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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
DETWILER MAKING
TECHNICAL FIGHT
Former Telephone Magnate APP
pears to Have Slaked His
Thirst for Vindication

His thirst for vindication somewhat
slaked, Abram *. Detwiler began the
erection yesterday of legal brea stworks
from which to defend himself during
his trial. His attorney, w. w. Kauf-
man. was not prepared to argue, to
interpose motions, or to proceed. There
were questions that he wanted deter
mined and the court fixed this morning
at 10 o'clock as the time for their con-
sideration.
Kaufman contended yesterday that he
had not been served with a proper copy
of the proceedings before the grand
I'VE have received a copy of the pro-
cedings," he said, that contains only
the testimony of the supervisors. We
would like to be furnished with all the
other testimony given in this case
Assistant District Attorney Berry
took the view that the defendant was
entitled to a transcript only of those
proceedings that preceded the indict-
ment.
1t appears that the Indictment was
returned upon the testimony of the
supervisors, but thereafter the officials
of the Home telephone company were
questioned at length. 1t is copy of
the testimony of these officials that
Kaufman desires.
The district attorneys Office ex-
pressed the belief that the question
should be judicially determined Judge
Lawlor will hear arguments on the
issue this morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
AVIATION MEET HELD
FOUR CENTURIES AGO
Scottish Court Witnesses Fall
From Castle Wall

The proposed Scottish aviation meet
ing will not, the Glasgow News recalls,
be quite the first gathering of the kind
in that country.
One of the French favorftes of James
", the iuckless hero of Flodden, sum-
moned the Scottish court to an exhi-
bition at Stirling, where he proposed to
fly by means of a pair of mechanical
wings from the wall of the castle This
was exactly 400 years ago. The rash
inventor sprang boldly forth from the
wall with his tw o great wings upon his
back But they proved quite insufficient
for the contest with the force of gray-
ity, and the inventor was lucky 10 get
off with no worse nurt Than broken
thisn.
He ascribed his failure to the unwary
use of the feathers OF domestic poultry
in the construction of his pinfona
rather than the feathers Of some of the
nobler birds. History does not RECORD
however, that he made any second at
tempt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
NEWS OAKLAND BERKELEY,
PRELUDE CLUB TO
give A MUSICALE
Organization of Youthful Musi.
clans Prepare Brilliant Pro-
gram OF Selections

OAKLAND, May 1.-THE Prelude
club, a society of young people organ
lied for the study of vocal and instru-
mental music. will give it's second an
nual concert tomorrow evening at
Ebell hall in Harrison street. The
members of the club are of prominent
families. and several are brilliant mu-
sicians.
The program for tomorrow evening
consists of classical selections, solo
numbers will be given by Miss Hazel
Shay, Miss Pomona Radcliffe, Miss
Helen Hussey. Henry L. Perry. Miss
Alice Davies and others. Miss Hazel
Shay, the daughter of Mrs. Frank Shay
of Piedmont. is a pupil of w. J. Mccoy
of San Francisco. Miss Alice Davies
the violinist, is a pupil of Nathan
Landsberger. who speaks highly OF her
talents. Miss Pomona Radcliffe and
Miss Alma Hollenbeck have shown con-
siderable talent as amateur actresses.
Besides the soloists. there will be a
chorus of eight girls selected from
the club membership.
The program will be:
PART
Piano-"Fantasie Impromptu." op- S.. Chopin
Hazel Shay
'ocai-{sp Merrily Roam" sehlsirsrth
Pisno-''R goletto" (concert paraphrasel List
Audrey Beer
Nocat-(a) Where Blooms the Rose .........
........--.-......... Clayton Johns
with violin obIigato by Lulu DorfeD
(bl In Blossom Time $50. Needham
Helen Hussey
(bJ '.Capriccio." OPP p. WilheImten Hare
Lulu Dor6el
PART II
vocal-(a) ssThe DANA" -. Chadwick
(b) s.aly Heart Ia Singing e. sans soucI
Ramona Radcliffe
Piano-''Tarantella' .....................Lis zt
Mildred Turner
Eocal-"The Two Grenadiers" ...... Schumann
Henry l.. Perry, basso
N1olin-ta) "Noctnrne. Op. 9, No. ?. Chopin
(b) Hungarian Dance No. o. Brahms
ARRANGED by Joseph Joaehim)
Alice Davies
Choral-(al ''Mornrise'' Garrett Stephanie) ....
.-...---..-..-. C5ibuika
(b) The Shoogy- shoe" -. Grace Mayhem
Marian HOyey, Almah Hollenbeck. Mrs. We're
Hunter. Lille Leimert. Ramona Radcliffe.
Alice Davies Lulu Dorfel. Bessie Grant;
accompanied By Mildred Turner.
Club accom- snist-Mrs- We're Wendell Hunter
The officers of the Prelude club are
Miss Bessie Grant, president; Miss Min
ME Bernhard, vice president; Miss
Pauline York, corresponding secretary:
Miss Lulu Dorffel, financial secretary,
and Miss Hazel Shay. treasurer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
RULES OF THE ROAD
WILL BE ENFORCED
California Club Members Would
Put Stop to Recklessness
of Automobiles

