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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1903. SN OCEAN TRAVEL. ! Alaska—I11 a Apr. 1. ¥'s steam- Vancouver, Sants Cruz, Mon- Cayucos, Port m., Mar Magcalena Bay, San Jose del Apr. 3 2 Paz, Santa Rosalla, Guay- a. m.. Apr 7. rmation obtain folder. change steamers or safling antes TICKET OFFICE—4 New Montgomery t._ (Palace Hotel) Freight office, 10 C. D. DUNANN 0 2 Francisco. O. R. & N. CO. “Columbis” salls March 24, April 3, 13, 23, May 3, 13, 23 George W. Elder” salls March 29, April 8, 18, 28, May &, 18, 28 Steamer | . de berth and meals. Steemer salls fo pear st at 11 a. m. D. W. BITCHOO C. CLIFFORD, Dept, Gen. Agt. Frt. Dept. Montgomery st T0Y0 KISEN KAISHA, (ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP €0.) Steamers will leave wharf, corner First and Brannen streets, at 1 p. m. for YOKOHAMA enéd HONGKONG, calling at Kobe (Hiogo), Cagesaki and Sbanghai, and _connecting at Hongkong with steamers for India, etc. No argo received on board on day of sailing, s S AMERICA MAR day, Mar. 27, 1908 Gen. Ast Pame £ 6. HONGKONG MARU..Wed., April 22, 1903 £ & NIPPON MARU...Saturday, May 16, 1903 Honolulu. Round trip ticket uced For freight and passage, it Com- s office, 421 Market street, corner First. W. H. AVERY. General Agent. dceanics.S.Co. WAWAIL, BAMOA, NEW ZEALAND awo SYDNEY, DIRECT LINE 10 TAKITI, Honolulu, Samoa, Auck- ars.. Apr. 2, 10 a. m. 4 ju, April 11, 2 p. m MARIPOSA, April 20, 10 a. m 4. SPRECRELS & BR05.CD., Agts., Ticke! Office, 648 Narket S Freight Ofice. 329 Marke! SL., Pier ke. 7, Pasific SL VE AMERICAN LINE. 1K, BEOUTHAMPTON, LONDON. 10 a. m.|N.York, Apr. 15, 10 am 8, 10 am|Phila., Apr. 22, 10 am 'RED STAR LINE. ANTW P, PARIS, win|Kroonl'd, Apr.11, 10 am Apr. 4 am Zeeld pr. 18, 10 am TAYLOR, G.P.A.C., Monteg'mry st. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE . YE TO HAVRE-PARIS. - y, nstead of - i nsiznd o0 -SR0S (Hudson AZI & CO., Coast nery avenue, San Francisco. R: ad Ticket Agents. - BAY AND RIVEF STEAMERS FOR U, S RAVY YARD AND VALLEND. FRISBIE or MONTICELLO. Line to PORTLAND, OR., 718 Market Street and Cor. Poweil and Eddy Sts. Jugeas. | OurSpring goods are now ready await- ing a call from the man who wants a good business suit for Spring and Summer at a price much lower than is usually charged for equal quality goods. All sorts of patterns---pri- ces from 51330 I you live out of San Francisco write for sam- ples ano self-measuring blank which —~ gooo fit. .00 msures a 0 WAR HERD'S FAME SINKS, PNEPER S Continued From Page 1, Column 3. tary circles since the case of Colonel Val- entine Baker, who was sentenced Au- | gust 2, 1875, to pay a fine of $255 and to uhdergo twelve months’ imprison- via Port Los Angeles and | Santa Barbara— | Harford | « and Hueneme. | ment for having attacked a woman in a railway carriage. General Macdonald was regarded as one of Britain s great soldiers. He rose from the ranks in the Gordon Highland- ers to his present position, and the ser- vice list shows no more honorable rec- ord than that of officers possess harder won decorations. He.was extremely popular in the army and in civil life. While the army his brother charges were Macdonald, no ture leaked out officers of a officials and many of officers were aware that pending against General intimation of their na- until the dinner of the Highland regiment on March 21, at which Macdonald was not present. Lord Roberts, the commander- in-chief, paid tribute in a speech on that occasion to the Highland officers who had served with distinction, but he did not mention Macdonald. considerable notice, and the sensation was increased when another speaker, who was not aware of the facts in the case. Jauded Macdonald as a typical {ighland soldier, and found that his re- marks were received in cold silence by | the majority of the officers present. from Portiand 1o all points o all points, all rail or LOWEST RATES. | Macdonald, it is said, left England or the Continent some days ago, and it is said he is returning to Ceylon upon the advice of Lord Roberts. We give special attention to prevailing forms and engrave visiting cards, wed- ding invitations and announcements cor- rectly and reasonably. Monogrdms, crests and address dies made to order. