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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
FAY OF ANCIENT ROME

oh, the Roman was a rog,-e,
He erat -as, you bettum,
He ran his AUTOMOBILES
And smoked his cigarettum,
de wore a diamond studibus,
And elegant craVattum,
A maxIma Gun laude shirt
And sucll a stylish hattum.
Fe loved the luscious hic-haec-hock,
And bet on games and equi;
At times he won; at others, though,
He got it in the nequi;
He winked quo usque tandem
At puellas on the Forum,
And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum.
He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatOrial,
And ate enough TO feed
Ten boarders at Memorial;
He often went on sprees,
And said, on starting hOmus,
"Hic lbor-opus est,
Oh, here's my hic-hic-dOmus!"
LlthOugh he lived i'm Rome
OF all the arts the middle
He was (eXcuse the phrase
A hOrrid individl.
"Hic labor-opus est,
Was the homo (dative, hominy)
OF PARKWAY b. c.
From us OF Ammo Domini!
Shanghai Times.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
News From All Sections of the Four Bay Counte
WILL CHECK TRICK
Of SALOONMEN

OAKLAND, Dec. 4.-The City Council
will probably adopt a plan 70 check
the repeated efforts Of saloonmen to
obtain licenses after they have failed
once to get them The present rule
forbids an applicant from making q
second attempt within year after
his application has been denied
The practice has been for applicants.
when they have learned that failure
awaits them to get the city Couneit >
permission to withdraw the application
before a vote has been taken,. when.
n negative, would prevent another APP
pltcation for a twelvemonth- Councn
man Burns purposes to have adopted
new rule that will prevent any per-
son from getting a license for a year
at any premises upon which application
has been made and Withdrawn. Inc
measure will be. considered. by the
Council committee on municipal H.
censes- t~~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
DECLARES HUSBAND
WANTS CHILD
Mrs. Cox Of Baden, Whose
Flight Was Stopped in
Oakland, Is Taken Home
ADMITS TAKING COIN

OAKLAND, Dec. M j. IN. Cox,
who was arrested last night on tele-
graphic request from Baden, South San
Francisco, as she was about to board
a train at Sixteenth-s.reet station. for
Omaha. was turned over this afternoon
to Constable r. ]. Carroll of Baden,
who took her back to face a charge Of
grand larceny.
Carroll knew little of the case ex-
cept that the warrant for the arrest
OF Mrs. Cox was issued by Justice of
the Peace Cunningham of Baden after
the woman had left San Mateo County,
taking her 6-year-old daughter Flor
ence with her.
Mrs. Cox was very reticent today
concerning the case and would only
say that her arrest was the result of
trouble with her husband, who is the
proprietor of candy store in Baden.
she charges that for a long time her
husband has i'll treated her and that
she was finally driven to leave him.
When she started for Omaha last night
she took some money from the cash
drawer of the store, and she declares
That, using this as an excuse, her hus-
band has charged her with felony.
The woman does not believe, how
ever, that 1t was because she took the
money that her husband caused her
arrest, but that she might not remove
her little daughter from the State. She
said today that some time ago when
she told her husband that she intended
to leave him he told her that she
should never have the child.
In answer to an inquiry as to why
she had fed with her child Mrs. Cox
said this afternoon as she left the City
Prison:
My husband has treated me cruelty
Tor long time, and I finally made up
my mind to leave him and take Flor
ence with me. We came directly to
Oakland, and while I was waiting for
the train to leave / got OFF to get a
lunch, and then I was arrestc I. When
1 was preparing to leave I took some
money from the cash drawer in the
store. and / had already drawn some
from the bank. and I suppose my hus-
band used this as an excuse for having
me arrested. I am sure, however, that
he wishes to compel me to give up the
child, but he will never get her II
can help it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
FILES MORE SUITS
FOR TRACkAGE
Western Pacific Moves to
Secure Right of Way in
Oakland Harbor Frontage
CORPORATIONS FIGHT

