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

WASEINGTON, July 24—Scattered thunder showers in the morthern tier of States in the Central West to-day gave some relief in that locality from the in- tense heat. These showers, generally light in character, occurred in the Dakotas, Southern Minnesota, Northwestern Iowa, the extreme northern portion of Illinois, in Minnesota and in Michigan. More of these showers and over a wider area are expected to-morrow. Their effect, how- ever, will be temporary and warm weath- er is again predicted for Friday. In the great corn belt the intense heat till continues, and there seems to be no ediate prospect of & general rain, >ugh the fact that showers are becom- more general than for some days is focouraging to the officials here, who hope they may be the forerunner of a gen- eral break-up in the heat and drought conditions, Dot say that this ity. Dot say that this is & probability. For to- from the . Dakotas eastward, and ibility of showers in Ne- orthern Illinois, Northern and Northern Ohio. Light Bains in Cities. Such rainfalls as occurred to-day and none of them heavy in unt. Ereatest precipitation being &t Marquette, where it amounted to less an ¥ i r sections also v icago, New Tem- e high to-morrow in and in the Central 2 to the localities al- howers are pre- States, the Cen- v some local thun- The maximum ) _degrees to-dav Upper Mississippi Valley and Middle St. Louis re- 108 and St. Paul aking. r twelve the Government ered above 100. ¥ was verest At 11 o e e LD VETERRNS HANE IFGED N EFFE fi Soldiers’ Home Inmates Show Dislike for Their Quarter- master. SRR Speciel T b to The Cail ¢ | ward, but it's differ: HORSE IS BEATEN oan Has Death on Russ: Narrow Escape a2 Track in ash” Sloan, the ho has been riding xciting experience at the where he narrowly escaped ds of a furious mob. ounts were always on in question he 0 chance of win- crowd, how- erican’s mount as us- A ely attacked the was rescued with difficulty contingent and a powerful t of police although the forecasters will | ow showers are indicated for the re- | THUNDER SOUNDS BUT SHOWERS ARE FEW ON SUN-SMITTEN LANDS Great Corn Belt of the Middle West Suffers From the Destroying Heat---Deaths Are Reported in Kansas and the Forecasters Predict No Storm reported to the Weather | and the ex- | ] was beaten their indig- | a raging mob of | | | o'clock this morning 1015 was recorded, the highest mark ever touched so early in the day since the local weather Lbureau has been established. For seven hours after that the temperature ranged be- tween 104 and 105%. Still there is no relief in sight, either in Kansas City or any part of the Southwest. In the twenty-four hours the rain reported has been showers at Hayes, Central Kansas, last nigat, and at El Reno, O. T., at noon to-day. Five deaths directly attributable to the heat were reported in the two Kansas Citys to-day, with a total of over thirty pros- trations. Several prostrations are also re- ported from the country. Mercury in Kansas. TOPEKA, Kans., July 24—The heat record for Kansas was broken agaln to- day. This has been the regular announce- ment for several days past, but to-day the | official record at the University of Kan- sas_showed a temperature of 103 degree: In Topeka the Government's record gave it as 106 gegrees, while zood thermometers on the street registered 110 and 112 de- grees. Manhaitan reports 112 degrees, | Empo 112, Ottawa 110, Wichita 104 and Abilene 108. Numerous prostrations are reported, and in Abilene there were three deaths. No rains of an in the State dur v consequence have fallen a: Central Kan- even light | fell vester- to temporarily reduce the | condition of the atmos- | thunder shower: ay served only da extremely kigh phere. Toi no There was some thunder early in the | evening, but it looks now as if the threat- ened rain G ed over again, as it | done a do: within the past two | hing people of Kan in its fullne: with dust, and the| inning to realize | a drought is. The | ituation is lost sight | wi cial part of the s What is being thought the extreme physical discom- | iting from the he the alarming | of drinking and stock water and t of much sickness after the OMAHA, Ju cept in the record | for July 26, aled lo-day, with the thermometer regi ng 105 de- | all heat records for theé grees at 4 p, m., seven vears are broken. Up deaths and four prostra- tions had been reported officially. e e e ENOS UFE BECMSE OF A GIALS DEATH i Arizona Youth