The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1902, Page 9

PERKING WANTS ARMY CONTRAGT acific Coast Steamship Company Officials Go East. cal Merchants Striving to Keep Transport Busi- ness Here. e sco business men are bestir- elves in the matter of perpetu- the headquarters of the EPIDEMIC NOW ON THE WANE Cheering News Comes From the Tonopah District. e AKLAND, Jan. 14.—~The mysteri. ous attack upon 13-year-old Flof sie White last cvening by an un- Jmown man, who concealed his features by a black mask, is baf- fling the local police force. All last night Plague Grows Less Virulent and Death Rate Wil Diminish. Market streets, where she purchased three small pardels of grocerius. As she was re- turnipg home she noticed a tall man with | Tong. "Shite hair, wearing a long overcoat, in | front of her. When he reached Fifth and Market streets he turned Into a_doorw: | she passed him. ay and As she crossed Fifth street she heard quick steps behind her and turned in OAKLAND HAS A REAL MYSTERY IN THE CASE OF FLOSSIE WHITE| Child Who Was Found Bound in Vacant Lot Sticks to Story She First Told About Assailant in Black Mask and Police Search|Three Burglars Night and Day for the Miscreant Who Made Cowardly Attack * | cial Dispatch to The Cail. RENO, Jan. 14.—From Tonopan, the port service with the Congress will take is a t Influence will have r at once by all com- city. En@igetic steps ¥ the business men of s Lo secure the War De- James J. Hill d this end he would t Northern company f its of using E Secrejary them the contract to and from the to Washington. mbers of the Cham- vesterday in execu- A. Newhall as clegrams Sent = directior the Pacific Coa and this corporation unturned in its ef- ntract are inly looks as if San itary traffic, ercial men of the moment the let by contract er trade. Sec- e change is immediately. Your ve upon San be ake very cold-blooded | a contract that age. I can- | d even partly off- ment’s plant | proposition could | wough, whatever | €0 upon the | will a Ilways as al | New Company Formed. f rporation were filed ves- | Vestern Repair and Sup- | Those who are named as | ctors of the new ly connected with At of directors is H Goodall, Per- | owners the Pacific! Compan It is said the s making a did for | sportation contract in | army transports are taken off | ilippine run. | a interests of this port. the board he firm of he of statement made last H. P. Wilson, who is! e of the directors, the com- the consolidation of = Spear Company, | s Spear, president. and | retary, and Madison, | f which B. H. Madison| B. Madison the | named in the articles of | follows:" H. P. Wil- Bennett, $5310; BE: T. Madison, $15.380; J. | $23,060; M. , $316,200. | H. W. Goedall, | son, J. H. Sellers | n says the mew company | t present of doing any | de of the port of San Fran 1 time extend its lines | PIONEER STEVEDORE ‘ DIES AT RIPE OLD AGE | McNeil. who was formerly en- stevedoring business, died on ht at his home, 1706% Polk He leaves a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters. McNeil arrived in San Francisco in 1850. He was born in Cape Breton, N. 8., April 19, 1519, and after leaving his birthplace went to New Orleans, where he was en- goged in stevedoring. He came here later s first officer of one of the many vessels ving to this port. He immediately hand In politics and was _soon as a power on the water front. the first Pilot Commissioner ap- ted by Governor Henry H. Haight, in and framed the laws which govern s and commission at present. He sociated with Thomas J. L. Smiley | ng ihe steamship Golden Gate, | as wrecked off the coast of Mex- He made and lost several fortunes. street. GRAPE-NUTS. PRICE PER POUND. | ——— i How Much Is Good Solid Flesh Worth? a > tot that can hardly talk n calls out for Grape-Nuts before she the bed in the morning - something pleasing about “I can safely say that pound of Grape-Nuts used in my y worth a dollar in gold to strate: About five years ago 1l and run down from 155 pounds’ After T got so I could get about mach troubled me and I mnever above 128 pounds, although 1 inds of food. 1 was put on Grape-Nuts and for eight months. I realized I | ng up again and when weighed | ad recovered my 156 pounds. | since been able to hold my own, in fine condition. all eat Grape-Nuts and are in health. Even my little improved t, who can hardly talk, calls for Grape- Nuts before she is out of bed in the “I stand for nothing but what is right and honest, and I am quite willing you #hould print