The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1901, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1901. VNS RETAING PENSION OFFICE Old Soldiers Will Not Be Able to Cause His Removal. Senator Scott Denies Having Made Promise to Grand Army Men. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREATU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 28.—A sudden collapse has come the movement to in- duce President McKinley to appoint & new Commissioner of Pensions, on the alleged ground that the Republican National Committee promised Evans’ head to Gen- eral Sickles General Sickles’ friends have been say: ing that Senator N. B. Scott of West Vir- ginia, who was the leading member of the National Committee in 189, wrote a letter promising that Commissioner Bvans should be removed. Senator Scott was in the city to-day, and on learning of this statement called on Commissioner Evans | &and assured him that he had made no | such promise. { “I am positive,” sald Senator “that I wrote no such letter. During the | campalgn I received many letters from old soldiers criticizing Evans. I dicta‘ed | answers to these letters, and may have | expressed the opinion that Mr. Evans | would not remain as Commissioner of Pensions, but at no time within my recol- lection did I write to any one making any promise on behalf of the President. Scott Had No Authority. *“I had no authority to make any such romise, as neither the President nor the | National Committee had instructed me to Scott, '\ do so. It any such letter is in the posses- slon of one it is outside of the author- ity of the National Committee or its chairman. I asked my stenographer if she remembered writing any letter to General | Sickles. She said I had dictated some- | thing like 18,000 letters to her during the | campaign and that she had no recollection | of any letter to General Sickles promising | the removal of Commissioner Evans.” President McKinley has listened to the | complaints of old soldiers and also to the other gide. It can be stated that he has no one in mind as Commissioner Evan: succeseor, and he is said to be much im- pressed_with the cleanness of Commis- sioner Evans’ administration and the commendation that Evans has received from the press. The Commissioner’s statement, includ- ing the letter of General Bickies com- mending the management of the pension bureau, is regarded in official circles as losing the controversy, so far as General Sickles is a factor. Sickles Publishes Correspondence. | NEW YORK, June 28.—Nettled by the airman of the can National Committee, that of Commissioner Evans lad c the correspondence in r: disputed matter. General | pressed great indignation. | of this denial,” he said, “I| h give to the press my correspond- | ith or Scott. Based upon these | from the Republican National e, I caused it to be known in the | States I visited in October that Evans would be superseded | when term expired. These ratified by the President after election, in 3 esentative soldiers from rts of ll;r‘fi country, when we successor to ns at the expiration of shes Senator Scott’s le ted his belief that P: uld choose a successor | would be satisfac- ers. Scott closed his “This is all I can € the President.” ne then wrote to Sickles, “I must answer the President arrived vet. 1 niess Evans is EVENTS IN SOCIETY | ley gave an enjoya- | w home on Sunday ent were: Dr. and and Mre. L. Lacaze, , Dr. O. Relle, nd Mrs. E. O, Artigues, Mr. and took place at the resi- Driscoll, 488 Castro street, asion b g the cele- Driscoll’s sixth birth- were: Ether Becor, nice Miller, Georgette ), Shirley Gray, Marion 1 Carmelita Gilbert, Aga- Campbell, Irene Gertie Doheney, lie and Mary Mary Dolph, Luct e Young Bernie and Louise My~ Hall, Luna Blasaul, agne Barton, McMahon, Har- Hane: Ken: s Victoria Beaudet, Mesdames assett f the Native d at Odd Fel- July 6, The O'Nell M plane's or Murgueriie i, haryLone My, Robert Lioyad g, Miss M Day Calne; irlo, "Phou risde 1olin_ohilgato, Miss B Morahorst;, plano, Miss Blancesos Kunmer; 1 ne, Mis Mule 1, Meeke| 0 i riman slelers ¥ Thorne will sall from New Y ord 0" enmer irupia, July 6, for abtond frisey I8 home again after ¢ inonthe, Bhe hn been On the re era) weeks in Park jon e of the Hotel Bt Niehe turday to visit relatives Bhe will also vistit the Buffalo expositiondand will return in two mont be Mrs. Harry Morosco and children are epunding the summer months at the cotne- try home of Mr. Walter Morosco, Gera nium Place, Fruitvale Mrs. Newark of Needles i visiting her mother, Mre, K. Folks, at 820 Bilis reet | Mre. M. Selzer is stopping at the Mon- 1l and Gertie McArdle | re sojourning at Ander- Springs, Le punty | Mre Max Gruenberg, Raoul Gruenberg i Mre. E. Hirechfeld of Alameda are | the Toland House, Howell Mountain, | thelr summer vacation. Mrs. Gruen- | will spend the monih of July at Cat- | 1 | G for berz alina Mrs moved to 971 Post street. At home first | nd Lederer and Mrs. B. Meyer have | Tuesdays. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Lork leave for Aetna prings the early part of July. Mrs. J. Louis McKinnon and her daugh- ter Afleen are guests at Congress Springs. | Mre. M. J. Kelly and Miss Laura Kelly ave gome to Bartlett Springs for the | immer Migs Eva Pincus eceks at Ross. Miss Frances Heiman is at Skaggs rings for a fortnight's stay. Ben Lust and Joseph Zuckerman wili| spend their vacation at Skaggs Springs. Mr. and Mrs. M. Clayburgh announce the engaement of their daughter Emily to ir. Charles E. Baerjof Bakersfleld. Thay will receive on Sunday, July 7, and Tuek- day, July 9, from 2 t0 5 o'clock at 1810 Bush street. is spending a few | spectively, as follows: | 11,408 and 2000; Arkansas, 11 BROTHER ELKS WILL CONTEST ON THE DIAMOND : FOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE BASEBALL REALM Los Angeles Team Starts on a Tour Through California, Oregon and Washington, and, Will Make the First Stop to Play a Friendly Game With Oakland. AKLAND, June 28.—The Los An- 3 geles Elks’ baseball team left this evening on the Owl train to meet the Oakland Elks' baseball team in a game on Sunday. This is the beginning of one of the longest amateur baseball tours that has ever been planned, for it will extend from the southern part of California through the States of Cali- fornia, Oregon and Washington, with Oakland as the first stopping place. The Los Angeles team will travel in luxury. The players will have thelr own car and will make the entire trip in it. They are due to arrive in Oakland to- morrow morning and will be met by a delegation of Oakland Elks, who will es- cort them to the Metropole Hotel, where they will stay while in this city. At the close of their visit in Oakland they will leave for Portland, where they will play the Portland Elks July 6. They will then go to Beattle, Tacoma and Spokane and other cities in the Northwest where there are Elk baseball teams. Upon thelr re- turn to California they will piay the Elk baseball teams of Stockton, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Vallejo and a return game with Oakland. The trip will consume about a month. The Los Angeles team is accompanied by several southern Elks who are not players, among them J. M. Mott, the ex- altéd ruler of the Los Angeles Lodge. The Oakland Elks intend giving their visiting brothers a good time while they | @ geteteiuiiieieuii it @ GENSUS OFFIGE BIVES RETURNG Figures on the Number of Men in Several States. WASHINGTON, June 28.—The Census Office to-day issued a bulletin giving the | number of persons of school age, males | of military age and voting age, and citi- | zenship of forelgn born males 21 y | of age and over, from Alabama, Alaska, | Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado | and Connecticut. It shows the number of | persons of school age, 5 to 20 years, In- | clusive, and the males of school age, re- and 367,7 5! 57; Alaska, | 375 and 265,- | Alabama, 733,222 1; California, 420081 and 212,723; Colo- do, 160,531 and 80,729, and Connecticut, 57,101 and 127,862 The males of military age: 328,999; Alaska, 1 Arizona, 34,23 kansas, 230,308; alifornia, 358,87 rado, 142,138, and Connecticut, The males of voting age follow: bama, 413,862, of which the number is 405,588; Alaska, Alabama, | ; Ar- "Ala- | native born 37,500, native born zona, 44,081, native 313,836, native born , native born 93 necticut, 2982t native born 173,248. Over 50 per cent of the foreign born of voting age were naturalized, save in Ari- zona, where only 34.8 per cent were natu- ralized. There is a large percentage of literates among the alien element. The males of voting age as a whole include only a very small percentage of illiter. ates in California, Colorado and Connectl