The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1899, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO OALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1899. MILLIONS FILCHED BY MEXICAN CARD SHARPS American Tourists in the Sister Re- public Go Against Sure-Thing Roulette and Poker Outfits. ITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 26.—Theres much interest in the arrest of a wealthy Mexican here, charged by a visiting friend with having cheated him at a game of poker out of ${60. The accuser is a gentleman recently arrived Rico, where he has made a fortune. He charges that, prompted d after losing the sum mentioned to pretend to act as h gambler, and discovered that great sums had been ranging up to $50,000. »wed for gaining these large sums were roulette and poker, oulette wheel was controiled by an electric device, ked by a card sh: , the victims being got under hat there is an extensive system of card sharping carried ederates have won millions of dollars from men who have games. The matter will be thoroughly investigated by the g way for a new commission recently , | appc by the Counctl fo supplant the 1- | In when ordered to do so 1 action to compel them n the courts. the controve and n will now proceed to ef and reorganize the in of Police Gus Smith made temporary chief pending the action by the new commission. - OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE | OF THE PACIFIC COAST settle miss| nt a new KILLED IN A FIGHT NEAR LADYSMITH) s| WASHIN eral Grige: Efforts to Obtain an Alaska District Judgeship for Some Cali- fornia Man. TON, Dec. 28.—Attorney Gen- has informed some of the Cal- ifornia Representatives that the successor of District Judge Johnson of Alaska, who has asked to be relieved on March 1, will rot* be a Californian, as that State has more than.its quota of offices there, but nator Perkins and Representative Met- it “olonel that nine and men were | is battie had his. d the follow- e Town, dated c Gr are still here at work on General ggs, and do not give up hope of land- & ing this place for some good man from California. €on th and Washington have candidates position, but it is belleved that if ( rnla does’ not receive the appolntment . will be given to some erk and Repre! rnor_Brady of r call on both the Department of Justice rhed Gatacre and the Presider Thursday. at have occupled | Pacific Coast patents were granted to- day as follows: California—John 8. Cox, Escondido, platform ng scale; John T. Davis, San Francisco, or to J. Treadwell, briquet press; Frank na, Santa Ana, saw set; Paul R. Hazeline and W. W les, key fastener; Idering & with no e WIVES AT WINDSOR. P ' ) Jessup, San Francisco, a . » F. H. Whelan, separator; Hiram A - ght, Agameda, bottle stopper; Joseph artin and D. Ormand, Riverside, machine for nstructing irrizating and outer pipes; Wil- M nau nor to California e Company, raisin seeder; Paul Angeles, compressed air pump; Los Angeles, apparatus for s metals from ores: Robert s, fruit grader; Rufus A butter cutting appar C. Hanson, Fr dward F. Winfield, circuit breaker. Portland, curtain pin; . canning machine; John eusink, Tacoma, device lings; William T. Love, generator; Arnold J. rriage. stablished at and John L. tmaster. The ir 2 RULED OUT OF ORDER. NEW YORK Rockford, $6 to $10. c.; Susan F. Thomas, Tacoms Charles J. Ne Original wid- 8. 1 g egon—Original: ‘man, of « A wt a in $; John Q. Crafts, Athena, $6: 5 ) expremsing sym- s J. Forkner, Arlington, $5. Add . 3 . = Joseph Dunnells, Silverton, $4 rease o $8. David W.' Millhollen, Oak- Sp ingham, Fort - cial December 14: Cush- Klamath, $5 to 310, Children Burned to Death. MIDDLETON, C Dec. 26.—Thres colored children named Dixon, aged 7. § and 3, were burned to death to-day dur- a fire which destroyed the home of rents. The mother of the chil- d the little ones In an upstairs Baron has vol- e she went out to do some er- Fire broke out in the low part building and in a short time the cture was in flames. The three ~hli- en were found under a blanket in a corner of the room. SRS Knights of the Red Branch Rifles. The Knights of the Red Branch Rifles ecial to the . Natal, Dec. | Will give their annual ball on the evening ! an outpost | Of the 30th inst. in Odd Fellows' Assem- b i et Poe | bly Hall. This well-known Irish-American ! ! TRINE. | military company is noted for its enjoy. ven horses. The clal functions, and the various com- gan shelling the Boer posi- are hard at work to maintain tho k this morning. excellent reputation for affairs aracter. e Death of a Corporal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Word was re. celved by the War Department to-day that the Murray und the Forty-third Volunteer Infantry, arrived at Singapore yesterday on her way to Manila. Colonel Murray reports the death of Corporal Kerrigan of Company B on the 18th inst. of alco- holic poisoning. ‘Webb Sentenced. