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The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
MILL VALLEY RESIDENTS
FIGHT SALOON LICENSE
Seven Petitions Filed to Not
Permit j. V. Costa to
Open Resort

MILL VALLEY, Sept. III. V. Costa
has number of signers to a petition
FOR saloon license to be located on
the Blithedale road. Seven petitions
nave been filed with the board of trus-
tee against the granting OF the license.
Ihe seven petitions are signed by the
Mill Valley Improvement club. the
Hall association and the five churches
Episcopal, Catholic, Congregational.
Christian Science and Methodist
In addition to the petitions, Trustee
ireland introduced several amendments
to the present ordinance governing the
sale of liquor and the mode of procedure
necessary for a saloon man to follow be-
fore his petition can come up for action
before the trustees. Among the amend
ments are the following: Liquor can
not be sold to boys unless they have
passed Fl years of age; before it was
1S years. A provision is also made
that the name of every one who signs
a petition for the granting of a saloon
license shall be printed in a local
paper, and the proposed changes will
make 1T necessary to secure the names
OF two thirds of the property owners
within a radius of 1000 feet instead
of 500 feet. The amendments will fur
ther provide that no licenses be grant
ed to saloons within 1000 feet OF any
park, church. school or any public
institution.
The amendments will come up for a
final vote at the next meeting of the
board.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
LEADERS in STUDENTS
CHOSEN BY JORDAN
They Will Meet With the Fac
ulty TO Discuss Problems
of Importance

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Sept IA
Undergraduates who will serve on the
newly organized university conference
which President David Starr Jordan has
instituted were announced today. The
organization has at the outset % upper
classmen who have been selected be-
cause Of excellent scholarship standing
IN their respective departments OF
study.
The choosing Of the representatives
has been made by the professors OF the
olmerent departments. The conference
VIII take up undergraduate problems
with DR. Jordan and is primarily in
tended to bring the faculty and stu
dents into closer touch with each other
upon common topics.
The students appointed are: l. Co.'S
sett OF Palo Alto, =. A Ross of Fall
brook. A. Z. Roth of Ukiah. W. c. Shell
ton OF San Jose. II. r. Stolz Of Red
lands, w. c North of Cupertino: 2. B.
Grifhths Of Wichita. Kan; c. = Morris
Of Pasadena; J. l. Thompson Of Pneblo
Colo; ii. V Poor Of Palo Alto F. "
Weymouth Of Tacoma; H. S. Hunter OF
Phoenix, AriZ.; T. Il. Ashley of Alta
dena. r. i. Huntsbefger OF Los An
geles. NJ r. KirkwoOd of Mountain
View. J. r. Stewart of Stanford J. NJ
Miller of MilpiJas Z. w Rice of Eden
vale. a Colbert of Petaluma Il Z.
Ochsner Of Mayfield; @. J. Bailey OF
Melbourne. Australia. J. H. Hess Of
Baltimore, Nd
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
STANFORD ASSISTANTS
NAMED FOR SEMESTER
Practically All Are Undergrad
uates or Graduates Who Have
Shown Marked Ability

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Sept IA
The assistants in the various depart-
ments Of Stanford university for the
coming semester have been appointed
by the board of trustees. The new as
slstants are in practically every case
undergraduates or graduate students
who have showed marked ability in
their special subjects. The list is as
Mathematics, Mary E. Bile; physics, A. S
GasWeil; mechanical engineering Carl Broer,
geology. c. V Buke; English. Alice W. Kim
ball, Carrie ooOdhue; Romantic languages Mrs
Sophie BoegngeE; applied mathematics. G. d
Barnett; Leon d. Reynolds Arthur f. Taylor,
Latin, Ester J. Spencer; chemistry F. p III
well r. b. Boyer. 4. W. Pondexter f. IT
Staber- g. l. Bohart. G. y. Barnett w w
Rice, A. NJ. Cuthbertson, NJ b. BairOs; civil
sngineering, A c. Coonradt. J. s. Hess E. W
Sawyer, 5. B. Dole, c. A. Randall r. g. Smith
y ". bpsoni entomology, j. NJ. Miller, c. S
Morriss; drawing. Harriet Park: physiology J. r
Iruett; electrical engineering, A. $. Mott; presi.
dents Office, Is. Wood. A. Ruthfeld Mary Y
swift; geology and mining. f. W Turner Mar
earet Post; hygiene Edith f. Johnson Josephin.
d. Randall, J. T. Chapman, Z. D. McCann A
4. Webster. II. A. Gilman
The appointments of Dr. John H
Blair and DR.. 5. L. Ware as Instructors
In history were approved.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
BERRY SUCCEEDS
IN PROVING ALIBl
Former Husband of Mrs. DOnO=
hue Was Working in Mine
at Time of Murder
Elks and Garments Union TO
Conduct Funeral of COnSOrt
of Slain Woman

