The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1902, Page 7

1HE TAKEN FROM JLTO JAIL Swindler Ward Serves a Term Only to Start for Another. Ban Jose Authorities Have Charge of Notorious Con- fidence Man. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 30. Having to-day completed a six months’ ierm in the City Prison for theft, Thomas MW (.{ the most notorious s turned over to the police of San Jose to be given a trial it the Garden City for swindling James H. McCarley in a piano transaction. g s record as uncovered by the Oak- ice when he was arrested early | mmer for stealing a diamond pin $. Lathrop, a Washington-street jeweler, proved the prisoner to be an ac- tomplished “‘grafter,” whose methods had brought woe and loss to innumerable | victims, including not a few women. In fact, shortly before he was brought to beok in this city, Ward had wedded a Seattle widow and in less than sixty days bad robbed her of $2000 in coin and her jewelry and was plenning a raid on real estate she owned when he was caught on sccount of the ring transaction with La- throp. On top of that the police discovered he bad suavely won $100 from A. Blumenthal, n-street merchant; had de- Watson & Co., liquor dealers, Rutley, a tailor, and from San © came ta of distress. Off in an over-confiling woman sent a From the North- Utah hapter to the record. west came like additions. Ward posed as a2 mining man and rafl- road constructor of means and influence. He possessed an engaging manner and sed well, being a big, hearty, clean-cut ey spe authorities be ker longe acific purpose that Ward safely imprisoned for a He is a fugitive from a Coast communities. TRYING TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION Experts tion Into the Fatality at Swift & Co s Plant. 30 CHI em A vigorous th a view to determining led to the explosion of boiler plant yesterday ersons were killed, nanical expe and private i ducting the i nt in disc the e work the indication given with the original theory ng Water of dea carel great explosion and other conclusion that the ywed to get low in the when an effort was made deficiency the explosion demolition of the plant on the policy that he should not self until iler Inspec specific er certain ch the me sure -of his or Blaney | cause for the tests. as to | 1 of the "reck(d\ d to shall be com- ays he will make his cf- e Coroner also began an of the disaster. EXPRESS TRAIN RUNS INTO AN OPEN SWIT: 'K _cer Is Killed and Brnkemnn, ¥ireman and Messenger Ars Badly Injured. NGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. .—The imore express train No. and Ohio Railway, an open switch at seven s east of here ng and collided head-on train. One man was others injured, one | Eng . engineer passenger Miller, express 3 send, brakeman | Frank Miller, fireman completely car telescoped. siderably shaken r The collision, was due to the failure of the to throw the switch e g &l Robbers Wound a Deputy Sheriff. Nov. 30.—A special to th mar, Colo., three mer nd r U-H says that while suspected of having d the postmaster at on Friday last, Sherift nd Deputy J. H. Frisbie > suspects this opened fire on the of- in the arm. Fris- from under him. As soon as the uing i up escaped known a large band of | y armed, took the trail of ——— Operators’ Salaries Are Increased. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 30.—All the te operators on the Wisconsin Cen- oad have been granted an in 1 in salary amounting to $5 a month every employe in that department. advance in the wage le has al- read for ecember 16 will show the increase. ERT Archbishop Riordan Starts West. LTIMORE, Md., Nov. 30.—Archb! an of San Francisco, who been for several d this city, left to-night for the While here the Archbishop had a conference with Cardinal Gibbons church matters. has visiting friends in West on Switchman Killed Under Cars. < FIELD, Nov. 30—W. M. Reéd, switchman, was killed in the this morning. He fell from car and the wheels passed over his He was a single man, 25 years iis parents reside in Shasta County. s early truly modifies the f casein of the milk. We will send you eur book free, «« Mellin’s Food Babies.” an of middie age and plaus- | Are M;k}x;g an Invelfign-} | { ex- | Tender ; gone into effect and the pay checks long | SON WHO IS RECENTLY ORDAINED OCCUPIES HIS FATHER'S PULPIT The Rev. Thornton A. Mills, Preaches at First Unitarian Church, Where Voice of His Father Has So Often Been Heard. e 2 3 + DIVINE WHO YESTERDAY OCCU- PIED PULPIT OF CHURCH OF WHICH HIS FATHER IS PASTOR. . v e | AKLAND, Nov. 30.