Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 2

THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER xmfOk OAKLAND TRIBUNE. HEALTH BOARD FIGHT TRUST WAS SLMN IN BATTLE OF PANCAKES CATHOLIC CLERGY HOLD SERVICE; BELLS SILENCED Front Gates of Churches Closed, but the Parishioner sr)Enter Through Side DENIES RUMOR Dies Bathed in Catsup and Punctured by a Pickle, Hurled by Coffroth at Graney. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.

The battle coffee, did the men of Bun' (Continued from Pago One.) Hill, until he could see the whltea of faU Early dispatches from the depart- Diphtheria la Grant School Not Result of Creek Sewage. The board of health desires statements that have been made -that the prevalence of diphtheria in the Grant school district is due to sewage matter emptied into Cemetery ycreek. The health authorities have so notified Superintendent of Schools McClymonds, who has been investigating the matter for some time, especially since the closine of the Grant school, where It say that wherever mass was celebrated charges were drawn up and of the German pancake at the Oyster Loaf Tuesday morning has settled the fate of the fight trust for good. The tomato catsup which James Coffroth scattered over the person of Eddie Graney has made the breach between the rival magnates so wide that all the king's horses and all the king's men, could not bring them together' again. Whether anything more serious than catsup will flow remain tn he seen.

Insults have enemy eyes. The catsup was followed or a uiu pickle, which was discharged at comparatively close range. It mulcted a painful though not dangerous wound. The gallant Graney waited behind his pancake breastwork with the coffee ready. Shouting the war cry of the cafe, Willis Coffroth let loose volleys Of salt.

'sarrynonses 'Issued. been carried back and forth between the residences nor the seminaries should bol abandoned except before a show of aorce. It la officially stated that the letter of Mgr. Montagnini, the expelled secretary of the Papal Nunciature here show that the majority of the French bichops favored observance of the law of 1881 and bowed with, reluctance to the papal decree. The official statement, adds that the inviolability of the diplomatic correspondence of the nunciature was scrupulously respected before the rupture between the "Vatican and France.

was found that twenty-five per cent of At Chalons, the Abbe Panaudln claimed that the church bells 'jnot rung and that no person was ln-vlted, to mass, and that therefore the assemblage had not the character' of a public meeting, whereupon he was compelled by a police officer to Inscribe his protests upon the summons. At the final meeting last night of the diocesan, council here, It was decided that neither! the ecclesiastical the scholars were Infected with diphtheria. Superintendent McClymonds is arranging to have the Grant school thoroughly fumigated and cleansed before the new school term. City Engineer Turner Is, planning right of ways for sewers along Cemetery creek. He stated this morning that if the property owners on Laurel street near Richmond avenue would raise enough money, that, with the assist This Weeh's Specials in the Suit Department We have gone carefully over this stock and selected some specials which should make the section a scene of activity during the week.

ALLS.OO SUITS in the department now bear a $25.00 price ticket, fevery suit is of latest model, best material and the variety gives room for selection. CRAVENETTE COATS The best sellers we have in tan, gray and green. All $25.00 values may be had at $15.00. SILK WATERPROOF RAIN COATS Blue, Red, Green, Gray and Tan. Suitable for rain or shine.

Sold at $35.00. Present price, $30.00. CHILDREN'S COATS AND DRESSES Some of our best models in plain cloth mixtures. Regular $10.00 values. This week's price, $7.50, ance of the council, an extension of Richmond avenue from Moss avenue to CARDINAL SAYS RIGHTS Laurel street could be purchased.

A mock turtle soup and tabasco sauce. The Monahan drew the antique weapon with which Willis Britt set forth to annihilate the administration and tne District Attorney's office. Thompson, the proprietor of the cafe, leaped over the kitchen stove when he saw the thing, and one of the waiters who tried to follow him stepped into a pot of rice tomato soup. The floor of the cafe was wet with catsup and soup, but no gore was bpilled. SAYS COFFROTH IS LIAR.

