The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1901: OVERDUE SHIP HEACHES PORT Otto Gildemeister Is Now Sa‘e in Ban Diego Harbor. Storms Follow One Another So Close- ly That She Is Apparently in a Continuous Hurricane From Yokohama. Special Disy DIEGO, Feb which The Call ~Through fearful biggest part of the side and under the und for Port- safely to port here she wil T her owners ciding that he here, will pec- casco. hama on the 15th U Cays aKo, and it seemed aimost a of icane, uoul the lutn as erzo he hanés' of amed well throu en complai: 3 and cnat he is ] X ught his vess e him this af told some o 1 experience at gone to Japan w boat went mizzenmast ted several iished before her for d 168 We knew possible to west that reach amount of sail ept well to t n_Francisco. we were met by = east, which drove ight sails we made r eighteen days. make San Francisco uth We were still Francisco when we Fred Sanders n we were spoken, th, we were con- » line and the cap- 4 ner advised that we e for S8an Francisco. We e or thirty miles were spoken by nder our own short as heavy on the sea t sure as to our position, of this coast was not the derstood_that Captain Dettmers City made an agreement » Wilmsen to bring the ship amount agreed upon is vari- rted as from $750 to $10M. The p 1= sound as a dollar and have to remain here only as long akes to attend to the necessary ities regarding the movement of EUNDREDS OF ACRES ARE UNDER WATER Entire Tract of Reclaimed Land East of Bethany Flooded and Loss Is Heavy. BETHANY, Feb. 24.—The entire tract of claimed land east of town is submerged water- of Old River. The and warehouses belonging and California Beet Sugar seen from here floating w Dwellings-and barns the new settlers who have the reclaimed land are all 2 D the levee Martin me and surround- e er. Mr. Trainor's € contents. with the oc- ted. away. Pigs, chickens are reported drowned. h_household effects rom the flooded dis- i L with what- e. " No land n be seen d the water i steadily rising. extends as far north as Clif- Court. At that placé the report is at the levee i still - intact. " Several redges are constantly at work, watching any break which may occur in the ce there. This 15 the highest water ~e 1890, when. the water covered part he now flooded district —_——— GOLF AT DEL MONTE. Melville for the Second Time Do Willie Smith. 1. MONTE: Feb. 24—Dr.. Bowditch n of Del Monte and C. F. Ayers of Franciseo, who tied for third prize in en’s emateur golf contest here yes- lay ff to-day, Ayers winning Lirie. O B Rhapp of Reading: Charles Hubbard of tied for the special prize offered the best gross score, aiso played off ¥ Hubbard won 4n a close finish. jon Willie Smith and James Mei- Del Monte's professionzl, played a h game this afternoon, which was the soft condition .of the Meiville beating Smith 1 up. This i= the second time Meiville has defeated Smith since the latter's arrival at Del Aicnte. eats followed eacn: d would have been| A Oakland, | SOCIETY LEADER EADS HER LIFE | Wealthy Mrs. Louise Dry-“ | foos Commits Suicide | at Seattle | Insans Belief That Her Husband’s { Love for Eer Has Grown Cold | | Leads to the Sad SR i Tragedy. { Special Dispatch to The Call | SEATTLE, Feb. 2i.—Surrounded with | every ¥ money 1d purchase, but L = on the idea that her hy love her, Mrs. Louise rehant Lewis Dryfocs, his afternoon. Stand- rror, she sent a 45 er body just below fter suffering ter- for three hours. Drytocs several mat- after at the store, and have sintment with a man t must be attended to.” | ably are busy when I want to go out with me ed Mrs. Dry- | comforting words This was a little Dryfoos telephoned {riends, saying that she g §0 , and that she ome she simply Among the latter number ories, the family physi- jories arrived at the ryfoos said she was going | Dryfoos w end remarked be going. | said Mrs. Dry- telephc Jught he wo 1 done 2 1 should sp thing to offend you k ifke that?” sald the s. Dryfoos laid her hand on his d calling him by his firs “No, no: you have alway been d and kind friend, but go. As I went out of the door he ed with the a that Mrs. yfoos was not in her right mind. At o'clock Mrs. Dryfoos called up her nd t - telephone. ‘“You need not to dinner. I wiil not be here,” ‘ foos immediately went to her | room, after telling her husband not to »on two loud reports were llowing the other with a ntervenin The servants alarmed, and immediately up Mr. Dryfoos by telephone. ome as quick as you can,’ age. ‘“'Something was terrible has There has been a loud explo- sion_in Mrs. Dryfoos' room and 1 fear as shot herself.” 