The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY <20 1903. B | A JUBILEE Twenty-Fifth Annive FLEEING THEE L0SES HS LIE Escapes From Prison { \ | | | | 'POPE LEO WILL RECEIVE TIARA OF GOLD rsary of the Pontiff’s Elevation to Be Celebrated To-Day. After Assaulting the Jailer, Town Constable Shoots at| | Fugitive and Bullets ) Take Effect. NTO, Feb. 19.—A special ai e rom Galt states that be- | 5 o'clock this morning Coi- Cook of that place shot sad | | mp who was attempting to | prison. The tramp had been or theft. | ween the hours mentioned the framp | from his cell for a drink of water. constable, who was ac'ng as ponded to his call. The celi door ed, whereupon the tramp seized acket and with a quick movement struck the deputy on the heaé with it, knocking him down. The trzmp then shed from the priso ble Cook, who heard cries of saw the tramp Jleeing from prison. He commanded him to hait receiving no respe dep who had m. also shot ets took e, shot at anwhile regai his a after effect a sailar COUNTY IMPROVEMENTS THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Delegates From Central Portion of the State Meet in Convention at Santa Cruz. es in this city President B President D ovem ce Smg ark throp of He wel LV 2% | SUPREME PONTIFF OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CTHURCH, WHOSE - BILEE WILIL, BE CELEBRA > TO-DAY, AND THE PAPAL SEC- STARY OF STATE, WHO WILL OFFICIATE AT THE MASS. e 2 o A STRIKERS RECOGNIZE & 8 N OME, Feb. 19.—The celebration of St. Peter’s, the people belng aliowed to WORE OF CLERGYMAN i the twenty-fifth anniversary of Show Their Appreciation of His the elevation of Pope Leo will Services by Making Him begin here to- ow. The a Present. ubilee will be ushered in by a z gh mass in the Basilica, with Car the emony taries will fce was held at demonstr the and v the that e the received Pontiff. They will pre- - sent to him a golden tiara, the jubiiee gener resent of c world. It cost were present at t ican in Februs elected by was crowned when Pe w clamation. ( rch 3 he he Sistine chapel - Pontiff is p nally greatl ested in to-morrow’s ceremo fun will be held in the hall of beat- - situated ve the portico of e e e e s e P OFFICIALS ACCUSE STEPFATHER OF CRUELTY Suit Against Him to Secure e Control and Guardianship of Three Boys. : EN El deprived COURT-MARTIAL FOR COMMANDER Wells Is Not to Escape Merely With a B g s will by of Reprimand. o R R Special Dispatch to The Call. SHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The findings the court of inquiry into the conduct f Lieutenant CommanderWells, whose tug was lost in Long Island Sound £ the storm January 21, have been reviewed Secretary Moody. The court mmence & civil es to release them from t Testimony was given that en were often unnecessarily and aten and were insufficiently th and fed, aithough they worked in for im guilty of “reprehensible neg- all kinds of storms and weather to cut in not getting soundings while in vood, which the stepfather sold plain sight of land. No one was at fauit RS except the commanding officer, and the Three Indians Are Drowned. court recommends that he receive a le ANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 15.—During | ter of reprimand merely. Secretary Moody 'y wind and snow storm six In- says: s started out from the Nerwitt! vil- The proceedings, fin a udings and opinion of the age © ope Island in a large open fish- | court of Inquiry the recmnmfln-lln;‘n of for =l - s e | the Judge Ad neral are approved, ex- r Shushartle Bay, a distance cept that part of the opinion which recom- miles. In midchannel the boat by a squall and thrown on is. The men took refuge on but while trying to -aught the sail and over to leeward were drowned. Tenas that the commanding officer should re- of reprimand, and that no furth- taken That part of the pproved. It seems that where it appears by the € inguiry veequently lost by the her commanding otfi » case should not end martial of three of the Indiar el iy Schooner and Steamer Collide. ATLA IC C J., Feb. 19.—The | delphia for New our-masted schoon- Nevada Adopts Eight-Hour Law. CARSON, Nev., Feb. 19.