The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1901, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21 C oPE Ll = \ Augmented Choir Will| Render Songs at St. Dominics. g of Sermons to Be reached To-Day in the Churches. e By programme will be ted choir in St. vening. It is as tion (@'Evry); O Filii et Fil- eolo, Miss Mc- Lawrence; “‘Sa Ka solo, Miss Roeder; “Sion ); O Salutaris” (Widor); organ awrence, tenor; Walton Palmer, organist and three weeks Rev. H. H. s been addressing large Sunday afternoons orium on n speak this aft- “A Young Man's All 5 g men are invited. er of the First M. B. h morning on “The ng on “The he even of the Simpson Me- reach this morning nds For” and in will preach_ this versus Man's ing on “Defeat, n. preach the Righteous' the Sepulcher. e Calvary Pres- ch_this evening pplied to Religion.” ams of the First Con- reach this morn- and in the il the sub- this morning at the rst Church of Christ, of ‘the Central morning on d to Man.” f the Hamilton will preach this i and Its Lessons” The Ark and Its er pastor of the preach this n of Power.” Third Con- 1l preach this morn- f Weak People” and the Hebrew Pro- astor of the First this morning ward.” 2 his morning on e of Jesus on Com- e California-street this morni on * ce M. E. Church the “Power of the even- a Silesian priest tual wants of the Colony a: will be_ ob- M TROOPS. day cabled these , Sergeant Pa- Company B, March 15, st Infantry, John E. 14, Company E, antry, Cesario sea, Company B, Ira L. Walker; enth Infantry, ny C, Fi yvered—March 30, Alfred G. be Richmond M. | morning on | - | feap—The Unknown w. —General Mac- | Company C, batta- | A Bobery; | CHILOREN'S DAY AGAIN REVIVED Commission Selects May- day for Next Grand Jubilation. Ll The Playground Is Being Im-| proved and New Foun- | tains Erected. L Golden Gate Park will echo with the merry shouts of children on May day.” So ! | Park Commisesioners Lioyd, cDonald and Stanton decided at their meeting yes- terday afternoon. They decided to throw the park wide open to the youngsters on that d and Superintendent McLaren, who is a veteran in such affairs, was in- structed to go ahead with the preliminary arranzements. Commissioner McDonald is turning the children’s play ground almost upside down with improvements, and oxpects to | make it fulfill the purposes for which it | was originally intended. He reported that | the work of improvement was rapidly pro- gressing and that the play ground would | be in condition on May day for the recep- tion of the youngsters. A big tent will be | erected, under which the children will be | fed in relays, a gaudily decked Maypole | will be planted on the lawn, new swings | will be erected, the donkeys and goats | will be replenished and pink lemonade of | the “really and truly” circus kind will be | on tap. There are other features, including | & Punch and Judy show and a performing | bear that may be added to the pro-| gramme. | Two new fountains are to be erected | near the Music Valley, and Commisisoner | Stanton, who accepted the designs, was instructed to select places for them. The fountains will be of granite, capped by a vase, from which fowering vines will traj On the face a lion’s head and open shell, with fishes supporting it, will sup- ply and receive the water. The coat of arms of the city will be cut into the stone. These fountains will be placed in position immediately. A committee from the Epworth League has asked that appropriate fioral designs be planted before the July convenuon, and that the giving of a sacred concert some afternoon during the week be al- | lowed. The request wiil be granted. Efforts are to be made to have a larger band and better music on Sundays and | holidays. - Commissioner McDonald will | terview the officers and directors of the | arket Street Railway with a view to- ward getting a larger appropriation for | music. Work was commenced yesterday on the | floral designs that will blossom out a wel- | come to President McKinley when he vis- its the park. The designs are patriotic. An ordinance introduced by Commis- | sioner Lloyd prohibiting the shooting of | seals or the discharge of firecrackers, | bombs and other noisy things in or abourt | the vitinity of Seal Rock was taken under consideration until the next meeting. RESULTS OF RACING ON EASTERN TRACKS NEW YORK, April 20.