OAKLAND. Sept. 14.-Captain OF De-
tectivcs Petersen received letter this
morning from J. ID. Whitney, superin-
tendent of the Midas gold mining com
pany which, he believes. viii COM
pIetely absolve Joseph Berry from sus-
picion Of completely in the killing of
Mrs Alice Donohue. The letter says
the timebooks OF the company show
that Berry worked in the mine, which
is located at Knob. Shasta county, %
days during June and 80 days in July.
He was off on June s, two days be-
fore Mrs. DOnohue disappeared, but he
came back 10 work the next morning,
and Whitney points out that il would
have been impossible for him TO have
made the round trip TO Oakland dur
ing his absence, as il requires 2S hours
10 make the trip one way between the
TWO places. Berry also laid off on
July T. The foreman of the company
is willing 10 make affidavit that the
timerolls are correct.
The funeral Of Daniel Donohue, who
committed suicide soon after the body
Of his murdered cOnsort was eXhumed,
viii take place tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock from the morgue. The funeral
services viii be conducted under the
auspices of the Elks and the carmen's s
union. Interment win be in Mountain
View cemetery.
Mrs. Donohue's body will probably be
buried beside that of her reputed hus-
band on Wednesday. AS her funeral
services have already been held no
ceremony viii attend the interment.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
UNIVERSITY MINES
Will CROSS BATS
Second Season of lnterfrater-
nifty Baseball Will Open on
Campus Today

BERKELEY, Sept. 1.-THE second
season of interfraternity baseball of the
Greek letter societies of the university
will open tomorrow when the mines OF
the Phi Kappa Psi and the Delta Tau
Delta cross bats on the campus. The
winner of the series will be entitled
to the silver trophy offered by the
league.
Ofiicers of the league to take charge
or the games to be played this year
have been chosen as follows:
President Herbert $. Johns of the Phi Chi;
secretary treasurer. Carey $. Hills OF the Beta
Iheta Pi; committee disputes and schedule,
j. Reese, John Barnett and G. NJ. Canterbury.
The following schedule is announced
September Is. Phil Kappa Psi vs. Delta Tau
Delta the winner to play Chi Psi September 20;
September is, Delta Kappa Epsilon vs. Alpha
Delta Phi the winner TO play Phi Gamma Delta
September 20; September 10, Delta UpsilOn W..
Psi Epsilon. the winner TO play Sigma Alpha
Epsilon October 2; September % Phi Delta
Theta VS. Phi Kappa Sigma, the winner to play
Beta Theta Pi October 3; September %. Kappa
Sigma vs. Acacia. the winner to play Alpha
Tau Omega October 0. The following will play
their first game IN the second round: October g.
Chi Phi VS.. Sigma Chi; October 10, Theta Delta
Chi VS.: Sigma M; October 10. Kappa Alpha vs..
Zeta Psi
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
|ONE LEGGED MAN
AND WOMAN ELOPE
Single Legged Husband Is Left
at Home to Make More Wood
en- Legs for the Legless
Divorce Case Is Suspended Be-
cause of Arrest OF the, One
Legged Wife in San Jose ,

