The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1901. 3 NEW PROSPERITY FOR PORTO RICO Free Trade Soon to Be Established With the Island. Provision in the Foraker Law Under Which the Legis- lature Takes Action. —_— Epecial Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, July 5.—President McKinley, as soon as he has been of- ficially notifief of the action of the Porto | Rican Legislature in decreeing free trade with the United States, will issue a | proclamation directing that all imports n Porto Rico into the United States | all imports from the United States Porto Rico shall be free of duty. | . wi aken under the pro- r act that tariff that act shall cease ent and putting into op- m of local taxation ade- ties of the govern- Rico. Such legislation has »d_put into_operation, end of Porto Rico has fixed date for the establishment tion will be sent to n, and he will ie- | s required by the ¥ that dutles_shall | o will put trade be- | tween Porto Rico and ports of the United m the same footing as trade be-i Wi Ste e Union. As I age to plant- | ers 1 slands in the | W es, it ted to lead to| prosperit RATE WILL BE RAISED BY POSTMASTER GENERAL Cabinet Informed That Publishers of | Some Periodicals Must Scon Pay More Money. NGTON, J 5.—The Cabinet two hours to-day | largely to minor | s of Smith explained the postal service | at 2 point far below | e but for the fact that ation a large | was being handled at nt & pound, which was ervice. It was the regulations so = of publications to instead of 1. as now. | it is said, will bs | | ock stated at the Cabl- the proclamation open- | t the Wichita, Kiowa and‘ Oklahoma would be | for publication nexi e opening will not hat time. i it atiedond { SAYS HE WAS EXPELLED { FROM ORDER ILLEGALLY | | Former Member of the Elks Wants | Damages Amounting to Fifty | Thousand Dollars. MBL July 5.—Allen O. ¥ brought suit in the United | t Court here for $50,000 dam: Grand Lodge of El he was wrongfully and | he order, that his 78, Ohio tor, was ap-| e, for all of | 1 | he amount SHOOTS HIS FATHER AND THEN DISAYPEABS] Delaware Man the Cause of Murder | and Is Thought to Have Com- | mitted Suicide. July 5.—Upon the re- | Thomas B. Windsor, the use of a team for a oon, Edward Wind- fired a The at- Windsor will die. after the shooting us far been unabie then shot himself, Conkey is supposed of Trial Date. Lord Chancei- to-day informed Earl ill be tried July 18, be- .ords, on the charge of | he ADVERTISEMENTS. I WEiGil 175 1bs. Former Welght 135 « " Galn 30 Ibs. ople who say that the benefit derived from the use of put-up medicines is imaginary. It is not the case with Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- tion, which ‘makes weak women strong and sick women well. A woman may imagine she’s weak, or may fancy she's sick, but ker imagination can’t add forty pounds to her weight. The positive proof of the curative power of “Favorite Prescription” is found in the restoration of health which is recorded in face and There are form, of strength which can be tested, and weight which can be registered in | pounds and ounces. The general health of women is so intimately connected with the local health of the womanly organs that when these are diseased the whole body suffers loss. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription cures womanly diseases. It establishes regularity, stops weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulcera- tion and cures female weakness, *I am very glad to let other poor sufferers know what Dr. Pierce's medicines have dope e Mrs. Edwin H. Gardper, of 3 c had done for other thought T would try it, and 1 & t cssing to me and my family. 1 began in June and took six hotties of your \z:dicinm and i‘hrez vials of * Peliets.’ I took your medicine a year when I had a ten-pound girl. I had the easiest time ] ever had with any of my three children. 1 have been very well since 1 took your medi- cine. 1100k three bottles of * Favorite Prescrip- tion.” three of * Golden Medical Discovery.’ and three vials of * Pellets.’ I had no appetite and oul met it sunctl iR & Plelitsior e ‘before I tool * Favorite Prescription,’ and I only weighed 135 pounds. Now I weigh 1757 Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent f7ee on receipt of 21 one- cent stamps to pay expense of maili only. Address ?)r R. V. Pierce, B:E felo, N. Y. l BIVES ML | cerning his affairs to z. | times seemed to amount to absurdity. C' MPTROLLER OF CURRENCY TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION Charles G. Dawes Gives Up. Good Federal Position in Order to Become a Candidate for a Seat in the United States Senate 4 Fo ASHINGTON, July 5.