The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1901, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ’23, 1901. EX-GERMAN EMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND IS DEAD Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg Passes Away Peacefully in the Presence of Wife and Son. g von Hatz- 2 few days CASTRO JAILS i MINISTER President of Venezuela Suspects a Conspir- acy Exists. inoffcnsive e of start- The spe- | te "the | case. against th murder POSTUM CEREAL. FIXED THE MINISTER. And He Needed Looking After. in Los Angeles, | the n tted that d she more than half the trouble. I told her | he trouble, for I had | the experience myself cured when T left off t was began m it was e Bip Brown Solor and nd food value that ostum maker knows. It is all fol- trying to make Postum one or two minutes’ steeping. can’t get something good for noth- be boiled, boiled, boiled, and | from boiling over use a small aps twice the size of a rning the minister and his | Postum well that their hanged on the question | abandoned coffee at oncei | flavor about r, per! lives were jet and the for all time. Now, after a hard day’s work, they are freshed and rested by a cup ade Postum for supper. They fastic in its praise. The entirely recovered from her dys- t go into the detalls of wn case except to say that I was a | sufferer with dyspepsia, and y leaving off coffee, that cof- | p Postum Food Coffee. I| estly hope many more coffee drinkers get their eyeg open.” Name and ad- dress given by Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., | Battle Creek, Mich, R | riage to w 1 P e NOTED GERMAN DIPLOMAT WHO DIED YESTERDAY AFT- | S e NO BALM FORHE SHVTTERED HEART Clerk Gilkey Drops His Suit Against Mrs. Northam. i Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.—Stanley D. Gilkey has changed his mind about press- ing his breach of promise suit for $50,000 | Robert J. Northam. The case wi missed to-day The filing of the action was the sequel to the rather sensational marriage of Mrs. Northam. She was, before her mar- y Colonel Northam, Miss Leotia Keyll Stoney filled a position as stenographer for the Los Angeles Her- d. She is a blonde, tall, handsome and ish in appearance. She met Colonel Northam about two months before their marriage, which took y 2. The husband was 52 a | vears of age. In his breach of promise suit Gilkey, a young man of 22 vears in the employ of ‘a local clothing firm_ alleged that on April 1 Mrs. Northam, then Miss Stoney, promised to marry him, and that August 15_was set as the date for the wedding. Mrs. Northam at the time the suit | was filed declared that she -had never been in love with any one but Colonel Northam, who was also made a party to the action. She admitted that she might have imagined herself in love with her young admirer, but declared that the en- gagement was broken off by mutual con- sent on June 10. Gilkey and his attorney, F. W. Allander, and Mrs. Northam and her attorney, E. A. Meserve, were at the Courthouse to- day to dismiss the suit. At the time the action was begun Col- onel Northam asserted that if the case were not carried to a trial he would sue the plaintiff for malicious persecution, To-day Mr. Gilkey’s representative asked the defendants If this threat would be forgotten if the case were dismissed. The answer was in the affirmative and Gilkey dropped his legal proceedin, Mrs. brtham said money was paid to Gilkey and there was no compromise. It was a surrender on the part of the plaintiff, who, she says, saw that no good could come to him from the action. Message Read to the Cabinet. ASHINGTO! 22 —President ding of his Cabinet mem- the rea gress to the t their regular session to-day. It is understood to make between 25,000 and 0 words. Secretary Root talked to the Cabinet for some time about a featu of his annual report, which will pro for a board of instruction to supervise the work of the several schools of instruction for officers of the army. This system of higher instruction will, in effect, establish an entirely new branch of army educa- tion. e = President on a Short Cruise, WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—President and Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by their children, left here this afternoon on the yacht Sylph for a brief cruise down the Potomac. A Presidential salute of twen- ty-one guns was fired as_the President went aboard the yacht. The President and family will be gone a day or two. s, s Double Tragedy on a Ship. MOBILE, Ala., Nov. 22.—The British bark Birnam Wood, from Rio Janeiro, came into port to-day in charge of the mate, who reported a double tragedy at sea. On November 18 Captain Morris killed the steward and this morning the captain jumped overboard and was drowned. SR LONDON, Nov. 22.