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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-05

Ont of several hundred letters from
the clergymen representing all creeds,
the following sentiments are chosen
those being used that suggest various
points Of view. The symposium sng-
Kests to the candid and thinking man
in Maine some cogent reasons for sup
porting at the polls the executive who
has stood early and late for obedience
to law so long as it shall remain law
on our books. Here is the real key
note of Names honesty whose sa-
cred title democracy has SO insulted.
These men represent the best in their
communities. Are the voters of Maine
!eagued with law and order and de-
cency in civic life or with the gang Of
destructionists that under the cry of
Back to the People" seek to invade
the sanctuary of the law and the
homes of the honest folk of Maine.
When you mark your Vote will it be
to the end that some cheapSellow may
set up in the Grog-shop business in
your community or do you stand and
vote for cleanliness and obedience to
law?
Governor Cobb is enforcing.
wouId-Be Governor Davis advo-
Gates rum for Maine.
Does he eaten your vote
REV. c. WELLINGTON ROGERS,
First Congregational Church, New
Gloucester, Maine.
From personal experience and OBJ
servation there is not an evil under
prohibition. with all its mistakes and
failures that is not found in much
greater degree under any form of Ii
cense that has yet been tried
REV. ARTHUR j. LOCKHART,
Methodist Church East BOothbay, Me.
Il do not expect we can abolish the
ocean. but let us not, therefore, de-
stroy all the dykes
I'VE have a wooden mill with about
300 to 400 employees. At present we
see few drunken men and have an
average of not more than one arrest
in two weeks. License saloons would
give us purGatory every Saturday."
REV. II. |. HOLT. Hammond. Street
Methodist Church. Lewiston, Me.
Il am in hearty sympathy with the
attitude of the republican party this
fall and have already taken occasion
to endorse Governor Cobb. 1 was
raised in Maine under the license sys-
tenn. and know it in all its changes
and feel with others, that this is a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-05

Cobb took at the Deering meeting. and
trust the day Of our doubt as to where
the republican party stands for action
has passed. I feel and say 1t Is not .
question of politics, but of right, tenn
perance, and the best prosperity OF
array themselves against such out
spoken demand for the license saloon.
You may be sure that will do all pos
sible to help destroy the power OF rum
in our beautiful and prosperous State.
Long live Maine. the cleanest and best
of the bright galaxy Of the States
making this Union. but to keep her SO
we must fight for the demon of the
drink power plans hopes to win her
over to her foul business"
REV. HARRY A. KING.
1.-The Christian people OF America
are watching this campaign with
prayerful interest. Let me express to
your fight for right against rum Let
me say in view Of, my confidence in
the good people of the Pine Tree State,
that 1 expect for you an overwhelming
victory
REV. F. e. FREESE, Gorham. Me.
II am a believer in prohibition. and
always vote with the party that I be-
lieve will best forward its interests.
Am certain it Is clearly the republican
party"
NEW. 11AhhI LrAE, TdHhIlu, NE.
1--WE have fatal. and may I not
say, providential illustration Of what
results will be under such a regime. in
the State OF Vermont since voting Ii
cense laws"
REV. WILLIAM BRAGG No. IS
Mayo Street Portland. Me.
Having lived under license in diff
ferent states in the Union and in Can
ada, both high, low and local option.
I have seen the effects of all places
that sell intoxicants as beverage. and
none of them could keep within the
bounds of the restrictive laws of their
respective country. and the result has
been the same everywhere. 1 have
seen poverty among the poor. and
drunkenness and crime continually
increasing among the young of those
communities. I have seen the effects
of prohibition, which has been a con-
trast from my point of view from the
state of affairs in places where 1 have
lived under the license law. And yet
with all the boosted notification I'M
der prohibition laws in both states,
give me the prohibitory law to live
under rather than the licensed open
saloon"
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
CRESWELL WARNS
SALOON MEN.
New Commissioner An
nounces His Views on
Liquor Law Violations

