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¦ Judge Hebbard yesterday gave Miss Dora Eckert of Sea View judgment for $384 against the Martin Delivery Company. The company lost a trunk belonging to the plaintiff last Decem ber while she was visiting friends at 3018 Sacramento street. The trunk contained wearing apparel. Recovers Value of Clothes. WASHINGTON, June 2. — Willard H. Meyers, general bookkeeper in the banking department of the . National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Com pany of this city, has disappeared. Tie is alleged to have misappropriated $17,500. Meyers has been a trusted employe for twenty-three years. * Bookkeeper and Coin Missing. WASHINGTON/ D. C. June 2.-^- The following Californians registered at the hotels here to-day. At the New Willard— N. C. Ray and wife and C. C. C. Donnelley and wife, of San Francisco. At the Raleigh— Miss J. Heim. Mrs. Ephraim Simon and Miss Blanche Simon, of San Francisco. Callfornians in Washington. Minna Harris is the defendant in a suit involving the title to a' Panama coffee plantation. The suit was filed yesterday by the El Monte Verde Cof fee Company. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant refuses to convey the plantation to it, notwith standing that when it was deeded to her in 1896 by Henry it was with the understanding that upon de mand she should transfer the property to any person or corporation named by him. It is alleged that she is about to 6ell the property and the court is asked to restrain her from doing so and^to compel her to deed the plantar tioil to the plaintiff. Sues Woman for Plantation. th.e second cable connecting Germany and America vas completed during the night. I^ast Section of the Second Wire Con necting Germany and the United States Is Successfully Laid. NORDENHAM, Oldenburg. Ger many, June 2. — The last section of ANOTHER CABLE LINE STRETCHES ACROSS OCEAN NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2. — Douglas M. Smith, paying teller in the National Tradesmen's Bank of this city, was arrested* to-day, charged with being a defaulter. He is said to have confessed a shortage of between $22,000 and $30,000. The warrant on which Smith was arrested places the amount alleged to have been taken at $60,000. Books of the Concern Place the Amount of His Peculations at Sixty Thousand Dollars. BAXK TELLER ADMITS A HEAVY SHORTAGE In a cross-complaint filed yesterday in, the United States Circuit Court by Charles Ernest Skidmore and Martha Gitthens Skidmore, his wife, A. B. Smith and M. G. Lytton of this city are accused of misrepresentation In the matter of the sale to the Skid mores of the business and chattels of the Hotel Redondo at 637 Post street. The cross-complaint recites that Smith and Lytton represented that the hotel was frequented by reputable people for reputable purposes; that the net in come was $600 per month; that the owner of the realty would consent to the assignment of the lease and that Lytton had a contract whereby elec tricity would be supplied at the rate of 3 cents per kilowatt. All of these representations are declared to be false. ; Complainants ask for the return of $3500 cash paid by them; for the can cellation of notes for $8500 and for $20,000 damages. .//-¦ Charged With Misrepresentation- by the Skidmores, Who Purchased the Hotel Redondo Business. SMITH AND LYTTON* SUED FOR DAMAGES "WASHINGTON, June 2.— Following are advances In salaries of Oregon postmasters announced to-day: In« F dependence, $1200 to $1300; L». Grande, $2000 to $2100; Marshfleld, $1600 to $1700; Mount Angel. $1100 to $1200; Ontario, $1200 to $1400; Roseburg, $1900 to $2000; Silverton, $1200 to $1400; Sumpter, $1900 to $2000; Woodburn. $1000 to $1200. j ceive Benefits of Increase in Business. Nine Towns of Neighboring State Re- SALARIES OF OREGON* POSTMASTERS RAISED PRETTY 1TAMAN GIRL. WHO DIED MYSTERIOUSLY AND HER RE PUTED HUSBAND. called and administered the medicines he deemed requisite. In the morning Bhe' was a corpse. Dr. Johnson Is posi tive the prescription was filled accord ing to formula, and yesterday he tested the contents of the bottle, sent in com pliance with his order. • Caldarella called upon- Dr. Johnson and informed him that the woman was dead. He