The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1900, Page 3

THOUSANDS OF * LIVES 60 007 N & TYPOON Death Reaps Dread Harvest| Apply Burning Matches to During a Gale at Hongkong. MANY VESSELS CRASH ASHORE N Wreckage Strews the Beach for Miles and Numbers of Dwellings Are Leveled by the Terrible Storm. ——— he 8: with 1t SANTA ROSA SUING FOR Wreckage and- POSSESSION OF A SPRING Condemnation Proceed- Fountain Company. the PETROLEUM FOR FUEL. 1 That May Be Tried at the G Ellen Home. new ociated Charities. 12.—Mrs KEVIEW STAGE ROBBED, | Charges Against a County Hospital | aiting a settie- As Daughters Elect Officers. —Woodland Par- Miss Nora fiss Kate Simm Miss Lulu Shelu t: M Ha! Mary Attempteg Murder. AS, De on_election day usly wounded Bus- resisted arrest and jer an officer. istrians here and more Woodland’s Delegates. DLAND, Dee. 12—M. Diggs, L. D. W. G. Craig, T. Juston and C. W. icn of the Water and Fo! n to be hLeld in San Fra 1 Thursday, Friday and Saturday week. | ing officers A Elsie ; sses Mae Cummins rris and Mrs. Sadle Clem- 12.—Michael Ma- | ore Judge Cooley in | and held under $5000 Superior Court | er of Steve Bus- | ] These | jeaders of rival factions | | appointed delegates LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, most stupendou engineering | feats ever attempted in this m-urfi'r)‘_ 'I";\li tunnel is 13,200 feet lcng and the thick. mes of the roof at the thickest place is | cet THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900. TOUNG FIENTS TRTOREA [AD | ITH FLANES Head of the Depa the Face of a San Joge Cnild. LAUGH AS HE WRITHES IN PAIN Little Victim Is Almost Insemsible When Passers-by Hear His Screams and Put an End to the Cruelty. e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 12.—Torture with blaz- until the flesh of his face was was the deviltry perpetrated | n little Alfred Kern, a 10-year-old boy, | young hoodlums on the upe Creek, in the north- | e son of Alfred Kern, | av the Southern Pa- Julian street > a younger 2 Julfan street, | to play. After lay the negro | threw him two boys then held him, lighted sulphur matches close to the child’s face, with pain and begged the three lads > torture until he DR. FETTER CHOSEN AS DR. ROSS’ SUCCESSOR AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY called From His Year’s Leave of Ab- sence at the East to Be Installed as GOES BACK T0 OKIAH N GARE Mendocino Deputy Arrests Otto H. Mohr in San Francisco. TALE OF AN UNPAID BOARD BILL | Alleged Literary Genius Must Face | an Angry Landlord and Acquain- tances Who Loaned Him Money. ———— Special Dispatch to The Call. UKIAH, Dee, 12—Otto H. Mohr, claim- | ing to be a San Franciscan of some liter- | ary note, is an inmate of the Ukiah jail. | | Mohr was captured after a long search in | | S8an Francisco and brought back to this city yesterday. The charge upon which | he s held is that of “beating” a board | | bill, but numerovs business men and lead- | ers in Ukiah society are mourning over | the intimate and expensive acquaintance | they cultivated with the young man. The | | amounts of which he defrauded gullible | Ukiah citizens aggregate a considerable | sum. About October 1 there came to Ukiah a | young man of rather striking presence, | who Introduced himself as from San Fran- | eisco, and claimed to be a member of the staff of Leslie’'s Magazine. He repre- rtment of Economics. OF AN OFFIGER and probably hool. ELECT A MAN NOT [ NAMED ON TICKET One Unusual Feature Marks a Dem- | ocratic Victery in the City | TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. | 12.—It was announced from the | president’s office to-day that Dr. | Frank A. Fetter, professor of | economics, would ‘return from | of Astoria. | the East and take up his work here in ASTORIA, In the municy- | January. Professor Fetter was granted a pal ion to-day the Democrats elected | YEaF's leave of absence commencing with every candidate, as follows: Police Com. | 1ast September. He was spending the | missic Attorney, time in the large Eastern cities studying rd, J. the economic conditions of the masses. His recall at the middle of the college year was necessitated by the vacancy created in the department by the resigna- tion of Dr. Ross. Professor Fetter will be head of the department of economics in | the future. MISSOUR] BANKER'S SON FALLS VICTIM T0 HORPHINE POISONING PeDe it ST ob John H. Hughes Comes to California COBRE GRANDE MINES| in Quest of Health and | Meets Death at Sac- ramento. two factions of | L 4 or un- s took would nomi- ominated candi- oen receivd three Settlement Effected by the Two Fac- tions That Sought to Control the Property. D PHOENT Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 12—John H. Hughes, son of a wealthy banker of Rich mond, Mo., died at the Western Hotel at | 8 o'clock this morning after a few hours’ | from some narcotic poison, prob- ably morphine. It was at first thought Hughes was a vietim of ‘knockout | dro; * but it is now believed he acci- dentally took an overdose of morphine. Hughes