The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1902, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBfiUABY 12, 1902, - AxvsENTS COLUMBIA 225 TO-DAY—EXTRA MATINEE—TO-DAY. VIOLA ALLEN And Company, Presenting “In the Palace of the King.” NEXT ATTRACTION. INNING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, WM. A. BRADY’S n of the successful Bucolic Drama, “WAY DOWN EAST.” ‘6\VA Seat Sale Opens To-Morrow Morning. G RAN OPERA HOUSE RDAY AND SUNDAY. Matinces. FAREWELL NIGHTS OF EDWIN ARDEN In His Most Successful Drama, € ‘RAGLAN'S WAY” ICES—10c, 15c, 25c, 50c, 7Bc. Seats All Matinees 25c. G EX- A TEMPERANCE TOWN.” George Ober CIAL! FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 3:15. ONY CONCERT. BELASCQ ~weTHALLS cogt sz NTRAD - ). With Steam. , 35c and B0c. 10c, 15¢, 25¢ —ALL ur Jones' THIS WEEK. Brilliant Play, x Day Advance. 25¢, 85c, 50c and TSe TAL EXPRE! ’s Bears; Ro 5 na Boatinc -Balancing Dogs; Victor e, Lottie Fremont and Harry h ard The Biograph. OF FUN-MAKERS. ENADE.” , 50c and TSc CHARLES DALTON THE SIGH OF THE CROSS, Note.—Seat or the sec- s for the sec- ond and last week of The S of the Cross ready Thursday. ORDICA SONG_RECITALS ¢y ana WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, Fe ruary 17 and 19. on (Washington's Birthday), February 22, SALE OPENS NING AT LAY & CO."S 2, ¥ 1 SCIEACE LECTURE Aft jan Science Board Church of Christ, will Jecture in NDAY AFTER- NOOX subect, “*Chris- tian ¢ - and Redeemer.” Ad- missi e publie cordially invited. PALACE and GRAND HOTELS. On one side of these magnificent hotels is the wholesale and manu- facturers’ district—on the other re- tail stores, clubs, railroad and pewspaper offices, banks and thea- ters. Street cars to all parts of the dty—depots, ferries and parks— pase the entrance. American and European plans. . | ove EWING of Chicago, | alfa HE FOUND G0GO5 TREASURE British Rear Admiral Makes Sensational Offer. Given One-Quarter of Its Gold. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., Feb.’11.—At a meet- ing of the shareholders of the Pacific Ex- ploration and Development Company, which has sent the treasure hunting ex- pedition to Cocos Island, Chairman H. H. Jones to-day told of an offer that had been made by Rear Admiral Palliser, for- merly in command on this station, to send a man to gulde the expedition to the hid- ing place of the pirates’ loot in return for & quarter of the buried millions for him- gelf and a twentleth for the man sent as uide. % 2ear Admiral Palliser had been with one of the warships that went to Cocos Island to search for the treasure. Accord- ing to his letter the sallors dug until the; came to the planks and slabs which cov- ered the hidden gold. Then a half-ton of dynamite was taken ashore and the whole face of the rock blown out, hundreds of tons of rock being thus hurled down to | cover the hiding place of the treasure. | _“This was done,” explained Chairman Jones, “because warships are not p- P to go on such a mission, and there would have been trouble had the Govern- | ment known that they had, done so. More- ver, as a British warship had turned ate and buried the treasure there, if a p had taken that treasure from the d it is easy to imagine what might happened. The sailors had it no | doubt in mind to rebury the treasure when they found it and as soon as their | time expired with the British Government | they would go out and obtain the loot.” | _This, said the speaker, was shown by the letter, sent through a firm of lawyers | in London and through Mr. Galletly of | the Bank of Montreal to the company, | in which the writer sald he had seen the treasure, GRADERS BEGIN BUILDING OF TWO NEW RAILROADS First Dirt Is Thrown Up on Projected Lines Extending From Phoenix. PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 11.—The Repub- lican announces authoritatively that ar- rangements have“been made for the ex- tension of the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad from Fairbank to Tombstone. Grading was begun to-day near this city on two new railroads. One is the Fhoenix and Eastern, to be built from this_point to Benson.' The other is the El Paso, Phoenix and California South- ern. The first hundred vards of roadbed | was graded a short distance west of | town in the presence of President M. H. | McCord, Vice President J. J. Hodnett and | Chief Engineer H. R. Patrick. { HALF MILLION D?fLABS ! FOR SANTA MONICA LAND Capitalists Buy Water Front Tract a Mile and a Quarter in Length. SANTA MONICA, Feb. 11.