The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 18

18 THE FAN FRANCIECO CALL, SUNDAY, D ECEMBER 28, 1802.- ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 B KATSCHINSKT] {HILADELPHIA SKOECD, ' 10 Vilki STREET, SLN FRANCISCD, ADJOINING CALL BUILDIFG. i | | | storm which was raging rendered objects Overstocked With TRAINS CRASH, 1 | Continued From Page 17, Column 1. this order should have been duplicated, a copy being given to the conductor and engineer of the express. Instead of this | the conductor of the express received a clearance order, telling him that he might run through. The freight train meantime had stopped { at Wanstead to sidetrack and was tel- escoped by the express. The blinding invisi The at a distance of a few feet: | operator at Wanstead is not usually on | duty at night, but last evening he hap- | pened to be in the office for a short time. He was going out at the door when he heard the telegraph instrument click and immediately call repeatedly the message, , “Stop No. 5, “Stop. No. 5. Seizing a lantern, the operator dashed for the door and as he closed it” behind him he heard the crash of the collision up the track. There was not a house at hand to which the injured could be carried. Fortunately, | howe the two Pullman cars on the flohdav Nove “es { train did not sustain any damage. They v | were warm and comfortable and were The holidey trade is over and we converted intd a temporary hospital. The find ourselves overstocked. We B |iyjured were placed in the berths and | bought too heavily and must yeduce R . cyerytning ‘possible -done to ease the our stock. There is only one way ol M to dispose of our surplus goods, and > x that is {o cut prices and maie it DEATH'S GRIM ROSTER. ] an object for our customers to buy. o . g 5 | We have cut deep and the follo Following is a list of the dead | prove it: Ladie with either patent ps or beaded vici kid turned soles and” military REDUCED TO 85:9 ;E\ PAIR. Sizes 4 to §; widths B LADIES’ VELVET SLIPPERS, i ve colors, with satin ro- turned s and French UT TO $1.20. Sizes 3 to ths B to D. LADIES’ RED FORDS, coin toes, worked ey lets, turned soles and French heels, O: Y 81.75 A PAIR. Sizes 3 to Tig; widths AA to E. SATIN OX- \ LADIES' VELVET COLONIALS, red, black or green; fur trimmed &nd warm lined and ornamented with a neat buckle and bow, turned soles and military heels., SALE PRICE $81.35. Sizes 3_to 8; widths C to EE. Country orders solicited. B. KATSCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE GO, 10 THIRD STREET, fen Francisco. BOHEMIA Pure, Pale and Bottled Oniy at the Brewery in St. Lous, SOLD EVERYWHERE, Breaks up Colds and cures the GRIP Uention but this Belt does. Oull or send for this \' our “Booxrer Xo0.2." (7" Writs to-day: Puper Plerce Electric Co., 33 West 24th Blreet, New York or 20 st & Sne: Prineiaco, Cal. ¥FOR BARBERS, BA- | RU E kers, bootblacks,’ bath- | houses, billiard ‘tables, | brewers, bookbirders, candy-makers, canners, @yers, four mills, foundries, laundries, paper- hangers, printers, painters, shoe factories, stablemen, tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, ete. BUCHANA BROS.. Erush Manufacturers, 609 Sacramento St | —_—_— BALKS WRECK INQUIRY. Telitale Sheet Is Missing From Railroad Register. CYRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 21.—The Coro- mer’s jury investigating the cauge of the frightful freight collision near here on Wednesday evening was called at 2 o'clock to-day afd examined ten wit- nesses, including Conductor Bronson of the extra and Cenductor Harriman of the regular train No. 28. Z The evidence was to the effect that Con- ductor Bronson checked up the register, but & sensation was created when the register book used in the yard office here and the one Conductor Bronson checked from Wednésday night was produced and the sheet bearing the date of December 24 for the north division, the one that the Jury wanted, was found to be missing. It evidently had been torn out. Strenuous effort was made by the District Attorney to locate it, but all yard office employgs pleaded ignorance. It has a vital bearing on the case. S0 far eight bodies have been recovered from thé wreck, and although the wreck- age has not yet been entirely cleared @way, it is not believed the death list will be increased, notwithstanding sensa- | | | Wanstead siding the headlight NDER STEWART, Petrolia, | | MRS. ALEXANDER STEWART, Pe- ‘ trolia, Ontario. ! A. RICKETTS, Sarnia Tunnel, fireman | Ne. &. J. GILLIES, Sarnia Tunnel, engineer freight. MRS. J. TROTTER, Petrolia, Ontario. | H. B. L/ "E, Watford, Ontario. | F.8 F MAN, Oil Springs, or Hen- Ontar H NICHOLAS JEFFREY, London. GUY DE RENIER, ticketed for La | Crosse, Wis. | DR. PENNWARDEN, ticketed for Pe- trolia, Ontario. WOMAN, supposed to be wife of Dr. | Pennwarden. | J. H BROCK, Brucefield, Ontario. | 3, BURWELL, Port Huron, Mich. i BODLEY, Port Huron, Mich. | ‘ON MORTON, Chicago. XANDER CAMERON, Strathroy, | Ontario. | MISS GEDDES, Sarnia, Ontario. | ED DE BEAUS, Prescott, Ontario. MRS. BODLEY, Port Huron, Mich, LOTTIE LYNCH, Port Huron, Mich. | GEORGE BURKHOLDER, Sarnia, On- | tario. A. DOUGLASS, Alvinston, Ontarlo, | WILLIAM JOHN LUCAS, Strathroy. | ROBE! STEVENSON, Wyoming. 