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12 THE MORNING OREC.OXIAX. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 10O3. DRINKTHEGROUND IN FIVE DIRGES Eight Decrees Granted in the State Circuit Court by Judge Bronaugh. DESERTION IN TWO CASES l'ra nk K. Hcntpnher nd C. V. A. lone Abandoned by Spounct.. Tlrzah Blgham Want vorrf Krom Amos Blgham. F'our drunken husbands and one drunken wife rf now single as a re aiilt of the grinding of the divorce mill vesterdav. Judge Bronangh. of the Circuit. Court, heard the plaintiffs tell ttf the cruelties heaped upon them. William Bacon said hie wife was once sent to Jail hy Judge Gantcnbcin because she appeared In the Juvenile Court In a state of Intoxication. He said he had borne her periodical sprees as long as he could and at last had hesotmrht the Juvenile Court to take the children from her. An order was made taking the children, with fie ex. cr ptlon of the 17-year-old son. who re. nialned to help support his mother, lie related that when Judge Kraser died she remarked that It was good and that she wished Officer llawley was also out of the way. Mr. Hawlcy was formerly connected with the Juvenile Court. During the time Bacon was telling of his wife's conduct she sat in the court-room weeping, but made no attempt to contradict her husband's story. They married at Jersey City, N. J., In July. 1890. and Bacon said his wife acquired the drinking habit lx years ago. Frank E. Hempsher secured a divorce from Sarah A. Hempsher on the ground of desertion. They married In Penn sylvania In lftsl.and the mlfe left home two years ago. i The divorce granted to C. W. A. Jette. freeing him from Elizabeth .Tette, was on the ground of desertion. They married at St. Paul. Or.. In 1S97. She deserted at Champocg In 1304. The following were granted divorces on grounda of drunkenness: Jennie (. Ward from S. Ward; married In L.os Angeles In 1899. and he left in 1908 hecause his wife objected to his drunkenness. Gertrude l. Cottle from Chesley E. Cottle; married In Oakland. Cat.. Ir. 1900; husband once bumped his wlfe"s head against the sidewalk when she fell in fleeing from him. Minnie Watson from T. M Watson; married In 1S97: he left Jn 1904 be cause his wife objected to drink. Ida May Geraghty from Joseph J. Geraghty. Before Judge ODay yesterday Tlrzah Bigham sought a divorce from Amos Blgham on the ground of cruelty. But the defendant had no Intention of per mitting his wife to become single so easily. He appeared to contest the ult and on the witness stand. In a choking voice, told how Joseph Qulnlin had broken up his home. He said Mrs. Blgham loved Qulnlin for his money and that yulnlln had lived about the defendant. Blgham said his wife once told him that she wanted him to leave so she could get a divorce, at the sama time acknowledging that she loved Qulnlln. Mrs. Blgham. on the other hand, denies her husband's allegations and asserts that Uulnlln only be befrlendcd her when she was being abused by her husband. The case was taken under advisement. JVKY LIST FOH MAY TEHM l'rcsldlng: J ii (I Cp Gantcnbcin Draws Panel In State Circuit Court. The Jurors who are to serve during the May term of the State Circuit Court were drawn' yesterday by Presiding Judge Gan tcnbcin. They are: W. R. Arpcrson Charles Pavidson P. C. ArillltHff ' H. I.nt Charles A. Hutvlthardt I.. H. Deardorff .1. V J'SP) rrr .1. vj. ln I He E. Fulllngton M. J- IMnlf C. A. Berry Robert P. Dickerson J. S. TVtwney Peter F.bv William Rccles w. A. Elvers B. B. Espy E. Khrman Charles Krlckson A. H. Faher Charles A. Foster Frd FWd Charles H. Ford C. II. Oram H. W". Garland Thorns liewls W. E. Hurke 3. I. MradTord t;eorxe I,. Burke J. W. Brennsn .1. E. Rennelt 'handler Bloom I A. Rvet a T. Tlruhn 1.. M. Baldwin .1. P. Bet is ltanl.1 W. Uurka w. nis-lln J. Carpenter J.ihn P. Cllne lames A. Clock W. K. Craswell tV. A. Campbell I. r. CvfTman II. C. Clark Charles A. Cothy Thomas n. Cokmsn H U Colvln V. llllam Crawford IX Howell K. .1. Halsht Hans J. Hanson S. H. Haye F. A. Hummel Fred Howlit F. B. Huahrs A J. Hayseth William HenKlev Frederick P. r!.11u William Harrier" Tnomaa r. Cflfhran H. c Harriman It. .1. IMS'fll A. .1. Carlson C. R Campbell "fl. P. Ceok V tlliam ctvmble M. J. Connolly I. . Coblents Jscoh Christ. r...n II. I,. Davenport Ceorne lrest.cil A. lanielson Rlchsrd Helmbach Robert Kennedy c. a. l.lndgren .la rob Mann Thoe. J. MrXamma TJ. p. Mt-Brtds A. J. rsnlel t.. A. Rt.man. Jr. William TKrt X. P. Tomllnen J. J. Walter ESTATE TO ( OMMOX LAW WIFE , Tetcr Perry I eaves HI Property to Millie Blllodeau. That Millie Blllodeau. known as Mrs. Peter Perry, was Perry's