The Berkeley Gazette from Berkeley, California • 1

TO HAVE BUILDERS LIBRARY FARMERS WANT A BUILDING TWO MEN KILLED IN TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT SOBRANTE POWDER WORKS JUST NORTH OF HERE CHILD ALMOST DROWNS PENNIE IS UNDER ARREST (Special to Gazette) SOBRANTE March 14 In a terrific explosion which completely demolished the nitro mixing and drying room of the California Powder Works at Sobrante at 12:30 oclock today two workmen Jack Shepard and Howard Jack-son lost their lives and several men were Injured The detonation came without any previous warning and there is not the slightest clew as to the cause of the accident The workmen had Just returned from luncheon and the machinery had been started for the afternoon when the fearful accident and tragedy occurred The debris of the wooden buildings immediately caught fire after the explosion and the employes at work in the other buildings several hundred yards away and the other workmen engaged about the grounds experienced considerable difficulty in rescuing the injured and in keeping the dead from being cremated A band of volunteer fire fighters was at once formed and where water could not be used with effect the burning woodwork was pulled apart Both the nitro glycerin house and the dry room were one-story affairs In the nitro glycerin house the most delicate and expensive machinery is employed to mix the chemicals which form the dangerous explosive According to experts this portion of the factory is liable to go up at any time if the utmost care is not used A telephone message was at once sent to Martinez where Coroner Curry of Contra Costa county was notified He left on the first train to take charge of the remains During the heavy rainstorm which prevailed this morning Richard Harder the 14-year-old son of Charles Harder of San Pablo avenue and Holyoke street was almost drowned by falling into a deep pool formed by the recent storms in the vicinity of the furniture factory The cries of the lad were heard by the factory workmen who rescued young Harder as he was going down for the second time The chap was taken to his home where he was taken be explained as soon as he had sufficiently recovered that he was walking in shallow water when he suddenly slipped into the deep pool OVER HALF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL The controversy between Sanitary Inspector Luther Haws and Pennie a plumber of South Berkeley took another turn this morning when Haws had Pennie arrested for failing to comply with certain local plumbing ordinances According to the complaint Pennie did some work in a residence on the north side of Berkeley way between Grove and Louisa streets without first filing plans and specifications with the Town Clerk Another instance in which Pennie is said to have broken the law is in failing to file a certificate of completion for work done in a residence on the east side of College avenue between Dwight way and Kearney street It was only last week that Pennie filed a suit to oust Haws from offleo his contention being that Haws had illegally collected certain final inspection fees Some time ago Haws had Pennie arrested for failing to comply with the plumbing ordinance but the case was dismissed ACCIDENTAL DEATH WAS THE VERDICT As far as can be learned there were no Berkeley people in the accident West Berkeley are employed at the works although several former residents of A quarter million dollar agricultural building at the University of California is the project now being pushed through the Grangers throughout the State If the agitation already well under way reaches the strength that is expected the State Legislature next spring will vote for this additional structure for the Berkeley campus It is admitted by all conversant with conditions at the State University that an agricultural building is at present the great need The administration building and extra classrooms provided for in California Hall leave opportunity now for providing for the various interests centered in the so-called Cow College What were considered two very important needs a new library and a new mining building have been attended to through the generosity of the late John Doe and Mrs Phoebe A Hearst The wants of the agricultural college are now regarded as paramount The tremendous growth of the work of the agricultural department under the direction of Professor Eugene Hil-gard has commended itself to all interests throughout the State The agricultural extension work now increased by a correspondence school and the growing activities of the experiment station have far outgrown the accommodation in the present cramped frame building one of the oldest on the Berkeley campus It is believed by those interested in the movement that the needs of the agricultural college will receive first consideration at the hands of the Legislature next year POPULAR COUPLE WEDDED OXLEY- STEPHENS WEDDING It was reported at the regular meeting of the Hillside Club last Saturday