1 UNIDENTIFIED MAN, about 40 )’el!‘s“ of age, weil dressed. VIOLET BROCK, aged 11 years, Chica- go, formerly of Brucefield, OTtario. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, about 8| years of age. ] MRS. JULIA BARNES, Woodstock, On- | tario. | LIST OF THE INJURED. Following is a list of passengers Injured in the wreck, most of those named not being seriously hurt: Alexander M. Steward, Wingham, Ontario; Mrs. J. J. Culberson, Port Huron, Mich.; James Ramplin, Toronto; Mrs. Samuel Cum mings, Port Huron, Mich.; Hattie Nor- bey Peterboro, Ontario; James Norbe; Peterboro, Ontario; Mrs. Chicago; Frank E. Baker, London, tario, dislocated shoulder; William M. Morse, wife and child, Sarnia; Thomas Coote, London, business address Chicago; George Stacey, Wanstad, Ontario; Dr. Basil Harvey, Chicago; Mrs. J. M. Stew- art and Children, Oshkosh, Wis. (Mrs. Stewart fractured jaw, Earl broken arm and collarbone, Hobart fractured hip) 1l Quinn, Chicago, burns, consid. serious; James Barnes, Woodstock, Ontario; Beatrice Gedder, Sarnia; J. J. Culberson, Port Huron, Mich, fractured jaw; John Bird, Chicago, fractured arm J. A. Lamont, Wyoming, Ontario, frac: tured leg: Mrs. W. Gott and daughter, Londqp; J. S. Lawler, Strathroy; W. H. Cole and wife, Flint, Mich.; R. K. Mec- Donald, Strathroy; Mrs. P. M. Byrnes, Sarnia; Annie Sinclair, Kokomo, On- tario; Miss Flossie Culberson, Port Hu- ron, Mich.; Mrs. Pugsley, London; R. Jackson, Petrolia, Ont. CONFLICTING STATEMENTS. According to Master of Transportation Piice of this city, it was Andrew Carson, the agent and operator at Watford, the | next station east of Wanstead, who fail- ed to deliver to the train crew of N their orders to pass the freight train at Wanstead. Train Master Price says that in_explaining the mistake that brought | such terrible results the operator says | he understood the dispatcher to say “kill” the orders, for No. 5 to pass the freight at Wanstead, but it is denied at the dis- patcher’'s office here that the order was.| “Kkilled.” | The Pacific express, which was late and endeavoring to make up time, was made | up of two Pullman cars, two first-class day coaches and two baggage cars. The | engineer opened wide his throttle as he pulled out of Watford at 9:38 o’clock. A blizzard was raging and the air was thick with swirling snow. The train was crowded with people returning from holi- i The express train was- run- speed of fully fifty miles an hour through the blizzard when at the of the freight engine loomed up through the snow. It was impossible to see a hundred feet ahead because of the snow and the trains crashed together almost before the engine crews realized that a collislon was imminent. The impact threw the twe engines clear off the track on the right hand side. The two day coaches of the express were be- tween the heavily laden baggage cars and the weighty Pullmans. A terrific grinding | rash and the rear baggage car was driver into the coach for three fourths of its length, killing a score of the occupants | and pinning down two score more in tha[ wreckage, crushed and mangled. The) horror of fire was mercifully spared the suffering persons buried in the wreck. A little flame broke out, but the uninjured goon extinguished it with snow before it could gain headway. HEROIC RESCUE WORK. The occupants of the two Pullmans and the second day coach swarmed out of their cars to-the rescue. A bedlam of noises greeted them. The hiss of escap- ing steam from the wrecked engines did not drown the piteous cries of the unfor- tunates pinned in the ruins. The bitter ccld added to their suffering. Volunteer rescuing parties were immediately form- ed ahd did heroic work. Meanwhile a brakeman had rushed through the storm to the telegraph office and notified both London and Sarnia officials of the acci- | i ADVERTISEMENTS. Salt Rheum You may call it eczema, tetter or milk crust. . But no matter what you call it, this | skin disease which comes in patches that | burn, itch, discharge a watery matter, | dry and scale, owes its existence to the | presence of humors in the system. . | It will continue to exist, annoy and per- haps agonize as long as these humors remain. 