—The sale for $500,000 of the Kinney and Dudley tract, comprising more than a mile and a quar- ter of valuable water front, has been con- cluded. The purchasers are A. R. Fraser, Jones and associates, who acquire t clubhouse and racetrack, r_works supplying the tract NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A PESTIEERQUS GERM. Burrows Up the Scalp Into Dandruff and Saps the Hair’s Vitality. People who comgplain of falling hair as a rule do not know that it is the result , which is caused by a pesti erous parasite rrowing up the scalp as | it digs down to the sheath in which the is fed in the scal Before long the root is shriveled up and the hair If the wt of the germ is not eeps thinning till bald- s comes. The only way to cure dan- | éruff is to kill the germ, and until now | there has been no hair preparation that would do it; but to-day dandruff is easily eradicated by Newbro's Herpicide, which glossy and soft as silk. AMUSEMENTS. Lvery Week Day— 4 Rain or Shins. NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB | OAKLAND RACETRACK. Races start at 2:16 p. m. sharp, \ Ferry-boat leaves San Francisco at 12 m. and 12:30, 1, 1:30, and 3 p. m., connecting | With trains stopping at the entrance to the rack. two cars on train reserved for Jadies and thelr escorts; no smoking. Buy your jerry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via 1 Oakland mole connect with San Pablo avenus electric cars at Seventh and Broadway, Oak- land. Also all trains via Alameda mole con- pect with San Pablo avenue cars at Four teenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric Cars go direct to the irack in fiftecn minutes. Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:13 end 4:45 p. m. and immediately after the last race, | THOMAS H. WILLIAMS | CHAS F HOFMANN, THE GREAT PIANIST. T0-NIGHT, % Again NEXT SAT. AFTERHOON, FEB. I5, § on At METROPOLITAN: HALL |..THE FAIRYLAND CARNIVAL.. MECHANICS' PAVILION, Open from 1 to 11 p. m. Special Children's Matinee at 3 p, m. JR., President, PRICE, Secy. and Mgr. EXTRA FEATURES TO-DAY. Columbia Park Ciub Day; Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. Competitive Drill by Three Companies for a Silver Cup. Entry free for Baby Show in Carriages. Takes place to-morrow. Every afterncon and evening the Electrical Ballet by 150 children. General Acmission 2bc. Children 10c. | CHUTES AND Z00 37 v L and Evenizg. | BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW. ELLA BURT COASTS THE CHUTES ON A BICYCLE, TO-MORROW NIGHT THE AMATEURS AND A FAT LADIES’ BOWLING MATCH. Telephone for Seats, Park 23. SHERMAN, CLAY & C0.’S HALL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 8 P. M. Recital . Angelus Piano Player Assisted by the VICTOR TALKING MA- CHINE and MISS HELEN NIELSEN, so- rano. PN Admission free by ticket, to prevent overcrowding. to be had on application at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s Store. ‘Will Reveal Pirate Cache if and, including improved lots, | STEAMSHIP BERTHA ON THE ROCKS Alaskan Craft Strikes the Harold Island Shore. Lies So Close That Passen- gers Are Landed With a Gangplank. Suffer Hardshipsin Improvised Camp for Two Days Until They Are Picked Up by the Cottage City. — e PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Feb. 11— Another steamship has been added to the long list of wrecks along the Alaskan shore. The Cottage City, arriving to- night, brought news of the wrecking of the Alaska Commercial Company’s steam- ship Bertha on Harold Island, near the entrance of Fitzhugh Sound, mnorth of Queen Charlotte Sound. The Bertha sailed from Seattle for Val- | des. She encountered good weather until | Saturday ‘night, when a storm set in and | on Sunday morning at 12:30 o'clock the | vessel struck on Harold Island. All of the passengers were in bed. The | shock caused great confusion and a stam- | pede was made for the upper deck. Cap- | tain Johansen and his officers quickly re- stored order, and on investigation it was |found that' the vessel was in such proximity to the shore that a gangplank would reach an elevated rock. The plank was put into place and the passengers walked ashore, Later bedding and bag- gage were landed and a camp was made on the barren