—The Rev. Thornton A. Mills filled to-day the pulpit so often occupied by his | father, the Rev. Benjamin Fay { Mills, at the First Unitarian Church. Only recently the younger Mr. | Mills was ordained as a minister of the | Unitarian soclety, after having given valuable service in his father's church as Sunday-school superintendent. He immediately accepted a call to, the Peo- +* ple’s Unitarian Church at Santa Rosa, filling the place vacated by the Rev. Jay William Hudson, where his aggressive- ness has already established him in the good graces of his congregation and new townsmen. The young minister's sub.ject was ““The Fight Against Fate.” He said that the anclents, in contemplating the mysteries of existence, believed that we are gov- erned by the law of inevitable necessity. Modern man, however, believes that we ourselves have a great deal to do with our own destiny, he said. The sermon was an earnest appeal for the use of courage, wisdom and energy in directing the conduct of life. The Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills occupied the pulpit with his son and conducted the usual introductory and closing ser- vices. At the conclusion the Rev. Thorn- ton Mills held an informal reception, dur- ing which he received the congratulations of .his friends and former associates. B o e e S 30 3 e e e o] ) 1WANTS INCREASE FOR DEPARTMENT |E. W. Hilgard Recom- | mends More Funds | for Agriculture. | ‘ BERKELEY, Nov. 30.—In his triennial report upon the work of the agricultural experiment station at the University of California, Professor E. W. Hilgard, dean of the department, outlines the monu- | mental growth of the work under his charge durir last few years and dwells upen the necessity of added equip- ment and increased appropriations made | necessary by the leading position which the department has taken in the agri- cultural affairs of the State. | The head of the department comments on the fact that in equipment of sclentit- ¢ instruments and the general parapher- nalia for practical work the department of agriculture is far behind any other sci- entific college in the university. Even a large amount of the machinery used in | the dairy school had to be borrowed. in the clerical staff of the department | | Professor Hilgard notes a woful lack of | facflities. One clerk alone has to re- ceive fifty odd letters which come to the derartment daily, and the amount of cor- | respondence done by the various members | ef the agricultural college amounts to 7000 letters annually. So great has been |the demand for bulletins and so limited the supply that in some instances correct- ed proof sheets have had to be forwarded to the farmers of the State. The staff teachers of the department have to give up their work constantly to attend farmers' institutes. The Univer- sity of California has never had any spe- | cial appropriations for these extension | courses to agriculturists, sich as are | made inf other States, with the result that | the work of the agricultural department ‘lz sadly hampered by the constant forced absence of its instructors, | Commenting upon the rising importance of the profession of expert agricultur- | iste, Protessor Hilgard says: | “What with positions in the rapidly ex- | panding Agricultural Department at | Washington and those that are constant- |1y being vacated in the State colieges {and agricultural stations, there is cer- | tainly at present more room in the line of agricuitural experts than in the crowd- | ed professions of law and medicine. In view of these facts it is remarkabie that 80 few of our young men elect to take the regular agricultural course, which would | qualify them for these positions.” Czar Intends to Visit Rome. ROME, Nov. 30.—The Pope to-day gave an audience to Grand Duke Sergius, who anncunced to his Holiness the Czar's in- tention to visit Rome. The Pope said that he gnticipated with great pleasure making the personal acquaintance of the Emperor of Russla. —_——— Caught at the Swiss Frontier. HAMBURG, Nov. 30.—The German painter, Christian Allers, a resident of Ca- pri Island, who, it is alleged, was respon- gible for the charges brought against the late Herr Krupp, has been arrested at the Swiss frontier. —_————————— STEAMBOATMEN REPORT PROGRESS.