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OAKLAND TRIBUNE MAROH 12, 1904. A HISTORIC POLITICAL RESO'RT'ftllAEL flAVITT ANGES HANDS. is SATURDAY EVENING CM HERE HE WILL LOOK AFTER HIS WIFE'S INTEREST IN THE CANNING ESTATE. Hanifin's Old Corner at Seventh and Broadway, famous in the Earlier Annals of the City, is at Last Sold by its Veteran Proprietor Long the Headquarters for Politicians ff', Baying for Cass Michael Dayitt, the noted Irish patriot, arrived from New York last evening, and he and his wife are making their temporary home at 673 Telegraph avenue. Mrs.

it will be re- selling lor casn membered, was bequeathed one-half ef the estate of her deceased aunt, Mrs. Canning, whose will was recently filed for probate. Some years ago it was mm thought that Mrs. Canning was, worth 5500,000 but it has developed that at OBERN QNERGY the time of her death she was worth only about $80,000. Last Christmas I ETHODS NTERPRISE Mrs.

Canning gave her niece a present of $30,000. Although Mr. Davitt has come to Oakland for his health, It Is expected! tnat his presence here will materially aid in th amicable settlement of the state of affairs brought about by Mrs. Canning's disinheritance of her nephew W. J.

Yore, of this city. Coadjutor Archbishop Mont Are the living prlnci pies responsible for the marvelou growth of the "Owl's" business. We buy in enormous quantities direct from the manu facturers and sell only the purest: drugs at the closest pos-. sible margin of profit. i Our shrewd, wide awake buyers never close their eyes when the public's interests are' at stake.

I I Their one aim and purpose is to gain the biggest possible price concessions that ready cash, constant attentloni and tactful maneuvering can secure. 1 In buying of us you are absolutely certain of getting the best at cut rates. i gomery of San Francisco was made the heir to the remaining half of Mrs. Canning's estate, and her nephews, and John M. Tore, 1 I VY rS A'i 1 v.t,n..

vxjtiiJa.Ja.ii-.-iarft.- threatened to contest the will. Mrs. Davitt arrived in Oakland two weeks ago, and when she found out 4: Lj-on's 1 Tooth i. how matters stood, she wrote her husband in New York for advice. In answer to, her letter, he immediately Calder'a Dentine.

Bythlnia Water Ayer's Hair Vigor 75c Paine's Celery Veronica Water 40o Hood's Charles' Flesh Food j. Hoyt's Cologne Sozodont; i. started for- California and arrived in Oakland last night. He hopes, to have the matter settled out of court and states that he will use whatever influ ence he has to that end. In speaking of his trip here, Mr.

Da Meyer's Grease, Paints, Cosmetics and Powders always on hand. Theatrical Supplies vitt "I am in Oakland for my "health. If I had Hot been sick I should not have taken the trip across thecontinent. I came to America to have my book pub CUT- I Rates a THE OWL DRUG Cut Rate. Druggists Broadway and 13th lished.

Harper Brothers are getting it out for me in New York and I should be there now. I received two bundles of proofs today. I am very much interested in the work to which I have devoted a great deal of my "The book Is on the subject of the land question in Ireland. It is a review of this question for the last fifty years but in reality it goes back two hundred years. It is called "The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland." It is a ques HOW SEVENTH AND BROADWAY LOOKED IN 1870 (From a wood engraving in the possession of E.

F. Thayer.) Regent of the State University, and tion of which I have devoted most of my life. "As to the matter of the settlement pf Mrs. Canning's estate I cannot say that it is not my- affair. I have nothing at Phone Main 309 all to do with it and am only Interest ed in it in so far as It is my wire who is one of the heirs.

It is her money "in. member of the San Francisco firm, Na-thani Dohrmann kept a grocery store in the Old Corner. The political scene-shifting was done a few doors above Jn Hanifin's place. When Evers and Dohrmann went put in 1875 and flanifln in, the Old Corner became headquarters, and remained headquarters for more than, fifteen years. In.

latter days, however, the city has. spread out and grown away from the focus of thirty years ago. Business has moved up town and the Broadway and I have nothing at all to do with It. "There is very little to squabble, over however. Mrs.

Canning gave four-fifths 1 of her nronerty to her friends and ad r'r-s Jh visers before she ever made a will, and hv th( time the lawyers and expenses and nominations were agreed bn-in-lts quiet back rooms; there trades were made, truces concluded and programs outlined, Convention proceedings were but the echoes and ratifications pf what took place in Hanifin's corner. F. K. Shattuck, John B. Felton, John W.