asked that a death certifi cate be issued. The doctor declined and told Caldarella that such a death was a subject for the Coroner and It would be necessary to report the case. DISPUTE ABOUT FUNERAL. That action was taken by the phy sician, but in the meantime Michael quarreled with his father as to the way the funeral of- the girl should be con ducted. Mrs. Caldarella, the mother of Michael, had died a few months prev ious and had had an expensive burial, including a headstone, and Michael wanted the 'same for Maria. Michael did not have the ready money and when his father said he could not stand for any such interment Michael be came hostile and said he would go away. He kept his word and did not Caterpillars March on Taconia. TACOMA. Wash.. June 2.— All effort* to stop the . tremendous advance of tent caterpillars through Tacoma a^id the suburbs have proven fruitless. The Insects first appeared in the north end. Within three days they have spread all over Tacoma. i GUARDIAN* OF YOSEMITE TENDERS RESIGNATION Commissioners in Session In the Valley • Grant Application of John Stevens. TOSEMITE, June 2.— At the meeting of the Board of Yosemite Commis sioner?' to-day the present guardian. John F. Stevens, presented his resig nation. It was accepted to date from September 1. His successor was not appointed. The most Important im provement ordered i3 the building of a trail from Eagle Peak to the top of El Capltan and on to Gentry's. SEATTLE. June 2.— Mrs. Gertrude Robb shot and fatally wounded George Joye on the Coleman dock here this afternoon. She fired five shots at Joye. striking him four times. Two of the bullets entered his back and two the abdomen. She gave herself up to a policeman immediately- after the shooting. . Joye is said by Mrs. Robb to be the betrayer of her sixteen-year-old daugh ter. Fi\ e Shots on a Wharf. 3Irs. Gertrude Robb of Seattle Fires BULLETS FROM WOMAN* WILIi COST MAN'S LIFE The $135,000 estate of Dyson D. Wass, a contracting electrician, is the subject of a contest in Judge Muras ky's court. It is alleged by Mrs. Isa bella Strachan. a woman who lived with Wass for a number of years and who says she was his common law wife, that the property is hers. The claim is opposed by a number of cous ins of the deceased and by Attorney Darwin de Golia, on behalf of Fred Wass, an incompetent brother of the deceased. Mrs. Strachan hopes to prove that she had been acknowleged by Wass as the wife prior to 1896, the year in which was passed the law de claring common law marriages null and void. She was a witness on her own be half yesterday and testified that she lived with Wass from 1893 to 1900, and that during that time he in troduced her to many people as his wife. She said she had been a dress maker at 471 Valencia street prior to the time she moved to 307 Stelner street with Wass. She also testified that prior to Wass' death. May 14, and as early as 1S93 she had in the presence of Wass told many people she was his wife. She admitted, how ever, that she had never been known to any of her relatives as Wass* wife and that he had never Introduced her to any of his relatives as his wife. . A number of friends of Mrs. stra chan testified that she had been known to them as Wass' wife. Isabella Strachan Claims She Was the Common Ijiw "vYIfe of Wealthy Electrician. ! WOMAN CLAIMS ESTATE I LEFT BY CONTRx\CTOR WASS SI/IT FOR INFRINGEMENT.— la the Unit ed £-t»te« Circalt Court suit wax eorcrnencM ."¦•t^rday against the Standard Gaa Engine O-rap*ny by the Union Ufa EntfSe Company fcr aa infrtcr«>3ent of th<? Union Gaa Com par>> vaporizer paienTs. On account of the a'ifSfxl infiinsrnent the Union Gas Ecjir.e « .¦nrnraay ask* for aa Injunction and flur.apes r.ga.:r.tr ;he Standard cempany. SANTA BARBARA, June 2.