Coffroth declares that at this juncture Graney made a hasty exit. Graney says that "Coffroth lies when he says so." He declares that he strode quietly past the auburn-haired magnate, who was brandishing a huge knife. "I did not want- to talk," says the Honest "But since our friend James has begrun it charity-ceases. When he says that I ran out of the place he is a liar." "He is responsible for the trouble. He came into the place and began to throw things at me when my back was turned.

He threw catsup and other things which 1 am not accustomed to taking externally. "Armed with a bundle of whisky and I don't know what other weapons, he declared that either he or 1 had to die. I quietly told him that it was not the time or jilace for trouble. 'What do you want me to he asked. 'Do you v.

ant me to shoot you from "I told him that I was not at all anxious to be shot. Then he said, 'You are a "I suppose that when the time Monies to prove it he will hae a hundred af right of way through this property will Cafe Willis and the Tuxedo all day through the affidavit men of both places and 'there are wild rumors of a duel to the death. COFFROTH MAKES REPLY. Coffroth says with a Vere de Vere sneer: "I would not shoot Mr. Graney.

The only place where I could hit the gentleman would be in that part of the anatomy known as the corporation. Should a bullet penetrate that a stream of honesty would flow. It would be a shame to disturb so much concentrated honesty." This was uttered in the same tone that Marc Antony used when he was handing the padded knock to Brutus. While Coffroth and Graney are each sulking in his tent or, rather, bar Morris Levy is down where jtfie orange blossoms blow, and Willis Brltt is reclining peacefully in a cot weeping softly because the moon is making faces at him and the stars won't let him play tag with them. J3RITT ONE OF THE CAUSES.

was one of the Immediate causes of the Rattle of the German pancake. For several days he has been in a belligerent mood. He has also been loquacious, and his utterances while the burst of indignation jvas on caused the members of the paralytic fight trust much concern. The presence of the pistol in the battlefield of the German pancake is attributed to Willis by Coffroth. The night that Willis accused Lonergan of having accepted $500 the brother ot James Edward became more and more warlike.

Finally he demanded a revolver, announcing that he was going forth to not be granted by the owner, but he is OF MAN ARE VIOLATED willing to, sell the property. i CAR AND WAGON IN COLLISION (Continued i'c "in Page One.) Broadway and was running at an excessive rate of speed, according to the statements of pedestrians who witnessed the collision. ROME, DEC. 13. CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAL, THE PA-PAL' SECRETARY OF STATE.

IS PREPARING A VIGOROUSLY WORDED PROTEST AGAINST THE ACTION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IN SEARCHING THE ARCHIVES OF THE NUNCIATURE AT PARIS. THIS PROTEST WILL BE WANOED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC BODY ACCREDITED TO THE VATICAN. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SETS FORTH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE INCIDENT IN QUESTION IS THE FIRST INSTANCE IN HISTORY OF SUCH A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN. THE VATICAN IS CONVINCED THAT THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WITH WHAT CHURCH OFFICIALS CALL "BRIAND'S BLACKMAILING CIRCULAR," AND THE OFFENSE AGAINST THE RIGHTS OF MAN COMMITTED -WHEN THE GOVERNMENT EXPELLED MONSBGNOR MONTAGNINI AND TOOK POSSESSION OF THE PAPAL ARCHIVES. HAS PLACED THE POSITION MAINTAINED BY THE CHURCH ON A SOUND BASIS.

WHICH, INSURES HER THE slay, among others, Abe Kuef. Mayor fidavit men and frej lunch bums to 'LiHenthal drove across the tracks at Twentieth street, and Schmitz, Francis J. Heney and Burns. prove it. Bat he did not have them He demanded instantly to be furnished with him that time.

There were some with a revolver and the munitions of I r.en and women in the place who do not belong to the affidavit family. Well, war. Coffroth handed him a pistol that had been brought to Manila by Magellan the car struck the rear of his wagon. At the time of the col A- lision the car made a "leap into the only thing that 1 regret is that I didn't finish my German pancake." CALLS IT A JOKE. Coffroth says: "Why I look at the whole thing as an awful joke.

