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During the convention week of the National Retail Grocers' Association the California Promotion Committee will provide decorations at the ferry building." The headquarters of the committee will ' be open to the vili tors at all times. The committee will also maintain a booth at the pure food and industrial exhibition to be held by the grocers May 1 to 15 in clusive. Every visitor will beprovid ed with literature upon all sections of California and the committee has ar ranged for the free distribution of some valuable books on the State. Will Keep Open" House. It appears to be the aim of Town Talk's publishers to make each number an improvement on its predecessor. "" At any rate that is what they achieve. The current household number is the hand somest and most readable magazine in the news stands. It contains some fine illustrations and its pages teem with items of interest to the general reader and sprightly comment. The Citizens' Alliance is discussed by Herbert George, and the Saunterer reviews the career of F. A. Hyde and John A. Benson, tells why local fashionable society has lost its drawing power, discusses a typical mer chant prince, tells of the coming of the Walker family and their ancient Mormon feud, also of Addle Mizner'a latest mot. of theBorels' castle in Switzerland, of the significance of some political hap penings and of the doings of our smart set. All the 'departments of thq paper are bright and newsy and It contains several short stories and the latest poems of Louis S. Robertson and Mabel Porter Pitts. , ;• -;^ , • Lieutenant Victor Courtney" Lewis, who deserted his post of duty at the Presidio a few days ago, is probably in Toronto to-day. Belated notes de livered to his wife and friends tell of his intention to make all speed to the Canadian city for the purpose of get ting early possession of the $12,000 to which he recently fell heir. Lewis, it is said, has a magnified idea of what he can do with his inheritance and has sacrificed his. honor as a sol dier to become a money king. The field exercises of the Tenth In fantry will take place on the lower parade grounds in front of the general hospital "buildings at 9 o'clock this morning. General Charles A. Coolidge, who has been ill for the past month, will return from Harbin Springs to-day. The Twenty-eighth Infantry is now being v drilled every afternoon except Saturday and Sunday at 4 o'clock on the grounds in front of the general hospital buildings. Dress parade takes place at 6 o'clock and is accompanied by a short concert by the excellent band of the Twenty-eighth. Captain E. B. Babbitt registered at headquarters yesterday. He is en route to the Philippines. The transport Thomas will sail at noon for Manila. She will take the Twenty-eighth and Ninety second •companies. Coast Artillery, to Honolulu and a lot of casuals to Ma nila. -L. J c- *,;. . Accused of Offering a Bribe. G. F. Clark was brought from Fresno yesterday by Chief of Police J. D. Morgan and booked at the City Prison on a charge of offering a bribe. He was released on $5000 bonds. The complaining witness is Dr. E. J. Creely. secretary of the State Board of Veterinary Examiners. Creely alleges that in November last he received a letter from Clark, inclosing a check for $25, and informing him that a package valued at $100 was waiting for him at Wells-Fargo's in considera tion of Creely sending him a certifi cate to practice without the* formality of passing'an examination. The orig T inal warrant was sworn out on No vember 20 and was sent to Fresno to be served, but a Justice of the Peace carried it around in his pocket, for getting all about it, so a new warrant was sworn out on April 20. Your room would look much more home-like if you bad an interesting pic ture hanging on the wall. You should see the large assortment of attractive pictures, framed and ready for hanjririK. at Sanborn, Vail & Co.'s.. 741 Market st.* Sports at Children's Playground. j A varied programme of Bports - has been -arranged for the ,. afternoon of Mayday at the public children's play ground, Seventh and Harrison streets. It will consist of races for boys and girls between the ages of 7 ' and 14 years, baseball and handball games for boys, designing in sand for girls and running and broad Jumping for boys. The tolls of the Suez canal in 1903 were $21,800,000. p ]£ V .;'. jv CALL, BUREAU. HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, April 28.