The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1901, Page 8

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATUBDA’Y, APRIL 6, 1901 AMERICAN RAILROADS TO BE CONSOLIDATED Reports Gain Circulation That the Morgan Syndicate Is Planning a Combination of All the Big Lines NEW YORK, April 6.—Reports that| huge railroad combinations are in process | the country, the New York Press will say of formation were widely circulated here | I L s Siaanal aceirding ity the 0-d: Detailed statements CODCErning | ;.. authority obtajnable, is a ‘commu- e plan already published looking to the | nity of interests.”. The ciose amalgama- mbination of all the great railway sys-| tion on a ‘community of interests’ basis ns of the Unjted States under the con- | Was first brought about through the ef- | e - forts J. Pierpont Morgan. As a result of one company were given, but as a | (0" & Sios, “Union of Interest ruinous general thing prominent railroad officials | Yate wars are At o feci). et N and bankers declined to discuss the mat- | many high-priced offic . needed as ter. ‘hlf{){fl and one bu ket on any According to all accounts the enterprise | trunk line In almost a of the large invoived ihe greatest cobmbination of |offices in the city. However, not a singie be formed under the New | company will over all the railroads Jersey laws to ta of the country is by well informed railway me nown in the history of finance. said the company would be formed he laws of New Jersey for the pur- conducting a general freight and X e imegs ihroughaut the | Dispatches recelved in this city to-night tes; that the company would | from Cincinnati stated that gigantic a_controlling interest in all the gr amalgamation of four railways under the | Evetems. and that the manage- | guiding hand of J. Pierpont Morgan had | of the ds would be vested in the | already tzken plac roa men- | controlling company. | tioned” were the Southern Railway, the | y Cineinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the | According to the propogition ezch road identity and corporate Chicago, Indianapolis and_Louisville a new company would Cinef ti Southern. Relative to this | s of all. this poliey, articular report, Samuel Thoma: large of money dent of the Chicago, Indianapolis s a result of economics | Louisville Railroad, to-night said: d the stopping of rate| “At the at time there is little to say | s of me like J. Pier- t the 1 believe the report that | s a lit- | pont re William K Vanderbil: from Cincinnati, however, James J, Hill, Bdward B. Harriman, Dbit premature. I do not believe the George J. Gould, John D. Rockefeiler, Ja- | amdlgamation bas been effected yet. Itis cob 1. Schiff and James Stillman were |true that steps are under consideration freely used. looking toward a _combination of the One r stated that the first step in | roads mentioned. I think it will be ef- the proposed plan would be the securing | fected, for all of the interests are favor- of control of the stocks of the Chicago, | able to it. It can scarcely be called an Burlington and Quincy, the Brie, the | amalgamation of the roads under the Northern and the Northern Pacific, | scheme that is under consideration. It is ization of power looking merely a_cent interests of the various toward the best road t provision would be made for the jon of other properties in the im- | future. Djscussing the reported T I T 2 0 i e v e e e el POLIC “HIM HOLD COURT FOR THE WORK |Mexican Railroad Contrac- | tors Said to Use a Pe- culiar System. Controversy Between Judges in Omaha Furnishes ! Brief Comedy. Special Dispatch to The C Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA. April 5—Two Police Judges, | D! » April 5.—Merrill R. Mitchell, each claiming gal pos: jion of the Po- |a civil engineer, who for tre last two bench and one getting anl | yvears has been superintending the con- | by force of a squad of umi- |struction of the Mexican Central Railroad | icemen, was the spectacle her2 | from Guadalajara to the Pacific Coast, | s in Denver to-day on his way Bast. | ] I Gordon, the said: | ce Judge, who was 1 new countries labor is scarce | action of the Mayor and we have had much difficulty in build- ing the grades. The work is let out to contractors and they in turn contract with | agents for any of iaborers that can | be furnished. 