Broods Over‘ His Responsibility for an Accident. e Special Diepatch to The Call. PHOENIX, Ariz.. July 24 —News was re- ceived here to-day of the tragic suicide of Bert Ohmerty, a well-known young man, who shogehimself near Congress. A few | ago Miss hel Kent was accident- | shot and killed by Ohmerty's gun, | ch ke had leaned against a rock near | I Miss Kent knocked the gun | down and it exploded, giving her a wound from which | Despond | been the w n er what he believed to havi esult of his carelessness Ohme: brooded over the accident until he de- d to end his own life by suicide. A man usually ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT IN EAST PETALUMA Intoxicated Farm Employe Tempora- rily Relieved of a Roll cf Bills. PETALUMA, July 2.—Dominico Corso, a Swiss dairyman, was the victim of a bold daylight robbery on Hopper street, East Petaluma. this afternoon, P. Mar- tinelli, a fellow countryman, relieving him of $50. Corso had been employed on the P. Sartori ranch at Reclamation for several years. This morning he quit work and drew the money that had accumu- lated in wages, about $1400. Then he start- ed out for a good time and soon was helplessly intoxicated. In_the course of his wanderings Corso met Martinelli, who learned of the size of his pocketbook, and it was an easy matter to knock Corso down and take part of the money. Corso eoon recovered and notified the lice. Officer Myers located Martinelll n a lumber yard, where he was counting tJJ::Lnolen money. He is now in the City Corso claims there was 3500 in the pack- et taken, but Martinelll had only $400 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1901 POSTAL THIEF INLAW'S GRAGP Federal Officers Break Up a Gang of Crim- inals. Buoccessful Conclusion of a Long Ohase for Box Robbers. HELENA, Mont., July 24—William Mil- ler, alias E. H. Grant, supposed to be one of the most notorious postofiice box rob- bers in the United States, was arrested by Postofice Inspector Salmon of Cincin- nat! and Deputy United States Marshal Michael Wall of Helena at Havre yester- day and brought here last night. The Federal authoritles are satisfied that they have the man they have spent months in trying to locate, and believe they have broken up one of the boldest gangs that ever preved on Government malls. Its flield of operations was Cincin- nati, Toledo, Cleveland and other cities | east and west. Arter having a large force of postoffice | inspectors on the trail of the gang for a | |long time arrests were finally made last | | spring in Omaha. | gang, Prentiss Tiller and E. G. Grant, Two members of the were taken into custody by officers. In Chicago they escaped, but Tiller w: caught in Chicago within a few days and rant was traced to Buffalo, where he was arrested about a month later. Tiller relief is in sight.|and E. G. Grant were sentenced for five | years. NAPLES, Ju rancisco Ci — ac- cording to a bulletin issued to-d: still ! in a critical condition, but there are some | that Mr: indications of improvement. DEPARTURE with a spirit of liveliness, especlally so event unforeseen by him it becomes necessary to take part in a hurdle race over fences with the farmer' age citizen just now is suffering from a feeling,” entlrely different from the * “after meals,” and which is curable, so the patent medicine ad reads, cure. incessantly and lazily stretches himself pleasant it would be to loll under a shad by liberal doses of somebody's with nothing to do but rest, rest, rest, and be as free from care as “Weary Willie.” The cause of the variegated movements now so conspicu- ously prominent in all ecircles, soclal, mercantile and otherwise, was the presence at one time In the city affairs. One was the great Epworth Le: other the annual shooting fest of the National Bund. attracted many thousands to San Francl modation of the guests Involved stupendous and costly prep- aratlon. The committees worked like b stay of the visitors comfortable, and events showed that these the “Weary Willle” on the roadside, ‘'who wakes up in the morning refreshed, though his cot has been mother earth and his only roof the cloudless sky. for the adventures of the day and enters into them He is tired and weary and longs for a rest. SiY5 HER NAME WA3 NOT BENDER Mrs. Ayres Declares That Bhe Oan Prove an Alibi, ———— Interesting Developments Ex- pected in the Oolo- rado Oase. —_— DENVER, July 2.