— Small arms manufacturers in the .United States have succeeded in holding: up in the War Department a proposition which recently came from Cuba to purchase from this Government enough of the old .style Krag-Jorgen sen rifles formerly used by the United States army to equip the Cuban army. More than 4000 were desired, that be ing the present strength of the Cuban army. The proposition came to the State Department first from Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minister, and it was re ferred by Secretary Hay to the Sec retary of War, who in turn submitted it to the chairmen of the committees on military affairs in the House and Senate. The latter regarded It favor ably and it waa again returned to the Secretary of War with a request that a bill be drawn up by the department covering all necessary points to au thorize the transaction. At this time the small arms man ufacturers heard of the plan and im mediately set out to prevent the con summation of .the deal. Protests and arguments poured in to the depart ment in great numbers and it was seen that to go ahead would mean anger ing all of the small arms manufactur ers throughout the country. The bill asked for by the Committee on Mili tary Affairs was not prepared and the question is still being held up in our War Department. Social Dispatch to The Call Officer Who Disappeared From the Presidio Gone to Claim a Small Fortune Manufacturers Balk the Sale of Krag-Jorgensens for the Island Republic's Army LEWIS BOUND FOR TORONTO CUBANS MAKE VAIN REQUEST Some wrapping papers are made as strong as cloth of a proportionate thickness. -._ • Just about the time that the armor ed cruiser California was gliding from the ways Charles F. Malmberg, a me chanic, was filing a suit for damages against the Union Iron Works for in juries he received by being struck by a eling in September. 1902, while he was employed on the vessel. He asks for $25,484, claiming that because of the accident he was compelled, to spend 115 days in bed and expend his savings for medical care._ He is now penniless, he says, and because of. this fact the fees required in filing a suit were remitted. Was Hurt on the California. For the defense Adolph Haglund, a scavenger, testified that he was within three feet of the men at the time of the shooting and that the defendant was not the man who fired the shots. The murderer, he said, was taller and thinner. In cross-examination, when asked why he had not told the police about his testimony he replied that "Jack" McCarthy, who was at that time a special watchman, had told him to keep his mouth shut. Woo Sam, a Chinese, testified that at the time of the shooting the de fendant was sick in a rear room of his store. Sam stuck to his statement under cross-examination. The prosecution at the trial of Wong Sang Lung on a charge of mnr der before a jury in Judge Lawlor's court closed its case yesterday. The defendant is accused of having: shot and killed Jo Yung Yot in Spofford alley on the afternoon of < February 9, 1903. Witnesses for Defense of Wong Sang Lung Declare Positively He Is Not the Slhyer. MURDEU TRIAL DEVELOPS USUAL CONTRADICTIONS Suits for divorce were also filed by Adam Durica against Anna Durica for desertion, Mamie Jane Ley against James J. Ley for desertion, Mary F. Thiel against Henry Thiel for desertion. Mary Stange against Walter J. Stange for cruelty, she alleging that he told her he loved another, and Maldley An gelo against Joseph H. P. Angelo for cruelty. A divorce was granted to Josie Ziffra from Tripo Ziffra for neglect. In an affidavit filed yesterday by Mary Ryan, wife of Joseph P. Ryan, she asks the court to compel her hus band to pay her alimony pending the trial of the divorce suit she has insti tuted against him. Ryan is a fireman connected with Engine Company No. 10. The divorce suit of Evelyn Jeffries against Aaron Jeffries, which was commenced in Santa Clara County, will be heard here. The cause was transferred yesterday. It is a contested action. Jeffries having answered his wife's suit with a general denial of her charges and filed a cross-complaint charging her with treating him cruelly. Mrs. Edwards filed a suit