and a friend, C. B. Ellis, also ot Richmond, Mo., left thelr home on Fri- | day last, intending to spend the wint Altcs ”'} at Bartlett Springs, Hughes being ill of % the | kidney disease. They went to San Fran- on of the cisco and stopped there a couple of days, | buying a couple of hundred dollars’ worth | | of “supplies, which they had shipped to the orings. Yesterda they started for the Springs on the 4 o'clock train from | San Francisco. Hughes became ill and at | | Sacramento was taken to a hotel and a | physician called. He was practically un- | T . ] o CARING FOR THE WAIFS. Year's Work of the California Home- Finding Society. SAN JOSE, Dec. 12—The annual meet- | conscious when the physiclan arrived and | irg of the ( re Home Finding $o- | was not aroused from his stupor up to ifornia was held to-day. The | the time of his death. The body was the superintendent showed that | taken to the Coroner's. Hughes' money, | had been received and o placed. , 36363 5. rd of managers was re-| the completion of the re-| the society | o a valuable piece of prop- | about $1500 in drafts, was intact. Cash PR — GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT. This year’s Christmas edition Official Sustained. | TUnited States. The matter has been Dec. 12.—The fternoon sustained the | M. C. Buck , ex-mat- | o Hospital, against O. J. iperintendent of that - was found guilty of mis- lenting the female ward. jecls abolished. The Harkness, the side at the hos- | will be plenty of interesting matter, is Pauline Bradford Mackie, whose justly considered by the critics to be writes a charming love story of the mas.” General Charles —_—— “GAP” ALMOST CLOSED. Bridge Workers Completd the Great Viaduct at Gaviota. SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 12—Only 750 feet now remain of the “gap” on the coast route of the Southern Pacific, between this tion of what will be in city and San Francisco. To-day the | bridge worke: their work at t and the this side, bring- g the rai far as Alcatraz bridge, which alone remains unfinished of all the work along the line. —_—— Fails to Get Damages. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 12—The case of Charles L. Davis vs. Charles J. Dowd oc- pi Superior Court to-day. Dowd man at Mili Valley and it was rigs that was overturned dur- p down the mountain while the 1w avis sued for vas broken and The jury, after | tion, rendered a ver- | endant. 5t S Great Tunnel Completed. 2. Dec. 12—7The first train wil a the Great Northern tun- in the Cascade Moun This will be the Borein and Rohrand will appear as in the swim with the funniest story dict for the de SR Admiral Bickford Takes Command. VANCOUVER, Dec. 12.—Rear Admiral Edward Kennedy Bickford, C. M. G., ar- rived here from England to-day to as- sume command of the North Paecific squadron, succceding Admiral Beaumont who has been transferred to the command of the South Pacific squadron and is now in Australian waters. acter on “Christmas Day in Rome” going into further detail. To tell all EDITION IN Special Dispatch to The Call. late student at Indiana. | out plans for repalrs and simlilar improve- DO NOT FCR safe to predict that it will surpass the effort of any other paper in the Boatd ot i‘ its literary excellence and only the best work of well-known authors has | been accepted to fill the fiction portion of this mammoth edition. There listen to a few of the names of our contributors. In the first place, there thy gives an interesting Christmas sketch entitled “His Ideal Christ- King has written his best short story in “A Shot in Time.” John Strange Winter is there with a notable con- tribution, to say nothing of such well-known people as Marion Harland, Edith Sessions Tupper and Jessie Juliet Knox. This is only a small por- TRE CRRISTMAS CALL There will also be stories for the children as well as for the grown- ups—good, wholesome and bright articles written expressly to catech | their fancy. The illustrating has been done by The Call’s own special staff of artists—and it is a recognized fact that The Call Art Depart- | ment is unequaled. It is sufficient to mention that such names as Meth- fessel, Dixon, Cahill, Warren, Bradshaw, Kelly, Bronstrup, Thorndyke, drawings of subjects especially selected for suitable Christmas illustra- | tion. The comic side will not be neglected, for George W. Peck will be i | the Grass Widow that was ever told, to say nothing of some full-page comics that are simply side-splitting. Can you wonder then that we feel safe in prophesying that of all the Christmas papers published this WILL BE THE FINEST Count Andrew Bernstaf, the Court Chaplain to Emperor William I has written an article on “Christmas in the Fatherland,” and eomh;g' from such a high source it cannot fail to be of the greatest interest to our readers. Madame Sophia Bompiani gives a paper of similar char- be to give the edition itself, for not an inch of room will be wasted—it is to be stuffed full of splendid articles, st this brief glimpse into the good things to