OAKLAND, Dec. with dozen or
more suits to condemn a right of way
for tracks along Oakland's southern
harbor front below the Southern Pa
cihc's main line through First street,
the Western Pacific Railway today
added to the recently developed rail-
road situation by commencing five
more right of way suits along the
south harbor shores. These suits
cover property in East Oakland. be-
tween the north arm Of the estuary
and Thirteenth avenue, section rep
resented in one Of the four appltca-
tfons of the Western Pacific for fran
chises covering the entire water 'front.'
age of the city.
Southern Pacific Company. the Oakland
Water Front Company. the Oakland
Harbor Development Company. Julia
Boquet and the Magnesite Dock and
Land Company Most of the land In
volved lies along the East Oakland
basin, eastward of the estuary arm,
into Lake Merritt. 1t covers a route
through the lands at the foot of Third,
Fourth. Fifth, Sixth and Seventh ave-
nues, and the De Fremery property,
formerly known as Sessions Basin, jut-
ting into the harbor of Sixth avenue.
Here are located the Magnesite Com
pany's works.
The Southern Pacific Company owns
lands in the same locality through
which the Western Pacific's main line
as well as the new harbor front line
must pass to cross into Central Oak
land. This land Is also included In
the condemnation suits brought today.
Gould system attorneys announced
today that condemnation suits along
the proposed route that the Western
Pacific has selected, in addition to it's
main line north OF the Southern Pa
ci1c tracks along the side, will be Aled
as rapidly as they can be prepared.
Extraordinary activity is being shown
by the law and engineering depart
ments of the Western Pacific to per-
feet their plans for betting the city
with this new trackage. To date suits
to condemn a right of way have been
fled by the Western Pacific Railway
for considerable portion Of its pro-
posed route along the south harbor
front, although none of the franchises
for which application has been made
have been granted.
Two theories are advanced in rail-
road circles for the apparently as
sured position the Western Pacific has
taken. One Is that the company relies
upon a charter provision which will be
interpreted by their attorneys as max
ing mandatory a favorable vote upon
their applications. The other is that
the company purposes to consent to
an open track" clause in the fran
chises, which Is not now contained in
their applications. and thus avert the
possibility OF hard battle before the
City Council in case the municipal
counselors decide the charter provision
not mandatory.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
HER BROTHERS NURSE.

OAKLAND, Dec. 4.-Rev. Robert SEES
non of st. Mary's Church, when shown
dispatch from Seattle printed in a
San Francisco paper this morning
wherein the statement was made that
Mrs. Joseph Austin, who is nursing
John ]. Sesnon back to health after an
operation. is not John Sesnon's sister
indignantly denied the aspersion and
strongly denounced the motive of the
writer
Father Sesnon said that Mrs. Austin
was the only sister of the brothers
John J. Sesnon, William T., George H.
and himself, and that she had been
with John Sesnon in Nome, Alaska,
since May. A dispatch which reached
here a week ago apprised him of their
return to Seattle. since which time the
operation was performed and Airs. Aus
tin, who is widely known for her low
able disposition, naturally acted as her
brothers nurse.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
THIEVES WORK IN
SUBURBAN CITY

OAKLAND, Dec. 4.-R. Bremler, 423
Eighth street reported to the police
this morning that burglars had entered
his home by forcing open a rear win
dow. They found nothing more valu-
able. however, than an overcoat,. which
they carried 1way
]. NJ Curry, 40S Sixth street, reported
that an overcoat valued at $50 was
stolen from the hallway of his home
yesterday afternoon.
stable in the rear of the home of A.
R. Savage, 171S Filbert street, was
broken into last night by thieves, who
stole a new haycutter.
Ben Williams, $50 Washington street,
reported that his room had been en-
tered by means of a skeleton key, and
that a quantity Of clothing and under
wear had been stolen.
A stranger, who called at the home
Of Captain w. Smith, 1891 Grove street,
to rent room, carried away with him
a purse containing $40.
Thieves who entered the room OF
Thornstein Thordson, S02 Washington
street. yesterday, carried off his trunk
containing all his personal belongings.
Iver Anderson, Seventh and Wash
ington streets, reported to the police
today that chest of tools belonging
to him had been stolen from a new
building at Telegraph avenue and For
ty-seventh street
Thieves entered last night the room
Of c. R. Organ in the St. Nicholas
House and stole a hat, pair of gloves
and $40 in coin.
While Mrs. G. P. Thompson, who re-
sides at IS Echo avenue, was shop
ping yesterday, thief stole valuable
buggy robe from her carriage.
Two bicycles were stolen yesterday
afternoon from the Lafayette School;
one being the property of Lester
Phelps, S26 Twenty first street, and the
other belonging to E. A. Hundley. Ed
mund Pechart also reported that a
Roadster bicycle had been stolen from
him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
WIFE NUMBER TWO
ON WARPATH