—In the appeal case of the Attorney General of Manitoba versus the Mani- toba License Holders' Assoclation the Privy Council has decided that the Legislature of Manitoba has jurisdiction to enact a liquor law. OTTAWA, Ont., Nov, 22.—An application will be made to Parliament to incorporate the Lake Bennett Railway Company to build a road from Dye River to Lake Bennett and thence to Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory, | would be | lv as the UL MEN FROM a0UTH TESTIFY They Fear General Rate Reduction Would Hurt Them. Railroad Commissioners Se- cure Very Little In- formation. The second day of the rehearing of the oil rate case before the Railroad Com- missioners developed little that was new. The complainant resumed with the pres- entation of the testimony of A. J. Samu- els, secretary of the West Shore company, which does business in the Kern River district, Mr. Samuels was positive that the re- duction of rail rates for moving Califor- nia oil from the San Joaquin Valley points to San Francisco would be of bene- fit to the oil industry. The switching charge, of which so much has been said, he also regarded as unjust. His company produces 1200 barrels of ofl daily. T. L. Reed, one of the original exploit- ers of the Kern River district, who is con~ nected with the Reed Crude Oil Company, testified that his company has twenty- two producing wells and can produce 2000 barrels of oil per day. Reducing the freight rates would help producers. Con- tracts made with the clause that reduc- tions in freight rates shall go to the con- sumer would be: the consumer. It beneficial the industry to have the switching charge stopped. W. A sell of the Santa Fe testified that the Santa Fe has a eoptract under which 1 cent per barrel is paid to tne Southern Pacific Company for oil hauled Kern district switch for the His company, he said, has no financial interest in the switching. Los Angeles Views. Thomas A. Hughes of Los Angeles tes- tified for the defense that oil is selling in Los Angeles at 40 cents per barrel. The, price has been going down and the con- dition of the oil industry in Los Angeles is bad. There is an excess production there of from 15,000 to 300,000 barrels per month. No coal was used for making power in Los Angeles when ofl sold for $1 65 per barrel, and no coal is sold there now for that use. Oil is used exclusively. Formerly Los Angeles sold its surplus in San Francisco and got $1 50 per barrel for it before the Kern fields were discovered. He did not think that lowering the rail rates to San Francisco would benefit the producer, for the price for ofl would fall just the same amount of the reduction because the competition of the producers is so sharp and they will take what they can get. To Mr. Short the witness said on_cross-examination that under. normal and permanent conditions the price for il in the market and the rail rate both being fixed, a lower rail rate, being taken from the cost to the consumer, would cause greater consumption of oil. Thomas O'Donnell of Los Angeles testi- fied for the carriers about as Mr. Hughes bad. When the Kern River district pro- ducers could get together and act to- gether they will be benefited by lower freight rates. At present they will not be benefited by a lower Attorney Short examined on i and the witness sald also that raise rates would not benefit the ducer. He was of the opinion that if the railroad charges for moving oil were reduced all over the State injury wouid result to the Los Angeles oil producers. The rate on oil from Bakersfield to Los e 2 cents. id Attorney Short, “that is a g0od protection for L)s Angeles.” <Manager Edward Strasburg of the Ol Storage and Transportation Company of Los Angeles agreed with the two preced- witnesses on the point that while tha Kern County producers are not compet- ing so keenly ard the price is so low, a reduction in freight rates would not ben- efit the producers. Fifty cents per barrel was nonme too much for the Kern ofl at the wells. There wouid be no trouble to get $1 per barrel for the oil in San Fran- cisco. “At that price cil could crowd out all other fuels used for power making. Los Angeles cannot produce oil as cheap- he Kern River district. When o1l goes below 70 cents per barrel in Los An- geles that means a loss to the producers San Francisco would consume as much oil at §1 per barrel as it would at 7 cents per barrel. rank A. Garlutt of Los Angeles testi- fied like the other men from Los An- geles about the freigni rate reduction that was asked for. While 50 cents for at the Kern River wells might pay a profit for a time to the. producer, it would not permaunently, he said. He ad- mitted under cross-examination that un der permanent conditions lower prices for fuel ofl would be better for manufac- turers. At the afternoon session Senator