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THURSDAY :..XOVEMBEH 14, 1895
AMUSEMENTS.
J"ai.i>w)n- THFATKit.— "Wang."
Califobsia Thrater— The War of Wealth."
Colvmbia Thkatkr— Haverly's Minstrels.
f.CJiOK OR OrKHA-IIOUSE— " MOIIOV Mad."
"j nroi i Orr.BA-nocHE— "JM.-idamo Favart."
< FF7UTM— High-Class Vaudeville.
fißovEn's Alcazar.— -The Private Secretary."
SnooT t^ie Cirt-TKs— at llaight street,
one block east of the Park.
Bay District Track. —Knees.
Central Fame.— Baseball.
AUCTION SALES.
By Win. K. Fishier A -silverware, etc..
Friday, November 15, at 2 6 Post .street, at 11
o'c>o;k.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
W«TJ /Utters, a domestic, was suffocated in
her room at 4'Jsi Franklin street yesterday
lnorni'.ijr.
San Frructscoboß^ Oakland (it Central Turk.
K-ore. 11 to 8. Coinlskcy's pitching was hatted
ivi;h much case.
The Jackson and Powell-streot Railway Com
pany runs a single car one trip every Sunday
on Seventh avenue
J. J. Coffee, Bon of the late Detective* Dan
Coffee, was arrested vestcrday for threatening
to kill his mother and sister.
. Grand Jury Expert Atkinson inspected the
Morgue yesterday. He thought another
Morgue would bo ordered built.
The defense in the case of Frank Kloss, !
charged with the murder of William Deady, j
hue been opened. It is insanity.
Sarah 1). llamlin is hienly recommended for
the position of beiiool Director to fill the va
cancy In the Board of Education.
From the scores made by the police at the
ranee in the City Hall a marked improvement
in their marksmanship can be seen.
The funeral of Dr. Basil Norris. U. S. A., took
place yesterday at the Presidio and was attend
ed by impressive military ceremonies.
The Irish-American Cuban Volunteers are
now perfectly organized, and are only waiting
for orders from headquarters to march.
Generally fair weather with increasing
cloudiness'and stationary temperature are the
prominent features of to-day's forecast.
The will of Charles Root, leaving $100,000 j
to his lamily, was tiled for probate yesterday, i
lie was the son of the pioneer, D. E. Root.
The Woman s' Educational and Industrial i
Union held its annual meeting on the 12th j
lust., and elected officers aqd directors for the I
ensuing year.
Key. Dr. Goodwin of the California-street j
M. E. Church will next Sunday night discuss >
"Lawyers and their relation to their clients
and to society."
The Hoard of Education failed to elect a suc
cessor to Director Stone last evening, though
Superintendent of Schools Babcock nominated
Dr. George Drucker.
Mrs. Mary Foley, aged 42 years, died sud- '
denly at her home, 25 Frederick street, yester- \
day "morning. Heart disease is supposed to I
have been the cause.
The decorations and booths used in the
Pavilion at the Goethe-Schiller festival were
sold to theatrical managers for only $125.
They cost over 43500.
The Board of Health made a. tour of inspec
tion through the City and County Hospital
yesterday, and a few nights' ago paid a visit to
the Receiving Hospital. '■• ; ";
Five out of six favorites were downed at the
track yesterday. The winning horses were
Last Chance, Castanet ta, Don Pio Pico, Wa
won a. Detective and J O C.
'.. K. Salomon and Adolph Mendelsohn are
suing William B. Bradbury for an accounting
on a debt of $22,100 due from them to him
and secured by some jewelry.
One hundred and seventy suits are to be
brought against the stockholders of the Pacific
Bank to realize on the unpaid capital stock,
amounting to about $6(50,000.
James Goodwill, former administrator in the
John Levinson estate, has sued Horace W.
Philbrook for >'500 counsel fees for his attor
neys, the former firm of Henly & Mac Sherry.
John Gillcn, a teamster, 60 years of age, was
found dead In bed at his hout-e,41-i Four
teenth street, yesterday afternoon. An autopsy
disclosed the fact that r.e haa heart disease.
William McConnick, a Mission-street black- |
timi-ib. undertook to do business on the co
operative plan, nri.i his peculiar practices
tailed him to the attention ot the authorities. I
William Kearney, carpenter, was found dead i
In his rooms at 4-1814 Ninth street yesterday j
afternoon. He fell irom the roof of a building
about a year ago and had been ailing ever
birice.
Mike Baldwin, an engineer, was arrested last '
night by PMiceman Shanahan and booked at
the City Prison.en route for Chico, where he
is wanted on the charge of assault to murder
his wile.
J. B. Pioda. Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary from Switzerland to the
United States, arrived here yesterday and will :
be given a reception by the Swiss colony on
Saturday.
. James Kelly, alias "Spider" Kelly, the pugi- ;
list who as indicted by the Grand Jury on 1
Monday for robbery, was arrested last night i
and released on .SIOOO bonds, accepted by Judge I
Sanderson.
Mary Hill, a servant in the house of ex-Super- j
visor Burns, 1500 Washington street, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon and charged with
grand larceny in stealing money and diamonds
irom her employer.