—Charles G. Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, has tendered his resignation to the President, to take effect October 1 next. In answer to an inquiry Mr. Dawes said: “I have resigned because of my inten- tior. to be a candidate before the people of Dllinois for the United States Senate. < CHARLES G. DAWES, COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, WHO HAS TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION IN ORDER TO ENTER THE RACE IN ILLINOIS FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE. -+ It would not be possible for me during the next year to make a canvass for the Senate and at the same time adminfster to my own satisfaction the important and responsible office I now hold. I am in- fluenced solely in this action by what seems to me the plain proprieties of the sitvation.” Dawes' term of office would not have expired until January 1, 1903. 0NG T0 A MUSEUM Remarkable Provision in the Will of the Late Jacob Rogers. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 5.—By the will of the late Jacob S. Rogers, the millionaire loco- motive builder of Paterson, N. J., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in this city is to receive an enormous endowment fund of anywhere from 35,750,000 to $7,750,- 000. With the exception of eight bequests amounting to only $250,000, the entire es- tate of the eccentric old gentleman, who for years led the life of a scmi-recluse, is bequeathed to the museum that is de- | voted to matters concerning which Rog- ers had little knowledge and in which he was supposed to have even less interest. This princely endowment will put the | Metropolitan Museum of Art on a_ basis | of financial resources superior, probably, to that of any similar institution in the world. It raises it from a position. of comparatively narrow resources to one of great affluence. The estimate of $£20,000,000 as fortune, which frequently to his death, undoubte the real amount. He ws Rogers’ as made prior s In excess of degree that at left deeds which give promise to being the basis of one of the greatest will con- tests ever known court in the New Jersey In other words not cne of them has an thing to lose and all of them have every- thing to gain by attacking the will. It is not merely the relatives of Rogers who are disappointed by the terms of his will. The city of Paterson, where he and his father before him made all his vast fortune, gets not one cent from him in any shape whatever. It was fully ex- pected by many that he would at least give to the city for a public park a large | tract of land which he owned in the heart of the resident district. This wide, unkept area, with its shabby fences and general air of neglect, has long been an eyesore in the thriving little city. PRISONERS OVERPOWER GUARDS AND ESCAPE GUTHRIE, O. T., July 5—Ten of the most desperate prisoners in the Federal jail here overturned the guards at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and escaped. The prisoners armed themselves with pistols found outside the cell doors. James Brummett and George Barclay, under_sentence to_be hanged for killing J. J. Pool in the Osage Nation, were the last to get away. The jail door had been closed by a guard, who was seized by Brummett and thrown to the floor. Brummett went east through the most thickly settled portion of the city. All the other prisoners ran in the direc- tion of the Cottonwood River. Officers and citizens were soon in pursuit. By hard work on the part of the Federal officers and the citizens all of those who broke jail were recaptured except Lee Reed and Bob Harden. i A Naval Battle on the Bay. SAN DIEGO, July 5.—The fourth day { of the carnival found the people still com- ing into_the city, though the celebration of the Fourth had passed. The climax of the carnival will come to-morrow night with the naval battle on the bay. After- ward the streets will be open for a masked carnival, lasting until the followinz morn- ing. To-day the celebration was carried | on at Tent City, on the Coronado side of the bay, and thousands made_the trip to view the attractions there. o bands were in attendance and concerts were given morning, afternoon and night. ———— Stolen Goods in His Room. SAN JOSE, July 5.