R. N, Bulla and Attorney J. A. Graves, both of Los Angeles, were examined, =They were called by the Soutnern Pacific Com- pany to show that a reduction of the freight rate from Bakersfield to San Francisco would scriously militate against the profits of the Los Angeles oil producers. Senator Bulla Testifies, Senator Bulla testifiea that oil had prac- tically taken the place cf coal in Los An- geles, and that $1 50 per barrel was very cheap. He said the reduction and price to 60 cents a barrel and less has not ma- terially increased its consumption. He ascribed this statement to the fact that just 5o much oil would be consumed un- der present circumstances, and unless the output was curtailed the price at the wells would be still further reduced. “In my opinion,” continued the Senator, “a low freight rate tends to reduce the price of the oil and brings no benefit either to the producer or the consumer.’ In response to_a question from Attorney Short, Senator Bulla delved into the pro- tective tariff proposition. holding that while a high rate was zood for the pro- ducer in one locality, :t might not be so good in another. Witness Graves, undcr coaching from Attorney Herrin, said that he was ‘“a lawyer who had wandered from‘the fo'd to go into the oil busincss.” He gave an interesting resume of ‘he fluctuatiens in the prices of oi! in Los Angeles since its discovery. “I think,” continued Graves, “that if freight rates were reduced the price of oil still ‘go lower. At present prices there is an absolute and sinfui waste of $20 gold pieces,” and the only remedy is in a combination to store and control the output. Thke Bakersfield field alone will supply the whole State of Cal- ifornia for a century.” As the Southern Pacific Company had no more witnesses on hand, at the conclu- sion of Mr. Graves' feostimony an ad- journment was taken 1ntil Monday after- noon at 2 o'clock, when representatives of both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific companies will testify, PAINTINGS EXHIBITED pro- AT ¥ HOTEL Artist L. P. Latimer and Pupils Dis- play Result of Year’s Work. The fourth annual exhibition of paint- ings by L. P. Latimer and his pupils opened yesterday afternoon in the maple room of the Palace Hotel. The work of the artists was viewed by many persons and it was the general opinion that the exhibition was better than those of pre- vious years. Artist Latimer has some very fine ma- rine views and his paintings of scenes in the redwoods were generally admired. Landscapes, studies from life and scenes in Chiratown find a considerable repre- sentation in the exhibits of the pupils. While some of the works have faults, the bulk of the exhibits are above the aver- age of pupils in art schools. Among those who are exhibiting are Margaret W. Buck, Josephine E. Chap- man, H. Sayle Courvoisier, Norma f, Castle, Miss H. C. Chandler, Mrs. Sarah E. Dorr, M. Easton, Robert Green, O. H. Hansen, Lillan Howard, Ada E. Hutton Ruth I. McCarthy, Agnes McC % Edith M. Moulton, Eda S Stella Gertrude Trask, E. Ui . C. Herrick, Miss R. W. Brooks, Mi de Lappe and Anna F. Dearborn. o The exhibition was well patronized last evening and will be open this aft and night, P emé?f | ADVERTISEMENTS." Advic ;#é\:\\\'] e A wobman is sick ; some disease peculiar to her sex is | B fast developing in her system. She goes to her family physician and tells him a story, but not the whole story. She holds soxfiething back, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally con- ceals what she ought to have told, and thus completely mystifies the doctor. Is it any wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still, we cannot blame the woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. It was for this reason that years ago Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., determined to step in and help her sex. Having had considerable experience in treating female ills with her Vegetable Compound, she encouraged the women of Amer- ica to write to her for advice in regard to their complaints, and being a woman, it was easy for her ailing sisters to pour into her ears every detail of their suffering. In this way she was able to do for them what the phy- sicians were unable to do, simply because she had the proper information to work upon, and from the little group of women who sought her advice years ago, a great army of her fellow-beings are to-day constantly applying for advice and relief, and the fact that more than one hundred thousand of them have been successfully treated by Mrs. Pinkham during the last year is indicative of the grand results which are produced by her unequaled experience and training. g No physician in the world has had such a training, or has such an amount, of information at hand to assist in the treatment of all kinds of female ills, from the simplest local irritation to the most complicated diseases of the womb. This, therefore, is the reason why Mrs. Pinkham, in her laboratory at Lynn, Mass., is able to do more for the ailing women of America than the family physician. Any woman, therefore, is responsible for her own suffering who will not take the trouble to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. The testimonials which we are copstantly publishing from grateful women establish beyond a doubt the power of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to conquer female diseases. . *5000 to any ‘writers’ “IFollowed Mrs.Pin REWARD person who will show that the above special permission.