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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22

ION has grown rapidly during the
past few months and is making its
presence felt in the city and viein-
lty. An important meeting will
be held tomorrow evening and a
large attendance is expected.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22
Painters in Clover.

Never in ifs history has the local
Painters Union enjoyed such a
prosperous season as the present
one. They have experienced no
trouble whatever this summer and
work has been plentiful. The I'M
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22

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sweat of his brow.
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p. C. .Jeffers,

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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22
Carpenters Still Growing.

The Carpenters continue to be
active and as a consequence their
organization is still growing in in
fuence and membership and adding
to their already healthy treasury.
There is nothing like getting out
and hustling and the carpenters
efforts in that particular have GER
tainly been crowned with success.
Their regular weekly meeting tax es
place this evening at Assembly
Hall, which promises to be of I'M
usual interest,"
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22

Do tyou get The Labor Argus :
II not, now is the time to subscribe.
Only 81 per year; so cents for six
months. The only paper publish
ed III the kanawha Valley in the
interest of the toiling masses.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22
Newsboys Meeting.

The Newsboys' Union which has
been enjoying its summer vacation
has been aroused by the near APP
proaeh of Labor Day and will have
a meeting at Assembly Hall Annex
saturday evening at 1880. They
VIII have considerable business to
transact among which will be the
necessary arrangements to attend
Labor Day Demonstration at Kan
awha Stock Farm.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-22

bcrship and financial strength of
the league. We must boost the
label rs well as the working card.
1t means much or organized labor
in Charleston as well rs all over
the country.
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Organized labor.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
~ for sirteenth place

AS shown in the foregoing table, A J.
Brander, J. Atkinson and Captain J. S.
Sedan tied for sixteenth place in the
qualifying round, with scores of 101
Before the first match play round is
begun these three competitors will
play q hole or holes until one of them
shall have gained lead by strokes,
the hole or holes TO be played out The
player who wins in the play-of will
take sixteenth place and will qualify
10 take part in the first match round
over eighteen holes, 10 be played to-
morrow.
In this round the players will be
paired according TO their positions in
the qualifying round, as follows: Dr.
w S. Harlan VS.. George Sturges, w.
J. Boardman VS.. Harold Pearce, A B.
Daniels VS.. N e. Barker, Thomas
Royce VS.. Major W. Maize, T. P. Mum
ford VS.. W. L Thurston, Alexander
REYNOLDS VS.. F. B. Cossitt, George
Booth vs. W. H Eaton and Merrill K
Waters VS.. the winner in play-of of
the tie for sixteenth place in the quail
fying round
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
P|LFER|NG CLERK
CAUGHT IN ACT

After having committed series of
petty pilferings for many months Cas-
par Cohen, a box clerk in the main
postofflce who had been in the depart
ment for twenty years, was detected
redhanded last Sunday afternoon by
Postoffice Inspector James OiConnell
with some of the plunder on his person.
Complaints had been coming in since
Christmas that articles of small value
sent as merchandise and in unregistered
letters had never reached their deStina-
ton. O'Connell was detailed to find the
offender, and after three days of
tracing he narrowed the inquiry down
to Cohen. All day Sunday the suspected
clerk was watched, the sleuth being
concealed in one of the hollow pillars
provided with peepholes for that pur-
pose. O'Connell- saw the suspect open
package after package, and heard his
exclamations of disappointment when
he found that the plunder was of small
value.
When O'Connell stepped out from his
place of concealment and arrested
Cohen the clerk wilted. When the
stolen articles were found in his pock-
cts he broke down and confessed that
he had been stealing for months
In his locker were found many odd
trifies mostly intended for Christmas
gifts such as baby caps of knit silk,
obscene postal cards from France and
Germany, brass scarf pins and other
cheap jewelry. A silver dessert fork
bore the name of Janet" and large
heavy gold hatpin was initiated "R. V.
H" A season ticket to the Orpheum
in the name of j. Crothers and lady
was found, together with bunch of
passes to the Emeryville race track.
There was also a pass on the Joy
Steamship Company from New York
to Fall River, issued to F. B. Hill and
family, and pass on the Mount Tamal-
pals Railway to T. c. Peck
The prisoner was taken to the South
ern police station at p m on Sun
day. He Will be taken before United
States Commissioner Heacock this
morning.
Cohen is unmarried, 80 years old,
and lives at 1910 Willow street, Ala
media.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
BAD BILL PASsER
HELD BY POLICE