I threw the eatsup but not the bottle and I also plead guilty to the (iill pickle." A duel between the veterans of the and turned him loose to slay. Harry Monohan, thinking that the pistol was really a dangerous weapon, abstracted it from Brltt's pocket. This was the weapon that was drawn during the battle of the German pancake. ENTRENCHED BEHIND PANCAKE. the air, the forward fenders com ing down on- the wagon, crushing Battle of the German Pancake has not The historic struggle is called by that Broadway and Fourteenth the vehicle.

The contents of the wagon, eggs and potatoes, were name nlong Fillmore street because at I yet been arranged. Coffroth says that MODEL SUPPORT OF ALL RIGHT MINDED PEOPLE. VATICAN HAS ALREADY DESIGNATED ANOTHER PRELATE the time the Coffroth cohorts swooped he will fight Graney, if the latter will down upon him the village blacksmith consent to be sprung from a trap like thrown in all directions about the -tuc mm timt stout ahoumq rut coms TO TAKE THE PLACE OF MONSIGNOR MONTAGNINI FOR THE PURPOSE OF FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE HOL YSEE AND THE FRENCH EPISCOPACY AND CLERGY. THE NAME OF THIS MAN, HOWEVER, IS KEPT SECRET TO AVOID "PERSECUTION." was entrenched behind a German pancake. His only weapon was a cup of coffee, affk-acious at short range, but of little use lor long distances.

There was no open declaration of war. The first thing that Graney knew of the impending hostilities was when a heavy charge of eatsup burst over his shirt a clap pigeon, as Coffroth's favorite weapon is the shotgun. Graney is holding out for sledces. And in the meantime, the fight trust members are drifting farther and farther apart. There are who think that If some sort of truce is not patched up that the real f.icts ab-ut the fight bosom.

He hastily ambushed himself trust will be revealed by one of the behind the pancake. He reserved his members street. The motorman, whose name would not be revealed by either himself or the officials of the company, stated that Lilienthal drove across the tracks directly in front ofc him and that it Qas impossible for him to stop his car soon-enough to avoid the EXPELLED SECRETARY IS IN CONFERENCE WITH POPE BOER BATTLEFIELD SAW BEGINNING OF ROMANCE The Report Is to Be Used for a Protest HEADACHES AND NEURALGIA FROM COLDS Ernest H. Denicke arid Mrs. Josephine Weber Clement Will Be Married This Evening.

LAXATLVE BROMOQulnine. the world wide Cdld and yr'ip remedy, removes cause, -Call Jor 'full name. Look for signature of E. W. Grove.

25c WilAN GIVES AID TO ACCUSED MAN to the Foreign Powers Against French Government ROME. Dec. 13. Immediately after The report of Mgr. Montagnini will arrival here today Mgr.

Montag- be used for a protest to the foreign, Open Until 10 p. m. each evening Swell Special Golden Oak Rocker Retail Value $2.50 Special Thursday Evening BERKELEY, Dec. 13. The mar- i ing at the home of his parents, Mr.

riage of Ernest H. Denicke, who was ana Mrs. n. uenicKe, too scenic the expelled secretary of the powers against the action of the recently acquitted in the Superior ing at the home of K. E.

Miller, 2o0i Channlng way, Berkeley. The marriage this afternoon is a (Continued from Page One.) storp to Mrs. Taylor at the time of the yuarrei. The witness was asked why she did not go and see for herself what the cause of th abrupt ending of the swearing and meant, but she stated that she was afraid to fro near Bendell whpri 4he French government. Immediately after his conference with Cardinal Merry del Val, Mgr.

Montagnini went to the Pope, who asked for minute details of the secretary's expulsion and of the documents lwas drinking, for he threatened her lSe, culmination of a romance begun in South Africa some years ago, shortly i after Mrs. Clement lost her husband on the battlefield. Denicke was at that time employed by a South Afri- can mining company as engineer. Be- I fore leaving South Africa, the two became engaged. When Mrs.