Dwinelle; Jlehryf Vrboman and many others of note, being; since passed away, used -to, da their politics In the Old Corner. Hither came Dr. Sam-' uel Merrltt, when he Wanted things done. W'Hen'. X3eorge M.

Pinney was doing politics for Carr and Sargent, he used to copsuit the oracle in Hani-fin's back room. Frank Page met and counseled with his pqlitteal supporters. Even the Democratic leaders gathered in there ta 'oil 'the political machinery. The- Old Corner 'was the political nerve center 'of Alameda Hansen Kahler, agents for th Buffalo Brewing Company, haYe bought the stock, fixtures and good will of the Hanifln saloon, corner Seventh and Broadway. The price paid was $6000.

By this sale J. J. Hanifln disposes of a place famous tin the Oakland, and-for many years the resort of all the leading prqr fessloqal men and capitalists -of the earlier period. MrJ Hanifin nas" kept the place "for twenfy-nine years continuously, and until he set up his present wholesale and retail liquor establishment on Fourteenth street made It hiB personal headquarters. In those days he was acth- iln politic and a power' in the Stale; county and city.

All the Republican slatejs were fixed up In the Old Cernen Thither came all the aspirants for office -and men' seeking political advancement Platforms are paid will be very little of who went and came from" San Fran-I cisco. Business and social, as well as political engagements, were arranged for Hanifin's. There men met in the morning to. discuss probabilities and again in the evening to talk over the day's occurrence's. The" fide of life circulated around" "flth i corner.

In those days a great maoriy of Oak-landers, crossed the bay back and forth daily, and the station at Seventh and Broadway was the meeting Of the tides. Hanifin's was wtfefe they eddied. It was the only place in town w'here a man was sure of meeting any-' body that was anybody. Mr. Hanifln took the place, in 1875.

Prior to that time lie had been keeping the Cosmopolitan Hotel just above, which he opened in' 1869. The picture Shows- Seventh and Broadway as it In 1870, when the old wood-en station stood on the street. Then Henry Evers and F. W. Dohrmann, a i fhf.

balance left. I am in hope, how ceedlngs be dropped. ever, that the matter will ie amicably He aiso attacKea the complaint tnax station has lost "its importance. The settled out of court? ana snau eieu It had been sworn to on information and belief. R-hat Influence I have to this ena In event of Police Judge "Samuels Mr.

Davitt states that he will not make any speeches while here as he has been out of politics for some time and holding that the complaint is insuffi- cient it will have the effect of knock- ALDRICH WANTS PAY. i ing out the complaints filed against a Jntonrts to remain out half a dozen other cigar dealers who -T -iv-iii nnlv remain in Oakland," said Old Corner- has lost its prestige and lapsed into a position of a quiet drinking placed not -particularly different from a score of others. The old timers have gone, the politicians have gone, the poker; games have gone, Hanifln has gone. And now the place has changed hands and will change its character. It will be a beer depot.

he, "long enough to get to feeling well, and then will hurry back to New York, where I will remain until niy book is finished and will go directly home to county. It was the meeting place for those SUES TO RECOVER ATTORNEY'S FEES IN RE THE Last evening the Tore brothers were at the Davitt home on Telegraph avenue, and the question of their affairs was discussed. It is expected that the FIELD MAY BE OiOIC STIiA matter will be settled in a few days, were arrested for the same offense. The matter was continued for fuT-' ther argument. A HUSBAND WAS CRUEL.

An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted Abbie Du Bojs this morn- ing by Judge Ellsworth from Harry Du Bols on the ground of extreme The couple were married Jn San Fran- Cisco in 1894, but for" the last five years have lived in this city. The allegations were that Du Hois attempted to choke his wife and otherwise harm her bodily. a STEALS COAT FROM Y. M. C.

A. Phillip H. Hesse Chief of Police Hodgkins that an overcoat belong-. ing to him was stolen from T. M.

A. building on March 10 last WEBSTER STREET MEETING. the- power and while the same is not improved, it was 'the desire of the committee to make the assessment upon their property as light as. possible. As there are ho Intersecting streets, practically the entire distance is one long block, and according to the Vrooman act the city of Alameda can order the- street built and the expense assessed to the abutting pponprtSy owners on any block at the end of "am improved street.