The Railroad Commission, acting on the ad- i
vice of Attorney-General Fitzgerald, has de- j
cided to demand annual statements from all i
railroade , stage lines, electric lines and local ■
steai-i3hip companies.
The trial of Thomas Artiworth, Superinten- i
dent of Streets for this City, was opened before j
Judge Murphy yesterday. Seven jurors were
secured. His defense will be that he was de
luded by his deputies.
The leading local capitalists captured the
best boxes at the auction sale yesterday at the
Baldwin Theater of boxes and scats for the
great festival concert soon to be »riven in aid
of the Children's Hospital.
w. E. Paulsell. who has been twice tried for
robbing Carroll's faro bank on Market street
on the night of February 16, 1894, has been
found guilty by a jury in Judge Belcher's court.
He will be sentenced November 23.
■ Louis Pars was yesterday held to answer
before the Superior Court by Judge Joachim
sen in $2000 bonds for stealing $350 and some
jewelry from Mrs. Joaquina Varela, 228 Bran
uan street, where he was employed.
The Western railways have asked the South
ern Pacific Company to hold another confer
ence at Salt Lake over Utah reign busi
ness, recently discussed there, and the local
company agreed to meet them again.
The third trial of M. D. Howell of Stockton
for passim? counterfeit money is to begin in
the United States District Court this morning.
Secret Service Agent Harris expects to have
Matt Jones on hand to upset his defense.
The celebrated copywright controversy in
which Dr. Joseph Simms accuses Mary (Mm
stendStanton of deliberate plagiarism of his
works on physiognomy was partly argued in
tire United States Circuit Court yesterday.
Richard Kelly was convicted of the charge
of grand larceny in Judge Wallace's court
yesterday. He will be sentenced next Friday.
Kelly is only about a year out of the State
Prison, whither he was sent for fourteen years
for robbery.
Dan Donahoe, a plumber living at 267 Minna
street, while under the influence of liquor last
evening, walked in front of a McAllister-street
our on Market street, opposite Grant nvenuc
and was knocked down. His left side and leg
were bruised.
By the clever intervention of Attorney Joseph J
Campbell, Marvin L. Freeman was yesterday i
induced to withdraw his plea of incriminating
himself and to answer all questions relating to
hit former testimony given in the Freeman- j
Vf'cstingliouse case.
The case of Mrs. Tobin came up once more in j
the Superior Court yesterday. There was a
lively day, and it will probably make an in
resting trial. She is suine the Pacific Coast |
Blood-horse Association and others for $25,000 I
damage* for being ejected from the betting
ring at the track.
At the Morgue the body of the man who shot j
himself in Golden Gate 'Park on October 26 is |
still unidentified. Coroner Hawkins received
an anonymous letter yesterday giving the in
formation that the picture or "a lady the man
had was a photograpn of his wife, with whom
he had lived unhappily.
Park Commissioner Austin gays that $6000
or $8000 will be appropriated from the funds |
for Golden Gate Park to illuminate the main
driveway to the ocean beach if interested citi- I
zens will contribute the rest of the sum neces- I
sary. R. D. nasperty and Henry Doßcher j
promise that the required sum will be raised, i
Football-player* Practice.
Both the University and the Olympic football
elevens are doing severe practicing. Both
teams were at Central Park yesterday after- j
noon working with their coaches. They de- ,
voted themselves to new passes and team
piayp. A short game was indulged in. All the i
men are in splendid condition.
FLED FROM HIS BRIDE
A Tremendous Social Sen
sation Rocks the
Potrero.
WHERE IS JIM DALY?
He Failed to Materialize on His
Wedding Day When the
Feast Was Spread.
A CROWD WAS DISAPPOINTED.
Mamie Connors Ready for the Altar and
the Little Flat Furnished on
Scotch Hill.
Totrero society has been rocking on its
foundations since last Sunday night. At
least tbat figurative assertion will do quite
well in telling of the social sensation that
began out there on Sunday evening, when
a bridegroom came not to the altar of St.
Theresa's Church when the rather impos
ing edifice was crowded to the doors at the
appointed time; and this sensation, with
its romance, its mystery, its speeding
rumors and its clashing sounds of battle
and of human trouble, has been the one
and universal topic of conversation ever
since.
James Daly is the recreant bridegroom
and Mamie Connors the more or less dis
consolate bride. Daly was expected all
through the day of the wedding and until
the wedding feast was ready late at night,
but he disappeared on Sunday. He hasn't
been seen since, and what became of him
is a Potrero mystery. A little flat was all
furnished and ready, the bride was
dressed, the priest waited to perform an
other happy ceremony, and nearly 2000
people gathered in or about the church to
see the function that was to the Fotrero
somewhat as the Marl borough- Yanderbilt
affair was to New York.
When 9 o'clock came on Sunday evening
the great broad steps of St. Theresa's
Church and the sidewalks about were
packed with a wondering and expectant
throng. Then Father O'Connor, the parish
priest, addressed the crowd briefly, telling
: that perhaps the couple had got married
in the City, and the crowd slowly dis
persed through the hilly streets of the
Potrero, beginning a terrific gossiping that
is yet growing in volume and intensity.