—In the Nevada , Ph 3 Z harbor m--:a;-m: | Senate to-day the eight-héur bill, passed : e schooner sank In & |y the Assembly, PRV, S e e e 1:;, ( ':r (mfl; ¥, ‘Tm approved, only two Goldsbore d the orew of the|SenAtors voting against the measure, wrecked s taken aboard the | The Dill provides that all mines, smelters er 3 and reduction plants may work their em- el ployes only eight hours each day. The biil will in all likelihood be s y estiatiets 3o 18 e signed by Governor Sparks, as he was elected on a platform declaring for an eight-hour da Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That's All! r & new com- THE mmm n w ¢ ness the passage of the Pope, and also m the Sala Ducale and Bala Regia. e three halls will hold 4500 people. | Pope Leo XIIT, surrounded by the car- | dinals and dignitaries of the pontifical will be carried in the Sedia Ges He will first receive 3000 pi and then accept several present ding the gold tiara. The ceremony end with the apostolic blessing v tick- t is full of foreign- » witness the function. In the precauti to avold specu- some ticke prices s ave been sold at fab- pe. given the sum of Rome. The Pope' but Dr. Lapponti insis ness be most cautious, in view the trying corcnation function on il @ PRESIDENT NAMES DAY'3 3LGGESSOR |John K.Richards Chosen United States Circuit WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—John K. Rich- ards, Solicitor General has been selected by the President to be Circuit Judge of the Sixth Circuit to succeed William R. Day, who will be appointed to the Su- preme urt, vice Justice Shiras, re- | signed. The Sixth Circuit consists of the { States of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and | Tennessee, and now is presided over by | Willlam R. Day of Canton, Ohio, Horace | M. Boxton of Nashville, Tenn., and Henry F. Severns of Kalamazoo, Mich. Since the announcement that Judge Day would be elevated-to the Supreme bench a spir- ited contest has been in progress for the appointment to his place on the Circuit ! bench. Thoee whose names have been presented to the President are Solicitor General John K. Richards Judge A. C. Thompson of the Southern District of Ohio and A. A. J. Cockran, George Dur- relle and A. E. Willson of Kentucky. Judge Richards was Attorney General of Ohio during a part of two administra- tions of the late President McKinley as Governor and was appointed Solicitor General of the Department of Justice by | President McKinley. LARGE FLOURING MILL TO BE ERECTED HERE | Globe Grain and Milling Company of Los Angeles Is to Enter the Local Field. L.OS ANGELES, Feb. 19.—The Globe Grain and Milling Company of Les An- geles is preparing to enter the northern field by building a 1200-barrel flouring mill in San Francisco. unded by Kearny, Montgomery, Fran- co and Chestnut streets has been pur- chased for $140,000, and upon this site the | Globe Company expects to have in run- ning order by November 1 one of the | largest flouring mills on the coast. The ! mill will be operated independently of the flouring mill tr —_——— County Named for Quay. SANTA FE, N. M., Feb. 19.—The New Mexico Legislature to-day passed a bill creating Quay County in honor of Sena- tor Quay's fight for statehood. Tucum- cari, at the junction of the Rock Island, Choctaw and Dawson railroads, will be | the county seat. It was first proposed | to name the country after Roger Q. Mills, and then after Leonard Wood, but Quay | won out. il in recognition of the jubilee, | DARING ROBBERS LUDE OFFIGERS No Trace Found of Men | Who Held Up Car in @ Los Angeles. | Railroad Company Offers Re- | ward for Arrest of the i Highwaymen. i | L.OS ANGELES, Feb. 19.-Tn the hope of | | bringing to justice the two daring high- | waymen who last night held up and | robbed a loaded car bound for Pasadena, | the Pacific Elegtric Railway Company | this morning offered a reward of $00 for the arrest of the pair or $3% for the ap- prehension of either of them. | The tobbery was the most sensational | and the boldest ever committed in this | | city and the police are making every ef- | fort to find the men. Good descriptions | were obtained from the passengers of the | car, as neither robber was masked and | but one of them wore a handkerchief | about his face, which, however, did not |serve to conceal his features. The | vounger of the two men, who searched the passengers while his companion | motunted guard at the end of the car with his revolver pointed at its occupants, Is | described as being barely more than a | bo probably 19 or 20 y old. The | other robber was probab ola. i Cstimates vary as to the amount se- cured by the highwaymen. From the thi two passengers it is thought they took anvwhere from $60 to $1000 in cash and fifteen or twenty watches. The exact loss cannot be stated until all of the vie- tims have reported. Some few of the oc- cupants of the car were not molested, the | desperadoes evidently fearing to com- The spot where the rob- lete the job. bery was committed is on the outskirts or 28 years of the city, where there is little travel at | night. Within but a few blocks