Thomas Ryan, arrested at 7S5 How
ard street. on suspicion of having as
saulted Frank Sullivan. a 17-year-old
boy. is held at the Bush street police
station on suspicion of having been
responsible for having flooded the city
with bogus bills issued by the defunct
Planters and Merchants Bank of
Georgia At the time of his arrest he
had in his possession a large num-
Der of the spurious greenbacks
and the police believe he is the
person who has victimized lodg-
ing-house keepers and others. Ryan
refuses to make a statement.
When taken into custody by Police
man P. J. Foley Ryan resisted arrest
and made a break for liberty. A bull
let from the pistol OF the policeman
stopped his fight. Sullivan, on whom
he is alleged to have committed an as
sault, will not prosecute.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
COFFROTH TO PUT
UP BIG FIGHT
PAVILION

Apparently the fight promoters of
this city have no fear of Gus Hartman S
antiprizefght bill. Judging from the
attitude of some of the managers, they
expect the bill to be showed under be-
fore half of the route is covered. Al
ready Coffroth and Levy are laying
plans to promote fights this year. They
held a short conference yesterday and
it was decided that, while they would
not enter into negotiations to form an
other fight trust, their relations from
promoting standpoint would be
amicable. Just where Eddie Graney
and Willis Britt, who also were in the
game during the past year, would fig
ure during 1907, was not brought into
the discussion.
Should nothing unforeseen occur to
prevent the mitt wielders plying their
vocation during the present season.
Manager Coffroth proposes to erect a
pavilion, built especially for the pro-
motion of boxing contests. He broached
the subject to Levy yesterday with the
view of having the latter take finan-
cial interest in the project. The two
will meet again to further discuss the
plan. Coffroth says that he will erect
a pavilion, with or without Levy's as
sistance.
recent letter received by Dick
Adams from Mrs. James ]. Jeffries in
dicates that, the champion will not be
seen in the ring for some time, if ever
again. In the letter Mrs. Jeffries in
vited Adams and his wife to accompany
her husband and herself on European
trip.
Manager Michael Riley of Tonopah,
according to latest advices, is on his
way to this city from Seattle, and may
arrive today. Britt is doing light work
in Marin County, and Cans will close
his theatrical engagement in New York
ON February Is and start for Tonopah
on the 23d
Barney Van Buskirk. promoter of a
boxing club in Marysville, announces
that he has succeeded in matching Cy-
clone Thompson and Rufe Turner of
Stockton to box in Marysville on the
afternoon of February % for a purse
Of $4,000. The fight promoters of
Vallejo are up in arms, as they claim
that they have Turner tied up for a
fight in their town on the same date.
They threaten to prevent Turner en-
gaging in a contest in Marysville on
February %.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
DIR. HARLAN WINS
GOLD MEDAL
AT GOLF Z
By Arthur Ir1kersIey

HOTEL DEL CORONADO, Feb. A.
The third annual competition for the
mems golf championship of the Coro-
nado Country Club was begun this
morning on the Coronado links The
sky was overcast, but the air being
warm and stil the conditions were fa-
vorable to good golf. Two of the
twenty-four entries. George Booker and
D J. elby, dropped out. Twenty two
players, or eleven couples, were left
The play in the qualifying round was
over eighteen holes medal score. The
best scores for a single e-hole round
were made by George Booth, 3s, and
A B. Daniels, SO; but Dr. w. S. Harlan
Of Washington, D. c., made the lowest
score for eighteen holes, 4o-42, total
So. and won the gold medal Of the
Coronado Country Club, offered for the
best score in the qualifying round
Third annual competition for mems
golf championship of the Coronado
Country Club:
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
HUNT ovERRULEs DEMURRER
Holds That Action VIII Not Stand in
Connection With Quiet Title Suit