rocks. . On the approach of daylight the work of lightering the vessel was commenced by landing the horses and other freight. A kedge was got out and the Bertha was hauled into water again with the aid of a donkey engine. As soon as she struck deep water she began to sink, so she was swung on to the beach, having lost her keel, and having a large hole in her bot- tom, forward of the engine room. It is be- lieved that she will be a total loss. During the first night on which the pas- sengers camped on the rock they suffered no serious inconvenience, but on the sec- ond day a heavy rain set in, with a cold wind that caused cepsiderable suffering. On Monday morning they were picked up by the Cottage City and brought to this place. The loss of freight and baggage | by exposure to the elements was a severe blow to many of the passengers, as they had their last dollar invested in outfits for the season’s prospecting in Alaska. The Bertha was built at Benicia by Mat- thew Turner in 1888. She was 185.5 feet long, 32.5 of beam ard 22.1 in length. She had a registered tonnage of 926 tons. DECLARES FOR ADMISSION OF CHINESE MERCHANTS Resolution Unanimously Adopted by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. / PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 11.—At a lAeetln‘ of the Portland Chamber of Commerce to- | day the appended resolution, favoring un- | restricted admission of Chinese mer- chants, was passed without a dissenting | vote: | Whereas, There are now pending in the na- tonal Congress of the United States at Wash- ton certain bills which we believe may be strued 10 so restrict the entrance of the antile class of China Into the United | States as to be harmful to our mercantile in- | terests: and whe the irade of the port | of Portland with the Chinese empire is of great | and increasing importance; and whereas, for { per conserving and promoting of this ex- of commodities we belleve it is of the utmost importance that all faclities of com- merce and the courtesies due to a friendly na- particularly to that class of which operates, controls | me; ‘ under favorable con- ! is destined to assume vast pro- | portions in 'the future. Therefore Resolved, That we, the Chamber of Com- merce of Portland, do hereby most respectfully and earnestly petition the President of the United & and the Oregon delegations at Washington, D. C., to use their utmost efforts to induce the Congress to enact legislation so to grant unrestricted entrance into the | United States to all merchants and members | of the mercantile class of China, such as sales- | men, clerks, buvers, bookkeepers, accountants, managers, bankers and cashiers! FIFTY-THREE MILLIONS IS SHOWN IN POLICIES Cne of the Foremost Life Insurance Companies Makes a Remark- . able Record. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Fifty-three mil- lion dollars of new insurance policles in the first six weeks of the year is the astonishing high-water record announced by one of the foremost life insurance companies. The announcement is made to-day on the occaslon of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the election of the Hon. John A. McCall to_ the presidency of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany. Insurance men and financiers ad- mit that this is one of the strongest in- | dications of the general prosperity of the | country that has been presented since the dawn_of the new year. President McCall is being showered with telegrams- and letters of congratulation from offi- cials and agents of the New York Life all over the land. In his report made at the beginning of the year, Mr. McCall foreshadowed the era of insurance activity now prevailing. He insisted that the old style of man- agement which was disposed to quibble [ the settlement of claims, and which denied the right of the insured to lcans and surrender values on demand, must give to more liberal ideas, and also that an open record of all transactions of the year should be furnished annually to_the insured. It was hardly anticipated, however, that the response would be so sponta: neous or of such dimensions. Fifty-three million dollars is more mnew business | than many of the larger companies have hitherto been able to write in the course of twelye months. Should the present rate of new insurance keep up for the year the New York Life will secure $300,- 000,000 in new paid-for policles, a figure so far in advance of anvthing hitherto achieved that there is no opportunity for comparison. Great Library for Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 11.