ALAMEDA. Dec. Mrs. E. F. Cole
man of San Francisco, who insists that
she Is the wife of r. A. Coleman and
that the latter committed bigamy on
October 9S OF this year when he
married Ms Marion Drewe, an artist
of San FIR. cisco, at Reno. has been
stopping in this city at q sanitarium
and awaiting the expected return OF
the young woman who she alleges
stole her husband. Miss Drewe came
to this city in April and until eight
weeks ago roomed at 1443 High street.
The woman who asserts that she is
Mrs. Coleman No. and that Coleman
had no legal right to claim a Mrs.
Coleman No. says that she came to
Alameda in hope of meeting the man
whose name she bears and the fair
artist who has supplanted her in his
affections. Mrs. Coleman No. / took
up her residence at the local sani-
tarium after learning two weeks ago
that Coleman and Miss Drewe had
welded at Reno, but thus far the pair
have not put in an appearance here
and Mrs. Coleman declares that she has
been unable to trace them.
'I am married to Coleman" said the
woman, land I am going to find him
and the woman who Is not his legal
wife"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
CARUSO'S NEMESIS
GETS GOAT BEAT

NEW YORK. Dec. 4.-Mag istrate
Baker yesterday made his return to the
order of Judge O'Sullivan of the Court
of General Sessions in the case of
Signor Enrico Caruso, the Metropolitan
Opera House tenor, who was fined $40
for annoying woman at the monkey
house in the Central Park. 1t Is likely
that the appeal will be heard some time
this week, as Judge Dittenhoefer,
Caruso's counsel, is anxious for a de-
cision as soon as possible
Patrolman j. J. Cain, who has for
many years been on duty in the park,
and while there arrested Caruso near
the monkey house, was transferred to
the West One Hundred and Fifty sec
ond Street Station, known among the
police as the goat district"
This transfer would have excited
more comment had it not been the re-
suit of Commissioner Bingham's recent
order that all plain clothes men should
be shifted every thirty days.
Police Commissioner Bingham did not
learn of Gains removal until last night.
He said then that he would order Cain
back to duty in the park, as the trans
fer might be misconstrued.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
San Franciscan Named
to Be Editor of the
Daily Palo Alto

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Dec. A.
By unanimous reclamation of the
students Harold Fitch of San Fran
cisco, a senior in the law department.
was nominated today to succeed
George o. Spurrier '07, of Paso Robes
as editor in chief of the Daily Pa1o
Alto. This action was taken at the
regular gathering Of the student body
In the chapel. Fitch was the only can
didate for the high Office and will be
elected at the regular balloting on
Thursday.
Fitch Is one of the most prominent
of the upper class men and holds
membership in nearly all of the stu
dent organizations. He Is a member
of the Upper Glass Honor Society. the
Skull and Snakes. Phi Delta Phi legal
fraternity. Press. English and Encina
clubs and a charter member and or
ganizer of the Stanford social organ
ization.
He will assume control Of the COL
lege daily next semester and will pre-
sent his views to the student body
through the editorial columns.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
ONCE SAVED ANOTHER'S' LIFE
BUT COULD NOT SAVE HER OWN
Mrs. Stuart Dunbar, Formerly Miss
Genev1eye DOwsett of Honolulu,
Drowned Near Belevedere