'or the last six monchs | these labor contractors imported Chinese | cooli who were kept in a condition of act slaver “The cooliesgare imported from China and their transportation is paid by the contractors, who hoid over their heads the debt thus contra ening but which a as Gordon's on from offi inis morning. He of the bench med patrolmen urrounded _the ners wer Crawford ounci juring his su s on | d. They are housea | ona m\{_t‘l‘(;\n the scene, | in camps which have absolutely no sar ness Gordon removed “‘ BRI W0 ‘v\urkeq u overcoat and, noticing that | Slaves. Besides this they are insufficiently fed and made to the bench . he o .he hardest Kind of | bro- | work, at which they are kept from four- upon | teen to sixteen hours. When the time of nd upon ,me up here,” said the new | fe-éngaged, as the contractors prefer to et e B sion and we cai’t | import a fresh lot, over whom they can | nd.” | hold the debt for their ation. b hore” re-echoed | “‘When one of t! becomes un- Scning out his arm |Tuly h tied to a stake and beaten and | otherw maltreated. Some of the forced by an ar- | Stronger but thos udge Gordon ac nd more courageous run away, who e captured are made ex- | > cos amples of by their cmvioyers. of s for poss X ) 3 d for posses | them die and no attention at all {s pail e Akt | to those who break down under the ter- | ed to Buch posses- | Fible strain imposed upon them.” sion d notice to t 2 CHIEF OF ARTILLERY HOTELS OF YELLOWSTONE | WILL RULE THE CORPS IN A NEW CORPORATION | Colonels Make Suggestions About the i e gt oy = . | Reorganization, but Shy at the Association’s Property in the Famous | Executivé Position. Wational Park Sold for Wearly WASHINGTON, April 5.—Secretary a Million Dollars. Root has been considering the subject of | ST. PAUL, April 5.—The Yellowstone | artillery regulations for the corps. The Park ation this afternoon sold out | reorganization act provided that the Sec- | = in_the | retary should prescribe regulations, and k to the Yellowstone Park |under this clause he has sought informa- | jortation Company. which consists | tion from the army officers qualified to | Huntley and E. W. Bache of He- | make suggestions. He has requested the t.. and H. W. Childs of St. Paul, | views of colonels of artillery and most | being close to one mil- these have been received and are now | = being considered. | When the regulations are formulated | and adopted a chief of artillery will be | named and two additional officers selected for members of the ordnance and forti- fication board. Several colonels of artil- |lery have indicated their disinclination to | as chief of artillery, as the selec- carries with it no additional rank or and everv colonel is now in com- nd of some post. a more pleasant duty n can be found as chief of artillery ationed in Washington and directly sub- rdinate to the officers in the department with the whole responsibility of the corps on his hagds. y e items transferred were the gs Hotel, recently the Fountain Hotel, $100.- n Hotel, $100.000, and the b ides four lunch sta- propert J. H. Des d company, will be ma and the transportation | the possessor of all tac | rk tions preside ) ager of the new now the p: se tion in Large Gifts to a College. —Speaking to-night Allegheny President CAC College William (of amni ;14_ :"N‘-“! lh?‘ { New Railroad Vice President. R s R pan rd| RICHMOND, Va, April 5.—James.M. Memor by Captain Ford' of | Barr, vice president cf the Atchison, To- Pittsburg, §30.000; for a new library build- | peka and Santa-Fe, has accepted the po- ing. by a friend, $40.000: for the endow- | sition of first vice president and gene ment fund. by a friend, $60,000; from other | manager of the Sea Board Air Line sy sources, $40,000. fem and will probably take charge May 1. N HELP IMPORT SLAVES thelr contract has expired they are rarely | H. e 1] | wife. child and sister, Captain E. A. Nel {later will go on the run befween San TRANSPORT KILPATRICK SAILS ~ |FARMER IN BATTLE WITH TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINES ~ WITH MADDENED BULL Several Cubans Who Came Here From Havana With the|Infuriated Animal Attacks the Man in a Fifteenth Cavalry Are at First Ref used Passage, but Are Passed as 'Officers’ Servants by General Shafter . THE VESSEL HAS BEEN CHARTERED BY H. R. DUFFIN, WHO WILL NOME AND TELLER CITY. STEAMSHIP RUTH AS SHE WILL APPEAR WHEN REMODELED AND IN TRIM FOR THE CAPE NOME TRADE. e RUN HER TO GODOLFIN BAY, of martial | pores’ steamship Arequipa arrived from | Valparaiso via Mazatlan yesterday. She left Mazatlan two d: after the Pacific | | Mail Company’s Cit of Sydney, bat passed that vessel at 10 o'clock. Thursday HERE was plenty music on the transport whart vesterday. It is some time sin military band went to the Phil- paraiso, 412 days. . 30 hours from Eu- Stmr Chico, Dearborn, reka. Br stmr Arequipa, Lee, 43 days from Val- via Panama 26 days, via Mazatlan Bark Andrew Welch, Colly, 19 days from ippines and the last one that Ald | njgh¢. She has only 250 tons of freight | Honolulu. 50 departed In silence. The transport | and the following passengers: Schr Sparrow, Clement, 3 days from Eureka. Kilpatrick sailed promptly at noon yes-| A Mosca, M. Montiglio, from Callao; H. CLEARED. 2 terday and with her went the headquar- | Schellenger, wife and two children, A. Amama, | Friday, April 5. ters band of the Eleventh Infantry. While | gi;a‘e‘{. Dreste, Mrs. Dreste, M. Cortez and B. | Stmr c&';m{g:. Glelow, San Pedro; Goodall, the soldiers were on the wharf the band | . Stmr Santa Ress, Alexander, San Diego; plaved and as the steamship moved away | e ity of Sydney brovght up ebous | Goodan, Perins g co. T o » ok S . 4, 0 tmr Umatilla, ‘ousins, ctoria; oodall, from the wharf the strains of a rollick- | fo]lowing passengers: Perkihal X € ; ing cakewalk came over the water. | D. 8. Parkes, George R.. Polack, A. W.| Ship Oriental, Parker. Pyramid Harbor; The Kilpatrick took dway 5 officers and | Ablett, Richard Rodell, Cristobal and Angela | Alaska Packers' Association. 319 men of the Eleventh Infantry, 1 officer | Seckabizza, Juan Perusina, Rosario Perusina, |, Ship McLaurin, Courtney, Bristol Bay; and 97 men of the Fifteenth Cavalry, 5| Adella Jiminez, Exaquira Rublo, Juan Sanchez, | “poyic °p'Rithet, McPhall, Honolulu; Welch | F. Berkin and Reynolds, officers and 271 men of the First Infantry Both 1hid Bikey. and Apauibs tan tpEo &g(‘;". gl R e and 2 officers and 150 men of the Tenth e Sydney an Schr Maria E Smith, Nilsen, Bristol Bay: e There 18 also aboard ten male | 50T heavy weather coming up the coast. | Alaska Packers) Association ' = "o civ . two iemale nurses, twenty fe- | sen. i 3 1 male civilians and fourteen children. Freight From New York. SAILED. Among those who went away in the| The American-Hawalian Steamsnip Friday, April 6. cabin were: Major R, H. Zanner and | Company’s Hawaiian arrived from New | Stmr Tyonic, Bennett, Seattle. wife, Major Walter Whitney and wite, Chaplain J. A. Potter and wife, Captain A. Peed and wife, Captain T. Franklin, | York Thursday night. She brought no pas- | sengers, but has aboard an enormous car- 80. sAfter discharging the Hawaiian will wick and wife, Captain T. T. Jacksor | g0 from here to Honolulu to load sugar and wife, Captain J. H. Goldman, wife | for the East. Captain Banfield, who brinzs and two children, Lieuienant F. F. Ot's, | the Hawailan here on hcr maiden voyase, and after coaling sailed again the n day. There were no_incidents pas: through the Straits of Magellan and March 8 Coronel was reached. After a | | stop of two days the big freighter was headed for San Francisco, arriving as | above. also sailed on the transport. ct The nurses were Miss Estelle Hine and | Miss Edith Richmond. Eight Cubans, who came from Havana | with the Fifteenth Cavalry, were at firs: Tefused passage to Maniia. The officers of the squadron asserted that the men were their servants and insisted on taking | them along. The matter was referred to | General Shafter and he vermitted the Cubans to sail on the Kilpatrick. RUTH IS TO BE REMODELED. B E AT Tries to Commit Suicide. Linnet Bausen jumpe1 into the bay from Union-street wharf yesterday. He was rescued and taken to the Harbor Hospi- Gi c S - ;ml and was soon out of dgnger. Bausen | Arrived April 5—Stmr Humboldt, from | Smart Steam Schooner Sold and Will | formerly worked here in a restaurant | Aa%ka, ? | and, getting tired of his job, went to Chi- ; A‘n’;}, [ Snival ool & Sl a0 henel Be Turned Into Passenger Boat. | gaco The steam schooner Ruth changed hands | recently and in the future will fly | the house flag of Charles Nclson. She is | almost a new vessel and one of the smart- est steam schooners on the coast. The new owner is going to have her remodelcd | and when the Ruth again goes to sea she will be a thoroughly eguipped passenger boat. At present she is in Seattle, but | will come here to be built up. A deck- house will be added and cabin accommo- dations of the latest design put in. The Ruth is going into the goffl field trade. She is to sail irom here about May. | 2 for Golofnin Bay, Nome City and Tel- ler. Passengers, freight and baggage for | Golofnin Bay will be transferred to u | river steamer and landed at Chinick Cit The Ruth was bujlt for A. W. Beadls | in 1898 and is 378 tons gross burden, 151 | feet long, 33 feet 5 inciies broad and 10 | feet 7 inches deep. Sihe has been chartered by H. R. Duffin for the Nome season and A few weeks ago he came back i0 San Francisco to look for his brother. Failing to find him he grew despondent and tried to drown himself. The doctors at the hospital think the man is demented. An old battered valise containing a few | articles of woman's clothing was foun: B near where Bausen jumped into the bay a and some one started a story that woman had also jumped overboard. Tt police investigated the matter and say there is no truth in the rumor. - Water Front Notes. The repairs to the German ship Edmund, that went ashore at Santa Rosalia, will take considerable time and will be very expensive. More than 150 new plates will have to be put in, 100 plates taken out and straightened and ‘the deck beams repaired. The overhauling will be done at the Union | Iron Works. The Edmund was bound | from Santa Rosalia for Portland in bal- | last. Soon after a start had been made the wind fell light and the ship drifzed ashore. The tug Deflance was sent from here to her assistance and about the mul- dle of January got her off and towed her to San Francisco. The Bdmund was for- | merly the British ship William Tell. The schooner Reliance was sold by th> A m| [t t Francisco and Puget Scund ports. From South American Ports. The Compania Sud Americana de Va- Expectant Motherhood McDonald, Ga., July 18, 1900. woman £o take Wine of Cardui. While | was guln%uwlfl\ my jed to stay in bed for days at a time but this time | Wine of Cardui and Thedford’s Black-Draught and have been able to do-all my housework expecting every day to be confined. My hus} of Cardui is the best medicine in the world. He tala>s a dose of Thedford’s Black-Draught ¢ and gives some to the children. He has not lost a day from work this year. is friends about your wonderful medicines and 1 tell my lady friends to use your 1 advise every sufferin; other children | was comj without any trouble. |am © nig He el Wine of Cardui. There are thousands of women who shrink in terror at the thought of the baby’s coming. But child-birth is one of the workings of Nature and it was not intended to imply torture and agowy to the heroic mothers of the race. The woman who suffers torture during pregnancy by some indiscretion, injured the organs which make her 2 woman. Neglect of pains, falling of the womb and leucor- rhoea, and the period of pregnancy is necessarily distressing under these conditions. menstrual irregularities leads to ovarian Eor the menstrual function perfectly and eventually make the and childbirth have no terrors for the woman will bring its precious burden to will regulate strong healthy woman need not fear childbirth. Wine of Cardui c: as “female diseases” and equips the sensitive generative organs for United States Marshal vesterday for $1500 to Charles Conklin. She was libeled by A. W. Beadle & Co. to secure payment of a number of debts. Southeast_storm signals were flying on the water front vesterday afterngon and captains of ships were busy until dark- ness set in