—Results at Aque- | auct: { About seven furlongs, eelling—Blewaway won, ls:m—pm second, Her Ladyship third. Time, | S 4-5. ve furlongs, ecret selling—Sir Tom Tiddle won, second, Equalize third. Time, | 1:04 One mile and seventy vards—Pupil won, King Bramble second, Magic Light third. Time, bout seven furlongs, the Arverne stakes— Robert Waddell won, Outlander second, Sadie Time, 1:25 1. z Four and a half furlongs, selling—Optional yon. Red Damsel second, Neither One third. ime, 256 4-5. Five and a half furlongs—Janice won, Isla second, Kentucky third. Time, 1:08 3-5. MEMPHIS, April 20.—Results at Mont- | | gomery Park: Six furlongs, selling—Uncle Tom won, Water- | | crest second, Francis Reis third. Time, 1:17. One mile and a sixtecnth, selling—Janowood | won, Our Nellie second, Merriman third. Time, | 1:5) | ven and a half furiongs—Wild Pirate won, | Bowen second, Senator Beverldge third. Time, | | 1:373%. One mile and an e} Peabody Hotel hand- | Alard Scheck second, Amelia Strathmore third. Time, 1:56%. | | “Four and a half furiongs—Kentucky Muddle | | won, The Esmond sccond, Best Man third. | Time, -5 Six_furlongs—Expelicd_won, Princess Otilla | sccond, Grantor third. Time, 1:17. | CINCINNATI, April 20.—Results Newport: First race, six furlongs—McManus won, St. Sidney second, Mazetta third. Time, 1:22%. Second race, one mile, selling—Birdle May | won, Divertisement second, Banquo II third | | Time, 1:53. Third race, six furlongs—Waterhouse -won, | Insurrection second, Strathbroeck third. Time, | 122 at | Fourth race, four furlongs—Pirate Girl won, | Follow eecond, Paul Bart third. Time, :52. |~ Fifth race, seven furiongs—Dr. Black won, | Forbush secomd, W. G. Welch third’ Time, | Ikt Sixth race, six furlongs, selling—Saragamp won, Virginia T second, Prince of Song third. Time, 1:22%. CHICAGO, April 20.—Lakeside results: First race, one mile—Rhinelander won, Little Tim second, Hood's Brigade third. Time, 1:43 4-5. four furlongs—South Elkhorn | | won, Haydon second, Amole third. Time, :50. | “Third race, one mile—W. J. Deboe won, | Charley Moore second, Thurles third. Time, 1:42 2-5. | Fourth race, five furlongs—Money Muss won, Emma M second, Triaditza third. Time, 1:00 4-5. | Fifth race, seven furlongs—Pirate’s Queen won, Lady Idris second, Educate third. Time, Second race, | 1:29. Sixth race, one mile and a quarter—Kentucky | Babe won, Frangible second, George Lee third. | Time, 2:11 1-5. — | We answer the questions briefly. If you cut an artery | in your arm you do | pot_take internal medicine to stop the | flow of blood. YOU USE_ LOCAL AP- PLICATIONS. Sim- ilarly when the ure- thral ducts become weakened and re- laxed it is ridicu- lous to take inter- nal treatment, through the stomach reaches the seat of al ducts project into through the Prostate asily reached by LOCAL “Gran-Solvent” soluble ssolve, digest and forever pain, injury or incon- ies are inserted at e you sleep. *“Gran- ery symptom of stric- al as healthy as when N0 BRUTAL CUT- TING. NO INJECTIONS THE MEMBRANE. NO Space will not permit a ames Treatment in urethral dis. ti, Oh! 1l send securel: HY IT GURES MEN. Why the Frightiul Tensjon of Stricture is Dissolved Like Snow Beneath the Sun—IN FIFTEEN DAYS. Wiy Weak Men Are Restored by the Magic St. James Treatment Applied Locally and Directly to the Affected Parts. complete description of eases. fure and its offspring, Prostatitis and Seminal Write to the St. James Assoclation, 20 St. James 1o, for their wonderful {llustrated work show- human system involved in urethral alil- INTERNAL DRUGGING TO RUIN THE STOMACH. The St. James treatment is log_z;l. gilregt and positive. 