my name if you choose to publish this letter.” F. A, Brumd.i Binghamton, N. Y., No. 8 Gold street. | plague-stricken mining camp, came the | cheering news to-night that the pneumos nia epidemic appeared to be on the wane. Nearly all of the patlents are progress- ing favorably, and it is believed there will be a marked diminution in the death rate ake this® cach and ever: i Market street, near Third. HOMR DOURTS from this time on. cal men in coping with the disease. A peculiar feature of the epidemic that | has caused an average d¢ath rate of more than two a day for the past several weeks is that few women or children have been This fact adds to the mystery of the strange disease, which, in all of its developments, has puzzled the phy- afflicted. sicians. The following is the death list of the past week in Tonopah, as neatly as i could be obtained Arthur George, 49 Fennsylvania. He wi Henry George. cember and cugaged in mining. was of three days' duration. orace C. eurs old, B fative o His ilines City. He died after an jliness of He was of 'Tonopal Gunn, aged B0 vears, a native of Scotia, formerly of FEureka, Nevada City and Bodle, Cal. He was a foreman of the St. Clair and Golden mines. He was il one week. e Thompson, aged 48, formerly of Aus. died after a few days’ iline Robins Ney., died Dunlan, aged a_week's iliness. War in Company 1 Volunteer Infantry. n, axed 64, a Delamar, on January 8. ¥, Fortleth Mis: in several rich claims. He made out his wil! just before his death and ieft his fortune to hie with the ex- Partners in the mining busi eention of $500 hequeathed to the Miners | | Union of Tonopah. | es Terrell of Tusearora, Nev., died jast | | 4 was buried on Saturday. A short | | had written for his wife to join him. was on the way to Tanopsh when She arrived there on Saturday v to learn that her husband had been buried that | | afternoon. | Samuel Crescenzo, ex-District, Attorney of | | Eureka County, died on January 10. His body | | taken 10 A where the funeral was id Tuesd il Another de ker, 58 years old a grandson e earijest is that of Frederick F tive of Corpus Alexander Palm, 60 vears of age, formerly Lida Velley and a pioneer of this State. A. L. Anderson of Grass Valley. is sick with pneumonia and is expected to die at any moment. No Time to Lose. Mon's 2nd ladie ers le of the Bee Hive Shoe C T THE STATEMENTS Controversy About the Philippines Begins in Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—For the first time this session the Philippine question was touched on in the Senate to-day. The interest taken indicates that it will oc- ¢ the attention of the upper branch ngress for some time when the tariff bili is reported. The Philippines were the subject of an address by Hoar of Massachusetts, who spoke on his resolution introduced yester- day providing for the appointment of a Senate committee to investigate the ad- ministration of those islands. Hoar spoke at some length regarding the unreliability | of statements which have been made from time to time regarding the situation in the Philippines and the causes which led 10 the outbreak. Lodge, Hoar’s colleague, said he regard- ed the resolution as a reflection on the Phiiippine Committee, of which he is | chairman, and the necessity for the latter would cease were this resolution adopted. The discussion was leading rapidly to an | | opening of the whole Philippine question when it was agreed that the resolution should go over until togmorrow. Mason of Illinois m: the protective policy generally. The House continued the debate on the pension appropriation bill to-day, and de- voted much time to the proposition made by Rixey of Virginia yesterday to open the doors of the Soldiers’ Homes to ex- Confederate veterans. Two notabie speeches were made in support of the roposition, one by Gardner, a Michigan epublican, and the other by De Armond, a Missouri Democrat. De Armond's elo- uence aroused both sides of the House, Fhe. Republicans, with the exception. of Gardner, took no part in the discussion of the Rixey suggestion, which met with much opposition on the Democratic side on the ground that it was utterly imprac- ticable. ORDERS INVESTIGATION AT THE VETERANS’ HOME At the request of Theodore A, Bell, Dis- trict Attorney of Napa County, the board of directors of the Veterans’ Home has directed that an investigation be made of the cguse of the death of James O’Con- | nor. Yesterday 8. W. Bacxus, president of the board, appointed a special commit- tee, consisting of