The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1900, Page 2

N FRANCISCO CALL URDAY, MAY 5, 1900 NEW YORKER WHO WON MISS CROCKER’'S HAN P e e e = S SR e O e e e e e e e e e o o o e re B e bed e Debe b@ % e gt o S SRS 4999-9-0909090-+99900-0 . . ¢ FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON, * ® g B:e i o 2 et eieiteteiededeiotdteiededoiesd>o® ment of the cngag of Miss Mary Crocker was the vouug heiress. The Call here- t groom ¢ published Mre. Burton Harrison of « and gra 1 from later. Upon his gra man. During the Tec & d from President McK 1 and resumed the practice M[ETS TRACIC DEATH N A CAPE NOME OUR GOLD nnFDrl G PL MPS cu ~ KROGH . SAND crvrmru:u PUNMPS BYRO'\ JACKSO'\ SUEAH M"_l_ ASSAYIN DIEDGING PUMPS. Horatio Sprague Crushed Between ‘Two Immense Rollers. REDGING H PUMPS. MARSH STEAM PUMPS Market st known ir . siana. He alifor- a married one prominent GOL» SEPARATOR of that & to Louisi- was caught between the rollers SOLD SEPARATOR. sugar mill on the Adeline plantation ng Mechine. - 229 F 1 crushed out of all semblance to hu- « Engine Company manit Beside him, when his clothing ame entangled in the Machinery. there TRATORS, : & helpiess witnesees of the tragedy, A ' [ - works ew Orleans society girls whose s are familiar to th smart set all FIBRE GOLD CONCENTRATOR. er the country. Spraguc was showing plates sércury ‘or motion vour tic ladies, wt over the 10 were visitors to the sugar mill- when the . £ S AV Sk irred and explaining the uses el bo g i SR the »us pieces of machinery to Pa fice 137 Beale st them 2 ————— | Mr. and Mrs. Sprague were entertaining PSE GOLD-SAVING M_ACH-NF 5 | © house party, of which the young ladies P it el bearing scapacity 3 | wwho saw his terrible death were members. Sprague was part owner of the Adeline SLUICE BOXES ation, being associated with his Kicndike champion siuice saves gold: competi- Ben Oxnard of this city. ROCKERS | Horatio Sprague, whose lamentable Sapant en the best for th is here recorded, was well known in ii% Mission ot ranci He was a brother of R. H : ¥ . who married Mrs. Belle W. Don- PAFKS ALASKA ROCKER. ~. the rich widow of Colone! Mervyn Rocking B NS W e g N ahue. The wedding took place at the : residence of Judge William T. Wallace, the bride’s father, on October 11, 1894, Horatio 8prague was the junior of R. W. He was regarded 4% a young man of fine busincss qualifications. He was popular in soclety. but did not allow the pleasures of social life to divert his attention from business SWINDLER EVANS CAPTUBED Victimized Hany Business Men by Means of Bogus Checks. Dispatch to The Call, NO, Nev.. May 4.-—Swindler B. V. . who victimized a number of prom- business men of this city by means of lmy\u checks payable on a San Fran- sco bank, has been captured at Carlin, GROCERIES 7ND PROVISIONS. S v., and will be brought to Reno for — \"‘_'q; e B trial. It is sald be has been working | e " | nearly every town along the railroad | frum San Francisco to Reno. rHl(lFT\ & WISE Comm - clal Co., 329 Sansome St HUNTER RYE. PORTABLE !'OUSES. 0 BURNHAM-STANDEFORD €O., Washingtor 3 Look out for the story of and it sts, Oukland, or Bullders' Ex. 8. ¥. | 3 Uncle Sam’s haunted ships in 1 GAsnan F‘OINF\ {: e magazine section of next HERCULES GAS EXISL NORES & s |3 Sunday's Call. 1f you love ‘: good ghost stories here is one to your taste. + + 3 + AR R e R R ey ] Weskly Cal, $1.00 nerYear i .¢¢0¢0¢000000 444404444940 i LONG DROUGHT IN DESTROYED =~ THE SOUTH BROKEN BY FLAMES Rainfall in Los Angeles and San , e . Diego Counties Worth Millions INING TOWN dr into the ma rest of the |Million Dollar Loss and f Dollars to Resid 1 e veds Homel t 0] olla O Kesiaents. | | unareas fomeless a | | Q : Sandon, B C. | Los AN May 4.—The drought|]is the vicinity of Saticoy. Montalve, Simi | | which Southern California | and_parts of Canada Larder. The trees | | for the past three years was broken at a [In Ventura and D 1 ooasmhre et | 1 5r e s ATUTA AT S )i 3 $ cellent condition, which will insure high | “ \TFR \l [)H ‘ (xfl F\ "h’l‘ late hour last night. Up to 5 p. m. .66 of | 1jcag for the fruit crop to he harvested. | I WALER y ¥y | an inch-of rain fell in the city, but re- N DI ay 4.