The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1903, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1903, GREAT MERGER OF SANTA FE AND ROCK ISLAND known, and when in’ that direc- | for a time i ard movement e of the Frisco system and the and Central road had a ten- blic attention from their op- h & . k. Now they have | ered at work again and there is lit- | hey are determined to carry | | plans and find an extreme their Rock Island property | tem of | of the wester ke and Santa F GIGANTIC SYSTEM. | ude of the latest reported | ted, may be easily ap- is explained that with X ad the en it nt of the Santa a trifle over 1ving ctions with nearly | » city and seaport in the United | with projected roads into the | Mexi the south. But a ago Rock Island man- | miles ¢ road, which was in- 880 miles when the Houston, Texas and Central ng from Fort Worth to Galves- rty was purchased from nd was followed by he Moore broth- 1 of the great Fris- es of road end- tern part of the the f railroads, | great systems ¢ T Pere rol the ng a tot ontrol of t he Moores and their mileage would be added s, Santa which the domina me a la t raflroad men throughout few »m have so ex written articles on 1 the that to three try &r from « a arbara. F northern L oy icate; an- s . ad 1 ral er which the BATAIN'S KNG [LEUEE ECUMRDS FFOR LIGBON GROW HIPEFUL March 31 With a for Lis st twe and encouraging . 1 v ¥ w f truggle at m much im- | War- juleting news Angola, 5 N . break was . g n exten the news pe 8 ions | 1 ,.% g would be & ¥ £ r the State Convict miles of levees prote l'“x' E st approximately $100,000. | 1 ad been in progres: E week to hold the em s water had been steadily | . and the conditions had s or end of last week | of the Board of . al of the stock | - to the Ironica | aution. | levee is located nearly opposite the | - . of Red River and the water will ely find its way k into the r, increasing the flood - of Baton Rouge. | " 1s B results attended the work at | Onorn S iitver 1 during the day and the appeal - 5 o board for additional men and ¢ gt had been answered. The extent iR dated land in that vicinity is grad- v traicind ARES reasing and the situation will be | esperate the on truck farme for sugar pldnters ster comes now. | ging im e bill to pe e a lighting | | ——,—— | NEW YORK 31.—The $3,000.000 ap- riated by ss for the relief of the t was disbursed at the DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. €060000C000000000009000000000 Ready to Quit Hard to struggle on with the never-ceasing backache. When the Kidneys go wrong and all the pains and aches of the back make life miserable, it's enough to discourage any man. The tortures of a bad back, the annoyance, the dan- ger of urinary disorders take the nerve out of one about as quickly as anything on earth. Doan's Kidney Pills cure every Kidney ill, reach the cause of all the aches and pains of a bad back, correct all urinary troubles. Plenty of proof that this is so. Here’s a case of it: San Francisco Proof, Wm. Blackwell of 14 Jackson street says: “If all troubled with pain in their back and annoyed from the action of the kidney secretions could have these ended as quickly as the use of Doan’s Kidney Pills ended mine, backache and its accompany- ing ills need have no terrors for sui- ferers from kidney complaint. I had considerable annoyance from pain in my back, and I knew from the con- dition of the kidney secretions that the kidneys were at fault. Doan’s kidney pills, procured at a drug store, stopped the atiack.” For sal! Il Druggists®. Price Gu) ‘s, Foster-Milburn <o., Buffalo, 9000008 p o o _— —y % & 8 company | | ATTEMPTS MURDER AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF WHILE IN' JEALOUS RAGE| INT DFFICIS W. A. Brown, a Waiter, Shoots John Keefer, Whom He Accuses of De- stroying His Home, Then Fires Bullet Into His Own Brain and Dies. GETTING WARRANT FOR THE ARKEST | OF HER 77=s? w-a- Browzry - Leaves Missive Accusing Victim and Calling on God to Forgive Woman ® THE Sto077/7 6 \ \ F\HEEFER TRAGEDY. WAITER WHO KILLED HIMSELF, TH MAN WHOM HE TRIED TO MURD! LIFE, AND THE WIFE OF THE SUICIDE, WHOSE ALLEGED FICKLEN. BEFORE TAKING HIS OWN SS WAS THE CAUSE OF THE | — FTER penning a missive asking God's forgiveness for the wife he believed had erred and cursing stray, W. A. Brown, a waiter, yesterday shot and wounded John Keefer, also a waiter, whom he charged with de- | stroying his home, then fired a bullet into his own head. The shooting of Keefer occurred in the Kitchen of the Pleasanton Hotel at Jones and Sutter streets, Brown killed himself on the stairway of the house at 509 Jones street, which place he ran into after the shooting of Keefer, a pursuer being close upon him. During the breakfast hour Brown walk- ed into. the kitchen of the Pleasanton and waited for Keefer to appear,. then deliberately fired two shots at him with a revolver. One bullet took effect and the other went wide of its mark. Hesi- tating a moment, Brown put the muzzle of the weapon into his own mouth, but evidently lost his nerve momentarily, for he pocketed the weapon and rushed down the street. He was pursued by a porter. Seeing that his pursuer was closing up, Brown ran into the hallway at 509 Jones street and partly up the. stairs, where he stopped, and, putting the end of the re- volver barrel into his mouth, fired. - He died at the Central Emergency Hospital an hour later. PASSES DYING HUSBAND BY. While the man who had tried to com- mit murder and had then shot himself was breathing his last the woman, WORK IS PROGRESSING ON THE NEW DRYDOCK Site at Mare Island Will Very Soon Be Emptied of Water. VALLEJO, March 31.