The new Board of Police Commission
ers organized yesterday afternoon by
appointing w. H. Leahy president for
the balance of the year. Prior to the
meeting the Commissioners were in
conference in Chief Dinan's office for
over half an hour.
Commissioner Creswell has given no
uncertain expression as to his position
on the liquor question. Several reports
were read during the meeting against
saloon keepers for selling liquor after
hours, and Commissioner Creswel1 said
In no case of that kind under any
conceivable stress of circumstances
shall be revoked in future by this
board.
He also said that where there was a
divergence of opinion between a saloon
man and policeman as to whether the
former was selling liquor after hours
he would believe the policeman. The
other members of the board agreed with
him as to his declaration on the ques-
tion of revocation of licenses.
The Commissioners remarks were
called forth by the fact that nine hold
ers of saloon licenses were ordered to
be cited to appear before the board and
show cause why their licenses should
not be revoked for selling liquor after
closing hours. The alleged offenders
are: Dunn Bros. 1888 Market street;
Jones & Barr, Stevenson street, near
Third; Thomas Kelly. Tenth and Rail-
road avenues; Mrs. Hurley. 9S Chenery
street; John Lyons, 1901 Eighteenth
street; John Doe" Fahey, Twenty-sec-
ond and Harrison streets; Jacob Cold
man. Nineteenth and Kentucky streets;
E. ]. Wilkinson, Webster and Bay
streets, and A. Boccauegra, Farran ave-
nue. and Eddy street.
81 t%~
to sell liquor:
gomery; L. Rapp. Nineteenth and Cappi
Ed Gambarace 1903 Dupont; John T
Quirk, Broderick and Oak; John Puch-
en-. 13s Fifth; Herman Goetjen. Pierce
and Bush; Charles Bush, 1853 Fillmore
August Mass. Laguna and Greenwich
Isaac Tuchler. s1s Washington; F
ga; Louis Bergerot. Twenty-second and
Sanchez; john Delehanty, 1855, Harri-
son; William Rayor, 1857 Sutter; Milo
vilovich s. Werlich. 2213 Fillmore; Val
ich 2002 Fillmore; H. Warnkei Twenty
third and Valencia, B. Steinauer, 4Ss
Pine; A. Graciette, 522 Railroad ave-
VIA & Dedier. 20 Clay; A. CaIdarone
1920 Dupont; James n. Curtin, Twenty
fourth and Douglass.
G. Bignoti. proprietor of the Stella
d'Italia Hotel, S1S Broadway, will be
cited to appear before the board to
show cause why his license should not
be revoked. The hotel is within 150
feet of the Irving Primary School. and
under the recent ordinance no place
where liquor is sold is allowed within
that distance of a school or church
Bignoti was granted his license on
July 9, but at the time it was not known
that the hotel was within the forbidden
distance.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01

hdence that capitalists have in the fu-
ture of San Francisco.
Z. J. Bowes of the Bowes- -Breuner
Company said yesterday:
Reconstruction will be commenced
immediately and pushed to a compile
tlon- This VIII be one of the first large
burned district, and while the buyers
are considering the addition of two
more stories, the exterior as 1t is at
present will be retained
This building has always been con-
sldered one OF the handsomest business
edilces in San Francisco, the first two
stories being of solid granite. and the
Gotta, the whole being of very orna-
mental character.
II is not yet certain whether the
building will be entirely occupied by
some large retail concern or depart
ment store, or whether there will be
probability there will be a great many
firms in the market for such a desira-
bic location.
r 1t would seem that next 70 Market
street, Geary street would be the prin-
cipal thoroughfare. There is the Mu-
tual Bank building, the proposed new
Magee building adjoining, the Whittefl
the fire, the reconstruction of the
Spring Valley building, Newman &
Levinson's building directly opposite
which was also undamaged. These,
with the St Francis Hotel, will make
a splendid nucleus for the resumption
is by far the most important transac-
tion since the great fire. and will be
a matter of great interest to all prop
erty owners.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
W|FE'S BIG THIRST
DESTROYS HOME.
G. G. Muessdorffer, Well
Known Merchant, Is
Given Divorce Decree
LIQUOR TO BLAME