The affair is gossiped about in the saloons
and stores and all through the {,reat shops
of the Union Iron Works as eagerly as it
jis about the gates and kitchen tables
I through the hilrs. Opinion is divided as
1 to whether Jim Daly should have allowed
i his folks to wreck the wedding in that
i fashion, as to the degree in which the
Daly family are warranted in holding their
Jim and themselves to be too good for
Mamie Connors, and as to the degree in
> which Jim is to blame, for it was the
bridegroom's family that headed off the
function by drastic measures for the rea
son intimated.
Jim Daly and Mamie Connors have been
raised at the Potrero, are known to every
body, as are their people, and they have
been leading social lights amid the balls
and routs that lighten the lives of toil
beyond Islais Creek. Mr. Daly Sr. settled
I at the Potrero before Jim was born, and
; that was twenty-two years and more ago.
The Dalys have led eminently respectable
lives, devoutly religious and decently and
I aristocratically exclusive. Mr. Daly toiled
away at the gas works and elsewhere as
his children grew up and were well edu
cated in the public schools. These, now
young men or women, found good posi
tions in large downtown establishments,
and as age caiue to the parents a certain
air of refinement and gentility increased
in the happy but obscure little home.
A little over four^years ago Jim left the
grammar-school and became a machinist
apprentice at the Union Iron Works. He
was "out of his time" a few weeks ago —
that is, he became a journeyman and began
a new and successful career as a man at
his trade. Jim was always a decent fellow,
and it would seem that a picture of a
strong, industrious, well-liked young man
completing his apprenticeship while he
j was furnishing a pretty little home on a
I hill and getting ready to end an old love
I affair in the proper way must be one that
! it would be cruel to spoil.
Mamie Connors is a vivacious and quite
pretty Miss of 18 years or so. She lives
i with her people in a neatly and newiy
j furnished lower flat right across the street
i from the fine new schoolhouse. Mamie
has worked at the rope-walk for a Jong
time,and has ever been ready for gay even
ing affairs, whether at the Potrero or at
Ixora Hall. People won't say anything
worse of her than, "Well, she'd "go to
dances every night in the week if she
could, and I guess Daly's folks didn't like
| her style."
Jim liked dances, too, and for four years
he has been "her company." Out of the
association grew the love and the engage
; raent that was able to defy opposition
until the critical hour arrived. People
don't know just how the Dalys got Jim to
give his bride the slip right at the altar.
One current report was tha tbe was
drugged, and another was to the effect that
his father had him arrested. But gossip
is ruthless and unkind. It Is even told that
Mamie's mother lured Jim into the matri
monial net, and that one thing that helped
make the Dalys so proud was a piano that
Mr?. Hydenfeldt gave Jim's sister after the
latter was a witness for tne former in the
Hydenfeldt litigation.
It should be. remembered that human
nature is quite the same in tbe Potrero
and the Western Addition and that Cupid
is as impartial as death. It is only the
trimmings that vary, and why may not
Sierra street climb a hill tc as interesting
a love story as may California street.
Mamie Connors was at home yesterday
and, alter some giggles in the hall, she
cheerily apologized in the parlor for not
bcine fixed up. Mamie was not crying
about anything. Smiiesand little laughs
displayed her pretty teeth right along.
"No, I haven't seen or heard of him
yet," she said, "and I don't know how it's
going to come out any more'n anybodi
es. I wished I did know. Well, if he
don't come back I s'poso I'll have to wait
for some other fellow,' 1 and she laughed
"again.
"Yes, we waited and waited for him,
but we had the wedding anyhow. We had
a fine time tiiat night. There was 200
people here — everybody that was invited —
and we treated his friends just the same as
my friends. We danced in this room and
tbat room and in the bedroom, and the
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1895.
band played in that bay-window. We had
a brass band."
"There was nine pieces," observed Ma
mie's sister, who was to have been brides
maid.
"Then we hart a tine supper upstairs in
the flat next door (Mr. Leffernan's), and |
everybody had a good time anyhow."
"Did you see him Sunday at all?" was
asked.
"Yes, in the morning. That is, I didn't
see him after he left, but he promised to
be around again at 9 o'clock that morning.
That was most 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
We had a lot of wedding presents. That
lamp was one. Jess, bring them in."
Two big grocery boxes came in.
"They packed them away because I j
didn't want to see them," explained
Mamie as the dishes, the glass water
pitcher with beautiful marguerites painted
all over it, and the rest of the pretty
things came out of wrappers. The pres
ents were certain evidence of popularity.
"P'raps you'd like to see the wedding
dress," the bride remarked, and Miss Jen
nie brought the pretty creation in pink
with a loose chiffon front and beaded
rovers.
"Mine is just like it," explained the dis
appointed bridesmaid, who was going to
"stand up" with her sister.
"Yes, everything was read}'," Miss
Mamie declared. "The license was out.
and Jim left it here with the wedding-ring
for fear his folks would tear it up and we
couldn't get married. I don't think it was
Jim's fault so much as his folks', and
especially that fight-cat of a sister of his.
