The rarest postage stamp in exist-ence is the one-cent British Guianastamp of 1856. Only one specimen,

owned in Paris, is known to exist.

-Bnrnett'a Vanilla Bxtraet 1» told

by all the b««t «Tocer» everywhere, try \U•

Mrs. Charlotte Levi, living: at therear of 2032 Howard street, Is in great

distress owing to the absence of herdaughter, Minnie, 20 years of age,

who left home Sunday morning, afterhaving had a slight disagreement withher mother. Mrs. Leviis almost dis-tracted lest her. daughter, who, shesays, is suffering from consumption,has been taken seriously ill. Mrs.Levi will be thankful for any Infor-mation concerning the girl.

Mother Searches for Daughter.

Extensive alterations have beenmade in the building and equipmentat the Cogswell Polytechnic College

during the summer vacation. A one-story brick building has been erectedto be used for a forgeshop and foun-dry. The chemical laboratory hasbeen transferred to a larger room andsmaller laboratories have been addedfor advanced work in Industrial chem-istry. A special feature of the work

in applied chemistry is a course inmineralogy- and assaying. This courseis open to students who have had twoyears of high school work and to a

limited number of special studentswho have had required work In gen-

eral chemistry.Robert W. Dodd, A. M.', formerly

instructor in chemistry and assaying

at Stanford University, has been se-

cured to take charge of this work.Professor Dodd is a veteran of the

Spanish-American War, having servedwith the First California volunteers inthe Philippine Islands. He is a mem-ber of the Sigma Psl fraternity, an or-ganization composed exclusively ofmen of scientific ability. His success-

ful work in the Stanford assayinglaboratory assures the proper develop-

ment of the new course at Cogswell.

The department of sewing anddressmaking has been removed to more

commodious quarters, which will addgreatly to the convenience and successof this now popular department.

The new term opens for advancedstudents on Monday, July 25, and forthe new classes onWednesday, July 27.

Professor Dodd, Formerly of StanfordUniversity, Will Conduct a New

Course in Assaying.

CHAXGES ARE,MADEAT COGSWELJL COLLEGE

The police were notified yesterdaythat an attempt had been made tobreak into the cigar store of M.Blaskower &Co., 20 Turk street, earlyyesterday morning. The padlock onthe front door had been twisted out oCshape by the efforts of the burglarsto force it off.

Burglars Are Foiled.plaintiffs for cutting wires they Trillbe unable to make an adequate de-fense based upon the legality of thedemand of the corporation for makingdeposits by the house movers," andthat "in a criminal action they willnever be able to obtain a final de-termination of the question."

The latter averment is a slap at thejudicial honor of Judge Fritz and inline with the charge made by Attor-ney Eastin in the course of his argu-

ment.Judge Troutt will hear more of the

case to-day.

over the couch and floor. A pocketknife, also covered with blood, lay onthe table. On a stand was a bottlepartly filled with' carbolic acid. He hadused both the knife and poison in hisefforts to kill himself.

Peterson was removed to the Re-ceiving Hospital and treated for car-bolic acid poisoning. At a late hourlast night he was in a semi-consciousstate, writhing and gasping with painfrom the gash in his throat and theacid he had drunk.

Peterson's brother missionaries areJames Silver. R. W. Young, H. Stevensand D. H. Wood. They have been forseveral years in the Antipodes,' learn-ing the native language and laboringin the service of the Church of theLatter Day Saints. Their work hasprincipally been among the Maoris, thenatives of New Zealand. The Mor-mon church keeps about 2500 youngpreachers . in the foreign missionaryfield. In fact, every young man of thefaith, unless he has a pull'with!theMormon hierarchy, may be called onfor such work. There is no holdingback when, a summons comes to depart.An ordfiT from "Box B," as the officialnotification of the church is known inUtah, is to them a voice from heaven.To hear is to obey.

