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MEMBERS OF THE EASTERN STAR WHO ARRANGED FOR TOURNAMENT. "I see that Delaware is the only State that has not provided for an exhibit at the SL Louis exposition." "She'll make the same old excuse, I suppose." "What's that?" "Failure of the peach Plain Dealer "That summer -boarder caught some fish this morning," said Mrs. Corntoseel. "Says he threw his line Into a school of 'em." "Any fish that was foolish enough to let him catch 'em didn't belong to a school," rejoined her. husband.

"That must have been an asylum." Washington Star SEATTLE, March- A dispatch from Skagway to-day, states that there have been continuous gales there since February 1. The train from White Horse reached Skagway on Monday afternoon after fighting for four: days the worst storm in years. The rotary plow; bored through snow fifteen feet deep. Gales Sweep Through Alaska. In the dead of night the landlady was heard: hammering on the door of her illustrious lodger's sleeping-room.

'Wake up, doctor!" she exclaimed. "I heard somebody trying to raise your window just now!" "Nevier mind, madam," grunted the greats Johnson, sleepily. "It's only Bos well. He is trying to find out whether or not I Chicago Tribune. "The landlord, ma'am," quickly re- V.ied the little boy, who lives in a Fonkers Statesman.

"Who was it who saw the handwritng on the wall. Freddie?" asked the Sunday school teacher. SEATTLE, March That the officers of the vessel are free from blame for the loss of the fifteen lives resulting from the fire on the steamship Queen on February 27 is the text of the decision handed down by Inspectors Whitney, and Turner to-day. The decision contains but half a hundred words and is to the effect that the officers did air in their power to save the passengers, and that the inspectors are unable to ascertain the exact cause of the conflagration. Inspectors Exonerate Officers.

W. G. Douglass, a capitalist of Carson City, is at the Lick. James M. Melghan, a mining man of Groveland.

is at the Palace. F. J. Tiffany, a merchant of Japan, Is at the Palace. He is en route home from England.

Walter Maxwell of Los Angeles arrived at the Palace yesterday from Mexico, where he is engaged in mining. Former Congressman AlexanderStewart of Wisconsin. Who is largely interested Calif ornia timber lands, arrived at the Palace PERSONAL. LOS ANGELES, March When Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, convicted of assault upon his wife with a deadly weapon, appeared in court yesterday morning.

Judge Oliver deferred the passing of sentence until next Tuesday, when Judge Smith, the trial Judge in the case, who is now engaged in the trial of the Boxall case at San Bernardino, is expected to return. Griffith was returned to the county jail. Judge Smith, Who Presided at Trial of the Case, Is at Present Absent From Los Angeles. PASSING OF SENTENCE OX GRIFFITHS IS DEFERRED To Lecture on Chaplain Bateman of the Twentyeighth United States Infantry, who has Just returned; from the Philippine Islands, will give a free Illustrated lecture at the Young Men's Christian Association auditorium to-morrow evening at I o'clock. The lecture will be Illustrate-! with views showing costumes, arms and methods of warfare.

The public ia invited. JC The excellence of the work of Marshall Darrach In his Shakespearean recitals has attracted such widespread attention that the parlors of the Channlng Auxiliary prove inadequate to hold the audiences desiring to hear him, and the ladies of have secured Stelnway Hall for to-morrow evening, where at 8:15 o'clock Mr. Darrach will present "Julius Caesar," and on Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock the "Comedy of Errors" and selections from Browning. Those persons hoWing course tickets will be allowed to use two or all three admissions at one recital if they desire. Tickets may be obta'jied at the door at the time of the recitals.

Darrach Recitals. Will Talk on Southern Trip OAKLAND, March Edwin Stearns, secretary of the Oakland Board of Trade, will address the Women's Civic Improvement Club at Chabot Observatory Hall to-morrow afternoon at o'clock. The subject of Mr. Stearns" address will be "What the Boosters Heard and Saw on Their Recent South- ern Trip." All those interested in the subject are Invited to attend. The varsity team will meet the Occi-lpntal Athletic Club team In Hanr.cn eymnarlura at 8 o'clock on Friday night.