common-law wife, is revealed In Perry's will, which was riled In the County Court yesterday for probate. Perry died March 29. at 4R8 Kverett street. In the will he bequeaths all his property to Mrs. Perry, because, he says, she has been a faithful wife and did not leave him during his last ill ness. The property is valued at 11 WO. As no executor was named In the will, Mrs. Perry has filed a petition, asking that T. J. Hannigan be appointed. The petition states that the property consists of tools and wearing apparel, worth tlOO; a life insurance policy with the Woodmen of the World, worth $1fln0. and uncollected accounts for personal services, worth $rm. She says Perry was hi years old when he died and metis herself ."'Mrs. Peter Perry Millie Blllodeau." TO SEL1, XOOX B.W! COMPAXY jKxeeulors wf W. C. Noon Estate Are Given Authority by the Court. The W. C Noon Bag Company will be old. according to ttie authorization given the executors of the W. C. Noon estate yesterday by Judge O'Day. of the Circuit urt. The 1149 shares of stock will go a: 1110 a share. It has not yet been learned to whom the business Is to be cold, but an offer of this amount, it la understood, has been made. It has developed that the company auf Icred severely in the hard times last Fall. T. J. Armstrong, who haa acted aloie a trustee since H. M Cake and W. C. Noon. Jr., resigned, had purchased cotton to the amount of fcS4.fl. Owing to the decrease In price during the last few months Judge O Day found that this cot ton la now worth only 1192.14. it la said that there was danger of law suit being Instituted against the company if It was not sold, as besides the money needful to pair off Its (Wits It now needs about tS.'XO with which to purchase Calcutta cot ton. Judge O Day found that the book assets of the company aggregated tSM.rTS. of which 123S.77R is merchandise. The dehts of the company amount to I130.WV but there la only Soonn cash on hand to meet them. Owing to the Involved condition of the eetate a loan emild not be secured without transfer of the property Into other hands than those of the heirs. In his decision In favor of the heirs, which waa filed yesterday. Judge ODay names Family J. Noon and Attorney R. W. Wilbur to act aa trustees in place of the two who resigned. With the exception of Ralph A. Noon and Alma E. Noon, the proceeds' of the sale of the estate will go at once to the heirs. The two former wtll receive their sh.-ires as soon as they are 25 years old. The heirs are: Emily J. Noon. Viola E. Noon, fttuart FYeeman. Ralph A. Noon, Alma E. Noon and T. J. Armstrong. Half goes to the widow. Tho balance is to be divided equally among the others. Be sides the bag company a farm in Co lumbia County belongs to the estate. It Is said to be worth 1120.000, but has debts against It to the amount of $68,000. I-OXG TERM FOR HIGHWAYMEN Ives and Kathke Sent to Prison for 20 Years. Eddie Ives and Frits Rathke. 19 and 21 years of age. respectively, were sen tenced hy Judge Gantenheln In the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon to serve 30 years in the Penitentiary for highway robbery'- They were with the unidentified negro who was ahot on the night of April 16 by Policemun E. C. Henson. in a hat tie following a series of holdups on both sides of the river. The footpads were charged with hold ing up and robbing Fred McNamara of tS.30. The youths were arraigned yes terday, waived the time usually given in which to enter their plea, pleaded guilty and were given the greatest sentence pos sible under the law. They were also ar raigned on a charge of holding up Gil bert W. Slevcns on the same night, and robbing him of two gold watches, worth 50, and of 4 In cash. To this indictment they pleaded not guilty. Havldor Brings Suit for $100,000. Samuel V. Davldor filed suit in the Cir cuit Court yesterday against L,ouis J. Wilde, the Portland Home Telephone Company, H. J. Meagher, C. R. Wagner and A. 1 Hayes, for the recovery of U08.000. