
namical and Structural history" an
other on Mountains" and a third
course on Physical and Geographical
History of California"
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
SAY FAREWELL
To ALMA MATER
Glass of 1906 Graduates
/. From the Sequoia
High School.
Students Give Clever
Programme at Red
wood City.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

REDWOOD CITY, June 19.-At the
graduating exercises of the class OF
1905 of the Sequoia High school,, held
in the assembly hall of the grammar
school, the following programme was
rendered:
Processional. Sophie Mengel and Otto
Offerman; music, The Morning Ram
ble," combined glee clubs, invocation,
Rev. Theodore Taylor; salutatory. Grace
Maple Davis; Opportunities for Cali
fornia Women" Nora Cornelia Wright;
music, 'Ebb and Flow" girls glee club;
Basketball in Sequoia," Lulu Beeger;
tManual Training in High Schools
Malcolm Neal; music, Our Jack, boys
glee club; Trials of a Debater," Edna
Marselas Clark; Die Deutehen Diehter
und hire Werke" Anna Margaret Jens;
class song. May league Durham; Who
and What We Are. May LOWE; "Trou-
bles in the Production of a Class Night
Play" Ellen Louise Oster; rs High
School Training Worth While?
Charles owen Bristol; music, Drift,
My Bark" girls gIee club; "Sequoians
In and Out of College," Natalie Han
sen; THE Westward Movement" Alma
Louise Nobs; THE Farewell of 'O6,
Margaret Anna Gerrity; "Sequoia," Ed
ma Hayward; remarks. Principal s. P.
McCrea; presentation of diplomas, L. p.
Behrens, president of Board of Trustees.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS

OPPOSE THE CHINESE-Oakland
June 19.-The South Improvement Club
has petitioned the City Council to limit
permitted to establish themselves.
MOTHER SUES SON.--Oakland, June
19.-Mrs. Anna ellison has brought
rick, for an accounting of some $4,000
worth OF property she turned over to
him during an illness some time ago.
sPEMBROKE'S TRIAL GOES on
Oakland, June 19,-The trial of Percy
Pembroke was resumed this morning,
and number of witnesses, including
Sheriff Barnet, Deputy Sheriff Pete
White and Constable Tom Carroll. were
examined.
YOUTH DISAPPEARS, = Berkeley,
June 1s.-George Jacobs, a 20-year-old
youth, whose people reside at 2235
Shattuek avenue, has disappeared, his
parents not having seen him since the
fire. The police have been asked to To-
WILLIAM H, MEAD'S FUNERAL
Oakland, June 19.-The funeral of Will
IL Lam ana T. oSa Msaa for ossa esrs
will be held tomorrow afternoon, at
o'clock, from the Mead residence. COL
Oakland avenue,
TO BUILD CHURCH. - Berkeley.
avenue Methodist Church, Of. which the
Rev. Alfred Kennedy is ~astor, have
bought lot at Sixty-third and Dover
be erected. Work on the structure will
be commenced at once.
JEWELRY STOLEN. berkeley June
19.-The police have been informed of
the theft of several articles of jewelry
from Professor Francois Bonnet, a
member of the department of French
at the university. Several diamond
pins were taken from Professor Bon :
nets room at the Belmont on Tele-
graph avenue.
DIVORCE SUIT BRoUGHT.-oak-
land, June 1s.-Maud Powers has be-
gun divorce proceedings against
Charles Powers. wnom she charges
with intemperance and neglect. An
interlocutory decree of divorce was
granted Margaret A. Poole today by
Judge Ellsworth from c. o. Poole on
the ground of his willful desertion of
her.
GRANT FOUND GUILTY.-oakland
June Herbert Z. Grant of Ala
media was found guilty by jury this
evening of having misled Lena Horn. a
girl under 16 years of age, and will
come up for sentence before Judge F.
B. Ogden next Friday morning. Grant
and a companion by the name of Will
liam Gardner were both tried for the
same offense. and both have now been
found erliltV
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
COUNTESS WOULD START
REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND

LONDON, June 19--The Countess of
Carlisle, speaking at Liberal wo-
mems meeting, has made a sensational
utterance which is a good example OF
the bitter religious feeling aroused in
England by the controversy over the
education bill. She said that if the
Lords refused TO pass the education
bill after it had passed the House of
Commons the Lords would have to be
fought, even il il necessitated revolu-
ton. Her women hearers cheered her
to the echo.
The Countess speech is the more in
teresting inasmuch as she is connect
ed by marriage and by birth with
the oldest aristocratic families in Eng
land. The Earl of Carlisle belongs to
the Howard family, influential in the
north of England, while the Countess,
who Is an active worker in the cause
of political liberalism, is a daughter
of the second Baron Stanley of AL
derney Her son, however, Viseount
Morpeth. is one of the members of Bir-
mingham and a Unionist and conse-
quently on the opposite side of pol
iticS,
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
MRS. NJ DONALD
CLEVER WITNESS
Helps Out Case of Her
Husband Materially
in Trial.