—The persons alleged to be members of the Bender family, for ‘whom, eccording to a dispatch from To- peka, Governor Stanley of Kansas has ls- sued requisition papers on Governor Or- man of Colorado, are Mrs. Frank Ayres and her mother, known as Mrs. Reed of Fort Collins, where they reside, and Will Baker of Longmont. Mrs. Ayres was formerly the wife of Charles Lamont, who is serving a four- teen-year term in prison for criminal as- | sault. After she secured a divorce from | | Lamont she married Frank Ayres and | they lived on adjoining ranches near Man- | hattan, Kan., a mining camp, forty miles | | from Fort Collins. Two years ago a fam- | ily from Kansas named Maddox, golng through that portion of Colorado in prai- | rie schooners, camped at Ayres' place. | Mrs. Maddox is said to have exclaimed | | on coming face to face with Mrs. Ayres: | | " “Why, you're Kate Bender!” The exclamation was made in the pres- | ence of Ayres, who later went to Kansas, disguising himseif as a woman, so that his wife could not trace him, and at Cher- ryvale told the officers of his suspiclons | regarding his wife's family. He declares Reed Is iIn reality Mrs. Bender | and that she has separated from her hus- OF RECENT VISITORS CAUSES THAT TIRED FEELING TO GET IN ITS DEADLY WORK e present time envies either affair s filled He is ready when through some ‘s bulldog. The aver- bad attack of “tired ‘feeling’’ that comes renowned dyspepsia He yawns as he thinks of how e tree in the country San Franciscans Call artist. bear witness to the religious meditation of two international ague Convention. the They isco, and the accom- To the leaguers and eavers to render the ne: efforts were not fruitless. after it is all over everybody who has had anythirg to do with LOS ANGELES THE BATTLEGROUND OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES Supporters of Thomas Flint Jr.,, Led by Former SenatorBulla, Believe Chances forWresting Con- trol of SouthernCalifornia From Gage Are Bright —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 24.—There is little , conference with local Republicans. To- doubt that former State Senator Robert | MOrrow he will return to the north. In N. Bulla will lead the forces of Thomas Flint Jr. against those of Governor Gage in the coming battle for supremacy south of the Tehachapl. Senator Bulla declared himself for Flint some weeks ago. Sen- ator Flint will not say that he has select- ed his Southern leader. He says that he is “looking around” and is pleased with conditions as he has found them. Senator Bulla is equally non-committal, but those who are informed in things political are well aware that Flint is in the fight and that Bulla is to be his prophet. The Governor's followers are confident that Los Angeles is safe for them. The Flint people are confident that they have something better than a fighting chance and declare that the hardest battle that . will occur between the two opponents will be for the control of SoutLern California. Senator Flint spent most of to-day in @ sibrieieiieiei il @ band, who is living in Utah, and that Will Baker is young Bender. Mrs. Ayres denies that she Is Kate Bender, and declares that she will prove | an alibi. She s about 50 vears old. It is sald that Edward L. Burton, a lawyer of Oswego, Kan., together with an old resi- dent of Galena, who knew the Benders, are at present in Fort Collins for the pur- pose of making a positive identification of the persons suspected if possible. Governor Orman is out of the city, but his private secretary says that the requi- ition papers mentioned in the Topeka dispatch have not yet been received. The visitors had a royal time, but to the brim with a torrid, double-barreled. back-action tired feellng that threatens to throw the entire community into an irredeemable state of lethargic desuetude. The departure of the city’s guests is an occasion for popular sorrow and rejolcing. social ties which the reception and entertainment of strangers necessarily created—rejoicing because in the fullness of time men become full of a good thing to the paradoxical point, and then they rejoice at the loss of that which for an interval caused them the keenest enjeyment. and now we are settling back into our old accustomed grooves. The leaguers and shooters depart with the echoing cries of “bon voyage” ringing in their ears. Sorrow because of the sundering of have had two weeks of pleasurable ex- Citement and they are now paying the piper for furnishing the music to which they danced in the manner indicated by The Every physiognemic angle is described, and all