1t is always radically and permanently | cured by | |Hood’s Sarsaparilla Which expels all humors, and is positive- 1y unequaled for all cutaneous eruptions. NEW WLSTERN HOTEL, KEARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.—Re- moteled and renovated. KING, WARD & CO. European plan. Rooms, 50c to §1 50 day; tional rumors that have been in circula- ton. $5 to $5 week: $8 to $20 month. Free batus; Bot and cold water every room; fire grates in every room; elevator runs all night. | switch for a time. E; PASSENGERS ESCAPE, Continued From Page 17, Column 2. Coast Line Limited crashed into the southbound Owl train at Tropico this morning. Four cars were wrecked, two of them, Pullman sleepers, being almost completely demolished. - The Owl train was cut i o and the last car, the diner, was thi upon its side at right angles with th dck, while the engine of the limited was resting un- der the trucks of the next car forward whén the trains stopped. That nobody was killed is more than marvelous. Looking at the wreck as it stood a moment after the collision an ob~ server would have been justified in think- ing that there was scarcely a passenger left alive in the Owl, but strange to say, | not only were there no deaths, but not a | person wa serlously injured. The escape sengers on the Owl was due of the pa | only to the fact that because of the dense fog and the steep grade which the train was climbing, the limitea was not }Zu_l'l- ning at full speed. Under ordinar) "cir- cumstances this train passes the scene of | the wreck at the rate of forty miles an hour, but the Owl was late and as orders had been received to meet this train at Tropico the northbound train had re- duced speed. The Owl was more than half an hour behind time and had received orders at Fernando to meet the northbound train at Tropico. On reaghing that station there was some delay in clearing the main track and taking the slding vecause the brake- man found it impossible to open the 1t was impossible to see the full length of the siding because of the fog, and thinking the station agent at Tropico had protected the train by set- ting danger signals against the north- bound train, the Owl took its own time in taking the siding. It was half way upon the switch when, without warning whistle or other signal, the northbound train appeared through the bank of fog and crashed into it. At the time of the collision the engine, mail car,.buffet car and a portion of the ferward sleeper were clear of the switch. e engine of the limited struck the side the sleeper about the middle and plow- ing its way along the side of the car turned it half over upon its side. Contin- uing, the colliding engine struck the sec- ond sleeper and almost ripped it in two, tearing out the entire side.of it. The din- ing car was in the rear and the trucks trom the rear sleeper were pushed back in such a manner as to take the trucks from under the diner and turn that car at right angles with the track and almost overturn it. The escape of the passengers on the Owl—and the train was well filled—can only be ascribed to the fact that the first shock of the collision thréw those who ‘were sitting on that side to the other side of the sleepers. Beyond the centers of the aisles the cars were not damaged in the least, although on the other side_the woodwork was splintered and almostfey- ery seat was demolished. The fireman on the limited saved himself by jumping to the engineer's side and thus escaping the fragments of the broken cab. 1 The wreck caused a delay of several hours. It was impossible for the Owl to proceed until a special train had been sent from Los Angeles to bring the pas- sengers to this city. The northbound train proceeded only after another engine bad been sent from Fernando. The property loss to the company con- sists of two dgmolished sleepers, a bad- ly damaged engine and an end torn off the dining car. Manager Agler said last evening that Engineer Jordan of the coast line limited had been found at fault and had been Gischarged. @ siriivinivieieieieielepdee el @ dent. Relief trains with surgeons and wrecking cars were on their way to the scene from both ends of the division in the shortest possible time. - While they were steaming at top speed the work of rescue was carried on by the uninjured passengers. They delved into the heap of debris and, guided by the moans and cries, found the sufferers and pried and chopped them out and carried them to the two Pullman cars, where they were given such attention as was possible be- fore the surgeons arrived. Ed de Beaus of Prescott and Lottie Lynch of Port Huron, Mich., died soon after they were received at the hospital. Several of the lesser injured persons left the hospital this afternoon. To-night all those still there are expected to recover, although internal injuries or failure to re- cover from the awful shock may result fatally in one or two cases. ‘When the second Pullman arrived here at 19 o'clock it was met by undertakers’ wagons instead of ambulances. Twenty- five bodies were In the berths behind the closed curtains. The broken forms were placed in coffins in the freight sheds and then removed to the Morgue, where the work of identification was begun. The scabbards worn by Russian oflcerfi are made of papier-mache. 