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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
ASKS GUARDIAN FOR
JAMES c. DUNPHY
Sister of Wealthy CattIeman
Petitions Court to Take
Charge OF His Estate
Alleged Excessive Indulgence in
Drink Said to Have I'm
balanced Mind

James Clay Dunphy's relatives have
arrived at the conclusion that the
wealthy and dissipated cattle owner
is no longer able to take care of him
self or his possessions. and yesterday
his sister. Jennie c. Dunphy, applied
to the superior court to be appointed
guardian of his person and estate.
Dunphy is stated to be suffering from
delirtum tremenS at the present time.
Ever since his marriage with Lydia
valencia, which was the elimination of
wild carouse, Dunphy is alleged to
nave been almost continuously drunk.
SIX days after the marriage he had
a sober interval and signed complaint
drawn by his attorneys for the annu1-
ment of the marriage. Within "a
hours he was back with the woman.
In drunken voice ne telephoned to
his lawyers to dismiss the suit This
they did not do, however
Miss Dunphy charges in her petition
that her brother is nAbitually addicted
to the excessive use of Intoxicating
liquors. and that such Indulgence has
rendered him mentally incapable of
naging his own property or of TAX
ing care of himself. He is likely to
be imposed upon by designing persons,
SIG says. Although Du0pny mas OFTEN
been called a millionaire, his share in
the estates of his dead mother and
father is as a matter of fact worth
between 100000 and 100000, it is
said.
The petition was drawn by Attor-
neys ]. H. Meredith and Perry Evans,
who have represented Dunphy In all
of the weller of litigation in which
he is involved. 1t will be heard by
Judge Mogan next Saturday morning
The plea of drunkenness has often
been made to the court to get Dun
ply out Of his troubles. Excessive
indulgence in suissesses was submitted
in one petition as a reason why a
default Judgment against him for
money should be se,- aside. His suit
for annulment of his marriage with
Miss Valencia was based on the allie
cation that he was intoxicated at the
time he was married and did not know
what he was doing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
NEW HOME FOR TOWN
AND COUNTRY CLUB
Will Reopen in Handsome
Quarters in Stockton Street

The Town and Country club, of which
Mrs. John Johns is president, will close
its present quarters in Franklin street
this week and reopen August 2 in the
handsome new clubrooms in process of
decoration and furnishing in the Rob-
ertson building. 20S Stockton street
fered in the fire, the quarters in Post
street below Kearny being burned with
al the contents and the large lfbrarv
Within a few months after the disas-
ter the club was established In the
Hotaling house, in Franklin street
near Clay.
With the downtown movement this
has become an out of the way loca-
ton, and the establishment in the
heart of the shopping district is anx-
iOusly awaited. The club will occupv
two floors and the rooms will be very
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
INDORSE PLAN TO
BRING DIAz HERE
Mexican Residents of City Will
Join With POrtOla Commit
tee in Invitation

Members of the local Mexican col
ony, those connected directly with ar
rangements for the Portola festival
and the citizens of San Francisco in
general gave Endorsement yesterday to
the plan favored by the Portola execu-
tive committee to invite President
Porfirio Diaz of Mexico to meet Presi-
dent William H Taft in this city dur
ing the great autumn celebration.
Definite arrangements for the for
warding of such an invitation to the
president of the nearest and greatest
of the Spanish-American republics will
be made at the meeting of the Portola
executive committee tomorrow evening.
An informal invitation probably will
be first extended by telegraph imme-
diately, to be followed by a special in
vitation to be presented through Off
cial channels. DIR. p. Ornelas, consul
general of Mexico, will be asked to
forward this invitation and also to
use his personal efforts and influence
to secure an acceptance.
In addition to sending the tele,
graphic and written invitations to
President Diaz members of the Portola
executive committee favor sending a
special commissioner from this city to
present San Francisco's compliments
in person to the southern ruler. AL
though it has been many years since
President Diaz has made trip as far
from his capital as the proposes jour
ney to San Francisco would entail
it is believed that he may be induced
to look with favor upon the plan of
meeting President Taft in this city
Diaz already has expressed his in
tention OF meeting President Taft in
FL Paso on the latter's return trip
from the coast, but in view of the
international aspect which the Portola
festival has taken on and because OF
the special significance which it bears
to the relations between the United
States and its Spanish neighbors
President Diaz may determine to par
ticipate in it.
1t is realized by those in charge OF
arrangements for the Portola festival
that the meeting of the two presidents
in this city would be the final event tC
focus the eyes of the world upon Sar
Francisco during Portola week Mem
bers of the Mexican colony expect to
supplement the committees invita-
ton with a memorial to be drawn and
forwarded through Consul General Or.
nelas.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
INSPECTS FIRE SYSTEMS
OF EASTERN CITIES
Civic League Engineer Makes
Detailed and Complete Report