BELVEDERE, Dec. Awhile endeav-
oring to board her husbands yacht.
Mrs. Stuart Dunbar, who was formerly
Miss Genevieve Dowsett OF Honolulu,
was today drowned in the waters Of the
bay. Although an expert swimmer, the
cold water and the swift current were
too much for her strength, and al
though she recovered consciousness
after being taken from the water, she
soon died.
Mrs. Dunbar before her marriage was
engaged to Prentiss Gray. the univer-
sity athlete, whom she saved from
drowning during a summer vacation a
year ago. Gray's father opposed the
match, and upon threats of being dis
inherited young Gray broke with Miss
Dowsett and a few weeks later she
married Stuart Dunbar. The pairs
honeymoon on the steamship Manchu-
ria was interrupted by the grounding
of the vessel on the Hawaiian rocks,
but the bride was taken from the
stranded vessel without mishap.
Mrs. Dunbar was % years of age and
was a handsome and accomplished
young woman Besides her parents,
who reside In Honolulu, she Is sur
vived by a sister, Mrs. Fred knight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
Berkeley Dances to|
End at Midnight
Marshal Vollnler
Lays on Laws
Stern Hand

BERKELEY, Dec. 4.-Socfety ladies
debutantes, dance promoters and all
who love the toe-tripping exercise
Joined in lament today the while they
considered carefully the latest and
most remarkable manifesto of the Po-
lice Department.
DO not" goes the manifesto, pre-
sumo to hoof it merrIly, or otherwise,
over the waxen boards after the mid
night hour has come, for if lads or
lassies, .matrons or men, keep up the
dancing game after II o'clock at night
all people concerned are liable to get
a touch of official wrath that will make
San Francisco Grand Jury seem like a
mere clucking hen"
Chief of Police Vollmer promulgated
an order yesterday in words to this
effect. and today the chill that has de-
scended upon the dancing set of Berke-
ley is most profound, -deadening and
seemingly without remedy. Visions of
dancing parties completely spoiled by
the Police Chiefs edict have. fioated to-
day before the eyes of Berkeley'S So
ciety leaders.
There is to be no dancing in Berkeley
in any public place after midnight eX-
cept by special permit, signed and
sealed by Chief of Police Vollmer and
Mayor Thomas Richard. That is the
Oroer. mat also is the law.
Chief of Police Vollmer has delved
deeply into the law books, and actual
~ has unearthed an ordinance which
gives him the right to stop dances
after midnight. This is the law:
After the nnal passage of this ordinance it
shall be unlawful for any person or persons
TO give or cause TO be given in Berkeley any
ball or dance In any public hall place without
permission therefor. in writing, signed by the
Marshal and President of the Board of Trustees
orrn M Rarr rail- I Of dfpo %
No. 1874, adopted March 20, 1898.
Chief Vollmer made his first move
under the foregoing section last Sun
day morning. when his men stopped an
all-night dance which was in progress
at fraternal hall in West Berkeley.
Complaint had been made to the de-
partment of disorderly conduct attend
ing an all-night ball a week before, and
the police decided to take no chances
with the festivity at West Berkeley
last Sunday. They stilled the music
and halted the dancers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
MYSTERIOUsAFFRAY
On 4 TRAIN

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Dec. A man
believed from a certificate of member
ship in his pocket to be Charles H.
Green, a boilermaker of Salida, Colo,
was arrested at Lawrence, Kan, today.
charged with shooting E. C. Ward of
Purcell, /. T., a passenger on west
bound Santa Fe train No. II at Holli-
day. Kan, at IL o'clock last night
The man was arrested in the Office
of physician to whom he had gone
to have his wounds dressed. He had
been shot through the f1eshy part of
the leg and his hand had been cut by
glass, pieces of which were still in the
cut Green, swho is about 80 years of
age. refused to talk.
Ward. the wounded passenger, is in
the Santa Fe Hospital at Topeka The
physicians said today that he probably
will recover il blood poisoning does not
set =
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
TESTS STATE PRIMARY Law