OAKLAND. Sept decentralization
of the suit for annulment of marriage
filed by Arthur f. Bull. wooden
legged maker of wooden legs, against
Mary w. Bull, who wears one of the
legs which he made. was postponed to-
day by Judge Harris because the
woman was arrested in San Jose yes
terday for eloping with a one legged
man named Frank Fleming.
Bull and his wife became acquainted
when she applied 10 him TO replace a
limb lost in a streetcar accident She
made grave accusations against him
and he married her to escape prosecu-
tion- They never lived together and
Mrs Bull fled suit for $50 month
separate maintenance. Bull replied
with a cross complaint saying that she
had forced him TO marry by her fraudu-
lent representations and that he waS
not the father OF her child The case
was postponed until September 23 to
allow of the appearance of Mrs. Bull in
court.
Ella E Nathaniel got a final decree
OF divorce from w. II. Nathaniel today
Loutrel Briggs sued Anna Briggs for
divorce today for alleged desertion.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
HAROLD FITCH GIVEN
HIS COLLEGE DEGREE
Student Suspended for Critics.
ing Stanford Faculty in Edi-
toriaIS Gets Sheepskiu

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. IA
The academic council of the faculty of
Stanford university today granted de-
gTees 10 certain students who have
completed their university work but did
not receive their sheepskins at the
commencement exercises in Nav.
Among this number was Harold Fitch
OF san Francisco Fitch was denied
his degree last semester by the fac
ulty because Of certain editorials he
Had written as editor Of the Daily Palo
Alto Fitch had completed his work
IN the history department and upon adj
vice appealed his case. His degree was
awarded today without a dissenting
vote.
Fitch was a member of the Skull and
Snakes honor society, Quadrangle club.
press club and Encina club.
Besides Fitch the academic council
granted the following persons degrees
~ lss Efile Murdoch, Charles REFINING.
Miss BeSs Gerard. Miss Ella Hill Eva
DickOver and j. II. Alvord.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
CARELESS OF FATE
AS EYES GROW Dim
Actor-Soldier, Facing Bigamy
Charge, Indifferent Through
Fear of Blindness

OAKLAND, Sept. 14.-Declaring that
blindness is slowly but surely creeping
upon him as a result of having bathed
his face in poisoned water, which Fill
pino natives placed in his tent during
the Philippine war, Robert W. Griffin,
alias Waltham, the actor soldier who
was arraigned in the police court this
morning on a charge of bigamy pre-
ferred by Miss Martha Straub, assumes
Indifference to his fate.
Griffin has admitted that he married
Miss Straub, a pretty and accomplished
Swiss governess, in this city last June,
but asserts that he thought that he
was acting within the law. inasmuch as
his first wife, Mrs. Goldie McCarron
Griffin, had secured an interlocutory
decree of divorce from him. The po-
lice, however, say that Griffin lived
with his wife after the alleged issu-
ance of the divorce decree, and they
are inclined to place little credence in
his statements. Acting Police Judge
Geary has set September % as the date
for the hearing.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
.DUNhAM IS TAKEN
IN TEXAS TOWN
Slew Six Persons, Including the
McGlincy Family in
Campbell
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SAN JOSE, Sept. 14.-Sheriff Lang
ford is in receipt of number of photo
graphs of the j. c. Dunham suspect who
was recently arrested at Sherman,
Texas, and the likeness of the arch
fiend who murdered six persons at
Campbell in 1896, including the Nc
Glincy family, is so striking that the
case is being given the closest atten-
tion.
There were four photographs, show
ing the suspect in as many different
positions, and these were shown to
many people who knew Durham we'll.
All declared that the likeness, allow
ing for the lapse of time since the
murderer was last seen. is good.
Sheriff Langford said today:
This may mean another long trip
in quest of Durham. We shall act very
slowly in the matter, but as the case
stands now it looks as though the right
man may be in custody"
Deputy Sheriff Burlington, who knew
Dunham well. and who talked with the
murderer but a short time before the
terrible crime Was committed, said to-
day:
These pictures are the best like
nesses of Durham 1 have ever seen.
There is a reward of $1,000 offered for
the capture of the murderer"
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
EYES OF ARTISTS
ARE ON BERKELEY
Exhibition of Greatest Works
of Famous Wielders of the
Brush Is Coming