CnarIes q. Muessdorffer, well-known
san Francisco merchant, secured a di-
vorce yesterday from his wife, Anna
Laura Muessdorffer, on the ground of
habitual intemperance, the decree be-
ing granted by Judge Graham. No con-
test was made by Mrs. Muesdorffer
According to Muesdorffer, his wife is
SO addicted to the use of stimulants
that it is impossible for him to live
with her longer. Time and again he
would return home at night, he said, to
find his wife intoxicated and no dinner
ready for him. He would find her either
on the bed or on the floor, he stated.
Several efforts were made to cure his
wife of her habit. but each effort proved
unsuccessful. AS late as June Is of the
present year Mrs. Muessdorffer prom
ised to reform. The husband was called
to Berkeley on business a few days
later. and on his return home found
his wife again under the influence O.
liquor. He put her on the bed and left
the house.
Judge Graham yesterday also heard
the testimony in the contested divorce
suit of Bertha Rossbach VS. Carl Ross
bach The latter is a cooper by trade,
and his wife accuses him of cruelty to
her. He filed cross complaint, in
which he alleged that 1T was~his wife
who was cruel. Judge Graham tried to
reconcile the couple, but Mrs. Rossbach
shook her head and the husband re-
piled: It's no use, Judge; I have tried
1t too often. He will not reform
Mrs. RosSbach testified that her hus-
band held her down to s5 week for
household expenses, and that when she
asked him for more money he refused
her. and on one occasion when her sister
and a friend were visiting he picked up
big knife and ran them all out of the
house. With tears in her eyes she
begged that she be given the custody
of their two young sons
Rossbach told an entirely different
story. He said that it was the custom
of his wife to go to masquerade balls
every Saturday night and leave the
children alone.
Once she asked me for money" he
said, "and I told her I had given her
S.. Then she raised a frying pan. she
had in her hand and let me have it.
Judge Graham told me to go home. and
when / reached the house one night
last week I was met by my wife, her
father and brother. The men grabbed
hold of me and held me while my wife
hit me-"
The case went over for further hear
ing until next Monday morning.
Judge Murasky granted divorce to
Melida Gray from her husband, Charles,
on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Gray
testified that her husband was a gam
bier, and that he left more than a year
ago.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
COLLINS STILL IN
DURANGO VILE.
Shows No Haste to Have
Bond Approved in
the Superior Court

Having gained his point in being ad-
mitted to bail, George d. Collins is ap-
parently in no haste to secure bonds
men that his release may be affected.
Yesterday he was In and about the
courthouse and the office of the Sheriff,
but said that he was busy in preparing
legal papers in come ection with the
writ of error. Assistant District At
torney Hoff Cook notified Sheriff O'Neil
that he would be held guilty if he re-
leased Collins on what was claimed by
the District Attorney to have been an
illegal court order. The District At
torney asserts that the order of Judge
Hebbard admitting Collins to bail is
illegal.
Il will have my attorney carefully
examine into the case" said Sheriff
O'Neil, and must be assured that the
bond is sufficient, before Collins is CIV
en- his release"
The convicted lawyer announced that
he probably would produce his bonds
men this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
YOUNGEST WITNESS
EVER IN COURT.
Charlie Pryal, Four Years
Old, Testifies in His
Parents Divorce Case

With the testimony of lie 4-year- old
son of the principals, the Pryal divorce
case was brought to close before
Judge Graham yesterday afternoon.
The Judge told the Pryals that he
would have the testimony read. but
warned them that the chance of a di-
vorce being granted was very slight.
Little Charlie Pryal. the boy, who
has been in the courtroom during all
the proceedings, was given a chance to
tell what he had heard.
Charlie said Judge Graham. did
mamma tell you anything to say here?"
Yes" said the boy; before we came
here, she said for me to tell the Judge
that papa Knocked her down and hit
her"
Mrs. Pryal denied this, but the boy
was certain and said mamma had told
him that twice.
Mary Pryal, sister of the defendant.
said there had been no troublep un til
quite recently.
Mrs. Helen Pryal once told me she
had a good husband and that he was
considerate of her., said she. Later,
she said she wanted to be independent.
One night in my hearing she told her
husband that If he would let her get
a divorce without a contest, she would
marry him again In three or four
months. She said she wanted a chance
to be out with other people for a time
William c. Schley sued yesterday in
the Superior Court for a divorce from
Ida D. Schley. on the ground of deser-
tion. The complaint alleges that the
Schleys were married in Reno, New.
They have two children.
Other suits were brought as follows:
Charles Housen VS.. Mary HouSen, cruel
ty; Jacobina L. Benjamin VS.. Franklin
Benjamin desertion; Eta Rausch VS..
Gustav Rausch, cruelty.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
Sea Captain Wants
Coin for [ ales.
AprA1N Won HELMS of

~APTAIN Won HELMS of
q the Kosmos liner Menu
phis has grievance
which Will worry his thrifty
Teutonic soul all the way from
here to Hamburg, for which he
sails today. On her last yoy-
age to this port the Memphis
carried passenger who lives
by his pen. During the voyage
the scribe kept his eyes open
and his pen busy and after
reaching this port two of his
stories were published in local
papers.
Captain Won Helms read the
yarns and recognized occur
rences he had called to the at
tentiOn of the man with the
pen. He met the passenger a
few days later and learned that
for each story the man who
wrote them had received a sum
of money sufficient to buy
beer In Hamburg for several
months.
Captain Won Helms, In Ger
man, Kosmos-line accent, thus
delivered himself yesterday:
"Next time / come to San
Francisco / tell no newspaper
man anything unless he pays
me. I will allow NO passenger
to talk to any newspaper man
unless the newspaper man pays
me. Last trip one of my pas
sengers wrote an account of
something he saw ON my ship
after 1 called his attention to
ii. He was psid $50 for what
he wrote. That money was
really mine. That passenger
laughed at me when 1 suggest
ed that he pay me, and do
not like to be laughed at.
After this when the reporters
board the Memphis they learn
nothing unless they are pre-
pared to pay. I'm not here for
my health
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
ASSESSMENTS MAY
Be INCREASED.
Supervisors Cite Con-
Germs That Received
Insurance to Appear

