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The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29
THUGS GET $1,000
FROM LONE VICTIM
Randsburg Miner Is Held Up
at Portsmouth Square and
Robbed of Coin
Footpads Trail William c. Eic1
From Train and Assault
Him From Behind

William C. Eich, miner from Rands
burg. arrived in the city on Monday
evening and had several drinks in a
saloon at Pacific and Kearny streets
He walked along Kearny street and
saw that he was being followed by two
men whom he recognized as having
been on the same train from Bakers
field. At Portsmouth square he was
knocked down from behind by a blow
on the head with the butt end of a
revolver. He says he was robbed of
$4,000 in currency and gold.
He went to the Hotel West in Third
street and stopped there all night and
yesterday morning went to the central
emergency hospital to have the wound
in his scalp dressed Then he notified
the police of the robbery. Detectives
ProH and Kelly have been detailed on
the case
Morris Foster, an errand boy for the
Auto express company at 1897 Twenty
fourth street, while delivering pack
ages on Monday night, was assaulted
and robbed by two men in Alvarado
street between San Jose avenue and
Guerrero street of 81. new hat, and
two suit cases each containing a suit
| of clothes.
Edward Moore, 1851 Golden Gate av-
enue, was. held up by two men, one
with a revolver and the other with a
pair OF DTaSS knuCklcS on MS na00, IN
| Howard street between Fourth and
Fifth late Monday night and robbed of
| 20 cents, all the money he had in his
pockets.
| Victor Coopward. S24 Market street,
] Oakland, while walking with a strange
man toward the ferry late Monday
night, was held up near. the Washing
ton street wharf and robbed of s12.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luke E. Eastman, Hotel
| DnV., nf &Hn 1fn e.
$50 Eddy street, Monday evening and
Mrs. Eastman left a handbag contain
ing Sill and when she returned she was
informed that blonde woman had left
with the handbag.
! The store of Antonio Cenapo 40s
Bay street, was entered on Monday
| night and $40 stolen.
| The police have in their possession
| an automobile runabout that was
| Norton street on Monday night by two
men. The men were driving along
| Alemany avenue and when they came
! to the crossing the machine got stuck
| in the sand. They got out and tried
TO move it without success. and when
some boys appeared they ran across a
| field and disappeared. According to
| the number on the machine it belongs
! to r. r. Wherry, Claremont, Los An
| geles county, and the police believe it
was stolen.
A brooch with seven diamonds. a
| red stone ring, a child's sapphire ring
| and a pearl necklace were stolen from
| the office of the I4indemann jewelry
| company, PSI Post street. December %.
| A. Huginin, 1920 Sutter street, was
| robbed OF purse and $40 on a Mar
| ket street car Monday night and
Attorney Charles Wesley Reed of a
! gold watch on & Masonic avenue car
! yesterday morning.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29
READY TO CROWN
FESTIVAL QUEEN
initial New Years Eve Cere-
mOny Planned IN Mission for
Tomorrow Night
Chinese Dragon Promised as
Feature of ThreefOId Gala
Event