—Leo Cohn, a clerk employed by L. Hart & Son in their store at Banta Clara and Market streets, was arrested to-day on a charge of lar- ceny. This morning it was discovered that Cohn gave a false check in a pur- chese made and had pocketed $150. is aroused suspicion and the young man’s room was searched. There were found two overcoats, two suits of clothes. silk handkerchiefs and other goods believed to have been stolen from the store. Cohn came here five weeks ago from Honolulu. His parents reside in San Francisco. secretive con- | He | | | i RABBIS DEFINE THEIR DOCTRINE Report Submitted Re- garding the Teach- ings of Christ. PHILADELPHIA, July b5.—The Yopic which occupied most of the morning ses- sion of the annual conference of American Rabbis to-day was ‘‘“Whether or not the religion of Jesus should be taught in the Jewish theological schools.” Last year a committee consisting of Rabbls David Phillipson, G. Deutch and Joseph Kras- koptf was appointed to consider the mat- ter and report at this year's conference. 3‘he Tollowing report was submitted to- ay ogmatically speaking the position of Judaism in respect to the founder of Christianity is altogether negative as de- nying his divinity, though the pivot on whicl Christianity revolves, Jesus of Nazareth, has no place in Jewish theol- ogy. The conception of his historical po- sition and of his significance in the de- velopment of religion is a matter of in dividual view and conviction, as is also the pointing out and application to the Jewish nature of many of the beautiful moral teachinge attributed Lo Jesus, but these cannot form part nor be incorpor- ated in any official statement or declara- tion of Jewish belief.”” The report was received with applause and was_unanimously adopted. Rabbi Wise of Portland, Or., was elected one of the directors. NEARLY A MILLION IN GOLD ON THE DOLPHIN Steamer From Sl;;g;my ‘Lrings News of Several Drownings on the Yukon. SEATTLE, July 5.—The steamer Dol- phin arrived from Skaguay to-day with eighty passengers and $800,000 in gold. Of the gold $300,000 was consigned to the Canadian Bank of Commerce and $300,000 was divided between about twenty Klon- dike men. A large shipment of gold, the second of the season by the St. Michael route, was shipped from Dawson on June 2). It is to be brought from St. Michael on the Roanoke. The consignment was company and bank treasure, about $1,000,- 000 being owned by the North American Trading and Transportation Company. The Dolphin brings news of several drownings on the Yukon River. Al Rick- stead and David Valentine were drowned by the overturning of their canoe two weeks ago. Last Monday an unknown San Francisco man and Phil Gordon met death below Lake Lebarge. Their canoe upset during a squall. The bodies have not yet been recovered. e LEAPS FROM A TRAIN BUT FAILS TO ESCAPE Montana Prisoner Risks His Life to Obtain Liberty and Is Re- captured. BUTTE, Mont., July 5.—James Rowland, alias Henry Styne, who claims St. Paul as his home, was taken to the peniten- tiary to-day to serve a term of three years for forgery, to which he had pleaded guilty. On his way to the penitentiary in charge of Sheriff Furey, Styne jumpea from a _car window while the train was golng about forty miles an hour. He es- caped injury by the jump, but the train was stopped and the Shteriff and a num- ber of passengers chased the fugitive and recaptured him after a run ofta mile. Styne and a companion robbed the ex- press office at Stanton, Minn., where th stole a number of money orders, whlzz they forged and passed in Butte. The other man eluded the officers by jumping out of a third-story window when Styne ‘was arrested. Terrell Goes to San Quentin. SAN JOSE, July 6.—Samuel B. Terrell, the attorney who was convicted of forg- ery and sentenced to a term of four years in San Quentin, left for his prison home to-day. He has been in jail more than two years and has stubbornly fought every indictment presented against him. “The Missouri Pacific Limited” The only route having through sleeping i-:’r mt.erx:gle bal:;en San Fr.hncuoo and St. 2 d at Lake City." For fail intormation ek L M. Fletcher, 212 California street. . LAND FRAUDS AND_PERJURY Interior Department Is Interested in Recent Revelations. Senator Clark Has Bought Property After Illegal Acquirement. | Special atch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, July 5.