—Not since 1884 has | | | ports from interior puints show a much | much rain during a day in | | —_— ‘hva\ier fall. lay '|‘< that ‘\'hll 7| fell h;rn to-day. | I i S e 5 - s o Tom 11 a. m. until 7 p. m. there wa | Firemen Blow Up Several Buildings | qfi‘-ml;’lz‘p o i‘g:;’{“‘:“;} “" ":‘;‘ ."Jn".".'fi': heavy downpour, with only brief intermis- | G 5 8 sugar factories 2 ard and | ¢ions, Up to 5 p. m. the precipitation was | | inan Attempt to Stay the Prog Los Alamitos will hotn be operated dur- During the hext two hours about | ress of the Confia- | ing the coming season on full time. This | .2 of an inch fell. The r. in will be of e means that nearly $2.000.000 will from this | immense benefit to’ the ranches and | g s | source alone be distributed in-and about ;,‘;,,‘.:L’la"‘i'.‘.."( e e e | S Los Angeles during the coming summer. | IFhe'¥orm "Was general in the back come: | | KASLO. B, C.., M2y 1:—Sandon, the sec? | Had the 'rln weather .r.v(-mlnld lh"I but not quite as heavy as on the | ond mining town of importance in the Slo- nitos factory would probably not have | coast. il can district, has been completely d ted! this year at all. Th w‘:\"l“_?"":]':;*\“ it e uivsully stroyed by a nearly all its assured tial crop of beet arte Toe PRl e M i people are homele \d ruined. Kaslo is | the storm of last night to-day guar- | hlcioe and comtinue e e twenty-efght ‘miles from antees that a complete crop of beets will | ing which time 1.52 inches or') fell. about midnight be harvested. Between 5 and 6 the precinitation was Pk ey i The beets at Oxnard have fully an inch. The weather ill unset- | came roliing ov < town from the Tesult of irrigation tled and the prospect is for more | At once word w that Sandon w: will not WOODLAND, May | | destroyed, but no ouid be had from there as is t been show the desolate town, as all wires had been | actory at Los Alam Liours and y bhraat LIl not he "operated hay crop ha injured. The | At4p m a train came in from Sandon, 1 thousand acres gt 2 ‘ff,‘:,’:".““'h‘n"[’"f“‘(‘,'\ ',‘,"]“‘""‘ bringing a n of those ali BARBARA. May 4.—There has | | their epo the teady rainfall since early this | total 500,000 and $1,000, . ‘ ;m.»mn.,l "rnn r&dplr;:_lmrl: amounts to | 000, while fashtafios Bauld onty i Southern | one inch here. ‘some of the neighboring = u_x:\ b insufa uld only ha Ventura. y be | valleys reporting as much as 1.2 inches | been about $2 somewhat damaged, 1 good to other | up to this evening. A good summer crop | The alarm was oroducts will make the damage, whatever | is now ured. | | midnight and qu t may be, a small matter. STOCKTON. May 4—During the past | . P tilled with. hund The' motntains are everywhere covered | twenty-four hours ending at midnight .15 in f s starte with snow, whic ur an abundant | of an’ inch _of rain foll here. It is still | The flames star X and Brown' water supply for raining and the indications are that it { and Brown's Apricots will be sh rn‘ his year owing | will continue falling for some hours. Just | to hold the 1 unaccountable dropping of the hlos- | inches has fallen this season. Grow- Then ase's v \d the flames | soms in_the o ds throughout this end | ing grain is greatly bencfited. A good crop spread that it was iy a | of the State. he territory most affected | Is assured. | matter of the fire itself out = . 2 | | The Miners' Hosnital and a drug store el { were blown up in the effort to stop the | | flames. By this time all the lower part of ! the town. “including the tenderloin and many bus places. were gone. Then the firemen blew Echo Hotel, one | of the finest the Kootenai (\ | | | country, the Railroad | station an: in order d save the v and H. Byers plished. Half a buildings at | | the town were saved, ‘ ectric nower-house. ’ strom of flames Relief me auickly taken i _°—" 31’.".7,,1?.