— All available craft in the waters of this section of the coast are engaged In searching for the Gaviota wharf, which was washed away during the heavy windstorm Wednesday afternoon, and which drifted to sea with the tide. When last seen the huge body of piles and planking wa"s drifting rapidly across the Santa Barbara Channel in the direction of Santa Rosa Island. The floating wharf caused much anxiety among navigators of coast wise vessels, and it is reported that a fast tugboat from San Francisco has been sent out in search of the queer derelict. fornia Coast Cannot l-ind I>erelict. Seagoing Folk, on the Southern Cali- SEARCH FOR A WHARF THAT ESCAPED IS FUTILE All the evidence obtainable was sub mitted at the Coroner's inquest held yesterday, but neither the neighbors, represented by Mr. and Mrs. Stoss, nor the family, by Louis Caldarella and Victor Orlando, a brother-in-law, could give any facts explaining the deatfT of the young woman. Detective Coleman of the Police Department was on the case, but his report was just as vague as the other witnesses. The entire sub ject was In such a condition that Cor oner Leland decided to indefinitely postpone the final hearing. As soon as the Police Department has anything in the way of testimony to show that Maria secured poison on her own ac count or that Michael gave it to her, the case will be reopened and the mys tery further investigated. FACTS AT INQUEST. When Dr. Johnson referred the mat tor to the Coroner, Dr. Bacigalupi per formed the autopsy. He found nothing which would indicate poison, but as the case had been so peculiar, he sent the stomach of the deceased to Dr. Bothe. the City Chemist, and that offi cial found enough arsenic to destroy the lives of many. Whether Maria re alized that she was not the lawful wife ef either Spiro or Michael and 'deliber ately took poison the police are unable to determine, but In the meantime they are 4ooking for Michael and the man who sold the deadly drug. even attend the funeral of his supposed wife. Arsenic . was found in her re mains and now the police want -to know more than they do as to Michael's sud den leaving. Captain Leonard D. Wildman is relieved from duty in the office of the chief signal officer of the army, to take effect July 1, and will then pro ceed to Alaska for the purpose of in stalling the signal corps system of wireless telegraphy. Captain Wild man will take the station at Nome to install a wireless telegraphy system across Norton Sound. . - / Captain Eugene O. Fachet is re- Jieved from duty as signal officer of the Department of Texas, to take ef fect July 1, and will then proceed to Benicia Barracks. Postmaster General Issnes a Fraud Order Against the Devol Medicine Company of San Francisco. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 2.— Changes, fourth class postmasters: California — Agua Caliente, Sonoma County, Theodore Richards, vice Al bert Geiselman, removed: Leesville, Colusa County. Jay J. Clark, vice Thomas E. Stockford! resigned; Pine Flat. Sonoma County. Charles A. Grimmer, vice Mattie Grimmer, re signed. The salary of the postmaster at Arroyo Grande is advanced to $1200 per annum.* Harry C. Pease is appointed a mem ber of the Civil Service Board for the postoffice at San Bernardino. The Postmaster General has issued a ' fraud order against the ? Devol Medicine Company of San Francisco. | Captain Houston V. Evans is trans- j ferred from the Thirteenth to the Eighth Infantry. He will remain on duty with the Thirteenth Infantry un til the companies of the Eighth now serving in Alaska will arrive at San Francisco, when he will report to the commanding officer of those compa nies for assignment to duty. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC « COAST STOCKTON. June 2.— The conveying of the non-union mill and warehouse employes in carryalls to their suppers at the Occidental Hotel last evening was the occasion for a rather exciting' scene. Fully 1000 men. women and children gathered about the hotel, and there was frequent use of the word "scab" on the part of some of the women. The crowd was so dense that the police were compelled to open lane through the mass of people that the carryalls might approach the hotel. There was no demonstration against the non-union men. Stockton Police Compelled to Make a- Lane for Passage of Xon- Unlon Men. VAST CROWD GATHERS WHEX EMPLOYES EAT UNIDENTIFIED MAN. In the pocket of the unidentified man was a key ring with the name George Judd Taylor, Alliance, Ohio. Seriously injured: Steve Watergo, body crushed, terribly cut about head; Frank Libling. Cleveland, head badly cut; Rose Burns, Cleveland, head bad ly cut, teeth knocked out; M. McDon ald, Cleveland, internal injuries, left side badly crushed; Mrs. W. R. En sign/ Toledo, leg broken"; George Strugein. motorman on package car, badly crushed. * The, accident occurred at a point quite distant from, any immediate means of communication and assist ance was sent from Norwalk. Every physician and nurse in the city was hurried to the place. When the Injured had been attended to they were brought to this city. All of those killed were in the smoking compartment of the passenger car. The cars were the suburban elec tric cars of the largest type and were smashed to pieces. They met in col lision at fuH speed. NORWALK, Ohio, June 2.