Francis P Bergen, an electric and
hydraulic engineer and a member OF
the committee on supervision OF pub
lie improvements and expenditures Of
out his report yesterday OF a Ave
weeks inspection of high pressure fire
protection systems OF the east
The inspection was thorough and
embraced all the large eastern cities.
particularly New York and Baltimore.
His report covers not alone the bene-
fits and workings OF the high pressure
systems, but their weaknesses in the
various cities.
The purpose of the inspection was to
give to the city officials competent
advice and aid in the installing OF a
high pressure system in San Fran
cisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13

That the executive committee of %,
which is to choose a republican NUM-
cipaI ticket for the businessmen's COM
mittee of 200, would be completed and
It's work taken up today, was the an
nouncement made yesterday by those
assisting in the work of selecting the
committee.
The powers vested in the executive
committee of % by the resolution au-
thorizing its appointment are so COM
plete and the responsibility that will
be laid upon it is so great that its per-
sonnet is naturally matter of greater
concern than would be true of COM
submitted to the parent committee for
review or approval.
If the businessmen's executive COM
mittee is to bring out any new candi-
dates that work must, almost of ne
cessity. be completed today and finished
with the utmost expedition. The last
hour for filing nominating petitions
will be u o'clock midnight on Satur-
day. To insure validity of the petitions
the signers must be considerably in ex-
cess of the legal minimum of S96.
that the Disbursements committe would
indorse his regular" slate, arranged
Yesterday to have those of his candi-
dates who had not been previously an
nounced put formally in the field and
as available if the Disbursements COM
mittee should find itself in need of
men.
The petitions for William Croker for
mayor, Benjamin L. Mckinley for city
attorney and c. NJ. Fickert for district
attorney have been completed. but Sui
livan put several new verification dep
uties in the field for them yesterday,
and in each case had the new deputies
qualify TO circulate petitions for one
or more Of his supervisorial candidates
and for William P. McCabe for county
clerk, Joseph Taaffe for police judge
Joseph C. Mansfield for public admins
TRAITOR and NJ. NJ. Stern for recorder.
SUPERVISORS LIST
The list for supervisors included
Morris ]. Winter, merchant, 99S Dolores
street; Fred c. Halves, hotelman, 574
Third street; G. W. Bayreuther, plumb
Ell. PAT Eleventh street; John B. Carson
attorney. 1855 Geary street; George w.
Bell. gas maker. 5S1 Guerrero street;
Edgar W. Briggs, cigar dealer, 760
Dolores street
McCaDe, Sull1VdnS candidate IOI
county clerk, was defeated for the same
office on the democratic ticket two
years ago and was formerly secretary
Of the labor council. He was put on
the fusion ticket two years ago as a
representative of the union labor party.
Crocker's supporters on the county
committee are in some doubt whether
all their selections will be accepted
by the disbursements committees
They are not prepared to admit. how
ever, that failure to indorse their slate
by the disbursements committee will
result in breaking that slate. They
4 have heard. they say. rumors about a
desire to substitute John Deane's name
! for that of Fred w. Eggers for sheriff
They say also that they are for Eggers
/ in any event and that he is to have
( the benefit of their support.
DR.. Roland E. Hartley, the regular
candidate for coroner, filed yesterday a
completed petition with 1867 sigma
lures. He has several hundred more
afidavits and, in the event that the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
HEAVY GAMBLING
LEADS TO DIVORCE
Thomas T. Lane, Mining Man,
Loses $4,000 in Short
Time on Racetrack
Continued III luck Made Him
Bad Tempered, Says
His Wife