—Interfor De- partment officials are much Interested in the revelations being made in the Federal courts in Montana and Idaho of wholesale frauds committed in taking up timber lands under the homestead law. No cffi- cizl information has been received, as tic local Grand Juries and District Attorney | have worked entirely independent. The department only knows rrom the news- papers that Senator Clark is understood to have bought lands in Montana alleged to have been illegally acquired. The method has been for persons to ac- | quire them under the homestead law and | then transfer them to those desiring them, who would be unable to acquire them in | large tracts themselv s the amount that can be acquired by individual is limited. It is understood that persons ac- quiring titles have been given money (o pay the Government price for the land and all fees and $100 for their services. As every person who acquires land upder the law must make affidavit to his intention to use the land himself and swear that no onc else has any interest in his ac- quisition the fraudulent method of secur- ing land invelves perjury. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE 0F THE PACIFIC COAST FPostofiice Depafl;z;t IMMakes Changes in the Service and Pensions Are Issued. * WASHINGTON, July 5—The following orders were issued by the Postoffice De- partment to-day: Postoffice established: Oregon—Riverdale, Tillamook County, Theodore P. Bowlby Postmaster. Post- master commissioned: California—Harry D. Ley, Lone Tree. Appointed: Califor- nia—A. W. Lee, Lemon, Los Angeles, vice Laura R. Hymer, resigned; A. L. Fish, Tesla, Alameda County, vice W. H. Henry, resigned. - Oregon—J. M. Stubblefield, Monument, Grant County, vice J. C. Cochran, re- signed. These pensions were issued to-day: Cali- fornia. Original—John J. Case, Modesto, $12; Charles Brown, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles, $12; Justice Colona, Stockton, %. Increase—John _Turner, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles, $8; August Rumpf, San Diego, $10; George W. Vance, San Francisco, $10; Elisha Gordon, San Fran- cisco, §12; Mathias Esch, San Francisco, §10. Original widows—Catherine Brown, San Francisco, $8; Harriet E. Train, Al- hambra, $8; Jennie P, Douglass, Los An- | geles, $8; Maria_A. Nestell, Oakland, $5; | Eliza A. Clark, San Bernardino, $8. Oregon: Original—Henry Mossie, Ukiah, $6; Frederick A. Freund, dead, Lanflols, $13. " Increase—Francis R. Drake, Silvies, $12. Original widow—Anna T. Freund, | Langlois. ‘Washington: Original — Charles H. Wight, New Whatcom, $§6. Original widow Ella A. Holloway, Spokane, $8. bt e T AMERICAN INTERESTS SAFE IN VENEZUELA This Inference Is Drawn by Officials Because of the Departure of the Mayflower. WASHINGTON, July 5.—American in- terests in Venezuela are not apparently menaced by internal troubles. This is the inference drawn by naval officials to-day from a dispatch received announcing that the Mayflower had left La Guayra for San | Juan, Porto Rico. No statement relative to conditions in Venezuela accompanied the dispatch. The authorities say that had a situation existed which was dan- gerous to American interests the May- flower would not have left Venezuelan waters. The State Department believes that the Mayflower's visit has had a good effect, as it has established the purpose of the United States to send a warship to Verezuela whenever it desires to do so and has shown that Mr. Loomis was not responsible, as charged by the Venezuelan press, for the repeated visits of American | warships to La Guayra MURDER AND SUICIDE IN AN ARIZONA TOWN Clifton Man Kills His Wife and Him- self While Supposedly Insane. | PHOENIX, Ariz., July 5.—Ed Harwell | hot his wife through the head at Clifton | | on Sunday, killing her instantly. He then | | turned his revolver upon himself and blew | | out his brains. The tragedy was not dis- | covered for nearly four Rours, though the | shots had been heard by neighbors. When | they finally entered the house they found | | the” woman sitting at the dinner table | { dead, having been shot from behind, the bullet entering back of her left ear. Har- well was lying on his back on the floor.[ toward the door. { i No reason can be ascribed for the deed except temporary insanity, as the couple have had no trouble that the public is aware of. There was no suspicion of | | jealousy and they were financially in easy | circumstarces. Mrs. Harwell and her | daughter, a beautiful child of ten years, | were to have left on the following day on | a visit to relatives in Texas. All prepar- ations were made for this journey and Harwell was seemingly pleased at their contemplated summer's happiness, having ;‘emarkcd as much to friends the day be- ore. MILITIA WILL ASK FOR A CAMP CANTEEN Members of the Wisconsin National Guard Are to Petition the State Executive. MILWAUKEE, July 5.