The Faculty Club will hold a club night next Friday eveninp. Professor Irvinic Strinxham win be the host and Professor Edmond O'Xelll rpraker. Candidates for teachers' certificates will meet Cheney, the appointment aecretary, in 22. South Hall, at 4 o'clock on Thursday. The distribution of the tickets for the Art Association Illustrated lecture on Thursday in Heart! Hall will brfia at the co-cperative rtore at 10 oViock on Wednesday and continue until 2 o'clock.

The lecture will be delivered by Stmuel Adelrtrin. who will speak on "The Temple of the- Tloly City." Horatio Cogswell will Bins two numbers. and Geld Josh Day." a new institution, will be inaugurated at the university on On that day every student will he expected to put Into a box at the co-operative store at two joshes on their fallows. These wUl be assorted and the best ones put in this year's Blue and Gold. Miss '05.

will address the Young Women's Christian Association next Tuesday afierr.rx>n at 4:15 o'clock In Stiles Hall. Her subject will be "God Is Wive BERKELET. March 5. Captain Frask Wlnn. quartermaster of the Twelfth Infantry.

TC. S. and formerly instructor In military at the university, has been appointed an aid-tfe-CAtap to Major General Arthur Mac. Arthur, commander cf the division of the Pacific. Captain Wir.n was chosen to his new station as he was about to leave with his regiment for the where he served dur- Jnr the Spanish-American war.

UNIVERSITY EVENTS TACOMA, March To save the Hf6 of a and suffering Eskimo P. C. O'Donnell traveled 600 miles over the frozen tundra and streams of the Bering Sea region in December. He suffered from exposure for twenty-one days, was compelled to Bleep in the open most of the time, waded for miles through the Icy water of mountain streams and all this time cared for Isaac Wood, a native, who had met with an accident while hunting, which severely wounded him in both hands. Wood accidentally discharged his rifle and a heavy 44-caliber bullet passed through the center of his right hand and tore away the thumb of the left hand.

The accident occurred far above Cape York, 600 miles from Nome, and adequate medical attendance was procurable only at Nome. O'Donnell quickly perceived that heroic action was necessary if the Eskimo's life was to be saved. Loading provisions on a sled he started with him, but they were soon compelled to abandon the sled and carry the food on their backs. They reached Nome December 22. Wood was truly grateful, declaring O'Donnell had saved h's life.

There can be no cause ascribed for Young's desire to do away with himself. His married life had been happy, he wealth and fewer troubles than fall to the lot of the average man. Coroner Blackburn's jury determined that the deed was done while deceased was temporarily insane. Young was a member of a pioneer family of Healdsburg and Alexander Valley, and his tragic end caused a sensation among his friends there. He was widely known throughout Northern California.

SANTA ROSA. March 6. "While laboring under a spell of temporary insanity, yesterday afternoon. Elwin Young, a resident of Healdsburg and Alexander Valley, took his life. The man used a Winchester rifle.

He placed the muzzle of the weapon to his breast, over the heart, and pulled the trigger. The sound was muffled by the gun being held close to Young's breast, and his wife and a lady friend, inside the house, were unaware of the tragedy that had been enacted until they came across the lifeless form some time later. Young came up from the barn, where he had been laboring, and secured the rifle, but his wife supposed he intended to kill some animal. Special Dispatch to The Call. This means that other war vessels will be sent to Bremerton if the New York is not.