Andrew C. Peterson was living atFairvlew, Sanpete County, Utah, withhis wife and child six months ago,when he was ordered to far New Zea-land. He was not strong and not eventhe dry, saline air of the Salt Lakecountry could . bring perfect health tohis weak lungs. Sanpete County ofUtah is peopled by Swedish convertsof the church and these disciples ofthe Scandinavian race are a part ofthe pillars of the faith.

Arriving, at Auckland, Peterson be-gan the study of the Maori language.The tongue was lettered and gram-mared years ago by pioneer mission-aries. Itis one of the most difficult ofall languages that have been roundedup from the brush of savagery andtamed to live peacefully in.books. Itsalphabet has fifteen letters— about one-third too few—its syntax is a night-mare arid every part of speech has todo quadruple duty and work overtimeat that. A verbal expression begins atthe punctuation point and ends at thecapital letter. Ifone speaks to a Maoriwith just , the right shade of voice-inflection at the finish of the last word,he and all he possesses is -the speak-er's, but if one* varies a hair's breadththe.' tone the speaker: is war clubbed.

WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING.Poor Peterson with his frail body be-

gan this,heavy task and.it broke himdown. He could not master the Maoritongue. | The damp, raw Antarctic at-mosphere inhis frail lung cells did therest. His spirits as well as his healthfailed. Others around hlmV^ talkedfluently with the big friendly .natives.Why could not he? Itwas as a deathblow, when the elder of his conferencein Auckland ordered him home as unfitfor the service. To preach the gospelto the heathen in the darkness of thedistant Southeastern world was hislife and he had fallen at the outset.He could not be one of the valiant hostsent yearly to carry the word of hischurch into the, uttermost parts of theearth. In Sanpete, among his strong

MORMON STUDENT MISSIONARYWHO BECAME TIRED OF LIFE,AND HIS WIFE.

Xurse Willey Arrested.Detective Ed Gibson went to the

Marine Hospital yesterday afternoonand arrested Estella Willey, the youngnurse who is accused of causing thedeath of Frank Johnson, a sailor, bygiving him bichloride of mercury inmistake for bicarbonate of soda. Shewas taken to the City Prison andbooked on a charge of manslaughter,

but was at once released on $2000bonds.

Henry Knop. a retired grocer, diedsuddenly yesterday morning at theCommercial Hotel. He leaves an es-tate said to be valued at $S0,000, towhich there are no heirs. Knop in-herited the property from a brother,who died two years ago. Deceasedwas about TO years of age. The prop-erty was taken charge of by the Pub-lic Administrator.

Xo Heirs to Estate.

Brain worH> from constant but un-availing efforts to master an intricatenative language, burdened with a body

enfeebled by illhealth, and disappoint-

ed at being turned back from a missionto which he had dedicated his life,

Andrew C. Peterson, a young student-preacher from Utah, yesterday at-tempted suicide at the InternationalHotel in this city.

In company with four other return-ing missionaries of the Mormonchurch, Peterson arrived Monday by

the Oceanic liner Sonoma from Auck-land, New Zealand. He became sepa-

rated from his companions at thesteamship wharf and did not go withthem to the Brooklvn Hotel, as wasagreed upon. He wandered aroundand finally reached the Internationallate on Monday afternoon. He imme-diately asked for a room and was as-signed to No. 56 by F. J. Walker, theclerk. Yesterday morning his friendsat the Brooklyn, unable to account forhis absence and knowing of his physi-cal and mental condition, becamealarmed and informed the Chief of Po-lice, to whom they gave Peterson'sphotograph.

DISCOVERED IX HOTEL.About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon

William Bray, an employe of the In-ternational, noticed through a windowthat something was wrong in room 56.When the apartment was entered Pe-terson was found writhing on the bedwith deep cuts on the right side of histhroat and on the left wrist. The bedand carpet were much blood stained,large clots appearing here and there

Child Saved From Fearful Death

Claire Farley, nine years of age.daughter of Captain Matt Farley ofTruck Xo. 5 of the Fire Department,was severely burned about the body

and head on Monday night. The childwas playing with other children onPine street when the fireball from aRoman candle fell on her dress, whichinstantly became ablaze. Mrs. E.Vannucchi and Mrs. R. Vannucchl of2205 Pine street went to the child'srescue and succeeded in extinguishingthe flames, but not before both bravewomen had themselves received slightinjuries. Dr. Mahoney attended thelittle sufferer and Is hopeful of herrcrnvpir.

