CALL, SUNDAY, 34 THE SAN FBANCISCO SEPTEMBER 6. 1903. MISS IDAH HOWE CAVINGEARTH BUILDING PLANS MAYOR STANDS HONORED GUEST MISS JOHNSON ELOPING COUPLE CITIZENS DESIRE KILLSLABORERS ARE CALLED OFF FOR THECITY AT A RECEPTION WINS A POINT ARE TOO LATE THE REFERENDUM MayProceed Three Men Are Crushed Great Corporations to Makes Objections Before Granted Leave to Main- Father Reaches County Alamedans the City to Death in Los Abandon Proposed the States tain Suit Against Clerk's Office in to Enjoin Angeles. Improvements. Engineers. Railroad. Advance. Trustees. Insecure Embankment Falls General Movement Due to Opposes Railroad's Plans to Delmas and Moore Engage in Cornelius Sweeney Refused Want Franchises Submitted Special Into a Grave-Like < Unsettled Labor Condi- Cut Down Channel to Battle of Argument Be- License as Intended Is to Vote at a Trench. tions in East. Lake Merritt. fore Court. Too Young. Election. 5.-Members of the. fiwel&lDispatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 5.—The Post Oakland Office San Francisco Call, Oakland Call, Call, ALAMEDA. Sept. Office San Francisco Oakland Office San Francisco 'Trade held a conference with to-morrow will 6ay: According to well 1118 Broadway, Sept. 5. 1118^Broadway, Sept. 5. 111S Broadway, Sept. 5. Board of strong Attorneys Green Majors and T. K. Kase LOS AN'GELES. Sept. 5.—By the caving matured plans, not only of the great rail- Mayor Warren Olney made a After a battle royal to-day between At- A fearful father arrived at the County of the latter in San Fra» of a sixteen-foot embankment which tow- road corporations of the country, but of protest to-day before the United States torneys D. M. Delmas and A. Moore Clerk's office this morning just at the office A. in time afternoon, at which the mat- ered over an excavation being made for •the larger investors of capital in building Board of Harbor Line Engineers against In an argument lasting all day, Delmas to niD in the bud the marriage of his Cisco this the foundations of a new hotel at Sixth operations, likelyto a general the granting of the Southern Pacific Com- 16-year-old daughter. ter of enjoining the City Trustees from there is be won his right to maintain the suit of Ger- Re visited the of- railroad franchises and San Joasuin streets and against cessation of building operations during pany's application to fill all but 2C0 feet trude Johnson against the Southern Pa- fice to Inform Clerk granting the two local the that Cornelius Southern Pacific for long terms or which the contractor had failed to place 1904, which willmake that year memor- of its First and Seventh street railroad cific Company for $25,000 damages, which R. Sweeney would in all probability ap- to the state- •without monetary consideration -without supports, three lives were crushed out this able to the trades interested. The trestles of the estu- she alleges she sustained by being thrown ply him for license to contracting across the north arm to a marry Frances having the voters of Alamefla pass afternoon and a fourth man narrowly es- ment of one of the largest ary. from the step of a car at Nlles by its C. and was first His Honor declared that to change Otis, that she but 16 years on question was discussed. caped a similar fate. All of the victims concerns in the country connected with moving forward without warning. of age, and that he, as her father, ob- the railroad construction work is the basis the pierhead and bulkhead lines as con- The case The legal worth of the local referendum were laborers. The d»ad are: has been "on for several days jected to the marriage. opinion aged for the assertion that at least JISO.OOO.OOO templated would encroach upon the 1600 and girl been ordinance was gone Into and the MIKEJESSEY. 42: unmarried; the evidence for the has Otis pere had hardly left when young M. W. Simpson it lower portion of body crushed. worth of building operations proposed for feet of frontage along the north arm, presented to the jury. The railroad be- Sweeney arrived on the of City Attorney that off and scene all uncon- had lawful and could not JOHN CRANSE. aged 2S; unmarried; 1S04 have actually been called would impair the tidal flow into Lake gan its defense this morning and Attorney scious of what awaiting no foundation was him. He invoked at this time was con- neck broken and ribs crushed. plans have been recalled from architects Merritt and would be a taking of mu- Moore started -what would have been a asked for a marriage license and the legally be and engineers. sidered. SABIN, aged 40; Mexican; suffo- nicipal