cut, but in the remaining four States and | Territories illiterate males of voting age | constitute from ome-fifth to one-third of the whole number:; 33.7 per cent in Ala- | bama, 26.3 per cent in Alaska, 23.9 per | cent in Arizona and 20 per cent in Ar- kansas. These large percentages are due to the great number of illiterate persons of negro descent in Alabama and Arkan- | ate C and Indians in te Indians and foreign whites in Arizona. The percentage of illiterates among the native white males of voting age is 14.2 for Alabama and 10.3 for Arkansas and of illiterate foreign whites 30.9 for Arizona and 15.6 for Connecticut. The percentage | of foreign born males of voting age | ranges from 21.9 per cent in Colorado to 41.4 per cent in California. Of the whole number of males of voting agein Alabama and Arkansas practically 9 out of every | 100 are native born; in Alaska, California and Connecticut more than oné-third, and in Arizona and Colorado more than one- fourth of the males of military age are foreign born, while in Alabama and Ar- kansas substantially all the males of this class are native born. GRAND JTURY INVESTIGATES .COOPER PERJURY CHARGE Indictment Against Man Who Ille- gally Married Miss Norine Schneider Is Certain, The new Grand Jury began its labors yesterday by conducting an in igation of a perjury charge against “Bir’ Harry Westwood Cooper, District Attorney By- ington presented the evidence in the trial of Cooper, wherein it was shown that he had perjured himself in testifying that the telegram sent to Miss Norine Bchnel- der, whom he aft:rward married, was sent ae the sesult of an agreement be- tween him and his future wife The first witness called was Mrs Behnelder, who repeated the evidence given by her in court that Ceoper had not had n secret meeting with her daughter ) arrange the sending of the telegram, as he had testified, Miss Marie Bohnefder, another daughter, testified gimilarly, Cap- taln Beymour told of Cooper's admission had sent the Lelegram no petion was taked, It 18 under- he Grand Jury wili 16lurn an 1 alngl Cooper for periury. Conper appeared before Judge Cook yess (erduy o e senteneed, hut on aeeolnt of the Grand Jury proceedings seniencs wis postponed | otll July 16 Vuremay Hymmes announced the folluws g standing commitiees to gerve oh the Arand Jif Mayor and Honrd of Fupervisors, Auditor, | A wpenpr Ty urer P o Administrator, Tax and 14 wo Collactors—Jamen Butler, B. B, Pavson and 1. 1, Owen, Board of Publlc Works, Park Commission, #iection Commission, Heglatrar=Phillp I, Law: ler, Henry W. Wredon and Jullue Finck Hoard of Health and Cily Phyrlcians, Alms- hoepitain and Magdalen Roclety, Coro- ner's offiee and Morgue—J, B, Duggan, John Tonningsen and John A, Kennedy. Buperior, Pollce and Justices courts, county and court clerks and stenographers, District and City and County Attorneys—Thomas J. Welsh, J. C. O'Connor and R. H. Schiueter. Board of BAucation, publio schools and teach- ers, public library and branches, Recorder, Civil Bervice Commission—Hamuel Irving, J. M. Ellis and B, B. Sturdivant Police Commission. police fofce, City Prison, heriff's office. Coutity and Branch jailk, Fire Commiseion, firemen and engines, Fire Mar- #hal, fire alarm, department of electricity Peter J. Tormey, A. P. Glannini and Roy T. Kimball Charles R. Gagan was appointed official stenographer of th2 Grand Jury. —————— Spends His Life in Jail. James Wilson, an ex-convict, was sen- tenced by Judge Mogan yesterday to six months in the County Jail on a charge of yet!y larceny for stealing a bolt of cloth rom Harry Francis, a tailor, on Sutter street, near Montgomery. During the past twenty-four vears Wilson has been sentenced twenty-six times for stealing. —_——— In the Divorce Court. Decrees of divorce were granted yester- day to Mary A. Kollman from Thomas A. Kollman for desertion, Marie Astrup from Hagen As!ru& for cruelty and Frances A. Lynch from Michael H. Lynch for failure to provide. Mrs. B. B. Walcott has sued A. R. Walcott for divorce, alleging faflure to provide as cause of action. | tween capital and labor. CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM OF LOS ANGELES ELKS THAT IS MAKING AN EXTENDED TOUR OF THE PACIFIC COAST STATES PLAYING FRIENDLY MATCH GAMES OF BASEBALL WITH THE PICKED NINES FROM THE LODGES OF THE CITIES VISITED. C e ; [ R i e s s LAB0R'SPAT WL BE AULER Wayne MacVeagh Pre- dicts Great Political Division. e BOSTON, June 28.