“. i the v s wiclo | Closing® Session of the Con- | Rain Prevonts Exhibition rajsed £1800 an wela ain 1 with large su of food, tents and | vention at Sacra- ; mento. clothing. More relief is needed. of Gage in a Chariot of Glory. PLEET SR Special Dispatch to The Cal! 'wn of the State Bankers' Association this SNTO T i mnrnmx.’ was read by W. Bush AMENTO. May 4.—This is Gov- | 'of ‘the Yolo ik at Woodland on the night at the carnival, and to prove | Subject Banker and the Public.” the high favor with which the elements I’xnh~\nl Carl C. Plehn of the ate | regard the statesman from the southland | Tniversity de |n. red an address on “Cali- | rain water is running knee deep down the | v stems of xu?,mlqnh carnival grounds, and men wearing high ssion i »hn “\f rubber boots are trying to rescue the ex- l ”:”r”|.(I||:\.‘:;r‘rrr‘l‘|ll'l'l {1;!;1(\ m 'l'xe ;l‘filugl' l]‘n one memora- ited S, He took the ground | ble occasion in Rome, when Caesar, like at bra e s . an public attention, the “cross blue lightning tem should be divided into group: seemed tc en the bres ¢ o Continued from First Page ding to the cb cter of the. BATVIC d to open the breast of heaven and ontinu 2 Sopiing ity i 6" Bl 'that was | bortentous things happened around ‘the sions he volubl de concerning his | J°5terday introduced in Congreas provid- | jiug Caesar and Gage might seom cothor sions he volukly "‘“(: \n Ban I ,“‘,,(W_’ ing for such classification of the consul- | gifficult to establish, but the fact remains crimes In this clty and In Ban Fianclsco. |ates and training of men for the positions | that prodiaies have appeared hero to-dus | e declined € ol iy | thereunder. At the close of Mr. Irish's | gyck | rrn-} declared his Inlr; desire to be speedy | ramarks the convention adopted a resolu | h;ml‘a«;“tu astound the most ancient in- ANSPO! on to p e = tion commending the proposed enactment, | (. jage was Tunotarily, (o e WA A e hola. | Spoke on the foreign commerce of the Pa- | et SO-TIE! appreciative multitude, while necessary to prove reasonable | jf. Coast. He commended the Pacific o Vetsera was guilty 5 cannon hoomed and loud huzzas rose from ! Green, librarian of the Free | (Ommeércial Muscum and ite work, and @ | the throats of the National Guard, With Library, retold the circum: lau«’n‘(! ‘;IE::""A was adopted by the convention r’mlz;(nz d'{prc;xx’n]l’ r}:,r this arrangement, r which he was held up at A and [ 10 L5 g = o 36 #kies Haghed tning this afternoon streets, but he could not | The Bank Commission's work was | and “thunder roared over the: o wiih y detectives and | [¢ 5 T \;n'hhf‘nr(rfi T m’lkr‘ the houses quiver 1 their statements of | banks of the State, their character, the .t WA, tHe SRVEIeSY Allen gave his » with the young electrical storm Sacramento had expe- rienced in years. amounts on deposit Xo sooner had it sub- the deposits in the savings banks of Calis ete. He showed that | e it KR §e Jal sided than’ the very heavens seemed to pistol s ri- | Breater ths at of oo el 'in e orrents. A cloudburst as he did not J SRR et o Wi 1 O ple should | coujiq scarcely have brought about Stuch | congratulate thems ’ : i a scene of utter dejection. Most of the frightened,” exclaime The conventior udnmu? lnsrxvllnmn< of | ¢rossings were soon made impassable, and espect to the memory of the late James s Emma Bi nn, who with M respect t mery - op | they so remain to-night, the sewers bein ym’ and M Bennet Thompson. who was & prominent member | \1E8 50 remaln, to-night, 2 vast amount of i o Bonlowew of the association. The following resoli- Weler sunning oty that fld Mot see anything tion was also adopted As a consequence. a man cannot walk ing man and his pistol v Resolved, Trat the taxation of State, county | down the carnival streets to-night without ered_as soon as he stepped out upon us. | and municipal honds, including school districts, | rubber boots. Nope of the shows are We screamed and ran back to the house. | benefits, but orolific of open, and vans and trucks are bu. try. 1 could not identify him. Mre Sted- | o o orean. | INg to rescue