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff Is the victim of a conspiracy to ruin his business. He says It is the plan of the plaintiffs to secure telephone fran chises In the Slate of Washington now controlled by himself and his company. Construction Company Sued. A jury In the Federal Court yesterday began listening to the evidence in the personal damage suit brought by William Hardraft. a carpenter, against the Wil lamette Construction Company. Hardraft is suing for tiO.000 for Injuries received In a fall from a bridge near Wilsonville on the Oregon Electric line. Sues Company Because Car Lurched Alleging that when she attempted to alight from an FJast Ankeny car at Third and Morrison streets, it lurched and she was thrown to the ground and seriously Injured. Ida Hunsaker has filed suit In the circuit Court to recover $10,000 dam ages from the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company! SEGREGATE THE PRECINCTS Liquor Men Circulating Petitions in Business Part of Kast Side. The prohibition fight on the Bast Sido assumed another phase yesterday fore noon by the appearance of numerous canvassers for signatures to petitions calling for a local option election in the precincts between Hawthorne avenue and Russell street In Aibina. These are the most thickly settled business dis trict. This is the first move by the liquor men to fight the Anti-Saloon League in its efforts to cause the whole of the East Side to be made "dry" at the June election. The canvassers who circulated the petitions said that the object van to enable the voters of the business districts to settle the question whether they wanted the precincts "wet' or "dry" without dictation from Monta viila. Mount Tabor or the precincts In the residence portion of the city. By group ing together the precincts in the busi ness districts along the river it was the purpose of the liquor men to prevent these inside precincts from being; con nected with the residence precincts which are expected to vote for prohibition, and by filing these petitions in advance of the prohibition petitions prevent the grouping of the whole of the East Side. J. R. Knodell, of the Anti-Saloon League, who is directing and shaping the preliminaries of the prohibition campaign, at hi ofrlce in the Commercial building, said he was informed of the circulation of these petitions in .the business pre cincts and remarked that It was a clever movement, but if the liquor men, or who ever was circulating the petitions, ex pected to file them in advance of the pro hibition petitions they were wasting their efforts for the prohibition petitions had already been filed with enough signa tures to secure the vote in all the BhpI Side precincts at the June election. Mr. Knodell said he had been In hopes that the liquor men would call a local option vote in the entire county. A committee has charge of affairs, and the plans for the campaign will be ready next week. Billboard and public meetings wilt be extensiely used. The prohibition movement is already absorbing much interest on the East Side, and the fight promises to be a hot one from start to finish. Liquor men declare that to make the Kat Sido Mry" would result In stopping the material progress that is being made In all directions, and assert that the effect of thia movement has already been felt on real estate. MUST TEAR DOWN FENCES Warrant Charges Dick Reekmann W ith Enclosing Federal Lands. A bench warrant was Issued yesterday by Judge Wolverton for the arrest of Dick Reekmann, of Sherman County, charging him with illegal fencing of Gov ernment lands. United States Attorney McCourt filed an Information against Reekmann, but not before Reekmann had been told to take down his fences, both by a special agent and by a letter 'from the Federal authorities. Reekmann la alleged to have about 33) acres of Government land under fence In the Deep Canyon country. The warrant waa placed in the hands of a Deputy United States Marshal and Reekmann wiil be arrested and brought to Portland. Reed French Piano Mfg. Co. Sixth and Burnslde Sts., Pianos. Play ers and Player Pianos. From Maker to Player." Sprint styles Hanan auoea at Rosen tnal's EAST SIDE ODDFELLOWS WILL ERECT ORNAMENTAL STRUCTURE. I5 i TBJIPl.K PCAXSI'.D BY OR1KM LODGE, JiO. IT. I. O. O. h Departing from conventional methods. Architect Francis J Berndt has drawn plans for the building for Orient lodge. No. 17. I. O. O. F., to be erected on the southeast corner of East Sixth and East Alder streets, along ornamental lines. It Is considered that the structure will be one of the most attractive on the East Side. It will be 100x50 feet, practically three stories high, with a full basement The walls will be of reinforced concrete, and built to sustain several more stories when it shall he found necessary and profitable to add them. The first floor will be used for business purposes. On the upper floors will be located the lodge and banquet halls and other rooma for fraternal purposes. The banquet hall will be located in the rear end. It will be 50x3?. The main lodge hall will be 0 0x64 feet, with a 20-foot celling. The cost Is estimated at $2..0.)0. Orient Iorige purchased this lot some time ago for J3500. but has been of fered double that amount, which was declined, as It