—Steps are being taken by State militia officers for the es- tablishment of & regimental canteen when the troops g6 into camp this vear at Camp Douglass. All the regimental officers of the first battalicn and Major Lynch of the | tenth battalion believe that the recent in- terference of religiois people has resulted in more carousing and drunkenness at Camp Douglass than there ever was be- fore. They also assert that conditions would be improved with the canteen al- lowed. Governor La Follette must be ap- fnlled to for leave, and a petition on this ine will probably be taken up soon. TOY CANNON WELL UP IN CASUALTY RETURNS Fourth of July Accidents Show Twen- ty-Five Dead and Nearly Two Thousand Injured. CHICAGO, July 5.—Revised and com- plete reports coming from all parts of the country to the Tribune show the following to have been the casualties of yesterday due to celebrating the Fourth: Dead, 25; Injured, 1513; fire loss $128,185. These who were injured suffered from the following causes: Fireworks, 750; toy pistols, 225; toy cannon, 244; firearms, 290; loose gunpowder, 256; injured in run- aways, 38. Total, 1813. Bulls Chase theEmdars. OMAHA, July 5.—Three more angry and active bulls fruitlessly chased half a doz- en toreadors in the arena at the South Omaha Street Fair this afternoon. None of the animals and none of the men were injured. —— Local Talent Scores a Hit. TOMALES, July 5.—“Uncle Rube” was played in the*Public Hall here last night to a crowded house. The play was excep- tionally well preseated by local talent. The roles of s, by Mrs. Meacham, and Uncle Rube, by E. S. Meacham, were well taken. Randall’s band of San Francisco supplied music. TENTH DAY OF HOT WAVE BRINGS GREAT SCORCHER Local Rains, Seve Atmospheric Weather and Reli re Thunderstorms or Violent Changes Cause Cooler ef in Some Localities ASHINGTON, tenth day of the present heated term was again a scorcher, except where severe thunderstorms, local rains or violent atmospheric changes induced cool weather. In Arkansas, the East Gulf States, Northern Ohia and New York thunderstorms brought rellef. In South- eastern New England also cooler weather prevailed, the temperature falling frem six to ten degrees. / To-night the weather bureau officlals say the only prospect for relief from the heat lies in the occurrence of storms. There is no promise, they say, of general thunderstorms sufficient to make a con- siderable fall in the temperature. Local thunderstorms will give temporary local relief, but weather bureau officials say permanent relief .will not come until heavy storms or local rains prevail. In Chicago a promise of a short respite from the heat is given. New York to-day JI8 = cwoinch cownpour staaln which ent the thermometer down to 76. [ast of the Allegheny Mountains the tempera- ture rose generally a few degrees over the highest of yesterday and in portions of the Southwest it warmed up also, in Arkansas and Oklahoma maximum tem- peratures of over 100 being recorded. Washington was the warmest place east of the Alleghenies to-day, the maxi- mum temperature recorded being 9. There was not much humidity,-but the air was lively and the day was very try- ng. General John W. Darr, formerly of Fort Scott, Kans., who served on the staff of General Garfield during the civil war, 1s crigically ill from heat prostration. Some of the maximum temperatures re- ported to the weather bureau include the following: New York, 90; Philadelphia, 90; Chicago, 9; Cincinnati, 92; St. Louls, 100; Kansas City, 90; North Platte, Neb., 84; Dodge City, Kané., 9; Oklahoma, 102 COOLS OFF THE MILLIONS. Severe Thundersiorm Sweeps Over Stricken New Yorkers. NEW YORK, July 5.—Seven deaths and twelve prostrations occurred in the bor- oughs of Manhattan and the Bronx be- tween the hours of 2 a. m. Friday and 1:3) o'clock this morning from the heat. One death and five prostrations occurred in the borough of Brooklyn during the same hours. A severe thunderstorm swept over this city this afternoon and brought with it comfort to millions of heat-stricken New Yorkers. The temperature fell 15 degrees in less than two hours and over two inches of rain fell. The lightning struck several buildings, but no serious damage was done. Fort George afforded a fine sweep for the storm this afternoon and many of the buildings there were leveled to the ground, or so badly damaged that they will have to be rebuilt. The total damage is_estimated at $50,000. PHILADELPHIA, July 5.