Thomas Travis Lane. the wealthy
son of still weather. father. Charles
d. Lane the mining millionaire. made
no defense yesterday to the applica-
ton of Marguerite Irene Lane for di-
vorce and Judge Mogan signed the de-
cree giving the wife freedom. She also
gets a substantial property settlement.
but as this was framed up out OF
court no hint of its size has been al
lowed to leak out.
Lanes gambling was the principal
cause Of his family troubles. His wife
testified that he spent great deal OF
his time at the racetraek and lost
heavily.
Didn't he lose very large sum OF
money just before he left your asked
Attorney Getz. Of Robinson & Getz.
who represented Mrs. Lane.
yes. he lost $4,000 at the race
track" she answered. Mrs Lane tes-
titled further that her husband was al
ways in a very bad humOr while he
was losing money He ''wreaked" his
temper on her. she said
The divorce was on the ground OF
desertion. Lane left his wife Deem
Der 5, 1907 and she has never seen
MIN S1nCes she Resumed re uotluc0
that he didn't like married life and he
just got up and left" said the witness.
The Lanes were married in January,
1904. and have no children
The corroborating witness was ". J.
O'Connor. who described himself as a
salesman, living at $50 Suffer street.
O'ConnOr said that rather more than a
year ago Lane left for Nome, saying
he hoped he never would see his wife
again
"A representative OF the Arm OF Solin-
sky & Wehe was in court, represent
ing Lane, but no questions were asked
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
COULD NOT MANIPULATE
GAS JET; DEATH RESULTS
Napa County Farmer Asphyxi-
ated at Daughters Home

While visiting his daughter. Mrs.
Virginia Rossi. at her residence. 4es
Fulton street, John Cordavilo, Napa
county rancher. met his death through
his iDexperience in the use of gas. He
was found dead with a gas jet turned
on in his room in the house early yes
terdsy morning.
Cordavilo arrived in the city Satur-
day evening and went to the home of
his daughter. where he spent Sunday
he retired late in the night and when
Mrs. ROssi. detecting the odor of
escaping gas. traced it to the room
occupied by her aged father, she found
him dead in bed, with the gas flowing
freely from one of the jets. The fix
ture in the apartment was a combina-
tion gas and electric one and the sup
position is that the dead man did not
understand the manipulation of 1T and
ia attempting to extinguish the light
turned on the gas.
Cordavilo was 70 years of age and is
said TO have been very wealthy. He is
survived by widow and one son, who
reside in Napa. The remains were
taken in charge by the coroner.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
CUNNINGHAM BOOKED
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
Brother of Carolina Brasch
Swears to Complaint

James Edward Cunningham was
booked at the city prison yesterday by
Detectives Driscoll and McQuaide on a
charge of murder on a warrant sworn
to before Police Judge Deasy by Max
district a brother of Carolina Brasch,
former book keeper for Gray Brothers.
who was murdered in the firms office
on June 80.
Cunningham was visited in the city
prison yesterday afternoon by E. E.
Kirk, attorney for the Unemployed Co
operative league. who will look after
the defendants interests when the case
comes up for hearing before Police
Judge Deasy this morning.
Senator Sims has been engaged by
the brothers of the murdered girl spe-
cially to prosecute the case and will be
assisted by Assistant District Attorney
Louis Ferrari
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
RETURNS RAISER OF
SILVER CERTIFICATES
Marshal Elliott Brings Man of
Aliases From Nevada