BERKELEY, Sept. 14.-Announce-
ment was made today by c. L. Bieden-
bach. president of the Berkeley art
association, that plans were being made
by the organization to repeat the an
nual exhibition some time next month.
The exhibition will be held in the par
lors of the First Congregational church
OF this city and practically all the ar
lists here will submit canvases.
The committee in charge, each MEM
Der of which will be assigned to de-
partment, is composed of: Miss May
Morrison. Miss Emily Pitchford, Mrs.
Andrew Davis. Mrs. W. w. Davis, Miss
Charlotte II. Colby, Miss Belle Rhodes,
Mrs. Perham Nahl and Miss Campbell.
The standing committees for the year
have also been announced by President
Biedenbach as follows:
Program-Mrs. Beatrice Williams,
Charles Keeler. Mrs. C. r. Breck, Miss
Lydia Atterbury and Mrs. ]. f. James.
Membership-Miss Mabel Weed, Miss
Marie Oter, Miss Annie Woodale, Miss
Gertrude Chase, Mrs. ]. NJ. Pierce, c. C.
Dakin and John Imrie. Identification
of public buildings-Clarence Dakin, Z.
w. Foss. John Galen Howard, F. F. Con-
ner, Frank Todd and Bernard Maybeck.
Identification of school buildings. H.
Meyer, Professor +. B. Dresslar, II. H.
Glessner, c. W. Wilkinson and Mrs.
Alice Whitbeck. Building-Lewis A.
Hicks, chairman; J. W. Richards, Earll
II. Webb, Mrs. Annette Hobson, Mrs.
L. /. Lttman and Mrs. ]. M. Pierce.
At the next meeting of the art asso-
citation, September 2S in the First Uni
tartan church, prominent speakers will
be heard, as follows: Johannes Reim-
ers, Landscape Gardening; Bruce Por-
ter, Instruction in Home Gardening;
Superintendent McLaren OF Golden Gate
park of San Francisco, CITY Parks"
Frank c. Havens, Streets and Boule-
wards"
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
HOT FIGHT PROMISED
OVER JOINT PRESBYTERY
Big Oakland Churches Favor
Union, but Smaller Ones
Oppose Scheme

OAKLAND, Sept. 14.-There will be
hot fight over the proposed combina-
tion of the San Francisco and Oakland
presbyteries at Emanuel Presbyterian
church tomorrow morning, where min
listers and laymen from all the Presby-
terian churches in the country will as
semble for the fall meeting. The pres
bytery convened tonight
The committee of the Oakland pres
bytery appointed to confer with one
from across the bay last spring will
report in favor of the combination, and
this will bring some warm discussion.
The members of the smaller churches
are against the move. while the larger
Oakland churches are said to favor it.
Rev. III. III. Winter was elected mod
orator tonight. w. II. Burke made a
strong talk on behalf of the anti saloon
league. He predicted that California
would be dry state within the next
five years. He advocated the use of
party politics to attain this end and
also the use of keen and judicious lob
bying.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
FRED PETERSON HURLED
FROM BROKEN AUTO
Fractures Skull and Wife Is
Bruised in Accident to
Machine

SAN MATEO, Sept. 14.-Fred Peter
son, who with his wife was the victim
Of an automobile accident yesterday
afternoon near Redwood City, is rest
ing easily today. Peterson, who is
employed at the A. Smith garage, was
on his way to visit DR.. j. J. Meyer at
Mayfield in a Ford runabout and they
were passing Redwood at a moderate
rate OF speed when the machine broke
just back of the front wheels, hurting
Peterson and his wife to the ground.
where they We're pinned under the
wreckage.
J. D. Smith, Redwood liveryman.
went to their assistance and Peter
son was removed to his home in San
Mateo, where an X ray examination
showed that his hip was badly crushed
and his arm severely injured. His wife
is suffering from number of bruises
and a shock
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
CHINESE PURCHASE
MODERN FIREARMS
Orientals Return to Empire With
Rifles Bought in Amer
lean Stores
Patriotic Natives Believe They
May Help Native Country
in impending Crisis