A merry forerunner OF san Fran
cisco's threefoId New Years celebration
win be the coronation tomorrow night
Of Queen Esther, sovereign of the New
Years festival OF the mission. The
sixteenth street theater. sixteenth
street, near Mission, win be the scene
of the coronation, and everything is in
readiness for the event. The costume
of the queen has been especially de-
signed for her and is A most Ella bOrate
and beautiful gown. The doors of the
tAeater viii. be thrown open at 7.4s
O'Clock Preceding the coronation cere-
monies E. vocal and instrumental pro-
gram viii he rendered by Mission
talent.
An immense gilded key will be pre-
scented 10 the queen after the corona
tioH. and with il she win unlock the
gates Of the Mission and bid frivolity
enter Miss Ethel MAY Asmussen and
Miss Garnet Hall maids of honor tC
abe. queen. will be inducted into theil
Office at the same time. Myer Clark
VIII be the royal court jester and W
T. Burns and George I. Warren, hel
maj a5esty's guards. The Mission Pro
motion March." the official musical
composition, win be rendered during
The ceremonies
The final plans for the downtown
celebration viii be cOnsumma ted today
an a meeting to be held at noon al
the Palace hotel Of the New Years eve
committee of the downtown association
Chairman Paul Carroll viii at that
time receive the final reports.
1t viii be reported that everything
is in shape for the celebration. The
Chinese dragon, which is 10 pass
through the Mission district as well as
down town. is trained TO the minute
and yesterday demonstrated to the sat
isfaction Of Otto F. Schiller. engineer
for the Downtown association, that it
could breathe steam and fire from its
nostrils
This mammoth serpent viii require
four automobiles to support it on its
journey The Chinese delegation viii
be presented with two silver cups by
the Mission promotion committee at
the St. Francis at midnight. The pres
entatiOn will be made by Supervisor
oscar Hooks and Colonel Walter n.
Kelly. Lock Tin Eli viii accept the
trophies on behalf Of the Chinese.
Leading Chinese merchants viii gather
at a banquet AT the St Francis after
the march Of the dragon
There viii be four separate parades
in the Mission on New Years eve. The
electric shell float of Queen Esther and
the automobile division viii consti-
tute the first parade Il will start from
Twenty and Valencia streets at
S-3e and proceed downtown 10 join with
the floats Of the Downtown asSocia tion
and the Fillmore street group at Mar
ket and Van Ness avenue. The floats
which viii parade for prizes offered by
the Mission promotion association viii
assemble in Dolores street between Six
teenth and Seventeenth at s o'clock
Carriages and equipsges viii gather in
Valencia street between Sixteenth and
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29

garet Mahoney, appellant, against the
board of education.
The appellant alleged that the Lin
coin school site, at the southwest corner
of Fifth and Market streets. was in 1853
conveyed to the board by the commits
sioners of the funded debt, to be used
for school purposes only, the action of
the commissioners being affirmed by the
legislature and later by congress.
In the decision of the court of appeal
the lower court ruling is upheld
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29
MAN MEETS DEATH BY
FALLING FIVE STORIES
Cement Worker Loses Balance
While on Staging

: CorsigIia. a cement worker 50
years old. was killed by falling from
the fifth story of a building at Taylor
and Jones street yesterday afternoon.
Corsiglia was working on the building
when he lost his balance and fell from
a staging He was still alive on reach
ing the Central emergency hospital but
died - minutes later. He was a MEM
Der of the cement workers union.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29
CARNEGIE is
HURT BY FALL ON ICE

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S-While suffer-
ing considerable pain from a fall on
the ice yesterday, Andrew Carnegie
showed much improvement today and
expects to be out again in a few days.
He was taking his constitutional in
Central park when he slipped and in
jured his left knee
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29

Seventeenth at O'Clock. All masquer-
aders who viii compete for prizes Will
assemble in Mission promotion hall, Va
lencia near Sixteenth at O'Clock. The
division of maskers in The parade will
form at sixteenth and Guerrero subse-
ouently.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-29
SCHOOL BOARD MAY
LEASE PROPERTIES
Lower Courts Sustained in
Decision of District Court
of Appeal

That it is legal for the board of edu-
cation to lease school properties for a
period not. exceeding 35 years is the
decision of the district court of appeal
rendered yesterday in the case of Mar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
vANDALS DAUB BROWN
 PAINT ON PARIS STATUES

par,s March 20-A crazy act of van dalism has been perpetrated in the Luxembourg Gardens. close to the Senate. ..
 If is not difficult to surmise who arc tba instieators, as they are evidently connected with the Royalist agitation. The beautiful park. so well known to all visitors. contains numerous statues an.1 works of art. The other morning. when the keepers opened the gates. thev were mortified to find many Of the statues daubed over with brown paint.
 On the pedestals of some of the words "Vive le Roi' had been scratch ed and on others the words Down with the Republic" had been roughly traced. The statue which suffered most was that erected In honor of Scheuer- Kestner only a year ago. Two alleRorical figures on the pedestal were partly demolished. and a mir TOT held in the hand of one of them, supposed to be the mirror of truth, had been struck off ...
 The number "245." which refers to the clause in the code on which the Court of Cessation based it's decision to ouash the Dreyfus case, was paint ed on the pedestal of every statue in the park The vandals must have spent the greater part of the night in this stupid work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