2 . CURRY COMPLAIS BITTERLY, Lot ol S Continued From Page 17, Column 5. It is annoying, of course, but I propose to get at all the facts just the same.” STATEMENTS CORROBORATED. Deputy Sheriff A. J. Le Grand of Byron corroborated the Coroner's statement re- garding the missing tramp. “I seaw Harris a few moments after the wreck occurred,” said he, “and he told me that he saw Cole start up the track some time after the Owl train had stopped. He had good reason to be sure of this because he had teen compelled to dodge the brakeman to avoid being dis- covered. Harris worked all night helping to rescue the wounded and remove the wreckage. Next morning he was taken on the relief train to Oakland by Road- master Morrison. Later in the day I saw, him again in Byron and asked him what he was doing there.” He replied that he: had been put on the payroll of.the. coms= | pany. Morrison was with him at the tim and did not deny Harris' claim. Harris' did no work, but Morrison kept him in tow for"a couple of days. Since then he hasn’t been seen.” . These statements do not prove that Harris was ‘put on the payroll, but they suggest a very significant state of affairs, one demanding an explanation. After the formality of establishing the identity of the victims had been attended to, a-diagram of the scene of the wreck Was introduced by Surveyor B. McMahon. Then Superintendent, W. S. Palmer wds called. He testified that all trains on his division were spaced over the road by semaphores, ten minutes apart, though the national code permits five minutes’ headway on a time schedule. Both the Owl and the flyer being regular trains, no running orders were necessaryfand no infgrmation of any trouble with the en- ghle of the Owl had been received until after the collision, Palmer then endeav- ored to fix the blame of the accident on Engineer McGuire by showing that the station whistling post was 3000 feet west of the switch where the Owl was stalled. ! Other witnesses had heard McGuire's whistle acknowledging Brakeman’ Cole’s danger. signal immediately after the sta- tion whistle was sounded. This, he be- lleved, gave McGuire plenty of time to stop his train before reaching the Owl Moreover, he argued, as the track was straight and the night was clear, McGuire should have seen the lights on the rear end of the Owl and brought his train into Byron under control. QUESTIONS ARE DODGED. Henry Heyman, who has charge of the repair work at the Oakland roundhouse, next told of inspecting the Owl's engine before it started on the fatal trip. Upon being questioned closely he explained that he had taken a look at the locomotive and thought it was all right. Heyman, as well as the rest of the witnesses in the employ of the Southern Pacific, invariably dodged’ the question as to whether the engine of the Owl was defective when sent out or caused any trouble before it suddenly *‘died”” at Byron, Train Dispatcher 8. N. Cook explained the running schedules of the two trains and said that according to his reports the Owl train had both lost and gained time between Oakland and Martinez, but had passed Brentwood five minutes late, with the fiyer on time ten minutes behind her, The time schedule, he added, regulated the speed of the Owl at thirty miles an hour between' Port Costa and Traey, while that of the flyer was forty miles an hour between the same points, On other matters his memory was not clear, A. H. Bean, the telegraph operator at Port Costa, was similarly afflicted. At first he either dldn't know or couldn’t re- member anything except that the Owl had left Port Costa seven minutes late, Cot- oner Curry, however, was not to be de- nied and in a short time succeeded in get. ting a number of piecemeal acknowledge ments from Bean to the effect that sev- eral minutes had been lost at Port Costa ' in backing up to a water tank because the air brakes wouldn't work. He also | remembered receiving instructions for Conductor Dolan of the Owl not to leave if he thought he could not