3 t the form of - Cravone . vers hared, in smooth, flexible and whoily soluble, which are irserted into the water p: e at night, where they dissolve and deposit the medication in its full strength upon the | Prostate Gland. contracting and strength. ening the ducts and FOREVER P PING DRAINS AND EMISSIONS and curing whil2 the patlent sleeps. Varicocele. Varicocele is an accumulation of slug- gish blood in the veins of the scrotum, due solely to imperfect circulation, and has its origin in a diseased and torpid Prostate Gland. Operations in this dis- ease are only temporary, and no me. chanical device yet discovered has cured a single case. Gran-Solvent heals the Prostate and restores healthy circulation Varicocele disappears and the sluggish accumulation is Teplaced - by pure, healthy red blood. Thousands of men strictured, weak, wasting and despondent were cured and restor by the St. James method last vear. A vast army of men in whom the Jight of-life has penetrated the fearful nightmare of stricture and seminal de- ca. the incomy _— suffe; very - | bookmaking, of Indian curios, of chin: | topic of current interest. ALLIED ARTS EXHIBITION CLOSES AFTER A SUCCESSFUL SEASON 3 = treasury of the club will be considerably benefited thereby. The closing ceremonies of the exhibition were in charge of Mrs. Arthur W. Crom- well and the following committee: Mrs. Scoville, Mrs. H. E. Highton, Mrs. Jacob Brandt, Mrs. Ella Sexton, Mrs. M. H. Cook, M:s. Emil Pohli, Mrs. Henry Damkroeger, Mrs. = L N a blaze of glory the Industrial and Allied Arts exhibition ended its suc- cessful course at Mechan) Pavil- ion last night. Tired but trijumphant the ladies of the California Club last night reviewed their second effort in the exhibition line and decided that all is indeed well with their work. From all sides have come hearty congratulations on | the complete and artistic character of the show and of the usefulness and import- ance of the task so effectively undertaken by the ladies of the California Club. The marked advance in interest in the exhibi- tion over the first one that took place two vears ago has also been most favorably noted and it will be learned with resret that this most probably will be the last Allied Arts exhibition undertaken by the California Club. After the interesting exhibits of the fine arts, of dainty laces, of the rare craft of painting, of leather work, of wood-carv- ing, and all the other things of beauty, the excellent concert repertoire of the ex- hibition must be awarded praise. Every afternoon and evening a good musical | programme has been provided with here and there an admirable talk on some The social side of the entertainment has also been a con- siderable feature of the exhibition and | congratulations all round are in order. It is understood that the exhibition has been a financial as well as social and artis- tic success and that the philanthropic @ Frel il ool ool @ BOTKIN GASE 10 B DELAYED Attorneys for Prisoner to Apply for Writ of Error. Mrs. .Cordelia Botkin will not again be tried for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dun- ning at Dover, Del., alleged to have been committed by means of poisoned candy sent through the mails, until after the United States courts have passed on the jurisdiction of the California courts to try her. A writ of error will be applied for in the United States District Court and the case carried through to the Supreme Court of the United States before any fur- ther action will be taken to try her again in the Superior Court of this city and county. Attorneys Knight and Heggerty were notified yesterday that the case was about to again be placed on the calendar in Judge Cook’s court. Mr. Knight went im- mediately to District Attorney Byington and requested that no action be taken in the case until after the matter of the writ of error had been disposed of by the United States courts. If the case was put on the calendar, Mr. Knight stated, it would necessitate a trial in thenear future, which would call for the presence of the witnesses from Dover, Del. If after their arrival proceedings were instituted in the United States courts it would stay the proceedings in the Superior Court for sSuch = length of time that the Delaware witnesses would be forced to return home, which would mean considerable loss to the State. Mr. Knight