Judge Hunt declared in a decision
given yesterday in a suit brought by
Heinericke Fautz that a demurrer to
an affidavit in a suit to quiet title to
property under the provisions of the
McEnerney act is not a valid form Of
procedure and cannot stand.
Fautz's suit was begun TO establish
title to various pieces Of property In
the city, among them being a lot on
Vandewater street near Powell, to
which the Potrero Nuevo Land Com
pany has a claim. The latter company
interposed a demurrer to the complaint
and affidavit in Fautz's suit on the
ground that the affidavit itself showed
that another action was pending be-
tween the parties.
The court ruled that the demurrer
filed was essentially in opposition to
the complaint and could not be against
the affidavit, for, while the Supreme
Court has held that the sufficiency of
an affidavit can be inquired into, it
cannot be by this means. Judge Hunt
declared that a demurrer cannot be
interposed to an affidavit which is fled
in accordance with section s of the
McEnerney act, and that as the demur-
rer in the present case was against
both complaint and affidavit it was
faulty against both because of being
faulty against one. The demurrer was
overruled:
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
MAY CLOSE EACH
STREET IN TURN
Grand Jury to Recommend
That Traffic Be Stopped
While Repairs Are Made
GRAFT CASES TO-DAY

The condition of those waterways
which once were streets in the down
town districts of San Francisco has
moved Foreman B. P Oliver and the
committeeman of the Grand Jury to
such indignation that it is probable the
recommendation of that body will be
that streets be ordered closed in rotation
and repaired from end to end as soon
as the weather clears. Montgomery
street may be the first to be subjected
to this drastic course. oliver said
yesterday that this thoroughfare should
be closed entirely to traffic and over
hauled and made anew. When repaired
Montgomery would be reopened and
Kearny or Sansome street given its
turn of an overhauling.
IF business man were conducting
this city as he would manage his busi-
ness, these streets would have been
repaired long before they got into this
condition" said member of the jury,
pointing to mudpuddles that for several
blocks covered a dilapidated pavement
During this rain nothing can be done,
but action should have been taken
earlier to repair the roadways. 1 am
speaking now as citizen and not as a
grand juror, but I am sure that the
recommendation of the jury will be
that the city officials must improve the
streets. If street be closed temporar-
lily for repairs it might work hard
ship on some property owners, but the
temporary welfare of the individual
must be sacrificed to the permanent
good of the community.
Another pertinent recommendation
which may be expected from the Grand
Jury is that those theaters which vio-
late the fire ordinance so f1agrantly
be closed. 1t is the intention of Fore
man Oliver and Chief Shaughnessy OF
the Fire Department to inspect local
playhouses.
Il an, in constant fear Of a great
catastrophe in some theater,' said the
foreman of the jury in an interview
I'VE shall take action Immediately to
close those places which do not conform
to the law
The Grand Jury will meet at 2 o'clock
this afternoon in Native Sons Hall
Geary and Cough streets, and resume
Investigations into municipal graft a
work which Ruef and Schmitz have
hindered by their tactics of requiring
the presence of grand jurors in court
during the tests of the indictments
already returned. 1t is not believed
that any new scandals will be probed
today, the plan of the prosecution being
to clean up the pending cases before
plunging into larger graft exposures
The crusade of the Grand Jury
against the migration of the evil char
acters of the old tenderloin into the
residence district will be continued
by Oliver, z. j. Gallagher, Charles
Sonntag and other members of the Jury
who have decided that Chief Dinan
must extinguish the red light west OF
Van Ness avenue. Particularly are the
saloons to which young girls are taken
from skating rinks and dance halls to
be placed under the Grand Jury ban
If Dinan refuses to act he will face the
alternative of being removed.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
WIFE IS
ON THE TRAIL OF
HOFFMAN
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