ment. not altogether with advantage. The erection of wooden houses pro- ceeds only slowly, with indefinite de- lays, And until adequate shelter can be provided the stricken regions there is no way of bringing back the scatter cd refugees to their own provinces. Until these fugitives return there 10 stili terrible need of supporting them elsewhere. and little prospect of any permanent slleviatfon of their misery. On the other hand, 1t must be aoknow- lodGed that there are many dimculties. not fully appreciated perhaps abroad. which help to explain. though they do not altogether excuse, the Shorooom- ings of the work of rslief.
 Of the total of the sums collected in Italy and all over the world, for im- mediate and unoficisl relief, no exact amount can be given. The Vatican Lombard and Pfedmontese funds have possibly reached some e70o.00o; the American and English funds were for the most part paid into that of the Central Committee or National Fund over and above the money thus paid they have realized some $2.ooo, 0oo' chiefly American and expended In stores and probable houses: the Na- tional Fund, at the disposAl of the Central Committee. stands at e4ooo,o0o of which the American contribution must have amounted to about s2.600,o0e In addition there h the society for the protection of the orphans. which hal received from various sources $20O,0ot and other less important charadtabls enterprises. The Vatican fund has beer spent through the agency of the Churcf
 with great discretion and very i'm
 partial liberality, some proportion o | 1t being reserved for the restoration of ruined churches in poor parishes The Piedrnontese and Lombard com mittees have administered their owI funds admirably, with much practica | common sense, Of the British ant l American organizations a full accoun have been given. The administration | of all these funds deserves nothing bu | praise.
 The same, however. cannot be sal' l for the administration of the Centra
 Fund. which represents the great bun
 of the money subscribed both In ital! | and abroad. An excellent committe
 was selected for its distribution. bu
 from the first this committee seem t have entirely misconceived the par l they were asked to play. The none
 was for immediate relief and to pre-
 vent unnecessary suffering; they hay
 chosen to regard it as a sacred trus for the future as we'll as the presen l needs of the victims. Two month after the disaster they had spent onl'
 a tenth of the sum .dn their keeping | for permanent benefit. In the way o immediate relief they doled out totall' insufficient sums.
 Behind Reggie and Messina. stretch fng far away on either coast, lies
 once populous region. now vast
 unding some fifty ruined town
 and countless villages whose wretche
 inhabitants are, many of them. stil naked and starving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
RUSSIAF FINANCES BAD
DUMA URGED TO PREVENT NA-
 TIONAL CATAsTROPHE.
Present Method Thriftless And Credit Abroad is Rapidly Deteriorat-
 fng-Must Retrench On Military Expenses.

St. Petersburg. March 20-The un- promising financial condition of Rus sia. and the disastrous consequences which may flow from 1t constitute topics claiming more widespread and more intense interest than the most disquieting aspect of the Balkan out look.
 The subject has been thrust upon the public by the Parliamentary debates on the Estimates, which were opened by the spokesmen of the Financial Committee in telling speech. Eschew- ing politics. operating exclusively with figures, and withholding censure from men and institutions. he impressed all groups of the Duma, and every sec tion of the trading community. with the urgent necessity for endeavoring 6 impossible. he contended, that the government can continue to transact the nations business on the present | thriftless lines.
 Russia Is continually spending mor' than she can afford; yet she is no spending enough on urgent cultura needs. Higher taxes will not SC things right, because the two prin cipal sources of taxation, namely, thu railways and the alcohol monopoly have already produced the maximum
  state. property. woods, forests. mines and oil wells. owing to bad manage ment, supply much less than nigh reasonably be expected. Moreover, tn economic groundwork of finances | likewise precarious. The corn expor trade, which had hitherto furnishe, the wherewithal to pay the service 0 the foreign debt, Is falling away to disquieting extent. and exported cor has to be brought back at higher price from foreign countries later on.
 Parallel with the shrinking of ex ports goes an increase in the imports The normal increase of deposits in tn savings banks is also vanishing. Rus sian credit abroad is distinctly de lteriorating, and the task of the natiol and the government Is to restore 1t t the level of six years ago. Retrench ment on the estimates for the nationa defences forms the essence of tn remedy, proposed by the Financia Committee
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
FAMOUS GAMBLER DEAD.
Once Cleaned Up s7So,ooo in Au.traI