But then he always said his folks couldn't
say who he'd marry. My mother said to
him one night, 'Jim, I hear your folks is
fighting because you're going to marry
Mame,' and he said, 'Well, what good
will it do 'em?'
"He's been going with me for over four
years, ever since I left school. Four of us
started going together — me and my sister
and that young lady over there and Ma
mie Farrell ap on the hill— and four fel
lows. The others got to fighting, but Jim
and I stuck together and we fixed the wed
ding day three months ago. We had a flat
all fixed up on Scotch Hill and here I am
yet."
Mrs. Connors came in and helped tell
the story.
"Oh, we don't want anything in the
papers about it, but then what s going
round, with everybody talking, is worse
than the papers," said the well-built
mother of the abandoned bride.
"I look at it this way; we didn't lose
much. Suppose his folks did oppose it.
He's '12 years old and he's his own boss,
and after him coming here two years — that
is two years in this house — and setting up
with Mamie that very night till 11 o'clock
— anyhow it was when I went to bed and
he was setting right there where you are
now — 1 say if he goes off now, if his folks
did object, it's no ereat loss. But we don't
want to say much."
"I don't believe he was to blame," pit
in Mamie.
"Oh, you can't see any of his faultr.
We hear that he was drugged, and a.i
sorts of things, but we don't know any
thing, and don't know what'll happen if
he should come oack, and I s'pose ho will
some time. They cut up his good clothes
Sunday, I hear, but he was free that day,
for he was seen on a car at 1 o'clock by a
man that wouldn't belie him. Her father
went up there Sunday evening when he
didn't come and they slammed the door in
his face. They had a good time at the
wedding, anyhow, and now we'll just have
to wait."
So the bride waits quite cheerfully
with 'her wedding dress and her wedding
presents for a chance to leave the rope
walk and move into the littlfi flat on Scotch
Hill, and "otherwise" the wedding was a
great success.
The woe in the case is in the Daly home.
When you go to see the Dalys you climb a
tremendously long flight of stairs from
where Sierra street bumps into a perpen
dicular rocky bluff to where Michigan
street seems to sleep on top of a hill.
Down Michigan, past a few cottages and
a few goats, is a little cul de sac, and at
the end of it, right on th 6 edge of a
hundred-foot precipace, is a little old cot
tage with three straggling additions, and
with vines, rose bushe3 and asters crowd
ing the little bit of a front yard in an old
fashioned careless style. In the cozy little
parlor, with its piano, sofa, pictures, its
framed diploma that tells that one of the
Daly family graduated from a commer
cial school, and with its many ornamental
treasures that suggest a nice refinement,
Mrs. Daly told why Jim should not Biarry
Mamie Connors. She is quite aged now,
and it is plain that if Jim marries his
affianced there will be broken hearts up
there in the little cottage.
"My boy has gone away and he's not
been drugged." she said. "I don't want
to say a word against anybody, no matter
what lies they tell, but we don't want Jim
to marry into such a family. Jim got to
know her when he got to going to dances,
and it was Ixora Hall one night and B. B.
Hall another— gentlemen two-bits, ladies
free— and that's the sort of a girl she is.
That ain't the sort of a girl for Jim to
marry or to come into our family. We're
very strict Catholics, and last Sunday I
asked Father O'Connor if he was going to
marry my boy without confession and the
holy sacrament, and he said the confession
would do.
"The boy didn't get home Sunday morn
ing till 3 o'clock, where he ought to have
been fasting since 12 and getting ready for
the pacrament. On Sunday I told him
that he was forgetting his religion very
early, that if he was going to marry that
girl he could pack up his thing 9 and leave
us forever. His brother and his sisters
talked to him and his father Jaid down the
law to him. No; if he comes back to us
he's welcome, for he is very dear to our
hearts ; but if he marries that girl he's gone
out of my heart forever, 1 ' and tears ran
down the furrows they found.
"Jim is a good boy. He never drank,
nor smoked nor cursed. Now they're trying
to nip him just as he's out of his time and
get him to say that his father and his
mother that raised him can go. It's
pretty hard. We've never had any trouble
in our home before, but now our time haa
come. That girl's mother has been taking
Jim's wages and buying furniture on the
installment plan, and he's been foolish
enough to be led on. We don't know what
Jim will do, but it will be a sad home here
if lie throws himself away. Jim's wortb.3'
of something better."
That's the Daly-Connors situation. No
body knows where Jim is or what will
happen. Everything but the supper awaits
the wedding, including the little flat on
Scotch Hill. It's a grave thing to abandon
a bride at the altar. If Jim moves into the
little fiat the hearts of his old mother and
father and of his sisters will be broken.
\» hat will Jim Daly do? Now, what
should Jiru Daly do?
When Wrinkles Seam the Brow,
And the locks j,to\v scant and silvery, infirmities
of age com« or npaco. To retard and ameliorate
p is one of the benign effects of Hostetter's
Stomach Blttrrs, a tneaicine to which the aged and
infirm can resort as a safe solace and invlgorant.