come—and bearing in mind also the date of their appearance, December 16, 1900—you can easily understand that this is to be the greatest from pain and hoodlums declared their in- | 3 i "p’ i fh‘athh flld‘{mj DR. FRANK A. FETTER, WHO HAS BEEN RECALLED FROM LEAVE | Pricire Soguadiceniat d OF ABSENCE TO SUCCEED DR. ROSS AS HEAD OF THE ECONO- | Iwick were arrested on MICS DEPARTMENT AT STANFORD. | the lat- | ed. Godfred -+ Dr. Fetter is one of the leading po- | litical economists of the country. He was a student at the University of Indiana un- der President Jordan before the latter left | there to become president of Stanford, and took the degree of A. B. there In 1891, After taking the degree of Ph. D. at Cornell University he spent some time in study in Europe and returned from there with high honors to enter the fac- | ulty of Cornell University. He remained | there one vear and left to accept the | chair of economics at Indiana, where he | remained until he entered the Stanford | faculty. He is a brilllant scholar, a pol- ished speaker and debater, having won both Intercollegiate and interstate debat- ing championships while an undergradu- | LINEMEN'S STRIKE AT SEATTLE ENDS IN A COMPROMISE Both the Company and the Men Make Concessions and 0ld Employes Will Return to Their Places. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Dec. 12.—The strike of the linemen employed by the telephone com- | pany came to a peaceful termination to- a a compromise being effected between | the men and the company. As a result | the former foreman will begin work again | to-morrow and the other strikers will fol- low as soon as ths foreman has mapped | ments, The strike was compromised on the basis of the linemen receiving $2 75 for a | « work of nine hours, with time and a half for overtime. Both parties made sented that he had just been on to New York for consultation with the proprietor of the Leslie publications. His spectalty was writing short stories, in which line he had been very successful, starting first with Munsey, and afterward going over to Leslie’s on a largely increased salary. He was a graduate of Heldelburg Univer- sity in Germany, In proof of which he showed a large silver medal. His true name was Otto H. Mohr, but for pen pur- | poses he had changed it, and was known in the literary world as’' M. Helmit Otto, He was a personal friend and chum of Mr. Dunne, of “Mr. Dooley’’ fame. He was the translator of “Sapho,” and by that work he had achleved much literary celebrity. At the time of his arrival here, according to his story, he was writing a novel which was to mark a new era in the history of fiction, and was in search of a secluded place, undisturbed by the rush and roar of metropolitan life, where he could quietly dexote himself to the com- pletion of this work, varying the monot- lfll’l_\' by turning out short stories for Les- ie’s. Mohr put up at the Palace Hotel, en- gaging a suite of the best rooms. Through his suavity of manner and honesty of mien he was soon persona grata with some of the best families of the town, and his dark, rolling eye is said to have cap- tivated more than one fair damsel. To some he said that he had a wife in San Francisco, but with the fair sex he posed as an eligible single man, Everything went along very smoothly for M. Helmit Otto until a_famine struck his purse. Then he began borrowing. His various medals, his alleged credentials from Leslie's and his “smooth” talk suf- ficed to inspire confidence in the minds of many, and his requests for tempora loans were granted. Finally, about N vember 15, he informed his landlord that he was going t~ 8an Francisco for a brief visit and to get some drafts cashed, after which he would return. He went, but he did not return. Weary of -walting, the landlora, O. E. Willlams, procured a warrant for his arrest for “jumping” a board bill. Deputy Sheriff W. F. Ornbaun went down to the cit: but failed to find his man. later he tried it again, and yesterday a ternoon he arrived in Uklah with Mohr in charge. The deputy found him in Golden Gate Park, and when he attempted to serve the warrant Mohr grabbed it and tore it in two. The deputy knocked him down, and, after a severe tussle in which .both rolled on the ground, succeeded in handcuffing him. Deputy Ornbaun first got upon the trail of Otto by shadowing a married woman in San Francisco who had been recelving letters from him while he was here. Otto is now playing “seven up;’ with the pris- oners in jzil, and awaiting a “remittance’” before making his plea. SEEEKS RELEASE FROM NAPA INSANE ASYLUM Habeas Corpus ?To;eedings Brought to Give W. H. Lambert concesstons. | The trouble between the linemen and | the company commenced about a month | ago. The men were then receiving $2 50 | a day for ten hours and for overtime re- celved wages at the same rate. They de- | manded $3 a day for eight hours’ work, | with time and a half for overtime. The | company and linemen held out against | one another until it was seen that it was | to their mutual