debilitating effects of late hours spent in or in squinting through telescopic bulls- eyes, only to miss center by a gard. All of these things are ap- preciated while they last, but it is welcomed as a consummation devoutly to be wished for. hen the inevitable end cometh shooting kings, with their retinues, there- fore, San Franciscans extend their best wishes for a safe jour- home and a speedy return. GEORGE AGNEW PROMPTLY ACQUITTED BY A JURY ¥ish Commission Fails to Prove Him Guilty of Violating the State Laws. SAN RAFAEL. July 24—Deputy Con- stable George Agnew was promptly ac- quitted by a jury in the Superior Court here this afternoon of the charge of hav- ing Chinese sturgeon lines in his posses- sion. The State Fish Commission prose- cuted the case with unusual bitterness. Last March, before Agnew was appoint- ed a constable, he and Walter Ross lent John George, a Greek fisherman residing at_San Quentin, about §80 to renew his fishi; outfit, that had been destroyed by when arrested. Martinelll was formerly has been here but a short time, & deputy sheriff of Phoenix, Ariz., andl re. rge took the money and bought a lot of sturgeon lines from Dr. McNear and immediately commenced fishing with them. When Agnew and Ross learned this they made George take up the lines. Ross then sent a man to get them that they might take them back to McNear and see if they could get some of their money back. The prosecution made a vain attempt this morning to impeach Agnew's reputa- tion, but a number of prominent mer- chants of the city took the stand in his behalf. Attorneyv Thomas P. Boyd, for the defendant, in his closing address to the jury bitterly arraigned the prosecu- tlon for letting the real criminal go and trying to convict an innocent man. The jury returned & verdict in about twenty minutes. e Visit Stockton. Special excursion via Santa Fe Saturday, July 27th. Rate $2.00 for the round trip. Tickets good returning Sunday or Monday. Trains leave from Santa Fe slip, foot of Market st., 7:20 a. |m., 4:20p. m. and 8 p. m. DECIDES IMPORTANT °* POINT IN MINING LAW Locator of a Lode May Follow Iis Dip Under Adjacent Patented Land. RENO, Nev., July 24—The mining case of Widekind vs. Bell was decided by Judge Talbot to-day in favor of the plain- tiff. This suit was brought to test the right of the locator of a lode to follow its dip under land covered by a Unitec States agricultural patent, and is of great interest to mine owners along the Pacific Coast. Judge Talbot held that when the top or apex of a lode was within the ex- terlor lines of a valid mining location the locator had a right to follow its dip into adjoining patented land, mineral or agri- cultural. is decision gives the Wide- kind location and also the Bell location to John Sparks, who recently bought the in- ‘We are glad they came,’ the course of a short mterview he had this to say: “I am not_prepared to announce my candidacy. I am merely looking around and sizing up things. I may say, how- ever, that in traveling about the State, I bave found affairs much more favorable to me than I had anticipated. I shail want to look over the field more thor- oughly still before making any announce- ment and shall go north to-morrow for that purpose.” TRUST TRYING 0 BREAK STRIKE Two Moves Are Made by Officials of Ameri- can Company. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 24—Two moves, it is reported, were made by the aggres- sive officials of the American Sheet Steel Company to-day toward the breaking of the strike. One was the s..pping of some of the non-unifon men that have been employed in the Vandergrift mills of the company to Wellsville to assist in the starting of the plant there. It was stated that the men were to be shipped to Wells- ville during the early evening and would reach there after dark. As a consequence of this report therd is suppressed excite- ment pervading Wellsville, which at any moment may break out into a serious condition. Both strikers and officials of the company are on the alert and ready for any emergency. The impression is strong to-night that the general officers of the United States Steel Corporation have become determined on the subject of an early breaking of the strike and to ultimately force the operation of all the idle plants. Second Important Move. The second move that is understood to have been initiated to-day is the starting of the long idle Hyde Park plant of the American Sheet Steel Company. This plant was taken into the