The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1902, STANESBY EN HE PRONOTED General Manager Chap- man Says Merit Sys- tem Is in Vogue. Denies That Spies or Tale- bearers Are Used by Company. General Manager Chapman of the United Railroads of San Francisco stands Ly the men he has promoted to higher positions on the various roads of this city. He states the promotiohs were based on merit alone and denies that the men so promoted have been elevated because of service they rendered the company out- side of their regular employment. On the other hand, high officials of the Carmen’s Union assert positively that the men so promoted in a number of in- stances had been suspended before they ‘were promoted. The names of Christian Strom, G. Guy and C. M. Tripp, who have been made timers and dispatchers, are cited by the union men as instances of this fact. These men were under sus- pension before they were advanced over the heads of other men.\ The trio have sent their resignations to Division No. 205 ©f the Street Carmen’s Union. The resig- na fons were received at the last meeting, but were put off until next Wednesday night, when action will be taken. The union men strongly oppose accepting these resignations. They want the men expelled and_the matter has aroused a great deal of feeling among the men. There are sixteen under suspension from ihe unfon for conduct unbecoming mem- bers of the organization. Of this num- ber seven have been promotetd by Mr. Chapman. As was stated exclusively in The Call of Wednesday last, the general manager issued a circular inviting the men to make epplication for promotion. bers of the union complied and of the 800 applications received but six or seven | Of this number more | were promoted. than half were under suspension. General Manager Chapman made the following statement to The Call: The promotions in question are based on merit alone. This company does not maintain any epy system or encourage talebearers; all we ask is fair, ployes and in return we promise fair, honest treatment. We want every man in the service of the United Railroads to know that promotion is open to him. The future superintendents of our several divisions are the conductors, mo- | ormen and gripmen of to-day. I want to find want to know men in our service who are lying themselves to study, who are trying to better their condition and who are faith- fully performing their duty to themselves and 0 the company. Such men I am always will- ing to encourage and assist. And such are the men who have beén recently promoted. Many mem- | honest service from our em- | One of the leading men in the Carmen’s | Unlon positively states that the company | has a “spy system” and Insinuates that | within a few weeks the names of the men | who have been disclosing the plans of the | union will be given to the world and the | FEAR PROPERTY | MOTHER SEEKS \TRAMPS DO 0 END GAIEF MURDER ON MAY BE DAMAGED Owners to Confer With Railroad ‘Regarding Shore Line, Rl Rock Orushing Not to Be Pro-| Separation From Husband | Brakeman hibited Within Certain Drives Woman to Limits. s Desperation. B Property-owners from the Potrero and South San Francisco appeared before the Supervisors' Street Committee yesterday | for the purpose of securing information as to the conmstruction of the proposed { shore line for which the Southern Pa-| cific Company has petitioned for a fran- chise. They notified the committee that | they desired to be compensated for any | damages that might be done to their! property by the changes in grades that are contemplated in the plans of the en- | gineers. | City Engineer Grunsky stated that the : | grade will be lowered five feet at Army street. A trestle will cross Islais Creek, | leaving grades unchanged, and a tunnel will go through Twenty-fifth street. A grade change of 3.78 feet is contemplated | at Fifteenth avenue and M .street and, if damage results to property compensa- | tion will be made by the Southern Pacific Company, Grunsky said. At the committee’s suggestion the mat- | ter of aamages will be taken up privately by the property:owners with the railroad | | company and if an agreement cannot be | | reached the subject will be considered by the committee. i The committee recommended indefinite postponement of the propgsed ordinance ! to prohibit the operation of rock-crushing machines within certain limits. A com: mittee from the Cement Workers' Union | appeared before the committee and pro- | tested against the measure in its present | | form. O. A. Tveitmoe stated that if the | ordinance were to pass it would increase the price of rock and practically put an end to building operations. The Affiliated Contractors of San Francisco stated in a communication that the wages of men | employed in various operations will be | reduced, as the price of material would be increased, It was stated that rock- crushing could be conducted on Telegraph | | Hill without blasting. | At a meeting of the Board of Works | in the morning, at which