The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1902, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, EXPLOSION WAECKS A POOLAOON One Is Killed and Thirty Injured at Hot Springs. Popular Secretary of Agriculture Passes Gasoline in Cellar of Turf Exchange the Cause of Catastrophe. HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Dec. 24—By an | explosion of gas or gasoline this after- noon in the cellar of the Turf Exchange, & clubhouse and poolroom operated by Chambers ‘& Walker, the building was dly wrecked and thirty persons were injured, sixteen of whom are in a serious | condition. Willlam Helwig, the blind| manager of a bathhouse here, died at midright from his injuries. The most seriously injured are: J. C. Burch, Chicago, leg broken, not expected to live MeclInerney, Louisville, probably will die. | C. R. Donnelly, Chicago, forearm and knee broken; will die. | R. C..Chambers, one of the proprietors, | both legs and wrists broken. | J. §. Meeks, Hot Springs, badly brulsed snd cut Joseph broken Joseph Pace, hotel-keeper, Hot Springs, | | Jegs broken. Ky., in- Kinney, Hot - Springs,- "legs| | — Finnegan, plumber, Hot Bprings, both legs broken. { James Cowen, Hot Springs, both legs broken William Metzger, a boy, Hot Springs, | legs broken and skull fractured. James Coughlin, plumber, Hot Springs, leg broken. C. G. Parker, ieg= broken. | Alf Hotchskiff, Hot Springs, knee frac- tured. L. Ogier, legs broken H. George, New York, leg broken. F. Cranfield, Cincinpati, legs &nd ribs crushed. Walter Powers, Eugene Daly Milwaukee, Wis., both engineer, Hot Springs, both broken St Hot Louis, arm broken. Springs, both legs Phelan, telegraph operator, Hot Springs, badly cu Henry New GEORGE W. JACKSON DIES FROM MALADY OF THROAT in Sacramento After a Lingering lliness INSPECTORS WRREST 011 PROMITER | William Baer EWifig Taken Into Custody in Chicago. the State Board of Away at His Home Former Californian Charged With Fraudulent Use ! of Mails. | Long Chase of the Fugitive Secre- tary of Standard 0il Promotion and 'Investment Company 1 Is Finally Successful. e CHICAGO, Dec. 24 —William Baer Ew- | Ing, secretary of a concern known as the | Btandard Oil Promotion and Investment | Company, has been arrested here by post- | office inspectors under an indictment re- | cently returnéd against him in San Fran- | c1sco. He is charged with shaving used | the mails for purposes of fraud. Many | persons in various parts of California are | said to have invested money in the shares | of the oil concern under representations { that the company had a subscribed capi- | tal of $2,500,000, that it had much money | on deposit in San Francisco banks and i that men of large ‘means had united in | the venture to promote the oil industry of the Pacific Coast. Residents of Sacr: | ment and Bodie, Cal., are mentioned in ! the indictment as having lost money | through representat! made in cireu- lars alleged to have been sent through | the mails by Ewing. | Ewing was taken before United States Commissioner Buell to-day and the he: ng of his case was continued until Fri- | day. | With the arrest. in Chicago of William | Baer Ewing, late of the Standard Oil | Promotion’ and Investment Company of | Ban Francisco, there ends a pursuit by | Undted States Postal Inspector Lorin H. Bricker that has covered a year and a half of time and has led through half the | Western Continent: -Ewing is under in- | dictment hy the Federal Grand Jury on | counts of using the United States mails { far fraudulent purposes. His victims, ac- Linds York, injured cording to the postal officials, number ebout lower limbs | hundreds, and so far as can be estimated J. C. Crawford, Cincinnati, leg and! | popUrAR SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF: AGRICULTURE, bis gains approximate not less than $15,000. “I,‘:‘M’,\"fl"":";w( h e WHO DIED IN HIS HOME AT SACRAMEN[IO YES DAY, AFTER | CLERKS LEFT TO FACE DUPES. slight injuries | MONTHS OF SUFFERING FROM A THROAT MALADY. | It was a year ago last Fourth of July When the explosion occurred, about 4 H that ‘dEvwing decamped, leaving behind a o'clock this afternoon. 1he poolroom was | “i* i 4 5 5 ——=* | handsomely fitted suite of offices in the crowded with more than 1% people. Just ACRAMENTO, Dec. 24.