making their vessels snug for the night. The schooner Archie and Fontie had to anchor off the Cliff House vesterday af- ternoon. She was coming in from Stew- arts Point when her sicering gear broke. Distress signals were set and the life-sav- ing crew went out to ner. Later a tug was sent out and towed her in. ¥ By, < m ve taken thinks Wine The Erema Claudina will load Ilumber at Bureka for Honolulu; the G. W. Watson, mer- Coquille Riv teawan, ship Giooscap, bourne. eand Pomon: Stinr Corona, Hinkle,” Newport. Stmr Mackinaw, Littiefleld, Seattle. Stmr Nome City, Daniels, 'San Diego. Stmr Gipsy, Leland, Santa Cruz. U S stmr Kilpatrick, Rogers; Manfla, via Honolulu. Nor stmr Kvarven. Kanitz, Nanaimo. Bark Harvester, Wickburg, Karluk. wife and three children and nurse, Lieu- | js well known in the New York-San Fran. | Brig W G Irwin, Garthley, Roche Harbor. tenant C. N. Jones and wife, Victor Em- | cisco trade, having been here as master | Schr Ocean Spray, Olsen, Iversens Landing. den and wife and C. G. Clifford and wife. | of the bark St. James and ship Edwarc | Schr J G Wall, Jensen, Eureka. Mrs. C. Long, wife of Sergeant Long of | O’Brien. « Schr Bender Bros, Wetzel, Point Arena. Company A, Tenth Infantry, and Mrs. | “The Hawalian left New York sixty-eighc | - Schr Viking, Mortenson, Mazatlan. | Charles * Bernhardt, wife of Corporal | days ago and had an uneventful voyage. TELEGRAPHIC. Bernhardt of Company C. Tenth Infantry, | She arrived at St. Lucia on February 3| POINT LOBOS, April 5, 10 p m—Weather thick; wind S; velocity 20 miles per hour. MISCELLANEOUS. SE storm signals have been ordered from San Francisco north to Eureka, Humboldt Co. | DOMESTIC PORTS. SAN DIEGO—Arrived April 5—Stmr Homer, | from Trinidad. « RBOR—Arrived April 4—Stmr hence March 30. April 5—Stmr hence April 1. Arrived April 4—Stmr Czarina, GRAYS race Dollar, SEATTLE: hence March 30; stmr Farallon, from Skaguay. Sailed April 4—Stmr Ruth, for San Fran- sco; stmr Czarina, for Tacoma. SOUTH BEND—Arrived April 5—Stmr Rival, hence April 2. EVERETT—Sailed April 5—Schr Premier, for ristol Bay. NEAH BAY—Passed our April 5—Stmr Mat- from Tacoma, for San Francisco; Br from Port Blakeley, for Mel- PORT TOWNSEND—Arrived April 4—Br bark Ivanhoe, from Royal Roads, for —. EUREK ailed April 5—Stmrs Brunswick or San’ Franclsco, \rrived April 5—Stmr Santa Barbara, hence pril 4. ASTORIA—Arrived April 5—Stmr Columbia, hence Anril 3. VENTURA—Salled April 5—Stmr Geo Loo- is, for €~ Francisco. TART BRAGG—Salled Aoril 5—Stmrs Na- onal City and Sequota, for San Franciseo. SAN PEDRO-Sailed April 5—Schr Orfent, for Grays Harbor. FOREIGN PORTS. HONGKONG—Arrived April 5—Br stmr Cop- c, hence March 7. 5 NAGASAKI—Arrived April 5—Ship John A Briges, from Philadelphia. OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW _ YORK—Arrived April toria, from Hamburg. BOSTON—Arrived April 5—Stmr Common- wealth, from Liverpool and Queenstown. BREMEN—Arrived April 5—Stmr Lahn, from | New York. GENOA—Arrived April 5—Stmr Aller, via Gibraltar. CHERBOURG—Sailed April 5—Stmr Deutsch- | land, from Bremen and Southampton, for New York. LIVERPOOL—Arrived April 5—Stmr Irish- wan, from Boston: stmr New England, from 5—Stmr Astoria, Boston. MOVILLE—Sailed April from Glasgow, for New York. LONDON—Sailed April 5—Stmr Evangeline, for Halifax and St John. Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey— Times and Heights of High and Low Waters at_Fort Polnt, entrance to San Francisco Bay. Published by official au- thority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at the city front (Mission-street wharf) about twenty-five minutes later than at Fort Point; the height of tide is the same at both places. chandise here for same ‘port: the Ivanhoe, SATURDAY, APRIL 6. A:ml:;r gl };flrt B:llkele)’ g;r Bi(elyourne. 578 B e Senator, wheat at Seattle for Kurope, | Sun rises Mrs. GEORGIA LEE. 3 6d; the Star of Bengal, lumber on Puget | Sun sets .;Zl Sound for Adelaide, 61s 3d; the British steamer | Moon rises m. Warfleld, wheat at Tacoma, for West Coast, 278 6d; ‘the British steamer Monmouthshire, Iheat ‘st Portland for St. Vincent for orders; s 6d. LAl Time H Wi Time L W . | Time T Wi Merchandise for Mexico. ‘The schooner Viking Cleared yesterday for Mazatian with 5000 gals gasoline, 500 ctls bar-, ley, 100 bales hay, 70 cs dynamite, 25 kegs nalls, 28,500 Ibs powder, 2 cs caps and fuse, 54 bdls shooks, 205,956 ft lumber and 12 cs and at child-birth has usually, 8 24 ¢ ¢ 2 s 4 D isietiem hardware. The cargo was valued at $8385.