is the Downey-avenue line of strectcars and it is believed jumoing off the Pasadena ca v held for fully | t>n minutes. the hold-up men made their | ape to the local cars and within ten | @ ittt O | FATAL EAPLOGION O AMAGRZINE | Fort Lafayette Naval | Ammunition Stores [ Catch Fire. | | | | | NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Three men were Killed outright, one man so seriously in- | jured that he died later, two men fatally and at seven seriously hurt in an | | explosion in the workroom of the naval | storage magazine at Fort Lafayette in | New York Bay about 2 o'clock this.after- {noon.” The dead: | GEORGE ROTHAM, Brooklyn. | GUSTAVE DOZIER, Bay Ridge. | JOHN MASON, Brooklyn. | Unkrown man. thought to be Martin T. Hargenson of Brooklyn. The injured, so far as known: least | | W. H. Vangurp. Brookiyn | Charles John Muller, Brooklyn. | E. D, Muller, Manhattan. Frani Munden, address unknown, All the dead and injured were workmen | at the fort. | The explosion could be heard for miiles | around. Accounts as to how the fatal| | blast was set off differ. One report has | it that the men were filling a thirteer- inch shell, while another is that the men | were remoying a powder charge from a shell and undertook to unwind a fuse, | connecting the powder chamber with the | percussion cap. This c i sufficlent | [ friction to set off the cap and thus ex- | plede the shell. i | | | “Major Powell, chiet surgeon . at Fort | Hamilton, was among the first to reach the sceme of the catastrophe and with | | fort troops removed the dead and in- | | juted from the wrecked magazine. Am- | {bulances and surgeons were also sum- | | moned from Brooklyn | | The work of identifving the dead and | irjured was difficult because of the dis- | torted features, blackened by . powder [ burns. | Fort Lafayette is an old fort in the { Narrows. During the war Fort Lafayette was | {used as a military prison and in it were | | incarcerated, besides a large number of | captured Confederates, many of those ar- | rested here in New York and vicinity on | picton of being Southern sympathizers. board of officers has gone from the | rd to the fort to make an inves- | | st | | | navy tigation. Admiral O'Neil, chief of ordnance, | that several months ago he had publ orders for the removal of the greater part | |cf the ammunition stored at Fort La-| | fayette to the new naval magazine on { Tona Island, forty miles up the Hudson. He assumed that this order had been pretty nearly fulfilled at the time ‘of the | explesion. In that case the stock on the island would be very small, made up mostly of the temporarily deposited am- munition_of naval ships going into dry- dock at New York. "DESPONDENT WIDOW TAKES HER OWN LIFE iContinued From Page 1, Column 7. | desk and seated at his right was Cap- | | them on the table lay a large amount | | ringing of my bell again summoned | | him. | investigation committee.” Editor of the (London) Review of Reviews Money Rings By W. T. Stead Some famous financial bubbles and the men who have blown them. See this week’s THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Law at Heart's Desire By Emerson Hough, author of The Mississippi Bubble. A celebrated case, in which Curly’s killing of his fu- ture father-in-law’s pig played an im- portant part. The Admirable Tinker By Edgar E. Jepson. In which twelve-year-old Tinker engages a governess for his adopted sister and interrupts a duel. Men and Measures By Charles Emory Smith. What is doing in Washington—the Venezu- elan complications and the revolt against Quay methods in the Senate. The Love of Romance By E. Neshit, auther of The Wouldbegoods. A tale of a gentle- manly burglar who played chap- erone and prevented an elopement. Your dealer will supply You, at 5 cents the copy, with the handsomest weeKly magazine pub- lished, or we will mail it every week to any address FROM NOW TO JULY 1 50C ON RECEIPT OF ONLY .The Curtis Publishing Company Philadelshis. Pa. GIRL FATALLY SHOOTS FOOTPAD Draws a Revolver From a Chatelaine Bag P \a The Circulation of THE POST is now more than 500,000 Copies N\ WEEKLY GUILT OF PILOT COMMISSIONER | he.oe,ucsan %% “amme S outa e | placed alongside of his partners in crime | in the pillory of public opinion to share | in their punishment. | WHY PROOF IS PRESENTED. | In presenting this further proof of the | L tain Leale, and at his left C. H. S. | guilt of Captain William G. Leale The Pratt, all facing the table. Before | L‘f” does so not through a g al de | sire to prosecute the charges against | Captain Leale further than against h associates, but threugh the fact that it recognizes that it is the duty of of money—some thousands of dollars | in gold. | “A moment after I entered the o( wspaper to fulfill its mission, to es 2 fice Mr. Alexander handed me some | tablish in toto to the satisfaction oi and Fires. gold pieces and asked me to secure the world that of which it has full change for them. I took the money "I! = “-!e‘,l“', and every ‘]”"“" OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 19.