It counteracts a tendency to rheumatism and
j neuralgia, improves digestion, rectifies biliousness
and overcomes malaria. A wineglass before re
tiring promotes slumber.
COPYRIGHTS IN COURT
Celebrated Dispute of Physiogno
mists in the Federal
Court.
AN ARGUMENT ON PLAGIARISM.
Judge Morrow Listens Patiently to the
Logic of Attorneys Redding
and Kalloch.
The legal battle between Dr. Joseph
Simms, author of several standard works
on physiognomy, and' Mary Olmstead
Stanton, whom he accuses of deliberate
plagiarism, began in the United States
Circuit Court yesterday. This has become
one of the most celebrated copyright con
troversies of the country. Both sides
were ably championed by forensic talent,
and Judge Morrow, being ex-ofh'cio Cir-
I cuit Judge, heard the argument.
For Dr. Simms Attorney Joseph D. Red
ding filled the courtroom with beautiful
metaphors, and daring the afternoon the
defense contradicted through Attorney I.
M. Kalloch with all the logic he could
command. Attorney A. B. Hayes will re
sume for Dr. Simms this morning. He
will be able to devote only an hour to his
client's side of the dispute, however, as
Judge Morrow will then take up the
Howell counterfeiting case, but this will
be time enough for him, he thinks, in
which to close the argument.
Dr. Simms' name has become very
familiar to scientific circles and the read
ing world. He is a member of the Anthro
pological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland, and graduated as an old-school j
physician in New York. His principal
works on physiognomy have been "Na
ture's Revelations of Character,' "Physi
ognomy" and "Health and Character."
Mrs. Stanton gave her book the title of
"Scientific Physiognomy," and, according j
to Mr. Kedding's argument yesterday, she j
boiled all Dr. Simms' ideas into one little !
volume, in which bad grammar and pla- !
giarism were equally prominent. Mrs. j
Stanton had her book published in ISS9,
and the doctor proceeded against her pub
lishers as well as her, making the San
Francisco News Company and the Argo
naut Publishing Company co-defendants i
in another suit.
In substance Mr. Redding's argument I
was that Dr. Simms was a vein of gold 1
from which Mrs. Stanton obtained the '
material for her work, and that she not
only appropriated his ideas, but copied
his "classification, the general structure of
his work, and, in a great many instances,
almost his very language. One of Dr.
Simma' most striking similitudes— the
clock— to demonstrate "how the human ■■
character is plainly indicated by the coun
tenance to the physiognomist, Mrs. Stan
ton, so Mr. Redding said, had literally
stolen from the doctor's publications.
Mr. Redding did the "deadly parallel"
act with vigorous effect. Simma and Stan
ton were compared until it looked as if the
work of Mrs. Stanton was almost a repro
duction of that of Dr. Simms. Th« doctor I
had made live divisions in his physiog- i
nomical classification — namely, the ab- !
dominal form, the thoracic form, the mus- j
cular and fibrous form, the osseous or
bony form, and the brain and nerve form.
Mrs. Stantoivs classification, he said, was I
virtually the same. Here are examples of
the parallels:
Simms— These forms, which are five in num
ber. I shall consider in the following order:
The abdominal form, the thoracic form, the
muscular and fibrous form, the osseous or
bony form and the brain and nerve form. •
Stanton— Five different systems of functions
which create the different forms of man, and
which are always found In combination, but
in different degrees of development in differ
ent persons. These are named the vegetative,
the thorncic, the muscular, the osseous and the
brain and nerve.
Simm.s— lt is a law of nature that those who
are liberally endowed with any capacity are
always prompted to its liberal using.
Stanton— lt is a law of human nature that we
love to use most our strongest faculties.
l)r. Simms had mentioned Washington,
Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Lafayette, Alex
ander the Great, Cresar, Maliomrnea and
Cromwell a 9 types of the bony form and
men on whom "of all others the nations
relied for support/ Mrs. Stanton uses
the names of the same heroes of history to
show that bony men excelled in morality
and the nobler qualities of character.
Thsse are only a mere suggestion of the
multitude of parallels by which Dr. Simms
is endeavoring to convince tbe court that
Mrs. Stanton was a literary pirate. He
does not stop at that, though, but merci
lessly attacks her grammar and singles
out a mass of grotesque rnistakfs which he
alleges she made in her ideas of anatomy,
and not satisfied with that he accuses her
of poor orthography in an effort to show
that she was uninformed even in the rudi
ments of writing.
Attorney Redding reached his climax
when he pronounced Mrs. Stanton's work
a "garbled reproduction with aurora
borealis illustrations."
The argument of Mrs. Stanton's attor
ney, Mr. Kallocu. was to the effect that
ideas of themselves cannot be copy
righted — that they are everybody's prop
eity. lie tried to show that Mrs. Stanton
had not plagiarized Dr. Simms' language.
NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Tlie Defense in the Case of Klosh,
Charged With Murder.