— An immense library is the latest proba- bility in the building up of Stanford Uni- versity. President Jordan has announced at such a building will be erected and ill have a capacity of 1,000,000 volumes, The present large library, the gift of Thomas Welton_ Stanford of Australia, will continue to be used as a storehouse for the general reference works used by the undergraduates. Mrs. Stanford is exvected to return from the East to-morrow, and will prob- ably then make known the plans for the proposed library and for other improve- ments soon to be started. A e ' Woman in Diplomatic Service. PARIS, Feb. 1L.—Mile. Jeanne de Vil- leneuve has been appointed secretar¥y of the French Consulate General in New York. Mile. de Villeneuve, who belongs to an old family of Provence, has been a Government clerk for nine years. Her appointment, which was made by the Foreign Minister, M. Delcasse, marks a new departure, as it is believed to be the first time a woman has been appointed to a post in the diplomatic service. —_———— Only Reliable Coal Dealers Sell Tesla Briguettes, $9 per ton. Best and cheapest fuel for kitchen and grate. Phone South 95 about them. . eans and power of fur- | THE EMPORIUM. | THE EMPORIUM. { | 5 | ever offered for a special. white, and are a rare bargain at to-day's sale price, per pair . STl T CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST-, AMERICA'S GRANDEST STORE. Special Money-Saving Chances in Numerous Departments of the Big Store for To-Day’s Thrifty Shoppers. Great Sale of Flanneleties. This is a lot of several hundred pieces of the good 10c grade of Flannelettes that we closed out from a mill at less than it costs to make them. It was the close of the manu- facturing season, and our offer for the balance of this sea- son’s patterns was readily accepted. dainty colorings, and the sale price, per yard .. All new, 7c | § ; § § H Drops and Hangers, each . Boys’ Waists 23¢c. These are pretty waists; a 50¢ value; made of fast color- ed Percales;in dark and in light patterns; deep sailor collars with ruffies and ruffied front; sizes for boys 3 to 10 years of age; on Wednesday ~ only, each . . 25c Ribhon 23c. ; : | § 5 ; express, will be placed on sle to-day at third less than its market value. A good quality of Writing Paper in the § envelopes to match; 500 boxes only on special sale to-day, per box .. .. | § Valentine Handsome silk and lace effects, in boxes . . . e+ .. 185D to $3.00 Pretty Cards,cach . . . . . 7@@ to 25¢ Lace Valentines, @ for 52 to 5¢ each A special purchase of 1500 yards of fancy brilliant Taffeta Ribbon, which our buyer now in New York has forwarded to us by Itis 4% inches wide, and comes in eleven pretty colorings for neck bows, Includig rose, light blue, turquoise and white; regular value 35c per yard; sale price to-day -, . . 2 3 T Writing Paper ffec. {ma and octavo sizes; in cream, white, lue or pink tints; 24 sheets of paper and 25 fie AARRRRARRRRAR BRR AL R ikl Witttk kWL WU RR R KR RRRURRRR KRR AR R W e WA WtWe Kt auis Yatit s Wi ———— Froem 9 for | e 0 33 Extra Cloak each. Standing Novelty Valentines, 255 to 81,00 $15.00 to fas.00 Jackes . ...fewZc $5.00 to $8.50 Skira . . Continuance of Semi-Annual Carpet and Rug Saie. Each season we have to go through our Carpet stock and pick out the patterns that we cannot duplicate or will not re-order. Upon these we make an average reduc- tion of twenty-five per cent, @/ price inducement that closes them out in short order. This loss is a penalty that we must pay to keep our Carpet stock always complete and up-to-date. The b'g Semi-Annual Sale is now on in full earnest. Good Qualily of Tapestry Carpel—Wool surface, bright, cheerful and effective dssigns, worth §5c per yard; reduced now to close it out 7 s A 47:c Best Quality of Tapestry Carpets—Including such popular makes as Roxbury, Stinsons and Saniords, worth \$1.00 per yard; reduced now to clas®igor o5 0] . iecdssdeinssace nsnnasanee 750 Excellent Hassocks—Made up of Tapestry Carpets, Body Brussels, Velvets and Axminsters, a very special bargan at this week’s price; : i m 50e Willton Vcivet Carpels—With borders to match, an excellent line to select from, nothing