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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
De la MONTANYA
WILL is CONTESTED
Howard F. Barber, Brother,
Says Dead Woman Was
Vain and Passionate
Charges Dora A. Heath and
Anna Keane With Poison
ing Her Mind

Howard F. Barber, the disinherited
brother of Lorena NJ. de la Montanya.
filed contest to her will yesterday.
He charged that the young woman who
died from a bullet discharged from the
pistol of r. G. Hanford and who was
found by a coroner's jury to have com
mitted suicide was influenced to cut
him off with nothing by false and
fraudulent statements made by Dora A.
Heath and Anna Keane. her friends.
BY her will Mrs. de la Montanya di-
vided her estate equally between Alfred
Barber, a brother, and Dora A. Heath
and Anna Keane; adding, 1T being my
instruction that my brother. Howard F.
Barber, have no part of my said es-
tate. Mrs. de la Montanya left prop
erty worth about $4,000.
Howard Barber does not scruple to
attack the character of his dead sister
In his battle for her money. One para
graph Of his contest reads:
That the said Lorena de la Montanya
was always an extremely passionate,
intolerant, vain and irascible woman.
easily prejudiced against others and
easily aroused to anger and hatred, and
or an extremely suspicious nature, tenn
permanent and disposition, and particu-
larry in regard to her brother, the pc
titioner."
The testator, her brother says fur
Their, was from January, 1908, up to the
day of her death, afflicted with and
suffering from physical diseases and
disorders and mentai disease and dis
orders, by reason whereof she became
weak in body and mind and easily
susceptible to the influence of design
ing persons, and especially to the in
huence of Dora A. Heath and Anna
Keane."
The two women friends are accused
OF having taken advantage of the pas
sions. suspicious. prejudices and hatreds
Of Mrs. de la Montanya, and to have
melted her against ner brother, How
ard, inducing her to sign a will leav-
ing the greater part of her estate to
them. They made false protestations
OF arection, Barber states, and by rep
resenting his lack of love for his sister
poisoned her mind against him.
The contestant complains that from
January l. 1908, he was kept from as
ISOLATION with his sister and that Dora
A. Heath and Anna Keane- surrounded
her and kept her under surveillance
so that he was seldom permitted to
see her alone. They are alleged to
have falsely told Mrs. de la Montanya
that her brother, Howard, did not love
her; that he was plotting and scheming
to get all of her money he could in
her lifetime. and that they cared more
for her than he did.
Howard Barber asks that the will be
declared invalid and that the petition
of Alfred Barber to be appointed adj
ministrator be denied. Bishop, Hoefer,
Cook & Harwood are the attorneys for
the contestant.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
GLASS CASE GOES
TO SUPREME COURT
Argument Conferred About the
Points on Which Court Had
Nullified Conviction
Defense Asserts Judge Lawlor
Erred in Admitting Ger
tain Evidence