—L¥pia E. PINKEAM Mepicise Co., Lyan, Mass, e et e e and Now | am “DEAR Mrs. PixxmAM:—I have been thanks fula thousand times since I wrote to you for what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I followed your advice carefully and now I feel like a different person. “My troubles were backache, headache, nervous tired feeling, painful menstruation, and leucorrhes. I took four bottles of Vege- table Compound, one box of Liver Pills, and used one package of Sanative Wash, and am now well. “I thank you again for the good you have done me."—ELLA E. BRENNER, East Roches ter, Ohio. ‘‘ DEAR Mgs. PINKHAM:—When I wrote to you some time ago for advice, I really thought my days were numbered. I was so ill that I could not stand on my feet for fifteen minutes at a time. ‘1 had female troubles in many of their worst forms, inflammation and ulceration of the womb, leucorrheea, bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and nervous prostration. blood in a bad condition. was going into consumption. My kidneys were out of order and Every one, and even my doctor, thought I I commenced to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and followed your advice faithfully for six months, with the result that I became a well woman, and it did not cost me nearly as much as a doetor’s bill for the same number of weeks. "—MRS. SAMUEL BORST, 7 Cozy that your medicine saved my life. Ave., Oneonta, N. Y. 1 feel ‘“DEAR MRs. Pixmam:—I feel that words are but feeble to express a heart’s gratitude, when there is so much to be thankful for as I have. I suffered with womb trouble for five years, and our family physician sajd an operation was needed; but I dreaded it, and reading of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound one day, I decided to give it a trial first. To my great joy I found that after four months’ treatment I was strong and well; experienced no pain or trouble, and the Compound built up my entire system. take your medicine; BONHAM, 281 Oak St., Chicago, I shall always bless the day I started to i4 proved my greatest good.”—MISS SOPHIE i I “ DEAR MRs. PINKHAM :—I want to tell you what your medicine has done for me. I believe it saved my life. flammation of the ovaries, and was troubled with flowing too mueh. 1 had womb trouble and in- I had two doctors, but they did me no good. After writing to you, I began the use of your remedies, and to-day I am well. I cannot say enough in our favor and shall always praise your Vegetable Compound.”—MRS. RED. LEO, Box 520, Skowhegan, Maine. December 23, 1899. “DEAR Mgs. 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CUNNINGHAM, Oakland, Il tical people have from time to time latters we are constantly puhh'shimwo have Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, which be paid ), or were puablished the befors obtaining aunt, Parata, who had secreted himself behind some bushes, sprang out upon the boy and struck him on the face. The aunt tried to protect her nephew, but was brushed aside by Parata. Parata was convicted and ordered to appear for sentence this morning. Telegraph Hill Feud. The Parata and Johnston families, who live on Alta street, Telegraph Hill, have not lived in neighborly fashion for a long time. Yesterday John Parata appeared before Judge Fritz on a charge of bat- tery upon Herbert Johnston, a young boy. It was alleged that Wednesday night while the boy. was going home with his —_——— It sometimes happens that a woman's hair is a bit of fiction founded on fact. Purse-Snatcher Caught. Mrs. Robert Thisby of Walnut Creek was walking along Grant avenue yester- day morning with three lady friends, when a man grabbed her\purse and ran. Mrs. Thisby screamed o\ Detectives ll—htper and Armstrong, who happened to be in the neighborhood, saw the thief running. They gave chase and soon over- im. He threw away the purse ;go!c‘nl;y reached him. The purse, whick contained $23 and some papers, was picked up by the officers. %‘ho prisoner gave his name as Charle: Morris and was booked on a charge of grand larceny. — e Some men resemble pyramids—broad aj the foundation, but narrow at the togs