¢ NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides 5—Stmr Pre- | Stall and Is Goring When His Huge Mastiff Interferes MIDDLEPORT, N. J., April 5.—Jere- miah Sommers, a farmer living near this village, is suffering from terrible injuries inflicted by a bull. Sommers entered a box stall where the animal was kept yes- terday and was The man attempted to escape, but found that he had locked himself in. The maddened animal lowered its head and dashed at Sommers, who ran toward a ladder and grasped the lower rung, shouting loudly for help. Just as he had puiled himself up to the first round the Buil again charged. this time knocking @ il DIES IGNORMNT OF HIS RICHES Insane Man Who Owned a Silver Mine Passes Away in Kansas. o Speclal Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, April 5.—A millionaire who Inever knew of his fortune, although he was 36 years cld, died yesterday after- noon in an insane asylum in Wichita, Kans., where he had spent the last twen- ty years. He was Willlam ‘Wood, owner of the Little mma mine, at Aspen, Colo., one of the richest silver mines ever dis- covered. The Emma mine, which is the sole prop- erty of the estate, reverts to William Wood’'s mother, Mrs. Margaret Billings, who is now living in Canada. Judge P. | L. Hubbard, who has protected Wood's interests ever since he was appointed con- servator of the estate, in 1893, will be lected as administrator. Comparatively little will go to Mrs. Billings on account its title to the mine. The death of Wood closes a remarkable story, which has been rehearsed over and over again in the courts for the last sev- enteen years. The Little Emma was staked by W. J. Wood, father of the in- sane man. commenced in 1584. Jerome Wheeler, who poverty, and received deeds to the mine for small sums. representing that it was valueless, although at that time it was producing more silver than any | mine in the world. J. H. Casserleigh of Leadyille hunted up the Wood heirs, informed them of Wheel- er's deception, and they began their fight { for the mine in_1890. that, however, Willlam Wood had been made insane by a blow on the head. He was then 16 years old. He was struck in a saloon brawl in Wichita, Kans. Ulti- mately he hecame sole owner of the prop- | erty. ~ At the time of his death he was { about to be taken to Europe under the treatment of specialists in the hope of restoring his reason. TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN'S CONSUL AT SANTIAGO Pauncefote Thanks the Navy Depart- ment for the Honor Bestowed on His Majesty’s Official. WASHINGTON, April 5.—The Navy De- partment recently supplied to a Panncefote a photograph of the beautiful bronze tablet which it was about to place | upon the house in Santiago occupled by the late Frederick W. Ramsden, the Brit- ish Consul, who exerted himself £o0 benev- | olently in aid of the American residents and prisoners during the siege. The State acknowledgement from the British em- bassy, in which Lord Pauncefote says: 1 am forwarding the photograph to His Ma- jesty's Government, who will, I feel sure, be highly gratified -at this geneérous recognition of Mr. Ramsden’s service to American naval prisoners during the Spanish-American war, and at the expression of apbreciation with which you and Mr. Long were kind enough to company it. 1 am, dear Mr. Secretary. ¥ very truly, PAUNC The Hon. Jobn H e ! School Regulation for Women. | BERLIN, April 5.