OAKLAND. June 19.-If AL c. Nc
Donald, now on trial for the murder of
Joseph Meilo at Pleasanton proved to
be too talkative witness for his at
torneys. Mrs. Lille Mcdonald, over
whom the shooting occurred, pulled
her husband out of his unfortunate
predicament with every word she ut
tered in lengthy and grilling cross
examination this afternoon. Confront
ed with startling contradictions she
made in her direct examination with
statements she had made Immediately
after the shooting took place, she ex-
planned them away with awoman's
reasons as lightly as though they were
of little or no consequence.
While every moment of the cross
examination of Mcdonald dragged like
hours and taxed his attorneys, they
leaned back and enjoyed the responses
of Mrs. Mcdonald, for few witnesses
have ever sat in witness chair and
eXtricated themselves with the deft-
ness and plausibility of her answers.
Immediately after the shooting she
told people at Pleasanton who be-
friended her that her husband had no
cause to shoot Mello, except on account
of bis jealousy. Today she admitted she
might have said it, and IL she did 1t
was false. And then pressed for a
reason for it she stated that she SIM
ply WAS SnlelQlnR neTS6lI until Sne
knew just how much of the real facts
would have to come out. Her story
was almost a counterpart of her hus-
bands. But try as Deputy District At
torney Phil Walsh did in a hundred
different ways, he failed TO disconoeft
her for moment or to get an answer
that was not at once plausible and con-
sistent with what she had previously
testified to.
Mrs. Mcdonald is young and pretty.
She is tall and willowy, and was nat
tily attired in a white shirt waist, long
black gloves and black skirt. In hot
and crowded courtroom it was pic
ture for the eyes to rest on. Asked
the most embarrassing questions. she
tone of her voice, but with childlike
simplicity she gave her reasons and re-
lated her story unshaken.
She admitted on the stand that she
had allowed Joseph Mello to console
her a little, and that he did pat her
on the back and kissed her just once
or twice. But she was crying and
feeling bad about the quarrel she had
had with her husband and did not real
ize what was taking place until Mello
began to take undue liberties with her.
When she discovered that he was In
earnest she found herself in compro-
missing position. She says that she
struggled with him and that her ef-
forts were cut short by the appearance
of her husband. They were on the floor
at this juncture and she got up and
ran out of the room, and as she did
so caught a glimpse of Mello with up
lifted chair attacking her husband.
Mcdonald, the defendant was put on
the stand this morning and told the
story of the shooting in manner con-
sistent with former statements. He
testified as though he believed that he
had a perfect right tofkiil Mello.
The defense closed its case with the
testimony of Mrs. Mcdonald, and At
torney Walsh is preparing to introduce
witnesses in the morning to rebut the
I statements made by Mcdonald and his
wife.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
WILL BECOME
SHELTER TOWN
Guggenheims to Erect
Big Plant in South
San Francisco.
Establishment Will Give
EInploymentto to $500
Men.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.-
The Guggenheim smelter at South San
Francisco is an assured fact. The plans
have been drawn, and accepted, and the
machinery designed and ordered. Work
on the buildings will be commenced
shortly.
The new smeiter will have a capacity
of 200 tons of high grade ore day,
This is not what would be called in en-
gineerng circles a great smelling plant,
but nevertheless it means. with it's by
products and kindred industries. steady
and profitable employment for about
$500 men, or. in other words, an in
crease of fully 12.500 in the population.
Other industries nearly related to
smelling will come in, and there is not
the least doubt that in five years South
San Francisco will be a city of $4,000
Inhabitants.
The ssrnelter is being erected exclu-
sively for the purpose of handling the
ores from the Orient
The smelter means the doubling of
San Mateo County's population within
the next five years.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
DRAMA DRIVES
A GIRL INSANE
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SAN JOSE, June IA thrilling play
at the San Jose Theater last night
caused beautiful twenty-year-old Ma
bel Weiss to lose her mind The girl
is the daughter of Mrs. r. Weiss of 1T
Devine street of this city, She was a
refugee from San Francisco, having
lived for time in the camp at Golden
Gate Park. She suffered from nervous
prostration after the fire and spent
several days in the Park Hospital
Last evening she and her mother saw
the Bacon company int the Stars and
Stripes" The girl became wildly .ex-
cited during the performance, and
when going home with her mother
tainted and then began foaming at the
mouth.
DR.. Hervey was summoned, but she
began screaming and refused to let
him touch her. shrieking that he was
trying to kill her. She also threat
ened to kill the doctor, so he tele-
phoned for the police.
Miss Weiss was' persuaded by OFF,
GERS De Carli and Foster to go to the
Red Cross Hospital
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
TWO Of FORCE
MAY LOSE HEADS
Chief Vollmer Recon-
mendS Discharge of
Officers.
Sergeant Parker and Po-
liceman Farrar Must
Face Trustees.