evening that a library for the benefit of prospective home builders has been installed in the Hillside School A fund has been put aside by the club for the purchase of books on architecture and a number of pamphlets have been collected on artistic home building The library will be open to the members of the club who will be allowed to give their friends the use of the library The purpose of organizing the library which will be added to from time to time is to assist in filling the section northeast of the University grounds with artistic homes A resolution was passed condemning the practice of erecting more than one house on a building site Almeric Coxhead submitted plans for stone benches to be placed in various portions of the Scenic Tract One hundred dollars for carrying out the work was donated by the Oakland Transit Company One of the benches has already been placed at the head of Euclid avenue It is of stone with a wooden seat The club decided to give wide distribution to the circular written by Charles Keeler on artistic home building The pamphlet is written in an unusually entertaining style and has been favorably commented on wherever it has been received The members of the club discussed the possibility of engaging In the active study of arts and crafts for the purpose of holding an exhibition of their handiwork in the near future Especial attention will be given to wood carving and leaded glass work while the wives of the club members will study the famous Newcome embroideries of New Orleans That the ordinance prohibiting the posting of advertising signs about the city is being violated was the declaration made by several members of the club Dr Morris Carpenter was appointed to look into the matter FAMOUS PATRIOT TO SPEAK According to the observations taken by the Students Observatory of the State University the rainfall in Berkeley during the past twenty-four hours has been 560 of an inch This makes the total rainfall for the thirteen days of March 4733 inches and for this season since June 30 of last year 25130 inches Last season the rainfall for the same period of time was 20188 inches WEATHER FORECAST San Francisco and vicinity This afternoon tonight and Tuesday rain brisk to high southeast wind BORN OWEN In this city to the wife of Owen a son MISS CONNIFF has on display an elegant line of spring millinery Every day some new styles are shown No opening announcement 468 13th street Oakland 3-10-lm Spring millinery opening Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday March 15 16 and 17 Pattern hats and novelties Latest New York and Paris styles Jones Hayden Blake block corner Twelfth and Ward Oakland Rooms 45 49 Take elevator Clara Jones Havens proprietress 3-14-3t An inquest was held this morning over the remains of Mrs Marie Sera-phine Breck who was killed by a railroad train at Third street and Dwight way last Thursday night A verdict of accidental death was rendered The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 1 oclock from St Josephs Church and the interment took place in Mountain View Cemetery BOEDDIKER CASE GOES OVER AGAIN The case of George Boeddlker charged with stealing fish from in front of the Liberty Market on Shat-tuck avenue has agafy been postponed the date in this case being extended from March 17 to March 19 The postponements were made at the request of Chapman Boeddikers attorney who is ill Clothes Hampers at Rundes North Berkeley Bazaar 3-2-r ICE CREAM By the Dish Pint Quart or Gallon WATER ICES Delicious Fruit Flavors PHOTOS OF LABOR DAY AT 42 DIFFERENT VIEWS AT 25c EACH NEEDHAM BROS SHATTUCK AYE CANDIES Manufactured from the purest materials We have silverware to rent RUSSIAN ARMY TO RETREAT ST PETERSBURG March 14 noon There is no truth in the rumors that the Russians have abandoned Port Arthur Admiral Abaza secretary of the commission on far eastern affairs authorizes the Associated Press to deny the story He says the situation at Port Arthur is unchanged and that nothing of importance has occurred there in the past twenty-four hours YIN KOW March 14 The local authorities are apparently Incensed and manifestly much annoyed at the solicitous inquiries of the commanders of foreign gunboats regarding the projected blocking of the Liao river before the arrival of the Japanese which latter event is regarded as a foregone conclusion Although the blocking of the Liao and also the defense of the settlement and native town are regarded as unattainable it is certain that an unimportant disposition of guns and the arrangement of a defense plan have already been made The arrival of General Kondratovich a few days ago however arrested the arrangements and threatened to cause the abandonment of the original intentions The highest Russian opinion obtainable at Port Arthur and New Cchwang admits the Government's intention to fall back indefinitely until the mobilization of 300000 troops for the purpose of assaulting and opposing the Japanese and probably 200000 more to oppose the Chinese