also explained that when the Delaware witnesses were sent for he would ask the court, in the interest of common justice, to authorize the payment of the expenses of some twenty witnesses who will be called upon to testify on be- half of the defendant. Mr. Heggerty stated that he desired the presence of ihe Delaware witnesses to show that the doctors who treated S, Dunning did not know the cause of the illness which caused her death. Mr. Heggerty also expects to prove that three persons other than Mrs, Dunning ate as large an amount of the alleged poisoned candy as Mrs. Dun- ning did and were not taken {ll. If this contentlon is proven to be a fact, Mrs. Botkin’s attorneys state it will appear that Mrs. Dunning, if her death was_due to arsenical poisoning, was given the drug through some medium other than the cl ~FREE candy. ————— RAINIER—Arrived April 20—Stmr Hansen, hrs from New Whatcom; 850 M lumber for Bellingham Bay Improvement Company. | ! e +| WINDING UP THE SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRIAL AND ALLIED ARTS EX- i HIBITION: OF THE CALIFORNIA CLUB LAST NIGHT IN MECHAN- ICS’ PAVILON. THE AFFAIR EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS. i il % Will E. Jackson, Miss Bernice Scoville, Miss | Caroline Snook, Miss Ida Kervan, Miss Kal- isher, Miss H. L. Stadtmuller, Miss Jennie Long and Miss Lucy Hawthorn. ' The afternoon programme was: Songs, “‘Siciliana” (Cavalleria Rusticana) o P. Mascagni Herbert Williams, Warren Hoscoe Lucy, accompanist. Violin solo ...... - Miss Alleen McCabe. Mrs. Noah Brandt, accompanist. Songs— (a) “‘One Spring Morning ..Nevins (b) “'Slave Song'’. Teresa Del Regio Miss Eugenia Brown. Mrs. Wilburn, accompanist. Piano solo, ‘Lucia_di Lammermoor” Miss Helen Desmond. Songs— (a) “‘Absent’” (b) ““Good-by”’ Wil G. Wood. Miss Ma: panist. The following program: the Svontig L ue wad sivey i | Song, prologue, ‘“‘Pagliacei’........Leoncav: Robert Lloyd. Miss Edith Adams, c:,&l.llo s Vankas soCoTPanist: ng, ‘“Vankas Song''. W1 Sirs. A. 5. Fletcher. “Fobert Tloya ™™ 2 accompanist. S(éello solo...... ...Dr. Arthur Regensberger nj gs— (a) “Irish Folk 2 (b) “Winds in the Tree Mrs. John Madden. Miss accompanist. Son; . --Knickerbocker g8 7 Herbert Willlams, first tenor; W. Smith, second tenor; D. B. Crane, first basso; L. A. Larsen, second basso. Quartet Dr. R. FAVORS A LINE T0 THE ORIENT President Encourages Chamber of Com- merce Men. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 20.—George A. Newhall, George W. McNear and Andrew Corrigan, representing the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, held a conference to-day with President McKinley and Sec- retary Root regarding the transportation of the Government supplies between San Francisco and Manila, and the possible establishment of a private steamship line between these points. The San Franciscans strongly urged the building_of an American line from the Pacific Coast to the Orient and impressed upon the President and Secretary of War the advisability of the Government en- couraging such an enterprise by granting to the new line a part of the enormous traffic of the Government to the Philip- pines. Wilh a guarantee or a reasonable certainty of a fair share of the Govern- ment business, the delegation assured the officials that an American Oriental line would be established with the most bene- ficial results in the development of Amer. E“{ trade in the Philippines and the ast, The establishment of this enterprise would not involve the abandonment of the Government transport service in the Pacific, which is indispensable under the present conditions in the Philippines, but a diversion of part of the Government business to the new'line would enable the War Department to dispense with many, or all chartered vessels now in the trans?