was purchased for the site of the Oddfellows' temple In East Portland. A.' O. Sinks. Robert Andrews. D. K. Eliff and E. Charl'esor. are the building committee. It Is expected to have the building completed and ready to be occupied by the first of the year. Orient is one of the strongest lodges in the fraternity in Oregon. It has 300 members and ample means. .If money Is needed to finish and furnish the temple It will come from the members. ONLY LITTLE BOUTS Portland Resigned to Getting Mosquito Fleet. SEATTLE'S COSTLY FLOAT Iarge Delegation Coming to Help Celebrate Festival Ordinances Relative to Cleaning l"H City to Be Strictly Knforced. Portland's chances of securing a de tail of the great American armada, now on the Pacitic Coast, for the Rose Festi val, to be held here June 1-6, have gone a-gllmmerlng. All the pressure that has been brought to bear by the local com mercial organizations, by the Oregon Con gressional delegation and by the officers of tlie festival itself, have been fruitless. The Metcalf-Perklns California combina tion has. so it would appear, more In fluence than Portland (the second largest poet on the. Pacific CoaBt). and only the low-draft cruiser Charleston and the Gun boat Yorktown, together with the fourth division of torpedo boats will be here for the June demonstration. The recent' correspondence which lias taken place has definitely fixed the re sponsibility for Portland being wiped out of the great fleet's circumnavigating tour upon Secretary Metcalf of the Navy De partment. . F.vans Not Responsible. "When the preliminary efforts were be gun to secure a substantial representn- j tion of the Atlantic fleet for Portland, Senator Bourne notified the Commercial Cluh that the movement of the great Navy . was entirely in the hands of Admiral 1 Kvans. This was accepted as final, and ; as soon as the fleet reached American i waters on the Sunset Slope, letters and i telegrams were directed to "Fighting ' Bob'' with the hope of Inducing him to . order at least a portion of one or more i of the four grand divisions of the fleet to ! Portland for the Rose Festival. These ' communications did not reach Evans until after he had been confined to the hot baths at Paso Robles. and when they did, he instructed his flag lieutenant to for ward them at once to Rear Admiral Thomas, the executive officer of the fleet to succeed Evans. Thomas, without be ing informed of the intrigue against Port land that had been cooked up at Wash ington, blandly informed the officers of the Rose Festival that the movements of the squadron were being directed from the Navy Department at Washington and that he had nothing to do with it except i to obey the orders which required that he dispatch the armada to the navy-yards, dock them and prepare them for the cruise to Australian waters, the longest stretch of the entire globe-encircling cruise. Secretary Metcalf Implacable. Thereby Portland loses out entirely. The representations which have been made by the Portland Chamber of Com merce. Portland Board of Trade. Portland Manufacturers' Association, Portland Commercial Club and' the Portland Rose Festival have carried absolutely no weight with Secretary Metcalf and have been tabled. The California "knockers" have scored another signal victory. There had been some hope entertained until about noon yesterday when Presi dent C. A. Whitemore. of the Rose Fes tival, received the following dispatch from President C. W. Hodson. of the Commer cial dub. now in Washington: "The Navy Department absolutely re fuses to change the Itinerary of the bat tleships." , Xo Special Entertainment. The Rose Festival will not prepare any special entertainment for the mosquito fleet which has been ordered here. The officers will be given invitations to the grand ball that will be held and the crews will be invited to take part in the aquatic events which will be held on the river in connection with the water carnival, one day during the week. Otherwise, no formal recognition of the presence of the warships will be made, for the reason that it Is generally regarded that the boats that will come here are such ih signiticent members of the American Navy and no part whatever of the great fleet, that there will be no cause for recognition of their presence. "It is only a gratuitous insult to Port m H5f fer: fjrr: ;Ep mjatfl 9 land to send this junk to Portland," said President Whitemore, last night, "and there is no reason why we should go out of our way to entertain such insignificant warshipa as have been doled out to us by the California outfit. We can spend the money we have available to much better