benefit to compromise. GET THAT of The Call will be a gem. It is | | i selected with the greatest care for | | | i i besides guod shcrt stories—but just book, “A Georgian Actress,” was one of the books of the season. She early pilgrim days. Justin McCar- signatures on original full-page | of the Bad Boy’s Christmas Joke on that is equally good. Space prevents about our Christmas edition would o?.eu and illustrations. With AMERIGA. | moters of the McGovern-Gans fight. Freedom. NAPA, Dec. 12—W. H. Lambert, a+pa- tient at the Napa State Hospital for the Insane, is seeking to gain his freedom. On Tuesday his brother, J. W. Lambert | of Woodland, filed a petition in the Supe- rior Court here for a writ of habeas cor- pus against Dr. A. M. Gardner, medical superintendent of the asylum. He claims | W. H. Lambert is restrained of his liberty and that he is not insane. | Judge Ham granted the writ and made it _returnable on January 3. This s a similar action to the celebrated Hugh Buchanan case. Lambert was com- mitted from Solano county. POLICE MAY STOP GANS-McGOVERN FIGHT ‘Warrants to Be Served on Principals and Promoters of the Exhibi- tion at Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Warrants will be served at the ringside in Tattersall's to- morrow evening on the principals and pro- Cap- tain Hayes of the Thirty-fifth-street sta- tion says McGovern and Gans will be ar- rested and charged with disturbance of the peace. B. H. Winton, agent of the building; Lou Houseman, match maker, and Sam Harris, manager of McGovern, will be arrested on charges of carrying on_a boxing exhibition. “The warrants are in mf’ hands and must be served,” said Captain Hayes this evening. “It would be foolish of me to chase after those who are named in the | warrants until Thursday night, when they are altogether. 1 am going to give the papers to some of my men just before the fighters go into the ring. Every | fighter_and the promoters of the exhi- | bition will be put under arrest. I am told that they intend to have a Justice of the Pearce present to either hear the charges immediately or sign bonds for their ap- pearance in court. Then the fight could | go_on unless more warrants were served. “Of course if those interested do not have a Justice of the Peace present, | Houseman and the fighters will certainly | be locked up. ANGLO-PORTUGUESE AGREEMENT REACHED Assents to the Formation of a Com- pany to Extend the Harbor at Lorenzo Marques. BERLIN, Dec. 12.—The Neueste Nach- richten says it learns a new Anglo-Portu- guese agreement has been made under the terms of which Portugal gives Great Britain a free hand in settling the ques- tion concerning the Netherlands railway. | It consents to the principle of Great Brit- ain administering the Portuguese section £ of that railway, and also assents to the formation of a new Anglo-Portu- guese company for a considerable exten- sion of the harbor at Lorenzo Marques. The company will be empowered to raise harbor dues on an agreed scale, paying 15 per cent thereof to Portugal, which ac- cordingly will not levy transit dues on goods consigned to the Transvaal. The paper gives details of two exist- ing German harbor extension schemes which some time ago were deferred at Portugal's instance, owing to Great Brit- ain's protest In virtue of her pre-emption rights at Lorenzo Marques, but th: Ger- man_concessions were confl in 1899 by Portugal and Great Britain. If the new agreement does not infringe on these concessions Germany will have no unds for protesting against the new rbor extension scheme., DR. KILMER'S :zm-noo'r TEST FOR YOURSELF Wonderful Curative Properties of Swamp-Roof, the Great Kiduey and Bladder Remedy. To Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of The Call May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail. It used to be constdered that only urin- ary and bladder troubles were to be trated to the kidneys, but now modern sclence proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important organs. The kidneys filter and purify the blood —that is their work. So when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand how quick- ly your entire body is affected, and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. It you are sick or “feel badly,” begin taking the famous new discovery, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other orgars to health. A trial will convince anyone. Among the many famous cures of Swamp- Root investigated by The Call, the one which we publish to-day for the benefit of our read- ers speaks In the highest terms of the won- derful curative properties of this great kidne: remedy. Mr. Geo. S. Champlin, Ashaway. R. 1. writes: “When 1 sent for sample bottle of Swamp-Root I had to make water every two or three hours through the day and the night 1 passed but a very small quantity, but with a scalding and straining at the end of each pas- sage Our best doctor here prescribed for me, but his medicine did me no good your sample bottle, and before I got through with it I felt a change. ] would not have be- lieved such a small quantity would have done £0 much, but before it was gone I learned that s the case would scem to require. our druggist kept your Swamp-Root, and so it This great remedy cures all got a large bottle for one dollar, but actually k bladd worth one hundred dollars. 