BERKELEY, June 1s.-Chief of Po-
lice Vollmer provided a surprise for
the crowd at the Town Trustees meet
ing last night when he filed recon-
raendation that two of his best known
men, Sergeant George Parker and ON
Ger J. Teel Farrar, be discharged from
the department for the good OF the
service" No hint had been allowed TO
escape from police headquarters OF any
such upheaval in the ofice as this rec
ommendation involved,
Sergeant Parker has been Nolimer' S
chief Lieutenant since his promotion TO
the post Of sergeant several months
ago, and before that time was regard
ed as one of the cleverest detectives
in the county. OFFICER Farrar is a
Younger man, with an excellent rec
ord in the department, and also good
record in the United States navy. He
served as bluejacket in protecting
the American legation at the time of
the Boxer troubles and was wounded
in The service. retiring then from the
navy with an honorable discharge. He
is a son of a prominent physician OF
Berkeley. DR.. J. T. Farrar.
No reason was assigned by Chief
.Vollmer last night for his recormen-
dation, and the Trustees ordered ii re-
ferred TO the police committee for con-
sideration 1t is understood that Chief
Vollmer has found the two men, who
now are suspended, lax in their work
and repeated warnings having done no
good, the suspension came. Another
story is that Parker and Farrar raided
the Concordia Club a week ago when
a dice game was on, and after arrest
ing a member turned him loose, with
out proper authority or the knowledge
or consent OF the Chief.
The accused men are to fight for
their places and have retained former
Town Attorney Brewton Hayne TO rep
resent them before the police commit
tee of the Trustees
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
HORSE CARRYING DYNAMITE
FALLS FROM HIGH CLIFF

BAKERSFIELD, June 19.-Some-
where in the turbid waters of Kern
River, below Kernville, there is the
body of horse with saddle, bride and
blanket and a box of dynamite
strapped on It's back. He is a victim of
a fall over cliff $50 feet high. The
animal was owned by Mr. Rhymes of
the Edison Company. A few days since
Rhymes started from Kernville, driv-
ing several mules with provisions and
the horse with the boxes of dynamite
fastened to its pack. When several
miles above Kernyille on the trail the
horse lost its footing and went rolling
down the cliff. One box broke open
and scattered a trail of the deadly
explosive down to the river. The ami
NAL was dead when it reached the
stream and fioated away with the cur
rent.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
MISS BURNESS
To WE'D TODAY
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SAN RAFAEL. June 19-The
marriage of w. A. S. Foster, son of
A w. Foster. president of the Cali
fornia Northwestern and the North
Shore railroads. the Marin Water Com
pany and other large enterprises, to
Miss Marion Burness will take place at
2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the
residence of the groom's parents in this
city. 1t will be strictly private, only
the immediate relatives of the contract
ing parties being invited The eere-
mony will be performed by Rev Will
liam Alexander of the San Francisco
Theological Seminary at San Anselmo,
who is close friend of the Fosters.
Miss Ann Burness, sister of the
bride-to-be, will be bridesmaid, and
Arthur w. Foster Jr., brother OF the
prospective groom, best man. Miss
Burness is the daughter of John Z.
Burness of San Francisco.
Foster is resident of Willis. Men
docino County, and is manager of the
valuable interests belonging to his
father.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
RED NURDERESS
IS CAPTURED
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