The prosecution in the case of Frank
Kloss, charged with the murder of Wil
liam Deady, closed yesterday and the de
fense commenced. The defense is that
some time in 18S9 Kloss, while working as
a stagehand at the Orpbeum Theater, was
struck on the head with a curtain-pole,
-ud that ever since he lias uot beeu re
sponsible, particularly when he has taken
a little liquor. Gustav Walter, one of the
proprietors of the Orpheum, testified to
this. P. J. Corbett, the stableman, had
employed Kloss since his accident in 1889,
.but he had to discharge him because he
was so cruel to the horses.
Kioss' brother also took the stand and
told how the defendant was afflicted with
epileptic fits. The case will be finished to
day. * S
A SECOND CONFERENCE.
Western Railways Ask for Another
Meeting Over Utah
Trade.
The Western railways leading into Utah
have become dissatisfied with the result of
the recent conference with the Southern
Pacific at Salt Lake City. On second
thought they have suddenly reconsidered
their action, and are now only too anxious
to undo it and talk the whole question over
again. They have been forced into this
peculiar position by pressure from Salt
Lake merchants, nd yesterday a tele
gram was issued by them jointly to the
Southern Pacific asking |pr a conference
to consider exactly what occupied many
days in Salt Lake City.
The Southern Pacific Company replied
that it would suspend action with regard
to cutting rates to Ogden, and would glad
ly tafce part in a discussion of the tangled
situation, provided the conference was
held at an early date. These conditions
were promptly accepted, and a meeting of
the different railway representatives will
take place in Utah's capital within two or
three weeks. Meantime, there will be a
cessation of hostilities between the com
peting railways with regard to Utah busi
ness.
The merchants of California have been
looking toward Utah with great expecta
tions, but found that the low rates of East
ern and Western roads shut out competi
tion from the Pacific Coast. Chicago ship
pers could deliver merchandise in Utah on
a far oetter basis than San Francisco mer
chants could.
The Southern Pacific Company saw it
was losing heavily over the Central Pa
cific and cut down its rates to Ogden.
Here all the trouble started. The Union
Pacific would not join the Southern Pacific
in a reduction, and so practically closed
Salt Lake City against California.
The merchants of that city now find that
freight is taken to O^den at lower rates
than they can get, and consequently their
jobbing business passes to Ogden. So
they have prevailed on the Western roads
to ask for another conference.
Assistant Freight Agent Sproule of the
Southern Pacific Company, said that his
company would meet the Western lines
half way on any friendly arrangement that
would give the" Southern Pacific business
and incidentally open Utah to San Fran
cisco merchants and interior shippers
throughout California.
WATER THAT SMELLS BAD.
People of Noe Valley Complain
of the Spring Valley
Product.
The Fluid Has to Be Filtered and
Boiled Before It Can Be
Used.
Dirty, disagreeable water from the Spring
Valley mains is a particular cause of an
noyance and apprehension that is disturb
ing the people of that part of the Mission
known as Noe Valley.
Their complaints are not the result of
the recent publications regarding the poor
water supplied to the City. Nearly a
month ago some of these people first
mooted a public 'meeting at which they
might discuss the problem of good water.
In the low districts, where the natural
flush of the pipes is not so perfect, a
The Interesting Little Creature That
Mr. Peterson Found in a Glass of
Spring: Valley Water.
better opportunity seems to be triven the
disagreeable properties in the water to
show themselves. In Noe Valley the water
from the Spring Valley pines smells bad,
tastes bad and is dirtV. There is a pro
nounced odor of deca} T ed vegetation. Many
of the consumers are chary about using
the water even after it has been filtered.
They boil it before they drink it, and phy
sicians recommend that it be boiled before
it is given the sick.
Parts of Noe and Eureka valleys are sup
plied by the Mountain Spring Water Com
pany, a private concern with the source of
us supply in the hills to the westward.
With water near them that is at least
agreeable to the taste and to the smell
those who are compelled to use the dis
agreeable solution of decayed unknowns
realize more seriously their position and
look doubtingly upon the collection of
filth intercepted by their iilters, and in
some cas-es wondered if with the evident
impurities there are not germs that are re
sponsible for several fevers in that neigh
borhood.
But this does not seem to be the only
part of the City that has serious cause to
complain of the water furnished.
Warren Temple, a lawyer, and his
family, living at 2524 Sutter street, have
been unable to use the water from the
Spring Valley pipes for several weeks past
without tirst boiling it. They complain
that it has an offensive odor and is very
disagreeable to the taste. The sample
NEW TO-DAY.
You believe in pure food, you buy the best flour, the
best eggs, the best sugar, yet you have not tried the
best baking powder unless you have used Cleveland's. ,
'• Pure and Sure."
But judge for yourself. Try a can. .
shown a reporter yesterday afternoon
justified the complaint in every way. To
a delicate stomach it would "have baen
nauseating.
A sample of the pure and undented (?)
Spring \ alley sent to this office in a small
vial hy O. Peterson, a carpenter, residing
at 258 Eighth street, contained an insect of
repulsive shape. It was alive, and though
little more than a quarter of an inch in
length possessed a wriggling activity that
was disgusting in the extreme. In shape
it resembles an abridged edition of the
caterpillar species, having countless small
lens and long antenna 1 . The Peterson
lamily are warranted in the indignation
they feel toward the condition of affairs
which makes such things possible.
