Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 76

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The other two did not engage in the conversation." Robbed the "Jenny Liiid" The; story continues: "Cook was a great trader and one of the horses in' the group, a splendid animal, caught his eye. He opened negotiations with the young fellow, with the result that Cook bought the horse, and led tbe animal home. That night a French blood-bound that he kept around the barn gave a furious alarm. Arming' himself with his shotgun Cook arose and made an investigation but found nothing. He was conviMced that one of the Mexicans that had sold him the horse that day was prowling about to steal back the animal.

That same night occurred Joaquin Muri-etta's holdup of the 'Jenny Lind' gambling and dance, hall, and his daring escape amidst a shower of, bullets. Subsequently Cook found out that the polite olive-skinned Mexican, from whom he had bought the horse that day was none other than Murietta the noted bandit and murderer. Cook had a close shave that day, but was unaware of it. Evidently Joaquin's party was laying low, out in sand-bills, until night.fell, in order to raid the dance hall. The 'Jenny Lind' gambling hall was the most fitted up institution of that kind on the Pacific Coast.

It was afterwards bought by the city of San Francisco and made the site of the Hall of Justice, which it still remains, notwithstanding that the original hall was totally in the earthquake and fire of 1906." Col. Patton A ship which put into port here this week from Honolulubrought with it the news of the passing of Colonel George Smith Patton whose name and record is known, particularly, to old time Democrats. Col. Patton, who was born in Virginia 70 years ago, came to California in 1878 and six years later was District Attorney for Los Angeles county. He Was a Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth District in 1894, and in .1916 won the Democratic nomination fo? the United States Senate.

In Los Angelet and Pasadena he was director of a number of leading corporations, member of the prominent clubs and an influential citizen. His widow, Mrs. Butb Wilson Patton, is the daughter of the late Berijamin. p. Wilson, pioneer white man in the Pasadena section and owner at one time of the greater part of the San Gabriel which is contiguous to the present Patton estate in San Marino.

They were inarried in an adobe house which, until fifteen years stood as a landmark" On the Lake Vineyard To this place General Banning is said to have brought gay stage parties in those days when the 'Wilson family was known, for its hospitality. Wilson built the first trail up the mountain which bears his name. Colonel Patton, son-in-law of the pioneer, was a fine looking man with a soldier's bearing acquired in the Virginia Military. Academy. He had friends in many parts of the State and was an influence in many councils.

Incidentally he was chairman' of the Huntington Library' Board. Another Record He landed in "New York at a time when the whole country was thinking and talking Lindbergh and so the feat of this San Franciscan was not given the wide attention which would otherwise attach to' an 1 automobile trip across the continent in three -days and seven hours. Louis B. Miller, of this city, left, with a. 'me- chariic, wasted' no time on the way, plowed through mud arid dust and burned the high-1 ways all the way to New York, making the trip in faster time than is taken by the trains.

Then he turned around.and started back. Those who are trying to' figure out' what a trip of the kind means have decided it is a victory for the modern automobile, of course, and a greater of the fact that the crosscountry highways have been improved. Possibly, also, it was a gesture of defiance for the. speed laws of a number of states and cities, -t. A New Club Without preliminary announcement and with an energy that denotes assurance of membership and finances a new athletic club is moving' into a place in San Francisco life.

As I get it it will be devoted exclusively to amateur athletics with more stress upon opportunities for its members to, exercise and enjoy themselves than upon competitions with outside organizations. Indeed it will be called "The Amateur 1 Athletic Club." The "site, that of the Moore-Watson Building on Front street, is admirably situated 'and the building' one' which is lending itself to "the work of( builders jn a way to mean the structure will be as, fine and near-complete as any in the TSB KNAVE. mm A local leaders resplendent in clothing and power; are recalled with the passing in Napa county of Thomas Jackson. Back in the fifties he came as an infant, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Dawson Jackson, across the plains from Iowa. They settled in El Dorado county, then in the Suisun Valley, the Capell Valley and the CbUes Valley in Napa county. was known for his courteous manner and his rigid honesty. In Democratic politics of the older days he was a leading figure, often in the thick of fight but always good natured. Anyone possessing a roster of those, conventions will find his name on each over a period of nearly a score of years.