PROMINENT DIVINE TO GIVE ADDRESS Rev Geo Eldredge of San Francisco will deliver an address at Stiles Hall Tuesday March 15 at 7:15 The subject of the lecture will bo Tbs College Mans Hope Mr Eldredge is a college brol mac himself and had much association with college people The lecture promises to be a very interesting one and a large attendance is expected The University Orchestra will render a few selections MISS WILLIAMS CO will have their regular spring display of pattern hats and novelties Wednesday and Thursday March 16 and 17 1162 Broadway Macdemough Block Oakand 3-ll-4t At Sills This Week Eggs ranch 2 doz 35c Old Virginia Sweet Pickles pts 30c Prunes California 30 to 40 to the lb reg 15c izjjc 25 lb box 225 Small Prunes 7 lbs 25c Peaches Dried (only few left) 5c Corn Canned worth 15c 2 for 25c Soups Columbia a few left 15c can Peaches and Apricots gal tins 25c Blue Label Soups reg 35c 25c Butter cut in squares per lb 25c 5 Sill Co 2201-2203 Shattuck Avenue PHONE NORTH 66 PDQOOOQOQOOOOQOOOOOOOOQOOfl I BOONES DAUB UP FENCES Because they believed that they won the protested baseball game played last Saturday with Berkeley High the boys of Boone's University School last night painted the fence and sidewalks about the High School building with their signs When the High School students arrived at the building this morning they found this inscription in red paint upon the fences and on the sidewalk before the school: 11 10 The game in question was played at Freemans Park on Saturday and was a league game Whichever side lost it would be hard for them to win the league championship and as each school has an able team neither will concede a point to the other In the ninth inning the score stood 11 to JO in Boones favor and Berkeley at the bat With a man on second Solinsky made a good hit and the man on second slid over the home plate just as the ball reached the catchers hands The umpire of the bases called the runner safe while the other umpire said that the catcher had touched him Since the question comes under the jurisdiction of the former the point was placed on Berkeleys score Boone's School protested and it will undoubtedly be decided by the league officials While the discussion was taking place Solinsky came In over the home plate leaving the score 12 to 11 in Berkeleys favor Last nights act was the result of the feeling on Boones part that the High School had not won the game fairly There is some talk among the students of the High School of retalia-' tion but the faculty are discouraging the plan The next game Berkeley High will play will be two weeks from today when the nine will meet the Polytechnic High School of Oakland The games scheduled by Boones for the remainder of the season are are the following: March 26 with Oakland April 2 Andersons Academy: April 7 Alameda April 16 Polytechnic High School April 30 Stock-ton REPAIRING DAMAGE ON GROUNDS Employes are at present at work on the University grounds clearing up timbers and trees which were swept down by the recent flood Considerable damage has been done to the young shrubbery on the campus as a number of trees were broken down by the wind and a vast quantity of timbers swept down Strawberry creek and lodged at various spots endangering an overflow in case of another storm A number of men have been employed in removing this rubbage It is now near completion so all danger of a future overflow is avoided RAINFALL The precipitation during the past twenty-four hours has been as fol lows: Tacoma 22 Portland 62 Eureka 00 Red Bluff 14 Sacramento 04 San Francisco 16 Fresno 00 Los Angeles 00 San Diego 00 Garden tools hose lawn mowers and carpenters' tools Dwight Way Realty Co 2-26-lmo One Hundred and Forty Feet on Piedmont avenue and Warring street street work all done orchard and shade trees beautiful view PRICE ONLY $7000 Cheney Berry Providence Washington Insurance Company of Rhode Island ESTABLISHED 1799 The above Company having reinsured the business of the Firemens of Baltimore policy holders of that Company should apply at once to the undersigned Joseph Mason Agent An informal wedding took place at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church this afternoon when the pastor Rev Jenness united Miss Maria Campbell and Samuel Dodson deputy organizer of the Woodmen of the World for Alameda county in marriage Miss Margaret Stevenson was maid of honor and Dr Pnrves best man Miss Edna Morrow acted as bridesmaid The bride is the daughter of William Campbell of 2243 Ward street and the groom is an unusually well known fraternal man SAYSHE FIRED AT BURGLAR There was considerable excitement in the vicinity of Dwight way and Piedmont avenue last evening caused by the firing of several shots by Night Watchman Linder The officer declares that he apprehended a thief and was about to place him under arrest when the fellow started to run It was then according to Linder that he fired several shots at the fleeing man TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH Husband Shoots His Wife and Then Takes His Own Life Donora Pa March 14 Bert Washington shot and killed his wife and then himself last night at a festival In the Methodist Episcopal church Mrs Washington was the daughter ot Rev Davis pastor of the church The couple had been married about one year but had been separated Chicago Hanging for ail was the verdict returned in the first murder case against the so-called car barn bandits Peter Niedermeir and Gustav Marx Bremen Emperor William has salted for the Mediterranean on the North German Lloyd steamer Koenlgen Al-hfrt On his arrival at Vigo Spain he will be met by the king of Spain New York A special from Halifax says it is believed the steamer Pro Patrla which left the island of Miquelon two weeks ago for Halifax has gone to the bottom She carried sixty passengers besides her crew Washington The state department has received a telegram from Charge dAffalres Snider at Bogota stating that the Colombian government has issued a decree declaring for peace in the republic except in Panama Cripple Creek Colo Three hundred and fifty union miners working in the Midget and Modoc mines have been called out because of shipments of ore to mills and smelters that bad been declared unfair for failure to grant an eight eur day DOWIE CABLES TO ZION Tells of Treatment Aocorded Himself and Wife in Melbourne Chicago March 14 John Alexander Dowie tells of his troubles In Australia In the following cablegram from Adelaide to Overseer Speicher in Zion -dty which is published in the Zion Banner: "Read Psalms 124 and 125 We continued visitation in Melbourne until Friday 4th Authorities surrendered to a riotous rabble and the commissioner of police and the secretary of state declared their Inability to preserve order and refused adequate protection In the exhibition building today We held ten meetings in Zion tabernacle during the week and God blessed them A brutal mob surrounded us on Monday afternoon grossly Insulted Mrs Dowie sailed our horses heads and tried to cut tbiw traces and overturn our carriage" WILD MAN AT NOME Said to Have Been Captured at Cape Prince of Wale Tacoma Wash March 14 Dispatches from Nome say that the arrival of a wild man captured at Cape Prince of Wales has created a great sensation there It is considered worn derful that a human being could live as this one apparently has on the coast of the Arctic ocean His beard and hair reach to his waist his finger and toe nails are twisted and he wears strange and scant garments Around his neck are two crucifixes ADMITS PANAMA IS LOST Colombia Will Make No Further Attack On New Republic New York March 14 A special to the Herald from Panama says: The Heralds correspondent la Colon telegraphs that the French sttamer arriving theie brought news) that the Colombian government has definitely desisted from any movement to recover its lost territory in Ianama and has prohibited anv further attempts to attack the Panamanian frontier MANICURING HAIRDRESSING Scalp treatment Bhampoolng to De La Mode Hair Dressing ParloA University Savings! Bank Bldg Phone Derby 31 Hour) 9 i to I THE TALK OP THE TOWl Schellhaas clearance sale o( fur niture i Awj 'A I Colonel John Sobieski Colonel John Sobieski the last heir to the Polish throne speaks in the Baptist Church tonight upder the auspices of the local Prohibition Alliance Sobieski is one of the famous patriots of the nineteenth century His father was executed by the Russian government and his mother fled to England with her young son where she died After her death Sobieski stole on board the American man-of-war Constitution and came to America He joined the Union army and fought through the Civil War After that he went to Mexico and helped in the overthrow of Maximilian and was present at his execution Although offered all kinds of emolument by the Mexicans he was an American in spirit and so returned to the States He filled a term in the Minnesota Legislature where he distinguished himself by his eloquent advocacy of a number of reform measures Since then he has been on the lecture platform and is one of the best known orators of the East Sobieski is a natural-born public speaker and is fully equipped with all -the qualifications necessary for success in that line Those who attend the meeting tonight can look for something unusually fine CASH PAID FOR OLD GOLD A Curry Watchmaker Jeweler 2142 Shattuck south of Center 1-6-r Free sample of De Carletons Cream FREE facial massage all this week Miss A Bloedet fc Co 625 Thirteenth street Oakland s-li-im The University Savings Bank COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Paid up Capital $100000 Branoh at 1056 Univarsity Avanus Wait Barkalay DIRECTORS President Berry-Bangs Land Co Vice-President Attorney-at-Law Pacific Coast Mgr Gen Elec Co Vice-President Armsby Co Capitalist RICHARDS BENJAMIN BANGS Pres LOUIS TITUS DR THOS ADDISON A FREEMAN CHAS MILLER GODDARD CLARK JOHN CALKINS Secretary Homestead Loan Association Cashier Mechanics Savings Bank Cashier.