The committee on equalization of
assessments yesterday ordered notices
to be sent to some fifty firms and cor
porations to appear before the Board
of Supervisors this afternoon to show
cause why their assessments should not
be raised. The notice follows:
You are hereby directed to appear
before the Board of Equalization of
the city and county of San Francisco
at its meeting to be held at M6wry's S
Hall, Grove and Laguna streets. on
Wednesday afternoon, August l. 1906,
at 2:3O o'clock, at which time said
board is to consider the matter of the
equalization of assessments. You are
hereby notified that in case of failure
to respond TO this notice the Board of
Equalization has, under the law, the
power to Increase the assessment
placed upon eyoUr property by the AS
The committee has secured a list of
concerns that were insured in the
dollar for dollar" insurance compa-
nies, who will pay the full amount of
insurance because the value of the
property destroyed exceeded the sum
for which ii was insured. The Board
of Supervisors will conduct an inves-
tigation with a view to adding to the
assessment roll at least a percentage
of the insurance money so obtained.
The firms and corporations to whom
notices were sent and the alleged
amounts Of their insurance are as fol-
lows:
H. Liebes & Co. s1575oo: B. Kat
chinski, $4,000; j. A. Roebling Sons,
Neustadter Bros. s109,5S Dunham,
Carrigan & Hayden Company 800 900
Samuel Bloom & Sons Company. sl01,-
Tough Provision Company, $40, 600; La
Grande Laundry Company. s4O,5S0: St.
Franeis Hotel. ,$1;oI3;Ooo; shreve
Company. s2ol. 500; H. H. Bancroft Com
pany. 100000; GuIlixson Bros, $4,000:
Ike Reutsch, SssSSss; Rosenblatt Com
PB9aony B9o ssssqS STockeT 4 fnns Ha soRss S5s I6S
Mrs. Ethel w. Crocker, 5000, ooO; Nc
Cam, Allen & Co, $36,750; Tsue Chong
Wing Mon Kee. $4,000 Kim Lung
pany, $1,000; Moss. Incorporated, 1885,
900: Brown Bros. Company $4,000:
Mercantile Trust Company. $245,000;
pany. $95,oO0; Bowers Rubber Works.
Wisland Bros $500; Nolan a & George
Company, s25O,00o Great American Tea
COMPANY. $3.50 Merchants Ex-
cns compsny $1,000 eolnmbus BoR Facl
tory, $4,000; Ralph Brown Company,
$4,000; Pacific Tool Works, SIS. 900;
Sherwood Estate Company, $4,000: R.
Ford & Co., $s3.250; Charles Mattheas
Company. s31,40o. $685. 900; Alphonse
Judis Company, $4,000; Keuffel & Co,
$4,000; We'll Bros. & Sons. s25, 500.
Chief Deputy Assessor Eagan ques-
toned the legality of the notifications,
as the Supervisors had not met as a
board OF equalization in the matter.
Assessor Dodge was not informed of
the intention Of the committee to issue
notices, but will be on hand at this
afternoons meeting TO watch proceed
ings.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
A TRIPLE CURE BY
CUTECURA REMEDIES