property. strongly objected to fatal blow to his adversary had his con- Clerk wrote his name in the book, cated. ItIs also said by the same authority He then While nothing definite was decided upon the proposed embankments each side tention been upheld. He moved to have he gave his prospective bride's name and The only man who escaped from the that so far as known there will be noth- on age as the merchants and lawyers made prepa- the case dismissed upon the ground that her IS and past. Clerk Henley injunction trench in which the men were working Is ing in the shape of new work undertaken of the estuary, which he claimed would a Judgment had already been spoke up and "Why, rations to sue out an if th«» year present' rendered said: her father City to the fran- John Bunch (colored). He paw the em- the coming and when the be permanent obstructions. and that the plaintiff was barred from was in here Just now and said that she Trustees moved grant bankment falling in on him and his com- contracts are completed a period of wait- Colonel H. H. Heuer, member of the further was but sixteen.*" chises without heeding the application ing will a waiting for a action. panions and sprang toward the top, but will ensue. It be board, contended that the north arm of The argument of The young man was sorrowful, but said signed by nearly 700 voters asking that too late to settle necessitated a review escape all of it. His body was the general labor situation to down the estuary should not have been Includ- all the proceedings In the case and the that he would come back in the after- the«reierendum be resorted to before de- covered, but his head etuck out. He was and th« end of the factional wars and filing papers by cisive action Is taken. quickly rescued, destroyed ed in the harbor boundaries. This remark of the and orders made noon with the written consent of the girl's but was severely injured strikes that have almost con- Mayor's he vigorously the court. error proceedings Young Sweeney Since the Southern Pacific Company, about portion of body and same raised the ire and An In the mother. said: through General Manager the lower the fidence In buildine. The informa- N Julius Krutt- combated it. was unearthed and admitted by Judge "It's only the father who is making all schnitt, the legs. tion is that the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Ogden, correction, refused yesterday to accept the The has enough improvements The Mayor said the reduction of but the time for its he the trouble. He stopped us at San Fran- men were working in made ground which now un- proposed by held, had gone most San franchises on the twenty-five-year terms and way width of the tide channel *is by. Delmas occupied cisco, anct Rafael, and now, here. I had excavated the entire lot to the der and contemplated at least as the building of the embankments at of day. have to so to Los Angeles and we offered by the municipal legislators, there level of the sidewalk, leaving eight- more, $50,000,000 during 1904, the the must an much or has a rapid shoaling Apparently so go together. Is an Inclination on the part of three foot embankment on to of these plans trestles would cause In the matter was in the bal- be married that we can the north side of the decided withdraw all the East Oakland basin, east of the ance up to the final rendering of the de- You leave the page as it is and Iwill members of the Board of City Trustees- cleared portion. Along the edge of this and do nothing further with them until President J. F. Forderer, . B. E. Combs a trerich drawbridges, and would retard harbor cision by the court and attracted the at- come back." three feet wide and thirty feet there is a more placid condition of the la- unalterably The Is still waiting, for Sweeney and C. J. Hammond— to submit the mat- long had been dug to improvements. He was op- tention of the legal fraternity about the Clerk a depth of eight bor market. posed proposition that would failed to keep his promise. ter of the disposition of the franchises to feet, itbeing necessary to go through given out shows that in to any mean Courthouse. Judge Ogden's decision in the Information injury to any city's holdings along CLEVER YOUNG GOTHAMITE that, although the voters. The ordinances granting the made ground in order to secure a firm New York alone there is at least $60.- of the effect was a judgment had the north arm. WHO WAS GIVEN A FARE- been rendered, it was not a judgment on INDIAN IS MT7BDEBED Southern Pacific the franchises for twen- resting place for the foundations.