Directors Georfie Stone, Dr. A. McMahon and W. J. Ruddick, to mest at the home next Saturday, at 11 a. m., and thoroughly investigate the case. President Backus instructed the commit- tee to use diligent and impartial efforts to ascertain the exact truth regarding the methods practiced by the police depart- ment of the camp. Assurance is given that all witnesses will be protected. Dis- trict Attorney Bell of Napa is invited to attend with such witnesses as he may de- sire 1o present. The commandant is di- rected to request the attendance of the medical director and assistant medical di- rector, and to apprise.all the veterans at the home that an investigation is to be held at the time designated. Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Jan. 14—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Frederick F. Bruns, over 21, and Maud Madison, over 18, both of Livermore; Henry G. Holabird, 23, Los Angeles, and Cora L. Evans, 23, and; | Dantel C. Henninger, %, d, and Maud E. Gooch, 22, Allendale; John A. Bmith, 28, and Audrey W. Hood, 21, both of San Franecisco. o e R e Gage Makes Appointments. SACRAMENTO, Jan. - 14—Governor Gage has appointed E. White, O. A. Hale and I Upham members of the of board managers of the Agnews State Hospital to succeed themselves. =H I.llopl jnted M. J. Daniels a member of the tate Board of Horticulture at large, vice . R. Rice, term expired. Physicians will be | sent by the State to assist the local medi- a cousin of the late | He came to Tonapah last De- Adame, aged 47 vears, a native vice president of the hrysler died on January 10; ill but a { resident of, ears, died Januvary Dunlap served in He ‘was one of the | st_ssttlers of Toropah and was part owner was stricken by the digease he 3 evening, only | shoes that cost $2 50 | pair of them are being now sold for §1 a pair at the manufactur: 5 ety a speech in favor | of reciprocity with Cuba, and discussed | e el - f il 1 i | { | Bl - - | |a squad of policemen searched for the { mysterious assailant and to-day Chief | Hodgkins detailed Detectives Kyte, Hol- | 1and and Shorey and Patrolman McCloud, | the child’s uncle, to work on the case, but | all their efforts have been fruitless. In | the absence of a motive for the attack | the police are working upon the theory that the man was a maniac, but whatever | the condition of his mind he has shown | sufficient cunning to completely cover his | tracks, so that not the slightest clew that might help establish his identity can be found. And the child sticks to the story she told when she first regained con- sciousness last night at the Recelving | Hospital. Policeman McCloud, her uncle, said: Floseie insists upon the story she told last | night, but T think she must be mistaken in some of_the minor details. Ehe left our home | at 705 Market street shortly before 8 o’clock | and went to @ grocery store at Seventh and | WAR WERRIES THE FILIPINDS Large Force of Fighting Men Make a Full ! Surrender. i MANILA, Jan. 14.—The full surrender of the forces of Colonel Marisigan, who with Major Cabrera gave themselves up unconditionally, January 10, to General Bell, who is conducting the campaign against the insurgents in Batangas pro- vince, occurred yesterday at Taal. The insurgents created a surprise by bringing in sixty more rifies than the authorities of the district suspected they had. The Filipinos who surrendered included three colonels, one*major, five captains and twelve lieutenants. They gave up 219 rifles and one cannon. All the in- surzents who surrendered did so uncon- ditionally. General Bell ordered the men released. Marisigan says he can prevail on many more men to surrender during the next few days, and also obtain possession of a number of additional rifies. General Bell says the surrender pacifies, for the } time being, all the eastern part of Batan- gas. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The War De- tment was advised late to-day of an important surrender which occurred yes- terday at , Batangas, Philippine Islands. The surrender included one colonel,” three lleutenant colonels, one major, five captains, twelve lieutenants, men and 233 rifles. Marisigan, the colonel, was a leader of importance under the insurgent general Malvar, opera iln the ‘western part of Bats 2 section now to be practical lde" of hostile forces. It is |¥ued :m’c a the surrender was unconditfs and directly to the excellent service of lue the been time to see the same man, wearing a black mask, at her ehoulder. She insists that he threw something into her face that caused her to swoon. It is my belief that he struck her with his hand. That would account for her cut and swollen lips. She says she doesn't remember any more until she was awakened by the man beating her. She was then in a wagon in a vacant lot. She swooned again and the next time she recovered her eenses she was in the Receiving Hospital. All this happened within a short space of time, for within an hour after she left home she was found by Willlam Keefer and . Dimmick six blocks from where she was assail- ed, bound hand and foot and unconseious. And now comes the strangest part of the story: Her wrists were bound together by her shoestrings and her feet were tied with one of her stockings. After the stocking had been removed the shoe had been replaced upon the bare foot. She was found lying upon the side- walk, her back against the fence in front of Messina's premises at 1060 Seventh street. Just back of this fence it a hedge and behind the hedge were found the three parcels of gro- ceries and my dne, which Flossie carried with her in the evenings. ‘The parcels had evidentiy been placed carefull ¥ upon the ground, as they D 2 e i B e S i R Rl ] JELOUS AAGE IMPELS MURDER Brooklyn Policeman Kills Wife, Her Mother and Shoots Woman. NEW YORK, Jan. 14—Willilam H. En- nis, a Brooklyn policeman, shot and killed his wife and fatally wounded her mother, Mrs. Alice Gorman, at Mrs. Gorman's home early to-day- Ennis was arrested several hours after the shooting. The policeman had sep- arated from his wife and had refused to support her and she had him arrested recently. He went to the house to-day and when admittance was refused him he drew his revolver and putting his shoulder to the door burst it in. He ran upstairs to his wife’s bedroom and fired one shot at ber. Her mother, who had heard the uproar, ran to Mrs. Ennis’ room. Ennis il e Sho 5 7 a0 BTl e r, He e would KIl himself. g Pyrography Outfits llAnd all kinds of Artists’ Materials, Paints, Brushes, Canvas Studies and Bkins and Wood to burn. We are agents for Winsor and Newton, makers of the best Artists’ Materials in the world. Come to headquarters for everything wanted in the Artists’ Material line. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T4l Market street. . L R M e e e e ] American troops. The loyal natives, it is added, believe this surrender will in- fluence hostile bands in other sections of Bat surrender. ‘Those prisoners serious crimes have < LITTLE OAKLAND * GIRL WHO ‘WAS THE VICTIM OF A MYSTE- RIQUS AND BRUTAL ASSAULT. k3 were not torn mor otherwise disturbed. The case is the most singular that has ever been called to my attention. Detective George. Kyte has made a house-to-house canvass in the hopeof find- ing some one who might have seen the wagon or the child and man together, but he has been unsuccessful. He sald: | 1 found one woman who was sitting by an | open_window near where the littie girl was | found. 'This woman, Mrs. Massio, was watch- | ing with her husband. who was {il, She can- | not recall having heard the slightest noise, vet | she was within a few feet of where the child | lay. We found some fresh wagon-wheel tracks, | but they might have been made by a delivery | wagon which drove by just as we reached the place. ‘While’the police, owing to the vague de- scription furnished by the child, are ap- parently baffled, they are redoubling their | eftorts to unravel the mystery and are by | no_means discouraged. Chief Hodgkins | sal / In the absence of any other motive we are attributing the man's acts to insanity. We may not be able to establish his identity, but we may at least explain some of the mysteri- ous circumstances surrounding the case. ~There is no_question that the child was bound hand and foot and left unconscious and the bruises | on her stomach and back are proofs sufficient | that she was severely beaten, but how did those | parcels of groceries, and the cane, get behind the hedge at Seventh and Chestnut streets? The | parcels were carefully handled, as was shown Dby the wrapping paper, and what man kidnap- ing a child would have taken all that trouble? 