Once Cleaned Up $75O,00O in Australia. London, March 20--Joseph Thomp- son. the well-known bookmaker. has just died in Madeira. Ills health for several years had been more or less broken. and eventually he was obliged to give up travelling the meetings. leaving his partners to occupy his pitch" in Tatersalls. The firm com prised "Joe," as he was familiarity called. his brother Barney, Harry Hart, and another. and it will be continued under its present registered title.
 In his seventy-one years Joe Thomp- son crowded enough of life for twice the age. When youngster he left London for Australia with nothing. and after about thirty years of 1t out there. returned with $750.000. He shipped before the mast for the voyage out and home. but broke his contract In order to try his luck at the gold diggings. His desertion was accomplished after dark by means of an empty water cask. in which he padded himself ashore, and the country swallowed him up. What success he met with as a digger Is not known. but he made a pile of money subsequently as a book maker and owner of horses.
 He was called the King of the Ring" and he bestowed this name on one of his best horses. The cham pion of them all was Don Juan. who won him a number of races, and, in cidentally,> a lot of money. Joe gam bled In those days, and once he backed Don Juan to win $200.o0O. The horse developed leg" and spent the whole of the night preceding the race with the limb in an ice bucket. treatment which, combined with his sterling merit, enabled him to get first past the post It was practically the same with Old Joe when he won the Grand Ma tional.
 Bushrangers "held up" Thompson
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
LONDON RADIUM INSTITUTE.
Will Open in September And King Ed
 Mard Bec0mex Patron.

VIII Open In September And King Ed-
 ward Becomes Patron.
 London, March 20-'We hope to have the new Radium Institute open for the reception of patients by the end of September" said Sir Frederick Treves this week.
 As 1t has been secured in Riding House Street. Portland place. and the building of the Institute will be com menced without delay. The King has consented to become the patron. and in general terms 1t may be said that the Institute will be conducted upon the lines of the Radium Institute in Paris.
 MT. T. P Figgis is the architect. and the building will be in two parts, with separate entrances. One section will be devoted to the necessitous patients and the other to the we'll to do. The former will be treated free of charge while the latter will be required to pay fees on such scale as the medi- cal and surgical staff may determine
 T have paid many visits to the Paris Institute" said Sir Frederick and the new institute in London will be carried on upon very similar lines The treatment will be strictly limited to treatment by radium or other radio active substances. The Rontgon rays the Finsen light. and electrical cur. rent treatments will have no place fl | the Institute, as such means of treat ment are already well provided for fl | other institutes
 Arrangements are being made tC get radium to the extent of five gram mes. and demonstrations in the use o rajium will be given. Medical prac titioners. too, can be advised as to tht mode of employment. and as to tn, to-activity of their own specimens | of radium
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

more than once, but they were always disappointed of the expected booty. He outwitted them by carrying all his notes and gold In the axle of his bug gy. As mentioned, he brought $760,000 back to England. That was nearly twenty years ago. and he used to say he lost S500. 0.0o0 of 1t. One of his con- temporaries dropped a larger sum oven than that and died worth nothing.
 Thompson was once indebted for a nice coup to a coincidence. Out in Australia he knew a woman who went by the nickname of the Indian Queen" and when Teddy Hobson won the Cam bridgeshire with Indian Queen the Anglo Australian both backed her and made his book for her. Altogether the firm scooped in about s8S.000.
 Thompson made a large doubt cen | book though In common with other operators in this line he seldom. If ever, laid the mathematical odds against a combination. He prided him self on having helped to create the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
PARIsIAN BLUFFS GAMBLERS.
preteuds He fs Comm4ssaxy And walks
 Away With 9B,0O0.