the Mayor was present, Gray Bros. gvere granted thirty | | days within which to remove their rock- | | crushing plant at Sansome and Green | | streets. | The Street Committee recommended an | ordinance changing the name of the Great | Highway driveway to Balboa boulevard | and also reported in favor of changing | the name of Nineteenth avenue, from the | park to Ocean avenue, to McKinley ave- | nue. | The committee recommended the con- struction of a sewer in H street, from First to Seventh avenues. Sy Protest Against Laundries. “spies” thrown out of the union. Band Will Give Matinee. Here are to-day’s programmes for the Royal Italian Band at the Pavilion: Mechanics' “‘Buffaloes” (Engelmann); (Offenbach); trumpet solo, Mattel), Sig. Demitris; ‘‘Hearts r idvlle (Tobani); “Bohemian 3 selection (Dalfe), incidental solos by Signori Palma and Curti; march, “‘Grab’ (Guliiher); “Aubade Printaniere” (Lacombe); urka, ' “Inspiration” (De Sica): poliuto, and Fantasie” (Donizettl), solos by Signori ma, Marino and Curti. “Diavoll Rossi” (Rivela); oet and Peasant’’ (Subpe): trom: Deer (Mattel), Sig. Ma- meral March” (Chopin); ‘“La Fille du " (Donizetti), incidental solos by Massa and Palma; march, ‘‘Wedding™ ohn); prelude act 1, “Lohengrin” Trovatore,” selection (Verdl), Marino and Curti: " (Bizet), prelude, Habaners, Toreador: introduction, march and finale zct IV, solos by Signori Paima, Marino, Curti end Ferrullo —_—————————— ™ quar fcs o HOLD QUARTERLY MEETING.—The erl te will be held this evening. trustees for the ensuing term will Be opened and proposed important amendments to the constitution will be considered. POSTUM CEREAL. DISCOVERY OF COFFEE. Made by an Arabian Shepherd. Ceffee was first discovered in the sixth century by an Arabian shepherd, who heving observed the goats of his flock skip about and display other signs of in- toxication after eating the coffee berry, concluded to try its effects on himself, and discovered its exhilarating thus oing, for he indiscriminately ge quantities, green, for its ex- crating effect and soon died, poisoned by its vse. In the sixteenth century it was intro- duced into France and was used so stong and excessively, particularly by thie Parisians, that it was found to in- jure alike the complexion and digestion. This discovery prevented its general in- troduction into other European countries for the next century. Smce that period its growth has grad- ually spread through the civilized worlg, despite the #act that pain and destruction follow its path, dyspepsia having been bardly known before its introduction. It is a “nerve stimulant” and narcotic poi- son, and though in no sense a food, ‘s vsed for its stimulating principle, caf- feine, which excites the nerves unnatur- ally ard wastes the reserve force of the body. Coffee drives the nerves for a time, stimulating them beyond their natural function and using up all their reserve force. ©~ After the first effects are past comes breaking down of the nerve cen- ters and general nervous derangement. ¥ollowing this in many, but not all, ceses, is a long train of misery, among which the principal symptoms are dry- | nces in mouth and throat, headache, bil- jousness, pains in stomach or abdomen, pain In eyes and head, loss of appetite. dyepepsia and so on through a long, long list, but the one cause of all the different symptoms is the same. The nerves have been broken down; covery proved the poor shep- | ‘W verves and builds them up, storing re- their reserve force is gone. Many of the symptoms of poisoning are: Extreme nervousness, restlessness, anguish of | nd and heart, excessive relaxation of body and brain, gloominess, inability ‘to think correctly, sieeplessness at night, crowsiness in the morning, ete. A lady from BSebastopol, Cal, writes: “1 was a sick and poisoned woman when 1 began to use Postum Food Coffee in piece of Coffee and after two years’ steady use I find that Postum soothes the werve force and strength for time of need, rnabling ome to sleep well, awake re- freshed and bright for each day’'s task; it digests easily, builds and tones up the stomach and also buflds up a good, strong srain, ready for any mental strain or :0il.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Mich., Nov 21; Sailed Dec The Fire Committee reported yesterday in favor of repealing the resolution granting permission to K. Hatanka to | maintain a steam boiler at 1111 Elm ave- | nue for laundry purposes. Action on the | rescinding of a permit granted to J.