David Belmond, alias C. E. Belmont,
alias Williams, arrested recently in
Reno, New, on a charge OF passing
raised silver certificates, was brought
here yesterday by United States Mar
sha Elliott. Belmond, with Charles
Harris, Mark Page, Frank L. Gaywood
and Charles Irving, operated in this
city last winter, flooding the cheap
lodging houses and saloons with raised
paper money.
Secret Service Operative Harry Mof-
Gaywood and Irving left the city and
went to Seattle. They were arrested
there and sent to the penitentiary
Harris was sentenced to Is months in
San Quentin
Belmond made his way east, recently
returning to Nevada, where he was ar
rested.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
BOY DROWNED WHILE
TRYING TO SAVE HAT
George Perez Jumps Into Bay
From Wharf and Sinks

The Mission police were notified
Sunday evening that George Perez. II
years of age, jumped from McFarley's
wharf near the Seven Mile house to
recover his hat, which had been blown
into the bay The boy sank and was
drowned. The boy was employed by
w. p. Fuller & Co. and lived with his
parents at 5124 Mission street. The
drowning was witnessed by William
and Dewey Barnes of 40 Polk street
and George Hubbard, 10 Polk street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
POLICEMEN FACE CHARGES

POLICEMEN FACE CHARGES-Charges were
fled with Secretary Sicily OF the police COM
mission yesterday against Policeman Robert H
Ritter on complaint of Joseph F. Burns for ar
resting him without cause and beating him
Chauneey Park on complaint Of Captain Kelly.
for failing to report for duty on June 81, and
Patrol Wagon Driver Henry Laflle. by Sergeant
Williams for being intoxicated June 80.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
rraHr ovER woMAN-NI

FIGHT OVER woMAN-Nick pastinl. team
ster. 2241 Chestnut street. and Felix Castnedo
painter Vista Grande, quarreled over Ida Daft,
Of 23sI Lombard street at Vallejo and Powell
streets early yesterday morning Castned,
stabbed Pastini and fed. Pastini was taken I,
the central emergency hospital.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13

THROWS HAMMER AT BoYs-M Jaconi.
hsh merchant. 1926 Valencia street, was annoyed
by some boys Sunday night and threw hammer
through the front window at them, the hammer
striking Walter Martain Of 362SA Army street
in the face. A bystsnder attacked Jaconi and
beat him numerically.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
DAMAGES AGAINST STEAMER

& Scott iron works were awarded damages
against the steamer F. A. Kilbnrn for 81 .429 ~
and interest yesterday in the findings OF United
States Commissioner Frank Krull filed in the
United States district court. The suit for
furnishings alleged to have been installed in the
vessel by the iron works
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13

For Automobile Eye Insurance
Ask druggist for Murine Eye Remedy
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-07
Y

See. There is one OF the city bios
. SONS. You turn your head TO look
and watch it eagerly down the street.
The winter garments of the people in
the car opposite seem heavier and more
sober than before when your eyes re-
turn to them. such a pretty spring
hat. Gay with flowers and yet har-
monious in all its wonderful new
tfnts.
From Paris? Perhaps; but If It is
especially smart and artistic and suits
the face below it as the petals suit
the flowers center, then it is very
likely that some millinery genius Of
san Francisco has created it For
they know how. these san Francisco
modistes. They have been 10 Paris and
to New York and have drunk from the
spring Of ideas that is supposed to
well up in each of these places. They
have a few ideas of their own. too
and are not afraid TO use them. Many
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successes have given them poise and
confidence
There are Paris hats in plenty to be
had here in san Francisco with the
name Of Madame" or 'AIaison" This
or That stamped upon the lining; but
the mere fact that the hat has trav-
eled half around the world for her
pleasure does not satisfy the fastidious
San Francisco woman Of fashion. II
must have merit in itself It must
have style and It must be becoming.
Say what you will, you cannot force an
unbecoming style upon my lady. Hard
IS the designers and coutouriers OF
Paris tried a few years ago to bring
in the absurd hoop skirt and crinoline,
their reward was utter rout and COM
plete discontinue.
II my lady appears TO be driven, it
is because the path suits her and the
direction also. Now and then she
shows those who seem to be holding
the lines that they are simply follow
ing where she leads.
This fashion eeds''-that fashion
fails; it is the verdict of the woman
who wears the clothes, and from it
there is no appeal
This spring she can exercise all her
rights and privileges OF selection with
even greater freedom than usual, for
seldom has there been a wider range
of choice From large hats TO small
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the radiance of the gay spring OUT
burst of millinery.
Why should it be considered vain or
trivial for women to take a serious in
terest in their clothes? The day of
Puritanism is gone. 1t may be easier
to be unworldly under prim bonnet
than under a hat nodding with spring
flowers, but to refuse the good and
beautiful things of the world for fear
OF whatever evil may accompany them
argues a certain lack of moral courage.
The woman of taste and judgment
selects her spring hat and garments
with studious care, but as soon as they
are on and properly adjusted she for
gets them for to be really well dressed
is to be unconscious of ones clothes.
And therefore just at present the
spring hat, over which the milliners
have been studying for months in order
to bring it to it's present perfection, is
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-07