advantage, and I would be much more pleased if Metcalf would send his little flotilla right on beyond Portland. We really don't care for It. but I sup pose it is only fair that we show the officers as much courtesy as other dis tinguished guests who will be here from all parts of the Pacific Coast. We will be decent about it anyway, and let the whole matter drop." Seattle's Elaborate Float. Seattle will attempt to surpass the ef forts of every other community in the Northwest In the matter of making a fine representation in the magnificent pageant. "The Spirit of the Golden West." Frank L. Merrick, chief of publicity of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, is in the city for the purpose of closing up the contract for a splendid float for this parade. The float will be the combined entry of the city of Seattle, the Chamber of Commerce and the A.-Y.-P. Exposition, and it will be the most gorgeous as welt as the most expensive piece to be entered in the All-Northwestern parade. "We haven't considered the question of expense at all, and the only injunction that was placed upon me when I was sent over here was to select a design more elaborate, more expensive and more picturesque than any other so far- en tered. We want Portland to. feel that Seattle is going to do her share to make the festival a atupendous success. That we have our hearts set on making the celebration the greatest ever held on the Coast, and I don't mind saying that we have a sort of a selfish motive, for we believe that Portland will reciprocate next year and help us make the expo sition a grand success and a lasting tribute to the spirit of enterprise of Northwestern cities and states. "Seattle will come down to Portland with the largest delegation that ever left that city. Our people are talking Rose Festival and with the extremely low rates which the railroads have already offered there is no reason to' doubt that thousands of Puget Sound people will witness more or less of your city's great celebration, next June." "What benefits the Northwest, bene fits Seattle" -will be the motto displayed upon Seattle's float, which will represent Alaska mining. Oriental trade, transcon tinental trafTic. municipal progress, lum ber and fishing industries, while the em bellishment will embrace a aeries of elab orate totem poles. The totem poles will form the frame and setting for the en tire picture to be represented by the float, which will cost not less than $1500, com plete. Cleaning 'cp for Festival.' Active preparations for the cleaning up of the city for the coming Rose Festival are under way, and will be discussed at a meeting to be held Tuesday afternoon. April 2R, in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, at which there will be rep resentatives from every civic organization In the city. They will meet with the municipal affairs committee of the Cham: ber. which has the matter in ' charge. Letters have been sent to the various civic organisations, but owing to defective addresses several have been returned. However, every organization interested in making Portland a cleaner and more at tractive city is requested to be -present at this meeting. Ordinances to Be Enforced. The report of the municipal affairs com mittee, which was adopted at the last meeting of the board of trustees, recom- i mends that Immediate steps be taken to rcvui uic irniui uejneiiL ui iiie several ordinances of the city relating to repair ing and replacing defective sidewalks and the, removal of rubbish and weeds from the business streets and principal resi dence streets of the city. Copies of this report have been sent to the Mayor and the Executive' Board for action. The members of the municipal affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce are: G. H. Gruber, chairman; J. C. Bayer, J. O. Rountree. M. Foeler. San Francisco's Grand Welcome to the Fleet. The greatest patriotic demonstration of recent times will be San Francisco's wel come to the Nation's fleet of battleships, to arrive in San Francisco harbor May 6. The committees having In charge the ar rangements estimate that there will be 200.000 visitors to the Golden Gate on that occasion. The Southern Pacific has made a round-trip rate from Portland of 26. Tickets will be on sale May 2. 