"Abcut ten years ago my scalp be-
came badly affected with sore and
itching humors, crusts, ETC., and extend
ing down behind the ears. My hair
came out in places also. l was greatly
troubled; understood it was eczema.
Tired various remedies, so called, with
out effect. Saw your Cuticura adver-
tisement, and got them at once. Ap-
piled them as to directions, ETC., and
after two weeks, think, of use, was
clear as whistle.
Il have to state also that late last
fall, October and November, 1904, /
was suddenly afflicted with a bad erup-
ton, painful and itching pustules over
the lower part Of the body. I suffered
dreadfully. In two months, under the
slalful treatment of my doctor, con-
joined with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, / found myself cured.
''Six years ago my son was laid up
with a severe cold, a hard cough, and
finally painful eruption ali over the
body. I procured the Cuticura Remedies
as soon as possible, and after his faith
ful use OF same was as well as ever in
two weeks, rs well as l can recall. He
has never had a return of the illness,
as far as l know.
4" ! have always been pleased to COM
mend the C-5.cura Remedies, and testify
as TO their efficacy. / am veteran of
the late Civil War, '61-65, between
seventy and eighty years of age. Yours
truly, H. ". f. Weiss, Rosemond,
Christian Co., Ill, Aug. 81. 1905"
Complete External and internal Treatment for every
Uunor from finpes Scrofus, from Infancy 70 Age,
consisting Of Cucura Soap, 25c, Ointment &c., Resov
5oc On form OF Chocolate CoIted PiG 2c. per vial
of co. may be had Of ali druggistS single set Oen
the distressing when al else fails Potter Drug
4 Chem Corp, Sole Props, Boston, Mass.
az Mailed Free, q How 10 Cure Eczenel" and q Al
About the Skin, Scalp. Hands, ane Hair"
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01

THE Spring Valley building on
the corner of Stockton and Geary
streets, formerly occupied by the
City Of Paris, the water company
and others, wss yesterday sold to John
II. Spring and Douglas S. 81 atson. The
price is something over $4,000 and
the buyers viii Immediately begin the
reconstruction Of the building. The
deal has been pending for some days.
but was finally closed yesterday.
The engineers have gone carefully
over the property, and they have re-
ported that the structure can be re-
stored. TO its original condition for
about $4,000
John II. Spring is a well known cap
italist, the president Of the Spring Con-
stvueUon Company and a large realty
owner Douglas 5. Watson is president
Of the Citizens National Bank.
The sale Of the property was negoti-
sted by the Bowes- -Breuner Company in
conjunction with the Watson Realty
Company, and the sale is regarded as
a very important one. showing the con-
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
Case Against Broker Dismissed.

The case of John w. Hamm, a stock
broker, charged with felony embezzle-
ment by Mrs. L. w. Fish of 223 Third
avenue, was dismissed by Police Judge
Mogans yesterday Mrs. Fish alleged
that she gave Hamm s120 for buying
and selling stocks on margin. and that
Hamm said he had lost the coin, the
market having gone against him. The
Judge held there was nothing criminal
IN the transaction.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
The G. A. r.. Encampment

At Minneapolis will be held August 13, 1906.
The Chicago and Northwestern line will be the
official route of the Department Commander Of
California and Nevada A rate of $40 has been
made TO Minneapolis and return. Tickets first
class and good for 90 days. Special cars will
leave San Francisco August o at 6 p. m Call
on or write R. r. Ritchie, 517 Market street
San Francisco. for informa ton reservation etc :
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
Beats His Father-in-Lav.

Edward Hanlon of 577 Cedar avenue
obtained a warrant from Police Judge
Mogan yesterday for the arrest of Rob-
EFT Cook, a butcher on Fillmore street,
on charge of battery. Cook is Han
Ions son-in-1aw, and it is alleged that
Cock struck Hanlon in the .ace yester-
d " morning.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
charges Filed Again.t Policeman ker..

Captain Thomas S. Duke filed with
the Police Commissioners yesterday
charge of unoff1cer-like conduct against
Policeman Peter ]. Keys, who is ac-
cused of having purloined five blankets
from the relief station at Lafayette
Square, where he was detailed for duty
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01

The original Vienna Cafe and Bakery,
1926 Post ST., near Van Ness The only
first class cafe and restaurant in the city
serving oysters, steaks, chops, salads,
hot coffee and rolls at popular prices
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TERRIBLE ITCHING
SCALP HUMOR
ADVERTISEMENTS.

Badly Affected With Sores and
Crusts Extended Down Behind
the Ears = Some Years Later
Painful and Itching PustuIes
Broke Out on Lower Part of
Body-Son Also Affected.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01

FIND BODY OF JAPANESE.-workmen
clearing of the debris at Seventh and Steven
son streets yesterday found the remains of a
japanese whose is not known. The dead
man met his death April IS and is sup
posed to have been a porter for a saloon-keeper
named Finch.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
MARDI GRAs CARNIVAL

Santa Cruz, Saturday, August 4th.
Masked ball in the evening. four prizes
Bands. fireworks, illuminatons, confetti Satur
day to Monday rate. Southern Pacific, S3
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-01
HoRsFoRD's ACID PHOSPHATE

Relieves Nervous Disorders,
Headache. Insomnia. Exhaustion and Restless
ness, Rebuilds the nervous system.