1 only took one large tablespoonful three times a day, and be- fore I had taken one-half bottle I was ail right and have been since. My urine is as light color as usual. GEO. S. CHAMPLIN, Ashaway, R. L DR, KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT Kidney, Liver and Bladder CURE. DIRECTIONS. May take cos, two or three teaspoon(uis before o after meals and at bedtime. Children less according to sge. May commence with small doses [ I then began eage, which is the worst form of Iidney disease. It is pleasant to take. PREPARED O DR. KILMER & CO. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Sold by all Druggists, Jan. 4, 1%00. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re- sponsible for many kinds of diseases, and if permitted to continue, much suffering with fatal results are sure to follow. Kid- ney trouble irritates the nerves, makes you dizzy, restless, sleepless and Irrita- ble. Makes you pass water often during the day and obliges you to get up many times during the night. Unhealthy kid- neys cause rheumatism, gravel, catarrh of the bladder, pain or dull ache in the back, joints and muscles; makes your head ache and back ache, cav indiges- tion, stomach and liver trouble; you get (Swamp-Root !s pleasant to take.) a sallow, yellow complexion, makes you feel as though you had heart trouble; may have plenty of ambition, but no strength: get weak and w. aw In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp-Root is most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that is known to medical sci If there is any doubt in your mind as to your condition, take from your urine o rising about four ounces, place jt In a glass or bottle and let it stand twenty hours. If on examination it is milky or cloudy, if there is a brick-dust settling « it small particles float about in It, your kidneys are In need of immediate attentio: It you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need you can pu chase the regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. EDITORIAL NOTE.—Swamp-Root, the great Kidnesy Liver and Bladdsr Rem- edy, 1s so succrssful that a special arrangement has be.n made by which all r-aders of T Cai: who have nt already trizd it, miy have a sample bottle smt absolu'ely fres by mas Also a book telling all about kidney and bladder troubles and containing many of i thousands upon _thousands of testimomial letters yeczived from men and wemm curcd b Swamp-Root. Be sure and mention reading this gemerous offsr in Sim Framcisco Daily Call when sending 1our address 1o D-. Kilmer & Co., Bingbamtor ASSASSIN FIRES UPON POLICE JUDGE AUSTIN OF LOS ANGELES Special Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12—Police Judge, A. C. Austin was fired upon by an un- known man at the door of his residence night and escaped death only because changed his position just as the weapon was fired. The bullet, Instead of | speeding into his vitals, grazed his walst- | same time half turning so that he stood the aperture. that Inst flash, almost in h through the screer across the abdomen an coat odging in the The shot was coat and cut a hole through his coat. | mot more than three f Judge Austin resides at 3118 Figueroa | ,Judge Aus street, in a handsome dwelling. At pres- m»rii;r;(l 'r'r: ent his family is visiting in Sierra Madre | tigate. but e and the Judge is the only ocupant of the | would-be as: Judge Austin, who is well along| Judge Austin says he cannot im in years, was sitting in the dining room | Who fired t reading shortly after § o'clock. with his | that he knows of. back to a side dcor, opening into the yard. | opinion that the Besides the ordinary door there is a screen door on the outside, and the trance into tb Judge's attention was arrested by a sound as of somebody working at the screen door. He had heard no sound of footsteps on the steps leading to the door, but when there came a distinct tap on the screen Judge Austin partly opened the inner door and demanded to know who was there. Receiving no reply, he opened the door wider, fully exposing himself, and at the Picks Up a Live Wire. PHOENIX, Dec. 12.—Jam stage employe at the ope! Our made-to order suits represent the combina- tion of good materials.and good workmanship ; this good combination has proven satisfactory to our customers because of the style and appearance of the suits and because of You can get the suits in these styles: single or sacks with single or double- breasted vests, the strand or cutawav frock ; price of any one of the styles $13.50 A label “Yeargood” every suit—you know what that means. in Out-of-town orders filled —write for self- measuring blank and samples. SNWO00D (0 718 Market Strect and Cor. Powell and Eddy,