The case of Louis Glass was sub
mitted to the supreme court for final
decision yesterday by the attorneys
for the telephone official and the dis
trict attorneys office. T. C. Coogan
and c. w. Cross appeared for Glass
and Hof Cook and John O'Gara rep
resented the people.
The argument centered about the
Two points on which the appellate
court had nullif1ed the conviction for
bribery. The reversal was based on
the contention that Judge Lawlor has
erred In admitting evidence bearing on
the franchise negotiations In Oakland
and in falling TO instruct the Jury
specifically that no inference adverse
to the defendant should be drawn from
the refusal OF E. J. thinner to testify
This latter point was largely dweIt
upon by the attorneys for the defense.
Attorney c. W. Cross declared that
thinner had exercised a constitutional
right In refusing to testify and that it
was the poorest of law to ask for the
inference of another mans guilt on
the exercise OF this privilege. The
prosecution through Assistant District
Attorneys Hof Cook and O'Gara de-
clared Judge Lawlor, in refusing to
instruct the jury not to draw such an
shACA O4ASO, was QSC1aE,--
ing it to be a natural one for the jury
to consider along with the other facts.
The defense maintained on this point
that Francis J. Heney in his argument
to the jury had not the right to ask
the jury to make any differences and
that Judge Lawlor, in refusing to in
struot the jury not to consider his
statements in this respect, had erred.
The prosecution answered this by de-
claring that the court had but the
right to instruct the jury on the evil
dence and that Heney's words were
but an incident of the trial
In regard TO the question of the ad-
instability of the Oakland evidence"
the defense held that it was for the
sole purpose of attempting to degrade
the character of the defendant in the
eyes of the jury and was irrelevant to
the issue at trial.
The prosecution held that this evil
dence was perfectly good inasmueh
as 10 showed the connections existing
between Halsey, the man who bribed
the supervisors. and Glass, the vice
president Of the telephone company.
This fact. together with the elimina-
tion of all other officials who could
have ordered Halsey to have paid the
money, 1t was claimed, was good and
material evidence.
The respective sides were given 10
days each in which to file printed
copies of their oral arguments, when
the case will be finally submitted to
the supreme court for decision.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20

The appointment of three horse
shoers in the fire department was au-
thorized by the board of supervisors
yesterday over the adverse report Of
its own fire committee and the vigorous
protest Of the master horse shoers.
Chief Shaughnessy asked that the &C
ton be taken as a measure of humanity
toward the horses. and Supervisors
Connolly won out in the board in his
dissent from his colleagues. Broderick
and Hooks of the committee. in stand
ing by the commissions request that 1t
be given power to make the appoint
ment
Edward Graney, explaining that he
was not a master horse sheer himself
at present, but spoke for them, clashed
with the chief on the issue.
Among the five reasons" advanced
by Graney were the allegations that
the proposed change was impractical,
illegal, noneconomical and pernicious.
For the sake of the horses this
thing ought to be done. if for no other
reason" said Shaughnessy. Il don't
care to speak as to the reasons why
the practice was abandoned in 1905, al
though 1 may have my ideas on the
subject. I wasn't chief then"
Only five members-Broderick, Booth,
Hooks, Comte and Pollok-supported
the motion to put off indefinitely the
authorization, and then the mayor
passed to print the bill by the route
Of nobody Directing"
PERMISSION TO THROW DICE
Permission to throw dice on the
counters for the drinks or the cigars
was slipped into legislation by the
same easy method. Hooks bill en-
bodying "the right of every American
citizen" in the matter-being in form a
prohibition of every other conceivable
method of appeal to the goddess chance
was passed to print without ripple
in the board that threw out the slot
machines.
Read by title by the clerk. the mayor
pronounced the words:
Passed TO print: no objection" and
that was all there was to 1T. The
aforesaid counters will probably not
wait till final action next week, but
assume a virtue in the boards intent
and begin the rolling of the cubes while
the measure is only half born. Next
Monday il will be up for final approval.
Three important steps taken last
week were confirmed by final action
yesterday. The board prohibited the
use of the pay check" system in the
bill requiring all wages to be paid
in cash or checks payable without dis
count on demand at the company's Of
fee or at bank.
1t ordered the condemnation pro-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20

Vote for DR.. c. c. O'Donnell for cor
oner; the dead viii be respected. Rep. .
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
Horse Shoers for the Fire Department
Ordered by the Supervisors