Los ANGELES, Feb. 4.-The domestic
troubles of j. j. Hoffman, who is now
acting as official starter at the Ascot
Park racetrack, are to be dramatfzed
and presented on the stage, If a threat
made by a woman who asserts that she
is the wife of the horseman be put into
execution.
This woman, who signs herself ~Mrs.
j. j. Hoffman," was Miss Louise Bull
lock of Louisville, Ky. She fs known
also as the "Fafry Tout" and "Mayes-
vile Lou" She seems to be very much
I'm earnest and declares she has the
backing necessary to put on the stage
drama which will attract attention
wherever Hoffman In known.
The woman says she married Holt
man in this city a year ago and that
he procured the license. On the other
hand, Hoffman asserts that he never
married the woman and that the mar
riage license is a forgery. To this she
replies that if the license was for
gerry, the ceremony in which she par
ticipated was fake, and she is pre-
pared to expose the names of a num-
ber of witnesses who are prominent
business men. She says she lived with
Hoffman here until a short time bo-
fore the San Francisco fire, when an
other woman appeared. claimed to be
Holtman's wife and tried to enforce
her claims with a revolver. In the
latter undertaking she succeeded, and
Hoffman recognized her as his wife.
Mrs. Bullock Hoffman" has received
an offer from Joe Weber Of New York
to go on the stage and has consented.
provided Weber will have play writ
ten which will be based upon her own
experiences. She says the villain in
the play will be named Jake Hoffman.
The woman appears to have abundant
financial backing. She claims that a
number of the witnesses to her alleged
marriage have communicated with her
and offered to support her claim. Holt
man says she is an adventures and
that she has prosecuted other men in
other parts Of the country.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
SUPREME COURTS
/. RULING REVOKED
Action Gives Validity to
Hundreds of Suits for
Restoration of Titles
AWAITS TEST CASE

Pending the settlement of the case Of
Robert Hoffman against Judge Mu
rasky, representing the Superior Court
the Supreme Court yesterday temporar-
lily revoked its decision of January 8
concerning the McEnerney act, and this
is taken by the attorneys interested
evidence of a permanent revocation.
This would restore the validity of be-
tween 900 and 700 suits now in court,
which otherwise would have been
thrown out.
The McEnerney act has aroused the
opposition of number of title insur-
ance companies, which will suffer ma
terial loss through its provisions They
have engaged able counsel to represent
them in the courts, but thus far have
met with defeat After the Supreme
Court had declared the McEnerney act
valid, they applied for a rehearing. This
application was refused on January o,
and the Supreme Court took occasion
to amplify its former decision by say
ing that, in the opinion Of its members,
the McEnerney act required that a
claimant TO a piece Of property certify
that he had made certain efforts to
find rival claimants before commencing
his suit for restoration of title.
Before this additional opinion was
filed several hundred suits for restora-
ton of title had been commenced in the
superior Court Should the decision
stand, these would have been invaH-
dated. The revocation of this opinion
yesterday restores the legal status of
the suits now pending. 1t is argued
that unless the Supreme Court intended
finally 10 make this revocation perma-
nent ii would not have caused the
lower courts to waste time upon cases
that ultimately were to be invalidated.
The order OF the court rendered yes
terday, was as follows:
By the Court: The opinion filed January s,
1907, on denying the petition in the above en-
titled cause is hereby withdrawn, pending fur
ther considera ton and final determination therein
discussed, said question being necessarily In
volved in Hoffman Superior Court, S. F., No.
z755 this day argued and submitted on briefs
TO be filed
Before the foregoing order was Is
sued the Supreme Court I4stened to the
argument in the Hoffman case and al
lowed ten days for the filing of briefs
and ten days for answers to them.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
AL|B| FOR SHORES
NOT PROVED
Patrolman Hazen Appears
as Own Attorney; Next
Time He'll Hire a Lawyer
ASLEEP ON HIS BEAT