OAKLAND. Dec. Am order to test
the constitutionality Of the primary
election law in so far as it forces a
voter to declare his party affiliation, A
p. Katz, an Oakland jeweler and prom
inent Socialist, filed an injunction suit
today against the city to restrain the
use Of the ballot required by the State
law at the primary election to be held
the last Tuesday in January. Katz
alleges that the City Council intends
TO spend at least $4,000 for this
primary election, which is preliminary
to the city election in March, and that
he is interested in it as voter and
taxpayer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
WIFE Of ATTORNEY
ASKS A DIVORCE
Mrs. James w. Harding
Says Husband Has Failed
to Support Her or Child
SICKNESS HIS PLEA

OAKLAND, Dec. Attorney James
". Harding, whose wife, Emma J..
sued him for divorce on the grounds
Of desertion and failure to provide.
testified today before Judge Waste that
he had never refused to live in the
same house with his wife and that he
had contributed to her support as far
as he was able, although he said that
since last January he had not earned
p single dollar. The defendant is a
large, good-Iooking man. with iron
gray hair and beard, and his voice
broke with emotion several times dur
ing his testimony He said that since
his Illness OF over two years ago he has
been mentally and physically unfit to
practice his profession.
The Hardings were married in 1885
and have one son, Harold. aged IL
years. Mrs. Harding testified that she
had always supported the boy by her
own toll. She is employed at Lem
hardts candy store on Broadway. She
stated on the witness stand that while
the family were living in Berkeley.
over two years ago, Harding attempted
suicide and had to be removed to
Fabiola Hospital for treatment She
said her husband refused to live with
her after he came out Of the hospital
and had failed to support her.
Upon the conclusion OF the testimony
Judge Waste took the case under ad-
visement He intimated that he could
not possibly grant a decree upon the
ground Of failure to provide and that
he hardly believed case OF desertion
had been made out.
William W. Sherbourne, a Melrose
carpenter. testified in Judge Ogden's
e court today that his wife, Eda T, re-
fused to return 10 live with him and
had told him that she was having too
good a time to even think of such a
thing for a moment. The Sherbournes
agreed to live apart two years ago.
but subsequently, the husband asked
the wife to come back to him. Judge
ogden refused 70 award Sherbourne a
decree today, but told him TO come to
court again with corroborative evil
dence
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
ST. MARY'S PASTOR WELCOMED
ON RETURN FROM EAST
Rev. Edward Dempsey of Oakland Is
Presented Tokens of Esteem by
Enthusiastic Practitioners

OAKLAND, Dec. Warm welcome
was given last evening to Rev. Edward
Dempsey. pastor of st. Mary's Church
upon his return from the East.
The children of the parish. under
charge of the Christian Brothers and
the Sisters of the Holy Name, took
part in a musical programme. Ray
mond Flood read an address of well
come to the pastor, who received on
behalf of the Boys Parochial School a
beautiful floral bouquet and a breviary
Miss Carmel Agnew, for the girls
presented a picture of Sir Galahad to
the priest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
CHESTER GILLETTE
FOUND GUILTY

HERKIMER. N. Y. Dec. 4.-The jury
in the trial of Chester e. Gillette for
the murder of his sweetheart. Grace
Brown, at Big Moose Lake on July II
last, tonight returned verdict OF
guilty in the first degree. Sentence
will be pronounced on Thursday morn
ing.
When Marshal Heath, the foreman,
declared that a verdict of guilty IN the
first degree had been found, the pris-
oner gave no sign of emotion. He was
taken back to his cell. One juror held
out for acquittal until the sixth ballot.
Gillette sat motionless in his chair
as the jury was polled and when the
twelfth man had responded the stolid
Indifference or studied composure Of
the boy was exhibited as never before.
Leaning over a table, he drew toward
him a bit Of white paper. and taking
pencil from his pocket, wrote this
message:
Father. I am convicted.
CHESTER"
This was one Of the earliest dis
patches carrying the news of Gillette's
doom beyond the walls of the court
house. 1t went to his father in Dem
yer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-05
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