—The oration of “Ideals in Politics” which Wayne Mac- Veagh delivered before the Phi Beta Kuap- pa at its annual meeting at Cambridge, has attracted unusual attention. Among other things MacVeagh said: It seems to me quite too plain for dispute that no single member of a weaker race can be killed; no hut of such a race, however humble, can be burned; no one can be selected for especial honor for his part in such pitiful | warfare withcut its helping to light the torch which starts the fire by which some hapless negro is to be burned at the stake in our own country, not only in defiance but in contempt of law, and ali such acts must be surely fol- lowed by greater Insecurity for the surplus wealth which the contented class possesses. Now it is at least quite possible that in the not distant future Americam politics may transform Webster's warning into history, for our electorate is already beginning to be di- vided, and must, in obedience to the law of social evolution, continue more and more to be divided by that sharp cleavage which separ- ates those who are contented with their lot from those who are discontented with their lot. Under whatever disguises, called by what- ever names, inheriting or selzing whatever partisan organization, the allgnment of two great polit divisions of American votors who will sooner or later struggle against each other for the possession of the Government, will inevitably be upon the basis I have named. ‘The party of the contented will be ranged under cne banner and the party of the discontented will be ranged under the other, and that alignment will steadily develop in- creasing sharpness of division until the party of the discontented, being the majority, has obtained the control of the Government, to whizh, under our system, they are entitled, and then they will be sure to remodel the present system for the distribution of wealth, unless we have previously done so, upon bases wider and more equitable than those now ex- isting. The one party will be, under whateyer name, the party of capital, and the other party will be, under whatever name, the party of labor, It certainly would property far more dear in America If the less fortunate majority of our popwlation saw us, tend to make private or the more fortunate minority, would give courage and time and thaught 'to efforts to solve these problems and others Iike them, and thereby o lesson some of the evils which in many names bear so heavily and so unjustly upen the poor CRAIG LEOCTURES ON STRIKES, President of the Chamber of Com- merce Bpeaks to the Ma- ohinlsts, Hugh Cralg, president of the Chamber of Commeros, deliversd an Interesting ad- dress 18t night before the Maohinists' Unfon at the headguariers of Bixth street on, "New Zealand, a Land Without Sirikces, The hall was erowded with {ron workers and the address was ilstened o with marked attentlon, At 1tg conelison the ppeaker was Intetrogated regardin the laws of New Zealand and their applfs cability to the economic conditions of this | country. The fecturer sald in {mrl: “'In New Zen- fand 86 per cent of the rentesentation in the Legigluture 1s in the hands of the la- borers. In this country arbitration has been suggested as the proper settlement of labor difficulties, but in New Zealand it has been made compulgory, Laboring men are encouraged by the authorities to unionize. Jated, the laborers in New: Zealand need but complain to the commission and the abuge will be righted. “There is a regularly elected court of arbitration in New Zealand, with power about equal to that of our Circuit Courts, which decides all cases of dispute be- From its decls- jon there is no appeal and both parties are bound to ablde by it.” In response to a query Mr. Cralg stated that he thought the laws of New Zealand were capable of indefinite expansion and that they might be utilized to ameliorate the conditions of labor in this country. — e——— , Oakland Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, June 28.