—Dr. Steudt, Prussian Minister of Public Instruction, has issued a decree requiring henceforth that all wo- | men auditors at Prussian universitles shall, before admission, show the same schooling as the men. immediately attacked. | 1 | d placed | Department has just received a letter of | Litigation over the property | fought to get control of the mine, found | Mrs. Wood and her family, who were in | other | | of the present differences. Nine years before | | Potter, Plea | and Harry Nahm. | ashore, arri Him to Death Special Dispatch to The Call. Sommers from the ladderand cutting a de‘:‘p gash in his left side, ripping through his heavy leather jumper, vest and two Sommers was floored by the animal’s on- slaught and was being gored when Fred man, broke in Scholts, Sommers’ hired with Sommers’ dog, a big mastiff. The dog gave battle and forced the bull to Jeave Sommers, whereupon Scholts ran in and dragged the injured man from the stall. Sommers was so severely injured that he will probably die, and the mastift was so badly hurt by the bull that it had to be shot. L] MILEAGE STEM THEIR DEMAND Railway Employes Await- ing Action by a New Jersey Road. NEW YORK, April 5.—A conference was held to-day in this city of the heads of the national organizations of railway em- | ployes and the chiefs of the organization of men employed on the Central Railway of New Jersey. At a secret conference held yesterday an invitation was sent by resolution to C. H. Warren, second vice president and general manager of the Central Railway of New Jersey, asking him to be present to-day and confer with the labor representatives and listen to their grievances. After be- ing in session for an hour to-day there was a recess fo await the receipt of an answer from Warren. The men are now paid by the day. The request on the part of the conductors, en- gineers and firemen and other train men is that the mileage system be substituted £ th 2 5 to which the Eqwle:and that 100 miles be adjudged a day's of the vast expens v s has been put in defending suits atfacking | work. After waiting all day for an answer from Vice President Warren the confer- ence was adjourned to-night. The confer- ence will convene again to-morrow and remain in session until either a favorable reply has been received to the request for a joint conference with the officials of the road or until, in case of a refusal by the officials to aecede to the demand of the men, some other plan of action has been ermined upon. As showing the feeling among the men, is understood that the conductors, it whose wages have recently been adjusted on a scale satisfactory to them, have ac- cepted and allowed to go in force their new agreement conditioned upon a settle- ment satisfactory to the other employes From 2500 to 3000 men are interested in the results of the conference. GRAND JURY INDICTS FROLICSOME YOUNGSTERS Boys Who Participated in’ the Esca- * pade at Potter’s College Will Be Punished. BOWLING GREEN, Ky., April 5.—Five young men belonging to some of the best and wealthiest families of Bowling Green and themselves members of the city's most exclusive social circles were indicted by the Grand Jury to-day for partici- pating In an escapade at Potter’s College Saturday, in which several young women attending the college were also involved. The young men are Roland Fitch, Willis ant Potter, Floyd M. Nahm It is charged that they placed a ladder to a window of the college and enticed (h ris_from the college, and when Professor Cabell, president of the college, fired upon the men, they re- turned the fire, hout wounding him. The young men assert that they intended to_take the girls to a “duck supper.” The young women whom the indictment charges the young men with attempting to takeé?from the college are Misses Lena Hopkins of Louisiana, Ruth Hayes and ~orence Cottrell of Cloverport, Ky.; Bes- ste Simpson of Nicholasville, Ky. and Bessle Boyer of Indiana. -— Cheaper Than Staying at Home. $20, including berth and meals, for a five days’ trip on the elegant steamship Co- rona, sailing every Friday for San Pedro and Los Angeles, calling at Santa Cruz, Monterey, Port Harford, Gaviota, Santa Barbara, Ventura and other interesting points, allowing time for passengers to go ng in San Francisco Wed- nesday mornin Pacific Coast Steamship Co., office 4 New Montgomery street, un- der Palace Hotel. B L S ] ] Honolulu |Puget Sa ‘anaimo San Diego |Tacoma. {Newport ydney & Way ‘ortland_& Coos Bay. Joquille River .. “hina and Japan . [Humbolat City of Para.....Panama & Way Ports.|Apr. 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