combination, burdened with objectionable contracts made by the former owners and has re- mained idle since. .The long idleness of this mill has caused most of the men for- merly employed there to leave Hyde Park for other places, and the company believes there would be less difficulty in starting this plant than where the Amal- gamated Association has control. It was apparent in Pittsburg this even- ing that fresh and decidedly important developments in the strike of the steel workers were about to take place. At the Amalgamated headquarters the two leading officials of the association were absent during the greater part of the day. It was stated that President Shaffer was away on personal business and had nothing in hand concerning the strike. The absence of Secretary John Williams was also accounted for in the same manner. The conference_ held on Tuesday night. which kept President Shaffer and Secretary Williams out until early this morning remains as mysteri- ous as before. None of these officlals would give out any hint as to what had taken place aside from stating positively that they had not met any of the officials of the United States Steel Corporation. Whatever the object of the meeting, it is nelieved to have been continued to-ay, and much of importance is expected to be developed from the conference. Question of Injunctions. The question of the manufacturers se- curing injunctions against the Amaiga- mated Assoclation was discussed guard- edly during the day. Assistant Secretary M. F. Tighe said he did not-think the measure would be resorted to at this stage of the proceedings, even if it was contemplated for a later day. There was practically no cause for such a meas- ure, and if there was he doubted if, un- der the conditions that exist at present, the courts would grant such orders. Par- tHicularly is_this the case in Pennsyl- vania. In Ohio President Shaffer seemed to feel confident that such injunctions would not be granted. Those best ac- quainted with the feelings of the manu- facturers say there is, in theilr opinion, little cause for believing that such meas- ures will be resorted to at this time. € D o e o] ] :setresl of George Widekind in the Reno ar. A few weeks ago Judge Curler denied Widekind an injunction to restrain Bel! from taking out ore cn his claim adjoin- ing the Reno Star on land upon which Bell held a United States patent. The de- cision was followed by the present suit. and in the interim Bell put up steam hoisting works and worked his claim to the limit, taking out many thousands of dollars every week. \ i | i CITIZENG 3IDE WITH STRIKER Object to the Presence of Deputies in Port Costa. Spectal Dispatch to The Call PORT COSTA, July 24—The commence~ ment of the second wesk of the ware- housemen’s strike has brought a new factor into the fight. Taxpayers of Coa- tra Costa County held a mass-meeting last night, <he object being to protest agaiast the action of Sheriff Veal in tringing twenty-five deputies to Port Costa to protect non-union men brought in to work 'n the McNear warehouses. As the countv iz asked to defray the ex- penses of the Sheriff and his posse, amounting to $175 a day, 1832 taxpayers have signed a petition protesting against payment. The Warehousemen’s Unlon last night issued a boycott against the Port Costa brands of flour. Circulars were sent to all unions in the State notifying them to cease patronizing the Port Costa flour mills at Vallejo. Five boatloads of strikers sailed around to Eppinger & Co.'s warehouse at Crock- ett this morning and took away twenty- five Ttalians who had been sent down from McNear's warehouse to unload 2 barge. he Itallans claimed they knew nothing of the strike, and had they known there was a_strike here thef would not n have come. They were hired San Fran- cisco. The stevedores, riggers and statlonary engineers have gone out in sympathy with the warehousemen's strike. This will cause a tieup in all shipping. Plague Victim at New York. NEW YORK, July 24—Dr. Doty, health officer of the port of New York. announced to-day that the illness of Rabviane, the stoker on the steamer Hohenfels, who was sent to Swinburne Island on Monday, has been diaghosed as bubonic plague. The Hohenfels came from Calcutta. Dr. Doty says the case is a mild one. Al of the crew of the steamer will be held at Swinburne Island for observation, and the vessel will be thoroughly disinfected. Hot Weather Closes Parliament. 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