3 and 4. Good for return until May 31. Make your reservations early at the city ticket office. Third and Washington streets. Soap Lake Salt's Nature's Remedy.. Sure cure for rheumatism, also a blood purifier. Ask druggist for yellow package. J- DEMAND FROM CITY Will Ask Telephone Company for Cables. BOARD TO SERVE NOTICE Home Company's Officials Consider Action Vnrcasonahlc and Will Probably Carry the Fight Into the Courts. Through the Executive Board, formal demand is to be made upon the officers of the Home Telephone Company for underground cables and conductors, of such character as is necessary, to be in stalled in the conduits of the corpora tion on various streets in East Portland. A resolution, calling upon the company for this material, was to have been In troduced before the Board yesterday af ternoon, but will now conie up at the adjourned meeting at 4 o'clock next Monday afternoon. The action was postponed because of the sudden death of C. A. Cogswell, a member of the Board. In all probability the resolution, which was prepared by City Attorney Kava naugh, will be adopted by the Executive Board next Monday. It directs City Auditor Barbur to send a copy to the Home Telephone Company officials, who will then be forced to take some action. The cables and conductors are for the underground system of the fire depart ment and are very expensive. Mr. Kava naugh has ruled that the Home Tele phone Company, by the terms of its franchise, can be forced to supply this material without cost to the city upon notification by the Executive Board, and believes that, in case the corporation of ficials should refuse to comply, the grant under which they are conducting their business in Portland would bo forfeited. The formal demand to be made upon the company is for 2120 feet of "eight conductor cable." and 3710 feet of "four conductor cable." all of which is to be laid in a district on the East Side. This action on behalf of the city Is the result of the revelation made by Councilman Driscoll some weeks ago that public funds to the amount of $20,700 had been expended for cables and conductors for the fire department, which should have been purchased by the Home Telephone Company and de livered to the city free of cost. An investigation has been carried on . by a special committee, appointed by Mayor Iane. which led to a resolution to refer the matter to Mr. Kavanaugh. A second Investigation is now in progress, instituted by the City Council, and in charge of the committee on Judi ciary. The purpose of this latest prob ing is to fix the responsibility for the alleged needless expenditure of the city funds for the cables and conductors. The attitude of the Home Telephone Company, as officially announced yester day afternoon, is that the city. Is asking a most unreasonable thing In demanding a special brand of material, not used by the company in any of Its regular busi ness. Although no absolute confirmation was given. It is understood that the Home Company will fight the issue on this ground. Mr. Kavanaugh said last night that a similar demand will be made upon the officials of the Pacific Telephone A Tele graph Company, through the City Coun cil, which body is designated in the fran chise as the properly constituted au thority to notify the company. ORPHEUM SHOWS COMING Will Occupy the Grand Theater, Beginning August, 17 Next. Manager James H. Errickson, of the Sullivan-Consld4ne Interests in Portland, gives it out officially that on and after August 17 the Orpheum circuit will be extended to Portland and that the Grand will be devoted to its vaudeville attrac tions. The regular Sullivan-Consldine shows will probably be transferred to the Star. In which event that management will necessarily have to abandon the musical and dramatic stock field for want of a place in which to hogse such shows. Hanan shoe at the feet. Rosenthal's. TWO WIS SEEK SAFETY IN COURT Trivial Offenses Cause Threats of Death by J. C. Welch and F. W. Wheeler. LATTER WILL CRUSH ROCK Sirs. KmniA Shea Aim Aocu?d of Menacing O. F. Trelchill Ic clarea Her Remarks AVcrc I1 rented at Dumb BcaM, John C. Welch and F W. Wheeler, both suburbanites, were before the Municipal Court yesterday forenoon, on charge of threatening to kill their respective wives. Welch had threatened his wife with death because he thought she was spending too much time visiting with neighbors. Wheeler was Impelled to threaten his wife's life bcaiue of her prying curiosity. The evidence waa such that Welch man aged to escape on his promises of do mestic docility, hereafter, while the other liasbnnil. Wheeler, was sent to tho rock ptle for a term of 46 days. Welch said he did not threaten his wife seriously. He merely said the first mean thing that came Into his mind but hadn't the least intention of carrying out the threat of murder. He said he thought his wife was spending too much time at the home of a woman frlond living In the neighborhood. Furthermore he didn't think the neighbor in