OAKLAND. Sept 14.=Purchase of
large quantities of firearms by Chinese
who are returning to their native land
! indicates that China is expecting to face
crisis in the near future, for which
patriotic natives are making prepara-
| tions on their own account. During the
last few months a large number Of
| rifles have been bought from hardware
stores in Oakland and San Francisco
by wealthy orientalS who are returning
to their native country.
The rifles are taken to pieces, so that
they may be smuggled into China: ac-
cording to local Chinese. Every liner
going to the orient for several months
has carried Chinese who have parts Of
| rifles slowed away in various places,
not few of them concealing the
weapons beneath their clothing.
When any queries as to the use of
f, the rifles are put to the purchasers
they invariably tell the hardware men
| that they will use them to hunt when
they get back to China.
Most OF the weapons purchased are
A caliber Winchester rifles. of rather
an old style, which use the same am
munition as the rifles which the Chinese
soldiery are now learning to use. As
1t is well known that the soldiers of
China are being drilled in the use of
modern fighting weapons under Japan
COG aAO olHSI loIclSu OHlCeTSs II IL IN
teresting to note that the civilians are
also acquiring some use of weapons
more modern than the ancient imple-
| ments used In the China-Japan war.
The rifles are being taken into the
interior of China. according to a pur-
chaser today, who intimated that they
were in great demand among the hill
| tribes and more warlike orientals.
Whether the weapons would be used
against the government by revolution
aries or against the common enemy OF
the empire the Chinese would not say.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
CITY REFUSES TO GIVE
CONTRACT TO BRITTON
Redwood Council Holds a Club
Over the Gas and Electric
COmDauv

REDWOOD CITY. Sept. 1.-THE city
council, through its mayor, George
Merrill. has called the president of the
California gas and electric company,
John A. Britton, to time and shown
him that they will stand for no quib-
bling in the matter of light rates or
service for the city.
The municipality made a contract
which expired last May with the light
company for service five years ago.
The corporation has served the city
without contract since that time.
When the contract was entered into
the company took over large amount
of equipment belonging to the city and
at the time for the renewal of the
contract claimed that they did not
know where it was. Satisfactory sery-
ice at a fair rate was demanded of
them at conference by Merrill, who
held over the corporation the threat of
two competing companies or the re-
placing of the citys entire system in
the shape 1t was at the time the COR
poration took it over A plea for time
on the part of Britton was granted
and the corporation was given an ex-
tension of 60 days.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
BUILDERS PLAN
FOR INITIAL FLIGHT
Fruitvale Men Confident That
Their Aeroplane Will Be
a SucreSS

FRUITVALE. Sept IA 40 horse
power airship will be given it's initial
flight in Fruitva1e on November 1 If the
plans of Peter English, r. J. Cunning
ham and d. B. Diebert, the builders,
do not miscarry.
The greatest care is being taken in
the construction of the ship and it's
plans are being kept secret, but the
along the lines of the Wright aeroplane,
and will be 48 feet long, operated by
an engine which can develop 40 horse
power. Each part of the aeroplane has
been thoroughly tested, and they are
now being worked together. The build
ers hope that another month will find
them ready to fly about at will over
the bay region.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
AGED NEGRESS MARRlES
MAN OF THIRTY-FOUR
Mrs. Anna Maria johnson, "a
Years Old, to Wed Will
liam Hill

S OAKLAND, Sept. 14.-Mrs. Anna
Maria Johnson, a negress 81 years old,
has decided to intrust her entire future
happiness with William Hill, "a years
old. Hill apeared at the county clerks
office today and secured q marriage
license.
Mrs. Johnsing is a mighty fine
lady, said Hill with a great display
or white teeth. Lively? She am de
liveliest lady for her age dat ever 1
see. Lively as cricket is Mrs. John
sing"
Getting more confidential with the
Mrs. Johnson owned two large houses
In Berkeley. He said, however. that
he had furnished cottage for her at
1884 Boise street and would take his
bride there to her new home.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
SECRET MARRIAGE DIscI.osrD