regch Mar- tinez by 6:08. Dolan believed he could do 50, and finally started seven minutes late. Train Dispatcher Cook had wired asking the cause of the Owl's long delay and Bean replied, he testified, that something | was wrong with the engine. i STATION AGENTS TESTIFY. U. A. Boydston, the operator at Brent- wood, could only remember that the Owl passed there at 6, five minutes late, | and the flyer at 7:06, on time. He thought both trains were running about ferty miles an hour. S H. Hushbeck, the agent at Byron, knew very little except that Conductor Dolan had come to the station at 7:10 o'clock to telegraph for permission to use the freight engine on the side track, as his own was disabled. At that time the Owl was standing near the switch, about 800 feet from the station. Hushbeck saw two lanterns near the engine of the Owl, ADVERLiskMENTS. Just Say “I'm Sick” And I Will Send A ) b PE No man is better known in the State of Nebraska than Mr. Carl T. Roberts, contractor and mason. A typical Ameri- can—active, shrewd and full of business sagacity. He is not only a provider for his family, but a protector. In a recent i letter to Dr. Hartman he writes, among | other things, as follows: “ OQur boy, James, had the mem- branous eraup and after he had re- covered he was subjact to repeated attacks of lung fever. “Qur boy, Charlie, was also sub- | ject to attacks of pneumonia and pleurisy. 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Both swore ‘they heard Me- Guire’s whistle a few seconds after he had blown his station whistle, the post {for which was 3000 feet from the Owl. Kerr declared he didn’t rnotice anything wrong with his engine until -after he passed McCabe, when the steam suddenly reduced to fifty pounds. As he was then running forty miles an hour he thought he could reach the .siding at Byron be- fore the steam gave out altogether, so he tried it. The next witness, fa farmer named Charles Cople, who lives a short distahce from the track at McCabe, contradicted Kerr as to the speed of the Owl at that point. Instead of forty miles an hour, he miles, You a Way To Get Well, Just write a postal card and tell me which book you need. That is_all. Then I will send bottles Dr. cost is_$5.50. If it fails, T will your mere word shall decide it. ou am order—good at any drug store—for six hoop’s Restorative. month at my risk to learn what it can do. You may take it a If it succeeds, the pay the druggist myself. 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Cole, who went back to flag the fiyer; was very nervous when called to the stand and seemed to have a very hazy recollection of how far he ran or how long it took him to reach the point where McGuire saw-his signal. He was sure, however, that heleft the Owl before it came to adead stop and started up the track at once with two lanterns as fast as he could run. He could not remember .noticing ‘any land- marks that might gauge the distance cov~ ered by him, but he believed the flyer was half a mile from the -Owl when McGuire answered his signal. - L “What did you do when the flyer passed you?"” asked Coroner Curry. “I ran toward Byron as fast as I could.” “Faster than you ran out?” +Oh, yes.” ‘Why?” 2 “Because I knew something would hap- pen. I felt sure the flyer would strike the Owl before it could be stopped.” “Yet you testified yesterday in San Francisco that McGuire sghould have stopped his train within 100 yards. How do you reconcile those two opinions if you were at least a quarter of a mile from the Owl when the flyer passed you?” “I don’t know." - - - That was the best answer Curry could get, and Cole was excused. Burton Einstein and W. M. Moore, eye- witnesses of the collision, were next called. The former’s testimony was mere- ly corroborative, but Mr, Moore stated that he first noticed Cole about 200 feet down the track from the Owl swinging his lantern. The headlight of the flyer seemed to be about half a mile away at the time, but, a.few, seconds later the crash occurred. G. H. Church, a Byron carpenter, also saw Cole signal the fiyer, and he estimated the distance at 100 yards. He was too much frightened to re- member anything élse, and seemed in such great distress that he was excused. BRAKEMAN AUSTIN ON STAND Ed_Austin, the forward brakeman of the Owl, testified that he got off the train as soon as it stopped and was imme- diately sent back by Conducter Dolan to see that Cole started at once to flag the fiyer. The Owl train was about 300 feet Iong, he said, and he ran as far as the dining-car, when he saw Cole running down the track some distance away. Aus- tin turned immediately, he said, and ran forward to report to Dolan. By the time he reached the engine the collision oc- curred. When reminded that over seven testified that it Was not more than fitteen | SEATTLE WO CHARGES FAALD Warrant Issued for Ar- rest of Mrs. Lloyd Smith. SEATTLE, Dec. 27.