ttuIss of the road were the main
matter of interest at the meeting of the
civic section OF the California club yes
terday morning and it was decided to
make an effort to obtain the co-opera-
ton OF the Association of Professional
Chauffeurs to secure their enforcement.
Many complaints have been made to
the civic section of the reckless habits
of drivers OF taxicabs and other pub
lie automobiles, which are said to be
a menace not only to the lives and
limbs of the public at large but such
portion of 1t also as is confined within
the taxicab.
1t is proposed to get out a condensed
edition Of the police regulations gov
erning the conduct of automobiles and
TO request the chauffeurs to read and
heed these.
Copies will also be placed within the
taxicabs, If possible. in order that fhe
passengers may realize when the rules
of the road are being infringed and
may. with authority, call the attention
of the chauffeur to his liability to ar
rest.
The civic section is also interested in
a debate along the lines of its civil
service reform work, which is to take
place in the near future at the Poly
technic high school, on Merit Versus
Spells System" Mrs. Edward Cahfll.
chairman of the civic service reform
literature committee, will supply such
literature, as is required for preparation
for the debate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
WAR CHIEFS ORDER
COOK Wagon TEST
Board to Meet at Preside and
Select Best Type for Field
Work

An Experimental board" has been
ordered by the war department to meet
at the Presidio and determine the value
of the travelling cook wagon when
troops are in the field.
Captain Francis J. Rooster, Fifth
cavalry, of the subsistence department.
arrived from Washington yesterday to
take charge of the experiments. The
other members of the board are Cap
tain William Elliott, chief commissary
of this department. and Captain Fred
erick w. Stopford, head of the sub
sistence department at the Presidio.
Cooking wagons of all sorts will be
taken before the board to. be tested.
Heretofore army officers have made in
dividual tests-but no result has en-
sued. This time, however, the war de-
partment hopes to get cook wagon
that will become a regular portion of
the paraphernalia of army life. The
question of the motive power Is also to
be considered.
Lieutenant G. H. Wright, Philippine
scout. registered at department head
quarters yesterday. en- route to Port
Townsend, Wash.
The examination at the Presidio of
Captain Daniel w. Arnold, auartermas-
ters department, who has been up for
promotion has been concluded. The
result has been forwarded to Washing
ton.
Batteries A and B, Fifth field artil-
lery, are expected to arrive at the Pre-
sidio today from the Philippines on the
transport Logan. With these troopers
are the following officers;
S. Welsh, Lieut.. j. B. w. Corey, Lieut..
Edmund l.. Gruber, Lieut.. TRULY c.
Martin, Lieut.. John A. Crane.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
HUSBAND IS TOO
GAY, SAYS WIFE
Oakland Woman Says He Told
Her of His AffinitieS

OAKLAND. May 1.-THE amours of
Herbert Kicker, chauffeur in the en-
play of F. C. Talbot, formed the great
er part Of the testimony of his wife,
Elizabeth Ann, who was granted an in
terlocutory decree of divorce today. He
had many afflnities, Mrs. Kicker testi-
fed, and he was not at all backward
about telling his wife of them.
One night he arrived home without
his hat or coat, testified Mrs. Kicker.
He had been running, he told Mrs.
Kicker, and added that he had been
forced to make a quick getaway. The
captain" whom Mrs. Kicker identified
as Captain Jacobsen of Mountain View
avenue, went after him with a gun, he
said, chased him into the basement and
almost got him.
The woman in the case. according to
Mrs. Kicker, was Miss Anita Funk. who
was the daughter of Captain Jacobsen's
former house keeper. She was known
as Jacobsen's stepdaughter, Mrs. Kicker
said.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
CHAMOIS BECOMING
A THING OF THE PAST
Italian Government Requested
TO Exercise More Surveillance