 Paris. March 20--A French imitator of the renowned Captain of Koepenick has just brought off surprising coup at the Maison Laffitte a club frequent ed by financial magnates' and others, and the scene of much gambling. Last year the police raided the club, but as the members had by some means received warning of the approach oi the police they were discovered at nothing more serious than harmless games of bridge.
 The other day. while the gaming tables were crowded an elegantly dressed man accompanied by six com panions suddenly appeared.
 The leader. addressing the players said: "I am the police commissary and in the name of the law forbid anyone to leave the building" There was much consternation. Tne "police" proceeded to lock the doors while their leader. the "commissary gathered up all the money on the tables to the amount of about $5.o00. Then. tortns tbe names and addresses of all nresent in the gravest and most ap- proved official manner. he announced that proceedings would in due course he taken against all who had been found there. nresent to be allowed to leave the "commissary" only replied. T must do my duty"
 He then withdrew.
 Az no further notice of proceedings was oiven to any of those who were "caught" gambling. 1t was decided by one or two of the leading members of inc club to approach the commissary of police, and implore him to let the matter drop.
 What was their astonishment on be- ing ushered into his presence, to find that the real commissary and the ot- ficial" who had visited the club were entirely different persons Tn 1ac1: tbs real commissary knew nothing of tbe matter. but is now searching for the perpetrator of what was daring hoax.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
MORE TAXES IN GERMANY.

New Property Assessment Levied AZ
 Political Compromise.
 Berlin, March 20-The parties form ing the parliamentary majority known as the bloc have arrived at compro- mise on the question of financial re- form based on the acceptance of the new proposal to introduce property taxes.
 The new taxes will be levied on every person whose property exceeds in value $5.000. In those states of the German Empire in which no income tax exists the new taxes will be levied on incomes exceeding $750. This ar rangement of compromise removes the danger of a political crisis which threatened to end Prince Buelow's of ffcial career.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
MANY TALES
 .o'F!Dls7REss, 1, Lame4aae Condition in Italy. IN EARTHQUAKE DISTRICTS But Little teliei Has Actually Been
 Effected. / The Erectoa of Wooden Housss in ,, n..1.. .'a R.rs'o rr'e''~
 Sly slowly Win Inde-
 Anfte Delays
IN EARTHQUAKE DISTRICTS
BY A. c. PHARCD.

Ror,l March 20.-Lamentable con- nitionJ still prevail an the devastated xltstricjs of Messina and Reggie.
 Neajly three months have passed uince the earthquake laid low the Nowns of Messina and Reggie and ln- numsable villages in Sicily, and Gala. bria leaving behind 1t a death roll ywhiA cannot yet be computed and a hesdation unequalled dn modern times. The appalling magnitude and sudden tnssJ of the catastrophe might well haye stunned any country and excused tmaty shortcomings in the work of re- hie5 even though they also stirred the pity of the whole world and Inspired eager offers of assistance from every Hunrter of the globe.
 But three months have now gone ny. a period long enough to have re- hteved all immediate distress and to have made good start in the work of rspsration; and still but little has act ually been effected in comparison with What might have been done. Every day brings tales of distress from vil- ha,res inland which have not even yet been sufficiently helped. appeals from icommtttees who cannot continue thefr much needed work of mercy for want of funds. and complaints from re- fugees unhouses still in Messina and Reggio.
 The principal relief committee in Rome, composed of men of the highest character and integrity. has simply failed to rise to the level of the em- ergency with which dt has been called mpon to deal The truth is that the members of this committee appear to be overwhelmed by the very magnitude of their work.
 The immediate necessity ds for the conveyance of food and clothing to the localities. many of them compara' lively inaccessible, in which they are urgently required. and for the erection of temporary shelters where buildings have been destroyed. The inaction oi the Central Committee Is the less ex. cusable, as the various local ant foreign relief committees appear tt have shown them excellent examples but So large a portion of the total sun contributed was sent to the centra fund, and Is stfll awaiting the deci' sions of those by whom 1t is controlled that many of these local committees are at the end of their resources. ana are compelled to remain helpless spec ltators of misery which they are nt nonger able to alleviate.
 The military rule in Messina ant lReggio has given place to civil govern
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
RELIGIOUS ROW IN INDIA. Morley stirs Trouble By Giving Mo- hammedans Representation.

Calcutta, March 20-Lorj Morley's decision with regard to special Moham- medan representation in local ooun- cils is creating new difficulties as minorities such as the Eurasians. the native Christians, the Parsess and the Sikhs are now petitioning the govern ment for special representation on their own account.
 The Hindu leaders in Calcutta have cabled to Lord Morley their protest against class representation. declaring that 1t will produce a racial partition worse than the territorial one fin Ben- gal