exhibits from the wet. With dom's evidence was similar. Miss Ben- | depre and private credit. |a clear day to-morrow, however, it is nett was not asked to testif T - 5, Avictity of an eath: | Probable that the appearance of the street fair will be in a great measure restored, Chief Hodgkins added th; | Wherefore the convention recommends that the | he had held up this trio thinking one of | . rotitution of the State he so amended as to | but Governor's day will descend in local {them was a manl Had l’;" k|‘\n'\\'n they | exampt blic securities from taxation as the d.lmr\ t on record. - were all women he would not have mo- | Bolit ere adopted thanking those amusement was created by the lested them. ; e T encen The Cconvention the | appearance this morning of one of the Vetsera maintains that he is of h'xh,p‘.,,p].\ of Sacramento for courtes ex- | San Francisco papers with a solicited Zasmily, -audl that he.will Jesp ”'”h e | tended, the Secretary of State for the use | Statement from some of the members of of his Austrian connections until he dies. | tended. 06 FECIERTE T 4 the press for | the carnival committee thanking it for it - - a tremendous enterp corps of writers a The fol- in maintaining a their reports of the proceedings. artiste” BORTZMEYER IS JOINED } isinllls here dur- i Rl A L Galo SANEIR R ing the fair, thus contributing to the ex. | A e Toa An: | position’s greater glory. As a matter of | BY HIS YOUNG FIANCEE e T ivaten: treasurer, | fact, the newspaper referred to has been | ine: executive couneil, . Stein- | represented here during carnival week by | H. R. Schmidt, A. Goldstein, C. |2 mdgn(mnnt and versatile forece of one Condition of the Wounded Man Is\ 7. R Rylas d W. A, Hall. | man, and his services to his paper. to the 3 T s " s ah <ed from | fair and to the public have chiefly been Improving—Two Suspects | e mbni along the line of judicious soring of Lodged in Jail. Fred Bortzmeyer, who was unknown footpad very early Thursd morning, is improving hour by hour in tt Waldeck Sanitarium. Hig physicians now | entertain strong hopes of hig recovery. Miss Grace Hall of San Diego, who fis | the fiancee of the victim, arrived yester- | day and went immediately to the. bedside | of the wounded man. She was allowed to | remain in the sickroom but a short time, the accounts in the local evening paper. The Call is the only San Francisco paper which has had an artist_here, its pictures have admittedly been the only £00d ones of the floral parade and Chine: | carnival vet published. it has not impor- tuned the committee for a signed declara- | tion to that effect. night the members of the association a conference, and to-morrow they | an excursion to Folsom and the held will go on visit the State prison and the big electric power and light plant on the American River. RAISING THE QUARANTINE. Resolution Adopted by the Hawaiian Board of Health. up of the carnival. | the person of George W. Jackson—the se- | eret’s out—and his chief functionary will | be Frank E. Wright. The new pavilion B et miee. complleatioas aat 1| HONOLULU. April 27—"If no further | will be the Scene of festivities. and there Jortzmeye nless cc c - iges urious reign o! un. outbreak of buhonic plague occurs in Hon- | promises to hg a 2 Shiro i & S SHEES O S R A | alu hefere that time all quarantine will b it B 8o far the police have made lttle prog- | be raised on the morning of the 30th of | < in their efforts to locate the high- | ARl man. The two suspicious (nam(-‘g,.rq‘ uch s the resolution adopted by the . | Hawaljan B Health at its meeting on are Gec ’ Neustadt has not the best récord in the | PO suspicious cases reported this month. world. He traveled around this city on PRI false representations since his discharge More Japanese. from the marine service after serving| TACOMA, May 4.—The North Pacific two terms of imprisonment for desertion. ay from Yoko- g Aoy e t Janushl e wes arreated| liner Tacoma arrived to-day Strike Declared Off. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 4.