| PThe delegatt that the Pres e delegation say tha e dent and Secretary Root are in sympathy with the proposition, and look favorably upon all possible Government encouragement of the movement to build up the Ameri. can trade in the Philippines and Far East and the transportation of American goods in American bottoms. The War Depart- ment wili the matter under consid- eration. Mearnwhile the Chamber of Com- merce delegation will visit New York in the interest of the scheme and probably return here for a further consultation with the Government officials, by whom they were most cordially received to-day. e POOLSELLERS DEMAND JURY TRIALS— The seventeen men arrested in A. B, Broyer's lrooms Friday appeared before Judge Ca. ss _yesterday and each demanded a ju trial. They were represented by Attomey Cob. lins.” The case of J. H. Roche, the keeper, was set for trial next Thursday afternoon. WINE SHOWERS SHAMROCK'S BOW Lipton’s Yacht Meets the Waters at Dum- barton. Lady Dufferin Christens the New Challenger for the Cup. DUMBARTON, April 20.—Shamrock® IT was satisfactorily launched to-day at Denny’s yards in the presence of a crowd of invited guests, employes. Lady Dufferin christened the new chailenger, which looked spick and span in its coat of white paint, rimmed with green, while the manganese bottom of the boat shone like a murror. 4 Lord and Lady Dufferin, Sir Thomas Lipton and others, who came from Glas- gow upon a special train, stood upon a raised platform decorated with Union Jacks, the Stars and Stripes and the Irish flag and with Venetian masts in green and white, which were the prevailing colors. Throughout the weather could not have been better. The sun shone brightly and overcoats were discarded. The employes of the Dennys had a holiday, and in fact all Dumbarton was en fete to see Lady Dufferin break the bottle of wine over the curiously snub-nosed bow of the boat. The British experts are very confldent about the new boat and think her the best that ever challenged for the cup. “But if you don’t win,” said a corre- spondent to Sir Thomas Lipton, “will you try it again?”’ “I expect next year to build a_defender, not a challenger,” was the diplomatic | answer. In this connection the manager of Den- nys' yard said: “When James Gordon Bennett saw Shamrock II here a few weeks ago he said, ‘Well, if she wins I'm prepared to build a challenger.’ At 11:45 a. m._to-day Sir Thomas Lipton personally conducted correspondents over and under the Shamrock IL. This minute inspection confirmed _the description of the cup challenger cabled last night. She is- bullt to a general type, but embodies such noveltfes as prove her designers pur- sued an independent line of development, rather than followed yachting conven- tions, BASEBALL GAMES ON . EASTERN DIAMONDS CINCINNATI, April 20.—Though the thermometer was almost down to freez- ing the Cincinnati and Pittsburg teams opened the season here to-day before a crowd of about 3000. Owing to the weather the usual street parade was cut out and Mayor Al Leischmann did not waste much time with his speech at the park. The locals played_brilliantly until the sixth inning, when Pittsburg made three triples, which, together with a couple of errors, netted them four runs, enough to win the game. The locals wasted many chances on the bases. In the opening inning four consecutive hits were made before a man was retired, yet but one run was scored. both Hahn and Leever were effective. Score: Clubs— R. H E. Cincinnati o3 9a. 4 Pittsburg . - 476, 3 Batteries — Hahn and Peitz; Leever and O’ Conznor. Umpire—Dwyer. ST. LOUIS, April 20.—Despite the chilly weather a crowd attended the second game of the season here to-day. Out of ! ten base hits and two home runs, St. Louis scored eleven runs, thus redeeming the defeat of the opening game. Attendance 3500. Score: Clubs— R. H. B st. Louls .... a1 o icago . <93 8 Batteries—Jones and Nichols; Hughes and Kling. Umpire—Emslie. NEW YORK, April 20.—New York and Boston game was postponed on account of rain. PHILADELPHIA, April 20.—Philadel- phia and Brooklyn game postponed on ac- count of rain. — e Licenses to Marry. OAKLAND, April 20.