for divorce early yesterday morning, charging her husband .with cruelty. Sbp bases her complaint on Edwards' conduct at Pastori's. the language he used when he met her with Russo emerging from the dining-room of the resort, and the fact that after the sensational inci dent had cloBed he stole from her their three-year-old child. She also com plains of the fact that during their married life Edwards compelled her to work for a living, and in connection with this says that she had quite often to depend upon her father and mother for support. She asks for a divorce, the custody of the child and $200 coun sel fees. Mrs. Edwards does not ask for alimony. Laurie M. Edwards, employe of the Southern Pacific Company's auditing office, who made an attack upon Do menico Russo. the tenor, at Pastcri's roadhouse on last Tuesday, and who threatened to file divorce proceedings against his wife Mary, because of her alleged misconduct with the singer, is a little slower than Mrs. Edwards when it comes to commencing divorce pro ceedings. Because of this slowness he must defend himself against charges preferred against him by his wife, in stead of placing her in the position of an accused. . Lawrence was arrested last Decem ber on a charge of carrying a con cealed weapon and 'was sentenced to serve ten days in the County Jail. Goodman was arrested about six weeks «Co on a charge of vagrancy and also got ten days. Xothing is known against Duckhard. '-, *¦ The police think that Lawrence and Goodman were the two footpads who held up and robbed Henry Miller, a rancher from Napa Junction, at East Rnd Washington streets early on Tues day morning. " ¦ Kesler begged for mercy and received a blow on the head with the butt end of the revolver. '"Take all I've got, but don't kill me," begged Kesler as the third "man grabbed hold of him. threw him on the bed and stuffed a cloth into his mouth. They took his watch, knife, hat, a $10 gold piece, $3 in vilver r.nd some Fma.ll change. After the robbery the defendants went down Sansome street to Jackson street, thence to . Montgomery street. Wren and McGrayan, who were in plain clothes, had been standing at Pa fiflc and Sansome streets and. observ ng the suspicious actions of the de fendants, decided to arrest them. When the officers reached them Lawrence was counting some money, which he hurriedly cut in his pockets. The .defendants were taken to the City Prison, and when Lawrence was searched the exact amc-unt taken from Kesler was found in his pockets, be sides the watch and knife. Goodman had Kesler"s hat, and in his pockets were found two cloth masks, a loaded re volver and a dirk. Kesler identified his property and the defendants at the prison yesterday morning. Keller, had -been drinking in the Old Ship saloon. Pacific and Battery streets, on Wednesday night, and about m'id jiight''left to go to his room in the Franklin Ho*ise «t Pacific and Sansome streets. The three defendants were also £n the saloon and went out im mediately after Kelser had gxme... It is alleged that they followed Kesler to his room. One struck him on the face, dazing him. and another present ed a revolver at his head. I Pr^3 Lawrence, Fred Gooflman and Fred Duckhard were • booked at the City Prison yesterday by Policemen Hert Wren and Frank McGrayan on a charge of robbery. The complaining witness^ is Louis Kesler. a deck hand cm the steamer Apache. Louis Kesler Followed to Room, by Three Thugs and Property Taken- From Him Mary Edwards Files Suit for Divorce Against Man Who Attacked Tenor Eusso PASTORI ROW ENDS IN COURT ROB AND BEAT A DECK HAND THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1904. SUES CITY FOR PATIENT'S BOARD.— The city and county of San : Francisco was yes terday sued for $2185 by the State Commis sioners In Lunacy. The sum is due for the board of Fred J. Ruser, who in April, 1804. while on trial on a charts of murder was found to be Insane and committed. to the hos pital for the insane at Mendocino. 