—The following marriage licerses were issued at the County Clerk’s office to-day: Frederick W. Smith of Oskland, aged 39, and Annie A. Western of Oakland. aged 32; Ctris J. Jensen of Oakland, aged 24, and Lena C. Nielsen of Sausalitc, aged 26; Archibald C. Leone of Oakland, aged Z, and Belle Yo- rah of Oakland, aged 22; Alexander J Barry of Oakland, aged 29,and Arnie Me- Cann of Oakland, aged 35, If the sanitary conditions of a | factory or its ventilation is not properly | arranged or if the cublc air law is vio- | THIES T0 SAVE HUSBAND3 LIFE Wife Says She Is Guilty Before an Electro- cution. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 28, win Ruthven, wife of the Cleveland mur- derer who was electrocuted at the peni- tentiary early this morning, made a last | effort to save the life of her husband. In the presence of the Rev. W. M. Langford and others she declared that she herself killed Pcliceman Shipp. She said that on the night of the murder she and her hus- band had a little quarrel and she left the house to cool her wrath. She met Charles Jacobs, the mysterious indlvidual of which Ruthven spoke so often, and he eeked for Edwin, saying that he had a job on hand. She told him that her hus- Fa?d was not at home, but that she would help. According to her story, she dressed her- gelf in her nusband’s clothing and assisted | Jacobs fled, lexving her alone with the policeman. She said she shot and killed hipp. Ruthven, when told of the con- fession, declared’that it was not true and that his wife innocent of any crime. b, i o] PLEADS FOR PAL ON GALLOWS. Alabama Murderer Says That Former Companion Is Innocent. BIRMINGHAM, Ald.,, June 28.—Frank Miller, a notorious safe-robber and mur- derer of Policeman J. W. Adams, was hanged at 10;55 o'clock, and Alonzo Wil- llams, colored, murderer of Bob Callahan, colored, was hanged at 11:58 o'clock to- ‘('lafi in'the yard of the Jefferson County all, After he had mounted the scaffold and viewed the crowd of 800 spectators, Miller asked if any one desired to ask him any questions, Btate Bolicitor Heflin urged Miller to tell the truth, “I am innocent,” he replied, ** and Dun- can ig innocent, too, If you hang Duncan you will hang an Innocent man,” Duncan 18 Miller's alleged accomplice, who Is serving a life sentence, Miller re- | peated prayers after Faiher O/Rellly just | betore the drop fell, Willlams died fn a rellglous frengy, One n!’?m in Mareh, 1000, the safe of the | Btandard Ofl Company wag blown open and robhed hy & ffl!’li of five men, Poliees man G, W, Kirkley and J, W, Adams ar- rested Frank Miller and F'rank Dunean, hey broke away and fired »’ the offeers, (ar l!v wnundln‘[ gnth af them, Later ma‘y ere apprehended fller was cons foled and jiven the Aeath Jenaity and | Dunean was WN‘I A life m«l{ enean (u the eriltentigry, Miller n,y’, Appealed (o the Gers dmbassader, elalming German eitis i | wenship, and that effe I reguesied the Governor to eommute Miller's sentence, ‘mwl‘nlu raoiiest was refiined, ” Inn‘m Wik werving A life sentence for mifder 1n 'I’m Pratt njnes penltentiary wh-!l he killed Bob Callahan, f' fallows= doriviot, stabbine him with & con plolke, Oltes Assessors to Appear, CARBON, Nev., June 88 ~Judge Hawley fegued a restraining order in the matter of the sppiication by the Bouthern Pacific Rallron Company for an {njunction agalnst the Assessors of the Btate of Ne- vada, by which they are to be restrained from assessing thndfl'onerty of the Bonth- ern Pacific in the State of Nevada. 1t s directed to every Assessor in_the Btate, and cites them to appear on July 15 and | ghow causge why an injunction should not be granted. R RRaassa s s + THE DAY’S DEAD, D444 4244000044 9444 R, Craig. LOS ANGELES, June 28.—R. L. Cralg, head of the wholesale grocery house of R. L. Craig & Co. and president of the Los Angeles Merchants' and Manufactur- ers’ Association, died suddenly at his res- !idence in this city at 9 o’'clock this morn- |ing. The cause of his death was blood poisoning. James B. Cook. SANTA CRUZ, June 28.—James B. Cook died here this morning. He was a native of Massachusetts, aged 59 years. L ————— —— Low Rates All Over the State. Southern Pacific will sell Fourth of July excursion tickets at low rates from every ticket office on the system. On sale July 3 and 4, limited to July 8. For details in- lqal& of nearest agent, or at 613 Market s Jacobs in committing the burglary. Po-! liceman Shipp appeared on the scene and | PRAISE WORK OF THE UNIONS Delegates to Conference in Chicago Discuss Labor. DETROIT, June 28.