Secretary Moody hag given me positive assurance that our navy yard will be given equal consideration with that of Mare Island, either through assignment, which you suggest, or otherwise. TACOMA, March The commercial bodies of the Sound cities have been keeping wires to Washington hot for several days in an effort to obtain assurances from Secretary Moody that work at the Puget Sound Navy Yard Is not to be suspended. The work now on hand there will be finished In April. Eighty-five men were taken off the pay roll last week and since December the force of nine hundred men has been cut in two. Some have feared that Secretary Moody would close the works at Bremerton as an effort' to cut down the price of adjacent lands which the department wishes to buy.

Negotiations have been suspended lately because of high prices asked by John Bremer and others. The Washington delegation in Congress has urged Secretary Moody, to have repaired at Bremerton the cruiser New York, on which something like $700,000 is to be spent. Last night Senator Foster wired as follows: Special Dispatch to The Call. Miner Travels Six Hundred 3Iiles With Injured Native in Search of Medical Aid Commercial Bodies Are Fearful That Work at the Navy Yard May Be Withdrawn Prominent Citizen of Alexander Valley Fires a Rifle Bullet Into His Heart OAKLAND, Mareh The members of St. Anthony's pariah, in East Oakland, will give a fair during the last week in October to raise funds to pay for the recent additions to the parish school.

Those who will be charge of the different booths are: Violet booth. Mrs. E. J. Koenig: forget-menot booth.

J. T. Harrington: carnation, Mrs. M. Fitzgibbons; geranium, Mrs.

R. Fitten; sunflower. M. A. country store, the Misses Moffat: marigold.

Miss Josephine Nesbit: cosmos. Mrs. Frank Garcia: daisy. Miss Lisa Covington White; fern. Mrs.

A. M. chrysanthemum, Mrs. Hugh Hogan and Mrs. M.

J. Keller; ivy. Brother Felan; poppy. Mrs. Geors? Schmltt; refreshments.

Miss Hazel Hogan and Miss Harrington. Fair for Benefit of School. SAVES THE LIFE OF AN ESKIMO SOUND CITIES ARE NERVOUS KILLS HIMSELE WHILE INSANE SEATTLE. March Adolph Krug. formerly City Treasurer of Seattle, who was found dead on January 1 under circumstances which indicated suicide, is charged in two suits filed Saturday with having forged the names of his wife and her brother.

William Ritterhoff, to notes aggregating considerably more than $10,000. On December 31, the day before Krug died, Mrs. Krug went to a bank which held one of the notes, although her husband tried to dissuade her, and there ascertained the facts. That afternoon Krug crossed Puget Sound to Pleasant Beach, a few miles away from Seattle, and the next morning was found dead in bed in the hotel at that place. The suits are to have the notes declared void.

Krug was formerly Treasurer of the city and spent a term In the penitentiary, being pardoned, however, before it was completed, for a shortage in his accounts. It was generally believed that he was guilty of no wrong intent and that he was a victim of his friends, to whom he loaned the city's money, and that his shortage was the result of his own Ignorance of business and bookkeeping. It was on this theory that he was pardoned. The case was quite a noted one at the time. Serious Crime Is Charged to Former Official or Seattle, Who Died der Strange Circumstances.

ALLEGATION' OF FORGERY MADE AGAINST DEAD MAX BERKELEY. March The Rev. Edward L. Parsons, the newly choseu rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, preached his first sermon at the church this morning.

A large congregation was present to welcome the rector, there being some 700 people in the seats. The Rev. Mr. Parsons took the text for his sermon from Matthew, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness." A communion service was afterward held. This evening the Rev.

Mr. Parsons preached again, his text being: "What doth the Lord require of thee?" The Rev. Mr. Parsons succeeds the Rev. George C.

Swan, who resigned the pulpit of St. Mark's on account of falling health and took up missionarywork among the Indians of Modoc County. The Rev. Edward L. Parsons Is Welcomed to Xew Pastorate by a Large Congregation.