The cost of the improvements as outlined is estimated at aside from the work to be done by the Oakland Transit Com ABUSE NOT CURBED. Suit to recover $5000 attorney's fees was instituted by Hugh S. ldrich today against Mary A. Llndblonl and her husband. Erik O.

Xdndblom, for serv pany. Theicemmittee decided that If the ices, rendered in effecting a com-; promise between the Klondike millionaire and his wife. According to the HORSE COMMITTEE WILL COLLECT FIVE Pacific Improvement Company would defray 524,000 of Sthe expenses, the committee or organizations represented would AUDITOR MAY BE SCRATCHED. IN NEW ORLEANS DERBY. agree to collect I $5000 from the citizens ISABEL MAQUIRE, THE RUNA- WAY GIRL, GIVEN A FOUR YEAR SENTENCE.

complaint In the case, she promised to pay Aldrich $7500, of. which $2500 has been -paid, leaving an unpaid balance THOUSAND DOL-i LARS. Robinson, the milliner, formerly at 1067 Washington, will open at 963 Broadway. I of $B00O sUll due, and 13000 from the citizens of Alameda. Mr.

Hogan ofj the Humboldt Lumber Company stated that his. company alone would donate toward the Oakland fund. Mr. i Sessions is going to present: the proposition to the Pacific Improvement Company jand the committee adjourned subject to the call of the chair upon notificatiori from Mr. Sessions of a reply from his cpmpany.

Wealth did not tend to make life I happier it for the Lindbloms, and Since K. SNOW ACQUITTED CHARGE OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. During thb NEW ORLEANS. March 12. The isaoei diaguiro, ine tweive-year-oia gin the acqikisitlon of his fortune husband nrt wife have been at constant war rain threatened the field for the Cres Rainy Days cent City derbyi tq be decided today, and is likely to be reduced to five between! themselves and the outside world.

They were married in. the early tt local sew- eightiesfand lived together until a few horses, through the probable scratch Prepare for the charged, with being an incorrigible runaway, was sent to Magdalene Asylum by Judge Hall this morning providing the Sisters would take hen In case this home was refused she must go to a re-forrrfetory. She has been given a number Of trials and each time has broken her trust, until the Judge expressed -the belief that she should be given a long ing of Auditor, Captain S. Brown's en ROBB SUCCEEDS HENRY M. H0YTt try.

Owing to his heavy engagements A meeting of the committee' on, the Webster street improvement (Alameda) was held in the rooms of the Board of Trade last evening: The committee consists of the all of whom Were present: )Cbairman J. Keller, Hogan, Irving- C. Lewis, representing the Oakland Board of Trade; George Charles L. Tilden, C. R.

Smith and V. M. Froddon, reprfsenting the "West End (Alameda) Improvement Assocla--tion; Charles Neai. Philip S. Teller and 3i J.

iKonlgShofer, George Scott, representing the" Alameda AsSo- elation. City Engineer Poyser of Alameda and lng machine agency, was acquitted this years ago when Lindblom went to morning in Police Judge Smith's court on Alaska during th excitement and a charge of cruelty to animals. struck lit rich. He' was a Journeyman He was accused of having attempted tailor here prior to making his find to make a balky horse move by tying a and then, his troubles began. rope around the animal's It.was After a trip to Europe, husband and hnm.

warn near- wife senarated. They had a quarrel in the Middle "West. Trainer Tuck.er said today that no chances would be taken with the colt on a wet track. term in some institution and to this end sentenced her to be confined until she was sixteen years of age. Richard's Ostrich'; will what Tho child s- mother nvea in Emeryville Sunny Ones But "because you are confined to the house and find good opportunity to do the home sewing don't waste time or effort.

Send for Sargent. Let him bring you a practical Sewing Machine one that will help you. If you like it, he will make it easier to pay tha4 have any Idea of. If you want tq rent J- i mot WASpiNtGTOlt, March .12. Charles.