—George W. building seemed to and in an in- Board of Agriculture, died this £tant a report that ok the entire ternogmat his residence, Tenth and buliding rang out. The upper floor and back walls of the building fell on- the struggling men, who were wildly scramb- ling to escape to the street. The entire house looked 2s if a tornado had plowed through its center. The fr s win- dows were broken and hoth sides of £tructure were shattered by the eoncus- I streets, after a long iliness from a malignant throat trouble, which. grad- ually undermined -his' co Jack- son became ill shortly a the September, conditio: of h Nevertheless he was able { last week to drive ouit in the sunshine for &ion | an hour or two, but his strength - coh- The néws of the aster spread rap-| tinued to fail him. He was conscious up E nd soon Central avenue was jammed | to within a short time of his death. With people. Reports were current that! The date of the funeral has not vet several persons had been killed. The po- t, but it will be either Friday lice ard firemen took charge of the build- and ‘'will be under the au ing and the work of rescue began. M:n The grand ball- which the Wwere pulled from under the debris in a|local Elks were to give on Friday night terribly shattered stdte. One of the most | has been postponed because of Jackson's pitiable sights was when “Billy” Helwig, | geath. the blind manager of the Lamar bath Expressions of deep regret at Jackson's bouse, was taken from the rui Helw; death are heard on all sides. It is not was known 1o the thousands of vis who come to Hot Springs annually R. C. Chambers, one of the proprietor: of the Turf Exchange, is one of the le: sees of the Fort Erie, Ont., racetrack and 1s one of the best known sporting men in the country. His condition is’serious. It |signing the office, he wauld become a can- s not believed he will survive |a for the secretaryship. William Metzger, the 12-year-old boy W. Jackson was one of the most who suffered 2 fractured skull, is not | o expected to survive many hours e e e a2 e The exact cause of the explosion has| not yet been determined. It is said by | Jsome that gas which had escaped in the cellar of the building was ignited in some | manner, causing the terrible accident. | Another report, which is probably cor- | rect, says a driver of a gasoline wagon was filling a tank in the cellar when the | explosion occurred. The police have made | Freight Trains Collide on the Colorado and Southern. probable that the State Board of Agri- { culture will " select a successor to the dead s for a month or so. Some week ove L. Johnson, one of the Assemblymen, publicly an- s full investigation and have held Ben | Murray, who is alleged to bé responsible for the disaster in carelessly handling the | Ligh combustible. The bank roll of the| poolroom, consisting of $55, 000, was blown away in the expiosion, but the greater part of it has been recovered. e e e ADVERTISEMENTS. NOT DUE TO CLIMATE. Catarrh Is Found Everywhere. TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 24.—Six men | were killed in a freight wreck which oc- curred one and a half miles north of here | { | | | esjort i Parrott building and three clerks to meet the scores of dupes who thronged the search of widely known and popular residents of Sacramento. He w. cted Sacretary of in the State Board of Agriculture upon the | @partments information elevation of Peter J Shislds to the Su-|Aabout the coin they had intrusted to the perior bench of .Bacramento county, Al- Suave maneger of the company. It was though assuming the trying position while | not until Ewing had left many miles be- preparat! were in progress for the|tween him and San Francisco that the State-Fair of 1901, he-nevertheless suc- | Dostoffice authorities received complaints which caused the long chase for the fugi- tive to begin. Some Sacramentéo people who had been lured by the glittering prospecius Ewing Jhad scattered over the | Btate throngh the @iuils fest had their {@yes opened. | " 7 3 b Postoffice mem!m Bricker took charge of ‘the complaintd which potred in soon after Ewing’s flight and began a cruise about the country in search of the miss- ing promoter. ' The inspector traced the fugitive to El Paso, but Ewing was ¢8 clusive as the dividends he had proni- ised and the pursuers lost him for a while, only to catch the trail again at Kansas City. Thence it ran across the ceeded in making it oné of the best expo- | sitions the State had