—Civil Engineer A. L. Parson has been ordered to Mare Isi- and for special duty. He will supervise the work of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company in the construction of the new drydock. At the new drydock, after a series of mishaps, the contractors have succeeded in bracing the stones of the wall outside the dock and overcoming the leakage. The pumps are npw at work and the dock will be emptied of water. If the foregoing work is successful the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacifi¢c Company will put on a large force of men and Contrac- tors Healy & Tibbitts will begin the erection of a big building for the con- struction department, the contract hav- ing been let to them some time ago. There are 1500 men employed at present at Mare Island. 3 B Huntington Plans Trolley Line. RIVERSIDE, March 3L—M. B. Huat- o I E man he accused of leading her | ad been the cause of the tragedy curing a warrant for the arrest of husband, of whom she said she was She asked for a warrant | who h | wa | b |in great fear. for mayhem, | tery. - Officer ruenwald took it and while | 1ooking for Brown learned of the shoot- | ing. He informed Mrs. Brown of it and he went to the hospital. She gave Brown | a contemptuous glance as he lay breath- | ing his last, and remarking, “It was good | for him,” went to the cot where Keefer he also having been taken to the hos- and talked to him for some time, In the letter left by Brown, which was written in a waiters' check book, he said that after working eight years to build |up a home his wife, Jennie, had proved unfaithful, “Louis” Keefer, as he knew the man he shot, and who he says is known as “Lucy,” belng accused of lead- ing her into the ways of sin. The letter accuses Keefer of having kept Brown's wife drunk most 6f the time on sherry, claret and whisky, “which Mr. Werne the grocer of Geary and Hyde streets, | 1* continues, “can testify to.” CHEWS HIS WIFE'S FINGER The letter tells of a row that occurred at Brown's house on the night of the 17th inst., wherein Keefer's fingers were bit- ten, and Mrs. Brown; “in her paroxysm of rage, bit the tips of her fingers off.” Brown leaves a warning in his- letter to all married men not to trust their wives with “oily and polished friends.” He says his wife's mother, Mrs. Hess of Benicia, came down and ‘“broke up his cozy little home,” and stored the furni- ture, believing him to be the guilty party, “as a mother naturally would.” | pita ington made application this afternnon for a franchise covering a double track trolley line from Riverside to Corona. The notice passed to the second reading, the vote standing four to ome. If the franchise is granted work on the line will commence within four months. It will be part of the ihter-urban system, connecting eventually with Los Angeles. but was given one for bat- | Keefer says that the trouble on the | night of the 17th was caused by Brown aking a young lad who was visiting turning for two hours. Mrs. Brown told him to pack his things and get out, and he started- to comply with her request, | but said he believed he would kill some | one before ‘he left, and attacked his wife, | chewing off the end of one of her fingers and knocking her down. Then he at- tacked Keefer, the latter says, and bit {Wo of his fingers severely.. A Mr. Mont- gomery came in and stopped the row. PLANS FOR VENGEANCE. On' the following day Brown and his wife separated, she securing lodginga at 1429 Mission street, near-her friend Lottie Dow, whom Brown mentions in his let- ter as a source of mischief, and he stop- ping down town. Both men have visited the woman since, and yesterday the hus- band found Keefer at the Mission-street Louse early in the morning. He again beat his wife, then planned-death for the one-time friend, whom he belleved was false to him, and suicide for himself. Go- ing back to the restaurant where he is employed he wrote the letter, then set out to kill. Last evening the Cooks’ and Waiters’ | Association provided for the removal | from the Morgue and burial of Brown's body, it being understood by them that Mrs. Brown wished to have nothing to do with the arrangements, | Xeefer was placed under the X-ray at | the hospital by Doctors Maher and Bun- nell, and it was found that the bullet had | entered and lodged In the shoulder and