9 AMUSEMENTS. A T /"I h It A T% Belasco * Mayer. ALCAZAR amsi. ___ ' General Manager. TO-NIGHT— ALL THE WEEK. Eouwnlr Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Evgr.. 25c to ~ic; Mats. Sat. & Sun., 25c to 50c. The London and New York Comedy Success. THE NEW. «»«-•• - _ __ _ _ of the Alcazar C LO W N Btock Comv^ r ' "The funniest thing in many a we«k." — Bx» aminer. TO-DAY -^ SPECIAL MATINE^;. AIMRGARET U/YCHERLY In Wm. Yeafs "LAND" OF HEART'S DE- SIRE" and "THE HOUR uLASSi" Monday. May 2 — Arthur W. Plnero"* THE PROFLIGATE. FIRST TIME AT THE ALCAZAR. CENTRAL^!? Market Street. Near Eighth.. Phone So^th 533 TO-NIGHT — LAST THREE NIGHTS. MATINEES TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY. The Matchless Drama of a Fireman's Life. THE STILL ALARM Joseph Arthur's -'Most Famous Play. , Fully Equipped Engine House Interior! * Real Fire Engine and Trained Horses! Specialties by Quartet of . Firemen '. DDirCC Evenings 10c to 50c FAlWEJ Matinees 10c, 15c. 25o ; Next — DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. 1 I VV LI House. ONLY MATINEE TO-MORROW. , TO-NIGHT— EVERY NIGHT. Grand ii/ucii Military Revival WllLni Spectacular of the -\- L m Comic I JOHNNY I ra | COMES MARCHING "| Music I HOME I Book by by Julian I I Stanislaus Edwardsi ' * SUnge. Popular Prices 23c. 50c. 75c Box and Mexzanina Seats, $1. Monday. May »— "A RUNAWAY GIRL." _ * „ . ¦ IDEAL VAUDEVILLE! Lew Sully; La Petit* Adelaide; Wilfred Clarke and Company, and Orpheom Motion Pictures, showing* ""a complete reproduction clothe OPERA OF "FAUST." Last time* of the Pour Kortoai; Ethel Levey (Mrs. Oeorgre M. Cohan); Tony . Wilson and Belolse; Sijr. Aoramoff. and Mile. Amoros, assisted by MUe. Charlotte. Regular Matinees Every Wednesday. Thurs- day. Saturday and Sunday. : Prices, 10c. 23c and 50c. ¦ • ' - . FLoSdler And a Great Show Every Afternoon aad BTenlnr to the Theater. ..TAKE A RIDE ON THE MINIATURE ELECTRIC RAILROAD Thle Afternoon and Evening. Outln» of COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST. MAT DAY -FESTIVAL' BEGINS TO- MORROW. Admission. 10c; Children, Be When Phoning. Ask tor 'jThe Chutae." Piire Food Industrial Exposition MECHANICS' PAVILION, April 30th to Mayl 5th. ADMISSION. 25c; CHILDREN. 15c - OAKL^p^AMUSESIEyTS.^ YE UBEXTT PLATBCOITSE. OAKLAND'S NEW THEATER. ——this : . wranc— — . . . - JAMZS HSr&Xi - In "A PABX8XAIT SOMASOS." 23c, 50c and 75c. See Bishop's Revolving Stage. ADVXBTISEMENTS. NEW ADVEBTISEMBNTS. ; - THE MICROSCOPE Prove* That Parasites Cause Ealr Loss. Nine-tenths of the diseases of the scalp and hair are caused by parasitic germs. The importance of this discovery by Pro- fessor Unna of the Charity Hospital, Hamburg. Germany, can not be overesti- mated. It explains why ordinary hair preparations, even of the most expensive character, fail to cure dandruff; because they do not. and they can not, kill the dandruff germ. The only hair prepara- tion in the world that positively destroys the dandruff parasites that burrow up the scalp into scales called scurf or dan- druff, is Newbro's Herpiclde. In' addition to its destroying the dandruff germ Her- picide Js also a delightful hair dressing. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Horpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. . CASTOR 1 A .For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of C&;*/x7&<£&A£ HOTELS AND RESORTS. (New)HOTEL BUTLER ShATILb. REMODELED AND REBUILT at expense of $2G0.0U0 — New Management — ENTIRELY FIREPROOF. . ¦ LOCATION — Very accessible to street car lines, theaters, etc. EUROPEAN PLAN. 223 ROOMS with LUXURIOUS BATHS— Several private rooms in antique decorations, Turkish Batbs in Hotel. UNSURPASSED RESTAURANT. D« Stel- cer. Chef, formerly of Waldorf-Astoria . and Chef to Prince of Wales. HOTEL ORCHESTRA: Telephone Connec- tions In every room: long distance connections made with any part of the coast. . Wire for reservations, at our expense . HOTEL BUTLER. Seattle. Wash.-/-' • PaiarA dont fail to . j COURT Lounging fl fill room, thfe EMPIRB ailU PARLOR, the gyi j PALM ROOM, tho (in. flfl LOUIS XV PAR- ui aim LO^ the m. n i 1 DIES' WRITINO | Hotels 1 -Sop*- AMUSEMENTS. "THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE.'* GRAND OCEAN AND BAT EXCURSION. Steamship Santa Rosa ¦ Leaves Broadway Wharf No. 2 SATURDAY, April 30, at 1:30 p.m. Returns " at ' 6. UNIVERSITY BAND. . RARE CHANCE FOR TOURISTS. * Tickets fl 50, at 4 New Montgomery st; also 1067- Broadway. Oakland. Racing !|p!§fl^ Racing OAKLAND RACE TRACK NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. Racing each "week day, rain or shine, except • - Monday May 2. Season closes Satur- . ¦; ..