.sThe pride of the Alpine fauna" as
the Indians call it, is said to be rapidly
disappearing. Unless the law inter-
venes to protect it. in few more years
the channels will, a correspondent of
the Scotsman asserts, be nothing more
than a memory living only in the
verse of Caruccis .'Piemonte,' or as an
t4obiect' in the museums. One thousand
chamois were killed in 1909. mainly on
the Alpi Lepontine, 500 having been sold
In various markets; while the remain
ing 200 fell to the rifle of the poacher,
before ard after ins period fixed for
legal sport, and were distributed among
the smaller Alpine inns. Indeed, this
estimate of 200 clandestinely slaugh-
tered is, as the compiler of the Stats
tics referred to says, well within the
mark and strengthens his appeal to
the italian government to exercise still
greater surveillance, if the channels Is
not to become as extinct as the dodo.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
TO SINK
FOR OIL GRANTED
Board OF Public Works Trans
acts Much Important BUSH
ness at Meeting

OAKLAND, May 1.-THE board of
public works today granted the petit
ton of P. J. Macdonald of SIT San
Pablo avenue. wherein the latter asked
permission to bore an eight inch well
in the Jail yard at the city hall. for
the purpose of proving his claim that
rich vein of oil exists beneath the
heart of Oakland.
The board made the grant with the
understanding that IL nothing be found
by Macdonald within 80 days time he
is to refill the well and remove all
materials used in connection Herewith
from the premises and that IN case of
oil being discovered further proceed
ings will be at the pleasure of the
municipality. Macdonald gave bond
not to injure the city property in any
way.
For IL years Macdonald has claimed
that an oil bearing stratum underlies
the surface of ground now occupied by
the most central business section of
the city, and it is said that great
many influential men are willing to put
up the necessary money for the minin 6
of the oil If Macdonald can make his
theory good. If oil is discovered the
well will be refilled, the stratum will
be followed to the outskirts of the
raised and those interested will ineor-
porate.
WHARF CONSIDERED
At the conclusion of the Macdonald
discussion the board proceeded to take
action relative to the construction of
a wharf at the foot of Livingston
street in East Oakland, which propo-
sition was included in the recent bond
Issue voted for harbor improvements.
The amount involved in the Livingston
street wharf proposition is S175,000.
City Engineer Turner was instructed
to prepare plans and specifications for
the construction, a report of which is
to be made before the board.
The proposition to erect electroliers
in Washington street between Third
and Seventh, recently approved by the
city council, was approved by the board
and it was decided that the installa-
ton be made at once, the only change
in the original petition being that six
lights be erected on each block, which
would make a total of "a lights along
the street. The monthly cost of main
tenance will be 81.
MORE LIGHTS PROVIDED
A resolution was also adopted au-
thorizing the installation of four cleo
troliers to a block in Twenty-third
avenue from the Southern Pacific tracks
to East Twenty-second street. The Pc
tition had been in the hands of the
board for a month past. pending an in
vestigation as to whether the district
had developed business community
large enough to lay claim to the heavy
expense that would be incurred. The
investigation was made by Mayor Mott,
who reported favorably. The board also
authorized the installation of street
lights at Van Buren, and Lennox streets,
Telegraph avenue and Webster street
and Chetwood street between Perry
street and Santa Clara avenue.
A recommendation was sent to the
city council for the repaving of East
Twelfth street between First and Third
avenues The Barber asphalt company
was awarded the contract to pave the
crossings in East Fourteenth street
from Fifteenth avenue to Twentieth
avenue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
CONCERT TO MARK
GOLDEN JUBILEE
New York Symphony Orchestra
Will Render Program I'M
der DamrOSch'S Direction