had not produced a serfous wound. | TUnion Labor Central Club. T. M. Scott of the Cooks’' and Waiters’ Union has been elected secretary of the Union Labor Central Club, vice Senator Harry Bunkers. Scott's election is re- [ garded as a victory of the Michael Casey | faction over the forces of Mayor Schmitz. The motion to depose Bunkers prevailea by a vote of 31 ayes to 23 noes. Established 823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s At , home at midnight and not re-| COLLING SGORES —— Attorney for Walter N. Dimmick Argues Be- fore Jury. Trial of Accused Clerk Is Now Drawing to a Close. George D. Collins, attorney for Walter N. Dimmick, former chief clerk of the United States Mint of this eity, who is accused of stealing $30,000 from the vaulis of that institution, did not spare the Mint officials yesterday in his argument to the jury. The “attorney for the defendant charged carelessness and negligence on the part of Superintendent Leach Cashier Cole and made a fervent plea for Dimmick, who, he alleged, is the vic- tim of a conspiracy hatched in the Mint. Collins suffered from a bad cold, but despite the handicap spoke long and fervently. He did not finish his argument and will continue this morning. Col lins claimed that in the abs of eye witnesses there must be a s of acts and circumstances to guilt, and these facts and circy nstances must be presented to a jury in order that it might say in arriving at its verdict | “There is the proof.” Collins contended there was no proof of th client. He told of the man: Dimmick lived, and said the had investigated Dimmick's 1 had not found anything that would lead | them to believe he took the $30,000 Collins paid his respects to Witr Day, who is an employe of the Mi insinuated that Day had the combination to the cashier’'s vault and might t y of the theft. In part he said d Day know that an extra tur f t k would open the vauit? wait until all the oth tendent or ¢ might ¢ the bar in order ¥ might be able pen the safe in a s vou that Day ¢ g point into partners| should act for willing that Mr. T bim | . Attorney Collins then devoted some time | to a criticism of the methods of busi- | ness employed at the Mint. Hé =aid e vas not contending that carelessne: { negligence of the Mint adminis | were_resoonsible for the theft of this | money, but.he only wanted to show (he oppoertunity afforded to others.to gain ac- s to the cashier's vault. He said that was not the only man who had ac- s to the,cashier’s vault. He charged that the door leading to millions was open all day from 9 o'clock to 4 p. | and that dozens of people were in cashier's office daily. He said that itors were permitted to go into the va and tion m the vis- ther | to gaze upon the millions stored | He asked if any business man pursue such methods. He stated t had visited the United States | ury and he always found the | locked; that every time the c ed to gain access to the money he had to use his combination. { . The tornev for the defendant devoted the afternoon to analyzing the Mi transactions previous to the discovery the short He erted that Cole made false entries in his books in or to conceal a shortage of $30,000. Mr. Co Here's a junk-book. It is not an official rec- ord It never was an official record and it is entitled ‘‘cashier's blotter,” and it is kept in lead pencil. It Is of the pecullar style of book- keeping they have at the Mint. And in that book, under date of January 28, 1901, is an en- try in Mr. Cole’s handwriting. Mr. Cole, the shier of this Mint, makes an entry of a trans- | action that did not occur until the next day, | the th, Cole says that's bookkeeping | He says' 1t is bookkeeping to anticipate entries of events in advance of their occurrerce. Now, the secret of that entry is | that the $30,000 was taken out of the cash vault on January Mr. Dimmick. Cole says he made this entry on the 30th, | makes a false entry, and what was Cole's pur- | pose? Mr. Cole returns to the Mint on Sun- day, the day following the transfer of the money. To account for that the very first thing he does i3 to take his cashier entry. 1 insist that shortage. - He knew then and knows now that that entry was falsely inserted and he had a fraud: t purpose in doing so and that purpose was to conceal the shortage of $30,000. What was he doing, coquetting with $30,0007 hortage of $30,000 n June 30, ADVERTISEMENTS. 100 Doses It It is greatest in that medicine that does the ured by two things—cost and effect. cannot be meastred by either alone. most for the money—that radically and | { permanently cures at the least expense. That medicine is Hood’s Sarsaparilla It purifies and the blood, cures pimples, eczema and all eruptions, tired, languid feelings, loss of appetite and general debility. Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to cure and keeps the promise. enriches T I- | He | For One Dollar | Economy in medicine must be meas- | ADVERTISEX 'NTS. 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