— The Bay and River Steamboatmen’s Union met at Sailors’ Hall last night and reports of offi- cers showed a satisfactory condition. ° A branch Wellin’s Food Company, Boston, Mass. of the union is to be started In Sacramento, | | | | tives residing in Boston. HAPLESS MINERS DROP TO DEATH Two Men Killed by an Accident in Tuol- umne County. e CHINESE CAMP, Nov. 30.—By an ac- cident at the Eagle Shawmut mine last night two miners were killed. In some unaccountable manner the skip jumped | the track above the 600-foot level, pre- cipitating Mitchell Tica, a native of Aus- tria, and Alex B. Jorgkren, a native Lfl Sweden, to the level below, a distance of 150 feet. Every bone in the body of Tica was breken by the fall. Jorgkren was severe- ly injuged and succumbed this morning. Another miner in the bottom of the skip escaped uninjured. Jorgkren was a member of the Foresters’ | Lodge of Redding and of Woods Creek | Miners’ Union, W. F. M., and had reld-l He had workedn here for several years and was very popu- | lar with his associates. Tica was a stranger here and had relatives in Angels Camp. COLONEL MOSBY DENI:S AN ALLEGED INTLRVIEW Contradicts the Story That He Se- verely Criticized the Nebraska Senators. JOMAHA, Neb., Nov. 3).—Colonel J. 8. Mosby, special land agent for the Gov- ernment, who is to testify before the Federal Grand Jury here to-morrow with regard to illegal fencing of public lands in Western Nebraska, denles having se- verely criticized the Nebraska Senators, as stated in dispatches from Chicago lol Kastern papers. On the day after his ar- rival a local paper coniradicted the re- port on Mosby's authority. He also de- nies saying that the President would use cavalry to fear down fences. He was asked what would be done if the cattle- men refused to remove their fences. He replied that Grover Cleveland sent a com- | pany of cavalry to pull down fences fn ' California, and he supposed the same thing might happen in Nebraska. L] — THE DAY’S DEAD, HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 30.—Nelson Augustave Moore, the veteran landscape | painter, died at his home in Kensington to-day of apoplexy. He was born in Ken- sington in 1824, BHREDY e dislees s Captain Frank Parker. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 30.—Captain Frank Parker of the ship Oriental died suddenly here to-night. e Old Resident Passes Awry. BERKELEY, Nov. 3.—Samuel T. Springer, a pioneer resident of this city, suddenly passed away this morning at his home, 810 Louisa street, as the result of apoplexy. A peculiar malady affected him some years before his death, when he lost his sight and hearing for nine years as the result of paralysis. Both were suddenly restored to him three years ago. His death was unexpected. €AN IRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, TELLS A STORY OF HER FLIGHT During Guatemalan Eruptions, Is Driven From Home at Night by a Rain of Vol- canic Rock. i o Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 1118 Broadway, Nov. 30. In the following letter received by Dr. H. E. Muller of this city, Miss Alice Metzger, a daughter of & prominent Ger- man coffee planter in Guatemala, who was ruined and driven out during the re- cent volcanie disturbances writes of her experlences during the awful eruption from Santa Maria: RETALHULEU, Nov. 1, 1902—October the 24th, about 5:30 in the evening, we heard a noise and a big black .cloud was in the air. We dld not know what it was. All the night it was a terrible nolse and very much light, and I said a voleano broke out. We were up all night. No one could think of sleeping. Cont and I said, “‘Let's 8o away from here,” but papa and mamma did not want to go until about 3 o'clock in the morning, when it com- menced to rain stones, with earthquakes all the time, It never stopved. When_the stones came Wwe took @ few can- dles and went away, all the Indians after us. We went away just as we were. 1 had a pair of slippers on. 1 did not take the time to put shoes on. We went away ofi foot and walked all the way to Retalhuleu. Ail were afraid to stay in the houses, because It was earthquaking ail the time. You cannot imagine how terrible this was. One cannot write how.awful was this expe- rience, The house of Laeiz y Cia in Retalhuleu gave us a little place in which to live. It is a wooden house a