The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1903, Page 1

Call, PRICE VOLUME XCIII-NO. - 8. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1903. FIVE CENTS, HALL IMPEACHES PRATT AND SENATE COMMITTEE CONCLUDES LABORS AND ADJOURNS TO SACRAMENTO | : g i H][!St L OF THE CALL'S CHARGES TW[I AHMY AVING exposed the guilt of Pilot Commissioners Charles H. S. Pratt, Captain William G. Leale and R. S. Alex- ander and established the truth of The Call's charges that E these officials of the State have been guilty of bribery and corrup- | tion in office, the Senate committee appointed to investigate the t scandal concluded its labors vesterday and adjourned to Sacra- rI' . ¢ | mento at the call of the chair. Captain Charles F. Hall, master ¢ . ram Falls DOWII i the steamship Edith, was called upon at yesterday's session to fur- Edhem Pa,sha, Wlll Fmb k t . | ther impeach Pilot Commissione¥ Pratt. Captain Hall reiterated | L d T k. h - a’n men ln his testimony, asserting that Commissioner Pratt did agree to sell ea’ ur ls > Nevada | him the position, noiwithstanding Pratt's denial on the stand, Forces : | and authorised the sending of a telegram to him, notifying him . s 2 4 . | that the matter was all ixedrand he could have the position. E. Two Persons Are Seri- | ¢ Conroy, sccretary of the Pilot Cominission, testificd as to the Numerous Macedonian Jdv Tnin 1 income of the Pilot Cominission, and after he and Chief Pi o ously Injured in A : . . | Bands Are in the = | Barber had been directed to get their books in readiness for a call | D'\'fister | to Sacramento the labors of the commission, so far as San Fr i CAPTAIN HALL f nad il K Vi Field. B e CUTSIDE THE | cisco is concerned, came to an cnd. E 4 1 T 3. d O COMMITTEE - = X 1 P > 5 ers Are lossed Out roon T 5 == | | Bulgaria Making Ready for eir Beds in Early ; Defense Against the ) 3 | "mrnmg‘ “I TOLD SENATOR PERKINS Sultan. sl JUST WHAT MEr PRATT EOLD ME; THAT HE YWAS Spectal Dispatch to The Call Nev or — 2 TH:? TO APPOINT gE eSO} "l CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 15.—Despite . Ve THEY HAD GOT 85,000 | | dentals that have been made, the Second pe | | and Third army corps have been called " | | out and the pi. r mobilization has been ! | completed. Edhem Pasha the victor n g the war with Greece, has been ddesig- = - | | nated generalissimo of the Macedonian < erpliong army. He will have the supreme command let of the quarter of a million of men avail- 24 able for service in the Balkans. v ¢ s Eighteen bands of Macedonian insur- < gents have appeared in the Sandjak of P Colamo. $hs Monastir. by by SOFIA, Feb. 15.~M. Sarafoft is said to M Pidae r! be now in Macedonia organizing a revolt. & s EEog Several arrests of Macedonian leaders have been made in provinetal towns. The CARS IN DEEP SNOW Government will prosecute the arrested . ) men. i Unless Turkey now ' withdraws her o o troops from the Bulgarian frontier the ) f 53 | Government will suspect her intention 2 o | | and issue an order for the mobilization of 3 | | Bulgari i Am of 10,000 Macedonians 3 | | wac held here to-day to protest against - = he action of the Government in dissolv- 5 Macedonian committee in Mace- g The resolutions demanded the re i establishment of the Macedonian socle- ‘ . | ties and the § ial punishment of indi- 5t vidual offenders. VIENNA, Feb. 15.—A rumor that had o been cu for several days to the effect & " that owing to the difficulty of obtaining the consegt of the other powers, or for other readons, the Austro-Hungarian de- for Macedonia have been greatly attenuated since Count Lamsdorft drafted them, is practically . | confirmed to-night by the official Frem states that the demands as not to over- rribed by respect fo ultan’s suzerain rights, and that, be- iz ined to comparatively modest was ’ they are morg likely to attain the two ¢ | | desired end than if they were more pre- ¢ any | | tentlous. They 'will not, however, says hgee port | | the official organ, succeed if Macedonia is g - = - 3 s ]‘ | made the theater of a guerrilla war. | It is regarded here as certain that these ! half reforms t satisfy the Mace- l party, which de- 1 1 ST. P! ERSBURG, Feb. 15.—Minister £ [ | Plehwe has sent a circular to the news- for the injured i bl papers instructing them to refrain from CARE OF THE INJJURED. | % publ ng articles hostile to Turkey In | | connection with the Macedonian situatior i LnNLun\'. Feb. 16.