but the best quality of yarn used in these carpets; worth $1.25 per yard; sale price . ¥ $" ao Axminster Carpets—Of a nice, decp pile, very effective and rich colorings, in a variety of shades and a good selection of patterns, worth $1.25 per yard; sale price o ¢z : $"oo Brussels Rugs—Size 60x27 inches, handsome assortment ot patterns, medallion and Oriental designs, fringed both ends; sale price this week, each $ ’ .25 t. Gershel’s Ciloaks, 37c on $1.00. In addition to our great Cloak and Suit Sale at 37¢ on the dollar, we offer for to-day only all our regular stock of fine Cashmere Wrappers and Tea Gowns at exactly half prices All $6.00 Tea Gowns . §3.00 Al $10.00 Tea Gowns . $5.00 All $7.50 Tea Gowns . $3.785 Al $15.00 Tea Gowns . $7.50 Gershel Stock. . $7.95 $1.00 Undenshirs . . . 890 §25.00 to $40.00 Dreses . $14.25 $4 o §6 Wasn . . $2,70 . $3.25 $:2034Cans .. . $9,.95 Groceries, Liguors Best Dry Granulated Sugar; Sand Soap—Stryker’s best; a kitchen French Deas—Petits Pois; extra fine Claret Sale—Our fimous So- Kentucky River Whisky—Not as old Guinness’ Stoul—McMaullen’s A handsome nickel-plated rack with three 12~ REERRRRRRERR RREREERERRRER RERRRRRRERRRE RRRRERRE RRERERERRE RERERER RRRRERER RERERRRR RRRRRRRR RIRRE RRRRRRER R, $2 Curtains, $1.47. We have two patterns of $2.00 Lace Curtains that are 6o inches wide, 334 yards long, one of the heaviest wide curtains that we have They come in single and double border and in ecru and Fine Percales, 9c. These Percales are a large accumulation of single pieces of which we have no dupli- <ate, and portions of pieces that have been slightly soiled; they are our well-known 12%¢c quality; they come in medium, light and dark colorings for waists, house wraj ete.; all e,y ST Q@ Bargains from the Wednesday Sale. to - day, 23 Ibs.. $1.00 necessity; to-day, 15 Bars. ... quality; to-day, 2 tims... 450 noma win€; you pay 75¢ a gallon for the same quality at other stores; The Emporium’s price 32 c for this day only, gallon as our Willis brand, but a good straight whisky; on special sale to- day, per gallon. ... ....$2.08 Whire Label Bottling; regularly $2.15 a dozen; special to-day. ... 871,90 Nickei-Plated Towe! Racks 10c. WARRAAA R WARAAAN WAAAN RN AR AR R R S WA AW A Wi i Wi Wi i Inch arms and adjustable wall plate that can be screwed to any flat surface; a regu- lar 25c seller; on Wednesday only §O@ AamAA oINS THE LI RERRS MO BAR Former Senator Testifles Before the Canal Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Former United States Senator Samuel Pascoe, now a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, testified before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals to-day that he had carefully investigated ihe proposition made by the new Panama Ca- nal Company for the sale of the Panama Canal rights, and that he was fully con- vinced that under the French laws and the usages in the French court, that com- pany has a valid right to the canal, and could therefore make a transfer to the United States which would hold in law. He thought the co-operation of the liguidator of the old company with the new should be accepted as & proper guar- anty from that company as to its posi: 1ion, and held the opinion that no appre- hension need be felt on that score. He expressed the further opinion that any trouble that might arise over the right of way could be encountered in dealing with a Central American Government, but said this trouble is as probable in dealing with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, for the Nicaragua route, as with Colombia in dealing with the Panama route. In reply to questions Pascoe said he understood that there are now two gen- tlemen in the South American republic for the purpose of co-operating with the Minister from that coantry in granting the necessary concessions for the con- struction of the Panama canal by the United States. Pascoe was questioned at length by Sen- ator Morgan as to the effect of the vari- out treaties between the United States and other powers relative to the canal and also as to the bearing of the French laws on the proposcd transfer, the result be- ing that Pascoe and Morgan disagreed on most of those points. Senator Morgaa also sought to bring out the fact that a concession of only ninety-nine years in the way of a lease, such as has been given to the Panama Company by the Colo: bian