little out of the town. The people there are very good to us. They do all they can for us, sending our m well cared for, but we did not until yesterday. the mozos. When we arrived there .at the Tambor he found all the houses down, all the machines and all of the Indlans’ houses gone. They had to dig to get some things out. ‘Our neighbors who lived a little farther away from us have not been heard from, and people there say they are all dead Our finca (coffee plantation) is gone. It Is all buried and so are many others. I just write these few lines to tell .you we are all saved, thank God. Tambor, the Metzger home, was near San Felipe, which was in the zone of voleanic and earthquake disturbances. L i e e e ol ) WEEK'S EVENTS T UNIERGITY Colonel George W. Bauer to Review College Cadets. —_— BERKELEY, Nov, 30.—The following is the official calendar of the week's events at the University of California: Monday—Review of University Cadets by Colonel George W. Bauer, commander Alumni Commissioned Officers’ Association, parade grounds, 11 a. m. If the weather is disagree- able the review will take place Wednesday. Glee Club, Stiles Hall, 5 p. m. Deutscher Ve- rein, Gamma Phl Bcta House, 7:30 udents’ Congress; election of office: all, 8 p. m. Question, Resolved, * E¥reat railroads of the United States should be and - operated. by the Federal Gover: Association of Mechanical and Elec Engineers, 1 Mechanics’ p. m.; “Ship-building,”’ Joseph R. 5 Tuesday—Der Liederkranz, Stiles Hall, m. Concert by musical clubs, Theater, Sun Franclsco, 2 on Schools of the Academic Council, Hall, 4 p. m. bers; leader, <15, Coni went to get some with trieal 11 Fischer's p. m. Committee 15 South C. A.; reception of mem- Miss Anna Mishler '05; Stiles Hall, m. Executive committee of As- soclated Stu Abracadabra Club, 7 p. m. Civil _Engineering Association, Mining . aad Civil Engineering_bullding, 7:15 p. m.; “‘The New Water Law Proposed by Water and For- est Committee,” Arthur L. Adams of Contra Costa Water Company. Y. C. A.; speaker, Rev. Dr. Guthrie of San Francisco, Stiles Hall, 15 p. m. Senate, final meeting, Stiles Hall, 30 p. m.; question, Resolved, “That the economlc advantage of trusts justify their ex- istence.’ Wednesday—Y. W. C. A.; leader, Miss Helen Weeks '05; Stiles Hall, 11:15 a. m. University Orchestra, 2350 Ellsworth street, 7:45 p. GraduateCouncil, 13 South Hall, 5 b, m.; ob- ject of meeting, to elect delegate to meeting of the Assoclation of American Universities. Glee Clul Stiles Hall, 7:15 p. m. Assoclated Chemists' banquet, San Francisco, 8 p. m. Thursday—Junior Day Committee, Kap Kappa Gamma House, 4 p. m. Academic Council, 13 South Hall, 4 p. m. Women's Mandolin Club, Hearst Hall, 4 p. m. Univer- sity Prohibition Club, 1 North Hall, 4 p. m.; open to all who are Interested in 4 sclentific study of the liquor problem. Y. M. aoific Grove rally; leader, W. J. Mu!‘rn\e 1l, 5 p. m, Senlor singing, Nor:h Choral Society, Hearst Frmny—anhersny meeting, Harmon Gym- nasium, 11 a. m. Glee Club, Harmon Gym- nasfum, 11 a. m. Admissions Committee of the Graduate Courcil, 15 South Hall, 8 p. m. Bonheim discussion for $200 prize, Hearst Hall, 8 . m.; subject, "Lynching and the Morui Law'’; contesta: B. Bishop, H. S. Gil- oaon, W H. Gifvin, 3. M. Newkirk and A. B. Weiler. turday—Last day for presentation of theses for master's degrees to be conferred In December. Alumni Commissioned Officers’ As- soclation banguet, San Francisco Club, Call building, 6:45 p. m. STEAMERS ARE ADDED TO AN ALASKA FLEET Effort Will Be Made to Increase Com- petition on the North- ern Run, TACOMA, Nov. 30.—By adding four new steamers to their fleets the Alaska'Steam- ship Company and Puget Sound Naviga- tien Company propose to provide better ! gervice from Puget Sound to Southeastern Alaska. An effort will be made to increase competition with the lines of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, which is con- trolied by President Hill of the Great Northern. To carry out this plan the Alaska Steamship Company has increased its capital stock from $300,000 to $1,000,000 and the Puget Sound Navigation Com- pany from $300,000 to $500,00. The new steck has been placed in New York by Walter Oakes and Charles E. Peabody, who control both companies. The funds thereby obtained will be used in bufldin, and equipping the four new -steamers, ‘hreg for operation on Puget Sound and