—Deaths and prostrations from the excessive heat con- tinued to-day, about a dozen fatalities and nearly three times that many prostra- tions being reported. Although the maxi- mum temperature was lower to-day than for a week past, the day was uncomfort- able. The percentage or humidity was quite high throughout the day and to- night the atmosphere is uncomfortably close. The maximum temperature to-day was reached at 1 p. m., when 91 degrees was reported. It hovered around 90 the entire afternoon, and at 3 p. m. it was standing at 88 degrees. The humidity to- night was 64 per cent. CHICAGO, July 5.—Cool breezes from the northwest this evening broke the term of hot weather, but before they came nine persons had died, seven more were pros- trated and one man attempzed suicide. The maximum temperature of the day was, in the weather bureau office, 90 de- gress, on the street level 9. The wind blew hard all day, shifting from the southwest to the northwest, but at sunset i it settled in the latter point and the fall of the mercury was steady until 76 was reached. ‘“Not so warm” {s promised for Saturday and Sunday. BALTIMORE, July 5.—At 8 o'clock this morning the thermometer registered 4 de- grees and the mercury kept on ascending until the maximum temperature of 9 de- grees was reached at 4 p. m. At 8 o’clock to-night it had fallen but 5 degrees. Thir- teen deaths and eleven prostrations had been reported to the police during the twenty-four hours ended at midnight. DAVENPORT, Ia., July 5.—There were ;wo deaths here to-day from the extreme eat. Decision on Naval Advancements. WASHINGTON, July 5—Upon an ap- peal taken by Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers from the action of the audjtor for the Navy Department, disallowing his claim for the pay and allowances of a major general of the army from February 11 to March 13, 1901, as a rear admiral | above the lowest nine numbers of that grade, a decision has been rendered by Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury L. P. Mitchell. In effect he decides that of- fices of the navy advanced in numbers | pursuant to law for services in the Span- ish war and carried as additional num- | bers, are advanced contemporaneously with the officers next above them. He | holds that they cannot be counted in de- termining what officers in the -grade of rear admiral belong to the next lowest numbers in estimating the pay of officers of that grade. i Endeavorers Gather in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, July 5.—There were many arrivals to-day and to-night for the inter- national Christian Endeavor convention, which begins to-morrow. Among the ar- rivals to-day were President Francls E. Clark, Secretary John W. Baer and Treas- urer Willlam Shaw, who came from Bos- ton on_what was known as the official train. Nearly all of the delegations were met by reception committees on their re- spective trains some distance out of the city and by escorts on arriving at the dif- ferent stations here. The business ses- sions will be held to-morrow and the opening meetings to-morrow night. s s iy General Alger Improves at Carlsbad. WASHINGTON, .July 5.—The Post to- morrow will publish a special from its owner at Carlsbad, Germany, saying that General and Mrs. Russell A. Alger are staying there and that the health of the former is improving rapidly. The special says that when General Alger’s attention was called to a published statement apropos of the late Dr. Daly’s death, to the effect that the army beef scandals in which Dr. Daly was conspicuous had re- sulted in General Alger’s retirement from the Cabinet, the general said that the beef controversy had nothing to do with his retirement from the Cabinet. Mysterious Death of a Molder. NEWARK, Ohlo, July 5—True Cressy, a stovemolder, whose family lives in Ber- lin, Wash., was found unconscious in a “barn here this evening and died an hour later. A note found on_ Cressy's body signed by himself, in_which he said he feared a man named Robert Wilson had given him knockout drops to rob him of $200. The Coronmer is investigating the case. = Incendiary’s Attempt Fails. VALLEJO, July 5.—Some malicious per- son attempted to destroy the new resi- dence of George F. Harris on the corner of Santa Clara and Carolina streets last night by piling brush against it and set- ting fire to_the brush. Fortunately the blaze was discovered in time to prevent material damage. GENERAL WOOD NOW VERY aIGK Governor of Cuba Is Not Able to Attend to Duties. Colonel Whitside May Be Chosen to Conduct the Island’s Affairs. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, July 5.