He was 74 when he died. Signals for Walkers A long accepted theory that pedestrians in San Francisco, by virtue of agility, independ- ence or recklessness, reserved the right to cross the streets when and how they wished is to be, upset when the traffic survey committee renders its report. Bules and devices adopted in other cities and requiring the walkers to stop and go with the signal lights, even as do the. autoists, will be inaugurated here with predictions there will be some initial difficulties in putting them into force. For some reason or other, Sari Francisco has balked at the idea.

Los Angeles has long regulated its pedestrian traffic, Oakland does the same, but we have elected to let every walking citizen go on his own and take the chances. The result -haVbeen that many of our busy corners present a scene to startle and bewilder the stranger who is not trained to pick 'the apertures and scramble through the streams of vehicles. From some of the comment I hear there are San Franciscans, proud of their independence of regulations, who will resent the control which is to be placed upon them. The older men and women, those who are no longer adept at jumping sideways however; will be pleased. And so will the visitors who come from cities in which the pedestrian h'as the larger chance for safe crossing.

New Tower of Jewels In the-sunlight the Tower of Jewels at our -Exposition threw colors back at the sky, but it was in the evening when it caught the lights of the other buildings or blazed under the heavy beams of the searchlights that it was at its best. An old story, the Tower of Jewels, but a new one to Cleveland where there is to be an industrial exposition in August and another such tower is to be erected. D'A Byan, di rector of the General Electric Illuminating laboratory, the same who conceived the jewels for our tower, is to use them on this one in Cleveland. They are cut from glass made in Austria which has a high index of refraction, ranging between the best cut glass and diamonds. It was in San Francisco they were first used later at the Brazilian Centennial Exposition, in the Altar of Victory in Chicago, the Jewelled Arch of Welcome in New York, and the Jewelled Portal erected in Washington in connection with the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments.

Murietta in San Francisco Stories and letters recently appearing on this page and concerning Joaquin Murietta have stirred up many reminiscences, one of which, from James Piratsky, which has its locale in the sandhills near what was later "The Cliff House Road." "When the Pajaro-nian editor was a kid, learning his trade at the Alta California job printing office, located on California street, above the market, a man by the name of Eidge (or Bidgeway) had a booklet printed in that office on the life of Joaquin Murietta. It was about forty or fifty pages and gave a very accurate account of exploits of that rioted bandit albeit rather sympathized with Murietta. We have often wondered what became of that booklet, itfost likely, uow, it is out of print. Speaking of Murietta reminds us of another incident: The father of Mrs. Jas.

Piratsky, Michael Cook, was one of San Francisco's pioneers. He settled in the early days, out on what was afterwards the House Boad' At that time the district was a sand-hill wilderness. The only road to that district was what was known as The Bush Street Bush street terminated at Dupont street (now Grant Avenue) and then a trail led out to Lone Mountain. Cook carried out, on the 'hurricane deck of a enough lumber to erect a small shack on what was afterwards the old Odd Fellows' Cemetery; and started a milk ranch there. En passant, Cook was largely instrumental, later on, in getting Capt.

Williams to sell Lbne Mountain Alemany for $150 a big pricey in those days. Both men were interested in the ownership of the mountain, Cook's stock used to stray and one afternoon he' started towards the ocean 'to round up, in amongst the scrub oak, in what is now Golden Gate Parki' a couple of cows that had strayed away. traversing amongst the sand dunes near Strawberry HilL he ran across three Mexicans reclining in one bttne depressions in the sand dunes. Their leader was ff vx MP1 I IN DEFEAT ING THE RAIL AND WATER BONDS, THE VOTERS DO THE EXPECTED AND GIVE THE ADMINISTRATION A DRUBBING. SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.