Prosecution Alleges ThatBalances on Firm's BooksWere Regularly Forced

Judge Lawlor yesterday ruled thatexpert medical opinions as to the phys-

ical condition of Jacob Eppinger could

not enter into the trial of the case.

This was a strong blow to the defenseand was delivered after the question

had been argued pro and con for sev-eral hours.-

Almost the^ entire day and a portion,of the night session was taken up inarguments regarding the admissibility

of certain lines of evidence. The prose-cution sought to show that the booksof the firm had been falsified underthe direction of Jacob Eppinger, butthe direct ! questions regarding thismatter were objected to on technicalgrounds, and the objections sustained.The defense again sought to show themagnitude. of the business of the firmand the prosecution countered by as-

serting that balances on the bookswere foiced. All efforts to prove thiswere unavailing, however, as the wit-ness, Frank Mitchell, was under cross-

examination and the court ruled thathe could only.be examined regardinggrain transactions.

Mitchell was the first witness calledin the morning and he testified thatthe sales of grain for the year endingJune 1, 1903. aggregated $1,925,612 52,and the reduction of the indebtednessof the firm was made through salesof grain.

"What was' the sum total of indebt-edness on May 31?" was asked.

"One million two hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and sev-enty-two dollars and thirty cents," wasthe reply.

"Does that ledger show correctly thevolume of business and the cash de-posits?" asked Attorney Campbell.

This question gave rise to a stormof objections, in the course of whichAttorney Campbell said: "We canprove that a $274,000 balance wasforced at .the direction of Jacob Ep-pinger and that sales were entered onthe books which were never made\"

To this Attorney Ach sarcasticallyreplied: "To what straits is the prose-cution led when it seeks not only tobesmirch the character of this defend-ant, but accuse him of defrauding hisbusiness partners."

Attorney Campbell then asked a se-ries of questions seeking to show thatbalances had been forced and favorsshown to the Londoli, Paris and Amer-ican Bank. The questions were ob-jected to and the objections were sus-tained by the court.

When questioned as to how he esti-mated the business of the firm at from$6,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year, the wit-ness said he added the purchases andsales together and his figures were theresult of this computation. So far asthe books were concerned, he receivedhis figures from Topping and knewnothing of their"accuracy further thanthat he presumed them to be correct.

A The case goes on again at ten o'clockthis morning.

Scandinavian people, he would be onlya broken-down teacher— a missionarywho had failed. Seasickness on thehomeward voyage added to his illnessand he made the trip up from Auck-land in misery and almost in silenceuntil he landed here.

Then he . wandered off alone, founda place away from his comrades, awayfrom the world that condemned himas useless, and sought to finish the lifethat failed.

Governor Charles N. Herried of SouthDakota, accompanied by his daughter,

Grace Herried. and a party of friends,

who are to attend the launching of thenew United States cruiser South Da-kota to-morrow, arrived in this city

last eveuins and are registered at the

Palace Hotel.The party includes, besides the Gov-

ernor and his daughter. George W.Nash. Superintendent of Public In-

struction of South Dakota, and hiswife, James Brown, Code Commission-er of the same State, and Mrs. Brown,

Miss Alda. Johnson, a friend of MissHerried. and Frank Crane, clerk of theSupreme Conrt and chairman of the.Republican State Central Committee of

South Dakota, and his wife.The launching of the new cruiser has

been set for a late hour to-morrow inorder that the full advantage of thetides may be obtained. ;Upon MissGrace Herried has been conferred the

honor of christening the vessel, which1* to bear the name of her native State,

and it is hardly necessary to" statethat the fair maiden is looking for-ward to the ceremony •with pleasantanticipation. The sojourn of GovernorHerrled's party in San Francisco is tobe a short one, for it is their plan to

leave Friday morning for Portland, andfrom there they will proceed back toSouth Dakota by way of the Northern

Pacific.