—The correspondent | 1 of the Daily Mail at Vienna says, in spite | | | | of denials. he t Austria ha ! | } mobilized two y corps and has con- . i s B i | | centrated an extra 4,000 men on the Bal- | | | | kan border. Military men, adds the cor- : German Medlcal Men Yuba County Hermit! 'Medical Man Goes Up| | | [ isateet, Bembeet st besied? tuforsen Toug y p tion is inevitable. Field Marshal Rhein- w { B . . g | lander will command the force. Make Important | Buried With Mar- in the Air During || ; wreck 4 | || ELECTRIC SIGNALING S : | , Discovery. | tial Honors. ; thé Storm. ! MAY PREVENT DISASTERS : o | | | Basnatias System of Intercommuni- R eb. 15.—The pitiful| PASADENA, Feb. 15.—The strangest . S ‘;s m“"; g"w""l lll!o‘;{ngt ‘;r“m’ the New York | d on under a tree that | freak of weather ever known here struck | | PRATT SAID HE W o FOONTIAY PR a list of the passengers of « - 2 | " HE SAI “able to The €all and New Y - P the storm had Lared and the snow had | North Pasaden at about 5:5 o'clock lnst | | THE OTHER TWO,WHATEVE w:, ol Gt Ve S ok B ks o s e BERLIN, Feb. sor Adolph E: burdened near Wood Creek last Tuesday | evening. It was a regular Middle West Herald Publishing Company. y s s @ ginsky, d tor of the Kaiser and Kai- | has revealed a melancholy story of the cyclone, with a path about 100 feet wide 5. i W. Tweedie, U. 8. A., - » . o nel ;4 % ” | PARIS, Feb. 15.—The Basantias sys- i ‘L,‘.“\,a}lm_ oo+ serin Fricdrich Hospital for Children, pub- | Carecr of a man who once occupled a con- | oa ‘although lasting only five minutes e ol T Dl SR b " and child, J. W, | lishes through the Herald the remarkable | spicuous station in the United States (g gumeent In fierceness to lift off the | = ——— P] coten martag swaz ttthe Whe Sulcss- 5 * | results of a new discovery which provides | I roofs of two barns and ecarry a heavy x || " trated thi ke; Miss > 5 e 1 Th Everson, s c. N CHARLES F. HALL, MASTER OF THE STEAMER EDITH, | tully demonstrated this afternoon. "M, A | the medical world with a serum cure that | ThiS ”:’:.Z 0;*;1‘;"53_‘;)_"’;:;‘;:’@“2';‘:‘ jeist about 100 feet and stick it like o gi- M"‘T}'}é_ IMPEACHED COMMISSIONER PRATT AT YESTERDAY'S | | Two sections of a train traveled a con- - a2 g, W. A} has stamped x ut scarlet fever in a greater [1ife, had been a notable person in his | ganlk_ spear through the roof of a house. MEETING OF THE SENATE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE. | | siderable distance apart and were then . - Mendel. | Pereentage of cases among children than | \ouln;; days. During the Civil War ne| C- H. Ellfott, who lives at the corner of | |brought into the same block. There was a . g BEELTI T, b et et momgearis P RN e okt e Pkacai aei | n-xamnmu street and Garfleld avenue, is +» | telephone and alarm bell in a car of cach £ 3 wite, Yuba City, | The discoveries now made public are the | ... "4nq his name appears more than | (e OWner of the bams. His nelghbor, sectlon so that when the two sections— result of twelve years' uninterrupted re- | TE% MG TS ERE APIUEES SOe UL | Jacob H. Main, who lives 100 feet away, Captalfl Of Jteamshlp Edlth flgaln which in actual use means two separate ence connected with the disss arch and EhXDerlm"“»S lln that period | ' ') irfed with military ceremontal. It |Teceived the joist through his roof. Am- | trains—were found in the same block both g 5 . " | 701 patients have been subjected to the, 3 o 18 th ighbor, Dr. J. B. Carey fved | alarm bells rang and signaled danger. e fiyer is the t that the &= . o o rith | 18 @ matter of regret here that his iden- | ©ther neighbor, Dr. J. B. Carey, receive( s ger. et ot ot ] o (et WIh | Nty Wad bt Qlacovared ‘who he mstAks [ENe 2bos G itis s i MWAAN Sacy et ecites J"tory o Brzbery. | A shoe at the side of the car siides on a ¢ almost 1o a day, | ver has been definitely established and its | the assistance that might have prolgnged | tered all over his place. | wire ls(rir]nlg mur{}g?de :ne nL:’r’\.a r?lls .,;d San 3 engers, Mr. and | 8erm classified with bucteria. | his 1ife. Dr. Carey narrowly escaped being killed ? i 3 _| the stgnaling of the alarm bell occurs the . and e percentage of deaths has been re- erson was nearly 70.years oid. He|by the flylng timbers. He was standing HE further impeachment yester-| M. Shortridge took the interrogator’s | moment both trains ate in the same block r Deraons fn- | oo G eI P pati that only 8 PET | had been living alone n a little cabin for |in his barnyard at the time and saw a dc‘iy s ol g""l,‘ “"“;m““::“:“"- el 0 K;‘!