one to Skagway. Two of the new vessels will be placed in commission early next summer and the other two next fall. While the companies named are under an agreement with the Pq:lflc Coast “Steamship Company to maintain rates, the new steamers will glve them considerable advantage. Cap- tain Peabody announced to-day that the steamer Humboldt, owned in San Fran- cisco, has been chartered by the Alaska Steamship Company for operation to Lynn Canal again next season. By the rectification of the India and Thibet frontier, which has now been com- pleted, 350 square miles have been added to British territory. Dean Bradley of Westminster tendered his resignation immediately after the cor- onation. He is eighty-one years cld and had held his place for twenty-one years, having succeeded Dean Stanley. —————— i Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Sunday, November 30. Schr Mary C, Campbell, § hours from Bo- dega. 08 OCEAN s’rmuzn. LIZARD—Passed Dec 1, 1:50 a m—Simr Pennland, from Philadelphia, for Antwerp, 1902 HINDOO PRIEST DELIVERS ADDRESS UPON THE RELIGION OF INSPIRATION S Describes ‘a Scene|SWami Ram Says No Great Achievement Was Ever Accomplished Without Concentration, Which Unconsciously Lifts Man to fe—— 0 the Highest Plane of Spiritual F the interesting Hindoo monk, Swa- mi Ram, could talk to an audience with the ease -and convincing grasp of ideas that characterize him while talking to individuals he would soon have an army of enthusiastic followers. But gifted as he is with knowledge and the mysterious powers of his priestly tribe, he lacks the art of the orator. Sin-| cere he is beyond a douht, and impressive | to a degree in his personality, but his long years of agcetic hibernation in the jungles of India, far from the haunts of men, have begotten a shyness of the world that asserts itself in the presence | of a crowd. Yesterday morning he talked calmly, lucidly, almost with inspiration, to a | couple of curious callers. With face up- lifted and eyes far sceing into limitless space, he spoke softly, confidently of the | wondrous things he had seen, the things he had done and the things that may. yet be done by those who cast off the | shackles of self and rise to the spiritual plane of universal love and power. Under the spell of that caressing voice and the vislons conjured up by the wand of his Mahatmic wisdom nothing seemed impossible, nothing unattainable. The tricks . of the hypnotist and faker were child’s play to him. Suffering to him was | a shadow of forgotten things. The touch |of fire ana the bite of steel drew no blood nor left a trace of pain, while the simple touch of his magnetic fingers forced mental and bodily pain in others to give way to a throbbing thrill of new and intoxicating life. THE FETTERED SPIRIT. In accounting: for this power Swaml Ram took no credit to himself. The put- ting aside of the flesh, the absolute sup- pression of the ego, the attainment of complete self-abnegation, he sald, would inevitably develop such powers in any one. Human life he described as a prison cell against whose narrow walls the spirit or soul is forever beating its fettered wings. Once free it enters into touch with all the divine attributes of nature and learns the secrets of the universe. “Your Christ was such a man,” he add- ed, “‘and as such he was the son of God. | His body was merely a vehicle, and he knew it not. He lived in the perfect state of divine purity.” At this point Ram was prevalled upon | to pose for a photograph, a novel expe- rience for him. First he was taken seat- ed as he was upon his mat, just as he had been sitting for two days without in- termission® With eyes closed and face uplifted ke remained rigid for a moment, !and then over his' impressive features spread a light of ecstatic peace and in- effable joy. He was In his beloved Nir- vana, and knew naught of the worldly | tricks of the photographer until rudely | recalled. | Then he was asked to arise and stand for a picture in action. Ram was willing | enough to oblige. Indeed, it is his creed to never refuse any favor in his power. “My body is yours,” said he. ““Tell me what to do and I will.” But the laws of nature had to be con- sulted first. 