—Late to-night left the office and secured the change :l‘;iar’;;ezl!"i v The Call w I‘\:J\IEE’ ll\ :_‘ Miss Lillian Wilson was held up by | S e Lall with PAr- | George Williams, a colored footpad, who and then returned. I handed the | . .o gold positions in the public ser- | demanded her moncy. She drew a revol. change to Mr. Alexander and with- |, drew to my office, but had been | posed upon them the people and there but a few minutes when the | with having cast a further blight upon the political integrity of the State. | The guilt of C. H. S. Pratt and R. S with having violated the trust im- ver and t him, inflicting a wound that crippled him and a ‘few hours later he was located and arrested Miss Wilson had been out at a family gathering. Williams met her as she was going home and told her to halt. He de- me to the private office. “I entered and Mr. Alexander | '\""'3' ! EE was ‘f’~‘“1'1:e'l‘f"lc!n(:’\]c (xt\:\tl‘ manded x_:x..;hgh;ilgmvlerhher money, say- | satisfaction of the Senate commi ng that if she did not he would cut her {asked me to procure a money bag. |, . iuied to hear the charges - brought | throat, displaying a large knife. The gold still lay on the desk, and | against them. That justice may be done | _Miss Wilson replied: “Certainly, but there was also on the desk some |, 3l alike The Call presents this fur-| oIt @ minute AS sRe SIS - NS e | opened a chatelaine bag she was carry- irg, and taking out a revorver pointed it 4t Williams and fired. Miss Wilson then telephoned to the po- lice that she had shot a man, afterward explaining the circumstances. When found, Willlams was hiding in loft of a barn. The bullet entered abdomen and is likely to prove fatal Miss Wilson is eighteen years of age. and the daughter of one of the wealthiest familles of the city —_— Governor Pardee Is Commended. pieces of paper on which Mr. Alexan- | der, Mr. Pratt and Captain Leale had | been figuring. I left the room and procured the money bag, returned to | the office and handed it to Captain Leale, who was then standing up. Into this money bag Captain Leale | placed a portion of the gold that lay on the table and carried it away with ther proof of the guilt of Commissioner William G. Leale, confident that charges. will be further justified and pun- ishment meted out to the guilty with- out favor, notwithstanding the activity | of the wire pulling friends of the one| Commissioner who has thus far es-| caped condemnation at the hands of the ate committee—William G. Leale. = WOULD CORRECT ABUSES. | Senate Committee Will Recommend “As to the truth of Mr. Alexander’s A h . _CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, testimony I have full knowledge, and I| Dissolution of Present Commiseion. | Feb. 10 —The Governor is in receipt of resoiu- give these facts in corroboration of his| CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- ommanding him® o rofusng (0" s testimony solely for the reason that I|MENTO, Feb. 19.—The report of the Sen- | the increasing appropriation bilia pendina ' H 4 5 4, % o < the Legislature now assembled until the reason- feel it my duty to do so, q[uj l will re-|ate Committee on t.gmmerce_nnd Navh- | ks of (he aporeprintio by Nl peat the same under oath if it is deemed | gation on the Pilot Commission scandal | mined. Loomis Grange No. sent the foi- necessary in order to establish the ve-| was given another overhauling to-day by | 10Wing: “Be it resolved. that we heartiiy commend the action of Governor Pardee, here- in recognizing in this manly and statesmasn- like act an honest disposition to protect the taxpaying classes, which are largely repre- sented by the farmers.” —_— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS racity of my employer, who I know the committee. In addition to its sum- told the whole truth before the Senate | mary object, the committee will recom- | mend the dissolution of the present Pllot | Commission and the passage of a bill | having for its object the appointment of | COMMITTEE INFORMED. Ajter the adjournment of the Sen- ate at Sacramento at 9:10 last night the committee held an executive session in room 60 of the Capitol. Word had been conveyed to the members that new and Friends Say That She Was Mentally Unbalanced Especially on Re- ligious Subjects. SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 10.