—Mrs. Lloyd Smith was to-day charged with swindling Mrs. M. J. Lutz out of $41%5 in this city, and it 1s alleged that by one of the neatest swindling schemes on record Mrs. Smith secured not less than $10,000 from Seattle people in the course of a few weeks. The warrant for Mrs. Smith’'s arrest was tel- egraphed last evening to Sah Francisco, where it is said she is in concealment. Mrs. Smith’s method of operation con- sisted In giving little more than receipts for the money she took in subscription to stock in the Gray Gander Oil Company, a California organization. Her victims ‘were principally women and from almost no one of them.did she fecure less than $1000, it is stated. Mrs. Smith came to Seattle about three months ago. She secured the indorsement of several prom- Inent business men and began selling a corner which she claimed to have on 30,000 shares of Gray Gander Oil stock. According. to the complaint filed yester- day. In Justice Cann’s court, she repre- sented to intending purchasers that the stock was worth in the market $20 a share while its par value was $1. She said she had secured an option on 30,000 shares for $3000 and that she could give an absolutely safe investment. Mrs. Lutz, who lives at 126 Eastlake avenue, bought 825 shares and paid Mrs. Smith $125. Miss Rose Daughtery, it is asserted, purchased $1000 worth of the stock. Perhags a dozen other persons bought various Bmounts in the expectation of soon becoming wealthy. The woman charged with carrying on swindling operations on such a scale is well known in Seattle and San Francisco, She is a singer who has appeared with the famous prima donna, Emma Abbott. She resided in this city in the early '%0's. At that time she was a prominent member of the Nonpariel Club and sang in many of the churches. Later she removed to San Francisco and during the last sick« ness of her husband, she tells, she sup- ported her two small boys. Then her grandfather bequeathed her a sum of money and she began a business life. Recently she undertook the financing of @ iivieiviviviiviirlsiie ik @ minutes had elapsed while he was mak- ing this brisk run down and up the length of the train Austin showed considerable confusion, but stuck to his story. James Rumsey, the conductor of the freight train on the siding at the time of the accident, testified to meeting Dolan on his way to the station two or thres minutes after the Owl had stopped. He then looked back and saw Cole with his lantern about 100 yards back of the Owl. At this point Coroner Curry ordered an adjournment until next Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock, explaining the long delay by saying that he wanted to call En- gineer McGuire as a witness, and he had been assured the latter would be suf- ficiently recovered by that time to attend. prdeseniant.ak Mrs. Mayer Dies of Her Injuries. Mrs. E. Mayer, one of the passengers injured in the railroad collision at Byron, died in the Southern Pacific Company's ‘morning. an oll company, and a month ago an- nounced that she was organizing a com- pany for the cultivation of Eastern oys- ter beds on Willapa harbor. Since that announcement was made she has left this city, taking passage by boat, her alleged victims say, for San Francisco. The complaint, which .is an unusually lengthy document, recites that Mrs. Smith represented her company as in good standing, that it was a wealthy cencern, that the capital was complete end that the stock was unassessable; that she had obtained an option on a big Block of shares, and that she represented each share to be worth $20, while as a matter of reality it had no value. She claimed, according to the paper, that the company was a concern with a high finan- cial standing and that it was making huge sums of money. Each of thess statements attributed to Mrs. Smith, the complaint avers, is absolutely false. Mrs. Smith's friends clalm that the prosecution Is instigated by a man named Moxey of San Francisco and is the out- growth of a case In which Mrs. Smith was wanted as a witness. They say it is a plot to ruin her reputation. Xmas Prices Are generally lower than be- fore. The Owl sells at cut prices all the time. Every 1s cial ?rlu day at 1128 et street. Anita eam Ayers’ Hair Vigor. Coke Dandruft Cure. Newbro's Herpicide King’s Discovery . Laxative Bromo Quinine. Lyons’ Tooth Powder 0-To-Bac pound Pierce’s Prescription Paine’s Cel Pears' Soap . Swamp-Root . . Wilson Whiskey The Ow1 Drug Co.