— Six per sons were killed /and a dozen or more injured late this evening in a collision on the Lake Shore Electric Railroad between an eastbound fast electric pas senger car and a we3tbound "package freight" car at Wells Corners, a few miles east of this city. The dead: CHARLES PECK. Lorain, Ohio. W. W. SHERWOOD, Garretson. Ohio. NEIL SULLIVAN, Blnghamton, N. T. CLARENCE KETCHAM, Lorain. .Ohio. RALPH WILLIAMS (colored), In dianapolis. OMAHA, June 2.— A Newfoundland dog taken tc Portland, Oregon, a year ago has returned "to Omaha, having tramped the 1800 miles in search of fa miliar Bcenes and faces. The animal belonged to Jerry Sullivan, formerly sexton of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery here. When Sullivan and his family moved, to Oregon, the dog. which was ten months old. was taken along. He remained six months, but refused to eat. lost all his playfulness and seemed to suffer frcm homesickness. One day he disappeared. Nothing more was heard of him until a short time ago. when he appeared in Omaha. Gaunt and shaggy, with cockle burrs matted in his tail, his feet badly blis tered. It was evident that the dog had covered at least a large part of the long journey on foot. Some kind friend had bound his two fore .feet with rags. Over the rags was a piece of leather cut from a boot top and each piece of leather was worn through. When he reached Omaha the animal went straight to the house where his master had lived. Finding strangers there he whined dismally and soon limped sadly away. He Is being cared for by a neighbor, but refuses to be fully comforted. The owner is in Port land and has been communicated with. Sp«clal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK. June 2.— In an article j under the caption "The Injustice of i Vacations," the Independent quotes i Russell Sage to the effect that he ! never has taken a vacation in his life; : that the "vacation habit is the out ! growth of abnormal or distorted busi i ness methods and that a man is less ' fitted to do good work for his employer j after two weeks rest each year than j he was before. "When I was a boy." said the vet j eran financier, "the practice was not j in vogue. During the eighty-three j years of my career I have not once ; taken a vacation. Aa a matter of fact j I was so glad to get a chance to learn ! the business that the Idea of asking j my employer to make me a present I of two weeks of the time that belonged to him would have been preposterous. j Besides, I was eager to advance In i business. "Is it not absurd to suppose that j a man can in two weeks recuperate I from the wear and tear of a years j work? On the contrary, I have too often observed that men will, while on their vacations, make inroads upon their vitality and purses that cannot be repaired in the following eleven months and two weeks. "A man should work 'easy,' be eco nomical of his time, conserve his forces and not worry. It's worry and not work that makes the hair gray. If I had a thousand tongues I'd preach 'save time* with them all. It's in finitely more valuable than money." NEW HAVEN. Conn.. June 2.