Clement I arrived in San Francisco last spring with the intention of becoming Den- i icke's -bride, she found the city in ruins and her intended husband on trial for his life. She attended him papal nunciature at Paris, went to i the Vatican and conferred, with papal (Secretary of State Merry del Val and Mgr. Delia Chiesa and Mgr, Gasparrl, the assistant secretaries, and made them a long report on the situation in France, especially in regard to the (documents seized at the Paris nun-I Mature, several hundreds of which 4 deal entirely with the Franco-Vatican c6nflict and will be especially, lnterost- ing to the French government as show-'ing, it is asserted, the differences of opinion among the members of the French episcopacy. Court of San Francisco of the charge of killing an Italian on the water front, in the excitement attendant upon the fire Mrs. Josephine Weber Clement, the widow of a captain in the British army, who was killed in the Boer war, will take place tonight at the residence, in Berkeley, of Prof.

A. L. Leuschner, of the State University. Only the immediate relatives of the contracting parties will be present, seventeen in all, including the bride and groom, and the officiating clergyman. Rev.

John Lathrop, of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley. Neither the bride nor the groom will be attended. Mrs. Leuschner is a sister of young Denicke. The wedding was to have been held about two weeks ago, according to the wishes of the elder Denicke, but his son insisted that the ceremony should be performed today.

Since the fire, Denicke has been liv- seized. Mgr. Montagnini expressed the distress which he felt as a result of his expulsion and presented to the pontiff dark picture of the situation, paying he- believed the present French government will not be induced to change the attitude which It has as-fumed towards the Vatican. ami. uidL sue uiu 1101 care 10 taKe any chances with the drink-crazed man.

Mrs. Taylor interceded with Keough when he went out for an officer but he made his exit by the way of the back kitchen and did not go to the room of the moaning man who. she asserts, made noises similar to when he was drunk. When the dioorbell rang she went to the front of the house, and in doing so passed Bendell's room, but did net see the dving man on the bed. She says she noticed the dimly burning lamp and heard Bendell, but did not see his form in the dark.

MEETS POLICEMAN AT DOOR. Upon opening the front door she saw Policeman Gardner and Keough. They came in and found the body, then sum-Receiving Hospital. wmCULUGM SS during the long sessions of the court, and was at his side when he was acquitted. Young Denicke is the son of the millionaire banker of San Francisco.

He graduated from the University of California with the class of 1899. After leaving the State University, he took up post graduate work along the line of his profession of civil engineering. Between Broadway ROW IN RESTAURANT AIRED IN COURT 467 9th St. MANUFACTURER'S AGENT Washington, OAKLAND fired a beer bottle at her. Judge Samuels continued the case until to-moriw morning for judgment.

Gordon, during his trial, denied raising a disturbance, but asserted that he had been compelled to out Mrs. Mrs. Lancaster from his place, H-e was found not guilty. isjiurs testimony is regarded as moned the patrol to convey him to the 'very important, for it best relates the affair between the dead man and the A disturbance! in a restaurant aj man wno is oemg tried for taking his life. MESSENGER BOY IS HELD FOR TRIAL restaurant at Willow and streets.

West Oakland, was aired in Police Court two this morning. George Gordon, the proprietor of the place, and Mrs. A. Lancaster, one of his patrons, both colored, were arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace by Policeman Fahy. Mrs.

Lancaster claimed that she had had trouble with a woman In the place and had been beaten. She awaited her opportunity and returned the beating. Upon reentering restaurant, she asserts that Gordon threw her out and POLICE AT CHURCH DOOR AS WEDDING BELLS RING Small Boys Threatened Mischief During the Cpomier-Dickinson Nuptials. O. J.

Housfon, as messenger boy. arrested on a charge of battery, preferred by a relntive. pleaded not guilty this morning in department one of the Po lice Court and demanded a jisry riis hearing was set I or January ju. BERKELEY. Dec.

13. During the other instruments of mischief. So per- progress of the wedding ceremony that sistent were the efforts of the vaunr- united Anna Dickteson and Alvln Wilson Loomer, two well known residents of the west eid, at the West Berkeley Methodist church last evening, a tele -It phone call was sent to Marshal ollmer requesting that a police officer be sent to the scene to do sentinel duty. The cause of the hurry call for police assist sters to supplement the wedding celebration with a sideshow of their own, A. H.