| | Bouchet to conduct a laundry at Seven- | Leenth street, west of Guerrero, was post poned one week. Residents in the vicin- | | ity appeared and protested against the | laundries being nuisances. | 'The United Railroads was granted per- | sion to erect a 20,000-gallon tank, to | stere crude oil, at North Point and La- | guna. streets. | H. Stetson was granted a permit to place four bay windows on a building on | Burritt street. ! AL S AT Must Remove Obstructions. Mayor Schmitz yesterday directed the { Beard of Works to immediately remove the two poles driven in the ground at | | Fifth and Natoma streets by the agents of Miller & Lux for the purpose of clos- | ing the last named thoroughfare with a fence. The Mayor says that no obstruc- tion must be permitted pending the de- | termivation of the ownership of the| | street. et Only Bidder Gets Contract. The Board of Works yesterday awarded the contract to pave the roadway of Mis- | sion street, between Persia and Onondaga | avenues, with bitumen for $368104 to the Union Paving Company, the only bidder. | :[.-I—H-H~H~Z*H—H‘H-'FH—H—H~X—I-.1 WIFES G - HSSHD ENOIG Special Dispatch to The Call. | TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 5.—Mrs. Sarah Me- | Candlish, who arrived in Tombstone to- | | day from San Jose, Cal, in search of her | | husband, Thomas G. McCandlish, was | shocked to learn after diligent inquiry | that the report that he was murdered i near Douglas was true. Two travelers, | who lost the road between Bfsbee and Douglas, found the body of McCandlish | in a lonely spot with a bullet hole ! in the temple. Evidently he had! been dead for severai months. When last heard of the unfortunate miner | was preparing to go from Bisbee across | the line into Mexico. He left Bishee with { about £500 in his possession. It is pre- | sumed that he was overtaken by bandit: | and murdered for his money, as no money | or valuable were found on the body. HAD LONG BEEN MISSING. SAN JOSE, Dec. 5.—Mrs. Sarah Me-| Candlish of this city reeeived word ai | month ago that her husband, Thomas G. | McCandlish, from whom nothing had been | | heard for more than a year, had been’ | murdered and that his body was found | | near Douglas, Arizona. She left here on | Monday to investigate. | |~ McCandlish, who had come to California | with his family from Michigan, left San ! | Jose six years ago for Arizona, where he engaged in all kinds of contracting. A ' | year ago last March he was engaged { near Douglas. While carrying $800 to pay off his workmen he was murdered and his body hidden. The body was found a ' short time ago and Mrs. McCandlish was | notified. This cleared the mystery sur-| rcunding the man's disappearance. | Miss Anna McCandlish, a daughter of the murdered man, lives in this city. She said her family knew no particulars of Mrs, Charles Baez Leaves Her Infant Babes and Plans to Die. Mrs. Charlotte Baez, wife of Charles A. Baez, an employe of Schlueter & Vol- berg, \upholsterers, at 215 and 218 Sutter street, made a determined attempt to take her own life last night at bout 9:30 o’clock by swallowing carbolic acid. Mrs. Baez had been separated from her husband for two months and since the parting had accepted th;l protection and comfort offered her and her and her two infant children by her brother-in-law sister, Mr. and Mrs. Danlel Gallick, at 1321 Larkin street. Though it was apparent that thé trouble between herself and husband had deeply affected her never had there been an idea }.‘t;a.t she would attempt to take her own . That she had contemplated suicide at Jeast for some hours prior to her swal- lowing the poison is evidenced in the fact that she carrled a bottle of carbolic acid with her last night, but it was folded in paper and no one knew of her desperate intention. After the evening meal and having put to bed her little ones, Charlie, 3 years of age, and her l-year-old babe, Irene, she | kissed the sleeping tots good-night and went out onto the street. Then the de- spondent woman decided to call upon Mrs. Lillian Hughes, an acquaintance, living at 618 Filbert street. When she announced herself at the house Mrs. Hughes was surprised, because Mrs. Baez had not, called upon her for a long time, Mrs. Baez at once asked Mrs. Hughes to g0 out with her, and they started back for Mr. Gallick's home. Mrs. Baez was carrying in her hand a baby’s rattle and also a bottle, which was wrapped in blue paper. They took the Union-street car and transferred at Hyde street, Mrs. Baez appearing to be in the best of spirits and even telling her friend that she hoped to be soon reconciled to her husband. On arriving at her sister’s house, Mrs. Baez lingered at the door and suddenly she turned to her friend and sald: “‘Come, let us walk down the street.” They had not gone more than twenty paces when she asked Mrs. Hughes to hold her purse, and then, putting the bottle to her mouth, | began to swallow the contents. Mrs. Hughes smelt the carbolic acid and dash- ing the bottle from the woman’s hand to the ground, dragged her into Adolph Bisch’s grocery at Larkin and Pine streets, at the same time calling for help. The Emergency Hospital ambulance was summoned and in the meantime Dr. Harry Davis and Dr. W. H. Scholt gave what aid was in their power. Upon ar- riving at the hospital it was found that Mrs. Baez had swallowed some of the acid and little hope of her recovery is expressed by the physicians. None of the family could account for the woman’s act, other than to ascribe it to her separation from her