—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Manuel Frates, 37, and Clara Martin, 37, San Leandro; Percy Morgan Teeple, 21, and Gussie Eleanor Turner, 20, Oakland; Joe 8. Avila, 45, At- water, and Minnie Kate, 35, Oakland; Da- vid William McDermott, 28, Sunol, and | Flora Agnes Mulgrew, 22, San Francisco; Louis Bertram Lacazette, 21, and Minnie Elizabeth Otten, 21, San Francisco; James Madison Hanford Jr., 81, and Bertha la Rose Vose, 31, Oakland: Willilam Louis Fenmy30, and Gertrude Bullard, 30, Berke- ley. —_————————— The First Universalist Church trustees in Beverly, Mass., have made a contract for a half-page of advertising space in the leading newspaper for every Saturday. GERNIARY FEAS ALY POLIGY Victor’s Relations With France Excite Sus- picion. Editors ' in Kaiser's Realm Call Attention to l‘fl.m- takes. —— BERLIN, April 20.—Regarding foreign politics, the sentiment in German political circles is rather despondent just now. Amongsthe well informed the impression | | prevails that the Dreibund's renewal this time is assured, but at the same time Italy | ! is regarded suspiciously, and disagreeable surprises in Italy’s foreign policy are con- sidered not improbable, in spite of the Dreibund. In the face of officlal denials here, it is considered that.Italy will insist on the alteration of certain paragraphs in the Dreibund agreement, and it is also cer- tain that Italy's rapprochement with France is regarded here unfavorably, since the race and religious affinities be- tween the two countries, once rapproche- ment is affected, will work increasingly. Germany, on her part, is dissatisfied with Italy because Germany has been a steady loser in the Italo-German commercial treaty, and because of Italy’s inability to assist ‘Germany in her lately inaugurated world policy, which the Emperor earnestly ushes. It is also said the young Italian <ing harbors little sympathy for Ger- many, owing to the Influence of his edu- cation and more recently of his Slav wife, whose sympathy is altogether Russian. The leading papers this week contained articles on the subject. The Post says the efforts to disrupt the harmony of the Dreibund powers are futile. The Vossische Zeitung points out the number of faults committed in the German foreign policy | lately, leading almost to isolation, and mentions in this connection Great Brit- ain's coquetting with Russia and Italy’s | coquetting with France, M. Delcasse’s trip to Sc. Petersburg and M. Waldec! Rousseau's trip to Verona. The Kreuz Zeiting wonders why there is this universal hatred against Germany, including that of the United States, as evinced commercially, and by the fre- fauently hostile attitude of the United States toward Germany in China. e aper In question points out that Germany s the only power which, since 1870, has not gone to war except by joining the other powers in the China expedition. @ik ol ORKMEN HOLD THE TWO FORTS Fighting Railway Forces Are Still Strug- gling. SALT LAKE, April 20.—Continued ac- tivity on the part of the opposing forces of Senator W. A. Clark and the Harri- man interests, who are engaged in a struggle for the possession of the aban- doned right-of-way in Southwestern Utah and Southeastern Nevada, is reported from Uvada and other points along the proposed line. The Oregon Stort Line is laying track toward the Summit, near Uvada, while the Clark forces, who are still holding the barricaded tunnel No. 1, are hurrying teams and men to the front of the tunnel, where grading is actively in progress. Both sides express the determination not to give up the disputed grade, and trouble, if any_should result, will come when the Short Line forces attempt to lay track to tunnel No. 1, which is practically the only passage for the proposed road at that point. The opposing construction forces will be close together within a few days. Division Engineer Barlow of the Oregon Short Line, accompanied by surveyors and a number of contractors, have start- ed in wagons from Uvada, and will go over the entire 400 miles to the Southern Pacific line in California. Whatever may be the outcome of the dispute, it appears certain that the road will be built con- necting Los Angeles and Salt Lake. —_—— Another for Reiff. LONDON, April 20.