— A loss of 530,000 to $60,000. through embezzle ment of its funds by a trusted em ploye. Douglass IS. Smith, is admitted by the officers of the National Trades men's Bank of this city. The exact loss Is cot yet known. Smith, who was pay ing, and receiving teller of the bank, hes acknowledged that he embezzled Ebout JO.OQO, and the greater part of it, if not all, within the past eight or sire months. A statement given out to-night by Cashier H. "W. Simpson of the bank says; "The examination, by the national examiner was held last December and that by the comrnitte of the directors shortly afterward, to neither exami nation vraa any discrepancy in the ac counts of "Mr. Smith discovered. When it was decided to have another exami nation on Tuesday last Smith did not come to the bank. He sent a. message saying that "he had been taking money i from the bark and that he was not j able to cover It .cp. "As nearly as we can make out by the examination thus far made we be lieve.that he has taken about $30,000. That is the sum which he himself esti mates. . He was under bonds for $13, 000. given "by an indemnity company. As Smith says he has not saved a pen ny during his lifetime and cannot make good the loss, we shall have to stand the balance of the defalcation above the $15,000 in bond. "Mr. Smith says he has been specu lating and that he took the money for that purpose. The bank is safe and Bang, There is no danger to either our depositors or our stockholderc." Smith was arrested and held in $15, 000 bail for examination on June 11. it was stated" to-night after a later investigation, into the bank's accounts that Smith's shortage would reach al most $70.000.. " Maria waited and Splro came back, but one month ago he again departed. Maria could not speak English, but she saw how others of her class were doing, and cast her blue eyes upon Micael Angelo Caldarella. Michael was smitten and at once took to him self Maria. One happy month in the home established at 203 Ritch street was all there was in store for the two. Maria was stflcken on the night of May 21. Dr. Johnson of 551 Third street was MARIA WAITED. Maria Caldarella, a pretty Italian girl, is dead and buried, but her death and burial are subjects for police inves tigation. Maria died under peculiar circumstances on May 21, and before her body could be interred the formal ity of the' certificate had to be attended to. Signatures were necessary to the application for the burial permit, but before they were forthcoming there was a quarrel between the supposed hus band of the deceased and his father. There was a dispute over her burial. Later developments show that there was arsenic in her stomach and that she would have been a mother within a few months. "Whether this fact was an incentive to suicide or a cause for mur der is what the police are trying to learn. The case was heard by the Cor oner yesterday and indefinitely post poned. Two years ago Maria was lured from per home by Spiro Liotto, a young man who she believed had great possessions in the United States. Maria accompa nied him to the city of Boston. For many months she held the position to which she considered herself entitled, and even came to San Francisco with the man she supposed was her hus band. After coming to San Francisco Liotto left his "wife" in the care of friends while he proceeded to the Alas kan fisheries to gather to himself more "possessions." Sends Note Revealing Pecu lations When He Learns ' Books Are to Be Examined Accident Occurs at a Point .Where It Was Difficult to Secure Medical Help Veteran Financier Declares It Is Worry and Not Work That Makes Hair Gray HAS A BOUGH JOUBXEY Arrives Gaunt and Footsore, Only to Find Strangers Where 3Iast'er Had Lived LOSES IX Question of Funeral Causes Companion to Disappear. GOING AT FULL SPEED I COXSEKYIXG HIS FOECES SPECULATION Wearies of Life in Portland and Walks Back to His Former Home in Omaha Electric Car Filled With Passengers and a Freight Come Together in the Dark Employe of a New Haven Financial House Confesses Embezzlement of $30,000 Bussell Sage Believes That a Two Weeks' Best Unfits a Man for Doing* Good Work Pretty Italian Girl Falls a Victim to Fatal Drugs. CANINE CROSSES ROCKIES AFOOT SIX ARE KILLED IN A COLLISION PAYING TELLER ROBS A BANK NOT IN FAVOR OF VACATIONS MYSTERY SHROUDS CASE OF WOMAN WHO DIES FROM ARSENIC POISONING THE SAN FRANCISCO ,CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1904. 3 <<^-* JohesBrosBlofT +\ 1049 JtARXET STREET. Opposite Jones and McAllister. Speci&la for Friday and S&turdfty: Extra Fine CREAMERY BUTTER.. .'» JICH* Rip* Manzar.illa OLIVES. ".Wot l*(U» :0-!b. sack GRAHAM FLOtrR. . .'jr»c 10-:b. sack YELLOW CORN MEAL.. .5 Q-'b. >su:k B~st Family fL6uR..*»Hc 4 lbs. 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