husband. Charles Baez could not be found last night. @ et e bbbl @) FALS T0 NDIET EOWARD GRANEY The Grand Jury met last night and after sifting the evidence taken at pre- vious investigations regarding the alleged purchase of votes by Edward Graney in the Almshouse precinct at the election of November 4, decided not to brine a true bill against him. It is said that the vote on the bringing of an tndictment was close, but none of the grand jurors would tell what it was when pressed for In- formation. District Attorney Byington was closeted with the Grand Jury for more thag an hour and enlightened the members re- garding the legal points involved in the case. Byington advised that the evidence did not show that any money had been paid to any of the Almshouse inmates by Graney or his lieutenants pefore the bal- lot was deposited and that under this condition the prosecution would fail In court. The money alleged to have been received by some of the witnesses before the Grand Jury was only paid over, it is sald, after the vote was cast and the Grand Jury concluded that it would be difficult to show that the money was In payment for the vote. Some of the members were of the opin- jon that the evidence was sufficient to warrant the return of an indictment, but others were disinclined to join in that conclusion, because they were of the opin- fon that the character of the evidence was such that an indictment would not be sustained by a conviction in the courts. It would have required twelve votes for an indictment, but the vote in favor fell short of that number. The specific ac- cusation against Graney was that he had purchased votes in the interest of Adam | Andrew, candidate for Railroad Commis- sioner. The Grand Jury also considered the preparation of its final report, which will be filed next Wednesday afternoon, after which it will be dissolved by Judge Cook. NN N A TONG W ’ Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ,Dec. 5.—The Hop Sing Tong has sworn to avenge the death of Ah Chung, who was stabbed in a Chinese laundry in this city last week. Three members of this tong arrived to-day from San Francisco and placed a charge of murder against Hom Pach, who was in the laundry at the time of the stabbing. They also swore out a warrant charging Suey Won with murder. Suey Won is a young and pretty Chinese | Gamsel from Watsonville, and it is be- { cause of her that the killing occurred. ; Ah Chung and another ' Chinese were in {love with her and as a result of their the crime. She did not know even what | 275 WUV U cHung had been fol. company had employed her father. | fwm by assassins from one place to an- Emm———————— = |other. Late Shipping Intelligence. ‘When Chief of Police Clark went to the ARRIVED, | watsonville Chinatown last eyening Friday, December b. Stmr Westport, Smith, 31 hours from Eu- DOMESTIC PORTS. COOS BAY—Arrived Dec 5—Schr J schr Jessie Minor, hence Nov 12. PORT TOWNSEND—Arrived Dec 5—Bktn Kona, from Port Blakeley, for Delazoa Bay. Passed outward Dec 5—8hip Charmer, from Seattle, for San Francisco. PORT BLAKELEY—Arrived Dec b5—Ger from Port Gamble; Ger stmr from Seattle; schr Honolpu, hence Prussia, hence bark Nov 21. 5—Bktn Kons, for Delagoa Bay. Suey Won had locked herself in her room and refused him admittance. The door was broken down and she was arrested, brought to Santa Cruz and lodged in jail. The Hop Sings here say more arrests ~ CAR'S ROF _the Victim of Brutal Hoboes’ Vengeance, Companions of Men Whose Arrest He Caused Kill Him. S His Body, Riddled by Knife and Bul- let Wounds, Is Found on the Top of a Freight Car. el Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Dec. b.—H. F. Edwards, a Southern Pacific brakeman, who former- ly lived in this city, was murdered by tramps this morning, between Westley and Crows Landing, on the West Side. Edwards’ body was found on top of a freight car by Conductor Cox, who was in charge of the traln. A dozen knife and bullet wounds were in the body. The murderers escaped from the, train ‘short- ly after the crime. The train was known as an extra fast freight. It was partially made up in this clty at midnight. Edwards discovered five tramps in a box car. He quickly locked them in and notified Policemen Craig, Marshall and Gill. The men were arrested and taken to jall. They gave their names as Henry McGavick, Thomas ‘Ramsey, John Snyder, John O'Leary and John Verda. It is believed that com- panions of the arrested men killed the brakeman for revenge., The train left this city at 1 o'clock. | Shortly after 3 o'clock, Edwards left the caboose to make an inspection of the train. When an hour had gone by with- out his return, Conductor Cox started out to look for him, and he found the mur- dered man’s body. It was already cold. It is believed that several must have been Tmplicated in the crime, as Ed- wards was an able-bodied man and was armed. Telephone messages were immediately sent to this city. Local Agent Fish of the Southern Pacific notified the officers and sent telegrams