BL Robb of Assistant Attorney General of the Ppstoffice Department, has been selected asAssistant Attorney-GenH eral t44ucceed M. Hoyt, appointed with a second whose name is Hughes, and when the girl became so bad ever! the- weather conditions may be, and, if Auditor iscratched, will be an odds-on Ostrich is the choice ly puUed out -by the roots and that the wniie away fulness of the animal had been again at Parisnd re urne home -to- that she could no longer control per Bhe appealed to the Juvenile Court for aid. She- testified that the child Had stolen soncuor-generai tor. the Department or of the local public Rainland is third choice in the betting, with Kicks Justice. StThe testimony this mornings shews that vorce sukt begun by Mrs Ltadblom she Snow was seated in the buggy all of the alleges that he had a fortune of 58, tima and that he had nothing to do with 300,000, jwhile in his answer he would the tvina- of the rope around the horse's nntv admit the Impeachment so far as about J8Q from her at various times and in thei saddle.

Lelia, the Keene horse, has been prepared In private land is considered to have an outside chance. had been, dismissed from, every school she had attended. One night she was found by the San Francisco police out a machine, you'll be most gen- RIVER FALLS erously treated. tongue. He said that he -was afraid that cgoo 000J She says that he made her when the horse did starftthat he would travel9econd-class while he develop go with a run and.forfthat reason he IJTfnii Mietv and fondness Nothing latoiown of Conkling's con dition.

His owner, H. T. on near the Chutes trying to find a place to sleep in a barn. Her. last offense was in-running' away from a family living near Clay in San E.L.

r.r k. tin whn fioi I for other women society. accbunfpf the Sweet pepper Incident, C. Sessions, representing the Pacific Improvement Company, were also- pres-. ent.

i Plans -and specifications of the- proposed ihiDrovement, that is to build a thoroughfare connecting: Oakland and Alameda, 60 feet in width, were presented. '( The result of last nlsht's meeting was that thrf' completion of the -thoroughfare more feasible and nearer-at hand than' at any 'time for; years. The Oakland Transit, Company haS agreed tor lay standard double -track, in the center of the street and to do that work at the same the contractors ate doing the remainder of the work. As-the Pa- ciflc Improvement Company owns ajl abutting property -from the estuary to MANY FEET. Joaquin county.

She' walked thirty miles the' rope, as he thought, about the horse's A compromise was eriectea Between Jaw. instead of his tongue. theril. whereby Mrs. Llndblom was to SARGEANT was not permitted to.

give the colt a public trial. The Ellison entry, Vestina Belle, -has never started. If It does not Tain' the track will be fast. The attendance When he discovered the injury done De given She was given a to 5 the animal's tongue Snow says he nart of Ane moniy, but refused to take teleDhoned the stable. WILREBARRE, March water iii the Susquehanna fiver has fall into Gait, where she was taken in charge by the" authorities and a query sent to Anita Whitney here, asking in regard to She was put on the" tram in charge of the conductor and was taken la charge by an officer as soon as the train pulled into the station.

A.s Probation Officer. Mis3 Whitney then surrendered her certain stocks offered by Llndblom at his a figures, and during the negotia Judge Smith nejd there was -no evi promises to be large. en to 22 feet, but gorges at Plymouth. dence to show that Snow had been intentionally cruel and discharged txtmf Pittston and Nantickoke. between this tions he went Mexico ana men; to Alaska, mnd the matter is not yet set This aiternoon me weainer clear and the race will be.

over? a sloppy track. All horses will start- rcity and smaller towns along the fiver. Oakland's Only Exclusive Sew-. ing Machine Supply- House. 63J TWELFTH STREET.

(New Red Block) Oakland. Branch' Store 213l Center near Shattuck. Berkeley. Tel. Mason 371.

-f s- tled. I GIVE THANKS TO A fewj weeks ago, in order to serve Mrs. Llndblom witn a paper, Eabit charge to the court and stated that she could- not manage her. She is a strong sturdy child.and has made friends with the attendants at tha Receiving Hospital, where she has been confined for the past week. It is not be Whiskey arid Beer i.

i I Sheriff Riley was forced to search ner home iri Berkeley for her and, after RAILROAD RIOT III locatlngfher in the bathroom, had to break orjen the door to read the court lieved tnat she is wholly bad, but when the fever of roaming takes possession of order to her. The summons was in Editor TRIBUNE: Dear ISlr At a ner ene 'leaves without asking, returning when satisfied for the time being. 1 relation Itto a suit brought by Mrs. An Glasses to be of any I meeting of the Board of Directors of -f- na SchQfield. now Mrs.

for CHICAGO the Oakland Board of Trade, the fol-J medical iservlces, which, it is alleged. KUROPATKIH lowing creamble and raotntinn toobI are also! unpaid. unanimously adopted: Xdnaiom is-m aiasja looiung PERMANENTLY CURED BY "ORRNE" A SAFE, SURE AND HARMLESS SPECIFIC Physicians pronouace drunkenness a disease of the nervoaa system, creating a morbid for a stimnlaat. Continued iadnlgence iu whiskey, beer or wine eats away the stomach lining and stnpeCes the digestive organs, thus destroying the digestion and rulninr the health, lio "will power" can heal the' inflamed atomach membranes. permanently remores the craTing for liquor by acting directly oa the i affected nerves, restoring the stomach and digestlraorgans to normal conditions, improving i th appetite and restoring the health.