We liave hud our bond elections and the order of business in political circles is concerned with the explanations. As was predicted, the two largest issues, for the water company purchase, and for the municipal rail line extensions were defeated while the War Memorial and Bernal Cut. proposals received well over the necessary two-thirds expression. While all the ifs and ands are being listed, it is permissible to Vy one of the reasons for the light vote, and possibly the results, was the confusion thrown into the pre-election day campaigns by published statements directly in opposition. When the voters, for instance, heard from one side that there would never be an opportunity to purchase the Spring Valley properties at so low a price, and heard from the other that the present option does not expire until 1934 they must have felt that someone was trying to fool them.

At any voted on the water issue while 74.0G5 voted on the same proposal six years ago. The favoring vote this time was 41,488 against a favoring vdte in 1921of 43.073. It is a rather remarkable duplication of results which is to be found in the comparative figures of the 1921 and 1927 expressions on the issue indicating that, despite all of the talk, popular sentiment remains unchanged. With a total rote in 1921 but 3700 heavier than in 1927, the majority of Yes votes over No in the former year was 12,081 and in the latter, 12,709. At that rate it is a long ways to Spring Valley, but, obviously, before another election may come, the situation may be changed.

It is probable that many held off from voting in the belief that the subject was one which should come up after a public utilities commission is appointed or elected and indeed the opponents of the water and rail issues made much of this point. What It Means Ran Francisco now knows that the Spring purchase, attempted four times, must be deferred until another occasion and knows that the option, does, indeed last until 1934. Inasmuch as there are other Hetch Hereby issues to be met before that time the electorate will have the opportunity, to complete the city's project before it considers the purchase of the company's, distributing plant. Fifty-five millions have been voted for Hetch Hetchy si, far, and it estimated 24 millions more will be required to complete the system. The water proposal, it is to be noted, received the heaviest adverse vote, the rail proposal receiving approximately three thousand less opposing votes and.

that many more in the affirmative. In this instance it was again unfortunate thatvthe Issues were not plain. Many voters would have beemglad to have supported the extensions in the Sunset District feeling that the residents 'there who were assessed 1,700,000 for the tunnel had reasons to believe a car service was pledged. Had the rail extension projects been separated upon the ballot, and had there not been published diametrically opposed sta te- ments as to the condition of the municipal rail lines, earnings, deficit, etc. it is probable there kwould have been a different story.

The oppo- sition which the Chamber of Commerce gave the rail plans, for instance, would not have been present in each case had the projects been ad ranced separately As it was, it was felt plan was being used to draw Others along something which often occurs in bond issues. Hard on Administration Our local election had a parallel a week earlier in the Los Angeles municipal balloting. In both elections the administration forces re ceived. a drubbing. Down south a week ago last Tuesday the voters rejected a proposal to purchase privately-owned electric light sys- tern, and a second measure, calling for purchase of a harbor for a steam power plant, also failed of the necessary although having a slim majority.

At the same time the Los Angeles electorate turned thumbs down on three councilmanic supporters of-the Cryer-Parrot group. It was recalled here the day after our election tthat there had been newspaper chiding over the failure of the Hearst newspapers to print any report on the Los Angeles election the day: after the balloting there. Incidentally, the pre-election twitting by the newspapers was one of the features of the bond campaign here, in which The Bulletin stood alone in opposing the two propositions turned down by the voters. The Hearst morning newspaper's editorial explanation of the outcome was a "one-third vote," While the Hearst afternoon newspaper led off its election report with the announcement that the Spring 1 Valley purchase and municipal carline extensions would be resubmitted to the voters. i War Memorial Detailed plans for the War Memorial will now be announced.

Those who are in the know say that the building and court will represent beautiful and fitting additions to our civic architectural scheme. To the four millions voted for the Memorial will be added 1,800,000 with miners: he was taken at. face value. He remained with the family a few days and then left as quietly as he had come. On the very mornjng of his departure, the stage ws -held up a few miles south of the ferry.