Spring clothes, especially the spring
suit with which many women content
themselves, are matters just now of
deep concern, but the new spring hat
comes first. You will often see it
poised above a costume that has done
duty through a long and stormy win
ter. The new suit may be little late
in arriving, but the spring hat in all
its bravery of fresh colors and crisp
straw and ribbon is sure to be on
time.
There is philosophy in clothes and
their psychic influence is a thing to be
considered. Perhaps as a mere matter
of mental comfort and esthetic salts
faction one could better afford to have
the flowers come a little late than to
have anything delay the coming or dim
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-07

likely to be in most cases, for the
new coifures are also becoming.
The remark of an observant San
franciscan will be truer this season
than ever before-that whereas a ma
jority of the women passing on the
streets followed the prevailing fash
ions, no two OF them were dressed
alike.
The most momentous question agi-
tating the feminine mind at this sea-
son of the year is that Of the selection
of the new spring hat wherever two
or three women are met together these
questions may be heard: Have you
bought your hat yet?" and "Oh, what
is it like?" Listen and you will hear
these queries a hundred times in the
next few weeks.
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~PRING is herei

4" PRING is herei
Is it? How can we tell? Not
because the flowers are blooming
in our gardens-they have been
doing that all winter. There is
another sign to look for-along Mar
ket street and up Van Ness avenue and
around Union square new and exotic
bIossoming Of another kind is taking
place. Here and there they spring
forth as the blossoms up in the foot
hills burst firm the duh brown un-
promising chaparral twigs.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-07

very much In the foreground
1t is time,A surely. The rains have
rained their worst and longest. Even
the pessimist must believe that bright
spring weather and plenty of it is in
store. for San Francisco. As Solomon
sang:
For 10, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
Tho time OF the singing of birds is
come.
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ones. from wide brims to none at all
that is about as far as the pendulum
could swing
They are all becoming if the hair is
dressed in the new fashion. as it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-01
BEING WELL DRESSED.

Everything in the realm of dress az
pears to depend nowadays on the man :
ner in which a woman wears ner
Clothes and. despite every aSscVera-
ton of our grandmothers to the con-
trary. detail can hardly have counted
for so much in the days of hoops anG
coal -scuttle bonne,s.
PurctiIous attention to detail *.
moreover. the determining note in the
dress Of today. and it is often difficult
problem to account for the reason why
one woman. whose dress budget totals
II much more moderate amount at the
end of the year than her richer neigh
Dor, always manages to look Infinitely
smarter and better dressed.
Much. however depends on what ao-
pear to be insignificant trifies, and
ninety women out of a hundred
for instance, would never stop to con-
slider the wisdom of buttoning or lac
ing the boots or shoes before proceed
ing to put on their gowns.
Yet it is an undeniable fact that
nothing spoils the hang of skirt so
irremediably as the habit of stopping
in forced position, straining every
hook and forming creases which no
amount of smoothing will eradicate,
says Woman's Life.
Another fatal mistake which is often
perpetrated is that of emitting to pull
down the skirt in front after fasten-
ing the waistband To manage this
alone is impossible, but few women
cannot, after all. command the services
of some one else who can be intrus ed
with this duty.