1 physicians, Mr. Dry- age and W driven | s. Dryfoos was found lying on in a semi-conscious condition, leeding from a large wound just be Her husband’s large 45 hooter lay near her with two ed all of the room opposite one was one bullet and in the wall te another mirror was another bul- entirely tal wound. ans revived the Carroll said: shoot yourself?"” does not love me,” she wounded statement struck deep to Mr. Dry- heart because he was devoted to eir home had been a very 3 The husband and dying wife heart to heart when she lapsed into to_des o not know any more than you,” said Mr. Dryfoos last evening, “why my wife should have killed herself. had me and were very happ; Cor- e decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Mrs. Dryfoos was 42 years old. aiden name was Lazarus. Her father, Lazarus, was one of the most promi- and wealthiest ploneers of Syracuse, Her Her stepfather was the ev. Dr. Jacobs, officlating rabbi at San io. Tex. She was married twenty- ears ago. MASONIC OFFICERS | THROWN FROM A COACH KNarrowly Escape D:ath While Re- turning From Funeral of A. Wiedemann =at Salinas. PACIFIC GROVE, Feb. 24.—A party of prominent Masonic officers of this efty and Monterey met with a serious accl- dent to-night while driving from Salinas, en route home from the funeral of County Supervisor A. Wiedemann. The team be- came unmanageable while crossing the Salinas River bridge, five miles from sa- linas, and the le started to run, | overturning the coach and throwing out | the occupants. ! S. Ball and C. K. Tuttle of Pacific rove sustained the severest injuri the former being rendered unconsclous and the latter suffering . badly twisted leg. | Others of the party, Alex Underwood, A . Manuel and Alonzo Allen of Monterey, were slightly Injured and H. E. Kent of Pacific Grove escaped comparatively un-‘ burt. S ‘ AKES A DOSE OF POISON. W. W. Wilmot Ends His Life at Port Townsend. | PORT TOWNSEND, Feb. 24—W. W.| Wilmot, whose people are sald to be wealthy residents of Tasmania, commit- | ted suicide here to-day by taking cya-| nide of potassium. He had shipped on board the American ship Kennebec, bound | for Australia, but to-day he esked the | captain to release him, and when his" re- quest was refused he took his life. Among his- effects were found a considerable | guantity of jewelry and receinted bills from leading jewelry firms in Chicago and San_Francisco. | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24—W. W. Wil- mot. the Port Townsend suicide, was re lated to Sir Eardley Wilmot, former Gov- ernor of Tasmania. The family is well known in all the colonies. — MRS. HEARST'S TRIBUTE TO CONFEDERATE DEAD | | Sends to Missouri Veterans a Con- | tribution to Their Monu- | ment Fund. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 24—Captain | | G. L. Jones, treasurer of the Missour! Confederate Monument Association, to- day received a check for 3500 from Sen- | ator Vest, a gift from Mrs. Phebe A. | Hearst. The letter from Mrs. Hearst[ S ote what you say in d to my | husband’s generous donation to the Con- | federate Home in your State. While he | was living he was making money, and | since he paseed away 1 have been trying | to accomplish a great many things, which | have consumed all of my income. - sides, T have divided my estats with my | =on, giving him the better half, and I am precluded from doing many things which T would like to be in a position to do.” s E g ; DENVER, Feb. 24.—Chlef of Police Fa: ley to-night announced that all other ef- forts to capture the mysterious flend who has assaulted eighteen women and killed two within the past elght months on Capi- tol Hill having {ailed, he would to-morrow night detall twelve policemen in women's ciothes to search for him. Three assaults last Fridey night, and one of which has already proved fatal, has terrorized the residents of the most fashionable quarter of the city. Chief Farley hopes that the thug will isguised policemen, and attack one of the that the policeman can kill him before he escapes. The district is now patrolled by [ fifty men in uniform, il ANDM nsciousness, from which she passed |saving for them the much-prized “RUSS ! 