James Bolleri, who had ridden down on the stage to a spot Where he was going deer hunting, came upon the holdup unexpectedly, and being armed with a rifle he frightened the hold-up man away. Five shots were taken at the fleeing criminal, but none reached its mark. In his flighty the'bandit dropped a cuff which bore li' tfell-tale laundry mark. It was through, this that- the notorious Black Bart was trailed to San Francisco and captured. The bandit's real name was found to! be.

Charles E. Bolton. The Well? Fargo Ex press Company presented young Eolleri with a rifle for his part in capturing the bandit. Mabel Bert In a letter to Tub Knave of two weeks agd a correspondent told of having in his possession an old photograph of Mabel Bert and asked, "Who was she? Was she. a San Francisco aetresss?" As I had anticipated, there are many answers, among them this, from J.

B. D. "Miss Bett was the leading lady of the Jdhn A. Stevens' Company at the old Grand Opera House, San Francisco. Oldtimers will remember her in 'The 'Silver 'Convict The 'Hazel and scores of other wonderful plays.

Until recently she was well known in New York but retired when her husband, Forrest Robertson, a Broadway actor of repute, came 16 California to create parts in the Pickford pictures. Forty years have elapsed since picture in 'T. collection was taken and Mabel Bert is now in retire ment. She is well-to-do and resides in Hollywood with her. daughter.

You may tie inter ested in knowing also that the 'Dean of the American William H. Crane, who is now eighty-two but hale and hearty, just returned to his California home from New York where he took part in the Lambs' Gambol. He goes to New York for that great event each year. Mr. and' Mrs.

Crane recently celebrated the fifty-ninth anniversary of their wedding." And James Piratsky of Wafsonville, adds: "Was Mabel Bert a San Francisco actress? Well, we should say she was! Mabel the charming was at one time the toast of the town. Not only a good actress but a 'good looker' as well. object of our boyish admiration, in the years of our callow.ness, when we used to climb up the weary way to the gallery of the Grand Opera House on Mission street, to see Mabel, the heroine in such thrillers as 'The Stranglers of etc. Yes Siree! Mabel Bert is irrevocably linked with 'The City That Was' in the minds of old-time San Franciscans as a charming, talented actress." Next time we have one of those "South of the Slot" reunions, how would it be to send an invitation down to Hollywood to Mabel Bert? Strong Words Putting two and two together and remembering the names of some of our prominent men who have on, or have organized, crime commissions, those were strong words which Detective Captain Duncan Matheson used before the convention of the International Police Chiefs' association in Depver a few days ago. The chiefs had been hearing of organized crime," that the crook gets "a better break than the 'victim" and had about decided that "no amount of sob stuff, tears or sentimentalism is going to save the misfits of the world," when the San Francisco captain spoke to score what he called "self-serving" crime commissions, membership of twbkh he branded as "pin-beaded penologists wh6 -would sell their souls for newspaper Whom did the captain French Hill In the early fifties the claims on the famous French Hill, at Mokelumne Hill, were but twenty feet square and eager miners working feverishly, for rich returns all but bumped elbows in the rush.

According to Colonel Wl N. Parker, on of the authorities on the story of the region, the average amount taken-from each at a depth of thirty feet was 145.000. At that time Mokelumne Hill had a population of 20,000 whites and 600 Chinese, while San Francisco, in comparison, was a village. French Hill is recalled with the announcement that a mining company has' purchased the 360 acres comprising the properties, will sink a three-' compartment shaft, and make a bid to bring back the mining story of the section. Of course the new works will be modern and the mining will be in the deep rock.

If it is successful it will do no more than bear but the predictions of the, old timers in the region who have long held the belief that all the hill asked to return another fortune was the capital to open it up. Jackson Memories of convention halls, kerosene-lighted and filled, with tobacco of the days when a gathering of the Democrats was exciting and brought out, from distant points, raised by citizens. The city will have a veterans' hall, a memorial court, and a civic opera house something which has long been a dream of musical San Francisco. As for the Bernal Cut proposalit carried its own eloquent argument, and so was given the heaviest vote of all. San Francisco is genuinely interested) in breaking bottle-necks and will welcome this new project to expedite the flow of traffic dowu the Peninsula.