OAKLAND. Sept 14.-After keeping
their marriage secret since July 4, Miss
Louise Kellogg and Charles FieberIiug
of Oakland have disclosed 1t and have
been receiving the congratulations of
many friends The young couple went
Father Harmon McQuilkin performad
the ceremony, and they then returned
to the city. The bride is a pretty
brunette. The groom is In business in
this. city and is prominent-i in fraternaI
circles
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
TRAINS MERELY CRAWL

REDWOOD CITY, Sept. 14-In an
effort to force the city councils of the
their speed laws the division superin-
tendent of the. Southern Pacific COM
pany has called the attention of the
train crews to the company's circular
passed at the time the laws went into
effect. The result is that the trains
running through the city limits. nota-
bly, at this point, creep along at a
snaips pace, much to the disgust of
anxious commuters.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
rEAMsTERs, sTRIkE ENnEn

SAN MATEO, Sept. 14.-After two
weeks, during which time building
operations in this vicinity were prac-
tically suspended. the locked cut team
sters went to work this morning as
men and their employers. The union
men Were receiving 1925 and demand
ed $2.75 day from their employers.
the wage question being compromised
at $3.50 a day
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
THIEVES ROB PosToFFICE

SCOTIA, Sept. 14.-Robbers broke
forced open the safe and stole $50 in
money. The postoffice is located in
the store of the Pacific lumber COM
pany and the thieves secured booty of
considerable value belonging to the
company.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
DRANK TOO MUCH AND DIED

San RAFAEL. Sept 14.-County
Physician Kuser performed an autopsy
on the body of Mrs. Emil Ibsen. the
wife Of San Francisco tailor. who
Schuetzen park yesterday. The autop-
sy showed that she died of acute alco-
holism. The body was shipped to San
Francisco today
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
OAKLAND CITIZENS To
VOTE BY MACHINE
County InstalIs Instruments and
Hires Men to Teach
Voters Their Use

OAKLAND. Sept. 1.-THE board OF
supervisors employed 15 men today to
begin a demonstration of the voting
machines to the public. III. p. Travers
is chief of the squad at salary of $3.50
a month. His assistants will get 500
each
District Attorney Brown advised the
board today that a petition for saloon
license filed by A. A. Suarez of Melrose
was illegal. Suarez had cut off portions
of the original sheets in making his
petition for presentation
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
MAN KILLED BY TRAM

RENO. New. Sept. 14.-An unknown
man, apparently about 40 years old.
was instantly killed few rods east
of the depot today by a Southern pa
cific train. The man was walking
alongside the track and as the train
front of the engine
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
STOLE no GET nIARRIED

OAKLAND, Sept III. f. Anderson,
a cigar store clerk, accused of en-
bezzling $4s4 from his employer. was
placed on probation by Judge Ogden
today. Anderson was said to have
marriage. He agreed to furnish 81. 1000
cash bail and to report June Z, 1909.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
Telegraphic Brevities
DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING.

DROWNED WHILE SwIMMING-stockton
Sept. IA. NJ Johnson, aged 81, a deckhand
on the steamer Newtown, was drowned yes
CELEBRATE RAILROAD oPENING-Lima.
Peru, Sept. IA great festival was held in
this city yesterday on the occasion of the
Inauguration of the Cuzco railway.
FATHER OF HoKE SMITH DEAD-Atlanta.
Ga. Sept. 14-H. II. Smith, father of Gov
ernor Hoke Smith and one of the best known
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
STUDENT INSANE OVER RELIctoN

SAN LJtS. .OBISPO, Sept. 14.-Archie
Davis of Pasadena a student All the
California Polytechnic school, who nlys-
teriously disap ppeared six days ago. was
discovered by Edward Curl. a fellow
student. lying in a gulch reading the
bible. Davis was examined by phvsf-
clans and found TO be insane He was
committed 10 the stockton asylum by
Judge Bnangst. Overstudy of the
bible and religion turned his mind.