No saaltarinm treatment necessary "ORRIKE" i caa be taken at your own home without publicity. Can be given secretly If desired, CURE GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED. irfr. I ni8 lllltfrtJOlS lUWC. DVavtU Aa0 vnereas, j.ne pleasure of the Oak- i locate over a mountain of OFF FOR FRONT.

land Board or Trade excursionists to I gold 'and that his fortune Is. steadily STRIKE PICKETS ELUDE POLICE benefit should be properly fitted and adjusted one without the other could hardly give satisfaction. i tx)s Angeies on February 8 was largely growing! ST. PETERSBURG March 12 enhanced through the courtesies ex AND ASSAULT NON-UNION MEN. tended to them by THE OAKLAND General Kuropatkm was, given a-great ovation this morning when he left St.

SAYS COMPLAINTS I TRIBUNE, therefore be it Resolved. That the thanks of tha Petersburg Tor the front. -r-w MARRIAGE LICENSES. Oakland Board of Trade be and ARE NOT GOOD. hereby unanimously tendered the OAK CHICAGO.

March IS. Non-union can following marriage licenses were makers were brought Into the Diesel plant of rtha American Can Company to LAND TRIBUNE for the extensive and Interesting accounts of the recent Board of Trade excursion to Los An issued by the County Clerk todays' Attorney Clinton Dodge mom day on a special train. The result was a xavia w. imamsk uakland, over 21 Ida Dempsey, San Francisco, 18 Ing attacked the sufficiency of the geles, printed in its columns. riot on the railroad tracks near the fac for thirty-two years.

It finally bronghtina -to the gutter, homeless and friendless. I was powerless to resist the raring aad would steal and lie to get whiskey. Four boxes of ORRIKE' cured me of all desira -and I now hate the ameJl of liquor." Price SI per box. Mailed la plain, sealed wrapper by Orrine Company, 817 14th Stn Washington, D. Interesting-book Treat Ise on Urea on reqaesU Sold and recommended by Owl Drug Co Oakland, San Fran-ciscd, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Resolved, That the secretary of the 1 complaint on which Bert Parker, a ci i Mr.I.

Wycliff. New York City, writes: 1 "ORRINE cared my husband, who was a steady drunkard tor many years. He now has desire for stimulants, hie health is rood and he Is (ally restored -to manhood. Ht need only fire boxes of 'm Mr a. W.

Helena. Mont, writes: "I hava waited one yeat before writing yoa of the permanent care of my aon. He took aaitariam treatment, as well as other advertised cares, but tbev all failed until we rava him Ha is now fully re-tored to health an has ao desire for drink." Mr. A. E.

I-, Atlanta, writes: "I was lorn with a love of whiskey aad drank it Harry H. Hughes, Oakland, over. 21 A member fcf strike pickets eluded CimS. I1. 1700D Optometrist and Manufacturing Optician i 1153 WASHINGTON T.

OAKLAND Sign "The Winking Eye" the police and assulted the non-unionists Board cause a copy of tls above reso- Igar dealer, was arrested on a charge lution to be forwarded to THE OAK- or selling pools on tha races. The imuu.in jiiiu uio epreaa upon ifacts, Attorney Juoage Baia, wwb jwi jrjvetyn y. jones, ii.meryviueover.j 18 Bargent W. Coleman Alameda, over 21 Mrs. Julia M.

Johnson, Ala.i over 18 James A. 21 Maud Oxley, Berkeley, over. IS trains several non-union men were m-train. Several non union, men injured by blows and missiles, but all reached the factory. No arrests- were me recoras.

very truly yours I on which to nasa an acuoo H. CHAMBERLAIN. l.innt tha defendant or that made. "President. I reason he sked tnat me entire Viv.

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