MIDWEEK THEATER NOTES
De Wolf Hopper Has Achieved
Popularity at the
Baldwin.
Stirring Melodramas at the California
Theater and the Grand
Opera-House.
Even a comedian of De Wolf Hopper's
standing can be by no means certain that
because he is popular in New YorK he will
likewise prove a stellar attraction in San
Francisco. However, a few nights generally
show which way the tide of popularity is go
ing to flow, and judging from last night's audi
.ence at the Baldwin Theater, and the favor
with which his efforts were received, tho
comedian has no reason to be dissatisfied
with his San Francisco success.
"Wang" has much to recommend It, in addi
tion to De Wolf Hopper, though he is its
strongest point. The spectacular qualities of
the production are very good, and the music,
though timid, is bright and is tinged here and
there with originality.
"The War of Wealth" at the California Thea
ter is considerably above the average melo
drama. The characterization is more human
and possible, and in makiner men and women
out of his dramatic personae, instead of pup
pets labeled "virtue" or "vice," Dazey has not
sacrificed any of the required melodramatic ex
citement. The play is, on the whole, well acted
and the staging is "good.
"Money Mad" at the Grand is a rather seri
ous and romantic drama in which the two vil
lains, one from choice and the other by
circumstance, are ably presented by F.
Jtutler and Coulter Brinker. The "pret
tiest scene is the one in the tenement
house, when the stage is divided into two
parts and one sees at the same time the young
couple reduced to starvation and the Interest
ing typewriter in her elegant little apartment.
Miss Fola is a graceful actress and the sceno
between her and her lover (Brinker) is particu
laily pretty and natural.
Grover's Alcazar was again visited by the
Improved Order of Red Men last night, and
between the acts some interesting steoreopti
con views were shown. Many of the scenes
were laid in Redwood City, and applause was
again elicited by the view of the new Call
building. Grover's company is gi% - ing a good
performance of "The Private Secretary," Leon
ard Grover in particular eliciting plenty of
mirth by his amusing characterization of the
"Do you know?" curate.
The Granto and Maud act is the strong fea
ture of the Orpheum's bill this week. The ease
and grace with which Granto performs difficult
feats on the rxmnding wire, including back
somersaults, have made him immediately
popular. The Ammons Clerise trio are clever
vocalists, comedians and instrumentalists.
Topack and Steel also come in for a share of
popular favor.
Haverley's minstrels are nightly beguiling
the hours for Columbia Theater audiences with
the jokes and songs and repartees peculiar to
comedians of the cork-blacked variety.
"Madame Favart" has only a few more days
to run at the Tivoli. ''Carmen" is being re
hearsed for next Monday.
THE MAN WITH A SECRET
An Anonymous Letter to the Coroner
About His Marital Rela
tions.
An anon3*mous letter was received by
Coroner Hawkins yesterday respecting the
unknown man who shot himself in Golden
Gate Park on October 26, and who died at
the City and County Hospital three days
ago, his body being still unidentified at
the Morgue.
If anything the letter only made the
mystery of the "man who died with a se
cret" more of a mystery than ever. The
man had in his possession a picture of a
lady, and upon this the letter attempted
to throw a little light by telling the Coro
ner she was his wife and that he was un
happily married.
The "writer was apparently as much
averse to being known as was the man
who shot himself. Here is the letter:
The Coroner— Dear Sir: The man foond in G.
G. Park on Oct. 2(5 last and who died yesterday
was well known to me. He has only been here
a little over 3 months, coming here from
Missouri, where his mother and young wife,
whose photograph was found on person, reside.
He frequently expressed his desire to die ow
ing to unhappy marital relations. 1 notified
his relates when he was found, stating ho
could not recover, and have just received a
letter from his mother statinsr her desire that
his bofly should be buried with the unknown,
as he wished it.
He left his valise containing letters and
other effects in my room on the day before he
was found, and he saiii, "Good-by, Georße,"
but I aid not believe the poor boy would carry
out his threat. His mother only wishes that
his body be buried and not dissected.
For many reasons he wished to be unknown
when found, and so I will not betray his de
sire. Otherwise I would come out like a man
and tell you all about him. Kindly publish
number of his grave in the public graveyard,
and oblige, His FiUENU.
I', s.— I sent his valise and things to his
mother, which I suppose was all right.
lie was in Olympia a short time with his
wife over two years ago.
The only clew to the identity of the man
so far found is the silver matchbox he
had, on which were the letters, "A. P. H.
Co." This matchbox was evidently given
him as a Christmas souvenir at Olympia,
Wash. Inquiry of A. P. Hotalinz & Co.,
however, has not yet succeeded in estab
lishing who or what he was.
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CARR-BEEL CONCERT.
The Forty-Seventh of This Popular
Series to Be Given Saturday.
The forty-seventh Carr-Beel popular
concert will take place Saturday at 3:15
p. m. The programme, which is unusually
interesting, will contain Mendelssohn's
fine string quartet in D. Miss Caroline
Little will make her firat public appear
ance in this City as a vocalist. Mr. Beel
and Mr. Heine "will play a duo for violin
and 'cello, and Mr. Newbauer will play a
new suite for the ikite by Edward German,
a rising young English composer.