afforded. | Born in. Wisconsin in 1854, Jackson at an | early age became an adept at telegraphy | and-oceupled the position of stsuon oper- ator in ‘Wyoming durfng the li¥ely front- i s. He came to Sacramento in the | seventies and was for several years operator at the local office of the’ ern Union Telegraph Company. He. tly heid responsible positions in accountant,.and for sev- | accountant of the es eral vears was chiel Capital Gas Company. Later he was ap- | pointed general superintendent of - that | big corporation, serving up to three years ago, when it was merged with the elec- | trical companies. | %rs ¥1is Boent . Jackson married the daughter of George ! " pywing came within 4n ace of being Lortenz, a ploneer Californian. and she |prougnt to book at the Colorado capital, B e i kfifii‘ ooxalted | but before the slowly-moying Grand Jury - * | coul e abscondirj nves s and always took a great interest in the | gzztflad“%'m‘,"“ ]al:din;z- alngcwe g’fie:nt affalrs of that organizaijon. He Was a|jpqatters became so warm that Ewing did "g"’rr‘}i‘c"m‘i’_‘ g“,‘“'{}“‘p h;‘;‘g:{_d‘:‘d numbered | ;¢ Jong tarry In the Creole.city, but | took passage for South America, where he et @ country to Denver, with Bricker still hot | DECEMBER 25, 1902 sion of the Asiatic ally Will Succeed REAR ADMIRAL CCOPER TAKES PLACE OF WILDES Assumes Command of the Southern Divi- Station and' Eventu- Rear Admiral Evans ASHINGTON, Dec. 24—The Navy Department to-day or- dered Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper to the command of the southern division of the Asiatic station, to succeed Rear Ad- miral Wildes, who was detached on Mon- day on account of sickness. Rear Ad- miral Cooper, who is now in charge of the naval defense of the Eastern coast. will leave for his ey post of duty about January 5. His new command is con- sidered a very desirable one, as the time of Rear Admiral Evans, now in supreme command of the station, expires in less than a year and when Evans returns Admiral Cooper will succeed him as senlior officer of the entire Asiatic fleet. R e S e Y ] PRESIDENT WILL GIVE TURKEYS TO ATTENDANTS Remembers to Add to the Joy of the] White House. . WASHINGTON, Dec. dent’s family will all be together at the White House to spend Christmas. They will not have a tree but will exchange presents in the morning in the library. They will go to Captiin Cowle's house and later take lunch with Captain and Mrs, Cowles. In the afternoon the Pres- | ident and Mrs. Roosevelt probably will go riding. Dinner will be served in the State dining room in the evening and the following guests will be present: Senator and Mrs. Lodge, John Lodge, Captain and Mrs. Cowles, John Hillott of New York, Mrs. Charles Henry Davis, Miss Davis and the Messrs. Davis. Robert Ferguson will be a guest at the | house to-day and over Christmas. Thfl_‘ President will present turkeys to the emy ployes of the White House. | Among the Christmas gifts to be given | Mrs. Roosevelt will be a gold purse by‘ the ladies of the Cabinet, which was pur- chased by Mrs. Hay in New York. The purse is of the usual gold mesh, but with the clasp studded with diamonds and sap- phires. Tt is marked with two inscrip- tlons—on the outside “Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,” and on the inside “From the ladies of the Cabinet, December 25, 1902." L e B e of the public éye, although safe from ex- tradition. But a desire to return to.the United States seized the runaway and a month ago he returned to New. Orleans and was almost immediately under the jeves of the postal people. Leaving the South, Ewing went to Chicago. The in- dictment was ready, and the proper exem- plification was speedily prepared and for- warded. For- several days Inspector Bricker has awaited news of the fugl- tive's capture. A OFFERED LARGE RETURNS. Ewing is aQout 32 v of age and mar- ried. Of bis bistory before he opened his elaborate investment scheme in San Fran- | { clzco the inspectors know little. He is a | brother to a member of ,the United Fruit Company of New Orleans, which handles a large business between that city and | Ceutral American _ports. Concerning Hwing’s business, Inspector Bricker at his residence in Berkeley to-night said: Ewing's scheme was to advertize to pay as | Righ as ten per cent a month on investments in oft stocks, and by means of 4 jvell-worded Trospectus of his company