ceedings against the owners of Lake
Eleanor, setting aside $4,000 for the
expenses of the suit; and 1t appropri-
ated $4,000 for the purchase of all the
private holdings in Hetch Hetchy. Nc
Allister registered his solitary No to
all the Hetch Hetchy motions.
FIRE CHIEF GOES EAST
Fire Chief Shaughnessy will leave
about August 9 for two months trip
OF inspection of the fire protection sys-
eastern cities, and the board appropri-
ated $1,000 for the expenses of the
journey.
McLeran secured the passage of a
resolution demanding that Dyer Broth
ers, who for three months have held
inactive the contract for the hall of
justice steel work, begin construction.
and setting forth that the board will
not grant an extension of time at the
end of the six months term.
The acts of the board of equalization
July Is and Is were confirmed.
1t was mutually agreed that the
members take their summer vacations
during August and after the first Mon
day of that month no more sessions
will be held until the beginning of
September.
SPUR TRACK PERMITS
The board granted HoIbrook, Merrill
& Stetson spur track permit in Fifth
street; ordered the repaving of Polk
street between Post and Sacramento for
$4,000 gave the Santa Fe company a
spur track permit in Ninth and Tenth
avenues South; to Guggenheim & Co.
a spur track permit in Hilbert street,
and authorized the board of works to
remove pipes and conduits of private
corporations where their location in
the streets interfered with city in
stallations
the relief home were received, the bids
ranging from $4,000 to $3.50. They
were referred to the hospital commit
tee
The Ladies' Home promotion club of
Ocean View sent word to the super
visors yesterday that, after unfortu-
nately being compelled to expel certain
members, the club had had the further
Ill luck of having some of its stationery
stolen-"These expelled members took
by stealth our letterheads and station
cry"
The letter recited that Ocean View
and the club was made absurd by un-
warranted communications from these
irresponsibles, and asked the board not
to credit any recommendation purport-
ing to come from the club unless they
bore the golden seal as well as the
letterhead device of the organization.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
DR.. QUINLAN ON TRIAL
ON CHARGE OF BATTERY
Has Preponderance of Testi-
mony and Case Is Dismissed

The trial of DR.. James c. Quinlan.
veterinary surgeon, 1851 Folsom street
on charge of battery upon George
n Wielen. driver Of engine No. 10 dur
ing the fire at the Warren Improve
ment companys stables in Dore street
on the night of July IA. was held be-
fore Police Judge Shortall yesterday
afternoon and dismissed
There were four witnesses for the
prosecution and six for the defense
the preponderance being in favor of
the defendant Doctor Quinlan testf-
fed that Wielen struck him first with
q piece Of rope because he had moved
WfeIen's horses from the gate of his
corral, TO which they were tied, on
Wielen's refusal TO do so.
WieIen denied this and swore that
Doctor QuinIan struck him first without
any provocation. WieIen was laid UP for
several days from the beating he re-
ceived.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
WARN CONTRACTORS TO.
FINISH WORK ON TIME
Cistern Building May Require
Employing Night Shifts

Upon the warning of Assistant City
Engineer Connick that the work on
fire cisterns was falling far behind
schedule time, Commissioners McGil-
vray and Casey of the board of works
called four contractors before them
yesterday and informed them extern
sions would not be granted.
Cotton Brothers, Finn & Treacy.
Hanrahan & Erhart and +. Dahnke
were the firms called to account
They were informed that 1t would be
the cheapest way to employ night
shifts, IL such were necessary, to get
the cisterns finished on time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
THIRTEEN TURKS HANGED
BY COURT MARTIAL ORDER
Summary Executions Take Place
at ConstantinopIe

CONSTANTINOPLE. July 1s.-Thir-
teen persons, who were concerned in
the recent revolution, We're hanged here
today They included Chockees Meh-
mid; Yusuf Pasha, the former COM
mander of the troops at Erzerum. and
Sheik Walsditi. The court martial ac-
quilted the proprietor of the Ikdam.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
JURY FAILS TO REACH
VERDICT IN STRIKE CASE
Rioters Will Have to
Be Tried Again

HONOLULU. July 19.-The jury in
the case of Ia Japanese strikers who
esisted arrest following the riot on
the Waipahu plantation June s, which
retired at A O'Clock Saturday after
noon, and which last night reported
that II was impossible to agree. again
came into court today and reported a
agreement and finally was dis
charged. They are reported to have
stood seven for conviction and five for
acquittal of all of the 10 defendants.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO
VISIT HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Will Be Guests of the Insular
Legislature