—At the second day’s racing at Derby to-day the Derbyshire late was won by T. D. Dewar’s Lord rovest, with Johnnie Reiff up. 2> ANTA FE OIL WELL ON FIRE Flaming Column Shoots Up From an Olindo Claim. Lantern Carried by an Engi- neer Causes a Gas Explosion. Spectal Dispatch to The Call OLINDA, April 20.—One of the most dis- astrous as well as dangerous fires ever known_in this oil fieid occurred om the Santa Fe lease last night. Well he Santa Fe le which unt has been drilling at a depth of more tha 1300 feet, was Eul on the pump on Th day and M. F. Cain, who has been in charge of the water piant at the old Olin- da ranchhouse, installed as pumper. This well is at the bottom of a small and rocky canyon, with nearly perpendicular sides, and is almost exactly in the center of the Soquel Canyon field. The boiler 1s close to the rig—much nearer than is cus- tomary in this section, where heavy gas weljgpare to be expected—and the gas line running from well No. 18 passes just to the east and within a few feet of this boiler. At intervals during the entire week this ‘well has been flowing occasionally as much as twenty-five barrels of 33-degree oil at one outburst. Tnen, if the well ‘were again put on the pumfi. only water with a very little oil could be got out of the hole. About 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the well commenced flowing and continued to put out a good grade of oil until about 4 o'clock, when Cain again started the pump. Much of the oil thrown up during that time was allowed to run down the slymp d point 200 feet below the well, where lirt dam had been previously thrown across the canyon About this time, too, volumes gas were pouring out of the well and ral experfenced men expressed their as to the danger of pumping such a well by night, and_recommended that it be shut down. A£8:30 o'clock the pumper started to go—taking his lantern with him—from the boiler to the derrick. He had bar crossed the gas line when a wave of came drifting down a little guily in the mountainside, enveloping man and lan tern. The explosion was instantanec and so terrific awaken every sleep ing person on the Santa Fe, Fullerton and Olinda. leases. Cain was thrown violently to the ground, but managed to get to his feet after a few seconds and staggered up the hillside to a place of safety. The flames rushed up tue path laid for them by this outburst of gas, and befors anything could be done the derrick was a tower of fire, while torrents of burning oil were thrown fully 200 air by the enormous pre: lions of cubic feet of gas in the hole be- neath. The burning spray fell on the hill- sides for more than 100 feet around the derrick, and this space was soon burned clear of grass and underbrush. After razing the oil-soaked derrick the flames attacked the belt and engine houses, soon converting both into beds of charcoal, while the shafts of the en- gine and most of the other iron work ars so_sprung that they can never be used again. s Within a half hour after the fire started 100 people had gathered from the sur- rounding leases and were seated om an adjacent hillside watching the costly pyrotechnics. Gas is still pouring from the projecting casing, and the hungry flames are lick- ing it up almost before it can leave the hole. ' Occasionally outbursts occur, when small auantities of burning oil are thrown from twenty to fifty feet into the air, thus rendering work among the still smol dering timbers both difficult and danger- ous. CAUGHT BY CURRENT AND CARRIED TO SEA San Rafael Citizen Rescued From His Sinking Boat by a Fisher- man. SAN‘RAFAEL, April 20.—Caught in the whirling current’ that sweeps past Towns Point, on_Point San Pedro, vesterday, Gustave Kohlhoff, a resident of this city, nearly lost his life. In company with a friend of Mr. Kohlhoff was bass fishing on Perch Rock, off Towns Point. After fs ing_for some hours he got into a frail skiff and started for shore to procure fresh water. On the return trip some time later he was caught in a tide eddv off the Point and his boat was nearly swamped. While attempting to bail the boat both oars were lost and Mr. Kohlhoff found himself at the mercy of the swift out- going tide. 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