question was a proper person for Mrs. Welch to as sociate with. He tried repeatedly to keep his wife at home more regularly and falling by ordinary means 'became some what harsh. Mrs. Welch waa In court to prosecute her husband. She took the threat very much to heart and said she feared that her husband might get to drinking one of these days and carry It Into execution. "He had no right to order me to keep away from the neighbors. They were friends of his. In fact he introduced them to me." said Mrs. Welch. "The time he threatened me I went over to let our baby see some new kittens they had at the house. The baby 'was cross and I wanted to show it the kittens." "You have no right to threaten your wife In that manner whether you mean it or not." said Judge Cameron. "There ought to be more harmony in your home. Your wife is entitled to privileges as well as you. I am willing to give you a chance but you must do better." Wheeler's case was more aggravated. It appeared from the testimony that he went home one night with a heavy wooden box. He did not tell Mrs. Wheeler what was inside but cautioned her to keep away from it. Woman's curiosity proved too strong for her. She pried open the box and looked inside. It was filled with harness. She recalled having read of thefts of valuable harness and asked her husband about the matter. It was then that he threatened her with death if she ever mentioned the matter to anyone. The very next day an officer appeared at the house with a search warrant. Fearing she would be accused of telling. Mrs. Wheeler complained of the threat that had been made against her -life. Hence the husband was charged not only with larceny but with threatening to kill. 'Forty-flve days on the rockpile," was Judge Cameron s finding in the case. Animals of various sorts made trouble for quite a number of people, including Mrs. Km ma Shea, who threatened to harm "him." O. F. Trefchell, who lives near Mrs. Shea, at 538 Mall street, took It that the lady's pronoun implied a threat against him. But Mrs. Shea called at tention to the fact that Trelchell had a blooded colt with him at the time and averred that the horse was the subject of any threat she may have made. Mrs. Shea spent half an hour on the witness-stand, despite frequent efforts to stop her. She gave an elaborate story of neighborhood differences, even mention ing the time a lady snubbed Jier when she was attempting to do her the kind ness of returning a lost glove. As to Treichell s colt, Mrs. Shea said she had ample reason to dislike that animal. It was vicious and would kick at her chil dren when they were playing about It on the street, where it was frequently left standing. Treichell said he was constantly an noyed by he Shea family and demon strated that he must be very easily an noyed. wWhen he would pass' the Shea home the children would .run out and say, "That's him, oh, mama, here he is now; that's him. that's him." The incident that made him think his life was In danger, however, occurred this week when Mrs. Shea came out as h was pass in with the colt and said. "That's him and 11! put him where ho belongs. , . "She might have meant she would boos you for District Attorney at the cominfc election," suggested Prospcutor Tomlln. son. "I meant the horse anyway," put l.i Mrs. Shea. "There's nothing to this case; it will be dismissed," said Judge Cameron. It was C. T. Evans' chickens, colt and three female dogA combined, that oc casioned his appearance in court. It was charged against him tjiat he permitted his domestic menagerie to roam at large In the vicinity of the Evans home, at Montavilla. ' Under the law chickens must be kept cooped up or fenced In, colts must likewise be confined to a de fin ate inclosure while the presence on earth of female dogs must be justified by city licenses costing $5 apiece. Evans waa willing to mend his waya as regards the animals. He agreed to build a coop at once for his chickens and keep the colt properly restrained. As to the female dogs he said he would dispose of one: and get licenses for the others. The law was satisfied mith this adjustment of the" case and Evans case was dis missed. Jake Kerchy stood still too long. There is a law that hawkers must move every live minutes from block to block. If they are unable to keep, up that Dace. which requires about 20 miles traveling a nay, iney musi Keep on the street alto gether. Patrolman Thorpe hrld a stop watch on Kerchy who stood still six minutes. Thorpe surrounded the desnerado and single handed marched him to the police siauon. Mere itercny put up bail. 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