WASHINGTON. July IA party OF
% senators and members OF the house
is preparing to visit Hawaii.
The visit will be in response to an
invitation extended by the Hawaiian
legislature at it's last session. and the
party will sail from San Francisco
on the steamer Siberia August "a
Eighteen days will be spent in
Hawaii, during which time the four
largest islands OF the group will be
visited
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
MURDER REPORTED IN
McCLOUD LUMBER CAMP
Arthur Jones of Keswick Is
Stabbed Five Times

SISSON, July 19.-Arthur Jones Of
Keswick was killed yesterday by a
man named Woods in lumber camp No.
2, 80 miles east of McCloud.
Details Of the tragedy have not
been obtained, as the telephone line is
out Of order, but 1t is reported that
Woods, who was taken to the Jail at
McCloud. stabbed Jones five times.
Jones was a member of a pioneer
family.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20

BROTHERS HAVE FIeHT-John S. Morrl.
son and his brother, Walter, who live at 1874
shotweIl street. had fight early yesterday
morning and John had to be taken to the Mis-
sion emergency hospital. Walter was arrested
on charge Of battery and John was booked
for being drunk.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20

~omnounded by Experienced Physicians
Conforms to Pure Food ana Drugs Laws.
,-isfs for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine
=, your yves. You VIII Like Murine.s
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
Fire Chief To Go
To Eastern Cities
WHAT THE SUPERVISORS DID YESTERDAY:

LOCALIZED dice throwing in bill passed to print
shoer
OF m tradesmen.
Chief Shaugney visit cities and
inspect fire protection systems
weeks of bllsproibing the check
system voting $1,000 Lake Eleanor condemnation
finally authorizing purchase price of holdings in
Hetch HetcEy.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
HuMoR BURNED AND ITcHEp
Eczema ON Hand, Arms, Legs anc
Facet Was Something Terrible.
Complete Cure by cuticura.

about fifteen or eighteen years
ago eczema developed on top Of my
hand. 1t burned and itched SO much
that I was compelled to show it to a
doctor. He pronounced 1t ringworm.
After trying his different remedies the
disease increased and went up my
arms and to my legs and finally on my
face. The burning was something
terrible. i went to another doctor. who
had the reputation of. being the best
In town. He told me 1t was eczema.
His medicine checked the advance of
the disease, but no further. finally
concluded to try the Cuticura Rene
dies and found relief in the first trial.
I continued until | was completely
cured from the disease, and | have
not been troubled since. G. Burkhart,
236 w. Market St, Chambersburg, Pa,
Sept. 10, 1908"
Potter Drug 4 Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
A lit RE KNOWLEDGE
OF Painting Requirements Will Save
Much Expense.

When one sees the surface Of
house or other building scaling, or
Deeling, or spotted or blistered, or
showing other symptoms of paint dis
ease" 1t is evident that poor painter
has been or the job, and that poor
paint was used-or possibly that a
good painter had been dominated by
a property-owner who knew nothing
about paint.
1t is an easy matter to be informed
on paint and painting. A complete
painting guide, including book OF
color schemes, either for exterior or
interior-specificat for all kinds
of painting, and an instrument for
detecting adulteration in paint ma
terial, with directions for using 1t
may be had free by writing National
Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Bldg.
New York City, and asking for House
owners Painting Outfit No. 40.
Then, every HORSEPOWER should
make 1t point to get only well
knGgn reliable brands in buying hi!
materials. Pure white lead is espe
cially important, or the paint will
not prove satisfactory. The famous
Dutch Boy Painter" trademark Q
National Lead Company, the larges
makers of pure white lead, Is an All
solute guarantee of the purity an,
quality OF The white lead sold unde
/ it. That trademark is safeguar
against paint trouble.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

taking Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what it would do,
and / am restored to my natural
health. Mrs. ETA DONOVAN, Box
200, Willimantic, Conn.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, tibroid tumors, IT.
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe 1t to themselves
to at least give this medicine trial.
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others, and why should it
not cure your
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
BUSINESS FIRST.
OOO.'
Pampered Prisoners.