Half dozen patrolmen were on the
carpet before the Police Commission
ers yesterday afternoon for various
derelictions, but none was so ably
defended as D. F. Hazen. patrolman of
Company E, who appeared as his own
attorney and copied the fashion of
royalty in alluding to himself in the
third person. Against him came Cor
poral j. L. Murphy, who testified that
while walking down Fillmore street
at half-past on the morning of No
vember Is he was startled by the
sound of loud snoring. On investiga-
tion he located the snoring in an alley
way, and, on lighting a match, found
he. the defendant" fat on his back
and sound asleep.
The case seemed a hard one to beat
but Hazen has been studying law in
his wakeful moments, and, although he
failed to pass the bar examination re-
Gently. he saw his opportunity to
shine, and he glittered The legal
phraseology that came from the locus
of the alleged snores caused Harry
creswell to sit up and pay attention
to the somewhat corpulent cop.
1t was as pretty a defense as full
f1edged attorney ever framed. He,
the defendant" showed by one wit
ness that ten minutes prior to the al
legged snore he was guarding the
Mayors house at the corner of Pierce
and Vallejo streets. Subsequently to
that he espied a suspicious character
on Fillmore street and thereupon Sc
creted himself in an alleyway to fur
ther spy upon his suspiciousness. He
even produced the suspicious character
before the commission and had him
swear to his own suspiciousness.
The delight of victory rested on the
placid countenance of Patrolman Hazen
when the Commissioners returned from
brief colloquy on the case. He leaned
back gracefully to hear the happy
word. Creswell spoke, and 1t was:
Guilty. The defendant is fined $780,"
He, the defendant" made a sud
den noise, like snoring, in his surprise,
and resolved to have no more to do
with the law and its mazes.
Another case before the commission
was that of Patrolman Edward J..
Plume, who redeemed a ring which
Siemsen, the gaspipe man, pawned in
Oakland previous to his arrest. Plume
had a good character, and that saved
him, in the stress of suspicious cir
cumstances, from more punishment
than a fine of $40 and a reprimand He
was shown not to have proflted by
the transaction, but the testimony
showed that there is a psychological
influence abroad in the department,
"hASA iSduS sOui1S OluSCiS Will SOOO
regulations to daily with the thought
of diamond rings to their undoing.
Patrolman Walter S. Neal proved
that he was sick on Christmas eve
when he failed to report off duty at
midnight. and Edward G. Wiring was
also let off when he had shown that
he was in a hospital under like con-
ditions.
The case against Thomas F. Wren,
who is charged with the unlawful ar
rest of H. Holtmeyer under peculiar
circumstances, was continued in the
absence of Holtmeyer, who was report
ed to have said that he wanted to re-
move his money before Wren searched
his pockets.
The commission meets tomorrow
night In its new quarters for the first
time.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-05
DECLARES Boy s
DEATH. MURDER
Attorney Costello Scores a
Steamship Company for
Sacrifice of Mitehell's Life
DUE TO SIMPLE GREED

The death of little 14-year-o Jim
gence, nor was it due to accident. 1t
resulted directly from criminal viola
tion of the law by the officers Of the
California and Oregon Coast Steamship
Company-from the greed which
caused them to violate the statutes
prohibiting the employment of child
labor, and from the desire for gain
which sanctioned the use of open
lights in that vessers hold in lieu of
the more expensive safety appliances
demanded by law and ordered by the
inspectors. The death of that lad
was not an accident. 1t was murder"
Attorney Stephen Costello used no
soft words yesterday in summing up
his final argument in the case brought
by James Mitchell against the Cali
fornia and Oregon Coast Steamship
Company to collect $4,000 for the
death of his son, who was killed by the
explosion on the steamer Despatch in
December, 1905. The attorney openly
declared that the defendant company
but was criminally answerable for
young MitchelPs death.
Costello went into all the details Of
the case in the course of his argu-
ment. laying special stress on the vio-
lation of the child-labor law, and de-
claring in connection with this that
contributory negligence on the part
of the boys parents could not be
urged by the defense as lessening it's
own liability. He asserted that the de-
fense had practically admitted the vio-
lation of the child-labor law by not
denying it in its answer in the suit. He
also called attention to the testimony
to the effect that Inspector of Hulls
and Boilers Bolger had ordered safety
lights installed on the vessel, and that
the use of open lights in the face of
this instruction was criminal.
Costello asserted that Supervising
Engineer Hough and Captain Weber
had not testified in the case for fear
their own words would implicate them
personally in the alleged crime. He
said that of the forty men who Were
on the vessel at the time of the ex-
plosion not one had been found who
could tell exactly how it happened or
describe the details of the horror.
The case was continued until this
morning for the argument of the de-
fense before Judge Graham.