to the sheriffs of Stanislaus and adjoining counties. The tramps arrested will be held in jail pend- ing the results of the efforts to capture the murderers. A large number were rounded up at Newman and are being held pending an investigation. Brakeman Edwards was an Oakland man and a brother-in-law of Conductor Cox. ——— WILL BE BURIED IN OAKLAND H. ¥. Edwards, the brakeman murdered by tramps near Stockton, and his wife resided at the corner of Eighth and Cen- ter streets, Oakland. The couple had no children. Edwards entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Company in 18%4 and *was regarded by his superiors as a care- ful and conscientious man. T. J. Cox, conductor of the train on which Edwards lost his life, was a brother-in-law of the | deceased. Edwards was 33 years of age and a native of Elmira, Solano County. | His body will reach Oakland to-morrow. Arrangements for the funeral, which probably will be held on Monday morning | from St. Patrick’'s Church, are being | made by local union No. 71, Brotherhood | of Railway Trainmen, of which deceased ‘was a membe JAPAN WILL HONOR X A MINISTER'S MEMORY Remains of Buck to Be Interred at National Cemetery at Arlington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A few detalls | of the untimely death of Minister Buck ! are furnished in the following cablegram, | received at the State Department to-day | from Ferguson, the United States Charge. | “TOKIO, Dec. 5.—Minister Buck's death | was caused by paralysis of the heart. It occurred on an imperial hunting preserve | near Tokio. The funeral takes place here | on the 8th and full official honors will be ! extended by the Japanese Government, as | in the case of Minister S8wift. The widow | probably will leave Yokohama on the 24th ! with the body for burial at Arlington. I| respectfully recommend that the military | attache be granted authority by telegraph to accompany the remains to Washington | and to return as soon as possible to his ! post.” No action has been taken on the last request. ) Barrett to Succeed Buck. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—When the | President comes to take up the question | of the succession to the vagancy caused by the death of Minister Buck at Tokio, | it 1s understood that he will name John | Barrett of Oregon, at present commis- sioner general of the St. Louis Exposition to Asia and Australasia, to be Minister. . L e e e o e el HURLS STONES M THE TRANS X Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 5—In the arrest of Evan Cooper, Who threw a stone through the window of a passen- ger train - near Edenvale yesterday the ~officers believe they have the culprit who for months has been endangering life on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad in this county. For a time last summer it was almost a daily occurrence for rocks to be thrown or bullets shot into passenger trains, A number of persons had narrow escapes ! .from death or injury. Dr. Dodge of this city was hit on the head by a rock while | riding in a train near Palo Alto and for weeks lay at the point of death. Railroad detectives made every effort to find the guilty person and after a futile search the railroad company offered a reward of $250 for the conviction of any one throw- ing rocks at cars and $500 for the convie- tion of any Dperson shooting into the trains. As the north-bound overland was jnear- ing Edenvale yesterday a rock was hurled into one of the cars, breaking a window and narrowly missing a passenger. Of- ficers were at once notified and Con- stable White :.tl Gilroy arrested near Mor- gan Hill a man answering the description ©f the one who threw the rock. He was will follow. It is believed the,tong wili not be satisfied with invoking the law alone and further bloodshed is expected. e | BARERSFIELD, Dec. 5.—The County Su- | pervisors this afternoon appropriated $200 for purchasing & suitable stone us Kern County's | contribution to the monument to Sioat at Monterey, taken to the jail at Gllroy and later con- fessed. Fre gave no réason for his act, ‘Cooper plefiloed guilty before Justice ‘Willey in Gilroy this afternoon to ais- turbing the peace and was sentenced to ninety days in the County Jall. He is | only 18 vears old and claims his home isin Fruitvale. HOME FORGES FOR - PRILIPPINES Fifteen Regiments Will Relieve Troops in Orient. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—The War De- partment to-day issued an order for the exchange of fifteen Philippine regiments with the same number of troops in. the United States. The home troops will re- lieve the troops in the Philippines, the first ones leaving San Francisco February 1 next. These troops, now serving in the United States, are ordered to the Philip- pines: Cavalry—The Thirteenth, now at Fort Meade, S. D., and Fort Keogh, Mont.; the Twelfth, at Fort Clarke and Fort Sam Houstony Texas; the Fourteenth, at Fort Grant, A. T., Fort Dugesne, Utah, Fort Huachuca, A. T., Fort Logan, Colo., and Fort Wingate, N. M. E Coast Artillery—The Tenth Company, now at Fort Getty, S. C.; Thirty-eighth, at Fort Caswell, N. C.; Eighty-fifth, at Fort Wadsworth, and One Hundred and Eighth, at Fort William, Me. Fleld Artillery—Ninth Company,at Fort Sheridan, Iil.; Seventeenth, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Eighteenth, at the Presidio, San Francisco. Infantry—Fourteenth Regiment, now at Fort Wayne and Fort Brady, Mich., and Fort Porter, N. Y.; Eighteenth, at Fort D. A, Russell, Wyo., Fort Logan, Colo., and Whipple Barracks, A. T.; Twenty- third, at Plattsburg, N. Y,; Fourth, at Fort Sam Houston, Fort Brown, Fort ‘Wingate, Fort McIntosh and Eagle zfi‘ all in Texas; and the Seventeenth Regi- menty.at Vancouver Barracks, Washing- ton, Boise Barracks, Idaho, and Fort ‘Wright and Fort Lawton, Wash. The troops to come home from the Phil- ippines and the order of their disposition in the United States are as follows: Calvary—Sixth Regiment, to the De- partment of Dakota; First Regiment, De- partment of Texas; Fifth Regiment, De- partment of Colorado. Artillery—Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth Companies, Coast Artillery, and Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Twenty-fifth Batterles of Field Ar- tillery, to be assigned to stations on ar- rival at San Francisco. Infantry—First Regiment, headquarters and two battalions to be selected by the regimental commander to the Depart- ment of the Lakes; the remaining battal- fon to the Department of the East; Sec- ond Regiment, Department of the Colo- rodo; Fifth Regiment, Department of the East; Twenty-sixth Regiment, Depart- ment of Texas and Tenth Regiment, De- partment of the Columbia. @ inieirineiieb il @ THIEF ESEAPES ~ ON 0 BICYELE Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.—There is no longer any doubt as to who robbed the Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express wagon last night and abandoned the wagon in East- lake Park, three miles from the depot, to which it should have been driven. Charles R. Spaulding, driver of the wagon, was the thief and the peace offi- cers throughout Southern California are searching for him to-night. That he can escape from them is considered improb- able, for his description has been sent to every city, village and hamlet in this section of thé State and his course is be- ing followed by detéctives and secret ser- vice men in the employ of the express company. At one time to-day the officers were only three hours behind the fugitive, but they had already driven thirty miles and then learned that he had stolen a bi- cycle to assist him in escaping, and had him and them. The detectives worked on the case all night and early this morning officers were sent to the towns along the foothills on | the line. of the Santa Fe Railroad. At La Manda Park it was learned that a young man answering the description of Spaulding had spent the night there. He had been seen this morning by a half- dozen persons who, wnen shcwn Spauld- ing’s photograph, identified it as the por- tralt of the man they had seen. Tak- ing up the chase there, the officers fol- lowed it for miles and finally ledrned that Spaulding had appeared at Azusa at noon riding. a_bicycle, and had inquired the| way to Pomona. Then all trace of him was lost, but constables and deputy sher- iffs throughout that section were notified to be on the lookout, and it is expected that he will be captured before twenty- four hours shall have passed. It was learned to-day that Spaulding | had boarded the blind baggage car of the Santa Fe overland train last night—the v:ry train for which the stolen express packages had been intended. He caught the train at a railroad crossing not far from the park in which his wagon was found later. Near La Manda Park he was found on the train and was put off by a brakeman, assisted by the express mes- senger, who did not recognize him. After leaving the express company's office Spaulding had driven near the rail- | road crossing and there had robbed the strong box, and, taking such articles as he could carry, had caught the train. The value of the property taken from the express box, according to the ex- press company officials, i$ about $500, of which $300 was in money. These officials assert that they have no reason to con- ceal the value of the goods and deny that they are trying to minimize the loss. Spaulding’s bond of $1500, with a fidelity company as surety, is more than suffi- clent-to cover the loss. o e e e PRISONER LEAP FRON THE TRMI : Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.—David Els- worth, a counterfeiter who was being brought from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, having been held to answer by a United States Commissioner, escaped | from TDeputy United States Marshal | George McCulloch somewhere between { Saugus and Newhall to-night. The pris- ‘onsr. without coat or hat, and while the ! train was running at high speed, leape ‘from a window. 