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . i M PRISONERS ARE BUTCHERED. NEW ORLEANS, March 24—The steamer Anselm, from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, has brought a large number of American refugees, who found the situa- tion in that republic unpleasant because of the revolution prevailing there. Busi- ness is demoralized and many American residents are in constant trouble and dan- ger. At Tela the Government gunboat Tam- tumbla sneaked into the harbor and began a bombardment of the town without giv- ing the slightest notice. The agent of the United Fruit Company there, an Ameri- can, hoisted an American flag, but no at- tention was paid to it by either the Gov- ernment troops or the revolutionists. The rfag was fired at repeatedly and the agent and his wife, who Is 2 New York woman, escaped being killed by the merest acci- dent. A skirmish took place on’a banana and rubber plantation near San Pedro Sula, owned by Dr. Elliott, an American from Kansas City, in which the revolutionists were Befeated. Elllott was arrested and threatened by the Government officials on the charge that he had secreted some of the revolutionists. It s charged that both sides butchered their prisoners and in cases have disfigured the dead. have many Macdonald, while few | This attracted | - |HAYES DIES OF HIS INJURIES; HIS COMPANION IS IDENTIFIED Continued From Page 1, Column 7. while they made a dash for the Park | Emergency Hospital to secure aid. Alone on the dark highway, the driz- zling rain enveloping her and only the { beavy breathing of the injured man lying | face downward near her to break the si- lence, the woman left in this strange po- sition began to feel the terror of the night and of impending death about her. RUSHES FROM SCENE. | She bravely essayed to help the man on the road and carefully turned his face from the 1 of blood In which it lay As she did this there was a gurgie in hi and his eyes glared ghastly at her ight | stricken, with &all the grisly shapes of terror about her that such a j 8cene could conjure, Mrs. O'Conrell |.Siarted for the CIff House, the nearest way she knew, for shelter. How she got théfe, proba know. way, skirts she herself does not It is thought she ran most of the despite the impediment her wet were to her progress. She was tender, a walter and a shed man, all of | whom knew her. | In the meantime Bennett and his com- | panion had reached the Park Emerge: Hospital and told the story of Hayes' | injury to Dr. Charles Millar, the surgeon | in" cha The doctor immediately or- i dered the ambulance out and a run was :ene of the mishap, Ben- in the front, evidently not wishing to be seen more than neces- sary. When Hayes' prostrate form wus | reached the trap and its occupants in- | stantly disappeared in.the night. | The injured man, still nnconscious, was immediately conveyed to the hospital, | where Dr. Mil'lar worked faithfully the t rest of the night in an effort at restora- | tion, but Hayes' skull was badly frac- tured and no medical skill could save | him. Me died at 6:30 in the morning. PHONES TO CALLUNDAN. After reaching the Cliff House Mrs. O'Connell must have telephoned to her brother-in-law, Captain Callundan, at his | residence, 1305 Octavia street, for he ar- | rived at the Cliff House in a carriage be- fore morning and took her to her home at Haight street. It was learned that Hayes called for Mrs. O'Connell at her residence about 9 | o’clock, having taken the rig from Pat- ric’s stables, Polk and Geary streets, at | The horse and buggy were:the property | of Mr. Patrick. | “It was sometime after midnight when | two people dashed up to the hospital in | & trap.” said Dr. Miliar, “and said there | was a man dying on the observatory road, near Strawberry Hill. The ambu- Jance was out in two or three minutes | and we started for the place, with the | trap leading. The driver was a man | about forty. I think, and with a heavy | mustache, but it was so dark that 1 | could distinguish but little of .anything. Both vehicles went at_full speed, but the man in the trap seemed desirous of keeping as far ahead as possible. He drove a pacer. When we reached Hayes the trap disappeared at once. “Hayes was lying face downward with his head in a pool of blood. It did not look as if he had been moved, or had moved himself, after pitching from the buggy. Nearby were the buggy cushion and the whip. WOMAN WAS GONE. | *“The man who drove up to the hospital CUATEMALR HOING FOES OF ZELAYA Supplies Funds for the | Revolutionists in ‘ Nicaragua. | pax port rumors there that a special agent