—'‘Unification of Re- form Forces ard Organization” was the gubject discussed at to-night's meeting of the second national social and political conference. Professor Seely of Ohio Uni- versity, the first speaker, advocated di- rect legislation. H. G. Wilshire of Los Angeles, Cal., argued for a co-operative system as agaipst the present competitive wage system, and asserted that three yvears from now the co-cperative system would be recognized as the remedy for present econom!c conditions and woula be generally adopied. Professor B. W. Bemis of New York discussed “The Place of Trades Unfons in Reforin Movements ” He sald: “In order to progress socially and eco- nomically we must educate and organize, and I think that the unions are giving men lessons that will help greatly In or- ganizing the masses.” Discussing Professor Bemis’ paper, the Rev. Mr. Mills of Chicago said that labor must follow ihe example of the great trusts, and by becoming political masters of the country make themselves an inter- national factor, During the afternoon delegates interest- ed in slngle tax, the Ruskin Hall move- ment, mutual hanking, prohibition and other special subjects formed themselves ;nut) groups and talked over these sub- ects. DEATH AND PROSTRATION FROM INTENSE HEAT New York Expefi?x;ul the Warmest Weather of the Year, 02 in the Shade, NEW YORK, June 28.—New York ex- perienced the hottest weather of the year to-day, the thermometer reglstering 02 in the shurle, In Greater New York elght deaths and fifty prostrations were re- ported up to midnight, In Jersey City and near-by towns in New Jersey about twenly prostrations oecgurred, but no deaths;, "To-nlght a gentle breege cooled the Mmau’mara somewhat, CHICAGD, June 2,—T'his was the eighth day of the hot wave, The temperature Suuuhed Ui degrees and there were two t~:gl|lrlv OMAHA, Nebr,, June 38-=To-day was 6 hottest June n’ on the records of the Bll‘”nl’ Hiredtl, |,‘L~ thermometer react- nE 100 degraey he wholé week h‘aa jeefl A records=hreaker, ednesaay the "n' wler was 08 and 00 was the minimum olao mjm ru”bu Gek ANBAH CIT'Y, Mo, dune u =The tem= 100, ohasl Car eratire ot 4 p, th, Wi rm [ &Ii'mnrnr,mnnn luvnr'«'ulrmf by the hat i hilg dondition 18 oritlea b TR e W the mum temparagiire to-day wis but 8§ and the mintmum 70, three deaths and severul prostrations were reported, . - - BOER PRISONERS ARRIVE AT BERMUDA HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 28.~The British transport Armenia, having on board the first shipload of Boer prisoners to be auartered on Darrels and Tuckers islands here, arrived in these waters to- day. Only the health officers are allowed to visit the ship at present. It is rumored that there is much sickness on board. The Armenian had a good passage of eleven days from the fsland of 8t. Vin- cent, The prisoners seem to be in good gpirits, though rather ragged in appear- ance. There was no case of infectious dizease on board and the ship was allowed pratique. The prisoners are a mixed lot of native Dutch and Europeans. The water supply for the new arrivals is scarce, as the weather has been exceed- ingly dry, and the condensing apparatus for the camps has not yet been erected. It was only received this week from Lon- don. The prisoners were not landed to- day. OUR ARMY IS THE BEST, SAYS LORD WOLSELEY LONDON, June 28.—During the debate on the army reorganization bill in the House of Lords to-day Lord Wolseley, the former commander in chief of the army, declared that the United States army was the finest of its size in the ‘world. He said its superiority was due to good wages. Great ain ‘was to face the alternative of conscription or bounties to secure recruits. are here. They will be given the freedom of the town during the day and in_the evening they will visit the theater, where boxes hage been reserved for them. After the perfdrmance a banquet will be spread in the Elks’ lodgeroom. The game will be on Sunday at 12:30 at the Golden Gate League grounds. The Los Angeles team will remain here until Tuesday, when they resume their trip north. To Oakland Lodge No. 171 belongs much of the credit for the interest that is now taken by Elkdom in baseball. Oakland has had a baseball team for several years and has been playing games with teams from Stockton and Sacramento. This year the Oakland team has played two games, one with Stockton and one with Santa Rosa, and has won both. Last year Oak- land played Stockton three games and ‘won the two played in Stockton and lost the one played on the local grounds. After the Los Angeles team leaves there will be games with Vallejo, Santa Rosa and Sac- ramento and the return game with Los Angeles. The make-up of the Los Angeles and Oskland teams as they will appear on Sunday will be as follows: Los Angeles 99. ‘Second_base. Third base. ‘Short stop. Left fleld. i ‘Matthews BONTING PRATY ENDS [N DEATH Two Alameda Lads ‘While Skylarking Fall Into Canal. —— e OAKLAND, June 28.