—Official ad- vices received by the War Department to- | day from Havana indicate that Brigadier | General Leonard Wood, Governor General of Cuba, is a very sick man. Colonel Thomas Ward, acting adjatant general, sent a cablegram to Havana to- day, regarding a change of station for an | officer of General Wood's command. A reply received from the adjutant general | of Cuba states that it is not now possible | to consult Genera! Wood and that the | master will have to be put aside for the | present. i Earlier reports from Havana statec! that General Wood was getting along_as well as could be expected. Secretary Root re- celved a letter yesterday dated July 1 an- nouncing that General Wood had a mild attack of typhoid fever. It looks to the officials as though his condition has grown serious since the letter was mailed cretary Root has decided that if Gen- eral Wood becomes so ill that it will bs impossible for him to transact business he will order Colonel Samuel M. Whitside, Tenth Cavalry, now at Santiago, Cuba, to Havana to act as Governor General. RAILWAY TRAFFIC MEN DISCUSS A SCHEDULE Representatives of the Harriman System and J. C. Stubbs Holdan Important Conference. SALT LAKE, Utah, July 5.—A meeting of the head traffic men of the various rail- roads in the Harriman system and J. C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Harriman system, was held here to-day and general plans were discussed for the interchange of traffic between the roads. The meeti~g was held for the purpose of arriving at a perfect understanding in regard to_the new traffic relations of the roads and the discussion took up the greater part of the day. The railroad of- ficlals present at the meeting wers Gen- eral Passenger Agent E. L. Lomax of the Union Pacific, Omaha; D. E. Burley, gen- eral passenger agent; D. D. Spencer, as- | sistant general passenger agent, and J. A. Reeves, assistant general freight agent, Oregon Short Line, Salt Lake; William Sproule, freight trafic manager; . O, McCormick, passenger trafic manager, Southern Pacific, San Francisco; C. H. Markham, general freight and passenger agent Southern Pacific, Portland, Or.; Ben Campbell, traffic manager, and J. L. Cralg, general passenger agent, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, Port- land. Stubbs will go East to-morrow. gt b TOUR MEN PERISH IN ABANDONED MINE Italians Are the Victims of Fire Damp While Engaged ir. Merriment. PITTSBURG, July 5.—Four Itallan min- ers were found dead in an abandoned coal mine at Catsburg. They were Steve Cos key, Andrew Getzlinski, Mike Manown: and Frank Yanky. The men attended an Italian dance at Monongahela last night, and afterward, it is understood, took a keg of beer and went to one of the rooms of the mine. The wet wedther caused an accumuiatior of firedamp in the room and all were s focated. A New Departure in San Francisco Shoe Selling The world-famed Regal Shoes are now on sale in this city. The Store at the corner of Geary and Stockton Streets is the only one West of the Missouri River where shoes are sold direct from tannery to consumer. This is the Regal method. The manufacturers of Regal Shoes own and maintain retail stores in all the principal cities of the country. The San Francisco store is the latest to be established. Shoes sold by ofdinary methods are handled many times unnecessarily. This handling costs money. It makes a shoe of. the same value as the Regzl cost more. It makes a shoe sold at the Regal price worth much Iless. The Regal method eliminates this handling. It saves to the shoe wearer all these unnecessary profits. It shoe value for $3.50. gives shoe .sold by ordinary methods. All styles of Regal Shoes sell at the one price—$3.50. to the shoe wearer It gives a shoe the<equal in every respect of any $6.00 $3.50 worth of real The styles are exact duplicates of the patterns mow made by the high priced custom bootmakers of London, Paris and New VYork. Regals are made in 162 styles and 121 sizes—a style for every taste —a fit for every natural foot. There are 26 styles of Oxfords, (low cut) the popular Summer shape. Men’s Shoes Omnly, Women'’s Regal Shoes are made in all the. popular styles, both dainty and mannish. The same reasons which account for the superiority of Men’s Regal equally well to the Women’s Stockton Sts. Shoes, apply styles. Women’s Regal Shoes are obtainable through our Mail Order Department. Address: L. C. BLISS & CO., Manu- facturers, 109 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. Catalogus of Men's alrflomn:l Shoes sent post-paid on application. Corner Geary and LO‘Sfi