PREACHES FIRST SERMON" AT ST. MARK'S CHURCH and Peralta streets. The committee in charge cf the affair has provided a large number of handsome trophies for those that make the highest -scores. The tournament Is for the benefit of Unity Chapter. The entertainments given by Unity Chapter are always thoroughly enjoyed by the patrons and the ladles In charge of the whist tournament promise that the present affair will be no exception to this rule.

Play will be commenced OAKLAND, March The members of Unity Chapter, No. 65. Order of Eastern Stars, will give a prize whist tournament next Tuesday evening, March 8, at Alcatraz Hall, on Eighth The members of the committee In charge of the arrangements are: Mrs. H. A.

Glinck, Mrs. Charles J. Krvster, Mrs. A. W.

Payne. Mrs. Alfred Peacock, Miss Minnie Hartman, Alfred Peacock, P. J. O'Neal and Ratt Austin.

man. Miss Claire Kryster, Miss Barnum and Miss Carrie Cobb. at and as a large number of tables have been provided every one will be sure of a chance to win one of the prizes, which are now displayed in the window of C. J. Heesman's Among the young: ladies that will act as scorers at the tournament are: Miss Sadie Hallett.

Miss Mae Bishop, Miss Hazel Chase, Miss Ha2el Coombs, Miss Minnie A. Hartman, Miss Tillie Hartthoi All this time he is unconsciously absorbing the great lesson of systematic application; he is learning to lay out work on a definite plan, and then methodically following that plan to secure the desired result, exactly what skilled blacksmith docs. It is not the purpose of those who advocate blacksmithing for boys to teach them even the rudiments of the trade with the Idea they will follow it. There is not so much even of the mar ual training idea to the proposition. The thought rather is along the line of play, but play which will develop the body and pleasantly discipline the mind.

The equipment is to be of the simplest a light hammer or two, tongs, a slight sledge, a small anvil, an open coal fire and small sized bar iron, round and square, cut into short pieces. The little blacksmith will have a leather apron and will wear old clothes because of the sparks. The entire outfit will rot cost much, and If desired this cost can be decreased by getting a square block of cast iron from some foundry instead of buying an anvil. It matters little what the boy may attempt to make, he is bound to use every muscle in his body. It is well known that the left arm and shoulder muscles are exercised less than the right side, but the young iron worker will grip hi3 tongs with his left fingers, and every time he strikes a hammer blow he will instinctively oppose it with the muscles of his left arm! The mere act of hammering will bring into play all the muscles of his right arm, back, loins and chest, for he will work stooping over.

He will be directed to heat his Iron and then make a square bend. This is not so simple as it looks, and his first attempt will result in a curved hook. After a few lessons he will be required to point one end of a square bar, and so he will be led along until he can circle a light bar around the horn of the anviL Progressive educators have taken note of these results from manual training, and some of them have decided that blacksmithing contains more possibilities for physical and mental good to boys than any other trade. They reason that it is boy nature to love action and noise, particularly when noisy action is brought into play to make things. The ringing of the anvil, the clang of metal striking metal and the activity required of one who is working with red hot iron give the boy the action and noise appeal to his nature.

It also has been observed by those who intend fitting up miniature blacksmith shops for youngsters that iron workers who handle the heated metal are, as a rule, strong, healthy men, above the average intelligence. Blacksmiths, rolling mill men, iron molders, puddlers, steelmakers all measure well above the average in physical and mental strength. It would seem that iron enters the very blood and tissues of those who handle It: that it imparts Its characteristics to those who subdue it. Blacksmithing for the physical and mental culture of boys is the latest proposition advanced by educators. It is proposed to use the fire, anvil, tongs and hammer of the iron craft to build up boy muscle and develop boy mind; ax the same time.

Observing teachers and parents have noticed the fascinating influence which the blacksmith's shop holds for, the average boy. Principals of manual training schools have seen physically weak lads transformed into active, boys a year's course, in the school workshop. The. training of the hands to use tools also has trained the mind along conservative lines, and the muscular energy expended has developed physical strength- (CoDj-rieht. 1904, by Joseph B.