4 \ The train was stopped at once and Me- Oulloch started back. He telegraphed to the United States Marshal at midnight that he had found no trace of the fugi- tive. E Clad as he is, it will be hardly possible for Elsworth to escape, and it is belleved he was Injured by jumping from the train. He was recently caught in the act of making counterfeit money in a cobbler's shop at Santa Ba\:burl. X k. . -} SAN m‘;‘m; Dec.. :.:—Tha b‘};‘z“j Stal ¢ "hfnm Em:”mminu dt&w‘r&l‘flhll’ 0-! stroyed s evening. horses, car- placed more than twenty miles between | Cattle until the Board of Agriculture is LEARNING NEED3 C KAISER FLAYS THE SOCIALISTS German Emperor Says They Have Trodden on Labor. William Asks for a Work- ingman in the National Parliament. BRESLAU, Prussia, Dec. 5.—Emperor ‘William, addressing a deputation of work- ingmen to-day, made a bitter anti-Social- ist speech, declaring it was a lie to say that workingmen had to rely on the So- cialist party for a betterment of their pe- sition. The Socialists, he added, had ter- rorized and trod the workingmen under foot and as men of honor they must have no more to do with them. The presence of the workmen, Eniperor William maintained, showed that they had not filsappolnted him in the expecta- tion he expresed at Essen and had helped to keep free from reproach the memory of his friend, the late Herr Krupp. The working clagses were always the object of deep interest and soljcitude to the Em- peror. Therefdre he was justified in ad- dressing a word of warning to the work- men. For years they had let themselves be led by agitators and Soclalists, under the delusion that they,myst belong to that party if they wished to better their posi~ tion. That, he said, was a great lie and a serious mistake. These agitators had tried to stir up the workingmen against thelr employers, against other classes and | against the throne and altar and at the | same time they had most unscrupulously | exploited, terrorized and enslaved them | In order to strengthen their own power, | not for the promotion of the welfare of | the workingmen, but in order to sow hatred between the classes and dissemi- nate cowardly slanders, from which noth- ing, not even the grandest quality, the honor of German mankood, remained im- mune. With such people the working | classes, as honor-loving men, should | have nothing more to do. Emperor William concluded with ask- ing the deputation to send a comrade from their midst, a simple, unpretending man from the workshop, into the national | Parlfament. Such a man would be gladly welcomed as a working representative of the German working classes. The rep- resentatives of other classes would will- ingly work together with such represen- tatives, however many they might be. L o o e e e ] ] BRITONS AT IERIGYS WORL LONDON, Dec. 5.—The Board of Agri- culture has intimated its willingness to remove the embargo on cattle arriving from New England ports whenever the American Department of Agriculture considers that the ofitbreak is suppressed. | The Board to-night issued an order per- mitting the landing of cattle under cer- tain restrictions from the -steamer Irl:h-| man, which has arrived at Liverpool from Boston, the steamers Kansas and Victorian, due to-day at Liverpool from | Boston and the steamer Cambrian, due at London from Boston. Meantime, the importers here say that the quarantine has little effect on the American meat supply since the bulk comes from the West, and it is merely | a question of shipping the cattle by way | of New York instead of Boston. Re- garding the general question of opening English ports to Canadian and Argentine live cattle, there is not the slightest like- | lihood ‘of the admittance of Argentine satisfled that the foot and mouth disease | has not only been stamped out in the| Argentine Republic, but until the latter | establishes an effectual quarantine against the surrounding infected ter- | ritory, of which there is no immediate | prospect. On the other hand, the importers say that the opening,of British ports to Can- adian live cattle is not only improbable, but if done would not favorably affect the English meat supply, because it is cheaper to sell Canadian range steers in the United States and ship them dressed to England than to import them alive here to be fattened for the market. ‘-I—H—H—H-l—'r-l—l-l-l-l-H—l-H—H'H-.l OF THE DISTRICT Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.