—Mrs. | yitally important evidence had been dis Hoffman, a widow, committed sulcide | covered, corroborating the testimony of early this morning by swallowing carbolic | acid. Mrs. Hoffman had been mentally unbalanced for some time, especially on religiohs subjects. Her husband died about a year ago. leaving her without means and with three little children to provide for. Mrs. Hoffman went to the Catholic Pilot Commissioner Alexander and ity of Leale in the taking of the money. fter the arrival at Sacramentd of the 9:30 train from San Francisco the man- ager of The Call appeared before the committee and related the story as de- thereby proving the deliberate complic- | A block of ground | | church this morning, evidently intending to die there; but finding it locked, she went to the convent and told the sisters she had taken carbolic acld. She died before help could be summoned. Her lit- | tle children were found at her home fast | | asieep in bed. | — | Bishop Quigley Accepts. | UFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 19.—Bishop Quigley to-day forwarded to Rome his formal acceptance of the appointment as Archbishop of Chicago. BACK NUMBERS OF THE SUNDAY CALL Containing Art Supplement will be forwarded to any ad- dress in the United. States, Canada, Mexico, Philippines, Hawaii and Guam upon re- ceipt of 5 cents per copy. 5 % tailed above. The members of the com- mittee asked him to telegraph to the| witness to appear before the committee, but he remarked that he was not there | either to prosecute or persecute any- body; that he had informed the com- mittee where this important evidence could be had, and that if the committee desired to hear the witness it could is- sue a subpena’ to secure her attendance. Up to the time the foregoing revela- tions were made the committee had about decided to present its report to the Senate this morning, bringing a verdict of guilty against Pratt and Al exander and a verdict of “not proven” against Leale, but when they heard the new cvidence that had been discovered they appeared to be of one mind. and that was that the witness should be ex- amined and the report laid aside auntil all the evidence had been taken. It was decided to summon the stenographer before the committee next Tuesday evening, and that_if the testimony would | | three competent pilots as Commission- | ers, limiting the number of pilots to thirty, providing that the examination shall be open to all who hold master ma- riners’ certificates and that the order of ppointment shall be made under a civil ervice provision; that the Commission- | ers be glven power to remove a piiot for ir:subordination, incompetency or decrepi- | tude. This power does not now rest In‘ the commission. | It will also provide that the State /ows | the pilot boats instead of allowing a pilot to retain an interest in the boats after | selling his commission, and thus derive a TO CURE ANY DISEASE. The Cause Must Be Removed, Same Way With Dandruff. Kill the germ that gcauses dandruff, falling hair and baldness, you will have no mere dandruff, and your hair must grow luxuriantly. Herpicide not only con- tains the dandruff germ destroyer, but it is also a most delightful hair dressing for profit as a private citizen from State offi- cials through a State charge. This particular part of the report is aimed to correct the condition of affairs as shown by the testfmony of Captain Murphy. The latter sold his place to Captain Anderson and still retained his interest in the boats, - The committee also intends to recom- mend a bill thit will prevent in the fu- ture one pilot claiming a vested interest in the office and selling it as a business proposition. The committee also intends to recommend that port charges for pllots be lowered. The present prices charged by pilots for bringing a boat in s $$ per foot gross tonnage, which is said to be higher than in any other port in the United States. Den O'Callaghan of San Francisco is here trying to get the members of the committee - to exonerate him from im- plicaticn in the affair. The committee is unable to do anything for Mr. O'Callag- han because he has not been charged with any crime nor does the evidence impii- cate him in the slightest degree In a dis- honest transaction. regular toilet use. No other hair prepa: tion is on this scientific basis of destroy ing the dandruff germ than Newbro's Herpicide. 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