The Floyd county commissioners, IT
is reported, have ordered ten dozen
suits of pajamas for the county's con
yicts." Is there another county in
Georges Or another penal institution
in thu, United States that provides
its prisoners with the fashionable
'snighties?" Who wouldn't rather be
a pajamaed prisoner in that Floyd
county chain-gang than no night.
shirt freeman on the plains OF windy
Kansas ?-Savannah News.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

said would have to be tapped but
began using Doan's Kidney Pills in
stead. and the swelling subsidized and
the kidneys began to act properly.
Now my health Is line. lStatement
made Aug. 1, 1906, and confirmed Dy
Mrs. Johnson Nov. LII, l9o8.l
Sold BY all dealers. SO cents box
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. <.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
How's Thisp

We oudr One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of GatArrh that cannot De cured py han
Catarrh Cure.
r. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
We. thu undersigned. have known +. j. Cheney
for the aAt Is years, and believe him perfectly hon
orable In all business transactions and financially
able to cary out any obligations made Dy ms hfIn
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Halls cktarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and surfaces OF the
system Testimonials sent free. Price rs cents pei
bottle Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pitts for constipation.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
10 CENTS TO STOP THAT ITCH
How Easy to Get ReIief-Instant Re.
Iief-from Skin Disease.

Is 1t worth 10 cents to YOU to stop
that awful, awful agonizing itch?
II you are afflicted with skin dis
ease, the kind that seems to battle
medical treatment, and leaves you wild
with itch, we hope you will not fail to
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specialists. even in preference to their
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Druggists from coast to coast can
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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
PIayina ,Possun.

How do yoah 'possum taste, suh?"
asked the solicitous waiter.
well" responded the patron who
had ordered the article, 1T tastes pref
ty good, but 1t isn't 'possum.
No, subj rejoined the waiter; an,
dat,s q sign it's genuine. De genuine
'possunl is a great pretender, sub, vas,
sub. Philadelphia Ledger.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

A good singer can always make
women cry by singing Home, Sweet
Home So many people long for a
home, and SO few have one.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
Here's Relief.

If we must be afflicted with weak,
sore and intlamed eyes, it is consoling
to know there is such ready relief
within our reach as Doctor Mitchelrs
Eye Salve. One bottle usually effects
complete cure Have you ever tried
this wonderful remedy? All stores.
Price 25 cents
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

with kidney trouble,
and finally had to I'M
dergo an operation.
| did not rally well,
and began to suffer
s1nothering spells and
dropsy. My left side
was badly swollen
and the action of the
kidneys much disor
dered. My doctors
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

Walk u pS I q l T 8
without stopping
on the way. /
tried three differ
emit doctors and
each told me some
thing different. /
received no benefit
from any of them,
but seemed to suf-
fer more. The last
doctor said MOTH
ing would restore
INV health I hppan
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

II you suffer from Fits, Falling Sickness,
Spasr1s or have children or friends that do so,
nv New Discovery will relieve them, and all YOU
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Defined.

The Writer'S Child-Pa, what 10
penury?
The Writer-Penury my son, is the
wages of the pen.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

True thinking, pure living, right act
ing and accurately stating, are the
prime foundation for noble charac-
ter.-Verres.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

Your working power depends, upon your
health Garfield Tea corrects disorders oil
liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels; over
comes constipation, purifes the blood
brings good health.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
Science and Culture

Engineer-I've just been in steam
last hour.
Lit-Good! You've needed some
thing like that for long time.-Wis-
consin Sphinx
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02

We are ruined, not by what we real
1y want, but by what we think we
want; it is wise, therefore, never to
go abroad in search Of our wants.
Punshion.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-04-02
Just the Thing.

How is the little bootblack getting
on whom you started?'
He? Why, he's shining success