'He had been sitting so long in one position that his muscles would not respond until he entered Nirvana again and girded his loins with fresh power. A moment later, with eyes still closed and breathing laboredly, he slow- 1y. almost majestically, arose and uncon- sclously struck a pose that vibrated with more than human power. There was no pretense, no acting about it, for great beads of perspiration dripped. from his forehead and two great tears leaked from his closed eyes, though his face wore the calm, untroubled look of a slumbering babe. When it was all over he sat down again and smiled, and every sign of phy- sical effort had vanished. VISITORS DECLINE OFFER. Before parting with his visitors Ram good-humoredly offered to give either of them 2 foretaste of the joys of Nirvana by suspending his animation and turning hiz spirit loose in the limitless ether to see and learn. The proposition, however, was hastily declined with much nervous trepidation, and the audience was over. Late yesterday afierncon Swami Ram oo ——————— RS delivered a lecture at Woodward's Pa- | vilion to a small gathering of students of the occult and viewed from the standpoint of the Vedan- tic philosophy of the Hindoos. this effort that Ram revealed his short- — Power and of Knowledge HINDOO PRIEST WHO DELIVERED A LECTURE AT WOODWARD'S PAVILION YESTERDAY TO A GATHERING OF STUDENTS OF THE OCCULT AND LAYMEN. ) comings as an orator. His sentences wers uttered with the force of sincerity, but his text was involved and his logic some- what rambling. By close attention, how- | ever, his points of argument could be | grasped and understood. laymen on religion as It was in L The Sunday Call Christmas Edition. HE most talked of book of the year is “The Gospel of Judas Tlscnriut," by Aaron Dwight Baldwin. It has created a tremend- ous literary and religious furor both in Europe and America. It is stronger than “Ben Hur,” more thrilling than “Que Vadis,” and by far superior to any of the great modern books that tell of the flerce struggle between the Christians and the Romans. “The Gospel of Judas Iscariot” throws a new light on the strange life of this, the most bitterly execrated, the most despised man in either biblical or profane history of all ages. The Sunday Call has not only secured the exclusive rights to this literary treasure for publication as an extra section—absolutely free—with the Christmas Call out December 14, but has illustrated the whole eight pages of the first installment with half-tone and color reproductions of art masterpieces of the life and scenes of Christ and the Romans, by the most famous painters in the world. Then there is the big special fiction section, wherein every story is written by a prominent San Francisco divine. This is a feat- ure that is absolutely unique. Nothing like it has ever been origi- nated in the West befors. . “San Francisco’s Bump of Benevolence,” by William Ford Nichols, Right Reverend Bishop of California; ‘“Nyanza, a Christ- mas Tale of the Thirtieth Century,” by Rabbi Jacob Voo of the Emanu-El Church; “The Redemption of the Masked juder,” by Father John A. Lally of All Saints Church, Haywards; “The Choir Boy's Last Christmas Solo,”” by Father Herbert Parrish, Church of the Advent; “The Carols of San Francisco de Asis,” by Rev. Wil-, liam Rader, Third Congregational Church; “The Red Devil of the Slums,” by Colonel George French, Command - of the Pacific Coast Division of the Salvation Army, etc. Then there is a full page poster picture, photographed from real life, that will appeal to every heart, old or young, “Santa Claus Discovered.” A full page of pictures of “National Types of Ma- donnas.” A magnificent study called “The Christmas Star.” A full - page of society girls in Christmas “Mother Song” living pictures— They are ail San Francisco girls—just watch that page. Then there are “The Colonel Kate Papers.” Who is Colonel Kate? Do you know? Well, there is the mystery, and therein, too, lies a big surprise. The first article is “The Beautiful Woman Who Knows It All” i Then there are two pages of Christmas Menus by leading San Francisco chefs—good recipes—and how to prepare them, and a page by the best waiter in the Palace Hotel, telling you how to arrange the Christmas table. Two more pages, edited by the Ladies of the Woman’s Ex- change, tell where, how and what to buy for Christmas—espe- cially the inexpensive presents. But this is only a small part of THE SUNDAY CALL'S CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF 32 SPECIAL PAGES OUT DECEM- BER 14. Don’t forget the dat