BERKELEY, May 1.-THE Greek
theater will be given a gala dress to-
morrow afternoon for the musical
which will be rendered by the New
York symphony orchestra under the
direction of Walter Damrosch. 1t is
stated that the golden jubilee of the
university will be fittingly opened by
the well known organization which
attracted to the theater a large au-
dience last Saturday night at its first
concert.
OF special significance of the jubilee
spirit will be renditions of Dvorak's
symphony From the New World" and
Brahms Academic Festival Over
ture," by the eastern and European
musicians. The program follows:
symphony No. 5. minor: From the New. !.
Morld D DsrorL
con fuoco
2-"The Two Grenadiers'' ...........S chumann
Marcus Kellermau
3-"Academic Festival Overture" Bra Inns
written for the University of Breslaul
+(a( Moment Musicale .......... Schubert
Obi Spinning Song ......... .Mendelssohn
5-Aria from 'Sappho' .---..-........... Gounod
Nine. Van der veer
6-scherzo, OPP. 45.........-..........G oldmark
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
Concerts in San Francisco

The New York symphony concert at
the Garrick theater tomorrow night
will, in addition to a symphonic pro-
gram, give the complete music to the
last Bohemian club jinks, "St. Patrick
at Tara" with the assistance Of the
Loring club of 20 male voices
Saturday afternoon Beethoven's
"Eroica" symphony will be the feature
Of a symphony concert, and in the
evening Wagnerian festival with ex-
cerpts from no less than nine of the
great composers operas and music
dramas will be given.
The farewell performance with
Tschaikowsky's opera, "Eugen Onegin,"
in concert form will be given Sunday
afternoon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
REAL ESTATE MAN
GRIPPED BY Death
Charles II. COnkIin Succumbs to
Stroke of Apoplexy While
C0nversing at Office

OAKLAND, May 11-Charles II.
Conklin, connected with the Realty
Syndicate, and a we'll known man in
real estate and railroad circles in San
Francisco and Oakland, suffered a
stroke of apoplexy, resulting in death,
at the Realty Syndicate office at 10
o'clock this morning. At the time Of
the stroke Conklin was conversing
with an acquaintance over the counter.
Gasping suddenly, he reeled and fell to
the floor, expiring before medical aid
arrived.
Conklin. who lived at 1920 Jackson
street, had been suffering for several
months with heart trouble and was
being treated by DIR. w. d. Huntington.
Until yesterday his condition was said
to be without danger, but the symp-
toms reappearing DR.. Huntington was
called. The physician found his pa
TENTS heart to be in the best of condi-
ton. When Conklin went to the Office
this morning he complained that he had
spent a restless night. but otherwise
appeared in good health.
The decedent was formerly connect
ed with the Realty bond and finance
company. He came to Oakland from
New York in company with Rupert
Whitehead. the well known stock brok-
er of this city. In addition to his being
in the real estate business In San Fran
cisco for several years, Conklin acted
IS agent for the Southern Pacific COM
pany in the purchase of land to be used
in the contemplated electric road. Pre-
vious to his coming to Oakland he was
engaged in the real estate and railroad
business in New York city
He was a native of Whiting. Kan.
where he is survived by a brother,
liz
He was 81 years old. No arrangements
have as yet been made for the funeral.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
OAKLAND ANXIOUS
ABOUT The CENSUS
Complaint Sent to Washington
Brings Prompt Orders to the
Local Supervisor

OAKLAND, May 1.-THE efforts of
the chamber of commerce to secure the
fullest possible enumeration of the
residents of Oakland and the state
ments of the body that Supervisor of
Census James M. Burke was not OBJ
tanning the tabulation of a population
which would do Oakland justice has
resulted in a breach between the civic
boosters and that official. When Burke
refused to keep open the canvassing I'M
til June /, as it was asserted is be-
ing done in San Francisco, the cham
Der of commerce wired Congressman
j. r. Knowland, with the result that
the following kilograms were received
today:
pervisor Burke. Oakland, Cali
Chamber of commerce reports be-
lief that Uany people not yet enum-
Grated in Oakland. Carefully con-
slider each individual name pre-
scented to you. Look up all houses
where enumerators secured no re-
turns and keep list open as long as
necessary Have no doubt that you
have done your work with respon-
sible thoroughness, but wish to be
able to withstand any future crit
icigm. DIRECTOR. DUR.AND.
Washington, D. c., May 11-Di-
rector census has wired Supervisor
Alameda county extending time for
supplemental work on census.
GEORGE c. PERKINS.
In statement signed by President
Walter S. Mackay and Secretary A. A.
Denison the chamber of commerce calls
the attention of residents of Oakland
to the fact that Supervisor Burke re-
fuses to allow further cooperation by
the chamber. Oakland residents are
urged to call upon or telephone Burke
If they have not been enumerated
The statement continues: THE fact
that any resident of Oakland, by reason
of error, mistake, or overpersuasion,
may have been enumerated in San
Francisco or elsewhere, does not pre-
vent such person from having proper
enumeration made at the Oakland
census Office
Supervisor Burke has issued state
assistance~rendered him up to FIVE day S
ago by the chamber of commerce was
to pay 500 for some printing, and
that the body had met other requests
with the reply of no funds. He states
that only 1900 names were returned by
the vigorous campaign on ferry boat
and in the city by the Oakland boosters
for names, and that he believes 500 of
these are duplicates.
Il will be glad to enroll any person
who will write me or phone me-" con-
tinued Burke, land / will keep open for
that purpose as long as the lists are
kept open in San Francisco. I will not
permit any further canvass to be made
in the city. because that is directly con-
trary to the census law. The work
must be a direct proceeding between
the person, who claims not to have
been enumerated and this Office"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
REV. DR.. OLLIE WILL BE
MEMORIAL DAY ORATOR
Sympathy for British Nation
Over Death of King