—The strike of the employes of the Big Consolidated Street Railway Company, which resulted in much rioting during its progress last summer, has been formally declared off by the union. maintained for seéveral months, whicl proved very costly to the company. r It is hama. She brou 500 Japanese, all but announced now that a settlement satis- in Oakland and a few gnonths ago came | 1% Deing langed ':tmwcmrmp The Tacoma | factory to the men has been reached. It before’the atiention ot ¥he tocar”police.™ | 1’5 Btted out for the Cape Nome trade | s sald that former emploves desirous of | Long wa ployed | 5 ave 5 5 instatement will be taken back. | by A B Brmith & Co. of 13 Enie bivsed |and leave here this month B e That accounts for his possession of the tackhammer. He said that Neustadt came out to his house for a while on Thur: dfl.\ evening and they walked -over to E and Polk streets to see where the. rnthr) had occurred. Ovid claimed to be a re- ‘me‘r but the bluff was of no avail and e was arrested. | SHOT WAS FIRED FROM EXECUTIVE BUILDING| Colonel Jack Chinn Gives Some Im- portant Testimony in the Goebel Case. FRANKFORT, Ky.. May 4—In the case of W. H. Culton, charged with tomplict in the Goebel assassination, Captain J. | Howe, a Barbourville military officer, les- | tified that Caleb and John Powers came }m him ten days before the assassination and tried to get him.to bring his company Frankfort disguised as citizens. He | declined to do =0 unless ordered by Gov- | ernor Taylor and no orders came until ‘Alh‘r (’l‘w assassination of Goebel on Jan- Spring Cleaning You are made aware of the necessity for cleansing your blood in the Spring by loss of appetite, humors, eruptions and other outward signs of impurity. Or, that dull headache, bilious, nauseous, nervous con- dition and that tired feeling are due to the same cause — weak, thin, impure blood. 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Private Dudley Williamson., who was before the assassination and were uni- tragedy. | with he soldiers in the arsenal, testified that they got marching orders ‘one hour formed and armed at the time of the The soldiers did not know what happened till they got almost to the State House. i and while | To-morrow night will witness the wind- | Rex will hold sway in | A boycott was successfully | | | | | ] | : | ——— B _— — ] —————— —————— ———1 ] — ] ———— ———— ————— — — =———— — ‘fl’ | | i ) |Spring tire is nervous exhaustion; mind and body cannot rest at night. The constant strain of work and severe climatic changesin thespring weaken and inflame the nerves. PAINE'S GELERY COMPOUND Strengthens the Nerves. H. D. SCHUYLER, 73 State St., Albany,N.Y writes ¢ “Every spring I have a dsowsy, loss appetite and poor sleep. and Last March logy feeling, o am very nervous. began taking Paine’s Celery Compound, and I never felt so well in my life as since using it. 1 gained ten poundsin flesh and it strengthened my nerves. I can recommend Paine’s Celery Com- pound to evervbody in the spring months, especially those whose nerves and brain are under constant strain.” PAINE’S Celery Compound is the spring medicine of American people OPEN SAN FRANCISCO TO CHICAGO Santa Fe Route The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System begs to announce the completion of its railway from San Francisco to Chicago— 2550 miles. It is the only railway which owns and controls its track from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Michigan. It proposes to furnish prompt and satisfactory service, and it hopes to receive a generous proportion of .the public patronage May 1st freight will be handled regularly to and from the East and all points in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. Freight Depot: Corner Spear and Harrison Streets. The date for inaugurating passenger train service will be announced later. N JOHN J. BYRNE, EDWARD CHAMBERS, General Passenger Agent, General Freight Agent. Lines west of Albuquerque. W. A, BISSELL, Assistant Traffic Manager, Santa Fe System.