5J"5N9<;?APHER M. WATKINS, OF THE SEE:JATE WAYS X NS COMMIT TEE, wH; THINKS HE LOOK_)O J LIKE LORD sroLTo | DOUGLAS. STEPHRENS FROM UP RIVER, DROPPED IN FOR A QUIET GAME SENATOR J. OF S.F, ?Ani"g ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 24.—With the end | of the session Lut a few days off, | both files full to overflowing of | bills and every one predicting that } even the blg measures cannot be got inflicting & | through in time the Assembly adjourne | Hotel bar touching glasses with members for three days and the Senate for two and | a half—cause, an exc of patriotism and a disinclinatfon to work. The Assembly adjourned from Thursday night to Sctur day morning, and having done that its | members proceeded to get leaves of ab- sence until Monday morning, which had the effect of relieving them of the necea- | sity for showing up and at the same tirae r diem. | he Senate- celebrated Washington's | birthday by the consideration of a special | fete of constitutional amendments, but | even that could not nold the members of | the upper house longer than noon. It is | a long time since a Legislature has had at this time in session so few important bills that it cannot draw a quorum on A | Saturday. { In the Senate there are about 600 bilis and in the Assembly 820, but in the whole | bunch there is not business enough to | keep the session running a week did the | members not shy at work and take to killing time. A whole Gay was wasted in playing at censure, with Wittman, Wren and Coffey as the excuse. Were there 30 | much_ earnestness and eloquence devoted ' to code revision at least one of the code | bilis would have been in the hands of the | Governor before now, but if any one should suggest that a day be devoted to the consideration of code revision, some member with a bill to prevent smoke from | rising would declare that his measure | was being buried and the day would be | spent In wrangling instcad. | The censure of the Lures men from the eity was about as spectacular a farce as has been put on in the legislative halis, | The objects of censfire were described as | cringing and_crestfallen and apologetic They were nothing of the kind. They knew | from the start that the worst that could be done was the passage of a_vote of | censure, and when has this Assembly shown that its censure was worth brush- ing off. Members on the floor were asked to vote for a resolution of censure, and so | refused to caucus on the auestion. It was | laws.” L i e e e e e e S e x | SESSION'S END BREWS SCANDAL Promise of Startling Dis- closures in the House of Representatives. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL HEADQUARTERS, 14406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—When the special committee appoint- ed by Speaker Henderson to investigate the appointment and payment of employes of the House of Representatives makes its report numerous irregularities and petty scandals will be exposed, which may re- flect serfously on the elective officers of the House and on the methods of the Committee on Accounts—the auditing committee of the House. This report, which will be submitted be- fore the end of the present week, will ex- | pose the condition of affairs which if it | had existed in any executive department would have led to loud demands in Con- ress for the removal of responsible of- clals. This condition is the growth of many years. It was bad enough in the Fifty- third Congress and those which preceded it, but it has been much worse since the beginning of ‘he Fifty-fourth Congress, when what Is expressively termed the “hog combine” was formed for the con- trol of all the patronage of the House. The questian of the fitness of a man for the place to which he was appointed was rarely considered, and some of the places were distributed by having slips of papet bearing the names of offices mixed up in a hat from which