of the Guatemalan Government is now there, having brought funds for the Nicaraguan revolutionists, to aid them in the expedi- tion now being organized against Presi- | dent Zelaya. The reported amount is | about $12,00, part of which has already been sent to Bluefields and Greytown to promote the first rising there. The Nicaraguan revolutionists are act- ively plotting and openly conspiring on the isthmus against President Zelaya. They are also trying to get a government vessel to further thelr purposes. The cable company has given notice that public messages can be accepted only | at the owner’s risk for the departments, of Rivas, Granada, Masaya, Carazo, Ma- nagua, Leon and Chinindega, there being no communication with the other depart- ments. It is presumed that this is merely the natural result of precautionary meas- ures taken by President Zelaya in view of the support which is being given to the Honduras revolution by the governments of Guatemala and Salvador. Telegraphic communication with Costa Rica, which had been interrupted for a few days, is now restored. The following cable message has been received from Nicaragua: CAMP DE MARTE, March 24.—Public order has been disturbed in the Department of Chontales, but the Government has sent suf- ficlent forces to crush the movement. Peace reigns throughout the rest of the republic, ZELAYA. It appears that the Nicaraguan Govern- ment has been expecting.a revolution for some time. Nicaraguan refugees who have arrived here believed that the revo- lutionists have captured Bluefields, Chilean papers just received here con- tain announcements of the recent sale of the Chilean cruiser Presidente Pito to an agent of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. NEW YORK, March 24.—In reply to a girect inquiry to President Zelaya at Man- agua, Nicaragua, asking for the true facts regarding the revolution in Nicaragua, the Associated Press has just received the fcllowing dispatcl MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 24.—On March 19 a small uprising occurred in the Department of Chontales, east of Lake Nicar- agua. The Government has surrounded the insurgenis and will soon destroy them. The remainder of the country is completely tran- quil. ZELAYA. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. Weekly Cfl“, )| per Year. ™= o nm‘g..ma coy That's All! £cen to stagger into the place by a bar- | e sald a woman had been left to watch the injured man. We saw nothing of her and were naturally anxious, but feeling that she had not been hurt, we got Hayes to the hospital as soon as we could.” | At the Hospital $61 was found on Hayes" person. In his trousers pocket was a woman's large solitaire diamond ring. He wore a snake ring with a large diamond and a silver watch, in the back of which was a woman's photograph. All these Dr. Millar put away carefully and later turned them over to the Coroner. Among Hayes' minor effects were some clippings of poetry and one verse writ- ten in a woman's hand; a complimentary pass over the Southern Pacific, and two cards bearing the names ‘‘Mrs. Jules J. Callundan” and ““Mrs. Nat T. Messer, the Pleasanton.” When he started for his drive Hayes had on his person $1361, of this amount $150 being in greenbacks. His friends took charge of the money not found on Lis person at the hospital. The body was removed to a private un- | dertaking establishment at the request ol the deceased’s parents and later to their residence at 1222 Pine street. CORONER APATHETIC. At the Coroner's office the usual apathy pfevailed. No effort was made to learn the identity of the woman who was with Hayes when he met with the accident. Some one who said he was a brother-in- law of the deceased came In with an or- der purporting to have heen written by the father of the deceased and asked for the dead man's keys. They were handed over without' inquiry, the residence of Hayes not even being ascertained from the man who presented the order. It the Coroner would pay more atten- tion to his duties and spend less of the time due the public service in this ate practice and would pay less at- on to giving out private letters for publication and more to ferreting out needed facts in cases of tragedy he would come nearer serving the people properiy. | Detective Coleman was sent out by the Police Department to find out who the woman was who accompanied Hayes, but he turned in no information. ard to the hiring of