Government, would not be sufficient to meet the demands of the United States in case the proffer of sale by the prescnt Panama Company should be accepted by this country, and Pascoe agreed with him on that point, adding his opinion tha® a P ncession in perpetuity could be secured from Colombia. He assented to a sugzes- tion made by Senator Foster of Louisiana that an investigation of title in France might be necessary in case the purchase should be decided upon, but added that such an inquiry would not be a serious undertaking. GOVERNOR ENTERS A PROTEST. Resents Stipulations Agreed Upon for Canal Transfer. PANAMA, Feb. 1lL—Considerable ex- citement has been caused by the publica- tion of the proposed protocol regarding the Panama canal which has been nego- tiated in Washington. Acting Governor Afiona of the department of Panama has cabled the following to the Colombian Siinister at Washington, Dr. Martinez Silva: T triotism resents the stipulations agreed uxg:rcg: the transger of the canal in the form they have been communicated. By renouncing ey overelgnty and permitting a foreign power in her territory Colombia consummates an ignominious ‘humiliation toward Panama, her Tost precious jewel. It would be preferable that the undertaking should fail to paying so dearly for it. The inhabitants of the isthmus protest with indignation against such nego- tiations. ARJONA. many inhabitants of Panama who are pron:’lnem politically and socially decided to send the following message to Minister Silva: laud your efforts with regard to the camns, i e Will help you etficaciously. The future of Colombia is involved, and Colombians, particularly those of the isthmus, hope and trust that the purpose of your patriotic labors will be realized. e The Old Humpbacks Are not to be compared to our new patent back, flat opening Blank Books, which cost no more than the old style and are infinitely better. 'We are agents for Berkshire _Typewriting Papers, Regal Pencils and headquarters for all office g;xpyléel. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market stree! 4 .| two Japanese At a meeting held here this afternoon : ASPHASIA CAUSES DEATH OF DR. G. A. SHURTLEFF Expert on Treatment of Insanity Himself Falls Victim to Dis- ease of the Mind. STOCKTON, Feb. 11.—Dr. G. A. Shurt- leff, who was superintendent of the Stock- ton Insane Asylum from 1365 to 1883, died at 5 o’clock this morning in the Yosemite Hotel, where he had been ill for several CLOUDG OF SAND DB3CURE THE SUN Terrific Gale SWeeps|years. His malady. was asphasia, a dis- ease of the mind. Dr. Shurtlef was a Across the Nevada member of Stockton's first Council; was elected County Recorder in 1835, and in Desert. in the State asylum. He was an active member of various medical societies, and wrote many widely read articles regard- ing the treatment of insanity. A brother was formerly superintendent of the Ag- news asylum. Sed e O Want President to Interfere. DENVER, Feb. 11.—The Senate to-day adopted by a strict party vote the joint resolution which had_ already passed the House appealing to President Roosevelt to interfere in the British-Boér war in order that ‘“not a single republic shall perish from the earth.” The three Re- publican Senators voted against the reso- RENO, Nev., Feb. 11.—Since early this morning the wide stretch of desert in Western and Central Nevada has been swept by a windstorm that at times ap- prcached the proportions of a hurricane. At several points on the Central Paciflc, between Reno and Elko, the wind blew at the rate of eighty miles an hour. Though no serious damage to property has been reported, it delayed trains, pros- trated telegraph wires and long stretches 1856 and again in 1863 was chosen a director | of railroad are buried in sand. Clouds of sand picked up by the gale luuon. BOY BATTLES FOR LIFE WITE MADDENED BULL Tulare County Youth Receives Wounds That May Cause His Death. VISALIA, Feb. 11.—Charles Howell, a 20-year-old youth living near this ecity, had a terrible battle with a bull last night. The animal attacked him unawares, strik- ing him in the back, knocking him down and repeatedly charging upon him. Finally Howell grabbed the bull by the horns. The enraged animal raised his head into the air with such force as to throw How- ell over the fence into an adjoining fleld. The boy was frightfully wounded and may not recover. i Rattler Bites Author James. PHOENIX, Ariz.,, Feb. 1lL.