¦"—day,- May 7. Six or More Kaces Daily. - Races commence . at 2:10 p. m.. sharp. For special trains stopping at the track take 8.' P. Ferry; foot of Market street; at 12.* 12:30, 1:00, 1:30 or 2 o'clock. No smoking In last' two cars, which are ; reserved for ladies and . their escorts.'--'- ¦'•/ ¦ . '¦*¦' "." '.'• ." * - •" v - ¦" " '. ' Returning- trains- leave' track at 4:10 and 4:45 and Immediately : after the ' last ¦ race. -• THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President. PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary. : MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTa . at RECREATION* PARK. ; ' ¦ ; Eighth and Harrison Streets. ' SAN FRJNCISCO YS. LOS ANGELES. TO-DAY, 3 :30 P. i M. - -; SATURDAY. 3:00 P. M... SUNDAY. 2:30 P.. M. ' ;. .LADIES', i DAY-TO-DAY. Advance sale of seats at 5 Stockton strMt-i' ' ¦ PATTOSEEN^S. ' .^^^^^^^^ Going ' c f^j|S Lace Curtains, Rugs, Draperies,^etc, TO-DAY. No Reserve. JUST A WORD TO THE WISE::, SIXTEENTH AND MISSION STREETS. SALE COMMENCES AT IP. M. ADVEBTISEMENTS. ' ¦AmFKvmxiiB. GRANDS MATINEES • TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY. LAST THREE NIGHTS. Kclb and Dill, Barney Bernard, Winfleld Blak*. Maude Araber.Hope & Emerson.Cnarlotte Vldot. WHIR^L^I = GIG BIG - LITTLE- PRINCESS SUNDAY MATINEE AK9 ZTZOKT. POSITIVELY LASTPERFORMANCES. BEGHTNIZrO ZTEXT MONDAY HIOHT Melbourne MacDowell IN SARDOU'S L/\ XOSC/\ .. POPULAR PRICES— 15c. 25c. 50c, 75c. SEATS NOW ON SALE. sf*/tl IIMS1 A SM FBAHCISCO'3 bULUSfi^i A LEA0IR8 TKEA.?i LAST 3 NIGHTS — MATINEE SATURDAY. Mr. Fre4 Nlblo Politely Proffers THE FOUR COHANS And Bic Company in Geo. M. Cohan's , "RUNNING JOR OFFICE" NEXT MONDAY — FIRST TIME HERE. Klaw and Erlanger Present O^and IROG-ERS In John J. McNally's Latest. "THE KOOEBS BBOS. XV tOHDOW." SEATS HOW SEZ.Z.XZrO. ' CALIFORNIA fa IiAST TWO HXOHTS. EBQ GREATEST HIT OF THE SEASON. Brightest of All Musical Comedies. A GIRL FROM DIXIE By HARRY B. BMITH,^, Author of "Robin Hood." ORIGINAL NEW YORK COMPANY ¦ OF SIXTY PEOPLE. V ? MATINEE TQ-MORROW. Sunday — "TOM'S WEDDING GIFT." D. T. Callahan's New Problem Play, ¦ "OUR NEW MINISTER," Seat sale Monday, May 2. MAJESTIC . Market St.. Opp. Larkln. ' ' NOW THOROUGHLY HEATED. " TO-NIGHT AND ALL THIS WEEK. MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY. The Success ef the • Season. - ISABEL IRVING. (Mar.agemcnt James K. Hackett) In Winston Churchill's Great Play. "THE CRISIS" Prices— 41.50, J1.00. 60c; Box Seats, $2.00. ¦ Box Office Open 0:00 a. ra. .to 10:00 p. m. > ; H LAST TIMES; I -"YES." '.'YES." VYES" v AND DON'T YOU FORGET i IT. eHOW-eiiow ' THE VERY , FUNNIEST OF ALL Very Funny Musical ¦ Burlesques. Our "All SUr" Cast. Including - / niCHARD - F. CARROLL, JOHN - P. KENNEDY, BEN DILLON. ROY AL- TON, CAUL YOHO. HELEN RUS- SELL. NELLIE LYNCH. And Such a Chorus. "OH. MY'" : SAME POPULAR PRICES. RESERVED • SEATS— Nlshts,* 25c. 80c and 75c. Saturday ' and Sunday Matinees. 26c and 80c. Children at" Matinees, 10c and 28c. : . MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS. SEMBRIGH Seats now on sale at Sherman, Clay A Co.'s 2 CONCERTS ONLY 3 • ALHAMBRA THEATER. NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT. MAT 5. 8ATURDAY MATINEE. MAY T. | Seats »3.00., <Z0O., 11.00. '.. COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE i- fTcorner Sacramento i and ; Webster,, its. .¦¦\>}\ ¦¦•^--LANE LECrrURES^— - FRIDAY EVENING. April 29,' At 8 o'clock. . DR. ALBERT' II. TAYLOR, Subject.; "NERVES." ' "'¦¦ ADMISSION » 10 FREE. 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SPECIALS FOR FRIDATAKD SATURDAY 20 lbs. BEST SBT GEAHr/LATED 6UOAB *1 .<>O 7 Lsurtre Cans ELKKEAU CEEAM. . . 50c Selected Cuts of rine SALMON. Packed in porcelain jars. Reg. 25c. Special 1 r»c 10 bars Good L&UKSBY S0AP..2.*»c 7 lbs. Good TABLE SZCE .2."ic 7 lbs. LADY WASKZSTQTOir BEAKS - '2. r»c LESLIE SALT. Larjre packagre. . 1 Oc SLICED PIHXAPPX.E. Per can..lOc 10-lb. sack of YELLOW CO BUT MEAL - ur»e Extra Pine COMB HONEY 1 Oc 3 Lartre Bottles TOMATO CATSUP. . U."»c 2-(ral. Pail Of HELIOTROPE STRTJP &~*i* OOX-ar STAECK. Best Brand..... "tc 13 lbs. Good Santa Clara FBUNl'S.. U5C BIG BUTTER SALS PXXDAT A2TD SATURDAY. COFFEE ! COFFEE ! COFFEE! Onx Celebrated 4-lb. Cans of MOCHA A3TO JAVA COPTEE. Jteg. $1.40. Special Sale price 8*>C Have a free cup at our store.