—Seventeen members of the Legislature from districts south of Tehachapi spent last night in the State Asylum for the Insane at High- lands and saw at close range the difficul- tles under which the attendants have been laboring in trying to house 782 patients In quarters fitted for less than 500. For more than two years patlents have been sleeping on cots in the hall- ways, and, although a new wing author- ized by the last Legislature will be ready for occupancy by Janwary 1, it will not be sufficient to relieve the present condi- tion. The asylum authorities desire an appropriation of $30L187 for maintenance, | salaries, etc., for the next two vears and for the construction of an additional ward. The legislators who made the in- spection last night are convinced that an- | other wing is needed. Returning to Los Angeles this morning the party continued the discussion of pro- | posed legislation. Their meetings are public and any person who has sugges- tions to make is welcome to appear be- fore them. A number of citizens ad- dressed them to-day on various subjects, the most important of which was that of increasing the powers of the horticul- tural commissioners in order that throughout the State a more thorough crusade may be made upon the insect pests which in certain sections endanger the fruit crops. To-night the legislators are at the ‘Whittier Reform School. The trip to San Diego to Inspect the State Normal School has been postponed until some time next week. The Los Angeles Nor- | mal School wants only an appropriation necessary to maintain the school as it is and will ask for no additional im- provements. Assem) Arthur G. Fisk accom- panied the party to Highlands. He is here in the interests of his contest for the speakership of the Assembly and says he expects to obtain the votes of seven of the Los Angeles Assemblymen. The others probably will go to Assemblyman Dunlap, who was here during the recent visit of Governor-elect Pardee. Mem- bers of the Assembly from other counties in this section of the State have refused to commit themselves positively, saying they prefer to wait until they reach Sac- ramento before deciding how they shall cast their votes for Speaker. s | seribing my sym; FATHER'S VOIGE LIKE TOMB ECHO —_— Mr. Potter of Texas Has Funeral Expenses Paid Once, il Son Believes Sire Among the Departed for Thirteen Years, —— ALAMEDA, Dec. 5.—For thirteen years C. H. Potter of Texas, arrested here ‘Wednesday night for handing out bogus checks, was supposed to be dead. His son, G. H. Potter of Berkeley, claims that he forwarded money to pay for his father’s funeral expenses and since do- ing so had always belleved that his sire was _pumbered with the great majority who have departed for that bourne where bogus paper does not circulate. It Is the theory of the police that Mr. Potter of Texas worked a clever and original bunko post mortem game on Mr. FPotter of Berkeley and blew in the cost of a high- | grade casket, several quarts of embalm- ing fluid and other mortuary incidentals that his son paid for. ‘When Mr. Potter of Texas rang up Me. Potter of Berkeley on the City Prison tele ephone Wednesday and announs that 1® was his father talking, not fr the grave, but from the Alams Jail, the younger man doubted his very senses and would not be convinced until he vis- ited the prisoner and satisfled himself that his father really existed in the flesh. According to statements made by Mr. Potter of Berkeley to the police, his father went to Texas sixteen years ago. Three years later Mr. Potter of Berkeley received a dispatch informing him of the death of Mr. Potter of Texas and what disposition he desired made of the corpse of his father. He immediately wiged to give the remains a fitting burial and to draw on him for the amount of the bill. Mr. Potter of Berkeley claims that he sent a telegraphic order to de- fray the expenses of his father's inter- ment and considered the matter as set- tled and Mr. Potter of Texas dead. Mr. Potter of Berkeley put in mueh time yesterday in making settlements with people that Mr. Potter of Texas bunkoed. Last evening the bad check man was released from the City Prison. Mr. Potter of Berkeley says he is willing to pay Mr. Potter of Texas his transpor- tation back to the Lone Star State, where his first funeral was supposed to have taken place. @ ieimbiri il e @ BURGLARS BIND “IND EAG WOMAN Special Dispatch to The Call SEATTLE, Dec. 5.—Another woman wags held up in Seattle last evening. High- waymen celebrated the announcement of a police “clean-up” by binding, gagging and robbing -Mrs. H. Kamps in her own home. The house is a double one, in the heart of the city. The Ink was hardly dry on Chief Sullivan’s order requiring his patrolmen to work twelve hours a day and thoroughly police the residence district when the brutal crime was com= mitted. Mrs. Kamps is the wife of a grocery | clerk. She had been out shopping during the afternoon and returned home at § o’clock. Hardly had she entered the door when two unmasked men sprang out of a closet, where they had been hiding; and seizing her roughly thrust her into a chair and bound her hand and foot. The men warned her not to cry out and one of them held a revolver at her head while the other went in search of a gag. A towel was obtained and wound tightly about the half-fainting woman's head. Then the thieves plundered the house at their leisure. They took a pair of dlamond earrings, $8 in money and a few other valuables, then left by the back door, taking no pains to make their exit unobserved, though it was early in the evening. 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