—Professor George Wharton James, author and lec- turer of New York City, was bitten on the left thumb by a rattlesnake this af- ternoon. He was given medical attention within four minutes and to-night is pro=- nounced out of danger. The snake was a big one In a cage and James seized it by the neck to lay it on the ground, so that he could photograph it. The snake was too strong for him and loosened its head enough to twist around and bite him. were carried across the country with fearful force, and at Wadsworth, Deseret, Thistle and other towns business was practically suspended all afternoon, it be- ing almost impossible for one to breathe wkile facing the drifting, whirling walls . of dust. At Deseret and Mirage the sand tilled the air to such an extent that the e la sun was obscured and lamps were neces- ° sary. 3 D ——] At Humboldt House, about forty miles west of Winnemucca, the few persons wno ventured out of doors beheld a pecu- liar sight. About eight miles south of the town is a mountain rising abruptly from the sandy desert. The wind, sweep- ing across the flat country, caught the spow of this hill and seemed to stretch it out for two or three miles from the slopes. Through occasional breaks in the clouds of dust across the plain between the town and the mountain the middle slopes could be seen, apparently swept bare of snow in a few hours by the terrific force of the wird. The storm to-night shows but dittle sign of abating. FORT' TOWNSEND, Feb. 11.—Captain Kalstrom of the steamer Alice Gertrude, arriving from Neah Bay this morning, reports that the most furious storm of the season prevailed down the straits and off Cape Flattery last night. The wind was from the southeast and of hurricane force. Towboats with vessels in tow were unebie to make headway and were com- pelied to seek shelter, while many sailing vessels off Flattéry, awaiting a chance to get in, were driven far out to sea. No casualties were reported, but shipping men fear that some of the vessels will meet mishap, as most of them are in ballast. Single or three- quarter white en- ameled iron bed $2.50 open an account with you. and can save you money. except on Saturday. WIND, RAIN AND FLOOD. Heavy Precipitation Causes Damage in Round Valley. Free delivery to Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. We would be pleased to show you our fine stock of Furniture, Carpets and Draperies and quote you prices. We would be glad to ‘We do not pay the big Market-street rent We close at 6 T. Brilliant Furniture Co., 838-312 POST S8T., Cpposite Union Square. CAHTO, Feb. 11.—For seven days past heavy rains have been falling and great damage is being done by floods to ranches and other property. Mails are delayed rorty-exfl-‘t ours. FRESNO, Feb. 11.—There have been several showers to-night, and the indica- tions are that there will be considerable rain before morning. STOCKTON, Feb. 11.—Rain began fall- ing here shortly before 1 o'clock this aft- ernoon. It was ushered in by a strong wind from the south, and there Is evi- dence that a protracted storm is coming. A Flash SAN JOSE, Feb. 1l.—Heavy showers have fallen here at intervals since 7 o’clock. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11.—The rainstorm has not yet extended this far south. Miners Threaten the Japanese. FLORENCE, Colo., Feb. 11.—Thirty- laborers, imported from Wyoming and California by the Victor Fuel Company to work in the Chanler coal mine at Coal Creek, arrived here to- day. All the white miners employed there went on strike to protest against the action of the company, and they say they will keep the Japanese out of the camp if possible. Fire Pistols at the Funeral. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb." 11.—The Mace- donians wutilized the occasion of the fune- ral to-day of M. Katcheff, the Minister of Public Instruction, who was assassinated on Thursday last, by making a political demonstration. They gathered in consld- erable numbers and fired volleys from revolvers in all diréctions. As far as ‘ N\ | known no one was wounded, but those who took part in the procession were thrown into a panic. / of Light In the night—the passing of the swift and luxurious California Limited gleaming with Its real electric lights. It races from San Francisco to Chicago In three days on the B Santa fFe [