“b‘z;:“r:‘:::;‘;d‘c‘: T e ey pefmons 1n-'vont Of BoRHct fever. patie reumbed. | 410 past five-or six years and eking out -shaped cloud T Y MEOUEIG SR L S e vl -t T Professor Bngin’sk)‘ l:"“ u 4 5 bu),.e existence with a prospector’s iock- :::::(e'd f::m;:ln!m;ard his lho:::n::l:' S:k close, so far as San Francisco ls‘K €. Conroy, secretary of the Pilot Commis- | ALARMING EARTHQUAKES ’ . | borhood that many times he would not b “| the Semate committee o e Call's | duct of the business of the Pilot Commis- —_— LEARN FROM AMERICANS | °f ‘r’(‘;‘ r‘::‘é”fi; the " ot is that 1|clean up over 1 for a week's work. Witn | 11 Was so taken by ’d“:i”“ that he| o ges that the members of the Pilot|sion. After explaining the detalls as to | Houses Are Thrown Down in Several Feb, B Minister of Gom | o oR that scarlet fever has a microbic | this Pinch of dust he would go to the |8rasped a pepper tree and the nextinstant | oo mission for the port of San Francfsco | how pilots were appointed and the nature Cities and People Are Badly . Hler in the course of an b | oristn known as streptococcus. store at Dobbins Ranch and secure in ex- | Elliott's barn timbers were flylng past | yod phen guilty of bribery and corruption | of their duties, he was called upon to sup.. Frightened. , e T 0;..:]:]: e g g G 1 S R c.)fi:ugte Fuz:::;uxheotvsg.:r:ztg::nx::o?: G5 his head. Dr. Carey ran for the house | iy omce. Reaction had followed the strain | ply the committee with information as to | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15.—The State of - gyt . ber of cases to prove the recurrence of [ apiite o Tont of these trips. Enfeebled | L7, 214 s wife tried to open the door | o¢ ¢he dramatic incidents of Saturday's | the income of the Pllot Commissioners. | Guerrero continues to report many and S Il be Germany's ehier | SrCPtoCOCCUS, this germ served as a basls |y a0 and privation he could not with- | [°F him. but:both she and her husband | gessions, when Commissioner Alexander | He said that he handles none of the | somewhat alarming earthquakes. Chil- . e armany’s chiet | for further uxperimen(? ‘h;y Herr Aronson | stang o severe snowstorm that was rag- | Were unable to move it, so strong was | confessed that he had received a bribe of | money, nor do the members of the com- pancingo, which two years ago was al- . re learn from the Am: and Bflerl f;l’n"f::edlmzc&;‘;":;}; sfi::"(’(‘)_ ing, and he walked under the tree on the |the suction. Huge cucalyptus trees, as|$4250 for the appointment of Pilot Mitchell | mission, with the exception of 5 per cent | most destroyed by an earthquake, now mse and odopt Eheir Business mctheds, the ‘cmnf-:?;:;x:‘lcoun:;u ond horses. Herr Avon. | Millside to perish. By means of an old | big around as stovepipes, were lopped oft | Tyson and had divided the spoils with his | of the gross earnings of the pilots. This | reports another, which threw down smost marked Sentaee & which 1s thie connsntsa- | 20 L ATt et DewapapstMisralaime l;‘:fl’f::; Yere | about teri feet from the ground in Dr.|dssoclates in office, and the short session | 5 per cent of the gross income, he said, | houses, as also happened in the towns of 7 ing repugnance existing in Germany afains: | With which our researches were contin- | yesterday from the Merchants: Natlnen | Carey’s yard. A window in the home of |of the Sabbath morning was conducted | netted each of the Pilot Commissloners | Chilapa, Aguas Blancas, San Diego and tions will certainly be replaced in | Ued. This serum is really the discovery of [ Bank of New York City to fulfill all the | Mrs. Jones, Elliott’s mother, was broken. | with decorum that befitted the day. from $165 to 3225 a month after they had | Mexicana. Underground roarings and r a better view, especially after the e\l‘ | Herr Aronson and I do not ‘I?,h 10 de- | requirements of a respectable burial and | The strangest feature of the freak is that| When the Senate committed was seated = rumblings were heard, generally frighten- of the syndicates have been removed. | prive him of any credit therefor. | assuring payment of the expense, it struck only an area of about five acres. Continued on Page 3, Column 2, for its second day's work Senator Charles | ing the people, 1