he seCured many patrons. His game was to colleet money for | investment in ofl stocks by representing that his knowledge of (e market enabled him to place the money where it would realize sure returns, - He claimed to have had many year»’ | experlence in the business and knew what companies to sclect for Investment. Tor a time he paid dividends to some of his patrons, simply using others’ coin_ to. pay them. It was robbing Peter to pay Paul. But matters began to get warm, and Ewing, after making a big clean up, fled. In his offices he left some clerks, ‘but “they remained only a few days. Then the rush of victims began and they have been very numerous. He got amounts ranging from $100 to $500 and possi- biy hro. . We havs: o GOkt that with the announcement of Ewlng’s arrest many more victims will crop up. The department has had a hard hunt for Ewing. So long as he remained in Colombia he was safe, as our extradition laws do not cover the- offense with wiich he is charged, but we were after him, as soon ag he landed again in United States territory, and less than two weeks has concluded the work. An effort will made immediately to secure Ewing's return trial. e | for PLOT OF SHOULS Exposes Plan to Steal Ex-President Har- rison’s Body. Special Dispatch to The Call. I.\'QlA.\' APOLIS, Ind., Dec. 24.—In a on the Colorado and Southern Railroad |letter received to-day by the Superintend- 24.—The Presi-| KITCHEN NAVAL OFFICER WHO HAS RECEIVED AN IMPORTANT i PROMOTION. WILL TEST THE BLOCKADE. CARACAS, Dec. 24.—The Red D line steamer Caracas was crulsing to-day be- fore La Guaira. The steamer Meridia of the same line has left Willemstad, Cur- acao, for Maracaibo. She will attempt to Lls(‘frtilin whether the blockade is effec- tive There is much indignation among the people of La Guaira against Signor De- riva and Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi, who are considered responsible for the shell- ing of the forts at Puerto Cabgllo. The envoys promenade daily on thé beach at | afra’ and it 18 feared they may be ect of some demonstration. In Caracas everything quiet. Presi dent Castro went to La Victoria to-day. e ,Italy Prefers Roosevelt. . ROME, Dec. 24.—Italy’s reply to the ar- bitration proposal of Venezuela, through Minister Bowen and the Government of the United States, among other things says Italy would be pleased if the ques- tion were settled by the arbitration of President Roosevelt, and adds that if he does not accept Italy will have no ob- Jection to submitting the solution to The Hague tribunal & — Forger Is Sefit to Penitentiary. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.-David A. Gardner, who was convicted of forgery recently, was sentenced to-day to two Years' imprisonment at San Quentin. The offense for which he was prosecuted was the forzery of a note for $150, by means of which he persuaded Annie L. Adams to advance §75 to be placed with an equal amount of his own money to be loaned on a chattel mortgage. BLOCKADE 15 GAUSING HEAVY L055 German and British Mer® chants in Caracas Complain. Damage to Their Interests Greater Than Claims Against Castro. Special Cable to The Call and 17Hernld. Copyright, 1902, by the ) Herald Publishing Company. LA GUAIRA, Dec. 24—The British cruiser Tribune to-night captured a schooner and a sloop® outside this port. The blockade tangle here is growing de- cidedly worse. Apparently there is no thorough understanding between the allies’ commanders. New questions and complications crop up as soon as distine- tions are made. All precedents are being violated. Thus far the, only effect has Leen to cause a slight loss to the Govern- ment and a tremendous loss to mer= chants. It is also worthy of note that the heaviest loss falls upon the repre- sentatives of the blockading nations. Outside the harbor the American steam- er Caracas remained last night. She h: mofe than 3000 packages aboard still un- discharged. There was some misunder- standing regarding the Carac as she transferred part of her cargo to the British steamship Yucatan while at the port of Curacao and the Yucatan was not permitted to enter the harbor. There is a distinct feeling hers that the blockade is ineffective.. Undoubtedly tha greatest losers are the German and Eng- lish merchants, many of whem deplora the acts of their governments. They say that they are willing to take their chances of