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 26.—Willlam Wabb, the Marshalls Indian convicted of as- sault with a deadly weapon, was to-day sentenced by Superior Judge Angellotll iy -> - of th JOUBERT RETURNS TO FRONT.| PRETORIA, Mo The Nor. 2 Java, loaded | raflway sleepers, has | near Delagoa Bay and | the British second-class d by to seven vears in the penitentiary. When SET FIRE TO THE JAIL. the sentence was pronounced Webb broke own and cried like a child, pleading for Wesson Wandy Imperils Life and mercy on account of his wife and fam- | Property in San Rafael. ily. Webb was taken to San Quentin this afternoon. RAF Wesson Wan- SR Brooke to Tarry in Florida. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—General Brooke, who arrived at St. Augustine, Fla., to-day from Cuba, is not coming AEL, De the prison Qistinguished at St. Augustine or some other convenient Southern resort for a time in order to avold a sudden climatic change. night Jailer Atchley sight of volumes of cupled by that 'wi fir e AN OFFICERS’ BANQUET. discovered in the Members of Ivy Chapter, Eastern Star. Last night Ivy Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held a business meeting and at the close thereof the officers who at the previous meeting were installed for the current year tendered to ths mem- bers and visitors an up to date banquet in the hall below the chapter room. The tables were loaded down with everythin, that appeals 1o the taste of gourmets ang everything was arranged under the chair- manship of Mrs. Minnle F. Wallls, the oclate conductress, with rare good destroying the learly points to st s There we Te present a few who are not members of the chapter. Worthy BITTEN BY A CAT. Yacren Wrs. Frances” L. “Bonineld and vorthy Patron Roy F. Kimball presided. Pennsylvania Farmer a Victim of | After the aumnermg ron made';.n onf-:- Hydrophobia. ing address and ‘then calied on_the fo K, S g ng named to respond to sentimen LANCAST! Pa., 26.—Abram J.| Past Patron Dr. Gassaway, Charles I, Letevre, a farmer of Greenland, aged 45 | Field, Nellle Owens, first matron of the years s mo from hydro- | Chapter, Past Matrons Clara Giberson and Pt was bitte the hand by a | Lydia A. Steele, Past Patron J. H. Gray, cat mont g0, but did not Nelson of Tacoma and H. M. An- ects from the wound until when his arm became stiff he Became violently fil, and it recessary to keep him under the in- ence. of opiates. who was secretary to Captain Sigs- the St. Paul. During his remarks Mr. Gray addressed bimself to Past Pat- ron A. K. Roehrig of Ruth Chapter, Chel- sea, Mass., and his wife, who are here on a visit and said that Jvy Chapter desired that they should have 'a fond remem- brance of it. So he handed them an ele- gant crysial carafe. . There was an ap- w | - — | Police Commission Resigns. | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.—Chief of Po- | lee J. M. Glass, who has occupied the | g:;:z;:lma response, after which there was position for ten years, resigned to-day, | icing. ———— res n was accepted by the | sion, which thercupon re- T0 Cure La Grippe in Two Days a body to the City Council. The | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Al will this afternoon accept tho | Arugelsts refund the money if it falls to cure, Tesignation of the commisgion, thus mak- | 1. W. Grove’ s on each box. Zc. JONES POSITIVE EARTHQUAKE WOLFSOHN IS DEAD Young Man's Relatives, However, TWO Offer Evidence to Prove He Is Alive and in Chicago. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.