REDDING, June 19.-Dora Chipp, the
Indian woman who murdered the sew
enteen- n-months-old daughter of Mrs.
William Beale- of. Butte Creek, after
trying to kill the mother, Sunday, was
run down and arrested this afternoon
at / o'clock at the town of Bonanza,
in klamath County. Southern Oregon,
twenty miles from klamath Falls The
woman was on horseback, speeding
north toward the Yainax Indian reser-
walton, which is a sub-station of the
klamath reservation. She was armed
with 22-caliber rifle. but did not
show fight
Sheriff Howard will reach Yfeka to-
night from the scene of the tragedy
and will go at once to klamath Falls,
to which place the murderess was
taken. He will take the woman to
Yreka. The Indian woman has COW
cred many miles on horseback and was
making for the reservation, where she
hoped to receive shelter.
A message from Coroner O'Connell
at Butte Creek, where the murder was
done. states that Dora Chipp first shot
the infant and then beat its head al
most to a jelly with a rock Mrs. Beale
is i'll from the shock.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
ANXIOUS
NIGHT ON BAY

BERKELEY. June 1es-A desperate
struggle for life on the waters of the
bay. eliminating finally in the miracu-
lous escape of party of college men
and girls, is reported by Lawrence j.
Kennedy, q member of the class of '06,
who was of the party. The names of
his associates were not revealed by
Kennedy because of the fear that pub
licity might embarrass the young wo-
men.
The crowd secured a yacht last night
from the Corinthian Yacht Club at Bel
vedere, and while cruising on the bay
the yacht became becalmed near Angel
Island and was in imminent danger of
being carried on the rocks.
The three students in the party were
obliged TO row for many hours
throughout the night to prevent this
catastrophe. When almost exhausted
by their exertions favoring wind
carried the yacht to safety.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
CaIIfornIans In New YORK.

NEW YORK, June 1.-The following
Californians have arrived in New York:
From San Franeisco-H. Grote. at
the Herald Square; Miss Angerson. at
the Grand Union. T. S. Baldwin. w. H
Clements and wife. at the Churchill: A
NJ. Flood. at the Victoria; ~ @. Levy
at the Churchill; Mrs. Langdon. at the
Grand Hotel: G. Reno. at the Hotel
Darlington. B. t. Ward. at the Grand
Union; Mrs. ANDERSON, at the Grand
Union: III. @, Martin. at the Imperial.
From Los Angeles-F. J. Mueller at
the Navarro; ID, A Freeman. at the Al
gonduin, Mrs NJ Hole. at the Martha
Washington; G. B. Johnson and wife
at the Murray Hill; C. Z. Washburn
and wife. at the AstOr
From San Mateo-S. S. Battin, at the
Imperial.
From Sacramento-Miss Rigney. at
the Westminster.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
sALooN-KEEPERs CITED.

OAKLAND June 19.-Harry Inwall,
q Broadway saloon keeper, and John
MelIo, an last Oakland liquor dealer.
have been cited to appear before the
license committee of the City Council
10 show cause why their licenses
should not be revoked. Inwau. the po-
lice charge, has been selling whisky in
TASKS and has permitted gambling in
his saloon. Mello is accused OF havin g
opened his saloon on Sunday. Paul
Handy, a West Oakland druggist, has
also been ordered TO appear He holds
q druggists license to sell liquor. The
Police Department viii proceed against
Handy for alleged infraction of the
rules covering the sale of intoxicants.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
SAN BERNARDISO RAISES
PRICE OF LIQUOR sIdCENsE

SAN BERNARDINo. June 1s.-only
the vigorous protest OF attorney Has
keh last night prevented the opening
ner in the city. A majority of the CITY
Council had prepared a new schedule
of liquor licenses and an amendment
70 the ordinance taxing the limit OFF
the number of drinking places allowed
in the city. The raises In the price of
licenses were adopted. but the whole-
sale opening of saloons was finally
prevented, The saloons viii in the fu-
ture pay 500 month instead of half
that sum. The license for wholesalers
has been increased from SIS 10 s75 a
month, and in future breweries will
have to pay $50 instead of $40 a month.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
MASONS OF PALo ALTO WILL
ERECT A FINE TEMPLE

PALO ALTO, June 19.-The mem
bers of the Masonic Temple Associa-
tion have under consideration the mat
ter of building the temple here, for
which plans had been prepared. No
definite action has been taken, but it
is probable the erection of the temple
will be delayed for perhaps a year,
1t is likely the association will decide
to put up a three-story structure of
steel and reinforced concrete, an even
finer structure than was at first con-
templated. Meantime, If permission
can be secured from the City Trus-
tees. frame building for temporary
use may be erected at the rear OF the
lot on the Florence -Street frontage.