losing by a faflure of Venczuela to pay debts. I have talked with prominent German and Englésh merchants, who say that if the blockade is maintained even a few weeks they will lose far more ‘than the total of the amounts claimed by the men who have brought about the present trouble by insisting upen the payment of doubtful claims. It is reported here that President Cas- tro has left Caracas at the head of an army moving westward. Several camps established in a mountain back of La Guaira have been abandoned, the soldiers having gone to join the President. The Dutch steamer Prins Willem II, from New York Decemiber 5, arrived off La Guaira this morning, but owing to difficulties with the blockading squadron and to the refusal of her agent to pay the port charges she left without communi~ cating with the shore. PRESIDENT WILL ACCEPT. His Answer May Be Sent to the Allies Within Two Days. WASHINGTON, Dee. —President Roosevelt in all probability will acceds within forty-eight hours to the request of the powers that he arbitrate the Vene- zuelan question. The formal notes of Great Britain, Germany and Italy reached the State Department this affiacnoon. The decision of the President may be made within two days or may be delaved. It is felt that since the powers Bave taken such a long time in formulating their offer, this Government should not be hurried. The President is known to ba disposed to act with all speed in this matter, for he realizes that the conditions of the blockade are such that almost any moment an unpleasant incident might oc- cur. e i Army Marching Upon Caracas. WILLEMSTAD, Dee. 24.—Twelve thou- sand rebels are marching upon Caracas. The revolution is gaining strength be- cause of the external difficulties that he- set Castro. l Pa., Dec. 24—At OIf a_small hamlet near here, vesterday a Mrs. Edward Burdick shot John R: defense of honos ale, ernoo: a dead 1 R{QUIS?IES. Catarrh is'at home anywhere and every- | where. While more common in cold, changeable climates, it is by no means | cpnfined to them, but is prevalent in eyery | State and Territory in the Union. The common definition of catarrh jis a | chronic cold in the head, which if long neglected often destroys the sense of &mell and -hearing; but there are many other forms of the disease, even more ob. stinate and dangerous, Catarrh of the throat and bronchial tubes, as well as catarrh of the stomach end liver, are almost as common as nasal | catarrh and generally more difficult to cure: Catarrh is undoubtedly a blood disease | © end can only be successfully eradicated S i ¥ B! X withs orders, exps as- by an internel treatment. Sprays, washes e i ¥ e Mg i senger No. 2 at Bowen, ten miles north 2nd powders are useless as far as reach- | of here. ing the real seat of the disease is con-| The Colorado and Southern officials here cerned. | 1ate this:evening gave as the cause of the Dr. Mclverney advises catarrh suffepers | disaster that Conductor Bronson of the | 10 use a mew preparation, sold by drug- | extra had mistaken his orders. gists, called Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, be- cause actual analysis had shown these tabiéts to contain certain antiseptic guglities of the highest value and being | Pennsylvania Limited Runs Into an an internal remedy, .pleasant to the taste, | Accommodation Train. gonvenient and harmless, can be used 28 | - PITTEBURG, Pa., Dec. 24.—The Penn- ;z:(-;duw]:grmumd. as well for children a3 | ¢y)vanta limited, running almost an hour An attorney and % &8 2 | late. crashed into the rear end of the ey sm’:“,:r‘;o‘r"‘):‘;‘;; ¥ho had | 1 ecisdale accommodation train at Quaker “Every all T would cateh g o h;’~ §: | Valiey Station to-night at 1i o'clock. The. would settle in my head and throat ang | I, iSie of:the limited plowed into the heng on all winter lo (55 i} o £ashat Casoxs wius pashid throush ter it seemed to get & 1ocr O CYeEY Win- | the one ahead of it, making the two sl v ”w:; a h,me worse. I was | couches the length of one. Many persons -'oivc oAl ~ g my throat and my | were injured, some of them fatally. ;S e afleued‘xo such an extent The seriously injured: Charies Hopkins, | cerfere with my public speaking. Lectsdale, left leg broken and left eye 1 tried troches apd cheap cough cures:| gouged out, badly bruised, will die; John &nd sometimes got Telief, but only for a | Carson of Swickley, nose