Bowles.) (Author Talk en Wonders of the BY MALCOLM MCDOWELL. Sport for Boys. Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 1118 Broadway, March 6. The body of a man that had committed suicide under unexplained circumstances was found this forenoon at Arden.

a railroad station near Newark on the narrow-gauge road to San Jose. Evidence of poisons that might have been taken by the unidentified despondent was brought to light in the shape of two vials, one of which had contained cocaine and the other hydrochloric acid. The remains were taken to Cenferville by Deputy Coroner Francis. The vials were labeled from Jorgenson's drug store, Washington streets. San Besides these there was found in the pockets a number of surgical instruments and dental appliances.

Thrre was a belief expressed by Deputy Coroner Francis that the decedent might have been a dentist, the instruments, as well as the empty vials, pointing to that. Both cocaine and the acid are used by dentists, the acid being utilized extensively in cleaning plates. Any papers or other clews that might lead to identification had been gotten rid of before the man ended his life. The body was that of a middle-aged man, perhaps 43 years old. and of German cast of features.

He was sandy of complexion, light brown mustache, weight about 200 pounds. The clothing was of good material. Deputy Coroner Francis will hold the body for identification. Unidentified Man Commits Suicide at Arden, a Station Near the Town of Newark Evangelistic services were held today at Calvary Baptist Church, the Rev. M.

Slaughter officiating. The Rev. J. K. Harrison delivered an address to-day at the Fourth Congregational church on "The Home Missionary Fields." The Rev.

Bradford Leavitt of San Francisco preached this morning at the First Unitarian church. Mis? Virginia de Fremery gave an organ recital this evening at the First Presbyterian church. The Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, successor to the late Dwlght L.

Moody, will conduct afternoon services at 4 o'clock daily for a week, commencing March 12, at the First Congregational Church. The Baptist churches of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley will hold a missionary conference Thursday afternoon and 'evening at Masonic Hall. Twelfth and Washington streets. The Rev. H.

P. Cochrane of Toungoo, India, will deliver an address, and Professor M. B. Vail of Tokio, Japan, will speak in the evening on the "Significance of the Present Russo-Japanese Conflict." The Rev. C.

E. Hewitt. D. of the University of Chicago, preached to-day at the First Baptist Church. The Rev.

Charles T. Walkley, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, has organized a Bible class for men and women, which held Its first session thld evening. The West Side Union has arranged an interdenominational conference on evangelism, which will be held for two days, beginning March 21, at Union Street Presbyterian Church. Twenty-five speakers, clergymen and laymen prominent in the work, will take part in the conference.

Efforts have been made to gain the co-operation of the Christian Endeavor Epworth Leagues and Baptist Young People's Unions. The last session will be devoted to the young people. Special topics for discussion during the conference will be "Present Needs and Conditions," "The World Tour of Torrey and Alexander," "The Causes of Prejudice Against Revivals." "Winning the Children," "Spiritual Force3. Methods" and "Personal Evangelism." The Christian Endeavor societies of Oakland Presbytery will hold a home missionary rally at the First Presbyterian Church. March 11, at 7:45 o'clock in the evening.

Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 1118 Broadway. March 6. Some time during the night David Tisch, 672 Twenty-fourth street, entertained a burglar unawares, who went out by -'the front window with $34 of Tisch's money. J.

T. Roach, 662 Twenty-fourth street, a neighbor of Tisch, also had a call from presumably the same thief, who departed likewise by the front window with $15. At neither place did the burglar touch Jewelry that could have been his for the taking. The police were notified. At O.

H. Beer'a residence, 930 Myrtle street, the burglar called at 1:30 o'clock this morning, entering by way of a front window. Beer was awakened, but only in time to see his uninvited guest disappear through the open window. Beer's loss'was the $3 and the watch and chain. In two of the houses ransacked Jewelry in plain sight was passed by and nothing was taken but money.