—When S. A. D. | cide that he was alive. N. Hesselberg, a Jones, locul agent of the New York Life | brother-in-law, at once recognized = the AN JACINTO, Dec. l,—Evomhln” is still in a dllapidated condition | after the disastrous earthquake of SHOCKS CONTINUE IN THE SOUTH of the Injured Women Die and Goods Are Being Moved to Places of Safety. on this evening’s train and personally of- fered ald. At Hemet the loss is t although on maller scale. The fine Hemet Hotel is ruined and its loss will reach commission had | The ac- | The Senators from both Ore- | transport Mead, with Colonel | north at once, but, it is expected, will stop | The Newly Elected Entertain the Insurance Company, was interviewed to- day regarding a story from Chicago that Aaron Wolfsohn, whom he insured for $10,00 and who committed suiéide and was buried here, had turned up alive in | Chicago story. stand how the thing has been brought | about, but he is positive that the man whofn he insured as Aaron Wolfsohn is dead. He has taken every means pos- sible to identify the man and says there 1s no doubt. However, he is going East to make a fuller investigation. | Mrs. O'Nefl, the woman who pald for | of the man who committed | suleide, also supports Jones. -She was present when the medical examination for the insurance was made; she was very intimate with Wolfsohn; she gave him | $300 to go East and corresponded with him while he was there. When he returned | she happened to be in San Francisco and | 414 not see him until after he was dead ‘hul she positively identified the bod: There i8 only one theory, and that is that | there are two Aaron Wolfsohns and that | they look alike. The matter is a great mystery here. | '&T. LOUIS, Dec. 26.—8. L. Sale, attorney | for Benjamin Wolfsohn, the father of | Aaron Wolfsohn, the young man who added another chapter to the now famous | 510,000 tnsurance suit at Chicago yester- day, he had no doubts about the genuineness of the telegram mentioned in the Chicago digpateh, | " *“Mr. O'Bryan, the insurance compan | attorney,” sald Mr. Sale, “was here | Friday. He had a picture of the cor found in the O'Neil woman's room in L. Angeles, and we went -together to the Wolfsohn home and compared pictures. The corpse did not look at all like young Wolfsohn except that some person had brushed the hair In the style that Wolf- sohn usually wore his. Mr. O'Bryan also had afdavits signed by the supposed sui- | the funeral Au | Chicago, he sald he could not believe the | Mr. Jones does not under- | in an interview to-day stated that | 5 | Company, which at once made a demand In order to complete the identification of Wolfsohn, Mr. Hesselberg went to | Chicago Saturday with Mr. O'Bryan, and | he s the. brother-in-law referred to in the telegram recelved Christmas day by | the Public Administrator at Los Angeles. | Concerning the woman In the case, Mr. Sale added that she now claimed to be Wolfsohn's .common_ law wife. “‘She had,” Mr. Sale said, ‘‘evidently kept quiet umtil the present time in the hope of securing the money, not know- ing what evidence the insurance company had accumulated. The burden is now thrown on her. She will have to answer ]wr!!lnx as that of Aaron Wolfsohn. | | why and how that corpse came to be in | her room.” Ynun’ Wolfsohn had not been in St. Louls for nearly two vears. This strange story had its beginning on | July 10 last. Aaron Wolfsohn was then living in Los Angeles, Cal. On that date | his father, Benjamin Wolfsohn, a cutter | and_manufacturer of men's clothing at| TI8 Lucas avenue, St. Louls, recelved news that his son was dead, havin breathed his last by Inhaling gas wit sufcidal intent {n the rooms of a woman | who at that time refusel to give her | name.” The sop’s life was insured for 310,000 In the New York Life Insurance | Company. Evidence was produced pur- porting that the dead man was mnone | other than Aaron Wolfsohn. The insur- | ance was paid to the Public Administra- | tor In Los Angeles, but before the money | could be turned over to the young man's | tamily Aaron was reported to have been | recognized in the flesh, traversing the streets of Chicago. The discovery was made by an uncle residing in that city and the young man's parents were noti- | fled. and on August 11 the attorneys. Sale | & Sale of St. Louls, wired to the head- | guarters of the New' York Life Insurance on the Public Administrator for $10.000, the amount of the Insurance on Wolf- sohn’s life. which is still held by him. | Later the report that he had been recog- | nized In Chicago was denied. and thus | | matters have stood until the present | time. DUKE OF ORLEANS Excitementin the French Senate. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Dec. 2.