broken, badly short time, untll this ‘wigter, when I| cut and bruised, serious; John Stritzeyer, jearned of the new catarrh cure, Stuart's | Newcastle, both legs fractured; H, T, &‘_g t:_rrh Tn_blu;_, ‘through a newspaper ad. | Potter, residence unknown, bruised and ertisement. Two 50-cent boxes which I | cut about the head and body; M. J. Joyce, | | { about 6:45 p. m. The dead are: J. FOX, fireman on extra freight. , McDERMOTT, brakeman on extra. GOLDTRAP, engineer on regular KING, machinist on regular, FIREMAN DEVEREAUX of the regu- 1 ¢« BRAKEMAN L. F. RICHARDS of the regular. g The injured: Elmer Pierce, engineeer on extra, gash on head, badly scalded; | Fred Gilbert, riding on extra, badly bruised. e cause of the accident, according to | & statement by Engineer Pierce of the | xtra train, s_that the regular train ad been overlooked, the extra, running Fl bought at my druggist’s cleared my head | Lectsdale, right leg broken and badly and throat in fine shape, and - ®gainst & return of MY G treabi Fars | Lrutsed B0 ThL D Bw I € box of the tablets on hand and when- ever I catch a littie cold I take a tablet or iwo and ward off any serious develop- mgnts." o o tuart's Catarrh Tablets deserves t. head the list as a household remedy !g check and break up coughs.and colds, be. cause, uullke many other catarrh and cough cures, these tablets contain no op- or any injurious drug. SPRINGVILLE, Ala., Dec. 24.—Professor | Jacob Forney of the State University was ac- cidentally killed here to-day while shooting sparrows with a parlor rifle. —_———— To Cure & Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug, sts refund the money if it fails to cure. B W. Grove's signature iz on each box. 28¢, ¢ MANY PASSENGERS HURT. |° ent of Police, the detafled’story of a plot to rob the grave of former President Ben- | jamin Harrison was given by a man; named Wallace Simms. The police are ncw looking for the writer. The letter states that Rufus Cantrel, who has long led a desperate gang of grave-robbers and who are now under indictment for | stealing a large number of bodies, was to have robbed the grave of the ex-Presi- dent and convey the body to the office of a local physician. A rumor of the theft | was then to have been put into circula- ticn and after it was confirmed by the opening of the grave it was supposed a rcward would be offered by the family for the body. In the meantime it was to have Leer placed in the physician’s office, and afier the reward was offered was to have been taken to the country and found by Cantrel, who wéuld then have claimed the reward. In case Cantrel -should be sugpected of stealing the body the physi- | 19 in the conspiracy were to have come rescue and defend him against such a chLarge. The writer of the letter refers to a number of circumstances attending the funeral of Mr. Harrison that shows he is fully acquainted with the location of the grave and the steps attending the burial, and he claims that he thwarted the plot- ters by going to the grave himself and placing a “ghoul mark” upon it. When Cantrel afterward visited the grave and found the mark he did not dare open the grave. Simms does not {ay what this mark was, but speaks of it as a sign that the body within the grave must not - be touched and as one that all grave rob- bers were bound to respect. The detectives say they were advised of some such plot at the time of Harri- son’s death and they told the family it would be well to guard the grave for a few nights at least. Whether this was ¥ done or not they do not know, but they | had not heard anything to confirm their| \ suspicions of a plot until the letter was received from Simms to-day. —_— thank yor from if. “I out it. “ —_— Recover Body of a Drowned Man, 7 REDDING, Dec. 24.—The body of an une . ’ known' man was found yesterday in the i Sacramento River at Castle Crag. There Wwas nothing on the body te idantits ta and good will, Sweet, crisp flaKes of wheat and malt, A Wonderful Boon. #¢Force’ Food has been a wonderful boon to me, and I have eaten, almost three cases now. I want to very much for the benefit I have received can’t see how I could have got along with- P H. H. MiLLER.” Jim Dumps at Christmas formérly Was cross and cranky as could be. Butsee himnow among the holly, From eating “ Force ” grown spry and jolly. You’ll find, by looking hard at him, That Santa Claus is “ Sunny Jim.” 4