1t is certainly a most mysterious case and one that will require a lot of hard work before it is finally explained. Litt1d Flossle is far from recovered from the frightful shock of the experience and she is confined to her bed at her uncle's home. Her father is dead and her mother, married again, has been living in Hono- lulu. The mother and daughter have not seen each other for several years. The theory that Flossie may have been mis- | taken for some other child is not con- sidered plausible by the police. After an all-day search the detectives uncovered only two points that might be of any service. The girl was seen near her home on her way from the grocery about 7:5 o'clock. She was also seen to leave the store and start toward home, after securing the groceries. A boot- black near the store noticed the chila walking across Seventh street, south on | Market street. The only value of these facts is to verify a part of the child’s story. PLEA 15 MADE FOR THE CABLE Telegraph Company Offi- cials Talk to the Senators. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to-day gave a hearing to representatives of the Pacific Commercial Cable Company. George A. TEN MEN DIE IN - MINE PIT Bodies of the Workmen Taken From a Burn- ing Shaft. PRISONERS BAEMK JAL N OAKLAND Escape From the Alameda County Bastile. Escape Was Possible, but Em~ ployes Neglected Op- portunities. Saw Twenty-One Inches of Iron Bars and Flee in the Night. SOUTH McALESTER, I. T, Jan. .- Ten miners lost their lives in the explo- sion yesterday evening in mine No. 9 of the Milby & Dow Mining Company at Dow, I. T. The victims are: JACK McCOY. W. F. KEITH. B. F. FARHURST. E. M. PRITCHARD. OAKLAND, Jan. 14.—For the second time within three weeks a jailbreak has occurred at the County Jail. Three men, who were inmates of the strongest cell in the jail, cleared the way to liberty by sawing through twenty-one inches of iran bars and climbing over the high stone wall that surrounds the prison. | yard they took with them a blanket and Ward of New York, president of the com- pany, and William Cook, general counsel, ‘were present. Hale, the chairman, explained the ef- forts that previously had been made to secure legislation authorizing the con- struction of a cable to the Hawailan Isl- ands. He also told the committee of the importance of early action in the matter if anything was to be accomplished. Speaking for his company, Ward said that for a great many years John W. y had a great desire to see a Pa- @lific_cable lald because of his being iden- tified largely with the Pacific Coast. Then he went over the ground covered in the hearing before the House Committe. position Go it were fair or just for the Government to lay a cable in competition with private enterprise and was it good business poli f when it could get ev - ut:’tro;n.n Il;l]\‘r;.te company without the ou 0 0] 2 Senator Perkins remarked that the con- struction of this cable' was a matter of national pride with Mackay. Cook declared that his company wanted no subsidy, no grant. All they did ask was that Congress pass no bill at all. E 1OS ANGELES, Jan. held -known A x.n ‘Well- lnnmqyu: men .lkl'n'fls 3 The prisoners who escaped are Frank Caldwell, Fred Smith and James Mur- phy, all of whom were awaiting trial on charges of burglary. They were im- plicated in the robbery of the home of Hermann Bendel and were part of the gang of nine men who were caught in & barn on Third street several months | ago by Chief of Police Hodgkins. With | them was captured a houseful of booty and burglars’ implements, their depreda- tions having annoyed the police and prop- erty owners for weeks. The men freed themselves from bondage in much the same way as did Charies Kelly and Frank Case, who escaped from the jail Christmas night, except that the trio who worked out last night were com- | pelled to remove greater obstacles. First | they cut away eight bars of flat iron | two and a half inches wide and a quar- ter of an inch thick that formed a portion of the window of cell No. 8 in the south | or Grand Jury corridor, in which they were confined. They next cut away a | bar one and a half inches thick that was | in the grating over the window. Again | they sawed through two iron stanchions that held an iron shield over the grating and prying it outward with ome of the | heavy bars they had cut away were able to jump to the pavement of the jail yard. After this escape was easy, for climbing over the high stone wall was only the work of a few minutes. ‘Were Well Supplied With Saws. Altogether the escaped prisoners sawed twelve pleces of iron, from one to two inches thick. In order to deaden the gound caused by the rasping of the saws the men tore up their clothing and wrapped it tightly about the bars. The cloth was still about them when the frag- ments were found. he