—The public prosecutor this afternoon began his speech before the High Court (the Senate) in the conspiracy cases. He reviewed the evidence, which, he sald, showed that the conspiracy was | more dangerous “than when the Comte de Paris so forgot the traditions of his family o join hands with Gener: Boulange This evoked noisy pr from the audience, and the accused, Jules Guerin, called upon the president of the court, ‘M. Fallieries, not to permit the prosecutor to indulge in such insulting re- marks, but the prosecutor continued, | saying that the same men who conspired | rs ago had again plotted to over- the republic. The Comte de Pa added, was dead, but the Duc d'Orle pursued the same system. The remarks of the | soon drowned by the vehes tions by the prisoners. M. Fallieries for a | time faintly rang his bell to restore order | and eventually the prosecutor was heard to declare that he had decided, owing to want of evidence, to abandon the prose- ten thry h prosecutor were nt Interrup- " cution of six prisoners—MM. Chevielly, Frenchen-Court, Brunet, Callly, Bour- montan and Ballirle | Then he recapitulated the story of the { anti-Republican machinations of ‘the Duc d'Orleans and his agent, M. Buffet. The | latter violently protested and an uproar ensued, many of the Senators demanding M. Buffet's expulsion. Three of the pris- oners, MM. Cailly, Brunet and ules | Guerin, then successively shouted that if M. Buffet were expelled from the sessions they also wished to be expelled. Pande- monium resuited. Finally the court, In secret session, de- cided to expel MM. Buffet and Cailly until their counsel's speech for the defense. |SOLD OLEOMARGARINE ‘ FOR DAIRY BUTTER | Friends of Wilkins and Butler Seek- | to Have Them Pardoned by Mr. McKinley. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—An applica- | tion for the pardon of Joseph Wilkins and | Howard Butler, now serving terms in the Moyamensing prison at Philadelphia for having violated the oleomargarine laws, has been made to President McKinley, and the Attorney General now has it under consideration. All the personal and | political pressure wielded by the oleo- | margarine interests of the West are be- ing used in behalf of the convicted men. For three years the cases were stubborn- | 1y contested in the courts. Offers to com- | promise them for $5000 were refused, and the men were convicted, Wilkins to pay a fine of $1600 and serve six months {n the penitentiary and Butler $00 and three months’ imprisonment. A writ of error was sued out and the | cases taken before the United States | Court of Appeals of Philadelphia. Sev- | eral weeks ago Justice Buffington affirmed | the decision of the lower court. The cases were then taken before the United States Supreme_Court, which upheld the former action. Decision upon the pending application for pardon is awalted with great concern by the dairy interests. ‘Wilkins and Butler were apprehended by internal revenue agents in the act of | removing stamps and other marks from over one hundred packages of oleomar- garine in a warehouse on the water front of Philadelphia. | ASSIGNMENT FOLLOWS GLOBE BANK FAILURE Boston Manufacturers of Sporting Goods Forced to Close Their Doors. BOSTON, Dec. 26.—The John P. Lov- ell Arms Company and the John P. Lov- ell Company, an allled firm, manufactur- | ers of sporting goods of all kinds, made | an assignment to-day for the benefit of | creditors. The firms were heavily in- | debted to the Globe National Bank, which | was last week placed in charge of a tem- | porary recelver, and this institution, or, rather, its former president, Mr. Cole, | has béen represented In the business by C. W. Norcross, who Is said to have vir- tually managed the concern for more than | a year past in the interest of the bank. I’i has heen sald that Mr. Cole, late president of the bank, exchanged the paper of the Lovell Company for mining securities, but the fact that Mr. Norcross has remained in charge up to the pres- ent time wculd seem to cast a doubt upon this story. It s sald the merchandise bills contracted by the company have been pald as promptly as those of most business Louses, so that the manufactur- ers who have supplied them with goods are not large creditors, the bulk of the indebtedness being to banks which have discounted the company’s paper. Haso skl Coleman’s Will Filed. DIXON, Dec. 26.