the men to be appoint- ed drew their ‘places by lot. GOLD STRIKE IN MONTANA. Rich Free Milling Quartz Found Near Livingston. LIVINGSTON, Mont., Feb. 24—What s regarded as the richest gold strike ever known in this section of Montapa has just been made In three of the ten claims of the Milwaukee-Montana Company. The ore is in free-milling quartz, much of it knit together with native wir ‘The velns are of great breadth and the gold runs from to more than $300 per ton. There is copper in paying quanti- ties in the claims. | be laid on the culprits. B id | take Flint's advice and give Alpin, Monn Special Dispatch to The Call. little d1d they themselves consider it that many of them did vote for it simply oe-. cause it was their idea of belng good fel- | ond. lows, and they knew it would do no haru. | It was not an hour after the Assembly adjourned Thursday night that Wittman and Wren and Coffey were in the Capital of the investigating committee and As- sembiymen, who on the floor of the House bad taken up their megaphones and de- manded that a three-oly censure should What the Assem- | Dly most needs is caps and bells and mot- garb for elghty. Then the farca | might be amusing. Now it !s only ex pensive. 1t is a wonder the Legistature does not and particularly Inyo to Nevada. No one wants them, they are a source of conten- tion whenever they are mentioned as part of a district of any kind and they have not papulatlon enough to make their voice worth listening to. Politically they are problems. They cannot be reached ex. cept by golng far down to the south or by traveling through Nevada, for the mountains guard them on the west with line unbreakable. Thevy have | territory, but most of it is on They are not powerful, for all to- | have not a townful of people, | edge. gether they and to crown all they have the poor taste | to be Democratic.. Mono and Alpine have finally found a resting place in the pro- posed Eleventh Assembly District, with Amador and Calaveras, and Inyo is.being enth Assembly District: but it was no fault of Tulare's that the deal was made. | and It was cosummated only when it was | agreed that San Bernardino should take up the burden in a Senatorlal way. The First Congressicnal been laid aside as settled, but there may vet be a long protest from Selvage on the floor of the Senate. Seivage from Hum | | joined to Tulare to form the Twenty-sev- | i | TYRRELL, LIFE FASY LEGISLATORS DURING A QUIET DAY AT SACRAMETO. BILLS ARE PILING UP WHILE THE LEGISLATORS KILL TIME Session Is Nearing an End, Both Files Are Filled and No Attention Is Being Paid Them. District has | boldt and Davis far down on the other | side, from Amador, each thinks that in no way can the district be represegted in | Congress than by golng there himsdlf. To that end Selvage wanted Mendocino added to the First District as it was originally laid out, and this was done. Davis wanted Butte, Alnine, Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Mono added, and this, too, was about to be done, when Selvage called a halt and DEKTH'S D NEAR RONALTY Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany Is Nearing the End. — s Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- d. Copyright, 1901, by the Herald Pub- ing Company. KRONBERG, Feb. 24.—Alarmist rumors are current concerning the state of the Dowager Empress Frederick. They are to the effect that she is in immediate danger and are exaggerated, but I have good authority for saying that unless the very serious course her malady is taking can be stemmed the end is a mere matter of weeks, or at the most of three months. King Edward VII has not speclally hur- ried his journey; rather the contrary. As his Majesty does. not wish to travel on Sunday he wiil arrive at Frankfort to- morrow morning about 6 o'clock, but he will sleep in his ear until 9 o’clock, when he will start for Cronberg. Dr. Renvers has issued the following bulietin: “Since the acute change for the worse in October, 1900 . both the strength and the general condition of the Empress Frederick have slowly improved. “Her Majesty has been permanently free from fever and her nutrition has been sufficlent. Her sleep, however, has been aisturbed by attacks of paln. The