The third home entered yielded only $3 in coin, so the burglar eked out by taking the watch and chain. Discriminating burglars with an eye mainly for the coin of the realm paid three more or less profitable visits to Oakland residences last night, but, luckily for the householders, rewards grossed only $52, with a silver watch and chain on the side. Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 1118 Broadway, March 6. "If present activity keeps up this year will be better than last, and 1903 was the best year in the history of Oakland for real estate." William J.

Laymance said: "There has been a general advance in all departments of the realty market, and property values and rents were never in better condition than at present, and plans are being prepared for several more large business buildings which will afford mere room for stores. Much outside capital is coming into this city for investment, probably more than before at this season of the year. This influx Is largely due to the fact that the San Francisco Call is running the news from this city in all editions of the paper and letting people in other parts of California and in other States know what is going on here. I have met several business men who came to Oakland from outside the State and who have since located here, who have told me that their attention was first tailed to this city by the Alameda County news printed in The Call." said: "The regular spring business is just commencing now and the market is exceptionally good. Quite a good deal of outside capital is coming in and we have many inquiries for business and residence property, with but few offerings at present, as owners seem inclined to hold on and await the opening of the summer market.

Desirable business and manufacturing sites are hard to secure, and it is almost impossible to get enough houses to supply demands of incoming renters. Real estate dealers report that the market, during the two months Just passed, has far exceeded ali expectations, and they say that if business keeps up as it has begun, this be the greatest year for real estate ever known in the history of the city. Although early in the year, much building is already being done, and many more structures will be begun as soon as the weather settles. One large contract for the erection of ten houses on Apgar street was recently filed by C. T.

Johns, who has let the contract to C. M. MacGregor. The ten houses will cost $15,594. In spite of the large amount of building which has been done during the and the early spring, prospective renters find it difficult to secure houses of any description, and nearly every structure which is built to rent Is taken before it is completed.

Frank J. Woodward, president of the Oakland Real Estate Association, in discussing present market conditions. A resolution indorsing the action of the City Council in deciding to submit a proposition to the citizens of Oaklasd to issue bonds for needed public Improvements was adopted by the Oakland Real Estate Association at the last meetlne of that organization, and a bond committee, Trill act in accord with like committees from the Board of Trade and the Exchange, was appointed. The members of the bond committee are H. B.

Belden. A. J. Snyder, James Naismith, John' T. Bell and C.

H. Taylor. The plans for the proposed lake park between Eighth and Twelfth streets were examined and the members considered the allowance made in proposed bond issue very reasonable in proportion to the importance of the improvement. The members of the Oakland Real Estate Association believe that the people of Oakland realize the need of public Improvements and they are satisfied that the bonds -will carry. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway.

March 6. FINDS DEATH WITH POISONS Professor M. B. Vail From Tokio Will Speak on the Russo Japanese Conflict Take Money but Leave Two Houses Without Collecting the Gems in Plain Sight Good Business Locations Are Being Sought With Aridity by Prospective Buyers JEWELRY IS UNTOUCHED MISSIONABY MEETINGS REALTY MARKET LIVELY Prominent Churchmen Call a Conference to Discuss the Spreading of the Gospel Burglars Raid Three Residences but Are Compensated With Small Returns Oakland Beal Estate Association Indorses Action Taken by the City Council EVANGELISTIC WORK IN HAND NIGHT'S WORK YIELDS LITTLE DEALERS FAVOR BOND ISSUE NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1904. Members of Unity Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Complete Preparations for Prize Whist Tournament to Be Given Tuesday Evening at Alcatraz Hall, Eighth and Peralta Streets, for Benefit of Organization HANDSOME TROPHIES FOR PLAYERS THAT MAKE THE HIGHEST SCORES 5 SJ ORDER FOR THE GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK, Tills Order to Thm Saa rzaaolsco Can 73a.

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