—The will of the late | N. B. 8. Coleman, one of the first plo- neers and a retired italist of this place, has been filed for probate in the Buperior Court at Fairfleld. Four sons and four daughters survive him. Eight years pre- vious to his death he ma:c a will, be- quellhlnghlo his _wife his entire estate, His naming son Frank executor without bonds. wife died two years s:g: AOUNLY SCORED "| 1s_unknow since then Mr. Coleman deeded valuable lands and his palatial residence to - his four daughters. ccording to law they were entitled to a share of the remaining | estate, but they have shown their gener- ity by deeding to their brothers all their | interest in that. The estate is a very valu- able one. WIDOW OF MARSHAL BAZAINE VERY ILL Fallen From the Heights of Social Splendor, the Mexican Beauty Nears Her Death. CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 26.—Mme. Bazaine is seriously ill at a hospital in the suburbs of this city. She was the wife of the famous Marshal Bazaine of | and is the daughter of one of the ocratic Mexican families and | renowned for her beauty. Bazaine fell | | desperately in love with her while here in command of the French army during | the war of intervention. e Her life has been as exciting as any | | army romance. She followed her husband | | back to France, was with him until he | | was tmprisoned on the charge of treason, | | and took part in alding him to make his | escape and remained with him until his death in exile In Spain. One of her sons | died in Cuba, and another’s whereabouts | Thus from the heights _of _soclal | splendor the widow of the French mar- | shal has fallen into a state of great mental depression and affiiction. Her sad case exeltes the :*)'mp:\lhg; of the highest soclety here, where she has been !n the past a leader. -— MAHMUD PASHA WARNED OFF FRENCH TERRITORY | Request of the Sultan for His Extra- dition Refused by Embassador Constans. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald, ~ Copyright, 189, by James Gordon t Deec. 26. BERLIN, A Constantinople | telegram 10 the Tageblatt says that the Sultan has requested M. Constans, the | French Embassador, to obtain the extra- dition of Makmud Pasha, or, at least, of | fugitiv son, and that Constans re- es, as there was no provision for a araliel case in the extradition treaty. he Embassador promised, however, that | Mahmud would be warned off French | territory. Mahmud Pasha, the Sultan's son-in-law, recently fled from Constantinople. His | flight was attributed to fear that his sym- | pathy with the Young Turkish party | would lead to his arrest, others having | recently been fmprisoned on charges of | plotting against the Sultan. His arrest, after his escape to France, was asked on the ground that he had taken money and jewelry belonging to his wife. - DANISH WEST INDIES NOT FOR THE KAISER German Government Abandons the Idea of Acquiring the Islands. BERLIN, Dec. 2%.—The German Gov- ernment has defjpitely abandoned all idea of acquiring the Danish West Indies, ! either by purchase from Denmark or | otherwise. The correspondent of the M-; soclated Press recelved this Information | from an authoritative source to-day. The | German Embassy in Washington has | been made to feel that any such attempt | would be looked upon by Americans as an unfriendly act, and as a serious in- fringement of the Monroe doctrine. According to the same authority the re- | ports that Denmark 1s negotiating to sell | the islands to the United States are elther entirely premature or without foundation. 3 S DIES AMONG STRANGERS. Sad Passing of Edith Barres, a Young Actress From Tacoma. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 26.—Edith Barres, a young girl, whose home is sald to be in Tacoma, Wash., and who was taken sick at Omaha recently while playing with a “Vanity Fair” theatrical company, is dead here at the city hospital. When the company passed through Kansas City thé sick girl was left here in a hospital, but she recovered sufficlently to leave the in- stitutlon_and take rooms in a ging house. There she fell sick again, among | strangers, who gave her little or no at- tention 'When her slender means had | been exhausted she was removed to the city hospital, where she dled. i 3 Christmas on the Hartford. VALLEJO, Dee. 26.