chronic suffering has made but slight g‘rox'ress during the last few months, 'he Empress spends several hours each day out of beu, and in favorable weather spends & short time daily in the open r. Death of Mrs. John Brophy. Mrs. John T. Brophy, mother of Ser- geant of Police Willlam Brophy, expired at her home, 237 Ninth street, yesterday. Deceased was an estlmable and exceed- ingly charitable woman, 59 years of age and had resided in San clsco since the '50's. Death was due to cancer, Sergeant Brophy, Thomas E. Brophy, Miss Alice Brophy, Mrs. James Ford an Mrs. Lafrenz are 'left to mourn their mother’s loss. The funeral will t lace Tuesday from Bt. Joseph's Church, nterment will be In Holy Cross Cemetery, | up as it s now since Mr. Knowland and | | WHILE R SR PROBABLY DEAD RUBSFRED. Falls From a Bridge Info the River Near Sac- ramento. | | Friends on a Train Hear His De- spairing Cries for Help as He Is Carrizd Down by Fierce Current. e o Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 24.—While the 10 o'clock train from the city was stalled on the bridge to-night John C. Bunner, a San Francisco man and one well known in business and political circles, stepped from the car platform and dropped into the river. He was caught in the fierce current and was carried along, calling belp and answering the shouts of nis friends still on the train. The moon was shining on the river and he could be ceen struggling in the muddy waters un- til finally he dntted out of sight and his Iittie hope that he has escaped death. The 6 o'clock overland from San Fran- cisco carried a number of legislators and Pliticians returning to_the capital, and with them was Bunner. The train reached the bridge on time, but after the engine bad crossed it was deralled by a_loose frog just off the bridge on the Sacra- mento side and the traln came to a standstill with all tne cars still on the bridge. Bunner was in the Pullman car Adana Jack Crowley and James A. Devoto | They waited twenty or twenty-five min- | utes for tne train to move, and then Bunrer sald there was a footway along lth track and he was going to get out { and reach the Sacramento side by that | means. There really no footway on | the lower bridge. Above the track runs | the wagon way and beside that is the footwalk, but down where the track is there nothing but the ralls and the open _ties. Bunner left his seat with his compan- jons, and, calling the porter, he told him to open the doors of the vestibule. The | porter warned him that ti train was on the bridge, but Bunner said he knew the bridge well and he was going to get out. Then the porter opened the door. Bunner went down the gteps of the car and jumped off in the datkness, and then the thres who had followed him heard the splash as he disappeared In the river. Devoto was about to jump. too, as_the splash came, and he was only saved by Jack Crowley. who caught him by the coat as he swung forward. The water is higher than it has been in years. It is but a few feot from the bridge to its surface, and it is rushing along until it boils over the piers of the bridga. Bunner was not hurt, but by the time he came to the surface he had been carried below the bridge and his friends could see him trying to swim. He had an overcoat on his arm when he jumped, but this he had thrown away, and in answer to the calls of the men on the train he shouted that he was floating on his back and he begzed them to get a boat. He was whirled on past the river steamer Modoc that is lving {at the foot of K street, and her watch- man heard the man calling for help as the current bore him on. That last seen or heard of him. Boats were put out. but by the time the first one was afloat Bunper was far down the river. Bunner was formerly employed in the office of Hyde & WHenson, San Fran- cisco, but for some time he has had an office of his own on the corner of Leides- dorft and Callforma streets. He great friend of Martin Kelly and is well known .amonz_politiefans. and he connected with mining interests through property he owns in Tueolumne County. He is 4 years old and unmarried. done all the same, with the exception of | Butte, which was drooped into the Sec- The apportionment of San Francisco, | Alameda and Los Angeles has yet to be | finally settled, but that will be done in the delegations. oS RO T SAYS CHIEF SULLIVAN ENOWINGLY LIED ev. F. K. Baker Discourses at Sacramento on Vice in San Francisco. Human Head as Evidence. CALL HBADQUARTERS, SACRA-| RAVENNA, Ohio, Feb. 2{.