the buggy Patrick said: . es took the buggy from the sta- ble himself. He went out about 8:45. don’'t know where he went or who went with him. He had hired a rig of me at in- tervals before. “I went out and got my buggy at Casino and brought it to the stable.” he hack that conveyed Mrs. O'Connell from the Cliff House was sent by the United Carriage Company on a telephone order from a man who said he was Cap- tain Townsend. O’'CONNELL DUE TO-DAY. James O'Connell Is expected to arrive the in this city to-day. He has been East on official business. The deceased was the only son of Thomas R. Hayes and Mrs. Mary E. Hayes, and brother of Mrs. George B. Willcutt, Mrs. Peter Hepkins Jr. and Mrs. Walter B. Treat. He was 41 years of age. ' He was educated at the University of California, from which place he gradu- ated as a mining and civil engineer in 1888, At the time of his death he was assist- ant secretary of the Oakland Water Front Company, secretary of the Rich- mond Light and Power Company at Point Richmond and manager of the Standard Portland Cement Company, having head- quarters in room 30 of the Crocker build- ing. MAY RENEW THE RIOTING IN TRINIDAD Port of Spain Natives Threaten a Fresh Outbreak. PORT OF SPAIN, March 24—Twelve natives were killed and sixty wounded, many of them non-combatants and wom- en, during yesterday's rioting. The Gov- ernment building was destroyed by fire by the rioters; the police barracks was damaged by fire and water. All the Gov- ernment records in the Colonial Secre- tary’s office, the courthouse, the crown lands and other departments were de- stroyed. The rioting had its origin in the op- position to the new water ordinarce which reduced the water allowance per head and Increased the water rate. The courthouse was surrounded while the Legislative Council was in session dis- cussing the swater ordinance. The mob broke through the police lines and stoned the bullding. The rioters then demolish- ed the contents of the lower floor of the Government buildihg and set fire to it. All those attending the meeting were as- sailed with missiles, many persons beirg struck by stones and bottles. The fire drove the council from the building, and, alded by a part of the local military force, they defended their lives with ritles. The rioters then, evidently with a view to plunders threatened to burn the buildings of the business por- tion of the town. The commander of the British cruiser Pallas, lying in the harbor, was informed of the serious situation and landed de- tachments of bluejackets from the Pallag and the torpedo-boat destroyer Rocket, with four machine guns. Two hundred citizens were armed and sworn in as ape- clal constables. The sailors and volun. teers rendered invaluable service fn pa- trolling the streets through the night ani guarding the bank, treasury and ather public buildings. Order was thus restored. More speeches were being made to-day against the water ordinance and there is @ probability of further serious trouble to-night. The courthouse which cost $350,000 js completely destroyed and the contents of the vault lost. The Chamber of Com- merce is holding a meeting with a view to cabling the home Government reque ing the withdrawal of the officials her. KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, March 24— Two hundred men of the Lancashire this morning for Port of Spain, Trini- dad, on board the schooner Esaban, IRISH LAND BILL WILL P BE INTRODUCED TO-DAY Provides for Appointment of Three ‘Commissioners to Arrange for Transfer of Property, LONDON, March 24—It is understood the Irish land bill which the Chief Secre- tary for Ireland, Mr. Wyndhefm, will in- troduce in the House of Commons t6-mor- row, provides for a grant of $50,000,000 from the imperial exchequer and the ap- pointment of three estate commissioners to arrange for the transfer of land. PRI A LONDON, March 24.—Consols touched e afieron, tha lowsst neint en resut since the Franco-Prussian war. The fall is attributed to the continued dearness of mo: and the forthcoming Transvaal 000,000. - Fusiliers left the island of Barbadoes: loan of $150; I DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT. 