—The crew of the U. S. 8. Hartford had a Christmas celebr: tion on board the vessel last evening. The ship was decorated aloft with greens and between decks with flnfs and eens. Chaplain Steel had provided a Christmas tree, from which was distributed comfort bags and other articles provided by the la- dies of Vallejo and San Francisco. Miss Helen Gould of New York sent a number of handsome Testaments, each bearing her autograph and a verse of scripture on its fiyleaf. She also sent an elaborate stereopiticon and outfit, Ma, ST Workmen Entombed. CHICO, Dec. 28.—While engaged in dig- ging a cut for a miners’ ditch on Butte Creek this morning Frank Cable and a man named Conner were buried under several hundred tons of rock and earth. After several hours’ work the terribl, mutllated body of Conner was recovi Cabie’s body has not yet been found. e e————— Selling depot for Waterman fountain and other gold pens. Sanborn, Vail & Co.® yesterday morning, though owners | jg totall of wrecked buildings have been con- | $25,000. stantly at work clearing away the | ten thousand ther losses will aggregate nearly dollars. he In- I8 debris and strengthening the tottering walls. Merchants are digging out what little goods remain undestroyed and are taking them to other places for safety. Barns, blacksmith shops and halls have been brought into use and tons of valu- able property may be seen piled in them in sorry-looking heaps. They tell of the gravest catastrophe that has ever struck this valley. A few merchants have open- ed up for business at the old stands which present pitiable sights, with broken raft- ers reaching almost to the floor and the sky visible through great clefts in thi roof, and a layer of brick and mortar cov- ering shelves and floor. Many of the yet lapse and it is dangerous to go near them, but many with the desperation of despair are working around them trying to save what they can. The losses are piling up high and it is now evident that the build- ings which it was thought yesterday could be partially saved must be torn entirely down in order to be strongly rebullt. The County Hospital, which was built last year at a cost of $10,000, is & total wreck, though all the inmates escaped uninjured. The losers of \’ylruper!y were none of them rich men, o the destruction leaves mn.nx of them bankrupt. They walk around apparently dazed by the thought of losing the product of years of toil in a few seconds. The losses cannot be much less than $60,000, which is total, owing to the fact that nothing but fire policies were car- ed. ‘Word has been received from Riverside and other towns that all the pacunl&rx ald necessary would be advanced. number of men from these towns came in | @ | corner of the | were all old women, varyin, At dians are downcast at t perienced in the big shak Six womag were instantly killed, two fatally injure and several recelved broken l}:’::o he’n’: 80 to 100, except one of the fatally injured who was over 100, and one of the Indlan landmarks. About thirty of the oldest lnhl.bl'.lnlll had_gathered in an old hut to fittingly celebrate Christmas eve. They were all drunk and after hours of legendary Indian games, had fallen in drunken stupor on the floor. Those who were killed and in- jured had piled together in the northwest house. They did not hear he warning rumblings that preceded the When the shock came the thick yation Saboba Indlan reur]v:“ ot life ex- t shock. tanding walls are on the verge of col- [ adobe wall fell in on them and crushed them into a horrible heap, driving human semblance from their faces. Peorle Uving near were aroused by blood-curdling cries and screams and went over to see what the trouble was. A horrible sight met their eyes. Arms and legs were sticking out through the rafters and dirt, while many were completely burfed. Six wom- en were dug out dead, two fatally wound- ed and many more with frightful wounds. Two of these dled to-day. Mrs. J. H. Bchane and daughter arrived in town to-day froma their home in the mountains and report a crack In the earth nearly a mile long and three inches wide. It runs through their front yard, under the house and barn and thence up over a hill. Mrs. Schane stated to The 1 co respondent that by placing the ear to the earth at any time of the day one could distinctly hear the rumbling of old Tau. quitz, better known as the Deyll Mou tain. This name was given it by the In- dians, who, in superstitious fear, have for centuries worshiped it at a distance. SUNSET 'PHONES 10 BE TORN DOWN Sacramento City Fath- ers Call a Bluff. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 26.