After this ignominy Sullivan allegesthat he is advised and believes "thatin a criminal action against the

As an exhibit to the affidavit is at-

tached Judge Murasky's decision deny-

ing the application of the United Rail-roads for an injunction to prevent thehouse movers from cutting its electricwires. . In the decision the Judge hildthat the business of house moving wasas legitimate as that of street railroadsand that, because of the number offrame buildings here, conditions aredifferent from those in any other place

in the United States. ,Judge Murasky

held that the house movers had a right

to cut wires but must do so at the

convenience of the corporation andmust defray the cost.

Sullivan's affidavit says that thehouse movers object to the demand ofthe corporation for a deposit as a con-dition precedent to the moving of

houses through the wires. It is alsoset forth that seventeen firms are en-

gaged in the 'house moving businessand they employ ten or more men each.

Getting down to the matter of ar-rests, Sullivan says that he was ar-rested on May 9, 1904, and taken topolice headquarters, for cutting wires.He was again arrested and the officerappeared to be angry because Sulli-van had succeeded in cutting the wires,

and proposed to call the "BlackMaria." However, Sullivan was takento jail in a street car and gave $125bonds for his appearance. Then it ischarged that the hearing was delayedand that the company did not appearagainst him, but finally Judge Fritzheld him for trial.

CANXOT GET JUSTICE.

Arguments were heard yesterday by

Judge Troutt in the case wherein D.J Sullivan and other house moversseek an injunction to prevent the Po-lice Department and the San FranciscoGas and Electric Company from arrest-

ing the men engaged inmoving housesand incidentally cutting the wires of thelighting company. "While Sullivan's at-torney, (?. "W. Eastln, was presentinghis case

'to the court a small sensa-

tion was developed in his charge that"the Police Department, its chief andhis officers, and the Judges of the Po-lice Court are subservient to the re-quests and interests of the gas com-pany." Naturally more regarding thecharge was looked for and it appeared,hidden Inlegal verbiage, in an affidavitfiled by Sullivan during the afternoon.. The affidavit recited that up to thetime of the passage of section 593 ofthe Penal Code, relating to the ma-licious cutting of wires, the housemovers were never required to make adeposit to cover the cost of cutting thewires of the lighting or railway'com-panies. After the passage of the actthe gas and other companies made thedemand from some of the house moversand not from others. The plaintiffsclaim that they are not legally liablefor such deposits and aver that thecharges of the corporations have notbeen uniform. Furthermore, it is de-clared that the house movers have hadnothing to say regarding the costs tobe charged. It is said, too, that thehouse movers %have always notified thecorporation as to the moment the housemovers would reach its wires and werewillingto accommodate themselves to

the company's convenience in movingthrough the lines.

MURASKY QUOTED.

Daughter of Chief Execu-tive of Pickerel State toChristen New Cruiser

Charges That Officers AreUnder Control of Corpora-tions Owning the Wires

READY FOR CEREMONY LAKGE TEANSACTIONS AN' AFFIDAVIT IS FILED

Judge Lawlor Decides ThatJacob Eppinger's PhysicalCondition Is Not an Issue

Attorney Eastiri, in Argu-ment for the House Mov-ers, Alleges Subserviency

Governor Charles Herriedof South Dakota and HisFriends Arrive in City

WILL ATTENDTHE LAUNCHING

MEDICAL MENARE RULED OUT

CASTS ODIUMUPON POLICE

MISSIONARY TRIES TO ENDA LIFE THAT HAD FAILED

Andrew E. Peterson, a Young Mormon Student PreacherSick and Despondent Over 111 Success in Mastering theMaori Language, Cuts His Throat

—Recovery Doubtful

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