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In writing be sure you ean purchase the regular fifty-cent and ome- mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root—Dr. CALIFORNIA- NORTHWESTERN, — e Continued From Page 1, Column 2. — move toward a compromise with James Keene, who is at present opposing the use of Southern Pacific revenues for better- ments on the leased properties of the company. The coup d’etat of President Harriman proved a disagreeable surprise to Presi- dent Ripley and his associates in the man- agement of the Santa Fe, in view of the fact that it was not long ago that the Santa Fe had a chance to get an:option on the California Northwestern, but on the advice of Mr. Ripley the suggestion «f buying was abandoned. Two years ago, shortly after Vice President Paul Morton and Theodore Shonts, then general man- ager of the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa road, sold that property, netting to them- selyes and the brothers of the first named something like $3,000,000 in profits, Messrs. Morton and Shonts, through agents, one of whom was a New York broker named Housemann, entered into negotiations with A. W. Foster for an option on his Toad and were offered one ‘finally. NEGOTIATIONS DROPPED. They were about to close the deal when President Ripley advised against the pur- chase, failing to foresee at that time the general movement westward of the lum- bermen from the depleted forest districts of the East and the steadily Increasing development of other interests in fhe ter- ritory through which Mr. Foster's road extends. At what figure Mr. Foster sgreed to sell is not known, but the fact is known that the minority stock in the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway, amounting to about 7800 shares, was of- fered to Mr. Morton at $23 a share. A few months after the Morton syndi- cate had been dickering for the road Pres- ident Harriman of the Southern Pacific visited the cfty and learning that the San- ta Fe had been looking over the Foster line he quietly crossed the bay and with Mr. Foster went north to Willits on the road. The man from New York was not long in securing from Mr. Foster his fig- ures regarding a deal and before the Southern Pacific president returned East he had obtained an option on the Califor- nia Northwestern and its leased line, the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway. That he was forced to agree to a higher figure than that proposed by Mr. Foster to the Santa Fe people is admitted, but Mr. Harriman readily realized that he had made a good bargain and he took care that it would not fall through. Mr. Foster controls the road by reason of his majority stock in both the old and hew corporation. The original capital stock of the San Francisco and North Pa- cific Railway was 60,000 shares, of which the Donahues owned 42,000 and Seligmans and Ladenburg, Thal & Co., the New York bankers, 18,000 shares, received by them as their commission from Mervyn Donahue for placing $4,250,000 of the com- pary's bonds. SYNDICATE BUYS STOCK. Finally the executors of the Donahue estate disposed of its stock to a syndi- cate composed of A. W. Foster, Sydney V. Smith and Andrew Martin, each tak- ing one-third of the 42,000 shares. A. W. Foster represented in this deal himseif, Captain James McDonald, George New. pall and A. Fugazzi. Sydney Smith is supposed to have represented himself, and Anarew Martin acted for himself, the Hitchcock estate, the Wickershams of Santa Rosa and a man named Hill. The syndicate bought the stock at $20 5. Lat- er the New York bankers sold their 18,000 shares to J. B. Stetson and finally Mr. ¥oster, with his majority of stock, after he had voted it to lease the road to the California Northwestern for a period of twenty years, forced Smith and Stetson to sell to him, thus giving him the control of about 52,000 shares. 3 ‘Although it cannot be confirmed, the report in financial circles here and in New York is that Mr. Harriman gets the twenty-five miles of road owned by the California Northwestern and the 1 miles of line which are included in the holdings of the San Francisco and Nerth Pacific Railway at 332 a share, which means to Mr. Foster something ilke $1,664,000. Upon what bq’ this, debt is to be settled, is of course, a matter of , prise, it could be purchased if the price secrecy between Mr. Foster and the Har- | offered was satisfactory 40 the owners. riman syndicate, but it is presumed that | A figure was named and frequent meet- part will be In cash and the remainder in g00d securities. % Mr. Foster purposes to retire perma- Rently from the railroad business, and When the deal s finished he will devote his