prisoners evi- dently took turns at the wark and labored at the most opportune time. When they began the work the jailers do not venture to say. While the Salvation Army .was singing in the jail Sunday last a visitor informed one of the jallers that he thought he heard the grating of saws, but the jailer did not investigate. How the saws got into the hands of the prisoners is a mystery.. After the escape of Kelly and Case many of the | privileges of the other prisoners were | curtailed and they were not permitted to receive visitors. A search of the jail at that time, too, failed to reveal the pres- ence of any more saws. Five worn saws were found in the vacant cell this morn- ing by the jallers. 'Beside them was a bottle of muriatic acid that had been used to reduce the resistance of the steel. How the bottle got into the jail is another mys- tery that s puzzling the jail officials. When the prisoners dropped from their broken cell to the pavement of the jail a mop handle, to the end of which was attached a hook made -of thick wire. These they used in climbing over the wall, They are supposed -to have made a ladder of their bodles so that when one man climbed to the top of the human pile he was enabled to reach the coping. Once there he could have fixed the improvised ladder that was compesed of the hook and strips of the blanket in the wall so | that his feliows could join him at the top. After the men reached the top it was an easy matter for them to drop to the ground by means of the blanket lad- der. Discovery of the Break. The escape was made between 9 o’clock last ‘night and 6 o'clock this morning, when the prisoners were called to break- fast.- It is the customat the jail to lock the prisoners in their cells at 9 o’clock at night. It was after that hour that the trio tookbthe opportunity to break away the last bar. Caldwell was to have had his trial to- morrow_for burglary, Police Judge Smith having held him to answer before the Su- perior Court. He is 23 years old, 5 feet 11% inches in height and weighs 15 pounds. Smith, who was to have been tried February 20, is 24 years old, 5 feet 5% Inches in height and welghs 170 pounds. Murphy is 24 years old, is 5 feet 6% inches in height and welighs 235 pounds. WRITES TO THE POLICE AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Anders Sontesby Pays His Bills and Puts Away Money for Funeral Expenses. Anders Olsen Sontesby rather coolly prepared for suicide. Before sending a bullet into his brain he wrote a note ad- dressed to -Chief of Police Wittman, placed it in an envelope, put a 2-cent stamp upon it and either left the letter himself at the office of the Chiet of Police or sent it by messenger. The note was dated January 13, 1902, and stated that when the Chief opened it the writer would be dead by his own hand. The suicide in- formed the Chief that $40 in currency would be found in the stocking on his right foot to defray his funeral expenses; he had paid all his debts and had %ilttle\ienp all his affairs. Nothing was stated in the note as a reason why the writer proposed making away with him- self. Chief Wittman sent Policeman T. P. Riordan to the Adelphia House, %9 Kearny street, the place mentioned in the note, and having been admitted to Sontes- by’s room saw the dead body of the sui- cide lying on the floor with a bullet wound in the forehead and a revolver. close to the right hand. The money was found in the dead man’s stocking as mentioned in the note and was turned over -to the Coroner. The sulcide was 39 years old and a na- tive of ‘Norway. Mothing is known at the lodging-house as to his antecedents. ——————————— CHARMING GARDEN CITY GIRL BECOMES A BRIDE SAN JOSE, Jan. 14.—Miss Helen A. Marsky, one of the prettiest and most bopular young ladies of this city, was ‘married to-day to Marion S. de Rocco, a young business man. The ceremony was rformed in St. Joseph's Catholic Church by Rev. Father Walshe at 10 o'clock this forenoon, and was preceded by a nuptial mass. Miss . Breeze was bridesmaid and Joe E. de Rocco, a brother of the groom, was best man. A large number of friends witnessed the ceremony. he marriage a wedding breakfast A vsa o the:) homem?ln‘tha bride's Pavents, Mr. and Mrs. B B Soutn_ River street. Mr. and de Rocco left for Sacra- ‘mento, where their honeymoon will be m, They will reside in San Fran- BERT GATLIN. JOHN BEAMAS. THOMAS BLUM. JOHN BLUM. M. BROW. JOHN BEATAL. The ten mey who lost their lives were the only persons in the pit and no one was left