—Eleven vears ago a warrant was sworn out for the ar- rest of Frank Valentine on a charge o forgery. Valentine committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. When it came to a matter of insurance the com- pany refused to pay and Mrs. Valentine entered suit, claiming that the doctors | killed her husband by probing for the bullet. In order to prove this the head was brought into court. i MENTO, Feb, 24—A mass meeting In sup- port of the Knowland Chinese slavery bills was held at the Sixth-street M. E. Church to-night. Rev. F. K. Baker, pas- tor of the First M, B. Church of San | ¥rancisco, and- Miss Cameron and Miss Lake of the Chinese Missions made ad- dresses. Rev. Mr. Baker spoke in part as follows: “A form of slavery more terrible and grewsome than negro slavery is present in fair California. It exists within the | shadow_ o ustice, while | men, Judges and to some extent the | Ments oW to hav Police Department of S8an Francisco have 1 Mrs. Valenti won the sult and the head was put in al- The jar which contains it has heen sitting in the Courthouse steeple all thesa vears, and relatives are making arrange- it buried. g g & voice was heard no more, There is but | with a party consisting of T. D. Riordan, | | Wiillam Ham is al LAD TAKES LIFE - OFSTEPFATHER Shoots to Save His Mother From Drunken Man’s Abuse. . Bullet Fired Through a Window Cuts Short the Career of Edward Thomas at Santa Monica. Y R i Special Dispatch. to The Call. | SANTA MONICA, Feb. 24—Harry | Hotchkiss shot and killed his stepfather, | Edward Thomas, on the threshold of his | mother’s home, at the corner of Third and Nevada streets, this evening at 7:30 {o'clock. The shot was fired from a #- caliber Coit's revolver, and entered the | victim’s head just back of the left ear, and after passing through the brein | emerged from the top of the head. Hotch~ kiss gave himself up to the authorities immediately after the shooting. Thomas was an old soldfer, and lived at the Soldiers’ Home, but frequently visited Santa Monica. He often became intoxicated, and on many occasions threatened to kill Mrs. Thomas. To-day he drank heavily, and in the evening vis- ited the home of his wife, who lived with her two sons. Mrs. Thomas and her son Harry were at home together. She went to the door and her husband began to heap all manner of abuse upon her. The boy became exasperated at the treatment of his mother, and, without her knowi- edge, procured a revolver and shot through the window at his stepfather with fatal accuracy. The wounded man dled at 9 o'clock to- night. Hotchkiss was placed under ar- rest at his own request by Policemend Pritchard and See and taken to the City Jail. At 10:30 o'ciock he was taken to the County Jail at Los Angeles and he will be brought back to Santa Monica to- morrow morning for arraignment. While in the jail here Hotchkiss sald to his brother that he shot Thomas to protect his mother and believes he did right in doing so. The boy has a good reputation here. Ha is employed as a driver on a spri 5 cart. | Thomas was about 47 years of age and an habitual drunkard. The body was rlaced in the Morgue. SHOWERS THE SELTZER "ON BLAZING TRESSES | Chicago Drug Clerk Is Thoughtful, | but Doesn’t Save a Co-Ed's Golden Locks. CHICAGO, Feb. 24—A cigar lighter, a seltzer bottle, a girl with a head of blonda hair and a drug clerk made matters lively { in an Evanston drugstore’ this afternoon. | Miss June Whitfield, a co-ed in the Nort | western University. went into Wicke | store, on Davis street, and ledned aga | the cigar case. d her was a gas | lame cigar ligl Whitfleld wears | a long coiffure, s e in contact | with the flame. Soon most of .the luxu- riant locks were ruined. iton, a drugclerk, jumped upon the counter in front of the soda | fountain and reached for the' seltzer bot- | tle. Running to the girl, he pressed the | lever and turned the stream on the flames, | which were scon extin s dhaws = CABINET OF SPAI N 1 WILL RESIGN TO-DAY Office of a Catholic Newspaper Stoned in Oporto and Houses of Resi- dents Guarded. | MADRID, Feb, 24.