—At a meet- ing of the City Board of Trustees to-night | it was unanimously decided to throw out | immediately every telephone of the Sun- set Company in use in offices and departments of the municipal- ity. One of the trustees tried to have the fire department excepted from the sweep- ing action, but he was overruled. Louis Glass, one of the managers of the Sunset Company, was present from San Francisco and virtually defied the trus- tees, declaring that his company had its the numerous | | of age. franchise and could operate anyhow. He | was not willing to show the board the courtesy to await the result of its delib- erations. His attitude so angered the trustees that they directed the Corpora- | tion_Counsel to investigate as to wherein the Sunset Company had committed viola- tions of {ts franchise, as a step prelimi- nary to compelling it to surrender its charter to do business here. To-night’s proceedings grew out of the complaint of the Capital Telephone Com pany, a local corporation with large cap: tal, that the Sunset Company was en deavoring to boycott it and had prevalled on the Southern Pacific (fom‘pur_?', Wells, Fargo & Co., the Posta elegraph Company and other corporations and indl- viduals to join in the effort to crush it. One of the trustees to-night remarked that one of the Capital telephon been placed in the Southern Pacific frelght sheds here, whereupon Glass declared that | his company would at once see that it was ordered out. FIRE ON THE KENNEBEC. Prompt Action of the Crew Saves the Vessel From Destruction. VALLEJO, Dec. 26.—The American ship Kennebec, now discharging coal at Mary Island, had a narrow escape from de. struction this forenoon. Fire was discov- ered in her hold when the hatches were removed to begin work, but by the prompt action of the ship's crew and the assist- | ance of the nn\'{ yard tug Unadilla the e fire was put out fore any great damage was done. AT Lederer Sentenced. WOODLAND, Dec. 26.—Judge Gaddis to-day sentenced D. F. Lederer, who was convicted o2 assaulting his wife with in- tent to kill, to serve fourteen years In the Folsom State prison, the extreme penalty authorized by law. The aseault was brutal in the extreme and the sentence is regarded us a just one. had | | calls the sclences of psychometr; ORIGINATOR OF PSYCHOLOGY DIES Passing of Dr. Buchanan in San Jose. SRS NeR Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. BAN JOSE, Dec. 26.—Dr. Joseph Rodes Buchanan, one of the best-known psy- chologists in the world, died at his resi- dence on Delmas avenue to-da: He was a native of Frankfort, Ky., and 8 years He had a great reputation as a writer on sclentific subjects. Dr. Bu- chanan learned the printing trade when a boy, afterward studying medicine and graduating from the Loutsville Univer- sity in 1846 Dr. Buchanan {s sald to have been the originator of psychology. He was one of the founders of the Eclectic School of Medicine, and from 1846 to 1556 was pro- fessor of physiology In the Eclectic Medi- cal Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and later dean of the faculty from 1550 to 1555. He also edited a medical journal con- nected with that institution. Deceased vas connected with similar colleges in New York and Boston, Professor Buchanan discovered what he an sarcognomy, and claims to have demon- strated the action of the brain on th body as its controlling physiological or- gan. He published “Buchanan’s Journal of Man'" from 1849 to 1856 in Boston. Dr. Bu- chanan has also written ““Outlines of Le: tures on the Neurological System of An- thropology,” clectic Practice of Medi- cine and Surgery’ he New Education,” “Theurapeutic Sarcognomy,” “Manual of Psychometry,” ~ “Cerebral’ Physiology" and other works. He was engaged at the time of his death on a work on “Primitive Christianity several volumes of which have been com. pleted, and have attracted great atten- tion among spiritualists. These contained spirit pictures, as revealed to the doctor, of John the Baptist and others, and have been largely commented upon.’ In all he has written over 100 books on sclentific and spiritualistic topics. Although over four re yeal he was a great worker and wrote nearly all the time. Dr. Buchanan had an international rep- utation as an astrologer and phrenologist. He was also recognized as a successful forecaster of events. 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