The garbage disposal ordinance furnished a surprise inasmuch as most of those who used voice or pen were against it. The interested parties, particularly those in North Beach, waged a vigorous campaign, and a little clause which offered to the citizen the right to change the service whenever 20 per cent of those on any route petitioned for a change, also won votes. Just how much the expression may be interpreted as a popular desire to curtail the powers of the City Board of Health is problematical, but that is its effect. From the South Seas In this same port where lived Frederick O'Brien, the man who revived interest in the romance of the South Seas, has sailed a young woman who says the "white shadowy" and glamorous moments are all of the past or the imagination. Viola Irene Cooper, who has been a passenger on a sailing ship to the islands which have produced so much fiction, will write a book of her owi and in it, she says, she will speak right out concerning men and women who have been more extravagant than truth-ful.

Indeed, this writer says, one cannot have a good time in the South Seas once it is discovered she is a writer because the people there are not a Utile vexed at the pictures of them as presented in American fiction. In reply to her assertions that the romance of those far places is all "bunk" perhaps there are those who would say they like the South Sea Isles that way, consider them as we do our castles in Sp'ain, and care not a whit for the testimony- of the accurate observers. If the South Seas aren't romantic, say the ones of the persistent dreams, what is? And what of it? We will make them that way, anyway. Grandma Roller! For thirty-nine years "Grandma Rolleri" ran the Calaveras Hotel at Angels and in that time it is said no one. ever was turned away from her door hungry.

The mining traditions were hers along with many stories of exciting events in an older day. I am indebted to the Angels Camp correspondent to the Stockton Record for what follows concerning this woman who came to California, around the Horn, from Italy in 1860 and made, herself a loved figure in the Mother Lode? ft was while she was operating a ranch near Sonora that one night she was awakened by cattle tramping near the houfee. Her husband investigated and was ordered gruffly to go back to bed and keep everyone indoors. Next morning two gold pieces were found on the kitchen table, lett tbxre by cattle rustlers to pay for the damage the stock had done to garden and fields. From the La Cross ranch the Eolleri family moved to Moccasin Creek at the foot of Priest grade on the Big Oak Flat road, where they opened a general merchandise store.

It was here that Mrs. Eolleri met Joaquin Murietta He and his band of marauders raided the store one night. Mrs. Bolleri stood in a doorway 7 and watched the plunderers take what they wanted from the stock. Murietta assured Mrs.

Bolleri that no one would harm her if slje remained where she and this she did until the bandits were gone. The next day they returned and rode by the store on their way to raid a camp of Chinese miners who were working up the gulch. Swooping down on the frightened Chinese they raided their sluice boxes and cabins of all the gold they could After the place had been thoroughly searched and all the' valuables taken, the gang took" the Chinese and hanged them up by. their just leaving their toes barely touching the floor. The bandits fled leaving twelve Celestials thus hanging.

Duringthe raid one Chinese escaped and hid under the cabin, and it was he who came out and saved his twelve countrymen from The Chinese soon left this district for 'fear of another raid by Met Black Bart A fire destroyed the Bolleri store and home at Moccasin and the family moved to Sonora where James Bolleri was later elected, public administrator. He later ran Nfor the off ice of county clerk and was, From Sonora the Bolleri family moved to Eeynolds Ferry, where they opened' a -way station on the Mil-ton-Sonora stage line, and operated the ferry which transported the stages across theStanis-laus river. It was here, that Mrs. Bolleri met the notorious Black Bart, and one of her sons played an important' part that later led, to the capture of Black Bart tThe banditcame to the Bolleri home and asked for accommodations, stating that he was a miner from down by Bostwic's bar. As the river was crowded mi.