—General Azcarrags | the Premier, will present the resignati | of the Cabinet to the Queen Regent to- | merrow and will probab!y ba charged | the task of recomstrueting the Ministry | _Et Liberal publishes a atch from | Oporto, Portugal, saving that a crowd istnned the office of Apalavr: [e e | journal of that city, becaus: that the editor had attempted to c 3 of the Brazillan 1. | 1 | aispatch sa congregations in Oporto are now guardel by police. been conniving at it. “The Chief of Police of San Francisco sald before the legislative committee that the Chinese slave girls could come and | g0 as they please. He lied when he said | it, and he knew that he lied. His eyes | are so_covered the scales of heathen- dom that he can see no evil in China- town. ¥ blood was stirred at that Investi- | gation when the Mayor and the Chief of | Police said they looked upon this form of | vice as a necessary evil. It was blasphemy on deceny. First these noble men, guardians of the law, plead ignor- ance, and then when cornered they say this vice is a necessary evil. “Chinatown has never been s=o stirved his committee came down there to inves- | tigate. These bills introduced+«by him will aild greatly in ridding the State of | this blot upon its fair name, and I ap- eal to the Legislature to give us such 7/3‘ 2 TILLEYS FLAG . WILL REMAIN American Commander De- cides to Hold His Post || at Pago Pago. ——— | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CALL HEADQUARTERS, ¥ G| STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, Feb. | 24.—Commander Benjamin F. Tilley will | § remain in command of the naval station | § | of Tutuila. - Secretary Long recently gave | him to understand that if he cared to! be detached from his present duty neces- | f§ | sary orders would be issued. To the de- | §| partment’s gratification Commander Til- | § | ley_replied that he preferred to remain | §/| at Pago Pago until he had completed the | work of establishing American rule ovér ! the Samoan Islands belonging to the|§ | United_ States. | Commander Tilley has been in com. mand of the Abarenda and in the South | Seas for almost two years. Secretary | Long will give him leave of absence and s gine Pago Pago. His administration has beey measurements and you warmly praised by the department offi- cials, g ou live ou SAMOA, Feb. §—The Kalser's birthday | results. If ¥ was celebrated with great display a Apia on January 27 last. Elaborate prep- | arations had been made and a large sum | of money voted by the Gershan Govern- ment for expenses. Governor Solf has speedily settled a difficulty between the districts of Atua and Falealili, which were about to do| battle with each other. He went to the disturbed district with Tamasese and a Soumanutafa, ascertained the cause of the trouble and arrested the ringleaders. .The Bamoans of German Samoa have during the last few months surrendered | a custom day suit. Yours truly, ables men to dress well live from San Francisca. ples. freely with sample-. to the authorities nearly ans which they withheld from the Joint High Com- mission in 1569, 2 o Boy Accidentally Shot. James Donde, a boy aged 12 years, who resides at 1212 Clay street, while hunting | in the Berkeley hills yesterday afternoon was accidentally shot in the righ with a 22-caliber rifle by a ¥ whose name the fnjured boy refused to divulge, The accident occurred while the weapon was being loaded. ostaLCaro-OneCen. %{ UNITED STATES OFAMERICA bt S Lige . Concerning our $io made=to=-order suits S. N. WOOD & CO.—Dear Sirs: Suit arrived this morning O K. Am much pleased with same. JE——— The suit was made to order for Mr through our self-measuring system, which en- He picked out a suitable cloth, took his ovig us—you are sure of satisfaction. If you can call come in and look over our line of $10 mace-tc-crder suits; we will supply you SNWOOD 5(0: 718 Market Street. oy CAL/ arteed—3Z1(_ er writes: D——o. Cal. Could not fit better for an every- E.P.H—h H. no matter how far they We sent him the sam- observe the satisfactory t of San Francisco write