attention to the affairs of his water oémpany in San Rafael and other inter- ests in Northern California. By all railroad experts who have exam- ined the California Northwestern road the property is regarded as an excellent purchase and.one that will, in a few years, cut quite an important figure in the transcontinental business so far as the West is concerned. It passes through large sections of rich but undeveloped land and with its present line as far as Willits, a valuable timber outlet, and fts Guerneville and Sonoma branches it is looked upon as a fine feeder for the Southern Pacific, or for that matter, aay other overland route that has the facili- ties for carrying products and developing barren-country. These facts became apparent to Presi- dent Ripley of the Santa Fe, when it was too late. Recently he attempted to re- sume negotiations for the purchase of the road, but was informed that another offer had been accepted. It is needless to state that Mr. Ripley was not long in | learning from whom the “other offer” came,” and satisfying his gravest fe: he at once set about buying up every- thing he could find in the northern part of the State'in the shape of a railroad. His first move was In the direction of the North Shore road. From reliable sources it is learned that Mr. Ripley's first at- tempt to get an option on that property was through New York friends of Mr Martin, among them Millionalre Colgate, who has been in the city for several days. The preliminary move preceded Mr. Mar- tin's hurried trip to New York and for- mal negotiations were entered into im- mediately after the president of the North Shore returned to this city a few weeks ago. The Santa Fe president was given to vnderstand that the North Shore rvad had not been bought by Mr. Martin and his associates simply for speculative pur- poses, but, like any other business enter- ings have been held between the repre- sentatives of the two roads. A very significant fact that first at- tracted attention to the negotiations for the road was noted two weeks ago, when Milllonaire Colgate arrived here. Ingtead of securing apartments at the Lick House, as has been his custom for years, he went to the Pacific-Union Club and was there for several days before his pregence in the city was known to any but a few of his old friends. Later Mr. Morton of the Santa Fe ar- rived and registered at the Palace, but he spent a great deal of his time at the Pacific-Union Club and finally hié name was posted as a temporary member, in- dicating that he purposes to spend more time on the coast than he originally in- tended, notwithstanding that he has been called East unexpectedly. All attempts to obtain from Mr. Martin a statement of the status of the present negotiations for the purchase of his road have failed. Men of his executive ability are not in the habit of rushing into print concerning matters involving millions and it is very likely that he will have little to say until his guaranty of purchase is in hand and the Santa Fe people are ready to make known their purchase. The old North Pacific Coast road, since it passed to the control of the Martin syndicate, has been undergoing a rapid transformation and when the present plans for broadening Its narrow-gauge tracks to a standard gauge as far as its terminal at Cazadero and on its branches are completed it will have, between its feriy slips at Sausalito and its northern extremity, ninety miles of the finest road- bed in the West. At present the plans are to eventually operate the greater part of the road by electricity, but if the Santa Fe takes it. in a few years, after its Eel River and Eureka road has been extended south and connected with other small lines which the Santa Fe is known to have bonded la‘ely, the big transeontinental system will have a feeder through North- érn California that will prove a serious competitor to the lines to be operated by the Harriman combins Here Is Your Opportun’rtyv _ An unusual, excellent opportunity—a matchless chance to ob- tain a high-grade pair of shoes at an exceedingly low price. WE MOVE to our new building at 104-110 Geary street in a few weeks. Our stogk must positively be’reduced. Stylish, Serviceable Shoes Built for wear and a pleasure to the wearer, cut to prices satisfactory to anybody. A few will dispose of them below cost. : Pay us another visit before we move—we're still at the old stand. t for any are 740 Market St.