to tell the story. All the bodies were recovered, and as none was burned the conclusion is that death was due to after- damp. The explosion did not injure the shaft, which is a new one, and the firs that followed was put out before it did much damage. The sound of the explosion was heard plainly above ground and rescuers wers at work promptly. The explosion occur- red at a depth of 240 feet. The machinery was not injured by the explosion and miners working at the mouth of the pit descended as soon as it was safe. The condition of the mine indicated that the men might have made their escape ‘The bodies were found within a compara- tively small radius. The fire was put out before it had reached any of them and the last man was brought to the surface before midnight. The victims have been in the employ of the company for some time and most of them were men of family. The Milby & Dow Mining Compan: which owns the shaft, is one of the hea: fest operators in the Choctaw The principal stockholders are A. Dow o Houston, Tex., and John Milby of Dallas, Tex. They operate mines at Dow, Gowen and Hartshorne. Mine No. 9, at which the explosion occurred, had mot yet been thoroughly opened and it had no fire in- spector. Experienced mining men marvel that the gas should have accumulated in sufficlient quantitles in a new mine to cause such a disastroys explosion. WALTER MOROSCO’S WILL NOT TO BE CONTESTED Oliver Morosco Denies That He or His Brother Centemplate Such Action. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14.—There ap- peared in an 'afternoon local paper to- day a sensational story to the effect that Oliver Morosco and his brother, Leslie, would contest the will of the late Walter Morosco of San Francisco on the ground that decedent had been unduly influenced to ignore the contestants in his will. The late theatrical manager bequeathed to Oliver Morosco the Burbank Theater, in this city, but Oliver asserts that the elder Morosco owned no interest in the Burbank; that it is and had been for two years his (Oliver Morosco’s) cxelu= sive property Oliver Morosco was seen to-night in re- gard to the publication and denied posi- tively that he or his brother had any in- tention of contesting the will. “I am surprised that neither my brother nor myself received a legacy from Mr. Morosco,” said he, “but I em- phatically deny that I have given any intimation that either of us had any in- tention of making a contest. I ve never given such a move a thought, and have no intention of doing so.”™ ADVERTISEMENTS. WEAK LUNGED ~ PEOPLE Their Chance of Escaping Death from Consumption. If all weak lunged people were told that their chances of escaping consumption was only onme in six and that after con- tracting the disease there was but one chance in ten thousand of their ever re- covering unless they adopted a certain treatment, what a - sensation it would create. Yet these are the exact facts in the case. The number of people who die annually from consumption alone average one in every family of six in the United States, and medical records and Govern- ment statistics show that not a single case has been cured excepting by one treat- ment. Thousands of weak lunged people who through their lgnorance imagine that consumption is hereditary and that there are a dozen and one different remedies which will cure it, go to their death beds annually because of their ignorange as to the true facts and it is high time they were brought to a reallzing sense of their danger. Until HYOMEI, the new dry-air germi- clde, was discovered, deaths from con- sumption increased over 22 per cent an- nually. No reputable physician would acknowl- edge that there was a cure for the dis- ease, and the United States health reports never even mentioned one of the thou- sands of treatments used. Since HYOMEI was discovered . the death rate from consumption is shown to have decreased 33 per cent annually. It has been indorsed by the United States health reports and the medical profession have declared HYOMEI to be the oniy cure known for coughs, catarrh, pmneu- monia and consumption. These are the facts as they stand to-day and every person suffering from a respir- atory disease should learn the truth about this new cure by writing to The R. T. Booth Co., Ithaca, N. Y., for a free sample of HYOMEI, or if you haven't time to do this, ask your druggist for a HYOMEI outfit. It may save your lfe. DR. MEYERS & €O, SPECIALISTS FOR MEN. 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