—A boating party from Alameda on the tidal canal this evening terminated in the drowning of one boy and the making of a hero of another lad, who saved the life of one companion and almost succeeded in saving the boy who was drowned. The party was com- posed of four boys living in Alameda— } Paul Bordwell, son of the late George A. lBordwell: Arthur Gott, son of a Park- street jeweler; Samuel Nathan and Claud | Smith.” Young Smith was drowend. Bord- | well saved the life of Nathan. Smith is a | colored lad and lived with his mother, | Mrs. E. L. Smith, a dressmaker, at 2413 | Buena Vista avenue. . | . The boys§ went out rowing shortly after dinner. About 10 o’clock it was proposed | that they go home. This was opposed by | Claud Smith, the boy who was drowned. | The boys began struggling, Smith trying | to hold Nathan to prevent him from row- |ing. 1In the scuffle Smith and Nathan fell overboard. Neither was able to swim. Bordwell was the only one able to swim, the lives of his two companions in the water. He bravely swam for the strug- gling lads and managed to catch young Nathan and swim with him to the shore. He then returned for Smith, but he was too late. The colored lad sank in a deep hole. Young Gott remained in the boat. Nathan is now under the care of a doc- tor. but will recover. Bordwell did not suffer any injury. NEGRO KILLS TWO MEN | TO ESCAPE A LYNCHING West Virginia Mob Has to Pay Dear- | ly for Attempting to Over- ride Law. PANTHER, W. Va., June 28.—The at- | tempt of a mob to lynch a negro at Jager to-day resulted in the killing of two of the would-be lynchers. Price, was accused of insulting a white woman. He was pursued by a crowd of men and sough* refuge in a small room down the door, and as they entered the room Price threw himself at‘them with the ferocity of a tiger with a knife in each hand. killed George Hooks and F. M. McGran and seriously cut Charles Davis. As Price struck down these men the oth- ers fell back and the negro made his es- cape through an open window. Price was pursued and captured by officers. who hurriedly sent him to the jail at Welch. Hooks and MeGran were both well-known citizens. Fire in Watsonville. WATSONVILLE, June 28.—Fire broke out last night in the grocery store of Geor%e M. Martin at the corner of Main and Fourth® streets. The building was owned by P, Brassel. His loss was $5000, with no insurance. Martin's stocK was insured for. $2000. et Perishes in a Fire, VALLEJO, Jiune 28,—Mollie Werner lost her life early this morning in a conflagra- tion that destroyed Grace Ketchum's lodging-house in the tenderloin distriet, 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000 00000600000 06006060000 1 O0660606060 906066066548 and it devolved upon him to try to save | The negro, Peter | in the rear of a saloon. The mob battered | In cutting his way out he | | | | \ | | | | | SUNDAY'’'S CALL. 6660066606 AA0066068000: 06606066066606006006000680006600000006609 The First ‘Independence Day - Number of the Twentietn Century. 0000000000000000000000000060 00000000000300 ©000000000000000000000000000000000000030000 A Timely Issue of Thrilling Interest. 00000000000000000000000000060060606C00030000 NOTE A FEW OF THE FEATURES: The Passing of the Sword. - Choosing a National Emblem. The Fourth of July and the Oregon. | Necds of the Port of San Francisco. Raising Qur Flag in Samoa. Twentieth Century Club Women. WILL PAY MORE THAN- 15- ASKED China’s Liberality in Dealing With the Nations. A Greedy Powers Will Gobble Up All the Money That Is Offered. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W, WASHINGTON, June 28.