The Memorial day committee of 1910
met in the rooms of the police COM
mission yesterday afternoon, General
Solomon presiding. 1t was announced
that Rev. DR.. Ebert r. Ollie would be
the orator OF the day.
The coast artillery, signal corps,
naval battalion national guards, troops
of the United States cavalry and three
camps of the Spanish War Veterans
will meet at the monument, Van Ness
avenue and Market street, and after-a
brief service march to the Preside.
The secretary was instructed to send
a communication to the memorial COM
mittee of the British people expressing
coincidence with them on the death of
King Edward.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
WOMAN AERONAUT
ELOPED TO MARRY
Miss Margaret Miller, Capital.
ISIS Daughter, Becomes
Musicians Bride
Especial Dispatch 70 The Call

OAKLAND, May 11.-That Miss Mar
garet Miller, the daughter of James
Miller. an East Oakland manufacturer
and capitalist. eloped to San Rafael
May and became the bride of Paul
Steinhorst, a musician, became public
today.
The brides family was not taken into
the secret, and news of the wedding
was conveyed to Miller through a
friend of Mrs. Steinhorst. Rumor has
il that the news was not gladly re-
ceived as the capitalist and his family
were opposed to Miss Miller's mar
riage.
Miss Miller has been known as a
woman aeronaut since the balloon
races of Portola week, when she made
a flight in the balloon City of Oakland.
Miller, the capitalist, professed to be
so pleased with his daughters daring
that he promised her a mammoth bal
loon.
The sire, too, claims odd distinction,
for he says that when q schoolboy in
England he once chastised the then
prince of Wales, the late King Ed
ward VII.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
POLICE BLOCKADE ON
RIALTO CLUB REMOVED

Following the signing of an injunc-
ton by Judge Sturtevant, the police
blockade on the Rialto athletic and
amusement club, LOG Fourth street, was
yesterday discontinued.
The court order does not prevent the
police from entering the premises. or
from making arrests il they find that
the law is being broken, but it prevents
them from standing in front of the
club and keeping people out.
Following the arrest recently of a
man charged with making a bet in the
clubrooms. five officers were detailed to
keep the place closed. and they were
maintained there until Tuesday night.
The Rialto athletic and amusement club
was incorporated in May. 1904
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
BROKER CHARGED WITH
EMBEZZLING SHARES
Chapman Said to Have Appro-
priated Mining Stock

OAKLAND. Nay 1L-Ingrsm Chap
man q broker, who was arrested at
the Sheldon building in San Francisco
this evening, is charged by +. Peter
son Of Oakland with embezzling 400
shares OF mining stock
Peterson turned the stock over to
Chapman TO be sold at the market
value OF $50 a share.
Chapman disappeared two weeks ago
and has made no accounting
He was arrested by the San Fran
cisco police on a warrant for felony
enbezzlement.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-12
VICKSBURG ORDERED
TO Go TO PANAMA
Gunboat to Relieve Princeton,
Which Needs Repairs

VALLEJO, May 1.-THE gunboat
Vicksburg will sail tomorrow for
Panama, to relieve the Princeton, which
has been ordered home for repairs.
The Vfcksburg was on duty in Central
America and Panama several months
before being ordered to Mare Island for
repairs two months ago. The length OF
its tay at Panama is uncertain.