The programme will be as follows:
Quartet for strines in D, op. 44, No. 1 (Men
delssohn):- 1, Molto Allegro Vivace; 2, Min
uetto un poco Allegro: 3, Andante expressivo
ma cou moto; 4, Presto con Brio— tne Beel
| String Quartet. Songs: a, "Das Veilchen" (Mo
zart); 6, "Love's Young Dream," (Old Irish
song); c, "Der Kafer und die Bluuie" (Paul
*rommer); d, -La Folletta" (Salvator Mar
jchesi); c, "Nel cor phi non mi sento" (Pai
j siello)— Miss Caroline Little; dno for violin
i and 'cello (Leonard-Servais). Mr. rteei and Mr
I Heine; suite lor flute and piano (Edward Ger-
I man), new: 1, Valse gracieuse: '2, Souvenir;
! .i. t.ypi,y Dance— Mrs. ( urr and Mr. Newbauer
NEW^TO-DAT- AMUSEMENTS.
props.
TO-NIGHT AND AM. THE WEEK,
HOPPER X^
AND HIS "^* a "
. Merry Company, JKT
Presenting the Comic Opera g" 'J^
Success, 1 ~*T~
MATIN SATURDAY ONLY.
NEXT WEEK
3d and L.ast of 3lerry, Tuneful
**"\7£7\iA.:KrG-."
SEATS READY TODAY FOR NEXT WEEK.
'"SK!
— -TO-WIG-HT
And Every Night This Week (Including Sunday).
; MATINEE BATOBDAY.
Jacob I.itt's Big Spectacular Troduction of C. T.
Dazey's Most Successful Melodrama, THE
— op —
"Westltli !
A Perfect, Picturesque and Elaborate Production.
A GREAT CAST
1 " 1 last of " THE
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rRICDIAnOLR.OOTTLOD<j c?- uiJtiArtotiAnAfltßS---
GREAT. GRAND, I MIXSTREI,
GLORIOUS I FESTIVAL, !
•J. H. HAVERLY'S
MASTODON MINSTRELS
ilonarchs Supreme of Superfine Minstrelsy.
Reserved Seats— lse, 25c, 50c and 75c.
GROVER'S ALCAZAR.
Theater Crowded ! Don't Miss It!
Simply the Most DellKhtful Entertainment in the
?;• Wide World— THE
PRIVATE SECRETARY!
AND
THE OPKKT GATE!
Have you seen a tear-dewed audience lighting up
with smiles? Have you heard the great roaring
| laugh and the roof-raising applause? The sweetest,
merriest and funniest bill on earth.
Next— The London "go"— "THE GOVERNOR."
NIGHT PRICES— 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c.
MATHEKS SATIRDAY,"sUADIY AX!) WEDNESDAY!
Matinee Prices— lOc, 15c. 25c.
TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE
BIB3. I.BNESTINK Kbki-ixo Proprietor & il«n»fei
LAST NIGHTS
Of Offenbach's Sparkling Opera Comlque,
"MADAME FAVABT*
SEATS NOW ON SALE
FOR NEXT WEEK.
Bizet's Romantic Opera. -~
WATCH OUT FOR
"THE LUCKY STAR."
Popular Prices— 2sc and sOc.
MOROSCO'S
GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
The Handsomest Family Theater! n America.
WALTER MOROCCO. . . Sole Lessee and Manage
THIS EVENING AT EIGHT.
A SUPERB PRODUCTION
Of Steel ft Mackaye's Masterpiece,
"MONEY MAD!"
According to Our Best Critics,
"The Gem of American Blelodramas.'*-
JEvkitixo Pbickj— 2sc and 500.
Family Circle and Gull eye. 10&
Usual Matinees Saturday ana Sunday.
ORPHEUM.
O'Farren Street, Between Stockton and Powell.
Tremendous Success of Onr Sew People!
GRANTO AND MAUD,
AMMON'S CLERISE TRIO,
TOPACK AND STEEL,
OUR GREATSPECI/VLTY COMPANY
Reserved seatH. 26c; Balcony, 10c; Opera chain
I and Box seats. 50c.
WHATEVER YOU DO,
SHOOT CHUTES ! '
THE SEMTIOIOF SEMTIOXS I
Open Afternoon and Evening:.
ADMISSION, TEN CENTS.
Haiglit Streetjto the ParL
CONCEUTS AT 2 "AND 8 P. M.
RUNNING jf&Jtegkc^ RUNNIS3
RACES! SWm&s^i RAGES
CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACS3,
FALL MEETING!
. BAY DISTKICT TRACK.
Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday—
Kaiu or shine.
Five or more races each day. itaces start at 3:01
r. m. sharp, McAllister and Geary street can p*M
tee gate. - . ■ -
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BASEBALL-CENTRAL PARK.
' San Francisco vs. Oakland. ?...
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday-
■ ■ November IS, 14. It?, 17,
■ Wednesday and Thursday, 3P. 31.
Ladies j:\uee.
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