—It is said at the State Department that the demand of the powers for 450,000,000 taels (3327,000,000) may be sufficient to meet eve e additional claims some of the powers contemplate presenting to China. The department has received a statement of the claims pre- sented by each power and they give & total of 415,000,000 taels ($301,000,000). It was suggested that 35,000, Is (325,400,000, the differenee bet sum and the amount of the lump sum demanded by the powers_ be refunded to China. It is alto- gether unlikely that the powers will per- form such an act of generosity. Germany proposes to increase its claim for military expenses by 10,000,000 or perhaps 12,000,900 taels. Because Japanese bonds sell at less than par, 80 being the price quoted, the Jap- anese Government has informed the pow- ers that it proposes to increase its indem- nity in order that it may not suffer a loss in consequence of the expenses it has In- curred. Ja has submitted a very mod- est claim, $25,000,000, and the authorities do not object to its efforts to secure an addi- tional $5,000,000, which will reilmburse It for the expenditures. But the authoritles seriously object to Germany’s claim for additional compensa- tion. It is feared that the effect of Ger- many’s action will be to cause other pow- ers to increase their claims. and if this should be done, then the 35.000,000 taels will be distributed among the govern- ments anxious to wrest China's last cent ING, —Word has been_re- celcvd heré of the arrival of Duke Lan and Prince Tuan at Utumski, Turkestan, in which place of banishment they have been atenced to reside. A Russian Con- sul is stationed at Ulumskl and he will notify the Russian Government should the banished C hat place. DIPLOMAS FOR PUPILS OF SAN DIEGO NORMAL Twenty-Two Grnt‘i\utes of the State Institution in the South Are Honored. SAN DIEGO, June 28.—The annual com- mencement of the San Diego State Nor- mal School was held last evening at the embly room of that institution on Uni- v Heights. The principal portion of rcises consisted of an address to the class by Isadore B. Dockweiler, one of the members of the board of trustees. A short address was made by W. R. Guy, president of the board, and the diplomas were handed to the graduates by Presi- dent Black. There are only twenty-two graduates this year. The other members of the class, who helped in the commencement exer- ¢i. spring, are to graduate next Those who received diplomas Gwinn Page Anderson, Fanny Fern Bagby. Guy Owen Frazer, Edgar Variels Dodge, Mary Bissell Cleary, Maud Elizabeth Clark, Ross age Carter, Willlam Thomas Hale, Stella Henking, F eth Le Breton Marston, Swift Torrence, Marie Bowie O'Bannon, 1 Marjorle Woodruff, Anna Catherine Lee, lie Louise White, Aime Baxter Titus, Charles Belford Jones, Herbert Kirk Wood, Floyd Sydney Wines, Anna_Edith Lookyer, Phoebe Elizabeth Lilliorap, Erma Wellington Ricker. VAQUERO LASSOES AND KILLS A LARGE EAGLE Exciting Combat Takes Place on the De Long Ranch Near San Rafael. SAN RAFAEL, June 2.—An exciting battle took place on one of the large ridges of the De Long Ranch yesterday, when Thomas Sutton, a vaquero, lassoed and_afterward killed an enormous eagle. “Yesterday morning I was riding over the ranch, looking for some cattle,” said Sutton to-day in describing the combat. “As I _went up over a high knoil on the ridge I rode right on to two large eagies that were sitting on the ground. Ome of them became frightened and flew away. The other tried to fly, but was only able to flap along the ground, owing, I believe, to the fact that it had just gorged itself on a nearby carcass. “I got out my riata and threw a loop over the bird. The rope fastened to a wing and then the fun commenced. The eagle flew at my horse. It was only by | some lively running that I was able to tangle him up in a brush patch, where after considerable trouble I killed him. Eagles are scarce here, these two being the only ones seen in years.” Sutton took his prize to Novato, where it was an objeet of much curiosity, and later sent it to San Francisco to be mounted. The bird’s wings had a spread of seven feet. e it Marble for Statue of White. LOS ANGELES, June 25.—Frank A. Kimball, a personal friend of the late Senator Stephen M, White, who owns a marble quarry near Victor, has effered to donate as much marble as will b quired for the base of the White statue to be ereeted in this ecity, 60000000000 pAA066AA000 7600000000800 0000000006060060) 89 e ©00000000000020000222322 ©00000000022900023222 P 0000000000000 00000000000000002320023323344 [00000000000000000000000000000002220232232 24 000000000000 000000000000