Miller, one of the deacons of the church, thought it best to telephone for the assistance of the authorities, and civil law In the person of Policeman Mc-Clintic united with the representatives of the church, to see that the ceremony was uninterrupted. The mere appearance of the policeman served to quiet the youngsters, and the report that Mc-Clintic handed into the marshal on his return was: "Nothing doing." ance was the presence of a band of small boys who had advance Information of the approaching nuptials and were mak ing things Interesting to principals and guests 'with rice, tin cans, cow bells and CLAM TITLE WWWt and the Christmas Stuff Gee! WhenI look around the store and see the bunch of things that I could use Christmas, I just can't help but wish I wa Rockefeller or a Mor For Gifts A useful gift is always a sensible gift. And Sen ram's Shoes srs more than useful. Thy are beautiful. A gifj of a pair of shoes may be not merely a gift of a pair of shoes, but the very pair of shoes most desirable far tho recipient.

And they are mads in so grest a diversity of styles that every woman's fancy can 1je as perfectly suited as hsr feet can bs fitted. Let it bs Shoes. Why not give hsr fsst a "Merry Christmas' with a pair of Ssnram's Nobby Shoes $2.50. $3.50, and Johnston Murphy and PacKard Shoe Tor Men ELOPED WERE MARRIED TO PROPERTY CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. DEPOSITS $5,728,546.72 Officer WM.

G. HTNUHAW, President CHAS. T. RODOLPH A. E.

H. CRAMER. Chit Board of Dinefor VVm. Q. Hanshaw C.

Palmer-Chaa. T. Rodolph Thoa. Crellin R. 8.

Farrelly Henry A. Bvkter H. W. Meek E. M.

Walsh Thos. Patlir Thoa. D. Cameal Interest Paid on Savings- poalU gan so I could loosen up and buy out the lot and give them away. I hope everybody are as busy as we are here for I have always heard my Miss Sadie Kelly Changed Her Name While at San RafaeL S.

P. Company Joins Issue With Cottoii Bros. Over Water Front Land. boss say that he likes to OPEN EVENINGS AFTER DECEMBER 15TH. see everybody ao wen and sell goods; that there is plenty of business for all and I ffuess there is.

cause I could live off the overflow if The announcement of the marriage of Miss Sadie Kelly, aged 18, to J. Q. Mi thlesen. aed 22. 1 made today.

On PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING BRASS December 5 the couple eloped from thl Commercial and Savlnr, Bank. Bank I had a store near here, but about those Holiday things, Gee I you must see them. We have a line here that can't be beat and'o easy to select them. Come In and try. You know we have a store In Berkeley, too.

8o you can drop In there. The Southern Pacific Company and Cotton Brothers have locked horns over a piece of water-front property situated south of First street between Webster and Harrison sts. This particular piece of water-front land has been the cause of litigation for many years. Several years ago It was claimed -by the late "Old Pard" Bassett. John li Davie and J.

P. Dameron. The Southern Pacific Company at that time brought suit to oust these alleged squatters, and a long- trial ensued in the Superior Court. It is stated, however, that the title to the property Las never been settled in the courts. E.

J. Cotton and his brother have been occupying a portion of tne land which they use as a store pla for their equipment, they blng the contracting business. -Yesterday afternoon the Southern Pacific Company backed a train up to the premises and carted away a portion of the Cotton Brothers' equipment before they were aware of what was going on. K. j.

Cotton later appeared on the scene and 'stopped the progress of the company's work. Cotton Brothers wUl at once bring Injunction proceedings against the railroad company. The Southern Pacific claim title to the lanA Broadway rnreenrnar The the-ft of a quantity of brass from Thomas J. Butler resulted In charge of petit larceny against Manuel Fernandea. to which ha pleaded rullty in department two of tho pollea court this morning.

Ha was sentenced fcr Jndg-a Samuels to pay a fine of ISO or spend twentr-flve days In Jail. city and were secretly married at San RafaeL They kept Jvelr wedaing a strict secret until a few days ago. The couple have now gone to Southern California on their honeymoon. They will be at home at 1225 Webster street after December IS. Mr.

Mathle-sen Is In the employ of. the Southern Pacific Conyany. J. Keesernan 1107-1117 WASHINGTON ST..